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Preventive Effects Of Dendrobium Candidum Wall Ex Lindl. On The Formation Of Lung Metastases In Balb/C Mice Injected With 26-M3.1 Colon Carcinoma Cells, Guijie Li, Peng Sun, Yalin Zhou, Xin Zhao, Feng Chen

Publications

Dendrobium candidum Wall ex Lindl. (D. candidum) is a traditional Chinese medicine widely used in Asia. The present study has showed that D. candidum exerted an anti-metastatic effect in mice injected with 26-M3.1 colon carcinoma cells. D. candidum showed the most marked tumor inhibitory rate of 64.5% at a dose of 400 mg/kg body weight (b.w). The mRNA and protein expression of Bax in lung tissue of D. candidum-treated mice was shown to be higher as compared with control mice, whereas the mRNA and protein expression of Bcl-2 showed the opposite trend. Decreased mRNA and protein expression …

Shared Understandings: Environmental Perspectives Of Kenyan Community Members And Teachers, Cassie Quigley, James Dogbey, S Megan Che, Jeffrey Hallo

Publications

Environmental issues are a shared human concern as communities in all nations and geographic regions are grappling with environmental degradation. Despite this concern, there are multiple different viewpoints on the current state of environmental issues and how to understand these problems. Understanding how different communities conceive of the environment and sustainability is paramount in efforts to increase the frequency of environmentally conscious choices. If an awareness of others’ perspectives of the environment is lacking, then the development of sustainable choices is placed at risk because of potentially competing views of what sustainability means in a particular context. As such, solutions …

October Post 9, Breanne Martin

Digital Folklore Project 2014

No abstract provided.

Editorial Overview: Environmental Physiology: Insect Environmental Physiology, Brent J. Sinclair

Biology Publications

No abstract provided.

Ct Perfusion Imaging As An Early Biomarker Of Differential Response To Stereotactic Radiosurgery In C6 Rat Gliomas, Timothy Pok Chi Yeung, Maher Kurdi, Yong Wang, Baraa Al-Khazraji, Laura Morrison, Lisa Hoffman, Dwayne Jackson, Cathie Crukley, Ting-Yim Lee, Glenn Bauman, Slav Yartsev

Medical Biophysics Publications

BACKGROUND: The therapeutic efficacy of stereotactic radiosurgery for glioblastoma is not well understood, and there needs to be an effective biomarker to identify patients who might benefit from this treatment. This study investigated the efficacy of computed tomography (CT) perfusion imaging as an early imaging biomarker of response to stereotactic radiosurgery in a malignant rat glioma model.

METHODS: Rats with orthotopic C6 glioma tumors received either mock irradiation (controls, N = 8) or stereotactic radiosurgery (N = 25, 12 Gy in one fraction) delivered by Helical Tomotherapy. Twelve irradiated animals were sacrificed four days after stereotactic radiosurgery to assess acute …

Developmental Stress, Condition, And Birdsong: A Case Study In Song Sparrows., Kim L Schmidt, Elizabeth A Macdougall-Shackleton, Shawn P Kubli, Scott A Macdougall-Shackleton

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Sexual-selection theory posits that ornaments and displays can reflect a signaler's condition, which in turn is affected both by recent and developmental conditions. Moreover, developmental conditions can induce correlations between sexually selected and other traits if both types of traits exhibit developmental phenotypic plasticity in response to stressors. Thus, sexually selected traits may reflect recent and/or developmental characteristics of signalers. Here, we review data on the relationships between birdsong, a sexually selected trait, and developmental and current condition of birds from a long-term study of a population of song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Field studies of free-living birds indicate that the …

Children's Choices Through The Years: Some Surprising Results, Stan Steiner, Maggie Chase, Eun Hye Son

Literacy, Language and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

It’s difficult to ignore all the recent teacher talk about the importance of helping our students become adept users of nonfiction texts. With this rising interest and attention being focused on nonfiction books, spurred by the adoption of Common Core Standards, we decided to look at the Children’s Choices finalists over the last ten years to determine if there was a connection to what children liked to read. We were especially curious about how many of the award winning books selected by children were actually nonfiction. Given our findings, we also decided to investigate further by analyzing all the publishers’ …

Stony Brook Press, V. 36, N. 02, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 36, n. 02, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Stony Brook Press, V. 36, N. 02, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 36, n. 02, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Issue No. 101: October 2014, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Carleen (Crisp) Lazzell, PhD, April 7, 1940-January 15, 2015
1 The Kiowa Tribe and Inter-Tribal Relations in the Southwest, 1780-1880
2 Dr. Robert Rankin White (1942-2014)
4 Nationally Known New Meixco Artists' Homes and Studios Designated Historic
4 Olive Rush, Artist in New Mexico
5 Account of the Tolar Munitions Explosion
6 New Books for Your New Mexico History Bookshelves
6 2015 New Mexico History Conference

Sensitivity And Tolerance Of Riparian Arthropod Communities To Altered Water Resources Along A Drying River, Kevin E. Mccluney, John L. Sabo

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Rivers around the world are drying with increasing frequency, but little is known about effects on terrestrial animal communities. Previous research along the San Pedro River in southeastern AZ, USA, suggests that changes in the availability of water resources associated with river drying lead to changes in predator abundance, community composition, diversity, and abundance of particular taxa of arthropods, but these observations have not yet been tested manipulatively.

