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Municipal Stormwater Management In Northern New England: A Comparative Study Of Leading Programs, Doug Roncarati, Keisha Payson, Rod Melanson, Fred Dillon

Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations

To gain a better understanding of how regulated municipalities in northern New England are addressing current stormwater rules and anticipating future stormwater rules, detailed questionnaires were administered through interviews to eleven MS4 communities in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont during the winter of 2010 – 2011.

The Legal Implications Arising From Economic And Social Reconstruction As An Aspect Of Peace Support Operations, Claire Breen

Peace and Conflict Studies

This article asserts that the link between peace and security and stabilization and development, as exemplified by the UN-mandated international presences in Afghanistan, is to be welcomed but that, from the perspective of the laws governing both the use of force and the conduct of warfare, such an evolution is problematic for a number of reasons. One, the broader functions of the military in peace support raises questions for jus ad bellum such as determining whether the basis for the peace enforcement has been achieved, as States and their armed forces engage in stabilization and state-building initiatives as a means …

Disputes Over Water Resources: A History Of Conflict And Cooperation In Drainage Basins, Shavkat Kasymov

Peace and Conflict Studies

This paper presents the analysis of conflict history over freshwater in several drainage basins across the planet. As will be demonstrated in this paper, unilateral water policies have proved to reduce the role and prospect of water treaties and international water sharing regimes, and led to political tensions and conflicts. The main argument of the essay is that unilateral diversions of water flows will instigate wars between riparian states because of the rising demand for freshwater in the future. Unilateral practices of water diversion create a situation of inequitable distribution of water among nation-states within a basin which is a …

Science Diplomacy With Swissnex China: A Swiss Nation Brand Initiative, Flavia Schlegel, Olivier Jacot, Marc Fetscherin

Faculty Publications

Switzerland has a long tradition of expertise in the fields of science, research and education, with “science diplomacy” (SD) now assuming an important role for innovation economies. Past experience shows that international scientific cooperation can have valuable outcomes for the involved countries and complements traditional foreign policy and diplomacy. In Switzerland, a worldwide network of science and technology outposts under the auspices of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) in cooperation with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) was established in 2000. The very swissnex network around the world defines one of those established science diplomacy …

The Prevalence Of Cervico-Arterial Dissection In Sub-Arachnoid Hemorrhage In The United States, Ali Seifi, Md, Fred Rincon, Md, Msc, Mitchell Maltenfort, Phd, Pascal Jabbour, Md, Rodney Bell, Md, Michael Moussouttas, Md

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

Objectives: In this study, we sought to determine the prevalence of cervico-arterial dissection in aubarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) using a large administrative database.

Treatment Outcomes And Medication Compliance For Children And Adolescents, 30 Days Post-Discharge From An In-Patient Psychiatric Hospital, Jan Talley

Faculty and Staff Publications

A variety of authors have suggested that children and adolescents are at risk for serious adverse health outcomes because of a lack of compliance with medication regimens. A lack of compliance includes taking less or more medication than prescribed, and taking medication at the wrong times. One study that examined the medication compliance of 81 students who were 10 years of age or older, and were enrolled in a school-based health center, determined that only 45 students (56%) filled the prescription given to them by the doctor. Of those students who filled the prescription, 76% reported that they always took …

Ostrom's Law: Property Rights In The Commons, Lee Anne Fennell

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Elinor Ostrom's work has immeasurably enhanced legal scholars' understanding of property. Although the richness of these contributions cannot be distilled into a single thesis, their flavor can be captured in a maxim I call Ostrom's Law: A resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory. Ostrom's scholarship challenges the conventional wisdom by examining how people interact over resources on the ground – an approach that enables her to identify recurring institutional features associated with long-term success. In this essay, I trace some of the ways that Ostrom's focus on situated examples has advanced interdisciplinary dialogue about property as …

A Model For Enhancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, And Belonging In A Speech Pathology And Audiology Program, Elizabeth R Oommen R. Oommen, Peggy Goetz, Brian M. Kreisman, Megan Nickelson, Morgan Bykerk

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Purpose: The SPAUD department at Calvin University recognized the need for initiatives that focused on intentionally enfolding and supporting Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), international, and third culture students in a competitive major like communication sciences and disorders (CSD). These initiatives focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) practices, specifically: (1) to support retention and empowerment of students through peer mentoring and small group meetings; and (2) to equip the department to empower faculty and students to thrive together in the program and in their vocation through capacitybuilding.

