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Characteristics Of Patients With Fluid Extravasation During Retrograde Ureteroscopic Holmium Laser Lithotripsy For Renal Calculi., Xiao-Min Luo, Ci Zhang, Hui-Jun Qian, Chao Song, Si-Xing Yang

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVES: To explore the risk factors of fluid extravasation during retrograde ureteroscopic holmium laser lithotripsy for renal calculi. METHODS: Three hundred and twenty-seven patients with renal calculi ranging 10 to 20 mm received retrograde ureteroscopic holmium laser lithotripsy at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China from January 2004 to December 2010. The clinical records were reviewed, and the correlation was studied between various clinical factors and fluid extravasation complications during operation. The clinical factors to be tested included patients9 gender and age (<30, 30-50, and >50 years), hydronephrosis degree, previous intervention for renal calculi (none, shock-wave lithotripsy, and open surgery), upper …

Tennessee Forestry Commission Annual Report 2011, Tennessee. Department Of Agriculture.

Forestry Commission Annual Report

No abstract provided.

2010-2011 Annual Report Of The Tennessee Emergency Communications Board, Tennessee. Department Of Commerce And Insurance.

Emergency Communications Board Annual Report

No abstract provided.

Legitimate Exercises Of The Police Power Or Compensable Takings: Courts May Recognize Private Property Rights, Terence J. Centner

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Under their police power, governments regulate nuisances and take actions in emergency situations. For protecting humans, animals, and plants from diseases and other pests (jointly referred to as diseases), governments order inoculations, quarantine items and people, and seize and destroy property.' With respect to plants and animals, the United States Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to prohibit the importation and movement of items than may be infested. The Secretary also has the authority to hold, treat, and destroy items to prevent the dissemination of plant and animal pests. State governments take additional actions to prevent the introduction and dissemination of …

The Tragedy Of The Horse, American Icon, Tim Opitz

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Whether a prohibition on slaughter improves the welfare of the American horse population is the focus of this article. At the time it was written, winter of 2010-2011, a confluence of Federal and State legislative action had ended domestic slaughter. These actions are detailed in the body of this article. Since 2007, the legal status of horse slaughter remained static. Just as Sir Isaac Newton's first law of motion explained, an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Legislative inertia is the perspective from which this article was originally written. However, Newton's first law also stated that the object …

Journal Of Food Law & Policy - Fall 2011, Journal Editors

Journal of Food Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Results Of The 2011 Immunization Status Survey Of 24-Month-Old Children In Tennessee, Tennessee. Department Of Health.

Immunization Rates

No abstract provided.

Confounding Identities: The Paradox Of Lgbt Children Under Asylum Law, Susan Hazeldean

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Millenium Development Goals: What Roles For The Financial Sector In Nigeria, Jonathan A. Aremu

Economic and Financial Review

The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to redefine the role of the Nigerian financial sector towards meeting the MDGs by 2015. The paper is, thus, structured into four parts. Part I, briefly analyses the targets of the MDGs and the situation in Nigeria. In part II, an attempt is made to examine the various areas where the financial sector can offer helping hands in the implementation of the MDGs targets in Nigerian economy. While Part III examines the reasons why financial services in Nigeria are not within the reach of the MDGs target group (the poor), Part IV addresses …

Volume 31, Number 4, December 2011 Olac Newsletter, Kate Leigh, Bruce Evans, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Katie Eller, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2011 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Quantitative Comparison Of Cis-Regulatory Element (Cre) Activities In Transgenic Drosophila Melanogaster, William A. Rogers, Thomas M. Williams

Biology Faculty Publications

Gene expression patterns are specified by cis-regulatory element (CRE) sequences, which are also called enhancers or cis-regulatory modules. A typical CRE possesses an arrangement of binding sites for several transcription factor proteins that confer a regulatory logic specifying when, where, and at what level the regulated gene(s) is expressed. The full set of CREs within an animal genome encodes the organism′s program for development¹, and empirical as well as theoretical studies indicate that mutations in CREs played a prominent role in morphological evolution^2-4. Moreover, human genome wide association studies indicate that genetic variation in CREs …

From Admission To Bar Passage: Extending A Helping Hand To Students At St. Mary's University School Of Law., Kevin W. Robinovich, Preyal D. Shah

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

Countering Criminalization: Toward A Youth Development Approach To School Searches., Sarah Jane Forman

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Public schools are supposed to be the foundation for American students’ civic education. Students do not only gain this education through the curriculum but also through extra-curricular political and legal socialization occurring in schools. Large metropolitan school districts face a myriad of serious challenges, including inadequate funding low literacy, high dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and legitimate school safety concerns. Instead of being educated in the manners of civility, students are treated as threats to public safety the minute they walk through the metal detector at the schoolhouse door. Citizen education devolves into ghetto education when schools adopt a prison-like culture. …

Majority-Minority Voting Rights: Is Cumulative Voting A Valid Remedy For Violations Of The Voting Rights Act Or An Impermissible Tactic To Advance Racial Politics., Erica Lynne Mirehouse

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

Alignment-Free Methods And Its Applications, Ramez Mina

Student Work

Comparing biological sequences remains one of the most vital activities in Bioinformatics. Comparing biological sequences would address the relatedness between species, and find similar structures that might lead to similar functions.

