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Daily Eastern News: October 13, 2008, Eastern Illinois University

October

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Labour Party Campaign Launch Speech, Helen Clark

Documents

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Major Financial Institution Participation Commitment, United States: Department Of The Treasury

Documents

Issue of Preferred Shares for Merill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, State Street, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, and Bank of America. Records Obtained by Judicial Watch, Inc. FOIA request.

Asia-Pacific Leaders Talk Tough On Fallout, Michiyo Nakamoto, Mure Dickie

Documents

Article discussing pledges from Asian leaders to address fallout from the banking crisis with reserves

Commons Debate - Financial Markets, Alistair Darling

Documents

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Emails Re: October 13, 2008 Cpp Meeting-Part 2, United States: Department Of The Treasury

Documents

Emails dated October 12th, 2008 to October 13th, 2008 between various persons regarding October 13, 2008 meeting of government officials and major banks. Authors and recipients include, among others: Trip Foley, Christel West, Brookly McLaughin, Michele Davis, Jim Wilkinson, Tim Ryan, Joel Kaplan, etc. Records Obtained by Judicial Watch, Inc. FOIA request

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (October 13, 2008), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on October 13, 2008.

Student Health Fair Scheduled Wednesday, Admin

University of Mississippi News

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Rural Poverty Analysis: A Case Study Of A District Of Nepal, Uddhab Bhandary

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

In the developing countries, decision makers face difficulty in allocating development resource at the local level due to the unavailability of an objective method that justifies the allocation. Poverty measurement methods, such as consumption based poverty measurement or Human Development Index could be used for the process, but those techniques are difficult to apply at the local level because of the constraint of resource. Therefore, a simple technique to categorize villages in terms of their development levels is always desired. This research is an attempt to address this problem. It has used socioeconomic and natural aspects to categorize villages in …

The Bg News October 13, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. October 13, 2008. Volume 99-Issue 34.

Ohio University Faculty Senate Minutes October 13, 2008, Ohio University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 89, October 13, 2008

Central Florida Future

UCF joins national study; Speed kills; Student shot near campus; Jewish holiday not dampened by rain; Yom Kippur; 40 spots, 3,544 applicants.

But Is It Research?: A Review Of Patricia Leavy’S Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report

Patricia Leavy’s new book helps to address the gap for an introductory text for those interested in learning more about arts-based research and other approaches to artistic qualitative research. It may also help to address those researchers and editors who, when seeing an arts-based research report or presentation, ask "but is it research?"

Mgra Represses Biofilm Formation In Staphylococcus Aureus, Maria P. Trotonda, Sandeep Tamber, Guido Memmi, Ambrose L. Cheung

Dartmouth Scholarship

MgrA is a pleiotropic regulator that controls autolysis, virulence, and efflux pump activity in Staphylococcus aureus. We recently found that mgrA mutants of strains RN6390, SH1000, and MW2 also displayed enhanced biofilm formation compared with their respective parents. The biofilms formed by mgrA mutants of RN6390 and MW2 are independent of sigB and ica loci, two genetic elements that have been previously associated with biofilm formation in S. aureus. Biofilms formed by mgrA mutants are dependent on the expression of surface proteins mediated by the sortase gene srtA. Extracellular DNA was also a crucial component of the early biofilm of …

October 13, 2008, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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The Eastern Echo, October 13, 2008, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, October 12, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, October 12, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2008

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Nebraska’S Immigrant Population: Economic And Fiscal Impacts - Ollas Report No. 5, Christopher Decker, Jerry Deichert, Lourdes Gouveia

Latino/Latin American Studies Reports

Immigration issues have once again assumed center stage in policy circles at every level of government in the United States, as the number of new immigrants, many undocumented and many from Latin American nations, has risen markedly in recent years. This is certainly true in Nebraska. According to US Census figures for 2000, the total immigrant population in Nebraska was estimated to be 74,638. By 2006, this figure had risen to 99,500, a 33.3 percent increase. By comparison, the total native-born population in the state grew less than 2.0 percent over the same six-year period.

This study attempts to quantitatively …

Community Interactive Processes And Rural Adolescents’ Educational Achievement: Investigating The Mediating Effects Of Delinquency And Self-Esteem, Omolola Adedokun, Mark Balschweid

Journal of Youth Development

The study reported in this paper examines the effects of community interactive processes on rural adolescents’ educational achievement. Specifically, the paper explored the direct effects of community interactive processes on rural adolescents’ educational achievement and the indirect effects via self-esteem and delinquency. The method of structural equation modeling was used to analyze data from a nationally representative panel study of rural adolescent boys and girls in 10th grade through 12th grade. The results make a compelling case that communities are conduits for boosting self-esteem, facilitating normative behaviors and academic performance in rural adolescents.

