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Treating Alcoholism As A Chronic Disease, Jeffrey Hon

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

Nearly 14 million Americans have serious problems because of their drinking including eight million men and women who suffer from alcoholism, a chronic disease. Alcoholism can be clinically diagnosed and people with the disease typically experience many additional alcohol-related medical complications. Research demonstrates that treatment can save lives, restore families, reduce health care costs, increase productivity in the workplace and make our communities safer.

Plant Preference And Camouflage In Phasmid Morphospecies, March 2003, Jackie Prange

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Phasmids in the tropical and temperate zones are known to exhibit both polyphagous and monophagous behavior. Because more plants are better protected in the tropics, the expected number of host-plant specific insects, including Phasmids, should be higher. The diets of seven Phasmid morphospecies and a nymph group in the families Psuedophasmatidae and Phasmatidae of the Monteverde cloud forest, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, were studied. Results showed that these morphospecies consumed different amounts and different plant species (two-way ANOVA, P < 0.0001). Amount consumed increased with size as measured by tibia length. All morphospecies were polyphagous, but had differing plant preferences. Diet composition and breadth depended on morphospecies. Nymphs, however, were monophagous on Conostegia oerstediana. This study also investigated Phasmid camouflage. Phasmids of three color classes showed no significant difference in preferred resting substrate (two-way ANOVA, P < 0.0001). Phasmids most likely rely on other defense mechanisms, such as body shape and behavior, for protection.

Arts And Sciences Newsletter, Volume 6, Issue 5, College Of Arts & Sciences

Arts and Sciences Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Diversity And Species Breadth Of Carrion Insect Communities Along An Altitudinal Gradient, March 2003, James Dugan

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Detritivores play a crucial role in nutrient cycling within tropical forests by returning nutrients to the ecosystem. The purpose of this study was to inventory carrion feeding insect communities and show the change in insect diversity along an altitudinal gradient. Five sites were visited every 200m along the gradient from 800m to 1600m using carrion as bait to attract insects. A total of 1507 individuals were collected, representing 21 species. Six of the ten diversity comparisons using a variation of the Shannon- Weiner Diversity Index and modified t-tests were significantly different (p < 0.05). The number of individuals was found to decrease as elevation increased (simple regression, p = 0.0158, r2 = 0.01). It is believed that the lower elevations harbor a higher diversity and species richness due to unfavorable conditions at the higher elevations.

Endangered Species Bulletin, March/April 2003 - Vol. Xxviii No. 2

Endangered Species Bulletin

In this issue:
4 Jewels in our Waters
6 Conservation and Recovery of Southeastern Imperiled Fishes
8 Releasing Mussels into Recovering Waters
10 Crayfish: An Overlooked Fauna
12 The Urban Life of Darters
14 Forty-One Tons
16 Landowners Are Recognized for Conservation Work
18 In Memoriam: Tyler Alley Sykes
20 Down by the Green River
22 Sending Surrogates to the Rescue
24 Cryptic Biodiversity
27 Sturgeon Surveys in the Lower Mississippi
28 Chinese Biologists Compare Argali to Bighorn Departments
30 Regional News and Recovery Updates
31 Listing Actions
36 Box Score

Survey Of Whole Air Data From The Second Airborne Biomass Burning And Lightning Experiment Using Principal Component Analysis, Felisa A. Smith, Yunsoo Choi, Scott Elliott, Isobel J. Simpson, Donald R. Blake, Jonah J. Colman, Manvendra K. Dubey, Simone Meinardi, F. Sherwood Rowland, Tomoko Shirai

Biology Faculty & Staff Publications

Hydrocarbon and halocarbon measurements collected during the second airborne Biomass Burning and Lightning Experiment (BIBLE-B) were subjected to a principal component analysis (PCA), to test the capability for identifying intercorrelated compounds within a large whole air data set. The BIBLE expeditions have sought to quantify and understand the products of burning, electrical discharge, and general atmospheric chemical processes during flights arrayed along the western edge of the Pacific. Principal component analysis was found to offer a compact method for identifying the major modes of composition encountered in the regional whole air data set. Transecting the continental monsoon, urban and industrial …

Ntid Focus Spring 2003, Ntid Marketing And Communications

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

Bob's Bulletin: Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders||Robert R. Davila: A Story of Passion, Determination, and Success||Tributes From the Heart||A Road Map to Success||Profiles in College||Interpreting from a Different Perspective||NTID/RIT Rookies of the Year||Alumni Profiles: Richard Friends II Miho Ihara||Alumni Profiles: Wendy Maruyama Robert Haglund||Testing the Waters, Protecting the Environment

Kolmogorov Complexity: How A Paradigm Motivated By Foundations Of Physics Can Be Applied In Robust Control, Vladik Kreinovich, Issak A. Kunin

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Born about three decades ago, Kolmogorov Complexity Theory (KC) led to important discoveries that, in particular, give a new understanding of the fundamental problem: interrelations between classical continuum mathematics and reality (physics, biology, engineering sciences, ...). Crudely speaking, it enables us to better distinguish between mathematical possible (possible abnormal) and physically possible situations.

