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A Surrogate Measure Of Customer Satisfaction In The Manufacture Of Printed Wiring Boards, Adam Y. Maamoun

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this research is to determine and develop a model that is capable of accurately measuring customer satisfaction for different industries and in particularly for the Printed Wiring Boards (PWB) Manufacturers. The new model will incorporate data not being collected or utilized by the survey method of determining customer satisfaction. The method used is a weighted average of satisfaction among several researched categories with percentages that accurately represent the relative importance of multiple facets of the PWB manufacturers customer satisfaction. A very common term in quality assurance is that "What is not measured accurately can not be evaluated …

Determining Florida Landfill Odor Buffer Distances Using Aermod, Veronica Figueroa

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As U.S. landfills continue to grow in size, concerns about odorous gas emissions from landfills are increasing. For states that are expanding in population, such as Florida, odors from landfills are a major concern because new housing developments, needed to accommodate the rapid population growth, are creeping closer and closer to the existing landfills. As homes get closer to landfills, odor complaints are likely to become more frequent, causing landfill managers increased problems with public interactions. Odor buffer zones around landfills need to be established to give municipalities tools to help prevent the building of future homes too close to …

User-Defined Patterning Of Neural Progenitor Cells On 3d Micropillar Arrays Using Round Cross-Sectional Geometry, Specific Dimen, Andrea Wesser

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The ability to control stem cell functions, particularly neuronal progenitors, has long since been believed to be the key to successful treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and accidents involving head trauma. The neurology field calls for many new solutions to address the controlled neural stem cell seeding and placement of cells for neural tissue regeneration. Self-assembled monolayers (SAM) from the alkanethiol group provide a straightforward applicable, reliable treatment for cell adhesion. An ODT/gold treatment was used to adhere the cells to patterned areas, due mainly to a high confluence of cells attracted to it, as well as …

A Comprehensive Multi-Faceted Approach For Simultaneously Analyzing Organizational Performance Measures Essential For Company Su, Ana Ferreras

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Profit, ergonomics, safety, employee morale, quality, efficiency, and productivity are critical components that greatly impact company success within manufacturing organizations. Therefore, it is essential that a valid and reliable systematic approach that encompasses all of these factors be developed for use by top management in today's rapidly changing manufacturing environment. Organizational-level decisions made based upon a single goal or narrow perspective that only considers one of the aforementioned components, such as profit, while ignoring others, such as employee morale, have proven harmful to the long term viability and success of manufacturing companies. Often organizational leaders are not adequately equipped to …

A Comparative Analysis Of Green Roof Designs Including Depth Of Media, Drainage Layer Materials, And Pollution Control Media, Matt Kelly

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Population growth has lead to an increase in development and impervious areas in urban settings. Post-development conditions cause several problems for stormwater management such as limited space for stormwater storage systems and the conveyance of pollution picked up by runoff to near by water bodies. Green Roofs with cisterns have been shown to attenuate the peak flow of storm events and reduce the pollution load leaving a site and entering nearby water bodies. The purpose of this research is to expand the available research data on green roofs with cisterns by investigating the water quality and hydrology effects of different …

Cultural Worldview Assessment Placement: Establishing The Validity Of The Native Self Actualization Placement Assessment (Nsa-Pa), Sidney Ann Stone Brown

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

The purpose of this dissertation is to finalize a written version of the Native Self- Actualization Placement Assessment tool (NSA-PA) and to explore the content validity of the NSA-PA. Brown (1981) described an oral assessment tool for categorizing cultural identity among Native Americans. This tool was identified by Richard Dana ( 1993) as the preferred tool in assessment of urban Indian acculturation. The oral nature of Brown's ( 1981) instrument, however, limits its application and distribution. A Native Self-Actualization tool has been developed from the oral assessment standardized questions and expanded by four domains. This tool was designed to assess …

Drive-Based Modeling And Visualization Of Crew Race Strategy And Performance, Jeffrey Cornett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Crew race strategy is typically formulated by coaches based on rowing tradition and years of experience. However, coaching strategies are not generally supported by empirical evidence and decision-support models. Previous models of crew race strategy have been constrained by the sparse information published on crew race performance (quarterly 500-meter splits). Empirical research has merely summarized which quarterly splits averaged the fastest and slowest relative to the other splits and relative to the average speed of the other competitors. Video records of crew race world championships provide a rich source of data for those capable and patient enough to mine this …

