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Population Briefs, Vol. 10, No. 3, Population Council

Population Briefs

IN THIS ISSUE: Reproductive health program for youth successful in Kenya | Education, wealth play different roles in health | Door-to-door delivery enhances women's status in Bangladesh | Reducing c-sections may require multifaceted approach | Lessons from introducing postabortion care in Egypt | Potential long-acting male contraceptive studied

Momentum, June 2004, Population Council

Momentum

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Seattle Pacific University Catalog 2004-2005, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Catalogs

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Sea Turtle Conservation Program - 2004 Report, Curtis Burney, Stefanie Ouellette

Sea Turtle Nesting Trends Technical Reports

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Improving Southern Oak Seedling Survival Can Boost After-Tax Investment Returns, Donald L. Grebner, Deborah A. Gaddis, Andrew W. Ezell, Steven H. Bullard

Faculty Publications

Private forest landowners have many reasons for managing their timberlands- from intensive timber production to wildlife habitat to family recreation. An exciting forestry development is the establishment of oak plantations on agricultural land. Both state and federal governmental assistance programs can provide part of the initial investment involved in forest establishment costs. Unfortunately, there are few existing studies to help landowners decide if the investment will be profitable.

Economic Analysis Of Pruning And Low-Density Management Compared To Traditional Management Of Loblolly Pine Plantations In East Texas, Ching Hsun Huang, Gary D. Kronrad

Faculty Publications

Economic analyses were conducted to compare traditional loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) timber management to low-density management combined with pruning in East Texas. Soil expectation values were used to determine the financially optimal thinning and final harvesting schedules (including rotation length, and the timing, frequency and intensity of thinning). Two stumpage price assumptions were made: market price and premium price for pruned, clear sawlogs. Five site indices (50 to 90) and six real alternative rates of return (ARR) (2.5 to 15.0%) were employed. Results indicate that if the market price of sawtimber is $450/mbf, traditional management is more profitable for …

The Response Of Bareroot Loblolly Pine Seedlings To The Amount And Timing Of Nitrogen Fertilization In The Nursery, Hans Michael Williams, Karen Woodard, Tim Stewart

Faculty Publications

A nursery study was conducted to observe the effects of altering the amount of nitrogen fertilizer at each application on bareroot loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) seedling morphology, survival and growth. The treatments were an equal amount of fertilizer applied each time, an increasing amount each time, and a schedule characterized by low amounts, high amounts, and low amounts. Six applications of ammonium nitrate (32.5 percent N) were applied between June and August 2000, and for all treatments, a total of 169 kg N per ha was applied. In addition, for each growing season treatment, the seedlings were treated either …

Daily Movements Of Female White-Tailed Deer Relative To Parturition And Breeding, Christopher E. Comer

Faculty Publications

To assess how white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) herd demographics influence reproductive behaviors, we examined 24-h diel movements of female whitetailed deer relative to parturition and breeding in a low-density population with a near even sex ratio at the Savannah River Site (SRS), South Carolina. We conducted a series of intensive, 24-h radio-tracking periods of 13 females during spring and fall 2002. We compared daily range (ha), rate of travel (m/h), and distance between extreme daily locations (m), among the periods of pre-parturition and post-parturition and pre-, peak-, and post-rut. From pre-parturition to post-parturition, we observed decreases in diel range size …

Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Nestling Provisioning And Reproduction In Two Different Pine Habitats, Richard R. Schaefer, Richard N. Conner, D. Craig Rudolph, Daniel Saenz

Faculty Publications

We obtained nestling provisioning and reproductive data from 24 Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) groups occupying two different pine habitats-longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) and a mixture of loblolly (P. taeda) and shortleaf pine (P. echinata)--in eastern Texas during 1990 and 1901. Habitat data were collected within 800 m of each group's cavity-tree cluster. Feeding trips per nest and prey biomass per feeding trip were significantly greater in lohlolly-shortleaf pine habitat. There were few significant correlations between reproductive/provisioning and habitat variables in either pine habitat. Pines dying from infestation by southern pine beetles (Dendroctonus frontalis) were more common in loblolly-shortleaf than in …

How Are Investment Returns Affected By Competition Control And Southern Oak Seedling Survival?, D. L. Grebner, A. W. Ezall, D. A. Gaddis, Steven H. Bullard

Faculty Publications

Increasing numbers of landowners are establishing hardwood plantations to satisfy their management objectives. Despite a dearth of research on competition control and its effects on initial hardwood plantation survival and investment returns, this study examines alternative competition control regimes for southern oak establishment. The analysis includes estimates of land expectation value for comparing alternatives. Our results suggest that greater returns can be achieved for southern oaks during both good and bad rainfall years, using methods that maximize survival through competition control.

