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An Af(Fur)Mative Defense: Using Intellectual Property As A Defense To Employment Discrimination In Mascot Hiring, Taylor Farr

Arkansas Law Review

"Until a character becomes a personality, it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience." Walt Disney

Mascots are different animals. They bring some of our favorite characters from screens, packages, and comic book pages to life. Moreover, mascots serve a particularly important role on university campuses, offering a point of communal continuity amid inevitable organizational changes. Although university buildings, athletes, faculty, and staff will eventually change, a mascot …

Pandora's Cake, Mark R. Killenbeck

Arkansas Law Review

Most of us are familiar with the spectre of Pandora's Box, the "present which seems valuable, but which in reality is a curse." Robert Graves described Pandora as "the most beautiful [woman] ever created.", She was sent by Zeus as a gift to Epimetheus, who initially "respectfully" declined to marry her. But chastened by the fate of his brother Prometheus, he changed his mind and wed a women who was "as foolish, mischievous, and idle as she was beautiful.", She opened a jar that she and her husband had been "warned. .. to keep closed in which" Prometheus had "imprison[ed …

Homeopathy: Scientific View And Islamic Review, Mohannad Jazzar, Aya Shnan, Areej Hroob, Thara'a Al-Rabaee, Dalia Abo Arqoop, Heba Abo Zneed, Heba Swatty

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

Homeopathy is a type of alternative medicine that is widely used nowadays for its ease of use, low coast, and because of complaints against allopathic or conventional medicine. Homeopathic remedies depend on using prepared substances from plants, animals, and minerals, it’s based on the belief that the body can cure itself, or “like cures like”. This research article presents a comprehensive evaluation using both scientific and religious evidences about the concept of homeopathy. This investigation concludes that homeopathic remedies even though treated many diseases are nothing but placebo in most of the cases. More investigation must be carried out about …

Impacts Of Different Water Harvesting Techniques On Barley Productivity Under Semi-Arid Conditions In Palestine, Ahmad Safi, Ayed Galeb

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

Water is the main limiting factor in rain-fed cropping systems under semi-arid environmental conditions, and because of the characteristics of rainfall in general, and low precipitation in particular, the productivity of plants is very low. This study was conducted at Al-Ubeidiya town in Bethlehem governorate to evaluate the effect of using water-harvesting techniques on the productivity of barley (Hordeum valgare L.) during two consecutive seasons. Three treatments were evaluated; namely: strip planting, ploughing-sowing-ploughing, and contour ridges, in addition to the control treatment (traditional planting method). Split-plot design was used to compare among treatments. The results showed the positive effects of …

The Effect Of Salinity On Leaf Relative Water Content And Chlorophyll Content Of Three Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.) Landraces From Palestine, Munqez Shtaya, Ahmad Yasin, Jawad Fatoom, Muntaser Jebreen

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

The effect of salt stress on some physiological traits of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was studied under growth chamber condition in a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with three replications. Salinity treatments carried out in three levels (0.0, 50.0 and 100.0 mM) NaCl. Three wheat landraces (white heteyeh, black heteyeh and Norsi.) were studied. Relative leaf water content (RWC), chlorophyll content (SPDA), plant fresh weight and plant dry weight were measured at seedling stage. Salinity stress decreased relative water content (RWC), whereas chlorophyll content, fresh weight and dry weight were not affected. Based on the obtained results “Norsi” …

Analysis Of Mrp1 And Mrp3 Expression Profile In Liver And Spleen Of Hyperbilirubinemic Rodents, Mohammad Qaisiya, Cristina Bellarosa

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

Unconjugated bilirubin (UCB) is produced mostly in the spleen from the turnover of heme. UCB is conjugated by the activity of hepatic UGT1A1enzyme (UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1) and exported into the bile. High serum level of UCB is toxic to cells, and its intracellular accumulation is suggested to be limited by multidrug resistance proteins 1 and 3 (MRP1 and MRP3) that export UCB out of the cells to prevent its toxicity. In this study, the expression profile for MRP1 and MRP3 was analysed by qRT-PCR and Western blot in the liver and the spleen of two animal models of hyperbilirubinemia (β-thalassemic mouse …

Rodent Models Of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Zaki Tubesha

