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Saints In The Secular City: A History Of The Los Angeles Stake, Chad M. Orton

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Beginning in 1847 and continuing to the turn of the century, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) were encouraged to gather to Utah, where they formed communities seperated from the evils of the world around them. While Mormonism continues to be closely associated with Utah, in 1989 it is a world-wide church with nearly seven million members, most residing outside of Utah, and many of these in major urban areas. Nevertheless, few studies have been made of how the Church has developed outside of Utah.

When the Los Angeles Stake was organized in 1923, it …

Biochemical Characterization Of The Association Between Glycolytic Enzymes And Clathrin Coated Vesicles Using Centrifugation, Electrophoretic, And Ligand Blotting Techniques., Roxann Ranee Karkhoff-Schweizer

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Clathrin coated vesicles (CCVs) are complex organelles reported to bind specific glycolytic enzymes. The purpose of this study was to further biochemically characterize the interactions of selected enzymes with CCV's by conventional and new techniques.Purified brain CCVs were observed to retain, in varying degrees, endogenous glycolytic enzymes, with glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and pyruvate kinase (PK) having the highest specific activities. Furthermore, Scatchard and Hill plot analyses of saturation binding data suggested that the binding of pure aldolase (ALD) and GAPDH involved heterogenous binding sites or cooperativity. Moreover, increasing concentrations of added ALD could not completely release bound GAPDH from …

Mule Deer (Odocoileus Hemionus) Home Range And Habitat Use In An Energy-Impacted Area Of The North Dakota Badlands, Ronald A. Fox

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Sexual Differences In Morphology And Development Of Eutrombicula Cinnabaris (Acari: Trombiculidae), Martin Anders Tuegel

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Cooperative Learning, David M. Carl

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The Role Of Porosity In Fluid Extraction On Wyodak Subbituminous Coal, Scott A. Nemmers

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Physical Geography Concepts : Prelude To Understanding World Issues, Jill Rudnitski

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Departure : A Collection Of Poems, Tom Domek

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Characterization Of Steroid-17,20-Desmolase And 20Α-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase From Clostridium Scindens, Amy Elizabeth Krafft

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Clostridium scindens is an obligate anaerobe isolated from the normal intestinal flora of man. It is the only bacterium known at present to synthesize both steroid-17,20-desmolase and 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (ZOα-HSDH). This study was undertaken to characterize these neutral steroid transforming reactions in extracts of C. scindens; to purify and characterize the enzymes responsible for side-chain cleavage and 20α- hydroxysteroid oxidoreduction and to clone the genes encoding these enzymes with a view towards studying the mechanism of induction by steroids in a prokaryotic system. Both enzymes were found to be co-inducible in cells cultured in the presence of 17α-hydroxysteroids. In cell …

Evaluation Of The Antagonism Of Nicotine By Mecamylamine And Pempidine In The Brain, Thomas Jeffrey Martin

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Antagonists have been crucial in the characterization of nicotine's pharmacology. Initial evidence for the existence of central nicotinic receptors was based on the fact that nicotine produced a number of behavioral effects that were antagonized by ganglionic blockers that crossed the blood-brain barrier, such as mecamylamine and pempidine. Although the mechanism of action of these compounds has been studied extensively in the periphery, little is known about their mechanisms of action in the brain. These compounds are thought to be noncompetitive antagonists due to the fact that they do not compete for agonist binding to brain homogenate in vitro. However, …

Efficiency Of The Thermal Jacket On The Delivered Temperature Of Prewarmed Crystalloid Intravenous Fluid, Danny R. Bowen

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A quasi-experimental research design was used to determine the relationship between the flow rate and the delivered temperature of prewarmed crystalloid intravenous solutions when using the Thermal Jacket™, an insulation device designed for intravenous fluid bags, as compared to a conventional blood warming apparatus. One control and three experimental groups were used.

Fluids in Group 1 (control group), Group 2, and Group 4 were prewarmed in a microwave oven to 41.45 ± 1.05 ° C. Fluids in Group 3 were left near ambient room temperature and measured at 22.05 ± 0.45 ° C. Fluids in the control group were infused …

Immunomodulators In Senescent Mice, Kevin R. Mccormick

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The suppression of the immune response in senescent animals, including humans, is not complete and may be ameliorated by specific interventions. Previous studies have suggested that the replacement of thymus factors lost with age may rejuvenate senescent immune function. Similarly, exogenous growth hormone has been reported to improve senescent immune function in certain mammals. Other studies with the immunomodulator PSK claim to restore tumor-induced immunosuppression even in aged mice. This project investigated the abilities of thymus supernatant, ovine growth hormone, and PSK to rejuvenate different

parameters of the senescent immune response.

