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Surgical Treatment Of Renal Gout In Monocellate Cobra, Naja Kaouthia, Taksa Vasaruchapong, Lawan Chanhome

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

A wild captured, male Monocellate cobra, Naja kaouthia of unknown age was observed with anorexia, imbalance of swimming and mild swelling in the distal fourth of the body. Physical examination revealed a palpable firm mass in the coelomic cavity, of which radiographic examination was suspicious as an obstruction of large intestine by a foreign body. Removal of the foreign body through its cloaca was attempted by enema and digital manipulation, but was not successful. Thereafter, an exploratory surgery was performed and revealed an abnormality in the left kidney that was compressing the large intestine. Nephrectomy was performed and histopathologically identified …

Combination Of Acupuncture And Aquapuncture Using Vitamin B Complex For Treatment Of Chronic Degenerative Changes Of Hip Joints And Anal Relaxation In A Dog, Kui-Ming Chang, Kuan-Sheng Chen, Hsien-Chi Wang, Cheng-Hung Lai, Yu-Ta Hsieh, Hsing-Hui King, Wei-Ming Lee

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

A beagle dog, aged 10 years old, was presented with anal relaxation. Chronic arthrosis of hip joints had beendiagnosed and treated on this dog’s first visit to the National Chung Hsing University Veterinary Medicine Teachinghospital. Except for unwillingness to walk on both hind limbs, pain on both hips and uncontrolled defecation due toanal relaxation, no other clinical signs were found during physical examination. The body temperature was 38.60C.CRT was normal (less than 2 sec). Heart beat was 110 beats/min and strong pulse was palpated. Based on theGlasgow composite pain scale, the pain scale of this dog was 2. Radiology of …

Ophthalmology Snapshot, Nalinee Tuntivanich

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.

Ecg Quiz, Chollada Buranakarl, Suwanakiat Sawangkoon, Monkon Trisiriroj, Winai Chansaisakorn

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.

Ultrasound Diagnosis, Phiwipha Kamonrat

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.

What Is Your Diagnosis, Pranee Tuntivanich, Suwicha Chuthatep

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.

Friends, Family, Or Fools: Entrepreneur Experience And Its Implications For Equity Distribution And Resource Mobilization, Reddi Kotha, Gerard George

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Who helps entrepreneurs raise the resources they need and how much equity does an entrepreneur distribute in return? We use a sample of 611 entrepreneurs in the U.S. to examine why some entrepreneurs are more likely than others to distribute ownership selectively to helpers. We find that entrepreneurs with specific industry experience and start-up experience are able to provide ownership more selectively and raise more resources from their helpers. We refine the categorization of social ties further to make a distinction between professional and familial ties to show that the ownership distribution and types of resource contributions vary by the …

Global Health Governance: Analyzing China, India, And Japan As Global Health Aid Donors, Ann Florini, Karthik Nachiappan, Tikki Pang, Christine Pilcavage

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Development assistance is a significant mechanism by which major countries exercise influence in the global health arena. Of the major Asian powers, Japan has long provided significant funding, while China and India have primarily been recipients but are beginning to increase their funding roles. This article examines the amounts, channels, modes, disease allocations and the geographic focuses of their foreign health aid, and delineates the institutional structures that govern the formulation and implementation of foreign health aid policy in each of these countries, to explore what influence China, India, and Japan have and may develop in the global health arena. …

Lost Sleep And Cyberloafing: Evidence From The Laboratory And A Daylight Saving Time Quasi-Experiment, David T. Wagner, Christopher M. Barnes, Vivien K. G. Lim, D. Lance Ferris

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The Internet is a powerful tool that has changed the way people work. However, the ubiquity of the Internet has led to a new workplace threat to productivity—cyberloafing. Building on the ego depletion model of self-regulation, we examine how lost and low-quality sleep influence employee cyberloafing behaviors and how individual differences in conscientiousness moderate these effects. We also demonstrate that the shift to Daylight Saving Time (DST) results in a dramatic increase in cyberloafing behavior at the national level. We first tested the DST–cyberloafing relation through a national quasi-experiment, then directly tested the relation between sleep and cyberloafing in a …

Portfolio Value-At-Risk Optimization For Asymmetrically Distributed Asset Returns, Joel Weiqiang Goh, Kian Guan Lim, Melvyn Sim, Weina Zhang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We propose a new approach to portfolio optimization by separating asset return distributions into positive and negative half-spaces. The approach minimizes a newly-defined Partitioned Value-at-Risk (PVaR) risk measure by using half-space statistical information. Using simulated data, the PVaR approach always generates better risk-return tradeoffs in the optimal portfolios when compared to traditional Markowitz mean-variance approach. When using real financial data, our approach also outperforms the Markowitz approach in the risk-return tradeoff. Given that the PVaR measure is also a robust risk measure, our new approach can be very useful for optimal portfolio allocations when asset return distributions are asymmetrical.

