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Review Of Birds Of The Texas Panhandle: Their Status, Distribution, And History By Kenneth D. Seyffert, Mark Lockwood Oct 2002

Review Of Birds Of The Texas Panhandle: Their Status, Distribution, And History By Kenneth D. Seyffert, Mark Lockwood

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Birds of the Texas Panhandle is the first book to focus on the avifauna of this region of Texas. Seyffert has been studying the Panhandle's birds for almost forty years, and no one is more qualified to provide a comprehensive overview of its bird life. His work concentrates on the twenty-six counties that make up the Panhandle, including habitats from two physiographic regions, the High Plains and the Rolling Plains. Seyffert details the occurrence of 406 avian species that have been satisfactorily documented in the study area and thirty-six others that have been reported without supporting details. Each species account …

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Review Of Kansas Breeding Bird Atlas By William H. Busby And John L. Zimmerman, Paul A. Johnsgard Oct 2002

Review Of Kansas Breeding Bird Atlas By William H. Busby And John L. Zimmerman, Paul A. Johnsgard

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Kansas has now joined the expanding group of Midwestern states for which breeding bird atlases have recently been published, including South Dakota (1995), Iowa (1996), Missouri (1997), and Nebraska (200 I). Atlases are also in preparation or in press for Oklahoma and Texas, which will soon help fill out distributional knowledge of the Great Plains avifauna in a way unimaginable when I was assembling regional data for my Birds of the Great Plains: The Breeding Species and Their Distribution (1979).

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Review Of A Business History Of Alberta By Henry C. Klassen, Max Foran Oct 2002

Review Of A Business History Of Alberta By Henry C. Klassen, Max Foran

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Given the dearth of business histories in Alberta, and in Western Canada for that matter, A Business History of Alberta is a welcome contribution to Canadian regional historiography. Henry Klassen's study, the result of many years of intensive research at a variety of levels, emerges as a well written account of the development of business in Alberta from the territorial period to the present day. Using specific examples, supported in many cases by personal interviews, Klassen has brought to life the histories of dozens of business enterprises in all parts of Alberta over a hundred year period. His reliance on …

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Review Of Addictions And Native Americans By Laurence Armand French, Benson Tong Oct 2002

Review Of Addictions And Native Americans By Laurence Armand French, Benson Tong

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Notwithstanding the title, this short book focuses largely on health issues arising from alcoholism in the indigenous population of North America. The evidence overwhelmingly points to this particular substance abuse as the number-one killer among Native Americans, accounting for the four leading causes of death: accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, suicide, and homicide. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), which plagues infants with physical and psychological problems, is another effect of Indian alcoholism.

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Redescriptions Of Haemonchus Mitchelli And Haemonchus Okapiae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) And Description Of A Unique Synlophe For The Haemonchinae, J. Ralph Lichtenfels, Patricia A. Pilitt, Lynda M. Gibbons, Eric P. Hoberg Oct 2002

Redescriptions Of Haemonchus Mitchelli And Haemonchus Okapiae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) And Description Of A Unique Synlophe For The Haemonchinae, J. Ralph Lichtenfels, Patricia A. Pilitt, Lynda M. Gibbons, Eric P. Hoberg

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

In the course of a revision of Haemonchus Cobb, 1898 (Nematoda), commonly referred to as large stomach worms, significant new morphological information was discovered that allows the recognition of two species believed for more than 50 years to be synonymous. Both species, Haemonchus mitchelli Le Roux, 1929, from the eland Taurotragus oryx and other African ruminants and H. okapiae van den Berghe, 1937, from the okapi Okapia johnstoni, have a synlophe of 42 ridges, but the synlophe of H. mitchelli is longer than that of H. okapiae. The distal tip of the left spicule of H. mitchelli bears …

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Rectangular Bursting Energy Absorber, John D. Reid, John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking Oct 2002

Rectangular Bursting Energy Absorber, John D. Reid, John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Faculty Publications

A bursting energy absorber System having an impact head, and energy absorption mechanism. The energy absorbing mechanism has a generally rectangular mandrel for rupturing cooperating thin-walled generally rectangular tubes in a controlled rupture to absorb impact forces for a colliding vehicle. A frame may be used to mount the System to a truck, trailer, guardrail, median barrier end treatment, or a crash cushion. Stress concetrators such as saw cuts or scoring may be incorporated into the absorption tubes to selectively control rupturing and energy dissipation. The mandrels may be tapered, rectangulary shaped with beveled edges to reduce frictional forces along …

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Conservative Or Constitutionalist?, Gary S. Lawson Oct 2002

Conservative Or Constitutionalist?, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

The persistence of the question posed by the editors of this journal demonstrates that legal conservatives have an identity crisis. In large measure, that crisis is an artifact of the ambiguity in the term "legal conservative." I use the term roughly to mean someone who believes in a variant of original meaning for interpreting constitutions and statutes' and who views the common law as a device for securing social coordination within a spontaneous order-all overlaid with a strong respect for the Anglo-American, Rule of Law tradition. As definitions go, this is pretty imprecise. There is no single meaning for original …

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Marbury And Judicial Deference: The Shadow Of Whittington V. Polk And The Maryland Judiciary Battle, Jed Handelsman Shugerman Oct 2002

Marbury And Judicial Deference: The Shadow Of Whittington V. Polk And The Maryland Judiciary Battle, Jed Handelsman Shugerman

Faculty Scholarship

On the 200th anniversary of Whittington and approaching the 200th anniversary of Marbury, this article revisits these two decisions and challenges legal scholars' assumptions that they were such strong precedents for judicial review.5 When one takes into account the broader contexts, both decisions were in fact judicial capitulations to aggressive legislatures and executives. The Maryland General Court asserted its judicial supremacy only in dicta, and the court failed to enforce judicial supremacy when it was legally justified. This article picks apart the court's reasoning step by step, using Whittington to illuminate Marbury and Marbury to illuminate Whittington. …

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Age Discrimination By Employers, Grant M. Hayden Oct 2002

Age Discrimination By Employers, Grant M. Hayden

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Mrnas Located In Squalus Acanthias (Spiny Dogfish) Oligodendrocyte Processes, Nicholas Pahl, Sara Homsi, Hilary G. Morrison, Robert M. Gould Oct 2002

Mrnas Located In Squalus Acanthias (Spiny Dogfish) Oligodendrocyte Processes, Nicholas Pahl, Sara Homsi, Hilary G. Morrison, Robert M. Gould

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

This study identifies mRNAs located in oligodendrocyte (OL) processes of spiny dogfish and compares them with mRNAs that were previously identified in rat OL processes (1, 2). Because these two species have independent evolutionary histories covering hundreds of millions of years, mRNAs common to OL processes in both species likely represent proteins recruited to form the original myelin sheaths in the common gnathostome ancestor. Of the mRNAs present in rat OL processes, myelin basic protein (MBP) and myelin-associated oligodendrocytic basic protein (MOBP) mRNAs dominate (1, 2). Surprisingly, however, MBP mRNA is not located in spiny dogfish OL processes; rather it …

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A Comparison Of The Low Mode And Monte Carlo Conformational Search Methods, Carol A. Parish, Rosina Lombardi, Kent Sinclair, Emelyn Smith, Alla Goldberg, Melissa Rappleye, Myrianne Dure Oct 2002

A Comparison Of The Low Mode And Monte Carlo Conformational Search Methods, Carol A. Parish, Rosina Lombardi, Kent Sinclair, Emelyn Smith, Alla Goldberg, Melissa Rappleye, Myrianne Dure

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The Low Mode (LM) and Monte Carlo (MC) conformational search methods were compared on three diverse molecular systems; (4R, 5S, 6S, 7R)-hexahydro-5,6-dihydroxy-1,3,4,7-tetrakis(phenylmethyl)-2H-1,3-diazapin-2-one (1), 2-methoxy-2-phenyl-2-triflouromethyl-N-α-methyl benzyl propanamide (2) and a trimeric 39-membered polyazamacrolide (3). We find that either method, or a combination of the methods, is equally efficient at searching the conformational space of the smaller molecular systems while a 50:50 hybrid of Low Mode and Monte Carlo is most efficient at searching the space of the larger molecular system.

