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The Evaluation Of Relationship Between Group A Streptococcal Infection With Tic Disorders In Children, Soroor Arman, Javad Golmirzaei, Alireza E. Naeini, Mohammad M. Azhar Sep 2009

The Evaluation Of Relationship Between Group A Streptococcal Infection With Tic Disorders In Children, Soroor Arman, Javad Golmirzaei, Alireza E. Naeini, Mohammad M. Azhar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relationship between group A beta hemolytic streptococcus infection (GABHS) and tic disorders in children. METHODS: This is a case-control study that was conducted in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic, Isfahan, Iran, between May 2008 and February 2009. Thirty-six children (aged 5-15) with tic and 36 children without tic and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were investigated for clinical and laboratory signs of GABHS. The tools utilized in this research were clinical interview according to the DSM IV-TR and laboratory tests (throat culture, rapid antigen detection test [RADT], anti streptolysin O [ASO] and yale global tics severity scale [YGTSS]). …

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Joseph Smith's Childhood Illness, Nathan R. Welch Sep 2009

Joseph Smith's Childhood Illness, Nathan R. Welch

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Patents And Public Health: The Problems With Using Patent Law Proposals To Combat Antibiotic Resistance, Jessica P. Schulman Sep 2009

Patents And Public Health: The Problems With Using Patent Law Proposals To Combat Antibiotic Resistance, Jessica P. Schulman

DePaul Law Review

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Abuse Of Lower Castes In South India: The Institution Of Devadasi, Maria Costanza Torri Sep 2009

Abuse Of Lower Castes In South India: The Institution Of Devadasi, Maria Costanza Torri

Journal of International Women's Studies

The ‘devadasi’ system has been the object of several studies and is quite controversial. Some authors, particularly in the past associated the ‘devadasi’ with power and prestige, other, more lately, with degradation and prostitution. This article firstly explores the origin of ‘devadasi’ practice and its evolution over time as well as its religious and ritual meaning, while attempting to identify the main factors explaining the signification of the ‘devadasi’ system in the past. Secondly it analyses the social status and economic condition of ‘devadasis’ and draws a global view of the reasons why young girls are still today consecrated in …

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The Tipping Point: Biological Terrorism, Scott Cary Sep 2009

The Tipping Point: Biological Terrorism, Scott Cary

Journal of Strategic Security

This article presents a strategic, operational, and tactical analysis of information currently available on the state of bio-weapons development by non-state actors, primarily Islamist jihadists. It discusses the evidence supporting a practical assessment that non-state actors have begun to acquire, and in the near-term intend to employ, bio-weapons. A pathogen and method of attack specifically designed to achieve the strategic goals of jihadists are presented as functional examples of the problem of the emerging global bio-weapons threat.Is a terrorist attack utilizing biological weapons a real threat? If so, is there a way to predict the circumstances under which it might …

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September 1, 2009, The Daily Mississippian Sep 2009

September 1, 2009, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Minimizing Disease In Your Sheep Flock, A Guide To Preventive Flock Health, Kerry A. Rood, C Kim Chapman Sep 2009

Minimizing Disease In Your Sheep Flock, A Guide To Preventive Flock Health, Kerry A. Rood, C Kim Chapman

All Current Publications

This publication serves as a guide to preventative sheep flock health that explains risks, nutrition, vaccinations, etc.

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Assessment Of The Reliability Of The Diagnosis Of Chagas Disease By Indigenous Promotores Of The Amazon Basin In Ecuador, Summer Nguyen Aug 2009

Assessment Of The Reliability Of The Diagnosis Of Chagas Disease By Indigenous Promotores Of The Amazon Basin In Ecuador, Summer Nguyen

Undergraduate Medical Student Research

Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, is the most important vector-borne disease in Latin America. It is estimated that 16 to 18 million people are infected with Chagas disease and some 50,000 people die each year. In endemic countries, people living in rural areas are at greatest risk for acquiring infection. Ecuador is one of these countries, and it is estimated that between 2.4-3.8 million people in Ecuador are exposed to Chagas disease, primarily in the Eastern endemic coastal region. The indigenous people of the Amazon region in Ecuador have historically been protected from Chagas disease due …

