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The Effect Of Naocl, Ca(Oh)2, Mta And Mtad On Root Dentin Fracture Resistance, Sunil Ilapogu

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Various materials are used for the treatment of immature teeth that have been subjected to trauma or decay. It is not well established what effect these materials may have on the immature root dentin. A concern would be the resistance to fracture of the remaining root dentin. The purpose of this study was to compare the resistance of fracture of bovine teeth treated with sodium hypochlorite, calcium hydroxide, gray MTA and gray MTA in conjunction with MTAD after certain periods of time. One hundred and ninety five freshly extracted, intact bovine incisors were prepared using a modified Haapasalo and Orstavik …

Montanan, Winter 2004, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 22, number 1.

Operational Report 2004, University Of Montana--Missoula

University of Montana Annual Financial Reports, 1918-2012

University of Montana annual financial report for fiscal year ending June 30, 2004.

Museletter: November/December 2004, Caroline L. Osborne

Museletter

This Issue:

Exam 1, 2, 3s by Caroline L. Osborne

Extended Hours and Restricted Access During Exams

Two Titles -- Two Good Reads by Timothy L. Coggins

New Horizons Winter 2004, North Carolina Central School Of Law

New Horizons Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Tasini And Its Progeny: The New Exclusive Right Or Fair Use On The Electronic Publishing Frontier?, Lateef Mtima

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Doing Their Jobs: An Argument For Greater Media Access To Settlement Agreements, Suzanna M. Meyers

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Operation Blackbeard: Is Government Prioritization Enough To Deter Intellectual Property Criminals?, Lauren E. Abolsky

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Jewish-Adventist Connection

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

Association Of Dc-Sign Promoter Polymorphism With Increased Risk For Parenteral, But Not Mucosal, Acquisition Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection, Maureen P. Martin, Michael M. Lederman, Holli B. Hutcheson, James J. Goedert, George W. Nelson, Yvette Van Kooyk, Roger Detels, Susan Buchbinder, Keith Hoots, David Vlahov, Stephen J. O'Brien, Mary Carrington

Biology Faculty Articles

There is considerable debate about the fundamental mechanisms that underlie and restrict acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. In light of recent studies demonstrating the ability of C type lectins to facilitate infection with HIV-1, we explored the potential relationship between polymorphisms in the DC-SIGN promoter and risk for acquisition of HIV-1 according to route of infection. Using samples obtained from 1,611 European-American participants at risk for parenteral (n = 713) or mucosal (n = 898) infection, we identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the DC-SIGN promoter using single-strand conformation polymorphism. Individuals at risk for parenterally acquired …

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

Themed issue: Tribal Diasporas and Ethnic Identities in the Southeast

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Journal- Based Reflection In Undergraduate Service Learning And The University Therapeutic Riding Center, A. A. Pyle, H. A. Brady, D. E. Lawver, C. L. Akers, N. T. Cepica

Evaluation/Reflection

Principles of Therapeutic Riding, Animal Science 3309, is a service- based learning course that gives undergraduates the opportunity to participate in hippotherapy sessions. This course first offered in 1998, has been held for 12 semesters. A total of 233 students from over 15 majors have been trained in this discipline. Advanced Therapeutic Riding, Animal Science 4001, is a continuation of the Principles class that allows students to participate in the sessions and serve in leadership roles. This class has been active for 8 semesters and has included 51 students.

Self‐Consistent Diffusive Lifetimes Of Weibel Magnetic Fields In Gamma‐Ray Bursts, C. H. Jaroschek, H. Lesch, R. A. Treumann

Dartmouth Scholarship

Weibel filamentation in relativistic plasma shell collisions has been demonstrated as an efficient and fast mechanism for the generation of near-equipartition magnetic fields in self-consistent particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. In generic γ-ray burst (GRB) models with kinetically dominated plasma outflow, sufficient strength and lifetime of magnetic fields are essential to validate synchrotron emission as the source of radiative outbursts. In this article we report on self-consistent PIC simulations of pair-plasma shell collisions in the highly relativistic regime with particle ensembles up to 5 × 10⁸. Energy dependence of magnetic field generation in the Weibel process is discussed, and for …

