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Correlates Of Tobacco Cessation Counseling Among Hispanic Physicians In The Us: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study, Francisco G Soto Mas, Héctor G Balcázar, Julia Valderrama Alberola, Chiehwen Ed Hsu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Physician advice is an important motivator for attempting to stop smoking. However, physicians' lack of intervention with smokers has only modestly improved in the last decade. Although the literature includes extensive research in the area of the smoking intervention practices of clinicians, few studies have focused on Hispanic physicians. The purpose of this study was to explore the correlates of tobacco cessation counseling practices among Hispanic physicians in the US. METHODS: Data were collected through a validated survey instrument among a cross-sectional sample of self-reported Hispanic physicians practicing in New Mexico, and who were members of the New Mexico …

Grilles D'Autodiagnostic En Santé Et En Sécurité Du Travail : Presses Plieuses, Danièle Champoux, Jean-Pierre Brun, Yuvin Chinniah

Guides

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A Requirement List For Geo-Ontology Tools, Jochen Albrecht

Publications and Research

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Forgetting The Subject, Christa Davis Acampora

Publications and Research

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Promoting Prosecutorial Accountability, Independence And Effectiveness, Timothy W. Waters, Belinda Cooper

Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty

Promoting Prosecutorial Accountability, Independence and Effectiveness assists readers in identifying and understanding best practices, and serves as a reference for policymakers, senior prosecutors, academics, and civil society leaders.

The publication should also guide and enrich national debates on prosecutorial reform, especially in countries—such as Bulgaria—which have recently transitioned to democracy.

The Electronic Workplace: To Live Outside The Law You Must Be Honest, William A. Herbert

Publications and Research

This 2008 law review article examines the state of the constitutional and statutory law at that time concerning protections for employee when they use employer owned workplace computers.

Providing Vcr Functionality In Vod Servers, Ngyat Tsui

Master's Projects

Resource-sharing techniques are widely used by VOD servers. Stream merging is one of the most efficient resource-sharing techniques. ERMT is able to achieve merge trees with the closest cost of optimal merge tree. Full VCR support has become a “must have” feature for VOD services. This researcher proposed an algorithm to enable VCR support on ERMT. Furthermore, client local buffer and fixed-interval periodical multicasting were also deployed by the algorithm to improve the stream-client ratio. After thorough runs of simulations and numerous comparisons to BEP, the highly efficient resource- sharing technique, the proposed algorithm with client local buffer utilization and …

Gaussian Basis Functions For Chemometrics, Tuomas Kärnä, Francesco Corona, Amaury Lendasse

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

High-Dimensional Data Are Becoming More and More Common, especially in the Field of Chemometrics. Nevertheless, it is Generally Known that Most of the Commonly Used Prediction Models Suffer from Curse of Dimensionality that is the Prediction Performance Degrades as Data Dimension Grows. Therefore, It is Important to Develop Methodology for Reliable Dimensionality Reduction. in This Paper, We Propose a Method that is based on Functional Approximation using Gaussian Basis Functions. the Basis Functions Are Optimized to Accurately Fit the Spectral Data using Nonlinear Gauss-Newton Algorithm. the Fitting Weights Are Then Used as Training Data to Build a Least-Squares Support Vector …

Personalized Shopping Agent For Semantic Web, Ramani Arunachalam

Master's Projects

Current online shopping experience has limitations due to lack of uniform, inter- linked machine readable data across various shopping sites. This project attempts to improve the experience by employing semantic web concepts such as OWL and SPARQL. A new OWL ontology is defined for product data and real-life data from shopping sites such as Amazon, Yahoo shopping are imported and inter-linked using this ontology. A web-based personalized shopping agent is implemented to query this inter- linked database by specifying the preferences for various product attributes. Screenshots of the resulting system and its usage have been provided.

Heuristic Health Resource Referral (H2r2) Engine, Duy Vo

Master's Projects

Searching for health resources is difficult for many individuals because it requires domain knowledge and understanding of search engines techniques. Our system proposes a paradigm shift whereby users provide as much or as little information as they feel comfortable, and we endeavor to match them with relevant health resources. The system first attempts to identify risk factors through a heuristic engine that employs fuzzy logic and then searches for health resources based on the user’s profile. We aim to unburden the user from having to understand complex health information and sometimes esoteric search techniques. Our preliminary findings show that a …

Towards An Undetectable Computer Virus, Priti Desai

Master's Projects

Metamorphic viruses modify their own code to produce viral copies which are syntactically different from their parents. The viral copies have the same functionality as the parent but may have different signatures. This makes signature-based virus scanners unreliable for detecting metamorphic viruses. But statistical pattern analysis tool such as Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) can detect metamorphic viruses. Virus writers use many different code obfuscation techniques to generate metamorphic viruses. In this project we develop a metamorphic engine using code obfuscation techniques. Our metamorphic engine is designed to produce highly diverse morphed copies of the base virus. We show that commercial …

