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The Determination Of Antibody Levels In Endodontic Patients Against Eleven Microorganisms Using Ifa And Elisa Techniques, William C. Payne

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Endodontic (root canal) infections are generally considered to be caused by the invasion of microorganisms which destroy pulp tissue and extend to the periapical region. No definitive study has identified a specific bacterium or group of bacteria as etiological agents. We quantitively measured antibodies present in the serum of 30 normal individuals and patients with either chronic (n = 30) or acute (n = 30) periapical lesions with the indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for IgG and IgM against 11 oral microorganisms routinely isolated from such lesions. The results were analyzed statistically. Analysis of variance of …

Case-Control Study Of Vitamin A Intake And Colorectal Cancer In Seventh-Day Adventists, John William Morgan

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in Americans; producing approximately 60,000 deaths in Americans each year. Studies of high and low risk populations have suggested a dietary etiology for colorectal cancer, although investigations of specific dietary factors have produced inconsistent results.

Population based studies of California Seventh-day Adventists demonstrate dietary variety regarding factors suspected as important in the etiology of colorectal cancer. These studies document a substantially reduced mortality and incidence from colorectal cancer in Seventh-day Adventists when compared to other California Populations. Although specific reasons for this difference remain obscure, the 'Unique lifestyle and …

Fluoride As A Therapeutic Drug In Osteoporosis Treatment, Rita Priyadarshani Francis

Honors Theses

The use of fluoride as a therapeutic drug is not a novel idea. Studies dealing with the effects of fluoride on the skeletal system date back to the late 1960's. This paper will define osteoporosis, examine methods of detection, and will discuss various methods of treatment with emphasis on the use of fluoride supplements in the form of tablets or fluorinated drinking water.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 29 Number 3, Spring 1987, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

10 - AROUND THE WORLD IN 500 DAYS How and why Mike Brozda stepped off the treadmill and onto the "road less traveled." By Mike Brozda

16 - TURNING OFF TV's MIND-SET Confessions of a "cultural heretic" who turned off TV and selected a different channel. By Mitch Finley

19 - ADVOCATE FOR THE UNDERDOG Peter Conk '71, as seen through the eyes of faculty friend and mentor, Father Tenny Wright, S.J. By Tennant C. Wright, S.J.

24 - LETTING GO A three-step lesson in the fine art of delegation on the way to becoming a leader. By Timothy W. …

Spreadsheet Analysis In Human Service Administration, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

One of the most useful genres of personal computer software for human service administrators is the electronic spreadsheet. Despite its status as the single most important reason for the commercial success of the personal computer (or PC), spreadsheets have received scant attention in human service administration. An extended search of the major electronic bibliographies and information services turned up no references to spreadsheets in the human service literature. We are already building an extensive knowledge and experience base in the application of spreadsheets to the problems of human service administration. However, as the paucity of literature on this subject shows, …

1987-1988 Course Catalog (Graduate), Columbia College Chicago

Course Catalogs

1987-1988 graduate course catalog.

Structural-Equation Models Of Current Drug Use: Are Appropriate Models So Simple(X)?, Ron D. Hays, Keith F. Widaman, M. Robin Dimatteo, Alan W. Stacy

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

The simplex and common-factor models of drug use were compared using maximum-likelihood estimation of latent variable structural models in two samples: a sample of 226 high school students, using ratio-scale measures of current drug use, and a sample of 310 industrial workers and 811 college students, using ordinal-scale measures of current drug use. Latent variables of alcohol, marijuana, enhancer hard drugs, and dampener hard drugs were specified in a series of structural models. Contrary to previous findings with cumulative drug-use data, the common-factor model provided a more acceptable representation of the observed current-use data than did the simplex model in …

Outlook Magazine, Summer 1987

Outlook Magazine

No abstract provided.

Legislative Programs; Series Ii; File 63, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 29 Number 2, Winter 1987, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

9 - CAMPAIGN FINANCING A look at what's wrong with modern campaigns and a creative, alternative approach to financing them. By Timothy J. Lukes

13 - TRADITION SHATTERED One hundred women broke the all male tradition at SCU 25 years ago. They returned to the campus to celebrate. By Barbara Wyman

18 - PAUL AQUINO: 0 & A Paul Aquino '65 talks about his famous sister-in-law, Cory, his family, and life in the Philippines.

21 - A YEAR FOR OTHERS Seven 1986 graduates chose to spend this year with the ·Jesuit Volunteers. They talk about what it's like. By Julie …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 20, Winter/Spring 1987, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 20, WINTER/SPRING, 1987

Louis T. Milic: Editorial, 2

Virtues of the general interest magazine.

Barbara B. Green: Shattering the Iron Rice Bowl, 4

Educational renewal in China.

J. E. Vacha: The Night It Can’t Happen Here Happened, 14

The Depression’s biggest media event.

