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Treatment Of Alopecia Areata By Topical Diclofenac Sodium Gel In Comparison To Benzoyl Peroxide Gel. A Novel Single Blind Therapeutic Clinical Trial, Khalifa E. Sharquie, Adil A. Al-Nuaimy, Wesam J. Kadhum Jul 2006

Treatment Of Alopecia Areata By Topical Diclofenac Sodium Gel In Comparison To Benzoyl Peroxide Gel. A Novel Single Blind Therapeutic Clinical Trial, Khalifa E. Sharquie, Adil A. Al-Nuaimy, Wesam J. Kadhum

Saudi Medical Journal

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Staphylococcus Aureus Helicase But Not Escherichia Coli Helicase Stimulates S. Aureus Primase Activity And Maintains Initiation Specificity, Scott A. Koepsell, Marilynn A. Larson, Mark A. Griep, Steven H. Hinrichs Jul 2006

Staphylococcus Aureus Helicase But Not Escherichia Coli Helicase Stimulates S. Aureus Primase Activity And Maintains Initiation Specificity, Scott A. Koepsell, Marilynn A. Larson, Mark A. Griep, Steven H. Hinrichs

Mark A. Griep Publications

Bacterial primases are essential for DNA replication due to their role in polymerizing the formation of short RNA primers repeatedly on the lagging-strand template and at least once on the leading-strand template. The ability of recombinant Staphylococcus aureus DnaG primase to utilize different single-stranded DNA templates was tested using oligonucleotides of the sequence 5’-CAGA (CA) 5 XYZ (CA) 3-3’, where XYZ represented the variable trinucleotide. These experiments demonstrated that S. aureus primase synthesized RNA primers predominately on templates containing 5’-d(CTA)-3’ or TTA and to a much lesser degree on GTA-containing templates, in contrast to results seen with the Escherichia …

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Interspecies Comparison Of Pentosidine Accumulation And Its Correlation With Age In Birds, Jesse A. Fallon, Robert L. Cochrane, Brian Dorr, Hillar Klandorf Jul 2006

Interspecies Comparison Of Pentosidine Accumulation And Its Correlation With Age In Birds, Jesse A. Fallon, Robert L. Cochrane, Brian Dorr, Hillar Klandorf

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Recent studies suggest that a linear correlation exists between the age of individual birds and accumulation of the advanced glycation endproduct pentosidine (Ps). We compared Ps accumulation in skin tissue of Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) and Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus). Skin samples were taken from the breasts of 52 Ruffed Grouse of known ages ranging from a few days to 10 years. Skin was cleaned of feathers and adipose tissue, acid hydrolyzed, and measured for collagen content via hydroxyproline spectrophotometric assay. Pentosidine concentrations were determined using reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Fluorescent detection (excitation: 310 nm, emission: …

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Ecological Fitting As A Determinant Of The Community Structure Of Platyhelminth Parasites Of Anurans, Daniel R. Brooks, Virginia León-Règagnon, Deborah A. Mclennan, Derek Zelmer Jul 2006

Ecological Fitting As A Determinant Of The Community Structure Of Platyhelminth Parasites Of Anurans, Daniel R. Brooks, Virginia León-Règagnon, Deborah A. Mclennan, Derek Zelmer

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Host-parasite associations are assumed to be ecologically specialized, tightly coevolved systems driven by mutual modification in which host switching is a rare phenomenon. Ecological fitting, however, increases the probability of host switching, creating incongruences between host and parasite phylogenies, when (1) specialization on a particular host resource is a shared characteristic of distantly related parasites, and (2) the resource being tracked by the parasite is widespread among many host species. We investigated the effect of ecological fitting on structuring the platyhelminth communities of anurans from a temperate forest and grassland in the United States and tropical dry and wet forests …

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A Matter Of Balance: Conservation And Renewable Energy, Jane M.F. Johnson, Don Reicosky, Ray Allmaras, Dave Archer, Wallace Wilhelm Jul 2006

A Matter Of Balance: Conservation And Renewable Energy, Jane M.F. Johnson, Don Reicosky, Ray Allmaras, Dave Archer, Wallace Wilhelm

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

As communities and a country, we have a monumental task to solve the energy and global climate change problems, while maintaining our capacity to produce food, feed, and fiber for an ever increasing world population. The severity of these problems is exacerbated by the universal desire for an increased standard of living, which invariably translates to more energy use, greater demand for products, and higher quality diets (usually in the form of more fresh fruits and vegetables and more animal protein). Agriculture and forestry are in a unique position as we attempt solve these opposing problems in the most beneficial …

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Revisions 2006-2007, Saint Mary's College Of California Jul 2006

Revisions 2006-2007, Saint Mary's College Of California

Faculty Handbook

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Going Against The Grain: Personal Reflections On The Emergence Of Women In The Legal Profession, Martha Craig Daughtrey Jul 2006

Going Against The Grain: Personal Reflections On The Emergence Of Women In The Legal Profession, Martha Craig Daughtrey

Montana Law Review

Personal Reflections on the Emergence of Women in the Legal Profession

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"I'M An Indian Outlaw, Half Cherokee And Choctaw": Criminal Jurisdiction And The Question Of Indian Status, Weston Meyring Jul 2006

"I'M An Indian Outlaw, Half Cherokee And Choctaw": Criminal Jurisdiction And The Question Of Indian Status, Weston Meyring

Montana Law Review

Criminal Jurisdiction and the Question of Indian Status

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Stewardship Plan For Four Conservation Easements Held By The Town Of Newfields, Jeffrey H. Taylor & Associates, Inc. Jul 2006

Stewardship Plan For Four Conservation Easements Held By The Town Of Newfields, Jeffrey H. Taylor & Associates, Inc.

PREP Reports & Publications

In 2005 the Town of Newfields, NH was awarded a grant by the New Hampshire Estuaries Project. The Eligible Activity applied for, under the category of Land Conservation and Natural Resource Protection was “Development of monitoring plans for town-held easements on conservation lands”. The Town identified four properties on which the they hold conservation easements as the focus of the project. Newfields’ goal in applying for the grant were to have each property visited by the contractor and a local volunteer, conduct an interview with the landowner and a conduct a ground monitoring of the property. Following the visits, baseline …

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Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Leora Baron Jul 2006

Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Leora Baron

Inside UNLV

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Unlv Magazine, Carol C. Harter, Karen Sharp, Gian Galassi, Tony Allen, Jennifer Lawson, Shane Bevell, Lori Bachand, Regina Vaccari, Pete Codella, Cate Weeks, Erin O'Donnell, Diane Russell, Phil Hagen Jul 2006

Unlv Magazine, Carol C. Harter, Karen Sharp, Gian Galassi, Tony Allen, Jennifer Lawson, Shane Bevell, Lori Bachand, Regina Vaccari, Pete Codella, Cate Weeks, Erin O'Donnell, Diane Russell, Phil Hagen

UNLV Magazine

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Reserve And Habitat Effects On The Distribution, Abundance And Feeding Ecology Of Goosefish, Lophius Americanus (Valenciennes 1837) In The Western Gulf Of Maine, Melissa Dawn Smith Jul 2006

Reserve And Habitat Effects On The Distribution, Abundance And Feeding Ecology Of Goosefish, Lophius Americanus (Valenciennes 1837) In The Western Gulf Of Maine, Melissa Dawn Smith

All Theses And Dissertations

Over two-thirds of the world’s harvested fish stocks are considered to be either reduced or threatened because of overexploitation, which suggest that one of the central challenges facing coastal managers is the recovery and sustainable harvesting of these species. One promising fishery management strategy is the use of marine reserves, or conservation areas where fishing is prohibited, to rebuild depleted populations. In the Gulf of Maine (GoM), several closed areas have been established to restrict fishing activities such as gillnetting, scallop dredging, and mid-water and bottom trawling. These closures in the GoM not only protect diminished fish stocks, but also …

