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Improving Abiotic Stress Resistance In Cauliflower (Brassica Oleracea Var. Botrytis L.) By Mutagenesis And Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation, Ehab Mohamed Rabei Metwali Gharieb

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Abiotic environmental stress such as drought, salinity and low temperature are common conditions that adversely affect plant growth and crop production. Breeding for crop resistance to abiotic stress is difficult due to its multigenic nature. An alternative approach is through DNA mutation and DNA transfer. These approaches were employed and tested in this research and comparison between them was carried out. NEU and NMU induced mutant lines and control plants were sub-cultured many times on maintenance medium and stored at 5°c for 2 years and then tested for salt and hydroxyproline resistance as in-vitro and in-vivo plants and proline content …

The Effect Of Pre-Weaning Feeding Behaviour On Post-Weaning Feeding Behaviour In Pigs Weaned At 3, 4 And 5 Weeks Of Age, Christos Antonios Tsourgiannis

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

A program of study was undertaken to asses the effect of pre-weaning feeding behaviour on post-weaning feeding behaviour in pigs weaned at various ages (3, 4 and 5 weeks of age) and to identify ways of increasing their post-weaning feed intake. The studies were constructed using time extensive continuous recording methods in order to monitor the 'true' behaviour unbiased by sampling errors. Piglets weaned at 3 weeks of age had the ability to grow faster and became significantly heavier at six weeks of age (3W: 12.S06 ± 0.629 kg) than piglets that had to extent their stay for one (4W: …

Resources [Difficult Dialogues Website], Clark University

Difficult Dialogues (2006-2013)

A pdf adaptation of the Resources webpage from Clark University's extinct Difficult Dialogues website. All links have been removed but the list of recommended readings have been preserved to provide contextual perspective and insight.

Clark University's Difficult Dialogues initiative was launched in 2006 and ran through 2013. The initiative aimed to raise awareness and develop skills of dialogue as a distinct approach to discourse, as well as encourage its practice among faculty, staff, and students.

Readings [Difficult Dialogues Website], Clark University

Difficult Dialogues (2006-2013)

A pdf adaptation of the Readings webpage from Clark University's extinct Difficult Dialogues website. All links have been removed but the list of recommended readings have been preserved to provide contextual perspective and insight.

Clark University's Difficult Dialogues initiative was launched in 2006 and ran through 2013. The initiative aimed to raise awareness and develop skills of dialogue as a distinct approach to discourse, as well as encourage its practice among faculty, staff, and students.

The Quaternary Geography And Biogeography Of Tidal Saltmarshes, Karl P. Malamud-Roam, Frances P. Malamud-Roam, Elizabeth B. Watson, Joshua N. Collins, B. Lynn Ingram

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

A Ecosystem-Based Conservation Strategy For The Northern Goshawk, Richard T. Reynolds, Russell T. Graham, Douglas A. Boyce Jr.

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Avian Nesting Response To Tidal-Marsh Flooding: Literature Review And A Case For Adaptation In The Red-Winged Blackbird, Steven E. Reinert

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Resource Selection Function Models As Tools For Regional Conservation Planning For Northern Goshawk In Utah, Carlos Carroll, Ronald L. Rodriguez, Clinton Mccarthy, Kathleen M. Paulin

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Ecology Of The Northern Goshawk In Fennoscandia, Risto Tornberg, Erkki Korpimäki, Patrik Byholm

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Are Southern California’S Fragmented Salt Marshes Capable Of Sustaining Endemic Bird Populations?, Abby N. Powell

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Environmental Threats To Tidal-Marsh Vertebrates Of The San Francisco Bay Estuary, John Y. Takekawa, Isa Woo, Hildie Spautz, Nadav Nur, J. Leticia Grenier, Karl Malamud-Roam, J. Cully Nordby, Andrew N. Cohen, Frances Malamud-Roam, Susan E. Wainwright-De La Cruz

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Studies In Avian Biology

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

High Tides And Rising Seas: Potential Effects On Estuarine Waterbirds, R. Michael Erwin, Geoffrey M. Sanders, Diann J. Prosser, Donald R. Cahoon

Studies in Avian Biology

No abstract provided.

