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Rgs14 Is A Mitotic Spindle Protein Essential From The First Division Of The Mammalian Zygote., Luke Martin-Mccaffrey, Francis S Willard, Antonio J Oliveira-Dos-Santos, David R C Natale, Bryan E Snow, Randall J Kimple, Agnieszka Pajak, Andrew J Watson, Lina Dagnino, Josef M Penninger, David P Siderovski, Sudhir J A D'Souza

Obstetrics & Gynaecology Publications

Heterotrimeric G protein alpha subunits, RGS proteins, and GoLoco motif proteins have been recently implicated in the control of mitotic spindle dynamics in C. elegans and D. melanogaster. Here we show that "regulator of G protein signaling-14" (RGS14) is expressed by the mouse embryonic genome immediately prior to the first mitosis, where it colocalizes with the anastral mitotic apparatus of the mouse zygote. Loss of Rgs14 expression in the mouse zygote results in cytofragmentation and failure to progress to the 2-cell stage. RGS14 is found in all tissues and segregates to the nucleus in interphase and to the mitotic spindle …

The Meaning Of The Marital Act, David M. Duff

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Usda Forest Service: The Next 100 Years, Andrus Center For Public Policy

Research and Reports

No abstract provided.

Beginning Of The Reformation In Valais, Gerda Altpeter Pastor, Albert Moesle

Swiss American Historical Society Review

V alais lies in southwestern Switzerland. At the time of the Reformation it was a republic loyal to the Cofnfederation, i.e. the Bishop sent one or two envoys to the Tagsatzung in Baden to join in deliberation and decision-making.

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Fish & Wildlife News: Fall 2004

Fish and Wildlife News

Contents:

2004 Federal Duck Stamp Contest: And the Winner Is...
Ducks Unlimited Signs on to License Duck Stamp
United States Reauthorizes North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Fish Passage Program Booms
Prescribed Fire Cuts Insurance Premiums
A Raven’s Story Echoes in Cyberspace
Reining In the “Horsemen”
Hurricanes Slash the Southeast
Congress to Help Cover Storm Damage
Partnerships x 7: Federal Land Management Agency Head Roundtable
Piper Honored At Bozeman Fish Technology Center Dedication
First Habitat Conservation Plan Gets Checkup
Refuge Hunting and Fishing Poised For Increase
Keeping Historic Waterways Invasive-Free
Partner’s Ranch Becomes Torstenson Family Wildlife Center
Environmental Justice for All …

Ministerial Policy Guideline No.20: Assessment Of Applications For Authorisations With Regards To Rock Lobster Aquaculture, Department Of Fisheries Wa

Fisheries Administrative Guidelines

This guideline forms a further part of a framework for the orderly development of a rock lobster aquaculture industry in Western Australia. The Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (FRMA) is the legislation under which regulations for WA aquaculture are administered.

Ministerial Policy Guideline No. 8 Assessment of Applications for Authorisations for Aquaculture and Pearling in coastal waters of Western Australia outlines the generic process for the assessment of aquaculture authorisations. This guideline will establish the foundation upon which this policy specific to western rock lobster will operate.

The Contribution Of Social Partnership And Activity Settings To The Emergence Of Sex Differences, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Certain sex differences are observable in children’s behavior in social interaction in many cultures worldwide. Age 3-6: Insulting, rough and tumble play, and dominating egoistically are the most clearly masculine behaviors, and seeking or offering physical contact, dominating prosocially, and seeking help the most feminine. These differences are strengthened or weakened, magnified or reduced according to cultural context. (They are smallest in Orchard Town and Nyansongo).

Together with colleagues, we reexamined these conclusions in The Children of Different Worlds project, which drew upon the running record observations from 12 communities to get a much larger data set also based on …

0535 A Listing Of Crimes And Traffic Infractions In Colorado, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

The Differential Requirement Of Albumin And Sodium Citrate On The Development Of In Vitro Produced Bovine Embryos, Li-Ying Sung, Fuliang Du, Jie Xu, Wancun Chang, Tshimangadzo Lucky Nedambale, Jiaxin Zhang, Shie Jiang, X. Cindy Tian, Xiangzhong Yang

ANSC Articles

In vitro culture for bovine embryos is largely not optimal. Our study was to determine the components necessary for early embryo development. In experiment 1, IVF embryos were cultured for two days in CR1aa medium containing sodium citrate and BSA from two sources (Sigma vs. ICPbio), subsequently for additional five days with cumulus monolayer in 10% FBS CR1aa. We found that supplementation with both Sigma-BSA and sodium citrate significantly increased total blastocyst (BL) development compared with the ICPbio-BSA groups (37% vs. 19-21%), and enhanced the total number of high quality (C1 BL, IETS standard) blastocysts (26% vs. 11-17%) (P < 0.05). In experiment 2 with serum free and/or somatic free culture, we found that CR1aa culture can support a comparable embryo development with a supplement of Sigma BSA. The addition of sodium citrate did not increase blastocyst development in either the Sigma-BSA or the ICPbio-BSA groups. An inferior blastocyst development occurring in ICPbio-BSA culture (1-3%) could be rescued by culture in CRlaa supplemented with 10% FBS (29%), more importantly, by culture in CR1aa with a replacement of Sigma BSA (24%) (P <0.05). C1 blastocysts rescued by FBS and Sigma BSA in ICPbio-BSA culture possessed indistinguishable morphology to embryos developed in a Sigma-BSA, FBS and somatic co-culture system, showing similar cell number/blastocyst (129-180, P > 0.05). …

