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A Macroscopic Validation Of The Evacuation Simulation Prediction Tool On Highway Travel Times, Kay Fortinberry Borglum Apr 2007

A Macroscopic Validation Of The Evacuation Simulation Prediction Tool On Highway Travel Times, Kay Fortinberry Borglum

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The purpose of this applied research study was to test the sensitivity of the Evacuation Simulation Prediction (ESP) tool in predicting travel time during high volume traffic periods. The discrete event-based simulation tool was designed to aid local evacuation planning contingencies. Research of the Florida Department of Transportation traffic count data demonstrated parallel trends in rush hour volume versus hurricane evacuation volume. A model validation was designed to test if the model closely predicted high volume travel on a major interstate. For this macroscopic sensitivity test, volume, travel time and speed were collected to examine the baseline predictability under crash …

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Uah Alumni News, Spring 2007, University Of Alabama In Huntsville Apr 2007

Uah Alumni News, Spring 2007, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

UAH Alumni News

No abstract provided.

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Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor) Apr 2007

Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

In both size and stature, Boise State has come a long way from its days as a small church-run junior college to its current role as Idaho’s largest university. In this issue, the first of two special editions of FOCUS celebrating Boise State’s 75th anniversary, we look at the university’s buildings and the memories they hold for faculty, staff, students and alumni. Cover design by Drew Roberts.

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Double Eagle: Internal Revenue Code Section 170(H), Tyler Arnold Apr 2007

Double Eagle: Internal Revenue Code Section 170(H), Tyler Arnold

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

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Total Maximum Daily Loads V. Nonpoint Source Pollution & (And) The South Carolina Administrative Procedures Act, Brandon Cooper Apr 2007

Total Maximum Daily Loads V. Nonpoint Source Pollution & (And) The South Carolina Administrative Procedures Act, Brandon Cooper

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Attorney Malpractice In Will Drafting: Will South Carolina Expand Privity To Impose A Duty To Intended Beneficiaries Of A Will?, Max N. Pickelsimer Apr 2007

Attorney Malpractice In Will Drafting: Will South Carolina Expand Privity To Impose A Duty To Intended Beneficiaries Of A Will?, Max N. Pickelsimer

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Conspiracy Theories: Is There A Place For Civil Conspiracy In Products Liability Litigation?, Richard C. Ausness Apr 2007

Conspiracy Theories: Is There A Place For Civil Conspiracy In Products Liability Litigation?, Richard C. Ausness

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

A civil conspiracy is a group of two or more persons acting together to achieve an unlawful objective or to achieve a lawful objective by unlawful or criminal means. During the past two decades, plaintiffs have brought numerous civil conspiracy claims against product manufacturers. The defendants in these cases have included manufacturers or producers of tobacco products, asbestos, pharmaceuticals, lead-based paint, multi-rim truck wheels, and gasoline additives. Surprisingly, less than half of the civil conspiracy claims have made it to trial. This unimpressive success rate suggests that courts are not very receptive to civil conspiracy claims even when there is …

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Interview With Aimee Bender, Jane St. John, Aimee Bender Apr 2007

Interview With Aimee Bender, Jane St. John, Aimee Bender

CutBank

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From S P R A W L, Danielle Dutton Apr 2007

From S P R A W L, Danielle Dutton

CutBank

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Twins, Brent Armendinger Apr 2007

Twins, Brent Armendinger

CutBank

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Red Cinquefoil, Daniel Mueller Apr 2007

Red Cinquefoil, Daniel Mueller

CutBank

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The Curiosity In Marketing Thinking, Mark Hill, John Mcginnis Apr 2007

The Curiosity In Marketing Thinking, Mark Hill, John Mcginnis

Department of Marketing Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This article identifies the curiosity in marketing thinking and offers ways to teach for marketing thinking through an environment that fosters students' curiosity. The significance of curiosity in its relationship with thinking is that when curiosity is absent, so is thinking. Challenges are discussed in recognizing the fragility of curiosity through an understanding of the factors that suppress it. Drawing on existing research in education, psychology, and marketing, a synthesized pedagogical reversal is suggested-instead of pursuing learning in the form of students' acquisition of knowledge, the focus should be on students' exploration and appropriation of knowledge and marketing knowledge through …

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Validation Of Commercial Dna Tests For Quantitative Beef Quality Traits, A. L. Van Eenennaam, J. Li, R. M. Thallman, R. L. Quaas, M. E. Dikeman, C. A. Gill, D. E. Franke, M. G. Thomas Apr 2007

