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Student's Perception Of School Climate, Jodi L. Roberts Jan 2007

Student's Perception Of School Climate, Jodi L. Roberts

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The purpose of this study was to investigate student's perception of school climate in the middle school. More specifically, this study examined school climate as it relates to student's academic achievement, attendance, and disciplinary referrals. Participants consisted of 29 females and 14 males in grades 6th, 7th, and 8th and their parents from a rural middle school located in upstate New York. School climate was measured using the Student version of the Yale Child Study School Development Program, School Climate Survey-Revised Version (Emmons, Haynes, & Comer, 2002). Parents reported on their child's school performance. Data analysis consisted of a One …

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The Effects Of Atmospheric Pressure Changes On Landfill Gas Collection Efficiency And Quality, Jason Leone Jan 2007

The Effects Of Atmospheric Pressure Changes On Landfill Gas Collection Efficiency And Quality, Jason Leone

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The effects of atmospheric pressure changes on landfill gas collection efficiency and quality are relatively complex and also very important to the effective management of these systems not only for practical operation and maintenance of these systems, but to also minimize the impacts of these fluctuations on the system in general. This thesis examined three areas of collection and control systems that effectively manage landfill gas (LFG), which is generated by the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter in municipal solid waste and analyzed the effects of barometric pressure on those systems. The three areas of analysis included the effects of …

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School Psychologists' Perceived And Ideal Role In Grade Retention Decisions, Sean P. Scott Jan 2007

School Psychologists' Perceived And Ideal Role In Grade Retention Decisions, Sean P. Scott

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This study examined school psychologists' reports of their perceived and ideal roles in retention making decisions. A random national sample of 231 school psychologists completed a questionnaire regarding their perceptions of the rates and trends of retention in their school, as well as their perceived and ideal role in grade retention decisions. The majority (86.6%) of respondents indicated that their school practices retention, whereas 1 9% noted an increase in the amount of retentions. The rate at which respondents agreed that school psychologists should be involved in retention decisions was significantly higher (91.5%) than the percentage of school psychologists that …

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The Role Of Identity Formation And Career Indecisiveness In Effective School-To-Work Transitions For Students With Emotional And Behavioral Disabilities, Elizabeth S. Garfield Jan 2007

The Role Of Identity Formation And Career Indecisiveness In Effective School-To-Work Transitions For Students With Emotional And Behavioral Disabilities, Elizabeth S. Garfield

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Many school districts devote the majority of their transition resources to those students that are graduating and continuing their education through college. However, only about 15% of ninth grade students go on to graduate high school and obtain a 4-year college degree within six years of their high school graduation. Schools focus their resources and curriculum on the college bound minority instead of the work bound majority. This contributes to ineffective transition planning for those students going directly from school to work; and is especially true for students with Emotional/Behavioral disabilities (ED/BD). These students are leaving school unprepared to be …

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Conservation Of The Brca1 Gene, Matthew Gary Wronkowski Jan 2007

Conservation Of The Brca1 Gene, Matthew Gary Wronkowski

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Most research has been conducted on the structure and function of many individual genes as well as complementary proteins. Many of these studies look at specific population groups' country of origin, geographic location, or ethnicity but do not correlate findings between these groups. In this project I attempted to associate the structural and functional consequences of individual mutations in Human BRCA1 to other organisms. My findings suggest a strong correlation between human geographical isolation and mutation exclusivity. Furthermore strong sequence and mutation conservation as well as structural homology exist between many species.

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Sustainable Shoe Design With A Single Material, Jungyun Lee Jan 2007

Sustainable Shoe Design With A Single Material, Jungyun Lee

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People tend to throw away a shoe rather than repair it for further use. This means more and more shoes are thrown away, and since a shoe is made out of many kinds of materials that are all glued or stitched together, it is difficult to recycle or reuse the shoe. Additionally, there is a symbolic relation between the land and shoe; a shoe is the product that connects people to the ground. It is ironic that a shoe, which provides the connection, has a negative effect on the land. If we wear a shoe longer, we can reduce the …

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Landscapes Of Beethoven's Signature "From The Heart, May It Go To The Heart", Virginia L. Martin Jan 2007

Landscapes Of Beethoven's Signature "From The Heart, May It Go To The Heart", Virginia L. Martin

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"Landscapes of Beethoven's Signature, an exhibit consisting of twenty-two works of art in a variety of media, is a tribute to the revolutionary composer Ludwig van Beethoven [...]. Landscapes of Beethoven's Signature comprises a body of visual works showing the hand of Beethoven the Creative Artist. Literal landscapes, which also incorporate Beethoven's calligraphy, have been interpreted in the two larger oil paintings, 'In Moonlight' and 'Look Through These Trees.' Figurative depiction of 'landscape' and 'signature' is represented in a variety of ways within the sculptures, prints, books and calligraphy. For several of the pieces, visual material was derived from Beethoven's …

