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March 2007, Pope Benedict Xvi

Marian Thoughts of Pope Benedict XVI

No abstract provided.

March 2007 Docket, Georgia State University College Of Law

The Docket

No abstract provided.

Tarble Arts Center Newsletter March 2007, Tarble Arts Center

Tarble Arts Center Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Dentalgram - Vol. 21, No. 03, Loma Linda University School Of Dentistry

Dentalgram

In this issue:

• Forty-seventh Alumni Student Convention honors first 50th anniversary class
• More than 300 patients receive care during Clinic With a Heart
• Pediatric dentistry department volunteers for 'Give Kids a Smile Day'
• Congratulations to Table clinic competition winners 2007
• Department news
• In memoriam - Cathy Moore
• axiUm train-the-trainer sessions coming soon
• Dental maintenance staff keep their New Year's Resolution
• In memoriam - Alan 'Sam' Williams, SD'00

A Poverty Of Representation: The Attorney’S Role To Advocate For The Powerless, Spencer Rand

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

In this paper, I look at the work that attorneys are doing to right the wrongs of the underrepresented. This article argues that as a profession, we talk about providing assistance to those that cannot afford representation but that this is more talk than action. This article also examines modes of representing the poor, including legal services and other non-profit legal agencies and laws that allow attorneys to collect fees from third-party payors. Furthermore, this article argues that while the existing methods of representation are good and should be supported, these avenues are limited and, as such, are unlikely to …

Somerset’S Case At The Bar: Securing The “Pure Air” Of English Jurisdiction Within The British Empire, Daniel J. Hulsebosch

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

This essay explores what this environmental conceit meant as a legal fact to the legal professionals involved in the case in 1772. It was important to them. Many of us are also legal professionals, and the case remains important to us. But the case meant something different for them, who could not see the future, than it does today for us, who see their future as our history. It is a mistake, then, to attribute too much weight to this one legal decision-to read into Mansfield's opinion the whole history of liberation.

Codifying Humanity: The Legal Line Between Slave And Servant, Veronica Hendrick

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

Beloved, Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, portrays the ramifications of U.S. legal policies that codified people as either human, therefore entitled to rights, or animal, thereby allotted to the category of slave. It is this categorization that sets the action of the novel into gear. Sethe, the main character, runs from the Sweet Home farm to freedom in Ohio, where her three small children await her. After only 28 days of freedom, her owner and the local sheriff arrive to apprehend her. In response, Sethe attempts to kill her children and herself rather than return to the slave system.

Preaching From The State's Podium: What Speech Is Proselytizing Prohibited By The Establishment Clause?, Christian M. Keiner

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Cryptococcus Neoformans In Organ Transplant Recipients: Impact Of Calcineurin-Inhibitor Agents On Mortality, Nina Singh, Barbara D. Alexander, Olivier Lortholary, Françoise Dromer, Krishan L. Gupta, George T. John, Ramon Del Busto, Goran B. Klintmalm, Jyoti Somani, G. Marshall Lyon, Kenneth Pursell, Valentina Stosor, Patricia Muñoz, Ajit P. Limaye, Andre C. Kalil, Timothy L. Pruett, Julia Garcia-Diaz, Atul Humar, Sally Houston, Andrew A. House, Dannah Wray, Susan Orloff, Lorraine A. Dowdy, Robert A. Fisher, Joseph Heitman, Marilyn M. Wagener, Shahid Husain, Cryptococcal Collaborative Transplant Study Group

MUSC Faculty Journal Articles

Variables influencing the risk of dissemination and outcome of Cryptococcus neoformans infection were assessed in 111 organ transplant recipients with cryptococcosis in a prospective, multicenter, international study. Sixty-one percent (68/111) of the patients had disseminated infection. The risk of disseminated cryptococcosis was significantly higher for liver transplant recipients (adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 6.65; P= .048). The overall mortality rate at 90 days was 14% (16/111). The mortality rate was higher in patients with abnormal mental status (P = .023), renal failure at baseline (P = .028), fungemia (P = .006), and disseminated infection (P = .035) and was lower in …

Dawkins, The God Delusion Review, Donald W. Viney

Faculty Submissions

No abstract provided.

Vol.34 N.41 March 1st 2007, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

The Patriot, V. 03, N. 05, Stony Brook University. Patriot.

