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The Dirt On International Environmental Law Regarding Soils: Is The Existing Regime Adequate?, Alexandra M. Wyatt

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.

Vol 53 #2, Judy Zelenski

MPLA Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Staying Out Of The Clutches Of The Goddess: Heeding The Wisdom Of Tennessee Williams, Richard Goodman

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Domestic Violence Law Reform In The Twenty-First Century: Looking Back An Looking Forward, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Colby Echo (2008-10-01), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

At The Watershed: Preparing For Research Data Management And Stewardship At The University Of Minnesota Libraries, Leslie M. Delserone

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Like many research universities, the University of Minnesota (UMN), and its Libraries, attempts to understand the nature and intensity of data produced by its researchers, and address the management and stewardship of its institutional research output. The recent activities of the Libraries, in support of and in conjunction with campus-wide efforts, illustrate a set of approaches that show the Libraries to be at the watershed, integrated into and contributing leadership to the growing river of campus-wide exploration and planning of cyberinfrastructure needs. This brief article highlights the hiring of the “science librarian cohort,” the Libraries’ study concerning the needs and …

Disseminated Leishmania Infantum Infection In Two Sibling Foxhounds Due To Possible Vertical Transmission, Katherine N. Gibson-Corley, Jesse M. Hostetter, Shannon J. Hostetter, Kathleen Mullin, Amanda Ramer-Tait, Paola M. Boggiatto, Christine A. Petersen

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

Two sibling foxhounds born to a Leishmania seropositive bitch were presented after testing seropositive for Leishmania. Leishmania infantum infection was detected via histopathology, culture, and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (q-PCR). This is the first report of natural infection with Leishmania infantum with the possibility for vertical transmission in North America.

Infection disséminée à Leishmania infantum chez deux chiots Fox hound d’une même portée reliée possiblement à une transmission verticale. Deux chiots Fox hound d’une même portée nés d’une mère séropositive à Leishmania ont été présentés après un contrôle sérologique positif. Une infection à Leishmania infantum a été détectée par …

Sepsis And Septic Shock. A Global Perspective And Initiative, Niranjan Kissoon

Saudi Medical Journal

Sepsis and septic shock are major contributors to mortality in children worldwide. While many factors may contribute to poor outcomes, resource limitations play a role in developing countries. However, early recognition and aggressive therapy using simple measures can reverse shock in most children. Indeed, great gains have been realized in some areas with limited resources. In this manuscript, the significant gains over the last few years are outlined, and issues to consider in resource limited environments are discussed. In addition, an invitation is extended to participate in a global sepsis initiative.

Analysis Of Hiv Subtypes And The Phylogenetic Tree In Hiv-Positive Samples From Saudi Arabia, Alhusain J. Alzahrani

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of HIV-1 genetic subtypes in Saudi Arabia in samples that are serologically positive for HIV-1, and compare the HIV-1 genetic subtypes prevalent in Saudi Arabia with the subtypes prevalent in other countries. METHODS: Thirty-nine HIV-1 positive samples were analyzed for HIV-1 subtypes using molecular techniques. The study is a retrospective study that was conducted in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in Abbott laboratories (United States of America) from 2004 to 2007. RESULTS: All samples were seropositive for HIV-1 group M. Of the 39 seropositive samples, only 12 were polymerase chain reaction positive. Subtype C …

Effects Of Psychotropic Drugs On The Thrombin-Induced Liberation Of Arachidonate In Human Platelets, Ramadhan Oruch, Ian F. Pryme, Holm Holmsen

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of chlorpromazine (CPZ), prochlorperazine (PCP), trifluoperazine (TFP), clozapine (CLO), haloperidol (HPD), quetiapine (QTP), pimozide (PMZ), and olanzapine (OLP) as well as the tricyclic antidepressants amitriptyline AMI, imipramine IMI, and nortriptyline NTP on thrombin-induced liberation of arachidonic acid AA in platelets. METHODS: This work was carried out at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Norway in 2006-2007. Human platelets pre labelled with [3H] arachidonate were incubated with thrombin in the absence and presence of the drugs, and the amount of free [3H] arachidonate liberated was determined. Myosin light chain (MLC) phosphorylation was determined in [32P] …

