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Primary Caregiving Fathers : I Was An Interloper In A Woman's World, Meghan L. Cavanaugh

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

This study sought to ascertain how fathers who are primary caregivers understand their roles as fathers and caregivers. This qualitative, exploratory study aimed to expand the body of knowledge on primary caregiving fathers, which has, to date, largely focused on outcomes-based research. Heterosexual, married men with children under five years of age, who had been primary caregivers for at least six months, were recruited from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York. Twelve primary caregiving fathers participated in this study. Questions focused on such topics as: 1) the decision-making process; 2) what the participants understood their roles as fathers and primary …

Kenyon Collegian - September 6, 2007

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, September 05, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff

September 2007

No abstract provided.

The Register, 2007-09-05, North Carolina Agricutural And Technical State University

NCAT Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Trip-Level Analysis Of Efficiency Changes In Oregon’S Deepwater Trawl Fishery, David Tomberlin, Garth Holloway

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has affected profitability, but changes in technical efficiency can provide some insight into the program’s effects. This paper, the first of a planned series of analyses of the buyback’s effect on technical efficiency in the trawl fleet, applies stochastic frontier analysis to assess whether technical efficiency changed perceptibly after 2003. We adopt a hierarchical …

Volume 99 Issue 3, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, September 5, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 129, Issue 5

Research News: 2007, No. 3, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Research News: Grants and Publications (2000-2014)

Grants, publications, technology transfer, special announcements

Nuclear Energy. Removal Of Prohibitions On The Construction Of Nuclear Power Plants. Statute.

Initiatives

Repeals existing restrictions on state approval of construction of nuclear power plants. Repeals existing state process for determining adequacy of nuclear waste storage, and requires acceptance of federally-approved storage methods. Creates technical restrictions and limitations on the approval of nuclear power plants in specified areas of the state which are seismically active or biologically sensitive or where the nuclear power plant would discharge into navigable rivers. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Potential, unknown state and local administrative costs, largely paid for by fees, for review of new …

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, September 5, 2007, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

September

No abstract provided.

Student-Athletes And Involvement Theory, Thomas F. J. Iacovone

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to better understand the level of involvement student athletes have at Rowan University. The researcher surveyed 99 student athletes at Rowan University during the 2006-2007 academic year. The subjects were administered a survey to measure their level of involvement, as well as their attitudes toward involvement at Rowan University. Surveys were statistically analyzed to determine frequency, percentages, means, standard deviations, and significant correlations between selected demographics and specific involvement activities.

The study provides insight on the relationship between student athletes' academic performance and their level of involvement, as well as insight on relationships between …

Improving Neural Network Classification Training, Michael Edwin Rimer

Theses and Dissertations

The following work presents a new set of general methods for improving neural network accuracy on classification tasks, grouped under the label of classification-based methods. The central theme of these approaches is to provide problem representations and error functions that more directly improve classification accuracy than conventional learning and error functions. The CB1 algorithm attempts to maximize classification accuracy by selectively backpropagating error only on misclassified training patterns. CB2 incorporates a sliding error threshold to the CB1 algorithm, interpolating between the behavior of CB1 and standard error backpropagation as training progresses in order to avoid prematurely saturated network weights. CB3 …

Daily Eastern News: September 05, 2007, Eastern Illinois University

September

No abstract provided.

A Wireless, Passive Sensor For Quantifying Packaged Food Quality, Ee Lim Tan, Wen Ni Ng, Ranyuan Shao, Brandon D. Pereles, Keat Ghee Ong

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

This paper describes the fabrication of a wireless, passive sensor based on aninductive-capacitive resonant circuit, and its application for in situ monitoring of thequality of dry, packaged food such as cereals, and fried and baked snacks. The sensor ismade of a planar inductor and capacitor printed on a paper substrate. To monitor foodquality, the sensor is embedded inside the food package by adhering it to the package’sinner wall; its response is remotely detected through a coil connected to a sensor reader. Asfood quality degrades due to increasing humidity inside the package, the paper substrateabsorbs water vapor, changing the capacitor’s capacitance …

Frederick, Stephen D. Interview For The Miami Valley College Of Nursing And Health Oral History Project, Carol Holdcraft, Stephen D. Frederick

Wright State University - Miami Valley College of Nursing and Health Oral History Project

Carol Holdcraft interviewed Stephen D. Frederick about the founding of the Wright State University College of Nursing and Health. In the interview Dr. Frederick discusses his career and his decision to come to Wright State as faculty with College of Education and the College of Nursing and Health.

Ovarian Cancer G Protein–Coupled Receptor 1, A New Metastasis Suppressor Gene In Prostate Cancer, Lisam Shanjukumar Singh, Michael Berk, Rhonda Oates, Zhenwen Zhao, Haiyan Tan, Ying Jiang, Aimin Zhou, Kashif Kirmani, Rosemary Steinmetz, Daniel Lindner, Yan Xu

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Background

Metastasis is a process by which tumors spread from primary organs to other sites in the body and is the major cause of death for cancer patients. The ovarian cancer G protein–coupled receptor 1 (OGR1) gene has been shown to be expressed at lower levels in metastatic compared with primary prostate cancer tissues.

Methods

We used an orthotopic mouse metastasis model, in which we injected PC3 metastatic human prostate cancer cells stably transfected with empty vector (vector-PC3) or OGR1-expressing vector (OGR1-PC3) into the prostate lobes of athymic or NOD/SCID mice (n = 3–8 mice per group). Migration of PC3 …

September 5, 2007 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 110, September 5, 2007

Central Florida Future

2 injured in hit-and-run on Alafaya; Hitt: '08 looking worse fiscally; A rush to rush; Glitch delays football tix lottery; $750 in tuition offered at 1st game.

Volume 45, Number 3: September 05, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

The Spinnaker Vol. 31 No. 5, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community

The Guardian, September 05, 2007, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Thirty-two page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Phenylalanyl-Trna Synthetase Editing Defects Result In Efficient Mistranslation Of Phenylalanine Codons As Tyrosine, Jiqiang Ling, Srujana S. Yadavalli, Michael Ibba

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Translational quality control is monitored at several steps, including substrate selection by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs), and discrimination of aminoacyl-tRNAs by elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) and the ribosome. Phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase (PheRS) misactivates Tyr but is able to correct the mistake using a proofreading activity named editing. Previously we found that overproduction of editing-defective PheRS resulted in Tyr incorporation at Phe-encoded positions in vivo , although the misreading efficiency could not be estimated. This raised the question as to whether or not EF-Tu and the ribosome provide further proofreading mechanisms to prevent mistranslation of Phe codons by Tyr. Here we show that, …

Governors State University Gets $1 Million Grant, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

“It is a national crisis. Between 45 and 65 percent of all teachers leave the profession by the fifth year,” said Dr. Connie Mietlicki, Assistant Professor of English and Secondary Education at Governors State University and Director of the Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) Partnership grant.

To address this crisis, GSU has been awarded a $1 million Teacher Quality Enhancement Recruitment grant by the United States Department of Education to attract interested students to the teaching profession and provide mentoring programs to support new teachers in the first years of their career.

2007 Engr333/Biol354 Project Assignment, Matthew K. Heun

ENGR 333

The Fall 2007 semester ENGR333 project involved a collaboration with students in BIOL354, taught by my colleague Dave Warners. We asked our students “What would it take to make Calvin College carbon neutral?”

This project resulted in the first-ever carbon dioxide emissions and sequestration assessment of Calvin College, attached below.

The student presenters animated the pie charts, and an audible gasp filled the hall when the imbalance between carbon emissions and carbon sequestration became clear.

The students also studied potential routes to carbon neutrality, one of which was a green revolving fund.

This class project resulted in a co-authored publication …

Hormones In The Field: Evolutionary Endocrinology Of Juvenile Hormone And Ecdysteroids In Field Populations Of The Wing-Dimorphic Cricket Gryllus Firmus, Anthony J. Zera, Zangwu Zhao, Katherine Kaliseck

Anthony Zera Publications

Virtually no published information exists on insect endocrine traits in natural populations, which limits our understanding of endocrine microevolution. We characterized the hemolymph titers of juvenile hormone (JH) and ecdysteroids (ECDs), two key insect hormones, in field-collected short-winged, flightless (SW) and long-winged, flight-capable (LW(f)) morphs of the cricket Gryllus firmus. The JH titer exhibited a dramatic circadian rhythm in the LW(f) morph but was temporally constant in the flightless SW morph. This pattern was consistent in each of three years; in young, middle-aged, and older G. firmus; and in three other cricket species. The ECD titer was considerably …

Seeing The Forest For The Treaties - Evolving Debates On Cdm Forest And Forestry Project Activities 10 Years After The Kyoto Protocol, Romulo Sampaio

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Student Publications

No abstract provided.

September 4, 2007, Faculty Senate

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Monitor Newsletter September 04, 2007, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

The Daily Egyptian, September 04, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff

September 2007

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: September 04, 2007, Eastern Illinois University

September

No abstract provided.