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Teaming Up For Safer Cities: A Report From The Implementation Assessment Of The National Forum On Youth Violence Prevention (2012), Jeffrey A. Butts, Caterina Gouvis Roman, Kathleen A. Tomberg Dec 2012

Teaming Up For Safer Cities: A Report From The Implementation Assessment Of The National Forum On Youth Violence Prevention (2012), Jeffrey A. Butts, Caterina Gouvis Roman, Kathleen A. Tomberg

Publications and Research

The efforts inspired by the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention will take time to develop, but survey results from the first 15 months of implementation suggest that the initiative may be generating some important changes. In five communities, survey respondents report a number of potentially valuable improvements. The results imply that the cities involved in the National Forum may be increasing opportunities for youth and improving the extent to which violence prevention approaches draw upon the perspectives and expertise of a broad range of community members. There are also indications that some cities are developing better overall capacity to …

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Who Is An American? The Construction Of American Identity In The Utah Minuteman Project, Michele Elizabeth Bendall Dec 2012

Who Is An American? The Construction Of American Identity In The Utah Minuteman Project, Michele Elizabeth Bendall

Theses and Dissertations

The Minuteman Project is a national civilian border patrol group, founded in 2005 to defend the U.S.-Mexico border from "invasion" by illegal immigrants and protest the "blatant disregard of the rule of law" exhibited by government and politicians. This study explores one state chapter of this organization: the Utah Minuteman Project (UMP). The research questions I seek to address are: Who are the Minutemen? What motivates them? How do the Minutemen define what it means to be an American? Using a grounded theory approach, I explore the construction of American identity among the members of the UMP using a range …

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Lésions Professionnelles Indemnisées Au Québec En 2005-2007 : Profil Statistique Par Industrie - Catégorie Professionnelle, Patrice Duguay, Alexandre Boucher, Marc-Antoine Busque, Pascale Prud'homme, Daniel Vergara Dec 2012

Lésions Professionnelles Indemnisées Au Québec En 2005-2007 : Profil Statistique Par Industrie - Catégorie Professionnelle, Patrice Duguay, Alexandre Boucher, Marc-Antoine Busque, Pascale Prud'homme, Daniel Vergara

Portraits statistiques

Cette étude s’inscrit dans un processus d’exploitation des données statistiques de la CSST, conjointement avec les données du recensement canadien, processus qui a débuté il y a plus de 25 ans à l’IRSST. Le jumelage de ces deux sources de données permet d’obtenir des portraits statistiques de la situation d’ensemble des travailleurs québécois indemnisés pour des lésions professionnelles, qui ne seraient pas disponibles autrement. Cette étude permet notamment d’identifier des groupes de travailleurs et des industries-catégories professionnelles dont les problèmes de SST sont importants, ce qui constitue une information précieuse pour la planification de la recherche et …

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Convocation, Michael Weber, Rahmaan James Phillip, Bronson Foster, Chang Yue, Patrick Garcia, Christopher Fujiwara, Samantha Ciarlo, Jeremy Russo, Jonathan Cannon, David Chavez Dec 2012

Convocation, Michael Weber, Rahmaan James Phillip, Bronson Foster, Chang Yue, Patrick Garcia, Christopher Fujiwara, Samantha Ciarlo, Jeremy Russo, Jonathan Cannon, David Chavez

Convocations

List of performers and performances.

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Nextet, Virko Baley, Sean Shepherd Dec 2012

Nextet, Virko Baley, Sean Shepherd

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

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Senior Recital, Jesse Garcia, Nick Schmitt, Halsey Harkins, Austin Pooley, Nick Tulli, Patrick Garcia Dec 2012

Senior Recital, Jesse Garcia, Nick Schmitt, Halsey Harkins, Austin Pooley, Nick Tulli, Patrick Garcia

Senior Recitals

List of performers and performances.

