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The Science Of Team Science: Exploring Principal Investigator Leadership Style And Team Collaboration Satisfaction, Stephenie K. Kennedy Dec 2013

The Science Of Team Science: Exploring Principal Investigator Leadership Style And Team Collaboration Satisfaction, Stephenie K. Kennedy

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examined the relationship between the leadership style of principal investigators (PIs) of interdisciplinary research teams at academic health science centers and the collaboration satisfaction of their team members. Two stage sampling was used. One hundred NIH-funded principal investigators at eight regional health science centers completed a team identification form, identifying their teams as interdisciplinary and providing the names and emails of team members. An online survey instrument that included a basic demographic questionnaire, the Bolman and Deal Leadership (Others) Survey, and the Collaboration and Transdisciplinary Integration Survey was then sent to team members. The sample used for analysis …

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Mixing Biometric Data For Generating Joint Identities And Preserving Privacy, Asem A. Othman Dec 2013

Mixing Biometric Data For Generating Joint Identities And Preserving Privacy, Asem A. Othman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Biometrics is the science of automatically recognizing individuals by utilizing biological traits such as fingerprints, face, iris and voice. A classical biometric system digitizes the human body and uses this digitized identity for human recognition. In this work, we introduce the concept of mixing biometrics. Mixing biometrics refers to the process of generating a new biometric image by fusing images of different fingers, different faces, or different irises. The resultant mixed image can be used directly in the feature extraction and matching stages of an existing biometric system. In this regard, we design and systematically evaluate novel methods for generating …

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Techniques For Ocular Biometric Recognition Under Non-Ideal Conditions, Raghavender Reddy Jillela Dec 2013

Techniques For Ocular Biometric Recognition Under Non-Ideal Conditions, Raghavender Reddy Jillela

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The use of the ocular region as a biometric cue has gained considerable traction due to recent advances in automated iris recognition. However, a multitude of factors can negatively impact ocular recognition performance under unconstrained conditions (e.g., non-uniform illumination, occlusions, motion blur, image resolution, etc.). This dissertation develops techniques to perform iris and ocular recognition under challenging conditions. The first contribution is an image-level fusion scheme to improve iris recognition performance in low-resolution videos. Information fusion is facilitated by the use of Principal Components Transform (PCT), thereby requiring modest computational efforts. The proposed approach provides improved recognition accuracy when low-resolution …

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Dexia – Rise & Fall Of A Banking Giant, Nicholas Whitbeck Dec 2013

Dexia – Rise & Fall Of A Banking Giant, Nicholas Whitbeck

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Effects Of Estrogen In An Aged Animal Model Of Stroke, Rachel L. Leon Dec 2013

Effects Of Estrogen In An Aged Animal Model Of Stroke, Rachel L. Leon

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In 2000, approximately 10 million women were taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for alleviation of menopausal symptoms. A number of prior animal studies also suggested that HRT may be neuroprotective and cardioprotective as well. Although estrogen is neuroprotective in young adult animal models of stroke, clinical trials demonstrate that estrogen increases the incidence and severity of stroke in aged women. We have previously shown that experimental stroke pathophysiology differs between young adult and aged rats. In the first study, we show that aged rats treated with 17beta-estradiol had significantly increased infarct volumes compared to placebo-treated aged rats. Young adult rats …

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Constitutionally Tailoring Punishment, Richard A. Bierschbach, Stephanos Bibas Dec 2013

Constitutionally Tailoring Punishment, Richard A. Bierschbach, Stephanos Bibas

Michigan Law Review

Since the turn of the century, the Supreme Court has regulated noncapital sentencing under the Sixth Amendment in the Apprendi line of cases (requiring jury findings of fact to justify sentence enhancements) as well as under the Eighth Amendment in the Miller and Graham line of cases (forbidding mandatory life imprisonment for juvenile defendants). Although both lines of authority sound in individual rights, in fact they are fundamentally about the structures of criminal justice. These two seemingly disparate doctrines respond to structural imbalances in noncapital sentencing by promoting morally appropriate punishment judgments that are based on individualized input and that …

