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Business Roundtable Panel Opening Remarks, Max S. Baucus

Max S. Baucus Speeches and Remarks

Business Roundtable Panel Opening Remarks

State V. Collins Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39401

Not Reported

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State V. Boren Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39754

Not Reported

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Climate Change: Hope, Despair, And Planning, Ethan Seltzer

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

The purpose for this paper: How can I engage students in thinking about climate change as a planning issue without glossing over or disregarding their growing skepticism about their own futures? This paper is not so much about how I teach, or how I could teach. Rather, it is more conceptual with respect to planning itself. More to the point: how does planning fit into this emerging, and dark, worldview? Planning, after all, is a discipline steeped in hope, and climate change seems to be bringing forth, at least for some, a palpable wave of despair. This is a direct …

Stevens V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39218

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, December 5, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

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The Effect Of A Three Set Tennis Match On Knee Kinematics And Leg Muscle Activation During The Tennis Serve, Brad Fenter

Health and Kinesiology Theses

Tennis matches can be long, physically challenging affairs. Matches are often determined by the serving proficiency of the players. The serve has been extensively studied, but the relationship between the serve and match length regarding knee kinematics and leg muscle activation is not well documented in a real time environment. The purpose of the current study was to determine the effect a three-set tennis match had on knee kinematics and muscle activation of quadriceps and hamstrings during the serve. Ten male collegiate tennis players (age: 19.6±1.7) were recruited from The University of Texas at Tyler. All participants played a three-set …

The Role Of Megalin In The Transport Of Aminoglycosides Across Human Placenta, Amal Akour

Theses and Dissertations

Background: Intra-amniotic infections (IAIs) are common complications of labor and delivery. If inadequately treated, these infections can lead to significant morbidity and mortality in the mother and the fetus. Intrapartum aminoglycoside (AG) administration is recommended for the management of IAIs. AGs are known to cross the placenta and achieve bactericidal concentrations in fetal serum. However, the highest and most persistent fetal levels are achieved in renal tissue. So, the fetus may be vulnerable to the nephrotoxic effects of AGs. Megalin, a 600 kDaendocytic receptor, is responsible for the uptake of AGs into renal proximal tubular epithelial cells. This receptor is …

Tuning Parameter Selection In L1 Regularized Logistic Regression, Shujing Shi

Theses and Dissertations

Variable selection is an important topic in regression analysis and is intended to select the best subset of predictors. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) was introduced by Tibshirani in 1996. This method can serve as a tool for variable selection because it shrinks some coefficients to exact zero by a constraint on the sum of absolute values of regression coefficients. For logistic regression, Lasso modifies the traditional parameter estimation method, maximum log likelihood, by adding the L1 norm of the parameters to the negative log likelihood function, so it turns a maximization problem into a minimization one. To …

State V. Gorringe Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39638

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Usa V. Alan Garrett

2012 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Paul Williams V. Thomas Sullivan

2012 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Newly Revealed Diversity Of Green Microalgae From Wilderness Areas Of Joshua Tree National Park (Jtnp), Valerie R. Flechtner, Nicole Pietrasiak, Louise A. Lewis

Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist

Documentation of the biodiversity of eukaryotic algae from desert systems is sparse. Our objective was to characterize microalgae from soil samples collected throughout Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA. Morphological, life-cycle, and DNA sequence data were collected for 100 microalgal isolates distributed over 18 sites in Joshua Tree National Park. Phylogenetic analysis of the 18S rDNA data separated the green algae into 15 major clades—10 in the class Chlorophyceae and 5 in the class Trebouxiophyceae—containing 2 or more lineages plus 9 lineages represented by a single isolate. Five isolates belonging to the class Xanthophyceae and 2 isolates belonging to Eustigmatophyceae …

The Influence Of Insurance Status On Access To And Utilization Of A Tertiary Hand Surgery Referral Center, Ryan P. Calfee, Chirag M. Shah, Colin D. Canham, Ambrose H.W. Wong, Richard H. Gelberman, Charles A. Goldfarb

Open Access Publications

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Educating Medical Students In Musculoskeletal Surgery And Medicine: How To Get A Course Up And Running At Your Institution: Aoa Critical Issues, Charles S. Day, Joseph Bernstein, Martin I. Boyer

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Factors Affecting Relationship Quality In African-American/Caucasian Bi-Racial Couples, Joriann Lynn Mcgrath

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the direct actor/partner effects of self-esteem, coming to terms, and relationship quality and the indirect effects of self-esteem on relationship quality when mediated by coming to terms. The sample included 160 interracial couples of which 69.4% were made up of an African-American male and a Caucasian female, while 30.6 were made up of an African-American female and a Caucasian male. These couples completed the RELATionship Evaluation (RELATE), a survey questionnaire. This study used three variables from the RELATE: self-esteem, coming to terms, and relationship quality. Results from Structural Equation Modeling indicated that self-esteem had a negative effect …

Service Learning: Engagement And Academic Achievement Of Second Language Acquisition Students In An Advanced Grammar Course While Participating In Service Learning Activities, Sara T. Ulloa

Theses and Dissertations

Service learning has been proposed as a way to create a meaningful environment for the language acquisition process (Weldon & Trautmann, 2003). As a pedagogical tool for second language acquisition the greatest benefit of utilizing service learning activities is that it creates connections to the target language community and provides authentic experiences for target language use (Long, 2003; Morris, 2001). However, there is no detailed record of how service learning actually impacts language and culture acquisition (Bloom, 2008). This multiple case study describes the ways in which four advanced Spanish learners engaged with service learning and the influence of this …

Ay 2012/2013 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2012-12-05, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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The Bg News December 5, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 5, 2012. Volume 103-Issue 46.

Do Exclusionary Rules Convict The Innocent?, Dhammika Dharmapala, Nuno Garoupa, Richard H. Mcadams

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Rules excluding various kinds of evidence from criminal trials play a prominent role in criminal procedure, and have generated considerable controversy. In this paper, we address the general topic of excluding factually relevant evidence, that is, the kind of evidence that would rationally influence the jury's verdict if it were admitted. We do not offer a comprehensive analysis of these exclusionary rules, but add to the existing literature by identifying a new domain for economic analysis, focusing on how juries respond to the existence of such a rule. We show that the impact of exclusionary rules on the likelihood of …

Model Development And Application Of Molecular Simulations For The Study Of Proton Transport In Bulk Water And For The Prediction Of Dipole Moments Of Organic Compounds, Abhishek Asthana

Theses and Dissertations

The present work demonstrates the application of molecular simulations (MD) in two different areas: proton transport in bulk water and estimation of the dipole moment of polar organic compounds. In both areas, relatively few successful and robust methodologies exist. In the first part, a new polarizable water model is developed for MD simulations of the proton transport process. The model was parametrized from a combination of quantum chemical calculations and experimental water properties. The model was implemented in MD simulation studies of liquid water at room temperature, as well as with excess protons. For pure water the model gave good …

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Predicting The Wear Of High Speed Rocket Sleds, Lauren B. Wuertemberger

Theses and Dissertations

Holloman Air Force Base houses the 10 mile long Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT) in New Mexico and can run hypersonic experiments at speeds up to 10,000m/s. Tested objects are loaded onto sleds, which are connected to the track by slippers that slide along the rails. The payload sled is propelled down the track by a series of rocket sleds. The ability to predict the wear that will occur on the slippers during these experiments is important for slipper design and preventing catastrophic failure. However, high speeds complicate wear prediction as there additional contributing factors, including inconsistent surface contact, …

Multiple Sclerosis Decreases Explicit Counterfactual Processing And Risk Taking In Decision Making, Samanta Simioni, Myriam Schluep, Nadège Bault, Giorgio Coricelli, Joerg Kleeberg, Pasquier Ra Du, Markus Gschwind, Patrik Vuilleumier, Jean Marie Annoni

School of Psychology

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Ctod: Collaborative Tree-Based Outlier Detection In Wireless Sensor Networks, Dylan Mcdonald, Sanjay Kumar Madria, Fikret Ercal, Ryan Birmingham, Thomas Lake

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Outlier detection is a well-studied problem in various fields. the unique challenges of wireless sensor networks such as limited bandwidth, memory, energy, and unreliable communication make this problem especially difficult. Sensors can detect outliers for a plethora of reasons and these reasons need to be inferred in real time. Here, we present a new robust communication framework for the unsupervised in network detection of outliers in a wireless sensor network. First, communication is minimized through an ad-hoc collaborative communication scheme which controls sensor behavior to increase overall visibility of individual streaming data sets. Second, an outlier detection algorithm is tailored …

Driving Sustainable Innovation: A Pioneer For The 21st Century, Verena Kloos

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

An interesting look into one of the premier automobile manufacturers and the design team behind its emergence as a force – not only in the development of new and more efficient vehicles – but in the application of these eco-centered guidelines to other consumer products as well. Verena Kloos provides a rare insight into the role of not just a female officer in an industry largely dominated by men, but of a leader committed to embracing change where demanded.

Progress Toward Zero: The Climb To Sustainability - Interview With Ray Anderson, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Overhauling a wasteful and polluting company takes insight, knowledge, commitment, and courage. In this quest to achieve total sustainability by producing its product with no carbon emissions or landfill matter, Interface is well on its way to its 2020 goals.

Sustainability And The Bottom Line: The Responsible Collusion Of Economics, Social Responsibility, And The Environment, Ray C. Anderson

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The Interface model has become the paradigm of sustainable manufacturing in a world where there is dwindling disagreement as to the debilitating effects of expanding landfills and increasing CO2 emissions, all of which adversely affect ecosystems and human health. In Mid-Course Correction, CEO Anderson examines the troubled past of Interface and its firm commitment to righting these wrongs while examining ways to actually begin a restorative process.

Letter From The Editor

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Annual Legal Update, Rachel Levinson Esq.

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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