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Carbonylation Of Neuronal Cytoskeletal Proteins And Their Proteolytic Degradation In Acute Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis, Suzanne Smerjac May 2011

Carbonylation Of Neuronal Cytoskeletal Proteins And Their Proteolytic Degradation In Acute Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis, Suzanne Smerjac

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Oxidative stress and its damage resulting in carbonylation of proteins is known to take place in the CNS tissue of multiple sclerosis patients and of mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), and has been implicated in the pathophysiology of these diseases. In order to investigate the possible consequences of this protein damage during acute myelin basic protein (MBP) -directed autoimmune neuroinflammation the first goal of this thesis was to characterize oxidative stress and protein carbonylation, including identification of the major oxidized protein species, in the Lewis rat model of EAE. I discovered that there is significant oxidative stress in the …

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Home/Land: Kiowa, New Mexico- A Grassland's Story, Heather R. Yaryan May 2011

Home/Land: Kiowa, New Mexico- A Grassland's Story, Heather R. Yaryan

Architecture and Planning ETDs

The purpose of this thesis was to illustrate how cultural and natural histories inform place-based community planning. Utilizing both cultural and natural histories, the planner may begin to see patterns of habitancy as they correlate to ecological fluctuations. I focused my research on Kiowa, New Mexico the community my family homesteaded in the grasslands of Northeastern New Mexico and took an auto-ethnographic approach to conducting my research. The story of Kiowa is both unique and universal. The intricacies of the land and people are, indeed, woven into a specific place and times. It is the intersection of Place and of …

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Comparison Of Two Riparian Assessment Surveys : Proper Functioning Condition And The New Mexico Watershed Watch Riparian Survey, Katherine A. Smith Apr 2011

Comparison Of Two Riparian Assessment Surveys : Proper Functioning Condition And The New Mexico Watershed Watch Riparian Survey, Katherine A. Smith

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Riparian areas perform functions which in turn provide economic and environmental benefits. Many of the riparian areas in the Southwest are in degraded states. There is a need to determine the health of these ecosystems, in order to decide which need rehabilitation or restoration. Long term monitoring is necessary to assure projects are progressing towards goals, and prevent further degradation in response to new disturbances. Two riparian assessment surveys currently in use are the Proper Functioning Condition (PFC) and the New Mexico Watershed Watch Riparian Survey (NMWWRS). The PFC tool is a qualitative method utilized by government agencies such as …

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Sustainable Water Development For The Village Of Miramar, Honduras, Michael Campana, Michele Minnis Apr 2011

Sustainable Water Development For The Village Of Miramar, Honduras, Michael Campana, Michele Minnis

Water Resources Field Methods Reports

The UNM Water Resources Program (WRP) offers the Master of Water Resources (MWR) degree, an interdisciplinary professional degree designed to prepare students for careers in water resources. The program seeks to expand and deepen students knowledge of their primary disciplines and, at the same time, improve their capacity to think carefully and comprehensively, and develop their technical and communication skills. In order to help achieve this goal, the WRP has developed three interdisciplinary (core) courses, the last of these courses (WR 573) being designed as a capstone, representing a culmination of the student's experience in the program. This final class …

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Past And Present Solid Waste Landfills In Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Terry Nelson Apr 2011

Past And Present Solid Waste Landfills In Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Terry Nelson

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

In the geographic area of Bernalillo County, New Mexico there are over twenty known solid waste landfill (SWL) locations. Most were operated by the City of Albuquerque, but some were operated by Bernalillo County, Kirtland Air Force Base and some by private owners. There are three SWL's currently operating in Bernalillo County. They include Cerro Colorado operated by the City of Albuquerque, Southwest Landfill operated by private owners and one operated by and on Kirtland Air Force Base. The remaining SWL's have all been closed over the years. For many of these older sites there is no written record of …

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Pharmaceutically Active Compounds In Residential And Hospital Effluent, Municipal Wastewater, And The Rio Grande In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kathryn D. Brown Apr 2011

Pharmaceutically Active Compounds In Residential And Hospital Effluent, Municipal Wastewater, And The Rio Grande In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kathryn D. Brown

