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A Characterization Of Early B-Lymphopoiesis: The Differentiation Of Lymphohemopoietic And Early Committed B-Lymphoid Progenitors, Timothy C. Ball

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Studies of B-lymphopoiesis have long been hindered by the lack of assays capable of supporting the differentiation and identification of lymphohemopoietic and early committed B-lymphoid progenitors. The clonal identification of cell-cycle dormant lymphohemopoietic progenitors from mice treated with 5 flurouracil (5-FU) became possible with the development of the two-step assay for lymphohemopoietic progenitors. Studies presented in this dissertation are centered around elucidation of the processes of differentiation of lymphohemopoietic progenitors in an attempt to determine the sequence of events occurring in divergence of the B-lymphoid and myeloid lineages. To address this question a single-step assay capable of supporting the differentiation …

Statistical Evaluation Of Motorist And Pedestrian Behavior At Signalized Intersections In Las Vegas, Sivashankar Subramani

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the effect of a law enforcement program implemented to check illegal and unsafe motorist and pedestrian behavior. A case study involving eight selected intersections in Las Vegas (four control and four treatment) was carried out over a period of seven months in conjunction with the pedestrian law enforcement program conducted during March and April of 1996. Pedestrian and motorist behaviors were video taped in 120 minute segments. The tapes were then reviewed to count vehicle violations, pedestrian violations, conflicts, total vehicles and total pedestrians. Violations and conflict rates for pre and during enforcement, and pre and post …

Romer V. Evans And The Permissibility Of Morality Legislation, S. I. Strong

Faculty Publications

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, two of England's most respected jurists engaged in an on-going debate that would take the legal world by storm. The debate concerned whether and to what extent morality should be reflected in the law and was instigated by the publication of the Wolfenden Report, a study presented to Parliament as it considered whether to repeal certain antisodomy laws in Great Britain. On the one hand was Lord Patrick Devlin, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary later elevated to the House of Lords, Britain's highest court. Devlin opposed the conclusions contained in the Wolfenden …

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 23, No. 2, 1997

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

LETTERS viii

ARTICLES

• --Mormon Sugar in Alberta: E. P. Ellison and the Knight Sugar Factory, 1901-17 William G. Hartley, 1

• --Ellison Milling and Elevator Company: Alberta Wheat with Utah Roots Gregory P. Christofferson, 30

• --Friends Again: Canadian Grain and the German Saints Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, 46

• --"The Grand, Fundamental Principle:" Joseph Smith and the Virtue of Friendship Steven Epperson, 77

• --Zina Presendia Young Williams Card: Brigham's Daughter, Cardston's First Lady Donald G. Godfrey, 107

• --Ernest L. Wilkinson's Appointment as Seventh President of Brigham Young University Gary James Bergera, 128

• --The Mechanics' Dramatic Association: London and Salt Lake City Lynne …

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 23, No. 1, 1997

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

LETTERS vi

ARTICLES

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

• --The Web of Print: Toward a History of the Book in Early Mormon Culture David J. Whittaker, 1

TANNER LECTURE

• --National Perceptions of Utah's Statehood Howard R. Lamar, 42

• --St. Johns's Saints: Interethnic Conflict in Northeastern Arizona, 1880-85 Mark E. Miller, 66

• --LDS Sister Missionaries: An Oral History Response, 1910-71 Jessie L. Embry, 100

REVIEW ESSAY

• --Issues in Writing European History and in Building the Church in Europe Review of Bruce A. Van Orden. Building Zion: The Latter-day Saints in Europe Wilfried Decoo, 140

REVIEWS

--Dean L. May, Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society …

Analysis Of Phosphorescence In Heterogeneous Systems Using Distributions Of Quencher Concentration, A.S. Golub, A.S. Popel, L. Zheng, R.N. Pittman

