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Expression Of Imprinted Genes Is Aberrant In Deceased Newborn Cloned Calves And Relatively Normal In Surviving Adult Clones, Lan Yang, Pascale Chavatte-Palmer, Chikara Kubota, Michael O'Neill, Thomas Hoagland, Jean-Paul Renard, Maneesh Taneja, Xiangzhong Yang, X Cindy Tian

ANSC Articles

Cattle are the species used most frequently for the development of assisted reproductive technologies, such as nuclear transfer. Cattle cloning can be performed by a large number of laboratories around the world, and the efficiency of nuclear transfer in cattle is the highest among all species in which successful cloning has been achieved. However, an understanding of the expression of imprinted genes in this important species is lacking. In the present study, real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was utilized to quantify the expression of the bovine Igf2, Igf2r, and H19 genes in eight major organs (brain, bladder, …

Graduate Catalog. 2005., University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Imaging Connection August 2005, Chester F. Carlson Center For Imaging Science

RIT Digital Archives

CIS Outreach Goes Nationwide||Imaging Helps Enhance Homeland Security||CEO of Pictometry International Corporation Named CIS Advisory Board Chair||Former RIT Dean Will Be Missed||RIT Team Promotes the Return of Otters to Western New York||CIS Alumni Joins Advisory Board Donna Rankin-Parobek ‘92||Famed Painting by Color Master Faber Birren Comes to Munsell Color Science Laboratory||Mellon Digital Camera Benchmarking Project Completed

Trace Elements Status Of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus) And Moose (Alces Alces) In Nova Scotia, Beth Pollock

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

The province of Nova Scotia is considered to have two moose (Alces alces) populations. In 2003, the moose of the mainland area of the province were formally listed “ENDANGERED” under the Nova Scotia Endangered Species Act. To date, the specific causes of the Mainland moose population decline have not been determined. Trace element imbalances have been considered as a potential etiology for the population decline. Liver and kidney samples were collected from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and moose throughout Nova Scotia during the fall and winter 2000-01 to compare trace element concentrations between the two species, in relation to age, …

Summer 2005, Nsu Oceanographic Center

Currents

No abstract provided.

The Impacts Of Sprawl On Biodiversity: The Ant Fauna Of The Lower Florida Keys, Elizabeth A. Forys, Craig R. Allen

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Sprawling development can affect species composition by increasing the rate of invasion by non-native species, and decreasing the persistence of native species. This paper briefly reviews the scientific literature on the impacts of sprawl on biological diversity, with specific emphasis on the influence of sprawl on non-native species richness. We then explore the relationship between sprawl and biodiversity using a data set of ant species collected from 46 habitat patches located in the increasingly suburbanized Florida Keys, USA. We quantified sprawl as the proximity of roads and amount of development surrounding a habitat patch. Using bait transects, we identified 24 …

Design Optimization And Synthesis Of Manipulators Based On Various Manipulation Indices, Sandipak Bagchi

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

Design optimization of serial manipulators involves striking a balance between an appropriate joint angle and exact link lengths. The optimization technique used in this thesis uses a unique algorithm that optimizes the joint angle through an Inverse Kinematics program. The synthesis problem involves setting up an accurate design length so as to reach a set of given target points inside the workspace without any singularity. The optimization process based on task specification focuses on the maximization of manipulability index, the objective function subjected to link length and joint angle constraints. The results obtained were plotted and animated to visualize the …

Augc2005, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From August 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

Auga2005, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From August 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

Speleo Spiel, No. 349, July-August 2005, Alan Jackson

Speleo Spiel

Contents: Regular Bits -- Trip Reports -- Other Exciting Stuff

Pets Or Meat, Mary Anne Case

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Cost Effective Human Protein C Purification From Cohn Fraction Iv-1 Using Mini-Antibody., Doh Gyeuhn Ahn 1969-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Protein C (PC) is an important anticoagulant, antithrombotic, and antiinflammatory in blood plasma. PC deficiency can lead to severe venous thrombotic events, including lung embolism, stroke, and heart attack. In the body, PC is activated only when it is needed, and, therefore, PC does not cause bleeding problems that currently available anticoagulants may do. Purification of PC from plasma is currently done by immunoaffinity chromatography using monoclonal antibodies (Mabs), which is very expensive. Single chain variable regions (mini-Mab) with a PC binding capability, which can be produced in recombinant E. coli , were developed for PC purification. Compared to Mabs, …