The Editors: Trompe L’oeil: The Art That Deceives, 25

Fooling the eye with minute detail and linear perspective.

Lee W. Gibbs: Fasting: Religious Ritual or Definitive Diet?, 30

Diverse rationales for a universal practice.

Ron Haybron: Measuring the Motion That Is Heat, 42

The extraordinary contributions of the ordinary thermometer to modern science. …

Long Season Wheat, W. R. Smith, K. Anderson

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Agronomy of long season wheats, 87AL9, 87AL10, 87ES3, 87ES4, 87JE2, 87JE3, 87MT8, 87MT9 and 87NA9. Septoria control in long season wheat, 87E4 and 87MT10. Nitrogen response by long season wheat, 87ES5 and 87JE4. Phenology of long season wheats, 87E5 and 87MT11.

Death Be Not Proud: Medical, Ethical And Legal Dilemmas In Resource Allocation, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

High Input Barley Production Systems In The High Rainfall Zone., G. J. Parlevliet

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Barley systems in the high rainfall zone effect of nitrogen fungicides and seeding rate on barley yield, 87BR2.

Caduceus 1987, Stritch School Of Medicine

Stritch School of Medicine Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Forest Conservation In Nepal: Encouraging Women's Participation, Augusta Molnar

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This issue of SEEDS focuses on ways in which women have been involved in a government forest conservation and restoration program in Nepal. As is common with many large-scale projects with a general impact, women were not a direct focus of the project's original design. As activities got underway, however, both the Nepali staff and their expatriate colleagues quickly realized that the direct involvement of women was crucial to the success of the project's participatory strategy. Over the initial five years, 1980 to 1985, a number of approaches to addressing women's needs and generating their active participation were tried. The …

Application Of Digital Signal Analysis, Mass Data Acquisition And Processing Techniques, And Automated Experiment Protocols To The Study Of Cardiac Cell Membrane Electrophysiology, With Mathematical Modeling, David S. Buckles

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Traditional methods of collecting, analyzing and storing data from cardiac cell membrane electrophysiology experiments have become increasingly cumbersome and unwieldy as experimental protocols have become more sophisticated and complex. A global approach to collecting, analyzing, refining and storing electrophysiologic data, as well as a new approach to mathematical modeling of cell membrane single ion channel kinetics, was developed. This utilizes a comprehensive microcomputer based system of software with specialized analog and digital electronics for data acquisition, analysis and archiving. Unique discrete signal processing techniques for characterizing the electronic recording system, including specialized hardware and software adapted for minimizing distortions in …

1987 Supplement Vol. 2, American Dental Association

ADA Transactions

This item is part of the Supplements subtitle of The ADA Transactions, a serial publication of the annual activities of the ADA House of Delegates (HOD)/Board of Trustees (BOT) made up of three separate subtitles: Annual Reports and Resolutions, Supplements, and the Transactions. Generally, The ADA Transactions are published in multiple volumes throughout the year. The Supplements function like an appendix and are, in more recent editions, numbered separately with page numbers determined by HOD reference committee assignation. Items are described variously as "Supplement #", "Volume #", etc. throughout the series but have been labeled here as Vol. # for …

Testimonies, 1987 Hearings; Series I; File 172, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Tuition Scholarships; Series I; File 174, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Production From Heifers And First Calvers, G J. Sawyer

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Heifers and first calvers present the major problems of the beef breeding herd. Reproduction rates, calf growth and survival of first calvers are generally much poorer than those of adult breeders.

Early successful reproductive performance is important in beef herds because of the high overhead cost of keeping breeding beef heifers or cows, Where possible, beef producers should aim to join heifers at 14 to 15 months of age. To achieve this goal, producers should set production targets for those animals. These targets will differ from farm to farm depending on when calves are turned off and the seasonal feed …

Grain Legumes Evaluation., G. H. Walton, T. R. Trent

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Lupin agronomy, 87AL14. Nitrogen fertilizer for legume crops, 87BA2. Pea variety evaluation, 87C59, 87M08, 87ME1, 87N012, 87SG8, 87KA7, 87N2. Interstate pea variety trials, 87N096, 87N099, 87KA6. Disease Resistance Pea Variety Testing, 87JE1. Grain legume species comparisons, 87A2, 87C2, 87KA37, 87M09, 87MA1, 87NA15. Legume species variety trials, 87LG2. Faba bean evaluation, 87MC34 and 87KA8. Faba bean 'synthetic' variety yield trial, 87MC36. Faba bean screening nursery, 87MC35. Preliminary agronomy of faba bean, chickpea and lentil, 87A21. Seeding date, 87A22. Legume species herbicide tolerance, 87KA82.

