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The Intersection Of Filial Piety And Cultural Dissonance: Intergenerational Exchanges Among Khmer Families In The United States, Denise Clark Lewis Jan 2005

The Intersection Of Filial Piety And Cultural Dissonance: Intergenerational Exchanges Among Khmer Families In The United States, Denise Clark Lewis

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

In this thesis I describe Khmers negotiations of circumstances surrounding the disassembly, reconstruction, and redefinition of Khmer identity from their homeland in Cambodia to a traditional Khmer village recreated in the United States. Using a framework derived from a constructivist perspective, I have placed processes of negotiation and identity transformation within the lived context of Khmers lives. Thus, a holistic understanding of the interrelatedness of multiple changes in Khmerness is made possible. Ethnographic data collected between 1997 and 1999, through participant-observation and interviews, inform this study. Findings from this study reveal three levels of identity transformation as told by members …

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Genetic Regulation Of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Numbers In Mice, Ying Liang Jan 2005

Genetic Regulation Of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Numbers In Mice, Ying Liang

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) transplantations are widely used for the treatment of hematological and non-hematological disorders in clinic. Successful transplantation requires sufficient number and efficient homing of HSCs. Many studies have focused on developing an effective strategy to expand functional HSC population. Some regulatory molecules have been recently shown great promise for controlling the amplification of HSCs. In these dissertation studies, I first aim to identify gene(s) and their allelic variants contributing to strain-specific difference in HSC numbers between C57BL/6 (B6, low) and DBA/2 (D2, high) mice by using a classic forward genetic approach. Firstly, 3 quantitative trait loci (QTL) …

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Developmental Fmri Study: Face And Object Recognition, Ann D. Gathers Jan 2005

Developmental Fmri Study: Face And Object Recognition, Ann D. Gathers

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Visual processing, though seemingly automatic, is complex. Typical humansprocess objects and faces routinely. Yet, when a disease or disorder disrupts face andobject recognition, the effects are profound. Because of its importance and complexity,visual processing has been the subject of many adult functional imaging studies.However, relatively little is known about the development of the neural organization andunderlying cognitive mechanisms of face and object recognition. The current projectused functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify maturational changes inthe neural substrates of face and object recognition in 5-8 year olds, 9-11 year olds, andadults. A passive face and object viewing task revealed cortical …

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Microelectrode Array Studies Of Normal And Disease-Altered L-Glutamate Regulation In The Mammalian Central Nervous System, Brian Keith Day Jan 2005

Microelectrode Array Studies Of Normal And Disease-Altered L-Glutamate Regulation In The Mammalian Central Nervous System, Brian Keith Day

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

L-glutamate (Glu) is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. Monitoring extracellular Glu is critical to understanding Glu regulation to discriminate physiological and pathological roles. To overcome the limitations of previous in vivo extracellular Glu studies, we developed Glu selective microelectrode arrays with better spatial and temporal resolutions than commonly used techniques like microdialysis. We used these microelectrode arrays to characterize basal and potassium-evoked Glu neurotransmission in the normal rat brain. We then investigated disease-related Glu alterations in a rat model of Parkinson's disease and normal Glu regulation in young and aged rhesus monkeys. In the normal …

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Identification And Characterization Of Contact Sites Between Human Follicle Stimulating Hormone And The Follicle Stimulating Hormone Receptor, Johann Sohn Jan 2005

Identification And Characterization Of Contact Sites Between Human Follicle Stimulating Hormone And The Follicle Stimulating Hormone Receptor, Johann Sohn

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) comprises an ?? subunit and a ?? subunit,whereas the FSH receptor consists of two halves with distinct functions, the N-terminalextracellular exodomain and C-terminal membrane associated endodomain. FSH initiallybinds to exodomain, and the resulting FSH/exodomain complex modulates the endodomainand generates signal. However, it has been difficult to determine which subunit of FSHcontacts the exodomain or endodomain, and in what orientation FSH interacts with them.To address these crucial issues, the receptor was Ala-scanned and the hormone subunitswere probed with photoaffinity labeling with receptor peptides corresponding to the Nterminalregion of the exodomain and exoloop 3 of the endodomain. The …

