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The Natural History, Distribution, And Phenotypic Variation Of Cave-Dwelling Spring Salamanders, Gyrinophilus Spp. Cope (Plethodontidae), In West Virginia, Michael Steven Osbourn

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

There are over 4000 documented caves in West Virginia, potentially providing refuge and habitat for a diversity of amphibians and reptiles. Spring Salamanders, Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, are among the most frequently encountered amphibians in caves. Surveys of 25 caves provided expanded distribution records and insight into ecology and diet of G. porphyriticus. Over 500 species locality records were compiled in a nearly comprehensive list. The Gyrinophilus population from General Davis Cave is of particular interest. In 1977, Besharse and Holsinger first described the West Virginia Spring Salamander, G. subterraneus; however, its taxonomic status is unclear. In order to …

Regulating The Regulators: The Impact Of Fda Regulation On Corporations' First Amendment Rights, 39 J. Marshall L. Rev. 95 (2005), Lisa M. Fealk-Stickler

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Human Rights And Bioethics: Formulating A Universal Right To Health, Health Care, Or Health Protection?, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

Codifying, and then implementing, an international right to health, health care, or protection is beset with serious roadblocks - foremost among them being contentious issues of indeterminacy, justiciability, and progressive realization. Although advanced - and to some degree recognized under the rubric of a social or cultural entitlement within the law of human rights and, more particularly, the U.S. Declaration on Human Rights, together with International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and presently UNESCO's Draft Declaration on Universal Norms on Bioethics - attainment …

Unknown World Government: Some Very Recent Commercial Law Developments And Gaps, The, Donald B. King

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Internally-Displaced Persons And The Sardar Sarovar Project: A Case For Rehabilitative Reform In Rural Media, Pooja Mehta

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Exporting Despair: The Human Rights Implications Of U.S. Restrictions On Foreign Health Care Funding In Kenya, Mehlika Hoodbhoy, Martin S. Flaherty, Tracy E. Higgins

Fordham International Law Journal

This Report culminates a year-long project undertaken by the Joseph R. Crowley Program in International Human Rights to study the impact of the Mexico City Policy in Kenya and to analyze the applicable international human rights standards. This Report sets out the findings and legal analysis that resulted. Following this Introduction and a cataloguing of our recommendations, Part I examines those international human rights obligations that the Mexico City Policy most obviously implicates. In Part II, the Report turns to the impact of the Mexico City Policy upon these rights in Kenya. Part III of this Report turns to the …

The Impact Of Placement In Special Care Units On The Wellbeing Of Young People And Their Families, Niall Hanlon

Reports

The Special Residential Services Board, established under Part 11 of the Children Act 2001, commissioned the Centre for Social and Educational Research to carry out this study into the Impact of Placement in Special Care Unit Settings on the Wellbeing of Young People and Their Families.

Interpreting The Past Through Faunal Analysis At The Bridge River Site, Jessica Carol Bochart

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Holding Media Responsible For Deceptive Weight-Loss Advertising, Chester S. Galloway, Herbert Jack Rotfeld, Jef I. Richards

West Virginia Law Review

In Fall 2002, the Federal Trade Commission held a Workshop exploring the problem of misleading weight-loss promotional pitches. After the agency spent decades cleaning up deceptive advertising, the weight-loss industry continues to be replete with such tactics. In an attempt to more aggressively attack those deceptions, the FTC used the Workshop as a forum to suggest that media should play a more active role in screening ads for diet products and programs. Some saw this as an implied threat that the agency may begin holding media liable for publishing those ads. Media protest that this forces them into the de …

Want Fries With That - A Critical Analysis Of Fast Food Litigation, Donald R. Richardson

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Uptake Of Amino Acids By Microbes And Trees In Three Cold-Temperate Forests, Adrien C. Finzi, Sean T. Berthrong

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Amino acids are emerging as a critical component of the terrestrial N cycle, yet there is little understanding of amino acid cycling in temperate forests. This research studied the uptake and turnover of amino acid N by soil microbes and the capacity of forest trees to take up the amino acid glycine in comparison to NH₄⁺ and NO₃⁻. This research was conducted in three temperate forests located in northwest Connecticut, USA. The three forests differed in soil parent material and canopy tree species composition. At all three sites, amino acids were released from soil organic …

2005 Annual Report, Tennessee. Department Of Audit, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury

Department of Audit Annual Reports

This document is the annual report for the Tennessee Department of Audit.

Relationships Between Parents' And Children's Eating Behaviors And Activity Levels, Christine Lynn Jayne

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Relevance Of Age And Special Needs In Initial Development Phases Of A Child Neglect Scale, Stephanie Ann Stowman

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Currently, there is a lack of standardized procedures in Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies in regards to risk assessment for child neglect. Available child neglect assessment measures often lack empirical support or are limited by response bias due to the focus on parental responsibility. This study utilized interviews with CPS employees to obtain descriptions of child neglect situations. A questionnaire was then generated based on the interviews and distributed to additional CPS employees. The questionnaire examined respondents' likelihood to substantiate each item as neglect, the frequency each item occurred and the perceived level of harm for each item across multiple …

Updates From The Regional Human Rights Systems, Bryan Thomas Shipp, Christian De Vos, Fabiola Carrión, Shirley Woodward

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.

