Thesis (M.A.)--Mills College, 2002. / Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Computer Science.

Thesis (B.A.)--University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse, 2009. / Also available online. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-35).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-240). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

5 pp. / As long term investments, trees are expected to provide benefits for extended periods of time, usually decades. Trees planted in locations where they cannot survive or where they create problems rarely stay in place for any length of time. Trees experiencing shortened lives waste money, create hazards, and fail to perform their intended horticultural function. The bulletin highlights the importance of selecting a tree right for the location in which it will be planted. Key suggestions for making sound horticultural decisions along with ten examples of trees planted in locations where problems can far outweigh the benefits are presented.

The Spruce Point Site (DjKq-1) in the northwestern sector of Lake of the Woods, Ontario, is a Selkirk site dated through ceramic seriational analysis to the sixteenth or seventeenth century A.D. It is rare for two reasons. First, it is a single component among a plethora of multi-component sites with collapsed stratigraphy which characterize the major portion of the Lake of the Woods prehistoric record. This factor allows for the first analysis and description of Lake of the Woods Selkirk community patterns, material remains, especially ceramics, and adaptive strategy free from stratigraphic interference. The assemblage is represented by ceramics and lithics akin to the Winnipeg River Complex and a faunal sample indicating an exploitation pattern using an unspecialized strategy and varied resources. Second, the site has remains of two house structures, unreported elsewhere for the Selkirk Composite, that are similar in floor plan and size to earlier Laurel structures and later Cree houses reported in the ethnographic literature. House style and geographic location, plus the faunal assemblage indicate the site was occupied during the summer and was chosen for its varied animal, plant and lithic resources.

A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. / Bedside ultrasound of the inferior vena cava (IVC) has grown to be an important tool in the assessment and management of critically ill patients. This study endeavors to examine which location along the IVC is most highly correlated with changes in intravascular volume status: (1) the diaphragmatic juncture (DJ) (2) two centimeters caudal to the hepatic vein juncture (2HVJ) or (3) left renal vein juncture (LRVJ). Data was collected in this prospective observational study on patients in the emergency department who were at least 16 years of age, being treated with intravenous fluids (IVF). Measurements of the IVC were recorded at each site during standard inspiratory and expiratory cycles, and again with the patient actively sniffing to decrease intrapleural pressures. IVF was then administered per the patient’s predetermined treatment, and the same six measurements were repeated after completion of fluid bolus. The difference in caval index (dCI) was calculated for all six data sets and correlated with the mL/kg of IVF administered. There was a statistically significant correlation between mL/kg of IVFs administered and dCI at all three sites (DJ: r = 0.354, p value = 0.0002; 2HVJ: r = 0.334, p value = 0.0003; LRVJ: r = 0.192, p value = 0.03). The greatest correlation between amount of fluids administered and dCI was observed along the IVC at the site 2 cm caudal to the juncture of the hepatic veins (2HVJ). This site is also where the largest change in diameter can be appreciated on ultrasound during intravascular volume resuscitation. Our data also suggests that every mL/kg of IVFs administered should change the dCI by 0.86-1.00%. This anticipated change in IVC diameter can be used to gauge a patient’s response to intravascular volume repletion.

Despite thirty published evaluation reports citing the effectiveness of Vancouver’s safe injection site (Small 2008), the Canadian federal government refuses to endorse safe injection sites as a health service option available to injection drug users (IDUs). Insite’ s evaluation results are undergoing debate, because two communicative spheres of knowledge, each with a unique authoritative language, are conflicting as each is attempting to gain moral authority over the right to recontextualize drug users. Drawing on a literature review of two harm reduction programs in Vancouver, Insite and Sheway, and expert interviews with evaluators, I show that what constitutes “evidence” is in fact subjective, determined by spheres of communicability that are built upon social, professional and political contexts. To confront the problematic nature of this issue, I suggest that evaluators and overseers need to treat program evaluation as a process of negotiation, best approached in a fluid manner. By obscuring multiple user experiences in the evaluation of harm reduction programs, evaluators and overseers risk imposing their communicative ideologies on what it means to be a drug user.

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This thesis is a study of certain linguistic aspects of the Jingfa and the Jing (known also as Shiliu jing), two manuscripts discovered in a Han dynasty tomb at Mawangdui, China, in 1973. The manuscripts have been the object of intense study since their discovery. After a review of the major publications and an account of their contribution to the field of ancient Chinese thought, this thesis examines the rhetorical strategies and the vocabulary used in the two texts, in order to offer a description of the linguistic differences between the manuscripts. Various grammatical and argumentative patterns are analyzed: the use of sentence connectives, inference, implication, narrative procedures. The two texts show considerable discrepancy, attributable to their independent origin, an issue still debated among the experts. The perception of the manuscripts as belonging to different cultural milieux is confirmed by an analysis of the vocabulary, and in particular of the technical terms.

With the increase of the number of radios and antennas on today’s systems, the risk of co-site interference is very high. Intermodulation product and antenna coupling are two common sources of interference. The thesis investigates some features of a radio system, like antenna types, receiver parameters, intermodulation products and isolation, and suggests how this knowledge can be used to minimize the risk of co-site interference. The goal is to maximize the isolation between the antennas, by good frequency planning, the use of filters and taking great care in antenna placement. A first version of an analysis software was developed where transmitters and receivers can be paired and evaluated. An intermodulation product calculator was also implemented, to easily find which products are an issue and where they originate. The goal of the software is to be simple to use and easy to adapt to different setups and situations. It should also be easy to upgrade with new features.