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The Evolution of Mental Health Courts and a Prospective Study of Aggregate Recidivism Rates for Mentally Ill Criminal Offenders

Pelleg, Maia (2013)

In response to the alarming rate of serious mental illness among incarcerated individuals, local communities have operationalized the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence and forged collaborations between the criminal ...
Fibrin Glue Based Clotting Factor Cocktail for High Throughput in vitro Thrombogenicity Screening

Beben, Yvette Michelle (2013)

About one in four deaths in the United States are currently due to some form of heart disease [1]. Patients with cardiovascular disease usually require some form of perfusion-based surgical intervention at some point ...
Separatism and Oppression: Comparative Analysis of Free Aceh Movement and East Turkestan Independence Movement

Ruan, Shujie (2013)

We examine the determinant of peaceful settlement between central governments and secessionist groups in the context of the Third World. There is a heated debate regarding the root cause of ethnic separatism movements. ...
Return to the Motherland: Maternal Landscape and Evolution of Homo Sacer in Beckett, Coetzee, Fugard and Duiker

Henderson, Olivia (2013)

This paper examines how Beckett and Coetzee probe the limits of the human (physically, psychologically, spiritually, legally, politically) and compares and contrasts these two writers (who operate in a more-or-less ...
Intergenerational influences and Migration: Ruality and Adolescent Fertility in Lujan, Argentina

Justman, Cydney Elizabeth (2013)

This cross sectional study explores migration, intergenerational influences and social isolation as determinants of early pregnancy in Lujan's rural communities, which are home to generations of migrants from neighboring ...
The Relationship Between Child and Adolescent Sexual and Physical Abuse and Self-efficacy as an Adult Among HIV-positive Substance Users

Rackliff, Jennifer (2013)

Background: Over one million people have HIV infection in the United States (U.S.), where HIV has permeated all regions of the nation and all ethnic and racial groups. HIV transmission occurs through a number of mechanisms, ...
Health Beliefs and Contraception Use in Leogane, Haiti: A Qualitative Study

Yang, Fan (2013)

Uncontrolled birth spacing is associated with higher rates of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in low resource countries. The use of modern contraception (MC) is a strategy that proven to be successful to ...
Rotor Vibration Reduction Using Multi-Element Multi-Path Design

Su, Keye (2013)

Multi-Element Multi-Path (MEMP) structural design is a new concept for rotor vibration reduction. This thesis explores the possibility of applying MEMP design to helicopter rotor blades. A conceptual design is developed ...
A Preliminary Study of Threonine Deaminase Duplication in Solanaceae

Huang, Jie (2013)

One of the most important questions in evolutionary biology is how new genes and new functions arise and evolve. Among the theories addressing this question, gene duplication is one of the most popular. Previous study ...
Modeling of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell -membrane distillation desalination cogeneration system

Jones, Edwina (2013)

The demand for water and energy increases as the world's population grows. Unfortunately, many people have limited access to these two very necessary resources. In order to solve this dire issue, industry leaders, ...
Quasi Three-Dimensional Flutter Analysis of Single-row STCF4 Turbine Blade Cascade in Supersonic Flow

Yin, Jiadong (2013)

In this work the interaction of flutter-a self-excited self-sustained aeroelastic vibration phenomenon-with wake excitation is investigated using a harmonic balance frequency domain CFD code to solve the 2D inviscid ...
Deconstructing Essentialist Identities: Reimagining the Russian Disapora of the Third Wave

Kim, Eunice Youngeun (2013)

The identity of the Third Wave Russian Diaspora has been misunderstood through the oversimplification of their ethnic and language identity. In addition, the methodologies of sociolinguistic fieldwork, including bilingual ...
Mother's Early Age of Marriage Predicts Children Malaria Risk in the Peruvian Amazon

Liu, Sheng (2013)

Objectives:The objective of this study is to determine the malaria risk among children and adolescents from early married families in the Peruvian Amazon. We will explore the hypotheses that younger maternal age ...
Feasibility of Weighted Dual-Energy Subtraction Using Quasi-Monochromatic Beams for a Dedicated Mammotomography System

Polemi, Andrew Michael (2013)

The goal of this research was to investigate the feasibility of using a weighted dual-energy subtraction method in dedicated breast CT using quasi-monochromatic x-ray beams, to better distinguish soft tissues in the ...
Commitment Problem, Economic Inequality and Institutional Reform in Authoritarian Regimes: A Case Study of China

Guo, Jason Qiang (2013)

Under authoritarian rule, investors' fear that their assets will be arbitrarily confiscated by the government weakens their incentives to make an investment, unless the commitment that the authoritarian government will ...
Image Processing Methods Applied to Landmine Detection in Ground Penetrating Radar

Sakaguchi, Rayn Terin Tatsuma (2013)

Recent advances in statistically based ground penetrating radar (GPR) landmine detection have utilized 2-D slices of data to recognize the hyperbolic shapes caused by a sub-surface landmine. The objective in this ...
Improving Adolescent's Physical Activity in Delhi: An Evaluation of Outdoor School Environments

Tarun, Samiksha (2013)

Background: India has a large burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), one that is only projected to increase in the coming decades. One important risk factor of NCDs is physical inactivity, which can be influenced ...
Biogeomorphodynamics of Coastal Ecosystems under Conditions of Climate Change and Nutrient Enrichment

Margida, Michaela Gabrielle (2013)

At a given time, tidal landforms inhabit one of three alternate elevation-determined stable states: salt marsh, sub-tidal platform, or tidal flat. The balance between soil production and sea level rise controls transitions ...
Exploiting Multi-Look Information for Landmine Detection in Forward Looking Infrared Video

Malof, Jordan (2013)

Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) cameras have recently been studied as a sensing modality for use in landmine detection systems. FLIR-based detection systems benefit from larger standoff distances and faster rates of ...
Supply, Demand, Connections, Legitimacy: Understanding the Waxing and Waning of the Protection Industry in Russia

Mohrig, Katherine (2013)

The literature on organized crime, while increasingly rich, has yet to create a paradigm to predict and explain the waxing and waning of the private protection industry. In the work that follows, I create a general model ...