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2007 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Indoor Track And Field Top 10s, Great Northwest Athletic Conference

Track and Field

No abstract provided.

Does Congress Have The Power To Limit The President's Conduct Of Detentions, Interrogations And Surveillance In The Context Of War?, Shayana Kadidal

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Petroleum Act Chapter 62:01, Parliament Of The Republic Of Trinidad And Tobago

Latin American Energy Policies

This is the most recent version of the Petroleum Act, which has been amended several times over. The provisions of this act cover private/public petroleum rights and licensing.

A Guide To The Tallgrass Prairies Of Eastern Nebraska And Adjacent States, Paul A. Johnsgard

Papers in Ornithology

Contents

Part 1: Ecology of the Tallgrass Prairie

Part 2: Plants of the Tallgrass Prairies:
Checklist of Prairie & Grassland Plants of Nebraska; Relative Frequencies of Grasses, Spring Creek and Nine-mile Prairies; Twenty Most Abundant Fall Forbs, Spring Creek and Nine-mile Prairies; Typical Shrubs, Forbs, Grasses & Sedges of Eastern Nebraska Tallgrass Prairies; English: Latin Name Equivalents of 370 Tallgrass Prairie Plants; Latin: English Name Equivalents of 370 Tallgrass Prairie Plants Identification Keys to Some Common Nebraska Grassland Forbs

Part 3: Animals of the Tallgrass Prairies
Greater Prairie-chickens and Native Prairies; Seasonal Checklist of Nebraska Tallgrass Ecoregion Birds (Gage County); …

The Birds Of Nebraska, Revised Edition 2007, Paul A. Johnsgard

Papers in Ornithology

Persons living in Nebraska often feel that they are living in a cultural wasteland; its citizenry preoccupied with violent sports such as hunting and football. Yet many are unaware that they are actually residing in one of the prime locations in the entire world for observing and enjoying some of the most aesthetically appealing of all the world's biological attractions. The area around Kingsley Dam and Lake McConaughy, for example, is known to have attracted more than 300 bird species, including 104 breeders (plus 17 probable breeders) making it the third-most species-rich bird location in the entire U.S.A. (after Laguna …

Continuity Of Care : Literature Review And Implications, Mohammed Alazri, Philip Heywood, Richard D. Leese, Brenda

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Continuity of care is widely regarded as a core value of primary care. The objective of this article is to explore the literature about the concept of continuity of care focusing on factors that influence continuity; advantages and disadvantages of continuity and the effect of continuity on outcomes, hence on the quality of care. Electronic databases and other websites were searched for relevant literature. The results of this review showed that continuity of care is influenced by demographic factors, factors related to patients and healthcare professionals, patient-healthcare professional relationship, inter-professional factors, role of receptionists and organisational factors. Several advantages were …

Harrison’S Neurology In Clinical Medicine, Abdullah Al-Asmi

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering October 1 – December 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Get Outdoors Nevada

• The number of records in the volunteer database increased 12% over last quarter. The database now contains 4,937 records.
• Website activity decreased, recording an average of 82,859 hits per month, a decrease of 31% from last quarter, with an average of 8,191 pages viewed per month.
• Volunteer fall training has been completed.
• Three National Public Land Day Events have been completed.
• Two hundred and ten people attended the Volunteer Recognition Event.

Interagency Science And Research: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Interagency Science and Research Strategy

• Meetings were held with the SNAP Recreation Team and the SNAP Cultural Resources Team to request assistance in the development of the science strategy. Draft versions of interagency goals, subgoals, science questions, and associated tasks were given to each team for review and input.
• Plans were prepared for the peer review of science proposals submitted for consideration as Conservations Initiatives in SNPLMA Round 9.
• Proceedings of the natural resources management workshop held on September 13 were completed and sent to the Science & Research Team for review by members.
• An important focus of the Science and Research Team was the …

Archaeological Inventory, Site Assessment, And Data Management, Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Lmnra) And Parashant National Monument (Para): Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Archaeology

• Completed subsurface test excavations at Site 26Ck4943. Field work included the excavation of 11 test units and 10 shovel probes, and the recovery of 52 artifacts and 6.0 gallons of feature fill.

