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People that the author would like to thank for their assistance in the creation of his book is offered who include Nancy Adelman of SRI International and Steven Ingels of RTI International.

A chapter from the book "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the U.S. and Its Jurisdictions" is presented. It reports on the 100 largest school districts for the school year 2003-2004. It says that Texas had 15 districts while California and Florida had 13 each. It shows other states had more than one district in the 100 largest including Georgia, Maryland and North Carolina. It reveals that the 100 largest were in coastal and Gulf Coast areas with big populations.

A chapter from the book "Characteristics of the 100 largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the U.S. and its Jurisdictions" is presented. It explores public schools in the U.S. and its jurisdictions during the school year 2003-2004. According to Common Core of Data (CCD), there were 98,213 public schools, 17,512 public school districts and over 49.3 million students. The public school districts vary in size from 46,594 to 1,023,674 students in 2003-2004. Information on enrollment of students and employment of teachers is provided.

The article presents an introduction to the book "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the U.S. and Its Jurisdictions."

A foreword to "Secondary School Course Classification System: School Codes for the Exchange of Data (SCED)" is presented.

People that the author would like to thank for their assistance in the creation of the book "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the U.S. and Its Jurisdictions" are mentioned, which include Jason Hill and Martin Hahn.

References for the articles published in the book "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary & Secondary School Districts in the U.S. and Its Jurisdictions" are presented.

A chapter from the book "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the U.S. and Its Jurisdictions" is presented. It reports on the changes in ranking among the 100 largest school districts in the years 1993 to 2003. It is said that in the period 1993-94 to 2003-2004, students in the 100 largest increased by 11% while teachers increased by 43% and the number of schools increased by 12%. It also notes that on the national total, however, the percentage of students was the same for 1993-1994 and 2003-2004.

An introduction to the book "Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the U.S. and Its Jurisdictions" is presented.

Silica-bound aldehyde functional silane was used as a versatile bridge to attach porphyrin to the surface of silica and as a surface-bound free radical initiator to yield PMMA brushes. The aldehyde functionality is obtained by a simple ozonolysis of the surface-bound allylsilane, whereby the double bonds are oxidized in high yield to the desired aldehyde. Mono-amino porphyrin was attached to the silica surface under mild conditions via Schiff-base linkages, whilst anchored PMMA was obtained by free radical initiation using an aldehyde/redox free radical polymerization. FTIR and TGA data were used to determine and characterize the attachment to the silica surface.

A major challenge in neurological gene therapy is safe delivery of transgenes to sufficient cell numbers from the circulation or periphery. This is particularly difficult for diseases involving spinal cord motor neurons such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We have examined the feasibility of non-viral gene delivery to spinal motor neurons from intraperitoneal injections of plasmids carried by “immunogene” nanoparticles targeted for axonal retrograde transport using antibodies. PEGylated polyethylenimine (PEI-PEG12) as DNA carrier was conjugated to an antibody (MLR2) to the neurotrophin receptor p75 (p75NTR). We used a plasmid (pVIVO2) designed for in vivo gene delivery that produces minimal immune responses, has improved nuclear entry into post mitotic cells and also expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP). MLR2-PEI-PEG12 carried pVIVO2 and was specific for mouse motor neurons in mixed cultures containing astrocytes. While only 8% of motor neurons expressed GFP 72 h post transfection in vitro, when the immunogene was given intraperitonealy to neonatal C57BL/6J mice, GFP specific motor neuron expression was observed in 25.4% of lumbar, 18.3% of thoracic and 17.0% of cervical motor neurons, 72 h post transfection. PEI-PEG12 carrying pVIVO2 by itself did not transfect motor neurons in vivo, demonstrating the need for specificity via the p75NTR antibody MLR2. This is the first time that specific transfection of spinal motor neurons has been achieved from peripheral delivery of plasmid DNA as part of a non-viral gene delivery agent. These results stress the specificity and feasibility of immunogene delivery targeted for p75NTR expressing motor neurons, but suggests that further improvements are required to increase the transfection efficiency of motor neurons in vivo. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

In this work, we have employed a suite of complementary analytical techniques to shed light on the nanocomposite structures formed during gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) synthesis in the presence of poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers. Nanocomposites of AuNPs and either fourth or eighth generation amine-terminated PAMAM dendrimers (G4 or G8) were prepared. The size distributions of AuNPs and the nanocomposites were determined by transmission electron microscopy. Atomic force microscopy phase imaging and neutral impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy (NICISS) were utilized for the first time to investigate and compare nanocomposite structures formed from G4 and G8. Our results suggest that G4 stabilized the AuNP by capping the AuNP particle surface but that a certain fraction of the gold surface was still barely covered. In contrast, the metal nanoparticle surface was completely covered by G8. In addition, NICISS results provided evidence that nanocomposites deformed when being deposited directly onto a substrate. Refereed/Peer-reviewed