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The Genomic Distribution Of L1 Elements: The Role Of Insertion Bias And Natural Selection, Todd Graham, Stéphane Boissinot Jan 2006

The Genomic Distribution Of L1 Elements: The Role Of Insertion Bias And Natural Selection, Todd Graham, Stéphane Boissinot

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LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposons constitute the most successful family of retroelements in mammals and account for as much as 20% of mammalian DNA. L1 elements can be found in all genomic regions but they are far more abundant in AT-rich, gene-poor, and low-recombining regions of the genome. In addition, the sex chromosomes and some genes seem disproportionately enriched in L1 elements. Insertion bias and selective processes can both account for this biased distribution of L1 elements. L1 elements do not appear to insert randomly in the genome and this insertion bias can at least partially explain the genomic distribution of L1. …


Strategies Of Sex And Survival In Hamadryas Baboons: Through A Female Lens, Larissa Swedell Jan 2006

Strategies Of Sex And Survival In Hamadryas Baboons: Through A Female Lens, Larissa Swedell

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Asu’S Teaching Biology Lab Incorporates Sophisticated Technologies, Approaches, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2006

Asu’S Teaching Biology Lab Incorporates Sophisticated Technologies, Approaches, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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A-State Launches Electronic Journal Of Biological Articles, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2006

A-State Launches Electronic Journal Of Biological Articles, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Asu Students Play Dolphin Name Game, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2006

Asu Students Play Dolphin Name Game, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Manatee Found In Mississippi River, Then Lost, Remains Mystery With Experts, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2006

Manatee Found In Mississippi River, Then Lost, Remains Mystery With Experts, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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World’S Smallest Fish Discovered On Indonesian Island, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Alan D. Christian Jan 2006

World’S Smallest Fish Discovered On Indonesian Island, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Alan D. Christian

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Whales And Dolphins Can Have Stomach Ulcers, Too, Aldemaro Romero Jr., David Gilmore Jan 2006

Whales And Dolphins Can Have Stomach Ulcers, Too, Aldemaro Romero Jr., David Gilmore

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A-State Biology Faculty To Publish Adventure Book, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Joy Trauth Jan 2006

A-State Biology Faculty To Publish Adventure Book, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Joy Trauth

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Researchers Discover Fossil Of Beaver-Like Animal In China, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly D. Kannada Jan 2006

Researchers Discover Fossil Of Beaver-Like Animal In China, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly D. Kannada

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On Sovereignty And Overhumanity Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy 11:2, Christa Davis Acampora Jan 2006

On Sovereignty And Overhumanity Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy 11:2, Christa Davis Acampora

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There is nearly unanimous agreement, among those who bother to pay attention to Nietzsche's anomalous claim about the "sovereign individual" in the second essay of On the Genealogy of Morals that the "sovereign" is Nietzsche's ideal, and many more still take sovereignty as the signature feature of the overman Nietzsche heralds in his Thus Spoke Zarathustra and other writings. I describe the reception among Nietzsche scholars as "nearly unanimous" because there has been at least one cry of dissent: that issued by Lawrence Harab. Curiously, his brief but incisive comments about the problematic nature of several readings along these lines …


Constructing Whiteness In Health Disparities Research, Jessie Daniels, Amy J. Schulz Jan 2006

Constructing Whiteness In Health Disparities Research, Jessie Daniels, Amy J. Schulz

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There is a long tradition within the United States of constructing whiteness (the racial subject) against racialized others (the racial object) and in the process displacing the focus of critical analysis. Here we turn our lens to the often invisible--or at least underinterrogated--concept of whiteness within the context of the literature on racial disparities in health. Specifically, we examine how whiteness is constructed in the active literature documenting and interpreting racial disparities in health and the implications of these constructions for efforts to eradicate inequalities in health. We draw on the concepts of racial formation and "racial projects" that emphasize …


Perspectives On Reproduction And Life History In Baboons, Larissa Swedell, Steven R. Leigh Jan 2006

Perspectives On Reproduction And Life History In Baboons, Larissa Swedell, Steven R. Leigh

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The Effects Of Varying The Timing Of Inputs On A Neural Oscillator, Christina Ambrosio-Mouser, Farzan Nadim, Amitabha Bose Jan 2006

The Effects Of Varying The Timing Of Inputs On A Neural Oscillator, Christina Ambrosio-Mouser, Farzan Nadim, Amitabha Bose

