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The Design And Creation Of A Portable Water Purification System, Adam Shull

Honors Theses

A portable, low-power water purification system was developed for use by aid workers in underdeveloped world regions. The design included activated carbon and ceramic candle filtration to 0.2 microns for bacteria and turbidity reduction followed by UV irradiation for virus destruction. Flexibility and modularity were incorporated into the system with AC, DC, and environmental power supply options as well as the facility to purify water from either surface or local utility sources. Initial prototype testing indicated the successful filtration of methylene blue dye to well above the 75% UV transmittance level required for virus destruction by the UV reactor.

Authored Portraits, Jason Lemon

Honors Theses

Richard Avedon's technique of portraiture has come to be known as "authored portraits." The intent behind every portrait Avedon created was to capture something different about the subject from how they normally portrayed themselves, something more intimate. My project follows in the footsteps of his techniques while adding ideas taken from the work of another photographer, Taryn Simon. Simon's work is always done in a series centered on a specific concept. She then combines each image with a brief explanatory text. My final exhibition of images will consist of a series of portraits of interracial couples paired with brief biographical …

User Involvement In Mental Health Nurse Education: A Study Of The Effect On The Interpersonal Skills Of Student Nurses, Jonathan Perry

School of Nursing and Midwifery Theses

This study makes an original contribution to the evidence base for service user involvement in the teaching of interpersonal skills. The study is a synthesis of three different types of research activity. Firstly a systematic review which reviews the evidence base for service user involvement in interpersonal skills teaching. This review used inclusion criteria that restricted its scope to research that included elements that used outcomes, either qualitative or quantitative related to mental health service users involvement in teaching interpersonal skills. Four quantitative and eight qualitative studies met the criteria for inclusion. All the quantitative studies were methodologically weak. Qualitative …

The Emerging Church—Part 3: Evangelical Evaluations, Fernando L. Canale

Faculty Publications

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The Emerging Church - Part 4: Levels Of Change, Fernando Canale

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Editorial, Bruce L. Bauer

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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The Rise Of The New Apostolic Reformation And Its Implication For Adventist Eschatology, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

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Ellen G. White’S Life Of Christ: An Episode In The History Of Early Adventist Translation Work, Denis Kaiser

Faculty Publications

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The Reception Of Ellen G. White's Trinitarian Statements By Her Contemporaries, 1897-1915, Denis Kaiser

Faculty Publications

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[Book Review Of] Calvinismus In Seiner Vielfalt: Die Bedeutung Des Reformators Für Die Evangelische Christenheit, By Reiner Zimmermann, Denis Kaiser

Faculty Publications

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[Book Review Of] Parochialism, Pluralism, And Contextualization: Challenges To Adventist Mission In Europe (19th – 21st Centuries), Edited By David J. B. Trim And Daniel Heinz, Denis Kaiser

Faculty Publications

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Toward A Holistic Interdisciplinary Model Of Human Being: A Hebraic-Christian Perspective Of The Human Observer And Its Beneficial Impact On The Theology-And-Science Dialogue, Society, And The Environment, Karen K. Abrahamson

Dissertations

Problem

A challenge faced by the theology-and-science dialogue is how to effectively communicate across disciplinary lines. The community assumes that there is a methodology or cluster of methodologies that allows for interdisciplinary conversation to take place. However, the community is not in agreement about how this process should occur or the hermeneutical principles that should guide it. Is it possible to surmount the problem of methodological compatibility and to generate mutually beneficial and fruitful dialogue through seeking a point of commonality between all the disciplines of the theology-and-science dialogue?

Purpose

The purpose of this dissertation is to discover a philosophical …

Christianity With Chinese Characteristics: The Origins And Evolution Of Adventist Mission In A Chinese Province, Trevor O'Reggio, Jomo R. Smith

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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Introduction To Missiological Research Design / Edgar J. Elliston [Book Review], Boubakar Sanou, Gyeongchun Choi

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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A Sailor Looks At Leadership [Review] / Deering, Randy, Garth Woodruff

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

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Temporal Dynamics Of Galapagos Marine Iguna (Amblyhynchus Cristatus) Haulout, Brianna Gale Payne

Master's Theses

Galápagos marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) briefly forage in marine habitats but spend their remaining time hauled out on land. A wide range of diurnal activities, from social and thermoregulatory behaviors to sleep and food processing, occurs during haulout. To understand the dynamics of haulout and foraging in relation to environmental factors, I fit compartmental models derived from ordinary differential equations to field data collected daily from 30 April to 16 May 2011 at two sites—one Sandy and one Rocky—at Cabo Douglas, Isla Fernandina. The best model for haulout at the Sandy site accounts for 77–80% of observed variability and includes …

Auditing's Ripple Effect: Divergence After Enron, Kelley Wolff

Honors Theses

The Enron scandal received considerable attention over the past 10 years (2001-2011), and the fallout from Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia were severe. Both auditors and accountants lost the trust of the government and the public. This caused the government to intervene by enacting the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and creating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to oversee the audits of public companies. This study will examine how the differences in perspectives amongst gender, as well as public and GCAS auditors, factors into personal opinions by admistering a research survey and studying literature surrounding the Enron scandal.

