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Reports, Electric Power And Natural Gas Outage Study, March 2003, Usf Center For Economic Development Research

Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR) Collection

Commissioned by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, this report utilizes the LANL model of the natural gas pipeline system and electric power grid to estimate the economic impacts of specified outages in the seven-county Tampa Bay region.

Anti-Predator Behavior Of Birds In Response To Call Playbacks Of The Barred-Forest-Falcon And White-Breasted Wood-Wren, March 2003, Matthew R. Gasner

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Birds have evolved many different strategies to cope with varying predation. Birds throughout the world are known to respond to threats, in part related to their size, social preferences, and foraging habits. Since there is relatively little known about these mechanisms for tropical birds of Cloud Forests, I have performed the following study in the Monteverde area of Costa Rica. A total of 129 calls of two types were played to 33 species in the Monteverde area during the course of this study. Anti-predator responses were recorded for birds exposed to a call playback of the Barred Forest-Falcon (Micrastur ruficolli) …

Advantageous Development Of Buttresses Displayed In Quercus Spp., March 2003, Mariel Platt

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The many hypotheses aimed at describing the physiological, morphological, environmental forces contributing to buttress development have not clearly shown definitive evidence regarding what selective forces are responsible for buttress formation. One hypothesis that has little documented research available is that the presence of buttresses allows for an increased abundance of organic matter and inhibits nutrient leaching from the soil, thus providing the tree with a greater quality soil for localized growth. Twenty-five different soil samples were collected and analyzed for potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus, and pH from both the base of buttressed Quercus spp. and a control site in the cloud …

Colony Size And Its Effect On Forager Polymorphism In Atta Cephalotes (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), March 2003, Matthew R. Wallrath

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Atta cephalotes or leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) exhibit strong polymorphism over the life span of a single colony. This polymorphism effects foraging efficiency and is linked to overall social complexity. In this study, I quantified the degree of variance in head size and femur length in six colonies, as well as presence of a soldier class, and compared these results to the relative size of each nest as determined by a survey of foraging intensity. It was found that variance in the head and femurs and the presence of soldiers was significant different between small and large colonies, and this …

Parasites In Scats Of Nasua Narica (Procyonidae), March 2003, Mary E. Kutch

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The majority of animal species are parasites, and free-living animals almost certainly harbor at least one host- specific parasite species. This study surveyed the intestinal parasites in a Costa Rican population of white-nosed coatis (Nasua narica). Scat was collected and analyzed under a compound microscope using the direct smear technique, and parasite morphospecies were counted and identified. All samples contained endoparasites, the most abundant of which were nematodes. They were present in 95% of the samples and included the genera Enterobius, Strongyloides, and Dorylaimus, Physaloptera, Diphyllobothrium latum, and a ciliate- possibly Bresslaua vorax, were also observed. Members of this tropical …

Comparing Anew: A Review Article Of New Work By Kushner, Zhang, Halio And Siegel, And San Román, Nicoletta Pireddu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Ethj Vol-41 No-1

East Texas Historical Journal

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Good Men Remembered, Max S. Lale

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Schools Of Tarkington Prairie, Sonia Calloway

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Paul Boüet Laffitte: A Borderlands Life, Robert C. Vogel

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Identifying Nursery Areas Used By Inner Bay And Oceanic Pink Snapper ( Pagrus Auratus) To The Effect Of Prawn Trawling On Inner Bay Snapper Stocks - Final Report For Frdc Project 2001/061, D. J. Gaughan, Michael J. Moran, Melinda M. Ranaldi, John R. Watling

Fisheries Research Contract Reports

Final Report for FRDC Project 2001/061

Pink snapper (Pagrus auratus) is the main commercial and recreational finfish (Kailola et al., 1993) in the Shark Bay region. Pink snapper are distributed along much of the temperate and tropical coasts of Western Australia from east of Esperance on the south coast to north of Shark Bay on the west (Paulin 1990). Previous research using genetics (Johnson et al. 1986), tagging (Moran et al. 2004), and otolith microchemistry (Edmonds et al., 1989, 1999) have shown that pink snapper from the innermost parts of Shark Bay do not mix with the ocean fish

Juvenile …

Behind Bars: Are Corporate Counsel Captive To State Licensure?, Elizabeth A. Wickerham

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Selective Removal Of The Selenocysteine Trna [Ser]Sec Gene (Trsp) In Mouse Mammary Epithelium, Easwari Kumaraswamy, Bradley A. Carlson, Fanta Morgan, Keiko Miyoshi, Gertraud W. Robinson, Dan Su, Shulin Wang, Eileen Southon, Lino Tessarollo, Byeong Jae Lee, Vadim Gladyshev, Lothar Hennighausen, Dolph L. Hatfield

Vadim Gladyshev Publications

Mice homozygous for an allele encoding the selenocysteine (Sec) tRNA ^[Ser]Sec gene (Trsp) flanked by loxP sites were generated. Cre recombinase-dependent removal of Trsp in these mice was lethal to embryos. To investigate the role of Trsp in mouse mammary epithelium, we deleted this gene by using transgenic mice carrying the Cre recombinase gene under control of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) long terminal repeat or the whey acidic protein promoter. While both promoters target Cre gene expression to mammary epithelium, MMTV-Cre is also expressed in spleen and skin. Sec tRNA ^[Ser]Sec amounts were reduced by …

The Application Of A Diatom-Based Transfer Function To Evaluate Regional Water-Quality Trends In Minnesota Since 1970, J. M. Ramstack, Sherilyn C. Fritz, D. R. Engstrom, S. A. Heiskary