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

Diabetes is a disease characterized by a relative or absolute lack of insulin, leading to hyperglycemia. Due to the high prevalence of diabetic individuals all over the globe, extensive research is being carried out effective to develop more antidiabetic agents and to determine their mechanisms of action. Consequently, a number of diabetic animal models have been developed and improved over the years, of which rodent models are the most thoroughly described. The animal models of type 2 diabetes can be obtained either spontaneously (genetics) or induced by chemicals, dietary, surgical manipulations or by various combinations. In this review my attention …

Performance Of Awassi Lambs Fed A Citrus Pulp And Olive Cake Silage, احمد ظاظا, جمال ابو عمر

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of feeding different silages on the performance of fattening lambs and nutrients digestibility. Sixteen uniform males of Awassi lambs were used in feeding trial that was lasted for 77 days. The trial was followed by a digestion trial. Lambs were divided into four experimental groups during the trial and had free access to water. Three types of silage were prepared using wheat straw (WS), olive cake (OC) and citrus pulp (CP). The three by-products were mixed in the following ratios for silage 1 (60:27:13), for silage 2 (20:54:26) and for silage 3 …

Effect Of Feeding Sesame Oil Cake On Performance, Milk And Cheese Quality Of Anglo-Nubian Goats, جمال ابو عمر, ايمن حجازي

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of feeding sesame oil cake (SOC) on milk and cheese quality of Anglo-Nubian goats. Sixteen lactating (20 daysin-milk) Anglo- Nubian goats were used in the experiment that lasted for 60 days. Goats were divided into 4 dietary treatment groups of 4 goats in each and the goats were dist tributed between the groups in a way they represent age and lactation stage. Goats were housed in pens of suitable size and were managed as any other commercial goat flock. The animals had free access to water. Straw was fed at rate of …

Gross Margin And Cost Benefit Analysis Of Rain-Water Harvesting Techniques Used In Olive Groves Using In South Of Hebron Governorate., طلعت ابو رجب, ابراهيم القوقا

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

In the southern parts of Hebron Governorate, as well as throughout Palestine, water resources available and allocated to Palestinians are not enough, not even for dom mestic uses; therefore, there are no options for using supplemental irrigation or increasi ing irrigated areas. Two Rain-Water Harvesting Techniques, Traditional Stone Walled Terracing Technique and Diamond Water Harvesting Technique, were investigated in a field pilot experiment of the land cultivated with the improved variety of fifteen-yearold Nabali olive trees in two sites in the southern parts of Hebron Governorate. The two techniques were evaluated in terms of yield per dunum, return to land …

Effect Of Grazing On Soil Properties At Southern Part Of West Bank Rangeland, عايد غالب, صالح السيخ, يوسف عمرو

Hebron University Research Journal-A (Natural Sciences) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- أ (العلوم الطبيعيه

This study addressed the effect of excluding grazing on soil properties and soil moisture content after many years of severe overgrazing for two sites (Sorif and BaniNoem). The sites represent two different environmental conditions in the southern part of West Bank. Soil samples were taken from the grazed and ungrazed areas during 2004 and 2005 at 10 cm depth. Soil chemical and physical properties were investigated. The ung grazed pastures showed low bulk density (3 % and 12 %) in BaniNoem during 2004 and 2005, respectively. In addition, significantly higher O.M % in grazed area (2.89, 3.31) compared to ungrazed …

Issue 355: August 20-September 3, 2020, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.

The Occupation Of Training Service Dogs: A Therapeutic Intervention For Combat Veterans With Ptsd, Denae A. Padilla, Jessica De Brun

San Marcos, Summer 2020

There are few interventions that present opportunities to engage in meaningful occupation (Kashiwa et al., 2017) to help Veterans reintegrate into the civilian lifestyle that create a desire to participate and attend therapy (Goetteret al., 2015).

The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of training service dogs as an occupation and means of social support for combat Veterans living with PTSD with the following objectives:

• explore an occupation basedintervention that addresses low retention rates in occupational therapy.
• teach coping mechanisms and provide social support as a by-product to training service dogs in order to assist in reintegration …

Commonwealth Times 2020-08-19

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Pets Are Not People, Jeff Kunerth

UCF Forum

My grandchild is a dog. She is a 1½-year-old Boston Terrier named Margo. My son tells Margo how much he loves her, that she’s his baby, that she’s the youngest in our family. He praises Margo when she’s good, admonishes her when she’s bad, sends her to timeout when she’s incorrigible. She is, in most every way, his child.

Relativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation Of Einstein’S Theories Of Motion And Gravity, Jack C. Straton

PDXOpen: Open Educational Resources

Relativity Lite is designed for the General Astronomy sequence (PH 361-2U, SCI 315-6U) whose primary book glosses over Special Relativity and General Relativity while trying to explain the Cosmology that is based on those subjects. Relativity Lite translates the mathematical equations conventional relativity texts rely upon into pictures that are readily understood and contain within them the mathematical essentials. This book provides the comprehensive coverage needed to understand, in sufficient depth, these three linked areas of our reality.

Readers seeking this knowledge on their own, and those in other courses for nonscientists, may also find it helpful.

Adopt/Adapt
If you …

Dementia-Related Psychosis And The Potential Role For Pimavanserin, Jeffery L. Cummings, D. P. Devanand, Stephen M. Stahl

School of Medicine Faculty Research

Dementia-related psychosis is prevalent across dementias and typically manifests as delusions and/or hallucinations. The mechanisms underlying psychosis in dementia are unknown; however, neurobiological and pharmacological evidence has implicated multiple signaling pathways and brain regions. Despite differences in dementia pathology, the neurobiology underlying psychosis appears to involve dysregulation of a cortical and limbic pathway involving serotonergic, GABAergic, glutamatergic, and dopaminergic signaling. Thus, an imbalance in cortical and mesolimbic excitatory tone may drive symptoms of psychosis. Delusions and hallucinations may result from (1) hyperactivation of pyramidal neurons within the visual cortex, causing visual hallucinations, and (2) hyperactivation of the mesolimbic pathway, causing …

Montana Kaimin, August 19, 2020, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Bawdy Tales, Emily R. Collins

Theses and Dissertations

Hansu Siirala is a Finnish-Canadian craftsperson currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Twelve years ago at the age of fifty-five, she suffered two strokes, which paralyzed her left side and required her relocation to a long-term residential care facility. Via writings to her family, Hansu shares hilarious, bitingly sharp observations about life in the assisted care facility in Vancouver. Her stories chip away at social stigmas, make us laugh at ourselves, and celebrate life in unexpected ways. “Bawdy Tales” is a project that utilizes her writing as the foundation of a series of pieces hosted via a website, providing …

Patterns For Populus Spp. Stand Biomass In Gradients Of Winter Temperature And Precipitation Of Eurasia, Vladimir Andreevich Usoltev, Baozhang Chen, Seyed Omid Reza Shobairi, Ivan Stepanovich Tsepordey, Viktor Petrovich Chasovskikh, Shoaib Ahmad Anees

Aspen Bibliography

Based on a generated database of 413 sample plots, with definitions of stand biomass of the genus Populus spp. in Eurasia, from France to Japan and southern China, statistically significant changes in the structure of forest stand biomass were found, with shifts in winter temperatures and average annual precipitation. When analyzing the reaction of the structure of the biomass of the genus Populus to temperature and precipitation in their transcontinental gradients, a clearly expressed positive relationship of all components of the biomass with the temperature in January is visible. Their relationship with precipitation is less clear; in warm climate zones, …

Citizens Against Linscott V. Board Of Commissioners Appellant's Brief Dckt. 47909

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Phosphorylation Of Cyclophilin D At Serine 191 Regulates Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Opening And Cell Death After Ischemia-Reperfusion, Stephen Hurst, Fabrice Gonnot, Maya Dia, Claire Crola Da Silva, Ludovic Gomez, Shey-Shing Sheu

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

The mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases, including ischemia/reperfusion injury. Although the pore structure is still unresolved, the mechanism through which cyclophilin D (CypD) regulates mPTP opening is the subject of intensive studies. While post-translational modifications of CypD have been shown to modulate pore opening, specific phosphorylation sites of CypD have not yet been identified. We hypothesized here that phosphorylation of CypD on a serine residue controls mPTP opening and subsequent cell death at reperfusion. We combined in silico analysis with in vitro and genetic manipulations to determine potential CypD phosphorylation …

Catholic Social Teaching And Sustainable Development: What The Church Provides For Specialists, Anthony Philip Stine

Dissertations and Theses

The principles of Catholic Social Teaching as represented by the writings of 150 years of popes as well as the theorists inspired by those writings are examined, as well as the two principal schools of thought in the sustainability literature as represented by what is classically called the anthropocentric or managerial approach to sustainability as well as the biocentric school of thought.

