An Analysis of Fall, 2002 Course Evaluations

Examination of summary data from 1067 courses evaluated by the Testing Center in the fall of 2002

Metabolic and mitochondrial disorders associated with epilepsy in children with autism spectrum disorder

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects a significant number of individuals in the United States, with the prevalence continuing to grow. A significant proportion of individuals with ASD have comorbid medical conditions such as epilepsy. In fact, treatment-resistant epilepsy appears to have a higher prevalence in children with ASD than in children without ASD, suggesting that current antiepileptic treatments may be suboptimal in controlling seizures in many individuals with ASD. Many individuals with ASD also appear to have underlying metabolic conditions. Metabolic conditions such as mitochondrial disease and dysfunction and abnormalities in cerebral folate metabolism may affect a substantial number of children with ASD, while other metabolic conditions that have been associated with ASD such as disorders of creatine, cholesterol, pyridoxine, biotin, carnitine, γ-aminobutyric acid, purine, pyrimidine, and amino acid metabolism and urea cycle disorders have also been associated with ASD without the prevalence clearly known. Interestingly, all of these metabolic conditions have been associated with epilepsy in children with ASD. The identification and treatment of these disorders could improve the underlying metabolic derangements and potentially improve behavior and seizure frequency and/or severity in these individuals. This paper provides an overview of these metabolic disorders in the context of ASD and discusses their characteristics, diagnostic testing, and treatment with concentration on mitochondrial disorders. To this end, this paper aims to help optimize the diagnosis and treatment of children with ASD and epilepsy.This article is part of a Special Issue entitled “Autism and Epilepsy”

The demand for higher education.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityThe primary objective is to find the most effective influences on the demand for higher education. To do so it is necessary to attempt to measure the effect of several factors on enrollment, but there are so many difficulties involved that a measurement of the quantity of demand is impractical. Higher education is an especially involved type of service, not only because it is held apart from the usual market conditions, but because of its great diversity and the fact that it is offered for sale in several different ways, to direct consumers such as students and indirect consumers who do not use the services themselves but help pay for them because they are believed beneficial to the community. Much of this complexity is avoided by omitting large areas such as the demand by indirect consumers and the differences in demand for different types of institutions, course offerings, and degree programs. An attempt is made, however, to at least identify as many different aspects of the demand picture as possible. [TRUNCATED

Alien Registration- Frye, Richard E. (Bowdoin, Sagadahoc County)

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Expendable oceanographic mooring (XMOOR)

An expendable, self-deploying mooring (XMOOR) for shallow water applications has been developed to address Navy requirements for environmental monitoring. The project has been conducted jointly between the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis, MS. WHOI has taken the lead on the mechanical design of the system while NR has developed the electronics. Eight prototype XMOOR systems have been built. They are designed for water depths between 10 and 100m, for deployments of up to 3-months duration, and for automatic deployment. Their sensor suite includes barometrc pressure, air temperatue, water temperature at up to 25 levels, and conductivity and pressure at up to 3 levels. Data telemetry is accomplished via the Argos DCS and by line-of-sight VH confguration of the data collection program. This report describes the XMOOR mechanical system. The data collection and telemetry systems are described separately in (1) and (2).Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research through Contract Nos. NOOO-14-92-C-6028 and NOOO-14-95-1-0774

Assessment, Accountability, and Student Learning Outcomes

A \u27White Paper\u27 discussing the differences between assessment and accountability, and how each is connected to student learning outcomes

A Spectroscopic Redshift for the Cl 0024+16 Multiple Arc System: Implications for the Central Mass Distribution

We present a spectroscopic redshift of z = 1.675 for the well-known multiply lensed system of arcs seen in the z = 0.39 cluster Cl 0024+16. In contrast to earlier work, we find that the lensed images are accurately reproduced by a projected mass distribution which traces the locations of the brightest cluster elliptical galaxies, suggesting that the most significant minima of the cluster potential are not dynamically erased. The averaged mass profile is shallow and consistent with predictions of recent numerical simulations. The source redshift enables us to determine an enclosed cluster mass of M(\u3c100 kpc h-1) = 1.11 ± 0.03 × 1014 h-1 M☉ (Ω = 1) and a mass-to-light ratio of M/LB(\u3c100 kpc h-1) = 320 ± 30 h (M/LB)☉ (virtually independent of curvature), after correction for passive stellar evolution. The arc spectrum contains many ionized absorption lines and closely resembles that of the local Wolf-Rayet galaxy NGC 4217. Our lens model predicts a high magnification (20) for each image and identifies a new pair of multiple images of a galaxy at a predicted redshift of z = 1.3