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Senate Bill (A) 54-066 Bhakti Yoga Society, Adam Aldridge Dec 2013

Senate Bill (A) 54-066 Bhakti Yoga Society, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.


Senate Meeting 02/11/14 Vote Record, Adam Aldridge Dec 2013

Senate Meeting 02/11/14 Vote Record, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.


Senate Meeting 03/04/14 Vote Record, Adam Aldridge Dec 2013

Senate Meeting 03/04/14 Vote Record, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Dec 2013

Table Of Contents

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.


Gubernatorial Power And The Nationalization Of State Politics, Paul Nolette Dec 2013

Gubernatorial Power And The Nationalization Of State Politics, Paul Nolette

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Saladin M. Ambar, How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency (2012) and Thad Kousser & Justin H. Phillips, The Power of American Governors: Winning on Budgets and Losing on Policy.


The Law, Gendered Abuse, And The Limits And Possibilities Of Feminist Theory, Lisa D. Brush Dec 2013

The Law, Gendered Abuse, And The Limits And Possibilities Of Feminist Theory, Lisa D. Brush

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Leigh Goodmark, A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System (2011).


The Fourth Problem, I. Bennett Capers Dec 2013

The Fourth Problem, I. Bennett Capers

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Stephen J. Schulhofer, More Essential Than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century (2012), and Tracy Maclin, The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule (2013).


Citizen Ruff: Do Humans Have Political Obligations To Animals?, Helena Silverstein Dec 2013

Citizen Ruff: Do Humans Have Political Obligations To Animals?, Helena Silverstein

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka, Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011), Kimberly K. Smith, Governing Animals: Animal Welfare and the Liberal State (2012).


Massachusetts Community Mediation Center Grant Program: Fiscal Year 2013 Year-End Report & Evaluation, Susan J. Jeghelian, Madhawa Palihapitiya, Kaila O. Eisenkraft Dec 2013

Massachusetts Community Mediation Center Grant Program: Fiscal Year 2013 Year-End Report & Evaluation, Susan J. Jeghelian, Madhawa Palihapitiya, Kaila O. Eisenkraft

Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration Publications

During Fiscal Year 2013, the first year of the Massachusetts Community Mediation Center (CMC) Grant Program, 15 community mediation centers across the state were awarded state operating grants. This report documents and evaluates the progress of the CMC Grant Program towards its goal of expanding the use of community mediation as an affordable public service for Massachusetts citizenry. The status of program implementation is analyzed, and the program’s success is assessed through its impact on the stabilization and effectiveness of the funded community mediation centers as measured by, among other things, their delivery of high quality mediation services, efforts to …


Racism And Anxiety In A Black American Sample: The Role Of Mediators And A Brief Mindfulness Manipulation, Jessica Rose Graham Dec 2013

Racism And Anxiety In A Black American Sample: The Role Of Mediators And A Brief Mindfulness Manipulation, Jessica Rose Graham

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

It is important to determine factors that may exacerbate the negative effects of experiences of racism on anxiety, as well as factors that might buffer racism's negative impact on anxiety in Black American samples. To examine these factors, we conducted two related studies. In study 1, 119 Black American individuals completed the Schedule of Racist Events, the five factor mindfulness questionnaire, the anxiety control questionnaire (assessing perceptions of control), the self-hatred subscale of the cross racial identity scale, and the depression anxiety and stress Scale. As hypothesized, frequency of racist experiences over the past week was significantly positively associated with …


Crater Detection Via Genetic Search Methods To Reduce Image Features, Joseph Paul Cohen Dec 2013

Crater Detection Via Genetic Search Methods To Reduce Image Features, Joseph Paul Cohen

Graduate Masters Theses

Recent approaches to crater detection have been inspired by face detection's use of gray-scale texture features. Using gray-scale texture features for supervised machine learning crater detection algorithms provides better classification of craters in planetary images than previous methods. When using Haar features it is typical to generate thousands of numerical values from each candidate crater image. This magnitude of image features to extract and consider can spell disaster when the application is an entire planetary surface. One solution is to reduce the number of features extracted and considered in order to increase accuracy as well as speed. Feature subset selection …


The Effects Of Nesting Environment On Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury, Laura Grace Rollins Dec 2013

The Effects Of Nesting Environment On Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury, Laura Grace Rollins

Graduate Masters Theses

Term neonates with hypoxic-ischemic (HI) injury are at risk for devastating neurological sequelae. The objective of this study is to determine if altering the early environment for maternal care-taking impacts the immediate and long-term sequelae of HI offspring. The Rice-Vannucci model was used to induce HI in postnatal day (PND) 7 Long-Evans pups. Litters were assigned to a closed nest (CN) or normal standard housing (SH) condition. Neurobehavioral development, cognitive ability, and stress response were assessed to establish any benefits of the CN condition. Finally, postmortem brain tissue was analyzed for morphometric markers of injury.