Billy "The Hill" And The Jump Hook, Billy Mcgill, Eric Brach

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Growing up on the hardscrabble streets of LA in the late 1950s, Billy McGill stood out. At eleven he was dunking. At fifteen he was playing in pickup games against Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain—and holding his own, in part because he invented the jump hook shot, which no one could defend. How he went from college phenom, well on his way to becoming the greatest player Los Angeles ever produced, to sleeping in abandoned houses and washing up in a Laundromat sink is the story Billy “the Hill” McGill recounts here.

The first African American to play basketball for …

Voltaire's Victims And Us, Andrew J. Mckenna

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Increased Expression Of Angiotensin Ii Type 2 Receptors In The Solitary-Vagal Complex Blunts Renovascular Hypertension, Graziela Torres Blanch, André Henrique Freiria-Oliveira, Guilherme Fleury Speretta, Eduardo J. Carrera, Hongwei Li, Robert C. Speth, Eduardo Colombari, Colin Sumners, Débora S. Colombari

HPD Articles

Angiotensin II increases and decreases arterial pressure by acting at angiotensin type 1 and type 2 receptors, respectively. Renovascular hypertensive rats exhibit a high level of activity of the peripheral and central renin-angiotensin system. Therefore, in the present study, we evaluated the effect of increasing the expression of angiotensin type 2 receptors in the solitary-vagal complex (nucleus of the solitary tract/dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus), a key brain stem region for cardiovascular regulation, on the development of renovascular hypertension. Holtzman normotensive rats were implanted with a silver clip around the left renal artery to induce 2-kidney 1-clip renovascular hypertension. …

Pod Network News Fall 2014

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

President's Message

Notes from the POD Office

Call for Core Self- Nominations

Conference News

Committee Updates

Member News

Journal Updates

Books by POD Members

Chapman Expands Summer Institute

POD Essays on Teaching Excellence

Contact the Editor

Adipogenic And Myogenic Stem Cells In Brown Fat: A Study Of Progenitors And Regenerative Capacity, Xin Yang

Open Access Theses

Brown adipose tissue (BAT) utilizes stored lipids to generate heat, therefore reducing body fat content and favoring a leaner body composition. Recent identification of metabolically active BAT in adult humans has sparked broad interests in understanding the developmental origin and postnatal homeostasis of BAT. However, the stem cell population that gives rise to BAT during development and maintains BAT mass at postnatal stage has not been characterized. In addition, whether adult BAT has the capacity to regenerate after injury or to proliferate in response to cold is flargely unknown. Furthermore, although BAT and skeletal muscle are known to share a …

Differences In Cultural Perception In Websites, Andrew Allen

Open Access Theses

The goal of this research was to determine what elements of websites are tied to the value of individualism and collectivism when viewed by two different national cultures. The research determined whether two participant groups (United States or Chinese) looked at the same or different website elements when experiencing the website. The Website Experience Analysis protocol was used to create a questionnaire that the students filled out as they experienced the website, allowing the researcher to determine what elements of the website they were experiencing when focusing on a particular cultural or organization-public relation value. This research found that culture …

Effects Of Biomass Harvest On Eastern Red-Backed Salamanders, Patrick J. Ruhl

Open Access Theses

In a typical forest harvest, the volume of coarse woody debris (CWD) increases from nonmerchantable material (i.e., tree-tops, limbs, and small-diameter trees) left on the forest floor. Biomass harvesting removes much of this material for bioenergy production. When removed, ecosystem services associated with CWD, such as seedbed substrate, nutrient cycling, and essential wildlife habitat, is reduced. Woodland salamanders have strict microhabitat and soil moisture requirements that make them especially sensitive to timber harvest practices, particularly those that remove CWD, a primary habitat for the group.

