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| Creator | Title | Description | Subject | Date | ||
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| 276 |  | Herrmann, Mark G.; Durtschi, Jacob; Bromley, L. Kathryn; Voelkerding, Karl V. | Cross platform comparison of melting curve analysis | Melting analysis of PCR product was first performed on the LightCycler 10 years ago. Now, melting analysis is a standard function on all real-time PCR instruments. Recent advances in DNA melting analysis, including high resolution melting and specialized dyes, have increased the capabilities of melt... | PCR; SNP; SYBR Green I; LC Green Plus; high-resolution melting; mutation scanning; amplicon genotyping | 2005-11-04 |
| 277 |  | House, Paul A.; Couldwell, William T. | De novo fenestration of the optic nerve case illustration. | Fenestration of the optic nerve or chiasm due to the presence of aneurismal dilation of the internal carotid artery (ICA) has been described. In three out of five cases reviewed recently, the optic nerve was penetrated by an ICAΓÇôophthalmic artery aneurysm.3 Penetration of the optic nerve was du... | Aneurysm; Congenital Optic Nerve | 2005-02-01 |
| 278 |  | Newman, Lex | Descartes' epistemology | René Descartes (1596-1650) is widely regarded as the father of modern Philosophy;. His noteworthy contributions extend to mathematics and physics. This entry focuses on his philosophical contributions in the theory of knowledge. Specifically, the focus is on the epistemological project of Descartes... | Descartes; Philosophy;; Epistemology | 2005-04-14 |
| 279 |  | Cloud, Joann L.; Hoggan, Karen; Cohen, Samuel; Brown-Elliott, Barbara A.; Mann, Linda; Wilson, Rebecca; Aldous, Wade K.; Wallace, Jr, Richard J.; Woods, Gail L. | Differentiation of mycobacterium chelonae and M. abscessus using SmartCycler PCR and MGB eclipse probes | This poster discusses how the use of partial 16S rDNA sequencing (first one-third of the gene) for the identification of Mycobacterium species from cultured isolates has become recognized as a very accurate method for identification. The distinction between M. chelonae and M. abscessus, however, is ... | MGB Eclipse System; SmartCycler PCR; Mycobacterium abscessus | 2005-09-05 |
| 280 |  | Couldwell, William T.; Gottfried, Oren N. | Distal ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure secondary to clostridium difficile colitis | Distal ventriculoperitoneal shunt obstruction is typically associated with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) infection, fluid pseudocysts, bowel obstruction, bowel perforation, or improper shunt placement in the abdomen. We describe a unique etiology for distal shunt obstruction secondary to Clostridium di... | 2005-01-01 | |
| 281 |  | Eisenman, Patricia A.; Symons, John David; White, Andrea T. | Eccentric strain at long muscle length evokes the repeated bout effect. | The repeated bout effect (RBE) is a phenomenon characterized by less delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and torque deficit after the second of 2 separate eccentric exercise bouts. Previous investigators have reported that shifting of optimum angle after an initial bout of eccentric exercise mediat... | Delayed Onset; Muscle Soreness; Popped Sarcomere; Exercise; Optimum Angle | 2005-11-19 |
| 282 |  | Parker, Sam; Stevenson, Jeffery B.; Hillyard, David R. | Eclipse probe assay for the detection of mycoplasma pneumoniae. | Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an important human pathogen that causes community acquired pneumonias and upper respiratory tract infections. Traditional detection techniques, such as culture and serology, cannot rapidly aid in the diagnosis of an acute infection with adequate sensitivity and specificity. ... | Eclipse Hybridization Probe; Protocol; Techniques | 2005-09-11 |
| 283 |  | Smith, Ken R.; Mineau, Geraldine Page; Kerber, Richard A. | Effects of childhood and middle-adulthood family conditions on later-life mortality: evidence from the Utah population database, 1850-2002 | How do parents affect the health and longevity of their children? Parents can affect their children's life chances by transmitting a genetic endowment (or liability) for a long life while also providing resources and an environment that enhances (or limits) their children's longevity. Recently, m... | Growth; death; adolescence; geriatrics | 2005-01-05 |
