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Effects Of Silvicultural Practices On Soil Carbon And Nitrogen In A Nitrogen Saturated Central Appalachian (Usa) Hardwood Forest Ecosystem, Frank S. Gilliam, David A. Dick, Michelle L. Kerr, Mary Beth Adams Jan 2004

Effects Of Silvicultural Practices On Soil Carbon And Nitrogen In A Nitrogen Saturated Central Appalachian (Usa) Hardwood Forest Ecosystem, Frank S. Gilliam, David A. Dick, Michelle L. Kerr, Mary Beth Adams

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

Silvicultural treatments represent disturbances to forest ecosystems often resulting in transient increases in net nitrification and leaching of nitrate and base cations from the soil. Response of soil carbon (C) is more complex, decreasing from enhanced soil respiration and increasing from enhanced postharvest inputs of detritus. Because nitrogen (N) saturation can have similar effects on cation mobility, timber harvesting in N-saturated forests may contribute to a decline in both soil C and base cation fertility, decreasing tree growth. Although studies have addressed effects of either forest harvesting or N saturation separately, few data exist on their combined effects. Our study …

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Generalizing Disability, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2004

Generalizing Disability, Michael Ashley Stein

Faculty Publications

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Wintering Canada Geese Along The Platte Rivers Of Nebraska, 1960-2000, Mark Vrtiska, Nick Lyman Jan 2004

Wintering Canada Geese Along The Platte Rivers Of Nebraska, 1960-2000, Mark Vrtiska, Nick Lyman

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Platte rivers and associated habitats are major wintering areas for Canada geese (Branta Canadensis) in Nebraska. The objective of this study was to examine changes in abundance and distribution of Canada geese along the Platte River system during 1960-2000. We used counts of Canada geese based on aerial surveys from the annual Mid-Winter Survey (MWS). The entire lengths of the North and South Platte rivers and the Platte River were surveyed, and counts of Canada geese were made by visual estimation. We examined changes in goose numbers for the North and South Platte rivers, and divided the …

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Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, Vol. 2, No. 1-January 2004 Jan 2004

Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, Vol. 2, No. 1-January 2004

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

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Women As School Principals: What Is The Challenge?, Valerie R. Helterbran, Sue A. Rieg Jan 2004

Women As School Principals: What Is The Challenge?, Valerie R. Helterbran, Sue A. Rieg

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

From 1988 to 1998 the percentage of female school principals increased from 20% to 48% and continues to grow. The number of women entering school administration has grown as has the number of principal turnovers. Women who seek positions in educational leadership face many issues. Ten barriers that continue to surface in the research are: little encouragement to assume leadership roles; lack of female role models; perceived need to be "better qualified"; women cannot discipline older, male students; resentment of males working for females; some educators prefer male principals; reluctance to relocate; long hours; women lack the desire for power; …

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Embryogenesis In The Dwarf Seahorse, Hippocampus Zosterae (Syngnathidae), James T. Wetzel, John P. Wourms Jan 2004

Embryogenesis In The Dwarf Seahorse, Hippocampus Zosterae (Syngnathidae), James T. Wetzel, John P. Wourms

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Embryogenesis of the dwarf seahorse, Hippocampus zosterae, was studied by scanning electron microscopy of a series of developmental stages. Stages ranged from initial cleavage of the egg through term embryos. Embryos hatch from their egg envelopes about midway through development, yet remain nestled in stromal chambers of vascularized epithelium within the male brood pouch until their yolk reserves are consumed. The difference in body shape between the pipefish and seahorse first becomes discernible during mid-development, just before hatching. At this stage, embryos begin to develop their characteristic prehensile tail in contrast to the straight body and typical caudal fin …

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Northern Range Extensions For Caprella Scaura Templeton, 1836 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) On The Florida Gulf Coast And In South Carolina, John M. Foster, Richard W. Heard, David M. Knott Jan 2004

Northern Range Extensions For Caprella Scaura Templeton, 1836 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) On The Florida Gulf Coast And In South Carolina, John M. Foster, Richard W. Heard, David M. Knott

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Previous northwestern Atlantic records for the caprellid amphipod Caprella scaura Templeton, 1836 were confined to St. Croix (US Virgin Islands), St. Barthélemy, and Puerto Rico, islands bordering the northern Caribbean Sea. Based on recent collections, C. scaura is now reported from the Gulf of Mexico (St. Andrew Bay, Florida) and the US east coast (Charleston Harbor, South Carolina). These constitute the first records for this apparently non-indigenous species in waters of the continental eastern United States, establishing considerable northern range extensions for C. scaura in the northwest Atlantic.

