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Attaining Permanence : Securing Legal Aid For Relative Caregivers, Janie Parra Jan 2008

Attaining Permanence : Securing Legal Aid For Relative Caregivers, Janie Parra

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This capstone project addresses the relative caregiver population of Kinship Center's Family Ties program. The problem is the lack of access to legal permanence for relative families. The capstone project was to collaborate with private attorneys from Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties to provide pro-bono services to Kinship Center Family Ties clients who could attain legal services.

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Maternity Leave Laws In The United States In The Light Of European Legislation, Candace Saari Kovacic-Fleischer Jan 2008

Maternity Leave Laws In The United States In The Light Of European Legislation, Candace Saari Kovacic-Fleischer

Contributions to Books

This chapter describes the difficulty that the US has had in passing social legislation by viewing it through the changing attitudes of US Supreme Court justices toward employment legislation during five defining eras in the twentieth century: laissez-faire economics and wage and hour legislation, 1905-1941; President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Social Security Act, 1935-1937; World War II, 1940-1948; the Civil Rights and Women’s movements, 1963-1978; and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The US has expanded its view of government’s role in the private workplace over time, though not nearly as quickly as has Europe. The author …

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Progesterone Receptors: Form And Function In Brain, Roberta Diaz Brinton, Richard F. Thompson, Michael R. Foy, Michel Baudry, Jun Ming Wang, Caleb E. Finch, Todd E. Morgan, Christian J. Pike, Wendy J. Mack, Frank Z. Stanczyk, Jon Nilsen Jan 2008

Progesterone Receptors: Form And Function In Brain, Roberta Diaz Brinton, Richard F. Thompson, Michael R. Foy, Michel Baudry, Jun Ming Wang, Caleb E. Finch, Todd E. Morgan, Christian J. Pike, Wendy J. Mack, Frank Z. Stanczyk, Jon Nilsen

Psychological Science Faculty Works

Emerging data indicate that progesterone has multiple non-reproductive functions in the central nervous system to regulate cognition, mood, inflammation, mitochondrial function, neurogenesis and regeneration, myelination and recovery from traumatic brain injury. Progesterone-regulated neural responses are mediated by an array of progesterone receptors (PR) that include the classic nuclear PRA and PRB receptors and splice variants of each, the seven transmembrane domain 7TMPRβ and the membrane-associated 25-Dx PR (PGRMC1). These PRs induce classic regulation of gene expression while also transducing signaling cascades that originate at the cell membrane and ultimately activate transcription factors. Remarkably, PRs are broadly expressed throughout the brain …

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Measuring The Elf Response Of An Acupuncture Meridian Compared To A Control Channel, Keith Spaulding Jan 2008

Measuring The Elf Response Of An Acupuncture Meridian Compared To A Control Channel, Keith Spaulding

Master's Theses and Capstones

Acupuncture meridians are said to possess unique electrical characteristics; a characteristic of interest when analyzing systems is frequency response. The Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) response of the Large Intestine (LI) meridian was found by applying a Gaussian pulse signal to LI4 and detecting the signal at LI11; a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis is performed on this signal with a Power Spectral Density (PSD) measuring total power in the 2 -- 100 Hz region. This total power is compared to the total power measurement at a control point by applying the same Gaussian pulse on a control channel; this protocol …

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Anionic Salts In The Prepartum Diet And Addition Of Sodium Bicarbonate To Colostrum Replacer And Their Effects On Igg Absorption In The Neonate, Kimberley M. Morrill Jan 2008

Anionic Salts In The Prepartum Diet And Addition Of Sodium Bicarbonate To Colostrum Replacer And Their Effects On Igg Absorption In The Neonate, Kimberley M. Morrill

Master's Theses and Capstones

Forty Holstein cows were assigned to a 2 X 2 factorial arrangement of treatments in a completely randomized block design to one of four treatments: basal diet and no sodium bicarbonate in the colostrum replacer; basal diet and supplemental sodium bicarbonate in the colostrum replacer; anionic salts and no sodium bicarbonate in the colostrum replacer; anionic salts and supplemental sodium bicarbonate in the colostrum replacer. Calves received two doses of colostrum replacer +/- sodium bicarbonate at 0 h, 1 dose of colostrum replacer +/- sodium bicarbonate at 6 hours and milk replacer at 12, 24, 36 and 48 hours. Calves …

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factors 1 And 1a Control Start Codon Recognition, Sarah F. Mitchell Jan 2008

Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factors 1 And 1a Control Start Codon Recognition, Sarah F. Mitchell

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Works

Start codon selection is a key step in translation initiation as it sets the reading frame for decoding. Two eukaryotic initiation factors, eIF1 and eIF1A, are key actors in this process. Recent work has elucidated many details of the mechanisms these factors use to control start site selection. eIF1 prevents the irreversible GTP hydrolysis that commits the ribosome to initiation at a particular codon. eIF1A both promotes and inhibits commitment through the competing influences of its two unstructured termini. Both factors perform their tasks through a variety of interactions with other components of the initiation machinery, in many cases mediated …

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Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Infanticide, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2008

Philosophy And Theology: Notes On Infanticide, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Sacrifice And Sustainability, Christopher Key Chapple Jan 2008

Sacrifice And Sustainability, Christopher Key Chapple

Theological Studies Faculty Works

Sacrifice in the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian traditions involves a giving up, a surrendering of something for the sake of a greater good. Sacrifice in times past took the form of a bloody offering. In Christianity this has been replaced with the Eucharist, which promotes human conscience and adherence to a moral code. Sacrifice in the ancient Vedic traditions of India entailed the offering of an animal or the symbolic offering of a human being that correlated bodily parts to functions of society and the cosmos. Sacrifice in India in rare instances still includes the killing of animals. Ritual throughout …

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Food, Drugs, And Droods: A Historical Consideration Of Definitions And Categories In American Food And Drug Law, Lewis Grossman Jan 2008

Food, Drugs, And Droods: A Historical Consideration Of Definitions And Categories In American Food And Drug Law, Lewis Grossman

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This article explores the development and interaction of the legal and cultural categories food and drug from the late nineteenth century to the present. It is based not only on legal and historical research, but also on theories of category formation from the fields of linguistics and psychology. The scope of the Food and Drug Administration's power is defined primarily by the list of product categories over which it has jurisdiction. The statutory definitions of these categories (food, drug, cosmetic, device, and human biological product) thus delineate the outer boundaries of the arena within which the agency operates. The definitions …

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Users As Innovators: Implications For Patent Doctrine, Katherine J. Strandburg Jan 2008

Users As Innovators: Implications For Patent Doctrine, Katherine J. Strandburg

University of Colorado Law Review

User innovators range from commercial firms, which invent new production methods in expectation of competitive advantage, to individual hobbyists motivated entirely by their enjoyment of the inventive process. In this Article, I consider the implications for patent doctrine of the fact that many user innovators derive sufficient benefit simply from developing and using their inventions to motivate them to invest the effort necessary to invent them. Moreover, user innovators often benefit from "freely revealing" their innovations to others. Trade secrecy and patenting are not central to motivating this inventive activity. This picture of user innovation contrasts sharply with the seller …

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The Common Law And The Environment, Steven J. Eagle Jan 2008

The Common Law And The Environment, Steven J. Eagle

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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The Common Law And The Environment In The Courts: Discussion Of Code Law And Common Law, Bruce Yandle Jan 2008

The Common Law And The Environment In The Courts: Discussion Of Code Law And Common Law, Bruce Yandle

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Stakeholder Governance: A Bad Idea Getting Worse, George W. Dent Jr. Jan 2008

Stakeholder Governance: A Bad Idea Getting Worse, George W. Dent Jr.

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Sepas, Climate Change, And Corporate Responsibility: The Contribution Of Local Government, Catherine J. Lacroix Jan 2008

Sepas, Climate Change, And Corporate Responsibility: The Contribution Of Local Government, Catherine J. Lacroix

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Malcolm Baldrige Award: What Technology Managers Can Learn From Health Care Winners, Simon Allvin, Jeffrey M. Ulmer, Troy E. Ollison Jan 2008

The Malcolm Baldrige Award: What Technology Managers Can Learn From Health Care Winners, Simon Allvin, Jeffrey M. Ulmer, Troy E. Ollison

International Journal of Applied Management and Technology

The Malcolm Baldrige Award is the highest presidential award for quality in the United States. Since 2002 there have been 28 winners of the award: eight from the health care field and four from the manufacturing category. This study identifies significant characteristics of health care award winners that can translate into exceptional quality and revenue performance for technology managers in manufacturing.