Values And Objectivity In Science: The Current Controversy About Transgenic Crops, Hugh Lacey

Philosophy Faculty Works

Values and Objectivity in Science illustrates many of the ethical issues that arise concerning scientific practices and applications, offering an account of how social and ethical values play important roles in science. Hugh Lacey develops and clarifies his previous analysis by arguing for the importance of research being conducted under a plurality of strategies, contrasting materialist strategies with agro-ecological strategies. By displaying the structure of current ethical controversies about the legitimacy of planting transgenic crops, this book illustrates that sound thinking on such issues must be grounded on an adequate philosophy of science, one that can clearly distinguish between the …

Induced Autism The Legal And Ethical Implications Of Inoculating Vaccine Manufacturers From Liability, Helia Garrido Hull

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Child-To-Child Helping Children In Emergencies And Affected By Conflict, Tashmin Khamis

Faculty of Health Sciences, East Africa

Child-to-Child is a rights-based approach to children’s participation in promoting health and community development. The Child-to-Child approach is an educational process that links children’s learning with taking action. It is a practical way in which children’s rights can be effectively implemented.

The Child-to-Child approach has been successfully implemented since 1978. Education, health promotion and community development programmes are using the approach in over 70 countries. The Child-to-Child international network encourages and enables children and young people to promote the holistic development of the health and well-being of themselves, their families and their communities.

Crop Watch No. 2005-20, September 2, 2005, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Field Updates..........180

Precip. Record, Forecast..........182

Panhandle Crop Status..........183

North Platte Valley Crops..........183

Women in Ag Conference..........183

Irrigation Uniformity..........184

Corn Stalk Nitrates..........185

Seeding Wheat..........187

Wheat Info. on the Net..........189

Tips for Seeder Calibration..........190

Crop Watch No. 2005-14, June 17, 2005, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Field Updates ..........120

High Plains Field Day ..........120

Asian Rust on Common Beans .......... 121

Rust Treatments and Applies .......... 123

Irrigation Efficiency .......... 124

Glyphosate Tank Mix Study .......... 125

Market Journal this Week .......... 125

How Weeds Compete .......... 126

Cutting Alfalfa .......... 127

Crop Diagnostic Clinic .......... 128

Grazing Conference .......... 128

2004-2005 Annual Report

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Trans-10,Cis-12 Cla Increases Adipocyte Lipolysis And Alters Lipid Droplet-Associated Proteins: Role Of Mtor And Erk Signaling, Soonkyu Chung, Jonathan Mark Brown, Maria Boysen Sandberg, Michael Mcintosh

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Lipid droplet-associated proteins play an important role in adipocyte triglyceride (TG) metabolism. Here, we show that trans-10,cis-12 conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), but not cis-9,trans-11 CLA, increased lipolysis and altered human adipocyte lipid droplet morphology. Before this change in morphology, there was a rapid trans-10,cis-12 CLA-induced increase in the accumulation of perilipin A in the cytosol, followed by the disappearance of perilipin A protein. In contrast, protein levels of adipose differentiation-related protein (ADRP) were increased in cultures treated with trans-10,cis-12 CLA. Immunostaining revealed that ADRP localized to the surface …

Some Right Jabs And Back In The Ring: Lessons Learned From The Phase I Civilian Smallpox Program, Elin Gursky, Avani Parikh

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Autonomy Suspended: Using Female Patients To Teach Intimate Exams Without Their Knowledge Or Consent, Robin Fretwell Wilson

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Faster, Higher, Stronger? Federal Efforts To Criminalize Anabolic Steroids And Steroid Precursors, Adrian Wilairat

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Patent Wars In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death: The Pharmaceutical Industry, Ethics, And Global Trade, Uché Ewelukwa

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

New Routes To Low Mortality In Poor Countries? Crossover In The Roles Of Income And Female Education, Tom Vogl

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper explores how the cross-national determinants of infant mortality and life expectancy at birth have evolved over the past two decades. In particular, I examine the relative roles of female education and per capital income in the mortality decline. Contrasting the recent shift away from economic determinism by a large bloc in the literature, my findings indicate that per capita income has become a stronger determinant of mortality, while the revealed effect of female education has declined. Part, but not all, of the observed shift can be attributed to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This change may imply a shift back …

Dietary Restraint, Self-Efficacy, And Gender Differences In Weight Loss Program Participants, Amy Elizabeth Sheeley

Open Access Dissertations

Rates of overweight and obesity continue to rise each year with serious associated health risks. This study was conducted to explore gender differences between behavior change variables for both dietary fat reduction and exercise behaviors in a weight loss population. This research also investigated relationships between these psychosocial behavior change variables. Over 300 overweight and obese men and women enrolled in weight loss programs in the greater Boston area completed self-administered surveys. The behavior change variables surveyed included validated Transtheoretical Model (TTM) measures of stage of change for dietary fat reduction, situational confidence and temptation for dietary fat reduction, as …

Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study On How, Ubong E. Effeh

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

Dragging Their Devotion: The Role Of International Law In Major League Baseball's Dominican Affairs, Vanessa Marie Zimmer

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.