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Summary Of Mass State Pension Reform Law Chapter 176 Of The Acts Of 2011, Ellen A. Bruce Dec 2011

Summary Of Mass State Pension Reform Law Chapter 176 Of The Acts Of 2011, Ellen A. Bruce

Pension Action Center Publications

Massachusetts passed significant changes to its public pension system meant to create cost savings for the state and to encourage employees to work longer. Most of the changes apply only to people hired after April 2, 2012. This summarizes the most important changes.


State V. Dunlap Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 32773 Dec 2011

State V. Dunlap Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 32773

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


A & B Irr. Dist. V. Idwr Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39196 Dec 2011

A & B Irr. Dist. V. Idwr Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39196

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


Computer-Aided Pathological Diagnosis System, Wei Qian, Dansheng Song, Tatyana A. Zhukov Dec 2011

Computer-Aided Pathological Diagnosis System, Wei Qian, Dansheng Song, Tatyana A. Zhukov

USF Patents

The present invention is a computer-aided pathological diagnosis method for the classification of cancer cells in a tissue specimen based on a digital cellular image of the tissue specimen. The method of the present invention includes the steps of, extracting the histological characteristic features of the cellular image using preprocessing algorithms having adaptive strategies to enhance the cellular image, declustering the extracted histological characteristic features of the cellular image to isolate the individual cells and the nuclei inside the cells, segmenting the declustered cellular image, labeling the segmented cellular image and classifying the cells in the labeled cellular image as …


Spectrophotometric System For Simultaneous Flow-Through Measurements Of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Ph And Co2 Fugacity, Robert H. Byrne, Eric Kaltenbacher, Xuewu Liu Dec 2011

Spectrophotometric System For Simultaneous Flow-Through Measurements Of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Ph And Co2 Fugacity, Robert H. Byrne, Eric Kaltenbacher, Xuewu Liu

USF Patents

Provided is a flow-through CO2 system for simultaneously measuring surface seawater pH, carbon dioxide fugacity (fCO2), and total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC). All measurements are based on spectrophotometric determinations of solution pH at multiple wavelengths using sulfonephthalein indicators.


Community Outreach English: Marketing A Community Esl Program, Carrie Lane Drake Dec 2011

Community Outreach English: Marketing A Community Esl Program, Carrie Lane Drake

Theses and Dissertations

The focus of this MA TESOL project was to develop promotional products for BYU's Community Outreach English (CORE) program. The purpose of these products is to create greater community awareness of the program and the resources it provides to learners. It is also hoped that the promotional products will aid in the process of recruiting students for the program from one year to the next. While the essential elements of the marketing mix (product, place, promotion, and price) were reviewed, an emphasis for this project was placed on promotion, which translated into developing materials for this purpose. Promotional materials that …


The Bg News December 13, 2011, Bowling Green State University Dec 2011

The Bg News December 13, 2011, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 13, 2011. Volume 102-Issue 52.


Modeling Solid Propellant Ignition Events, Daniel A. Smyth Dec 2011

Modeling Solid Propellant Ignition Events, Daniel A. Smyth

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation documents the building of computational propellant/ingredient models toward predicting AP/HTPB/Al cookoff events. Two computer codes were used to complete this work; a steady-state code and a transient ignition code Numerous levels of verification resulted in a robust set of codes to which several propellant/ingredient models were applied. To validate the final cookoff predictions, several levels of validation were completed, including the comparison of model predictions to experimental data for: AP steady-state combustion, fine-AP/HTPB steady-state combustion, AP laser ignition, fine-AP/HTPB laser ignition, AP/HTPB/Al ignition, and AP/HTPB/Al cookoff. A previous AP steady-state model was updated, and then a new AP …


C-Met Initiates Epithelial Scattering Through Transient Calcium Influxes And Nfat-Dependent Gene Transcription, Peter R. Langford Dec 2011

C-Met Initiates Epithelial Scattering Through Transient Calcium Influxes And Nfat-Dependent Gene Transcription, Peter R. Langford

Theses and Dissertations

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) signaling drives epithelial cells to scatter by breaking cell-cell adhesions and migrating as solitary cells, a process that parallels epithelial-mesenchymal transition. HGF binds and activates the c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase, but downstream signaling required for scattering remains poorly defined. This study addresses this shortcoming in a number of ways.A high-throughput in vitro drug screen was employed to identify proteins necessary in this HGF-induced signaling. Cells were tested for reactivity to HGF stimulation in a Boyden chamber assay. This tactic yielded several small molecules that block HGF-induced scattering, including a calcium channel blocker. Patch clamping was used …


