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Industry Career Guide: Manufacturing, Kurt Gerrard T. See, Mitzie Irene P. Conchada Jan 2015

Industry Career Guide: Manufacturing, Kurt Gerrard T. See, Mitzie Irene P. Conchada

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

Manufacturing sector in the Philippines has one of the largest contributions to the growth of the economy. Throughout the years, starting from the 1970s, the manufacturing sector has been one of the driving forces behind the country’s growth. It has proven its importance in the economy because of benefits such as employment generation and technological innovation.

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Industry Career Guide: Transportation And Logistics, Gina Ledda, Rhory Fernandez Jan 2015

Industry Career Guide: Transportation And Logistics, Gina Ledda, Rhory Fernandez

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

The transportation and logistics industries involve the physical movement of persons and goods. Logistics specifically refers to the transport of the goods, materials, or products, which includes the management of freight, storage, packaging, and inventory. Transport and logistics encompass a wide range of activities and play a vital role in the growth of other sectors of the Philippine economy. Extreme competition and growing international trade highlighted the role of the Service Sector where Transportation, Communication and Storage (TCS) is a component. In 2010, the Service Sector accounted for P3.2B (55%) of the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) where TCS contributed …

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'Furor' As Failed 'Pietas': Roman Poetic Constructions Of Madness Through The Time Of Virgil, Emily A. Mcdermott Jan 2015

'Furor' As Failed 'Pietas': Roman Poetic Constructions Of Madness Through The Time Of Virgil, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics & Religious Studies Faculty Publication Series

Roman poetic portrayals of mad characters through the time of Virgil construct a fundamental opposition between madness, an ipso facto self-absorbed or egoistic condition, and sanity, which duly fixes its gaze outside of itself, on parents, forebears, and the walls of state. The poets conceptualize furor less as what a modern sensibility would label insanity or mental illness than as a passion-fueled state antithetical to social order, able to be held in check only by rigorous adherence to the duty-oriented cultural code of pietas. In this moralized conception of madness, erotic furor is not a metaphorical by-path but a …

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A Case Study On Ethical Decision Making By Legislative Leaders And Their Motion To Approve The North Carolina Charter School Bill Of 2011, Moses Fox Iii Jan 2015

A Case Study On Ethical Decision Making By Legislative Leaders And Their Motion To Approve The North Carolina Charter School Bill Of 2011, Moses Fox Iii

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the role that equity and ethics played in decision making by examining the perspectives of elected leaders in a case where members of the North Carolina legislature decided to lift the cap on charter schools by enacting the 2011 North Carolina Charter School Bill. The analysis was based on triangulated qualitative data from historical documents, written documents from the state’s legislative library, and interviews from consenting legislative leaders of North Carolina. The researcher used Colaizzi’s (1978) phenomenological data analysis protocol to explore and understand the participants’ lived experiences. Finally, a pattern matching …

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How The Eu Membership Has Affected Turkey’S Political Environment, Emre Kantarci Jan 2015

How The Eu Membership Has Affected Turkey’S Political Environment, Emre Kantarci

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis aims to analyze and argue how the membership process for the European Union has affected Turkish politics and to what outcome it led Turkey. Starting with the EU candidacy, Turkey has gone through radical political changes, most of which have proved negative given the history of the country. Such changes included the weakening of the Turkish Army, strengthening of Kurdish separatism, the rise of Islamic-oriented parties, and Turkey’s political shift away from western-orientation. First, the EU and its history will be analyzed analyzed as a way to illustrate the requirements for Turkey as a candidate nation. Afterwards, I …

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Screening Of Natural Products For Their Effect On Kallikrein-Kinin System: Potential Implications In The Treatment Of Hereditary Angioedema, Hassan Abdu Madkhali Jan 2015

Screening Of Natural Products For Their Effect On Kallikrein-Kinin System: Potential Implications In The Treatment Of Hereditary Angioedema, Hassan Abdu Madkhali

