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Predicting, Preparing For, And Creating The Future: What Will Happen To Internal Medicine?, Paul A. Hemmer, Sheila T. Costa, Deborah M. Demarco, Stuart L. Linas, Don C. Glazier, Barbara L. Schuster

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

It is the year 2025. During the past 20 years, internal medicine as a discipline continued to become less prestigious, less respected, and more fragmented. As fewer medical students chose internal medicine as a career, residency programs began to close. Those that remained open filled with fewer graduates of US medical schools but filled with more US citizens who graduated from international medical schools, more graduates of osteopathic medical schools, and more foreign graduates of international medical schools. Due to lack of adequate remuneration and a shift of primary care provision from generalist physicians to nurse practitioners and physician assistants, …

University Of Nebraska- Lincoln: Fact Book 2007-2008

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Administration: Reports, Papers, Publications, and Presentations

Fact Book Table of Contents

General Information

UNL Core Values .............................................................................. 4

Role and Mission Statement ............................................................. 5

Institutional & Professional Accreditations ..................................................... 8

UNL Organizational Chart ................................................................... 10

Student Credit Hours

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Fall & Spring Semester, by College, 5 Year Trend ................... 11

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Fall, by College, 5 Year Trend .................................................. 12

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Spring, By College, 5 Year Trend ............................................. 13

Summer Sessions Student Credit Hours ...................................................... 14

Retention, Degrees and Majors

UNL Student Retention & Graduation Rate Analysis ...................................... 15

Total Degrees Conferred by UNL Fiscal …

Detection, Occurrence And Fate Of Emerging Contaminants In Agricultural Environments (2008), Daniel D. Snow, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt, Samuel E. Saunders, Shannon L. Devivo, David A. Cassada

Nebraska Water Center: Faculty Publications

Agricultural settings are affected by a unique set of environmental contaminants typically associated with land use. Nutrients and sediments from run-off and erosion have historically been, and continue to be, studied and understood with respect to their impacts to aquatic environments. Studies involving newer classes of contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals and steroids, are becoming more prevalent as methods for measuring these compounds become available. These “emerging” contaminants clearly have potential to enter the environment and cause known or suspected adverse ecological or human health effects. Release of these contaminants to the environment has occurred for quite some time, but methods …

Does Dam Parity Affect Progeny Health Status?, Thomas E. Burkey, Phillip S. Miller, Rodger K. Johnson, Duane Reese, Roman Moreno

Nebraska Swine Reports

A preliminary experiment was conducted to investigate the health status of progeny derived from different parities; health status was characterized by evaluating the ability of Pl and P3 dams to produce and passively transfer immunoglobulins (IgA and IgG) to their progeny. At parturition, circulating concentrations of IgA and IgG were greater (P < 0.01 ) in P3 dams compared to P1 dams. As expected, during lactation, concentrations of IgA and IgG were greater (P < 0.002) in colostrum compared to milk (mid- and late-lactation). No parity differences were observed in immunoglobulin concentrations in colostrum or milk obtained from P1 and P3 dams. However, when immunoglobulins were quantified in the progeny of Pl and P3 dams a parity x time interaction was observed for circulating IgG (P < 0.03) and a trend for a parity x time interaction was observed for IgA (P = 0.06). Within a time point (d), serum IgG was greater (P < 0.001) in P3 progeny compared to P1 progeny for each time point measured. These results suggest that health status, as indicated by circulating immunoglobulin concentration, in neonatal pigs, may be affected by dam parity.

