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Is There A Relationship Between Body Mass Index And Serum Vitamin D Levels?, Abdulmohsen H. Al-Elq, Mir Sadat-Ali, Haifa A. Al-Turki, Fathma A. Al-Mulhim, Amein K. Al-Ali Dec 2009

Is There A Relationship Between Body Mass Index And Serum Vitamin D Levels?, Abdulmohsen H. Al-Elq, Mir Sadat-Ali, Haifa A. Al-Turki, Fathma A. Al-Mulhim, Amein K. Al-Ali

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between vitamin D level and body mass index (BMI) among Saudi Arabian citizens. METHODS: Four hundred healthy individuals aged > or =25 years (200 males and 200 females) were included in this cross-sectional study. Subjects were recruited in the period between 1st February 2008 and 31st May 2008 from the medical staff and employees of King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from patients attending the endocrinology, orthopedic, and infertility clinics at the same hospital. Clinical evaluation was carried out, and BMI was calculated. Serum 25 hydroxy vitamin D (25OHD), in …

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The Frequency Of 21-Alpha Hydroxylase Enzyme Deficiency And Related Sex Hormones In Iraqi Healthy Male Subjects Versus Patients With Acne Vulgaris., Khalifa E. Sharquie, Adil A. Noaimi, Basil O. Saleh, Zainab N. Anbar Dec 2009

The Frequency Of 21-Alpha Hydroxylase Enzyme Deficiency And Related Sex Hormones In Iraqi Healthy Male Subjects Versus Patients With Acne Vulgaris., Khalifa E. Sharquie, Adil A. Noaimi, Basil O. Saleh, Zainab N. Anbar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVES: To find out the frequency of nonclassical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency among Iraqi healthy male individuals versus male patients with acne vulgaris. METHODS: This case-control study and single-center examination of hormone levels in a cohort of volunteers was conducted in the Department of Dermatology, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, and in the Physiological Chemistry Department of the College of Medicine, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq, from September 2007 to February 2008. RESULTS: The frequency of 21-hydroxylase enzyme deficiency in healthy male subjects was 1:43 (2.3%), while in male patients with acne vulgaris, this was 6:43 (13.95%). Serum 17-hydroxyprogesterone …

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Current Practice In The Management Of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus In Saudi Arabia., Abdulmohsen H. Al-Elq Dec 2009

Current Practice In The Management Of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus In Saudi Arabia., Abdulmohsen H. Al-Elq

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVES: To gather data on current practices in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Saudi Arabia and to evaluate the degree of compliance with international guidelines. METHODS: This paper represents the results of the Saudi Arabia T2DM data collected at the cross-sectional part of Wave 2006 of the International Diabetes Management Practices Study (IDMPS). Data were collected on a case report form from 28 health centers all over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the period between 01/12/2006 and 30/12/2006. It included demographic and socioeconomic profile in addition to diabetes management and metabolic control. RESULTS: …

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Smoking Among Health Science University Students In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Mirza M. Subhan, Thamir Al-Khlaiwi, Suleiman O. Ghandourah Dec 2009

Smoking Among Health Science University Students In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Mirza M. Subhan, Thamir Al-Khlaiwi, Suleiman O. Ghandourah

Saudi Medical Journal

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Surgical Emergencies In Pediatric Otolaryngology., Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi, Khalid A. Al-Mazrou, Fawaz M. Makki, Osama S. Allam, Abdulrahman I. Al-Fayez Dec 2009

Surgical Emergencies In Pediatric Otolaryngology., Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi, Khalid A. Al-Mazrou, Fawaz M. Makki, Osama S. Allam, Abdulrahman I. Al-Fayez

Saudi Medical Journal

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Are Changes Needed In Surgical Training., Rihab Alsalih Dec 2009

Are Changes Needed In Surgical Training., Rihab Alsalih

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Herbicide, Salinity, And Flooding Tolerance Of Foxtail Barley (Hordeum Jubatum L.) And Desirable Pasture Grasses, Karl R. Israelsen Dec 2009

