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Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Was Inversely Associated With 3-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Chinese Oldest Old: Data From The Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, Yue-Bin Lv, Zhao-Xue Yin, Choy-Lye Chei, Han-Zhu Qian, Virginia Byers Kraus, Juan Zhang, Melanie Sereny Brasher, Xiao-Ming Shi, David Bruce Matchar, Yi Zeng

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Objective: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is a risk factor for survival in middle-aged individuals, but conflicting evidence exists on the relationship between LDL-C and all-cause mortality among the elderly. The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between LDL-C and all-cause mortality among Chinese oldest old (aged 80 and older) in a prospective cohort study.

Methods: LDL-C concentration was measured at baseline and all-cause mortality was calculated over a 3-year period. Multiple statistical models were used to adjust for demographic and biological covariates.

Results: During three years of follow-up, 447 of 935 participants died, and the overall all-cause …

Virginia Commonwealth University Courses [2015], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of courses for the 2015-2016 academic year.

“We Believe That God Speaks Danish.” Assimilation Vs Identity In Sanpete County, Utah, Claus Elholm Andersen, Elizabeth Peterson

The Bridge

Most accounts hold that Danes in America assimilated rapidly and effectively into mainstream culture…but was that always the case? This article focuses on a small community in Utah that was home to a large proportion of Danes and other Scandinavians. A close examination of this community reveals that the assimilation process was not always as straightforward a process as we oft en hear.

2015 Annual Report To The Governor And The General Assembly, Tennessee Ethics Commission

Annual Reports

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The Curious Case Of Competition And Quality, Maurice Stucke, Ariel Ezrachi

Scholarly Works

Alongside the consideration of price, competition authorities recognize that quality can be as, if not more, important in some markets. But as competition authorities also recognize, identifying the dimensions of competition important to many consumers is difficult. Even when these dimensions of quality are identified, measuring them represents additional challenges.

To circumvent these challenges, competition authorities rely on several heuristics when assessing a merger’s, cartel’s or monopolistic restraint’s impact on quality. Often the heuristics work well for the competition authorities.

Our paper, however, identifies several scenarios where these heuristics break down, when competition and quality are not positively correlated, and …

Civil Rights In Crisis: The Racial Impact Of The Denial Of The Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, Richard Klein

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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The Lingering Bigotry Of State Constitution Religious Tests, Allan W. Vestal

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Future Of The Fourth Amendment: The Problem With Privacy, Poverty And Policing, Kami Chavis Simmons

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Silver Linings Casebook: How Vergara’S Backers May Lose By Winning, Kevin G. Welner

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Elections, Power, And Local Control: Reining In Chief Prosecutors And Sheriffs, Janet C. Hoeffel, Stephen I. Singer

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Rockingham County, State Of New Hampshire, 2014 Annual Report Year Ending December 31, 2014., Rockingham County Representatives

Rockingham County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

Why William Rowe’S Argument From Natural Evil Fails, Douglas Taylor

Other Graduate Scholarship

Atheists in the vein of William Rowe have put forth arguments suggesting that the presence of evil counts against the existence of God. In particular, Rowe has advanced two lines of reasoning for his position, one being taken from an actual historical case of moral evil, and one case being a hypothetical natural evil. This paper seeks to interact with the proffered fictitious case whereby Rowe contends that even nature argues against the existence of God. If it is possible to demonstrate that Rowe’s argumentation fails, namely that if a greater good can be identified in relation to his submitted …

Deification In Cassian’S Conferences: Analysis Of John Cassian’S Writings On Unceasing Prayer In Conferences Nine And Ten As A Description Of Deification, Christina Beu

Theology Graduate Theses

No abstract provided.

Combustion Of Biogas Released From Palm Oil Mill Effluent And The Effects Of Hydrogen Enrichment On The Characteristics Of The Biogas Flame, Seyed Ehsan Hosseini, Ghobad Bagheri, Seyed Khaleghi, Mazlan Abdul Wahid

Faculty Publications - Mechanical Engineering

Biogas released from palm oil mill effluent (POME) could be a source of air pollution, which has illustrated negative effects on the global warming. To protect the environment from toxic emissions and use the energy of POME biogas, POME is conducted to the closed digestion systems and released biogas is captured. Since POME biogas upgrading is a complicated process, it is not economical and thus new combustion techniques should be examined. In this paper, POME biogas (40% COand 60% CH has been utilized as a fuel in a lab-scale furnace. A computational approach by standard k-ε combustion and turbulence model …

Critical Race Theory And The Recruitment, Retention And Promotion Of A Librarian Of Color: A Counterstory, Shaundra Walker

Library Faculty Scholarship

Despite the proliferation of residency programs, institutes, and scholar- ships designed to increase the numbers of African American and other academic librarians of color, academic librarianship, in contrast to the American population, continues to lacks racial diversity. According to the American Library Association’s most recent Diversity Counts report, credentialed academic librarians are 86.1% white. African Americans make up 12.6% of the American population, but only account for 5.4% of credentialed academic librarians.

