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Measuring The Influence Of Built Neighborhood Environments On Walking In Older Adults, Yvonne L. Michael, Tracey Beard, Dongseok Choi, Stephanie Farquhar, Nichole Carlson

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Examined the degree of association between perceived and objective characteristics of the neighborhood environment and the relation of each type of measurement to neighborhood walking in older adults. Participants included 105 adults aged 65-92 (mean age 75.1) from 10 neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, participating in Senior Health and Physical Exercise (SHAPE), a randomized walking intervention. Neighborhoods were stratified by a "walking friendliness" ranking variable. This variable was derived for each neighborhood based on available social and environmental data that were hypothesized to correlate with walking and physical activity: high income, high older adult population density, high proportion of white residents, …

July 1, 2006 (Pages 3221-3510), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 36 (2006)

No abstract provided.

Altered Gene Expression Induced By Ionizing Radiation And Glycolytic Inhibitor 2-Deoxy-Glucose In A Human Glioma Cell Line: Implications For Radio Sensitization, Katherine Heminger, Viney Jain, Madhavi Kadakia, B. Dwarakanath, Steven J. Berberich

Educator Preparation & Leadership Faculty Works

The glycolytic inhibitor 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DG) has been shown to enhance the cell death induced by radiation and other DNA damaging agents selectively in cells with high rates of glycolysis, like cancer cells. While energy linked modification of DNA and cellular repair processes have been suggested as possible mechanisms of sensitization, other effects such as global stress response cannot be excluded. In this pilot study, we have investigated the effect of 2-DG and radiation on the transcriptome in an attempt to elucidate how 2-DG impacts gene expression in undamaged verses irradiation (IR) damaged cells using a human malignant glioma cell line, …

The Relationship Between The Health Behaviors Of Female University Freshmen And Their Academic Success, Courtney Taylor

MSN Research Projects

The purpose o f this study was to characterize the relationship between the health behaviors and academic achievement o f university women. To this end, female freshmen at Mississippi University for Women were given questionnaires measuring their healthrelated lifestyle habits that were then correlated with the students’ grade point averages. Lifestyle habits were assessed via the Wellness Worksheet questionnaire (WW), and academic success, first semester grade point averages (GPA). The analysis revealed a moderately weak and positive relationship between healthier lifestyle choices and first semester GPA, r = .34. Among the behaviors addressed by the WW, alcohol and other drug …

A Brother, Some Sex, And An Optic Nerve, Mona Houghton

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

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Harpur Palate, Volume 6 Issue 1, Summer 2006, Harpur Palate .

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

Editor: J. D. Schraffenberger | Associate Editor: Kathryn Henion | Fiction Editors: Giselda Beaudin and Maggie Gerrity | Poetry Editors: Carolyn Fargnoli, Josh Keiter, and Deborah Poe | Layout Editor: Cannonn Roberts | Art Editor: Lynne Schneider | Advisory Editor: Catherine Dent | Founding Editor: Toiya Kristen Finley | Interns: Margart Cooper, Ann Marie Genzale, Dana Haitkin, and Tiffani Incorvaia

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine Of The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 17, Summer 2006), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua35/8 The Topper, Wku Veterans Upward Bound

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter published by WKU Veterans Upward Bound contains articles and calender of events.

Preventing The Hybrid From Backfiring: Delivery Of Benefits To The Working Poor Through The Tax System, Leslie Book

Working Paper Series

This article analyzes the government’s increased use of the tax system to deliver benefits to the working poor. The hybrid in this article is the earned income tax credit (EITC), one of the country’s largest anti-poverty programs. The EITC is hybrid in that it is administered in the tax system but is increasingly redistributive, like traditional welfare programs. It reveals that the hybrid tax and welfare nature of the delivery of benefits to the working poor through the tax system results in some significant benefits, such as higher participation and lower administrative costs, but also a weakness in the form …

A Prairie Rendezvous, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2006), Grand Prairie Friends, Prairie Grove Volunteers

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Identification Of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) Marajoara (Diptera: Culicidae) In Bolivia Using Polymerase Chain Reaction And A Restriction Endonuclease, Gary Fritz, C. L. Brelsfoard, R. Rodriguez

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) marajoara Galvão & Damasceno (Diptera: Culicidae) is a member of the Albitarsis cryptic species complex and is a primary vector of human Plasmodium in parts of Brazil. We report the first record of An. marajoara in the department of Cochabamba and confirm its presence in the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. We also describe a PCR protocol producing a single amplicon (≈340 bp) of a section of the internal transcribed spacer 2 specific for members of the Albitarsis species complex; the polymerase chain reaction protocol did not amplify the DNA of 17 other species in the subgenus Nyssorhynchus. …

Flower Insects And Related Pests, Larry A. Sagers

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

Endangered Species Bulletin, July 2006 - Vol. Xxxi No. 2

Endangered Species Bulletin

In this issue:
4 Defense and Conservation: Compatible Missions
8 Wildlife Conservation and the U.S. Army
10 Desert Tortoises Get Help From the Marines
12 Eggert’s Sunflower Prospers at Arnold AFB
14 In Defense of Coral Reefs
16 Army’s Hawaiian Plant Propagation Aids Recovery
18 Cooperative Manatee Research in Puerto Rico
20 Army National Guard Discovers a Tough Little Shrimp
22 Partners Save the Sonoran Pronghorn
24 Fort Riley’s Prairie Partnership
26 What’s the Rush at Warren Grove Gunnery Range?
28 Woodpeckers Find a Home at Fort Bragg
31 North Carolina Plant is (Re)discovered!
32 Of Tanks and Birds
34 …

Time Course Of Substance P Expression In Dorsal Root Ganglia Following Complete Spinal Nerve Transection, Wendy Weissner, Barbara J. Winterson, Alan Stuart-Tilley, Marshall Devor, Geoffrey M. Bove

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

Recent evidence suggests that substance P (SP) is upregulated in primary sensory neurons following axotomy, and that this change occurs in larger neurons that do not usually produce SP. If so, this upregulation may allow normally neighboring, uninjured, and non-nociceptive dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons to become effective in activating pain pathways. Using immunohistochemistry, we performed a unilateral L5 spinal nerve transection upon male Wistar rats, and measured SP expression in ipsilateral L4 and L5 DRGs and contralateral L5 DRGs, at 1 to 14 days postoperatively (dpo), and in control and sham operated rats. In normal and sham operated DRGs, …

Lawrence Today, Volume 86, Number 4, Summer 2006, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: July, 2006, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Soil Microbial Community Composition As Affected By Restoration Practices In California Grassland, Rebecca E. Drenovsky, Martin Pothoff, Kerri L. Steenwerth, Louise E. Jackson, Rainer G. Joergensen, Kate M. Scow

Biology

Agricultural practices have strong impacts on soil microbes including both the indices related to biomass and activity as well as those related to community composition. In a grassland restoration project in California, where native perennial bunchgrasses were introduced into non-native annual grassland after a period of intensive tillage, weeding, and herbicide use to reduce the annual seed bank, microbial community composition was investigated. Three treatments were compared: annual grassland, bare soil fallow, and restored perennial grassland. Soil profiles down to 80cm in depth were investigated in four separate layers (0–15, 15–30, 30–60, and 60–80cm) using both phospholipid ester-linked fatty acid …

Molecular Modeling Of Proteins And Peptides Related To Cell Attachment In Vivo And In Vitro, Wanhua Zhao

Doctoral Dissertations

Polypeptides constitute half of the dry mass of the cell, they form the bulk of the extracellular matrix (ECM), and they are a common element of extra- and intracellular signaling pathways. There is increasing interest in the development of computational methods in polypeptide and protein engineering on all length scales. This research concerns the development of computational methods for study of polypeptide interactions related to cell attachment in vivo and in vitro.

Polypeptides are inherently biocompatible, and an astronomical range of unique sequences can be designed and realized in massive quantities by modern methods of synthesis and purification. These …

Improving Science Learning, John Ainley

Research Developments

Science education experts have called for an urgent re-thinking of the way science is taught in Australia arguing that a greater focus on enquiry and reasoning is needed to boost students’ waning interest in science as John Ainley explains. The recent ACER conference Boosting science learning: what will it take? concluded with a session led by a panel of experts developing a three-point proposal for science education.

Bathypelagic Fish Association With The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Tracey Sutton, F. Uiblein, I. Byrkjedal, A. Dolgov, M. Heino, J. Horne, N. King, Tone Falkenhaug, O. R. Godo, Odd Aksel Bergstad

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

The bathypelagic zone, Earth’s largest living space, is essentially boundless in three dimensions for most of its extent, structured only by fluid features (e.g., salinity, temperature) of the seawater itself. However, near certain topographic features this zone intersects the seafloor. The mid-ocean ridge system is by far the largest of these features. Unlike the ecosystems of the continental margins, the mid-ocean ridge systems do not receive terrigenous nutrient inputs. Thus, the deep-water fauna associated with mid-ocean ridges ultimately depend on the generally limited local surface production. Despite this limited surface production, there is evidence that near-ridge demersal fish biomass is …

Nimbus (Summer 2006), New College Alumnae/I Association

Alumnae/i Association Collection

No abstract provided.

