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Biodefense Research Supporting The Dod: A New Strategic Vision, Coleen K. Martinez Colonel

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author examines the productivity of the Department of Defense’s biodefense research program over the course of more than 35 years, coupled with changes in the global research environment since the events of September 11, 2001. Where the deployment of a biologic agent of mass destruction is largely an unpredictable risk, the outcome certainly could be catastrophic for an unprotected population. An urgent moral imperative is cast upon the federal government, then, to objectively assess the application and management of its biodefense research resources.

Pluma Fronteriza: Newsletter Of Chicano(A)/Latino(A) Writers Of The El Paso And Cd. Juárez Border Region, Utep Chicano Studies

Chicano Studies

Electronic newsletter of the Chicano(a)/Latino(a) Writers of the El Paso and Cd. Juárez Border Region.

Potential Of Agricultural Residues And Hay For Bioethanol Production, Ye Chen, Ratna R. Sharma-Shivappa, Deepak R. Keshwani, Chengci Chen

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Production of bioethanol from agricultural residues and hays (wheat, barley, and triticale straws, and barley, triticale, pearl millet, and sweet sorghum hays) through a series of chemical pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, and fermentation processes was investigated in this study. Composition analysis suggested that the agricultural straws and hays studied contained approximately 28.62–38.58% glucan, 11.19–20.78% xylan, and 22.01–27.57% lignin, making them good candidates for bioethanol production. Chemical pretreatment with sulfuric acid or sodium hydroxide at concentrations of 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0% indicated that concentration and treatment agent play a significant role during pretreatment. After 2.0% sulfuric acid pretreatment at 121°C/15 psi for …

Small Frogs Get Their Worms First: The Role Of Nonodonate Arthropods In The Recruitment Of Haematoloechus Coloradensis And Haematoloechus Complexus In Newly Metamorphosed Northern Leopard Frogs, Rana Pipiens, And Woodhouse's Toads, Bufo Woodhousii, Matthew G. Bolek, John J. Janovy Jr.

John J. Janovy, Jr. Publications

Studies on the life cycles and epizootiology of North American frog lung flukes indicate that most species utilize odonates as second intermediate hosts; adult frogs become infected by ingesting odonate intermediate hosts. Newly metamorphosed frogs are rarely infected with these parasites, predominantly because they are gape-limited predators that cannot feed on large intermediate hosts such as dragonflies. We examined the role of the frog diet and potential intermediate hosts in the recruitment of the frog lung fluke, Haematoloechus coloradensis, to metamorphosed northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens), Woodhouse’s toads (Bufo woodhousii), and bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana …

Trends Of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis In A Tertiary Tuberculosis Center In Iran, Mehdi S. Mirsaeidi, Payam Tabarsi, Parissa Farnia, Golnaz Ebrahimi, Matthew W. Morris, Mohammad R. Masjedi, Ali A. Velayati, Davood Mansouri

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the drug resistance pattern to first line antituberculous drugs in National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and to compare resistant rates with previous studies. METHODS: An anterograde cross-sectional study was performed. The study includes all adults with documented pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) that were hospitalized in National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in Tehran, from June 2003 to September 2004. Demographic characteristic, TB categories, and drug susceptibility test results were recorded. Two previous studies regarding drug susceptibility in Iran were selected as historical controls. RESULTS: One hundred and ninety-six new cases and 68 previously …

The Effect Of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs On Rat Gastric Mucosa. The Role Of Endothelin, Nergis Murat, Sedef Gidener, Meral Koyuncuoglu, Osman Yilmaz

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of endothelin on nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) enzyme inhibitors-induced effects on the gastric mucosa. METHODS: This study was carried out in the Department of Pharmacology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey during the period January to December 2002. In the first group a cyclooxygenase-1 (COX1) and COX2 enzyme inhibitor, indomethacin (25 mg/kg, subcutaneous injection (s.c), n=7), a selective COX2 enzyme inhibitor, NS398 (10 mg/kg, s.c) and normal saline were administered. In the second group, endothelin-1 (ET1) was administered (200 pmol/kg) alone, in the presence of an endothelin receptor …