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National Cave And Karst Research Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report, National Cave And Karst Research Institute Jan 2008

National Cave And Karst Research Institute 2008-2009 Annual Report, National Cave And Karst Research Institute

KIP Articles

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Northeastern Illinois University, 2008-2009 Academic Catalog, Northeastern Illinois University Jan 2008

Northeastern Illinois University, 2008-2009 Academic Catalog, Northeastern Illinois University

Course Catalogs

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2008 Aasu Men's Basketball Guide, Armstrong State University Jan 2008

2008 Aasu Men's Basketball Guide, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Basketball Records (Archived)

No abstract provided.

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A Defense Of Common Law Environmentalism: The Discovery Of Better Environmental Policy, Henry N. Butler Jan 2008

A Defense Of Common Law Environmentalism: The Discovery Of Better Environmental Policy, Henry N. Butler

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Making Nuisance Ecological, J. B. Ruhl Jan 2008

Making Nuisance Ecological, J. B. Ruhl

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

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From Swamp Drainage To Wetlands Regulation To Ecological Nuisances To Environmental Ethics, John Copeland Nagle Jan 2008

From Swamp Drainage To Wetlands Regulation To Ecological Nuisances To Environmental Ethics, John Copeland Nagle

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Nonprofit Commercialization Under Bayh-Dole And The Academic Anticommons, Rachael A. Ream Jan 2008

Nonprofit Commercialization Under Bayh-Dole And The Academic Anticommons, Rachael A. Ream

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Home Range, Habitat Use, And Food Habits Of The Black Bear In South-Central Florida, Wade Allen Ulrey Jan 2008

Home Range, Habitat Use, And Food Habits Of The Black Bear In South-Central Florida, Wade Allen Ulrey

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

I studied a small, enigmatic, and imperiled black bear population in south-central Florida from 2004 - 2006. Annual home ranges of males (96.0 km2) were larger than those of females (32.2 km2). Female home ranges were smaller in winter than in summer or fall. At the landscape scale, bears selected forests, scrub, and citrus, but avoided urban areas. At the home range scale, bears selected bay swamp and hardwood hammock, but avoided urban areas and grassland. Bears selected bay swamp in winter, forests and scrub in summer, and forests, scrub, and marsh in fall. The bear’s …

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Mutation Of The NΖ-Carboxylated Lysine Of Oxa-1 Β-Lactamase Results In Deacylation Impaired Enzyme And Build-Up Of Acyl-Intermediate, Kyle D. Schneider, David A. Leonard Jan 2008

Mutation Of The NΖ-Carboxylated Lysine Of Oxa-1 Β-Lactamase Results In Deacylation Impaired Enzyme And Build-Up Of Acyl-Intermediate, Kyle D. Schneider, David A. Leonard

Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

β-lactamases hydrolyze penicillin, cephalosporin, and carbapenemβ-lactam antibiotics. The class D β-lactamase OXA-1 has a catalytic serine (position 67) thought to be deprotonated and thereby activated by an unusual Nζ-carboxylated lysine (position 70). We have made several mutations of OXA-1 at both K70 and S67 to help elucidate the role of these two critical residues in the catalytic mechanism. We have used the fluorescent substrate BOCILLIN FL to demonstrate that the K70 mutants can acylate but are severely impaired for deacylation of various substrates. Interestingly, deacylation rates vary depending on the identity of the substituting residue, from t1/2 …

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The Notch Signaling Pathway Drives Astrogliogenesis By Regulating The Expression Of The Transcription Factors Nfia And Sox9, Derek Janssens, Merritt Taylor Jan 2008

