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Mckee Library Annual Report 2012-2013, Southern Adventist University

Annual Reports

The 2012-2013 Annual Report includes statistics on usage in electronic resources, circulation, interlibrary loans, periodicals, media, and public relations.

General And Vascular Sonography 2013, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

No abstract provided.

Infrastructure, Standards, And Policies For Research Data Management, Jian Qin

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This paper discusses the needs and importance of research data management and introduces the concept of research data management as an infrastructure service. Although many resources have been made available for research data management, most of them are developed as “islands” and lack linking mechanisms. The lack of integrated and interconnected resources has contributed to high cost and duplicated efforts in data management operations. The vision of research data management as an infrastructure service is not only to improve the efficiency of research data management but also the productivity of the research enterprise. Each of the three dimensions—infrastructure, standards, and …

State Of Our Estuaries 2013, Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership

PREP Reports & Publications

Every three years the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) produces this condition and environmental trends report in an effort to provide communities and citizens with an informed and comprehensive evaluation of what is being observed in our estuaries. This report presents our assessment of 22 key indicators of the health of our bays: 15 of which are classified as having cautionary or negative conditions or trends, while 7 show positive conditions or trends. The overall assessment shows that there is reason to be concerned about the health of our estuaries, and that increased efforts to study and restore our estuaries …

Ctizen: What You Can Do To Help Improve Our Estuaries, Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership

PREP Reports & Publications

The need to keep our Seacoast rivers, lakes, marshes and Great Bay free of pollution is something we can all agree on. As the Community for Clean Water, PREP works to unite and encourage you, your friends and family to take simple steps to reduce water pollution caused by our every day actions. This guide has some tips, stories of those who are working on solutions and ways you can get involved. We’re not here to save the world, but together we’re confi dent that we can all do our part to keep the places we love around the Seacoast …

Optimization And Characterization Of The Bulk Fda Viability Assay To Quantify Living Planktonic Biomass, Brian N. Maurer

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The detection and quantification of viable aquatic biomass, especially of the microbial community, is a fundamental aspect of ecological, oceanographic, environmental and other specialized fields. The abundance and activity of aquatic microbial communities and how they change in space, time or in response to some environmental perturbation are subjects of significant research interest. Environmental management officials and technicians must quantify viable marine microorganisms in waste, gray, drinking and ballast water to determine if regulations are met. Unfortunately, few methods exist to assess viable biomass; those that do are often laborious, unreliable, expensive, qualitative rather than quantitative, or restricted to the …

Organic Design Challenge 2013: Sustainable Planning In Ghenh Rang: Sustainable Visions For The Future Of Vietnam, Crp 471 Selected Advanced Laboratory

CRP 471 Selected Advanced Laboratory

No abstract provided.

Physical Mistreatment In Persons With Alzheimer’S Disease, Gregory Paveza, Carla Vandeweerd, Margaret Walsh, Jaime Corvin

Library Scholarship

Physical mistreatment has been estimated to affect 2 million older persons each year and dramatically affects health outcomes. While researchers have attempted to examine risk factors for specific forms of abuse, many have been able to focus on only victim or perpetrator characteristics, or a limited number of psychosocial variables at any one time. Additionally, data on risk factors for subgroups such as persons with Alzheimer’s disease who may have heightened and/or unique risk profiles has also been limited. This paper examines risk for physical violence in caregiver/patient dyads who participated in the Aggression and Violence in Community-Based Alzheimer’s Families …

A Novel Sodium Channel In The Mammalian Taste System, Melissa N. Fillmore

Biology Posters

Salty taste, one of the five taste qualities recognized in the mammalian peripheral gustatory system is thought to be mediated by an ion channel receptor. The epithelial sodium channel, ENaC, is thought to be the channel for salt taste transduction. ENaC is crucial in regulating salt reabsorption, helps control overall salt and water homeostasis in an organism, and contributes to blood pressure. While ENaC plays an important role in salt taste perception, it is responsible for only part of the total sodium transduction pathway in humans, suggesting that there may be another component in the salt transduction mechanism. We have …

2013-2014 Catalog, College Of The Holy Cross

Course Catalogs

This catalog lists available courses for the 2013-2014 term.

Hika - 2013

HIKA Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

An Introduction To Latent Variable Mixture Modeling (Part 2): Longitudinal Latent Class Growth Analysis And Growth Mixture Models, Kristoffer S. Berlin, Gilbert R. Parra, Natalie A. Williams

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Objective — Pediatric psychologists are often interested in finding patterns in heterogeneous longitudinal data. Latent Variable Mixture Modeling is an emerging statistical approach that models such heterogeneity by classifying individuals into unobserved groupings (latent classes) with similar (more homogenous) patterns. The purpose of the second of a two article set is to offer a nontechnical introduction to longitudinal latent variable mixture modeling.

