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Alexander V. Stibal Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 41604 Dec 2014

Alexander V. Stibal Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 41604

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


State V. Tomlinson Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 41913 Dec 2014

State V. Tomlinson Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 41913

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.


Post Protein Hydrolysis Removal Of A Potent Ribonuclease Inhibitor And The Enzymatic Capture Of Dna, Matt Ewert Dec 2014

Post Protein Hydrolysis Removal Of A Potent Ribonuclease Inhibitor And The Enzymatic Capture Of Dna, Matt Ewert

USF Patents

The present invention concerns compositions and methods of extracting infectious pathogens from a volume of blood. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of creating a fibrin aggregate confining the pathogens and introducing a fibrin lysis reagent to expose the pathogens for analysis. The present invention also concerns materials and methods for removing aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) from a sample.


Dna Biochip And Methods Of Use, Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Shree R. Singh, Souheil Zekri Dec 2014

Dna Biochip And Methods Of Use, Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Shree R. Singh, Souheil Zekri

USF Patents

The subject invention concerns materials and methods for detecting nucleic acid sequences. One aspect of the invention concerns a silicon-based “biochip” comprising nucleic acid immobilized thereon. In one embodiment, the silicon comprises microcavities. The nucleic acid to be assayed for the presence of one or more target nucleic acid sequences is immobilized on the silicon. A nucleic acid, such as an oligonucleotide probe, having a sequence substantially complementary to the target nucleic acid sequence can be used to detect the immobilized nucleic acid on the silicon. If the nucleic acid used for detection hybridizes with a target nucleic acid sequence, …


Inhibition Of Angiogenesis Associated With Ovarian Cancer By Nanoparticles Of Cerium Oxide (Cip), Sudipta Seal, Shailendra Giri, Ajay Karakoti, Viji Shridhar Dec 2014

Inhibition Of Angiogenesis Associated With Ovarian Cancer By Nanoparticles Of Cerium Oxide (Cip), Sudipta Seal, Shailendra Giri, Ajay Karakoti, Viji Shridhar

UCF Patents

The invention provides a method of treating ovarian cancer in a mammal, the method inhibits angiogenesis associated with the cancer and comprises the parenteral administration to the mammal of an effective amount of cerium oxide nanoparticles having a predominance of Ce+3.


Automated Remote Collaborative Learning Software, Philip Peters, Alexander Katsaros, Henry Lenz Dec 2014

Automated Remote Collaborative Learning Software, Philip Peters, Alexander Katsaros, Henry Lenz

UCF Patents

A method and system of automated remote collaborative learning broadcasting. A computer-based server receives a plurality of video feeds for a remote interaction. Unique user is identified based upon bandwidth connection as either active or passive. Local audience viewers receive the plurality of video feeds and may select a video feed among the plurality of video feeds. Local audience viewers may seamlessly switch between the plurality of video feeds based upon individual preference. Server tracks local audience viewer's video feed selection. Remote audience viewers receive single video feed determined by local audience viewer selection. Minimum video switching time must be …


Ole Miss Food Bank Open Over Holidays, Mary Stanton Knight Dec 2014

Ole Miss Food Bank Open Over Holidays, Mary Stanton Knight

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.


Notes From The Tuesday December 23, 2014 Release Of State Population Estimates As Of July 1, 2014 By The U.S. Census Bureau, David J. Drozd Dec 2014

Notes From The Tuesday December 23, 2014 Release Of State Population Estimates As Of July 1, 2014 By The U.S. Census Bureau, David J. Drozd

Past Publications

The Census Bureau estimates the population of Nebraska as of July 1, 2014 to be 1,881,503. This is an increase of 12,534 from the July 1, 2013 estimate, or an increase of 0.67 percent. Nebraska’s most current annual growth is slightly (about 1,000) less than the gain of 13,482 or 0.73 percent in the prior year. Nebraska has now gained population for 27 straight years, with the last annual population loss occurring in 1987, amid the “farm crisis”.


Purchase Negotiations Over See-Network With Advent International And Ebrd Finalized, Heta Asset Resolution Dec 2014

Purchase Negotiations Over See-Network With Advent International And Ebrd Finalized, Heta Asset Resolution

Documents

No abstract provided.


Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Resolutions Handbook - December 23, 2014, United States: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Fdic) Dec 2014

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Resolutions Handbook - December 23, 2014, United States: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Fdic)

Documents

No abstract provided.


