Harmless Studio

This thesis project is oriented around a vegan concept brand called “Harmless Studio.” The project recognizes that industrial design causes and supports the harm of animals through the use of animal materials. This book presents the historical, social, and scientific background of the human-animal relationship as it exists today, and it challenges the common acceptance of that relationship as it is— ultimately suggesting that industrial design need not harm animals to serve human needs. This vegan approach to design is presented through a selection of sustainable, non-animal materials and objects made from those materials. The objects are presented as part of the Harmless Studio concept brand. The creation and curation of these materials and objects is intended to demonstrate the promise and benefits of vegan design

Economic Feasibility of Small Scale Vegetable Production and Retailing in Rural Communities

Economic information about the feasibility of producing and retailing vegetables in rural communities is limited. The objectives were to determine actual net return from producing and retailing a mix of produce in a rural community, and to determine if consumers were willing to pay differentiated prices for the locally-grown vegetables.Crop Production/Industries,

Student Discipline and Teacher Job Satisfaction: A Dual District Analysis

This study aimed to contribute to the empirical literature related to student discipline\u27s influence on teacher job satisfaction. Further, this research aimed to explore the correlation between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction while controlling for the contributing factors of job satisfaction). Also, this research study\u27s results were interpreted through the lens of the Affective Events Theory indicating a person\u27s emotions and behaviors for the workplace may influence their job satisfaction. An Ordinary Least Squares regression found that the correlation between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction was not statistically significant. However, the directionality of the relationship between student discipline and teacher job satisfaction was negative. By studying student discipline and teacher job satisfaction, this research determined that student discipline does harm teacher job satisfaction

An Updated Look at the Size of the U.S. Real Estate Market Portfolio

Using 1989 data on aggregate real estate values for a sample of counties, this paper develops estimates of the total value of real estate by property type in the United States. The values for commercial and residential property are also reported by region and for the forty-four largest MSAs. The estimated total value of commercial real estate is compared with the value of other investment asset classes, and implications are drawn for investment portfolios.

The Late Miocene Gomphothere Amahuacatherium peruvium (Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae) from Amazonian Peru: Implications for the great american faunal interchange - [Boletín D 23]

Se presentan en detalle los caracteres osteológicos del proboscideo Amahuacatherium peruvium (Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae). Este proboscideo fue recuperado de los depósitos del Mioceno (Chasicoan) expuestos a lo largo del río Madre de Dios en las tierras bajas al sudeste del Perú. Este proboscideo fue un gomphothere tetrabelodonte y brevirostrino con mandíbulas inferiores que conservan los incisivos y molares con un patrón de esmalte ligeramente complicado. El Amahuacatherium peruvium proviene de la parte baja de la discordancia que se formó durante un período de gran erosión en toda la cuenca del Amazonas al comienzo del Mioceno tardío, cuando el nivel del mar comenzó a descender globalmente hace doce millones de años. Este taxón representa la ocurrencia más temprana de proboscideos, o de cualquier mamífero norteamericano en América del Sur, también representa la ocurrencia más temprana en América del Norte y en América del Sur de cualquier participante en el gran intercambio faunal americano. Algunos proboscideos norteamericanos pueden derivarse de linajes que se originaron en América del Sur durante el Mioceno tardío o Plioceno. Se propone que los proboscideos de América del Norte dispersados en América del Sur siguieron una ruta a través de Panamá vía las serranías de San Blas que conectó al arco de Baudo y el terreno alóctono de Chocó y finalizó en las colinas Istmina de Colombia. El informe presenta bibliografía

Liver Transplantation to Provide Low-Density-Lipoprotein Receptors and Lower Plasma Cholesterol in a Child with Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

A six-year-old girl with severe hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis had two defective genes at the low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) receptor locus, as determined by biochemical studies of cultured fibroblasts. One gene, inherited from the mother, produced no LDL receptors; the other gene, inherited from the father, produced a receptor precursor that was not transported to the cell surface and was unable to bind LDL. The patient degraded intravenously administered 125I-LDL at an extremely low rate, indicating that her high plasma LDL-cholesterol level was caused by defective receptor-mediated removal of LDL from plasma. After transplantation of a liver and a heart from a normal donor, the patient's plasma LDL-cholesterol level declined by 81 per cent, from 988 to 184 mg per deciliter. The fractional catabolic rate for intravenously administered 125I-LDL, a measure of functional LDL receptors in vivo, increased by 2.5-fold. Thus, the transplanted liver, with its normal complement of LDL receptors, was able to remove LDL cholesterol from plasma at a nearly normal rate. We conclude that a genetically determined deficiency of LDL receptors can be largely reversed by liver transplantation. These data underscore the importance of hepatic LDL receptors in controlling the plasma level of LDL cholesterol in human beings. (N Engl J Med 1984; 311: 1658–64.). © 1984, Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved