Browsing URCAF Abstracts 2008 by Issue Date
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4th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects and 8th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum: Program and abstracts
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The true "Solomon": the ecclesiastical and political personas of Saint‐King Louis IX
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)In this project, I proposed to ascertain the relationship between the ecclesiastical nature of Saint Louis (King Louis IX of France) and his role as a political figure in history. I accomplished this through in depth ... -
Improvement of mobile unit loading at American Red Cross
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)Wichita Red Cross currently has a supply warehouse that stocks and dispatches all of the donation vehicles that are used for collections in the Kansas and northern Oklahoma region. In order to meet the increased blood ... -
Preparation of 2,2' - bipyrazine and 5,5' - dimethyl - 2,2'‐bipyrazine
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)Procedures to maximize the product yields in the preparation of the title compounds were investigated. The general preparative procedures for 2,2' - bipyrazine (bpz) and 5,5' - dimethyl - 2,2' - bipyrazine (Me2bpz) was ... -
Diagnostic aids and overall physician ratings
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)Previous research has shown that physicians who are described as using a computer‐based decision aid during the diagnostic process are given lower ratings of overall satisfaction, diagnostic ability and professionalism ... -
Signs and wonders: evangelist symbols and the development of early Christian orthodoxy
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)The early development of evangelist symbols is a subject that raises interesting points about the maturation of Christian iconography in the late antique and early medieval periods. Regarding this topic, it is important ... -
Assessing the behaviors, attitudes and perceptions of men who have sex with men regarding HIV/AIDS
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)Since the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, MSM (men who have sex with men) have been disproportionately affected. It is important to understand the contributing factors that have lead to the spread of HIV in this population ... -
Scale implications for confidence elicitation
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)Confidence judgments are important in applications such as medical diagnosis and eyewitness identification, where we are interested in a person's certainty of making the correct choice. A common finding in confidence ... -
Identification of MiRNAs expressed in arabidopsis pollen using MiRNA array technology
(Wichita State University, 2008-04-25)Pollen plays an important role in plant production. During pollen development, each grain is developed in the anther from pollen mother cells through a combination of meiosis and mitosis. Pollen grains contain the genes ...