Revisiting Don/Ovan, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

In this piece, the author, a heterosexual woman, travels to her hometown of Lake City, MN to reconnect with Donovan Marshall, a gay man she last saw in 1986. "Revisiting Don/ovan" explores opportunities and challenges of coming out, leaving, and returning to live in a small town.

Beaver Ponds: Resurgent Nitrogen Sinks For Rural Watersheds In The Northeastern United States, Julia G. Lazar, Kelly Addy, Arthur J. Gold, Peter M. Groffman, Richard A. Mckinney, Dorothy Q. Kellogg

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Beaver-created ponds and dams, on the rise in the northeastern United States, reshape headwater stream networks from extensive, free-flowing reaches to complexes of ponds, wetlands, and connecting streams. We examined seasonal and annual rates of nitrate transformations in three beaver ponds in Rhode Island under enriched nitrate-nitrogen (N) conditions through the use of ¹⁵N mass balance techniques on soil core mesocosm incubations. We recovered approximately 93% of the nitrate N from our mesocosm incubations. Of the added nitrate N, 22 to 39% was transformed during the course of the incubation. Denitrification had the highest rates of transformation (97–236 mg …

Standing To View Other People's Land: The D.C. Circuit's Divided Decision In Sierra Club V. Jewell, Bradford Mank

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

In its divided 2014 decision in Sierra Club v. Jewell, the D.C. Circuit held that plaintiffs who observe landscape have Article III standing to sue in federal court to protect those views even if they have no legal right to physically enter the private property that they view. The D.C. Circuit’s decision could significantly enlarge the standing of plaintiffs to sue federal agencies or private parties over changes to private lands that the plaintiffs have no right to enter. Because the Supreme Court has inconsistently applied both strict and liberal approaches to standing, it is difficult to predict how it …

Education Not Handcuffs: A Response To Proposals For The Criminalization Of Birth Control Sabotage, Nickeitta Leung

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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Hungry In The “Land Of Pleasant Living”: Combating The Effects Of Baltimore’S Food Deserts On Childhood Education Through Eminent Domain, Gabriel H. Rubinstein

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Narrow-Band Search Of Continuous Gravitational-Wave Signals From Crab And Vela Pulsars In Virgo Vsr4 Data, J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, E. Huerta, S. Mcwilliams

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

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Sink Or Shift: How Local Television Measures Up To The Digital Challenge, University Of Montana--Missoula. School Of Journalism

Montana Journalism Review

Neighborhood Watch: No-fly Zone -- Happy Media -- Energy Beat Booms -- Dairy Blackout -- The Deflated Journalist

State of the State: Before Ferguson -- Shooting Solo -- Last Best Place Pays Reporters the Worst -- The Dude Provides -- Scanner Shutoff -- Shutter Luck -- Losing Home Advantage

TV Guide: Transients of the Digital Age -- Television Source Check -- Boiling Point

Features: Under a Closer Scope -- About Face -- I, Journalist -- Digital to Darkroom -- Shifting Perspectives -- Three on a Match -- Ron's Reasons -- A Ride on the Front Page

The Year Ahead: My …

Isolating Litigants: A Response To Pamela Bookman, Alan M. Trammell

Scholarly Articles

In a recent article, Litigation Isolationism, Pamela Bookman identifies a phenomenon that similarly changes hue depending on one’s perspective or disposition. Bookman argues that four doctrines (personal jurisdiction, forum non conveniens, abstention comity, and the presumption against extraterritoriality) conspire to make U.S. courts significantly less hospitable to transnational litigation. In Bookman’s assessment, such isolationism is counterproductive because the doctrines often fail to vindicate their stated goals of respecting the separation of powers, international comity, and defendants’ interests. The article is crisp and elegant. It synthesizes disparate areas of law to elucidate a broader development in civil litigation. And it makes …

