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Evaluation Of Dose-Related Genotoxicity Of Desflurane By Sce Human Lymphocytes, Bahar Aydinli, Ayşegül Özgök, Zeli̇ha Asli Demi̇r, Seyhan Yağar, Mehmet Ali̇ Ergün, Derya Karaer, Mustafa Necmi̇ İlhan

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

To evaluate dose-related genotoxicity of desflurane. In the literature, there are studies with equivocal data regarding the potential genotoxicity of inhalational anesthetics. However, it is important to know about the genotoxic safety of an anesthetic agent. Materials and methods: Two groups were enrolled into the study. The first group was maintained with a desflurane minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of 0.5 and the second was maintained with 1 MAC of desflurane. Blood samples were obtained and studied at the baseline and after 3 h of anesthesia via sister chromatid exchange (SCE) assay. Results: In both groups, SCEs per cell were noted …

Attitudes To The Challenges Of Life Among Different Occupation Groups, Olgun Göktaş, Oğuz Teki̇n, İrfan Şencan

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

To determine the attitudes of some occupation groups towards challenges. Materials and methods: In the present study, data were collected by administering the Fatih-Bursa Scale of Attitude to Challenges (F.B.-SATC) to various occupation groups. The participants were divided into 6 occupation groups: healthcare workers, educators, technical staff (engineers, architects, etc.), self-employed people, security staff (police offices, military staff), and housewives. Data were assessed with a F.B.-SATC scoring system measuring attitudes towards challenges. The scale has 5 factors: Thoughts about Challenges (TAC), Outlook on Life (OL), Problem Solving (PS), Targets and Ideals (AI), and Social State (SS) factors. The tool included …

Geomechanical Stability Analysis For Co2 Sequestration In Carbonate Formation, Xue J. Zhou

Theses and Dissertations

Geomechanical analysis is one of the fundamental pillars to build up the confidence of geological sequestration of CO2. Large scale CO2 sequestration in deep carbonate formation is a complicated geological process, which will non-reversibly transform the presumed equivalent and stable status of a sedimentary basin that formed over millions of years: chemically, hydraulically, geothermally, and geomechanically. In this dissertation, thermoporoelasticity guides the theoretical establishment of a conservative baseline for the geomechanical stability analysis of CO2 sequestration.

Extensive laboratory tests, including CO2 flooding tests, permeability tests, uniaxial and triaxial tests, Brazilian tensile strength tests, poroelasticity tests, point load tests, and fracture …

Friendship In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Jason Ader

A with Honors Projects

An analysis of Aristotle's views on friendship including research.

Extreme Multistability In A Chemical Model System, Calistus N. Ngonghala, Ulrike Feudel, Kenneth Showalter

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Coupled systems can exhibit an unusual kind of multistability, namely, the coexistence of infinitely many attractors for a given set of parameters. This extreme multistability is demonstrated to occur in coupled chemical model systems with various types of coupling. We show that the appearance of extreme multistability is associated with the emergence of a conserved quantity in the long-term limit. This conserved quantity leads to a "slicing" of the state space into manifolds corresponding to the value of the conserved quantity. The state space "slices" develop as t→∞ and there exists at least one attractor in each of them. We …

Aet 3453 : Alternative And Renewable Energy Systems, Technology

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.

Eiu 4198g : Mischievous Molds, Honors, Biological Sciences

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.

Bio 3740 : Clinical Mycology, Biological Sciences

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.

Seeking A Better Prescription For Physicians: Patent Eligibility For Diagnostic Methods In A Post-Bilski And Prometheus Era, Julianne Befeler

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Implementation Of The Biosimilar Pathway: Economic And Policy Issues, Henry Grabowski, Genia Long, Richard Mortimer

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Why Wait Until The Crime Happens? Providing For The Involuntary Commitment Of Dangerous Individuals Without Requiring A Showing Of Mental Illness, Adam Lamparello

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sensitivity Of Cercospora Beticola Populations In Turkey To Flutriafol, Mancozeb, And Fentin Acetate, Aynur Tümbek, Pinar Özeren, Riza Kaya, Yakup Zekai̇ Katircioğlu, Sali̇h Maden

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

The sensitivity of sugar beet leaf spot disease caused by Cercospora beticola to fungicides used in Turkey was determined using a mycelial growth assay in petri dishes with 100 fungal isolates. The isolates were obtained from samples collected from 6 sugar beet production areas in 2005 and 2006. Flutriafol, mancozeb, and fentin acetate were added to Aspergillus complete medium (ACM) at the rates of 0.0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 5.0, and 10.0 µg mL^{-1}, and then mycelial growth was measured. ED_{50} values of flutriafol for all the isolates from the sugar beet production areas ranged from 0.04 to >10.0 µg …