Forage News [2005-08], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• International Grassland Congress
• Grazing School
• Heart of America Grazing Conference
• U.K. All Commodity Field Day
• Alfalfa Hay Acres Up
• Time to Line Up Seed for Fall Planting
• Hay/Barn Fires
• Remember to Stockpile Fescue Starting Now
• USDA-ARS Forage-Animal Production Research Unit
• Field Experience with Strip Grazing Standing Corn as an Economical Alternative for Wintering Beef Cows in the Midwest
• Grazing Corn: Impact of Harvest Date on Yield
• Poultry Litter Rate Study in Tall Fescue
• Upcoming Events

Factors Affecting Herbivory On Daphnopsis Americana (Thymelaeaceae), August 2005, Elizabeth Hunter

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Daphnopsis americana (Thymelaeaceae) is a medium-sized tree found in Monteverde, Costa Rica, that is often completely defoliated by moth caterpillars during the beginning of the rainy season. Herbivory on this tree occurs mainly in adult trees. This study determined if herbivory was greater in open and edge habitats than in interior forest habitats. This study also determined if herbivory on adult D. americana trees was related to tree diameter and distance to nearest conspecific neighbor. Herbivory was estimated as a percentage of the total tree foliage consumed. These data were compared using simple regression and ANOVA tests. Trees found in …

Defense Mechanisms Of Nyssodesmus Python (Polydesmidae), August 2005, Sheiphali Gandhi

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects different characteristics of Nyssodesmus python had on the defense mechanisms of the organism. The defense mechanisms of N. python include: curling into a spiral and chemical defense. It was predicted that sex would not affect defense mechanisms, whereas size and level of calcification would. Populations were found in two locations: La Estación Biológica Monteverde and San Gerardo on different sides of the continental divide. One hundred and twenty millipedes were collected, 42 in Monteverde and 78 in San Gerardo. They were artificially threatened, and the time spent in a protective …

Authors’ Response To The Letter To The Editor By Schinckel, R. K. Johnson, E. P. Berg, R. Goodwin, J. W. Mabry, R. K. Miller, O. W. Robison, H. Seller, M. D. Tokach

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

In this letter, we provide responses to the issues raised by A. P. Schinckel in his Letter to the Editor regarding the manuscript by Johnson et al. (2004), “Evaluation of procedures to predict fat-free lean in swine carcasses,” J. Anim. Sci. 82:2428–2441. General responses to Schinckel’s letter are made first, followed by specific responses to each issue raised.

Genetic Parameters For Stayability, Stayability At Calving, And Stayability At Weaning To Specified Ages For Hereford Cows, G. E. Martinez, R. M. Koch, L. V. Cundiff, K. E. Gregory, Stephen D. Kachman, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Genetic parameters for stayability to six ages (ST1, . . ., ST6), for five measures of stayability to calving (SC2, . . ., SC6), and for five measures of stayability to weaning (SW2, . . ., SW6), were estimated using records of 2,019 Hereford cows collected from 1964 to 1979 from a selection experiment with a control line and three lines selected for weaning weight, yearling weight, and an index of yearling weight and muscle score. The model included birth year of the cow as a fixed effect and the cow’s sire as a random effect. Analyses were performed with …

Extended Visions, July/August 2005

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

Contents:
Introducing the August N. Christenson Research and Education Building
Extension
About the People
Ag & Natural Resources
Agro-Environmental Trail Project
Behind the Scenes - Program
Planning and Management
Building Leaders for a Stronger Future
Community Resource Development and Leadership
4-H Program
Health and Living
Horticulture Extension in Saunders County
Livestock Production
Science-Based School Enrichment
The Structure of Extension
Calendar of Events
Director's Comments
Introducing the August N. Christenson Research and Education Building
Farm Safety Topic of UNMC Tours
It’s Fair Time In Saunders County
Upcoming Training and Field Days
Crop Management Diagnostic Clinics
Solution Days
Soybean Management Field Days

Endangered Species Bulletin, August 2005 - Vol. Xxx No. 1

Endangered Species Bulletin

In this issue:
4 The Crucians are Coming!
7 How the Scanlans Got their Range Back
10 Banking on Gopher Tortoises
12 Rare Species are Welcome on Arizona Ranch
14 Cactus Comeback in the Caribbean
16 Meet the Beetles!
18 Bull River: A New Wildlife Haven
20 Sneezeweed Conservation Bears Fruit
22 Keeping Family Forests

Implications Of Spatial Autocorrelation And Dispersal For The Modeling Of Species Distributions, Volker Bahn

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Modeling the geographical distributions of wildlife species is important for ecology and conservation biology. Spatial autocorrelation in species distributions poses a problem for distribution modeling because it invalidates the assumption of independence among sample locations. I explored the prevalence and causes of spatial autocorrelation in data from the Breeding Bird Survey, covering the conterminous United States, using Regression Trees, Conditional Autoregressive Regressions (CAR), and the partitioning of variance. I also constructed a simulation model to investigate dispersal as a process contributing to spatial autocorrelation, and attempted to verify the connection between dispersal and spatial autocorrelation in species’ distributions in empirical …

"A Perfect Revolution": Jared P. Kirtland On The Western Reserve, Jared P. Kirtland

Ohio Cardinal

No abstract provided.

