122 research outputs found
Teresa McBride-Williams and Timothy Lee McBride v. G. Stedman Huard, M.D., IHC Health Services, Inc. dba Dixie Regional Medical Center, and John Does 1 through 10 : Reply Brief
No full textIN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF UTAH TERESA McBRIDE-WILLIAMS and TIMOTHY LEE McBRIDE, Plaintiffs/Appellees, v. G. STEDMAN HUARD, M.D., IHC HEALTH SERVICES, INC., d/b/a DIXIE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, and JOHN DOES 1 through 10, Defendants/Appellants. Matthew T. Graff Randall C. Allen JENSEN GRAFF & BARNES, LLP. Attorneys for Plaintiffs/Appellees 250 South Main P.O. Box 726 Cedar City, Utah 84720 REPLY BRIEF OF G. STEDMAN HUARD, M.D. Supreme Court No. 20020751-SC District Court No. 020500090 DAVID H. EPPERSON - #1000 STEPHEN W. OWENS - #6957 EPPERSON & RENCHER Attorneys for Defendant/Appellant G. Stedman Huard, M.D. 10 West 100 South, Suite 500 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 (801)983-9800 Brinton R. Burbidge Paul D. Van Komen BURBIDGE & WHITE Attorneys for Defendant/Appellant IHC dba Dixie Regional Medical Center 50 South Main, #1400 Salt Lake City, Utah 8414
Assessing El Salvador’s Transition From Civil War to Peace
No full textPreprint of chapter 14 of: Stephen John Stedman, Donald Rothchild, & Elisabeth Cousens (eds.), Ending Civil Wars: The implementation of peace agreements. Boulder,CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 200
Arterialised hepatic nodules in the Fontan circulation: Hepatico-cardiac interactions
No full textHypervascular nodules occur commonly when there is hepatic venous outlet obstruction. Their nature and determinants in the Fontan circulation is poorly understood. We reviewed the records of 27 consecutive Fontan patients who had computerized tomography scan (CT) over a 4 year period for arterialised nodules and alterations in hepatic flow patterns during contrast enhanced CT scans and related these findings to cardiac characteristics. Mean patient age was 24 ± 5.8 years, (range 16.7–39.8) and mean Fontan duration was 16.8 ± 4.8 years (range 7.3–28.7). Twenty-two patients demonstrated a reticular pattern of enhancement, 4 a zonal pattern and only 1 demonstrated normal enhancement pattern. Seven (26%) patients had a median of 4 (range 1–22) arterialised nodules, mean size 1.8 cm (range 0.5 to 3.2 cm). All nodules were located in the liver periphery, their outer aspect lying within 2 cm of the liver margin. Patients with nodules had higher mean RA pressures (18 mmHg ± 5.6 vs. 13 mmHg ± 4, p = 0.025), whereas their mixed venous saturation and aortic saturation was not significantly different (70% ± 11 vs. 67% ± 9 and 92% ± 10 vs. 94% ± 4, p > 0.05). Post-mortem histology suggests focal nodular hyperplasia is the underlying pathology. ConclusionsAbnormalities of hepatic blood flow and the presence of arterialised nodules are common in the failing Fontan circulation. They occur especially when central venous pressures are high, and very likely indicate arterialisation of hepatic blood flow and reciprocal portal venous deprivation. The underlying pathology is most likely focal nodular hyperplasia.<br/
A presumptive pigovian tax on gasoline : analysis of an air pollution control program for Mexico City
No full textWithout continuous monitoring of emissions, a pollution control agency needs to evaluate abatement options itself. Apart from making activities cleaner, it should also stimulate reductions in the level of activity in polluting sectors. The author develops an analytical framework to show that a tax on a variable input, such as gasoline, is useful for this purpose. It encourages individuals and firms to sacrifice trips when they would prefer those sacrifices to those of higher spending on abatement. The instrument exploits privately held information about which trips can be saved at a low social cost. Other weaknesses of a program based on indirect instruments - as opposed to one induced by a theoretically conceived pollution tax - remain. One of these is that the agency may have poorer information than individuals and firms about the status of vehicles and the effectiveness of individual abatement options. Such an information gap - which could be bridged by a true pollution tax - is abstracted from the analysis. The author shows that the tax rate that belongs in a cost-effective pollution control program is independent of the price elasticity of demand for the polluting good. But the higher the demand elasticity, the higher are the costs of not including a presumptive tax on the polluting good in the tool kit of the pollution control agency. The author estimates the cost savings available when an optimal gasoline tax is included in an otherwise well-composed program, appropriately accounting for the welfare costs ofdemand consumption. He shows that the targeted emission reductions can be obtained at 11 percent lower costs, saving 350 million a year. After recent price increases, implicit tax rates in Mexico City are higher than suggested by the author's analysis. Higher rates may or may not be justified due to the benefits of demand conservation not accounted for in the analysis.Energy and Environment,Pollution Management&Control,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Transport and Environment
Ecosphere
No full textA premise in ungulate foraging theory is that animals become less selective and expand the breadth of their dietary niche as the availability of palatable forage declines with increasing herbivore population density or drought. Increased niche variation resulting from intraspecific competition is thought to create less similar diet composition and decreased diet overlap between individuals within a population at higher densities than between individuals within less dense populations. These ideas were largely developed in relatively mesic environments and their applicability to ungulate foraging in semiarid environments is unclear. We tested the idea that white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) contract dietary niche breadth; reduce dietary plant species diversity, richness, and evenness; and become more individualistic in forage choices in response to a fourfold difference in population density (12 deer/km(2) versus 50 deer/km(2)) in semiarid shrubland in Texas, USA. We used the bite count method to determine diet composition of tame female white-tailed deer seasonally during summer 2009 to spring 2011. We were able to determine impacts of drought on foraging dynamics a posteriori because sampling during each season fortuitously occurred under both drought and non-drought conditions. Population density did not affect diet richness, diversity, breadth, evenness, overlap, and