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Fetal Mortality: Timing Of Racial Disparities, Jinwen Cai, Gerald L. Hoff, Felix A. Okah, Paul C. Dew, Gary Zaborac, Ximena Somoza, Larry Jones, Paula Livingston, Mary Jo Everhardt, Rex Archer

Faculty and Staff Publications

Whether or not racial disparities exist in fetal mortality rate (FMR) statistics depends upon the methodology used to calculate the rates. While there appears to be consensus that there is a black-white disparity in late gestation (> or = 28 weeks), the issue is unclear for early gestation (20-27 weeks). To clarify this issue, we assessed disparities in FMR for singleton fetal deaths and live births between non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic whites in three counties of Missouri using gestational age- and weight-specific analyses. These analyses demonstrated statistically significant disparities for non-Hispanic whites when fetal deaths occurred < 28 weeks gestation and also at weights < 1,000 g. Statistically significant disparities for non-Hispanic blacks were not evident until gestation was > or = 32 weeks …

8th Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2007), Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

The 8MSP was a formal meeting of the 156 States which have accepted the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction. It was held in accordance with Article 11 of the Convention and pursuant to the decisions of the 2004 First Review Conference and the 2006 Seventh Meeting of the States Parties (7MSP).

The 8MSP took place two months after the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention. This, and the fact that a Meeting of the States Parties (MSP) was held for the first time in …

2007 November 13 Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 6, November 13, 2007

2007 November 27 Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 7, November 27, 2007

…Of Cabbages And Kings. November, 2007, Emeriti Society, University Of The Pacific

Emeriti Newsletter: "...Of Cabbages and Kings"

"...Of Cabbages and Kings" is the newsletter of the University of the Pacific Emeriti Society. Read more about the Emeriti Society of Pacific by clicking here.

Reference Group Data For The Functional Gait Assessment, Martha L. Walker, Alvis G. Austin, Gina M. Banke, Suzanne R. Foxx, Lynn Gaetano, Laurie A. Gardner, Jill Mcelhiney, Kisiah Morris, Liz Penn

Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

Background and Purpose: The Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) is a clinical tool for evaluating performance in walking. The purpose of this study was to determine age-referenced norms for performance on the FGA in community-living older adults.

Subjects: Subjects were 200 adults, ages 40 to 89 years, living independently.

Methods: Each subject completed the FGA one time and was scored simultaneously by 2 testers.

Results: The intraclass correlation coefficient for interrater reliability was .93. Mean scores for the FGA ranged from 29/30 for adults in their 40s to 21/30 for adults in their 80s.

Discussion and Conclusion: Patient performance on the …

Detecting Shifts In Soil Microbial Community Structure And Function Post Landspread Of Manure Or Biosolids Containing Antimicrobial Chemicals, Kelly Lehnert, Sharon A. Clay, Susan Gibson, Volker Brozel

Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science Faculty Publications

Soil microbial diversity and community interaction play an indispensable role in 2,4-dichorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) herbicide degradation. The addition of manure or municipal waste biosolids through landspreading may alter soil community structure and function if these materials contain antimicrobial chemicals like chlortetracycline (CTC), administered in livestock feed to promote animal growth and health or tetracycline (TET) utilized in human health. In this study, soil applied with manure collected from pigs fed standard CTC levels was compared to soil containing manure from control pigs fed no CTC, and a comparison of soil applied with biosolids containing TET or without TET to distinguish …

University Reporter - Volume 12, Number 03 - November 2007

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about the University's master planning process, an anti-homelessness project run by a senior research associate at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies (John McGah), the establishment of a Creative Writing MFA program at the University, the opening of the Spencer House in Roxbury’s Egleston Square (names for UMass Lecturer Marian Spencer, and other news from UMass Boston.

The Future Of The Academic Library Serials Collection, Barbara M. Pope Mals

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

It Never Ends... Technical Services And Planning In A Changing Environment, Hope Barton, Michael Wright, Rany Roeder

Against the Grain

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Innovations Affecting Us -- Browser Add-Ons, Extensions, And Plug-Ins: How They Can Help Leverage The Use Of Library Resources, Kristen Devoe

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

The Bg News November 1, 2007, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 1, 2007. Volume 98-Issue 52.

