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Papers; 2002-12-17; Discharge Of Mortgage, Bethel A.M.E. Church Dec 2002

Papers; 2002-12-17; Discharge Of Mortgage, Bethel A.M.E. Church

Bethel A.M.E. Church

No abstract provided.


Cal Poly News Web Site Earns Award, Public Affairs Office Dec 2002

Cal Poly News Web Site Earns Award, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Construction Engineer In Charge Of Rebuilding Pentagon To Speak At Cal Poly Jan. 13, Public Affairs Office Dec 2002

Construction Engineer In Charge Of Rebuilding Pentagon To Speak At Cal Poly Jan. 13, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Cal Poly's Graphic Communication Department To Celebrate International Printing Week Jan. 21-24, Public Affairs Office Dec 2002

Cal Poly's Graphic Communication Department To Celebrate International Printing Week Jan. 21-24, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Usa V. Cordero Dec 2002

Usa V. Cordero

2002 Decisions

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


The Murray Ledger And Times, December 17, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2002

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 17, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Fiscal Outlook For South Carolina's Local Governments, 2002 December 17, Ellen Weeks Saltzman Dec 2002

The Fiscal Outlook For South Carolina's Local Governments, 2002 December 17, Ellen Weeks Saltzman

Publications

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Openline Newsletter, December 17, 2002, Civil Service Council Dec 2002

Openline Newsletter, December 17, 2002, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, Volume XXVII, Number 6, December 17, 2002.


‘Toolkit' Wins Top Technical Award But Not Yet Holiday Gift Item, Tobie Baker Dec 2002

‘Toolkit' Wins Top Technical Award But Not Yet Holiday Gift Item, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Holiday shoppers won't find the Globus Toolkit available in this season's glitzy gift catalogues, but it is among the 100 most significant new technical products of the year chosen by R&D Magazine.


Croft Institute's Visiting Professor Bales Wins Emmys For India Film, Deborah Purnell Dec 2002

Croft Institute's Visiting Professor Bales Wins Emmys For India Film, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Kevin Bales, a visiting professor at the Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi, was part of a team honored in New York with two Emmy awards.


Jama/Nhlbi Study Finds Traditional Diuretics Better Than Newer Medicines, Staff Dec 2002

Jama/Nhlbi Study Finds Traditional Diuretics Better Than Newer Medicines, Staff

Browse All News

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2002-2003 Senior Recital - Douglas Goldberg (Percussion), Douglas Goldberg, Lisa Leonard, Adrian Teodorescu Dec 2002

2002-2003 Senior Recital - Douglas Goldberg (Percussion), Douglas Goldberg, Lisa Leonard, Adrian Teodorescu

Junior and Senior Recitals

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2002-2003 Junior Recital - David Suarez (Flute), David Suarez, William Dale Dec 2002

2002-2003 Junior Recital - David Suarez (Flute), David Suarez, William Dale

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.


Method For Inhibition Of Photocarcinogenesis Or Photoimmunosuppression Using Niacin, Elaine L. Jacobson, Helen L. Gensler Dec 2002

Method For Inhibition Of Photocarcinogenesis Or Photoimmunosuppression Using Niacin, Elaine L. Jacobson, Helen L. Gensler

Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences Faculty Patents

The invention is directed to novel methods for the suppression of photocarcinogenesis and photoimmunosuppression in mice. The novel methods comprises the step of administering to a subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising niacin and a pharmaceutical carrier.


Synthases, Joseph Chappell, Kathleen R. Manna, Joseph P. Noel, Courtney M. Starks Dec 2002

Synthases, Joseph Chappell, Kathleen R. Manna, Joseph P. Noel, Courtney M. Starks

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

Novel synthases and the corresponding nucleic acids encoding such synthases are disclosed herein. Such synthases possess an active site pocket that includes key amino acid residues that are modified to generate desired terpenoid reaction intermediates and products. Synthase modifications are designed based on, e.g., the three-dimensional coordinates of tobacco 5-epi-aristolochene synthase with or without a substrate bound in the active site.


Canenermiut Lifeways And Worldview And Western Fish And Wildlife Management, Carl T. Jack Dec 2002

Canenermiut Lifeways And Worldview And Western Fish And Wildlife Management, Carl T. Jack

Rural Development

The Canenermiut inter-generational worldview embodies the proper use and conservation of the resources necessary to sustain life from time immemorial. The classical Yupiaq conservation ethics in the utilization of subsistence resources are well established and practiced to this day by Canenermiut that is geared to the survival of their culture and community. When western fish and wildlife managers promulgate regulations from urban areas of Alaska on the taking of subsistence resources in rural Alaska they often find out that rural residents such as the Canenermiut ... are unwilling to follow the regulations. Caneneq is a coastal area between Kusquqvak (Kuskokwim) …


Cultural And Linguistic Sensitivity In Assessment Tools: An Adaptation Of The Drinkers Inventory Of Consequences For Alaska Natives, Tony Cantil Dec 2002

Cultural And Linguistic Sensitivity In Assessment Tools: An Adaptation Of The Drinkers Inventory Of Consequences For Alaska Natives, Tony Cantil

Psychology

The purpose of this study was to determine the validity of a new assessment tool for Alaska Native clients with alcoholism. A sample of 23 Yup'ik clients at a regional treatment center were interviewed using the Drinker Inventory of Consequences for Alaska Natives (DrInC-AN), an adaption of the Drinker Inventory of Consequence (DrInC), the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and the Yup'ik Cultural Practices and Traditions (YCPT). These clients were selected, on a voluntary basis during the intake interview to the treatment center. Historically, assessment tools in alcoholism have not been culturally or linguistically sensitive to Alaska Native and …


Excitation Of The Ionized Nitrogen Molecule In The Aurora, Kim Nielsen Dec 2002

Excitation Of The Ionized Nitrogen Molecule In The Aurora, Kim Nielsen

Physics

An understanding of the excitation mechanism of the ionospheric molecules during auroral activity is of vital importance for the overall ionospheric understanding including its interaction with the magnetosphere. In this thesis we study two emissions originating from the excited nitrogen molecule ion. The first negative (0,1) emission at 4278 Å originating from the B state, and Meinel (2,0) emission at 7852 Å originating from the A state during moderate to strong aurora have been observed with an imaging spectrograph at Poker Flat, Alaska. The B state has a short lifetime compared to the inverse collision frequency at auroral altitudes, while …


Rapid Evaluation Of The Gel Strength Of Gtl Products During A Prolonged Trans-Alaska Pipeline Shutdown, Michael Donovon Timmcke Dec 2002

Rapid Evaluation Of The Gel Strength Of Gtl Products During A Prolonged Trans-Alaska Pipeline Shutdown, Michael Donovon Timmcke

Engineering

A prolonged winter shutdown of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAPS) could cause the fluid in the pipeline to form a gel with sufficient strength to prevent restart. With the economic viability of a North Slope Gas-To-Liquid (GTL) plant improving, understanding the effect the addition of GTL products to TAPS will have on the gel strength of pipeline fluids is essential to quantify the risk of such a project. This study presents the development of a fast cold ramp technique to predict the gel strength of TAPS fluids. The gel strength of various blend ratios of GTL and crude oil are determined …


The Trace Formulas For A Half-Line Schrodinger Operator With Long-Range Potentials, Sergei M. Belov Dec 2002

The Trace Formulas For A Half-Line Schrodinger Operator With Long-Range Potentials, Sergei M. Belov

Theses (Unassigned)

The present work deals with trace formulas for a half-line Schrödinger operator with long-range potentials. These formulas relate the potential with some scattering data. We generalize some relevant results by Buslaev; Faddeev; Gesztesy, Holden, Simon, and others to the case of square integrable potentials. The relation between the number of the trace formulas and the number of integrable derivatives of the potential is also given.


