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Development And Characterization Of Monoclonal Antibodies Directed Against Tanapox Virus, Michael Franz

Masters Theses

The initial symptoms of a Tanapoxvirus (TPV) infection are indistinguishable from smallpox, which is caused by variola virus (VV). In the post-9/11 area, reagents that can quickly differentiate a TPV infection from smallpox are very desirable, but currently unavailable. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed specifically against TPV can be used for this purpose. Six mAbs were developed and characterized that specifically bind to TPV infected owl monkey kidney (OMK) cells, but not uninfected cells. The apparent molecular mass of the TPV protein(s) recognized by 5 mAbs were calculated using the Western blot technique. One mAb demonstrated no binding using the Western …

Integration Of Lean Manufacturing And Value Engineering Techniques To Improve The Internal Distribution System In A Manufacturing Company, Sripadjaraj Prahladaraj

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The XYZ Corporation is located in Lafayette, Georgia. The company produces cooking ranges for the North American market. It has 1500 employees with a daily production capacity of 1000 to 1500 cooking ranges. The company is implementing lean manufacturing techniques to improve their performance. One of their projects is to develop a distribution system, which will help in streamlining the internal distribution of Very High Pressure (VHP) adhesive tapes. The aim of this research is to develop a lean distribution system by applying techniques of lean manufacturing systems. To understand the existing process of distribution, a flow diagram was created. …

Administrative Compensation For Medical Malpractice Injuries: Reconciling The Brave New World Of Patient Safety And The Torts System, Edward P. Richards, Thomas R. Mclean

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Some Observations About The Turn Toward Federal Rulemaking In Health Law, John M. Griesbach

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Secrets Don’T Make Friends, But They Do Make Good Business: Perception Versus Reality In Physician Financial Incentive Plans, Matthew J. Morris

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Update - December 2004, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Jack Wendell Provonsha: A Life Sketch
-- Editorial
-- Jack Provonsha: A Remembrance
-- Remembering Jack Provonsha: A Theological Appreciation
-- Jack the Just: Dr. Provonsha, Loma Linda, and the Adventist Wisdom Tradition

Fast Measurements Of Flow Through Mitral Regurgitant Orifices With Magnetic Resonance Phase Velocity Mapping, Haosen Zhang, Sandra S. Halliburton, Richard D. White, George P. Chatzimavroudis

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Magnetic-resonance (MR) phase velocity mapping (PVM) shows promise in measuring the mitral regurgitant volume. However, in its conventional nonsegmented form, MR-PVM is slow and impractical for clinical use. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of rapid, segmented k-spaceMR-PVM in quantifying the mitral regurgitant flow through a control volume (CV) method. Two segmented MR-PVM schemes, one with seven (seg-7) and one with nine (seg-9) lines per segment, were evaluated in acrylic regurgitant mitral valve models under steady and pulsatile flow. A nonsegmented (nonseg) MR-PVM acquisition was also performed for reference. The segmented acquisitions were …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 31, No. 4 (December 2004)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• "CURIOUSLY UNINVOLVED": SOCIAL WORK AND PROTEST AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM - Susan Kerr Chandler
• LEGISLATING THE FAMILY: HETEROSEXIST BIAS IN SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY FRAMEWORKS - Amy Lind
• EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMUNITY RESIDENTS' ECONOMIC STATUS AND THE OUTCOMES OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS - Christopher R. Larrison, Eric Hadley-Ives
• THE BENEFITS OF MARRIAGE RECONSIDERED - Barbara Wells, Maxine Baca Zinn
• MEASURING AND INDIGENIZING SOCIAL CAPITAL IN RELATION TO CHILDREN'S STREET WORK IN MEXICO: THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN SHAPING SOCIAL CAPITAL
• INDICATORS - Kristin M. Ferguson
• THE WELFARE MYTH: DISENTANGLING THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF POVERTY AND WELFARE …

Histories And Historicities In Amazonia, Minna Opas

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Book review of Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Neil L. Whitehead, editor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xx + 236 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8032-9817-X.

Technology Literacy In The 21st Century: Teacher And Student Outcomes Of A Technology Innovation Program Model, Mary Beth Kelley-Lowe

Theses and Dissertations

The study investigated student and teacher outcomes from a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant project, NatureShift Linking Learning to Life (NS), to determine if the project influenced teachers’ work and student learning. The approaches were twofold: (1) to examine the implementation of higher order thinking and relevant use of technology by students and teachers and (2) to understand a teacher’s reactions to and implementation of a teaching model and methodology for Internet delivery and technology use.

