Digital Commons Network^™

Some Notes On The Early History Of The Robert B. Gordon Natural Area For Environmental Studies, William Overlease

William Overlease Plant Succession Study Documents

No abstract provided.

Jesus Christ As Elder Brother, Corbin Volluz

BYU Studies

Mormons believe that their spirits are sons and daughters of Heavenly Father and that Jesus Christ was the firstborn Son in a premortal existence. As such, He is commonly referred to by Mormons as their elder brother. However, the title does not appear in scripture or in the writings of Joseph Smith. The author traces the first documented usages of the term "elder brother" among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and examines its usage throughout the Church's history. He also considers alternative doctrinal and scriptural interpretations that refute the idea of all mortals being literal …

Clemson Commencement Program, May 2006, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Involvement Of Coenzyme M During Aerobic Biodegradation Of Vinyl Chloride And Ethene By Pseudomonas Putida Strain Aj And Ochrobactrum Sp. Strain Td†, Anthony S. Danko, Christopher Saski, Jeffrey P. Tomkins, David L. Freeman

Publications

The involvement of coenzyme M in aerobic biodegradation of vinyl chloride and ethene in Pseudomonas putida strain AJ and Ochrobactrum sp. strain TD was demonstrated using PCR, hybridization, and enzyme assays. The results of this study extend the range of eubacteria known to use epoxyalkane:coenzyme M transferase.

Fortieth Commencement 2006 (Undergraduate), Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Undergraduate ceremony held May 14. 2006.

List, Usf Honorary Degree Recipients Through May 2006, University Of South Florida

USF St. Petersburg Graduations and Commencements

A list of Honorary Degree recipients from the University of South Florida through May 2006.

Separating Dick And Jane: Single-Sex Public Education Under The Washington State Equal Rights Amendment, Inessa Baram-Blackwell

Washington Law Review

Single-sex education in public school systems has become increasingly popular in recent years. The Equal Rights Amendment to the Washington State Constitution (ERA) requires that males and females be treated equally where state action, such as public education, is involved. As demonstrated by the ERA's legislative history and Washington case law, the ERA prohibits differentiation on the basis of sex alone, which occurs where an individual would be treated differently in a given situation if that person were of the opposite sex. Legislative history and case law recognize two narrow exceptions to the ERA. Under the first exception, classification based …

Closing The Loop: Controlling Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Megan Chynoweth

Whittier Scholars Program

Diabetes mellitus is an ever increasing pandemic. Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), although not the most prevalent form of diabetes mellitus, has had an “average annual increase of 3.09%, meaning the incidence of T1DM would increase 40% from 1998 to 2010”. T1DM leads to many complications: adverse side effects such as retinopathy, neuropathy, and nephropathy. These comorbidities are costing the United States billions of healthcare dollars per year. Delaying complications result in cost savings and improved quality of life, which can be obtained by tightly controlling blood sugars. However, strict control is difficult to attain. Optimal glucose levels may be …

Antimicrobial Properties Of Syringopeptin 25a And Rhamnolipids, Prerak T. Desai

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The increasing bacterial resistance to available antibiotics requires the search for new antibacterial compounds to be broadened. This study investigated the antimicrobial properties of two secondary metabolites from fluorescent pseudomonads -- syringopeptin 25A, a lipodepsipeptide produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, and a rhamnolipid mixture produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The rate of antimicrobial action was determined by monitoring the rate of uptake of propidium iodide during exposure to the compounds. Inhibition was also confirmed by the microbroth dilution method to determine the MI Cs. Both the compounds inhibited growth of Gram-positive organisms, including Mycobacterium smegmatis, staphylococci, and …

Generating Long-Lasting ¹H And ¹³C Hyperpolarization In Small Molecules With Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization, Thorsten Jonischkeit, Ute Bommerich, Jorg Stadler, Klaus Woelk, Heiko G. Niessen, Joachim Bargon

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Recently, Levitt and co-workers demonstrated that conserving the population of long-lasting nuclear singlet states in weak magnetic fields can lead to a preservation of nuclear spin information over times substantially longer than governed by the (high-field) spin-lattice relaxation time T₁. Potential benefits of the prolonged spin information for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy were pointed out, particularly when combined with the parahydrogen induced polarization (PHIP) methodology. In this contribution, we demonstrate that an increase of the effective relaxation time by a factor up to three is achieved experimentally, when molecules hyperpolarized by PHIP are kept in a weak …

Open Access And Conscious Selection, Kitti Canepi, Andrea Imre, Harold Way

Conference Papers and Presentations

Open Access resources (OA) are becoming more important in all types of libraries. Recent discussions on OA have focused on ILS access and availability of MARC records with little attention to a selection process for deciding whether or not to provide access to OA.

