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Outside Things, Jacob Sorenson May 2011

Outside Things, Jacob Sorenson

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My thesis is a description of the issues encountered during the process of research and construction of the objects leading to, and consisting of, the work shown in Outside Things. The work is my attempt to gain personal insight into the complicated relationship between nature and culture. Through abstract furniture objects, floral patterns, and robots I explore the relationship between actual landscape and the constructed man-made bio-mimicry that convolutes the definition of Nature.

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Craft Cyborg, Laina Seay May 2011

Craft Cyborg, Laina Seay

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By merging the ancient associations that clay has with the human form and prosthetic science I question the relevancy and role of the human body in the future. As prosthetics heighten the awareness of the body through absence these additive limbs further this relevancy by presence. With greater advances in genetic engineering and plastic surgery biology will no longer dominate and these ridged clay extensions could become flesh.

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Producto Centro Americano : Made In Honduras, Alma Leiva May 2011

Producto Centro Americano : Made In Honduras, Alma Leiva

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PRODUCTO CENTRO AMERICANO: MADE IN HONDURAS By Alma Leiva Master of Fine Arts A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011. Thesis Director: Robert Paris, Professor Kinetic Imaging / Photography and Film I was born in 1973 in Honduras, a country under military regime. In 1982 after 20 years of military rule, Honduras finally had democratic elections. During that decade, and as a consequence of the cold war, the kidnapping, torturing, murder and disappearance of civilians became common practices among the Honduran military. …

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Analysis Of The Mechanism By Which Ykl-40 Promotes Glioma Cell Migration, Bahiya Osrah May 2011

Analysis Of The Mechanism By Which Ykl-40 Promotes Glioma Cell Migration, Bahiya Osrah

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This thesis elucidates the crucial role of YKL-40 in enhancing glioma cell migration and invasion in vitro. Increased levels of YKL-40 are specifically associated with the increased invasive capacity of glioma multiforme (GBM) tumors and lower survival rate of GBM patients. In order to examine the effects of YKL-40 on the migration and invasion of GBM cells, we overexpressed YKL-40 in three different glioma cell lines. The overexpression of YKL-40 significantly enhanced glioma cells migration and invasion in vitro and also increased ERK phosphorylation, which is believed to enhance glioma cell survival, and invasiveness. Although receptors for YKL-40 are still …

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Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Reduces Dendritic Spine Density Across Sensory Cortices, Francis Oppong May 2011

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Reduces Dendritic Spine Density Across Sensory Cortices, Francis Oppong

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Dendritic spines are the major site of excitatory synapses in cortex, and factors that reduce dendritic spine numbers will produce serious cortical processing deficits, such as has been demonstrated for mental retardation and other psychiatric disorders. Prenatal alcohol exposure also has detrimental effects on brain development that lead to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), which results in reduction of dendritic spine numbers in the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex and somatosensory cortex. FASD also is associated with temporal processing disorders involving sequential auditory stimuli that would be processed in auditory cortical areas. However, it is unknown if the reduction of spine density …

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Feet Touching The Floor, Ashley Lyon May 2011

Feet Touching The Floor, Ashley Lyon

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Realism, the uncanny, the figure, empathy, humanism, sculpture, feet, architecture, photography, oscillation, tin, installation, material, form, Herzog, projection, tactility, subject, haptics, sensibility, wax, portraits, space, embodied perception, rendering, duplication, thing, object, fragment, body, gaze, clay, god, man.

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Analysis Of Nfi-X3 And Stat3 Interaction And Its Functions, Etsegenet Tizazu May 2011

Analysis Of Nfi-X3 And Stat3 Interaction And Its Functions, Etsegenet Tizazu

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YKL-40 is a secreted protein that is highly up-regulated in malignant glioblastoma (GBM). Its expression is correlated with the invasive nature of GBMs and poor diagnosis of patients (Nigro et al., 2005). Previous research has shown that in astrocytes and GBM cells, YKL-40 expression is regulated by two transcription factors, NFI-X3 and STAT3, which form a complex with each other (Singh et al., 2011). Here, we show that the N-terminal domain of NFI-X3 is sufficient and required for its interaction with STAT3. We also show that the DNA-binding domain of NFI-X3 is required to induce YKL-40 expression. Thus, the interaction …

