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Regeneration In Zebrafish, Brachydanio Rerio, Gabriel J. Ekandem

Master's Theses

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The Search For Liberty In The Theatre Of Alfonso Sastre, Dorothy Thornton Hunter

Master's Theses

Alfonso Sastre, born in 1926, was a child during the Spanish Civil War. His temperament and personality were shaped by a Spain in the state of transition. He has seen coups d'états, dictatorship, a republic and monarchy. With each change of government Spain was searching for a way to unite her divided self, a self which had been divided since the Moors invaded Spain in the eighth century. Sastre has reflected Spain's search for liberty and has produced what he calls a "Theatre of Social Agitation, "the fundamental theme of which is revolution. With this type of theatre Sastre proposes …

Differential Assessment Of Retrograde Amnesia Produced By Hypothermia Following One-Trial Avoidance Conditioning, Duane E. Brookhart

Master's Theses

Two different measures of the retention of avoidance conditioning, frequently used in the investigation of retrograde anmesia (RA), were examined. Rats were given a single training trial on either passive or active avoidance in a conventional black-white discrimination apparatus and step-through latencies were recorded. Task sequence, footshock and hypothermia were experimentally varied across eight groups of subjects. Each S was returned to the experimental apparatus 24 hours after training and given retention tests on both passive and active avoidance tasks. Test trial latencies failed to demonstrate any retention deficits attributable to RA, and both passive and active avoidance test latencies …

Changes In The (Na+ K+) - Dependent Atpase Activity In Gills Of The Euryhaline Teleost, Fundulus Heteroclitus, Upon Adaptation To Freshwater And Salt Water As Determined By Specific Activities And 3h - Ouabain Binding Sites, Mary Elizabeth Gilman

Master's Theses

Previous attempts to measure the (Na⁺+K⁺) - dependent ATPase in gills of euryhaline teleosts have yielded controversial results. In this study both the (Na⁺+K⁺) - dependent ATPase activity and the number of JH - ouabain binding sites, representing the number of ATPase molecules, were measured in gill tissue preparations of the killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus. The (Na⁺+K⁺) dependent ATPase activity and ouabain binding sites were greater in gills of fish fully adapted to freshwater than in those adapted to salinities of 17 ppt or 24 ppt. On the other …

Characteristicas Psicologicas De "El SeñOr Presidente De Miguel Angel Asturias, Estela Alonso Pandiello

Master's Theses

El objetivo del presente estudio es de llegar a conclusiones sabre las caracteristicas psicol6gicas y alteraciones psiquicas de los principales personajes y los efectos de esas alteraciones en la sociedad, tal como son expuestas por Miguel Angel Asturias eri una de sus novelas de mas resonancia e impacto emocional en el lector y en el estudioso de la literatura hispanoamericana: "El Sefior Presidente".

An Interpretation Of Ecstasy As Found In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Thomas B. Mccary

Master's Theses

Emily Dickinson was indeed used to grief, as the record of her life clearly indicates. She was disappointed in love and and disappointed in her efforts to achieve literary fame. Yet there was moments of happiness and even ecstasy in Emily Dickinson's life. The purpose of this thesis is to examine those moments of ecstatic elevation--the "Soul's Superior instants" as Emily called them--in order to achieve a better insight into the mind of the poet and the nature of often curious verse.

An examination of ecstasy requires a study of Emily's religious background her psychological make-up. It also behooves the …

The Effect Of Functional Cecotomy On Food And Water Intake In The Rat, Stephen P. Farr

Master's Theses

The effect of functional ceco tomy on ingestion and excretory behavior in the rat was viewed as a short term (ST) and long term (LT) stress adjustment. Findings in bo th ST and LT conditio ns were discussed in terms of the Mayerian parameters of precision, rapidity, sensitivity, and reliability. Under functional cecotomy water intake, fecal moisture content and dry fecal weight increased. Food intake remained constant. Stress adjustment in terms of the 4 parameters of ST and LT regulation were discussed as correlations and their accompanying standard errors over daily, 3-day, and 7-day time intervals. The standard error s …

The Nature Of Miniature Melanocytes In Murine Epidermis, John Thomas Earnhardt

Master's Theses

In the epidermis of PET/Wmr mice the population of melanocytes reaches a peak and begins to decline during the first postnatal week, and has disappeared within four weeks. During this period a small number of weakly DOPA reactive miniature melanocytes are seen dispersed among the generally large, highly DOPA reactive melano­cytes typical of the animal. These miniature melanocytes appear early, are among the last to disappear, and their population remains relatively constant against the drastically changing population of typical melanocytes. In attempts to determine the nature of the miniature melanocytes, heterologous grafting was employed whereby the melanocytes were subjected to …

"Mercy Seasons Justice", Robert Freeman Davidson

Master's Theses

This is a study of the development of the mind of William Shakespeare as it relates to justice which tries to show how certain of Shakespeare's beliefs and theories, those shared by most of his con­ temporaries, were altered in the course of that development. The plays chosen for this treatment of the mind of Shakespeare -- the historically related cycle of Richard II, Henry IV (I and II), Henry V, Henry VI (I, II, and III), and Richard III -- show the ideas in question in greater abundance than any other of Shakespeare's plays. The historical grouping consists …

An Orientation Of The Theoretical Aspects Of Verbs In English, Mostafa Hedayatnia

Master's Theses

Traditional grammar originated in Greece in the fifth century B.C. and has been closely connected with philosophy and literary criticism ever since. Through the course of centuries, numerous grammars have been presented, with new ideas and definitions each "varying greatly in purpose, quality, basic assumption, and method of analysis." Each system of grammar has been productive in its own way as well as erroneous and has been succeeded by other systems still faulty. Consequently, in spite of the tremendous amount of theoretical data processed by investigators and experts, neither an explicit nor a complete grammar of a language has ever …

