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The Extension Newsletter, Issue 57, Winter Quarter 2008, Wright State University Retirees Association

The Extension Newsletter

An eight page newsletter from the Wright State University's Retirees Association.

Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of Mason, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2007., Mason Town Representatives

Mason, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Effect Of Carbohydrate-Protein Supplement Timing On Acute Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage, James P. White, Jacob M. Wilson, Krista G. Austin, Beau K. Greer, Noah St. John, Lynn B. Panton

All PTHMS Faculty Publications

Purpose:

To determine if timing of a supplement would have an effect on muscle damage, function and soreness.

Methods:

Twenty-seven untrained men (21 ± 3 yrs) were given a supplement before or after exercise. Subjects were randomly assigned to a pre exercise (n = 9), received carbohydrate/protein drink before exercise and placebo after, a post exercise (n = 9), received placebo before exercise and carbohydrate/protein drink after, or a control group (n = 9), received placebo before and after exercise. Subjects performed 50 eccentric quadriceps contractions on an isokinetic dynamometer. Tests for creatine kinase (CK), maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) and …

Electroconvulsive Therapy Baby Boomers May Be In For The Shock Of Their Lives, Helia Garrido Hull

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

2008-2009 Student Handbook, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Student Handbooks

No abstract provided.

Annual Reports Of The Town & School Of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire As Compiled By The Town Officers For The Year Ending December 31, 2007. As Compiled By School Officers For The Year Ending June 30, 2008., Hampton Falls Town Representatives

Hampton Falls, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Updated Lessons In Conducting Basics Legal Research By Pro Se Litigants Who Cannot Afford An Attorney, Mike Martinez Jr, Michael P. Forrest, Paul S. Miller

Faculty Articles

The first generation of this article was written and published by The Scholar in 2006.1 Because the trend to accessing legal materials is geared more and more toward the Internet, the tour of the book world that was the focus of the original article requires expansion to include those sources available on the World Wide Web.2 Thus, this article contains most of the content in the original article, and then is supplemented by discussions of content currently available from online legal resources.

Foreign-Body Reaction Mimicking Postneurosurgical Infection After Cranioplasty, David Brett-Major, Sean M. Baraniak, Jonathan E. Gilhooly, Rebecca L. Christensen, Gerald T. Grant, Rocco A. Armonda, Anuradha Ganesan

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

The case of a 57-year-old woman who suffered a fall is presented. After a polymethyl malacrylate revision cranioplasty, she presented with signs, symptoms, and intraoperative findings consistent with postneurosurgical infection. Dural foreign-body reaction was diagnosed, and parenteral antibiotic therapy was discontinued successfully.

The Comment, Summer Issue, 2008, Bridgewater State College

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Archival Allegory? Cultural Studies And T.R. Schellenberg's Modern Archives: Principles And Techniques, Cheryl Beredo

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in 1934, the same year that Theodore Roosevelt Schellenberg earned his doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania and began a career in archives. Schellenberg slowly and surely climbed the archival ranks, holding federal posts in Washington, D.C., and teaching archival-training courses at local universities; he later lectured on a variety of topics relating to archives in Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1950 Schellenberg was appointed to the prestigious position of director of Archival Management at NARA. Schellenberg soon published Modern Archives: Principles …

Archival Work In A Surreal World: The Imagination Of George Saunders, Erica Olsen

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

When George Saunders’s first collection of short stories, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, came out in 1996 reviewers emphasized the surrealism of his fictional world of run-down theme parks and virtual-reality franchise businesses: "… a nightmarish post-apocalyptic world that might have been envisioned by Walt Disney on acid," wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer, while Newsweek called it "a cybernetic, postapocalyptic dystopia."

The Fairy Garden, Jennie Walker

Short Story

No abstract provided.

New Contraceptive Developments, Population Council

Momentum

IN THIS ISSUE: One ring for one year of contraception | A comprehensive approach to contraception | Contraceptive choices for diverse populations | Creating more contraceptive options for men | Seeking a winning combination

Margaret Barker. Temple Themes In Christian Worship, Don Norton

BYU Studies

Margaret Barker. Temple Themes in Christian Worship. London: T&T Clark International, 2008

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Book Notices, Kathryn J. Abajian, Jesse D. Hurlbut

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Responsibility Status Of The Psychopath: On Moral Reasoning And Rational Self-Governance, Paul J. Litton

Faculty Publications

This article does not aim to describe the opposing views and argue for one over the other. Rather, I propose to deflate the debate as far as possible, attempting to reduce the area of disagreement. Meaningful disagreement exists only if there are, or could be, agents who have an undiminished capacity for practical reasoning or rational self-governance, yet truly are incapable of moral reasoning. However, I suggest that the capacity for rational self-governance entails the capacity to comprehend and act on moral considerations; thus, to the extent that an individual truly is incapable of grasping moral reasons, we should expect …

Velasquez And The Postmodern Circle Of Mirrors, B. Baars

CCRG Papers

No abstract provided.

