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New Approaches On The Horizon: Comments On Jaaniste, Hayes, And Von Baeyer's “Providing Children With Information About Forthcoming Medical Procedures: A Review And Synthesis”, Jennifer Jipson, Barbara G. Melamed Jun 2007

New Approaches On The Horizon: Comments On Jaaniste, Hayes, And Von Baeyer's “Providing Children With Information About Forthcoming Medical Procedures: A Review And Synthesis”, Jennifer Jipson, Barbara G. Melamed

Psychology and Child Development

Jaaniste, Hayes, and von Baeyer contribute to the growing body of work on preparing children for medical events by describing an Information Provision Model to aid clinicians in developing effective preparatory tools. This commentary considers the contributions of this model, and extends several of the principal ideas in new directions. In doing so, particular attention is paid to investigating the meaning of the phrase “timely and appropriate” when used to describe optimal information provision. In addition, discussion of how the model relates to emerging understandings of coping processes on both neurological and behavioral levels is offered. Throughout, emphasis is placed …

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Biofouling Likely Serves As A Major Mode Of Dispersal For The Polychaete Tubeworm Hydroides Elegans As Inferred From Microsatellite Loci, J. B. Pettengill, D. E. Wendt, M. D. Schug, M. G. Hadfield Jun 2007

Biofouling Likely Serves As A Major Mode Of Dispersal For The Polychaete Tubeworm Hydroides Elegans As Inferred From Microsatellite Loci, J. B. Pettengill, D. E. Wendt, M. D. Schug, M. G. Hadfield

Biological Sciences

The polychaete tubeworm Hydroides elegans (Haswell) is a biofouling species with relatively limited larval dispersal. Four highly polymorphic microsatellite loci were used to make inferences about the migration and global population structure of 137 individuals from seven sub-populations located in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and in the Mediterranean Sea. The results of the genetic analyses suggest minimal population sub-structure (Fst = 0.09). Estimates of pairwise Fst and migration rates using the coalescent-based method of MIGRATE suggest that there is little genetic differentiation between certain populations. Variation in relatedness among pairs of populations is consistent with a …

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The Making Of ‘American’: Race And Nation In Neurasthenic Discourse, Brad Campbell Jun 2007

The Making Of ‘American’: Race And Nation In Neurasthenic Discourse, Brad Campbell

English

This paper considers the underexamined racial and nationalistic components of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century neurasthenic discourse to propose that neurasthenia was as much a discourse of modern American identity as it was a discourse of disease. By closely reading the medical and general texts which helped to popularize it, and by scrutinizing the context of its vogue and supposed subsequent decline, this paper shows how neurasthenia was intimately bound up with the era’s politics of race, nationalism and citizenship. Countering traditional understandings of the disease, this study suggests that neurasthenia did not simply anticipate but was pre-eminently preoccupied with …

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Dayton Engineer, Summer 2007, University Of Dayton Jun 2007

Dayton Engineer, Summer 2007, University Of Dayton

Dayton Engineer

The Dayton Engineer, published out of the Office of Public Relations, later University Communications, then University Marketing and Communications, provided news from the University of Dayton School of Engineering to alumni and friends. It was published from the late 1990s to about 2010.

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Tumbleweed Exploratory Drilling Environmental Assessment, United States Deparment Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management Jun 2007

Tumbleweed Exploratory Drilling Environmental Assessment, United States Deparment Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

This Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared to analyze Stewart Petroleum Corporation’s (Stewart) proposed exploratory natural gas drilling on their Federal leases within the Tumbleweed Oil and Gas Unit (Tumbleweed Unit). This EA is a site-specific analysis of potential impacts that could result with the implementation of Alternative - the Proposed Action; Alternative B – Buried Pipelines; or Alternative C - the No Action Alternative. The EA assists the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in project planning and ensuring compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and in making a determination as to whether any “significant” impacts could result …

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The Cord Weekly (Frosh Mailer, 2007) Jun 2007

The Cord Weekly (Frosh Mailer, 2007)

The Cord

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Water Quality And The Landscape: Long-Term Monitoring Of Rapidly Developing Suburban Watersheds, New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center (Nh Wrrc) Jun 2007

Water Quality And The Landscape: Long-Term Monitoring Of Rapidly Developing Suburban Watersheds, New Hampshire Water Resources Research Center (Nh Wrrc)

NH Water Resources Research Center Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 5, June 2007, Hostos Community College Library Jun 2007

¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 5, June 2007, Hostos Community College Library

¡Escriba!