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Computational Modeling Of Mulitsensory Processing Using Network Of Spiking Neurons, Hun Ki Lim May 2011

Computational Modeling Of Mulitsensory Processing Using Network Of Spiking Neurons, Hun Ki Lim

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Multisensory processing in the brain underlies a wide variety of perceptual phenomena, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms of how multisensory neurons are generated and how the neurons integrate sensory information from environmental events. This lack of knowledge is due to the difficulty of biological experiments to manipulate and test the characteristics of multisensory processing. By using a computational model of multisensory processing this research seeks to provide insight into the mechanisms of multisensory processing. From a computational perspective, modeling of brain functions involves not only the computational model itself but also the conceptual definition of the brain …

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Meaning Maintenance In Close Relationships, Daryl R. Van Tongeren May 2011

Meaning Maintenance In Close Relationships, Daryl R. Van Tongeren

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The human motivation for meaning has been a longstanding topic of inquiry, and recent research has begun to investigate how individuals maintain a sense of meaning in life. Given the importance of social connectedness in human life, as well as the role of relationships in providing a sense of meaningfulness, the present investigation explored meaning maintenance within the domain of close relationships. Specifically, a theoretical model for interpersonal meaning maintenance is presented, which proposes that moral actions—particularly forgiveness—are oriented toward restoring relationship quality, and, in turn, meaning in life, in the wake of interpersonal transgressions. The tenets of this model …

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Coherent Turbulence: Synthesizing Tree Motion In The Wind Using Cfd And Noise, Anthony Frank Selino May 2011

Coherent Turbulence: Synthesizing Tree Motion In The Wind Using Cfd And Noise, Anthony Frank Selino

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Animating trees in wind has long been a problem in computer graphics. Progress on this problem is important for both visual effects and biomechanics and may inform future work on two-way coupling between turbulent flows and deformable objects. Synthetic turbulence added to a coarse fluid simulation has been used to produce convincing animations of turbulent flows, but only considers one-way coupling between fluid and solid. We produce accurate animations of tree motion by creating a two-way coupling between synthetic turbulence and semipermeable proxy geometry. The resulting animations exhibit global wind sheltering effects and branch tips have motion paths which match …

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Turning To The Bottle For Answers: Identifying Racial Differences In Predictors Of Risk Drinking Among College Women, Melody Mickens May 2011

Turning To The Bottle For Answers: Identifying Racial Differences In Predictors Of Risk Drinking Among College Women, Melody Mickens

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Epidemiological data suggest that alcohol use and related problems have increased among college women. The current study examined psychosocial predictors of risk drinking in a sample of college women (N=360), whether race moderated this relationship. Potential predictors included: daily smoker; premenstrual syndrome (PMS) symptom severity; age at first alcohol use, negative affect, parental history of alcohol problems and minority status. Analyses found that somatic PMS symptom severity score, age of first alcohol use, daily smoking, age of first alcohol use and non-minority status were related. Findings suggest that minority group membership was associated with low risk drinking, while somatic PMS …

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Cumulative Risks To Eastern Oysters, Crassostrea Virginica In The James River, Va, Vrushali Lele May 2011

Cumulative Risks To Eastern Oysters, Crassostrea Virginica In The James River, Va, Vrushali Lele

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In an effort to apply Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) as developed by the U.S. EPA, the present study investigates the cumulative risks to Eastern oysters due to multiple stressors such as salinity, temperature and oxygen and carbon dioxide. I also compared the effectiveness of the Hazard Quotient Method (HQ) in CRA. Ambient conditions in the James River, VA were obtained from the Virginia DEQ database and respiratory responses were estimated using values from the literature. The multiple environmental stresses are evaluated using a probabilistic analysis that combines the environmental conditions. It was concluded that salinity was the most influential stressor …

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Defining The Bacterial Flora Of Periodontal Pockets In Chronic Periodontitis Patients, Rafael Rodriguez May 2011

