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Service Delivery Core Review: A Reappraisal, H. Allan Hunt

Reports

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Stability, Integration And Political Modalities: Some American Reflections On The European Project After The Financial Crisis, David A. Westbrook

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 22 in Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Detlev Vagts, Pieter H. F. Bekker, Rudolf Dolzer & Michael Waibel, eds.

To those of us concerned with transnational law, and especially the role of German law on the global stage, it does not need saying that Professor Detlev Vagts is highly deserving of that Germanic and traditional scholarly honour, a Festchrift. (In this context, ‘does not need saying’ of course means ‘should be said repeatedly’.) We all owe Detlev Vagts, and as a Germanic traditionalist, I would be delighted to contribute to …

The Data Curation Profiles Toolkit: User Guide, Jake Carlson

Data Curation Profiles Toolkit

A Data Curation Profile is a tool that can be used to provide a foundational base of information about a particular set of data that may be curated by an academic library or other institution. This user guide provides a background of a Data Curation Profile, their purpose, components, and one may develop their own Data Curation Profile.

Perceptions Of Teachers Regarding The Importance And Existence Of Researched-Based Program Characteristics In Alternative High Schools And Teacher’S Perceptions Of Efficacy In The Commonwealth Of Virginia, Robert Lowerre

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to determine teachers’ perceptions of the degree to which research-based characteristics exist in alternative high schools and programs in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the importance of these characteristics to effective education. In addition, this research investigated whether or not these perceptions were related to the teachers’ perception of efficacy. These seven characteristics were (a) clearly identified enrollment criteria, (b) low ratio of student to teachers, (c) one-to-one interactions between staff and students, (d) social skills instruction, (e) effective academic instruction, (f) parental involvement and parental support programs, and (g) specific training for teachers …

Humphry Davy: Science, Authorship, And The Changing Romantic, Marianne Lind Baker

Theses and Dissertations

In the mid to late 1700s, men of letters became more and more interested in the natural world. From studies in astronomy to biology, chemistry, and medicine, these "philosophers" pioneered what would become our current scientific categories. While the significance of their contributions to these fields has been widely appreciated historically, the interconnection between these men and their literary counterparts has not. A study of the "Romantic man of science" reveals how much that figure has in common with the traditional "Romantic" literary figure embodied by poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This thesis interrogates connections between Romantic …

November 29, 2010, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Remote Measurements Of On-Road Emissions From Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles In California; Year 3, 2010, Brent G. Schuchmann, Gary A. Bishop, Donald H. Stedman

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

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Corticosterone Secretion In Young Florida Scrub-Jays: Correlates And Consequences, Michelle Annette Rensel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

While much is known about the relationship between stress and the steroid hormone, corticosterone (CORT) in adult animals, less is known about the dynamics of CORT secretion in developing animals. My research examined factors affecting levels of baseline and stress-induced CORT in a free-living, non-migratory passerine, the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens). I addressed the following questions: 1) Do baseline and stress-induced CORTsecretion change with age? 2) Are nestling baseline CORT levels correlated with conditions in the nest, such as hatching order and parental behavior? 3) Are baseline and stress-induced CORT levels repeatable wtihin individuals? 4) Do baseline and stress-induced CORTlevels …

Russian Life And Religion: A Comparative Study Pre-And Post 1991, Jennifer Torbic

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

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Bulging Factors In Geometrically Nonlinear Cracked Laminated Shell Structure Under Dynamic Internal Pressure, Nitin B. Ingale

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis is about the investigation of the geometrically nonlinear responses and bulging factors of cracked laminated composite cylindrical shell structures subjected to internal pressure. Hybrid strain based three-node flat triangular shell elements, developed by To and Wang were used.

Effects of dynamic responses of various numbers of layers and their angle arrangements of cracked cylindrical shell structures clamped at both ends are analyzed and studied. Bulging factors based on the concept of equivalent Young’s modulus of elasticity are found and compared with single and multiple layer composite cylindrical shell structures.

Finally, bulging factors for similar laminated composite cylindrical shells …

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Affinity Screening Methods For Functional Annotation Of Proteins And Drug Discovery, Matthew D. Shortridge

Department of Chemistry: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

With nearly 1,350 complete genome sequences available our understanding of biology at the molecular level has never been more complete. A consequence of these sequencing projects was the discovery of large functionally unannotated segments of each genome. The genes (and proteins they encode) found in these unannotated regions are considered “hypothetical proteins”. Current estimates suggest between 12%-50% of the known gene sequences are functionally unannotated. Incomplete functional annotation of the various genomes significantly limits our understanding of biology. Pragmatically, identifying the functions of these proteins could lead to new therapeutics; making functional annotation of paramount importance.

