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Heyward-Saunders, Lucretia, Lucretia Heyward-Saunders, Ishmael Lewis, Audra Kuby, Deborah Oden

Video Collection

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 22, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, July 22, 2012

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

07/22/2012 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 07/22/2012. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Bayesian Analyses Of The Survivor Interaction Contrast, Joseph W. Houpt, Andrew Heathcote, Ami Eidels, James T. Townsend

Psychology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Transcript Of Creating The Dory Days Posters, Carol M. Johnson

All Story Transcripts

This story is an excerpt from an interview collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project. The on-the-spot interview was conducted on the beach at Cape Kiwanda during Dory Days 2012. In this story, Carol Miles Johnson, Pacific City artist and dorywoman, describes the inspiration and process involved in the design of her series of Dory Days posters, which she began creating in 2004.

Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss (Silverton Financial_Porter Keadle Moore), Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

Correlation Of Trpgly And Glytrp Rotamer Structure With W7 And W10 Uv Resonance Raman Modes And Fluorescence Emission Shifts, Azaria Solomon Eisenberg, Laura J. Juszczak

Publications and Research

Tryptophyl glycine (TrpGly) and glycyl tryptophan (GlyTrp) dipeptides at pH 5.5 and pH 9.3 show a pattern of fluorescence emission shifts with the TrpGly zwitterion emission solely blue shifted. This pattern is matched by shifts in the UV resonance Raman (UVRR) W10 band position and the W7 Fermi doublet band ratio. Ab initio calculations show that the 1340 cm−1 band of the W7 doublet is composed of three modes, two of which determine the W7 band ratios for the dipeptides. Molecular dynamics simulations show that the dipeptides take on two conformations: one with the peptide backbone extended; one with the …

When Damage Is Constructive: Interactions Of Hurricane Damage Levels With Disturbance-Based Forests, Katherine Elise Correll

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Southern pine forests thrive on disturbance to remain in sub-climax species composition. Wind disturbance can affect both the health and species composition of forest vegetation and may force forests back to the sub-climax stage if the effects of hurricanes are managed properly. This work explores hurricane impacts on forest health. Post-hurricane change is classified by measuring two components of forest health and then assigning an outcome class based on the components. The components are vegetation health (NDVI) and forest composition. Using Landsat imagery to quantify baseline values, change is recorded for storms of different intensities. Findings classify storms as having …

What Happens When Therapists Are More Directive? Correlating Directiveness With Psychotherapy Process And Outcome, Henry You-Chee Hua

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study examined the relationship between therapist directiveness and the process and outcome of psychotherapy. Fifty-two therapy sessions were coded for turn-by-turn therapist directiveness, client compliance, and overall perceived therapist directiveness. These scores were compared to ratings of therapy process and outcome, reported by clients after the session. Additional analyses controlled for client compliance, pretreatment problem severity, and the interaction of directiveness with compliance. This study found no support for directiveness having any reliable relationship with the process or outcome of psychotherapy. Possible improvements are offered for future research on this topic.

Seasonal Regulation Of Reproduction: Mechanisms Regulating The Rfamides, Kisspeptin And Gonadotropin Inhibitory Hormone In Siberian Hamsters, Jerad Richard Henson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Siberian hamsters exhibit seasonal rhythms in reproductive driven by melatonin secretion. Tissues that mediate Mel-dependent alterations in reproduction include the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and the nucleus reuniens (NRe). Several neuroendocrine factors are implicated in the control of reproduction by melatonin, including two RFamides, kisspeptin and gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH), as well as triiodothyronine (T3). Melatonin implants localized to the SCN or NRe tested the hypothesis that separate melatonin target tissues regulate RFamide expression. We also hypothesized that T3 and the RFamides are part of a single circuit. The results of chapter 2 indicate that melatonin acting at the SCN reduces the …

An Exploration Of How Health Professionals Create Ehealth And Mhealth Education Interventions, Suha Rahif Tamim