The Patriot

v.: ill.; 32 cm (original analog pub.)

Environmental And Genetic Influences On Mating Strategies Along A Replicated Food Availability Gradient In Guppies (Poecilia Reticulata), Gita R. Kolluru, Gregory F. Grether, Heidy Contreras

Biological Sciences

Food availability is expected to influence the relative cost of different mating tactics, but little attention has been paid to this potential source of adaptive geographic variation in behavior. Associations between the frequency of different mating tactics and resource availability could arise because tactic use responds directly to food intake (phenotypic plasticity), because populations exposed to different average levels of food availability have diverged genetically in tactic use, or both. Different populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in Trinidad experience different average levels of food availability. We combined field observations with laboratory “common garden” and diet experiments to examine how this …

Specimens Of The Billfish Xiphiorhynchus Van Beneden, 1871, From The Yazoo Clay Formation (Late Eocene), Louisiana, Harry L. Fierstine, Gary L. Stringer

Biological Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Increasingly Unflagging Obligation: Federal Jurisdiction After Saudi Basic And Anna Nicole, Stephen I. Vladeck

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Vine (2007-03)

The Vine, 1994-2008

The Vine was a successor to Reflections in Ink, published from 1994 to 2008. It transitioned from a mostly African American student perspective to a multi-cultural one.

The Setonian, March 1, 2007, Seton Hall University

2007

No abstract provided.

Blackworld, V. 45, I. 02, Stony Brook University

Blackworld

v. : ill. ; 38-43 cm (original analog pub.),Black world, v.45;i.2

Service Learning E-News - March/April 2007, Parkland College

Service Learning Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Contaminant Plumes Of The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory And Their Interrelation To Faults, Landslides, And Streams In Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley And Oakland, California, Committee To Minimize Toxic Waste, Laurel Collins

Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), initially called the UC Radiation Laboratory, was originally located on the University of California Berkeley (UCB) central campus in Alameda County during 1932. By 1940, it was relocated to its present site in the steep hills of Strawberry Canyon east of the Hayward Fault and the central UCB campus. The first major facility, the 184-inch synchrocyclotron was built with funds from both private and university sources, and was used in the Manhattan Project in the development of the world’s first nuclear bomb. Beginning in 1948 the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and then its successor …

A Soil Contamination Survey Of Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Lands Within Close Proximity To The Nevada Test Site, Bonnie Eberhardt Bobb, Tuppipuh Project

Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CAREs)

The Tupippuh Project consists of members and descendants of the Western Shoshone Nation’s Timbisha Shoshone People whose traditional homeland includes the area that is now the vicinity of Death Valley National Park, CA and north including Beatty, NV and Lida, NV. The mission of the Tupippuh Project is to preserve and strengthen traditional Western Shoshone cultural values for future generations.

The objectives of this study were: 1) to perform soils analyses of the parcels to determine if radioactive contamination is present; 2) to conduct interviews with elders who may have relevant knowledge of contaminant pathways in the soil, air, plants, …

Radioactive Tritium In The Environment Surrounding The Department Of Energy’S Historic Nuclear Bomb Manufacturing Plant, Mound Facility, Miamisburg, Ohio, Miamisburg Environmental Safety And Health (Mesh), Hydro-Log Llc

Miamisburg Environmental Safety and Health (MESH)

This research was completed money allocated during Round 5 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.

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Performance Characteristics Of A Therapeutic Ultrasound Wire Waveguide, Graham Gavin, Garrett Mcguinness, Finbar Dolan, M.S. Hashmi

Articles

Therapeutic ultrasound angioplasty has been investigated, clinically, by a number of researchers and represents a potentially promising therapy for the treatment of atherosclerotic lesions. To date, there has been no detailed analysis of the effect of mechanical design parameters, such as wire geometry or damping characteristics, on wire waveguide performance. An apparatus capable of delivering therapeutic ultrasound down small diameter nickel–titanium (NiTi) wire waveguides is described. The output peak-to-peak (p–p) displacements at the distal tip of a 1.0mm diameter waveguide were measured experimentally, by means of an optical microscope and image analysis software. The output was measured for a range …

Individual Acoustic Variation In Fallow Deer (Dama Dama) Common And Harsh Groans: A Source-Filter Theory Perspective, Elisabetta Vannoni, Alan G. Mcelligott