Ovarian Cancer: Emerging Concept On Cancer Stem Cells., Moorthy P. Ponnusamy, Surinder K. Batra

Journal Articles: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Emerging evidence suggests that the capacity of a tumor to grow and propagate is dependent on a small subset of cells within a tumor, termed cancer stem cells. In fact, cancer cells, like stem cells, can proliferate indefinitely through a dysregulated cellular self-renewal capacity. Cancer stem cells may originate due to the distribution into self-renewal and differentiation pathways occurring in multi-potential stem cells, tissue-specific stem cells, progenitor cells and cancer cells. Recent studies have shown that ovarian cancer also contains stem cells or tumor-initiating cells. Moreover, ovarian serous adenocarcinomas were disaggregated and subjected to growth conditions to select for self-renewing, …

What A User Wants: Redesigning A Library's Web Site Based On A Card-Sort Analysis, Laura Pope Robbins, Lisa Esposito, Christ Kretz, Michael Aloi

Publications

Web site usability concerns anyone with a web site to maintain. Libraries, however, are often the biggest offenders in terms of usability. In our efforts to provide users with everything they need to do research, we often overwhelm them with sites that are confusing in structure, difficult to navigate, and weighed down with jargon. Dowling College Library recently completed a redesign of its web site based upon the concept of usability. For smaller libraries in particular, this can be a challenge. The web site is often maintained by one or two people and finding the time and resources to conduct …

Southern Collegiate Leadership Conference Program 2008, Southern Collegiate Leadership Conference

Southern Collegiate Leadership Conference (2006-2019) (Archived)

Conference Program

Missed Opportunities For Children?:An Exploration Of The Impact Of New Funding Mechanisms For Early Childhood Education And Care (Ecec) In Ireland, Bernie O'Donoghue Hynes, Noirin Hayes, Siobhan Bradley

Articles

This presentation begins with a review of the overall funding structure for early childhood education and care in Ireland. It moves on to look in detail at the impact of the changes to the social inclusion funding measures. It concludes with a review of the reaction of various Irish stakeholders to these changes that have resulted in a 'missed opportunities for children'.

October 11, 2008 (Pages 5579-5728), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 38 (2008)

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Global Analysis Of Gene Expression Changes During Retinoic Acid-Induced Growth Arrest And Differentiation Of Melanoma: Comparison To Differentially Expressed Genes In Melanocytes Vs Melanoma, Mary H. Estler, Goran Boskovic, James Denvir, Sarah Miles, Donald A. Primerano, Richard M. Niles

Biochemistry and Microbiology

BACKGROUND: The incidence of malignant melanoma has significantly increased over the last decade. Some of these malignancies are susceptible to the growth inhibitory and pro-differentiating effects of all-trans-retinoic acid (RA). The molecular changes responsible for the biological activity of RA in melanoma are not well understood.

RESULTS: In an analysis of sequential global gene expression changes during a 4-48 h RA treatment of B16 mouse melanoma cells, we found that RA increased the expression of 757 genes and decreased the expression of 737 genes. We also compared the gene expression profile (no RA treatment) between non-malignant melan-a mouse melanocytes and …

St-07 - New Mexico - 2008-10-11, Lynett Schurdevin

State Representatives

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St-11 - Utah - 2008-10-11, Dorothy Horan

State Representatives

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Boadu, Mary, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

INTERVIEWER: Mark Naison, Jane Edward

INTERVIEWEE: Mary Boadu

SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell

Mary Boadu was born in Koumase, the Ashanti region of Ghana in 1988. At the time of the interview, was a student at Columbia University. When she was three years old, Mary’s mother got the chance to work in a nursing home in the United States, and she left her family in Ghana. Mary was raised by her father and cousins until 1995, when her father got the opportunity to join her mother in the States. Mary’s mother was pregnant when she left Ghana, and she gave birth …

An Examination Of Youth Voice Via Quasi-Experimental Methodology, Melissa Cater, Krisanna Machtmes, Janet Fox

Journal of Youth Development

The purpose of the study discussed was to determine if youth voice affects the ownership and engagement of youth in a county 4-H program. A youth-led approach was used with the treatment group to facilitate youth and adults sharing decision-making power. The comparison group utilized an adult-centered approach where decisions about the club programming were made strictly by the adults. A pre-and post-measurement design was used. Analysis of covariance was employed to determine if differences existed between youth participating in the treatment group and comparison groups and if differences existed between youth based on race. Findings indicated statistically significant differences …