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Benchmarks 2009, July 3, The Rockefeller University

BenchMarks 2009

BenchMarks. Friday, July 3, 2009

The community newsletter of The Rockefeller University

BenchMarks is published monthly and is distributed on the campus of The Rockefeller University. It produced by the Office of Communications and Public Affairs

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2009), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!

Rethinking Patent Fraud Enforcement In A Reform Era, Kali Murray, Dmitriy Vinarov

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

This Article contends that, while the defense of inequitable conduct offers an avenue to combat fraudulent patent applications, the doctrine suffers from shortcomings that spring from two compromises. First, the amorphous nature of the equitable defense prompts institutional conflict between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Circuit. Second, by relegating enforcement solely to a patentee's market competitors, the defense fails to protect the public interest adequately. In light of these compromises, the authors propose two goals to guide current reform efforts in Congress. Initially, Congress's attempt to reform patent fraud enforcement should relieve the aforementioned institutional …

Virtual Worlds, Simulations, And Games For Education: A Unifying View , Carl Aldrich

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

A Continent-Wide Clone: Population Genetic Variation Of The Invasive Plant Hieracium Aurantiacum (Orange Hawkweed; Asteraceae) In North America, Eli S. Loomis, Lila Fishman

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

We investigated the population genetic structure of the invasive plant Hieracium aurantiacum (Asteraceae), a facultative apomict. We generated amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprints for H. aurantiacum samples from across its invasive range in North America (N = 226) and from six other North American native and invasive Hieracium species (N = 60). Almost no genetic variability was found in the North American H. aurantiacum across locations from Alaska and Oregon to Pennsylvania and Ontario (clonal diversity = 0.035). In contrast, other Hieracium species showed a range of clonal diversities (range = 0.154-1.0). The single H. aurantiacum genotype that dominated the …

Bar-Coded Pyrosequencing Reveals Shared Bacterial Community Properties Along The Temperature Gradients Of Two Alkaline Hot Springs In Yellowstone National Park, Scott R. Miller, Aaron L. Strong, Kenneter L. Jones, Mark C. Ungerer

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

An understanding of how communities are organized is a fundamental goal of ecology but one which has historically been elusive for microbial systems. We used a bar-coded pyrosequencing approach targeting the V3 region of the bacterial small-subunit rRNA gene to address the factors that structure communities along the thermal gradients of two alkaline hot springs in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park. The filtered data set included a total of nearly 34,000 sequences from 39 environmental samples. Each was assigned to one of 391 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) identified by their unique V3 sequence signatures. Although the two …

Self-Love And Forgiveness: A Holy Alliance?, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Working Paper Series

Forgiving is not pardoning, excusing, condoning, forgetting, or reconciling, nor is forgiving just about a change in emotions on the part of a victim. This paper pursues a virtue-theoretic account of the human person in the context of the theology of Thomas Aquinas, arguing that human forgiveness is the form love takes by an offended toward her offender. The paper argues, first, for the priority of the offended person's self-love and, second, for such self-love's extension into love of the offender as another self. The paper explores in depth the challenges of seeing one's enemy as "another self." Forgiving, the …

Intrauterine Growth Restriction Increases Fetal Hepatic Gluconeogenic Capacity And Reduces Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Translation Initiation And Nutrient Sensing In Fetal Liver And Skeletal Muscle., Stephanie R Thorn, Timothy Regnault, Laura D Brown, Paul J Rozance, Jane Keng, Michael Roper, Randall B Wilkening, William W Hay, Jacob E Friedman

Paediatrics Publications

Expression of key metabolic genes and proteins involved in mRNA translation, energy sensing, and glucose metabolism in liver and skeletal muscle were investigated in a late-gestation fetal sheep model of placental insufficiency intrauterine growth restriction (PI-IUGR). PI-IUGR fetuses weighed 55% less; had reduced oxygen, glucose, isoleucine, insulin, and IGF-I levels; and had 40% reduction in net branched chain amino acid uptake. In PI-IUGR skeletal muscle, levels of insulin receptor were increased 80%, whereas phosphoinositide-3 kinase (p85) and protein kinase B (AKT2) were reduced by 40%. Expression of eukaryotic initiation factor-4e was reduced 45% in liver, suggesting a unique mechanism limiting …

