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Relations Between Chinese Mothers' Parenting Practices And Social Withdrawal In Early Childhood, Larry J. Nelson, Craig H. Hart, Bo Wu, Chongming Yang, Susanne Olsen Roper, Shenghua Jin Jan 2006

Relations Between Chinese Mothers' Parenting Practices And Social Withdrawal In Early Childhood, Larry J. Nelson, Craig H. Hart, Bo Wu, Chongming Yang, Susanne Olsen Roper, Shenghua Jin

Faculty Publications

Researchers have identified specific parenting practices used by parents of preschoolers in mainland China (e.g., physical coercion, overprotection, shaming, directiveness, encouragement of modesty). Some of the intrusive practices have been linked to social withdrawal in western societies (e.g., United States, Canada). It seemed important to examine these associations in China because recent research suggests that young Chinese children who exhibit wariness in peer settings may be at risk for negative outcomes such as peer rejection. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the relation between Chinese parenting practices and preschoolers' social withdrawal. Mothers of preschool-age children from mainland …

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A Spectrum Of Pcsk9 Alleles Contributes To Plasma Levels Of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Ingrid K. Kotowski, Alexander Pertsemlidis, Amy Luke, Richard S. Cooper, Gloria L. Vega, Jonathan C. Cohen, Helen H. Hobbs Jan 2006

A Spectrum Of Pcsk9 Alleles Contributes To Plasma Levels Of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Ingrid K. Kotowski, Alexander Pertsemlidis, Amy Luke, Richard S. Cooper, Gloria L. Vega, Jonathan C. Cohen, Helen H. Hobbs

Faculty Publications

Selected missense mutations in the proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 serine protease gene (PCSK9) cause autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia, whereas nonsense mutations in the same gene are associated with low plasma levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Here, DNA sequencing and chip-based oligonucleotide hybridization were used to determine whether other sequence variations in PCSK9 contribute to differences in LDL-C levels. The coding regions of PCSK9 were sequenced in the blacks and whites from the Dallas Heart Study (n = 3,543) who had the lowest (percentile) and highest (>95 th percentile) plasma levels of LDL-C. Of the 17 missense variants identified, …

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Comparative Susceptibility Of Sweetpotato Weevil (Coleoptera: Brentidae) To Selected Insecticides, Tara P. Smith, Abner M. Hammond Jan 2006

Comparative Susceptibility Of Sweetpotato Weevil (Coleoptera: Brentidae) To Selected Insecticides, Tara P. Smith, Abner M. Hammond

Faculty Publications

The response of sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius (F.) (Coleoptera: Brentidae), to insecticides used for its control was tested in laboratory bioassays. A glass vial bioassay technique was used to determine the susceptibility of two cohorts of sweetpotato weevil to selected insecticides. Vials were treated with methyl parathion, bifenthrin, cyfluthrin, carbaryl, and phosmet. Sweetpotato weevils demonstrated a mortality response to increasing concentrations of all insecticides tested, and our results indicated decreases in susceptibility of the Louisiana cohort of sweetpotato weevil compared with the Texas cohort for all insecticides tested. Methyl parathion was the most toxic chemical tested for both cohorts, followed …

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Pilibacter Termitis Gen. Nov., Sp. Nov., A Lactic Acid Bacterium From The Hindgut Of The Formosan Subterranean Termite (Coptotermes Formosanus), Dennis T. Higashiguchi, Claudia Husseneder, J. Kenneth Grace, John M. Berestecky Jan 2006

Pilibacter Termitis Gen. Nov., Sp. Nov., A Lactic Acid Bacterium From The Hindgut Of The Formosan Subterranean Termite (Coptotermes Formosanus), Dennis T. Higashiguchi, Claudia Husseneder, J. Kenneth Grace, John M. Berestecky

Faculty Publications

A previously undescribed anaerobic, heterofermentative, non-spore-forming, Gram-positive rod was isolated from the hindgut of the Formosan subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki. The DNA G + C content of this bacterium was 37.8 mol%. Sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene revealed that this organism is related to, but distinct from, several genera of lactic acid bacteria, principally several species of the genus Enterococcus. Phenotypic traits that serve to separate this organism from related genera include high levels of the cellular fatty acid C18:1ω9c and the production of ethanol along with lactic acid as fermentation products. Based on the collected phylogenetic …

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Genetic Analysis Of Colony And Population Structure Of Three Introduced Populations Of The Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) In The Continental United States, Edward L. Vargo, Claudia Husseneder, David Woodson, Michael G. Waldvogel, J. Kenneth Grace Jan 2006

Genetic Analysis Of Colony And Population Structure Of Three Introduced Populations Of The Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) In The Continental United States, Edward L. Vargo, Claudia Husseneder, David Woodson, Michael G. Waldvogel, J. Kenneth Grace

