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Keeping The Public In The Public Use Requirement: Acquisition Of Land By Eminent Domain For New Sports Stadiums Should Require More Than Hypothetical Jobs And Tax Revenues To Meet The Public Use Requirement, Vanessa Bovo

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

31 | ‘En Esur (‘Ein Asawir) I: Excavatios At A Protohistoric Site In The Coastal Plain Of Israel, Eli Yannai

IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

‘En Esur is a large, multi-level protohistoric site with a sequence of settlements from the Neolithic, Early Chalcolithic, Late Chalcolithic periods and Early Bronze Age I. It grew up in an area of copious springs and rich alluvial fields in the northern Sharon Plain. A large-scale salvage excavation in 1993, and further excavations in 1999 and 2004, revealed exceptional architectural and material-cultural finds, including rich pottery, flint and groundstone assemblages.

The Role Of The Cytokines And Cell-Adhesion Molecules On The Immunopathology Of Acute Appendicitis, Mahmood Y. Hachim, Abdulrazak H. Ahmed

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To study the local expression of the proinflammatory cytokine such as interferon gamma and anti-inflammatory cytokine like interleukin-10 (IL-10) and their role in cell adhesion molecules (CAM) expression on the surface of endothelial cell at the site of inflammation in acute appendicitis. The local expression of these cytokines and CAM was correlated with clinical findings to shed light on their role in the pathogenesis of acute appendicitis. METHODS: Thirty-five patients with acute appendicitis and 6 apparently normal appendices were removed incidentally from individuals presented with problems other than appendicitis, were included in this prospective study. They were attendant of …

The Synovial Plicae In The Knee Joint, Hulya Gurbuz, Osman U. Calpur, Mert Ozcan, Tunc Kutoglu, Recep Mesut

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate and evaluate the prevalence of 4 kinds of synovial plicae named according to patella, which are inferior, medial, lateral and superior. METHODS: We evaluated plicae in 318 knee arthroscopies through video records, obtained from January 1994 to December 2002 in the Arthroscopy Unit, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey. In addition, we also investigated plicae in 7 bilateral knee cadavers. RESULTS: In the arthroscopic evaluation, the prevalence of infrapatellar synovial plica was 194 (61%), mediopatellar plica was 302 (95%), lateral patellar plica was 66 (20.7%) and suprapatellar plica was 184 (57.8%). We …

Prevalence Of Malnutrition Among End-Stage Renal Disease Patients In Jordanian Hospitals, Reema F. Tayyem, Iman M. Ahmad

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Avian Influenza. Is There An Islamic Solution?, Harunor Rashid

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Análisis Y Terapia Del Comportamiento En Chileorígenes, Estado Actual Y Proyecciones, Pablo E. Vera-Villarroel, Luis Montesinos, Arturo Prieto

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A review of the origins, status and future of Behavior Analysis and behavioral applications in Chile is presented. The first systematic applications and training started at the end of the sixties when Sergio Yulis introduced Behavior Therapy in his psychotherapy courses. During the first years a variety of basic and applied studies were conducted. Durihg 1973 many faculty members had to abandon the country resulting in a slowing of the development of the behavioral approach. Today the approach is considered essential in the education and training of future psychologists and other health professionals, in spite of that, it not being …

“Let Every One Of Us Take His Gun And Put Himself In The Ranks”: The Louisiana Native Guard's Defiance Of Antebellum Ideas Of Gender And Race, 1861–1863, Jeremy B. Taylor

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The Louisiana Native Guards are an appropriate topic for the study of the relationship between gender and race in Civil War era America. After Louisiana seceded in 1861, free men of color from New Orleans began an odyssey that led them to fight on both sides of the conflict. They eventually became the first black regiment mustered into the United States military and the only one to have black officers.