Defining The Bacterial Flora Of Periodontal Pockets In Chronic Periodontitis Patients, Rafael Rodriguez

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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to describe the subgingival bacterial biodiversity in untreated chronic periodontitis patients through the use of next generation 16S rRNA molecular analysis, and to determine similarities or differences between deep and shallow pockets within the same patients. METHODS: The analysis involved paired subgingival plaque samples from 24 subjects diagnosed with Generalized Moderate to Severe Chronic Periodontitis. One sample was selected from a single site having a probing depth >5 mm (i.e. Deep Site), and the other from a site with a probing depth <3mm (i.e. Shallow Site) within each subject. Bacterial DNA amplification of the V4-V6 region of the 16S rRNA was performed. The amplicons were sequenced via 454 Roche Genome Sequencer FLX System. The identified sequences were evaluated, and then compared to calculated false discovery rates. RESULTS: A total of 119 independent microbial genera were identified within the samples analyzed. Seven genera were identified to be statistically significant (p<0.05) in their association to deep or shallow sites following t-test and boot strap randomization: Actinomyces (p=0.004), Methylobacterium (p=0.028), Veillonella (p=0.028), and Rothia (p=0.038), and Streptococcus (p=0.033) in Shallow sites; while Mycoplasma (p=0.007) and Fusobacterium (p=0.016) were associated with deep sites. However, taking into account the calculated false discovery rates, it is suggested that none of the 119 microbial genera identified in this study were significantly associated with either deep nor shallow sites. CONCLUSION: The microbial genera identified within this study to be associated with deep and shallow sites follows the traditional pattern anticipated from the literature. However, the calculated false discovery rates suggest that these results may have occurred by chance and not due to a true difference.

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Developing A Remote Sensing Algorithm For Deriving Soil Moisture From Spectral Reflectance, Santosh Rijal May 2011

Developing A Remote Sensing Algorithm For Deriving Soil Moisture From Spectral Reflectance, Santosh Rijal

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Wet weather cycle since 1993 has brought ground water level closer to the surface of the soil in many areas in the Red River Valley (RRV) of the North basin. Many farmers have to delay spring plantation or autumn harvest due to excessive moisture in', their farmland. In such case, it becomes increasingly important to have timely and accurate information on the soil moisture conditions. Conventional soil moisture measurement techniques are point-based that results in poor spatial representation of soil moisture. Remote sensing techniques offer many potential advantages over traditional means such as repetitive coverage and areal representation. The objective …

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Vitamin D And Malignant Melanoma Outcomes, Jenna L. Green May 2011

Vitamin D And Malignant Melanoma Outcomes, Jenna L. Green

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Ultraviolet exposure from sunlight and other sources is the major risk factor for the development of malignant melanoma of the skin. Exposure to sunlight is also the main pathway the human body obtains vitamin D. Cell proliferation, differentiation and inhibition is mediated in part by vitamin D, leading researchers to suspect vitamin D has a protective role in various cancers, including melanoma. The purpose of the project was to review the current available literature focusing on the relationship between vitamin D levels and melanoma outcomes. The review of the literature was designed to address the clinical question: What is the …

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Preventing The Spread Of Infections In Patients' Homes: What Is The Best Evidence?, Julie Ferry May 2011

Preventing The Spread Of Infections In Patients' Homes: What Is The Best Evidence?, Julie Ferry

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Nurses need evidence-based practices to prevent the spread of infections in patients' homes. Nursing equipment must be cleaned and disinfected properly between patients and proper hand hygiene should be done to decrease health-care associated infections in the home and community setting. A review and synthesis of the most current literature was done by searching the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Database, Google Scholar™ and Google™ databases. Key words include infection control, home visits, public health, cleaning, home health, equipment, disinfectants and combinations of those words. Tools were created for dissemination to nurses providing care in …

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Theory-Derived Approaches To Behavioral And Psychological Symptoms Of Dementia, Bethany Speecy May 2011

Theory-Derived Approaches To Behavioral And Psychological Symptoms Of Dementia, Bethany Speecy

