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Emissions And Impacts From Prescribed Fire In A Longleaf Pine Ecosystem, Scott James Strenfel

Master's Theses

Prescribed fire is a frequently utilized land-management tool in the Southeastern US. In this study, effects of seasonal-related variations and of turbulence generation on emissions and impacts from prescribed fires were evaluated. High frequency in situ data were obtained from three summer (July 2008) and three winter (January 2009) fires within the active burn perimeter and downwind by use of a 10 m instrumented tower and 2 m tripod, respectively. Two cases were selected to evaluate the performance of the EPA-approved short-range regulatory dispersion model, AERMOD, for prescribed fire applications.

Results showed that summer fuels were much greener than winter …

Acoustic Intensity Measurement System: Application In Localized Drug Delivery, Natalie Phipps

Master's Theses

Ultrasound is used for many applications in diagnostics and therapy. New developments are being made specifically for the use of therapeutic ultrasound for enhancement of localized drug delivery. The long term goal of this study is to find ultrasound pulsing sequences that will allow for controlled mass diffusion from hydrogel drug reservoirs. Developing this new method requires the calibration and characterization of therapy transducers using power and acoustic intensity measurements. Mechanical index, spatial peak pulse average intensity, and spatial temporal pulse average intensity calculations were made using hydrophone measurements set-up in a tank measurement system. These were compared to safety …

Amount Of International News By Four World Newspapers: Pre And Post-9/11, Sidney Mitchell

Master's Theses

World newspapers, The New York Times, The London Times, The Australian, and The Toronto Star, have the power to enlighten countries and shape public opinion domestically and abroad. However, at times, newspapers tend to be biased and reflect ideologies or values, which tend to be slanted towards home cultures and personal politics. Consequently, the public often suffers because what it learns about the world may be distorted. As a result, newspapers have witnessed a steady decline in readership following the end of the Cold-War and continuing throughout post-9/11. Irrespectively, studies have reported “spikes“ in international news coverage following 9/11 that …

International Law And African Judiciaries: The Example Of South Africa, Erika George

Faculty Scholarship

In recent years, commentators have questioned the extent to which African courts would rely upon foreign law or resort to rules of international law in their domestic decision making. I Comparatively, the African continent offers an interesting and important point of departure for exploring the influence of international law on domestic legal systems. While Africa boasts a number of new constitutional democracies, Africa is also home to a number of countries that remain burdened by colonial legacies and conflict.

It would not be unreasonable to expect international and foreign law to meet with considerable resistance or to be rejected as …

Health Reform: What's Insurance Got To Do With It? Recognizing Health Insurance As A Separate Species Of Insurance, Wendy K. Mariner

Faculty Scholarship

Health insurance can be, and to a large extent already is, a separate species of insurance. This article describes the different views of insurance that made health reform contentious. It argues that the goals of health reform are incompatible with conventional views of insurance. Nonetheless, reforming health insurance to achieve those goals does not require as dramatic shift as some might think, because health insurance has already become primarily a means of paying for health care, rather than a simple risk spreading device for specified losses.

Cautions On The Use Of Economics Experiments In Law, Kathryn Zeiler

Faculty Scholarship

The recent move to import empirical results into law and policymaking have introduced challenges related to drawing proper inferences from quantitative studies. The purpose of this essay is to elaborate on three specific cautions on the use of economics experiment results. First, critiques of experiment designs based on external and ecological validity are often misplaced. Second, some legal scholars have fallen into the problematic habit of applying results from experiments directly to law and policy rather than applying well-supported theories. Third, the divergent purposes behind economics studies and legal scholarship give rise, in part, to problematic cherry picking of experimental …

Pharmacologic Eigenvalues: Beating The Rap On Bone Marrow Failure, Stephen G. Emerson, R. W. Garrett

Biology Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Multi-Locus Sequence Typing Of Enteroaggregative Escherichia Coli Isolates From Nigerian Children Uncovers Multiple Lineages, Iruka N. Okeke, Faith Wallace-Gadsden, Hannah R. Simons '04, Nicholas Matthews, Amy S. Labar '10, Jennifer Hwang '09

Biology Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Poxvirus Complement Control Proteins Are Expressed On The Cell Surface Through An Intermolecular Disulfide Bridge With The Viral A56 Protein, Brian Dehaven

Biology Faculty Scholarship

The vaccinia virus (VACV) complement control protein (VCP) is an immunomodulatory protein that is both secreted from and expressed on the surface of infected cells. Surface expression of VCP occurs though an interaction with the viral transmembrane protein A56 and is dependent on a free N-terminal cysteine of VCP. Although A56 and VCP have been shown to interact in infected cells, the mechanism remains unclear. To investigate if A56 is sufficient for surface expression, we transiently expressed VCP and A56 in eukaryotic cell lines and found that they interact on the cell surface in the absence of other viral proteins. …

Expanding The Treatment Window Raising The Bar For Patient Safety, Claranne Mathiesen Rn, Msn, Cnrn

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

The Development Of A Formal Preceptor Model To Improve Departmental Mentorship, Angela Lutz Bs, Rrt-Nps, Kenneth Miller Med, Rrt-Nps, Linda Cornman Bs, Rrt-Nps, Uma Bhatt Rrt, Bryn Surgeoner Rrt

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Merging Informatics And Respiratory To Improve Research And Patient Care Outcomes, Diane Horoski, Robert Leshko Bs,Rrt, Kenneth Miller Med, Rrt-Nps, Angela Lutz Bs, Rrt-Nps

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Optimizing Technology To Improve Care In The Delivery Of Crrt, Susann R. Groller Rn, Bsn, Mba, Alice Vrsan Rn-Bc, Msn

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Lending A Helping Hand: Occupational Therapist’S Role In Safe Patient Handling And Movement Programs, Holly Ehrenfried Otr/L, Cht

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Senior Professionals, January/February 2010, Illinois State University, Office Of The Provost

Senior Professionals Newsletter

Newsletter for the Illinois State University Office of the Provost

Faithful Agent, Integrative, And Welfarist Interpretation, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

We are in the midst of a series of lively debates about how to interpret enacted laws such as written constitutions and statutes. In constitutional law, there is a spirited clash between "originalists" and "nonoriginalists". In the statutory arena, we have a three-way battle between "textualists," "intentionalists", and "pragmatists." A common feature of these contending schools is an insistence on a single, correct approach to interpretation. In this respect, however, each of these rival theories deviates from the Practice of interpretation. Real world interpreters – to a person – deploy a variety of interpretative methods when they seek to resolve …

Genetic Elements Associated With Antimicrobial Resistance In Enteropathogenic Escherichia Coli (Epec) From Brazil, Isabel C. A. Scaletsky, Tamara B. Souza, Katia R. S. Aranda, Iruka N. Okeke

Biology Faculty Scholarship

This paper goes on to describe the importance of a plasmid discovered by Adaobi Nwaneshiudu '03 and published in 2007 among enteropathogenic E. coli in Brazil in a collaborative endeavor with the Scaletsky lab in Sao Paulo. --author-supplied description

The Vaccinia Virus Complement Control Protein Modulates Adaptive Immune Responses During Infection, N. M. Girgis, Brian Dehaven

Biology Faculty Scholarship

Complement activation is an important component of the innate immune response against viral infection and also shapes adaptive immune responses. Despite compelling evidence that complement activation enhances T cell and antibody (Ab) responses during viral infection, it is unknown whether inhibition of complement by pathogens alters these responses. Vaccinia virus (VACV) modulates complement activation by encoding a complement regulatory protein called the vaccinia virus complement control protein (VCP). Although VCP has been described as a virulence factor, the mechanisms by which VCP enhances VACV pathogenesis have not been fully defined. Since complement is necessary for optimal adaptive immune responses to …

What Would The Delegates Talk About? A Rough Agenda For A Constitutional Convention, Darien Shanske

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Quasi-Preemption: Nervous Breakdown In Our Constitutional System, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Evidentiary Incommensurability A Preliminary Exploration Of The Problem Of Reasoning From General Scientific Data To Individualized Legal Decision Making, David L. Faigman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Crafting An Amnesty With Traditional Tools Registration And Cancellation, Richard A. Boswell

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

State Of Emergency California's Correctional Crisis, Aaron J. Rappaport, Kara Dansky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

"First, Do No Harm" Human Rights And Efforts To Combat Climate Change, Naomi Roht-Arriaza

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Forest Carbon Projects And International Law A Deep Equity Legal Analysis, David Takacs

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Yes, And: Core Concerns, Internal Mindfulness, And External Mindfulness For Emotional Balance, Lie Detection, And Successful Negotiation, Clark Freshman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Declaratory Relief After Medimmune, David I. Levine, Charles E. Belle

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Regulating Polygamy: Intimacy, Default Rules, And Bargaining For Equality, Adrienne D. Davis

Scholarship@WashULaw

Most legal scholarship about polygamy has approached it in one of two ways. Some have framed it as a question of how far constitutional protection for religious freedom and privacy rights extends, including what we might think of as “intimacy liberty,” particularly in light of Lawrence v. Texas. Others have debated decriminalization, based on the contested effects of polygamy on matters ranging from women’s subordination to fraudulent behavior to democracy. This Essay shifts attention from the constitutionality and decriminalization debates to a new set of questions: whether and how polygamy might be effectively recognized and regulated, consistent with contemporary social …

Introduction To The Symposium: The Politics Of Identity After Identity Politics, Adrienne D. Davis

Scholarship@WashULaw

The Essays in this volume seek to shed some light on the politics of identity after the 2008 Presidential election in which identity politics dominated. To explore how 2008 and its aftermath have shifted both academic and political debates, Professor Adrienne Davis invited scholars from a variety of disciplines who embrace diverse methodologies—political theory; cultural studies; history; and law. These authors explore identity politics as a field of academic inquiry; a cultural discourse; a legal claim; a negotiation of institutions and power; and a predicate for political alliances. Collectively, the Articles both develop new frameworks and intervene in old ones …

Three Snapshots Of Scholarly Engagement: Catharine Mackinnon’S Ethical Entrenchment, Transformative Politics, And Personal Commitment, Adrienne D. Davis

Scholarship@WashULaw

One of Catharine MacKinnon's germinal works calls attention to the political effects of modifiers. So, I was intrigued by the modifier of the conference panel that sparked this essay, the "engaged" scholar. I was struck by the quite distinct connotations invoked by this modifier. Of course there is the use I believe was envisioned by the plenary organizers as characterizing Professor MacKinnon's stunning body of legal work: engaged as in connected to something, seriously paying attention to consequences, rigorous and sustained involvement with a subject. Yet there are other connotations of engaged that I think are also helpful in understanding …