Political Connections And Corporate Diversification In Emerging Economies: Evidence From China, Weiwen Li, Ai He, Hailin Lan, Daphne W. Yiu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Drawing upon the resource-based view, this study examines how political connections affect corporate diversification in an emerging economy. Data from a sample of 1,280 Chinese public firms over 2002-2005 show a strong positive relationship between political connections and corporate diversification. We also find that the positive relationship between political connections and corporate diversification is moderated by the level of state ownership in firms and the level of regional institutional development. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

Age, Period And Cohort Effects On Social Capital, Philip Schwadel, Mike Stout

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Researchers hypothesize that social capital in the United States is not just declining, but that it is declining across generations or birth cohorts. Testing this proposition, we examine changes in social capital using age-period-cohort intrinsic estimator models. Results from analyses of 1972–2010 General Social Survey data show 1) that informal association with neighbors declined across periods while informal association with friends outside of the neighborhood increased across birth cohorts; 2) that formal association was comparatively stable with the exception of relatively high levels of formal association among the early 1920s and early 1930s birth cohorts; and 3) that trust declined …

Internal Control — Integrated Framework: Internal Control Over External Financial Reporting: A Compendium Of Approaches And Examples, September 2012, Committee Of Sponsoring Organizations Of The Treadway Commission

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Internal Control—Integrated Framework: Feedback Questions, September 2012, Committee Of Sponsoring Organizations Of The Treadway Commission

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Comment On Internal Control Over External Financial Reporting And Internal Control-Integrated Framework, Committee Of Sponsoring Organizations Of The Treadway Commission

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Internal Control—Integrated Framework: Framework And Appendices, September 2012, Committee Of Sponsoring Organizations Of The Treadway Commission

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Reward Differences Between Adolescents From A Native American Community And Adolescents From A Non-Native American Community, Mark Guthmiller, Daniel D. Houlihan Ph.D., Liesa A. Klein, Kendra J. Homan, Tammy J. Jollie-Trottier

Journal of Indigenous Research

Differences in preferred rewards of male and female Native American and non-Native America adolescents were examined using the Native American version of the Survey of Rewards for Teens (SORT-NA). The SORT-NA is a self-report survey which examines preferences across eight domains: sports, food, entertainment, excursions, interests and hobbies, social activities, social related activities, and a miscellaneous category. Results indicated significant differences in reward preference across culture in two domains, and across gender in five domains.

State V. Cunningham Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39566

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Winthrop Professors, Student To Present At Dragon Con This Weekend, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2012

• Dragon*Con is a four-day pop culture convention focusing on science fiction, fantasy, games, comics and more.
• Presenting from Winthrop are assistant English education professor Robert Prickett, assistant English professors Casey Cothran and Leslie Bickford, University College assistant dean Nakia Pope and student Miri Smith.

Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson To Visit Winthrop Sept. 5, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2012

• Libertarian Party candidate for president Gary Johnson will visit Winthrop Sept. 5.
• Johnson served as the Republican governor of New Mexico from 1995-2003.
• Doors open at 7:30 p.m. in the Tuttle Dining Room in McBryde Hall with Johnson speaking at 8:30 p.m.

Optimizing Feeder Bus Network Based On Access Mode Shifts, Zhaodong Huang

Dissertations

The methodology introduced in this dissertation is to optimally find a feeder bus network in a suburban area for an existing rail system that connects the suburban area with the Central Business District (CBD). The objective is to minimize the total cost, including user and supplier costs. Three major access modes (walk, feeder bus, and auto) for the rail station are considered and the cost for all modes makes up the user cost. The supplier cost comes from the operating cost of the feeder bus network. The decision variables include the structure of the feeder bus network, service frequencies, and …

Blind Recognition Of Analog Modulation Schemes For Software Defined Radio, Haifeng Xiao

Dissertations

With the emergence of software defined radios (SDRs), an adaptive receiver is needed that can configure various parameters, such as carrier frequency, bandwidth, symbol timing, and signal to noise ratio (SNR), and automatically identify modulation schemes. In this dissertation research, several fundamental SDR tasks for analog modulations are investigated, since analog radios are often used by civil government agencies and some unconventional military forces. Hence, the detection and recognition of "old technology" analog modulations remain an important task both for civil and military electronic support systems and for notional cognitive radios.

