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Caroliniana Columns - Spring 1998, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter - Columns

Contents:

From the President's Pen..... p.1
Researching African-American History at the South Caroliniana Library..... p.1
Conserving South Carolina's Past for its Future..... p.2
Endowments Enrich the Holdings of the South Caroliniana Library..... p.2
Photographic Finds..... p.3
Grants Projects Underway..... p.3
Civil War History in the Wateree Swamp..... p.5
The Year in Review: 1997 at the South Caroliniana Library..... p.7
Memorials..... p.7
African-American Collections in the South Caroliniana library..... p.9
University Archives Exhibit..... p.11

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Spring 1998), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Spring 1998 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Opening Remarks
• PCOM Updates
• Our Centennial
• Planting the Seeds for Better Physician Communication
• Library Steps into 21st Century
• Convention Highlights
• Uncle Manny Leaves a Legacy
• Mission Milestones
• Profiles
• Lights, Camera, Action
• Class Notes
• Just Published
• In Memoriam
• Coming Events

Localization Of Human Cytomegalovirus Structural Proteins To The Nuclear Matrix Of Infected Human Fibroblasts, V. Sanchez, Peter C. Angeletti, J. A. Engler, W. J. Britt

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

The intranuclear assembly of herpesvirus subviral particles remains an incompletely understood process. Previous studies have described the nuclear localization of capsid and tegument proteins as well as intranuclear tegumentation of capsid-like particles. The temporally and spatially regulated replication of viral DNA suggests that assembly may also be regulated by compartmentalization of structural proteins. We have investigated the intranuclear location of several structural and nonstructural proteins of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). Tegument components including pp65 (ppUL83) and ppUL69 and capsid components including the major capsid protein (pUL86) and the small capsid protein (pUL48/49) were retained within the nuclear matrix (NM), whereas the …

Water Current, Volume 30, No. 2, April 1998

Water Current Newsletter

Blizzard Doesn't Hamper "Nebraska Water 2000" Conference
From the Director: NIWR Meetings in Washington D.C.; Research Discussed; Summer Water Tour
Of Boreholes, Bunyips and Boxing Day
Water Stewards Receive Annual Awards at Water Conference in Kearney
Summer Water Tour to Visit Arkansas and Republican River Basins in August
AWWA Research Foundation RFPs
Water News Briefs
Wetlands ID Now Available
How to Boost Your Golf Course Values
EPA Restoration Website
Community Outreach Kits
Nebraska Range Shortcourse
1998 NIWR Executive Summary Available Free from NU

State-Compelled Fetal Surgery: The Viability Test Is Not Viable, Krista L. Newkirk

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Changing World Of Genetics And Abortion: Why The Women's Movement Should Advocate For Limitations On The Right To Choose In The Area Of Genetic Technology, Renee C. Esfandiary

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Insider Trading And Family Values, Judith G. Greenberg

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Explosive Vapor Generation And Sampling In Conjunction With Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Saeed H. Almeer

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

The primary objective of this research is to develop an inexpensive and reliable method to generate vapor pulses of explosives using 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene TNTl for proof of concept. A secondary objective is to demonstrate the use of the vapor generator in various applications keeping in mind potential field scenarios involving explosives. A vapor generator/collector system was developed which gives reproducible pulses of TNT vapors at nanogram levels. The use of this technology was demonstrated in evaluating different surfaces for vapor adsorption of TNT in conjunction with ion mobility spectrometry as the primary analytical tool. Of the materials examined, Teflon was by …

Developmental And Hormonal Regulation Of The Expression Of Cytosolic Phospholipase A2 Protein Levels In Baboon Placenta, Kathleen Elizabeth Dunstan

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

Cytosolic phospholipase A₂ ( cPLA₂) specifically catalyzes the release of arachidonate from membrane phospholipids, thus initiating synthesis of prostaglandins, thromboxanes, and other eicosanoids. The human and nonhuman primate placenta actively synthesize high levels of eicosanoids which play both an autocrine and paracrine role in placental function. Previous studies in Dr. Miriam D. Rosenthal's laboratory have shown that cPLA₂ mRNA levels are developmentally regulated. The present study was designed to determine whether placental cPLA₂ protein levels increased during gestation. Since the marked increases in estrogen levels during normal pregnancy have been shown to enhance morphological and …

Effect Of Sampling Errors On Estimates Of Recruitment And Fishing Mortality From Separable Virtual Population Analysis, Emmanis Dorval

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Separable virtual population analysis (SVPA) models provide estimates of historical recruitment and fishing mortality from analyzing catch data based on the separability of fishing mortality into age specific-gear selection and yearly mortality. These models assume that the catch is randomly sampled and that sampling error is a random variable with constant variance and mean equal to zero. These models do not account for sampling measurement errors that occur when the catch partitioned by age is not measured on every sampling unit without error, and spatio-temporal errors that occur when the observed catch is not representative of the harvested population throughout …

