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University Reporter - Volume 09, Number 04 - December 2004

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about the Computer Science Department’s Visual Attention Laboratory and efforts to treat Schizophrenia, memorial services for U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Kyran E. Kennedy, new publications by faculty members, the establishment of the Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences Department, the appointment of Susan Moir as director of the Labor Resource Center, and other news from UMass Boston.

The Bg News December 1, 2004, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 1, 2004. Volume 95-Issue 66.

Vessel-Based Pollution: Major Developments In 2004, Tasha J. Power

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Trade And The Environment In 2004: Developments In Genetically Altered Food, Air Pollution And Trade In Endangered Species, Daniel E. Rosenberg

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Developments In Land-Based Pollution In 2004, Laura M. Schaefer

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Population: A Review Of Developments In 2004, Lesley A. Speer

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Developments In Toxics In 2004: The Ratification Of The Stockholm Convention And The Rotterdam Convention, Julie B. Truelsen

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Surgical Palliation For Unresectable Pancreatic Carcinoma, Dildar Hussain, Muhammad Rizwan Khan, Rizwan Azami

Department of Surgery Docs

Objectives: To review the results of surgical palliation for unresectable pancreatic carcinoma, and to analyze the morbidity and mortality associated with the surgical procedure. The reasons for readmission after discharge from the hospital were also analyzed.Methods: A retrospective study from 1995 to 2001 was done on 30 patients with pancreatic cancer operated with palliative intent, or those explored with curative intent but histopathology revealed positive resection margins or lymph node metastasis.Results: Twenty-five (83.25%) patients were above 50 years of age. There were 16 (53.28%) male, and 14 (46.62%) females, 8 (26.64%) had diabetes mellitus, 2 (6.66%) chronic pancreatitis and 4 …

Annotation Manager: An Automated Web-Based Content Management System For Digital Libraries With Annotated Bibliographies, Frenny Thomas

Theses and Dissertations

With the expansion of the World Wide Web in the 90s, individuals (especially students) are always on a quest for information resources especially in the form of Web sites. Yet many of them are overwhelmed when faced with deciding which site will best suit their research needs. As a result, these individuals may select a resource for less than optimal reasons. To ease some of the burden, libraries have made great advances to provide a place to organize information resources. Such places are called library portals, and they typically provide a gateway to web resources by categorizing and annotating them …

Demographics And Perceptions Of Work Environment For Registered Nurses, Pamela Brotherton Sedano

Master's Projects

Registered nurses (RNs) are the lifeblood of hospitals. Therefore, retaining skilled nurses is necessary to insure the viability of these institutions. A two-year longitudinal, non-experimental research study utilized a descriptive design to compare the perceptions of RNs who remained on their units to those who left or changed units over a two-year time period. The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether there was a statistically significant difference between these two groups. Results in several areas indicate that further evaluation is necessary by nurse managers and administration. This information could help retain RNs as well as attract qualified nurses …

Biodiesel: To Switch Or Not To Switch? A Greener Fuel Option For The Sjsu Shuttle Bus System, Olga Meydbray

Master's Projects

For the past several years the SJSU shuttle bus system has been the subject of anger from the residents living in the neighborhoods through which the shuttle buses travel several times daily. Individuals living in the Spartan-Keyes neighborhood, near the Spartan stadium, have been working with staff at the City of San Jose to reduce the amount of large truck and bus traffic in their neighborhood for several years.

The staff at the San Jose State University Police Department (UPD), the organization in charge of the campus shuttle bus system, is in a position to make a real difference in …

A Survey Of California's Nurse Practitioners' Regarding Practice, Knowledge And Atitudes Of The National Asthma Management Guidelines, Colleen M. Hughes

Master's Projects

Background: Pediatric asthma morbidity and mortality continues to rise in the United States despite the institution of the National Institute of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's diagnostic and treatment guidelines. This study examines the practices, knowledge and attitudes of California's pediatric and family nurse practitioners regarding the national asthma guidelines. Method: A quantitative mail-in survey of pediatric, pulmonary, emergent, urgent care, and family nurse practitioners was utilized to gather the data regarding the care of pediatric asthma patients. The survey collected demographic data and the NP' s current asthma practices in a Likert scale format. Results: The nurse practitioners …

Less Cool, More Light: Review Of Cool Men And The Second Sex By Susan Fraiman., Meryl Altman

English Faculty publications

No abstract provided.

