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Regulation Of Prostasin By Aldosterone In The Kidney, Takefumi Narikiyo, Kenichiro Kitamura, Masataka Adachi, Taku Miyoshi, Kozo Iwashita, Naoki Shiraishi, Hiroshi Nonoguchi, Li-Mei Chen, Karl X. Chai, Julie Chao, Kimio Tomita

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Prostasin is a serine protease present in mammalian urine that increases the activity of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) when the two are coexpressed in Xenopus oocytes. To determine if aldosterone, one of the principal regulators of urinary Na reabsorption by the distal nephron, affects prostasin expression, we examined prostasin mRNA and protein in a cultured mouse cortical collecting duct cell line (M-1), whole rats, and patients with primary aldosteronism. Aldosterone treatment of M-1 cells substantially increased prostasin expression and stimulated Na-22 uptake. Urinary excretion of prostasin in rats that were infused with aldosterone likwise increased by similar to4-fold when …

Existence And Properties Of Quadratic Solitons In Anisotropic Media: Variational Approach, Sergey V. Polyakov, George I. Stegeman

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Stationary quadratic solitons associated with second harmonic generation in optically anisotropic media have been investigated both numerically and analytically using the variational approach. The solitons were found to have elliptical shapes, both for the fundamental and second harmonic, and their approximate beam waists and amplitudes as a function of the anisotropy and the soliton parameter were found. The important limits of anisotropic diffraction were compared to the well-known model of isotropic diffraction. The stability of anisotropic solitons was addressed via the Vakhitov-Kolokolov criterion and the regions of parameter space for which the solitons are stable were identified. Direct numerical simulations …

Down-Regulation Of Cdc6, A Cell Cycle Regulatory Gene, In Prostate Cancer, Liza D. Robles, Andra R. Frost, Monica Davila, Alan D. Hutson, William E. Grizzle, Ratna Chakrabarti

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

CDC6 plays a critical role in regulation of the onset of DNA replication in eukaryotic cells. We have found that Cdc6 expression is down-regulated in prostate cancer as detected by semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR of prostate cell lines and laser-captured microdissected prostate tissues. This result was substantiated by immunohistochemical analysis of paraffin-embedded tissue sections and immunoblot analysis of benign (BPH-1) and adenocarcinomatous prostatic cells. Furthermore, a 100-fold reduction in the transcription efficiency of the Cdc6 promoter-luciferase construct was noted in the metastatic PC3 cells compared with that in BPH-1 cells. Concentration of the E2F and Oct1 transcription factors that have putative …

Ve-Based Training Strategies For Acquiring Survey Knowledge, Bob G. Witmer, Wallace J. Sadowski, Neal M. Finkelstein

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Virtual environments (VEs) have been used successfully to train wayfinders to navigate through buildings and learn their layout. However, at the same time, for many, the VE deficiencies have reduced the effectiveness of VEs for training spatial tasks. In an effort to improve VE effectiveness, we conducted research to determine if certain unique capabilities of VEs could compensate for its deficiencies. Research participants were required to learn the layout or configuration of one floor of an office building as portrayed in a VE. To improve spatial learning, we developed three VE navigation training aids: local and global orientation cues, aerial …

Turbulence Induced Beam Spreading Of Higher Order Mode Optical Waves, Cynthia Y. Young, Yadira V. Gilchrest, Brian R. Macon

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

It is well known that laser beams spread as they propagate through free space due to natural diffraction, and that there is additional spreading when optical waves propagate through atmospheric turbulence. Previous studies on Gaussian beams have mainly involved the lowest order mode (zero order). The study of higher order mode Gaussian beams has involved Hermite-Gaussian and Laguerre-Gaussian beams for rectangular and cylindrical geometry, respectively, These studies have developed expressions for the field and intensity in free space, in addition to developing new definitions of beam size in the receiver plane for the higher order modes. We calculate the mean …

H. Wayne Huizenga School Of Business And Entrepreneurship, Nova Southeastern University

Huizenga Postgraduate Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Psc 342.01: Media And Public Opinion, Michael J. Laslovich

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Psc 130.01: Introduction To International Relations, Louis Hayes

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Sw 220.01: Community Volunteer Service, Andrea Vernon

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Intraoperative Monitoring Of The Facial Nerve, Syed A. Kamal, Sameer A. Al-Bahkaly, Eyas A. Othman

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative facial nerve monitoring (FNM) was used to assess the anatomical and physiological integrity of the facial nerve during neurotological, otological, and parotid surgeries. Why monitor the facial nerve? There are several reasons to perform FNM. First of all, it alerts the surgeon when something potentially harmful was carried out to the nerve. When the regional anatomy is confusing, it allows positive identification of the nerve. Finally, the integrity of the facial nerve is assessed at the end of the procedure. METHODS: Eighty seven patients who underwent intraoperative monitoring of facial nerve between 1991 and 1996 at the King …

Bulletin Of Yale University School Of Nursing 2002-2003, Yale School Of Nursing

Yale School of Nursing Bulletins and Catalogues

Series 98, Number 14

September 5, 2002

Foreword: Terrorism And Utilitarianism: Lessons From, And For, Criminal Law, Paul Butler

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Promoting Effective Ethical Infrastructure In Large Law Firms: A Call For Research And Reporting, Elizabeth Chambliss, David B. Wilkins

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Articles, Notes And Commentary - Law Review Digests

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Intangible Inventions: Patentable Subject Matter For An Information Age, Richard S. Gruner

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Edu 4281 : Teaching Reading And Language Arts In Secondary Classrooms, Secondary Education And Foundations

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.