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Gonadal Development And Sexual Dimorphism Of Gobiomorus Dormitor From The Estuarine System Of Tecolutla, Veracruz, Mexico, Raquel Hernandez-Saavedra, Jose Antonio Martinez-Perez, Nancy J. Brown-Peterson, Mark S. Peterson Jan 2004

Gonadal Development And Sexual Dimorphism Of Gobiomorus Dormitor From The Estuarine System Of Tecolutla, Veracruz, Mexico, Raquel Hernandez-Saavedra, Jose Antonio Martinez-Perez, Nancy J. Brown-Peterson, Mark S. Peterson

Gulf and Caribbean Research

The bigmouth sleeper, Gobiomorus dormitor, is a benthic, euryhaline species, and is very abundant in river mouths, coastal lagoons, and sites away from marine influence from south Florida to Dutch Guyana. There are few studies of its life history, ecology, and abundance, particularly within Mexican waters. Nine trips to Tecolutla estuary, Veracruz, Mexico, were taken between October 1995 and May 1998 to estimate the gonadal development and sexual dimorphism of G. dormitor. A total of 94 individuals ranging from 15–260 mm SL and 0.05–181 g were captured. Seventy-two specimens were adults (60 females, 12 males) and 22 were …

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Spatial Patterns Of Estuarine Habitat Type Use And Temporal Patterns In Abundance Of Juvenile Permit, Trachinotus Falcatus, In Charlotte Harbor, Florida, Aaron J. Adams, David A. Blewett Jan 2004

Spatial Patterns Of Estuarine Habitat Type Use And Temporal Patterns In Abundance Of Juvenile Permit, Trachinotus Falcatus, In Charlotte Harbor, Florida, Aaron J. Adams, David A. Blewett

Gulf and Caribbean Research

The life history of many marine fishes is a 2-phase cycle: juveniles and adults make up a demersal phase, whereas larvae are planktonic. Determining ontogenetic patterns of habitat type use of the demersal phase has important management and habitat conservation implications for species that use coastal habitat types as juveniles. Juvenile permit, Trachinotus falcatus, are presumed to be limited to beaches exposed to open ocean, but few studies have addressed juvenile permit use of estuarine habitat types. Ten years of fisheries-independent monitoring data from a subtropical estuary were analyzed to determine habitat type use patterns and seasonality of juvenile …

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The Regulation Of Technology, And The Technology Of Regulation, Jonathan B. Wiener Jan 2004

The Regulation Of Technology, And The Technology Of Regulation, Jonathan B. Wiener

Faculty Scholarship

Regulation may inhibit or stimulate technological change. The relationship depends on the technology of regulation - the design and instrument choice of regulatory policy. This essay examines the history of economic and social regulations over the last three decades, the explanatory power of theories of regulatory politics, the choice of regulatory instruments, the assessment of regulatory impacts, and the influence of each of these on the innovation and diffusion of technology (and of regulation). It concludes with recommendations for the future of regulation and technology.

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Convocation Video (2004), California State University, San Bernardino Jan 2004

Convocation Video (2004), California State University, San Bernardino

CSUSB Sound and video recordings

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The Evolving Role Of Lipid Rafts And Caveolae In G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling: Implications For Molecular Pharmacology, Rennolds S. Ostrom, Paul A. Insel Jan 2004

The Evolving Role Of Lipid Rafts And Caveolae In G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling: Implications For Molecular Pharmacology, Rennolds S. Ostrom, Paul A. Insel

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

The many components of G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signal transduction provide cells with numerous combinations with which to customize their responses to hormones, neurotransmitters, and pharmacologic agonists. GPCRs function as guanine nucleotide exchange factors for heterotrimeric (α, β, γ) G proteins, thereby promoting exchange of GTP for GDP and, in turn, the activation of ‘downstream’ signaling components. Recent data indicate that individual cells express mRNA for perhaps over 100 different GPCRs (out of a total of nearly a thousand GPCR genes), several different combinations of G-protein subunits, multiple regulators of G-protein signaling proteins (which function as GTPase activating proteins), and various …

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Experimental Simulations And Tort Reform: Avoidance, Error And Overreaching In Sunstein Et Al.’S ‘Punitive Damages’, Neil Vidmar Jan 2004

Experimental Simulations And Tort Reform: Avoidance, Error And Overreaching In Sunstein Et Al.’S ‘Punitive Damages’, Neil Vidmar

Faculty Scholarship

This article addresses tort reform claims made in Cass R. Sunstein, et al.'s Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide (2002)and related articles, research that was largely underwritten by the Exxon Corporation. Based upon a series of simulation experiments, those authors have made a general claim that juries are incapable of making coherent judgments about punitive damages. In this article I raise serious methodological problems bearing on the validity of the research, and, therefore, its ability to provide judges and legislators with useful information about juries and punitive damages.

