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Paulson, Jackson Receive Update From Hope Now Housing Alliance, Second Iteration, Henry M. Paulson Jr., Alphonso R. Jackson

Documents

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Hudson And Samson: The Roberts Court Confronts Privacy, Dignity, And The Fourth Amendment, John D. Castiglione

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci For The Invasive Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta Monachus), M. A. Russello, V. Saranathan, S. Buhrman-Deever, J. Eberhard, A. Caccone

Faculty Publications

Microsatellite loci were characterized for the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) from a GTn-enriched genomic library. Twelve of 14 microsatellite loci were polymorphic, averaging 6.7 alleles per locus across the 20 individuals genotyped. Mean expected heterozygosity was 0.72, with locus-specific values ranging from 0.53 to 0.90. An equally high multilocus probability of identity (2.48 × 10-12) was revealed for this set of loci. In addition, all 12 loci were demonstrated to cross-amplify to varying extents within three additional parrot genera suggesting their potential utility for population-level studies in a broad range of Neotropical psittacines. © 2007 The Authors.

Patient's Outcome Of Bladder Cancer Managed By Radical Cystectomy With Lymphadenectomy At A University Hospital, Muhammad Hammad Ather, Anila Jamshaid, Zaheer Alam, Khurrum M. Siddique, M Nasir Sulaiman

Section of Urology

Objective: To study the impact of tumour staging and nodal metastases in predicting 5- year's survival after radical cystectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy for primary bladder cancer.
Methods: During the period 1995 to 2005, 58 patients underwent radical cystectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy and urinary diversion at a University hospital. Patients were identified using medical indexing coding system (ICD 9CM) using standard key words. The patient records were analyzed and follow up data updated. Disease specific survival, death or recurrence was taken as end point.
Results: Out of 58 patients, 50 (86%) were males and 8 (14%) females with a …

2007 November Newsletter, Nancy Rockey

Human Subject Research Archive

No abstract provided.

Allying For Peace: Treaty Obligations And Conflict Between Allies, Andrew G. Long, Timothy Nordstrom, Kyeonghi Baek

Faculty Publications

We argue that certain provisions of alliance treaties can signal credible commitments to a peaceful relationship among members and establish institutional mechanisms that promote the settlement of disagreements through peaceful negotiation. Nonaggression, peaceful dispute settlement, military institutionalization, and permanent organization provisions should increase the duration of peace between alliance members; we test our hypotheses with a duration model. The analysis generally supports our expectations except that alliances that create permanent organizations, even those specifically established to arbitrate disagreements, are associated with shorter durations of peace. We conclude with some implications of our argument for the study of military alliances and …

Rheology Of Tin Fluorophosphate Glass/Polyamide 12 Hybrids In The Low Concentration Regime, Kevin Urman, Thomas Schweizer, Joshua U. Otaigbe

Faculty Publications

Phosphate glass (Pglass)/polymer hybrids are a unique material class that promises to help fulfill the growing need for new advanced materials. Rheological investigations into Pglass/polyamide 12 hybrids have shown a strong dependence on temperature and composition. Strong negative deviations from the log-additivity rule are also observed for these materials as well as a reduction in the activation energy for viscous flow. Hybrids containing < 2 vol. % Pglass are theologically simple fluids that display temperature independence in plots of storage modulus versus loss modulus. Hybrids containing >= 2 vol. % Pglass are rheologically complex and do not obey the time-temperature superposition principle. Through application of Han plots, we identified a structural change that occurs in hybrids containing >= 2 vol. % Pglass at …

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives (Book Review), Claire Marrone

Languages Faculty Publications

Book review by Claire Marrone.

Webb, Emma, ed. Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives. Bern, Switzerland; New York: Peter Lang, 2006. ISBN 9783039105442

Private Use As Fair Use: Is It Fair?, Frances Grodzinsky, Maria C. Bottis

School of Computer Science & Engineering Faculty Publications

The age of digital technology has introduced new complications into the issues of fair and private use of copyrighted material. In fact, the question of private use of another's work has been transformed from a side issue in intellectual property jurisprudence into the very center of intellectual property discussions about rights and privileges in a networked world. This paper will explore the nuanced difference between fair and private use as articulated in the US and the European Copyright Laws. Part One will explain the legal use and meaning of fair use and its justifications. We maintain that it is almost …

