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Identifying Patients Who Need Additional Biomarkers For Better Prediction Of Health Outcome Or Diagnosis Of Clinical Phenotype, Lu Tian, Tianxi Cai, L. J. Wei

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Cellulose Synthase Promoter And Method For Modifiying Cellulose And Lignin Biosynthesis In Plants, Vincent Lee C. Chiang, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, Luguang Wu, Daniel T. Carraway

Michigan Tech Patents

This invention relates to an isolated cellulose synthase promoter, methods for genetically altering cellulose and lignin biosynthesis, and to methods for improving strength properties of juvenile wood and fiber in trees. The invention further relates to methods for identifying regulatory elements in a cellulose synthase promoter and to methods for augmenting expression of polynucleotides operably linked to a cellulose synthase promoter.

Selective Extraction Of Colorful Proteins Using Reverse Micelles, Loren E. Connell

Theses and Dissertations

Biotechnology is an ever expanding field of science. As the field has expanded, research into bioseparation processes has also expanded. The need for more cost effective ways to deliver products that are in high demand is greater now than ever. Bioseparation processes are a very costly part of the overall process of product development. While traditional separation process are effective, there is promise in many new techniques being developed which have the potential to lower the costs of bioseparations.

The continuous separation method of liquid-liquid extraction using reverse micelles is one such technique. While this technique has been researched in …

5-Year Review: Summary And Evaluation Of Black-Capped Vireo (Vireo Atricapilla)

Endangered Species Bulletin

Table of Contents:
General Information
Methodology used to complete the review
Reviewers
Background
Review Analysis
Application of the 1996 distinct population segment (DPS) policy
Recovery criteria
Current species status and update information
Biology and Habitat
Threats
Conservation Measures
Synthesis
Results
Recommendations for future actions
References

Epigenetic Natural Variation In Arabidopsis Thaliana., Matthew W. Vaughn, Milos Tanurdzic, Zachary Lippman, Hongmei Jiang, Robert Carrasquillo, Pablo D. Rabinowicz, Neilay Dedhia, W Richard Mccombie, Nicolas Agier, Agnes Bulski, Vincent Colot, Rebecca W. Doerge, Robert A. Martienssen

Department of Statistics Faculty Publications

Cytosine methylation of repetitive sequences is widespread in plant genomes, occurring in both symmetric (CpG and CpNpG) as well as asymmetric sequence contexts. We used the methylation-dependent restriction enzyme McrBC to profile methylated DNA using tiling microarrays of Arabidopsis Chromosome 4 in two distinct ecotypes, Columbia and Landsbergerecta. We also used comparative genome hybridization to profile copy number polymorphisms. Repeated sequences and transposable elements (TEs), especially long terminal repeat retrotransposons, are densely methylated, but one third of genes also have low but detectable methylation in their transcribed regions. While TEs are almost always methylated, genic methylation is highly …

C-Reactive Protein Levels According To Physical Activity And Body Weight For Participants In The Coronary Health Improvement Project, Michael T. Massey

Theses and Dissertations

Objectives. Evaluate C-reactive protein (CRP) levels according to weight and physical activity. The study explored how changes in CRP were associated with baseline CRP, weight, and physical activity and changes in these variables.

Methods. A randomized controlled study design assigned 348 individuals to the intervention or control group with measurements taken at baseline, 6 weeks, and 6 months of body weight, physical activity, and serum CRP levels. Participants attended an intensive 40-hour educational course delivered over a four-week period.

Results. At baseline, CRP was negatively associated with total steps/week, and positively associated with weight, BMI, percent fat, and saturated fat …

Ada News - 06/18/2007, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Monitor Newsletter June 18, 2007, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 031, Number 40, June 18, 2007, Grand Valley State University

2006-2007, Volume 31

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 96, June 18, 2007

Central Florida Future

UCF plans $40k scholarship for med school; Helping hands; Tower IV residents have fire scare 9 hours after Tivoli; Group gunning for NRA approval; Soldiers mentor future scholars.

Crispr Recognition Tool (Crt): A Tool For Automatic Detection Of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats, Charles Band, Teresa L. Ramsey, Fareedah Sabree, Michael Lowe, Kyndall Brown, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Philip Hugenholtz

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

Background: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) are a novel type of direct repeat found in a wide range of bacteria and archaea. CRISPRs are beginning to attract attention because of their proposed mechanism; that is, defending their hosts against invading extrachromosomal elements such as viruses. Existing repeat detection tools do a poor job of identifying CRISPRs due to the presence of unique spacer sequences separating the repeats. In this study, a new tool, CRT, is introduced that rapidly and accurately identifies CRISPRs in large DNA strings, such as genomes and metagenomes.

Results: CRT was compared to CRISPR …

“Girls Play With Dolls And Boys Play With Soldiers”: Examining Teachers And Parents' Gender Beliefs And The Gender Identity Of 8-10 Year Old Jamaican Boys, Christopher Carlyle Clarke

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This multi-case ethnographic study examined the gender beliefs of two teachers and 12 parents and the gender identity of thirty 8-10 year old boys in two primary schools in Jamaica. The study was conducted against the background of gross underachievement among Jamaican boys and the research literature pointing to gender socialization as a factor in the declining results and interest in academic studies. Through 10 weeks of observations, interviews and focus group discussions answers were sought for the following questions:

1. What beliefs do teachers hold about gender?

2. What beliefs do parents hold about gender?

3. What are boys' …

Natural Resource News, Vol. 07, No. 2 (June 2007), N/A N/A

Natural Resource News

No abstract provided.

Restricted Cell Elongation In Arabidopsis Hypocotyls Is Associated With A Reduced Average Pectin Esterification Level, Paul Derbyshire, Maureen C. Mccann, Keith Roberts

Department of Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Background

Cell elongation is mainly limited by the extensibility of the cell wall. Dicotyledonous primary (growing) cell walls contain cellulose, xyloglucan, pectin and proteins, but little is known about how each polymer class contributes to the cell wall mechanical properties that control extensibility.

Results

We present evidence that the degree of pectin methyl-esterification (DE%) limits cell growth, and that a minimum level of about 60% DE is required for normal cell elongation in Arabidopsishypocotyls. When the average DE% falls below this level, as in two gibberellic acid (GA) mutantsga1-3 and gai, and plants expressing pectin methyl-esterase ( …

Host Resistance To Monilinia Vaccinii-Corymbosi In Flowers And Fruits Of Highbush Blueberry, Jeffrey Lehman

Biology and Earth Science Faculty Scholarship

Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi, the causal agent of mummy berry disease, infects blueberry flowers via the gynoecial pathway. To describe the expression of host resistance in highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum), fungal growth in the styles and colonization of the locules were compared among five blueberry cultivars in a series of controlled greenhouse experiments. Styles were harvested 1 and 4 days postinoculation, and the length colonized by hyphae was determined using fluorescence microscopy. At 8 weeks after inoculation, fruit were harvested and scored for the presence of hyphae in the locules. The infection frequency of styles ranged from 0.33 to 0.71, and only …

2007 Commencement Ceremony - Center For Psychological Studies, H. Wayne Huizenga School Of Business And Entrepreneurship, Graduate School Of Computer And Information Sciences, Graduate School Of Humanities And Social Sciences, Oceanographic Center And Criminal Justice Institute, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

June 16, 2007 (Pages 2671-2790), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 37 (2007)

No abstract provided.

Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2007, Eastern Washington University

Commencement Programs

Program for Eastern Washington University's spring commencement in 2007

The Value Of Marine Institutions: An Economic Survey Of Marine Research And Education Institutions In Monterey And Santa Cruz Counties, Judith T. Kildow Dr, Nathaniel Miller

Publications

It is recognized that ocean and coastal areas of the United States contribute significantly to our nation’s overall economy. What is not completely understood is the extent to and manner in which our economy benefits from the wide range of marine and coastal activities. One area of the ocean economy that has not been collectively measured or examined is the contribution of marine research and education institutions. The goal of the project was to create a prototype strategy at a local level for collecting data at a national level, in order to create an economic sector of these institutions and …

Research News: 2007, No. 2, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Research News: Grants and Publications (2000-2014)

Grants, publications, technology transfer, special announcements

2007-06-15, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Opening Brief Of Appellant Suquamish Tribe - Upper Skagit Indian Tribe V. United States, Docket No. 07-35061 (590 F.3d 1020 (9th Cir. 2010))

Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. United States, Docket No. 07-35061 (590 F.3d 1020 (9th Cir. 2010))

No abstract provided.