Microfinance: A Tool For Financial Access, Poverty Alleviation Or Gender Empowerment ? - Empirical Findings From Pakistan, Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar Dec 2013

Microfinance: A Tool For Financial Access, Poverty Alleviation Or Gender Empowerment ? - Empirical Findings From Pakistan, Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

In just 30 years microfinance has transformed from a credit-based rural development scheme that has claimed to reduce poverty and empower poor women, to a $70 billion financial industry. In the process, the traditional NGO-led model has given way to commercialized institutions, resulting in an increased emphasis on profitmaking. This has also led to confusion in the sector around its mission: is it to alleviate poverty and empower poor women or simply to provide the "unbanked" with access to formal sources of finance? This research considers the main debates in microfinance with regard to its mission and presents empirical evidence …


Black Hispanic And Black Nonhispanic Breast Cancer Survival Data Analysis With Half-Normal Model Application, Hafiz Mohammad Rafiqullah Khan, Anshul Saxena, Veronica Vera, Faheema Abdool-Ghany, Kemesha Gabbidon, Nancy Perea Perea, Ts Stewart, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy Ramamoorthy Dec 2013

Black Hispanic And Black Nonhispanic Breast Cancer Survival Data Analysis With Half-Normal Model Application, Hafiz Mohammad Rafiqullah Khan, Anshul Saxena, Veronica Vera, Faheema Abdool-Ghany, Kemesha Gabbidon, Nancy Perea Perea, Ts Stewart, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy Ramamoorthy

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Background: Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. Differences in survival of breast cancer have been noted among racial and ethnic groups, but the reasons for these disparities remain unclear. This study presents the characteristics and the survival curve of two racial and ethnic groups and evaluates the effects of race on survival times by measuring the lifetime data-based half-normal model. Materials and Methods: The distributions among racial and ethnic groups are compared using female breast cancer patients from nine states in the country all taken from the National Cancer Institute’s …


President's Newsletter, Brooks Keel Dec 2013

President's Newsletter, Brooks Keel

President's Newsletter

No abstract provided.


State V. Perez-Jungo Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 41158 Dec 2013

State V. Perez-Jungo Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 41158

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


State V. Easley Appellant's Supplemental Brief Dckt. 39710 Dec 2013

State V. Easley Appellant's Supplemental Brief Dckt. 39710

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


Early Detection Of Pathogens In Blood, Matt Ewert Dec 2013

Early Detection Of Pathogens In Blood, Matt Ewert

USF Patents

The present invention is a method of extracting infectious pathogens from a volume of blood including the steps of creating a fibrin aggregate confining the pathogens and introducing a fibrin lysis reagent to expose the pathogens for analysis. The fibrin lysis reagent is preferably composed of plasminogen and streptokinase frozen in coincident relation until the fibrin lysis reagent is needed whereby streptokinase enzymatically reacts with plasminogen to form plasmin upon thawing. The plasminogen is suspended in an aqueous salt solution prior to freezing including NaCl and Na3PO4.


Surgical Needle With Jam Cleat, Eric Ross Henderson Dec 2013

Surgical Needle With Jam Cleat, Eric Ross Henderson

USF Patents

A surgical needle including a jam cleat for preventing slippage of suture. The jam cleat includes a suture engaging V-shaped tapered groove having opposing side walls that meet at a jam point.


Vol 5 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy Dec 2013

Vol 5 No 1 Information Page, Comparative Philosophy

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.


Laser Formation Of Graphene, Aravinda Kar, Nat Quick Dec 2013

Laser Formation Of Graphene, Aravinda Kar, Nat Quick

UCF Patents

Patents filed by licensee. Patents connected to this disclosure were not entered into the ARGIS database therefore linking them all to this on disclosure.


Apparatus And Method Of Forming High Crystalline Quality Layer, Aravinda Kar, Nat Quick Dec 2013

Apparatus And Method Of Forming High Crystalline Quality Layer, Aravinda Kar, Nat Quick

UCF Patents

Patents filed by licensee. Patents connected to this disclosure were not entered into the ARGIS database therefore linking them all to this on disclosure.


Exponentiated Kumaraswamy-Dagum Distribution With Applications To Income And Lifetime Data, Shujiao Huang, Broderick O. Oluyede Dec 2013

Exponentiated Kumaraswamy-Dagum Distribution With Applications To Income And Lifetime Data, Shujiao Huang, Broderick O. Oluyede

Mathematical Sciences: Faculty Publications

A new family of distributions called exponentiated Kumaraswamy-Dagum (EKD) distribution is proposed and studied. This family includes several well known sub-models, such as Dagum (D), Burr III (BIII), Fisk or Log-logistic (F or LLog), and new sub-models, namely, Kumaraswamy-Dagum (KD), Kumaraswamy-Burr III (KBIII), Kumaraswamy-Fisk or Kumaraswamy-Log-logistic (KF or KLLog), exponentiated Kumaraswamy-Burr III (EKBIII), and exponentiated Kumaraswamy-Fisk or exponentiated Kumaraswamy-Log-logistic (EKF or EKLLog) distributions. Statistical properties including series representation of the probability density function, hazard and reverse hazard functions, moments, mean and median deviations, reliability, Bonferroni and Lorenz curves, as well as entropy measures for this class of distributions and the …


