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Impaired Mononuclear Cell Immune Function In Extreme Obesity Is Corrected By Weight Loss, Luigi Fontana, J. Christopher Eagon, Marco Colonna, Samuel Klein Jan 2007

Impaired Mononuclear Cell Immune Function In Extreme Obesity Is Corrected By Weight Loss, Luigi Fontana, J. Christopher Eagon, Marco Colonna, Samuel Klein

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.


Long-Term Low-Calorie Low-Protein Vegan Diet And Endurance Exercise Are Associated With Low Cardiometabolic Risk, Luigi Fontana, Timothy E. Meyer, Samuel Klein, John O. Holloszy Jan 2007

Long-Term Low-Calorie Low-Protein Vegan Diet And Endurance Exercise Are Associated With Low Cardiometabolic Risk, Luigi Fontana, Timothy E. Meyer, Samuel Klein, John O. Holloszy

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.


Diffusion Tensor Imaging Predicts Hyperacute Spinal Cord Injury Severity, David N. Loy, Joong Hee Kim, Mingqiang Xie, Robert E. Schmidt, Kathryn Trinkaus, Sheng-Kwei Song Jan 2007

Diffusion Tensor Imaging Predicts Hyperacute Spinal Cord Injury Severity, David N. Loy, Joong Hee Kim, Mingqiang Xie, Robert E. Schmidt, Kathryn Trinkaus, Sheng-Kwei Song

Open Access Publications

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Fine Mapping Of Mouse Qtls For Fatness Using Snp Data, Armin O. Schmitt, Hadi Al-Hasani, James M. Cheverud, Daniel Pomp, Lutz Bünger, Gudrun A. Brockmann Jan 2007

Fine Mapping Of Mouse Qtls For Fatness Using Snp Data, Armin O. Schmitt, Hadi Al-Hasani, James M. Cheverud, Daniel Pomp, Lutz Bünger, Gudrun A. Brockmann

Open Access Publications

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Relationship Of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders And Psychiatric Disorders: Implications For Treatment, Carol S. North, Barry A. Hong, David H. Alpers Jan 2007

Relationship Of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders And Psychiatric Disorders: Implications For Treatment, Carol S. North, Barry A. Hong, David H. Alpers

Open Access Publications

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Automatic Detection And Segmentation Of Robot-Assisted Surgical Motions, Henry C. Lin Jan 2007

Automatic Detection And Segmentation Of Robot-Assisted Surgical Motions, Henry C. Lin

Link Foundation Modeling, Simulation and Training Fellowship Reports

Robotic surgical systems such as Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci system provide a rich source of motion and video data from surgical procedures. In principle, this data can be used to evaluate surgical skill, provide surgical training feedback, or document essential aspects of a procedure. If processed online, the data can be used to provide context-specific information or motion enhancements to the surgeon. However, in every case, the key step is to relate recorded motion data to a model of the procedure being performed. This paper examines our progress at developing techniques for "parsing" raw motion data from a surgical task …


Fourth Amendment Lessons From The Highway And The Subway: A Principled Approach To Suspicionless Searches, Ricardo J. Bascuas Jan 2007

Fourth Amendment Lessons From The Highway And The Subway: A Principled Approach To Suspicionless Searches, Ricardo J. Bascuas

Articles

The threat of future terrorist attacks has sped the proliferation of random, suspicionless searches and seizures, such as those now made of New York City subway riders. Courts assess the legality of such searches with an inherently flawed balancing test developed to assess searches and seizures made without "probable cause." Although scholars and Justices alike have decried the resort to balancing individual interests against the government's need to search, no alternative framework has been proposed. This Article proposes a more principled, objective inquiry for determining when suspicionless searches can be made. To eliminate the need for balancing, this Article advances …


Due Process Rights And Terrorist Emergencies, James W. Nickel Jan 2007

Due Process Rights And Terrorist Emergencies, James W. Nickel

Articles

This essay discusses the grounds for due process rights (DPRs) and the permissibility of suspending them during terrorist and other emergencies. The two topics are profitably treated together because DPRs - along with freedoms of movement, expression, and political participation - are often suspended or restricted when national emergencies occur. Although I present a strong case for DPRs as human rights, this justification does not settle their priority during emergency situations. That issue raises additional questions, and I discuss some of them. The overall thrust of the essay is to defend the importance of respecting DPRs during troubled times. The …


Mathematics & Statistics Newsletter January 2007, Rit Department Of Mathematics And Statistics Jan 2007

Mathematics & Statistics Newsletter January 2007, Rit Department Of Mathematics And Statistics

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.


Steans Center Newsletter, Steans Center Jan 2007

Steans Center Newsletter, Steans Center

Steans Center Newsletters, Press Releases and News Items

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Work And Citizenship, Jennifer Gordon, Robin A. Lenhardt Jan 2007

Rethinking Work And Citizenship, Jennifer Gordon, Robin A. Lenhardt

Faculty Scholarship

This Article advances a new approach to understanding the relationship between work and citizenship that comes out of research on African American and Latino immigrant low-wage workers. Media accounts typically portray African Americans and Latino immigrants as engaged in a pitched battle for jobs. Conventional wisdom suggests that the source of tension between these groups is labor competition or the racial prejudice of employers. While these explanations offer useful insights, they do not fully explain the intensity and longevity of the conflict. Nor has relevant legal scholarship offered a sufficient theoretical lens through which this conflict can be viewed. In …


Repairing Family Law, Clare Huntington Jan 2007

Repairing Family Law, Clare Huntington

Faculty Scholarship

Scholars in the burgeoning field of law and emotion have paid surprisingly little attention to family law. This gap is unfortunate because law and emotion has the potential to bring great insights to family law. This Article begins to fill this void, and inaugurate a larger debate about the central role of emotion in family law, by exploring the intriguing and significant consequences for the regulation of families that flow from a theory of intimacy first articulated by psychoanalytic theorist Melanie Klein. According to Klein, individuals love others, inevitably transgress against those they love out of hate and aggression, feel …


The Eukaryotic Leading And Lagging Strand Dna Polymerases Are Loaded Onto Primer-Ends Via Separate Mechanisms But Have Comparable Processivity In The Presence Of Pcna, Olga Chilkova, Peter Stenlund, Isabelle Isoz, Carrie M. Stith, Pawel Grabowski, Else-Britt Lundstrom, Peter M. Burgers, Erik Johansson Jan 2007

The Eukaryotic Leading And Lagging Strand Dna Polymerases Are Loaded Onto Primer-Ends Via Separate Mechanisms But Have Comparable Processivity In The Presence Of Pcna, Olga Chilkova, Peter Stenlund, Isabelle Isoz, Carrie M. Stith, Pawel Grabowski, Else-Britt Lundstrom, Peter M. Burgers, Erik Johansson

Open Access Publications

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Enginuity 2007, Kate Gleason College Of Engineering Jan 2007

Enginuity 2007, Kate Gleason College Of Engineering

RIT Digital Archives

Dean's corner (p.1)||Meet alum Raymond Malpocher (p.1)||First annual KGCOE hockey night (p.2)||KGCOE events at brick city homecoming (p.3)||Alumni offer valuable time and advice to students (p.4)||Three-story addition to the James E. Gleason building open for business! (p.5)||An evening with the dean (p.6)||A special thanks to Our ANBOD representatives (p.7)||Enginuity contributors (p.8)


The Quaestor Quarterly January 2010, Institute Audit, Compliance & Advisement Jan 2007

The Quaestor Quarterly January 2010, Institute Audit, Compliance & Advisement

RIT Digital Archives

Please Sign Here (p.1)||Hot Topics (p.2)||Control of the Quarter (p.3)||My Two Cents (p.4)||Ask the Auditor (p.4)||Pop Quiz (p.4)


Rit Finance Matters Jan 2007, Sponsored Programs Accounting Jan 2007

Rit Finance Matters Jan 2007, Sponsored Programs Accounting

RIT Digital Archives

This newsletter is published four times a year and will include regular features, process changes, sponsoring agency announcements, a calendar of upcoming events, and personal introductions to SPA staff.


Phishing With A Poisoned Bait, Warren B. Chik Jan 2007

Phishing With A Poisoned Bait, Warren B. Chik

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article discusses the problem of dealing with electronic fraud and identity theft under the current Singapore criminal law.


The Minister Is Lay: Social Organization In New Paradigm Christianity, Jayeel Cornelio Jan 2007

The Minister Is Lay: Social Organization In New Paradigm Christianity, Jayeel Cornelio

Development Studies Faculty Publications

Love seems to be in the air for many of the red-shirted members of Hope Filipino. On this particular Sunday afternoon, the church-owned Nexus Auditorium, located in a shopping center in Singapore’s prominent Orchard Road, conveys the vibrancy of Valentine’s season. Instead of a familiar Christian song, setting the mood for the inflowing audience is one of Kenny G’s romantic hits, a tangible indication that this is not ordinary church. The Sunday service, redesigned for evangelistic purposes, expects a greater number of non-Christian visitors as a result of the pre-Valentine Matthew Care Group. With friends meeting and ushers greeting at …