We show that this formalization is not only in good accordance with theoretical physics, but it can also be applied to robust control: instead of requiring that the control work for all mathematically possible situations, we only require that the control works for all "non-abnormal" situations.

What's Happening: March, 2003, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Hudson-Delaware, Steve Kelling, Joseph C. Burgiel, David A. Cutler, Robert O. Paxton, Richard R. Veit

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Florida, Bill Pranty

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Central Southern, Robert A. Duncan, Lucy R. Duncan

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

West Indies And Bermuda, Robert L. Norton, Anthony White, Andrew Dobson

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Nuclear Smuggling: Patterns And Responses, Rensselaer Lee

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2003, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• "Waiting for the Courage to Die": The Role of Live Theatre in Medical Education by Fran Heller
• Building Bridges with Jonathan Sadowksy: A Reprint from the CWRU Observer
• Using Children in Research, Dr. Eric Kodish Explores and Explains
• A Glance at Professor Philip C. Bobbit: The Ends and Means of Stimulating Discussion
• Industry-Sponsored Research -- What's Wrong? Professor Andrew Trew Talks About IRBs, Ethics and Patients
• Director's Corner: The Aftermath of War by Robert P. Lawry
• Spring, 2003 News, Notes, and Future Events

Curbing Child-Trafficking In Intercountry Adoptions: Will International Treaties And Adoption Moratoriums Accomplish The Job In Cambodia?, Kelly M. Wittner

Washington International Law Journal

Over the past two decades an enormous increase in intercountry adoptions has prompted international concern over the victimization of children, birth parents, and adoptive families. Recently, the United States has closely scrutinized babytrafficking in Cambodia. Reports of widespread buying, selling, and stealing of Cambodian infants for international adoption prompted the United States to place a moratorium on adoptions from Cambodia on December 21, 2001. In addition, the international community has drafted treaties such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ("CRC") and the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption ("Hague Convention") to normalize and systematize the process …

The Experimental Use Exception In Japan: A Model For U.S. Patent Law?, Jennifer A. Johnson

Washington International Law Journal

The patent laws of the United States and Japan contain provisions that permit the experimental use of patented inventions. In the United States, the common law experimental use exception has been utilized to permit the use of a patented invention to satisfy intellectual curiosity, as long as the use is not commercial. In 1984, the Hatch-Waxman Act provided a statutory experimental use exception in 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1). It amended the Patent Act to allow a generic drug company to experiment with a pioneer drug during the pioneer drug's patent term to generate data for obtaining regulatory approval. In contrast, …

New Terrorism And International Law, The, Matthew Lippman

Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law

No abstract provided.

Burden Of Proof: Developments In Modern Chinese Evidence Rules, Mo Zhang, Paul J. Zwier

Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law

No abstract provided.

Cloning For Biomedical Research Debate: Do The Promises Of Medical Advances Outweigh The Ethical Concerns, The, Jessica J. Monachello

Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law

No abstract provided.

Biology And Ecologyof Epigean Crayfish That Inhabit Everglades Environments Procambarus Alleni (Faxon) And Procambarus Fallax (Hagen), Peggy G. Vanarman

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Two species of epigean crayfish, Procambarus alleni (the Everglades crayfish) and Procambarus fallax (slough crayfish), may be keystone species that inhabit wetlands in south Florida and the Everglades. Recent field studies showed that although these two species occur in sympatric and syntopic distribution, Everglades crayfish prefer shallow water and short hydroperiod conditions, whereas slough crayfish prefer areas that are more permanently flooded (Hendrix 2000). Slough crayfish have invaded some areas within the range occupied by Everglades crayfish, and may be the more successful competitor. Because of their critical role throughout the trophic structure of Everglades wetlands, shifts in relative abundance …

Revisiting Mercier's L'An 2440. [Review Of Riikka Forsström's Possible Worlds: The Idea Of Happiness In The Utopian Vision Of Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden, 2002], Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

No abstract provided.

Missouri S&T Magazine Spring 2003, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association

Missouri S&T Magazine

No abstract provided.

