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Factors Influencing Vaccination Decisions In African American Mothers Of Preschool Age Children, Chauntel Mckenzie Mcnair

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Rates and coverage levels of immunizations of African-American children are reduced compared to other races. Few studies have identified factors that influence vaccination decisions of African-American mothers. This study assessed the mothers' vaccination decisions using a self-administered questionnaire and a screening instrument for determining health literacy. This instrument is called Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM). The sample was 92 African American mothers, recruited from a large metropolitan church in Jacksonville, Florida, who had at least one child under the age of seven. A cross-sectional research design was used to administer survey instruments to identify and interpret parental …

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Design Of Engineered Biomaterial Architectures Through Natural Silk Proteins, Nicholas Kurland

Theses and Dissertations

Silk proteins have provided a source of unique and versatile building blocks in the fabrication of biomedical devices for addressing a range of applications. Critical to advancing this field is the ability to establish an understanding of these proteins in their native and engineered states as well as in developing scalable processing strategies, which can fully exploit or enhance the stability, structure, and functionality of the two constituent proteins, silk fibroin and sericin. The research outlined in this dissertation focuses on the evolution in architecture and capability of silks, to effectively position a functionally-diverse, renewable class of silk materials within …

Banales ’14 Named Lincoln Laureate, Kinzie Schweigert

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Ranking Literature From The Network Of Drug-Disease Association Through Multi-Layered Semantic Model, Karththikka Ramani Muthukuri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This thesis presents the design and impementation of a system to find the top ranked relevant Medline citations with hyperlinks. The iput to the systm is a network of semantically related drug-diseases associations obtained by the DDNet. A fully functional system can be used for generation/validation of hypothesis or to find most relevant literature based on user input in birdging gap between the generation and utilzation of biomedical literature. Such a system may also have an impact in identification of "drug targets" and may open new avenues for "drug repositioning" in clinical and translational research. Multi-Layered LSA model is implemented …

Regular And Irregular Type Spacing Error With Tooth Profile Modification Effect On Dynamic Load Of Spur Gear System, Yuxin Qi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The dynamic load of gears with regular type of spacing error such as full-sine and half-sine type has been analyzed in several previous research works. In this study, the irregular type of tooth spacing error is incorporated with the regular type ones to determine their effect on gear dynamic response. Linear and Parabolic tooth profile modification are applied to evaluate their influence on the dynamic loads of gear systems with regular or irregular tooth spacing errors. All dynamic analyses are conducted using the NASA gear dynamics code, DANST program.The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between gear …

Hermitian Operators And Projections On Hardy Spaces, Raena Bryant King

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

We look at unbounded hermitian operators on Kolaski spaces with derivatives in a smooth space, $H_N$. We find the generator of one parameter groups of isometries on Kolaski spaces and provide spectral properties of the generator. We apply this result to the $S^p(D)$ spaces using results from Berkson and Porta on $H^p$ spaces. We then consider the vector valued space $H^p_{mathcal{H}}$ and determine the bounded hermitian operators and provide results if a particular group of disk automorphisms is used. In the second part we find that the generalized bi-circular projections on $H^p(mathbb{T}^2)$ are given by the average of the identity …

Varying Effects Of Agricultural Pesticides On Host-Pathogen Interactions And Aquatic Ecosystems In An Amphibian System, Shane Michael Hanlon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Due to the displacement of natural habitats by anthropogenic landscapes (e.g. agricultural fields), the use of agrochemicals (e.g. pesticides) has increased exponentially and non-target organisms such as amphibians are often at risk of exposure through direct overspray, runoff, or spraydrift. Because agricultural landscapes are encroaching on amphibian habitats, interactions likely occur between environmental pressures such as disease and contamination. Accordingly, I assessed the effects of pesticides on the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) host-pathogen interactions. As Bd-infected individuals have been found in agricultural-adjacent landscapes, pesticides can potentially alter host-pathogen interactions. In chapter two I demonstrated that pesticides can kill Bd …

Editor's Introduction, Jr. Aguilar

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

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The Filipino As Libertarian Contemporary Implications Of Anarchism, Charles J-H; Macdonald

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Modern Philippine society presents a number of traits that have puzzled or fascinated social scientists: an apparent looseness of organization, institutional fuzziness, intense factionalism, moral values geared toward smooth interpersonal interaction, a weak sense of public good, and a bilateral kinship system. Thisarticle revisits these points and makes sense of them by using a model of society called “anarchic” or “open-aggregated.” This conceptual grid applies to other societies and cultures, but is particularly enlightening with respect to Filipino values, their institutional style, and preferred types of behavior. Particular attention is paid to kinship and politics, to pakikisama and utang na …

The Hero Legend In Colonial Southeast Asia, Thomas; University Gibson

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Four legends that originated in the different religious and colonial contexts of the Tagalog and Makassar peoples are shown to conform to Edward Tylor’s classical “hero pattern.” Using structural anthropology and cognitive linguistics, thisarticle argues that hero legends generated metaphors from concrete relationships in the domestic domain to conceptualize abstract relationships in a series of other domains. The hero pattern underwent transformations in tandem with changes in the political and economic institutions in which it was embedded. From its beginnings as a charter for rival city-states in the ancient Middle East, it became a charter for the universalistic world religions …

