The response of arterioles in skeletal muscle grafts to vasoactive agents

Arteriolar responses to the vasodilator adenosine and to the vasoconstrictor norepinephrine (NE) were examined in small bundles of extensor digitorum longus muscle grafted onto the cheek pouches of hamsters. Responses of arterioles to topically applied adenosine or NE were measured from 30 to 180 days after grafting and compared with the response of arterioles in control cheek pouches. Verapamil and potassium chloride (KCl) were applied to 120- and 180-day grafts to determine the response of arterioles to vasoactive agents not mediated by receptors. Arterioles in grafted muscle did not respond to adenosine until 60 days. The response increased with time but was significantly less than the control value even after 180 days. Arterioles in grafts did not respond to NE until 90 days. At both 90 and 120 days the degree of constriction in response to NE was not uniform along the length of a given arteriole (punctate response). By 180 days, the response of a given arteriole to NE was uniform but significantly less than the control value. In 120- and 180-day grafts the responses of arterioles to verapamil and KCl were similar to the responses of arterioles to adenosine and NE, respectively. We conclude that the diminished response of arterioles in small EDL muscle grafts to vasoactive agents may be caused by either a structural or a functional impairment in the smooth muscle layer of arterioles.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/26650/1/0000194.pd

TECHNOLOGY & TRADITION: SHAPING INDIGENOUS COLLECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE

The Hudson Museum received a UMAI seed grant to supporta collaboration with the Advanced Structures and CompositesCenter and Intermedia Programs to replicate a culturally -sensitive object in our collection. This is a technical publication to describe the process of replicating a Tlingit Frog Clan Helmet (HM5040) requested for repatriation by the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (CCTHITA).https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum_publications/1000/thumbnail.jp

1979: Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures - Full Text

THE HOME IN CRISIS Being the Abilene Christian University Annual Bible Lectures 1979 Published by Abilene Christian University Book Store ACU Station Abilene, Texas 7960

1989: Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures - Full Text

CHRIST AND CULTURE: The Problem of Secularism Being the Abilene Christian University Annual Bible Lectures 1989 Published by ACU PRESS 1634 Campus Court Abilene, Texas 7960

1972: Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures - Full Text

THE CHURCH AND THE FUTURE Being the Abilene Christian College Annual Bible Lectures 1972 Published by ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE BOOK STORE ACC Station Abilene, Texas 7960

Time Out of Joint: Hamlet and the Pure Form of Time

The aim of this paper is to explore why Deleuze takes up Hamlet’s claim that ‘time is out of joint’. In the first part of this paper, I explore this claim by looking at how Deleuze relates it to Plato’s Timaeus and its conception of the relationship between movement and time. Once we have seen how time functions when it is ‘in joint’, I explore what it would mean for time to no longer be understood in terms of an underlying rational structure. The claim can be understood as about a relationship between time and action. In the second part of this paper, I want to relate this new understanding of time to Hamlet itself, in order to see how temporality operates within the play. I will conclude by relating these two different conceptions of time out of joint to one another through Nietzsche’s Eternal Return

Measuring Five Dimensions of Religiosity Across Adolescence

This paper theorizes and tests a latent variable model of adolescent religiosity in which five dimensions of religiosity are interrelated: religious beliefs, religious exclusivity, external religiosity, private practice, and religious salience. Research often theorizes overlapping and independent influences of single items or dimensions of religiosity on outcomes such as adolescent sexual behavior, but rarely operationalizes the dimensions in a measurement model accounting for their associations with each other and across time. We use longitudinal structural equation modeling (SEM) with latent variables to analyze data from two waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion. We test our hypothesized measurement model as compared to four alternate measurement models and find that our proposed model maintains superior fit. We then discuss the associations between the five dimensions of religiosity we measure and how these change over time. Our findings suggest how future research might better operationalize multiple dimensions of religiosity in studies of the influence of religion in adolescence

Economic Analysis of Knowledge: The History of Thought and the Central Themes

Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this literature by identifying the main themes and contributions and outlines the future prospects of the discipline. The wide scope of knowledge related questions in terms of applicability and alternative approaches has led to the fragmentation of research. Nevertheless, one can identify a continuing tradition which analyses various aspects of the generation, dissemination and use of knowledge in the economy

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio