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E-Pulse, 2007-03, College Of Health Professions

E-Pulse

An online news publication of the College of Health Professions at Governors State University.

Tigers, Wolves, And Moose, Oh My: Challenges And Opportunities For Promoting Undergraduate Research In Environmental Studies With Gis, Philip J. Nyhus, F Russell Cole, David H. Firmage

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Avian Advice, Spring 2007, Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food, And Life Sciences (University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville). Center Of Excellence For Poultry Science, University Of Arkansas (System). Cooperative Extension Service

Avian Advice

No abstract provided.

Graduate, Spring-Summer 2007, Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food, And Life Sciences (University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville)

Graduate

"For alumni and friends of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences and the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture."

2006 Annual Report Of The Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Air Force Institute Of Technology, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Afit

AFIT Documents

The Graduate School's Annual Report highlights research focus areas, new academic programs, faculty accomplishments and news, and provides top-level sponsor-funded research data and information.

Chanticleer | Vol 55, Issue 21, Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

No abstract provided.

Arbiter, March 1, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Statistical Evaluation Of Evidence For Clonal Allelic Alterations In Array-Cgh Experiments, Colin B. Begg, Kevin Eng, Adam Olshen, E S. Venkatraman

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Working Paper Series

In recent years numerous investigators have conducted genetic studies of pairs of tumor specimens from the same patient to determine whether the tumors share a clonal origin. These studies have the potential to be of considerable clinical significance, especially in clinical settings where the distinction of a new primary cancer and metastatic spread of a previous cancer would lead to radically different indications for treatment. Studies of clonality have typically involved comparison of the patterns of somatic mutations in the tumors at candidate genetic loci to see if the patterns are sufficiently similar to indicate a clonal origin. More recently, …

Sequential Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping In Experimental Crosses, Jaya M. Satagopan, Saunak Sen, Gary A. Churchill

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Working Paper Series

The etiology of complex diseases is heterogeneous. The presence of risk alleles in one or more genetic loci affects the function of a variety of intermediate biological pathways, resulting in the overt expression of disease. Hence, there is an increasing focus on identifying the genetic basis of disease by sytematically studying phenotypic traits pertaining to the underlying biological functions. In this paper we focus on identifying genetic loci linked to quantitative phenotypic traits in experimental crosses. Such genetic mapping methods often use a one stage design by genotyping all the markers of interest on the available subjects. A genome scan …

Actions Memo March 2007, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

No abstract provided.

Health And Security In Foreign Policy, Rebecca L. Katz, Daniel A. Singer

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Que Ondee Sola - March 2007, Xavier Luis Burgos

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: La Libertadora: Lolita Lebron, International Women's Day Conference, A Latina's Political Awakening, Colombia 'Legalizes' Abortion, El Cine Review: Quincenera, Indigenous Activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Authentically Black: The Question About Obama's Candidacy, La Martir: Antonia Martinez, Nuyorican Artista Yasmin Hernandez, Julia de Bugos Day in the Barrio, US Imperialism in Central America, Puertorriquenidad in the Diaspora, The Case of LGBT Boricuas, The Feb. 27 Municipal Elections

Nhep Buffer Outreach 2005 - 2006, Jodi Castallo

PREP Reports & Publications

The purpose of the buffer outreach project is to provide education, assistance, and tools to the coastal watershed towns so that they will understand the importance of buffers for water quality and quantity, the need to enhance their own town’s buffer protections, and how to move forward with enacting new buffer protection measures. These activities helped implement several Action Plans from the Management Plan. NHEP staff developed a buffer presentation, a marketing brochure for the presentation, and a webpage devoted to buffer information. One presentation was given at a public hearing in New Durham. NHEP funded several buffer related projects …

Vol.34 N.41 March 1st 2007, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 82, No. 37, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

2007 State Of The Journals Report, Vol.20 (3) January - March 2007, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Best Management Practice Adoption Between Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Basin And Southern Rivers Watersheds, B. L. Benham, Amy Braccia, Saied Mostaghimi, J . B. Lowery, P. W. Mcclellan

Biological Sciences Faculty and Staff Research

Producers in two regions of Virginia (Chesapeake Bay basin and Southern Rivers region) were surveyed to compare farming practices and agricultural best management practice (BMP) adoption. Objectives were to assess farming operations and determine the extent of cost-share and non-cost-share BMP implementation and gain insight into the impact of selected socioeconomic factors on the BMP adoption. Although farming characteristics and producer attitudes toward pollution and water quality were similar, BMP implementation differed between the two regions. Differences in BMP implementation may be due to a more focused, longer-term NPS pollution control educational effort in the Bay basin.

Environmental And Genetic Influences On Mating Strategies Along A Replicated Food Availability Gradient In Guppies (Poecilia Reticulata), Gita R. Kolluru, Gregory F. Grether, Heidy Contreras

Biological Sciences

Food availability is expected to influence the relative cost of different mating tactics, but little attention has been paid to this potential source of adaptive geographic variation in behavior. Associations between the frequency of different mating tactics and resource availability could arise because tactic use responds directly to food intake (phenotypic plasticity), because populations exposed to different average levels of food availability have diverged genetically in tactic use, or both. Different populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in Trinidad experience different average levels of food availability. We combined field observations with laboratory “common garden” and diet experiments to examine how this …

Specimens Of The Billfish Xiphiorhynchus Van Beneden, 1871, From The Yazoo Clay Formation (Late Eocene), Louisiana, Harry L. Fierstine, Gary L. Stringer

Biological Sciences

No abstract provided.

Washington University Record, March 1, 2007

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

Conservation Audit And Stewardship Plan, Christopher Kane

PREP Reports & Publications

The Town of North Hampton, NH contains significant portions of two river drainages - the Little River which flows directly into the Atlantic Ocean, and the Winnicut River which flows northward into the Great Bay estuary. Situated as it is in the watersheds of these two rivers, land use in the Town has a significant effect on the quality of the water bodies into which these rivers flow. Preservation of open space, especially in areas in the vicinity of these rivers and their associated wetlands has been identified as a priority by the Town of North Hampton, and by regional …

Contaminant Plumes Of The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory And Their Interrelation To Faults, Landslides, And Streams In Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley And Oakland, California, Committee To Minimize Toxic Waste, Laurel Collins

Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), initially called the UC Radiation Laboratory, was originally located on the University of California Berkeley (UCB) central campus in Alameda County during 1932. By 1940, it was relocated to its present site in the steep hills of Strawberry Canyon east of the Hayward Fault and the central UCB campus. The first major facility, the 184-inch synchrocyclotron was built with funds from both private and university sources, and was used in the Manhattan Project in the development of the world’s first nuclear bomb. Beginning in 1948 the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and then its successor …

Radioactive Tritium In The Environment Surrounding The Department Of Energy’S Historic Nuclear Bomb Manufacturing Plant, Mound Facility, Miamisburg, Ohio, Miamisburg Environmental Safety And Health (Mesh), Hydro-Log Llc

Miamisburg Environmental Safety and Health (MESH)

This research was completed money allocated during Round 5 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.

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March 1, 2007, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Influence Of Swimming Speed On Metabolic Rates Of Juvenile Pacific Bluefin Tuna And Yellowfin Tuna, Jason M. Blank, Charles J. Farwell, Jeffery M. Morrissette, Robert J. Schallert, Barbara A. Block

Biological Sciences

Bluefin tuna are endothermic and have higher temperatures, heart rates, and cardiac outputs than tropical tuna. We hypothesized that the increased cardiovascular capacity to deliver oxygen in bluefin may be associated with the evolution of higher metabolic rates. This study measured the oxygen consumption of juvenile Pacific bluefin Thunnus orientalis and yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares swimming in a swim-tunnel respirometer at 20°C. Oxygen consumption ( Mo₂) of bluefin (7.1–9.4 kg) ranged from 235 ± 38 mg kg^-1 h^-1 at 0.85 body length (BL) s^-1 to 498 ± 55 mg kg^-1 h^-1 at 1.80 …

A Novel Lux Operon In The Cryptically Bioluminescent Fish Pathogen Vibrio Salmonicida Is Associated With Virulence, Eric J. Nelson, Hege S. Tunsjø, Pat M. Fidopiastis, Henning Sørum, Edward G. Ruby

Biological Sciences

The cold-water-fish pathogen Vibrio salmonicida expresses a functional bacterial luciferase but produces insufficient levels of its aliphatic-aldehyde substrate to be detectably luminous in culture. Our goals were to (i) better explain this cryptic bioluminescence phenotype through molecular characterization of the lux operon and (ii) test whether the bioluminescence gene cluster is associated with virulence. Cloning and sequencing of the V. salmonicida lux operon revealed that homologs of all of the genes required for luminescence are present: luxAB (luciferase) and luxCDE (aliphatic-aldehyde synthesis). The arrangement and sequence of these structural lux genes are conserved compared to those in related species of …

Genome Size Evolution In Relation To Leaf Strategy And Metabolic Rates Revisited, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Ilia J. Leitch, Charles A. Knight

Biological Sciences

• Background and AimsIt has been proposed that having too much DNA may carry physiological consequences for plants. The strong correlation between DNA content, cell size and cell division rate could lead to predictable morphological variation in plants, including a negative relationship with leaf mass per unit area (LMA). In addition, the possible increased demand for resources in species with high DNA content may have downstream effects on maximal metabolic efficiency, including decreased metabolic rates.

• MethodsTests were made for genome size-dependent variation in LMA and metabolic rates (mass-based photosynthetic rate and dark respiration rate) using our own …

Generalized Mixture Models, Semi-Supervised Learning, And Unknown Class Inference, Samuel J. Frame, Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Statistics

In this paper, we discuss generalized mixture models and related semi-supervised learning methods, and show how they can be used to provide explicit methods for unknown class inference. After a brief description of standard mixture modeling and current model-based semi-supervised learning methods, we provide the generalization and discuss its computational implementation using three-stage expectation–maximization algorithm.

Scoping Report For The Glen Canyon Dam Long-Term Experimental Plan Environmental Impact Statement, U.S. Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Reclamation

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

This report summarizes the issues raised during the initial scoping process for the Bureau of Reclamation's Long-term Experimental Plan for Glen Canyon Dam Operations and Other Management Actions Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This report describes the initial scoping process and presents the schedule, describes the scoping meetings, summarizes comments submitted by the public, and provides an overview of the relevant issues that Reclamation anticipates will be analyzed in the EIS.

Scoping is defined by the regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as the process whereby lead agencies solicit input from the public on what the issues and alternatives …

Kin Selection Does Not Explain Male Aggregation At Leks Of 4 Manakin Species, Bette Loiselle, Thomas Ryder, Renata Durães, Wendy Tori, John Blake, Patricia Parker

Biology Department Faculty Works

In lek-mating systems, males aggregate at display arenas and females visit solely for the purpose of mating. This breeding system is characterized by high variance in male mating success with one male often receiving most copulations. High reproductive skew among males has led to question why males join leks when their chances of reproductive success are so low. Kin selection has been invoked as a mechanism to explain the evolution of lekking behavior, whereby nonreproducing but genetically related males gain indirect inclusive-fitness benefits. Evidence for kin selection among lek-mating birds is, however, mixed. Here, we show that kin selection is …