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Permanent Draft Genome Sequences For Two Variants Of Frankia Sp. Strain Cpi1, The First Frankia Strain Isolated From Root Nodules Of Comptonia Peregrina, Rediet Oshone, Sheldon G. Hurst Iv, Feseha Abebe-Akele, Stephen Simpson, Krystalynne Morris, W. Kelley Thomas, Louis S. Tisa

Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences

Frankia stains CpI1-S and CpI1-P are members of Frankia lineage Ia that are able to reinfect plants of the Betulaceae and Myricaceae families. Here, we report two 7.6-Mbp draft genome sequences with 6,396 and 6,373 candidate protein-coding genes for CpI1-S and CpI1-P, respectively.

Permanent Draft Genome Sequences For Two Variants Of Frankia Sp. Strain Cpi1, The First Frankia Strain Isolated From Root Nodules Of Comptonia Peregrina, Rediet Oshone, Sheldon G. Hurst Iv, Feseha Abebe-Akele, Stephen D. Simpson, Krystalynne Morris, William Kelley Thomas, Louis S. Tisa

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

Frankia stains CpI1-S and CpI1-P are members of Frankia lineage Ia that are able to reinfect plants of the Betulaceae and Myricaceae families. Here, we report two 7.6-Mbp draft genome sequences with 6,396 and 6,373 candidate protein-coding genes for CpI1-S and CpI1-P, respectively.

Genetic Variation Within And Among Asexual Populations Of Porphyra Umbilicalis Kützing (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) In The Gulf Of Maine, Usa, Renee L. Eriksen, Lindsay A. Green, Anita S. Klein

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

The intertidal marine red alga Porphyra umbilicalis reproduces asexually in the Northwest Atlantic. We looked for population substructure among typical open-coastal and atypical estuarine habitats in seven asexual populations of P. umbilicalis from Maine to New Hampshire using eight expressed sequence tag-simple sequence repeats (EST-SSR) or microsatellite loci. Six genotypes were identified, four of which may represent recombinant genotypes from a recombination event that took place locally, or that took place prior to introduction to the Northwest Atlantic. Genotypic diversity was lowest in a population from Wiscasset, Maine, which inhabits an atypical habitat high in the intertidal zone of a …

Gbs-Snp-Crop: A Reference-Optional Pipeline For Snp Discovery And Plant Germplasm Characterization Using Variable Length, Paired-End Genotyping-By-Sequencing Data, Arthur Tavares De Oliveira Melo, Radhika Bartaula, Iago L. Hale

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

Background: With its simple library preparation and robust approach to genome reduction, genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) is a flexible and cost-effective strategy for SNP discovery and genotyping, provided an appropriate reference genome is available. For resource-limited curation, research, and breeding programs of underutilized plant genetic resources, however, even low-depth references may not be within reach, despite declining sequencing costs. Such programs would find value in an open-source bioinformatics pipeline that can maximize GBS data usage and perform high-density SNP genotyping in the absence of a reference.

Results: The GBS SNP-Calling Reference Optional Pipeline (GBS-SNP-CROP) developed and presented here adopts a clustering strategy …

Unh Announces New Dean Of Its Manchester Campus, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Dimond Welcomes New Faculty Librarians, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Influence Of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestation On The Physiological And Reflectance Characteristics Of Eastern Hemlock, Justin Patrick Williams, Ryan P. Hanavan, Barrett N. Rock, Subhash C. Minocha, Ernst Linder

Faculty Publications

The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) (Adelges tsugae Annand) is an invasive insect in the eastern United States. Since its initial detection in Richmond, Virginia, in 1951, HWA has spread to half of the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.) natural range. Detection of early infestation symptoms via remote sensing requires the knowledge of the changes in reflectance resulting from physiological changes in the host as inflicted by the insect and the selection of equipment with the appropriate sensor characteristics. Laboratory-based reflectance measurements of infested and non-infested hemlock foliage collected from four sites in southern New Hampshire and Maine occurred biweekly …

The Skunkwork Of Ecological Engagement, John Ackerman, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Bridie Mcgreavy, Leah Sprain

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Ecological engagement is about attending to the possibilities of dwelling in a place; skunkwork is a way of orienting this dwelling. Skunkwork refers to creative, self-coordinated, collective work in informal spaces of learning and reminds us that ecologically attuned work in the world can promote unexpected, yet collectively desired, change. In this essay, we describe how we used skunkwork to orient our ecological engagement in two workshops on ‘community resilience.’ In both workshops, Boulder Creek became our commonplace, with its history of flooding and abatements as well as one city’s planning and management of crisis and sustainability. We draw from …

2015 Annual Reports For The Town Of Bennington, New Hampshire., Bennington Town Representatives

Bennington, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

21.0.D Materials Readings Biological Adaptations To Temperature, Christopher F. Bauer

Day 21 Apr 09 Intern: Animal biological adaptations to thermal environment

WELCOME to WINDOWS on the INQUIRY CLASSROOM!