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Shear Force At Failure And Stiffness Of All-Inside Meniscal Repair Devices, William K. Kesto, Amanda O. Esquivel, David C. Markel Dec 2013

Shear Force At Failure And Stiffness Of All-Inside Meniscal Repair Devices, William K. Kesto, Amanda O. Esquivel, David C. Markel

Kinesiology, Health and Sport Studies

The purpose of this study was to determine the failure load and stiffness of various meniscal repair devices. A total of 61 fresh-frozen porcine menisci (medial and lateral) were used for the study. A 30-mm vertical, full-thickness tear was created and repaired using one of three all-inside fixation devices and one inside–out repair in the vertical mattress pattern. We used the MaxBraid (Biomet, Warsaw, IN) inside–out suture as a control. The other devices tested were the Meniscal Cinch (Arthrex, Naples, FL), Ultra FasT-Fix (Smith & Nephew, Andover, MA), and the MaxFire MarXmen (Biomet, Warsaw, IN). In addition, two devices, MaxFire …

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From The Editor, Jennifer N. Bornsheuer-Boswell Dec 2013

From The Editor, Jennifer N. Bornsheuer-Boswell

Michigan Journal of Counseling: Research, Theory and Practice

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Violence Prevention In Middle School: A Preliminary Study, Wendy K. Killam, Catherine B. Roland, Bill Weber Dec 2013

Violence Prevention In Middle School: A Preliminary Study, Wendy K. Killam, Catherine B. Roland, Bill Weber

Michigan Journal of Counseling: Research, Theory and Practice

Violence in schools continues reflecting violence within society. There is a growing need for violence prevention programs within the schools that provide students with the skills needed to cope with interpersonal and relationship is-sues effectively. This study was conducted at a middle school and there were 345 middle school students (6th to 8th grade) who participated in the study. The students participated in a violence prevention program. In this study, the researchers used a pre-test/post-test design and the results indicated that there were some changes in attitudes towards violence that occurred after the intervention.

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Promoting Client Welfare And Preserving Autonomy: Ethical Treatment Of Eating Disorders, Julia E. Smith, Emily Michero, Kerrie R. Fineran Dec 2013

Promoting Client Welfare And Preserving Autonomy: Ethical Treatment Of Eating Disorders, Julia E. Smith, Emily Michero, Kerrie R. Fineran

Michigan Journal of Counseling: Research, Theory and Practice

Counselors often experience an ethical dilemma when mandating treatment for clients with eating disorders. In this article, the authors will briefly discuss the characteristics of eating disorders, the impact of cognitive impairment on the decision to mandate treatment, and the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and nonmalificence that counselors must consider when work-ing with clients from this population. To address ethical concerns, the authors will apply Welfel’s (2010) ethical decision-making model to a case involving a client with Anorexia Nervosa.

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Legal Ethics, Patrick Emery Longan Dec 2013

Legal Ethics, Patrick Emery Longan

Mercer Law Review

This Article covers the period from June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013. During this period, the Georgia Supreme Court decided a number of lawyer-discipline cases and other matters related to licensure. The supreme court and the Georgia Court of Appeals decided cases involving legal malpractice, ineffective assistance of counsel, judicial ethics, and several miscellaneous matters. The supreme court also approved one significant Formal Advisory Opinion and one set of changes to the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct.

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Workers' Compensation, H. Michael Bagley, J. Benson Ward Dec 2013

Workers' Compensation, H. Michael Bagley, J. Benson Ward

Mercer Law Review

The 2012-2013 survey period featured notable decisions of the appellate courts in a wide range of areas along with legislation impacting the Workers' Compensation Act' in several important areas, including a 400-week cap on medical benefits.