Status Of Serum Leptin Levels In Females With Infertility, Riffat Shafi, Muhammad N. Afzal

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess serum leptin levels in infertile females referred to a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan. METHODS: A case control study was carried out at Shifa College of Medicine/Shifa International Hospital Islamabad, Pakistan from January 2005 to August 2005. Serum leptin levels of 44 infertile females were compared with 44 age matched fertile female controls. RESULTS: The results revealed that serum leptin levels were significantly raised in infertile women (69.7±40.2ng/ml) as compared to fertile controls (41.1±27.3ng/ml) with p=0.000. Mean body mass index BMI was also found to be significantly higher in infertile women (27.2±6.8kg/m2) as compared to fertile females …

Spinal Shrinkage As A Measure Of Spinal Loading In Male Saudi University Students And Its Relationship With Body Mass Index, Talay Yar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To compare spinal shrinkage in obese and non-obese young male adults and to find any correlation between them. METHODS: In 2006, 123 second-year male students studying in the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, King Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, were examined for their weights, standing heights, and recumbent lengths. In this cross-sectional observational study, the students were grouped according to body mass index (BMI): normal range BMI <25; overweight BMI = 25-29.9; obese-BMI >30. Spinal shrinkage was calculated as the difference between standing height and the recumbent length of the subject. Influence of BMI on the magnitude of spinal shrinkage was compared by …

Fetal Macrosomia Greater Than Or Equal To 4000 Grams. Comparing Maternal And Neonatal Outcomes In Diabetic And Nondiabetic Women, Ahmed Saleh, Sultan M. Al-Sultan, Anwar M. Moria, Fatema I. Rakaf, Yasmin M. Turkistani

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To compare maternal and neonatal outcomes of fetal macrosomia in diabetic and nondiabetic women. METHODS: A retrospective case-control study was conducted at Riyadh Military Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from January 2004 to December 2006. A total of 766 macrosomic newborns met the inclusion criteria. We compared maternal and neonatal characteristics and outcomes between diabetic (group 1, n=207) and nondiabetic (group 2, n=559) women. RESULTS: There were significantly more macrosomic newborns in nondiabetic women; 73% versus 27% in diabetic women, p=0.0001. Cesarean deliveries were significantly higher in diabetic women compared to nondiabetic women (30.4% versus 19.5%, p=0.002). There …

Infection In Childhood Sensory Hearing Loss, Samile Noorbakhsh, Mohammad Farhadi, Azardokht Tabatabaei, Shabahang Mohamadi, Emam Jomeh

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the possible role of infectious agents on the occurrence of idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children. METHODS: This case control study was carried out at Rasul Hospital in Tehran, Iran from 2002-2003. We compared specific serum antibodies (IgG, IgM) measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay in 95 sensory hearing loss cases and 63 controls. RESULTS: Acute infections (IgM) detected in cases included: cytomegalovirus (CMV) 34.6%, toxoplasma 11.5%, mumps 8.7%, rubella 5.3%, and herpes simplex 5.3%. Previous infections (IgG) detected in cases included CMV 72%, herpes 6.6%, toxoplasma 26%, mumps 23.3%, and rubella 17.2%. Acute CMV and …

The Prevalence Of Sickle Cell Disease In Saudi Children And Adolescents. A Community-Based Survey, Mansour M. Al-Qurashi, Mohammad I. El-Mouzan, Abdullah S. Al-Herbish, Abdullah A. Al-Salloum, Ahmad A. Al-Omar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and regional distribution of sickle cell disease in Saudi children. METHODS: A sample size of 45,682 children and adolescents from newborn to 19 years of age was selected by multistage random probability sampling of the Saudi households from each of the 13 regions of the country. The study is cross-sectional, community based, and conducted over 2 years from 2004 to 2005. Data, including history and clinical examination were collected with house-to-house survey of all selected households. Data management and analysis was carried out at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. RESULTS: Sickle cell disease was …

Prevalence Of Dyslipidemia In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes In Jordan, Nazik M. Abdel-Aal, Azmi T. Ahmad, Erika S. Froelicher, Anwar Ms Batieha, Musdaq M. Hamza, Kamel M. Ajlouni

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency and patterns of dyslipidemia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and to estimate the effects of sociodemographic and clinical variables on dyslipidemia. METHODS: The setting took place in The National Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Genetics (NCDEG) at the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. The NCDEG is the only referral center in the country; therefore, the patients represent the population in different parts of the country. A cross-sectional design was used. A total of 702 patients with DM from the NCDEG aged >/=20 years were consecutively enrolled between June 2005 and July 2006. …

Antibiotic Resistance Pattern And Empirical Therapy For Urinary Tract Infections In Children, Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Pattern Of Neonatal And Postneonatal Deaths Over A Decade 1995-2004 At A Military Hospital In Saudi Arabia, Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi, Muhammad A. Majeed-Saidan, Fawaz T. Kashlan, Atyah A. Al-Zahrani, Faisal Y. Ezzedeen, Amer N. Ammari

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Historic And Recent Distributions Of Elk In Nebraska, Kent A. Fricke, Michael A. Cover, Scott E. Hygnstrom, Hugh H. Genoways, Scott R. Groepper, Kit Hams, Kurt C. Vercauteren

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Elk (Cervus elaphus) were historically found throughout North America but were extirpated from Nebraska and much of the Great Plains in the 1880s due to consumptive uses by settlers, miners, market hunters, and others. Elk began to reappear in Nebraska in the 1950s and 1960s, and established a stable, nonmigratory population that currently consists of seven herds and an estimated 1,400 individuals throughout western and central Nebraska. The reappearance and subsequent persistence of elk in Nebraska suggests there is adequate habitat to support a self-sustaining population. The general movement of elk eastward may lead to an eventual statewide …

Utility Of Liver Biopsy In Hiv-Infected Patients Presenting With Febrile Illnesses And Inconclusive Evaluation, J. Shavadia, Sitna Mwanzi, F. Rana, Majid Twahir

Pathology, East Africa

Objectives: To determine the utility of liver biopsy in providing a diagnosis in HIVinfected patients presenting with febrile illnesses and inconclusive initial investigative work up.

Design: A retrospective descriptive study.

Setting: The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi.

Subjects: Twelve in-patients with HIV disease who underwent liver biopsy following inconclusive initial investigative work up for febrile illnesses between January and December 2007.

Results: Seven out of 12 patients had granulomatous hepatitis reported on histology with characteristic tuberculous epitheloid granulomas all having stainable acid-alcohol fast bacilli on Ziehl-Nielsen (ZN) stain. The mean alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) levels in …

Reaching High And Far To Improve The Value Of The Library's Website, Alexandra Gomes, Elizabeth Palena Hall

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

To improve the library's website, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library set out to accomplish a complete website re-design. This poster presentation displays the process, challenges, and the final outcome of the new library website.

Growing Greener: Step By Step, Alexandra Gomes, Laura E. Abate, Laurie Lyons, Hasna Ross

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

In 2008, the Green Himmelfarb task force identified areas in which the staff could easily improve the environmental impact of the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library. This poster presentation is a summary of the library's initiative to evolve into a "green library".

Opportunities To Uncover, Locate, And Learn: The Library Orientation Scavenger Hunt, Alexandra Gomes, Elaine Sullo

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library implemented a Library Orientation Scavenger Hunt for new medical students. This poster presentation describes the details of the scavenger hunt and the resulting benefits for the library users and staff.

