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Ten Years After Managed Professionals: Who Owns Intellectual Property Now?, Michael W. Klein

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Between 1998 and 2008, the number of collective bargaining agreements at colleges and universities that covered ownership of intellectual property—patents and copyrights—increased dramatically. In Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor, Gary Rhoades (1998) wrote that only about 33% of the collective bargaining agreements in the Higher Education Contract Analysis System (HECAS) maintained by the National Education Association had provisions that covered ownership of intellectual property (71 out of 212 contracts). In the 2008 HECAS, 55% (290 out of 525) of contracts covering faculty at two-year and four-year institutions had provisions covering intellectual-property ownership.

Library Data And Student Success, Shane Nackerud, Jan Fransen, Kate Peterson, Kristen Mastel, Krista Soria, David Peterson

Library Technology Conference

Does the use of library print and digital collections correlate with course pass/fail rates, grades, or GPA? How does use of instructional tools or attendance at instruction sessions or workshops correlate with student success in the classroom? Using circulation data, online resource usage records, workstation login data, workshop registrations, and more, the University of Minnesota Libraries are attempting to answer these questions. In addition, we are discovering very interesting demographic data about just who uses the libraries at the University of Minnesota. At this session learn more about this unique project, how we hope to answer the questions above, demographic …

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 2 Issue 19, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.

Volume 103 Issue 19, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

March 14, 2012 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper, March 14, 2012, George Fox University Archives

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of George Fox University.

A Long-Term Perspective On A Modern Drought In The American Southeast, N Pederson, A R. Bell, Troy A. Knight, C Leland, N Malcomb, K J. Anchukaitis, K Tackett, J Scheff, A Brice, B Catron, W Blozan, J Riddle

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

The depth of the 2006–9 drought in the humid, southeastern US left several metropolitan areas with only a 60–120 day water supply. To put the region's recent drought variability in a long-term perspective, a dense and diverse tree-ring network—including the first records throughout the Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint river basin—is used to reconstruct drought from 1665 to 2010 CE. The network accounts for up to 58.1% of the annual variance in warm-season drought during the 20th century and captures wet eras during the middle to late 20th century. The reconstruction shows that the recent droughts are not unprecedented over the last 346 years. …

The Retinoblastoma Family Of Proteins And Their Regulatory Functions In The Mammalian Cell Division Cycle, Shauna A. Henley, Frederick A. Dick

Paediatrics Publications

The retinoblastoma (RB) family of proteins are found in organisms as distantly related as humans, plants, and insects. These proteins play a key role in regulating advancement of the cell division cycle from the G1 to S-phases. This is achieved through negative regulation of two important positive regulators of cell cycle entry, E2F transcription factors and cyclin dependent kinases. In growth arrested cells transcriptional activity by E2Fs is repressed by RB proteins. Stimulation of cell cycle entry by growth factor signaling leads to activation of cyclin dependent kinases. They in turn phosphorylate and inactivate the RB family proteins, leading to …

Human Remains From The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition Of Southwest China Suggest A Complex Evolutionary History For East Asians, Darren Curnoe, Ji Xueping, Andy I. R. Herries

KIP Articles

Background: Later Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a scarcity of well described, reliably classified and accurately dated fossils. Southwest China has been identified from genetic research as a hotspot of human diversity, containing ancient mtDNA and Y-DNA lineages, and has yielded a number of human remains thought to derive from Pleistocene deposits. We have prepared, reconstructed, described and dated a new partial skull from a consolidated sediment block collected in 1979 from the site of Longlin Cave (Guangxi Province). We also undertook new excavations at Maludong (Yunnan Province) to clarify the stratigraphy and dating …

Development And Functional Analysis Of Novel Genetic Promoters Using Dna Shuffling, Hybridization And A Combination Thereof, Rajiv Ranjan, Sunita Patro, Bhubaneswar Pradhan, Alok Kumar, Indu B. Maiti, Nrisingha Dey

Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Development of novel synthetic promoters with enhanced regulatory activity is of great value for a diverse range of plant biotechnology applications.

METHODOLOGY: Using the Figwort mosaic virus full-length transcript promoter (F) and the sub-genomic transcript promoter (FS) sequences, we generated two single shuffled promoter libraries (LssF and LssFS), two multiple shuffled promoter libraries (LmsFS-F and LmsF-FS), two hybrid promoters (FuasFScp and FSuasFcp) and two hybrid-shuffled promoter libraries (LhsFuasFScp and LhsFSuasFcp). Transient expression activities of approximately 50 shuffled promoter clones from each of these libraries were assayed in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi) protoplasts. It was observed that most …

What Is The Pensee Sauvage And Is It Still Alive In Modern Society?, Mark William Farrell

Articles

The culinary process has changed somewhat down through the ages but not to any great extent. The raw materials are still similar but innovation and creativity has been applied to them to give the finished product varying degrees of taste, texture, sensory and aesthetic pleasure. Fundamentally the tools which we use to interpret or rate our food are the very same apparatus which animals use to define theirs. The anthropology of sensory perception is essentially the same for animals and man in an evolutionary perspective (Pasquet, Simmen & Pagezy, 2000). It reflects the capacity of the animal or primitive human …

03-14-2012 Area Residents And School Groups Invited To Swosu Research & Scholarly Activity Fair, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

The 19th annual Southwestern Oklahoma State University Research and Scholarly Activity Fair will be held Tuesday, April 10, in Weatherford and area residents and high school groups are invited to take advantage of this unique opportunity in western Oklahoma.

Campus Chronicle, C.J. Eilers, Nevin Cornwell, Mo Powell Eckstein, Jon Rothfus, Ariel Curtis, Dakota Lancaster, Paige Rothfus, Scott Rentz, Andy Langager

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

March 14, 2012 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Genome Stability Of Lyme Disease Spirochetes: Comparative Genomics Of Borrelia Burgdorferi Plasmids, Sherwood R. Casjens, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Wei-Gang Qiu, Benjamin J. Luft, Steven E. Schutzer, Eddie B. Gilcrease, Wai Mun Huang, Marija Vujadinovic, John K. Aron, Levy C. Vargas, Sam Freeman, Diana Radune, Janice F. Weidman, George I. Dimitrov, Hoda M. Khouri, Julia E. Sosa, Rebecca A. Halpin, John J. Dunn, Claire M. Fraser

Publications and Research

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne human illness in North America. In order to understand the molecular pathogenesis, natural diversity, population structure and epizootic spread of the North American Lyme agent, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, a much better understanding of the natural diversity of its genome will be required. Towards this end we present a comparative analysis of the nucleotide sequences of the numerous plasmids of B. burgdorferi isolates B31, N40, JD1 and 297. These strains were chosen because they include the three most commonly studied laboratory strains, and because they represent different major genetic lineages and so are …

Banner News, Lacy Stevenson, Jessica Kinnetz, Sean Hanlin, Cainon Leeds, Stacey Walker, Lori Harvey

Banner News

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily March 14, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 138, Issue 25

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, March 14, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Guided Imagery On Sleep Quality In Mothers Of Preterm Infants, Linda M. Schaffer Phd, Mn, Rn

Dissertations

Background: Mothers who have given birth to preterm infants are at an increased risk for impaired sleep. Evidence based interventions are needed to assist mothers in improving their sleep quality as few are available. Purpose: Guided by the transactional framework of Lazarus and Folkman (1984), the purpose of this study was to: describe maternal and infant factors which influence sleep quality, examine the relationships between depression, anxiety, stress, social support, to sleep quality, and describe the influence of a R-GI intervention on sleep quality among a sample of mothers whose preterm babies were admitted to NICU. Methods: This prospective, descriptive, …

Drug Dosage Individualization Based On A Random-Effects Linear Model, Francisco J. Diaz, Myladis R. Cogollo, Edoardo Spina, Vincenza Santoro, Diego M. Rendon, Jose De Leon

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

This article investigates drug dosage individualization when the patient population can be described with a random-effects linear model of a continuous pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic response. Specifically, we show through both decision-theoretic arguments and simulations that a published clinical algorithm may produce better individualized dosages than some traditional methods of therapeutic drug monitoring. Since empirical evidence suggests that the linear model may adequately describe drugs and patient populations, and linear models are easier to handle than the nonlinear models traditionally used in population pharmacokinetics, our results highlight the potential applicability of linear mixed models to dosage computations and personalized medicine.

The Colby Echo (2012-03-14), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Entropy And The Complexity Of Graphs Revisited, Abbe Mowshowitz, Matthias Dehmer

Publications and Research

This paper presents a taxonomy and overview of approaches to the measurement of graph and network complexity. The taxonomy distinguishes between deterministic (e.g., Kolmogorov complexity) and probabilistic approaches with a view to placing entropy-based probabilistic measurement in context. Entropy-based measurement is the main focus of the paper. Relationships between the different entropy functions used to measure complexity are examined; and intrinsic (e.g., classical measures) and extrinsic (e.g., Körner entropy) variants of entropy-based models are discussed in some detail.

