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Ca2+/Calmodulin/Mlck Pathway Initiates, And Rhoa/Rock Maintains, The Internal Anal Sphincter Smooth Muscle Tone., Satish Rattan

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.

Zechariah, David Schelhaas

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"I was in the presence of the holy God, and that reality obliterated all petty fears and doubts."

Posting about Zechariah's role in the Advent story from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/zechariah/

Liturgies Of The Body: The Jump Shot And Spiritual Practice, Howard Schaap

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Inadequacies Of The Imprisoned Mentally Ill: Barriers To Sufficient Care, Elizabeth A. Mittett

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

4 Little Tests, 1 Big Change: A Multifaceted Approach To Usability Testing, Stacy Taylor

Library Scholarship

This presentation details the process of usability testing used by the Brooks Library at Central Washington University to redesign aspects of the library website.

Wealth And Cardiovascular Health: A Cross-Sectional Study Of Wealth-Related Inequalities In The Awareness, Treatment And Control Of Hypertension In High-, Middle- And Low-Income Countries., Benjamin Palafox, Martin Mckee, Dina Balabanova, Khalid F. Khalid, Alvaro Jr Avezum, Ahmad Bahonar, Noorhassim Noorhassim, Jephat Chifamba, Clara K. Chow, Daniel J. Corsi, Gilles R. Dagenais, Rafael Diaz, Rajeev Gupta, Romaina Iqbal, Manmeet Kaur, Rasha Khatib, Annamarie Kruger, Iolanthe Marike Kruger, Fernando Lanas, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Fu Minfan, Viswanathan Mohan, Prem K. Mony, Aytekin Oguz, Lia M. Palileo-Villanueva, Pablo Perel, Paul Poirier, Sumathy Rangarajan, Lei Rensheng, Annika Rosengren, Biju Soman, David Stuckler, S. V. Subramania, Koon Teo, Lungiswa P. Tsolekile, Andreas Wielgosz, Peng Yaguang, Karen Yeates, Mo Yongzhen, Khalid Yusoff, Rita Yusuf, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Katarzyna Zatońska, Salim Yusuf

Community Health Sciences

BACKGROUND:

Effective policies to control hypertension require an understanding of its distribution in the population and the barriers people face along the pathway from detection through to treatment and control. One key factor is household wealth, which may enable or limit a household's ability to access health care services and adequately control such a chronic condition. This study aims to describe the scale and patterns of wealth-related inequalities in the awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in 21 countries using baseline data from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology study.

METHODS:

A cross-section of 163,397 adults aged 35 to 70 …

Costa Rica And Panama Work To Solve Immigration Crisis At Their Border, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.

Costa Rica’S Soccer Federation Starts Inquiry After Former Chief Admits To Theft And Accepting Bribes, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.

Is China The Next Bollywood?, Ben Gleitman

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) Blog

For those English language lovers, the word “synecdoche” (pronounced si-NEK-də-kee) is a figure of speech in which a word is used to represent the whole of something else. Thus, the city of Hollywood, California represents, figuratively, the whole of the film industry. For the Indian film industry, there is the cleverly devised “Bollywood,” an obvious play on the California city, with the B for Bombay in lieu of the H in Hollywood. Now that China looks to expand its already burgeoning film industry, perhaps the next figure of speech in the movie world will be Sinewood (pronounced SEE-nay-wood) from the …

Strategies To Support Families Experiencing Difficult Circumstances, Carol M. Trivette

ETSU Faculty Works

One of the most challenging tasks for many early childhood providers is how to support families who are facing tough, difficult issues like death of a parent, PTSD, abuse, and neglect. Not only do these issues impact the family’s overall functioning and well being and the quality of parents’ interactions with their young children but they also affect the relationship between the family and the early childhood providers (e.g., missed appointments and adversarial interactions). Dr. Carol Trivette will cap her yearlong webinar series sharing resources and discussing evidence-based practices that providers can implement when they are working with military families …

The Interplay Between Plasticity And Evolution In Response To Human-Induced Environmental Change, Sarah E. Diamond, Ryan A. Martin

Faculty Scholarship

Some populations will cope with human-induced environmental change, and others will undergo extirpation; understanding the mechanisms that underlie these responses is key to forecasting responses to environmental change. In cases where organisms cannot disperse to track suitable habitats, plastic and evolved responses to environmental change will determine whether populations persist or perish. However, the majority of studies consider plasticity and evolution in isolation when in fact plasticity can shape evolution and plasticity itself can evolve. In particular, whether cryptic genetic variation exposed by environmental novelty can facilitate adaptive evolution has been a source of controversy and debate in the literature …

The Bg News December 08, 2016, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 08, 2016. Volume 96-Issue 32.

