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Establishment Of Methods For Isolation Of Pnmt+ Cardiac Progenitor Cells, Namita Varudkar Jan 2014

Establishment Of Methods For Isolation Of Pnmt+ Cardiac Progenitor Cells, Namita Varudkar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Millions of patients suffer each year from endothelial dysfunction and/or debilitating myocardial damage resulting in decreased quality of life and increased risk of death or disablement. Current pharmacological approaches are only partly effective at treating cardiovascular disease, and hence, better strategies are needed to provide significant improvements in treatment options. Cardiac stem/progenitor cells have the potential to regenerate myocardial tissue and repair damaged heart muscle. There are many different types of cardiac progenitor cells, and each may have certain unique properties and characteristics that would likely be useful …

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Broad Bandwidth, All-Fiber, Thulium-Doped Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier For Potential Use In Scaling Ultrashort Pulse Peak Powers, Alex Sincore Jan 2014

Broad Bandwidth, All-Fiber, Thulium-Doped Photonic Crystal Fiber Amplifier For Potential Use In Scaling Ultrashort Pulse Peak Powers, Alex Sincore

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Fiber based ultrashort pulse laser sources are desirable for many applications; however generating high peak powers in fiber lasers is primarily limited by the onset of nonlinear effects such as self-phase modulation, stimulated Raman scattering, and self-focusing. Increasing the fiber core diameter mitigates the onset of these nonlinear effects, but also allows unwanted higher-order transverse spatial modes to propagate. Both large core diameters and single-mode propagation can be simultaneously attained using photonic crystal fibers. Thulium-doped fiber lasers are attractive for high peak power ultrashort pulse systems. They offer a broad gain bandwidth, capable of amplifying sub-100 femtosecond pulses. The longer …

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Discovering Self, Leaving Struggle Behind, And Setting Examples: Perspectives From First-Generation, Minority Community College Women On The Value Of Higher Education, Antonia Sheel Jan 2014

Discovering Self, Leaving Struggle Behind, And Setting Examples: Perspectives From First-Generation, Minority Community College Women On The Value Of Higher Education, Antonia Sheel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study explored how first-generation, minority community college women who participated in a Student Success course understood their higher education experiences. The researcher used a basic interpretive qualitative methodology to uncover how the value of higher education was constructed within those discussions. Five purposively selected students participated in one-on-one semi structured interviews. The participant's understandings were highlighted independently, reflecting a wide range of sentiments that were largely self-directed in essence, at times ambiguous and yet, complex in nature as the women made sense of their experiences. Through the use of thematic analysis, three dominant discourses about the value of higher …

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Genetic And Biochemical Characterization Of The Roles Of Two Putative Purine Transporters In The Infectious Cycle Of Borrelia Burgdorferi, Sunny Jain Jan 2014

Genetic And Biochemical Characterization Of The Roles Of Two Putative Purine Transporters In The Infectious Cycle Of Borrelia Burgdorferi, Sunny Jain

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Lyme disease, the most common tick borne disease in United States, is caused by the bacterial pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi. In nature, B. burgdorferi exists in an enzootic infectious cycle between an arthropod vector and mammalian hosts. Identification and characterization of the genes essential for B. burgdorferi survival throughout its infectious cycle is an important step toward understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in B. burgdorferi pathogenesis. B. burgdorferi contains a small genome, which lacks the genes encoding for the enzymes required for de novo synthesis of amino acids, fatty acids and nucleic acid precursors. Therefore, the spirochete is dependent upon the …

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Perceptions Of Education As An Avenue To Life Course Success: A Study Of Millennials, Patrick Smith Jan 2014

Perceptions Of Education As An Avenue To Life Course Success: A Study Of Millennials, Patrick Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For more than a half a century the role of education and its influence on social mobility and status attainment has been a subject of research. Further more, education has been shown to be an important contributor for success over the life course. Much of the research surrounding status attainment and higher education has dealt with the Baby Boomer cohort. The purpose of the study is to examine education from a perspective that is less talked about to this point. This study uses data gathered by the Pew Research Center and examines a specific age group, current 18-30 year olds …

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Philosophy Of Law: Reply To Critics, Andrei Marmor Jan 2014

Philosophy Of Law: Reply To Critics, Andrei Marmor

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The author addresses issues raised by commentators on his book, Philosophy of Law (2011).

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Three‐Dimensional Brain Mri For Dbs Patients Within Ultra‐Low Radiofrequency Power Limits, Subhendra N. Sarkar, Efstathios Papavassiliou, David Hackney, David Alsop, Ananth Madhuranthakam, Ludy Shih, Reed Busse, Susan Laruche, Rafeeque Bhadelia Jan 2014

Three‐Dimensional Brain Mri For Dbs Patients Within Ultra‐Low Radiofrequency Power Limits, Subhendra N. Sarkar, Efstathios Papavassiliou, David Hackney, David Alsop, Ananth Madhuranthakam, Ludy Shih, Reed Busse, Susan Laruche, Rafeeque Bhadelia

Publications and Research

Background: For patients with deep brain stimulators (DBS), local absorbed radiofrequency (RF) power is unknown and is much higher than what the system estimates. We developed a comprehensive, highquality brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol for DBS patients utilizing three-dimensional (3D) magnetic resonance sequences at very low RF power. Methods: Six patients with DBS were imaged (10 sessions) using a transmit/receive head coil at 1.5 Tesla with modified 3D sequences within ultra-low specific absorption rate (SAR) limits (0.1 W/kg) using T2, fast fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and T1- weighted image contrast. Tissue signal and tissue contrast from the low-SAR images …

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Recent Developments: Ray V. State: Under Maryland Rule 4-252, Failure To Raise A Claim Of Unlawful Arrest In A Fourth Amendment Motion To Suppress Hearing Constitutes A Waiver Of The Claim And Precludes Appellate Review, Absent A Finding Of Plain Error, Nicholas B. Hawkins Jan 2014

Recent Developments: Ray V. State: Under Maryland Rule 4-252, Failure To Raise A Claim Of Unlawful Arrest In A Fourth Amendment Motion To Suppress Hearing Constitutes A Waiver Of The Claim And Precludes Appellate Review, Absent A Finding Of Plain Error, Nicholas B. Hawkins

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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Victim Gender And The Death Penalty, Caisa Elizabeth Royer, Amelia Courtney Hritz, Valerie P. Hans, Theodore Eisenberg, Martin T. Wells, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson Jan 2014

Victim Gender And The Death Penalty, Caisa Elizabeth Royer, Amelia Courtney Hritz, Valerie P. Hans, Theodore Eisenberg, Martin T. Wells, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Previous research suggests that cases involving female victims are more likely to result in death sentences. The current study examines possible reasons for this relationship using capital punishment data from the state of Delaware. Death was sought much more for murders of either male or female white victims compared to murders of black male victims. Analyzing capital sentencing hearings in Delaware from 1977-2007 decided by judges or juries, we found that both characteristics of the victims and characteristics of the murders differentiated male and female victim cases. The presence of sexual victimization, the method of killing, the relationship between the …

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Police Powers And The Constitution Of India: The Inconspicuous Ascent Of An Incongruous American Implant, Arvind Datar, Shivprasad Swaminathan Jan 2014

Police Powers And The Constitution Of India: The Inconspicuous Ascent Of An Incongruous American Implant, Arvind Datar, Shivprasad Swaminathan

Emory International Law Review

Res extra commercium is a doctrine introduced by Chief Justice Das of the Supreme Court of India in the 1957 case, State of Bombay v. R.M.D. Chamarbaugwala, which has the effect of constricting the scope of fundamental rights by rendering as constitutional outcasts certain purportedly immoral or noxious activities. It does this by blocking these activities from falling within the purview of the protection of fundamental rights. First, it will be argued that though the court did not expressly spell it out, it was the doctrine of police powers (the specific conception of the doctrine advanced by Justice Harlan of …

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Rethinking And Theorizing Regional Integration In Southern Africa, Luwam G. Dirar Jan 2014

Rethinking And Theorizing Regional Integration In Southern Africa, Luwam G. Dirar

Emory International Law Review

Regional integration studies is characterized by, and normally understood as, a combination of inquiries from various disciplines. Conventionally, integration requires the amalgamation of political and economic policies. Yet, integration projects transcend political and economic cooperation and might even require harmonization of laws and principles. Scholars from legal, economic, and political sciences have studied and engaged in intra-disciplinary conceptualization of integration. Some of the theories that developed in relation to integration schemes in the developed North reflect socio-economic, political and historical factors of the North, casting doubt on the applicability, value, and consistency of those theories to integration schemes in southern …

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Class Action Mechanisms In Chinese And Taiwanese Contexts--A Mixture Of Private And Public Law, Jing-Huey Shao Jan 2014

Class Action Mechanisms In Chinese And Taiwanese Contexts--A Mixture Of Private And Public Law, Jing-Huey Shao

Emory International Law Review

This Article provides an overview of the class action mechanisms of China and Taiwan, including an analysis of the legal and court systems and other institutions involved in the implementation. By examining representative cases and empirical evidence, this Article marks transitions between the introduction of a class action mechanism and its later transition.

