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Meaningful Use Of Electronic Health Records For Physician Collaboration: A Patient Centered Health Care Perspective, Cherie Noteboom, Sergey Motorny, Sajda Qureshi, Surendra Sarnikar

CAHIT

No abstract provided.

Armstrong Institutional Review Board Video Consent Form, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Institutional Review Board: Policies & Forms (Archived)

Armstrong Institutional Review Board Video Consent Form

Resistance To Septoria Musiva In Hybrid Poplar, Ruqian Qin

Plant Pathology

Septoria leaf spot and stem canker, caused by the fungal pathogen Mycosphaerella populorum Thompson (Anamomorph = Septoria musiva Peck). An efficient greenhouse disease resistance screening is essential for the development of resistant clones. Fourteen clones of hybrid poplar were inoculated with spore suspension. A regression model with parameters (lesion number and proportion necrotic area) is consistently and accurately predicted field resistance categories of the most resistant and susceptible clones. In second experiments, the infection biology of S. musiva was examined at several time points by scanning electron microscopy (6 h, 12 h, 24 h, 72 h, 1-week and 3-week) and …

Armstrong State University 2014 Fact Book, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Office of Institutional Research: Armstrong Fact Books (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Cavitation Inception And Contaminant Effects, Jennifer Marie Jordahl

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Within a liquid, it is possible to lower the pressure to a point in which the nuclei gas bubbles will cause cavitation inception. During this drop in pressure, at constant temperature, the bubble tension will increase to the inception pressure. The difference between vapor pressure and the pressure where inception occurs is the tensile strength of the liquid. Frankel introduced the calculation of the potential tensile strength of a liquid. Studies show a drastic difference in the calculated potential tensile strength of a liquid and the tensile strength obtained through experimentation. Environmental effects or contaminants affect cavitation inception. Studying the …

The Dynamics Of Viscous Droplets Near Micro-Patterned Solid Surfaces In Creeping Flow, Kevin Michael Beussman

Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

The interaction between droplets and solid surfaces is of great importance in industrial applications, biochemical processes, and fundamental materials research on surface wettability. In this work, a three-dimensional spectral boundary element method has been employed to investigate the dynamics of a viscous droplet moving under gravity influence normal and parallel to a micro-patterned solid surface. The dynamics of the droplet moving perpendicular to the substrate are investigated under the influence of Bond number, droplet size, and topological features of the substrate. We find that the droplet dynamics can be controlled by varying Bond number, droplet size, and pattern height and …

Gene Expression And Evolution In Escherichia Coli Biofilm, Priyankar Samanta

Microbiological Sciences

Biofilms can be defined as a complex aggregation of bacterial communities that involves many gene regulatory mechanisms, as well as evolutionary processes to increase biodiversity. Specific Aim 1 used a gene regulation approach to identity novel targets for the development of biofilm prevention and treatment techniques. The goal was to determine genes that get expressed early in biofilm development (prevention targets) and genes that get expressed late and in the outer layer of the biofilm (treatment targets). Biofilm formation is regulated by numerous regulators, including the two-component osmoregulator system EnvZ/OmpR, the colanic acid activator rcsCDB and the global regulator FlhD/FlhC. …

Characterization Of A Novel Cryptosporidium Genotype In Red-Winged Black Birds, Jeba Rose Jennifer Jesudoss Chelladurai

Microbiological Sciences

Cryptosporidium species cause cryptosporidiosis, characterized by acute gastroenteritis in humans and animals worldwide. Knowledge of the diversity of Cryptosporidium among mammals and birds is incomplete, especially in North American passerines. In this first molecular study of Cryptosporidium in a North American passerine, C. parvum and a novel genotype, called the red-winged black bird genotype were isolated. Genetic characteristics and phylogenetic analyses of the red-winged black bird genotype were described at the 18S rRNA, actin and HSP70 loci, and it was distinct from previously described species and genotypes. The novelty of this genotype was also supported by propagation studies in chickens, …

Using Imputed Microrna Regulation Based On Weighted Ranked Expression And Putative Microrna Targets And Analysis Of Variance To Select Micrornas For Predicting Prostate Cancer Recurrence, Qi Wang

Statistics

Imputed microRNA regulation based on weighted ranked expression and putative microRNA targets (IMRE) is a method to predict microRNA regulation from genome-wide gene expression. A false discovery rate (FDR) for each microRNA is calculated using the expression of the microRNA putative targets to analyze the regulation between different conditions. FDR is calculated to identify the differences of gene expression. The dataset used in this research is the microarray gene expression of 596 patients with prostate cancer. This dataset includes three different phenotypes: PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen recurrence), Systemic (Systemic Disease Progression) and NED (No Evidence of Disease). We used the IMRE …

Distilling Americans: The Legacy Of Prohibition On U.S. Immigration Law, Jayesh Rathod

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Since the early twentieth century, federal immigration law has targeted noncitizens believed to engage in excessive alcohol consumption by prohibiting their entry or limiting their ability to obtain citizenship and other benefits. The first specific mention of alcohol-related behavior appeared in the Immigration Act of 1917, which called for the exclusion of "persons with chronic alcoholism" seeking to enter the United States. Several decades later, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 specified that any noncitizen who "is or was ... a habitual drunkard" was per se lacking in good moral character, and hence ineligible for naturalization. Although the "chronic …

Access To Health Care As An Incentive For Healthy Behavior, Lindsay Wiley

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved by vehicle safety standards. For many years, the auto industry fought the adoption of even the most basic standards tooth and nail, arguing that driver responsibility was the key to preventing auto accidents. In doing so, vehicle manufacturers "reinforceled] certain common sense ideas about traffic safety"-that drivers were responsible for car accidents and that vehicle design could not do much to make serious crashes survivable-"and suppressled] others." Auto insurers-who bear much of the economic cost of car crashes through a combination of first party and liability insurance-initially joined auto manufacturers in pushing …

Restoration Of Historical Memory And Dignity For Victims Of The Armenian Genocide: A Human Rights Law Approach To Effective Reparations, Richard Wilson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This article argues that United Nations human rights principles and new developments in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights suggest a route to provide effective reparation through restoration of historical memory and dignity for victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Foreword, The Future Of International Criminal Justice, Claudio Grossman

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

International criminal law attempts to sanction crimes that have a global nature and impact. After World War II, the international community came together to begin addressing important international issues, including preventing future war and non-war related atrocities and crimes. From the International Military Tribunals established in the wake of World War II to the world's first permanent International Criminal Court (ICC), a number of international bodies, treaties, and statutes have been formed in an effort to effectively administer criminal justice on an international level. Yet the administration and application of international criminal justice has faced significant hurdles and there are …

Non-Party Interests In Closing Opinion Letters, Heather Hughes

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

INTRODUCTION: What do transactional lawyers do when they issue third-party opinion letters in financial transactions? This descriptive question turns out to be quite complex'-so complex that the normative question of what lawyers should do when they issue opinions, as well as the practical question of what they could do, are difficult to answer. This Symposium Article reflects upon third-party closing opinions as a central aspect of business law practice that can be opaque to outsiders. The ideas expressed here are exploratory. In the spirit of reflecting on what transactional lawyers do, this contribution considers deal lawyer strategies as potential tools …

Suicide Bombers In Iraq, 2003-2010: Disaggregating Targets Can Reveal Insurgent Motives And Priorities, Katherine R. Seifert, Clark R. Mccauley

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Extending data reported by Hafez in 2007, we compiled a database of 1,779 suicide bombers who attempted or completed attacks in Iraq from 2003 through 2010. From 2003 through 2006, monthly totals of suicide bombers show a pattern different from the pattern of non-suicide attacks by insurgents, but from 2007 through 2010 the two patterns were similar. This biphasic pattern tests the common assumption that suicide attacks require separate analysis: it appears that suicide attacks sometimes vary along with the general volume of insurgent violence. We also show that only 13 percent of suicide bombers targeted coalition forces and international …

Channeling And Contending With Bill Kovacic, Jonathan B. Baker

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.

Civil Consequences Of Corruption In International Commercial Contracts, Padideh Ala'i

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

The United States legal system seeks to prevent and prohibit bribery and corruption through a myriad of laws, regulations and policies. Anti-corruption jurisprudence is more developed in the context of public sector contracts where the United States criminalizes bribery of public officials through 18 U.S.C. §201 (Bribery of Public Officials and Witnesses). In addition, the United States was the first country to criminalize bribery of foreign government officials in 1977 with the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The FCPA has since been amended to comply with the adoption of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign …

The Most Important Cases Of The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Richard Wilson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), together with its companion body, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), are autonomous organs of the Organization of American States (OAS). The IACHR promotes and protects human rights in the Western Hemisphere. Created by the OAS in 1959, the Commission has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Together with the Court, established in 1979 in San Jose, Costa Rica, the Commission has emerged as a model of international human rights and humanitarian law, as well as of individual rights.Since its inception, the Commission has made extraordinary progress. Through its 55-year history, it has …