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Plasma prekallikrein (PK) activation exerts both physiological and pathological effects within the cardiovascular system and central nervous system (CNS). Activated PK (kallikrein) controls cytokine release from human mononuclear cells and controls both the intrinsic blood coagulation and the alternative complement cascades. The uncontrolled activation of these cascades results in the development of pathological pain and angioedema. Increased plasma kallikrein levels are associated with hereditary angioedema (HAE) and myocardial infarction, whereby kallikrein amplifies the generation of activated factor XII (FXIIa) and bradykinin (BK) release from high molecular weight kininogen (HMWK). The primary objective of this study was to screen natural products …

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Reducing Cheap Tobacco & Youth Access: New York City, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jason Roche, Todd Combs, Heidi Walsh, Amy Sorg Jan 2015

Reducing Cheap Tobacco & Youth Access: New York City, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jason Roche, Todd Combs, Heidi Walsh, Amy Sorg

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report is the third in a series of case studies from the ASPiRE project highlighting communities that are implementing innovative point of sale (POS) policies. The case studies are intended to provide tobacco control advocates with practical, real-world examples that may be used to inform future policy efforts. This case study highlights landmark efforts in New York City (NYC) to eliminate access to cheap tobacco and reduce youth tobacco use through regulation at the POS.

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Best Practices User Guide: Health Equity In Tobacco Prevention And Control, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Laura Brossart, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Stephanie Andersen Jan 2015

Best Practices User Guide: Health Equity In Tobacco Prevention And Control, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Laura Brossart, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Stephanie Andersen

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This user guide was created to help tobacco control staff and partners implement evidence-based best practices by translating research into practical guidance. The user guides focus on strategies (e.g., programs and interventions) that have shown strong or promising evidence of effectiveness. Recommendations in this guide are suggestions for programs implementing strategies to improve health equity.

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Imf Financial Operations 2015 - Glossary, International Monetary Fund (Imf) Jan 2015

Imf Financial Operations 2015 - Glossary, International Monetary Fund (Imf)

Documents

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Putting The Bank Recovery And Resolution Directive To The Test, Qc Hodge Malek, James Potts Jan 2015

Putting The Bank Recovery And Resolution Directive To The Test, Qc Hodge Malek, James Potts

Documents

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Don't Ask, Must Tell—And Other Combinations, Adam M. Samaha, Lior Strahilevitz Jan 2015

Don't Ask, Must Tell—And Other Combinations, Adam M. Samaha, Lior Strahilevitz

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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No-Haggle Agreements, Saul Levmore, Ariel Porat Jan 2015

No-Haggle Agreements, Saul Levmore, Ariel Porat

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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The Distributive Deficit In Law And Economics, Richard H. Mcadams, Lee Anne Fennell Jan 2015

The Distributive Deficit In Law And Economics, Richard H. Mcadams, Lee Anne Fennell

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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The Inefficacy Of Constitutional Torture Prohibitions, Adam S. Chilton, Mila Versteeg Jan 2015

The Inefficacy Of Constitutional Torture Prohibitions, Adam S. Chilton, Mila Versteeg

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

The prohibition of torture is one of the most emblematic norms of the modern human rights movement, and its prevalence in national constitution has increased steeply in the past three decades. Yet little is known about whether constitutional torture prohi

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Approval, Anxiety, And Alcohol: An Exploration Of Problematic Drinking With College Students, Briella Baer Jan 2015

Approval, Anxiety, And Alcohol: An Exploration Of Problematic Drinking With College Students, Briella Baer

Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Where Have We Been And Where Are We Going? A Conceptual Framework For Child Advocacy, Michele Cascardi, Cathy Brown, Svetlana Shpiegel, Ariel Alvarez Jan 2015

Where Have We Been And Where Are We Going? A Conceptual Framework For Child Advocacy, Michele Cascardi, Cathy Brown, Svetlana Shpiegel, Ariel Alvarez

Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The primary goal of this article is to chart the development of child advocacy as an interdisciplinary field of study and conclude with a conceptual framework for research and higher education in child advocacy. Historically, child advocacy has justifiably focused on protection needs. Values and assumptions about children's best interest have also governed child advocacy, in part because evidence to inform decisions was lacking and in part because of its history as an activist movement. Against this historical backdrop, we describe contemporary trends in child advocacy that reconcile children's protection with their inherent rights to personhood. We rely on the …

