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Chen V. Atty Gen Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Pangemanan V. Atty Gen Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2007, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Preparation Of Divalent And Trivalent Antigens For Immunogical Studies On Degranulation Of Mast Cells And Preparation Of Ceragenins For Antiviral Studies Against Vaccinia Virus., Dianliang Geng

Theses and Dissertations

CHAPTER 1

Aggregation of receptors for IgE (Fc RI) causes mast cells and basophils to release preformed contents of granules, including histamine and a variety of enzymes. This process, called degranulation plays a central role in allergic reactions. Methods to study this process are to create multivalent ligands which can interact with the receptors and, in turn, lead to aggregation of the receptors. We prepared a series of fluorophore-labeled divalent and trivalent antigens to study the degranulation of mast cells. Trivalent antigens proved to be much better stimulators for degranulation of mast cells than divalent antigens. These results indicate that …

Holy Cross Magazine, Vol. 42 No. 1, Winter 2008, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Magazine

The Place For Athletics
At a time when college sports scandals abound and the Academy is rethinking the proper place for athletics within the world of higher education, HCM recently sponsored a forum on this complex and challenging subject. Read the transcript of this discussion and discover what the future might hold for Crusader sports.
Moderated by Clark V. Booth ’61
Photographs by Patrick O’Connor

Flashback: The Bard of Linden Lane
Jesuit, College administrator and ardent booster for alma mater, Rev. Michael J. Earls of the Class of 1896 brought national attention to Holy Cross when he hosted G.K. Chesterton’s …

Evidence For A Population Of High-Redshift Submillimeter Galaxies From Interferometric Imaging, Joshua D. Younger, Giovanni G. Fazio, Jia Sheng Huang, Min S. Yun, Grant W. Wilson, Matthew L.N. Ashby, Mark A. Gurwell, Kamson Lai, Alison B. Peck, Glen R. Petitpas, David J. Wilner, Daisuke Iono, Kotaro Kohno, Ryohei Kawabe, David H. Hughes, Itziar Aretxaga, Tracy Webb, Alejo Martínez-Sansigre, Sungeun Kim, Kimberly S. Scott, Jason Austermann, Thushara Perera, James Lowenthal, Eva Schinnerer, Vernesa Smolčić

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We have used the Submillimeter Array to image a flux-limited sample of seven submillimeter galaxies, selected by the AzTEC camera on the JCMT at 1.1 mm, in the COSMOS field at 890 μm with ∼2″ resolution. All of the sources - two radio-bright and five radio-dim - are detected as single point sources at high significance (>6 σ), with positions accurate to ∼0.2″ that enable counterpart identification at other wavelengths observed with similarly high angular resolution. All seven have IRAC counterparts, but only two have secure counterparts in deep HST ACS imaging. As compared to the two radio-bright sources …

12-20-2007 Swosu Students Involved In Cancerresearch, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2007

Southwestern Oklahoma State University students at Weatherford have received NASA Oklahoma Space Grant scholarships to perform cancer-related research, including (front from left): Cammi Valdez, Enid; Antionette Smith, Tulsa; Henok Ermias, Weatherford; and Madeline Baugher, SWOSU faculty member who is grant investigator. Back from left-Dr. Williams Kelly, chair of the SWOSU Department of Chemistry & Physics; Abigail Ntreh, Oklahoma City; and Joel Kardokus, Lookeba.

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

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

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

Exchange Bias In Bulk Mn Rich Ni-Mn-Sn Heusler Alloys, Mahmud Khan, Igor Dubenko, Shane Stadler, Naushad Ali

Faculty Publications

An experimental study on the exchange bias properties of bulk polycrystalline Ni50 Mn50-x Snx Heusler alloys has been performed. Martensitic transformations have been observed in the alloys for some critical Sn concentrations. The alloys, while in their respective martensitic phases, are found to exhibit exchange bias effect. Shifts in hysteresis loops of up to 225 Oe were observed in the 50 kOe field cooled samples. The observed exchange bias behavior in Ni50 Mn50-x Snx is attributed to the coexistence of antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic exchange interactions in the system. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.