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The gastric mill network of the stomatogastric ganglion of the crab Cancer borealis is comprised of a set of neurons that require modulatory input from outside the stomatogastric ganglion and input from the pyloric network of the animal in order to oscillate. Here we study how the frequency of the gastric mill network is determined when it receives rhythmic input from two different sources but where the timing of these inputs may differ. We find that over a certain range of the time difference one of the two rhythmic inputs plays no role what so ever in determining the network …


Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus Jan 2006

Normalizing The Abnormal: Disability In Music And Music Theory, Joseph N. Straus

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The emerging interdisciplinary field of disability studies takes as its subject matter the historical, social, and cultural construction of disability. After a brief introduction to disability studies, this article explores the interconnected histories of disability and music as they are manifested in three theoretical approaches to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Western art music (the musical Formenlehre and the tonal theories of Schoenberg and Schenker) and in three works by Beethoven and Schubert. Around the turn of the nineteenth century in Western Europe, disability began to be understood not as something natural and permanent but rather as a deviation from …


Journal Use By Graduate Students As Indicated By Masters’ Theses Bibliographies At An Urban Commuter College, 1991-2004., Ellen A. Sexton Jan 2006

Journal Use By Graduate Students As Indicated By Masters’ Theses Bibliographies At An Urban Commuter College, 1991-2004., Ellen A. Sexton

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Citation analyses were carried out on master’s thesis in three disciplines, forensic psychology, forensic science and criminal justice, completed and deposited in John Jay library from 1991 to 2004. The aim was to determine the effect of availability of electronic journals on students’ choice of references. The number of journal citations and the ratio of journal articles to all citations was assessed. Criminal justice theses listed more citations that either science of psychology theses, but relatively fewer journal articles. An increase over time was seen in the number of journal articles cited and in the ratio of journal articles to …


Integrating Disaster Preparedness Into A Community Health Nursing Course: One School's Experience, Mary Ireland, Emma Kontzamanis, Chantal Michel Jan 2006

Integrating Disaster Preparedness Into A Community Health Nursing Course: One School's Experience, Mary Ireland, Emma Kontzamanis, Chantal Michel

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Cardiovascular Risk Behavior Among Sedentary Female Smokers And Smoking Cessation Outcomes, Tellervo Korhonen, Taru Kinnunen, Zandra Quiles, Robert F. Leeman, Donna Medaglia Terwal, Arthur J. Garvey Dec 2005

Cardiovascular Risk Behavior Among Sedentary Female Smokers And Smoking Cessation Outcomes, Tellervo Korhonen, Taru Kinnunen, Zandra Quiles, Robert F. Leeman, Donna Medaglia Terwal, Arthur J. Garvey

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Background We examined female sedentary smokers' additional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk behaviors and their associations to smoking cessation. Methods This study was part of a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of exercise and nicotine gum in smoking cessation. Included in the analyses were 148 participants. Dietary habits and alcohol consumption were measured as additional CVD risk behaviors. High-fat diet and heavy alcohol use were considered those risk behaviors. Nicotine dependence, length of the longest quit attempt, depressive symptoms, self-efficacy, and education were examined as other baseline variables. Abstinence from tobacco was recorded through 12 months. Results Diet was related …


Modeling And Measuring The Nocturnal Drainage Flow In A High-Elevation, Subalpine Forest With Complex Terrain, Chuixiang Yi, Russell K. Monson, Zhiqiang Zhai, Dean E. Anderson, Brian Lamb, Gene Allwine, Andrew A. Turnipseed, Sean P. Burns Nov 2005

Modeling And Measuring The Nocturnal Drainage Flow In A High-Elevation, Subalpine Forest With Complex Terrain, Chuixiang Yi, Russell K. Monson, Zhiqiang Zhai, Dean E. Anderson, Brian Lamb, Gene Allwine, Andrew A. Turnipseed, Sean P. Burns

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The nocturnal drainage flow of air causes significant uncertainty in ecosystem CO2, H2O, and energy budgets determined with the eddy covariance measurement approach. In this study, we examined the magnitude, nature, and dynamics of the nocturnal drainage flow in a subalpine forest ecosystem with complex terrain. We used an experimental approach involving four towers, each with vertical profiling of wind speed to measure the magnitude of drainage flows and dynamics in their occurrence. We developed an analytical drainage flow model, constrained with measurements of canopy structure and SF6 diffusion, to help us interpret the tower …