Determining The Impacts Of Storage Practice And Treatment Technology On The Formation Of Disinfection Byproducts, Greta Myerchin Mcgee Dec 2002

Determining The Impacts Of Storage Practice And Treatment Technology On The Formation Of Disinfection Byproducts, Greta Myerchin Mcgee

Theses (Unassigned)

Disinfection byproducts (DBP) are formed during the reaction of chemical disinfectants with natural organic material (NOM). DBPs are potential carcinogens and are regulated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEP A) under the Disinfectant/DBP (D/DBP) rule. High concentrations of NOM in drinking water sources used by Alaska's communities often result in the formation of DBPs during treatment. Since surface water sources in the Arctic are frozen for 6-9 months of the year, communities are often forced to store raw water for treatment during the winter or treat and store enough drinking water during the summer to last through the winter. …


Stratigraphy, Major Oxide Geochemistry, And ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology Of A Tephra Section Near Tok, Alaska, Janet Schaefer Dec 2002

Stratigraphy, Major Oxide Geochemistry, And ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronology Of A Tephra Section Near Tok, Alaska, Janet Schaefer

Geosciences

Stratigraphy, major oxide geochemistry, and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology are used to describe a tephra section near Tok, Alaska, north ofthe Wrangell volcanic field. This tephra section contains seven type II tephras and two type I tephras. Hornblende in a tephra near the base of the section was dated at 627.5 +/- 47.7 ka using the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar method of single-step total laser fusion. This hornblende-rich tephra is here named the Tetlin Tephra. The age and composition of the Tetlin Tephra indicates that it is likely the product of an explosive phase of activity of Mount Drum volcano, where petrologically similar domes were …


Geology And Gold Mineralization Of The Richardson District, East-Central Alaska, Garth E. Graham Dec 2002

Geology And Gold Mineralization Of The Richardson District, East-Central Alaska, Garth E. Graham

Geosciences

The Richardson district contains multiple granitic units intruding gneiss and schist. The Bald Knob prospect contains gold-bearing quartz veins with the assemblage Bi-̊ Au-̊ hedleyite and high methane fluid inclusions. These features indicate very low fs₂-f₀₂ conditions, lower than any reported for 90 Ma interior Alaska gold systems, including the nearby Democrat and Buckeye prospects. The Bald Knob and Democrat Lode prospects returned ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of 1̃04 and 9̃0 Ma, respectively. Peraluminous dikes possess collisional tectonic signatures and interpreted age of 114 Ma. Younger dikes and 3 km² granite pluton possess arc-type compositions and yield ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of 9̃0 Ma. …


Attenuation Of The Lg Phase In Interior Alaska, Duncan A. Marriott Dec 2002

Attenuation Of The Lg Phase In Interior Alaska, Duncan A. Marriott

Geosciences

A simultaneous inversion of a large dataset produced robust estimates of regional attenuation for the Lg phase in interior Alaska. Data were collected from summer 1999 through summer 2001 from the Broadband Experiment Across the Alaska Range (BEAAR). Spectra calculated from this dataset were used in a nonlinear simultaneous least squares inversion to determine source factors, path effects and site amplification terms. The average regional attenuation of the Lg phase in interior Alaska was found to be: LgQ(f)=166f⁰·⁵⁸ Variation in regional attenuation has two main characteristics: variation on small spatial scales caused by small crustal heterogeneities, and increased excitation of …


Comparison Of Geodetic And Glaciological Mass Balance On Gulkana Glacier, Alaska, Leif Harrington Cox Dec 2002

Comparison Of Geodetic And Glaciological Mass Balance On Gulkana Glacier, Alaska, Leif Harrington Cox

Geosciences

The net mass balance on Gulkana Glacier has been measured since 1966 by the glaciological method, in which seasonal balances are measured at three index sites and extrapolated over large areas of the glacier. Systematic errors accumulate through time in this method; therefore the geodetic balance, in which errors are independent of time, was calculated for comparison to and possible calibration of the glaciological method. Digital elevation models (DEMs) of the glacier in 1974, 1993, and 1999 were prepared and geodetic balances computed, giving -6.0+̲0.5 m of water equivalent (weq) from 1974 to 1993 and -11.8+̲0.5 m weq from 1974 …


