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The Experience Of Catholic Gay And Lesbian Catholic Secondary School Teachers Within Northern California : A Participatory Action Research Study, James Everitt

Doctoral Dissertations

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A Qualitative Study Of Undergraduate Students' Approaches, Perceptions, And Use Of Online Tools, David Armstrong

Doctoral Dissertations

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Re-Starting The Conversation About Race In Academia : Transcultural Narratives In The Lifeworld, Francisco Gamez

Doctoral Dissertations

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2010 Lynn University Men's Tennis Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2010 Lynn University Men’s Tennis Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

2010 Lynn University Women's Tennis Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2010 Lynn University Women’s Tennis Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

Introduction: The Adequacy Of The Presidential Succession System In The 21st Century: Filling The Gaps And Clarifying The Ambiguities In Constitutional And Extraconstitutional Arrangements, William Michael Treanor

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Inevitably, the events of the day dominate the political agenda. The issues of presidential succession have been attended to in our national history only sporadically because, at most times, the question of who succeeds the President in cases of death, resignation, or incapacity does not have immediate relevance: the President is in good health, the presumption is he will serve out the term of his office for which he was elected, and political leaders ignore succession issues as if they were of only theoretical interest. And yet, again and again, succession questions have become of the most immediate consequence in …

The World’S Largest Psychotherapy Gathering, Ulkar İsayeva

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Allocation Of Fishing Opportunities In Regional Fisheries Management Organizations: A Legal Analysis In The Light Of Equity, Maria Cecilia Engler Palma

LLM Theses

The allocation of fishing opportunities is one of the most difficult challenges for high seas fisheries management. There is an ongoing search for equitable and transparent allocation frameworks. This thesis explores whether, under what conditions, and with what shortcomings, a legal concept of equity can provide assistance in the development of such a framework. To this end, it reviews the historical origins of allocation of quotas in international fisheries, and summarizes the current global and regional legal frameworks for allocation and regional practices. It then analyzes whether intergenerational and intra-generational equity is considered in the international legal framework for high …

Statistical Topology Via Morse Theory, Persistence And Nonparametric Estimation, Peter Bubenik, Gunnar Carlsson, Peter T. Kim, Zhiming Luo

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

In this paper we examine the use of topological methods for multivariate statistics. Using persistent homology from computational algebraic topology, a random sample is used to construct estimators of persistent homology. This estimation procedure can then be evaluated using the bottleneck distance between the estimated persistent homology and the true persistent homology. The connection to statistics comes from the fact that when viewed as a nonparametric regression problem, the bottleneck distance is bounded by the sup-norm loss. Consequently, a sharp asymptotic minimax bound is determined under the sup–norm risk over H¨older classes of functions for the nonparametric regression problem on …

Physiological And Molecular Mechanisms Of Salt Stress Tolerance In Festuca Rubra And Lolium Perenne, Sanalkumar Krishnan

Open Access Dissertations

The present study was conducted to identify the physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in the salt tolerance of Festuca rubra ssp rubra and Lolium perenne. The salt tolerance levels of 36 Festuca accessions and 52 Lolium perenne accessions were evaluated in the greenhouse under 5000, 7500, 10000, 12500 and 15000 ppm NaCl concentrations. The study identified PI 595057 and PI 632525 as salt tolerant and sensitive Festuca rubra accessions. PI 632542, PI 636644 and PI 618999 were found to be the most salt tolerant L. perenne accessions while PI 610932, PI 619002, PI 610924 and PI 632474 were the most …

Pregnancy, Work, And The Promise Of Equal Citizenship, Joanna L. Grossman

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Radical Hysterectomy With Pelvic Lymphadenectomy: Indications, Technique, And Complications, Rachel A. Ware, John R. Van Nagell Jr.

Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Publications

Radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy remains the treatment of choice for women with Stages IA₂ and IB₁carcinoma of the cervix, and selected patients with Stage II endometrial cancer. Improvement in surgical techniqe, administration of prophylactic antibiotics, thromboemolic prophylaxis, and advances in critical care medicine have resulted in lower operative morbidity associated with this procedure. Major urinary tract complications such as ureteral injury or vesico-vaginal fistula are now extremely rare (< 1%). Five-year survival rates following this procedure vary according to a number of clinical and histologic variables, and may be as high as 90% in women without lymph node metastases.

Nebraska Biomechanics Core Facilty 2009 Annual Report, Issue 8, Nebraska Biomechanics Core Facility

Biomechanics Annual Report

April 2009 - March 2010

This issue features Announcements, Featured News, Projects, Collaborations, Visitors, Awards, Publications, and Support.

Availability Of Electronic Copies Of Instructional Materials For Career And Technical Education, Farid Safarmamadov

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The purpose of this study was to determine the availability of electronic copies of state level curriculum materials for career and technical education.

Effectiveness Of Using Inquiry Based Instruction To Increase Students Performance In High School Biology As Bardwell Institute, Keli Blyth

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to determine if student learning was enhanced through the use of inquiry teaching methods in high school biology.

Exomedicine Synthesis Paper, Rita Briggs

Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection

A report by Rita Briggs titled "Exomedicine Synthesis Paper" from 2010.

Solving The Esl Writers’ Dilemma, Thomas Nowalk

Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges

The author explains how he uses a classical teaching method to help his English-as-a-Second Language students combine intention, language, and genre for academic writing

Kinetics Of G-Protein Coupled Receptor Endosomal Trafficking Pathways Revealed By Single Quantum Dots, Katye M. Fichter, Marc Flajolet, Paul Greengard, Tania Q. Vu

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest protein superfamily in the human genome; they comprise 30% of current drug targets and regulate diverse cellular signaling responses. The role of endosomal trafficking in GPCR signaling regulation is gaining substantial consideration. However, this process remains difficult to study due to the inability to distinguish among many individual receptors, simultaneously trafficking within multiple endosomal pathways. Here we show accurate measurement of the internalization and endosomal trafficking of single groups of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) receptors using single quantum dot (QD) probes and quantitative colocalization. We demonstrate that the presence of a QD tag does not …

Synthesis, Structural Determination, And Biological Activity Of New 7-Hydroxy-3-Pyrazolyl-4h-Chromen- 4-Ones And Their O-\Beta-D-Glucosides, Kishor Hatzade, Vijay Taile, Pravin Gaidhane, Vishwas Ingle

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

A convenient route to synthesize some new medicinally important 7-hydroxy-3-pyrazolyl chromones (3a-i) is described. The interaction of 7-hydroxy-3-formyl chromone (1) with various substituted acetophenones and further cyclization with hydrazine hydrate in an aprotic solvent followed by condensation with 2, 3, 4, 6-tetra-o-acetyl-\alpha-dglucopyranosyl bromide afforded 2, 3, 4, 6-tetra-o-acetyl-\beta-d-glucopyranosyloxy-3-(3-aryl-1H-pyrazol-5- yl)-4H-chromen-4-ones (4a-i). Later deacetylation with anhydrous zinc acetate in methanol gave 7-o-\beta-d-glucopyranosyloxy-3-(3-aryl- 1H-pyrazol-5-yl)-4H-chromen-4-ones (5a-i). These compounds were evaluated for their in vitro antimicrobial and anti-oxidant activity. The structures of these newly synthesized o-glucosides were established by IR, NMR, mass spectra, elemental analysis, and chemical analysis.

Synthesis And Characterisation Of Vanadium(Iii) Complexes Of Biphenylphenols, Neeraj Sharma, Maridula Thakur, S C. Chaudhry

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The vanadium(III) complexes of composition [VCl_{3-n}(OAr^{1,2})_n.(THF)_2] (OAr^1 = 2-phenylphenoxo and OAr^2 = 4-phenylphenoxo, THF = tetrahydrofuran; n = 1 /to 3) were prepared by in situ reaction of VCl_3.(THF)_3 with sodium salt of respective phenols in tetrahydrofuran. The complexes were characterised by elemental analysis, molar conductance, FTIR, UV-Vis, and FAB-mass spectral and magnetic studies. The thermal behaviour of some of the complexes was studied by TG-DTA. The dinuclear phenoxy bridged octahedral structures for the complexes were inferred from the spectral and magnetic studies.

Involvement Of Vav2 In The Epha4 Signaling Pathway Of Xenopus Laevis As A Possible Rho Regulator, Jessica Kopala

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The purpose of this research is to shed light on the involvement of the Vav2 guanine nucleotide exchange factor in the Xenopus laevis EphA4 signaling pathway. In the first phase of the project, the presence of Vav2 mRNA within seven different Xenopus laevis embryogenic stages was detected via embryogenic stage collection, retrotranscription, PCR, using forward and reverse Vav2 primers, agarose gel electrophoresis, and UV gel visualization. In the second phase of the project, Western Blotting techniques were used to determine the presence of Vav2 protein in Xenopus laevis embryogenic stages.

Flower Symbolism As Female Sexual Metaphor, Andrea Frownfelter

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The watercolor paintings that I created from September 2009 to March 2010 use flowers as metaphorical subject matter to address issues and emotions associated with the topic of female sexuality. My goal was to use the long-standing tradition of flowers as symbols of female genitalia (which will be thoroughly explained in part two of this thesis) to allude to my personal attitudes, experiences, observations, and worries in a manner that would be easier for me to express and less abrasive for my audience to accept. Creating these watercolors was certainly therapeutic for me; I hope that other women who have …

Dietary Grape Seed Polyphenols Repress Neuron And Glia Activation In Trigeminal Ganglion And Trigeminal Nucleus Caudalis, Ryan J. Cady, Jeffery J. Hirst, Paul L. Durham

