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Creche Herald Vol. 14, No. 4, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Winter 2010-11 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

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Openline Newsletter, December 2010, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, Volume XXXV, Number 6, December 2010.

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Longevity Of The Black-Capped Vireo, David A. Cimprich, Wayne G. Strebe, Kristin A. Comolli

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

Little information on longevity of wild bird species is available. Black-capped Vireos (Vireo atricapilla) have been banded and monitored at Fort Hood Military Reservation for23 years yielding considerable data on longevity of this species. Our goal was to summarize these data. We determined the distribution of expected longevities for vireos based on 16 cohorts of individuals banded at 1-year old. Individuals were short-lived. On average, 67% of individuals did not reach ages >1 year and only 3% reached ages 5 years. Mean age was 2.6 years. The greatest longevities were 12 and 9 years and all were males. These represent …

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Microstructural Evolution Of Surface Layers During Electrolytic Plasma Processing, Cristian Cionea

Material Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Electrolytic Plasma Processing is an emerging technology for surface modification. The EPP process is based on electrolysis of an aqueous electrolyte by application of an electrical potential between the workpiece and counter-electrode, and the production of plasma (micro-arc discharges on the workpiece surface). The plasma micro-arcs provide a heat source for surface modification via localized surface melting and rapid cooling (cleaning process) and, if desirable, enhance ion deposition on a given substrate (coating). Three substrates (low carbon steel, pure Al and pure Ti) were "cleaned" by EPP and their near surface layer microstructure was studied. It was found that the …

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Bubble Template Synthesis Of Hollow Gold Nanoparticles And Their Applications As Theranostic Agents, Chienwen Huang

Material Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Hollow gold nanoparticle with a sub-30nm polycrystalline shell and a 50 nm hollow core has been successfully synthesized through the reduction of sodium gold sulfite by electrochemically evolved hydrogen. Such hollow gold nanoparticles exhibit unique plasmonic properties. They strongly scatter and absorb near infrared light. In this thesis we seek to understand the formation mechanism of hollow gold nanoparticles in this new synthesis process and their plasmonic properties. Also, we explore their biomedical applications as theranostic agents (therapeutic and diagnostic imaging). A lithographically patterned electrode consisting of Ag stripes on a glass substrate was used to investigate the formation process …

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Study On The Leakage Current Behavior And Conduction Mechanism Of Porous Low-K In Cu/Porous Low-K Interconnects: The Influence Of Extrinsic Factors, Liangshan Chen

Material Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

This study investigates the influence of extrinsic factors including moisture and impurities trapped in porous low-k (PLK) and defective diffusion barrier on the leakage current behavior and the associated conduction mechanism of PLK in advanced Cu/PLK interconnects. For this purpose, a voltammetry technique that was previously developed for diffusion barrier characterization was extended to detect the trapped impurities in PLK. With this technique in hand, the influence of extrinsic factors was then studied. Cu was found to diffuse out into PLK through barrier defects in the presence of electric stress. Its out-diffusion and subsequent migration in PLK manifested as a …

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Nanocrystalline Piezoresistive Polysilicon Film Obtained By Aluminum Induced Crystallization For Pressure Sensing Applications, Suraj Kumar Patil

Material Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The overall objective of our research was to integrate various sensors on to a single flexible substrate for multi-sensory information gathering. Additional capabilities could be incorporated towards the realization of 'smart skin' for simultaneous and real time sensing of various mechanical, biological and chemical stimuli. Recent research venues are dictated by the trend of shifting from conventional silicon (Si) substrates to lower weight, low profile, structurally robust and lower cost flexible substrates. These flexible substrates easily conform to non-planar objects, could be batch fabricated at lower cost and enable multilayer construction. This would eventually evolve into seamless assimilation of sensors …

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Creative Classroom Designs, Sarah Komendat

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Creative Classroom Designs Creating a classroom space that is conducive to learning is an important task for teachers. The purpose of this project was to generate classroom design plans that create a positive classroom environment which promotes learning and creativity. I observed classrooms at Central Avenue School in Lancaster, NY and did some research about how to design positive learning environments. Digital plans for remodeling six classrooms at Central Avenue were created using the AutoCAD design program. This project is intended to teach readers about the importance of classroom design and its effects on the creative climate, student behavior, and …

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Direct Care Workers Perceptions And Practices Related To Quality Of Life In Long Term Care, Karen M. Kinyon

Dissertations

The focus of this case study was to discover how DCWs define success in their practice and what institutional and individual factors contribute to their successful practices. It describes how DCWs perceive quality of life for NH residents and how their practices reflect quality of life indicators. The conceptual model for which this research is based on was developed around the concepts that individual and institutional factors contribute to the successful practices of direct care workers; and, how these DCWs perceive quality of life influences how they practice to promote quality of life for nursing home residents. Using a case …

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The Knowing-Doing Gap: The Influence Of Teacher Feedback In Changing Principal Behavior - A Mixed Methods Study, Kimberly St. Martin

Dissertations

This mixed methods study attempted to determine how a system of regular feedback from teachers on principal's work influenced the way in which two principals incorporated the 21 Leadership Responsibilities into their daily practice. Since Principals are the front line of school reform, even when a school commits to an improvement effort that is well grounded in research such as Response to Intervention (Rtl), the principal plays a key role in leading the change of adapting the school processes, culture, roles and responsibilities, norms, and systems to support implementation. To play this role effectively, the principal often finds it necessary …

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Wiki Vandalysis. Wikipedia Vandalism Analysis, Manoj Harpalani

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Wikipedia describes itself as"The free encyclopedia that anyone canedit". Along with the helpful volunteers who contribute by improving the articles, a great number of malicious users abuse the open nature of Wikipedia by vandalizing articles. Wikipedia editors fight vandalism both manually and with automated bots that use regular expressions and other simple rules to recognize malicious edits[Carter]. Researchers have also proposed Machine Learning algorithms for vandalism detection[Smets et al. | 2008; Potthast et al. | 2008a], but these algorithms are still in their infancy and have much room for improvement. This paper presents an approach to fighting vandalism using natural …

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Generation Of Conformation Sensor Recombinant Antibodies To Understand Redox Regulation Of Ptp1b, Aftabul Haque

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) plays important roles in down-regulation of insulin signaling. Although it has been established as a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of diabetes and obesity, the finding of pharmaceutically acceptable inhibitors remains challenging. PTP1B is regulated by reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced in response to insulin. The reversibly oxidized form of this enzyme (PTP1B-OX) is inhibited and undergoes profound conformational changes at the active site. We hypothesized that a conformation-sensor antibody that recognizes PTP1B-OX may stabilize the inactive state and inhibit phosphatase activity. We isolated PTP1B-OX-specific single chain variable fragments (scFvs) from an antibody phage …

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Multixenobiotic Resistance (Mxr) Inhibition And Interactive Toxic Effects Of The Cationic Surfactant, Benzalkonium Chloride, In Embryonic Medaka (Oryzias Latipes), John Gondek

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Contaminated environments represent a challenge to resident species. Organisms must possess underlying mechanisms of resistance to protect against a broad range of environmental insults. One mechanism likely conferring resistance is expression of low substrate specificity membrane efflux transporters termed multixenobiotic resistance (MXR). MXR transporters confer resistance by preventing toxics from entering into cells and also by expelling potentially cyto- and genotoxic metabolites. Chemicals known as chemosensitizers, which can inhibit MXR function thus represent a threat to aquatic organisms. This study used embryos of medaka (Oryzias latipes) to measure MXR activity and inhibition through a dye exclusion assay. This assay was …

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Butterfly Movement In A Post Agricultural Landscape, Norah Warchola

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

A central question in landscape ecology is how organisms move through fragmented landscapes. To explore this I have studied how butterflies behave at habitat borders and how readily they move through matrix (non habitat) vegetation. My work focuses on a guild of fruit feeding nymphalid butterflies and how they react to fragmentation in a post agricultural landscape, with emphasis on the behavior and distribution of the Hackberry Emperor Asterocampa celtis and the Question Mark Polygonia interrogationis. Using a combination of observations at habitat edges and large scale trapping across different vegetation types, I measured nymphalid vegetation preference and how this …

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Restitution, Eileen Obser

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The purpose of my thesis is to show the effects that religion and society can have on marriages between young men and women.Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, my memoir"Only You (And You Alone) relates my personal experience growing up in Queens, New York, how the mores of that era and the dictates of the Catholic Church led to my unhappy, doomed-to-fail early marriage. After much research of the period, which is reflected throughout the memoir, with the news of the day, the music and popular culture, newspaper, magazine and book excerpts, plus my own journals, diaries and …

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The Role Of The Hemopexin Domain Of Matrix Metalloproteinases In Cell Migration, Antoine Hugues-Olivier Dufour

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The biological functions of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) extend beyond extracellular matrix degradation. Non-proteolytic activities of MMPs are just beginning to become understood. The role of proMMPs in cell migration was herein evaluated using transfected COS-1 cells with various proMMP cDNAs employed in a Transwell chamber migration assay. Latent MMP-2 and MMP-9 enhanced cell migration to a greater extent than latent MMP-1,. 3,. 11 and. 28. To examine if proteolytic activity is required for MMP-enhanced cell migration, three experimental approaches including a fluorogenic substrate degradation assay, transfection of cells with catalytically inactive mutant of MMP cDNAs, and addition of MMP inhibitors …

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Surface Optimization Of High Density Polyethylene And Carbon Nanofiber Composites For The Improvement Of Electromagnetic Shielding Effectiveness, Brandon C. Jarvis

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Nanoreinforced composites of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and Carbon Nanofibers (CNF) of varying nanofiber concentration were fabricated via melt mixing. Following fabrication, various metal and metal-nitride thin films were sputter deposited upon the substrates. Volume resistivity measurements of the composite substrates, as well as four point probe analysis of the composites and the deposited films were performed and are reported. Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding Effectiveness (SE) measurements were performed upon all samples in order to gauge the effects of percolation and the presence of the deposited film(s) upon overall SE. Comparisons of experimental measurements with analytical models available in the …

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Fair Use Challenges In Academic And Research Libraries, Peter Jaszi

Copyright, Fair Use & Open Access

Academic and research libraries are key players in the generation and propagation of knowledge in the U.S., and their interpretation of the balancing features of copyright is critical to the quality of research, teaching, and learning they support. Approaches and methods for research, teaching, and learning are changing rapidly with opportunities presented by digitization and Internet communication. Academic and research librarians need and use the balancing features of copyright—including exemptions listed in Sections 108 and 110 of the Copyright Act, as well as fair use (codified in Section 107)—in order to accomplish the routine tasks of their profession. This report …

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Addressing The Black Hole In Substance Abuse Treatment For Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Individuals: Technology To The Rescue, Janet Titus, Debra Guthmann

JADARA

Progress in providing appropriate substance abuse treatment for Deaf and hard of hearing individuals has been slow over the past 30 years. Moving forward in a meaningful way will require investing in technology as a way to deliver specialized treatment, provide recovery support, improve access to professional training, and develop appropriate assessments. Current efforts to advance the field of substance abuse treatment for Deaf and hard of hearing individuals through technology are described.

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ACTEC Law Journal

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Resisting The Contractarian Insurgency: The Uniform Trust Code, Fiduciary Duty, And Good Faith In Contract, Frederick R. Franke Jr.

ACTEC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Banner - V. 145, No. 12 - (December 2010), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

10 - Editorial: See What We’re Looking At by Bob De Moor / 11 - Catch Your Breath: Wearing Out the Concrete by Gwen Penning Genzink / 12 - IMHO: Our Discomfort with the Belhar by Bryan Berghoef / 12 - Letters to the Editor / 14 - News: Classis Roundup (and more) / 19 - Frequently Asked Questions / 20 - When Hadley Met Herod by Callie Feyen / 22 - Confessions: Why Have Them? by Rob Braun / 24 - Confessions: Cautions and Concerns by John Luth / 26 - Dear Reader: The Reason for the Season by …

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Analyzing The Restricted Phase Of The Graduated Driver's Licensing System: The Effect Of Driving Experience, Christopher Graham

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Beginning in 1996, states began adopting what is known as the graduated driver's licensing system (GDL) in an attempt to reduce traffic hazards for teenagers. This was a response to previous literature which suggested teens had an elevated risk for motor vehicle hazards, compared to all other age groups. The GDL system is split into three separate stages, in an attempt to ease the teenagers into the driving process. These stages are known as the permit stage, the restricted stage, and the unrestricted stage. While much of the past literature has focused on whether or not the GDL system is …