Investigation Of Physicochemical And Formulation Parameters For Transdermal Delivery Of Isoproterenol Hc1, Rajesh Arvindkumar Patel

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Effects of solubility, partition coefficient, pH and selected adjuvants (propylene glycol and Azone) on the percutaneous penetration of isoproterenol HC1 in vitro have been investigated using human cadaver skin. Preliminary stability studies demonstrated that isoproterenol HC1 was very stable (less than 1% decomposition) for 24 hours at 22(DEGREES) (+OR-) 0.5(DEGREES) in the pH range 1 to 7 in the following solvents: water, normal saline, propylene glycol and a series of propylene glycol-water mixtures (10,20,40 and 60% v/v). The rate of decomposition of the drug in aqueous solutions increased with pH beyond pH 8. In normal saline, the decomposition was significant …

Design And Evaluation Of Theophylline Monitoring For Home Health Care Patients, May Naim Mikhail

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to design, evaluate, and determine the cost benefit of a pharmacokinetic service for home-based patients. Four randomly selected patient populations were used in evaluating the service for six months. The experimental group consisted of 17 patients who were under the care of family practice physicians in private practice and who received pharmacokinetic consultation and monitoring by a pharmacist as a home health care service. The retrospective control consisted of the same 17 patients of the experimental group whose past medical history for a period of six months was used. The concurrent control consisted of …

High Pressure Liquid Chromatography Ion Exchange Studies On Bile Relating To The Postmortem Interval, Bertha Louise Martin

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It is the purpose of this, then, to investigate the feasibility of using the changes of concentrations of small iconic decomposition products in bile as indicators of time since death. High pressure liquid chromatography was selected for measurement of these changes.

Fetal Whole-Body Fluid, Cardiovascular And Endocrine Dynamics : Computer Analysis Of Regulatory Mechanisms, Peter Stuart Gold

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The dynamics of transcapillary fluid and protein distribution and endocrine regulation of cardiovascular function were studied in chronically instrumented fetal sheep during the third trimester. Average experimental changes in vascular pressures, blood volume, plasma hormone concentrations, hematocrit and plasma protein concentration were analyzed using mathematical modeling and parameter optimization techniques in order to determine values for the major parameters which regulate fluid, protein and endocrine dynamics and to determine endocrine dose-response relationships to changes in cardiovascular function. The hormones which were considered are arginine vasopressin (AVP), angiotensin II (AII), epinephrine (EPI) and norepinephrine (NE). Vascular disturbances which were considered include …

Donald Bailey Oral History, Donald Bailey

Oral History Collection

Susan Metrhens' Note:

Regarded by many of his peers at Jax as one of the most intuitive, prescient and creative scientists at the Lab, Bailey was a very reflective narrator. While he provides one anecdote of c.c. Little1s sartorial habits, this tape is largely devoid of anecdotal material, and is more a reminiscence by a scientist who was at Jax in the early '50's, who left and returned in 1967. I tried, through a variety of questions, to probe the synergy between Bailey and the Lab, the degree to which his prescience and creativity might be due to the freedom …

Priscilla "Skippy" Lane Oral History, Skippy Lane

Oral History Collection

Susan Mehrtens' Note:

We have in this tape the recollections of one of the most prolific authors in the field of mouse mutants, an indefatigable co-worker of Margaret Dickey, Margaret Green and currently, Muriel Davison. Full of scientific terms, this tape reveals clearly Lane's thorough absorption in the field to which she has devoted nearly the last forty years of her life. Toward the end of this tape, Lane alludes to Earl Green's sexist attitude, which other women have also mentioned to me on and off tape. Lane also waxes eloquently here about her efforts to establish a hiera'rchy within …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 29 Number 1, Fall 1986, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

10 - IS SANTA CLARA STILL JESUIT? Declining vocations prompt this recurring question. Some of the faculty discuss what makes Santa Clara Jesuit to them. By Peg Major

16 - DON'T CALL ME MR. MOM Taking over the day care of his two tiny daughters while his wife worked provided this alumnus new insight on fatherhood. By Jim Craven

21 - PERSPECTIVES OF A PATRIARCH The spotlight is on Tom Bannan, class of '23, who started the procession of Bannans to Santa Clara. BY Paul Hennessy

26 - HOW NOT TO MAKE MONEY ON THE STOCK MARKET A guide to …

The Synthesis And Evaluation Of The Cardiovascular Activity Of Novel Imidazole Ring Systems, Joseph E. De Los Angeles

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

An investigation was undertaken to synthesize and evaluate the cardiovascular activity of two imidazole ring systems. Imidazoles with hypotensive activity would provide novel potential antihypertensive drugs. These novel structures may also find use as chemical probes in the study of the cardiovascular system and as prototypes for other potential cardiovascular agents.

The histamine derivative, 7,7-dipyridyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroimidazo-[4,5-c]pyridine (ligand l), was demonstrated to possess significant hypotensive activity in laboratory rats. A 15 mg/Kg dose of ligand 1 produces a statistically significant decrease in blood pressure when injected IP. This hypotensive effect is also associated with marked increase in heart rate. Although compound 1 …