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text: DraftExpressProfile: Joe Alexander, Stats, Comparisons, and Outlook Loading NBA Mock Drafts 2016 NBA Mock Draft 2017 NBA Mock Draft Complete Draft History My Mock Draft 2015 Early Entry List 2015 Extended NBA Mock Draft Rankings Top 100 Prospects NCAA Seniors NCAA Juniors NCAA Sophomores NCAA Freshmen International 1994 International 1995 International 1996 International 1997 NBA Draft Eligible Features DX T-Shirts Complete Draft History Measurements History NBA Player Salaries NBA Contract Calculator Player Agents Listings NBA Agent/Agency Affiliations RSCI Early Entry List Team Clubhouses Draft Pick Transactions DraftExpress Podcast NBA Draft Lottery History Videos Scouting Reports Group Interviews Highlights Interview & Highlights Interviews NBA Draft Workouts Newest Popular Practice Footage Slow Motion Dunks Stats NCAA Stats NBA Stats Euroleague Stats EuroCup Stats Spanish ACB Stats Italian A1 Stats French Pro A Stats Adriatic Stats Greek Stats D-league Stats Team Stats Stats by Team Articles Archives NCAA Draft Prospects International Draft Prospects High School NCAA Commentary International Commentary General Draft Commentary NBA Pre-Draft Camp D-League NBA NBA Summer Leagues NBA Team Needs Interviews Humor Mailbag Site Announcements Sections DX T-Shirts DX Home NCAA Home International Home NBA Home High School Home D-League Home Columnists Jonathan Givony Matt Kamalsky Mike Schmitz Kyle Nelson Derek Bodner Josh Riddell Richard Walker Jim Hlavac Eric Weiss DraftExpress User Menu Edit Profile Log In Log Out DraftExpress DX T-Shirts About Us Contact Us Opportunities Privacy Policy Our RSS Feeds Joe AlexanderSTRENGTHS:- Ability to get to free throw line- Post offense- Turnaround jumper- Shot-blocking skills- Competitiveness- Huge upside- Leadership skills in clutch- Strong Intangibles- Work ethic- High-level productivity- Only playing basketball for few years- Passing skills- Ability to finish around basket- Athleticism- Frail frame- Size for position- Undersized- Wingspan- Mid-range Jumper- Shooting mechanicsWEAKNESSES:- Lacks significant offensive polish- Ability to create own shot- Ball-handling skills- Ability to defend position at next level?- Lateral quickness- Mechanical player- Not ready to contribute immediately- Jack of all trades, master of none?- Unorthodox style- 3-point range- Ability to create separation from defenderRecent TweetsAll TweetsDraftExpress: D.J. Stephens also has the 5th fastest 3\/4 court sprint time ever narrowly edging out Joe Alexander http://t.co/swaThB5ow92013-05-22 15:55:44@TheBigLead Don't understand what you're trying to say. Joe Alexander is a phenomenal leaper, especially in open floor. No argument there.2010-04-03 20:00:29Haha, deal. JA doesn't fit. RT @TheBigLead i'll see your lateral quickness & raise you Kyle Korver, Jared Dudley, Joe Alexander & Dunleavy2010-04-03 19:52:09Nope. Martell Webster (#6).Also Marcus Fizer #4 RT @nbadleague Is Joe Alexander the highest NBA DRAFT pick (#8) to play in the NBA D-LEAGUE?2010-01-22 16:55:00Nope. Martell Webster. Also Marcus Fizer RT @nbadleague Is Joe Alexander the highest NBA DRAFT pick (#8) to play in the NBA D-LEAGUE?2010-01-22 16:53:00Top 25s - Full List RankCategoryTotal 25PF103 Team: Sassari PhysicalsPositions SalaryMisc H: 6' 8" W: 220 lbs Bday: 12/26/1986 (28 Years Old) Current: PF NBA: PF Possible: SF/PF Agent: Doug Neustadt High School: Linganore HS Hometown: Kaohsiung, MD Drafted: Pick 8 in 2008 by Bucks Best Case: Super Athletic Matt Harpring Worst Case: Damien Wilkins Predraft Measurements YearSourceHeight w/o ShoesHeight w/shoesWeightWingspanStanding ReachBody FatNo Step VertMax Vert 2008NBA Pre-Draft Camp6' 7.25"6' 8.25"2206' 11.5"8' 10"5.832.538.5Basic Per Game Statistics - Comprehensive Stats - Statistical Top 25s YearLeagueNameGPMinPtsFGFGAFG%2Pt2PtA2P%3Pt3PtA3P%FTMFTAFT%OffDefTOTAstsStlsBlksTOsPFs 2015/16ItalianJoe Alexander727.614.35.910.058.65.38.22.214.171.1240.82.02.48220.127.116.11.18.104.22.168.12.7 2015/16EUROJoe Alexander626.510.23.710.3220.127.116.1122.214.171.1240.02.52.88220.127.116.11.184.108.40.206.82.3 Player Page  | Player Stats | Mock Draft History | Related Articles  | Add to My Draft Express   D-League Showcase Profiles: Call-Up Candidates (Part One)January 17, 2011Matt Kamalsky One of the top call-up candidates in the NBADL at this juncture, former top-10 draft selection Joe Alexander is off to a strong start in his first campaign with the Texas Legends. Struggling to make a transition to the small forward position on the NBA level, Alexander has added a significant amount of weight to his upper body and has been converted back to the power forward spot, a position he's clearly far better suited for skill-wise. He scored effectively from the four spot during the two games he played at the 2011 Showcase, even if he showed some limitations as well. Still the same tremendously gifted run-jump athlete we saw in workouts years ago, Alexander has an outstanding frame, but still isn't a very fluid player. He is very rigid in his movements and has difficulties getting down in a low stance, something that was a major issue when trying to play on the perimeter full time, particularly on the defensive end. Over the course of the week here, and looking back at Alexander's body of work this season, it is clear that Alexander has found a comfort level offensively from the mid-post and left baseline. Setting up shop 10 to 12 feet away from the rim, when Alexander gets the ball he looks to either face up and take a quick jump shot if he's on the right block or settle for a turnaround jumper on the left side of the floor. Very rarely putting the ball on the floor with his back to the basket, Alexander has little trouble elevating over defenders to get his shot off, but needs to become more consistent if he's going to rely solely on those two moves to score. When Alexander received the ball out on the perimeter and put it on the deck, the results were usually positive, which has been the case for most of the season. He's prone to forcing some drives and passes through contact, but his quick first step allows him to get to the basket, draw additional defenders, and create some easy scoring opportunities for himself and others. An efficient finisher, Alexander's mechanical shooting form has rendered him a less than efficient catch and shoot player, making his tendency to settle from the midrange a bit of a concern. Defensively, Alexander was something of a mixed bag. He was slow to get back on defense on a number of occasions and didn't seem as dialed in as he usually is, but tallied 8 blocks in the two games we took in at the showcase and completely locked down the Dar Tucker one-on-one late in Texas's first game on one memorable occasion. Doing a nice job making his presence felt stepping in from the weak side and getting his hand on the ball, Alexander is a solid defender at this level, even when he isn't giving an Othyus Jeffers-type effort. A bit stuck in between positions defensively on the NBA level, it will be important for Alexander to hone his game on this end of the floor. The fact that he's leading the league in rebounding has to be viewed as a huge plus, though. On the whole, Alexander's time with the Texas Legends has been a positive one. Lacking experience playing at a high level due to his late start in basketball and struggles in the NBA, Alexander has benefitted from seeing extended playing time at his natural position, something he's sorely lacked over the last few years. He still needs to continue polishing his offensive repertoire to maximize his efficiency, but the fact that he's averaging 20 and 10 and has as much upside as any player in the NBADL makes him a call up candidate and his situation one worth keeping an eye on. [Read Full Article] Las Vegas Summer League Day SevenJuly 19, 2008This wasnt a glamorous game for Alexander, as it took him quite a while to get going. This has really been an up and down week for the young forward, but hes shown some nice tool. Alexander showed great court vision today once again, doing a great job setting up his teammates. On one memorable occasion he caught a full court outlet pass only to tip it behind him to a cutting teammate. While his passing has been great, his shooting has been another story. Hes had no problem getting his shot off, but just hasnt hit anything from the field. Alexander got going late in the contest, doing almost all his scoring in the final period, but for a player with such a great looking game, he still has a lot to learn. It will take the young forward a year, if not longer to begin to polish his raw tools in Milwaukee. [Read Full Article] Las Vegas Summer League Day TwoJuly 13, 2008Alexander really struggled today, having a very hard time knocking down his shots. His footwork looked great, and he had no trouble getting his shot off, but Alexander was obviously a bit nervous in his debut. He forced some shots from the outside, and even air-balled a six-footer, an obvious indication of some first-game jitters. He did have an unbelievable block on a layup attempt in transition, and is one of the most athletic players in the Summer League with his impressive combination of leaping ability and strength. Overall, this outing was a reminder of just how far Alexander is from being a finished product. Hes