Motif Discovery In Biological Sequences, Medha Pradhan

Master's Projects

With the large amount of biological data generated due to DNA sequencing of various organisms, it is becoming necessary to identify techniques that can help in finding useful information amongst all the data. Finding motifs involves determining meaningful short sequences that may be repeated over many sequences in various species. Various approaches for the motif discovery problem have been proposed in the literature. One method suggests using genetic algorithms. In this project, an evolutionary approach for motif discovery has been explored. The population is clustered during every generation of the algorithm and then evolved locally within the clusters to allow …

Authoring And Sharing Of Programming Exercises, Somyajit Jena

Master's Projects

In recent years, a number of exercises have been developed and published for educating students in the field of Computer Science. But these exercises exist in their own silos. There is no apparent mechanism to share these exercises among researchers and instructors in an effective and efficient manner. Moreover, the developers of these programming exercises are generally using a proprietary system for automatic submission and grading of these exercises. Each of these systems dictates the persistent format of an exercise that may not be inter-operable with other automatic submission and grading systems. This project provides a solution to this problem …

The Effects Of Congressional Elections On Future Equity Market Returns, Vincent Louis Ovlia, David Lee Enke, Michael C. Davis

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

As the primary entity responsible for new legislation, Congress is capable of enacting legislation that may affect future market returns. To examine potential effects, the percentage of the House of Representatives and Senate controlled by a political party is examined. Additionally, the effect on returns in a change in the percentage of seats gained or lost in Congressional elections is analyzed. To test both theories, a modified “partisan view” model is adopted. Results point to the fact that equity markets perform better in situations in which power is distributed between political parties.

Estimation Of Earthquake Loss Due To Bridge Damage In The St. Louis Metropolitan Area. Ii: Indirect Losses, David Lee Enke, Chakkaphan Tirasirichai, Ronaldo Luna

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An approach to estimate the indirect economic loss due to damaged bridges within the highway system from an earthquake event is presented. The indirect cost considered refers to the increased highway transportation cost only. The study zone covers the St. Louis metropolitan area and its surrounding suburban regions. An earthquake scenario centered in St. Louis, with a magnitude 7.0 is used. The direct earthquake loss was primarily damage to bridges, which causes an increase in travel time and distance within the transportation network. This information is then used as input for the indirect loss model. The indirect loss is examined …

Trans Fatty Acids Provide Evidence Of Anthropogenic Feeding By Black Bears, Gregory W. Thiemann, Randal S. Stahl, Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Stewart W. Breck

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Bears (Ursus spp.) that become conditioned to anthropogenic food sources pose a risk to human safety and generally need to be relocated, rehabilitated, or destroyed. Identifying food-conditioned bears may be difficult if the animal is not captured or killed while immediately engaged in the nuisance behavior. Fatty acid signature analysis has been used to examine the dietary habits of bears and other carnivores and is based on the predictable incorporation of ingested fatty acids into the consumer’s fat stores. Unusual fatty acids that are available in only a few food types may be particularly useful dietary markers. In this …

Evaluation Of Virtual Routing Appliances As Routers Virtual Environment, Ahmed Al-Amoudi

Theses

A virtual routing appliance is a system for the rapid, automated management and employment of virtual networks. Virtual routing appliances utilize virtual machines to enable virtual infrastructure, and they have been used commonly in order to implement experimental networks and devoted subnets over a virtual network. Existing research in this area such as cluster-based virtual routers, and Xen routers require the use of physical resources to establish connectivity and to guarantee efficient resource utilization. The virtual routing appliance uses dynamic routing protocols such as RIP, and OSPF to forward traffic between different subnets and manage IP packets at the IP …

Guest Satisfaction And Guest Loyalty Study For Hotel Industry, Danijel Carev

Theses

Common perception by practitioners in the hotel industry today that a satisfied guest would become a repeat customer was considered as a major subject of this research. It determined the extent to which satisfaction fostered loyalty. Interviewing guests and demonstrating the expression of visual experience through photography illustrated the guests´ propensity for recommending and returning to the hotel as a repeat customer. Using a provided digital camera, participating guests were asked to photograph whatever caught their eye to illustrate the hotel as being meaningful. In examining factors such as ambience, service, as well as with the guest’s overall satisfaction with …

Strategies For Success In The E-Grocery Industry, Tong Niu

Theses

US e-grocers have been testing different business models with varying results. This research conducted a meta-analysis of six online grocers (Peapod, Tesco, Safeway, FreshDirect, Webvan and Streamline) to identify the pattern of strategies that contribute to their performance. Each company's management capabilities, expansion and market selection strategy, order-picking method, delivery method, website design and Customer Relations Management (CRM) are explored and compared to identify the factors that provide these businesses with a greater chance of success. The findings suggest that knowledge of and experience in the grocery business play an important role in the success of an online grocer. Using …

A Comparative Study Of Silicon Dioxide Thin Film Deposition Techniques And The Fabrication Of Ultra-Low Refractive Index Nano-Porous Silicon Dioxide Thin Film, Mengshu Pan

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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A Preferred Vision For Leading Schools : A Reflective Essay, Sarah E. Willenborg

Graduate Research Papers

In order to be a strong leader, one must be able to implement change effectively, link curriculum to instruction, and be called to service. These three components are vital in order to be an effective administrator. Through out my paper, I have reflected on the ways I feel I can most effectively implement each criterion, and create life long learners in my teachers and students.

Petrogenesis Of The Kösedağ Pluton, Suşehri-Ne Sivas, East-Central Pontides, Turkey, Durmuş Boztuğ

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Kösedağ syenite crops out as a shallow-seated pluton within the Eocene volcano-sedimentary rocks and is unconformably overlain by Lower Miocene limestones in the Suşehri-NE Sivas region, east-central Pontides. It consists of syenites and quartz syenites with a phaneritic, porphyritic texture characterized by K-feldspar megacrysts set in a coarse- to medium-grained groundmass comprising K-feldspar, plagioclase, clinopyroxene, amphibole, biotite and quartz. Major element geochemistry data reveal a high-K, alkaline, metaluminous to slightly peraluminous character, with a low Aluminum Saturation Index (ASI) value. The main solidification process, which modified the composition of magma during crystallization, was fractional crystallization, in which syenites solidified …

Palynostratigraphic, Palaeovegetational And Palaeoclimatic Investigations On The Miocene Deposits In Central Anatolia (Çorum Region And Sivas Basin), Mi̇ne Sezgül Kayseri̇, Funda Akgün

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Palynostratigraphy of the Neogene coal-bearing sediments in the Çorum region and Sivas Basin has been determined, and three sporomorph associations have been defined. Sporomorph association A is described from the Samsun-Havza region and is of latest Burdigalian age. Sporomorph association B is described from the Çorum region and Sivas Basin and is of early-middle Serravalian age. Sporomorph association C is described from the Sivas-Vasıltepe region and is of earliest Tortonian age. Sporomorph association A indicates warm subtropical climatic conditions and the Coexistence Approach (CA) results are: mean annual temperature (MAT) 19 °C, mean annual coldest month (CMT) 9.75 °C, mean …

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Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

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Platinum-Group Minerals (Pgm) And Other Solid Inclusions In The Elbistan-Kahramanmaraş Mantle-Hosted Ophiolitic Chromitites, South-Eastern Turkey: Their Petrogenetic Significance, İbrahi̇m Uysal

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Elbistan-Kahramanmaraş podiform ophiolitic chromitites, in southeastern Turkey, contain abundant primary inclusions of platinum-group minerals (PGM), base-metals sulphides (BMS) and silicates. These inclusions are very small, generally less than 15 microns in size, and mostly occur in chromian spinel. The following PGM have been recognized: laurite, iridium, irarsite, ruarsite and several unidentified PGE phases. Millerite, pentlandite, bornite, digenite, chalcopyrite and betekhtinite are the BMS that have been identified. Mg-rich hornblende, accompanied by rare olivine, clinopyroxene and phlogopite, are the most abundant silicate inclusions. Most of the PGM, BMS and silicate inclusions are considered primary, i.e. formed during the high temperature …

Requerimientos De Espacio Y Metas De Diseños-Plan Del Edificio Municipal--Materiales De Apoyo, 2008, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

Space requirements and design goals in the remodeling of the old Banco Nacional building into the new municipal building.

Removed Walls--Municipal Building Proposal--Supporting Material--Computer Renderings, 2008, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

Computer renderings of walls removed in the proposal to remodel the old national bank building into a new municipal building.

Red Cross, Proposal A--Supporting Materials--Computer Renderings, 2008, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

Image 1, Back elevation; Image 2, Elevation; Image 3, Front elevation; Image 4, Kitchen interior; Image 5, Left elevation; Image 6, Outside; Image 7, Pan; Image 8, Panorama Proposal 1; Image 9, Picture 1; Image 10, Right elevation.

Concept Drawing: Multiple Centers, 2008, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

Concept drawing of scenario using multiple centers in Santa Elena.

Parque Barrio Las Orquídeas--Materiales De Apoyo--Dibujos, 2008, Desai Dipal

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

A drawing of Barrio Las Orquídeas Park.