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Cordyceps Sinensis Extract Suppresses Hypoxia-Induced Proliferation Of Rat Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells, Bao-An Gao, Jun Yang, Ji Huang, Xiang-Jun Cui, Shi-Xiong Chen, Hong-Yan Den, Guang-Ming Xiang Sep 2010

Cordyceps Sinensis Extract Suppresses Hypoxia-Induced Proliferation Of Rat Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells, Bao-An Gao, Jun Yang, Ji Huang, Xiang-Jun Cui, Shi-Xiong Chen, Hong-Yan Den, Guang-Ming Xiang

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of a Chinese herb Cordyceps sinensis (C. sinensis) extract on hypoxia-induced proliferation and the underlying mechanisms involved. METHODS: This prospective study was carried out at the Central Laboratory of Yichang Central People9s Hospital, Yichang, China from March 2008 to April 2010. The C. sinensis was extracted from the Chinese herb C. sinensis using aqueous alcohol extraction techniques. Forty healthy adult male Sprague Dawley rats were used in the study. The proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) was measured using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-Yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, and cell viability was determined by trypan blue exclusion. Cell …

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B7-H3 And Cd133 Expression In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer And Correlation With Clinicopathologic Factors And Prognosis, Yue-Hua Xu, Guang-Bo Zhang, Jia-Min Wang, Hua-Cheng Hu Sep 2010

B7-H3 And Cd133 Expression In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer And Correlation With Clinicopathologic Factors And Prognosis, Yue-Hua Xu, Guang-Bo Zhang, Jia-Min Wang, Hua-Cheng Hu

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To detect the expression of B7-H3 and CD133 in human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) specimens and lung benign lesions, and to evaluate the correlation between the 2 biomarkers and clinicopathologic features. METHODS: This is a case-control study of 102 tissue specimens collected from NSCLC participants undergoing thoracic surgery in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China, between January 2006 and December 2008. From the 102 patients, 25 adjacent non-cancer samples were verified pathologically as normal tissue (positive group), and 24 benign inflammatory lesion tissues were used as control (negative group). Specimens from 126 participants were stained …

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Vasocontractile Effect Of Seraseal In Rat Thoracic Aorta, Umit Karacayli, Ismail M. Vural, Melik Seyrek, Oguzhan Yildiz Sep 2010

Vasocontractile Effect Of Seraseal In Rat Thoracic Aorta, Umit Karacayli, Ismail M. Vural, Melik Seyrek, Oguzhan Yildiz

Saudi Medical Journal

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The Grand Rectification: Review Of The Second Sex By Simone De Beauvoir, Translated By Constance Borde And Sheila Malovany-Chevallier., Meryl Altman Sep 2010

The Grand Rectification: Review Of The Second Sex By Simone De Beauvoir, Translated By Constance Borde And Sheila Malovany-Chevallier., Meryl Altman

English Faculty publications

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Distinct Macrophage Subpopulations Regulate Viral Encephalitis But Not Viral Clearance In The Cns, Christina D. Steel, Woong-Ki Kim, Larry Sanford, Laurie Wellman, Sandra Burnett, Nico Van Rooijen, Rochard P. Ciavarra Sep 2010

Distinct Macrophage Subpopulations Regulate Viral Encephalitis But Not Viral Clearance In The Cns, Christina D. Steel, Woong-Ki Kim, Larry Sanford, Laurie Wellman, Sandra Burnett, Nico Van Rooijen, Rochard P. Ciavarra

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Intranasal application of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) induces acute encephalitis characterized by a pronounced myeloid and T cell infiltrate. The role of distinct phagocytic populations on VSV encephalitis was therefore examined in this study. Ablation of peripheral macrophages did not impair VSV encephalitis or viral clearance from the brain, whereas, depletion of splenic marginal dendritic cells impaired this response and enhanced morbidity/mortality. Selective depletion of brain perivascular macrophages also suppressed this response without altering viral clearance. Thus, two anatomically distinct phagocytic populations regulate VSV encephalitis in a non-redundant fashion although neither population is essential for viral clearance in the CNS. …

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Autoethnographic Mother-Writing: Advocating Radical Specificity, Patricia Sotirin Sep 2010

Autoethnographic Mother-Writing: Advocating Radical Specificity, Patricia Sotirin

Michigan Tech Publications

In considering the similarities between "momoirs"--popular memoirs written by mothers about motherhood experiences--and evocative autoethnographic mother-writing, I argue that differentiating these two forms of intimate observation and personal narrative requires a rethinking of autoethnographic practice. Specifically, I draw on the work of Gilles Deleuze to advocate for a radical specificity in autoethnographic writing. Thinking the autoethnographic narrative in terms of specificities and differences encourages us to think creatively about personal experiences and cultural relations beyond what is shared and communicable.