Contracting Colonialism And The Long 1970s, Vicente L. Rafael

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

How is it that a book published over twenty-five years ago dealing with a distant historical moment, consisting of a series of close readings of equally obscure texts that few scholars of even the same period bother to read and informed by a style of thinking largely foreign to nationalist ideas, continues to be read and referenced not only in the Philippines but in other parts of the world? Thisarticle seeks to answer this question by placing the making of Contracting Colonialism within the context of the long 1970s in both the Philippines and the United States.Keywords: ContraCting Colonialism • …

Contracting Colonialism: From Thesis To Book To Ebook, Vernon R. Totanes

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

It is rare for scholarly books on Philippine history by Filipinos to remain in print twenty-five years after they were initially published. This research note examines the publishing history of Vicente Rafael’s Contracting Colonialism—from its origins as a doctoral thesis to its simultaneous publication by a US and a Philippine university press to its current availability as an ebook via two different platforms—to explore possible reasons behind its longevity and influence.Keywords: Contracting Colonialism • BooK History • Cornell University Press • Ateneo de Manila University Press • DUKe University Press

Citing A Southeast Asian Classic Citation Analysis Of Vicente Rafael’S: Contracting Colonialism, Ramon Guillermo

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

On an international plane, Contracting Colonialism by Vicente Rafael is probably one of the most successful historical works written by a Filipino. Since its publication, it has been widely cited in various disciplines such as Philippine studies, Southeast Asian studies, translation studies, Latin American studies, and various other fields. This paper aims to gain some insight into the extent and nature of its extraordinary influence, both Philippine and international, through citation analysis. However, a critical perspective is also offered on the issue of scholarly valuation through such citation analysis in relation to the Malaysian scholar Syed Farid Alatas’s proposal for …

A German Travels To The North In 1878: Golden Anitos, Bird-Scaring Machines, And The Tree Of Justice, Ramon Guillermo, Maria Eliza Agabin

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

After finishing his education at the University of Munich, the German pharmacist Dr. Heinrich Rothdauscher (1851–1937) spent the years 1873 to 1883 working in drugstores in Manila, Cebu, and Vigan. He eventually finished writing an account of his experiences in a work entitled “Memoirs of a German Pharmacist” in 1932. Presented here is a translation of two chapters of a short expedition to the Cordilleras in 1878, which contain interesting literary, historical, and ethnographic elements.Keywords: Travel memoirs • German • PhiliPPines • The Cordilleras • ifuGao

Index To Volume 61, Index To Volume 61

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

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Improving Business Intelligence Design Process Using A Multi-Perspective Inter-Disciplinary Communication Approach, Michael Albert Tomasura

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

Organizations are continually accumulating large amounts of business data, as an increasing number of business processes are being conducted electronically. Analyzing these large data sets is often referred to as the “Big Data” problem because of the complexity and distributed nature of the data. While there is an abundance of business data available to business users for analysis, it is not being used due to lack of Business Intelligence (BI) Tools’ capability and a growing backlog of requests to Enterprise IT departments for new and modified data models to support continuously evolving reporting and analysis requirements. In addition, current processes …

The Murray Ledger And Times, November 25, 2013, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Guest Lecture/Recital - Goldberg Variations, Peter Vinograde, Piano, Goldberg Variations, Peter Vinograde

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

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Ias Annual Report Fy: 2010-2011, Suzanne Schadl

Inter-American Studies Administrative Papers

Annual Report for the 2010/2011 Fiscal Year (July 2010-June 2011) for the Inter-American Studies Program at the University of New Mexico, University Libraries. Contains information on collection management, acquisitions, exhibits, hosted lectures & screenings, instruction and coordinators grants, service and public presentations.

"Mesoamerican Codices And Their Depictions: History Recorded, History Erased," Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, Spring 2004, Inter-American Studies

Exhibit Posters

Exhibit Poster - "Mesoamerican Codices and their Depictions - History Recorded, History Erased", Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, Spring 2004

"Vicente Lombardo Toledano: Paths Of Struggle, Triumph, Defeat," Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, Spring 2002, Inter-American Studies

Exhibit Posters

Exhibit Poster - "Vicente Lombardo Toledano: Paths of Struggle, Triumph, Defeat," Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery, Spring 2002

Analysis Of Plasminogen Binding To Treponema Denticola, A Key Periopathogen, Brittney Tegels

Theses and Dissertations

Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects over 116 million adults in the United States. A shift in the normal microflora occurs as periodontal disease develops resulting in a larger number of Gram-negative anaerobes and spirochetes. An increase in the oral spirochete, Treponema denticola, is highly correlated with periodontal disease progression and severity. The ability of this periopathogen to thrive in the subgingival crevice is dependent on complement evasion mechanisms. Earlier analyses demonstrated that the primary mechanism of T. denticola serum resistance is binding of the human complement regulatory protein, Factor H (FH), to the factor H-binding protein (FhbB). …

Ceratobasidium Root Rot: A New Disease Of Watermelon In Arizona, Claudia Nischwitz

All Current Publications

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Why The American Library Association Wants Porn In Libraries, Unknown

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 24, 2013, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2013

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Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News November 24, 2013, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2013

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St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, November 24, 2013

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 24, 2013, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2013

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