Herbicide, Salinity, And Flooding Tolerance Of Foxtail Barley (Hordeum Jubatum L.) And Desirable Pasture Grasses, Karl R. Israelsen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Research trials performed in the greenhouse compared the tolerance and response of Hordeum jubatum and desirable pasture grass species to herbicides, salinity, and flooding. Desirable grass species used in this study included: 'Fawn' tall fescue (Festuca arundinaceae), 'Garrison' creeping foxtail (Alopecurus arundinaceus), 'Palaton' reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea), 'Climax' timothy (Phleum pratense), 'Alkar' tall wheatgrass (Thinopyrum ponticum), 'Potomac' orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata), and 'Mustang' altai wildrye (Leymus angustus). Tolerance to herbicides, salinity, and flooding varied significantly among grass species. Herbicide tolerance was tested using four herbicides at five …

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Negligence And Insufficient Activity: The Missing Paradigm In Torts, David Gilo, Ehud Guttel Dec 2009

Negligence And Insufficient Activity: The Missing Paradigm In Torts, David Gilo, Ehud Guttel

Michigan Law Review

Conventional wisdom in tort law maintains that the prevention of undesirable risks mandates restriction of harmful conduct. Against this widely held conviction, this Article shows that undesirable risks often stem from insufficient, rather than excessive, activity. Because negligence requires investments in only cost-justified care, parties might deliberately limit their activity so that the size of the ensuing risk would be lower than the cost of welfare-enhancing precautions. Parties' incentives to strategically restrict their activity levels have striking implications for the inducement of efficient harm prevention. The overlooked paradigm of insufficient activity calls for the imposition of a new form of …

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Shareholder Compensation As Dividend, James J. Park Dec 2009

Shareholder Compensation As Dividend, James J. Park

Michigan Law Review

This Article questions the prevailing view that securities-fraud actions suffer from a circularity problem. Because shareholder plaintiffs are owners of the defendant corporation, it is commonly argued that shareholder compensation is a payment from shareholders to themselves with substantial transaction costs in the form of attorney fees. But shareholder compensation is no more circular than a dividend, which is a cash payment to shareholders from the company they own with substantial transaction costs in the form of taxes. In fact, shareholder compensation is less circular than a dividend because it is a transfer to shareholders who purchased stock when the …

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Employer Newsletter December 2009, Office Of Cooperative Education And Career Services Dec 2009

Employer Newsletter December 2009, Office Of Cooperative Education And Career Services

RIT Digital Archives

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Cybersieves, Derek E. Bambauer Dec 2009

Cybersieves, Derek E. Bambauer

Duke Law Journal

This Article offers a process-based method to assess Internet censorship that is compatible with different value sets about what content should be blocked. Whereas China's Internet censorship receives considerable attention, censorship in the United States and other democratic countries is largely ignored. The Internet is increasingly fragmented by nations' different value judgments about what content is unacceptable. Countries differ not in their intent to censor material-from political dissent in Iran to copyrighted songs in America-but in the content they target, how precisely they block it, and how involved their citizens are in these choices. Previous scholars have analyzed Internet censorship …

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Constitutional Limits On Private Policing And The State’S Allocation Of Force, M. Rhead Enion Dec 2009

Constitutional Limits On Private Policing And The State’S Allocation Of Force, M. Rhead Enion

Duke Law Journal

This Note argues that a variety of "private police" forces, such as university patrols and residential security guards, should. be held to the constitutional limitations found in the Bill of Rights. These private police act as arms of the state by supplying force in response to a public demand for order and security. The state, as sovereign, retains responsibility to allocate force, in the form of either public or private police, in response to public demand. This state responsibility-a facet of its police power-is evidenced throughout English and American history. When this force responds to a public demand for order …

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The Limits Of Advocacy, Amanda Frost Dec 2009

