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Lamprey Watershed Education And Outreach, Lamprey River Watershed Association, Dawn Genes, Lamprey River Watershed Association. Lamprey River Nominating Committee Dec 2010

Lamprey Watershed Education And Outreach, Lamprey River Watershed Association, Dawn Genes, Lamprey River Watershed Association. Lamprey River Nominating Committee

PREP Reports & Publications

The Lamprey River Nomination Committee sought the assistance of the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) to complete an extensive and detailed information package to nominate the Lamprey River and its major tributaries to the NH Rivers Management and Protection Program. The nomination package was due at DES on June 1, 2010, was reviewed and accepted by the State Rivers Management Committee in September and forwarded to the Commissioner of DES. The nomination is now working through the NH legislature with hearings anticipated during the spring 2011 session. If passed, the bill should be signed by Governor Lynch in July of …


Web Site Helps Northeast Homeowners Make A Plan To Save Energy, Beth Potier Dec 2010

Web Site Helps Northeast Homeowners Make A Plan To Save Energy, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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Metastable Anions Of Dinitrobenzene: Resonances For Electron Attachment And Kinetic Energy Release, A. Mauracher, S. Denifl, A. Edtbauer, M. Hager, M. Probst, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, P. Scheier, T. A. Field, K. Graupner Dec 2010

Metastable Anions Of Dinitrobenzene: Resonances For Electron Attachment And Kinetic Energy Release, A. Mauracher, S. Denifl, A. Edtbauer, M. Hager, M. Probst, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, P. Scheier, T. A. Field, K. Graupner

Physics & Astronomy

Attachment of free, low-energy electrons to dinitrobenzene (DNB) in the gas phase leads to DNB as well as several fragment anions. DNB, (DNB-H), (DNB-NO), (DNB-2NO), and (DNB-NO(2)) are found to undergo metastable (unimolecular) dissociation. A rich pattern of resonances in the yield of these metastable reactions versus electron energy is observed; some resonances are highly isomer-specific. Most metastable reactions are accompanied by large average kinetic energy releases (KER) that range from 0.5 to 1.32 eV, typical of complex rearrangement reactions, but (1,3-DNB-H)(-) features a resonance with a KER of only 0.06 eV for loss of NO. (1,3-DNB-NO)(-) offers a rare …


Unh Scientists Help Show Potent Ghg Emissions Are Three Times Estimated Levels, David Sims, Beth Potier Dec 2010

Unh Scientists Help Show Potent Ghg Emissions Are Three Times Estimated Levels, David Sims, Beth Potier

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Unh Study: College Students Use Cell Phones In Class, Despite Adverse Affects, Lori Wright Dec 2010

Unh Study: College Students Use Cell Phones In Class, Despite Adverse Affects, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Unh Demographer: 2010 Census Shows Slow Growth In New England; New Hampshire Posts Greatest Regional Gains, Lori Wright Dec 2010

Unh Demographer: 2010 Census Shows Slow Growth In New England; New Hampshire Posts Greatest Regional Gains, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Unh Climatologist: White Christmas Unlikely For Southern New Hampshire, Lori Wright Dec 2010

Unh Climatologist: White Christmas Unlikely For Southern New Hampshire, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Low Endemism, Continued Deep-Shallow Interchanges, And Evidence For Cosmopolitan Distributions In Free-Living Marine Nematodes (Order Enoplida), Holly M. Bik, W. Kelley Thomas, David H. Lunt, P. John D. Lambshead Dec 2010

Low Endemism, Continued Deep-Shallow Interchanges, And Evidence For Cosmopolitan Distributions In Free-Living Marine Nematodes (Order Enoplida), Holly M. Bik, W. Kelley Thomas, David H. Lunt, P. John D. Lambshead

Hubbard Center for Genome Studies (HCGS)

Background: Nematodes represent the most abundant benthic metazoa in one of the largest habitats on earth, the deep sea. Characterizing major patterns of biodiversity within this dominant group is a critical step towards understanding evolutionary patterns across this vast ecosystem. The present study has aimed to place deep-sea nematode species into a phylogenetic framework, investigate relationships between shallow water and deep-sea taxa, and elucidate phylogeographic patterns amongst the deep-sea fauna. Results: Molecular data (18 S and 28 S rRNA) confirms a high diversity amongst deep-sea Enoplids. There is no evidence for endemic deep-sea lineages in Maximum Likelihood or Bayesian phylogenies, …


Hudson Teacher Receives 2010 Forest Watch Award, David Sims Dec 2010

Hudson Teacher Receives 2010 Forest Watch Award, David Sims

Media Relations

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University Of New Hampshire Students Promote Reading And Leadership, Jody Record Dec 2010

University Of New Hampshire Students Promote Reading And Leadership, Jody Record

Media Relations

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Unh Experts Available To Discuss Demographic Trends And Political Implications Of 2010 U.S. Census, Lori Wright Dec 2010

Unh Experts Available To Discuss Demographic Trends And Political Implications Of 2010 U.S. Census, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Unh Space Physicist Honored As American Geophysical Union Fellow, David Sims Dec 2010

Unh Space Physicist Honored As American Geophysical Union Fellow, David Sims

Media Relations

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Education, Politics And Opinions About Climate Change: Evidence For Interaction Effects, Lawrence C. Hamilton Dec 2010

Education, Politics And Opinions About Climate Change: Evidence For Interaction Effects, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Sociology

U.S. public opinion regarding climate change has become increasingly polarized in recent years, as partisan think tanks and others worked to recast an originally scientific topic into a political wedge issue. Nominally “scientific” arguments against taking anthropogenic climate change seriously have been publicized to reach informed but ideologically receptive audiences. Reflecting the success of such arguments, polls have noted that concern about climate change increased with education among Democrats, but decreased with education among Republicans. These observations lead to the hypothesis that there exist interaction (non-additive) effects between education or knowledge and political orientation, net of other background factors, in …


More Than One In Ten American Households Relies On Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits, Jessica A. Bean, Marybeth J. Mattingly Dec 2010

More Than One In Ten American Households Relies On Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits, Jessica A. Bean, Marybeth J. Mattingly

The Carsey School of Public Policy at the Scholars' Repository

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one of the most responsive federal programs to economic downturns, as evidence by the increases in SNAP use between 2007 and 2009. Nationally, more than one in ten households relies on SNAP benefits, and the rate is even higher in rural areas, with more than 13 percent of households reporting use. This brief examines the trends in SNAP use across the United States since the recession began in 2007 and considers the impact of legislation in the Congress on those who rely on SNAP to make ends meet.


Unh-Led Experiment Hurtled Into Aurora Above Norway By Nasa Rocket, David Sims Dec 2010

Unh-Led Experiment Hurtled Into Aurora Above Norway By Nasa Rocket, David Sims

Media Relations

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Walkable Neighborhoods Richer In Social Capital, Unh Study Finds, Beth Potier Dec 2010

Walkable Neighborhoods Richer In Social Capital, Unh Study Finds, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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Unh Experts Available To Discuss New Federal Legislation Aimed At Protecting College Students Against Sexual Assault, Lori Wright Dec 2010

Unh Experts Available To Discuss New Federal Legislation Aimed At Protecting College Students Against Sexual Assault, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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&J Lines To Offer Direct Service To New York City From Unh Campus And Portsmouthn, Erika Mantz Dec 2010

&J Lines To Offer Direct Service To New York City From Unh Campus And Portsmouthn, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Unh Research Enhancing Patient Care With "Smart" Hospital Beds, Debra Williams Dec 2010

Unh Research Enhancing Patient Care With "Smart" Hospital Beds, Debra Williams

Media Relations

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Media Advisory: Unh Celebrates Sen. Judd Gregg's Commitment To And Support Of The University Dec. 13, Erika Mantz Dec 2010

Media Advisory: Unh Celebrates Sen. Judd Gregg's Commitment To And Support Of The University Dec. 13, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Unh Institute On Disability To Develop Online Employment Training, Matthew Gianino Dec 2010

Unh Institute On Disability To Develop Online Employment Training, Matthew Gianino

Media Relations

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Unh Professor Advises What's Appropriate For Tipping During The Holiday Season, Lori Wright Dec 2010

Unh Professor Advises What's Appropriate For Tipping During The Holiday Season, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Watershed Survey And Pilot Lcc Project, Norman Turgeon, Three Ponds Protective Association Dec 2010

Watershed Survey And Pilot Lcc Project, Norman Turgeon, Three Ponds Protective Association

PREP Reports & Publications

This describes two projects accomplished in 2010 by the Three Ponds Protective Association (TPPA) and several partners to identify and reduce soil erosion due to storm water runoff into the Milton Three Ponds


Simple Sequence Repeat Variation In The Daphnia Pulex Genome, Way Sung, Abraham Tucker, R. Daniel Bergeron, Michael Lynch, W. Kelley Thomas Dec 2010

Simple Sequence Repeat Variation In The Daphnia Pulex Genome, Way Sung, Abraham Tucker, R. Daniel Bergeron, Michael Lynch, W. Kelley Thomas

Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences

Background: Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are highly variable features of all genomes. Their rapid evolution makes them useful for tracing the evolutionary history of populations and investigating patterns of selection and mutation across gnomes. The recently sequenced Daphnia pulex genome provides us with a valuable data set to study the mode and tempo of SSR evolution, without the inherent biases that accompany marker selection. Results: Here we catalogue SSR loci in the Daphnia pulex genome with repeated motif sizes of 1-100 nucleotides with a minimum of 3 perfect repeats. We then used whole genome shotgun reads to determine the average …


Unh Community Mourns Loss Of Alum In Afghanistan, Erika Mantz Dec 2010

Unh Community Mourns Loss Of Alum In Afghanistan, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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The Modulation Of Trpm7 Currents By Nafamostat Mesilate Depends Directly Upon Extracellular Concentrations Of Divalent Cations, Xuanmao Chen, Tomohiro Numata, Minghua Li, Yasuo Mori, Beverley A. Orser, Michael F. Jackson, Zhi-Gang Xiong, John F. Macdonald Dec 2010

The Modulation Of Trpm7 Currents By Nafamostat Mesilate Depends Directly Upon Extracellular Concentrations Of Divalent Cations, Xuanmao Chen, Tomohiro Numata, Minghua Li, Yasuo Mori, Beverley A. Orser, Michael F. Jackson, Zhi-Gang Xiong, John F. Macdonald

Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences

Concentrations of extracellular divalent cations (Ca2+ and Mg2+) fall substantially during intensive synaptic transmission as well as during some pathophysiological conditions such as epilepsy and brain ischemia. Here we report that a synthetic serine protease inhibitor, nafamostat mesylate (NM), and several of its analogues, block recombinant TRPM7 currents expressed in HEK293T cells in inverse relationship to the concentration of extracellular divalent cations. Lowering extracellular Ca2+ and Mg2+ also evokes a divalent-sensitive non-selective cation current that is mediated by TRPM7 expression in hippocampal neurons. In cultured hippocampal neurons, NM blocked these TRPM7-mediated currents with an apparent affinity of 27 μM, as …


Businesses Invited To Team Up With Unh Information Systems Students, Lori Wright Dec 2010

Businesses Invited To Team Up With Unh Information Systems Students, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Best-First Heuristic Search For Multicore Machines, Ethan Burns, Sofia N. Lemons, Wheeler Ruml, Rong Zhou Dec 2010

Best-First Heuristic Search For Multicore Machines, Ethan Burns, Sofia N. Lemons, Wheeler Ruml, Rong Zhou

Computer Science

To harness modern multicore processors, it is imperative to develop parallel versions of fundamental algorithms. In this paper, we compare different approaches to parallel best-first search in a shared-memory setting. We present a new method, PBNF, that uses abstraction to partition the state space and to detect duplicate states without requiring frequent locking. PBNF allows speculative expansions when necessary to keep threads busy. We identify and fix potential livelock conditions in our approach, proving its correctness using temporal logic. Our approach is general, allowing it to extend easily to suboptimal and anytime heuristic search. In an empirical comparison on STRIPS …


Fertilizer And Stormwater Runoff Outreach Program In Newcastle, Nh, David Anderson Dec 2010

Fertilizer And Stormwater Runoff Outreach Program In Newcastle, Nh, David Anderson

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Coastal Protection Partnership (NH Coast) implemented a year long pilot public education and outreach program in the Town of New Castle aimed at reducing nitrogen pollution from lawn fertilizers and promoting rain gardens as a solution to storm water runoff and nonpoint source pollution. A total of 77 landowners representing 138 acres of land pledged to either not use lawn fertilizers or use only low phosphorus, slow release nitrogen brands. The program also resulted in the installation of New Castle’s first demonstration rain garden.


Analysis Of Nitrogen Loading Reductions For Wastewater Treatment Facilities And Non-Point Sources In The Great Bay Estuary Watershed, Philip Trowbridge, Thomas S. Burack, Michael J. Walls, Harry T. Stewart Dec 2010

Analysis Of Nitrogen Loading Reductions For Wastewater Treatment Facilities And Non-Point Sources In The Great Bay Estuary Watershed, Philip Trowbridge, Thomas S. Burack, Michael J. Walls, Harry T. Stewart

PREP Reports & Publications

In 2009, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) published a proposal for numeric nutrient criteria for the Great Bay Estuary. The report found that total nitrogen concentrations in most of the estuary needed to be less than 0.3 mg N/L to prevent loss of eelgrass habitat and less than 0.45 mg N/L to prevent occurrences of low dissolved oxygen. Based on these criteria and an analysis of a compilation of data from at least seven different sources, DES concluded that 11 of the 18 subestuaries in the Great Bay Estuary were impaired for nitrogen. Under the Clean Water …