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Climate Change And The Inuit: A Melting Of Actions Into A Cloudy Mess, Katherine King Apr 2009

Climate Change And The Inuit: A Melting Of Actions Into A Cloudy Mess, Katherine King

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

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Institutional Responses To Self-Injurious Behavior Among Inmates, Dana D. Dehart, Hayden P. Smith, Robert J. Kaminski Apr 2009

Institutional Responses To Self-Injurious Behavior Among Inmates, Dana D. Dehart, Hayden P. Smith, Robert J. Kaminski

Faculty and Staff Publications

To date, little research has systematically investigated perceptions of mental health professionals regarding perceived motivations for self-injury among prison inmates. To help fill this gap, descriptive techniques were used to examine self-injurious behavior among inmates from the perspective of correctional mental health professionals. A quantitative survey was used to assess perceptions of mental health staff regarding etiology, motivations, and manifestations of self-injury. A qualitative interview component was used to explicate responses from the survey. Findings indicate that inmate cutting, scratching, opening old wounds, and inserting objects were the most commonly witnessed behaviors. There were indications that self-injury occurred regularly and …

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Domestic Violence Rights Movement In Tanzania: An Exploration, Flora Peter Myamba Apr 2009

Domestic Violence Rights Movement In Tanzania: An Exploration, Flora Peter Myamba

Dissertations

In Tanzania, the involvement of a social movement to addressing domestic violence is fairly recent (early 1990s) (Green, 1999; Hirsch, 2003; Michau, 2002; TAMWA, 1999). As has historically been the case in most African countries, domestic violence has remained largely invisible, being considered a normal custom, practice and tradition (Green, 1999; The New York Times, 2005; TAMWA, 1999). Efforts to address it have been regarded as shameful and pointless (TGNP, 1993). Indeed, cultural mores remain very contentious with regard to the activities of the Tanzanian domestic violence rights movement (DVRM). It is this conflict between the movement's efforts to educate …

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Not Properly A Person: The Rational Soul And 'Thomistic Substance Dualism', Christina Van Dyke Apr 2009

Not Properly A Person: The Rational Soul And 'Thomistic Substance Dualism', Christina Van Dyke

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Bountiful Voices, Angela Campbell Apr 2009

Bountiful Voices, Angela Campbell

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Common portrayals of Canada's only openly polygamous community cast it as a space frozen in time, both socially and intellectually. "Bountiful," British Columbia is a sixty-five-year-old community comprised of followers of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Many residents espouse plural marriage as a central tenet of their faith, believing that the practice leads not only to a good terrestrial life but, also, to facilitated entry into the "celestial kingdom." Visual and written accounts of Bountiful routinely present the women of this community as submissive, silenced, and isolated. Their traditional dress, and the number of …

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Montanan, Spring 2009, University Of Montana--Missoula Apr 2009

Montanan, Spring 2009, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 26, number 2.

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Altered Regulation Of Aquaporin Gene Expression In Allergen And Il-13-Induced Mouse Models Of Asthma, Carissa M. Krane, Bijia Deng, Venkateshwar Mutyam, Casey A. Mcdonald, Stephen Pazdziorko, Lawrence Mason, Samuel Goldman, Marion Kasaian, Divya Chaudhary, Cara Williams, Melisa W.Y. Ho Apr 2009

Altered Regulation Of Aquaporin Gene Expression In Allergen And Il-13-Induced Mouse Models Of Asthma, Carissa M. Krane, Bijia Deng, Venkateshwar Mutyam, Casey A. Mcdonald, Stephen Pazdziorko, Lawrence Mason, Samuel Goldman, Marion Kasaian, Divya Chaudhary, Cara Williams, Melisa W.Y. Ho

Biology Faculty Publications

IL-13 is known to affect many processes that contribute to an asthmatic phenotype, including inflammation, fibrosis, and mucus production. Members of the aquaporin (AQP) family of transmembrane water channels are targets of regulation in models of lung injury and inflammation. Therefore, we examined AQP mRNA and protein expression in allergen and IL-13-induced mouse models of asthma. Lungs from ovalbumin sensitized and ovalbumin challenged (OVA/OVA) and IL-13 treated mice showed airway thickening, increased mucus production, and pulmonary eosinophilia. Pulmonary function tests showed a significant increase in methacholine-induced airway hyperreactivity in OVA/OVA and IL-13-treated mice as compared with controls. Quantitative PCR analysis …

