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Is Belief Larger Than Fact: Expectations, Optimism And Reality For Translational Stem Cell Research, Tania M. Bubela, Matthew D. Li, Mohamed Hafez, Mark Bieber, Harold Atkins

Office of the Provost

Background: Stem cell (SC) therapies hold remarkable promise for many diseases, but there is a significant gulf between public expectations and the reality of progress toward clinical application. Public expectations are fueled by stakeholder arguments for research and public funding, coupled with intense media coverage in an ethically charged arena. We examine media representations in light of the expanding global landscape of SC clinical trials, asking what patients may realistically expect by way of timelines for the therapeutic and curative potential of regenerative medicine?
Methods: We built 2 international datasets: (1) 3,404 clinical trials (CT) containing 'stem cell*' from ClinicalTrials.gov …

The Current Volume 23 : Issue 12, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 11/6/2012, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Volume 110, Number 11 - Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

No abstract provided.

Usa V. Paul King

2012 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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The Effect Of Physician Ownership On Quality Of Care For Outpatient Procedures, Xinliang Liu

Theses and Dissertations

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) play an important role in providing surgical and diagnostic services in an outpatient setting. They can be owned by physicians who staff them. Previous studies focused on patient “cherry picking” and over-utilization of services due to physician ownership. Few studies examined the relationship between physician ownership and quality of care. Using a retrospective cohort of patients who underwent colonoscopy, this study examined the effect of physician ownership of ASCs on the occurrence of adverse events after outpatient colonoscopy. Agency theory is used to as a conceptual framework. Depending on the extent to which consumers are able …

The Prospector, November 6, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Youth Prepares for Election Day Results

November 6, 2012 Aasu Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Office of the Registrar: Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes (Archived)

November 6, 2012 AASU Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes

Extreme Levels Of Noise Constitute A Key Neuromuscular Deficit In The Elderly, Niklas König Ignasiak

Physical Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

Fluctuations during isometric force production tasks occur due to the inability of musculature to generate purely constant submaximal forces and are considered to be an estimation of neuromuscular noise. The human sensori-motor system regulates complex interactions between multiple afferent and efferent systems, which results in variability during functional task performance. Since muscles are the only active component of the motor system, it therefore seems reasonable that neuromuscular noise plays a key role in governing variability during both standing and walking. Seventy elderly women (including 34 fallers) performed multiple repetitions of isometric force production, quiet standing and walking tasks. No relationship …

Rural Libraries In Support Of Rural Reconstruction: Tagores’ Thinking And Reality, Nimai Chand Saha, Keshab Chandra Sinha Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

It is admitted that to make overall development of any citizen rural and urban areas are to be given equal importance and sometimes rural areas may be given more emphasize than urban areas to confirm all wide development. Gurudeva Rabidranath Tagore was one of the pioneers who have given enough attention for the rural communities and to materialise his dream of rural reconstruction he has introduced several project for the welfare of the rural people. To reach the village people and also to eradicate the illiteracy he introduced ‘CHALANTIKA’ library which was meant for the dissemination of library services to …

Audit Mechanisms For Provable Risk Management And Accountable Data Governance, Jeremiah Blocki, Nicolas Christin, Anupam Datta, Arunesh Sinha

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Organizations that collect and use large volumes of personal information are expected under the principle of accountable data governance to take measures to protect data subjects from risks that arise from inapproriate uses of this information. In this paper, we focus on a specific class of mechanisms—audits to identify policy violators coupled with punishments—that organizations such as hospitals, financial institutions, and Web services companies may adopt to protect data subjects from privacy and security risks stemming from inappropriate information use by insiders. We model the interaction between the organization (defender) and an insider (adversary) during the audit process as a …

Findings From The Nutrition Challenge Program, Rayleen Earney, Nicole Bungum, Timothy J. Bungum

Nevada Journal of Public Health

Obesity is an epidemic in the United States. Over 61% of U.S. adults and 58% of Nevada adults have Body Mass Index’s (BMI) that classify them as either overweight or obese (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System [BRFSS], 2005). According to a recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, obesity was the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States behind tobacco use (Mokdad, Marks, Stroup & Gerberding, 2004).

While obesity and overweight are complex, multi-factorial health conditions, an important contributor to the overweight and obesity epidemic is poor dietary habits. One of the major …

Evaluation Of The Impact Of A Health Care Administration Student Practicum, Christopher R. Cochran, Michelle Sotero

Nevada Journal of Public Health

As the health care industry becomes increasingly complex, many leaders and practitioners in the field are worried about the quality and preparation of health care administration graduates (Robbins, Bradley, & Spicer, 2001). Academic health care administration programs prepare students for a professional career in the health care field. One of the biggest challenges for university health care administration programs is to meet industry needs by effectively incorporating practical skills and knowledge into the academic curricula. For students, coursework provides some insight into the demands of the industry, but they also require hands-on experience to be relevant in a highly competitive …

Lead Shot Deposition And Distribution In Southern Nevada, Shawn Gerstenberger, Darren D. Divine

Nevada Journal of Public Health

Densities of lead (Pb) shot in soil and the presence of Pb shot in waterfowl gizzards from past hunting activities at the Overton Wildlife Management Area (OWMA) in southern Nevada were determined. Soil shot densities in fields managed for doves, pheasants and geese, and adjacent fields strictly managed as waterfowl habitat were examined. Soil shot densities ranged from 2,691 to 107,642 Pb shot/ha in waterfowl areas to 649,085 to 862,275 Pb shot/ha in dove management areas. Pb shot deposition rates for the 1998-1999 dove hunting season were also calculated and ranged from 8,970 to 22,559 shot/ha in fields managed primarily …

Nevadans Without Health Insurance, Charles B. Moseley, Michelle Sotero

Nevada Journal of Public Health

Individuals without health insurance in this country represent a serious public health concern. Nevada has one of the highest rates of uninsured in the country. This article provides a demographic and socioeconomic profile of the uninsured in Nevada and describes how Nevada’s uninsured rates compare with other states. The article also addresses the impact of Nevada’s private and public health insurance programs on the uninsured.

Everything Within Reach, Judith Chalmer

Education and Culture

No abstract provided.

Making Dreams Come True: Parental And Community Involvement In The Rural African American Schools In Burke County, Georgia Between 1930 And 1955, Eugenia M. Fulcher

Education and Culture

Dreams for the African American child in rural areas of the South between 1930 and 1955 were often short-lived and were tied to the agrarian culture of the time. Cotton was KING and the African Americans were tied to the farm and its products. Crops, with their plantings, cultivations, and gatherings, were the subsistence for the rural African American family. The entire family, parents and children were dependent on the agrarian calendar and its income for support and existence. Children from an early age were required to share the workload in the fields, and they were considered as much a …

Childhood.Com, Dick Gibboney

Education and Culture

No abstract provided.

Historiographic Perspectives Of Context And Progress During A Half Century Of Progressive Educational Reform, Ellen Durrigan Santora

Education and Culture

In many ways, the historiography of progressive education parallels American historiography as well as the historiography of education. This comes as no surprise when we realize the American Historical Association (AHA) has played a major role in the professional foundations of both. While early twentieth century historians emphasized national unity, homogeneity, and the importance of America's destiny, historians of education, mostly educators, produced inspiring histories that sought to ennoble the new profession of teaching. However academic arguments of relevance, presentism, and utility came to haunt both historical traditions. Academic historians debated the value of presentism while, educators debated the relative …

The Daily Egyptian, November 05, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

November 2012

No abstract provided.

Nor'easter News Volume 6 Issue 5, Nor'easter News Staff

Nor'easter News

The fifty-eigth issue of the University of New England's student-run newspaper, Nor'easter News.

Gsu View, 2012-11-05, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Ada News - 11/05/2012, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

In A Model Of Batten Disease, Palmitoyl Protein Thioesterase-1 Deficiency Is Associated With Brown Adipose Tissue And Thermoregulation Abnormalities, Alfia Khaibullina, Nicholas Kenyon, Virginia Guptill, Martha M. Quezado, Li Wang, Deloris Koziol, Robert Wesley, Pablo R. Moya, Zhongjian Zhang, Arjun Saha, Anil B. Mukherjee, Zenaide M.N. Quezado

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Publications

Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by a deficiency of palmitoyl-protein thioesterase-1 (PPT1). We have previously shown that children with INCL have increased risk of hypothermia during anesthesia and that PPT1-deficiency in mice is associated with disruption of adaptive energy metabolism, downregulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α), and mitochondrial dysfunction. Here we hypothesized that Ppt1-knockout mice, a well-studied model of INCL that shows many of the neurologic manifestations of the disease, would recapitulate the thermoregulation impairment observed in children with INCL. We also hypothesized that when exposed to cold, Ppt1-knockout …

Commonwealth Times 2012-11-05

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily November 5, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 139, Issue 37

Current, November 05, 2012, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

November 5th 2012, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

2012 November 5 - Student Life Task Force Meeting Minutes, Student Life And Services Task Force, East Tennessee State University, Committee For 125, East Tennessee State University

Student Life and Services Task Force

No abstract provided.