Building Bridges Between Community Based Organizations And Technology: Exploring Tools For Community Participation And Economic Development For The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Michelle M. Thompson Phd, Gisp, Leila Aman, E.J. Neafsey, Anna Karwowska, Kyu-Sang (Josh) Lee, Jason Luger, Julienne Chen

Planning and Urban Studies Reports and Presentations

Technology plays a vital role in public and private businesses, governments, and organizations, and can be especially useful to organizations that may know the least about it. Unfortunately, many Community Based Organizations (CBOs) have traditionally been unable to embrace contemporary tools due to lack of capacity, time or money. This paper begins to identify issues related to the technology gap faced by CBOs in a case study that examines community economic empowerment for the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative® (DSNI). The problem was approached through a community-university partnership between the Cornell University CRP 607 GIS Workshop Class (Sibley Consulting) and DSNI. …

Who Wants A Buffalo? South Dakota's Fenced Herds And Experiments In Management, 1901–1952, David Nesheim

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

By 1890, the number of North American bison (Bison bison) in the United Sates was reduced to about 500 animals. At that time, a few private ranchers started small herds from remnant survivors of the hide trade. Fredrick Dupree saved nine calves on his ranch near the Moreau River in South Dakota.

Between 1901 and 1913, three fenced preserves were created in the state. James Philip, a Pierre rancher, purchased the Dupree herd in 1901. The state of South Dakota created Custer State Game Preserve in 1913. The Federal government, in concert with the American Bison Society, created the Wind …

Effects Of Herbivory By White -Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus Zimm.) On The Population Ecology And Conservation Biology Of American Ginseng (Panax Quinquefolius L.), Mary Ann Furedi

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) is a long-lived understory herb considered rare within its range. Harvesting pressures and habitat degradation/destruction are thought to be the primary causes of population decline although others factors such as browsing by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Zimm.) have not yet been explored. To understand the effects of deer browsing on natural ginseng populations, my research focused on four specific objectives. First, I investigated how plant characteristics and microsite conditions influence the susceptibility to being browsed. I found that apparency plays a role in influencing browse selection, such that large, reproductive plants in visible and accessible …

Factors Influencing Basal Area Growth Of Yellow-Poplar ( Liriodendron Tulipifera L.) In Central West Virginia, Christopher T. Crum

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This paper uses data from continuous forest inventory (CFI) plots to evaluate basal area growth of yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera L.) as related to four topographic factors (aspect, slope position, steepness, and landform), two competition variables (basal area per acre and trees per acre) and four tree characteristics (age, diameter, total height, and crown diameter). These variables were plotted against basal area growth per year using simple linear regression on 69 yellow-poplar trees. The four tree characteristics all had a highly significant (p < .01) relationship with basal area growth. While the other variables did not exhibit a significant relationship, the two competition variables did have a significant (p < .05) relationship with each other.

Glaucomys Sabrinus Fuscus Habitat And Nest Box Use In West Virginia With Management Recommendations For Kumbrabow State Forest, Tamara M. Terry

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Nest site selection and habitat use of the endangered West Virginia northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus) is poorly understood. Because access to suitable nesting sites and habitats could be limiting factors, it is important to investigate these ecological requirements to further conservation efforts of the species. My study was conducted on the Kumbrabow State Forest and the MeadWestvaco Wildlife and Ecological Research Forest in Randolph County, West Virginia. I examined characteristics of 31 nest sites (22 cavity; 8 leaf; 1 undetermined) from 4 radio-collared West Virginia northern flying squirrels during the summers of 2002--2003. The nest trees used were …

Reasons For Overwinter Declines In Age-1+ Brook Trout Populations (Salvelinus Fontinalis) In Appalachian Headwater Streams, Jeremy J. Webster

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the Appalachian Mountains are an important game species in West Virginia, yet angling mortality on these populations in headwater streams is poorly understood. The objectives of this study were to: (1) examine relative changes in body composition of brook trout as they fluctuate throughout the year, and to identify critical periods of survival to determine if brook trout reach critical levels of resource depletion over winter, and (2) evaluate whether angler harvest affects brook trout populations in spring in headwater streams. Body composition estimates indicated that brook trout are unlikely to reach critical levels of …

