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Hierarchial Roots And Shoots Or Opera Jehovae Magna! (Psalms 111:2), Dan H. Nicolson

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

The philosophy of Linnaeus's classification, Systema Naturae, is briefly reviewed, as well as those of post-Linnaean systems of plant classification. Texts of current codes of nomenclature pertaining to hierarchy, including associated rank terminations, are compared.

Problems In Cladistic Classification: Higher-Level Relationships In Land Plants, Peter R. Crane, Paul Kenrick

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Recent cladistic analyses of green plants recognize an extensive hierarchical series of relatively well-supported monophyletic groups. Translating this hierarchical pattern of relationships into a usable and informative written classification is important for purposes of scientific communication, research and teaching. However, in the context of the "Linnean" hierarchy, as manifested in the current International code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN), effecting this translation confronts substantial practical difficulties--especially the proliferation of hierarchical levels. These problems are exacerbated by the current emphasis of the ICBN on a hierarchy in which different ranks have different formal rank-based endings. These difficulties could be ameliorated by de-emphasizing …

Classification: More Than Just Branching Patterns Of Evolution, Tod F. Stuessy

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

The past 35 years in biological systematics have been a time of remarkable philosophical and methodological developments. For nearly a century after Darwin's Origin of Species, systematists worked to understand the diversity of nature based on evolutionary relationships. Numerous concepts were presented and elaborated upon, such as homology, parallelism, divergence, primitiveness and advancedness, cladogenesis and anagenesis. Classifications were based solidly on phylogenetic concepts; they were avowedly monophyletic. Phenetics emphasized the immense challenges represented by phylogeny reconstruction and advised against basing classifications upon it. Pheneticists forced reevaluation of all previous classificatory efforts, and objectivity and repeatability in both grouping and …

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Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

No abstract provided.

Epochal Change: War Over Social And Political Organization, Robert J. Bunker

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

The United States has been less affected by this process than most other Western nation-states; we seem to prosper despite such challenges. However, the breakdown of the family, increased drug use among our children, the growing specter of gang violence, and other forms of social terrorism suggest that our own institutions are not immune to a degree of chaos. Ralph Peters, in an earlier Parameters article, stated succinctly that we are witnessing "a struggle to redefine human meaning."[3] Regardless of the state of the revolution to which he referred, the struggle he describes is far from ended. If the examples …

Molecular Analysis Of An Enhancin Gene In The Lymantria Dispar Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus, David S. Bischoff, James M. Slavicek

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

A Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus (LdMNPV) gene has been identified that encodes a homolog to the granulovirus (GV) enhancin proteins that are capable of enhancing the infection of other baculoviruses. Enhancin genes have been identified and sequenced for three species of GVs but have not been found in any other nuclear polyhedrosis virus to date. The LdMNPV enhancin gene is located between 67.6 and 70.1 kbp on the viral genome. Northern and primer extension analyses of viral RNAs indicate that the enhancin gene transcripts are expressed at late times postinfection from a consensus baculovirus late promoter. The LdMNPV enhancin …

American Public Education And Change: Not An Oxymoron, Victoria J. Dodd

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

Suffolk Journal Vol. 56, No. 12, 12/03/1997, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

Suffolk Journal Vol. 56, No. 5, 10/08/1997, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

Suffolk Journal Vol. 56, No. 9, 11/05/1997, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

Knots And Links In Three-Dimensional Flows, Robert W. Ghrist, Philip J. Holmes, Michael C. Sullivan

Books, Monographs, Book Chapters and Lecture Notes

No abstract provided.

Taps (1997), Clemson University

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Annual Salary Report: 1996-1997, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

The report contains salaries for all full-time faculty from each budget unit. The first listings are by salary by rank. The second set of listings are by salary by rank within each budget unit. Mean contract salaries for unit and for rank within unit are also given.

Practitioners' News - Winter 1997, Volume 25, Number 2, Nova Southeastern University

Practitioners' News

No abstract provided.

Two Precipices, One Chasm: The Economics Of Physician-Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia, Nelson Lund

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

In Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill, the Supreme Court refused to create a constitutional right to assisted suicide, but apparently left Congress and the states wide discretion to experiment with new legislation. For the moment, most jurisdictions seem inclined to preserve the traditional legal prohibitions against this practice. Deeper forces in our society, however, may soon push us toward accepting assisted suicide, and much harsher forms of hastened dying as well.

This Article presents two distinct but related arguments. Part I argues that legalizing assisted suicide, whether through judicial or legislative action, would be a mistake because the …

Crossings, 1997, Roger Williams University

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Advanced Glycation Endproducts And The Development Of Accelerated Atherosclerosis In Diabetic Apolipoprotein E Deficient Mice, Lisa Park

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide On Chloride Conductance In Airway Epithelial Cells, Shelagh Anne Houghton

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

No abstract provided.

1997-1998 Louisiana Tech Catalog, Louisiana Tech University

Louisiana Tech University Catalogs

The Louisiana Tech University Catalog includes announcements and course descriptions for courses offered at Louisiana Tech University for the academic year of 1997-1998.

Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.

Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.

Sex/Textual Conflicts In The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath's Doubling Negatives, Renée C. Hoogland

English Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Oklahoma.......Out Of Ashes, Nicole Slaughter

Calliope (1954-2001)

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater State College Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 1997-1998, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater State College Catalogs, 1960-2009

No abstract provided.

1997-1999 Catalog, Wku Graduate School

Graduate School

Graduate School catalog regarding admissions, curriculum and policies.

Sex Differences In Visual-Spatial Ability: Components Of Cognitive Processing, Susan Loring-Meier

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Use Of Learning-Logs In High School Pre-Algebra Classes To Improve Mastery Of Rational Numbers And Linear Equations For High-Risk Minority Students, Peter August Sehlmeyer

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a relationship in the use of learning-logs to traditional or current math instruction in secondary school pre-algebra classes to improve the mastery of single-variable equations by high-risk minority students.

Are We Being Fair To Females?: A Look At Gender Differences In Science, Keith Andrew Prather

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Anti-Neoplastic Activity In Cancerous And Non-Cancerous Cells Using Nuclear Growth Indicators, James Michael Williams

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Incorporating The Multiple Intelligence Theory Of Teaching To Reach All Students In The Elementary Classroom, Amy Kathleen Hocker

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to analyse research regarding the benefits of using the Multiple Intelligence Theory of teaching in the elementary school setting.