Fixation Of Type Locality For Lycaena Acmon Westwood And Characterization Of The Species And Its Distribution, Paul A. Opler

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

Lycaena acmon Westwood, 1852 is based on a painting and plate legend in Westwood and Hewitson’s Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera. The specimen illustrated was located in the British Museum Natural History and is the holotype by monotypy. The accompanying plate legend gives “California” as the type locality. Because the butterfly is a member of a complex of species, now considered in the genus Plebejus (Opler and Warren, 2003), that requires much systematic study, and some confusion exists on the identity of L. acmon, it is necessary to fix a more specific type locality, to characterize the species, …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 35, No.1 March 2003

The Prairie Naturalist

PATTERNS OF IMPALING IN A MIGRATORY POPULATION OF THE LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE ▪ J. D. Esely and E. K. Bollinger

COMPARISON OF FEEDING IN TWO PHENOLOGICALLY DISTINCT GRASSHOPPERS ▪ K. J. Haynes

DISTRIBUTION AND TRENDS OF BANDED CANADA GEESE IN SOUTH DAKOTA ▪ J. S. Gleason, J. A. Jenks, and P. W. Mammenga

FLORISTIC ASSESSMENT OF SAND PRAIRIES AND SEDGE MEADOWS, LEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS ▪ W. C. Handel, L. R. Phillippe, and J. E. Ebinger

POULT PROTECTION BY MERRIAM'S TURKEY FEMALES TOWARDS A NORTHERN GOSHAWK ▪ C. P. Lehman

ADDITIONAL ECTOPARASITIC RECORDS OF BATS FROM KANSAS ▪ D. W. Sparks, K. …

Una Nueva Especie De Trionymus De Argentina (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), Maria Cristina Granara De Willink

Insecta Mundi

Resumen:
Se describe e ilustra una nueva especie del género Trionymus Berg (1899); se cita a T. coronus Miller y McKenzie para la Argentina y se brinda una nueva clave de las especies para la Región Neotropical.

Abstract:
A new species of Trionymus Berg, T. austrinus Willink, is described and illustrated from Argentina. Trionymus coronus Miller y McKenzie is recorded for the first time from Argentina, and a new key for the Neotropical species are given.

Nomenclatorial Corrections For Dasytidae And Malachiidae (Coleoptera), Adriean J. Mayor

Insecta Mundi

Nomenclatorial corrections are proposed for 9 cases of homonymy and 5 cases of synonymy in the Dasytidae and Malachiidae. For the homonyms, the following new names are proposed: Aplocnemus montbabor Mayor, new name, for A. baborensis Pic 1922; Dasytes loboensis Mayor, new name, for D. nevadensis Pic 1954; Dasytes minor Mayor, new name, for D. minutus Casey 1895; Amalthocus pici Mayor, new name, for A. metallicus (Pic 1955); Attalus tribandipennis Mayor, new name, for A. tricoloripennis Pic 1927; Attalus ulkeiMayor, new name, for A. laevicollis (Horn 1872); Laius cephalus Mayor, new name, for L. verticalis Fairmaire; Sphinginopalpus mpumalangaensis Mayor …

A New Species Of Anastrepha From Amazonia, With Redescriptions Of A. Caudata Stone And A. Hendeliana Lima (Diptera: Tephritidae), Allen L. Norrbom, Josefina Caraballa

Insecta Mundi

Abstract:
Three species of Anastrepha from upper Amazonia are described or redescribed and illustrated. They are considered closely related and are placed in the A. caudata species group. Anastrepha caudata Stone 1942 is redescribed based on the holotype, the only known specimen. Its type locality is probably São Paulo de Olivença in Amazonas, Brazil, not the state or city of São Paulo as previously assumed. Anastrepha hendeliana Lima 1934, new status, is removed from synonymy with A. longicauda Lima 1934 based on specimens from Brazil (Amazonas and Rondonia) and Colombia (Caquetá). The female is described for the first time. Anastrepha …

New Species And Records Of Anacis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini) From Tropical And Temperate Andean South America, Charles C. Porter

Insecta Mundi

Abstract:
Descriptions are given of the new species Anacis ignifera and A. flammigera from Mérida State, Venezuela and of A. umbrifera from Machu Picchu, Perú. These belong to a tropical Andean lineage with strongly projecting propodeal cristae and pictured wings. Anacis hercana Porter, a Chilean species long known only from the holotype taken at El Canelo near Santiago, now is documented by a second specimen from nearby Río Clarillo. Biconus Townes (1969) is synonymized under Anacis Porter (1967a). Anacis apoeca (Porter), A. atrorubra (Townes), and A. subflava (Porter) are new combinations in Anacis. The South American species of Anacis …

Three New Species Of Hexanchorus Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Larainae) From South America, P. J. Spangler, C. L. Staines

Insecta Mundi

Three new species of Hexanchorus Sharp, H. dimorphus and H. shannoni from Argentina, and H. mcdiarmidi from Venezuela, are described and illustrated.