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Science Courts, Evidentiary Procedures And Mixed Science-Policy Decisions, Carl F. Cranor

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

This paper analyzes the potential for science courts to address the social need to regulate human carcinogens and concludes that, on balance, it is not high. From this vantage point, Professor Cranor suggests desiderata for application in other areas where science courts might be used.

Procedural Choices In Regulatory Science, Sheila Jasanoff

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

This paper compares four approaches to using science in regulatory decision making - one very similar to the Science Court proposal. Professor Jasanoff argues generally that that proposal would be less useful than procedures more sensitive to the distinctive characteristics of regulatory science.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 83, No. 30 (Feb. 9, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 83, No. 29 (Feb. 5, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 83, No. 28 (Feb. 2, 1993), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Selectmen, Treasurer, And All Other Officers And Committees For The Town Of Newton, New Hampshire Financial Year Ending December 31, 1992., Newton Town Representatives

Newton, NH Annual Reports

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

Unpalatable Pleasures: Tolstoy, Food, And Sex, Ronald D. Leblanc

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

No abstract provided.

Annual Reports Of The Town Officers Of Stoddard, N.H. For The Year Ending December 31, 1992., Stoddard Town Representatives

Stoddard, NH Annual Reports

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

Systematic Development Of Trans-Theoretically Based Behavioral Risk Management Programs, Galen E. Cole, David R. Holtgrave, Nilka M. Rios

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The authors explain the development and use of a behavioral Risk management strategy. It is designed for developing interventions to change behaviors, e.g., to lower the Risk of AIDS. The advantage of their strategy is said to be its structure combined with flexibility. Intervenors are not restricted to a single model in determining factors most relevant to changing Risky behavior.

Annual Report Of The Town Of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 1992., Wolfeboro Town Representatives

Wolfeboro, NH Annual Reports

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

Plantsman, Dec 1992/Jan 1993, New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association

Plantsman

A newsletter of the New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association

Faculty Excellence, University Of New Hampshire

Faculty Excellence Awards

Each year, the University of New Hampshire selects a small number of its outstanding faculty for special recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service. Awards for Excellence in Teaching are given in each college and school, and university-wide awards recognize public service, research, teaching and engagement. This booklet details the year's award winners' accomplishments in short profiles with photographs and text.

Two Hundredth Fiftieth Annual Town Meeting Held At Canterbury, New Hampshire. Annual Reports For The Year Ending December 31, 1992., Canterbury Town Representatives

Canterbury, NH Annual Reports

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

Insertion Sequence Elements In Yersinia: Nucleotide Sequence Of Is100 Of Yersinia Pestis, Stephen Dale Torosian

Doctoral Dissertations

The World Health Organization classified (Williams, 1983) Y. pestis as Y. pseudotuberculosis subsp. pestis on the basis of DNA homology, yet the two organisms cause markedly different disease. Portnoy and Falkow (1981) reported IS100 to influence the virulence of Y. pestis. IS100 was shown to be found in Y. pestis but not Y. pseudotuberculosis.

IS100 from Y. pestis was sequenced and shown by sequence analysis to fulfill the requirements of being an IS element. pIS1C, an 821 bp fragment of IS100 was transferred to Y. pseudotuberculosis Trp-Ca-, resulting in the ability of the cells to ferment rhamnose and delayed production …

Strawberry Malformation And The Tarnished Plant Bug, David Thomas Handley

Doctoral Dissertations

Experiments were designed to study the malformation of strawberries, Fragaria x ananassa (Duchesne) caused by the tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois). In greenhouse experiments, duration of blossom exposure to tarnished plant bug affected the type of malformation observed. Exposure at anthesis for 48 hours was most likely to cause apical seediness, the malformation associated with tarnished plant bug. The number of nonviable achenes per fruit increased with longer feeding durations. Malformation was also affected by blossom stage. Prebloom feeding caused blossom death. Feeding at petal fall or achene separation resulted in malformations, including apical seediness. Feeding at …

Light Detection System In Higher Plant Chloroplasts: Pigment Mediated Or Overall Photon Flux Density Related, Soumitra Ghoshroy

Doctoral Dissertations

Plants adapt to short term changes in irradiance and quality of the light environment by modulating the structure of the thylakoid membranes to make the best use of the available light energy. Shade-acclimated chloroplasts develop more thylakoid surface area as compared to those growing in full sunlight. Conversion of sun-type chloroplasts to shade-types and vice versa on the basis of total thylakoid membrane surface area can occur quickly. However, the response mechanism of chloroplasts to changes in light levels is yet to be understood. This short term light detection mechanism may be mediated by a pigment system other than photosynthetic …

Regulation Of The Yeast Transcriptional Activator Adr1, W James Cook

Doctoral Dissertations

Glucose repression of the ADH2 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is mediated by the abundance and activity of the transcriptional activator ADR1. The focus of this dissertation is to characterize the mechanisms by which glucose controls the ability of ADR1 to activate ADH2 transcription.

Glucose results in a two-fold decrease in the steady state levels of ADR1 mRNA. This glucose-dependent reduction in steady state ADR1 mRNA was shown to be due to an increased rate of ADR1 mRNA degradation. The unusually long, 510 nucleotide 5$\sp\prime$ untranslated region of the ADR1 mRNA appeared to mediate this glucose-dependent ADR1 mRNA decay.

To better …

A Multi-Scale Analysis Of The Population Ecology Of A Temperate Reef Fish, Phillip S. Levin

Doctoral Dissertations

Using field experiments and descriptive analyses this study investigated the significance of larval settlement and post-settlement processes to populations of cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus. At small spatial scales there was no relationship between the density of new recruits and the percent cover of kelp, foliose algae and branching algae. Crustaceans and mussels were preferred found items of juvenile cunner, and significantly greater numbers of isopods, amphipods and newly settled mussels were present in patches where fish were present than in randomly selected patches.

Experimental and correlative analyses demonstrated that variation in recruitment could not be explained by the presence of conspecifics. …

An Analysis Of North Sea Oil Development And Scottish Island Youth: Postmaterialism As An Identifiable And Measurable Dimension, John Alan Anderson

Doctoral Dissertations

This study examines opinions and attitudes of high school age youth living in the Shetland and Orkney islands and explores aspects of rapid growth associated with North Sea oil development. Only a minimal amount of research regarding post-impacts and rapid growth appears in the literature. Studies that do exist lack in theory and methodological consistency. This study draws ideas from mainstream sociology, Social Impact Assessment (SIA), Quality of Life (QoL) and Inglehart's materialism/postmaterialism to develop a working theory of social values and rapid growth. This study further reviews and applies six methodological considerations useable in future SIA, QoL, or boomtown …

Characterization Of Activation And Inhibitory Regions In The Adr1 Transcriptional Regulator, Dan Chase

Doctoral Dissertations

The regulation of the ADH2 gene from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is carbon source-dependent. Expression of ADH2 requires the activity of the transcriptional activator ADR1. This dissertation addresses three separate aspects of the regulation of ADR1 activity.

We have identified eleven additional ADR1$\sp{c}$ mutations which allow ADH2 to partially escape glucose repression. These eleven new mutations cluster to one region of the ADR1 peptide between amino acids 227 and 239, previously identified by four other ADR1$\sp{c}$ mutations. These are the only mutations in ADR1 which have been isolated by virtue of their ability to activate ADH2 transcription under repressed conditions. …

Modeling Soil Climate Controls On The Exchange Of Trace Gases Between The Terrestrial Biosphere And The Atmosphere, Stephen Edward Frolking

Doctoral Dissertations

Soil temperature and moisture profiles (soil climate) have a strong influence on the rate of trace gas exchange between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere through the controls exerted on microbial processes and the physical exchange of gases.

Principal controls of biological denitrification in mineral soils are the availability of carbon and nitrogen substrates and the soil anaerobic status. A process-oriented model of decomposition and denitrification in soils (DNDC) was modified to have a more detailed portrayal of these controls. In particular, a diffusive soil gas phase was added, along with a method for determining anaerobic and aerobic fractional volume …

The Characterization Of The Orb Web Of Argiope Aurantia (Araneae: Araneidae) With Emphasis On The Major Ampullate Silk, Cathy Rose Tugmon

Doctoral Dissertations

The orb web of Argiope aurantia was partitioned into a water-soluble and insoluble fraction. The water-soluble fraction was composed of low molecular weight (LMW) molecules ($<$5 kDa) and middle molecular weight (MMW) molecules (14.3 kDa-29 kDa). Choline was one of the principal components of the LMW molecules. This study demonstrated that spiders, like many insects, are unable to synthesize choline from glucose. Attempts to sequence one of the purified MMW proteins were unsuccessful due to the blockage of the N-terminus.

The major emphasis of this research centered on the major ampullate silk of Argiope aurantia. Attempts were made to characterize this silk, both by direct amino acid sequencing and inference from the sequence of a cDNA library clone for one of the major ampullate silk proteins.

To isolate the progenitive silk from the lumen of the major ampullate gland, it was first necessary to inhibit the spider proteases which are known to cleave silk. …

Effects Of Hematopoietic Neoplasia On Physiological Processes In The Soft-Shell Clam, Mya Arenaria (Linne), Mary-Susan Potts

Doctoral Dissertations

Mya arenaria (L.) is susceptible to the disease, hematopoietic neoplasia (Hn), in which atypical cells invade the blood and connective tissue of the clam's organs. In this study impacts of Hn on the reproductive and excretory systems were examined in clams collected from New Bedford Harbor and Little Buttermilk Bay, Buzzards Bay, MA.

The relationships between Hn seasonality and reproduction were evaluated from fresh blood samples and histological analysis of gonads. Both clam populations had biannual reproductive cycles with spawnings in the spring and fall. Hn prevalence exhibited some seasonality with maxima in the fall and late winter-early spring. Reproductive …

Toward An Understanding Of The Cognitive Etiology Of Depressive Reactions To Life Stressors: An Evaluation Of The Hopelessness Theory Of Depression, Nancy Lynne Asdigian

Doctoral Dissertations

Abramson, Metalsky, and Alloy's (1989) theory of hopelessness depression is the most recent model of depression to emerge from the learned helplessness tradition (Seligman, 1975). Hopelessness theory describes an etiological pathway by which a unique subtype of depression--hopelessness depression--is believed to emerge.

The most proximal cause of hopelessness depression is the formation of a hopelessness expectancy. Experiencing a significant life stressor and either making stable and global causal attributions, anticipating adverse consequences, or inferring derogatory self-attributes is thought to contribute to hopelessness. In turn, generalized tendencies to make stable and global causal attributions, expect negative consequences, or perceive personal deficiencies …

Characterization And Inheritance Of The Fused Vein Trait In Squash (Cucurbita Pepo L), Robert Bruce Carle

Doctoral Dissertations

This investigation characterized and determined the inheritance of the fused vein trait in Cucurbita pepo L. with the purpose of evaluating its use as a rouging marker for hull-less seeded cultivars.

The trait is characterized by the partial fusion of the primary leaf veins. There is a reduction in the intraveinal leaf blade and the dorsal leaf surface appears wrinkled. Depending on genetic background, fusion begins with the fourth to tenth leaf stage and continues throughout vegetative growth. The extent of fusion also varies from slight (1-5 cm) to pronounced (15-20 cm). Anatomically, fusion results from an interruption of vein …

Genetic And Molecular Analyses Of Host Symbiotic Genes And An In Vitro Regeneration System For Cicer Arietinum L, Vijayashri Ganapathy Paruvangada

Doctoral Dissertations

Ineffectively nodulating plant mutants PM405B, PM638A, and PM796B were used in molecular/genetic analyses of root nodule formation in chickpea. To establish the mode of inheritance of the mutant nodule phenotype in chickpea mutant PM638A, reciprocal crosses were made between PM638A and wild-type ICC640. The F$\sb2$ segregation data fit a 3 mutants: 1 wild-type monohybrid phenotypic ratio, indicating that ineffective nodulation is due to a monogenic dominant, nuclear mutation, tentatively designated as "Rn$\sb7$". Segregation analysis of F$\sb3$ progeny confirmed this model.

Early (ENod2) and late (Lb) nodulin cDNAs were used as heterologous probes to identify and study the expression of corresponding …

Analysis Of Chromosomal Involvement In Yersinia Pestis Virulence Plasmid Expression, Teresa Sandelin Birrer

Doctoral Dissertations

Virulence plasmid expression in the Yersinia has been shown to vary depending upon which species harbors the virulence plasmid suggesting that chromosomal regulation may in some way be involved. In this study, fertility plasmid expression in Y. pestis was investigated as a means of evaluating mechanisms of virulence plasmid regulation in this bacterium. The F plasmid was found to be minimally expressed in Y. pestis transferring at a rate of 8.8 $\times$ 10$\sp{-5\%}.$ In addition, Y. pestis failed to express F pili as determined by infection with the male specific phage MS2. When F plasmids containing at least 2 E. …

Equilibrium Electrophoresis: Results From The Second Prototype, David Barton Hayes

Doctoral Dissertations

Equilibrium electrophoresis is a new method that determines the apparent charge on macroions. The theory of equilibrium electrophoresis is summarized. The second generation device is described. Apparent charges, at various ionic strengths, measured by equilibrium electrophoresis are reported for pd(A)$\sb{20},$ pd(T)$\sb{20},$ pd(A)$\sb{20}$ $\cdot$ pd(T)$\sb{20},$ cytochrome c from horse heart, TA lysozyme mutant, TA(119/135) charge mutated lysozyme, and EDTA. The apparent charge of plasmid pBR322 from electrophoretic mobility and sedimentation velocity is reported. The results are compared to those expected according to the Record-Manning counterion condensation theory and the Debye-Huckel shielding theory. The apparent charges of the two ss DNA samples …

Thalamocortical Contributions To Olfactory Non-Matching To Sample And Discrimination In The Rat, Susan Margaret Koger

Doctoral Dissertations

Twenty-eight male rats were pretrained on a go/no-go, continuous olfactory non-matching to sample (CONMTS) task, and randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: radiofrequency lesions of either the medial wall or rhinal sulcal cortical projection sites of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (MDn); lesions of the lateral internal medullary lamina site (L-IML) of thalamus; or sham surgical control.

All three lesioned groups exhibited a significant impairment on initial retraining of CONMTS. However, the two cortical groups rapidly improved, and did not differ from the control animals for the remainder of CONMTS training. Alternatively, the L-IML deficit persisted throughout retraining. The …

Characterization Of Biglycan And Decorin Self-Association By Analytical Ultracentrifugation, Jun Liu

Doctoral Dissertations

Biglycan and decorin are small, leucine-rich proteoglycans that bind to a variety of extracellular and membrane associated molecules, regulating their biological functions. Although self-association occurs in many proteoglycans, and is thought to be important for their biological roles, little is known about the thermodynamic properties of biglycan and decorin in terms of molecular weights, stoichiometry and association constants. We have used sedimentation analysis to examine the structures and self-association of bovine articular cartilage biglycan, its core protein and GAG chains in a variety of buffers. The monomer molecular weights were 86,600 Da for intact biglycan, 44,100 Da for the core …