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The Courier, Volume 37, Issue 18, March 12, 2004, The Courier, College Of Dupage

The Courier

Stories:

Election Results Are In

Student-Parent Gets Make Over

College Holds Open House For Architects

Master Plan To Move Softball Field

For Better Or For Worse (Gay Marriage)

Students Send Clear Message (Iraq War)

STIs Currently On The Rise

Swim Team Successful At National Competition–Women Take National, Men Finish 9th Overall At Meet

Klaas Coaches 1,000th Game

People:

Connie Canaday Howard

David John Simcik

Don Klaas

Carbon Fiber For Air Filtration, Marit Jagtoyen, Francis J. Derbyshire, Rosemary Anne Alexander Derbyshire

Center for Applied Energy Research Faculty Patents

Described are filters containing free-activated carbon fibers or activated carbon fibers in the form of a composite used for filtering a variety of contaminants, including pathogens, from air. These filters can provide effective and efficient removal of contaminants from air, requiring only short contact time between the air being filtered and the filter itself, with only a minimum pressure drop across the filter. The characteristics of these filters allow for effective filtration with only thin filter layers being required. The process of filtering air utilizing these filters is also disclosed.

March 8, 2004 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, March 5, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 122, Issue 25

Washington University Record, March 5, 2004

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

Fur Trade Daughters Of The Oregon Country: Students Of The Sisters Of Notre Dame De Namur, 1850, Shawna Lea Gandy

Dissertations and Theses

Ethnicity, religion, class, and gender are important elements in determining the cultural texture of society. This study examines these components at an important junction in the history of the Pacific Northwest through the lives of students enrolled in two girls' schools established by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDN) in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s. These girls, predominantly métis daughters of fur-trade settlers and their Indian wives, along with their Irish and Anglo-American classmates, represent the socioeconomic and cultural transformation of the region as the mixing that gave rise to the unique intermediary culture referred to as …

Future Health Care Providers Learn To Avoid Infectious Diseases "Like The Plague", Erin Wetherille

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Are Who/Unaids/Unicef-Recommended Replacement Milks For Infants Of Hiv-Infected Mothers Appropriate In The South African Context?, Peggy Papathakis, Nigel Rollins

Food Science and Nutrition

ObjectiveLittle is known about the nutritional adequacy and feasibility of breastmilk replacement options recommended by WHO/ UNAIDS/UNICEF. The study aim was to explore suitability of the 2001 feeding recommendations for infants of HIV-infected mothers for a rural region in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa specifically with respect to adequacy of micronutrients and essential fatty acids, cost, and preparation times of replacement milks.

Methods Nutritional adequacy, cost, and preparation time of home-prepared replacement milks containing powdered full cream milk (PM) and fresh full cream milk (FM) and different micronutrient supplements (2 g UNICEF micronutrient sachet, government supplement routinely available in district …

Hepp Report: Infectious Diseases In Corrections, Vol. 7 No. 3, Hiv & Hepatitis Education Prison Project

Infectious Diseases in Corrections Report (IDCR)

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: March, 2004, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Vital Signs, Spring 2004, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A twenty-eight page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, alumni profiles, class notes, and more.

Depressed Type 1 Cytokine Synthesis By Superantigen-Activated Cd4+ T Cells Of Women With Human Papillomavirus-Related High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions, Bang-Ning Lee, Michele Follen, De-Yu Shen, Anais Malpica, Karen Adler-Storthz, William T. Shearer, James M. Reuben

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Carcinoma of the cervix is causally related to infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV), and T cells play a pivotal role in the immune response of the host to rid itself of HPV infection. Therefore, we assessed the T-cell function of women with HPV-related cervical neoplasia against a superantigen, Staphylococcus enterotoxin B (SEB). Each woman provided a cervical brush specimen for HPV DNA testing and Papanicolaou (Pap) smears for the staging of cervical lesions. They also provided a blood specimen for determination of the ability of CD4(+) T and CD8(+) T cells to synthesize Th1 (interleukin-2 [IL-2], gamma interferon [IFN-gamma], …

Tuberculosis, John B. Kaneene, Charles O. Thoen

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

Tuberculosis is a term that encompasses various diseases caused by bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, including M tuberculosis, M bovis, M africanum, and other mycobacterial species. Whereas M tuberculosis infection is largely spread from human to human, M bovis infection has been identified as a zoonotic disease with most cases of human infection attributable to animal sources. The mycobacteria other than tuberculosis complex (MOTT), which includes M avium subsp avium and M avium subsp intracellulare isolated from animals, has been isolated from immune-compromised humans (ie, those with human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection), but seldom from immunocompetent humans. Recently, …

Invasive Threats To The American Homeland, Robert J. Pratt

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Induced Litigation, Tracey E. George, Chris Guthrie

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

If "justice delayed" is "justice denied,"justice is often denied in American courts. Delay in the courts is a "ceaseless and unremitting problem of modem civil justice" that "has an irreparable effect on both plaintiffs and defendants." To combat this seemingly intractable problem, judges and court administrators routinely clamor for additional judicial resources to enable them to manage their dockets more "effectively and efficiently." By building new courthouses and adding new judgeships, a court should be able to manage its caseload more efficiently. Trial judges should be able to hold motion hearings, host settlement conferences, and conduct trials in a timely …

Impacts Of Sara And Agr In Staphylococcus Aureus Strain Newman On Fibronectin-Binding Protein A Gene Expression And Fibronectin Adherence Capacity In Vitro And In Experimental Infective Endocarditis, Yan-Qiong Xiong, Arnold S. Bayer, Michael R. Yeaman, Willem Van Wamel, Adhar C. Manna, Ambrose L. Cheung

Dartmouth Scholarship

We investigated the impacts of sarA and agr on fnbA expression and fibronectin-binding capacity in Staphylococcus aureus in vitro and in experimental endocarditis. Although sarA up-regulated and agr down-regulated both fnbA expression and fibronectin binding in vitro and in vivo, fnbA expression was positively regulated in the absence of both global regulators. Thus, additional regulatory loci contribute to fnbA regulation and fibronectin-binding capacities in S. aureus.

The Biological Burden Of Antibiotic Resistance In Staphylococcus Aureus, Natasha Samantha Dean

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Antibiotic resistance is a major problem. Resistance is often mediated by genes on bacterial plasmids and dissemination of resistance is commonly achieved by plasmid transfer. The mechanisms of resistance that are presently understood suggest that resistance is energetically costly. If this is generally true, resistance would reduce the fitness of cells in the absence of antibiotics. We examined the hypothesis that resistance reduces the fitness of microorganism and requires continuous selection to be maintained. To test this hypothesis, we measured the effects of plasmid-borne resistance genes on cell growth by comparing the growth rates of Staphylococcus aureus with and without …

Indinavir And Rifabutin Drug Interactions In Healthy Volunteers., Walter K. Kraft, Jacqueline B. Mccrea, Gregory A. Winchell, Alexandra Carides, Richard C. Lowry, Eric J. Woolf, Sandra E. Kusma, Paul J. Deutsch, Howard E Greenberg, Scott A. Waldman

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Two studies examined the pharmacokinetics of indinavir and rifabutin when coadministered in healthy subjects. Rifabutin, which induces the expression of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A, and indinavir, which inhibits that enzyme system, are frequently coadministered in patients infected with HIV. The second study was undertaken to determine if altering the dose of rifabutin coadministered with indinavir would minimize the drug interaction observed in the first study. Two studies, each with a three-period crossover design, were performed. In study 1, standard doses of rifabutin and indinavir (300 mg of rifabutin qd and 800 mg indinavir q8h) were administered as monotherapy (with placebo …

Washington University Record, February 27, 2004

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Needle Exchange Programs, Cheryl Delgado

Nursing Faculty Publications

Needle exchange programs exist in every major population area in the United States and in many other countries. Some operate legally under emergency health decrees issued by local departments of health, with the stated intention of risk reduction through the removal of used injection equipment from use by injection drug users. It is theorized that this results in a reduced transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis, and, possibly, other blood-borne diseases. Needle exchange programs also offer access to drug treatment programs for the participants. It is a difficult but necessary task to evaluate these programs. This article examines examples of …

Arbiter, February 26, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Statesman, V. 47, I. 37, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 47, i. 37

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 45, February 23, 2004

Central Florida Future

SGA Senate approves $50,000 for another student party; SGA campaign in home stretch; DUI entangles teacher former student; NAACP plans to march; V-Week launches string of events to stop violence against women.

February 23, 2004 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Leptospirosis In The Azores: The Rodent Connection, Gary W. Witmer, Hernani Martins, Lidia Flor

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

The Azores are Portuguese islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. The culture is very agrarian with a large cattle industry. Unfortunately, there is a chronic leptospirosis problem within the people, livestock, companion animals, and wildlife of the Azores. Introduced rodents play a significant role as maintenance hosts of this disease. We review the situation and make recommendations for reducing the occurrence and hazard of leptospirosis in the Azores. Areas addressed include the need for a better understanding of the epidemiology of the disease and the role of rodents, development of an effective rodent control program, improvements in farm practices and …

Point Process Methodology For On-Line Spatio-Temporal Disease Surveillance, Peter J. Diggle, Barry Rowlingson, Ting-Li Su

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

The AEGISS (Ascertainment and Enhancement of Gastrointestinal Infection Surveillance and Statistics) project aims to use spatio-temporal statistical methods to identify anomalies in the space-time distribution of non-specific, gastrointestinal infections in the UK, using the Southampton area in southern England as a test-case. In this paper, we use the AEGISS project to illustrate how spatio-temporal point process methodology can be used in the development of a rapid-response, spatial surveillance system.

Current surveillance of gastroenteric disease in the UK relies on general practitioners reporting cases of suspected food-poisoning through a statutory notification scheme, voluntary laboratory reports of the isolation of gastrointestinal pathogens …

February 16, 2004 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

February 14, 2004 (Pages 819-938), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 34 (2004)

No abstract provided.

Uab Microbiologist Named To National Infectious Diseases Advisory Council, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Current, February 09, 2004, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2000s)

No abstract provided.