Evidence For An Ambidirectional Magnesium-Activated, Sodium-Potassium Dependent Adenosine Triphosphatase, John Dale Hempel

Master's Theses

Controversy exists as to whether the Na-K ATPases of euryhaline fishes are the same enzyme.This study demonstrates that the phosphorylated enzyme from gills of Fundulus heteroclitus adapted to freshwater and salt water migrate to the same position in SDS polyacrylamide gels. Similar behavior of the enzyme from both sources in different ionic media is also shown. Additionally, the possible ability or the enzyme to couple an osmoregulatory influx to an excretory efflux in freshwater fish is demonstrated. The term "ambidirectional" is proposed for this enzyme, and its place in certain membrane models is discussed.

Levels Of The Immunoglobulins Igg, Iga And Igm In The Inflamed Human Gingiva, Craig W. Byers

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Cortisone On The Mitotic Activity And Histology Of The Incisor In The Magnesium Deficient Rat, Edward Stanley Salkin

Master's Theses

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The Effect Of Population Density On The Development Of An Androgenmediated Marking Response Of Meriones Unguiculatus, John Patrick Bell

Master's Theses

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William James And The Rationality Of Religious Experience, James Michael Bergin

Master's Theses

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Prostaglandin F2Αand Aspirin Effect On The Ovaries And Adrenal Glands Of The Immature Female Rat, Martin A. Sidor

Master's Theses

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A Comparative Study Of Isozyme Patterns In Gampanularia Flexuosa And Cordylophora Lacustris, Carol Jean. Stancher

Master's Theses

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Ferroxidase-Ii: A Blood Serum Lipo-Protein, Christine Shih Ming Sung

Master's Theses

Ferroxidase-II was definitely identified as a lipoprotein. Cholesterol and phospholipids remained tightly associated with the ferroxidase-II protein following extensive purification. Quantitative analysis showed that it is a high-density lipoprotein. Thin-layer chromatographic analyses indicated that phosphatidylcholine accounts for the majority of the bound phospholipid with lysophosphatidyl choline and sphingomyel in accounting for the remaining phospholipid.

Treatment of purified ferroxidase-II with phospholipase C or A resulted in a loss of ferroxidase activity which paralleled the hydrolysis of phospholipid. Phospholipid D treatment also resulted in the loss of ferroxidase activity, yet the loss was not as great as with other phospholipases. A lipid-depleted …

The Effect Of Progesterone On Food And Water Intake And Weight In The Adult Male Rats After Stomach Loads Of Hypertonic Saline, Michael D. Smith

Master's Theses

Eight adult male albino rats were randomly assigned to each treatment condition of progesterone injections (0,10,40, and ·100 mg/kg/day dissolved in Bee of sesame seed oil), and all 2s received a hypertonic NaCl stomach loading. A control group for procedural effects was given injections of sesame seed oil alone and isotonic NaCl stomach loads. The dependent variables were body weight, food intake and water intake. Single factor analyses of covariance revealed a significant difference between the 0 mg progesterone group and the control group for food and water intake but not weight. No significant differences were found in food and …

The Speech Of The Andean Mestizo In The Novels Of Ciro Alegria, Catherine Thorburn Neale

Master's Theses

This inquiry is made and presented from the point of view of a language teacher. After a student has acquired the basic skills of reading, writing, and speaking the foreign language, a most practical medium with which to continue his language study is literature. As well as gaining an understanding of people through literary study, he also may see the language in use as a tool for communication and become aware of some possibilities of it as an artistic medium. This study is concerned with the works of the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegria, who includes in his novels many examples …

The Effects Of Ultraviolet Irradiation On The Pigment Cells Of The Pet/Wmr Mouse Epidermis, Vaughan Henry Howard Jr.

Master's Theses

Epidermal melanocytes in mammals are known to occur in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. The basic melanocyte morphology is dependent upon genetics, but there are a number of environmental factors that can cause modification.

In the epidermis of PET/\vrnr mice, the population of rnelanocytes reaches a peak and begins to decline during the first post-natal week, and has disappeared within four weeks. Dispersed among the large, highly DOPA-reactive melanocytes are miniature melanocytes. These miniature melanocytes are weakly DOPA-reactive and appear early in the post-natal period. The miniature melanocyte population is relatively constant and these miniature cells are among …

The Chemical Composition And Mechanical Properties Of Gutta Percha Endodontic Filling Materials, Charles E. Friedman

Master's Theses

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The Ss: The End Result, Barry J. Klazura

Master's Theses

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Hohokam Structures: Subregional Variations In Architecture And Activity Areas, And Their Functional Relationships, John W. Molfese

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Of The Effects Of Total-Body, Chronic And Low Dose-Rate Neutron And Gamma Radiation On The Tongue And Palatal Mucosa Of Mice, Dennis George Page

Master's Theses

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Fresh And Frozen Iliac Crest Transplants In Primates: A Sequential Histologic Study, Don Michael Morris

Master's Theses

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The Ultrastructure Of The Optic Lobes Of Octopus Vulgaris, Donald B. Newman

Master's Theses

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Fixation And Stimulus Control Of Behavior, David S. Stark

Master's Theses

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Serological Methods For The Identification Of Corynebacterium Vaginale, Mary Frances Smaron

Master's Theses

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A Sequential Electron Microscopic Healing Study Of Grafted Palatal Mucosa, Robert Alan Weinstein

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.