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A Prospective Characterization Of Postpartum Changes In Uterine Fibroid Volume Among Black African Women, Christine W. Murungi

Master of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Background: Fibroids are benign smooth muscle tumours of the uterus common in women of reproductive age. The prevalence is thought to be higher amongst women over the age of 35 years and in African women. More women are delaying their child bearing leading to an increase in the number of women dealing with pregnancy in the context of fibroids. The relationship between pregnancy and fibroids is controversial. It is thought that pregnancy exerts a protective effect, an observation made from epidemiological and animal studies. Although the mechanism is not clear, the postpartum period is thought to possibly explain this benefit. …

C1q/Tumor Necrosis Factor-Related Protein-3, A Newly Identified Adipokine, Is A Novel Antiapoptotic, Proangiogenic, And Cardioprotective Molecule In The Ischemic Mouse Heart., Wei Yi, Yang Sun, Yuexing Yuan, Wayne Bond Lau, Qijun Zheng, Xiaoliang Wang, Yajing Wang, Xiying Shang, Erhe Gao, Walter J Koch, Xin-Liang Ma

Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Obesity and diabetes mellitus adversely affect postischemic heart remodeling via incompletely understood mechanisms. C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein-3 (CTRP3) is a newly identified adipokine exerting beneficial metabolic regulation, similar to adiponectin. The aim of the present study was to determine whether CTRP3 may regulate postischemic cardiac remodeling and cardiac dysfunction, and, if so, to elucidate the underlying mechanisms.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Male adult mice were subjected to myocardial infarction (MI) via left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion. Both the effect of MI on endogenous CTRP3 expression/production and the effect of exogenous CTRP3 (adenovirus or recombinant CTRP3) replenishment on MI injury …

Program Notes For Graduate Recital, Timothy J. Fitzgerald

Research Papers

The purpose of this music document is to provide scholarly program notes to accompany the Graduate Recital of Timothy Fitzgerald, which took place March 7,2012. Program notes for Robert Schumann’s Three Romances for clarinet and piano (1849), Franz Xaver Pokorny’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in E-flat Major (1765), André Messager’s Solo de Concours (1899), Timothy Fitzgerald’s new indeterminate game piece Qwaggles (2012), and King Friday (1997) by Michael Lowenstern are included.

The Eastern Echo, June 26, 2012, Section A, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, June 26, 2012, Section A, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, June 26, 2012, Section A, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

Murray Ledger And Times, June 26, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Uab Students Unearth Clues To Tell Birmingham's Blue-Collar Story, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

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An Archaeology Of French Critical History, Quinn Lester

FIVE: The Claremont Colleges Journal of Undergraduate Academic Writing

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She's Got The Power, Tim Reynolds

FIVE: The Claremont Colleges Journal of Undergraduate Academic Writing

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Robert Schumann And His Magic Circle - Is It Synesthesia Or Ekphrasis?, Marion Wilkinson Scott

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this study will be to examine Robert Schumann’s unique perceptive abilities. Most notably, it will serve as an argument that Schumann composed and understood music in a synesthetic way. In order to support this assertion there will be an examination of Schumann’s: medical records, autopsy, letters and other relevant bibliographic literature surrounding the composer’s life. In accordance with this, this document will also review the psychological, physiological and religious factors that underlie Schumann’s perception of reality and his compositional process. With this in mind, this paper will also attempt to shed light on Schumann’s writings through the …

Impacts Of An Invasive Snail (Tarebia Granifera) On Nutrient Cycling In Tropical Streams: The Role Of Riparian Deforestation In Trinidad, West Indies, Jennifer M. Moslemi, Sunny B. Snider, Keeley Macneill, James F. Gilliam, Alexander S. Flecker

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Non-native species and habitat degradation are two major catalysts of environmental change and often occur simultaneously. In freshwater systems, degradation of adjacent terrestrial vegetation may facilitate introduced species by altering resource availability. Here we examine how the presence of intact riparian cover influences the impact of an invasive herbivorous snail, Tarebia granifera, on nitrogen (N) cycling in aquatic systems on the island of Trinidad. We quantified snail biomass, growth, and N excretion in locations where riparian vegetation was present or removed to determine how snail demographics and excretion were related to the condition of the riparian zone. In three …

Clark, W. M. (Sc 2554), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2554. W. M. Clark's record book detailing his purchases and finances, including daily entries of purchases made and items sold. Items listed include hay, gasoline, animals, and food.

