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Open Space Planning; Utilizing Green Infrastructure To Preserve Community, Cynthia V. Reynolds Jun 2011

Open Space Planning; Utilizing Green Infrastructure To Preserve Community, Cynthia V. Reynolds

Master's Theses

Current sprawl development patterns typical of contemporary development in the United States are unsustainable. The uniform development guidelines prevent context sensitive community design, degrading our communities and consuming large amounts of natural and cultural resources. Significant progress has been made in reorganizing community planning towards sustainable development practices. However, these alternatives still work under the misconception that there is a disconnect between planning open space networks and planning development. Through a comprehensive land use planning approach, this project explores combining concepts of landscape ecology, green infrastructure planning and conservation subdivision patterns to design an integrative open space/community network.

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Obtl, Service Learning And Curriculum : An Approach For Addressing Challenges In The Global Community, Dayle M. Smith Jun 2011

Obtl, Service Learning And Curriculum : An Approach For Addressing Challenges In The Global Community, Dayle M. Smith

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

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We Almost Made It: Looking Back On An Evolving Democratic Classroom, Russell E. Binkley Jun 2011

We Almost Made It: Looking Back On An Evolving Democratic Classroom, Russell E. Binkley

i.e.: inquiry in education

ABSTRACT This is the account of a practitioner using action research in his classroom. Lamenting a lack of democracy in his teaching, the teacher is advised by his critical friends to present the problem to his sixth grade students. Together, they come up with a plan to try to democratize their classroom one period at a time. Using both student and teacher qualitative and quantitative self-evaluations and processing the data in class meetings, they see improvement and make progress as they strive for responsible democratic citizenship.

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Framing Health Care Across The Pond: A Comparative Content Analysis Of Elite Newspapers In The Us And Uk During The 2009 American Health Policy Debate, Jackson Bales Foote Jun 2011

Framing Health Care Across The Pond: A Comparative Content Analysis Of Elite Newspapers In The Us And Uk During The 2009 American Health Policy Debate, Jackson Bales Foote

Theses

This study analyzes content from eight leading newspapers in the United States and United Kingdom during ten months of the 2009 American health care policy debate, identifying emergent issue-specific health care frames that manifest themselves in key framing devices, like metaphors, exemplars, catchphrases, and depictions. This exploratory, quantitive frame analysis is conducted in a cross-cultural context to facilitate generalizable comparisons about how the news media in different countries frame social welfare policy through symbolic and rhetorical elements. A principal component analysis is used to reduce the health care-specific variables into four frames: access, choice, rising costs, and market competition. The …

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Cuba Suffers One Of Most Intense Droughts In History, Daniel Vã¡Zquez Jun 2011

Cuba Suffers One Of Most Intense Droughts In History, Daniel Vã¡Zquez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.

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Solange Chadda V. Jeff Mullins Jun 2011

Solange Chadda V. Jeff Mullins

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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Hef1, A Novel Target Of Wnt Signaling, Promotes Colonic Cell Migration And Cancer Progression, Y. Li, J. H. Bavarva, Z. Wang, J. Guo, C. Qian, S. N. Thibodeau, E. A. Golemis, W. Liu Jun 2011

Hef1, A Novel Target Of Wnt Signaling, Promotes Colonic Cell Migration And Cancer Progression, Y. Li, J. H. Bavarva, Z. Wang, J. Guo, C. Qian, S. N. Thibodeau, E. A. Golemis, W. Liu

Faculty Publications

Misregulation of the canonical Wnt/Β-catenin pathway and aberrant activation of Wnt signaling target genes are common in colorectal cancer (CRC) and contribute to cancer progression. Altered expression of human enhancer of filamentation 1 (HEF1; also known as NEDD9 or Cas-L) has been implicated in progression of melanoma, breast, and CRC. However, the regulation of HEF1 and the role of HEF1 in CRC tumorigenesis are not fully understood. We here identify HEF1 as a novel Wnt signaling target. The expression of HEF1 was upregulated by Wnt-3a, Β-catenin, and Dvl2 in a dose-dependent manner, and was suppressed following Β-catenin downregulation by shRNA. …

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Cooperative And Antagonistic Contributions Of Two Heterochromatin Proteins To Transcriptional Regulation Of The Drosophila Sex Determination Decision, Hui Li, Janel Rodriguez, Youngdong Yoo, Momin Mohammed Shareef, Ramakrishna Badugu, Jamila I. Horabin, Rebecca Kellum Jun 2011