Clark Memorandum: Fall 2007, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Packing Your Briefcase (Deanell Reece Tacha)
• Religiously Affiliated Law Schools (Kevin J Worthen)
• Peacemaking (Chieko N. Okazaki)
• Telling Our Stories of Jesus (Tessa Meyer Santiago)

Contract Law And Its Potential Impact On Parole And Probation Searches, Michael Chmelar

Northern Illinois University Law Review

When considering a defendant's motion to reconsider his sentence or motion to reduce his sentence, Illinois courts apply principals of contract law to hold the defendant to his negotiated plea agreement. However, courts only utilize contract law to enforce the sentence length and not other material terms of a negotiated plea. Specifically, Illinois courts have not enforced search conditions in probation or parole orders when challenged through a motion to quash and suppress. The failure to extend the use of contract principals to the search term of a sentence could create a conflict with how courts enforce negotiated pleas. In …

Unh Conference To Focus On Benefits, Risks Of Eating Seafood, Rebecca Zeiber

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Unh Scientist Member Of Nobel Peace Prize Winning Panel, David Sims

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Development Of The Midwest Guardrail System (Mgs) W-Beam To Thrie Beam Transition Element, Ronald K. Faller, John R. Rohde, Robert W. Bielenberg, Karla A. Polivka, Dean L. Sicking, John D. Reid, Craig M. Eller, Erin M. Allison

Nebraska Department of Transportation: Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Household Food Insecurity Is Inversely Associated With Social Capital And Health In Females From Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children Households In Appalachian Ohio, Jennifer L. Walker, David H. Holben, Mary L. Kropf, John P. Holcomb Jr., Heidi Anderson

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

Food insecurity has been negatively associated with social capital (a measure of perceived social trust and community reciprocity) and health status. Yet, these factors have not been studied extensively among women from households participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) or the WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program. A cross-sectional, self-administered, mailed survey was conducted in Athens County, Ohio, to examine the household food security status, social capital, and self-rated health status of women from households receiving WIC benefits alone (n=170) and those from households receiving both WIC and Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program benefits (n=65), …

Using Portfolio Assessment In Course Evaluation, Pamararat Wiriyakarun

PASAA

Recently, portfolio assessment has become popular in language education as an alternative in language assessment, since it allows for the possibility of assessing various complex and important constructs in language learning, such as the progress and achievements of individual learners. It can, moreover, evaluate not only the growth of individuals but also the effectiveness of a particular course or program. This paper discusses concept of portfolio assessment, followed by the demonstration of the design, implementation, and assessment of two basic types of portfolios-process and product portfolios. The paper concludes with the application of portfolio assessment in course evaluation.

Articles A Test Taker-Centered Computer-Based Writing Test : Meeting Half Way In The Assessment Of Writing, Tanyaporn Arya, Kanchana Prapphal

PASAA

Lack of resources and of the opportunity to produce drafts often leaves EFL learners at a disadvantage during writing tests. This paper reports on a study exploring the effects of provided facilitative features and prescribed drafting in a computer-based writing test on test takers writing performance scores. Participants were one hundred forty-four Thai EFL undergraduate students being required to write argumentative essays. The study employs a two-bytwo factorial pretest posttest control group design. Data analyses included the use of the two-way analysis of variance, Kruskal-Wallis H and Mann-Whitney U tests. Results suggest that these two factors could potentially be included …

Are They Making An Appropriate Decision? Implications From Bachman's Assessment Use Argument, Yj-Ching Pan

PASAA

Tests do not occur in a vacuum; they have farreaching and unanticipated consequences. Tests have an effect not only on traditional teaching practices in the classroom but also on the broader educational and societal contexts. Examples are the selection of candidates for education, the monitoring of the performance of schools, the distribution of funding and even societal issues such as the selection of employees and candidates for immigration, citizenship and asylum. Given the potential power of tests, it is essential to justify test use and investigate its consequences. The primary goal of this paper is to utilize Bachman's assessment use …

2007 November, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for November of 2007.

Neuropsychological Signs In Stroke Patients According To Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, S. Taveemanoon, P. Worakul, W. Kitisomprayoonkul

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Depaul College Of Law

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

A New Phenomenon In Impulsive-Flare-Associated Energetic Particles, Eileen E. Chollet, Joe Giacalone, Joseph E. Mazur, M Al Dayeh

