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Eastern Progress - 01 Apr 2004, Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Progress 2003-2004

No abstract provided.

Variability In Spectral Backscatter Estimated From Satellites And Its Relation To In Situ Measurements In Optically Complex Coastal Waters, Mark A. Moline, Robert Arnone, Trisha Bergmann, Scott Glenn, Matthew J. Oliver, Cristina Orrico, Oscar Schofield, Sasha Tozzi

Biological Sciences

A large database of in situ bio-optical measurements was collected at the Long-term Ecosystem Observatory off the southern coast of New Jersey, USA. In part, the research effort focused on reconciling in situ estimates with satellite-derived estimates of the inherent optical properties (IOP). At 442 nm, in situ absorption values ranged from less than 0.2 to over 1.5 inverse metres. Satellite estimates of backscatter ranged from 0.002 to 0.03 inverse metres at 442 nm and showed significant variability in time and space during July 1999, reflecting the recurrent high frequency events that characterize the region—wind-mixing, storms and coastal upwelling. Despite …

Micrococcus Luteus - Survival In Amber, C. L. Greenblatt, J. Baum, B. Y. Klein, S. Nachshon, V. Koltunov, R. J. Cano

Biological Sciences

A growing body of evidence now supports the isolation of microorganisms from ancient materials. However, questions about the stringency of extraction methods and the genetic relatedness of isolated organisms to their closest living relatives continue to challenge the authenticity of these ancient life forms. Previous studies have successfully isolated a number of spore-forming bacteria from organic and inorganic deposits of considerable age whose survival is explained by their ability to enter suspended animation for extended periods of time. However, despite a number of putative reports, the isolation of non-spore-forming bacteria and an explanation for their survival have remained enigmatic. Here …

Pacific Review Spring 2004, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Lawrence Today, Volume 84, Number 3, Spring 2004, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Floodplain Habitat Restoration At Thunder Ranch, Utah, U.S. Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Reclamation

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program (Recovery Program) is proposing to restore endangered fish habitat at 330 acres of Green River bottomlands located on the Thunder Ranch near Jensen, Utah. The Recovery Program acquired a total of 455 acres of easement from Thunder Ranch to protect and improve floodplain habitat for the benefit of endangered Colorado River fishes. The project area is located adjacent to the Green River within an old meander river channel. Several ponds and wetlands exist in the project area, but are isolated from the Green River by an earth-filled levee. By notching the existing …

Zephyr: The Fifth Issue, Zephyr Faculty Advisor, Judith Haug, Ashley Renee D'Entremont, Catherine Giaquinto, Anne Hardy, Kirsten Ruppel

Zephyr

This is the fifth issue of Zephyr, the University of New England's journal of creative expression. Since 2000, Zephyr has published original drawings, paintings, photography, prose, and verse created by current and former members of the University community. Zephyr's Editorial Board is made up exclusively of matriculating students.

The Setonian, April 1, 2004, Seton Hall University

2004

No abstract provided.

Gallaudet Today Volume 34 Number 2 Spring 2004, Todd Byrd

Gallaudet Today

No abstract provided.

Faculty Focus, April 2004, Vol. 3 No. 4, California State University, Monterey Bay

Faculty Focus

A Week in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: Interactions, Insights, and Ideals -- TLA's Fifth Anniversary: Thank You, Amy! -- Writing as Instructional Practice -- Recent Faculty Scholarship -- TLA Faculty Outcomes -- When and What to Correct in 2nd Language Student Writing? -- The 2004 Social Justice Colloquium: Reflecting on Race and Educational Equity at Local, State, and National Levels -- Carnegie Scholar Project -- Teaching Tip: Avoiding End of Year E-mail Burnout -- Everybody in the Pool: CSUMB Child Development Preschoolers Swimming Weekly -- Spanish Sabbatical: The Challenges of Catalan/The Pleasures of the Visual Arts

The Influence Of Personality And Affect On Nicotine Dependence Among Male College Students, Dennis E. Mcchargue, Lee M. Cohen, Jessica Warth Cook

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Many clinicians and researchers hypothesize that tobacco use disorders, regardless of the route of administration, are maintained by the ability of nicotine to regulate positive and negative mood states. The present study (N = 137) examined whether certain mood states predicted dependence on either cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and whether specific personality characteristics (e.g., extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism) mediated these relationships among young male college students. Results indicated that positive and negative moods predicted cigarette dependence (p values = .01) and that neuroticism partially mediated the relationship between positive affect and cigarette dependence. Exploratory analyses revealed that positive …

Where Can I Turn For Peace?, Elder Alexander B. Morrison

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet April 2004, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The April 2004 Monthly packet includes the April agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held March 2004.

Ua11/1 Echo, April, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

A born digital magazine once delivered over the internet was a continuation of the Echo publication.

Smokejumper Magazine, April 2004, National Smokejumper Association, Charley Moseley, Jill Leger, Chuck Sheley

Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines

This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Women Celebrate 20 Years of Smokejumping (Tara Rothwell), profiles Bud Filler, Fred Brauer, Delos Dutton, Gary Welch and Hal Werner, Pyramid Peak Fire (Tommy Albert), Elmer Neufeld interview, Tribute to Bill Wood (Robert Walkup), The View from Outside the Fence—Chris Sorensen’s first column. Smokejumper Magazine continues Static Line, which was the original title of the NSA quarterly magazine.

Management Intensive Grazing Systems And The Environment, Rhonda Miller, Jennifer W. Macadam, Rich Koenig

Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Volume 33 Number 1, Eiu College Of Education

Eastern Education Journal

No abstract provided.

Physiology Of The Thermophilic Acetogen Moorella Thermoacetica, Harold L. Drake, Steven L. Daniel

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Moorella thermoacetica (originally isolated as Clostridium thermoaceticum) has served as the primary acetogenic bacterium for the resolution of the acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) orWood–Ljungdahl pathway, a metabolic pathway that (i) autotrophically assimilates CO2 and (ii) is centrally important to the turnover of carbon in many habitats. The purpose of this article is to highlight the diverse physiological features of this model acetogen and to examine some of the consequences of its metabolic capabilities.

Reflections On Animal Selves, Marc Bekoff, Paul W. Sherman

Sentience Collection

Is self-cognizance a uniquely human attribute, or do other animals also have a sense of self? Although there is considerable interest in this question, answers remain elusive. Progress has been stymied by misunderstandings in terminology, a focus on a narrow range of species, and controversies over key concepts, experimental paradigms and interpretations of data. Here, we propose a new conceptual and terminological framework, emphasizing that degrees of self-cognizance differ among animals because of the cognitive demands that their species-specific social structures and life-history characteristics have placed upon them over evolutionary time. We suggest that the self-cognizance of an organism falls …

Profile: Actor Peter Coyote Calls Graduates To Engaged Citizenry, University Relations

Profile (1996-)

At our core, our unmoving center, is our mission: to provide to the students of our region, sate and nation an undergraduate liberal arts education of uncompromising rigor and excellence in the public sector. Forty-four years ago, that was what our founders envisioned for our campus, and we have been unswerving in pursuing that ambitious goal. That single-minded and unchanging sharp focus, I would suggest, has been central to our success. Rather than the distraction of trying to become "all things for all people," we have consistently worked together to do better and better the single things that we all …

Variability In Measured And Modelled Remote Sensing Reflectance For Coastal Waters At Leo-5, Sasha Tozzi, Oscar Schofield, Trisha Bergmann, Mark A. Moline, Robert Arnone

Biological Sciences

A large database of in situ bio-optical measurements were collected at the LEO-15 (Long-term Ecosystem Observatory) off the southern coast of New Jersey, USA. The data were used to quantify the impact of coastal upwelling on near-shore bulk apparent (AOP) and inherent (IOP) optical properties. There was good qualitative agreement between the AOPs and IOPs in space and time. The measured IOPs were used as inputs to the Hydrolight radiative transfer model (RTE). Estimated spectral AOPs from the RTE were strongly correlated (generally R²>0.80) to measured AOPs. If optical closure between in-water measurements was achieved then the RTE …

