Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2009. Graduate Programme in Biology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-65). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR51539

Thesis (doctoral)--Bonn. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-138).

Thesis (M.A.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Title from title screen (viewed on 27 Mar. 2006) "For Master of arts in arbitration and dispute resolution." Includes bibliographical references.

Can courts really build democracy in a state emerging from undemocratic rule? If so, how they do this, and what are their limits in this regard? This thesis seeks to explore the development since 1945 of a global model of democracy-building for post-authoritarian states, which accords a central position to courts. In essence, constitutional courts and regional human rights courts have come to be viewed as integral to the achievement of, or even constitutive of, a functioning democratic state. The roles courts play in supporting a democratisation process are onerous, and differ starkly from the roles of such courts in long-established democracies of the Global North. Courts in the new democracies of the post-war world have been freighted with weighty expectations to ‘deliver’ on the promises of a new democratic order, while navigating their own place within that developing order–or, in the case of regional human rights courts, inserting themselves into the democratisation process from without. At both the domestic and regional levels, from within and without the state, they are somehow expected to ‘judge’ democratisation. They are required to assess what is needed to support the democratisation process at any given point, especially in light of key deficiencies of the newly democratic order, and to judge when the democratisation context requires a different approach than may be appropriate in a mature democracy, such as the US or Ireland. However, the grand claims made for these courts as democracy-builders in existing scholarship have never been subjected to systematic analysis, nor have the overlapping roles of constitutional courts and regional human rights courts been considered in tandem. This thesis addresses a very significant research gap by drawing together a scattered and fragmented scholarship on the roles of courts in new democracies, integrating discussion of regional human rights courts, providing an innovative conceptual framework for how courts at each level act and interact as democracy-builders, and tracing connections between different normative arguments concerning the roles courts should play. As the first attempt at a wholesale exploration of the effectiveness and viability of the existing global court-centric model for democratisation, this thesis examines what we think courts do as democracy-builders, what they actually do, and what they should do. In doing so, it argues for a significant re-evaluation of how we conceive of, and employ, courts as democracy-builders.

From the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, the English Catholic community showed its robustness, resilience and complexity through its own periodical press. The subject, however, has been relatively neglected, specialist research amounts only to a bare handful of studies, and a full and definitive study which exploits the wealth of available materials has not yet been written. This thesis is therefore intended to present what has long been overdue, the first full chronological account of the foundation and development of the English Catholic periodical press from the Mercurius Catholicus to the Dublin Review. The work also serves specifically as a balance to Susan J. Acheson who argued in 1981, in her Oxford M.Litt. thesis on Victorian Catholic journalism, that the Emancipation Act of 1829 was the single most important influence on the Catholic periodical press in England. Against Acheson, my study shows that the Catholic periodical press did not owe its life to one major event early in the nineteenth century, but was rather the result of the religio-political activity which accompanied a long and difficult struggle for relief measures begun nearly two hundred years before. In describing the attempts by Catholics, often in difficult conditions and hostile circumstances, to develop a regular literary means of representing , and defending themselves, my thesis does not avoid the fact that the periodicals were often sustained and made exciting by internecine quarrels and struggles. Indeed, it concentrates on the tension between two groups of Catholics, about whether to stress division from or similarity with a Protestant state and society, which marked the early history of the English Catholic periodical press, and concludes that the final victory belonged to the party which emphasised distinctiveness over eirenicism.

Class of 2013 Abstract / Specific Aims: To describe the incidence of hyponatremia in patients using SSRIs and to assess how often health care professionals obtain electrolyte panels after SSRI initiation. Also, to identify the most recent sodium level in patients and to compare sodium levels in a patient group using an SSRI and a control group not using an SSRI. Subjects: Patients who received care at a large multi-center ambulatory care clinic between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2011. Methods: An electronic medical record database was used to identify potential patients through medication records reflecting SSRI use or diagnosis of low back pain, obesity, pruritis, rash, or fibromyalgia. The following data was collected: patient gender, age, weight, height, use/non-use of SSRI, plasma sodium level, and documented past hyponatremia diagnosis. Plasma sodium levels and hyponatremia incidence were compared from the SSRI group to the non-SSRI group. In addition, the SSRI group was analyzed for incidence of documented hyponatremia. Monitoring of sodium levels after SSRI initiation was also investigated. Main Results: Overall, 500 charts were reviewed. After inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, 118 patients were included in the study (38 in the SSRI group, 80 in the control group). The incidence of hyponatremia in the SSRI group and control group was 2.63% and 1.25% respectively. There was no significant difference between groups (p=0.542). Sodium levels were monitored 19.2% of the time after SSRI initiation. Conclusion: The incidence of hyponatremia was similar between groups. Physicians are not adequately monitoring for hyponatremia after SSRI initiation.

Objective: The aim of this paper was to review all randomized published trials and unpublished conference presentations on the neurofeedback (NF) treatment of pediatric ADHD, and their relevance, strengths, and limitations. Method: Via PsychInfo and Medline searches and contacts with NF researchers 14 studies were identified and reviewed. Results: The majority were conducted from 1994 to 2010, with 5- to 15-year-olds, usually male and White with the combined type of ADHD. Most studies used theta/beta NF with a unipolar-electrode placement at Cz and demonstrated, where reported, an overall ADHD mean effect size of d = 0.69, a medium effect. Main study strengths, within some studies, include use of randomization, treatment control conditions, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria, evidence-based assessment of ADHD, standard treatment outcome measures, multidomain assessment, and, for some studies, moderate sample size, some type of blind and the identification of medication as a concomitant treatment. Main study limitations (and directions for future research) include the lack of adequate blinding of participants, raters and NF trainers, a sham-NF/blinded control treatment condition, posttreatment follow-up, generalizability, specific details about delivery of NF, identification and control of comorbidity, and the identification, measurement, and control of concomitant treatments and potential side effects. Conclusion: Based on the results and methodologies of published studies, this review concludes that NF for pediatric ADHD can be currently considered as "probably efficacious."

MMed, Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand / This study is a six year retrospective review of the histopathology of nasopharyngeal masses in adult patients who underwent a biopsy in theatre at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) from 1st January 2003 to 31st December 2008. Eighty one patients were included in this study. They comprised of 54 males (67%) and 27 females (33%) aged between 18 and 82 years. There was no statistical difference between the two genders in terms of their ages (p= 0.39). Fifty two patients (64%) had benign disease and 29 patients (36%) had malignant disease (ratio 1.8:1). Thirty four males (65%) and 18 females (35%) had benign disease. Twenty males and 9 females had malignant disease. There was no significant correlation between gender and malignancy (r= -0.04, p=0.75). The independent predictors of the nature of the tumour were: nasal congestion, epistaxis, hearing loss, otalgia and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) status. The statistically significant positive predictors of malignancy were the presence of nasal congestion, epistaxis and otalgia. The presence of at least one or more of these symptoms was associated with an odds ratio of 3.06 for malignant disease. (CI= 1.17-8.01). The presence of hearing loss was independently associated with benign disease (p=0.031). The HIV status was known in 41 of the 81 patients. Of the 41 patients whose HIV status was known, 25 were male and 16 were female. The HIV positive patients comprised of 19 males (76% of all males) and 9 females (56% of all females). The presence of HIV infection was independently associated with benign disease. The absence of HIV infection was in fact associated with malignant disease, with an odds ratio of 4.00 and 95% confidence intervals of 1.04 to 15.43.

Yes / Research in graphene-based energy materials is a rapidly growing area. Many graphene-based energy applications involve interfacial processes. To enable advances in the design of these energy materials, such that their operation, economy, efficiency and durability is at least comparable with fossil-fuel based alternatives, connections between the molecular-scale structure and function of these interfaces are needed. While it is experimentally challenging to resolve this interfacial structure, molecular simulation and computational chemistry can help bridge these gaps. In this Review, we summarise recent progress in the application of computational chemistry to graphene-based materials for fuel cells, batteries, photovoltaics and supercapacitors. We also outline both the bright prospects and emerging challenges these techniques face for application to graphene-based energy materials in future. / veski

Review of Medieval Haywharf to 20th-Century Brewery: Excavations at Watermark Place, City of London by Louise Fowler and Anthony Mackinder (ISBN: 9781907586231). Review summary: This monograph describes the excavations at Watermark Place on the former site of Mondial House, on the north bank of the River Thames. The excavations were undertaken by the Museum of London Archaeological Service (MOLA) between 2005 and 2007 in an attempt to increase the understanding of the layout and development of the city waterfront from the 13th century through the 20th century. The research is comprehensive and includes detailed investigations into the timber revetments and waterfront structures of the 13th–16th centuries [...]