Faculty Publications

The Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, is a major invasive pest species in many parts of the world. We compared the colony breeding system and population genetic structure in three introduced populations in the continental United States: Charleston, SC; City Park, New Orleans, LA; and Rutherford County, NC. Based on worker genotypes at 12 microsatellite loci, we found that colonies were mainly genetically distinct entities consisting of either simple families headed by monogamous pairs of reproductives or extended families containing multiple neotenic (replacement) reproductives descended from simple families. Populations varied from 48% simple families in Charleston to 82% simple …

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Dating Paleosol And Animal Remains In Loess Deposits, H. C. Zhang, B. Li, M. S. Yang, G. L. Lei, H. Ding, Jie Niu, H. F. Fan, W. X. Zhang, F. Q. Chang Jan 2006

Dating Paleosol And Animal Remains In Loess Deposits, H. C. Zhang, B. Li, M. S. Yang, G. L. Lei, H. Ding, Jie Niu, H. F. Fan, W. X. Zhang, F. Q. Chang

Faculty Publications

Accurate and reliable dating of paleosols, animal remains, and artifacts is of crucial importance in reconstructing environmental change and understanding the interrelationship between human activities and natural environments. Dating different materials in the same sample can help resolve problems such as soil carbon sources and carbon storage state. Conventional radiocarbon dating of soil (inorganic and organic matter) and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating of animal remains (fossil bones and teeth) result in different ages for materials from the same sample position in a typical loess section at Xinglong Mountain, Yuzhong County, Gansu Province in NW China. Inorganic matter is ∼3400 …

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Optimal Management Of Beaver Population Using A Reduced-Order Distributed Parameter Model And Single Network Adaptive Critics, Radhakant Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan Jan 2006

Optimal Management Of Beaver Population Using A Reduced-Order Distributed Parameter Model And Single Network Adaptive Critics, Radhakant Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Beavers are often found to be in conflict with human interests by creating nuisances like building dams on flowing water (leading to flooding), blocking irrigation canals, cutting down timbers, etc. At the same time they contribute to raising water tables, increased vegetation, etc. Consequently, maintaining an optimal beaver population is beneficial. Because of their diffusion externality (due to migratory nature), strategies based on lumped parameter models are often ineffective. Using a distributed parameter model for beaver population that accounts for their spatial and temporal behavior, an optimal control (trapping) strategy is presented in this paper that leads to a desired …

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Human Genomic Deletions Mediated By Recombination Between Alu Elements, Shurjo K. Sen, Kyudong Han, Jianxin Wang, Jungnam Lee, Hui Wang, Pauline A. Callinan, Matthew Dyer, Richard Cordaux, Ping Liang, Mark A. Batzer Jan 2006

Human Genomic Deletions Mediated By Recombination Between Alu Elements, Shurjo K. Sen, Kyudong Han, Jianxin Wang, Jungnam Lee, Hui Wang, Pauline A. Callinan, Matthew Dyer, Richard Cordaux, Ping Liang, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

Recombination between Alu elements results in genomic deletions associated with many human genetic disorders. Here, we compare the reference human and chimpanzee genomes to determine the magnitude of this recombination process in the human lineage since the human-chimpanzee divergence ∼6 million years ago. Combining computational data mining and wet-bench experimental verification, we identified 492 human-specific deletions (for a total of ∼400 kb) attributable to this process, a significant component of the insertion/deletion spectrum of the human genome. The majority of the deletions (295 of 492) coincide with known or predicted genes (including 3 that deleted functional exons, as compared with …

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Introduction: Self-Organization In Nonequilibrium Chemical Systems, Irving R. Epstein, John A. Pojman, Oliver Steinbock Jan 2006

Introduction: Self-Organization In Nonequilibrium Chemical Systems, Irving R. Epstein, John A. Pojman, Oliver Steinbock

Faculty Publications

The field of self-organization in nonequilibrium chemical systems comprises the study of dynamical phenomena in chemically reacting systems far from equilibrium. Systematic exploration of this area began with investigations of the temporal behavior of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillating reaction, discovered accidentally in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s. The field soon advanced into chemical waves in excitable media and propagating fronts. With the systematic design of oscillating reactions in the 1980s and the discovery of Turing patterns in the 1990s, the scope of these studies expanded dramatically. The articles in this Focus Issue provide an overview of the development and …

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School Of Renewable Natural Resources Newsletter, Fall 2006, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Jan 2006

School Of Renewable Natural Resources Newsletter, Fall 2006, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

Research Matters & RNR Newsletters

The annual newsletter from the School of Renewable Natural Resources was a publication which aimed to update and entertain interested readers with the news and research from RNR faculty, students and staff.

