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The Guardian, April 23, 2003, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty-three page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 92 [93], No. 47 (April 22, 2003), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 92, but it is the 93rd volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

Advances In Teaching & Learning Day Abstracts 2003, Cynthia L. Phelps

Advances in Teaching and Learning Day Abstracts

Proceedings of the Advances in Teaching & Learning Day Regional Conference held at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2003.

Washington University Record, April 18, 2003

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

The Hilltop 4-18-2003, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

Hearing Evaluation In Infants: An Update For Pediatricians, Janet E. Sullivan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper provides an overview of developmental timetables relevant to hearing and of current pediatric audiological techniques and practices. The first sections summarize structural and functional development of the auditory pathway and the development of primary auditory processing. These developmental sequences appear to follow similar paths in humans and animals. Speech and music perception involve more complex processing and are strongly influenced by experience. Hearing disorders affect the perception of complex sounds in a variety of ways, depending on the site(s) of lesions. Early onset hearing impairment, including conductive loss from chronic otitis media, can seriously impede language development.

Language …

Women, Health, And Aging In Yup'ik/Cup'ik Culture, Scarlett Hopkins Hutchison

Anthropology

Knowledge of cultural beliefs about health and how they influence life choices and intervention is essential in forming health policy and health promotion programs to meet the growing needs of aging minority populations. This thesis explores cultural beliefs, experiences, and expectations of health and well-being of Yup'ik/Cup'ik women in two rural communities in southwestern Alaska. Interviews were conducted with fifteen women to address two key research questions: (1) how Yup'ik/Cup'ik women define health and well-being; and (2) what environmental, social, and cultural factors contribute to healthy Yup'ik/Cup'ik aging. While many health beliefs and practices appear very different from those current …

Healthy Nations Initiative Evaluation: The Stories And Lessons Of Fighting Substance Abuse In Native American Communities, Philip May, Timothy Taylor, Randy Moss

ISER Reports

In this program, tribes and urban American Indian organizations were invited to submit proposals for projects to address their high-priority health problems, emphasizing activities to prevent illness and injury and to improve the health of infants, children, youth, and the elderly. Although the 15 grantees selected in Healthy Nations were a diverse group, ranging from the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina to the Norton Sound Health Corporation in Alaska, there were many similarities in their strategies. The grantees' prevention worldview began with "culture" including its dynamic for community acceptance. Program mobilization followed a "recreation" (most frequently based on …

Sustainable Utilities In Rural Alaska Effective Management, Maintenance, And Operation Of Electric, Water, Sewer, Bulk Fuel, Solid Waste Final Report Part A: Overview, Scott Goldsmith, Amy Wiita, Steve Colt, Mark Foster

ISER Reports

Two reports are provided Part A is an overview - reliable and affordable utility services remain out of reach for thousands of Alaskans and between $1.5 and $2 billion of public investment is potentially at risk due to the inadequate operations, maintenance, and management of electric, water, sewer, bulk fuel, and solid waste utilities in many small rural Alaska communities. This report provides a foundation of facts and ideas that can be used to move toward sustainable utilities in these places. Part B contains supporting material and examines the maintenance, management, and operation of rural Alaska utilities.

Mustang Daily, April 15, 2003

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

The Bg News April 15, 2003, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. April 15, 2003. Volume 92-Issue 59.

The Statesman, V. 46, I. 50, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 46, i. 50

What Happens To Genes In Duplicated Genomes - With Correction, Elizabeth Kellogg

Biology Department Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

April 14, 2003 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Has Technology Created A Safer School Environment?, Mark Leung

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was two-fold. It was to determine and evaluate the effectiveness of technological advances on the maintenance operations of a school district's facilities. It was also to determine and evaluate the types, amounts, and locations of technology equipment implementations in school districts and how these implementations have affected the school environment's overall safety.

Forty-two school districts in Burlington County, New Jersey were surveyed using a questionnaire with twenty-two queries. The survey targeted Directors of Buildings and Grounds and the surveys were distributed and collected via electronic-mail or facsimile. The survey data was analyzed using the SPSS …

Washington University Record, April 11, 2003

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

Chimes: April 11, 2003, Calvin College

Chimes

Ice storm pounds city by Kat Meyer

Campus well-equipped for fury of storm by Adam Petty and Chris Wenstrom

Baghdad hails beginning of end by Mark Armstrong

January Series hunts big name speakers by Chris Wenstrom

Road to the MIAA title goes through Calvin by Ross Weener

Religious group's presence on campus sparks controversy by Heather Lamson

Here comes the sun: students bring the power by Brit Hutchison

"What I long to see" A word from Chaplain Cooper by Dale Cooper

Making Student Senate a real student senate by Abram Van Engen

Student and dean anticipate Ribbon Week by Noah …

Genetic Information And The Importance Of Context: Implications For The Social Meaning Of Genetic Information And Individual Identity, Ken M. Gatter

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Inhibitory Effects Of Food Matrices On Inhibition Real-Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection Of Foodborne Viruses, Kevin Patrick Mcmullen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated 23,000,000 cases of viral gastroenteritis caused by Norovirus in 2000, 40% of which were transmitted by food including: a variety of fresh produce, cake, deli meats, fruit salad, cheeses and ice. (CDC, 2003). An estimated 83,391 cases of Hepatitis A virus was reported in 2000, of which 5% was attributed to foodborne transmission (CDC, 2003). These figures underscore an urgent need for a method that can isolate virus from a variety of food matrices.