I monitored the abundance of Eastern red-backed salamanders ( Plethodon cinereus ) in response to …

Optimization Of Switch Virtual Keyboard By Using Computational Modelling, Xiao Zhang

Open Access Theses

In this thesis, I first reviewed some keyboard technologies used by people with motor difficulties, and described design elements that influence efficiency. I cast the design of a switch keyboard as an optimization problem, and arrangement of keys on such a keyboard as a Mixed Integer Programming problem. One significant variable in the MIP problem, the error rate, is related to several other variables. I treated modeling of the error rate as a parameter estimation problem, and used a data mining method. I designed HCI experiments to gather data for parameter estimation, using Bayesian logistic regression model. The empirical data …

The Clemson Polyglot, Issue Nine - Fall 2014, Department Of Languages, Clemson Univeristy

Department of Languages Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Risk Assessment For Healthcare Workers After A Sentinel Case Of Rabies And Review Of The Literature, Virginia L. Kan, Patrick Joyce, Debra A. Benator, Kathleen Agnes, Janet Gill, Monica Irmler, Arlene Clark, George Giannakos, Audrey Gabourel, Fred M. Gordin

Medicine Faculty Publications

Background. After a case of rabies, healthcare workers (HCWs) had fear of contagion from the infected patient. Although transmission of rabies to HCWs has never been documented, high-risk exposures theoretically include direct contact of broken skin and/or mucosa with saliva, tears, oropharyngeal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, and neural tissue. Urine/kidney exposure posed a concern, as our patient's renal transplant was identified as the infection source.

Methods. Our risk assessment included (1) identification of exposed HCWs; (2) notification of HCWs; (3) risk assessment using a tool from the local health department; (4) supplemental screening for urine/kidney exposure; and (5) postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) …

Consuming Identities: Law, School Lunches, And What It Means To Be American, Melissa Mortazavi

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Medicine + Health, Fall 2014, George Washington University, School Of Medicine And Health Sciences, Office Of Communications And Marketing

Medicine + Health Magazine

No abstract provided.

Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay F. Wiley

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

International Panther, Fall 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Culture And Intensive English Program.

International Panther

Inside this issue:

-- From the Director

-- CIEP & CBA: Working together to build student programs
-- Professional english Program: A CIEP and UNIBusiness Global Initiatives Program

-- CIEP Special Programs
-- CIEP Alumni: Meng-Ju Lu

-- Short-term Programs Make a Long-Term Impact
-- CIEP World’s Window: China
-- Global Connections Scholar: Isabel Alvarado Yactayo
-- CIEP Staff Spotlight: Mike Williams

-- Meet the CIEP Staff
-- CIEP Activities
-- Welcome New Students!

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: October 2014, John Rottman, Kristy Manion, Bruce Buursma, Scott Hoezee

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

Idols of Our Time

Articles
3 - leasure: The Greatest Idol of Our Time by John W. Cooper
7 - Idols of Our Time: What Does the Church Have to Say? by Jul Medenblik

Called to Serve
10 - Be Holy by John Rottman
12 - Making Her Way: Dr. Catherine González by Kristy Manion
13 - From the Ends of the Earth: Dr. Justo González on Missions by Bruce Buursma
14 - Center for Excellence in Preaching Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary by Scott Hoezee
15 - New Faces at CTS

Botulinum Toxin-Induced Facial Muscle Paralysis Affects Amygdala Responses To The Perception Of Emotional Expressions: Preliminary Findings From An A-B-A Design, M. Justin Kim, Maital Neta, F. Caroline Davis, Erika J. Ruberry, Diana Dinescu, Tood F. Heatherton, Mitchell A. Scotland, Paul J. Whalen

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Background: It has long been suggested that feedback signals from facial muscles influence emotional experience. The recent surge in use of botulinum toxin (BTX) to induce temporary muscle paralysis offers a unique opportunity to directly test this “facial feedback hypothesis.” Previous research shows that the lack of facial muscle feedback due to BTX-induced paralysis influences subjective reports of emotional experience, as well as brain activity associated with the imitation of emotional facial expressions. However, it remains to be seen whether facial muscle paralysis affects brain activity, especially the amygdala, which is known to be responsive to the perception of …

Unm Camp Newsletter - Fall 2014, Unm Camp

College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP)

No abstract provided.

Wish You Were Here, Hiroshige (2014), Theory & History Of Art & Design Department, Elena Varshavskaya (H791 Instructor)

Ukiyo-e Prints Course | Exhibition Catalogs

"As if responding to the call of the exhibition title ...(someone in the class sensed the artist’s personal invitation), a group of RISD students undertook a virtual journey through space and time to Edo period Japan. For a duration of a semester the entire class plunged directly into the midst of the Tokaido world, mixing with all kinds of travelers and local residents, learning their customs and manners, trying out various travel modes and road-side services, exploring every bend of the road, in winter and summer, at dawn and dusk, in sunshine and violent storm. ...

“Wish you were here,” …

Field, Issue 91, Fall 2014, Multiple Contributors

FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

No abstract provided.