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The Effects Of Locomotor Posture On Kinematics, Performance And Behavior During Obstacle Negotiation In Lizards, Jessica Self

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The ability to efficiently move over uneven terrain is critical for most terrestrial animals. Bipedal running is common in lizard species, however the biological advantage of a bipedal running posture remains uncertain. I examined the hypothesis that a bipedal posture is advantageous when crossing obstacles. Particularly, I determined whether kinematic adjustments differ among four focal species with contrasting body forms and ecology. I also examined how sprint speed changed when crossing obstacles with a quadrupedal versus a bipedal posture. I quantified kinematics from high-speed video (300 frames/second) of lizards running down a 3m runway both with and without the presence …

Bird Use Of Cumberland Island's Freshwater Wetlands, Lisa Dlugolecki

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Cumberland Island is the southernmost barrier island off the coast of Georgia. Its freshwater wetlands are an important, rare habitat to have on a barrier island surrounded by saltmarsh and ocean. Many species of birds require freshwater wetlands as feeding, roosting and nesting grounds. However, the freshwater wetlands on Cumberland Island have been impacted by humans for centuries causing birds to abandon their historic nesting ground. Known land use histories of Cumberland Island's freshwater wetlands were gathered to try and determine how the wetlands changed over time Wetlands were analyzed for presence of wetland-dependent birds and recorded. Thirty-six species of …

A Comparison Of The Associative And Multiple Bearing Hypotheses Through Landmark Stability In Humans Using A Virtual Environment, Martha R. Forloines

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The current experiment investigated the mixed results seen in spatial blocking paradigms; there have been procedures that have shown and not shown blocking of added landmarks in the spatial domain. Typically, the Associative theory of learning has been applied to spatial learning. However, spatial blocking paradigms cannot be explained solely with this theory. The Multiple Bearings Hypothesis (MBH) may be able to explain these differences. The current experiment employed a three-phase blocking paradigm to examine what factors are responsible for the mixed results. The first Phase, Phase 0, incrementally shaped human participants' goal location behavior with two ambiguous landmarks. In …

Deja Vu All Over Again: The Causes Of U.S. Commercial Bank Failures This Time Around, Lawrence J. White, Rebel A. Cole

Documents

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Uwlaw, Fall 2012, Vol. 66

Alumni Magazines

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Unilateral Shoulder Bags: Can They Be Worn In A Way To Reduce Postural Asymmetry?, Yasmin Qureshi, Eric Shamus

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: To investigate whether there is a way to wear a unilateral strap shoulder bag that will allow more symmetrical postural alignment, preventing potentially harmful musculoskeletal effects. Subjects: Sixty-five college student volunteers.Methods: Each participant donned a unilateral strap shoulder bag two different ways on the dominant and non-dominant shoulder while standing on a Postural Scale Analyzer to measure lower extremity weight distribution. Results: A significant improvement (p < 0.05) in lower extremity weight distribution was found in right hand dominant subjects (n = 63) when wearing a shoulder bag draped across the left shoulder to right hip. Discussion: When individuals who are right hand dominant wear a shoulder bag draped across the left shoulder (non-dominant shoulder), the weight distribution through the person’s lower extremities becomes more equal indicating improved postural symmetry in static standing.Conclusion: It is possible that individual prescription of a unilateral bag on the non-dominant shoulder draped across the body can be utilized to create a reduction in postural asymmetry demonstrated by more evenly distributed lower extremity loading. Recommendations: Health care providers, parents, students, and educators should be educated to carry an across-the-body unilateral strap shoulder bag that reduces postural asymmetry and the risk of future development of biomechanical problems and back pain in adulthood.

An Instrument For Assessing Communication Skills Of Healthcare And Human Services Students, James Johnston, Laura Fidelia, Kim W. Robinson, Jeffrey B. Killion, Phyllis Behrens

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

This manuscript reports on the original research that developed and tested an instrument to quantify basic communication skills of students in healthcare and human service education programs. Potential uses of this instrument include its use as a pre- and post-test assessment of instruction intended to improve communication skills and/or as another criteria for admission into healthcare and human service education programs. Results of this study indicate that the instrument has value in assessing communication skills.

