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Evaluation And Significance Of Tetracycline Stability In Rabies Vaccine Baits , J. J. Johnston, T. M. Primus, T. Buettgenbach, C. A. Furcolow, M. J. Goodall, D. Slate, R. B. Chipman, J. L. Snow, T. J. Deliberto

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Tetracycline is widely used as a biomarker for bait consumption by wildlife; tetracycline is incorporated into bones and teeth and can be detected by fluorescence microscopy several weeks postconsumption. During 2003, the United States Department of Agriculture distributed more than 10 million tetracycline-containing rabies-vaccine baits to control the spread of wildlife vectored rabies to humans, pets, and livestock. To estimate the percentage of target species consuming the baits, raccoons and skunks were collected in baited areas and teeth were analyzed for the presence of the biomarker. Several incidents of low biomarker detection rates prompted an investigation of the stability of …

Alcohol Expectancies Among A Sample Of Thai High School Students, Ian Newman, Duane F. Shell, Saranya Innadda, Tiandong Li

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

The objective of this study was to identify and describe the alcohol-related expectancies of a sample of Thai high school students. A convenience sample of 2,227 high school students in Chon Buri province completed an alcohol expectancy questionnaire. The initial factor analysis was done with data from 875 questionnaires and identified four factors. The four factors were cross-validated on two separate sets of 676 questionnaires. A relationship was found between expectancies and drinking behaviors. High school students who drank alcohol had significantly greater positive expectancies for alcohol and greater expectancies that alcohol would enhance sexual performance and power. Students who …

The Social And Environmental Impacts Of The Corporate Responsibility Movement In Mexico Since Nafta, David Barkin

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Uterine Tube-Ovary Relationship And Fimbrial Development During The Fetal Period, Osman Sulak, Mehmet A. Malas, Kadriye Esen, Esra Cetin, Bahadir Ungor, Suleyman M. Tagil

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to evaluate the position, localization and development of the uterine tubes and their relationships to the ovaries. METHODS: One hundred and fifty-four uterine tubes and ovaries taken from 77 human fetuses aged between 9-40 weeks of gestation have been included in this study. The study was performed in Department of Anatomy of Suleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine, Isparta, Turkey in 2004. The position and localization of the uterine tubes have been determined. Consequently, uterine tube - ovary relationship and fimbrial development has been investigated. RESULTS: It has been observed that the uterine tubes are transversely and …

Bacterial Skin Infections Among Patients With Hemoglobinopathies, Maha M. Al-Mahfouz, Khalil I. Hamdi, Sundus S. Baker

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Hemoglobinopathies are a common problem in our locality, yet there were no previous studies concerning skin lesions among those patients. We sought to find out the most common skin lesions among patients with hemoglobinopathies and the frequency of occurrence of bacterial skin infections in those patients. METHODS: A total of 168 patients with bacterial skin infections were included in this study. The specimens were collected from outpatients dermatology departments of 5 main hospitals in different areas in Basrah governorate, Iraq (hospital-based study) from March 2002 to October 2002. The patients were divided into 2 groups according to the type …

Screening Program For Prostate Cancer At A University Hospital In Eastern Saudi Arabia, Saud A. Taha, Baher A. Kamal

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Implementation of a pilot screening program for prostate cancer among Saudi patients that would serve as a nucleus for a Kingdom-wide screening program. METHODS: A prospective study on 1,213 Saudi males between 50-80 years of age who attended the Outpatient Department at King Fahd Hospital of King Faisal University, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during a period of 18 months (April 2001-October 2002). They were included at random from different clinics including the urology clinic. Free and total prostate specific antigen (PSA), and digital rectal examination (DRE) of the prostate were performed in all patients. Patients with abnormal DRE …

Child Pedestrian Fatalities In Diyarbakir, Turkey, Suleyman Goren, Mehmet Subasi, Fuat Gurkan, Yasar Tirasci, Kemalettin Acar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: As there is an increase in modernization, transportation, unskilled, and drunk drivers, injuries from traffic accidents have taken on an epidemic form all over the world. The present study aims to describe the demographic data of childhood pedestrian fatalities in a large urban area in Turkey. METHODS: The demographic data of childhood pedestrian fatalities in a large urban area in Turkey was described retrospectively, with respect to age, gender, injury pattern and location. Cases less than 16 years of age were collected retrospectively from the files of the Branch of the Council of Forensic Medicine in Diyarbakir between 1998 …

Aids-Related Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, Mona A. Al-Maslamani, Hussam A. Al-Soub, Yasser M. El-Deeb, Jameela A. Al-Khuwaiter, Imaad Bin Mujeeb

Saudi Medical Journal

A case of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection with a fatal outcome is presented. The disease has not been reported from our region before. The patient presented initially with hemiparesis and non-enhancing lesion on computed tomography scan that was thought to be an infarct. After a delay of 4 months, the diagnosis was made by brain biopsy. This delay probably contributed to his unfortunate outcome. The case is described, and methods of diagnosis and treatment are discussed.

