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Analyses Of Fruit Flies That Do Not Express Selenoproteins Or Express The Mouse Selenoprotein, Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase B1, Reveal A Role Of Selenoproteins In Stress Resistance, Valentina A. Shchedrina, Hadise Kabil, Gerd Vorbruggen, Byung Cheon Lee, Anton A. Turanov, Mitsuko Hirosawa- Takamori, Hwa- Young Kim, Lawrence G. Harshman, Dolph L. Hatfield, Vadim N. Gladyshev Jan 2011

Analyses Of Fruit Flies That Do Not Express Selenoproteins Or Express The Mouse Selenoprotein, Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase B1, Reveal A Role Of Selenoproteins In Stress Resistance, Valentina A. Shchedrina, Hadise Kabil, Gerd Vorbruggen, Byung Cheon Lee, Anton A. Turanov, Mitsuko Hirosawa- Takamori, Hwa- Young Kim, Lawrence G. Harshman, Dolph L. Hatfield, Vadim N. Gladyshev

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Selenoproteins are essential in vertebrates because of their crucial role in cellular redox homeostasis, but some invertebrates that lack selenoproteins have recently been identified. Genetic disruption of selenoprotein biosynthesis had no effect on lifespan and oxidative stress resistance of Drosophila melanogaster. In the current study, fruit flies with knock-out of the selenocysteine-specific elongation factor were metabolically labeled with 75Se; they did not incorporate selenium into proteins and had the same lifespan on a chemically defined diet with or without selenium supplementation. These flies were, however, more susceptible to starvation than controls, and this effect could be ascribed to the …

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Doing Re-Entry: Accounts Of Post-Prison Release In Finland And The United States, Richard S. Jones, Ikponwosa O. Ekunwe Jan 2011

Doing Re-Entry: Accounts Of Post-Prison Release In Finland And The United States, Richard S. Jones, Ikponwosa O. Ekunwe

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

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The Granite, 2011, University Of New Hampshire Jan 2011

The Granite, 2011, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-

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Digital Copyright Protection And Graduated Response: A Global Perspective, Michael Boardman Jan 2011

Digital Copyright Protection And Graduated Response: A Global Perspective, Michael Boardman

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review

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Was The Eritrea–Ethiopia Claims Commission Merely A Zero-Sum Game?: Exposing The Limits Of Arbitration In Resolving Violent Transnational Conflict, Ari Dybnis Jan 2011

Was The Eritrea–Ethiopia Claims Commission Merely A Zero-Sum Game?: Exposing The Limits Of Arbitration In Resolving Violent Transnational Conflict, Ari Dybnis

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review

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Renaissance 2011, University Of Rhode Island Jan 2011

Renaissance 2011, University Of Rhode Island

URI Yearbooks

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island yearbook.

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Time To Bury The Tomahawk Chop: An Attempt To Reconcile The Differing Viewpoints Of Native Americans And Sports Fans, Justin P. Grose Jan 2011

Time To Bury The Tomahawk Chop: An Attempt To Reconcile The Differing Viewpoints Of Native Americans And Sports Fans, Justin P. Grose

American Indian Law Review

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"Evidence That Salt Water May Not Be A Barrier To The Dispersal Of Asian Freshwater Crabs" , Lara J. Esser, Neil Cumberlidge Jan 2011

"Evidence That Salt Water May Not Be A Barrier To The Dispersal Of Asian Freshwater Crabs" , Lara J. Esser, Neil Cumberlidge

Journal Articles

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Juvenile Offenders And Their Victims, Jennifer E. Swetits Jan 2011

Juvenile Offenders And Their Victims, Jennifer E. Swetits

Theses and Dissertations

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Pcb-Contaminated Food In The Canadian Arctic: Interactions Between Environmental Policy, Cultural Values, And The Healthcare System, Katharine K. Brieger Jan 2011

Pcb-Contaminated Food In The Canadian Arctic: Interactions Between Environmental Policy, Cultural Values, And The Healthcare System, Katharine K. Brieger

Pomona Senior Theses

Current Canadian policies do not adequately prevent water contamination or mitigate the effects of existing polychlorinated biphenyl pollution. There is conflict between the Canadian government and the Inuit people over how to approach the pollution problem, arising from a clash of cultural values and traditions. Legislation related to healthcare is an inherently sensitive issue and some measures that seem acceptable to westernized societies are not appropriate for the Inuit. The purpose of this thesis is to answer (a) why polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are in the Arctic, (b) what the effects of PCBs are on the Arctic people, and (c) how …

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Molecular Diagnosis Of Sexually-Transmitted Chlamydia Trachomatis In The United States, April L. Harkins, Munson Erik Jan 2011

Molecular Diagnosis Of Sexually-Transmitted Chlamydia Trachomatis In The United States, April L. Harkins, Munson Erik

Clinical Lab Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Chlamydia, with its Chlamydia trachomatis etiology, is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States and is often transmitted via asymptomatic individuals. This review summarizes traditional and molecular-based diagnostic modalities specific to C. trachomatis. Several commercially available, FDA-approved molecular methods to diagnose urogenital C. trachomatis infection include nucleic acid hybridization, signal amplification, polymerase chain reaction, strand displacement amplification, and transcription-mediated amplification. Molecular-based methods are rapid and reliable genital specimen screening measures, especially when applied to areas of high disease prevalence. However, clinical and analytical sensitivity for some commercial systems decreases dramatically when testing urine samples. In vitro …

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Examining An Online Investment Research Service: The Motley Fool, Don E. Giacomino, Michael D. Akers Jan 2011

Examining An Online Investment Research Service: The Motley Fool, Don E. Giacomino, Michael D. Akers

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

The Motley Fool has been described as “the most popular Internet stock chat website” (Hirschey et al, Financial Analysts Journal, 1999). Per the company‟s website, the mission of the privately-held multimedia financial services company is to educate, amuse, and enrich” in order “to build the world‟s greatest investment community” (www.fool.com/press/about.htm). The Motley Fool notes that their products are designed to “help people take control of their financial lives”. While other internet financial services exist, this article examines the performance of the investment services/advice provided by The Motley Fool (TMF) because of its notoriety. We use investment publications, information posted on …

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Writes Of Spring A Study Of Communication Within Collective Devising, Jennifer Adams Jan 2011

Writes Of Spring A Study Of Communication Within Collective Devising, Jennifer Adams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Communication is a pivotal element in creating theatre with other artists, with audiences, and with the outside world. Theatre artists are required to collaborate at nearly every step of the process. Despite the necessity of highly developed collaboration skills, communication in the creation of theatre is an often-underdeveloped curriculum area. As a Director and Teaching Artist I am particularly interested in how to find new ways of collaborating so I may model and pass these skills to my students. Through a qualitative research survey of communication used in collaborative devising, this research analyzes environments that improve communication and allow for …

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Walking Backwards Into The Future, Camille Norman Jan 2011

Walking Backwards Into The Future, Camille Norman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Recent artists like Norwegian Recycling and E-603 have created a new genre of art within music: digital recycling. These artists take many different well-known and less-known lyrics, music, and spoken word and combine them together. This meshing of multiple pieces of art has new historical roots. The different images, auditory and visual, that these creations produce and often enhance meaning and connections through popular media. These connections interest me most. Through the lenses of post-colonial, gender, and queer theories, I examine Witi Ihimaera's creative work. I splice in different theorists' words, my own thoughts, and images to enhance and accent …

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Cultural Differences In Forgiveness Fatalism, Trust Violations, And Trust Repair Efforts In Interpersonal Collaboration, Jessica L. Wildman Jan 2011

Cultural Differences In Forgiveness Fatalism, Trust Violations, And Trust Repair Efforts In Interpersonal Collaboration, Jessica L. Wildman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mistakes and betrayals can cause developing interpersonal trust between parties to be broken, and damaged trust can have serious negative impacts on relationships, such as withdrawal from group interaction or the enactment of revenge. Research has suggested that the use of apologies helps to repair damaged trust. However, this research is almost exclusively based in westernized populations and has not begun to explore any cross-cultural differences. Therefore, the primary goal of this comparative cross-national laboratory study was to examine if, and how, the effectiveness of trust repair efforts differs across cultures. The effectiveness of three manipulated trust repair strategies (no …

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2011-2012 Graduate Catalog, Morehead State University Jan 2011

2011-2012 Graduate Catalog, Morehead State University

Morehead State Catalog Archive

2011-2012 graduate catalog for Morehead State University.

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Community Down: The Loss Of Sergeant Joe Bergeron, John Edward Helcl Ii Jan 2011

Community Down: The Loss Of Sergeant Joe Bergeron, John Edward Helcl Ii

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

What local government officials, administrators, and staff can expect and how to can help in the aftermath of a peace officer’s line-of-duty death within their community.

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Documenting The Oral Narratives Of Transient Punks, Thomas Ross Heffernan Jan 2011

Documenting The Oral Narratives Of Transient Punks, Thomas Ross Heffernan

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The uninitiated do not realize the complexity of the punk rock sub-culture. Outsiders may find it hard to distinguish the subtle lines by which differentiation occurs within the so-called subculture. The "punk rock subculture" is a misnomer; it is not a salient community. The experience of being "punk" is fractal; what it means to be punk and what classifies one as punk is in constant redefinition and there are various different communities with varying ideologies and identities. The punk subculture has absorbed various epistemologies in its 40+ years of existence, modified them, and made them their own. Within this milieu …

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Hegans: An Examination Of The Emerging Male Vegan, Justine Ann Johnson Jan 2011

Hegans: An Examination Of The Emerging Male Vegan, Justine Ann Johnson

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

In the United States, many people have turned to an alternative diet, veganism. The vegan diet contradicts R.W. Connell's (43) theory of hegemonic masculinity, which is supported by the domination of women and animals. This study focuses on the masculinity represented through promotion of veganism for men in two books, Meat is for Pussies by John Joseph and Skinny Bastard by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, and vegan related articles in four US men's magazines: GQ, Esquire, Men's Health Magazine, and Men's Fitness Magazine. These vegan-explicit texts, written for a male audience, reinforce the heteronormative idea of masculinity through masculine …

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The Anti-Bootlegging Provisions: Congressional Power And Constitutional Limitations, Craig W. Dallon Jan 2011

The Anti-Bootlegging Provisions: Congressional Power And Constitutional Limitations, Craig W. Dallon

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Courts and scholars have considered the constitutional validity of 17 U.S.C. § 1101 (civil), and 18 U.S.C. § 2319A (criminal), known together as "the anti-bootlegging provisions." These provisions prohibit unauthorized recording, copying, and distribution of live musical performances. The provisions have been challenged in three cases, resulting in five published opinions. Two district court opinions held the provisions unconstitutional, but subsequent opinions vacated those decisions. Notwithstanding a sharp division among copyright scholars, the courts have upheld these provisions. The discussion surrounding them is part of a continuing struggle to ascertain limits on congressional power to regulate copying and distribution of …

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Putting The Shock Value In First Amendment Jurisprudence: When Freedom For The Citizen-Journalist Watchdog Trumps The Right Of Informational Privacy On The Internet, Clay Calvert, Mirelis Torres Jan 2011

Putting The Shock Value In First Amendment Jurisprudence: When Freedom For The Citizen-Journalist Watchdog Trumps The Right Of Informational Privacy On The Internet, Clay Calvert, Mirelis Torres

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

This Article, which takes the July 2010 ruling by the Fourth Circuit in Ostergren v. Cuccinelli as a point of departure, explores the growing tension between the First Amendment right of Free Speech and the nascent right to online informational privacy. The Article addresses the "shock value" in First Amendment jurisprudence, stretching from Cohen v. California and Texas v. Johnson through the recent ruling in Ostergren. The Article also examines the traditional watchdog function of the press increasingly performed on the Internet by so-called citizen-journalists akin to Betty Ostergren. The Article concludes that while the Fourth Circuit's decision in Ostergren …

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The Kindle Controversy: An Economic Analysis Of How The Amazon Kindle's Text-To-Speech Feature Violates Copyright Law, Jeremy B. Francis Jan 2011

The Kindle Controversy: An Economic Analysis Of How The Amazon Kindle's Text-To-Speech Feature Violates Copyright Law, Jeremy B. Francis

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

In 2009, Amazon released the Kindle 2 with a text-to-speech feature. This feature allows users of the Kindle 2 to download software to the device that will read e-books aloud. Authors and publishers of e-books immediately objected to the feature, arguing that it essentially created an unauthorized audiobook. Amazon maintained the legality of the text-to-speech feature, arguing that it does not copy, perform, or create a derivative work. Amazon decided to avoid a legal battle by allowing rightsholders to decide whether to enable the text-to-speech feature for each individual title. The copyright community, however, responded swiftly and nearly unanimously, siding …

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Rebuilding The Prevent Defense: Why Unethical Agents Continue To Score And What Can Be Done To Change The Game, R. Alexander Payne Jan 2011

Rebuilding The Prevent Defense: Why Unethical Agents Continue To Score And What Can Be Done To Change The Game, R. Alexander Payne

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Despite decades of regulation, college athletics continues to face problems stemming from agents' unethical and illegal tactics in recruiting student-athletes. The NCAA, Congress, state legislatures, and professional players unions have all sought to regulate the interaction between athletes and agents in various ways, often leading to conflicts and gaps within existing laws, which some agents readily exploit. Agents frequently slip through the law's porous prevent defense while the brunt of enforcement and public opprobrium falls on unsophisticated student-athletes and their schools--who are frequently outsiders to the saga. This Note explores the causes resulting in an atmosphere of noncompliance, including the …

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Keep America Exceptional! Against Adopting Japanese And European-Style Criminalization Of Contributory Copyright Infringement, Salil K. Mehra Jan 2011

Keep America Exceptional! Against Adopting Japanese And European-Style Criminalization Of Contributory Copyright Infringement, Salil K. Mehra

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

This brief Article, written in connection with a Symposium hosted by the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, addresses nascent criminal enforcement against contributory copyright infringement in connection with P2P file sharing. Using Judge Posner's analysis in the Aimster case as a lens, it discusses recent cases in Japan and Sweden. This Article contends that criminalization involves an inherent uncertainty involving an innovator's knowledge of, and intent for, the future uses of the platform by others. Despite the difficulty of this task, since Japan and the E.U. have seen criminal prosecutions brought against contributory infringers, it should not evoke …

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Information Wars And The Challenges Of Content Protection In Digital Contexts, Raymond T. Nimmer Jan 2011

Information Wars And The Challenges Of Content Protection In Digital Contexts, Raymond T. Nimmer

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

We are in the midst of a fundamental conflict in law and policy between those who favor maintaining and expanding copyright and related rights in the digital context ("rights enhancers"), and those who favor letting rights atrophy ("rights restrictors'). This Article argues that strong intellectual property rights are essential. At minimum, they are important to support creativity in contexts where the creation, collection, or distribution of the content requires substantial investment of time and resources. The case for allowing creators' rights to weaken is both untested and structurally suspect. Copyright law must construct a balance that fully supports creative activity …

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What's In A Name?: Predictably Regulating Cyberfraud To Protect The Democratic Political Process, Whitney C. Boshers Jan 2011

What's In A Name?: Predictably Regulating Cyberfraud To Protect The Democratic Political Process, Whitney C. Boshers

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

In recent elections, political candidates have capitalized on the Internet as a central organizing resource. As a result of the low-cost, high-reward nature of campaign websites, some candidates have begun to register Web addresses--or domains--in opponents' names in order to disrupt the democratic political process. Engaging in a practice known as cyberfraud, these individuals register for domains containing the candidate's name, such as 'firstnamelastname.com." Then, instead of finding themselves on the candidate's official campaign website, voters access a website operated by the candidate's opponent that contains misleading or outright false information. Unfortunately, most political candidates have little recourse for such …

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Full Issue, Digressions Jan 2011

Full Issue, Digressions

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

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Caterpillar, Lyle Howe Jan 2011

Caterpillar, Lyle Howe

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

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Crippled, Alyssa Sterkel Jan 2011

Crippled, Alyssa Sterkel

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Heart Of The Matter: The Function And Relational Effects Of Humor For Cardiovascular Patients, Nicholas Lee Lockwood Jan 2011

The Heart Of The Matter: The Function And Relational Effects Of Humor For Cardiovascular Patients, Nicholas Lee Lockwood

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This study examined the possibility that cardiovascular patient health is enhanced by the intentional communication of humor and associated increases in relationship satisfaction. In an effort to study the relationship between these variables it was predicted that relationship satisfaction mediates the effects between humor functions and health. Questionnaire data was collected from members of two national support groups for patients of cardiovascular disease. Findings support humor functions distinguished in previous studies and support the hypothesis that relationship satisfaction mediates health. Specifically, distancing humor negatively predicted relationship satisfaction and health. These findings offer new insight into the variability of humor effects.

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