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Martha Stewart's Graphic Design For Living, Melanie Mcnaughton

Bridgewater Review

A living brand or a force of darkness, Martha Stewart is an indomitable figure in 20thcentury domestic life and her place in North American domestic history is tied to the success of Martha Stewart Living, the flagship publication of the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) empire. The success of Living is tied to its graphic design. Living typographically enacts the values it argues for by fusing traditional elements with modern edges to present a vision of homemaking that is soft and appealing yet also a statement of skilled precision and quality. Tacking between broad, more theoretical analysis and close …

Tracing Water Sources Of Terrestrial Animal Populations With Stable Isotopes: Laboratory Tests With Crickets And Spiders, Kevin E. Mccluney, John L. Sabo

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Fluxes of carbon, nitrogen, and water between ecosystem components and organisms have great impacts across levels of biological organization. Although much progress has been made in tracing carbon and nitrogen, difficulty remains in tracing water sources from the ecosystem to animals and among animals (the ‘‘water web’’). Naturally occurring, nonradioactive isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen in water provide a potential method for tracing water sources. However, using this approach for terrestrial animals is complicated by a change in water isotopes within the body due to differences in activity of heavy and light isotopes during cuticular and transpiratory water losses. Here …

Whalesong 2010-12-01 (V.29 No.4), Randi Spray, Mallory Millay, Megan Johnson, Seth Griffin, Pat Race

Whalesong

No abstract provided.

A Genetic Algorithm For Multiobjective Hard Scheduling Optimization, Elías Niño, Carlos Ardila, Alfredo J. Perez, Yexid Donoso

Computer Science Faculty Publications

This paper proposes a genetic algorithm for multiobjective scheduling optimization based in the object oriented design with constrains on delivery times, process precedence and resource availability. Initially, the programming algorithm (PA) was designed and implemented, taking into account all constraints mentioned. This algorithm’s main objective is, given a sequence of production orders, products and processes, calculate its total programming cost and time.
Once the programming algorithm was defined, the genetic algorithm (GA) was developed for minimizing two objectives: delivery times and total programming cost. The stages defined for this algorithm were: selection, crossover and mutation. During the first stage, the …

Foreigners' Archive: Contemporary China In The Blogs Of American Expatriates, Qi Tang, Chin-Chung Chao

Communication Faculty Publications

This study scrutinized blogs written by American expatriates in twenty-firstcentury China. The primary objectives were to explore how China is represented in such blogs and to understand the discursive processes through which the American bloggers utilize the blogging technology to narrate their perceptions of the Chinese realities. Drawing on the postcolonial and discursive perspectives, we have determined that the blogs examined here consist of a distinct discursive space of cultural representation and contestation. They were also interpreted as a digital extension of conventional Euro-American travel writing as they share with the genre a set of rhetorical conventions and face the …

The Effect Of Music On Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgical Performance, Ka-Chun Siu, I. H. Suh, Mukul Mukherjee, D. Oleynikov, Nikolaos Stergiou

Journal Articles

Music is often played in the operating room to increase the surgeon’s concentration and to mask noise. It could have a beneficial effect on surgical performance. Ten participants with limited experience with the da Vinci robotic surgical system were recruited to perform two surgical tasks: suture tying and mesh alignment when classical, jazz, hip-hop, and Jamaican music were presented. Kinematics of the instrument tips of the surgical robot and surface electromyography of the subjects were recorded. Results revealed that a significant music effect was found for both tasks with decreased time to task completion (P = .005) and total …

Dotnet Emarket Place Website, Swetha Vemula

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The Objective of EMarket is developing a website which provides online trade facility to local communities. Today there is a significant growth in use of web- based online shopping tools. The goal of EMarket is to provide a secure web based online tool for users to trade products. EMarket application does not use real money for trading products but rather uses money points which users gain during the trades. This project provides the efficient and fraud free platform for online shoppers and is developed in Microsoft .Net framework 3.5.

Info Pool, Archana Samineni

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

Info pool is a system where users can seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks. It is the result of a rigorous user-centered design process that involved formal research and evaluation. Info pool emphasizes on improving social connections by making it more efficient to communicate with, share with, and view the social content of all the people in a user's online social network. Info pool provides a compelling user experience because it aggregates content across many different networks so a user has a single location to discover new content and communicate. The goal …

Hi-Fi Infirmary, Sandeep Kumar Lakkaraju

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

In present situation lot of hospitals maintains patients' personal data either by using manual records or by using computers. But they are not providing any online interface to the practitioners to view patients' details like test reports, deceases etc. To avoid this situation and to provide online communication between the practitioners we are introducing a portal called "High-Fi Infirmary". This document shows the requirement and functional documentation for High-ti Infirmary. It symbolizes all the needs and the requirements to achieve a quality that is desired for the application and it contains information for the development team to design the application.

Database Merge, Bob Van Roekel

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

GE Healthcare is a worldwide leader in healthcare solutions. They are involved in almost every aspect of healthcare from medical devices to software solutions to assist physicians. One of their software solutions captures data from the medical devices and then uses that data to formulate procedural reports for the physician. This enables the physician to spend less time dictating and transcribing their findings and more time to see additional patients. One problem GE Healthcare is faced with is when hospitals become acquired by larger hospitals and both hospitals are running GE Healthcare solutions. The hospitals do not want to have …

The Next Generation Cubesat: A Modular And Adaptable Cubesat Frame Design, James Dolengewicz, Lucas Whipple, Stephanie Wong

Mechanical Engineering

The goal of this project is to develop an improved next-generation CubeSat structure for Cal Poly’s PolySat program. Notable achievements include significantly increased ease of access, design to optimize payload space, improved machinability, increased modularity and a platform which allows for easy integration of future payloads.

Directional Patch Antenna Array Design For Desktop Wireless Internet, Noah Snyder

Electrical Engineering

To improve desktop wireless internet access, two patch antenna configurations were investigated in order to find an alternative for a dipole antenna, which is commonly used for Wi-Fi access. A Linksys WMP54G pci-card wireless adapter was used to test three antennas for 802.11g communications. The standard WMP54G dipole antenna and two patch antenna configurations were tested for Wi-Fi signal strength. The antennas were also tested in Cal Poly’s anechoic chamber to obtain resonant frequency and gain measurements. A 2.437 GHz center frequency, 72 MHz bandwidth antenna consisting of a single microstrip patch was constructed. After the patch antenna was determined …

Consolidating And Implementing An Employee Handbook At Souza’S Dairy, Inc., Adrianna Souza

Dairy Science

The objective of this senior project was to create a more useful handbook that employees will read, condensing the existing but still retaining the important information. Along with updating the handbook, I plan to implement the use of the employee handbooks. An employee handbook is an important solution to help employers and employees have consistent information. An outdated employee handbook can create problems in the workplace. New and changed laws occur every year and the firm will want to ensure that the employee handbook and policy handbook are up to date with the most recent laws and policies to mitigate …

Lawyer - Winter 2010, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

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Thea Bowman: The Courage To Keep On Keeping On!, Maurice J. Nutt C.Ss.R.

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

The year 2010 marks another anniversary, this one more somber than the others. Sister Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., Ph.D., after a great deal of suffering, finally lost her battle to cancer in 1990. Her zest for living, her profound spirituality, and her joy marked all those who had the honor of knowing her. Here are two reflections on her life and influence, the first by Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. who worked with Sr. Thea at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, and the second by one of her former students, Maurice Nutt, C.Ss. R., D.Min.

