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Breeding Trouble: West Nile On The Willamette?, Merilee Karr

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

From the Roman aqueducts to Bonneville Dam, humans have built structures to moderate the extremes of natural water flow. Some of these structures, from Roman cisterns to the catch basins under modern city streets, have inadvertently supplied mosquitoes with the standing water in which they thrive and multiply. Even more mosquito habitat may have been created in the last decade by a change in the Clean Water Act. The original drive behind the Act, in 1972, was the elimination of point-source pollution: sewage and industrial discharge into waterways. In the 1990s new regulations aimed to prevent non-point-source pollution, due to …

Metropolitan Briefing Book, 2005, Craig Wollner, Sheila A. Martin, Deborah Elliott, Barry Edmonston, Masud Hasan, Joseph Cortright, John Provo, Jill Fuglister, Eric Jessup

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

The Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (IMS) was created to connect the resources of higher education to the issues and needs in the six-county, bi-state Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area (Clackamas, Clark, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, and Yamhill Counties). We have included the IMS mission statement and roster of IMS board members in this publication to give readers a clear sense of who we are and how we serve the region. You can find out about all of our initiatives and download additional copies of this publication from our web site: www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS .

The theme for this edition of the Metropolitan Briefing Book …

Lifting The Pall Of Orthodoxy: The Need For Hearing A Multitude Of Tongues In And Beyond The Sexual Education Curricula At Public High Schools, Carlo A. Pedrioli

Faculty Scholarship

When public high schools promote heterosexuality at the cost of denying sexual minority youth the opportunity to learn about minority sexualities, these schools contribute to the disastrous situation in which many sexual minority high school students find themselves. This approach, which many public high schools take, is unnecessarily destructive and warrants prompt change. Instead of helping to perpetuate many of the challenges that sexual minority students face in high school, public high schools can and need to help address these challenges. To establish the case for such a position, this article begins by presenting the plight of many sexual minority …

Master Of Medical Science Graduate Distance Education Program Overview, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

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Town Of Ashland, New Hampshire Annual Report 2004., Ashland Town Representatives

Ashland, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Town Of New Boston, New Hampshire Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2004, Report Of The School District For The Year Ending June 30, 2004., New Boston Town Representatives

New Boston, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Reports Of The Town & School Of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire As Compiled By The Town Officers For The Year Ending December 31, 2004. As Compiled By School Officers For The Year Ending June 30, 2004., Hampton Falls Town Representatives

Hampton Falls, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Cybersecurity, Identity Theft, And The Limits Of Tort Liability, Vincent R. Johnson

Faculty Articles

Tort law is the best vehicle for allocating the risks and spreading the costs of database intrusion. It can incentivize database possessors (“possessors”) and data subjects to minimize the harm associated with breaches of database security while also balancing each party’s interests. Life is built upon computerized databases and the information of those databases is subject to hackers and other cyber-threats, which can cause catastrophic damage. It is hard to identify hackers; however, a better object for recovery is likely the possessors who fail to prevent or reveal a security breach.

The law governing database possessors’ liability is far from …

Medicine@Yale June/July 2005 Volume 1, Issue 1, Yale School Of Medicine Office Of Communications

Medicine@Yale - development newsletter

Medicine@Yale : advancing biomedical science, education and health care was a print and online newsletter which published news about academics, research and philanthropy for alumni, donors, faculty, students and the general public. It was initially published 6 times a year and then changed to a quarterly schedule. The first issue came out June/Jul. 2005. The final issue was published in May/June 2022, vol. 17, issue 1. Published by Yale School of Medicine, Office of Communications.

The Comment, Orientation Issue, 2005, Bridgewater State College

The Comment

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Panther Tennis 2004-05, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

Season Outlook --2
Panther Coaching/Staff Roster --3
Panther Profiles --4-5
Panther History --6
Missouri Valley Conference --7
Facilities --8

Tale Of A Woman With Stomatitis And Response Of Health Care System, Waris Qidwai

Department of Family Medicine

A 55 year-old housewife presented to the Family Medicine Clinic due to recurrent oral ulcers for a year. She also had generalized itching, weakness, anorexia and abdominal distension after meals. She had visited several practitioners including family physicians and sub-specialists but a diagnosis was not reached. She was diagnosed to have Lichen Planus and Hepatitis C at family practice clinic. Since a health care system does not properly exist, patients seek treatment from sub-specialists without first consulting a primary care practitioner. This report identifies a failure in health care system and it is also recommended that all patients should be …

Structural Conflicts In The Interpretation Of Customary International Law, Julian G. Ku

Santa Clara Law Review

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Mediation And Justice: What Standards Govern?, Joseph B. Stulberg

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

I find it challenging to write about mediation and justice for several perplexing reasons. The concept of justice is constitutionally ambiguous; trying to analyze it concretely is a challenging task for both writer and reader. Despite the concept's ambiguity, however, each of us can readily describe situations that instantly appall us for reasons that we intuitively identify as constituting acts or occasions of injustice. The irony then, and hence the challenge, is that we know that the concept of justice is an important phenomenon to address, yet we have difficulty saying something constructive or useful about it.

