THE REGULATION OF RNA POLYMERASE I-MEDIATED TRANSCRIPTION IN FOREBRAIN NEURONS Scott Carl Smith November 29,2011 Ribosomal biogenesis failure may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases, while its excessive activation has been shown to drive tumor growth. As ribosomal production is initiated and regulated by the Poll-mediated transcription of rRNA genes in the nucleolus, the latter process had...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine if Icelandic widowers might foresee obstacles to responding to a questionnaire on bereavement. Also, we sought to compare the proportion of men reporting obstacles in a telephone interview to the actual response rate in the questionnaire survey. METHODS The study was part of a nation-wide survey of widowers who lost their wives in 1999, 2000, ...

Successful election administration depends on an army of poll workers who are responsible for front line interaction with voters at the polling place. Despite their important role in elections, we know surprisingly little about how recruitment and training of poll workers translates into performance. We review research on poll workers and present descriptive information about poll worker charac...

Polls are used by politicians, voters, and businesspeople alike to form expectations over political outcomes. In an electoral system with ‘pork’ at the national level, local economic prospects will be a direct function of political support. Because every poll comes with its margin of error, we can exploit the error in sub-national polls to test for whether forward-looking investment in the econ...

in the national political conversation ever since President Obama launched his effort to enact a reform plan with a decidedly governmentcentric focus. Opponents of what has become known as Obamacare have expended much time and energy informing the public of the law’s significant dangers to the national economy, federal budget, and quality of American health care. And it is clear that effort has...

Recently, pollsters have experienced discrepancies between their poll predictions and subsequent election outcomes. One possible explanation of these divergencies is the growing proportion of undecided respondents in poll samples. This paper discusses three methods of reducing the proportion of undecided respondents: the use of contextual questions; a secret ballot device; and the use of a rela...