The Nadca Probe, Issue 236

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Observations of the "Rodentator" Device for Controlling Blackailed Prairie Dogs
Bruggers to Head NWRC
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
Are rodents immune from contracting rabies?
The ICWDM Continues to Evolve
Wyoming Presents Grizzly Bear Management Proposal
Vantassel Moves to the University of Nebraska

Sex, Rape, And Shame, Katharine K. Baker

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Novf2004, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From November 2004 Robert Kelly Archive.

Novh2004, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From November 2004 Robert Kelly Archive.

The Knight Volume 15: Issue 7, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Shiga Toxin Binding To Isolated Porcine Tissues And Peripheral Blood Leukocytes, Kellie R. K. Winter, William C. Stoffregen, Evelyn A. Dean-Nystrom

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Shiga toxin (Stx) binding sites in porcine tissues and leukocytes were identified by the use of Stx overlay and anti-CD77/Gb3 immunoassays. Stx1 and Stx2 bound to similar tissue locations and leukocytes, although some differences were noted. Previously unreported Stx binding sites were identified in kidney tubules, intestinal lymphoid aggregates, sinusoidal liver cells, alveolar macrophages, and peripheral blood leukocytes.

What's Fear Got To Do With It - It's Affect We Need To Worry About, Paul Slovic

Missouri Law Review

My objective in this paper is to provide psychological perspective on the challenges to rational decision making in the face of terrorism and other risk crisis. I shall begin with an introduction to the psychology of risk, highlighting the role of affect and its contribution to what may be called “risk as feeling.” I shall then address the need to educate and inform citizens about risks from terrorism and some of the particular challenges this entails.

The Situational Character: A Critical Realist Perspective On The Human Animal, Jon Hanson, David Yosifon

Faculty Publications

This Article is dedicated to retiring the now-dominant "rational actor" model of human agency, together with its numerous "dispositionist" cohorts, and replacing them with a new conception of human agency that the authors call the "situational character." This is a key installment of a larger project recently introduced in an article titled

The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture. That introductory article adumbrated, often in broad stroke, the central premises and some basic conclusions of a new approach to legal theory and policy analysis. This Article provides a more complete version of …

Forage News [2004-11], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Dr. Ray Smith Joins Kentucky Forage Team
• KFGC Presents 2004 Forage Awards
• Forage Spokesman Winner
• Grigson Becomes KFGC President
• KFGC Board Elects Six New Members
• 5th Kentucky Grazing Conference Big Success
• Forage Information
• What Is the Quality of Your Hay?
• How Good Is Stockpiled Tall Fescue?
• Effects of Tall Fescue Endophyte on Reproduction
• American Forage and Grassland Council Update
• Calf Weaning Weights of Cattle Grazing Toxic or MaxQ™ Tall Fescue Stands
• Hay Production
• Upcoming Events

Introduction: The Swiss Protestant Reformation

Swiss American Historical Society Review

On November 28th , 2002 the innocent family Lieu awoke to begin another day of prayer, devotion and work in their hometown of Danane in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. However, at 9 AM gunfire erupted and rebel forces began dropping bombs on the town, announcing that the current civil war in the Ivory Coast had reached Danane, terrifying the citizens and traumatizing the Lieu family to such an extent that they and many of their neighbors resolved to flee, with literally just the shirts on their backs, into the jungle. For months they lived like animals in the wilderness …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 23, November 1, 2004

Central Florida Future

Why this election matters to me: First-timers and repeaters reflect on importance of voting; Control lies in Florida's hands: Partisan dominance of Senate at stake in Castor Martinez race; Ludacris kicks off Knightmare 2004: Rap star joined by the Ataris Further Seems Forever.

