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Exploring The Motives Of Religious Travel By Applying The Ahp Method – The Case Study Of Monastery Vujan (Serbia), Sanja Božic, Bojana Spasojević, Miroslav D. Vujičić, Igor Stamenkovic Jul 2016

Exploring The Motives Of Religious Travel By Applying The Ahp Method – The Case Study Of Monastery Vujan (Serbia), Sanja Božic, Bojana Spasojević, Miroslav D. Vujičić, Igor Stamenkovic

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Religious tourism is considered as the oldest form of people’s travel. Thousands of years ago people travelled miles led by religious motives. Even though pilgrimage is older than most of the other tourism forms, research on the major motives for religious travel still occupies scientific attention. Vujan Monastery represents one of the main riddles among religious tourism researchers in Serbia. After the mysterious healing of Serbian Patriarch Pavle in 1946 who suffered from tuberculosis, this monastery became one of the most famous sacred places for orthodox Christians. The principle aim of this paper is to propose a new way for …

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Volume 53, Number 49: July 20, 2016, University Of North Dakota Jul 2016

Volume 53, Number 49: July 20, 2016, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Branded: Trademark Tattoos, Slave Owner Brands, And The Right To Have "Free" Skin, Shontavia Johnson Jul 2016

Branded: Trademark Tattoos, Slave Owner Brands, And The Right To Have "Free" Skin, Shontavia Johnson

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

Though existing for several millennia in various cultures, body modification through tattooing is becoming more popular in the United States. Twenty percent of Americans have at least one tattoo, and among Millennials this number grows to almost forty percent. As the popularity of tattoos has increased in recent years, so too have questions revolving around concepts of intellectual property and the plausible limitations of any rights stemming therefrom. This Article addresses the implications, for both the tattooist and the tattooed, of using trademarked designations as tattoos. Neither the courts nor Congress have definitively answered the question of how traditional trademark …

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Emu Today, July 19, 2016, Eastern Michigan University Jul 2016

Emu Today, July 19, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Emu Today, July 20, 2016, Eastern Michigan University Jul 2016

Emu Today, July 20, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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What's New In Musculoskeletal Infection: Update On Biofilms., Arvind Nana, Sandra B Nelson, Alex Mclaren, Antonia F. Chen, Md, Mba Jul 2016

What's New In Musculoskeletal Infection: Update On Biofilms., Arvind Nana, Sandra B Nelson, Alex Mclaren, Antonia F. Chen, Md, Mba

Rothman Institute Papers

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The Murray Ledger And Times, July 20, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times Jul 2016

The Murray Ledger And Times, July 20, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Maternity Colony Of Northern Long-Eared Myotis (Myotis Septentrionalis) In A Human-Made Structure In Nebraska, Rachel M. Stein, Jeremy A. White Jul 2016

Maternity Colony Of Northern Long-Eared Myotis (Myotis Septentrionalis) In A Human-Made Structure In Nebraska, Rachel M. Stein, Jeremy A. White

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The Northern Long-eared Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) occurs across eastern North America, and its range extends west into the Great Plains of the United States. Summer roosts of M. septentrionalis in the Great Plains are not well documented. Herein we describe a maternity colony of M. septentrionalis using small, elevated structures (i.e., cabins) in southeastern Nebraska. Cabins were in a small parcel of upland deciduous forest about 1.6 km from the Missouri River. The maternity colony was observed roosting in a space between the outer and inner walls of three different cabins from 21 June to 8 October 2014. …

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State V. Fry Appellant's Brief Dckt. 43812 Jul 2016

State V. Fry Appellant's Brief Dckt. 43812

Not Reported

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Intein Epidemiology: A Study Of The Lifestyle, Distribution, Phylogenetics, And Dynamics Of Inteins, Shannon M. Soucy Jul 2016

Intein Epidemiology: A Study Of The Lifestyle, Distribution, Phylogenetics, And Dynamics Of Inteins, Shannon M. Soucy

Doctoral Dissertations

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is an important process experienced by all cellular life on some level to enable rapid adaptation to changes in both the extracellular and intracellular environments. Quantifying the extent of HGT, as well as identifying conditions that both foster and deter HGT within both natural and artificial environments. As a solution we propose using mobile genetic elements to track the interactions between organisms, as well as the evolution of these mobile genetic elements to learn about HGT within various cellular communities. We use inteins to identify networks of HGT events within various collections of organisms that share …

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Compensatory Respiratory Effects In Three Mouse Models Of Developmental Cerebellar Neuropathology During Exposure To And Recovery From Hypoxic And Hypercapnic Challenges, Michele Ann Calton Jul 2016

Compensatory Respiratory Effects In Three Mouse Models Of Developmental Cerebellar Neuropathology During Exposure To And Recovery From Hypoxic And Hypercapnic Challenges, Michele Ann Calton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Sudden unexplained death occurs in multiple populations. Significant evidence suggests fatality was due to cardiorespiratory failure--likely in response to an exogenous stressor which created an immediate hypercapnic (increased carbon dioxide) or hypoxic (decreased oxygen) environment. Research into the mechanism(s) of failure has focused on the brainstem (the classic cardiorespiratory control center) to no avail. Recently, research has probed outside of the brainstem to identify structures that may play a specific modulatory role during stressful conditions such as hypoixia and hypercapnia, for example the cerebellum, which houses a pair of chemosensitive nuclei, the fastigial nuclei (FN). As the Purkinje cells of …

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Animals Are Agents, Linda A.W. Brakel Jul 2016

Animals Are Agents, Linda A.W. Brakel

Animal Sentience

Mark Rowlands’s (2016) target article invites us to consider individuals in a broad subset of the non-human animal world as genuine persons. His account features animals reacting to salient environmental stimuli as Gibsonian affordances, which is indicative of “pre-reflective self-awareness.” He holds that such pre-reflective self-awareness is both “immune to error through misidentification” (Shoemaker, 1968) and a necessary precursor to reflective consciousness and personhood. I agree. In this commentary I hope to extend Rowlands’s work with a view in which agency is an even more fundamental precursor and one can (and should) consider individuals throughout the entire animal kingdom as …

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Scorpions Of The Horn Of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part Vi. Compsobuthus Vachon, 1949 (Buthidae), With A Description Of C. Eritreaensis Sp. N., František Kovařík, Graeme Lowe, Jana Plíšková, František Šťáhlavský Jul 2016

Scorpions Of The Horn Of Africa (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Part Vi. Compsobuthus Vachon, 1949 (Buthidae), With A Description Of C. Eritreaensis Sp. N., František Kovařík, Graeme Lowe, Jana Plíšková, František Šťáhlavský

Euscorpius

All four Compsobuthus species of the Horn of Africa were newly collected, C. werneri firstly collected in Eritrea and C. eritreaensis sp. n. discovered during scorpiological expeditions in 2011–2016. Information is provided about their taxonomy, distribution, and ecology, fully complemented with color photos of live and preserved specimens, as well as their habitat. The hemispermatophore of C. eritreaensis sp. n. is illustrated and described. In addition to morphological analysis, we also describe the karyotype of C. eritreaensis sp. n. (2n=22).

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A New Species Of Diplocentrus (Scorpionidae: Diplocentrinae) From Western Izabal, Guatemala, Luis F. De Armas, Rony E. Trujillo Jul 2016

A New Species Of Diplocentrus (Scorpionidae: Diplocentrinae) From Western Izabal, Guatemala, Luis F. De Armas, Rony E. Trujillo

Euscorpius

Diplocentrus izabal sp. n. is herein described on basis to one male (holotype) and two females from El Estor municipality, Izabal department, eastern Guatemala. It seems to be a close relative of Diplocentrus lachua Armas, Trujillo & Agreda, 2012, from which it differs by having carapace almost smooth, with anteromedian notch V-shaped; pectines with 11 teeth in both sexes, and carapace clearly longer than pedipalp manus and metasomal segment V (D. lachua has carapace minutely granulate, with anteromedian notch U-shaped; pectines with 13 teeth in the males (female unknown), and carapace as long as both pedipalp manus and metasomal …