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Catalog 2006-2007, Saint Mary's College Of California Jul 2006

Catalog 2006-2007, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

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Saccharomyces Cerevisiae-Based Molecular Tool Kit For Manipulation Of Genes From Gram-Negative Bacteria, Robert M. Q. Shanks, Nicky C. Caiazza, Shannon M. Hinsa, Christine M. Toutain, George A. O'Toole Jul 2006

Saccharomyces Cerevisiae-Based Molecular Tool Kit For Manipulation Of Genes From Gram-Negative Bacteria, Robert M. Q. Shanks, Nicky C. Caiazza, Shannon M. Hinsa, Christine M. Toutain, George A. O'Toole

Dartmouth Scholarship

A tool kit of vectors was designed to manipulate and express genes from a wide range of gram-negative species by using in vivo recombination. Saccharomyces cerevisiae can use its native recombination proteins to combine several amplicons in a single transformation step with high efficiency. We show that this technology is particularly useful for vector design. Shuttle, suicide, and expression vectors useful in a diverse group of bacteria are described and utilized. This report describes the use of these vectors to mutate clpX and clpP of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and to explore their roles in biofilm formation and surface …

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Persepsi Masyarakat Tentang Terumbu Karang Di Kepulauan Seribu, Farma Mangunsong Jul 2006

Persepsi Masyarakat Tentang Terumbu Karang Di Kepulauan Seribu, Farma Mangunsong

Jurnal Ekonomi dan Pembangunan Indonesia

Kepulauan Seribu has rich natural resources in the form of coral reef, coral fish, and other ocean biota which interact with each other. Resident of Kepulauan Seribu has a high dependency on these natural resources. The existence of coral reef has a strong impact on fisheries since the number of fish and other biota will be high when the coral reef is in good condition. Nelayan tangkap konsumsi is one of the job types which strongly affected by the existence of coral reef Fishermen gel economic benefits in the form of job and income source. Not only fishermen, all the …

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2006-2007 Lsu Health Sciences Center At New Orleans Catalog/Bulletin, Office Of The Registrar Jul 2006

2006-2007 Lsu Health Sciences Center At New Orleans Catalog/Bulletin, Office Of The Registrar

Catalogs and Bulletins

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Response - Jay Katz: From Harms To Risks, Larry I. Palmer Jul 2006

Response - Jay Katz: From Harms To Risks, Larry I. Palmer

Faculty Publications

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The Classic, Summer 2006, Public Relations Jul 2006

The Classic, Summer 2006, Public Relations

The Classic, 2000-2009

President's Report: Northwestern's greatest asset; Northwestern receives reaccreditation; De Jong appointed VP; Lilly Endowment renewal grant awarded to NWC; Development office undergoes name change; Northwestern receives grant for research on antiparasitic drugs; Dean of spiritual formation leaves; Mailbag; Students participate in summer research programs; Thayer receives staff recognition award; De Valois Stadium gets a makeover; Actuarial program receives advanced classification; Woudstra leaves alumni office; Assistant to the resident retires; Northwestern appoints Jeff Barker to endowed professorship; Faculty awarded research grants; Alumnus hired for new fund-raising position; Realizing a Dream: Renovation will restore activity and energy to aging Rowenhorst Student Center; …

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Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 2006 Jul 2006

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 2006

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 2006 Dean’s Column: A Complex Undertaking; Page 3 Construction Begins on Innovative Breast Care Center; Page 4 Clues to How Molecular Gatekeepers Work; Page 5 A Tie Between Obesity and Alzheimer’s Disease; Page 6 Fighting Artificial Implant Infections; Page 7 Reducing Radiation’s Side Effects; Page 8 Developing a New Vascular Bypass Graft; Page 8 On Campus: Dicker to Direct Translational Research Program; Page 9 Parents Day; Page 12 Class Notes; Page 13 Swatl Shah, MD’95 Rebuilds After Katrina; Page 19 Match Day 2006; Page 23 Special Center Section: Alumni Weekend

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2006 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University. Jul 2006

2006 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for July 2006.

