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In Situ Muscle Power Differs Without Varying In Vitro Mechanical Properties In Two Insect Leg Muscles Innervated By The Same Motor Neuron, Anna N. Ahn, Kenneth Meijer, Robert J. Full

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

The mechanical behavior of muscle during locomotion is often predicted by its anatomy, kinematics, activation pattern and contractile properties. The neuromuscular design of the cockroach leg provides a model system to examine these assumptions, because a single motor neuron innervates two extensor muscles operating at a single joint. Comparisons of the in situ measurements under in vivo running conditions of muscle 178 to a previously examined muscle (179) demonstrate that the same inputs (e.g. neural signal and kinematics) can result in different mechanical outputs. The same neural signal and kinematics, as determined during running, can result in different mechanical functions, …

Sepd2006, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From September 2006 Robert Kelly Archive.

Diversity Of The Ig Repertoire Is Maintained With Age In Spite Of Reduced Germinal Centre Cells In Human Tonsil Lymphoid Tissue, G. R. Kolar, D. Mehta, P. C. Wilson, J. D. Capra

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Humans and almost all species studied to date exhibit a decreased responsiveness to immunization and increased autoimmunity with age. While this has been observed clinically for decades, only recently has an understanding of the molecular basis for these changes begun to be appreciated. Studies of the B-cell aspects of these changes in ageing mice and the very few reports in ageing humans have not been conclusive. Here we examine the nucleotide sequence of over 1250 VH transcripts from the tonsils of individuals of various ages for changes to the VH4 immunoglobulin repertoire. An exhaustive examination of VH, DH and JH …

Nicotine Delays Tendon-To-Bone Healing In A Rat Shoulder Model, L. M. Galatz, M. J. Silva, S. Y. Rothermich, M. A. Zaegel, N. Havlioglu, S. Thomopoulos

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Perceptions Of Agriculture And Natural Resource M.S. Graduates Regarding Program Quality And Learning Outcomes Attainment, Mark D. Shelton, James J. Ahern, Douglas D. Piirto, April England

Office of the Dean (CAFES) Scholarship

Master's degree recipients from the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) at Cal Poly State University were surveyed to assess 1) their satisfaction with the M.S. program, and 2) the extent to which key learning outcomes were attained. Emphasis was placed on the graduate's perception of the value of their thesis or creative project experience in developing technical competency and skills in communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, leadership, and decision making.

CAFES M.S. alumni were generally positive in their perception of the graduate program, though written comments indicated dissatisfaction with various program aspects among some graduates. Most respondents felt …

The Faculty Notebook, September 2006, Provost's Office

Faculty Notebook

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost.

Cloverland Green V. Pa Milk Marketing Bd

2006 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Master Thesis: Evaluation Of Embeddedness Of Humanitarian Mine Action Programs Funded By The Netherlands, For The Period 1996–2004, Michiel Van Bokhorst

Global CWD Repository

This research describes the evaluation of the HMA programs that are funded by the Netherlands for the period 1996–2004, specifically on their embeddedness into a broader development strategy. Embeddedness is defined as the extent in which other humanitarian objectives and programs are attached, combined or integrated with HMA programs. Embeddedness has increasingly attracted attention, because landmines and ERW are a direct threat to individuals and communities, but also indirectly by being a barrier for short-term emergency interventions and long-term development efforts. Nevertheless the Netherlands does not directly mention embeddedness of HMA in neither its HMA policy paper nor its 2003 …

Connections, Volume 2 (September 2006), College Of Education And Professional Studies

The Chat Room (CEPS Newsletter)

Connections is the College of Education and Professional Studies newsletter. This is Volume 2, September 2006.

Report Of The Working Group On Animal Distress In The Laboratory, Marilyn Brown, Larry Carbone, Kathleen Conlee, Marian Dawkins, Ian J. Duncan, David Fraser, Gilly Griffin, Victoria A. Hampshire, Lesley A. Lambert, Joy A. Mench, David Morton, Jon Richmond, Bernard E. Rollin, Andrew N. Rowan, Martin L. Stephens, Hanno Würbel

Laboratory Experiments Collection

Finding ways to minimize pain and distress in research animals is a continuing goal in the laboratory animal research field. Pain and distress, however, are not synonymous, and often measures that alleviate one do not affect the other. Here, the authors provide a summary of a meeting held in February 2004 that focused on distress in laboratory animals. They discuss the difficulties associated with defining ‘distress,’ propose methods to aid in recognizing and alleviating distressful conditions, and provide recommendations for animal research conduct and oversight that would minimize distress experienced by laboratory animals.