Dordt College 2008-2009 Catalog, Dordt College. Registrar's Office

Academic Catalogs

Academic Catalog for 2008-2009

2008 Annual Report To The Governor And The General Assembly, Tennessee Ethics Commission

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

The Key To Unlocking The Partial Lockout: A Discussion Of The Nlrb's Decisions In Midwest Generation And Bunting Bearings, C. Quincy Ewell

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

Splitting Genes: The Future Of Genetically Modified Organisms In The Wake Of The Wto/Cartagena Standoff, Samuel Blaustein

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Rolls Royce Declares Bankruptcy, John Alfred Heitmann

History Faculty Publications

Despite more than sixty years of engineering excellence, Rolls-Royce failed in its attempt to design and manufacture a radically new jet engine to meet contractual obligations with the Lockheed Corp. Consequently, both British and U.S. governments had to step in to avoid an unprecedented economic catastrophe.

A Study Of Counselor's Legal Challenges And Their Perceptions Of Their Ability To Respond, Mary A. Hermann, Debra Gail Legget, Theodore P. Remley Jr.

Counseling & Human Services Faculty Publications

The authors explore the results of a study that assessed the types and frequency of legal issues encountered by counselors and counselors’ perceptions of their ability to respond to these issues. They also assessed whether the participants’ perceptions were related to practice setting, years of experience, completion of a course in ethics, recent completion of continuing education in ethics or legal issues, state licensure status, certification by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), and highest degree earned. Results demonstrate that counselors feel most prepared to deal with situations encountered most often, but that school counselors do not feel as …

Interrupted Vs. Uninterrupted Training On Bmd During Growth, B. M. Goettsch, M. Z. Smith, J. A. O'Brien, G. V. Gomez, S. V. Jaque, Ken D. Sumida

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

This study compared a resistance training program where the exercise was uninterrupted (UT, i.e., continuous repetitions) against a resistance training program where the exercise was interrupted (IT, i.e., 3 exercise sessions during a training day) for enhancing bone modeling and bone mineral density (BMD) in maturating animals. The total volume of work performed between the two resistance training programs was equivalent by design. 24 young male rats were randomly divided into Control (Con, n = 8), UT (n = 8) and IT (n=8) resistance trained groups. The UT and IT groups were conditioned to climb a vertical ladder with weights …

What Happened To "Paul's Law"?: Insights On Advocating For Better Training And Better Outcomes In Encounters Between Law Enforcement And Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Elizabeth Harvey Osborn

University of Colorado Law Review

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Can Granny Have A New Home? Resolving The Dilemma Of Dementia And Domicile In Federal Diversity Jurisdiction Cases, Angela K. Upchurch

University of Colorado Law Review

Americans are living longer and, unfortunately, suffering from Alzheimer's dementia in greater numbers. As the population has aged, new legal issues have emerged requiring innovative resolutions. One particularly important issue facing incompetent adults is equitable access to the federal courts under diversity jurisdiction. For individuals, citizenship is equated with the individual's domicile-the place where the individual resides and to which he intends to return. Determination of incompetent adults' domicile, because such adults lack the capacity to form intention, has presented federal courts with a unique challenge when the incompetent is relocated by his or her guardian postincapacitation. The circuit courts …

A Realistic Evaluation Of Climate Change Litigation Through The Lens Of A Hypothetical Lawsuit, Shi-Ling Hsu

University of Colorado Law Review

Several dozen cases that can be classified as "climate change litigation" have been filed worldwide, and legal scholars have already generated a considerable amount of writing on the phenomenon. The debate and scholarship has sometimes gotten ahead of itself, reflecting on the normative implications of outcomes that are still speculative at this point. This Article seeks to ground this debate by analyzing the actual legal doctrines that may serve as bases for liability, and seeks to make a realistic evaluation of the likelihood of success of these types of suits. Climate change litigation, in its various forms, raises issues of …

An Empirical Investigation Of Judicial Decisionmaking, Statutory Interpretation, And The Chevron Doctrine In Environmental Law, Jason J. Czarnezki

University of Colorado Law Review

How do courts evaluate decisions of statutory interpretation made by government agencies that deal in environmental law? While research on judicial decisionmaking in environmental law has primarily focused on the D.C. Circuit, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the influence of ideology, only recently have legal scholars begun to consider the role of legal factors in judicial decisionmaking in environmental law. With special attention paid to how courts implement the Chevron doctrine, this Article empirically and doctrinally analyzes environmental law cases decided in the United States Courts of Appeals over a threeyear period (2003-05) to investigate what factors, including ideological, legal, …