The Notch Signaling Pathway Drives Astrogliogenesis By Regulating The Expression Of The Transcription Factors Nfia And Sox9, Derek Janssens, Merritt Taylor

Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

In the developing nervous system the Notch signaling pathway has recently been shown to be necessary and sufficient for neural stem cells to differentiate into astroctyes, a process called astrogliogenesis. However, the mechanism of how Notch signaling regulates this process has not yet been characterized. Our lab is examining whether Notch signaling controls the expression of the genes NFIA and Sox9 which are known to regulate astogliogenesis. These candidate genes were selected because their DNA sequences have characteristics that indicate their expression could be controlled by Notch through a transcriptional complex of Notch and other proteins, including the DNA binding …

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Studying Potential Drug Interactions Involved In The Regulation Of The Diaphanous-Related Formins, Brittany E. Benson, Bradley J. Wallar Jan 2008

Studying Potential Drug Interactions Involved In The Regulation Of The Diaphanous-Related Formins, Brittany E. Benson, Bradley J. Wallar

Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

Diaphanous-related formins (DRFs) are a conserved family of proteins that are involved in the regulation of cellular shape, motility, and cell division by regulating the structure of the cellular “skeleton” (cytoskeleton); any disruption of this regulation can result in cell death. Normally, the DRFs are kept in an inactive state by the intramolecular binding of two regions of the protein: the Diaphanous Autoregulatory Domain (DAD) and Diaphanous Inhibitory Domain (DID). This binding can be alleviated by various naturally-occurring mechanisms and proper regulation of the activity of these proteins is vital to cell survival because prolonged activation of DRFs can result …

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Population Structure Of The Invasive Round Goby (Neogobius Melanostomus) Along The Eastern Shore Of Lake Michigan, M. Ben Stacey, Ryan Thum, Carl Ruetz Iii, Tyler Armstrong Jan 2008

Population Structure Of The Invasive Round Goby (Neogobius Melanostomus) Along The Eastern Shore Of Lake Michigan, M. Ben Stacey, Ryan Thum, Carl Ruetz Iii, Tyler Armstrong

Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

Round gobies are an invasive species that have proliferated throughout the Great Lakes since 1990. Today, anthropogenic forces are causing an increasing number of invasions causing great economic and ecological damage. The round goby invasion, because of its high level of success and recent occurrence, may represent a model system to study the evolutionary dynamics and formation of genetic population structure in novel habitats. Our study is a fine scale examination of the round goby genetic population structure along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.

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Examination Of Crayfish Biodiversity And Distribution Within The Grand River, Michigan, Norrissa M. Thomas, Daniel A. Bergman Jan 2008

Examination Of Crayfish Biodiversity And Distribution Within The Grand River, Michigan, Norrissa M. Thomas, Daniel A. Bergman

Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

Invertebrates make up a large part of the world's biological diversity and perform essential ecological functions. Many invertebrates are under threat of extinction due to extreme transformations of habitats. Crayfish are one such threatened invertebrate. Crayfish are keystone species in many freshwater systems. Keystone species are those species most important in shaping the ecology of a system. Crayfish are an important resource for many animals and affect species diversity and abundance. Specifically, crayfish can adversely affect ecosystems by removing plants, making the water turbid. They also prey on fish eggs reducing their numbers. There are 415 species of crayfish in …

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Curriculum Mortae: Sometimes Indoctrination Is A Matter Of Life And Death, Karen Swallow Prior Jan 2008

Curriculum Mortae: Sometimes Indoctrination Is A Matter Of Life And Death, Karen Swallow Prior

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

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Evaluation Of An Image Processing Algorithm For Scene Change Detection, Daniel Flores Jan 2008

Evaluation Of An Image Processing Algorithm For Scene Change Detection, Daniel Flores

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Despite the efforts to reduce traffic accidents by government entities and automobile manufactures, the numbers of accidents are not considerably reduced. An evaluation of an algorithm based on the fly's eye is done on this research applying its principles to detect scene change on images for printed circuit boards providing initial steps to implement this algorithm on vehicular traffic to keep track of objects moving on the field for collision avoidance purposes. The effectiveness of the algorithm is addressed through a comparison of its performance with that found in experimental data.

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