The Limits Of Advocacy, Amanda Frost

Duke Law Journal

Party control over case presentation is regularly cited as a defining characteristic of the American adversarial system. Accordingly, American judges are strongly discouraged from engaging in so-called "issue creation"-that is, raising legal claims and arguments that the parties have overlooked or ignored-on the ground that doing so is antithetical to an adversarial legal culture that values litigant autonomy and prohibits agenda setting by judges. And yet, despite the rhetoric, federal judges regularly inject new legal issues into ongoing cases. Landmark Supreme Court decisions such as Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and Mapp v. Ohio were decided on grounds never raised …

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Not Peace, But A Sword: Navy V. Egan And The Case Against Judicial Abdication In Foreign Affairs, Jason Rathod Dec 2009

Not Peace, But A Sword: Navy V. Egan And The Case Against Judicial Abdication In Foreign Affairs, Jason Rathod

Duke Law Journal

In the United States' system of separation of powers, the judiciary must safeguard the rights of individuals from abuses by the political branches of government. Yet, when it comes to matters touching foreign affairs, scholars such as John Yoo and jurists such as Antonin Scalia argue that the executive branch is entitled to virtually unreviewable discretion. They point to Navy v. Egan for support. There, the Court held that an administrative body that hears appeals from adverse actions against government employees was precluded from reviewing the merits of security clearance determinations because the executive branch deserves "super-strong" deference in foreign …

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China’S Strategy For Free Trade Agreements: Political Battle In The Name Of Trade, Shuchao Henry Gao Dec 2009

China’S Strategy For Free Trade Agreements: Political Battle In The Name Of Trade, Shuchao Henry Gao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Compared with Europe and America, East Asia is a latecomer in the new gold-rush of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In this process, China has played a significant role. This is not only due to the growing economic clout of China, but also because China has taken a conscious strategy to push for economic integration in the region. Thus, for the benefits of the countries in the region, it is very important to understand China’s FTA strategy. This article starts with the evolving picture of China’s FTA web, then discusses the key components of China’s FTA strategy, and concludes by noting …

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An Entity Sui Generis In The Wto: Taiwan's Wto Membership And Its Trade Law Regime, Han-Wei Liu Dec 2009

An Entity Sui Generis In The Wto: Taiwan's Wto Membership And Its Trade Law Regime, Han-Wei Liu

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

As one of the founding members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Taiwan (the Republic of China or ROC) - the 17th largest economy, was granted accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001 after its observer status of eleven years. Taiwan, classified by most commentators as an "unrecognized state" or an "entity sui generis", has been excluded from most of the major international organizations. Taiwan's accession to the WTO, therefore, is considered to be an important breakthrough in diplomacy for the past decades. Notwithstanding its WTO membership, the Taiwanese Government has employed numerous trade …

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Beyond Ethnocentrism In Communication Theory: Towards A Culture-Centric Approach, Eddie C. Y. Kuo, Han Ei Chew Dec 2009

Beyond Ethnocentrism In Communication Theory: Towards A Culture-Centric Approach, Eddie C. Y. Kuo, Han Ei Chew

Research Collection Office of Impact

Communications scholars have been challenging the universality of Eurocentric scholarship, which they argue to be a form of intellectual imperialism imposing its provincial ideals and masquerading these as universal. As an answer to Eurocentricity, Asiacentricity proposes to place Asian values and ideals at the center of inquiry to see Asian phenomena from the standpoint of Asians as subjects and agents. This article critiques this Asiacentric agenda and critically examines the implications and premises of this paradigm. It suggests instead that a culture-centric paradigm be adopted to avoid an Asian version of the Eurocentricity crisis. The article advocates the adoption of …

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Missouri S&T Magazine Winter 2009, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association Dec 2009

Missouri S&T Magazine Winter 2009, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association

Missouri S&T Magazine

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Enabling Secure Secret Updating For Unidirectional Key Distribution In Rfid-Enabled Supply Chains, Shaoying Cai, Tieyan Li, Changshe Ma, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng Dec 2009

