The Vehicle, Fall 2002

Table of Contents Caterpillar DreamsAubrey Bonannopage 4 GrandmotherNatalie Espositopage 5 PhotographNatalie Espositopage 5 For My SisterAnn Hudsonpage 6 BuckeyeCaleb Judypage 6 A Moment\u27s GlowMelissa Knoblockpage 7 April 8,1994Andy Kochpage 8 Koch FuneralsAndy Kochpage 9 Grandpa Koch\u27s Sense of HumorAndy Kochpage 10 DeparturesDave Moutraypage 11 1958 VetteAlex Nicolpage 11 HomelandDave Moutraypage 12 The TravelerDave Moutraypage 12 GrandpaJennifer Probstpage 13 Confusion upon LearningJody Sanchezpage 14 Chucktown PrideMike Scalespage 14 I Might be WrongDallas Schumacherpage 15-20 UntitledAlex Nicholpage 21 Late NightRachel Seftonpage 22 Old DreamsRachel Seftonpage 23 Two-Minded ThoughtsRachel Sefton & Jodi Sanchezpage 24 Strange GraffitiMike Scalespage 24 On PoetryNick Slicerpage 25-26 Sometimes Things Just Happen That WayThomas Webbpage 26-33 Biographiespage 34-35 Editor\u27s Notepage 36https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1076/thumbnail.jp

The Vehicle, Spring 2003

Table of Contents Knowledge of SelfGreg Baptistepage 4 Coleman 3371Amanda Beardpage 5 Mixed Messages (after Stephen Dunn)Colette Beausoleilpage6 Returning to RhythmAubrey Bonannopage 6 Pecan GroveNatalie Espositopage 7 Childhood\u27s EndRachael Harzinskipage 15 Unknown InfantAmanda Beard and Andy Kochpage 16 NeverRachael Harzinskipage 16 alone she sitsKrystal Heringpage 18 A Sketch of GrandmaKrystal Heringpage 19 Two HeadstonesAmanda Beard and Andy Kochpage 19 Shattuc, Summer 1995Andy Kochpage 20 Sky PoemAndy Kochpage 21 Wild Years (For: Tom)Scott E. Lutzpage 21 All Air, No Net!Lora Ann Neihartpage 22 The Evil ApostleJanet McGrathpage 23 DifferentRachel Seftonpage 27 Dear Insurance ExecutivePatti Smithpage 27 Dancing MusicJosh Sopiarzpage 28 The Picnic For LisaJosh Sopiarzpage 29 Today (an unusually warm and sunny winter day)Josh Sopiarzpage 30 Silver and NeonStanley (Buck) Weisspage 30 About the sacredness of dandruff, of peoples\u27 essences; or why I feared cleaning my father\u27s roomLevi Woollen-Dannerpage 32 In Boulder on a blustery day that reminded me I wasn\u27t running away from anythingLevi Woollen-Dannerpage 33 Biographiespage 35https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1079/thumbnail.jp

The Vehicle, Spring 2002

Table of Contents Black Lace Under White OxfordAmee Bohrerpage 4 We Have ForgottenAubrey Bonannopage 4 The Grand Old Drink of the SouthNatalie Espositopage 5 SymphonyChristie Jean Hallpage 6 Sol from the CityJeremy Hartzellpage 7-10 Yellow TimeErika Larsonpage 10 Death of a Salesman\u27s WifeErika Larsonpage 11-12 This SideErika Larsonpage 12 JuiceTimothy Lockmanpage 13 Chess GameMike Scalespage 13 Facing HimTimothy Lockmanpage 14 ShameRon Lybargerpage 15 Sunlit HydrantMike Scalespage 15 11-22-63Reginald Mansfieldpage 16 four cornersDave Moutraypage 17 regretting PamDave Moutraypage 18-19 Chicago SummertimeLisa Sarmpage 19 Hands of TimeJessica Shekletonpage 20 An AppointmentJosh Sopiarzpage 21 Our Fates and Old Men\u27s GlassesJosh Sopiarzpage 22 An Apple Orchard PicnicJosh Sopiarzpage 23 November GraysJoe Webbpage 24 The AxJanet Windeguthpage 25-31 The Old Porch SwingJoe Webbpage 32 Green MachineQynn McCrory, H.S. Writing Contest Winnerpage 33 My Little PonyJ. Benjamin Blount, H.S. Writing Contest Winnerpage 34 Biographiespage 35-36https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1077/thumbnail.jp

Advanced x-ray imaging techniques in tissue engineering: a new construct assessment platform for enabling the regeneration of personalised organs

Tissue engineering (TE) holds promise for generating lab-grown patient specific organs which can provide: (1) effective treatment for conditions that require volumetric tissue transplantation and (2) new platforms for drug testing. Even though volumetric structural information is essential for confirming successful organ maturation, TE protocol designs are currently informed through destructive and 2D construct assessment tools (e.g. histology). X-ray phase-contrast computed-tomography (PC-CT) can generate non-destructive, high resolution, 3D density maps of organ architecture. In this work, PC-CT is used as new imaging tool for guiding two TE protocols currently at the in-vitro testing stage. The first (1) involves cell-repopulation of an oesophageal scaffold, with the aim of using the regenerated construct for treating long-gap oesophageal atresia, whilst for the second (2) a lung-derived scaffold is populated with islets for regenerating a pancreas, with the “repurposed” lung offering a platform for diabetes drug testing. By combing 3D images and quantitative information, we were able to perform comprehensive construct evaluation. Specifically, we assessed volumetrically: (1) the cell-distribution within the regenerated oesophagi and (2) islet integration with the vascular tree of the lung-derived scaffold. This new information was proven to be essential for establishing corresponding TE protocols and enabled their progression to more advanced scale-up models. We are confident that PC-CT will provide the novel insights necessary to further progress TE protocols, with the next step being in-vivo testing. Crucially, the non-destructive nature of PC-CT will allow in-vivo assessments of TE constructs following their implantation into animal hosts, to investigate their successful integration

High Energy Astrophysics Program (HEAP)

This report reviews activities performed by the members of the USRA contract team during the 6 months of the reporting period and projected activities during the coming 6 months. Activities take place at the Goddard Space Flight Center, within the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. Developments concern instrumentation, observation, data analysis, and theoretical work in astrophysics. Supported missions include advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA), X-Ray Timing Experiment (XTE), X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS), Astro-E, High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) and others

The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in August 2008, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Ly alpha forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg^2 in the Southern Galactic Cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg^2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Evolution (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameters pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high metallicity stars.Comment: Astrophysical Journal Supplements, in press (minor updates from submitted version

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z=0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z=2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T_eff<5000 K and in metallicity estimates for stars with [Fe/H]>-0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SDSS-III Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration-2 (SEGUE-2). The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in December 2014.Comment: 9 figures; 2 tables. Submitted to ApJS. DR9 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr