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Cal Poly Names Keith Humphrey Of Arizona As New Vice President For Student Affairs, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Luas Bxd Link Given Green Light, Irish Times

Media

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Enteric Feeding Tubes, Rebekah Conroy, Melanie Anspacher, Priti Bhansali, Neha Shah

Pediatrics Posters and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Macalester College Theatre And Dance Department Presents Face To Face, Dec. 7-8, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, November 27, 2012, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Annual Report, 2011-12, Michael S. Nassaney

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project continued its multifaceted program of research, teaching, and public outreach focused on the study of the fur trade and colonialism in southwest Michigan, while involving the community in the process with the support of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Advisory Committee. Over the past year (September 1, 2011 through August 31, 2012) Western Michigan University students and faculty, along with various stakeholders and community volunteers, collaborated to investigate the site of Fort St. Joseph and disseminate information to increasing numbers of people. Here are some of the year’s highlights.

• The project was the recipient …

Stony Brook Press, V. 34, N. 06, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 34, n. 06, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Musician Bloggers: The Impact Of Niche Bloggers On Business, Charles Craine

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

Blogs have become a staple for many online users as the world becomes more and more connected. Blogs are websites often maintained by individuals who comment on anything that interests them. They are diaries of sorts from which individuals can broadcast their thoughts and opinions to the world.

Musician blogs are websites where musicians discuss their lives and craft. These blog present the writer’s opinions about their specific instruments, genre, group and many things.

This study analyzes in-depth interviews with 20 musician bloggers to understand their motivations and satisfaction they receive from blogging. This study will analyze seven motivations for …

Alexander Elected President Of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Bakken Joins Uab As Media Relations Director, Staff

Browse All News

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The Archeology Of Civil War Naval Operations At Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1861-1865, James D. Spirek

Faculty & Staff Publications

In 2008 the Maritime Research Division (MRD) of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina received a National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) grant to study the naval operations at Charleston Harbor during the American Civil War. Funds from the ABPP grant allowed the MRD to undertake historical research and archeological investigations on cultural resources remaining on the Charleston Harbor Naval Battlefield, the scene of a protracted struggle from 1861 to 1865 between Confederate defenders and Federal attackers. This report, The Archeology of Civil War Naval Operations at Charleston Harbor, 1861-1865, …

How Healthy Is Great Bay? Find Out At Seacoast Science Café Dec. 5, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibition Attenuates Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Progression In Hyperlipidemic Mice, Sarbani Ghoshal, Charles D Loftin

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are a chronic inflammatory disease that increase the risk of life-threatening aortic rupture. In humans, AAAs have been characterized by increased expression of cyclooxygenase-2 and the inactivation of COX-2 prior to disease initiation reduces AAA incidence in a mouse model of the disease. The current study examined the effectiveness of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibition on reducing AAA progression when administered after the initiation of AAA formation. AAAs were induced in hyperlipidemic apolipoprotein E-deficient mice by chronic angiotensin II (AngII) infusion and the effect of treatment with the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib was examined when initiated at different …

The Daily Egyptian, November 27, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

November 2012

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: November 27, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

November

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Emu Today, November 27, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

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

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

Antiviral Activity Of Cyclopentene Nitro-Ester And Derivatives, Kirpal S. Bisht, Alberto Van Olphen, Pasha M. Khan, Cynthia Bucher

USF Patents

Disclosed is a method of synthesizing new optically pure heterocyclic compounds using Pd(0) catalyzed intramolecular cyclizations. Analogs of cyclopentanes, like isoxazoline-2-oxide and furan, with similar framework to the cyclopentanes act as anti-HIV and anticancer agents which opens a whole new field for application of these compounds. Starting from a meso-diol, optically pure compounds were prepared without utilizing chiral ligands at any stage of the synthesis. The stereochemical outcome of the product (>99% ee) was influenced by desymmetrization catalyzed by Pseudomonas cepacia lipase and the stereo selective nature of the palladium catalyzed transformations.

Pump Cavities For Diode Laser Array Pumped Laser Rods, Michael Bass, Ying Chen

UCF Patents

This invention derives from the question of how to use commonly available arrays of diode lasers to pump simple rod shaped solid state lasers. In 2001 - 2002 we developed and demonstrated pump cavities that would enable diode arrays to pump rods. The diode arrays are formed by stacking several diode laser bars, each typically 1 cm wide, with appropriate spacers. In my lab at CREOL we showed that pump cavities that had been proposed many years ago could be adapted to this problem. Such pump cavities were designed to deliver flashlamp light from linear flashlamps to laser rods. We …

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, November 27, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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Report Of The Ad Hoc Committee On Open Access, Andree Rathemacher, Laura Beauvais, Corey Lang, Julia Lovett, Louis Kirschenbaum

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Open Access, finalized November 27, 2012 and presented to the University of Rhode Island Faculty Senate on February 21, 2013.

The Ad Hoc Committee on Open Access was charged by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee to "look at some of the issues of Open Access in scholarly communication, look at some solutions, and present suggestions as to what approach would best fit URI's needs and how that might be realized."

The Ad Hoc Committee on Open Access recommended that the University of Rhode Island, through a vote of the Faculty Senate, adopt an …

An Intense Traveling Airglow Front In The Upper Mesosphere–Lower Thermosphere With Characteristics Of A Bore Observed Over Alice Springs, Australia, During A Strong 2 Day Wave Episode, R. L. Walterscheid, J. H. Hecht, L. J. Galinas, Michael P. Hickey Ph.D., I. M. Reid

Publications

The Aerospace Corporation’s Nightglow Imager observed a large step function change in airglow in the form of a traveling front in the OH Meinel (OHM) and O2 atmospheric (O2A) airglow emissions over Alice Springs, Australia, on 2 February 2003. The front exhibited nearly a factor of 2 stepwise increase in the OHM brightness and a stepwise decrease in the O2A brightness. There was significant (~25 K) cooling behind the airglow fronts. The OHM airglow brightness behind the front was among the brightest for Alice Springs that we have measured in 7 years of observations. The event was associated with a …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 102 [103], No. 22 (Nov. 27, 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 Contraception Mandate, Caroline Mala Corbin

NULR Online

No abstract provided.

Data Acquisition From Cemetery Headstones, Cameron Smith Christiansen

Theses and Dissertations

Data extraction from engraved text is discussed rarely, and nothing in the open literature discusses data extraction from cemetery headstones. Headstone images present unique challenges such as engraved or embossed characters (causing inner-character shadows), low contrast with the background, and significant noise due to inconsistent stone texture and weathering. Current systems for extracting text from outdoor environments (billboards, signs, etc.) make assumptions (i.e. clean and/or consistently-textured background and text) that fail when applied to the domain of engraved text. Additionally, the ability to extract the data found on headstones is of great historical value. This thesis describes a novel and …

Measurement Of Thermal Diffusivities Using The Distributed Source, Finite Absorption Model, James B. Hall

Theses and Dissertations

Thermal diffusivity in an important thermophysical property that quantifies the ratio of the rate at which heat is conducted through a material to the amount of energy stored in a material. The pulsed laser diffusion (PLD) method is a widely used technique for measuring thermal diffusivities of materials. This technique is based on the fact that the diffusivity of a sample may be inferred from measurement of the time-dependent temperature profile at a point on the surface of a sample that has been exposed to a pulse of radiant energy from a laser or flash lamp. An accepted standard approach …

Building The New Rome: Charles Cameron As The Architect Of Catherine The Great's New Eternal City, Inna A. Bell

Theses and Dissertations

Catherine the Great, The Empress of Russia, considered herself to be an enlightened ruler. Like many enlightened minds of the eighteenth century, she was fascinated with classical antiquity, especially with ancient Rome. In 1779, she invited a Scottish architect named Charles Cameron to complete a series of building projects for her that would create a "second Rome" in Tsarskoye Selo and in Pavlovsk, Russia. Cameron, an expert on classical antiquity because of his studies of the Roman ruins and the publication of his book, The Baths of the Romans, had a special interest in and a dedication to classical …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, November 27, 2012, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The November 27, 2012, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin. Included is an article about negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" with President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner.

The Evolution Of Host Specificity In The Vertebrate Gut Symbiont Lactobacillus Reuteri, Steven Frese

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The vertebrate gut is home to one of the densest populations of life on Earth. This microbial community has a profound effect on host health, nutrition, development, behavior, and evolution. However, very little is known about how these microbes have evolved with their vertebrate hosts, how and whether they select hosts or how they remain associated with their hosts. Recent work identified Lactobacillus reuteri as an organism that is composed of host-specific sub-populations, each population associated with a different host animal. Representatives from each host-associated population were tested for their ability to colonize gnotobiotic mice, which only rodent strains could …