Conceptions Of Agency In Social Movement Scholarship: Mack On African American Civil Rights Lawyers [Comments], Susan Carle

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This essay examines the theory of individual agency that propels the central thesis in Kenneth Mack's Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (2012)-namely, that an important yet understudied means by which African American civil rights lawyers changed conceptions of race through their work was through their very performance of the professional role of lawyer. Mack shows that this performance was inevitably fraught with tension and contradiction because African American lawyers were called upon to act both as exemplary representatives of their race and as performers of a professional role that traditionally had been reserved for whites …

What It Means To Be A Lawyer In These Uncertain Times: Some Thoughts On Ethical Participation In The Legal Education Industry, Susan Carle

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Discusses legal employment and salary and how legal education can address the current market.

Hostos Community College Academic Bulletin 2014-2016, Hostos Community College

College Bulletins

This is the official college catalog for 2014-2016. It contains course descriptions as well as information on degree programs, college resources and services, financial aid, admissions, and the academic calendar.

Exploring The Feasibility Of International Collaboration And Relationship Building Through A Virtual Partnership Scheme, Kim K. Smith, Jane Mackenzie, Renee A. Meyers

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

International collaboration is an under-studied component of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This study sheds light on the process of international collaboration by illustrating an exploratory approach to the process of forming and maintaining collaborative partnerships. Participants in this study were put into pairs (each one comprised of one individual from the University of Glasgow and another from the University of Wisconsin System) and asked to participate in email correspondence over the course of one year. The text of participants’ emails was pooled and analyzed through a general inductive approach using NVivo software. The study, though small in …

Lgbti Migrants In Immigration Detention: A Global Perspective, Shana Tabak, Rachel Levitan

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.

Action Research, Assessment, And Institutional Review Boards (Irb): Conflicting Demands Or Productive Tension For The Academic Librarian?, Robert Farrell

Publications and Research

This article puts forward an “assessment/action research/publication” cycle that integrates aspects of the assessment, research, and Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes to provide academic librarians with a systematic approach for balancing competing workplace demands and give library managers a roadmap for creating a “research culture” (Jacobs, Berg, and Cornwall) within their libraries. The article argues that librarians and library managers have much to gain by integrating action research into librarians’ everyday work loads, including increased ease in meeting publication demands for tenure and/or promotion, institutionalizing habits of reflective practice across all library service areas, and overall library improvement.

Research Needs In The Colorado River Basin: A Summary Of Policy-Related Topics To Explore Further In Support Of Solution-Oriented Decision-Making, Colorado River Governance Initiative, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment Western Water Policy Program

Books, Reports, and Studies

14 p. ; 28 cm

Restoring Sacred Waters: A Guide To Protecting Tribal Non-Consumptive Water Uses In The Colorado River Basin, Julie Nania, Julia Guarino, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment

Books, Reports, and Studies

105 p. : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Introduction -- Gathering information and starting the process -- Indian federal reserved water rights -- Using Indian federal reserved water rights for instream flows -- Negotiating for non-consumptive uses in settlement agreements -- Protecting non-consumptive uses in tribal water codes -- Other legal tools -- Irrigating for instream flows and traditional plants -- Summary and key points

Building Blogs (And Law Firm Web Sites): Ethically, Effectively, Walter Effross

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.

Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay Wiley

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Health law is in the midst of a dramatic transformation. From a relatively narrow discipline focused on regulating relationships among individual patients, health care providers, and third-party payers, it is expanding into a far broader field with a burgeoning commitment to access to health care and assurance of healthy living conditions as matters of social justice. Through a series of incremental reform efforts stretching back decades before the Affordable Care Act and encompassing public health law as well as the law of health care financing and delivery, reducing health disparities has become a central focus of American health law and …

The Ohio State University Dispute Resolution In Special Education Symposium Panel, Robert Dinerstein

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.

Exploitation Creep And The Unmaking Of Human Trafficking Law, Janie Chuang

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

The U.S. government and influential NGOs have been promoting a greatly expanded legal and policy understanding of the problem of human trafficking, recasting forced labor as trafficking, and trafficking as "modern-day slavery." The aggregate effect is a doctrinally problematic "exploitation creep." For strong legal and policy reasons, anti-trafficking efforts should target struc- tural vulnerability to trafficking through strengthened labor frameworks. On the same grounds the article contests initiatives to conflate human trafficking with slavery and to address trafficking primarily under an ex post crime-control par- adigm focused on perpetrator accountability and victim protection.