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 28, No. 2, Late Spring 2006., Scott Lyell Gardner

American Society of Parasitologists: Newsletter

An issue of the American Society of Parasitologists' quarterly newsletter, also called the Journal of Parasitology Newsletter.

Circulation, Vol. 13, No. 2, Center For Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Michael Ott

CCPO Circulation

Summer 2006 issue of CCPO Circulation featuring article "Chesapeake Bay Mouth Monitoring Program" by Dr. Michael Ott

Long Wars Of Political Order - Sovereignty And Choice: The Fourth Amendment And The Modern Trilemma, Harvey Rishikof

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Stochastic Propagation Modeling And Early Detection Of Malicious Mobile Code, Xin Xu

Doctoral Dissertations

Epidemic models are commonly used to model the propagation of malicious mobile code like a computer virus or a worm. In this dissertation, we introduce stochastic techniques to describe the propagation behavior of malicious mobile code. We propose a stochastic infection-immunization (INIM) model based on the standard Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) epidemic model, and we get an explicit solution of this model using probability generating function (pgf.). Our experiments simulate the propagation of malicious mobile code with immunization. The simulation results match the theoretical results of the model, which indicates that it is reliable to use INIM model to predict the propagation …

2005-2006 - Graduate Council Annual Report, College Of Graduate And Continuing Studies, East Tennessee State University

Graduate Council Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Incorporating Policymaker Costs And Political Competition Into Rent-Seeking Games, R. Kenneth Godwin, Edward J. Lopez, Barry J. Seldon

Faculty Publications

We incorporate policymaker costs of supplying rents and variable intensities of competition among rent seekers into the standard rent-seeking game. By incorporating these aspects, the game has greater verisimilitude to the lobbying process. The first aspect captures the fact that in rent-seeking contests there is a positive probability that neither firm will obtain the rent. The second aspect captures the fact that firms seeking different rents still must compete for policymakers' resources. We find that lobbying expenditures, rent-seeking profits, and rent dissipation depend on the intensity of competition and the value of the rent relative to policymaker costs. For example, …

Scwds Briefs: Volume 22, Number 2 (July 2006 )

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications

SCWDS BRIEFS
July 2006
USDA Publishes Final CWD Rule
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Herd Certification Program and Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer
International Avian Influenza Conferences
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 viruses
HPAI H5N1
Two New NIH Grants & Three New Grad Students
Trypanosoma cruzi
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis)
Dr. Susan Little
Borrelia lonestari
Southern Tick- Associated Rash Illness (STARI)
Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick
Dr. Michael Yabsley
Protozoal Epidemics Among Frogs in Georgia
Rana heckscheri
Perkinsus-like protozoan
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Parasite & Disease Problems in Mourning Doves
West Nile virus
Ascardia columbae
Trichomonas gallinae …

An Optimal Control And Options Theory Approach To Forecasting And Managing Sustainable Systems, Y. Shastri, U. Diwekar

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Sustainable management of the natural systems is essential in the presence of anthropogenic andnatural disasters. Fisher information based measure and hypothesis have been proposed to quantify the sustainabilityof natural systems, which are used in this work to formulate management objectives. Since uncertaintyis omnipresent in natural systems, its consideration is important. Real options theory deals extensively with therepresentation and forecasting of uncertainty. The options theory, with the Ito mean reverting process, is usedto represent uncertainty, and optimal control theory is used to derive time dependent decisions. The idea isimplemented on a three species predator-prey model. The results highlight the effect of …

Ten Steps Applied To Development And Evaluation Of Process-Based Biogeochemical Models Of Estuaries, Barbara J. Robson, Ian T. Webster, David P. Hamilton, Terence Chan, Teemu Kokkonen

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The procedures involved in model development may be set out ten-step process, beginning with defining the purpose of the model and ending with evaluation of the appropriateness and utility of the completed model. This process, recently outlined by Jakerman et al. [2006], is often iterative as model development is a continuous process that refines and improves the indented capacity of the model. Here, we show how the ten steps of model development are relevant to process-based biogeochemical modeling of aquatic systems, using examples from two case studies: a model of phytoplankton succession and nutrient concentrations in the Swan-Canning Estuary (Western …