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The Meredith Event At The University Of Mississippi : The Creaking Of Modern America Under Post Modern Stress / By William Thomas, William Thomas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Synthesis And Biological Evaluation Of Novel Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors, Shukrit S. Chimote

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Vegetation And Substrate Types For Wastewater Treatment Wetlands, Sara Allison Davis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

One Woman's Journey : Through Myth And Symbolism / By Rosalind Wilcox, Rosalind Wilcox

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Rights, Wrongs, And Recourse In The Law Of Torts, Benjamin C. Zipursky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Women's Studies At Umass Boston: Celebrates 25 Years 1973-1998, Sherry H. Penney, Jean Mcmahon Humez, Women's Studies Program, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty Publication Series

What follows is an impressionistic overview of our program's first twenty five years, derived in part from our archives and in part from our collective recollections, and written by the current program director. As with any celebratory institutional history, it makes no claim to objectivity. Our aim is to look back at the main lines of our growth and development, and in so doing to acknowledge many of the individuals who have contributed to the building of the program over time.

We gratefully acknowledge the work of our first archivist, UMass Women's Studies / Sociology graduate dian fitzpatrick who, in …

Hi-O-Hi 1998, Oberlin College

Hi-O-Hi Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

1998-1999 Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog, Lindenwood University

Course Catalogs

Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog

Jaepl, Vol. 4, Winter 1998-1999

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Essays

Laurence E. Musgrove. Attitudes Toward Writing. This essay describes one teacher's approach to helping students understand the role attitude plays in contributing to or interfering with success in the writing class.

Mark McBeth. Body Oddities: Hypothetical (Com)positions from the Physically Extreme. Relying on the anomalous physicalities of the bearded woman, the hermaphrodite, and conjoined twins, this essay explores the links between the body and its constituent performances of composing.

Hildy Miller. Goddess Spirituality and Academic Knowledge-Making. Goddess-centered spirituality, an alternative way of making meaning, complements rationalism, the traditional notion of academic knowledge making.

Keith Rhodes. Plato, …

The Influence Of Biology Education On Attitudes To Humanity And Worldpeace, Yalçın Yetki̇n

Turkish Journal of Biology

The purpose of this study was to determine whether biology education has any effect on behaviour and opinions with regard to humanity and world peace. The subjects were 37 student volunteers, 19 male and 18 female, from the Biology Department of Atatürk University. They were asked what influence biology education has on individual peace of mind and attitudes to world peace. The students responses indicated that, owing to their biology education, they have greater self-awareness (46.9%), are better able to think in a balanced way and to find their place in society. They also reported a greater capacity to love …

Effects Of Sch-23390 On Dopamine D1 Receptor Occupancy And Locomotion Produced By Intraaccumbens Cocaine Infusion, Laura O'Dell

Departmental Papers (Psych)

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of The Regulatory Domain Of The Mammalian Multifunctional De Novo Pyrimidne Biosynthetic Enzyme Cad, Nisha Sahay

Wayne State University Dissertations

Pyrimidine nucleotides play a central role in cellular regulation. Most cells have two pathways to fulfill their pyrimidine nucleotide pools: the de novo and the salvage pathway. The de novo pyrimidine pathway begins with glutamine, ATP and bicarbonate, and through six-enzymatic steps yields uridine monophosphate (UMP). In mammals, the first three activities i.e. the glutamine-dependent carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (CPSase), aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase), and dihydroorotase (DHOase) are carried on a single 240-kDa polypeptide chain called CAD. Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (CPSase), the first enzyme in the pathway catalyzes the synthesis of carbamoyl phosphate from two moles of ATP, bicarbonate, and ammonia derived …

Blinded By Science: How Judges Avoid The Science In Scientific Evidence, Erica Beecher-Monas

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Xenoestrogens And Cytochrome P450 Aromatase Inhibitors On Sexual Differentiation In Medaka (Oryzias Latipes), John Stewart Gilman Edmunds

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Several classes of environmental contaminants have been demonstrated to disrupt reproductive function in wild populations and laboratory animals through interactions with endocrine pathways. Primary targets for these endocrine active contaminants are steroid hormone receptors and steroidogenic enzymes. The first study tests the hypothesis that aromatase represents a major target for environmental contaminants which disrupt reproductive function. The results indicate that the biosynthesis of estrogens can be inhibited by certain pesticides and that aromatase represents a target for contaminants disrupting reproductive function. The second study develops an estrogen sensitive and specific reporter gene assay responsive to steroid hormones and several estrogenic …

The Identification, Characterization, And Functionality Of A Multidrug Transporter Protein In The Liver Of The Killifish, Fundulus Heteroclitus, Walter J. Ellenberg

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

The killifish or mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, is an excellent indicator of environmental quality and ecosystems health. It is the most dominant endemic fish species found in the headwater of small estuarine tidal creeks in the southeastern U.S. and one of the most frequently studied animals for toxicological analysis. In the environment, these organisms are exposed to xenobiotic hydrophobic molecules from anthropogenic ( e.g., pesticides and combustion products) and natural ( e.g., decaying plants) sources. Development of physiological adaptations to both natural and anthropogenic stress is important to fish such as the mummichog which must deal with the rigors of an …

Application Of Hierarchical Monte Carlo Simulation To The Estimation Of Human Exposure To Mercury Via Consumption Of King Mackerel (Scomberomorus Cavalla), W. Leonard Balthis