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Cannabinoid Receptor Subtype 2 (Cb2r) Agonist Gw405833 Reduces Agonist-Induced Ca2+ Oscillations In Mouse Pancreatic Acinar Cells, Zebing Huang, Haiyan Wang, Jingke Wang, Mengqin Zhao, Nana Sun, Fangfang Sun, Jianxin Shen, Haiying Zhang, Kunkun Xia, Dejie Chen, Ming Gao, Ronald P. Hammer, Qingrong Liu, Zhengxiong Xi, Xuegong Fan, Jie Wu Jul 2016

Cannabinoid Receptor Subtype 2 (Cb2r) Agonist Gw405833 Reduces Agonist-Induced Ca2+ Oscillations In Mouse Pancreatic Acinar Cells, Zebing Huang, Haiyan Wang, Jingke Wang, Mengqin Zhao, Nana Sun, Fangfang Sun, Jianxin Shen, Haiying Zhang, Kunkun Xia, Dejie Chen, Ming Gao, Ronald P. Hammer, Qingrong Liu, Zhengxiong Xi, Xuegong Fan, Jie Wu

Translational Neuroscience

Emerging evidence demonstrates that the blockade of intracellular Ca 2+ signals may protect pancreatic acinar cells against Ca 2+ overload, intracellular protease activation, and necrosis. The activation of cannabinoid receptor subtype 2 (CB 2 R) prevents acinar cell pathogenesis in animal models of acute pancreatitis. However, whether CB 2 Rs modulate intracellular Ca 2+ signals in pancreatic acinar cells is largely unknown. We evaluated the roles of CB 2 R agonist, GW405833 (GW) in agonist-induced Ca 2+ oscillations in pancreatic acinar cells using multiple experimental approaches with acute dissociated pancreatic acinar cells prepared from wild type, CB 1 R-knockout (KO), …

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07-19-2016 Paula Jeanne Horsburgh Memorial Scholarship Awarded At Swosu, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Jul 2016

07-19-2016 Paula Jeanne Horsburgh Memorial Scholarship Awarded At Swosu, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2016

Southwestern Oklahoma State University student Alexis Ann Schroeder of Hydro has been named the 2016-2017 Paula Jeanne Horsburgh Memorial Scholar by the SWOSU Foundation, Inc., in Weatherford.

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Emotional Support Animals: The Therapist's Dilemma, Harold Herzog Jul 2016

Emotional Support Animals: The Therapist's Dilemma, Harold Herzog

'Animals and Us' Blog Posts

Requests for emotional support animals put therapists in a difficult situation

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Call Of The Cows, Lori Tyler Gula Jul 2016

Call Of The Cows, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Web-Based Pedagogical Agents To Facilitate Critical Thinking, Diane J. Morey Jul 2016

Web-Based Pedagogical Agents To Facilitate Critical Thinking, Diane J. Morey

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Critical thinking is a desired outcome for higher education. Although critical thinking is described as an essential skill in nursing, not all new registered nurses meet these expectations. The goal is to provide instruction that creates optimal learning situations. A variety of strategies have been proposed to facilitate critical thinking (Chan, 2013). One approach is to have the student use critical thinking skills to solve a problem by providing conditions of instruction to trigger higher order thinking (Lunney, 2013). With the growth of online learning in nursing, various strategies are needed to vigorously involve students in the instruction and encourage …

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Altered Differential Control Of Sympathetic Outflow Following Sedentary Conditions: Role Of Subregional Neuroplasticity In The Rvlm, Madhan Subramanian, Patrick J. Mueller Jul 2016