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As the world's population ages, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other conditions that cause dementia is expected to increase. Although there is some awareness of the dangers of psychotropic drugs used to address behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, all too often these agents continue to be used as first-line treatment. Nurses need to be cognizant of safer, efficacious, holistic nonpharmacological approaches and utilize these in an individualized, systematic manner. Two mid-range nursing theories, the Need-Driven Dementia-Compromised Behavior model and the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold model, provide conceptual frameworks for nonpharmacological interventions. This paper examines these models and describes …

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Production Of Fermentable Sugars And Lipids By Microalgae From Secondarily Treated Municipal Wastewater, Jen Chao Liu Apr 2011

Production Of Fermentable Sugars And Lipids By Microalgae From Secondarily Treated Municipal Wastewater, Jen Chao Liu

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In this paper, replacing complete or partly of growth mediums with secondarily wastewater was studied. Lipid content of Neochloris oleoabundans grown in a 0.3 X SE medium and autoclaved secondarily treated wastewater mixture was 22.27 % (w/w). The maximum biomass concentration of N. oleoabundans grown in wastewater with no additional nutrients was 0.636 g/L with 33% (w/w) glucose. Two culture lines, MA, and NA were isolated within our laboratory and could grow in secondarily treated wastewater with no additional nutrients. The maximum biomass concentration of MA in batch culture was 0.860 g/L and the sum of glucose and xylose was …

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A Minimum Spanning Tree Based Clustering Algorithm For High Throughput Biological Data, Harun Pirim Apr 2011

A Minimum Spanning Tree Based Clustering Algorithm For High Throughput Biological Data, Harun Pirim

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A new minimum spanning tree (MST) based heuristic for clustering biological data is proposed. The heuristic uses MSTs to generate initial solutions and applies a local search to improve the solutions. Local search transfers the nodes to the clusters with which they have the most connections, if this transfer improves the objective function value. A new objective function is defined and used in the heuristic. The objective function considers both tightness and separation of the clusters. Tightness is obtained by minimizing the maximum diameter among all clusters. Separation is obtained by minimizing the maximum number of connections of a gene …

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Evaluation Of Mechanical Site Preparation And Oust Xp Treatments On Survival And Growth Of Three Oak Species Planted On Retired Agricultural Areas And A Case Study Of A Mixed Nuttall Oak-Green Ash Planting, Andrew Brady Self Apr 2011

Evaluation Of Mechanical Site Preparation And Oust Xp Treatments On Survival And Growth Of Three Oak Species Planted On Retired Agricultural Areas And A Case Study Of A Mixed Nuttall Oak-Green Ash Planting, Andrew Brady Self

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Bare-root Nuttall oak, Shumard oak, and swamp chestnut oak seedlings were planted on former agricultural fields in Mississippi to evaluate growth and survival following treatment by different combinations of mechanical site preparation and pre-emergent Oust XP® applications. Mechanical treatments included: (1) controls, (2) subsoiling treatment, (3) bedding treatment, and (4) combination plowing. Pre-emergent Oust XP® treatments included: (1) one-year Oust XP® applications and (2) two-year Oust XP® applications. Evaluations and measurements were performed over the course of three years. Results within this dissertation should be considered in the context of high quality former agricultural sites with silt loam soils. Seedling …

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Effects Of Phosphate Type, Antimicrobials And Processing Methods On The Quality, Shelf-Life And Sensory Characteristics Of Enhanced Catfish Fillets, Sovann Kin Apr 2011

Effects Of Phosphate Type, Antimicrobials And Processing Methods On The Quality, Shelf-Life And Sensory Characteristics Of Enhanced Catfish Fillets, Sovann Kin

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Catfish fillets that were enhanced with salt and various phosphate treatments through vacuum tumbling or multi-needle injection were evaluated for yield, protein exudate (only tumbling), surface color, pH, cooking loss, tenderness, purge loss and shelf-life. An agglomerated sodium phosphate blend (AGSP) was the optimum treatment for both vacuum tumbling and multi-needle injection and was further utilized in conjunction with potassium lactate (PL) and/or potassium acetate (PA) through vacuum tumbling to determine their effect on the quality, shelf-life and sensory characteristics of enhanced catfish fillets. In addition, the combination of AGSP and PA+PL that maximized shelf-life was further utilized in conjunction …