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Landsat Scene Normalization Using Modis 250 Meter Tree Cover Map, Bernard Adusei Jan 2006

Landsat Scene Normalization Using Modis 250 Meter Tree Cover Map, Bernard Adusei

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

High spatial resolution Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM +) bands 4, 5, and 7 coupled with pre-existing Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 250m resolution maps as reference information were employed in an attempt to catalog anthropogenic impacts on the Congo Ba in's humid tropical forest. The utility of Landsat multi-spectral data depends both on the extent to which surface properties can be estimated from the radiometric measurements and on the ability to observe the surface through the atmosphere. Cloud cover is a major impediment to optical remote sensing of humid tropical regions. Accordingly, applications may …

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Hume, Comte, And The Religion Of Le Grand Etre, Darian C. Debolt Jan 2006

Hume, Comte, And The Religion Of Le Grand Etre, Darian C. Debolt

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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David Hume, "Ofthe Standard Of Taste," And Esthetic Theory, James W. Mock Jan 2006

David Hume, "Ofthe Standard Of Taste," And Esthetic Theory, James W. Mock

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Hume And The End Of Design, Michael F. Patton Jr. Jan 2006

Hume And The End Of Design, Michael F. Patton Jr.

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Of That Rank That Is Meanest And Most Despised Of All" Victorian Romany Studies And The Recovery Of John Bunyan's "Gypsy' Origins, Mary Burke Jan 2006

"Of That Rank That Is Meanest And Most Despised Of All" Victorian Romany Studies And The Recovery Of John Bunyan's "Gypsy' Origins, Mary Burke

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Quantum Interpretations, A. R.P. Rau Jan 2006

Quantum Interpretations, A. R.P. Rau

Faculty Publications

Difficulties and discomfort with the interpretation of quantum mechanics are due to differences in language between it and classical physics. Analogies to the special theory of relativity, which also required changes in the basic world-view and language of nonrelativistic classical mechanics, may help in absorbing the changes called for by quantum physics. There is no need to invoke extravagances such as the many-worlds interpretation or specify a central role for consciousness or neural microstructures. The simple, but basic, acceptance that what is meant by the state of a physical system is different in quantum physics from what it is in …

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Sauger Population Ecology In Three Missouri River Mainstem Reservoirs, Brian D. S. Graeb Jan 2006

Sauger Population Ecology In Three Missouri River Mainstem Reservoirs, Brian D. S. Graeb

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sauger Sander canadensis populations have experienced widespread declines across much of their range. Factors suspected to contribute to these declines include hybridization, exploitation, loss of spawning areas, and general habitat alterations associated with regulated rivers. Several sauger populations within the Missouri River basin are also experiencing similar declines, particularly in the headwaters of Montana, and the lower basin states of Nebraska and Missouri. However, sauger populations in many of the reservoirs in South Dakota (between Montana and the lower basin) have relatively stable populations. Given the paucity of information on factors influencing sauger population ecology in general, and Missouri River …

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Occurrence Of Freshwater Bivalves In A Chronically Hypoxic Coastal Stream In Louisiana, Usa, Michael D. Kaller, William E. Kelso Jan 2006

Occurrence Of Freshwater Bivalves In A Chronically Hypoxic Coastal Stream In Louisiana, Usa, Michael D. Kaller, William E. Kelso

Faculty Publications

We sampled bivalves in Mill Creek, a low-gradient stream in southwestern Louisiana, and found a comparatively diverse assemblage in a disturbed, chronically hypoxic stream. We found few bivalves in April, nearly 1,700 in June, but only 170 in September. Species richness varied temporally with one species in April, eight species in June, and three species in September. We suggest dissolved oxygen level plays a particularly important role in bivalve community dynamics in this stream. © 2006, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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Avian Influenza (H5n1) And The Evolutionary And Social Ecology Of Infectious Disease Emergence, Durrell D. Kapan, Shannon N. Bennett, Brett N. Ellis, Jefferson Fox, Nancy D. Lewis, James H. Spencer, Sumeet Saksena, Bruce A. Wilcox Jan 2006

Avian Influenza (H5n1) And The Evolutionary And Social Ecology Of Infectious Disease Emergence, Durrell D. Kapan, Shannon N. Bennett, Brett N. Ellis, Jefferson Fox, Nancy D. Lewis, James H. Spencer, Sumeet Saksena, Bruce A. Wilcox

Faculty Publications

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Case Study: Cholera, Edward Laws Jan 2006

Case Study: Cholera, Edward Laws

Faculty Publications

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There Is No Alternative To Tribalism, Denny Gayton Jan 2006

