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State Of Utah V. Daniel Perez-Avila : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Case No. 20040174-CA REPLY BRIEF OF APPELLANT APPEAL FROM THE FIFTH DISTRICT COURT, WASHINGTON COUNTY, FROM A CONVICTION OF TWO COUNTS OF AUTOMOBILE HOMICIDE, SECOND DEGREE FELONIES; AND DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL, A THIRD DEGREE FELONY, BEFORE THE HONORABLE JAMES L. SHUMATE.

Robert L. Youngblood, Ii V. Auto Owners Insurance Company, A Corporation : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM FINAL ORDER (SUMMARY JUDGMENT) OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH (HONORABLE WILLIAM B. BOHLING)

Jamal Yanaki V. Iomed, Inc, Rober J. Lollini And Mary Crowther : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal from the order of the Honorable J. Dennis Frederick granting defendants' motion to dismiss with prejudice

Rate Of Graduation Among Students With Histories Of Specific Language Impairment, Amy Jean Hadley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The rate of graduation among students with histories of specific language impairment (SLI) was investigating by comparing the target population to matched, nondisabled peers. Data regarding the graduation outcomes for 176 matched pairs of students, over a five-year period, were analyzed to determine if a significant difference in achievement of a high school diploma was observable between the two groups of students. In addition, the study addressed the variables of socioeconomic status and attendance rate as related to graduation rate. For students with histories of specific language impairment, model of service delivery was also examined with regard to graduation rate. …

The C-Terminal Tail Of Presenilin Regulates Omi/Htra2 Protease Activity, Sanjeev Gupta, Rajesh Singh, Pinaki Datta, Zhi-Jia Zhang, Christopher Orr, Zhixian Lu, Garrey Dubois, Antonis S. Zervos, Miriam H. Meisler, Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri, Emad S. Alnemri

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Presenilin mutations are responsible for most cases of autosomal dominant inherited forms of early onset Alzheimer disease. Presenilins play an important role in amyloid beta-precursor processing, NOTCH receptor signaling, and apoptosis. However, the molecular mechanisms by which presenilins regulate apoptosis are not fully understood. Here, we report that presenilin-1 (PS1) regulates the proteolytic activity of the serine protease Omi/HtrA2 through direct interaction with its regulatory PDZ domain. We show that a peptide corresponding to the cytoplasmic C-terminal tail of PS1 dramatically increases the proteolytic activity of Omi/HtrA2 toward the inhibitor of apoptosis proteins and beta-casein and induces cell death in …

Dna-Protein Kinase Catalytic Subunit-Interacting Protein Kip Binds Telomerase By Interacting With Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase, Gun Eui Lee, Eun Young Yu, Chae Hyun Cho, Junho Lee, Mark T. Muller, In Kwon Chung

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Telomere homeostasis, a process that is essential for continued cell proliferation and genomic stability, is regulated by endogenous telomerase and a collection of associated proteins. In this paper, a protein called KIP ( previously reported as a protein that binds specifically to DNA-dependent protein kinase), has been identified as a telomerase-regulating activity based on the following pieces of evidence. First, complexes between KIP and the catalytic subunit of telomerase ( hTERT) were identified using the yeast two-hybrid technique. Second, antibodies specific to KIP immunoprecipitate human telomerase in cell-free extracts. Third, immunolocalization experiments demonstrate that KIP is a nuclear protein that …

Using Noninvasive Wearable Computers To Recognize Human Emotions From Physiological Signals, Christine Laetitia Lisetti, Fatma Nasoz

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

We discuss the strong relationship between affect and cognition and the importance of emotions in multimodal human computer interaction (HCl) and user modeling. We introduce the overall paradigm for our multimodal system that aims at recognizing its users' emotions and at responding to them accordingly depending upon the current context or application. We then describe the design of the emotion elicitation experiment we conducted by collecting, via wearable computers, physiological signals from the autonomic nervous system (galvanic skin response, heart rate, temperature) and mapping them to certain emotions (sadness, anger, fear, surprise, frustration, and amusement). We show the results of …

Return On Investment Implications For Pharmaceutical Promotional Expenditures: The Role Of Marketing-Mix Interactions, Sridhar Narayanan, Ramarao Desiraju, Pradeep K. Chintagunta

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

The authors empirically explore the revenue impact of marketing-mix variables and their interactions. The findings include the following: pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising and detailing (sales force) affect demand synergistically, detailing raises price elasticity, and detailing has a higher return on investment than does direct-to-consumer advertising. The authors also discuss other implications and provide future research directions.

