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12-19-2007 Nixon Wins Aauw Scholarship, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2007

Southwestern Oklahoma State University student Minoma Nixon (center) has won a $300 Nancy McClain Honorary Scholarship from the American Association of University Women branch in Weatherford. Making the presentation is Lisa Appeddu (left) and Faye Henson.

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

Major Gift Launches Visibility, Global Monitoring Of Seagrass, Beth Potier

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Acceleration Of The Maturation Of Tissue Engineered Grafts By Dynamic Force Stimulation Or Gene Therapy, Shila Taylor

All Theses

Over 16 million people suffer from osteoarthritis (OA). As the body ages OA and other cartilage diseases create an imbalance of anabolic and catabolic cell activities in cartilage and or over time the cartilage is damaged and wears away which creates lesion that resulting in pain. Most clinical surgeries are either temporary or have not gone through trials to test their success. For a long term solution researchers have been looking at replacing cartilage with a tissue engineered graft. One of the major problems to date has been is the strength of the scaffold.
Natural cartilage needs loading for its …

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

University Letter Archive

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Lifelong Learning

News Releases

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Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Tax Research class attends U.S. Supreme Court hearing

Um Lands Two Prestigious Awards For Early-Career Scientists, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Federal Reserve Announces Results Of Auction Of $20 Billion In 28-Day Credit Held On December 17, 2007, Federal Reserve System

Documents

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Federal Reserve Will Offer $20 Billion In 35-Day Credit Through Its Term Auction Facility On December 20, 2007, Federal Reserve System

Documents

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Transcript Of Secretary Paulson And Governor Schwarzenegger Roundtable On Trade Long Beach, Calif., Henry M. Paulson Jr., Arnold Schwarzenegger

Documents

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Secretary Paulson Continues Efforts To Reduce Home Foreclosures, Henry M. Paulson Jr.

Documents

No abstract provided.

Director Of Unh Research Institute Will Lead New Climate Initiative, Kim Billings

Media Relations

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Year In Review: 2007'S Most Significant Land Use Cases, John R. Nolon, Jessica A. Bacher

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

New York courts busily decided a multitude of land use cases due to the increased growth in magnitude and complexity of land use issues. This year, as in the past, the authors provide a summary describing some of the most crucial New York land use cases. This year’s cases include the following topics: review of local board action, takings law, eminent domain, enforcement, jurisdiction, religious land uses, standing, moratoria, and New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

Co-08 Professional Development 2007-12-19, Mpla

Committees

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Implied Measures Of Relative Fund Performance, Steve Hogan, Mitch Warachka

Business Faculty Articles and Research

We evaluate the relative performance of funds by conditioning their returns on the cross-section of portfolio characteristics across fund managers. Our implied procedure circumvents the need to specify benchmark returns or peer funds. Instead, fund-specific benchmarks for measuring selection and market timing ability are constructed. This technique is robust to herding as well as window dressing and mitigates survivorship bias. Empirically, the conditional information contained in portfolio weights defined by industry sectors, assets, and geographical regions is important to the assessment of fund management. For each set of portfolio characteristics, we identify funds with success at either selecting securities or …

Adolescent Girls' Perception Of Residential Treatment Centers: A Qualitative Study Of How Treatment Works, Tyler Adam Money

Theses and Dissertations

RTCs play an increasingly significant role in the continuum of treatment of emotionally disturbed adolescents. However, outcome research in this area has lagged behind the growth of treatment centers. More specifically, there has been very little investigation of the relative efficacy of the many different aspects of residential treatment, which are referred to as mechanisms of change in other research. The present study attempts to develop a phenomenological understanding of RTC patients' experience of all of the interventions that make up residential treatment. Results suggest that patients view social support, non-therapist staff members, family involvement and family therapy, as most …

Repeated N-Acetylcysteine Administration Alters Plasticity-Dependent Effects Of Cocaine, Aric Madayag, Doug Lobner, Kristen S. Kau, John R. Mantsch, Omer Abdulhameed, Matthew Hearing, Mark D. Grier, David A. Baker

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Cocaine produces a persistent reduction in cystine–glutamate exchange via system x_c− in the nucleus accumbens that may contribute to pathological glutamate signaling linked to addiction. System x_c− influences glutamate neurotransmission by maintaining basal, extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens, which, in turn, shapes synaptic activity by stimulating group II metabotropic glutamate autoreceptors. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that a long-term reduction in system x_c− activity is part of the plasticity produced by repeated cocaine that results in the establishment of compulsive drug seeking. To test this, the cysteine prodrug N-acetylcysteine …

