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Usa V. Bonefacio Lopez-Pacheco Dec 2010

Usa V. Bonefacio Lopez-Pacheco

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania


John Witkowski V. Intl Brotherhood Of Boilermake Dec 2010

John Witkowski V. Intl Brotherhood Of Boilermake

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania


Usa V. Jennifer Mcdade Dec 2010

Usa V. Jennifer Mcdade

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania


Usa V. Bernard Johnson Dec 2010

Usa V. Bernard Johnson

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania


Consistent Probabilities In Wheeler-Dewitt Quantum Cosmology, David A. Craig, Parampreet Singh Dec 2010

Consistent Probabilities In Wheeler-Dewitt Quantum Cosmology, David A. Craig, Parampreet Singh

Faculty Publications

We give an explicit, rigorous framework for calculating quantum probabilities in a model theory of quantum gravity. Specifically, we construct the decoherence functional for the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with a free, massless, minimally coupled scalar field, thus providing a complete decoherent histories formulation for this quantum cosmological model. The decoherence functional is applied to study predictions concerning the model's Dirac (relational) observables; the behavior of semiclassical states and superpositions of such states; and to study the singular behavior of quantum Wheeler-DeWitt universes. Within this framework, rigorous formulas are given for calculating the corresponding probabilities from the …


Nesting Ecology Of The Mississippi And Swallow-Tailed Kite In White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, Scott James Chiavacci Dec 2010

Nesting Ecology Of The Mississippi And Swallow-Tailed Kite In White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, Scott James Chiavacci

Student Theses and Dissertations

The Swallow-tailed (Elanoides forficatus; STKI) and Mississippi kite (Ictinia mississippiensis; MIKI) both express relatively poor reproductive success in White River National Wildlife Refuge (WRNWR), east-central Arkansas. I studied the nesting ecology of both species in WRNWR to determine factors contributing to their low nest survival. I located 41 MIKI nests from 2008-2009 and documented 8 causes of nest failure. The overall estimated probability of nest survival was ~25%, but estimated daily nest survival varied between nest periods among and across years. I found no consistent predictors of nest survival among the variables I measured. Also, I determined snake excluder devices, …


Preliminary Analysis Of Thermally Induced Condensed Phase Electron Transfer Reactions Of Cadmium Chloride And Lead Chloride With Electropositive Metals, Vamshi Addaguduru Dec 2010

Preliminary Analysis Of Thermally Induced Condensed Phase Electron Transfer Reactions Of Cadmium Chloride And Lead Chloride With Electropositive Metals, Vamshi Addaguduru

Student Theses and Dissertations

The thermal stabilities and thermal decomposition for the metal halides, cadmium chloride and lead chloride with electropositive metals like Mn, Zn, Cr and Fe were studied at elevated temperatures using thermal analysis techniques, thermogravimetry and differential thermal analysis using TG/DTA apparatus. The reactions of cadmium chloride and lead chloride with electropositive metals were conducted in Cu pans and found that Zinc metal may show a reaction with both CdCl2 and PbCl2; Manganese may not react with CdCl2 and may react with PbCl2; iron may react with CdCl2 but not with PbCl2 and chromium may not react with both the metal …


The Physical And Psychological Stress Of Police Officers, Elizabeth Ann Gilbert Dec 2010

The Physical And Psychological Stress Of Police Officers, Elizabeth Ann Gilbert

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purposes of this study was to (1) determine health-related and job-related fitness scores of Jonesboro, AR polices officers and (2) determine self-reported psychological stress levels of these officers. The fitness tests included blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), vertical jump, Illinois agility test, one-repetition bench press maximum, curl-up test, push-up test, twelve-minute run and trunk flexion test. Psychological stress was evaluated using operational and organizational stress surveys that were designed for use with law enforcement personnel. The stress survey was completed by 44 officers and the fitness tests were completed by 36 officers. Mean scores, standard deviations, and frequency …


Ddasaccident719, Hd-Aid Dec 2010

Ddasaccident719, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On 22 December 2010 team arrived to the area on 06:30 and started operation on 07:00 working for 45 minutes and then 15 minutes break, the second round started on 08:00 for the same working and breaking period. The third round started on 09:00, [the Victim] worked in his clearance lane using metal detector and then stopped on 09:25 wanted to mark his clearance lane. He picked up marking material/equipment attempted to mark his clearance lane. On the way back he slipped out from his cleared lane to un-clear area, his right foot came on a mine and the accident …