Study design/methodology/approach: This is a case study paper outlining …

Development And Initial Validation Of The Managerial Success Factors Inventory: Transportation Version (Msfi: Tv), Michael Robert Durr Ii

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to develop and initially validate the Managerial Success Factors Inventory: Transportation Version (MSFI: TV), a scale generated to more accurately assess managerial competence in transportation than general managerial competence and leadership scales. The literature on managerial competencies, leadership, and the state of transportation management is summarized. Reigning models of general managerial competency were used with focus group and cognitive interview data to develop the scale. The conventional three-phase scale development research design was followed (exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and validation phases) by administering the instrument to a sample of 287 managers from …

Analysis Of Pacific Harbor Seal Survival At Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Friday Harbor, Wa, Casey L. Martinez

Animal Science

The Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center cares for and releases dozens of Pacific Harbor Seals each year. Analysis of 161 seal records from mid-2004 to 2010 showed that the sex, weight, and age of the incoming seals are not statistically significant predictors of survival to release. The absence of wounds and injuries, on the other hand, is correlated with increased survival about two times greater than that of wounded seals.

Vesicular Stomatitis Virus In The Treatment Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Celene Joza

Animal Science

No abstract provided.

Ct Appearances Of Responsive Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (Gists) After Imatinib Mesylate Treatment, S Sriariyametta, V Sriuranpong, K Arjhansiri, B. Chaopathomkul

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

Background : Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) have their specific receptor that allows the use of specific target drug. CT scan is the imaging technique of choice to evaluate the response of the tumor. There are some conflicts about CT parameter such as size and density that confuse radiologists in the evaluation of the tumor response. Objective : Our objective is to evaluate CT appearances in patients with GISTs who have response after imatinib treatment by combination of RECIST criteria and density, vascularity, solid nodule and cystic change of the tumor. Design : Retrospective study Setting : King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, …

The Patient Dose From Digital Mammography Systems Using Molybdenum And Tungsten Targets, K Theerakul, A. Krisanachinda

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

Background : Two digital mammographic systems of different targets and filters offer different radiation doses to patients. Objective : To determine the average glandular dose (AGD), the entrance surface air kerma (ESAK) from cranio-caudal (CC) and medio-lateral oblique (MLO) projections and the dose reference level (DRL) from CC projection at both breasts when two digital mammogram systems of molybdenum (Mo) target and molybdenum or rhodium (Rh) filters of one system and tungsten (W) target and rhodium filter of the other system were clinically used. Methods : Patients' data from two digital mammography systems were analyzed in terms of the compressed …

Creativity Thinking Of Chulalongkorn Medical Students, J Nakniyom, C. Nimnuan

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

Background : Creativity is an important attribute of physicians. Creativity helps improve and enhance medical students' ability to think and provide qualified and effective services. Objective : To study the level of creative thinking and factors affecting the creative thinking of Chulalongkorn Medical students. Design : A cross – sectional descriptive study. Setting : Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. Materials and Methods : The data were collected by questionnaires from 434 medical students of Chulalongkorn University who were in the first to the fifth year in 2010. Questionnaire consisted of demographic data, creative thinking and achievement motivation measures. The data …

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Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

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ดรรชนีบทความจุฬาลงกรณ์เวชสาร 2011, N/A

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

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A Primer For Consumer Involvement In Medicaid Nursing Facility Reimbursement: Lessons From New York And Minnesota, Edward Alan Miller, Cynthia Rudder

Gerontology Institute Publications

Medicaid is the major purchaser of nursing home care in the United States. To ensure that providers behave appropriately, the federal and state governments have established an extensive set of regulations that nursing homes must comply with if they are to be reimbursed for patients insured by Medicaid. Consumers exert considerable influence here by focusing on regulations and enforcement of non-compliance.

States also seek to align providers’ interests with those of other interested parties through controls and incentives built into state reimbursement systems, including with respect to facility cost and quality, access to care, payment equity, service capacity, and budgetary …

Consumer Involvement In Medicaid Nursing Facility Reimbursement: Lessons From New York And Minnesota For State Policymakers, Edward Alan Miller, Cynthia Rudder

Gerontology Institute Publications

Medicaid is the major purchaser of nursing home care in the United States. State governments design their methods of reimbursing nursing homes to achieve desired policy objectives related to facility cost and quality, access to care, payment equity, service capacity, and budgetary control.

Often, participation in the process of developing Medicaid payment policy is limited to state agency officials and providers of care and, occasionally, union representatives and state legislative staff. Invited less frequently to reimbursement policy discussions are consumer representatives. Lack of consumer involvement in the development of state rate setting systems has the potential to result in the …

Post Hurricane Katrina-Rita Planning, Recovery And Resiliency, New Orleans, Louisiana 2005-2011: Faith + Fortitude + Plans = Resurrection, James R. Amdal

UNOTI Publications

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Parent-Led Activity And Nutrition (Plan) For Healthy Living: Design And Methods, William T. Dalton, Karen E. Schetzina, Nicole Holt, Hazel Fulton-Robinson, Ai-Leng Ho, Fred Tudiver, Mathew T. Mcbee, Tiejian Wu