Culture, Climate And The Environment: Local Knowledge And Perception Of Climate Change Among Apple Growers In Northwestern India , Neeraj Vedwan

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Human societies in mountainous areas have evolved specific ways of dealing with the constraints imposed by the environment. A number of anthropological studies have documented the existence of practices that can be considered adaptive in the context of mountain environments. In this paper, I present a case study of a society in transition, in the northwestern Himalayas of India, in which local knowledge—combining aspects of traditional knowledge and practice—is used by farmers to cognize and cope with the uncertainty in their environment. Focusing on the perception of changes in the amount and timing of snowfall over the last three decades, …

Tax Policy And Swine Production In Iowa, United States, Barbara J. Dilly

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This paper examines county level decision-making regarding swine confinement permits in Iowa. The case study follows a 2003 Iowa State Legislature ruling that gives county supervisors the option to adopt a detailed Department of Natural Resources Master Matrix plan for swine manure management. In this research, I sought to understand environmental policy conflicts associated with industrialized hog production. This study examines four counties in North Central Iowa located in the region of rapidly expanding, corporate-formed, swine confinement operations. Ethnographic field research was conducted from May 2003 to October 2006. Comparison of qualitative and quantitative data for each of these four …

How Do Aesthetics Affect Our Ecology?, Zsuzsi I. Kovacs, Carri J. Leroy, Dylan G. Fischer, Sandra Lubarsky, William Burke

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Beauty is a powerful force that affects both our emotions and our ecological practices, yet aesthetic values remain understated and under-discussed in ecology. Here we invite discussion about the influence of beauty on ecological research by outlining: 1) how aesthetics affect the practice of ecology, and 2) how aesthetics affect the implementation of ecological research on the landscape. The aesthetic sensibilities of ecologists develop through personal experiences and are enriched by professional training, including ecological coursework, fieldwork, research and discussion. Many ecologists choose an ecological career because it offers an opportunity to work in beautiful, natural places. However, these values …

Waiting For Wolves In Japan: An Anthropological Study Of People-Wildlife Relations, John M. Marzluff

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Risks Of Atrazine Use To Federally Listed Endangered Barton Springs Salamanders (Eurycea Sosorum)

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

The purpose of this assessment is to make an "effects determination" for the Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) by evaluating the potential direct and indirect effects of the herbicide atrazine on the survival, growth, and reproduction of this Federally endangered species. This assessment was completed in accordance with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Endangered Species Consultation Handbook (USFWS/NMFS, 1998), the August 5, 2004 Joint Counterpart Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation Regulations specified in 50 CFR Part 402 (USFWS/NMFS, 2004a; FR 69 47732-47762), and procedures outlined in the Agency's Overview Document (U.S. …

The Crocuta Crocuta Spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) Population From The Early Late Pleistocene Hyena Open Air Prey Deposit Site Biedensteg (Bad Wildungen, Hess, Nw Germany), A Contribution To Their Phylogenetic Position, Coprolites And Prey, Cajus G. Diedrich

KIP Articles

Four skulls, three lower jaws, a few incomplete postcranial bones and many coprolites of the early Late Pleistocene (Early Weichselian, 90,000 – 65,000 BP) ice age spotted hyena open air prey deposit site Biedensteg at Bad Wildungen (Hessia, NW-Germany) all show crack-, bite- and nibbling-marks as a result of cannibalism. Originally, the bones belong to three young adult to adult individuals. For the first time in Europe, a skull and postcranial bones belonging to a young animal of C. c. spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) of only a few days or weeks old are described and figured. The animal was possibly killed …

The Voice, Winter 2006: Volume 51, Issue 2, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Students Learn to Help Others Tell Their Stories Through Video; Creating a Safe Campus; Katrina Comes to Sioux Center; Faber Helps Shape His Education; Board Goes Back to School; Bajema's Students Come Through; DeVries Receives Coveted Scholarship; Film Festival Is a Challenge; Students Learn Video Production; Art Students Paint for Others; Women Artists Have a Dinner Party; Students Gather Grass Seed; Seamstress Donates Yards and Yards of Fabric; Horton Wins International Competition; Business Magazine Ranks Dordt College Among the Best; Josh Van Schouwen Learns Something About Blessings; Fall Teams Taste Post-Season; Board Approves Start of Football; Gen 100: Finding Their …