Removing Excess Topology From Isosurfaces, Zoë J. Wood, Hugues Hoppe, Mathieu Desbrun, Peter Shröder

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Many high-resolution surfaces are created through isosurface extraction from volumetric representations, obtained by 3D photography, CT, or MRI. Noise inherent in the acquisition process can lead to geometrical and topological errors. Reducing geometrical errors during reconstruction is well studied. However, isosurfaces often contain many topological errors in the form of tiny handles. These nearly invisible artifacts hinder subsequent operations like mesh simplification, remeshing, and parametrization. In this article we present a practical method for removing handles in an isosurface. Our algorithm makes an axis-aligned sweep through the volume to locate handles, compute their sizes, and selectively remove them. The algorithm …

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Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

Common Corn Smut, Martin A. Draper

SDSU Extension Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.

Ua61/6 Newsletter Issue 3, Wku Institute For Rural Health Development & Research

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about the Institute for Rural Health Development & Research. This issue contains:

• Senator Mitch McConnell Earmarks Dollars for WKU Hispanic Initiative
• Dr. Louella Fong Directs Bilingual Program
• Give Kids a Smile Brightens Children’s Day – Dental Hygiene
• College of Health & Human Services Focuses on Gerontology Demands
• Partners Key to Successful Hispanic Health Fair & Screening Event
• Public Health Department Now Offers Worksite Health Promotion
• KEMSA Offers EMS Management Workshop – Kentucky Emergency Medical Services Academy

Chronic Wasting Disease—Prion Disease In The Wild, Steve Bunk

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

In 1967, mule deer in a research facility near Fort Collins, Colorado, in the United States apparently began to react badly to their captivity. At least, that was the guess of researchers working on the natural history and nutrition of the deer, which became listless and showed signs of depressed mood, hanging their heads and lowering their ears. They lost appetite and weight. Then they died—of emaciation, pneumonia, and other complications—or were euthanized. The scientists dubbed it chronic wasting disease (CWD), and for years they thought it might be caused by stress, nutritional deficiencies, or poisoning. A decade later, CWD …

Using The Trees To Understand The Forest: Evaluating The Risks Of The Panama Canal Amplification Project, Caroline Gross

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

For over a decade, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and its United States predecessor have contemplated a Canal Amplification Project to allow larger boats to pass through the Panama Canal. This project, as it is currently understood, would involve the construction of a new, “third” set of locks with greater capacity, the widening of channels within the Canal, and the flooding of approximately 45,000 hectares of land currently occupied by campesinos/as. Since the passage of a 1999 law that expanded the definition of the Panama Canal Watershed by 63 percent, some campesinos/as have united to oppose the flooding of their …

Ua77/1 Alumni, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Administration Documents

WKU's alumni magazine. Contents:

• Frances Wilson Donation – Jazz Education & Performance Program
• Ransdell, Gary. A Letter from the President
• Julia Roberts Among Most Influential People in Gifted Education
• Larry & Kent Gildersleeve Make Gift in Memory of Father – Benjamin Gildersleeve
• Hoffman Institute Director Involved in Projects – Chris Groves
• Rafferty’s Makes Gift
• WKU Utilizes Bucks for Brains Matching Funds
• WKU Institutional Advancement Honored at CASE District III
• Jan & Robert Hensley Create Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Got the Vote? Student Participation in the Political Process
• WKU Regents Approve Budget Reduction Plan
• Three Sorority Members Die in Wreck – Phi …

The College Redeemer, V4 I8, University Of Northern Iowa

College Redeemer

The College Redeemer - A conservative publication at the University of Northern Iowa publishing since March of 2001.

Draft Aquaculure Plan For Exmouth Gulf, Department Of Fisheries

Fisheries Management Papers

The Plan’s objective is to provide a sound strategy for developing future aquaculture activities in Exmouth Gulf, while at the same time conserving the unique environment of Exmouth Gulf for present and future generations, and minimising conflict with existing and future users of Exmouth Gulf.