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Enhanced Electrospray Ionization For Mass Spectrometry And Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Li Zhou

Theses and Dissertations

Electrospray ionization (ESI) has become one of the most commonly used ionization techniques for mass spectrometry (MS) and ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), and efforts continue to improve its performance. ESI-MS is most recognized for its wide application to biomacromolecules where high sensitivity is of paramount importance. However, the major limitation in sensitivity with ESI-MS is due to its low ion transmission efficiency from the ESI source into the sampling orifice and through any stages utilized for transfer of ions from atmosphere to vacuum in the MS. A series of atmospheric pressure ion focusing interfaces were designed and implemented to enhance …

Speech Reception Threshold Materials For Taiwan Mandarin, Katie Bedke Slade

Theses and Dissertations

Speech reception threshold (SRT) tools have been developed to assist in the evaluation of hearing. This study was performed to develop, digitally record, evaluate, and equate Taiwan Mandarin trisyllabic words which can be used to measure the SRT. Eighty-nine commonly used trisyllabic words were chosen and digitally recorded by native male and female speakers. The words were then presented to 20 normally hearing subjects at 14 intensity levels (-10 to 16 dB HL) with 2 dB increments. Psychometric function slopes were calculated using logistic regression. Twenty-eight words with steep psychometric function were selected and digitally adjusted to match the mean …

Daily Eastern News: July 06, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

July

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, July 6, 2006, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The July 6, 2006, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Funding Helps Um Students Prepare For Health Care Careers, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Adventure Recreation And Adolescent Identity Development, Mathew David Duerden

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the effect of a two-week adventure recreation program on early adolescent identity development. The study also investigates the influence of gender and the parent-adolescent relationship on this process. Participants in this study included 44 males and 47 females, ages 11-17 (M = 13.4, SD = 1.03), from three western states. Twenty-two males and 23 females participated in the treatment group and the remaining 22 males and 24 females served as controls. The treatment group completed a two-week adventure recreation program, Camp WILD. The program consisted of …

Murray Ledger And Times, July 6, 2006, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Relationship Between Resident Workload And Self-Perceived Learning On Inpatient Medicine Wards: A Longitudinal Study, Elizabeth M. Haney, Christina Nicolaidis, Alan Hunter, Benjamin K. Chan, Thomas G. Cooney, Judith L. Bowen

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Despite recent residency workload and hour limitations, little research on the relationship between workload and learning has been done. We sought to define residents' perceptions of the optimal patient workload for learning, and to determine how certain variables contribute to those perceptions. Our hypothesis was that the relationship between perceived workload and learning has a maximum point (forming a parabolic curve): that either too many or too few patients results in sub-optimal learning.

Methods: Residents on inpatient services at two academic teaching hospitals reported their team and individual patient censuses, and rated their perception of their learning; the patient …

07-05-2006 Swosu Kinesiology Department Forms Advisory Board, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2006

The Department of Kinesiology at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford recently formed an advisory board in which the members will share experiences and suggestions for an even better program at SWOSU. Chair Dr. Vicki Hatton said the department strives to have one of the best health and physical education programs in the state and the southwest United States. The advisory board will meet annually.

The Bg News July 5, 2006, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. July 5, 2006. Volume 96-Issue 156.

Most Popular Downloads -- June 2006

Institutional Repository Information

The 100 most-downloaded documents for June 2006, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons. With links.

Shemesh V. Focaccetta Ltd, Elyakim Rubinstein

Translated Opinions

Facts: The applicant, who was pregnant, and her children went to dine at the respondent’s restaurant. While dining, another customer of the respondent began to smoke. The applicant complained to the respondent but the customer continued smoking.

The applicant filed a claim in the Small Claims Court on the grounds that the smoking in the restaurant was illegal and caused her damage. The trial court held that the respondent had breached the law, but it only awarded the applicant compensation for the cost of the meal (NIS 112) plus expenses. The applicant applied for leave to appeal to the District …

2006-07-05 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2006

No abstract provided.

Abortion: Ensuring Access, Sanda Rodgers, Jocelyn Downie

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Access to reproductive health care is essential to women’s health, and for some women, abortion is a key component of that care. But not all women in Canada have adequate, or in some cases any, access to abortion. It is important for Canadian physicians to know the facts about access to abortion so that they can better protect and promote the health of their female patients.

