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Commerzbank And Soffin Agree Loan Programme For Mittelstand (Sme), Commerzbank Ag

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Indicative Summary Of Terms For Secured Term Loan Facility (Gm), General Motors Company, United States: Department Of The Treasury

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U.S. Auto Industry Bailout

Determination (Of The Secretary Of The Treasury), Henry M. Paulson Jr., Timothy F. Geithner

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Determinations by Secretary Paulson and Secretary Geithner (dated April 29, 2009, at the end of the document) authorizing the use of TARP funds to assist the auto industry with the Paulson transmittal letter to Congress.

Parental Hesitation As A Factor In Delayed Childhood Immunization, Karlen E. (Beth) Luthy, Renea L. Beckstrand, Neil E. Peterson

Faculty Publications

Introduction: One reason for lower immunization rates is that some parents hesitate to have their children immunized. A hesitancy questionnaire was developed to identify reasons parents hesitate in having their children immunized.

Methods: The hesitancy questionnaire was distributed from local pediatric and family practice offices and from the area's county health department. To be eligible, participants needed to be present in the clinic with a child needing a minimum of one immunization that was at least 6 months overdue.

Results: When questioned why their child was overdue for immunizations, the most common response was that participants were confused about the …

Developing Writing Fluency Through Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication, Rossana Camacho

Theses and Dissertations

Drawing from sociocultural theory, this research investigated the effects of synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) in the development of writing fluency. Likewise, the study aimed at confirming previously cited affective benefits linked to SCMC. Measuring fluency in words per 30 minutes, the study compared pre and post-test essay scores of two groups of ESL learners (a control group and a SCMC group) in two intermediate levels. Two evaluation questionnaires were also administered to the SCMC group in order to obtain students' opinions of this technology-based medium, and to analyze change in their perceptions. The SCMC group outperformed the control group in …

Text Mining In Radiology Reports, Tianxia Gong, Chew Lim Tan, Tze-Yun Leong, Cheng Kiang Lee, Boon Chuan Pang, C. C. Tchoyoson Lim, Qi Tian, Suisheng Tang, Zhuo Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Medical text mining has gained increasing interest in recent years. Radiology reports contain rich information describing radiologist's observations on the patient's medical conditions in the associated medical images. However as most reports are in free text format, the valuable information contained in those reports cannot be easily accessed and used, unless proper text mining has been applied. In this paper we propose a text mining system to extract and use the information in radiology reports. The system consists of three main modules: a medical finding extractor a report and image retriever and a text-assisted image feature extractor In evaluation, the …

Utilitizing And Moving Beyond A Constructionist Approach To Trace The Emergence Of Racial And Ethnic Identities Among Pre-Mexican, Mexican And Americans Of Mexican Descent, Owen Williamson

Theses and Dissertations

Cornell and Hartmann (2007) developed a constructionist framework that can describe the development of racial and ethnic identities. Yet this framework has greater utility than its authors have intended as it also provides the best rubric to date for comprehending the transitions between collective identity group types. This study engages in a thorough investigation of the development of racial and ethnic identities within the context of those that precede it via an ethnohistorical analysis. It also demonstrates that this framework is capable of describing pre-modern religious and national identity types in addition to racial and ethnic identity types. This permits …

Snb Stabfund Acquires First Tranche Of Assets From Ubs, Swiss National Bank (Snb)

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Bumbling Biddies And Drunken Pats: Anti-Irish Humor In Antebellum New Orleans, Ashley Barckett

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Irish in New Orleans have been a notoriously understudied group. With the third largest Irish population in the country by 1860, New Orleans is crucial when trying to understand the Irish immigrant experience. Viewing the Irish from the public perspective, this study explores the Daily Picayune, New Orleans' largest newspaper, from its inception in 1837 to 1857, to decipher the city's attitudes towards the Irish. Jokes in particular are explored, their function being multifaceted. First, jokes grouped Irish women into three types in an effort to maintain control of a large and unfamiliar group of white women who did …

Information Needs And Information-Seeking Behavior Of Arts And Humanities Teachers: A Survey Of The University Of The Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, Muhammad Tahir, Khalid Mahmood, Farzana Shafique

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study explores the information needs and information-seeking behavior of humanities faculty members of the University of the Punjab, Lahore . It investigates the methods and sources used to acquire information, the importance of various information resources for their teaching and research activities, their preferred formats, the purpose of their information-seeking and problems faced. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to get a response from the targeted population which consisted of 90 teaching and research staff of humanities departments. The response rate was 69 percent. The study reveals that most of the humanities faculty members rely heavily upon books and experts …

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For December 18, 2008, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the December 18, 2008 Board of Regents Meeting

Stakes Increase For End Of Course Exams In 2009-10, Sarah C. Mckenzie, Gary W. Ritter

Policy Briefs

As of the 2009-10 academic year, high school students in Arkansas will be required to pass so called “End of Course” (or “EOC”) examinations in Algebra I, Biology, Geometry, and English. Students who fail to meet the requisite passing standard will be required to retake the class or to pass “an appropriate alternative exit course in order to receive credit for the course on his or her transcript and in order to graduate.” In other words, these four EOC tests will become high school exit exams. Thus, as of 2009-10, Arkansas will join some 23 other states that have high …

The Effects Of A Research-Based Intervention Program On Kindergarten Student Achievement, Melvin J. Bishop Jr.