Summer 2009, Seattle University

Seattle University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Camas, Summer 2009

Camas

First Person / Bryce Andrews, Tim Gibbins -- A Finger of Owls / Julia Corbett -- The Man in the Zoo / Margo Whitmire -- Another Wolf Story / Bethany Taylor -- Libby / Michelle Lanzoni -- Convergence / Darren M. Edwards -- My Brother, The Swan / Lily Bruzas -- Dogs and Dogs / Phil Condon -- Grand Junction, December, 1988 / Frank T. Byrne -- Now that the Brown Pelicans have Flown Elsewhere / Caleb Barber -- Gunshots at Sweathouse Creek / Laura Dunn -- Old Manzanitas / Pepper Trail -- Convection: Northern Nevada, mid-winter / Magda Sokolowski …

Energías Renovables: Diagnóstico, Barreras Y Propuestas, Secretary Of Energy, Republic Of Argentina; Reeep; Fundacion Bariloche

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

Prospective study of renewable energies aimed at removing technical, economic, regulatory, and financial barriers to power generation.

Issue No. 80: July 2009, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage
3 2009 Historical Society of New Mexico Awards
4 A Successful 2009 New Mexico History Conference
4 Benjamin M. Read Conference Grants for Teachers
4 Presidents of the Historical Society of New Mexico, 1859-2009
4 Gift Memberships Available
5 Historical Society of New Mexico Membership Services
5 The New Mexico Centennial, 2012
5 HSNM Grants Program
6 The New Mexico History Museum Opens!
7 Bells of St. Francis
7 St. Francis Cathedral Basilica Scaffolding Removed
7 40th Anniversary: Remembering the Film Easy Rider
7 Membership Benefits, Historical Society of New Mexico
7 In Memoriam …

Constructing Critical Literacy: Self-Reflexive Ways For Curriculum And Pedagogy, Anne Gregory, Mary Ann Cahill

Literacy, Language and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

Schools have the potential to be places where students can come to understand how and why knowledge and power are constructed (Aronowitz & Giroux, 1993). This paper provides an overview of critical literacy from a critical theory/Freirian perspective. Within it, critical literacy is posited as a necessary component of all classroom practices, one that is elemental to Dewey’s (1916) view of democracy, social justice, and what it means to be literate. Features of a critical literacy approach to instruction are provided along with rationales for the necessity of its inclusion in a democratic society.

Office Of Scholarly Communications Annual Report Fy 2009, Paul Royster

Institutional Repository Information

FY 2009 was the 4th year of operations for the UNL Digital Commons, which again established new records for recruitment, participation, and usage.

During the year, the repository grew from being the 4th largest in the United States to the 2nd largest, overtaking MIT’s DSpace and Ohio State’s KnowledgeBank repositories. Nebraska now trails only Michigan’s Deep Blue in number of documents in a traditionally configured institutional repository.

8,393 new open access articles were deposited, an increase of 1,275 (18%) over the previous year. At June 30, 2009, the repository held 23,885 open-access documents, plus 10,965 ETDs in the ProQuest database, …

Partitioning The Apical Domain Of The Arabidopsis Embryo Requires The Bobber1 Nudc Domain Protein, R. J. Jurkuta, Nicholas J. Kaplinsky, Jennifer Elizabeth Spindel , '10, M. K. Barton