You have landed on a piece of a National Science Foundation Project (DUE 1245730) directed by Professor Chris Bauer, Chemistry Department, University of New Hampshire. This is one part of a completely documented inquiry-based university science course called “Fire & Ice” which explores the nature of heat and temperature. There are multiple video perspectives and commentary from instructors and students, and documents of all course materials (agenda, instructions, student work). It’s too complicated to explain here. Take a look at the user orientation document at this link.

New Hampshire University Research And Industry Plan: A Roadmap For Collaboration And Innovation, Teconomy Partners, Keen Point Consulting

New Hampshire EPSCoR

This University Research and Industry plan for New Hampshire is focused on accelerating innovation-led development in the state by partnering academia’s strengths with the state’s substantial base of existing and emerging advanced industries. These advanced industries are defined by their deep investment and connections to research and development and the high-quality jobs they generate across production, new product development and administrative positions involving skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Sullivan County, New Hampshire Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2016., Sullivan County Representatives

Sullivan County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

Privacy And Accountability In Black-Box Medicine, Roger Allan Ford, W. Nicholson Price Ii

Law Faculty Scholarship

Black-box medicine—the use of big data and sophisticated machine learning techniques for health-care applications—could be the future of personalized medicine. Black-box medicine promises to make it easier to diagnose rare diseases and conditions, identify the most promising treatments, and allocate scarce resources among different patients. But to succeed, it must overcome two separate, but related, problems: patient privacy and algorithmic accountability. Privacy is a problem because researchers need access to huge amounts of patient health information to generate useful medical predictions. And accountability is a problem because black-box algorithms must be verified by outsiders to ensure they are accurate and …

Rockingham County, State Of New Hampshire, 2015 Annual Report Year Ending December 31, 2015., Rockingham County Representatives

Rockingham County, NH Annual Reports

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City Of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Annual Comprehensive Financial Report For The Year Ended June 30, 2016., Portsmouth Town Representatives

Portsmouth, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

The Greening Of Faith: God, The Environment, And The Good Life (20th Anniversary Edition), John E. Carroll, Paul Brockelman, Mary Westfall

University of New Hampshire Press: Open Access Books

The recent release of Pope Francis’s much-discussed encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, has reinforced environmental issues as also moral and spiritual issues. This anthology, twenty years ahead of the encyclical but very much in line with its agenda, offers essays by fifteen philosophers, theologians, and environmentalists who argue for a response to ecology that recognizes the tools of science but includes a more spiritual approach—one with a more humanistic, holistic view based on inherent reverence toward the natural world. Writers whose orientations range from Buddhism to evangelical Christianity to Catholicism to Native American …

The Town Of Meredith, New Hampshire 2015 Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2015., Meredith Town Representatives

Meredith, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Course Catalog, 2016-2017, University Of New Hampshire

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

Essays In The Economics Of Long-Term Care Utilization, Jonathan Robert Hurdelbrink

Doctoral Dissertations

This research examines three factors – macroeconomic conditions, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, and inter-vivos transfers – that influence both the availability of long-term care services and the use of these services. The first essay explores how changes in the macroeconomy, specifically the 2007-2009 “Great Recession,” affect the utilization of paid and unpaid long-term care services. It is theoretically unclear how long-term care use should be affected by such downturns, as an individual’s health status, wealth, insurance coverage and access to care are all likely to change during a significant downturn such as the “Great Recession.” Using data from …

The Swift Water Place: Water Quality, Fish Ecology, And Hydropower In The Merrimack River Since The Time Of Thoreau, Timothy Melia

Doctoral Dissertations

The Merrimack River and its landscape reflect the priorities that have shaped the stream for two centuries. When Henry David Thoreau and his brother John put their dory into the Merrimack in September of 1839, they were paddling into a landscape that was shifting towards water-powered industries and mill cities. The legal transformation of water and the completion of the Great Stone Dam at Lawrence in 1847 spelled the end of the anadromous fish runs that had populated the Merrimack for centuries. Salmon restoration proceeded for three decades after the Civil War until fish passage failed. Later, water filtration plants …