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West Nile Disease In New Mexico: The Quest For Nucleic Acid, Randin Nelson, Robert Nofchissey, Diane Goade Aug 2009

West Nile Disease In New Mexico: The Quest For Nucleic Acid, Randin Nelson, Robert Nofchissey, Diane Goade

Undergraduate Medical Student Research

West Nile virus (WNV) was first detected in New Mexico in 2002, with the first human cases appearing in 2003. Since that time it has become endemic in the region, and as of year-end 2005, 330 New Mexicans had been diagnosed with West Nile Fever or the more severe neuroinvasive disease as reported by the New Mexico Department of Health. An ongoing study at the University of New Mexico has collected interview and physical exam data for these individuals as well as collecting cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and serum from their period of acute and convalescent illness. While all of these …

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Development Of A Potential Vaccine For Asthma Using Ige And Virus Like Particles, Fernando Monreal, Bryce Chackerian Aug 2009

Development Of A Potential Vaccine For Asthma Using Ige And Virus Like Particles, Fernando Monreal, Bryce Chackerian

Undergraduate Medical Student Research

Highly dense, repetitive antigens such as virus particles induce strong immune responses. Correspondingly, Virus Like Particles (VLPs), which consist of the viral structural proteins, can be used as molecular scaffolds to increase the antigenicity of normally poorly immunogenic antigens. This ability to elicit strong antibody responses is not limited to foreign antigens, but also to self-antigens, which are normally subject to B-cell tolerance. The intention of this proposal is to develop a system for rapid identification of asthma vaccine candidates based on potent immunogenicity of antigens (IgE) displayed in dense repetitive arrays on virus-like particles. The technology is based on …

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The Murray Ledger And Times, August 28, 2009, The Murray Ledger And Times Aug 2009

The Murray Ledger And Times, August 28, 2009, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Genome Of Nectria Haematococca: Contribution Of Supernumerary Chromosomes To Gene Expansion., Jeffrey J. Coleman, Steve D. Rounsley, Marianela Rodriguez-Carres, Alan Kuo, Catherine C. Wasmann, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Masatoki Taga, Gerard J. White, Shiguo Zhou, David C. Schwartz, Michael Freitag, Li-Jun Ma, Etienne G.J. Danchin, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro M. Coutinho, David R. Nelson, Dave Straney, Carolyn A. Napoli, Bridget M. Barker, Michael Gribskov, Martijn Rep, Scott Kroken, István Molnár, Christopher Rensing, John C. Kennell, Jorge Zamora, Mark L. Farman, Eric U. Selker, Asaf Salamov, Harris Shapiro, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Erika Lindquist, Casey Lamers, Igor V. Grigoriev, David M. Geiser, Sarah F. Covert, Esteban Temporini, Hans D. Vanetten Aug 2009

The Genome Of Nectria Haematococca: Contribution Of Supernumerary Chromosomes To Gene Expansion., Jeffrey J. Coleman, Steve D. Rounsley, Marianela Rodriguez-Carres, Alan Kuo, Catherine C. Wasmann, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Masatoki Taga, Gerard J. White, Shiguo Zhou, David C. Schwartz, Michael Freitag, Li-Jun Ma, Etienne G.J. Danchin, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro M. Coutinho, David R. Nelson, Dave Straney, Carolyn A. Napoli, Bridget M. Barker, Michael Gribskov, Martijn Rep, Scott Kroken, István Molnár, Christopher Rensing, John C. Kennell, Jorge Zamora, Mark L. Farman, Eric U. Selker, Asaf Salamov, Harris Shapiro, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Erika Lindquist, Casey Lamers, Igor V. Grigoriev, David M. Geiser, Sarah F. Covert, Esteban Temporini, Hans D. Vanetten

Department of Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The ascomycetous fungus Nectria haematococca, (asexual name Fusarium solani), is a member of a group of >50 species known as the “Fusarium solani species complex”. Members of this complex have diverse biological properties including the ability to cause disease on >100 genera of plants and opportunistic infections in humans. The current research analyzed the most extensively studied member of this complex, N. haematococca mating population VI (MPVI). Several genes controlling the ability of individual isolates of this species to colonize specific habitats are located on supernumerary chromosomes. Optical mapping revealed that the sequenced isolate has 17 chromosomes …

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Dissecting Disgust : An Investigation Of The Validity Of The Three Domain Disgust Scale, Joshua Tybur Aug 2009

Dissecting Disgust : An Investigation Of The Validity Of The Three Domain Disgust Scale, Joshua Tybur

Psychology ETDs

Research on the emotion disgust, and particularly individual differences in disgust sensitivity, has exploded in the past 15 years. However, most of this research has been based on outdated theory and poorly designed instruments. Tybur et al., (2009) suggested that past theoretical perspectives on disgust should best be updated in light of an evolutionary perspective, and measurement of disgust sensitivity should be developed based on an evolutionarily informed theory. After suggesting that disgust should be categorized along domains related to pathogens, sexuality, and morality, they introduced the Three Domain Disgust Scale, a new measure of individual differences in disgust sensitivity. …

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Comparing The Effectiveness Of Hantavirus Outreach In Northwestern New Mexico, Panama, And Chile, Marjorie Mcconnell Aug 2009

Comparing The Effectiveness Of Hantavirus Outreach In Northwestern New Mexico, Panama, And Chile, Marjorie Mcconnell

Sociology ETDs

This research compared the effectiveness of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome prevention outreach in northwestern New Mexico, the Los Santos region of Panama, and Region Araucania IX in Chile. Outreach effectiveness for hantavirus is not well understood, even though outreach in Chile appears to be more extensive than in northwestern New Mexico and Panama. Understanding the role of human demographics, disease ecology, and subsequent human behavior in the disease process is critical to the examination of community responses in terms of behavior changes. Through the implementation of a self administered 28 question survey instrument (n=601), I measured attitudes towards, and across public …

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August 26, 2009 Greenmail, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Aug 2009

August 26, 2009 Greenmail, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

GreenMail (student newsletter through 2024)

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Prospectus, August 26, 2009, Cassandra Cunningham, Aaron Geiger, Alishia Reynolds, Levi Norman, Sean Hermann, Chuck Shepherd, Chrissie Mckenney, Samantha Hylla Aug 2009

Prospectus, August 26, 2009, Cassandra Cunningham, Aaron Geiger, Alishia Reynolds, Levi Norman, Sean Hermann, Chuck Shepherd, Chrissie Mckenney, Samantha Hylla

Prospectus 2009

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Genetic Structure Of Amblyomma Cajennense (Acari: Ixodidae) Populations Based On Mitochondrial Gene Sequences, Erica Janelle Burkman Aug 2009

Genetic Structure Of Amblyomma Cajennense (Acari: Ixodidae) Populations Based On Mitochondrial Gene Sequences, Erica Janelle Burkman

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) (Acari: Ixodidae) is a common tick species that has a large geographic distribution from the southern regions of the United States (Texas), to the Caribbean Islands, Central, and South America. This tick is a vector of the agent of Brazilian spotted fever, an often fatal disease in South America. Throughout its geographic range, populations of A. cajennense have shown differences in ecological adaptation while feeding on a variety of hosts ranging from livestock, birds, and humans. In order to examine the taxonomic status and phylogeographic evolution of this species, we analyzed mitochondrial 12S rDNA, control region …

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Faculty Senate Summarized Minutes, 8/25/2009, Unm Faculty Senate Aug 2009

Faculty Senate Summarized Minutes, 8/25/2009, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 1920 - 2013

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Targeting Of Triacylglycerol Synthase Gene For Tuberculosis Treatment, Pappachan Kolattukudy, Jaiyanth Daniel, Vinod Dubey, Tatiana Sirakova Aug 2009

Targeting Of Triacylglycerol Synthase Gene For Tuberculosis Treatment, Pappachan Kolattukudy, Jaiyanth Daniel, Vinod Dubey, Tatiana Sirakova

UCF Patents

Disclosed herein are novel methods for screening for compounds useful in treating or preventing tuberculosis. In exemplary embodiments, screening methods are based on the implementation or manipulation of triacylglycerol synthase like polypeptides or polynucleotides encoding the same. The methods are useful in identifying agents active against TB infection.

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Pengaruh Kemiskinan Keluarga Pada Kejadian Pneumonia Balita Di Indonesia, Rizanda Machmud Aug 2009

Pengaruh Kemiskinan Keluarga Pada Kejadian Pneumonia Balita Di Indonesia, Rizanda Machmud

Kesmas

Pneumonia merupakan penyakit infeksi saluran pernapasan akut yang menjadi kausa utama kematian balita. Di Indonesia, pada akhir tahun 2000, angka kematian balita akibat pneumonia diperkirakan 4,9/1000 balita. Faktor sosio-ekonomi berkontribusi besar terhadap penyakit saluran pernapasan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui faktor sosio-ekonomi yang paling berpengaruh terhadap pneumonia pada balita. Penelitian dengan dengan disain krosseksional ini menggunakan sumber data sekunder Benefit Evaluation Study (BES) II oleh Pusat Penelitian Kesehatan Universitas Indonesia bekerja sama dengan Proyek Intensifikasi Pemberantasan Penyakit Menular, Departemen Kesehatan. Sampel diambil berdasarkan multilevel statistical frameworkdari 7.170 ba-lita pada 10.900 rumah tangga di 27 kabupaten di tujuh provinsi. Metode analisis …

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Health, Climate Change And Sustainability: A Systematic Review And Thematic Analysis Of The Literature., A. Nichols, V. Maynard, B. Goodman, J. Richardson Aug 2009

Health, Climate Change And Sustainability: A Systematic Review And Thematic Analysis Of The Literature., A. Nichols, V. Maynard, B. Goodman, J. Richardson

School of Nursing and Midwifery

BACKGROUND: Evidence of climate change and its impact continues to be accumulated, and it is argued that the consequences of climate change are likely to result in an increased demand on health services. It has been claimed that climate change presents new challenges for health services and that strategies should be adopted to address these challenges. AIM: The aim of this systematic review was to map published literature on health, climate change and sustainability by categorising papers according to their focus on effects, strategy and actions, and to provide a thematic analysis of their content. METHODS: Systematic searches were conducted …

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Serials Unit Annual Report 2008-2009, Andree J. Rathemacher Aug 2009

Serials Unit Annual Report 2008-2009, Andree J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual report of the Serials Unit, University Library, University of Rhode Island. Covers personnel, work flow, subscriptions, and statistics on expenditures by a number of variables.

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Mapping The Dorsal Skin Pigmentation Patterns Of Two Sympatric Populations Of Ambystomatid Salamanders, Ambystoma Opacum And A. Maculatum From Northeast Tennessee., Lok Raj Pokhrel Aug 2009

Mapping The Dorsal Skin Pigmentation Patterns Of Two Sympatric Populations Of Ambystomatid Salamanders, Ambystoma Opacum And A. Maculatum From Northeast Tennessee., Lok Raj Pokhrel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Because of growing concern of habitat fragmentation and its adverse effects on salamander communities in Appalachian region, sympatric populations of ambystomatid salamanders A. opacum and A. maculatum were studied in Northeast Tennessee to address a number of questions: i) the extent of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in both species, ii) what traits influence the dorsal skin pigmentation and how, iii) whether gender differences in developmental stability occur, and iv) the extent of phenotypic variation within each species. The findings of this study revealed SSD in both species of salamanders. The most parsimonious statistical model was developed that explained the influence …

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Hunger Of The Body, Hunger Of The Mind: The Experience Of Food Insecurity In Rural, Non-Peninsular Malaysia, Elizabeth Elliott Cooper Aug 2009

Hunger Of The Body, Hunger Of The Mind: The Experience Of Food Insecurity In Rural, Non-Peninsular Malaysia, Elizabeth Elliott Cooper

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Supplementary feeding continues to be a widespread strategy for child health promotion though its efficacy remains contested. The long-standing, Malaysian national food assistance program for children - Program Pemulihan Kanak-Kanak Kekurangan Zat Makanan (PPKZM) - fits this pattern, receiving severe criticism for its limited impact on child nutritional status. Still, the program remains, producing a seeming paradox and prompting questions of how it fits into (1) the larger political context of national health policy and (2) more localized village and clinic environments. This research combines historical inquiry with the in-depth, ethnographic study of two predominantly Malay coastal villages in Malaysian …

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Catching Strep: Cost-Comparison Of Peri-Natal Screening Assays For Goup B Streptococcus, Bradley Dempsey, Lawrence Leeman, Sharon Phelan, Steven Young Aug 2009

Catching Strep: Cost-Comparison Of Peri-Natal Screening Assays For Goup B Streptococcus, Bradley Dempsey, Lawrence Leeman, Sharon Phelan, Steven Young

Undergraduate Medical Student Research

CATCHING STREP: COST-COMPARISON OF PERINATAL SCREENING ASSAYS FOR GROUP B STREPTOCOCCUS. BG Dempsey, L Leeman, S Phelan, and S Young, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM Purpose: To determine how the implementation of a rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) —based assay for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) affects the treatment and management of women presenting to the hospital, in labor with an unknown GBS culture status. Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of women presenting in labor with an unknown GBS culture status to a large university —based hospital. We compared two groups of women: 1. Women …

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Assets And Child Well-Being In Developing Countries: A Research Review, Gina A. N. Chowa, David Ansong, Rainier Masa Aug 2009

Assets And Child Well-Being In Developing Countries: A Research Review, Gina A. N. Chowa, David Ansong, Rainier Masa

Center for Social Development Research

The impact of assets on child well-being in developing countries has received considerable attention in the last decade. Increased recognition of the critical role played by assets in enhancing children’s well-being has spurred efforts to study the relationship between assets and a range of outcomes for children. This chapter reviews current studies (i.e., conducted within the past 10 years) that explore the relationship of asset ownership and a range of outcomes. The studies we have included in this review illustrate the impact that assets can have on children’s outcomes in the area of health, education, and child labor. Overall, the …

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Novel Strains Of Limestone Canyon Virus Detected In Peromyscus Boylii From Southwestern New Mexico, Kathryn Coan, Jerry Dragoo Aug 2009

Novel Strains Of Limestone Canyon Virus Detected In Peromyscus Boylii From Southwestern New Mexico, Kathryn Coan, Jerry Dragoo

Undergraduate Medical Student Research

Peromyscus bolyii is a dominant species in rodent communities in southwestern New Mexico and is a known carrier of Limestone Canyon virus (LSCV) in Arizona. Five species of Peromyscus were collected from Hidalgo and Grant County, most of which were P. boylii. All mice were serologically tested for antibodies to Sin Nombre virus and Rio Mamore virus. Lung tissue from all seropositive and negative mice was used for RNA extraction, amplification, and sequencing using newly designed primers specific to LSCV for both the S and M segments. A phylogenetic analysis of the virus was performed and showed a about a …

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A Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Model For The Transmission Of Tularemia, Alison N. Triebenbach Aug 2009

A Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Model For The Transmission Of Tularemia, Alison N. Triebenbach

Biological Sciences

Tularemia is a plague-like disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. In Scandinavian countries tularemia transmission is clinically attributed to mosquitoes. To examine the transmission of tularemia by mosquitoes I exposed Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae larvae to F. tularensis and tested all life stages for bacterial DNA using real-time polymerase chain reaction (rtPCR). I fed adult A. aegypti and An. gambiae a blood meal containing F. novicida and tested for DNA 24, 48 and 72 hours after feeding. Seventy-two hours after the F. novicida blood meal I allowed A. aegypti and An. gambiae to feed on a mouse. My …

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Longitudinal Evaluation Of Quality Of Life In Older Persons With Advanced Illness, Rachel Solomon Aug 2009

Longitudinal Evaluation Of Quality Of Life In Older Persons With Advanced Illness, Rachel Solomon

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Longitudinal Evaluation of Quality of Life in Older Persons with Advanced Illness Rachel Solomon, Paul Kirwin, and Terri Fried. Section of Geriatrics, Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Background: Efforts to understand and evaluate quality of life (QoL) among persons with chronic disease have resulted in the development of indices that measure QoL according to the severity of disease, symptoms, and functional impairments. By definition, inclusion of these domains presumes that QoL declines as illness progresses. However, this assumption may not reflect the subjective experience of QoL in …

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Bjc Today Aug 2009

Bjc Today

BJC Today

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