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Gene Response Profiles For Daphnia Pulex Exposed To The Environmental Stressor Cadmium Reveals Novel Crustacean Metallothioneins, Joseph R. Shaw, John K. Colbourne, Jennifer C. Davey, Stephen P. Glaholt, Thomas H. Hampton, Celia Y. Chen, Carol L. Folt, Joshua W. Hamilton

Dartmouth Scholarship

Genomic research tools such as microarrays are proving to be important resources to study the complex regulation of genes that respond to environmental perturbations. A first generation cDNA microarray was developed for the environmental indicator species Daphnia pulex, to identify genes whose regulation is modulated following exposure to the metal stressor cadmium. Our experiments revealed interesting changes in gene transcription that suggest their biological roles and their potentially toxicological features in responding to this important environmental contaminant.

Obstacles To Information Access And Use In Developing Countries, Akobundu Dike Ugah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information is an important economic and political resource. It is vital to development and progress. A society that lacks information or access to it will find it difficult to make meaningful progress. This paper examines obstacles to information access and use. lack of awareness; inaccessibility; information explosion; bibliographic obstacles: environment; poor infrastructure; declining budgets and rising costs; costs for users; staff attitude toward users; and crime. The paper suggests how the obstacles can be overcome.

Birds–Dead And Deadly: Why Numeracy Needs To Address Social Construction, Joel Best

Numeracy

Sociologists use the term social construction to refer to the processes by which people assign meaning to their world. This paper argues that numeracy education needs to address social construction. In particular, thinking critically about the statistics the news media report regarding social issues requires understanding the competitive nature of the social problems marketplace, and the social forces that allow questionable numbers to receive widespread public attention. Such critiques must incorporate more than assessing how the numbers were calculated; they must consider the social construction of particular statistics. Two recent examples—claims about the number of birds killed flying into windows, …

Teachers Talk: Pressure Points In The K-8 Mathematics Curriculum, Kim Rheinlander, Dorothy Wallace, Wells Morrison, Daniel Ansari, Donna Coch, B. Venus Williams

Numeracy

Forty K-8 teachers participated in small, in-depth, facilitated discussions about "pressure points" in the curriculum. We define a pressure point as a topic, skill, or concept that is crucial to future mathematics learning but which many or most students do not master to the extent expected at a given grade level. They are issues that persist from one grade level to the next; eventually they impair the ability of students to succeed in technical disciplines. The teachers identified a number of pressure points; we focus on an understanding of place value and "reasonableness" of answer as two examples that were …

Scientifically Based Research In Quantitative Literacy: Guidelines For Building A Knowledge Base, Richard L. Scheaffer

Numeracy

Research in quantitative literacy (QL) is in its infancy, so now is the time to begin a regimen for healthy growth into adulthood. As a new discipline still defining itself, QL has the opportunity to build a sound infrastructure for accumulating a solid body of interconnected research that will serve the discipline well in years to come. To that end, much can be learned from recent studies of the weaknesses of mathematics education research and recommendations on how to overcome them. Mathematics education lacks a strong research foundation, one that is scientific, cumulative, interconnected, and intertwined with teaching practice. These …

Evolution Of Numeracy And The National Numeracy Network, Bernard L. Madison, Lynn Arthur Steen

Numeracy

The National Numeracy Network grew from heightened awareness of the complex and sophisticated nature of quantitative literacy and the resulting need for interdisciplinary attention to education for quantitative literacy in schools and colleges. This complexity and sophistication applies especially to the US where it is fueled by an agile economy and the needs of a democratic society. This paper describes the environment surrounding the National Numeracy Network’s establishment, some of its activities, and some complementary and synergistic actions by other professional societies. The paper concludes with a sample of quantitative literacy programs in colleges and universities

The Scope Of Numeracy, H L. Vacher, Dorothy Wallace

Numeracy

No abstract provided.

2007 Holiday Party, The Rockefeller University

Posters

The Annual Rockefeller University Holiday Party

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Dec 20, 2007, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

The Four Hundred Fifty-Fifth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee: Proposal For A School Of Communication., University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

No abstract provided.

Sculpture Park Establishes Board And New Direction, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

As the new year begins, so does a new era for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University in University Park. Now entering its 30th year, the Sculpture Park has plans for a newsletter, new programs, and a new board to further its vision and community outreach.

Vol.35 N.31 December 20th 2007, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

2007-12-20 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2007

No abstract provided.

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2007, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Automated Refinement And Augmentation Of Web Service Description Files, Marc Fisher Ii, Sebastian Elbaum, Gregg Rothermel

School of Computing: Technical Reports

Web Service Description Language (WSDL) is being increasingly used to specify web service interfaces. Specifications of this type, however, are often incomplete or imprecise. For example, cursory examination of the WSDL file for Amazon’s E-Commerce Web Service reveals that it often uses a less specific type where a more specific type is applicable, or declares that elements could be missing where other documentation indicates that they are required. Further, specifications reflecting the temporal relationships between operations are completely missing, which is not surprising since they are not supported by the current WSDL standard. These problems in WSDL specifications can cause …

Order On Motions For Partial Summary Judgment (Richard W. Mcwhorter), Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, December 20, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 20, 2007, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Michael Anthony Archuleta, Appellee V. Hank Galetka, Warden Utah State Prison, Appellant : Appellant's Brief

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (1965 –)

APPEAL FROM AN ORDER DENYING A UTAH R. CIV. P. 11 MOTION AGAINST ARCHULETA'S COUNSEL, THE HONORABLE DONALDEYRE, JR., FOURTH DISTRICT COURT, MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH,PRESIDING

Riksbank Swap Line, European Central Bank (Ecb)

Documents

No abstract provided.

