Nature of the Industry The motor vehicle is an intricate series of systems, subsystems, and components assembled into a final product. Each manufactured part or component is integrated into the vehicle—none is developed to exist separately. Vehicles are constantly changing as new technology or reengineered components are incorporated, and as new and updated models are designed in response to ch...

I’d like to begin by thanking those who have helped me prepare this tribute—contributing pictures, stories, and/or moral support. This group includes many of John’s students and friends, his family, and especially those at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA where the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection is housed. In particular, Marcia Meldrum, who worked closely with Joh...

This study examined the perceptions of competence of 43 children with visual impairments who were attending a summer sports camp. It found there were meaningful differences in the perceived competence of the girls, but not the boys, after they attended the camp, and no differences in the perceptions of competence with age. The authors thank Paul Ponchillia and the athletes who attended his summ...

Emerald ash borer (EAB) is thought to have arrived in North America and European Russia at least 10 years prior detection. Despite heightened awareness that EAB could invade Great Britain (GB), detection the early stages of establishment difficult, initial symptoms might be mistaken for Chalara dieback. Our results suggest if partial resistance Fraxinus excelsior does not significantly dampen p...

The symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are linked to dysfunction in academic, occupational, interpersonal, and other domains for both children and adults (see review in Whalen, Jamner, Henker, Delfino, & Lozano, 2002). The current study examines the association between ADHD symptoms and quality of life (QOL) and perceived stress in a community sample of adults. Data wer...

s Research Symposium January 2004 Graduate Student Association Department of Natural Resources Cornell University Olivia Aguilar Examining the ability of environmental action projects to close the science achievement gap A crucial gap exists between the achievement levels of white and minority students on standardized science tests (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001). Discrepancies...

Structural priming in language production is a tendency to re-create a recently uttered syntactic structure in different words. This tendency can be seen independent of specific lexical items, thematic roles, or word sequences. Two alternative proposals about the mechanism behind structural priming include (a) short-term activation from a memory representation of a priming structure and (b) lon...

Stromal derived factor-1α (Sdf-1α), a chemoattractant chemokine, along with its exclusive receptor CXCR4, plays a major role in tumor growth, angiogenesis, metastasis and in development. Recently, the Sdf-1α signaling pathway was shown to be important for zebrafish somitogenesis (Holloway, et al 2007). Somitogenesis is an important embryological process as it establishes the segmented nature of...