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

We present ACE/ULEIS and Wind/STEP observations of a new and unusual feature of energetic ions between 0.02 and 3 MeV nucleon ˉ¹ associated with impulsive solar flares. In addition to the usual velocity dispersion associated with the transit in the heliospheric magnetic field of energetic particles from a small localized source on the Sun, these events also show intermittent behavior that may be related to the magnetic flux tube structure of the solar wind. These are anomalous bursts of low-energy particles, which we call "tassels." Tassels are enhancements of ions extending to much lower energies than those associated with the …

Binoomea, Issue 132, November 2007, Jenny Whitby

Binoomea

Contents: President's Column -- Diprotodon Bones Found at Jenolan -- What Did You Miss????? -- Society Spotlight -- 35th Anniversary Weekend August 2007 -- James Wiburd's Wooden Legacy -- What's Been Happening at Jenolan? -- After Some Stocking Stuffers?

Ipulse: November 2007, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

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Influence Of Genetic Polymorphisms Of Glutathione S-Transferases T1 And M1 On Serum Lipid Parameters, Mostafa Saadat

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of genetic polymorphisms of glutathione S-transferase theta 1 (GSTT1) and GSTM1 on serum levels of lipid parameters. METHODS: We conducted this cross-sectional study on 152 adult healthy subjects (54 females and 98 males) from June 2004 to September 2004. The participants in our study were recruited from the Research Clinic in Abarku (Yazd province, central part of Iran). There were unrelated Iranian Muslims. The genotypes of GSTT1 and GSTM1 were determined using a polymerase chain reaction based method. After an overnight fasting, serum lipid indices including triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC) and high density lipoprotein …

Comparison Of Real-Time, And Qualitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays In Detection Of Cytomegalovirus Dna In Clinical Specimens, Selma Gokahmetoglu, Esma Deniz

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To compare the real-time (RT), and qualitative (Q) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for detection of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA. METHODS: The study took place in the Department of Microbiology, Erciyes University, Kayseri, and in Iontek Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey, from August to December 2006. One hundred and seven clinical specimens from 67 patients were included in the study. Cytomegalovirus DNA was investigated using RT-PCR kit (Fluorion Iontek, Turkey) and Q-PCR kit (Fluorion Iontek, Turkey). Deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing was applied to the samples that yielded discrepant results in both assays. MacNemar9s Chi Square test was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: Of …

Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Gene-7/Interleukin 24 Inhibits Invasion And Migration Of Human Cervical Cancer Cells In Vitro, Hua Shi, Li-Li Wei, Cheng-Fu Yuan, Jun-Xia Yang, Fa-Ping Yi, Yong-Ping Ma, Fang-Zhou Song

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: In this study, we used an adenoviral vector -melanoma differentiation-associated gene-7 (Ad-mda7) to examine the effect of the ectopic production of MDA-7/IL-24 on cell migration and invasion by human cervical cancer cells. METHODS: The study took place in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, between April 2006 and November 2006. The change of metastasis of cervical cancer cells (CaSki) cells were detected by Cell Migration Assay and Cell Invasion Assay after treated with Ad-mda7. The production of proteins associated with cell migration and invasion were detected by western blot. RESULTS: Cervical cancer cells …

Gender-Related Differences Of Risk Factors Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft In Ahwaz, Iran, Seyed M. Adel, Ali A. Ramezanei, Amanolah Hydarei, Hajir Javaherizadeh, Vida Behmanesh, Vida Amanei

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the major risk factors among male and female patients with severe coronary artery diseases undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). METHODS: This randomized clinical trial was performed on 897 (655 male and 242 female) patients from March 2001 to March 2006 in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Golestan Hospital, Ahwaz, Iran, with male to female ratio approximately 2.7. The mean age was 54.37 ± 0.3 years. The major risk factors were diabetes mellitus, smoking, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, obesity, familial history of coronary artery disease, past medical history of myocardial infarction and heart failure before surgery. RESULTS: The results …

Seismicity In The Vicinity Of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, For The Period October 1, 2004 To September 30, 2006, Ken Smith, John G. Anderson, Amy J. Smiecinski

Publications (YM)

This report describes earthquake activity within approximately 65 km of Yucca Mountain site during the October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2006 time period (FY05-06). The FY05-06 earthquake activity will be compared with the historical and more recent period of seismic activity in the Yucca Mountain region. The relationship between the distribution of seismicity and active faults, historical patterns of activity, and rates of earthquakes (number of events and their magnitudes) are important components in the assessment of the seismic hazard for the Yucca Mountain site. Since October 1992 the University of Nevada has compiled a catalog of earthquakes in …