Henry J. Miller Lecture Series: Old Reasons, New Reasons, No Reasons, Pamela Karlan

Georgia State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Graduate Student Research Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

Net Primary Production Data: Konza-Kruger Fire-Grazing Project (2006-2009), Alan Knapp, Melinda Smith, John Blair, Scott Collins, Deron Burkepile, Kevin Kirkman

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

The distribution, structure and function of mesic savanna grasslands are strongly driven by fire regimes, grazing by large herbivores, and their interactions. This research addresses a general question about our understanding of savanna grasslands globally: Is our knowledge of fire and grazing sufficiently general to enable us to make accurate predictions of how these ecosystems will respond to changes in these drivers over time? Some evidence suggests that fire and grazing influence savanna grassland structure and function differently in South Africa (SA) compared to North America (NA). These differences have been attributed to the contingent factors of greater biome age, …

Levels Of Arabidopsis Thaliana Leaf Phosphatidic Acids, Phosphatidylserines, And Most Trienoate-Containing Polar Lipid Molecular Species Increase During The Dark Period Of The Diurnal Cycle, Xuemin Wang, Sara Maatta, Brad Scheu, Mary Roth, Pamela Tamura, Maoyin Li, Todd Williams, Ruth Welti

Biology Department Faculty Works

Previous work has demonstrated that plant leaf polar lipid fatty acid composition varies during the diurnal (dark–light) cycle. Fatty acid synthesis occurs primarily during the light, but fatty acid desaturation continues in the absence of light, resulting in polyunsaturated fatty acids reaching their highest levels toward the end of the dark period. In this work, Arabidopsis thaliana were grown at constant (21°C) temperature with 12-h light and 12-h dark periods. Collision induced dissociation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MS) demonstrated that 16:3 and 18:3 fatty acid content in membrane lipids of leaves are higher at the end of the dark than at …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 27, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• McKay, Michael. Co-workers Reflect on Member of McCormack Family – Spencer Wills
• Koch, Cameron. Rock Solid Memories – Rock House
• Harrison, Taylor. Student Government Association to Offer 175 Transcript Vouchers Through Program
• Duvall, Tessa. Honors Fraternity Says Joplin is Home Away from Home – Phi Sigma Pi
• Edwards, Dorothy. A Thousand Words – Clothesline Project, Hope Harbor
• Reinfelde, Monta. Professors to Take Pies in Face for Charity – Pi Mu Epsilon
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Mary Cowles
• A Class Act – Mary Cowles
• Ray, David. Roll-taking Methods Should …

In Situ Synthesis Of Oligonucleotide Arrays On Surfaces Coated With Crosslinked Polymer Multilayers, Adam H. Broderick, Matthew R. Lockett, Maren E. Buck, Yuan Yuan, Lloyd M. Smith, David M. Lynn

Chemistry: Faculty Publications

We report an approach to the in situ synthesis of oligonucleotide arrays on surfaces coated with crosslinked polymer multilayers. Our approach makes use of methods for the "reactive" layer-by-layer assembly of thin, amine-reactive multilayers using branched polyethyleneimine (PEI) and the azlactone-functionalized polymer poly(2-vinyl-4,4′-dimethylazlactone) (PVDMA). Postfabrication treatment of film-coated glass substrates with d-glucamine or 4-amino-1-butanol yielded hydroxyl-functionalized films suitable for the Maskless Array Synthesis (MAS) of oligonucleotide arrays. Glucamine-functionalized films yielded arrays of oligonucleotides with fluorescence intensities and signal-to-noise ratios (after hybridization with fluorescently labeled complementary strands) comparable to those of arrays fabricated on conventional silanized glass substrates. These arrays could …

Constructing Patch-Based Ligand-Binding Pocket Database For Predicting Function Of Proteins., Lee Sael, Daisuke Kihara

Department of Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Background

Many of solved tertiary structures of unknown functions do not have global sequence and structural similarities to proteins of known function. Often functional clues of unknown proteins can be obtained by predicting small ligand molecules that bind to the proteins.

Methods

In our previous work, we have developed an alignment free local surface-based pocket comparison method, named Patch-Surfer, which predicts ligand molecules that are likely to bind to a protein of interest. Given a query pocket in a protein, Patch-Surfer searches a database of known pockets and finds similar ones to the query. Here, we have extended the database …

Methods Of Predicting Responsiveness To Chemotherapeutic Agents And Selecting Treatments, Richard Jove, Susan E. Minton, Carlos A. Muro-Cacho, Daniel Sullivan, Eric Bruce Haura, Gerold Bepler

USF Patents

Methods are provided for predicting responsiveness of cancer cells to chemotherapy by measuring the level of phosphorylated Stat or the level of expression of Survivin in a cancer and comparing the level in the cancer cell to the respective level in a control. Also provided are methods of selecting a chemotherapeutic treatment for a subject diagnosed with cancer by measuring the level of phosphorylated Stat or the level of expression of Survivin in a cancer and comparing the level in the cancer cell to the respective level in a control. Kits for performing the methods are also provided. Methods for …