This dissertation describes the …

I Belong To The Band: The Music Of Reverend Gary Davis, William Lee Ellis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

“I Belong to the Band” is the first extensive analytical examination of the music of guitarist/singer Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972), whose vast repertoire and instrumental virtuosity made him a favorite performer and teacher during the folk and blues revival. Discussed in detail are his songs and aspects of musical technique as well as larger issues such as appropriation in traditional song, the interplay of sacred and secular content and style in African American song, the role(s) of blindness in musical culture, and contrastive and associative symmetries in blues performances. To better glean Davis’s music and the world in which he …

Testing Coupling Relationships In Object-Oriented Programs, Roger Alexander, Jeff Offutt, Andreas Stefik

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

As we move toward developing object‐oriented (OO) programs, the complexity traditionally found in functions and procedures is moving to the connections among components. Different faults occur when components are integrated to form higher‐level structures that aggregate the behavior and state. Consequently, we need to place more effort on testing the connections among components. Although OO technologies provide abstraction mechanisms for building components that can then be integrated to form applications, it also adds new compositional relations that can contain faults. This paper describes techniques for analyzing and testing the polymorphic relationships that occur in OO software. The techniques adapt traditional …

Pierced Through The Ear: Poetic Villainy In Othello, Kathleen Emerald Somers

Theses and Dissertations

The paper examines Othello as metapoetry. Throughout the play, key points of comparison between Iago and Shakespeare's methodologies for employing allegory, symbolism, and mimetic plot and character construction shed light upon Shakespeare's self-reflexive use of poetry as an art of imitation. More specifically, the contrast between Shakespeare and Iago's poetry delineates between dynamic and reductive uses of allegory, emphasizes an Aristotelian model of mimesis that makes reason integral to plot and character formation, and underscores an ethical function to poetry generally. In consequence of the division between Iago and Shakespeare as unethical and ethical poets respectively, critical contention concerning the …

The Contraceptive Choice Project: Recruiting Women At Highest Risk For Unintended Pregnancy And Sexually Transmitted Infection, Janine E. Spain, Jeffrey F. Peipert, Tessa Madden, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Gina M. Secura

Open Access Publications

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The Role Of Soccer In Defining Identity In World Literature, Drew Woolley

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

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Evaluation Of Health Workforce Competence In Maternal And Neonatal Issues In Public Health Sector Of Pakistan: An Assessment Of Their Training Needs, Shabina Ariff, Sajid B. Soofi, Kamran Sadiq, Asher B. Feroze, Shuaib Khan, Sadiqua N. Jafarey, Nabeela Ali, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: More than 450 newborns die every hour worldwide, before they reach the age of four weeks (neonatal period) and over 500,000 women die from complications related to childbirth. The major direct causes of neonatal death are infections (36%), Prematurity (28%) and Asphyxia (23%). Pakistan has one of the highest perinatal and neonatal mortality rates in the region and contributes significantly to global neonatal mortality. The high mortality rates are partially attributable to scarcity of trained skilled birth attendants and paucity of resources. Empowerment of health care providers with adequate knowledge and skills can serve as instrument of change. Methods: …

Model-Independent Determination Of The Strong-Phase Difference Between D0 And D0 → K0s,L H+H- (H=Π,K) And Its Impact On The Measurement Of The Ckm Angle Γ/Φ3, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, N. Horwitz

Physics - All Scholarship

We report the first determination of the relative strong-phase difference between D^0 -> K^0_S,L K^+ K^- and D^0-bar -> K^0_S,L K^+ K^-. In addition, we present updated measurements of the relative strong-phase difference between D^0 -> K^0_S,L pi^+ pi^- and D^0-bar -> K^0_S,L pi^+ pi^-. Both measurements exploit the quantum coherence between a pair of D^0 and D^0-bar mesons produced from psi(3770) decays. The strong-phase differences measured are important for determining the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa angle gamma/phi_3 in B^- -> K^- D^0-tilde decays, where D^0-tilde is a D^0 or D^0-bar meson decaying to K^0_S h^+ h^- (h=pi,K), in a manner independent of …

Model-Independent Determination Of The Strong-Phase Difference Between D^0 And D^0-Bar-> K^0_S,L H^+ H^- (H=Pi,K) And Its Impact On The Measurement Of The Ckm Angle Gamma/Phi_3, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, N. Horwitz

Physics - All Scholarship

We report the first determination of the relative strong-phase difference between D^0 -> K^0_S,L K^+ K^- and D^0-bar -> K^0_S,L K^+ K^-. In addition, we present updated measurements of the relative strong-phase difference between D^0 -> K^0_S,L pi^+ pi^- and D^0-bar -> K^0_S,L pi^+ pi^-. Both measurements exploit the quantum coherence between a pair of D^0 and D^0-bar mesons produced from psi(3770) decays. The strong-phase differences measured are important for determining the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa angle gamma/phi_3 in B^- -> K^- D^0-tilde decays, where D^0-tilde is a D^0 or D^0-bar meson decaying to K^0_S h^+ h^- (h=pi,K), in a manner independent of …

