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The Challenges Of Integrating Criminology: A Commentary On Agnew’S Toward A Unified Criminology, Henry Stuart

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

The Perversion Of Criminology, Robinson Matthew

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Toward A Unified Criminology: Integrating Assumptions About Crime, People, And Society: A Commentary, Avi Brisman

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Factors That May Have Predictive Effects On The American College Test, Beth Stewart

College of Education Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if any predictive effects exist between lunch status, grade point average, Arkansas state mandated accountability exams, and academic achievement measured by the ACT. Although literature supported the predictive effects of grade point average and lunch status on ACT, there was inadequate data to determine which predictor played a more significant role.

A quantitative, regression strategy was used to analyze students’ academic achievement in four southwest Arkansas schools, all belonging to the same educational cooperative. All students in these districts who had taken the ACT during the school years of 2006-2010 and took …

Old Dominion University Climate Change And Sea Level Rise Initiative, Summer 2012, Larry P. Atkinson (Editor)

CCSLRI Newsletters

Summer 2012 Newsletter of the Old Dominion University Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Intiative

On Point 2012 Summer, Longwood University

Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Joint Force Quarterly 66 (3rd Quarter, July 2012), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

No abstract provided.

"Re-Redefining" International Securing: Bringing Intent Back In, Nicholas D. Anderson

Josef Korbel Journal of Advanced International Studies

The tectonic geopolitical shifts that have taken place since the end of the Cold War have led many to put forth a need to rethink and revise the concept of international security. The traditional definition, they assert, is no longer sufficient in the face of the modern era’s most pressing security issues and threats. What are and will be the distinguishing features of international security problems? What should be considered an international security issue, and what should not? How can “international security” or “international security issue” be defined to allow academics and policymakers to most capably think about and deal …

A Nanostructured Fabry-Perot Interferometer For Label-Free Biodetection, Tianhua Zhang

Doctoral Dissertations

A polymer nanostructured Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) based biosensor has been developed, fabricated, and tested. Different from a conventional FPI, this nanostructured FPI has a layer of Au-coated nanopores inside its cavity. The Au-coated nanostructure layer offers significant enhancement of optical transducing signals due to the localized surface Plasmon resonance (L-SPR) effect. Compared to a traditional FPI for label-free biosensing applications, the polymer nanostructured FPI based biosensor offers increased sensing surface area, extended penetration depth of the excitation light, and amplification of optical transducing signals. Using a nanostructured FPI, measurements taken had great improvements in free spectral range (FSR), finesse, and …

Proposed Dsm-5 Personality Traits And Substance Use: A Multi-Faceted Study, W. Reese Mayer

Doctoral Dissertations

In this study, the Brief Assessment of Traits – 37 (BAT37) was developed to measure the presence of the personality traits initially proposed for inclusion in the personality disorders section of the DSM-5. The structure of the measure was supported by the results of a pilot study and its construct validity was supported by correlations with theoretically-related scales from the PAI, DAPP-BQ, and HEXACO-PI-R. The BAT37 was administered to a sample of undergraduate college students and clients at a residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment facility.

Several of this study's findings are relevant to the proposed changes to the personality …

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Summer 2012, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

Uni Today, V95n2 [V96n2], Summer 2012, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

UNI Today

Inside This Issue:
-- Professors you loved
-- The Traditions Challenge
-- Catwalk to the Big Top
-- Rally in the Valley
-- Sir, yes, sir
-- A front row seat to the Arctic Winter Games
-- UNI Softball - on the rise
-- UNI I am living the legacy
-- 50 years in Russell Hall
-- Northern Iowa Energy Corps
-- Living alone vs. living lonely
-- Class Notes
-- Calendar of alumni events

Transient Hypercapnia Reveals An Underlying Cerebrovascular Pathology In A Murine Model For Hiv-1 Associated Neuroinflammation: Role Of No-Cgmp Signaling And Normalization By Inhibition Of Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase-5, Jharon Silva, Oksana Polesskaya, Walter Knight, Johnny Ting Zheng, Megan Granger, Tenée Lopez, Fernando Ontiveros, Changyong Feng, Chen Yan, Karl A. Kasischke, Stephen Dewhurst

Biology Faculty/Staff Publications

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is known to be dysregulated in persons with human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1), for uncertain reasons. This is an important issue because impaired vasoreactivity has been associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke, elevated overall cardiovascular risk and cognitive impairment.

