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Local Solutions For Global Problems: The Debate Over The Causes And Effects Of Climate Change And Emerging Mitigation Strategies For States, Localities An Private Parties, Robert B. Mckinstry Jr., Esq.

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Climate Change And Pennsylvania Agriculture, David Abler, James Shortle, Ann Fisher

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

From Rome To Nice: A Historical Profile Of The Evolution Of European Environmental Law, Noa Vardi, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

2004-2006 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Graduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

2004-2005 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

Comparison In Various Bioactive Compounds Of Leaves And Seeds Of Foeniculum Vulgare Mill., M. Gulfraz, M. Arshad, N. Uzma, Kanwal Kanwal, K. Shabir

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

Medicinal plants a gift of nature are being used against various infections and diseases in the subcontinent since past history. Herbs were use as food ( vegetables ) and flavors for hundred of years in many parts of world. Whereas number of herbs have also been traditionally regarded as natural remedies for common ailments of human population. Furthermore some herbal plants are considered as house of medicines and played an important role in nearly every culture on earth, including Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. A study was conducted to analyze the Leaves and seeds of Foeniculum vulgare for different …

Ethnobotanical Study Of Galliyat For Botanical Demography And Bioecological Diversification, Muhammad Arshad, Mushtaq Ahmad

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

The present research work was based on the results of an enthnobotanical research project conducted in the Galliyat areas of NWFP, Province (Pakistan) during July 2003-March 2004. The region is mountainous with pine forests. Botanists have rarely studied the remote villages of the area, hence ethnobotanical information is quite meager. The local people of the area have always used surrounding natural resources that is wild plants for medicinal purposes and have for a long time dependent on the surrounding plant sources for their food, shelter, fodder, timber, fuel and health care. The present study mainly focus on the information regarding …

Investigation For Bioactive Compounds Of Berberis Lyceum Royle And Justicia Adhatoda L., M. Gulfraz, M. Arshad, N. Nayyer, N. Kanwal, U. Nisar

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

In order to explore the medicinal values of plant species like Berberis lyceum and Justicia adhatoda, a study was conducted to analyze roots, leaves and fruits of both plant species for identification of various organic compounds. Chemical analysis as well as identification of organic compounds by chromatographic techniques were carried out. Results indicates that both plant species contained Proteins, Sugars, Lipids, Vitamin C, Sodium, Calcium, Sulphur, Iron, and Zinc.Whereas the alkaloids like Palmatine, Berberine, Vasicine and Vasicinone were also found in leaves and roots of these plant species. However, it was observed that roots of both plant species contained higher …

Ethnophytotherapical Approaches For The Treatment Of Diabetes By The Local Inhabitants Of District Attock (Pakistan), Mushtaq Ahmad, Mir Ajab Khan, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Zafar

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

Results of the present investigation are based on 37 indigenous plant species belonging to 23 Angiospermic families. These indigenous plants were used as traditional phytotherapies for the control and treatment of diabetes millitus. The rural inhabitants of the area classified these traditional phytotherapies on the basis of uses of various parts of plants and method of their uses. About 29 traditional phytotherapies were investigated from the rural inhabitants of the area. These traditional phytotherapies were classified as antidiabetic extracts, leaves, powders, flour, seeds, vegetables, fruits and herbal mixtures.

Adhatoda Vasica-Therapeutic Monograph, Amrit Pal Singh

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

No abstract provided.

Exponent Vol. 36, No. 5, 2004-10-27, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

2004

No abstract provided.

Catalog 2004-05, Dmacc

Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The State Of Utah V. Rickie L. Reber, Tex William Atkins, And Steven Paul Thunehorst : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM A CONVICTION ON ONE COUNT OF AIDING OR ASSISTING IN WANTON DESTRUCTION OF PROTECTED WILDLIFE, A THIRD DEGREE FELONY, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANN. §§ 23-20-4 AND 23-20-23 (WEST 2004), IN THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR UINTAH COUNTY, THE HONORABLE A. LYNN PAYNE, PRESIDING

Annual Report From The Town Officers Of Clarksville, New Hampshire, For The Year Ending December 31, 2003, Report Of The School Directors Included., Clarksville Town Representatives

Clarksville, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Salt Lake City Corp. V. Salt Lake City Civil Service Commission : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

BRIEF OF APPELLEE This is the brief of appellee in an appeal by the city from a final order of the Salt Lake City Civil Service Commission.