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Institutional Data Book 2005-2006, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research Jul 2006

Institutional Data Book 2005-2006, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research

Institutional Effectiveness and Research Reports

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Transport Of Galectin-3 Between The Nucleus And Cytoplasm. I. Conditions And Signals For Nuclear Import, Peter J. Davidson, Su Yin Li, Andrew G. Lohse, Rianna Vandergaast Jul 2006

Transport Of Galectin-3 Between The Nucleus And Cytoplasm. I. Conditions And Signals For Nuclear Import, Peter J. Davidson, Su Yin Li, Andrew G. Lohse, Rianna Vandergaast

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Galectin-3, a factor involved in the splicing of pre-mRNA, shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. We have engineered a vector that expresses the fusion protein containing the following: (a) green fluorescent protein as a reporter of localization, (b) bacterial maltose-binding protein to increase the size of the reporter polypeptide, and (c) galectin-3, whose sequence we wished to dissect in search of amino acid residues vital for nuclear localization. In mouse 3T3 fibroblasts transfected with this expression construct, the full-length galectin-3 (residues 1-263) fusion protein was localized predominantly in the nucleus. Mutants of this construct, containing truncations of the galectin-3 …

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Transport Of Galectin-3 Between The Nucleus And Cytoplasm. Ii. Identification Of The Signal For Nuclear Export, Su Yin Li, Peter J. Davidson, Nancy Y. Lin, Ronald J. Patterson Jul 2006

Transport Of Galectin-3 Between The Nucleus And Cytoplasm. Ii. Identification Of The Signal For Nuclear Export, Su Yin Li, Peter J. Davidson, Nancy Y. Lin, Ronald J. Patterson

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Galectin-3, a factor involved in the splicing of pre-mRNA, shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Previous studies have shown that incubation of fibroblasts with leptomycin B resulted in the accumulation of galectin-3 in the nucleus, suggesting that the export of galectin-3 from the nucleus may be mediated by the CRM1 receptor. A candidate nuclear export signal fitting the consensus sequence recognized by CRM1 can be found between residues 240 and 255 of the murine galectin-3 sequence. This sequence was engineered into the pRev(1.4) reporter system, in which candidate sequences can be tested for nuclear export activity in terms of …

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Assessing The Administrative Support Needs (Library And Technical) Of Allied Health Students Enrolled In A Distance Education Program, Amanda Carroll-Barefield Jul 2006

Assessing The Administrative Support Needs (Library And Technical) Of Allied Health Students Enrolled In A Distance Education Program, Amanda Carroll-Barefield

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

As more emphasis is placed on offering education to the distance student and monies are spent to provide these services, institutions must ensure they reap the rewards of the investment. One avenue to ensure success in distance education is the implementation of strong student support services. This is a task that will take the teamwork of educators, administrators, instructional technologists/designers, and support personnel. For institutions transitioning to a distance format, measures must be taken to ensure that the learner, no matter what the method of delivery, has access to equivalent student support services. One approach to measuring this aspect is …

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The Interaction Between Internal And External Information On Relational Data Search, Yang Gong Jul 2006

The Interaction Between Internal And External Information On Relational Data Search, Yang Gong

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

People often use tools to search for information. In order to improve the quality of an information search, it is important to understand how internal information, which is stored in user’s mind, and external information, represented by the interface of tools interact with each other. How information is distributed between internal and external representations significantly affects information search performance. However, few studies have examined the relationship between types of interface and types of search task in the context of information search. For a distributed information search task, how data are distributed, represented, and formatted significantly affects the user search performance …

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World-Class High Quality Mathematics Education For All K-12 American Students, Om P. Ahuja Jul 2006

World-Class High Quality Mathematics Education For All K-12 American Students, Om P. Ahuja