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Usa V. Brian Campbell Dec 2012

Usa V. Brian Campbell

2012 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

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The Economic Burden Of Opioid Poisoning In The United States And Determinants Of Increased Costs In Opioid Poisoning, Timothy Inocencio Dec 2012

The Economic Burden Of Opioid Poisoning In The United States And Determinants Of Increased Costs In Opioid Poisoning, Timothy Inocencio

Theses and Dissertations

Introduction: Opioid poisoning has been rapidly increasing in the past decade, and has been driven in large part due to increases in opioid prescribing. This has been accompanied by intervention efforts aimed at preventing and reversing opioid poisoning through naloxone prescription programs. Current literature have not quantified the economic burden of opioid poisoning. Understanding this information can help inform these efforts and bring light to this growing problem. In addition understanding various determinants of increased costs can help to identify the types of populations more likely to have greater costs. Main Objectives: The objectives are 1) to quantify the economic …

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Medication-Related Problems Experienced By Patients During Transitions To Assisted Living, Deanna Flora Dec 2012

Medication-Related Problems Experienced By Patients During Transitions To Assisted Living, Deanna Flora

Theses and Dissertations

Medication reconciliation is a systematic and comprehensive review of medication regimens during care transitions aiming to prevent adverse drug events. Poorly executed transitions negatively impact patient welfare and cause financial burden. Medication-related problems (MRPs) experienced during transitions to an assisted living facility (ALF) were evaluated. Data was collected from pharmacy records for transitions to an ALF over three months, including demographics, medications, potentially inappropriate medications, and MRPs. MRPs were categorized and summarized using descriptive statistics. Forty-five patients (71% female) experienced 59 transitions. Average age was 85.6 years. Median length of stay away from the ALF was three days. There were …

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Characterization Of The Expression Of The Intercellular Adhesin Locus In Staphylococcus Aureus, Jamie Brooks Dec 2012

Characterization Of The Expression Of The Intercellular Adhesin Locus In Staphylococcus Aureus, Jamie Brooks

Theses and Dissertations

Poly-N-acetylglucosamine (PNAG) is an important Staphylococcus aureus virulence factor. It is a major component of the extracellular polymeric matrix in biofilms, and contributes to resistance to the innate immune response. The proteins encoded in the icaADBC (intercellular adhesin) operon are responsible for PNAG production. Here, we present evidence of a new mechanism of phase variation for switching off PNAG production that involves slipped strand mutagenesis, along with further insight into the regulation and expression of the icaADBC operon. S. aureus strain MN8m (mucoid) is a spontaneous mutant of strain MN8 (non-mucoid). It is characterized by constitutive overproduction of PNAG, resulting …

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Investigation Of Possible Novel Peptide Inhibitors To Bag-1 Based On Peptidyl-Biomimetics, Jonathan Brunn Dec 2012

Investigation Of Possible Novel Peptide Inhibitors To Bag-1 Based On Peptidyl-Biomimetics, Jonathan Brunn

Theses and Dissertations

In this Master’s Thesis Research the results can be summarized from two major tasks: (1) In our first task, we utilized our two protein system (BAG-1 and HSP 70) as part of beta testing of a computational software 1 that can take three dimensional x-ray crystallography information about protein complexes and predict the strength of atom –atom interactions between amino-acid residues Open Contact predicts binding hotspots that can be used to identify short amino acid chains or peptides that mimic that particular binding segment of the larger protein. These peptides are called pepidyl-biomimetics. The peptide can potentially act as an …

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Research Brief: "Provider, Veteran, And Family Perspectives On Family Education In Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Facilities", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University Dec 2012

Research Brief: "Provider, Veteran, And Family Perspectives On Family Education In Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Facilities", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This research examines military family perspectives on community- based outpatient clinics (CBOC) and potential barriers to educational initiatives. Findings from this study indicate that although providers strongly support educating families about mental illness and PTSD, few providers are specifically trained to deliver this kind of education to families. Therefore policies should encourage providers to inform veterans and family members of CBOC family services. Further research in this field should include a more nationally representative and diverse sample of veterans.

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Competitiveness Of The Telecommunication Markets - Quantitative And Qualitative Evaluation Methods In Antitrust And Sector Specific Regulations Proceedings, Ewa M. Kwiatkowska Dec 2012

Competitiveness Of The Telecommunication Markets - Quantitative And Qualitative Evaluation Methods In Antitrust And Sector Specific Regulations Proceedings, Ewa M. Kwiatkowska

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article presents evaluation criteria for competitiveness of the telecommunications markets. Criteria are divided into two groups – quantitative and qualitative, the latter including criteria from two different points of view (two different perspectives): market and telecom enterprises. The paper concludes with analysis of competitiveness evaluation criteria as applied by regulatory authorities in proceedings, highlighting asymmetry in the use of different criteria in particular type of proceeding.