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Religion And Constitutionalism: Lessons From American And Islamic Constitutionalism, Nimer Sultany Jan 2014

Religion And Constitutionalism: Lessons From American And Islamic Constitutionalism, Nimer Sultany

Emory International Law Review

This Article examines the role of religious law in constitutionalism by focusing on Egypt and Tunisia as two main case studies: Egypt is an example of the so-called 'Islamic constitutionalism' and Tunisia is an example of a more secular variety. Both cases are analyzed against the backdrop of U.S. constitutional theory and law. I begin by rejecting conceptualist approaches which focus on abstract concepts in order to assess the compatibility of religion, like Islam, with democracy. I show the futility of this kind of debate through a comparison to American debates between 'living constitutionalists' and 'originalists.' I then elaborate a …

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Casting A New Vision, Katherine M. Davis Jan 2014

Casting A New Vision, Katherine M. Davis

Emory International Law Review

Starting with Volume 29, Emory International Law Review will publish four issues per volume.

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I, Too, Sing America: Customary International Law For American State And Federal Courts' Post-Kiobel Jurisprudence, Guided By Australian And Indian Experiences, Katherine M. Davis Jan 2014

I, Too, Sing America: Customary International Law For American State And Federal Courts' Post-Kiobel Jurisprudence, Guided By Australian And Indian Experiences, Katherine M. Davis

Emory International Law Review

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. re-ignited American discussions on customary international law (CIL). Outside the Alien Tort Statute, however, CIL authority in American courts remains unresolved and seemingly at odds with federalism. Debates are polarized between theories that CIL is binding domestic law and that CIL has no authority without enacting legislation. Seeking resolution, Katherine M. Davis assesses state and federal court decisions on CIL from fellow federal nations India and Australia. Indian and Australian jurisprudence offer three insights. First, as India and Australian courts harmoniously interpret CIL in various fashions, American solutions need not be as extreme as …

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The Impact Of Situational Factors On Forum Choice And Criminal Justice System Development In Bangladesh, Kristina Lugo, Elizabeth A.M. Searing Jan 2014

The Impact Of Situational Factors On Forum Choice And Criminal Justice System Development In Bangladesh, Kristina Lugo, Elizabeth A.M. Searing

Emory International Law Review

Using a survey by the World Bank's Justice and Development Initiative, Kristina Lugo and Elizabeth Searing examine whether crime victims' choice of dispute resolution forum is more constrained by social factors, such as socioeconomic status, or by event-specific factors, such as direct economic loss from the crime itself. In Bangladesh's pluralist legal environment of competing traditional and state venues, neoinstitutionalist-inspired development strategies overlook important factors and strategies that improve access to justice for those most hurt by crime. This study finds that crime victims who suffer greater economic harm resulting directly from the crime, as well as victims of violent …

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Harmonizing Forum Non Conveniens And Foreign Money Judgment Recognition Through International Arbitration, Jungmoo Lee Jan 2014

Harmonizing Forum Non Conveniens And Foreign Money Judgment Recognition Through International Arbitration, Jungmoo Lee

Emory International Law Review

In a legal conflict where much of the harm and vital witnesses are located abroad, a U.S. court often seems justified in granting forum non conveniens. Unfortunately, the plaintiff may be unable to collect his or her judgment due to the strict standards of the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgment Recognition Act (UFCMJRA). This catch-22 is reality for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs of Aguinda v. Texaco. In order to resolve such a predicament, Jungmoo Lee argues that instead of making drastic doctrinal or statutory changes in the application of forum non conveniens and foreign money judgment standards to deal with such a …

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Alpine And Other Abandoned Towns Along The Great Northern Railroad Near Stevens Pass, Washington, 1890-1930, Stacy Marie Stanley Jan 2014

Alpine And Other Abandoned Towns Along The Great Northern Railroad Near Stevens Pass, Washington, 1890-1930, Stacy Marie Stanley

All Master's Theses

Despite the wealth of research on the early transcontinental railroads of the West, including certain areas in Washington State, there is little known about the railroad towns, camps and logging communities that arose due to the construction of the Great Northern Railroad in the Stevens Pass area. This thesis summarizes some of the information on the history of the study area, as well as results of a field investigation of archaeological remnants of one railroad town, the town of Alpine. Alpine was a short-lived town established during construction of the railroad ca. 1892 or a little later in 1910, and …

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Unintended Outcomes Of Farmers' Adaptation To Climate Variability: Deforestation And Conservation In Calakmul And Maya Biosphere Reserves, Claudia Rodriguez-Solorzano Jan 2014

Unintended Outcomes Of Farmers' Adaptation To Climate Variability: Deforestation And Conservation In Calakmul And Maya Biosphere Reserves, Claudia Rodriguez-Solorzano

Dartmouth Scholarship

Minimizing the impact of climate change on farmer livelihoods is crucial, but adaptation efforts may have unintended consequences for ecosystems, with potential impacts on farmers’ welfare. Unintended outcomes of climate adaptation strategies have been widely discussed, however, empirical exploration has been neglected. Grounded in scholarship on climate adaptation, environmental governance, social–ecological systems, and land-use change, this paper studies whether farmers’ climate adaptation contributes to deforestation or forest conservation. The paper draws on interviews with 353 farmers from 46 communities in Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Mexico and Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala. Farmers in the area of study have implemented adaptation …

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The End Of Religious Freedom: What Is At Stake?, Nelson Tebbe Jan 2014

The End Of Religious Freedom: What Is At Stake?, Nelson Tebbe

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In recent work, Steven Smith argues that the American tradition of religious freedom is newly imperiled and may even be nearing exhaustion. This Review puts to one side the substance of that argument and focuses instead on what the stakes might be, should it turn out to be correct. It concludes that the consequences would not be as severe as many people fear.

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Recent Development: Blackburn Ltd. P'Ship V. Paul: If A Trespasser Is A Member Of A Specific Class Protected By An Ordinance Or Statute, Property Owners Owe A Duty Of Care Despite Common Law Rule That No Such Duty Is Owed, Ame P. Roberts Jan 2014

Recent Development: Blackburn Ltd. P'Ship V. Paul: If A Trespasser Is A Member Of A Specific Class Protected By An Ordinance Or Statute, Property Owners Owe A Duty Of Care Despite Common Law Rule That No Such Duty Is Owed, Ame P. Roberts

University of Baltimore Law Forum

The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that the Statute or Ordinance Rule might apply, regardless of the common law duty to trespassers. Blackburn Ltd. P’ship v. Paul, 438 Md. 100, 112, 90 A.3d 464, 471 (2014) (citing Brooks v. Lewin Realty III, Inc., 378 Md. 70, 78, 835 A.2d 616, 620-21 (2003)). The court further concluded that Christopher Paul was a member of the class intended to be protected by statute, and suffered those injuries that the statute sought to prevent. Id. at 126, 90 A.3d at 479. Finally, the court held that a genuine issue of material fact …

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Maryland Personal Jurisdiction Law In The Cyberspace Content, Saad Gul Jan 2014

Maryland Personal Jurisdiction Law In The Cyberspace Content, Saad Gul

University of Baltimore Law Forum

A century ago, personal jurisdiction largely hinged on a simple litmus test: the defendant’s presence in the forum state. The issue of personal jurisdiction gained prevalence as the nation evolved from its earlier days of detached, semi-sovereign entities, whose citizens rarely interacted, to a nation where interstate commerce had increased, with interstate litigation growing correspondingly. In Pennoyer v. Neff, the Supreme Court of the United States effectively limited a state’s jurisdiction to persons physically present within its territorial borders. However, in today’s increasingly interconnected world, physical presence appears to represent an anachronism set in the post-Civil War, horse-and-buggy America of …

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The Edict Of Milan Through The Prism Of Students At The Faculty Of Orthodox Theology In Macedonia, Ruzhica Cacanoska, Maja Angelovska Jan 2014

The Edict Of Milan Through The Prism Of Students At The Faculty Of Orthodox Theology In Macedonia, Ruzhica Cacanoska, Maja Angelovska