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Predominance Of Bacillus Anthracis In The Biological Population Of An Activated Sludge Reactor, Robert Frederick Hoyt Apr 2011

Predominance Of Bacillus Anthracis In The Biological Population Of An Activated Sludge Reactor, Robert Frederick Hoyt

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The effects of heavy metals, endocrine disruptors, and other contaminants on activated sludge and wastewater treatment operations have been studied extensively. However, the potential for infiltration of bacterial species not native to activated sludge has not been extensively examined. This project investigated the effect of the contamination of activated sludge wastewater treatment systems by Bacillus anthracis. From a pure culture of Bacillus megaterium inoculations of two bench-scale, sequencing batch reactors with different solids retention times was studied. Microbial enumeration testing was initially done on the mixed liquor alone, but to further detail the Bacillus path through the reactor, further testing …

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A Proteomic Approach To Profiling The Pipping Muscle Of The Broiler Embryo, Adebayo Oluwaseun Sokale Apr 2011

A Proteomic Approach To Profiling The Pipping Muscle Of The Broiler Embryo, Adebayo Oluwaseun Sokale

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The Musculus complexus (pipping muscle) plays a primary role in the hatching of the chick from the eggshell at the end of its embryonic life. Various metabolic and cellular changes have been associated with the pipping muscle during development. These studies profiled the pipping muscle at the molecular level by identifying proteins which are associated with the developmental changes. In the first phase of the study, protein expression profile of the Day 13 chicken embryo pipping muscle was obtained using DDF with nano HPLC mass spectrometric analyzer. Identified proteins were categorized based on Gene Ontology. In the second phase, pipping …

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Agricultural Conservation Buffers For Breeding Grassland Birds In Eastern Mississippi, Heidi Lynn Adams Apr 2011

Agricultural Conservation Buffers For Breeding Grassland Birds In Eastern Mississippi, Heidi Lynn Adams

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Periodic disturbance in CP33 habitat buffers is required to maintain early-successional plant communities for grassland birds. However, effects of disturbance on habitat suitability and nesting success of grassland birds are unknown. Furthermore, the grassland bird community and reproductive performance in CP33 habitat buffers may be influenced by the landscape context (e.g., edge habitat, surrounding land cover). My objectives for this study were to determine how periodic disturbance and the agricultural landscape mosaic influence the breeding grassland bird community in buffers, and how these same factors influence grassland bird nesting success and density in buffers. Data collected during line-transect surveys conducted …

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Antibiotics Induce Prostagladin E2 Production And Cytotoxicity In Equine Chondrocytes That Can Be Inhibited By Avocado Soybean Unsaponifiables, Glucosamine, And Chondroitin Sulfate, Cathleen Ann Mochal-King Apr 2011

Antibiotics Induce Prostagladin E2 Production And Cytotoxicity In Equine Chondrocytes That Can Be Inhibited By Avocado Soybean Unsaponifiables, Glucosamine, And Chondroitin Sulfate, Cathleen Ann Mochal-King

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Amikacin (AK) and enrofloxacin (EF) concentrations consistent with intra-articular and regional limb perfusion were evaluated for their effects on equine chondrocytes. We evaluated the production of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) by equine chondrocytes in response to AK and EF administration,and if the combination of avocado soybean unsaponifiables (ASU), glucosamine (GLU), and chondroitin sulfate (CS) could reduce the production of PGE2. Monolayer cell cultures of equine chondrocytes were treated with clinically relevant concentrations of AK and EF plus combinations of ASU, GLU, and CS.AK and EF generated a dose dependent cytotoxicity. The induction of PGE2 following EF administration was significantly greater than …

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Artificial Regeneration Of Bottomland Hardwoods In Southern Mississippi On Lands Damaged By Hurricane Katrina, Derek Kyle Alkire Apr 2011

Artificial Regeneration Of Bottomland Hardwoods In Southern Mississippi On Lands Damaged By Hurricane Katrina, Derek Kyle Alkire

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Bare-root, container, and root production method (RPM™) seedlings of two oak species (Nuttall (Quercus texana Buckley), cherrybark (Q. pagoda Ell.)) were planted on lands damaged by Hurricane Katrina in southern Mississippi to compare the height growth, groundline diameter growth and survival of the different planting stocks. Tree shelters were applied to half of the bare-root seedlings to determine their effect on the height and groundline diameter growth and survival of the seedlings. RPM seedlings exhibited significantly greater height and groundline diameter growth than bare-root or container seedlings after one growing season. Bare-root seedlings exhibited significantly greater height and groundline diameter …

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Asperger's Syndrome And Learning Strategies: Are Difficulties Due To A Production Deficit Or To A Utilization Deficit?, Miranda Lee Morris Apr 2011

Asperger's Syndrome And Learning Strategies: Are Difficulties Due To A Production Deficit Or To A Utilization Deficit?, Miranda Lee Morris

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This study investigated whether knowledge about memory strategies was impaired in a group of young adults with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) as compared to a group of young adults without AS. Both groups participated in two tasks, one designed to examine the categorization strategy and one to examine the interactive imagery strategy. Participants with AS showed a production deficit because they were unable to spontaneously produce either strategy to benefit their memory performance. However, the group with AS did not show evidence of a utilization deficit; when they were trained on strategies, they were able to use them effectively both immediately …

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Assessment And Prediction Of Streambank Erosion Rates In A Southeastern Plains Ecoregion Watershed In Mississippi, John Jairo Ramirez Avila Apr 2011

Assessment And Prediction Of Streambank Erosion Rates In A Southeastern Plains Ecoregion Watershed In Mississippi, John Jairo Ramirez Avila

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The Town Creek Watershed (TCW) is a representative area of the Tombigbee River Basin and the Southeastern Plains Ecoregion in Mississippi. The principal channel and four main tributaries have been included for several years within the MS Section 303(d) list of waterbodies biologically impaired due to sediment. The TMDL developed for TCW recommended that streams located near cultivated lands, road crossings and construction activities are a priority for streambank and riparian buffer zone restoration and sediment loads reduction. Development of remedial measures and future BMPs within TCW for reducing water quality impairment and downstream dredging costs requires identification of sediment …

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Distribution And Management Of Invasive Plant Species In The Ross Barnett Reservoir, Michael Christopher Cox Apr 2011

Distribution And Management Of Invasive Plant Species In The Ross Barnett Reservoir, Michael Christopher Cox

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A point intercept survey was conducted from 2005 to 2010 on the Ross Barnett Reservoir near Jackson, MS to calculate the frequency of occurrence of all aquatic plant species in the Reservoir. style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Water lotus ( style='mso-bidiont-style:normal'>Nelumbo lutea Willd.) was the native species that occurred most often, while alligatorweed (Alternanthera style='mso-bidiont-style:normal'> philoxeroides [Mart.] Griseb.) occurred most often with regard to non-natives. A logistic regression model indicated that as species richness increases, the probability of observing a non-native species also increases. Herbicide evaluations implied that the chemical imazapyr provided the largest biomass reduction in alligatorweed over a twelve week period; …

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Effect Of Hunting Frequency On Duck Abundance, Harvest, And Hunt Quality In Mississippi, Elizabeth Anne St James Apr 2011

Effect Of Hunting Frequency On Duck Abundance, Harvest, And Hunt Quality In Mississippi, Elizabeth Anne St James

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Waterfowl hunting is important historically, culturally, and economically in Mississippi and North America. I evaluated effect of hunting frequency (2 or 4 days/week) on duck abundance, harvest, and hunters’ perceived quality of their experience on Mississippi Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). Neither relative abundance nor harvest of all ducks, mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), northern shoveler (A. clypeata), or green-winged teal (A. crecca) differed between experimental hunting frequencies. Duck harvest increased with hours spent afield. Hunters’ perceived quality did not differ between hunting frequencies but was greatest when hunters harvested > 4 ducks/ day and increased with harvest of larger sized ducks. I suggest …

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