Entire DC Network | Open Access Articles | Digital Commons Network™

International Environment Law, Andrew Schatz, Sara Vinson, David R. Downes, Stephanie Altman, Niranjali Amerasinghe, Derek Campbell, Joseph W. Dellapenna, Kristen Hite, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Erika Lennon, Erica Lyman, Thomas Parker Redick, R. Justin Smith

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Go to article

National Security Law, James Henry Bergeron, Phillip O'Neil, John Harrington, Cynthia Todgham Cherniak

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Sovereignty And Neutrality In Cyber Conflict, Eric Talbot Jensen

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Increased Water Current Induces Micro-Architectural Changes To The Vertebral Bone Of Juvenile Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss), Mag Owen, B Eynon, S Woodgate, Sj Davies, S Fox

School of Biomedical Sciences

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Underweight And Overweight Men Have Greater Exercise-Induced Dyspnoea Than Normal Weight Men, Mmf Subhan, Sa Ali, Ssi Bokhari, Mn Khan, Hr Ahmad

School of Biomedical Sciences

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Measuring Life Skills: Standardizing The Assessment Of Youth Development Indicators, Mat D. Duerden, Peter A. Witt, Mariela Fernandez, Marie Jolliff Bryant, Daniel Theriault

Faculty Publications

While the development of life skills (e.g., communication, problem solving, etc.) is a commonly targeted youth program outcome, the lack of standardized conceptualizations and instrumentation make it difficult to compare impacts across programs and develop validated best practices. In order to promote a more unified approach to life skill development, literature reviews were conducted for 10 life skill domains to identify common definitions and, if available, appropriate outcome measures. Data were then collected from an ethnically diverse sample (N = 758) of elementary, middle, and high school aged youth for the 10 identified instruments. Analyses were conducted to ascertain the …

Go to article

Antecedents Of Identity Development In A Structured Recreation Setting: A Qualitative Inquiry, Mat D. Duerden, Stacy Taniguchi, Mark Widmer

Faculty Publications

Identity research has focused primarily on outcomes associated with identity formation. Far less attention, however, has been given to understanding the facilitating contextual elements of this process. This qualitative study examined a context, a 2-week adventure recreation program for youth, quantitatively shown in previous research to have promoted identity development. The program took place in Idaho’s Salmon-Challis National Forest and involved rafting, backpacking, mountain biking, and a variety of other outdoor activities. Data were gathered from 23 female and 22 male participants, ages 11 to 15 (M = 13.2, SD = .89). Seven distinct categories emerged from the analysis related …

Go to article

Soft Strategic Information And Ipo Underpricing, James C. Brau, James Cicon, Grant Mcqueen

Faculty Publications

Using content analysis we measure the impact of soft information, derived from words in IPO registration documents, on IPO pricing efficiency. First, using 2,298 U.S. IPOs from 1996 to 2008, we find that an IPO document’s strategic tone correlates positively with the stock’s first-day return; more frequent usage of positive and/or less frequent usage of negative strategic words lead to more IPO underpricing. Second, we find that an IPO document’s strategic tone is negatively correlated with the stock’s long-run return. Together, these findings imply that investors initially misprice soft information in registration statements, which mispricing is eventually corrected. Additionally, we …

Go to article

The Effects Of Digital Intensity On Combinations Of Sequential And Configural Process Variety, James Gaskin, Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo, Brian Pentland

Faculty Publications

Two forms of variety have been noted in organizational processes: sequential and configural. These describe variations in how a work process is ordered (sequential) or what is involved in enacting each work activity (configural). Each has been mainly studied in isolation. In organizations, these two types of variety are always co-present and scholars will miss important insights if their dependencies and interactions are not examined. This calls for theorizing and empirical inquiries regarding how these two types of variety are related and how digitalization influences them. Our contribution in this paper is to call attention to the need to analyze …

Go to article

Relationship Between Reported Out-Of-Class English Use And Proficiency Gains In English, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Denisa K. Cundick, Norman Evans, Lynn Henrichsen, Dan Dewey

Faculty Publications

This study investigated the relationship between out-of-class L2 use and proficiency gains in learners of English as a second language (ESL) in an intensive English language program. In contrast to previous studies on this topic, which have found weak, non-existent or even inverse relationships between outof- class language experience and L2 proficiency gains, this study took place over a longer period of time (31 weeks), involved a larger number of participants (61 ESL learners from 12 different language backgrounds at four proficiency levels), and found a statistically significant connection between out-ofclass language use and proficiency gains. Participants took a proficiency …

Go to article

Null Convention Logic Applications Of Asynchronous Design In Nanotechnology And Cryptographic Security, Jun Wu

Doctoral Dissertations

"This dissertation presents two Null Convention Logic (NCL) applications of asynchronous logic circuit design in nanotechnology and cryptographic security. The first application is the Asynchronous Nanowire Reconfigurable Crossbar Architecture (ANRCA); the second one is an asynchronous S-Box design for cryptographic system against Side-Channel Attacks (SCA). The following are the contributions of the first application: 1) Proposed a diode- and resistor-based ANRCA (DR-ANRCA). Three configurable logic block (CLB) structures were designed to efficiently reconfigure a given DR-PGMB as one of the 27 arbitrary NCL threshold gates. A hierarchical architecture was also proposed to implement the higher level logic that requires a …

Go to article

Extent Of Liver Inflammation In Predicting Response To Interferon Alpha & Ribavirin In Chronic Hepatitis C Patients: A Cohort Study, Shirin Mirza, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Saeed Hamid, Muhammad Umar, Shaheena Bashir

Community Health Sciences

Background: Liver inflammation due to HCV infection leads to fibrosis, which is an independent predictor of treatment response to interferon therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C (CHC) patients. This relationship has not been studied for liver inflammation on pretreatment liver biopsy and End of Treatment Response (ETR). ALT is a less invasive test than liver biopsy for measuring liver inflammation. Aim of this study was to compare ETR to Interferon alpha (recombinant Interferon) & Ribavirin in CHC patients having higher and lower grades of liver inflammation and to determine the diagnostic accuracy of pretreatment ALT for grades of liver inflammation.Methods: A …

Go to article

Perceptions And Experiences Of Women In Karachi, Pakistan Regarding Secondary Infertility: Results From A Community-Based Qualitative Study, Neelofar Sami, Tazeen S. Ali

Community Health Sciences

Background: The prevalence of infertility in Pakistan is 22% with primary infertility at 4% and secondary infertility at 18%. This study explored perceptions and experiences of women in Karachi, Pakistan regarding the causes, treatment-seeking behavior for and consequences of secondary infertility.
Methods: Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with married women explored their perceptions and experiences for issues related to secondary infertility.
Results: The knowledge of women about the causes and scientific treatment options for infertility was limited resulting in inclination for traditional unsafe health care. Infertility was stated to result in marital instability, stigmatization and abuse specially for women …

Go to article

A Review Of National Msw Generation Assessments In The United States, David J. Tonjes, Krista L. Greene

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is generated in very large quantities (probably, between 200 and 400 million tonnes per year) in the United States (US). MSW is generated at millions of places and there is no one precise, general definition for MSW that is generally applied, despite US Environmental Protection Agency efforts. As an element of both commerce and politics, reporting may be framed towards particular ends. Therefore, the two best known assessments of the quantity of US MSW production differ by approximately 50%. The assessors understand some of the reasons for the differences, but our analysis suggests that there are …

Go to article

Using Automatic Speech Recognition Technology With Elicited Oral Response Testing, Troy L. Cox, Randall S. Davies

Faculty Publications

This study examined the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) scored elicited oral response (EOR) tests to assess the speaking ability of English language learners. It also examined the relationship between ASR-scored EOR and other language proficiency measures and the ability of the ASR to rate speakers without bias to gender or native language. To that end, 179 subjects were given an ASR-scored EOR test with 60 items, followed by an oral proficiency interview (OPI) type assessment and a battery of other language tests. Findings suggest that ASR-scored EOR results could be used alone to predict speaking ability in specific …

Go to article

Item Development And Scoring For Japanese Oral Proficiency Testing, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Hitokazu Matsushita

Faculty Publications

This study introduces and evaluates a computerized approach to measuring Japanese L2 oral proficiency. We present a testing and scoring method that uses a type of structured speech called elicited imitation (EI) to evaluate accuracy of speech productions. Several types of language resources and toolkits are required to develop, administer, and score responses to this test. First, we present a corpus-based test item creation method to produce EI items with targeted linguistic features in a principled and efficient manner. Second, we sketch how we are able to bootstrap a small learner speech corpus to generate a significantly large corpus of …

Go to article

[Undergraduate Bulletin, 2012, Fall]., College Of Arts And Sciences, University Communications

Undergraduate Course Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Storytelling For Lawyers, Jonathan K. Van Patten

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Introduction To Symposium Issue - Government Speech: An Introduction To A Constitutional Dialogue, David S. Day

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Plugging The Drain: Using Northwest Environmental Defense Center V. Brown To Reach Other Point Source Discharges Under The Clean Water Act, Steven T. Iverson

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Edison State College General Catalog 2011-2012, Edison State College

FSW Course Catalogs

Edison State College General Catalog Volume Fifty. 2011-2012. Scanned by Internet Archive.

Go to article

An Investigative Study Of Contract Administration Practices Of General Contractors On Federal And State Dot Projects., George Okechukwu Okere

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Department of transportation (DOT) projects in the U.S. are plagued by issues resulting from poor contract administration performance. Literature reveals that there are unanswered questions related to contract administration practices and performance. Some of the most pronounced issues include construction disputes and litigation, failure rate of contractors, contractor misconduct and false claims, and the ability to staff projects properly. This study investigated the relationship between contract administration practices and contract administration performance of general contractors on federal and state DOT projects in the U.S. The overall research question addressed in this study was: "Is there a relationship between contract administration …

Go to article

A Study In The Difference Of Warranty Failures Of Common Platform Different Brand Name Dishwashing Appliances, Nathan Baker

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There is a significant resource cost in the development of products. To minimize the resource cost and maximize the return on investment many companies develop several new products from one common platform. Common platforms spread across several separate brands. Different branding has different customers that have different perceptions of quality. Customers view quality as a mix of utility and reliability, and expect high reliability during the warranty period. It is often assumed by the developer the quality cost will be equal among each brand. Using the warranty data of a common platform dishwashing appliance the hypothesis was derived there is …

Go to article

Sea Smoke, Carolyn Rankin

Theses

"Sea Smoke" is a feature-length screenplay that tells the story of Nilly Hayworth, a successful advertising executive living and working in mid-coast Maine. Nilly is married to Hank Hayworth, a lawyer, and they have a son, Jasper, who has just finished law school. Nilly's father is William "Bill" J. Pixley. She has a brother named William "Butch" Pixley Jr., who is married to Holly Pixley, pregnant with their first child. Nilly has accommodated to her father's strong preference for his son , her brother. She has also adjusted to and forgiven Hank for past affairs. Nilly is offered a position …

Go to article

Deep Learning Using Genetic Algorithms, Joshua Lamos-Sweeney

Theses

Deep Learning networks are a new type of neural network that discovers important object features. These networks determine features without supervision, and are adept at learning high level abstractions about their data sets. These networks are useful for a variety of tasks, but are difficult to train. This difficulty is compounded when multiple networks are trained in a layered fashion, which results in increased solution complexity as well as increased training time. This paper examines the use of Genetic Algorithms as a training mechanism for Deep Learning networks, with emphasis on training networks with a large number of layers, each …

Go to article

‘Un Healthy Tableware Design, Wei-Mei Chiang

Theses

Design one set of healthy tableware that brings users: one healthy pleasant serene dining; one happy pleasurable healthy diet. This MFA thesis design reason was out of my passion for tableware/housewares design and personal experiences of both surfeit and anorexia problems, although balanced healthy diet was also my experience. Moreover, it was also my researches and observations of modern diet problems that happen often. Therefore, my thesis goal was to design one set of tableware which can promote healthy and happy diet, generate peaceful and pleasurable dining atmosphere, and be helpful for users to move from unhealthy dining habits to …

Go to article

The Hospital’S Role Within A Regional Disaster Response: A Comparison Study Of An Urban Hospital Versus A Rural Hospital, Ali Alshehri

Theses

The goal of this research is to evaluate the hospital's role in a regional disaster response. It focuses on identifying the level of the hospital's preparedness and its response to disasters and includes a comparison study between an urban and a rural hospital in New York state. The findings of this work show some differences between the urban and rural hospitals in terms of their capabilities and available resources and the effect of the community infrastructures on their preparedness. Both hospitals have similarities in the way participants view the hospital's role during a regional disaster response. It is noted that …

Go to article

Remote Sensing Of Tanzanian Volcano Oldoinyo Lengai: Verifying Detection Methods Of Flow Activity, Scott Richard Frystak

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Every day volcanoes erupt with varying magnitudes across the globe, and remote sensing used to keep track of volcanic activity would be a useful application. One promising use of remote sensing to understand volcanoes at a distance is to distinguish gaseous or lava flow activity. Current methods for differentiating volcanic activity with remote sensing have only been applied at Mt. Etna, and research is still needed to verify that the detection of gaseous or lava flow activity is possible at volcanoes with different compositions. The subject of this study, the Oldoinyo Lengai volcano, is a natrocarbonatite stratovolcano with drastically different …

Go to article

Applying Geophysics And Geochemistry To Understand Middle Woodland Site Spatial Organization At The Northwood Site, Vigo County, Indiana, Tiffany Grossman

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Northwood site (12Vi194) in northern Vigo County is attributed to the Late Middle Woodland culture known as Allison-LaMotte. Previous studies at other Allison-LaMotte sites are inconclusive regarding the village structure of this culture. While some studies identify a habitation zone surrounding a circular plaza, other Allison-LaMotte sites lack an observable spatial layout to the site. Magnetometry studies completed at the Northwood site in 2005 reveal a possible semi-circular community pattern with a central plaza. This study employed the 2005 magnetometer survey data, magnetic susceptibility, ground penetrating radar (GPR), and geochemical analyses to confirm the hypothesized site organization. Magnetic data …

Go to article

Traitorous Texting: Addressing The Methodological Issue Of Arousal In Romantic Jealousy Research, Rachel Elizabeth Rasley

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many psychological studies have focused on jealousy in romantic relationships, often from the evolutionary view that men should be more distressed by sexual infidelity and women by emotional infidelity. One criticism of this research is that in studies using physiological methods, arousal is reported as indicating distress, when the arousal is actually ambiguous. The present study investigates the influence of arousal on reported jealousy by manipulating arousal itself. Two groups of participants were overwhelmed with non-sexual arousal (exercise) before completing infidelity manipulations; the other group completed the manipulations without exercising. All participants read cell phone text messages suggesting either emotional …

Go to article

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

International Environment Law, Andrew Schatz, Sara Vinson, David R. Downes, Stephanie Altman, Niranjali Amerasinghe, Derek Campbell, Joseph W. Dellapenna, Kristen Hite, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Erika Lennon, Erica Lyman, Thomas Parker Redick, R. Justin Smith

The International Lawyer

National Security Law, James Henry Bergeron, Phillip O'Neil, John Harrington, Cynthia Todgham Cherniak

The International Lawyer

Sovereignty And Neutrality In Cyber Conflict, Eric Talbot Jensen

Fordham International Law Journal

Increased Water Current Induces Micro-Architectural Changes To The Vertebral Bone Of Juvenile Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss), Mag Owen, B Eynon, S Woodgate, Sj Davies, S Fox