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This paper is an integral whole of three, seemingly different parts, each of which has the Edict of Milan as its main topic. The first part presents the historical data and key elements of the Edict of Milan which serves as an introduction into the research, which also serve as a part of the basic information that are pointed out to students. The second part of this paper points out how the anniversary of issuing the Edict of Milan--a date of utmost importance for Christianity--is being celebrated in the region. The third part contains an account of the sociological research …

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The Relationship Between Metacognition, Entrepreneurial Orientation, And Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation, Young Sik Cho, Joo Y. Jung Jan 2014

The Relationship Between Metacognition, Entrepreneurial Orientation, And Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation, Young Sik Cho, Joo Y. Jung

Management Faculty Publications

This study aims to examine the relationship between an entrepreneur’s metacognition, entrepreneurial orientation (EO), and firm performance. We collected primary data from 190 entrepreneurs (business owners or founders) working in the U.S. through a survey. By performing both the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and the structural equation modeling (SEM), we tested our hypothesized research model that represented the metacognition-EO-firm performance relationship. The results from the statistical analysis demonstrate that an entrepreneur's metacognition has a significant positive impact on EO. Furthermore, the study result shows that EO has a full mediating effect on the relationship between entrepreneurial metacognition and firm performance. …

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Let-7 Microrna-Binding-Site Polymorphism In The 3′Utr Of Kras And Colorectal Cancer Outcome: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Scott M. Langevin, Brock C. Christensen Jan 2014

Let-7 Microrna-Binding-Site Polymorphism In The 3′Utr Of Kras And Colorectal Cancer Outcome: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Scott M. Langevin, Brock C. Christensen

Dartmouth Scholarship

There is a small but growing body of literature regarding the predictive utility of a Let-7 microRNA-binding-site polymorphism in the 30 -untranslated region (UTR) of KRAS (KRAS-LCS6) for colorectal cancer outcome, although the results are conflicting. We performed a review and meta-analysis in an attempt to better clarify this relationship. A PubMed search was conducted to identify all studies reporting on KRAS let-7 microRNA-binding site polymorphism (LCS6; rs61764370) and colorectal cancer outcome. Hazard ratios (HR) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) were extracted or estimated from each manuscript. Log HRs and log CIs were combined across studies using the inverse-variance …

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Fires At St. John's, Peggy L. Roske Jan 2014

Fires At St. John's, Peggy L. Roske

Archives History Lessons

No abstract provided.

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Stacked Modulation In A Hall Reverberation Algorithm, Kelsey M. Cintorino, Daniel M. Wisniewski, Benjamin D. Mcpheron Jan 2014

Stacked Modulation In A Hall Reverberation Algorithm, Kelsey M. Cintorino, Daniel M. Wisniewski, Benjamin D. Mcpheron

Engineering, Computing & Construction Management Faculty Publications

Reverberation is the reflection of sound caused by objects in space, similar to the way the visual world is sensed by the reflection of light. Novel reverberation algorithms are in high demand within the music industry due to changing trends and desire for unique sounds. As DSP hardware has improved, it is easier to implement multiple effects into the same algorithm. This paper presents a hall algorithm augmented with a series of chorus modulation blocks in an attempt to create new sounds. The approach is to add chorus blocks before the early decay phase of the hall algorithm, as well …

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Immersing Youth In A Summer Wellness 4-H Camp: Gardening, Culinary, Nutrition And Physical Activity, William E. Beckley, Ruth E. Litchfield Jan 2014

Immersing Youth In A Summer Wellness 4-H Camp: Gardening, Culinary, Nutrition And Physical Activity, William E. Beckley, Ruth E. Litchfield

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

No abstract provided.

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Lessons Learned In Utilizing Aca’S Youth Outcome Battery For Program Improvement, Marianne Bird, John Borba, Keith Nathanial, Matthew Portillo, Rita Boyes, Shannon Dogan Jan 2014

Lessons Learned In Utilizing Aca’S Youth Outcome Battery For Program Improvement, Marianne Bird, John Borba, Keith Nathanial, Matthew Portillo, Rita Boyes, Shannon Dogan

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

No abstract provided.

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Omk Camps Help Youth Develop Self-Efficacy To Deal With The Challenges Of Military Deployments, Christy Clary, Theresa M. Ferrari Jan 2014

Omk Camps Help Youth Develop Self-Efficacy To Deal With The Challenges Of Military Deployments, Christy Clary, Theresa M. Ferrari

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

No abstract provided.

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