Third-Party Forgiveness In Ambivalent And Supportive Relationships, Daniel Stephen Allen Dec 2011

Third-Party Forgiveness In Ambivalent And Supportive Relationships, Daniel Stephen Allen

Theses and Dissertations

A recent trend in the study of forgiveness is to look at forgiveness outside of traditional victim-perpetrator dyads. One way of going beyond these dyads is to look at third-party forgiveness. A recent advance in the study of relationship valence is to look at the amount of positivity and negativity in a relationship as on independent scales rather than on two ends of the same spectrum. This allows for categorization of relationships that are high in both positivity and negativity—ambivalent relationships. This study attempts to combine these two recent advances. I hypothesized that participants would have more difficulty forgiving offenders …


Everything I Need To Know About Family Law I Learned From Teen Mom: Part Two In A Two-Part Series, Joanna L. Grossman Dec 2011

Everything I Need To Know About Family Law I Learned From Teen Mom: Part Two In A Two-Part Series, Joanna L. Grossman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The lives of teen parents are often complicated, as we see depicted over and over again in the MTV reality show Teen Mom. Although this show is not about law (Law and Order: Teen Mom might be an interesting new spinoff, however), the teen mothers find themselves in a variety of family law controversies in the natural course of things. In this column, I’ll consider just a sampling of the legal issues raised on the show, including those related to legal fatherhood, parental rights, child custody, domestic violence, and open adoption.


Meeting Of The Federal Open Market Committee December 13, 2011, Federal Reserve System Dec 2011

Meeting Of The Federal Open Market Committee December 13, 2011, Federal Reserve System

Documents

No abstract provided.


Traffic Signal Management: State Agency Perspective Of Regional Traffic Management, Ryan Gallagher Dec 2011

Traffic Signal Management: State Agency Perspective Of Regional Traffic Management, Ryan Gallagher

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop: Traffic Signal Operations Definitions, Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Dec 2011

Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop: Traffic Signal Operations Definitions, Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


City Of Lafayette Advanced Transportation Management System (Atms), Jenny Miller Dec 2011

City Of Lafayette Advanced Transportation Management System (Atms), Jenny Miller

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


2011 Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Closing Questions, Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Dec 2011

2011 Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Closing Questions, Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


Morgantown, West Virginia: Adaptive Control Evaluation, Deployment, And Management, Andrew P Nichols Dec 2011

Morgantown, West Virginia: Adaptive Control Evaluation, Deployment, And Management, Andrew P Nichols

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


Vendor Support Of Purdue Research And Indot Initiatives, Gary Duncan Dec 2011

Vendor Support Of Purdue Research And Indot Initiatives, Gary Duncan

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


Centralized Traffic Signal Management Using Performance Measures, Jay Grossman Dec 2011

Centralized Traffic Signal Management Using Performance Measures, Jay Grossman

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


Improving Traffic Signal Operations With High-Resolution Data, Henry Liu, Steven Misgen Dec 2011

Improving Traffic Signal Operations With High-Resolution Data, Henry Liu, Steven Misgen

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


A Community Of Transportation Professionals, David Samuelson, Phillip Caruso Dec 2011

A Community Of Transportation Professionals, David Samuelson, Phillip Caruso

The Active Traffic Signal Management Workshop Archive

No abstract provided.


The Tornado Tree: Drawing On Stories And Storybooks, Toni A. Wood Dec 2011

The Tornado Tree: Drawing On Stories And Storybooks, Toni A. Wood

Theses and Dissertations

Storytelling has been used by many cultures to record events, research genealogy, and to teach moral lessons. Some cultures passed on their histories and important events through oral narration, papyrus, or cathedral stained glass windows. More modern cultures write personal histories, and use modern technology to communicate with each other. This study is an arts based project based on writing a storybook. It is an exploration of why storytelling is important from a cultural point of view using my experiences to write a storybook based on a true event from my family history.


Examining Implementation Processes Of Positive Behavior Support, Julia Helzer Rollins Dec 2011

Examining Implementation Processes Of Positive Behavior Support, Julia Helzer Rollins

Theses and Dissertations

This study is a summary of themes found in the meeting notes of school teams implementing school-wide Positive Behavior Support. Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is a systems change process of reorganizing a school's discipline structure to put in place a positive, teaching and reinforcing focus for the improvement of student behavior (Sugai & Horner, 2006). In recent years, education researchers have established that school-wide PBS is an effective way to deliver research- based interventions to improve student behavior (Colvin & Kameenui, 1993, Gottfredson, Gottfredson, & Hybl 1993; Taylor-Green & Kartub, 2000). This study focused on the implementation process in order …


The First Ninety-Nine Years Of The Mcgoogan Library Of Medicine: 1881–1980, Kristin Watkins Dec 2011

The First Ninety-Nine Years Of The Mcgoogan Library Of Medicine: 1881–1980, Kristin Watkins

History of the Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library

No abstract provided.


A Performance-Based Model For The Computation Of Kinematic Pile Response Due To Lateral Spreading And Its Application On Select Bridges Damaged During The M7.6 Earthquake In The Limon Province, Costa Rica, Kevin W. Franke Dec 2011

A Performance-Based Model For The Computation Of Kinematic Pile Response Due To Lateral Spreading And Its Application On Select Bridges Damaged During The M7.6 Earthquake In The Limon Province, Costa Rica, Kevin W. Franke

Theses and Dissertations

Lateral spread is a seismic hazard associated with soil liquefaction in which permanent deformations are developed within the soil profile due to cyclic mobility. Lateral spread has historically been one of the largest causes of earthquake-related damage to infrastructure. One of the infrastructure components most at risk from lateral spread is that of deep foundations. Because performance-based engineering is increasingly becoming adopted in earthquake engineering practice, it would be beneficial for engineers and researchers to have a performance-based methodology for computing pile performance during a lateral spread event. This study utilizes the probabilistic performance-based framework developed by the Pacific Earthquake …


A Comparative Case Study: Investigation Of A Certified Elementary Art Specialist Teaching Elementary Art Vs. A Non-Art Certified Teacher Teaching Elementary Art, Jordan Jensen Dec 2011

A Comparative Case Study: Investigation Of A Certified Elementary Art Specialist Teaching Elementary Art Vs. A Non-Art Certified Teacher Teaching Elementary Art, Jordan Jensen

Theses and Dissertations

Most colleges and universities offer a general course in elementary art education to provide instruction to the elementary generalist to enable that student to later provide art instruction to students at the elementary level. This course is commonly referred to as the two-credit course in elementary art education throughout this thesis. This thesis is a case study investigation of a certified elementary art specialist and a non-art certified teacher teaching elementary art in the Subject School District in Utah. It asks and gathers data on three main questions. How is art education valuable for elementary students? What is a quality …


A Re-Examination Of The Early Pueblo I Components At Monument Village, 42sa971, Rachel K. Pollock Dec 2011

A Re-Examination Of The Early Pueblo I Components At Monument Village, 42sa971, Rachel K. Pollock

Theses and Dissertations

The Pueblo I period (A.D. 750-900) was a time of widespread change in population and settlement organization in the Northern San Juan region of the American Southwest. One major distinguishing feature of the Pueblo I period is the rapid appearance of villages in the late A.D. 700s. Monument Village in southeastern Utah was excavated by Brigham Young University in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but has never been adequately described. Monument Village has a substantial early Pueblo I occupation but the dating of various structures and the size of the overall settlement are unclear. This thesis re-examines architectural and …


Minutes, Library Leadership Team Meeting, December 13, 2011, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Dec 2011

Minutes, Library Leadership Team Meeting, December 13, 2011, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Library Leadership Team Meetings

Minutes from the December 13, 2011, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Library Leadership team.


Christmas Day Broadcast Of University Of Minnesota, Morris Carol Concert On Pioneer Public Television, University Relations Dec 2011

Christmas Day Broadcast Of University Of Minnesota, Morris Carol Concert On Pioneer Public Television, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The special airing will include narration, carols, and choral songs inspired by the season.


Alumni Flies And Hardy's Educational Enterprise Developed As Solution For Blogosphere Need, University Relations Dec 2011

Alumni Flies And Hardy's Educational Enterprise Developed As Solution For Blogosphere Need, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Kidblog was created out of a need for a blogging platform suitable for elementary students.