The Impact Of An Aac Device, Using The Lamp Approach, Mary Hannah Pulliam Dec 2010

The Impact Of An Aac Device, Using The Lamp Approach, Mary Hannah Pulliam

Student Theses and Dissertations

This investigation examined both the initial and renewed impact of an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device, using the Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) approach, on an individual with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A within subject research design was utilized and consisted of a multiple baseline across behavior design in combination with a multiple baseline across device research design.This investigation included one child with ASD, and utilized an observation checklist of video recordings (Appendix A) to assess the communication behaviors of the participant. The behaviors in question were communication acts per obligatory context per minute, the percent of total …


Survey Says: Implications Of A Public Perception Survey On Stormwater Education Programming, Katie Giacalone, Catherine Mobley, Calvin Sawyer, James Witte, Gene Eidson Dec 2010

Survey Says: Implications Of A Public Perception Survey On Stormwater Education Programming, Katie Giacalone, Catherine Mobley, Calvin Sawyer, James Witte, Gene Eidson

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Effective watershed and stormwater education and public involvement programs strive to increase awareness of watersheds and landscape connectivity and also encourage behavior changes that may be contributing to water quality and quantity problems within a targeted basin. According to new guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency on stormwater permit improvement, regulators are looking for programs to utilize targeted issues relevant to a community to guide the development of a comprehensive outreach program. In an effort to collect information on public perception, knowledge, behaviors and willingness to get involved in improved stormwater management, a telephone survey was implemented. This manuscript …


Study On Algebras With Retractions And Planes Over A Dvr., Prosenjit Das Dr. Dec 2010

Study On Algebras With Retractions And Planes Over A Dvr., Prosenjit Das Dr.

Doctoral Theses

Aim:The main aim of this thesis is to study the following problems:1. For a Noetherian ring R, to find a set of minimal sufficient fibre conditions for an R-algebra with a retraction to R to be an A1-fibration over R.2. To investigate sufficient conditions for a factorial A1-form, with a retraction to the base ring, to be A1.3. To investigate whether planes of the form b(X, Y)Zn – a(X, Y) are co- ordinate planes in the polynomial ring in three variables X, Y and Z over a discrete valuation ring.The 1st problem will be discussed in Chapter 3 entitled Codimension- …


The Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Magnesium Transporter Mgte Inhibits Transcription Of The Type Iii Secretion System, Gregory G. Anderson, Timothy L. Yahr, Rustin R. Lovewell, George A. O'Toole Dec 2010

The Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Magnesium Transporter Mgte Inhibits Transcription Of The Type Iii Secretion System, Gregory G. Anderson, Timothy L. Yahr, Rustin R. Lovewell, George A. O'Toole

Dartmouth Scholarship

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes life-long pneumonia in individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). These long-term infections are maintained by bacterial biofilm formation in the CF lung. We have recently developed a model of P. aeruginosa biofilm formation on cultured CF airway epithelial cells. Using this model, we discovered that mutation of a putative magnesium transporter gene, called mgtE, led to increased cytotoxicity of P. aeruginosa toward epithelial cells. This altered toxicity appeared to be dependent upon expression of the type III secretion system (T3SS). In this study, we found that mutation of mgtE results in increased T3SS …


Earlier Buddhist Theories Of Free Will: Compatibilism, Rick Repetti Dec 2010

Earlier Buddhist Theories Of Free Will: Compatibilism, Rick Repetti

Publications and Research

This is the first part of a three-article series that examines Budd-hist accounts of free will. The present article introduces the issues and reviews earlier attempts by Frances Story, Walpola Rāhula, Luis Gómez, and David Kalupahana. These “early-period” authors advocate compatibilism between Buddhist doctrine, determinism (the doctrine of universal lawful causation), and free will. The second article reviews later attempts by Mark Siderits, Gay Watson, Joseph Goldstein, and Charles Goodman. These “middle-period” authors embrace either partial or full incompatibilism. The third article reviews recent attempts by Nicholas F. Gier and Paul Kjellberg, Asaf Federman, Peter Harvey, and B. Alan Wallace. …


Ryan Wheeler V. Gerald Rozum Dec 2010

Ryan Wheeler V. Gerald Rozum

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Usa V. Rafael Romero Dec 2010