Tgf-Β Maintains Dormancy Of Prostatic Stem Cells In The Proximal Region Of Ducts, Sarah N. Salm, Patricia E. Burger, Sandra Coetzee, Ken Goto, David Moscatelli, E. Lynette Wilson Jul 2005

Tgf-Β Maintains Dormancy Of Prostatic Stem Cells In The Proximal Region Of Ducts, Sarah N. Salm, Patricia E. Burger, Sandra Coetzee, Ken Goto, David Moscatelli, E. Lynette Wilson

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We have previously shown that prostatic stem cells are located in the proximal region of mouse prostatic ducts. Here, we show that this region responds differently to transforming growth factor (TGF)-β than the distal ductal region and that under physiological conditions androgens and TGF-β are crucial overall regulators of prostatic tissue homeostasis. This conclusion is supported by the observations showing that high levels of TGF-β signaling are present in the quiescent proximal region of ducts in an androgen-replete animal and that cells in this region overexpress Bcl-2, which protects them from apoptosis. Moreover, androgen ablation reverses the proximal-distal TGF-β signaling …


Public Health Advocacy To Change Corporate Practices: Implications For Health Education Practice And Research, Nicholas Freudenberg Jun 2005

Public Health Advocacy To Change Corporate Practices: Implications For Health Education Practice And Research, Nicholas Freudenberg

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Corporate practices, such as advertising, public relations, lobbying, litigation, and sponsoring scientific research, have a significant impact on the health of the people in the United States. Recently, health professionals and advocates have created a new scope of practice that aims to modify corporate practices that harm health. This article describes how corporate policies influence health and reviews recent health campaigns aimed at changing corporate behavior in six industries selected for their central role in the U.S. economy and their influence on major causes of mortality and morbidity. These are the alcohol, automobile, food, gun, pharmaceutical, and tobacco industries. The …


The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Monica Berger, Gloria Rohmann May 2005

The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Monica Berger, Gloria Rohmann

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Evolutionary Explanations In Medical And Health Profession Courses: Are You Answering Your Students' "Why" Questions?, Eugene E. Harris, Avelin A. Malyango May 2005

Evolutionary Explanations In Medical And Health Profession Courses: Are You Answering Your Students' "Why" Questions?, Eugene E. Harris, Avelin A. Malyango

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Background Medical and pre-professional health students ask questions about human health that can be answered in two ways, by giving proximate and evolutionary explanations. Proximate explanations, most common in textbooks and classes, describe the immediate scientifically known biological mechanisms of anatomical characteristics or physiological processes. These explanations are necessary but insufficient. They can be complemented with evolutionary explanations that describe the evolutionary processes and principles that have resulted in human biology we study today. The main goal of the science of Darwinian Medicine is to investigate human disease, disorders, and medical complications from an evolutionary perspective. Discussion This paper contrasts …


Glowing In The Dark: How America’S First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation, Rebecca Bratspies Jan 2005

Glowing In The Dark: How America’S First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation, Rebecca Bratspies

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In The Land Of The Mermaid: How Culture, Not Ecology, Influenced Marine Mammal Exploitation In The Southeastern Caribbean, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Joel E. Creswell Jan 2005

In The Land Of The Mermaid: How Culture, Not Ecology, Influenced Marine Mammal Exploitation In The Southeastern Caribbean, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Joel E. Creswell

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On The Evolutionary Significance Of The Paleocyphonautidae: How Fossils And Larvae Impact Evolutionary Reconstructions, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Raymond R. Rogers, Julio Seguí Jan 2005

On The Evolutionary Significance Of The Paleocyphonautidae: How Fossils And Larvae Impact Evolutionary Reconstructions, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Raymond R. Rogers, Julio Seguí

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Quest For The ‘Holy Grail Bird’. Discovery Of The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Brings Arkansas Unprecedented Attention, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Jim Bednarz Jan 2005

Quest For The ‘Holy Grail Bird’. Discovery Of The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Brings Arkansas Unprecedented Attention, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Jim Bednarz

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Blind Cave Fishes Providing Important Clues To Human Blindness, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2005

Blind Cave Fishes Providing Important Clues To Human Blindness, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Researchers Uncover Black And White Truth Of Cave Fish Discovery, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2005

Researchers Uncover Black And White Truth Of Cave Fish Discovery, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Mussels Have Plenty To Say About State Of Environment, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Alan D. Christian Jan 2005

Mussels Have Plenty To Say About State Of Environment, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Alan D. Christian

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