There’S Something British About That: Aural Expressionism And Montage In Hitchcock’S Blackmail, Psycho, And The Birds, Laura D. Borger

Research Papers

This paper examines the use of visual and aural expressionistic techniques used in Hitchcock’s films Blackmail, Psycho, and The Birds. Hitchcock’s exposure to Soviet montage and German expressionist techniques as a member of The London Film Society may have influenced Blackmail, one of his first sound films. Once mastering the aural expressionism techniques he experimented with in Blackmail, it is as if Hitchcock reverts to silent film-making in later films with Psycho and The Birds. The intensity of image and sound is why Psycho and The Birds are lasting American cultural icons. Rather than …

Effects Of Prescribed Fire On Ozark Ant Ecology, Robin Michelle Verble

Theses and Dissertations

Fires are among the most conspicuous disturbances affecting leaf litter communities, and are sources of both direct and indirect insect mortality. Fires historically occurred on the Ozark landscape at high frequencies, and modern forest managers utilize prescribed fire to restore and maintain those ecosystems. I examined fire effects at multiple scales, ranging from post-fire patterns in leaf litter arthropod community structure to responses of individual organisms to heat stress. This dissertation summarizes the history of fire occurrences in Ozark forests of Arkansas. It then unifies the results of four observational and experimental studies designed to assess how Ozark forest ant …

State V. Fifer Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39591

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Employment Effects Of The Washington High Technology Business And Occupation (B&O) Tax Credit: Technical Report, Timothy J. Bartik, Kevin Hollenbeck

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper estimates the effects of an R&D tax credit in the state of Washington on job creation. The research uses micro-data on the job creation and tax credits received by individual firms in the state of Washington from 2004 to 2009. We correct for the endogeneity of R&D tax credits received by individual firms by using instrumental variables based in part on national industry factor shares for R&D. We estimate that this tax credit created jobs, but at a high cost. The cost per job-year created is estimated to be between $40,000 and $50,000. The credit was so high …

A Systems Engineering Approach To The Design And Integration Of Microstrip Antennas With Wearable Wireless Devices, Daniel Gilbert Rucker

Theses and Dissertations

Modern wireless systems for implantable and wearable Body Area Network (BAN) applications have reached an advanced stage of design and development not possible in previous generations. Systems engineering techniques allow for modern wireless devices to be developed in a top-down approach to meet the necessary design requirements while utilizing modular architectures. A modular systems architecture is developed to form a platform for BAN systems design. The BAN systems architecture defines the requirements, physical architecture, and operational architecture. The antenna component of the system is researched in detail and prototypes are developed to meet the requirements of implantable and wearable BAN …

Dream-Work In Psychotherapy: Jungian, Post-Jungian, Existential-Phenomenological, And Cognitive-Experiential Approaches, William Caperton

Graduate Journal of Counseling Psychology

This literature review examines the theoretical underpinnings and clinical approaches of Jungian, Post-Jungian, Existential-Phenomenological, and Cognitive-Experiential models of working with dreams therapeutically. A review of applicable empirical studies is included, examining utility and effectiveness of dream-work across a variety of domains. Suggestions for the training of therapists in working with dreams are made. Results indicate that working with dreams therapeutically can have a variety of beneficial outcomes.

Human Skeletal Muscle Feed Arteries: Evidence Of Regulatory Potential, S. J. Ives, R. H. I. Andtbacka, Song-Young Park, A. J. Donato, J. R. Gifford, R. D. Noyes, L. A. Lesniewski, R. S. Richardson

Health and Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Aim

Recently, it has been recognized that human skeletal muscle feed arteries can be harvested during exploratory surgery for melanoma. This approach provides vessels for in vitro study from a wide spectrum of relatively healthy humans. Although, the regulatory role of skeletal muscle feed arteries in rodent models has been documented, whether such vessels in humans possess this functionality is unknown.

Methods

Therefore, skeletal muscle feed arteries (~950 μm OD) from 10 humans (48 ± 4, 27–64 years) were studied using pressure myography. Vessel function was assessed using potassium chloride (KCl), phenylephrine (PE), acetylcholine (ACh) and sodium nitroprusside (SNP) concentration–response …

Passion For Food: Redesigning The Way We Eat, Nicole Chen

Theses

Where has the passion in food gone? The focus of food has been on the obesity epidemic, as people demand fast, cheap, and easy foods. The symbol of food is no longer seen as a basic need for survival because of the abundance and options of goods. Being unaware of food and its' power to bring and express so many facets of life, has given me the chance to discover areas that could be redesigned. During these past few years learning about food has made me fully understand these processes as a symbiotic relationship. In today's society, what separates people …

Water Bathing Alters Threat Perception In Starlings, Bo Brilot, M Bateson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The majority of bird taxa perform water bathing, but little is known about the adaptive value of this behaviour. If bathing is important for feather maintenance then birds that have not bathed should have poorer feather condition, compromised escape ability and therefore increased responsiveness to cues of predation. We conducted two experiments examining the behaviour of captive starlings responding to conspecific alarm calls. Birds that had no access to bathing water showed a decreased willingness to feed and increased their vigilance behaviour following an alarm call. We argue that birds denied access to bathing water interpreted an ambiguous cue of …

Have Mercy On Me, O God, Mark Love

Leaven

No abstract provided.

An Attempt At Preaching Praise From The Psalms, Prentice A. Meador

Leaven

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Barriers In The Mind: A Sermon For Missions Sunday, Ken Durham

Leaven

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The Power Of The "Broken" And "Unknown", Larry James

Leaven

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A Lesson From Maasailand, Greg Johnson

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Mission Problems, Mission Decisions, Charles Coulston

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Children's Day With Nobody's Child, James W. Crisfield

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Some Major Challenges In Missions To The Muslims, Robert Douglas

Leaven

No abstract provided.