Claus/claws: A journey through Leonardland\u27s multivalent meanings

This exhibition paper presents the linkage of apparently unrelated topic and content. This arduous task is accomplished through an exploration of opposites and an overall presentation in the form of family fun or domestic distress disguised within personal world and the overall umbrella of homonyms: Claus (as in Santa) and Claws (as in cat). The work presented is a view of Leonardland, an intensely personal vision of my family and our history melded into a proposed future as seen through a wild conglomeration of seemingly dissimilar visions comprising the eclectic cultural mix that is our life on this geographic and cultural border. The nature of the artwork itself is described as narrative and contemplative. The text first provides an introduction, which sheds light on my artistic intentions, an artist statement follows, composed of philosophy and intent propelling the artwork. A rationale for Leonardland is established through the creation and explanation of an alter ego: Leonardclaus. The text then becomes interactive with a large-scale riddle in the form of an algebra exam of sorts, a remnant from my prior (and who know maybe future) career and a body that is broken into the examination of the Leonardclaus psyche and its development coupled with the integration and multiplication of a feline family. My primary objective in this paper is to attempt to connect the vast and far-flung forces of family life, from economics to ergonomics, to the vast and disparate imagery that made up my world through the Claus/Claws body of work. In addition the establishment of present historical precedence, present future possibility is undertaken, as well as a presentation of any personally unique technical wrinkles

Principles of Pediatric Burn Care: A Literature Review

Principles of Pediatric Burn Care: A Literature Review is meant to provide a compact and comprehensive source of information on the therapy related care of young burn victims. This literature review will be most useful for students and clinicians of physical and occupational therapy. Recent medical advances have improved the survival rates of children who have sustained burns; this situation demands an increased knowledge and awareness of pediatric burn therapy. The information in this literature review includes a comparison and contrast of the findings of research related to the prevention, classification, pathophysiology, and treatment options of pediatric burn care from the acute stage until scar maturity. This includes a brief review of the anatomy and physiology of healthy skin and the pathophysiology of burn wounds and burn scars. Information regarding the psychological aspects of burn care and pain related issues is also included, with a focus on the issues unique to children who have burns

Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and Dispute Resolution

One of the primary goals of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution (CSDR) at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law has been to develop innovative and alternative teaching models that prepare law students to be better, more responsive lawyers and to broaden the philosophical maps (or mental models or mind sets) with which they approach their wor

Proud (Of A Baby Like You)

Sheet music contains sexist and/or misogynistic language, concepts, and/or imagry promoting rape culture. With Ukulele arrangement. Contains advertisements and/or short musical examples of pieces being sold by publisher.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/7114/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, April 29, 1981

STUGO ELECTIONS, TODAY, TOMORROW -- VOTE!; Notice to Stugo candidates; Parkland College Student Government presents for your entertainment!: George Faber and Stronghold; Karate artist at PC; May Day May 1st.; REO in class by themselves; Mahomet Women\u27s Club sponsors book sale for Mahomet Library; Classifieds; Track team looks strong vs. stern competition: 1600 Relay, Cox, and Patrick take firsts in PC Invite; Softball team eliminated in Sectional, Eye CIAC; Cobras rip Danville twice; Bosch\u27s daring pick gets her the money; Parkland track scoreboard; Good balance up and down the lineuphttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1981/1018/thumbnail.jp

A High Throughput MHC II Binding Assay for Quantitative Analysis of Peptide Epitopes

Biochemical assays with recombinant human MHC II molecules can provide rapid, quantitative insights into immunogenic epitope identification, deletion, or design1,2. Here, a peptide-MHC II binding assay is scaled to 384-well format. The scaled down protocol reduces reagent costs by 75% and is higher throughput than previously described 96-well protocols1,3-5. Specifically, the experimental design permits robust and reproducible analysis of up to 15 peptides against one MHC II allele per 384-well ELISA plate. Using a single liquid handling robot, this method allows one researcher to analyze approximately ninety test peptides in triplicate over a range of eight concentrations and four MHC II allele types in less than 48 hr. Others working in the fields of protein deimmunization or vaccine design and development may find the protocol to be useful in facilitating their own work. In particular, the step-by-step instructions and the visual format of JoVE should allow other users to quickly and easily establish this methodology in their own labs

HydroTerre Strahler Network Service For Any Level 12 HUC Catchment In The USA.

My talk will discuss two related topics to HydroTerre (http://www.hydroterre.psu.edu), a prototype infrastructure that provides researchers, educators, and resource managers with seamless access to geospatial/geotemporal data for supporting physics-based numerical models. The first topic describes the prototype, defining the supporting Essential Terrestrial Variables (ETV’s) and the infrastructure to support models and data anywhere in the continental USA (CONUS). I will address how we are overcoming important problems of accessibility to high-resolution geospatial data sets from multiple sources, scalability of geospatial data in support of distributed models and data-intensive computation for multi-scale, multi-state simulations. The second topic will describe a derived data product based on National Hydrography Dataset’s (NHD) level 12 Hydrological Unit Catchments (HUC) (~90,000 of them in the CONUS) to enable multi-scale data access to model across any scale in the CONUS. With this new data service, users can select any level 12 HUC and retrieve a graph network of all the catchments above the selected catchment. The graph includes the “Strahler number” hierarchy for catchments, enabling modelers to distribute their models in a High Performance Computing environment and achieve “naïve” parallelism of distributed model and data. The graph includes location of where streams (using NHD stream networks) exchange flow between level 12 HUCs, or where they do not (closed basins) for boundary conditions. I will discuss the data issues encountered in the process, why the existing NHD connections are inadequate, how edges do not conform to level 8 HUCs and the multiple strategies to address closed basins, the great lakes, and ocean outlets. In the near future, this data service will be part of the HydroTerre framework, and will be a fundamental block with how to address multi-scale modeling in HPC environments

The Complexity of Quest in Emerging Adults’ Religiosity, Well-being, and Identity.

The construct of quest as measured by the Quest Scale raises complexities that this study addressed with online surveys measuring religiosity, ego identity, and well-being of graduates from two Christian colleges. Intrinsic questers (those above the scale midpoint in intrinsic and quest scores but below the extrinsic midpoint) made up over half of those high in intrinsic religiosity and did not differ in Christian orthodoxy, religious identity, religious coping, or well-being from the pure intrinsics (those high in intrinsic religiosity). Indiscriminately pro-religious questing individuals (those high in intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity and quest) were less religious and showed poorer coping than intrinsic questers. Quest appears to be a reasonable measure of religious orientation, improving prediction of Christian orthodoxy, religious identity, and religious coping, and was more highly correlated with ego identity exploration than with stress. In association with intrinsic religiosity quest does not appear to indicate weak religiosity or poor well-being. Instead, intrinsic questers may pursue a distinctive developmental trajectory, a path of existential searching by which emerging adults manage the demands of contemporary culture while maintaining a mature faith