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Vol. 6, No. 1: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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Defective Cd19-Dependent Signaling In B-1a And B-1b B Lymphocyte Subpopulations., Goutam Sen, Hsin-Jung Wu, Gabriel Bikah, Chandrasekar Venkataraman, Darrell A Robertson, E Charles Snow, Subbarao Bondada

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

Peritoneal and pleural cavities in mice and humans contain a unique population of B-lymphocytes called B-1 cells that are defective in B cell antigen receptor (BCR) signaling but have an increased propensity to produce autoantibodies. Several molecules such as Btk, Vav, and CD19 known to be important for BCR signaling have been shown to be critical for the development of B-1 cells from undefined precursors. Here we demonstrate that B-1 cell unresponsiveness to BCR cross-linking is in part due to defective signaling through CD19, a molecule known to modulate signaling thresholds in B cells. The defective CD19 signaling is manifested …

Pineywoods Native Plant Center, Sept 2002, Sfa Gardens, Stephen F. Austin State University

SFA Gardens Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Meowplex: A New Dna Test Using Tetranucleotide Str Markers For The Domestic Cat, John M. Butler, Victor A. David, Stephen J. O'Brien, Marilyn Menotti-Raymond

Biology Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Richmond Music Journal (2002-09)

Richmond Music Journal

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Reduced Reproductive Effort In Male Field Crickets Infested With Parasitoid Fly Larvae, Gita R. Kolluru, Marlene Zuk, Mark A. Chappell

Biological Sciences

Some populations of the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus are parasitized by the phonotactic fly Ormia ochracea. Flies locate crickets by their song and deposit larvae onto them. The larvae develop inside the cricket for 1 week before killing the host upon emergence. The reproductive compensation hypothesis predicts that parasitized crickets should increase their reproductive effort during the initial stages of infestation to offset the loss of fitness resulting from their shortened life span. An alternative hypothesis predicts that parasitized crickets will decrease reproduction, either because they are unable to reproduce or because selection acting on the parasitoid favors decreased …

To Walk The Earth In Safety 4th Edition (Fy2002), Us Dos Pm/Wra

Global CWD Repository

By the end of 2002, the United States will have provided more than $600,000,000 to 43 countries, as well as to northwest Somalia, for various humanitarian demining efforts, such as deminer training, mine awareness and mine clearance, orthopedic assistance to, and socioeconomic reintegration programs for, landmine accident survivors and their families. More than $100,000,000 of this total was spent in Fiscal Year 2002, one of the largest commitments of any nation involved in financing humanitarian demining activities.

The goals of the U.S. Humanitarian Demining Program are simple and direct: to reduce the loss of life and limb of innocents; to …

External Evaluation Of The Cambodia Mine/Uxo Victim Information System (Cmvis) Database, Steven Mellor

Global CWD Repository

The Cambodia Mine/UXO Victim Information System (CMVIS) is an organisation of the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) and Handicap International (HI) established to provide the continuous and systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of information about mine and UXO casualties in Cambodia.

This evaluation of the CMVIS was conducted by an external consultant, Steven Mellor, during September 2002 under the supervision and at the request of Handicap International Belgium. The evaluation is to assist in strengthening the database functions of CMVIS; identify areas that could be improved within the system of data entry through to the output of monthly and specialised …

Designation Of Foreign Terrorist Organizations Under The Aedpa: The National Council Court Erred In Requiring Pre-Designation Process, Joshua A. Ellis

BYU Law Review

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Pollen Loads Of Cloud Forest Nectarivorous Bats, September 2002, Rhett Miller

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The purpose of this study is to find out the degree of feeding specialization of three nectarivorous bats - Anouri geoffroyi, Glossophaga commissarisi, and Hylonycteris underwoodi - that occur in the Cloud Forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica. The bats were mist netted for a total of nine nights distributed evenly throughout a month, and pollen loads were taken from the chest, head, and back of each bat and placed onto individual slides for the different body parts where the pollen was extracted. The slides were examined to ascertain the types of pollen carried by the bats and some were referenced …

An Evaluation Of Pre-Lekking Vocalization Behaviors Of Adult-Long-Tailed Manakins In Monteverde, Costa Rica, September 2002, Jessie C. Thomas

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

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An Analysis Of Three Methodologies In Determining Family Biotic Index (Fbi) Values For Benthic Macroinvertebrates In The Tropics, September 2002, Victor J. Rini

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The use of living organisms to assess water quality is a century old approach (Cairns and Pratt 1993). Widespread use of this method of evaluation has been common in North America and Europe (Metcalf 1989), yet it has not been applied in the Tropics. Here I present a test and alternatives to Hilsenhoff’s (1977, 1982, 1987) methodology for assigning Family Biotic Index values (a measure of pollution tolerance) to macroinvertebrates in a tropical premontane moist/wet forest (Holdridge 1967). Samples of benthic macroinvertebrates were taken from seven streams in the Monteverde, Costa Rica area. Hilsenhoff’s methodology as well as two others …

Comparative Literature In An Age Of "Globalization", Lois Parkinson Zamora

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Lois Parkinson Zamora, in her paper "Comparative Literature in an Age of 'Globalization'," presents a definition of globalization and considers how its cultural and spatial displacements have, and might, change traditional disciplinary practices of comparative literature. Zamora discusses how contemporary Latin American writers dramatize and evaluate the forces of globalization in their fiction and she exemplifies her observations with texts by Carpentier, Borges, Paz, Fuentes, Puig, García Márquez, and Vargas Llosa. Further, the author proposes that the cultural specificity of fictions by contemporary Latin American writers may serve as an antidote to current processes of cultural homogenization.

Microbial Cellulose Utilization: Fundamentals And Biotechnology, Lee R. Lynd, Paul J. Weimer, Willem H. Van Zyl, Isak S. Pretorius

Dartmouth Scholarship

Fundamental features of microbial cellulose utilization are examined at successively higher levels of aggregation encompassing the structure and composition of cellulosic biomass, taxonomic diversity, cellulase enzyme systems, molecular biology of cellulase enzymes, physiology of cellulolytic microorganisms, ecological aspects of cellulase-degrading communities, and rate-limiting factors in nature. The methodological basis for studying microbial cellulose utilization is considered relative to quantification of cells and enzymes in the presence of solid substrates as well as apparatus and analysis for cellulose-grown continuous cultures. Quantitative description of cellulose hydrolysis is addressed with respect to adsorption of cellulase enzymes, rates of enzymatic hydrolysis, bioenergetics of microbial …

Genetic Effective Size Of A Wild Primate Population: Influence Of Current And Historical Demography, Jay F. Storz, Uma Ramakrishnan, Susan C. Alberts

Jay F. Storz Publications

A comprehensive assessment of the determinants of effective population size (N_e) requires estimates of variance in lifetime reproductive success and past changes in census numbers. For natural populations, such information can be best obtained by combining longitudinal data on individual life histories and genetic marker-based inferences of demographic history. Independent estimates of the variance effective size (N_eV, obtained from life-history data) and the inbreeding effective size (N_eI, obtained from genetic data) provide a means of disentangling the effects of current and historical demography. The purpose of this study was to assess …

Faculty Focus, September 2002, Vol. 2 No. 1, California State University, Monterey Bay

Faculty Focus

The Watershed Institute: Policy Means People -- Campus/Community Collaborations -- TAT Uses Drama for Community Building -- Anthropology and Education: Culture and Socialization in the Monterey Peninsula Area -- Community Collaborative Studies Field Programs -- Oral History and Community Memory -- VPA Community Partners -- CSUMB/Community Colleges HELP Partnership -- Student Outreach Services Partnerships -- Student Disabilities Resources Community Partnerships -- MPA, RUAP, and the Community -- Personal Growth and Counseling Center Community Partnerships -- Race in the Classroom Series 1 -- Recent Faculty Scholarship -- More Recent Faculty Scholarship -- New Faculty Community Tour -- Building Community at New …

Uop Graduate School Bulletin Catalog 2002-03, University Of The Pacific

Catalogue, Bulletin, Catalog

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Local Environmental Laws: Forging A New Weapon In Environmental Protection , Philip Weinberg

Pace Environmental Law Review

In this paper, Professor Philip Weinberg examines the relationships between local and state governments, in New York and elsewhere, in implementing environmental statutes. Particularly, Professor Weinberg focuses on the extent of federal and state preemption and enabling of towns in environmental areas including zoning, wetlands protection, and the regulation of air, water and solid and hazardous waste. The paper begins with a discussion about federal laws that provide for state implementation and enforcement. Professor Weinberg goes on to explore areas of state law where no comprehensive federal statute exists. In both situations, the paper describes various approaches taken by the …

Earning Deference: Reflections On The Merger Of Environmental And Land-Use Law , Michael Allan Wolf

Pace Environmental Law Review

Professor Wolf suggests that there is a brooding omnipresence over local government efforts to protect the environment; that omnipresence is the idea of regulatory takings. Professor Wolf emphasizes that local governments need to earn deference. Since the decision in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., local governments have been acting in a "Euclidean zone of comfort" when implementing traditional land-use regulations. However, he suggests that local governments may be acting outsides of that zone when they enact environmental regulations and that there is a rich history of negative decisions concerning local environmental regulations. Professor Wolf then offers three strategies …

The Beach Zone: Using Local Land Use Authority To Preserve Barrier Islands , Jessica Vantine, Tiffany B. Zezula

Pace Environmental Law Review

This article is an exploration of the barrier island's unique landform and the solution to its protection. By using Fire Island, a critical barrier island off the coast of Long Island, New York, as a case study, this article attempts to offer a paramount solution, "the beach zone." The authors begin by discussing the natural processes of the barrier islands, focusing on tidal cycles, sea level rising, and periodic storm surges, which threaten development on them. They illustrate the dynamic nature of the barrier islands that often make them unsuitable for permanent development. To date, the primary focus of both …

Judges' Bench Memorandum: Fourteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition, Michelle D. Land

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Brief For The Appellee, Suave Real Properties, Inc.: Fourteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition, Della Au Belatti, Clavert Chipchase, Chris Kempner

