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Current Status And Long-Term Trends In Water Quality And Living Resources In The Virginia Tributaries And Chesapeake Bay Mainstem From 1985 Through 2011, Daniel M. Dauer, Harold G. Marshall, John R. Donat, Michael F. Lane, Suzanne C. Doughten, Cindy Johnson

Status and Trends for Virginia Chesapeake Bay

The period prior to the implementation of the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program was characterized by a marked decline in the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay. The disappearance of submerged aquatic vegetation in certain regions of the Bay, declines in the abundance of some commercially and recreationally important species, increases in the incidence of low dissolved oxygen events, changes in the Bay's food web, and other ecological problems have been related to the deteriorating water quality (e.g. USEPA, 1982,1983;Officer et al.,1984; Orth and Moore, 1984). The results of concentrated research efforts in the late 1970s and early 1980s stimulated the …

Loma Linda University Dentistry - Volume 23, Number 2, Loma Linda University School Of Dentistry, Mathew T. Kattadiyil, Charles J. Goodacre

Articulator (Dentistry)

Contents:

9 | Gathering of Alumni 2012
14 | Joni Stephens Retires
16 | CAD/CAM Technology
26 | Student Research Awards
30 | Commencement Number 56
48 | Donor Appreciation
58 | Recently Departed

Impacts Of Climate Change On The Surface Water Balance Of The Central United States, 1984–2007, Bo Dong

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The climate system and the hydrologic cycle are strongly connected with each other. Understanding the interactions between these two systems is important, since variations in climate can trigger extensive changes in the hydrologic cycle, with significant impacts on agriculture, ecosystems, and society. Observations over the central U.S. in recent decades show numerous changes in climatic variables. This includes decreases in cloud cover and wind speed, increases in air temperature, and seasonal shifts in precipitation rate and rain/snow fraction. To assess the impacts of these variations in climate on the regional water cycle, a terrestrial ecosystem/land surface hydrologic model (Agro-IBIS) is …

Branding Lazos De Amor: Importance And Challenges Of Branding Small Non-Profits, The Journey Towards A Better Brand., Sugey Terrero

Capstone Collection

Branding is an integral journey that precedes, includes and surpasses any marketing and advertising effort; it entails an internal process of self-discovery, combined with the exportation (marketing) of organizational values through visual and tangible means (advertising). This capstone focused on the following questions: why is branding important for non-profits? What factors contribute to non-profits not focusing on branding? In addition, what strategies can small non-profits use to develop and manage their brand more effectively? The first question was explored through literature, while the second was explored both theoretically and empirically beginning with an analysis of why branding is a challenging …

Using The Environmental History Of The Commonwealth To Enhance Pennsylvania And U. S. History Courses, Charles A. Hardy Iii

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Diagnostic Statistical Manual 5 Changes To The Autism Diagnostic Criteria: A Critical Moment For Occupational Therapists, Heather Miller-Kuhaneck, Rondalyn Varney Whitney

Occupational Therapy Faculty Publications

The new definition of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is expected to appear in May 2013 in the finalized Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) -5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2012). The current DSM-IV criteria uses Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) as the umbrella term for autism, a classification that many professionals believe has been outdated for several years. ASD will be the new name for the category that includes “autistic disorder (autism), Asperger’s disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified” (APA, 2012). It will also serve to better differentiate autism spectrum disorder from typical development as well as from similar …

The Daily Gamecock, Monday, October 1, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

No abstract provided.

Supreme Court Decisions

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Bullying: A State Of Affairs, Samantha Neiman, Brandon Robers, Simone Robers

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

The Prevalence And Correlates Of Compassion Fatigue, Compassion Satisfaction, And Burnout Among Teachers Working In High-Poverty Urban Public Schools, Shannon Abraham-Cook

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Fear And Loathing In Nineteenth-Century England: Monsters, Freaks, And Deformities And Their Influence On Romantic And Victorian Society, Valerie Falk

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Maine Law Magazine - Issue No. 88, University Of Maine School Of Law

Maine Law Magazine

FEATURES

• Information Privacy
  Maine Law is a leader in an expanding field
• USPTO
  Students are thriving at the federal Patent Office
• Standing up for Justice
  Anna Welch launches Human Rights Clinic
• Celebrating 50 Years
  Maine Law looks back at a rich history
• The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
  Professor Malick Ghachem discusses his new book
• LL.M.’s First Class
  Ali Farid is one of Maine Law’s first LL.M. students

Editor's Introduction: Making Sense Of The Senseless: A Case For The Insufficiency Of Theory And Hermeneutics, Marc Oullette

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This issue is a wonderful compilation of truly excellent essays. I can assure readers that I have read and appreciated them. Indeed, several of them came through my inbox during various stages of preparation and it is encouraging to see such a healthy roster of scholarly contributions. I wish I were able to do them justice. Please read them. Enjoy them. The work alone should give us hope. People are thinking critically and responding creatively. This in and of itself is a good thing. What follows, then, is a call for more good things. It is part response, part self-directed …

Reverse Sexology: Turn-Of-The-Century Discourses Of Sexuality And The Limits Of Identity In David Leavitt’S The Indian Clerk, Helena Gurfinkel

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

David Leavitt’s most recent novel, The Indian Clerk (2007) runs afoul of the standard position in relation to the politics of sexual identity among modern Anglo-American writers. While working in the same tradition as Christopher Isherwood or Edmund White, for whom being a gay writer is a politically necessary self-identification, Leavitt, in his latest work of fiction, fights against such a designation. The Indian Clerk explores the potential limitations of sexual identity, which originated in the medical and scientific discourses of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. [1] According to Chris White, these discourses “produce[d] science as the means of truly …

Confronting The Crisis In Scientific Publishing: Latency, Licensing And Access, Jorge L. Contreras

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

The serials crisis in scientific publishing can be traced to the long duration of copyright protection and the assignment of copyright by researchers to publishers. Over-protection of scientific literature has enabled commercial publishers to increase subscription rates to a point at which access to scientific information has been curtailed with negative social welfare consequences. The uniformity costs imposed by such over-protection can be addressed by tailoring intellectual property rights, either through legal change or private ordering.

Current open access channels of distribution offer alternative approaches to scientific publishing, but neither the Green OA self-archiving nor the Gold OA author-pays models …

Cox Inhibitors Indomethacin And Sulindac Derivatives As Antiproliferative Agents: Synthesis, Biological Evaluation, And Mechanism Investigation, Snigdha Chennamaneni, Bo Zhong, Rati Lama, Bin Su

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors Indomethacin and its structural analogs Sulindac exhibit cell growth inhibition and apoptosis inducing activities in various cancer cell lines via COX independent mechanisms. In this study, the molecular structures of Indomethacin and Sulindac were used as starting scaffolds to design novel analogs and their effects on the proliferation of human cancer cells were evaluated. Compared to Indomethacin and Sulindac inhibiting cancer cell proliferation with IC50s of more than 1 mM, the derivatives displayed significantly increased activities. Especially, one of the Indomethacin analogs inhibited the growth of a series of cancer cell lines with IC50s around 0.5 μM–3 …

Grave Robbing In Lexington And Elsewhere, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

In Re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation: Pharmaceutical Reverse Payment Settlements Go Beyond The Scope Of The Patent, Seiko F. Okada

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Compromised Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Synthesis In Transgenic Mice Results In Defective Protein Lipoylation And Energy Disequilibrium, Stuart Smith, Andrej Witkowski, Ayesha Moghul, Yuko Yoshinaga, Michael Nefedov, Pieter De Jong, Dejiang Fong, Yiping Tu, Han Yu, Stephen G. Young, Thomas Pham, Carling Cheung, Shana M. Katzman, Martin D. Brand, Casey L. Quinlan, Marcel Fens, Frans Kuypers, Stephanie Misquitta, Stephen M. Griffey, Son Tran, Afshin Gharib, Jens Knudsen, Hans Kristian Hannibal-Bach, Grace Wang, Sandra Larkin, Jennifer Thweatt, Saloni Pasta

Collected Faculty Scholarship

A mouse model with compromised mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis has been engineered in order to assess the role of this pathway in mitochondrial function and overall health. Reduction in the expression of mitochondrial malonyl CoA-acyl carrier protein transacylase, a key enzyme in the pathway encoded by the nuclear Mcat gene, was achieved to varying extents in all examined tissues employing tamoxifen-inducible Cre-lox technology. Although affected mice consumed more food than control animals, they failed to gain weight, were less physically active, suffered from loss of white adipose tissue, reduced muscle strength, kyphosis, alopecia, hypothermia and shortened lifespan. The Mcat-deficient phenotype …

Body Mass Index And The Risk Of Prostate Cancer, Daniel Lee Mcgee, Carlos J. Crespo

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: This article presents cohort studies that use data from the National Health Information Survey from 1986 to 1994 and compares the effectiveness of Cox proportional hazards models that assume a linear relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the risk of prostate cancer with models that assume a J-shaped relationship. Methods and results: Our study found that for black males over 40 years of age, neither a linear nor a J-shaped relationship yielded a statistically significant model. With white males over 40 years, assuming a linear relationship did not yield a statistically significant model (P = 0.582). When we …

“Lawyer As Public Citizen” – A Futile Attempt To Close Pandora’S Box, Matthew E. Meany

Campbell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Medicare Subrogation Of Third Party Liability Claims—An Evolving (And Elusive) Effort, Huntington M. Willis

Campbell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Fact Book 2012, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Fact Book

The Fact Book presents important campus information in data tables and charts. Included are details regarding students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Generally, data are broken out by college, rank, level, gender, age and ethnicity for both spring and fall semesters, past to present. There are a few academic year tables that include information on tuition & fees, student credit hours by program, and degrees conferred. We wish to thank the many individuals and departments at the University for their contributions to the Fact Book.

Common Data Set 2012, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Common Data Sets

Common Data Set (2012 - 2013) for the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Discrete Arginine Topologies Guide Escape Of Miniature Proteins From Early Endosomes To The Cytoplasm, Jacob S. Appelbaum

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Polypeptides and peptide mimetics sample a wide chemical space with broad potential to modulate cellular function, but their application to cytoplasmic targets is limited because when added to cells their cytosolic concentration remains low. This limitation is due to a diffusion barrier (the plasma membrane) and absence of dedicated import machinery. Highly cationic peptides and proteins sometimes gain cytosolic access, but how they do so is not well understood. Using a small library of cationic miniature proteins, I probe the influence of positive charge number and orientation on the ability the miniature protein to access the cytoplasm. Using a novel …

Modernization Or Westernization: The Muslim World Vs. The Rest, Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

A Confucian Case For Economic Freedom, Robert C. Thomas

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

America's Love Affair With Markets: Is America An Outlier? Health Reform, Caroline Poplin

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Fall 2012), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Fall 2012 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Implementation Of The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act: Workforce Development And Unemployment Insurance Provisions, Burt S. Barnow, Jing Cai, Yvette Chocolaad, Randall W. Eberts, Richard A. Hobbie, Joyce Kaiser, Tara Smith, John Trutko, Wayne Vroman, Stephen A. Wandner

External Papers and Reports

No abstract provided.