Physiology and Biophysics Publications and Presentations

ABSTRACT

A continuous distribution approach, instead of the traditional mono- and multiexponential analysis, for determining quencher concentration in a heterogeneous system has been developed. A mathematical model of phosphorescence decay inside a volume with homogeneous concentration of phosphor and heterogeneous concentration of quencher was formulated to obtain pulse-response fitting functions for four different distributions of quencher concentration: rectangular, normal (Gaussian), gamma, and multimodal. The analysis was applied to parameter estimates of a heterogeneous distribution of oxygen tension (P02) within a volume. Simulated phosphorescence decay data were randomly generated for different distributions and heterogeneity of PO2 inside the excitation/emission volume, consisting …

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Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Webflow - A Visual Programming Paradigm For Web/Java Based Coarse Grain Distributed Computing, Dimple Bhatia, Vanco Burzevski, Maja Camuseva, Geoffrey C. Fox

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

We present here the recent work at NPAC aimed at developing WebFlow---a general purpose Web based visual interactive programming environment for coarse grain distributed computing. We follow the 3-tier architecture with the central control and integration WebVM layer in tier-2, interacting with the visual graph editor applets in tier-1 (front-end) and the legacy systems in tier-3. WebVM is given by a mesh of Java Web servers such as Jeeves from JavaSoft or Jigsaw from MIT/W3C. All system control structures are implemented as URL-addressable servlets which enable Web browser-based authoring, monitoring, publication, documentation and software distribution tools for distributed computing. We …

Gold & Blue, Winter 1997, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Winter 1997 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

The U.S.-French Dispute Over Gatt Treatment Of Audiovisual Products And The Limits Of Public Choice Theory: How An Efficient Market Solution Was "Rent-Seeking", Thomas M. Murray

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Number 3, Summer 1997, The Congregational And Synodical Mission Unit, The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America

Intersections

No abstract provided.

The Lutheran Liberal Arts College And Care For The Earth, H. Paul Santmire

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Environmental Quality As A National Good In A Federal State, Richard B. Stewart

Faculty Articles

Adoption of new approaches to securing the national good of environmental quality will depend critically on the intermediaries who determine or influence how public demand for environmental quality is channeled into the design and implementation of concrete environmental policy measures. These intermediaries are political and policy entrepreneurs, the media, legislators, regulators and administrators, environmental groups, industry, and others. Many of these intermediaries have a strong vested interest in the existing centralized command and control system. Many will continue to try to use environmental regulation to extract rents or otherwise advance their interests. These realities must be taken into account in …

Summation 1997, Clare Lawler, Melba Feliberty

Fordham Law School Yearbook

1997 Yearbook, Fordham University School of Law.

The Cuban Liberty And Democratic Solidarity Act: Violations Of International Law And The Response Of Key American Trade Partners, Muriel Van Den Berg

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Computer Assisted Instruction On Mathematics Achievement, Lynn A. Ford

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

How Will Consumers Be Protected On The Information Superhighway, Dee Pridgen

Land & Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fetal Equality: The Equality State's Response To The Challenge Of Protecting Unborn Children, Stacey L. Best

Land & Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Sulfate On The Release Rate Of Al3+ From Gibbsite In Low-Temperature Acidic Waters, Moira K. Ridley, David J. Wesolowski, Donald A. Palmer, Pascale Bénézeth, Richard Kettler

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Solubility experiments were performed at 5 °C by reacting 1 g of powdered gibbsite with 45 g of aqueous H₂SO₄-NaCl and HCl-NaCl (0.01 m H+) solutions at 0.1 m ionic strength. The kinetics of dissolution were monitored under extremely undersaturated conditions and appeared to favor a zero-order rate-determining process. The dissolution rate of gibbsite in the sulfate solution was approximately 10 times faster than in the HCl solution, which is consistent with trends reported in the literature for studies performed at higher temperatures. The enhanced dissolution kinetics of gibbsite (and by analogy, other aluminum-containing minerals) in …

Experimental Models Of Mycobacterial Replication And Killing In Macrophages, Pairote Laochumroonvorapong

Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates how human mononuclear phagocytes regulate the growth of mycobacteria. Previous studies carried out in our laboratory suggested that cell turnover [apoptosis and necrosis] within a granuloma may contribute to the control of mycobacterial infection. The experiments described here demonstrated that both apoptosis [Fas-mediated] and necrosis [perforin-induced] of infected human monocytes do not affect the survival of intracellular mycobacteria in an in vitro infection model. To determine the role of apoptosis and necrosis on mycobacterial infection in vivo, perforin gene-disrupted mice and Fas receptor-defective mice were experimentally infected with mycobacteria. The loss of either intact Fas pathway or …

Characterization Of The Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration Antigen Cdr2, John Peter Corradi

Student Theses and Dissertations

Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is a remote effect of breast and ovarian cancer on the nervous system. It is believed to arise when these tumors ectopically express a neuron-specific protein, thereby initiating an anti-tumor immune response that subsequently develops into a neuronal degeneration. Three cerebellar degeneration related (cdr) genes encoding putative antigens were previously identified using PCD antisera. We have demonstrated that cdr2, which encodes a cytoplasmic coiled-coil leucine zipper protein, is the only cdr gene expressed in PCD-associated tumors, and is therefore the true PCD tumor antigen. We have isolated the mouse cdr2 homologue and examined expression of the …

Metropolitan Growth And The Local Role In Surface Water Resource Protection In The Lake Erie Basin, Wendy A. Kellogg

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Local governments can play an important role in protecting surface water resources through their compliance with federal and state regulations and through their own land use planning and management practices. Despite 30 years of water quality initiatives in the Lake Erie basin, nonpoint source runoff from urban and urbanizing lands remains a problem. Loss of riparian corridor integrity is increasing as urban areas in the Lake Erie basin experience areal growth. The use and management of land, predominantly a local responsibility, directly affects surface water resources. The role that local governments play in protecting surface water resources was studied in …

1997 Vol.5 No.1, Cleveland-Marshall College Of Law

Law Notes

No abstract provided.

The Faces Of Despair In Ins Raids, Elvia R. Arriola

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Genotypic Diversity Of Beet Curly Top Virus, Carrie L. Mcmahon

Honors Capstones

The genotypic diversity of beet curly top virus (BCTV) present in the western United States has been examined by the analysis if 58 field isolates and eight laboratory or nursery isolates of the virus. Full-length clones for each isolate have been characterized for genotype by restriction endonuclease mapping. Only variants of the CFH and Worland strains were recovered from field isolates. Variants of the Cal/Logan strain were found only in laboratory or nursery isolates.

Diophantine Type Fractional Derivative Representation Of Structural Hysteresis, Part Ii: Fitting, Computational Mechanics, Jerzy T. Sawicki, Joe Padovan

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Part I of this series introduced the diophantinized fractional model and the decompositional formulation. The various important properties of fractional continuum formulation and its decomposed version were developed. In Part II the dynamic properties of the diophantine representation are investigated. The model fitting scheme will be developed to handle an arbitrary frequency dependent structural hysteriesis. This is followed up with the results of benchmark studies which demonstrate the effectiveness of fitting.

What Now For The Texas Colonias, Joann Matthiesen

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Creating Data Protection Legislation In The United States: An Examination Of Current Legislation In The European Union, Spain, And The United States, Jennifer M. Myers

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Attaining Systems For Sustainability Through Environmental Law, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Five years have passed since the historic Earth Summit. Although significant progress has been made since Rio, much remains to be done. Poverty and environment degradation continue to affect the lives of millions of people in many parts of the world. Global warming, the loss of biological diversity, the spread of deserts, deforestation, the crisis in many of our cities remind us every day of the challenges which confront us. The unsustainable patterns of consumption and production continue to be the major cause of environmental degradation worldwide. This is therefore not an occasion for complacency or mindless celebration. It is, …

Mergers And Acquisitions: A Primer For Successful Employee Transition, Jan Dunlap

Theses

This thesis will focus on the 'human side' of mergers and acquisitions. It will show the impact on employees and ways in which management can ease these employees through the transition.

Research has shown that there are many more failures than successes, when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Even with all the failures that exist, mergers and acquisitions are more prevalent than they have been in the past. Everyday the newspapers, news casts and radio stations mention a merger that is in the works.

If mergers and acquisitions are going to continue, and research shows that they will, then …