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Does Removing Coyotes For Livestock Protection Benefit Free-Ranging Ungulates?, Justin L. Harrington, Michael R. Conover Jun 2007

Does Removing Coyotes For Livestock Protection Benefit Free-Ranging Ungulates?, Justin L. Harrington, Michael R. Conover

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

We studied the effects of coyote (Canis latrans) control for livestock protection on native ungulates during 2003 and 2004 on 7 sites in Utah and Colorado, USA, totaling over 1,900 km2. We found no relationships between coyote control variables and offspring/female deer ratios. However, control effort (no. of hr spent aerial gunning for coyotes) and success (no. of coyotes taken) were positively correlated with numbers of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) observed per kilometer of transect. Our results suggest that coyote control for livestock protection may increase densities of mule deer and pronghorn in areas where it …

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Animal Research: A Moral Science, Bernard E. Rollin Jun 2007

Animal Research: A Moral Science, Bernard E. Rollin

Experimentation Collection

No abstract provided.

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Cetacean Brains: How Aquatic Are They?, Lori Marino Jun 2007

Cetacean Brains: How Aquatic Are They?, Lori Marino

Anatomy Collection

The adaptation of cetaceans to a fully aquatic lifestyle represents one of the most dramatic transformations in mammalian evolutionary history. Two of the most salient features of modern cetaceans are their fully aquatic lifestyle and their large brains. This review article will offer an overview of comparative neuroanatomical research on aquatic mammals, including analyses of odontocete cetacean, sirenian, pinniped, and fossil archaeocete brains. In particular, the question of whether a relationship exists between being fully aquatic and having a large brain is addressed. It has been hypothesized that the large, well‐developed cetacean brain is a direct product of adaptation to …

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A Hybrid First Year Science Course For Engineering Students – Integrating Biology With Chemistry, David Harding, Pauline Schwartz, Jean Nocito-Gobel, Agamemnon Koutsospyros Jun 2007

A Hybrid First Year Science Course For Engineering Students – Integrating Biology With Chemistry, David Harding, Pauline Schwartz, Jean Nocito-Gobel, Agamemnon Koutsospyros

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Biology is playing an increasingly important role in many engineering fields. With the typical engineering program already having a high credit hour requirement, the question becomes, how to best integrate biology concepts into a packed engineering curriculum. A typical biology course is not likely to introduce the important concepts of biology to engineering students. The solution here is to develop a hybrid course that integrates chemistry and biology. In the course, Chemistry with Applications to Biosystems, the concept is to develop a course that integrally links important concepts of chemistry and biology. The course focuses on the areas of biology …

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Illinois River 2006, Water Quality Assessment At The Arkansas Highway 59 Bridge, Marc A. Nelson, Wade Cash, Keith Trost, Jennifer Purtle Jun 2007

Illinois River 2006, Water Quality Assessment At The Arkansas Highway 59 Bridge, Marc A. Nelson, Wade Cash, Keith Trost, Jennifer Purtle

Arkansas Water Resources Center Technical Reports

Automatic water sampler and a U. S. Geological Survey gauging station were established in 1995 on the main stem of the Illinois River at the Arkansas Highway 59 Bridge. Since that time, continuous stage and discharge measurements and water quality sampling have been used to determine pollutant concentrations and loads in the Arkansas portion of the Illinois River. This report represents the results from the measurement and sampling by the Arkansas Water Resources Center -Water Quality Lab for January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006.

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Water Quality Sampling, Analysis And Annual Load Determinations For Tss, Nitrogen And Phosphorus At The Ballard Creek Near Arkansas/Oklahoma Line, Marc Nelson, Wade Cash, Keith Trost, Jennifer Purtle, J.V. Brahana, Ken Steele Jun 2007

Water Quality Sampling, Analysis And Annual Load Determinations For Tss, Nitrogen And Phosphorus At The Ballard Creek Near Arkansas/Oklahoma Line, Marc Nelson, Wade Cash, Keith Trost, Jennifer Purtle, J.V. Brahana, Ken Steele

Arkansas Water Resources Center Technical Reports

The Illinois River Basin has experienced water quality impairment from non-point source pollution for many years. This fact was well documented in the State of Arkansas' Water Quality Assessment report, the Soil Conservation Service River Basin Study, and several University of Arkansas studies. Thirty-seven sub-watersheds have been identified by the SCS in the Arkansas portion of the Illinois River basin. In the Arkansas portion of the Basin, the Illinois River, Evansville Creek, Baron Fork, Cincinnati Creek, Muddy Fork, Moores Creek, Clear Creek, Osage Creek and Flint Creek were all classified as not supporting their designated use as primary contact recreation …

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Island Times, Jun 2007, Mary Lou Wendell, David Tyler Jun 2007

Island Times, Jun 2007, Mary Lou Wendell, David Tyler

Island Times Newspaper, 2007

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Will The Post 9/11 World Be A Post-Tort World?, George W. Conk Jun 2007

