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Humancentric Applications Of Rfid Chips, S. Derrick, K. Michael, H. Tootell

Dr Holly Tootell

No abstract provided.

Alcohol And Environmental Justice: The Density Of Liquor Stores And Bars In Urban Neighborhoods In The United States, John Romley, Deborah Cohen, Jeanne Ringel, Roland Sturm

Roland Sturm

Objective: This study had two purposes: (1) to characterize the density of liquor stores and bars that individuals face according to race, economic status, and age in the urban United States and (2) to assess alternative measures of retailer density based on the road network and population. Method: We used census data on business counts and sociodemographic characteristics to compute the densities facing individuals in 9,361 urban zip codes. Results: Blacks face higher densities of liquor stores than do whites. The density of liquor stores is greater among nonwhites in lower-income areas than among whites in lower- and higher-income areas …

The Suitability Of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction For Chronic Hepatitis C, Lynn Koerbel, Donna Zucker

Donna M. Zucker

As incidence of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) in the United States increases, management of physical and psychological symptoms over the long term becomes crucial. Research has shown meditation to be a valuable tool in reducing such symptoms for various chronic illnesses. In particular, the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program offers curriculum that has been show to influence both physiology and perception of disease states. Although there has been not direct research to date on the effectiveness of the MBSR program for CHC, several studies have shown significant findings affecting other chronic conditions including heart disease, fibromyalgia and HIV. The purpose …

Swahili Expressive Arts Digital Media Collection, Rebecca Gearhart

Rebecca Gearhart

The Swahili Expressive Arts collection represents the research and scholarship of Professor Rebecca Gearhart, Ph.D., Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois Wesleyan University. Professor Gearhart has worked with members of the community of Lamu, Kenya for twenty years, and in this collection she has selected images that represent aspects of Swahili ceremonial life on the northern coast of Kenya. The Swahili Expressive Arts collection is meant to be a possible starting point for student and scholar research on some of the Sufi-inspired practices that contemporary Swahili communities in the Lamu archipelago and adjacent mainland carry on into the present.

Delivering Library Services To Distance Learners: A Grass Roots Effort At A Regional Campus., Tammy Guerrero, Kimberly Whalen, Lynda Willer

Kimberly J. Whalen

No abstract provided.

Non-Standard Sources In A Standardized World: Responsible Practice And Ethics Of Acquiring Turtle Specimens For Scientific Use, Edgar Lehr, Russell Burke, Linda Ford, Steve Mockford, Peter Pritchard, Jose Rosado, Darrell Senneke, Bryan Stuart

Edgar Lehr

No abstract provided.

Race-Bait '08: Lessons Learned From The Political Dirty Dozen, Christopher Edley, David Kirp, Adam Gomolin, Joshua Green, Nina Home, Justin Kidd

Christopher Edley

This report by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science, Goldman School of Public Policy and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at Berkeley Law School offers a first-ever historical review of race-driven campaigning. It dissects “The Dirty Dozen,” laying bare how race became pivotal, either by becoming a visible issue or by insinuation.

Imagination Is Only As Rational As The Purpose To Which It Is Put, Andrew Shtulman

Andrew Shtulman

No abstract provided.

State Of The Union Address, Alison Howard

Alison Dana Howard

Negotiating The Politics Of Identity In An Interdisciplinary Research Team, Lorelei Lingard, Catherine Schryer, Marlee Spafford, Sandra Campbell

Lorelei Lingard

This article explores the politics of identity in an interdisciplinary health research team that has been engaged in a qualitative research program for over five years. We draw on sociological theories of power and knowledge to explore our experiences of identity conflict, team socialization, and knowledge production. Structurally, our article integrates individual and group perspectives through personal narratives and collaborative critique as we explore the complex negotiations required to realize and maintain our team dynamic. These negotiations take place not only with one another as particularly positioned individuals, but also with the ideological and organizational forces that structure our scholarly …

Print And Online Resources For Factual Investigation In Connection With Real-Estate Transactions, Ruth Stevens

Ruth Stevens

No abstract provided.

Systematic Review Of Baseline Low-Dose Ct Lung Cancer Screening., Michael Lock

Michael Lock

The purpose of this systematic review was to provide physicians and patients with a synthesis of the available data and an assessment of the operating characteristics associated with baseline LDCT screening for lung cancer. Various databases, meeting abstracts, clinical trials in progress, and major textbooks for relevant data from 1966 to 2006 were searched for relevant studies. The median value of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value were 81%, 81%, 8% and 99%, respectively. Of the studies that compared LDCT with other lung cancer screening maneuvers, it was found that LDCT detected a greater number of cancerous …

Trauma Professionals’ Attitudes Towards And Utilization Of Evidence-Based Practice, Larry Schmidt

Larry O Schmidt

No abstract provided.

Colombian State Human Rights Policies, Winifred Tate

Winifred L. Tate

No abstract provided.

Best Free Reference Web Sites Ninth Annual List, Rosemary Meszaros, James Langan, Margaret Perkins, Charles Cobine, Christopher Dunham, Caroline Geck

Charles Cobine

No abstract provided.