Veterinary Science and Medicine Collection

Mammals are able to distinguish conspecifics based on vocal cues, and the acoustic structure of mammal vocalizations is directly affected by the anatomy and action of the vocal apparatus. However, most studies investigating individual patterns in acoustic signals do not consider a vocal production-based perspective. In this study, we used the source-filter model of vocal production as a basis for investigating the acoustic variability of fallow deer groans. Using this approach, we quantified the potential of each acoustic component to carry information about individual identity. We also investigated if cues to individual identity carry over among the two groan types …

Carcass Composition And Meat Quality Of Three Different Iberian × Duroc Genotype Pigs, Rosario Ramírez, Ramon Cava

Slaughter and Slaughtering Practices Collection

Carcass composition and meat quality of Longissimus dorsi (LD) and Biceps femoris (BF) muscles from three different Iberian × Duroc genotype pigs were studied: GEN1: ♂ Iberian × ♀ Duroc1; GEN2: ♂ Duroc1 × ♀ Iberian; GEN3: ♂ Duroc2 × ♀ Iberian. Duroc1 (DU1) were selected for the manufacture of dry-cured meat products while Duroc2 (DU2) were pigs selected for meat production, with high percentages of meat cuts and low carcass fat. Genotype had a significant effect on the differences found while sex had not. GEN2 showed the highest weights at days 180 and 238 of weaning and the highest …

Zero Coca, Zero Culture: Bolivia's Struggle To Balance Cultural Identity And The Need For Economic Stability In The Midst Of The Expiring Andean Trade Promotion And Drug Eradication Act, Cameron Ming

Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law

No abstract provided.

March 1, 2007, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Influence Of Swimming Speed On Metabolic Rates Of Juvenile Pacific Bluefin Tuna And Yellowfin Tuna, Jason M. Blank, Charles J. Farwell, Jeffery M. Morrissette, Robert J. Schallert, Barbara A. Block

Biological Sciences

Bluefin tuna are endothermic and have higher temperatures, heart rates, and cardiac outputs than tropical tuna. We hypothesized that the increased cardiovascular capacity to deliver oxygen in bluefin may be associated with the evolution of higher metabolic rates. This study measured the oxygen consumption of juvenile Pacific bluefin Thunnus orientalis and yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares swimming in a swim-tunnel respirometer at 20°C. Oxygen consumption ( Mo₂) of bluefin (7.1–9.4 kg) ranged from 235 ± 38 mg kg^-1 h^-1 at 0.85 body length (BL) s^-1 to 498 ± 55 mg kg^-1 h^-1 at 1.80 …

A Novel Lux Operon In The Cryptically Bioluminescent Fish Pathogen Vibrio Salmonicida Is Associated With Virulence, Eric J. Nelson, Hege S. Tunsjø, Pat M. Fidopiastis, Henning Sørum, Edward G. Ruby

Biological Sciences

The cold-water-fish pathogen Vibrio salmonicida expresses a functional bacterial luciferase but produces insufficient levels of its aliphatic-aldehyde substrate to be detectably luminous in culture. Our goals were to (i) better explain this cryptic bioluminescence phenotype through molecular characterization of the lux operon and (ii) test whether the bioluminescence gene cluster is associated with virulence. Cloning and sequencing of the V. salmonicida lux operon revealed that homologs of all of the genes required for luminescence are present: luxAB (luciferase) and luxCDE (aliphatic-aldehyde synthesis). The arrangement and sequence of these structural lux genes are conserved compared to those in related species of …

Genome Size Evolution In Relation To Leaf Strategy And Metabolic Rates Revisited, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Ilia J. Leitch, Charles A. Knight

Biological Sciences

• Background and AimsIt has been proposed that having too much DNA may carry physiological consequences for plants. The strong correlation between DNA content, cell size and cell division rate could lead to predictable morphological variation in plants, including a negative relationship with leaf mass per unit area (LMA). In addition, the possible increased demand for resources in species with high DNA content may have downstream effects on maximal metabolic efficiency, including decreased metabolic rates.

• MethodsTests were made for genome size-dependent variation in LMA and metabolic rates (mass-based photosynthetic rate and dark respiration rate) using our own …