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Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2005, Eastern Washington University

Commencement Programs

Program for Eastern Washington University's spring commencement in 2005

We Are…Marshall, June 10, 2005, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Budget Fy 2005-2006, Swosu Administration

SWOSU Fiscal Year Budgets

The Southwestern Oklahoma State University Budget FY 2006. Submitted June 10, 2005.

Volume 42, Number 39: June 10, 2005, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Patterns Of Ocean Current Variability On The West Florida Shelf Using The Self-Organizing Map, Yonggang Liu, Robert H. Weisberg

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Patterns of ocean current variability are examined on the West Florida Shelf by a neural network analysis based on the self‐organizing map (SOM), using time series of moored velocity data that span the interval October 1998–September 2001. Three characteristic spatial patterns are extracted in a 3 × 4 SOM array: spatially coherent southeastward and northwestward flow patterns with strong currents and a transition pattern of weak currents. On the synoptic weather timescale the variations of these patterns are coherent with the local winds. On the seasonal timescale the variations of the patterns are coherent with both the local winds and …

A Bac-Based Physical Map Of The Nile Tilapia Genome, Takayuki Katagiri, Celeste Kidd, Elizabeth Tomasino, Jesse T. Davis, Cassandra Wishon, Justin E. Stern, Karen L. Carleton, Aimee E. Howe, Thomas D. Kocher

Hubbard Center for Genome Studies (HCGS)

Background

Cichlid fishes, particularly tilapias, are an important source of animal protein in tropical countries around the world. To support selective breeding of these species we are constructing genetic and physical maps of the tilapia genome. Physical maps linking collections of BAC clones are a critical resource for both positional cloning and assembly of whole genome sequences.

Results

We constructed a genome-wide physical map of the tilapia genome by restriction fingerprinting 35,245 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones using high-resolution capillary polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The map consists of 3,621 contigs and is estimated to span 1.752 Gb in physical length. An …

Meeting Notes 2005-06-09 [Part C] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Virtual Cadaver Navigation System: Using Virtual Reality For Learning Human Anatomy, Abhijit V. Lothe

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The use of virtual reality (VR) for visualization can revolutionize medical training by simulating real world medical training procedures through intuitive and engaging user interface. Existing virtual reality based visualization systems for human anatomy are based on 3D surface and volumetric models and simulative systems based on model libraries. The visual impact as well as facilitation for learning are inadequate in such systems. This thesis research is aimed at eliminating such inadequacies by developing a non-immersive virtual reality system framework for storage, access and navigation of real human cadaveric data. Based on this framework, a real time software system called …

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, June 9-10, 2005

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on June 9-10, 2005.

Arbiter, June 8, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Urotensin Ii Modulates Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Through Activation Of Brainstem Cholinergic Neurons, Salvador Huitron-Resendiz, Morten P. Kristensen, Stephen L. Grupke, Christopher Tyler, Olivier Civelli, Christopher S. Leonard, Luis De Lecea

NYMC Faculty Publications

Urotensin II (UII) is a cyclic neuropeptide with strong vasoconstrictive activity in the peripheral vasculature. UII receptor mRNA is also expressed in the CNS, in particular in cholinergic neurons located in the mesopontine tegmental area, including the pedunculopontine tegmental (PPT) and lateral dorsal tegmental nuclei. This distribution suggests that the UII system is involved in functions regulated by acetylcholine, such as the sleep-wake cycle. Here, we tested the hypothesis that UII influences cholinergic PPT neuron activity and alters rapid eye movement (REM) sleep patterns in rats. Local administration of UII into the PPT nucleus increases REM sleep without inducing changes …

Slides: Flowing Down The Basin: Federal Litigation On The Colorado River, Michael Gheleta

Hard Times on the Colorado River: Drought, Growth and the Future of the Compact (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

Presenter: Michael Gheleta, US Department of Justice.

53 slides.

Bibliography Of Literature Published On Scarab Beetles Since 1 January 2001 (Worldwide Coverage), Andrew B. T. Smith

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

Created and maintained by Andrew B. T. Smith, who would like to thank the following contributors who compiled lists of new scarab literature from their part of the world.
Alberto Ballerio - not only got the list going but is the coordinator of the contributers and a contributer himself for Italy, Italian and French Switzerland, Malta, and many individual journals.
Ales Bezdek and David Kral - Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary; Tristão Branco - Portugal; Marek Bunalski - Poland; Mattias Forshage - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland; Andrew Frolov - Russia; Vasily Grebennikov - sub-Saharan Africa; Jean-Bernard Huchet - France; …

Oral History Interview With Dr. Donald Griffin, Donald Griffin, Wenxian Zhang

Oral Histories

Donald Christian Griffin came to Rollins College in 1960 as a student and returned in 1970 as a professor. He has spent most of his life at Rollins, where he has instructed students in physics, served in administrative positions, and received numerous honors.

Griffin was born on April 27, 1942, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at Rollins College, majoring in physics, receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1964. From Purdue University, Griffin received his master’s degree in 1966 and his doctorate in 1970.

