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Supt. Strudthoff Praises Administration, Faculty, Staff & Students For Assistance During I. C. E. Raid; Board To Hire Interim Superintendent May 2008

Supt. Strudthoff Praises Administration, Faculty, Staff & Students For Assistance During I. C. E. Raid; Board To Hire Interim Superintendent

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the first Board of Education meeting after the Agriprocessors raid where Superintendent Strudthoff commended all the administration, teachers, staff, and students on how they handled the situation with the raid, making sure all the students impacted would be safe.

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Sticky Gecko Feet: The Role Of Temperature And Humidity, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Stephanie Lopez, Liehui Ge, Emily Hagan, Ali Dhinojwala May 2008

Sticky Gecko Feet: The Role Of Temperature And Humidity, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Stephanie Lopez, Liehui Ge, Emily Hagan, Ali Dhinojwala

College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering

Gecko adhesion is expected to be temperature insensitive over the range of temperatures typically experienced by geckos. Previous work is limited and equivocal on whether this expectation holds. We tested the temperature dependence of adhesion in Tokay and Day geckos and found that clinging ability at 12 degrees C was nearly double the clinging ability at 32 degrees C. However, rather than confirming a simple temperature effect, our data reveal a complex interaction between temperature and humidity that can drive differences in adhesion by as much as two-fold. Our findings have important implications for inferences about the mechanisms underlying the …

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A Specific Role For Ca2+-Dependent Adenylyl Cyclases In Recovery From Adaptive Presynaptic Silencing, Krista L. Moulder, Xiaoping Jiang, Chunyun Chang, Amanda A. Taylor, Ann M. Benz, Alana C. Conti, Louis J. Muglia, Steven Mennerick May 2008

A Specific Role For Ca2+-Dependent Adenylyl Cyclases In Recovery From Adaptive Presynaptic Silencing, Krista L. Moulder, Xiaoping Jiang, Chunyun Chang, Amanda A. Taylor, Ann M. Benz, Alana C. Conti, Louis J. Muglia, Steven Mennerick

Neurosurgery Faculty Publications

Glutamate generates fast postsynaptic depolarization throughout the CNS. The positive-feedback nature of glutamate signaling likely necessitates flexible adaptive mechanisms that help prevent runaway excitation. We have previously explored presynaptic adaptive silencing, a form of synaptic plasticity produced by ongoing neuronal activity and by strong depolarization. Unsilencing mechanisms that maintain active synapses and restore normal function after adaptation are also important, but mechanisms underlying such presynaptic reactivation remain unexplored. Here we investigate the involvement of the cAMP pathway in the basal balance between silenced and active synapses, as well as the recovery of baseline function after depolarization-induced presynaptic silencing. Activation of …

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Pubmed Search Strategy: Functional Neuroimaging Of Cognitive Impairment In Major Depression, Christopher Abbott May 2008

Pubmed Search Strategy: Functional Neuroimaging Of Cognitive Impairment In Major Depression, Christopher Abbott

Clinical and Translational Science Center Scholarly Output

Functional neuroimaging promises to collectively elucidate the pathophysiology of cognitive impairment in depression. The interested clinician and the functional imaging investigator need to stay current with the literature of this rapidly evolving field. This paper describes the development of a systematic and replicable search strategy for this rapidly evolving field. The final PubMed search strategy resulted in an optimal signal-to-noise ratio' of pertinent articles for this important clinical problem.'

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Sticky Gecko Feet: The Role Of Temperature And Humidity, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Stephanie Lopez, Liehui Ge, Emily Hagan, Ali Dhinojwala May 2008

Sticky Gecko Feet: The Role Of Temperature And Humidity, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Stephanie Lopez, Liehui Ge, Emily Hagan, Ali Dhinojwala

Biology Faculty Research

Gecko adhesion is expected to be temperature insensitive over the range of temperatures typically experienced by geckos. Previous work is limited and equivocal on whether this expectation holds. We tested the temperature dependence of adhesion in Tokay and Day geckos and found that clinging ability at 12 degrees C was nearly double the clinging ability at 32 degrees C. However, rather than confirming a simple temperature effect, our data reveal a complex interaction between temperature and humidity that can drive differences in adhesion by as much as two-fold. Our findings have important implications for inferences about the mechanisms underlying the …

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Narrative Politics In Historical Fictions For Children, John Streamas May 2008

Narrative Politics In Historical Fictions For Children, John Streamas

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In "Narrative Politics in Historical Fictions for Children," John Streamas points out that narrative theory and ethnic studies need to ask each other basic questions before a reading of race in children's literature can be useful. Is the literature merely a reflection of the experience of adult writers and parents? That is, must we read the literature as nostalgic, reflecting a developmental bias? Or does it engage children on their own contemporary terms? Are children themselves capable of racism, even if only as extensions of adult racial imaginations? Certainly the growing number of children's books written by writers of color …

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Evaluation Of Nasa Satellite- And Assimilation Model-Derived Long-Term Daily Temperature Data Over The Continental Us, Jeffrey W. White, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Paul W. Stackhouse, Jr., James M. Hoell May 2008

Evaluation Of Nasa Satellite- And Assimilation Model-Derived Long-Term Daily Temperature Data Over The Continental Us, Jeffrey W. White, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Paul W. Stackhouse, Jr., James M. Hoell

United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Publications

Agricultural research increasingly is expected to provide precise, quantitative information with an explicit geographic coverage. Limited availability of daily meteorological records often constrains efforts to provide such information through use of simulation models, spatial analysis, and related decision support tools. The Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (NASA/POWER) project at the NASA Langley Research Center provides daily data globally for maximum and minimum temperatures and other weather variables on a 1° latitude–longitude grid. The data are assembled from a range of products derived from satellite imagery, ground observations, windsondes, modeling and data assimilation. Daily temperature data from NASA/POWER for 1983 to …

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May 14, 2008 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office May 2008

May 14, 2008 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

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Don't You Wonder, Bridginae Green May 2008

Don't You Wonder, Bridginae Green

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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The Politics Of Childhood In Ellis's Three Wishes, Wafaa Hasan May 2008

The Politics Of Childhood In Ellis's Three Wishes, Wafaa Hasan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In "The Politics of Childhood in Ellis's Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak," Wafaa Hasan outlines the recent controversy in Canada over the restrictions that shape children's literature. Using Neil Postman's and John Locke's conceptions of childhood, Hasan unpacks the ways in which Ellis's Three Wishes has threatened popular conceptions of childhood. Specifically, as her analysis shows, Ellis's work redefines the boundaries of children's fiction by heterogenizing childhood experience and by affording its readers -- limited but consequential -- authorial agency. Further, Hasan asserts that Three Wishes liberates the idea of childhood as a developmental stage of ignorance by …

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Differences In Preferences Towards The Environment: The Impact Of A Gender, Age And Parental Effect, Benno Torgler, María A. García Valiñas, Alison Macintyre May 2008

Differences In Preferences Towards The Environment: The Impact Of A Gender, Age And Parental Effect, Benno Torgler, María A. García Valiñas, Alison Macintyre

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

The paper investigates empirically the differences in preferences towards protection of the environment. Using seven different dependent variables to focus on the impact of age, gender and children we use a large micro data set covering data from 33 Western and Eastern European countries. The results indicate that women have both a stronger preference towards the environment and a stronger willingness to contribute. Moreover, we observe the tendency of a negative correlation between age and environmental preferences. However, a positive effect is visible once we focus on the impact of age on social norms (environmental morale). Finally, we were not …

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Mustang Daily, May 13, 2008 May 2008

Mustang Daily, May 13, 2008

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

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Cao V. Atty Gen Usa May 2008

Cao V. Atty Gen Usa

2008 Decisions

Agency

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The Changing Role Of Physicians In Disaster Management And Hospital Incident Command, F. Matthew Mihelic, M. David Stockton, Stephen A. Cole, Gregory H. Blake May 2008

The Changing Role Of Physicians In Disaster Management And Hospital Incident Command, F. Matthew Mihelic, M. David Stockton, Stephen A. Cole, Gregory H. Blake

Faculty Publications

Recent changes in governmental policy toward disaster medicine and hospital incident command foreshadow a significant change in the role that physicians will play in disaster preparedness and response. The distinct discipline of Disaster Medicine has received authoritative recognition and promotion in the recent Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21, and recently established guidelines for incident command within hospitals have included a new position designated as “Medical/Technical Specialist(s)” that will assist the Incident Commander in disaster-related decision-making. This is a multidisciplinary position, and its functions can be filled by one or more individuals. As physician training and competency in Disaster Medicine increases, …

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Marine Biologist Lands Nsf Grant To Study Coral Reefs, Wins Freshman Teaching Award, Tobie Baker May 2008

Marine Biologist Lands Nsf Grant To Study Coral Reefs, Wins Freshman Teaching Award, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi marine biologist Tamar Goulet has studied coral reefs for two decades, so it seems appropriate that this year, designated as the International Year of the Reef, is a big one for her and her work.

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The Role Of Mitochondria Atp-Sensitive Potassium Channel In Cardioprotection, Ksenia Andrukhiv Everton May 2008

The Role Of Mitochondria Atp-Sensitive Potassium Channel In Cardioprotection, Ksenia Andrukhiv Everton

Dissertations and Theses

Mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channel (mitoKATP) has been suggested to be the mediator of cardiac preconditioning. All of the diverse pharmacological and physiological agents that open mitoKATP provide protection against ischemia-reperfusion injury. Some investigators have pointed out that some of these mitoKATP channel openers also inhibit succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), complex II of the electron transport chain. Based on this observation they suggest that it is the inhibition of SDH, and not the opening of mitoKATP channel, that mediates the observed cardioprotection. In this study, I examined four chemically distinct and unrelated pharmacological agents, diazoxide, 3-Nitropropionic Acid …

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Cj Times Volume 2, Issue 1, Department Of Criminal Justice May 2008

Cj Times Volume 2, Issue 1, Department Of Criminal Justice

CJ Times (Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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Selfishness As Second-Order Altruism, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, David Sloan Wilson May 2008

Selfishness As Second-Order Altruism, Omar Tonsi Eldakar, David Sloan Wilson

Biology Faculty Articles

Selfishness is seldom considered a group-beneficial strategy. In the typical evolutionary formulation, altruism benefits the group, selfishness undermines altruism, and the purpose of the model is to identify mechanisms, such as kinship or reciprocity, that enable altruism to evolve. Recent models have explored punishment as an important mechanism favoring the evolution of altruism, but punishment can be costly to the punisher, making it a form of second-order altruism. This model identifies a strategy called “selfish punisher” that involves behaving selfishly in first-order interactions and altruistically in second-order interactions by punishing other selfish individuals. Selfish punishers cause selfishness to be a …

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Recombinant Mycobacteria Overexpressing D-Alanine Ligase Gene And Uses Therefore: United States Patent No. Us 7,371,571 B2, Raul G. Barletta, Zhengyu Feng May 2008

Recombinant Mycobacteria Overexpressing D-Alanine Ligase Gene And Uses Therefore: United States Patent No. Us 7,371,571 B2, Raul G. Barletta, Zhengyu Feng

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Recombinant mycobacterial strains which overproduce essential biosynthetic enzymes of pathogenic mycobateria are provided. These strains overproduce enzymes involved in the synthesis and incorporation of D-alanine into mycobacterial peptidoglycan, the backbone of the mycobacterial cell wall. These overproducing strains may be used as reference strains in in vitro screening methods to identify antimycobacterial agents.

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The Relevance Of Lactose Intolerance On The Development Of Osteoporosis In Middle-Aged Adults Via Bone Mass Density (Bmd) Scanning, Kristin Duffy May 2008

The Relevance Of Lactose Intolerance On The Development Of Osteoporosis In Middle-Aged Adults Via Bone Mass Density (Bmd) Scanning, Kristin Duffy

Honors College Theses

The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether or not lactose intolerance has an effect on the development of osteoporosis. I hypothesized that lactose intolerance would not increase a person's risk of osteoporosis. In order to test this hypothesis, a sample group of 300 people was generated. All of these people were of generally good health and between the ages of 40-50. They were separated into three subgroups based on severity of lactose intolerance by means of a hydrogen breath test: non-lactose intolerant, moderately lactose intolerant, and severely lactose intolerant. Each individual was then administered a BMD (bone mineral …

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Mustang Daily, May 12, 2008 May 2008

Mustang Daily, May 12, 2008

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

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Symbolic Exchanges: Haiti, Brazil And The Ethnopoetics Of Cultural Identity, Myriam Mompoint May 2008

Symbolic Exchanges: Haiti, Brazil And The Ethnopoetics Of Cultural Identity, Myriam Mompoint