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"Watching To Banish Care": Sleep And Insomnia In Book 1 Of The Faerie Queene, Benjamin Parris Jan 2015

"Watching To Banish Care": Sleep And Insomnia In Book 1 Of The Faerie Queene, Benjamin Parris

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

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Actio Et Reactio In Optical Binding, Sergey Sukhov, Alexander Shalin, David Haefner, Aristide Dogariu Jan 2015

Actio Et Reactio In Optical Binding, Sergey Sukhov, Alexander Shalin, David Haefner, Aristide Dogariu

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

The symmetry in action and reaction between interacting particulate matter breaks down when the interaction is mediated by an outof-equilibrium environment. Nevertheless, even in this case, the space translational invariance still imposes the conservation of canonical momentum. Here we show that optical binding of an asymmetric material system can result in non-reciprocal interactions between constituents. We demonstrate that a non-conservative force applies to the center of mass of an optically bound dimer of dissimilar particles, which leads to an unexpected action in the transversal direction. The sign and the magnitude of this positional force depend on the abrupt phase transitions …

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A Thermodynamic Interpretation Of Budyko And L'Vovich Formulations Of Annual Water Balance: Proportionality Hypothesis And Maximum Entropy Production, Dingbao Wang, Jianshi Zhao, Yin Tang, Murugesu Sivapalan Jan 2015

A Thermodynamic Interpretation Of Budyko And L'Vovich Formulations Of Annual Water Balance: Proportionality Hypothesis And Maximum Entropy Production, Dingbao Wang, Jianshi Zhao, Yin Tang, Murugesu Sivapalan

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

The paper forms part of the search for a thermodynamic explanation for the empirical Budyko Curve, addressing a long-standing research question in hydrology. Here this issue is pursued by invoking the Proportionality Hypothesis underpinning the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) curve number method widely used for estimating direct runoff at the event scale. In this case, the Proportionality Hypothesis posits that the ratio of continuing abstraction to its potential value is equal to the ratio of direct runoff to its potential value. Recently, the validity of the Proportionality Hypothesis has been extended to the partitioning of precipitation into runoff and evaporation …

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A Cross-Cultural Examination Of The Disjunctive Between Aspirations And Expectations/Perceived Outcomes: Strain And Academic Deviance In The United States And Japan*, Miyuki F. Tedor, Susan F. Sharp, Emiko Kobayashi Jan 2015

A Cross-Cultural Examination Of The Disjunctive Between Aspirations And Expectations/Perceived Outcomes: Strain And Academic Deviance In The United States And Japan*, Miyuki F. Tedor, Susan F. Sharp, Emiko Kobayashi

Criminology, Anthropology, & Sociology Faculty Publications

Using comparable self-reported survey data collected among college students in the United States (n = 502) and Japan (n = 441), this study examines a paradox of higher academic deviance among otherwise more conforming Japanese youth while revisiting the debate concerning the disjuncture between aspirations and expectations/perceived outcomes in Agnew’s general strain theory (GST). Confirming the paradox, our results indicate that Japanese students are significantly more deviant academically than Ameri- can students. However, contrary to the expectation of GST, but in support of past empir- ical studies, the higher academic deviance among the Japanese, as compared to Americans, is explained …

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Managing Fit Between Organizational Functionality, Package Features And Stakeholder Needs During Enterprise Accounting Systems Implementation: A Process Analysis, Gary Shan Shi Pan, Sl Pan, Chu Yeong Lim Jan 2015

Managing Fit Between Organizational Functionality, Package Features And Stakeholder Needs During Enterprise Accounting Systems Implementation: A Process Analysis, Gary Shan Shi Pan, Sl Pan, Chu Yeong Lim

