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Managing The Experience Of Evidence England’S Experimental Waste Technologies And Their Immodest Witnesses, Joshua Reno Nov 2011

Managing The Experience Of Evidence England’S Experimental Waste Technologies And Their Immodest Witnesses, Joshua Reno

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

This article explores the technoenvironmental politics associated with government-sponsored climate change mitigation. It focuses on England’s New Technologies Demonstrator Programme, established to test the “viability” of “green” waste treatments by awarding state aid to eight experimental projects that promise to divert municipal waste from landfill and greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The article examines how these demonstrator sites are arranged and represented to produce noncontroversial and publicly accessible forms of evidence and experience and, ultimately, to inform environmental policy and planning decisions throughout the country. As in experimental science, this process requires that some bear witness to the demonstrators, but …

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Localisation To Lipid Rafts Correlates With Increased Function Of The Gal/Galnac Lectin In The Human Protozoan Parasite, Entamoeba Histolytica, Brenda H. Welter Nov 2011

Localisation To Lipid Rafts Correlates With Increased Function Of The Gal/Galnac Lectin In The Human Protozoan Parasite, Entamoeba Histolytica, Brenda H. Welter

Publications

Entamoeba histolytica is the causative agent of dysentery and liver abscess and is prevalent in developing countries. Adhesion to the host is critical to infection and is mediated by amoebic surface receptors. One such receptor, the Gal/GalNAc lectin, binds to galactose or N-acetylgalactosamine residues on host components and consists of heavy (Hgl), light (Lgl) and intermediate (Igl) subunits. The mechanism by which the lectin assembles into a functional complex is not known. The parasite also relies on cholesterol-rich domains (lipid rafts) for adhesion. Therefore, it is conceivable that rafts regulate the assembly or function of the lectin. To test …

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Culture Medium, Gas Atmosphere And Mapk Inhibition Affect Regulation Of Rna-Binding Protein Targets During Mouse Preimplantation Development., Michele D Calder, Patricia H Watson, Andrew J Watson Nov 2011

Culture Medium, Gas Atmosphere And Mapk Inhibition Affect Regulation Of Rna-Binding Protein Targets During Mouse Preimplantation Development., Michele D Calder, Patricia H Watson, Andrew J Watson

Obstetrics & Gynaecology Publications

During oogenesis, mammalian oocytes accumulate maternal mRNAs that support the embryo until embryonic genome activation. RNA-binding proteins (RBP) may regulate the stability and turnover of maternal and embryonic mRNAs. We hypothesised that varying embryo culture conditions, such as culture medium, oxygen tension and MAPK inhibition, affects regulation of RBPs and their targets during preimplantation development. STAU1, ELAVL1, KHSRP and ZFP36 proteins and mRNAs were detected throughout mouse preimplantation development, whereas Elavl2 mRNA decreased after the two-cell stage. Potential target mRNAs of RBP regulation, Gclc, Slc2a1 and Slc7a1 were detected during mouse preimplantation development. Gclc mRNA was significantly elevated in embryos …

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In This Issue…, Stephen J. Langendorfer Nov 2011

In This Issue…, Stephen J. Langendorfer

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

No abstract provided.

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Math History Study Abroad Program: Learning Math History In A Cultural Context, Donna Pierce Nov 2011

Math History Study Abroad Program: Learning Math History In A Cultural Context, Donna Pierce

ACMS Journal 2010-2011

In January 2011 fifteen Whitworth University students participated in a program where they studied math history in a historical context on-site in Italy, Germany and England. Walking amongst the Roman engineering wonders, experiencing the mathematical beauty of Renaissance art and architecture, seeing the inventions, original papers and instruments of Galileo, DaVinci, Euler, Newton and others, and learning from experts about the effects of war and oppression on society, gave the students new insights into the worldview perspectives of men and women responsible for major developments in mathematics. This paper shares some of these insights and how they contributed to the …

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Relationship Of Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors Of Primary Caregivers With A History Of Sexual Abuse And Perfectionism In Their Sexually Abused Children, Alyssa Lundahl, Tiffany West, Elaine K. Martin, Christopher Campbell, Jayci Vanderbeek, David J. Hansen Nov 2011

Relationship Of Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors Of Primary Caregivers With A History Of Sexual Abuse And Perfectionism In Their Sexually Abused Children, Alyssa Lundahl, Tiffany West, Elaine K. Martin, Christopher Campbell, Jayci Vanderbeek, David J. Hansen

McNair Scholars Research Journal

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with many short- and long-term sequelae including obsessive-compulsive behaviors (OCB) and perfectionism. Research suggests that the expression of child perfectionism may be influenced by caregivers’ OCB and CSA history. Caregivers with a CSA history may engage in dysfunctional parenting styles associated with child perfectionism, while children of caregivers with OCB may exhibit increased perfectionism due to genetics and/or the internalization of their parents’ perfectionist tendencies. However, given the high prevalence of OCB among those with a CSA history, the relationships among caregivers’ expression of OCB, caregivers’ CSA history, and child perfectionism is unclear. Thus, …

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Library Impact Statement For Csc 523 Advanced Intrusion Detection And Defense, Amanda Izenstark Nov 2011

Library Impact Statement For Csc 523 Advanced Intrusion Detection And Defense, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement for CSC 523 Advanced Intrusion Detection and Defense. No new library resources are required to support this course.

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Final Recommendations For Policy, Methodology And Research, Brian O'Neill, Sonia Livingstone, Sharon Mclaughlin Nov 2011

Final Recommendations For Policy, Methodology And Research, Brian O'Neill, Sonia Livingstone, Sharon Mclaughlin

Reports

The EU Kids Online project aims to enhance knowledge of European children’s and parents’ experiences and practices regarding risky and safer use of the internet and new online technologies, and thereby to inform the promotion of a safer online environment for children. The project is coordinated by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with research teams and stakeholder advisers in each of the 25 countries and an International Advisory Panel. The network has been funded by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme in order to strengthen the evidence base for policies regarding online safety.

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Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: Bibliography - 2010, University Libraries Nov 2011

Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: Bibliography - 2010, University Libraries

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A bibliography of faculty publications submitted for inclusion in the third annual 'Celebrating Faculty Scholarship' event sponsored by Loyola University Libraries. The event, which took place on November 3, 2011 in the Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons on the university's Lake Shore Campus, featured articles, books, creative works, and other materials authored by Loyola University Chicago faculty in 2010.

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Corporate Governance Of Iconic Executives, The, Tom C. W. Lin Nov 2011

Corporate Governance Of Iconic Executives, The, Tom C. W. Lin

Notre Dame Law Review

The article presents information on the corporate governance challenges posed by iconic executives. It includes information on iconic executives who rule like monarchs over their firms, offering promises to shareholders, directors, and managers under their reign in order to grow their business. It includes information on the perils of iconic executives which includes overconfidence, licentiousness and excessive difference created among the employees.

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Ntid Focus Fall/Winter 2011, Ntid Marketing And Communications Nov 2011

Ntid Focus Fall/Winter 2011, Ntid Marketing And Communications

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

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Sweet Or Sour: Extending Copyright Protection To Food Art, Caroline M. Reebs Nov 2011

Sweet Or Sour: Extending Copyright Protection To Food Art, Caroline M. Reebs

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

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First Draft, Rewind, Carolyn O'Doherty Nov 2011

First Draft, Rewind, Carolyn O'Doherty

Hipple Collection of Young Adult Literature Manuscripts

First full draft of Rewind.

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The Banner - V. 146, No. 11 - (November 2011), Christian Reformed Church In North America Nov 2011

The Banner - V. 146, No. 11 - (November 2011), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

6 - Editorial: Why Play Favorites? by Bob De Moor / 7 - Catch Your Breath: Music of Grace by Debra Rienstra / 8 - IMHO: Selling Ourselves Short by Michèle Gyselinck / 8 - Letters to the Editor / 10 - News: Back to God Director passes away / 16 - Women in Ministry: 15 Years Later by Gayla R. Postma / 18 - Best Youth Ministry Ever! by Rick Mast / 21 - Next: Boundless Familiarity by Dayna Vreeken / 22 - Telling God’s Story by Nancy Vander Meer / 27 - The View from Here: In the …

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Singapore's Venture Into The Gulf: Undiscovered Treasure Or Empty Pot?, Caroline Yeoh, Wilfred How, Joses Wong Nov 2011

Singapore's Venture Into The Gulf: Undiscovered Treasure Or Empty Pot?, Caroline Yeoh, Wilfred How, Joses Wong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Singapore: a country synonymous with business efficiency, strict laws and a reputation that belies its miniscule size. Its state-enterprise network and attempts at grafting “Singapore-styled” investment enclaves onto foreign locales often receive attention from the international community. These state-engineered projects are premised on the exportability of Singapore’s state credibility, systemic and operational efficiencies as well as the technological competencies of Singapore companies, to locations where these attributes are less distinct. This paper, as part of our series on this topic, revisits the city-state’s determined efforts to encapsulate economic space for Singapore-based firms, enabling them to expand beyond the region. This …

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November 2011 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations Nov 2011

November 2011 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony: The Musical Aftermath Of An Anecdote, Christine Siegert Nov 2011

Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony: The Musical Aftermath Of An Anecdote, Christine Siegert

HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America

The compositional response to Haydn’s works in the second half of the twentieth century has up to this point scarcely been investigated. Understandably, it focuses on Haydn’s more prominent works. An examination reveals that the reception of the “Farewell Symphony“ plays an exceptional role inasmuch as it forms not only the musical basis of works by Alfred Schnittke, Jindřich Feld, Kirke Mechem, George Crumb and other composers, but the “pantomime” (Georg August Griesinger) elements of the first performance, as told in the anecdote, are turned into performative actions in reception: the light’s extinction and the musicians’ departure. Analysis of Frank …

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Technology In Practice. Information Literacy 2.0, Meredith G. Farkas Nov 2011

Technology In Practice. Information Literacy 2.0, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

In this article the author discusses critical inquiry and information literacy instruction in light of changes in information dissemination due to digital technology and social media. She emphasizes the impact of such changes for libraries and librarians, addressing information searching skills, networking skills, and professional development for librarians.

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Engaging The Digitally Engaged Student: Comparing Technology-Mediated Communication Use And Effects On Student Learning, Scott C. D'Urso, Craig R. Scott Nov 2011

Engaging The Digitally Engaged Student: Comparing Technology-Mediated Communication Use And Effects On Student Learning, Scott C. D'Urso, Craig R. Scott

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

The role of communication technologies in the learning process is both a dynamic and complex issue. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how the use of specific communication technologies may influence classroom performance, key learning outcomes, and other measures of course satisfaction. The research reported here attempts to add to our knowledge about the role of communication in the technology enhanced classroom (TEC) education and in technology-enhanced online (TEO) education through a direct comparison of two courses. Our findings indicate additional support for “The No Significant Difference Phenomenon.” Furthermore, we found that prior experiences lead students to gravitate towards their …

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A Statin-Regulated Microrna Represses C-Myc Expression And Function., Apana Agha L. Takwi 1980- Nov 2011

A Statin-Regulated Microrna Represses C-Myc Expression And Function., Apana Agha L. Takwi 1980-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

c-Myc dysregulation is one of the most common abnormalities found in human cancer. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are functionally intertwined with the c-Myc network as multiple miRNAs are regulated by c-Myc, while others directly suppress c-Myc expression. In this work, we identified miR-33b as a primate-specific negative regulator of c-Myc. The human miR-33b gene is located at 17pl1.2, a genomic locus frequently lost in medulloblastomas, which are pediatric brain tumors that display c-Myc overproduction. Through a small-scale screening with drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), we found that lovastatin up-regulated miR-33b expression, reduced cell proliferation, and impaired c-Myc …

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Quantification Of Vascular Perfusion In The Spinal Cord After Injury., Ruthie S. Fligor Nov 2011

Quantification Of Vascular Perfusion In The Spinal Cord After Injury., Ruthie S. Fligor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Traumatic injury destroys blood vessels at the injury epicenter and is followed by local angiogenesis and regional inflammation. Healing from injury depends on vascular health because blood supply is directly responsible for the health and function of surrounding tissue. This work establishes a new method for qualitatively and quantitatively measuring the blood supply of spinal cord (SC) tissue. Systemically injecting fluorescent microspheres (FMs) and cryostat sectioning SC tissue reveals a novel and potentially powerful way of assessing blood supply. This method is easily incorporated with existing tissue processing protocols because it does not require chemical digestion of the tissue region …

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Zap1 Control Of Cell-Cell Signaling In Candida Albicans Biofilms, Shantanu Ganguly, Andrew C. Bishop, Wenjie Xu, Suman Ghosh, Kenneth W. Nickerson, Frederick Lanni, Jana Patton-Vogt, Aaron P. Mitchell Nov 2011

Zap1 Control Of Cell-Cell Signaling In Candida Albicans Biofilms, Shantanu Ganguly, Andrew C. Bishop, Wenjie Xu, Suman Ghosh, Kenneth W. Nickerson, Frederick Lanni, Jana Patton-Vogt, Aaron P. Mitchell

Kenneth Nickerson Papers

Biofilms of Candida albicans include both yeast cells and hyphae. Prior studies indicated that a zap1/ mutant, defective in zinc regulator Zap1, has increased accumulation of yeast cells in biofilms. This altered yeast-hypha balance may arise from internal regulatory alterations or from an effect on the production of diffusible quorum-sensing (QS) molecules. Here, we develop biosensor reporter strains that express yeastspecific YWP1-RFP or hypha-specific HWP1-RFP, along with a constitutive TDH3-GFP normalization standard. Seeding these biosensor strains into biofilms allows a biological activity assay of the surrounding biofilm milieu. A zap1/ biofilm induces the yeast-specific YWP1-RFP reporter in a wild-type …

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Mavericks, Moderates, Or Drifters - Supreme Court Voting Alignments, 1838-2009, Christine Kexel Chabot, Benjamin Remy Chabot Nov 2011

Mavericks, Moderates, Or Drifters - Supreme Court Voting Alignments, 1838-2009, Christine Kexel Chabot, Benjamin Remy Chabot

Missouri Law Review

We introduce a new data set recording the vote of every Justice in 18,812 Supreme Court cases decided between 1838 and 1949. When combined with existing data sets, our new data allow us to examine votes in all cases through 2009. We use this data to address previously unanswerable questions about the president's ability to appoint Supreme Court Justices of similar ideology. Surprisingly, history shows that the president's odds of appointing a Justice who sides with appointees of his party have been no better than a coin flip. We find no evidence that divided government at the time of nomination …

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Presidential Power And Constitutional Responsibility, Thomas P. Crocker Nov 2011

Presidential Power And Constitutional Responsibility, Thomas P. Crocker

Faculty Publications

Some constitutional theorists defend unbounded executive power to respond to emergencies or expansive discretionary powers to complete statutory directives. Against these anti-Madisonian approaches, this Article examines how the textual assignment of republican virtues helps to constitute and constrain the president's power. The Madisonian solution for constitutional constraint both creates institutions for unenlightened statesmen and relies on virtue to make governing possible. Constitutional responsibility is a consistent textual theme found in the command to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed," the responsibility to remain faithful to the office of president, and the obligation to preserve the Constitution itself. Although …

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More Americans Using Federal Food Assistance Since Recession Ended, Carsey Institute Finds, Lori Wright Nov 2011

More Americans Using Federal Food Assistance Since Recession Ended, Carsey Institute Finds, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

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Case Studies Of At-Risk Middle Grades Students And Literacy Applications Including Technology, Francine Falk-Rose, Principal Investigator Nov 2011

Case Studies Of At-Risk Middle Grades Students And Literacy Applications Including Technology, Francine Falk-Rose, Principal Investigator

Cornerstone 1 Reports : Expansion and Enhancements of the Thinkfinity Platform

No abstract provided.

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Children At War: The Criminal Responsibility Of Child Soldiers, Megan Nobert Nov 2011

Children At War: The Criminal Responsibility Of Child Soldiers, Megan Nobert

Pace International Law Review Online Companion

The problem of child soldiers is not going to go away. While it may not be a popular solution, child soldiers need to be prosecuted for the actions they commit during conflicts in addition to the prosecution of child soldier recruiters. Without legal ramifications, there is no incentive for the child soldier recruiters to stop their actions. This article explores how both child soldiers and their recruiters can be prosecuted for actions committed during conflict.

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The Association Between The Type, Context, And Levels Of Physical Activity Amongst Adolescents, Harriet Koorts, Calum Mattocks, Andy R. Ness, Kevin Deere, Steven N. Blair, Russell R. Pate, Chris Riddoch Nov 2011

The Association Between The Type, Context, And Levels Of Physical Activity Amongst Adolescents, Harriet Koorts, Calum Mattocks, Andy R. Ness, Kevin Deere, Steven N. Blair, Russell R. Pate, Chris Riddoch

Faculty Publications

Background: Little is known about how the type and context of physical activity behaviors varies among adolescents with differing activity levels. The aim of this study was to assess differences in the type and context of physical activity behaviors in adolescents by level of objectively measured physical activity. Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of 2728 adolescents (1299 males, 1429 females) participating in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). The mean (SD) age was 13.8 (+0.1) years. Physical activity was measured using an Actigraph over 7 days. Adolescents were categorized into tertiles of activity (less, moderately, highly active) using counts/min …

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Daily Eastern News: November 01, 2011, Eastern Illinois University Nov 2011

Daily Eastern News: November 01, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

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Smoking On The Margins? Assessing The Health Equity Effects Of A Smoke-Free Law In Parks And Beaches, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Ann Pederson, Steve Chasey, Wendy Rice, Phoebe M. Long, Lorraine Greaves, Joan L. Bottorff, Nancy Poole, Natalie Hemsing Nov 2011

Smoking On The Margins? Assessing The Health Equity Effects Of A Smoke-Free Law In Parks And Beaches, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Ann Pederson, Steve Chasey, Wendy Rice, Phoebe M. Long, Lorraine Greaves, Joan L. Bottorff, Nancy Poole, Natalie Hemsing

Nursing Presentations

Policies which aim to limit secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure by restricting spaces where people can smoke have been shown to improve population health and garner a high level of support from the public, health professionals and policy makers. Following local, national and international examples, Vancouver’s Board of Parks and Recreation approved a smoke-free by-law for the city’s parks, beaches, and facilities effective September 1, 2010. Research suggests that such smoke-free by-laws, when enacted indoors, may affect men and women in different ways, but little research has examined the effects of such outdoor smoking bans on women and men and other …

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