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The Descent Of Responsible Procreation: A Genealogy Of An Ideology, Julie A. Nice

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Just as societal practices related to marriage and procreation have changed remarkably during the past several decades, the amount of litigation regarding same-sex marriage has increased substantially. Over time, defenders of state bans on same-sex marriage have primarily leaned on the responsible-procreation defense, which surmises that same-sex couples already procreate responsibly and that the rights and responsibilities of marriage should be limited to furthering the goal of encouraging more responsible procreation by heterosexuals.

This Article traces the genealogy of responsible procreation. Rooted in religion, the defense was once rejected as a justification for limiting heterosexuals’ constitutional rights. Later, it appeared …

Hiv Discrimination In Dental Care: Results Of A Testing Study In Los Angeles County, Brad Sears, Christian Cooper, Fariba S. Younai, Tom Donohoe

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Thirty years after HIV was first identified, for the majority of those infected in the United States, effective combination therapies to combat HIV have turned the disease into a manageable chronic condition. But HIV discrimination has still proven intractable in the field of health care. For example, a series of studies has revealed that 46 percent of skilled nursing facilities, 55 percent of OB/GYNs, and 26 percent of plastic surgeons in Los Angeles County refuse to provide services to any HIV-positive patient, in violation of state and federal law.

This Study examines HIV discrimination among dentists in Los Angeles County. …

The Truth Behind Echols V. State: How An Alford Guilty Plea Saved The West Memphis Three, Kaytee Vota

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

After they spent eighteen years in prison for the notorious 1993 murders of three young boys, the West Memphis Three were released on August 19, 2011, after they entered Alford pleas. Under an Alford plea, a defendant can voluntarily, knowingly, and understandingly plead guilty while he simultaneously proclaims his innocence. But with little evidence linking the West Memphis Three to the crime and with recent DNA evidence likely establishing their innocence, was it appropriate for the Circuit Court of Craighead County, Arkansas, to allow the men to even plead guilty? This Comment argues that the circuit court in Echols v. …

Interpretive Contestation And Legal Correctness, Matthew D. Adler

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Throw Me A Bone Marrow Transplant: Peripheral Blood Stem Cells And The National Organ Transplant Act, Noel Barnard

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

The Sun Star ( May 1st, 2012), N/A N/A

Sun Star

No abstract provided.

Implication Of The Mir-184 And Mir-204 Competitive Rna Network In Control Of Mouse Secondary Cataract, Andrea Hoffmann, Yusen Huang, Rinako Suetsugu-Maki, Carol S. Ringelberg, Craig R. Tomlinson, Katia Del Rio-Tsonis, Panagiotis A. Tsonis

Biology Faculty Publications

The high recurrence rate of secondary cataract (SC) is caused by the intrinsic differentiation activity of residual lens epithelial cells after extra-capsular lens removal. The objective of this study was to identify changes in the microRNA (miRNA) expression profile during mouse SC formation and to selectively manipulate miRNA expression for potential therapeutic intervention. To model SC, mouse cataract surgery was performed and temporal changes in the miRNA expression pattern were determined by microarray analysis. To study the potential SC counterregulative effect of miRNAs, a lens capsular bag in vitro model was used. Within the first 3 wks after cataract surgery, …

Mobilizing Mother: From Good Mother To Patriotic Mother In World War I, Ana C. Garner, Karen L. Slattery

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

The American press played a key role in the Wilson administration’s effort to craft an image of the Patriotic Mother of the Great War. The Patriotic Mother of a soldier was encouraged to assume the mantle of the Spartan Mother. This monograph contrasts the Spartan Mother archetype used by the government and the press to another wartime maternal archetype, that of Thetis, the mother of Achilles, who objected to her son’s participation in the Trojan War. U.S. mothers of soldiers were socially and politically positioned to assume the role outlined by the Wilson administration and advocated by the news media.