Survey Of Certified Asthma Educator (Ae-C) Pharmacists – Who Are They And How Is This Credential Being Used?, Timothy R. Hudd, Susan G. Bollmeier, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez Dec 2014

Survey Of Certified Asthma Educator (Ae-C) Pharmacists – Who Are They And How Is This Credential Being Used?, Timothy R. Hudd, Susan G. Bollmeier, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Objective: A survey was developed and distributed to pharmacists who have earned the certified asthma educator credential (AE-C) to assess asthma education services provided and their perceived value of the AE-C.

Design: A 28 item survey was developed, pretested and distributed electronically.

Participants: 224 AE-C certified pharmacists practicing within the United States were invited to participate.

Main Outcome Measures: Information pertaining to the level of education, professional affiliations, and practice setting was collected along with other demographic attributes.We also inquired about the types of asthma education services provided, related clinical activities, and whether AE-C pharmacists or …


On Dual Toric Complete Intersection Codes, Pinar Celebi Demiraslan, Ivan Soprunov Dec 2014

On Dual Toric Complete Intersection Codes, Pinar Celebi Demiraslan, Ivan Soprunov

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

In this paper we study duality for evaluation codes on intersections of ℓ hypersurfaces with given ℓ-dimensional Newton polytopes, so called toric complete intersection codes. In particular, we give a condition for such a code to be quasi-self-dual. In the case of it reduces to a combinatorial condition on the Newton polygons. This allows us to give an explicit construction of dual and quasi-self-dual toric complete intersection codes. We provide a list of examples over and an algorithm for producing them.


Interfacial Polymerization For Colorimetric Labeling Of Protein Expression In Cells, Jacob L. Lilly, Phillip R. Sheldon, Liv J. Hoversten, Gabriela Romero, Vivek Balasubramaniam, Brad J. Berron Dec 2014

Interfacial Polymerization For Colorimetric Labeling Of Protein Expression In Cells, Jacob L. Lilly, Phillip R. Sheldon, Liv J. Hoversten, Gabriela Romero, Vivek Balasubramaniam, Brad J. Berron

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Determining the location of rare proteins in cells typically requires the use of on-sample amplification. Antibody based recognition and enzymatic amplification is used to produce large amounts of visible label at the site of protein expression, but these techniques suffer from the presence of nonspecific reactivity in the biological sample and from poor spatial control over the label. Polymerization based amplification is a recently developed alternative means of creating an on-sample amplification for fluorescence applications, while not suffering from endogenous labels or loss of signal localization. This manuscript builds upon polymerization based amplification by developing a stable, archivable, and colorimetric …


Newsroom: Rwu Law: Holding The Line On Cost, Roger Williams University School Of Law Dec 2014

Newsroom: Rwu Law: Holding The Line On Cost, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.


Trending@Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: Ending 2014 With An Exclamation Point; Looking Forward To January..., Michael Yelnosky Dec 2014

Trending@Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: Ending 2014 With An Exclamation Point; Looking Forward To January..., Michael Yelnosky

Law School Blogs

No abstract provided.


A Comparative Study Of The Impact Of Extended Year Education Versus Traditional Year School Calendars In Reading And Mathematics In A Cohort Of Low Socio-Economic African American Students, Sophia Yvonne Williams Dec 2014

A Comparative Study Of The Impact Of Extended Year Education Versus Traditional Year School Calendars In Reading And Mathematics In A Cohort Of Low Socio-Economic African American Students, Sophia Yvonne Williams

Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to examine the impact extended year education versus traditional year calendars for African American males and females located in a Southern state school district. The school district consists of approximately 26,000 students and thirty elementary schools. The district has 27 of the elementary schools operated as traditional schools and three were operated as extended year education schools. The study only used a small number of the schools within the district. The study utilized the casual-comparative design with an ANCOVA statistical method to determine the differences between an extended versus traditional year models and students who took …


Myoelectric Prostheses: Novel Methodologies For Enhancing Usability And Control, Ghulam Rasool Dec 2014

Myoelectric Prostheses: Novel Methodologies For Enhancing Usability And Control, Ghulam Rasool

Theses and Dissertations

Control of powered prostheses using the information from leftover muscles in amputees is a challenging problem. I investigated the problem with a view to find clinically reliable and robust schemes that can interpret human intent and control a powered prosthesis in real-time. Recently, pattern classification systems have been suggested to map muscle activation patterns to the human intent (or the movement). However, due to the underlying generic structure, system-specific information cannot be exclusively incorporated into pattern classification algorithms. I have proposed two new methodologies in my research. The first one extended the pattern classification with a new feature set comprised …


