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Full-Text Articles in Life Sciences
Exploring The Effects Of Hypoxia On Sulfate Reducing Anaerobes, Annaliese K. Jones
Exploring The Effects Of Hypoxia On Sulfate Reducing Anaerobes, Annaliese K. Jones
Senior Honors Projects
Exploring the Effects of Hypoxia on Sulfate Reducing Anaerobes
Annaliese K. Jones
Sponsor: Bethany Jenkins, Cell and Molecular Biology
As a student about to graduate with a degree in Biological Sciences, I find myself faced with the need to find my own independent research interests and scientific voice. As a result of my interests in the fields of both microbiology and ecology, I am drawn to questions surrounding the role and behavior of microorganisms in the environment. With climate change being an issue capturing the attention of a large portion of the scientific community, I have chosen to focus my …
Library Impact Statement For Eec 497 Internship In Environmental Economics, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Library Impact Statement For Eec 497 Internship In Environmental Economics, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for EEC 497 Internship in Environmental Economics. New course was supported iwth no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Andree J. Rathemacher. Requestion faculty member: Emi Uchida
Medicine Of The Future Facilitated By Dr. Michio Kaku, Multicultural Center
Medicine Of The Future Facilitated By Dr. Michio Kaku, Multicultural Center
Multicultural Student Services Center
Dr. Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Professor, Theoretical Physics, City University of New York. During the 21st century, dramatic advances in science and technology will expand the capacity of health care to extend the human life span and improve the medical quality of life. Genomic medicine will enable physicians of the future to apply computer algorithms in organizing and analyzing genomic data to predict susceptibility to disease. Regenerative medicine will utilize stem cells to facilitate the repair, replacement, and re-growth of aging, damaged, or diseased organs, such as the heart, liver, lungs, pancreas, bladder, and ovaries, in patients suffering from cardiovascular …
Library Impact Statement For Mls 496 Global Health, Michael Cerbo
Library Impact Statement For Mls 496 Global Health, Michael Cerbo
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for MLS 496 Global Health. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.
Library Impact Statement For Mls 572 Vaccines And Biologics, Michael Cerbo
Library Impact Statement For Mls 572 Vaccines And Biologics, Michael Cerbo
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for MLS 572 Vaccines and Biologics. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.
Library Impact Statement For Mls 573 Molecular Biology Methods, Michael Cerbo
Library Impact Statement For Mls 573 Molecular Biology Methods, Michael Cerbo
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for MLS 573 Molecular Biology Methods. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.
Library Impact Statement For Mls 575 Business Of Biotechnology, Michael Cerbo
Library Impact Statement For Mls 575 Business Of Biotechnology, Michael Cerbo
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for MLS 575 Business of Biotechnology. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.
Associations Between Diet Quality And Perceived Quality Of Life In Overweight And Obese Older Adults, Klara Zolotnitskaya
Associations Between Diet Quality And Perceived Quality Of Life In Overweight And Obese Older Adults, Klara Zolotnitskaya
Senior Honors Projects
Objective: To determine whether an association between health related quality of life (HRQOL) and dietary quality exists in overweight [body mass index (BMI) 25-29.9 kg/m2] and obese (BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m2) older adults.
Design: A cross-sectional study.
Participants and Setting: One-hundred and nine overweight and obese older adults, 20 male and 89 female, ages 55-80 years from four Rhode Island senior centers. Participants were recruited from two urban senior centers, one in Warwick and one in Cranston, and two rural senior centers, one in North Kingstown and one in South Kingstown.
Measurements: Anthropometrics (height, weight, waist …
Love: A Biological, Psychological And Philosophical Study, Heather M. Chapman
Love: A Biological, Psychological And Philosophical Study, Heather M. Chapman
Senior Honors Projects
The concept of love has been an eternally elusive subject. It is a definition and meaning that philosophers, psychologists, and biologists have been seeking since the beginning of time. Wars have been waged and fought over it, while friendships have been initiated and have ended because of this idea. But what exactly is love, and why is it important to define this enigma?
In order to help define this idea of love, several books and numerous research articles were consulted, and interviews were conducted with faculty of The University of Rhode Island. Dr. Nasser Zawia was interviewed, in order to …
Heartworm In Canines: Trends In Rhode Island Shelter Populations, Kelsey L. Mckenna
Heartworm In Canines: Trends In Rhode Island Shelter Populations, Kelsey L. Mckenna
Senior Honors Projects
Heartworm in Canines
Kelsey McKenna
Faculty Sponsor: Darlene Jones, DVM, Animal Science
Each year thousands of dogs in the United States become infected with heartworm, which is caused by Dirofilaria immitis. D. immitis is a parasite that is transmitted to dogs via a bite by an infected mosquito. Nine of the seventy competent mosquito species reside in Rhode Island. The true incidence of D. immitis is unknown. Current incidence maps are derived from data generated at veterinary clinics and do not include shelter dogs. The objective of this study is twofold: to determine the prevalence of D. immitis in …
The Importance Of Undecideds In The Evolution Vs. Creationism Debate, Seth Steinman
The Importance Of Undecideds In The Evolution Vs. Creationism Debate, Seth Steinman
Senior Honors Projects
As a scientific theory, evolution has as much empirical support for its core assertions as the heliocentric universe theory or the belief that the Earth is round. Despite a unanimous consensus in the scientific community about evolution’s validity, the General Social Survey (GSS) consistently reports that 85 percent of Americans are either undecided or do not believe in evolution.
