Digital Commons Network^™

Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention For Autism: Is It Actually More "Intensive" Than A Typical Child's Day?, Caitlyn B. Sorensen

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by deficits in social interaction, communication, and excessive ritualistic and repetitive behavior. Numerous treatments for autism devised over the last half-century have proven ineffective, or have never been scientifically evaluated. Despite the state of the research, the most demonstrably effective treatment, Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI), has been a target of much criticism, including accusations of being too intense. A large number of learning trials in relatively short periods of time supposedly induce children to have disordered stress responses. To explore the intensity of EIBI, behavior samples from children engaging …

Isolation And Characterization Of Natural Antimicrobials From Plant And Marine Organisms, Corene Barbara Canning

Wayne State University Dissertations

Antibiotic agents have been found to have a limited lifespan due to the ability of microrganisms to develop antimicrobial resistance. In this study a number extracts of plant and marine organisms were evaluated for their antimicrobial activity against a number of high priority pathogens. Bioassay-guided fractionation of four extracts led to the identification of compounds with inhibitory activity; including one previously unknown compound. Compounds were evaluated through a variety of techniques including broth microdilution assay to determine each compound's MIC and MBC. The majority of the compounds showed antimicrobial activity equal to, if not better than, the commonly used antimicrobial …

Characterization Of Bacteriophages From Environmental Water Samples And The Potential Of Bacteriophages Tailspike Proteins (Tsp) In Bacteria Detection, Gayathri Upeksha Gunathilaka

Wayne State University Theses

ABSTRACT

CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIOPHAGES FROM ENVIRONMENTAL WATER SAMPLES AND THE POTENTIAL OF BACTERIOPHAGES TAILSPIKE PROTEINS (TSP) IN BACTERIA DETECTION

by

GAYATHRI UPEKSHA GUNATHILAKA

May 2014

Advisor: Dr. Yifan Zhang

Major: Nutrition and Food Science

Degree: Master of Science

The high abundance of phage in the environment and their specificity with the bacteria host make them an excellent tool for bacteria detection. To characterize phage specific to Salmonella and E. coli from water samples in the Southeastern Michigan and to develop a novel bacterial detection method using phage, environmental water samples were collected from rivers and waste water treatment plant (WWTP) …

The Influence Of Gestural Learning On Oral Reading And Reading Comprehension, Rachael Joymarie Williams

Wayne State University Theses

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how gestural training may facilitate oral reading and reading comprehension of single words. For example, it is not clear whether multi-modal cues such as gesture provide an advantage over verbal cueing alone, or which type of multi-modal cues may be more effective than others in visual-verbal learning. This study examined language learning in healthy volunteers to be able to apply the effective methods for language intervention in individuals with language difficulties.

Thirty-two healthy adults were selected to participate in four different learning conditions including verbal alone, visual cue, meaningful gesture, and meaningless …

Saudi Arabian Students In Detroit Use Natural Health Products More So Than Other University Students In Detroit, Samiah Naji Alqahtani

Wayne State University Theses

Natural Health Products (NHP), are defined as products that derive from organisms and may include supplements and herbal/traditional remedies. Prior research indicates that females use NHP more than males. We have unpublished data to show that students use NHP for health maintenance with significantly different use of NHP by Native/Aboriginal students vs. other students. Less is known about Saudi students. We hypothesize that: (1) There are gender differences in NHP used; and (2) There are geo-ethnic differences in NHP used. We also determine the predictor variables that influence NHP use by students. Students from Wayne State University (n=560; 193 …

The Phenotypic Analysis Of The Knockdown Of The Sin3a Complex Components And Their Role In Recruitment And Cell Proliferation, Kelly Ann Laity

Wayne State University Theses

The SIN3A-RPD3 complex components have previously been identified in Drosophila melanogaster. The role of these components in SIN3A function and recruitment was not known. Polytene chromosome analysis following RNAi knockdown was performed to determine if any of the complex members affect the ability of SIN3A to bind to chromatin. The complex components effect on cell proliferation was also examined through clonal analysis of imaginal wing discs. The results of this work implicate a role of several members of the SIN3A complex for proper recruitment and localization to chromatin. All of the SIN3A complex members had some varying effect on cell …

Arkansas Women's Basketball, 2013-2014, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Athletics Media Relations

Arkansas Women's Basketball

No abstract provided.