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Regime Shifting: The Trips Agreement And New Dynamics Of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking, Laurence R. Helfer Jan 2004

Regime Shifting: The Trips Agreement And New Dynamics Of International Intellectual Property Lawmaking, Laurence R. Helfer

Faculty Scholarship

This Article draws upon the international relations theory of regimes to analyze the growing chorus of challenges to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), and to the expansion of intellectual property rights more generally. The few years since TRIPs entered into force have seen nothing less than an explosion of interest in intellectual property issues in international fora not previously concerned with the products of human creativity or innovation. Intellectual property is now at or near the top of the agenda in intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization, …

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Ultrastructure And Function Of Respiratory Cilia In Critical Illness, Joanne Hosking Jan 2004

Ultrastructure And Function Of Respiratory Cilia In Critical Illness, Joanne Hosking

School of Biomedical Sciences Theses

Approximately one in eleven hospital patients suffer a nosocomial infection. Intensive care patients are at particular risk and nosocomial pneumonia especially is a problem in the intensive care unit (ICU). The mucociliary transport system is the major defence mechanism against such infection and whilst its efficiency has been shown to be decreased in ICU patients there are few reports in the literature describing the ultrastructure of the respiratory epithelium in this patient group. The principal aims of this study included an investigation of the ultrastructure of the respiratory ciliated epithelium in ICU patients, together with an assessment of the impact …

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Analysis Of The Atmospheric Distribution, Sources, And Sinks Of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Chemicals Based On Measurements Over The Pacific During Trace‐P, H. B. Singh, L. J. Salas, R. B. Chatfield, E. Czech, A. Fried, J. Walega, M. J. Evans, B. S. Field, D. J. Jacob, D. Blake, Brian G. Heikes, R. Talbot, G. Sachse, J. H. Crawford, M. A. Avery, S. Sandholm, H. Fuelberg Jan 2004

Analysis Of The Atmospheric Distribution, Sources, And Sinks Of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Chemicals Based On Measurements Over The Pacific During Trace‐P, H. B. Singh, L. J. Salas, R. B. Chatfield, E. Czech, A. Fried, J. Walega, M. J. Evans, B. S. Field, D. J. Jacob, D. Blake, Brian G. Heikes, R. Talbot, G. Sachse, J. H. Crawford, M. A. Avery, S. Sandholm, H. Fuelberg

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Airborne measurements of a large number of oxygenated volatile organic chemicals (OVOC) were carried out in the Pacific troposphere (0.1–12 km) in winter/spring of 2001 (24 February to 10 April). Specifically, these measurements included acetone (CH3COCH3), methylethyl ketone (CH3COC2H5, MEK), methanol (CH3OH), ethanol (C2H5OH), acetaldehyde (CH3CHO), propionaldehyde (C2H5CHO), peroxyacylnitrates (PANs) (CnH2n+1COO2NO2), and organic nitrates (CnH2n+1ONO2). Complementary measurements of formaldehyde (HCHO), …

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Graduate Student Mentors: Meeting The Challenges Of The Ongoing Development Of Graduate Student Instructors, Chris O'Neal, Jennifer Karlin Jan 2004

Graduate Student Mentors: Meeting The Challenges Of The Ongoing Development Of Graduate Student Instructors, Chris O'Neal, Jennifer Karlin

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Training and mentoring Graduate Student Instructors (GS Instructors) at large institutions presents three challenges to instructional developers: 1) training numerous GS Instructors from multiple departments, 2) the vast array of duties GS Instructors need training in, and 3) the continual sophistication of GS Instructors. Here we describe how the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan has met these challenges through the use of Graduate Student Mentors (GS Mentors). GS Mentors are experienced GS Instructors who are trained to mentor and advise their peers. We discuss how the GS Mentors are selected, trained, and supervised, and how they have …

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Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 14, Number 2, Winter 2004, Bridgewater State College Jan 2004

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 14, Number 2, Winter 2004, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater Magazine

Feature story “A Focus on the Faculty” discusses the college’s support of faculty research and work in the classroom; also Alumni Profiles, College News, and Class Notes.

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Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 2004, Bridgewater State College Jan 2004

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 2004, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater Magazine

Feature story covers wireless computing on campus and the new notebook computer requirement for students; also Alumni Profiles, College News, and Class Notes.