The aim of this study was to develop an overall assessment of the inhibitory effects of a variety …

The Lumberjack, April 09, 2003

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

A Way Of Life: Saranac Lake And The 'Fresh Air' Cure For Tuberculosis, Ellen Damsky

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In 1884, Edward Livingston Trudeau officially opened The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium for the treatment of tuberculosis in Saranac Lake, New York. For the next seventy years, what became known as the Trudeau Sanatorium was the model of American sanatoria, promoting fresh air, rest, and nutritious food in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. The introduction and use of antibiotic drugs in the treatment of disease effectively ended the sanatorium movement as well as demarcates an important juncture in American medical and scientific history. Trudeau's treatment and the Sanatorium are interpreted as social and ideological constructs from the perspectives of verbal expression, …

Murray Ledger And Times, April 7, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

April 7, 2003 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Oral Rabies Vaccination: Reducing Economic Uncertainty Via Response Surface Analysis, Ray T. Sterner, Matthew M. Kling, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Dennis Slate

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Economic uncertainty surrounds the distribution of Raboral V-RG7 as an oral rabies vaccine (ORV) bait for the containment or elimination of raccoon-variant rabies in the United States. This paper describes a costs-savings model of ORV. lt also describes Excel XP7 code that was prepared to compute potential net savings (NS) and benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) associated with Raboral V-RG7 bait distributions. Currently, baits and bait distributions are relatively expensive; individual baits are produced at a cost of $1.27 for federal use and typically dispensed at >75 baits/km2. Distribution is estimated at $8.62/km2, $15.80/km2, and $33.30/km2 for fixed-winged (FW), ground (Gnd), and …

Chronic Wasting Disease Of Cervids: Implications For Wildlife Management, Michael W. Miller, Elizabeth S. Williams

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has recently emerged in North America as an important prion disease of captured and free-ranging cervids. This wildlife disease, endemic to southern Wyoming and northern Colorado, is the only recognized transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting free-ranging wildlife. We provide an overview of the research that has occurred on CWD over the past five years. The implications of CWD are not entirely clear at this time.

Oral Rabies Vaccination: Unresolved Issues And Data Gaps, Dennis Slate, Thomas Decker

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Oral rabies vaccination (ORV) represents a potential wildlife management tool that may be applied to contain and perhaps eliminate specific rabies virus variants that persist in several terrestrial carnivore species in the U.S. Increasingly greater use of ORV in the U.S. since 1997 has sparked discussion within the wildlife profession regarding need, cost and effectiveness, as well as the potential for wildlife management and ecological impacts. We identify and present ORV-related issues and data gaps of concern to wildlife managers that should be addressed through research, rabies surveillance and population monitoring.

The Role Of Wildlife In Human And Animal Disease, John R. Fischer, Richard W. Gerhold

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Strategies to assess and reduce risk associated with disease agents in wild animals must be based upon thorough knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease agent, specific local information, and other factors. Risk evaluation and management efforts will involve organizations with differing expertise and cooperation will be essential between wildlife management, public health, and domestic animal health agencies. Risk reduction strategies may be based upon manipulation of the disease agent, the host, the environment, and/or human activities. Management of human activity, particularly the promotion of biosecurity, may be the most efficient strategy because other measures are more difficult and expensive. …

Mycobacterial Diseases In Wildlife, Gary Witmer, Thomas Deliberto, Kurt Vercauteren, Peter Butchko

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Mycobacterium infections occur in numerous wildlife species worldwide and this bacterial genus can also cause disease in humans and livestock. Two Mycobacterium species and one subspecies that infect wildlife are important from a wildlife damage management perspective. Mycobacterium avium, avian tuberculosis, is a ubiquitous and cosmopolitan disease of wild and domestic birds. Wild and domestic ruminants are host to M. avium paratuberculosis, also known as Johne's disease. Finally, Mycobaterium bovis, bovine tuberculosis, is primarily associated with domestic and wild bovines and ungulates, but also infects many other species of mammals. Eradicating these diseases from wildlife populations is very difficult if …

The Ecology Of New World Rodent Borne Hemorrhagic Fevers, Darin S. Carroll, Emily Jentes, James N. Mills

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Few, if any, human settlements are free of peridomestic rodent populations. The threat of rodent borne zoonotic diseases has been widely recognized since the bubonic plague outbreaks of the Middle Ages. In the last decades, outbreaks of human disease caused by the rodent borne hemorrhagic fever viruses, the arenaviruses (family Arenaviridae), and the hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus) have again generated interest in the general public and scientific community regarding the biology of these types of diseases. Recent studies have identified more than 30 new members of these two groups of viruses. Most are associated with rodents in the family …