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Cooperation Of Different Neuronal Systems During Hand Sign Recognition, A Nakamura, B Maess, Tr Knösche, Et Al

School of Psychology

Hand signs with symbolic meaning can often be utilized more successfully than words to communicate an intention; however, the underlying brain mechanisms are undefined. The present study using magnetoencephalography (MEG) demonstrates that the primary visual, mirror neuron, social recognition and object recognition systems are involved in hand sign recognition. MEG detected well-orchestrated multiple brain regional electrical activity among these neuronal systems. During the assessment of the meaning of hand signs, the inferior parietal, superior temporal sulcus (STS) and inferior occipitotemporal regions were simultaneously activated. These three regions showed similar time courses in their electrical activity, suggesting that they work together …

Adobe Medicus 2004 5 September-October, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

No abstract provided.

Technical Assessment Of Natural Resource Management Threats And Options In The Northern Agricultural Region Of Western Australia, Lorinda Hunt, G Patterson, Northern Agricultural Catchments Council (Wa)

Resource management technical reports

Analysis of the risk of soil, land and water degradation within the Northern Agricultural Region of Western Australia. Natural resource issues discussed include: acid groundwater, acid sulfate soils, climate change, dryland salinity, flooding, herbicide resistance, non-wetting (water repellence), nutrient loss and eutrophication, remnant vegetation decline, soil acidity, soil fertility decline, soil structure decline, subsurface compaction, waterlogging, wind erosion and soil contamination.

Tables, Community Economic And Demographic Research, Cdbg Benchmark Area, September 2004, Usf Center For Economic Development Research

Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR) Collection

Statistical tables in Excel format accompanying the text on community economic and demographic research for the CDBG benchmark area. The tables provide detailed inventories and analyses of local business establishments and demographic characteristics, offering insights into the economic landscape and trends within the benchmark area.

Report, Community Economic And Demographic Research, Usf Cdbg Area, September 2004, Usf Center For Economic Development Research

Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR) Collection

This report, prepared by the Center for Economic Development Research at USF for the Hillsborough County Economic Development Department, provides community economic and demographic research for the USF CDBG Area. The accompanying statistical tables in Excel format detail the inventory and analysis of local business establishments, offering insights into the economic landscape and trends within the USF CDBG Area.

Nf-Kappab And Ap-1 Connection: Mechanism Of Nf-Kappab-Dependent Regulation Of Ap-1 Activity, Shuichi Fujioka, Jiangong Niu, Christian Schmidt, Guido M Sclabas, Bailu Peng, Tadashi Uwagawa, Zhongkui Li, Douglas B Evans, James L Abbruzzese, Paul J Chiao

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) and activator protein 1 (AP-1) transcription factors regulate many important biological and pathological processes. Activation of NF-kappaB is regulated by the inducible phosphorylation of NF-kappaB inhibitor IkappaB by IkappaB kinase. In contrast, Fos, a key component of AP-1, is primarily transcriptionally regulated by serum responsive factors (SRFs) and ternary complex factors (TCFs). Despite these different regulatory mechanisms, there is an intriguing possibility that NF-kappaB and AP-1 may modulate each other, thus expanding the scope of these two rapidly inducible transcription factors. To determine whether NF-kappaB activity is involved in the regulation of fos expression in response …

Emergency Wildlife Management Response To Protect Evidence Associated With The Terrorist Attack On The World Trade Center, New York City, Richard B. Chipman, Richard A. Dollbeer, Kenneth J. Pruesser, Daniel P. Sullivan, Erin D. Losito, Allen L. Gosser, Thomas W. Seamans

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

At the request of the New York City Police Department, the PoIt Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, a team of USDA APHIS Wildlife Services (WS) biologists mobilized in less than 24 hours to assist federal, state and local law enforcement officials in managing birds and rodents impacting the recovey of evidence as a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. During the 10-month recovery effort fiom September 2001 to June 2002, more than 1.7 million tons of debris was shipped fiom "Ground Zero" …

Addressing The High School Hazing Problem: Why Lawmakers Need To Impose A Duty To Act On School Personnel, Marc Edelman

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reading Ondaatje's Poetry, Eluned Summers-Bremner

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Eluned Summers-Bremner pursues in her paper "Reading Ondaatje's Poetry" a psychoanalytic reading of Ondaatje's poetry based on Lacan's thought, highlighting occasions where nature and culture meet. Focusing on the volumes Secular Love and The Man with Seven Toes, Summers-Bremner explores how nature's troubled regions are navigated through the structural estrangement of looking for a name. In Lacanian terms, a proper name signals the contradiction of one's belonging to a biological or other kind of family, whence one's name often arises, and being a user or respondent of language, which produces meaning through its infringement or exceeding of its users' intentions, …

Oral History And The Writing Of The Other In Ondaatje's In The Skin Of A Lion, Winfried Siemerling