The presenters will outline some of the concerns with by-passing conscious selection, show how some services and systems are providing bibliographic access, offer information collected on the availability of finding aids for a group of OA titles, present selection criteria used by some database aggregators that include OA resources, and suggest possible selection process models.

Evaluation Of Toxicity Following Electrically Mediated Interleukin-12 Gene Delivery In A B16 Mouse Melanoma Model, Loree Heller, Kathleen Merkler, Jeffrey Westover, Yolmari Cruz, Domenico Coppola, Kaaron Benson, Adil Daud, Richard Heller

Bioelectrics Publications

PURPOSE: Interleukin-12 (IL-12) has potential as an immunotherapeutic agent for the treatment of cancer but is unfortunately associated with toxicity. Delivery of a plasmid encoding IL-12 with electroporation induces an antitumor effect in the B16 mouse melanoma model without serious side effects. To translate this observation to the clinic, an evaluation of toxicity was done in the mouse model.

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Weight change, tumor response, blood chemistry and hematology values, and serum IL-12 levels were evaluated. Multiple tissues were analyzed histopathologically.

RESULTS: A pronounced reduction in tumor volume, including a large percentage of complete regressions, was observed after electrically mediated …

Managing Soybean Rustin South Dakota In 2006, Martin A. Draper, Don Hershman, Anne Dorrance, Bradley Ruden, Kimberly L. Maxson-Stein

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Soybean rust, caused by the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi, was first introduced to the U.S. in Fall 2004. It survived the winter in small pockets of infected kudzu in Florida and produced a widespread low-severity disease in the southeastern U.S. in 2005. During Winter 2005, the pathogen survived over a much wider area and appears to have become established in Mexico. That means the threat from soybean rust is greater in 2006 than in 2005, and we can expect that the threat will generally increase over the coming years as the pathogen becomes established in new areas with little risk of …

Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 35 - Rock Lobster Processor Licensing Arrangements (Discussion Paper), Department Of Fisheries Western Australia

Fisheries Occasional Publications

On 28 March 2002, the Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Hon Kim Chance MLC, announced the Government's position on National Competition Policy (NCP) insofar as this policy related to licensing of western rock lobster processors (hitherto referred to as 'rock lobster processors' or simply as 'processors'), as governed by the provisions of the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 (FRMA).

In making the announcement, the Minister also undertook to further "review the potential costs and risks of deregulation" ..."in 2006", when they "are better understood by both Government and industry itself'.

This document is the first stage of the review …

Oil And National Security: Cnooc's Failed Bid To Purchase Unocal, Michael Petrusic

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

2006 Summer - Veterans Upward Bound Newsletter, Veterans Upward Bound, East Tennessee State University

Veterans Upward Bound Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Nitric Oxide Transiently Converts Synaptic Inhibition To Excitation In Retinal Amacrine Cells, Brian Hoffpauir, Emily Mcmains, Evanna Gleason

Faculty Publications

Nitric oxide (NO) is generated by multiple cell types in the vertebrate retina, including amacrine cells. We investigate the role of NO in the modulation of synaptic function using a culture system containing identified retinal amacrine cells. We find that moderate concentrations of NO alter GABAA receptor function to produce an enhancement of the GABA-gated current. Higher concentrations of NO also enhance GABA-gated currents, but this enhancement is primarily due to a substantial positive shift in the reversal potential of the current. Several pieces of evidence, including a similar effect on glycine-gated currents, indicate that the positive shift is due …

Small-Scale Fuel Variation Alters Fire Intensity And Shrub Abundance In A Pine Savanna, Jarrod M. Thaxton, William J. Platt