School of Biomedical Sciences

Underweight And Overweight Men Have Greater Exercise-Induced Dyspnoea Than Normal Weight Men, Mmf Subhan, Sa Ali, Ssi Bokhari, Mn Khan, Hr Ahmad

School of Biomedical Sciences

Measuring Life Skills: Standardizing The Assessment Of Youth Development Indicators, Mat D. Duerden, Peter A. Witt, Mariela Fernandez, Marie Jolliff Bryant, Daniel Theriault

Faculty Publications

Antecedents Of Identity Development In A Structured Recreation Setting: A Qualitative Inquiry, Mat D. Duerden, Stacy Taniguchi, Mark Widmer

Faculty Publications

Soft Strategic Information And Ipo Underpricing, James C. Brau, James Cicon, Grant Mcqueen

Faculty Publications

The Effects Of Digital Intensity On Combinations Of Sequential And Configural Process Variety, James Gaskin, Kalle Lyytinen, Youngjin Yoo, Brian Pentland

Faculty Publications

Relationship Between Reported Out-Of-Class English Use And Proficiency Gains In English, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Denisa K. Cundick, Norman Evans, Lynn Henrichsen, Dan Dewey

Faculty Publications

Null Convention Logic Applications Of Asynchronous Design In Nanotechnology And Cryptographic Security, Jun Wu

Doctoral Dissertations

Extent Of Liver Inflammation In Predicting Response To Interferon Alpha & Ribavirin In Chronic Hepatitis C Patients: A Cohort Study, Shirin Mirza, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Saeed Hamid, Muhammad Umar, Shaheena Bashir

Community Health Sciences

Perceptions And Experiences Of Women In Karachi, Pakistan Regarding Secondary Infertility: Results From A Community-Based Qualitative Study, Neelofar Sami, Tazeen S. Ali

Community Health Sciences

A Review Of National Msw Generation Assessments In The United States, David J. Tonjes, Krista L. Greene

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Using Automatic Speech Recognition Technology With Elicited Oral Response Testing, Troy L. Cox, Randall S. Davies

Faculty Publications

Item Development And Scoring For Japanese Oral Proficiency Testing, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Hitokazu Matsushita

Faculty Publications

[Undergraduate Bulletin, 2012, Fall]., College Of Arts And Sciences, University Communications

Undergraduate Course Bulletins

Storytelling For Lawyers, Jonathan K. Van Patten

South Dakota Law Review

Introduction To Symposium Issue - Government Speech: An Introduction To A Constitutional Dialogue, David S. Day

South Dakota Law Review

Plugging The Drain: Using Northwest Environmental Defense Center V. Brown To Reach Other Point Source Discharges Under The Clean Water Act, Steven T. Iverson

South Dakota Law Review

Edison State College General Catalog 2011-2012, Edison State College

FSW Course Catalogs

An Investigative Study Of Contract Administration Practices Of General Contractors On Federal And State Dot Projects., George Okechukwu Okere

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Study In The Difference Of Warranty Failures Of Common Platform Different Brand Name Dishwashing Appliances, Nathan Baker

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sea Smoke, Carolyn Rankin

Theses

Deep Learning Using Genetic Algorithms, Joshua Lamos-Sweeney

Theses

‘Un Healthy Tableware Design, Wei-Mei Chiang

Theses

The Hospital’S Role Within A Regional Disaster Response: A Comparison Study Of An Urban Hospital Versus A Rural Hospital, Ali Alshehri

Theses

Remote Sensing Of Tanzanian Volcano Oldoinyo Lengai: Verifying Detection Methods Of Flow Activity, Scott Richard Frystak

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Applying Geophysics And Geochemistry To Understand Middle Woodland Site Spatial Organization At The Northwood Site, Vigo County, Indiana, Tiffany Grossman

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Traitorous Texting: Addressing The Methodological Issue Of Arousal In Romantic Jealousy Research, Rachel Elizabeth Rasley

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations