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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
As many of us celebrate the start of the holiday season with loved ones this Thanksgiving, too many women silently suffer from a seasonal spike in domestic abuse. A University of California at Berkley and UC San Diego study [1] found a 22% increase in partner violence on Thanksgiving and a 17% increase in domestic violence on Christmas. These statistics are especially staggering when considering that immigrant women run a significantly higher risk of being abused by a spouse than U.S. born women.
November 25th, designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women [2], invites each of us to bear in mind the plight of marginalized women around the globe.
Furthermore, this day calls governments, international organizations and NGOs to bring attention to the economic, cultural and legal hardships that prevent women from escaping abuse.
Higher rates of domestic violence are recorded for immigrant women, often due to culturally engrained gender inequalities. For these women, a fear of physical abuse is coupled with the fear of deportation from the United States. With limited access to legal counsel and social services, many immigrant women remain in abusive relationships without access to medical or financial assistance--let alone, information about immigration remedies for which they may be eligible.
For these reasons, CLINIC's Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Immigration Project aims to meet the needs of foreign-born victims of domestic violence and victims of trafficking and enslavement year-round. The Project bridges the gap between family court-based legal service providers and immigration system providers while conducting outreach and providing technical assistance to advocates of immigrant women and children.
Although "the elimination of domestic violence" is an ongoing effort, CLINIC manuals, advocacy, trainings and legal technical support provide critical resources toward assisting vulnerable immigrant women. Field Support Coordinator, Helen Chen describes recent achievements in building the capacity of a shelter for battered women:
Cherokee Family Violence Center, a domestic violence organization in Canton, Georgia is expanding their outreach to include services to immigrant survivors of domestic violence. This past year, CLINIC worked with the organization to achieve agency recognition and staff accreditation before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to be authorized to practice immigration law. This is a major milestone toward their goal of assisting immigrant survivors in the community.
In observation of this International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, find more information on the VAWA Immigration Project [3] and CLINIC's work to expand the availability of professional, low-cost immigration services here. [3]
*Tessa is the Communications Officer/Web Content Coordinator for CLINIC


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Inventing From the Ground Up: How One New England High School Sustains Inventiveness
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Innovating and Interning at a California Do-Tank
by Victoria Thomas
Not once in the first 16 years of my life did I think I would happily wake up to the sound of a Wienerschnitzel drive-thru. Not once did I picture myself living with eight other interns and a mentor, with whom I worked at an innovation "do-tank" in Alameda, Calif. Not once did I imagine learning to kite-surf in the San Francisco Bay, camping at the gorgeous Waddell Beach, constructing a 4,500 square-foot roof deck, or building more PVC marshmallow shooters than I could count. Not once did I foresee contributing to projects ranging from building paper airplanes to assisting on a presentation for Google™ under the mentorship of a soon-to-be MacArthur Fellow. Not once did I expect the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams initiative to combine all these experiences into a summer internship. But that's what Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams does; it proves to kids like me that they can do things they never thought possible.
Enter: Saul Griffith, 2004 winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, 2007 MacArthur Fellow, and co-founder of Squid Labs; and Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams, a national grants initiative to foster inventiveness among high school students. Together, they envisioned this unimaginable internship for InvenTeams alumni, such as Mr. Crane, Garrett, Skyler, Guy, Rob and me.
We had the time of our lives this past summer. When a normal workday started with learning from some of the most innovative minds in the world, and ended with company trips to the beach, how could we not? We all joke that the single bad thing about our internship is that no other job will ever compare. Did I mention catered gourmet lunch?
Now would be the time to give the traditional disclaimer: However, it wasn't all fun and games. However, it was all fun and games. Fun and games were our job.
Garrett and I spent a few weeks creating Howtoons® – projects for kids outlined and illustrated through cartoons that aim to foster an inventive spirit. We made things like duct-tape armor, garbage-bag rain gear, and skateboard sails, all with the refreshing motto "PLEASE try this at home!"
When we weren't getting in touch with our inner child, we worked on bigger things. We learned how to build a pallet roof deck like nobody's business, helped the company engineers test their new technologies, and logged many exciting hours in the coolest machine shop I have ever encountered. I've seen power tools before, but my high school sure didn't have a precision-cutting waterjet.
Prior to interning in Alameda, I had no idea that an office environment could embody fun and games so productively. I thought that loving your job was an ideal that everyone strove for but never quite fulfilled, and the overlap between work and play was a rare occurrence in which both were diluted.
Not the case.
At Squid Labs, I discovered that work and play can be combined to produce an innovative passion that is exactly what the world needs to progress. I saw real people having a blast solving real problems and yielding results that will really make a difference. I want to have a job like that.
As if deciding to pursue a career in engineering wasn't a profound enough result of the internship, I took several other lessons back home with me. The West Coast lifestyle wowed me with its dramatic departure from my small-town New Hampshire comfort zone. I learned to love and navigate the Bay Area. I learned a lot about living and interacting with other people – and gained a whole new appreciation for all the dishes my parents do. I discovered the value of looking beyond what everything is; what it could be is entirely more exciting. Trying to balance this new understanding with my pre-existing pack-rat tendencies is the new challenge. My room isn't big enough to hold all the treasures I found in the basement.
Most importantly, I learned to persevere with confidence. As the only girl in our group of InvenTeams interns (not to mention a 16 year-old with experience limited to high school classes), I was honestly intimidated when I started, and I was overwhelmed when everyone at work seemed older, wiser and smarter. I frequently felt like I was more of a hindrance than help, and confused instead of learning.
Disturbed and anxious, I called home several times to tell my parents this. But when I recounted my daily experiences, I found myself adeptly explaining the technologies and presentations I was supposedly so confused about. I realized that this uncertainty actually caused me to absorb an incredible amount of information that I might otherwise not have. I began to welcome (and even seek out!) intimidation. Moral of the story: Feeling intimidated is actually a good thing once you learn to appreciate it as such. If you don't surround yourself with people you can learn from (frequently the older, wiser, and smarter), how will you ever improve?
I'll take all of these important lessons with me as I start my freshman year at MIT this fall. In the meantime, they're proving useful during my gap year between high school and college, while I intern with the Lemelson-MIT Program and pursue my private pilot license. I also kept my Squid Labs experience in mind as I toured India and volunteered in Senegal, where the lesson on looking for what things can be spoke to me in entirely new ways. While in Senegal, my host sister Khadi passionately described to me her desire to go to university. After speaking (in French) to her and her mother about the important opportunities that could come from Khadi's formal education, we brainstormed ways to finance it. As we solved that and other challenges, I saw the transformation of a motivated girl's impossible dream into a motivated girl's reality. Sound familiar?
As it turns out, the lessons I've learned through the Lemelson-MIT Program's mission extend far beyond science and engineering. And now, because I understood the importance of "exciting, empowering, and encouraging" my host sister, she is studying business, management, and communications at Senegal's premiere business university.
After the current adventures are over, perhaps I'll take up residence next to the Wienerschnitzel drive-thru for another internship at Squid Labs, this time bringing with me the whole new collection of lessons that I learned from my host sister.
Like all mind-blowing experiences, I'm left in the aftermath of the summer, wondering what hit me. It's been seven months since I left Alameda, and I haven't yet figured out how to answer that question. I'm starting to realize, though, that maybe words just can't do it justice.


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text: DSpace Collection: Dental Science (Scholarly Publications) http://hdl.handle.net/2262/194 Dental Science (Scholarly Publications) 2014-02-25T18:51:32Z Understanding head and neck cancers http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67909 Title: Understanding head and neck cancers Author: MAC CARTHY, DENISE Description: PUBLISHED 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z DISPERSAL PATTERNS OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ON EIGHT ACUTE HOSPITAL WARDS http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67792 Title: DISPERSAL PATTERNS OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ON EIGHT ACUTE HOSPITAL WARDS Author: DEASY, EMILY CHRISTINE; COLEMAN, DAVID; SHORE, ANNA Abstract: BACKGROUND. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can be recovered from hospital air and from environmental surfaces. This poses a potential risk of transmission to patients. OBJECTIVE. To investigate associations between MRSA isolates recovered from air and environmental surfaces with those from patients when undertaking extensive patient and environmental screening. DESIGN. A prospective observational study of patients and their environment in eight wards of a 700-bed tertiary care hospital during 2010 and 2011. METHODS. Sampling of patients, air and surfaces was carried out on all ward bays, with more extended environmental sampling in ward high-dependency bays (HDBs) and at particular times of the day. The genetic relatedness of isolates was determined by DNA microarray profiling and spa typing. RESULTS. MRSA was recovered from 30/706 (4.3%) patients and from 19/132 (14.4%) air samples. On 9/132 (6.8%) occasions both patient and air samples yielded MRSA. In 32 HDBs, MRSA was recovered from 12/161 (7.4%) patients, 8/32 (25%) air samples, and 21/644 (3.3%) environmental surface samples. On 10/132 (7.6%) occasions, MRSA was isolated from air in the absence of MRSA-positive patients. Patient demographic data combined with spa typing and DNA microarray profiling revealed four transmission clusters, where patient and environmental isolates were indistinguishable or deemed to be very closely related. Description: IN_PRESS 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROSOMOME MEC: RECENT ADVANCES AND NEW INSIGHTS http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67780 Title: STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROSOMOME MEC: RECENT ADVANCES AND NEW INSIGHTS Author: COLEMAN, DAVID; SHORE, ANNA Abstract: Staphylococcal cassette chromosome (SCC) elements are complex mobile genetic elements that often carry antimicrobial resistance and in some cases virulence-associated genes. In addition to SCCmec, which harbours the methicillin resistance gene mec, many different SCC elements have been identified in staphylococci. Recent findings have significantly enhanced our understanding of the diversity of SCCmec elements and their contribution to the evolution of MRSA and are the focus of this short review. This includes the identification of (i) novel mec genes and allelic variants, (ii) an extensive array of ccr and mec complex genes as well as SCCmec, SCC and pseudo SCC/SCCmec elements and composite islands (CIs) in staphylococci, (iii) potential mec, SCC and SCCmec precursors among distinct coagulase-negative staphylococcal species, and (iv) SCC encoded virulence-associated genes. Due to their complex nature and increasing diversity, detailed characterisation of SCC and SCCmec elements and CIs represents a unique challenge but is vital for effective epidemiological typing and tracking of MRSA and other staphylococci and to enhance our understanding of the origins and evolution of MRSA. Description: PUBLISHED 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z GENOTYPING Candida albicans FROM CANDIDA LEUKOPLAKIA AND NON-CANDIDA LEUKOPLAKIA SHOWS NO ENRICHMENT OF MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING CLADES BUT ENRICHMENT OF ABC GENOTYPE C IN CANDIDA LEUKOPLAKIA http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67779 Title: GENOTYPING Candida albicans FROM CANDIDA LEUKOPLAKIA AND NON-CANDIDA LEUKOPLAKIA SHOWS NO ENRICHMENT OF MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING CLADES BUT ENRICHMENT OF ABC GENOTYPE C IN CANDIDA LEUKOPLAKIA Author: MC MANUS, BRENDA; COLEMAN, DAVID Abstract: Oral leukoplakias are histopathologically-diagnosed as Candida leukoplakia or non-Candida leukoplakia by the presence or absence of hyphae in the superficial epithelium. Candida leukoplakia lesions have significantly increased malignant potential. Candida albicans is the most prevalent fungal species associated with oral leukoplakia and may contribute to malignant transformation of Candida leukoplakia. To date, no detailed population analysis of C. albicans isolates from oral leukoplakia patients has been undertaken. This study investigated whether specific C. albicans genotypes were associated with Candida leukoplakia and non-Candida leukoplakia in a cohort of Irish patients. Patients with histopathologically-defined Candida leukoplakia (n=31) or non-Candida leukoplakia (n=47) were screened for Candida species by culture of oral rinse and lesional swab samples. Selected C. albicans isolates from Candida leukoplakia patients (n=25), non-Candida leukoplakia patients (n=19) and oral carriage isolates from age and sex matched healthy subjects without leukoplakia (n=34) were subjected to multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and ABC genotyping. MLST revealed that the clade distribution of C. albicans from both Candida leukoplakia and non-Candida leukoplakia lesions overlapped with the corresponding clade distributions of oral carriage isolates and global reference isolates from the MLST database indicating no enrichment of leukoplakia-associated clones. Oral leukoplakia isolates were significantly enriched with ABC genotype C (12/44, 27.3%), particularly Candida leukoplakia isolates (9/25, 36%), relative to oral carriage isolates (3/34, 8.8%). Genotype C oral leukoplakia isolates were distributed in MLST clades 1,3,4,5,8,9 and 15, whereas genotype C oral carriage isolates were distributed in MLST clades 4 and 11. Description: PUBLISHED 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z EXTENSIVE GENETIC DIVERSITY IDENTIFIED AMONG SPORADIC METHICILLIN-RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus ISOLATES RECOVERED IN IRISH HOSPITALS BETWEEN 2000-2012 http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67778 Title: EXTENSIVE GENETIC DIVERSITY IDENTIFIED AMONG SPORADIC METHICILLIN-RESISTANT Staphylococcus aureus ISOLATES RECOVERED IN IRISH HOSPITALS BETWEEN 2000-2012 Author: SULLIVAN, DEREK; COLEMAN, DAVID; SHORE, ANNA Abstract: Clonal replacement of predominant nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains has occurred several times in Ireland during the last four decades. However, little is known about sporadically-occurring MRSA in Irish hospitals or in other countries. Eighty-eight representative pvl-negative sporadic MRSA isolates recovered in Irish hospitals between 2000-2012 were investigated. These yielded unusual pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and antibiogram-resistogram typing patterns distinct from those of the predominant nosocomial MRSA clone, ST22-MRSA-IV, during the study period. Isolates were characterized by spa typing and DNA microarray profiling for multilocus sequence type (MLST) clonal complex (CC) and/or sequence type (ST) and SCCmec type assignment, and for detection of virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes. Conventional PCR-based SCCmec subtyping was undertaken when necessary. Extensive diversity was detected including 38 spa types, 13 MLST-CCs including 18 STs among 62 isolates assigned to STs and 25 SCCmec types including two possible novel SCCmec elements and seven possible novel SCCmec subtypes. Fifty-four MLST-spa-SCCmec type combinations were identifed. Overall 68.5% of isolates were assigned to nosocomial lineages with ST8-t190-MRSA-IID/IIE +/- SCCM1 predominating (17.4%) followed by CC779/ST779-t878-MRSA-ψSCCmec-SCC-SCCCRISPR (7.6%) and CC22/ST22-t032-MRSA-IVh (5.4%). Community-associated clones including CC1-t127/t386/t2279-MRSA-IV, CC59-t216-MRSA-V, CC8-t008-MRSA-IVa, CC5-t002/t242-MRSA-IV/V and putative animal-associated clones including CC130-t12399-MRSA-XI, ST8-t064-MRSA-IVa, ST398-t011-MRSA-IVa and CC6-t701-MRSA-V were also identified. In total, 53.3% and 47.8% of isolates harbored resistance genes to two or more classes of antimicrobial agents and two or more mobile genetic element-encoded virulence-associated factors, respectively. Effective ongoing surveillance of sporadic nosocomial MRSA is warranted for early detection of emerging clones and reservoirs of virulence, resistance and SCCmec genes. Description: IN_PRESS; 6th January 2014; Epub ahead of print 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY. PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF Candida albicans http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67777 Title: MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY. PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF Candida albicans Author: MC MANUS, BRENDA; COLEMAN, DAVID Abstract: A small number of Candida species form part of the normal microbial flora of mucosal surfaces in humans and may give rise to opportunistic infections when host defences are impaired. Candida albicans is by far the most prevalent commensal and pathogenic Candida species. Several different molecular typing approaches including multilocus sequence typing, multilocus microsatellite typing and DNA fingerprinting using C. albicansspecific repetitive sequence- containing DNA probes have yielded a wealth of information regarding the epidemiology and population structure of this species. Such studies revealed that the C. albicans population structure consists of multiple major and minor clades, some of which exhibit geographical or phenotypic enrichment and that C. albicans reproduction is predominantly clonal. Despite this, losses of heterozygosity by recombination, the existence of a parasexual cycle, toleration of a wide range of aneuploidies and the recent description of viable haploid strains have all demonstrated the extensive plasticity of the C. albicans genome. Recombination and gross chromosomal rearrangements are more common under stressful environmental conditions, and have played a significant role in the evolution of this opportunistic pathogen. Surprisingly, Candida dubliniensis, the closest relative of C. albicans exhibits more karyotype variability than C. albicans, but is significantly less adaptable to unfavourable environments. This disparity most likely reflects the evolutionary processes that occurred during or soon after the divergence of both species from their common ancestor. Whilst C. dubliniensis underwent significant gene loss and pseudogenisation, C. albicans expanded gene families considered to be important in virulence. It is likely that technological developments in whole genome sequencing and data analysis in coming years will facilitate its routine use for population structure, epidemiological investigations, and phylogenetic analyses of Candida species. These are likely to reveal more minor C. albicans clades and to enhance our understanding of the population biology of this versatile organism. Description: PUBLISHED; 19 November; Epub ahead of print 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN-POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS IN IRELAND 2002-2011: TWENTY-ONE CLONES, FREQUENT IMPORTATION OF CLONES, TEMPORAL SHIFTS OF PREDOMINANT METHICILLIN-RESISTANT S. AUREUS AND INCREASING MULTIRESISTANCE http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67776 Title: PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN-POSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS IN IRELAND 2002-2011: TWENTY-ONE CLONES, FREQUENT IMPORTATION OF CLONES, TEMPORAL SHIFTS OF PREDOMINANT METHICILLIN-RESISTANT S. AUREUS AND INCREASING MULTIRESISTANCE Author: COLEMAN, DAVID; SHORE, ANNA; TECKLENBORG, SARAH Abstract: There has been a worldwide increase in community-associated (CA) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. CA-MRSA isolates commonly produce the Panton-Valentine leukocidin toxin encoded by the pvl genes lukF/S-PV. This study investigated the clinical and molecular epidemiology of pvl-positive MRSA and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) identified by the Irish National MRSA Reference Laboratory (NMRSARL) between 2002 and 2011. All pvl-positive MRSA (n = 190) and MSSA (n = 39) isolates underwent antibiogram-resistogram typing, spa typing and DNA microarray profiling for multilocus sequence type, clonal complex (CC) and/or sequence type (ST) and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type assignment and virulence and resistance gene detection. Where available, The prevalence of pvl-positive MRSA increased from 0.2%-8.8% and pvl-positive MSSA decreased from 20%-2.5% during the study period. The pvl-positive MRSA and MSSA belonged to 16 and five genotypes, respectively, with CC/ST8-MRSA-IV, CC/ST30-MRSA-IV, CC/ST80-MRSA-IV and CC1/ST772-MRSA-V and CC30-MSSA, CC22-MSSA and CC121-MSSA predominating. Temporal shifts in the predominant pvl-positive MRSA genotypes and a six-fold increase in multiresistant pvl-positive MRSA occurred during the study period. Analysis of patient data indicated that pvl-positive S. aureus strains, especially MRSA, were imported into Ireland several times. Two hospital and six family clusters of pvl-positive MRSA were identified and 70% of patient isolates for which information was available were from patients in the community. This study highlights the increased burden and changing molecular epidemiology of pvl-positive S. aureus in Ireland over the last decade and the contribution of international travel to the influx of genetically diverse pvl-positive S. aureus into Ireland. Description: PUBLISHED; 26th Dec; Epub ahead of print 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z COMPARATIVE ADHERENCE OF CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS TO HUMAN BUCCAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AND EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67761 Title: COMPARATIVE ADHERENCE OF CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS TO HUMAN BUCCAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AND EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS Author: COLEMAN, DAVID; SULLIVAN, DEREK; MORAN, GARY Abstract: Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis are very closely related pathogenic yeast species. Despite their close relationship, the former is a far more successful coloniser and pathogen of humans. The purpose of the current study was to investigate if the disparity in the virulence of the two species could be attributed to differences in their ability to adhere to human buccal epithelial cells (BECs) and/or extracellular matrix proteins. When grown overnight at 30°C in Yeast Extract Peptone Dextrose (YEPD), genotype 1 C. dubliniensis isolates were found to be significantly more adherent to human BECs than C. albicans or C. dubliniensis genotypes 2-4 (P < 0.001). However, when the yeast cells were grown at 37°C, no significant difference between the adhesion of C. dubliniensis genotype 1 and C. albicans to human BECs was observed, and C. dubliniensis genotype 1 and C. albicans adhered to BECs in significantly greater numbers than the other C. dubliniensis genotypes (P < 0.001). Using surface plasmon resonance analysis, C. dubliniensis isolates were found to adhere in significantly greater numbers than C. albicans to type I and IV collagen, fibronectin, laminin, vitronectin and proline-rich peptides. These data suggest that C. albicans is not more adherent to epithelial cells or matrix proteins than C. dubliniensis and therefore other factors must contribute to the greater levels of virulence exhibited by C. albicans. Description: ACCEPTED 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67628 Title: A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25. Author: HEALY, CLAIRE Abstract: Abstract: Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide, with over one million cases annually(1). To identify genetic factors that modify disease risk, we conducted a genome- wide association study by analysing 317,139 single- nucleotide polymorphisms in 1,989 lung cancer cases and 2,625 controls from six central European countries. We identified a locus in chromosome region 15q25 that was strongly associated with lung cancer ( P= 9 x 10(-10)). This locus was replicated in five separate lung cancer studies comprising an additional 2,513 lung cancer cases and 4,752 controls ( P = 5 x 10(-20) overall), and it was found to account for 14%( attributable risk) of lung cancer cases. Statistically similar risks were observed irrespective of smoking status or propensity to smoke tobacco. The association region contains several genes, including three that encode nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits ( CHRNA5, CHRNA3 and CHRNB4). Such subunits are expressed in neurons and other tissues, in particular alveolar epithelial cells, pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and lung cancer cell lines(2,3), and they bind to N'- nitrosonornicotine and potential lung carcinogens(4). A non- synonymous variant of CHRNA5 that induces an amino acid substitution ( D398N) at a highly conserved site in the second intracellular loop of the protein is among the markers with the strongest disease associations. Our results provide compelling evidence of a locus at 15q25 predisposing to lung cancer, and reinforce interest in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors as potential disease candidates and chemopreventative targets(5). 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This article describes the preliminary empirical study necessary for development of such a tool - an ICF-CY Core Set for Oral Health. An ICF-CY questionnaire was used to identify the medical, functional, social and environmental context of 218 children and adolescents referred to special care or paediatric dental services in France, Sweden, Argentina and Ireland (mean age 8 years ±3.6yrs). International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) diagnoses included disorders of the nervous system (26.1%), Down syndrome (22.0%), mental retardation (17.0%), autistic disorders (16.1%), and dental anxiety alone (11.0%). The most frequently impaired items in the ICF Body functions domain were 'Intellectual functions', 'High-level cognitive functions', and 'Attention functions'. In the Activities and Participation domain, participation restriction was frequently reported for 25 items including 'Handling stress', 'Caring for body parts', 'Looking after one's health' and 'Speaking'. In the Environment domain, facilitating items included 'Support of friends', 'Attitude of friends' and 'Support of immediate family'. One item was reported as an environmental barrier - 'Societal attitudes'. The ICF-CY can be used to highlight common profiles of functioning, activities, participation and environment shared by children in relation to oral health, despite widely differing medical, social and geographical contexts. The results of this empirical study might be used to develop an ICF-CY Core Set for Oral Health - a holistic but practical tool for clinical and epidemiological use. Description: PUBLISHED 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z


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The Reds had six finalists for Gold Glove Awards, more than any team in Major League Baseball. They didn't win a single one.
I understand Bronson Arroyo, Zack Cozart, Joey Votto and Drew Stubbs not winning. It's hard to judge a pitcher since they only take the mound once every five days. This was Cozart's first full season in the big leagues. Votto missed a lot of time with the knee injury. Stubbs was horrendous at the plate, which shouldn't matter, but does.
Jay Bruce should have multiple Gold Gloves. He saves runs with his arm. For the most part, teams have stopped trying to even test him.
The fact that the Cubs' Darwin Barney won over Brandon Phillips is an absolute joke. Phillips is not only the best second baseman in the National League, but the best in all of baseball. I will go as far to say that he is the best second baseman I have ever seen play Major League Baseball.
Major League managers and coaches select the winners for the Gold Glove Award, but are not permitted to vote for their own players. Anyone who didn't vote for Phillips should be ashamed of themselves. They are either being swayed by a personal bias or are just plain ignorant.
Reds lead the way with six Gold Glove finalists
The Reds lead all Major League teams with six Rawlings Gold Glove Award finalists. The winners will be announced on Tuesday. And the nominees are…
Bronson Arroyo – Arroyo won the Gold Glove in 2010 and could be looking at his second.
Joey Votto – His hard work finally paid off last year. The only thing that will keep Votto from winning is the time he missed because of the knee injury.
Brandon Phillips – No brainer.
Zack Cozart – I like Cozart at shortstop, but will admit that I am surprised to see him as a finalist.
Drew Stubbs – Even though it should not matter, his offensive woes will keep him from winning.
Jay Bruce – He should already have two. Hopefully, he will finally get the recognition he deserves.


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Grooming and feather care are part of normal hygiene in chickens and can also be social activities. Dust baths can help reduce the incidence of feather picking.
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The profound changes now occurring in the electric industry will most directly affect those who are engaged in the enterprises of generation, transmission, and distribution of power. But...
Transmission Tariffs: Still Pro Forma? Locational Pricing and the Federal Power Act
Two power pools (em one existing, the other inchoate (em have announced that they will file tariffs to price electric transmission as the difference in spot prices in the generation and consuming markets. Revenues in excess of embedded costs would be distributed to the holders of firm transmission rights through "transmission congestion contracts" (TCCs).
"Locational pricing" and TCCs may achieve pristine economic efficiency in the generation and delivery of power. However, these concepts lie outside of "cost basis" in the traditional sense; they imply the virtual deregulation of transmission pricing.
While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has encouraged "innovative"
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Locational pricing and TCCs lie central to the plans of new competitive power pools proposed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (PJM). These ideas will pose a challenge to the traditional utility ratemaking principles employed by the FERC under the "just and reasonable" standard of the FPA.
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But in its latest order, the Final Policy Decision3, the CPUC accepted a hybrid structure. Utilities will sell into and purchase from the Pool, but bilateral transactions will also be accommodated. The change is significant: the CPUC must now integrate power deliveries under the Pool and bilateral contracts; it also must allocate and price transmission services.
To accommodate this hybrid structure embracing a spot market for energy and direct bilateral sales contracts, the CPUC divided the formerly monolithic structure of the ISO into two distinct entities: The ISO and the Power Exchange. The ISO retains responsibility for grid operation and economic dispatch of generation resources. The Power Exchange will supervise the matching of power supply and demand bids. As the CPUC notes, bilateral contracts do not control the actual physics of the generation, transmission, and distribution that deliver the product the buyer consumes. Yet a dispatch nomination originating from a bilateral
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In my house growing up we never had a chore chart. Instead what my mom did is cut out pieces of paper and put chores on them. she folded them up and put them in a bucket. Every week each of us would draw a chore out of the bucket and that was our responsibility for the week. The different chores included the living room, kitchen, bathrooms, trash. Each room had specifics for example:
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EDMONTON - When a store that sells pens, paper, greeting cards and invitations announces its closure, the first impulse is to chalk up another victim of the digital age.
But that's not the case with Notables Stationers, which is shutting its doors at the end of May after nearly 28 years in business.
Owner Suzanne Davis says the High Street retailer is holding its own even in rapidly changing times, but it's time for her to retire.
"I've done this half my life," Davis said Tuesday, a day after breaking the news on her blog. "When I started, I had to learn a 286 (personal computer). I can now Facebook, Pinterest and Tweet better than any of my younger staff."
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Her roots in retail go way back, growing up behind the cash register at Davis Automotive, a family-owned chain of automobile parts shops. She also worked in retail through high school and university and was a sales manager with Eaton's department stores.
When she decided to open her own store, it had to be stationery.
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She harnessed her creative tendencies and began designing custom invitations. These days, the store has two graphic designers and as many as five staff in a production area in the back working on custom orders. The store has up to 17 employees.
But the mainstay of the business has been gifts and greeting cards and more recently, pens.
"It was a real growth area for the last two or three years. Walk into any coffee shop and on every table, you'll see a laptop or tablet and you'll see a journal or a notebook and a pen beside it. There's something about a pen in your hand. It helps with cognitive thinking.
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The advent of the Internet has led to orders from across Canada and the United States for Notables, but it's also dried up some of the demand for birth announcements and smaller-occasion invitations.
"But when it comes to the special invitations, the weddings, retirements and special birthdays, if someone wants to make a statement about their party, they're still going to send a beautiful and unique invitation. There's something very tactile about that."
Davis said she had considered selling the business, but, "I'm a big small business and there aren't a lot of people out there with that kind of money in their pockets."
It will be business as usual until mid-April when a moving-on sale will start.
The looming closure of Notables follows the recent departures of two other neighbouring independent retail mainstays, Shambles and the Tin Box, but Davis says that's merely coincidence and new shops are opening in their place.
"It's a change over. When you look at shops like Le Gnome and Dansk, we're all definitely the older retailers in the city."
Davis, a board member and one of the founding members of the 124th Street Business Association, said the area is attracting new merchants and there are three new highrises expected nearby.
"Even with the bridge going down, there's three new retail businesses coming into High Street."
The bridge over Groat Road on 102nd Avenue is scheduled to close on July 2 for 15 months. The city says it will cause significant traffic disruption.
Kirsta Franke, marketing and events director for the 124 Street Business Association, said the Tin Box, Shambles and Notables closures all involve personal decisions or circumstances.
"The area is definitely growing all the time," Franke said. "It's always good to have those anchors like Suzanne and Shambles and the Tin Box that have been there many years, but it's also a great thing that it's evolving."


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The views are everything here. Moderately priced for the location, too.
The Fireside Lounge offers sweeping Pacific views and stunning sunsets.Light bites include ceviche and sushi. Cozy up next to the fireplace.
Great place / reasonable price – great location. beautiful lobby and great back deck overlooking the pier and ocean. the deck features cozy seating around fire pits. the breakfast buffets is wonderful. we had a couple of problems, but they were quickly taken care of. our room was not ready when we arrived at 5:00 p.m. we had to wait about 20 minutes. the hotel gave us $150 credit that we used for cocktails, breakfast, etc. our air-conditioner was out when we arrived back to the hotel around 10:00 p.m. but a repairman came 5 minutes after we called and had it fixed in 15 minutes. we would stay there again.
Review of Papillon (Loews' Cafe/Lounge) – I met my friend for dinner at Loews since she was staying at the hotel for a conference. We decided to try out Papillon because we wanted something a little more laid-back than their feature restaurant, Ocean & Vine. We sat under a glass-enclosed section instead of utilizing the firepits because we were afraid with the sun going down, it would be cold. We had a great view of the ocean and the pier. But that's when everything wonderful stopped.
First of all, we needed to flag someone down in order to place our food order. The waitress was monosyllabic, but nice enough. Though she couldn't explain the happy hour menu very well. The food was very good (we ordered the sliders, tuna tacos, calamari, tomato basil soup, and scallops), and that is the ONLY reason they are getting 2 stars instead of 1.
What followed was inexcusable. We ordered dessert, and when it came to our table, I took a big bite. My friend got her spoonful, but before she put it in her mouth, she spotted AN INSECT on her spoon. After having to flag someone down AGAIN, the plate was taken away from us and we were promised a fresh one. (I know many of you would be repulsed at eating anything after seeing an insect in their food, but we've both seen worse.) NO APOLOGY WAS MADE - only the reassurance that another dessert was on the way. However, what really took me over the edge was that THEY CHARGED US FOR REPLACING THE INSECT-LACED DESSERT!!!
Never again will I eat or step foot in that establishment again. If there was a manager close at hand, I would have complained to high-hell. But since it takes so long just to get regular service there, I simply took off and never looked back.
A Santa Monica landmark and full-service beachfront hotel. – In Short
Santa Monica's first beachfront hotel has a lot more to offer than its superb surfside setting, although the ocean views, sea breeze, memorable sunsets and private access to the beach are all pretty fabulous. Located within walking distance (that is, if you don't mind walking) are the seaside city's main hubs--eclectic Main Street, the Pier and the Third Street Promenade. The 342 guest rooms--decked out in simple yet sleek furnishings and subdued, soothing tones-- feature wireless and high-speed Internet acces as well as TVs in the bathrooms. The award-winning Ocean and Vine restaurant lures hotel guests and local visitors alike, while the full-service spa welcomes its fair share of Hollywood stars with treatments that range from standard to New Age.
Dirty – There were black hairs in the showers. The jacuzzi area was dirty. The massage room smelled of amonia. When I contacted the manager she had no interest in addressing my concerns.
Best hotel to vacation with your dog! – I knew that the Loews Hotels were dog friendly hotels, so I was expecting to slip in unoticed with my dog, and have to keep her quiet for the next 2 nights. I was pleasantly surprised that my dog (who I treat like my child) was greeted with open arms and big smiles from everyone. We had a great room on the first floor, with a big patio for my pup to run around. I ordered room service for dinner, and smiled when they sent up dog bowls, a place mat, Fiji water and dog treats for my pup, all without me asking. Customer service was exceptional, the staff was always smiling and ready to assistance me with anything I needed. I will most definately be staying at this and other Loews hotels again.
If you want to spend a couple of days away with your pet, don't look anywhere else, just make a reservation at The Loews.
Most Romantic Hotel in Santa Monica – I've stayed at several hotels in SM, but this is my favorite. The rooms are beautiful, and the views at night are spectacular. At night, go down to the lounge and grab a drink to take outside by the pool and watch the lights on the ferris wheel at the pier, or a beautiful California sunset. Great location and beautiful hotel with terrific staff.
Great view, Awsome service !! – I come to LA a couple times a year and have stayed at alot of Hotels over the past few years and The Lowes Hotel is one of the best... The service is great and the view is awsome !!
Best overall service – We wanted a quick getaway from our city life and kids. We had a gift certificate we won from a fundraiser and thought we would get an ok room, but we were delighted to get a room with an ocean view! Not only that, but Billy the gentleman that checked us in, comped us a bottle of champagne and strawberries. My husband had a massage with Nancy and I had one with Regiani, both of which were fantastic and left us feeling very relaxed. We had a lovely breakfast in the new Ocean and Vine restaurant. The fruit and buffet were all incredibly fresh.
What a delightful restful weekend!
Loew's...not that nice – The room was not as nice as it could have been.
The balcony was just a step out,the motel is not on the beach. The parking was $25 a day and was all valet.There were a lot of private parties that overtook the pool and lobby and we felt unwelcomed. The pool is very small,not a good pool for kid's.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — "Silent House" is an American remake of the Uruguayan film "La Casa Muda", and just like the original, it is marketed as though the film was shot as one continuous take; eighty-eight minutes of unedited horror played out in real time. In the trailers for the film as well as the theatrical poster, this is used as a major selling point, seemingly setting it apart from other entries in the genre. Though it is disappointing to discover this gimmick to be false, the reality is that it doesn't matter. The edits are disguised so well that you actually believe the trick.
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The kitchen staff of the Pennyfoot Hotel is toiling away to prepare the finest meal for the guests on Christmas. And the plum pudding may very well be to die for…
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