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The Pastors' Study Group : Research Into The Spiritual Formation Of Pastors Participating In Pastors' Study Groups, Christopher Robert Pulliam

ATS Dissertations

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Alignment Around A Missional Vision : Reaching Out In Relationships At Grandview Christian Church, Aaron J. Wymer

ATS Dissertations

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Lee Harris: Al-Qaeda’S Fantasy Ideology Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Oil Over Troubled Waters: Exxon Shipping Co. V. Baker And The Supreme Court's Determination Of Punitive Damages In Maritime Law, Tanya Paula De Sousa

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

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International Resources Selected Websites, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Comparative Economic And Political Ideas: Bibliography, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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A Mother Should Not Have To Adopt Her Own Child: Parentage Laws For Children Of Lesbian Couples In The Twenty-First Century, Nancy Polikoff

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Reclaiming Koreatown: A Prescription For Current And Future Needs Of Koreatown Residents, Edward J.W. Park, Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance

Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works

This report presents current and future needs of neighborhood residents and analyzes the challenges facing the multi-ethnic, low-income Koreatown community in Los Angeles. For the thousands of low-income residents of Los Angeles's Koreatown, the economic hardships brought on by the recent subprime mortgage housing and financial crises are not new. In the words of a Koreatown resident, "....the housing 'crisis' has been a crisis for us for a long time." Well before the current recession, Koreatown residents were complaining of increased housing costs due to the influx of upscale luxury housing units that replaced affordable housing units. The 2008 financial …

The Challenge Of The Postmodern Condition To Adventist Mission In South America, Kleber O. Gonçalves

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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Anointing With Oil In African Christianity: An Evaluation Of Contemporary Practices, Sampson M. Nwaomah

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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Training Oral Leaders: An Adventist Challenge, Gideon Petersen

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

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The Distribution Of Beneficial Mutations And Their Pleiotropic Effects, Sarah Gaffney Wrocklage

Master's Theses and Capstones

Understanding the distribution of beneficial mutations is relevant to the understanding of virtually all aspects of the adaptive process. Data describing this distribution are limited, but even less well understood are the pleiotropic effects of adaptive mutations. Yet, the pleiotropy of beneficial mutations may play a role in numerous biological processes. In this thesis, we address this problem by measuring the distribution of beneficial mutations and their pleiotropic effects using mutants of Burkholderia cenocepacia and Escherichia coli. The fitness of each mutant was measured relative to its progenitor in several novel environments. We found that the effects of beneficial mutations …

Genetic Over-Expression Of Cytokeratin 18 In Bovine Luteal Cells: Effects On Intermediate Filament Formation And Fas Ligand-Induced Apoptosis, Jennifer J. Forcina

Master's Theses and Capstones

The receptor Fas and its ligand, FasL, are implicated in apoptosis of luteal cells during regression of the corpus luteum (CL). In some cell types, cytokeratin (CK) 8/18 filaments impair FasL-induced apoptosis. Here, we determined if genetic over-expression of CK18 filaments in luteal cells similarly prevents FasL-induced apoptosis. Luteal cell cultures were prepared from early and late stage bovine CL (day 5 and days 16-18 post-ovulation, respectively). The cells were transduced with media, mock vector containing GFP, or a CK18-containing vector, and then exposed to a cytokine cocktail containing FasL for 24 hours. Transduction of luteal cells with CK18 vector …

The Good Of The Intellect, Eric Perl

Philosophy Faculty Works

Recent continental philosophy often seeks to retrieve Neoplatonic transcendence, or the Good, while ignoring the place of intellect in classical and medieval Neoplatonism. Instead, it attempts to articulate an encounter with radical transcendence in the immediacy of temporality, individuality, and affectivity. On the assumption that there is no intellectual intuition (Kant), intellectual consciousness is reduced to ratiocination and is taken to be “poor in intuition” (Marion). In this context, the present paper expounds Plotinus’ phenomenology of intellectual experience to show how intellect, for Plotinus, is rather the richest mode of intuition, coinciding with the intelligible content of reality. This content, …

Strange Bedfellows: The Politics Of Preemption, Linda S. Mullenix

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Omg ! Missing The Teachable Moment And Undermining The Future Of The First Amendment - Tisnf!, Mary Sue Backus

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Providence College Library+Commons Promotional Branding Material: Library+Commons Brochure, D. Russell Bailey

Library Commons Basics

A two-sided handout describing the features of the Library+Commons at Providence College.

The Angel Investor Market In Q1q2 2008: A Down Year In Investment Dollars But Not In Deals, Jeffrey Sohl

Center for Venture Research

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The Regulation Of Common Interest Developments As It Relates To Political Expression: The Argument For Liberty And Economic Efficiency, S. Colin G. Petry

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Testers Standing Up For The Title Iii Of The Ada, Kelly Johnson

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Lamp Winter 2009, Liberty University

Lamplight: Literary and Fine Arts Magazine

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Pathways For Synthesis, And Possibilities For Genetic Modification Of Sugar Ester Acyl Groups Produced By Trichomes Of Solanaceous Species, Antoaneta B. Kroumova, George J. Wagner

Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications

Glandular trichomes of many plant species synthesize and secrete a variety of phytochemicals that play an important protective role against pathogens and pests. Acyl sugars, in particular, are powerful natural insecticides. We demonstrated the existence of the α-ketoacid elongation (αKAE) pathway, an alternative to the fatty acid synthase (FAS) pathway, for the extension of carbon chains of acyl groups in sugar esters (SE). The α-KAE pathway utilizes one carbon elongation per cycle in contrast to two carbons per cycle in FAS, and it was found to function in a variety of tobaccos and petunia. FAS-mediated elongation was confirmed to participate …

Clawbacks: Prospective Contract Measures In An Era Of Excessive Executive Compensation And Ponzi Schemes, Jarrod Wong, Miriam A. Cherry

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Vico And Imagination: An Ingenious Approach To Educating Lawyers With Semiotic Sensibility, Francis J. Mootz Iii

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

Law is a specialized semiotic realm, but lawyers generally are ignorant of this fact. Lawyers may manage meaning, but they also are managed by meaning. Seemingly trapped by the weight of pre-existing signs, their attempts to manage these meanings generally are limited to technical interventions and instrumentalist strategies. Signs have power over lawyers because they are embedded in narratives, a semiotic economy that confronts the lawyer as ‘‘given’’ even though it is dynamic and constantly under construction. Most lawyers do not make meaning through legal narratives; rather, they parrot bits of the controlling narratives in response to certain problems. Because …

Educational Change Through The Lens Of Complexity Science: Changing Thinking For Changed Learners, Suzann Girtz

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

As education professionals work in times of exponential change, how they think is as important as what they do. Our thought processes frame our creations—and for hundreds of years that frame has been a linear, Newtonian paradigm. Due to advances in hard sciences, we now know that there are other ways of framing our thoughts and understanding our world, and that is through complexity science. Complexity science is a powerful metaphor to use in reviewing our common understandings of school systems and how to reform them to better serve students. This paper includes a primer of complexity science terms and …

Deficiencies In The Practicum Phase Of Field-Based Education: Students’ Views, Edwin Ralph, Keith Walker, Randy Wimmer

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

A supervised practical experience of on-the-job training forms an essential part of the pre-service preparation of professionals across disciplines. This article reports results from a recent study examining the views of 234 teacher candidates regarding the most negative aspects of their experiences in the 16-week extended-practicum. Four broad themes reflected the post-interns’ responses on the negative elements: (a) individual personal/professional challenges, (b) site-based interpersonal concerns, (c) university- related policy/procedural problems, and (d) practicum-office difficulties. Implications are discussed for the practicum leaders of this program and those from other institutions interested in preventing or reducing such limitations from hampering the effectiveness …

Installments, Issue 26, January 2009, Renee Montgomery

Libraries' Newsletters

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Check It Out, Vol. Iv, No. 1, Spring 2009, Tim Bottorff

Libraries' Newsletters

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Due-B, A New Human Dna Replication Protein, Is The Functional Homolog Of S. Cerevisiae Sld3, Jianhong Yao

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

DNA unwinding elements (DUEs) are commonly found at DNA replication origins. The DUE binding protein (DUE-B) is crucial for the initiation of DNA replication in eukaryotes. The unique 59 amino acid C-terminal part of DUE-B shares nearly 50% similarity with yeast the C-terminus of Sld3. DUE-B plays a key role in eukaryotic DNA replication because it is required for the loading of Cdc45, the MCM helicase activator, on chromatin. Here we show that DUE-B, just like yeast Sld3, binds to Cdc45 and TopBP1 through its C-terminus in Sf9 cells and in vitro. We also show that DUE-B, Cdc45 and TopBP1 …

Tyflos: A Wearable Navigation Prototype For Blind & Visually Impaired; Design, Modelling And Experimental Results, Dimitrios Dakopoulos

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The need for assistive devices has, had and will have a large merit in many engineering research arenas. This dissertation deals with the design, modeling, implementation and experimentation of the navigation component of a wearable assistive system for blind and visually impaired people, called TYFLOS (ΤΥΦΛΟΣ) which is the Greek word for "Blind".

The current prototype consists of two mini cameras attached to a pair of conventional eye-glasses, a 2D tactile display vibration array) which consists of 16 vibrating elements arranged in a 4x4 manner, attached to an elastic vest worn on the user's abdomen, a portable computer, an ear-speaker …