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Computational Models For Mechanical Deformation Of Soft Tissues Of The Central Nervous System, Huiying Xu, Steven Teoh, Yinlong Sun

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Preparing For The Clothed Public Square: Teaching About Religion, Civic Education, And The Constitution, Jay D. Wexler

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Crusader, February, 1, 2002, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

Displacement Of Escherichia Coli O157:H7 From Rumen Medium Containing Prebiotic Sugars, Albane De Vaux, Mark Morrison, Robert W. Hutkins

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

A fed-batch, anaerobic culture system was developed to assess the behavior of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a rumen-like environment. Fermentation medium consisted of either 50% (vol/vol) raw or sterile rumen fluid and 50% phosphate buffer. Additional rumen fluid was added twice per day, and samples were removed three times per day to simulate the exiting of digesta and microbes from the rumen environment under typical feeding regimens. With both types of medium, anaerobic and enteric bacteria reached 10¹⁰ and 10⁴ cells/ml, respectively, and were maintained at these levels for at least 5 days. When a rifampin-resistant strain of …

Lasers As Non-Lethal Avian Repellents: Potential Applications In The Airport Environment, Bradley F. Blackwell, Glen E. Bernhardt, Jonathon D. Cepek, Richard A. Dolbeer

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) indicates that low- to moderate-power, long-wavelength lasers (630- 650 nm) provide an effective means of dispersing some “problem” bird species under low-light conditions, while presenting no threat to the animal or the environment. The NWRC researchers tested the hypothesis that birds would avoid the beam or beam spot produced by a laser in low ambient light. In the format of controlled, replicated, 2-choice experiments with captive birds, Canada geese (Branta canadensis; 6 groups; 4 birds/group) exhibited extreme avoidance of laser beams over 80-minute periods, …

A Gene Capable Of Blocking Apoptosis Can Substitute For The Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Latency-Associated Transcript Gene And Restore Wild-Type Reactivation Levels, Guey-Chuen Perng, Barak Maguen, Ling Jin, Kevin R. Mott, Nelson Osorio, Susan M. Slanina, Ada Yukht, Homayon Ghiasi, Anthony B. Nesburn, Melissa Inman, Gail A. Henderson, Clinton J. Jones, Steven L. Wechsler

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

After ocular herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection, the virus travels up axons and establishes a lifelong latent infection in neurons of the trigeminal ganglia. LAT (latency-associated transcript), the only known viral gene abundantly transcribed during HSV-1 neuronal latency, is required for high levels of reactivation. The LAT function responsible for this reactivation phenotype is not known. Recently, we showed that LAT can block programmed cell death (apoptosis) in neurons of the trigeminal ganglion in vivo and in tissue culture cells in vitro (G.-C. Perng et al., Science 287:1500–1503, 2000; M. Inman et al., J. Virol. 75:3636–3646, 2001). Consequently, …

Visual Predators Select For Crypticity And Polymorphism In Virtual Prey, Alan B. Bond, Alan Kamil

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Cryptically colored animals commonly occur in several distinct pattern variants. Such phenotypic diversity may be promoted by frequency-dependent predation, in which more abundant variants are attacked disproportionately often, but the hypothesis has never been explicitly tested. Here we report the first controlled experiment on the effects of visual predators on prey crypticity and phenotypic variance, in which blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) searched for digital moths on computer monitors. Moth phenotypes evolved via a genetic algorithm in which individuals detected by the jays were much less likely to reproduce. Jays often failed to detect atypical cryptic moths, confirming frequency- …

Dictyostelium Lvsb Mutants Model The Lysosomal Defects Associated With Chediak-Higashi Syndrome, Ed Harris, Ning Wang, Wei-I Wu, Alisha Weatherford, Arturo De Lozanne, James Cardelli

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

Chediak-Higashi syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by mutations in a gene encoding a protein named LYST in humans (“lysosomal trafficking regulator”) or Beige in mice. A prominent feature of this disease is the accumulation of enlarged lysosome-related granules in a variety of cells. The genome of Dictyostelium discoideum contains six genes encoding proteins that are related to LYST/Beige in amino acid sequence, and disruption of one of these genes, lvsA (large volume sphere), results in profound defects in cytokinesis. To better understand the function of this family of proteins in membrane trafficking, we have analyzed mutants disrupted in lvsA, …

Tissue Factor. Biological Function And Clinical Significance, Bashir A. Lwaleed

Saudi Medical Journal

Tissue Factor is the principal cellular initiator of normal blood coagulation. It is frequently encrypted in the plasma membrane of cells in contact with blood, but under certain pathological conditions endothelial cells, monocytes or macrophages may express tissue factor; and hence trigger coagulation activation. Aberrant expression of tissue factor by these cells is thought to be responsible for the thrombophilia found in septic shock, atherosclerosis and cancer. Tissue factor is produced by tumor-associated macrophages where it is believed to play an important role in tumor growth and dissemination. It may also be involved in other cellular processes such as intracellular …

Toxic Effect Of Tannic And Related Compounds On Human Plasma Proteins, Sabah M. Al-Shafi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the toxicity of tannic acid related compounds such as gallic acid and polyphenol on the activity of plasma proteins in vitro. Their electrophoretic results show extremely important information, albumin and globulin levels are remarkably changed and characterized by disorder in their fractions avere which occurred frequently. METHODS: All plasma proteins samples of sets A, B and C were treated in sequences with known different concentrations of gallic acid, gallotannin and polypholes, which were separated chromatographically from phenolic extract of fruit peel of punicaceae. These were then treated, A, B and C were subjected to electrophoresis techniques, for …

Book Review: Interrelationships Of The Platyhelminthes, Scott Lyell Gardner

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

A review by Scott L. Gardner of Interrelationships of the Playthelminths by D. T. Littlewood and R. A. Bray (London: Taylor & Francis, 2001; 365 p.; ISBN: 0748409033).

Forensic Entomology For The Laboratory-Based Biology Classroom, J.S. Miller, Virginia L. Naples

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Article describes the use forensic entomology in a laboratory-based biology classroom, where it can help students to explore many of the physiological processes that occur in all living organisms, as well as basic principles such as ecology and behavior.

Collection Development And Weeding A La Versace: Fashioning A Policy For Your Library, James S. Heller

Library Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Bg News February 1, 2002, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 1, 2002. Volume 89-Issue 13.

No Sauce For The Gander: Valuable Consideration For Helpful Testimony From Tainted Witnesses In Criminal Cases, H. Richard Uviller

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, February 1, 2002, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Stormwater Educational Handbook, Annis Water Resources Institute

Environmental Guidebooks and Model Ordinances

The goal of the Kent County Stormwater Management Program is to improve and protect the region’s quality of life by preventing and minimizing any impacts of stormwater runoff into a valuable resource.

The Task Force hopes that this handbook will be useful whether the reader is new to the subject of stormwater or has questions of the most technical nature. For instance, Part 5 refers the reader to a wealth of additional information available in printed documents or through the Internet. For ease of use, each section has a separate divider with a number on the tab extension. A history …

2002 February, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for February of 2002.

Inspiration, Yu-Chen Hsieh

Theses

A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Inspiration," about a painter who is disappointed with the dull still-lifes he is producing, until a grasshopper alights on his painting and gives him inspiration. Includes original proposal, original storyboard, color images from the film, and composer credit.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Smil Vs Mpeg-4 Bifs, Lai-Tee Cheok, Alexandros Eleftheriadis

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We present the results of a comparative analysis between the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) and MPEG-4 BInary Format for Scenes (BIFS). SMIL is a language developed by the W3C consortium for expressing media synchronization among objects of various media types. MPEG-4 BIFS is the scene description scheme of MPEG-4, an international standard for communicating interactive audiovisual scenes. They are both facilities for representing and synchronizing multimedia content, and have a wide range of support for interactivity, animation and object composition features, etc. We compare their scope and purposes, the level of support for the multimedia features and investigate the …

February 1, 2002, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

True Nature, Thawatpong Tangsajjapoj

Theses

A descriptive narration of a project to create a 2-D computer animated film, "True nature," featuring an architect who discovers his true nature as an artist when he receives a pencil as a gift. The artistic style changes throughout the film. The first part is Cubist-inspired and depicts a village drawn in geometric shapes and straight lines; the second part is Fauvist-inspired and features the main character's journey of imagination after a girl hands him a pencil. The third part combines natural shapes with some geometric ones and features the artist returning to his village and redrawing it in more …

Clarias, Jeonglok Lee

Theses

Consists of 20 slides of the M.F.A. thesis exhibition "Clarias". The thesis explored combining vanished reality with real time images, establishing an ironically spontaneous fantastic analogy through the conflict and the confusion of reality and illusion.

Danny, George Zimmet

Theses

A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Danny," about a character loosely based on the artist's own younger brother as a child. Like the artist's brother, Danny is cute but destructive. The Danny of the film assembles a robot from household objects. The robot obeys his commands, but when Danny orders the robot to "attack" his toy soldiers, the robot goes berserk, destroying much of Danny's room. It is only when his mother walks in that the robot falls apart. Includes original thesis proposal, original storyboard, color prints of stills from the film, and …

Chimes: February 1, 2002, Calvin College

Chimes

Calvin awarded $800,000 for Asian Studies by Maria Mulder

Sentence given in phone threat case by Erin Miller

"The Piano Lesson" comes to Calvin by Megan Kok

Calvin to host annual World Affairs Council lecture series by Erin Miller

Campus construction moves on by Christian Bell

Knights move into two-way tie atop MIAA by Dave Buursma

Calvin swim continues to roll by Andrea Schutter

New show 'Scholar Follies' to air on CVN by Shuan Booth and Julie Steele

New campus abandons architectural vision by Melissa Keeley

State approves split in Hope-Calvin nursing program by Kat Meyer

Cd8+-T-Cell Immunity Against Toxoplasma Gondii Can Be Induced But Not Maintained In Mice Lacking Conventional Cd4+ T Cells, Lori Casciotti, Kenneth H. Ely, Martha E. Williams, Imtiaz A. Khan

Dartmouth Scholarship

T-cell immunity is critical for survival of hosts infected with Toxoplasma gondii. Among the cells in the T-cell population, CD8⁺ T cells are considered the major effector cells against this parasite. It is believed that CD4⁺ T cells may be crucial for induction of the CD8⁺-T-cell response against T. gondii. In the present study, CD4^−/− mice were used to evaluate the role of conventional CD4⁺ T cells in the immune response against T. gondii infection. CD4^−/− mice infected with T. gondii exhibited lower gamma interferon (IFN-γ) messages in the majority of their …

Development Of Analytical Systems And Monitoring Of Vocs Emissions During Polymer Processing, Qin Xiang

Dissertations

A method using direct flame ionization detector (FID) measurement was developed to study total volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions during thermal degradation of polymers. This was used to estimate organic emissions from both virgin polymer resins and commingled plastics. The effects of process parameters, i. e., temperature, heating rate and residence time, were also studied. Significant VOCs emissions were observed at normal processing temperatures, particularly from recycled polymers. Each polymer showed a distinct evolution pattern during its thermal degradation. Kinetics of VOCs emissions were also studied using a non-isothermal technique. The kinetic parameters were in agreement with data from the …

Modeling Hydrogen Diffusion For Solar Cell Passivation And Process Optimization, Yi Zhang

Dissertations

A diffusion model for hydrogen (H) in crystalline silicon was established which takes into account the charged state conversion, junction field, mobile traps, and complex formation and dissociation at dopant and trap sites. Carrier exchange among the various charged species is a "fast" process compared to the diffusion process. A numerical method was developed to solve the densities of various charged species from the Poisson's equation that involves shallow-level dopants and one "negative U" impurity, e.g., H. Time domain implicit method was adopted in finite difference scheme to solve the fully coupled equations.

Limiting versions of the model were applied …

January 31, 2002, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.