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Methods Development In Biological Mass Spectrometry: Applications In Small Molecule Research And Proteomics, Taufika Islam Williams Jan 2005

Methods Development In Biological Mass Spectrometry: Applications In Small Molecule Research And Proteomics, Taufika Islam Williams

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Technological developments have enabled mass spectrometry (MS) to evolve asone of the most versatile, sensitive and widely used analytical methods. Key areas ofresearch in biological MS include the development of analyte-selective MSmethodologies, along with the design of MS compatible separation technology. Analytesof interest range from small, biologically active molecules in disease progressionresearch, to macromolecules such as proteins, in proteomics investigations. Advances inthese areas are vital to maintaining the level of sophistication that has become thebenchmark for MS analyses.Mass spectrometry has found a permanent station in disease progression studies,particularly in biomarker discovery. This is especially true for Alzheimer's disease (AD),a condition …

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Gene Regulatory Networks Of Agl15 A Plant Mads Transcription Factor, Cong Zhu Jan 2005

Gene Regulatory Networks Of Agl15 A Plant Mads Transcription Factor, Cong Zhu

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Plant embryogenesis is an intriguing developmental process that is controlled by many genes. AGAMOUS Like 15 (AGL15) is a MADS-domain transcriptional regulator that accumulates preferentially during this stage. However, at the onset of this work it was unknown which genes are regulated by AGL15 or how AGL15 is regulated. This dissertation is part of the ongoing effort to understand the biological roles of AGL15. To decipher how AGL15 functions during plant development, a chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) approach was adapted to obtain DNA fragments that are directly bound by AGL15 in vivo. Putative AGL15 targets were isolated, and binding and regulation …

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Mercury Contamination Of Channel And Floodplain Sediments In Wilson Creek Watershed, Southwest Missouri, Willard E. Rodgers Ii Jan 2005

Mercury Contamination Of Channel And Floodplain Sediments In Wilson Creek Watershed, Southwest Missouri, Willard E. Rodgers Ii

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Mercury (Hg) is a pollutant affecting aquatic environments and human health world wide. Sediments in urban streams can store Hg from historical industrial waste releases in channel and floodplain deposits. Subsequent erosion of these deposits can remobilize sediment-bound Hg impacting downstream receiving waters. This study describes the distribution of Hg in floodplain and channel sediments of Wilson Creek and its tributaries using geochemical sediment analysis and cesium-137 dating. The upper Wilson Creek watershed drains the southern two-thirds of Springfield, Missouri. Results indicate that Hg concentrations in overbank and active channel sediments along the entire stream length are elevated above the …

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Dismissing The Foster Children: The Eleventh Circuit's Misapplication And Improper Expansion Of The Younger Abstention Doctrine In Bonnie L. V. Bush, Nora Meltzer Jan 2005

Dismissing The Foster Children: The Eleventh Circuit's Misapplication And Improper Expansion Of The Younger Abstention Doctrine In Bonnie L. V. Bush, Nora Meltzer

Brooklyn Law Review

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The Biter Bit: Unknowable Dangers, The Third Restatement, And The Reinstatement Of Liability Without Fault, Ellen Wertheimer Jan 2005

The Biter Bit: Unknowable Dangers, The Third Restatement, And The Reinstatement Of Liability Without Fault, Ellen Wertheimer

Brooklyn Law Review

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Applying Atkins V. Virginia To Capital Defendants With Severe Mental Illness, Laurie T. Izutsu Jan 2005

Applying Atkins V. Virginia To Capital Defendants With Severe Mental Illness, Laurie T. Izutsu

Brooklyn Law Review

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Remember The Ladies And The Children Too: Crawford's Impact On Domestic Violence And Child Abuse Cases, Myrna Raeder Jan 2005

Remember The Ladies And The Children Too: Crawford's Impact On Domestic Violence And Child Abuse Cases, Myrna Raeder

Brooklyn Law Review

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Isr@Bucknell, Information Services And Resources, Bucknell University Jan 2005

