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Mieczkowski, Thomas interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane
No full textThomas Mieczkowski, PhD, is Professor Emerita and Former Chair of Criminology at the University of South Florida. He is a researcher and academic whose interests have included drug smuggling, theories of syndicated crime organizations, drug distribution organizations and methods, drug epidemiology, the validation of various drug detection technologies with an emphasis on ion mobility spectrometry and radioimmunoassay of hair, and the estimation of drug prevalence and incidence using bioassays and survey methods. Dr. Mieczkowski has published over 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, and three books. In 1993 he published Drugs, Crime, and Social Policy (Allyn and Bacon), in 1999 a book with CRC Press on bioassay technology titled Drug Testing Methods: Assessment and Evaluation, and most recently a book with Dr. Robert Dupont and Dr. Richard Newel on drug testing in the criminal justice system with Hazelden Press. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Detroit's Wayne State University in 1985, Dr. Mieczkowski has received more one million dollars in research funding. He is an active member of the International Association of Forensic Toxicology, The British Academy of Forensic Sciences, The European Hair Research Society, and The American Society of Criminology. He is the editor of the International Journal of Drug Testing. Dr. Mieczkowski has been an active consultant including consultations with both governmental and private agencies. He has consulted for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Justice, the American Probation and Parole Association, The American Correctional Association, The American College of Public Health, The Criminal Justice Statistics Research Association, and several private corporations including Michelin Tire and the Anheuser Busch Corporation. Dr. Mieczkowski has lectured internationally, including invited lectures at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, the National Youth Center in Tokyo, and to a consortium of police executives in the United Arab Emirates. He serves on the boards of the Stapleford Charitable Trust in Great Britain, and the Stapleford Foundation in the United States. He is a former board member of the Hair Research Society. He is an invited member of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration committee on standards and practices for hair analysis. Source: https://www.usf.edu/cbcs/criminology/faculty-staff/t-mieczkowski.aspx Accessed 12 Mar 2023.National Science Foundation; College on Problems of Drug Dependence; University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center; University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Wayne State University; University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Scienceshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/192830/1/Mieczkowski_Thomas_bio.docxhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/192830/2/Mieczkowski_Thomas_photo.jpghttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/192830/3/Mieczkowski_Thomas_transcript_ADD.do
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt
No full textA handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.
Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.
No full textIFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Pelevin’s Trinity in the novel “t”: author – protagonist – reader
No full textThe article attempts to interpret Pelevin's artistic strategy in the novel "T" by exploring its subject organization and addressing the key problems of the author, the protagonist, and the reader as they are seen by the researcher. The article analyzes the peculiarities of constructing the narrative reality in the novel "T", and goes on to discuss Pelevin's philosophic models of the development of the humankind, and the emergence of his new anthropology
sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380221126184 – Supplemental material for Trauma and Substance Use among Indigenous Peoples of the United States and Canada: A Scoping Review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tva-10.1177_15248380221126184 for Trauma and Substance Use among Indigenous Peoples of the United States and Canada: A Scoping Review by Nichea S. Spillane, Melissa R. Schick, Katelyn T. Kirk-Provencher, Tessa Nalven, Silvi C. Goldstein, Michael C. Crawford and Nicole H. Weiss in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse</p
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
The Au-198 beta(-)-half-life in the metal Au
No full textFor the beta(-)-decay of Au-198 in a Au metallic environment the half-life was observed to be longer by 0.4 +/- 0.7% at room temperature (T = 293K) and by 4.0 +/- 0.7% when the metal was cooled to T = 12 K, both compared to the literature value of T (1/2) = 2.6943 +/- 0.0008d
Wave turbulence of a rotating array of quantized vortices in the T → 0 temperature limit
No full textThe dynamics of quantized vortices in the zero temperature limit is currently of great interest, particularly in the case of the Fermi superfluid He-B. Here we study wave turbulence, generated by the librating motion of a rotating cylindrical container filled with He-B, in the limit of vanishing viscous forces at temperatures . The polarization of the quantized vortices with respect to the axis of rotation is measured using non-invasive NMR techniques. We observe a decrease of the polarization when the librating motion is started, and a two-stage relaxation process when the modulation of the rotation velocity is stopped. The first relaxation process is associated with the dissipation of large-scale flow stored in inertial waves and the solid body rotation of the vortex array. From the decay of these energy reservoirs we determine the rate of energy dissipation of large-scale flow. The later second process is related to the relaxation of Kelvin waves on individual vortices. This process is monitored by the recovery of the polarization. The existence of a Kelvin wave cascade at the lowest temperatures is currently a central open question. We supply some evidence for the cascade
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