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Ego Defense Mechanisms In Pakistani Medical Students: A Cross Sectional Analysis, Maria A. Parekh, Hina Majeed, Tuba R. Khan, Anum B. Khan, Salman Khalid, Nadia M. Khwaja, Roha Khalid, Mohammad A. Khan, Ibrahim M. Rizqui, Imtiaz Jehan

Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Background: Ego defense mechanisms (or factors), defined by Freud as unconscious resources used by the ego to reduce conflict between the id and superego, are a reflection of how an individual deals with conflict and stress. This study assesses the prevalence of various ego defense mechanisms employed by medical students of Karachi, which is a group with higher stress levels than the general population. Methods: A questionnaire based cross-sectional study was conducted on 682 students from five major medical colleges of Karachi over 4 weeks in November 2006. Ego defense mechanisms were assessed using the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) individually …

The Current Volume 20 : Issue 19, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Volume Cxxvii, Number 12, January 29, 2010, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

The Pan American (2010-01-29), Brian Silva

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 66, No. 15

Ncuwm Talk Abstracts 2010

Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

Dr. Bryna Kra, Northwestern University

“From Ramsey Theory to Dynamical

Systems and Back”

Dr. Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University

“Ping-Pong in Outer Space”

Lindsay Baun, College of St. Benedict

Danica Belanus, University of North Dakota

Hayley Belli, University of Oregon

Tiffany Bradford, Saint Francis University

Kathryn Bryant, Northern Arizona University

Laura Buggy, College of St. Benedict

Katharina Carella, Ithaca College

Kathleen Carroll, Wheaton College

Elizabeth Collins-Wildman, Carleton College

Rebecca Dorff, Brigham Young University

Melisa Emory, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Avis Foster, George Mason University

Xiaojing Fu, Clarkson University

Jennifer Garbett, Kenyon College

Nicki Gaswick, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Rita Gnizak, Fort …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, January 29, 2010, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The January 29, 2010, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Sandspur, Vol 116, No 13, January 29, 2010, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Sperm Morphometrics In The Diamond-Backed Watersnake, Nerodia Rhombifer Hallowell, With Reference To Possible Implications On Sperm Competition, Jonathan Wade Stanley

Student Theses and Dissertations

A total of 46 male Diamond-backed Watersnakes, Nerodia rhombifer Hallowell were collected from Mallard Lake in Mississippi County, Arkansas and a catfish farm in Desha County, Arkansas to determine effects that the farm may have on sperm morphometrics in this species. Snout-vent lengths (SVL) were recorded and blood samples were collected for hematocrit (Hct) determination. Sperm were collected, viewed by scanning electron microscopy, and measured for overall length, head length, and tail length. Snakes from the fish farm had significantly longer SVL than did snakes from Mallard Lake. No correlation was found between Hct values and SVL, but differences were …

Howard Henry Chen Interview, Diane Nguyen

Asian American Art Oral History Project

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Artist Bio

Howard Henry Chen is an artist that is interested in the ideas of migration, assimilation, hybridization, the global system of change, and the way wealth affect the developing world. He was born in Vietnam in 1972 and left in 1975 with his parents to United States.  He grew up in the east coast, Pennsylvania. He attended Boston University where he studied journalism and political science. After graduating, he worked as a journalist for …

Reformed Epistemology And The Cognitive Science Of Religion, Kelly James Clark

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2010-01-29, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2001-2011

This edition of the Wooster Voice, published January 29 of 2010, is eight pages long. The members of the senior class have the option to attend one of the four dining etiquette classes that are being offered. Wooster's Moot Court team placed in the final four for the American Collegiate Moot Court Association National Tournament. A two year $600,000 grant was given to the Five Colleges of Ohio by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation in order to digitize curricular resources. In the Local, National, and World news section, one bit is about how the Amish have a lower rate of …

January 29, 2010, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Algal Biofuel, Jan. 29, 2010, Harry Reid Center, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Biofuels

News in Brief

1. Washington State University on track for $2 million algae research appropriation. (July 10, 2009)

2. $2 million for clean energy algae biofuels research at Washington State University in the fiscal year 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations bill has been included in the final version of the spending bill. (2010)

3. Department of Energy Announces Inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. Washington DC. March 1-3 (Jan 7, 2010)

4. Department of Energy to Invest $366M in Energy Innovation Hubs (Dec. 22, 2009)

5. Catilin Contributes Key Extraction, Sequestration and Conversion Technologies to NAABB Consortium Developing Algal …

Algal Biofuel, [Jan. 21, 2010], Harry Reid Center, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Biofuels

News in Brief

1. UVa engineers find significant environmental impacts with algae-based biofuel (Jan-21, 2010)

Farnesol Induces Hydrogen Peroxide Resistance In Candida Albicans Yeast By Inhibiting The Ras-Cyclic Amp Signaling Pathway, Aurélie Deveau, Amy E. Piispanen, Angelyca A. Jackson, Deborah A. Hogan

