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Meet Our Surgical Interns

Jefferson Surgical Solutions

The staff of the Department of Surgery at Jefferson is currently assisted by an exceptional group of interns. Pictured left to right, they are: Hamid Abdollahi, MD, Jefferson Medical College (JMC), Class of 2005; Lisa Harris, MD, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, Class of 2005; Matthew Rosen, MD, JMC, Class of 2005; Jennifer Sullivan, MD, University of Maryland, College Park, Class of 2005; Nikolai Bildzukewicz, MD, JMC, Class of 2001 (followed by military service as a flight surgeon in the United States Navy); and Daniel Lefebvre, MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, Class of 2005. …

Overview From The Chairman, Charles J. Yeo

Jefferson Surgical Solutions

I’m energized to be leading Jefferson’s outstanding Department of Surgery. Moving forward, my vision includes:

• Nurturing a culture of continuous clinical excellence through team building, selected recruitments and Centers of Excellence for various clinical programs
• Increasing scholarly output, facilitated by the electronic medical records system, implementation of critical pathways and our department Web master
• Organizing a clinical research center to improve our clinical database capabilities, beginning with implementation of the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
• Fostering improved basic science and translational research by taking advantage of Jefferson’s Center for Translational Medicine and the Kimmel Cancer Center …

The Kimberley Process: Evidence Of Change In International Law, Jamila D. Holmes

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.

Galactoxylomannan Does Not Exhibit Cross-Reactivity In The Platelia Aspergillus Enzyme Immunoassay, Magdia De Jesus

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Given the recent report of a false-positive result in the Platelia Aspergillus enzyme immunoassay in a patient with cryptococcosis and in yeast extracts and purified galactoxylomannan of Cryptococcus neoformans, we evaluated culture extracts, purified polysaccharides, clinical specimens, and specimens from animals following experimental infection. Our results revealed no cross-reactions.

Trabecular Calcium Phosphate Scaffolds For Bone Regeneration, Mark Ryan Appleford

Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

Bone tissue engineering represents a strategy for the repair or regeneration of damaged bone in the body. The science underlying this clinical therapy bridges the traditional fields of cell biology, materials science and mechanical engineering with the aim to identify how cells behave on physiologically relevant materials with natural mechanical stimuli. The objectives of this research were to develop and characterize calcium phosphate ceramic scaffolds matched to the local architecture of natural trabecular bone and to apply tissue engineering strategies for the study of cell behavior in both in vitro and in vivo models.The specific role of environment on cell …

Depth And Size Limits For The Visibility Of Veins Using The Veinviewer Imaging System, Soujanya Ganesh

Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

Administration of fluids or medication and blood draw procedures require the nurse or the phlebotomist to access the veins in patients at hospitals or phlebotomy centers. It is important to minimize the discomfort associated with sticking needles in the patient more than once and most often, necessary to find an appropriate vein within few minutes. However, problems involved in accessing veins in pediatric and obese patients make it very difficult to perform a successful stick in a short time. The VeinViewer Imaging System is an infrared imaging device that provides the nurses and phlebotomists a means for locating veins in …

Gaming The System: The Seventh Circuit Prefers Its Video Games Violent, Not Sexy, Michael J. Aschenbrener

Seventh Circuit Review

The U.S. Supreme Court holds that obscenity warrants no First Amendment protection whereas violent speech garners complete constitutional protection. In Entertainment Software Association v. Blagojevich, et al., the Seventh Circuit struck down two statutes regulating the sale of sexually explicit and violent video games to minors for violating the First Amendment. While the Seventh Circuit correctly applied Supreme Court precedent, it strained to find any logic to support holding the two categories of speech to different levels of protection. Accordingly, this Note will argue that the Supreme Court should grant full First Amendment protection to obscenity. It will also …

Licensee Beware: The Seventh Circuit Holds That A Patent License By Any Other Name Is Not The Same, Cameron R. Sneddon

Seventh Circuit Review

In a case of first impression, the Seventh Circuit incorrectly held that a settlement agreement for patent infringement may never be considered a license. In Waterloo Furniture Components Ltd. v. Haworth, Inc., the court mischaracterizes the nature of license agreements and their relationship to the rights of patent holders. It does so by drawing a potential false dichotomy between settlements and licensing agreements. In this holding, the court misunderstands the purpose of a license agreement, its legal effects, and its dual prospective and retrospective qualities as recognized by the Federal Circuit and other appellate courts.

Love, Nsu University School

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

Fertility In Developing Countries, T. Paul Schultz

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Managing Livestock Grazing Distribution On South Dakota Rangelands, Eric M. Mousel

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Improving grazing distribution in pastures and on rangeland in South Dakota can increase utilization of the forage resource and animal performance. Managing proper grazing distribution is just one aspect of an overall grazing management plan.

Managing Smooth Bromegrass Pastures In South Dakota, Eric M. Mousel, Alexander J. Smart

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Smooth bromegrass is a cool-season grass introduced into the U.S. in the latter part of the 19th century. Because of its highly developed root system, smooth bromegrass is resistant to wide temperature extremes and extensive drought. This resistance has allowed it to become a dominant species in pastures and on native rangeland in eastern and central South Dakota. It is a leafy and sod-forming perennial that spreads aggressively through seeds and rhizomes and establishes well on deep, well-drained silt, clay loam, or sandy soils (Fig 1).

The Evolution Of Human Spirituality, Allen S. Maller

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Europe And The Christian Democracy Movement: A Once And Future Hope?, Allan Carlson

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Darfur: Genocide In The 21st Century, Victoria Goff

Senior Honors Projects

The conflict in Darfur has been described as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” by the United Nations, and the United States has condemned the war as genocide. But four years later, the death toll of 200,000 continues to rise. At least another 2.5 million have been displaced, and neighboring countries have declared a state of emergency. Unless something is done to stop the violence, the chaos will continue to spread. Frustrated with lack of representation in the government, rebel groups from Darfur – the western region of Africa’s largest country, Sudan – revolted against its national government in 2003. The …

A Comparison Of Pyronin Y-Methyl Green Stain And Methylene Blue Stain For Somatic Cell Count In Sheep Milk, Emily Mirek, Stacey O’Donnell

Senior Honors Projects

Somatic cell count is a key method used to evaluate the quality of milk in today’s growing dairy sheep industry. Somatic cells are body cells, primarily the white blood cells, found in a milk sample. If an infection such as mastitis is present, the number of somatic cells in the milk increases (Gonzalo, et al. 1992). Producers routinely perform somatic cell counts on cow and goat milk. For dairy cattle in the United States, the somatic cell count can not exceed 750,000 cells per milliliter, for commercial milk. For dairy goats the accepted limit is 1,000,000 cells per mL of …

Mechanics Of Suction Generation During Feeding In Little Skates, Danielle Duquette

Senior Honors Projects

Feeding mechanisms of aquatic vertebrates has been extensively studied in the past, while that of elasmobranchs remains limited. Skates and rays are believed to have evolved from a shark ancestor, thus they represent the most derived group. All skates are dorsoventrally compressed, have a unique jaw suspension type and head skeleton and live in benthic environments. It is unknown whether these derived features of skates have altered the ancestral shark feeding mechanism. Comparing feeding mechanisms in skates and sharks may shed light on morphological transformations that have arisen after the evolutionary split of these two groups. In this study prey …

Center For Grassland Studies Newsletter, Spring 2007, Volume 13, No. 2

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

Contents

• Using Dried Distillers Grains to Substitute for Forage and Nitrogen Fertilizer: Nitrogen Dynamics and Use Efficiency by Matt Greenquist and Terry Klopfenstein

• From the Director

• 2007 Nike Golf Camp in Lincoln This July.

• Did You Know There Is an Environmental Institute for Golf?

• Program for 2007 Nebraska Grazing Conference

• Group Studies Great Plains Fire History by Charles Flowerday

• Summer Fire and Post-Fire Grazing Management by Lance Vermeire

A Review Of Marcus Borg's Meeting Jesus Again For The First Time, Sean P. Connors

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time was written by Marcus J. Borg and was first published in 1994. Much of the information and theories found within the book came from and annual lecture Borg gave at the Northern California Conference of the United Church of Christ at Asilomar, California in 1992. The main idea of Borg’s novel is that “there is a strong connection between images of Jesus and images of the Christian life, between how we think of Jesus and how we think of the Christian …

Georgia Landlord-Tenant Law, A. Andre Hendrick

Law Library Student-Authored Works

No abstract provided.

