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Orelski V. Bowers

2008 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Cerol V. Temple Univ

2008 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Mitsubishi Corp V. Goldmark Plastic

2008 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Officials From Harkin's Office Visit With Displaced Workers

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on the visit by Senator Tom Harkin's staff to hear about the impact the Agriprocessors raid and bankruptcy has had on Postville. Also included are the plea by Karina Freund on her trial in Cedar Rapids, updates on the trials for Sholom Rubashkin and Brent Beebe, and the potential of Postville owing $4 million to the USDA if Agriprocessors folds due to an agreement on the wastewater treatment facility.

Introduction: Beyond The State? Rethinking Private Law, Ralf Michaels, Nils Jansen

Faculty Scholarship

Introduction to an issue of the journal that brings together the papers presented, as revised by the participants, at a conference held at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany in the summer of 2007.

The New European Choice-Of-Law Revolution, Ralf Michaels

Faculty Scholarship

Conflict of laws in Europe was long viewed by outsiders as formalist, antiquated, and uninteresting. Now that the European Union has become more active in the field, things are changing, but most view these changes as a mere gradual evolution. This is untrue. Actually, and fascinatingly, we are observing a real European conflicts revolution—in importance, radicalness, and irreversibility comparable to the twentieth-century American conflicts revolution. European developments go beyond the federalization of choice-of-law rules in EU regulations. In addition, EU choice of law is being constitutionalized, in particular through the principles of mutual recognition and the country-of-origin principle, along with …

Order Directing Provision Of Notice To Class Members (Smitha Anderson), Alice D. Bonner

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

Order On Motion For Judgment On The Pleadings (Delta Airlines, Inc.), Alice D. Bonner

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

Selectivity In Imaging The First Emperor, K. E. Brashier

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

The story of Qin may vaunt grandiose armies and new empires that encompass all under heaven, but it also extends to more humble images:

Li Si, [the chief minister of Qin], was a man of Shangcai in Chu. In his youth, when he was a minor clerk in the province, he noticed rats eating filth in the latrines of the clerks’ hostel; and if they approached a man or dog, they were generally scared of them. But when Si entered a granary, he observed that the rats in the granary were eating the stored-up grain, living underneath the main chamber …

Order Denying Defendants' Motion To Dismiss And For More Definite Statement (Pj Cannon), Alice D. Bonner

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

No abstract provided.

12-17-2008 Swosu Public Safety Receives Grant For Vests, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2008

Southwestern Oklahoma State University and the SWOSU Department of Public Safety were recently awarded a grant in the amount of $1,829 from the United States Department of Justice for the purchase of bulletproof vests for SWOSU campus police officers.

Postville Is The 'Hometown Of Hope;' Official Ribbon Campaign Launched

Postville Project Documents

Reporting on a campaign to show how many were impacted by the Agriprocessors raid and bankruptcy and on the community dinner where the campaign was launched.

Semantic Sensor Web, Amit P. Sheth, Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.

Newscope - December 17-20, 2008

Newscope

No abstract provided.

Identifying People At High Risk For Developing Sleep Apnea Syndrome (Sas): A Cross-Sectional Study In A Pakistani Population, Fawad Taj, Zarmeneh Aly, Mahwash Kassi, Mansoor Ahmed

Department of Medicine

Background: Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is associated with many cardiovascular and psychiatric diseases. Day-time sleepiness is a common consequence of sleep apnea and correlates with road-traffic accidents (RTA). Pakistan has a high prevalence of factors which predispose an individual to OSA and death from RTAs are a huge burden. However there is a dearth of prevalence studies in this regard. We aim to understand local relevance of the disease and estimate the prevalence of individuals high-risk for OSA. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted among 450 individuals at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), which is a tertiary care teaching hospital …

Orrock V. Appleton Respondent's Brief Dckt. 35064

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Email, Karen White To Usf St. Petersburg Community, December 17, 2008, Karen A. White

Office of the Regional Chancellor

An email from Karen White, Regional Chancellor of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, announcing that she has accepted a new position at USF.

The Bg News December 17, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 17, 2008. Volume 99-Issue 75.