A Consortial Approach To Interlibrary Loan: Ontario Universities Rebuild Their Interlibrary Loan Framework And Service, Carol Stephenson, Anne Fullerton

Library Publications

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Actr/Aib1 Functions As An E2f1 Coactivator To Promote Breast Cancer Cell Proliferation And Antiestrogen Resistance, Maggie C. Louie, June X. Zou, Alina Rabinovich, Hong-Wu Chen

Collected Faculty Scholarship

Overexpression or amplification of ACTR (also named AIB1, RAC3, p/CIP, TRAM-1, and SRC-3), a member of the p160 family of coactivators for nuclear hormone receptors, has been frequently detected in multiple types of human tumors, including breast cancer. However, its role in cancer cell proliferation and the underlying mechanism are unclear. Here, we show that overexpression of ACTR not only enhances estrogen-stimulated cell proliferation but also, more strikingly, completely negates the cell cycle arrest effect by tamoxifen and pure antiestrogens. Unexpectedly, we found that ACTR directly interacts, through its N-terminal domain, with E2F1 and is recruited to E2F target gene …

Noninvasive Phenotypes Of Atherosclerosis., J. David Spence, Robert A. Hegele

Department of Medicine Publications

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Investigating The Environmental Risks Of Transgenic Crops, Hugh Lacey

Philosophy Faculty Works

Legitimation of public policies that support the widespread plantings of transgenic crops presuppose, among other conditions, that (1) evidence supports that there are no unmanageable environmental risks and (2) there are no better ways to produce enough nourishing food that can dispense with the transgenics-oriented ways. This paper discusses: (a) the kinds of scientific inquiry that are needed to address (1) adequately, (b) the connections between investigations of (1) and (2), and (c) how these investigations are related with controversial social values.
A legitimação de políticas públicas que apóiam o cultivo de lavouras transgênicas em larga escala pressupõe, entre outras …

Volume 1 No. 3 September 2004, Nova Southeastern University

The Beacon: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Center for Teaching and Learning

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Montpelier: James Madison University Magazine, James Madison University

Montpelier Magazine- 2000-2005

Montpelier is an official publication of James Madison University and is produced quarterly for alumni, parents of JMU students, faculty and staff members, and friends of the university. The publication is named for the home of James and Dolley Madison. Montpelier is produced by the Division of University Advancements. Editorial and advertising offices are located at Rockingham Hall, Office 271, MSC 5718, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. Staff can be reached at (540) 568-3191 or [email protected].

Graphical Technique For Identifying A Monotonic Variance Stabilizing Transformation For Absolute Gene Intensity Signals, Kellie J. Archer, Catherine I. Dumur, Viswanathan Ramakrishnan

Biostatistics Publications

Background

The usefulness of log₂ transformation for cDNA microarray data has led to its widespread application to Affymetrix data. For Affymetrix data, where absolute intensities are indicative of number of transcripts, there is a systematic relationship between variance and magnitude of measurements. Application of the log₂ transformation expands the scale of genes with low intensities while compressing the scale of genes with higher intensities thus reversing the mean by variance relationship. The usefulness of these transformations needs to be examined.

Results

Using an Affymetrix GeneChip^® dataset, problems associated with applying the log₂ transformation to absolute intensity …

Faculty Senate Minutes 2004-2005, Indiana State University

Faculty Senate

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Academic Calendar | Schedule Of Classes For 2004, Summer [Summer Session] | Class Schedule, Stony Brook University

Summer Sessions Class Schedules

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Inhibition Of Aldose Reductase By Tannoid Principles Of Emblica Officinalis: Implications For The Prevention Of Sugar Cataract, P. Suryanarayana, P. Anil Kumar, Megha Saraswat, J. Mark Petrash, G. Bhanuprakash Reddy

Open Access Publications

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Novel Transcription Regulatory Elements In Caenorhabditis Elegans Muscle Genes, Debraj Guhathakurta, Lawrence A. Schriefer, Robert H. Waterston, Gary D. Stormo

Open Access Publications

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An Orfeome-Based Analysis Of Human Transcription Factor Genes And The Construction Of A Microarray To Interrogate Their Expression, David N. Messina, Jarret Glasscock, Warren Gish, Michael Lovett

Open Access Publications

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Regulatory Network Connecting Two Glucose Signal Transduction Pathways In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Aneta Kaniak, Zhixiong Xue, Daniel Macool, Jeong-Ho Kim, Mark Johnston

Open Access Publications

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Distinct Roles For The Aaa Atpases Nsf And P97 In The Secretory Pathway, Seema Dalal, Meredith F.N. Rosser, Douglas M. Cyr, Phyllis I. Hanson

Open Access Publications

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Dinitroanilines Bind Α-Tubulin To Disrupt Microtubules, Naomi S. Morrissette, Arpita Mitra, David Sept, L. David Sibley

Open Access Publications

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Neuropsychological Consequences Of Regular Marijuana Use: A Twin Study, M. J. Lyons, J. L. Bar, M. S. Panizzon, R. Toomey, S. Eisen, H. Xian, M. T. Tsuang

Open Access Publications

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A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Gown Use In Controlling Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Transmission: Is It Worth The Price?, Laura A. Puzniak, Kathleen N. Gillespie, Terry Leet, Marin Kollef, Linda M. Mundy

Open Access Publications

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Structural Basis For The Restoration Of Tcr Recognition Of An Mhc Allelic Variant By Peptide Secondary Anchor Substitution, Michael J. Miley, Ilhem Messaoudi, Beatrix M. Metzner, Yudong Wu, Janko Nikolich-Žugich, Daved H. Fremont

Open Access Publications

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Treatment Of Terminal Peritoneal Carcinomatosis By A Transducible P53-Activating Peptide, Eric L. Snyder, Bryan R. Meade, Cheryl C. Saenz, Steven F. Dowdy

Open Access Publications

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Propagation Of Diffuse Light In A Turbid Medium With Multiple Spherical Inhomogeneities, Vitaliy N. Pustovit, Vadim A. Markel

Open Access Publications

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