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Home Range, Habitat Selection, And Migratory Pathways Of Canada Geese Wintering At The Santee National Wildlife Refuge, Molly Giles

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Information on local and flyway-scale space use is lacking for the cohort of migrant geese (Branta canadensis interior) that winter in and adjacent to the Santee National Wildlife Refuge in Summerton, South Carolina. I examined home range and habitat selection of Canada geese in this region. I deployed transmitters on 17 geese (9 VHF and 8 PTT) on wintering grounds at Santee NWR during the winter of 2009-2010. Estimates of fixed kernel home range size ranged from 214.2 to 263.6 ha for VHF-marked geese and 1190.2 to 1915.6 ha for PTT-marked geese. Home ranges of all birds were compact and …

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Mundos Subterráneos, No. 21, December 2010, José G. Palacios-Vargas

KIP Articles

Contents: Las Cuevas Biogénicas. Morfogénesis De Dos Formas Inversas Del Relieve En La Plataforma Insular De Cuba -- La Aplicación Del Índice De Perturbación Cárstica En La Valoración Del Impacto Antropogénico De La Gruta De Atoyac (Veracruz, México) -- Perspectivas Carso-espeleológicas Que Ofrece Costa Rica -- Las Exploraciones Espeleológicas En La Zona De Cerro Brujo, Ocozocoautla, Chiapas, México -- Colémbolos Cavernícolas Y De Otros Ambientes Subterráneos De Quintana Roo, México -- Dos Nuevas Cavidades De Iztacxochitla, Puebla, México -- “espeleo Rescate México” 10 Años México, Urion -- Topografía De La Cueva “mediceos”, Iztacxochitla, Puebla -- Topografía De La Cueva El …

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Dynamic Climatologic Processes Of Barometric Cave Systems Using The Example Of Jewel Cave And Wind Cave In South Dakota, Usa, Andreas Pflitsch, Mike Wiles, Rdney Horrocks

KIP Articles

Jewel and Wind Cave are two big barometric cave systems in SouthDakota, USA. The entrances of Jewel and Wind Cave are roughly 50 km apart, and until now it is unknown whether their entrances belong to two separate caves or to one muchlarger cave system. One possibility for testing these two competing hypotheses is to measure and analyse the climatic conditions in the vicinity of these entrances and within the caves in detail. In this context, the thermal conditions and air currents are crucial. These in turn can be characterised by the spatial and temporal patterns of the dynamics of …

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Espeleo Informe Costa Rica, Volume 5, No. 8, December 2010, Gustavo Quesada, Ferdinando Didonna, Andres Ulloa

KIP Articles

Contenido: PÁGINA DEL EDITOR --NUESTRA SELECCIÓN FOTOGRÁFICA -- NOTICIAS DESDE CENTROAMÉRICA: Cuevas de Taulabé (Honduras) -- Congreso de América Central sobre Karst y Espeleología y 1er Congrso de terrenos kársticos de Guatemala. Cobán, Alta Verapaz -- GEA: ACTIVIDADES REALIZADAS: Actividades del GEA 2o semestre del año 2010 -- Actividades realizadas por el GEA, Enero a Junio de 2011-- Actualización informativa sobre el trabajo editorial del GEA -- Curso de Primeros Auxilios-- EXPLORACIONES DEL GEA:Exploración Caribe de Costa Rica, alrededores del río Banano, Limón -- Informe de Participación, IV congreso de la FEALC -- Vivencias en el "Sifón del Susto". -- …

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Sbe Turismo E Paisagens Cársticas, Volume 3, No. 2, December 2010, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo

KIP Articles

Contents: O geoturismo como instrumento em prol da divulgação, valorização e conservação do patrimônio natural abiótico - uma reflexão teórica -- Considerações sobre os efeitos do turismo no ecossistema da Mina do Chico Rei (Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais): implicações para o manejo em sistemas naturais -- A contribuição da prática do espeleismo no bem-estar corporal -- Potencial geoturístico das quedas d'água de Indianópolis/MG -- Sumário de títulos -- Índice de autores -- Quadro de avaliadores -- Gestão editorial