Standing Tall, Bonnie Green

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

Process Length Scales And Longitudinal Damping In Karst Conduits, M. D. Covington, A. J. Luhmann, C. M. Wicks, M. O. Saar

Faculty Publications

Simple mathematical models often allow an intuitive grasp of the function of physical systems. We develop a mathematical framework to investigate reactive or dissipative transport processes within karst conduits. Specifically, we note that for processes that occur within a characteristic timescale, advection along the conduit produces a characteristic process length scale. We calculate characteristic length scales for the propagation of thermal and electrical conductivity signals along karst conduits. These process lengths provide a quantitative connection between karst conduit geometry and the signals observed at a karst spring. We show that water input from the porous/fractured matrix is also characterized by …

Same-Sex Marriage: Strengthening The Legal Shield Or Sharpening The Sword? The Impact Of Legalizing Marriage On Child Custody/Visitation And Child Support For Same-Sex Couples, Jason C. Beekman

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Need For Change: Evaluating The Medical Necessity Of Gender Reassignment Through International Standards, Chad Ayers

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Guatemala Std Inoculation Study As The Incentive To Change Modern Informed Consent Standards, Marie Constance Scheperle

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Conformational Temperature-Dependent Behavior Of A Histone H2ax: A Coarse-Grained Monte Carlo Approach Via Knowledge-Based Interaction Potentials, Miriam Fritsche, Ras B. Pandey, Barry L. Farmer, Dieter W. Heerman

Faculty Publications

Histone proteins are not only important due to their vital role in cellular processes such as DNA compaction, replication and repair but also show intriguing structural properties that might be exploited for bioengineering purposes such as the development of nano-materials. Based on their biological and technological implications, it is interesting to investigate the structural properties of proteins as a function of temperature. In this work, we study the spatial response dynamics of the histone H2AX, consisting of 143 residues, by a coarse-grained bond fluctuating model for a broad range of normalized temperatures. A knowledge-based interaction matrix is used as input …

The Genome Of The Xerotolerant Mold Wallemia Sebi Reveals Adaptations To Osmotic Stress And Suggests Cryptic Sexual Reproduction, Mahajabeen Padamsee, Arun T.K. Kumar, Robert Riley, Manfred Binder, Alex Boyd, Ana M. Calvo, Kentaro Furukawa, Cedar Hesse, Stefan Hohmann, Tim Y. James, Kurt Labutti, Alla Lapidus, Erika Lindquist, Susan Lucas, Kari Miller, Sourabha Shantappa, Igor V. Grigoriev, David S. Hibbett, David J. Mclaughlin, Joseph W. Spatafora, M. Catherine Aime

Biology

Wallemia (Wallemiales, Wallemiomycetes) is a genus of xerophilic Fungi of uncertain phylogenetic position within Basidiomycota. Most commonly found as food contaminants, species of Wallemia have also been isolated from hypersaline environments. The ability to tolerate environments with reduced water activity is rare in Basidiomycota. We sequenced the genome of W. sebi in order to understand its adaptations for surviving in osmotically challenging environments, and we performed phylogenomic and ultrastructural analyses to address its systematic placement and reproductive biology. W. sebi has a compact genome (9.8. Mb), with few repeats and the largest fraction of genes with functional domains compared with …

Foster Youth And Post-Secondary Education: A Study Of The Barriers And Supports That Led To Academic Achievement, Brenda Morton

Doctor of Education (EdD)

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore the perceptions of former and current foster youth on the barriers, supports, helps and strategies they encountered during their K-12 education, and to learn how these contributed to their ability to enroll in post-secondary education. The study included in-depth interviews of 11 participants, all of whom were current or former foster youth who were enrolled or had plans to enroll in a community college or four-year university. These in-depth interviews were audio recorded and transcribed. The data was first coded by topics and then grouped into themes. The results of …

Enhancing Army S&T Vol. Ii: The Future, John W. Lyons, Richard Chait

Defense and Technology Papers

Chapter I of this volume is an introduction, and Chapter II offers an updated view of the work discussed in Vol. I with an emphasis on the relative roles played by the Army laboratories that manufactured the systems. The close collaboration between the two groups was judged by the authors to be the key to the successful outcomes. This chapter presents updated findings and recommendations of the previous studies in Vol I.