Is A 3-Mm Intrafractional Margin Sufficient For Daily Image-Guided Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Of Prostate Cancer?, Adam D Melancon, Jennifer C O'Daniel, Lifei Zhang, Rajat J Kudchadker, Deborah A Kuban, Andrew K Lee, Rex M Cheung, Renaud De Crevoisier, Susan L Tucker, Wayne D Newhauser, Radhe Mohan, Lei Dong

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

PURPOSE: To determine whether a 3-mm isotropic target margin adequately covers the prostate and seminal vesicles (SVs) during administration of an intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment fraction, assuming that daily image-guided setup is performed just before each fraction.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: In-room computed tomographic (CT) scans were acquired immediately before and after a daily treatment fraction in 46 patients with prostate cancer. An eight-field IMRT plan was designed using the pre-fraction CT with a 3-mm margin and subsequently recalculated on the post-fraction CT. For convenience of comparison, dose plans were scaled to full course of treatment (75.6 Gy). Dose coverage …

Civil Practice And Procedure, John C. Lynch, Jon S. Hubbard, M. Elizabeth Woodard

University of Richmond Law Review

This article summarizes the major developments in Virginia civil practice and procedure over the past two years, specifically covering significant decisions by the Supreme Court of Virginiaand changes to the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia dating from April 22, 2005, to April 20, 2007. The article also addresses legislative enactments by the General Assembly in its 2005 and 2006 sessions.

News From The South Carolina Library Association V.5 N.4 11/2007

South Carolina Libraries

News from the South Carolina Library Association v.5 n.4 11/2007

Meeting The Challenge Of Moving Youth Into The Workforce: Reducing Dropouts And Increasing Educational Attainment, Center For Families

Center for Families Publications

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Mapreduce With Communication Overlap (Marco), Faraz Ahmad, Seyong Lee, Mithuna Thottethodi, T. N. Vijaykumar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

MapReduce is a programming model from Google for
cluster-based computing in domains such as search
engines, machine learning, and data mining. MapReduce
provides automatic data management and fault tolerance to
improve programmability of clusters. MapReduce’s execution
model includes an all-map-to-all-reduce communication,
called the shuffle, across the network bisection. Some
MapReductions move large amounts of data (e.g., as much
as the input data), stressing the bisection bandwidth and
introducing significant runtime overhead. Optimizing such
shuffle-heavy MapReductions is important because (1)
they include key applications (e.g., inverted indexing for
search engines and data clustering for machine learning)
and (2) they run longer …

People Profile: Hope Barton, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

I Hear The Train A Comin' -- The Charleston Conference At 27, Greg Tananbaum

Against the Grain

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Full Page Ads, Editor

Against the Grain

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Issues In Vendor/Library Relations -- Ebooks, Bob Nardini

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Group Therapy -- Managing Oa Journals, Christine Fischer

Against the Grain

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Technical Services Workflows: A Comparison Of Two Academic Libraries, Susan Mueller

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

From The Reference Desk, Thomas Gilson

Against the Grain

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2008 Charleston Conference -- 28th Annual Issues In Book And Serial Acquisition, Editor

Against the Grain

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From The University Presses -- Anachronisms Or Innovators? Reflections On University Presses As Portrayed In The Ithaka Report, Sanford G. Thatcher

Against the Grain

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Catalog Information And User Expectations In An Amazoogle World: Too Much? Too Little?, Martin L. Knott, Doreen R. Bradley, Deborah S. Degeorge, Jim Ottaviani

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Physical Properties Of Denture Base Resins Potentially Resistant To Candida Adhesion, Gunjan Dhir, David W. Berzins, Virendra B. Dhuru, Periathamby A. Raj, Andrew R. Dentino

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose: The addition of anionic charge on denture base resins has been shown to inhibit Candida albicans adhesion and to facilitate adsorption of salivary defense molecules. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physical properties of a modified denture base resin for denture fabrication.

Materials and Methods: Specimens made from heat polymerizing resin Lucitone 199 were used as the control group. The two experimental groups, E-10 and E-20, had 10% and 20%, respectively, of the monomer substituted with an experimental phosphate-containing monomer. Flexural strength and modulus, water sorption, solubility, and color stability tests were conducted to ensure compliance …

Fact Sheet - Sacred Heart University - Fall 2007, Office Of Institutional Research

News, Magazines and Reports

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