Isr@Bucknell, Information Services And Resources, Bucknell University

ISR @ Bucknell

isr@bucknell was a newsletter published by Bucknell University's Information Services and Resources department (later Library and Information Technology). The publication served the community by providing software, project, and service updates. Regular features included a letter from the Associate Vice President for Information Services and Resources, the "Ask ISR" column, and featured ISR web pages. This issue includes the following articles: "Bucknell Community Dialogue Day," "Supporting a Community of Learning," "Get This Item," "Licensing for Electronic Resources," "Meet Adam Kubik," "Printer Usage on Campus," "Technology Use in the Classroom," "Keeping Up-to-Date with the Periodicals Collection," "Google Scholar," "Today's Tech Lingo, Gadgets, …

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Free Exercise In Foster Care: Defining The Scope Of Religious Rights For Foster Children And Their Families, Kelsi Brown Corkran Jan 2005

Free Exercise In Foster Care: Defining The Scope Of Religious Rights For Foster Children And Their Families, Kelsi Brown Corkran

University of Chicago Law Review

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Mapping, Habitat Characterization, And Fish Surveys Of The Deep-Water Oculina Coral Reef Marine Protected Area: A Review Of Historical And Current Research., John K. Reed, Andrew N. Shepard, Christopher C. Koenig, Kathryn M. Scanlon, R. G. Gilmore Jan 2005

Mapping, Habitat Characterization, And Fish Surveys Of The Deep-Water Oculina Coral Reef Marine Protected Area: A Review Of Historical And Current Research., John K. Reed, Andrew N. Shepard, Christopher C. Koenig, Kathryn M. Scanlon, R. G. Gilmore

Faculty Scholarship

Deep-water Oculina coral reefs, which are similar in structure and development to deep-water Lophelia reefs, stretch 167 km (90 nm) at depths of 60-100 m along the eastern Florida shelf of the United States. These consist of numerous pinnacles and ridges, 3-35 m in height, that are capped with thickets of living and dead coral, Oculina varicosa. Extensive areas of dead Oculina rubble are due in part to human impacts (e.g., fish and shrimp trawling, scallop dredging, anchoring, bottom longlines, and depth charges) but also may be due in part to natural processes such as bioerosion, disease, or global warming.

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Deep-Water Reefs Off The Southeastern U.S.: Recent Discoveries And Research., John K. Reed, S. W. Ross Jan 2005

Deep-Water Reefs Off The Southeastern U.S.: Recent Discoveries And Research., John K. Reed, S. W. Ross

Faculty Scholarship

Some of the most spectacular corals found off the southeastern U.S. were discovered as recently as the 1970s in an unexpected place—the deep waters along the edge of the continental shelf. These banks of Oculina corals extend for 167 km along the eastern Florida shelf. Unfortunately, even as they were being discovered by scientists, the Oculina banks had already been damaged by trawl-fishing activity. Parts of the reef have been protected since 1984, and the protected area was expanded in 2000, but the story of the Oculina banks’ discovery and their damage by fishing activity is all too typical of …

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‘Þæt Is Yrre': The Construction And Use Of Anger In Anglo-Saxon Literature, Hilary E. Fox Jan 2005

‘Þæt Is Yrre': The Construction And Use Of Anger In Anglo-Saxon Literature, Hilary E. Fox

Masters Theses

An examination of the linguistic background and literary conceptions of anger in Old English. The first point of analysis will be the vocabulary of used to discuss anger and its manifestations in Old English prose didactic texts, particularly homilies and translations from Latin materials. Subsequent chapters will discuss anger as a literary phenomenon, first with respect to its use in the Old English hagiographic poem The Passion of St. Juliana and then Beowulf. The goal of these two chapters collectively is to outline the social use ( or misuse) of anger, and Christian understandings of how anger must be …

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White Lawyering: Rethinking Race, Lawyer Identity, And Rule Of Law, Russell G. Pearce Jan 2005

White Lawyering: Rethinking Race, Lawyer Identity, And Rule Of Law, Russell G. Pearce

Fordham Law Review

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Intellectual Property, Trade & Development: The State Of Play , Daniel J. Gervais Jan 2005

Intellectual Property, Trade & Development: The State Of Play , Daniel J. Gervais

Fordham Law Review

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Shortness Of Vision: Regulatory Ambition In The Digital Age, Susan P. Crawford Jan 2005

Shortness Of Vision: Regulatory Ambition In The Digital Age, Susan P. Crawford

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Tying The Braid Of Second-Parent Adoptions—Where Due Process Meets Equal Protection, Christopher Colorado Jan 2005

Tying The Braid Of Second-Parent Adoptions—Where Due Process Meets Equal Protection, Christopher Colorado

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Contemporary Seabed Mining Regime: A Critical Analysis Of The Mining Regulations Promulgated By The International Seabed Authority, Jason C. Nelson Jan 2005

The Contemporary Seabed Mining Regime: A Critical Analysis Of The Mining Regulations Promulgated By The International Seabed Authority, Jason C. Nelson

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Rush To Develop Space: The Role Of Spacefaring Nations In Forging Environmental Standards For The Use Of Celestial Bodies For Governmental And Private Interests, April Greene Apking Jan 2005

The Rush To Develop Space: The Role Of Spacefaring Nations In Forging Environmental Standards For The Use Of Celestial Bodies For Governmental And Private Interests, April Greene Apking

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Subjective Experience Is Probably Not Limited To Humans: The Evidence From Neurobiology And Behavior, B. Baars Jan 2005

Subjective Experience Is Probably Not Limited To Humans: The Evidence From Neurobiology And Behavior, B. Baars

CCRG Papers

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A “Consciousness” Based Architecture For A Functioning Mind, S. Franklin Jan 2005

A “Consciousness” Based Architecture For A Functioning Mind, S. Franklin

CCRG Papers

No abstract provided.

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Complying With The Edwards Aquifer Rules Technical Guidance On Best Management Practices Jan 2005

Complying With The Edwards Aquifer Rules Technical Guidance On Best Management Practices

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

This manual summarizes best practices for complying with regulations designed to preserve the Edwards Aquifer. Open Access See Extended description for more information.

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Sediment Accumulation In The Barton Springs Complex, Ellen Geismar Jan 2005

Sediment Accumulation In The Barton Springs Complex, Ellen Geismar

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

The four springs located in the Zilker Park area of Austin, Texas are the only known habitat of the endangered species Eurycea sosorum and E.waterlooensis. Sediment deposition in these springs contributes to the temporary degradation of salamander habitat due observed during salamander counts. The sediment transport in the area of the springs is dynamic with deposition/resuspension rates varying spatially and temporally over the substrate. Accumulation of sediments in these habitats has been a concern because sediment loading is anticipated to increase as a result of human activities in the Barton Springs watershed. This study documents the baseline rate of sediment …

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Vol. 82, No. 4: Full Issue, Denver University Law Review Jan 2005

Vol. 82, No. 4: Full Issue, Denver University Law Review

Denver Law Review

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Evaluative Case Study Of A Summer Academy Program, Elizabeth Wallace, Jon E. Pedersen Jan 2005

Evaluative Case Study Of A Summer Academy Program, Elizabeth Wallace, Jon E. Pedersen

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

The demands for technological workers have prompted a national effort to encourage all sectors of the population to consider careers in mathematics and science (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, NCTM, 1989; NSF, 1988; Task Force, 1989). Yet students are not electing to enroll in science in school. One possible solution to increase interest in science is through summer programs. The Summer Academy in Plant Biology and Transgenics hosted by the Western Oklahoma State College, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, is an intervention program in science for talented students and, in particular …

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Explicit Reflective Nature Of Science Instruction: Evolution, Intelligent Design, And Umbrellaology, Lawrence C. Scharmann, Mike U. Smith, Mark C. James, Murray Jensen Jan 2005

Explicit Reflective Nature Of Science Instruction: Evolution, Intelligent Design, And Umbrellaology, Lawrence C. Scharmann, Mike U. Smith, Mark C. James, Murray Jensen

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

The investigators sought to design an instructional unit to enhance an understanding of the nature of science (NOS) by taking into account both instructional best practices and suggestions made by noted science philosopher Thomas Kuhn. Preservice secondary science teachers enrolled in a course “Laboratory Techniques in the Teaching of Science” served as participants in action research. Sources of data used to inform instructional decisions included students’ written reaction papers to the assigned readings, transcribed verbal comments made during class discussions and other in-class activities, and final reflection essays. Three iterative implementations of the instructional unit were attempted. The objectives of …

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