Design And Construction Of A Multispectral Camera For Spectral And Colorimetric Reproduction, Yixuan Wang

Theses

Multi-spectral imaging and spectral reflectance reconstruction can be used in cultural-heritage institutes to digitalize their collections for documentation purposes. It can be used to simulate artwork under any lighting condition, and to analyze colorants that were used. The basic idea of a multi-spectral imaging system is to sub-sample spectral reflectance factor, producing results similar to a spectrophotometer. The sampled data are used to reconstruct reflectance for the visible spectrum.

In this thesis, a wide band multispectral camera was designed and constructed to achieve high spectral and color accuracy as well as high image quality.

Noise propagation theory was introduced and …

3d Subject-Atlas Image Registration For Micro-Computed Tomography Based Characterization Of Drug Delivery In The Murine Cochlea, Zhenlin Xu

Theses

A wide variety of hearing problems can potentially be treated with local drug delivery systems capable of delivering drugs directly to the cochlea over extended periods of time. Developing and testing such systems requires accurate quantification of drug concentration over time. A variety of techniques have been proposed for both direct and indirect measurement of drug pharmacokinetics; direct techniques are invasive, whereas many indirect techniques are imprecise because they rely on assumptions about the relationship between physiological response and drug concentrations. One indirect technique, however, is capable of quantifying drug pharmacokinetics very precisely: Micro-Computed tomography (micro-CT) can provide a non-invasive …

Minutes From The December 8, 2016 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the December 8, 2016 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.

Lucidpipe™ Power System, Purdue Ect Team

ECT Fact Sheets Archive

In most gravity fed water transmission pipelines, it is desired to reduce excess pressure head to prevent undue strain on a pipeline and lower the incidence of leaks. Normally this is done with pressure reducing valves that essentially burn off this excess pressure as heat. The LucidPipe™ system converts it to low cost electricity thereby removing unwanted pressure and generating energy at the same time - energy that can be put used behind the grid or put back on the grid. The LucidPipe™ system extracts a small percentage of pressure head providing nearly invisible operation allowing water operators to fulfill …

The Alestle - Vol. 69. No. 20 - 12/08/2016, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 69 No. 19

000072, Us Land Patent, T21s, R18e, Michael O. Jones, Mar. 28, 1861, And Blm Land Patent Detail Sheet

Pre-1872 Land Patents in the Basins

US Land Patent and BLM Patent Detail Sheet that provides specific information (patent number, acreage, authority, patent date, patentee, Township and Range, for land acquired through various US land acquisition statutes.

001172, Us Land Patent, T31s, R18e, August Hemme, Nov. 1, 1870, And Blm Land Patent Detail Sheet

Pre-1872 Land Patents in the Basins

US Land Patent and BLM Patent Detail Sheet that provides specific information (patent number, acreage, authority, patent date, patentee, Township and Range, for land acquired through various US land acquisition statutes.

001176, Us Land Patent, T31s, R18e, August Hemme, Nov. 1, 1870, And Blm Land Patent Detail Sheet

Pre-1872 Land Patents in the Basins

US Land Patent and BLM Patent Detail Sheet that provides specific information (patent number, acreage, authority, patent date, patentee, Township and Range, for land acquired through various US land acquisition statutes.