"Smoking-Gun" Observables Of Magnetic Reconnection: Spatiotemporal Evolution Of Electron Characteristics Throughout The Diffusion Region, Jason Shuster

Doctoral Dissertations

How does magnetic reconnection happen in a collisionless plasma? Knowledge of electron-scale dynamics is necessary to answer this outstanding question of plasma physics. Based on fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of symmetric reconnection, the spatiotemporal evolution of velocity distribution functions in and around the electron diffusion region (EDR) elucidates how electrons are accelerated and heated by the cooperating reconnection electric and normal magnetic fields. The discrete, triangular structures characteristic of EDR distributions rotate and gyrotropize in velocity space as electrons remagnetize, forming multicomponent arc and ring structures. Further downstream, exhaust electrons are found to exhibit highly structured, time-dependent anisotropies that …

Computationally Efficient Specifications Of Spatial Point Process Models And Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Models: Combining Remote Sensing Drivers With Geospatial Disease Case Data To Enhance Geographic Epidemiology, Beth Louise Ziniti

Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation, the flexibility of Bayesian hierarchical models specified using a latent Gaussian Markov Random Field (GMRF) are evaluated for use in analyzing large complex spatial and spatio-temporal data with the goal of contributing to an interdisciplinary effort of developing an eco-epidemiological model that quantifies the relationship between remotely sensed water quality and the incidence of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) over large areas such as Northern New England (NNE).

In particular, a Log-Gaussian Cox Process (LGCP) specified by the logarithm of a GMRF on a regular lattice is shown to allow for simultaneous estimation of …

Channeled Whelk (Busycotypus Canaliculatus) Ecology In Relation To The Fishery In Vineyard And Nantucket Sounds, Massachusetts, Shelley Ann Edmundson

Doctoral Dissertations

Channeled whelks (Busycotypus canaliculatus) are predatory marine gastropods that support lucrative commercial fisheries along the east coast of the United States, with areas around Massachusetts supplying the largest landings. In the absence of a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of channeled whelk biology, it is unclear how to sustainably manage their fisheries. Within this dissertation, various aspects of whelk ecology were investigated to determine how to protect this species, while effectively managing the local fishery.

Early life history experiments revealed channeled whelk egg strings may incubate for 8 to 9 months in MA water temperatures. Incubation period decreased with increasing …

Using The Plasma Free Amino Acid Dose Response Method To Determine Metabolizable Protein Concentrations Of Lysine And Methionine In Rumen Protected Supplements, Nancy Lee Whitehouse

Doctoral Dissertations

Balancing diets for lysine (Lys) and methionine (Met) in dairy rations is becoming a regular practice in today’s industry. In order to be able to use rumen-protected AA (RPAA) in those diets a method to assess the efficacy and bioavailability needs to be proposed. The objective of the following studies was to propose the acceptance of the plasma free AA dose-response technique as a standardized methodology for evaluating RPAA in lactating dairy cows. Thirteen dose-response Latin square studies using ruminally-cannulated multiparous Holstein cows were conducted. Regression analysis of the slopes against the difference between plasma Lys concentration of basal and …

University Of New Hampshire Graduate Course Catalog, 2016-2017, University Of New Hampshire

Graduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

Milton, New Hampshire 2015 Annual Report., Milton Town Representatives

Milton, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Officers Within The Town Of Holderness, New Hampshire, Year Ending December 31, 2015., Holderness Town Representatives

Holderness, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Town Of Lisbon, New Hampshire Year Ending December 31, 2015., Lisbon Town Representatives

Lisbon, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

The Relationship Between Sexology And The Lesbian Identity In Early 20th-Century Britain, Shaina Paige Maciejewski

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

Food System Education Among High School Students, Yussra Mt Ebrahim

Honors Theses and Capstones

As the American public school system is currently designed, the average student is likely to graduate high school without ever having received any formal instruction regarding the food system in which he or she takes part as a consumer. Such instruction was not necessary up until the current era of separation between consumers and food production. Through this research project, I sought to demonstrate the effectiveness of a single introductory lesson on the issues confronting the modern American food system, which I taught to two high school biology classrooms. A pre-survey was taken by the high school biology students online …