Maine Law Magazine - Issue No. 77, University Of Maine School Of Law

Maine Law Magazine

• Feature article: The Nineties-A Decade of Quiet Change
• New Law School Foundation
• Around Campus
• Faculty News
• Alumni News

Review Of Power, Politics, And Culture: Interviews With Edward Said, By Edward Said, Susan Muaddi Darraj

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

The Mind Museum: Rudolf Schwarzkogler And The Vienna Actionists, Philip Barnes

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Sixth paragraph]

In the following essay I discuss the Austrian artist Rudolf Schwarzkogler. I have enjoyed the process of ferreting out articles and references to him, although these are seemingly as scarce as his own artistic output. Schwarzkogler spent just 2 years staging performance-actions in his apartment in the 1960s. These methodically photographed scenes involved sliced fish, bandages, light bulbs, razor blades, foodstuffs and surgical apparatus, all manipulated by anonymous figures. The photographs, works of art in their own right, have since toured internationally. Schwarzkogler was the least outgoing of a group called the Viennese Actionists, whose orgiastic, bloody Happenings …

The Cyborgian Self: Toward A Critical Social Theory Of Cyberspace, Michael Ian Borer

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Contemporary social theory currently remains at a virtual standstill, quivering over the decision to radically leave the past behind or to continue within the historical narrative of the Enlightenment. Postmodern social theorists, advocating the position that we have, in fact, entered a new historical epoch, pose serious challenges to our perception of modernity and cultural identity. As an influential strategy that has infiltrated both the humanities and the social sciences for more than thirty years, postmodernism can no longer be dismissed as merely a fad or trend. In a world where the use of complex, and often mobile, …

Review Of This American Life, Episode 110, Five Ways To Map The World, Michael Cumberland

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

Lifeworlds [On Wendy Kirkup's Echo], Renee Baert

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

Rorty's Complicit American Neo-Pragmatism, Haidar Eid

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Despite the obvious French origin of poststructuralism, its paradigmatic resonance can be found in the American philosophical scene, an essential part of which is Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism -- the theoretical basis of American (post)modernism. However, different from poststructuralism's apparent antagonism to the authoritarian establishments, Rorty adopts the Derridean poststructuralist motifs of the decentering of the subject, and the disappearance of meaning and truth in order to defend the establishment -- or rather, the status quo.

On Guillermo Gomez-Peña's El Mexterminator And Cyber Vato, Michael Benton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

While attending Bowling Green State University in 1997 I had an experience that changed my worldview. I was a teaching assistant in the Popular Culture department and part of my responsibilities included teaching Introduction to Popular Culture (POPC 100) and Introduction to Mass Media (POPC 165). I had been struggling to engage my students in examining the way in which social reality is represented to them through popular entertainments [2]. The majority of my students were white, middle class students from the surrounding Northern regions of Ohio. My students were well-versed in the ongoing controversy over whether or …

Passaic Boys Are Hell: Robert Smithson's Tag As Temporal And Spatial Marker Of The Geographical Self, Felicity Colman

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Robert Smithson seductively created stories about his activities as an artist with attention to his duration; his time of existence. Born in 1938 in the New Jersey suburb of Passaic, Smithson lived in the New Jersey suburbs of Rutherford and Clifton with his family until 1957 when he moved to live in downtown Manhattan, New York (Hobbs 1981, 231-232; Tsai 1991, 6). Smithson's adult life was undeniably shaped by his Pascalian/Sopranos awareness of engaging the circumference by which to navigate the centre of everyday life. In 1972 Smithson described New Jersey as: a kind of destroyed California, …

The Ruse Of The Social: Human Waste And The Gated Community, Liam Mcnamara

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

One of the central problems of contemporary society is that of “the social”: how it is defined, constituted, conjured into existence, and supported. Jean Baudrillard has employed the term “the social” in his work, but it is never explicitly defined; it is best understood as a form of simulation that has sprung into existence in the absence of symbolic social relations. The social is constituted of all the phenomena that are generally studied by sociology, so is therefore ideologically conceived of as an organic structure that is waiting for analysis. The “social” is society, both as it stands …

On Steven Duncombe's Cultural Resistance Reader (2002), Adam Reed

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

While the debates over the dis/connections between theory and practice have become essentially metaphysical, it is still useful to distinguish between micro, grassroots struggles and macro, ideological political agendas. In a world in which one of the Left's (old, new and contemporary) main achievements has been to merge the micro and macro in the popular imaginary, this distinction helps one appreciate the myriad of forces affecting social change that are condensed in primarily ideological narratives. A similar perspective is called for when one turns to cultural forms of resistance, which are usually erased by political narratives or mystified …

U.S. Prisons And Racial Profiling: A Covertly Racist Nation Rides A Vicious Cycle, Dj Silton

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

2002-2004 Bulletin, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law Bulletin

Contents:

Legal Studies at Cardozo, p. 8

Degree Requirements, p. 12

Courses, p. 14

The Lawyering Curriculum, p. 23

Clinics, p. 24

Externships/Internships, p. 27

Publications, p. 30

Summer Programs Abroad, p. 34

Faculty, p. 36

Student Resources, p. 48

Dr. Lillian and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library, p. 49

Office of Career Services, p. 50

Public Interest Opportunities, p. 52

Employment, p. 54

Student Life, p. 56

Admissions, p. 63

Tuition and Student Finances, p. 63

Cardozo Administration and Board of Directors, p. 67

Academic Calendar, p. 72

The United States As Antitrust Court Room To The World, Spencer Weber Waller

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.