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Will Social Values Influence The Development Of Hmos?, John B. Davis Oct 2002

Will Social Values Influence The Development Of Hmos?, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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Bs News Oct 2002

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

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Impact Of Nephrology Publications From Saudi Arabia In The Last Decade, Abdulla A. Al-Khader, Mohamed S. Al-Jondeby, Faissal A. Shaheen Oct 2002

Impact Of Nephrology Publications From Saudi Arabia In The Last Decade, Abdulla A. Al-Khader, Mohamed S. Al-Jondeby, Faissal A. Shaheen

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To study the present situation with regards to the research output in Nephrology from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in terms of numbers, type, institution and fields covered. METHODS: An extensive Medline search of Nephrologists working in KSA, as well research output from KSA was undertaken; in addition, all Nephrologists were contacted. All papers appearing in the Saudi Medical Journal, Annals of Saudi Medicine and The Saudi Journal for Kidney Diseases and Transplantation were screened for the years 1992-2001. RESULTS: An average of 45 papers per year appeared over the last 10 years with no major changes over …

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Clinical And Experimental Evaluation Of The Effect Of Khat-Induced Myocardial Infarction, Hussein O. Alkadi, Majed A. Noman, Abdulla K. Al-Thobhani, Fuad S. Al-Mekhlafi, Yahia A. Raja'a Oct 2002

Clinical And Experimental Evaluation Of The Effect Of Khat-Induced Myocardial Infarction, Hussein O. Alkadi, Majed A. Noman, Abdulla K. Al-Thobhani, Fuad S. Al-Mekhlafi, Yahia A. Raja'a

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of Khat-induced myocardial infarction (MI) in Yemen. METHODS: One hundred and twenty patients with MI, admitted to Al-Thawra Hospital, Sana9a City, Yemen, during the year 2001 and 120 volunteer controls were collected for this study. On the other hand, we used 48 adult male rabbits for this study and divided it into 8 groups. Each group was consist of 6 animals; group I was used as normal control, group II was given adrenaline 60µg/kg intravenous infusion, group III and IV were given Khat 1g/kg once daily for 2 months, group V and VI were given …

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Mobilization And Superficialization Of Basilic Vein For Brachio Basilic Fistula, Salim A. Dahduli, Nabeel M. Qattan, Rashid A. Al-Kuhaymi, Mohammed A. Al-Jabreen, Abdullah A. Al-Khader Oct 2002

Mobilization And Superficialization Of Basilic Vein For Brachio Basilic Fistula, Salim A. Dahduli, Nabeel M. Qattan, Rashid A. Al-Kuhaymi, Mohammed A. Al-Jabreen, Abdullah A. Al-Khader

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to report the Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia experience in 20 patients who underwent brachio basilic fistula. The use of basilic vein for creation of vascular access for hemodialysis has become popular as it has superiority over polytetrafluoroethlene grafts, as it is a native vessel with less complications. METHODS: From March 2001 to June 2001, 20 patients were selected to have brachio basilic arteriovenous fistula with superficialization, age range between 25-85 years (mean age 55 years). Eight were diabetic and 9 were hypertensive. All patients started the dialysis 6 weeks …

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Pattern And Incidence Of Cancer In Northern Saudi Arabia, Ramesh Katchabeswaran, Lawrence C. Chiedozi, Sharanamma M. Kollur Oct 2002

Pattern And Incidence Of Cancer In Northern Saudi Arabia, Ramesh Katchabeswaran, Lawrence C. Chiedozi, Sharanamma M. Kollur

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To study the pattern and incidence of cancer in the Al-Jouf region of Saudi Arabia. METHODS: The record of all confirmed cancer cases were retrieved and studied from the files of the Histopathology and Cytology Department, Prince Abdulrahman Al-Sudairy Central Hospital, Al-Jouf, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) during the period 1994 to 2001. The major types of cancer were ranked in order of relative frequency. The crude incidence rate and age standardized rate were then calculated. RESULTS: The age standardized rate in Al-Jouf was 38.5 per 100,000, a figure lower than the Saudi Arabian national average of 71.7 per …