In this dissertation, a Cyclostationarity-Based Decision Tree classifier is …

Fast Algorithms For Brownian Dynamics Simulation With Hydrodynamic Interactions, Zhi Liang

Dissertations

In the Brownian dynamics simulation with hydrodynamic interactions, one needs to generate the total displacement vectors of Brownian particles consisting of two parts: a deterministic part which is proportional to the product of the Rotne-Prager-Yamakawa (RPY) tensor D [1, 2] and the given external forces F; and a hydrodynamically correlated random part whose covariance is proportional to the RPY tensor. To be more precise, one needs to calculate Du for a given vector u and compute √Dv for a normally distributed random vector v. For an arbitrary N-particle configuration, D is a 3N x 3N matrix and u, v are …

Graphene-Coated Substrates For Biochemical And Optoelectronic Applications, Amrita Banerjee

Dissertations

Graphene - monolayer or a few layers of graphite -- has proven to possess remarkable properties: large thermal conductivity, mechanical robustness, two-dimensional ultra large electronic mobility, chemical inertness and biochemical compatibility. Realization of some applications has been impeded by lack of a large area deposition method. By using a novel methodology to deposit graphene on solid and perforated substrates, various optoelectronic and biochemical elements have been demonstrated in this thesis: (1) graphene based transistors were fabricated and their characteristics were assessed. The mobility for such transistors exceeded 5000 cm2/V·s, much larger than their silicon based counterparts. Such attribute opens up …

Analytical And Computational Methods For The Study Of Rare Event Probabilities In Dispersive And Dissipative Waves, Daniel S. Cargill

Dissertations

The main focus of this dissertation is the application of importance sampling (IS) to calculate the probabilities associated with rare events in nonlinear, large-dimensional lightwave systems that are driven by noise, including models for fiber-based optical communication system and mode-locked lasers. Throughout the last decade, IS has emerged as a valuable tool for improving the efficiency of simulating rare events in such systems. In particular, it has shown great success in simulating various sources of transmission impairments found in optical communication systems, with examples ranging from large polarization fluctuations resulting from randomly varying fiber birefringence to large pulse-width fluctuations resulting …

High Aspect Ratio Electrodes For High Yield Electroporation Of Cells, Anil B. Shrirao

Dissertations

Electroporation is a widely used process in cell biology studies. It uses an electric field to create pores on the cell membrane in order to either insert exogenous molecules inside the cells or disrupt the cell membrane to kill the cells. Current micro-fluidic electroporation devices use the planar electrodes situated at the bottom of a microchannel. These planar electrodes i) require a high voltage and ii) generate a nonuniform electric field which result in low yield of the electroporation. The standard silicon microfabrication technologies are not suitable to fabricate non-planar electrodes required to increase the yield of electroporation.

In this …

Ethnically Diverse Freshman Class Arrives Sept. 4 For 2012-13 Academic Year, Lawrence University

Press Releases

Call it “back to the future.”

When Lawrence University welcomed its first class in November, 1849, 13 of the 35 students were Oneida Indians.

This year’s incoming class of new students will be nearly 12 times larger than that initial class, but Native Americans will once again be an integral part of the mix. Eight Native Americans, representing Indian nations in Arizona, Iowa, New Mexico and Wisconsin, will be among the 417 incoming freshmen of the Class of 2016.

This year’s class of 450 new students — the second-largest freshman class in Lawrence history (2010 was the largest with 452) …

08-31-2012 Model Un Class At Swosu Starts September 4, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

A Model United Nations course will start on Tuesday, September 4, for SWOSU students who are interested in the program.

08-31-2012 Tulsa Student Wins Swosu Social Media Scavenger Hunt, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

Southwestern Oklahoma State University student Kristina Meyer (front center) of Tulsa won the recent three-day SWOSU Social Media Scavenger Hunt on the Weatherford campus. Meyer won a $250 scholarship for her efforts.

Use Of Quantitative Membrane Proteomics Identifies A Novel Role Of Mitochondria In Healing Injured Muscles., Nimisha Sharma, Sushma Medikayala, Sree Rayavarapu, Kristy J. Brown, Yetrib Hathout, Jyoti K. Jaiswal, Aurelia Defour

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Skeletal muscles are proficient at healing from a variety of injuries. Healing occurs in two phases, early and late phase. Early phase involves healing the injured sarcolemma and restricting the spread of damage to the injured myofiber. Late phase of healing occurs a few days postinjury and involves interaction of injured myofibers with regenerative and inflammatory cells. Of the two phases, cellular and molecular processes involved in the early phase of healing are poorly understood. We have implemented an improved sarcolemmal proteomics approach together with in vivo labeling of proteins with modified amino acids in mice to study acute changes …