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Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia Coli In Montana: Bacterial Genotypes And Clinical Profiles, Jill K. Jelacic, Todd Damrow, Gilbert S. Chen, Srdjan Jelacic, Martina Bielaszewska, Marcia Ciol, Humberto M. Carvalho, Angela R. Melton-Celsa, Alison D. O'Brien, Phillip I. Tarr

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

The diseases and virulence genes associated with Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are characterized incompletely. We analyzed, by polymerase chain reaction, 82 STEC isolates collected prospectively in Montana and profiled associated illnesses by patient chart review. All E. coli O157:H7 contained stx₂-group genes, as well as eae, iha, espA, and ehxA; 84% contained stx₁. Non-O157:H7 STEC less frequently contained stx₁( P = .046 ), stx₂ (P < .001), iha (P < .001), eae, and espA (P = .039 for both), were isolated less often from patients treated in emergency departments (P = .022), and …

What Affects Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Older Patients? An Analysis From Inner-City, Suburban, Rural, And Veterans Affairs Practices, Richard Kent Zimmerman, Tammy A. Santibanez, Janine E. Janosky, Michael J. Fine, Mahlon Raymund, Stephen A. Wilson, Inis Jane Bardella, Anne R. Medsger, Mary Patricia Nowalk

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

BACKGROUND: Despite strong evidence of the effectiveness of influenza vaccination, immunization rates have reached a plateau that is below the 2010 national goals. Our objective was to identify facilitators of, and barriers to, vaccination in diverse groups of older patients.

METHODS: A survey was conducted in 2000 by computer assisted telephone interviewing of patients from inner-city health centers, Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinics, rural practices, and suburban practices. The inclusion criteria were age ≥ 66 years and an office visit after September 30, 1998.

RESULTS: Overall, 1007 (73%) interviews were completed among 1383 patients. Influenza vaccination rates …

Now & Then (Volume 20, Issue 01, 2003), Center Of Excellence For Appalachian Studies And Services, East Tennessee State University

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 20, Issue 01, published in 2003. The theme of this issue is Youth of Appalachia. This issue focuses on the experiences, opportunities, and identities of young people in Appalachia. Articles highlight programs that expand educational and creative pathways for Appalachian youth, including college-access initiatives and documentary filmmaking through Appalshop, while also exploring the curiosity, resilience, and imagination that shape life in the mountains. Essays reflect on childhood, mentorship, cultural identity, and the enduring connection many young Appalachians feel to their land and heritage. Together with fiction, poetry, and reviews, the issue portrays …

Master Of Science Degree Programs 2003-2005, Nova Southeastern University

College of Engineering and Computing Course Catalogs

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Southern Collegiate Rugby : Examining A Masculine Space / By William Kyle Rote, Kyle Rote

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Foreword: The Role Of Justice In Building Peace, Michael P. Scharf

Faculty Publications

Forward to The War Crimes Research Symposium: The Role of Justice in Building Peace, Cleveland, Ohio 2003.

The Electrodeposition Of Cobalt-Aluminum Alloys From A Room-Temperature Chloroaluminate Molten Salt, Zhaoxia Liu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Kerr-Resonance-Condition-Coupled Enhancement In Magneto-Optic Media, A. De, A. Puri

Physics Faculty Publications

We derive an expression for cyclotron frequency ω_c, which sets Re[ϵ₊ϵ₋]=1 in a magneto-optic (MO) substrate, at any incident photon energy. Thereby, at any desired part of the optical spectrum, large Kerr effects can be obtained, which are generally known to occur either at the free-charge-carrier-plasma-resonance frequency ω_p, or at frequencies where active electronic transitions take place. Under these conditions, ω_p is seen to play a very different role; it is seen that for any ω, the magnitude of the Kerr resonance in a single MO (InSb here) substrate increases …

Discrete And Continuum Descriptions Of Matter, Jerry P. Gollub

Physics Faculty Scholarship

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Common Problems Of Access To Records : Comparative Analysis And Mississippi Case Study, Scarlet Lawrence

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Investigation Of Interaction Of Gas Hydrates With Sediments, Viren Kumar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Effects Of Ph And Amendments On Soil, Niranjan K. Kottala

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Shared Lessons : How Post-Process Ideologies Might Benefit Both The News Writing And The Composition Classrooms, Eric Cash