Cooperative And Antagonistic Contributions Of Two Heterochromatin Proteins To Transcriptional Regulation Of The Drosophila Sex Determination Decision, Hui Li, Janel Rodriguez, Youngdong Yoo, Momin Mohammed Shareef, Ramakrishna Badugu, Jamila I. Horabin, Rebecca Kellum

Biology Faculty Publications

Eukaryotic nuclei contain regions of differentially staining chromatin (heterochromatin), which remain condensed throughout the cell cycle and are largely transcriptionally silent. RNAi knockdown of the highly conserved heterochromatin protein HP1 in Drosophila was previously shown to preferentially reduce male viability. Here we report a similar phenotype for the telomeric partner of HP1, HOAP, and roles for both proteins in regulating the Drosophila sex determination pathway. Specifically, these proteins regulate the critical decision in this pathway, firing of the establishment promoter of the masterswitch gene, Sex-lethal (Sxl). Female-specific activation of this promoter, Sxl(Pe), is essential to females, as it provides SXL …

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2011 - As You Like It Program, Neiu Theatre Department Jun 2011

2011 - As You Like It Program, Neiu Theatre Department

Theatre Production Programs

As You Like It program

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Redefining Self In The Midst Of "Things": Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Kristin Lowe Jun 2011

Redefining Self In The Midst Of "Things": Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Kristin Lowe

Theses and Dissertations

In this essay, I examine the role of material culture in Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping (1980) to understand how the prominent presence of material culture introduces complex questions about the relationships among objects, reality, and the self. By recognizing objects' fluidity of meaning, Housekeeping offers its characters a way to see their individuality and conceptions of reality in a similar state of flux. Significantly, it is in the act of recognizing that the socially accepted uses of objects are not necessarily "natural" parts of existence, and, like elements of the natural world, the meanings and uses of these items are …

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Finished Genome Of The Fungal Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella Graminicola Reveals Dispensome Structure, Chromosome Plasticity, And Stealth Pathogenesis., Stephen B. Goodwin, Sarrah Ben M'Barek, Braham Dhillon, Alexander Hj Wittenberg, Charles F. Crane, James K. Hane, Andrew J. Foster, Theo Aj Van Der Lee, Jane Grimwood, Andrea Aerts, John Antoniw, Andy Bailey, Burt Bluhm, Judith Bowler, Jim Bristow, Ate Van Der Burgt, Blondy Canto-Canché, Alice Cl Churchill, Laura Conde-Ferràez, Hans J. Cools, Pedro M. Coutinho, Michael Csukai, Paramvir Dehal, Pierre De Wit, Bruno Donzelli, Henri C. Van De Geest, Roeland Chj Van Ham, Kim E. Hammond-Kosack, Bernard Henrissat, Andrzej Kilan, Adilson K. Kobayashi, Edda Koopmann, Yiannis Kourmpetis, Arnold Kuzniar, Erika Lindquist, Vincent Lombard, Chris Maliepaard, Natalia Martins, Rahim Mehrabi, Jan Ph Nap, Alisa Ponomarenko, Jason J. Rudd, Asaf Salamov, Jeremy Schmutz, Henk J. Schouten, Harris Shapiro, Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Stefano Ff Torriani, Hank Tu, Ronald P. De Vries, Cees Waalwijk, Sara B. Ware, Ad Wiebenga, Lute-Harm Zwiers, Richard P. Oliver, Igor V. Grigoriev, Gert Hj Kema Jun 2011

Finished Genome Of The Fungal Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella Graminicola Reveals Dispensome Structure, Chromosome Plasticity, And Stealth Pathogenesis., Stephen B. Goodwin, Sarrah Ben M'Barek, Braham Dhillon, Alexander Hj Wittenberg, Charles F. Crane, James K. Hane, Andrew J. Foster, Theo Aj Van Der Lee, Jane Grimwood, Andrea Aerts, John Antoniw, Andy Bailey, Burt Bluhm, Judith Bowler, Jim Bristow, Ate Van Der Burgt, Blondy Canto-Canché, Alice Cl Churchill, Laura Conde-Ferràez, Hans J. Cools, Pedro M. Coutinho, Michael Csukai, Paramvir Dehal, Pierre De Wit, Bruno Donzelli, Henri C. Van De Geest, Roeland Chj Van Ham, Kim E. Hammond-Kosack, Bernard Henrissat, Andrzej Kilan, Adilson K. Kobayashi, Edda Koopmann, Yiannis Kourmpetis, Arnold Kuzniar, Erika Lindquist, Vincent Lombard, Chris Maliepaard, Natalia Martins, Rahim Mehrabi, Jan Ph Nap, Alisa Ponomarenko, Jason J. Rudd, Asaf Salamov, Jeremy Schmutz, Henk J. Schouten, Harris Shapiro, Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Stefano Ff Torriani, Hank Tu, Ronald P. De Vries, Cees Waalwijk, Sara B. Ware, Ad Wiebenga, Lute-Harm Zwiers, Richard P. Oliver, Igor V. Grigoriev, Gert Hj Kema

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications

The plant-pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola (asexual stage: Septoria tritici) causes septoria tritici blotch, a disease that greatly reduces the yield and quality of wheat. This disease is economically important in most wheat-growing areas worldwide and threatens global food production. Control of the disease has been hampered by a limited understanding of the genetic and biochemical bases of pathogenicity, including mechanisms of infection and of resistance in the host. Unlike most other plant pathogens, M. graminicola has a long latent period during which it evades host defenses. Although this type of stealth pathogenicity occurs commonly in Mycosphaerella and other Dothideomycetes, …

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Principles Of Learning: A Conceptual Framework For Domain-Specific Theories Of Learning, Christian J. Weibell Jun 2011

Principles Of Learning: A Conceptual Framework For Domain-Specific Theories Of Learning, Christian J. Weibell

Theses and Dissertations

This study is predicated on the belief that there does not now exist, nor will there ever exist, any single theory of learning that is broad enough to account for all types of learning yet specific enough to be maximally useful in practical application. Perhaps this dichotomy is the reason for the apparent gap between existing theories of learning and the practice of instructional design. As an alternative to any supposed grand theory of learning—and following the lead of prominent thinkers in the fields of clinical psychology and language teaching—this study proposes a shift toward principles. It presents a principle-based …

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Cal Poly Announces Great Grads Of 2011, Public Affairs Office Jun 2011

Cal Poly Announces Great Grads Of 2011, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

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Deafdigest: Mid-Week Edition, June 8, 2011, Barry Strassler Jun 2011

Deafdigest: Mid-Week Edition, June 8, 2011, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Mid-Week 2011

No abstract provided.

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, June 8, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media Jun 2011

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, June 8, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

June

No abstract provided.

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Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co V. Eisenman Clerk's Record Dckt. 38703 Jun 2011

Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co V. Eisenman Clerk's Record Dckt. 38703

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

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The Regulation Of Liv-1 Mrna In Mda-Mb-231 Human Breast Cancer Cells And Its Association With E-Cadherin (Cdh1), Leelyn Chong Jun 2011

The Regulation Of Liv-1 Mrna In Mda-Mb-231 Human Breast Cancer Cells And Its Association With E-Cadherin (Cdh1), Leelyn Chong

Master's Theses

LIV-1, the estrogen-regulated gene encoding a member of the ZIP family of zinc transporters (SLC39A6), has been implicated in both growth and metastasis of estrogen-receptor (ER) positive (+) and negative (-) breast cancer cells. In ER+ breast cancer cells, LIV-1 expression is induced by both estrogen and insulin. In embryonic cells, LIV-1 has also been negatively associated with the expression of the cell adhesion protein, E-cadherin (CDH1), thought to play a role in metastasis. In the present study, we investigated the regulation of LIV-1 and its relationship to CDH1 in MDA-MB-231 ER- breast cancer cells. Cells were …

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Bad Girls Of Art And Law: Abjection, Power, And Sexuality Exceptionalism In (Kara Walker’S) Art And (Janet Halley’S) Law, Adrienne D. Davis Jun 2011

Bad Girls Of Art And Law: Abjection, Power, And Sexuality Exceptionalism In (Kara Walker’S) Art And (Janet Halley’S) Law, Adrienne D. Davis

Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Faculty Research

This paper seeks to make some connections between legal theorist Janet Halley and contemporary artist Kara Walker. It compares their recent oeuvre to show how both reject understandings of the interplay of sex, power, and subordination proffered by conventional "justice projects" - specifically civil rights’ and feminism’s articulations of bodily violence and violation as key modes of racial and gender injury and subordination. Neither of these two is the first to dispute such accounts of injury and identity; yet, what distinguishes them is that both attempt to ground their theoretical and aesthetic indictments in the notion of abjection, or the …

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Research On Healthcare Worker Personal Protective Equipment: Minimum Requirements For Isolation Gowns, F.Selcen Kilinc-Balci, Phd Jun 2011

Research On Healthcare Worker Personal Protective Equipment: Minimum Requirements For Isolation Gowns, F.Selcen Kilinc-Balci, Phd

Building the Chain of Safety: Stakeholders Summit

F. Selcen Kilinc-Balci, PhD, is a Senior Service Fellow at the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She works in the area of protective clothing and ensembles, including personal protective equipment for healthcare workers, mine rescue ensembles, fire fighter turnout gear, and chemical protective garments. Prior to joining NIOSH in February 2010, she worked as a senior engineer at DuPont Protection Technologies. Her work at DuPont focused on product development, product testing and certification, and promotional claim validation in personal protective clothing. She has more …

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Bobcats Do Not Exhibit Rub Response Despite Presence At Hair Collection Stations, Chirstopher E. Comer, Symmank M. E., James C. Kroll Jun 2011

Bobcats Do Not Exhibit Rub Response Despite Presence At Hair Collection Stations, Chirstopher E. Comer, Symmank M. E., James C. Kroll

Faculty Publications

We evaluated the detection rate for hair snare sampling for bobcats (Lynx rufus) using colocated hair snares and infrared-triggered cameras at 20 locations on private property in eastern Texas. Hair snares and cameras were placed together at survey stations that included both visual and olfactory attractants. In 1,680 trap-nights we photographically documented 15 visits by bobcats but collected only one bobcat hair sample. Our observations suggested limited rubbing behavior by bobcats at hair snares despite presence at hair collection stations. The explanation for this behavior remains unclear but is consistent with observations of low and variable hair trap …

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The Effect Of Mannose-6-Phosphate On Recovery After Sciatic Nerve Repair, Wei Cheong Ngeow, S. Atkins, C.R. Morgan, A.D. Metcalfe, F.M. Boissonade, A.R. Loescher, P.P. Robinson Jun 2011

The Effect Of Mannose-6-Phosphate On Recovery After Sciatic Nerve Repair, Wei Cheong Ngeow, S. Atkins, C.R. Morgan, A.D. Metcalfe, F.M. Boissonade, A.R. Loescher, P.P. Robinson

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

We have determined the effect of applying Mannose-6-Phosphate (M6P), a scar reducing agent, to a site of sciatic nerve repair. In anaesthetised C57-Black-6 mice, the left sciatic nerve was sectioned and repaired using 4 epineurial sutures. Either 100 mu l of 600 mM Mannose-6-Phosphate (29 animals), or 100 mu l of phosphate buffered saline as a placebo control (29 animals), was injected into and around the nerve repair site. A further group acted as sham-operated controls. After 6 or 12 weeks of recovery the extent of regeneration was assessed electrophysiologically and the percentage area of collagen staining at the repair …

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Daily Eastern News: June 07, 2011, Eastern Illinois University Jun 2011

Daily Eastern News: June 07, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

June

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The Effect Of Mannose-6-Phosphate On Recovery After Sciatic Nerve Repair, W.C. Ngeow, S. Atkins, C.R. Morgan, A.D. Metcalfe, F.M. Boissonade, A.R. Loescher, P.P. Robinson Jun 2011

The Effect Of Mannose-6-Phosphate On Recovery After Sciatic Nerve Repair, W.C. Ngeow, S. Atkins, C.R. Morgan, A.D. Metcalfe, F.M. Boissonade, A.R. Loescher, P.P. Robinson

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

We have determined the effect of applying Mannose-6-Phosphate (M6P), a scar reducing agent, to a site of sciatic nerve repair. In anaesthetised C57-Black-6 mice, the left sciatic nerve was sectioned and repaired using 4 epineurial sutures. Either 100 mu l of 600 mM Mannose-6-Phosphate (29 animals), or 100 mu l of phosphate buffered saline as a placebo control (29 animals), was injected into and around the nerve repair site. A further group acted as sham-operated controls. After 6 or 12 weeks of recovery the extent of regeneration was assessed electrophysiologically and the percentage area of collagen staining at the repair …

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Functionalized Green Filtration Media For Passive Underground Drainfield For Septic Tank Nutrient Removal Div, Martin Wanielista, Ni-Bin Chang, Ammarin Makkeasorn Jun 2011

Functionalized Green Filtration Media For Passive Underground Drainfield For Septic Tank Nutrient Removal Div, Martin Wanielista, Ni-Bin Chang, Ammarin Makkeasorn

UCF Patents

Methods, systems and compositions for a green sorption media for bioretention soil amendments in drainfields for on-site waste water systems filled with the green sorption media to foster an anaerobic or anoxic environment saturated. The green sorption media includes one or more recycled materials, including tire crumb, sawdust, orange peel, coconut husks, leaf compost, oyster shell, soy bean hulls and one or more naturally occuring materials including peat, sands, zeolites, and clay. The wastewater filtration system for a passive drainfield includes the green sorption material mixture, a cell including baffled compartments and a riser, the cell filled with green sorption …

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Functionalized Green Filtration Media For Passive Underground Drainfield For Septic Tank Nutrient Removal, Martin Wanielista, Ni-Bin Chang, Ammarin Makkeasorn Jun 2011

Functionalized Green Filtration Media For Passive Underground Drainfield For Septic Tank Nutrient Removal, Martin Wanielista, Ni-Bin Chang, Ammarin Makkeasorn

UCF Patents

Methods, systems and compositions for a green sorption media for bioretention soil amendments in drainfields for on-site waste water systems filled with the green sorption media to foster an anaerobic or anoxic environment saturated. The green sorption media includes one or more recycled materials, including tire crumb, sawdust, orange peel, coconut husks, leaf compost, oyster shell, soy bean hulls and one or more naturally occuring materials including peat, sands, zeolites, and clay. The wastewater filtration system for a passive drainfield includes the green sorption material mixture, a cell including baffled compartments and a riser, the cell filled with green sorption …

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Stabilité Des Chariots Élévateurs : Élaboration D’Un Module De Formation À L’Aide D’Une Démarche De Didactique Participative, Denys Denis, Sylvie Beaugrand, Henri Boudreault, Christian Larue Jun 2011

Stabilité Des Chariots Élévateurs : Élaboration D’Un Module De Formation À L’Aide D’Une Démarche De Didactique Participative, Denys Denis, Sylvie Beaugrand, Henri Boudreault, Christian Larue

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Initiée par une demande de membres du défunt comité SISEC, qui disaient éprouver des difficultés à enseigner et à faire apprendre aux caristes les notions en lien avec la stabilité des chariots élévateurs, une démarche d'accompagnement leur a été proposée. Cette dernière, développée par un spécialiste en didactique lors de ses études doctorales et expérimentée à maintes reprises antérieurement au projet actuel, visait à développer – en collaboration avec des formateurs impliqués dans ce type de formations – un nouvel environnement didactique. La formation dont il est question est de nature théorique et porte sur la conduite sécuritaire des chariots …

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Simply Brilliant Science: Creating Healthier Eggs For A Healthier You, Kiyomi D. Deards Jun 2011

Simply Brilliant Science: Creating Healthier Eggs For A Healthier You, Kiyomi D. Deards

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Guest post on June 7, 2011, on the Scientific American Guest Blog, on eggs rich in omega-3 fatty acids.

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Examining The Reasons And Relationships Between Why Youth Join, Stay In, And Leave 4-H, Rebecca Harrington, Trisha Sheehan, Dale Blyth Jun 2011

Examining The Reasons And Relationships Between Why Youth Join, Stay In, And Leave 4-H, Rebecca Harrington, Trisha Sheehan, Dale Blyth

Journal of Youth Development

While the Minnesota 4-H Club program has grown over 29% in the last six years, annually over 25% of youth do not re-enroll. The Minnesota 4-H Retention Study asked youth who left the program why they decided to join, stay and ultimately leave 4-H. Data from 220 youth were examined to better understand the reasons for and relationship between youth joining and staying in 4-H and their reasons for leaving 4-H. Youth joined 4-H because they wanted to have fun, try new things, and participate in projects and fairs. Top reasons they stayed in 4-H were they liked being with …

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Umsl Magazine - Spring 2011, University Of Missouri-St. Louis Jun 2011

Umsl Magazine - Spring 2011, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Magazine and other UMSL Magazines

The University of Missouri-St. Louis publishes UMSL Magazine for alumni and friends. The magazine highlights excellence at the university. Circulation is 79,000, and the magazine is released twice a year.

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Suffolk Journal, Vol. 72, No. 1, 6/6/2011, Suffolk Journal Jun 2011

Suffolk Journal, Vol. 72, No. 1, 6/6/2011, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

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