Enabling Secure Secret Updating For Unidirectional Key Distribution In Rfid-Enabled Supply Chains, Shaoying Cai, Tieyan Li, Changshe Ma, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In USENIX Security 08, Juels, Pappu and Parno proposed a secret sharing based mechanism to alleviate the key distribution problem in RFID-enabled supply chains. Compared to existing pseudonym based RFID protocols, the secret sharing based solution is more suitable for RFID-enabled supply chains since it does not require a database of keys be distributed among supply chain parties for secure ownership transfer of RFID tags. However, this mechanism cannot resist tag tracking and tag counterfeiting attacks in supply chain systems. It is also not convenient for downstream supply chain parties to adjust the size of RFID tag collections in recovering …

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On Strategies For Imbalanced Text Classification Using Svm: A Comparative Study, Aixin Sun, Ee Peng Lim, Ying Liu Dec 2009

On Strategies For Imbalanced Text Classification Using Svm: A Comparative Study, Aixin Sun, Ee Peng Lim, Ying Liu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Many real-world text classification tasks involve imbalanced training examples. The strategies proposed to address the imbalanced classification (e.g., resampling, instance weighting), however, have not been systematically evaluated in the text domain. In this paper, we conduct a comparative study on the effectiveness of these strategies in the context of imbalanced text classification using Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifier. SVM is the interest in this study for its good classification accuracy reported in many text classification tasks. We propose a taxonomy to organize all proposed strategies following the training and the test phases in text classification tasks. Based on the taxonomy, …

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The Family In Early Modern England. Edited By Helen Berry And Elizabeth Foyster, Fiona Williamson Dec 2009

The Family In Early Modern England. Edited By Helen Berry And Elizabeth Foyster, Fiona Williamson

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

This collection of essays is dedicated to Anthony Fletcher, specifically selected tohighlight his contribution to the field of early modern social history. Fletcher is citedas both teacher and mentor to the editors and the book includes a short biography commemorating his work to date. The collection also marks the thirtieth anniversaryof the publication of Lawrence Stone’s The Family, Sex and Marriage, 1500–1800,and each essay is inspired by a theme that Stone addressed in his research on family history.

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The Use And Misuse Of Well-Known Marks Listings, Kung-Chung Liu, Eric Wang, Xinliang Tao Dec 2009

The Use And Misuse Of Well-Known Marks Listings, Kung-Chung Liu, Eric Wang, Xinliang Tao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The continual strengthening of the protection for well-known marks has been one of the features of international trademark development in the post-TRIPS era. In many countries well-known marks can now be granted full trademark right and protection merely from the fact that they are well-known; well-known marks can also be protected against dilution or even the likelihood thereof, and against comparative advertising that is discrediting or denigrating. However, for market late-comers seeking a new trademark, there is no clear way to determine if a particular mark is well-known. Without this certainty the applicant cannot calculate the risk of having the …

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Privacy Preserving Portable Health Record (P³Hr), Pavan Roy Marupally, Vamsi Paruchuri, Sriram Chellappan Dec 2009

Privacy Preserving Portable Health Record (P³Hr), Pavan Roy Marupally, Vamsi Paruchuri, Sriram Chellappan

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Personal health records (PHRs) offer significant potential to stimulate transformational changes in health care delivery and self-care by patients. There is a gap between today's personal health records (PHRs) and what patients say they want and need from this electronic tool for managing their health information. Current barriers to PHR adoption among patients include cost, concerns that information is not protected or private, inconvenience, design shortcomings, and the inability to share information across organizations. We propose a novel architecture to bridge the gap based on Privacy Preserving Portable Health Record(P3HR), a device that incorporates a smart card into …

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A New Approach For Anonymous Password Authentication, Yanjiang Yang, Jianying Zhou, Jian Weng, Feng Bao Dec 2009

A New Approach For Anonymous Password Authentication, Yanjiang Yang, Jianying Zhou, Jian Weng, Feng Bao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Anonymous password authentication reinforces password authentication with the protection of user privacy. Considering the increasing concern of individual privacy nowadays, anonymous password authentication represents a promising privacy-preserving authentication primitive. However, anonymous password authentication in the standard setting has several inherent weaknesses, making its practicality questionable. In this paper, we propose a new and efficient approach for anonymous password authentication. Our approach assumes a different setting where users do not register their passwords to the server; rather, they use passwords to protect their authentication credentials. We present a concrete scheme, and get over a number of challenges in securing password-protected credentials …