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The Integration Of Graphic Communication And Educational Tools For Children With Dyslexia, Amar Abdulla Behbehani Jan 2007

The Integration Of Graphic Communication And Educational Tools For Children With Dyslexia, Amar Abdulla Behbehani

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Design for education is an important approach in the graphic design field. The intention of this thesis is to conduct further research that can help educators and designers build healthier learning environments for children with learning disabilities. Learning environments are not limited to physical environments such as classroom designs or school architecture; they are extended to cognitive environments that are greatly affected by external influences such as sensory stimulation and learning methods. Children with special educational needs could benefit from effective design solutions for better information processing. This designer attempts to develop typographic solutions to facilitate the reading process of …

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Agent Based Supply Chain Architecture For Modern Supply Chain Management, Vilesh S. Salunkhe Jan 2007

Agent Based Supply Chain Architecture For Modern Supply Chain Management, Vilesh S. Salunkhe

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A Supply chain is a linked series of various business partners that participate in the process of developing a finished product from raw materials. Supply chain management is the process of managing all the related activities. Though decisions are made by each business partner on their own, frequent interaction with other partners is a must. Timely response and high accuracy in the decisions made require collection of related data, analysis, and conclusion steps without missing a beat. However, these steps are tedious, complex, and very error prone as often these decisions are made by people with multiple responsibilities and frequent …

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Artfully Concealed, Athesia V. Benjamin Jan 2007

Artfully Concealed, Athesia V. Benjamin

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The following document is a summary of the development of my work during two years in the MFA painting program at Rochester Institute of Technology. The process intrinsic to thesis development eventually brought me to my final concept of obscuring my identity as a way to develop a body of figurative paintings. Along with the eleven pieces created during this two-year period, I have thoroughly studied this specific topic within the context of contemporary and historical art and identified artists with like concepts and images.

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Incorporating Triple Bottom Line Strategies Into Corporations, Bill C. Lin Jan 2007

Incorporating Triple Bottom Line Strategies Into Corporations, Bill C. Lin

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In this new era of globalization, the competition among multi-national corporations in various industries is tighter than ever. Due to this intense struggle for corporations to grow their bottom line, the corporations have recognized that a new approach to business is necessary. Corporations have realized that they can no longer just think about their economical profitability to survive in this environment, but they also have to be good stewards to the people they employ and be conscious of the impact the corporation's daily operations have on the environment. Because of this new found recognition, corporations have started using phrases such …

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An Exploration Of The Impact Of Picture Book Illustrations On The Comprehension Skills And Vocabulary Development Of Emergent Readers, Judy Lavender Nicholas Jan 2007

An Exploration Of The Impact Of Picture Book Illustrations On The Comprehension Skills And Vocabulary Development Of Emergent Readers, Judy Lavender Nicholas

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The formal instruction process of teaching reading to emergent and beginning readers needs to incorporate a much more multimodal approach. People today, not only in America but in many other countries as well, are more graphically oriented than any other generation has ever been. Children in our society expect to experience pictures and images in almost everything they encounter. This graphic orientation needs to be taken advantage of and incorporated into the educational process in ways that can be beneficial to the learning environments of children in our schools. Reading programs need to forego one-dimensional teaching methods and learn how …

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Stimulating Proactive Fault Detection In Distributed Systems, Namita Naik Jan 2007

Stimulating Proactive Fault Detection In Distributed Systems, Namita Naik

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Fault Tolerance is an important issue considered when developing a reliable Distributed System. Reactive fault systems are designed to redistribute the current process on to other machines when failure occurs. In contrast to the conventional method of reactive recovery, an emerging concept in the field of fault tolerance is a proactive approach. This approach exploits pre fault symptoms and initiates fault recovery henceforth. This project is to implement a proactive fault prediction simulator for a distributed system. This will include developing a language for simulation, which allows the user to define a distributed system. The language is further used to …

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Design And Simulation Of Strained-Si/Strained-Sige Dual Channel Hetero-Structure Mosfets, Puneet Goyal Jan 2007

Design And Simulation Of Strained-Si/Strained-Sige Dual Channel Hetero-Structure Mosfets, Puneet Goyal