Transborder Industrialization In The Framework Of Singapore's Regionalization Strategy: The Case Of Singapore's Gambit In Vietnam, Caroline Yeoh, Victor Sim, Wilfred Pow Ngee How Jan 2007

Transborder Industrialization In The Framework Of Singapore's Regionalization Strategy: The Case Of Singapore's Gambit In Vietnam, Caroline Yeoh, Victor Sim, Wilfred Pow Ngee How

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Infrastructure can be unreliable and administration subject to corruption in Asia’s rapidly emerging economies. This context presented Singapore with unique opportunities to export its expertise to locations where these attributes are less certain, through the provision of superior infrastructure, the ability to negotiate investment concessions and, where existing, through the links to influential business groups in the investment location. This strategic initiative is further premised on the perception that Singapore’s positive reputation with multinationals, as well as ‘guanxi’, or connections, with Asian business networks, will give the industrial-township projects a marketing advantage. Their progress is a litmus test of Singapore’s …


Soil Suction And Behavior Of Chemically Treated Clays, Thomas M. Petry, Cheng Ping Jiang Jan 2007

Soil Suction And Behavior Of Chemically Treated Clays, Thomas M. Petry, Cheng Ping Jiang

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Expansive clay soils have caused significant damage throughout the world. Chemical stabilizing agents have been used to reduce the swell of expansive clay soils, but the effect of chemical treatment on the matric and osmotic suction of soils has not been investigated previously. Two subject soils were chosen to study soil suction and the behavior of chemically treated clay. One soil, with high swell potential, was from Irving, Texas. the other soil, with moderate swell potential, was from Slater, Missouri. Hydrated lime and KIS (a proprietary solution containing potash and ammonium lignosulfonate) were used as chemical stabilizers. Select physical and …


Businessfinder: Harnessing Presence To Enable Live Yellow Pages For Small, Medium And Micro Mobile Businesses, D. Chakraborty, K. Dasgupta, S. Mittal, Archan Misra, C. Oberle, A. Gupta, E. Newmark Jan 2007

Businessfinder: Harnessing Presence To Enable Live Yellow Pages For Small, Medium And Micro Mobile Businesses, D. Chakraborty, K. Dasgupta, S. Mittal, Archan Misra, C. Oberle, A. Gupta, E. Newmark

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Applications leveraging network presence in next-generation cellular networks have so far focused on subscription queries, where "presence" information is extracted from specific devices and sent to entities who have subscribed to such presence information. In this article we present BusinessFinder, a service that leverages the underlying cellular presence substrate to provide efficient, on-demand, context-aware matching of customer requests to nomadic micro businesses as well as small and medium businesses having a mobile workforce. Presence, in the context of BusinessFinder, is not simply limited to phone location and device status, but also encompasses dynamic attributes of vendors (both "mobile" and "static"), …


Searching And Tagging: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?, Qiaozhu Mei, Jing Jiang, Hang Su, Chengxiang Zhai Jan 2007

Searching And Tagging: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?, Qiaozhu Mei, Jing Jiang, Hang Su, Chengxiang Zhai

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper presents the duality hypothesis of search and tagging, two important behaviors of web users. The hypothesis states that if a user views a document D in the search results for query Q, the user would tend to assign document $D$ a tag identical to or similar to Q; similarly, if a user tags a document D with a tag T, the user would tend to view document D if it is in the search results obtained using T as a query. We formalize this hypothesis with a unified probabilistic model for search and tagging, and show that empirical …


Wave Propagation On Power Cables With Special Regard To Metallic Screen Design, R. Papazyan, Per Pettersson, David Pommerenke Jan 2007

Wave Propagation On Power Cables With Special Regard To Metallic Screen Design, R. Papazyan, Per Pettersson, David Pommerenke

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The high frequency properties of coaxial power cables are modeled using time- and frequency-domain numerical simulations. This is required due to the complex helical structure of the outer metallic screen. The finite element (FEM) and finite difference time domain methods (FDTD) have been employed to study the effect of screen spiralization. It is established that this screen design causes a dependence of the cable high frequency characteristics on the surrounding medium. Analytical model based on modal analysis of wave propagation in coaxial cables confirms the numerical observations.


