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Visualizing Complexity : A Spatial Analysis Of Decorative Geometric Pattern In The Islamic World, 900-1400 Ad, Tracy Elizabeth Harrison

Dissertations and Theses

This study explores how the use of complex decorative geometric patterns in Islamic architecture spatially relates to advances in the fields of science and philosophy in the Islamic world between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. This project examines hypotheses developed by vario~s scholars on the forces that shaped the use of these patterns (known as the geometric mode) in Islamic architecture. The prevailing assumption that advances in mathematics contributed to the use of the geometric mode is used as a starting point for subsequent analysis.

For this study, two spatial databases were created. One contains over two hundred and twenty …

Pvc-Cat-161-B-036-002-Ptstnd, Charles Webber

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-599-H-025-016-Ptstnd, Leigh Anne Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvc-Cat-161-B-036-001-Ptstnd, Charles Webber

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvc-Cat-161-B-025-001-Ptstnd, Charles Webber

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvc-Cat-120-T-008-001-Ptstnd, Leigh Anne Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvc-Cat-120-Q-001-005-Ptstnd, Leigh Anne Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvc-Cat-120-Q-001-004-Ptstnd, Leigh Anne Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvc-Cat-120-D-039-001-Ptstnd, Leigh Anne Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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An Assessment Of Hospital-Sponsored Health Care For The Uninsured In Polk County/Des Moines, Iowa, Lea Nolan, Marsha Regenstein, Marisa A. Cox

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

Health care providers in Polk County are faced with increasing numbers of low-income, uninsured patients who do not have the resources to pay for their health care out of pocket. At the same time, state and local funding sources are limited, and are insufficient to ensure that these individuals have access to the health services that they require. Community leaders are extremely interested in developing information to understand the magnitude of the uninsured problem in Polk County and to identify health care delivery strategies to better serve this population. A Blue Ribbon Steering Committee was convened in October 2004 to …

Pvc-Cat-120-T-008-002-Ptstnd, Leigh Anne Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvc-Cat-120-D-052-001-Ptstnd, Leigh Anne Ellison

Four Valleys Archive

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What Do We Need From Our Digital Librarians?, Michael Breaks

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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O-Zone: Institutional Repositories And The Ontario Scholars Portal, Alan Darnell

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Technical Intelligence In An S-T Organization: A Perspective From An Information End-User, Blaise Champagne

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Public Goods And Open Access, David Shulenburger

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Institutional Repositories And Desktop Silos, Art Rhyno

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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R&D @ Laval University Library - Archimede And Etds, Guy Teasdale

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Green And Gold Roads To Maximizing Research Access And Impact, Steve Harnad

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Death Of Pat Tillman, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Over the past few weeks, the world of sport has been touched by the world of politics in a number of ways. Politics and sport are often mixed and when they are, the results can be at once unfortunate, distressing, and sometimes appalling. Certainly, the House of Representatives' hearings on steroids come to mind in this context.

Ireland's New Responsibility: Refugees Buy The Irish Another Round, Shae D. Armstrong

ExpressO

Over the previous decade, Ireland's economic boom has attracted asylum seekers from around the globe to this small island nation. Ireland's economic explosion created growing pains for industrial sectors of the Irish economy. Ireland’s continued willingness to diversify its neighborhoods will promote even greater economic prosperity. Furthermore, refugees will satisfy several of the economic demands of Ireland’s massively growing economy. Asylum seekers granted refugee status in Ireland will satisfy present labor shortages in Ireland. Also, these refugees will allow Ireland to establish an economic partnership with non-EU countries that have a propensity to export asylum seekers.

Award Speech For Margaret Sellers Walker, Delivered At The Enrichment Dinner On June 1, 2005, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Award Speech for Margaret Sellers Walker, delivered at the Enrichment Dinner on June 1, 2005 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Patient Care News: June 2005, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

VHA Leadership Award

CentraCare Dialysis now offers Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE)

Patient Care News Now On-Line

Recent Decisions at CPCC/CNPC

New EMR/Automated Documentation Project

Febrile Neutropenia Project

Training New Acquisitions And Collection Development Librarians: Some Technical And Philosophical Guideposts, Antje Mays

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

This article covers key competencies for success as acquisitions and collection development librarians, delineates between collection development's intellectual facets of curricular support and acquisitions' business functions and shows how the two interrelated. Also provided are best practices for training and mentoring and professional development information for new librarians entering acquisitions and collection development.

The Cresset (Vol. Lxviii, No. 5, Trinity), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

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Primetimes Newsletter, Summer 2005, Office Of Lifespan Studies

PrimeTimes Newsletter

PrimeTimes is the newsletter of the Office of Lifespan Studies in the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.

Living On The Margins: The Analysis Of The Livelihood Strategies Of Sudanese Refugees With Closed Files In Egypt, Katarzyna Grabska

Faculty Journal Articles

Throughout history Cairo has enjoyed the status of a cosmopolitan city attracting diverse populations from across the globe. Although refugees have not constituted a significant share of its foreign residents, Egypt has also been seen as a place of exile by sizeable refugee populations, including Armenians who fled the 1915 massacre under the Ottomans, Palestinians after 1948, and Sudanese after 1983. Palestinians are said to constitute the largest share of exiled residents, numbering between 50,000 and 70,000 (El Abed 2003). In the 1950s and 1960s Cairo was host to exiles from liberation movements across Africa and the Middle East, representing …

上海經濟龍頭作用中台商的影響與作用, 陸緋雲

CAPS Working Paper Series

以長江三角洲為依託的上海，在90年代以來進入了高速發展的軌道， 自92起上海的生產總值實際增幅均達雙位數，並超過全國總體增幅。上海無論是從城市規模、人均GDP、城市產品在國內或國際市場上的佔有率、利用外資規模，還是從城市知名度、城市影響力、城市創新能力上衡量，都已成為目前中國城市競爭當之無愧的領頭羊。中共十六大以來，中央政府對上海的發展提出了新思路，從而使上海建設世界級城市的設想浮出水面。上海要建設成為世界級的城市，上海要成為中國經濟發展的引擎和龍頭，這已經成為上海明確的城市定位和發展的方向。上海的繁盛和飛速發展已引起海外的廣泛注意，也引來了罛多的投資者：去年上海引入的直接投資協定額增五成六，實用額增百分四，均高於全國平均增幅。其中累積到今年9月份，台商的合同投資已達77.17億美元，今後幾年隨跨國公司及台商踴躍投資大型專案，估計引資增幅將持續高於全國水平。上海經濟的快速發展和上海對長江三角洲這一中國經濟龍頭地帶的巨大輻射力，使上海對台商投資呈現出愈來愈強大的吸引力。台商在對上海及以上海為中心的長江三角洲的投資經歷了若干發展階段以後，正呈現以相對單一到相對多元，由低層次到較高層次的投資結構轉化的趨勢，因此，筆者相信台商對上海及長三角地區的積極投入將會進一步對上海發揮巨大的經濟龍頭作用，產生積極的影響和作用。

The Effects Of Price Regulation On Pharmaceutical R&D And Innovation, Heather M. O'Neill, Lena Clarissa Crain

Business and Economics Faculty Publications

As rising health care expenditures focus government attention on slowing the growth, the pharmaceutical industry comes under increasing pressure to curb prices of ethical drugs. Pharmaceutical price regulations have been implemented in many countries to control pharmaceutical expenditures. Yet, creating innovative drugs requires enormous R&D costs, which in turn require adequate expected economic returns. Since price controls reduce profits and expected returns, as countries invoke stricter price regulations, firms will either move their R&D process into less regulated markets or move out of innovative R&D. This paper assesses the impact of drug price regulations in Japan compared to market-priced drugs …

Update - June 2005, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Universal Access to Health Care and Religious Basis of Human Rights