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Patricia Oliver - Loyola Marymount University. Los Angeles, CA, US

Patricia Oliver

Associate Professor of Communication Studies | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

College of Communication & Fine Arts

Biography

Professor Oliver teaches courses in Public Speaking, the Rhetoric of Women and Interpersonal, Intercultural and Gender Communication. She has taught Communication Behavior in Childhood, Rhetorical Discourse, Rhetoric of Popular...

Education (2)

California State University at Los Angeles : M.A.

California State University at Los Angeles: B.A.

Areas of Expertise (4)

Communication Studies

Public Speaking

Gender Communication

Rhetoric of Women

Industry Expertise (3)

Research

Training and Development

Education/Learning

Affiliations (3)

  • West Los Angeles College
  • Pierce College
  • California State University Northridge

Articles (2)

Rating Scales, Scales of Measurement, Issues of Reliability: Resolving Some Critical Issues for Clinicians and Researchers

Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease:

2006-08-01

We focus upon several broad issues that are of concern to clinicians and clinical researchers in the areas of biobehavioral and biomedical research, including, but not limited to, the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neuropsychology, and neurology. These issues are the critical reassessment of S. S. Stevens’ quadripartite conceptualization of scales of measurement; the application of criteria to determine the clinical significance of reliability estimates; the detection of subsets of reliable and unreliable raters, when the overall level is of little clinical import; and finally, the application of Kappa statistics when multiple raters evaluate a single case.

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Evolutionary and structural diversity of fungal laccases

Springer

2003-11-01

Fungal laccases have been extensively exploited for industrial purposes and there is a wealth of information available regarding their reaction mechanism, biological role and several molecular aspects, including cloning, heterologous expression and transcriptional analyses. Here we present the reconstruction of the fungal laccase loci evolution inferred from the comparative analysis of 48 different sequences. The topology of the phylogenetic trees indicate that a single monophyletic branch exists for fungal laccases and that laccase isozyme genes may have evolved independently, possibly through duplication-divergence events. Laccases are copper-containing enzymes generally identified by the utilization of substituted p-diphenol substrates. Interestingly, our approach permitted the assignment of two copper-containing oxidases, preliminarily catalogued as laccases, to a different evolutionary group, distantly related to the main branch of bona fide laccases.

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