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Winfried Siemerling argues in his paper "Oral History and the Writing of the Other in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion" that the simulation of oral narratives in the novel imagines the conveyance of oral histories of immigrant experiences obscured by historiography. The narrative device of simulated orality -- the written text casts itself as the outcome of serial story-telling -- serves here to introduce erstwhile anonymous societal actors as makers of history, and emphasizes the collective production of story and history. Oral narratives emerge dreamlike like light out of darkness in this text; yet light, like writing, creates …

Treaties, Time Limits And Treasure Trove: The Legal Protection Of Cultural Objects In Singapore, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article considers the extent to which civil and criminal law in Singapore deters the unlawful removal of cultural objects from the possession of private owners, art galleries and museums, or from archaeological sites, and provides redress to victims. Given Singapore's position as the crossroads of Asia, the law must be able to cope with the flow of objects in and out of the country. The law is currently deficient as it is not tailored to deal with issues concerning cultural heritage, and needs to be reformed in several respects. There are sound reasons for a modern State like Singapore …

Response Of Brood-Parasitic Bronzed Cowbird To Playback Of The Song Of Audubon's Oriole, Steven G. Monk, Timothy Brush

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

ABSTRACT—In the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, Audubon’s orioles (Icterus graduacauda) have declined substantially in the past 50 y, probably due to habitat loss, fragmentation, and brood parasitism by bronzed cowbirds (Molothrus aeneus). Tape playback of the song of Audubon’s oriole, originally intended to better survey the oriole, also attracted bronzed cowbirds. Bronzed cowbirds flew silently into the nearest tree in 14.1% of 234 playbacks, whereas Audubon’s orioles responded vocally or flew toward the recorder in 15.8% of playbacks. Bronzed cowbirds might use vocalizations of Audubon’s oriole as a cue to find breeding pairs or nests of this …

Fisheries Research Contract Report No. 9 - Enhancing The Emergency Disease Response Capability Of The Western Australian Department Of Fisheries And Industry Bodies Associated With Freshwater Crayfish. Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Frdc Project No. 2003/671, Frances Stephens, Brian Jones, Iain East, Karina Scott, Simon Bennison

Fisheries Research Contract Reports

CRAYFISH PLAGUE IS A MAJOR DISEASE AFFECTING FRESHWATER CRAYFISH IN SOME AREAS OF THE WORLD. THE DISEASE HAS NEVER BEEN REPORTED IN AUSTRALIA. THE SIMULATION EXERCISE THAT WAS UNDERTAKEN AS PART OF THIS PROJECT WAS A RESPONSE TO A FICTITIOUS OUTBREAK OF CRAYFISH PLAGUE.

Funding for this project was provided to enable an exercise simulating an outbreak of crayfish plague to be conducted in Western Australia. Crayfish plague is a fungal disease (Aphanomyces astaci) that has devastated some freshwater crayfish populations in Europe but has never been recorded in Australia. The exercise was planned arounda fictitious outbreak of crayfish plague …

Illuminating Lou, Kate Field

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Kate Field feels that people should embrace the kitschy things in life, especially lawn ornaments like deer or ducks or frogs or creepy looking gnomes. But mostly, the pink flamingo makes her the happiest.

Interrupted Straight Lines, Katie Wright

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Is a senior English writing major from Williamsport, IN. She enjoys fake teeth.

Hands Respectful And Clean: Cajetan And The Reformation, Wlliam P. Haas

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Heterogeneous Self-Reconfiguring Robotics, Robert Charles Fitch

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

Self-reconfiguring (SR) robots are modular systems that can autonomously change shape, or reconfigure, for increased versatility and adaptability in unknown environments. In this thesis, we investigate planning and control for systems of non-identical modules, known as heterogeneous SR robots. Although previous approaches rely on module homogeneity as a critical property, we show that the planning complexity of fundamental algorithmic problems in the heterogeneous case is equivalent to that of systems with identical modules. Primarily, we study the problem of how to plan shape changes while considering the placement of specific modules within the structure. We characterize this key challenge in …

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

A Nation At War In An Era Of Strategic Change, Williamson Murray Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The President, Secretary of Defense, and the Army's Chief of Staff have all stated that the United States is a "Nation at War." The U.S. military faces significant strategic challenges as it continues to transform the force and improve interagency integration into joint operations, all the while engaging in active combat operations associated with the Global War on Terrorism. This collection of outstanding essays--three of which won prestigious writing awards--by the students enrolled in the Army War College's Advanced Strategic Art Program (ASAP) highlight some of these strategic challenges and offer thoughtful solutions. They provide insights that will undoubtedly prove …

Where Should Buffers Go? Modeling Riparian Habitat Connectivity In Northeast Kansas, Gary Bentrup, Todd Kellerman

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Through many funding programs, riparian buffers are being created on agricultural lands to address significant water quality problems. Society and landowners are demanding many other environmental and social services (e.g., wildlife habitat and income diversification) from this practice. Resource planners therefore need to design riparian buffer systems in the right places to provide multiple services. However, scientific guidance for this is lacking. We developed a geographic information system (GIS)-based assessment method for quickly identifying where buffers can be established to restore connectivity of riparian areas for the benefit of terrestrial wildlife. An area in northeastern Kansas was selected to evaluate …

