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Evaluating Human Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells And Mg-63 Cells On Vitoss, Chronos Granulat And Chronos For Use In Bone Tissue Engineering, Hina Qidwai

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The delivery of human adult mesenchymal stem cells (hAMSC) using bone void fillers is a novel approach for use in bone tissue engineering. The evaluation of hAMSC and osteoblast-like MG-63 cell activity on three β-tricalcium phosphate-based bone void fillers (Vitoss, ChronOS Granulat and ChronOS) has not been carried out. Human osteosarcoma cells (MG-63 cells), as well as hAMSCs, readily seed over 90% of the available biomaterials under static culture conditions, and the attached cells proliferate to extensively cover the biomaterials as seen by DAPI staining and LIVE/DEAD viability staining. The attached cells are over 90% viable after 7 days in …

Development, Research And Validation Of Environmental Speciation Methods; And Evaluation By Speciated Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry In Mercury And Chromium Speciation Analysis, G. M. Mizanur Rahman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The toxicity of an element depends upon its chemical forms, which also gives vital information for samples and their relevance. A sequential extraction method for mercury speciation in soil and sediments was established based on the mobility and toxicity of different mercury species and was proposed as a draft US EPA Method 3200. In order to finalize the method, an interlaboratory validation study was performed, and the final results verified the applicability of the method. Some of the widely used mercury speciation methods were evaluated during this study and the results were compared with those obtained from EPA draft Method …

A Comparison Of The Behavioral Adjustment Of First-Grade Students That Attended A Full-Day Kindergarten Program And First-Grade Students That Attended A Half-Day Kindergarten Program, Denise Shaffer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated and compared the behavioral adjustment of first-grade students that participated in a full-day kindergarten program and first-grade students that participated in a half-day kindergarten program. The researcher also examined gender interactions between the two groups. The study was conducted in two elementary schools in western Pennsylvania. Participants in the study included 10 first-grade teachers. Participants completed a total of ninety-three behavioral questionnaires. Student's t-tests and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. Results of the study showed no statistically significant difference in overall behavioral adjustment, impulsive acting out behaviors, passive-aggressive behaviors, impulsive overactive behaviors, repressed …

Functional Characterization Of The Csp Homologs Of E. Coli K-12, Christina Ventrice

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

E. coli K-12 contains nine csp paralogs, cspA --cspI. Although the csp paralogs are conserved sequences that produce highly similar proteins, expression of each of these genes requires a different means of induction. While cspA, cspB, cspG, and cspI are induced by cold shock, cspC and cspE are constitutively expressed. cspD is induced by stationary phase. The type of induction, if any, needed for cspF and cspH is not known. Studies of CspE have demonstrated that the overexpression of this protein can confer a 10-fold resistance to the DNA decondensing agent, camphor, and upregulates the E. coli rcsA gene by …

Assessment Of Differences In The Balanced Emotional Empathy Among Beginning, Practicum And Graduating Students In A Counselor Education Program, Frank Yesko

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was a quantitative analysis that investigated balanced emotional empathy differences among master's degree counseling students as they progressed through and graduated from a CACREP approved counselor education program.

The data was gathered through the assessment of the balanced emotional empathy levels of (a) students entering the counselor education program, (b) students participating in the practicum field experience aspect of their training and (c) students graduating from the counseling program. The assessment instrument that was utilized in collecting the data is Albert Mehrabian's Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale (BEES).

The results indicate there is no significant difference among beginning, practicum …

Federal Regulation Of Embryonic Stem Cells: Can Government Do It - An Examination Of Potential Regulation Through The Eyes Of California's Recent Legislation, Francesca Crisera

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

The debate surrounding stem cell research, particularly embryonic stem cell research, is one involving much acrimony, both at the research and practical stages. Such research holds the potential for abuse if not responsibly undertaken. This does not mean, however, that embryonic stem cell research should be prohibited subject to the whims of opponents in Congress. Rather, California has taken the proper step by endorsing embryonic stem cell research, while maintaining guidelines to oversee it.