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Personality And Smoking Behavior Among College Students, Jessica L. Mcallister

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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A Light Design Process For Twelfth Night, Erin Elizabeth Alberts

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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An Impedance Tube Investigation Of Thermoacoustics With A Multi-Phase Working Fluid, Daniel C. Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Making Of The Homoerotic Body : Southern Evangelicals And The Fight For Gay And Lesbian Rights, Courtney E. Chartier

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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India's Wto Challenge To Drug Enforcement Conditions In The European Community Generalized System Of Preferences: A Little Known Case With Major Repercussions For "Political" Conditionality In Us Trade Policy, Robert L. Howse

Faculty Articles

The use of trade sanctions for broad foreign policy purposes has been a matter of longstanding controversy in the US. Apart from questioning the effectiveness of such sanctions, and pointing out that they may have innocent victims, free traders often claim that sanctions violate the rules of the WTO. Here, Howse details a case brought by India to the WTO dispute mechanism, which is against the European Community (EC) that originally attacked conditions relating to the environment, labor rights, and drug enforcement.

What Exactly Is Racial Diversity?, Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati

Faculty Articles

Book review of Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action by Andrea Guerrero.

Mediated Popular Constitutionalism, Barry Friedman

Faculty Articles

At present many theorists advocate some version of popular constitutionalism. Although commentators differ, and not all theories are well-defined, the central idea is that constitutional meaning should reflect popular understandings. This paper explores the relationship between popular opinion and judicial review, with special attention to the social science literature that bears upon the topic. In light of that literature, this paper argues that we have a system of popular constitutionalism that is mediated through politics and media coverage of the courts. The paper begins with a sketch of a normative argument in which popular opinion is relevant to the exercise …

How To Fix Wall Street: A Voucher Financing Proposal For Securities Intermediaries, Stephen J. Choi, Jill E. Fisch

Faculty Articles

Investors face a difficult task when they value a particular securities investment. They typically put money into an investment with the expectation of taking out even more money sometime in the future. The core problem for intermediaries is to obtain sufficient and unbiased funding. Money spent by the issuer to increase investor information and improve monitoring redounds to the benefit of all investors. Improved monitoring can lead to more shareholder-oriented management decisions, increasing corporate revenues and profits.

“Who They Are--Or Were”: Middle-Class Welfare In The Early New Deal, Deborah Malamud

Faculty Articles

My project is directed toward both of the scholarly lacunae I have identified. My aim is to shed light both on middle-classness and the roles of law and the state in defining, maintaining, and validating it. At numerous points in modern American history, actors within the legal system have been required by their programmatic interests to develop a working understanding of middle-classness. Much of the state's exercise of police power involved (and still involves) the setting of enforceable behavioral standards aimed at making public life safe for the "respectable" people in society, with respectability modeled on the behavior of the …

The Fourteen Stations Of The Cross / By Susan Day Woodard, Susan Day Woodard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Electronic Cooling Of A Generic Transmitter, Jaideep Bangal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Use Of Bioassays To Determine Receptor-Mediated Induction Of Cytochrome P4501a And Estrogenic Activity In Sediment And Natural Product Samples, Srinivas Annavarapu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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A Fractal Analysis Of Estrogen, Estrogen-Receptor Interactions And Estrogen Metabolism In Two Related Species Of Catfish, Harshala D. Butala

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Protein Folding And Misfolding Mechanisms - Pathological Implications, Detection And Modeling, Nigil Satish Jeyashekar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The United Nations And The Magna Carta For Children, Winston E. Langley

McCormack Graduate School General Publications (active until 2013)

The impulse that invited the preparation of this book is one which is linked to the convergence of a number of factors bearing on my interest in human rights. First, the brutality visited on children during World War II has had an abiding negative effect on my sense of what is possible in human conduct. Second, I am persuaded that children are not simply the means by which human societies are continued, but, as well, the potential source of moral revitalization and transformation for those societies. Third, I recognize that the human rights movement, which followed World War II, holds …

Yuko Saito, Yuko Saito

School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, Portfolios, and Theses

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A Search For Meaning: The Role Of Society In Art And The Relationship Between The Artist And Community, Jill Lynn Rekucki

School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, Portfolios, and Theses

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