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Identification and Investigation of ORFans in the Viral World
(BioMed Central, 2008-01)Background: Genome-wide studies have already shed light into the evolution and enormous diversity of the viral world. Nevertheless, one of the unresolved mysteries in comparative genomics today is the abundance of ORFans ... -
Identity, Relationships, and Culture: A Constitutive Model of Coming Out
(Kendall Hunt, 2016)For several decades, researchers across many disciplines have developed a large body of research exploring the topic of coming out. This research has provided many insights about what it means for gay, lesbian, and ... -
If you install it, will they use it? Understanding why hospitality customers take “technological pauses” from self-service technology
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Illinois Critical Access Hospitals: Enhancing Quality of Care in Rural Illinois
(Northern Illinois University Center for Government Studies, 2012-04)Critical access hospitals (CAHs) are essential to rural health care and play an important role in its delivery as a safety net for rural patients. While CAHs operate in a challenging environment, this report focuses on the ... -
Illinois Critical Access Hospitals: Exploring the Financial Impacts of the Swing Bed Program
(Northern Illinois University Center for Governmental Studies, 2019-02)The Swing Bed Program is a Medicare program available to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and rural Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals with fewer than 100 beds. The term “swing bed” may be simply thought of as a ... -
Illinois Critical Access Hospitals: Managing Healthy Communities in Rural Illinois
(Northern Illinois University Center for Government Studies, 2013-10)The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN), working with the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) at Northern Illinois University recently released, “Illinois Critical Access Hospitals: Managing Healthy Communities ... -
Illinois Lawyer Investigations of Current Client Concerns
(2015)When questions are raised by a current client regarding an attorney’s representation of the client, the questioned attorney should be able to seek counsel confidentially. Such a conferral will often benefit the attorney, ... -
Illinois Supreme Court Should Consider Reasonable Doubt Issue
(Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2014-06-25)Last month, a state appellate court reversed the conviction of Mark Downs —a gang member serving 70 years for the murder of a 6-year-old boy — because the trial court attempted to answer a jury question about the definition ... -
Imagining Mexico in 1910: Visions of the Patria in the Centennial Celebration in Mexico City
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-08)Mexico’s 1910 Centenario reflected a popular trend in Western Europe and its former colonies to use centenaries of important historical events to promote political programmes and philosophies through the construction of ... -
The Immigrant “Other”: Racialized Identity and the Devaluation of Immigrant Family Relations
(2014)This Article explores how current terminations of undocumented immigrants’ parental rights are reminiscent of historical practices that removed early immigrant and Native American children from their parents in an attempt ... -
Immigration Offenses Involving Unlawful Entry: Is Federal Practice Comparable Across Districts?
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Impact of an Irreversibly Adsorbed Layer on Local Viscosity of Nanoconfined Polymer Melts
(American Physical Society, 2011)We report the origin of the effect of nanoscale confinement on the local viscosity of entangled polystyrene (PS) films at temperatures far above the glass transition temperature. By using marker x-ray photon correlation ... -
The Impact of Insider Trading on the Market Price of Securities: Some Evidence from Recent Cases of Unlawful Trading
(The Journal of Corporation Law, 2018-11-01)The government's recent crackdown on insider trading has revived an old debate about the wisdom of insider trading prohibitions. Opponents of insider trading laws often argue that insider trading contributes to market ... -
Imperfect Isolation: Factors and Filters Shaping Madagascar’s Extant Vertebrate Fauna
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Analyses of phylogenetic topology and estimates of divergence timing have facilitated a reconstruction of Madagascar’s colonization events by vertebrate animals, but that information alone does not reveal the major factors ... -
Improved Determination of the Width of the Top Quark
(American Physical Society, 2012-05)We present an improved determination of the total width of the top quark, Γt, using 5.4 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 Collaboration at the Tevatron pp- Collider. The total width Γt is extracted from ... -
An Improved Method to Derive Surface Albedo from Narrowband AVHRR Satellite Data: Narrowband to Broadband Conversion
(Royal Meteorological Society, 1999-02)A method was investigated to estimate broadband surface shortwave albedo from the narrowband reflectances obtained by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometers (AVHRRs) on board the polar orbiting satellites. Field ... -
Improved vocabulary outcomes through student reflection: Report from an urban high school
(Journal for Classroom Research in Literacy, 2013)Low-SES students are at a particular disadvantage when it comes to vocabulary acquisition, and poor vocabulary is a significant risk factor for poor reading comprehension. This paper describes an attempt to improve New ... -
Improving Judicial Settlement Conferences
(2006)Professors Molot, Fuller, Fiss, and Resnik, among others, have expressed concerns about the unbounded, unchecked, unbridled, and virtually unfettered judicial discretion of American trial court judges who preside over civil ... -
Improvisational Unionism
(2016)Recent fights for a $15-an-hour minimum wage at Walmart and in the fast-food industry have interested academics, captivated the press, and energized the public. For good reason. The campaigns upend conventional wisdom about ...