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Trees, Andrew Glaze Jan 2008

Trees, Andrew Glaze

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17


Vulcan Historical Review 12 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff Jan 2008

Vulcan Historical Review 12 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Birmingham Poetry Review 35 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2008

Birmingham Poetry Review 35 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.


Charon's Sister, Gregory Fraser Jan 2008

Charon's Sister, Gregory Fraser

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 12


Movers, Gregory Fraser Jan 2008

Movers, Gregory Fraser

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 13-14


Bless His Heart, Bill Rector Jan 2008

Bless His Heart, Bill Rector

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 37


Feed Comparison For Dietary Standardization Of The Sea Urchin Lytechinus Variegatus And Assessment Of Parental Dietary Copper Toxicity By Fertilization And Embryological Tests, Heath W. Garris Jan 2008

Feed Comparison For Dietary Standardization Of The Sea Urchin Lytechinus Variegatus And Assessment Of Parental Dietary Copper Toxicity By Fertilization And Embryological Tests, Heath W. Garris

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Toxicity tests monitoring the effects of anthropogenic substances on marine systems are considered an important part of environmental management. Sea urchin fertilization and embryological toxicity tests are successful in producing a graded response to toxicants, but standards for controlling the quality of parental urchins have not been developed. In Chapter 1, experimental populations of Lytechinus variegatus were fed either organic romaine lettuce and organic carrots, or a feed formulated for sea urchins for 13 weeks. Growth demographics were assessed and F1 progeny were compared for sensitivity to the toxicants copper sulfate, 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, and sodium dodecyl sulfate by acute embryonic and …


A Simple Plan, A Simple Faith: Chaplain And Local Congregant Strategies For Sharing Faith In The Prison Context, Jessica P. Shoemaker Jan 2008

A Simple Plan, A Simple Faith: Chaplain And Local Congregant Strategies For Sharing Faith In The Prison Context, Jessica P. Shoemaker

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As the prison population in the United States continues to expand, so too has the use of faith-based prison programs as tools for correctional treatment. Using in-depth interviews with thirty current prison chaplains and local religious congregants in Mississippi, I explore the strategies and techniques used by prison ministry workers in their work with inmates. Two overarching themes emerged from the narratives of prison ministry work. The first is that the ministry workers were careful to avoid setting or focusing on numeric goals for religious conversions before interacting with the inmates. They reported that this approach was based on their …


Night Moves, Jason Edward Slatton Jan 2008

Night Moves, Jason Edward Slatton

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Night Moves, the title of this collection of poetry, will most likely be familiar to readers as derived from the FM radio staple by Detroit songwriter Bob Seger. Seger’s song is an attempt to understand and navigate a past that is essentially lost to him, and I see each of these poems as “night moves” in that I am writing to a past that is lost to me and that I am fervently attempting to in some way record. That this title is born of the rock and roll ethos is also certainly intentional; I spent a great deal of …


Stochastic Energetics Of The Buttiker-Landauer Motor And Refrigerator, Ronald Benjamin Jan 2008

Stochastic Energetics Of The Buttiker-Landauer Motor And Refrigerator, Ronald Benjamin

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We investigated the energetics of a Brownian motor driven by position dependent temperature, commonly known as the B¨uttiker-Landauer motor. Overdamped models (M = 0) predict that the motor can attain Carnot efficiency. However, the overdamped limit (M → 0), contradicts the previous prediction due to the kinetic energy contribution to the heat transfer. Using molecular dynamics simulation and numerical solution of the inertial Langevin equation, we confirmed that the motor can never achieve Carnot efficiency and verified that the heat flow via kinetic energy diverges asM−1/2 in the overdamped limit. The reciprocal process of the motor, namely the B¨uttiker-Landauer refrigerator …


Taking The Last Of The Sun, Jo Lecoeur Jan 2008

Taking The Last Of The Sun, Jo Lecoeur

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 25


One Big Self: An Investigation / The Kitchen Sink: New And Selected Poems, Matthew Ladd Jan 2008

One Big Self: An Investigation / The Kitchen Sink: New And Selected Poems, Matthew Ladd

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 48-54


The Barbary Wars: American Independence In The Atlantic World, Christopher Null Jan 2008

The Barbary Wars: American Independence In The Atlantic World, Christopher Null

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 102-105


The Great Hinckley Hunt Of 1818, Susan Grimm Jan 2008

The Great Hinckley Hunt Of 1818, Susan Grimm

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 18


Vulcan Historical Review 12 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff Jan 2008

Vulcan Historical Review 12 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of The Sexual Revolution, Katie Sutton Jan 2008

The Influence Of The Sexual Revolution, Katie Sutton

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 74-84


Capriccio At The Museum Of Art, John Hart Jan 2008

Capriccio At The Museum Of Art, John Hart

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 21


Nocturne, Stan Sanvel Rubin Jan 2008

Nocturne, Stan Sanvel Rubin

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 39


Boom And Bust In Townley: Case Study Of A Coal Mining Camp From 1920-1950, Tia Pavlovich Jan 2008

Boom And Bust In Townley: Case Study Of A Coal Mining Camp From 1920-1950, Tia Pavlovich

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 58-73


Why The "One Great City" Movement Failed, John Paul Whitmore Jan 2008

Why The "One Great City" Movement Failed, John Paul Whitmore

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 85-94


Untitled, Sudie Nostrand Jan 2008

Untitled, Sudie Nostrand

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 36


Miami Song, Andrew Glaze Jan 2008

Miami Song, Andrew Glaze

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 16


Intuition, Or Methods Of Transportation, Liz Robbins Jan 2008

Intuition, Or Methods Of Transportation, Liz Robbins

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 38


Geographic Differences In Accessibility To Renal Treatment Among Black And White Populations Within Network 6 Of The End Stage Renal Disease Networks, Shenee J. Reid Jan 2008