similarity. Diet richness, diversity, breadth, and evenness tended to be greater in non-drought conditions. For white-tailed deer, the idea that dietary niches expand in response to increasing population density is not robust across environments. In semiarid environments, variation in precipitation has a much stronger influence on dietary niche breath and intraspecific diet overlap of deer than population density does.NevaWesley West FoundationComanche RanchFaith RanchHouston Livestock Show and RodeoHouston Safari ClubRene Barrientos tuition assistance fundMeadows Professorship in Semiarid Land EcologyStuart Stedman Chair for Deer ResearchFunding was provided by T. Friedkin, the Neva and Wesley West Foundation, S. Stedman, Comanche Ranch, Faith Ranch, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Houston Safari Club, the Rene Barrientos tuition assistance fund, the Meadows Professorship in Semiarid Land Ecology, and the Stuart Stedman Chair for Deer Research. The authors thank Sandra Rideout-Hanzak and Alfonso Ortega-S. for reviewing an early draft of this manuscript. We appreciate the assistance of W. Ezzell and M. Moore. This is CKWRI manuscript number 14-106
Cytoplasmic localization of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase I-α depends on a nuclear export signal in its regulatory domain
No full textAbstractCalcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase I-α (CaMKI-α) is a ubiquitous cytosolic enzyme that phosphorylates a number of nuclear proteins in vitro and has been implicated in transcriptional regulation. We report that cytoplasmic localization of CaMKI-α depends on CRM1-mediated nuclear export mediated through a Rev-like nuclear export signal in the CaMKI-α regulatory domain. Interaction of CaMKI-α with a CRM1 complex in vitro is enhanced by incubation with calcium/calmodulin. Translocation of CaMKI-α into the nucleus involves a conserved sequence located within the catalytic core. Mutation of this sequence partially blocks nuclear entry of an export-impaired mutant of CaMKI-α
Travelling theory: Western knowledge and its Indian object
No full textFrom the1830s the colonial government in India became the agency for the promotion of ‘Western education’, that is, education that sought to disseminate modern, Western, rational knowledge through modern institutions and pedagogic processes. This paper examines a historical
episode in which certain key categories of modern Western thought were pressed into service to explain a consequence of the dissemination of Western knowledge in colonial India. The episode in question was that of the alleged ‘moral crisis’ of the educated Indian, who, many argued, had been plunged into confusion and moral disarray following his exposure to Western knowledge in the schools and universities established by his British ruler. In the discourse of moral crisis, the knowledge being disseminated through Western education was simultaneously put to use in explaining an unanticipated effect of this education. How adequate was Western knowledge to explaining its own effects? More generally –for this paper is drawn from a larger study of how modern Western knowledge ‘travelled’ when transplanted to colonial India – what is the status of the knowledge we produce when we ‘apply’ the categories of
modern Western thought in order to understand or explain India
Robert Buchanan 1841-1901: an assessment of his career.
No full textPhDRobert Buchanan was widely regarded during his
lifetime as a poet of distinction, a capable and powerful
novelist, and a critic of some perception, yet his name is
now associated only with one regrettable episode, while
those of lesser men and women continue to be remembered for
work inferior to his. A man possessing large reserves of
energy, and pressed to write for a living at an early age,
he produced much work that deserves the oblivion it has
found; but his early verse, expressing his profound compassion
for the sufferings of the unfortunate in the simplest
language, some of his ballads, and not a little of his
later more vatic verse, is still worthy of study. As a
novelist his work is provocative and readable, but too
often descends to the level of the sentimental melodrama
which earned him, for a while, a very good income from the
stage. As a critic he was not profound, but was quick to
detect and praise expression of his own sympathy for humanity
that came to represent for him art's highest aspiration;
Dickens, Browning and Whitman were his heroes, and for the
last two he did sterling work in helping them to gain widespread
recognition. As a polemist he rushed into several
arenas, for some of which his talents were not especially
suited; but he publicly supported C. S. Parnell and Oscar
Wilde when few found the courage to do so. An interesting
man of impressive variety and undoubted talent has found an
undeserved neglect, and a full-scale critical biography of
Robert Buchanan is long overdue
The image of the Highland Clearances, c. 1880-1990
No full textThe Highland Clearances have featured in many historical
analyses over the past thirty years and have particularly attracted
the attention of socio-economic historians interested in the study
of agricultural changes, their causes and multi-faceted impact on
the Highland region and society. Yet it seems that the
increasingly refined knowledge that the period now enjoys has
hardly percolated down to the popular interpretation given of the
events.
The present study concerns itself with the popular
representations of the Highland Clearances which, to a large
extent, are consensual and are revealing of the collective
attitudes towards the period, especially in the crofting districts.
The first part concentrates on the historiographical background of
the period since the nineteenth century, so as to establish the
fund of knowledge gradually accumulated on the times, the
standpoints adopted by the various historical currents and the
evolution in historical methods and perspective. To convey the
collective perception on the Clearances, three areas are selected:
twentieth-century Scottish fiction, political writings and the
museum world. Through the individual analysis of each, the themes,
elements and viewpoints which have been given priority, will
emerge.
The popular representation of the Clearances yields as much
information on the way people see their past as on current
attitudes and concerns since it is, more often than not, recycled
to fit a particular reading. It is also, because of its
consistency and its recurrence, a mark of the significance of the
period in the collective memory and sense of identity of the
inhabitants of the crofting districts
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