Machiavellianism Achievement And Gender Roles, Kathleen M. Gibson

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

The focus of the current study was to find a relationship between Machiavellianism and achievement motivation. Gender, gender-role orientation, and college major were also introduced as variables. Two-hundred and forty university students majoring in either business or psychology completed various self-report measures. Results based on correlations and an analysis of variance produced the following results: Women of both majors had higher Machiavellian scores than males of both majors; business majors had a higher desire to work hard and were more competitive than psychology majors (especially males); scores on the Machiavellian scale positively correlated with competitiveness for females. For males, Machiavellianism …

Electrocortical Output And Hemispheric Contributions To The Alert State During A Sustained Attention Task, Treven Curtis Pickett

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study investigated the relative electrocortical contributions of specified cerebral locations and the potential motoric influence of handedness in a biocybernetic feedback environment. Thirty six right-handed subjects engaged in two sixteen minute trials of a compensatory tracking task by guiding (via a joystick) a circle over a stationary target presented on a computer screen, performing one trial with their preferred (right) and one using their non-preferred (left) hand.

For each subject, a Macintosh computer interpreted electrocortical activity through an engagement index (20*beta/(alpha+theta)) and changed the task mode, i.e. manual (subject guides the task) or automatic (computer guides the task) as …

A Needs Assessment For A Distance Education Baccalaureate Degree Completion Program For Associate Degree Level Dental Hygienist, Joan Gugino Ellison

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this descriptive research was to determine the need for a distance education program for geographically dispersed dental hygienists to complete a baccalaureate degree program in dental hygiene. The sample consisted of randomly selected licensed dental hygienists in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A self-designed instrument, titled The Distance Education for a Dental Hygiene Degree Completion Program Questionnaire, was mailed to the study participants after establishing validity and reliability. The questionnaire asked participants to provide information concerning personal demographics, educational background, and interest in completing a dental hygiene baccalaureate degree via distance education. Frequencies, percentages, crosstabulations, chi-square test …

Material Evaluation By Pulsed Diode Laser Optoacoustics, Xiaodong Xu

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Pulsed diode laser optoacoustic diagnostics were carried out to characterize solid sample materials. The apparatus developed is compact, portable, cost-effective and therefore very promising for both industrial as well as laboratory applications. To our knowledge, this is the first time that optoacoustic characterization and measurement have been performed with a diode laser. The method was successfully applied to measure the thickness of a multilayer structure non-intrusively. Internal cracks of the material were detected by this technique.

A theory for optoacoustic signal generation, propagation and detection is given. A numerical analysis technique is developed to solve for the expected signal. In …

Pressure-Induced Intracellular Signaling In Isolated Arteries, Victor A. Miriel

Theses and Dissertations in Biomedical Sciences

The ability of cells to respond to mechanical stimuli has been studied through a variety of techniques in numerous cell types. The cells of the vascular wall have adapted to specific mechanical stresses through the activation of intracellular signaling pathways which result in cell-specific responses such as hypertrophy, hyperplasia, proliferation, and migration. Vascular smooth muscle of the arteries have been shown to be sensitive to mechanical stimuli such as stretch, and pressure.

This study attempts to add to the current knowledge of mechanotransduction by utilizing the isolated artery preparation. This preparation allows for the study of vascular smooth muscle signal …

Mathematical Models Of Tumors And Their Remote Metastases, Carryn Bellomo

Mathematics & Statistics Theses & Dissertations

Clinical observations and indications in the literature have led us to investigate several models of tumors. For example, it has been shown that a tumor has the ability to send out anti-growth factors, or inhibitors, to keep its remote metastases from growing. Thus, we model the depleting effect of such a growth inhibitor after the removal of the primary tumor (thus removing the source) as a function of time t and distance from the original tumor r.

It has also been shown clinically that oxygen and glucose are nutrients critical to the survival and growth of tumors. Thus, we model …

Reaction-Diffusion Models Of Cancer Dispersion, Kim Yvette Ward

Mathematics & Statistics Theses & Dissertations

The phenomenological modeling of the spatial distribution and temporal evolution of one-dimensional models of cancer dispersion are studied. The models discussed pertain primarily to the transition of a tumor from an initial neoplasm to the dormant avascular state, i.e. just prior to the vascular state, whenever that may occur. Initiating the study is the mathematical analysis of a reaction-diffusion model describing the interaction between cancer cells, normal cells and growth inhibitor. The model leads to several predictions, some of which are supported by experimental data and clinical observations $\lbrack25\rbrack$. We will examine the effects of additional terms on these characteristics. …

The Role Of Glycoconjugates In Mediating Human Fertilization And Induction Of Fetomaternal Tolerance, Manish S. Patankar

Theses and Dissertations in Biomedical Sciences

Using the hemizona assay (HZA), a in vitro sperm-egg binding assay, we show that specific glycoconjugates known to inhibit immune cell interactions mediated by the selectins, potently block human sperm-egg binding. The selectin ligand sialyl Lewis^x inhibits sperm binding in the HZA by 60% at a concentration of 1 mg/ml. Our data indicates that glycodelin-A, a endometrial glycoprotein known to block sperm-egg binding in the HZA at low concentrations expresses unusual fucosylated lacdiNAc type glycans. The fucosylated lacdiNAc type sugars have been previously shown to be 15-20 fold more potent ligands of E-selectin. Glycodelin-S a seminal plasma glycoform of …

Studies On The Biology Of Striga Aspera (Scrophulariaceae) In Nigeria, Emmanuel Izaka Aigbokhan

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Studies on Striga aspera are few and little information exists on its relationship with the morphologically similar and much studied S. hermonthica. Both species are sympatric in West Africa and if they hybridize, may serve as virulent gene reservoirs for each other.

The primary focus of this study was on the biology of S. aspera in Nigeria. The research focussed on its distribution, phenology, cytology, hybridization, seed dormancy, viability and germination in relation to S. hermonthica. Related studies involving the hybrids include genetic and morphological variability, pathogenicity and the simultaneous dual infection of a maize plant by both species.

In …

Women's Voice, April 1998, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Women's Voice (1991-2006)

No abstract provided.

1998 Tenth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"Research is the fundamental activity of science. By engaging in authentic research, one can better appreciate the concepts and theories underlying science and discover new pathways for improving the human condition."

The Relationship Between Nectar Sources And Regal Fritillary (Speyeria Idalia Drury) Butterfly Populations., Jeffrey J. Huebschman

Student Work

I investigated the relationship between nectar source diversity and regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia Drury) butterfly populations at ten native tallgrass prairie sites in eastern Nebraska. Walking-transect surveys were used to establish regal fritillary population-density indices in 1996 and 1997. Flowering-plant surveys were also conducted, coincident with the butterfly surveys, and were used to develop blossom-density, and abundance indices. Spearman rank correlation was used to examine relationships between regal fritillary density indices and plant survey variables. Two significant, positive correlations were identified between (1) 1996 population-density indices and 1996 blossom-diversity indices for known nectaring sources of the regal fritillary (n = …

Columns Spring 1998, Southern Adventist University

Alumni Newsletter

Features the article "Students Learn by Living History". Exploring some of Southern's most popular, new history classes which promote active student involvement.

Focal Spot, Spring 1998

Focal Spot All Issues

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Catalog, 1998-1999, Eastern Washington University

Course Catalogs

Eastern Washington University's course catalog from the fall of 1998 through the summer of 1999.

Mechanomorphosis: Science, Management, And “Human Machinery” In Industrial Canada, 1900–45, Cynthia Comacchio

History Faculty Publications

By the early 20th century, the changes taking place in western industrial capitalist nations prompted an adaptive shift in the socioeconomic delineation of human bodies, and in scientific theories about how they worked and how they could be put to work. Just as the rising social sciences borrowed from medicine to convey images of social malaise, medicine increasingly appropriated an industrial vocabulary to conceptualize bodily health. Depicted variously as a machine, a motor, a factory in itself, the human body absorbed industrial symbolism. Modern industry demanded an intensification of labour that made bodily efficiency paramount. The corresponding definition of health …

Immunochemical And Immunocytochemical Identification Of A Myosin Heavy Chain Polypeptide In Nicotiana Pollen Tubes, X. J. Tang, P. K. Hepler, Stylianos P. Scordilis

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

A myosin heavy chain polypeptide has been identified and localized in Nicotiana pollen tubes using monoclonal anti-myosin antibodies. The epitopes of these antibodies were found to reside on the myosin heavy chain head and rod portion and were, therefore, designated anti-S-1 (myosin S-1) and anti-LMM (light meromyosin). On Western blots of the total soluble pollen tube proteins, both anti-S-1 and anti-LMM label a polypeptide of approximately 175,000 Mr. Immunofluorescence microscopy shows that both antibodies yield numerous fluorescent spots throughout the whole length of the tube, often with an enrichment in the tube tip. These fluorescent spots are thought to represent …

Reflections - Spring 1998, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents

Libraries Offer New Services Via The Internet..... p.1

Library Appearance Team Plans Renovations..... p.2

Selection of Materials for Library Annex..... p.2

Film Library Receives Preservation Grant..... p.3

The Great War: A Symposium and Exhibition..... p.3

USC Columbia Libraries Install Web of Science Databases..... p.4

University Libraries Bicentennial Campaign Leaders Named..... p.4

New Faces..... p.4

Smithsonian Databases Added to USCAN..... p.5

In Memoriam..... p.5

TCL Presents Major Exhibit, "Ireland and Irish Writers"..... p. 6

"Not another copy.....in the world": Special Collections Acquires Burns Manuscript..... p.6

A Curse Against Book Stealers..... p.6

Ex Libris Winds Awards..... p.7

Ray Bradbury at USC..... …

Beds With Sheets But No Covers: The Right To Privacy And The Military's Regulation Of Adultery, James M. Winner

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Alumni Quarterly - Issue No. 66, University Of Maine School Of Law

Maine Law Magazine

Highlights:

• Martin Rogoff Appointed Libra Professor
• Jill Shibes’ Work In Tribal Courts
• Where’s the Class of 1997
• Annual Fund Record Sheet