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Bioluminescent Escherichia Coli Strains For The Quantitative Detection Of Phosphate And Ammonia In Coastal And Suburban Watersheds, Cristina V. Cardemil , '01, D. R. Smulski, R. A. Larossa, Amy Cheng Vollmer Sep 2010

Bioluminescent Escherichia Coli Strains For The Quantitative Detection Of Phosphate And Ammonia In Coastal And Suburban Watersheds, Cristina V. Cardemil , '01, D. R. Smulski, R. A. Larossa, Amy Cheng Vollmer

Biology Faculty Works

Accumulation of phosphate and ammonia in estuarine systems and subsequent dinoflagellate and algal blooms has been implicated in fish kills and in health risks for fishermen. Analytic chemistry kits are used to measure phosphate and ammonia levels in water samples, but their sensitivity is limited due to specificity for inorganic forms of these moieties. An Escherichia coli bioluminescent reporter system measured the bioavailability of inorganic nutrients through fusion of E. coli promoters (phoA or glnAp2) to the luxCDABE operon of Vibrio fischeri carried either on the chromosome or on a multicopy plasmid vector, resulting in emission of light in response …

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Women With Disabilities: The Forgotten Peace Builders, Stephanie Ortoleva Sep 2010

Women With Disabilities: The Forgotten Peace Builders, Stephanie Ortoleva

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review

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"Everything Has Changed": Narratives Of The Vietnamese American Community In Post-Katrina Mississippi, Yoosun Park, Joshua Miller, Bao Chau Van Sep 2010

"Everything Has Changed": Narratives Of The Vietnamese American Community In Post-Katrina Mississippi, Yoosun Park, Joshua Miller, Bao Chau Van

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In this qualitative study of the Vietnamese American community of Biloxi, Mississippi, conducted three years after Katrina, we attended not only to individual experiences but to the relationship of individuals to their collective and social worlds. The interlocked relationship of individual and collective loss and recovery are clearly demonstrated in respondents' narratives. The neighborhood and community of Little Saigon was significant not only as a symbolic source of identity but as a protected and familiar space of residence, livelihood, and social connections. The post-Katrina changes in the neighborhood are, in multiple ways, changing participants' experience of and relationship to their …

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Drying Fruits, Vegetables, And Herbs: General Safe Food Handling Recommendations, Joan Hegerfeld-Baker Sep 2010

Drying Fruits, Vegetables, And Herbs: General Safe Food Handling Recommendations, Joan Hegerfeld-Baker

SDSU Extension Fact Sheets

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Cyberbullying 2.0: A Schoolhouse Problem Grows Up, Christopher S. Burrichter Sep 2010

Cyberbullying 2.0: A Schoolhouse Problem Grows Up, Christopher S. Burrichter

DePaul Law Review

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Sandy And The Sabbath, Samantha Snively Sep 2010

Sandy And The Sabbath, Samantha Snively

Lake Union Herald

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State Space Model Of A Light Weight Flexible Telescope, Chi-Yeh Hsu Sep 2010

State Space Model Of A Light Weight Flexible Telescope, Chi-Yeh Hsu

Master's Theses

The accuracy of optical telescope in the past was dominated by the construction of the telescope body and the precision of optical surface. This thesis fits into a larger project with a goal of controlling a flexible telescope in order to help a cheaper telescope achieve higher accuracy. In order to understand the internal motion of telescope, the goal of this thesis is to build a state space model of a two-degree-of-freedom telescope using a known star location as feedback. The model presented in this thesis may be used for the telescope simulation and the control design in the future. …

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Multi-Frequency Processing For Lumen Enhancement With Wideband Intravascular Ultrasound, Rory A. Carrillo Sep 2010

Multi-Frequency Processing For Lumen Enhancement With Wideband Intravascular Ultrasound, Rory A. Carrillo

Master's Theses

The application of high frequency ultrasound is the key to higher resolution intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) images. The need to further improve the IVUS spatial resolution may drive the transducer center frequency even higher than the current 40 MHz range. However, increasing the center frequency may be challenging as it leads to stronger scattering echoes from blood. The high level of blood scattering echoes may obscure the arterial lumen and make image interpretation difficult. Blood backscatter levels increase with transmission center frequency at a much greater rate compared to arterial tissue. These different frequency dependencies provide a potential method to distinguish …

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In Praise Of Irrationality: Self, "East" And "West" In Greek Teachers' Speeches On National Day Commemorations, Lucianna Benincasa Sep 2010

In Praise Of Irrationality: Self, "East" And "West" In Greek Teachers' Speeches On National Day Commemorations, Lucianna Benincasa

The Qualitative Report

In this qualitative study of school discourse on national day commemorations, focus is on the "social creativity strategies" through which group members can improve their social identity. Discourse analysis was carried out on thirty-nine teachers' speeches delivered in Greek schools between 1998 and 2004. The speakers scorn rationality and logic, stereotypically attributed to "the West" (a "West" which is perceived not to include Greece), as cold and not human. The Greeks' successful national struggles are presented instead as the result of irrationality. They claim irrationality to be the most human and thus the most valuable quality, which places Greece first …

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(Wp 2010-01) The Role Of Primary Commodities In Economic Development: Sub-Saharan Africa Versus Rest Of The World, Fabrizio Carmignani, Abdur Chowdhury Sep 2010

(Wp 2010-01) The Role Of Primary Commodities In Economic Development: Sub-Saharan Africa Versus Rest Of The World, Fabrizio Carmignani, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Working Papers

We study the nexus between natural resources and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and find that SSA is indeed special: resources dependence retards growth in SSA, but not elsewhere. The natural resources curse is thus specific to SSA. We then show that this specificity does not depend on the type of primary commodities on which SSA specializes. Instead, the SSA specificity appears to arise from the interaction between institutions and natural resources.

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(Wp 2010-08) Neuroeconomics: Constructing Identity, John B. Davis Sep 2010

(Wp 2010-08) Neuroeconomics: Constructing Identity, John B. Davis

Economics Working Papers

This paper asks whether neuroeconomics will make instrumental use of neuroscience to adjudicate existing disputes in economics or be more seriously informed by neuroscience in ways that might transform economics. The paper pursues the question by asking how neuroscience constructs an understanding of individuals as whole persons. The body of the paper is devoted to examining two approaches: Don Ross’s neurocellular approach to neuroeconomics and Joseph Dumit’s cultural anthropological science organization approach. The accounts are used to identify boundaries on single individual explanations. With that space Andy Clark’s external scaffolding view and Nathaniel Wilcox’s socially distributed cognition view are employed.

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Fighting Cancer With Folate: Investigating The Link Between Nutrients And Disease, Amy Oprean Sep 2010

Fighting Cancer With Folate: Investigating The Link Between Nutrients And Disease, Amy Oprean

New Science

Over the past decade, a growing body of literature has emerged suggesting that nutrients play an important role in regulating gene expression, particularly as it relates to the development of disease. Ahmad Heydari, Ph.D., professor of nutrition and food science, is at the forefront of this growing field with his investigation of the link between folic acid and gastrointestinal cancer prevention and treatment. “Powerful developments in genetics research have uncovered the potential of nutrients in controlling gene expression and even preventing DNA damage,” Heydari said. “In terms of cancer, a disease caused primarily from DNA damage, the potential for improvements …

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Cerebral Palsy: Wayne State University Giving Hope In A Small (Nano) Way, Julie O'Connor Sep 2010

Cerebral Palsy: Wayne State University Giving Hope In A Small (Nano) Way, Julie O'Connor

New Science

Cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that appears in infancy or early childhood and permanently affects body movement and muscle coordination, affects 10,000 newborns yearly and 800,000 people overall in the U.S. It occurs as a result of injury to the developing brain that happens before birth or sometimes during the first few months or years of life. Conditions such as prematurity, maternal infections, placental abnormalities and infections such as meningitis or encephalitis that occur in the newborn period may result in brain injury producing cerebral palsy. A team of researchers from the College of Engineering, School of Medicine and the …

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Epilepsy At Every Angle: A Systems Biology Approach To A Cure, Amy Oprean Sep 2010

Epilepsy At Every Angle: A Systems Biology Approach To A Cure, Amy Oprean

New Science

Caused by birth trauma, malformation, stroke, brain tumor or head injury and affecting as much as 1 percent of the population, epilepsy is one of the least understood human disorders in the most complicated of organs – the brain. Groundbreaking work to unlock the disease’s cure is in motion in the lab of Jeffrey Loeb, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurology, member of the WSU/DMC Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and associate director of the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics in the School of Medicine. By applying a systems biology approach to the study of human epileptic brain tissue, Loeb and …

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New Science Volume 18, Division Of Research Sep 2010

New Science Volume 18, Division Of Research

New Science

Full issue to Volume 18 of New Science

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Tennessee Farm Bureau News - September 2010, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation Sep 2010

Tennessee Farm Bureau News - September 2010, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

Tennessee Farm Bureau News

No abstract provided.

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The Economic And Financial Policies To Fight Against Climate Change: The Case Of Maghreb, Nathalie Hilmi, Alain Safa Sep 2010

The Economic And Financial Policies To Fight Against Climate Change: The Case Of Maghreb, Nathalie Hilmi, Alain Safa

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

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Spartan Daily September 1, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Sep 2010

Spartan Daily September 1, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 135, Issue 3

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What Is The Best Antiplatelet Agent For Prevention Of Recurrent Stroke In Pakistani Patients? Do Combinations Offer Significant Advantages In The South Asian Context?, Maria Khan, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal Sep 2010

What Is The Best Antiplatelet Agent For Prevention Of Recurrent Stroke In Pakistani Patients? Do Combinations Offer Significant Advantages In The South Asian Context?, Maria Khan, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal

Section of Neurology

No abstract provided.

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Coming In From The Margin: Research Practices, Representation And The Ordinary, Karen P. Greiner Sep 2010

Coming In From The Margin: Research Practices, Representation And The Ordinary, Karen P. Greiner

The Qualitative Report

This essay explores issues of marginality and representation in research, which emerged during life history interviews with Tammi, an "ordinary" woman living in Appalachia. I examine how my research practices, namely my thirst for drama and marginality, nearly silenced the preferred stories of the woman who shared her life with me. I contrast Tammi's unique yet quotidian accounts with streams of literature reflecting a tendency to neglect the commonplace by representing residents of Appalachia through tragic or heroic extremes. This essay pairs Tammi's stories with a reflection on what may have become of them had I followed my first impulse …

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Montana Kaimin, September 1, 2010, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula Sep 2010

Montana Kaimin, September 1, 2010, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

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Inherent Poetry Of Meaning, Matt Gerrelts Sep 2010

Inherent Poetry Of Meaning, Matt Gerrelts

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

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Exploratory Analysis Of Pathogen Resistance Responsible Genetic Elements In Two Eudicots From Whole Genome Sequence, Aubrey Bailey Sep 2010

Exploratory Analysis Of Pathogen Resistance Responsible Genetic Elements In Two Eudicots From Whole Genome Sequence, Aubrey Bailey

Theses

Agricultural products are becoming more homogenous in order to conform to consumer expectations. In doing so, they have become a high-risk target for widespread crop failure due to pathogens or other agricultural maladies. Presented here are a collection of tools and a work-flow for the wholesale detection and characterization of disease resistance-associated proteins from whole-genome sequences. These techniques were also adapted for identifying potential miRNA regulatory sequences. Putative R-gene sequences identified from the Malus x Domestica 'Golden Delicious' genome were acquired for verification against wild apple species. Resistance gene analogs were PCR amplified from R-gene associated domains (TIR, NBS, and …

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Developing Model Checkers Using Pat, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Jin Song Dong Sep 2010

Developing Model Checkers Using Pat, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Jin Song Dong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

During the last two decades, model checking has emerged as an effective system analysis technique complementary to simulation and testing. Many model checking algorithms and state space reduction techniques have been proposed. Although it is desirable to have dedicated model checkers for every language (or application domain), implementing one with effective reduction techniques is rather challenging. In this work, we present a generic and extensible framework PAT, which facilitates users to build customized model checkers. PAT provides a library of state-of-art model checking algorithms as well as support for customizing language syntax, semantics, state space reduction techniques, graphic user interfaces, …

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