Surface Energy Balance And Melt Thresholds Over 11 Years At Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, Matthew James Hoffman, Andrew G. Fountain, Glen E. Liston

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, Antarctica, melting of glacial ice is the primary source of water to streams, lakes, and associated ecosystems. To understand geochemical fluxes and ecological responses to past and future climates requires a physically based energy balance model. We applied a one-dimensional model to one site on Taylor Glacier using 11 years of daily meteorological data and seasonal ablation measurements. Inclusion of transmission of solar radiation into the ice was necessary to accurately model summer ablation and ice temperatures. Results showed good correspondence between calculated and measured ablation and ice temperatures over the 11 years. …

The Distribution Of Nitric Oxide At 150 Km, Timothy E. Stern

Physics

"The objectives of this thesis are to determine the morphology of nitric oxide at the altitude of 150 km and to determine what drives the observed variability. Those objectives are accomplished by characterizing satellite observations of nitric oxide at that altitude and comparing them with those at 106 km, the altitude of peak density. The global distribution of nitric oxide and its response to geomagnetic activity vary between the two altitudes. At 150 km, nitric oxide is most abundant at high latitudes in the sunlit summer hemisphere, in contrast to nitric oxide at 106 km, which is most abundant at …

Oblique Impact Cratering: A Comparison Of Low-Velocity Experiments To High-Velocity Experiments, Katie K. Hessen

Geosciences

Previous impact cratering experiments performed by Gault and Wedekind (1978), used high-velocity impactors (~1 km/s to 7 km/s) to quantify how impact angle affects crater morphology and ejecta pattern. Low velocity (144 m/s to 260 m/s) impact experiments were conducted in a vacuum chamber with a basaltic sand target material and impact angles ranging from 0.5° to 90° (vertical) at the Impact Cratering Laboratory at the University of Tokyo Kashiwa. The crater morphology and ejecta distribution from low velocity impacts are then compared to results from the higher velocity projectiles. When adjustments are made to the low-velocity measurements to account …

Guidance For Sustainable Tourism In Kotzebue, Alaska, Annabelle C. Alvite

Rural Development

Tourism once thrived in Kotzebue, a rural largely Iñupiat Eskimo community in Northwest Alaska. Today there is very little evidence of the summer tourism that once characterized this remote Arctic town. Trends suggest a revival of tourism in Kotzebue, though little is being done to prepare for an almost inevitable rebirth. This research is intended to identify local concerns about tourism, the current state of tourism and offer guidance for sustainable tourism. Qualitative and inductive research was conducted to understand local feelings about tourism and possible reasons past tourism levels could not be sustained. Suggestions are given for a new …

Balancing The Conservation Of Wildlife Habitat With Road Access For Subsistence Hunting In Yakutat, Alaska, Colin S. Shanley

Biological Sciences

"This thesis was an interdisciplinary investigation with the goal of balancing the conservation of wildlife habitat with road access for subsistence hunting in Yakutat, Alaska. The problem posed by land managers and subsistence moose hunters revolved around the use of off-highway vehicles (OHVs; e.g. 'four-wheelers') for subsistence moose hunting and the potential disturbance OHVs have on moose. This complex social-ecological problem is becoming an increasingly common management dilemma faced by rural mixed cash-subsistence communities across the Circumpolar North. I addressed this problem in two chapters with a combination of methods from wildlife ecology, landscape modeling, subsistence land-use, and scenario planning. …

Effects Of Military Overflights On Habitat Use And Selection By Female Dall's Sheep, Yukon-Tanana Uplands, Alaska, Bradley R. Wendling

Biological Sciences

"My objective was to assess the potential effects of military overflights on home range size, movement rates, habitat use, and habitat selection of female Dall's sheep (Ovis dalli) during 2-week sequential periods, April-July, 1999-2002. I examined sheep in 2 study areas overlain with designated military training airspace within the Yukon-Tanana uplands, Alaska. I examined the effects of study area, year, and sequential time period on: 1) mean home range size, 2) mean minimum hourly distance traveled by sheep, and 3) mean use and selection ratios for the habitat variables of elevation, slope, terrain ruggedness, aspect, and landcover class. Mean number …

The Acetylcholine Binding Protein Of Lymnaea Stagnalis As A Biosensor And Model For Ligand Gated Ion Channel Proteins, Abraham Edward Harms-Smyth