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The H-2b Visa: Is This How We Treat A Guest., Ragini Tripathi Apr 2009

The H-2b Visa: Is This How We Treat A Guest., Ragini Tripathi

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

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Does The Constitutional Norm Of Separation Of Church And State Justify The Denial Of Tax Exemption To Churches That Engage In Partisan Political Speech, Johnny Rex Buckles Apr 2009

Does The Constitutional Norm Of Separation Of Church And State Justify The Denial Of Tax Exemption To Churches That Engage In Partisan Political Speech, Johnny Rex Buckles

Indiana Law Journal

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An Opiate Of The Masses: Religious Gerrymandering Of Sacramental Intoxication, Mark A. Levine Apr 2009

An Opiate Of The Masses: Religious Gerrymandering Of Sacramental Intoxication, Mark A. Levine

North Carolina Central Law Review

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Lipid Production From Microalgae As A Promising Candidate For Biodiesel Production, Arief Widjaja Apr 2009

Lipid Production From Microalgae As A Promising Candidate For Biodiesel Production, Arief Widjaja

Makara Journal of Technology

Recently, several strains of microalgae have been studied as they contain high lipid content capable to be converted to biodiesel. Fresh water microalgae Chlorella vulgaris studied in this research was one of the proof as it contained high triacyl glyceride which made it a potential candidate for biodiesel production. Factors responsible for good growing of microalgae such as CO2 and nitrogen concentration were investigated. It was found that total lipid content was increased after exposing to media with not enough nitrogen concentration. However, under this nitrogen depletion media, the growth rate was very slow leading to lower lipid productivity. The …

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Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, Doron Gothelf, Amos Frisch, Elena Michaelovsky, Abraham Weizman, Robert J. Shprintzen Apr 2009

Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, Doron Gothelf, Amos Frisch, Elena Michaelovsky, Abraham Weizman, Robert J. Shprintzen

Communication Disorders Faculty Publications

Velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS), also known as DiGeorge, conotruncal anomaly face, and Cayler syndromes, is caused by a microdeletion in the long arm of Chromosome 22. We review the history of the syndrome from the first clinical reports almost half a century ago to the current intriguing molecular findings associating genes from the microdeletion region and the physical and neuropsychiatric phenotype of the syndrome. Velocardiofacial syndrome has a wide spectrum of more than 200 physical manifestations including palate and cardiac anomalies. Yet, the most challenging manifestations of VCFS are the learning disabilities and neuropsychiatric disorders. As VCFS is relatively common and …

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Focus, 2009, Spring, Andrews University Apr 2009

Focus, 2009, Spring, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Creation Care And The Christian, Jo Ann Davidson Apr 2009

Creation Care And The Christian, Jo Ann Davidson

Faculty Publications

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To Live, To Die, And Then?, Jacques B. Doukhan Apr 2009

To Live, To Die, And Then?, Jacques B. Doukhan

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

This article was originally published in Shabbat Shalom Vol. 44 (2): 1997.

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Spring 2009: Finding The Balance, St. Norbert College Apr 2009

Spring 2009: Finding The Balance, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2007-2012

Sound economics at work

The work of St. Norbert College economists throws interesting light on the single field of study that dominates headlines today. Tough times prompt this look at the research, training and education that will guide tomorrow’s decision-makers. And, we examine “educationomics” itself – the science of keeping affordable those very institutions where such analysis and scholarship is possible.