Neutron Transmutation Doped Far-Infrared P-Ge Laser, E. W. Nelson, M. V. Dolguikh, A. V. Muravjov, E. S. Flitsiyan, T. W. Du Bosq, R. E. Peale, S. H. Kleckley, C. J. Fredricksen, W. G. Vernetson

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

A far-infrared p-type germanium laser with active crystal prepared from ultra pure single-crystal Ge by neutron transmutation doping (NTD) is demonstrated. Calculations show that the high uniformity of Ga acceptor distribution achieved by NTD significantly improves average gain. The stronger ionized impurity scattering due to high compensation in NTD Ge is shown to have insignificant negative impact on the gain at the moderate doping concentrations sufficient for laser operation. Experimentally, this first NTD laser is found to have lower current-density lasing threshold than the best of a number of melt-doped laser crystals studied for comparison.

Some Suggestions For Keeping National Wildlife Refuges Healthy And Whole, Reed F. Noss

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

National wildlife refuges have a biological conservation mandate surpassing that of any other category of public land in the United States. The National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 forged a statutory requirement to maintain the biological integrity, diversity, and environmental health of refuges, Yet, considerably more guidance from science is needed if this mandate is to be interpreted in a scientifically defensible and biologically conservative manner. After evaluation of the extent to which well-accepted goals and principles of conservation biology are reflected in the wildlife refuge system mandate and in the actual design and management of refuges, it …

Minimally Invasive Optical Beam Profiler, Nabeel A. Riza, Doug Jorgesen

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Proposed and demonstrated is a minimally invasive optical beam profiler using a non-pixelated liquid crystal spatial light modulator. The profiler features high detection sensitivity in the visible band, high 50 lines/mm spatial resolution, beam observation zone 100 % fill factor and magnification flexibility, and video rate operations. Applications for this beam profiler includes plug and test beam measurements with minimal interruptions and feedback effects introduced into the optical beam system under test.

Albrecht Fleckenstein: Father Of Calcium Antagonism, Louis J. Acierno, L. Timothy Worrel

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

No abstract provided.

High-Yield Expression Of A Viral Peptide Animal Vaccine In Transgenic Tobacco Chloroplasts, Andrea Molina, Sandra Hervás-Stubbs, Henry Daniell, Angel M. Mingo-Castel, Jon Veramendi

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

The 2L21 peptide, which confers protection to dogs against challenge with virulent canine parvovirus (CPV), was expressed in tobacco chloroplasts as a C-terminal translational fusion with the cholera toxin B subunit (CTB) or the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Expression of recombinant proteins was dependent on plant age. A very high-yield production was achieved in mature plants at the time of full flowering (310 mg CTB-2L21 protein per plant). Both young and senescent plants accumulated lower amounts of recombinant proteins than mature plants. This shows the importance of the time of harvest when scaling up the process. The maximum level of …

Regulation Of Hax-1 Anti-Apoptotic Protein By Omi/Htra2 Protease During Cell Death, Lucia Cilenti, Mangala M. Soundarapandian, George A. Kyriazis, Valerie Stratico, Supriya Singh, Sanjeev Gupta, Joseph V. Bonventre, Emad S. Alnemri, Antonis S. Zervos

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Omi/HtrA2 is a nuclear-encoded mitochondrial serine protease that has a pro-apoptotic function in mammalian cells. Upon induction of apoptosis, Omi translocates to the cytoplasm and participates in caspase-dependent apoptosis by binding and degrading inhibitor of apoptosis proteins. Omi can also initiate caspase-independent apoptosis in a process that relies entirely on its ability to function as an active protease. To investigate the mechanism of Omi-induced apoptosis, we set out to isolate novel substrates that are cleaved by this protease. We identified HS1-associated protein X-1 (HAX-1), a mitochondrial anti-apoptotic protein, as a specific Omi interactor that is cleaved by Omi both in …