Spectroscopy And Dynamics Of The Predissociated, Quasi-Linear S2 State Of Chlorocarbene, Chong Tao, Craig A. Richmond, Calvin Mukarakate, S. H. Kable, Eric C. Brown, Richard Dawes, Phalgun Lolur, Scott A. Reid

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

In this work, we report on the spectroscopy and dynamics of the quasi-linear S₂ state of chlorocarbene, CHCl, and its deuterated isotopologue using optical-optical double resonance (OODR) spectroscopy through selected rovibronic levels of the S₁ state. This study, which represents the first observation of the S₂ state in CHCl, builds upon our recent examination of the corresponding state in CHF, where pronounced mode specificity was observed in the dynamics, with predissociation rates larger for levels containing bending excitation. In the present work, a total of 14 S₂ state vibrational levels with angular momentum ℓ = 1 …

Potential Energy And Dipole Moment Surfaces Of Hco- For The Search Of H- In The Interstellar Medium, M. Ayouz, I. Mikhailov, Dmitri Babikov, M. Raoult, S. Galtier, O. Dulieu, V. Kokoouline

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

Potential energy and permanent dipole moment surfaces of the electronic ground state of formyl negative ion HCO− are determined for a large number of geometries using the coupled-cluster theory with single and double and perturbative treatment of triple excitations ab initio method with a large basis set. The obtained data are used to construct interpolated surfaces, which are extended analytically to the region of large separations between CO and H− with the multipole expansion approach. We have calculated the energy of the lowest rovibrational levels of HCO− that should guide the spectroscopic characterization of HCO− in laboratory experiments. The study …

Realizing Breakthrough Radical Innovations In Ce/It Industries, Shengfa Johnson Chuang

Student Scholarship

Whereas incremental innovation (II) involves minor changes to an existing product or service, radical innovation (RI) creates a new user experience by altering the cognitive ecosystem of products and creating new markets. Recent RI products such as Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iTunes and Amazon's Kindle have demonstrated the potentially salubrious effect of RI. However, technological uncertainty, business inexperience, and unknown customer preferences render RI a high-risk proposition. Accordingly, the innovation processes of RI and II are different: whereas II is widely studied through gate and structured process models, comparatively little is known about how to engage and manage RI. One …

Policing School Discipline, Catherine Y. Kim

Faculty Publications

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Kickbacks, Honest Services, And Health Care Fraud After Skilling, Joan H. Krause

Faculty Publications

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Skilling And The Pursuit Of Healthcare Fraud, Joan H. Krause

Faculty Publications

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National Healthcare And American Constitutional Culture, William P. Marshall

Faculty Publications

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Charles Dickens And Sovereign Debt, John V. Orth

Faculty Publications

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Feminism In The Global Political Economy: Contradiction And Consensus In Cuba, Deborah M. Weissman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Power Of Music: Application Of The First Amendment To Copyright Regulation Of Internet Radio, Amanda Reid

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Elusive "Marketplace" In Post-Bilski Jurisprudence, Andrew Chin

Faculty Publications

The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Bilski v. Kappos appears to have provided inadequate guidance to the courts and the Patent Office regarding the scope of the abstract-ideas exclusion from patentable subject matter. Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall R. Rader, however, appears to have found in that decision a clear vindication of his own view that the machine-or-transformation test is incorrectly grounded in “the age of iron and steel at a time of subatomic particles and terabytes,” and thus fails, for example, to accommodate advances in “software [that] transform[] our lives without physical anchors.” Chief Judge Rader has subsequently authored …

The Overrepresentation Of Minorities In Special Education: A Conceptual Analysis Of A Longstanding Conundrum, Aimee Sargent

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of this analysis is to examine the issue of overrepresentation of minorities in special education, with a focus on the varying conceptual and theoretical perspectives among scholars and educators regarding the causes and potential solutions to the problem. Views of the issue will be described by comparing traditional perspectives with nontraditional perspectives. Further scrutiny of these views then leads to an analysis of differing epistemologies, contrasting the realist/objective view with that of non-realist constructivism. Thorough examinations of these issues provide a framework of overrepresentation in light of disability and race conceptualizations and present a new approach for addressing …

Management Of Thyroid Dysfunction During Pregnancy And Postpartum: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline, Leslie De Groot, Marcos Abalovich, Erik K. Alexander, Nobuyuki Amino, Linda Barbour, Rhoda H. Cobin, Creswell J. Eastman, John H. Lazarus, Dominique Luton, Susan J. Mandel, Jorge Mestman, Joanne Rovet, Scott Sullivan

Cell and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications

Objective: The aim was to update the guidelines for the management of thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy and postpartum published previously in 2007. A summary of changes between the 2007 and 2012 version is identified in the Supplemental Data (published on The Endocrine Society's Journals Online web site at http://jcem.endojournals.org).

Evidence: This evidence-based guideline was developed according to the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force, grading items level A, B, C, D, or I, on the basis of the strength of evidence and magnitude of net benefit (benefits minus harms) as well as the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and …