Robust And Distributed Computation Of Aggregates In Wireless Sensor Networks, Jen-Yeu Chen, Gopal Pandurangan, Dongyan Xu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

An Intramolecular Association Between Two Domains Of The Protein Kinase Fused Is Necessary For Hedgehog Signaling, Manuel Ascano Jr., David J. Robbins

Dartmouth Scholarship

The protein kinase Fused (Fu) is an integral member of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway. Although genetic studies demonstrate that Fu is required for the regulation of the Hh pathway, the mechanistic role that it plays remains largely unknown. Given our difficulty in developing an in vitro kinase assay for Fu, we reasoned that the catalytic activity of Fu might be highly regulated. Several mechanisms are known to regulate protein kinases, including self-association in either an intra- or an intermolecular fashion. Here, we provide evidence that Hh regulates Fu through intramolecular association between its kinase domain (ΔFu) and its carboxyl-terminal …

Developing A Database For Genbank Information., Nathan Mann

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The thesis project, Gene Database, was done to create a way for the bioinformatics research group at the University of Louisville to have access to GenBank EST information in the form of a database. This database allows for a programmable front end to be used to conduct further research with the use of EST information. The database backend used is Oracle and was populated through a custom Java program. The loader was created in lieu of using Oracle's SQL*Loader because of the limitations in SQL*Loader. Previous ways of accessing the GenBank information included downloading the compressed files and using them …

Webworthy, Pamela M. Rose

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Team Of News Sleuths, Pamela M. Rose M.L.S.

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Alligators As West Nile Virus Amplifiers, Kaci Klenk, Jamie Snow, Katrina Morgan, Richard Bowen, Michael Stephens, Falacia Foster, Paul Gordy, Susan Beckett, Nicholas Komar, Duane Gubler, Michael Bunning

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Recent evidence suggests that American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) may be capable of transmitting West Nile virus (WNV) to other alligators. We experimentally exposed 24 juvenile alligators to WNV parenterally or orally. All became infected, and all but three sustained viremia titers >5.0 log₁₀ PFU/mL (a threshold considered infectious for Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes) for 1 to 8 days. Noninoculated tankmates also became infected. The viremia profiles and multiple routes of infection suggest alligators may play an important role in WNV transmission in areas with high population densities of juvenile alligators.

A Closer Look At Development Of Self-Awareness And Compensatory Strategy Use In Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury, Melissa A. Byrne

Masters Theses

My study investigates the development of self-awareness and use of compensatory strategies in eight adults with traumatic brain injuries using the Awareness Questionnaire (AQ) and three additional questions of descriptive nature. This study also examines whether or not the severity of brain injury (mild, moderate, severe) impacts the development of self-awareness. In addition, the spouses' perceptions of client awareness are compared to the relatives' to determine existence of potential variance.

Results indicate that while there is no significant difference in self-awareness_ between the mild and moderate groups, the severe group significantly varies from both the mild and moderate groups. Also, …

The Effect Of Scaffolding On Children's Oral Language Development, Ana Villaurrutia

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This was a quasi experimental nonequivalent control group design used with 71 subjects in two Head Start center settings. LAP-D assessment results were also taken in account for the purpose of comparison regarding the dependent variable. The subjects were children 4 and 5 years old who were attending classes in two different Head Start centers. These subjects were students from 2 classrooms from Center One and 2 classrooms from Center Two. In Center One, teachers were trained in the use of scaffolding techniques, whereas in Center Two teachers had no training on scaffolding techniques. An analysis of variance procedure was …

The Effect Of A Family Literacy Parental Involvement Intervention On Oral Language Development, Azucena C. Escobar

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The subjects that participated in this study were 36 Hispanic children who attended Head Start Programs. The participants were 4 and 5 year olds from four classrooms. An intervention, training of parents regarding literacy activities was implemented in the study to determine the outcome of parental involvement on oral language development. This researcher implemented parental training prior to the treatment. Parents were to provide their children with oral language intervention for fifteen to twenty minutes, three times a week. These activities took place at the children's home from March through June of 2004. Children's oral language development was determined using …

Use Of Pedometers To Promote Improvement In Selected Physiological Measurements In An Older Female Mexican American Population, Zasha Romero

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The problem of this study was to determine if pedometers promoted daily walking exercise reflected by changes on selected physiological measurements in older Mexican American females. Significance in the study was determined at the 95% level of confidence. The researcher offered the null hypothesis of no difference in results from the pretest to the posttest in both the control and treatment groups for the selected physiological measurements. The subjects of this study were 55 Mexican-American females ages 60 to 75. The subjects were randomly assigned to a treatment or control group. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) method was used to …

Taking One For The Team: The Role Of Assumption Of The Risk In Sports Torts Cases, Keya Denner

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Drug Abuse In Major League Baseball: A Look At Drug Testing In The Past, In The Present, And Steps For The Future, Scott Danaher

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

The Power Of The Passion: A Look At Why Artists Need To Be Protected When Audiences Take Their Message Too Far, Joel Michael Ugolini

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Conspiracy Theory: The Use Of The Conspiracy Doctrine In Times Of National Crisis, Marie E. Siesseger

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

American Insurance Association V. Garamendi And Executive Preemption In Foreign Affairs, Brannon P. Denning, Michael D. Ramsey

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Correct Use Of Metered Dose Inhalers (Mdis), Joseph A. Woelfel

School of Pharmacy Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Community-Acquired Pneumonia Risk With Acid-Suppressive Drugs, Joseph A. Woelfel

School of Pharmacy Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.