In the first series of experiments, erythroid depleted bone …

Basement Membrane Heterogeneity: A High Resolution Sem Study Of Renal Basement Membrane Ultrastructure Following Enzyme Microdissection., Walter Jesse Berger Iii

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The purpose of this study is to utilize high resolution SEM to examine topographical features of acellular renal cortical basement membranes (BMs) in the rat. Alterations in ultrastructure of protease-digested samples are evaluated in terms of the concept of BM heterogeneity, and an attempt is made to correlate observed changes with known components of BMs.Renal cortical blocks were rendered acellular by sequential detergent extraction, and digested either with 150 $\mu$g/ml Streptomyces griseus protease (SGP) or with 5 mg/ml pepsin and conventionally prepared for SEM and correlative TEM.With both proteases, Bowman's capsular BM (BCBM), tubular BM (TBM) and glomerular BM (GBM) …

Induced Resistance To Ixodid Tick Infestation: Analysis And Isolation Of Antigens., Fred William Olsen Jr.

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Ticks are both vectors and reservoirs for significant pathogens of man and livestock. They are currently controlled through use of acaracides, but have rapidly developed resistance to every new acaracide produced to date. Alternative methods of control are needed. One proposed alternative is immunologic control, achieved through vaccinations which induce resistance to tick infestation. This proposal stems from the knowledge that cattle and laboratory animals actively acquire resistance to infestation. Immunization with crude extracts of different ixodid life cycle stages or organs has induced limited levels of resistance compared to acquired resistance. Defined tick antigens are needed to study the …

The Effects Of Hydrocortisone And Caffeine On Memory For Word Lists, Daniel L. Scharf

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Hydrocortisone has frequently been hypothesized to increase arousal. This hypothesis was primarily based on the findings of increased adrenal size in animals who had been exposed to stressful conditions and the enhancement or impairment in cognitive abilities of humans depending on dose. There has been a lack of studies directly looking at the arousal hypothesis of the effects of hydrocortisone. The purpose of this study was to directly assess the effects of hydrocortisone on levels of arousal by manipulating both state and trait arousal. This study used caffeine as a comparison drug that alters state arousal because of its widely …

Napoleon And Russia And The Teaty Of Tilsit: Its Implications For Europe, Paul A. Hefti

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The Treaty of Tilsit of 1807 between Russia and France was a minor slowing of the flow of the Napoleonic Wars that dominated Europe in the early nineteenth century. It united the two nations against Britain, but, in larger terms, it polarized continental Europe into two separate (or distinct) conflicting spheres. The treaty and its effects provided a foreshadowing of post-World War I Europe and the subsequent twentieth-century concept of peaceful coexistence.

The major personalities involved in making the treaty were Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon Bonaparte of France. Their meeting on a boat in the Niemen River had …

Mainstreaming Visually Impaired Preschoolers Into Regular Preschool Classrooms, Barbara J. Delohery

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Vasopressin's Effect On Sex Differences In Cognitive Functions: Verbal And Spatial Abilities And Verbal-Interference Tasks., Karen Kay Knutson

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The effects of a vasopressin analogue, desmopressin acetate (DDAVP) upon cognitive functioning performance was investigated in this study. Forty male and forty female college students were first assessed using the Vocabulary and the Block Design subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) to determine their verbal and spatial-visualization ability levels. Then they were treated intranasally with either DDVAP (60 ug), or an equal volume of saline. Finally, subjects were tested using these cognitive measures: The Paper Folding Test, the Stroop Color and Word Test and twelve lists of semantically unrelated words.Analyses of variance of the test data identified several …

Lysosomal Enzymes In Undifferentiated And Differentiated Hl-60 Cells, Julie J. Ackerman

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The human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 has been studied extensively since the time of it's discovery and has been proven to be a valuable tool for the study of the differentiation process. The capacity of the HL-60 cell line to differentiate to macrophage-like cells, which may be immunologically competent, has proven to be invaluable in the study of these cells as a model for macrophage function. A number of hydrolytic enzymes are characteristically found in macrophages. In an effort to further characterize diferentiated HL-60 cells as macrophages, the location and concentration of a number of these enzymes was determined. …

A Study Of The Effects Of Polyethylene Glycol On Interactions Between Glycolytic Enzymes And F-Actin, And Among Glycolytic Enzymes, Julie L. Walsh

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Many studies of the protein interactions that compose the microtrabecular lattice have been done in dilute solutions. However, solutions containing inert polymers such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) more effectively mimic the crowded interior of the cell. Therefore, the interactions of D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate ketolisomerase (TPI, EC 5.3.1.1), D-phosphoglycerate 2,3-phosphomutase (PGM, EC 5.4.2.1), ATP:3-phospho-D-glycerate 1-phosphotransferase (PGK, EC 2.7.2.3), 2-phospho-D-glycerate hydro-lyase (enolase, EC 4.2.1.11), D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate lyase (aldolase, 4.1.2.13), D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate:NAD$\sp{+}$ oxidoreductase (GAPDH, EC 5.3.1.1), D-glucose-6-phosphate ketol-isomerase (GPI, EC 5.3.1.9), (S)-lactate:NAD+ oxidoreductase (LDH, EC 1.1.1.27), and ATP:Pyruvate O$\sp2$-phosphotransferase (PK, EC 2.7.1.40) with each other, with ATP:D-fructose-6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase (PFK, EC 2.7.1.11) and with F-actin have been …

Ethnogeography Of Middle Missouri River Indians: 1738-1889, Kenneth C. Dagel

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The purpose of this thesis is to present the ethno- geography of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, and to a lesser extent, the ethnogeography of the Arikara and Lakota during the period 1738-1889. It provides not only a listing of place-names, but it also includes an explanation of why the locations associated with those names were so important, and remain important to these tribes.

The primary hypothesis of this research is that toponyms of Native American origin were generated because of perceptual and/or pragmatic reasons. Place-names, obtained from historical journals and secondary sources, were classified using a standard toponym typology. …

Proliferation And Differentiation Of Mast Cell Progenitors, Daniel Lee Jarboe

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We have identified a late, committed stage in the differentiation of the mast cell progenitor just prior to granulation. This mast cell-committed progenitor (MCCP) differs from the more primitive bone marrow mast cell progenitor in that it is able to proliferate and differentiate in the absence of interleukin-3 (IL-3) when cultured on a monolayer of embryonic skin or 3T3 fibroblasts. The MCCP can be harvested from the mesenteric lymph nodes of mice in their fourteenth day of infection with the rodent hookworm Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and can be cloned in a methylcellulose culture system by supplementing the cultures with fibroblast-conditioned medium …

Henry Cheever Pratt: Boston Portrait Studio To Nineteenth Century American Frontier, Patricia B. Revere

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American artist Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880) was a member of the 1851 Mexican Boundary Commission, an expedition charged with surveying and recording the boundary between the United States and Mexico. This thesis examines the art work Pratt produced for the Commission, and addresses the issue of the omission of most of his work from the Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua 1850-1853, the official published record of the trip.

Observations On Nurturing In Selected Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway, Jeanne L. Klemetsrud

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One Child's Style : Parallels In Writing And Drawing, Patricia Peech

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Buffering Effect Of Social Support On Economic Hardship Among North Dakota Farm Operators, Kevin Allen Kettner

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Macropaleontology Of The Gunn Member, Stony Mountain Formation (Upper Ordovician), Manitoba And North Dakota, Frederick K. Lobdell

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The Gunn Member of the Stony Mountain Formation has long been known to contain an abundant and diverse fauna. This study was undertaken to identify and describe the macrofauna of the Gunn Member in the subsurface of North Dakota, previously neglected.

As a necessary first step, collections of fossils from outcrop were examined and identified. With the outcrop fauna serving as a reference collection, twenty cores from the North Dakota subsurface were examined, described, and their fossils sampled. Fossil and sediment samples were washed and sieved and the residues were picked for microscopic representatives of phyla usually considered to be …

Road Log And Background Information For Grand Forks--Larimore--Grand Forks, Laurie Kay Wutzke Kumar

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The Effect Of Food Cue Prominence On Eating Behavior, Jill M. Plevell-Omdahl

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Brother Samuel : An Original Play Implicating The Technique Of Presentational Subtext Revelation To Acquire Empathy, David T. Rodriquez

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