A High Rate Of Caesarean Section At A Newly Opened University Hospital, Zouhair O. Amarin, Yousef S. Khader, Hussein S. Qublan

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Loss Of Zonal Organization Of Articular Cartilage After Experimental Subchondral Trauma Of The Knee Joint, Andreas Lahm, Peter C. Kreuz, Abed El-Tayeh, Eike Mrosek, Michael Oberst, Jorg Haberstroh, Harry Merk

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Beneficial Effects Of Soy Protein Isoflavones On Lipid And Blood Glucose Concentrations In Type 2 Diabetic Subjects, Hajieh Shahbazian, Amani Reza, Siadatan Javad, Shahbazian Heshmatollah, Latifi Mahmood, Ahmadzadeh Ali, Haghighizadeh M. Hosain

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Desarrollando Fortalezas En La Familia Ensamblada, Linda Skogrand, Rachel Arrington, Brian Higginbotham

All Current Publications

Al pasar el tiempo, muchas familias desarrollan habilidades que les ayudan a superar tiempos difíciles en su vida y a manejarlas de una manera exitosa.

Opus, 2006-2007, Issue V, Suny Geneseo English Club

Opus

POETRY
5 Visions, Adam Maciejewski
6 Ocean, Brad Reiss
6 Solstice, Alex Egan
7 :: window : moth, Matt Dubois
7 Relative to the World, Emily Upham
8 Birdsong, Suzanne Hally
8 G For Jazz, Margaret Wedge
8 The Song of the Leaves, Nate Northrop
9 Something of Trees, Julie Bojanowski
9 Dream, James Merenda
12 ''And Cicadas Shed Skin ... "Meg Vasey
12 The Invisible Me, Patrick Morgan
13 Dream, Lisa Parisio
13 Lines, Lisa Parisio
14 Finding, John Kulak
14 The Storm, Brady Mills
14 The Tears, Brady Mills  
14 When it Rains ... " Margaret Wedge
18 …

The World Is White And Slow And Infinitely Flat, Rob Baum

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Eco-feminism, cultural study and the environment coalesce in the form of poetic cultural commentary, originally fieldnotes. I draw exclusively from my years in the Alaskan Arctic among the Iñupiat Eskimo, who call themselves "the People of the Whale." The striking and severe natural environment, a landscape of endless ice, is central to the poetry, which richly portrays a vision of the Arctic absent from tourist travel guides, National Geographic and anthropological volumes. These magazines vend the Far North's beautiful austerity, including at times the physical beauty of its animal inhabitants, including humans, while disregarding human specificity and violence …

Reconstructing The Wall Of Virtue: Maxims For The Co-Evolution Of Environmental Law And Environmental Science, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The decision-making framework established by most environmental laws incorporates an outdated Einsteinian model of how science and policy should be positioned within administrative agencies. Laws such as the Endangered Species Act employ a linear model of science and policy in which science is portrayed as operating in a domain separate from policy, the two being separated by a "Wall of Virtue "preventing agency science and scientists from becoming tainted by engagement in the relevant policy context Far from protecting science from politics, however, this approach facilitates agency use of science as a cover for decisions based on social and economic …

The Law And Policy Beginnings Of Ecosystem Services, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in ecosystem services from scientists, economists, government officials, entrepreneurs, and the media. This article traces the development of the ecosystem services concept in law and policy. We prepared it in connection with a symposium held at Florida State University in April 2006. The presentations at the symposium, which then developed into the articles in a special issue of the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law (volume 22, issue 2), approached the topic of ecosystem services and the law from two perspectives. One set of presentations focused on the …

The Sixth Annual Lds Film Festival, January 17-20, 2007, Candy Eash

BYU Studies

The Sixth Annual LDS Film Festival, January 17–20, 2007. SCERA Center for the Arts, Orem, Utah

Active Spectatorship: Spiritual Dimensions Of Film, Sharon Swenson

BYU Studies

Menacing music signals something ominous. My three-year-old grandson, Gavin, looks up at me, and we hug each other closer under the quilt, shivering in anticipation. In the background is . . . something . . . and it’s getting closer and closer. What seemed like something small and close by is really something large and far away and getting closer by the second. Squeeze tighter; Gavin glances up at me and giggles, but I remain serious and calm, preparing for whatever might come. It’s a whale! Zooming toward us!