a great prospect with tools, but the polish wont develop overnight; neither will the resilience to bounce back in the middle of a game. [Read Full Article] Cross-Country Workout Swing: Part Two, Abunassar Impact BasketballMay 20, 2008Alexander came into his morning workout with a great reputation, as everyone we spoke with that had been working with him over the past week could not stop raving about how well he had been responding to them thus far. A fierce worker, Joe Abunassar told us. Hes an animal in the weight room, strength trainer Tony Falce told us. Hes worked non-stop for every minute since the second he got here. One after one, each of the trainers filtered over to our direction to share a story about their favorite pupil. And indeed, physically hes extremely impressive, quick off his feet, agile, with a great frame, and big hands. He has great strength, balance, and power Abunassar told us. Alexander looks like hes in incredible shape, having finished off the grueling shooting session much stronger than he started, and looking like he could easily have gone for another hour. Any question about just how freakishly athletic he is vertically were answered as we watched him perform a series of highlight reel caliber dunks as the day of workouts came to a close360s, off the backboard, windmills, the Vince Carter honey-dip/elbow inside the rim, between the legs, taking off from a step inside the free throw line, he visibly wowed each and every one of the players on the sidelines with his antics. Just for good measure, he finished off by jogging lightly towards the basket, jumping off two feet and viciously head-butting the rim, as you can see in the photo. Ironically, Alexander started off his first workout quite unimpressively actually, looking very streaky from outside. As he went on, though, he found his rhythm, looking excellent from mid-range and showing off terrific form on what appears to be his go-to movea one-dribble crossover pull-up jumper from about 18 feet. He gets terrific separation off the ground to create space from his imaginary defender, which, coupled with his extremely high release point, will make this shot very hard to stop in one on one isolation situations. He attacked every drill with the same balls to the wall aggressiveness you would expect from the reputation hes earned here and in college as a phenomenal worker, and this, combined with his terrific athleticism and seemingly very high character should make him somewhat of a hit on the NBA private workout trail. We walked out of his first day workout being much higher on him than we were before we came in. He shoots the ball very well, is quick and explosive off the dribble, his trainer Joe Abunassar said. Hes dangerous both inside and out. That impression did not lessen from what we saw during the competitive three on three games in the second day. His combination of quickness, explosiveness and intensity made him extremely difficult to contain, even if his rawness in the half-court was definitely evident, and the level of competition left something to be desired. Alexander still has considerable work to do on his ball-handling skills, shooting range, footwork, balance and overall technique if hes to reach his extremely high ceiling as a player. The ball seems to slow him down and he looks a bit out of control with his dribble by the time he reaches the rim on his slashing moves. His mid-range pull-up jumper is not the most refined youll find, as hes somewhat off-balance as he elevatesbut hes so athletic that he is able to recalibrate himself in the air as he reaches the apex of his jump. There are also concerns from what we could see here about his lateral movement on the perimeter defensively as he makes the transition to playing the small forward position fill time. Jonathan Givony, DraftExpress.com With that said, we need to keep in mind that hes only been playing organized basketball for about five years now, which means that his learning curve is still pretty steep as far as NBA talent-evaluators are concerned. That is certainly a good thing when you begin to project where hell be a few years down the road, especially when you take his work ethic into consideration. Before we started our workout swing, we reeled off a couple of names of the players well be seeing on our various stops to an NBA Director of Scouting. Right now hes probably somewhere in the early 20s on most teams boards, but hes going to be one of the fastest risers in this draft, the executive predicted. We like to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism as we make the rounds around the country, keeping in mind the very loose and informal nature of the workouts well be watching. But Alexander is definitely someone who left a very strong impression on us. Keep an eye out for a transcript of the interview we conducted with him over the next day or two. [Read Full Article] NCAA Tournament Performers, 3/26/08-- Part TwoMarch 26, 2008Weve closely tracked the progress of West Virginia forward Joe Alexander over the past two seasons, watching him emerging from raw, unpolished athlete to a bonafide NCAA star. Thats what happens when you dominate the Big East conference tournament and then lead your team to the Sweet 16 of the NCAAs, going through powerhouse programs like Duke and Arizona on the way. Now that the entire country has finally caught on, wed like to take another look to see how his skill-set is developing and how he currently projects as an NBA draft prospect. Physically, Alexander remains the same intriguing prospect he always was, standing 6-8, with a good frame, long arms and excellent athletic ability. What seems to be developing the most, though, is his mentality, becoming the unquestioned go-to guy of this West Virginia squad. The Mountaineers run a lot of isolation sets for him, and hes look more and more comfortable asserting himself and putting his talent on display. Hes become nothing short of outstanding with his post-up moves on the low block, converting at an extremely high rate with his terrific turnaround jumper, getting to the free throw line at a solid rate, while showing great flashes of talent in many other parts of his game. Skill-wise, Alexander remains largely a work in progress, although hes clearly come a long ways from the player who averaged just 1 point per game only three years ago playing prep school basketball at Hargrave Military Academy. He relies heavily on his size, length, athleticism, footwork and smarts to create scoring opportunities for himself, be it from operating in the mid-range area, in the post, or from the top of the key. Hes not one of those super smooth, fluid players for whom everything comes easily for, his game looks largely self-mademechanical to a certain degree. Hes at his best banking in mid-range jumpers while fading away off the block, but is also highly adept at facing up from 15 feet and using his quick first step and long strides to get to the rim off a single dribble. Still not a player who can consistently create his own shot from the perimeter by putting the ball on the floor and beating defenders off the dribble, he needs to continue to work on his ball-handling skills to make the transition to playing on the wing full-time. He struggles changing directions in traffic when operating off the bounce, not quite able to always get all the way to the rim, which diminishes his finishing ability, which would otherwise be extremely strong due to his phenomenal leaping ability. Once Alexander is able to improve his advanced skill-set, hell likely be able to do a much better job showing off just how athletic he is. Unlike most NCAA juniors, his learning curve is still extremely steep (he only started playing organized basketball as a junior in high school), and because of his reportedly outstanding work ethic (as profiled exceptionally well by Pete Thamel of the NY Times today), he also has a fairly high likelihood of reaching his very high ceiling. The fact that he has a very good feel for the game, as evidenced by his nice assist rates, further support that theory. As a shooter, Alexander has solid formnice mechanics, coupled with a high release pointbut he still doesnt enjoy great accuracy from behind the arc, hitting just 11/40 on the season so far. Hes equally streaky with his feet set as he is off the dribble, going through periods where he cant buy a bucket to being unstoppable from outside. He obviously still has a lot of work to do in this area, but clearly has plenty of room to grow as well. Hes pretty solid from 16-18 feet, though. Defensively, Alexander has nice tools, including great size and length, and seems to put in a pretty solid effort, but there will be some major question marks about his ability to guard NBA small forwards at the next level. He has a high center of gravity that makes it tough for him to get in a low defensive stance, and struggles staying in front of quicker wing players already, showing average lateral quickness and footwork in the process, and getting beat off the dribble on a regular basis. Hes a little too stiff and upright in his stance, which does not allow him to contest quite as many shots as youd hope within West Virginias zone. To his credit, he does play at the very top of this zone, often matched up against smaller guards, which probably makes him look a bit worse than he actually is here, but there will be big concerns regardless. His very nice timing, combined with the quickness in which he gets off his feet, makes him a decent shot-blocking threat, at 1.5 per game. Considering the developments weve seen over the past month, including the rumors were hearing from various sources, it appears very likely that Alexander will be entering the draft when its all said and done. He still holds his draft card in hand as a junior, but seems to have a perfect mix of potential and current production to maximize his draft stock without taking the risk of not improving as much as expected next season. Its pretty clear that he could use another season to hone his skills, and could probably even work his way into lottery discussions if he returns and has the type of season many envision him having, but there will be a lot on the line if he does decide to do so. [Read Full Article] NCAA Weekly Performers, 1/4/08-- Part TwoJanuary 5, 2008Having broken down Alexanders game in extreme depth just a few months ago, wed like to offer up a progress report on his development from his sophomore to junior seasons so far. Alexander seems to be making some serious strides as a player and prospect, improving noticeably in a number of categories and emerging as the go-to guy in West Virginias offense. The Mountaineers went through a coaching change this past summer, and Alexander most certainly has profited from the newfound freedom hes finding under Bob Huggins. He still is reaping the benefits of the superb basketball education he received playing under John Beileina master of spacing, off the ball movement, controlling tempo, passing, and reading defenses within his Princeton style offense. Huggins, on the other hand, is known as an extremely tough-minded coach who preaches superb physical conditioning, hard-nosed man to man defense, and one on one ability, which makes playing for him an extremely different experience than it was under Beilein. To be able to play under two different coachesboth extremely well respected for what they do bestis only going to make Alexander and his teammates much more complete players down the road, which makes him an even more intriguing NBA prospect as well. This season, compared to last, Alexander looks much more assertive first and foremost. His usage rate is up, but so is his efficiency, as hes scoring quite a bit more (5 points per game) but is also doing so on much better shooting percentages (over 5%). Hes also upped his assists while cutting down on his turnovers slightly, and is also shooting 3-pointers far less frequently (1.2 attempts per game compared with 3.6) and getting to the free throw line at a considerably better rate (3.9 attempts per game compared with 1.8), where hes shooting a much better percentage (88% compared with 63.6%) Physically, Alexander looks much improved as well. Hes still the same superb athlete he always was, but now sports a more developed body, having noticeably worked on his strength. Hes actually seeing quite a few minutes at the power forward position, and is spending a considerable amount of time in the post rather than hanging out on the perimeter where his athleticism isnt utilized as effectively. West Virginia wants him to either spin off his man and shoot turnaround jumpers here (he likes to kiss the ball off the glass nicely), or use his quickness to get by the big men that are guarding him on his way to the hoop. Alexanders biggest weaknesses as a prospect were always his mediocre ball-handling skills. And while he isnt Kobe Bryant or Tracy McGrady quite yet, he has improved considerably in this area. Alexander looks very adept at taking his man off the dribble using either his left or right hand, taking advantage of his superior first step with one or two dribbles before utilizing his explosiveness to finish at the rim. He has a little bit more shake to his game, although he still doesnt look fully under control when forced to create for himself in complicated fashion in tight half-court sets. Still, he appears much more aggressive trying to make things happen this season, as you can probably guess by his free throw attempts, which have more than doubled. Another big development weve noticed revolves around his mid-range game. Hes added a pull-up jumper to his arsenal, and seems to be using it fairly extensively, looking pretty fluid creating separation off the ground and getting his shot off with a nice high release point that makes it very difficult to stop when you take his size into consideration. Hes only taken 16 3-pointers at this point (hitting 5), so its a bit too early to gauge how his perimeter stroke is coming along, but he seems to have nice mechanics and its probably only a matter of time (next season?) until he starts showing progress here too. Defensively, Alexander still looks very solid from what we can tell. His combination of size, strength, length and quickness make him quite imposing at the small forward position, but hes also very committed to stopping his man as Bob Huggins demands. He will get down in a fundamental defensive stance and work to keep his man in front of him, recovering nicely if beat and getting an impressive amount of blocks (1.7) in the process. All in all, Alexander seems to be developing nicely at West Virginia, and should be deemed a pretty interesting prospect by the time hes ready for the draft in 2009. Hes likely a role player at the next level, but can surely evolve into a very useful one at that if he continues to progress. [Read Full Article] Top NBA Draft Prospects in the Big East (Part Two: #6-#10)October 22, 2007One of the main reasons why West Virginia managed to stay respectable in 2006-2007eventually winning the post-season NIT Tournament)was the impressive development shown by sophomore Joe Alexander. Only having averaged 1.3 points as a freshman, few could have expected him to up his scoring into the double digit category, all while still staying with the confines of West Virginias rigid offense. With his breakout season behind him and a new head coach in place with the arrival of Bob Huggins, this could very well be the season that Joe Alexander puts himself on the national map. In terms of his pure physical attributes, there is a lot to like here, particularly from an NBA draft perspective. Standing 6-8, with a nice frame, and a good wingspanAlexander fits the billing and then some of your prototypical NBA small forward. That impression only strengthens when you begin to examine his athletic ability, clearly adequate if not more for his NBA position. Alexander has good quickness, a very nice first step, and the ability to get up and finish strong around the basket, sometimes to unload a highlight reel caliber dunk. Skill-wise, Alexander is already a true wing player at this point in his development, unlike most 6-8 forwards at the collegiate level, who are still transitioning at this phase from the post to the perimeter. The most dangerous part of his game potentially looks to be his jump-shotnot incredibly steady at this point at 30.5%--but still showing good enough touch to develop into a real weapon if he puts the repetition in. His follow through seems to need the most work, as he rarely fully extends his arm, and those problems seem to be magnified even more on his off-the-dribble shots, where he seems to rush his release quite a bit. Alexander isnt a great ball-handler, but hes athletic enough to be an excellent threat finishing plays around the basket in transition or cutting off the ball on backdoor cuts. He sometimes looks more aggressive than others depending on what game youre watching, so it will be very interesting to monitor whether or not he shows more of a go-to mentality as a junior than he did as a sophomore. Defensively, Alexander has good potential as welltaking advantage nicely of the physical tools he has at his disposal: his size, length, and above average quickness. He tries pretty hard on top of that, looking committed to stopping his man and being pretty fundamentally sound in his approach on this end. Hes not a very strong player (his frame is OK, but clearly still needs to fill out)but it wouldnt be rare to see him mixing it up around the paint and even coming up with a block or two in some games. Alexanders biggest weakness at this point revolves around his ability to create offense for himself on a consistent basis. Hes a poor ball-handlerthe ball clearly slows him down, and once he does get to the rim, hes often already out of control and unable to finish in traffic. He also doesnt have the ability to stop and pull-up off the dribblethe type of mid-range game that most NBA wings need to be effective. Thats not to say that wont come in time, but it will take a lot of work, and will probably be what will distinguish him from being projected as a first round pick or a second rounder. [Read Full Article] DraftExpress 2006-2007 Big East Postseason AwardsFebruary 27, 2007At times, Alexander looked like a star in the making in his breakout sophomore season, displaying outstanding athleticism and a perimeter game that could become lethal if he takes this offseason seriously. At 6-8, he has all the tools NBA scouts look for in a small forward, and will be expected to shoulder a much bigger role next season. [Read Full Article] © 2015 DraftExpress LLC All rights reserved.


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The rain kept the Junior Pioneers (9-6) off the field for almost two weeks, but they overcame the layoff with a 6-1 Central Ohio League victory Friday against the Columbus Braves at Gant Municipal Stadium.
Winning pitcher Matt West went the first six innings, striking out 13 and allowing one unearned on two hits. Chase Brown threw the final three innings, recording five strikeouts and allowing one hit.
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|Enantioselective two-dimensional high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of N-methyl-d-aspartic acid and its analogues in mammals and bivalves.
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|PMID: 22999197 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher
|A validated and fully automated chiral 2D-HPLC system was developed for the simultaneous determination of N-methyl-d-aspartic acid (NMDA) analogues by combining a long microbore-monolithic ODS column (0.53mm i.d.×1000mm) and narrowbore-enantioselective columns (1.5mm i.d.×150 or 250mm). The target analytes, enantiomers of N-methylaspartic acid (NMA) and N-methylglutamic acid (NMG), were precolumn-derivatized with 4-fluoro-7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (NBD-F) and detected by their fluorescence. The values of the lower limit of quantification for these enantiomers were 2.5fmol. In the tissues and plasma of rats, neither NMA nor NMG were detected. On the other hand, in the mantle and foot of Scapharca broughtonii, a large amount of NMDA was present (170.1 and 43.5nmol/g), and the enantiomers of NMG were also observed. Meretrix lusoria contained NMDA (29.3nmol/g) and NMLG (13.8nmol/g), and Ruditapes philippinarum contained only NMLG (2.6nmol/g). The obtained results were confirmed using three different enantioselective columns and also using a 2D-HPLC-MS/MS system. These results indicated that neuroactive d-amino acid, NMDA, and its analogues were present in animals, and their physiological significance is expected to be clarified.
|Reiko Koga; Yurika Miyoshi; Eiichi Negishi; Tsuneaki Kaneko; Masashi Mita; Wolfgang Lindner; Kenji Hamase
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|Maternity waiting shelters and pregnancy outcome: experience from a rural area in Zimbabwe.
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|Despite efforts to improve prenatal and perinatal health care in developing countries, child-birth remains hazardous for both mother and child. Several measures have been initiated to try to improve maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. One such measure is the establishment of maternity waiting shelters at hospitals where mothers can wait so that, when they go into labour or develop antenatal complications, they can transfer to the hospital wards for management and safe delivery. From May 1987 to April 1989, we evaluated pregnancy outcome among 280 women using such a shelter in a remote rural district in Zimbabwe. Perinatal mortality was higher (29.8 per 1000) among 773 non-waiting mothers than among the waiting mothers (25.0 per 1000), although this was not statistically significant (p > 0.05). However, there were significantly more low birthweight babies (11.4%) among the non-waiting mothers than among the waiting mothers (4.3%) (p < 0.01). Fetal deaths were more common than early neonatal deaths, suggesting that maternal factors accounted for most of the perinatal deaths. Poor pregnancy outcome was associated more with primigravidae and grand multigravidae than with those who had had one to four pregnancies. We conclude that maternity waiting shelters can contribute to preventing low birthweight and, to a lesser extent, improve perinatal outcome. There is a need to strengthen health care referral systems and to increase efforts to improve other determinants of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality.
Delivery in developing countries remains dangerous for both mother and child. One approach to reducing the levels of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality involves the establishment of maternity waiting shelters in which expectant mothers can wait for labor or the development of antenatal complications. Should the latter occur, the women can be transferred to neighboring hospital wards for management and safe delivery. The authors evaluated pregnancy outcomes from May 1987 to April 1989 among 280 women using such a shelter in Chimanimani district, Zimbabwe. Perinatal mortality was 29.8/1000 among 773 nonwaiting mothers compared to 25.0/1000 among the 280 waiting mothers; the difference was not statistically significant. There were, however, significantly more low-birth-weight babies (11.4%) among nonwaiting mothers than among waiting mothers (4.3%). Fetal deaths were more common than early neonatal deaths, suggesting that maternal factors accounted for most of the perinatal deaths. Poor pregnancy outcome was associated more with primigravidae and grand multigravidae than with those who had had 1-4 pregnancies. The authors conclude that maternity waiting shelters can help prevent low birth weight and, to a lesser extent, improve perinatal outcome. Health care referral systems need to be strengthened and efforts made to improve other determinants of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality.
|J K Tumwine; P S Dungare
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|Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Zimbabwe Medical School, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe.
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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) 10pm Update:
Officials with the Floyd County Sheriff's Department tell Mountain News Scottie Bradley was re-captured around 10 Wednesday night in Prestonsburg.
He was arrested without incident.
We are told he is being taken to the Floyd County Jail.
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Joyce Cole has lived on West Graham Street in Prestonsburg for 11 years and describes the neighborhood as quiet.
"My neighbors once in a while see one or two policemen, but never that many," Cole said.
But all that changed Tuesday when police swarmed the neighborhood searching for a man considered extremely dangerous.
"I had a cat on the back porch and it ran in real scared and we knew something was going on. By the time my husband got to the back door, they were gone," Cole added.
We're told Scottie Bradley, 31, escaped from deputies Tuesday when he was getting out of a van that was transporting nine other inmates back from court.
"Then we looked outside and saw the police cars around and evidently he came across the street in the back of her house. Probably went to the riverbank or behind the church," Cole said.
Officials say Bradley was spotted again in Floyd County Wednesday wearing red shorts and a gray t-shirt. He has multiple tattoos on his neck and both arms, including one of a teardrop under his right eye.
State police consider Bradley extremely dangerous. If you see him or know where he is, call state police.
Bradley was put behind bars recently after allegedly robbing a convenience store in McDowell.


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SILVER CITY >> People were eating tamales outside during the Tamal Fiesta y Mas Saturday on Broadway while people were making tamales inside the kitchen at the Silver City Museum. Consuelo Hester, who grew up in south Texas, led the classes. The first class was for adults and had 25 participants.
"That was as much as the kitchen would hold," Hester said.
Hester gave a hands-on presentation on how to make a pork tamale and gave out recipes she has acquired over the years. Each adult made at least one tamale.
"You could tell you were really being taught by somebody who loves it," one participant, Stacy Domino-Mrazik, said.
"She got right next to you and made sure you were doing it right. It was kind of like learning from your mom, not like a class setting."
Hester made masa, which is dough for the wraps and explained to the adult students where they could obtain ingredients locally.
"You can make tamales out of anything that crawls or walks," Hester said. "Even grasshoppers."
One man, Tom Peterson, stumbled upon the classroom after Hester's adult class was over.
"I hope there's no grasshoppers in here," Peterson joked while he taste-tested one of Hester's turkey tamales.
Peterson was really disappointed he missed the class.
"This was excellent and different from any other tamale I've had," Peterson said. Peterson said he moved to Silver City three years ago from Michigan.
Four German tourists took Hester's class and two recent transplants from Italy also sat in on Hester's adult class.
A tamale making class followed at 1 p.m. for kids and 15 children showed up, Volunteer Coordinator Connie Downard said. Hester said she began making tamales at the age of 12, so she was right at home with the kids' effort at tamale-making.
Lazarus McCauley, 8, made his first pork tamale in the kid class.
"He's more of an eater than a cook," Tara McCauley joked as she watched her son.
Richard Huerta also looked on as his two daughters, Micah Jo, 6, and Keana, 9, stood right beside Hester to make tamales.
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The impact of the partial U.S. federal government shutdown is hurting tourism across the border, and experts are worried that a prolonged stalemate will devastate Juárez's economy.
Although the effects of the shutdown are minimal so far, a long-term debt ceiling debate will quickly affect production at the maquiladora plants, which employ about 280,000 Juárenses and represent up to 60 percent of the employment in Juárez, Mexican economic experts said.
While the impact on production has not occurred, the U.S. government shutdown has affected tourism and the amount of remittances, or money being sent to family members in Mexico from the U.S., said economist Érika Donjuán Callejo. She is the general director of Agencia de Estadística de Mercados, an economic analysis agency.
She estimated there has already been a reduction of about 1 percent to 5 percent in those two sectors, according to the results of a private survey that the agency performed last week.
The survey, conducted at the international bridges, airport and bus station in Juárez, found that fewer tourists are coming to the city, which translates to a drop in the service industry because fewer people visit restaurants and hotels.
Donjuán Callejo said that most of those tourists in Juárez come from the interior of Mexico, and they are coming to do business at the U.S. General Consulate's office in Juárez.
"The number of them arriving in the city to get a visa has been less than usual because the perception is that there is less visa scheduling due to less consulate officers working," she said.
Olga Bashbush, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Consulate in Juárez, said that services to American citizens and Mexican visa applicants are normal.
"We have not reduced visa interviews at this time. However, other services, such as our public events and updates to Facebook and Twitter, have been suspended," Bashbush said.
The survey also found that people who live in the United States and work for the federal government have either reduced the amount of cash or have stopped sending money to their family members in Mexico, Donjuán Callejo said.
On average, U.S. remittances to Mexico total about $1.5 billion a month, according to the Bank of Mexico. That money accounts for about 2 percent of Mexico's economy.
If the U.S. Congress fails to reach a deal by Thursday, when the government reaches its borrowing limit, and the budget debate is not resolved within weeks or months, the scenario for Juárez will be devastating, said economist Raúl Alberto Ponce Rodríguez.
Ponce Rodríguez is a specialist in Public Finances and coordinator of the Economics Postgraduate Program at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez. He predicts that a U.S. shutdown will result in an economic crisis in Mexico that will be similar to what happened in 2008. That year, when the U.S. had an economic downturn, Mexico's gross domestic product dropped by 6.6 percent in 2009, according a U.S. congressional report. The reason, according to the report, is that Mexico relies on the U.S. as an export market.
"A reduction on the U.S. economy will bring a negative effect to the demand of goods and services, not only in the maquiladora industry, but in the U.S. economy in general as well," he said.
He said that the impact will be felt sooner in the maquiladora industry, which delivers products on a demand basis. It will mean production stops when people in the U.S. stop buying.
A prolonged shutdown will also derail investment or expansion plans in Juárez.
On top of the looming U.S. shutdown, Mexico's Congress is debating a federal fiscal reform package which would make maquiladoras pay sales tax. Currently, maquilas do not pay taxes on raw materials and machinery.
According to the Association of Maquiladoras in Juárez, plants laid off 490 people and canceled plans to hire 5,000 people in September because of the looming tax reforms.
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A prototype camera comprises 180 independent lenses, comparable to the vision of a bark beetle. A dragonfly, in contrast has 28,000 individual lenses. Researchers hope to make a camera with that many, but need to make smaller components. The camera was announced in the journal Nature on May 1.


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Another variation is the cambered board with a lifted tip and tail. Kessler started this in the snowboarding world for racing, with others quickly following. It's been "the" design that is putting riders on the podium. Alpine riders in general have embraced the technology.
Coiler NSR2 (New School Race) with lifted tip and tail:
From Catek's website, NA dealer for Kessler, "What is it that makes Kessler boards so special? According to Hansjürg Kessler, the most important component of the boards' success is the KST shape an advanced, multi-radius sidecut, combined synergistically with a totally revolutionary nose shape, camber profile and taper to ensure fantastic edgehold as well as incredibly efficient and smooth turn initiation and completion.
Unlike other board designs, which can overpressure the tip and tail during a turn (exhibited as a tendency for the nose to "dive" or "plow" during turn initiation, and the tail to "hook" at the end of the turn), the Kessler KST shape redistributes edge pressure, so that the nose feeds smoothly into the turn, providing maximum acceleration and optimal edge pressure distribution. The tail of a KST board releases cleanly and smoothly at the end of the turn. The overall smoothness of the KST shape increases rider control and safety, reduces skidding, and ensures maximum speed throughout the turn.
And what about the construction? Well, Kessler has been specializing in titanal construction snowboards for years. Since vaulting onto the US scene with Philipp Schoch's Gold in the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, Kessler titanal boards have racked up an overwhelming number of wins. Kessler has continually tested and refined board construction techniques, and produces the most advanced, most copied, and most envied titanal boards in the world.
Hallmarks of the Kessler construction are superior torsional strength, with a supple longitudinal flex pattern that enables the board to track unerringly over difficult race conditions. The boards provide tenacious edgehold, smooth tracking, and a damp, controlled ride.
It all adds up to a world-beating product, and CATEK is very excited to be able to offer Kessler boards to North American riders."
In my own words, the lifted (of decambered) tip allows faster/snappier carve initiation. It slices through the snow, guiding the way to decamber the more stable cambered main section. The result is less chatter and more stability. The lifted tail allows a cleaner, faster release that isn't as "hooky" as traditional all-camber shapes. As the Kessler description alludes to, these boards are also generally being made in conjuction with chatter dampening titanal lamination(s) and modern progressive sidecuts, which are usually tighter in nose through more open in the tail, to fully compliment the benefits of the lifted tip/tail design. These boards are generally made for balls out, high speed carving with very high edge angles. A side benefit, though, is that if the rider is skidding turns (ie; at much lower edge angles), the lifted tip and tail are not at a high enough angle to be engaged, so the board skids around like a much shorter board, with only the cambered section biting the snow. So my 182cm Coiler for example, rages full length in carves, but rides more like a 160-something board at slower, skidded speeds, in crowds, etc.
Interesting, I totally want to try an alpine setup one day
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I'm beginning to get the hang of how Deutsche Bank works, which seems to be:
- When they lose money, that strengthens their capital position, and
- When they make money, that weakens their capital position, requiring them to sell shares.
Maybe? Three months ago we talked about how … well, I said "Deutsche Bank Improved Its Balance Sheet By Losing A Lot Of Money," which I guess seemed funnier at the time, but to be fair (1) Bloomberg said "Deutsche Bank 'took pain' in the quarter by booking a loss to boost its capital ratio without selling shares," which is about equally funny or unfunny, and (2) Deutsche did in fact have a 4Q loss of €2.2bn and yet increased its Tier 1 capital ratio by 90bps.
Today, on the other hand, Deutsche pre-announced – good! positive! €1.7bn! – first-quarter earnings and also:
The Management Board of Deutsche Bank AG resolved today, with the approval of the Supervisory Board, to execute a capital increase, which is intended to raise gross proceeds of approximately EUR 2.8 billion. The purpose of the capital increase is to strengthen the equity capitalisation of the bank.
It is intended to issue up to 90 million new shares from authorised capital excluding pre-emptive rights. The new shares will have full dividend entitlement for the fiscal year 2012. They will be placed with institutional investors by way of an accelerated book build offering. There will be no public offering. Deutsche Bank AG is acting as sole bookrunner for the offering.1
Additionally Deutsche Bank intends to strengthen its total capital structure via the potential issuance of additional subordinated capital instruments of up to EUR 2
billion over the next twelve months.
To be fair Deutsche's Tier 1 capital ratio increased by another 90bps last quarter,2 making Deutsche's €1.7bn in net income this quarter just about as valuable, from a capital generation perspective, as its €2.2bn in net loss last quarter. Back of the envelope math suggests that a 2.8bn equity raise is worth another 80bps or so, and the additional 2bn of subordinated capital is worth another 60bps. So the total benefit is equal to about five months of earnings at the current pace, or equivalently five months of losses at last quarter's pace.
Why now? I enjoyed the Journal article on the matter:
After insisting for years that the bank had plenty of capital and that it could bridge any shortfall through churning out billions of euros in annual profits and through reducing risk, Deutsche Bank executives on Monday threw in the towel. … Since taking the German bank's helm last year, its co-chief executives have said boosting its capital buffers was a top priority. But they promised not to do it by issuing new shares, which would erode the value of existing investors' shares.
"The bank aims to apply all capital levers at its disposal before considering raising equity from investors," co-CEO Anshu Jain said during a conference call with analysts last July. … The bank's change-of-heart apparently stemmed from executives' frustration with the lack of reaction among investors to the bank's strategic changes, according to industry officials. The bank's management felt they could raise a token amount to alleviate market concerns without destroying credibility, these people said.
"This is a blatant U-turn," said a senior investment banker who was involved in the talks. "It's a real climb-down for them."
Of course, if your plan is:
- tell everyone you won't issue equity,3
- notice that everyone hates that plan, through their usual method of expressing emotion, viz. your stock price, and
- reverse that plan and issue equity,
then you run into this problem:
If DB had raised money on the back of last quarter's losses, it would have been less dilutive than the current offering. But it didn't because, of course, the price wasn't right:
"We are willing to take losses," Jain said at the news conference. "We don't think it's in our shareholders' best interests for us to issue capital given our discount to book value."
True, but, also, still true. Issuing at an even greater discount to book doesn't help:
Still you can understand the progression. Deutsche first tried to shore up its capital ratios in easy ways that didn't cost shareholders anything – changing computer models, for one thing, or jettisoning risky and not that profitable assets for another.4 Then this quarter it did the more painful work of cutting expenses to boost income and build capital. Only then did it ask shareholders to share the pain via dilution.
Deutsche Bank Plans Capital Boost [WSJ]
Deutsche Bank undertakes capital increase [DB]
Deutsche Bank reports first quarter 2013 income before income taxes of EUR 2.4 billion and a package of measures to strengthen capital structure [DB]
Financial Data Supplement 1Q2013 [DB]
Interim Report as of March 31, 2013 [DB]
1. I love that reflex btw. "Well, sucks we need to sell billions of equity at below book value after telling the market we wouldn't." "Yeah, but: league table credit?"
2. That's Basel 2.5 total Tier 1 capital, going from 14.2% at the end of 3Q2012, to 15.1% at 4Q, to 16.0% today. See page 10 here, etc.
3. In hindsight it's a little fun to read Deutsche's earnings transcript from last quarter, which consists basically of a bunch of analysts saying "so you're promising that you won't raise any outside equity?" and Deutsche not exactly saying yes.
4. I mean, that's debatable, but here's a chart from last week's FSOC report I sort of like:
The scale is a little unclear but it sooooooooooort of says "at the margin, bank asset risk and return are not all that related." Or something.


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Faculty in the News
Dakota S. Rudesill Media Hits
The following is a list of selected media coverage for Dakota S. Rudesill. The links below will direct you to sites that are not affiliated with the Moritz College of Law. They are subject to change, and some may expire or require registration as time passes.
Ohio State professors discuss cyber security in light of National Security Agency program leaksOctober 4, 2013
Professor Dakota S. Rudesill was a panelist for a discussion about cyber security in light of recent revelations witht he NSA. Rudesill pointed out the existense of "secret law," which not even the court can hear both sides of.


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A College Education Saddles Young Households with Debt, but Still Pays Off
Daniel Carroll and Amy Higgins
Many parents believe their children must get a college degree—especially if they want to have at least as comfortable a lifestyle as their parents had; yet the price of a college degree has been rising rapidly over the past three decades. As costs have risen, more and more students and their families have turned to education loans for financing. This trend, combined with the strong propensity for households to form among individuals of similar education levels, has led to much larger student loan debt burdens for households headed by young adults who have attended college. In the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances, real (inflation-adjusted) average student loan debt for young households (those headed by someone between 22 and 29 years of age) with a college degree was $3,420. In 2010, the same average was $16,714, nearly a 400 percent increase. For households with some college, but without a college degree, average student loan debt rose about 270 percent.
While it has become more costly to attend college, the extra education typically awards a benefit in the labor market. Households headed by an individual with a college degree earn, on average, a skill premium relative to non-college households. Real wage earnings for young households, for example, have consistently been higher for households with a college degree than for those without. In 2010, the median young household headed by a college graduate earned $42,693 in wage income while the median non-college household earned only $26,429, a premium of 61.5 percent. From 1989 to 2010, this premium averaged 45 percent. For young households with exceptional labor market outcomes—those in the 90th percentile of wage income within each level of educational attainment—the wage-income premium averaged 39 percent. In 2010, the difference in the 90th percentile of wage income between young college and non-college households was $85,387 and $64,040, respectively.
The labor market bonus for completing a college degree is not fully realized in the early years of working. Looking at the wage income of households headed by an individual between 30 and 65 years of age reveals a much larger premium, both at the median and the 90th percentile. In many professions, a college degree combined with work experience opens the door to senior-level administrative positions and higher salaries. The average wage-income premium among these older households was 88 percent for degree-holding median earners and 93 percent for 90th percentile earners.
In light of these data, the tradeoff seems clear. By going to college, one is likely to end up in a household that earns a considerable wage income premium throughout its working life but which also has a sizeable amount of college debt early on. There is one education group for which this does not hold: those with some college but no degree. These households, which on average make up 32 percent of those 22 to 29 years of age and 25 percent of those 30 to 65 years of age, have some college debt but get little to no labor market benefit.
For young households with some college but no degree, the wage income premium is virtually zero, averaging -3 percent for median earners and 5 percent for 90th percentile earners. Only a very small premium emerges later in life. Among older households, the average premium was 22 percent at the median and 17 percent at the 90th percentile.
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Category: Economy, Think Tank
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|Keyboard Shortcuts Guidelines
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|Button Access Keys
|Oracle Fusion Standard Button Access Keys
Oracle Fusion standard button access keys enable users to access a specific button function in a web browser in the English language. The modifier keys that you use to invoke the access keys differ by web browser. For example, you might use the combination of Shift+Alt+<character> in Firefox and Alt+<character> in Internet Explorer. For more information on modifier keys specific to your browser and platform, see your browser's documentation.
You add these mnemonic button access keys by using the textAndAccessKey property for command buttons, and you should use these keys consistently throughout Oracle Fusion Applications buttons. If you use these Oracle Fusion standard actions within a command menu item of inline selector buttons, add the access key using the textAndAccessKey property of the command menu item.
Here is a list of common Oracle Fusion access button keys in the English language:
Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience (Apps UX) recommends that you do not use keyboard shortcuts for table action button icons, such as Create, Edit, and Delete. Although these are common button icons, they are not HTML text buttons and would break the consistency of using inline access keys with the textAndAccessKey property.
Custom Access Keys
Apps UX recommends that product teams avoid creating custom access keys and use them sparingly only when necessary for needed product functionality. You should create custom access keys only when absolutely necessary using the numbers 0 through 9 with the accessKey property. Using the numbers 0 through 9 as custom button access keys saves internationalization from having to translate custom development access keys into respective languages.
Apps UX recommends that each language translates the Oracle Fusion standard button access keys list into inline access keys using the textAndAccessKey property for each language. Translators of the list need to ensure that the translated button access keys do not conflict with browser access keys and assistive technology access keys in that particular language.
Custom development-coded access keys do not need to be translated if development has followed the standard of using only numeric (0 through 9) custom button access key combinations.
|Accelerator Keys
Accelerators are keyboard shortcuts that initiate actions immediately when activated. Accelerators can be added in Oracle Fusion Applications to menu items within a menu.
The accelerator attribute for command menu items enables developers to specify a key combination that activates a menu command. This attribute is the only public method of coding accelerators.
Individual UI specifications describe the default accelerators for Rich Client User Experience (RCUX) components. Custom accelerators are supported only in menus.
For more information, see the Keyboard Shortcuts Guidelines .
The Flexfield Accelerator
Flexfields in Oracle Fusion Applications use the accelerator Ctrl+Alt+K.
Custom Accelerators
If you need to use custom accelerators, Apps UX recommends that you use Ctrl+Alt key combinations whenever possible. Ctrl+Alt accelerators tend to conflict less with accelerators of other applications, such as assistive technology. (You can use Ctrl+Shift infrequently for accelerators that deal with the movement or positioning of items.) Appropriate uses of Ctrl+Alt key combinations include accelerators for menu items.


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November 26, 2015
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- Court officials say a former professor has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others at a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Amy Bishop on Tuesday pleaded guilty to one count of capital murder involving two or more people and three counts of attempted murder.
Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against the Harvard-educated Bishop. Sentencing in the case will be after a Sept. 24 hearing.
The former biology professor previously had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity in the February 2010 shooting.
Bishop also is charged with killing her brother in Massachusetts in 1986. That shooting was originally ruled accidental, but the Alabama slayings prompted a new investigation and charges.
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PET Imaging in Parkinson Disease Dementia
The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified March 2011 by Washington University School of Medicine.
Recruitment status was Recruiting
Recruitment status was Recruiting
Washington University School of Medicine
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First received: January 15, 2010
Last updated: March 2, 2011
Last verified: March 2011
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The purpose of this study is to use a brain imaging method called PIB PET to determine dementia subtypes in patients with Parkinson's disease. The ultimate goal of this project is to be able to identify individuals with PD who are at risk of developing dementia, and to distinguish the underlying cause of dementia.
Parkinson's Disease
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Use of PIB PET Imaging to Evaluate Dementia Subtypes in Patients With Parkinson Disease
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Parkinson disease Perry syndrome
MedlinePlus related topics: Dementia Diagnostic Imaging Parkinson's DiseaseU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Washington University School of Medicine:
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
whole blood
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|August 2006
Parkinson disease
individuals with Parkinson disease
healthy control
individuals without Parkinson disease
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|55 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Participants with and without Parkinson disease will be recruited from the Movement Disorders Center at Washington University, the St. Louis metro area, and throughout the midwest region.
Inclusion Criteria:
- PD patients must exhibit three of the following cardinal signs: rest tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, or postural instability; or two of these features with one of the first three displaying asymmetry.
Exclusion Criteria:
- history of head trauma, major neurological or psychiatric diseases other than Parkinson disease and dementia, e.g. stroke, multiple sclerosis, depression or schizophrenia
- severe systemic diseases
- inability to lie still for 90 minutes
- metallic implants, pacemakers, or any other contraindication to MRI
- refusal to consent to brain donation
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01052350
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01052350
|Contact: Johanna Hartlein, MSN, APN
|United States, Missouri
|NeuroClinical Research Unit (NCRU), Washington University School of Medicine
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|Contact: Johanna Hartlein, MSN, APN 314-362-0240 email@example.com
Sponsors and Collaborators
Washington University School of Medicine
|Principal Investigator:
|Joel S. Perlmutter, MD
|Washington University School of Medicine
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Keywords provided by Washington University School of Medicine:
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No publications provided
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|Joel S. Perlmutter, Washington University School of Medicine
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|NCT01052350 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|January 15, 2010
|Last Updated:
|March 2, 2011
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by Washington University School of Medicine:
Parkinson disease
PET imaging
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Parkinson Disease
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Movement Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Parkinsonian Disorders
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Finally, Almco's building approved
March 6, 2013 — By DAVE SCHULTZ
Almco Steel will not have to reinforce the street at the site where it intends to put up a storage building with a truck dock.
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Minor league report – how 10 of the Rangers' best prospects have fared
Photo: Tracy Proffitt/Hickory Crawdads
Lewis Brinson, OF, Advanced-A Myrtle Beach: Brinson dominated the Class-A South Atlantic League, posting a .335/.405/.579 line. That earned the 20 year old a call up to Advanced-A Myrtle Beach where he was almost three years younger than the average player. The youth seemed to hurt him as his line dropped to .246/.307/.350 at the next level.
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Let's make money out of being windy says West council
Posted: June 07, 2014|
Many local councils have been accused of being long winded, but now one Westcountry authority is making a virtue out of it.
Cornwall Council is considering entering the fiercely competitive energy market by erecting a wind turbine which will generate money as well as power.
The council wants to install a single windmill at Ventonteague Farm just north of the A30, close to the village of Zelah and Carland Cross roundabout.
However, it says no decisions on potential planning bids will be made until local opinion can be gauged.
An early outline suggest that the turbine could generate 4,796,100 kw of power annually, enough to provide power for just over 1,100 homes.
The "community benefit" was described as being £150,000 during the life of the turbine, approximately 20 years.
The council said surveys to determine impact on the ecology of the local area as well as any historic relics was under way.
The presence of nearby Newquay Airport is not necessarily a problem, said one report already compiled: "An independent aviation assessment has been undertaken for the Ventonteague development.
"This assessment has identified that impacts are possible on Newquay airport and the air defence radar at Portreath.
"However, the operational re-powered Carland Cross wind farm adjacent to the Ventonteague site demonstrates that turbines in this area are currently acceptable.
"A consultation exercise with all relevant local aviation stakeholders in the vicinity including military and civil airfield operators is ongoing. The outcome of these aviation consultations that are required will be presented in the Environmental Statement that will be submitted in support of the planning application.
"We are aware of all of the issues relating to the safety of air traffic and radar impacts in the area and will seek to agree any required mitigation with those concerned if it is required."
The council said wind power was an ideal Green resource in Cornwall: "Cornwall has high average annual wind speed of 6.5 metres per second. This wind resource was first harnessed when the UK's first commercial scale wind farm was constructed at Delabole in 1991 with a capacity of 4MW.
"There are now a number operational commercial wind farms in Cornwall with a total installed capacity of more than 60MW, as well as many individual installations."
A public event will be held on the following days:
• Monday June 9 at St Erme Community Centre.
• Tuesday June 10 at St Erme Village Hall
On both days, members of the project development team will be present from 10am and until 6pm to answer questions and take comments.
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Republicans Draw Bright Line on Spending With Budget Vote
U.S. House Republicans drew a bright line in the election-year battle over government debt, passing a budget calling for more than $5 trillion in spending cuts.
Lawmakers yesterday approved 228-191 a $3.5 trillion plan to overhaul Medicare, slash food stamps, Pell grants and other programs for the poor, boost defense spending and reduce taxes on high earners. No Democrats voted for Ryan's plan; 10 Republicans opposed it.
The proposal is doomed in the Senate, where majority Democrats say it would take too much from lower-income Americans while giving tax breaks to the wealthy. Senate Democrats have said they don't plan to pass a budget this year.
The debate will continue through the November election as lawmakers battle over contrasting visions of what to do about the government's $1.2 trillion deficit.
"We are offering the nation a choice," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican and the plan's chief architect. "We think America is on the wrong track. We believe the president is bringing us towards a debt crisis and a welfare state in decline."
Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Budget panel, said, "Apparently the problem is not big enough to ask folks at the very high end of the income scale to contribute one penny towards deficit reduction."
Money From Millionaires
"Because our Republican colleagues refuse to ask millionaires to contribute one cent to deficit reduction, they hit everyone and everything else," Van Hollen said.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called it a "bold budget that directly addresses the drivers of our nation's spending crisis," praising House Republicans for putting "conservative fiscal principles into action."
The plan is "grasping onto the same failed economic policies that stacked the deck against the middle class," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement.
Ryan endorsed Romney for the Republican nomination in an interview today on Fox News Channel, saying the former Massachusetts governor "understands exactly what we need to do stop America from having a debt crisis."
"Mitt Romney has the skills, the tenacity, the principles, the courage and the integrity to do what it takes to get America back on track," Ryan said.
Deficit-Reduction Plan
Lawmakers rejected several competing plans, including a bipartisan budget proposal based on the recommendations of the chairmen of President Barack Obama's debt commission. Just 38 House members voted for that proposal, modeled after a deficit plan written by former Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming and President Bill Clinton's former Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles.
The Bowles-Simpson plan sought to cut projected budget deficits by $4 trillion over a decade through a combination of tax increases and cuts to entitlement programs.
"Americans are screaming for us to take off our red jerseys on this side, to take off the blue jerseys on that side, and put on the red, white and blue jerseys of the United States of America," said Representative Steve LaTourette, an Ohio Republican.
That vote was a setback for supporters of the Bowles-Simpson approach who were divided over whether to even ask for a vote. Some expressed concern that a poor showing would make it harder to resurrect the plan later.
'Doesn't Help'
"Doesn't help," Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, said of the House vote on the defeated proposal. "That's why I thought it was unwise to advance it at this point."
Asked why lawmakers haven't supported the Bowles-Simpson plan, Bowles said: "It's politically painful." In an interview on the "Charlie Rose" show broadcast on PBS and Bloomberg Television, Bowles said, "As long as people are worshiping the great god of re-election, then we're going to have a hard time getting to the promised land."
Republicans demanded a vote on Obama's February budget request, which was unanimously defeated. A third budget plan, by a faction of conservative Republicans who said their party's plan didn't go far enough to cut spending, was rejected 136-285.
The centerpiece of the debate was the Ryan plan, which would lower the deficit to as little as $166 billion in coming years, primarily though cuts to scores of social-welfare programs.
Cuts to Medicaid
Medicaid, the health-care program for 50 million low-income Americans, would be cut by one-third. Pell college tuition grants, food stamps, welfare, farm subsidies and the operating budgets of most federal agencies all would face reductions.
The plan would also cut taxes by $2 trillion, with the top rate falling to 25 percent from 35 percent. It would compress the number of individual income-tax brackets to two from six, with the bottom rate set at 10 percent.
The plan would threaten many tax breaks, such as the one letting homeowners write off their mortgage interest, and would use that revenue to replace what would be lost through the rate cuts.
The plan's biggest change would be to overhaul Medicare. It would offer seniors, starting in 2023, subsidies to buy private insurance, with the premise that competition would drive down health-care costs.
Concept Won't Work
Democrats maintain that the concept won't work, saying the subsidies won't keep pace with health-care costs, leaving seniors to either shoulder bigger bills or forgo care. It would send "our seniors to swim with the sharks in the insurance market, hope that the insurance companies grant them coverage for what they may need," said Representative Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat.
Representative Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, backed Paul Ryan's proposal.
"This plan doesn't end the Medicare guarantee; arithmetic does," Flake said. "Unless we change something, unless we put it on solvent footing, the guarantee is gone. Medicare will be bankrupt under the current trajectory."


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* Bath Mats
*Beach Towels
* Underwater Bath Decor
The depths of the ocean are constantly being contemplated and explored because of all the exotic fish and colorful plants it has to offer. Because of all these colors and shapes, artists often use it as inspiration for paintings and photographs. It is so wondrous and fascinating to look at that it makes for the perfect theme for a bathroom. Underwater shower curtains are an absolute necessity in executing this theme.
We have all experienced the amazement that aquariums have to offer; they are so attractive to us because there are so many fascinating sights to see.
Incorporating underwater shower curtains into the bathroom help you to show off these aquatic sights right in your own home. These decorations give fish with vibrant-colored scales their own special place to swim in your home and make entering the bathroom seem like an underwater adventure.
Marine biologists, scuba experts, and other underwater scientists will find the high-definition photograph designs most fascinating. They depict detailed images of various forms of sea life right on these bathroom shower curtains. For those who are so interested in all the different species, there is no better way to show off all forms of sea life, ranging from orange clownfish to pink coral reefs.
There are so many different types of fish; it might be difficult to choose just one favorite. Therefore, underwater shower curtains are available which do not limit the buyer to having just one swimming around the bathroom. Some of these designs depict scenes of various fish species hanging out as friends all in the same area. By choosing these styles, no famous fish has to feel excluded from the mix!
It is fun and easy to create a deep-sea environment for the bathrooms of children as well. Oceanic and tropical fish shower curtains are available in designs which show off cartoon character scuba divers exploring the depths of the ocean as they sport their goggles and snorkels. There are also images of friendly-looking fish in all the colors of the rainbow swimming in and out of the windows of shipwrecks.
Underwater shower curtains are the best finishing touch for any ocean-themed bathroom. Oceanic scientists will love to see photographs of the ocean bottom depicted in their bathrooms each day. Likewise, children will be enthralled by images of lovable fish and brave scuba divers hanging out in their space. Simply stated, it is impossible to execute an oceanic bathroom theme without these decorations.


text: The Campus Public Safety Department has obtained the "Shots Fired" series of videos and has posted them on-line at our webpage. There are three videos which are produced for office/general areas (recommended for faculty and staff), in a classroom environment (recommended for students and faculty), and a preamble for recognizing and helping to prevent campus violence "Flashpoint on Campus" (recommended for everyone). To access these training videos you go to the CPS website and in the center of the site is a red bannered box "Information and training materials related to workplace violence" where you will see the "Shots Fired" access. Use your WOU Portal/web mail user name and password to watch the videos.


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Theme: "HIV/AIDS and Family Well-being"
The International Day of Families will be observed on 15 May 2005. The United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution 47/237 of 20 September 1993, proclaimed that 15 May of every year shall be observed as the International Day of Families. This annual observance reflects the importance, which the international community attaches to families as basic units of society as well as its concern regarding their situation around the world. The International Day of Families provides an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to families as well as to promote appropriate action. The Day can become a powerful mobilizing factor on behalf of families in all countries, which avail themselves of this opportunity and demonstrate support of family issues appropriate to each society.
The international theme for 2005 is "HIV/AIDS and Family Well-being". This theme provides an opportunity to raise public awareness about crucial issues concerning families and HIV/AIDS.
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