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List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 09/30/2014. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Reading Horizons Vol. 53 No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract provided.

Grades Five And Six Students’ Representation Of Meaning In Collaborative Wiki Writing, Shelley Stagg Peterson, Christine Portier

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This paper examined grades 5 and 6 students’ participation in wikis while writing reports on social studies topics. An analysis of eight wikis showed that students represented meanings they had constructed about their topics by engaging in knowledge telling practices (e.g., introducing, stating, or repeating information or an idea and developing previous ideas with examples, statistics or other information) more frequently than they engaged in knowledge transforming processes, such as drawing conclusions, identifying cause-effect relationships, or making inferences or judgements. Our research shows that Bereiter and Scardamalia’s model (1987) is useful to inform the development of tools for assessing students’ …

Capitalizing On Social And Transactional Learning To Challenge First-Grade Readers, Amanda Meyer, Roland K. Schendel

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A classroom teacher capitalizes on social learning and reader response theories to challenge her accelerated first-grade readers by implementing literature circles. The aim of this action research was to identify a clear view of how to use literature circles with first-graders and what might be accomplished. Three constructs emerged from the interviews and observations that support the potential for using literature circles with primary students including: engagement and independence, reading benefits, and writing improvement. With respect to social learning and reader response theories, literature circles were found to be possible, practical, and beneficial for supporting the literacy perceptions and practices …

The Tiger Vol. 108 Issue 26 2014-09-30, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Stepping Into Science Fiction: Understanding The Genre, Diane Barone, Rebecca Barone

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This manuscript focuses on fifth graders’ understanding of science fiction. It is argued that it is necessary for students to understand both reading strategies and the key elements of a genre for comprehension. Students read The Giver within literature circles and conversation and written responses about the book were used for analysis. It was found that students often focused on the same aspects of text and noticed several elements of science fiction.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 104 [105], No. 07 (Sep. 30, 2014), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 104, but it is the 105th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Mono Quaternary Ammonium Salts And Methods For Modulating Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Peter A. Crooks, Linda P. Dwoskin, Guangrong Zheng, Sangeetha Sumithran, Zhenfa Zheng

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

Provided are monoquaternary ammonium compounds which are modulators of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Also provided are methods of using the compounds for modulating the function of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, and for the prevention and/or treatment of central nervous system disorders, substance use and/or abuse, and or gastrointestinal tract disorders.

Reflections Of Self: Images Of People With Specific Learning Disabilities And Attention Deficit / Hyperactive Disorder In Children's Literature, Elizabeth R. Hayes

Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, I explored the portrayals of people with a specific learning disability or with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children's literature. Eighteen books were analyzed to determine what themes and messages were being conveyed to children.

The major themes were about friendship, and overcoming issues associated with a SLD or AD/HD. In addtion, the portrayals suggest that children with SLD and AD/HD have similar problems like their peers with these conditions. However, there were portrayals of stereotypical roles and usage of negative language.

Today - September 30, 2014, Loma Linda University Health

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- Kerry Heinrich appointed LLU Medical Center CEO Administrative team to include Terry Hansen and Kevin Lang
-- Loma Linda University ranks No. 1 in national survey on job meaning for graduates
-- Hyundai donates $250,000 toward pediatric cancer research at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital
-- Schweitzer fellows research health disparities projects
-- Behavioral Medical Center granted Platinum status
-- Active shooter scenario brings the headlines home
-- Pedestrian bridge over Campus Street nears completion
-- Volunteers needed for 'A Walk to Remember'
-- Saying farewell to William Loveless
-- New GIS tool demonstrated during third …

Effect Of Obesity And Exercise On The Expression Of The Novel Myokines, Myonectin And Fibronectin Type Iii Domain Containing 5, Jonathan M. Peterson, Ryan Mart, Cherie E. Bond

ETSU Faculty Works

Metabolic dysfunction in skeletal muscle is a major contributor to the development of type 2 diabetes. Endurance exercise training has long been established as an effective means to directly restore skeletal muscle glucose and lipid uptake and metabolism. However, in addition to the direct effects of skeletal muscle on glucose and lipids, there is renewed interest in the ability of skeletal muscle to coordinate metabolic activity of other tissues, such as adipose tissue and liver. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of endurance exercise on the expression level of two novel muscle-derived secreted factors, or myokines, …

Winter Roosting Habits Of Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia Sialis) In Northeastern Arkansas, Jessica Anne Fowler Neal

Student Theses and Dissertations

The wintering behavior of Eastern Bluebirds has not been well studied despite historic population declines associated with severe winters. I monitored 69 nest boxes during the winters of 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 to determine the criteria used for nest box roosting and the roost group composition. I found that nest box use and roost group size increased significantly with lower windchill at sunset. Eastern Bluebirds exhibited a clear preference for boxes with nest material present, but no preference between natural and artificially constructed nests. They were found roosting almost exclusively in family groups, with parent-offspring/direct family relationships being the most common. …

September 30, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

No abstract provided.

Um Researchers Study Novel Drug-Delivery System, Erin Garrett

University of Mississippi News

Focus on compounds developed by leading pharmaceutical company

A Study Of The Effect Of Mother Tincture Of Syzygium Jambolanum On Metabolic Disorders Of Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Male Albino Rat, Soumyajit Maiti, Tushar Bera, Kausik Chatterjee, Debidas Ghosh

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Background: Syzygium jambolanum is widely used in Homoeopathy for treating Diabetes mellitus and its complications. Objective: To explore the remedial effects of homoeopathic mother tincture Syzygium jambolanum on metabolic disorders of Streptozotocin induced diabetic male albino rat. Materials and Methods: Serum levels of insulin, urea, uric acid, creatinine, albumin and total protein were measured as per the standard methods using specific kits. Amount of glycogen in liver and skeletal muscles, activities of antioxidant enzymes as well as content of free radical bye products in liver and kidney tissues were assessed biochemically following the standard protocol. Results: The study indicated that …

Natural Selection On Thermal Performance In A Novel Thermal Environment, Michael L. Logan, Robert M. Cox, Ryan Calsbeek

Dartmouth Scholarship

Tropical ectotherms are thought to be especially vulnerable to climate change because they are adapted to relatively stable temperature regimes, such that even small increases in environmental temperature may lead to large decreases in physiological performance. One way in which tropical organisms may mitigate the detrimental effects of warming is through evolutionary change in thermal physiology. The speed and magnitude of this response depend, in part, on the strength of climate-driven selection. However, many ectotherms use behavioral adjustments to maintain preferred body temperatures in the face of environmental variation. These behaviors may shelter individuals from natural selection, preventing evolutionary adaptation …

Mikael Co. What Passes For Answers. Quezon City: Ateneo De Manila University Press, 2013. 73 Pages., Daniel Hao Chua Olivan Jr.

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

Excerpt: A characteristic of the lyric poem is that it turns the personal and the subjective into something potentially universal or at least objective. This sense of the lyric is clearly the project of Mikael Co’s What Passes for Answers, his first collection of poetry. The lyric’s potential to be objective, however, is not actualized here, so that the “answers” are wanting.

Nick Joaquin And Groovy Kids: A Critique Of His Stories For Children, Anna Katrina Gutierrez

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

Nick Joaquin has been lauded as a journalist, historian, and novelist, but to a generation of Filipino readers he is, to recast his own words, a portrait of the children’s storyteller and mythmaker as Filipino. In Pop Stories for Groovy Kids (1979), Joaquin’s fairy tales connect Filipino children to global archetypes while rooting them in Philippine tradition and history. His retellings and adaptations simultaneously foreground and interrogate the role of myth in the construction of the nation and the Filipino child. Like Severino Reyes (“Lola Basyang”) before him, his adaptations subversively resist the political hegemony of the time. This presentation …

Nicanor G. Tiongson. Alpabetong Filipino. Illustrated By Crispin Dayao Jr. Makati: Ilaw Ng Tahanan Publishing, Inc., 2013. 34 Pages., Glenda Callanta Oris

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

Excerpt: Alpabetong Filipino, the newest alphabet book published in the Philippines, could very well be listed as one of the top early learning materials that Filipino school and home libraries should have. It presents the modern Filipino Alphabet of twenty-eight letters (twenty from the Tagalog alphabet and eight from Spanish) as mandated by the Philippine government in 1987. One might say that it is a typical alphabet book, but because the book also provides informative and easy-to-read descriptions, in both English and Filipino, of the objects used to represent the letters, it is instructive not only to young learners but …

Volume 112, Number 4 - Tuesday, September 30, 2014, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

No abstract provided.

Schooling Increases Risk Exposure For Fish Navigating Past Artificial Barriers, Bertrand H. Lemasson, James W. Haefner, Mark D. Bowen

Biology Faculty Publications

Artificial barriers have become ubiquitous features in freshwater ecosystems and they can significantly impact a region's biodiversity. Assessing the risk faced by fish forced to navigate their way around artificial barriers is largely based on assays of individual swimming behavior. However, social interactions can significantly influence fish movement patterns and alter their risk exposure. Using an experimental flume, we assessed the effects of social interactions on the amount of time required for juvenile palmetto bass (Morone chrysops × M. saxatilis) to navigate downstream past an artificial barrier. Fish were released either individually or in groups into the flume …

The Parthenon, September 30, 2014, Codi Mohr

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Faculty Recital Series, Linden Duo: Kimberly Mccoul Risinger, Flute; Angela L. Favis, Guitar; September 30, 2014, Kimberly Mccoul Risinger, Angelo L. Favis

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 30, 2014
Tuesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

September 30, 2014, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Persistent At-Level Thermal Hyperalgesia And Tactile Allodynia Accompany Chronic Neuronal And Astrocyte Activation In Superficial Dorsal Horn Following Mouse Cervical Contusion Spinal Cord Injury., Jaime L Watson, Tamara J Hala, Rajarshi Putatunda, Daniel Sannie, Angelo C Lepore

Department of Neuroscience Faculty Papers

In humans, sensory abnormalities, including neuropathic pain, often result from traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). SCI can induce cellular changes in the CNS, termed central sensitization, that alter excitability of spinal cord neurons, including those in the dorsal horn involved in pain transmission. Persistently elevated levels of neuronal activity, glial activation, and glutamatergic transmission are thought to contribute to the hyperexcitability of these dorsal horn neurons, which can lead to maladaptive circuitry, aberrant pain processing and, ultimately, chronic neuropathic pain. Here we present a mouse model of SCI-induced neuropathic pain that exhibits a persistent pain phenotype accompanied by chronic neuronal …

From Medicine To Butterflies And Back Again, C Parmesan

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

My research focuses on the current impacts of climate change on wildlife, from field-based work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. I work actively with governmental agencies and NGOs to help develop conservation assessment and planning tools aimed at preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change.

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Montana Kaimin, September 30, 2014, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

High Local Diversity Of Trypanosoma In A Common Bat Species, And Implications For The Biogeography And Taxonomy Of The T. Cruzi Clade, Veronika M. Cottontail, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, Iain Cottontail, Nele Wellinghausen, Marco Tschapka, Susan L. Perkins, C. Miguel Pinto

Publications and Research

The Trypanosoma cruzi clade is a group of parasites that comprises T. cruzi sensu lato and its closest relatives. Although several species have been confirmed phylogenetically to belong to this clade, it is uncertain how many more species can be expected to belong into this group. Here, we present the results of a survey of trypanosome parasites of the bat Artibeus jamaicensis from the Panama´ Canal Zone, an important seed disperser. Using a genealogical species delimitation approach, the Poisson tree processes (PTP), we tentatively identified five species of trypanosomes – all belonging to the T. cruzi clade. A small monophyletic …

The Association Of Meningococcal Disease With Influenza In The United States, 1989-2009, Jessica Hartman Jacobs, Cecile Viboud, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Joel Schwartz, Claudia Steiner, Lone Simonsen, Marc Lipsitch

Global Health Faculty Publications

Importance and Objective

Prior influenza infection is a risk factor for invasive meningococcal disease. Quantifying the fraction of meningococcal disease attributable to influenza could improve understanding of viral-bacterial interaction and indicate additional health benefits to influenza immunization.

Design, Setting and Participants

A time series analysis of the association of influenza and meningococcal disease using hospitalizations in 9 states from 1989–2009 included in the State Inpatient Databases from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the proportion of positive influenza tests by subtype reported to the Centers for Disease Control. The model accounts for the autocorrelation of meningococcal disease and …