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The Current Volume 21 : Issue 20, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Parthenon, February 8, 2011, Marshall University

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

Superhero Teaches At Jccc

Imprint

During his postdoctoral studies at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Dr. Dennis Bishop investigated the role of the kidneys and vascular reactivity in the development of hypertension. But behind the mild-mannered demeanor of this scientist is a comic book collector.

Imprint Spring 2011 Full Issue

Imprint

The complete issue of Imprint for Spring 2011.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (February 7, 2011), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 40, February 7, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 45, July 8, 2010 - June 9, 2011

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Statesman, V. 54, I. 17, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 54, i. 17

Faculty Senate Agenda, February 7, 2011, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Instructure's Canvas the new Learning Management System (LMS) Program
• Research Council Annual Report (Brent Miller)
• Bookstore Report (Eric Worthen/David Parkinson)
• EPC Items (Larry Smith)
• PRPC Item

Performance And Reproduction Of An Exotic Invader Across Temperate Forest Gradients, Robert J. Warren Ii, Volker Bahn, Timothy D. Kramer, Yaya Tang, Mark A. Bradford

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Widespread colonization by invasive species often obscures their underlying niche requirements. A robust inference into habitat requirements demands direct measures of invasive species performance linked with associated environmental conditions. In the context of general ecological theory, we investigated the niche requirements of Microstegium vimineum, an invasive grass in the U.S. that overruns native vegetation in forest understories. We examined M. vimineum’s performance and reproduction as a function of environmental drivers across forested and unforested habitats along a 100-km regional and climatic gradient in the southeastern U.S. from the southern Appalachian Mountains to the Georgia piedmont. We then measured M. vimineum …

Isolation Of A Rickettsial Pathogen From A Non-Hematophagous Arthropod, Chutima Thepparit, Piyanate Sunyakumthorn, Mark L. Guillotte, Vsevolod L. Popov, Lane D. Foil, Kevin R. Macaluso

Faculty Publications

Rickettsial diversity is intriguing in that some species are transmissible to vertebrates, while others appear exclusive to invertebrate hosts. Of particular interest is Rickettsia felis, identifiable in both stored product insect pests and hematophagous disease vectors. To understand rickettsial survival tactics in, and probable movement between, both insect systems will explicate the determinants of rickettsial pathogenicity. Towards this objective, a population of Liposcelis bostrychophila, common booklice, was successfully used for rickettsial isolation in ISE6 (tick-derived cells). Rickettsiae were also observed in L. bostrychophila by electron microscopy and in paraffin sections of booklice by immunofluorescence assay using anti-R. felis polyclonal antibody. …

The Collegian (2011-02-07), Christine Cavazos

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 63, No. 18

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet February 2011, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The February 2011 Monthly packet includes the February agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held January 2011

February 7, 2011 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Miss Illinois Competes At Miss America, Jessica Hinterlong '11

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Studies In Organic Synthesis: Part I: Total Synthesis Of Plakortethers F And G Part Ii: Carbon-Hydrogen Insertion On Diazosulfones And Diazosulfonates, Jinu Philip John

Theses and Dissertations

This work consists of two independent studies. The first part of the dissertation focuses on the total synthesis of two marine based natural products, Plakortether F and G which represent a class of non-peroxide derivatives of Plakortin related metabolites that are isolated from the Caribbean sponge Plakortis simplex. The selective cytotoxic activity of Plakortethers against the RAW 264-7 cell line (murine macrophage) makes them promising candidates for biological studies. A strategy utilizing desymmetrization of a C2 symmetric intermediate was proposed and demonstrated to be effective for the synthesis of the core of Plakortethers. Initially, the symmetric intermediate could only be …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - February 6, 2011, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the February 6, 2011 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include

• Renowned Trauma Surgeon to Speak at Mitchell Endowed Lectureship in Traumatology and Surgical Critical Care

• USA Surgery Hosts Greater Gulf Coast Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Symposium

• Reminder: 2011 Summer Research Proposal Deadline Approaching

• Next Week's DSS - Dr. Alan G. Marshall

• USA Physicians, Alumni Honored at Banquet Sponsored by Black Health Magazine

• USA Biomedical Library Newsletter Introduces New Blog Format

Pediatric Ethics Guidelines For Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Cancer, M. Sara Rosenthal, Douglas S. Diekema

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

Hereditary medullary thyroid cancer is an aggressive cancer for which there is no standard effective systemic therapy, but which can be prevented through genetic screening and prophylactic thyroidectomy. Although this cancer accounts for roughly 17% of all pediatric thyroid cancers, a significant percentage of affected families do not "accept" screening, while many gene carriers delay or refuse prophylactic thyroid surgery for their children. Current genetic screening practices in medullary thyroid cancer are inadequate; more than 50% of index patients with hereditary medullary thyroid cancer present with a thyroid mass; up to 75% have distant metastasis. These proposed pediatric ethics guidelines …

An Unnatural History, Sarah Hearn

Theses

An Unnatural History is an installation that inhabits the space between the continuously shifting realms of science, pseudoscience and science fiction. This project documents the (fictional) discovery of a taxonomy of marine life containing and cooperating with the elements from the periodic table. As science and technology progress, we are constantly faced with redefining, reinterpreting and reconfiguring what we thought we knew about the world around us and previous scientific "facts" are revealed to have been constructed "beliefs." Using multiple modes of representation, An Unnatural History draws attention to the real, the imagined and what it means to visualize biological …

Volume 46 - Issue 16 - Friday, February 4, 2011, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

Population Functional Data Analysis Of Group Ica-Based Connectivity Measures From Fmri, Shanshan Li, Brian S. Caffo, Suresh Joel, Stewart Mostofsky, James Pekar, Susan Spear Bassett

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

In this manuscript, we use a two-stage decomposition for the analysis of func- tional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In the first stage, spatial independent component analysis is applied to the group fMRI data to obtain common brain networks (spatial maps) and subject-specific mixing matrices (time courses). In the second stage, functional principal component analysis is utilized to decompose the mixing matrices into population- level eigenvectors and subject-specific loadings. Inference is performed using permutation-based exact conditional logistic regression for matched pairs data. Simulation studies suggest the ability of the decomposition methods to recover population brain networks and the major direction of …

Sr-10-11-18 Apc, Marshall University

Recommendations

No abstract provided.

Reporter - February 4th 2011, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

The Tiger Vol. 105 Issue 3 2011-02-04, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 100 [101], No. 28 (Feb. 4, 2011), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 100, but it is the 101st volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Daily Eastern News: February 04, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

February

No abstract provided.

Environmental Forcings Of Paleogene Southern Ocean Dinoflagellate Biogeography, Peter K. Bijl, Jörg Pross, Jeroen Warnaar, Catherine E. Stickley, Matthew Huber, Raquel Guerstein, Alexander J.P. Houben, Appy Sluijs, Henk Visscher, Henk Brinkhuis

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Faculty Publications

Despite warm polar climates and low meridional temperature gradients, a number of different high-latitude plankton assemblages were, to varying extents, dominated by endemic species during most of the Paleogene. To better understand the evolution of Paleogene plankton endemism in the high southern latitudes, we investigate the spatiotemporal distribution of the fossil remains of dinoflagellates, i.e., organic-walled cysts (dinocysts), and their response to changes in regional sea surface temperature (SST). We show that Paleocene and early Eocene (∼65–50 Ma) Southern Ocean dinocyst assemblages were largely cosmopolitan in nature but that a distinct switch from cosmopolitan-dominated to endemic-dominated assemblages (the so-called “transantarctic …

Design And Analysis Of Blast Induced Traumatic Brain Injury Mechanism Using A Surrogate Headform: Instrumentation And Outcomes, Eyitejumade A. Sogbesan

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Brain injury cases in military personnel exposed to improvised explosive devices (IED) in combat have been on the rise. In Iraq and Afghanistan improved helmets and body armor are not enough protection against blast wave threats. The United States military are sponsoring researchers and scientists around the globe to find the associations between pressure waves and traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Lack of accurate data and blast wave exposure information in returning soldiers has slowed the innovation needed to effectively diagnose TBI and other related brain injury as a result of pressure waves. More detailed data will be required to gain …

Why Does The Method Matter?, Lorena Fries, Veronica Matus

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Parental Rights And The Best Interests Of The Child: Implications Of The Adoption And Safe Families Act Of 1997 On Domestic Violence Victims' Rights, Rachel Venier

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Public Reactions To New Street Tree Planting, Ruth A. Rae, Gabriel Simon, Jessie Braden

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

MillionTreesNYC, which has the goal of planting one million trees in New York City by 2017, is intended to make New York City a greener, more sustainable city and is part of the Mayor’s comprehensive long term strategic plan, PlaNYC. Through planting a tree at every suitable sidewalk location in the city, the City of New York is transforming blocks and communities, and providing a variety of environmental, social and aesthetic benefits. This article examines the large scale municipal planting of new street trees and the reaction by some of the pubic to this planting.

Trees offer benefits to the …