Sins Of The Father, K.K. Duvivier

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

This Article will first provide some general background about severance and the related doctrine of dominant–servient estates. Next, it will address oil and gas severance specifically. Third, it will track the parallels and distinctions between the history of wind severance and the oil and gas history set out in Section II. Finally, Section IV will address the problems with the current responses to wind severance.

Ride Like The Wind: Selected Issues In Multi-Party Wind Lease Negotiations, Rod E. Wetsel, Steven K. Dewolf

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

The large-scale wind industry arrived in Texas in the early years of the twenty-first century with the intensity of a spring tornado. It was a welcome relief to farmers and ranchers beset by years of no rain and falling prices, and they lined up in droves to hear about and sign new wind leases. It was a new dawn for energy lawyers too. Gone were the days of one-on-one representation in the leasing of land. The new era required landowner attorneys to represent dozens or perhaps hundreds of people at a time. This is the story of the issues and …

Lost In Translation: Statistical Inference In Court, Erica Beecher-Monas

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Rethinking The "Religious Questions" Doctrine, Christopher C. Lund

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

The Virtues Of Private Securities Litigation: An Historic And Macroeconomic Perspective, Steven A. Ramirez

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

In the wake of the Great Depression, the federal securities laws operated to mandate disclosure of material facts to investors and extend broad private remedies to victims of securities fraudfeasors. The revelation of massive securities fraud underlying the Great Depression animated the federal securities laws as investment plunged after 1929 and failed to recover for years. For over sixty years after the enactment of the federal securities laws, no episode of massive securities fraud with significant macroeconomic harm occurred. The federal securities laws thereby operated to facilitate financial stability and prosperity, in addition to a superior allocation of capital. Unfortunately, …

In Memoriam: Professor George Anastaplo, Loyola University Chicago, School Of Law

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Trademark Hybridity And Brand Protection, Timothy Greene

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

What’s in a word? As it turns out, quite a lot. The vast majority of words in our language, including trademarked terms, signify a variety of conceptual meanings and senses. This idea of splintered definition— described in the psycholinguistics literature as “semantic ambiguity” and offered in two flavors: “homonymy” (divergent and unrelated meanings) and “polysemy” (divergent yet related senses)—is underrepresented in trademark law. As a result, there has been a proliferation of legal doctrines that fail to accurately describe our linguistic lives, most notably including dilution and genericness. This Article draws on psycholinguistics literature on semantic ambiguity resolution to highlight …

In Defense Of The Finality Of Criminal Sentences On Collateral Review, Ryan W. Scott

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Yerba Mate (Ilex Paraguariensis) Production, Agricultural Change, And Livelihood Security In Southeastern Paraguay, Mason Robert Bradbury

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Smallholders in Southeastern Paraguay are threatened by the advance of mechanized farming, environmental degradation, and limited access to credit and inputs. Agroforestry initiatives have been proposed as a way to increase smallholder livelihood security in the face of such vulnerability. Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) is a tree crop native to Paraguay that may be grown in agroforestry systems. While prices paid to farmers for yerba mate have increased in recent years, spurring interest and adoption of yerba mate production among some farmers, to this date, there have been no analyses of the effects that yerba mate production may have on …

Challenging Presumed (Im)Morality: A Personal Narrative, Angela Mae Kupenda

Journal Articles

This narrative essay is about presumptions of (im)morality in academic settings. Such biased presumptions affect our abilities, even as educators, to work together and foster a society built on principles of justice that could help us work, live, and play better together. Learning to understand, work with, live near, and care about others are goals to which many of us would say we aspire. As law professors, we consider collegiality to be one of the factors we use in evaluating candidates for hiring and promotion decisions. However, these evaluations may rest not on the worthiness or respected humanity of others, …

Herbal And Microbial Products For The Management Of Obesity, Maha Salama, Soheir El Zalabani, Essam Abdel Sattar

Pharmacy

Obesity is a global epidemic and one of the major health burdens of modern times. The prevalence of obesity is increasing worldwide; it constitutes a serious problem in developed as well as developing countries. Beside adults, the number of obese teenagers and children in particular has dramatically increased. Obesity is characterized by accumulation of excess fat in adipose tissues in an extent to produce adverse effects on health, leading to a reduction in life expectancy and/or a raise in health hazards. People are classified as overweight (pre-obese) and obese on the basis of the Body Mass Index (BMI), crude measure …