This study will attempt to demonstrate how the men of the Louisiana Native Guard helped redefine the nineteenth century ideas of manliness. Through their soldiering these men demonstrated qualities associated …

Identifying *Assessment Practices In Undergraduate Accounting Programs, Anna L. Lusher

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The researcher conducted a survey of 786 baccalaureate accounting programs in the United States to determine the content and structure of their assessment plans. The study focused on five essential workplace skills: critical thinking, information literacy, oral communication, problem solving, and written communication. It examined the accounting programs and related assessment plans to determine whether the identified skills were integrated into the curriculum and were identified as learning outcomes in the assessment process. The study evaluated how faculty assess students' skills and how assessment results are used to make changes in programs and to improve student learning. The research also …

Relationship Between Self-Esteem And Academic Achievement Among College Undergraduates, Jennifer Lynn Geletko

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The author investigated the relationship between undergraduates' self-esteem, current cumulative grade point average, race, and gender. A sample of 160 undergraduate students from West Virginia University completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. In addition, the participants completed a demographic page, which included questions about their race, gender, and grade point average. The author assessed the relationship by performing a three way analysis of variance between the variables. In addition, Chi Square tests and correlations were run to test any further relationships. The results showed no correlation between self-esteem and grade point average. There were no significant main effects for gender or …

Journal Staff

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.

Vol 51 #3, Judy Zelenski

MPLA Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Putting The Ninth Ward On The Map: Race, Place, And Transformation In Desire, New Orleans, Rachel Breunlin

Anthropology Faculty Publications

In this article, we consider how long-term patterns of resistance to structural violence inform citizens’ responses to displacement before and after Katrina. Drawing on Abdou Maliq Simone’s (2004) conceptualization of people as infrastructure, we recenter the discussion about the rebuilding of New Orleans around displaced residents, taking the place-making practices of members of a social club as a lens through which to examine the predicament of the city as a whole. Members have been generating alternative ways of thinking about and dwelling together in a restructuring city. Their perspectives are articulated through in-depth interviews, focus groups, and the embodied practices …

The Restless World Of Leonardo Alishan (March 1951–January 2005): A Burnt Offering On The Altar Of The Armenian Genocide, Rubina Peroomian

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

In his short career as a writer, poet, and literary critic, Leonardo Alishan left a rich literary legacy, a legacy that is not widely known. This article attempts to shed light on an important segment of his literary output: his creations in the genre of genocide literature. Alishan was a third-generation survivor of the Armenian Genocide, the inheritor of his grandmother’s devastating memories, living in the grip of the nightmare of the Catastrophe, never able to transcend it. The everpresent pain that dragged his grandmother from one mental hospital to another reverberated in his literary work, painting a microcosm of …

Book Review: Laurel Leff. Buried By The Times: The Holocaust And America's Most Important Newspaper, Janine Minkler

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Why did the New York Times persistently bury news of the Holocaust? asks Laurel Leff in her dramatic historical account of ‘‘America’s most important newspaper.’’ Leff, associate professor at Northeastern University and former journalist for the Wall Street Journal and Miami Herald, examines the complex combination of forces that led the Times to relegate news of the Holocaust to secondary status. She also sustains an uncompromising critique of this period in New York Times history. ‘‘No American newspaper was better positioned to highlight the Holocaust than the Times, and no American newspaper so influenced public discourse by its failure to …

Errata

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

The Colby Echo (2006-12-01), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Regional Fears Of Western Primacy And The Future Of U.S. Middle Eastern Basing Policy, W. Andrew Terrill Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The United States has a core national interest in maintaining peace and stability in the Middle East as well as containing or eliminating threats emanating from that region. Yet, there is often disagreement on the ways to best achieve these goals. The author seeks to present his analysis of how the United States and other Western states might best address their military cooperation and basing needs within the Middle East, while still respecting and working with an understanding of regional and especially Arab history and concerns. He also provides policy recommendations based upon his analysis.

Challenging Transformation's Clichés, Antulio J. Echevarria Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Critical thinkers analyze and refine ideas underpinning the foundation of American defense policy and military strategy today so the defense community can apply them in strategy and force development. This is an ongoing process: new ideas emerge, are tested, and adopted, revised, or discarded. The author challenges some of the accepted notions that have become foundational to contemporary theories of military transformation. In his view, any endeavor as resource-intensive as military transformation is too important to rest on uncontested truths.

