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06/06/2008 - Corpse Flower.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

2008

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The Murray Ledger And Times, June 6, 2008, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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First Record Of Diaphorina Citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) From The Sultanate Of Oman, Talal S. Zadjali, Rohani Ibrahim, Ahmed K. Al-Rawahi

Insecta Mundi

Mexican acid lime, Citrus aurantifolia (L.) Swingle (Rutaceae), is the most popular citrus species in Oman and is the second most important economic crop. The cultivated area of acid lime in the period of 2001-2004 ranged between 4460-2880 feddans (1 feddan = 1.038 acres = 0.420 hectares), with an annual production of about 8160-5875 metric tonnes (Anonymous 2004).

Previous surveys did not reveal any record of psyllids on citrus in Oman. However, the most important psyllid species attacking citrus, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), was recently observed on C. aurantifolia. It was observed first at Barka (Al-Batinah region) on …

Gynandromorphs In The Genera Ophiogomphus Selys, 1854 And Ischnura Charpentier, 1840 (Odonata: Gomphidae, Coenagrionidae), K. J. Tennessen

Insecta Mundi

A gynandromorph of Ophiogomphus smithi Tennessen and Vogt from Wisconsin and a gynandromorph of Ischnura hastata (Say) from Alabama are described. The specimens appear to be bilateral in that they display mostly left/right separation of male and female characters.

The First Record Of Merycomyia Whitneyi (Johnson), Tribe Bouvieromyiini (Diptera: Tabanidae), From Texas And From West Of The Mississippi River, James T. Goodwin, Emmanuel D. Williams

Insecta Mundi

The first collections of Merycomyia whitneyi (Johnson), (Diptera: Tabanidae: Chrysopsinae: Bouvieromyiini) from Texas and from west of the Mississippi River are reported, and the Nearctic species of the Tribe Bouvieromyiini are discussed.

Description Of The Male Of Plectromerus Michelii Nearns And Branham, 2008 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Eugenio H. Nearns

Insecta Mundi

The previously unknown male of Plectromerus michelii Nearns and Branham is described and illustrated.

Phylogenetic Revision Of Eryphanis Boisduval, With A Description Of A New Species From Ecuador (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae), Carla M. Penz

Insecta Mundi

This study provides a species-level phylogeny for the Neotropical brassoline genus Eryphanis Boisduval based on 43 morphological characters. A revised generic definition is given. Three subspecies are elevated to species status and a new species is described; E. bubocula (Butler, 1872), status revised; E. lycomedon (C. Felder and R. Felder, 1862), status revised; E. opimus (Staudinger, 1887), status revised; and E. greeneyi Penz and DeVries, new species. Diagnoses, annotated redescriptions, and illustrations of habitus and genitalia are provided for the nine Eryphanis species.

Includes Corrigenda of 8/22/2008.

Vaccine Technology Ii: Conference Program, Barry C. Buckland, John G. Auniņš, Paula Marques Alves, Kathrin U. Jansen

Vaccine Technology II

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Emerging Diseases, Zoonoses And Vaccines To Control Them, Paul-Pierre Pastoret

Vaccine Technology II

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Vaccine Technology Ii: Abstracts Of Oral Presentations, The Editors

Vaccine Technology II

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Challenges And Solutions For The Next Generation Of Vaccines: Development Of Cell Culture-Based Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine, Jonathan Liu, Luis Maranga, Sachin Mani, Richard Schwartz

Vaccine Technology II

No abstract provided.

Vaccine Technology Ii: Abstracts Of Poster Presentations, The Editors

Vaccine Technology II

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Effects Of Mek5/Erk5 Association On Small Ubiquitin-Related Modification Of Erk5implications For Diabetic Ventricular Dysfunction After Myocardial Infarction, Tetsuro Shishido, Chang Hoon Woo, Bo Ding, Carolyn Mcclain, Carlos Molina, Chen Yan, Jay Yang, Jun Ichi Abe

Department of Biology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Diabetes mellitus (DM) contributes to the exacerbation of left ventricle (LV) dysfunction after myocardial infarction (MI). Activation of ERK5, an atypical mitogen activated protein kinase with transcriptional activity, inhibits apoptosis and LV dysfunction after doxorubicin treatment. SUMOylation has been proposed as a negative regulator of various transcription factors. In the current study, we investigated the role of ERK5-SUMOylation in ERK5 transcriptional activity as well as on DM-mediated exacerbation of LV dysfunction and apoptosis after MI. ERK5 wild-type transcriptional activity was inhibited by Ubc9 (SUMO E2 conjugase) or PIAS1 (E3 ligase), but not in the ERK5-SUMOylation-site defective mutant (K6R/K22R). H2O2 and …

Development And Investigation Of Unique Organic Materials To Detect Disease Biomarkers, George Kiplimo Samoei

Dissertations and Theses

Chemomechanical polymer gels with the capability of recognizing specific biological molecules are promising materials for many biomedical applications. Glucose-selective hydrogels have potential utility in the continuous monitoring of glucose and glucose-triggered insulin delivery for the management of diabetes. Herein, the development and study of the first material which detects glucose via significant volume changes in the challenging matrix human blood plasma is described. The material was created via the modification of PMMA with supramolecular binding sites. The polymer exhibits excellent selectivity and reversibility including continuous expansion-contraction cycles.

