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Nebline, November 1998

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Auntie Bacteria's holiday advice
Gifts for the gardener
Forcing bulbs
Attracting birds with the right plants
Rodent damage
Winter care for strawberry plants
Dealing with head lice? Even for experts, it's a head scratcher
Good reasons to recycle aluminum
Milk carton bird feeder
Migrating birds face many hazards
Achieving cleaner indoor air
Holding wet corn with aeration
Grain storage information on the web
Pesticide container recycling a success
Farm finances tight? Fertilize with biosolids and save $$
Acreage reply
Native prairie preservation
United States using less water
Reduce orchard woes
Mealtime tips for the preschool child
Healthy Eating: Holiday Turkey …

Managed Care And Managed Sentencing — A Tale Of Two Systems, Ronald Weich

All Faculty Scholarship

The daily injustices mount. The front line professionals who administer the system cry out for more discretion to depart from the rigid rules that bind them, Congress finally hears their call, and is poised to enact sweeping reforms.

Are improvements in federal sentencing law on the way? Probably not in the near future. But the new Congress will surely take up proposals to regulate the managed health care industry, and the impending debate over a proposed "Patients' Bill of Rights" law offers important lessons for federal sentencing policy.

At first blush, sentencing reform and health care reform have about as …

Primary Cutaneous Actinomycosis, Anjum Kanjee, Zamaz Wahid, Shahid Pervez

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

No abstract provided.

Exoy, An Adenylate Cyclase Secreted By The Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Type Iii System, Timothy L. Yahr, Amy J. Vallis, Michael Hancock, Joseph T. Barbieri, Dara W. Frank

Dartmouth Scholarship

The exoenzyme S regulon is a set of coordinately regulated virulence genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proteins encoded by the regulon include a type III secretion and translocation apparatus, regulators of gene expression, and effector proteins. The effector proteins include two enzymes with ADP-ribosyltransferase activity (ExoS and ExoT) and an acute cytotoxin (ExoU). In this study, we identified ExoY as a fourth effector protein of the regulon. ExoY is homologous to the extracellular adenylate cyclases of Bordetella pertussis (CyaA) and Bacillus anthracis (EF). The homology among the three adenylate cyclases is limited to two short regions, one of which possesses an …

What's Happening: October 29, 1998, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

The Bg News October 27, 1998, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. October 27, 1998. Volume 82-Issue 45.

Symposium Examines Search For Common Health, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Current, October 26, 1998, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (1990s)

No abstract provided.

Washington University Record, October 22, 1998

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

October 19, 1998 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: October 15, 1998, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

In The Affirmative, Vol.5, No.9 (Mid-October/ Mid-November 1998), Mike Martin, The Aids Project

In the affirmative (1993-1999)

No abstract provided.

Mycobacterium Avium Complex Augments Macrophage Hiv-1 Production And Increases Ccr5 Expression, S. M. Wahl, T. Greenwell-Wild, G. Peng, H. Hale-Donze, T. M. Doherty, D. Mizel, J. M. Orenstein

Faculty Publications

Infection with HIV-1 results in pronounced immune suppression and susceptibility to opportunistic infections (OI). Reciprocally, OI augment HIV-1 replication. As we have shown for Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) and Pneumocystis carinii, macrophages infected with opportunistic pathogens and within lymphoid tissues containing OI, exhibit striking levels of vital replication. To explore potential underlying mechanisms for increased HIV-1 replication associated with coinfection, blood monocytes were exposed to MAC antigens (MAg) or viable MAC and their levels of tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) and HIV-1 coreceptors monitored. MAC enhanced TNFα production in vitro, consistent with its expression in coinfected lymph nodes. Using a …

October 12, 1998 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

The Colby Echo (1998-10-08), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Stony Brook Press, V. 20, N. 03, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 20, n. 03, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Profile Vol: 47 No: 9 October 7, 1998, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

October 7, 1998 employee newsletter published to educate and inform the employees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.

