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The Writing Center Journal

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Review: The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives On Writing Center Scholarship, Lauren Fitzgerald

The Writing Center Journal

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Riboflavin Synthase Of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe. Protein Dynamics Revealed By 19f Nmr Protein Perturbation Experiments., Markus Fischer, Ann-Kathrin Schott, Kristina Kemter, Richard Feicht, Gerald Richter, Boris Illarionov, Wolfgang Eisenreich, Stefan Gerhardt, Mark S. Cushman, Stefan Steinbacher, Robert Huber, Adelbert Bacher

Borch Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Faculty Publications

Background

Riboflavin synthase catalyzes the transformation of 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine into riboflavin in the last step of the riboflavin biosynthetic pathway. Gram-negative bacteria and certain yeasts are unable to incorporate riboflavin from the environment and are therefore absolutely dependent on endogenous synthesis of the vitamin. Riboflavin synthase is therefore a potential target for the development of antiinfective drugs.

Results

A cDNA sequence from Schizosaccharomyces pombe comprising a hypothetical open reading frame with similarity to riboflavin synthase of Escherichia coli was expressed in a recombinant E. coli strain. The recombinant protein is a homotrimer of 23 kDa subunits as shown by sedimentation equilibrium …

Selected Bibliography Of Work About And Of Edward Said's Texts, Clare Callaghan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Alternative Methods And Assignments For Teaching Business Information Resources In An Slis Course, Hal P. Kirkwood Jr

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The author discusses alternative methods of instruction, which focus on interactive lecturing and concept maps, in the context of a graduate-level business information course in an SLIS program.

On Edward Said, Scholar And Public Intellectual, F. Elizabeth Dahab

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "On Edward Said, Scholar and Public Intellectual," F. Elizabeth Dahab pays tribute to Edward Said, 1935-2003. Dahab discusses selected aspects of Said's trajectories as a scholar and Palestinian-American activist including aspects of Said's numerous activities and work as a musician, an ardent political polemicist, a music critic, a Columbia University professor of comparative literature, a humanist, President of the Modern Language Association of America, and an exiled Palestinian as evident in the vast corpus of this eminent scholar's publications over the course of almost four decades (twenty-four books and hundreds of articles and interviews). Said's work elicited …

Comparative Literature Versus Comparative Cultural Studies, Tomo Virk

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Comparative Literature versus Comparative Cultural Studies," Tomo Virk discusses debates of the role, essence, and the future of comparative literature as it has developed since the 1995 publication of the Bernheimer Report. Virk explores the situation of the discipline in its North American context: "contextualists" argue for the abandoning of comparative literature understood as the study of literature with theoretical investigations of literariness while the "non-contextualists" underscore the study of the linguistic structure(s) of the text. Virk supports comparative literature understood as the traditional concentration of the discipline with focus on the specificities of literary questions while …

Drm And Research Libraries: Common Ground?, Bill Rosenblatt

Against the Grain

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Supporting Decision-Making In The Battlefield: Utility Of Multimedia Information Transmission, Sandro Scielzo, Adams Greenwood-Ericksen

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

In the theatre of war, environmental and workload factors (e.g., noise, time pressure) may dramatically overburden operator's cognitive processes. Well designed multimedia technology can successfully minimize both intrinsic (working memory capacity) and extrinsic (inefficient use of information) sources of cognitive load, thereby facilitating the decision-making process. These positive mediating effects of multimedia technology can occur during three distinct phases of human information processing: 1) during sensorial information acquisition, by filtering out unnecessary environmental noise and transferring information via context-dependent modalities; 2) during decision-making, by making critical task-relevant cues more salient; and 3) following response execution, by providing necessary feedback to …

Caste- And Development-Associated Gene Expression In A Lower Termite., Michael E. Scharf, Dancia Wu-Scharf, Barry R. Pittendrigh, Gary W. Bennett

Department of Entomology Faculty Publications

Background

Social insects such as termites express dramatic polyphenism (the occurrence of multiple forms in a species on the basis of differential gene expression) both in association with caste differentiation and between castes after differentiation. We have used cDNA macroarrays to compare gene expression between polyphenic castes and intermediary developmental stages of the termiteReticulitermes flavipes.

