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The Thirty-Second Annual John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition In Information Technology And Privacy Law: Bench Memorandum, 30 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 339 (2013), Dana Benedetti, Daniel Johnson, Kalli Kling, Samantha Levin, Zayna Nubani, Pamela Szelung

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

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The Thirty-Second Annual John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition In Information Technology And Privacy Law: Brief For The Petitioner, 30 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 373 (2013), Eliana Albelbaisi, Robert Koehl, Todd Smith

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

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The Thirty-Second Annual John Marshall Law School International Moot Court Competition In Information Technology And Privacy Law: Brief For The Respondent, 30 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 403 (2013), Samuel Bragg, Leslie Brockhoeft, Matthew Vinson

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

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Federal Circuit V. Ninth Circuit: A Split Over The Conflicting Approaches To Dmca Section 1201, Robert Arthur

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

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Com Outlook Winter 2013, College Of Osteopathic Medicine

COM Outlook

No abstract provided.

The Search For "Strong Medicine": Pathways To Healthcare Development In Remote Nepal Using Gis, Catherine Lee Sanders, Kimber Haddix Mckay

Anthropology Faculty Publications

Nepalese agropastoralists’ confrontations with forces of change in the last generation have altered villagers’ abilities to gain access to health services, clean water, and nutrition in Humla District, Nepal. Development efforts and Nepal’s recent armed conflict, in particular, introduced novel technologies and ideologies that a subsection of villagers have responded to in a fashion that we did not expect. In this article, based on theories about the diffusion of innovation and risk, we argue that, together, villagers and other change agents have cocreated new contexts of vulnerability in the postconflict setting of rural Nepal, as observed in remote Humla District. …

First World War Central Power Prison Camps, Kenneth Steuer

History Faculty Publications

This is an introduction to the First World War Central Power POW Camps photo gallery that is a companion work to Steuer's e-book, Pursuit of an "Unparalleled Opportunity": The American YMCA and Prisoner-of-War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I, 1914-1923. The images include a wide range of photographs, drawings, paintings, maps, and other images from Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, German, and Turkish prison camps during the First World War which illustrate the daily life of Allied war prisoners in and outside of prison facilities. The text and database images show the activities in these camps and …

Transmission Rate In Partial Differential Equation In Epidemic Models, Alaa Elkadry

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The rate at which susceptible individuals become infected is called the transmission rate. It is important to know this rate in order to study the spread and the effect of an infectious disease in a population. This study aims at providing an understanding of estimating the transmission rate from mathematical models representing the population dynamics of an infectious diseases using two different methods. Throughout, it is assumed that the number of infected individuals is known. In the first chapter, it includes historical background for infectious diseases and epidemic models and some terminology needed to understand the problems. Specifically, the partial …

Patient Characteristics But Not Virulence Factors Discriminate Between Asymptomatic And Symptomatic E. Coli Bacteriuria In The Hospital, Jonas Marschall, Marilyn L. Piccirillo, Betsy Foxman, Lixin Zhang, David K. Warren, Jeffrey P. Henderson, Cdc Prevention Epicenters Program

Open Access Publications

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Detection Of Novel Polyomaviruses, Tspyv, Hpyv6, Hpyv7, Hpyv9 And Mwpyv In Feces, Urine, Blood, Respiratory Swabs And Cerebrospinal Fluid, Rebecca J. Rockett, Theo P. Sloots, Sharleen Bowes, Nicholas O'Neill, Suifang Ye, Jenny Robson, David M. Whiley, Stephen B. Lambert, David Wang, Michael D. Nissen, Seweryn Bialasiewicz

Open Access Publications

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Detection Of Leishmania Rna Virus In Leishmania Parasites, Haroun Zangger, Catherine Ronet, Chantal Desponds, F. Matthew Kuhlmann, John Robinson, Mary-Anne Hartley, Florence Prevel, Patrik Castiglioni, Francine Pratlong, Patrick Bastien, Norbert Muller, Laurent Parmentier, Nancy Gore Saravia, Stephen M. Beverley, Nicolas Fasel