| 284 |  | Willemsen, Peter; Gooch, Amy A.; Thompson, William B.; Creem-Regehr, Sarah Hope | Effects of stereo viewing conditions on distance perception in virtual environments | Several studies from different research groups investigating perception of absolute, egocentric distances in virtual environments have reported a compression of the intended size of the virtual space. One potential explanation for the compression is that inaccuracies and cue confliicts involving ... | Distance perception; Virtual environments; Stereo viewing conditions | 2005-02-15 |
| 285 |  | Caserta, Michael; Telonidis, Jacqueline Slattery; Lund, Dale A. | Effects of widowhood on disabled older women (the women's health and aging study)* | This study examined the effects of becoming widowed for older women with pre-existing physical disability. Data from three consecutive interviews from the Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS) were used to compare depression, quality of life, and functional difficulty for widowed and nonwidowed wome... | Women's Health and Aging Study; WHAS; Disabled older women | 2005-01-01 |
| 286 |  | Simpson, Jamesina J. | Electrokinetic effect of the loma prieta earthquake calculated by an entire-earth FDTD solution of Maxwell's equations | We report what we believe to be the first three-dimensional computational solution of the full-vector Maxwell's equations for hypothesized pre-seismic electromagnetic phenomena propagated within the entire Earth-ionosphere cavity. Periodic boundary conditions are used in conjunction with a variable-... | 2005-01-01 | |
| 287 |  | Regehr, John | Eliminating stack overflow by abstract interpretation | An important correctness criterion for software running on embedded microcontrollers is stack safety: a guarantee that the call stack does not overflow. Our first contribution is a method for statically guaranteeing stack safety of interrupt-driven embedded software using an approach based on contex... | 2005-01-01 | |
| 288 |  | Capecchi, Mario R. | ELOVL3 is an important component for early onset of lipid recruitment in brown adipose tissue | During the recruitment process of brown adipose tissue, the mRNA level of the fatty acyl chain elongase Elovl3 is elevated more than 200-fold in cold-stressed mice. We have obtained Elovl3-ablated mice and report here that, although cold-acclimated Elovl3-ablated mice experienced an increased heat l... | 2005-12-21 | |
| 289 |  | Malloy, Thomas E.; Jensen, Gary C. | Emergence of dynamic form through phase relations in dynamic systems | Gregory Bateson construes mental process as the flow and transforms of differences in a system. Stuart Kauffman uses NK Boolean systems to model the emergence of order in biological evolution. Because the Boolean base (0, 1) maps to Bateson's idea of difference, we simulate Bateson's epistemology wi... | Systems; psychology; models | 2005-10-24 |
| 290 |  | Erickson, J. Alan; Aldeen, William E.; Ashwood, Edward R. | Evaluation of a fecal pancreatic elastase-1 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: assessment versus an established assay and implication in classifying pancreatic function | Disagreement continues regarding the two commercially available fecal pancreatic elastase-1 (PE-1) ELISAs and their respective capabilities to assess pancreatic function. Our objectives were to validate the newer PE-1 ELISA and evaluate the test against the previously established assay, to investiga... | PE-1; pancreatic elastase-1; FDA; AMR; analytical measurement range; BioServ Diagnostics PE-1ELISA; ScheBo Biotech PE-1ELISA | 2005-09-25 |
| 291 |  | Erickson, J. Alan; Ashwood, Edward R. | Evaluation of an enzyme-linked binding protein assay for hyaluronic acid and concentrations in hepatitis C infected patients | Serological hyaluronic acid (HA) has been proposed as a noninvasive alternative to liver biopsy for assessing the extent of liver fibrosis. Liver biopsy correctly identifies hepatic disease in about 65 to 75% of cases, being strongly dependent on the length of the biopsy obtained. Furthermore, hepat... | Hyaluronic Acid Concentration; Corgenix HA assay | 2005-07-21 |
