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A Device For Imposing Uniform, Cyclic Strain To Cells Growing On Implant Alloys, Larry Chad Winter

Theses and Dissertations

Since bone tissues grow in intimate contact with implant surfaces in vivo, there is a need to investigate how bone cells respond to mechanical loads adjacent to implants under well characterized loading conditions that stimulate the bone-implant surface. Thus, the objective of this study was to demonstrate an effective means for applying known, uniform, cyclic strain to cells growing on implant materials in vitro. A cell culture strain plate device was developed based on the application of the four-point bending principle. The device uses a small electric motor to drive belts attached to shafts which turn a set of cams. …

Identifying Potential Sedimentation Sources Through A Remote Sensing And Gis Analysis Of Landuse/Landcover For The Weeks Bay Watershed, Baldwin County, Alabama, John Harrison Cartwright

Theses and Dissertations

The Weeks Bay watershed in Baldwin County, Alabama has experienced rapid changes in landuse/ landcover (LULC) from 1990 to 2000. These changes have resulted in increased upland erosion and higher concentrations of suspended sediment within the watershed. For this research project a spatial model was developed to identify potential sources of sediment relevant to LULC and slope. Landsat satellite imagery was classified to assess LULC within the Weeks Bay watershed. The classification includes forested vegetation, herbaceous vegetation (seasonal and persistent), mixed/ transitional vegetation, urban/ built-up areas, sparse/ residual vegetation and water, with an overall accuracy of 78%. Change detections of …

An Aminopeptidase Acting As A Potential Factor In Host Adaptation Of Mycoplasma Gallinarum, Xiufeng Wan

Theses and Dissertations

Unlike most other host-specific mycoplasmas, Mycoplasma gallinarum exists as a commensal with a host range including most poultry as well as some mammals. This property of M. gallinarum may reflect unique mechanisms for its colonization and persistence in hosts. Whereas M. gallinarum shows leucine and arginine aminopeptidase activity, the genes encoding the enzymes had not been cloned and characterized. We identified an aminopeptidase gene (APN) by oligonucleotide hybridization to a genomic library of M. gallinarum in lambda ZAPII bacteriophage. Nucleotide sequence analysis of overlapping phage clones identified a 1,362 bp open reading frame (ORF) encoding a putative leucine aminopeptidase gene. …

The Effects Of Species, Adhesive Type, And Cure Temperature On The Strength And Durability Of A Structural Finger Joint, Matthew Eric Vrazel

Theses and Dissertations

This research project was conducted to evaluate the effects of adhesive type, wood species, and cure temperature on the strength and durability properties of a finger joint. The adhesives were a resorcinolormaldehyde(RF),polyurethane/aqueous emulsion polymer (PU/AEP), and a resorcinolormaldehyde/soy-isolate honeymoon system. The species of wood were keruing (Dipterocarpus spp.), southern pine (Pinus spp.), and Douglasir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). The cure temperatures of the adhesives were ambient (26-35° C, 78-95° F) and elevated (43-49° C, 110-120° F). Joints were subjected to three test procedures; a tension test, a bending test, and a bending test following an accelerated aging procedure. The response variables measured …

Summer Commencement: August 2, 2002, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Summer Commencement from August 2, 2002.

Glutathione Levels And Bax Activation During Apoptosis Due To Oxidative Stress In Cells Expressing Wild-Type And Mutant Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator, Thomas Jungas, Iris Motta, Francis Duffieux, Pascale Fanen, Veronique Stoven, David M. Ojcius

All Dugoni School of Dentistry Faculty Articles

Cystic fibrosis is characterized by chronic inflammation and an imbalance in the concentrations of alveolar and lung oxidants and antioxidants, which result in cell damage. Modifications in lung glutathione concentrations are recognized as a salient feature of inflammatory lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis, and glutathione plays a major role in protection against oxidative stress and is important in modulation of apoptosis. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is permeable to Cl−, larger organic ions, and reduced and oxidized forms of glutathione, and the ΔF508 CFTR mutation found in cystic fibrosis patients has been correlated with impaired glutathione transport …

The Function Of Canines In Saber-Tooth Tigers, Colleen Hogan

Theses

None provided.