Fast Search For Best Representations In Multitree Dictionaries, Yan Huang, Ilya Pollak, Minh N. Do, Charles A. Bouman

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

We develop a new framework of multitree dictionaries which includes some previously proposed dictionaries as special cases. We show how to efficiently find the best object in a multitree dictionary using a recursive tree pruning algorithm. We illustrate our framework through several examples, including a novel block image coder which significantly outperforms both the standard JPEG and quadtree-based methods, and is comparable to embedded coders such as JPEG2000 and SPIHT.

Geographic Routing In The Presence Of Location Errors, Sungoh Kwon, Ness B. Shroff

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In this paper, we propose a new geographic routing algorithm that alleviates the effect of location errors on routing in wireless ad hoc networks. In most previous work, geographic routing has been studied assuming perfect location information. However, in practice there could be significant errors in obtaining location estimates, even when nodes use GPS, hence existing geographic routing schemes will need to be appropriately modified. We investigate how such location errors affect the performance of geographic routing strategies. We incorporate location errors into our objective function by considering both transmission failures and backward progress. Each node then forwards packets to …

A Credit-Based Distributed Protocol For Long-Term Fairness In Ieee 802.11 Single-Hop Networks, Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Analysis Of The Eu-Morocco Fta Vs. Multilateral Liberalization, Aziz Elbehri, Thomas Hertel

GTAP Working Papers Archive

An applied general equilibrium model with oligopoly and scale economies, based on detailed plant-level data, is used to contrast the impacts of the Morocco-EU free trade area (FTA) to multilateral trade liberalization on Morocco’s economy. Simulation results show that the FTA agreement is likely to have adverse effects on Morocco due to: (a) deteriorating terms of trade, (b) reductions in output per firm in industries dominated by scale economies, (c) diversion of imports away from non-EU suppliers, and (d) potentially adverse effects on the aggregate demand for labor. We contrast this FTA with a multilateral liberalization scenario along the lines …

Best Basis Search In Lapped Dictionaries, Yan Huang, Ilya Pollak, Charles A. Bouman, Minh N. Do

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

We propose, analyze, and illustrate several best basis search algorithms for dictionaries consisting of lapped orthogonal bases. We improve upon the best local cosine basis selection based on a dyadic tree [10], [11], by considering larger dictionaries of bases. We show that this can result in sparser representations and approximate shift-invariance. We also provide an algorithm which is strictly shift-invariant. Our experiments suggest that the new dictionaries can be advantageous for time-frequency analysis, compression, and noise removal. We provide accelerated versions of the basic algorithm which explore various trade-offs between computational efficiency and adaptability. We show that our algorithms are …

Algoritmo Genético Para Calibração Automática De Um Simulador De Tráfego Em Rodovias De Pista Simples, C. Y. Egami, J. R. Setti, Laurence Rilett

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

Este trabalho relata o desenvolvimento de um sistema automático para calibração do modelo de simulação de tráfego em rodovias de pista simples TRARR, baseado em um algoritmo genético. O processo de calibração consiste em procurar valores para alguns parâmetros selecionados do simulador, de tal modo que a diferença entre as correntes de tráfego simuladas e as observadas em campo sejam minimizadas. Os parâmetros escolhidos para a calibração estão relacionados principalmente ao comportamento dos motoristas e, por isso, de difícil calibração. As diferenças entre a simulação e o fluxo real foram determinadas em termos de duas medidas de desempenho: a velocidade …

New Science And Technology Journals, Earl Mounts

Sci-Tech News

No abstract provided.

Efficient Algorithm For Computing Einstein Integrals, Junke Guo, Pierre Y. Julien

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

Analytical approximations to Einstein integrals are proposed. The approximations represented by two fast-converging series are valid for all values of their arguments. Accordingly, the algorithm can be easily incorporated into professional software like HEC-RAS or HEC-6 with minimum computational effort.

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.

Cole Train | V.3, No.1 (Fall 2004), Houston Cole Library

Library Annual Reports & Newsletters

No abstract provided.