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

Multiple stakeholder involvement in Enterprise System implementations makes it challenging. Using Fiedler’s (2005) contingency theory of leadership as an analytical lens, this study examines the Organization-Package-Stakeholder (OPS) fit, managing fit between organizational functionality, package features and stakeholder needs during ES implementations. We develop a framework on managing OPS fit in the implementation of Learning Environment Online (LEO) system at the Republic Polytechnic (RP) of Singapore. The leadership styles suited to each of the three system development phases of planning, development and post-implementation are moderated by situational contingency variables. The interplay between the contingency variables power (legitimizing, applying and reserving), knowledge …

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An In Vitro And In Vivo Investigation Of The Cytotoxic Effects Of Caffeic Acid (3,4-Dihydroxycinnamic Acid) Phenethyl Ester And Bortezomib In Multiple Myeloma Cells, Ertan Altayli, Özgür Koru, Önder Öngürü, Tayfun İde, Cengi̇zhan Açikel, Meral Sarper, Mualla Pinar Elçi̇, Rahşan Ilikçi Sağkan, Erhan Astarci, Duran Tok, Sali̇m Özenç, Ali̇ Uğur Ural, Feri̇t Avcu Jan 2015

An In Vitro And In Vivo Investigation Of The Cytotoxic Effects Of Caffeic Acid (3,4-Dihydroxycinnamic Acid) Phenethyl Ester And Bortezomib In Multiple Myeloma Cells, Ertan Altayli, Özgür Koru, Önder Öngürü, Tayfun İde, Cengi̇zhan Açikel, Meral Sarper, Mualla Pinar Elçi̇, Rahşan Ilikçi Sağkan, Erhan Astarci, Duran Tok, Sali̇m Özenç, Ali̇ Uğur Ural, Feri̇t Avcu

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

In this study, the in vitro and in vivo effectiveness of caffeic acid (3,4-dihydroxycinnamic acid) phenethyl ester (CAPE) in combination with bortezomib, a proteasome inhibitor, was explored in multiple myeloma (MM) cells. Materials and methods: The cytotoxic effects of CAPE and bortezomib were determined by XTT cell proliferation assay. Apoptosis levels were analyzed with annexin V-fluorescein isothiocyanate, nuclear factor kappa beta (NF-\kappaB) was analyzed with electrophoretic mobility-shift assay, and interleukin (IL)-6 levels were analyzed with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to evaluate CAPE's mechanism of action. To investigate the in vivo effectiveness of CAPE and bortezomib, an experimental plasmacytoma model was induced …

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Mucocutaneous Manifestations And The Relationship To Cd4 Lymphocyte Counts Among Turkish Hiv/Aids Patients In İstanbul, Turkey, Özlem Altuntaş Aydin, Hayat Kumbasar Karaosmanoğlu, Ramazan Korkusuz, Mehmet Özeren, Özcan Nazlican Jan 2015

Mucocutaneous Manifestations And The Relationship To Cd4 Lymphocyte Counts Among Turkish Hiv/Aids Patients In İstanbul, Turkey, Özlem Altuntaş Aydin, Hayat Kumbasar Karaosmanoğlu, Ramazan Korkusuz, Mehmet Özeren, Özcan Nazlican

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Dermatologic findings differ among countries but no sufficient data about Turkish HIV-infected patients exist in the literature. Therefore, our aim in this study was to document the dermatologic manifestations and their relationships with CD4 cell counts among HIV/AIDS patients visiting our clinic for the first time in İstanbul, Turkey. Materials and methods: A retrospective analysis of 306 HIV/AIDS patients (260 men, mean age: 38.3 years) was done in a tertiary hospital in İstanbul from January 2006 to September 2012. Information on age, sex, transmission routes, socioeconomic and educational status, CD4 counts, and dermatologic findings was collected retrospectively from medical records. …

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Behavioral Operations Management In Federal Governance, Frederick Leonard Mobley Jan 2015

Behavioral Operations Management In Federal Governance, Frederick Leonard Mobley

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The environmental uncertainty of federal politics and acquisition outsourcing in competitive markets requires an adaptive decision-analysis structure. Practitioners oriented toward exclusively static methods face severe challenges in understanding qualitative aspects of organizational governance. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to examine and understand behavioral relationship attributes within intuitive, choice, judgment, or preference decision-making processes. The problem addressed in this study was the detrimental effects of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), compulsory citizenship behavior (CCB), and social exchange theory (SET) on the acquisition management relationship The OCB, CCB, SET dictates that sound business development, relationship acumen, emotional intelligence and perceptiveness …

