Digital Commons Network^™

Faculty Research Interest Database, David Owerbach

Office of Research Institutional Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Using Plants To Detect Landmines, News Brief

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia (U.S.) are investigating how plants can be used to detect buried explosives, such as landmines, in areas of dense vegetation, where traditional demining methods are difficult.

November Post 10, Lori Lee

Digital Folklore Project 2014

No abstract provided.

College Of Health Sciences Newsletter, November 2014, Irvin B. Harrell (Ed.)

Ellmer College of Health Sciences Newsletters

November 2014 issue of Old Dominion University's College of Health Sciences Newsletter.

November 1, 2014 (Pages 6905-7008), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 44 (2014)

No abstract provided.

Identification Of High Responders For Interleukin-6 And Creatine Kinase Following Acute Eccentric Resistance Exercise In Elderly Obese Women, Vitor Tajra, Ramires Alsamir Tibana, Denis Cesar Leite Vieira, Darlan Lopes De Farias, Tatiane Gomes Teixeira, Silvana Schwerz Funghetto, Alessandro Oliviera Silva, Nuno Manuel Frade De Sousa, Jeffrey Willardson, Margo Gomes Oliviera Karnikowski, Jonato Prestes

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

Resistance exercise is used as a non-pharmacological tool to elicit both gains in and maintenance of physical function in the elderly. Thus, the present study examined the acute response of creatine kinase and interleukin-6 following an eccentric resistance exercise session in elderly obese women classified as high responders or normal responders.

The Equitable Anti-Injunction Act, Erin Morrow Hawley

Notre Dame Law Review

The Anti-Injunction Act of 1867 (AIA or the Act) has never been more important. Originally enacted to expedite the collection of revenue-raising taxes, courts and scholars have for years assumed that the statute imposes a jurisdictional bar on any pre-enforcement challenge to a tax. On this interpretation, taxpayers subject to an invalid tax have two choices only: comply or pay the tax and pursue a refund. Read this way, the Act is a marked departure from the general rule that pre-enforcement challenges are permissible so long as justiciability requirements are met. And it imposes a marked burden on aggrieved taxpayers …

Mirrored Externalities, Lisa Grow Sun, Brigham Daniels

Notre Dame Law Review

A fundamental but underappreciated truth is that positive and negative externalities are actually mirror reflections of each other. What we call “mirrored externalities” exist because any action with externalities associated with it can be described as a choice to do or to refrain from doing that particular action. For example, if a person smokes and thereby creates a negative externality of more secondhand smoke, then her choice not to smoke creates a positive externality of less secondhand smoke. Conversely, if a person’s choice to get an immunization confers a positive externality of reducing vectors for disease transmission, then a choice …

Defining And Assessing Animal Pain, Lynne U. Sneddon, Robert W. Elwood, Shelley A. Adamo, Matthew C. Leach

Experimentation Collection

The detection and assessment of pain in animals is crucial to improving their welfare in a variety of contexts in which humans are ethically or legally bound to do so. Thus clear standards to judge whether pain is likely to occur in any animal species is vital to inform whether to alleviate pain or to drive the refinement of procedures to reduce invasiveness, thereby minimizing pain. We define two key concepts that can be used to evaluate the potential for pain in both invertebrate and vertebrate taxa. First, responses to noxious, potentially painful events should affect neurobiology, physiology and behaviour …

Monkey-Based Research On Human Disease: The Implications Of Genetic Differences, Jarrod Bailey

Laboratory Experiments Collection

Assertions that the use of monkeys to investigate human diseases is valid scientifically are frequently based on a reported 90–93% genetic similarity between the species. Critical analyses of the relevance of monkey studies to human biology, however, indicate that this genetic similarity does not result in sufficient physiological similarity for monkeys to constitute good models for research, and that monkey data do not translate well to progress in clinical practice for humans. Salient examples include the failure of new drugs in clinical trials, the highly different infectivity and pathology of SIV/HIV, and poor extrapolation of research on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s …

A New Route To Adoption, Karen E. Lange

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Across the country, pet stores are switching from selling dogs to adopting out shelter pets. Follow the journey of a group of rescued pups as they travel toward a new home.

Perspective

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

CLOSING THE CAT GAP

A shelter veterinarian highlights new ways of helping community cats.

Rethinking The Roundups, Karen E. Lange, Ruthanne Johnson

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

A new form of wildlife contraception could revolutionize the way the Bureau of Land Management maintains wild horse populations in the West. Meanwhile, an HSUS project helps find homes for displaced burros.

In The Kitchen

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

EAT, BREATHE, LIVE

Chef Chad Sarno shares his recipe for vanilla french toast.

Using Storytelling (Including Image, Metaphor And Narrative) In Cross-Generational, Cross-Cultural Twenty-First Century Evangelism, Rick D. Mckinney

Doctor of Ministry

Generational and cultural diversity within twenty-first century society has created great challenges to both professional clergy and laypersons in communicating the gospel. In addition, a postmodern, post-Christian culture has created a hostile environment for those sharing the message of Christ using the formulaic, propositional evangelism methods of the Twentieth century. Section One of this dissertation will elaborate on the problem. Section Two discusses why these methods, written primarily for a period of time when Judeo-Christian absolutes and regard for the sacred were staples in society, are increasingly ineffective. As the church struggles with a steady decline in its membership, the …

November 2014, Issue 5, James Madison University Uhc Marketing Team

Potty Mouth

No abstract provided.

Biofeedback - November 2014, Biomedical Library Staff

Biofeedback Newsletter

Archived record for the USA Biomedical Library newsletter for November 2014.