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Coverage And Perceptions Of Medical Sciences Students Towards Hepatitis B Virus Vaccine In Sana'a City, Yemen, Yahia A. Raja'a, Gehad G. Saeed, Abdulraheem A. Al-Hattami, Mansour H. Al-Asadi, Arif A. Mohammad, Abdullah A. Ahmed, Nabil M. Al-Ammari Oct 2002

Coverage And Perceptions Of Medical Sciences Students Towards Hepatitis B Virus Vaccine In Sana'a City, Yemen, Yahia A. Raja'a, Gehad G. Saeed, Abdulraheem A. Al-Hattami, Mansour H. Al-Asadi, Arif A. Mohammad, Abdullah A. Ahmed, Nabil M. Al-Ammari

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The present study was conducted to estimate vaccination coverage against hepatitis B virus and the perceptions of 1198 medical sciences students in Sana9a City, Yemen. METHODS: Only those who practice clinical training or are in contact with body fluids were included. The students were enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana9a University, Republic of Yemen. Data was collected from 1999-2000. Arabic pre-tested questionnaire forms were completed by 840 students at a response rate of 70.6%. RESULTS: The study revealed a reported vaccination rate of 29.5%. The rate among Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences students was …

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Role Of Magnesium Sulphate In Treatment Of Severe Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension Of The Neoborn, Sawsan H. Daffa, Waleed A. Milaat Oct 2002

Role Of Magnesium Sulphate In Treatment Of Severe Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension Of The Neoborn, Sawsan H. Daffa, Waleed A. Milaat

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Treatment of severe persistent pulmonary hypertension of the neoborn remains controversial and various modalities of treatment have been tried. This study was performed to evaluate the effect of magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) as a treatment of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the neoborn (PPHN) in full term babies. METHODS: This study was carried out in the Maternity and Children9s Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from January 1998 to 2000. A non-randomized study in 8 neoborn babies who where admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and diagnosis of PPHN based on echocardiogram was conducted to assess the efficacy of MgSO4 8% …

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Mother-Infant Colonization And Neonatal Sepsis In Prelabor Rupture Of Membranes, Asindi A. Asindi, Eric I. Archibong, Nivedita B. Mannan Oct 2002

Mother-Infant Colonization And Neonatal Sepsis In Prelabor Rupture Of Membranes, Asindi A. Asindi, Eric I. Archibong, Nivedita B. Mannan

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the incidence of prelabor rupture of membranes (PROM) in a tertiary care institution, the bacterial pathogens involved in maternal and neonatal colonization, and the major bacterial pathogens of neonatal sepsis in PROM. METHODS: This prospective study was conducted over 2 years from March 1999 to February 2001 in Abha Maternity Hospital, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Consecutive admissions of infant-and-mother pairs with PROM constitute the subjects of this survey. Every mother had endocervical swab taken before delivery, and their infants had surface swabs and sepsis screening before starting antibiotic therapy. RESULTS: The incidence of …

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Complete Separation Of The Testis And Epididymis Presenting As Inguinal Hernia, Abdullatif A. Al-Arfaj, Ali A. Al-Saflan Oct 2002

Complete Separation Of The Testis And Epididymis Presenting As Inguinal Hernia, Abdullatif A. Al-Arfaj, Ali A. Al-Saflan

Saudi Medical Journal

Complete separation of the epididymis from the testis is a rare phenomenon. In all reported cases, both structures remained undescended. We recently managed a 2-month-old boy with bilateral inguinal hernia and complete dissociation of the epididymis from the testis on the left side. At exploration, a right indirect inguinal hernia was confirmed while on the left side, an indirect inguinal hernia was associated with an undescended abdominal testis completely separated from a normally descended epididymis. This could reflect an essential role of the epididymis in the process of testicular descensus. The diversity of congenital abnormalities possibly encountered in the inguinoscrotal …

