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Biological Aspects Of Wolf Recolonization In Utah, T. Adam Switalski, Trey Simmons, Shiree L. Duncan, Andreas S. Chavez, Robert H. Schmidt

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Wolves have been one of the most scientifically examined of all wildlife species (Mech, 1995b). Many studies have focused on the effects of wolf reintroductions and recolonization. In this section, we address how wolves may naturally disperse into Utah, highlight areas identified in our habitat model as constituting the most favorable wolf habitat in Utah, estimate potential wolf populations in Utah, and describe what is currently known about the influence of wolves on an ecosystem.

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 28, No. 2, 2002

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

• --What's New in Latter-day Saint Church History?
  Recent Developments in the Family and Church History
  Department Richard
  E. Turley jr.,1
  --In Pursuit of Answers to Difficult Questions
  Glen M. Leonard, 14
  --Part of Each One of Us
  Ronald W. Walker, 19

• --Inheriting the Great Apostasy: The Evolution of Mormon Views on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Eric Dursteler, 23

• --George Prince, Convert Out of Africa Stephen L. Prince, 60

• --The New Deal in Orem, Utah, 1933-40 Jeremy Bonner, 81

• --The Eagle and the Scattered Flock: LDS Church Beginnings in Occupied Japan, 1945-49 Shinji Takagi, 104

• --The Cultural …

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 28, No. 1, 2002

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

• --Brigham Young's Overland Trails Revolution: The Creation of the "Down-and-Back" Wagon-Train System, 1860-61 William G. Hartley, 1

TANNER LECTURE

• --Becoming Mormon Elliott West, 31

• --Copyright and Fair Use for Mormon Historians Gary James Bergera, 52

• --A Bundle of Rights Morris A. Thurston, 67

• --Eldridge Cleaver's Passage Through Mormonism Newell G. Bringhurst, 80

• --Writing from Within a Religious Tradition
  A Mormon Perspective Dean L. May, 111
  --A Jewish Perspective Robert A. Goldberg, 121

• --Apostolic Diplomacy: The 1923 European Mission of Senator Reed Smoot and Professor John A. Widtsoe John C. Thomas, 130

• --Valiant Mission: RLDS Beginnings in …

Utah Science Vol. 61 No. 2, Winter 2002

Utah Science

2 TURNING UP THE HEAT ON FIRE BLIGHT

8 TAKING THE BITE OUT OF BEETLES

10 FIELDS OF DREAMS

14 SEEDS -new people, grants and contracts in science

17 SYNTHESIS -science at Utah State

24 SEEK -students in science

25 SEARCH -science on the web

Statement Before The United States House Of Representatives Concerning Charitable Choice And The Community Solutions Act , Carl H. Esbeck

Faculty Publications

First, charitable choice imposes on both government and participating faith-based organizations (FBOs) the duty to not abridge certain enumerated rights of the ultimate beneficiaries of these welfare programs. Second, the statute imposes on government the duty to not intrude into the institutional autonomy of faith-based providers. Third, the statute reinforces the government's duty to not discriminate with respect to religion when determining the eligibility of private-sector providers to deliver social services.

Seeing Red: Gibbs V. Babbitt, Edward A. Fitzgerald

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.

Federal Regulation Of Isolated Wetlands: To Be Or Not To Be, Talene Nicole Mergerian

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.

A Head Start, Christine Yackel

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Treating Physicians As Expert Witnesses In Compensation Systems: The Public Health Connection, Brian C. Murchison

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Status Of Coral Reefs In The Us Caribbean And Gulf Of Mexico: Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, Us Virgin Islands And Navassa, Billy Causey, Joanne Delaney, Ernesto Diaz, Richard E. Dodge, Jorge R. Garcia, Jamie Higgins, Walter Jaap, Cruz A. Matos, George P. Schmahl, Caroline Rogers, Margaret W. Miller, Donna D. Turgeon

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

The following report on the status of US Caribbean coral reef ecosystems has been summarised from more extensive reports submitted to the US Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) working group that implemented in 2000 ‘A National Program to Assess, Inventory, and Monitor US Coral Reef Ecosystems’. The more-lengthy reports are also the basis for the biennial-issued document, ‘Status and Trends of US Coral Reef Ecosystems’. Each author is a recognised technical expert with responsibility for monitoring and/or managing aspects of their respective coral reef ecosystems.

Boater Manatee Awareness System, Edward O. Keith

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

A variety of "see-in-the-dark" technologies have been evaluated with the objective of adapting them to detect Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) aggregations in specific highuse areas, such as warm water refuges in the winter time. Once it is possible to passively detect manatee aggregations in these sites, the construction of boater awareness signs that would indicate how many manatees are in the area, on a real-time basis, is envisioned. The contention is that boaters would be more likely to obey speed restrictions if these restrictions were accompanied by this type of information. The ability to do this also …

Coral Recruitment To Various Artificial Substrata, Miami Beach, Fl, Nicholas C. Straccione

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

The City of Miami has placed 12 artificial reefs approximately 100m offshore in two parallel transects. The reason for this deployment was to tum a barren seabed into a productive environment for aquatic organisms. The reefs were placed close to the shoreline to allow easy access for snorkellers, divers, and fisherman. Three different types of reef materials were used in constructing the artificial reefs: boulders composed of limestone, concrete shaped as tetrahedrons, and concrete mixed with tire aggregate shaped as tetrahedrons. This study consisted of two separate assessments: I) a survey from two of each of the different reef types …

Dissertating In A Digital Age: The Future Of Composition Scholarship, Janice R. Walker, Joseph M. Moxley

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Aeration Methods And Diets For Larval Culture Of The Edible Sea Urchin, Tripneustes Ventricosus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea), Ray Wolcott

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Tripneustes ventricosus (Lamarck 1816), a major near-shore herbivore in the Atlantic and Caribbean, has been harvested for human consumption in the Caribbean for centuries (Lawrence 2001a, b), occasionally at rates that exceed sustainability (Smith & Berkes 1991), and is among the species having economic importance (Lawrence & Bazhin 1998). Tripneustes ventricosus has recently been observed on the forereef controlling macroalgal growth in the absence of Diadema antillarum (Woodley 1999, Aronson & Precht 2000, Haley & Solandt 2001).

Large-scale culturing has the potential to produce T. ventricosus in sufficient numbers to be used for: bioremediation of coral reef degradation, restocking of …

A Fugitive Thread: The Production Of Subjectivity In Marx, Jason Read Phd

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Fundamental Justice And Political Power: A Personal Reflection On Twenty Years In The Trenches, Alan N. Young

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

No abstract provided.

Robert Benne: Quality With Soul: How Six Premier Colleges And Universities Keep Faith With Their Religious Traditions, Joy Schroeder

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Holy Odors, John P. Trump

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Welcome Strangers, Gregg Muilenburg

Intersections

No abstract provided.

The Etiology Of Eschatology, Kevin Griffith

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Drunks In A Midnight Choir, Kevin Griffith

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Smoothing The Boundary Between Foreign And Domestic Law: Comments On Professors Dodge, Golove, And Stephan, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

Two of the three papers on which I have been asked to comment address issues involving the importation of foreign into American law. The third paper raises, with a somewhat more general focus, the coordination of activities between foreign and American legal systems. Professor William Dodge discusses the extent to which the procedures under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may, or should, be used to superintend the (perverse) outcomes of the American legal system. Professor David Golove asks the extent to which treaties entered into by the United States can, or should, be effective as domestic legislation. Professor …

Anti-Predation Does Not Fully Explain Grouping In The Chinese Water Deer (Hydropotes Inermis), Lixing Sun

Biology Faculty Scholarship

The grouping behavior of the Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis) was studied at Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, China. I made three predictions to test the hypothesis that grouping is an anti-predatory strategy: (1) group size is negatively related to vegetation cover, (2) animals in groups have more time to feed than solitary animals, and (3) animals spend less time in vigilance when they are in groups than when they are alone. Results showed that group size was largest in the mating season and smallest in the parturition season. Deer tended to form larger groups when they …

Performance Limits Of Labriform Propulsion And Correlates With Fin Shape And Motion, Jeffrey A. Walker Phd, Mark W. Westneat

Faculty Publications

Labriform locomotion, which is powered by oscillating the paired pectoral fins, varies along a continuum from rowing the fins back and forth to flapping the fins up and down. It has generally been assumed (i) that flapping is more mechanically efficient than rowing, a hypothesis confirmed by a recent simulation experiment, and (ii) that flapping should be associated with wing-shaped fins while rowing should be associated with paddle-shaped fins, To determine whether these hypotheses and the results of the simulation experiment are consistent with natural variation, we compared the steady swimming performance (critical swimming speed) of four species of labrid …

Effect Of Conjugated Linoleic Acid On Insulin Sensitivity, Kim Hargrave, Jess L. Miner

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Mice were fed a mixture of conjugated linoleic acid isomers (CLA) for nine weeks and then underwent an insulin tolerance test. CLA was then removed from the diet and a second insulin tolerance test was conducted following five weeks of recovery. CLA consumption impaired glucose response to insulin. When CLA was removed from the diet, insulin sensitivity of a low heat-loss genetic mouse line returned to normal. However, mice of a high heat-loss line remained insulin resistant for at least 32 days.

The Rockefeller University Hospital: Transforming Medicine, The Rockefeller University

The Rockefeller University Hospital: Transforming Medicine

Translating basic discoveries into medical treatments and preventions is more important than ever. More and more, both basic scientists and physician-scientists are exploring medical applications of their discoveries.

Transcription, Editing, And Switching Of Antibody Genes, Rafael Casellas

Student Theses and Dissertations

B lymphocytes are the antibody producing cells of the immune system. During B cell lymphopoiesis in the bone marrow, immunoglobulin molecules are assembled from V, D, and J gene segments through a process known as V(D)J recombination. Because of its stochastic nature, V(D)J recombination is expected to create self-reactive specificities. In targeted animals carrying autoantibodies, these specificities were shown to be silenced by deletion, anergy, and receptor editing. While anergy and deletion physically eliminate the autoreactive clone, receptor editing salvages it by replacing its immunoglobulin receptor through ongoing V(D)J recombination. Once a functional non-self -reactive receptor is generated, B lymphocytes …

Stress And Hippocampal Plasticity, Kara Pham

Student Theses and Dissertations

The addition of new neurons continues in the dentate gyrus of the adult rat, and this process has been previously shown to be regulated by adrenal steroid hormones, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor activity, psychosocial stress and learning and memory. Repeated restraint stress is known to induce neuroanatomical changes in the hippocampus, such as dendritic remodeling in CA3 neurons and mossy fiber terminal rearrangement, and these alterations are reversible, suggesting that the hippocampal system experiences a certain degree of plasticity in response to stress. This dissertation examines the effects of chronic restraint stress on several parameters of hippocampal plasticity, including dentate gyrus …

Targeting Receptor-Histidine Kinase Signaling In Staphylococcus Aureus, Gholson J. Lyon

Student Theses and Dissertations

Two-component signaling systems involving receptor-histidine kinases (RHKs) are present in all branches of life outside of the animal kingdom. Remarkably, very little is known concerning the extracellular ligands that presumably bind to RHKs to initiate signaling. The two-component agr signaling circuit in the bacterial pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus, is one system where the ligands are known in chemical detail. These ligands (the AIPs) are short (7-9 aminoacyl residue) peptides containing a thiolactone structure, in which the α-carboxyl group of the C-terminal amino acid is linked to the sulfhydryl group of a cysteine, which is always the fifth amino acid from the …

Mapping Genes For Complex Traits: Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertension, And Dyslipidemia On The Pacific Island Of Kosrae, Dvora Shmulewitz

Student Theses and Dissertations

One of the current challenges in human genetics is to map genes for common, complex diseases. For powerful mapping of such phenotypes, the suggestions are to analyze the underlying quantitative traits with covariate corrections in large extended pedigrees with multipoint analysis. This is virtually impossible to do with the current linkage programs, due to the computation difficulties of exactly calculating every possibility. Instead, sampling methods that sample the most likely data configuration from all the possibilities need to be used. This has been implemented in the reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo method Loki, which can carry out segregation and …