Comparison Of Snowshoe Hare Populations In Interior Alaska, Bjorn Flora Dec 2002

Comparison Of Snowshoe Hare Populations In Interior Alaska, Bjorn Flora

Biological Sciences

Snowshoe hares, Lepus americanus, are a 'keystone' prey species in northern boreal forests and experience population fluctuations of 8-11-years. Despite intense responses of both vegetation and predators to changes in hare densities, landscape-scale comparisons of hare populations in Alaska have been limited to qualitative descriptions. We conducted capture-recapture studies of snowshoe hares at 5 locales in the Tanana valley, from Tok in the east to Clear in the west from 1999 to 2002. Snowshoe hare densities were highest in 1999 (x=6.36 ha⁻¹, SE=0.63) and declined thereafter. We were unable to detect declines in apparent survival during declining densities in our …


Energetics Of Hibernation In The Arctic Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus Parryii Kenicotti), Shawna Karpovich Dec 2002

Energetics Of Hibernation In The Arctic Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus Parryii Kenicotti), Shawna Karpovich

Biological Sciences

Arctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus parryii kenicotti) hibernate underground; experiencing burrows temperatures of -5 to -25C̊. Hibernation consists of 7-9 months of torpor interrupted every 2-3 weeks by 10-20 h arousal episodes with high body temperatures and metabolic rates. Metabolic rates and body temperatures were measured during arousal episodes under temperate and arctic conditions. No difference in cost of arousal episodes was detected. Yet, when the cost of thermogenesis during torpor was included, proportional cost of arousal episodes decreased from 86 to 27% comparing temperate to arctic conditions. The relationship between metabolic rate and body temperature was examined during the recooling …


The Limnology Of Lake Clark, Alaska, Alexander Xanthus Wilkens Dec 2002

The Limnology Of Lake Clark, Alaska, Alexander Xanthus Wilkens

Biological Sciences

This study gathered baseline limnological data to investigate the thermal structure, water quality, phytoplankton, and zooplankton of Lake Clark, Alaska. Results indicate Lake Clark is oligotrophic and mixes biannually, but stratification is weak and thermoclines are deep. Longitudinal gradients were seen in measurements of temperature, suspended solids, turbidity, light penetration, algal biomass, and zooplankton density. Wind and tributary inputs determine the thermal regime. Glacially-influenced tributaries drive turbidity and light gradients by introducing suspended solids to the inlet end of the lake. Suspended solids likely create the algal biomass gradient by limiting the light available for photosynthesis in the inlet basin. …


Proinflammatory Cytokines Induce A Rac1-Mediated Superoxide-Dependent Reorganization Of The Actin Cytoskeleton In Neuronal Cells, Shelli Stewart Smeets Dec 2002

Proinflammatory Cytokines Induce A Rac1-Mediated Superoxide-Dependent Reorganization Of The Actin Cytoskeleton In Neuronal Cells, Shelli Stewart Smeets

Chemistry and Biochemistry

A dynamic actin cytoskeleton in central nervous system (CNS) neurons is pivotal for regeneration. Following acute CNS trauma, the proinflammatory cytokines TNF[alpha] and IL-1[beta] become expressed in cells and induce Rac 1-mediated actin filament reorganization. Also, Rac 1 regulates a NAD(P)H oxidase activity that generates superoxide (·O₂). This study's objective was to determine whether TNF[alpha] and/or IL-1[beta] induce a Rac 1-dependent actin filament reorganization in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells and in chick spinal cord neurons via the signaling intermediate, superoxide. SH-SY5Y cells respond to soluble TNF[alpha] or IL-1[beta] with transient, biphasic actin filament reorganization. Over a time period of 30 min, …


Winter Foraging Ecology Of Moose In The Tanana Flats And Alaska Range Foothills, C. Tom Seaton Dec 2002

Winter Foraging Ecology Of Moose In The Tanana Flats And Alaska Range Foothills, C. Tom Seaton

Biological Sciences

I studied woody browse distribution, production, removal, species composition, twig size, moose diets, and predicted daily intake of resident and migratory moose in the Tanana Flats and adjacent Alaska Range Foothills, Alaska, 1999-2000. Density of moose in these areas was high (1.1 moose/km²). Moose were experiencing density-dependent effects on reproduction and growth, exhibited by low adult twinning rate (6%) and absence of pregnant yearlings, yet 17.5 kg higher 10-month-old calf body weights in the migratory segment. Of all willow, poplar, and paper birch plants sampled, 74% had a broomed architecture, which I attributed to heavy use by moose. Using a …