Altered Differential Control Of Sympathetic Outflow Following Sedentary Conditions: Role Of Subregional Neuroplasticity In The Rvlm, Madhan Subramanian, Patrick J. Mueller

Physiology Faculty Research Publications

Despite the classically held belief of an “all-or-none” activation of the sympathetic nervous system, differential responses in sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) can occur acutely at varying magnitudes and in opposing directions. Sympathetic nerves also appear to contribute differentially to various disease states including hypertension and heart failure. Previously we have reported that sedentary conditions enhanced responses of splanchnic SNA (SSNA) but not lumbar SNA (LSNA) to activation of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) in rats. Bulbospinal RVLM neurons from sedentary rats also exhibit increased dendritic branching in rostral regions of the RVLM. We hypothesized that regionally specific structural neuroplasticity would …

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Disease Introduction Is Associated With A Phase Transition In Bighorn Sheep Demographics, Kezia R. Manlove, E. Frances Cassirer, Paul C. Cross, Raina K. Plowright, Peter J. Hudson Jul 2016

Disease Introduction Is Associated With A Phase Transition In Bighorn Sheep Demographics, Kezia R. Manlove, E. Frances Cassirer, Paul C. Cross, Raina K. Plowright, Peter J. Hudson

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Ecological theory suggests that pathogens are capable of regulating or limiting host population dynamics, and this relationship has been empirically established in several settings. However, although studies of childhood diseases were integral to the development of disease ecology, few studies show population limitation by a disease affecting juveniles. Here, we present empirical evidence that disease in lambs constrains population growth in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) based on 45 years of population‐level and 18 years of individual‐level monitoring across 12 populations. While populations generally increased (λ = 1.11) prior to disease introduction, most of these same populations experienced an abrupt change …

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1919 - Summary Of The Annual Reports Of The Farm Advisors Of California, Circular No. 208 Jul 2016

1919 - Summary Of The Annual Reports Of The Farm Advisors Of California, Circular No. 208

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The report discusses in some detail establishment of the Agricultural extension organization ultimately in every county by the placement of a farm advisor or county agent. In California, the local farm bureau acted as a cooperating agency through which the farm advisor could reach a wide range of activities; i.e., advice from the best farmers in the county as to what could be done and how to do it, ability to reach every community in the county, and provide a plan for organized self-help. The farm advisors coordinated the efforts of Federal, State and local agricultural organizations to encourage farmers …

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Global Changes In Mycoplasma Gallisepticum Phase-Variable Lipoprotein (Vlha) Gene Expression In The Natural Host, Katherine Pflaum Jul 2016

Global Changes In Mycoplasma Gallisepticum Phase-Variable Lipoprotein (Vlha) Gene Expression In The Natural Host, Katherine Pflaum

Doctoral Dissertations

Mycoplasma gallisepticum is the primary etiologic agent of chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in poultry, a disease largely affecting the respiratory tract of poultry, and causing significant economic losses world-wide. Proteins of the variable lipoprotein and hemagglutinin (vlhA) gene family are thought to be important for host interaction, pathogenesis and immune evasion, but the exact role and mechanisms are not well understood. To better understand the phase variation of vlhA genes, we have conducted large scale, next generation sequencing analysis of M. gallisepticum sampled directly from the tracheal mucosa of experimentally infected chickens and those recovered and passaged in-vitro. …

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American Pikas (Ochotona Princeps) Extirpated From The Historic Masonic Mining District Of Eastern California, Lyle B. Nichols, Kelly B. Klingler, Mary M. Peacock Jul 2016

American Pikas (Ochotona Princeps) Extirpated From The Historic Masonic Mining District Of Eastern California, Lyle B. Nichols, Kelly B. Klingler, Mary M. Peacock

Western North American Naturalist

American pikas (Ochotona princeps) are small alpine lagomorphs and talus obligates with a narrow range of temperature tolerance, along with physiological and ecological characteristics that make them especially vulnerable to local extirpation in the face of climate change. Since their initial colonization of the Great Basin during the Pleistocene geological epoch, the distribution of pikas in this region has become more restricted, with population losses occurring especially in lower-elevation sites characterized by relatively low precipitation and high temperatures. Even where pikas have persisted, many populations are now restricted to higher elevations. We surveyed several sites in the Bodie …

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Seed Selection By Desert Rodents: Implications For Enhancing Seedling Establishment Of Indian Ricegrass (Achnatherum Hymenoides), William S. Longland, Lindsay A. Dimitri Jul 2016

Seed Selection By Desert Rodents: Implications For Enhancing Seedling Establishment Of Indian Ricegrass (Achnatherum Hymenoides), William S. Longland, Lindsay A. Dimitri

Western North American Naturalist

Seeds of many plant species are dispersed by seed-caching rodents that place groups of seeds in superficially buried scatterhoard caches. A case in point is Indian ricegrass (Achnatherum hymenoides), an important forage plant on arid western rangelands for which seedling recruitment comes largely from scatterhoards made by desert heteromyid rodents. A “diversionary seeding” strategy has been attempted for enhancing Indian ricegrass seedling recruitment by deploying commercially available seeds on the soil surface to divert rodents from recovering scatterhoards of Indian ricegrass seeds. The probability of such a passive restoration approach succeeding is likely affected by the relative desirability …

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Better Birding Tips, Tools And Concepts For The Field By George L. Armistead And Brian L. Sullivan, Howard O. Clark Jr. Jul 2016

Better Birding Tips, Tools And Concepts For The Field By George L. Armistead And Brian L. Sullivan, Howard O. Clark Jr.

Western North American Naturalist

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Characterization And Functional Evaluation Of An Adhesive And Injectable Chitosan Paste Blended With Polyethylene Glycol For Bacterial Infection Prevention, Joel Martin Berretta Jul 2016

Characterization And Functional Evaluation Of An Adhesive And Injectable Chitosan Paste Blended With Polyethylene Glycol For Bacterial Infection Prevention, Joel Martin Berretta

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Surgeries to treat musculoskeletal wounds need to inhibit or prevent contaminating bacteria from causing an infection for optimal wound healing. Current local drug delivery biomaterial systems, such as bone cemeent beads and chitosan paste, do not fully degrade and/or do not offer full wound coverage which may limit the efficacy of antibiotic therapy, respectively. Chitosan paste is a biocompatibile, degradable, local drug delivery system which allows for complete wound coverage and decreases the diffusion distance of antibiotics to bacteria. This research used blended chitosan-polyethylene glycol (PEG) pastes to improve biocompatibility, increased degradation rate, and provide efficient and effective elution of …

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Noninvasive Identification Of Individual American Badgers By Features Of Their Dorsal Head Stripes, Robert L. Harrison Jul 2016

Noninvasive Identification Of Individual American Badgers By Features Of Their Dorsal Head Stripes, Robert L. Harrison

Western North American Naturalist

Identification of individual animals is a valuable and often essential procedure for studies of animal behavior and population size. I present evidence that individual American badgers (Taxidea taxus) may be identified by natural features of their dorsal head stripes.


La identificación individual de los animales es un procedimiento importante y, a menudo, esencial para estudiar el comportamiento animal y el tamaño de las poblaciones. Presento evidencia de que los individuos de tejón americano (Taxidea taxus) pueden ser identificados por características naturales como sus rayas dorsales en la cabeza.

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The Zebrafish's Growing Impact On Medical Research, Alicia Rohan Jul 2016

The Zebrafish's Growing Impact On Medical Research, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

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Information Processing In The Hippocampus And The Medial Prefrontal Cortex During Hippocampal Dependent And Independent Task: An Lfp Analysis, Jinah Yoon 4863671 Jul 2016

Information Processing In The Hippocampus And The Medial Prefrontal Cortex During Hippocampal Dependent And Independent Task: An Lfp Analysis, Jinah Yoon 4863671

Master's Theses

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