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On The Value Of Faculty Development Abroad: Reflections On The 2000 Ghana Seminar Experience, Albert E. Mccormick Jr., Michelle Mccormick

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

In the summer of 2000, we were part of a three-week faculty development seminar that travelled to the West African nation of Ghana. The seminar was sponsored and organized by the University System of Georgia African Council. The theme of the seminar was "Tradition and Modernity in Ghana."

Bring Your Specialty With You: Customizing Your Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad, Fred P. Zampa

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

This paper discusses Fulbright-Hays seminars with emphasis on health care in China and the prison system in Peru along with a description of how research access was obtained.

Romania For Beginners: Intersections Of Race, Class, And Gender, Linda A. Treiber

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

In this article, I discuss a faculty learning community abroad in Romania. Key topics include cross cultural comparisons of race, gender, and medical care.

Evaluation Of Serum Magnesium, Chromium, Vanadium, And Selenium Levels In Type 2 Diabetic Patients In Sulaimania City, Mohammed Omer Mohammed, Ahmed Mohammad Abdullah, Shara Kamil Nizamaddin

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder; a clinical syndrome which occurs due to absolute or relative insulin deficiency or insulin resistance. Direct association of trace elements, such as magnesium in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, alteration in the metabolism of these minerals has been demonstrated in diabetes in many studies. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate magnesium, chromium, vanadium, and selenium levels in the serum of type 2 diabetic subjects. METHODS: The present study was conducted on fifty type 2 diabetic patients, and thirty age-sex-matched healthy controls. In groups, those having renal failure, lipemic serum, or using diuretics, antibiotics, …

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, September 28, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

September

No abstract provided.

Comparative Mitogenomic Analysis Of Damsel Bugs Representing Three Tribes In The Family Nabidae (Insecta: Hemiptera), Hu Li, Haiyu Liu, Fan Song, Aimin Shi, Xuguo Zhou, Wanzhi Cai

Entomology Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Nabidae, a family of predatory heteropterans, includes two subfamilies and five tribes. We previously reported the complete mitogenome of Alloeorhynchus bakeri, a representative of the tribe Prostemmatini in the subfamily Prostemmatinae. To gain a better understanding of architecture and evolution of mitogenome in Nabidae, mitogenomes of five species representing two tribes (Gorpini and Nabini) in the subfamily Nabinae were sequenced, and a comparative mitogenomic analysis of three nabid tribes in two subfamilies was carried out.

METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Nabid mitogenomes share a similar nucleotide composition and base bias, except for the control region, where differences are observed at the …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 102 [103], No. 7 (Sep. 28, 2012), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 102, but it is the 103rd volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

The Beacon - Vol 11 No. 1 - September 28, 2012, Merrimack College

The Beacon

The Beacon - the student newspaper of Merrimack College. Volume 11, Number 1 - September 28, 2012. 12 pages

Determining The Absolute Requirement Of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase 5 For Pathological Cardiac Hypertrophy: Short Communication., Jessica I Gold, Erhe Gao, Xiying Shang, Richard T Premont, Walter J Koch

Center for Translational Medicine Faculty Papers

RATIONALE: Heart failure (HF) is often the end phase of maladaptive cardiac hypertrophy. A contributing factor is activation of a hypertrophic gene expression program controlled by decreased class II histone deacetylase (HDAC) transcriptional repression via HDAC phosphorylation. Cardiac-specific overexpression of G proteinen-coupled receptor kinase-5 (GRK5) has previously been shown to possess nuclear activity as a HDAC5 kinase, promoting an intolerance to in vivo ventricular pressure overload; however, its endogenous requirement in adaptive and maladaptive hypertrophy remains unknown.

OBJECTIVE: We used mouse models with global or cardiomyocyte-specific GRK5 gene deletion to determine the absolute requirement of endogenous GRK5 for cardiac hypertrophy …

The Parthenon, September 28, 2012, Shane Arrington

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Mycoplasma Haemocanis – The Canine Hemoplasma And Its Feline Counterpart In The Genomic Era, Naila C. Do Nascimento, Andrea P. Santos, Ana Ms Guimaraes, Phillip J. Sanmiguesl, Joanne Messick

Department of Comparative Pathobiology Faculty Publications

Mycoplasma haemocanis is a hemotrophic mycoplasma (hemoplasma), blood pathogen that may cause acute disease in immunosuppressed or splenectomized dogs. The genome of the strain Illinois, isolated from blood of a naturally infected dog, has been entirely sequenced and annotated to gain a better understanding of the biology of M. haemocanis. Its single circular chromosome has 919 992 bp and a low G + C content (35%), representing a typical mycoplasmal genome. A gene-by-gene comparison against its feline counterpart, M. haemofelis, reveals a very similar composition and architecture with most of the genes having conserved synteny extending over their entire chromosomes …

Examining Alcohol Dependence And Its Correlates From A Genetically Informative Perspective, Laura Hack

Theses and Dissertations

Alcohol dependence (AD) is a serious and common public health problem that contributes to great societal, medical, and legal costs. It has taken work from multiple disciplines, including developmental psychology, genetic epidemiology, and molecular genetics, to achieve our current understanding of environmental and genetic risk factors for AD as well as its variable developmental trajectories. Nevertheless, there is still much to be learned in order to improve treatment outcomes. One approach to augmenting our understanding of this disorder is through genetically informative study designs that either examine risk in aggregate or assess specific susceptibility variants. In this dissertation, we utilize …

An Environmental Assessment Of Risk In Achieving Good Environmental Status To Support Regional Prioritisation Of Management In Europe, P Breen, La Robinson, Si Rogers, F Goodsir, Et Al

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) aims to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) in Europe's Seas. The requirement for regional sea authorities to identify and prioritise issues for management has meant that standardized methods to assess the current level of departure from GES are needed. The methodology presented here provides a means by which existing information describing the status of ecosystem components of a regional sea can be used to determine the effort required to achieve GES. A risk assessment framework was developed to score departure from GES for 10 out of the 11 GES descriptors, based on proposed definitions …

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for September 27-October 3, 2012. Vol. 92, No. 1

September 27, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Tidal Flushing Restores The Physiological Condition Of Fish Residing In Degraded Salt Marshes, Kimberly L. Dibble, Laura A. Meyerson

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Roads, bridges, and dikes constructed across salt marshes can restrict tidal flow, degrade habitat quality for nekton, and facilitate invasion by non-native plants including Phragmites australis. Introduced P. australis contributes to marsh accretion and eliminates marsh surface pools thereby adversely affecting fish by reducing access to intertidal habitats essential for feeding, reproduction, and refuge. Our study assessed the condition of resident fish populations (Fundulus heteroclitus) at four tidally restricted and four tidally restored marshes in New England invaded by P. australis relative to adjacent reference salt marshes. We used physiological and morphological indicators of fish condition, including …

Naturalization Of Sequoiadendron Giganteum (Cupressaceae) In Montane Southern California, Rudolf Schmid, Mena Schmid

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

After the August 1974 fire in the upper Hall Canyon area on the southwestern flank of Black Mountain in the northwestern San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside County, California, the United States Forest Service revegetated the burn in the mixed-conifer forest with the Sierra Nevada endemic Sequoiadendron giganteum (Cupressaceae). On 1 May 2009 a GPS census starting at the head of Hall Canyon revealed both in the canyon and upslope beyond it at least 157 individuals in the vicinity of the Black Mountain Trail, plus an outlier 450 m distant near the summit. This species alien to southern California is regenerating prolifically …

The Scarlet - Volume Xcii, No. 1 (September 27, 2012), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The September 27, 2012 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

Montana Kaimin, September 27, 2012, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

In Support Of A Distinction Between Voluntary And Stimulus-Driven Control: A Review Of The Literature On Proportion Congruent Effects, Julie M. Bugg, Matthew J. C. Crump

Publications and Research

Cognitive control is by now a large umbrella term referring collectively to multiple processes that plan and coordinate actions to meet task goals. A common feature of paradigms that engage cognitive control is the task requirement to select relevant information despite a habitual tendency (or bias) to select goal-irrelevant information. At least since the 1970s, researchers have employed proportion congruent (PC) manipulations to experimentally establish selection biases and evaluate the mechanisms used to control attention. PC manipulations vary the frequency with which irrelevant information conflicts (i.e., is incongruent) with relevant information. The purpose of this review is to summarize the …

The Advocate, September 27, 2012, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

A Toxicology And Clinical Study Of Post Race Epitaxis Associated With Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage In Thoroughbred Race Horses At The Racecourse Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela, Abelardo Morales Briceno, Diana Villoria Leon, Kimberly Brewer, Thomas Tobin

Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center Faculty Publications

The aim of this study was to describe cases of epistaxis associated with post-race Exercise Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage (EIPH) in Thoroughbred horses at the Hippodrome "La Rinconada", Caracas, Venezuela, through a clinic pathological study. We studied a total of 29 cases of epistaxis post-race in Thoroughbred horses at the Hippodrome La Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela, which is 2,950 meters above sea level. The study included horses between the ages of 2-5 years, 16 stallions and 13 mares, weighing between 450-510 kg. They underwent a clinical examination, although horses presenting with epistaxis were in an emergency situation. Samples of blood and urine …

The Pan American (2012-09-27), Karen Antonacci

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 69, No. 5

The Daily Egyptian, September 27, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

September 2012

No abstract provided.

Charger Times Vol. 1, No. 5, 2012-09-27, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Charger Times (2012-2014)

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Olfactory Cues In The Sequential Radiation Of A Gall-Boring Beetle, Mordellistena Convicta, Bradley Rhodes, Catherine Blair, Mizuki Takahashi, Warren G. Abrahamson Ii

Faculty Journal Articles

1. Herbivorous insects often have close associations with specific host plants, and their preferences for mating and ovipositing on a specific host-plant species can reproductively isolate populations, facilitating ecological speciation. Volatile emissions from host plants can play a major role in assisting herbivores to locate their natal host plants and thus facilitate assortative mating and host-specific oviposition.

2. The present study investigated the role of host-plant volatiles in host fidelity and oviposition preference of the gall-boring, inquiline beetle, Mordellistena convicta LeConte (Coleoptera: Mordellidae), using Y-tube olfactometers. Previous studies suggest that the gall-boring beetle is undergoing sequential host-associated divergence by utilising …

The Diamond, September 27, 2012, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: New Year, New President, New Goals for Dordt College; Attempted Abductions in Sioux County Raise "Stranger Danger" Awareness
• News: "Water Project": Not About Saving Water?; Science and Classroom Buildings to Unite; Dordt College Lives Up to Its "Matchmaker" Reputation Yet Again; Do Students Notice the Changes in the Commons?
• Features: Dordt is the Start of a New Chapter for Freshmen; International Introduction: Netherlands Style
• Opinion: A Modest Suggestion: Judgment Day or Just a Friday at Dordt?; Kids Say the Darndest Things!; Trust
• Sports: Cross Country Focuses on Team Performance; Athletic Slate Full for Alumni Weekend; Ask an Athlete …

Doxycycline Does Not Influence Established Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms In Angiotensin Ii-Infused Mice, Xiaojie Xie, Hong Lu, Jessica J. Moorleghen, Deborah A. Howatt, Debra L. Rateri, Lisa A. Cassis, Alan Daugherty

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center Faculty Publications

Background: There is no proven medical approach to attenuating expansion and rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). One approach that is currently being investigated is the use of doxycycline. Despite being primarily used as an antimicrobial drug, doxycycline has been proposed to function in reducing AAA expansion. Doxycycline is effective in reducing the formation in the most commonly used mouse models of AAAs when administered prior to the initiation of the disease. The purpose of the current study was to determine the effects of doxycycline on established AAAs when it was administered at a dose that produces therapeutic serum …

Latexin Is Down-Regulated In Hematopoietic Malignancies And Restoration Of Expression Inhibits Lymphoma Growth, Yi Liu, Dianna Howard, Kyle Rector, Carol Swiderski, Jason Brandon, Lawrence Schook, Jayesh Mehta, J. Scott Bryson, Subbarao Bondada, Ying Liang

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

Latexin is a negative regulator of hematopoietic stem cell number in mice. Its dysregulated expression in other tumors led us to hypothesize that latexin may have tumor suppressor properties in hematological malignancies. We found that latexin was down-regulated in a variety of leukemia and lymphoma cell lines as well as in CD34+ cells from the blood and marrow of patients with these malignancies. 5-aza-2'-deoxycytodine treatment and bisulfite sequencing revealed hypermethylation of latexin promoter in tumor cells. Retrovirus-mediated latexin overexpression in A20 mouse lymphoma cells inhibited their in vitro growth by 16 fold and in vivo tumor volume by 2 fold. …

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