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The Sub-Saharan Water Crisis: An Analysis Of Its Impact On Public Health In Urban And Rural Nigeria, Megan Hannemann 15 Jan 2015

The Sub-Saharan Water Crisis: An Analysis Of Its Impact On Public Health In Urban And Rural Nigeria, Megan Hannemann 15

Honor Scholar Theses

Today, 11% of the global population still lacks access to clean water, one of humans’ most basic needs. Those who lack a safe water source are largely concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where only 61% have access to safe water. Within this region, large disparities exist that hide the severity of the problem for some communities. The term “water crisis” is often used to describe the lack of water access throughout the world and the resulting consequences. In this thesis, the impact the water crisis has on public health in sub-Saharan Africa was analyzed using Nigeria as a model nation. Specific …

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Discounted: Stories Of Formerly Gang Involved And Incarcerated Latino Males In Los Angeles County, Kristina Marie Alvarado Jan 2015

Discounted: Stories Of Formerly Gang Involved And Incarcerated Latino Males In Los Angeles County, Kristina Marie Alvarado

CGU Theses & Dissertations

Education gives an individual access to different ways of learning, thinking, and ultimately providing a source of power to better understand the world. Second and third-generation Latino males are faced with the generational impact of family gang involvement, violence, poverty, neglect, and emotional abuse in their daily lives at school and at home. This study provided an original contribution to the field of education due to its specific focus on the population of formerly incarcerated, formerly gang involved, later generation Latino males in Los Angeles. The narratives in this study shed light on their marginalization. The personal stories revealed the …

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It's The Autonomy, Stupid!' A Modest Defense Of Opinion 2/13 On Eu Accession To The Echr, And The Way Forward, Daniel Halberstam Jan 2015

It's The Autonomy, Stupid!' A Modest Defense Of Opinion 2/13 On Eu Accession To The Echr, And The Way Forward, Daniel Halberstam

Articles

The Court of Justice of the European Union has arrived! Gone are the days of hagiography, when in the eyes of the academy and informed observers the Court could do no wrong. The pendulum has finally swung the other way. The judicial darling, if there is one today, is Strasbourg, not Luxembourg. Not hours had passed before the Court's 258-paragraph long Opinion 2/13 on the Draft Agreement on EU Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights was condemned as “exceptionally poor.” Critical voices have mounted steadily ever since, leading to nothing short of widespread “outrage.”

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The Ada And The Supreme Court: A Mixed Record, Samuel R. Bagenstos Jan 2015

The Ada And The Supreme Court: A Mixed Record, Samuel R. Bagenstos

Articles

According to conventional wisdom, the Supreme Court has resisted the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at every turn. The Court, the story goes, has read the statute extremely narrowly and, as a result, stripped away key protections that Congress intended to provide. Its departure from congressional intent, indeed, was so extreme that Congress passed a statute that overturned several key decisions and codified broad statutory protections. That statute, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA). passed with widespread bipartisan support, and President George W. Bush signed it into law. The conventional wisdom leaves out a major part of the story. …

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The Platform Trial An Efficient Strategy For Evaluating Multiple Treatments, Scott M. Berry, Jason T. Connor, Roger J. Lewis Jan 2015

The Platform Trial An Efficient Strategy For Evaluating Multiple Treatments, Scott M. Berry, Jason T. Connor, Roger J. Lewis

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

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Front Matter: The State Of The Region: Hampton Roads 2015, Center For Economic Analysis And Policy, Old Dominion University Jan 2015

Front Matter: The State Of The Region: Hampton Roads 2015, Center For Economic Analysis And Policy, Old Dominion University

State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads

Cover, front matter, table of contents, sponsors, and other materials for the 2015 The State of the Region report authored by the Center for Economic Analysis and Policy at Old Dominion University

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