Can Triticale Be Used As A Companion Crop With Red Clover?, Zeki̇ Acar, Özlem Önal Aşci, Uğur Başaran, İlknur Ayan, Hani̇fe Mut

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

The purpose of this research, carried out under irrigated conditions, was to determine the effects of sowing rate and harvest stage of triticale, used here as a companion plant, on hay yield of red clover and weed densities. The field studies, which were conducted as 2 separate experiments, continued over the 2004-2008 period. Each experiment continued for 3 years (Experiment I was carried out between 2004 and 2007, and Experiment II was carried out between 2005 and 2008). Red clover and triticale were sown together. Triticale was seeded at 200, 300, 500, and 650 seed m^{-2}. Plots were harvested when …

Some Characteristics Of The Stagnation Stage In The Development Of Silver Fir (Abies Alba Mill.) Trees In Selection Forests In Serbia, Damjan Pantic, Stanisa Bankovic, Milan Medarevic, Snezana Obradovic

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

A period of stagnation in silver fir development has been recorded in all felled trees in selection forests of Serbia (233 trees on Mt. Goc and 451 trees on Mt. Tara). In the selection forests on Mt. Goc, the stagnation stage ranges between 40 and 330 years, but on Mt. Tara, it ranges from 15 to 185 years. It was concluded that the duration was caused not by the ecological and productivity potential (site class) of the soil for fir development, but primarily by the growth space, resulting from the application of single-tree selection or group selection systems. It was …

Quantitative Trait Loci (Qtl) Analysis For Antioxidant And Agronomically Important Traits In Tomato (Lycopersicon Esculentum), Bi̇lal Ökmen, Hasan Özgür Şiğva, Nergi̇z Gürbüz, Mehmet Ülger, Anne Frary, Sami̇ Doğanlar

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Tomato is one of the most widely produced and consumed vegetable crops worldwide. Plant breeders have usually focused on improvement of horticulturally important traits such as yield, fruit size, shape and colour. With increased attention on human health, however, plant breeders also consider the improvement of health-related traits of fruits and vegetables such as antioxidant characters. In the present study, genes controlling both health-related and horticulturally important traits were mapped in the tomato genome using 152 Lycopersicon hirsutum BC_2F_2 individuals. For this aim, all plants were phenotypically and genotypically characterised and a total of 75 QTLs were identified for all …

Antioxidant Properties Of Methanolic Extract From Inula Graveolens L., Adnan J. M. Al-Fartosy

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

The aim of this study was to assess the possible antioxidant activities of 80% methanolic extract from the Inula graveolens L. plant. It was found that the methanolic extract has the highest content of phenolic (1.63%, calculated as gallic acid) and flavonoid (0.52%, calculated as quercetin) equivalents per 100 g of dry mass. The methanolic extract possesses strong antioxidant activity (64.28%) as well as strong reducing power (increasing as the extract concentration increases) and ferrous ion chelating (96%) abilities. Moreover, the methanolic extract shows the highest free radical-scavenging activities for superoxide anion and hydroxyl radical, reaching 93.43% and 91.38%, respectively.

2011 Cardozo Life (Issue 2), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Life Magazine

Table of Contents:

The Innocence Project at 20, page 4

Are You a Gladiator or a Peacemaker?, page 8

Top News & Events, Class Notes, page 12

News from Programs, Centers & Journals, page 16

Faculty Briefs, page 23

And… Action! The Indie Film Clinic’s First Scene, page 26

Immigration Justice: From Both Sides, page 28

Filling the Justice Gap, page 30

Alumni News & Advancement, page 34

Endnote, page 42

Looking Back, page 44

Advocating For Children In Care In A Climate Of Economic Recession: The Relationship Between Poverty And Child Maltreatment., Bruce A. Boyer, Amy E. Halbrook

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

Immortality Through Tale In "The Crossing", Evanne Lindley

Global Tides

This article explores the dichotomy of life and death in Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing through Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive lens. The article traces the novel’s ostensible indications that death is absolute, but highlights passages from the work which suggest shared narratives can challenge and even conquer death’s sting. Ultimately, the article interprets how McCarthy’s text breaks down the dichotomy between life and death and instead suggests that death can be transcended through storytelling.

Plantinga, Kant, And Cognitive Reliability, Peter Zuk

Global Tides

This article applies Alvin Plantinga’s principle that self-defeat is inherent in any theory which gives the theorist reason to doubt her own cognitive faculties to Kant’s theory of perception, transcendental idealism. Because transcendental idealism excludes the possibility of knowledge about things in themselves, including the transcendental idealist’s own cognitive faculties, the theory is self-defeating under Plantinga’s argument. The article continues by arguing that Kant’s appeal to God as a way to vindicate the transcendental idealist’s cognitive faculties is problematic in several ways, and that the theory therefore cannot avoid self-defeat.

A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial Of Ramelteon For The Treatment Of Insomnia And Mood Stability In Patients With Euthymic Bipolar Disorder (Poster), Edward R. Norris Md, Fapa, Fapm, Karen Burke Rn, Julia R. Correll Ba, Ken Zemanek Md, Joel Lerman Md, Michael Kaufmann Md

Department of Psychiatry

No abstract provided.

Microarray Image Denoising Using Complex Gaussian Scale Mixtures Of Complex Wavelets, Lakshmi Srinivasan

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

The scientific world has witnessed an explosion in the development of comprehensive and high-throughput methods for molecular biology experimentation. High density DNA microarray technology, allows researchers to monitor the expression levels of thousands of genes in an organism simultaneously, to characterize geneticdiseases at the molecular level and to direct new treatment for specific cellular aberrations. The microarray analysis is rapidly becoming a standard research tool. But, the images produced by microarray experiments, are not perfect and includes noisysources, that contaminate them during the various stages of its formation. These microarray images need to be denoised to ensure reliable and accurate …

Timing Of Milk Supplementation On Muscular Hypertrophy And Strength In Trained Males, Noell Ealey

Honors Capstones

Problem- The inconsistency of information on recommendations regarding the most beneficial timing of protein supplementation in relation to a workout, when muscle hypertrophy and strength is the goal. Purpose- To investigate milk supplementation before and after exercise and its effects on muscle hypertrophy, muscle strength, and body composition. Design- On day 1, subjects reported to the exercise lab for anthropometries,strength and muscle hypertrophy assessment. On day 28, subjects reported to the lab to reassess strength gains and to readjust lifting routines as needed to allow for additional strength gains. On day 56, subjects again reported to the exercise lab for …

Taking Economic Human Rights Seriously After The Debt Crisis., Steven A. Ramirez

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

The Abortion Informed Consent Debate: More Light, Less Heat., Nadia N. Sawicki

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

Food Sovereignty For Poor Countries In The Global Trading System, James T. Gathii

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

Ada News Convention Daily - 2011 Day 4, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Genetic Elimination Of Dengue Vector Mosquitoes, Megan R. Wise De Valdez, D. Nimmo, J. Betz, H.-F. Gong, A. A. James, L. Alphey, W. C. Black Iv

Biology Faculty Publications (Archived)

An approach based on mosquitoes carrying a conditional dominant lethal gene (release of insects carrying a dominant lethal, RIDL) is being developed to control the transmission of dengue viruses by vector population suppression. A transgenic strain, designated OX3604C, of the major dengue vector, Aedes aegypti, was engineered to have a repressible female-specific flightless phenotype. This strain circumvents the need for radiation-induced sterilization, allows genetic sexing resulting in male-only releases, and permits the release of eggs instead of adult mosquitoes. OX3604C males introduced weekly into large laboratory cages containing stable target mosquito populations at initial ratios of 8.5-10:1 OX3604C:target eliminated the …

Adequacy Of Diabetes Care For Older U.S. Rural Adults: A Cross-Sectional Population Based Study Using 2009 Brfss Data, M. Nawal Lutfiyya, Joel E. Mccullough, Lori Mitchell, L. Scott Dean, Martin S. Lipsky

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: In the U.S. diabetes prevalence estimates for adults ≥ 65 years exceed 20%. Rural communities have higher proportions of older individuals and health disparities associated with rural residency place rural communities at risk for a higher burden from diabetes. This study examined the adequacy of care received by older rural adults for their diabetes to determine if older rural adults differed in the receipt of adequate diabetes care when compared to their non-rural counterparts.

Methods: Cross-sectional data from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey were examined using bivariate and multivariate analytical techniques.

Results: Logistic regression analysis revealed that …

Encapsulated Energy-Transfer Cassettes With Extremely Well Resolved Fluorescent Outputs, Yuichiro Ueno, Jiney Jose, Aurore Loudet, Cesar Perez-Bolivar, Pavel Anzenbacher Jr., Kevin Burgess

Chemistry Faculty Publications

This paper concerns the development of water-compatible fluorescent imaging probes with tunable photonic properties that can be excited at a single wavelength. Bichromophoric cassettes 1a-1c consisting of a BODIPY donor and a cyanine acceptor were prepared using a simple synthetic route, and their photophysical properties were investigated. Upon excitation of the BODIPY moiety at 488 nm the excitation energy is transferred through an acetylene bridge to the cyanine dye acceptor, which emits light at approximately 600, 700, and 800 nm, i.e., with remarkable dispersions. This effect is facilitated by efficient energy transfer that gives a "quasi-Stokes" shift between 86 and …