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Climate Change And Idaho Agriculture: Is Farm Size A Determinate Of Adaptive Capacity?, Blair P. Vanderlugt
Climate Change And Idaho Agriculture: Is Farm Size A Determinate Of Adaptive Capacity?, Blair P. Vanderlugt
McNair Scholars Research Journal
Determining how agriculture will be affected by climate change is not only a question biophysical change in crop production; it also depends on the adaptation of the farmer to these changing conditions. A flaw in models using nationally aggregated cross sectional data is that the adaptive capacity of unique farms is not captured in the analysis. In order to understand the local effect of climate change on welfare models must capture attributes specific to the study area. Factors that must be taken into consideration include farm characteristics local policy and institutional frameworks (Antle et al. 2004; Mendelsohn, Nordhaus, and Shaw …
Expression And Regulation Of Survivin In Prostate Cancer, Maygen K. Cardona
Expression And Regulation Of Survivin In Prostate Cancer, Maygen K. Cardona
McNair Scholars Research Journal
Survivin is an Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein (IAP), which makes it responsible for cell proliferation and survival by inhibiting regulated cell death and promoting mitosis. The exact role that it plays in prostate cancer is not yet fully understood; expression and regulation of Survivin is the primary focus of my project. The way Survivin was studied was through fractionating various cancer cells lines (LaPC-4, PC-3 E+, VCAP, C4-2 and DU145-Spindle, Round and Tight) and isolating the nuclear and cytosolic components. These fractionated samples were then treated and analyzed using Western Blot analysis being probed for nuclear and cytoplasmic Survivin, respectively. …