Chloramphenicol Susceptible Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus In Eastern Region Of Saudi Arabia, Bodh R. Panhotra, Anil K. Saxena, Abdulrahman S. Al-Mulhim

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Precocious Puberty Revealing Severe Hypothyroidism, Bassam M. Taher, Hanan A. Hamamy, Marlin I. Nino, Kamel M. Ajlouni

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The New Syndrome Is Not Really A New Syndrome. Al-Aqeel Sewairi Syndrome, A New Autosomal Recessive Disorder With Multicentric Osteolysis, Nodulosis, And Arthropathy, Sulaiman Al-Mayouf, Wafaa Al-Sewairi, Aida Al-Aqeel

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Why Is Management A Cliché?, Stefano Harney

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This article introduces the term demotics of management by asking why so much management literature reads like a cliché. Typically this question has been approached by seeing the cliché as strategic. This article instead views the cliché as symptomatic. It marks a growing problem—how can management track labor out of the workplace and into the realm of social reproduction, a realm that is increasingly, with the tendency of immaterial labor, directly productive. This problem has produced not only the explosion of popular management literature, particularly in the United States, in the last 20 years, but also what might be called …

Rapidly Developing Optic Neuritis Secondary To Ethambutol: Possible Mechanism Of Injury, Sajjad Ali, Uzma Usman, Mohammad Wasay

Department of Medicine

Optic neuritis has been described among the toxic effects of Ethambutol. This side effect is dose related. The mean duration of Ethambutol induced optic neuritis (EON) is three months. We report a case of EON after few days of exposure to Ethambutol and the symptoms resolved after discontinuation of Ethambutol. This most likely represents an idiosyncratic reaction which is different as compared to dose related optic neuritis.

Adobe Medicus 2005 4 July-August, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

No abstract provided.

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 30, No. 7, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

There is no Prison Health

Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons

Prison is not an Equal Opportunity Punishment

Que Paradoja!

Racial Bias Admitted with New Trial

Information Wanted

Voices From Inside

Voices in Solidarity

Crime of the Month

Co-Clustering Of Time-Evolving News Story With Transcript And Keyframe, Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Qing Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper presents techniques in clustering the same-topic news stories according to event themes. We model the relationship of stories with textual and visual concepts under the representation of bipartite graph. The textual and visual concepts are extracted respectively from speech transcripts and keyframes. Co-clustering algorithm is employed to exploit the duality of stories and textual-visual concepts based on spectral graph partitioning. Experimental results on TRECVID-2004 corpus show that the co-clustering of news stories with textual-visual concepts is significantly better than the co-clustering with either textual or visual concept alone.

Strategic Assessment Of Information Security Maturity, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, Dayasindhu Nagarajan, Raghavan Subramanian

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

CXOs are becoming increasingly interested in the information security maturity of their enterprises. This paper presents a CXO dashboard that will allow better management of the information security resources in an enterprise.

What Is Positive Disclosure And To Whom Do We Disclose? The Role Of Topics, Gender And Type Of Relationship In Positive Self-Disclosure, Elizabeth Landers Ford

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study examined what topics (including experiences, feelings, and thoughts) people define as positive self-disclosure. The study also looked at reasons people generate for self-disclosing versus not disclosing something positive. Male and female students spontaneously described a past experience or feeling they perceive to be personal and positive. They then indicated whether or not they disclosed about these experiences or feelings to their father, mother, same-sex friend, and a past or present significant other/spouse. These descriptions were coded into one of eight categories: Religion, Family Development, Friendship, Sex, Romance, Self-Confidence, Achievement, and Helping Behavior, plus a Miscellaneous category. There were …

Use Of Miswak Versus Toothbrushes: Oral Health And Behaviors Of Jordanian Adults, Reem Saleem Tubaishat