Sequence alignment is the default method, and has been used in the domain for over four decades. It gained a lot of trust, but limitations and even failure has been reported, especially with the new generated genomes. These new generated genomes have bigger size, and to some extent suffer errors. Such errors come mainly as a result from the sequencing machine. These sequencing errors should be considered when submitting …

The Failure Of The Royal Bank Of Scotland, United Kingdom: Financial Services Authority

Documents

Financial Services Authority Board Report

Enrollment Extract Suite: Improved Enrollment Reporting For Dsu, Marilyn Halgerson

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

It has been custom in the South Dakota Higher Education system for the past thirty years to collect and report enrollment data at a central level using a central data repository. That process has evolved over the years but the basic information collected and reported remains consistent. Central computing staff at Regents Information Systems (RJS) utilizes this data for the South Dakota State Board of Regents in support of overall management of the South Dakota university higher education system. The extracted data is also used by Dakota State University (DSU) for institutional research, federal reporting, and other university data needs. …

Marketing Dietary Supplements: Public Relations And The Ability Of Pharmaceutical Companies To Retain And Develop Consumer Relationships, Nicole Schmidt

Journalism

Dietary supplements have grown in popularity in recent years, with multivitamins the most commonly used. As the awareness of dietary supplements continues to increase, there are more chances for consumers to misuse or misunderstand the risks of taking dietary supplements. Public relations, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies should work to educate the consumer about the uses and risks of supplements. This paper addresses the issues associated with dietary supplements, particularly in the area of weight-loss supplements. Adverse side effects are addressed, as well as how public relations can influence the outcome of pharmaceutical companies’ relationships with consumers. Public relations can help …

Print Vs. Online Journalism: Are Believability And Accuracy Affected By Where Readers Find Information?, Burton Speakman

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

Believability and accuracy of print and online news is studied via the comments of newspaper readers of a small Texas community. The readers of the Normangee Star were chosen to be the survey recipients to learn if readers in a small community had the same attitude about their local newspaper that national surveys have indicated exist about newspapers in general. The expectation was that those who read more news online would consider their local paper to be less believable and accurate than those who read little to no news online. Surveys were mailed to 200 subscribers of the Star, …

Classroom Management For Urban Teachers: Lessons From Films And Real-Life Experiences, Krystal Heard

Senior Honors Theses

Identifying effective classroom management techniques and working discipline methods is a challenge within the education arena, particularly for new teachers. An educator reading this thesis will be able to identify leading problems in managing student behaviors, especially within the inner-city classroom. This thesis highlights a number of prevention strategies and addresses how to avoid ineffective techniques. By acquiring a better understanding of the hidden rules of poverty, the reader will learn how to adapt classroom management strategies to meet students’ needs within the inner-city classroom. Various movies have been made concerning effective inner-city teachers. These films are based on real …

Avoiding, Pretending, And Querying : Three Combinatorial Problems., Adam S. Jobson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A k-term quasi-progression of diameter d is a sequence {Xl,... ,xk} for which there exists a positive integer l such that l < Xi-Xi-1 < l+d, for all i = 2, ... ,k. Quasi-progressions may be thought of as arithmetic progressions with a certain amount of 'wiggle-room' allowed. Let Q(d, k) be the least positive integer such that every 2-coloring of {1, ... , Q(d, k)} contains a monochromatic k-term quasi-progression of diameter d. We prove a conjecture of Landman for certain values of k and d, provide counterexamples for some other cases, and determine that the conjecture always has the correct order of growth. Let A be the adjacency matrix of a non empty graph. Is there always a nonzero {0, 1}-vector in the row space of A that is not a row of A? Akbari, Cameron, and Khosrovshahi have shown that an affirmative answer to this question would imply bounds on many graph parameters as a function of the rank of the adjacency matrix. We demonstrate the existence of such vectors for certain families of graphs, examine techniques to find and verify the existence of such vectors, and show that if you generalize the problem to allow asymmetry in the matrices then some {0, 1 }-matrices do not have such vectors. In 1981, Andrew Yao asked "Should tables be sorted?". When the table has n cells that are filled with entries taken from a key space of m possibilities, he showed that it is possible to decide whether any member of the key space is present in the table by inspecting (querying) only one cell of the table if and only if m < 2n - 2. We make steps toward extending his result to the case where you are permitted two queries by considering several variations of the problem.

