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The Weekly Challenger, March 20, 2008, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 20, 2008, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Daily Eastern News: March 20, 2008, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

Benefits Of Using Marginal Opportunistic Wildlife Behavior Data: Constraints And Applications Across Taxa – A Dominance Hierarchy Example Relevant For Wildlife Management, Kim Jochum

Faculty

This study is a new approach on collecting, handling and examining wildlife behavior data across mammal species in order to provide new and unique conclusions from efficient data collection schemes. Sophisticated dominance hierarchy patterns and the ability of individual recognition are well described in many large mammals such as monkeys and cetaceans through the effort of detailed long-term studies. Their implications are well known as important topics regarding management strategies, especially for endangered species. However worldwide, for other large mammals, e.g. bears, detailed long-term wildlife behavior studies are virtually not available. This is due to the inaccessibility and inefficient observation …

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, March 20, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

No abstract provided.

Tidal Echoes 2008, Loren Bettridge, Josh Carter, Elizabeth Mckenzie, Rod Landis, Ernestine Hayes, Emily Wall, Susan Koester, Jo Devine-Acres, David Charles Goyette, Sara Minton, Nina Chordas, Kathy Hamblett, Alice Tersteeg

Tidal Echoes

Featuring the work of students, faculty, and staff of the University of Alaska Southeast and members of the community.

Gene Rearrangement Analysis And Ancestral Order Inference From Chloroplast Genomes With Inverted Repeat, Feng Yue, Liying Cui, Claude W. Depamphilis, Bernard M.E. Moret, Jijun Tang

Faculty Publications

Background
Genome evolution is shaped not only by nucleotide substitutions, but also by structural changes including gene and genome duplications, insertions, deletions and gene order rearrangements. The most popular methods for reconstructing phylogeny from genome rearrangements include GRAPPA and MGR. However these methods are limited to cases where equal gene content or few deletions can be assumed. Since conserved duplicated regions are present in many chloroplast genomes, the inference of inverted repeats is needed in chloroplast phylogeny analysis and ancestral genome reconstruction.

Results
We extend GRAPPA and develop a new method GRAPPA-IR to handle chloroplast genomes. A test of GRAPPA-IR …

Freedom Fighter, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

Ed Lyman '88G employs old whaling techniques to release humpbacks from lines and nets

There For You, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

For Michele Lovell Loos '90, '06G, good nursing is a matter of life and death

Hidden Village (42sa2112): A Basket Maker Iii Community In Montezuma Canyon, Utah, Donald G. Montoya

Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT This thesis focuses on the Basketmaker III period of the Ancestral Puebloan culture commonly known as the Anasazi, which means ‘ancient stranger’ or ‘ancient enemy’ in the Navajo language, or as preferred by the Hopi; "Hisatsinom" for "The Ones Who Came Before." I use the terms Anasazi and Ancestral Puebloan interchangeably in this study. My particular focus concentrates on a Basketmaker III settlement (42Sa2112 – Hidden Village) in Montezuma Canyon in southeastern Utah. My thesis presents data and an interpretive hypothesis that village formation and complex social organization emerged earlier than most standard texts (Plog 1997) assume. Analysis of …

Aristotle's Abstract Ontology, Allan Bäck

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Aristotle has a metaphysics of individual substances, substrata persisting through time that are neither in nor said of a subject. That I do not dispute. However, when we move from the individual to the universal, from perception to knowledge, Aristotle has a metaphysics of relations. This I will try to sketch out here.

Aristotle appeals to abstraction at key places in his philosophy. Somehow abstraction gets us to the first principles and to the objects of the most fundamental sciences. Somehow universals are abstracted from singulars and have no transcendent existence.

Aristotle never states his theory of abstraction formally or …

The Murray Ledger And Times, March 20, 2008, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

A Matter Of Common Sense, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

If we don't take care of the earth, and our culture, who will?

Three Models Of Anthrax Toxin Effects On The Map-Kinase Pathway And Macrophage Survival, Daniel J. Schneider

Theses and Dissertations

Lethal factor (LF), a component of anthrax toxin, is the primary virulence factor that allows Bacillus anthracis to evade the immune response by blocking the activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) enzymes. This research modifies three published MAPK models to reflect this signal inhibition and to estimate a first-order reaction rate by fitting the models to published viability data for two macrophage cell lines cultured with the LF-producing Bacillus anthracis-Vollum1B strain. One model appears to be ill-suited for this purpose because not all relevant MAPK components could be integrated into the inhibition equations. Despite different underlying parameters and values, the …

Micro-Etched Platforms For Thermal Inactivation Of Bacillus Anthracis And Bacillus Thuringiensis Spores, Leslie S. Hawkins

Theses and Dissertations

This research developed and applied microlithography techniques to etch microscope slide platforms in order to measure thermal inactivation of Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus anthracis spores, two closely related Bacillus species. B.t. is widely used as a surrogate for B.a. in response studies and in some field studies. This work addressed the previously identified problem of measuring both spore growth and spore thermal kill threshold using the traditional method of spreading a diluted spore solution on a plate. The micro-etched platforms forced spore separation thereby preventing neighbor growth from obscuring germination and initial vegetative growth measurements using a microscope. The technique …

Downregulation Of Bk Channel Expression In The Pilocarpine Model Of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Luis F. Pacheco Otalora, Eder F. Hernandez, Massoud F. Arshadmansab, Sebastian Francisco, Michael Willis, Boris Ermolinsky, Masoud M. Zarei, H.-G Knaus, Emilio R. Garrido-Sanabria

