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Information Interface - Volume 34, Issue 1 - January/February 2006, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

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Abstract Papers

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love: A Tale Of The Modernist Psyche, The Continental "Concept," And The Aesthetic Experience, Michael Lackey

English Publications

No abstract provided.

The Many Manipulations Of Morty Mouse: Children's Stories And The Parental Encouragement Of Altruism, Craig T. Palmer, Jennice Wright, Scott A. Wright, Chris Cassidy, Todd L. Vanpool, Kathryn Coe

College of Education

Most analyses of children's stories share the assumption that stories are told to children to influence their behavior. This paper explores how the analysis of stories can provide insight into social strategies used by people interacting within their cultural context. To demonstrate the potential of this approach, we created multiple versions of an original children's story to explore attitudes of college students toward the form of social interaction known as reciprocal altruism. Some versions portrayed the protagonist of the story as following a tit-for-tat strategy, while in other versions the protagonist was altruistic toward all the other characters regardless of …

University Of Central Florida Ir 2005-2006 Fact Book, University Of Central Florida

Historical Fact Book and Enrollment

Historical fact book and enrollment data for the University of Central Florida.

Nexus, Winter 2006, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Writing, Illustrating And Designing A Printed And An Interactive Book For Children, Sara Ponce-Rivera

Theses

The thesis, Writing, Illustrating and Designing a Printed and an Interactive Book for Children, as the title states, consists of creating a book for children and then developing it as an interactive educational application. The book as well as the interactive book, target children between the ages of seven to ten years old.

The title of the book is. The Island of My Childhood Dreams. The content is about my reflection of growing up in Puerto Rico, and its illustrations are used in the interactive book as the framework to further explore the cultural aspects of the island.

The interactive …

Repetition/Series, Anthony Trinchera

Theses

Not included.

Science Achievement In Australia : Evidence From National And International Surveys., Sue Thomson

2006 - Boosting Science Learning - What will it take?

What can be said about science achievement in Australian schools? Does it really need a boost? Is science education in Australia engaging and motivating, or is the curriculum irrelevant and students disinterested? Are there particular issues for Indigenous students? Within the National Testing Program, Australia participates in two major international studies with a partial focus on science: the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), conducted with Year 4 and Year 8 students conducted with 15-year-old students. In addition, the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) program provides evidence about the outcomes of education, and the TIMSS Science Video …

Research And Boosting Science Learning: Diagnosis And Potential Solutions, Peter Fensham

2006 - Boosting Science Learning - What will it take?

In this paper I want to draw on relevant research to address the theme of this year’s conference in three ways: 1. The nature of the problem 2. Possible solutions 3. Constraints on these possible solutions

Summary Report For The 2006 Season, Mark Schuler

Excavation Reports

In 2006, excavation continued work on areas surrounding the domus of the North-East Church complex, completed work on the masonry tomb, and continued conservation and cleaning of the earlier nave mosaic (F544). This report will address work done in the following areas: •

• The North Gate Area
• The Southern Street
• The South Hall and Related Chambers
• The Chambers West of the Portico
• Cistern D
• The Masonry Tomb
• The Nave Mosaic

2006 Scholar's Day Program, State University Of New York At Cortland

Transformations

Scholars' Day was established in 1997 and is a day-long conference devoted to showcasing the wide array of scholarship, research and creative activities occurring on campus. In 2012, a new emphasis on student research lead to a name change to Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference. This event focuses on student research, which is defined as an original investigation or creative activity through the primary efforts of a student or group of students. The work should show problem-solving skills and demonstrate new conceptual outcomes.

Benthic Nutrient Flux In A Small Estuary In Northwestern Florida (Usa), Guy T. Didonato, Emile M. Lores, Michael C. Murrell, Lisa M. Smith, Jane M. Caffrey

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Benthic nutrient fluxes of ammonium (NH₄⁺), nitrite/nitrate (NO₂^- + NO₃^-), phosphate (PO₄^-3), and dissolved silica (DSi) were measured in Escambia Bay, an estuary within the larger Pensacola Bay system of northwestern Florida (USA). Our study occurred during a severe drought which reduced riverine inputs to Escambia Bay. Laboratory incubations of field-collected cores were conducted on 8 dates between June and October 2000 to estimate nutrient flux, and cores were collected from locations exhibiting a range of sediment organic matter content. NH₄⁺ flux ranged from – 48.1 to …

Comparison Of Fish Assemblages And Water Quality In Two Marinas In The British Virgin Islands, Brian Gratwicke, Martin R. Speight

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Eutrophication is a widespread problem in tropical marine environments that leads to the increase of nutrients in a water body, usually nitrate and phosphate, and is usually associated with the discharge of untreated sewage, intensive farming or fertilizer-enriched agricultural runoff (Wu 1999). Common symptoms are increased N and P levels, increased macroalgal production in shallow areas, reduced dissolved oxygen, loss of seagrass and coral habitats and changes in the fish community (Hallock and Schlager 1986, Granelli et al. 1990, Valiela 1995, Hemminga and Duarte 2000). Direct chemical testing to establish pollution levels can be difficult because of sharp pollution gradients, …

Body Size Of The Endosymbiotic Pea Crab Tumidotheres Maculatus: Larger Hosts Hold Larger Crabs, Karen Kane, Gregory S. Farley

Gulf and Caribbean Research

The endosymbiotic pea crab, Tumidotheres maculatus, uses a broad range of host taxa, including several bivalve species, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Because shelter size affects the size of other, free-living crab species, we hypothesized that pea crabs living in larger bivalve hosts should attain larger sizes. Crabs and hosts collected from 3 field sites in northern Florida show this trend. We examined crabs living in a large host, the pen shell Atrina rigida, and found them to be larger than pea crabs living in a small host, the bay scallop Argopecten irradians. Moreover, this trend …

Marionia Tedi Ev. Marcus, 1983 (Nudibranchia, Tritoniidae) In The Gulf Of Mexico: First Record Of An Opisthobranch Mollusk From Hydrocarbon Cold Seeps, Angel Valdes

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico contain relatively diverse molluscan assemblages primarily composed of species that support chemoautotrophic symbionts, such as vesicomyid and mytilid bivalves, but also numerous species of shelled gastropods, bivalves, monoplacophorans, and polyplacophorans (Cordes 2004).

Recent exploration of hydrocarbon seep sites in the Mississippi Canyon and the Vioska Knoll revealed the presence of an unidentified species of nudibranch. The present paper describes the single specimen collected, which constitutes the first published record of an opisthobranch mollusk from a cold seep. The material examined is deposited at the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH).

2006 Author Recognition Bibliography, Grand Valley State University Libraries

Author Recognition

No abstract provided.

Why Dogs Stopped Flying: Poems, Kenneth W. Brewer

All USU Press Publications

The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying. His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than in his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the physical world--and the warmth of his affection for it--combine to create an unexpected transcendence. Beasts and bodies are transformed in his lines, and our dim, unremarkable lives on this shadowed earth become somehow more luminous--small suns opening in the dark, small words to the moon.

Beneath These Red Cliffs, Ronald L. Holt

All USU Press Publications

In this new and updated edition---with a foreword by Lora Tom, chairwoman of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah---Holt recounts the survival of a people against all odds. A compound of rapid white settlement of the most productive Southern Paiute homelands, especially their farmlands near tributaries of the Colorado River; conversion by and labor for the Mormon settlers; and government neglect placed the Utah Paiutes in a state of dependency that ironically culminated in the 1957 termination of their status as federally recognized Indians. The recognition and attendant services were not restored until 1980, but the act revived the Paiutes' …

Saninism Versus Tolstoyism: The Anti-Tolstoy Subtext In Mikhail Artsybashev’S Sanin, Ronald D. Leblanc

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

No abstract provided.

Using The Private Attorney General Theory To Protect Florida Charitable Corporations, Angela Gilmore

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Energy – The Not-So Bottomless Oil Well And The Alternatives, P.T. Vasudevan

The University Dialogue

This essay examines both sides of the “Hubbert’s peak” debate and their implications for energy policy. If there is a strong case for governments to wean their economies of oil, how do they do it? What low-carbon or alternative technologies bear watching? How will these technologies affect the environment? How long will the world remain reliant on oil considering that industries are 98% dependent on petroleum products?

Menorah Review (No. 65, Summer/Fall, 2006)

Menorah Review

A Rebbe in Skirts -- By Way of Introduction: Reflections on Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader -- Israeli Literature and Israeli Politics -- More in than Out -- Revisiting Old Themes Through a Contemporary Lens -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Noteworthy Books

Free Legal Advice On The Internet, Peter B. Maggs

International Journal of Legal Information

On numerous online discussion forums in various countries, ordinary people pose specific legal questions and both ordinary people and lawyers answer them. This article considers this new and rapidly growing method of providing legal advice. It emphasizes qualitative over quantitative issues. It seeks to answer questions such as “What kind of questions are being asked?”; “What sort of people are giving legal advice?”, “What sort of people are getting legal advice?”. For those few legal systems that I know something about, I also have considered the question, “How good is the advice?” This is a comparative study, involving discussion forums …

Bioinformatic Analysis Of Solanaceae Chloroplast Genomes And Characterization Of An Arabidopsis Protein Disulfide Isomerase In Transgenic Tobacco Chloroplasts, Justin James Grevich

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Throughout history, traditional plant breeding has been used to provide resistance to pests, disease and other forms of environmental stress, as well as to increase yield and improve upon quality and processing attributes. Over the last decade, the advancement in sequencing technology and bioinformatic analysis has unleashed a wealth of knowledge about chloroplast genetic organization and evolution. The lack of complete plastid genome sequences is one of the major limitations in advancing plastid genetic engineering to other useful crops. This is due to the fact that plastid genome sequences are essential for the identification of endogenous regulatory sequences and optimal …

Studies On The Novel Function Of Amyloid Precursor Protein In Glial Differentiation Of Neural Stem Cells, Young-Don Kwak

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although amyloid β (Aβ) deposition has been a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the physiological function of amyloid precursor protein (APP) is not clear. Our results suggested that high concentration of APP induces glial differentiation while physiological level of APP promotes migration and differentiation of neural stem cell (HNSC). HNSCs were mainly differentiated into astrocytes when they are transplanted into APP transgenic mouse brain or treated with a high concentration of secreted-type APP (sAPP) in culture. Staurosporine (STS) induced a distinctive astrocytic morphology in NT-2/D1 neural progenitor cells with expressions of APP and astrocyte-specific markers, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), …

Annual Report For 2005-2006 The City Of Rochester, Nh., Rochester Town Representatives

Rochester, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Randolph, New Hampshire 2005 Annual Report., Randolph Town Representatives

Randolph, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Town Of Rye, New Hampshire For The Year Ended December 31, 2005., Rye Town Representatives

Rye, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Cooperation Of The Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase And Cytochrome P450 1a1 In Mediating Lung Inflammation And Mutagenicity Induced By Diesel Exhaust Particles, Hongwen Zhao, Mark W. Barger, Joseph K H Ma, Vincent Castranova, Jane Y C Ma

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) have been shown to activate oxidant generation by alveolar macrophages (AMs), alter xenobiotic metabolic pathways, and modify the balance of pro-antiinflammatory cytokines. In this study we investigated the role of nitric oxide (NO) in DEP-mediated and DEP organic extract (DEPE)-mediated inflammatory responses and evaluated the interaction of inducible NO synthase (iNOS) and cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1). Male Sprague-Dawley rats were intratracheally (IT) instilled with saline, DEPs (35 mg/kg), or DEPEs (equivalent to 35 mg DEP/kg), with or without further treatment with an iNOS inhibitor, aminoguanidine (AG; 100 mg/kg), by intraperitoneal injection 30 min before and 3, …