This study extends previous research by analyzing what the Catholic Church has said over the course of centuries on issues related to society, economics, and the environment, as embodied in the core concepts of subsidiarity, solidarity, stewardship, the …

Is Host Metabolism The Missing Link To Improving Cancer Outcomes?, Christopher M Wright, Anuradha A. Shastri, Emily K Bongiorno, Ajay Palagani, Ulrich Rodeck, Nicole L Simone

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

For the past 100 years, oncologists have relentlessly pursued the destruction of tumor cells by surgical, chemotherapeutic or radiation oncological means. Consistent with this focus, treatment plans are typically based on key characteristics of the tumor itself such as disease site, histology and staging based on local, regional and systemic dissemination. Precision medicine is similarly built on the premise that detailed knowledge of molecular alterations of tumor cells themselves enables better and more effective tumor cell destruction. Recently, host factors within the tumor microenvironment including the vasculature and immune systems have been recognized as modifiers of disease progression and are …

A Novel Double Layered Hybrid Multi-Robot Framework For Guidance And Navigation Of Unmanned Surface Vehicles In A Practical Maritime Environment, Yogang Singh, Marco Bibuli, Enrica Zereik, Sanjay Sharma, Asiya Khan, R Sutton

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Formation control and cooperative motion planning are two major research areas currently being used in multi robot motion planning and coordination. The current study proposes a hybrid framework for guidance and navigation of swarm of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) by combining the key characteristics of formation control and cooperative motion planning. In this framework, two layers of offline planning and online planning are integrated and applied on a practical marine environment. In offline planning, an optimal path is generated from a constrained A* path planning approach, which is later smoothed using a spline. This optimal trajectory is fed as an …

Effect Of Boron Fertilizer On Density, Growth, Seed Yield And Nutrient Concentrations Of Centrosema Pubescens Grown In Humid Subtropical Areas Of Yunnan In China, Meifen Huang, Zhanxing He, Jiaxiang Kui, Yi Zheng, Ziwei Zhou, Kehui Lin

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

A Strategy To Predict The Global Warming Gas From Stock Farming —Potential Scaling Law Of The Released Methane From Livestock—, Toshiaki Nakashima, Tsuneyoshi Matsuoka, Yuji Nakamura

Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal

This work examines a scaling approach to predict the amount of methane released from the daily activity of livestock on farms. The subject animals are ruminants, i.e. having rumen or a ruminant stomach, that generates methane through digestion processes via several microbial fermentation steps. The produced methane is mixed into their breathing and released into the atmosphere. Existing data on methane released from various kinds of ruminant livestock were correlated as a power function of an animal’s weight, with an exponent near 0.92. This value is larger than a value of 0.75 which was related to the general metabolism rates …

Proceedings For Conservation Of Fragile Karst Resources, Crawford Hydrology Laboratory, The George Wright Society, Mammoth Cave National Park

Conservation of Fragile Karst Resources Proceedings

A Workshop on Sustainability and Community in support of UNESCO science programs August 18-20, 2020

An Input Power-Aware Maximum Efficiency Tracking Technique For Energy Harvesting In Iot Applications, Sanad Fares Yousef Kawar

Engineering Ph.D. Theses

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables intelligent monitoring and management in many applications such as industrial and biomedical systems as well as environmental and infrastructure monitoring. As a result, IoT requires billions of wireless sensor network (WSN) nodes equipped with a microcontroller and transceiver. As many of these WSN nodes are off-grid and small-sized, their limited-capacity batteries need periodic replacement. To mitigate the high costs and challenges of these battery replacements, energy harvesting from ambient sources is vital to achieve energy-autonomous operation. Energy harvesting for WSNs is challenging because the available energy varies significantly with ambient conditions and in many …

Nelida Cabeda V. Attorney General United States

2020 Decisions

Agency