The Effect Of The Great Recession On Local Goverment Policy In Florida, Richard Levey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The length and depth of the Great Recession of 2008 provides an opportunity to examine the policy behavior of local governments unlike any window since the 1930's post Depression era. Utilizing Peterson's (1981) City Limits typology as a framework for local government policy allows for an evaluation of whether or not the economic downturn caused local governments to change their relative expenditures between policy categories. The City Limits typology has been widely used in the literature to explain how expenditures define a local government's role in economic development. The typology has had limited use in a pre-post natural experimental research …

Enriching Course Development: The Use Of An International Faculty Development Experience, Anna K. Lee, Naomi M. Hall

Pedagogy and the Human Sciences

This paper discusses the use of an international faculty development experience in the development of an Introduction to Black Psychology course. Faculty attended an 11-day seminar in South Africa to learn about the country’s history and transformation into a multiracial, multicultural society. The seminar included lectures and site visits designed to provide faculty with an intercultural experience that could be used to enhance curricula and increase students’ global understanding of social issues. A highlight of the training pertains to the parallel made between the historical similarities in the Black South African and Black American experience. Transformative learning forms the theoretical …

The Origins Of Underperformance In Higher Education In America: Proximal Systems Of Influence, Michael F. Mascolo, Jose Castillo

Pedagogy and the Human Sciences

In this paper, we examine the problem of underachievement in higher education. We begin by seeking to establish that the quality of learning among undergraduates is, as a whole, limited. Undergraduate underachievement cannot be attributed to any single cause. Quite the contrary, we argue that the origins of underperformance in the academy are systemic, coactive and multi-layered. At the proximal level of teaching and learning, we identify four mutually reinforcing processes that contribute to student underachievement: (a) fragmentation of the curriculum, (b) entrant knowledge level and skills gaps; (c) student culture, and (d) pedagogical ineffectiveness. At a more distal level, …

Molecular Approaches For Improving Desiccation Tolerance: Insights From The Brine Shrimp Artemia Franciscana, Steven C. Hand, Michael A. Menze

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Main conclusion We have evaluated the endogenous expression and molecular properties of selected Group 3 LEA proteins from Artemia franciscana , and the capacity of selected Groups 1 and 3 proteins transfected into various desiccation-sensitive cell lines to improve tolerance to drying. Organisms inhabiting both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems frequently are confronted with the problem of water loss for multiple reasons—exposure to hypersalinity, evaporative water loss, and restriction of intracellular water due to freezing of extracellular fluids. Seasonal desiccation can become severe and lead to the production of tolerant propagules and entry into the state of anhydrobiosis at various stages …

Wanting To Do More But Bound To Do Less: A Law Librarian's Dilemna, Paul Mclaughlin

Law Library Faculty Scholarship

The role of the law librarian has changed from managing the contents of a library’s collection of books to knowing how to find information sources located around the world contained in a variety of formats, taking part in instruction, and participating in networking activities. Law librarians are constrained by legal and professional codes. If they are cautious, law librarians can assist, instruct, and reach out to public patrons and students while operating within the professional guidelines that govern them.

The Historical Case For Abandoning Strickland, Brian Gallini

School of Law Faculty Publications and Presentations

Even the Justices considering Strickland v. Washington knew. “[T]his is a big case,” Justice Powell handwrote on the first page of his law clerk’s bench memorandum. Although designed to provide the Sixth Amendment benchmark for effective defense attorney representation, Strickland was an utter failure. Courts nationwide have relied on Strickland to uphold as constitutional criminal defense attorney conduct that includes sleeping through portions of trial, remaining completely silent during the proceedings, mental illness, alcohol use, and drug use - among other troubling examples. The bench, bar, and scholars alike have therefore uniformly proposed reforming the Strickland standard.But no article has …

The Unlikely Meeting Between Dzhokhar Tsarnaev And Benjamin Quarles, Brian Gallini

School of Law Faculty Publications and Presentations

Everyone reads New York v. Quarles in law school. The Supreme Court’s 1984 decision in Quarles established the public safety exception—the first and only exception to the requirements of Miranda v. Arizona. But at the time of Quarles’s issuance, no one could have predicted just how big and forgiving the exception would become. Whereas the defendant in Quarles provided a single response to a single law enforcement question while in custody immediately following his arrest, one of the two 2013 Marathon Bombers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had a dramatically different experience. Four days after the April 15, 2013, Marathon Bombing, Tsarnaev was …