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Ec59 Quick Breads, May Stanek

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Campaign Circular 59 This circular is about quick breads. It includes information on types and proportions of quick breads as well as recipes.

Characterization Of Extraction Methods To Recover Phenolic Rich Extracts From Pinto Beans That Exert High Antioxidative Activities Using Response Surface Approach, Mohammed Aldawsari

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The pinto bean has been linked to the prevention of multiple diseases due in large part to the presence of phenolic antioxidants, which are higher in beans than in many fruits and vegetables. These components deliver health properties beyond basic nutritional characteristics by scavenging free oxygen radicals. However, these benefits are most likely due to the ability of these chemically diverse phenols to impart greater protective properties as additives or synergists acting in combination. However, optimal parameters to isolate these compounds (in terms of ratios and types) from a given natural source are not known. Without this knowledge, understanding the …

Characterization Of Extraction Methods To Recover Phenolic-Rich Antioxidants From Blue Green Algae (Spirulina) Using Response Surface Approaches, Ahmad Salamatullah

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Blue green algae (spirulina) is a dietary system that is widely consumed as a whole food or as a supplement in many Asian countries where populations are mostly unaffected by many of the diseases currently afflicting western societies, such as cancer, heart disease and arthiritis. Indeed, spirulina is a rich source of antioxidants with the phenolic compounds playing a significant role. As components of a complex dietary system, phenolic compounds can act alone or through synergistic mechanisms to impart a greater biologic effect than can be elicited by a sum of the individual parts. Therefore, an understanding of the antioxidative …

Model Development For The Prediction Of Intake And Carcass Measures To Be Used As Economic Marketing Determinants For Calf-Fed Steers, Mallorie F. Wilken

Department of Animal Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Accurate prediction of intake and carcass characteristics can assist in projecting input costs and potential premiums when cattle are sold at optimum finishing so net profit/loss can be anticipated. Currently published DMI prediction equations and dietary NE values are based off of data collected over 50 years ago and have been shown to inaccurately predict intake compared to a prediction equation based of off performance data. Calculating dietary NE values from performance data increased precision and accuracy of prediction. Additionally, prediction accuracy was increased for diets containing ethanol byproducts. Since ethanol byproducts have been shown to have 110 to 140% …

Ec9969 Foods Rich In Minerals And Vitamins For Nebraskans

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 9969 This circular is about foods that are rich in minerals and vitamins for Nebraskans and the best known functions for each vitamin.

Psycap And The Impact On The Development Of Intercultural Sensitivity Of Healthcare Educators: A Mixed Methods Study, Helen A. S. Fagan

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This purpose of this explanatory sequential mixed methods study was to examine the intercultural sensitivity development process of faculty and staff at a health sciences college in the Midwest. In the quantitative phase, this study investigated changes in intercultural sensitivity over a three year period, along with the relationship between developmental level of intercultural sensitivity (as measured by Intercultural Development Inventory [IDI] [Hammer, Bennett, & Wiseman, 2003]) of participants and Psychological Capital (PsyCap, a multidimensional construct consisting of hope, efficacy, resiliency, and optimism [Luthans, Youssef, & Avolio, 2007]). In the qualitative phase (Case Study) data collection and analysis further explored …

From Histone Modification To Gene Repression: Epigenetic Regulation By Holocarboxylase Synthetase-Containing Repression Complex And Fad-Dependent Lysine Specific Demethylase, Dandan Liu

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Histones undergo different types of post-translational modifications that have been linked to a variety of biological processes and disease states. Histone acetylation and methylation are well characterized modifications with respect to regulation of chromatin structure and transcription. Histone acetylation, regulated by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs), is linked with gene activation. Here we introduce a novel paradigm suggesting that holocarboxylase synthetase (HLCS), the sole biotin protein ligase in the human genome, recruits nuclear receptor corepressor (N-CoR) and HDAC1 to chromatin, thereby contributing toward the removal of lysine (K)-9 acetylated histone H3 (H3K9ac) gene activation marks and the repression …

Ec2026 Organization Handbook, John Orr

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

E.C. 2026. This is an organization handbook for Nebraska Rural Youth Programs. It includes extension work, organizational steps, community service, advisors and planning.

Ec2003 Program Planning Handbook For Rural Youth Groups, T. H. Alexander

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 2003 This circular shows how to plan successful programs for rural youth groups.

Nebline, April 2014

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Backyard Farmer -- Six Decades of Growing Gardeners and Protecting the Environment

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Home & Family Living

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Special Pullout Section: Weed Awareness

Uncertainties In Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions From U.S. Beef Cattle, Quentin M. Dudley, Adam Liska, Andrea K. Watson, Galen E. Erickson

Adam Liska Papers

Beef cattle feedlots are estimated to contribute 26% of U.S. agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and future climate change policy could target reducing these emissions. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of GHG emissions from U.S. grain-fed beef cattle was conducted based on industry statistics and previous studies to identify the main sources of uncertainty in these estimations. Uncertainty associated with GHG emissions from indirect land use change, pasture soil emissions (e.g. soil carbon sequestration), enteric fermentation from cattle on pasture, and methane emissions from feedlot manure, respectively, contributed the most variability to life cycle GHG emissions from beef production. Feeding of …

Program And Proceedings: Nebraska Academy Of Sciences 1880–2014, 134th Anniversary Year, One Hundred-Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, April 11, 2014

Nebraska Academy of Sciences: Programs and Proceedings

Program

Aeronautics and Space Science

Collegiate Academy: Biology

Chemistry and Physics

Collegiate Academy: Chemistry and Physics

Applied Science and Technology

Biological and Medical Sciences

Aeronautics and Space Science, Poster Session

Anthropology

Maiben Memorial Lecture: "Education, Careers and Opportunities in Engineering and Metallurgy in Nebraska," Terry Rasmussen, Nucor Steel, Norfolk, Nebraska

Teaching of Science and Mathematics

Anthropology

Earth Science

Nebraska Chapter Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter Issue #48 Spring 2014

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters

President’s Message

Welcome New Members:
April Algaier .... Horticulture
Ashley Bigge .. Veterinary Science
Abigail Burrows . Food Science & Technology
Jacob Drozda ... Fisheries & Wildlife
Emily Ibach ...Ag Economics
Tessa Klein .... Animal Science
Dylan Wallace Maag . Fisheries & Wildlife
Jordan Moline .. Fisheries & Wildlife
Kathryn O’Brien .... Insect Science
Katie Ochsner .. Animal Science
Rachael Schulte ... Veterinary Science
Allison Siekman .... Agronomy
Courtney Spilker .. Ag Education / Agronomy
Debra Wray .... Agribusiness
Juthamas Fakthongphan .. Agronomy
Jenny S. Freed .... Entomology
Samantha J. McConaughy ... Agronomy
David S. Wangila .... Entomology
David E. …

Wpa News 93 (2014), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (Spring 2014), number 93

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Water Current, Volume 46, No. 2, Spring 2014

Water Current Newsletter

Planning Nearly Complete on July Water And Natural Resources Tour

Brozović Joining Daugherty Institute as Director of Policy

Meet the Faculty

From the Director: Lab Review, Research Collaborations, Upcoming Events

Prof, Alumnus Team To Fruther Evaporation Research

NSF Award Aids Li's Antibiotic Resistance Research

Tadesse leads $1.6M NASA project to predict drought, flood in Africa

USGS Technical Announcement: Assessing Nutrient Inputs to the Naion's Estuaries

Harnessing the Data Revolution: Ensuring Water and Food Security From Field to Global Scales

Ray Publishes Low Cost Emergency Water Purification Technologies

North Central Region Water Network

Water Current Focus on the NU Water Sciences …

The Role Of Sirtuin 1 And Ceramide In T10C12 Conjugated Linoleic Acid Induced Delipidation In 3t3-L1 Adipocytes, Wei Wang

Department of Animal Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Project 1: Trans-10, cis-12 conjugated linoleic acid (t10c12 CLA) reduces triglyceride (TG) levels in adipocytes through multiple pathways, with AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) generally facilitating, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) generally opposing these reductions. Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1), a histone/protein deacetylase that affects energy homeostasis, often functions coordinately with AMPK, and is capable of binding to PPARγ, thereby inhibiting its activity. This study investigated the role of SIRT1 in the response of 3T3-L1 adipocytes to t10c12 CLA by testing the following hypotheses: 1) SIRT1 is functionally required for robust TG reduction; …

Debaryomyces Hansenii: A Foodborne Yeast That Produces Anti- Candida Killer Toxin, Nabaraj Banjara

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Candida yeasts are commensal members of the gastrointestinal, mucosal, oral and vaginal microbiota. Candida albicans and C. tropicalis can be found as a part of the normal human commensal flora, especially in all sections of the gastrointestinal tract. However, when the host defense system and microbiota are disturbed, Candida can become pathogenic and cause severe infection or candidiasis. Antifungal drugs used to treat candidiasis have been shown to result in treatment failures due to drug toxicity and/or development of resistance during long term antifungal therapy and, in recent years, the incidence of Candida infections has increased dramatically due to the …

Health Care Providers’ Knowledge, Perceptions, And Use Of Probiotics And Prebiotics, Laura Oliver, Heather Rasmussen, Mary B. Gregoire, Yimin Chen

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Health care providers (N = 256) completed an online questionnaire to assess their knowledge, perceptions, and use of probiotics and prebiotics. Participants were familiar with probiotics (88%) but not with prebiotics (22%). Probiotics (62%) and prebiotics (55%) were perceived as being “somewhat” to “quite a bit” beneficial to health (μ = 3.6 ± 1.0 and 3.6 ± 1.2, respectively). Health care providers were “quite a bit” to “very much” willing to recommend probiotics (77%) and prebiotics (83%) if substantiated with literature. Despite this belief, they did not recommend probiotics (45%) or prebiotics (26%) to patients or read current research …

Costs Of Female Mating Behavior In The Variable Field Cricket, Gryllus Lineaticeps, Cassandra M. Martin

School of Biological Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Female animals may risk predation by associating with males that have conspicuous mate attraction traits. The mate attraction song of male field crickets also attracts lethal parasitoid flies. Female crickets, which do not sing, may risk parasitism when associating with singing males. If parasitism risk is sufficiently high, it may affect the evolution of female mating behaviors. In this dissertation, I explore the interaction between the female variable field cricket, Gryllus lineaticeps, and the parasitoid fly, Ormia ochracea. To begin, I investigated whether female parasitism risk resulted from being near singing males. I found that females can become …

Stress Responses And Energy Storage In Drosophila Melanogaster Selected For Resistance To A Gram-Positive Bacillus Cereus Spores, Zhen Hu

School of Biological Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A survival response study was carried out by using D. melanogaster and the opportunistic pathogen B. cereus as the agent of selection. The spores of B. cereus, a gram-positive bacteria that can cause the human pathogen disease, were applied in our artificial laboratory selection. Selected lines were treated with B. cereus spores. Wound control lines were punctured with a needle dipped into sterile H₂O. Control lines did not apply any treatment. Three different environmental treatments were used within each line type (autoclaved spores of B.cereus, sterile H₂O and no treatment). The autoclaved spores were …

A Novel Multivalent, Single-Domain Antibody Targeting Tcda And Tcdb Prevents Fulminant Clostridium Difficile Infection In Mice, Zhiyong Yang, Diane Schmidt, Weilong Liu, Shan Li, Lianfa Shi, Jinliang Sheng, Kevin Chen, Hua Yu, Jacqueline M. Tremblay, Xinhua Chen, Kurt H. Piepenbrink, Eric J. Sundberg, Ciaran P. Kelly, Guang Bai, Charles B. Shoemaker, Hanping Feng