Will The Post 9/11 World Be A Post-Tort World?, George W. Conk

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

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Analysis Of Factors Influencing Southeast Florida Coral Reef Community Composition, M. A. Phillips, David S. Gilliam, L. K. B. Jordan, Richard E. Dodge, Louis E. Fisher Jun 2007

Analysis Of Factors Influencing Southeast Florida Coral Reef Community Composition, M. A. Phillips, David S. Gilliam, L. K. B. Jordan, Richard E. Dodge, Louis E. Fisher

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

The southeast Florida reef system lies offshore a heavily populated and urbanized coast. These high latitude reefs are not only affected by their geography but also by anthropogenic factors that accompany an urban area such as dredging activities, ship groundings, waste water outfalls, runoff and beach erosion. Sedimentation has been shown to influence stony coral community composition including dominance, abundance, cover, diversity, and colony size. Using annual monitoring data collected since 2000, the southeastern Florida reef community is being analyzed to examine if and how sedimentation and other factors such as depth, distance from shore and distance from port channels …

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Alcohol Slows Interhemispheric Transmission, Increases The Flash-Lag Effect, And Prolongs Masking: Evidence For A Slowing Of Neural Processing And Transmission., Sarah A Khan, Brian Timney Jun 2007

Alcohol Slows Interhemispheric Transmission, Increases The Flash-Lag Effect, And Prolongs Masking: Evidence For A Slowing Of Neural Processing And Transmission., Sarah A Khan, Brian Timney

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

While the alcohol literature is extensive, relatively little addresses the relationship between physiological effects and behavioural changes. Using the visual system as a model, we examined alcohol's influence on neural temporal processing as a potential means for alcohol's effects. We did this by using tasks that provided a measure of processing speed: Poffenberger paradigm, flash-lag, and backward masking. After moderate alcohol, participants showed longer interhemispheric transmission times, larger flash-lags, and prolonged masking. Our data are consistent with the view that alcohol slows neural processing, and provide support for a reduction in processing efficiency underlying alcohol-induced changes in temporal visual processing.

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Population Assessment Of Western Gray Whales In 2007, Justin G. Cooke, David W. Weller, Amanda L. Bradford, Alexander M. Burdin, Robert L. Brownell Jr. Jun 2007

Population Assessment Of Western Gray Whales In 2007, Justin G. Cooke, David W. Weller, Amanda L. Bradford, Alexander M. Burdin, Robert L. Brownell Jr.

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

A population assessment of the western gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) was conducted using photo-identification data collected off Sakhalin Island under the joint Russia-U.S. program from 1994 to 2006. This is an update of the assessments by Reeves et al (2005) and Cooke et al. (2006) which used data up to 2003 and 2005 respectively, fitted to the same, individually-based population model. New median estimates of key population parameters (with 90% Bayesian confidence intervals) are 0.982 (0.972 - 0.991) for the noncalf annual survival rate; 0.76 (0.66 - 0.85) for the survival rate from calf to yearling; 2.9% per …

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Status Of Blue Whales Off Isla De Chiloe, Chile, During 2007 Field Season, Bárbara Galletti Vernazzani, Carole A. Carlson, Elsa Cabrera, Robert L. Brownell Jr. Jun 2007

Status Of Blue Whales Off Isla De Chiloe, Chile, During 2007 Field Season, Bárbara Galletti Vernazzani, Carole A. Carlson, Elsa Cabrera, Robert L. Brownell Jr.

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Since 2004, a collaborative research program of the Alfaguara Project on blue whales off Isla de Chiloe, Chile, has produce important new information on present day conservation status of this population. This paper presents preliminary findings from 2007 and compares such data with that reported in previous years. Land-based monitoring in 2007 resulted in 36 days of observations with 262.85 h of land-based effort. The maximum number of individuals sighted from land ranged from 2 to 44, with an average of 18.14 individuals per day (SD=12.00 ; CI95% =14.08 - 22.20). Preliminary results on fifteen of seventeen photo-identification surveys conducted …

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Skin Lesions On Blue Whales Off Southern Chile: Possible Conservation Implications?, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Carole A. Carlson, Barbara Galletti Vernazzani, Elsa Cabrera Jun 2007

Skin Lesions On Blue Whales Off Southern Chile: Possible Conservation Implications?, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Carole A. Carlson, Barbara Galletti Vernazzani, Elsa Cabrera

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

We report on three types of skin lesions in a population of blue whales, Balaenoptera musculus, off the northwestern coast of Isla Grande de Chiloe, Chile. These lesions were: (1) cookie-cutter shark, Isistius brasilensis, bites, (2) vesicular or blister lesions, and (3) a tattoo-like skin disease. The presence of these lesions was determined by the examining photos collected in 2006 and 2007 for a blue whale photo-identification project. We examined 289 photographs of 68 individuals for lesions. The cookie-cutter shark lesions are common on these blue whales and similar to those reported from other species of cetaceans. Skin …