Identification Of Novel High-Frequency Dna Methylation Changes In Breast Cancer., Jared M. Ordway, Muhammad A. Budiman, Yulia Korshunova, Rebecca K. Maloney, Joseph A. Bedell, Robert W. Citek, Blaire Bacher, Seth Peterson, Tracy Rohlfing, Jacqueline Hall, Robert Brown, Nathan Lakey, Rebecca W. Doerge, Robert A. Martienssen, Jorge Leon, John D. Mcpherson, Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh

Department of Statistics Faculty Publications

Recent data have revealed that epigenetic alterations, including DNA methylation and chromatin structure changes, are among the earliest molecular abnormalities to occur during tumorigenesis. The inherent thermodynamic stability of cytosine methylation and the apparent high specificity of the alterations for disease may accelerate the development of powerful molecular diagnostics for cancer. We report a genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation alterations in breast cancer. The approach efficiently identified a large collection of novel differentially DNA methylated loci (~200), a subset of which was independently validated across a panel of over 230 clinical samples. The differential cytosine methylation events were independent of …

Practical Defenses Against Bgp Prefix Hijacking, Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Prefix hijacking, a misbehavior in which a misconfigured or malicious BGP router originates an IP prefix that the router does not own, is becoming an increasingly serious security problem on the Internet. In this paper, we conduct a first comprehensive study on incrementally deployable mitigation solutions against prefix hijacking. We first propose a novel reactive detection-assisted solution based on the idea of bogus route purging and valid route promotion. Our simulations based on realistic settings show that purging bogus routes at 20 highest-degree ASes reduces the polluted portion of the Internet by a random prefix hijack from 50% down to …

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 …

Local Economic Impacts Of Ethanol Production, David J. Peters

Cornhusker Economics

The ethanol boom has generated an unprecedented amount of industrial investment in many rural communities. However, local governments and economic developers have little reliable information regarding the economic impact of these plants in the community. An assortment of consultants and government agencies, including some universities, has produced a wide range of positive impacts that stretch beyond sound economic theory or method. Communities using these optimistic estimates risk investing scarce tax dollars and resources into ethanol projects that may not produce the full expected economic benefits. Thus, it is worth discussing a reasonable estimate of the likely economic impact of a …

Clinton & Obama In Dead Heat In Nh 12/19/2007, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Barack Obama has evaporated in recent weeks and they are now deadlocked in the New Hampshire primary. However, almost half of likely Democratic primary voters say they have not yet decided on who they will finally vote for. Election: NH Primary 2008

Clinton Leads Obama In Nh, On All Issues 12/19/2007, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Hillary Clinton has expanded her lead over Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary. Clinton leads her Democratic rivals on all top campaign issues. Election: NH Primary 2008

Romney Keeps Lead, Mccain Claims Second Slot In Nh 12/19/2007, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Mitt Romney has managed to keep his lead in the New Hampshire Republican primary although John McCain has moved past Rudy Giuliani into the second position. And while Mike Huckabee continues to campaign strongly in Iowa, he has not yet broken through on in New Hampshire. But almost half of Republican voters say they have yet to decide who they will eventually vote for. Election: NH Primary 2008

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

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Safe School Training Offered At Governors State University, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

The challenge for every educational institution is creating a safe and tolerant environment in which students learn, share, and grow. The difficulties in creating this environment are many and varied and require unique insight and special skills.

The Metropolitan Institute for Leadership in Education (MILE) and the School of Extended Learning at Governors State University is sponsoring a Safe Zone Workshop on January 11, from 2 to 4:30. Dr. Patrick Finnessy, professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, will present a training program designed to help educators create safer, more civil schools and communities in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, and …

Political Science Professor Honored For Excellence In Teaching, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2007

• Associate Professor of Political Science Michael Lipscomb is the 2007 Kinard award winner for teaching.
• Lipscomb will be honored during fall commencement Dec. 15.

Exploration Of Kani Tribal Botanical Knowledge In Agasthiayamalai Biosphere Reserve - South India, John De Britto, R. Mahesh

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

Since traditional herbal remedies are based on ancestral knowledge and empiric experiences of tribes, an ethnomedicinal survey was undertaken to collect information appeared to be useful for the research on medicinal plants of the Agasthiayamalai Biosphere Reserve in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu during October 2005- December 2006. The ancestral traditional knowledge of Kani people including reliable hakims, physicians in five settlements (Tirunelveli zones) the native plants used for the preparation of drugs and methods of their administration along with doses were recorded, collected through questionnaire as well as informal personal interviews during field trips. The exploration of ethno medicinal …