Induction Of A Novel Class Of Diacylglycerol Acyltransferases And Triacylglycerol Accumulation In Mycobacterium Tuberculosis As It Goes Into A Dormancy-Like State In Culture, Jaiyanth Daniel, Chirajyoti Deb, Vinod S. Dubey, Tatiana D. Sirakova, Bassam Abomoelak, Hector R. Morbidoni, Pappachan E. Kolattukudy

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Mycobacterium tuberculosis enters the host by inhalation of an infectious aerosol and replicates in the alveolar macrophages until the host's immune defense causes bacteriostasis, which leads the pathogen to go into nonreplicative drug-resistant dormancy. The dormant pathogen can survive for decades till the host's immune system is weakened and active tuberculosis develops. Even though fatty acids are thought to be the major energy source required for the persistence phase, the source of fatty acids used is not known. We postulate that the pathogen uses triacylglycerol (TG) as a storage form of fatty acids. Little is known about the biosynthesis of …

The Effect Of Peer Advisors On Esl Students' Perspectives Of University Academic Tasks, Monica Fishkin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A review of the related literature revealed that international students face specific academic challenges. The goal of this research was to investigate the effect of international student peer advising sessions on English as a Second Language (ESL) international students' perceptions of their language skills and strategies for dealing with academic tasks. The research design included a control and an experimental group with a pretest and a posttest administration of the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) and the Xu International Student Academic Language Needs Assessment (ISALNA-2) instruments. Qualitative data was also collected. The participants in the study were upper-intermediate level …

Female Sexual Offenders-An Underexamined Population, Creaig Anthony Dunton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sex crimes are considered to be among the most damaging and heinous forms of social deviance in existence. Besides the acts perpetrated by the offenders, the social stigma attached to being victimized is often just as injurious to the victim. Society sees males as the sole perpetrators of acts of sexual abuse, but this is not the case. The extant literature shows that women, while fewer in number, also perpetrate acts of sexual abuse and assault against other adults and children. This thesis is a preliminary typology that classifies female sexual offenders based upon the acts perpetrated, using cases presented …

Facade Democracy: Democratic Transition In Kazakhstan And Uzbekistan, Robin Nicole Merritt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the reasons behind the stagnation in the transition to democracy in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. According to their constitutions, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are democracies. In actuality, however, there is little evidence to support that these are democratic systems. These states' post-Soviet constitutions outline them as democracies - yet they lack a free press; freedom of association is suppressed; religious freedom is limited; and free speech is constrained as well. While these two countries hold popular elections, much of their electoral processes are under the control of the executive branch of government - calling into question whether or not …

An Investigation Of Master's Level Counseling Students' Clinical Efficacy: The Relationship Between Graduate Record Examination Scores And Demonstration Of Clinical Skills In Practicum, Shannon Lounge Ray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The admission of students into Counselor Education programs aims to select those applicants with the best potential to successfully complete the graduate program as well as acquire effective clinical skills. The primary method of measuring achievement potential for graduate students in Counselor Education programs represents Graduate Record Examination Scores (GRE); minimal scores on the examination are required for program admission. This study examined the relationship between student achievement of clinical skills and incoming GRE scores. The study participants were 47 master's level Counselor Education students who were enrolled in Practicum in Counselor Education (MHS 6800) in the spring, summer, and …

Beginning Teacher Satisfaction With Employment In Southwest Florida: R, Derrick Donnell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The United States Department of Education predicts that the nation will need more than one million new teachers by the year 2010 (U.S.DOE, 1996). At the same time, 43% of teachers leave the profession within their first five years of employment. Southwest Florida is experiencing a tremendous growth rate. This growth rate pattern has been predicted to continue through the year 2010. The school districts of Southwest Florida find themselves scrambling to build new schools in order to keep pace with the growth. These new schools must be staffed with qualified teachers. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 …

Explaining Churn: Mass Society, Social Capital, & Community Churn, Delores Edelen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Population churn--the population turnover experienced by a community--can have differential effects on a community. Mass society theory suggests that because the churn rate experienced by communities can contribute to their uprooting, fragmentation, and isolation, churn is a potent threat to the stability of our modern day communities. Social capital theory, to the contrary, suggests otherwise. Social capital theory suggests that churn can have positive effects on communities by bringing new migrants with valuable human capital skills and experiences to communities. These migrants bring to their new communities the potential for creating new jobs, spurring economic development, and for initiating housing …