Effects Of Competition On Copulatory Behaviors In Pseudoxychila Tarsalis (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), November 2004, Hilary Wilson

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This study examines the effects of competition on copulatory behaviors of the tiger beetle Pseudoxychila tarsalis. I tested the hypothesis that copulatory behavior of a P. tarsalis mating pair in the presence of an additional male would induce significant behavioral changes, including longer amplexus time and increased frequency of a variety of copulatory behaviors. Trials were conducted with either one male and one female, or two males and one female, and the behaviors of one copulatory amplexus recorded per trial. No statistical differences were found for the male behaviors of time until mount, amplexus duration, or number of intromissions, but …

Discharge And Drift Of Benthic Macroinvertebrates In A Tropical Montane Stream, November 2004, Megan Moore

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Several studies in temperate regions have observed an active behavioral response of stream invertebrates to environmental factors. However, few of these studies have been conducted in the tropics and the behavior of tropical stream invertebrates is unknown. In an attempt to improve the knowledge on tropical stream ecology, this study observed indirect behavioral responses to discharge within the drift as well as the benthic macroinvertebrate community. Drift, benthic, and discharge samples were taken at 11 sites along the Quebrada Máquina from October 28-November 13 of 2004. The drift community richness and diversity and discharge resulted in a non-significant, negative trend. …

Host Tree Dispersal Method And Community Composition Of Vascular Epiphytes, November 2004, Kathleen White

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The pattern of epiphyte distribution along host trees is a function of many variables. This study examined how the dispersal syndrome of the host tree affected the composition of epiphyte dispersal syndromes in that tree. It was expected that a host tree species bearing bird-dispersed fruits would harbor more epiphytes exhibiting the bird-dispersal syndrome than a tree that has fruits eaten by terrestrial mammals. Two species of host trees were surveyed, Inga sierrae, a tree with terrestrial-mammal dispersed fruits, and Sapium glandulosum, a tree with fruits that are bird-dispersed. Nine of each tree species were sampled. The tree with terrestrial …

Effects Of Fragmentation And Human Disturbance On Mammal Communities In San Luis And Monteverde, Costa Rica, November 2004, Lindsay Crawford

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Mammals occupy important roles in tropical ecosystems and can often be keystone species, controlling the composition of their communities. This study compared mammal communities in Monteverde and San Luis, Costa Rica, two regions that differ in their current and historical patterns of fragmentation. Three habitats per region, representing a disturbance gradient, were surveyed using scent stations. Prints as well as visual observations were recorded. No significant differences were found in species richness across zones or across habitats. However, overall diversity was consistently higher in Monteverde and locally highest in edge habitats in both regions. Local richness patterns (across habitats) follow …

Macroinvertebrate Communities And Streambed Substrates Of A Dammed Stream In Monteverde, Costa Rica, November 2004, John Robert Rancourt

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The purpose of this study was to determine how the dam placed in the Quebrada Máquina, Monteverde, Costa Rica, affects the abundance, richness, and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrate communities. Samples were collected from 20 sites, 50m upstream and downstream of the dam. The relative percentage of streambed substrate composition was also documented at all test sites. There were significant decreases in Order richness and diversity as absolute distance from the dam decreased. In addition, the substrate composition was found to be homogeneous for sand directly upstream of the dam. This leads to the conclusion that the dam has created a …

Vertical Stratification Of Hummingbird Pollinated Plants In Relation To Corolla Length, November 2004, Eleanor Gordon

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

For members of feeding guilds to co-exist in the same community, species must partition niches to avoid competition. In Tropical Lower Montane Wet Forest, hummingbirds are an important and numerous pollinators, suggesting a large number of niche partitioning mechanisms. Hummingbirds are often tightly co-evolved with the plants they pollinate, having bill lengths corresponding to the length of the flower they pollinate. It is proposed in this study that there is a relationship between heights of hummingbird pollinated plant and length of flower corolla. It is hypothesized that short corolla flowers will exist in some strata and long corolla flowers in …

A Protozoan Parasite In Wild And Captive Monarch Butterfly Populations Near Monteverde, Costa Rica, November 2004, Joanna Hsu

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Although the protozoan parasite Ophyrocystis elektroscirrha was first recovered from Danaus plexippus (Nymphalidae: Danainae) and Danaus gilippus populations in Florida in 1966 and has since been found in many other monarch and queen populations worldwide, no previous studies have shown that this parasite infects butterflies in Costa Rica. This study is the first to do so, documenting the occurrence of Ophryocystis elektroscirrha in a wild and butterfly garden population of D. plexippus near Monteverde, Costa Rica. Although only a few infected individuals were found in both populations, there was a stark contrast in the number of parasites per individual between …

Stream Site Selection Of Hyalinobatrachium Fleischmanni (Centrolenidae), November 2004, Alicia Ward

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Census work and habitat analysis for the glass frog species Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni was performed on four streams in Cañitas and Monteverde, Costa Rica. At each of six sites, the habitat occupied by H. fleischmanni was contrasted with a nearby, paired site where individuals were absent. Seven habitat parameters were investigated: water quality based on dissolved oxygen and phosphate content; water speed; discharge; distance from human development; extent of canopy cover; and presence or absence of common monocots (Zingiberaceae: Hedychium coronarium, Costaceae: Costus spp., Musaceae: Musa acuminata). No statistically significant differences were found between Occupied and Unoccupied locations though patterns suggested …

Connections: Library News For Library Staff Vol. 1, Issue 9, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

Connections: Library News for Library Staff

The purpose of Connections was to build community within UTA Library staff by reminding people of upcoming events and dates, introducing new staff members, celebrating a department's achievements, and writing about other items of interest.