Causes Of Pneumonia Epizootics Among Bighorn Sheep, Western United States, 2008–2010, Thomas E. Besser, Margaret A. Highland, Katherine Baker, E. Frances Cassirer, Neil J. Anderson, Jennifer M. Ramsey, Kristen Mansfield, Darren L. Bruning, Peregrine Wolff, Joshua B. Smith, Jonathan A. Jenks

Natural Resource Management Faculty Publications

Epizootic pneumonia of bighorn sheep is a devastating disease of uncertain etiology. To help clarify the etiology, we used culture and culture-independent methods to compare the prevalence of the bacterial respiratory pathogens Mannheimia haemolytica, Bibersteinia trehalosi, Pasteurella multocida, and Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in lung tissue from 44 bighorn sheep from herds affected by 8 outbreaks in the western United States. M. ovipneumoniae, the only agent detected at signifi cantly higher prevalence in animals from outbreaks (95%) than in animals from unaffected healthy populations (0%), was the most consistently detected agent and the only agent that exhibited single strain types within each …

The Update, March 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue:

-- Tallcorn Jazz Festival Celebrates Another Successful Year
-- Department News
-- Promotions Assistant Receives Two Student ADDY Awards
-- Student Spotlight: Communication Studies: Kristen McPheron
-- School of Music Events
-- The War On Drugs: Is It Time to Reconsider?
-- Student Spotlight: Biology: Susan Meerdink
-- Featured Organization - Explorers of Religion
-- The War on Drugs: Is It Time to Reconsider?
-- Industrial Tech Alum Goes On To Work for John Deere
-- Kinetic Entertainment
-- Bridging the Humanities and Sciences: A Wonderful Success Story About The Merger of Modern Languages and English
-- …

Preliminary Report On Race And Washington's Criminal Justice System, Research Working Group, Task Force On Race And The Criminal Justice System

Washington Law Review

We are pleased to present the Preliminary Report on Race and Washington’s Criminal Justice System, authored by the Research Working Group of the Task Force on Race and the Criminal Justice System. The Research Working Group’s mandate was to investigate disproportionalities in the criminal justice system and, where disproportionalities existed, to investigate possible causes. This factbased inquiry was designed to serve as a basis for making recommendations for changes to promote fairness, reduce disparity, ensure legitimate public safety objectives, and instill public confidence in our criminal justice system. The Task Force came into being after a group of us …

Choosing Punishment, Miriam H. Baer

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

K-Shell X-Ray Spectroscopy Of Atomic Nitrogen, M. M. Sant'anna, Gunnar Ohrwall, Wayne C. Stolte, Alfred S. Schlachter, Dennis W. Lindle, B. M. Mclaughlin

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Research

Absolute K-shell photoionization cross sections for atomic nitrogen have been obtained from both experiment and state-of-the-art theoretical techniques. Because of the difficulty of creating a target of neutral atomic nitrogen, no high-resolution K-edge spectroscopy measurements have been reported for this important atom. Interplay between theory and experiment enabled identification and characterization of the strong 1s → np resonance features throughout the threshold region. An experimental value of 409.64 ± 0.02 eV was determined for the K-shell binding energy.

A Streamlined Strategy For Biohydrogen Production With Halanaerobium Hydrogeniformans, An Alkaliphilic Bacterium, Matthew B. Begemann, Melanie R. Mormile, Oliver C. Sitton, Judy D. Wall, Dwayne A. Elias

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Biofuels are anticipated to enable a shift from fossil fuels for renewable transportation and manufacturing fuels, with biohydrogen considered attractive since it could offer the largest reduction of global carbon budgets. Currently, lignocellulosic biohydrogen production remains inefficient with pretreatments that are heavily fossil fuel-dependent. However, bacteria using alkali-treated biomass could streamline biofuel production while reducing costs and fossil fuel needs. An alkaliphilic bacterium, Halanaerobium hydrogeniformans, is described that is capable of biohydrogen production at levels rivaling neutrophilic strains, but at pH 11 and hypersaline conditions. H. hydrogeniformans ferments a variety of 5-and 6-carbon sugars derived from hemicellulose and cellulose …

Missouri S&T Magazine Spring 2012, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association

Missouri S&T Magazine

No abstract provided.