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived relationship among miswak, the toothbrush, and toothbrush-plus-miswak usage on oral health beliefs and behaviors of Jordanians. To examine these relationships, a self-designed questionnaire was distributed to a convenience sample of 150 adult subjects (ages 18-60 years) seeking dental care at the health center, and two private dental clinics in Irbid, Jordan. Via the Oral Health Beliefs and Behaviors of Jordanian People Questionnaire, participants were asked to select one and sometimes more than one response regarding their perceived oral health status and oral care behaviors. Content validity of the questionnaire …

Polluters And Protectors: Combined Sewer System Authorities And Urban Waterway Restorations, Paul Bohannon, Patricia E. Lin

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

The Restatement (First) Of The Oilfield Operator's Fiduciary Duty, John Burritt Mcarthur

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Statutes Of Limitations Applied To Minors: The New Mexico Court Of Appeals' Balance Of Competing State Interests To Favor Children, Charlotte Tonetta Rich

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Passive Voice: The Unclear Standards For Establishing Personal Jurisdiction In New Mexico Via The World Wide Web, Mark D. Standridge

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Index: Volume 35, New Mexico Law Review

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Variation In The Fluorescence Of Green Fluorescent Protein In Various Strains Of Escherichia Coli, Paul R. Letellier Jr.

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) was first identified in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria and generated interest due to its ability to noninvasively tag and visualize cells, cellular structures, and cellular proteins. Furthermore, the expression of green fluorescent protein in Esherichia coli cells as a tool for reporting gene expression and promotor activity has become important in the understanding of gene regulation. Expression of the gfp gene was found to vary depending on the strain of E. coli possessing the gfp gene. As a result of this fluctuation in fluorescence, gene expression and hence promotor activity may be difficult to detect or …

Introduction: Winning And Short Listed Essays From The Second Annual Essay Competition Of The Feminist And Women’S Studies Association, Kristin Aune, Karen Throsby

Journal of International Women's Studies

No abstract provided.

Tussles Over Gendered Spaces And Assertions Of Female Presence In Anne Le Marquand Hartigan’S Play The Secret Game, Catherine Barron

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper is an extract from the PhD thesis entitled “Self-Imaging/Self-Imagining in the Woman’s Writing (and Painting) of Anne Le Marquand Hartigan”, submitted to University College, Dublin in 2004. The essay discusses Hartigan’s unpublished play, The Secret Game (written in Ireland, circa 1995). In particular, it examines the power-struggling taking place between the sexes in the play over different life spaces, including public / political space, the space of language and the space of the female body. The essay examines how, in order to challenge the spatial disinheritance of women, Hartigan makes use of different strategies to stage statements of …

What Sort Of Mental Health Problems Are Experienced By Women In Contemporary British Society? What Do Different Feminist Perspectives Offer As Alleviation?, Penny Halliday

Journal of International Women's Studies

This essay argues that by labelling British women’s mental health distress and treatment in terms of a purely medical model, underlying contributory social structures and phenomena such as gendered roles, ethnicity and poverty, have largely been ignored by the (male dominated) psychiatric profession. This labelling is historically rooted in the pathologisation of the feminine condition; therefore, women’s mental ill health is substantially a social construct and a product of a patriarchal society. To fully explore a way through mental health distress - a term used by MIND to emphasise the inorganic origins of many mental health problems - labels need …

The Silencing Of Women: The Irish Abortion Laws And Religion, Rachael Wright

Journal of International Women's Studies

This essay attempts to look at the unfortunate circumstances that surround women in Ireland in regards to abortion. Rather than looking at the pro- and anti-life arguments which are commonly discussed when approaching abortion issues, I have chosen to concentrate on the legal and ethical matters in Ireland that seem to have control over Irish women’s bodies and consequently their personhood. Through the investigation of the changing Irish laws brought about by the Grogan and X cases, it is possible to understand how religious and patriarchal sentiment has continued to suppress women’s personal choice in regards to abortion. By looking …

Price Controls For Prescription Drugs: Canada Does It, So Can The United States, Joel Lexchin

Connecticut Journal of International Law

Drug spending is rising faster than any other component of health care in the United States. Between 1992 and 2002, the growth rate for pharmaceuticals was 7.2% per annum compared to 3.3% for total health spending (1). By 2002, Americans were paying in excess of $162 billion for retail prescription drugs (2). Rising drug prices have accounted for by far the largest proportion of that growth in recent years (2). Prices for patented single source medications in the United States are significantly higher than in any other developed country, no matter who is doing the calculations (3,4). Even taking into …