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Searching For Amen| A Year In Poetry, Suzanne Therese Schmidt

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Evaluation Of Growth, Production And Cold Tolerance Of Four Varieties Of Tilapia, Patricio Enrique Paz

LSU Master's Theses

As global tilapia production grows, it is important to characterize varieties available for production and generate data on environmental tolerances. This study generated data on tolerances, adaptabilities and production characteristics of four tilapia varieties. Goals of this study were to: (1) compare growth of four tilapia varieties in two types of recirculating systems, (2) evaluate juvenile growth of seven tilapia varieties in fresh and brackishwater mesocosms, and (3) estimate cold tolerance of juveniles of four tilapia varieties in fresh and brackishwater. Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus), Mississippi commercial strain tilapia (MCS), and Florida red tilapia (FRT) were …

A Meta-Analytic Examination Of Decisional Balance Across Stage Transitions: A Cross-Sectional Analysis And Cross-Sequential Cross-Validation, Kara L. Hall

Open Access Dissertations

Interventions to decrease unhealthy behaviors and to increase healthy behaviors are crucial for health promotion and disease prevention. Computerized tailored interventions provide a promising approach for creating positive health behavior change. The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) delineates a way to conceptualize behavior change, provides the foundation for developing assessments of an individual's readiness to change, and is utilized in tailoring interventions for actualizing behavior change. To produce optimally tailored interventions: (1) theory that guides interventions needs to be comprehensively tested; and (2) empirical data that drive the tailored interventions needs to be systematically generated. This program of research tests theoretical assumptions …

Regulating Genetically Modified Foods: Is Mandatory Labeling The Right Answer?, Jonathan H. Adler

Faculty Publications

What I want to talk about are some legal issues relating to labeling and, in particular, constitutional issues relating to mandatory labeling for genetically modified foods or food products that may contain genetically modified components. This is a separate issue from whether or not the FDA, or some other agency, has sufficient statutory authority at present to mandate labeling, and that is something worth discussing. Even if they do have such authority, or even if Congress tomorrow were to give the FDA such authority or were to require the FDA to impose labels on genetically modified foods, or if a …

The Granite, 2004, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-

A Tale Of The Children: Challenges To Learning And Teaching In Idaho, And Why Some Children Will Be Left Behind, Terry Armstrong

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Teachers are under many stressors from forces seeking to improve education. In Idaho, there are numerous factors beyond educators' control that threaten to undermine success for all children. This article, prepared by eighteen distinguished Idaho public school teachers, outlines variables attendant to school failure for many Idaho children. Teachers need to act as advocates for improving the social climate that impinges on learning.

In addition to the main author, this article was prepared by Cohort Groups III and IV of the Thomas Wright Fellows, University of Idaho:

Cohort III
John Baillie
Kelly Gillie
Katholyn Howell
Ace Marcellus
Ann McLellan
Katherine …

Winter Feeding Ecology And Browse Effects Of Mule Deer Elk White-Tailed Deer And Cattle On The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, Scott A. Hemmer

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Nutrition And Bone Health In Female Athletes : A Nutrition Assessment For Coaches And Athletes, Kimberly Dawn Whitish

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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An Investigation Of Perceived Quality Of Life In School Of Education Master Degree Students At The University Of Montana, Calan Roy Gibney

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Prison Voices: Lessons On Youth Recidivism, Shad E. Bailey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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"Left For Dead" Of "Hope On The Horizon?"| Perspectives On The Future Of Agriculture In Missoula County, Libby Hinsley

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Impact Of Alabama's Family Planning Demonstration Program On Access To Care And Contraceptive Method Choice Among Low -Income Women., Deren E. Bader

All ETDs from UAB

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Coexpression Of Mutant Forms Of Cftr Inhibit Wild-Type Cftr Expression And Function In Airway Epithelium., Torry Alle Tucker

All ETDs from UAB

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Business As Usual? Brown And The Continuing Conundrum Of Race In America, Robert S. Chang, Jerome M. Culp Jr.

Faculty Articles

In this article, Professors Robert Chang and Jerome Culp examine the state of race in America in the aftermath of the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, focusing on the ten-year window preceding its fiftieth anniversary. Their findings reveal that while Brown established fundamental precedent in the area of race relations, racial inequality remains entrenched in a number of modern social institutions. Chang and Culp analyze this dilemma by focusing on three distinct trends. First, a cycle of inequality is driven by racial disparities in wealth and perpetuated by interlocking systems of education, housing, family, healthcare, …

Trade Liberalization, Food Security And The Environment: The Neoliberal Threat To Sustainable Rural Development, Carmen G. Gonzalez

Faculty Articles

This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of contemporary trade, aid and development practices in ameliorating or exacerbating the problem. The article argues that the neoliberal economic reforms imposed on developing countries through the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental degradation by reinforcing pre-existing inequities in the global trading system that relegate many developing …

What Role For Humanitarian Intellectual Property? The Globalization Of Intellectual Property Rights, Susan Sell

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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The Impact Of Intellectual Property On Nonprofit Research Institutions And The Developing Countries They Serve, Ronald P. Cantrell, Gene P. Hettel, Gerard F. Barry, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Biotechnology Patents And African Food Security: Aligning America's Patent Policies And International Development Interests, Michael Taylor, Dr. Jerry Cayford Phd

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Legal Constraint Of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies, Dan L. Burk

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Assessment Of Obesity And Fear Of Fatness Among Inner-City Dublin Schoolchildren In A One-Year-Follow-Up Study, Anne Griffin, Katherine Younger, Mary Flynn

Articles

Background: Positive secular trends in adolescent obesity and an increased prevalence of fear of fatness, particularly among girls, have been documented world-wide. There is a lack of consensus about assessment criteria for childhood obesity and no standard exists for assessing Irish children. In 1990, the Irish National Nutrition Survey used body mass index (BMI) $26 kgm22 to describe the prevalence of overweight among Irish adolescents.

Objectives: (1) To examine the range in classification of Dublin schoolchildren as overweight according to four standard assessment methods; (2) to assess changes in weight status, prevalence of fear of fatness and accompanying slimming practices …

The Use Of Dna Microarrays To Compare The Gene Expression Profiles Of Paclitaxel And Acetic Acid 2,2'-Thiobis, Bis [[(2-Hydroxyphynyl) Methylene]Hydrazid] In A549 Cells: Part 1, Jennifer Diane Ellzey

Honors Theses

There are several classes of anticancer drugs, including the antimicrotubule drugs, which halt mitosis by interfering with the activity of microtubules, the cylindrical protein polymers that play a role in segregating chromosomes during mitosis. While most antimicrotubule drugs act by destabilizing the microtubule polymer and reducing microtubule assembly, paclitaxel, a drug first isolated from the bark of Taxus brevefolia, halts mitosis by stabilizing microtubules, thus interfering with the dynamics of polymerization and depolymerization that are crucial to their function. In light of the mounting resistance to paclitaxel, it is more important than ever to discover new drugs with a similar …

Tradeoffs In Community Properties Through Time In A Desert Rodent Community, Ethan P. White, S.K. Morgan Ernest, K. M. Thibault

Biology Faculty Publications

Resource limitation represents an important constraint on ecological communities, which restricts the total abundance, biomass, and community energy flux a given community can support. However, the exact relationship among these three measures of biological activity remains unclear. Here we use a simple framework that links abundance and biomass with an energetic constraint. Under constant energetic availability, it is expected that changes in abundance and biomass can result from shifts in the distribution of individual masses. We test these predictions using long-term data from a desert rodent community. Total energy use for the community has not changed directionally for 25 years, …

Temporal Dynamics In The Structure Andcomposition Of A Desert Rodent Community, K. M. Thibault, Ethan P. White, S.K. Morgan Ernest

Biology Faculty Publications

The rank-abundance distribution (RAD) represents the manner in which species divide resources. Community-specific division rules that determine resource allocation among species, and thereby the shape of the RAD, have been hypothesized to account for observed stability of local species richness over time. While the shape of the RAD has been well studied, the temporal dynamics of this distribution have received much less attention. Here we assess changes in the shape of the RAD through time in a desert rodent community in Arizona (USA). Because energy use may be more appropriate for studying resource division than abundance, we also evaluate an …

The Association Of Maternal Mobility History And Birth Outcomes Among Singleton Infants Born To United States Resident Mothers Of Mexican Origin, 1995-1999, Martha Slay Wingate

All ETDs from UAB

Various studies have observed that infants born to foreign-born women have better birth outcomes (lower rates of preterm, low birth weight, and infant mortality) than those delivered to U.S.-born women. Much attention has been given to the “healthy migrant effect” but no studies have examined this theory in an internally migrant population. The study purpose is to examine the association of maternal mobility history and birth outcomes among infants delivered in the U.S. while considering the influences of geographic location and socio-cultural composition, barriers that might make less healthy individuals less likely to migrate. Maternal mobility history (MMH), which refers …

Regulation Of Growth Hormone Receptor Gene Expression: The Role Of Insulin And Cytokines., William L. Bennett

All ETDs from UAB

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The Regulation Of Chemokine Cxcl1/Kc By Okadaic Acid And Osteopontin., Gong Feng

All ETDs from UAB

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Role Of Diet In The Treatment Of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (Pcos)., Crystal Clark Douglas

All ETDs from UAB

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Age And Cataract-Related Degradation Of Crystallins In Human Lenses., Veronica R. Harrington

All ETDs from UAB

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Variations In Family And Child Level Factors Associated With Emergency Room Visits Among Infants And Toddlers In An Early Head Start-Eligible Cohort., Keecha Sonia Harris

All ETDs from UAB

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A Survey To Determine The Prevalence Of Chronic Conditions And Health Care Procedures Performed In Alabama's Public Schools, And The Perceived Educational Needs Of Alabama's Public School Nurses., Kelly Todd King

All ETDs from UAB

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