Considering The Community: How One Rural Superintendent Perceives Community Values And Their Effect On Decision-Making, Chris Jenkins

The Rural Educator

In rural Oklahoma, the role of the superintendent is often vastly different than that of superintendents in large cities. The superintendent is the leader of the school district, which is typically the community’s largest employer. There are a few examples of superintendents who embrace this sometimes overwhelming responsibility and who are often seen as pillars of ethics, leadership and morality in the community. Dale Carter is one example of this type of superintendent. Mr. Carter has been employed by Kenawee Public Schools since 1969. During his tenure he has been a teacher, coach, principal and superintendent. This case study will …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, June 15, 2007, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The June 15, 2007, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Comparative Chloroplast Genomics: Analyses Including New Sequences From The Angiosperms Nuphar Advena And Ranunculus Macranthus, Linda A. Raubeson, Rhiannon Peery, Timothy W. Chumley, Chris Dziubek, H. Matthew Fourcade, Jeffrey L. Boore, Robert K. Jansen

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

Background

The number of completely sequenced plastid genomes available is growing rapidly. This array of sequences presents new opportunities to perform comparative analyses. In comparative studies, it is often useful to compare across wide phylogenetic spans and, within angiosperms, to include representatives from basally diverging lineages such as the genomes reported here: Nuphar advena (from a basal-most lineage) and Ranunculus macranthus (a basal eudicot). We report these two new plastid genome sequences and make comparisons (within angiosperms, seed plants, or all photosynthetic lineages) to evaluate features such as the status of ycf15 and ycf68 as protein coding genes, the distribution …

Utility And Versatility Of Extracellular Recordings From The Cockroach For Neurophysiological Instruction And Demonstration, Raddy L. Ramos, Andrew Moiseff, Joshua C. Brumberg

Publications and Research

The principles of neurophysiology continue to be challenging topics to teach in the context of undergraduate neuroscience education. Laboratory classes containing neurophysiological demonstrations and exercises are, therefore, an important and necessary complement for covering those subjects taught in lecture-based courses. We developed a number of simple yet very instructive exercises, described below, which make use of extracellular recordings from different sensory systems of the cockroach (Periplanta americana). The compendium we developed provides students with hands-on demonstrations of several commonly taught topics of neurophysiology including sensory coding by neural activity.

Collapse Analysis Of Nanofibers, Xiang-Fa Wu, Yuris A. Dzenis

Department of Engineering Mechanics: Faculty Publications

Continuous nanofibers fabricated by the electrospinning technique have found increasing applications (e.g., nanofiber composites, nanofiber devices, bioengineering tissue scaffolding, etc.). For a nanofiber network subjected to a small external perturbation, the fiber segments within the network may deflect and stick to each other under the condition that their surface adhesion energy overcomes the elastic strain energy induced by fiber bending. Therefore, this paper aims to study adhesion-induced nanofiber collapse and relevant criteria. A simple fiber collapse model was proposed, which is based on the contact of two deflected elastic filaments under surface adhesion. Four fundamental fiber collapse modes (i.e., fiber-flat …

Alternative Targets For The Treatment Of Stroke, Craig T. Ajmo Jr.

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Stroke is cerebrovascular injury that has been reported to be the third leading cause of death and the first leading cause of disability in the world (W. H.O. 2007). Currently, there is only one FDA approved treatment for stroke which is recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. This treatment has a narrow therapeutic window of three hours after ischemic stroke and can adversely cause the production of oxygen free radicals and intracranial hemorrhage. These limitations result in only 2-3% of all stroke victims as being candidates for this therapy as many patients do not arrive at the hospital in time to receive …

06-14-2007 High School Students Attend Swosu Smash, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2007

Sixteen high school juniors and seniors attended the Science and Mathematics Academy for Select High School (SMASH) students June 3-15 at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

The Murray Ledger And Times, June 14, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.