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M Protein Mediated Plasminogen Binding Is Essential For The Virulence Of An Invasive Streptococcus Pyogenes Isolate, Martina L. Sanderson-Smith, K. Dinkla, J. N. Cole, Amanda J. Cork, P. G. Maamary, Jason D. Mcarthur, G. S. Chhatwal, Mark J. Walker

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

The human protease plasmin plays a crucial role in the capacity of the group A streptococcus (Streptococus pyogenes; GAS) to initiate invasive disease. The GAS strain NS88.2 was isolated from a case of bacteremia from the Northern Territory of Australia, a region with high rates of GAS invasive disease. Mutagenesis of the NS88.2 plasminogen binding M protein Prp was undertaken to examine the contribution of plasminogen binding and cell surface plasmin acquisition to virulence. The isogenic mutant NS88.2prp was engineered whereby four amino acid residues critical for plasminogen binding were converted to alanine codons in the GAS genome sequence. The …

Mfdi Actively Promotes International Research, Esr Review

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

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Law As Relationship: Toward A More Effective And Ethical Legal Reform, Wade Channell

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

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Beijing À La Jasper Becker, Pierre Fuller

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

A Financial Times news brief lay buried in an inside page: At the very moment a few weeks ago when Olympic medals were awarded in front of adoring crowds, “two elderly women” were jailed for seeking permission to demonstrate against “being forcibly evicted from their Beijing homes” back in 2001. And who knows what now stands in the place of these pensioners’ loss – faux Italianate villas? an IKEA? pavement?

Stories like this make a timely book of journalist Jasper Becker’s history of the Chinese capital, City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China from Oxford University Press …

Busier Than Ever: Why American Families Can't Slow Down. Charles N. Darrah, James M. Freeman And J. A. English-Leuck.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Charles N. Darrah, James M. Freeman & J. A. English-Leuck. Busier Than Ever: Why American Families Can't Slow Down. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. $19.95 papercover.

Library Newsletter Volume 4, Issue 2

Library Newsletters

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Leading In The Midst Of Change: A Theologically Grounded, Theoretically Informed Hermeneutic Of Change, Terri L. Elton

Faculty Publications

This essay proposes a hermeneutic of change, grounded in theology and theory, which can inform church leaders’ strategic actions in the midst of change. Drawing from the work of practical theology, it looks at four vantage points proposed by Don Browning: descriptive, historical, systematic, and strategic. The descriptive view offers two insights: God is active and present in the midst of change and God’s people are simultaneously saints and sinners. The historical perspective points out that God has always been in the midst of change, but God’s love and promises for the world have not changed. Systematic theology fuses the …

Dialog Finds A New Home., Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

THE BIGGEST INDUSTRY NEWS this summer was the announcement that proQuest had acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. Dialog was beginning to look like an unwelcome stepchild as new strategies by Thomson Reuters were moving the firm away from traditional databases and library markets. ProQuest, by contrast, has a solid foundation in both areas and has been aggressively building with new acquisitions and products.

Still, the news came as a surprise to most of us, as the change happened remarkably fast--rarely is a major acquisition rumored, announced, and completed all within a month.

Dialog, the grandfather of online database systems that …

Organizational Credibility Counts, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

As economic stressors increase and voting participation decreases, it is important for public administrators to find ways to minimize the negative consequences of distrust in government and to rebuild credibility by making the necessary changes to organizational culture, improving business practices, working with the media to build new more positive relationships, and by accentuating the good news about progress made. Events like Hurricane Katrina tragically teach us how long lasting one negative event can truly be because it is truly a disaster not only for those directly affected but also for those indirectly involved due to its negative affect on …

The Value Of Fiat Money With An Outside Bank: An Experimental Game, Juergen Huber, Martin Shubik, Shyam Sunder

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Why people accept intrinsically worthless fiat money in exchange for real goods and services has been a longstanding question. There are many competing sufficient explanations that may confound each other in practice but can be individually tested in isolation experimentally. In this paper we examine a sufficient explanation of the value of fiat money through the existence of a debt instrument which allows consumption to be moved earlier in time. We present experimental evidence that the theoretical predictions about the behavior of such economies work reasonably well in a laboratory setting. The import of this finding for the theory of …

Inference For Parameters Defined By Moment Inequalities: A Recommended Moment Selection Procedure, Donald W.K. Andrews, Panle Jai Barwick

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper is concerned with tests and confidence intervals for parameters that are not necessarily identified and are defined by moment inequalities. In the literature, different test statistics, critical value methods, and implementation methods (i.e., the asymptotic distribution versus the bootstrap) have been proposed. In this paper, we compare these methods. We provide a recommended test statistic, moment selection critical value method, and implementation method. We provide data-dependent procedures for choosing the key moment selection tuning parameter kappa and a size-correction factor eta.

Spatial Welfare Impacts Of A Grain Ethanol Plant, Justin Van Wart, Richard K. Perrin

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

This study inquires into the spatial welfare impacts of a grain ethanol plant established in an area with a beef feeding industry. Corn producers will benefit, but by how much? Why do plants seem to price their animal feed byproduct so low that beef producers may benefit from lower feed costs, despite the higher corn price? Why do ethanol plants in some areas dry all their byproduct feed while in other areas plants sell it all in wet form? How are these outcomes affected by the density of corn production, by the density of feedlots, and by the size of …

People Profile: Carol Richman, Editor

Against the Grain

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Atg Deadlines, Editor

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Remembering 1968..., Bruce Heterick

Against the Grain

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Survey Of Library Director Attitudes Toward Digital Preservation, Nancy Maron

Against the Grain

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Not Alone: A Digital Preservation Community, Martha Anderson

Against the Grain

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Supporting A Paperless Future, Carol Richman, Jayne Marks

Against the Grain

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What About Ebooks?, Toni Tracy

Against the Grain

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People Profile: Maggie Jones, Editor

Against the Grain

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International Dateline -- From London's East End To The Dreaming Spires Of Oxford, Rita Ricketts

Against the Grain

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People Profile: Marilyn Geller, Editor

Against the Grain

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Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway

Against the Grain

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From The University Presses -- Added By Copyediting, Sanford G. Thatcher

Against the Grain

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Lost In Austin -- Life On The Water, Thomas W. Leonhard

Against the Grain

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Cases Of Note -- Copyright: Open Source Software For Your Ho-Gauge Fantasy World, Bruce Strauch

Against the Grain

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Biz Of Acq -- The Wiki Of Acq 2: Outreach From Acquisitions To Collections Staff Using A Wiki, Xan Arch

Against the Grain

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Something To Think About -- Preparing For November, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey

Against the Grain

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