This divide between evolutionists, led by scientists, and creationists, led by religious leaders, has enormous scientific and political implications, which include funding for basic scientific research, acting to stop global warming, and what schools should be teaching our children.
The most …
Effectiveness Of The Uri Senior Nutrition Awareness Project (Snap) Nutrition Education Programs With Older Rhode Islanders, Brittany L. Loriquet
Effectiveness Of The Uri Senior Nutrition Awareness Project (Snap) Nutrition Education Programs With Older Rhode Islanders, Brittany L. Loriquet
Senior Honors Projects
SNAP is a federally-funded, free community nutrition program administered through the RI Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—Education (SNAP-Ed), housed in the URI Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences. SNAP targets low-income older adults throughout Rhode Island, educating about 250 individuals each month. A monthly topic of current interest is addressed using an appropriate newsletter, recipe, and interactive component that are delivered at various senior centers and other venues.
As the SNAP undergraduate program assistant since September 2009, I have had the opportunity to create nutrition education materials and to assist in the delivery of community nutrition programming to low-income older adults. …
Carbon And Nitrogen Stable Isotopes In Fruits And Arthropods That Are Eaten By Songbirds During Migration, Sarah E. Donlan
Carbon And Nitrogen Stable Isotopes In Fruits And Arthropods That Are Eaten By Songbirds During Migration, Sarah E. Donlan
Senior Honors Projects
The use of stable isotope analysis is becoming more common in all areas of animal ecology. In particular, natural variation in the abundance of stable isotopes makes them useful in studies of foraging ecology. For example, nitrogen stable isotopes can offer insight into trophic relationships and carbon stable isotopes tend to trace the original source of carbon in a system (e.g. - photosynthetic pathway). This natural variation is potentially useful for quantifying resource use because the isotopic composition of an animal’s diet is assimilated somewhat predictably into the animal’s tissues. In fact, the ratio of naturally-occurring isotopes in animal tissues …
Development For The Past, Present, And Future: Defining And Measuring Sustainable Development, Max Cantor
Development For The Past, Present, And Future: Defining And Measuring Sustainable Development, Max Cantor
Senior Honors Projects
In 1987, the United Nations released the Brundtland Report, which defined sustainable development as “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” While this definition provides a relatively stable theoretical base from which development economists and political scientists can begin to tackle issues surrounding sustainable development, the inherently amorphous nature of this definition has also created a fair amount of ambiguity in both the economic literature surrounding sustainable development and the subsequent attempts by economists to measure it.
Historically, those interested in the science of development have typically …
Library Impact Statement For Bps 455 Protein Molecular Modeling, Michael Vocino
Library Impact Statement For Bps 455 Protein Molecular Modeling, Michael Vocino
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement for BPS 455 Protein Molecular Modeling. No new resources were required to support this course.
Library Impact Statement For Bps 555 Protein Molecular Modeling, Michael Vocino
Library Impact Statement For Bps 555 Protein Molecular Modeling, Michael Vocino
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement for BPS 555 Protein Molecular Modeling. No new resources were required to support this course.
Modeling Habitat Associations For The Common Loon (Gavia Immer) At Multiple Scales In Northeastern North America, Anne Kuhn, Jane Copeland, John Cooley, Harry Vogel, Kate Taylor, Diane Nacci, Peter V. August
Modeling Habitat Associations For The Common Loon (Gavia Immer) At Multiple Scales In Northeastern North America, Anne Kuhn, Jane Copeland, John Cooley, Harry Vogel, Kate Taylor, Diane Nacci, Peter V. August
Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications
Common Loon (Gavia immer) is considered an emblematic and ecologically important example of aquatic-dependent wildlife in North America. The northern breeding range of Common Loon has contracted over the last century as a result of habitat degradation from human disturbance and lakeshore development. We focused on the state of New Hampshire, USA, where a long-term monitoring program conducted by the Loon Preservation Committee has been collecting biological data on Common Loon since 1976. The Common Loon population in New Hampshire is distributed throughout the state across a wide range of lake-specific habitats, water quality conditions, and levels of …