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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers Sep 2009

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.


Quality Of Life Estimation With Structural Equation Modeling In School Aged Children With Asthma, Sheniz Moonie, Xuan Huang, David A. Sterling Sep 2009

Quality Of Life Estimation With Structural Equation Modeling In School Aged Children With Asthma, Sheniz Moonie, Xuan Huang, David A. Sterling

Environmental & Global Health Faculty Research

Significant increases in childhood asthma prevalence and mortality has prompted federal and regulatory agencies to work towards a national framework to address childhood asthma. Quality of life is an important component of chronic disease, and the evaluation of healthcare outcomes. There is little discussion in the literature regarding the implications of QoL as a theoretical construct. This study determined the effect of asthma on the QoL of our study population and caregiver’s missed workdays on the child’s QoL scores. A negative relationship was found between the child’s QoL and the caregiver’s missed workdays due to their child’s asthma. The use …


Evaluation Of Short Duration Unscheduled Absences Among Transit Operators: Trimet Case Study, James G. Strathman, Joseph Broach, Steve Callas Sep 2009

Evaluation Of Short Duration Unscheduled Absences Among Transit Operators: Trimet Case Study, James G. Strathman, Joseph Broach, Steve Callas

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report analyzes factors contributing to short duration (one to three days) unscheduled absences among operators at TriMet, the transit provider for the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region. The analysis draws on a wide array of operator-specific information recovered by transit ITS technologies in combination with information from the agency’s human resources, scheduling, incident, and customer relations databases. The likelihood of an absence is estimated in relation to personal characteristics, employment status, aspects of assigned work, service delivery and performance indicators, temporal factors, and customer feedback. The findings can be used directly to support extraboard planning practices. More generally, the findings …


Checkup, Lehigh Valley Health Network Sep 2009

Checkup, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Checkup

No abstract provided.


Cap And Trade Programs Under The Clean Air Act: Lessons From The Clean Air Interstate Rule And The Nox Sip Call, Patricia Ross Mccubbin Sep 2009

Cap And Trade Programs Under The Clean Air Act: Lessons From The Clean Air Interstate Rule And The Nox Sip Call, Patricia Ross Mccubbin

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.


Ethnobotanical Studies From Amaravathy Range Of Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, Coimbatore District, Southern India, V. S. Ramachandran, Shijo Joseph, R. Aruna Sep 2009

Ethnobotanical Studies From Amaravathy Range Of Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, Coimbatore District, Southern India, V. S. Ramachandran, Shijo Joseph, R. Aruna

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

The ethnobotanical studies were carried out in the Amaravathy Range of India Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, Anamalais, the Western. Ghats, Tamilnadu during June 2005 – May 2006. Puliyars and Muthuvars are the two dominant tribes who inhabit the dense jungles of this range; they have a fair knowledge on the indigenous flora. Due to intensive and extensive explorations have resulted in the collection of information on ninety four plant species; out of which, 73 are wild and the rest are cultivated; within the wild plants 24 are used as edible fruits; 12 species as a leafy vegetable; 23 species are having …


A Study Of Ballota Limbata As An Alternative Medicine For Eye Diseases, Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhary, Dildar Ahmed, Shahid Rehman Khan Sep 2009

A Study Of Ballota Limbata As An Alternative Medicine For Eye Diseases, Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhary, Dildar Ahmed, Shahid Rehman Khan

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

Ballota limbata BTH. (syn. Otostegia limbata (BTH.) BOISS (Lamiaceae) is a medicinal herb used in folk medicine to cure a number of ailments. An aqueous extract of the herb is locally used for the treatment of eye inflammations and infections. To explore the possible cause of this application of the herb, we studied mineral elements present in it, as well as its antimicrobial effect against Bacillus subtilis. The leaves of B. limbata contain considerable amounts of zinc (4.6 mg/100g) and copper (0.847 mg/100g) which are known for their role in eye health. The quantity of iron (52.7 mg/100g) and calcium …


Modes Of Compensation In Exchange For Indigenous Knowledge: A Case Study Of The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, O. F. Kunle Sep 2009

Modes Of Compensation In Exchange For Indigenous Knowledge: A Case Study Of The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, O. F. Kunle

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

Indigenous or Traditional Knowledge is that information or knowledge that has been developed by indigenous people in various regions of the world. Such knowledge generally relies exclusively on past experiences and observations and has been transmitted orally or in some form of script across generations of groups or communities of indigenous people. Therefore, this knowledge often has a cultural context, a collective ownership and is constantly evolving. More often than not, this indigenous knowledge is the only source of livelihood for the practitioners. As a result, most of them are not willing to divulge the knowledge without any form of …