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Regulation Of Cell Diameter, For3p Localization, And Cell Symmetry By Fission Yeast Rho-Gap Rga4p, Maitreyi Das, David J. Wiley, Saskia Medina, Helen A. Vincent, Michelle D. Larrea, Andrea Oriolo, Fulvia Verde Jun 2007

Regulation Of Cell Diameter, For3p Localization, And Cell Symmetry By Fission Yeast Rho-Gap Rga4p, Maitreyi Das, David J. Wiley, Saskia Medina, Helen A. Vincent, Michelle D. Larrea, Andrea Oriolo, Fulvia Verde

Chemistry and Physics Faculty Articles

Control of cellular dimensions and cell symmetry are critical for development and differentiation. Here we provide evidence that the putative Rho-GAP Rga4p of Schizosaccharomyces pombe controls cellular dimensions. rga4Δ cells are wider in diameter and shorter in length, whereas Rga4p overexpression leads to reduced diameter of the growing cell tip. Consistent with a negative role in cell growth control, Rga4p protein localizes to the cell sides in a “corset” pattern, and to the nongrowing cell tips. Additionally, rga4Δ cells show an altered growth pattern similar to that observed in mutants of the formin homology protein For3p. Consistent with …

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Rules And Insights: Connecting The Mathematical And Linguistic Abilities Of C.S. Lewis, Kim Jongerius Jun 2007

Rules And Insights: Connecting The Mathematical And Linguistic Abilities Of C.S. Lewis, Kim Jongerius

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2007

While most biographical works on C.S. Lewis give passing reference to Lewis' problems with elementary mathematics, few have made an attempt at diagnosing the difficulty or exploring its impact on his writing. A careful study of family correspondence, however, makes it clear that his learning difficulties were not with mathematics alone and suggests connections between attitudes toward and abilities in both mathematics and language. This paper will make these connections clear and will illustrate their ties to Lewis' effective mathematical references.

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The Leading Object: June 2007 Jun 2007

The Leading Object: June 2007

Leading Object

Content:
Perspectives: John C. Owens
Wilhite Named Director of School of Natural Resources
Commission Approves Two New Degree Programs
Retired UNL Research Scientist Brakke Dies
Alumnus Helps Hawaiian Farmers with Conservation
SNR Graduate Students Help Children Learn About Environment
Van Vleck Receives Pioneer Award from National Dairy Shrine
Bauer Named Interim Director of NREC
Levis Makes National Hog Farmer Masters List
New Student Services Post Created at NCTA
Nebraska Forest Service Manager Receives Award
Three Receive Outstanding Employee Awards

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Chain Reaction: How Property Begets Property, Sabrina Safrin Jun 2007

Chain Reaction: How Property Begets Property, Sabrina Safrin

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Ard News June 2007 Jun 2007

Ard News June 2007

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

Contents:

Comments from the Dean
Williams Endowment
ARD Advisory Council Election Results
Sampson Range and Pasture Management Endowments
Undergraduate Honors Research Program
ARD Interdisciplinary Research Grants Program
Helpful Hints
David H. and Annie E. Larrick Fund 2007
Arch and Frances Jorgenson Fund
Ralph H. Bainbridge Memorial Fund
William G. Whitmore Student Travel Endowment
Helen Porter Van Spronssen Charitable Trust
New or Revised Projects March and April 2007
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants March and April 2007

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News From Hope College, Volume 38.5: June, 2007, Hope College Jun 2007

News From Hope College, Volume 38.5: June, 2007, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

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Maslow - Move Aside! A Heuristical Motivation Model For Leaders In Career And Technical Education, Michael Kroth Jun 2007

Maslow - Move Aside! A Heuristical Motivation Model For Leaders In Career And Technical Education, Michael Kroth

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is often used as an example of motivational theory in both practitioner and scholarly journals, yet considerable motivational research is being conducted that is not widely known, nor applied in practical settings. This paper summarizes several of those lines of inquiry and suggests applications for career and technical educators. Models seeking to integrate motivational theories have been proposed by scholars, but today there is no generally accepted model that integrates all workplace motivation. Educators in the field need useful rules of thumb for motivating on a day-to-day basis. The heuristic workplace motivation model proposed here, while …

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Hudson-Delaware, Frank Rohrbacher, Robert O. Paxton, Richard R. Veit Jun 2007

Hudson-Delaware, Frank Rohrbacher, Robert O. Paxton, Richard R. Veit

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

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Middle Atlantic, Todd M. Day, Edward S. Brinkley Jun 2007

Middle Atlantic, Todd M. Day, Edward S. Brinkley

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

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