Open Access Publications

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Impact Of Cohorting For Multidrug-Resistant Organisms With And Without Real-Time Feedback, Sunee Wongcharoen, Pornpong Luxamesathaporn, Thana Khawcharoenporn, Sassinuch Rujanavech, David K. Warren, Anucha Apisarnthanarak

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Linfield Digest, Linfield Magazine Staff

Linfield Magazine

Brief articles and photos of events and news about Linfield College

Stem: Science, Technology, Engineering And Math, Laura Davis, Mardi Mileham

Linfield Magazine

Science is on our minds at Linfield. Students and faculty spent the summer collaborating on research in the sciences, mathematics and technology, both here and abroad.

New Light And Old Shadows: John G. Turner’S Attempt To Understand Brigham Young, Craig L. Foster

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Brigham Young has repeatedly been described as larger than life and most people, critics and supporters, would agree. Brigham Young (1801–1877), second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led the Saints like a modern- day Moses from the turmoil of Nauvoo to the Great Basin. He then oversaw the settlement of over three hundred communities in the intermountain west. He directed the growth and development of the LDS Church and left an indelible mark on both Mormonism and the western United States. Brigham Young was, indeed, larger than life.

Finding Still Waters And Green Pastures: Understanding And Reducing Stress In Urban Church Planting, David R. Dunaetz

Selected Faculty Publications

The work of urban church planters is often hindered by high levels of stress. Stress may be viewed as a process that involves stressors and an individual’s perceptions of both the level of threat and his or her ability to deal with the threat. The long term and the short term consequences of stress can be attenuated through appropriate coping strategies such as problem solving, prayer, and seeking social support. Recent empirical evidence indicates that exposure to nature is also very effective, a strategy that might be especially beneficial to urban church planters and their ministries. Several practical applications are …

Exploring The Influence Of Contextual Distances On Transnational Public Sector Knowledge Networks: A Comparative Study Of Airnow-I Shanghai And The Hajj-Mdss Initiatives, Sharon S. Dawes, Mohammed Gharawi, G. Brian Burke

Center for Technology in Government

Proceedings of the 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2013, Wed, 09 Jan 2013.Transnational public sector knowledge networks (TPSKNs) are becoming crucial for addressing global problems in the environment, public health and other areas that require knowledge and information sharing among nations. This paper explores and compares a set of contextual distances that separate network participants and discusses their influence on network success. Based on previous research, we introduce nine contextual distances and compare and discuss their influence on two cases. We conclude with a discussion of the findings and suggestions for future research on knowledge and information …

The Impact Of The Criminalization Of Hiv Non-Disclosure On The Health And Human Rights Of “Black” Communities, Ciann L. Wilson

Psychology Faculty Publications

The criminalization of HIV non-disclosure has become a hot topic for discussion and debate amongst human rights advocates, HIV/AIDS service providers, and people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. This paper explores the inherent problems with HIV non-disclosure laws. These laws are ambiguous and pose a serious threat to public health policy and programming by obstructing the fundamental human rights of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Using a human rights framework, this paper explores the impact of non-disclosure laws on the health and rights of African, Caribbean, and Black-Canadian communities and proposes ways to address the shortcomings of HIV non-disclosure …

Title Page, Contents, Contributors For Estudios Científicos En El Estado De Hidalgo Y Zonas Aledañas, Volumen Ii, Griselda Pulido-Flores, Scott Monks

Estudios científicos en el estado de Hidalgo y zonas aledañas

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Antibiotic Prophylaxis For Urinary Tract Infections After Removal Of Urinary Catheter: Meta-Analysis, Jonas Marschall, Christopher R. Carpenter, Susan Fowler, Barbara W. Trautner

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Examination Of The Acquired Preparedness Model And Alcohol Use In Emerging Adults, Richard Michael Staszkow