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Residual Effects Of Compost And Fertilizer Applications On Nutrients In Runoff, John E. Gilley, Bahman Eghball

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

The application of compost or fertilizer at rates that exceed crop nutrient requirements can result in phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) accumulation in soil. This study was conducted to determine the influence of soil P and N contents on the concentrations and total amounts of P and N transported in runoff. Composted beef cattle feedlot manure or inorganic fertilizer were added from 1992 to 1995 to a Sharpsburg silty clay loam soil at rates sufficient to meet P or N requirements for corn and incorporated following application. After four years of corn production following the last compost application, P concentration, …

Stage Iv Oral Cavity Carcinoma. Is Conventional Radical Treatment An Option?, Nasser Al-Rajhi, Mohammad Saleem, Abdullah S. Al-Amro, Ashraf M. El-Enbaby, Gamal A. El-Husseiny, Zeyad Z. Mahasin, Kalid M. Taibah, Ali M. Al-Zahrani

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the outcome of radical treatment for patients with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. METHODS: Using head and neck tumor database, 57 patients with stage IV non-metastatic invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity treated with curative intent at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, between July 1992 and June 1998, were identified and retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS: Our cohort of patients consisted of 33 males and 24 females, with a median age of 65 years. The primary sites were alveolus (26), tongue (22), buccal mucosa (6), floor …

Relationship Between Secondary Metabolism And Fungal Development, Ana M. Calvo, Richard A. Wilson, Jin Woo Bok, Nancy P. Keller

Fungal Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Details findings related to the relationship between secondary metabolism and fungal development.

Rangeways - Community Based Planning For Ecologically Sustainable Land Use In The Western Australian Goldfields, Alec Holm, Margaret H. Friedel, Donald Burnside, Jennifer Duffecy, David Fitzgerald, Greg Brennan

Agriculture reports

Ways to identity and reconcile opportunities tor different land uses while protecting biologically sensitive areas were researched within the Western Australian rangeland from1995 to 2000. The research was undertaken within a framework of community-based regional planning and was underpinned by policies of ecological sustainable development.The research and community structures arising from the work were collectively named the Rangeways project. The purpose was to resolve land use problems through a structural approach to land use planning and the development of processes rather than to devise 'The Plan'.

Insensible Perspiration And Oily Vegetable Humor: An Eighteenth Century Controversy Over Vegetarianism, Ken Albala

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

Quack diets are nothing new. Nor have they always been easily dismissed. In eighteenth-century Italy, a virulent controversy arose over a meatless wonder diet. This controversy would eventually play itself out in the field of nutritional theory, as dietary writers crambled to incorporate the latest scientific findings into their recommendations.

Inhibition Of Amyloid-Β Aggregation And Caspase-3 Activation By The Ginkgo Biloba Extract Egb761, Yuan Luo, Julie V. Smith, Vijaykumar Paramasivam, Adam Burdick, Kenneth J. Curry, Justin P. Buford, Ikhlas Khan, William J. Netzer, Huaxi Xu, Peter Butko

Faculty Publications

Standardized extract from the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree, labeled EGb761, has been used in clinical trials for its beneficial effects on brain functions, particularly in connection with age-related dementias and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Substantial experimental evidence indicates that EGb761 protects against neuronal damage from a variety of insults, but its cellular and molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Using a neuroblastoma cell line stably expressing an AD-associated double mutation, we report that EGb761 inhibits formation of amyloid-β (Aβ) fibrils, which are the diagnostic, and possibly causative, feature of AD. The decreased Aβ fibrillogenesis in the presence of EGb761 was observed …

The Tadpole Of Proceratophrys Avelinoi (Anura: Leptodactylidae), Rafael O. De Sá, José A. Langone

Biology Faculty Publications

The genus Proceratoprhrys is poorly known. It consists of 14 currently recognized species (Frost, 2000) of medium-sized frogs distributed from northeastern Argentina and Paraguay to southeast Amazonia (Rondonia State), eastern and southern Brazil. Proceratophrys avelinoi was described from Misiones, Argentina (Mercadal de Barrio and Barrio, 1993). The larval stage of this species is unknown. Herein, we describe the tadpole and the characteristics of the internal oral anatomy of P avelinoi using scanning electron micros- copy (SEM).

Ventilatory Phenotypes Among Four Strains Of Adult Rats., Matthew Hodges, Hubert Forster, Paula E. Papanek, Melinda R. Dwinell, Genevieve E. Hogan

Exercise Science Faculty Research and Publications

Our purpose in this study was to identify different ventilatory phenotypes among four different strains of rats. We examined 114 rats from three in-house, inbred strains and one outbred strain: Brown Norway (BN;n = 26), Dahl salt-sensitive (n = 24), Fawn-hooded Hypertensive (FHH: n = 27), and outbred Sprague-Dawley rats (SD; n = 37). We measured eupneic (room air) breathing and the ventilatory responses to hypoxia (12% O₂-88% N₂), hypercapnia (7% CO₂), and two levels of submaximal exercise. Primary strain differences were between BN and the other strains. BN rats had a …