Climate Change, Regulatory Fragmentation, And Water Triage, Robin Kundis Craig

University of Colorado Law Review

Viewed from a watershed perspective, we are unconsciously sacrificing many marine ecosystems because upstream fresh water is a regulatorily fragmented resource. That is, water is subject to multiple assertions of regulatory authority and to multiple types of use-right claims that those authorities regulate. As freshwater supplies become increasingly unequal to the task of meeting the multiple demands for both consumptive and in situ use, and as consumptive and in situ uses of water come increasingly into irreconcilable conflict, the various regulatory schemes governing water use have also increasingly come into legal conflict. These courtroom battles have revealed many tensions, overlaps, …

Protecting Whistleblowers By Contract, Richard Moberly

University of Colorado Law Review

Numerous statutes and the tort of wrongful discharge pur-port to prohibit companies from retaliating against employee whistleblowers. However, whistleblowers often lose retaliation lawsuits because these statutory and common law tort protections depend upon a variety of nuanced factors, such as the employer for whom the whistleblower works, the kind of wrongdoing reported, the way in which the employee blew the whistle, and, under some laws, the willingness of an administrative agency to investigate the whistleblower's claim. Given these difficulties, this Article explores an alternate route for whistleblower protection: enforcing the existing contract protections that private employers currently provide employees when …

Retaliatory Discharge And The Ethical Rules Governing Attorneys, Alex B. Long

University of Colorado Law Review

In Garcetti v. Ceballos, the Supreme Court held that a deputy district attorney who, as part of his job duties, raised concerns with his superiors about possibly unlawful activity and was allegedly fired in response had no First Amendment retaliation claim. In support of its conclusion, the Court suggested that adequate checks already existed at the state and federal level to curb the behavior of employers who engage in unlawful activity and to protect the employees who seek to prevent or expose such activity. In addition to state and federal whistleblower statutes, the Court singled out the rules of professional …

Accommodating The Female Body: A Disability Paradigm Of Sex Discriminatio, Jessica L. Roberts

University of Colorado Law Review

This Article presents a novel approach for understanding sex discrimination in the workplace by integrating three distinct areas of scholarship: disability studies, employment law, and architectural design. Borrowing from disabilities studies, I argue that the built environment serves as a situs of sex discrimination. In the first Part, I explain how the concept of disability has progressed from a problem located within the body of an individual with a disability to the failings of the built environment in which that person functions. Using this paradigm, in the next Part, I reframe workplaces constructed for male workers as instruments of sex …

Mother Jones Meets Gordon Gekko: The Complicated Relationship Between Labor And Private Equity, Matthew T. Bodie

University of Colorado Law Review

In 2007, private equity firms came under increasing scrutiny for the favorable tax treatment accorded to their fund managers' compensation. Labor, particularly the Service Workers International Union ("SEIU), was instrumental in bringing this issue to the attention of the media and the public. However, SEIU's private equity campaign is just one way in which the union is pursuing its primary concern: increasing the ranks of its members. This Article examines the role that the SEIU private equity campaign plays both in the overall debate about private equity taxation as well as in the union's negotiations with private equity firms. It …

Occupational Therapy Interventions For Pre And Post Liver Transplant Patients, Tina M. Sauber

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Liver transplantation is the only treatment of choice for chronic liver disease. The illness distress associated with liver disease and transplantation involves every aspect of the individual's life (physical, psychological, social and spiritual) and impacts the individual's quality of life, an important outcome measure of life satisfaction and well-being (Belle, Hoofnagle, Lake, Porayko & Zatlerman, 1997). Patients on the liver transplant waiting list experience a decline in functional performance or may expire while waiting.

The occupational therapist has the challenge of motivating the patient to independently mange his or her life and will complete a comprehensive evaluation with emphasis on …

Promoting Children's Health In The Home Environment: A Parent/Guardian Handbook, Shannon Troje, Stacie Voth

Occupational Therapy Capstones

The World Health Organization (2003) stated that "obesity is a global epidemic". The United States (U.S.) in particular has a statistically significant higher rate of obesity in children. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (2003), 15.3% of children between the ages of 6 and 11 years old are obese as a result of unhealthy habits and routines. Because these habits and routines often begin in the home environment, health promotion activities should involve parents/guardians (Manios, Kafatos, & Mamalakis, 1998).