Chemistry and Biochemistry

The structural similarity of the Acetylcholine Binding Protein (AChBP) from Lymnaea stagnalis to the extracellular ligand binding domain of Ligand Gated Ion Channel (LGIC) receptors suggests that the AChBP could be used to mimic cys-loop ligand-gated ion channel (LGIC) receptors. An LGIC mimic could be used as a sensor molecule in a range of biotechnology applications including high throughput drug screening as well as in vivo and in vitro sensing of biologically active compounds. It could also be used as a lead molecule for engineering novel proteins with binding characteristics similar to non-acetylcholine receptor LGIC's. The soluble AChBP is easily …

Latitudinal Patterns Of Amino Acid Cycling And Plant N Uptake Among North American Forest Ecosystems, Jack W. Mcfarland

Biological Sciences

Interest in the role of organic nitrogen (N) to the N economy of forest ecosystems is gaining momentum as ecologists revise the traditional paradigm in N cycling to emphasize the importance of depolymerization of soil organic matter (SOM) in controlling the bioavailability of N in forest soils. Still, there has yet to be a coordinated effort aimed at developing general patterns for soil organic N cycling across ecosystems that vary in climate, SOM quality, plant taxa, or dominant mycorrhizal association: ectomycorrhizae (EM) vs. arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM). In this study, experimental additions of 13C15N-glycine and 15NH4+ were traced in situ through …

King Eider Migration And Seasonal Interactions At The Individual Level, Steffen Oppel

Biological Sciences

Seasonal interactions describe how events during one season of the annual cycle of a migratory bird affect its fitness in subsequent seasons. Understanding the strength and mechanism of seasonal interactions is important to predict how migratory birds will respond to future challenges caused by habitat loss and climate change. This dissertation explores seasonal interactions between different stages of the annual cycle in an arctic-breeding sea duck, the King Eider (Somateria spectabilis). Concerns over recent population declines and potential effects of climate change on marine habitats used by the species highlight the need for a better understanding of its life history. …

Patterns Of Genetic Variation Among Various Beringian Birds, Elizabeth Marella Humphries

Biological Sciences

Every animal has two different sets of genes, the mitochondrial genome and the nuclear genome. They are inherited independently of each other and can have dissimilar evolutionary histories. For this thesis, I examined the correlation of the mitochondrial (using direct sequencing of mitochondrial DNA) and nuclear (using a fragment-based technique, AFLPs) evolutionary histories in Beringian birds. The first study looked at relationships among a within-Beringia radiation of birds, the Aethia auklets. I was able to infer a resolved phylogeny using mitochondrial DNA, but found a polytomy using nuclear DNA. The lack of correlation between the genomes is either the result …

Winter Movements Of Arctic Foxes In Northern Alaska Measured By Satellite Telemetry, Nathan J. Pamperin

Biological Sciences

We studied winter movements of 37 arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) collared within a petroleum development area at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska (n = 20), and an undeveloped area in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A, n = 17) during the winters of 2004, 2005, and 2006 using satellite telemetry. Comparing Prudhoe Bay and NPR-A, differences in mean movement rates of juveniles was 23.9 ± 2.7 km per duty cycle and 10.6 ± 2.8 km per duty cycle for adults, and mean difference in maximum distance from capture site for juveniles was 265.2 ± 63.2 km and 205.5 ± 128.9 km for adults. …

The Ontogeny Of Hypoxic Neuroventilation In The Brainstem Of The Developing American Bullfrog, Rana Catesbeiana, Justin C. Buehner

Biological Sciences

Isolated brainstem models have been used twice to examine the hypoxic neuroventilatory response (HnVR) in developing bullfrogs with varying results, leading me to question if the results of these two previous studies were physiologically relevant. Based on in vivo and in vitro observations, I hypothesized that buccal neuroventilation exhibits no ventilatory response to hypoxia in any developmental stage and that lung neuroventilation exhibits a biphasic hypoxic response in late metamorphic tadpoles and a neuroventilatory depression in juvenile bullfrogs and early metamorphic tadpoles. I tested this by using brainstems isolated from intact early and late metamorphic tadpoles and juvenile bullfrogs exposed …