Know Your Students, Ann Marshall, Vicki Burns, Judi Briden

Ann Marshall

The Internet And The Construction Of The Immigrant Public Sphere: The Case Of The Cameroonian Diaspora, Kehbuma Langmia

Kehbuma Langmia

Implementation Of The Intervention-Based Family Assessment Procedure: A Case Study, Jeanne Jenkins, Audrey Ellenwood

Jeanne E. Jenkins

Chronic illness is a worldwide phenomenon impacting the emotional stability and daily functioning of families across cultures. Families with a chronically ill member are in need of interventions and therapy, yet, time constraints and care-taking demands make it difficult for families to seek traditional family therapy services. The objectives of this article are to (1) overview the Intervention-Based Family Assessment Procedure (IBFA) and (2) present a case vignette demonstrating the implementation of the procedure. The IBFA is an effective diagnostic tool and intervention strategy to help family therapists alter the dysfunctional and rigid structural dynamics of families with a chronically …

Questioning Competence: A Discourse Analysis Of Attending Physicians' Use Of Questions To Assess Trainee Competence, Tara Kennedy, Lorelei Lingard

Lorelei Lingard

BACKGROUND: Attending physicians (APs) must constantly assess trainees' competence to act independently, to promote learning while ensuring quality of care. This study aimed to explore, through discourse analysis of case presentations, the process of competence assessment for case-specific clinical independence.

METHOD: Twenty-six case presentations in emergency medicine were observed and audiorecorded. A discourse analysis was conducted, focusing on APs' use of questioning strategies.

RESULTS: Questioning strategies involved clarifying questions (to ensure APs' understanding of the case), probing questions (to probe trainees' understanding of a case or their underlying knowledge), and challenging questions (to challenge presuppositions). Case-related probing questions and challenging …

Seeing And Listening: A Visual And Social Analysis Of Optometric Record-Keeping Practices, Lara Varpio, Marlee Spafford, Catherine Schryer, Lorelei Lingard

Lorelei Lingard

This article investigates the contribution visual rhetoric and rhetorical genre studies (RGS) can make to health care education and communication genres. Through a visual rhetorical analysis of a patient record used in an optometry teaching clinic, this article illustrates that a genre's visual representations provide significant insights into the social action of that genre. These insights are deepened by an insider analysis of the patient record that highlights how content analyses of visual designs need to be elaborated by contextual considerations. A combined visual rhetoric and RGS analysis shows that clinical novices learn to interpret the record's visual cues to …

Assessment Of Indirect Cost-Of-Illness In A Subsistence Farming Society By Using Different Valuation Methods, Tin Su

Tin Tin Su

Indirect costs or productive labour time lost are the largest share of household economic burden of illness. However, the estimate of household indirect cost can vary depending on the valuation methods used. We therefore estimated household indirect cost in a subsistence farming society in Burkina Faso based on daily production value. These results were validated by using willingness-to-pay method and current wage rate. Among the three methods, the value of a day lost for adults assessed by willingness-to-pay method was considerably higher than other methods. There were no significant differences in indirect costs estimated by daily production value and wage …

Endnote Web, Andrew Shimp

Andrew Shimp

How England Got Its Name, (1014-1035), George Beech

George T. Beech

Information Literacy For Branch Campuses And Branch Libraries, James Hooks, Carl Rahkonen, Christopher Clouser, Kelly Heider, Rena Fowler

Chris Clouser

Fatigue As A Symptom Of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Ann L. Eckhardt, Michelle Fennessy, Anne Fink, Jessica Jones, Kathryn Szigetvari, Donna Kruse, Laura Tucco, Cathy Ryan, Julie J. Zerwic

Ann L. Eckhardt

Bell's Palsy: Diagnosis And Management, Jeffrey D. Tiemstra, N Khakhate

Jeffrey Tiemstra, MD, FAAFP

Addng Context To Content: The Cens Deployment Center, Matthew Mayernik, Jillian Wallis, C Borgman, Alberto Pepe

Jillian C Wallis

Scientists and engineers working with embedded networked sensing systems in the environmental sciences are acquiring data at unprecedented rates. Scientific data do not emerge from a vacuum. There is considerable contextual information that surrounds the process of data acquisition that is critical to interpret and analyze data. Current techniques for data sharing involve considerable manual effort to prepare, describe, and transfer this contextual information along with the data itself. This paper reports on a study of the UCLA-based Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), an interdisciplinary NSF research center that supports collaborations to develop and implement innovative wireless sensor networks. …

Revisiting Equipoise: A Response To Gifford, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

The authors respond to objections Fred Gifford has raised against their paper "Rehabilitating Equipoise." They situate this exchange in the wider context of recent debate over equipoise, highlighting substantial points of agreement between themselves and Gifford. The authors offer a brief restatement of "Rehabilitating Equipoise" in which they amplify some of its core arguments. They then assess Gifford's objections. Finding each to be unfounded, they argue that there is no justification for "pulling the plug" on clinical equipoise.

Evidence For The Regulation Of Contraction-Induced Fatty Acid Oxidation Via Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase 1/2 Activation Independent Of Changes In Fatty Acid Uptake, Marcella Raney, Lorraine Turcotte

Marcella Raney

Abstract Data show that extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) may be involved in the regulation of fatty acid (FA) uptake during muscle contraction via stimulation of CD36 translocation to the plasma membrane. The perfused hind limb model was used to determine (1) the importance of ERK1/2 signaling on contraction-induced FA uptake and (2) the effect of ERK1/2-mediated FA uptake on contraction-induced FA oxidation. We perfused rat hind limbs with 8 mmol/L glucose, 550 μmol/L palmitate, and no insulin at rest in the absence of inhibitor and during moderate-intensity electrical stimulation and dose-dependent pharmacologic inhibition of ERK1/2 using increasing concentrations of …

On The Time-Resolved Optogalvanic Spectra Of Neon And Krypton, Naveed Piracha, K. Nesbett, S. Moten, P. Moeller

Naveed K. Piracha

In this work time resolved optogalvanic signals associated with transitions excited from the first metastable state of neon and krypton have been studied. These gases have similar energy state configurations and it is of significant interest to study their time resolved optogalvanic waveforms resulting from transitions belonging to the states of same quantum numbers. The experimentally observed optogalvanic signals recorded for different discharge currents have been fitted to a theoretical model to obtain parameters that determine amplitudes, instrumental time constants and decay rates of the 1s levels.