Geographic Differences In Accessibility To Renal Treatment Among Black And White Populations Within Network 6 Of The End Stage Renal Disease Networks, Shenee J. Reid

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Objective: This study examined relationships between racial composition of zip codes and the geographic accessibility to dialysis centers of Network 6 of the End Stage Renal Disease Networks. Study Design: Geographic accessibility to renal care (hemodialysis) was defined as the average distance between the centers of zip codes where dialysis patients reside and the dialysis centers that fall within a 30 mile buffer radius. Data Sources: This research studies the distribution of 33,536 patients, 1,798 zip codes, and 546 dialysis centers in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina as of December 31, 2007. Information and data concerning the dialysis centers …


The Relationship Between Pornography And Rape Rates: Does The Distribution Of Pornography Increase The Incidence Of Rape?, Jamie Lee Blalock Jan 2008

The Relationship Between Pornography And Rape Rates: Does The Distribution Of Pornography Increase The Incidence Of Rape?, Jamie Lee Blalock

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This study was conducted to test consumption of pornographic material, specifi-cally Playboy, increases the likelihood of rape at the county level. To do this, a cross-sectional design was used to examine this relationship in 3,133 counties in the United States. Overall, the findings suggest that when households headed by females with child-ren, persons 15 and older who are divorced, percent of the population with a high school education or higher, percent of the population who are unemployed, percent of the popu-lation living in urban areas, percent of the population ages 18 to 24, percent of the popu-lation that are black, …


Detection Of Total And Pathogenic Salmonella In Oysters Using Real-Time Pcr With Internal Amplification Control And Study Of Their Antibiotic Resistance Profile, Maulshree Gangwar Jan 2008

Detection Of Total And Pathogenic Salmonella In Oysters Using Real-Time Pcr With Internal Amplification Control And Study Of Their Antibiotic Resistance Profile, Maulshree Gangwar

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Salmonella is a causative agent for food and water borne gastroenteritis in humans. A multiplex PCR-based detection revealing total and potentially virulent strains of Salmonellae was developed using oligonucleotide primers. These primers targeted chromosomally located invA gene generating a 274 bp and Salmonella virulence plasmid-borne spvB gene generating 561 bp amplified DNA fragments. The invA gene product brings about the invasion of the cells on the intestinal epithelium and is used as the marker for total Salmonella detection. The occurrence and distribution of these genes in 90 strains exhibited 100% amplification of invA gene whereas only 22% of spvB gene …


Thermal Stability Of Defects In Strontium Titante Substrates For Multiferroic Materials, Shehnaz Jeddy Jan 2008

Thermal Stability Of Defects In Strontium Titante Substrates For Multiferroic Materials, Shehnaz Jeddy

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In this investigation we studied the thermal stability of defects in as-received (100) strontium titanate substrate during isochronal and isothermal anneals in vacuum and oxygen ambients. Using electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, our purpose was to correlate the responses of the Fe+3Vo associate defect to either oxygen movement in substrates or to changes in the charge states of the Fe+3Vo defect. Isochronal vacuum anneals at T < 600 0C show increases in the relative EPR intensity of Fe+3Vo, implying increases in oxygen vacancies, but the decreases at T > 600 0C are not as yet clear. Isochronal oxygen anneals were conducted to compare/contrast responses of Fe+3Vo to thermal treatments in different ambients. Vacuum and oxygen anneals produced surprisingly similar results, suggesting that similar effects …


Parenting Practices As Mediators Of The Association Between Violence Exposure And Internalizing And Externalizing Behavior Problems Among Black Youth, Penny Loosier Jan 2008

Parenting Practices As Mediators Of The Association Between Violence Exposure And Internalizing And Externalizing Behavior Problems Among Black Youth, Penny Loosier

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“Tough love” has been posited as a prevalent parenting style among black families; although most of the literature has focused on differences in parenting across black and white youth, examinations of parenting within an exclusively black sample are rare. The current study used an exclusively black sample to examine a blend of parenting practices aligning with a “tough love” conceptualization of parenting: child disclosure (CD), parental nurturance (PN), and harsh discipline (HD). Given prior evidence that it might be an adaptation to compromised environments, it was hypothesized that, if viable, “tough love” would present via positive associations between violence exposure …


The Defect Level Of Carbon Vacancy Carbon Antisite Pair In 4h-Sic Using Photo Induced Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Geoffrey Ngetich Jan 2008

The Defect Level Of Carbon Vacancy Carbon Antisite Pair In 4h-Sic Using Photo Induced Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Geoffrey Ngetich

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Due to its physical and electrical properties, silicon carbide (SiC) has attracted much attention recently for its possible applications in high power devices. Point defects and the associated defect levels are important to understand if we are to produce high quality SiC wafers. While a lot has been done to understand point defects using electrical measurements, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) reveals more detailed information. EPR gives us both the number of defects and also their specific structure and charge state while photo-EPR helps to determine their defect level. EPR measurements were done at 80 K in the dark and during …


A Descriptive Overview Of The Jefferson County Mental Health Court, Crystal Rena Null Jan 2008

A Descriptive Overview Of The Jefferson County Mental Health Court, Crystal Rena Null

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Mental health courts have been established to help meet the treatment needs of the mentally ill offender. If mentally ill offenders commit crimes because of their mental illness, then “by treating [them], society may benefit through reduced recidivism and improvements in social outcomes” (Mears, 2004, 258). This study focuses on the Jefferson County Mental Health Court and its participants. It addresses two main research questions: 1) Who participants in the Jefferson County Mental Health Court; and 2) What factors exist to help predict who successfully completes the Jefferson County Mental Health Court? Unlike the majority of other mental health courts, …