Health & Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

In the hippocampus, BK channels are preferentially localized in presynaptic glutamatergic terminals including mossy fibers where they are thought to play an important role regulating excessive glutamate release during hyperactive states. Large conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (BK, MaxiK, Slo) have recently been implicated in the pathogenesis of genetic epilepsy. However, the role of BK channels in acquired mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) remains unknown. Here we used immunohistochemistry, laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), western immunoblotting and RT-PCR to investigate the expression pattern of the alpha-pore forming subunit of BK channels in the hippocampus and cortex of chronically epileptic rats obtained …

Cultic Niches In The Nabataean Landscape: A Study In The Orientation, Facade Ornamentation, Sanctuary Organization, And Function Of Nabataean Cultic Niches, Holly A. Raymond

Theses and Dissertations

Niches are common features in the Nabataean landscape (Healey 2001; Starcky 1966: cols. 1008-10; Patrich 1990:50-113). From their frequent appearance in the archeological record, it is evident that the Nabataeans placed great importance on these cultic features. However, very little is known about them. The purpose of this study was to find and record Nabataean cultic niches in a field survey and then to interpret these niches as part of a research design that proposed purposes of niche variation in construction, orientation, and placement of niches on the landscape. My research addresses several neglected issues in the study of cultic …

Abolished By Law—Maintained In Practice: The Trokosi As Practiced In Parts Of The Republic Of Ghana, Aziza Naa-Kaa Botchway

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Culture Shock: Expanding The Current Federal Law Against Female Genital Mutilation, Vanessa Ortiz

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.

March 20, 2008, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The Bg News March 20, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 20, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 123.

Practice Related Plasticity: Functional And Cortical Changes In Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Following Four Different Hand Training Interventions, Larisa Reed Hoffman

Open Access Dissertations

Injury to the cervical spinal cord results in complete or partial loss of arm and hand function, severely limiting the performance of daily activities. Deficits in hand function in individuals with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) are primarily due to a loss of descending motor pathways that are vital for fine control of the hand and fingers. In addition to these deficits, secondary plastic reorganization may create further loss of function. This thesis will explore the following questions: 1. What are the similarities and differences between cortical organization of muscles affected by a cervical SCI to those not affected by …

Glutamate Release In The Nucleus Accumbens Core Is Necessary For Heroin Seeking, Ryan T. Lalumiere, Peter W. Kalivas

MUSC Faculty Journal Articles

Long-term changes in glutamate transmission in the nucleus accumbens core (NAcore) contribute to the reinstatement of drug seeking after extinction of cocaine self-administration. Whether similar adaptations in glutamate transmission occur during heroin and cue-induced reinstatement of heroin seeking is unknown. After 2 weeks of heroin self-administration and 2 weeks of subsequent extinction training, heroin seeking was induced by a noncontingent injection of heroin or by presentation of light/tone cues previously paired with heroin infusions. Microdialysis was conducted in the NAcore during reinstatement of heroin seeking in animals extinguished from heroin self-administration or in subjects receiving parallel (yoked) noncontingent saline or …

Johnson V. Mcphee Respondent's Brief 1 Dckt. 33966

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Nor'easter News Volume 1 Issue 5, Nor'easter News Staff

Nor'easter News

The fifth issue of the University of New England's student-run newspaper, Nor'easter News.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2000s

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, March 19, 2008, Daily Egyptian Staff

March 2008

No abstract provided.

Lack Of Pathology In A Triple Transgenic Mouse Model Of Alzheimer’S Disease After Overexpression Of The Anti-Apoptotic Protein Bcl-2, Troy T. Rohn, Veera Vyas, Tatiana Hernandez-Estrada, Kathryn E. Nichol, Lori-Ann Christie, Elizabeth Head

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the accumulation of plaques containing ß-amyloid (Aß) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) consisting of modified tau. Although Aß deposition is thought to precede the formation of NFTs in AD, the molecular steps connecting these two pathologies is not known. Previous studies have suggested that caspase activation plays an important role in promoting the pathology associated with AD. To further understand the contribution of caspases in disease progression, a triple transgenic Alzheimer’s mouse model overexpressing the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2 was generated. Here we show that overexpression of Bcl-2 limited caspase-9 activation and reduced the caspase cleavage …

The Bg News March 19, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 19, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 122.

Computer-Based Instruction And Remedial Mathematics: A Study Of Student Retention At A Florida Community College, Carol A. Zavarella

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Computer-based instruction including distance learning is fast becoming an integral part of higher education. Much of the current research has found that computer-based instruction is as effective as lecture-based instruction. Despite the wealth of studies that purport that students enrolled in computer-based instruction perform equally well as compared to their lecture-based counterparts, there is a high dropout rate associated with computer-based instruction including distance learning.

The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in students' withdrawal and completion rates in classes delivered via different instructional formats (distance learning, hybrid, or traditional) to determine if student learning style and/or …

The Tempo And Mode Of Three‐Dimensional Morphological Evolution In Male Reproductive Structures, Mark A. Mcpeek, Li Shen, John Z. Torrey, Hany Farid

Dartmouth Scholarship

Various evolutionary forces may shape the evolution of traits that influence the mating decisions of males and females. Phe- notypic traits that males and females use to judge the species identify of potential mates should evolve in a punctuated fashion, changing significantly at the time of speciation but changing little between speciation events. In contrast, traits experiencing sexual selection or sexually antagonistic interactions are generally expected to change continuously over time because of the directional selection pressures imposed on one sex by the actions of the other. To test these hy- potheses, we used spherical harmonic representations of the shapes …