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Death Penalty, Josh D. Moore Dec 2013

Death Penalty, Josh D. Moore

Mercer Law Review

The Georgia Supreme Court addressed numerous cases touching on the death penalty in our survey period, including the review of four death sentences on direct appeal in Ellington v. State, Rice v. State, Barrett v. State, and Brockman v. State. Three of the death sentences reviewed on direct appeal were affirmed and one was reversed. The court also reversed the decision of a habeas court to vacate a death sentence in Humphrey v. Riley. Several other cases involving the death penalty at various stages of trial were also decided and will be addressed further as …

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Torts, Phillip Comer Griffeth, Cash V. Morris Dec 2013

Torts, Phillip Comer Griffeth, Cash V. Morris

Mercer Law Review

This Article surveys recent developments in Georgia tort law between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013. Throughout this survey period, our appellate courts provided clear recitations of existing tort law, clarified the application and meaning of statutes and existing lines of cases, and recognized liability and defenses in cases of first impression.

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Wills, Trusts, Guardianships, And Fiduciary Administration, Mary F. Radford Dec 2013

Wills, Trusts, Guardianships, And Fiduciary Administration, Mary F. Radford

Mercer Law Review

This Article describes selected cases and significant legislation from June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013 pertaining to Georgia fiduciary law and estate planning.

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Real Property, Linda S. Finley Dec 2013

Real Property, Linda S. Finley

Mercer Law Review

For the last several years, the Author has begun this Survey with a comment about the American economy and the increase in the number of foreclosures facing Georgia homeowners. Although the number of residential foreclosures appears to be decreasing, the plight of homeowners remains a critical issue. Rest assured, this Article does not limit itself to a review of consumer-related law. It also looks at broad topics pertaining to real property, because whether the topic is foreclosure, boundaries, condemnation, or title, ". . . it is just about the dirt."

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Comparison Of Theophylline And 8-Cyclopentyltheophylline On The Heart Rates Of Neonatal Rats, Stephanie Arnold Dec 2013

Comparison Of Theophylline And 8-Cyclopentyltheophylline On The Heart Rates Of Neonatal Rats, Stephanie Arnold

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Neonatal apnea is a serious condition that affects the health of infants, especially those born prematurely. To stimulate breathing, methylxanthine drugs, such as theophylline and caffeine, are administered to reverse this condition in humans and avoid the use of breathing-assistance equipment. These drugs cause stimulation of the central nervous system and the heart, however, both detrimental side effects in preterm infants. Antagonism of adenosine receptors is the proposed mechanism of methylxanthine action. Synthetic chemists have produced xanthine analogs with increased affinity for adenosine receptors that could lead to respiratory stimulation while reducing cardiostimulant effects. For this study, theophylline and 8-cyclopentyltheophylline …

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Sepsis Bundled Care - An Early Goal Directed Therapy Application Study, Deven Arora Dec 2013

Sepsis Bundled Care - An Early Goal Directed Therapy Application Study, Deven Arora

The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses

Introduction: Septicemia is a severe disease affecting our healthcare system. A local hospital implemented a treatment protocol based on recent national standards to better treat this condition. The purpose of this study was to see if this protocol had any effect on patient outcomes in key variables. Methods: Pre and post design with pre-implementation (of the treatment protocol) sample group being all patients admitted to the Emergency Department (ED) at the test hospital with initial diagnosis of sepsis from May - October of 2012 while the post sample group was all patients admitted to the ED at the test hospital …

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Changes In Tissue-Specific Fatty Acid Composition Of The Freshwater Alewife (Alosa Pseudoharengus) In Response To Temperature, William D. Schregel Dec 2013

Changes In Tissue-Specific Fatty Acid Composition Of The Freshwater Alewife (Alosa Pseudoharengus) In Response To Temperature, William D. Schregel