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Optical Coherence Microscopy For The Evaluation Of A Tissue-Engineered Artificial Cornea, Elizabeth J.; Haskell, Richard C.; Petersen, Daniel C. Orwin, S Lee, C Raub, T Icenogle, M Arman, A Cho, R Lovec, A Malone, Bm Hoeling Jan 2004

Optical Coherence Microscopy For The Evaluation Of A Tissue-Engineered Artificial Cornea, Elizabeth J.; Haskell, Richard C.; Petersen, Daniel C. Orwin, S Lee, C Raub, T Icenogle, M Arman, A Cho, R Lovec, A Malone, Bm Hoeling

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

A transparent artificial cornea derived from biological material is the ultimate goal of corneal research. Attempts at artificial corneal constructs produced from synthetic polymers have proved unsuccessful due to lack of biocompatibility and ability to integrate into the tissue. We have designed a corneal model derived from collagenous biological materials that has several advantages: it has low antigenicity and therefore small chance of eliciting an immune reaction, it can be broken down by the body’s own cells and gradually replaced over time by natural materials, and it may contain signaling information for native cells, thereby inducing normal phenotype and behavior. …

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The History Of Seafood In Irish Cuisine And Culture, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire Jan 2004

The History Of Seafood In Irish Cuisine And Culture, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Articles

Fish is one of the most abundant wild foods available to a small island nation. Certain species of seafood have moved from being ‘poor man’s food’ to ‘luxury food’ over time. It may be said that the Irish do not behave as island people since we have little or no history of exploiting the sea compared to our European partners. Ireland was late developing its fishing industry and now suffers reduced EU fish quotas, the unfortunate but necessary result of decades of over-fishing on European waters. This paper investigates the historical role seafood has played in Irish cuisine and culture …

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Marine Sea Turtles And Shrimp Trawling: Interplay Between The U.S. Courts And The Wto Panels And Its Effect On The World Shrimp Industry, Takako Morita Jan 2004

Marine Sea Turtles And Shrimp Trawling: Interplay Between The U.S. Courts And The Wto Panels And Its Effect On The World Shrimp Industry, Takako Morita

UC Law Environmental Journal

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Towards Defining, Delimiting And Classifying Epikarst: Its Origin, Processes And Variants Of Geomorphic Evolution, A. B. Kilmchouk Jan 2004

Towards Defining, Delimiting And Classifying Epikarst: Its Origin, Processes And Variants Of Geomorphic Evolution, A. B. Kilmchouk

KIP Articles

Epikarst is the uppermost weathered zone of carbonate rocks with substantially enhanced and more homogeneously distributed porosity and permeability, as compared to the bulk rock mass below; a regulative subsystem that functions to store, split into several components and temporally distribute authogenic infiltration recharge to the vadose zone. Permeability organization in the epikarst dynamically develops to facilitate convergence of infiltrating water towards deeply penetrating collector structures such as prominent fissures that drain the epikarstic zone. This is manifested by epikarstic morphogenesis that tends to transform dispersed appearance of surface karst landforms into focused appearance adapted to the permeability structure at …

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Mcconnell V. Federal Election Commission: A Deadly Dose Of Double Deference, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2004

Mcconnell V. Federal Election Commission: A Deadly Dose Of Double Deference, Richard A. Epstein

Articles

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The Development Of Human Rights In The United Kingdom, Lord Gordon Slynn Jan 2004

The Development Of Human Rights In The United Kingdom, Lord Gordon Slynn

Fordham International Law Journal

There are two myths about the United Kingdom. The first is that we do not have a constitution and did not have any human rights law until very recently. The second myth, very much tied to the first, is that human rights is a new topic. I find that most law students seem to think that they alone have thought about fundamental human rights and that the rest of the world knows nothing about it. As with most myths, however, none of these is absolutely true.

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Abstracts Of Presentations, Colby College Jan 2004

Abstracts Of Presentations, Colby College

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

No abstract provided.

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Reflections On Undergraduate Research Mentoring, Robert L. Houtz Jan 2004

Reflections On Undergraduate Research Mentoring, Robert L. Houtz

Kaleidoscope

No abstract provided.

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The Sub-Commission's Initiative On Human Rights And Intellectual Property, David Weissbrodt, Kell Schoff Jan 2004

The Sub-Commission's Initiative On Human Rights And Intellectual Property, David Weissbrodt, Kell Schoff

Articles

In 2000 the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights adopted a resolution raising concerns about the consistency of international intellectual property protections and human rights norms. This article summarises human rights norms relevant to intellectual property and the pertinent aspects of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which overlap or potentially conflict. The article provides several examples of potential conflict and how they might be resolved. The article demonstrates that the Sub-Commission resolution helped to initiate a major international discussion and some action on the relationship between human rights and intellectual property.

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From Farm To Fork: The Impact On Global Commerce Of The New European Union Biotechnology Regulatory Scheme, Mark Mansour, Sarah Key Jan 2004

From Farm To Fork: The Impact On Global Commerce Of The New European Union Biotechnology Regulatory Scheme, Mark Mansour, Sarah Key

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

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International Environmental Law, Richard J. Ferris Jr., Meg Caldwell, Kevin T. Haroff, Nicole L. Leonard Jan 2004

International Environmental Law, Richard J. Ferris Jr., Meg Caldwell, Kevin T. Haroff, Nicole L. Leonard

The International Lawyer

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