An Analysis And Comparison Of School Culture With Academic Achievement, Joan Quiambao

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was developed to generate data about the overall culture of selected central Florida middle schools in Osceola County. It was designed to enhance the existing body of knowledge on collaboration, collegiality and self-efficacy, as related to the academic achievement of students with specific learning disabilities. This study focused on two research questions: (a) to determine how well the three key areas of school culture (collaboration, collegiality and teacher efficacy) predict the placement of middle school students with specific learning disabilities in general education or special education (resource and separate class)settings and (b) to determine what relationships (if any) …

A Comparative Static Analysis For Invasive Species Management Under Risk Neutral Preferences, Pamela Safford

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the optimal ex-ante mix of self-protection and self-insurance technologies employed to reduce the risk of biological invaders in the presence of exogenous variables within the probability and damage functions. This is accomplished by using a theoretical endogenous risk model that extends previously developed frameworks. This thesis contributes to the previous work in two ways. (1) Employing a general framework with simultaneous decision making over self-protection and self-insurance, this thesis analyzes how each parameter including income, the costs of each activity, an exogenous factor that affects only the probability of an invasion, and a separate exogenous factor that …

Tissue Kallikrein In Cardiac Remodeling And Renal Damage In Genetic And Salt-Induced Hypertension Rat Models, Grant Anderson Bledsoe

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Abnormalities of the tissue kallikrein-kinin system have been identified in the pathogenesis of hypertension and cardiac and renal diseases. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of exogenous tissue kallikrein gene delivery on heart and kidney injury in pressure overload and volume overload hypertension using spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Dahl salt-sensitive (DSS) rats. In order to examine the role of kallikrein in cardiac protection, adenovirus encoding the human tissue kallikrein gene was injected intravenously into SHR. Expression of recombinant human tissue kallikrein was identified in rat serum by ELISA and heart and kidney tissue by RT-PCR/Southern …

Where Is Health Law Going ? Follow The Money, Robert L. Schwartz

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Volume 14 Issue 2 (2004), Case Western Reserve Health Matrix: Journal Of Law-Medicine

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Tetanus Experience In A Public Hospital In Western Saudi Arabia, Eman H. Lubbad, Adil M. Khazindar, Muhammad Ayyub

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: Tetanus although rare, has not been eradicated and continues to present from time to time. Early diagnosis and management may be life saving. This study aims to evaluate all patients admitted with the clinical diagnosis of tetanus in King Abdul-Aziz Hospital Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the last 3 years. METHODS: All patients admitted with the clinical diagnosis of Tetanus in King Abdul-Aziz Hospital and Oncology Center from January 2000 through to December 2002 were retrospectively reviewed and data was analyzed to determine the demographic features, clinical details, management, and outcome of treatment. RESULTS: A total of 11 …

A High Prevalence Of Depression Among Diabetic Patients At A Teaching Hospital In Western Saudi Arabia, Aisha A. Al-Ghamdi

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of depression among diabetic patients followed at the outpatient department of King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted at King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah, KSA, between September 2002 and June 2003. Demographic features, marital status, smoking, presence of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and other chronic illnesses were registered for both diabetic and non-diabetic groups. For diabetic patients, detailed information (duration of diabetes mellitus (DM), its type and treatment, glycemic control, presence of microvascular and macrovascular complications) were recorded. Depression was assessed by interviewing patients using the Beck depression …

Epilepsy At A University Hospital In Amman, Jordan, Yacoub G. Bahou

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical, EEG, neuroimaging, treatment results and outcome in Jordanian patients observed in a tertiary care referral center and compare the findings with those from Western and Middle/Far Eastern literature. METHODS: The case notes of 200 patients with epilepsy examined in an adult neurology clinic at Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan, between January 2000 and December 2002 were reviewed. The findings of the EEG records and CT or MRI of the brain were registered. Seizures were classified according to the International League Against Epilepsy into generalized and partial seizures. The results of the treatment with antiepileptic drugs …

Bulletin Of Yale University School Of Nursing 2004-2005, Yale School Of Nursing

Yale School of Nursing Bulletins and Catalogues

Series 100, Number 14

September 5, 2004