Biology Theses

Ectotherms are known to alter the composition of the cell membrane in response to changes in environmental temperature. Tissue-specific fatty acid composition in the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) was examined in response to both warm and cold temperature challenges administered over an approximate one month period. Gill, muscle, and liver tissues were analyzed prior to the start of the temperature challenge (initial), following the temperature challenges (survivors), and on those fish that did not survive the temperature challenges (mortalities). Significant differences were found between fatty acid composition of initial fish and survivors for membrane-incorporated fatty acids (polar) and for …

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The Incidence Of Antibiotic Resistance In Mesophilic Aeromonas Isolated From The Buffalo River And From A Non-Urban Site Upstream, Amy L. Chapman Dec 2013

The Incidence Of Antibiotic Resistance In Mesophilic Aeromonas Isolated From The Buffalo River And From A Non-Urban Site Upstream, Amy L. Chapman

Biology Theses

Antibiotics are commonly used in agriculture and industry and their discharge is commonly seen in rivers, like the Buffalo River. This antibiotic discharge may cause a selective environment which favors the growth of antibiotic resistant Aeromonas. To study the effect of urban pollution on the antibiotic resistance in Aeromonas, 229 Aeromonas isolates were collected from fish tissues as well as sediment and water samples collected from the Buffalo River and a non-urban site (Cazenovia Creek). Seven different Aeromonas taxa were identified using biochemical tests. There were 124 (54%) isolates that were classified as atypical, which was the most commonly …

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Effect Of Vacuum Tumbling Time, Salt Level, And Phosphate Alternatives On Processing Characteristics Of Natural Deli-Style Turkey Breast, Derek J. Schroeder Dec 2013

Effect Of Vacuum Tumbling Time, Salt Level, And Phosphate Alternatives On Processing Characteristics Of Natural Deli-Style Turkey Breast, Derek J. Schroeder

Department of Animal Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Three studies were conducted to determine the effect of vacuum tumbling time on the processing characteristics of reduced sodium natural deli-style turkey breast. Production of sodium reduced natural deli-style turkey breast without phosphate is lower (P <  0.05) in texture and processing properties than deli-style turkey breast produced with phosphate. Reducing salt concentration to 1.0% produces natural deli-style turkey breast with less acceptable (P <  0.05) texture and processing characteristics compared to 1.5% or 2.0% added salt. Preblending was used to improve texture characteristics in reduced salt products. Control treatments had improved (P <  0.05) texture properties, decreased color values, …

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Ordinary Families: Queer Sexuality And Adoptive Parenthood In Central New York, Sean H. Wang Dec 2013

Ordinary Families: Queer Sexuality And Adoptive Parenthood In Central New York, Sean H. Wang

Theses - ALL

This thesis argues that geographers must consider sexuality and family together as integral parts of social life. Although sexuality already entered the lexicon of geography in the 1980s, and a burgeoning field of the geography of sexuality exists today, too often it is still considered peripheral in geographic scholarship. Similarly, family either remains consigned either as merely a place for social reproduction by studies of political economy, or is relegated entirely as an object of inquiry for only feminist geographers. Drawing from sociology, feminist and queer studies, this thesis makes an important intervention by relating sexuality and family in the …

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House Broken: The Functions And Contradictions Of "Housing First", Brian Richard Hennigan Dec 2013

House Broken: The Functions And Contradictions Of "Housing First", Brian Richard Hennigan

Theses - ALL

"Housing first" is the new orthodoxy for homelessness policy in the United States, a program design expected to end homelessness once and for all. Unlike the traditional "treatment first" model, housing first places the most expensively homeless individuals immediately into an apartment (with treatment following). Although certainly different from the treatment first model due to its prioritization of housing, housing first remains a product of neoliberal poverty governance. By examining program operations in greater Phoenix, Arizona, it is clear that housing first proceeds as a stigma-reproducing rehabilitation program of socioeconomic discipline that works in tandem with anti-homeless laws and service …

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Positioning An Innovative Flame-Weeding Technology Into Crop Production, Strahinja V. Stepanovic Dec 2013