Is There A Better Way? Alternative Methods Of Treaty-Based, Investor-State Dispute Resolution, Jeswald W. Salacuse Jan 2007

Is There A Better Way? Alternative Methods Of Treaty-Based, Investor-State Dispute Resolution, Jeswald W. Salacuse

Fordham International Law Journal

Two factors--the increase in international investment and the increase in international investment agreements--have together led to a growth in the number and severity of treaty-based disputes between host states and individual investors. An increasing number of such disputes are being settled through international arbitration. However, the large amounts of some resulting arbitration awards, the cost to host countries of the arbitral process, and the constraints imposed thereby on the ability of governments to regulate enterprises in their territories have raised questions as to whether means other than arbitration and litigation can be found to resolve treaty-based, investor-State disputes. In short, …


We Will Still Live: Confronting Stigma And Discrimination Against Women Living With Hiv/Aids In Malawi, Chi Mgbako, Tracy E. Higgins, Jeanmarie Fenrich Jan 2007

We Will Still Live: Confronting Stigma And Discrimination Against Women Living With Hiv/Aids In Malawi, Chi Mgbako, Tracy E. Higgins, Jeanmarie Fenrich

Fordham International Law Journal

This report presents the findings of this research effort. Part I sets out Malawi's obligations under international and domestic law regarding the right of women living with HIV/AIDS to be free from discrimination and also explores non-binding international documents that provide guidance to governments in confronting discrimination against PLWHA. Part I then explores the ways in which lack of sexual autonomy, economic dependency, physical and sexual abuse, harmful traditional practices, commercial sex work, sexual exploitation of girls and young women, and conceptions of male sexuality increase women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Part II documents widespread community-level stigma against women …


Women, Children, And Victims Of Massive Crimes: Legal Developments In Africa, Justice Richard J. Goldstone Jan 2007

Women, Children, And Victims Of Massive Crimes: Legal Developments In Africa, Justice Richard J. Goldstone

Fordham International Law Journal

This issue of the Fordham International Law Journal is devoted to African themes. The articles concentrate on the most vulnerable in Africa, namely children, women and the victims of massive crimes.


Child Soldiers, Slavery And The Trafficking Of Children, Susan Tiefenbrun Jan 2007

Child Soldiers, Slavery And The Trafficking Of Children, Susan Tiefenbrun

Fordham International Law Journal

This article will examine the complex relationship of human trafficking, slavery, and child soldiering. Part I will examine the root causes of the development and expansion of the use of child-soldiers. Part II will examine the international and domestic laws and instruments that protect against the use of children as soldiers. Part III will examine some literary representations of the crime of child soldiering in order to raise the readers' awareness of the depths of this atrocity. Part IV will conclude by offering practical suggestions and economic solutions to make these legal instruments more effective. Children are humanity's most valuable …


The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: Using A "Shield" Statute As A "Sword" For Obtaining Federal Jurisdiction In Art And Antiquities Cases, Lauren Fielder Redman Jan 2007

The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: Using A "Shield" Statute As A "Sword" For Obtaining Federal Jurisdiction In Art And Antiquities Cases, Lauren Fielder Redman

Fordham International Law Journal

The political winds are changing, and a more liberal United States government may very well be receptive to ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The nature and scope of international law are also changing. Individuals are sharing responsibility with states for grave breaches of international law, and globalization has resulted in a marked increase in international tribunals deciding disputes affecting individual interests. Despite these trends, Americans have been wary of the International Criminal Court. Federal courts principles borrowed from the legal process school can and should be implemented to govern relations between ICC and domestic …


Seeking Justice For Victims In Darfur: The Darfur Legal Training Program, Genevieve A. Cox, Jerome C. Roth Jan 2007

Seeking Justice For Victims In Darfur: The Darfur Legal Training Program, Genevieve A. Cox, Jerome C. Roth

Fordham International Law Journal

With relatives displaced from their homes and a fiancée who was arbitrarily imprisoned and abused in Darfur, Hayat comes to her work with victims in the refugee camps with a personal stake. ... This commitment to human rights defense and victims' advocacy led Hanifa and eight of his Sudanese colleagues to the Darfur Legal Training Program (the "Program"), a first-of-its-kind seminar in June of 2007 led by the American Bar Association Litigation Section (the "Section"), with funding from the MacArthur Foundation. ... The Program brought these lawyers to London for a week to train with a faculty of American trial …


U.S. - China Relations And Darfur, Chin-Hao Huang Jan 2007

U.S. - China Relations And Darfur, Chin-Hao Huang

Fordham International Law Journal

This Essay will begin by first assessing China's economic stakes in Sudan. While economic interests and priorities remain important, it does not sufficiently explain China's shifting position on Darfur. The Essay will then examine the critical factors shaping China's expanding role in Africa, more broadly, as an important context in understanding its evolving approach to Sudan and the Darfur crisis. It will then delve more deeply into Beijing's accommodating shifts on Darfur, illustrating and mapping out the subtleties exhibited in China's diplomatic and economic engagements with the United States on the Darfur question.