Validation Of Commercial Dna Tests For Quantitative Beef Quality Traits, A. L. Van Eenennaam, J. Li, R. M. Thallman, R. L. Quaas, M. E. Dikeman, C. A. Gill, D. E. Franke, M. G. Thomas

Faculty Publications

Associations between 3 commercially available genetic marker panels (GeneSTAR Quality Grade, GeneSTAR Tenderness, and Igenity Tender-GENE) and quantitative beef traits were validated by the US National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium. Validation was interpreted to be the independent confirmation of the associations between genetic tests and phenotypes, as claimed by the commercial genotyping companies. Validation of the quality grade test (GeneSTAR Quality Grade) was carried out on 400 Charolais x Angus crossbred cattle, and validation of the tenderness tests (GeneSTAR Tenderness and Igenity Tender-GENE) was carried out on over 1,000 Bos taurus and Bos indicus cattle. The GeneSTAR Quality Grade marker …

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A Sign Of Contradiction, David F. Forte Apr 2007

A Sign Of Contradiction, David F. Forte

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Hadley Arkes offers a brilliant manifesto for natural law. In it, he suggests that judges do not pay enough attention to reason, that their realm of reason is too circumscribed—and he levels the criticism at both modern liberal and conservative judges. He urges them to reach out specifically to the principles of the natural law. Yet the judges resist the invitation. They seem always to have resisted the invitation. Why is that so? Why are natural law reasons resisted?, Arkes asks. Why do judges not seek a proper grounding of their judgment in natural law?

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The Evolution And Ownership Of The Concept Of The African-American Woman As “The Mule Of The World”, Stephanie Abigail Taylor Apr 2007

The Evolution And Ownership Of The Concept Of The African-American Woman As “The Mule Of The World”, Stephanie Abigail Taylor

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis explores the motif of the African-American woman as the “mule of the world.” The negative connotations of the term originate in slavery and have been influenced by the “cult of true womanhood.” The term itself interrelates to the triple marginalization—that of race, sex, and class—that African American women face. However, black female authors have taken this derogatory meaning and have subsequently given it a positive meaning through the act of Signification, as theorized by Henry Louis Gates. Like their black male predecessors, Maya Angelou (in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) and Zora Neale Hurston (in Their …

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A Molecular Evaluation Of The North American “Grassland” Sparrow Clade, John Klicka, Garth M. Spellman Apr 2007

A Molecular Evaluation Of The North American “Grassland” Sparrow Clade, John Klicka, Garth M. Spellman

Ornithology Program (HRC)

Because they share several morphological and ecological characters, the North American sparrow (Emberizidae) genera Ammodramus, Passerculus, and Xenospiza have historically been considered members of a well-defined “grassland” sparrow assemblage. Relationships among the 11 members of this group have been the subject of much taxonomic debate, yet no comprehensive molecular assessment of relationships has been done. We investigated these relationships using mitochondrial DNA sequence data that included complete cytochrome-b and ND2 genes. Phylogenetic reconstructions derived via parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian methods were congruent. The grassland sparrows, as presently configured, are polyphyletic. Pooecetes gramineus, Amphispiza belli (but not A. …

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Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Eppie Moore, David Ashley, Grace Russell, Lori Bachand, Shane Bevell Apr 2007

Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Eppie Moore, David Ashley, Grace Russell, Lori Bachand, Shane Bevell

Inside UNLV

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Unlv Magazine, Grace Russell, Gian Galassi, Shane Bevell, Karyn S. Hollingsworth, Jennifer Lawson, Lori Bachand, Cate Weeks, Erin O'Donnell, Peter Starkweather Apr 2007

Unlv Magazine, Grace Russell, Gian Galassi, Shane Bevell, Karyn S. Hollingsworth, Jennifer Lawson, Lori Bachand, Cate Weeks, Erin O'Donnell, Peter Starkweather

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Utilization Of Bagasse Cellulose For Ethanol Production Through Simultaneous Saccharification And Fermentation By Xylanase, M. Samsuri, Misri Gozan, R. Mardias, M. Baiquni, Heri Hermansyah, Anondho Wijanarko, Bambang Prasetya, M. Nasikin Apr 2007

Utilization Of Bagasse Cellulose For Ethanol Production Through Simultaneous Saccharification And Fermentation By Xylanase, M. Samsuri, Misri Gozan, R. Mardias, M. Baiquni, Heri Hermansyah, Anondho Wijanarko, Bambang Prasetya, M. Nasikin

Makara Journal of Technology

Utilization of Bagasse Cellulose for Ethanol Production through Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation by Xylanase. Bagasse is a solid residue from sugar cane process, which is not many use it for some product which have more added value. Bagasse, which is a lignosellulosic material, be able to be use for alternative energy resources like bioethanol or biogas. With renewable energy resources a crisis of energy in Republic of Indonesia could be solved, especially in oil and gas. This research has done the conversion of bagasse to bioethanol with xylanase enzyme. The result show that bagasse contains of 52,7% cellulose, 20% hemicelluloses, …

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The Purification Of Helicobacter Pylori Urease Β Subunit Protein And Dna For Vaccine Production, Alyson Moll Apr 2007

The Purification Of Helicobacter Pylori Urease Β Subunit Protein And Dna For Vaccine Production, Alyson Moll

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

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Introduction To A Poetics Of Diversity: English Translation Of Édouard Glissant’S Introduction À Une Poétique Du Divers, Julee Rebecca Laporte Apr 2007

Introduction To A Poetics Of Diversity: English Translation Of Édouard Glissant’S Introduction À Une Poétique Du Divers, Julee Rebecca Laporte

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

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Understanding Louisiana Patent Production And The Role Of Knowledge Stocks On Economic Growth, Cynthia Ann Dubois Apr 2007

Understanding Louisiana Patent Production And The Role Of Knowledge Stocks On Economic Growth, Cynthia Ann Dubois

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

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Louisiana Agriculture Spring, 2007, Lsu Agcenter Apr 2007

Louisiana Agriculture Spring, 2007, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

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Interspecific Spawning Between A Recent Immigrant And An Endemic Damselfish (Pisces: Pomacentridae) In The Hawaiian Islands, Karen P. Maruska, Kimberly A. Peyton Apr 2007

Interspecific Spawning Between A Recent Immigrant And An Endemic Damselfish (Pisces: Pomacentridae) In The Hawaiian Islands, Karen P. Maruska, Kimberly A. Peyton

Faculty Publications

The Indo-Pacific damselfish Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) was first observed in the Hawaiian Islands in the early 1990s and is now clearly established as a breeding population in the Islands. Sightings of fish with color patterns intermediate between those of A. vaigiensis and the very similar endemic Hawaiian sergeant, Abudefduf abdominalis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825), suggest that hybridization of the two has occurred naturally. This study provides direct evidence of crossbreeding from observations and video footage of two separate spawnings in nearshore waters of O'ahu and a third spawning in a public aquarium display tank. Reproductive behaviors were …

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Induction Of Host Chemotactic Response By Encephalitozoon Spp., Jeffrey Fischer, Jeffrey West, Nnenaya Agochukwu, Colby Suire, Hollie Hale-Donze Apr 2007

Induction Of Host Chemotactic Response By Encephalitozoon Spp., Jeffrey Fischer, Jeffrey West, Nnenaya Agochukwu, Colby Suire, Hollie Hale-Donze

Faculty Publications

Microsporidians are a group of emerging pathogens typically associated with chronic diarrhea in immunocompromised individuals. The number of reports of infections with these organisms and the disseminated pathology is growing as diagnostic tools become more readily available. However, little is known about the innate immune response induced by and generated against these parasites. Using a coculture chemotaxis system, primary human macrophages were infected with Encephalitozoon cuniculi or Encephalitozoon intestinalis, and the recruitment of naïve monocytes was monitored. Encephalitozoon spp. induced an average threefold increase in migration of naïve cells 48 h postinfection, which corresponded to optimal infection of monocyte-derived- macrophages. …

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The Association Of A Snp Upstream Of Insig2 With Body Mass Index Is Reproduced In Several But Not All Cohorts, Helen N. Lyon, Valur Emilsson, Anke Hinney, Iris M. Heid, Jessica Lasky-Su, Xiaofeng Zhu, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Steinunn Gunnarsdottir, G. Bragi Walters, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Augustine Kong, Jeffrey Gulcher, Thuy Trang Nguyen, André Scherag, Arne Pfeufer, Thomas Meitinger, Günter Brönner, Winfried Rief, Manuel E. Soto-Quiros, Lydiana Avila, Barbara Klanderman, Benjamin A. Raby, Edwin K. Silverman, Scott T. Weiss, Nan Laird, Xiao Ding, Leif Groop, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Bo Isomaa, Kristina Bengtsson, Johannah L. Butler, Richard S. Cooper, Caroline S. Fox Apr 2007