Content includes:

• Director's Notes
• USA Biomedical Library Hosts the Southern Chapter / Medical Library Association
• AccessMedicine App
• Mendeley
• Copyright, an Introduction
• Healthcare Information for Seniors Project Update, Phase 2
• USA Biomedical Librarian Earns MLA's Consumer Health Information Specialization, Level II
• Faculty Publications

Utilizing Indicator Of Reduction In Soils Tubes To Affirm A Serpentinitic Hydric Soil On The California Central Coast, Jason Demoss

Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences

Wetlands are vital ecosystems that are crucial in maintaining the life of rare and unique soils, plants, and animals. These ecosystems are key players in water storage, water filtration, carbon storage, and harboring unique species. Since the intervention of human development on the Earth’s surface, almost 50% of the Earth’s original wetlands have either been damaged or destroyed. The identification and assessment of both new and old wetlands is crucial in the survival of these precious ecosystems and their conservation. A 3 month-long study was performed to confirm the hydric status of a soil derived from serpentinitic parent material. The …

Uni Grad Student News, V11n8, November 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

UNI Grad Student News

Inside this issue:

-- Message from the Dean
-- Demystifying the GRE Recap
-- Current Student Profile: Aunna McDowell
-- Graduate Faculty Profile: Chris Larimer
-- Graduate Alumni Profile: Lata D'Mello
-- Graduate Alumni Profile: Matthew Cooney
-- Upcoming Brown Bag Lecture
-- Eighth Annual UNI Graduate Student Symposium Registration Now Open!
-- UNI Graduate College Facebook Photo Contest
-- Commencement Ceremony: Fall 2014
-- Master of Public Policy Club Raises More Than $3,000 for the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence
-- School Counseling Student Attends Star Training
-- Making the Most of Thanksgiving Break
-- Gradfest 2014
-- UNI …

An Examination Of The Tax Incentive For Child Support, Gary M. Fleischman, Paul Hutchison, Zafar Dad Khan

The Contemporary Tax Journal

No abstract provided.

Understanding And Taming Public And Private Corruption In The 21st Century (November 2014)

Conferences and Workshops

ATTENTION: Venue has been changed to Moot Court, Room 1005.

Conference Registration

Getting Out Of The Water: How Hard Can That Be?, Kevin Moran

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Parental Factors That Influence Swimming In Children And Adolescents, Jennifer R. Pharr, Carol Irwin, Richard Irwin

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Managed Care And Accountable Care Organizations, David P. Paul, Diego Arroyo, Bethany Daniel, Heather Graves, Krisitn Neal, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

Managed care generally, and more specifically, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have attempted to provide coordination of patient care in order to eliminate or reduce unnecessary procedures and or test redundancy. The purpose of this research was to study the effects of managed care in accountable care organizations by decreasing health care costs by increasing efficiency in health care.

Novel Biomarkers Can Be Used As Targets To Combat Cancer, Harini Krishnan

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Theses and Dissertations

Cancer kills almost 8 million people per year worldwide. Therefore, about 13 people die from cancer every minute. Clearly, current cancer treatments are not completely effective. Moreover, many chemotherapeutic reagents are not very specific for cancer cells.

These agents attack rapidly dividing cells, including a wide array of normal cells, in addition to cancer cells, in the body. This lack of specificity can cause collateral damage and significant side effects in patients. More targeted therapies are needed to successfully combat cancer. Specific cancer biomarkers need to identified and characterized in order to develop better targeted anti-cancer drugs.

Tumor cells can …

The Relationship Of Postsecondary Outcomes For Students With Disabilities In Kentucky Schools, Stephanie Dawn Cornwell

Dissertations

In order to compare the postsecondary success rates of students with disabilities in rural areas to those in urban areas in Kentucky, data were accessed from the Kentucky Postsecondary Outcome Study, a longitudinal study created to monitor the employment and education status of students with disabilities during their final year of high school and one year after exiting high school. U.S. Census data were also utilized to determine various demographic information and rural or urban classification of selected areas. Results show that the geographic classification as rural and suburban has a strong relationship with the postsecondary outcome for students with …

Shark Bay Prawn Managed Fishery : Bycatch Action Plan : 2014 – 2019 : Version 1.0, Department Of Fisheries

Fisheries Management Papers

No abstract provided.

Fisheries Management Paper No.266 - Exmouth Gulf Prawn Managed Fishery Bycatch Action Plan 2014-2019. Version 1.0, Department Of Fisheries, Western Australia

Fisheries Management Papers

Bycatch is described as the part of the catch which is returned to the sea (usually referred to as non-retained or discarded) either because it has no commercial value or because legislative requirements preclude it being retained. Thus, this Bycatch Action Plan (BAP) includes unmarketable finfish and invertebrate species, along with endangered, threatened and protected (ETP) species, such as marine mammals, reptiles and some elasmobranchs.

It is Government policy to minimise bycatch in all commercial fisheries. This BAP details a program of actions to address bycatch issues in the Exmouth Gulf Prawn Managed Fishery (EGPMF), in accordance with the EGPMF …

11/01/2014 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 11/01/2014. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Nazava Water Filters: Action Research Report, Lisa Mcmonagle, Ilhan Ahmed

Miller Center Fellowship

The action research project had multiple goals. The first was to survey customers and potential customers on multiple islands in order to determine demographics and customer preferences. Second, by observing resellers in the field we determined different strategies for sales and promotion methods. From these two efforts, we were able to compile a Reseller Training Manual to be distributed to Nazava resellers across the Indonesian archipelago. Additionally, we were able to compile a gallery of photographs and videos for Nazava to use in their promotional efforts.