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Background: Inflammation and pain associated with temporomandibular joint disorder, a chronic disease that affects 15% of the adult population, involves activation of trigeminal ganglion nerves and development of peripheral and central sensitization. Natural products represent an underutilized resource in the pursuit of safe and effective ways to treat chronic inflammatory diseases. The goal of this study was to investigate effects of grape seed extract on neurons and glia in trigeminal ganglia and trigeminal nucleus caudalis in response to persistent temporomandibular joint inflammation. Sprague Dawley rats were pretreated with 200 mg/kg/d MegaNatural-BP grape seed extract for 14 days prior to bilateral …

Lynn Magazine - Winter 2010, Lynn University

Lynn Magazine / LYNN

Main Stories:

• Student power
• Lessons that change lives
• The Littlest Caregivers

Azlactone-Functionalized Polymers As Reactive Templates For Parallel Polymer Synthesis: Synthesis And Screening Of A Small Library Of Cationic Polymers In The Context Of Dna Delivery, Bin Sun, Xianghui Liu, Maren E. Buck, David M. Lynn

Chemistry: Faculty Publications

Azlactone-functionalized polymers are used as reactive templates for the synthesis of a library of amine-functionalized polymers of interest in the context of DNA delivery and other applications.

Symptoms, Distribution And Abundance Of The Stem-Boring Caterpillar, Blastobasis Repartella (Dietz), In Switchgrass, Jarrad R. Prasifka, Jeffrey D. Bradshaw, Arvid A. Boe, Dokyoung Lee, David Adamski, Michael E. Gray

Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science Faculty Publications

A potential pest of switchgrass, Panicum virgatum L., was first detected in South Dakota in 2004, where death of partially emerged leaves was noted in a small proportion of tillers. Similar “dead heart” symptoms were observed in switchgrass in Illinois during 2008 and adults of a stem-boring caterpillar were collected and identified as Blastobasis repartella (Dietz). In 2009, a survey of the central United States was used to estimate the distribution and abundance of this insect. In eight northern states, B. repartella was consistently found in both cultivated plots and natural stands of switchgrass. In four southern states, B. repartella …

Assessment Of Health-Related Quality Of Life, Depression, And Anxiety In Slowly And Rapidly Progressive Neuromuscular Disorders, Suzan Ozer, Sibel A. Yildirim, Oznur Yilmaz, Tulin Duger, Sibel A. Yilmaz

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To compare health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and psychosocial features in rapidly progressive neuromuscular disorders (RPNMD) and slowly progressive neuromuscular disorders (SPNMD) in adult ambulatory patients, to determine individual needs in 2 separate progression groups. METHODS: Thirty-nine SPNMD patients and 46 RPNMD patients were recruited. The functional independence measurement (FIM) was employed to evaluate the functional status. For the assessment of depression, anxiety, and HRQoL, patients were requested to fill out a Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP). This study was performed at the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Hacettepe University Faculty …

Descriptive Epidemiological Analysis, Mri Signals Intensity And Histopathological Correlations Of Meningiomas, Azmy M. Hadidy, Mustafa M. Nadi, Tahani M. Ahmad, Maysa A. Al-Hussaini, Abdelkarim A. Al-Abaddi, Awni F. Musharbash, Walid S. Maani

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To present our experience in operated meningioma cases regarding their prevalence, anatomical location, multiplicity, presenting signs and symptoms, and the possible correlation between MRI signal intensity and histological grades to set criteria for radio-pathological diagnosis. METHODS: In this retrospective study, 120 operated meningioma cases in the Department of Neurosurgery, Jordan University Hospital (JUH), Amman, Jordan between January 1997 and January 2007 were reviewed. Our study included 90 cases, and their medical records, histopathological reports, and neuroimages were analyzed thoroughly. RESULTS: Meningioma was more common in females than males with a ratio of 2.2:1. Para-sagittal meningiomas were the most common …

Evaluation Of Intractable Epilepsy. Invasive Monitoring, Tarafa S. Baghdadi, Marwan W. Najjar

Neurosciences

Accurate localization of the epileptogenic zone is the fundamental key factor for successful epilepsy surgery. Despite the progress achieved in the field of neuroimaging, invasive intracranial recording is still the gold standard that helps recognize the patient population who may profit from surgery. Meticulous implantation of intracranial electrodes and judicious interpretation of their data is a definite need in a successful epilepsy program. Few centers in the Arab world are involved in that domain. Moreover, the society itself is not well informed to appreciate the potentials of surgical treatment of seizure disorders. In this review article, we will go over …

Effect Of Erythropoietin On The Survival Of Retinal Neurocytes In Culture Upon Serum Withdrawal, Yi-Sheng Zhong, Hui-Ping Yao, Lian-Fu Deng, Yu Cheng, Ying-Jun Min

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To clarify whether erythropoietin (EPO) could substitute for the serum component in cultured retinal neurocytes suffering from serum withdrawal. METHODS: The study was performed in the Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Shanghai, China between April 2008 and March 2009. A total of 160 postnatal 2-3 day-old Sprague-Dawley rats were used for this study. After the retinal neurocytes were cultured for 48 hours, the culture media was replaced with serum- free media, and the cells were exposed to 1 U/ml, 3 U/ml, and 6 U/ml EPO for another 24 or 48 hours, the cell body diameter was then assessed …