Deconstruction, Abjection, And Meaning In Contemporary Art: World Trends And The Byu Museum Of Art, Kirsti Ringger

BYU Studies

Visit any contemporary art exhibition in the world. You might be shocked, but it is unlikely that you will be surprised. You will probably see something huge and imposing—in fact, almost everything will be BIG. There will be appropriated pop culture images and graffiti, found objects in installation, photographs of the artist (probably in serial), and definitely electronics—video and neon and interactive computer-ish things. Perhaps there will be some naked people (and if there are, they will probably be posted all over the city as exhibition advertisements). There will be large-scale photographic social commentary, and, inevitably, there will be a …

In God's Image And Likeness: Ancient And Modern Perspectives On The Book Of Moses; In God's Image And Likeness: Enoch, Noah, And The Tower Of Babel, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Eric A. Eliason, David J. Larsen

BYU Studies

In God's Image and Likeness is an incredibly ambitious undertaking, containing literally volumes within volumes--a cosmic scope that befits its Book of Moses and "JST Genesis" subject matter. Volume 1 covers the visions of Moses, the Creation, the Fall, and Adam the patriarch, as well as an extensive section of excursus that covers nearly everything imaginable related to these topics. Volume 2 covers Enoch, the city of Enoch, Noah and the Flood, and the tower of Babel, along with a likewise varied excursus. Volume 2 is nicely hardbound in a single book; volume 1 first appeared as a single volume …

Child Abuse Reporting: When Given The Option, Do Youth Choose To Report?, Michelle L. Vos

Master's Theses

Christensen and Prout (2002) explain, "The task of the social scientist is to work for the right of people to have a voice and to be heard. In the case of children, `age' is perhaps one of the most dominant factors used to discriminate against children being heard and listened to" (p. 483). And in the case of children experiencing neglect or abuse, the opportunity for them to be heard is even more limited. This project analyzes data from the National Runway Safeline - one place where children's voice can be heard. NRS, established in 1971, offers confidential and anonymous …

Wnt7b Promotes Bone Formation In Part Through Mtorc1, Jianquan Chen, Xiaolin Tu, Emel Esen, Kyu Sang Joeng, Congxin Lin, Jeffrey M. Arbeit, Markus A. Ruegg, Michael N. Hall, Liang Ma, Fanxin Long

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Osx-Cre Targets Multiple Cell Types Besides Osteoblast Lineage In Postnatal Mice, Jianquan Chen, Yu Shi, Jenna Regan, Kannan Karuppaiah, David M. Ornitz, Fanxin Long

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Two Methods For Analysis Of Gene-Environment Interactions In Longitudinal Family Data: The Framingham Heart Study, Yun Ju Sung, Jeannette Simino, Rezart Kume, Jacob Basson, Karen Schwander, D. C. Rao

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

T Cell Immunodominance Is Dictated By The Positively Selecting Self-Peptide, Wan-Lin Lo, Benjamin D. Solomon, David L. Donermeyer, Chyi-Song Hsieh, Paul M. Allen

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Intrawound Vancomycin Powder Eradicates Surgical Wound Contamination: An In Vivo Rabbit Study, Lukas P. Zebala, Tapanut Chuntarapas, Michael P. Kelly, Michael Talcott, Suellen Greco, K. Daniel Riew

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Genome-Wide Tissue-Specific Gene Expression, Co-Expression And Regulation Of Co-Expressed Genes In Adult Nematode Ascaris Suum, Bruce A. Rosa, Douglas P. Jasmer, Makedonka Mitreva

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Is Neither Itch-Specific Nor Functions Upstream Of The Grp-Grpr Signaling Pathway, Xian-Yu Liu, Li Wan, Fu-Quan Huo, Devin M. Barry, Hui Li, Zhong-Qiu Zhao, Zhou-Feng Chen

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

The Sglt2 Inhibitor Empagliflozin For The Treatment Of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Bench To Bedside Review, Janet B. Mcgill

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Transglutaminase 2 Expression Is Increased As A Function Of Malignancy Grade And Negatively Regulates Cell Growth In Meningioma, Yin-Cheng Huang, Kuo-Chen Wei, Chen-Nen Chang, Pin-Yuan Chen, Peng-Wei Hsu, Carl P. Chen, Chin-Song Lu, Hung-Li Wang, David H. Gutmann, Tu-Hsueh Yeh

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.