Recent Actions Of The Ohio Bird Records Committee, Tom Kemp

Ohio Cardinal

No abstract provided.

Main Hall To Main Street, August 2005, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

Main Hall to Main Street, 2005-2010

This is volume 11, number 8 of Main Hall to Main Street.

Altering The Tropism Of Lentiviral Vectors Through Pseudotyping, James Cronin, Xian Yang Zhang, Jakob Reiser

Faculty Publications

The host range of retroviral vectors including lentiviral vectors can be expanded or altered by a process known as pseudotyping. Pseudotyped lentiviral vectors consist of vector particles bearing glycoproteins (GPs) derived from other enveloped viruses. Such particles possess the tropism of the virus from which the GP was derived. For example, to exploit the natural neural tropism of rabies virus, vectors designed to target the central nervous system have been pseudotyped using rabies virus-derived GPs. Among the first and still most widely used GPs for pseudotyping lentiviral vectors is the vesicular stomatitis virus GP (VSV-G), due to the very broad …

Vol. 3, No. 07 (August 2005)

Indiana Law Update

No abstract provided.

Hyperventilation And Its Effects On The Neurosurgical Patient, Melissa L. Laspi

Theses and Dissertations

Neurosurgical procedures continue to be a challenging and intricate part of an anesthesia provider’s career. The anesthesia provider can control the physiological effects of improper auto-regulation of the brain that can occur with abnormal neurological pathology. The control of hyperventilation is one way that the anesthesia provider can manipulate cerebral physiology. This paper addresses the physiology of impaired brain autoregulation and the role in which carbon dioxide affects that physiology. Simply stated, carbon dioxide (C02) is the number one physiological factor that controls cerebral blood flow; increasing C02 dilates cerebral vessels thus increasing flow while decreasing C02 constricts cerebral vessels …

Experimental Ocular Toxoplasmosis In Genetically Susceptible And Resistant Mice, Fangli Lu, Shiguang Huang, Mark S. Hu, Lloyd H. Kasper

Dartmouth Scholarship

Genetic factors determining the pathogenesis and course of ocular toxoplasmosis are poorly understood. In this study, we explored the development of experimental ocular pathogenesis in genetically dissimilar mice infected with either the RH strain, the PLK strain, or the immunodominant surface antigen 1 (SAG1 [P30])-deficient mutant of the RH strain of Toxoplasma gondii. At 11 days postinfection, ocular infection of C57BL/6 mice with all of the strains of parasites resulted in severe inflammatory lesions and high numbers of parasites in eye tissue; less severe ocular lesions at earlier histopathology and prolonged survival were observed in this mouse strain infected …

August 1 2005 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Hemispheric Differences In Deception And Fanaticism : A Model Using High Affiliation Sports Fans, Karen J. Kelly

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Deception is a frequent component of daily conversation and interactions. It is used both casually and deliberately in low and high stakes situations, respectively. A need to develop more accurate and efficient deception detection techniques has become important in response to such high stakes situations in which deliberate deception is employed. Terrorist acts motivated by fanatical beliefs constitute perhaps the most salient and increasingly prevalent example of such high stakes deception. Fanaticism develops in response to a number of belief systems including religion, politics, and sports. The relative accessibility and social acceptability o f sports fanaticism lends itself to experimental …

Determining The Phylogenetic Relationship Of A Collection Of Hydra Strains And Species Using The Mitochondrial Genes : Lrrna, Trna-Trp And Coii, Jacob Zuckman

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

The discovery of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the early 1960’s ushered in the field of organellar genetics. Evidence from both genetic and physical techniques has demonstrated that mtDNA are generally circular in structure, and that they represent the vestigial structure of the ancestral prokaryotic endosymbiont genome (Nosek et al., 1998). The more than 90 vertebrates and invertebrates sequenced to date have been found to have a remarkably constant gene content. With few exceptions, each contains the genes for 13 energy pathway proteins, the 2 RNA components of mitochondrial ribosomes (23S and 16S rRNA), and 22 transfer RNAs (Pont-Kingdon et …