Person-Specific Changes In Motor Performance Accompany Upper Extremity Functional Gains After Stroke, Stacey L. Dejong, Rebecca L. Birkenmeier, Catherine E. Lang

Physical Therapy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Understanding How The Platinum Anticancer Drug Carboplatin Works: From The Bottle To The Cell, Anthony J. Di Pasqua, Jerry Goodisman, James C. Dabrowiak

Chemistry - All Scholarship

Carboplatin, a platinum anticancer drug used to treat many types of human cancer, contains a bidentate dicarboxylate chelate leaving ligand, a structural feature that makes it much less chemically reactive than the first-generation platinum anticancer drug cisplatin, which contains two monodentate chloride leaving ligands. In water, carboplatin exists in a monomer-dimer equilibrium with an association constant of K (M ^-1) ≈ 391, a property that accounts for the long-term stability of its ready-to-use infusion solution. When administered in the clinic, carboplatin is believed to exert its biological effects by interacting with genomic DNA and proteins. The slower substitution kinetics …

Understanding How The Platinum Anticancer Drug Carboplatin Works: From The Bottle To The Cell, Jerry Goodisman, James C. Dabrowiak, Anthony J. Di Pasqua

Chemistry - All Scholarship

Carboplatin, a platinum anticancer drug used to treat many types of human cancer, contains a bidentate dicarboxylate chelate leaving ligand, a structural feature that makes it much less chemically reactive than the first-generation platinum anticancer drug cisplatin, which contains two monodentate chloride leaving ligands. In water, carboplatin exists in a monomer–dimer equilibrium with an association constant of K (M⁻¹) ≈ 391, a property that accounts for the long-term stability of its ready-to-use infusion solution. When administered in the clinic, carboplatin is believed to exert its biological effects by interacting with genomic DNA and proteins. The slower substitution kinetics …

Use Of Integrated Models To Minimize The Impact Of Urban Wastewater Systems On A Mediterranean Stream, P. Prat, Corominas Ll, Lorenzo Benedetti, Joaquim Comas

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In some regions, like in the Mediterranean area, streams are characterized by harsh hydrological fluctuations, with very low flow rates in summer and high in autumn. During low river flow conditions, wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) discharges contribute significantly to the total river flow and hence their impact is higher. The objective of this paper is to find solutions to confront this typical problematic situation by means of integrated modelling. The benefits of modelling the whole urban wastewater system (UWS) to evaluate multiple operational strategies are shown. The model includes two sewer systems, two WWTPs, a connection channel between the two …

Eco Evidence Database: A Distributed Modelling Resource For Systematic Literature Analysis In Environmental Science And Management, J. Angus Webb, Siobhan C. De Little, Kimberly A. Miller, Michael J. Stewardson

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Balancing the needs of the environment with human uses of natural ecosystems relies on understanding causal relationships between environmental stressors and ecological responses. Causal relationships are difficult to demonstrate in natural environments due to environmental heterogeneity, lack of replication, and confounding influences. Published scientific literature is a currently under-used source of evidence for such analyses. We describe the Eco Evidence Database – a web database application for storing and sharing the atomized findings of research studies from the literature. This ‘evidence’ can then be used in synthesis studies to test cause-effect hypotheses. The database provides a permanent, machine-independent repository for …

Modelling Multi-Pollutant Fate In A Large River: Role Of Hydro-Morphological And Physicochemical Parameters, Cyril Garneau, Sabine Sauvage, José-Miguel Sanchez-Perez, Yi Hong, Dominique Aubert, Anne Probst