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

This project investigated: 1) the contribution of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) from residential and hospital effluent sources, 2) resultant concentrations of PhACs in the Albuquerque Southside Water Reclamation Plant (SWRP) raw influent and treated effluent, and 3) concentrations of PhACs in the Rio Grande, which receives SWRP effluent. PhACs present in surface waters have been shown to adversely impact organisms (Jobling et al., 1998) and, in the case of antibiotics, perhaps increase resistance to these drugs (Ash, 1999; Eichorst, 1999; Guardabassi et al, 1998; Sternes, 1999). In this study, ten sample sites were identified and samples collected and analyzed for …

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Performance Of A Green Roof Lysimeter In An Arid Climate, Rick Young Apr 2011

Performance Of A Green Roof Lysimeter In An Arid Climate, Rick Young

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Green roofs, also known as living roofs or eco-roofs, are becoming part of American architectural and engineering design as a method of reducing stormwater runoff. Although soil roofs have been in use for as long as adobe bricks, modern green roofs have a larger-scale function. Modern green roofs are used to solve or mitigate a number of architectural and engineering, stormwater management and ecological problems, especially in urban settings with large impervious areas. The effectiveness of green roofs in reducing these problems has been studied primarily in wet to moderately wet climates; however, relatively little research has been performed in …

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2011-04-18 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department Apr 2011

2011-04-18 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2011

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Issue No. 87: April 2011, Historical Society Of New Mexico Apr 2011

Issue No. 87: April 2011, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Lincoln County, Full of History
1 Billy the Kid Made the Front Page of Wall Street Journal
2 Descendant of Geronimo Files Law Suit
2 In Memoriam
3 From Our President
3 Squash Blossom Named Official Necklace
3 Estevan Rael-Gálvez Named Vice President of Historic Sites by the National Trust for Historic Preservation
3 Historical Museum of Lawmen
4 'Addie Slaughter' Lassoes Young Readers with True-Life Wild West Adventure
4 New Books for Your New Mexico History Bookshelves
4 Membership Benefits Historical Society of New Mexico

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A Long Time Coming: The Seventeenth-Century Pueblo-Spanish War, John L. Kessell Apr 2011

A Long Time Coming: The Seventeenth-Century Pueblo-Spanish War, John L. Kessell

New Mexico Historical Review

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Horses Worn To Mere Shadows: The Ninth U.S. Calvary's Campaign Against Apaches In New Mexico Territory, 1879-1881, Robert N. Watt Apr 2011

Horses Worn To Mere Shadows: The Ninth U.S. Calvary's Campaign Against Apaches In New Mexico Territory, 1879-1881, Robert N. Watt

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review Apr 2011

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

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Collecting For The Centennial Indian Exhibit: The J. K. Hillers - Olin D. Wheeler Expedition To The Hopis In 1876, Louis A. Hieb Apr 2011

Collecting For The Centennial Indian Exhibit: The J. K. Hillers - Olin D. Wheeler Expedition To The Hopis In 1876, Louis A. Hieb

New Mexico Historical Review

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Reptile Populations At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1989-1990), Howard Snell Feb 2011

Reptile Populations At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1989-1990), Howard Snell

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

Reptile populations were sampled in spring and summer in various habitats: grassland, creosote shrubland, pinyon-juniper woodland, cottonwood forest, subalpine forest, and subalpine meadow. On 18 sites mark-release methods were used; on 12 sites, all animals were kept for museum specimens. Museum specimen preparations included skulls, whole skeletons, and alcohol preservations; all specimens had tissue samples (liver, heart) taken for ultra-cold preservations for genetic analyses; some were karyotyped. All museum specimens were checked for internal parasites.

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A New Vision Of Korean Dance Through A Comparative Study Of Korean Dance And Modern Dance History, Sun-Ah Kim Lee Feb 2011

A New Vision Of Korean Dance Through A Comparative Study Of Korean Dance And Modern Dance History, Sun-Ah Kim Lee

Theatre & Dance ETDs

In this dissertation, I conduct a comparative study of Korean and Modern dance history while examining new ways to incorporate the traditional forms of Korean dance with a contemporary dance aesthetic. It is important to know the old in order to create the new contemporary Korean dance. Through this examination, I want to find a new voice for contemporary Korean choreographers. Koreans many kinds of dance's roots and backgrounds are from the religions in agriculture life. Korean dancing was the rule of prehistoric ancestors offered sacrifices to gods. Through Ko-Chosun, Three tribes, Three Kingdom, Koguroy, Chosun dynasty, Korea dance has …