The Visual Analysis Of Heterogeneous Sex Role Interactions: A Content Analysis Of Popular Music Videos, Deanna Niccole Kimbrel

Theses

Hip Hop cultured music videos have raised concern among our nation’s leaders, parents and communities. Since the introduction of music videos in the early 1980s the medium has crossed cultural, regional and ethnic boundaries (Rose, 1994). This medium has been well researched since the 1980s. The focus of this study is Hip Hop cultured music videos from years 1989-2006. The uniqueness of this study is that it focuses on nonverbal sex role interactions in this genre of music videos. This study found many useful trends. For example, men were portrayed as more dominant and/or vertical than women in the sampled …

Lessons In Access To Justice: Racialized Youths In Ontario's Safe Schools, Janet E. Mosher

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Access to justice is often equated with access to institutionalized dispute resolution processes, and the objective barriers that hinder such access-costs and delay most particularly-are commonly identified as the primary objects of reform efforts. In sharp contrast, when interviews and focus groups were conducted with racialized youths in Toronto regarding their experiences of access to justice in the context of school disciplinary matters, accounts of access to dispute resolution processes being impeded by costs and delay did not figure prominently. The interviews and focus groups revealed that many racialized youths scarcely ever considered accessing institutionalized dispute resolution processes largely because …

Leveraging News And Advertising To Introduce New Brands On The Web, Anca C. Micu, Esther Thorson

WCBT Faculty Publications

Previous studies using the integrated marketing communications framework have examined the increased effectiveness of combining either multiple media or different tactics when promoting a brand. This study considers integrating advertising and publicity to promote an unknown brand on the Internet. Experiment results indicate that when exposure to advertising combines with exposure to objective news about a new brand, effectiveness increases in terms of both brand attitudes and behavioral intentions. For sequencing exposures for technical brands, the news-then-advertising condition offers more effectiveness than the reverse sequence. When introducing non-technical brands on the Web though, using advertising first is more effective in …

International Coffee Regulation: A Comparison Of The International Coffee Organization And The Fair Trade Coffee Regimes, Scott B. Weese

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

The note examines the challenges in coffee farming due to oversupply and evaluates two regulatory attempts: the International Coffee Organization (ICO) and the Fairtrade Labelling Organization (FLO). While the ICO focuses on sustainability and the FLO on creating demand, both fail to address the root issue of overproduction. The note argues that these efforts are insufficient because they do not reduce supply, suggesting that market correction through producer exit is necessary.

Does Place Explain Racial Health Disparities? Quantifying The Contribution Of Residential Context To The Black/White Health Gap In The United States, Brian K. Finch, D. Phuong Do, Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Chloe E. Bird, José J. Escarce, Nicole Lurie

Faculty Publications

The persistence of the black health disadvantage has been a puzzling component of health in the United States in spite of general declines in rates of morbidity and mortality over the past century. Studies that have focused on well-established individual-level determinants of health such as socio-economic status and health behaviors have been unable to fully explain these disparities. Recent research has begun to focus on other factors such as racism, discrimination, and segregation. Variation in neighborhood context - socio-demographic composition, social aspects, and built environment - has been postulated as an additional explanation for racial disparities, but few attempts have …

Breast Cancer Survival Among Economically Disadvantaged Women: The Influences Of Delayed Diagnosis And Treatment On Mortality, Emily Rose Smith, Swann Arp Adams, Irene Prabhu Das, Matteo Bottai, Jeanette Fulton, James R. Hébert

Faculty Publications

Breast cancer affects thousands each year in the United States, and disproportionately affects certain subgroups. For example, the incidence of breast cancer in South Carolina is lower in African American compared with European American women by ~12% to 15%, but their mortality rate is twice as high as in European American women. The purpose of the study was to assess factors associated with breast cancer mortality between African American and European American women. Participants (n = 314) in South Carolina's Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (SCBCCEDP), which provides breast cancer screening and treatment services, during the years …

Why America Still Needs Affirmative Action, Jonathan K. Stubbs

Law Faculty Publications

Affirmative action has gotten a bad rap.Many people think of affirmative action as race-based policies that favor unqualified persons because of the color of their skin. Resentments and misunderstandings flow from such perceptions in part because race remains America’s most inflammatory unfinished business.

To ignite a spirited, thoughtful discussion as well as practical action regarding affirmative action, this article briefly discusses what constitutes affirmative action; evaluates why affirmative action programs that consider race, gender, and class remain necessary; and offers some thoughts regarding when affirmative action should end.