A quantitative study examined the student projects and teacher materials created as part of school implementations cf the NS model and curriculum. The sources of …

Saudi Women's Society: Perceptions Of Saudi Arabian Women Living In The Upper Midwest, Philline M. Deraney

Theses and Dissertations

This research posed three broad questions about perceptions of adult Saudi Arabian women living in Midwestern states of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Specifically, the questions explored were: (I) What were the women experiencing while living in the Midwest? (2) What did the experiences mean to the women? and, (3) How did the women interpret their experiences? The purposes of this research were to amplify the women's ''voices'' and to add to the limited base of qualitative research on Saudi Arabian women. Interviews and brief observations of 13 native Saudi women were the main for1ns of data collection, and rigorous …

History, Concepts, And Normativity In Hegel, Dario Perinetti

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

The article challenges the perception of Hegel's originality in linking history and logic, arguing that this connection was a common endeavor in the 18th century. It situates Hegel's work within a broader historical context, emphasizing that his contribution lies in his unique conceptual history, which describes how concepts acquire meaning through inferential relations rather than naturalistic or psychological processes. The analysis highlights Hegel's departure from Kant and others, asserting that his logic is both descriptive and normative, offering a non-referential theory of concepts that emphasizes their role in generating logical space.

The One And The Concept: On Hegel's Reading Of Plato's Parmenides, Allegra De Laurentiis

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

No abstract provided.

Cognition And Finite Spirit, John W. Burbidge

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

No abstract provided.

Hegel's Science Of Logic In An Analytic Mode, Clark Butler

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

No abstract provided.

Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

Strict Feedforward Form And Symmetries Of Nonlinear Control Systems, Witold Respondek, Issa Amadou Tall

Miscellaneous (presentations, translations, interviews, etc)

We establish a relation between strict feedforward form and symmetries of nonlinear control systems. We prove that a system is feedback equivalent to the strict feedforward form if and only if it gives rise to a sequence of systems, such that each element of the sequence, firstly, possesses an infinitesimal symmetry and, secondly, it is the factor system of the preceding one, i.e., is reduced from the preceding one by its symmetry. We also propose a strict feedforward normal form and prove that a smooth strict feedforward system can be smoothly brought to that form.

Nonprofit Solicitation Under The Telemarketing Sales Rule, Rita Marie Cain

Federal Communications Law Journal

In 2003, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") revised its Telemarketing Sales Rule ("TSR") to establish a national Do-Not-Call Registry for commercial telemarketing. Congress directed the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") to coordinate its telemarketing regulations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") of 1991 to achieve maximum consistency between the two agencies' telemarketing restrictions. Nonprofit solicitation is exempt from the national Do-Not-Call Registry, but is covered by other provisions of the FTC rule. The TSR created a new in-house no-call list requirement and imposed additional restrictions not previously known for nonprofit solicitors. The separate nonprofit provisions of the TSR raise unique …

Competition Versus Regulation: "Mediating Between Right And Right'* In The Wireless And Wireline Telephone Industries, Benjamin Douglas Arden

Federal Communications Law Journal

The wireline telephone industry in the United States is the most complete and sophisticated system in the world, built under 100 years of strict government regulation. While the wireline telephone industry was built under a scheme emphasizing regulatory control, the infancy of the wireless telephone industry has been subject to increasing deregulation and reliance on free market forces to guide the industry's development. It has been suggested that this shift in policy reflects the acknowledged failure of strict government regulation. This Note argues that the shift in regulatory policy reflects a difference in circumstances between the development of the wireless …

An Introduction To Lessigian Thought, Russ Taylor

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, Lawrence Lessig, New York: Penguin Press, 2004, 306 pages.

A review of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig. Lawrence Lessig is a frequent commentator and prolific writer on media and communications topics. His body of work touches copyright issues, radio spectrum policy, media ownership issues, and legal ownership and control of the physical platforms that deliver broadband content. In this 2004 publication, he focuses on copyright policy. …

Headache And Blood Pressure In Primary Health Care Setting In Kuwait, Sawsan T. Jamal, Prem N. Sharma, Fatma A. Ramadan, Fathi S. Boshehri

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To identify the types of headache among patients, presenting at a primary health care setting, and to determine the correlation between headache and high blood pressure (BP). METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study administered in 2 primary health care centers (Fintas and AbuHalifa) of a regional health district in Kuwait from March 2003 to June 2003. Our study included 290 patients with different types of headache, and requested for BP measurement. RESULTS: The sample included patients, in the age group 15-80 years with an overall mean age of 41 (+13 SD) years. The male to female ratio was 1:2.7 …

The Expression Of P53, P16 Proteins And Prevalence Of Apoptosis In Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Correlation With Mode Of Invasion Grading System, Benay Tokman, Sibel E. Gultekin, Cem Sezer, Reha Alpar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Inactivation of p53 and p16 tumor suppressor genes, and apoptosis which is crucial in carcinogenesis have commonly been studied in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). However, their prognostic value has not yet been clearly established. METHODS: This study was conducted in the Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey during the period 2002 to 2003 on formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissue specimens of 12 lip and 18 intraoral primary squamous cell carcinoma cases. The expression of p53 and p16 proteins were studied by immunohistochemistry, and the apoptosis by TdT-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end-labeling (TUNEL) methods. The possible …

Association Of Sickle Cell Anemia And Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1a., Amal A. Al-Dabbagh, Faten M. Sayes

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Empirical Legal Scholarship As Scientific Dialogue, Gregory Mitchell

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Theoretical And Conceptual Issues In Economic Reforms: Application To Nigeria's Downstream Petroleum Sector., N. O. Magbagbeola

Economic and Financial Review

This paper examines the theoretical and conceptual issues pertaining 10 economic reforms. The author adopted a survey method approach to discussed the classification of economic reforms into first-generation and second-generation reforms, and examines their categories, namely, institutional, labour, financial market and product market reforms. On the speed and sequencing of economic reforms, the paper investigates two alternative paths of economic reforms for an economy that has a large public sector like Nigeria. The two paths are gradual approach and "big-bang" approach. Related to the discussion about the speed of adjustment, the paper examines the economics of petroleum product pricing in …

Pricing Of Petroleum Products In Nigeria And The Issue Of Price Subsidy, G. E. Ukpong

Economic and Financial Review

This article re-examines the policy on petroleum products pricing, especially against the background 'Of government's decision in October 2003 that crude oil for domestic consumption be paid for at the prevailing international price, in order to suggest a way forward. The issue of subsidy is also discussed in that context. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section II contains literature review on petroleum products pricing and subsidy. Petroleum products pricing and subsidy management in Nigeria is found in section III. Section IV contains suggested way forward in products pricing in Nigeria as well as concluding thoughts.

Minutes Of The 2004 Spring Tos Board Meeting, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

The First Seventy-Five Years Of The Memphis Christmas Bird Count, W. Robert Peeples

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Abomasal Parasites In Wild Sympatric Cervids, Red Deer, Cervus Elaphus, And Fallow Deer, Dama Dama, From Three Localities Across Central And Western Spain: Relationship To Host Density And Park Management, Mónica Santín-Durán, José M. Alunda, Eric P. Hoberg, Concepción De La Fuente

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

A survey of abomasal parasites in cervids from Central Spain was conducted at three sites, Quintos de Mora (Toledo), Maluéñez de Arriba (Cáceres), and La Herguijuela (Cáceres). Commonly occurring helminths belonged to three polymorphic species of the Ostertagiinae: Spiculopteragia asymmetrica/S. quadrispiculata, Ostertagia leptospicularis/O. kolchida, and O. drozdzi/O. ryjikovi. Trichostrongylus axei was found in very few cases. Ostertagia drozdzi/O. ryjikovi and the minor male morphotype, S. quadrispiculata, are reported for the first time in red deer from Spain. The three ostertagiine species are also reported for the first time …

A Multicomponent Intervention System Using Human Performance Technology Concepts To Improve Performance In Small Service Businesses, Doug Lafleur

Masters Theses

A small business servicing dealerships in the chimney lining industry was responsible for training and resupplying contractors in a propriety chimney lining system. A process was developed for sharing and comparing the dealerships' financial reports and business processes. The process involved a small group of dealers attending regular 6- month meetings called Impact Groups. Dealers took turns hosting the meetings and having the attending dealers analyze their business. A detailed list of problems and solutions was provided to each host business.