National Cave And Karst Research Institute 2004-2005 Biennial Report Nckri Biennial Report, 2004-2005, National Cave And Karst Research Institute

KIP Articles

Contents: Overview by the Institute Director -- Primary Partners ; National Park Service ; City of Carlsbad ; New Mexico Tech ; NCKRI, Inc. -- Institute Building Activities -- Moving towards NCKRI, Inc. ; Preliminary meetings and activities ; NCKRI, Inc. ; Planning for the future -- Facility Partners ; New Mexico State Univ./Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring Research Center ; Carlsbad Department of Development/AMITC -- NCKRI Building Project -- Visiting Scholar Program -- Volunteers Program -- NCKRI projects ; NCKRI Lecture Series ; Karst Information Portal ; NCKRI library ; NCKRI program review -- Sponsored projects ; Mississippi State University Digital …

Reading, Writing & Religion: Teaching The Bible In Texas Public Schools, Mark A. Chancey

Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine Of The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 16, Winter 2006), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

Letter From The Dean, Gregory J. Weidemann

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Ichthyofaunal Assemblages In Three Approximate But Ecologically Diverse Streams In Clark County, Arkansas, C. Renn Tumlison, Scott Jordan, Lesley Self, Henry W. Robison

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Three tributaries to the Ouachita River in eastern Clark County, Arkansas, empty into the river within a collective distance of about 9 km. The streams drain basins derived from the Wilcox formation, partially overlain by terrace and alluvial deposits. Despite their proximity, the streams are very different: L'Eau Frais has a gravel substrate and was recognized by the French as a cool water stream, Tupelo Creek is a bottomland stream from which numerous Water Tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) emerge, and Saline Bayou was named due to its marked salinity. We studied the assemblages of fishes in these 3 very different drainages …

Noteworthy Geographic Distribution Records For The Golden Topminnow, Fundulus Chrysotus (Cyprinodontiformes: Fundulidae), From Arkansas, Chris T. Mcallister, Henry W. Robison, Thomas M. Buchanan

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Backdoor Federalization, Samuel Issacharoff, Catherine M. Sharkey

Faculty Articles

Two primary arguments are advanced for the contemporary functional importance of federalist constraints on centralized political power. The first is captured in Justice Brandeis's famous invocation of the states as the laboratories of democracy in which "a single courageous State" may blaze new paths by trying "novel social and economic experiments." The second ties the smaller, decentralized scale of subnational units to a more robust democratic accountability, by which "government is brought closer to the people, and democratic ideals are more fully realized." This Article is largely about circumstances in which these two arguments for federalism fail. The question that …

Salinity Controls Phytoplankton Response To Nutrient Enrichment In The Great Salt Lake, Utah, Usa, Amy M. Marcarelli, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, O. Griset

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

To examine how salinity and nutrient supply interact to control phytoplankton community composition, nutrient limitation, and dinitrogen (N2) fixation rates in the Great Salt Lake (Utah, USA), we conducted a series of bioassay experiments with plankton from both Gilbert Bay, where salinities are near 160 g·L–1, and Farmington Bay, where salinities range from 10 to 90 g·L–1. Six-day nutrient addition bioassay experiments showed that the extant phyto plankton communities in both bays were limited by nitrogen (N). However, in 28- to 30-day factorial bioassay experiments in which both salinities and nutrient supply were manipulated, phosphorus stimulated chlorophyll a as much …

2006-07 Granite State College - Undergraduate Catalog, Granite State College

Granite State College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Frequently Asked Questions About Aall's First Hundred Years, Frank G. Houdek

Publications

To kick off the yearlong celebration of the centennial of the American Association of Law Libraries in 2006, Professor Houdek answers some basic questions about the history of AALL.