Wayne State University Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive utility of the acquired preparedness and alcohol use in emerging adults. Data were collected from a sample of 273 participants, ages 18 to 25 years old, from an urban university in the Midwest. The participants completed self-report questionnaires via SurveyMonkey. It was predicted that expectancy variables would mediate the relations between impulsivity and the frequency and quantity of drinking. Results suggest that social pressure self-efficacy was found to fully mediate the relation between the impulsivity variables (lack of premeditation and positive urgency) for both drinking frequency and quantity. Increased confidence, …

Sleep Homeodynamics And Wellbeing In Asymptomatic Hiv-Seropositive African American Women, Tabetha Lynn Gayton

Wayne State University Dissertations

SLEEP HOMEODYNAMICS AND WELLBEING IN ASYMPTOMATIC HIV–SEROPOSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN

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TABETHA LYNN GAYTON

December 2013

Advisor: Hossein N. Yarandi, PhD

Major: Nursing (Urban Health)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

BACKGROUND: HIV–related sleep disruption is a common complaint of persons with HIV infection. With the demographical shifts, African American women have now emerged as one of the fastest growing HIV populations today, yet they remain a vulnerable and underrepresented population in the sleep literature.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the dynamics of HIV–related sleep disruption and wellbeing in asymptomatic HIV–seropositive AA women of childbearing age within …

Animal Farm Reality: The First Amendment Struggle To Reveal The Frightening Truth Behind Industrial Farm Animal Production, Melanie M. Ghaw

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

When I began writing this article, a deadly outbreak of listeria was ravaging the nation.' It began with the recall of cantaloupes and led to three additional recalls of produce in the following weeks.2Although the produce originatedfr om a single farm in Colorado, the harmful effects of the outbreak spanned 18 states, reaching as far as Alaska. Currently 29 people have died and 72 others were infected.3

Produce contaminated with animal waste caused this deadly traged.' Listeria outbreaks are becoming more common, coinciding 1with the increase of Industrial Farm Animal Production (IFAP), and many believe IFAP facilities are to blame …

A Bayesian Approach For Modeling Cattle Movements In The United States: Scaling Up A Partially Observed Network, Katie Portacci, Tom Lindstrom, Daniel A. Grear, Michael Buhnerkempe, Colleen T. Webb, Ryan S. Miller, Uno Wennergren

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

Networks are rarely completely observed and prediction of unobserved edges is an important problem, especially in disease spread modeling where networks are used to represent the pattern of contacts. We focus on a partially observed cattle movement network in the U.S. and present a method for scaling up to a full network based on Bayesian inference, with the aim of informing epidemic disease spread models in the United States. The observed network is a 10% state stratified sample of Interstate Certificates of Veterinary Inspection that are required for interstate movement; describing approximately 20,000 movements from 47 of the contiguous states, …

Vaccination With Intestinal Tract Antigens Does Not Induce Protective Immunity In A Permissive Model Of Filariasis, C. Paul Morris, Marina N. Torrero, David Larson, Holly Evans, Yinghui Shi, Rachel T. Cox, Edward Mitre

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Antigens obtained from the intestinal tract of filarial nematodes have been proposed as potential safe and effective vaccine candidates. Because they may be ‘hidden’ from the immune response during natural infection, yet accessible by antibodies induced by vaccination, intestinal antigens may have a low potential for eliciting allergic responses when vaccinating previously infected individuals. Despite prior promising data, vaccination with intestinal antigens has yet to be tested in a permissive model of filariasis. In this study we investigated the efficacy of vaccination with filarial intestinal antigens in the permissive Litomosoides sigmodontis BALB/c model of filariasis, and we evaluated the extent …

White-Nose Syndrome Is Likely To Extirpate The Endangered Indiana Bat Over Large Parts Of Its Range, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Carol A. Sanders-Reed, Jennifer A. Szymanski, Patrick C. Mckann, Lori Pruitt, R. Andrew King, Michael C. Runge, Robin E. Russell

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

White-nose syndrome, a novel fungal pathogen spreading quickly through cave-hibernating bat species in east and central North America, is responsible for killing millions of bats. We developed a stochastic, stage-based population model to forecast the population dynamics of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) subject to white-nose syndrome. Our population model explicitly incorporated environmentally imposed annual variability in survival and reproductive rates and demographic stochasticity in predictions of extinction. With observed rates of disease spread, >90% of wintering populations were predicted to experience white-nose syndrome within 20 years, causing the proportion of populations at the quasi-extinction threshold of …