Minimum Description Length And Empirical Bayes Methods Of Identifying Snps Associated With Disease, Ye Yang, David R. Bickel

COBRA Preprint Series

The goal of determining which of hundreds of thousands of SNPs are associated with disease poses one of the most challenging multiple testing problems. Using the empirical Bayes approach, the local false discovery rate (LFDR) estimated using popular semiparametric models has enjoyed success in simultaneous inference. However, the estimated LFDR can be biased because the semiparametric approach tends to overestimate the proportion of the non-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). One of the negative consequences is that, like conventional p-values, such LFDR estimates cannot quantify the amount of information in the data that favors the null hypothesis of no disease-association.

We …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, November 25, 2010, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The November 25, 2010, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Central Bank Of Iceland Monetary Bulletin 2010/2, Central Bank Of Iceland

Documents

No abstract provided.

Business Plan Version 2 – Issue Date 25th November 2010 (November 25, 2010), Ireland: National Asset Management Agency

Documents

No abstract provided.

Nama: Statement Of Affairs Borrower Template Declaration, Ireland: National Asset Management Agency

Documents

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Biological Rationale For The Use Of Dna Methyltransferase Inhibitors As New Strategy For Modulation Of Tumor Response To Chemotherapy And Radiation., Giovanni L Gravina, Claudio Festuccia, Francesco Marampon, Vladimir M Popov, Richard G Pestell, Bianca M Zani, Vincenzo Tombolini

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

Epigenetic modifications play a key role in the patho-physiology of many tumors and the current use of agents targeting epigenetic changes has become a topic of intense interest in cancer research. DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) inhibitors represent a promising class of epigenetic modulators. Research performed yielded promising anti-tumorigenic activity for these agents in vitro and in vivo against a variety of hematologic and solid tumors. These epigenetic modulators cause cell cycle and growth arrest, differentiation and apoptosis. Rationale for combining these agents with cytotoxic therapy or radiation is straightforward since the use of DNMT inhibitor offers greatly improved access for cytotoxic …

Troubleshooting In Expression And Purification Of Recombinant Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Associated Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Protein In Escherichia Coli Bl21, Andi Yasmon, Fera Ibrahim, Budiman Bela

Makara Journal of Science

No abstract provided.

Downsized Chelating Resin-Packed Minicolumn Preconcentration For Multielement Determination Of Trace Metals By Icp-Ms, Dwinna Rahmi

Makara Journal of Science

Chelating resin-packed minicolumn preconcentration was used for multielement determination of trace metals in seawater by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The chelating resin-packed minicolumn was constructed with two syringe filters (DISMIC 13HP and Millex-LH) and an iminodiacetate chelating resin (Chelex 100, 200-400 mesh), with which trace metals in 50 mL of original seawater sample were concentrated into 0.50 mL of 2 M nitric acid, and then 100-fold preconcentration of trace metals was achieved. Then, 0.50 mL analysis solution was subjected to the multielement determination by ICP-MS equipped with a MicroMist nebulizer for micro-sampling introduction. The preconcentration and elution parameters …

Synthesis Of Pbse Thin Film By Chemical Bath Deposition And Its Characterization Using Xrd, Sem And Uv-Vis Spectrophotometer, Anuar Kassim, Ho Soon Min, Shanthi Monohorn, Saravanan Nagalingam

Makara Journal of Science

Lead selenide thin films were prepared by chemical bath deposition method using aqueous of lead nitrate, sodium selenate and sodium tartrate. The influence of bath temperature towards the properties of the thin films was studied. The films were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and UV-Vis spectrophotometer. The XRD results confirmed the polycrystalline cubic structure of PbSe films. The intensity of major peak at 2ϴ = 25.1° which belonged to (111) plane of PbSe, increased with bath temperature from 40 to 80 °C. The SEM micrographs showed that the most homogeneous surface and larger grain sizes could be seen …

First Record Of Cantherhines Multilineatus (Tanaka, 1918) (Tetraodontiformes: Monacanthidae) In Indonesia, Teguh Peristiwady, Petrus Makatipu, K Takaendengan, Fasmi Ahmad

Makara Journal of Science

Two specimens of Cantherhines multilineatus were collected from Girian Fish Market, Bitung, North Sulawesi on January 7 and August 18, 2009. It was caught from depths of about 20–30 m in association with other coral reef fishes. In the world, this species is found in many scattered locations in the Western Indian Ocean, Eastern Indian Ocean, Northwest Pacific and Western Central Pacific and its distribution was reported from Taiwan and Japan. Its morphological features and diagnostic characters are discussed and illustrated

Hope And Betrayal On Death Row, David Cole

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.