The Mathematics Enthusiast

In September 1989, the United States’ Governors Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia set an ambitious goal by declaring that “By the year 2000, United States students will be first in the world in mathematics and science achievements”. However, recent results of the ‘Programme for International Student Achievement’ and ‘Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study’ indicate that the United States students’ achievements in mathematics are far below world class standards. This paper seeks to discuss issues in an international context related to the goal of creating world-class high quality mathematics education for all K-12 American students. In particular, the author also …

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Transcriptional Regulation Of The Borrelia Burgdorferi Antigenically Variable Vlse Surface Protein, Tomasz Bykowski, Kelly Babb, Kate Von Lackum, Sean P Riley, Steven J Norris, Brian Stevenson Jul 2006

Transcriptional Regulation Of The Borrelia Burgdorferi Antigenically Variable Vlse Surface Protein, Tomasz Bykowski, Kelly Babb, Kate Von Lackum, Sean P Riley, Steven J Norris, Brian Stevenson

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi can persistently infect humans and other animals despite host active immune responses. This is facilitated, in part, by the vls locus, a complex system consisting of the vlsE expression site and an adjacent set of 11 to 15 silent vls cassettes. Segments of nonexpressed cassettes recombine with the vlsE region during infection of mammalian hosts, resulting in combinatorial antigenic variation of the VlsE outer surface protein. We now demonstrate that synthesis of VlsE is regulated during the natural mammal-tick infectious cycle, being activated in mammals but repressed during tick colonization. Examination of cultured B. …

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Negative Effect Of Zebra Mussels On Foraging And Habitat Use By Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser Fulvescens), D. J. Mccabe, Mark Beekey, A. Mazloff, I. E. Marsden Jul 2006

Negative Effect Of Zebra Mussels On Foraging And Habitat Use By Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser Fulvescens), D. J. Mccabe, Mark Beekey, A. Mazloff, I. E. Marsden

Biology Faculty Publications

1. Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) are threatened or endangered throughout much of their range. Juvenile sturgeon utilize sandy and silty habitats extensively during their growth. Invasive zebra mussels change the nature of sandy and silty habitats because they settle on and coat the habitat with the shells of living and dead individuals. The potential impacts of this increased habitat complexity on lake sturgeon is unknown. 2. Juvenile lake sturgeon habitat choice was assessed in laboratory experiments, and zebra mussel impact on the foraging success of juvenile lake sturgeon on three different prey species was measured. 3. Sturgeon foraging on chironomids …

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Does A Specialist Parasitoid Adapt To Its Host On A New Host Plant?, A. Roßbach, B. Löhr, S. Vidal Jul 2006

Does A Specialist Parasitoid Adapt To Its Host On A New Host Plant?, A. Roßbach, B. Löhr, S. Vidal

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

The host plant expansion of a diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) (DBM) strain to snowpea (Pisum sativum L.) raised the question whether a specialist parasitoid Diadegma semiclausum (DS) could be conditioned to locate and parasitize its host on the new host plant. In a specialist parasitoid a behavioural change towards a plant outside the normal host plant range of its host due to developmental experience is not expected. The responsive behaviour, parasitism rates and fitness of three subsequent DS generations were investigated on the snowpea-strain of DBM. After three generations of DS on the pea 62.5% of females chose an …

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Tissue Glycogen And Extracellular Buffering Limit The Survival Of Red-Eared Slider Turtles During Anoxic Submergence At 3°C, Daniel E. Warren, Scott A. Reese, Donald C. Jackson Jul 2006

Tissue Glycogen And Extracellular Buffering Limit The Survival Of Red-Eared Slider Turtles During Anoxic Submergence At 3°C, Daniel E. Warren, Scott A. Reese, Donald C. Jackson

Faculty Articles

The goal of this study was to identify the factors that limit the survival of the red-eared slider turtle Trachemys scripta during long-term anoxic submergence at 3°C. We measured blood acid-base status and tissue lactate and glycogen contents after 13, 29, and 44 d of submergence from ventricle, liver, carapace (lactate only), and four skeletal muscles. We also measured plasma Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+, Cl-, inorganic phosphate (Pi), lactate, and glucose. After 44 d, one of the six remaining turtles died, while the other turtles were in poor …

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