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Effectiveness Of Measures To Eradicate Staphylococcus Aureus Carriage In Patients With Community-Associated Skin And Soft-Tissue Infections: A Randomized Trial, Stephanie A. Fritz, Bernard C. Camins, Kimberly A. Eisenstein, Joseph M. Fritz, Emma K. Epplin, Carey-Ann Burnham, Jonathan Dukes, Gregory A. Storch

Open Access Publications

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Electronic Surveillance For Healthcare-Associated Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Outside The Intensive Care Unit, Keith F. Woeltje, Kathleen M. Mcmullen, Anne M. Butler, Ashleigh J. Goris, Joshua A. Doherty

Open Access Publications

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Epidemiological Model For Clostridium Difficile Transmission In Healthcare Settings, Cristina Lanzas, Erik R. Dubberke, Z Lu, Kimberly Ann Reske, Y T. Grohn

Open Access Publications

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Prevalence Of Nasal Carriage Of Mupirocin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Among Hospitalized Patients In Thailand, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, David K. Warren, Victoria J. Fraser

Open Access Publications

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Development And Validation Of A Clostridium Difficile Infection Risk Prediction Model, Erik R. Dubberke, Yan Yan, Kimberly A. Reske, Anne M. Butler, Joshua Doherty, Victor Pham, Victoria J. Fraser

Open Access Publications

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Pay For Banker Performance: Structuring Executive Compensation For Risk Regulation, Frederick Tung

Faculty Scholarship

Excessive risk taking by firm managers did not originate with the Financial Crisis of 2007-08. Though bankers had special incentives to take big risks in the period before the Crisis, the incentive effects of equity-based compensation have been understood for some time. Among other things, equity compensation tends to induce greater risk taking by aligning managers’ risk preferences with those of equity holders. Longstanding government guaranties of bank liabilities additionally served to intensify bankers’ risk taking incentives.

I propose to ameliorate this gambler’s incentive with a new approach to compensation at the largest banks, one that explicitly accounts for the …

Acute Impact Of Moderate-Intensity And Vigorous-Intensity Exercise Bouts On Daily Physical Activity Energy Expenditure In Postmenopausal Women, Xuewen Wang, Barbara J. Nicklas

Open Access Publications

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Cross-Cultural Adaptation And Validation Of Snot-20 In Portuguese, Thiago Freire Pinto Bezerra, Jay F. Piccirillo, Marco Aurélio Fornazieri, Renata R. De M. Pilan, Tatiana Regina Teles Abdo, Fabio De Rezende Pinna, Francini Grecco De Melo Padua, Richard Louis Voegels

Open Access Publications

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Structure And Dynamics Of Glycosphingolipids In Lipid Bilayers: Insights From Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Ronak Y. Patel, Petety V. Balaji

Open Access Publications

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Single-Lung Transplantation In The Setting Of Aborted Bilateral Lung Transplantation, Varun Puri, Tracey Guthrie, Masina Scavuzzo, Daniel Kreisel, Alexander S. Krupnick, G. Alexander Patterson, Bryan F. Meyers

Open Access Publications

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Xenotransplantation Of Embryonic Pig Kidney Or Pancreas To Replace The Function Of Mature Organs, Marc R. Hammerman

Open Access Publications

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Cost Effectiveness Of Interventions To Promote Screening For Colorectal Cancer: A Randomized Trial, Swati Misra, David R. Lairson, Wenyaw Chan, Yu-Chia Chang, L. Kay Bartholomew, Anthony Greisinger, Amy Mcqueen, Sally W. Vernon

Open Access Publications

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Effect Of Obesity, Serum Lipoproteins, And Apolipoprotein E Genotypes On Mortality In Hospitalized Elderly Patients, Filomena Addante, Daniele Sancarlo, Massimiliano Copetti, Carlo Scarcelli, Maria Grazia Longo, Valeria Niro, Giulia Paroni, Fabio Pellegrini, Luigi Fontana, Alberto Pilotto

Open Access Publications

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Fibrocartilage Tissue Engineering: The Role Of The Stress Environment On Cell Morphology And Matrix Expression, Stavros Thomopoulos, Rosalina Das, Victor Birman, Lester Smith, Katherine Ku, Elliott L. Elson, Kenneth M. Pryse, Juan Pablo Marquez, Guy M. Genin

Open Access Publications

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Who Is Really At Risk? Identifying Risk Factors For Subthreshold And Full Syndrome Eating Disorders In A High-Risk Sample, C. Jacobi, E. Fittig, S. W. Bryson, D. Wilfley, H. C. Kraemer, C. Barr Taylor

Open Access Publications

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Early Toxicity Predicts Long-Term Survival In High-Grade Glioma, Yaacov R. Lawrence, Meihua Wang, Adam Paul Dicker, David W. Andrews, Walter John Curran, Jeff Michael Michalski, Luis Souhami, Alfred K. Yung, Minesh Mehta

Open Access Publications

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Physical Activity And Risk Of Colon Adenoma: A Meta-Analysis, Kathleen Yaus Wolin, Yan Yan, Graham A. Colditz

Open Access Publications

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Alcohol Consumption And Risk Of Renal Cell Cancer: The Nih-Aarp Diet And Health Study, Jasmine Q. Lew, Wongho Chow, Albert R. Hollenbeck, Arthur S. Schatzkin, Yikyung Park

Open Access Publications

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Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Genetic Polymorphisms And Toxicity To 5-Fu-Based Chemoradiation In Rectal Cancer, Fabienne J. Thomas, Alison A. Motsinger-Reif, Janelle M. Hoskins, Anne M. Dvorak, Siddharth Roy, A. Alyasiri, Robert J. Myerson, James W. Fleshman, Benjamin Tan, Howard L. Mcleod

Open Access Publications

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Birth Characteristics And Childhood Carcinomas, Kimberly J. Johnson, Susan E. Carozza, Eric J. Chow, Erin E. Fox, Scott A. Horel, Colleen C. Mclaughlin, Beth A. Mueller, Susan E. Puumala, Peggy J. Reynolds, Julie Von Behren, Logan G. Spector

Open Access Publications

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A Monthly Quality Assurance Procedure For 3d Surface Imaging, H. Omar Wooten, Eric E. Klein, Garima Gokrhoo, Lakshmi Santanam

Open Access Publications

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Rebel Without A Clause: The Irrelevance Of Article Vi To Constitutional Supremecy, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

With Stare Decisis and Constitutional Text, 1 Jonathan Mitchell has produced what I think is the most interesting and creative textual defense2 (or at least partial defense) to date of the use of horizontal precedent in federal constitutional cases.3 Mitchell’s careful analysis of the Supremacy Clause is fascinating and instructive, and he does an impeccable job of drawing out the implications of his premise that the Supremacy Clause prescribes only a very limited choice-of-law rule—a rule that does not, by its own terms, specifically elevate the Constitution above federal statutes and treaties. His innovative and intriguing framework yields four distinct …

A Cautionary Tale On Arbitral Authority: Judges, Arbitrators And The Stolt-Nielsen Decision, William W. Park

Faculty Scholarship

Few matters prove as slippery as the allocation of tasks between judges and arbitrators in commercial disputes. A choice to arbitrate implicates waiver of access to otherwise competent courts in favor of adjudication which is both private and binding. Respect for this bargain means that judges should not normally disturb an arbitrator’s substantive conclusions.

Identification Of The Pgrmc1 Protein Complex As The Putative Sigma-2 Receptor Binding Site, Jinbin Xu, Chenbo Zeng, Wenhua Chu, Fenghui Pan, Justin M. Rothfuss, Fanjie Zhang, Zhude Tu, Dong Zhou, Dexing Zeng, Suwanna Vangveravong, Fabian Johnston, Dirk Spitzer, Katherine C. Chang, Richard S. Hotchkiss, William G. Hawkins, Robert H. Mach, Et Al

Open Access Publications

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Variation In Enzymatic Capabilities Of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Along A Loblolly Pine Successional Gradient, Becky Anne Brasher

Honors Theses

Ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECM) are abundant symbionts of trees in many dominant terrestrial ecosystems. Moreover, ECM communities are speciose and vary in composition over time and space. However, we still understand surprisingly little about variation in function of different ECM species, and thus the consequences of variation in ECM community composition. I studied variation in ECM community composition and enzymatic activities on the roots of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) along a successional gradient from an old field to a second-growth mixed forest in northern Mississippi. I sought to determine not only whether ECM communities changed along the gradient, but also whether …

The Role Of The Cerebellum In The Zebra Finch Song Circuit, Matthew Gian Digiusto

Honors Theses

The cerebellum was originally thought to be a brain area used just for motor coordination, but it is now known to play a role in complex cognition. Some of these complex roles include aspects of human speech such as rhyming, silent rehearsal, and timing of speech. There are many similarities between human speech and songbird song including a babbling stage, the necessity of a tutor to copy, and specialized neural structures for learning and production; however, it is not clear whether the cerebellum plays a similar role in the songbird song circuit. In this experiment I examined the role of …

Molecular Analysis Of Endophytic Bacteria Associated With Lettuce., Shelly Leigh Osborn

Honors Theses

Bacteria associated with lettuce and spinach have been linked to outbreaks of infectious diseases in humans. While studies have examined the culturable bacteria residing on lettuce surfaces, few have evaluated the non-culturable bacteria within the plant. This study used molecular techniques to examine the bacterial community present in five different salad greens (green leaf lettuce, red leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, and baby spinach). Both conventionally and organically grown samples of each salad type were examined, and samples were processed as purchased and following surface sterilization. DNA was extracted from homogenized samples and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used …

An Analysis Of Culturable Bacteria Otained From Store Bought Leaf Vegetables, Kevin Christian Randolph

Honors Theses

Samples of five different varieties of leaf vegetables obtained from a local supermarket were analyzed for the presence of bacteria on both the outside (epiphytic) and inside of the plant (endophytic). For each variety, both conventionally and organically cultivated samples were analyzed. Each sample was analyzed following a typical consumer wash (so detecting both epiphytic and endophytic bacteria), and also after being surface sterilized with 1:5 bleach solution (endophytic bacteria only). Viable counts on R2A and TSA agar suggested that the majority of the bacteria of leaf vegetables were epiphytic, and total numbers range from 10 To 10 CFU/g leaf …

The Development Of Renewable Energy Policy In The European Union: The Cases Of Spain, Germany, And The United Kingdom, Michael Impey Aubrey

Honors Theses

This thesis is concerned with the development of renewable energy policies in the countries of Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom. By examining these three diverse countries, this thesis attempts to determine whether renewable and/or environmental policies are more influenced by national (domestic) factors, in terms of public opinion and media attention, or by supranational (international) factors, in terms of European Union directives, international obligations, and access to fossil fuels. The thesis hypothesizes that domestic factors are the primary catalysts for renewable energy promotion within their respective countries. The theories of nationalism and supranationalism are examined in a theoretical framework. …

Have You Put On Weight? A Study On The Effects Of Certain Factors On The Increased Presence Of Eating Disorders In Modern Chinese Women, Kelli Michele Beard

Honors Theses

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