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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons In Maternal And Cord Blood Plasma., Paula G. Radmacher 1951-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are chemicals generated from the incomplete combustion of organic materials, including tobacco smoke. Some PAH are known to be mutagenic and carcinogenic in humans, and of concern for the fetus when women smoke during pregnancy. Known consequences of smoking during pregnancy include low birth weight and preterm delivery. It is unknown if PAH are related to these outcomes. This pilot study was designed to measure concentrations of 3 PAH (anthracene, benzo(a)pyrene and 1-hydroxypyrene) in paired maternal and cord blood samples as well as any correlations between the two matrices. Plasma cotinine was used as a biomarker …

Self-Consistent And Environment-Dependent Hamiltonian For Quantum-Mechanics Materials Simulations., Christopher R. Leahy 1972-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

I will report the development of a semi-empirical self-consistent and environment-dependent model Hamiltonian, which is intended to treat large systems in the order of 10000 atoms. This covers a range of important physical phenomena that are too large to be treated with first-principles calculations. Our model features an aggressive treatment of environment-dependent effects, which are known to limit the accuracy of two-center models which do not include them. Specifically, we account for multi-center integrals, and we use a full iterative treatment of the self-consistency problem, which addressed the important role of charge redistribution. Our results indicate that our treatment is …

Relational Maintenance Behaviors Between College Freshmen And Their Parents Via Instant Messaging, Jason Earl Leverett

Masters Theses

The present project provides insight concerning possible relational maintenance behaviors (RMB) college freshmen may initiate when communicating with a parent via Instant Messaging (IM). In addressing this topic, the researcher divided the present project into three studies. Study 1 addressed possible RMB within the college freshmen-parent relationship. Study 2 investigated if college freshmen correspond with at least one parent via IM. And Study 3 investigated which RMB from Study 1 were most common in college freshmen-parent interactions via IM. The researcher observed seven RMB in Study 1: openness, assurance, social networks, positivity, shared tasks, advice seeking and worry avoidance. In …

Improving Corporate Governance : Character Education As A Supplement To Corporate Ethics Training, Richard L. Muney

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

This thesis explores the hypothesis that ethics training for corporate personnel will significantly increase ethical behavior and thereby significantly reduce the incidence of corporate malfeasance.

For over 100 years the federal government has been trying to curb malfeasance by managers of public corporations and their boards of directors. This thesis examines the history of that legislation and those regulatory efforts, concluding that these legislative and regulatory attempts have met with varying degrees of success, but, on balance, that success has been transitory at best. It also comes to the conclusion that corporate training programs in ethics, in the absence of …

Efficacy Of The De Novo-Derived Antimicrobial Peptide Wlbu2 Against Oral Bacteria, Karen F. Novak, William J. Diamond, Sreenatha S. Kirakodu, Rebecca Peyyala, Kimberly W. Anderson, Ronald C. Montelaro, Timothy A. Mietzner

Center for Oral Health Research Faculty Publications

The efficacy of a novel synthetic antimicrobial peptide (WLBU2) was evaluated against three oral microorganisms (grown planktonically): Streptococcus gordonii, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and Porphyromonas gingivalis. WLBU2 killed all three species, with F. nucleatum being the most susceptible. WLBU2 also reduced the bacterial burden of S. gordonii and F. nucleatum biofilms.

Trans-Excision-Splicing Ribozyme And Methods Of Use, Stephen M. Testa, Michael A. Bell

Chemistry Faculty Patents

A group I intron-derived ribozyme which binds RNA in trans, excises an internal segment from within the RNA, and splices the remaining 5′ and 3′ ends of the RNA back together (the trans-excision-splicing reaction) is disclosed. The excised segment can be as long as 28 nucleotides, or more, and as little as one nucleotide. The ribozymes of the invention are easily modified to alter their sequence specificity. Such ribozymes represent a new and potentially powerful class of generally adaptable genetic therapeutics.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 96 [97], No. 48 (May 1, 2007), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 96, but it is the 97th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Spawning Chronology Of Native And Introduced Striped Bass (Morone Saxatilis) In Two Gulf Of Mexico Drainages, Matthew Noad

All Theses

In this study, I investigated the potential for temperature to serve as a mechanism for maintenance of reproductive isolation in a sympatric population of Atlantic and Gulf striped bass in the Apalachicola and Ochlockonee rivers, Florida. Adult striped bass (n= 66, mean weight = 8.3 kg, mean total length = 780.6 mm) were collected from February to May below Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, on the Apalachicola River, and below Jackson Bluff Lock on the Ochlockonee River, Florida. Ancestry (Gulf or Atlantic) of specimens was determined based upon the methods of Wirgin et al. (2005) using three diagnostic microsatellite loci: …

Metropolitan-Micropolitan Difference In Available Labor Force Characteristics: Three Great Plains Labor Basins, Michael Walker, Brett Zollinger

Sociology Faculty Publications

This study explores differences in labor availability characteristics among those living in metropolitan and micropolitan areas. Data used in this study are from surveys of adults in two adjacent Midwestern states and from three separate labor basins. Primary patterns under examination include wage demands, benefit demands, distance willing to commute for a job, perceived underemployment and entrepreneurial propensity. Bivariate analyses show no relationship between basin size and entrepreneurial propensity nor between basin size and willingness to commute. However, basin size has significant influence on four of the seven dependent variables, even after controlling for many sociodemographic characteristics. In multivariate analyses, …

A Description Of A New Subspecies Of Lycaena Phlaeas (Lycaenidae: Lycaeninae) From Montana, United States, With A Comparative Study Of Old And New World Populations, Steve Kohler

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

The Palaearctic, Oriental, and Ethiopian Region subspecies of Lycaena phlaeas are briefly discussed. A more detailed account of the North American subspecies is presented, and a new subspecies, L. p. weberi, from the Sweet Grass Hills, Montana is described. The possibility that the eastern United States subspecies hypophlaeas was introduced from the Old World is discussed; however no conclusion can be reached with certainty. The relationship between Old World and New World subspecies of L. phlaeas is discussed. Evidence presented supports the treatment of New World populations as subspecies of L. phlaeas.

First Record Of Corisella Inscripta (Uhler) (Heteroptera: Corixidae) From North Dakota, Bruce A. Hanson, David M. Mushet, Ned A. Euliss Jr., Stephen Chordas Iii

The Prairie Naturalist

Corisella inscripta is a water boatman species that was reported in H. B. Hungerford's (1948) seminal monograph as occurring throughout Mexico and nine western states of the United States. Subsequently, additional records of C. inscripta have been reported for British Columbia in Canada (Maw et al. 2000) and for Montana (Roemhild 1976), Arkansas (Cochran and Harp 1990), Missouri (Polhemus et al. 1988), Ohio (Chordas and Armitage 1998), and Michigan (Chordas et al. 2002) in the United States. There have been no published records of C. inscripta from North Dakota (Fig. I). We collected one male C. inscripta at the Cottonwood …

Review Of Some Scarce Birds Of The Upper Midwest By Dana Gardner And Nancy Overcott, Stephen J. Dinsmore

The Prairie Naturalist

Fifty Uncommon Birds of the Upper Midwest. Watercolors by Dana Gardner; text by Nancy Overcott. 2007. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa. 112 pages. $34.95 (cloth).

Nancy Overcott has written series of short essays of birds found in the Upper Midwest and assembled them in an easy-to-read book. As an ornithologist and avid birder in this region, I'll admit that I didn't know what to expect when I opened the cover-would the focus be on rarities, would there be an identification component, are there tips for finding each species, and at what audience was the book aimed? Ultimately, I …

Finding Fluorescent Needles In The Cardiac Haystack: Tracking The Location And Fate Of Hmscs With Quantum Dots For Electrical And Mechanical Repair Of Damaged Myocardium, Amy Beth Rosen

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis In Urban Air Pollution: Optical Mapping In Tissue-Engineered Model, Harold H. Bien

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Functional Morphology And Evolution Of The Primate Auditory System, Mark Newman Coleman

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Ecogeographic Variation In Neandertal Dietary Habits: Evidence From Microwear Texture Analysis, Sireen El Zaatari

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Application Of Asymptotic Lrts Results To Mixture Problems In Genetic Research, Wonkuk Kim

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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People Like Me : Analyzing Universal Themes Of The Holocaust Through A Culture-Specific Lens, Jennifer Corum