The Eagleville Times,Volume 8, Issue 12, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

Biochemical Characterization Of Theromin, A Novel Leech Inhibitor, And The Interaction Between The Fourth Metalbinding Domain Of Wilson Disease Protein And Its Copper(I) Chaperone Hah1, Brian A. Zeider

Dissertations

Theromin, a novel thrombin inhibitor from the leech Theromyzon tessulatum, has been shown to be the strongest inhibitor to date. There has been a lot of attention on direct thrombin inhibitors as a much more efficient drug for anticoagulation therapy. One main reason for the need of strong direct thrombin inhibitors is that the current therapy, heparin, causes alternative clotting events in some patients where antibodies are made to the heparin/thrombin complex and causes clots to occur by different methods. Recently there has been a strong inhibitor from a leech used, hirudin, that can inhibit with a K_{i …}

Experimentally Reducing Preset And Hysteresis Effects In Creating A Non-Linear Model For Brake Hoses, Jai Thomas

Dissertations

This research investigates a brake hose simulation model that includes the effect of nonlinear torsional stiffness in addition to the usually considered bending stiffness on brake hose shape. A simulation model consisting of beams and torsion springs is presented in this research to predict brake hose shape when it is twisted through different angles. This knowledge can help reduce the possibility of a significant source of failure related to brake hose abrasion on nearby structures, thus eliminating the safety hazard of a premature failure of hoses. This would also eliminate the need for polymer bumpers at the rub points since …

「敘事醫學」師資培育工作坊專題報導, 琮芸 黃, 俐晴 王, 明蓉 何

Journal of Medical Education

敘事醫學，有助維擊醫護人員與患者問的溝通，了解彼此對於疾病與健康照護的看法。敘事醫學的原則包括專注(attention)、再現(representation)與接納(affiliation)「專注」與「再現」幫助醫者在接收訊息後加以整合與交流，以培養「接納」的同理心，達到敘事醫學之最終目標。藉由聆聽、閱讀、書寫等敘事練習，在教學上啟發學生思考，教師參與討論的過程中與學生同時發展批判、反思之能力；在臨床醫療工作應用上，敘事醫學幫助建立團隊合作的溝通能力，讓醫護人員不僅以「醫者」的眼光看待疾病，更學習從「人」的角度體會疾病經驗。敘事醫學為目前醫學教育重要之新興議題，歐美醫學院校亦積極搜集相關證據以評估其教學成果，希望藉由工作坊回顧，讓國內相關教學與研究更臻完善。

以迷你臨床演練評量評估牙醫系實習醫師之一般醫學臨床能力, 盈盈 楊, 發耀 李, 會祺 徐, 延壽 高, 政宏 戴, 浩民 鄭, 文興 李, 喬琳 莊, 景智 張, 震寰 陳

Journal of Medical Education

背景及目的：為能培養出利用全人醫療概念來提供全民口腔醫療照顧的牙醫師，牙醫學系實習醫師會固定至內、外科實習，此訓練應算是醫學院醫、牙整合課程之一大延伸。本研究目的為，評估牙醫學系實習醫師在內、外科訓練成果。方法：台北榮民總醫院一般醫學內科訓練示範中心自2008年起，固定為國立陽明大學牙醫實習醫師做迷你臨床演練(mini-clinical evaluation exercise, mini-CEX)評量。針對評量結果，分析台北榮總施行牙醫實習醫師的mini-CEX早期成效。結果：自2008年1月至2010年7月間，本中心共進行196名牙醫實習醫師之mini-CEX評量。本研究發現此mini-CEX之內部一致信度在0.79到0.86間，且三年來mini-CEX評量之信度有愈來愈來好的趨勢。另外，本研究也發現隨著在內、外科受訓時問之加長，牙醫實習醫師的mini-CEX之加總平均分數有越來越高之趨勢(p value for trend 0.04)，且mini-CEX表現進步之幅度以醫療面談及人道專業兩項目最顯著。另外本研究也發現，女性牙醫實習醫師在身體檢查及人道專業之表現，優於男性牙醫實習醫師。相反的，在組織效能方面，男性牙醫實習醫師之表現，優於女性牙醫實習醫師。最後，本研究也發現未到本中心受訓前就曾接受mini-CEX評量之學員，其在本中心之mini-CEX表現則優於其他從未接受過mini-CEX評量之牙醫實習醫師。結論：研究結果顯示，將來要積極規劃牙醫實習醫師，在每一內、外次專科實習期間皆安排mini-CEX的評量，累積多次觀察，可提供更可靠mini-CEX評量表現的結果。另外，評估mini-CEX應平均安排於各內、外次專科實習期間，以便能讓臨床教師及牙醫實習醫師有充裕的時問改進教與學的方法。