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Itaipú: Gender, Community, And Work In The Alto Paraná Borderlands, Brazil And Paraguay, 1954-1989., John Howard White Feb 2011

Itaipú: Gender, Community, And Work In The Alto Paraná Borderlands, Brazil And Paraguay, 1954-1989., John Howard White

History ETDs

In 1975 workers on massive earth-moving machines began excavations in the middle of the Paraná River for what later would become the site of the worlds largest hydroelectric dam, Itaipú Binacional. During the period 1974-1991, the dam was constructed as a joint venture between the military regimes of Brazil and Paraguay and thousands of workers and their families migrated to the borderlands in search of employment. My study uses the conceptual framework of gender and sexuality in order to produce a comparative social history of the Itaipú hydroelectric dam project and the worker communities that it created in the Alto …

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Biofuel Cell Anode For Nad-Dependent Enzymes, Ovalles Rosalba Rincón Feb 2011

Biofuel Cell Anode For Nad-Dependent Enzymes, Ovalles Rosalba Rincón

Chemical and Biological Engineering ETDs

Enzymatic biofuel cells are a very attractive young technology based on utilization of natural, renewable and plentiful resources that offer an alternative energy source. Most fuel cells run on hydrogen; but it is extremely expensive and difficult to obtain, which is why research has moved to target fuels that are already available in nature, avoiding high costs of production, both economically and environmentally. Several biofuels with very high energy densities are available to us in abundance, but the challenges to make use of them are plenty. These biofuels contain several carbon-to-carbon bonds which make their oxidation processes significantly more complex …

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First-Person Singular Pronouns In Japanese: How Do They Work In Conversation?, Mami Mccraw Feb 2011

First-Person Singular Pronouns In Japanese: How Do They Work In Conversation?, Mami Mccraw

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

Subjectivity-- expression of our thoughts and emotions-- is the essence of everyday conversation (e.g., Benveniste, 1971; Scheibman, 2002). Previous studies have found that subjectivity is expressed in a variety of linguistic items in a wide range of languages. First-person singular (1SG) pronouns may be one of the most fundamental linguistic items for expressing subjectivity because they directly reflect the speaker, who is the owner of subjective point of view. This dissertation explores the use of 1SG pronouns in Japanese utilizing the analysis of naturally occurring conversational data. In Japanese, personal pronouns including first person are used infrequently, especially in spoken …

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Mexico Launches Anti-Dumping Investigation On Some Imports Of U.S. Chicken Parts, Carlos Navarro Feb 2011

Mexico Launches Anti-Dumping Investigation On Some Imports Of U.S. Chicken Parts, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Human Mitochondrial Hotdog-Fold Thioesterase: Hthem4 And Hthem5, Hong Zhao Feb 2011

Human Mitochondrial Hotdog-Fold Thioesterase: Hthem4 And Hthem5, Hong Zhao

Chemistry and Chemical Biology ETDs

Hotdog-fold acyl-CoA thioesterases (ACOTs) are found in all three kingdoms of life (Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya). All the hotdog-fold thioesterases share common catalytic scaffold and function: hydrolysis of acyl-CoA or acyl-ACP (acyl carrier protein). However the biological roles that they perform vary greatly, different substrate specificity and catalytic efficiency assign unique set of biological functions to each of them, which is further defined by tissue distribution, cellular location, protein partners and regulators. The focuses of my doctoral studies, described in this dissertation, are two members of the human hotdog-fold thioesterase superfamily: human THEM4 and human THEM5. The genes encoding hTHEM4 …

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Burn Exclosure Rodent Population Study At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1991-1993), Robert Parmenter Feb 2011

Burn Exclosure Rodent Population Study At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1991-1993), Robert Parmenter

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

Small mammal densities were estimated from small mammal recapture data in burned and unburned grassland.