Mother-Young Recognition In An Ungulate Hider Species: A Unidirectional Proce, Marco V.G. Torriani, Elisabetta Vannoni, Alan G. Mcelligott

Veterinary Science and Medicine Collection

Parent‐offspring recognition is usually crucial for survival of young. In mammals, olfaction often only permits identification at short range, and vocalizations are important at longer distances. Following and hiding antipredator strategies found in newborn mammals may also affect parental recognition mechanisms. We investigated mother‐offspring recognition in fallow deer, an ungulate hider species. We analyzed the structure of adult female and fawn contact calls to determine whether they are individually distinctive and tested for mother‐offspring recognition. Only females (and not fawns) have individualized vocalizations, with the fundamental frequency as the most distinctive parameter. Playback experiments showed that fawns can distinguish the …

Fall Conference Program 2006, Center For Teaching & Learning, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology

No abstract provided.

Island Times, Sep 2006, Mary Lou Wendell, David Tyler

Island Times Newspaper, 2006

No abstract provided.

Fisheries Research Report No. 158 - An Assessment Of The Blue Swimmer Crab Fishery In Geographe Bay, Lynda M. Bellchambers, K. D. Smith, D. Harris

Fisheries Research Reports

The study was undertaken to provide detailed information on blue swimmer crabs in Geographe Bay so that the recreational and commercial fishery issues could be addressed using more accurate data than was previously available. A ministerial decision that banned commercial fishing for blue swimmer crabs in Geographe Bay was made in January 2005 while this study was underway. The intention of this report was to provide a summary of information on crab stocks in the region, not to alter the current management arrangements. This report describes experimental sampling, commercial catch statistics, commercial catch monitoring and surveys of recreational fishers to …

Historic And Current Discharges From Los Alamos National Laboratory: Analysis And Recommendations, Amigos Bravos, Concerned Citizens For Nuclear Safety

Amigos Bravos

The movement of pollutants in stormwater is an issue of grave concern at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). For the past 63 years, LANL’s nuclear and industrial activities have generated an enormous amount of solid, hazardous, and radioactive waste. Most of the waste has been stored or buried on-site in unlined disposal pits, trenches and shafts. These contaminated areas are referred to as Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs), Areas of Concern (AOCs), or Potential Release Sites (PRSs).

Amigos Bravos and Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) have reviewed the historic and current discharges from LANL and taken steps toward ensuring …

Using Tablet Technology And Recording Software To Enhance Pedagogy, David J. Radosevich, Patricia Kahn

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

The "Imponderable Bloom": Reconsidering The Role Of Technology In Education, Robert Sanders

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

"Gorilla Trails In Paradise": Carl Akeley, Mary Bradley, And The American Search For The Missing Link, Jeannette Eileen Jones

Department of History: Faculty Publications

“Gorilla Trails in Paradise” explores the American obsession with primates and evolution, as informed by notions of race and sexuality, as an important current in American cultural and intellectual history during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This preoccupation began with queries regarding the relationship between man and ape in light of evolutionary theories that predated the publication of Darwin’s seminal treatises. However, Darwinian evolution brought the question of that relationship into mainstream discourse. No longer confined to the musings of learned white men, the ape–human puzzle informed American popular thought and popular culture by the late nineteenth century. …

The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 3, Issue 1, September 2006, Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte

JWU Library Newsletter - Charlotte Campus

No abstract provided.

Molecularly Cloned Shiv-1157ipd3n4: A Highly Replication- Competent, Mucosally Transmissible R5 Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Encoding Hiv Clade C Env, R. J. Song, A.-L. Chenine, R. A. Rasmussen, C. R. Ruprecht, S. Mirshahidi, D. R. Grisson, W. Xu, J. B. Whitney, L. M. Goins, H. Ong, P.-L. Li, E. Shai-Kobiler, T. Wang, C. M. Mccann, Hong Zhang, Charles Wood, C. Kankasa, W. E. Secor, H. M. Mcclure, E. Strobert, J. G. Else, R. M. Ruprecht

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) clade C causes >50% of all HIV infections worldwide, and an estimated 90% of all transmissions occur mucosally with R5 strains. A pathogenic R5 simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) encoding HIV clade Cenv is highly desirable to evaluate candidate AIDS vaccines in nonhuman primates. To this end, we generated SHIV-1157i, a molecular clone from a Zambian infant isolate that carries HIV clade C env. SHIV-1157i was adapted by serial passage in five monkeys, three of which developed peripheral CD4^{4 T-cell depletion. After the first inoculated monkey developed AIDS at week 137 postinoculation, …}

Ecolopolis 2.0, Portland State University

Regional Planning and Metropolitan Growth Management Research Projects

This is a working document and is the second report in this series. In section one the document begins by reviewing the origin and definition of "Cascadia" as a named place. Section two includes a description of the Cascadian landscape, and the issues and conditions in both its metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. Section three present four strategies for growing, stewarding, and sustaining Cascadia along "ecolopoli­tan" lines. The document concludes with the next steps for this project.

This version, 2.0, has been produced by the Spring 2006 class and is edited by Dr. Ethan Seltzer

West Virginia Libraries 2006 Vol.59 No.5, Pamela Coyle

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Great Plains Network (Gpn) Middleware Test Bed, Amy Apon, Gregory Monaco, Gordon Springer

Publications

GPN (Great Plains Network) is a consortium of public universities in seven mid-western states. GPN goals include regional strategic planning and the development of a collaboration environment, middleware services and a regional grid for sharing computational, storage and data resources. A major challenge is to arrive at a common authentication and authorization service, based on the set of heterogeneous identity providers at each institution. GPN has built a prototype middleware test bed that includes Shibboleth and other NMI-EDIT middleware components. The test bed includes several prototype end-user applications, and is being used to further our research into fine-grained access control …

The Patriot, V. 03, N. 01, Stony Brook University. Patriot.

The Patriot

v.: ill.; 32 cm (original analog pub.)

Nutrition And Stroke Prevention, J. David Spence

Department of Medicine Publications

Nutrition is much more important in prevention of stroke than is appreciated by most physicians. The powerful effects of statin drugs in lowering the levels of fasting cholesterol, combined with an unbalanced focus on fasting lipids (as opposed to postprandial fat and oxidative stress), have led many physicians and patients to believe that diet is relatively unimportant. Because the statins can lower fasting lipids by ≈50% to 60%, and a low-fat diet only lowers fasting cholesterol by ≈5% to 10%, this error is perhaps understandable. However, a Cretan Mediterranean diet, which is high in beneficial oils, whole grains, fruits, and …

Great Bay Estuary Restoration Compendium, Jay Odell, Alyson L. Eberhardt, David M. Burdick, Pete Ingraham

PREP Reports & Publications

Single species approaches to natural resource conservation and management are now viewed as antiquated and oversimplified for dealing with complex systems. Scientists and managers who work in estuaries and other marine systems have urged adoption of ecosystem based approaches to management for nearly a decade, yet practitioners are still struggling to translate the ideas into practice. Similarly, ecological restoration projects in coastal systems have typically addressed one species or habitat. In recent years, efforts to focus on multiple species and habitats have increased. Our project developed an integrated ecosystem approach to identify multi-habitat restoration opportunities in the Great Bay estuary, …

Susanna's Way Of Becoming Literate: A Case Study Of Literacy Acquisition By A Young Girl From A Chinese Immigrant Family, Gaoyin Qian, Junlin Pan

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Susanna, a young girl from a low-income Chinese immigrant family, develops her oral language proficiency quickly in Head Start and kindergarten; however, she needs more support in her reading and writing. This case study examines an unusual journey of Susanna's learning to read and write in English. Observations in her home indicate a home with limited print, whereas Head Start and kindergarten provide not only print rich environment but also teachers' and peers' support so that she moves from an English language observer to an English language user. However, she still struggles with the use of decontextualized language. Susanna's difficulties …

Peaks Island Star : September 2006, Vol. 26, Issue 9, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2006

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news.

Climate Change And Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation In Agroecosystems, Richard B. Thomas, Skip Van Bloem, William H. Schlesinger

Publications

No abstract provided.

Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * September 2006, Volume 60, No. 9

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

Contents:

Related meeting and function requests being accepted for 72nd North American Conference

Waterfowl gain reprieve from plan to expand oil and gas development in Alaska

Matt Dunfee to join WMI

Antis take a shot at the mourning dove hunting season in Michigan

McGraw Wildlife Foundation extends the Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow program

New CRP initiative in Prairie Pothole Region bodes well for ducks

Oil shale potential in the West rises once again

Workshop on aquatic nuisance species slated for North American Conference

Exhibiting at the 72nd North American Conference

U.S. citizens strongly back hunting and fishing

Worth reading: House …