Balancing Inner And Outer Technologies: Mobile Devices And Contemplative Practice, Nicky Duenkel Dec 2013

Balancing Inner And Outer Technologies: Mobile Devices And Contemplative Practice, Nicky Duenkel

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

This article briefly considers elements of an exploratory study undertaken in a small first year university class in Community Studies in which both mobile devices and contemplative practices were intentionally integrated. Incorporating these two pedagogical elements provided valuable insights, each in their own right, and together they created scaffolding for a Contemplative Inquiry Assignment in which students were encouraged to mindfully observe their patterns of engaging with social networking and mobile devices. This experiential learning helped students raise awareness and make conscious aspects of their social network patterning in ways that no reading or lecture could.


Mlii Financial Statements, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, William Dudley, Christine M. Cumming, Michael Strine Dec 2013

Mlii Financial Statements, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, William Dudley, Christine M. Cumming, Michael Strine

Documents

No abstract provided.


Thermolysis And Kinetics Of Scrap Tyre And Bagasse For Energy Utilization, Petro Ndalila Dec 2013

Thermolysis And Kinetics Of Scrap Tyre And Bagasse For Energy Utilization, Petro Ndalila

Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)

The increase of energy demand has brought concern to find alternative fuel that will at least sustain the requirement. Bagasse and scrap tyre are waste generated in our industrial activities, which can be used in energy production to subsidize the demand. This paper, aim to study the decomposition behaviour and kinetics of biomass (bagasse) and scrap tyre as preliminary stage of fuel sample analysis to be considered for energy production in gasification/combustion or pyrolysis facilities. The behaviour demonstrated with thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA), shows that all samples have high volatile amount release, 84.21% for bagasse and 85.08% for scrap tyre, which …


Optimising The Performance Of Roundabouts In Dar Es Salaam City, David Mfinanga Dec 2013

Optimising The Performance Of Roundabouts In Dar Es Salaam City, David Mfinanga

Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)

Intersections are one of the major bottlenecks that aggravate congestion in road networks; effective control of which is an important strategy in improving traffic flow. While developing countries have found it hard to adopt sophisticated means of intersection control, they have also not optimised the performance of roundabouts. This paper reviews the performance of roundabouts, which have become increasingly popular in recent years, as simple and low cost forms of intersection control. The performance of three major roundabouts in Dar es Salaam has been analysed and results show that roundabouts can accommodate high traffic volumes without causing excessive delays. The …


Analysis Of Factors Affecting Technological Innovativeness In Engineering Enterprises In Tanzania, Emanuel Mjema Dec 2013

Analysis Of Factors Affecting Technological Innovativeness In Engineering Enterprises In Tanzania, Emanuel Mjema

Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)

This paper discusses the technological innovativeness in engineering enterprises in Tanzania and analyses the factors affecting the innovativeness. It starts by analyzing various concepts regarding innovation, then analyzed from documentary review factors affecting innovativeness and then analyzed the innovativeness in Tanzanian enterprises. From the documentary review it was learnt that the following key factors influence technological innovativeness: Existence of innovation management; Existence of market to absorb the products of innovation; Existence of partnership between the universities and the firms; Existence of positive culture and politics towards innovation; The government playing its role to influence innovation; Existence of the right knowledge; …


Indonesian Experience In Dealing With Trademark Law: Case Study Of Batik Smes, Agus Sardjono, Brian Amy Prastyo, Desrezka Gunti Larasati Dec 2013

Indonesian Experience In Dealing With Trademark Law: Case Study Of Batik Smes, Agus Sardjono, Brian Amy Prastyo, Desrezka Gunti Larasati

Indonesia Law Review

This research aims to observe whether the Trademark Law can contribute to protect Indonesia’s batik business, particularly for the small-medium enterprises who produce and sell batik products (“Batik SMEs”). The individual trademark system has not been successful to support the batik SMEs’ business. However, the fact that those SMEs gather in a community, organization, or kinships bring potentials for the development of collective trademarks, which can address the problems that individual trademark cannot anticipate. This research finds that, in order to anticipate the free-trade ‘attack,’ i.e. imported textiles with batik patterns/motifs; Indonesian batik SMEs need to be nurtured and encouraged …


Social Engineering Through Shari’A: Islamic Law And State-Directed Da’Wa In Contemporary Aceh, R. Michael Feener Dec 2013

Social Engineering Through Shari’A: Islamic Law And State-Directed Da’Wa In Contemporary Aceh, R. Michael Feener

Indonesia Law Review

This study of the contemporary Islamic legal system in Aceh, Indonesia argues for new attention to be paid to the ways in which contemporary Muslim agendas for the implementation of Islamic law can be read as projects for future oriented social transformation—rather than as a series of reactive measures to perceived ‘crises of modernity’ and/or the political machinations of rival elites in contesting control of state power. In doing so it highlights the ways in which the ideals of, and institutional formations developed by, proponents of Islamic law are configured in relation to a broad range of non-Muslim modernist projects, …