165 research outputs found
sj-pdf-1-jag-10.1177_07334648211040383 – Supplemental material for A Qualitative Study of the Social and Lived Experiences of Homebound Older Adults
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jag-10.1177_07334648211040383 for A Qualitative Study of the Social and Lived Experiences of Homebound Older Adults by Joyce M. Cheng, George P. Batten and Nengliang (Aaron) Yao in Journal of Applied Gerontology</p
Morphologic and functional correlates of synaptic pathology in the cathepsin D knockout mouse model of congenital neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
No full textMutations in the cathepsin D (CTSD) gene cause an aggressive neurodegenerative disease (congenital neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis) that leads to early death. Recent evidence suggests that presynaptic abnormalities play a major role in the pathogenesis of CTSD deficiencies. To identify the early events that lead to synaptic alterations, we investigated synaptic ultrastructure and function in presymptomatic CTSD knockout (Ctsd) mice. Electron microscopy revealed that there were significantly greater numbers of readily releasable synaptic vesicles present in Ctsd mice than in wild-type control mice as early as postnatal day 16. The size of this synaptic vesicle pool continued to increase with disease progression in the hippocampus and thalamus of the Ctsd mice. Electrophysiology revealed a markedly decreased frequency of miniature excitatory postsynaptic currents (mEPSCs) with no effect on paired-pulse modulation of the evoked excitatory post synaptic potentials in the hippocampus of Ctsd mice. The reduced mEPSCs frequency was observed before the appearance of epilepsy or any morphologic sign of synaptic degeneration. Taken together, these data indicate that CTSD is required for normal synaptic function and that a failure in synaptic trafficking or recycling may bean early and important pathologic mechanism in Ctsd mice; these presynaptic abnormalities may initiate synaptic degeneration in advance of subsequent neuronal loss
Batten Fault Zone Gravity Survey (P201780), gravity point data
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This Batten Fault Zone Gravity Survey (P201780), gravity point data contains ground gravity point data for the NTGS Batten Fault Zone Gravity Survey (P201780) survey acquired for Northern Territory of Australia (Northern Territory Geological Survey). This dataset contains a total of 7475 point data values. The data is located in NT and were acquired in 2017. The point located data were collected in grids layout at a station spacing between 500 and 2000 metres.
Terrain corrections were calculated using the INTREPID Geophysics software package. The processed data are checked by GA geophysicists using standard methods for assessing quality to ensure that the final data are fit-for-purpose.
All data are provided in EPSG:4283 coordinates, Australian Height Datum (AHD) and gravity datum of AAGD07. The units are degrees, meters, and micrometres per second squared, respectively.
Reference:
Intrepid Geophysics, http://www.intrepid-geophysics.com.Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.<br/> This NTGS Batten Fault Zone Gravity Survey (P201780) contains a total of 7475 point data values acquired at a spacing between 500 and 2000 metres. The data is located in NT and were acquired in 2017, under project No. 201780 for Northern Territory of Australia (Northern Territory Geological Survey)
Aid and Oil in Papua New Guinea: Implications for the Financing of Service Delivery
No full textThis paper measures the extent to which both donor finance and resource revenues have contributed to higher rates of expenditure in key development sectors of the PNG economy—social services (including health and education) and infrastructure, between 1975 and 2010. Estimated elasticities are then compared against a hypothetical revenue scenario to assess the potential contribution that post-2014 LNG revenue inflows may have on increasing the financing available to these sectors.
Taboo probabilities in Markov chains with a discrete parameter and a stationary transition matrix
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to present some theorems and properties of taboo probabilities in discrete parameter Markov chains in the natural order of their development. It is then anticipated that additional properties of Markov chains in general might come forth as a consequence of the tools presented here. However, it will be left to others to make specific physical applications. Kai Lai Chung is the most noted authority in this area. The author is indebted to Chung for the material gleaned from his Markov Chains with Stationary Transition Probabilities. The author wishes to express his gratitude to Dr. George W. Batten, Junior, for going far beyond the extent of his duties in giving assistance and advice.Mathematics, Department o
Wiley College and the Literacy Project
No full textIn the years after the Civil War until the 1930s, blacks in America undertook a literacy project -- a vast effort, long-lived, undertaken not by the power, authority, or bureaucracy of government, but instead by blacks acting on their own, unaware of similar efforts in a thousand other places. In the project, Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, a Historically Black College, assumed the obligation to develop leaders, equip teachers, and contribute in any way possible to Negro literacy. Scholars of black colleges have lumped all black colleges together and assumed that what was true about one college was true of all. While this paper does not argue that Wiley College is a representative case study, its story is so different from widely accepted narratives about black colleges that the paper supports the need for historians to take a fresh look at accepted narratives. Commonly held narratives state that the two crucial elements of Negro college success were overall direction by northern church denominations in the 1800s and financial support from northern foundations in the early decades of the twentieth century; they deny agency to leaders and supporters of HBCs like Wiley College. The narrative I trace shows people of Wiley, its President, Matthew W. Dogan, and the blacks of East Texas in charge of the college and engaged in the literacy project.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby James C. Batte
Foreign aid, government behaviour, and fiscal policy in Papua New Guinea
No full textThe paper explores a number of long standing questions surrounding how foreign aid has influenced the fiscal behaviour of the PNG Government. This includes whether grant aid has encouraged the PNG government to be less fiscally responsible and accumulate higher levels of foreign debt; whether grant aid has tended to lower the PNG government's domestic revenue raising efforts; whether grant aid has drawn government expenditures away from key service delivery sectors; and whether budget support and project and program aid have had differential effects with respect to any of the foregoing questions. The analysis reveals several important insights regarding the interplay between foreign aid and public sector fiscal behaviour including evidence that grant aid has been an important source of debt reduction during this period. However, grant aid has tended to erode the domestic tax base, which has limited the government's ability to increase aggregate expenditure levels. Evidence is also found that suggests a significant portion of budget support was spent on key development sectors, although it also undermined domestic revenue collection. A number of policy implications follow. Copyright © 2010 The Author. Journal compilation © 2010 Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd..
Indian Fairy Tales
No full textThis is Burt's reprint of what seems to have been a Putnam original. I have the Putnam edition listed also under 1905? The text and illustrations seem exactly the same throughout, but the typesetting of the text results in the book's finishing on 278 rather than 272. As I write there, most of the twenty-nine selections are indeed fairy tales, heavy on magic, demons, fairies, and angels. One poor Brahman after another runs into long, episodic adventures full of prophecies and beautiful princesses. The best examples might be Lambikin (22) and his protective drum, Punchkin (27), and The Soothsayer's Son (88). In the midst of these fairy tales, there are Jatakas and Kalila and Dimna materials like The Cruel Crane Outwitted (59) and TT (125). There are also Aesopic materials, like The Crane and the Lion (not wolf, 1), The Gold-giving Serpent (140), and DLS (184). The Broken Pot (49) works the same as the Aesopic MM.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Joseph Jacob
Built from the Ground Up: The First 50 Years of Engineering at Old Dominion University
No full textHistory of Old Dominion University\u27s Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology covering the period 1963-2013.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/oduhistory-bookshelf/1003/thumbnail.jp
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