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Aall Review: Find 50-State Law Surveys Fast!, Michele Lucero

Faculty Publications

As a librarian, have you ever had the challenge of finding and compiling that needle-in-a-haystack 50-State survey? Or locating the resources to retrieve that subject survey quickly? What about a regulatory survey? Cheryl Rae Nyberg, of the University of Washington, Gallagher Law Library and author of Subject Compilation of State Laws (2006-07) An Annotated Bibliography, provided shortcuts and tips on how to quickly locate a 50-state law survey by any topic. This article is a brief summary of where a librarian can locate 50-state law surveys fast!

Vowel Recognition From Articulatory Position Time-Series Data, Jun Wang, Ashok Samal, Jordan R. Green, Tom D. Carrell

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

A new approach of recognizing vowels from articulatory position time-series data was proposed and tested in this paper. This approach directly mapped articulatory position time-series data to vowels without extracting articulatory features such as mouth opening. The input time-series data were time-normalized and sampled to fixed-width vectors of articulatory positions. Three commonly used classifiers, Neural Network, Support Vector Machine and Decision Tree were used and their performances were compared on the vectors. A single speaker dataset of eight major English vowels acquired using Electromagnetic Articulograph (EMA) AG500 was used. Recognition rate using cross validation ranged from 76.07% to 91.32% for …

Refuge Update – September/October 2009, Volume 6, Number 5

RefugeUpdate (USFWS-NWRS)

Table of Contents:

Mystery of the Dying Cormorants Why did hundreds of Brandt’s cormorants wash up on the shores of central California? Page 5

FOCUS: Ambassadors in the Community Refuges are good neighbors whether they are playing softball, turning landfills into salt marshes or inspiring young people. Pages 8–15

Around the Refuge System Can a variation on a kids’ game keep elk from devouring bird and fish habitat? Pages 20–22

Experiencing Rare And Unusual Events Richly: The Role Of Middle Managers In Animating And Guiding Organizational Interpretation, Tammy E. Beck, Donde Ashmos Plowman

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Organizations have difficulty learning from rare and unusual events because of their inability to interpret these events. Because organizations develop habitual ways of interpreting events—often top down—they can easily miss the novelty of rare and unusual events, which prevents them from experiencing events “richly.” We propose a multilevel, multistaged model of organizational interpretation that highlights the important, but generally unacknowledged, role middle managers can play in helping organizations experience rare and unusual events richly. Our model accounts for the effect of cognitive biases and hierarchical context on organizational interpretation. Because of their proximity to the interpretations of both strategic and …

Tyrannophobia, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Tyrannophobia—the fear of dictatorship—is a dominant theme in American political discourse. Yet dictatorship has never existed in the United States or even been likely. The hypothesis that tyrannophobia itself has prevented dictatorship from occurring is implausible; better evidence exists for alternative hypotheses. We conclude that tyrannophobia is an irrational political attitude that has interfered with, and continues to interfere with, needed institutional reform.

Reformed Worship (Rw) 93 - Advent / Christmas (September 2009), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Who Is Jesus? by Dorothy Nienhuis and Mary Mulder....3

What Child Is This? by Daniel R. Hyde....12

Telling God's Story by Carmen Smits....21

Looking Ahead Through the Psalms by Gary Brouwers....24

...And Peace on Earth by Bert Polman....26

Star of Wonder by Karen Bruinsma....28

From Protest to Praise by Paul LaMaire....34

Star Gifts by Susan J. Foster....36

A Letter from Tapescrew by Ron Man....39

Coram Deo: In the Presence of God by Bob Loerts and Marion Dieleman....40

My Only Comfort by Janie Van Dyke....42

A Community Banner by …

Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (Bdnf) Mrna Expression Levels In Mice Exposed To Learned Helplessness, Patrick Rendon

Undergraduate Medical Student Research

Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) is associated with changes in cellular structure that occur during the development of the nervous system, and in the adult brain contributes to neural plasticity. BDNF is found in high concentrations in both the frontal cortex and hippocampus where it has been proposed to play a role in cognition and learning respectively. Low serum BDNF levels can be measured in patients with major depressive disorder, and there is a correlation between decreased BDNF levels and the severity of depression. At this time, research is attempting to solve the question of whether depression results secondary to …

Gone, But Not Forgotten? Habeas Corpus For Necessary Predicate Offenses, Garrett Ordower

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

Defective Gut Function In Drop-Dead Mutant Drosophila, Cassandra R. Peller, Elizabeth M. Bacon, Julie A. Bucheger, Edward M. Blumenthal

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Mutation of the gene drop-dead (drd ) causes adult Drosophila to die within 2 weeks of eclosion and is associated with reduced rates of defecation and increased volumes of crop contents. In the current study, we demonstrate that flies carrying the strong allele drd^lwf display a reduction in the transfer of ingested food from the crop to the midgut, as measured both as a change in the steady-state distribution of food within the gut and also in the rates of crop emptying and midgut filling following a single meal. Mutant flies have abnormal triglyceride (TG) and glycogen stores …

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall 2009), Marny Rivera, André B. Rosay, Darryl S. Wood, Katherine Tepas

Vols 21-30 (2004-2014)

The Fall 2009 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum focuses on violence against women, with articles on legal resolutions and attrition in domestic violence cases reported to Alaska State Troopers, recent recommendations from Alaska lawmakers and the Governor on reducing violence in Alaska, and the relationship between animal abuse and domestic violence. An additional article details recent data about leading causes of death for Alaska and the U.S.

Art 317.01: Digital Photography, Elizabeth Dove

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

Art 329.02: Ceramics Ii - Wheel Throwing, Julia M. Galloway

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

Art 229a.02: Ceramics I - Introduction To Ceramics, Elizabeth Lo

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

Managing Maize Production In Shifting Cultivation Milpa Systems In Yucatan, Through Weed Control And Manure Application, David Parsons, Luis Ramirez-Aviles, Jerome H. Cherney, Quirine M. Ketterings, Robert W. Blake, Charles F. Nicholson

Agribusiness

Milpa cultivation involving cutting an area of forest, burning, and planting crops has existed in the Yucatán Peninsula for more than three millennia. Fallow periods are short and decreasing, leading to a productivity collapse of the system. Technologies that increase yield and maintain plots under cultivation have the potential to decrease the land area needed for family food production, resulting in more mature forests. This study was undertaken to examine the relative importance and potential interactions of declining fertility and increasing weed pressure in reducing maize (Zea mays L.) yields, and to examine the effectiveness of combinations of weed …

The Medicine Wheel Nutrition Intervention: A Diabetes Education Study With The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Kendra K. Kattelmann, Kibbe Conti, Cuirong Ren

Health and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVE: The Northern Plains Indians of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe have experienced significant lifestyle and dietary changes over the past seven generations that have resulted in increased rates of diabetes and obesity. The objective of this study was to determine if Northern Plains Indians with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are randomized to receive culturally adapted educational lessons based on the Medicine Wheel Model for Nutrition in addition to their usual dietary education will have better control of their type 2 diabetes than a nonintervention, usual care group who received only the usual dietary education from their personal providers. …

You Can Judge A Container By Its Cover: The Single-Purpose Container Exception And The Fourth Amendment, Allison M. Lucier

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

Eastern, Fall 2009, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations.

Alumni Publications

This issue contains articles about a service founded by Lori Gagnon called Survive the Night that helps runaway children, Reid Elementary School, the Native House, and Mount Everest climbers Mary Kay and Dawes Eddy.

Plasma Testosterone Correlates With Morph Type Across Breeding Substages In Male White-Throated Sparrows, M. B. Swett, Creagh W. Breuner

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

White-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis) exhibit a genetic polymorphism that affects plumage and behavior in both sexes. White-striped morphs are more territorially aggressive, whereas tan-striped morphs provision nestlings at a higher rate. We investigated testosterone physiology in this species in an effort to understand hormonal mechanisms for the observed differences in aggression and parental care between the morphs. We found a small but significant difference in plasma testosterone between free-living white-striped and tan-striped males over the course of the breeding season. This difference correlates with previously observed differences in aggressive behavior and suggests that testosterone may mediate these differences. Testosterone remained …

Microbial Nad Metabolism: Lessons From Comparative Genomics, Francesca Gazzaniga, Rebecca Stebbins, Sheila Z. Chang, Mark A. Mcpeek, Charles Brenner

Dartmouth Scholarship

NAD is a coenzyme for redox reactions and a substrate of NAD-consuming enzymes, including ADP-ribose transferases, Sir2-related protein lysine deacetylases, and bacterial DNA ligases. Microorganisms that synthesize NAD from as few as one to as many as five of the six identified biosynthetic precursors have been identified. De novo NAD synthesis from aspartate or tryptophan is neither universal nor strictly aerobic. Salvage NAD synthesis from nicotinamide, nicotinic acid, nicotinamide riboside, and nicotinic acid riboside occurs via modules of different genes. Nicotinamide salvage genes nadV and pncA, found in distinct bacteria, appear to have spread throughout the tree of life …

Ras Activity Levels Control The Development Of Pancreatic Diseases, Baoan Ji, Lilian Tsou, Huamin Wang, Sebastian Gaiser, David Chang, Jaroslaw Daniluk, Yan Bi, Tobias Grote, Daniel Longnecker, Craig Logsdon

Dartmouth Scholarship

Differentiated pancreatic acinar cells expressing endogenous levels of mutant K-Ras do not spontaneously develop pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). However, we hypothesized that acinar cells would develop PDAC in the presence of Ras activity levels mimicking those of human tumor cells.We measured Ras activity in PDAC cells from mice and humans using a Raf pull-down assay. We compared the effects of acinar cell expression of mutant K-Ras at endogenous and elevated levels on Ras activity and on the development of PDAC.