Perceptions Of Feedback Among Undergraduate And Postgraduate Students Of Four Health Science Disciplines, Jenny Strong, Clair Hughes, Wayne Wilson, Wendy Arnott, Rosemary Isles, Anne Bennison

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Feedback is an important support for student learning. Yet data suggests that some students are often under-whelmed with the feedback they receive. Two factors potentially influencing this perception are entry level and type of health science program. To investigate this further, 492 undergraduate and postgraduate students from four health science disciplines (occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech pathology and audiology) at a large Australian university were asked to complete a survey on the feedback that they had received during their studies. Students reported that they valued feedback with 93% seriously engaging with their feedback and 88% considering that feedback assisted their learning. …

Suspicious Silence: Walking Out On John Cage, Clark Lunberry

English Faculty Research and Scholarship

2012 marked what would have been the composer and writer John Cage’s 100th birthday, offering a nice round numbered moment to commemorate and reevaluate Cage’s lasting legacy. And it is a rich and still, astonishingly, controversial legacy, bringing forth bold assessments of Cage that range, as they have for decades, from worshipful acclaim, to ridiculing rejection. It seems with Cage, still, that it’s either black or white, love or hate; that he is either a saintly prophet of new sounds, new silences, or a foolish charlatan leading anarchically astray.

A Short History Of Drug Policy Or Why We Make War On Some Drugs But Not On Others, David T. Courtwright

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

Overseas trade and European expansion in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries turned psychoactive drugs, including spirituous alcohol and tobacco, into global products. From the beginning, the commerce provoked controversy. Doctors argued about the indications, dosages, and risks of imported drugs. When use spread beyond medicine, the state became involved. Some rulers resorted to mutilation and execution to enforce prohibitions, especially against tobacco smoking. None succeeded in stamping out the novel vice or in suppressing the cultivation of tobacco, which quickly became a global crop. ‘Mankind has found too few comforts,’ wrote historian V.G. Kiernan, ‘to let itself be robbed …

Una Breve Historia De Políticas Sobre Drogas, O Por Qué Declaramos La Guerra A Unas Drogas Y No A Otras, David T. Courtwright

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

El comercio de ultramar y la expansión europea durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII convirtieron las sustancias psicoactivas, incluidos el tabaco y las bebidas alcohólicas, en productos globales. Desde sus inicios, el comercio de estos productos generó controversias. Los médicos discutían acerca de las indicaciones, dosis y riesgos de las drogas importadas. Cuando el uso de éstas se extendió más allá del campo de la medicina, el Estado intervino. Algunos gobernantes recurrieron a la mutilación y las ejecuciones para hacer cumplir las prohibiciones, particularmente la que pesaba contra fumar tabaco. Ninguno tuvo éxito en erradicar este nuevo vicio ni …

Contents Vol. 35 No. 1, North Carolina Central Law Review

North Carolina Central Law Review

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Implicit In The Concept Of Erroneous Liberty: The Need To Ensure Proper Sentence Credit In The Fourth Circuit, Andrew T. Winkler

North Carolina Central Law Review

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The Opportunities Of Multiple Sovereign Crises; The European Market Phoenix, Luca C. M. Melchionna

North Carolina Central Law Review

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Defining Reasonable: The Implications Of State V. Mbacke On Fourth Amendment Protections, David B. Mckaig

North Carolina Central Law Review

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Foreign Direct Investment Catalysts In West Africa: Interactions With Local Content Laws And Industry-Community Agreements, Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu

North Carolina Central Law Review

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On Wings Of Hope, Volume 16, No. 4, Christmas 2012, Phadp, Esther Brown, Jeff Rieber, Ronald Smith Jr, Tawuan Townes, Courtney Lockhart, Carey Grayson, Anthony Tyson, Craig Newton, Tony Barksdale, Wakilii Brown, Derrick Debruce, Brent Martin, Randy Lewis, Clayton Shanklin, David Riley, "Eagle Eye", Tim Boyle, Anthony Boyd

On Wings of Hope

October–December 2012 or Christmas 2012 edition.

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Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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Critical Review Of The Consolidated Maritime Labour Convention (2006) Of The International Labour Organization: Limitations And Perspectives, Iliana Christodoulou-Varotsi

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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Demosthenes And The Origins Of The Maritime Lien, Alexander Mccabe

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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The Chixoy Dam: A Time For Justice, Lauren Carasik

Media Presence

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Enhancing College And Career Readiness Programs For Underserved Adolescents, Kevin Gee, Carolynne Beno, Lauren Lindstrom, John Lind

Journal of Youth Development

Supporting college and career readiness among youth who encounter significant academic and life challenges requires innovative strategies to help them envision their futures, leverage their strengths and develop dispositions that promote positive trajectories. For youth development professionals who develop and implement novel programmatic approaches to support the college and career readiness of underserved youth, it is critical to acquire a deeper evidence-based understanding of factors shaping positive career and college pathways as well as to incorporate stakeholder viewpoints in their program design and delivery. In this article, we share key insights from our program development process that can inform the …

A Call To Redefine Historical Scholarship In The Digital Turn, Jason A. Heppler, Douglas Seefeldt, Alex Galarza

Criss Library Faculty Publications

This is a collaboratively-written call for the American Historical Association to appoint a task force to survey the profession as to the place of digital historical scholarship in promotion and tenure and graduate student training and to recommend standards and guidelines for the profession to follow. This document is a product of many of the exciting changes discussed below. It began at a session atTHATCamp AHA 2012 that included graduate students, tenured and non-tenured faculty, and librarians. These participants and others continued their conversations at the physical conference and afterwards on the web. Additional signatures and edits in the …

Pharmacologic Management Of The Opioid Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome., Walter K. Kraft, John N Van Den Anker

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Faculty Papers

Opioid use in pregnant women has increased over the last decade. Following birth, infants with in utero exposure demonstrate signs and symptoms of withdrawal known as the neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Infants express a spectrum of disease, with most requiring the administration of pharmacologic therapy to ensure proper growth and development. Treatment often involves prolonged hospitalization. There is a general lack of high-quality clinical trial data to guide optimal therapy, and significant heterogeneity in treatment approaches. Emerging trends in the treatment of infants with NAS include the use of sublingual buprenorphine, transition to outpatient therapy, and pharmacogenetic risk stratification.

Focus, 2012, Fall, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Following God's Leading, Keri Suarez

Lake Union Herald

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Fall 2012: What Dreams May Come, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2007-2012

Seizing the bright years ahead

At St. Norbert College, we’re in the business of realizing dreams – the dreams that brought the college into existence; the dreams that have refined its mission since; the dreams that we welcome along with each new crop of students. And each fall, as the academic year unfolds, we are reminded afresh of the many paths of possibility and promise that lie open before us.

On the cover: As the year turns, all seasons are beautiful at St. Norbert. But autumn in particular is both lovely and impressive for those of us who live, work …

Stem Cell Based Tissue Engineering And Regenerative Medicine: A Review Focusing On Adult Stem Cells, Jordan Greenberg, Veronica R. Fortino, Daniel Pelaez, Herman S. Cheung

Biology Faculty Articles

Tissue engineering has emerged as a field that attempts to harness the bodies' own developmental and repair features to treat diseases and illnesses. Many of these illnesses are caused by necrosis or loss of functionality of complete organs or specific cell types. Early discoveries in embryonic stem cells fueled a wave of research that led to claims about possibly regenerating nonfunctioning organs. Although we are still far away from being able to grow functional organs in a Petri dish, the field continues to progress forward, and new clinical trials have been approved for using both embryonic and adult stem cell …

Rising To The Challenge, Tennessee Agriculture 2012 Department Report & Statistical Summary, Tennessee. Department Of Agriculture.

Annual Report

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Statistical Abstract Fy 2012, Tennessee. Department Of Correction.

Annual Statistical Abstract

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