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Sustained academic and popular interest in the Holocaust depends largely on the ability of educators to communicate its universality. At Holocaust memorials around the world, educators make strategic rhetorical choices in pursuit of this imperative. However, as communicators present narratives, documentation, and visual rhetoric at memorials, they filter each message through a unique cultural lens. This unavoidable human tendency raises questions concerning the degree to which culture shapes Holocaust narratives. Given that Holocaust memorials may offer pivot insights into modern and future genocides, cultural influences on Holocaust rhetoric seem worthy of renewed evaluation. Burke's dramatistic pentad provides a valuable tool …

Phylogenetic Analysis Of The Cetonini Of The New World (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoninae), Jesus Orozeo

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The American genera of Cetoniini (Coleoptera: Cetoniinae) are analyzed. Fifty-eight morphological characters of seventy two taxa, including Cetoniini from the entire world and other representative tribes of Cetoniinae, were included in a phylogenetic analysis and studied under the parsimony criterion. The Cetoniini, a tribe including species from all continents, is monophyletic and appears supported by two homoplastic characters: the elytra-thorax articulation in a glove-like shape and the mesosternal process basally compressed and apically expanded in shape. No clade supporting a hypothesis of common ancestry for the American species was found. Of the traditionally defined genera in the American continents only …

Comparing The Melanin-Concentrating Hormone -1 Receptor Expression In The Brains Of Mice And Rats, Sidney Clayborn Williams

Biology Theses - Archive

The melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) family of neuropeptides is believed to be important in controlling certain feeding behaviors. Recently, the distribution of melanin-concentrating-1 receptor (MCH-1R) in rat brains was published revealing that it is expressed throughout the rat brain. Mice lacking MCH and MCH-1R have been generated and have been found to be leaner and hyperactive. Consequently, MCH-1R has become a possible site for pharmacologically controlling obesity. However, areas expressing MCH-1R in the mouse brain still remain unknown. Therefore, in situ hybridization was performed on both mouse and rat brains to compare the MCH-1R expression between these animals. This comparison study …

Hemoparasite Load In Bats With Varying Roost Size In San Luis, Costa Rica, May 2007, Robin Miller

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Bats, as well as most other mammals, are host to many endoparasites that can damage or even cause death in their host (Baron 1996). I surveyed blood parasites from 28 bats in San Luis, Costa Rica. This study focused on six different species of bats with varying roosting behaviors to determine the amount and type of blood parasites differs between bat species. I identified four different types of blood parasites as well as a gram-negative bacterium. Using a proportion between the total number of parasites and the number of individuals caught per species, I found Myotis keaysi, which roosts in …

Factors Influencing Dispersal And Population Structure Of Phoretic Mites In Centropogon Solanifolius (Campanulaceae) And Columnea Spp. (Gesneriaceae), May 2007, Emily Davis

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Phoretic hummingbird flower mites of the genus Rhinoseius are nectar thieves of Centropogon solanifolius (Campanulaceae) and Columnea spp. (Gesneriaceae) at Monteverde. Dispersal by phoresy is a rare and risky, but nonetheless critical, event in the lives of hummingbird mites (Colwell and Naeem 1994). This study investigates factors that influence phoretic dispersal by R. colwelli (Mesostigmata: Ascidae), by comparing dispersal from C. solanifolius and Columnea spp. Additionally, this study explores the relationships between mite population size and structure in the two plant species. Flower age, mite population density, sex ratio, and nectar availability were considered as possible influences on dispersal and …

Mycorrhizal Abundance In Aerial Versus Terrestrial Roots Among The Climbing Araceae Of The Monteverde Cloud Forest, May 2007, Sydney Glassman

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Climbing plants of the family Araceae are a prominent feature of the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica. Aerial and terrestrial roots were collected from two species of climbing aroids Syngonium sp A (n = 15) and Philodendron aurantifolium (n = 17) and analyzed for mycorrhizae presence and abundance. Evidence of mycorrhizae infection was found in every plant sampled, and percent abundance of mycorrhizae in the aerial roots of Syngonium sp A ranged from 7.9-90%, while the mycorrhizal cover ranged from 5.3-38% in terrestrial roots. Mycorrhizal cover in the aerial roots of P. aurantifolium ranged from 8.2-57%, and from 4-33% …

Wing Color And Mating Preferences Of Heliconius Sara, May 2007, Emily Loew

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Convergence in aposematic coloration of chemically-protected butterflies, or Müllerian Mimicry, improves advertisement of unpalatability to predators. Heliconius sara (Heliconiinae) has two races in Costa Rica, each matching a different Müllerian model, one with and the other without a yellow stripe on the bottom edge of the hindwing. Color switching in Heliconius spp. is common but may involve a conflict between natural selection for convergence to models and sexual selection for maintenance of the original color pattern. Here, I manipulate the color pattern of H. sara to determine the degree to which sexual selection constrains color pattern switching. This study was …

Riparian Microhabitat Selection By Norops Oxylophus (Polychrotidae) In San Luis, Costa Rica, May 2007, David S. Steinberg

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Microhabitat studies of anoline lizards have traditionally measured small-scale characteristics, such as perch height and perch diameter. Riparian anoles, however, may inhabit a more complex environment, since they are in direct contact with rivers or streams; thus, a broader spectrum of variables, particularly those related to river qualities, may be necessary to garner a greater understanding of microhabitat choice in these lizards. In this study, I examine microhabitat selection by Norops oxylophus in relation to both traditional variables and three river variables in the San Luis Valley, Costa Rica. Results show that male lizards prefer higher perches (mean = 0.900 …

Species Specific Müllerian Body Production And Anti-Herbivore Defense In The Azteca- Cecropia Mutualism, May 2007, Eric Lawyer

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

In Monteverde Costa Rica there are five species of Azteca (Formicidae) that inhabit Cecropia (Cecropiaceae) in a facultative ant-plant mutualism (Longino 1989). Azteca provide Cecropia protection from herbivory while Cecropia provide a home for Azteca in trunk internodes as well as glycogen and protein-rich Müllerian bodies (Janzen 1973). Because some Azteca show more aggressive behavior when Cecropia is disturbed (Longino 1996), it would be expected that their host Cecropia would suffer lower herbivory than Cecropia inhabited by less aggressive Azteca. In this study, herbivory and Müllerian body production were examined in Cecropia with their Azteca mutualists. Although correlations between Azteca …

Precipitation Variation And Its Effects On The Reproductive Success And Survival Of Lepanthes Jimenezii (Orchidaceae), May 2007, Katherine Mccall

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Tropical cloud forests like that found in Monteverde, Costa Rica rely heavily on daily precipitation in the form of mist during the misty-windy and dry seasons. Studies have shown that this mist is occurring less frequently due to climate change (Pounds et al. 1999). This field study examines the effects of increased precipitation frequency, to mimic that found in the 1970s, on a specific member of the Orchidaceae family, Lepanthes jimenezii (Pounds et al. 1999). Additionally it compares such effects with those that L. jimenezii experiences in current conditions and those that may occur in the future. I divided a …

Who Is On The Outside Looking In, And What Do They See?: Metaphors Of Exclusion In Legal Education, David T. Ritchie

Mercer Law Review

Many people might assume that metaphors are linguistic devices that pithily play on associations between unrelated kinds of things. These associations, many might further assume, show how deft an author can be at using a turn of phrase or how agile a speaker might be using widely known imagery to illustrate a point. Such assumptions are not completely arbitrary, as metaphors do indeed have important literary aspects. This device, though, is often presumed to be a mere literary or rhetorical trope designed to enliven one's language or show intellectual dexterity in discourse. Metaphor is, in this view, a mere trick …

Parametric Methods: Wyoming Renovation, F. Britt Woolf

Architecture Masters of Science Program: Theses

Primacy will be given to the objective of rediscovering process through utilizing parametric methods for design thinking. What will be explored is the relationship between thinking and doing in architecture, proposing a process which does not separate one from the other but instead removes the distinction between the abstract and the pragmatic. Through these considerations, an emphasis will be placed on processes themselves including; data collection, environmental analysis, scenario prototyping, manufacturing and fabrication methods, material production and assembly techniques. Each one of these processes has a relationship to parametric methods. Parametrics communicates and responds to these processes in an effort …

Kansas City Riverfront District: Mixed-Use Urban Development Of Brownfield Site, Detlef W. Diercks

Architecture Masters of Science Program: Theses

The project proposed is to implement a master plan for an existing brownfield site. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated due to real or perceived environmental contamination. Vacant industrial sites, gas stations, commercial buildings and sites with asbestos and lead based paints, as well as, methamphetamine labs can all fall under the heading of brownfield.

This project will be developed in phases. The first phase sets out to understand the design implications that result from the remediation of brownfield sites. I believe that the impact of a remediation will leave …