Newsletter Of The Wildlife Society Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Interactions: Volume 14 Issue 1 Winter 2008

TWS Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Newsletter

New Board Members Selected; Feel like You’ve Been There Before? Letters F Rom Art; New Publications: HWC Volume 2-1 Now Available; Call For Posters: 23rd Vertebrate Pest Conference; Decision 2007! Election Results - Meet the New Board Members; Calls From The Field (Or A House, Or A Farm, Or A…); 23rd Vertebrate Pest Conference San Diego California; 2008 National Conference On Feral Hogs; Call for Papers: 2008 National Conference on Feral Hogs; Call for Papers: Habitat and the Predation Process A Special Symposium at the 2008 TWS Meeting; Human-Wildlife Conflict In The News; Recent Wildlife Damage Management Research; The Wildlife …

On Constitutive Models For Limited Elastic, Molecular Based Materials, Millard F. Beatty

Department of Engineering Mechanics: Faculty Publications

The response function for a general class of elastic molecular based materials characterized by their limiting molecular chain extensibility and depending on only the first principal invariant of the Cauchy–Green deformation tensor together with a certain molecular based limiting extensibility parameter is introduced. The constitutive response function for the Gent material is then derived inversely as the [0/1] Padé approximant of this class, a result that leads naturally to an infinite geometric series representation of its response function. Truncation of this series function characterizes a familiar class of quadratic materials now having physically relevant material constants. It is shown that …

Perfluorinated Compounds In Whole Fish Homogenates From The Ohio, Missouri, And Upper Mississippi Rivers, Usa, Xibiao Ye, Mark J. Strynar, Shoji F. Nakayama, Jerry Varns, Larry Helfant, James Lazorchak, Andrew B. Lindstrom

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

A method for the analysis of 10 perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in whole fish homogenate is presented and applied to 60 fish samples collected from the Ohio, Missouri, and upper Mississippi Rivers in 2005. Method accuracy ranged between 86 and 125% with limits of quantitation between 0.2 and 10 ng/g wet weight. Intra- and inter-batch precision was generally ±20%. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) was the predominant compound identified in these samples, contributing over 80% of total PFC composition in the fish from these rivers, with median PFOS concentrations of 24.4, 31.8, and 53.9 ng/g wet wt in the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi …

In Focus: Award Symposium For Dr Gerry Brooks At The Acs 233rd National Meeting, Chicago, March 24–29, 2007, Derek W. Gammon

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

A symposium in honor of Dr Gerry Brooks winning the International Award for Research in Agrochemicals was organized by me, D Gammon, with help from RD Wauchope. The award is the highest given by the AGRO Division (formerly Agrochemicals Division) of the ACS. The symposium lasted a full day and consisted of an introduction, a lecture by Gerry and nine subsequent lectures. The high caliber of the recipient can be judged by the fact that five of the nine speakers were previous winners of the award (B Hammock, J Clark, R Krieger, H Ohkawa and E Hodgson) and another is …

From Construction To Ritual Function: An Exploration Of New Guinea Fiber Masterworks, Jill D’Alessandro, Christina Hellmich

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Non-loom techniques used by generations of women in New Guinea to create everyday necessities, and by men to fabricate sacred ritual objects reveal a mastery of the fantastic and ephemeral materials found in their island surrounds. Collectors Marcia and John Friede have amassed a collection of over 3000 works that comprise the Jolika collection of New Guinea Art at San Francisco’s de Young Museum including many historic tours de force made exclusively of plant fibers and materials.  These works celebrate the rich and diverse local and regional artistic traditions based on core fabrication techniques of tapa making, plaiting, coiling, twining …

Embellishments Of The Alaska Native Gut Parka, Fran Reed

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Dealing with various weather conditions is a serious matter in Alaska.  Coastal Native Alaskans have been surviving in severe environments for millennia.  Between the heat of the summer and the freezing cold of the winter is that transitional season when it rains.  Raincoats were fashioned out of bird skins and fish skins but it is the gut skin parka that became the universally adopted garment along the coast of Alaska.  Differing preparation, stitching and styling methods distinguish the many coastal villages and are expressed in embellishments and details that define the region, the culture and the function of these beautiful …

From Construction To Ritual Function: An Exploration Of New Guinea Fiber Masterworks, Jill D’Alessandro, Christina Hellmich