Positioning An Innovative Flame-Weeding Technology Into Crop Production, Strahinja V. Stepanovic

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Propane flaming has a potential to be utilized for effective PRE and POST weed control in both organic and conventional farming systems. Field studies were conducted at the Haskell Agricultural Laboratory of the University of Nebraska in 2010, 2011, and 2012 to: (1) describe dose–response curves for propane when flaming selected weed species at different growth stages, (2) determine corn and soybean tolerance to single and repeated flaming by utilizing the equipment designed to selectively flame weeds in row crops with torches positioned parallel to the crop row, and (3) determine the effectiveness of flaming and cultivation for weed control …

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Feeling In Character: Towards An Ethics Of Emotion, John Monteleone Dec 2013

Feeling In Character: Towards An Ethics Of Emotion, John Monteleone

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation contends that emotions are subject to ethical assessment, not simply as motives or overt expressions, but in their own right. Emotions, I argue, are subject to assessment because they are aspects of a person's character. Specifically, emotions involve voluntary acts of attention, which are due to habituation. These acts show character by manifesting certain stable, deeply-held desires called 'concerns.' This view, dubbed 'Attentional Voluntarism,' is opposed to the prevalent view, dubbed 'Rationalism,' that emotions are subject to assessment because of their propositional content. Rationalism is unable to account for certain kinds of irrational emotion, where one forms an …

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Evaluation Of Oil Extraction On Corn Dry-Milling Byproducts In Growing And Finishing Cattle Diets, Melissa L. Jolly Dec 2013

Evaluation Of Oil Extraction On Corn Dry-Milling Byproducts In Growing And Finishing Cattle Diets, Melissa L. Jolly

Department of Animal Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Dry-milling ethanol plants produce distillers grains (DG) and condensed distillers solubles (CDS). Before thin stillage is evaporated to CDS, corn oil is removed via centrifugation, producing de-oiled CDS. Depending on plant availability, CDS can be marketed or combined with DG to produce de-oiled distillers grains plus solubles (DGS). Currently, there are no data available on animal performance when corn oil is removed via centrifugation of the solubles stream. Therefore, two finishing experiments, a metabolism experiment, and a growing experiment were conducted to evaluate the effects of corn oil removal on cattle performance, carcass characteristics, and the effects on nutrient digestibility. …

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Effects Of Maternal Nutrition And Post-Weaning Management In A Late Spring Calving System And Synchronization Of Estrus Using Fixed Time Ai Protocols, John D. Harms Dec 2013

Effects Of Maternal Nutrition And Post-Weaning Management In A Late Spring Calving System And Synchronization Of Estrus Using Fixed Time Ai Protocols, John D. Harms

Department of Animal Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Three experiments were conducted to determine the impact of development systems, maternal protein supplementation, and estrus synchronization systems on beef cattle. Experiment 1 evaluated the effects of winter supplementation on cow performance and the effects of post-weaning management on progeny. Late spring calving cows grazed dormant range or meadow over winter and received either supplementation or no supplementation. Steer and heifer progeny were weaned and placed on dormant meadow or fed hay ad libitum. One half of the steers were placed in the feedlot at the end of treatment and the other half grazed range over summer. Cow winter treatment …

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Table Of Contents, North Carolina Law Review Dec 2013

Table Of Contents, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

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It's Time To Let Go: Why The Atmospheric Trust Won't Help The World Breathe Easier, Caroline Cress Dec 2013

It's Time To Let Go: Why The Atmospheric Trust Won't Help The World Breathe Easier, Caroline Cress

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

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An Antidote To Efforts By Drug Manufacturers To Delay The Entry Of Generic Competition Via Sham Petitioning, Ana Jemec Friedman Dec 2013

An Antidote To Efforts By Drug Manufacturers To Delay The Entry Of Generic Competition Via Sham Petitioning, Ana Jemec Friedman

North Carolina Law Review

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