Shifting The Focus From The Myth Of "The Vanishing Trial" To Complex Conflict Management Systems, Or I Learned Almost Everything I Need To Know About Conflict Resolution From Marc Galanter, John Lande

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

To say that "The Vanishing Trial" is a myth is not to suggest that the facts or analysis in Professor Galanter's report are fictional or inaccurate. Indeed, he marshals a massive amount of data to show that the number of trials and the trial rates have been declining for the past four decades, particularly in the federal courts. The report documents an apparent paradox: the proportion of cases going to trial has dropped sharply during the past forty years despite substantial increases in many other legal indicators including the number of lawyers, the number of cases filed, and the amount …

A Direct Approach To Reparations: Municipal Efforts To Ensure Social Justice , Samuel Emiliano Brown

The Modern American

No abstract provided.

African Americans And The Republican Party: Positioning For 2008, Sophia A. Nelson

The Modern American

No abstract provided.

South Asian Americans In U.S. Politics, Roopa Nemi, Amala Nath

The Modern American

No abstract provided.

Inter-American Justice: Now Available In A U.S. Federal Court Near You, Francisco Rivera

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Second-Parent Adoptions: Are They Entitled To Full Faith And Credit, Lisa S. Chen

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Correlation Between The Genes Responsible For Penicillin And Erythromycin Resistance In Streptococcus Pneumoniae And The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (Mic) Values: A Potential Approach For Molecular Detection Of Susceptibility, Mohd Nasir Mohd Desa, Kwai Lin Thong, Parasakthi Navaratnam

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The correlation of pbp 2b restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns of fifty clinical isolates of Malaysian Streptococcus pneumoniae, as well as the distribution of determinant genes for erythromycin resistance; mefE and ermB, with the respective minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values for penicillin and erythromycin (determined by agar dilution method) were examined. Strains with penicillin MIC of ≥ 0.5 μg/ml had unique pbp 2b RFLP patterns that were absent in the penicillinsusceptible strains. The prevalence of ermB, either alone or together with mefE, was frequently observed in strains with higher MIC values (> 8 μg/ml) whereas mefE alone was observed …

A Novel Dengue Fever (Df) And Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (Dhf) Analysis Using Artificial Neural Network (Ann), F. Ibrahim, M.N. Taib, W.A.B. Wan Abas, C.C. Guan, S. Sulaiman

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

Dengue fever (DF) is an acute febrile viral disease frequently presented with headache, bone or joint and muscular pains, and rash. A significant percentage of DF patients develop a more severe form of disease, known as dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF). DHF is the complication of DF. The main pathophysiology of DHF is the development of plasma leakage from the capillary, resulting in haemoconcentration, ascites, and pleural effusion that may lead to shock following defervescence of fever. Therefore, accurate prediction of the day of defervescence of fever is critical for clinician to decide on patient management strategy. To date, no known …

A Re-Evaluation Of Plasma Sialic Acid Determination Using The Periodate Resorcinol Method Versus The Enzymatic Method, S. Muniandy, R. Qvist, A. Zaini, K. Chinna, I.S. Ismail

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The concentration of plasma sialic acid was estimated using the modified chemical method and the more sensitive enzymatic method in 20 subjects with impaired glucose tolerance and 20 control subjects. The mean sialic acid concentration values of the control subjects and subjects with impaired glucose tolerance using the enzymatic method were 1.747 ± 0.047 and 2.583 ± 0.070 mmole/l and 1.753 ± 0.067 and 2.591 ± 1.02 mmole/l for the chemical method. The intra-assay coefficient of variation for the control subjects and for the subjects with impaired glucose tolerance were 1.963 and 1.583, respectively, for the enzymatic assay and 2.728 …

Analysis Of Mass Distribution In Dengue Patients Using Bioelectrical Impedance, F. Ibrahim, C.K. Tiong, N.A. Ismail, M.N. Taib