Narrative Comprehension Abilities Of Children From Low-Income Families : Role Of Temperament, Attention Skills, And Cognitive Engagement., Tara N. Weatherholt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The current study investigated narrative comprehension ability in children from low-income families by examining the contributions of temperament, attention skills, and cognitive engagement. Research has identified narrative comprehension skills as significant for successful literacy outcomes, but few studies have examined the effect of individual level characteristics on comprehension ability. As reading and pre-reading skills in children from disadvantaged homes has been shown to be lower than that of children from more privileged backgrounds, it is critical to examine the factors that contribute to comprehension skills in this population. The current study focuses on the relationships among temperament, attention network skills, …

Addressing Identity/Redressing The Museum., Sarah Guadalupe Cassidy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis paper expands upon the aspects of identity and power explored in the exhibition that I curated, entitled "Being & Making: Artists Investigating Identity," at the Speed Art Museum. The developments on topics of identity prominent in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s fundamentally changed the creation, exhibition, collection and interpretation of art. These changes related to power investigations originating from artists in marginalized groups. The change affected not just the art itself, but also the function of museums and the role they play in forming identity in contemporary visual practice. As institutions of power, art museums …

An Investigation Of A Middle-High School System As A Learning Organization During The Implementation Of A Grade Eight To Grade Nine Transition Program., Carol Jean Christian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the impact of articulation activities and the extent to which the Grant County Kentucky school district operated as a learning organization during the implementation of a research-based middle to high school student transition initiative. Grant County is predominantly rural, located between Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio, and includes the town of Williamstown, Kentucky. This study analyzed the Grant County schools' to determine if they functioned as a learning organization to the characteristics common to organizational learning, high reliability organizations and effective schools that included the characteristics of systemic process, leadership/vision, collaboration, and the use of measures. This …

Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient Data To Assess Healthcare Utilization And Treatments., Pedro Ramos

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this study is to use a data mining framework to assess the three main treatments for acute myocardial infarction: thrombolytic therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention (percutaneous angioplasty), and coronary artery bypass surgery. The need for a data mining framework in this study arises because of the use of real world data rather than highly clean and homogenous data found in most clinical trials and epidemiological studies. The assessment is based on determining a profile of patients undergoing an episode of acute myocardial infarction, determine resource utilization by treatment, and creating a model that predicts each treatment resource utilization …

Pharmacists As Mid-Level Healthcare Providers And The Clinical Results Of A Pharmacist-Led Diabetes Disease Management Program., Benjamin Maurice Risner 1983-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Advancements in medical therapy have augmented resources available to physicians to treat disease and, because of this, spending on prescription drugs has doubled in the past decade. Increasingly, clinical trials are demonstrating the benefits of aggressive disease management in reducing morbidity and mortality. Physicians treating patients with chronic conditions must balance the benefits of combination drug therapy against the risk of adverse drug events and drug interactions. For instance, evidence-based practice guidelines in patients with diabetes and multiple comorbidities require combination therapy in order to reduce morbidity and mortality. Patients with polymorbidity require the attention of multiple physicians, further fragmenting …

Theory Of Mind, Social Functioning, And Awareness Of Ability In Older Adults., Sarah Vedrody Rowe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Declines in social resources and in the quality of interpersonal interactions have been observed in some older adults. Unawareness of ability is a clinical problem that has been found in some older adults with dementia, but has also been found in non-demented older adults, and the clinical correlates have not been reliably established. Theory of mind (ToM) is a social-cognitive construct that refers to the ability to infer the mental states of others and the self. ToM has been linked with social functioning and self-awareness, but few studies have examined these variables in older adults. The current study tested the …

An Examination Of Teacher Instruction And Student Engagement Involving Adolescents With And Without Challenging Behavior., Regina Gilkey Hirn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The interactions between teachers and students provide a venue for instructional delivery and ultimately student achievement in the school setting. However, not all students experience positive interactions with teachers in the typical classroom setting, especially those students exhibiting behavioral challenges. These students are observed with greater off task behavior and increased classroom disruptions when compared with their peers. This dissertation examined teacher and student behavior observed in a typical high school classroom exemplifying these interactions. Direct observations of students and teachers were conducted to answer several research questions addressing teacher behaviors: classroom instruction, opportunities to respond, and feedback to students …

The Singular Perturbation In The Analysis Of Mode I Fracture Based Upon A New Multiscale Theory, Kai-Bin Fu

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

A theory of fracture is presented that is based upon an extension of continuum mechanics to the nanoscale fracture through the incorporation of long-range intermolecular forces which correct bulk material descriptions near interfaces. To be consistent with the literature, constant surface energies are assigned to interfaces. In the analysis of mode I fracture for quasi-brittle material, it is observed that the incorporation of these long-range intermolecular forces predicts sharp fracture tip rather than blunt and avoids stress singularity. The details of the singular perturbation employed in this analysis are also presented.

Robust 𝒍𝟏 And 𝒍∞ Solutions Of Linear Inequalities, Maziar Salahi

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

Infeasible linear inequalities appear in many disciplines. In this paper we investigate the 𝑙₁ and 𝑙_∞ solutions of such systems in the presence of uncertainties in the problem data. We give equivalent linear programming formulations for the robust problems. Finally, several illustrative numerical examples using the cvx software package are solved showing the importance of the robust model in the presence of uncertainties in the problem data.