Results

We identified differentially expressed genes from nine ontogenic categories. Quantitative PCR was used to quantify precise differences in gene expression between castes and between intermediary developmental stages. We found worker and nymph-biased expression of transcripts encoding termite and endosymbiont cellulases; presoldier-biased expression …

Quasaq: A Database-Centric Approach To Enabling End-To-End Qos Control For Multimedia Repositories, Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Selected Bibliography Of Work In Cultural Studies And Us-American Popular Culture, Marta Guirao, Benton Jay Komins

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Holy Fools, Secular Saints, And Illiterate Saviors In American Literature And Popular Culture, Dana Heller

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture," Dana Heller identifies and analyzes characteristics of the holy fool figure in American literature and culture. Heller defines the holy fool, or divine idiot, as a figure central to U.S. myths of nation. One encounters such figures in American literature as well as in American folklore, popular culture, and mass media. In American culture, the Divine Idiot is a hybrid form which grows out of the crossings of numerous literary and historical currents, both secular and non-secular. This unwieldy hybridity -- the fact that …

An Introduction To Comparative Cultural Studies And Popular Culture, Benton Jay Komins

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Symbolism, Popular Drama, And Politics And Art In Belgium, 1886-1910, Joan Gross

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Symbolism, Popular Drama, and Politics and Arts in Belgium, 1886-1910," Joan Gross examines what effects the reign of terror in the Congo and the silence that masked it might have had on popular performance traditions and literary practices in Belgium. Gross examines a popular puppet play by Léopold Leloup and an essay by Maurice Maeterlinck, both of which are called The Massacre of the Innocents. The third text she explores is a parliamentary speech given by Émile Vandervelde in 1903 in which he protested brutal practices in the Congo. Gross explores the interconnections between these three disparate …

Distributed Clustering For Scalable, Long-Lived Sensor Networks, Ossama Younis, Sonia Fahmy

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Violin: Virtual Internetworking On Overlay Infrastructure, Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Intersection Tests For Single Marker Qtl Analysis Can Be More Powerful Than Two Marker Qtl Analysis, Cynthia J. Coffman, Rebecca W. Doerge, Marta L. Wayne, Lauren M. Mcintyre

Department of Statistics Faculty Publications

Background

It has been reported in the quantitative trait locus (QTL) literature that when testing for QTL location and effect, the statistical power supporting methodologies based on two markers and their estimated genetic map is higher than for the genetic map independent methodologies known as single marker analyses. Close examination of these reports reveals that the two marker approaches are more powerful than single marker analyses only in certain cases.

Simulation studies are a commonly used tool to determine the behavior of test statistics under known conditions. We conducted a simulation study to assess the general behavior of an intersection …

The Construction And Use Of Bacterial Dna Microarrays Based On An Optimized Two-Stage Pcr Strategy., Bradley L. Postier, Hong-Liang Wang, Abhay Singh, Lori Impson, Heather L. Andrews, Jessica Klahn, Hong Li, George Risinger, David Pesta, Michael Deyholos, David W. Galbraith, Louis A. Sherman, Robert L. Burnap

Department of Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Background

DNA microarrays are a powerful tool with important applications such as global gene expression profiling. Construction of bacterial DNA microarrays from genomic sequence data using a two-stage PCR amplification approach for the production of arrayed DNA is attractive because it allows, in principal, the continued re-amplification of DNA fragments and facilitates further utilization of the DNA fragments for additional uses (e.g. over-expression of protein). We describe the successful construction and use of DNA microarrays by the two-stage amplification approach and discuss the technical challenges that were met and resolved during the project.

Results

Chimeric primers that contained both gene-specific …

Technology Foundations For Digital Libraries, Sun Microsystems

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Education And Training For Information Empowerment Specialists In The Networked Society: An Indian Experience, Cr Karisiddappa

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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What's In Collection Configuration Files?, Ian H. Witten

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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New Times Need New Curricula: Meeting The Demands Of Industry In Training Information Professionals In Sadc, Theo Jd Bothma, Johannes J. Britz, Maritha E. Snyman, Retha Snyman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Changing The Paradigm: Libraries, Education And Networking, Alan Bundy

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Decreasing Resources - New Services For University Libraries, Norbert Lossau

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Beware Publishers Bearing Gifts: Why The "Big Deal" Is A Bad Deal For Universities, David Ball

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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A New Type Of Library For The New European Space For Education: Upc’S Learning And Research Resources Centre, Roser Gomez, Marta Lopez, Anna Rovira

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Virtual Organization In Libraries: Necessity Or Luxury Of The Future?, Anthi Katsirikou

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Metu Library: A Pilot Institution In The Performance-Based Budgeting Project, Emre Hasan Akbayrak, Hale Yumsak

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Library Services For Bilgi E-Mba Students, Sami Cukadar

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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