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The Prevalence Of Flatfoot In Taoyuan Teenagers, Huan-Jui Yeh, Huei-Yu Lo, Yau-Wai Wai Dec 2010

The Prevalence Of Flatfoot In Taoyuan Teenagers, Huan-Jui Yeh, Huei-Yu Lo, Yau-Wai Wai

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background: The prevalence of flatfoot is various among each age group, and whether children with flatfoot should receive treatment or not is still controversial. Most studies of flatfoot in Taiwan place emphases on children but not on teenagers. This research aimed to establish a database of a prevalence of flatfoot among Taiwanese local teenagers.Methods: Five hundred forty-four 12- to 14-year-old teenagers in Taoyuan were enrolled in this study. Footprint analysis methods were used to diagnose a flatfoot (plantar arch index more than 1.15 or Denis grade equal or more than grade 1 or footprint index less than 1 cm). The …


Standards, Law, And Governance, Lawrence Busch Dec 2010

Standards, Law, And Governance, Lawrence Busch

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

The last several centuries have been marked first by a tendency toward the use of standards to standardize, and then by the use of standards to differentiate. Both have been built on the legal edifice of the state. More recently, in response to the rapid rise of neoliberalism, standardized differentiation has increased in scope and has become part of a larger Tripartite Standards Regime (TSR) consisting of standards, certifications, and accreditations. Over the last half century, the TSR has grown to cover nearly every aspect of social life. In many ways this new form of governance replaces and transmutes positive …


The Introduction Of Alien Aquatic Species By Ships In The Arctic : The Role Of The Polar Code And Other International Legal Instruments, Anne Bouyssou Dec 2010

The Introduction Of Alien Aquatic Species By Ships In The Arctic : The Role Of The Polar Code And Other International Legal Instruments, Anne Bouyssou

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Ultrasound Assessment Of Primary Pyomyositis In A Man With Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes: A Casereport, Ya-Chen Lee, Ya-Wen Tu, Wei-Ting Wu, Shao-Li Han Dec 2010

Ultrasound Assessment Of Primary Pyomyositis In A Man With Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes: A Casereport, Ya-Chen Lee, Ya-Wen Tu, Wei-Ting Wu, Shao-Li Han

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

A 38-year-old man with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus complained of a mild painful swelling over the right posterior thigh that had been present for 3 days. He was initially diagnosed as having a right hamstring strain. After a 7-day treatment with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, the symptoms progressed to a prominent painful swelling over the right posterior thigh. Leukocytosis and high inflammation indices were noted. The ultrasonography of the right posterior thigh showed an ill-defined heteroechoic lesion surrounded by an irregularly thick hyperechoic and hypervascular wall in the muscle layer. The diagnosis was pyomyositis of the right biceps femoris muscle, …


The Windfall Myth, A. Christine Hurt Dec 2010

The Windfall Myth, A. Christine Hurt

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Can Tax Expenditure Analysis Be Divorced From A Normative Tax Base?: A Critique Of The 'New Paradigm' And Its Denouement, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Robert J. Peroni Dec 2010

Can Tax Expenditure Analysis Be Divorced From A Normative Tax Base?: A Critique Of The 'New Paradigm' And Its Denouement, J. Clifton Fleming Jr., Robert J. Peroni

Faculty Scholarship

Tax expenditure analysis (TEA) requires a baseline for identifying tax provisions that provide subsidies or incentives instead of serving to define the tax base and to implement the tax. With respect to the federal income tax, the baseline historically has been the Schanz-Haig-Simons (SHS) definition of income with a few modifications. Critics have continuously and strongly attacked TEA by characterizing the SHS baseline as unprincipled, imprecise, and insufficiently related to our hybrid income/consumption tax system as it actually exists. Since the baseline is hopelessly defective, so the critics argue, TEA is fatally dysfunctional and the results of its application to …


Knowledge And Education: Pro-Access Implications Of New Technologies, Dalindyebo Shabalala Dec 2010

Knowledge And Education: Pro-Access Implications Of New Technologies, Dalindyebo Shabalala

School of Law Faculty Publications

This book examines the social impact of intellectual property laws. It addresses issues and trends relating to health, food security, education, new technologies, preservation of bio-cultural heritage and contemporary challenges in promoting the arts. It explores how intellectual property frameworks could be better calibrated to meet socio-economic needs in countries at different stages of development, with local contexts and culture in mind. A resource for policy-makers, stakeholders, non-profits and students, this volume furthermore highlights alternative modes of innovation that are emerging to address such diverse challenges as neglected or resurgent diseases in developing countries and the harnessing of creative possibilities …


The Stcw Manila Amendments : Its Challenges To The Far East, Chong Ju. Chae Dec 2010

The Stcw Manila Amendments : Its Challenges To The Far East, Chong Ju. Chae

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Analytical Review Of Market-Based Measures For Reducing Marine Ghg Emissions And The Impacts On The Chinese Shipping Sector, Jian Zhao Dec 2010

Analytical Review Of Market-Based Measures For Reducing Marine Ghg Emissions And The Impacts On The Chinese Shipping Sector, Jian Zhao

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Air Emissions : The Effects On The Shipping Industry And Ports : Implications For The Port Of Singapore, Ling Ling Jolyn Tay Dec 2010

Air Emissions : The Effects On The Shipping Industry And Ports : Implications For The Port Of Singapore, Ling Ling Jolyn Tay

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Performance Of Four Near Zero Energy Homes: Lessons Learned, Florida Solar Energy Center, Carlos Colon Dec 2010

Performance Of Four Near Zero Energy Homes: Lessons Learned, Florida Solar Energy Center, Carlos Colon

FSEC Energy Research Center®

While the idea of a zero or near zero energy home is well understood, the actual performance of the structure can be different than expected. High performance homes necessitate increasingly complex envelope, HVAC, water heating, and appliance systems, and successful designs rely on proper function and feedback from those systems to achieve low-energy goals. This paper presents measured data on four near zero energy homes located in Florida that are a part of the U.S. DOE Building America program. The monitored data are compared to both a benchmark model and the prototype computer simulations. By examining the submetered energy data, …


The Market Orientation Of Slovenian Companies: Two-Group Comparisons, Mateja Bodlaj, Iča Rojšek Dec 2010

The Market Orientation Of Slovenian Companies: Two-Group Comparisons, Mateja Bodlaj, Iča Rojšek

Economic and Business Review

The purpose of the presented empirical study was to examine market orientation between groups of companies in terms of three company characteristics, i.e. main business sector, company size, and type of the market, and three environmental characteristics, i.e. market turbulence, technological turbulence and competitive intensity. Market orientation is analysed by distinguishing between a cultural and behavioural perspective and by distinguishing between a responsive and proactive form. Comparisons between groups of companies are made by testing invariant latent mean structures. The analysis of 325 Slovenian companies reveals that the particular market orientation dimensions only differ when different levels of market and …


What Determines The Co-Operative Potential For Firms In Western European And Cee Border Regions? A Comparative Micro-Level Analysis, Birgit Leick Dec 2010

What Determines The Co-Operative Potential For Firms In Western European And Cee Border Regions? A Comparative Micro-Level Analysis, Birgit Leick

Economic and Business Review

The present article investigates whether Eastern European enlargement influences the co-operative potential of firms in the borderland between Western and Central Eastern Europe more than of other firms, i.e. of those not being located in the borderland. Based on theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence, we build a micro-level framework of factors, which determine a firm’s likelihood of cross-border business co-operation. Using logistic regression, this framework is empirically tested and compared for two cross-sectional datasets of firms located in the border regions in Northern Bohemia (the Czech Republic) and Saxony (East Germany).


December 30, 2010: What Does “One Nation Under God” In The Pledge Of Allegiance Mean?, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2010

December 30, 2010: What Does “One Nation Under God” In The Pledge Of Allegiance Mean?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “What Does “one Nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance Mean?“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Time-Varying Harmonic Analyzer Prototype, Diego F. Fabri, Carlos H. N. Martins, Leandro R. M. Silva, Carlos A. Duque Dec 2010

Time-Varying Harmonic Analyzer Prototype, Diego F. Fabri, Carlos H. N. Martins, Leandro R. M. Silva, Carlos A. Duque

