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Portland State Library Newsletter; Fall 2010, Portland State University Library

Library Newsletters

In this issue: Meet the Interim University Librarian; Access to The Chronicle of Higher Education; Distance Learning Students; Posters for Check-Out; Paperless Library Notices; Fall Term Event & Exhibit; Films on Demand and Donor Honor Roll

Pentamidine Inhibits Coxiella Burnetii Growth And 23s Rrna Intron Splicing In Vitro, Michael F. Minnick, Linda D. Hicks, James M. Battisti, Rahul Raghavan

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Coxiella burnetii is the bacterial agent of Q fever in humans. Acute Q fever generally manifests as a flu-like illness and is typically self-resolving. In contrast, chronic Q fever usually presents with endocarditis and is often life-threatening without appropriate antimicrobial therapy. Unfortunately, available options for the successful treatment of chronic Q fever are both limited and protracted (>18 months). Pentamidine, an RNA splice inhibitor used to treat fungal and protozoal infections, was shown to reduce intracellular growth of Coxiella by ca. 73% at a concentration of 1 microM (ca. 0.6 microg/mL) compared with untreated controls, with no detectable toxic …

I Miss The Hungry Years: Coping With Abundance, Albert Borgmann

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Information technology is a marvel of ingenuity and engineering. Itʹs been widely admired and used; itʹs being advanced by inventiveness and competition; and itʹs being promoted by politicians and education experts. But there has also been research and discussion of the liabilities of information technology. The abundance of information has not, as one might have expected, made people generally more attentive and knowledgeable. On the contrary, distraction and ignorance are spreading. That has to worry people in higher education.

Mental Health Problems Have Considerable Impact On Rural Children And Their Families, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs, Erika C. Ziller Phd, David Lambert Phd, Melanie Race Ms, Anush Yousefian Hansen Ms, Ma

Population Health & Health Policy

The majority of children with mental health problems go untreated, and the gap between need and service use is assumed to be wider in rural than in urban areas, particularly for children with more severe needs.^1-2 It is also assumed that rural families of children with mental health problems experience a greater financial and emotional burden than urban families. These assumptions reflect the lower availability of mental health specialty care and support services in rural areas. Lower income and more limited economic opportunities may further hamper the ability of rural families to care for children with mental health problems. …

Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School Of Medicine, Professional Enhancement Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2010, Darshana Shah

Professional Enhancement News (PEN)

Fall/Winter 2010. Volume 2, Number 2

Erie And Federal Criminal Courts, Wayne A. Logan

Vanderbilt Law Review

State and federal courts have long engaged in intersystemic adjudication,' interpreting and applying the constitutions, lawS, and regulations of one another's governments. Perhaps the best known instance in the civil litigation realm occurs with federal diversity jurisdiction, where, as a result of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, federal courts resolve federal civil claims on the basis of state substantive laws.

With criminal laws, however, the phenomenon has been and remains less apparent. This is in significant part due to the principle that such laws embody sovereign normative preferences, susceptible to neither enforcement nor jurisprudential control by other governments. Nevertheless, some …

Communicator Vol. 8, No. 1, School Of Communication

Communicator: School of Communication Newsletter

Contents:
Dr. George and Louise Robeck Remember the Past and Give for the Future
This Year at the School of Communication
Tenure & Promotion
Faculty News
Communication in the Community
Communication Class get Hands-On consulting and Diversity Training Experience with Stryker
Local Independent Film to Premier at Moondance Film Festival in Colorado
Student Awards & Honors
Students In the Real World
Alumni Academy: Judith S. Trent, Ronald Jarvis, Michele Serbenski
Alumni Highlights & News
Upcoming Events

Improving Higher Education In Africa: Lessons From Universities In Ethiopia And Egypt, Frank H. Witt

Distinguished Lectures on Africa

Flyer for public lecture includes biographical information about the speaker.

Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

No abstract provided.

Study Abroad And Global Leadership, James Duff

Global Studies Student Scholarship

This case study was conducted through ethnographic research in which observations were made over the course of one year in one classroom at an international high school. These observations were supplemented by formal interviews with native Spanish speaking students (5), native English speaking students (2), faculty and staff from the same high school. This research proved that native Spanish speaking ELLs are very aware of the importance of learning English as a second language and the advantage they will have in the job market as bilingual graduates. They did not feel as though they were jeopardizing their Spanish culture or …

Paradigmatic Portraits From Weimar Germany: Martha Dix, Sylvia Von Harden, And Anita Berber According To Otto Dix, Althea Ruoppo

Art & Art History Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ua12/9 October Newsletter, Wku Counseling & Testing Center

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Counseling & Testing Center.

The Lesson Of The Irish Family Pub: The Elder Law Clinic Path To A More Thoughtful Practice, Katherine C. Pearson

Faculty Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Lineage Tracing And Resulting Phenotype Of Haemopoietic-Derived Cells In The Pancreas During Beta Cell Regeneration, A. Chamson-Reig, E. J. Arany, D. J. Hill

Paediatrics Publications

Aims Transplantation of bone marrow-derived haemopoietic stem cells following streptozotocin (STZ) treatment to induce pancreatic beta cell loss in mice causes the partial regeneration of beta cell mass, with many haemopoietic cells demonstrating endothelial cell markers. This study used genetically tagged haemopoietic lineage-derived cells to determine how endogenous cells are mobilised following beta cell loss and subsequent replacement. Methods A double transgenic mouse model, Vav-iCre; R26R-enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (YFP), was used where only haemopoietic lineage cells expressed the Vavl gene promoter allowing expression of the YFP reporter gene. Between postnatal days 2 and 4 mice were injected with STZ …

Epidemiology Of Pediatric Urolithiasis, Ajay P. Sharma, Guido Filler

Paediatrics Publications

Pediatric urolithiasis has increased globally in the last few decades. There has been a change in the pattern of stone composition with an increase in the frequency of kidney stones and a decrease in bladder stones. The role of familial predisposition and environmental factors in pediatric urolithiasis is now better understood. Metabolic factors are more common in pediatric urolithiasis than in adult stone disease. This review updates on the epidemiology of pediatric urolithiasis with a focus on the changing trends in the stone disease, current spectrum of stone disease encountered in clinical practice, individual predisposition and the role of environmental …

Nox2 Deficiency Protects Against Streptozotocin-Induced Β-Cell Destruction And Development Of Diabetes In Mice, Fu Li Xiang, Xiangru Lu, Brenda Strutt, David J. Hill, Qingping Feng

Paediatrics Publications

OBJECTIVE - The role of NOX2-containing NADPH oxidase in the development of diabetes is not fully understood. We hypothesized that NOX2 deficiency decreases reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and immune response and protects against streptozotocin (STZ)-induced β-cell destruction and development of diabetes in mice. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS - Five groups of mice-wild-type (WT), NOX2-/-, WT treated with apocynin, and WT adoptively transferred with NOX2-/- or WT splenocytes - were treated with multiple-low-dose STZ. Blood glucose and insulin levels were monitored, and an intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test was performed. Isolated WT and NOX2-/- pancreatic islets were treated with cytokines for …

The Pathways To Mental Health Care Of First-Episode Psychosis Patients: A Systematic Review., Kelly K. Anderson, Rebecca Fuhrer, Ashok K. Malla

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications

BACKGROUND: Although there is agreement on the association between delay in treatment of psychosis and outcome, less is known regarding the pathways to care of patients suffering from a first psychotic episode. Pathways are complex, involve a diverse range of contacts, and are likely to influence delay in treatment. We conducted a systematic review on the nature and determinants of the pathway to care of patients experiencing a first psychotic episode.

METHOD: We searched four databases (Medline, HealthStar, EMBASE, PsycINFO) to identify articles published between 1985 and 2009. We manually searched reference lists and relevant journals and used forward citation …

Standing In Monsanto Co. V. Geertson Seed Farms: Using Economic Injury As A Basis For Standing When Environmental Harm Is Difficult To Prove, Bradford Mank

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

Clean & Green: Tidying Up The Farm Tax Subsidy, Joshua Wilkins

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

Issue No. 85: October 2010, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Donaciano Vigil, "The Gifted Giant"--But Was He a Traitor?
4 Donaciano Vigil House in Santa Fe
4 Los Viejos Book Group of Santa Fe Field Trips in Search of New Mexico Literary History
5 Reba Wells Grandrud Honored as 2010 Arizona Culturekeeper
5 The Lodge at Sierra Blanca, Ruidoso, New Mexico
5 Dr. Richard Greenleaf Honored
5 Membership Benefits Historical Society of New Mexico
6 Carlos Ortiz Receives 2010 Buck Ramsay Heritage Award
6 In Memoriam
7 From Our President
8 Curtis Fort "Scatterin' the Drive" in New Mexico Stockman
8 New Books for Your New Mexico History Library

Kahn Chronicle: Fall 2010, Smith College, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute

Kahn Chronicle

Table of Contents:

Marking Time: Smith's Newest Time Capsule
Information Sessions: Renaissances & Evil
2010-2011 Student Fellowships
Short-term Project Fellowship Opportunities
Neilson-Kahn Seminar
News Briefs
Tes Slominski: Mellon/ ACLS Fellow
Wellness & Disease Project Final Report
Telling Time Project Final Report
A Note from the Director

Christine, Laura Curtis Bullard

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote the novel Christine in 1856, she created one of antebellum America’s most radical heroines: a woman’s rights leader. Addressing the major social, political, and cultural issues surrounding women from within an unusually overt feminist framework for its time, Christine openly challenges a social and legal system that denies women full and equal rights. Christine defies her family, rejects marriage, and leaves a job as a teacher to embark on her career, rewriting the script for a successful nineteenth-century heroine. Along the way, she recreates domesticity on her own terms, helping other young women gain economic …

The Nebraska Dispatches, Christopher Cartmill

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Standing Bear, a Ponca Native American chief, is best known for successfully arguing in U.S. District Court in 1879 that Native Americans are “persons within the meaning of the law” who have the right of habeas corpus. When playwright Christopher Cartmill returned to his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to write a play about Chief Standing Bear, he unknowingly began a complicated adventure. As he followed the story of the Ponca chief who fought so hard to return from a reservation in Oklahoma to his homeland in northern Nebraska, Cartmill stumbled into the politics of identity, contested notions of homeland, and …

Benjamin Franklin And The American Revolution, Jonathan R. Dull

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

The inventor, the ladies’ man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of Franklin’s part in the American Revolution: except for Washington he was its most irreplaceable leader. Although aged and in ill health, Franklin served the cause with unsurpassed zeal and dedication. Jonathan R. Dull, whose decades of work on The Papers of Benjamin Franklin have given him rare insight into his subject, explains Franklin’s role in the Revolution, what prepared him for that role, and what motivated him. The Franklin …

The Year 3000, Paolo Mantegazza

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the United Planetary States to celebrate their “mating union,” encounter the marvels of cultural and scientific advances along the way. Intriguing in itself, The Year 3000 is also remarkable for both its vision of the future (predicting an astonishing array of phenomena from airplanes, artificial intelligence, CAT scans, and credit cards to controversies surrounding divorce, abortion, and …

Football's Last Iron Men, Norman L. Macht

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

In November 1934, the Princeton football team—unbeaten in its last fifteen games—faced the 3–3 Yale Bulldogs, who gave new meaning to the term “underdogs.” As much a thrilling play-by-play account of college football at its finest as it is a fascinating work of sports history, this book chronicles the season that brought Princeton and Yale together in a game like no other since. Football’s Last Iron Men follows the teams from the hiring of future Hall of Fame coaches Fritz Crisler and Greasy Neale through spring practice to their annual clash on November 17. The Yale Elis, it seemed, had …

Taking Science To The People, Carolyn Johnsen

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

The American public, government, and the news media continually grapple with myriad policy issues related to science and technology. Those issues include global warming, energy, stem-cell research, health care, childhood autism, food safety, and genetics, to name but a few. When the public is informed on such topics, chances improve for reasoned policy decisions. Journalists have typically bridged the gap between scientists and the public, but the times now call for more engagement from the experts. The authors in this collection write convincingly about why scientists and engineers should shake off their ivory-tower reticence and take science to the people. …

Cover Me, Soyna Huber

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn’t worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber’s irreverent and affecting memoir of navigating the nation’s health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform. “I look like …

Four Years In Europe With Buffalo Bill, Charles Eldridge Griffin

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the entertainment industry’s first international celebrity, achieving worldwide stardom with his traveling Wild West show. For three decades he operated and appeared in various incarnations of “the western world’s greatest traveling attraction,” enthralling audiences around the globe. When the show reached Europe it was a sensation, igniting “Wild West fever” by offering what purported to be a genuine experience of the American frontier. By any standard Charles Eldridge Griffin (1859–1914), manager of the Wild West’s European tour, was a remarkable man. Known by the stage names of Monsieur F. Le Costro, Professor Griffin, and …

Education Beyond The Mesas, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Education beyond the Mesas is the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern Arizona “turned the power” by using compulsory federal education to affirm their way of life and better their community. Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, one of the largest off-reservation boarding schools in the United States, followed other federally funded boarding schools of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in promoting the assimilation of indigenous people into mainstream America. Many Hopi schoolchildren, deeply conversant in Hopi values and traditional education before being sent to Sherman Institute, resisted this program of acculturation. Immersed in learning …