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this study was to explore how health education professionals create ehealth and mhealth education interventions. Three research questions led this qualitative study. The first research question focused on the use of learning theories, instructional models, and instructional design models. The second research question focused on the use of elearning and mlearning design principles. The third research question focused on the use of health behavior theories and models. Twelve health professionals selected for their involvement in the creation of ehealth and mhealth education interventions participated in this study. The themes emerging from the research questions showed a variability …

The Effect Of Testosterone Administration On Physical Characteristics And Muscle Function In Men With Low To Low-Normal Testosterone Concentrations, Michael G. Oliver

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Objective: This meta-analysis uses data from clincial studies of older men with low to low-normal concentrations of testosterone (T) that were treated with exogenous T to assess treatment efficacy on: lean body mass, fat mass, strength, and mobility. Methods: The data investigated are from published and referred journals. The Cohen's d was used to compute effect sizes from both pre-treatment and post-treatment scores. Results: The analysis revealed that T resulted in an overall significant (p = 0.037) improvement in physical characteristics and muscle function. After accounting for the variance, significance wa strengthened (p = 0.006) for the overall effect. When …

The Collapse Behavior Of Compacted West Tennessee Loess, Duncan Blake Adrian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This thesis is an investigation of the collapse behavior of two types of compacted loessial soil. Different stress paths will be followed to define the collapse behavior due to changes in net vertical stress and matric suction for loess specimens acquired from two locations in West Tennessee. The two loessial soils chosen have different grain size distributions, which result in differences in soil structure which should impact the collapsibility of the soil. The soil-water characteristic curve will be measured for the soils in the non-collapsed and collapsed conditions. The volume change behavior will be evaluated using results of collapse tests, …

Modelling Mobile Target Identification In Noise, Jason Michael Brooks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Experiments were conducted to test observer identification of characters under a range of conditions. Characters were tested stationary and moving at varied speed, with white noise added at multiple temporal frequencies and intensities. The obtained performance is used to evaluate current noise models used with the TTP metric. A method for incorporating target motion into one of the noise models is suggested.

Social Networking, The Writing Process, And Cooperative Learning: A Three-Strategy Approach Helping Developmental Students And First-Year Composition Students Prewrite, Brandi Michelle Leonard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Students in developmental writing courses and first-year composition coursesstruggle with thewriting process. Individual instructional strategieshave been insufficient to engage these students or build their self-confidences for further writing courses. The purpose of thisstudy was to understand how students perceive a combination of three strategies,social networking, the writing process, and cooperative learning may help students to be successfulwith the prewriting phase of the writing process. The three research questions were (1) what are students' perceptions of a social networking tool; (2) how do students perceive asocial networking tool influences prewriting in cooperative groups; and(3) how do cooperative groups work together to …

Fabrication And Characterization Of Multifunctional Chitosan Microspheres And Their Incorporation Into Composite Scaffolds For Enhanced Bone Regeneration, Benjamin Taylor Reves

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Insufficient fracture healing affects hundreds of thousands of people every year in the United States, resulting in devestating economic and social impacts. To treat these severe fractures, our laboratory has developed chitosan-nano-hydroxyapatite microspheres and scaffolds. The purpose of this research was to improve these scaffolds by increasing their degradation rate to allow better bone ingrowth and to increase and extend the elution of bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) from the constructs. We hypothesized that a composite approach combining chitosan and carboxymethylchitosan microspheres would result in scaffolds with improved degradation and elution properties while maintaining good cytocompatibility and sufficient mechanical properties. The …

Amelioration Of Oral Mucositis Pain By Nasa Near Infra Red Light Emitting Diodes In Bone Marrow Transplant Patients, Brian D. Hodgson, David Margolis, Donna E. Salzman, Dan C. Eastwood, Sergey Tarima, Lisa D. Williams, Jane E. Sande, William P. Vaughan, Harry T. Whelan

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

PURPOSE: To investigate the use of extra-orally applied near infra-red (NIR) phototherapy for the reduction of oral pain secondary to chemo- and radiation-therapy induced mucositis in adult and pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients.