Food for Health: Publications

The incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and associated mortality have increased rapidly worldwide in recent years. Therefore, it is critical to develop new therapies for CDI. In this study, we generated a novel, potently neutralizing, tetravalent, and bispecific antibody composed of 2 heavy-chain-only V_H (V_HH) binding domains against both TcdA and TcdB (designated “ABA”) that reverses fulminant CDI in mice infected with an epidemic 027 strain after a single injection of the antibody. We demonstrated that ABA bound to both toxins simultaneously and displayed a significantly enhanced neutralizing activity both in vitro and in vivo. Additionally, …

Cytological And Transcriptional Dynamics Analysis Of Host Plant Revealed Stage-Specific Biological Processes Related To Compatible Rice-Ustilaginoidea Virens Interaction, Jinquan Chao, Jie Jin, Dong Wang, Ran Han, Renshan Zhu, Yingguo Zhu, Shaoqing Li

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

Rice false smut, a fungal disease caused by Ustilaginoidea virens is becoming a severe detriment to rice production worldwide. However, little is known about the molecular response of rice to attacks by the smut pathogen. In this article, we define the initial infection process as having three stages: initial colonization on the pistil (stage 1, S1), amplification on the anther (stage 2, S2) and sporulation in the anther chambers (stage 3, S3). Based on the transcriptome of rice hosts in response to U. virens in two separate years, we identified 126, 204, and 580 specific regulated genes in their respective …

Ec1497 Revised With No Date Managing The Pullet Flock, Kendrick A. Holleman

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1497 Revised with no date is about managing the pullet flock.

Molecular Evolution Of Glycoside Hydrolase Genes In The Western Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica Virgifera Virgifera), Seong-Il Eyun, Haichuan Wang, Yannick Pauchet, Richard H. Ffrench-Constant, Andrew K. Benson, Arnubio Valencia-Jimenez, Etsuko N. Moriyama, Blair Siegfried

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Cellulose is an important nutritional resource for a number of insect herbivores. Digestion of cellulose and other polysaccharides in plant-based diets requires several types of enzymes including a number of glycoside hydrolase (GH) families. In a previous study, we showed that a single GH45 gene is present in the midgut tissue of the western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). However, the presence of multiple enzymes was also suggested by the lack of a significant biological response when the expression of the gene was silenced by RNA interference. In order to clarify the repertoire of cellulose-degrading enzymes and related …

Intravenous Ghrelin Administration Increases Alcohol Craving In Alcohol-Dependent Heavy Drinkers: A Preliminary Investigation, Lorenzo Leggio, William H. Zywiak, Samuel R. Fricchione, Steven M. Edwards, Suzanne M. De La Monte, Robert M. Swift, George A. Kenna

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Background: There is a need to identify novel pharmacologic targets to treat alcoholism. Animal and human studies suggest a role for ghrelin in the neurobiology of alcohol dependence and craving. Here, we were the first to test the hypothesis that intravenous administration of exogenous ghrelin acutely increases alcohol craving.

Methods: This was a double-blind, placebo-controlled human laboratory proof-of-concept study. Nontreatment-seeking, alcoholdependent, heavy-drinking individuals were randomized to receive intravenous ghrelin 1 mcg/kg, 3 mcg/kg or 0 mcg/kg (placebo), followed by a cue-reactivity procedure, during which participants were exposed to neutral (juice) and alcohol cues. The primary outcome variable was the increase …

Ec1436 Revised With No Date, John Skinner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1436nd is the third revision of E.C. 1436, it includes the same information along with a more in depth description about the cannibalism in poultry and includes more pictures and colorful graphics.

Nebline, March 2014

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Make a Difference -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Home & Family Living

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Ec1024 L.B. 295 Gives The Green Light

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1024 provides information on what the L.B. 298 is and what it allows Nebraska counties to do.

Ec1031 Let's Improve Our Dental Health Practices

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1031 answers common questions about how to improve your dental health.

Ec1016 How To Build And Maintain Good Teeth

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular - 1016, How To Build And Maintain Good Teeth, describes methods and advice for good dental health. Includes instructive illustration. This circular has no date.