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The island of New Guinea is fringed by many small islands to the east. The west portion of the island, called Papua or West Papua, is politically part of Indonesia. The narrow Torres Strait separates New Guinea from Australia to the south. Physical features have profoundly and diversely shaped the lives of people living there for over fifty thousand years. The natural world, supernatural world and the rituals surrounding life’s passages, inspired the creation of the Jolika Collection works we explore today. They are complex compositions layered with imagery and meaning. Designs and motifs are often specific to clans and …

Cross-Cultural Evangelism: The Challenge Facing Adventism Today, Patricia Jo Gustin

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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Recent Advances In Medicago Truncatula Genomics, Jean-Michel Ané, Hongyan Zhu, Julia Frugoli

Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications

Legume rotation has allowed a consistent increase in crop yield and consequently in human population since the antiquity. Legumes will also be instrumental in our ability to maintain the sustainability of our agriculture while facing the challenges of increasing food and biofuel demand. Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus have emerged during the last decade as two major model systems for legume biology. Initially developed to dissect plant-microbe symbiotic interactions and especially legume nodulation, these two models are now widely used in a variety of biological fields from plant physiology and development to population genetics and structural genomics. This review highlights …

Parenting And Adolescent Attachment In India And Germany, Isabelle Albert, Gisela Trommsdorff, Ramesh Mishra

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

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The Effects Of Managed Care On Social Work Mental Health Practice, Tendai Masiriri

SPNA Review

An individual seeking psycho-therapy services for a mental health disorder has 60-70 percent chance of receiving services from a master’s level clinical social worker. Despite their lower status, clinical social workers make up 60 to 70 percent of the mental health workforce (Ivey et al, 1998; Clinical Social Work Society of Delaware; Testimony of the National Association of Social Workers Washington, DC Submitted to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, September 26, 2001). This analysis examines the effects of managed behavioral health care on social work mental health practice. It begins with a synopsis on the historical …

Teaching About Fluids, Jerry P. Gollub

Physics Faculty Scholarship

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Religion And Race : Cuban Confraternities In The Nineteenth Century, Hunter Upchurch

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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New Kahalalide Derivatives From The Alga Bryopsis Pennata, Jiangtao Gao

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Gay Darl : A New Reading Of Erotics In As I Lay Dying, Phillip Andrew Gordon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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I'Ll Give You That, Emily M. Green

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Home In Repair, Anne Corbitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Networked Family: Reframing The Legal Understanding Of Caregiving And Caregivers, Melissa Murray

Faculty Articles

In this Article, I examine the law’s understanding of caregiving as a parental endeavor in order to highlight the disjunction be-tween legal theory and the way that families actually perform their caregiving functions. I argue that because family law understands caregiving as parenting, it precludes recognition of the way in which parents and nonparents work together to discharge caregiving responsibilities. I further argue that broader recognition of caregiving networks and nonparental caregivers would better sup-port parents, caregiving, and the private infrastructure of care. In so doing, I depart from other scholars who have argued for greater recognition of nonparents who …

Positive Theory And The Internal View Of Law, John A. Ferejohn

Faculty Articles

The purpose of this Article is to ask, first, whether positive theories of law can provide explanations of law, legal practices, and institutions from an internal perspective. H.L.A. Hart argued that in a genuine legal system people, or at least legal officials, do not obey the law out of fear of sanctions, but because they accept legal norms, internally, as providing practical reasons for acting or refraining from acting. Legal norms cannot be reduced to systems of punishment but must be understood to guide action in other ways. Are the methodological commitments of positive theory to economic modeling compatible with …

The Property Rights Challenge In Marine Fisheries, Katrina M. Wyman

Faculty Articles

This Article argues that fisheries policymakers currently face a multifaceted challenge. Wild fish stocks are declining, aquaculture is growing, and there are many possible policy responses to these developments. Drawing on economic analysis of property rights, the Article frames the challenge facing policymakers as an optimization problem in which the objective should be to design property rights in fisheries that will produce the greatest net benefits. Complicating matters, the Article suggests that there is no single property arrangement that is optimal for fisheries in general and that policymakers will need to design many different property rights regimes to reflect local …