Relating To Relational Aesthetics, Anne Hollinger Lindley

Pomona Senior Theses

This thesis will examine the practice of relational aesthetics as it involves the viewer, as well as the way in which it plays out within and outside of the institutional setting of the museum. I will focus primarily on two unique projects: that of The Machine Project Field Guide at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 15, 2008, produced by Machine Project, a social project operated out of a storefront gallery in Echo Park; and David Michalek's Slow Dancing at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, July 12-29 2007.

Citizen Participation In The Making Of Environmental Decisions: Evolving Obstacles And Potential Solutions Through Partnership With Experts And Agents, Marc B. Mihaly

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

An End To Grazing Lease Litigation: An Examination Of Alternative Dispute Resolution Schemes That Could Resolve The Overgrazing Dispute On State And Federally Owned Rangelands In The Western United States, Jamie Pool

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Forum, Volume 33, No. 3, Fall 2009, Florida Humanities Council, Barbara O'Reilley

FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

Contents: Letter from the Director -- An Everglades Saga: A Labyrinthine Tale of Engineers Trying to Manage Poetry -- Meet the Outlaws, Poets, and Old Men of the Sea on Florida's Last Frontier -- The Outlaw Mr. Watson -- Imagining a Lost World -- Running for their Lives, They Hid in the Swamp -- Respecting This Land -- The Saint of the Everglades -- Humanities Alive! -- Marjory's Three Wishes -- River of Grass -- A Green Hell -- Clyde's Quest -- The Sanctuary that Restored his Soul -- The Man who Introduced Clyde to the Glades -- Reading Florida …

The Catholic Educational Tradition Between The Pinchers Of The Classical And Political Liberal Educational Ideals, Edward Papa

Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

In this paper Edward Papa propose a brief investigation of the main questions which arise when one places the Catholic Intellectual Tradition in battle with its most important opponents. There are two main opponents of the Catholic educational tradition. Pressing from the one side is the classical educational ideal of the ancient Greeks. Bearing in from the other is the contemporary liberal educational ideal.

The Banner - V. 144, No. 9 - (September 2009), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

6 - Editorial: So What Is The Banner? by Bob De Moor / 7 - Catch Your Breath: Songs in the Night, Songs in the Day by Sonya VanderVeen Feddema  / 8 - IMHO: A Note from Afghanistan by Mark Hamstra / 9 - Letters to the Editor / 10 - CRC News / 16 - World News / 17 - Frequently Asked Questions / 18 - Oil, Planks, Tax Collectors, and Tolerance by Otto Selles / 21 - Next: Proud to Be CRC by Aaron Vriesman / 22 - Flourishing in the Electronic Age by Duane Kelderman / 26 …

Classification Of Organic Soils, Pao-Tsung Huang, Mital Patel, Maria Caterina Santagata, Antonio Bobet

JTRP Technical Reports

The presence of organics in soils is generally associated with high compressibility, significant secondary compression, often unsatisfactory strength characteristics, and low unit weight. As a result of the above, many state DOTs (Departments of Transportation) in the United States have strict limits on the maximum value of the organic content (2-7%) that can be present in soils to be used as sub grades and backfills. The loss on ignition test is the most widely used technique for measuring organic content. However, especially for low organic content soils, this method can lead to significantly overestimate the true organic content. As a …

Castor Canadensis Fall 2009, Jedediah Smith Society

Castor Canadensis - Jedediah Smith Society

Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society

Understanding Paleoclimate And Human Evolution Through The Hominin Sites And Paleolakes Drilling Project, Andrew Cohen, Ramon Arrowsmith, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Christopher Campisano, Craig Feibel, Shimeles Fisseha, Roy Johnson, Zelalem Bedaso, Charles Lockwood, Emma Mbua, Daniel Olago, Richard Potts, Kaye Reed, Robin Renaut, Jean-Jacques Tiercelin, Mohammed Umer

Department of Earth, Environment and Sustainability Faculty Publications

Understanding the evolution of humans and our close relatives is one of the enduring scientific issues of modern times. Since the time of Charles Darwin, scientists have speculated on how and when we evolved and what conditions drove this evolutionary story. The detective work required to address these questions is necessarily interdisciplinary, involving research in anthropology, archaeology, human genetics and genomics, and the earth sciences. In addition to the difficult tasks of finding, describing, and interpreting hominin fossils (the taxonomic tribe which includes Homo sapiens and our close fossil relatives from the last 6 Ma), much of modern geological research …

What Is Earth Jurisprudence: Key Principles To Transform Law For The Health Of The Planet, Judith E. Koons

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.