Polypores And Genus Concepts In Phanerochaetaceae (Polyporales, Basidiomycota), Otto Miettinen, Viacheslav Spirin, Josef Vlasák, Bernard Rivoire, Soili Stenroos, David S. Hibbett

Biology

We explored whether DNA-phylogeny-based and morphology-based genus concepts can be reconciled in the basidiomycete family Phanerochaetaceae. Our results show that macromorphology of fruiting bodies and hymenophore construction do not reflect monophyletic groups. However, by integrating micromor-phology and re-defining genera, harmonization of DNA phylogeny and morphological genus concepts is possible in most cases. In the case of one genus (Phlebiopsis), our genetic markers could not resolve genus limits satisfactorily and a clear morphological definition could not be identified. We combine extended species sampling, microscopic studies of fruiting bodies and phylogenetic analyses of ITS, nLSU and rpb1 to revise genus concepts. Three …

2016-2017 Performance Forum - December 8, 2016, Karolina Kukolova, Mario Zelaya, Marija Trajkovska, Clarissa Vieira, Katherine Baloff, David Brill, Camille Ripple, Georgiy Khokhlov, Brian Garcia, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Sebastian Castellanos, Sohyun Park, Sergei Skobin

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Improving The Prediction Accuracy Of Text Data And Attribute Data Mining With Data Preprocessing, Priyanga Chandrasekar

Master of Science in Computer Science Theses

Data Mining is the extraction of valuable information from the patterns of data and turning it into useful knowledge. Data preprocessing is an important step in the data mining process. The quality of the data affects the result and accuracy of the data mining results. Hence, Data preprocessing becomes one of the critical steps in a data mining process.

In the research of text mining, document classification is a growing field. Even though we have many existing classifying approaches, Naïve Bayes Classifier is good at classification because of its simplicity and effectiveness. The aim of this paper is to identify …

The Colby Echo (2016-12-08), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Predictive Modeling Of A Buoyancy-Operated Cooling Tower Under Unsaturated Conditions: Adjoint Sensitivity Model And Optimal Best-Estimate Results With Reduced Predicted Uncertainties, Federico Di Rocco, Dan Gabriel Cacuci

Faculty Publications

Nuclear and other large-scale energy-producing plants must include systems that guarantee the safe discharge of residual heat from the industrial process into the atmosphere. This function is usually performed by one or several cooling towers. The amount of heat released by a cooling tower into the external environment can be quantified by using a numerical simulation model of the physical processes occurring in the respective tower, augmented by experimentally measured data that accounts for external conditions such as outlet air temperature, outlet water temperature, and outlet air relative humidity. The model’s responses of interest depend on many model parameters including …

How It Feels To Be Coached: Teacher Perception Of Coaching And Emotional Response To The Coach, Margaret Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

Coaching is a strategy employed by districts to improve teacher skill and advance student learning. Despite widespread adoption of coaching, research has not yet explored teachers' emotional responses to coaching, which may impact the success of the coaching practice. This study examines teacher emotions by examining teacher perception of coaching and coinciding emotional response to those perceptions. Using the qualitative case study method, I examined 9 teachers across 3 schools. I found that perception and emotional response were shaped by more than the current coaching practice. Instead, teachers engaged in a mental bookkeeping process, in which perceptions of prior coaching …

The Prince And The Prophet Of Florence: Investigating The Impact Of Savonarola's Anthropology On The Political Philosophy Of Machiavelli, Mikah Sauskojus

Senior Honors Theses

This study seeks to investigate a connection between the political thought of Machiavelli and the philosophy prevalent in the work of Girolamo Savonarola. In this consideration, it will be necessary to examine the works of Savonarola. After considering Savonarola, the study focuses on Machiavelli and apparent similarities between the two men’s writings. In addition to cross-referencing Machiavelli and Savonarola, it is necessary to cross-reference the work of Machiavelli with other humanist sources to determine whether or not Machiavelli’s alternative perspectives of human nature can be synthesized into the larger context of the scholarship of his day. For this purpose, the …

Characterization Of The Cytokinin-Responsive Transcriptome In Rice, Tracy Raines, Ivory C. Blakley, Yu-Chang Tsai, Jennifer M. Worthen, José M. Franco-Zorrilla, Roberto Solano, G. Eric Schaller

Dartmouth Scholarship

Cytokinin activates transcriptional cascades important for development and the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Most of what is known regarding cytokinin-regulated gene expression comes from studies of the dicotyledonous plant Arabidopsis thaliana. To expand the understanding of the cytokinin-regulated transcriptome, we employed RNA-Seq to analyze gene expression in response to cytokinin in roots and shoots of the monocotyledonous plant rice.

Violence And Identity In Richard Wright's Native Son, Anna M. Gee

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.

Eve's Feminist Wave, Heather Randall

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.