What Can Birds Hear?, Robert C. Beason

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

For bids, hearing is second in importance only to vision for monitoring the world around them. ./\vim hearing is most sensitive to sounds from about 1 to 4 kHz, although they can hear higher and lower frequencies. No species of bird has shown sensitivity to ultrasonic frequencies (>20 kHz). Sensitivity to frequencies below 20 Hz (dasound) has not received much attention; however, pigeons and a few other species have shown behavioral and physiological responses to these low frequencies. In general, frequency discrimination in birds is only about one-half or one-third as good it is for humans within the 1 …

Visual Culture: The Later Mallarmé And Japonisme, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

Like his painter-contemporaries, Mallarmé’s attention to japonisme was to a visual phenomenon. Like them, he had a strong visual sense, and one could argue that even the early poems that tried to apprehend nothingness did so as if the problem were a visual one even if the results were more the ideas of things seen, rather than the creation of images. His visual orientation did change dramatically, however, by the time of La Dernière Mode in 1874, readying him for the acculturation to be provided first by Manet, and then by others, notably Whistler. The esthetics of japonisme is a …

West Nile Virus Infection In Reindeer (Rangifer Tarandus), Mitchell V. Palmer, William C. Stoffregen, Douglas G. Rogers, Amir N. Hamir, Juergen A. Richt, Douglas D. Pedersen, W. Ray Waters

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

West Nile virus (WNV) infection in 4 reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) resulted in lymphohistiocytic encephalomyelitis within the medulla oblongata and cervical spinal cord. Immunohistochemistry revealed WNV antigen within neurons and among mononuclear cell infiltrates. These represent the first known cases of clinical WNV infection in Cervidae. Clinical signs and lesions were similar to those described in horses. Nucleotide sequence of a 768-bp region of the WNV E-glycoprotein gene revealed 1 nucleotide mutation, which resulted in a single amino acid substitution from a serine to a glycine (position 227 of E-glycoprotein) when compared with the prototype WNV-NY99 strain (isolated from …

Oxidative Stress In Chronic Renal Failure Patients Treated By Peritoneal Dialysis, Ali F. Al-Hashimi, Faik H. Mohammed, Arif S. Al-Khazragi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of oxidative stress (OS) in chronic renal failure (CRF) and the effect of peritoneal dialysis on the OS in uremic patients. Also, to investigate the role of the studied parameters of OS as early markers for the detection of peritonitis in peritoneally dialyzed patients. METHODS: The study was conducted on 80 chronic renal failure Iraqi patients who were admitted to the dialysis centers at Al-Kadhumiya, Baghdad, Al-Yarmouk and Al-Karama teaching hospitals, Baghdad, Iraq, during the period November 1999 through to July 2000 for peritoneal or hemodialysis therapy. Their ages range between 15-75-years. This was carried …

Cryptosporidiosis And Other Intestinal Parasitic Infections In Patients With Chronic Diarrhea, Nadham K. Mahdi, Naeel H. Ali

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To consider the relationship of the parasitic infections including cryptosporidium with chronic diarrhea. Also the effect of chronic disease as pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and nosocomial infection on the occurrence rate of parasites in cases of chronic diarrhea. METHODS: Stool samples were collected from 205 patients in teaching, general, child and maternity hospitals in Basrah, Iraq, suffering from chronic diarrhea during 2000. Out of these patients, there were 40 patients with pulmonary TB and 50 inpatients with nosocomial infection. Also 175 apparently healthy individuals who have no episodes of diarrhea for at least 2-months were served as a control group. …

Quinolone Resistance In Non-Typhoidal Salmonellae Isolated From Patients Having Primary Extra-Intestinal Infections, Bodh R. Panhotra, Anil K. Saxena, Ali M. Al-Ghamdi

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Sustainability And Agriculture, Rob Rutherford

Moebius

No abstract provided.

Unsealing Settlements: Recent Efforts To Expose Settlement Agreements That Conceal Public Hazards, Elizabeth E. Spainhour

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

2004 National Border Patrol Strategy, U.S. Customs & Border Protection

Border Wall / Border Security Documents

No abstract provided.

Cholinergic Modulation Of The Locomotor Network In The Lamprey Spinal Cord, Katharina A. Quinlan, Peter G. Placas, James T. Buchanan

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Acetylcholine (ACh) was found here to be a strong modulator of swimming activity in the isolated spinal cord preparation of the adult lamprey (Ichthyomyzon unicuspis). During fictive swimming induced with either D-glutamate or N-methyl-D-aspartate, addition of ACh (200 µM) significantly reduced the cycle period of ventral root bursts to 54%, intersegmental phase lag to 32%, and ventral root burst proportion to 80% of control levels. Effects of ACh were apparent at concentrations as low as 1 µM. Both nicotinic and muscarinic receptors are involved, in that application of either nicotinic or muscarinic agonists alone significantly reduced cycle …