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Data from mercury poisoning episodes in Japan and Iraq have been used to derive threshold levels for health effects in humans, and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established a reference dose (RfD) for methylmercury of 0.30 µg/kg/day. It is desirable, therefore, to predict exposures for various populations, and examine these exposures in relation to the established RfD. Given data on mercury concentrations in fish, and rates of fish consumption among human populations, it is possible to calculate exposure in one of several ways. One of the simplest ways involves the use of average values to compute a …

Interview With Manuel Delanda, Switch Staffs

SWITCH

An interview with philosopher Manuel De Landa and SJSU CADRE students, Brett Stalbaum, Matt Hoessli, Geri Wittig, Kristin Cully, Geoffrey Bruce, Anne-Marie Schleiner. De Landa's work focuses on the use of networks as a medium of expression. The discussion traces networking technology, including machine intelligence or artificial intelligence’s evolution from military to civilian contexts. They discuss, "One Thousand Years of Nonlinear History", De Landa's most recent book at that time that shows the history of the world from a non-anthropocentric view to make the worldview more inclusive as a self-organized and dynamical system that is unaffected by the hierarchical perspective …

Winchell Posters

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Abstracts from the Winchell Posters given at the 66^th Annual Meeting for the Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science.

Regeneration - The Road Not Taken, Raymond E. Sicard

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Regeneration and repair are mutually-exclusive, adaptive responses to injury. The events associated with each process are well characterized. However, cellular and molecular mechanisms for their regulation are only now beginning to be defined. Moreover, full appreciation for factors that predispose to these contrasting pathways is not yet available. This article presents a perspective on regeneration and repair that suggests specific relationships between these modes of responding to injury. Injury provokes a coordinated pattern of response to tissue damage. At the wound site, local events determine whether tissue restoration or replacement occurs. Interplay among parenchymal and stromal cells at the site …

Front Matter

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Wound Repair, Raymond E. Sicard, Jeffry D. Shearer, Michael D. Caldwell

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Following injury, a series of events is initiated that includes global and local reactions. Global reactions, such as inflammatory and immunological responses as well as adjustments in neural and endocrine status, are directed at marshaling the organism's resources for dealing with changes in its integrity and the potential threat of infection or other complications. Injury entails cell and tissue damage and often a physical breach in the barrier against the outside world (e.g., skin). Local reactions are exemplified by immediate hemostatic (e.g., blood clotting) events followed by changes in local cellular composition created by the inflammatory infiltrate and adjustments in …

Acceleration Of Amphibian Forelimb Regeneration By Polypeptide Growth Factors, Gehan H. Fahmy, Raymond E. Sicard

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Growth factors are potentially important modulators of epimorphic regeneration. This study examined effects of intraperitoneal administration of selected growth factors on limb regeneration of adult newts, Notophthalmus viridescens. These agents stimulated regeneration, producing overlapping but nonidentical effects. Fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) stimulated bud emergence (8.3 ± 0.6 and 8.3 ± 0.7 days, respectively, vs 11.4 ± 1.1 days for controls). Progression to the cone stage was enhanced by both FGF-2 and transforming growth factor beta 5 ( TGF-~ 5) ; 14.6 ± 0.5 and 15.4 ± 0.4 days with FGF-2 and TGF-~5 , respectively, …

Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor And Hepatocyte Growth Factor Content Of Wound, Repair, And Muscle Regeneration Fluids, Raymond E. Sicard, Wendy A. Mand

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Injury produces marked changes to the local environment. Changes in both diversity and availability of bioactive substances at wound sites might discriminate between repair and regeneration microenvironments and selectively drive events leading to final resolution. Among factors with potential relevance to wound repair and regeneration are basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF). In this study, concentrations of these factors were determined in fluids derived from wound, repair, and regeneration-conditioned models using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. All fluids contained substantial concentrations of bFGF which rose 5- to I 5-fold as resolution to injury was achieved. Mean bFGF content …

Back Matter

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Vascular Endothelial Cell Growth Factor Expression In Endothelial Cells Is Induced By Mechanical Wounding, Paul J. Sammak, Phuong Oanh Tran, Timothy A. Olson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Endothelial cell motility is central to several biological processes including angiogenesis during wound healing, reendothelialization of vessel walls after damage and neovascularization of tumors. However, control mechanisms that stimulate and inhibit cell movement are not known. Our objective is to understand the signals that initiate movement of endothelial cells. To examine these questions, we used an in vitro wound model of quiescent pulmonary artery endothelial cell monolayers which were stimulated to move by mechanical injury. Ca2+ signaling at the time of wounding produces long lasting effects on cell movement. We investigated whether new gene transcription after wounding might also stimulate …

Eating Induced By Perifornical Camp Is Behaviorally Selective And Involves Protein Kinase Activity, Gillard, Arshad Khan, Bara Mouradi, Omkar Nalamwar, B. Stanley

Departmental Papers (Biology)

No abstract provided.

Common Moorhens In Dade County, Florida, Raise Five Broods In One Year, Brett K. Bannor

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Summer Report: June-July 1997, Bill Pranty

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

The Florida Field Naturalist 1973 To 1997: The First 25 Years, R. Todd Engstrom

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Fall Report: Aug-Nov 1997, Bill Pranty

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.