Open Access Dissertations

This work is a comparative study of the influence of the pan-Africanist discourse of ethnographers Dr. Jean Price-Mars of Haiti and Dr. Arthur Ramos of Brazil, and its impact on the respective literatures and cinemas of the two nations. Beginning in the first quarter of the 20th Century, and stemming from a developing auto-ethnography undertaken by the two scholars, a growing concern over defining cultural identity inspired a generation of writers to appropriate ethnographic methodology and apply it to their fictional works. The discourse of representation, which looked to popular sources for inspiration (Haitian Indigénisme and Brazilian Regionalismo, or which …

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Atf4 Is An Oxidative Stress–Inducible, Prodeath Transcription Factor In Neurons In Vitro And In Vivo, Philipp Lange, Juan Chavez, John T. Pinto, Giovanni Coppola, Chiao-Wang Sun, Tim Townes, Rajiv Ratan May 2008

Atf4 Is An Oxidative Stress–Inducible, Prodeath Transcription Factor In Neurons In Vitro And In Vivo, Philipp Lange, Juan Chavez, John T. Pinto, Giovanni Coppola, Chiao-Wang Sun, Tim Townes, Rajiv Ratan

NYMC Faculty Publications

Oxidative stress is pathogenic in neurological diseases, including stroke. The identity of oxidative stress-inducible transcription factors and their role in propagating the death cascade are not well known. In an in vitro model of oxidative stress, the expression of the bZip transcription factor activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) was induced by glutathione depletion and localized to the promoter of a putative death gene in neurons. Germline deletion of ATF4 resulted in a profound reduction in oxidative stress-induced gene expression and resistance to oxidative death. In neurons, ATF4 modulates an early, upstream event in the death pathway, as resistance to oxidative …

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Combining Existing Monitoring Sites With A Probability Survey Design-Examples From U.S. Epa’S National Coastal Assessment, John F. Paul, Henry A. Walker, Walter Galloway, Gerald Pesch, Donald Cobb, Charles J. Strobel, J. Kevin Summers, Michael Charpentier, James Heltshe May 2008

Combining Existing Monitoring Sites With A Probability Survey Design-Examples From U.S. Epa’S National Coastal Assessment, John F. Paul, Henry A. Walker, Walter Galloway, Gerald Pesch, Donald Cobb, Charles J. Strobel, J. Kevin Summers, Michael Charpentier, James Heltshe

Computer Science and Statistics Faculty Publications

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) National Coastal Assessment was envisioned as a research effort led by EPA’s Office of Research and Development to evaluate assessment methods for ecosystem condition monitoring. The program was conducted through strategic partnerships with the coastal states. These states conducted the survey in their waters with a common set of indicators. The resources targeted for initial monitoring were estuarine waters. A flexible probability survey design was used to incorporate, to the extent possible, existing state monitoring program sites. Three criteria were developed to evaluate existing monitoring program sites in the northeastern United States for possible incorporation …

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May 12th 2008, Csusb May 2008

May 12th 2008, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

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Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Pearson Family Collection (Mss 222), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 222. Correspondence of the Pearson family, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, chiefly letters from Carroll Pearson to his wife Patricia while he is in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The collection also contains letters sent to Carroll from his parents and letters sent to Patricia from her parents and friends.

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Air Pollution, Smoking Affect Latent Tuberculosis, Staff May 2008

Air Pollution, Smoking Affect Latent Tuberculosis, Staff

Browse All News

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The Current Volume 18: Issue 26, Nova Southeastern University May 2008

The Current Volume 18: Issue 26, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

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President's Weekly Perspective, 2008_05_12, David Schmidly May 2008

President's Weekly Perspective, 2008_05_12, David Schmidly

President Schmidly's Administration

No abstract provided.

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Nanoscale Thickness Double-Gated Field Effect Silicon Sensors For Sensitive Ph Detection In Fluid, Oguz H. Elibol, Bobby Reddy Jr., Rashid Bashir May 2008

Nanoscale Thickness Double-Gated Field Effect Silicon Sensors For Sensitive Ph Detection In Fluid, Oguz H. Elibol, Bobby Reddy Jr., Rashid Bashir

Birck and NCN Publications

In this work, we report on the optimization of a double-gate silicon-on-insulator field effect device operation to maximize pH sensitivity. The operating point can be fine tuned by independently biasing the fluid and the back gate of the device. Choosing the bias points such that device is nearly depleted results in an exponential current response-in our case, 0.70 decade per unit change in pH. This value is comparable to results obtained with devices that have been further scaled in width, reported at the forefront of the field, and close to the ideal value of 1 decade/pH. By using a thin …

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