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

European rivers are facing multiple sources of pollution, including metals, pesticides and nutrients. To understand the factors controlling their transport, modelling can be used to predict their fate. Usually, however, only one class of components is considered, often neglecting inner interactions. This paper proposes a methodological approach towards understanding the main processes describing the fate of trace pollutants interacting with hydrological processes and suspended solids. The model is evaluated in the middle course of the Garonne River in France and developed in three stages, each integrating a new type of process. The first describes the hydromorphology of the sector studied …

New Developments In The Anuclim Bioclimatic Modelling Package, Tingbao Xu, Michael F. Hutchinson

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

ANUCLIM (Xu and Hutchinson, 2011) is a software package used to support the spatial modelling of environmental and natural resources. It enables users to readily obtain estimates, in point and grid form, of monthly, seasonal and annual mean climate variables from supplied elevation dependent monthly mean climate surfaces and an underlying digital elevation model. The climate surfaces are derived by the ANUSPLIN package (Hutchinson, 2004) and support interrogation at sub-kilometre scale. A key strength of the ANUCLIM package is its ability to generate bioclimatic profiles from known species locations to predict and map species distributions, in both current and projected …

Evaluating The Impacts Of Redd+ Interventions On Livelihoods, Social Equity And Effectiveness, Robin Matthews, Innocent Bakam, George Dyer

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Globally, deforestation and forest and peatland degradation account for around 15% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) could be a cost-effective way of reducing this figure. Discussion on REDD+ has focused largely on the institutional architectures required to channel international finance streams to individual countries, neglecting how these funds will be used at the national level to encourage behavioural change. For REDD+ to work, benefits must flow through a long chain of actors, from national, regional and local governments, industries and businesses, to farmer groups and indigenous communities. The factors influencing decision-making at …

Global Sensitivity Analysis For The Flow Components Of A Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Model, Carolina Massmann, Hubert Holzmann

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper deals with a conceptual rainfall-runoff model in which thetotal flow is obtained as the sum of the flow of individual flow components, such assurface flow, interflow and groundwater flow. In contrast to classical sensitivityanalyses, where the sensitivity of the total flow to each parameter is analysed, weshow here the results of variance and sensitivity analyses carried out for each flowcomponent. It was observed that the variance for the total flow spans a range offour orders of magnitude. A comparison with the variances of each flow componentallows identifying the process with the highest variance at each time step, whichcan …

An Index For Evaluating Biodiversity Protection Parity, G. A. Alexandrov

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Since destruction of natural ecosystems can endanger many species simultaneously, the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011- 2020 set a target for the share of protected areas. They should cover 17% of land area. There are, however, some concerns about the use of uniform regional targets as the basis for biodiversity protection strategies. This paper is to propose an index that could express socio-ecological disparities between regions and serve as a basis for setting up equitable differentiated regional targets.

Dairy Farming And Newt Habitat: How Shocks In Milk Prices Influence The Optimal Design Of Water Retention Policies, Anouk Cormont, Jappe Franke, Tom Kuhlman, Nico Polman, Marleen Schouten, Astrid Van Teeffelen, Tim Verwaart, Eugène Westerhof

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Floods and droughts are expected to occur more frequently due to climate change. Regional water boards in the Netherlands are anticipating water level variations in streams in rural areas. To moderate adverse effects of those variations, they seek for opportunities to enhance retention of rainfall runoff on agricultural land in the stream valleys. This can be done by contracting farmers to apply agri-environmental measures. We focus on this small-scale and flexible (in space and time) rainfall runoff retention by farmers. Farmers can decide to (temporarily) allocate parts of their land to apply agri-environmental measures, depending on shocks of various nature, …

Ecological Flow Analysis Of Network Collapse Ii: Indicators Of Ecosystem Level Vulnerability, Elena Rovenskaya, Victoria Veschinskaya, Brian D. Fath, Ulf Dieckmann, Ake Brannström