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Significant population growth over the last three decades, as well as efforts to improve surface-water quality mandated by the Clean Water Act, potentially have had opposing influences on aquatic ecosystems in the U.S. Because historical data on water-quality trends are limited over this time period, we developed a diatom-based transfer function to reconstruct chloride, color, acid neutralizing capacity (ANC), total phosphorus (TP), and pH in 55 Minnesota lakes. The lakes span three different ecoregions, as well as the Twin Cities metropolitan area, and differ in their history of settlement and land use, and in surficial geology, climate, and vegetation. Lakes …

Methicillin-Resistant/Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia, Thomas W. Austin, Marilyn A. Austin, Brenda Coleman

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To examine the differences between the clinical presentation, management and outcome of persons bacteremic with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), after controlling for age, sex and primary diagnosis. METHODS: A review of the clinical records and laboratory data of all MRSA and MSSA bacteremic patients. Fifty matched case-control pairs were further analyzed looking for differences between the 2 populations. The study was carried out in a 500-bed adult tertiary care institution in southwestern Ontario, Canada, between 1994 and 1999. RESULTS: On univariate analysis a) duration of hospitalization prior to bacteremia, b) concomitant polymicrobial bacteremia, c) …

Cyclopia, Fahri Yilmaz, Nihal Kilinc

Saudi Medical Journal

True cyclopia is a rare anomaly in which the organogenetic development of the 2 separate eyes is suppressed. We report a fetus with an association of cyclopia with other anomalies. The possible mechanism of the histogenesis is discussed, together with a review of the relevant literature.

Deterministic Intracellular Modeling, Jacqueline B. Young

Theses and Dissertations

The United States Air Force is interested in the potential side effects at the cellular level from exposure to mission-essential chemicals. Presently, Air Force toxicology studies are conducted to help shed light in identifying potential hazards to workers. However, it takes a considerable amount of money, resources, and time to obtain and analyze experimental results from toxicology studies. The necessity for innovative methods that enable researchers to more effectively generate and analyze data is apparent.

The Environment And The World Trade Organization, Sydney M. Cone Iii.

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

Chalkboard 2001, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Chalkboard was a student creative journal established in 2001. The March 2001 issue features poetry from RISD students, staff, and faculty, along with interviews of RISD poetry instructors Rick Benjamin and Michael Magee.

Rex E. Lee Conference On The Office Of The Solicitor General Of The United States

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Diaspora Of Ethnic Economies: Beyond The Pale?, Lan Cao

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Diversity, Aggregation, Leg Mutilation And Mite Infestation Of Costa Rican Phalangida, Opiliones (Arachnida), March 2003, Katherine Ayres

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Phalangida diversity, aggregation composition, leg mutilation and mite infestation were analyzed under a variety of substrates in a pasture and a forest fragment in Cañitas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Any solitary individual or group of individuals found on or under a substrate were collected and analyzed. For each aggregation, the number of individuals was recorded. Each individual was identified to family and morphospecies. The numbers of missing legs and the leg pair to which they belonged were analyzed for each individual. The number of mites and their locations on the body were also analyzed. Species diversity for each habitat was calculated …

Celebrity Lawyers And The Cult Of Personality, Richard K. Sherwin

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

Foreword: Why Retry? Reviving Dormant Racial Justice Claims, Martha Minow

Michigan Law Review

Two familiar arguments oppose lawsuits and legislative efforts to address racial injustices from our national past, and a third tacit argument can be discerned. "Why open old wounds?": this question animates the first argument. The evidence is stale - this expresses the second argument. The third, less explicit objection reflects worries that exposing some gross and unremedied racial injustices from the past will reveal the scale of imperfections in the systems of justice and government and thereby undermine the legitimacy of those systems. To introduce the meticulous and passionate essays in this Colloquium, I elaborate and respond to each of …

The Immigration Paradox: Poverty, Distributive Justice, And Liberal Egalitarianism, Howard F. Chang

DePaul Law Review

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Nanny Diaries And Other Stories: Imagining Immigrant Women's Labor In The Social Reproduction Of American Families, Mary Romero

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reading War With Nietzsche And Reading Nietzsche With Kant, Rimbaud, And Bataille, Adrian Gargett

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Reading War with Nietzsche and Reading Nietzsche with Kant, Rimbaud, and Bataille," Adrian Gargett discusses the aspects of poetry, communication, and notion that the apparition of Nietzsche manifested in Bataille is not a locus of secular reason but of necromantic religion: a writer who escapes philosophical conceptuality in the direction of unidentified zones, and dispenses with the "thing in itself" because it is an article of intelligible representation with no importance as a vector of becoming/of travel. Necromancy resists the transcendence of death opening territories of "voyages of discovery never reported." Against the strain of inert and …

South Africa's Land Reform Programme., Andre J. Groenewald

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

South Africa is committed to land reform.  Because land is what shapes our national identity, the land dispossession of black people by the hand of white colonizers shapes the importance of land reform in South Africa. After the Natives’ Land Act of 1913, rights to own, rent, or even sharecrop land in South Africa depended upon a person’s racial classification. This was furthered by the Native Trust and Land Act of 1936. In 1994, however, the new government passed a Land Restitution Act. The land reform policy, Reconstruction and Development Programme, aimed to redress the injustices of apartheid, foster national …

Beyond The Courts Of The Conqueror: Balancing Private And Cultural Property Rights Under Hawai'i Law., M. Casey Jarman, Robert R.M. Verchick

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

Overcoming The Myth Of Free Will In Criminal Law: The True Impact Of The Genetic Revolution, Matthew Jones

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.