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With a unified physics-based model linking MOSFET performance to carrier mobility and drive current, it is shown that nearly continuous carrier mobility increase has been achieved by introduction of process-induced and global-induced strain, which has been responsible for increase in device performance commensurately with scaling. Strained silicon-germanium technology is a hot research area, explored by many different research groups for present and future CMOS technology, due to its high hole mobility and easy process integration with silicon. Several heterostructure architectures for strained Si/SiGe have been shown in the literature. A dual channel heterostructure consisting of strained Si/Si1-xGex on a relaxed …

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Accountability For Mental Health Counseling In Schools, Catherine Ann Lesio Jan 2007

Accountability For Mental Health Counseling In Schools, Catherine Ann Lesio

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Accountability has become an important concept in school-based mental health because students face many social and emotional issues that demand highly effective interventions (Repie, 2005). This study examined the data of a survey that was conducted with 147 members of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) regarding their counseling practices in the schools. The results indicated that a majority of NASP members only “sometimes” use pre and post measures with their counseling cases. A Stepwise Regression showed one significant predictor for the use of progress monitoring through pre and post measures in counseling – the more prepared for counseling …

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Clinical Excellence Through Evidence-Based Practice -- A Model To Guide Practice Changes, Patricia Collins, Susan Golembeski, Misleydy Selgas, Kathy Sparger, Nancy Burke, Bonnie Vaughn Jan 2007

Clinical Excellence Through Evidence-Based Practice -- A Model To Guide Practice Changes, Patricia Collins, Susan Golembeski, Misleydy Selgas, Kathy Sparger, Nancy Burke, Bonnie Vaughn

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Simple Penning Ion Source For Laboratory Research And Development Applications, Joshua L. Rovey, Brandon P. Ruzic, Thomas J. Houlahan Jan 2007

Simple Penning Ion Source For Laboratory Research And Development Applications, Joshua L. Rovey, Brandon P. Ruzic, Thomas J. Houlahan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A simple Penning ion generator (PIG) that can be easily fabricated with simple machining skills and standard laboratory accessories is described. The PIG source uses an iron cathode body, samarium cobalt permanent magnet, stainless steel anode, and iron cathode faceplate to generate a plasma discharge that yields a continuous 1 mA beam of positively charged hydrogen ions at 1 mTorr of pressure. This operating condition requires 5.4 kV and 32.4 W of power. Operation with helium is similar to hydrogen. The ion source is being designed and investigated for use in a sealed-tube neutron generator; however, this ion source is …

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Phytoplankton Productivity In The Tidal Regions Of Four Chesapeake Bay (Usa) Tributaries, Kneeland K. Nesius, Harold G. Marshall, Todd A. Egerton Jan 2007

Phytoplankton Productivity In The Tidal Regions Of Four Chesapeake Bay (Usa) Tributaries, Kneeland K. Nesius, Harold G. Marshall, Todd A. Egerton

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Monthly and annual phytoplankton productivity rates of four Virginia tidal rivers were determined based on a 12-year monitoring study that included sampling stations from tidal freshwater, oligohaline, and mesohaline regions in these rivers. The mean monthly rates and range at these locations were 5.52 (Dec.) to 175.12 (Aug.) mg C m-3 h-1 for tidal freshwater, 12.21 (Jan.) to 149.90 (May) mg C m-3 h-1 in oligohaline regions, and 16.20 (Jan.) to 151.33 (May) mg C m-3 h-1 for the mesohaline. The estimated mean annual 12 year productivity for the different Virginia river sites in …

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The Emerging Culture Of Health Care: From Horizontal Violence To True Collaboration, Debra Gerardi, Mary Kunes Connell Jan 2007

The Emerging Culture Of Health Care: From Horizontal Violence To True Collaboration, Debra Gerardi, Mary Kunes Connell

Faculty Scholarship

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A Comparative Study Of The Ultrastructure Of Submandibular, Parotid And Exocrine Pancreas In Diabetes And Fasting, Gulnur Take, Celal Ilgaz, Deniz Erdogan, Candan Ozogul, Cigdem Elmas Jan 2007

A Comparative Study Of The Ultrastructure Of Submandibular, Parotid And Exocrine Pancreas In Diabetes And Fasting, Gulnur Take, Celal Ilgaz, Deniz Erdogan, Candan Ozogul, Cigdem Elmas

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To comparatively analyze the ultrastructural changes in the submandibular and parotid glands and in the exocrine pancreas following diabetes induced by Streptozotocin exposure and the effects of fasting and insulin treatment on these alterations. METHODS: For experimental procedure, we included 48 Sprague-Dawley type rats in July 2001-March 2002 at Gazi University, Turkey. We divided the rats into 8 groups following the infusion of Streptozotocin. RESULTS: While the degeneration manifested itself as accumulation of secretions within the mucous cells in the submandibular gland, lipid droplets were absent, being replaced by vacuolar structures. The parotid gland and exocrine pancreas, having similar …