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Using donor-controlled, bottom-up equations to describe network collapse we systematically investigate the impact each species has on the survival or extinction of other species. Short of extinction, one can determine the integrated losses experienced by the ecosystem. These losses are aggregated into system level indicators, such as entropy, average gain/loss, average time to extinction, etc. The methodology is applied to 18 ecological flow networks available in the literature. We calculate the correlations between various indicators and determine high positive correlation between: number of nodes & maximal trophic level; connectedness & average entropy losses; number of nodes & average number of …

Integrating Openmi And Uncertweb: Managing Uncertainty In Openmi Models, Tushar Gupta, Richard Jones, Lucy Bastin, Dan Cornford

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

OpenMI is a widely used standard allowing exchange of data between integrated models, which has mostly been applied to dynamic, deterministic models. Within the FP7 UncertWeb project we are developing mechanisms and tools to support the management of uncertainty in environmental models. In this paper we explore the integration of the UncertWeb framework with OpenMI, to assess the issues that arise when propagating uncertainty in OpenMI model compositions, and the degree of integration possible with UncertWeb tools. In particular we develop an uncertainty-enabled model for a simple Lotka-Volterra system with an interface conforming to the OpenMI standard, exploring uncertainty in …

A Tool For Optimum Design Of Wwtps Under Uncertainty: Estimating The Probability Of Compliance, Cristina Martin, Marc B. Neumann, Josep Altimir, Peter A. Vanrolleghem

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper presents a prototype tool for design of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs). It is a model-based approach that explicitly accounts for both temporal variability and uncertainty. It evaluates a set of WWTP designs for a predefined configuration and estimates the probability of compliance (POC) given some sources of uncertainty. The proposed tool uses two nested loops: the outer loop tests different scenarios looking for the optimal combination of the design variables; the inner loop uses a Monte Carlo simulation propagating the uncertain model inputs to obtain the POC. The Benchmark Simulation Model no.1 was used as basic plant configuration. …

Automatic Modelling And Continuous Map Generation From Georeferenced Species Census Data In An Interoperable Gis Environment, Lluís Pesquer, Ester Prat, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Joan Masó

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The Natural Processes Monitoring Team from the Doñana Biological Station (EBD), systematically acquires data on more than 100 indicators of ecological processes and the status of many fauna and flora species in Doñana National Park, one of the most important protected wetlands in Europe, covering 54000 Ha. This information is available on a website as tabular data and trend charts. A detailed analysis is necessary in order to interpret this information and provide decision-making criteria for the management of the natural area. The purpose of this paper is to improve public access to the information collected in the monitoring program …

Application Of Cfd Methods To The Upgrading Of A Contact Tank, C. Gualtieri

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The paper presents the results of a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study undertaken to upgrading the hydraulic efficiency of the contact tank of the wastewater treatment plant of Nola-Marigliano, near Napoli. First numerical simulations were performed to compare the hydraulic performances of two existing operating schemes (A and B). The results pointed out the presence of recirculation areas near the baffles and the corners of the tank. Second some different changes were proposed for scheme A, which has shown the best performances, to reduce dead-zones inside the tank. Hence, further numerical simulations pointed out that the introduction of a grid …

Monitoring The Performance Of Soft Sensors Used In Wwtps By Means Of Formal Verification, L. Luccarini, D. Pulcini, D. Sottara, S. Bragaglia, P. Mello

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In Waste-Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) automation, “soft” sensors might beused in conjunction with “hard” sensors to improve the reliability of the measurements, oreven to replace the latter when they would be too expensive or difficult to maintain. Unfortunately,many soft sensors are created using black-box data mining techniques suchas neural networks or Bayesian networks. These algorithms approximate the relationbetween simpler, more easily available data and the desired “sensed” quantity. However,they are usually dependent on the training data and cannot always generalise correctlywhen processing completely different inputs. Like their hardware counterparts, then, softsensors may have input validity ranges. Moreover, they may be …