Paradigms Of Restraint, Erin E. Murphy

Faculty Articles

Incapacitation of dangerous individuals has conventionally entailed the exercise of physical control over an actual body: the state confines the person in jail. But advances in technology have changed that convention. A variety of new technologies—such as GPS tracking bracelets, biometric scanners, online offender indexes, and DNA databases—give the government power to control dangerous persons without relying on any exertion of physical control. The government can track the location of a person in real time, receive remote notification that an individual has ingested alcohol, or electronically zone someone into a home or out of a public park. It can prove …

Going Solo : The Benefits Of Creating A Single Parent Magazine / By Ellen L. Mcclurkin, Ellen L. Mcclurkin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Coral Reefs Of Miskitus Cays, Nicaragua, Ana C. Fonseca

Gulf and Caribbean Research

The Miskitus Cays, on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, consist of eighty mangrove and two sand and gravel cays, surrounded by seagrass beds, octocoral gardens, patch reefs, reef crests, extended algae platforms, short reef walls, and two marginal reefs around the sand cays. Seventy sites were inspected and eighteen sites were selected for rapid assessments in order to determine the status of the coral reefs. Linear transects and the intercept point methods were used to determine the relative benthic cover, and the density, size and health of coral colonies was estimated following the AGRRA protocol. Water was highly turbid due …

Seagrass Distribution In The Pensacola Bay System, Northwest Florida, Michael A. Lewis, Richard Devereux, Pete Bourgeois

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Aerial surveys of seagrass coverage in the Pensacola Bay system (PBS) have been conducted during 1960, 1980, 1992 and 2003. This report summarizes the results for the 2003 survey and compares the results to those previously reported for other surveys. The estimated coverage of seagrass for the PBS during 2003 was 1,654 ha. Continuous and patchy coverages ranged from 0 to 684 ha and 11 to 543 ha, respectively, for five PBS subsystems. In 2003, the majority of seagrass coverage occurred in Santa Rosa Sound (76%). Declines in total coverage occurred for East Bay (93%) and Escambia Bay (75%) whereas …

Variability In Estimating Abundance Of Postlarval Brown Shrimp, Farfantepenaeus Aztecus (Ives), Migrating Into Galveston Bay, Texas, Geoffrey A. Matthews

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Three sets of monitoring data were used to examine the variability associated with abundance estimation of postlarval brown shrimp, Farfantepenaeus aztecus (Ives) in Bolivar Roads, Texas—the main connection between the Gulf of Mexico and Galveston Bay. Abundance of postlarvae (PL) caught with Renfro beam trawl varied greatly in different years on the same dates. A “spring peak” of brown shrimp PL migrating into Galveston Bay was found for 2 April with a quadratic regression fit to 6-day moving averages of daily mean abundance from 22 yrs of monitoring data: Ln(PL+1) = 0.8736 + 0.09037Day - 0.0004934Day² (adj-R² = …

Shading Facilitates Sessile Invertebrate Dominance In The Rocky Subtidal Gulf Of Maine, Ron J. Etter, Robert J. Miller

Biology Faculty Publication Series

Dramatic shifts in community composition occur between vertical and horizontal rocky surfaces in subtidal environments worldwide, yet the forces mediating this transition are poorly understood. Vertical rock walls are often covered by lush, diverse communities of sessile suspension-feeding invertebrates, while adjacent horizontal substrates are dominated by algae, or corals in the tropics. Multiple factors, including light, sedimentation, water flow, and predation have been proposed to explain this pattern, but experimental tests of these hypotheses are lacking. We manipulated light level and predation to test whether variation in these mechanisms could be responsible for the shift in composition of sessile communities …