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E-Design Tool For Friction Stir Welding, Harish Bagaitkar, Venkat Allada Dec 2009

E-Design Tool For Friction Stir Welding, Harish Bagaitkar, Venkat Allada

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper describes efforts to develop a web-Based E-Design tool for the Friction Stir Welding (FSW) technique. the input parameters to the E-Design tool are the joint specifications. the output parameters of the E-Design tool are process parameters such as tool geometry details, tool rpm, and plunge depth. the heart of the E-Design tool is the FSW database. the FSW database contains mappings of various input parameters and output parameters that are captured by referring to various experimental studies cited in the literature. the proposed E-Design tool deals with lap joints and butt joints between similar aluminum alloys. Copyright © …

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The Part Count Tool (Pact) For Concept Selection, Tarang Parashar, Katie Grantham Lough, Robert B. Stone Dec 2009

The Part Count Tool (Pact) For Concept Selection, Tarang Parashar, Katie Grantham Lough, Robert B. Stone

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents a part count tool that automates the consideration of manufacturing cost during the conceptual design phase by predicting part count for a particular product concept. with an approximate number of parts per product in the conceptual design phase, the designer can estimate the cost associated with the product. on the basis of the cost, the designer can make changes according to budget requirements. the part count tool will also aid in ranking the design concepts by number of components for a product. This tool utilizes existing automated concept generation algorithms to generate the design concepts. It extracts …

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Arnie Koekkoek's Backyard Wonders, Elisabeth Mcpherson Eberspacher Dec 2009

Arnie Koekkoek's Backyard Wonders, Elisabeth Mcpherson Eberspacher

Pro Rege

Erratum: The photographs for both the cover and page 35 of the December 2009 Pro Rege are the work of photographer Doug Burg. These were attributed erroneously to Elisabeth McPherson Eberspacher, who wrote this essay.

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Mapping The Terrestrial Reptile Distributions In Oman And The United Arab Emirates, Andrew S. Gardner Dec 2009

Mapping The Terrestrial Reptile Distributions In Oman And The United Arab Emirates, Andrew S. Gardner

All Works

The terrestrial reptile fauna of Oman and the United Arab Emirates is rich, with at least 79 species of lizards and snakes and a single species of worm lizard. However, to date there have been no accurate maps published of their distribution ranges, and distribution data relies on scattered museum specimen localities and published accounts. Considerable numbers of locality data points do exist, collected by visting and resident herpetologists, and more recently, from ecologists working on surveys for environmental impact assessments and biodiversity action plans. These data are invaluable, as amongst other uses, they can assist conservation planning and management, …

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Fighting Freestyle: The First Amendment, Fairness, And Corporate Reputation, Rebecca Tushnet Dec 2009

Fighting Freestyle: The First Amendment, Fairness, And Corporate Reputation, Rebecca Tushnet

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

There are three distinct groups who might want to engage in speech about commercial entities or to constrain those commercial entities from making particular claims of their own. Competitors may sue each other for false advertising, consumers may sue businesses, and government regulators may impose requirements on what businesses must and may not say. In this context, this Article will evaluate a facially persuasive but ultimately misguided claim about corporate speech: that because consumers regularly get to say nasty things about corporations under the lax standards governing defamation of public figures, corporations must be free to make factual claims subject …

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Neo-Orthodoxy In Academic Freedom, J. Peter Byrne Dec 2009

Neo-Orthodoxy In Academic Freedom, J. Peter Byrne

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This review essay analyzes two recent books that advance neo-orthodox theories of academic freedom: Matthew Finkin and Robert Post, For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom, and Stanley Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time. Both books develop principles articulated in the American Association of University Professors 1915 Declaration, which emphasize the role of faculty in advancing knowledge and the need to insulate professional evaluation of academic work from lay, political interference. This review essay defends the return to protection of the scholarly search for truth as the touchstone of academic freedom, offers critiques of the authors’ …

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