Growing Up Overseas: Perceptions Of Second Language Attrition And Retrieval Amongst Expatriate Children In India, Steve Sider

Education Faculty Publications

This study involves expatriate children whose first language (L1) is English and who learned Hindi as their second language (L2) while their parents worked in India. The purpose of the study was to investigate the linguistic experiences of the children after they had left India, particularly experiences with L2 attrition. Through semi-structured interviews, subjects shared their stories of L2 acquisition and attrition. Common experiences which contributed to the attrition of the L2 included periods of non-use of the L2, social responses to the use of the L2, the lack of development of Hindi literacy and subjects’ attitude toward using the …

Acoustic Sensing For Ocean Research, Bruce M. Howe, James H. Miller

Ocean Engineering Faculty Publications

Ocean observatories have the potential to examine the physical, chemical, biological, and geological parameters and processes of the ocean at time and space scales previously unexplored. Acoustics provides an efficient and cost-effective means by which these parameters and processes can be measured and information can be communicated. Integrated acoustics systems providing navigation and communications and conducting acoustic measurements in support of science applications are, in concept, analogous to the Global Positioning System, but rely on acoustics because the ocean is opaque to electromagnetic waves and transparent to sound. A series of nested systems is envisioned, from small- to regional- to …

How Large Is The Potential Market Of Microwave Food In China?, Sin Ting Ho, Wing Yan Ho

Bachelor Degree - Management - Final Year Project

In China, food industry brings huge profit in every year, but the microwave food industry still faces the problem of underdevelopment. To explore the extent of the potential market of microwave food, a research on it can be contributed. However, there are rare similar researches on the circumstances of microwave food in China, so it is valuable to design a research project which particularly focuses on the mainland conditions of microwave food. Shanghai is one of the most desirable places among the major mainland cities. Thus, its market of microwave food can perform as a model for other cities to …

You Are What You Serve: Are School Districts Liable For Serving Unhealthy Food And Beverages To Students?, Caroline Fabend Bartlett

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

2004 Louisiana Summary: Agriculture And Natural Resources, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Summary: Agriculture and Natural Resources

This book gives an accounting of the value of agriculture in Louisiana in 2004. Agents and specialists of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, as well as other agencies – both private and public – compile this information. It focuses on the animal, forestry, fisheries, plant and wildlife commodities that comprise our vital agricultural industry. This industry continues to contribute significantly to the state’s economy with the potential for increased impacts through value-added processing.

In 2004, Louisiana farmers, foresters, fishermen and ranchers produced agricultural commodities valued at slightly more than $5 billion. When those commodities were processed, the value-added brought in …

Impaired Coordination Of Nutrient Intake And Substrate Oxidation In Melanocortin-4 Receptor Knockout Mice, Diana C. Albarado, Jennifer Mcclaine, Jacqueline M. Stephens, Randall L. Mynatt, Jianping Ye, Anthony W. Bannon, William G. Richards, Andrew A. Butler

Faculty Publications

Mutations in the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) are associated with obesity. The obesity syndrome observed in humans with MC4R haploinsufficiency is similar to that observed in MC4R knockout mice: increased longitudinal growth, hyperphagia, and fasting hyperinsulinemia. For comparison with other commonly investigated models of obesity and insulin resistance, we have backcrossed Mc4r-/- mice into the C57BL/6J (B6) background. Female obese Mc4r-/- mice exhibit reduced energy expenditure and an attenuated increase in fatty acid oxidation following exposure to high fat diets compared to obese Lep ob/Lepob mice. The reduced energy expenditure and fatty acid oxidation correlates with changes in hepatic gene expression. …

High-Latitude Tertiary Migrations Of An Exclusively Tropical Clade: Evidence From Malpighiaceae, Charles C. Davis, Peter W. Fritsch, Charles D. Bell, Sarah Mathews

Faculty Publications

Explanations of tropical intercontinental disjunctions involving South America and Africa typically invoke vicariance of western Gondwanan biotas or long-distance dispersal. However, many plant groups originated and diversified well after the last direct connection between Africa and South America (ca. 105 million years before the present [mybp]), and it is unlikely that long-distance dispersal accounts for the distribution of all of these. A less commonly invoked explanation, the boreotropics hypothesis, indicates that some tropical disjunctions arose during the Tertiary via high-latitude land connections when northern forests supported tropical vegetation. Malpighiaceae are widely distributed across Africa and South America and have been …

Variation In Small Sapling Density, Understory Cover, And Resource Availability In Four Neotropical Forests, Kyle E. Harms, Jennifer S. Powers, Rebecca A. Montgomery

Faculty Publications

Even though many forest plants spend all or a significant portion of their lives in the forest understoty, few studies have compared understory composition, structure, and resource availability among forests. We used standardized transect-based methods to compare small sapling densities (10-50 cm tall), understory vegetation cover, canopy openness, and nutrient availability in non-gap portions of four lowland Neotropical forests: La Selva, Costa Rica (LS), Barro Colorado Island, Panama (BCI), Cocha Cashu, Peru (CC), and north of Manaus, Brazil (KM41). Sites differed significantly in all variables except canopy openness. LS had high palm and non-fern herb cover and low density of …