Mainstreaming Evaluation: Four Case Studies Of Systematic Evaluation Integrated Into Organizational Culture And Practices, Amy M. Gullickson

Dissertations

Following a literature review, a researcher generated a descriptive theory of evaluation mainstreaming, the integration of systematic evaluation into the culture, systems, and job responsibilities of organizations. She then explored the validity and generalizability of the theory in the National Science Foundation’s grant-funded Advanced Technological Education Program using mixed methods research. Four centers were chosen based on quantitative survey responses which suggested that the organizations were likely to be mainstreaming evaluation. For each center, the researcher conducted a site visit, interviews, and document review to understand (i) the processes by and extent to which evaluation became part of everyday operations; …

Lest We Forget: The Library Of Congress's Veterans History Project And "Radical Trust", Christopher Michael Jannings

Dissertations

This dissertation examines the Veterans History Project (VHP), an official U.S. government project created under a bill signed into law by President William J. Clinton on October 27, 2000 to document the experiences of American veterans and their supporters in time of war. It explores the intersections between, cultural, social, public, and military history and addresses the following questions: Who created the VHP, what were the motivations, and what resources did Congress allocate the Library of Congress, the federal agency selected to fulfill the mandate? Who was charged with implementing the VHP, why, and what resources did they employ? In …

Controlling Government Secrecy: A Judicial Solution To The Internal And External Conflicts Surrounding The State Secrets Privilege, Elizabeth Rose Blazey

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Global Crisis And Financial Intermediation In Emerging Market Economies, Bank For International Settlements: Monetary And Economic Department

Documents

No abstract provided.

Markley Email To Waskowicz And Cohen Re Use Of Mark Adelson Quotes, Brian Markley, Cassidy Waskowicz, Sarah Knaus

Documents

No abstract provided.

Alex Hart Email To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Quotes, Alex C. Hart

Documents

No abstract provided.

Basel Iii: International Framework For Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards And Monitoring, Bank For International Settlements (Bis)

Documents

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

The Interface Of Breastfeeding And Work: A Phenomenological Exploration Of The Experiences Of White Low-Income Women, Jessica A. Kerby

Dissertations

Vocational psychologists have been called to expand the traditional discourses related to work and career to address the actual work experiences of individuals, especially those of the working class. Breastfeeding rates are on the rise among employed women and mothers of low-income, but little is known about women of low income who seek to concurrently work and breastfeed. Work-family interface theories suggest employed mothers of low-income may experience conflict and/or enhancement through multiple roles. The purpose of this research was to answer the call to vocational psychologists, give voice to the narratives around breastfeeding and work among lowincome mothers, and …

Inner-Shell Photodetachment Of Transition Metal Negative Ions, Ileana Dumitriu

Dissertations

This thesis focuses on the study of inner-shell photodetachment of transition metal negative ions, specifically Fe¯ and Ru¯. Experimental investigations have been performed with the aim of gaining new insights into the physics of negative atomic ions and providing valuable absolute cross section data for astrophysics. The experiments were performed using the X-ray radiation from the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the merged-beam technique for photoion spectroscopy.

Negative ions are a special class of atomic systems very different from neutral atoms and positive ions. The fundamental physics of the interaction of transition metal negative ions with photons …

Kairotic Strategema: A Rhetorical Investigation Of Barack Obama’S 2009 Health Care Address, Serena M. Sánchez-Wilson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis examines President Barack Obama’s address given on September 9, 2009 entitled “Remarks by the President to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care.” In order to address various situational and contextual elements such as legislative ambiguity, national expense, bureaucratic intrusion, abortion, euthanasia and illegal immigration, President Obama opportunely enters the conversation at a particular time so as to benefit his agenda of passing health care reform. Revolving around the notion of kairotic strategema, which includes the understating of deliberative address as well as the possession of kairos and phronesis, I assert that this aids President …