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Title: Comparison of the effectiveness of Traditional Nursing Medication Administration with the Color Coding Kids System in a sample of undergraduate nursing students
Author: Burgess, Colleen
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Health education
Description: ABSTRACTThe problem of medication errors in hospitals and the vulnerability of pediatric patients to adverse drug events (ADE) was investigated and well substantiated. The estimated additional cost of inpatient care for ADE's in the hospital setti...

Title: Consistency analysis of redundant probe sets on Affymetrix three-prime expression arrays and applications to differential mRNA processing
Author: Loraine, Ann, Cui, Xiangqin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Nucleic acids
Description: Affymetrix three-prime expression microarrays contain thousands of redundant probe sets that interrogate different regions of the same gene. Differential expression analysis methods rarely consider probe redundancy, which can lead to inaccurate in...

Title: DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM-only AND DISCRETE SINE TRANSFORM-only WINDOWED UPDATE ALGORITHMS FOR SHIFTING DATA WITH HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION
Author: KARWAL, VIKRAM
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Discrete Sine Transform (DST) are widely used in image and data compression applications. To process the DCT or DST of a signal a portion of length N is extracted by windowing. By shifting the window point by po...

Title: DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF TRANSMISSION POLE STRUCTURES UNDER BLASTING INDUCED GROUND VIBRATION
Author: Dai, Kaoshan
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Structural integrity of electric transmission poles is crucial for the reliability of power delivery. In some areas where blasting is used for mining or construction, these structures are endangered if they are located close to blasting sites. Thr...

Title: Development of a Methanotrophic Alternative Daily Cover to Reduce Early Landfill Methane Emissions
Author: Adams, Bryn
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences
Description: Final covers, especially when supplemented with gas collection, are highly engineered systems to prevent landfill methane release into the atmosphere. However, some methane production begins even before open cells are covered and often well before...

Title: EFFECT OF PROVIDERS' PROCEDURAL VOLUME COMPLEXITY ON IN-HOSPITAL COMPLICATIONS AND LENGTH OF STAY FOR GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY
Author: Kamble, Shital
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Medical sciences
Description: Obesity and morbid obesity represent one of the major public health problems in the United States (U.S.) that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population. Gastric bypass (GB) is a complex operation, performed in a high-risk morbidly ...

Title: EFFECTS OF S-ADENOSYL-L-METHIONINE ON COLLAGEN EXPRESSION IN ACTIVATED HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS
Author: Thompson, Kyle
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Cytology
Description: Liver fibrosis is defined as the excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) components, which can disrupt the normal liver microcirculation and lead to injury. Unresolved, hepatic fibrosis can progress to cirrhosis, an end-state liver di...

Title: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Author: Graham, David
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Education, Secondary, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Research investigating the impact of factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, racial socialization, and academic self-concept on the academic achievement of African American high school students has been of interest to scholars for decades. P...

Title: Effects of Edge Roughness on Optical Scattering from Periodic Microstructures
Author: Bergner, Brent
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanotechnology
Description: Planar photonic crystals and other microstructured surfaces have important applications in a number of emerging technologies. However, these structures can be difficult to fabricate in a consistent manner. Rapid, precise measurements of critical p...

Title: Effects of Tier 1 Enhancement Training on Teachers' Instructional Unit Accuracy
Author: Kretlow, Allison
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary
Description: Early intervention models such as Response to Intervention have shown promise in reducing risk of academic failure (Bursuck et al., 2005; Foorman, Fletcher, Francis, & Schatschneider, 1998). General education teachers assume primary responsibility...

Title: Exploratory And Confirmatory Analyses Of A Hospital Employee Satisfaction Survey
Author: Redden, Kenneth
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: This study explored the factor structure of a 22-item survey developed to measure employee satisfaction in a healthcare setting. The purpose was to determine if a homegrown survey possessed factors known to measure employee satisfaction. First an ...

Title: Extraordinary optical transmission through multi-layered systems of corrugated metallic thin films
Author: Gbur, Greg, Gan, Choon How
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: Optical transmission through multi-layered systems of corrugated metallic thin films is investigated by rigorous electromagnetic simulations based on an exact Green tensor method. Compared to a single metal slab of equivalent thickness and volume,...

Title: FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE CAREER STABILITY OF ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS IN A LARGE URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE SOUTHEAST
Author: Edwards, Danielle
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, School management and organization
Description: This study examined the career stability (career choices assistant principals intend to make over the next five to ten years) in a large, urban school district in the southeastern region of the United States in order to identify factors significan...

Title: FOURIER-BASED IMAGE SHARPNESS SENSOR FOR ADAPTIVE OPTICS CORRECTION
Author: Walker, Kristin
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Adaptive optics reduces undesirable turbulence effects present during propagation and imaging through the atmosphere or another random medium. Within an adaptive optics system, wavefront sensing determines the incoming wavefront errors. Image shar...

Title: Genoviz Software Development Kit : Java tool kit for building genomics visualization applications
Author: Loraine, Ann, Helt, Gregg A., Nicol, John W., Erwin, Ed
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Software
Description: Background: Visualization software can expose previously undiscovered patterns in genomic data and advance biological science. Results: The Genoviz Software Development Kit (SDK) is an open source, Java-based framework designed for rapid assembly ...

Title: Health Literacy: Assessing the Current State of Practice Among Respiratory Therapists
Author: Clark, Kimberly
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Health education
Description: Nearly half of American adults lack the necessary health literacy skills needed to understand and act appropriately on health information. The purpose of this research was to assess the current state of practice and knowledge of health literacy am...

Title: High School Students' Perceptions of the Importance of School Counselor Multicultural Counseling Competence
Author: Eckenrod-Green, Wendy
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between high school students' perceptions of the importance of school counselor multicultural competence (SCMCC) and student's characteristics (i.e., students race, SES, sex, grade level, a...

Title: How Is the Value of Real Estate Affected by the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Process?
Author: Hiebert, Thomas
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Business
Description: This study examines the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process as it relates to real estate prices in the communities surrounding the bases marked for closure and realignment. I examine the history of the BRAC process, d...

Title: Information Technology and Criminal Investigations: Does IT Matter?
Author: Hekim, Hakan
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Political science
Description: As an important police activity, criminal investigation heavily relies on recovery, analysis and interpretation of information. Since information technologies facilitate creation, storage, retrieval, process and dissemination of information, polic...

Title: Infrared Photocurrent Spectroscopy Of Deep Levels In Mg-Doped GaN And AlxGa1-xN
Author: Batoni, Paolo
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Recently, there is an increasing demand for III-nitride semiconductor based optoelectronic devices, and especially for ultraviolet (UV) and Deep UV sources and sensors; however, the development and the performance of such devices is fundamentally ...