Dartmouth Scholarship

Farnesol, a Candida albicans cell-cell signaling molecule that participates in the control of morphology, has an additional role in protection of the fungus against oxidative stress. In this report, we show that although farnesol induces the accumulation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), ROS generation is not necessary for the induction of catalase (Cat1)-mediated oxidative-stress resistance. Two antioxidants, α-tocopherol and, to a lesser extent, ascorbic acid effectively reduced intracellular ROS generation by farnesol but did not alter farnesol-induced oxidative-stress resistance. Farnesol inhibits the Ras1-adenylate cyclase (Cyr1) signaling pathway to achieve its effects on morphology under hypha-inducing conditions, and we demonstrate …

Reformed Epistemology And The Cognitive Science Of Religion, Kelly James Clark

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Faculty Newsnotes 2010 No. 414, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

Crystal Structure Of The Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Inhibitory Factor Cif Reveals Novel Active-Site Features Of An Epoxide Hydrolase Virulence Factor, Christopher D. Bahl, Christophe Morisseau, Jennifer M. Bomberger, Bruce A. Stanton, Bruce D. Hammock, George A. O'Toole, Dean R. Madden

Dartmouth Scholarship

Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) inhibitory factor (Cif) is a virulence factor secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that reduces the quantity of CFTR in the apical membrane of human airway epithelial cells. Initial sequence analysis suggested that Cif is an epoxide hydrolase (EH), but its sequence violates two strictly conserved EH motifs and also is compatible with other alpha/beta hydrolase family members with diverse substrate specificities. To investigate the mechanistic basis of Cif activity, we have determined its structure at 1.8-A resolution by X-ray crystallography. The catalytic triad consists of residues Asp129, His297, and Glu153, which are conserved across the …

Ucc Minutes January 28, 2010, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Minutes

No abstract provided.

Diarylamidines: High Potency Inhibitors Of Acid-Sensing Ion Channels, Xuanmao Chen, Liyan Qiu, Minghua Li, Stefan Grunder, Beverley A. Orser, Zhi-Gang Xiong, John F. Macdonald

Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences

Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) are proton-gated cation channels that are predominantly expressed in the nervous system. ASICs are involved in a number of neurological diseases such as pain, ischemic stroke and multiple sclerosis but limited tools are available to target these channels and provide probes for their physiological functions. Here we report that the anti-protozoal diarylamidines, 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI), diminazene, hydroxystilbamidine (HSB) and pentamidine potently inhibit ASIC currents in primary cultured hippocampal neurons with apparent affinities of 2.8 μM, 0.3 μM, 1.5 μM and 38 μM, respectively. These four compounds (100 μM) failed to block ENaC channels expressed in oocytes. Sub-maximal …

Spartan Daily January 28, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 2

Mustang Daily, January 28, 2010

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

January 28, 2010, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Nmr Assignments Of A Stable Processing Intermediate Of Human Frataxin, Kalyan C. Kondapalli, Krisztina Z. Bencze, Eric Dizin, James A. Cowan, Timothy L. Stemmler

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications

Frataxin, a nuclear encoded protein targeted to the mitochondrial matrix, has recently been implicated as an iron chaperone that delivers ferrous iron to the iron-sulfur assembly enzyme IscU. During transport across the mitochondrial membrane, the N-terminal mitochondrial targeting sequence of frataxin is cleaved in a two-step process to produce the mature protein found in the matrix, however N-terminal extended forms of the protein have also been observed in vivo. The recent structural characterization studies of the human frataxin ortholog were performed on a truncated variant of the protein. Here we report the NMR spectral assignment of an extended form of …

Commonwealth Times 2010-01-28

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Segmentation Of Thermographic Images Of Hands Using A Genetic Algorithm, Payel Ghosh, Judith Gold, Melanie Mitchell

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper presents a new technique for segmenting thermographic images using a genetic algorithm (GA). The individuals of the GA also known as chromosomes consist of a sequence of parameters of a level set function. Each chromosome represents a unique segmenting contour. An initial population of segmenting contours is generated based on the learned variation of the level set parameters from training images. Each segmenting contour (an individual) is evaluated for its fitness based on the texture of the region it encloses. The fittest individuals are allowed to propagate to future generations of the GA run using selection, crossover and …

Ancient Origin Of A Western Mediterranean Radiation Of Subterranean Beetles. Bmc Evolutionary Biology, Ignacio Ribera, Javier Fresneda, Ruxandra Bucur

KIP Articles

Background Cave organisms have been used as models for evolution and biogeography, as their reduced above-ground dispersal produces phylogenetic patterns of area distribution that largely match the geological history of mountain ranges and cave habitats. Most current hypotheses assume that subterranean lineages arose recently from surface dwelling, dispersive close relatives, but for terrestrial organisms there is scant phylogenetic evidence to support this view. We study here with molecular methods the evolutionary history of a highly diverse assemblage of subterranean beetles in the tribe Leptodirini (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Cholevinae) in the mountain systems of the Western Mediterranean. Results Ca. 3.5 KB of …

Daily Eastern News: January 28, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

January

No abstract provided.

January 28, 2010, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 6, January 28, 2010

Central Florida Future

Book rentals add new option; Uncover Thursdays; Man in the mirror; Plus: As A Hero's Fate would have it...; The Grammys: taking the mainstream by storm; Global student numbers increase; Regulars tired of waiting for weights; Knights sharpen blades for glory.