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Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
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Tilt
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
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Olfactory Uptake of Inhaled Nanoparticle Aerosols – an Examination of Uptake, Transport, and Fate in the Upper Respiratory Tracts of Mice
Polluted air commonly contains suspended particulate matter (PM), including large numbers of particles in the ultrafine or nano size fraction. Epidemiological and toxicological research indicates an association between the particulate component of air pollution and adverse respiratory and cardiovascular health effects in humans. The relationship between airborne particles and the observed health effects is not yet well understood mechanistically, although particle size and chemical composition appear to be critical factors conferring potential toxicity. We hypothesized that inhaled particulate of sufficiently small size could contribute to the observed health effects by entering the brain via olfactory nerve tracts and provoking a pro-inflammatory response in targeted tissues. To investigate the hypothesis, we undertook a series of experiments in which mice were briefly exposed to nanoparticle aerosols. In separate experiments, mice were exposed to aerosols of ultrafine iron oxide (Fe2O 3) or CdSe-ZnS nanocrystals (quantum dots). Following exposure, respiratory tract and central nervous system tissues were examined for the presence of these particles and exposure-related biological responses. Olfactory-derived primary cell cultures also were exposed to quantum dots. Particles were detected using a combination of techniques including standard and fluorescent light microscopy, electron microscopy, and elemental analysis. Responses were measured using histochemical and biochemical methods. In mice exposed to ultrafine iron oxide aerosols, we found evidence of particle uptake and pro-inflammatory responses in the lung and the olfactory bulb. In mice exposed to quantum dot aerosols, we found evidence of particle uptake and pro-inflammatory responses in the olfactory bulb. Uptake was more pronounced for quantum dots than iron, with quantum dots detected in olfactory bulbs less than three hours post-exposure. Electron microscopy revealed quantum dots within axons of the olfactory nerve tracts connecting the nasal mucosa to the olfactory bulbs. Following in vitro exposure, we found evidence of selective uptake of quantum dots by distinct subpopulations of cells. In mixed glia-neuron cultures, particle uptake was most prominent in microglia, while in olfactory epithelial cultures particle uptake was essentially limited to unidentified cells morphologically similar to olfactory stem cells. Our results clearly demonstrate that inhaled particles can enter the brain via olfactory nerves.
Dissertation
Flirtin' with the monster : your favorite authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass
Presents articles critically analyzing the popular novels on teenage crystal meth addiction, and includes testimonials from the author's family members upon whom the characters in the novel were based.
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Abusing the rights of parents
A Nevada woman urges people to look for evidence before they accuse a parent of child abuse. The woman's 12-year-old daughter falsely accused her stepfather of hitting her because she was angry about being punished. Neighbors and friends believed the unfounded charges.
Magazine Article
School people
\"Fifteen poems selected [to] celebrate all of the grown-ups that children encounter during the course of a school day\"--Amazon.com.
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Weight Gain in High-Risk Pregnant Women: Comparison by Primary Diagnosis and Type of Care
Reasonable weight gain in pregnancy is essential for the health of the woman and fetus. The purpose of this secondary analysis was to examine patterns of prenatal weight gain in women with diabetes and hypertension using data from a randomized controlled trial examining physician-only (
= 29) versus APN and physician-delivered (
= 38) prenatal care. Data collection included gestational age at enrollment, delivery, diagnosis (diabetes, hypertension), prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), weight every 4 weeks during pregnancy, and total weight gain during pregnancy. Based on prepregnancy BMI, 21% of the sample was normal weight, 16% overweight, and 63% obese. There were no significant differences between physician versus APN and physician prenatal care and weight gained during pregnancy; the trend in favor of APN and physician care was evident. For women entering pregnancy with a chronic health condition, compounded by obesity, education on nutrition, diet, and behavioral modification is essential.
Journal Article
Gender role transformation as exemplified by the military officer's wife role
The military is an especially rich site to study transformations in gender roles. United States military officers' wives experience the pull of emerging social values that encourage the development of individual identity by women although they are firmly located in a conservative institution. They are an extreme case in which we can see the extent to which new values have reached those settings most likely to resist. The current study is important in that it studies the overlap of work and family rather than considering them as separate and bounded spheres and it focuses on military officers' wives whose spouse's career demands are especially time consuming, notably for the geographic mobility required for promotion and the traditional expectations that the wife be an active participant in her husband's career. Since the demise of the cold war the military has been \"downsizing\" (reducing its forces) and is attempting to retain its superior personnel while encouraging substandard members to leave. This seems to have increased the pressure on some wives to perform in the traditional manner--the old-world officer's wife role but at the same time military wives are influenced by the general societal turn away from the exclusivity of familial responsibilities for women to a greater focus on individuality and personal fulfillment. This research expands upon Jans' (1989) study that frames the role of \"military wife\" as a career in which she derives her social identity from her husband's work role. In this context, her \"occupational\" role and therefore her identity is that of \"wife of ...\" The investigation takes into account biographical, psychological and situational factors, but it accentuates the sociological factors that influence the degree to which a wife identities with her husband's military career and her role of \"wife of ...\"
Dissertation
Who's Laughing Now? Women
Like a mad-dog prophet heralding the apocalypse, Reno, 35, whose one-woman show is aptly titled ''Reno Enraged,'' bounds across the stage, flashing the whites of her eyes, sputtering with rage at all she has to revile. This capacious rage encompasses house-proud parents who made her childhood into a horror-film sequence (''Don't go into the living room. Don't go into the dining room''), the Just Say No campaign (''Oh, you're addicted? No, you're not!'') and those who insist homosexuality is a life style. Life style, she reminds us, implies choice: ''Ooooo, homosexuality - you mean no one's gonna talk to you anymore? Where do I sign up?'' Since the pause is so vital to comedy, much of the hilarity of what Reno has to say gets lost in her rat-a-tat-tat barrage. It's only later, reflecting on the justice of her complaint that there are no beguiling words for certain parts of a woman's anatomy, that you think, ''Now that was funny.'' If there were such a thing as comic justice, [Elayne Boosler], 38, wouldn't be in this article: she would be in the Lily/Roseanne/Whoopi/Sandra pantheon of funny women who got so famous they don't have to do stand-up anymore (though she has graduated to the concert-hall arena and now produces her own TV specials). Ms. Boosler doesn't walk onto a stage and proclaim, ''Speaking of my boyfriend.'' Instead, her warm natural manner makes it somehow inevitable that she would tell you how her boyfriend wanted to take a midnight walk by the river. And her response - ''What, are you nuts? I'm wearing jewelry, I'm carrying money, I have a vagina with me'' - clearly isn't designed to titillate. She's one of the only comics who can do a PMS routine that isn't anti-woman: in Ms. Boosler's world, a woman President with raging hormones is a masterful power broker, capable of bullying a terrorist into giving up his demands: ''Taking hostages on a day when I'm retaining water? This is going to go very badly for you.'' RENO - A work in progress, ''Out There Without a Prayer,'' runs Friday through Sept. 23 and Sept. 27-30 at Performance Space 122 in New York; she plans to continue touring with her one-woman production, ''Reno Enraged,'' and will appear in Michael J. Fox's latest film, ''The Hard Way,'' to be released next spring. [Rita Rudner]: ''Born to Be Mild,'' part of the ''HBO Comedy Hour'' series, will air in December. ''The Rita Rudner Show,'' a half-hour TV series of sketches and stand-up routines, will have its premiere Tuesday in England. [Marsha Warfield] - ''The Marsha Warfield Show,'' a half-hour syndicated talk show, airs weekday mornings on WNBC-TV. The comedienne also stars as the earthy bailiff on the NBC series ''Night Court.''
Newspaper Article