The Association Of A Snp Upstream Of Insig2 With Body Mass Index Is Reproduced In Several But Not All Cohorts, Helen N. Lyon, Valur Emilsson, Anke Hinney, Iris M. Heid, Jessica Lasky-Su, Xiaofeng Zhu, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Steinunn Gunnarsdottir, G. Bragi Walters, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Augustine Kong, Jeffrey Gulcher, Thuy Trang Nguyen, André Scherag, Arne Pfeufer, Thomas Meitinger, Günter Brönner, Winfried Rief, Manuel E. Soto-Quiros, Lydiana Avila, Barbara Klanderman, Benjamin A. Raby, Edwin K. Silverman, Scott T. Weiss, Nan Laird, Xiao Ding, Leif Groop, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Bo Isomaa, Kristina Bengtsson, Johannah L. Butler, Richard S. Cooper, Caroline S. Fox

Faculty Publications

A SNP upstream of the INSIG2 gene, rs7566605, was recently found to be associated with obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI) by Herbert and colleagues. The association between increased BMI and homozygosity for the minor allele was first observed in data from a genome-wide association scan of 86,604 SNPs in 923 related individuals from the Framingham Heart Study offspring cohort. The association was reproduced in four additional cohorts, but was not seen in a fifth cohort. To further assess the general reproducibility of this association, we genotyped rs7566605 in nine large cohorts from eight populations across multiple ethnicities …

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Corin I555(P568) Allele Is Associated With Enhanced Cardiac Hypertrophic Response To Increased Systemic Afterload, J. Eduardo Rame, Mark H. Drazner, Wendy Post, Ronald Peshock, Joao Lima, Richard S. Cooper, Daniel L. Dries Apr 2007

Corin I555(P568) Allele Is Associated With Enhanced Cardiac Hypertrophic Response To Increased Systemic Afterload, J. Eduardo Rame, Mark H. Drazner, Wendy Post, Ronald Peshock, Joao Lima, Richard S. Cooper, Daniel L. Dries

Faculty Publications

Corin activates pro-A-type naturetic peptide and pro-B-type naturetic peptide into biologically active molecules. We recently identified a minor allele in the corin gene defined by 2 highly linked single nucleotide polymorphisms (T555I and Q568P), which was associated with hypertension in blacks. Because of the direct antihypertrophic effects of the natriuretic peptide system, we hypothesized that the minor corin I555(P568) allele would be associated with an enhanced hypertrophic response to pressure overload. The relationship between systolic blood pressure and indexed left ventricular mass, derived from cardiac MRI, was analyzed in the Dallas Heart Study as a function of corin allele status. …

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A Sine-Based Dichotomous Key For Primate Identification, Jacquelyn W. Zimmerman Apr 2007

A Sine-Based Dichotomous Key For Primate Identification, Jacquelyn W. Zimmerman

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

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Paired Ig-Like Receptors Bind To Bacteria And Shape Tlr-Mediated Cytokine Production, Masafumi Nakayama, David M. Underhill, Timothy W. Petersen, Bin Li, Toshio Kitamura, Toshiyuki Takai, Alan Aderem Apr 2007

Paired Ig-Like Receptors Bind To Bacteria And Shape Tlr-Mediated Cytokine Production, Masafumi Nakayama, David M. Underhill, Timothy W. Petersen, Bin Li, Toshio Kitamura, Toshiyuki Takai, Alan Aderem

Faculty Publications

The innate immune system uses a wide variety of pattern recognition receptors including TLRs, scavenger receptors, and lectins to identify potential pathogens. A carefully regulated balance between activation and inhibition must be kept to avoid detrimental and inappropriate inflammatory responses. In this study, we identify murine-paired Ig-like receptor (PIR)-B, and its human orthologs Ig-like transcript 2 and Ig-like transcript 5 as novel receptors for Staphylococcus aureus. PIR-B contains four ITIM motifs and is thought to be an inhibitory receptor. Expression of these receptors enables NIH3T3 cells to bind S. aureus. In mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages, masking of PIR-B by anti-PIR …

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A Sine-Based Dichotomous Key For Primate Identification, Scott W. Herke, Jinchuan Xing, David A. Ray, Jacquelyn W. Zimmerman, Richard Cordaux, Mark A. Batzer Apr 2007

A Sine-Based Dichotomous Key For Primate Identification, Scott W. Herke, Jinchuan Xing, David A. Ray, Jacquelyn W. Zimmerman, Richard Cordaux, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

For DNA samples or 'divorced' tissues, identifying the organism from which they were taken generally requires some type of analytical method. The ideal approach would be robust even in the hands of a novice, requiring minimal equipment, time, and effort. Genotyping SINEs (Short INterspersed Elements) is such an approach as it requires only PCR-related equipment, and the analysis consists solely of interpreting fragment sizes in agarose gels. Modern primate genomes are known to contain lineage-specific insertions of Alu elements (a primate-specific SINE); thus, to demonstrate the utility of this approach, we used members of the Alu family to identify DNA …

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