In eukaryotic cells, microtubules are 24-nm-diameter tubular structures composed of a class of conserved proteins called tubulin. They are involved in numerous cell functions including ciliary motility, nerve cell elongation, pigment migration, centro . . .

Scott Kurnit, founder of the Mining Company and president of its current incarnation, About.com, Inc., was the morning keynote speaker. About.com [http://www.about.com] has 700 different communities on its Web site and Kurnit claims it's the fifth lar . . .

The current situation in medicine has been described as a crisis of credibility, as the profit motive of industry has taken control of clinical trials and the dissemination of data. Pharmaceutical companies maintain a stranglehold over the content if . . .

The Task Force (TF) was charged with compiling/reviewing/disseminating selection criteria for electronic resources to supplement traditional selection criteria (e.g., authorship, content, provenance, accuracy, relevance to institutional mission, and s . . .

Methodology: A Web-based form was used to gather data about the quality of library collections, electronic resources, services, facilities, and “other” in an open-ended format. Respondents were asked to volunteer their affiliation (student, EXL studen . . .

Funds for social programs have declined steadily in recent years, while the problems that confront social service providers have grown. Funds for the FamilySource Network have been cut over 33% during the six years studied in this report. This shrinki . . .

This paper describes a method for estimating larval supply of a temperate reef fish, the kelp bass Paralabrax clathratus, that is simple, inexpensive, requires relatively low effort, and integrates larval supply over time, Using this method, we sample . . .

Using an active learning approach to motivate students to learn has been advocated by many educators. It has been an ongoing discussion on whether marketing educators should customize their teaching activities based on the learning styles found in the . . .

We report on observations of 11 transit events of the transiting extrasolar planet XO-1b by the SuperWASP North observatory. From our data, obtained during 2004 May-September, we find that the XO-1b orbital period is 3.941634 +/- 0.000137 days, the pl . . .

The study extends previous work by Gross and Sheth (1989), providing evidence of continued U.S. advertiser emphasis on timeoriented advertising appeals. Additionally, the specific character of time-oriented appeals has changed consistent with recent s . . .

The Oviatt Library has integrated its resources with Google Scholar, offering a simple way to simultaneously access both free web resources and subscription databases. This easy, four-step process in a familiar interface saves time and frustration for . . .

It is found that the sharp resistivity peak observed near the Curie temperature TC in the manganites R1-xAxMnO3 is closely correlated to the residual resistivity ρ0 of the sample, suggesting that nonmagnetic randomness plays an important role in deter . . .

This report was prepared by the faculty and students from the California State University at Northridge Urban Studies & Planning Program and Department of Health Sciences with assistance and guidance from the Sustainability Council of Ventura County. . . .

As noted in the foreword, Differences Between, Changes Within was intended to keep up with changes in AACR2. This revised edition reflects changes through its final set of amendments, which were issued in 2005. Some guidelines have been changed and so . . .

Since the final approval of the criteria for ABET accreditation of Information Systems (IS) programs in December 2001, only seven institutions have been awarded specialized accreditation for their undergraduate IS degrees. To date only, only one under . . .

Principal components analysis (PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA) are used to identify global patterns in solar and space data. PCA seeks orthogonal modes of the two-point correlation matrix constructed from a data set. It permits the ident . . .

Findings and suggestions following the 2003 web usability survey. This study was conducted with L. Lampert prior to the current web site re-design. Students were given a pretest of information literacy skills and library instruction experience prior t . . .

This project involved the development of a comprehensive and educational social marketing communications plan designed to help educate middle-school-aged youth about information use and abuse online. We achieved our goal of enhancing digital informati . . .

The kagome spin-12 systems have attracted intensive attention in recent years as the primary candidate for hosting different gapped spin liquids (SLs). To uncover the nature of the novel quantum phase transition between the SL states, we study a minim . . .