Information Interface - Volume 35, Issue 2 - May/June 2007, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Printability And Environmental Testing Using Silver-Based Conductive Flexographic Ink Printed On A Polyamide Substrate, Kathryn Cole

Theses

The effect of simulated environmental exposure conditions (high heat, freezing temperature, rain, and vacuum pressure) on the performance of a silver-based conductive flexo ink printed on a polyamide (nylon 6,6) substrate was examined. Conductivity, density, color, adhesion, abrasion resistance and creasing were evaluated. The tested environmental variables did not have an effect on the performance quality of silver conductive flexographic ink when printed on a polyamide substrate for the 85 – 100% solid ink density levels. Rain and temperature had the greatest impact on print performance in the 70–80% tint range. Exposure to these elements affected adhesion properties of the …

Effect Of Varying Metabolizable Energy And Crude Protein Concentrations In Diets Of Pearl Gray Guinea Fowl Pullets. 2. Egg Production Performance, Samuel N. Nahashon, Nathaniel Adefope, Abravi Amenyenu, D. Wright

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

The effect of ME and CP concentrations during the growth phase of Pearl Gray guinea fowl pullets on their egg production performance was evaluated. In a 3 × 3 factorial arrangement, five hundred forty 1-d-old Pearl Gray guinea keets were randomly assigned to experimental diets with 2,900, 3,000, and 3,100 kcal of ME/kg of diet; each contained 20, 22, and 24% CP, respectively, from 0 to 8 wk of age (WOA). From 9 to 16 WOA, experimental diets had 3,000, 3,100, and 3,200 kcal of ME/kg of diet, and each contained 17, 19, and 21% CP, respectively. At 17 to …

Testing A Mahalanobis Distance Model Of Black Bear Habitat Use In The Ouachita Mountains Of Oklahoma, Eric C. Hellgren, Sara L. Bales, Mark S. Gregory, David M. Leslie, Jr., Joseph D. Clark

Publications

Regional wildlife–habitat models are commonly developed but rarely tested with truly independent data. We tested a published habitat model for black bears (Ursus americanus) with new data collected in a different site in the same ecological region (i.e., Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, USA). We used a Mahalanobis distance model developed from relocations of black bears in Arkansas to produce a map layer of Mahalanobis distances on a study area in neighboring Oklahoma. We tested this modeled map layer with relocations of black bears on the Oklahoma area. The distributions of relocations of female black bears were …

Invasive Alien Species In An Era Of Globalization, Laura A. Meyerson, Harold A. Mooney

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Globalization facilitates the spread of invasive alien species (IAS) as international commerce develops new trade routes, markets, and products. New technologies increase the pace at which humans and commodities can move around the world. Recent research on IAS at the global scale has examined commerce and travel in order to inform predictions, risk analyses, and policy. Due to limited data, regional-scale studies have primarily focused on invasion patterns rather than impacts. Local-scale experimental research can identify mechanisms and impacts of biological invasions, but the results may not be applicable at larger spatial scales. However, the number of information networks devoted …

Vol. 6, No. 1 (Full Issue), Jmasm Editors

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

No abstract provided.

Clemson Commencement Program, May 2007, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The Chanticleer, 2007-05-01 (Summer), Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Information Outlook, May 2007, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2007

Volume 11, Issue 5

Nietzsche’S Doctrine Of Eternal Return, David R. Gadon

Senior Honors Projects

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche challenges the reader to imagine that every moment of his or her life, every joy and every sorrow, every smile and every tear, will be repeated in exactly the same way from beginning to end. He asks us to envision these things recurring, not one more time, but for all infinity into the past and future alike. Amongst the many revolutionary and profound concepts put forward by the witty and vitriolic Nietzsche, there is none as inscrutable and seemingly inapproachable as this doctrine of eternal return of the same. In just three of his …