Methods — 3 latent variable approaches to modeling longitudinal data are reviewed and distinguished.

Results — Step-by-step pediatric psychology examples of latent growth curve modeling, latent class growth analysis, and growth mixture modeling are provided using the Early …

Upic Magazine, Issue 2, Center For Career And Professional Development

UPIC Magazine

Every semester, undergraduate students from every major and staff from every part of Clemson University join together through UPIC internships. These paid internships grant students real, on the job experience in professional fields and offer staff a chance to mentor some of Clemson’s most brilliant students.

To find out more about the UPIC Program, visit career.clemson.edu/internship_programs

UPIC is part of Clemson’s Center for Career and Professional Development

Forest Development And Carbon Dynamics After Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks, E. Matthew Hansen

The Bark Beetles, Fuels, and Fire Bibliography

Mountain pine beetles periodically infest pine forests in western North America, killing many or most overstory pine stems. The surviving secondary stand structure, along with recruited seedlings, will form the future canopy. Thus, even-aged pine stands become multiaged and multistoried. The species composition of affected stands will depend on the presence of nonpines and outbreak severity, among other factors, and can range from continued dominance by pines to hastened conversion to more shade-tolerant species. The loss of mature host trees results in reductions of ecosystem carbon productivity. The surviving and recruited stems, however, grow more quickly in response to the …

Ada News Convention Daily - 2013 Day 4, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Comparison Between The Effects Of Size And Color In Mate Choice Among Guppies, Makda Gebre

Biology Posters

No abstract provided.

Gis And Introductory Environmental Engineering: A Way To Fold Gis Into An Already-Existing Course, Mary P. Cardenas, David Wayne Kelley, Warren Roberts

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was implemented in the upper-division undergraduate technical elective Introduction to Environmental Engineering at Harvey Mudd College. Students integrated technical engineering skills, newly-learned geographical information system (GIS) skills, and the engineering design process, all in the context of the design of a debris flow barrier for a wilderness land parcel acquired by a local conservancy group.

Junior and senior general engineering students, the majority of whom had no experience with GIS, were taught ArcGIS (a GIS mapping program) in the context of an Introductory Environmental Engineering course. Students learned how to map locations, find …

Contact Hypersensitivity To Oxazolone Provokes Vulvar Mechanical Hyperalgesia In Mice, Tijana Martinov, Rose Glenn-Finer, Sarah Burley, Elena Tonc, Evelyn Balsells, Alyssa Ashbaugh, Linnea Swanson, Randy S. Daughters, Devavani Chatterjea

Faculty Publications

The interplay among pain, allergy and dysregulated inflammation promises to yield significant conceptual advances in immunology and chronic pain. Hapten-mediated contact hypersensitivity reactions are used to model skin allergies in rodents but have not been utilized to study associated changes in pain perception in the affected skin. Here we characterized changes in mechanical hyperalgesia in oxazolone-sensitized female mice challenged with single and repeated labiar skin exposure to oxazolone. Female mice were sensitized with topical oxazolone on their flanks and challenged 1-3 times on the labia. We then measured mechanical sensitivity of the vulvar region with an electronic pressure meter and …

Ordway Weather And Water Data 2013, Macalester College

Ordway Weather Data

Contains daily readings for the year indicated. The values include: PAR umol/s/m2, avg wind dir degree, avg windspeed mph, Avg Max Windspeed mph, Avg airtemp C, Avg RH %, Avg BP mmHg, Avg DailyRain in, Avg Rain Duration sec, Avg RainIntensity in/h, Avg Water Temp F, Avg sp cond mS/cm, avg pH, Avg Turb NTU+, Avg ODOSat %, Avg ODO mg/L, Water station PAR umol/s/m2, Avg Water Level m. File format: CSV.

Macalester Today Winter 2013, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Aquilegia, Vol. 37 No. 2 - Special Issue, 2013, Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Bob Henry, Jan Loechell Turner, Ronald C. Wittmann, William A. Weber, Mo Ewing, Ruby Marr, David Buckner, James Erdman, Tom Wessels, Heather Harris, Dwight Billings

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

No abstract provided.