Response Of A Gall-Forming Guild (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) To Stressed And Vigorous Prairie Roses, Mark A. Williams, James T. Cronin

Faculty Publications

Two general hypotheses that describe the relationship between plant quality and host-plant preference of insect herbivores are the plant-stress and plant-vigor hypotheses. We examined the response of a gall-forming guild of insect herbivores associated with prairie rose, Rosa arkansana Porter (Rosaceae), to experimental manipulations of plant stress (addition of NaCl) and vigor (addition of nitrogen; NH4NO3). The most common members of the gall-forming guild on roses are Diplolepis ignota Osten Sacken, D. nodulosa Beutenmüller, and D. rosaefolii Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). The repeated application of nitrogen throughout the growing season to prairie plots resulted in significantly higher plant nitrogen levels and …

The Matrix Enhances The Effectiveness Of Corridors And Stepping Stones, Kristen A. Baum, Kyle J. Haynes, Forrest P. Dillemuth, James T. Cronin

Faculty Publications

Conservation strategies often call for the utilization of corridors and/or stepping stones to promote dispersal among fragmented populations. However, the extent to which these strategies increase connectivity for an organism may depend not only on the corridors and stepping stones themselves, but also on the composition of the surrounding matrix. Using an herbivore-host-plant system consisting of the planthopper Prokelisia crocea and its sole host plant, prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata), we show that the effectiveness of corridors and stepping stones for promoting planthopper dispersal among patches depended strongly on the intervening matrix habitat. In a low-resistance matrix (one that facilitates high …

Positional Identification Of Hypertension Susceptibility Genes On Chromosome 2, Ruth Ann Barkley, Aravinda Chakravarti, Richard S. Cooper, R. Curtis Ellison, Steven C. Hunt, Michael A. Province, Stephen T. Turner, Alan B. Weder, Eric Boerwinkle

Faculty Publications

Chromosome 2 has been consistently identified as a genomic region with genetic linkage evidence suggesting that one or more loci contributes to blood pressure and hypertension status. As with all complex disease traits, following-up linkage evidence to identify the underlying susceptibility gene(s) is an arduous yet biologically and clinically important task. Using combined positional candidate gene methods, the Family Blood Pressure Program (FBPP) has concentrated efforts in narrowing a large region of chromosome 2, demonstrating evidence for linkage in several populations, and identifying underlying candidate hypertension susceptibility gene(s). Initial informatics efforts identified the boundaries of the region and the known …

Influence Of Drought Stress On Sweetpotato Resistance To Sweetpotato Weevil, Cylas Formicarius (Coleoptera: Apoinidae), And Storage Root Chemistry, Lixin Mao, Louis E. Jett, Richard N. Story, Abner M. Hammond, Joseph K. Peterson, Don R. Labonte

Faculty Publications

The effect of drought stress on the resistance of sweetpotato roots to sweetpotato weevil (SPW), Cylas formicarius (Fab.), was studied in 1997 and 1998 in two genotypes ("Beauregard" and "Excel") with different SPW susceptibility. Storage roots produced under drought or normal conditions were tested for adult feeding, oviposition, larval survival and pupal weight in the laboratory under no-choice and free-choice test conditions. The levels of sweetpotato resin glycoside and caffeic acid in the periderm tissue of the roots were also determined. Drought-stressed roots received significantly more SPW eggs under no-choice and free-choice conditions and more feeding punctures under free-choice conditions …

Population Genetic Structure Of The Prairie Skink (Eumeces Septentrionalis): Nested Clade Analysis Of Post Pleistocene Populations, Gregory S. Fuerst, Christopher C. Austin

Faculty Publications

We sequenced two regions of the mitochondrial genome, ND4 and d-loop, from 64 Eumeces septentrionales to assess intra- and interspecific population differentiation. We constructed haplotype genealogies for nine Eumeces septentrionalis septentrionalis populations in previously glaciated regions and used nested clade analysis to examine the role of vicariance and dispersal in shaping the population structure of E. s. septentrionalis in the northern part of its range following Pleistocene paleoclimatological events. In addition, we used DNA sequence data to compare populations of the northern subspecies (E. s. septentrionalis) with the southern subspecies (Eumeces septentrionalis obtusirostris) to determine whether specific level differentiation is …

Mary Leapor The Female Body And The Body Of Her Texts, Michael Meyer

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

Picturing Aesops Re-Visions Of Aesop's Fables From L'Estrange To Richardson, Anja Muller

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.