Studies On The Antimicrobial Properties And Phytochemical Screening Of Garlic (Allium Sativum) Extracts, M. J. Olusanmi, J. E. Amadi Sep 2009

Studies On The Antimicrobial Properties And Phytochemical Screening Of Garlic (Allium Sativum) Extracts, M. J. Olusanmi, J. E. Amadi

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

This study was carried out to evaluate the antimicrobial properties of garlic (Allium sativum) extracts on three fungi namely Aspergillus flavus, Curvularia lunata and Fusarium moniliforme using the pour plate method. A phytochemical screening of the extracts was also carried out to determine the constituents in garlic. Water, ethanol and acetone were the extractants used. Results showed that radial growth in all the three test organisms was impaired by the addition of the extracts in the culture medium used. The test organisms differed in their reaction to the different extracts but on the whole, growth inhibition increased with the concentration …


A Comparative Study Of The Antibacterial Activity Of Piliostigma Reticulatum Bark Extract With Some Antibiotics, S. Awe, P. F. Omojasola Sep 2009

A Comparative Study Of The Antibacterial Activity Of Piliostigma Reticulatum Bark Extract With Some Antibiotics, S. Awe, P. F. Omojasola

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

Aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Piliostigma reticulatum, a herb widely used for the treatment of diarrhea in southwest Nigeria, was challenged with clinical isolates of Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The ethanol extract exhibited the highest activity against the test organisms with zones of inhibition ranging from 16.0 – 20.0 mm, followed by the hot aqueous extract and the cold aqueous extracts, with zones of inhibition ranging between 8.0 – 10.0 mm and 4.0 – 7.0 mm respectively. The Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) ranged between 0.025 – 0.25% w/v and photochemical analysis showed that …


Bulletin, Dmacc Marketing Sep 2009

Bulletin, Dmacc Marketing

Bulletin

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Mobile Elements Create Structural Variation: Analysis Of A Complete Human Genome, Jinchuan Xing, Yuhua Zhang, Kyudong Han, Abdel Halim Salem, Shurjo K. Sen, Chad D. Huff, Qiong Zhou, Ewen F. Kirkness, Samuel Levy, Mark A. Batzer, Lynn B. Jorde Sep 2009

Mobile Elements Create Structural Variation: Analysis Of A Complete Human Genome, Jinchuan Xing, Yuhua Zhang, Kyudong Han, Abdel Halim Salem, Shurjo K. Sen, Chad D. Huff, Qiong Zhou, Ewen F. Kirkness, Samuel Levy, Mark A. Batzer, Lynn B. Jorde

Faculty Publications

Structural variants (SVs) are common in the human genome. Because approximately half of the human genome consists of repetitive, transposable DNA sequences, it is plausible that these elements play an important role in generating SVs in humans. Sequencing of the diploid genome of one individual human (HuRef) affords us the opportunity to assess, for the first time, the impact of mobile elements on SVs in an individual in a thorough and unbiased fashion. In this study, we systematically evaluated more than 8000 SVs to identify mobile element-associated SVs as small as 100 bp and specific to the HuRef genome. Combining …


Transcriptome Analysis Of Frog Virus 3, The Type Species Of The Genus Ranavirus, Family Iridoviridae, Sai Majji, V. Thodima, R. Sample, D. Whitley, Y. Deng, J. Mao, V. Gregory Chinchar Sep 2009

Transcriptome Analysis Of Frog Virus 3, The Type Species Of The Genus Ranavirus, Family Iridoviridae, Sai Majji, V. Thodima, R. Sample, D. Whitley, Y. Deng, J. Mao, V. Gregory Chinchar

Faculty Publications

Frog virus 3 is the best characterized species within the genus Ranavirus, family Iridoviridae. FV3's large (similar to 105 kbp) dsDNA genome encodes 98 putative open reading frames (ORFs) that are expressed in a coordinated fashion leading to the sequential appearance of immediate early (IE), delayed early (DE) and late (L) viral transcripts. As a step toward elucidating molecular events in FV3 replication, we sought to identify the temporal Class Of Viral messages. To accomplish this objective an oligonucleotide microarray containing 70-mer probes corresponding to each of the 98 FV3 ORFs was designed and used to examine viral gene expression. …


Governing Corporate Compliance, Miriam H. Baer Sep 2009

Governing Corporate Compliance, Miriam H. Baer

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Cutting Edge : Issue 2, 2009, Department Of Surgery Sep 2009

Cutting Edge : Issue 2, 2009, Department Of Surgery

Department of Surgery Archives

No abstract provided.


Of Affinity Groups, Board Meetings And Special Offers, Tom Triplitt '76 Sep 2009

Of Affinity Groups, Board Meetings And Special Offers, Tom Triplitt '76

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


Furman Alumni News, Furman University Sep 2009

Furman Alumni News, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


Farewell To A Longtime Friend, Jim Stewart Sep 2009

Farewell To A Longtime Friend, Jim Stewart

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


Frozen In Time: A Glimpse At Furman Football, Circa 1928, Will Jordan '10, John Roberts, Jeremy Fleming Sep 2009

Frozen In Time: A Glimpse At Furman Football, Circa 1928, Will Jordan '10, John Roberts, Jeremy Fleming

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


Dealing With H1n1 Uncertainty, John Roberts Sep 2009

Dealing With H1n1 Uncertainty, John Roberts

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


Service To America Honoree's Work Makes People's Lives Safer, Furman University Sep 2009

Service To America Honoree's Work Makes People's Lives Safer, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


2009-10 Alumni Board Of Directors, Furman University Sep 2009

2009-10 Alumni Board Of Directors, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


Money And College: A Timeless Issue?, Furman University Sep 2009

Money And College: A Timeless Issue?, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


He's A Player Of Note In Nashville's Music Scene, Jessica Miller Kelley Sep 2009

He's A Player Of Note In Nashville's Music Scene, Jessica Miller Kelley

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


H. Ted Davis, Teacher And Scholar, Furman University Sep 2009

H. Ted Davis, Teacher And Scholar, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.


Correlations Between Microbial Indicators, Pathogens, And Environmental Factors In A Subtropical Estuary, Cristina Ortega, Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, Amir Abdelzaher, Mary Wright, Yang Deng, Lillian M. Stark Sep 2009

Correlations Between Microbial Indicators, Pathogens, And Environmental Factors In A Subtropical Estuary, Cristina Ortega, Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, Amir Abdelzaher, Mary Wright, Yang Deng, Lillian M. Stark

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The objective of this study was to evaluate whether indicator microbes and physical-chemical parameters were correlated with pathogens within a tidally influenced Estuary. Measurements included the analysis of physical-chemical parameters (pH, salinity, temperature, and turbidity), measurements of bacterial indicators (enterococci, fecal coliform, Escherichia coli, and total coliform), viral indicators (somatic and MS2 coliphage), viral pathogens (enterovirus by culture), and protozoan pathogens (Cryptosporidium and Giardia). All pathogen results were negative with the exception of one sample which tested positive for culturable reovirus (8.5 MPN/100 L). Notable physical-chemical parameters for this sample included low salinity (< 1 ppt) and high water temperature (31 °C). Indicator bacteria and indicator virus levels for this sample were within average values typically measured within the study site and were low in comparison with levels observed in other freshwater environments. Overall results suggest that high levels of bacterial and viral indicators were associated with low salinity sites.


Capitalizing On Digital Entrepreneurship For Low-Income Residents And Communities, Janet Thompson Jackson Sep 2009

Capitalizing On Digital Entrepreneurship For Low-Income Residents And Communities, Janet Thompson Jackson

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Childhood Lymphomas In Yemen. Clinicopathological Study, Abdullah S. Al-Samawi, Saleh M. Aulaqi, Abdullah K. Al-Thobhani Sep 2009

Childhood Lymphomas In Yemen. Clinicopathological Study, Abdullah S. Al-Samawi, Saleh M. Aulaqi, Abdullah K. Al-Thobhani

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To find out the frequency of childhood lymphomas in all ages, and to describe patterns of lymphomas in relation to gender and site in Yemen. METHODS: This is a descriptive record-based study of 1167 cases of lymphomas diagnosed by 3 pathologists in the Department of Pathology, Sana9a University, Sana9a, Yemen from 1st January 2004 to 30th December 2007. The diagnoses were made on hematoxylin and eosin stained, and categorized non-Hodgkin9s lymphoma (NHL) according to the National Cancer Institute Working Formulation classification, and Hodgkin9s disease (HD) according to Rye classification. RESULTS: Out of 1167 lymphomas, 801 (68.6%) were NHL, and …


Lowering The Pressure, Winston J. Craig Sep 2009

Lowering The Pressure, Winston J. Craig

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.


Realizing Access To Sexual Health Information And Services For Adolescents Through The Protocol To The African Charter On The Rights Of Women, Ebenezer Durojaye Sep 2009

Realizing Access To Sexual Health Information And Services For Adolescents Through The Protocol To The African Charter On The Rights Of Women, Ebenezer Durojaye

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.