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

This paper describes the mass distribution in healthy subjects and dengue patients on the day of defervescence of fever using bioelectrical impedance analysis. A total of 223 healthy subjects (65 males and 158 females) and 210 dengue patients (119 males and 91 females) were studied. The ages for healthy subjects vary between 14 and 60 years old with mean age of 26.05 years while the ages for the dengue patients vary between 12 and 83 years old with mean age of 30.14 years. The parameters of mass distribution investigated were body cell mass (BCM) and extracellular mass (ECM). There were …

Analysis Of Water Compartment In Dengue Patients, Fatimah Ibrahim, K.F. Ooi, N.A. Ismail, M.N. Taib, Wan Abu Bakar Wan Abas

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

This paper describes the water compartments in healthy subjects and dengue patients on the day of defervescence of fever using bioelectrical impedance analysis. A total of 223 healthy subjects (65 males and 158 females) and 210 dengue patients (119 males and 91 females) in Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM), were studied. The ages for healthy subjects vary between 14 and 60 years old with mean age of 26.05 years while the ages for the dengue patients vary between 12 and 83 years old with mean age of 30.14 years. The parameters of water compartments investigated were total body water (TBW), …

Bacteria Fauna From The House Fly, Musca Domestica (L.), W.A. Nazni, B. Seleena, H.L. Lee, J. Jeffery, T.A.R. Rogayah, Mohd Sofian-Azirun

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The house fly, Musca domestica has long been considered a potential agent for disease transmission ever since its existence. The general truth of this assertion remains undisputed till the present day in spite of increasing awareness toward an improved sanitation and better hygiene. The habitual movement of house fly from filthy substrata such as human faeces, animal excreta, carcasses, garbage, etc. makes them ideal candidates for disease transmission such as cholera, shigellosis, salmonellosis and others when settling on food. Fly as a potential mechanical vector of pathogenic bacteria was elucidated in this study by examining flies from various breeding sites …

Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis In Assessing The Chances Of Obtaining Coronary Heart Disease In Obese Subjects, M.S. Mohktar, F. Ibrahim, N.A. Ismail

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

This paper describes parameters to predict the chances of obtaining coronary heart disease (CHD) using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in obese subjects at the University of Malaya Student Health Clinic (UMHC), Kuala Lumpur. Bioelectrical impedance measurements were conducted on 88 subjects (30 males and 58 females) with mean body mass index (BMI) of 30kg/m2. We investigated all the parameters in BIA, patients' lipid profiles and demographic data in explaining of getting CHD incidences. The lipid profiles include serum total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and the total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol ratio. In this …

Case Report Fasciolopsiasis: A First Case Report From Malaysia, M. Rohela, I. Jamaiah, J. Menon, J. Rachel

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

Fasciolopsiasis is a disease caused by the largest intestinal fluke, Fasciolopsis buski. The disease is endemic in the Far East and Southeast Asia. Human acquires the infection after eating raw freshwater plants contaminated with the infective metacercariae. There has been no report of fasciolopsiasis either in man or in animal in Malaysia. We are reporting the first case of fasciolopsiasis in Malaysia in a 39-year-old female farmer, a native of Sabah (East Malaysia). This patient complained of cough and fever for a duration of two weeks, associated with loss of appetite and loss of weight. She had no history of …

Characterization And Recovery Of Mercury From Spent Fluorescent Lamps, Min Jang, S.M. Hong, J.K. Park

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

Fluorescent lamps rely on mercury as the source of ultraviolet radiation for the production of visible light. Partitioning of mercury among vapor phase, loose phosphor powders produced during breaking and washing steps, glass matrices, phosphor powders attached on the glass and aluminum end caps was examined from simulated laboratory lamp recycling tests for different types of spent and new fluorescent lamps. Mercury concentrations in lamp glasses taken from commercial lamp recyclers were also analyzed for comparison with the simulated results of spent and new lamps of different types. The mercury content of the glass from spent lamps was highly variable …

Derivation And Validation Of The Short Version Of The Malaysian Oral Health Impact Profile, R. Saub, D. Locker, P. Allison

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

Objectives: This paper describes the development of a short version of the Malaysian Oral Health Impact Profile. Methods: The 45-item OHIP(M) was shortened using a method known as the 'item frequency method'. Here, the two most frequently reported items from each of the seven OHIP(M) subscales were chosen to form the short version, designated as the S-OHIP(M). Field testing was conducted to assess the effect of different modes of administration (mail versus interview) of the short form and to test its measurement properties (reliability and validity). A total of 206 respondents completed the questionnaire. In order to carry out test-retest …