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Change Of Rates For Telecommunications Access – Selected Problems, Arwid Mednis Dec 2012

Change Of Rates For Telecommunications Access – Selected Problems, Arwid Mednis

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Article presents legal problems arising in case of regulatory decision fi xing wholesale rates, which is superseded by new decision, covering the period of validity of preceding decision. Discussed are problems concerning the declaration of expiry of a decision as well as repeal of such decision. Analyzed are consequences of the expiry of a decision for the appeal procedure.

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Services Based On Processing Geographical Data, Patryk Koralewski Dec 2012

Services Based On Processing Geographical Data, Patryk Koralewski

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Article discusses legal conditions for provision of services based on processing location data (Location Based Services LBS). Article indicates how geographic data concerning location are gathered, which are necessary for the provision of LBS. Identifi ed and discussed are problems of relationships between methods of gathering data on geographical location and legal regulations applied to specifi c cases of service provision.

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The Model Of Judicial Review Of Decisions Issued By President Of Electronic Communications Office, Mateusz Chołodecki Dec 2012

The Model Of Judicial Review Of Decisions Issued By President Of Electronic Communications Office, Mateusz Chołodecki

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The model of judicial control of the decisions of the President of the Offi ce of Electronic Communications (hereinafter the UKE President) is subject of this paper. This model is defined in the Telecommunications Law Act (hereinafter the TL) and provides two different judicial procedures against decisions of the UKE President. It is a general principle that the UKE President decisions are subject to judicial control exercised by administrative courts. However, some decisions enumerated in the TL are subject of judicial review exercised by common courts [the Regional Court in Warsaw – the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereinafter …

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Schumann's Op. 25: Finding The Narrative Within, Renee Danielle Gaarder Dec 2012

Schumann's Op. 25: Finding The Narrative Within, Renee Danielle Gaarder

Theses and Dissertations

Many of the song cycles written by Schumann have been studied over the years and it is well known that his most prolific time of song production was the year 1840. Myrthen, Op. 25, has been studied less than some of his other cycles because it calls into question the modern view of the song cycle and for this reason is difficult to classify. What is most difficult about the classification of Op. 25 is that there is no immediately apparent narrative. In addition, the musical relationships which exist are usually considered to be of little consequence. What scholars …

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Vibrotactile Feedback Generation Using Envelope Waveforms And Eccentric-Mass Motors, Michael G. Plooster Dec 2012

Vibrotactile Feedback Generation Using Envelope Waveforms And Eccentric-Mass Motors, Michael G. Plooster

Theses and Dissertations

The usefulness of vibrotactile feedback as a channel to communicate information has been widely recognized. However, most of the recent work on this subject uses actuators that are either too expensive or too large for many practical applications. This thesis explores the generation of vibrotacatile feedback patterns using a simple, inexpensive eccentric-mass motor that is constrained to use a constant voltage and a low on/off switching frequency. In particular, it explores the pulse timing method, which utilizes the slow transient response of the eccentric-mass motor to calculate pulse and rest times for an arbitrary envelope waveform shape. Several hardware tests …

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School Of Music To Hold Faculty Recital, Katherine Filippo Dec 2012

School Of Music To Hold Faculty Recital, Katherine Filippo

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Streamlined Extract Preparation For E. Coli-Based Cell-Free Protein Synthesis And Rapid Site-Specific Incorporation Of Unnatural Amino Acids In Proteins, Prashanta Shrestha Dec 2012

Streamlined Extract Preparation For E. Coli-Based Cell-Free Protein Synthesis And Rapid Site-Specific Incorporation Of Unnatural Amino Acids In Proteins, Prashanta Shrestha

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports the viability of E. coli cell extracts prepared using equipment that is both common to biotechnology laboratories and able to process small volume samples and expression of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) at higher level using PCR amplified linear DNA templates (LETs) in cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) system. E. coli-based cell extracts are a vital component of inexpensive and high-yielding CFPS reactions. However, effective preparation of E. coli cell extract is limited to high-pressure homogenizers (French press style or impinge-style) or bead mill homogenizers, which all require a significant capital investment. This work specifically assessed the …

