Digital Commons Network^™

Focus Emu, February 10, 2009, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Focus Emu, January 6, 2009, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Campus Renewal - A 10-Year Road Map For Loma Linda University, Loma Linda University

Scope

In this issue . . .

2 | Campus renewal
A 10-year road map for Loma Linda University

6 | Renewal of the health care campuses
A long-range plan for Loma Linda’s health care institutions

8 | On the front lines in Iraq
An LLU alumnus serves in the line of fire

12 | Child philanthropist
Savannah Edwards raises funds for children with cancer

15 | Unlikely advocate for victims of AIDS
A transformed Victorian dispenses hope in the age of AIDS

17 | Snakes alive!
Snake wrangling in the name of science— and adventure

20 | Guests with a …

Update - January 2009, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Toward a Bioethics of Medicine
-- The Center is moving
-- Editorial
-- Adventist Declaration on Bioethics: Introductory Comments
-- In Focus: Villa Aurora
-- 2008 Contributor's Convocation: "Perspectives on Ethics from Around the World"

[ Claritás: Clarity on Ethics Essay Contest - Assisted Suicide: Good for Society or Not? ]
-- Mark Warren, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University First-place essay winner
-- Carissa Cianci, School of Nursing, Loma Linda University Second-place essay winner

U.S. Business And Global Barriers To Entry, Caitlin Long

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

An exploratory view of barriers to entry in countries of significance to U.S. companies, this thesis provides a comprehensive overview of prevalent business strategies of U.S. trading partners as well as a forecast of their international business policies. Diverse macro-environmental variables, such as economy, culture, and regulations result in varying barriers to entry for U.S. based firms to conduct business in U.S trading partners’ countries. This thesis will determine how these macro-environmental factors foster or stunt growth and strategies governments employ to attract businesses.

Isolation And Analysis Of Cyanobacterial Dna, Tiffany Crosby

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Cyanobacteria are a phylum of bacteria that possess a diverse number of biological characteristics. One of the evolutionary innovations of the cyanobacteria are its ability to perform oxygenating photosynthesis, which all cyanobacteria are able to perform. It is believed that a form of metabolism became the dominant method for producting fixed carbon from carbon dioxide (CO₂) at around 3.5 billion years ago. Instead of using hydrogen sulfide, whose generated waste products were difficult to eliminate, the photosynthetic cyanobacteria used water as their hydrogen source (1). Many cyanobacteria are also capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen (2). Cyanobacteria are present …

Faculty Senate Minutes, December 2, 2009 (Draft), Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes and Reports

No abstract provided.

Faculty Council Minutes, November 4, 2009, Faculty Council

Faculty Senate Minutes and Reports

No abstract provided.

Faculty Council Minutes, March 18, 2009, Faculty Council

Faculty Senate Minutes and Reports

No abstract provided.

Vol. 7, No. 01 (January/February 2009)

Indiana Law Update

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Judicial Deference To Legislation Fact-Finding, Caitlin E. Borgmann

Indiana Law Journal

It is traditionally assumed that the role of ascertaining and evaluating the social facts underlying a statute belongs to the legislatures. The courts in turn are tasked with deciding the law and must defer to legislative fact-finding on relevant issues of social fact. This simplistic formula, however, does not accurately describe the courts' confused approach to legislative fact-finding. Although the courts often speak in terms of deference, they follow no consistent or predictable pattern in deciding whether to defer in a given case. Moreover, blanket judicial deference to legislative fact-finding would not be a wise general rule. Because social fact-finding …

No Boy Left Behind? Single-Sex Education And The Essentialist Myth Of Masculinity, David S. Cohen

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Anti-Horse Slaughter Legislation: Bad For Horses, Bad For Society, Laura J. Durfee

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Bottom-Up Or Top-Down? Removing The Privacy Law Obstacles To Healthcare Reform In The National Healthcare Crisis, John W. Hill, Arlen W. Langvardt, Jonathan E. Rinehart

Indiana Law Journal

Issues of healthcare availability and quality are among the most profound facing our nation. If a high-quality, accessible healthcare system of a truly national nature is to be devised, electronic connectivity—including increased use of electronic medical records and similar technological advances—must be a key feature. Yet such connectivity may give rise to patients’ concerns regarding the privacy of their medical information. Because such concerns demand respect, a challenge lies in balancing patients’ privacy interests against the important information-sharing interests underlying a national healthcare network. The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPPAA) is a key federal law that addresses many …

The Uses And Abuses Of Religion In Child Custody Cases: Parents Outside The Wall Of Separation, Joshua S. Press

Indiana Law Journal

Religious custody disputes such as those at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints compound in April, 2008 are very complex and are finding their way into courts with increasing regularity. This Essay argues that in responding to these religious custody disputes, courts should abstain from either analyzing a parent’s religious practices for their perceived “risks of harm” to the child, or from applying a flat rule to ensure that the custodial parent’s religious preferences take primacy. Instead, courts should employ the actual or substantial harm standard—which would only bar a parent from fully practicing her religion if …

Protecting Freshwater Resources In The Era Of Global Water Markets: Lessons Learned From Bottled Water, Noah D. Hall

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Should The Sec Spin-Off The Enforcement Division, Peter J. Henning

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Interleukin-6 And Cyclooxygenase-2 Downregulation By Fatty-Acid Fractions Of Ranunculus Constantinopolitanus, Sabreen F. Fostok, Rima A. Ezzeddine, Fadia R. Homaidan, Jamal A. Al-Saghir, Ralph G. Salloum, Najat A. Saliba, Rabih S. Talhouk

Wayne State University Associated BioMed Central Scholarship

Abstract

Background

Medicinal plants represent alternative means for the treatment of several chronic diseases, including inflammation. The genus Ranunculus, a representative of the Ranunculaceae family, has been reported to possess anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antiviral, antibacterial, antiparasitic and antifungal activities, possibly due to the presence of anemonin and other. Different studies have shown the occurrence of unusual fatty acids (FAs) in Ranunculaceae; however, their therapeutic role has not been investigated. The purpose of this study is to characterize potential anti-inflammatory bioactivities in Ranunculus constantinopolitanus D'Urv., traditionally used in Eastern Mediterranean folk medicine.

Methods

The aerial part of R. constantinopolitanus was subjected to …

Differential Effects Of Th1, Monocyte/Macrophage And Th2 Cytokine Mixtures On Early Gene Expression For Molecules Associated With Metabolism, Signaling And Regulation In Central Nervous System Mixed Glial Cell Cultures, Robert P. Lisak, Joyce A. Benjamins, Beverly Bealmear, Liljana Nedelkoska, Diane Studzinski, Ernest Retland, Bin Yao, Susan Land

Wayne State University Associated BioMed Central Scholarship

Abstract

Background

Cytokines secreted by immune cells and activated glia play central roles in both the pathogenesis of and protection from damage to the central nervous system (CNS) in multiple sclerosis (MS).

Methods

We have used gene array analysis to identify the initial direct effects of cytokines on CNS glia by comparing changes in early gene expression in CNS glial cultures treated for 6 hours with cytokines typical of those secreted by Th1 and Th2 lymphocytes and monocyte/macrophages (M/M).

Results

In two previous papers, we summarized effects of these cytokines on immune-related molecules, and on neural and glial related proteins, …

Spouse Beliefs About Partner Chronic Pain, Annmarie Cano, L. R. Miller, A. Loree

Psychology Faculty Research Publications

While research has shown that patients’ beliefs about their pain are related to pain adjustment and treatment outcomes, little is known about the beliefs of their significant others. The purpose of this study was to develop a measure of pain beliefs in significant others and to examine the correlates of these beliefs. Participants were 104 married couples in which one partner reported chronic pain. Spouses completed an amended version of the Survey of Pain Beliefs (SOPA) [14]. The scale development procedure described in Jensen et al.[12] was used to select appropriate items for the significant other version of the SOPA. …

Infant Social And Emotional Development: The Emergence Of Self In A Relational Context, Katherine L. Rosenblum, Carolyn Joy Dayton, Maria Muzik

Social Work Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Definitions Of Violence: African-American And Iraqi Refugee Adolescents' Perceptions, Beverly M. Black, Barbara L. Peterson, Arlene N. Weisz, Poco D. Kernsmith, Linda A. Lewandowski, Krupa K. Hegde

Social Work Faculty Publications

This article explores the perceptions of urban African-American and Iraqi refugee adolescents regarding community violence, school violence, family violence and dating/intimate partner violence. A subset of participants from a larger study on violence and trauma was selected to participate in the current study. Using a card-sort exercise, participants identified situations as violent or not violent. Iraqi youth identified noticeably more behaviors as violence than African-American youth. Few significant gender differences emerged. Findings of important cultural differences provide implications for violence prevention programming.

The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

No abstract provided.

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Art Education And The Symbolic Interaction Of Bodies And Self-Images, James H. Rolling Jr.

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

This article begins with the premise that self-imagery is constituted as a shape-shifting aggregate of symbolic systems that incorporates the human body itself as one of its representations. At intermittent points of the body's embodiment of visual culture and tacit social experience, alternative representations accrete into varying symbolic systems, the multiple shapes a self-image may take over a lifetime. Given that social identity is derived from the interaction of various symbolic systems, how do some bodies and self-images come to be taken as that of identities incompatible with most others? In this exploration of the self-image and identity, the author …

Intellectual Property Rights And The Right To Participate In Cultural Life, Molly Beutz Land

Innovation Center for Law and Technology

No abstract provided.

Stories Of God's Love: Preschool Program (Ages 4-5), Joy L. Comingore, Shauna M. Adams, Joni L. Baldwin, Elizabeth M. Engelhardt, Susan M. Ferguson, Debra Ciambro Grisso

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

Stories of God’s Love is a Bible-based program prepared by a team of respected preschool specialists from the University of Dayton and is written following the directives developed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The leaflet style format proclaims age appropriate Bible stories as well as contemporary stories which connect the scripture story to an everyday life experience of a preschool child.

Seasonal leaflets introduce and explore holy days, holidays and the seasons of the year. A music component, poster set and program director manual completes the program. Multi-day and one-day guides are available.

Stories Of God's Love: Preschool Program (Ages 3-4), Joy L. Comingore, Shauna M. Adams, Joni L. Baldwin, Elizabeth M. Engelhardt, Susan M. Ferguson, Debra Ciambro Grisso

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

Stories of God’s Love is a Bible-based program prepared by a team of respected preschool specialists from the University of Dayton and is written following the directives developed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The leaflet style format proclaims age appropriate Bible stories as well as contemporary stories which connect the scripture story to an everyday life experience of a preschool child.

Seasonal leaflets introduce and explore holy days, holidays and the seasons of the year. A music component, poster set and program director manual completes the program. Multi-day and one-day guides are available.

The State As Batterer: Learning From Family Law To Address American's Family-Like Racial Dysfunction, Angela Mae Kupenda

Journal Articles

The women's movement for equality bootstrapped to the movement for equality for Blacks. Now the reverse can happen. This Article uses family law and the plight of some battered women, as a lens to address analogous racial conflicts in the broader American family.

Rafinesque, Transylvania’S Famous Naturalist, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

American Girl Place And Actors' Equity Association: A Tale Of Tenacious Thespians And How Their Legitimate Right To Join The Union Received Reluctant, But Just, Recognition, Taylor Simpson-Wood

MC Law Review

No abstract provided.