ETSU Faculty Works

Child obesity has become an important public health concern, especially in rural areas. Primary care providers are well positioned to intervene with children and their parents, but encounter many barriers to addressing child overweight and obesity. This paper describes the design and methods of a cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate a parent-mediated approach utilizing physician's brief motivational interviewing and parent group sessions to treat child (ages 5–11 years) overweight and obesity in the primary care setting in Southern Appalachia. Specific aims of this pilot project will be 1) to establish a primary care based and parent-mediated childhood overweight intervention program …

Health Care Access And Use Among The Rural Uninsured [Policy Brief], Erika C. Ziller Phd, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs, Andrew F. Coburn Phd

Access / Insurance

In a landmark series of reports, the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance noted the policy significance of the “cascading” effects of uninsurance on patients, families, and communities.¹ Multiple studies confirm that rural residents are more likely to be uninsured than their urban counterparts.^2-4 Additionally, there is ample evidence that the uninsured have poorer access to care, delay care, and obtain care at levels of greater acuity than those with health insurance.⁵ However, the impact of being uninsured versus insured in rural areas, particularly compared to urban areas, is largely unknown.

Using data from …

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A Review Of The 2001 Bonn Conference And Application To The Road Ahead In Afghanistan, Mark Fields, Ramsha Ahmed

INSS Strategic Perspectives

Ten years ago in Bonn, Germany, the United Nations Envoy to Afghanistan, Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, and U.S. Envoy to the Afghan Opposition, Ambassador James Dobbins, led a diverse group of international diplomats and warriors to consensus and charted the political course for Afghanistan well into the decade. The process that led to the Bonn Agreement (Bonn 2001, or Bonn I) reflects the best of U.S. and United Nations statesmanship and was the result of the effective application of military and diplomatic power.

International Dateline -- Jusp: The Uk Journal Usage Statistics Portal, Angela Conyers, Peter T. Shepherd

Against the Grain

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Oregon Trails -- Go West Young Man, Thomas W. Leonhardt

Against the Grain

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Rethinking Extraordinary Circumstances, Scott Dodson

Faculty Publications

This short essay for Northwestern University Law Review's Colloquy seeks to rationalize the "extraordinary circumstances" doctrine of Rue 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The usual rule is that a movant for Rule 60(b)(6) relief must show extraordinary circumstances for that relief. Under the Ackermann rule (so named after the Supreme Court decision that spawned it), courts have held that any extraordinary circumstances cannot have been caused by the movant's own litigation conduct. I argue that the Ackermann rule, at its broadest, would be unjust to those litigants most in need of Rule 60(b)(6) relief and would overserve …

Postenucleation Adjuvant Chemotherapy With Vincristine, Etoposide, And Carboplatin For The Treatment Of High-Risk Retinoblastoma., Swathi Kaliki, Carol L Shields, Sanket U Shah, Ralph C Eagle, Jerry A Shields, Ann Leahey

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

BACKGROUND: Analysis of 52 eyes with high-risk retinoblastoma managed with postenucleation adjuvant chemotherapy using vincristine sulfate, etoposide phosphate, and carboplatin showed no evidence of systemic metastasis in any case during a mean (range) follow-up of 66 (12-202) months.

PURPOSE: To determine the efficacy of postenucleation adjuvant chemotherapy with vincristine, etoposide, and carboplatin in the prevention of metastasis for patients with high-risk retinoblastoma.

METHODS: Retrospective, nonrandomized, interventional case series of 52 eyes in 51 patients with high-risk retinoblastoma consisting of tumor invasion into the anterior segment, posterior uvea 3 mm or greater, postlaminar optic nerve, or any combination of posterior uvea …

Local Government Law, Andrew R. Mcroberts

University of Richmond Law Review

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Pparδ Regulates Satellite Cell Proliferation And Skeletal Muscle Regeneration, Alison R. Angione, Chunhui Jiang, Dongning Pan, Yong-Xu Wang, Shihuan Kuang

Department of Animal Sciences Faculty Publications

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are a class of nuclear receptors that play important roles in development and energy metabolism. Whereas PPARδ has been shown to regulate mitochondrial biosynthesis and slow-muscle fiber types, its function in skeletal muscle progenitors (satellite cells) is unknown. Since constitutive mutation of Pparδ leads to embryonic lethality, we sought to address this question by conditional knockout (cKO) of Pparδ using Myf5-Cre/Pparδ^flox/flox alleles to ablate PPARδ in myogenic progenitor cells. Although Pparδ-cKO mice were born normally and initially displayed no difference in body weight, muscle size or muscle composition, they later developed metabolic syndrome, which …

Foreshadowing The Web From The 1950s: Gale's Encyclopedia Of Associations, John Schmittroth

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.