Theory And Practice: Employer Liability For Sexual Harassment, B. Glenn George

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

David Skrbina, Panpsychism In The West, W.J. Mander

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

What The Eu Has That The U.S. Wants: An Analysis Of Potential Regulatory Systems For Follow-On Biologics In The United States, Jessica R. Underwood

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Dialogue Magazine, Spring 2007

Dialogue, the magazine of the DePaul University College of Law

No abstract provided.

503(B)(9) Claimants - The New Constituent, A/K/A "The 500 Pound Gorilla", At The Table, Judith Greenstone Miller, Jay L. Welford

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Animal Science Stock Report: Spring 2007, Animal Science Department, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Stock Report

No abstract provided.

Morris Catalog 2007-09, University Of Minnesota Morris

UMM Catalog

This catalog covers academic years 2007–2008 and 2008–2009. The Morris Catalog is in effect for nine years; this catalog is in effect from fall 2007 through the end of summer session 2016.

Punish Or Surveil, Diane Marie Amann

Scholarly Works

This Article endeavors to paint a fuller picture of previous practice and present options than is often present in debates about the United States' antiterrorism measures. It begins by describing practices in place before the campaign launched after September 11, 2001. The Article focuses on punishment, the first prong of the policy long used to combat threats against the United States. Ordinary civilian and military courts stood ready to punish persons found guilty at public trials that adhered to fairness standards, and national security interests not infrequently were advanced through such courts. That is not to say that courts were …

The Future Of Footnote Four, Dan T. Coenen

Scholarly Works

The Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Carolene Products Co. generated the most famous footnote-and perhaps the most famous passage-in all of the American Judiciary's treatment of constitutional law. Among other things, Footnote Four suggested that "prejudice against discrete and insular minorities may be a special condition, which tends seriously to curtail the operation of those political processes ordinarily to be relied upon to protect minorities, and which may call for a correspondingly more searching judicial inquiry." The importance of this principle cannot be overstated. It pervaded the work of the Warren Court and has played a prominent role …

Downstream Pathway Activation In Cultured Hepatocytes Following Treatment With Francisella Tularensis, Nicole Wakefield

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Francisella tularensis, the intracellular pathogen that causes tularemia, was investigated to determine how it infects and replicates within mammalian hepatocytes. To date, it has been shown that hepatocytes can be infected by F. tularensis and that this causes considerable change in the protein phosphorylation state of several vital signaling molecules within the host cell. Protein kinase pathways can be mapped as signatures of infection. Hepatocytes tend to be susceptible to infection by F. tularensis, thus stimulating internal signaling. The Francisella strains used were selected with the goal of producing a model that can be used to elucidate the cell signaling …

Active Sovereignty, Timothy Zick

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Love, Marriage, And The Baby Carriage: Revisiting The Channelling Function Of Family Law, Linda C. Mcclain

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Dwarfing Of Men In Victorian Fairy-Tale Literature, Heather Victoria Vermeulen

Honors Theses

As Jack Zipes explains in his preface to Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and the Elves, "The Victorian fairy-tale writers always had two ideal audiences in mind when they composed their tales -young middle-class readers whose minds and morals they wanted to influence, and adult middle-class readers whose ideas they wanted to challenge and reform" (xiv). "It was through the fairy tale," he continues, "that a social discourse about conditions in Victorian England took form, and this discourse is not without interest for readers today" (xi). My project begins with a critical analysis of the Grimm Brothers' …

Scientific Advice To The House : Who Has The Congressional Ear?, Kristen Greenholt

Honors Theses

In 2001, President George W. Bush remarked, "Science and technology have never been more essential to the defense of the nation and the health of the economy." The responsibility for formulating science and technology policy primarily falls into the hands of Congress. However, since few members of Congress possess a broad base of knowledge in either science or technology, they must rely on external sources of information. I examine the sources of information on which they rely, or the question "Who has the Congressional Ear?"with regard to science and technology issues. Using the downfall of the Office of Technology Assessment …