To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation In Black Atlanta, 1875-1906, Allison Dorsey

History Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Interdisciplinary Research And Publication Opportunites In Information Systems And Health Care, E. Vance Wilson, Nancy K. Lankton

Accounting Faculty Research

Healthcare is a large and growing industry that is experiencing major transformation in its information technology base. IS confronted similar transformations in other industries and developed theories and methods that should prove useful in healthcare applications. In turn, IS may benefit from incorporating knowledge from health informatics, a discipline that studies IT within medical and healthcare contexts. Despite the benefits, it is often a struggle for interdisciplinary researchers in IS and healthcare to publish their work, especially in journals directed toward IS audiences. In this paper, we outline strategies and resources to help ease this publication bottleneck. As a part …

Sediment-Magnetic Signature Of Land-Use And Drought As Recorded In Lake Sediment From South-Central Minnesota, U.S.A., Christoph E. Geiss, Subir K. Banerjee, Philip Camill, Charles E. Umbanhowar

Biology Faculty Work

Sediment magnetic properties of a short core from Sharkey Lake, MN, record the effects of Euroamerican settlement and climate change over the last 150 yr. The onset of European-style farming led to increased erosion, reflected in high values of concentration-dependent parameters such as magnetic susceptibility (j), Isothermal Remanent Magnetization (IRM), and Anhysteretic Remanent Magnetization (ARM). These high values are only partially due to increased supply of terrigenous material to the lake, and recent sediment contains an additional component of authigenic fine (single-domain) magnetite, most likely magnetosomes from magnetotactic bacteria. High organic productivity in the lake during the 1920s to 1940s …

Permafrost Thaw Accelerates In Boreal Peatlands During Late-20th Century Climate Warming, Philip Camil

Biology Faculty Work

Permafrost covers 25% of the land surface in the northern hemisphere, where mean annual ground temperature is less than 0◦C. A 1.4–5.8 ◦C warming by 2100 will likely change the sign of mean annual air and ground temperatures over much of the zones of sporadic and discontinuous permafrost in the northern hemisphere, causing widespread permafrost thaw. In this study, I examined rates of discontinuous permafrost thaw in the boreal peatlands of northern Manitoba, Canada, using a combination of tree-ring analyses to document thaw rates from 1941–1991 and direct measurements of permanent benchmarks established in 1995 and resurveyed in 2002. I …

Community And Ecosystem-Level Changes In A Species-Rich Tallgrass Prairie Restoration, Philip Camill, Mark Mckone, Sean Sturges, William Severund, Erin Ellis, Jacob Limmer, Christopher Martin, Ryan Navratil, Amy Purdie, Brody Sandel, Shano Talukder, Andrew Trout

Biology Faculty Work

Changes in the plant community and ecosystem properties that follow the conversion of agriculture to restored tallgrass prairies are poorly understood. Beginning in 1995, we established a species-rich, restored prairie chronosequence where -3 ha of agricultural land have been converted to tallgrass prairie each year. Our goals were to examine differences in ecosystem properties between these restored prairies and adjacent agricultural fields and to determine changes in, and potential interactions between, the plant community and ecosystem properties that occur over time in the restored prairies. During the summers of 2000-2002, we examined species cover, soil C and N, potential net …

Golgi Inheritance In Small Buds Of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Is Linked To Endoplasmic Reticulum Inheritance, Reinke Catherine, Kozik Patrycja, Glick S. Benjamin, Schatz Gottfried

Biology Faculty Work

According to the cisternal maturation hypothesis, endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-derived membranes nucleate new Golgi cisternae. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae offers a unique opportunity to test this idea because small buds contain both ER and Golgi structures early in the cell cycle. We previously predicted that mutants defective in ER inheritance also would show defects in Golgi inheritance. Surprisingly, studies of S. cerevisiae have not revealed the expected link between ER and Golgi inheritance. Here, we revisit this issue by generating mutant strains in which many of the small buds are devoid of detectable ER. These strains also show defects in the …

Aging, Health, And Public Policy: Demographic And Economic Perspectives, Linda J. Waite

