FOLEY, KRISTEN MADSEN. Multivariate Spatial Temporal Statistical Models for Applications in Coastal Ocean Prediction. (Under the direction of Montserrat Fuentes and Lian Xie.) Estimating the spatial and temporal variation of surface wind fields plays an important role in modeling atmospheric and oceanic processes. This is particularly true for hurricane forecasting, where numerical ocean models...

Dear Sir,?I read with interest your and Dr. Haffkine's paper on Cholera, but I see no mention of Blood Observations. I have carried out two series of observations which incontestably prove that in cholera the blood is invaded by a shortlived sporozoon which devours the red corpuscles with terrible rapidity. The primary infecting agent appears to be a pigmented spore which gains access as the ma...

BACKGROUND Husband alcohol use has frequently been found to be related to husband-to-wife marital violence. Research has demonstrated a prospective link between husband alcohol use before marriage and husband-to-wife aggression in the first year of marriage. The present study examined the relationships of husband violence, marital conflict, and couple's alcohol use in the first year of marriage...

This paper addresses the phenomenon of husband wife in a marriage. It describes the husband wife experience as one in which a wife plays the role of the husband in a role-reversal situation. It examines the socio-psychological challenges which the husband wife experience poses to the institution of marriage, pointing out that the situation simply reduces the male partner in the marriage to a ho...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to sincerely thank my research advisor, Dr. Daniel A. Reed, for his kind guidance and support along the development of this thesis. Thank him for providing me with this opportunity to benefit from his knowledge. I would like to thank the members of the Pablo group who have helped and encouraged me in my work. I would like to thank Eric Shaffer, Don Schmidt and Jim Oly fo...