On the cover: Chris Ayers ’97 kindly bent his animal-a-day drawing habit to our purpose with his cover illustration for this issue. “Balancing Act” started life as Day 1,063 of The Daily Zoo, a series of sketchbooks that Ayers …

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Spring 2009, Justine Fitton, Josh Boykin, Stephen Garcia, Dan Davis, Justin Sudkamp, Rashelle Mcnair, Kim Hunter-Perkins, Kristi Kohlenberg, Keith Stewart, Jennifer O'Neil, Grace Lawrence, Maria Rhodes, Mary Lieske, Christie Cheatle, Miranda White, Lindsey Durbin, Aaron Dillard, Tim Ernst, Brittany Morgan, Serena Heath, Kellen Fasnacht, Daniel Paquin, Gretchen Schaible, Sam Sottosanto, Alycia Rockey, Sarah Fairchild, Kristy Pearson, Sean Walker, Elizabeth Surbeck, Anthony Travis Shoot Apr 2009

Spring 2009, Justine Fitton, Josh Boykin, Stephen Garcia, Dan Davis, Justin Sudkamp, Rashelle Mcnair, Kim Hunter-Perkins, Kristi Kohlenberg, Keith Stewart, Jennifer O'Neil, Grace Lawrence, Maria Rhodes, Mary Lieske, Christie Cheatle, Miranda White, Lindsey Durbin, Aaron Dillard, Tim Ernst, Brittany Morgan, Serena Heath, Kellen Fasnacht, Daniel Paquin, Gretchen Schaible, Sam Sottosanto, Alycia Rockey, Sarah Fairchild, Kristy Pearson, Sean Walker, Elizabeth Surbeck, Anthony Travis Shoot

The Vehicle

No abstract provided.

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Flâneurs And Infiltrators (How To Read Cityscapes Via Textscapes), Joe Culpepper Apr 2009

Flâneurs And Infiltrators (How To Read Cityscapes Via Textscapes), Joe Culpepper

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

“Read your city anew” and “awaken from the spells cast by signs” are the mantras of this article. In Toronto, the radical spirit of revelation present in Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk (The Arcades Project) is embodied in an experiential approach to the capitalist city's hidden, forbidden, and inaccessible areas. Infiltration is a multifaceted phenomenon (a zine, a website, and a practice). The project is dedicated to the investigation, exploration, and mapping out of Toronto's abandoned buildings, defunct subway stations, luxury hotels, metropolitan marketplaces (i.e. the Hudson's Bay Company) and more. Circulated to encourage citizens of today's cultural metropolises to …

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Appropriation In Opera : Modern Performance Practice Of Racially Evocative Works, Katelin French Apr 2009

Appropriation In Opera : Modern Performance Practice Of Racially Evocative Works, Katelin French

Honors Theses

The repertoire of a classically trained singer has developed over centuries of cultural influence. As singers prepare for recitals, they decide which pieces they will include and how to perform each one. Many factors are essential for these decisions. In the 21st century, our environments challenge us to explore these conditions of creating a recital program. In a post-civil rights era, factors of race and ethnicity should become more important to programming than they were before. The consideration is not whether minority populations are portrayed, but how they are evoked on stage. In the following exposition, I will consider how …

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Black Box 2009, Jack Anderson, Alana Greenwalt, Kb Middleton, Brian Cutler, Albert Lewis, Jennifer Canfield, Joseph Latta, Arturo Clamont, Scott Peeler, Richard Byrd, Jonathan Wilson, David Mcleod, James Conomea, Erich Skoor, Walter Johansen, Stephen Von Fange, Ryan Krogstad, Rick Chew, Rhondale Tso, Casey Hill, Kyle Arcurio Apr 2009

Black Box 2009, Jack Anderson, Alana Greenwalt, Kb Middleton, Brian Cutler, Albert Lewis, Jennifer Canfield, Joseph Latta, Arturo Clamont, Scott Peeler, Richard Byrd, Jonathan Wilson, David Mcleod, James Conomea, Erich Skoor, Walter Johansen, Stephen Von Fange, Ryan Krogstad, Rick Chew, Rhondale Tso, Casey Hill, Kyle Arcurio

Black Box

The Black Box is a student-based creative publication serving the ERAU campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of ERAU students. Please browse these pages and enjoy.

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Heme Oxygenase Activity And Hemoglobin Neurotoxicity Are Attenuated By Inhibitors Of The Mek/Erk Pathway., Jing Chen-Roetling, Zhi Li, Mai Chen, Olatilewa O. Awe, Raymond F. Regan Apr 2009

Heme Oxygenase Activity And Hemoglobin Neurotoxicity Are Attenuated By Inhibitors Of The Mek/Erk Pathway., Jing Chen-Roetling, Zhi Li, Mai Chen, Olatilewa O. Awe, Raymond F. Regan

Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers

Hemoglobin breakdown produces an iron-dependent neuronal injury after experimental CNS hemorrhage that may be attenuated by heme oxygenase (HO) inhibitors. The HO enzymes are phosphoproteins that are activated by phosphorylation in vitro. While testing the effect of kinase inhibitors in cortical cell cultures, we observed that HO activity was consistently decreased by the MEK inhibitor U0126. The present study tested the hypothesis that MEK/ERK pathway inhibitors reduce HO activity and neuronal vulnerability to hemoglobin. The MEK inhibitors U0126 and SL327 and the ERK inhibitor FR180204 reduced baseline culture HO activity by 35-50%, without altering the activity of recombinant HO-1 or …

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Chironian Spring/Summer 2009, New York Medical College Apr 2009

Chironian Spring/Summer 2009, New York Medical College

The Chironian

No abstract provided.

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The Criminalization Of Mental Illness: How Theoretical Failures Create Real Problems In The Criminal Justice System, Georgia L. Sims Apr 2009

The Criminalization Of Mental Illness: How Theoretical Failures Create Real Problems In The Criminal Justice System, Georgia L. Sims

Vanderbilt Law Review

When Andrea Yates drowned her five children, she believed she was preventing Satan from infiltrating their souls. Rusty Yates blamed both the mental health system and the criminal justice system for his wife's actions and also for her initial conviction. Andrea Yates suffered from post-partum depression and psychosis; had attempted suicide twice; had been hospitalized on several occasions for psychiatric treatment; and was found not guilty by reason of insanity in her 2006 retrial.' Although Yates likely will spend the rest of her life in a mental institution, she will receive mental health treatment throughout her time at the facility. …

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Carbon Sponsoring: A New Idea In Personal Carbon Trading, Direct Carbon Offset Pledges For Travel, Alexander Y. Bigazzi Apr 2009

Carbon Sponsoring: A New Idea In Personal Carbon Trading, Direct Carbon Offset Pledges For Travel, Alexander Y. Bigazzi

Civil and Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

Public and political consensus expresses the need for broad action to mitigate climate change. To this end, different forms of carbon trading exist to initiate carbon reduction projects. This thesis proposes the idea of carbon sponsoring, a new tool for personal carbon trading. Unlike carbon offsets, the main option for individuals wishing to mitigate their carbon footprint, carbon sponsoring is a purely social instrument involving carbon-reducing pledges. Carbon sponsoring is intended for individuals who seek immediate, direct carbon offsets for their personal emissions. It is not meant as a broad tool correcting the various deficiencies of the carbon trading markets, …

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Nutrient Distribution Effects From Freshwater Discharge At Franklin Lock And Dam (S-79) In 2005 And 2006 On The Caloosahatchee Estuary And San Carlos Bay, Fort Myers, Florida, Kristan M. Uhlenbrock Apr 2009

Nutrient Distribution Effects From Freshwater Discharge At Franklin Lock And Dam (S-79) In 2005 And 2006 On The Caloosahatchee Estuary And San Carlos Bay, Fort Myers, Florida, Kristan M. Uhlenbrock

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Nutrient distribution correlates with discharge of freshwater from Franklin Lock and Dam structure (S-79) by delivery into the Caloosahatchee Estuary (CE) and out of this area, including the surrounding San Carlos Bay (SCB) and adjacent West Florida Shelf. This study analyzed the temporal and spatial distribution of nutrients along the CE waterway and illustrates the effects high freshwater discharge from S-79 has on the coastal and offshore environments, providing a potential source of nutrient input. This study consisted of a 7-station transect monitored biweekly from April 2005 thru August 2006 for nutrients, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll a, and salinity, along …

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Long-Distance Delivery Of Bacterial Virulence Factors By Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Outer Membrane Vesicles, Jennifer M. Bomberger, Daniel P. Maceachran, Bonita A. Coutermarsh, Siying Ye, George A. O'Toole, Bruce A. Stanton, Frederick M. Ausubel Apr 2009

Long-Distance Delivery Of Bacterial Virulence Factors By Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Outer Membrane Vesicles, Jennifer M. Bomberger, Daniel P. Maceachran, Bonita A. Coutermarsh, Siying Ye, George A. O'Toole, Bruce A. Stanton, Frederick M. Ausubel

Dartmouth Scholarship

Bacteria use a variety of secreted virulence factors to manipulate host cells, thereby causing significant morbidity and mortality. We report a mechanism for the long-distance delivery of multiple bacterial virulence factors, simultaneously and directly into the host cell cytoplasm, thus obviating the need for direct interaction of the pathogen with the host cell to cause cytotoxicity. We show that outer membrane–derived vesicles (OMV) secreted by the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa deliver multiple virulence factors, including β-lactamase, alkaline phosphatase, hemolytic phospholipase C, and Cif, directly into the host cytoplasm via fusion of OMV with lipid rafts in the host plasma …

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Research Choice And Finance In University Bioscience, David E. Ervin, Steven T. Buccola, Hui Yang Apr 2009

Research Choice And Finance In University Bioscience, David E. Ervin, Steven T. Buccola, Hui Yang

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Academic bioscience's rising importance for downstream technology and growing private sector relationships have evoked substantial policy attention. We contribute to the scrutiny by asking how university bioscientists design and finance their research, with particular attention to the mutuality of research portfolio choice and funding success. The analysis requires consideration of other major influences on academic science, including scientific norms, human capital, and institutional environment. Drawing on a national survey of university bioscientists, we find that public financial support encourages more basic investigation and private support encourages more applied investigation. Yet downstream research is only moderately more excludable than upstream. Once …

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Mangrove-Exported Nutrient Incorporation By Sessile Coral Reef Invertebrates, Elise F. Granek, Jana E. Compton, Donald L. Phillips Apr 2009

Mangrove-Exported Nutrient Incorporation By Sessile Coral Reef Invertebrates, Elise F. Granek, Jana E. Compton, Donald L. Phillips

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Coastal mangrove forests were historically considered as a source of organic matter (OM) for adjacent marine systems due to high net primary production; yet recent research suggesting little uptake through the food web because of low nutritional quality, challenges the concept of trophic linkage between mangrove forests and coral reefs. To examine the importance of mangrove forests to coral reef nutrient availability, we examined sessile reef-forming invertebrate consumers including hard corals, sponges, a bivalve mollusc, polychaete annelid and tunicate, and potential sources of OM (decaying mangrove leaves, microalgae, macroalgae, and seagrass) in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Using stable isotope analyses …

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Auditory Coding Based Speech Enhancement, Yao Ren, Michael T. Johnson Apr 2009

Auditory Coding Based Speech Enhancement, Yao Ren, Michael T. Johnson

Dr. Dolittle Project: A Framework for Classification and Understanding of Animal Vocalizations

This paper demonstrates a speech enhancement system based on an efficient auditory coding approach, coding of time-relative structure using spikes. The spike coding method can more compactly represent the non-stationary characteristics of speech signals than the Fourier transform or wavelet transform. Enhancement is accomplished through the use of MMSE thresholding on the spike code. Experimental results show that compared with the spectral domain logSTSA filter, both the subjective spectrogram evaluation and objective SSNR improvement for the proposed approach is better in suppressing noise in high noise situations, with fewer musical artifacts.P

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Optimal Distributed Microphone Phase Estimation, Marek B. Trawicki, Michael T. Johnson Apr 2009

Optimal Distributed Microphone Phase Estimation, Marek B. Trawicki, Michael T. Johnson

Dr. Dolittle Project: A Framework for Classification and Understanding of Animal Vocalizations

This paper presents a minimum mean-square error spectral phase estimator for speech enhancement in the distributed multiple microphone scenario. The estimator uses Gaussian models for both the speech and noise priors under the assumption of a diffuse incoherent noise field representing ambient noise in a widely dispersed microphone configuration. Experiments demonstrate significant benefits of using the optimal multichannel phase estimator as compared to the noisy phase of a reference channel.

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