| 292 |  | Konnick, Eric Q.; Ashwood, Edward R.; Hillyard, David R.; Comanor, Lorraine; Di Canzio, James | Evaluation of the Versant ? HBV DNA 3.0 Assay (bDNA)+ and comparison with the Cobastm HBV Taqman Analyte Specific Reagent Assay. | To evaluate the performance characteristics of the Versant ? HBV DNA 3.0 assay (bDNA)+ (Versant, Bayer Healthcare LLC, Tarrytown, NY). 2.) To compare the Versant assay to the COBAS HBV TaqMan Analyte Specific Reagent assay (TaqMan) (Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA) using random and defined p... | International Standard; HBV DNA Tests | 2005-05-07 |
| 293 |  | Scott, Steve | Everything you need, should, could, would want to know about data security. | A LIFT Forum presentation. The purpose of the Library and Information Technology Forum is to inform the University of Utah community about electronic information resources, and current trends in the use of computers and online technologies for accessing these resources. | Data Security | 2005-12-07 |
| 294 |  | Couldwell, William T. | Far Lateral Transcondylar Approach for Resection of Neurenteric Cysts of the Cervicomedullary Junction (Far-lateral transcondylar approach: surgical technique and its application in neurenteric cysts of the cervicomedullary junction. Report of two cases.) | Neurenteric cysts are rare benign lesions of the central nervous system that are lined by endodermal cell-derived epithelium. Although they occur mostly in the spine, they can occur intracranially, most often in the posterior fossa. Neurenteric cysts that are located in the anterior cervicomedullary... | Cervical Vertebrae; Medulla Oblongata; Neural Tube Defects; Neurosurgical Procedure | 2005-08-15 |
| 295 |  | Landesman, Margaret M. | Heard on the net, trouble downloading: a library's most urgent issue, but not, perhaps, the most important one | Article exploring issues facing libraries in providing access to electronic journals and articles. | Libraries, internet downloads; Electronic Journals, access; Open Access | 2005-10-07 |
| 296 |  | Awate, Suyash P.; Whitaker, Ross T. | Higher-order image statistics for unsupervised, information-theoretic, adaptive, image filtering | The restoration of images is an important and widely studied problem in computer vision and image processing. Various image filtering strategies have been effective, but invariably make strong assumptions about the properties of the signal and/or degradation. Therefore, these methods typically la... | Image filtering; Image restoration | 2005-04-15 |
| 297 |  | Erickson, J. Alan; Smith, Jeffrey, J.; Bornhorst, Joshua A.; Ashwood, Edward R. | Humananti-mouse antibody protected ELISA for the quantification of squamous cell carcinoma antigen | Squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCC) was first isolated from squamous cell carcinoma tissue of the uterine cervix and initially reported as TA-4. The antigen has been characterized as a glycoprotein with a molecular weight between 45,000 and 55,000 daltons. Studies suggest that SCC may function as ... | SCC; Squamous Cell Carcinoma Antigen; BSA; PBS; Phosphate Buffered Saline; HAMA; Human Anti-mouse Antibodies; IIR; ImmunoglobulinInhibiting Reagent | 2005-12-09 |
| 298 |  | Gerig, Guido | Hypothesis testing with nonlinear shape models | We present a method for two-sample hypothesis testing for statistical shape analysis using nonlinear shape models. Our approach uses a true multivariate permutation test that is invariant to the scale of different model parameters and that explicitly accounts for the dependencies between variables. ... | 2005-01-01 | |
| 299 |  | Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah | IAIMS Newsletter Fall 2005 | The IAIMS Newsletter provides valuable information about Library activities and resources as well as informative articles related to information technology. | IAIMS | 2005-08-19 |
| 300 |  | Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah | IAIMS Newsletter InfoFair 2005 Spring Supplement | The IAIMS Newsletter is published three times a year (August, January, May) with one InfoFair supplement and provides valuable information about Library activities and resources as well as informative articles related to information technology. | IAIMS | 2005-03-11 |