Concentration Of H, Si, Cl, K, Fe, And Th In The Low- And Mid-Latitude Regions Of Mars, W. V. Boynton, G. J. Taylor, Larry G. Evans, R. C. Reedy, Richard Starr, D. M. Janes, K. E. Kerry, D. M. Drake, K. J. Kim, R. M.S. Williams, M. K. Crombie, J. M. Dohm, A. E. Metzger, S. Karunatillake, J. M. Keller, H. E. Newsom, J. R. Arnold, J. Brückner, P. A.J. Englert, O. Gasnault, A. L. Sprague, I. Mitrofanov, Steven W. Squyres, Jacob I. Trombka, Lionel D'Uston, H. Wänke, D. K. Hamara

Faculty Publications

We report maps of the concentrations of H, Si, Cl, K, Fe, and Th as determined by the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) on board the 2001 Mars Odyssey Mission for ±∼45° latitudes. The procedures by which the spectra are processed to yield quantitative concentrations are described in detail. The concentrations of elements determined over the locations of the various Mars landers generally agree well with the lander values except for Fe, although the mean of the GRS Fe data agrees well with that of Martian meteorites. The water-equivalent concentration of hydrogen by mass varies from about 1.5% to 7.5% (by …

The Acs Fornax Cluster Survey. Ii. The Central Brightness Profiles Of Early-Type Galaxies: A Characteristic Radius On Nuclear Scales And The Transition From Central Luminosity Deficit To Excess, Patrick Côté, Laura Ferrarese, Andrés Jordán, David Merritt, Et Al.

Articles

We analyse brightness profiles for 143 early-type galaxies in the Virgo and Fornax Clusters, observed with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. S´ersic models are found to provide accurate representations of the global profiles with a notable exception: the observed profiles deviate systematically inside a characteristic “break” radius of Rb ≈ 0.02+0.025 −0.01 Re, where Re is the effective radius of the galaxy. The sense of the deviation is such that bright galaxies (MB . −20) typically show central light deficits with respect to the inward extrapolation of the S´ersic model, while the great majority of …

Merged Ionization/Dissociation Fronts In Planetary Nebulae, William J. Henney, R. J. R. Williams, Gary J. Ferland, Gargi Shaw, C. R. O'Dell

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The hydrogen ionization and dissociation front around an ultraviolet radiation source should merge when the ratio of ionizing photon flux to gas density is sufficiently low and the spectrum is sufficiently hard. This regime is particularly relevant to the molecular knots that are commonly found in evolved planetary nebulae, such as the Helix Nebula, where traditional models of photodissociation regions have proved unable to explain the high observed luminosity in H₂ lines. In this paper we present results for the structure and steady state dynamics of such advection-dominated merged fronts, calculated using the Cloudy plasma/molecular physics code. We find …

Goldman Sachs Collateral Disagreement Re Observations And Conclusions By Micottis, Pierre Micottis

Documents

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Maine's Long-Term Care Needs Baseline Report: Demographics And Use Of Long Term Care Services In Maine, Stuart Bratesman Mpp, Julie T. Fralich Mba, Karen Mauney, Catherine Mcguire Bs, Louise Olsen, Jasper Ziller

Disability & Aging

In 2006, the Office of Elder Services requested the assistance of the Muskie School in developing an assessment of long term care service use in Maine. This report provides baseline information on the demographic characteristics, participant characteristics and service use trends for people accessing long term care services in this State.

For purposes of this report, we have excluded people with MR/DD. Long term care services do not include community support services for people with mental illness.

In this report, long term care services include:

• Nursing Facility Services
• Private Non-medical Institutions
• Consumer Directed Attendant Services
• Day Health Services
• Elder and …

Utb-Tsc Campus Construction Updates - 2007-12-20, University Of Texas At Brownsville And Texas Southmost College. Facilities.

UTB/TSC Archives - Campus Construction Updates Newsletter

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 …

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 10, No. 18), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

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

UNM News Minute 2007

No abstract provided.

Spatio-Temporal Associations Between Goes Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals And Ground-Level Pm2.5, Christopher J. Paciorek, Yang Liu, Hortensia Moreno-Macias, Shobha Kondragunta

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

We assess the strength of association between aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals from the GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product (GASP) and ground-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5) to assess AOD as a proxy for PM2.5 in the United States. GASP AOD is retrieved from a geostationary platform and therefore provides dense temporal coverage with half-hourly observations every day, in contrast to once per day snapshots from polar-orbiting satellites. However, GASP AOD is based on a less-sophisticated instrument and retrieval algorithm. We find that correlations between GASP AOD and PM2.5 over time at fixed locations are reasonably high, except in the winter and in …

Lacuny Disability Services Roundtable Meeting Minutes, December 2007, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

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?

