2010 Pisacano Scholars

Pisacano Leadership Foundation Names 2016 Pisacano Scholars.

The Pisacano Leadership Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American Board of Family Medicine, recently selected its 2014 Pisacano Scholars. These 7 medical students follow in the footsteps of 95 scholar alumni who are practicing physicians and 16 current scholars who are enrolled in medical schools or family medicine residency programs across the country. The Pisacano Leadership Foundatio...

2010 UCSD - AMGEN Scholars Program

The main targets of HIV infection are CD4 T cells, and consequently their cell numbers decline with increasing viral load, causing weakened immunity. Previous studies have demonstrated that the level of activated CD8 T cells co-expressing CD38 in the peripheral blood is highly correlated with HIV load and is predictive of progression of infection to AIDS. Although activation of infected CD4 T c...

McNair Scholars

McNair Scholars Program

For many companies, a small but very loyal part oftheir overall consumer base is responsible for the majority oftheir profits, so the concept of brand loyalty is of considerableimportance. The preponderance of research on this subject hasfocused on identifying the role of marketer-controlled factorsin fostering brand loyalty. However, it is also important toconsider the ...

Regional Music Scholars Conference

Phrase structure and cadences did not expire with the suppression of common practice tonality. Joseph Straus points out the increased importance of thematic contrast to delineate sections of the sonata form in the beginning of the nineteenth century. Igor Stravinsky exploited other musical elements (texture, range, counterpoint, dynamics, etc.) to delineate sections in his neoclassical works. W...