Football Press Releases August 2002, Wofford College. Sports Information Office

Sports Press Releases

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Sports Administration Press Releases 2002-03, Wofford College. Sports Information Office

Sports Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Connecting, August 2002, Volume 4, Issue 3, Nova Southeastern University Libraries

Connecting: Nova Southeastern University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Incorporating High Nitrate Feed Into Feeding Programs, Trey Patterson

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

When drought hits and feed is short, producers wonder if they can provide high nitrate feeds to their cattle. The answer is “Yes, if you know what you’re doing.” Nitrates can be very dangerous to cattle, causing reduced performance, abortions, and death. Know the toxicity symptoms and toxic levels of nitrates before using high nitrate feedstuffs in your feeding program. Refer to SDSU Extension Extra 4015 (Nitrate Poisoning of Livestock) for specifics regarding nitrate poisoning and guidelines for safe nitrate levels in animal diets. While nitrates feeds are dangerous to cattle, they can be fed if properly managed. Toxic effects …

Limit-Feeding Cows In A Drylot, Cody Wright

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Providing forage for cow herds is normally paramount to maintaining a desirable level of productivity. But during drought years, the supply of standing and harvested forages may be extremely limited and/or very expensive. Relocating the cow herd into drylot is a management alternative that may allow producers to take advantage of inexpensive grains and byproduct feeds to formulate cost effective cow diets.

Use Of Distillers Dried Grains With Solubles (Ddgs) In Swine Diets, Bob Thaler

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

More and more ethanol co-products are available for livestock feed because of the rapid growth of the ethanol industry in South Dakota. The three main co-products are Distillers Grains, Solubles, and Distillers Grains with Solubles, and they can be either “wet” or “dried” depending on the manufacturing process. Since, in the U.S., on-farm feed mixing and swine feeding systems are almost exclusively designed for dry feed, we deal here only with the dried products. All ethanol plants in South Dakota mainly produce Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS), limiting our discussion further to only DDGS as a feed ingredient for …

Winter Wheat Test Results For South Dakota, 2002, Robert G. Hall, John Rickertsen, Kevin K. Kirby

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

The winter wheat variety recommendations for 2003 are listed in table 1. Comments: The dominant issue facing South Dakota agriculture in the 2002 crop season was the lack of moisture in the fall of 2001 and the winter and spring of 2002. Limited moisture led to a large deficit in subsoil moisture in many cropping regions of the state. This in turn resulted in many acres of winter wheat and other small grains being harvested for hay. The average winter wheat yield in the South Dakota Crop Performance Testing (CPT) Program was 39 bu/A for year 2002 and 48 bu/A …

Jackrabbit Football 2002, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Football Media Guides (1950-2014)

The 2002 South Dakota State University football media guide was written, edited and published by the Jackrabbit Sports Information Service and printed by the SDSU Printing Lab for distribution to media members covering SDSU and the North Central Conference.

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

On Rescuing Frozen Embryos, Francis M. De Rosa

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

2002-2003 Bulletin

Undergraduate Bulletins

Volume 113, Number 4.

Scanned from the copy held in the Registrar's Office.

Information Interface - Volume 30, Issue 4 - August/September 2002, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Expression Of The Nuclear Receptor Coactivator, Camp Response Element-Binding Protein, Is Sexually Dimorphic And Modulates Sexual Differentiation Of Neonatal Rat Brain, Anthony P. Auger, T. S. Perrot-Sinal, C. J. Auger, L. A. Ekas, Marc J. Tetel, Margaret M. Mccarthy

Faculty Research and Scholarship

Recent studies indicate that the transcriptional activity of steroid receptors is governed by proteins called nuclear receptor coactivators. Using immunocytochemistry, we found that on the day of birth (postnatal d 0) males express higher levels of the nuclear receptor coactivator, cAMP response element binding protein-binding protein (CBP), within the ventromedial hypothalamus, medial preoptic area, and arcuate nucleus. Using Western immunoblots, we confirmed that males have higher levels of CBP on postnatal d 0, 1, and 5; however, there was no sex difference on postnatal d 11. To examine the functional role of CBP, we infused oligodeoxynucleotides that were antisense to …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 14, No. 4, [August?] 2002

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

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The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2002, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

The John Muir NeWi pr FER UNlVEESnY OF THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON, CA V( ilume 12, Number 4. Fall 2002; John Muir and the Civil War by Millie Stanley 7- suppose you have heard that they have drafted up in Marquette County and will be anxious to hear who are drafted you may be glad you were not taken."l Annie Muir penned these words in November, 1862, to her brother John who was a student at Wisconsin State University in Madison. Two years before, when he was twenty-two years old, John had traveled from his farm home in Marquette County to …

Faculty Senate Senate Membership, Vol 29, P 7, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

2002 Honor Roll Of Donors, Lindenwood University

Donor Reports

2002 Lindenwood University donor report.

Africa: It's Big!, Dennis Barlow

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The great opera commentator, John Culshaw was once asked to describe the monumental Wagnerian “Ring Cycle” using only one word. After pondering the question for a moment he responded by characterizing it as, “long.” At first, this obvious answer seemed more flippant than serious, but a little thought leads one to conclude that Culshaw was on to something. Many words could describe the Ring: monumental, bombastic, fantastic, convoluted, stirring, mythological, but each limits the scope or makes a judgment which may not be ultimately true. The truth is that someone who wants to tackle the Ring must be prepared to …

Ethics And Evolutionary Continuity: Comments On De Waal, Lyons, Moran, And Kraemer, Ronnie Hawkins

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

Darwin's Doubts And The Problems Of Animal Pain, Eric Russert Kraemer

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

Just For Kids: West Nile Virus, Ann Michelle Daniels, Bill Epperson

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

This document provides information about the West Nile Virus that is easy for kids to understand and comprehend.

The Heat-Shock Response: Its Variation, Regulation And Ecological Importance In Intertidal Gastropods (Genus Tegula), Lars Tomanek

Biological Sciences

The enhanced synthesis of heat-shock proteins (hsps), called the heat-shock (or stress) response, is activated when environmental stress denatures proteins. Hsp synthesis is activated at the upper temperatures of an organism's thermal range and is therefore thought to be critical for enhancing thermal tolerance limits in ectothermic animals. Here I show that the two temperate sister species T. brunnea and T. montereyi that occupy the subtidal and low-intertidal zone differ from the low- to mid-intertidal T. funebralis (and the subtropical mid-intertidal T. rugosa) in (i) heat tolerance, (ii) the onset temperature of their main hsp, hsp70 (70 kDa), (iii) …

Discovering Lactic Acid Bacteria By Genomics, Todd Klaenhammer, Eric Altermann, Fabrizio Arigoni, Alexander Bolotin, Fred Breidt, Jeffrey Broadbent, Raul J. Cano, Stephane Chaillou, Josef Deutscher, Mike Gasson, Maarten Van De Guchte, Jean Guzzo, Axel Hartke, Trevor Hawkins, Pascal Hols, Robert Hutkins, Michiel Kleerebezem, Jan Kok, Oscar Kuipers, Mark Lubbers, Emmanuelle Maguin, Larry Mckay, David Mills, Arjen Nauta, Ross Overbeek, Herman Pel, David Pridmore, Milton Saier, Douwe Van Sinderen, Alexei Sorokin, James Steele, Daniel O'Sullivan, Willem De Vos, Bart Weimer, Monique Zagorec, Roland Siezen

Biological Sciences

This review summarizes a collection of lactic acid bacteria that are now undergoing genomic sequencing and analysis. Summaries are presented on twenty different species, with each overview discussing the organisms fundamental and practical significance, environmental habitat, and its role in fermentation, bioprocessing, or probiotics. For those projects where genome sequence data were available by March 2002, summaries include a listing of key statistics and interesting genomic features. These efforts will revolutionize our molecular view of Gram-positive bacteria, as up to 15 genomes from the low GC content lactic acid bacteria are expected to be available in the public domain by …