Conexão Subterrânea, No. 58, December 19, 2007, Allan Calux, Augusto Auler, Leda Zogbi

KIP Articles

Contents: A Caverna Paraíso, no Pará, é atualmente a maior da Amazônia - Continuam os trabalhos na região de São Thomé das Letras e Luminárias (MG) - 22 novas grutas são descobertas em Presidente Olegário, MG - As cavernas graníticas de Ataléia (MG) são contempladas com estudos bioespeleológicos - Nota de falecimento - Publicados recentemente dois novos artigos sobre paleoclima - Terremoto em região cárstica preocupa espeleólogos - Gruta de Lascaux apresenta manchas pretas - Informações discrepantes são veiculadas sobre terremoto na Bahia - 5º Congresso Nacional de Espeleologia, Alcanena, Portugal

Volume 45, Number 18: December 19, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

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 …

Pyridinium Bisretinoids: Synthesis And Photoactivated Cytotoxicity, Junping Gao

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis discusses pyridinium bisretinoid compounds (PBRs), which were prepared for two purposes: 1) to use them as standards for detection of novel fluorophores in human RPE cells, which may be involved in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and 2) to use them in the development of a targeted and triggered drug delivery system for cancer therapy. We prepared a selection of PBRs using a one-pot biomimetic method; synthesis, mechanisms for formation, and characterization of these compounds is described. We also explored the photoreactivity of three novel PBR compounds and found that these PBRs form oxidation products under blue-light irradiation. The …

Cal Poly Professor To Discuss How The Physically Impaired Are Undoing Social Stereotypes Jan. 17, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly To Host Teach-In On Climate Change Solutions Jan. 31, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Total Synthesis Of (+/-)-Goniomitine Via A Formal Nitrile/Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropane [3 + 2] Cyclization., Christian L Morales, Brian L Pagenkopf

Chemistry Publications

The total synthesis of (+/-)-goniomitine has been accomplished in 17 linear steps with 5.2% overall yield starting from commercially available delta-valerolactam. A synthetic highlight includes the first application of a formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition between a highly functionalized nitrile and a donor-acceptor cyclopropane to prepare an indole nucleus. The use of a microwave reactor is shown to greatly improve the reaction times for two steps.

Interfacial Coherency And Ferroelectricity Of Batio3/Srtio3 Superlattice Films, Y. L. Li, S. Y. Hu, Dmitri Tenne, A. Soukiassian, D. G. Schlom, X. X. Xi, K. J. Choi

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

We studied the phase transitions, domain morphologies, and polarizations in BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃ superlattices grown on SrTiO₃ substrates. Using the phase field approach, we discovered the remarkable influence of film/substrate interfacial coherency on the ferroelectricity of the SrTiO₃ layers within a superlattice: it is an orthorhombic ferroelectric for an incoherent interface while it exhibits only induced polarization by the adjacent BaTiO₃ layers for a coherent interface. We presented the domain morphologies within individual BaTiO₃ and SrTiO₃ layers which have different ferroelectric symmetries. The results are compared to ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy and variable temperature x-ray …

Towards An Understanding Of Salient Neighborhood Boundaries: Adolescent Reports Of An Easy Walking Distance And Convenient Driving Distance, Natalie Colabianchi, Marsha Dowda, Karin A. Pfeiffer, Dwayne E. Porter, Maria João Ca Almeida, Russell R. Pate

Faculty Publications

Numerous studies have examined the association between the surrounding neighborhood environment and physical activity levels in adolescents. Many of these studies use a road network buffer or Euclidean distance buffer around an adolescent's home to represent the appropriate geographic area for study (i.e., neighborhood). However, little empirical research has examined the appropriate buffer size to use when defining this area and there is little consistency across published research as to the buffer size used. In this study, 909 12th grade adolescent girls of diverse racial and geographic backgrounds were asked to report their perceptions of an easy walking distance and …