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Kinetic And Statistical Mechanical Modeling Of Dna Unzipping And Kinesin Mechanochemistry, Lawrence Herskowitz Feb 2011

Kinetic And Statistical Mechanical Modeling Of Dna Unzipping And Kinesin Mechanochemistry, Lawrence Herskowitz

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

This thesis explores two topics. The first is shotgun DNA mapping (SDM). Ability to map polymerases and nucleosomes on chromatin is important for understanding the impact of chromatin remodeling on key cellular processes. Current methods have produced a wealth of information that demonstrates this importance, but key information is elusive in these methods. We are pursuing a new single-molecule chromatin mapping method based on unzipping native chromatin molecules with optical tweezers. The first step we are taking towards this ability is SDM. This is the ability to identify the genomic location of a random DNA fragment based on its naked …

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Evidence For Cooperative, Sequential Interaction Between Hippocampal- And Dorsolateral Striatal-Dependent Navigation Strategies In The Morris Water Task, James Rice Feb 2011

Evidence For Cooperative, Sequential Interaction Between Hippocampal- And Dorsolateral Striatal-Dependent Navigation Strategies In The Morris Water Task, James Rice

Psychology ETDs

The hippocampus and dorsolateral striatum have been found to be critical for spatial navigation based on distal and local cues, respectively. Previous reports from our laboratory have indicated that behavior in the Morris water task may be guided by both cue types, and that rats appear to switch from distal to local cues in a sequential manner within a given trial. In two experiments rats with hippocampal or dorsolateral striatal lesions were trained and tested in water task paradigms that involved translations or removal of the cued platform within the pool or translations of the pool itself with respect to …

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An Evaluation Of The Occurrence Of Preterm Low Birth Weight Infants In Mothers Who Received Periodontal Therapy During Pregnancy, Paige Beven Gordon Feb 2011

An Evaluation Of The Occurrence Of Preterm Low Birth Weight Infants In Mothers Who Received Periodontal Therapy During Pregnancy, Paige Beven Gordon

Dental Hygiene ETDs

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine if evidence exists between the relationship of receiving periodontal therapy during pregnancy and a subsequently-born childs gestational age and birth weight at time of delivery. Hypothesis: Pregnant mothers who received periodontal therapy during their pregnancy are less likely to have preterm low birth weight infants than those pregnant mothers who did not receive periodontal therapy during pregnancy. Methods: Data was collected for infants born to 1182 females who utilize the New Mexico Women, Infants and Children supplemental food program. These females were then cross-referenced with the Sandoval County Oral Health Program's …

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Ecuador's Illogical New Exercise In Direct Democracy, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra Feb 2011

Ecuador's Illogical New Exercise In Direct Democracy, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra

NotiSur

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Honduran Human Rights Camp Says Skyrocketing Homicides Part Of State Policy; Government Blames Organized Crime, George Rodriguez Feb 2011

Honduran Human Rights Camp Says Skyrocketing Homicides Part Of State Policy; Government Blames Organized Crime, George Rodriguez

NotiCen

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An Examination Of Parental Stress And Coping In The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (Picu), Cara Michelle Gallegos Feb 2011

An Examination Of Parental Stress And Coping In The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (Picu), Cara Michelle Gallegos

Nursing ETDs

Advances in medical science have increased the number of children surviving illnesses and injuries that would have otherwise been fatal. Parents who have a critically ill child in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) often experience extreme levels of stress and poor coping. The purpose of this exploratory study was to explore parental stress and coping in a diverse group of parents of a critically ill child. This exploratory study used a descriptive-comparative and correlational research design. The Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation (McCubbin & McCubbin, 1993) was used as a theoretical framework for the study. A …

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Prior, Free And Informed Consent As A Right Of Indigenous Peoples And Nationalities, Wilson Fermin Aguinda Salazar Feb 2011

Prior, Free And Informed Consent As A Right Of Indigenous Peoples And Nationalities, Wilson Fermin Aguinda Salazar

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

The thesis titled Prior, Free and Informed Consent as a Right of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities' is a study that seeks to determine whether indigenous peoples and nations can or cannot ban in their lands and territories a national interest activity or development project proposed by the State and by private companies. The research begins with the study of the right to self-determination of peoples, their entitlement to this right and the concept of people within international law. With this analysis, the present study discusses whether the Prior, Free and Informed Consent (PFIC) is or is not an expression of …

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In The Lonely Midnight, Alan Stringer Jan 2011

In The Lonely Midnight, Alan Stringer

New Mexico Composers' Archive

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Sacred Lands, Alan Stringer Jan 2011

Sacred Lands, Alan Stringer

New Mexico Composers' Archive

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