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Spectator 2004-11-04, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

The New Neurobiology Of Severe Psychiatric Disorders And Its Implications For Laws Governing Involuntary Commitment And Treatment, E Fuller Torrey, Kenneth Kress

ExpressO

Medical advances have led to statutory changes and common law overrulings. This paper argues that such changes are now needed for laws governing the involuntary commitment and treatment of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders. Recent advances in the understanding of the neurobiology of these disorders have rendered obsolete many assumptions underlying past statutes and legal decisions. This is illustrated by using schizophrenia as an example and examining two influential cases: California’s Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (1969) and Wisconsin’s Lessard decision (1972). It is concluded that laws governing involuntary commitment and treatment need to be updated to incorporate the current neurobiological understanding of …

Exponent, Vol. 36, No. 8, 2004-11-03, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

2004

No abstract provided.

The Cord Weekly (November 3, 2004)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

The Anchor, Volume 118.09: November 3, 2004, Hope College

The Anchor: 2004

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2000s

No abstract provided.

Ke Alaka'i, Vol. 70, No. 09 (2004-11-03), Brigham Young University Hawaii

Ke Alaka'i

No abstract provided.

'Treasure Chest' Of British History Presented To Um Library, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- Thanks to a former professor, students and other patrons of the University of Mississippi's J.D. Williams Library have access to a collection of 54,922 biographies of men and women who shaped all aspects of British history and culture worldwide.

Newscope - November 3, 2004

Newscope

No abstract provided.

Ensemble Concerts: Illinois State University Madrigal Singers; Madrigal Brass; Acafellaz; November 3, 2004, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Fall 2004 Tour
November 3-4, 2004

The Rattler (Volume 92, Issue 5, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

November 3, 2004 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Linearity Optimization Of Power Transistors Utilizing Harmonic Terminations, Ravi Kumar Varanasi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on the characterization and optimization of microwave power transistors using a commercial on-wafer harmonic load pull system. Specific attention is paid to the output tuning of the second harmonic impedance presented to the device. The ability to quantify the level of accuracy in a load pull system is explored by using various calibration validation methods, including a method called Delta-Gt. In this work experiments and simulation comparisons are described for three different device technologies, namely GaAs pHEMT, GaAs HJFET and InGaP HBT. Externally supplied non-linear models were used for the simulations and these were exercised and compared …

Applying The Wrapper Approach For Auto Discovery Of Under-Sampling And Over-Sampling Percentages On Skewed Datasets, Ajay D. Joshi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Machine learning applications are plagued by the imbalance observed among the class sizes in many real world datasets. A dataset is said to be skewed or imbalanced when its classes are very unequally represented. A naïve classifier learned from these skewed datasets is always biased towards the majority classes which constitute a major percentage of the samples in the dataset. As a result the accuracy on the minority classes is hampered. In many real world applications like network intrusion detection, cancer detection from mammography images, etc. the events of interest are very rare and the cost of not detecting these …

November 3rd 2004, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

No abstract provided.

Faculty Council Minutes, November 3, 2004, Faculty Council

Faculty Senate Minutes and Reports

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, November 03, 2004

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

The Spinnaker Vol. 28 No. 13, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

Daily Eastern News: November 03, 2004, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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Mississippi Meets 'Challenge Of Peace' In Traveling Art Exhibit, Lecture, Rebecca Reyenga

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- "The Challenge of Peace" is the focus of an art exhibit that runs through Dec. 15 at the University of Mississippi Museums.

Limitations Of The Advection-Diffusion Equation For Modeling Tephra Fallout: 1992 Eruption Of Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua, Kristin Terese Martin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Detailed mapping and granulometric analyses of the 1992 Cerro Negro tephra blanket reveal remarkable departures from the expected distribution of tephra. Isomass maps show that the major axis of dispersion for the eruption was to the SW of the cone and that the coarser-grained particles, ranging from -4.0 -- 1.0 f, were deposited primarily along the major axis of dispersion with deposits thinning off of the axis. Comparable isomass maps for finer-grained particles, 1.5 - 3.5 f, show that these particles were primarily deposited along the edges of the deposit, off of the major axis of dispersion. Advection-diffusion models for …

Towards An E-Criture Feminine: Woolf, Duplessis, Cixous, And The Emerging Discursive Tradition In Women’S Online Diaries, Deborah Silverman Bowen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Women are drawing together the concepts of space, style,and medium and using these concepts collectively as a foundation for a new discursive tradition in the online autobiography. This dissertation, positioned in postmodern feminism, draws on a variety of disciplines to argue the development or evolution of a new women's discourse.

While a broad base of material exists which acknowledges the presence of women's discourse (formed by combining women's writing and women's genres), very little information explores its evolution, particularly in/on the new medium of the World Wide Web (WWW).

A combination of extant social and literary theories supports the idea …

Prehistoric Shell Artifacts From The Apalachicola River Valley Area, Northwest Florida, Eric Eyles

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With this thesis, I aim to fill a gap in our knowledge of shell artifacts from the northwest part of the state of Florida. It represents a first look at the range of shell artifacts in the collections of the University of South Florida (USF) obtained during the ongoing program of archaeological investigations in the Apalachicola Valley and surrounding region. There are 46 sites in the study area that have been identified as yielding shell artifacts, of which samples from 27 sites are curated in the USF Archaeology Laboratory. The proposed typology is based on an analysis of over 2300 …

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 11/2/2004, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, November 2, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 45

Academic Convocation Showcases Faculty Excellence, November 2, 2004, Alyson Seligman

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Genetic Engineering Of Syringyl-Enriched Lignin In Plants, Vincent Lee C. Chiang, Laigeng Li

Michigan Tech Patents

The present invention relates to a novel DNA sequence, which encodes a previously unidentified lignin biosynthetic pathway enzyme, sinapyl alcohol dehydrogenase (SAD) that regulates the biosynthesis of syringyl lignin in plants. Also provided are methods for incorporating this novel SAD gene sequence or substantially similar sequences into a plant genome for genetic engineering of syringyl-enriched lignin in plants.

Three Distinct Suppressors Of Rna Silencing Encoded By A 20-Kb Viral Rna Genome, Rui Lu, Alexey Folimonov, Michael Shintaku, Wan Xiang Li, Bryce W. Falk, William O. Dawson, Shou Wei Ding

Faculty Publications

Viral infection in both plant and invertebrate hosts requires a virus-encoded function to block the RNA silencing antiviral defense. Here, we report the identification and characterization of three distinct suppressors of RNA silencing encoded by the ≈20-kb plus-strand RNA genome of citrus tristeza virus (CTV). When introduced by genetic crosses into plants carrying a silencing transgene, both p20 and p23, but not coat protein (CP), restored expression of the transgene. Although none of the CTV proteins prevented DNA methylation of the transgene, export of the silencing signal (capable of mediating intercellular silencing spread) was detected only from the F 1 …