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Note – Blowing The Whistle On Van Asdale: Analysis And Recommendations, Christopher Wiener

UC Law Journal

This Note examines the state of whistleblower protection at the state and federal level. It focuses on the protection granted to whistleblowers of securities fraud under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Most courts considering the statute have required that the plaintiff have had both an objective and subjective belief that securities fraud had been committed. In 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided Van Asdale v. International Game Technology. The court broke with the other circuits in not requiring the plaintiff-employees to have a subjective belief that a violation had actually occurred and, instead, conferred …

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Creche Herald Vol. 14, No. 4, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

Openline Newsletter, December 2010, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

Longevity Of The Black-Capped Vireo, David A. Cimprich, Wayne G. Strebe, Kristin A. Comolli

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

Microstructural Evolution Of Surface Layers During Electrolytic Plasma Processing, Cristian Cionea

Material Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Bubble Template Synthesis Of Hollow Gold Nanoparticles And Their Applications As Theranostic Agents, Chienwen Huang

Material Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Study On The Leakage Current Behavior And Conduction Mechanism Of Porous Low-K In Cu/Porous Low-K Interconnects: The Influence Of Extrinsic Factors, Liangshan Chen

Material Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Nanocrystalline Piezoresistive Polysilicon Film Obtained By Aluminum Induced Crystallization For Pressure Sensing Applications, Suraj Kumar Patil

Material Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Creative Classroom Designs, Sarah Komendat

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Direct Care Workers Perceptions And Practices Related To Quality Of Life In Long Term Care, Karen M. Kinyon

Dissertations

The Knowing-Doing Gap: The Influence Of Teacher Feedback In Changing Principal Behavior - A Mixed Methods Study, Kimberly St. Martin

Dissertations

Wiki Vandalysis. Wikipedia Vandalism Analysis, Manoj Harpalani

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Generation Of Conformation Sensor Recombinant Antibodies To Understand Redox Regulation Of Ptp1b, Aftabul Haque

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Multixenobiotic Resistance (Mxr) Inhibition And Interactive Toxic Effects Of The Cationic Surfactant, Benzalkonium Chloride, In Embryonic Medaka (Oryzias Latipes), John Gondek

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Butterfly Movement In A Post Agricultural Landscape, Norah Warchola

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Restitution, Eileen Obser

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The Role Of The Hemopexin Domain Of Matrix Metalloproteinases In Cell Migration, Antoine Hugues-Olivier Dufour

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Surface Optimization Of High Density Polyethylene And Carbon Nanofiber Composites For The Improvement Of Electromagnetic Shielding Effectiveness, Brandon C. Jarvis

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Fair Use Challenges In Academic And Research Libraries, Peter Jaszi

Copyright, Fair Use & Open Access

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JADARA

Addressing The Black Hole In Substance Abuse Treatment For Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Individuals: Technology To The Rescue, Janet Titus, Debra Guthmann

JADARA

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ACTEC Law Journal

Resisting The Contractarian Insurgency: The Uniform Trust Code, Fiduciary Duty, And Good Faith In Contract, Frederick R. Franke Jr.

ACTEC Law Journal

The Banner - V. 145, No. 12 - (December 2010), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

Analyzing The Restricted Phase Of The Graduated Driver's Licensing System: The Effect Of Driving Experience, Christopher Graham

All Theses

Home Range, Habitat Selection, And Migratory Pathways Of Canada Geese Wintering At The Santee National Wildlife Refuge, Molly Giles

All Theses

Mundos Subterráneos, No. 21, December 2010, José G. Palacios-Vargas

KIP Articles

Dynamic Climatologic Processes Of Barometric Cave Systems Using The Example Of Jewel Cave And Wind Cave In South Dakota, Usa, Andreas Pflitsch, Mike Wiles, Rdney Horrocks

KIP Articles

Espeleo Informe Costa Rica, Volume 5, No. 8, December 2010, Gustavo Quesada, Ferdinando Didonna, Andres Ulloa

KIP Articles

Sbe Turismo E Paisagens Cársticas, Volume 3, No. 2, December 2010, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo

KIP Articles

Note – Blowing The Whistle On Van Asdale: Analysis And Recommendations, Christopher Wiener

UC Law Journal