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Adrenal Cyst, Avni Gokalp, Gokturk Maralcan, Ilyas Baskonus, Ibrahim Sanal Oct 2002

Adrenal Cyst, Avni Gokalp, Gokturk Maralcan, Ilyas Baskonus, Ibrahim Sanal

Saudi Medical Journal

Adrenal cysts are rarely seen lesions. Most are asymptomatic and less than 10 cm. Adrenal cysts, most of which are diagnosed incidentally, can be diagnosed more by wide usage of diagnostic imaging methods. Symptoms appear when they grow to a large size causing pain or gastrointestinal disturbance or become palpable. In this article, a case of a large left adrenal cyst, 12 cm diameter was causing abdominal pain in a 20-year-old female patient subsequently removed totally by surgical excision with adrenalectomy is presented and treatment modalities was discussed.

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Perioperative Management Of Children With Sickle Cell Disease Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery, Sayed Qaiseruddin, Zaki Naserulla Oct 2002

Perioperative Management Of Children With Sickle Cell Disease Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery, Sayed Qaiseruddin, Zaki Naserulla

Saudi Medical Journal

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Axonal Regeneration In The Central Nervous System, Mohammed Kabiraj Oct 2002

Axonal Regeneration In The Central Nervous System, Mohammed Kabiraj

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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E-Journals - Toward Expanded Access And Efficient Data Tracking, Laura E. Abate, Leah Pellegrino, Michael Acadia Oct 2002

E-Journals - Toward Expanded Access And Efficient Data Tracking, Laura E. Abate, Leah Pellegrino, Michael Acadia

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

This poster presentation outlines the steps taken by the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library resulting in streamlined resource management for e-journals holdings.

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Real Time Testing Of First Year Medical Students, Patricia Wilson, Alexandra Gomes, Anne Linton Oct 2002

Real Time Testing Of First Year Medical Students, Patricia Wilson, Alexandra Gomes, Anne Linton

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

This poster presentation focuses on the administering of a PBL (Problem-Based Learning) exam online, using a content management software called Prometheus. This exam was facilitated in the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library.

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Rit Dividends Fall 2002 Oct 2002

Rit Dividends Fall 2002

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

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Cache Invalidation And Replacement Strategies For Location-Dependent Data In Mobile Environments, Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Dik Lun Lee Oct 2002

Cache Invalidation And Replacement Strategies For Location-Dependent Data In Mobile Environments, Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Dik Lun Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Mobile location-dependent information services (LDISs) have become increasingly popular in recent years. However, data caching strategies for LDISs have thus far received little attention. In this paper, we study the issues of cache invalidation and cache replacement for location-dependent data under a geometric location model. We introduce a new performance criterion, called caching efficiency, and propose a generic method for location-dependent cache invalidation strategies. In addition, two cache replacement policies, PA and PAID, are proposed. Unlike the conventional replacement policies, PA and PAID take into consideration the valid scope area of a data value. We conduct a series of simulation …

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Investigating The Effects Of Store-Brand Introduction On Retailer Demand And Pricing Behavior, Pradeep K. Chintagunta, Andre Bonfrer, Inseong Song Oct 2002

Investigating The Effects Of Store-Brand Introduction On Retailer Demand And Pricing Behavior, Pradeep K. Chintagunta, Andre Bonfrer, Inseong Song

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The effects of the introduction of a store-brand into a particular product category are studied. The paper focuses on the effect of store-brand introduction on the demand as well as on the supply side. On the demand side, the changes in preferences for the national brands and price elasticities in the category are investigated. On the supply side, the effects of the new entrant on the interactions between the national brand manufacturers and the retailer introducing the store brand are studied, including how these interactions influence the retailer's pricing behavior. In doing so, it is possible to test whether the …

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Standard Test Method For Determining The Web Crippling Strength Of Cold-Formed Steel Members, R. M. Schuster, Roger A. Laboube Oct 2002

Standard Test Method For Determining The Web Crippling Strength Of Cold-Formed Steel Members, R. M. Schuster, Roger A. Laboube

American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Specifications, Standards, Manuals and Research Reports (1946 - present)

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