Benchmarking Community Investments In Green Building And Green Buying Programs In Five U.S. Cities, Shanna Nicole Eller

Dissertations and Theses

This is a study of what can be learned from leading U.S. cities about their work on environmental sustainability program efforts and what that information suggests for other cities considering a move into the environmental sustainability arena. The study focuses on green building and buying programs.

This is an exploratory study aimed at determining if detailed information, recommended for pursuit by Portney (2003), is available regarding: (a) how individual city sustainability programs got started; (b) how they maintain or fail to maintain themselves; (c) what they have been able to achieve programmatically; and (d) how effectively they have accomplished environmental …

Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (Pfps): A Systematic Review Of Anatomy And Potential Risk Factors, Gregory R. Waryasz, Ann Y. Mcdermott

Kinesiology and Public Health

Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS), a common cause of anterior knee pain, is successfully treated in over 2/3 of patients through rehabilitation protocols designed to reduce pain and return function to the individual. Applying preventive medicine strategies, the majority of cases of PFPS may be avoided if a pre-diagnosis can be made by clinician or certified athletic trainer testing the current researched potential risk factors during a Preparticipation Screening Evaluation (PPSE). We provide a detailed and comprehensive review of the soft tissue, arterial system, and innervation to the patellofemoral joint in order to supply the clinician with the knowledge required to …

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For June 5, 2008, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the June 5, 2008 Board of Regents Meeting

June 5, 2008 Finance & Facilities (F&F) Committee Meeting, Evp For Administration

Finance and Facilities Committee

Documents related to the June 5, 2008 Board of Regents' Finance and Facilities Committee Meeting. (Agenda, Minutes, eBook)

Model-Based Clustering Of Methylation Array Data: A Recursive-Partitioning Algorithm For High-Dimensional Data Arising As A Mixture Of Beta Distributions, E. Andres Houseman, Brock C. Christensen, Ru-Fang Yeh, Carmen J. Marsit, Margaret R. Karagas, Margaret Wrensch, Heather H. Nelson, Joseph Wiemels, Shichun Zheng, John K. Wiencke, Karl T. Kelsey

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

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Slides: Protecting Biodiversity Through Ecosystem Services, Barton "Buzz" Thompson

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

Presenter: Barton “Buzz” Thompson, Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University Law School

14 slides

Slides: Threats To Biological Diversity: Global, Continental, Local, J. Michael Scott

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

Presenter: J. Michael Scott, U.S. Geological Survey, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Idaho

38 slides

Slides: Global Warming And The Endangered Species Act, Kieran Suckling

Shifting Baselines and New Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West (Summer Conference, June 4-6)

Presenter: Kieran Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity

15 slides

Western News, June 5, 2008, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Timothy Greene is new provost; WMU Day at the Capitol draws 700 Broncos to Lansing; APA and PSSO select officers, award scholarships; On Campus with "B.J." Caldwell.

2008-06-05, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

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Method For Efficient Post Transcriptional Gene Slencing Using Intrinsic Direct Repeat Sequences And Utilization Thereof Infunctional Genomics, Amitava Mitra, Chonglie Ma

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

It is well documented that transgenes with inverted repeats can efficiently trigger post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), presumably via a double stranded RNA induced by complementary sequences in their transcripts. We show here that transgenes with intrinsic direct repeats can also induce PTGS at a very high frequency (80-100%). A transgene with three or four repeats induced PTGS in almost 100% of the primary transformants, regardless of whether a strong (en hanced 35S promoter) or a relatively weak (chlorophyll a?b binding protein promoter) promoter was used. The PTGS induced by three or four repeats is consistently inherited in Subsequent generations, and …

Campus Report June 5, 2008

News Releases

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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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2008 - Stage Door Program, Neiu Theatre Department

Theatre Production Programs

Stage Door program

The Importance Of Motherhood Among Women In The Contemporary United States, Julia Mcquillan, Arthur L. Greil, Karina M. Scheffler, Veronica Tichenor

Bureau of Sociological Research: Faculty Publications

We contribute to feminist and gender scholarship on cultural notions of motherhood by analyzing the importance of motherhood among mothers and non-mothers. Using a national probability sample (N = 2,519) of U.S. women ages 25-45, we find a continuous distribution of scores measuring perceptions of the importance of motherhood among both groups. Employing OLS multiple regression, we examine why some women place more importance on motherhood, focusing on interests that could compete with valuing motherhood (e.g., education, work success, leisure), and controlling for characteristics associated with becoming a mother. Contrary to cultural schemas that view mother and worker identities …

The Role Of Extracellular Matrix And Matrix-Degrading Proteases In Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury, Christopher C. Leonardo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Improvements in medical care over recent decades have increased the number of premature and low birth weight infants that survive hypoxic-ischemic (H-I) insults. Because there is a rising incidence in diseases associated with these events, it is critical to develop effective therapies to treat the various resulting neuropathies. Extracellular matrix constitutes the majority of brain parenchyma. Lecticans and matrix-degrading proteases including ADAMTSs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin repeats) and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) exert effects on cell viability and may be associated with either protective or destructive processes after H-I. Both ADAMTSs (Cross et al. 2006; Tian et al. 2007) …