• Inventoried 435 acres, documented 13 new sites and conducted condition assessments on 12 other sites.

• Completed a review of all 1,932 ASMIS site records, of which 857 are sites located within LMNRA or PARA, while 1,075 are “Local Resource Types.”

• Gave five presentations on Task Agreement projects at the Three Corners Conference at UNLV.

Re-Evaluation Of The Main Ridge Site And Adjacent Areas: Quarterly Progress Report, October 1 - December 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Archaeology

• Visited the National Administration of Records and Archives in College Park, Maryland to collect additional archival data for the Finder’s Guide.

• Visited the National Museum of the American Indian to collect additional photographs for the Finder’s Guide.

• Submitted Finder’s Guide documenting the results of the archival study.

• Completed an analysis of the variation in Tusayan White Ware ceramics from Main Ridge.

• Attended the Virgin Anasazi Pottery Conference at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Joint Fire Science Program – Lake Mead National Recreation Area: Revegetating Burned Arid Lands: Identifying Successful Native Species Using Trait And Competition Analysis, Quarterly Progress Report, October 1, 2007 To December 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Fire Science

The task agreement was awarded to UNLV on October 1, 2007. This report covers the period October 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007. The following activities have been conducted toward meeting or exceeding deliverables in the statement of work: hiring and project start and experimental set-up

Limnological Assistance For The Lake Mead National Recreation Area In Meeting The Challenge Of The Water 2025 Initiative: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending: December 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Limnological Studies

• The limnologist position has been announced.
• Project 1: Review of the draft Boulder Basin Adaptive Management Plan is underway.
• Project 2: Development of a white paper expressing the joint needs of the entities involved in Water 2025 projects is being coordinated.
• Project 3: A bibliographic reference spreadsheet organizing literature citations related to quagga and zebra mussel research has been completed.
• Project 4: A comprehensive literature search of Lake Mead limnology is well underway; an Access database has been designed to organize reference citations; and a special collections library at UNLV is being established to house original rare documents and other …

Lake Mead National Recreation Area Sensitive Wildlife Species Monitoring And Analysis: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Wildlife Monitoring

Project 1. Relict Leopard Frog Monitoring, Management, and Research

• Fall surveys completed at all natural and translocation sites.
• Coordination for a potential translocation site on BLM lands in the Gold Butte area ongoing – the aim is that this site will be ready for translocations in 2008.
• Coordination ongoing for evaluation of a translocation site on BLM lands in the Black Mountains, AZ – the plan is to complete compliance in 2008.
• Coordination and assistance provided to UNLV research efforts on habitat improvements at Blue Point, Rogers, and Pupfish Refuge springs.
• Relict Leopard Frog Conservation Team meeting held in December. …

Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• An ATV safety class was conducted to certify Clark County site stewards.

• Stewards reported ten major cultural site impacts and nine lesser impacts.

• Technical design for the new CSSP database is 80% complete.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment For Osteomyelitis, Osteoradionecrosis And Recurrent Ear Infections, Susie Debus

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

To Determine The Potential For Brunei Darussalam Maura Container Terminal To Serve As A Transhipment Hub For The Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia And The Philippines East Asean Growth Area (Bimp-Eaga) Region, Helmi Haji Talib

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Law And Policy Perspectives Of Seafarers' Claims, Lunecito U. Delos Santos

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Integrated Approach To The Interconnected Maritime Services Of Turkey, Cagdas Gurbuz

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Intensive Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program For Patients With Severe Heart Failure And Acute Stroke: A Report Of Two Cases, Chyi-Yann Wang, Jue-Long Wang, Ai-Lun Yang, Ko-Long Lin

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Cardiovascular disease is a major factor restricting successful outcomes after stroke rehabilitation. While neurological recovery after stroke has been extensively investigated, cardiovascular adaptations to physical activities poststroke have received little attention. Severe heart failure patients have been well known for limitation of ambulation, but the influence over acute poststroke patients have rarely been investigated. Exercise testing has become a mainstay for the prognostic assessment of patients with heart failure. Various studies have shown that patients with impaired exercise capacity, as measured by low peak oxygen consumption (Vo2), have an unfavorable outcome, independent of other parameters. Whether parameters from submaximal test …

Hereditary Neuropathy With Liability To Pressure Palsies: A Report Of Two Cases, Chu-Hsu Lin, Long-Sun Ro, Hung-Chih Hsu, Wei-Chi Hsieh, Chih-Jung Lin, Jian-Der Lee

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is an autosomal-dominant disorder characterized by self-limited, recurrent compressive mononeuropathies at common entrapment sites precipitated by trivial injuries. This disorder typically develops in early adulthood. Electrodiagnostic studies revealed diffuse mild demyelinating neuropathies with entrapment over common entrapment sites. Nerve biopsies frequently show segmental demyelination and thickening of the myelin sheath which is mostly caused by 1.5 Mb deletion of the 17p 11.2 site containing the peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22) gene on the 17(superscript th) chromosome. This report describes the clinical features, electrodiagnostic studies, and genetic studies of a Taiwanese family. Among …

Bickerstaff's Brainstem Encephalitis Combined With Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Casereport, Yi-Ping Cheng, Jo-Tong Chen, Ta-Shen Kuan

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis is a post-infectious brainstem inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. The characteristic symptoms include: acute ophthalmoplegia with diplopia, ataxia, disturbed consciousness, and extensor plantar response. In this report we describe a 33-year-old woman with Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis combined with Guillain-Barré syndrome that presented 25 days after a Cesarean section. After five treatments with plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobin for 5 days, the patient's muscle strength recovered to MRC 4/5. The ophthalmoplegia and bilateral extensor plantar responses also disappeared. The patient then was transferred to the PM&R department for persistent slurred speech, ataxia, and diplopia. The rehabilitation program included training …

A Reviewarticle Of Psychometric Properties Of Five Tests Of Attention Commonly Used In Patients With Stroke, Hui-Yan Chiau, I-Ping Hsueh, Chia-Lin Koh, Hui-Chun Chen, Chin-Ling Hsieh

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background and purpose: Comparison of the psychometric properties of tests of attention can provide guidelines with which clinicians and researchers can determine a useful measurement. The purpose of this study is to reviewarticle and appraise the psychometric properties of attentional tests frequently used during the last 3 years in empirical studies of stroke and to determine how well these tests can be applied on people with stroke.Methods: This study included two parts: first, a search from the MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Index to Chinese Periodical Literature databases for attentional tests used more than twice in empirical studies of stroke in …

Bone Mineral Density In Subjects With Cerebral Palsy: A Preliminary Study In Taiwan, Hsin-Chi Wu, Ming-Chuan Lin, Yi-Shiung Horng, Hong-Yi Chen, Kwang-Hwa Chang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Objective: Children with cerebral palsy (CP) have complicated disabilities, and also have the tendency to suffer from osteoporotic fractures. The aim of this study was to explore the bone mineral density (BMD) and to estimate the fracture rate in Taiwanese CP subjects.Materials and methods: To study the BMD and its related factors in 28 Taiwanese CP subjects (16 males, 12 females; age range, 2-24 years; mean age, 9.8 years), we evaluated their BMD in the lumbar spine (LS-BMD) with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, clinical characteristics, biochemical bone metabolism-related factors, and nutritional status. The fracture rate was evaluated during a three-year …

Analysis Of Hospitalization-Related Factors Among Nursing Home Residents: A Preliminary Report, I-Chun Chen, May-Lien Liu, Cheng-Hsiu Lin

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

There are increasing numbers of elderly people spending the last years of their lives in a nursing home (NH) or other long-term care institution, mostly because of physical and/or mental disabilities. NH residents may have a variety of acute illnesses; hospitalization is an important treatment option for the frail NH resident owing to the insufficient resources of NHs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the cause of hospitalization, and to analyze the correlation between the NH residents’ characteristics and hospitalization.Residents staying in the participating NH for more than one year were recruited into this study, and from September …

Attack Of Gouty Arthritis After Intraarticular Injection Of Naturally Derived Hyaluronic Acid, Chih-Kuang Chen, Chin-Yew Lin, Ngok-Kiu Chu, Cheng-Yi Lin, Simon Fuk-Tan Tang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Viscosupplementation by intraarticular administration of exogenous hyaluronic acid has been a favorable treatment option to alleviate the symptoms of knee osteoarthritis. The potential but uncommon adverse reactions associated with intraarticular hyaluronic acid injection are local pain, swelling, and allergic response. These reactions are typically mild, transient, and self-limiting. The focus of this report is an 80-year-old man who presented with acute painful swelling of his knee joint after an injection of naturally derived hyaluronic acid. Aspiration of knee joint effusion yielded 40 mL of turbid straw-colored fluid. Synovial fluid cell counts revealed numerous leukocytes with a marked predominance of neutrophils. …

Power Spectrum Analysis Of Heart Rate Variability In Full-Term And Preterm Neonates, Tsui-Fen Yang, Nien-Tzu Kao, Rai-Chi Chan, Terry-Bj Kuo, Shu-Jen Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Objective: Prematurely born infants have been believed to be neurologically less mature than full-term neonates. The purpose of this study was to investigate the regulation and maturation of autonomic nervous systems, in both full-term and preterm neonates of different conceptional ages.Methods: One hundred and thirteen infants, both clinically and neurologically healthy and with conceptional ages of between 33 and 42 weeks, were enrolled in the study. Power spectrum analyses of heart rate variability were performed under standard conditions when the subjects were in a sleeping state. Results: Conceptional age did exert a significant influence over heart rate variability. There was …

Diagnosis Of An Aneurysm By Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography: A Casereport, Chih-Yang Wu, Jeng-Yi Shieh, Tyng-Guey Wang, Wen-Shiang Chen, Chung-Li Wang, Yen-Ho Wang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

High resolution musculoskeletal ultrasonography has been a comprehensive tool for differentiation of soft tissue mass. However, it is not commonly used as a standard examination in the diagnosis of an aneurysm. We present a case of a growing mass in the medial aspect of the left thigh status post internal fixation of periprosthetic fracture. Initial examination with a 10 MHz linear array probe revealed a blurred hypoechoic lesion at a depth of 5 cm. After switching to a 7.5 MHz curve-linear array probe, we found a well-defined, ovoid, hypoechoic cystic lesion with posterior enhancement. In color Doppler mode, a half-blue/half-red …

Botulinum Toxin Type A Treatment For Drooling In Taiwanese Children With Cerebral Palsy: Three Casereports, Yu-Ching Lin, I-Ling Lin, Yu-Te Chiu, Jeng-Yi Shieh

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Botulinum toxin is a promising treatment option for the management of drooling in patients with cerebral palsy. However, the effect of botulinum toxin type A in treating drooling of Taiwanese children with cerebral palsy has not been reported thus far. We injected single dose botulinum toxin into bilateral parotid glands of three children with cerebral palsy, and followed the results over a 9-month period. Drooling improved in all three patients without significant adverse effects during follow up. There were individual differences in terms of efficacy and duration of effect. Two patients had longer duration of effect than that reported in …

Autonomic Dysreflexia In Ankylosing Spondylitis With Double Spinal Cord Injuries: A Casereport, Shu-Chun Huang, Wun-Jhong Tsai, Shih-Wei Chou, Chin-Man Wang, Alice M. K. Wong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

This 54-year-old man underlying ankylosing spondylitis suffered from double spinal cord injuries with traumatic C6/7 dislocation and a neglected L1 vertebral body fracture which progressed to transverse fracture three weeks after the injury, acting as a powerful precipitant to autonomic dysreflexia. The dysreflexic symptoms happened at least three times when he practiced sitting during mat exercise and ameliorated soon by virtue of lying down. Compared with the previous record checked three weeks ago, neurologic examination revealed alteration of sensory level and loss of deep anal sensation. The patient received L1 laminectomy as well as T12 and L2 transpedicle screws fixation, …