METHODS: 80 HSCT were divided into regular (R) and low (L) risk groups, then to experimental (E) and placebo (P) groups, resulting in 4 groups (ER, EL, PR, PL). Experimental subjects received (670 (+/- 10) nm gallium-aluminum-arsinide light emitting diode (LED) device for 80 sec at an ~50mW/cm2 energy density and power exposure of 4J/cm2. Placebo patients received the same procedures, but with a placebo …

The Ministerial Exception And The Limits Of Religious Sovereignty, Ian C. Bartrum

Scholarly Works

This paper explores potential theoretical limits on the jurisdictional independence of religious sovereignty in the context of the ministerial exception.

A Thermoplastic Vest To Prevent Self Mutilation In Experimental Flap Surgery In Rats, Eli A. Gordin, Md, Sarah M. Drejet, Md, Ryan N. Heffelfinger, Md

Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Faculty Papers

Poster presented at: 8th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer in Toronto, Canada.

Introduction:

Rats are frequently utilized for both research and training related to reconstructive head and neck surgery. The femoral neurovascular complex represents a useful mode for microvascular anastomosis, both for the purposes of testing adjuncts designed to improve anastomotic patency rates, as well as for residents and students to gain experience in microvascular surgery outside the operating room. Additionally, the rat proves useful in investigations examining the survivability of both random and axial pattern skin flaps.

Monocarboxylate Transporter 4 And Caveolin-1 Expression In Squamous Cell Carcinoma Of The Oral Cavity, Julie A. Ames, Md, Aileen Butera, Md, Joseph Curry, Md, Madalina Tuluc, Md, Ubaldo E. Martinez-Outshoorn, Md, Diana Whitaker-Menezes, Phd, Federica Sotgia, Phd, Michael P. Lisanti, Md, Phd

Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Faculty Papers

Poster presented at: 8th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer in Toronto Canada, July 21-25, 2012.

Objective: To determine the significance of caveolin-1 (cav-1) and monocarboxylate transporter 4 (MCT4) in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. We hypothesized that high stromal MCT4 would predict a worse prognosis and correlate with low stromal Cav-1.

Be Memorable: Library Advocacy Through Compelling Storytelling, Carol A. Watson, Suzanne R. Graham, Jason Tubinis

Presentations

Whether persuading an administrator within your institution or lobbying for external action, storytelling can be a powerful and compelling advocacy tool. Telling stories about real people and real challenges is an effective means for convincing others of your viewpoint. What makes a good story? How can you incorporate the elements of storytelling into your advocacy efforts?

After learning the fundamentals of a persuasive story and how to successfully integrate the story within a strategic advocacy campaign, participants will have the opportunity to practice their newly acquired skills in small groups. Volunteers from the small groups will share their story drafts …

Newsroom: Teitz On International Child Abduction, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Pre-Operative Coumadin Therapy On Patients Who Develop Hemorrhagic Events Post Bariatric Surgery, Richard Boorse Md, Peter J. Bechtel Md, Cathleen Webber Rn, Mshs, Suzanne L. Smith Mba, Rrt, Tas, Cathy Fuhrman Rn, Msn

Department of Surgery

No abstract provided.

Open-Source Development Of Solar Photovoltaic Technology, A. J. Buitenhuis, Joshua M. Pearce

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Publications

The rise of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology as a driver of rural electrification in the developing world and a contributor to climate change mitigation suggests that innovations enhancing PV efficiency and scalability could make considerable strides in reducing both poverty and greenhouse gas emissions. The nearly global access to the solar resource coupled to innovation-driven decreases in the costs of PV provides a path for a renewable energy source to accelerate sustainable development. Open-source software development has proven to produce reliable and innovative computer code at lower costs than proprietary software through sharing development responsibility with a large community of …

Give Me A Crash Course In The Stimulus Package, Mary Minihan

Media

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News July 21, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2012

No abstract provided.

Transfer Student Orientation Welcome, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

No abstract provided.

July 21, 2012 (Pages 4559-4684), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 42 (2012)

No abstract provided.

Murray Ledger And Times, July 21, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.