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Modeling Spread Of Polio With The Role Of Vaccination, Manju Agarwal, Archana S. Bhadauria Dec 2011

Modeling Spread Of Polio With The Role Of Vaccination, Manju Agarwal, Archana S. Bhadauria

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

In this paper, we have proposed and analyzed a nonlinear mathematical model for the spread of Polio in a population with variable size structure including the role of vaccination. A threshold parameter, R , is found that completely determines the stability dynamics and outcome of the disease. It is found that if R 1, the disease free equilibrium is stable and the disease dies out. However, if R >1, there exists a unique endemic equilibrium that is locally asymptotically stable. Conditions for the persistence of the disease are determined by means of Fonda’s theorem. Moreover, numerical simulation of the proposed …

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Cost-Effective Binomial Sequential Sampling Of Western Bean Cutworm, Striacosta Albicosta (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Egg Masses In Corn, S. Paula-Moraes, E. C. Burkness, Thomas E. Hunt, Robert Wright, Gary Hein, W. D. Hutchinson Dec 2011

Cost-Effective Binomial Sequential Sampling Of Western Bean Cutworm, Striacosta Albicosta (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Egg Masses In Corn, S. Paula-Moraes, E. C. Burkness, Thomas E. Hunt, Robert Wright, Gary Hein, W. D. Hutchinson

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Striacosta albicosta (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a native pest of dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and corn (Zea mays L.). As a result of larval feeding damage on corn ears, S. albicosta has a narrow treatment window; thus, early detection of the pest in the field is essential, and egg mass sampling has become a popular monitoring tool. Three action thresholds for field and sweet corn currently are used by crop consultants, including 4% of plants infested with egg masses on sweet corn in the silking-tasseling stage, 8% of plants infested with egg masses on field corn with …

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Happiness And Time Preference: The Effect Of Positive Affect In A Random-Assignment Experiment, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee Dec 2011

Happiness And Time Preference: The Effect Of Positive Affect In A Random-Assignment Experiment, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee

Economics

We conduct a random-assignment experiment to investigate whether positive affect impacts time preference, where time preference denotes a preference for present over future utility. Our result indicates that, compared to neutral affect, mild positive affect significantly reduces time preference over money. This result is robust to various specification checks, and alternative interpretations of the result are considered. Our result has implications for the effect of happiness on time preference and the role of emotions in economic decision making, in general. Finally, we reconfirm the ubiquity of time preference and start to explore its determinants. (JEL D12, D83, I31)

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Bard Free Press, Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2011), Bard College Dec 2011

Bard Free Press, Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2011), Bard College

Bard Free Press - All Issues (2000-2018)

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From Your (Riveted) Editor, Katina Strauch Dec 2011

From Your (Riveted) Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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People Profile: Leslie Czechowski Dec 2011

People Profile: Leslie Czechowski

Against the Grain

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Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway Dec 2011

Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway

Against the Grain

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Securing Sovereign State Standing, Katherine Mims Crocker Dec 2011

Securing Sovereign State Standing, Katherine Mims Crocker

Faculty Publications

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Panorama December 2011, Southern Adventist University Dec 2011

Panorama December 2011, Southern Adventist University

Panorama Parent Newsletter

This issue of the Panorama parent newsletter provides tips on stress management, announces improvements to the Biology Trail, contains a profile on Kevin Kibble, and highlights the Wellness Committee.

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Editorial, Alok Kumar Dec 2011

Editorial, Alok Kumar

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

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An Exploratory Study On Scientific Investigations In Homeopathy Using Medical Analyzer, Nirupama Mishra, K Muraleedharan, Akalpita Paranjpe, Devendra Munta, Hari Singh, Chaturbhuja Nayak Dec 2011

An Exploratory Study On Scientific Investigations In Homeopathy Using Medical Analyzer, Nirupama Mishra, K Muraleedharan, Akalpita Paranjpe, Devendra Munta, Hari Singh, Chaturbhuja Nayak

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Background: The action of homeopathic medicines, in ultra-high dilution, is not directly observable. An attempt was made to explore autonomic response of selective homeopathic medicines, in healthy persons, using Medical Analyzer System (Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India). Objective: The objective of the study was to observe the action of homeopathic medicines on physiologic variability of heart rate and blood flow. Material and methods: Pre- and postinterventional variability spectra of heart rate and blood flow of 77 subjects were recorded with the Medical Analyzer System, administering homeopathic preparations of Aconitum napellus (6c, 10M), Arsenicum album (200c, 1M), Gelsemium …

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Evaluation Of Anti-Leukemic Activity Of Potentised Catharanthus Roseus: An In-Vitro Study, R Kushwaha, U Nagargoje Dec 2011

Evaluation Of Anti-Leukemic Activity Of Potentised Catharanthus Roseus: An In-Vitro Study, R Kushwaha, U Nagargoje

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Alcoholic extract of potentised Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. was evaluated for its anti-leukemic activity in in-vitro model. For this in- vitro study two cell lines namely, jurkat and K562 for promyelocytic leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia were used. The cell lines were grown in Roswell Park Memorial Institute Medium (RPMI 1640 medium) containing 10% fetal bovine serum and 2mM L-glutamine. Doxorubicin (Adriamycin, ADR) was used as positive control drug. Growth inhibition of 50 % (GI50) was calculated from [(test growth in the presence of drug at the four concentration levels Ti - time zero Tz)/( control growth C-Tz)] x …

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Pharmacognostic And Physico-Chemical Evaluation Of Lactuca Sativa L., P Subramanian, P Rao, P Reddy, H Gupta Dec 2011

Pharmacognostic And Physico-Chemical Evaluation Of Lactuca Sativa L., P Subramanian, P Rao, P Reddy, H Gupta

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Lactuca sativa L. is an erect, annual herb belonging to the family Asteraceae. The leaves are useful in angina pectoris, ascitis, asthma, constipation, cough, diarrhea, hysteria, gonorrhoea, affections of liver and spleen and pain in pylorus and spinal cord. Leaves are long, thin, orbicular or oblong, obovate, crisp and radical. The trichomes are uniseriate filiform capitate, uniseriate macroform conical and biseriate filiform capitate types; mesophyll is undifferentiated; laticiferous ducts and prismatic crystals are present in ground tissue; midvein bundle is bicollateral. The powder microscopic and organoleptic characters are provided. Physico-chemical parameters of raw drug viz., extractive values, ash values, formulation, …

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Gingival Crevicular Fluid (Gcf) Levels Of Interleukin-6 (Il-6), Soluble Glycoprotein 130 (Sgp130), And Soluble Interleukin-6 Receptor (Sil-6r) During Orthodontic Tooth Movement, Mathue Gene Faulkner Dec 2011

Gingival Crevicular Fluid (Gcf) Levels Of Interleukin-6 (Il-6), Soluble Glycoprotein 130 (Sgp130), And Soluble Interleukin-6 Receptor (Sil-6r) During Orthodontic Tooth Movement, Mathue Gene Faulkner

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Introduction: Orthodontic tooth movement requires the precise coordination of a multitude of biological factors in order for proper bone remodeling to occur. Cytokines, such as Interleukin-6 (IL-6), play a critical role in the communication necessary for both bone resorption and bone apposition. IL-6 reacts with receptor proteins, such as soluble IL-6 receptor (sIL-6R), on target cells in order to transmit signals important to both osteoclast and osteoblast activities. Soluble glycoprotein 130 (sgp130), on the other hand, acts as a natural inhibitor to IL-6 activity. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the levels of IL-6, sIL-6R, and sgp130 …

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The Parthenon, December 1, 2011 , Kristin Steele Dec 2011

The Parthenon, December 1, 2011 , Kristin Steele

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

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Chinese For Business Professionals: The Workplace Needs And Business Chinese Textbooks, Haidan Wang Dec 2011

Chinese For Business Professionals: The Workplace Needs And Business Chinese Textbooks, Haidan Wang

Global Business Languages

The acquisition of pragmatic competence in the workplace is the ultimate goal for business Chinese learners. Whether the business Chinese textbooks and instructional materials can meet the language needs of different workplaces in China has a close bearing on the quality and efficacy of business Chinese teaching. Funded by both the interdisciplinary research grant from the University of Hawai‘i Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), and the Business Language Research and Teaching grant from twelve US CIBERs, this study will present an endeavor to fi ll the gap between the actual needs of the stakeholders and the current …

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Promoting Cultural Awareness In An International Business Program Through Foreign Language Communication, Mary Vigier, Nancy Smoller Le Floch Dec 2011

Promoting Cultural Awareness In An International Business Program Through Foreign Language Communication, Mary Vigier, Nancy Smoller Le Floch

Global Business Languages

The article examines a module developed over the past 20 years at a French management school to show how culturally based learning activities in the foreign language classroom can improve the school’s management training curriculum. Through debates, role plays, and discussions, the module improves students’ communicative skills and enhances their comprehension of self and others. The assignments aid students in making sense of unfamiliar contexts. By developing cultural awareness in addition to linguistic fluency, the class contributes to the school’s mission to train future business professionals to become open-minded and thereby to operate more effectively in today’s global business environment.

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People Profile: Sally A. Gore Dec 2011

People Profile: Sally A. Gore

Against the Grain

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Table Of Contents Dec 2011

Table Of Contents

Against the Grain

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Science-Technology Division, Joseph R. Kraus, Sarah K. Oelker, Emily Kasuto, Cynthia M. Cohen Dec 2011

Science-Technology Division, Joseph R. Kraus, Sarah K. Oelker, Emily Kasuto, Cynthia M. Cohen

Sci-Tech News

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Sci-Tech Book News Reviews, Susan Fingerman Dec 2011

Sci-Tech Book News Reviews, Susan Fingerman

Sci-Tech News

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The Montclarion, December 01, 2011, The Montclarion Dec 2011

The Montclarion, December 01, 2011, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

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Technologies Enabling Sustainability In The Built Environment, Mahmoud Alahmad, Muhammad Zulfiqar, Hosen Hasna Hh, Timothy Wisnieski, Nasser Aljuhaishi, Hamid Sharif Dec 2011

Technologies Enabling Sustainability In The Built Environment, Mahmoud Alahmad, Muhammad Zulfiqar, Hosen Hasna Hh, Timothy Wisnieski, Nasser Aljuhaishi, Hamid Sharif

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications

Energy conservation is among society’s greatest challenges, and the built environment has a concentrated impact on our natural environment, economy, and health. Fundamental understandings of how energy is consumed, monitored, and controlled are key prerequisites for an energy conservation process. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of real-time energy monitors (RTM) to influence behavior change in residential consumers. A methodology for remote identification of load types along the electrical circuitry where they (load) are being consumed is also presented. The load type and status (on, off, standby) are determined both remotely and in a non-intrusive manner using Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Methods. …

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Fem Modeling Of A Concrete Arch Bridge., Christina Allgeier Perez Dec 2011

Fem Modeling Of A Concrete Arch Bridge., Christina Allgeier Perez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Physics doctoral project seeks to reduce the uncertainty of inaccurate visual bridge inspections by producing a remote sensor program to determine and monitor the changes in health of a specified bridge. The Eastern Parkway Bridge was determined as the first bridge to test. As part of this project, a computer-aided analysis of the studied bridge was created using the simulation program ANSYS to assist in documenting the areas requiring the most attention. The model also offered supporting evidence to back the frequencies registered by the optical sensors to ensure proper functioning of the device. Furthermore, the model provided a …

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The Impact Of Public Credit Programs On Brazilian Firms, Joao Alberto Denegri, Alessandro Maffioli, Cesar M. Rodriguez Dec 2011

The Impact Of Public Credit Programs On Brazilian Firms, Joao Alberto Denegri, Alessandro Maffioli, Cesar M. Rodriguez

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of public credit lines in promoting the performances of Brazilian firms. We focus on the impact of the credit lines managed by BNDES and FINEP in fostering growth measured in terms of employment, labor productivity and export. For this purpose, we use a unique panel data set developed by the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), which includes information on both firm-level performances and access to public credit lines. This particular data setting allows us to use quasi-experimental techniques to control for selection bias when estimating the impact of the public credit lines. The core …

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Publisher Profile: Uc Press Dec 2011

Publisher Profile: Uc Press

Against the Grain

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People Profile: John Doyle Dec 2011

People Profile: John Doyle

Against the Grain

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Immersed In Patient Care: Mission Critical Decisions For Hospital Libraries, Patricia A. Hammond Dec 2011

Immersed In Patient Care: Mission Critical Decisions For Hospital Libraries, Patricia A. Hammond

Against the Grain

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Assembling The Orchestra: The Role Of Librarians In An E-Science Environment, Sally A. Gore Dec 2011

Assembling The Orchestra: The Role Of Librarians In An E-Science Environment, Sally A. Gore

Against the Grain

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And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings -- 2010 Charleston Pre-Conference And Conference, Sever Bordeianu Dec 2011

And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings -- 2010 Charleston Pre-Conference And Conference, Sever Bordeianu

Against the Grain

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