Aquilegia, Vol. 37 No. 5, Fall 2013, Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Jan Loechell Turner, Mary Price, Nick Waser, Dan Blumstein, David Inouye, Betsabãƒâ© Castro-Escobar, Richard Furman, Charles Feddema, Jennifer Ackerfield, Jenna Mcaleer, Mo Ewing, Gifford Ewing, Al Schneider, Andy Herb, Sally L. White, Charlie Turner, Dave Elin, Linda Hellow, Eric Schwarzweller, Connie Gray

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

No abstract provided.

Nova Law Review 37, #3

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Age Structure Of Moose (Alces Alces) Killed By Gray Wolves (Canis Lupus) In Northeastern Minnesota, 1967–2011, L. David Mech, Michael E. Nelson

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The ages of 77 adult Moose (Alces alces) killed by gray Wolves (Canis lupus) during the period 1967–2011 in northeastern Minnesota were significantly older than those of a sample of 17 585 Moose killed by hunters in nearby Ontario. Our findings support those of earlier studies of protected Moose populations in national parks that found that gray Wolves tend to kill disproportionately more older Moose.

A National Approach For Integrating Wildfire Simulation Modeling Into Wildland Urban Interface Risk Assessments Within The United States, Jessica R. Haas, David E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Ongoing human development into fire-prone areas contributes to increasing wildfire risk to human life. It is critically important, therefore, to have the ability to characterize wildfire risk to populated places, and to identify geographic areas with relatively high risk. A fundamental component of wildfire risk analysis is establishing the likelihood of wildfire occurrence and interaction with social and ecological values. A variety of fire modeling systems exist that can provide spatially resolved estimates of wildfire likelihood, which when coupled with maps of values-at-risk enable probabilistic exposure analysis. With this study we demonstrate the feasibility and utility of pairing burn probabilities …

Genome Sequencing Of Four Strains Of Rickettsia Prowazekii, The Causative Agent Of Epidemic Typhus, Including One Flying Squirrel Isolate, Kimberly A. Bishop-Lilly, Hong Ge, Amy Butani, Brian Osborne, Kathleen Verratti, Vishwesh Mokashi, Niranjan Nagarajan, Mihai Pop, Timothy D. Read, Allen L. Richards

United States Navy: Publications

Rickettsia prowazekii is a notable intracellular pathogen, the agent of epidemic typhus, and a potential biothreat agent. We present here whole-genome sequence data for four strains of R. prowazekii, including one from a flying squirrel.

Draft Genome Sequence Of The Fast-Growing Marine Bacterium Vibrio Natriegens Strain Atcc 14048, Zheng Wang, Baochuan Lin, W. Judson Hervey Iv, Gary J. Vora

United States Navy: Publications

Vibrio natriegens bacteria are Gram-negative aquatic microorganisms that are found primarily in coastal seawater and sediments and are perhaps best known for their high growth rates (generation time of <10 min). In this study, we report the first sequenced genome of this species, that of the type strain Vibrio natriegens ATCC 14048, a salt marsh mud isolate from Sapelo Island, GA.

Me-Em 2012-13 Annual Report, Department Of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Annual Reports

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Discovery And Validation Of Cell Cycle Arrest Biomarkers In Human Acute Kidney Injury, Kianoush Kashani, Ali Al-Khafaji, Thomas Ardiles, Antonio Artigas, Sean M. Bagshaw, Lakhmir S. Chawla, Danielle L. Davison, +33 Additional Authors

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Publications

Introduction

Acute kidney injury (AKI) can evolve quickly and clinical measures of function often fail to detect AKI at a time when interventions are likely to provide benefit. Identifying early markers of kidney damage has been difficult due to the complex nature of human AKI, in which multiple etiologies exist. The objective of this study was to identify and validate novel biomarkers of AKI.

Methods

We performed two multicenter observational studies in critically ill patients at risk for AKI - discovery and validation. The top two markers from discovery were validated in a second study (Sapphire) and compared to a …

Metabolic Causes Of Epileptic Encephalopathy, Joe Yuezhou Yu, Phillip L. Pearl

Neurology Faculty Publications

Epileptic encephalopathy can be induced by inborn metabolic defects that may be rare individually but in aggregate represent a substantial clinical portion of child neurology. These may present with various epilepsy phenotypes including refractory neonatal seizures, early myoclonic encephalopathy, early infantile epileptic encephalopathy, infantile spasms, and generalized epilepsies which in particular include myoclonic seizures. There are varying degrees of treatability, but the outcome if untreated can often be catastrophic. The importance of early recognition cannot be overemphasized. This paper provides an overview of inborn metabolic errors associated with persistent brain disturbances due to highly active clinical or electrographic ictal activity. …