Attitudes Of Librarians In Selected Nigerian Universities Toward The Use Of Ict, Paul Adesola Adekunle, Rosnold Ogie Omoba, Adeyinka Tella

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study uses a descriptive survey to study the attitude of selected librarians in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria, toward information communication technology (ICT). The population includes 41 librarians in four institutions. Data were collected using an instrument adapted from the Igberia and Chakrabarti (1990) Computer Anxiety and Attitude Towards Microcomputer Utilization (CAATMU) scale, and the librarian attitude questionnaire developed by Ramzan (2004). Two research questions were developed to guide the study. The results show that librarians have a positive attitude toward ICT and that training and knowledge are the sine qua non for a positive attitude. The fear of ICT …

The Chicago Community Trust Supports The Gsu Promise, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

The Chicago Community Trust recently demonstrated its support of Governors State University president, Dr. Elaine P. Maimon, and the GSU Promise program with a $25,000 responsive grant to support new leaders. The funds will be used to establish the initial support services infrastructure for the GSU Promise, an initiative to ensure low-income students have access to a university education.

Ozlek V. Postmaster Gen

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Housing As A Community Asset, Milan Wall

Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials

Slides of a presentation, Housing as a Community Asset, presented by Milan Wall, Co-Director of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, created December 19, 2007.

How Would You Describe Housing in Your Community?

Adolescent Girls' Perception Of Residential Treatment Centers: A Qualitative Study Of How Treatment Works, Tyler Adam Money

Theses and Dissertations

RTCs play an increasingly significant role in the continuum of treatment of emotionally disturbed adolescents. However, outcome research in this area has lagged behind the growth of treatment centers. More specifically, there has been very little investigation of the relative efficacy of the many different aspects of residential treatment, which are referred to as mechanisms of change in other research. The present study attempts to develop a phenomenological understanding of RTC patients' experience of all of the interventions that make up residential treatment. Results suggest that patients view social support, non-therapist staff members, family involvement and family therapy, as most …

Identification Of Novel High-Frequency Dna Methylation Changes In Breast Cancer., Jared M. Ordway, Muhammad A. Budiman, Yulia Korshunova, Rebecca K. Maloney, Joseph A. Bedell, Robert W. Citek, Blaire Bacher, Seth Peterson, Tracy Rohlfing, Jacqueline Hall, Robert Brown, Nathan Lakey, Rebecca W. Doerge, Robert A. Martienssen, Jorge Leon, John D. Mcpherson, Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh

Department of Statistics Faculty Publications

Recent data have revealed that epigenetic alterations, including DNA methylation and chromatin structure changes, are among the earliest molecular abnormalities to occur during tumorigenesis. The inherent thermodynamic stability of cytosine methylation and the apparent high specificity of the alterations for disease may accelerate the development of powerful molecular diagnostics for cancer. We report a genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation alterations in breast cancer. The approach efficiently identified a large collection of novel differentially DNA methylated loci (~200), a subset of which was independently validated across a panel of over 230 clinical samples. The differential cytosine methylation events were independent of …

Practical Defenses Against Bgp Prefix Hijacking, Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Prefix hijacking, a misbehavior in which a misconfigured or malicious BGP router originates an IP prefix that the router does not own, is becoming an increasingly serious security problem on the Internet. In this paper, we conduct a first comprehensive study on incrementally deployable mitigation solutions against prefix hijacking. We first propose a novel reactive detection-assisted solution based on the idea of bogus route purging and valid route promotion. Our simulations based on realistic settings show that purging bogus routes at 20 highest-degree ASes reduces the polluted portion of the Internet by a random prefix hijack from 50% down to …

Sendorcomm: An Energy-Efficient Priority-Driven Communication Layer For Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks, Vinaitheerthan Sundaram, Jae-Woo Lee, Saurabh Bagchi, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Zhiyuan Li

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In many reliable Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, messages have different priorities depending on urgency or importance. For example, a message reporting the failure of all nodes in a region is more important than that for a single node. Moreover, traffic can be bursty in nature, such as when a correlated error is reported by multiple nodes running identical code. Current communication layers in WSNs lack efficient support for these two requirements. We present a priority-driven communication layer, called SeNDORComm, that schedules transmission of packets driven by application-specified priority, buffers and packs multiple messages in a packet, and honors latency …

Safe School Training Offered At Governors State University, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

The challenge for every educational institution is creating a safe and tolerant environment in which students learn, share, and grow. The difficulties in creating this environment are many and varied and require unique insight and special skills.

The Metropolitan Institute for Leadership in Education (MILE) and the School of Extended Learning at Governors State University is sponsoring a Safe Zone Workshop on January 11, from 2 to 4:30. Dr. Patrick Finnessy, professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, will present a training program designed to help educators create safer, more civil schools and communities in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, and …

Bagagnan V. Atty Gen Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Results Of The 2007 Indiana Ems Workforce And Training Assessment, George Avery

RCHE Presentations

Project conducted under office of Rural Health, Indiana State Department of Health from december 2006-August 2007.