Evaluation Of The Macrocyclic Antibiotic Avoparcin As A New Chiral Selector For Hplc, K. Helen Ekborg-Ott, John P. Kullman, Xiande Wang, Kyung Gahm, Lingfeng He, Daniel W. Armstrong

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Avoparcin is a macrocyclic glycopeptide antibiotic structurally related to vancomycin, teicoplanin, and ristocetin A. When attached to 5-μm spherical silica gel, the avoparcin proved to be an effective chiral stationary phase (CSP) that could be used in the reversed-phase, normal- phase, and polar-organic modes. The avoparcin CSP was complimentary to the other macrocyclic glycopeptide CSPs in that it could resolve some racemates that the others could not, and vice versa. Some important compounds resolved on the avoparcin CSP include verapamil, thyroxine, mephenytoin, and 2- imidazolidone-4-carboxylic acid. The use of this CSP and the optimization of separations on it are discussed. …

October 5, 1998 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Pastors For Peace And The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center: A Case Study Of Cooperation Between Two Nonprofit Organizations From Two Countries Without Diplomatic Relations, And With An Economic Embargo Enforced By One Country Against The Other, Alicia Beatriz Jrapko

Master's Theses

This thesis is a case study about an American nonprofit organization, Pastors for Peace, working with a Cuban counterpart, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center. This study is about cooperation between nonprofit organizations in two countries without diplomatic relations. In addition, there is an economic embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. The research demonstrates that when an American nonprofit organization working abroad aims to change U.S. policy, the work will be controversial and difficult, and there will be some legal implications for the organization as an entity as well as for staff members and volunteers individually.

October 2, 1998, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Accuracy Of A New Diagnostic Test When A Gold Standard Does Not Exist, Todd A. Alonzo, Margaret S. Pepe

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Often the accuracy of a new diagnostic test must be assessed when a perfect gold standard does not exist. Use of an imperfect test biases the accuracy estimates of the new test. This paper reviews existing approaches to this problem including discrepant resolution and latent class analysis. Deficiencies with these approaches are identified. A new approach is proposed that combines the results of several imperfect reference tests to define a better reference standard. We call this the composite reference standard (CRS). Using the CRS, accuracy can be assessed using multistage sampling designs. Maximum likelihood estimates of accuracy and expressions for …

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Side Effects Induced By Injection Of Different Adjuvant/Antigen Combinations In Rabbits And Mice, P.P.A.M. Leenaars, M. A. Koedam, P. W. Wester, V. Baumans, E. Claassen, C. F.M. Hendriksen

Biomedicine and Animal Models in Research Collection

We evaluated the side effects induced by injection of Freund's adjuvant (FA)and alternative adjuvants combined with different antigens. Rabbits and mice were injected subcutaneously, intramuscularly (rabbits) and intraperitoneally (mice)with different adjuvants (FA, Specol, RIBI,TiterMax, Montanide ISA50)in combination with several types of antigens (synthetic peptides, autoantigen, glycolipid, protein, mycoplasma or viruses). The effects of treatment on the animals' well-being were assessed by clinical and behavioural changes (POTand LABORASassays) and gross and histopathological changes. In rabbits, treatment did not appear to induce acute or prolonged pain and distress. Mice showed behavioural changes immediately after (predominantly secondary) immunization. Injection of several adjuvant/antigen mixtures …

Animal Organs In Humans: Uncalculated Risks And Unanswered Questions, Gillian R. Langley, Joyce D'Silva

Biomedicine and Animal Models in Research Collection

This report, produced jointly by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection and Compassion in World Farming, fills a number of significant gaps in the current debate about xenotransplantation.

In this report we also summarise the ethical and welfare issues concerning experiments on animals for xenotransplant research and their possible use as source animals for organs. Both these aspects are responsible for much pain and distress caused to many animals. We prefer the term “source animals” to “donor animals”, because animals do not choose to donate their organs for xenotransplantation.

Practitioners' News - Fall 1998/Winter 1999, Volume 26, Number 1, Nova Southeastern University

Practitioners' News

No abstract provided.

Lethal But Not Disabled?-The Circuits Split On Ada Coverage Of The Asymptomatic Hiv-Positive Victim, Emily J. Carton

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

An Untapped Resource In Addressing Emerging Infectious Diseases: Traditional Healers, Amy Guerin Thompson

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.

Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall 1998)

Alumni Update

No abstract provided.