There Is No Alternative To Tribalism, Denny Gayton

Nebraska Anthropologist

Tribal traditions and the western scientific tradition are not investigated for congruency or correspondences. The tribal order of the universe concerns itself with wholeness while the western order, in comparison, is fragmented The tribal order is introduced first through correspondences alluding to physics. The feature that both the tribal order and the western order, through modern physics, will speak to is reductionistic-externalistic mechanism The relativity and quantum theories illustrate inadequacy with mechanism; a feature central to the tribal Lakota order, wakan, is used to bring both theories together through its internal, qualitative nature. The tribal order clearly has no issues …

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Conceptions Of Humor: Lakota (Sioux), Koestlerian, And Computational, Benjamin Grant Purzycki Jan 2006

Conceptions Of Humor: Lakota (Sioux), Koestlerian, And Computational, Benjamin Grant Purzycki

Nebraska Anthropologist

The Lakota (Sioux) sacred clowns (heyoka) of traditional religious practice offer a glimpse of the clown phenomenon found in many of the world's indigenous traditions. By illustrating the unified Lakota and Western conceptions of humor, the logic of how particular entities of the natural environment are understood as relatives according to Lakota thought is brought to light in hopes of introducing the idea that such insights were not only statements or observations about the external, physical world, but also about the internal or mental world.

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Furman Magazine. Volume 48, Issue 4 - Full Issue, Furman University Jan 2006

Furman Magazine. Volume 48, Issue 4 - Full Issue, Furman University

Furman Magazine

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Wild Semester, Alicia Rowe Jan 2006

Wild Semester, Alicia Rowe

Furman Magazine

Furman students spend an adventurous term in the desert Southwest, learning firsthand about wildlife conservation and resource management.

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Furman Alumni News, Furman University Jan 2006

Furman Alumni News, Furman University

Furman Magazine

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The Involvement Of Calcium And Map Kinase Signaling Pathways In The Production Of Radiation-Induced Bystander Effects, Fiona Lyng, Paula Maguire, B. Mcclean, C. Seymour, Carmel Mothersill Jan 2006

The Involvement Of Calcium And Map Kinase Signaling Pathways In The Production Of Radiation-Induced Bystander Effects, Fiona Lyng, Paula Maguire, B. Mcclean, C. Seymour, Carmel Mothersill

Articles

Much evidence now exists regarding radiation-induced bystander effects, but the mechanisms involved in the transduction of the signal are still unclear. The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways have been linked to growth factor-mediated regulation of cellular events such as proliferation, senescence, differentiation and apoptosis. Activation of multiple MAPK pathways such as the ERK, JNK and p38 pathways have been shown to occur after exposure of cells to radiation and a variety of other toxic stresses. Previous studies have shown oxidative stress and calcium signaling to be important in radiation-induced bystander effects. The aim of the present study was to investigate …

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The Abu Ghraib Story, Jeffrey F. Addicott Jan 2006

The Abu Ghraib Story, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Faculty Articles

The purpose of this Article is to examine the facts associated with the prison abuse at Abu Ghraib and to discuss the applicable legal and policy lessons learned as a result of the scandal. Was the prison abuse a reflection of a systemic policy—either de jure or de facto—on the part of the United States to illegally extract information from detainees or was the abuse simply isolated acts of criminal behavior on the part of a handful of soldiers amplified by an incompetent tactical chain of command at the prison facility?

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Information Assurance Through Binary Vulnerability Auditing, William B. Kimball, Saverio Perugini Jan 2006

Information Assurance Through Binary Vulnerability Auditing, William B. Kimball, Saverio Perugini

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The goal of this research is to develop improved methods of discovering vulnerabilities in software. A large volume of software, from the most frequently used programs on a desktop computer, such as web browsers, e-mail programs, and word processing applications, to mission-critical services for the space shuttle, is unintentionally vulnerable to attacks and thus insecure. By seeking to improve the identification of vulnerabilities in software, the security community can save the time and money necessary to restore compromised computer systems. In addition, this research is imperative to activities of national security such as counterterrorism. The current approach involves a systematic …

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Cognitive Dissonance In The Classroom: Rationale And Rationalization In The Law Of Evidence, Julie A. Seaman Jan 2006

Cognitive Dissonance In The Classroom: Rationale And Rationalization In The Law Of Evidence, Julie A. Seaman

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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Developing Citizens, Anne Dailey Jan 2006

Developing Citizens, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

The Supreme Court has known for over a half century that the survival of our constitutional polity ultimately depends on the proper cultivation of children's hearts and minds. This idea was expressed most directly in Brown v. Board of Education, where a unanimous Supreme Court concluded that segregated schooling affects the hearts and minds of African-American schoolchildren in a way that undermines the very foundation of good citizenship. On many other occasions as well, the Justices have formulated constitutional doctrine to foster democratic skills of mind in future citizens. Yet for all the normative force of this idea, courts and …

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