Faculty Publications

Small-scale variation in fire intensity and effects may be an important source of environmental heterogeneity in frequently burned plant communities. We hypothesized that variation in fire intensity resulting from local differences in fuel loads produces heterogeneity in pine savanna ground cover by altering shrub abundance. To test this hypothesis, we experimentally manipulated prefire fuel loads to mimic naturally occurring fuel-load heterogeneity associated with branch falls, needle fall near large pines, and animal disturbances in a frequently burned longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) savanna in Louisiana, USA. We applied one of four fuel treatments (unaltered control, fine-fuel removal, fine-fuel addition, wood addition) …

Lipid Trafficking To The Outer Membrane Of Gram-Negative Bacteria, William T. Doerrler

Faculty Publications

The envelope of Gram-negative bacteria is composed of two distinct lipid membranes: an inner membrane and outer membrane. The outer membrane is an asymmetric bilayer with an inner leaflet of phospholipids and an outer leaflet of lipopolysaccharide. Most of the steps of lipid synthesis occur within the cytoplasmic compartment of the cell. Lipids must then be transported across the inner membrane and delivered to the outer membrane. These topological features combined with the ability to apply the tools of biochemistry and genetics make the Gram-negative envelope a fascinating model for the study of lipid trafficking. In addition, as lipopolysaccharide is …

Monitor Newsletter May 01, 2006, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

The Collegian (2006-05-01), José Borjón

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 54, No. 28 [Vol. 58, No. 28]

Biogeochemistry Of Arsenic And Antimony In The North Pacific Ocean, Gregory A. Cutter, Lynda S. Cutter

OES Faculty Publications

The biogeochemical cycles of the metalloid elements arsenic and antimony were examined along a 15,000 km surface water transect and at 9 vertical profile stations in the western North Pacific Ocean as part of the 2002 IOC Contaminant Baseline Survey. Results show that the speciation of dissolved arsenic (As III, As V, and methylated As) was subtly controlled by the arsenate (AsV)/phosphate ratio. An additional fraction of presumed organic arsenic previously reported in coastal waters was also present (~15% of the total As) in oceanic surface waters. Dissolved inorganic antimony displayed mildly scavenged behavior that was confirmed by correlations with …

Substituting Otoliths For Chemical Analyses: Does Sagitta = Lapillus?, Nathan G. Smith, Cynthia M. Jones

OES Faculty Publications

Chemical analysis of fish otoliths has become an important technique in fisheries science with widespread applications. Most research up to this point has focused predominantly on sagittal otoliths, but the underlying assumptions may also apply to lapilli. The goal of this study was to determine whether lapilli and sagittae have the same otolith chemistry and whether one can be substituted for the other for solution-based chemical analysis in wild-captured fish. We compared the stable isotope chemistry (δ13C and δ18O) of paired sagittae and lapilli of juvenile spotted seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus collected from Chesapeake Bay seagrass beds in 2002. …

Resisting Deep Capture: The Commercial Speech Doctrine And Junk-Food Advertising To Children, David G. Yosifon

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

South Dakota State University Undergraduate General Catalog 2006-2007, South Dakota State University

South Dakota State University Catalogs and Bulletins: 1935 to present

No abstract provided.

Parched Ground: After The War, Can Sudan Sustainably Develop And Preserve Its Groundwater Resources, Itzchak E. Kornfeld Esq.

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Clarifying Npdes Requirements For Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Terence J. Centner

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Pumping Pollution: An In-Depth Analysis Of Miccosukee And Notes On S. D. Warren Co. V. Maine Bd. Of Dept. Envtl. Protection, With Comments On Improving The State And Federal Regulation Of Activities That Cause Water Quality Degradation, Jessica A. Barkas

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Clarifying Npdes Requirements For Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Terence J. Centner

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Pumping Pollution: An In-Depth Analysis Of Miccosukee And Notes On S. D. Warren Co. V. Maine Bd. Of Dept. Envtl. Protection, With Comments On Improving The State And Federal Regulation Of Activities That Cause Water Quality Degradation, Jessica A. Barkas

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.