Usa V. Rafael Romero

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey


In Re: Thomas Kane Dec 2010

In Re: Thomas Kane

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey Filed 12/17/10, No. 08-3268


Usa V. Jahmal Todman Dec 2010

Usa V. Jahmal Todman

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands


Ada County V. City Of Garden City Complaint Dckt. 40084 Dec 2010

Ada County V. City Of Garden City Complaint Dckt. 40084

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


Formalizing A Conceptual Framework Of Work Domain Knowledge, Min Zhu Dec 2010

Formalizing A Conceptual Framework Of Work Domain Knowledge, Min Zhu

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Background: The failure rate of health information systems is high, partially due to fragmented, incomplete, or incorrect identification and description of specific and critical domain requirements. In order to systematically transform the requirements of work into real information system, an explicit conceptual framework is essential to summarize the work requirements and guide system design. Recently, Butler, Zhang, and colleagues proposed a conceptual framework called Work Domain Ontology (WDO) to formally represent users’ work. This WDO approach has been successfully demonstrated in a real world design project on aircraft scheduling. However, as a top level conceptual framework, this WDO has not …


W Riccardi Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Lamont Quotes, Walter Ricciardi Dec 2010

W Riccardi Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Lamont Quotes, Walter Ricciardi

Documents

No abstract provided.


Cuomo V Ernst & Young, Andrew M. Cuomo, United States: Courts: Supreme Courts: New York State Dec 2010

Cuomo V Ernst & Young, Andrew M. Cuomo, United States: Courts: Supreme Courts: New York State

Documents

No abstract provided.


E Goldstein (Jpm) Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Dimon Quotes, Eric Goldstein Dec 2010

E Goldstein (Jpm) Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Dimon Quotes, Eric Goldstein

Documents

This letter is addressed to Gary J. Cohen


Does Entropic Gravity Bound The Masses Of The Photon And Graviton?, Jonas R. Mureika, R. B. Mann Dec 2010

Does Entropic Gravity Bound The Masses Of The Photon And Graviton?, Jonas R. Mureika, R. B. Mann

Physics Faculty Works

If the information transfer between test particle and holographic screen in entropic gravity respects both the uncertainty principle and causality, a lower limit on the number of bits in the universe relative to its mass may be derived. Furthermore, these limits indicate particles that putatively travel at the speed of light -- the photon and/or graviton -- have a non-zero mass m≥10−68 kg. This result is found to be in excellent agreement with current experimental mass bounds on the graviton and photon, suggesting that entropic gravity may be the result of a (recent) softly-broken local symmetry. Stronger bounds emerge …


Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Alert As To The Intended Use Of The Auditor’S Written Communication, December 21, 2010, Comments Are Requested By April 29, 2011; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, December 21, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Dec 2010

Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Alert As To The Intended Use Of The Auditor’S Written Communication, December 21, 2010, Comments Are Requested By April 29, 2011; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, December 21, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.


“J” And “B”, Hyveth Williams Dec 2010

“J” And “B”, Hyveth Williams

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Flexible Arbitration For The Developing World: Piero Foresti And The Future Of Bilateral Investment Treaties In The Global South, Andrew Friedman Dec 2010

Flexible Arbitration For The Developing World: Piero Foresti And The Future Of Bilateral Investment Treaties In The Global South, Andrew Friedman

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.


Theatre Of The Arts: Caribbean Intertextuality And The Muse Of Place, Lara B. Cahill-Booth Dec 2010

Theatre Of The Arts: Caribbean Intertextuality And The Muse Of Place, Lara B. Cahill-Booth

Open Access Dissertations

Theatre of the Arts: Caribbean Intertextuality and the Muse of Place is a literary geography that explores how specific environments shape imaginative interventions into history and language. I begin by examining the unity of Derek Walcott's vision of the sea, tracing its ties to oral history, literary canon, and personal reveries of emplacement in Omeros and other epic-minded poems. I follow the sea to its continental origins, examining the Guyanas, an Amazonian bioregion on the borderlands of Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela, as a place imaginatively remapped by twentieth-century novelists Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario de Andrade, and Pauline Melville. I …


Gsu View, 2010-12-20, Office Of Public Affairs Dec 2010

Gsu View, 2010-12-20, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.


Usa V. Sherman Houser Dec 2010

Usa V. Sherman Houser

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey