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Species Identification Of Invasive Yeasts Including Candida In Pakistan: Limitations Of Phenotypic Methods, Joveria Farooqi, Kauser Jabeen, Noureen Saeed, Afia Zafar, Mary Eleanor Brandt, Rumina Hasan Jan 2012

Species Identification Of Invasive Yeasts Including Candida In Pakistan: Limitations Of Phenotypic Methods, Joveria Farooqi, Kauser Jabeen, Noureen Saeed, Afia Zafar, Mary Eleanor Brandt, Rumina Hasan

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Objective: To compare phenotypic and genotypic methods of yeast identification. Methods: The in-vitro cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2006 to May 2009. Invasive yeasts isolated at the clinical microbiology laboratory at the Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi, Pakistan, were identified. Speciation by phenotypic and molecular methods was compared. All yeasts isolated during the study period from blood and other invasive sites were identified using standard methods. Isolates were shipped to Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, for identification by Luminex flow cytometric multianalyte profiling (xMAP) system. Ribosomal ITS2 DNA sequencing was performed …

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"I Didn't Do It The Right Way": Women's Careers As Faculty In Higher Education Administration, Karen J. Haley Jan 2012

"I Didn't Do It The Right Way": Women's Careers As Faculty In Higher Education Administration, Karen J. Haley

Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article explores the career paths of women faculty in Higher Education Administration graduate programs based on the results of a qualitative study of 18 faculty members at 14 different institutions. The majority of faculty members made their career choice during their undergraduate program, however, most participants in this study made their decision to follow a faculty career after entering a doctoral program or after completing their doctoral degree. Adding the post-doctoral decision point to Bowen and Schuster's (1997) process of career choice acknowledges the contribution of seasoned professionals to the field of Higher Education Administration and reflects the flexibility …

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Genetically Modified T-Cells Expressing Chimeric Antigen Receptors In The Treatment Of Cancer, Efrat Bruck Jan 2012

Genetically Modified T-Cells Expressing Chimeric Antigen Receptors In The Treatment Of Cancer, Efrat Bruck

The Science Journal of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Carl June and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania have succeeded in treating patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia using gene therapy. Two of the three patients treated sustained a complete remission and one a partial remission. The procedure involved transducing the patients’ T cells to express chimeric antigen receptors which target a particular protein found on both healthy and cancerous B cells. Following infusion of the newly transduced T cells, each patient developed clinical symptoms associated with an intense immune response. Shortly thereafter, tumors were completely eliminated in two of the patients and partially eliminated in the third. …

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Full Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2 Jan 2012

Full Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2

The Science Journal of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences

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Social Security Disability Law And The Obstacles Facing Claimants With Mental Disabilities, Oren R. Griffin Jan 2012

Social Security Disability Law And The Obstacles Facing Claimants With Mental Disabilities, Oren R. Griffin

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

This Article examines the administrative processes and judicial analytical framework that govern the adjudication of Social Security disability claims for persons suffering with mental disorders. Since the enactment of the Social Security Act as a part of President Roosevelt's "New Deal," the federal government has assumed a significant role in providing a minimum level of support for those citizens beset with unfortunate economic hardship. In 1956, the Social Security Act was expanded to provide disability benefits for those unable to attain gainful employment due to a mental or physical impairment. For the mentally disabled, demonstrating eligibility for disability benefits can …

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Investigating The Reggio Emilia Study Tour Experience: From Conversation To Insights, William Arthur Parnell Jan 2012

Investigating The Reggio Emilia Study Tour Experience: From Conversation To Insights, William Arthur Parnell

Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

Taking early childhood Master's students on a Reggio Emilia Study Tour leads to making meaning of anticipatory and after-experience reflective narrative-episodes. These narrative episodes are constructed around the phenomena of anticipating the trip as well as reflecting on the experiences during and after the study tour. The experiences are then analyzed collaboratively among researchers and participants through informal discussions. Themes in each narrative episode are explored through the written narratives and then conclusions are drawn. Anticipatory themes include eagerness to see, desire to witness the image of the child in the everyday, and a concern about adopting the Reggio approach …

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The End Of The Beginning: The Politics Of Death And The American Death Penalty Regime In The Twenty-First Century, Lyn Entzeroth Jan 2012

The End Of The Beginning: The Politics Of Death And The American Death Penalty Regime In The Twenty-First Century, Lyn Entzeroth

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Structural Reform As Anitidote To Complexity Capture, Robert Weber Jan 2012

Structural Reform As Anitidote To Complexity Capture, Robert Weber

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Three Myths For Aging Copyrights: Tithonus, Dorian Gray, Ulysses, Robert Spoo Jan 2012

Three Myths For Aging Copyrights: Tithonus, Dorian Gray, Ulysses, Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Oklahoma Water Rights: What Good Are They?, Gary Allison Jan 2012

Oklahoma Water Rights: What Good Are They?, Gary Allison

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Admonitions Or Accountability?: U.S. Implementation Of The Hague Adoption Convention Requirements For The Collection And Disclosure Of Medical And Social History Of Transnationally Adopted Children, Marianne Blair Jan 2012

Admonitions Or Accountability?: U.S. Implementation Of The Hague Adoption Convention Requirements For The Collection And Disclosure Of Medical And Social History Of Transnationally Adopted Children, Marianne Blair

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Traditions Of Belligerent Recognition: The Libyan Intervention In Theoretical And Historical Context, Sam Halabi Jan 2012

Traditions Of Belligerent Recognition: The Libyan Intervention In Theoretical And Historical Context, Sam Halabi

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Patterns As Objects In Grace, Andrew P. Black, Michael Homer, James Noble, David J. Pearce, Kim B. Bruce Jan 2012

Patterns As Objects In Grace, Andrew P. Black, Michael Homer, James Noble, David J. Pearce, Kim B. Bruce

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Object orientation and pattern matching are often seen as conflicting approaches to program design. Object oriented programs place type-dependent behaviour inside objects and invoke it via dynamic dispatch, while pattern matching programs place type-dependent behaviour outside data structures and invoke it via multiway conditionals (case statements). Grace is a new, dynamic, object-oriented language designed to support teaching: to this end, Grace needs to support both styles. In this paper we explain how this conflict can be resolved gracefully: by modelling patterns and cases as partial functions, reifying those functions as first-class objects, and then building up complex patterns from simpler …

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Do Learning Logs Have An Impact On The Conceptual Mastery Of Force And Motion?: Subtitle, John Arthur Underwood Jan 2012

Do Learning Logs Have An Impact On The Conceptual Mastery Of Force And Motion?: Subtitle, John Arthur Underwood

LSU Master's Theses

This two-week study was conducted to investigate the impact Learning Logs have on student conceptual mastery of force, motion, and kinematics. To begin the study a sample of 554 ninth grade students were selected from a suburban public school in Louisiana. The students were randomly divided into experimental and control groups within four teachers’ classrooms. This distribution was to examine the impact of Learning Logs regardless of the teaching style or time of day. Upon the study’s conclusion there was no significant differences noted due to teaching style or time of day. The Force Motion Concept Evaluation (FMCE) was used …

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Longitudinal Assessment Of Shifting Microbial Community Composition In Sandy Beaches Following The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill And Remediation Efforts, Axita Ajaykumar Gupta Jan 2012

Longitudinal Assessment Of Shifting Microbial Community Composition In Sandy Beaches Following The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill And Remediation Efforts, Axita Ajaykumar Gupta

LSU Master's Theses

Sandy beaches are geological zones parallel to the shoreline where high energy, open ocean unconsolidated sediments are deposited and reworked. Sandy beaches represent critical ecosystems that support a wide variety of underappreciated biodiversity. Prior to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the diversity and function of microbial communities in supratidal beach sediments along the Gulf of Mexico coastlines were not well understood. It was unclear if possible community compositional changes would occur during and following exposure to oil, or what impact the remediation efforts, such as sand washing, would have to the microbial communities and …

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The Use Of A Mixed Chlorella Cyanobacteria Culture As A Protein Source For Aquaculture, Marjan Sadat Mohtashamian Jan 2012

The Use Of A Mixed Chlorella Cyanobacteria Culture As A Protein Source For Aquaculture, Marjan Sadat Mohtashamian

LSU Master's Theses

The increase in the global demand for fish feed in the last decades has resulted in the over exploitation of natural resources to produce more fishmeal supplies for aquaculture industry. The supply issues and high prices of fishmeal products have raised the incentives to seek for suitable alternatives to replace fishmeal protein. As a by-product of biofuel production process, residual microalgal biomass may be a low cost feed ingredient to the aquaculture diet. The potential of the use of a post lipid extraction Chlorella vulgaris/Leptolyngbya sp. Co-Culture (Louisiana co-culture) as a protein source in aquaculture feeds could help offset fishmeal. …

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Growing Up Safe And Healthy (Safe): Baseline Report On Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights And Violence Against Women And Girls In Dhaka Slums, Sajeda Amin, Laila Rahman, Sara Hossain, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Md. Irfan Hossain, Kausar Parvin, Naznin Sultana, Suborna Camellia, Nur Newaz Khan Jan 2012

Growing Up Safe And Healthy (Safe): Baseline Report On Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights And Violence Against Women And Girls In Dhaka Slums, Sajeda Amin, Laila Rahman, Sara Hossain, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Md. Irfan Hossain, Kausar Parvin, Naznin Sultana, Suborna Camellia, Nur Newaz Khan

Adolescents and Young People

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Evidence-Based Approaches To Protecting Adolescent Girls At Risk Of Hiv, Judith Bruce, Miriam Temin, Kelly Hallman Jan 2012

Evidence-Based Approaches To Protecting Adolescent Girls At Risk Of Hiv, Judith Bruce, Miriam Temin, Kelly Hallman

Adolescents and Young People

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Introduction: The Trajectory Of German Philosophy After Kant, And The "Difference" Between Fichte And Schelling, Michael Vater Jan 2012

Introduction: The Trajectory Of German Philosophy After Kant, And The "Difference" Between Fichte And Schelling, Michael Vater

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Schelling's Philosophy Of Identity And Spinoza's Ethica More Geometrico, Michael Vater Jan 2012

Schelling's Philosophy Of Identity And Spinoza's Ethica More Geometrico, Michael Vater

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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An Examination Of The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Tendencies And Safety Outcomes In Selected Manufacturing Settings, Barbara J. Boroughf Jan 2012

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Tendencies And Safety Outcomes In Selected Manufacturing Settings, Barbara J. Boroughf

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Each year about 6 to 8 percent of the U.S. workforce sustains a work related injury of which 3 to 4 percent of the injured population ends up losing time from work due to the severity of the injury (National Safety Council [NSC], 2011). According to the NSC Injury Facts (2011), every 147 minutes in the United States, a worker will be fatally injured, and every six seconds a worker will sustain an injury that is serious enough to require medical treatment. There is a wide variability in safety performance among organizations. Studies have found there is a relationship between …

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The Study Of Collective Actions In A University Anchored Community Wireless Network, Hari N. Kuchibhotla Jan 2012

The Study Of Collective Actions In A University Anchored Community Wireless Network, Hari N. Kuchibhotla

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of wireless devices and the ease in setting up wireless devices has created opportunities for various entities, and in particular to universities, by partnering with their local communities in the form of a university anchored community wireless network. This provides opportunities for students to be part of the community-based initiatives, and universities can use the network as a source to fund some of its research. The main issue with university anchored community wireless is not technical but social in that student involvement is crucial and their contributions are necessary. This study employed empirical research methods on participants to …

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Transformative Education In A Broken World: Feminist And Jesuit Pedagogy On The Importance Of Context, Theresa W. Tobin Jan 2012

Transformative Education In A Broken World: Feminist And Jesuit Pedagogy On The Importance Of Context, Theresa W. Tobin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

This chapter relates the concept of positionality from feminist theory and pedagogy to the Ignatian paradigm to show how its focus on the individual, at the expense of the structural, fails to acknowledge the unequal power relationships that disadvantage students from minority groups. Focusing on the positionality of gay and lesbian students in the author's classroom at a Jesuit college, it explores how becoming attentive to our own positions with respect to our students allows us better to examine how relationships of domination and subordination between members of oppressed and privileged groups in larger social and ecclesial contexts are re-created …

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Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind: Radical Enlightenment And The Intellectual Origins Of Modern Democracy, By Jonathan Israel, Ericka Tucker Jan 2012

Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind: Radical Enlightenment And The Intellectual Origins Of Modern Democracy, By Jonathan Israel, Ericka Tucker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind By Jonathan Israel, Ericka Tucker Jan 2012

Review Of A Revolution Of The Mind By Jonathan Israel, Ericka Tucker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Self Reported Alcohol Consumption And Its Effects On Fatigue And Hydration Status., David Dziedzicki Jan 2012

Self Reported Alcohol Consumption And Its Effects On Fatigue And Hydration Status., David Dziedzicki

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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How Do Principals' Behaviors Facilitate Or Inhibit The Development Of A Culturally Relevant Learning Community?, Gwendolyn Julia Kelley Jan 2012

How Do Principals' Behaviors Facilitate Or Inhibit The Development Of A Culturally Relevant Learning Community?, Gwendolyn Julia Kelley

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the question: “How do principals facilitate or inhibit the development of a culturally responsive learning environment?” A second question asked, “What is the principal's role in developing a culturally relevant learning community?” The criteria for purposely selecting the 12 principals chosen for the study included finding principals who served in schools with a 50% or greater non-White population and who also had served a minimum of three years as the school's leader at the time of the study. Additionally, the schools chosen from various districts around the state showed an …

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Reported Condom Use In Students Enrolled In A Personal Health And Wellness Course., Candace Florence Jan 2012

Reported Condom Use In Students Enrolled In A Personal Health And Wellness Course., Candace Florence

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

When used consistently and correctly, condoms can prevent against the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD's) and unplanned pregnancies. Condoms are a significant prevention method viable for all populations. This study was conducted using students at a Midwestern University who were enrolled in a personal health and wellness course and examined their reported use of condoms. This study involved voluntary participation of 275 personal health and wellness students. Results indicated that approximately 40% of the participants who reported being sexually active stated they did not use a condom during their last act of sex. The most common response for lack …

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Global Artists, Curtis Carter Jan 2012

Global Artists, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Global Art, Curtis Carter Jan 2012

Global Art, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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