Meadow Voles, Microtus Pennsylvanicus, Have The Capacity To Recall The “What”, “Where”, And “When” Of A Single Past Event, M. Ferkin, A. Combs, J. Trillo, A. Pierce, S. Franklin

CCRG Papers

No abstract provided.

Who Can Be Against Fairness? The Case Against The Arbitration Fairness Act, Peter B. Rutledge

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

In this brief essay, I hope to lay out the case against the Arbitration Fairness Act. Part I of this Article addresses the "findings" on which the act is premised. It explains how in several respects the current research on arbitration flatly contradicts the premises animating those findings (in other respects, the data is incomplete, so the "findings" at best are better described as "untested hypotheses" or "assumptions"). Part II of this Article explains why postdispute arbitration is not a viable alternative to our present system of enforceable predispute arbitration clauses.

The Psychic Life Of Denial, Susan Derwin

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

Holocaust deniers have an investment in taking a defensive stance. Theodor Adorno noted that to haggle about how many millions of innocent people were murdered in the Holocaust is degrading. Haggling about numbers is central to holocaust denial. Deborah Lipstadt's investigation of the nuances and varieties of deniers' claims across cultures makes it evident that, whatever their political or ideological objectives, deniers undertake their haggling in response to what they perceive to be an aggressive manipulation of history. Deniers charge that the manipulators are the Jews, who have inflated the number of Jewish deaths during World War II to garner …

Effect Of Tgf-Β1 Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide On Renal Function In Chronic Renal Failure Rats, C.H. Law, L.V. Kiew, N.A. Abdullah, M. Abdul Sattar, N. Abdul Rahman, A.H. Khan, E.J. Johns

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

AIM: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) in ameliorating deteriorated kidney function in rats with puromycin-induced chronic renal failure (CRF). METHODS: Saline, puromycin, puromycin+TGF-beta1 antisense ODN or puromycin+scrambled ODN were administered to unilaterally nephrectomized rats. Renal hemodynamic and excretory measurements were taken in the anaesthetized rats that had undergone surgical procedure. RESULTS: It was observed that in the CRF rats, there was a marked reduction in the renal blood flow (RBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), severe proteinuria, and almost 6-fold increased fractional excretion of sodium (FE Na+) …

Empowering Students In Information Literacy Practices Using A Collaborative Digital Library For School Projects, Awang Ngah Zainab, Abdullah Abrizah

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

This paper examines the affordances that a collaborative digital library (CDL) can bring to bear on supporting information literacy practices in the digital information environment. It suggests that the digital library can contribute to student empowerment in information literacy practices while searching, using and collaboratively building the digital library resources. To illustrate this, the authors have been experimenting with the implementation of an integrated information literacy model based on Eisenberg and Berkowitzâ�� Big 6 Model and describes the CDL features in association with the information literacy dimensions in this model. The CDL focuses on the project-based learning approach to conduct …

A New Record Of Bengalia Emarginata Malloch, 1927 (Diptera: Calliphoridae) From Malaysia, H.C. Chin, H. Kurahashi, M.A. Marwi, J. Jeffery, C.C. Dhang, R.M. Zuha, B. Omar

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

During a forensic entomological study conducted at an oil palm plantation in Tanjung Sepat, Kuala Langat, Selangor, a. Bengalia emarginata Malloch, 1927 (Diptera: Calliphoridae: Calliphorinae: Bengalini) was collected for the first time. Two adults were collected nearby the pig carcass by the first author and identified by the second. Prior to this finding, nine species of Bengalia were recorded from peninsular Malaysia or Borneo. Male of B. emarginata are different from Bengalia varicolor Fabricious by the following characters: Sternite 5 projection rounded with small identation and mid tibia double-fringed in ventral surface.