Validation Of A Cell-Based Elisa As A Screening Tool Identifyinganti-Alphavirus Small-Molecule Inhibitors, Kevin B. Spurgers, Clarence R. Hurt, Jeffrey W. Cohen, Lori T. Eccelston, Cathleen M. Lind, Vishwanath R. Lingappa, Pamela J. Glass

United States Army: Publications

Venezuelan (VEEV), eastern, and western equine encephalitis viruses, members of the genus Alphavirus, are causative agents of debilitative and sometimes fatal encephalitis. Although human cases are rare, these viruses pose a threat to military personnel, and to public health, due to their potential use as bioweapons. Currently, there are no licensed therapeutics for treating alphavirus infections. To address this need, small-molecules with potential anti-alphavirus activity, provided by collaborators, are tested routinely in live alpha virus assays utilizing time-consuming virus yield-reduction assays. To expedite the screening/hit-confirmation process, a cell-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed and validated for the measurement …

Genome Sequence Of The Attenuated Carbosap Vaccine Strain Of Bacillus Anthracis, Robin Harrington, Brian D. Ondov, Diana Radune, Mary Beth Friss, Joy Klubnik, Lynn Diviak, Jonathan Hnath, Stephen R. Cendrowski, Thomas E. Blank, David Karaolis, Arthur M. Friedlander, James P. Burans, M. J. Rosovitz, Todd Treangen, Adam M. Phillippy, Nicholas H. Bergman

United States Army: Publications

The Bacillus anthracis Carbosap genome, which includes the pXO1 and pXO2 plasmids, has been shown to encode the major B. anthracis virulence factors, yet this strain’s attenuation has not yet been explained. Here we report the draft genome sequence of this strain, and a comparison to fully virulent B. anthracis.

Ifitm-2 And Ifitm-3 But Not Ifitm-1 Restrict Rift Valley Fever Virus, Rajini Mudhasani, Julie P. Tran, Cary Retterer, Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Krishna P. Kota, Louis A. Altamura, Jeffrey M. Smith, Beverly Z. Packard, Jens H. Kuhn, Julie Costantino, Aura R. Garrison, Connie S. Schmaljohn, I-Chueh Huang, Michael Farzan, Sina Bavari

United States Army: Publications

We show that interferon-induced transmembrane protein 1 (IFITM-1), IFITM-2, and IFITM-3 exhibit a broad spectrum of antiviral activity against several members of the Bunyaviridae family, including Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), La Crosse virus, Andes virus, and Hantaan virus, all of which can cause severe disease in humans and animals. We found that RVFV was restricted by IFITM-2 and -3 but not by IFITM-1, whereas the remaining viruses were equally restricted by all IFITMs. Indeed, at low doses of alpha interferon (IFNα), IFITM-2 and -3 mediated more than half of the antiviral activity of IFNα against RVFV. IFITM-2 and -3 …

Detection Of New Delhi Metallo-Β-Lactamase (Encoded By BlaNdm-1) In Acinetobacter Schindleri During Routine Surveillance, Patrick Mcgann, Michael Milillo, Robert J. Clifford, Erik Snesrud, Lindsay Stevenson, Michael G. Backlund, Helen B. Viscount, Reyes Quintero, Yoon I. Kwak, Michael J. Zapor, Paige W. Waterman, Emil P. Lesho

United States Army: Publications

A carbapenem-resistant Alcaligenes faecalis strain was isolated from a surveillance swab of a service member injured in Afghanistan. The isolate was positive for bla_NDM by real-time PCR. Species identification was reevaluated on three identification systems but was inconclusive. Genome sequencing indicated that the closest relative was Acinetobacter schindleri and that bla_NDM-1 was carried on a plasmid that shared >99% identity with one identified in an Acinetobacter lwoffii isolate. The isolate also carried a novel chromosomally encoded class D oxacillinase.