Reply To Simon And Reed: Independent And Converging Results Rule Out Historic Disturbance And Confirm Age Constraints For Barrier Canyon Rock Art, Joel L. Pederson, Harriet Cornachione, Steven R. Simms, Reza Sohbati, Tammy M. Rittenour, Andrew S. Murray, Gary Cox Dec 2014

Reply To Simon And Reed: Independent And Converging Results Rule Out Historic Disturbance And Confirm Age Constraints For Barrier Canyon Rock Art, Joel L. Pederson, Harriet Cornachione, Steven R. Simms, Reza Sohbati, Tammy M. Rittenour, Andrew S. Murray, Gary Cox

Geosciences Faculty Publications

We welcome this further discussion of our results on the age of the Great Gallery rock art in the Canyonlands of Utah. The comment by Simon and Reed (1) focuses on just one of the three components of our study (2), which is presented in greater technical detail in ref. 3 and is surely our best-constrained and least-surprising result: the dating of a rock-fall that removed some of the art and thus provides a minimum age. Simon and Reed (1) point out that the Great Gallery panel is not pristine and relate the sordid human history of visitation and possible …


Capturing The Effects Of Public Opinion Polls On Voter Support In The Ny 25th Congressional Election, Heather Knappen Dec 2014

Capturing The Effects Of Public Opinion Polls On Voter Support In The Ny 25th Congressional Election, Heather Knappen

Theses

This thesis explores the relationship between public opinion polls and voter support and asks whether exposure to a public opinion poll creates an unfair advantage for the candidate winning in that poll. The experimental results from this study were used to test the hypothesis that exposure to an opinion poll, with a wide lead for one of two candidates, would cause voter support to increase for the candidate who was leading in the poll (i.e. a bandwagon effect). In 2012, a random sample of 101 registered voters in the NY 25th Congressional District participated in two telephone surveys. In each …


Ontogenetic Scaling Patterns And Functional Anatomy Of The Pelvic Limb Musculature In Emus (Dromaius Novaehollandiae), Luis P. Lamas, Russell P. Main, John R. Hutchinson Dec 2014

Ontogenetic Scaling Patterns And Functional Anatomy Of The Pelvic Limb Musculature In Emus (Dromaius Novaehollandiae), Luis P. Lamas, Russell P. Main, John R. Hutchinson

Department of Basic Medical Sciences Faculty Publications

Emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) are exclusively terrestrial, bipedal and cursorial ratites with some similar biomechanical characteristics to humans. Their growth rates are impressive, as their body mass increases eighty-fold from hatching to adulthood whilst maintaining the same mode of locomotion throughout life. These ontogenetic characteristics stimulate biomechanical questions about the strategies that allow emus to cope with their rapid growth and locomotion, which can be partly addressed via scaling (allometric) analysis of morphology. In this study we have collected pelvic limb anatomical data (muscle architecture, tendon length, tendon mass and bone lengths) and calculated muscle physiological cross sectional area …


State V. Mour Respondent's Brief Dckt. 41788 Dec 2014

State V. Mour Respondent's Brief Dckt. 41788

Not Reported

No abstract provided.


State V. Rodriguez Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 41303 Dec 2014

State V. Rodriguez Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 41303

Not Reported

No abstract provided.


Tucker V. State Appellant's Brief Dckt. 42448 Dec 2014

Tucker V. State Appellant's Brief Dckt. 42448

Not Reported

No abstract provided.


Effective And Ethical Sales Communication For Pharmaceutical Representatives, John Paul Recinto Dec 2014

Effective And Ethical Sales Communication For Pharmaceutical Representatives, John Paul Recinto

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

There are so many different communication styles utilized by pharmaceutical sales representatives. This thesis handles the quandary of whether those communication styles are not only effective among the interactions with medical providers, but whether those effective means of communicating are embedded with ethical communication as well. The theory of symbolic interactionism and the philosophical basis of persuasive speech expound on the methodology pharmaceutical sales representatives implement with the people he or she encounters. Medical providers also need to perceive that their encounters with pharmaceutical sales representatives are congruently effective and ethical interactions, which is revealed by qualitative research methods in …


Characterizing Fetal Sleep States Of Iugr And Low-Risk Fetuses Using Fetal Magnetocardiography, Bhargavi Sriram Dec 2014

Characterizing Fetal Sleep States Of Iugr And Low-Risk Fetuses Using Fetal Magnetocardiography, Bhargavi Sriram

Theses and Dissertations

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a fetal condition characterized by growth-rate reduction. Afflicted fetuses tend to display abnormalities in heart rate. Hence, studying its heart rate variability (HRV) along with comparisons against normal fetal HRV might give some insight into the heart rate dynamics between the two groups. Heart rate variability (HRV) is one of the prominent markers that could help in identifying fetal distress. Four fetal heart rate patterns were previously defined based on HRV, which can provide clinicians with valuable information regarding fetus health during pregnancy. Past studies that differentiate the HRV with or without considering patterns, have …


The Impact Of A Collaborative Inquiry-Based Professional Development Approach On Teacher Practice And Student Reading Achievement: A Mixed Methods Study, Julie Marie Schaefer Dec 2014

The Impact Of A Collaborative Inquiry-Based Professional Development Approach On Teacher Practice And Student Reading Achievement: A Mixed Methods Study, Julie Marie Schaefer

Theses and Dissertations

This mixed-methods study examined whether one professional development approach, the Collaborative Inquiry-Based (CIB) framework, could impact student achievement within a small group reading intervention, Guided Reading Plus (GRP). Further, qualitative data were collected to better understand what activities teachers engaged in that could play a role in those achievement outcomes. Twelve first grade teachers were randomly selected and assigned to one of the three groups: Group 1- control, Group 2- GRP intervention only, and Group 3- GRP intervention and CIB professional development sessions. The students involved in the study consisted of 249 first grade students who were in the 12 …


Overcoming Literacy Barriers Through Interventions: A Mixed Methods Study, Cynthia Whitfield Owens Dec 2014

Overcoming Literacy Barriers Through Interventions: A Mixed Methods Study, Cynthia Whitfield Owens

Theses and Dissertations

A convergent parallel mixed methods study was conducted to examine the effect of multiple layers of writing instruction for accelerating the literacy achievement of at-risk kindergarten students. Participants included 33 teachers and 151 kindergarten students from 9 schools. The effects of Treatment 2 Group (whole class, small-group writing instruction in the classroom, and Interactive Writing Intervention) and Treatment 1 Group (whole class and small-group writing instruction in the classroom) were compared to a Control Group (whole-class instruction). Additionally, a case study design with constant comparative analysis was used to examine the practices and instructional decisions of two expert intervention teachers …


Mapping Of Oceanography Research Productivity In India: A Scientometric Analysis, Ranganathan Chandrakasan Dec 2014

Mapping Of Oceanography Research Productivity In India: A Scientometric Analysis, Ranganathan Chandrakasan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examines Oceanography Research in India as revealed by the scholarly publication indexed in Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstract (ASFA) data base for a period of fifteen years from 2008 to 2013. It was seen that the analyses included research growth, author productivity, authorship pattern, Geographical distribution of the literature, global publications’ share, of international collaborative papers and major collaborative partner countries and patterns of research communication in most productive journals. The study reveals that, most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journals; as such 61.78% of articles were published in journals, more numbers of …


Farmer To Pharmacist: Curcumin As An Anti-Invasive And Antimetastatic Agent For The Treatment Of Cancer, Debasish Bandyopadhyay Dec 2014

Farmer To Pharmacist: Curcumin As An Anti-Invasive And Antimetastatic Agent For The Treatment Of Cancer, Debasish Bandyopadhyay

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Chemistry)

A huge number of compounds are widely distributed in nature and many of these possess medicinal/biological/pharmacological activity. Curcumin, a polyphenol derived from the rhizomes (underground stems) of Curcuma longa Linn (a member of the ginger family, commonly known as turmeric) is a culinary spice and therapeutic used in India for thousands of years to induce color and flavor in food as well as to treat a wide array of diseases. The origin of turmeric as spice and folklore medicine is so old that it is lost in legend. Curcumin has many beneficial pharmacological effects which includes, but are not limited …


Enterprise Content Management: Understanding The Taxonomy, Jake Zhu, Tony Coulson, Miyuan Shan, C.E. Tapie Rohm Jr. Dec 2014

Enterprise Content Management: Understanding The Taxonomy, Jake Zhu, Tony Coulson, Miyuan Shan, C.E. Tapie Rohm Jr.

Communications of the IIMA

In an effort to understand content, its taxonomy and management, we define content management as the process of managing the creation, categorization, delivery and archiving of content in which workflow and business processes are maximized. Built upon what industry experts have to offer about enterprise content taxonomy, we have enacted a framework to better understand, create and manage enterprise taxonomies. This framework will be able to integrate rich content, modern computing technology, advanced analytics, automated worlflow, business requirements and human resources into a process where companies can easily manage their information for decision making and gaining competitive advantages.