2012 Concert Tour: Schola Cantorum, University Jazz Ensemble, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Insights Into Migration And Development Of Coral Black Band Disease Based On Fine Structure Analysis, Aaron Miller, Patricia Blackwelder, Husain Al-Sayegh, Laurie L. Richardson

Biology Faculty Articles

In many diverse ecosystems, ranging from natural surfaces in aquatic ecosystems to the mammalian gut and medical implants, bacterial populations and communities exist as biofilms. While the process of biofilm development has been well-studied for those produced by unicellular bacteria such Pseudomonas aeruginosa, little is known about biofilm development associated with filamentous microorganisms. Black band disease (BBD) of corals is characterized as a polymicrobial biofilm (mat) community, visually-dominated by filamentous cyanobacteria. The mat migrates across a living coral host, completely lysing coral tissue and leaving behind exposed coral skeleton. It is the only known cyanobacterial biofilm that migrates across …

Chip Sequencing Of Cyclin D1 Reveals A Transcriptional Role In Chromosomal Instability In Mice., Mathew C Casimiro, Marco Crosariol, Emanuele Loro, Adam Ertel, Zuoren Yu, William Dampier, Elizabeth A Saria, Alex Papanikolaou, Timothy J Stanek, Zhiping Li, Chenguang Wang, Paolo Fortina, Sankar Addya, Aydin Tozeren, Erik S Knudsen, Andrew Arnold, Richard G Pestell

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

Chromosomal instability (CIN) in tumors is characterized by chromosomal abnormalities and an altered gene expression signature; however, the mechanism of CIN is poorly understood. CCND1 (which encodes cyclin D1) is overexpressed in human malignancies and has been shown to play a direct role in transcriptional regulation. Here, we used genome-wide ChIP sequencing and found that the DNA-bound form of cyclin D1 occupied the regulatory region of genes governing chromosomal integrity and mitochondrial biogenesis. Adding cyclin D1 back to Ccnd1-/- mouse embryonic fibroblasts resulted in CIN gene regulatory region occupancy by the DNA-bound form of cyclin D1 and induction of CIN …

Helodermatid Lizard From The Mio-Pliocene Oak-Hickory Forest Of Tennessee, Eastern Usa, And A Review Of Monstersaurian Osteoderms, Jim I. Mead, Blaine W. Schubert, Steven C. Wallace, Sandra L. Swift

ETSU Faculty Works

The extant venomous Gila monster and beaded lizards, species of Heloderma, live today in southwestern USA and south along the Pacific coastal region into Central America, but their fossil history is poorly understood. Here we report helodermatid osteoderms (dermal ossicles) from the late Miocene-early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, eastern Tennessee USA. Twenty-three species of mammals are known from the fauna including abundant Tapirus polkensis, as well as fishes, anurans, salamanders, turtles, Alligator, birds, and snakes. Beaded lizards belong to the Monstersauria, a clade that includes Primaderma + Paraderma + Gobiderma + Helodermatidae (Estesia, Eurheloderma, Lowesaurus, and Heloderma). Osteoderms of lizards …

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for March 1-7, 2012. Vol. 90, No. 8.

Water Quality Monitoring In A Pilot Marine Integrated Aquaculture System, Alex W. Kruglick

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Land based aquaculture systems are growing in popularity, and there is a drive to improve the efficiency of their energy and water systems for both economic and environmental benefit. Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) generally refer to systems that recycle their wastewater streams to be more or less a zero discharge facility. A more sustainable approach is emerging in the form of Integrated Aquaculture Systems (IAS) where maximum utility is realized from the various components so that fresh water use is reduced, water quality is improved, energy use is reduced, and new markets are created or fulfilled. Under a grant from …