Since joining the Rollins College faculty in 1970, Griffin has not only taught courses in physics, but also …

Gonadal Steroids Differentially Modulate Neurotoxicity Of Hiv And Cocaine: Testosterone And Ici 182,780 Sensitive Mechanism, Sherie L. Kendall, Caroline F. Anderson, Avindra Nath, Jadwiga Turchan-Cholewo, Cantey L. Land, Charles F. Mactutus, Rosemarie M. Booze

Behavioral Science Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: HIV Associated Dementia (HAD) is a common complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that erodes the quality of life for patients and burdens health care providers. Intravenous drug use is a major route of HIV transmission, and drug use is associated with increased HAD. Specific proteins released as a consequence of HIV infection (e.g., gp120, the HIV envelope protein and Tat, the nuclear transactivating protein) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of HAD. In primary cultures of human fetal brain tissue, subtoxic doses of gp120 and Tat are capable of interacting with a physiologically relevant dose of cocaine, …

June 8, 2005, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Adoptive Transfer Of Beta-Amyloid Sensitive Immune Cells In A Mouse Model For Alzheimer’S Disease, Daniel Shippy

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

One major therapeutic target for preventing and treating Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is removal of excess β-amyloid (Aβ) from the brain. Both active and passive immunotherapies targeting Aβ have proven effective in reducing brain Aβ levels and improving cognitive function in mouse transgenic models of AD. However, these approaches can induce adverse neuropathologic effects and immunologic over-activation. Indeed, clinical trials of active Aβ immunotherapy in AD patients were halted due to development of meningoencephalitis, apparently resulting from wide-spread neuroinflammation. Here we show that a more restricted and specific immune re-activation through a single adoptive transfer of Aβ-specific T cells can provide …

Hiv/Aids: In 5 Minutes... [Powerpoint], June 7, 2005, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Culture, Community, and Health

An educational powerpoint presentation outlining what HIV/AIDS is, its symptoms, how the HIV virus is transmitted, treatments options, and global numbers of people infected as of 2005 (WHO figures).

Faculty Tenure And Promotion Awards Announced, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Pentaplot: A Software Tool For The Illustration Of Genome Mosaicism, Lutz H. Hamel, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten

Computer Science and Statistics Faculty Publications

Background:

Dekapentagonal maps depict the phylogenetic relationships of five genomes in a visually appealing diagram and can be viewed as an alternative to a single evolutionary consensus tree. In particular, the generated maps focus attention on those gene families that significantly deviate from the consensus or plurality phylogeny. PentaPlot is a software tool that computes such dekapentagonal maps given an appropriate probability support matrix.

Results:

The visualization with dekapentagonal maps critically depends on the optimal layout of unrooted tree topologies representing different evolutionary relationships among five organisms along the vertices of the dekapentagon. This is a difficult optimization problem given …

The Murray Ledger And Times, June 6, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Genetic Evaluation Of Dairy Cattle With Test-Day Models With Autoregressive Covariance Structures And With A 305-D Model, R. M. Sawalha, Jeffrey F. Keown, Stephen D. Kachman, L. Dale Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

This study compared genetic evaluations from 3 test-day (TD) models with different assumptions about the environmental covariance structure for TD records and genetic evaluations from 305-d lactation records for dairy cows. Estimates of genetic values of 12,071 first lactation Holstein cows were obtained with the 3 TD models using 106,472 TD records. The compound symmetry (CS) model was a simple test-day repeatability animal model with compound symmetry covariance structure for TD environmental effects. The AR_s and AR_e models also used TD records but with a first-order autoregressive covariance structure among short-term environmental effects or residuals, respectively. Estimates of …

Functional Analysis And Comparative Genomics Of Expressed Sequence Tags From The Lycophyte Selaginella Moellendorffii, Jing-Ke Weng, Milos Tanurdzic, Clint Chapple

Department of Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Background

The lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii is a member of one of the oldest lineages of vascular plants on Earth. Fossil records show that the lycophyte clade arose 400 million years ago, 150–200 million years earlier than angiosperms, a group of plants that includes the well-studied flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. S. moellendorffii has a genome size of approximately 100 Mbp, as small or smaller than that of A. thaliana. S. moellendorffii has the potential to provide significant comparative information to better understand the evolution of vascular plants.

Results

We sequenced 2181 Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from a S. moellendorffii …

June 6 2005 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Mathematical Modeling Of Deposition Of Carbonaceous Material From Heavy Hydrocarbon Vapors, Wenxing Zhang, A. Paul Watkinson

Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning - Challenges and Opportunities

No abstract provided.

Deposition From Crude Oils In Heat Exchangers, A. Paul Watkinson

Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning - Challenges and Opportunities

No abstract provided.

A Preliminary Study Of The Effect Of Surface Coating On The Initial Deposition Mechanisms Of Dairy Fouling, S. S. Ramachandra, S. Wiehe, M. M. Hyland, X. D. Chen, B. Bansal

Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning - Challenges and Opportunities

No abstract provided.

Blending Effects On Fouling Of Four Crude Oils, Z S. Saleh, R. Sheikholeslami, A. Paul Watkinson

Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning - Challenges and Opportunities

No abstract provided.

Today’S Techniques For Heat Exchanger Protection Via Particle Filtration, Kathy Colby, Caroline Hoffman

Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning - Challenges and Opportunities

No abstract provided.

Fouling Of Heat Exchangers By Dairy Fluids – A Review, Bipan Bansal, Xiao Dong Chen

Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning - Challenges and Opportunities

No abstract provided.