Population Policy and Demographic Analysis

In this supplement to Population and Development Review, distinguished social scientists bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives—economic, demographic, epidemiological—to bear on the subject of population aging, looking particularly to likely future trends and their economic consequences. Among the questions investigated: What can be said about the future course of longevity, given that research on both historical and contemporary populations belies the existence of a biologically fixed maximum for the human life span? To what extent do genetic factors contribute to the development of major chronic diseases of later life, such as Alzheimer’s? How can we unravel the strong positive …

Enhancement Of Cognitive And Electrophysiological Measures Of Hippocampal Functioning In Rats By A Low, But Not High, Dose Of Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate (Dheas), David M. Diamond

Psychology Faculty Publications

Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) is a steroid hornone that is synthesized, de novo, in the brain. Endogenous DHEAS levels correlate with the quality of mental and physical health, where the highest levels of DHEAS occur in healthy young adults and reduced levels of DHEAS are found with advanced age, disease, or extreme stress. DHEAS supplementation, therefore, may serve as a therapeutic agent against a broad range of maladies. This paper summarizes laboratory findings on dose-response relationships between DHEAS and cognitive and electrophysiological measures of hippocampal functioning. It was found that a low, but not a high, dose of DHEAS enhanced hippocampal …

The Argonaut, 2004, University Of Lynchburg

The Argonaut (Yearbook)

The Argonaut from 2004.

Discovery And Habitat Use Of Black Rails Along The Central Florida Gulf Coast, Bill Pranty, Donald J. Robinson, Mary Barnwell, Clay Black, Ken Tracey

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

The Ephemeral Bluish Necklace Of The Cerulean Warbler, James E. Cavanagh Jr.

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Florida’S Snakes: A Guide To Their Identification And Habits By Richard D. Bartlett And Patricia P. Bartlett, Kyle G. Ashton

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Bird Observations In Five Agricultural Field Types Of The Everglades Agricultural Area In Summer And Fall, Elise V. Pearlstine, Frank J. Mazzotti, Kenneth G. Rice, Anna Liner

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Florida Ornithological Society Committees, Florida Field Naturalist

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Florida Ornithological Society Committees, Florida Field Naturalist

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Joy! Rapture! I’Ve Got A Brain!, Thomas Hallock

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

University Of Texas At Tyler Catalog, 2004-2006, University Of Texas At Tyler

Catalogs

Archives Space instance: https://archivesspace.uttyler.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/22360

Kernochan Center News - Fall 2004, Kernochan Center For Law, Media And The Arts

Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts

No abstract provided.

Advection, Krill, And Antarctic Marine Ecosystems, Eileen E. Hofmann, Eugene J. Murphy

CCPO Publications

Advective processes are recognized as being important in structuring and maintaining marine ecosystems. In the Southern Ocean advective effects are perhaps most clearly observed because the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) provides a connection between most parts of the system, including open ocean and continental shelf regions. The ACC also provides a mechanism for large-scale transport of plankton, such as Antarctic krill (Euphousia superba Dana), which is an important component of the Southern Ocean food web. This overview provides a summary of recent observational and modelling results that consider the importance of advection to the Southern Ocean ecosystem and, in particular, …

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Georgia Southern Soccer and COE in Iraq
• PRISM Collaborative for Math & Science
• Kiwanis Support International Study
• Information Sessions for Off-Campus Degrees
• COE Soaring Into Action
• P-16 Partnership for Teaching/Learning Renewal
• College of Education and First District RESA Co-Sponsor the JASON Project
• Guidelines for Happy Teachers
• SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI
• Southern Educator Class Roll
• DESTINATION TEACHING: Customized Pathways to Get You There
• Colonel Robert Guy
• College of Education Board of Advisors Fall Meeting
• Professors Who Have Made A Difference
• Partnering with the UK
• Faculty/Staff Retirements
• PREP Students Attend 21st Century Leadership Activities

Worldview, Margaret Costello

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Alumni Journal

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Quad Angles

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Su People, Kate Gaetano, Margaret Costello, David Marc, Amy Speach Shires

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.