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

This paper presents a time-varying harmonic analyzer based on the Sliding Window DFT implemented on a DSP platform. The harmonic decomposition is carried out using the TMS320F28027 digital signal processor, and the samples of the decomposed signal are sent to a PC based computer using serial interface. Several real cases are analyzed, revealing the time-varying behavior of the harmonic component. Different from commercial harmonic analyzer, the prototype presented in this paper uses a different way to visualize the harmonic components, based on time decomposition approach. This new visualization of time-varying harmonics might help engineers and researchers to develop new insights …


The Impact Of Continuous And Final Evaluation On The Practical Application Of Applied Students And Their Attitudes Towards The Teaching Profession, Qusay Hazem Mohammed Dec 2010

The Impact Of Continuous And Final Evaluation On The Practical Application Of Applied Students And Their Attitudes Towards The Teaching Profession, Qusay Hazem Mohammed

Modern Sport

The present research aims to reveal the impact of using regular and final evaluation on practical practice for practitioner students and their tendency toward the teaching profession. The researcher hypothesized that there would be statistically significant differences between the effects of regular and final evaluation on both the practical performance of practitioner students and their orientation toward teaching. The research population was selected intentionally from fourth-grade students in the Department of Sport Education, College of Basic Education, University of Mosul, for the academic year 2008–2009, consisting of 52 male and female students across two classes. A sample of 30 students …


Time-Varying Harmonic Analyzer Prototype, Diego F. Fabri, Carlos H. N. Martins, Leandro R. M. Silva, Carlos A. Duque Dec 2010

Time-Varying Harmonic Analyzer Prototype, Diego F. Fabri, Carlos H. N. Martins, Leandro R. M. Silva, Carlos A. Duque

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

This paper presents a time-varying harmonic analyzer based on the Sliding Window DFT implemented on a DSP platform. The harmonic decomposition is carried out using the TMS320F28027 digital signal processor, and the samples of the decomposed signal are sent to a PC based computer using serial interface. Several real cases are analyzed, revealing the time-varying behavior of the harmonic component. Different from commercial harmonic analyzer, the prototype presented in this paper uses a different way to visualize the harmonic components, based on time decomposition approach. This new visualization of time-varying harmonics might help engineers and researchers to develop new insights …


Glenn Beck Bad News For Religious Conservatism, Nathan B. Oman Dec 2010

Glenn Beck Bad News For Religious Conservatism, Nathan B. Oman

Popular Media

No abstract provided.


Summary Of Gonski V. Dist. Ct., 126 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 51, Ryan Johnson Dec 2010

Summary Of Gonski V. Dist. Ct., 126 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 51, Ryan Johnson

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Second Judicial District Court entered an order compelling arbitration in a construction defect dispute. Petitioners asked for a writ of mandamus vacating the order compelling arbitration.


Summary Of Personhood Nevada V. Bristol, 126 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 56, Ryan Henry Dec 2010

Summary Of Personhood Nevada V. Bristol, 126 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 56, Ryan Henry

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Court considered an appeal from a First Judicial District Court order that found a proposed initiative violated NRS 295.009’s single-subject rule and prohibited its placement on the 2010 general election ballot.


Zepeda V. State Clerk's Record Dckt. 38199 Dec 2010

Zepeda V. State Clerk's Record Dckt. 38199

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


Usa V. Robert Kulick Dec 2010

Usa V. Robert Kulick

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania


Alla Barenboy V. Secretary Of Department Homela Dec 2010

Alla Barenboy V. Secretary Of Department Homela

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Usa V. Wendie Brown Dec 2010

Usa V. Wendie Brown

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands


Usa V. Gelean Mark Dec 2010

Usa V. Gelean Mark

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands


Francis V. Pueblo Xtra Intl Inc Dec 2010

Francis V. Pueblo Xtra Intl Inc

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands


Usa V. George Herman Ruth, Jr. Dec 2010

Usa V. George Herman Ruth, Jr.

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey


Zivkovic V. State Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 37287 Dec 2010

Zivkovic V. State Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 37287

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


Ketterling V. Burger King Corp. Clerk's Record Dckt. 38050 Dec 2010

Ketterling V. Burger King Corp. Clerk's Record Dckt. 38050

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


Beaudoin V. Davidson Trust Co. Appellant's Brief Dckt. 37828 Dec 2010

Beaudoin V. Davidson Trust Co. Appellant's Brief Dckt. 37828

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.