Exploration, Normalization, And Genotype Calls Of High Density Oligonucleotide Snp Array Data, Benilton Carvalho, Terence P. Speed, Rafael A. Irizarry

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

In most microarray technologies, a number of critical steps are required to convert raw intensity measurements into the data relied upon by data analysts, biologists and clinicians. These data manipulations, referred to as preprocessing, can influence the quality of the ultimate measurements. In the last few years, the high-throughput measurement of gene expression is the most popular application of microarray technology. For this application, various groups have demonstrated that the use of modern statistical methodology can substantially improve accuracy and precision of gene expression measurements, relative to ad-hoc procedures introduced by designers and manufacturers of the technology. Currently, other applications …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 031, Number 01, July 3, 2006, Grand Valley State University

2006-2007, Volume 31

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Globality Studies Journal, No. 02, Stony Brook University. Center For Global History.

Globality Studies Journal

v. : ill. ; 28 cm (original analog pub.)

Usa V. Stewart

2006 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Aboriginal Health Workers And Diabetes Care In Remote Community Health Centres: A Mixed Method Analysis, Damin Si, Ross S. Bailie, Samantha J. Togni, Peter H N D'Abbs, Gary W. Robinson

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Objective: To assess the effect of employing Aboriginal health workers (AHWs) on delivery of diabetes care in remote community health centres, and to identify barriers related to AHWs’ involvement in diabetes and other chronic illness care.

Design, setting and participants: Three-year follow-up study of 137 Aboriginal people with type 2 diabetes in seven remote community health centres in the Northern Territory.

Main outcome measures: Delivery of guideline-scheduled diabetes services; intermediate outcomes (glycated haemoglobin [HbA1c] and blood pressure levels); number and sex of AHWs at health centres over time; barriers to AHWs’ involvement in chronic illness care.

Results: There was a …

Monitor Newsletter July 03, 2006, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 72, July 3, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Causal Comparisons In Randomized Trials Of Two Active Treatments: The Effect Of Supervised Exercise To Promote Smoking Cessation, Jason Roy, Joseph W. Hogan

COBRA Preprint Series

In behavioral medicine trials, such as smoking cessation trials, two or more active treatments are often compared. Noncompliance by some subjects with their assigned treatment poses a challenge to the data analyst. Causal parameters of interest might include those defined by subpopulations based on their potential compliance status under each assignment, using the principal stratification framework (e.g., causal effect of new therapy compared to standard therapy among subjects that would comply with either intervention). Even if subjects in one arm do not have access to the other treatment(s), the causal effect of each treatment typically can only be identified from …

The Effect Of Hus1 On Ionizing Radiation Sensitivity Is Associated With Homologous Recombination Repair But Is Independent Of Non-Homologous End-Joining, Robert S. Weiss, Xiang Wang, Baocheng Hu, Ya Wang

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

Mammalian Hus1 plays an important role in maintaining genomic integrity. Cells lacking mouse Hus1 are hypersensitive to DNA damage inducers including UV and camptothecin (CPT). By using clonogenic assay, we show here that Hus1 deficient mouse cells are hypersensitive to ionizing radiation (IR) compared with their Hus1-positive counterparts. However, these cells show similar induction levels and similar rejoining rates of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) following IR, indicating that the effect of Hus1 on cell radiosensitivity is independent of non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ). By combining an I-SceI-induced-DNA DSBs system and a siRNA approach, we also show that knocking down Hus1 decreases …

Murray Ledger And Times, July 3, 2006, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Docket Entry 18504 - Skokomish Indian Tribe's Reponse In Opposition To Motion To Dismiss (Sub. 05-Sp-2, Docket Entry 64)

Dockets & Filings: U.S. v. Washington (70-cv-9213)

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 2, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2006

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 2, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2006

No abstract provided.

Yellow And Dalmatian Toadflax, Darrell Deneke, Mike Moechnig, Ron Moehring, Brenda Sievers

SDSU Extension Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.

Holy Cross Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 3, Summer 2006, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Magazine

The Cartoon World of Leo Cullum ’63
Joining the illustrious ranks of Thurber, Adams and Feiffer, Leo Cullum ’63 has become one of the premier cartoonists at The New Yorker. Find out how this former globetrotting pilot traded in the jet for the canvas and, in the process, created a unique and hilarious world that gently skewers our own.
By James Dempsey

Abdi’s Dream
Abdi Lidonde came to Mount St. James from Kenya over 20 years ago. Today, this campus icon is a man with a mission. Education, argues Abdi, is the best answer to a host of societal ills. …

Senior Professionals, July 2007, Illinois State University, Office Of The Provost

Senior Professionals Newsletter

Newsletter for the Illinois State University Office of the Provost