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Is It Necessary To Consider Obesity When Constructing Norms For Hemoglobin Or When Screening For Anemia Using Hemoglobin Levels?, Fahaid H. Al-Hashem Jan 2007

Is It Necessary To Consider Obesity When Constructing Norms For Hemoglobin Or When Screening For Anemia Using Hemoglobin Levels?, Fahaid H. Al-Hashem

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship of total adiposity and abdominal adiposity on hemoglobin levels in Saudi nonpregnant women. METHODS: We carried out this cross-sectional study during winter of 2002 (from January to March) in and around Abha city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Included in the study were 530 non-pregnant women between the age of 18-65 years. Body weight was measured using an Avery Beam weighing scale, while height was measured using a stadiometer and waist circumference using a fiberglass. Hemoglobin levels were estimated using cyanmethemoglobin method. Total obesity was defined as body mass index (BMI) >/=30 and abdominal obesity as …

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Superficial Skin Ulcers, Modupeola O. Samaila, Abdulmumini H. Rafindadi, Sunday A. Adewuyi, Olabode P. Oluwole Jan 2007

Superficial Skin Ulcers, Modupeola O. Samaila, Abdulmumini H. Rafindadi, Sunday A. Adewuyi, Olabode P. Oluwole

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the underlying cause of superficial skin ulcers over a 15-year period. METHODS: A retrospective histopathological analysis of 670 cases of superficial skin ulcers diagnosed in the Department of Pathology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria from January 1991 to December 2005. RESULTS: A total of 670 superficial skin ulcers were analyzed. The male to female gender ratio was 409:261(1.5:1.0) and a peak age frequency of 44.3% (297) in the 5th and 6th decades. Spectrum of lesions encountered was categorized into inflammatory, infections, benign and malignant diseases. The malignant lesions were 309 (46.1%), non-specific inflammation 302 (45.1%), …

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Ultra-Low Dose Aprotinin Effects On Reducing The Need For Blood Transfusion In Cardiac Surgery, Rezayat Parvizi, Rasoul Azarfarin, Susan Hassanzadeh Jan 2007

Ultra-Low Dose Aprotinin Effects On Reducing The Need For Blood Transfusion In Cardiac Surgery, Rezayat Parvizi, Rasoul Azarfarin, Susan Hassanzadeh

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of ultra-low dose one million kallikrein inhibitor units (KIU) of aprotinin on bleeding and the need for transfusion after cardiac surgery. METHODS: We carried out this randomized clinical trial on 162 cardiac surgery patients in Shahid Madani Hospital, Tabriz, Iran from April 2004 to December 2005. The patients were randomly divided into 2 groups of 81 individuals. In the aprotinin group, 0.5 million KIU infused before and 0.5 million KIU during cardiopulmonary bypass. In the placebo group, 100 ml normal saline was infused as above. The need to use fresh frozen plasma (FFP), packed red …

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Revascularization In Patients With Severe Left Ventricular Impairment Who Have Ischemic Heart Disease, Selim Erenturk, Cenk E. Yildiz, Murat Gulbaran Jan 2007

Revascularization In Patients With Severe Left Ventricular Impairment Who Have Ischemic Heart Disease, Selim Erenturk, Cenk E. Yildiz, Murat Gulbaran

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of coronary bypass grafting on left ventricular (LV) function, exercise capacity and symptom profile in patients with LV impairment and retrospectively evaluate the role of the different factors affecting LV. METHODS: A total of 45 patients (33 men, 12 women, mean age 63.49 ± 7.38 years) with LV ejection fraction of less than 0.32 were admitted to the Istanbul University, Cardiology Institute, Istanbul, Turkey between January 2001 to June 2003 for coronary bypass operation. Preoperative and postoperative wall motion, functional class (New York Heart Association) and risk factors were analyzed. RESULTS: We had one perioperative …

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Morel-Lavallee Lesion. Results Of Surgical Drainage With The Use Of Synthetic Glue, Murat Demirel, Ferit Dereboy, Ali Ozturk, Egemen Turhan, Tarik Yazar Jan 2007

Morel-Lavallee Lesion. Results Of Surgical Drainage With The Use Of Synthetic Glue, Murat Demirel, Ferit Dereboy, Ali Ozturk, Egemen Turhan, Tarik Yazar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the results of surgical drainage and use of synthetic glue in Morel-Lavallee lesions. METHODS: We treated 7 Morel-Lavallee lesions in Ankara Bayindir Hospital, Ankara, Turkey between April 2003 and June 2004. These lesions developed in 5 male patients due to crush under a vehicle or a traffic accident. The mean age was 32.8 years; range 16-55. All lesions were localized in thigh. One patient had surgery due to acetabulum fracture and one had an urological operation for urethral rupture. All patients were operated 6-48 hours after the injury. After surgical drainage, soft tissues were attached with the …

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Management Of Hypertensive Patients In Primary Health Care Setting, Auditing The Practice, Mohammed O. Al-Rukban, Abdurrahman M. Al-Sughair, Bader O. Al-Bader, Bader A. Al-Tolaihi Jan 2007

Management Of Hypertensive Patients In Primary Health Care Setting, Auditing The Practice, Mohammed O. Al-Rukban, Abdurrahman M. Al-Sughair, Bader O. Al-Bader, Bader A. Al-Tolaihi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To audit the medical care provided to hypertensive patients in a health care center in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and determine the efficient control of hypertension. METHODS: We carried out this cross-sectional study on all patients who visited the Health Care Specialty Center of King Abdul-Aziz Medical City, Riyadh, KSA for hypertension follow-up during the study period from October to December 2004. A representative sample of patients was allocated randomly using simple randomization method. All patient9s records were reviewed for proper recording in a designed form. RESULTS: Out of the 242 records we reviewed, 201 were included …

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The Role Of Renin Blockers In The Prevention Of Diabetes, Abdullah H. Alkhenizan, Mohammed A. Alswes Jan 2007

The Role Of Renin Blockers In The Prevention Of Diabetes, Abdullah H. Alkhenizan, Mohammed A. Alswes

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of renin blockers angiotensin converting enzymes inhibitors (ACEI) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) in the prevention of diabetes. METHODS: We did a meta-analysis using the Cochrane group methodology of all available randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated the role of renin blockers in which outcomes of new-onset diabetes was reported. This meta-analysis was conducted between April 2005-April 2006 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. RESULTS: Thirteen trials including 91,388 individuals met the inclusion criteria. There was a statistically significant reduction in the incidence of new-onset diabetes in patients …

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Acral Lentiginous Melanoma Versus Lentigo Maligna Melanoma Among Iraqi Patients, Khalifa E. Sharquie, Sabeeh A. Al-Meshhadani, Adil A. Al-Nuaimy Jan 2007

Acral Lentiginous Melanoma Versus Lentigo Maligna Melanoma Among Iraqi Patients, Khalifa E. Sharquie, Sabeeh A. Al-Meshhadani, Adil A. Al-Nuaimy

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To report the different clinical aspects of malignant melanoma and their varieties in Iraqi patients. METHODS: We carried out this study in the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq during the period from 1985-2005. Eighteen patients with malignant melanoma were enrolled in this work. The different clinical aspects and histopathological examination were determined. RESULTS: The study population consisted of 18 patients (15 females and 3 males) with a female to male ratio of 5:1. Their ages ranged from 12-75 years (mean ± SD, 43.72 ± 14.75 years) while the duration of the disease ranged between …

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Elevated Cerebrospinal Fluid Beta-2 Microglobulin As A Tumor Marker In A Patient With Myeloma Of The Central Nervous System, Enaam M. Alsobhi, Ibrahim A. Hashim, Mohammad A. Abdelaal, Ahmad M. Aljifri, Abdelrahman M. Alshamy Jan 2007

Elevated Cerebrospinal Fluid Beta-2 Microglobulin As A Tumor Marker In A Patient With Myeloma Of The Central Nervous System, Enaam M. Alsobhi, Ibrahim A. Hashim, Mohammad A. Abdelaal, Ahmad M. Aljifri, Abdelrahman M. Alshamy

Saudi Medical Journal

Myeloma involvement of the nervous system is rare. Extensive literature review revealed only a few cases reported from different parts of the world. The presence of CNS symptoms and detection of plasma cells in the CSF is the usual basis of diagnosis. In addition, immunoelectrophoresis and immunofixation for detection of monoclonal protein confirm the diagnosis in some cases, while some authors used flow cytometry and cytogenetic studies on CSF. Reports of multiple myeloma also include unfavorable cytogenetic abnormalities of chromosome 13. We report a case with relapsed CNS multiple myeloma with the detection of elevated beta-2 microglobulin (beta2M) as a …

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Maternal And Fetal Thyroid Stimulating Hormones And The Fetal Indices Of Maturation, Growth, And Development, Oluwole O. Adedeji, George K. Oyakhire Jan 2007

Maternal And Fetal Thyroid Stimulating Hormones And The Fetal Indices Of Maturation, Growth, And Development, Oluwole O. Adedeji, George K. Oyakhire

Saudi Medical Journal

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