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The Roof With No Ceiling: Couch Surfing And The New Vagabond's Trek Through Nation-States, Cyberspace, And Global Consciousness, Kathryn Giroux Dec 2012

The Roof With No Ceiling: Couch Surfing And The New Vagabond's Trek Through Nation-States, Cyberspace, And Global Consciousness, Kathryn Giroux

Honors Theses

In an era of "stranger danger" where society indoctrinates fear of "the other," hospitality exchange and social networking website www.couchsurfing.org offers an alternative movement to these trends. Couchsurfing.org connects travelers with locals offering free accommodation in exchange for meaningful connection, cultural exchange, and the opportunity to "create inspiring experiences" within a rapidly growing, transnational community encompassing over 5 million members. This thesis takes a creative journalism approach to uncovering CouchSurfing's inner workings and impacts, understanding its historical context within globalization and the growth of hospitality exchange networks, and discovering its implications for the global community and global consciousness of vagabonds …

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A Beginning Education In The Anatomy And Function Of The Human Visual Apparatus For Grades 2-4, Evan Andrews Dec 2012

A Beginning Education In The Anatomy And Function Of The Human Visual Apparatus For Grades 2-4, Evan Andrews

Honors Theses

The human visual apparatus is a remarkable feat of evolution that is nearly a complete mystery to many in the general population. Introducing such a challenging topic is difficult, but, if done in an enjoyable and interactive way to a young audience, the eye can become exciting instead of confusing. The primary objective of this project was to create a short lesson for elementary school students that gave an understanding of the eye's basic anatomy and functions. A fast-paced, interactive format was decided on that included units on the major eye components; color vision and how it can be affected; …

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Salary Determination In The National Hockey League: Restricted, Unrestricted, Forwards, And Defensemen, Kevin Peck Dec 2012

Salary Determination In The National Hockey League: Restricted, Unrestricted, Forwards, And Defensemen, Kevin Peck

Honors Theses

This thesis will attempt to estimate the relationships between salary and measures of the marginal productivity of hockey players, or performance indicators. Salary determination, as in most other sports leagues, is determined in a labor market. Each player has a marginal revenue product of labor (MRPL) and this MRPL varies from player to player, and from team to team. Firms, in this case teams, seek to add players with a high MRPLin order to increase the quantity and quality of product they sell, in this case wins. Among other things, a player has a MRPLthat will equate to the additional …

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The Zoning Dilemma (Daniel R. Mandelker), Herman D. Hillman Dec 2012

The Zoning Dilemma (Daniel R. Mandelker), Herman D. Hillman

St. John's Law Review

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Summary Proceeding: Purpose Of Summary Proceeding Frustrated By Litigious Party, St. John's Law Review Dec 2012

Summary Proceeding: Purpose Of Summary Proceeding Frustrated By Litigious Party, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Contempt: Criminal Contempt Fines Payable To City Treasury, St. John's Law Review Dec 2012

Contempt: Criminal Contempt Fines Payable To City Treasury, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Ujca 1704: Once Filed, Justice's Return Is A Conclusive Record Of Proceeding Below, St. John's Law Review Dec 2012

Ujca 1704: Once Filed, Justice's Return Is A Conclusive Record Of Proceeding Below, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Cca 306: Civil Court Changes Venue Sua Sponte With Caveat To The Bar, St. John's Law Review Dec 2012

Cca 306: Civil Court Changes Venue Sua Sponte With Caveat To The Bar, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Vehicle And Traffic Law § 388: Benefit Of Taxicab Owner's Policy Does Not Inure To Passenger Who Was User Within Meaning Of Statute But Who Was Excluded From Coverage By The Terms Of The Policy, St. John's Law Review Dec 2012

Vehicle And Traffic Law § 388: Benefit Of Taxicab Owner's Policy Does Not Inure To Passenger Who Was User Within Meaning Of Statute But Who Was Excluded From Coverage By The Terms Of The Policy, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Rpapl § 755: "Abuse Of Process" Recognized As An Actionable Tort, St. John's Law Review Dec 2012

Rpapl § 755: "Abuse Of Process" Recognized As An Actionable Tort, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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