At this time there are few resources available for parents/guardians and their children to promote wellness in the home environment. …

An Occupational Therapy Approach To A Wellness Program For Adolescents With Mental Illness, Holly Silewski, Christina Thompson

Occupational Therapy Capstones

The purpose of this project was to identify wellness needs of adolescents with mental illness (MI) and to provide a structured program that incorporates occupational activities into wellness programming within a mental health setting.

A literature review was conducted using PubMed, EBSCOhost, PsychInfo, SCOPUS, OT search, and CINAHL to determine the need for wellness programs for this population. Resources included journals, books, websites, government agencies, and government reports.

After an extensive literature review it was found that there are a limited number of wellness programs, as well as a need among adolescents with MI, as evidenced by increasing rates of …

Les Risques Du Métier Dans Le Domaine Des Arts De La Scène : Une Étude Exploratoire, Élise Ledoux, Esther Cloutier, François Ouellet, Isabelle Gagnon, Chloé Thuilier, Julie Ross

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Cette étude exploratoire émane d’une demande de la Table de concertation paritaire en santé et sécurité du travail du domaine des arts de la scène. Cette Table de concertation découle de la mesure cinq du Plan d’action pour l’amélioration des conditions socioéconomiques des artistes, « Pour mieux vivre de son art », rendu public en 2004. En lien avec cette mesure, il est prévu de réaliser une étude sur les risques en matière de santé et de sécurité au travail. En effet, depuis les travaux de Michel Perreault (1988), très peu …

Développement De Marqueurs Et Validation D’Outils De Diagnostic Pour Le Dépistage De L’Hypersensibilité Induite Par Le Béryllium, Michel Fournier, Jacques Bernier, Pauline Brousseau, Daniel Cyr, Guy Viel, Sébastien Sauvé

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Le béryllium est connu pour sa grande toxicité. Il provoque, suite à l’inhalation de poussières ou de vapeurs des pneumopathies sévères (bérylliose) et des atteintes chroniques dite maladie chronique du béryllium (MCB). En moyenne, 1à 20% des travailleurs exposés deviennent sensibilisés, desquels 1 à 10 % développent la MCB. Il existe un test de laboratoire couramment utilisé pour déceler la sensibilisation d’un travailleur au béryllium; il s’agit du test de prolifération des lymphocytes en présence de béryllium le "Beryllium Lymphocyte Proliferation Test" (BeLPT). Bien que ce test permette de détecter la sensibilisation, il offre peu de valeur prédictive quant aux …

Mise Au Point De Méthodes Pour Mesurer L’Adhérence Des Gants De Protection : Étude Préliminaire, Chantal Gauvin, Patricia Dolez, Lotfi Harrabi, Jérôme Boutin, Yvan Petit, Toan Vu-Khanh, Jaime Lara

Rapports de recherche scientifique

L’utilisation de gants peu adhérents force le travailleur à appliquer un effort musculaire supplémentaire pour retenir l’objet manipulé, pouvant conduire à une sensation d’inconfort, de douleur ou même à des problèmes musculo-squelettiques des membres supérieurs. L’objectif principal de cette étude préliminaire était d’explorer différentes approches pour caractériser le niveau d’adhérence des gants de protection.

L’un des moyens pour y arriver a été de modifier une méthode biomécanique mise au point lors d’une étude précédente à l’IRSST (Larivière et al., 2004), afin d’obtenir des mesures plus fiables de l’adhérence des gants tenant compte de l’interaction main/gant/objet. La méthode modifiée consiste à …

La Sécurité Des Machines : Analyse Des Risques Et Des Moyens De Protection Sur Une Presse À Injection De Plastique, Yuvin Chinniah, Mathieu Champoux

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Plusieurs accidents impliquant des machines automatisées sont survenus au cours des dernières années au Québec. Ce rapport a pour principal objectif de proposer une démarche pour évaluer la sécurité d’une machine automatisée, notamment une presse à injection de plastique se trouvant dans le laboratoire de sécurité des machines à l’IRSST. Cet objectif est atteint principalement en appliquant la démarche d’appréciation du risque présentée dans la norme ISO 14121 :1999 à cette machine et en identifiant les moyens de réduction des risques qui sont présents.

Des publications scientifiques sur la sécurité des systèmes automatisés ont servi pour mieux comprendre la problématique. …