Dissertations

The current system for identifying at-risk students, which employs the wait-and-see method, provides teachers no formal way of getting the necessary interventions needed in order for their students to be successful. The purpose of this study was to determine if the implementation of a research-based intervention program, Response To Intervention, would increase the academic performance of kindergarten students identified as at-risk.

Kindergarten students entering school for the first time were tested for basic knowledge of alphabetical letter recognition and letter sound recognition. Children who demonstrated a deficit were given a series of research-based reading interventions by an intervention specialist to …

The Weekly Challenger, December 18, 2008, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 18, 2008, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

State Aid: Commission Approves State Support For Bayernlb, European Commission

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Best Of All Possible Care: An Examination Of Scientifically Progressive Medicine In Hays From 1867 To 1918, Ben Peeler

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

From the mid-nineteenth century until the early decades of the twentieth century, medicine underwent a tremendous transformation. No longer was medicine to be based on archaic theories that were grounded on unquantifiable guesswork. Instead, medicine became scientifically progressive, pushing the reliability and credibility of medical professionals to new heights. Scientific progressivism was the concept of standardizing medicine around a common set of ideals, such as basing treatment upon scientifically sound methods and procedures. A scientifically progressive community can be identified through the application of one or more of the following criteria: education adaptability, and technology. These three criteria could be …

Primary, Secondary, And Other Extensions Of Credit Originated On Thursday, December 18, 2008, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk

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Primary, Secondary, And Other Credit Extensions Outstanding On Thursday, December 18, 2008 By Remaining Term, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk

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Emergency Credit By Program Type Outstanding On: 12/17/2008, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk

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Position Of The European Parliament Adopted At First Reading On 18 December 2008 With A View To The Adoption Of Directive 2009/.../Ec Of The European Parliament And Of The Council Amending Directive 94/19/Ec On Deposit Guarantee Schemes, European Union: Parliament And European Union Council

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Amendment No. 1 To Shortfall Agreement Between Maiden Lane Iii Llc And Aig Financial Products Corp, American International Group, Inc. (Aig), Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York

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Attached at end, to 12/24/08 SEC filing

Approval Of The Discount Rate Action Of The Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

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Paulson Speaks On Economy And Markets In New York, Henry M. Paulson Jr.

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State Aid N 615/2008, Germany, European Union: European Commission

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Eu Commission Approves Bayernlb’S Recapitalisation Measures, Bayerische Landesbank

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What Is Social Medicine? The Us-European Perspective., Johann Van Reenen

English

This is a short explanation of the US-European view of the field of social medicine prepared by Johann van Reenen, Fall 2007 for the Latin American Knowledge Harvester (LAKH) project. It should be read in conjunction with the definition of Latin American Social Medicine provided by Celia Iriart (see: Medicina Social Latinoamericana, MSLA)

Topical Application Of Entry Inhibitors As "Virustats" To Prevent Sexual Transmission Of Hiv Infection, Michael M. Lederman, Robin L.P. Jump, Heather A. Pilch-Cooper, Scott F. Sieg

Faculty Scholarship

With the continuing march of the AIDS epidemic and little hope for an effective vaccine in the near future, work to develop a topical strategy to prevent HIV infection is increasingly important. This stated, the track record of large scale "microbicide" trials has been disappointing with nonspecific inhibitors either failing to protect women from infection or even increasing HIV acquisition. Newer strategies that target directly the elements needed for viral entry into cells have shown promise in non-human primate models of HIV transmission and as these agents have not yet been broadly introduced in regions of highest HIV prevalence, they …

Improving Library Searches Using Word-Correlation Factors And Folksonomies, Maria Soledad Pera

Theses and Dissertations

Libraries, private and public, offer valuable resources to library patrons; however, formulating library queries to retrieve relevant results can be difficult. This occurs because when using a library catalog for library searches, patrons often do not know the exact keywords to be included in a query that match the rigid subject terms (chosen by the Library of Congress) or terms in other fields of a desired library catalog record. These improperly formulated queries often translate into a high percentage of failed searches that retrieve irrelevant results or no results at all. This explains why frustrated library patrons nowadays rely on …

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2008, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

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Interstate Pluralism: The Role Of Federalism In The Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Jeffrey L. Rensberger

BYU Law Review

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