Identifying Landscape Scale Patterns From Individual Scale Processes, Andrew J. Tyre, Brigitte Tenhumberg, C. Michael Bull

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Extrapolating across scales is a critical problem in ecology. Explicit mechanistic models of ecological systems provide a bridge from measurements of processes at small and short scales to larger scales; spatial patterns at large scales can be used to test the outcomes of these models. However, it is necessary to identify patterns that are not dependent on initial conditions, because small scale initial conditions will not normally be measured at large scales. We examined one possible pattern that could meet these conditions, the relationship between mean and variance in abundance of a parasitic tick in an individual based model of …

Spatial And Temporal Variation In Cores From Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/Peru During The Last 13,000 Years, Sherilyn C. Fritz, P. A. Baker, P. Tapia, J. Garland

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

We compared the stratigraphy of sediment cores that span the last 13,000 yrs from three sites in the main basin of Lake Titicaca, Boliva/Peru as indicators of regional paleoclimate. The cores show similar patterns of change after ~6,400 calendar yrs before present (cal yr BP) but differ before that time. Site NE98-PC2, which is near the Rio Illave and its delta, shows differences in diatom species composition and in calcium carbonate concentrations relative to cores from the other two sites, particularly during times of inferred high precipitation. In contrast, the carbon isotopic stratigraphy of the three sites is relatively similar. …

Acute Coronary Syndrome. An Acute Inflammatory Syndrome, Wael Elabbassi, Arif Al-Nooryani

Saudi Medical Journal

Atherosclerosis begins with the accumulation of small lipoprotein particles within arterial intima. These particles coalesce together and are modified and then they induce localized endothelial inflammation, thereby attracting leukocytes. Scavenger receptors over the surface of monocytes bind to the modified low density lipoprotein particles, which transform into foam cells that become a source for further inflammatory cytokines. The level of inflammation is heightened in ruptured coronary plaques. In patients dying of an acute myocardial infarction, the level of inflammation is heightened in all lesions in the coronary tree. The inflammatory reaction in acute coronary syndrome is not confined to cellular …

Relationship Of Tel Hashomer Criteria And Mediterranean Fever Gene Mutations In A Cohort Of Turkish Familial Mediterranean Fever Patients, Hale Samli, Omer Dogru, Aysegul Bukulmez, Erdinc Yuksel, Fahri Ovali, Mustafa Solak

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the frequency of 5 mutations and their relationship with the Tel Hashomer criteria in 85 FMF patients. METHODS: We looked for mutations in the Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene in 84 consecutive patients who admitted to the Department of Medical Genetics of Afyon Kocatepe University, with a variable (from high to low) clinical suspicion of FMF. By using polymerase chain reaction and Hybridization-ELISA methods, 5 mutations (M694V, M694I, V726A, M680I and E148Q) have been studied between December 2002 and January 2005. RESULTS: We detected homozygote mutations in 12 patients (25.3%) and heterozygote mutations in 23 patients (48.9%) out …

Intravenous Immunoglobulin In Abo And Rh Hemolytic Diseases Of Newborn, Fatemeh Nasseri, Gholam A. Mamouri, Homa Babaei

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether the use of intravenous immunoglobulin in newborn infants with isoimmune hemolytic jaundice due to Rh and ABO incompatibility is an effective treatment in reducing the need for exchange transfusion. METHODS: This study included all direct Coombs9 test positive Rh and ABO isoimmunized babies, who admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Ghaem Hospital of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran, from October 2003 to October 2004. Significant hyperbilirubinemia was defined as rising by >/-0.5 mg/dl per hour. Babies were randomly assigned to received phototherapy with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) 0.5 g/kg over 4 hours, every 12 …

Is Routine Pre-Operative Blood Testing In Children Necessary?, Mohammad S. Mallick

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the value of routine pre-operative investigations in children scheduled to undergo routine minor elective surgical procedures under general anesthesia. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective chart review of 342 children who presented for elective minor surgical procedures in the Division of Pediatric Surgery, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from January 2004 to December 2004. Pre-operative investigations (full blood count, urea and electrolytes) were analyzed in terms of frequency of abnormalities and whether or not the preoperative management was changed when the results were abnormal. We also examined the relationship between abnormal results and complications and the …

Fate Of Bulk Autografts In Uncemented Total Hip Arthroplasty. Evaluation By Bone Scintigraphy, Aykin Simsek, Erdal Cila, Ertugrul Sener, Alpaslan Senkoylu, Serkan Sipahioglu, Ozgur Akdemir, Tamer Atasever

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To review short term results of uncemented cup implantation and the fate of bulk femoral head autografts in patients with acetabular bone deficiency due to dysplasia of the hip. We used bone scintigraphy to assess the viability of the grafts. METHODS: We treated 19 hip joints of 17 patients with osteoarthritis due to developmental dysplasia of the hip with uncemented total hip arthroplasty between 1997-2003 in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. The average age was 49.1 (31-72 years), and the average follow up period was 36 months. We used femoral head autografts to reconstruct …

Subcutaneous Administration Of Testosterone. A Pilot Study Report, Abdullah M. Al-Futaisi, Ibrahim S. Al-Zakwani, Abdulaziz M. Almahrezi, David Morris

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of low doses of subcutaneous testosterone in hypogonadal men since the intramuscular route, which is the most widely used form of testosterone replacement therapy, is inconvenient to many patients. METHODS: All men with primary and secondary hypogonadism attending the reproductive endocrine clinic at Royal Victoria Hospital, Monteral, Quebec, Canada, were invited to participate in the study. Subjects were enrolled from January 2002 till December 2002. Patients were asked to self-administer weekly low doses of testosterone enanthate using 0.5 ml insulin syringe. RESULTS: A total of 22 patients were enrolled in the study. The mean trough …

Effects Of Epidural Analgesia Using Ropivacaine On The Mother And The Newborn During Labor, Semih Tugrul, Ozay Oral, Murat Bakacak, Husamettin Uslu, Oya Pekin

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of epidural analgesia using 0.2% Ropivacaine on the mother, newborn and during labor. METHODS: This study was conducted at the Zeynep Kamil Obstetric, Gynecology, and Pediatric Research and Training Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, between July 2003 and April 2004. Eighty pregnant women of 37-41 weeks9 gestation were enrolled in the study. Forty cases received epidural analgesia (group 1) and the control group composed 40 cases (group 2). Duration of labor, systolic and diastolic blood pressures at initial, 15th, 30th, 45th and 60th minutes, and number of breathing per minute, pulse rates, fetal heart rates and …

Prehospital Period In Patients With Myocardial Infarction In Turkey, Ganime Sadikoglu, Hande C. Mehmetoglu, Ertugrul Mehmetoglu, Dilek Yesilbursa

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To identify the causes that affect the time from the onset of symptoms to admission to the hospital, in patients with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS: The study was carried out between January 2004 and January 2005 in the Emergency Room of the Uludag University Faculty of Medicine (UUFM) Hospital, Turkey. A total of 180 patients were included. Residents of the UUFM Department of Cardiology distributed a questionnaire to all patients. Socioeconomic level was determined by scoring the socioeconomic factors. For statistical analyses we used the SPSS 13.0 statistical software. RESULTS: Of the 180 patients, 79.4% …

Pain Clinic Experience In A Teaching Hospital In Western, Saudi Arabia. Relationship Of Patient's Age And Gender To Various Types Of Pain, Abdullah M. Kaki

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To show the practice of a pain clinic in Saudi Arabia, to estimate the prevalence of various types of chronic pain managed in there and to find the relationship of patient9s age and gender to type of pain. METHODS: A retrospective study was carried out over a period of 5 years (January 2000 - December 2004) at a teaching hospital in Jeddah. A total of 1686 patient9s data was reviewed, including the giving diagnosis, types of pain and demographic data. RESULTS: The common age was 50-59 years (25.4%), with a preponderance of female (56.8%) over male (43.2%). For given …