Alkaline Phosphatase Activity Assessment Of Two Endodontic Materials: A Preliminary Study, S. Rajan, H. Awang, S. Devi, A.H. Poop, H. Hassan

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Objective: An in vitro assessment of MG-63 human osteosarcoma cells' alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity when in contact with calcium hydroxide powder (CH), paste (CHP) and grey mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA). Methods: MG-63 cells were seeded to the three selected materials for durations of 0.25, 0.5, 1, 24, 48 and 72 hours. BCIP-NBT assay was used and ALP activity quantified using ELISA reader at 410 nm. Results: The overall analysis for ALP activity indicated significant interaction between test materials and control (maintenance medium). Subsequently, the test materials were paired and analysed for initial (0.25, 0.5, 1 hour) and delayed response (24, …

Animal-Referring Words In Malay Idioms: A Lexical Function Analysis, S. Jaafar

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Malay language has many ways in describing various things and events. Idioms are used as one of the very fine ways to say something in order to save the listeners' face. Every word chosen in idiomatic phrases has its own meaning. Compared to the common words used daily, the words chosen in idiomatic phrases are much related to the way of thinking among the Malay people. They show creativity in that they relate to the surrounding world as a symbolic in telling something. Nowadays, idioms are almost forgotten by the Malay younger generation. They only learn idioms as a compulsory …

Bionomics Of Anopheles Latens In Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo In Relation To The Transmission Of Zoonotic Simian Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Knowlesi, C.H. Tan, I. Vythilingam, A. Matusop, S.T. Chan, B. Singh

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Background A large focus of human infections with Plasmodium knowlesi, a simian parasite naturally found in long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques was discovered in the Kapit Division of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. A study was initiated to identify the vectors of malaria, to elucidate where transmission is taking place and to understand the bionomics of the vectors in Kapit. Methods Three different ecological sites in the forest, farm and longhouse in the Kapit district were selected for the study. Mosquitoes were collected by human landing collection at all sites and at the forest also by monkey-baited-traps situated on three different levels. All …

Controlled Low-Strength Material Using Industrial Hazardous Waste Incinerator Bottom Slag And Refined Kaolin, S. Naganathan, H.A. Razak, S.N.A. Hamid

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

The main purpose of this paper is to study the effect of kaolin addition on the performance of Controlled Low-Strength Material (CLSM) made using industrial hazardous waste incinerator bottom slag. Various mix formulatiuons of CLSM were made with the incinerator bottom slag, kaolin, and cement. Amount of cement added varied from 0 to 40 percent of weight of slag. Amount of kaolin added were 25, 50, 75, and 100 percent of weight of cement. Water content was adjusted to get sufficient flowability. The CLSM mixes prepared were tested for setting time, bleeding, and corrosivity in fresh state. Tests like compressive …

First Report Of The Signal Fly, Scholastes Sp. (Diptera: Platystomatidae) Visiting Animal Carcasses In Malaysia, C.C. Dhang, H.C. Chin, D. Mcalpine, H. Kurahashi, N.W. Ahmad, M.A. Marwi, J. Jeffery, L.H. Lim, B. Omar, Mohd Sofian-Azirun

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Signal fly, Scholastes sp. (Diptera: Platystomatidae) was observed associated with animal carcasses in Malaysia. The first observation was on a monkey carcass, which was killed by using a handgun and immediately placed in a forested area in Gombak, Selangor while the second observation was on a pig that died of natural causes and whose carcass was placed in an oil palm plantation in Tanjung Sepat, Selangor. Both animal carcasses were visited by Scholastes sp. flies during the fresh decomposition period. However, the role Scholastes flies in the decomposition process remains unknown. In this paper, we report the occurrence of Scholastes …

Phenotypic And Genotypic Characterisation Of Blastocystis Hominis Isolates Implicates Subtype 3 As A Subtype With Pathogenic Potential, T.C. Tan, K.G. Suresh, H.V. Smith

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Despite frequent reports on the presence of Blastocystis hominis in human intestinal tract, its pathogenicity remains a matter of intense debate. These discrepancies may be due to the varying pathogenic potential or virulence of the isolates studied. The present study represents the first to investigate both phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of B. hominis obtained from symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. Symptomatic isolates had a significantly greater size range and lower growth rate in Jones' medium than asymptomatic isolates. The parasite cells of symptomatic isolates exhibited rougher surface topography and greater binding affinity to Canavalia ensiformis (ConA) and Helix pomatia (HPA). The …