Biology Faculty Works

The apical domain of the embryo is partitioned into distinct regions that will give rise to the cotyledons and the shoot apical meristem. In this article, we describe a novel screen to identify Arabidopsis thaliana embryo arrest mutants that are defective in this partitioning, and we describe the phenotype of one such mutant, bobber1. bobber1 mutants arrest at the globular stage of development, they express the meristem-specific SHOOTMERISTEMLESS gene throughout the top half of the embryo, and they fail to express the AINTEGUMENTA transcript normally found in cotyledons. Thus, BOBBER1 is required to limit the extent of the meristem domain …

Radio Frequency Identification Technology & The Risk Society: A Preliminary Review & Critique For Justice Studies, Brian Sellers

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Creating Legal Rights For Suspected Terrorists: Is The Court Being Courageous Or Politically Pragmatic, Robert J. Pushaw

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

If An (Endangered) Tree Falls In The Forest, And No One Is Around....: Resolving The Divergence Between Standing Requirements And Congressional Intent In Environmental Legislation, Preston Carter

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Puncture-Resistance Of Gloves For Handling Bats, Patricia W. Freeman, Cliff A. Lemen

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

We quantified protection given by a variety of gloves against bat bites by using steel indenters to simulate teeth and measuring forces needed to puncture the gloves. Level of protection given by gloves was compared to expected bite forces and tooth sharpness of bats. Cotton, plastic-coated synthetic fabric, and proprietary materials advertised as puncture- and cut-resistant were easy to penetrate compared to leather gloves. Split leather gives the highest level of protection, but with reduced dexterity. These are best for handling larger bats (>40 g) or if higher safety is preferred. Deerskin gives reasonable protection without much loss in …

Droughtscape, Summer 2009, Kelly Smith

DroughtScape: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Drought Mitigation Center (2007–2023)

U.S. Drought Monitor Forum, 2009

El Niño Could Bring Wet Winter After Hot Summer

Around the World

Agriculture Hit Hard in California, Texas

Predictable Patterns in Missouri River Basin?

Seeking Low-Flow Effects in Colorado, Southeast

VegDRI Began Coast-to-Coast Coverage in May

Grades 4-5 The Iroquois, Dana Stabile

Social Studies

This is a social studies lesson for fourth and fifth graders on the Iroquois. . Through the lesson, students will understand where the Iroquois Tribe of the Eastern Woodlands lived in relation to modern day New York. Students will also be able to understand the practices, values, traditions, and daily life of the Iroquois tribe. In addition, students will understand the contributions these tribes have made to our nation today. This lesson spans over ten days and offers a variety of projects using a tic-tack-toe chart on three tiered levels where students can choose their favorite activity in each subject …

Nebline, July 2009

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Lancaster Rural Water District: Providing Water to Acreages and Villages for 35 Years
Watch for Blister Beetles in Alfalfa
Use of Copper Compounds to Control Algae in Farm Ponds
Two-Spotted Spider Mites
Water Conservation at Home Begins in the Bathroom, Laundry Room
Harvesting Rainwater Helps Conserve Water and Save Money
What to Do with Zucchini!
Fruits Are Good Source of Nutrients
Family & Community Education (FCE) Clubs: Presidents’ View—Bonnie’s Bits
FCE News & Events
Household Hints: Environmental and Energy Saving Tips When Washing Dishes
Learn the Signs/Act Early Autism Awareness
Summer Safety Tips
There is Still Time to Control Bagworms …

Carbon Trading: Opportunities, Challenges, And Distributional Effects In The United States, 2009 July, G. Michael Mikota

Publications

No abstract provided.

Wrl Newsletter Summer 2009, Maryke Barber

WRL Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Refuge Update – July/August 2009, Volume 6, Number 4

RefugeUpdate (USFWS-NWRS)

Table of Contents:
Way Beyond the Boundaries
Follow That Bird – at 4 a.m.
Pilots over the Refuge

What's Happening: July, 2009, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Mathematical Communication And Achievement Through Journal Writing, Cathy Schultz

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Master of Arts in Teaching, Summative Projects

In this study, I investigated my classroom of sixth grade mathematic students on how journal writing influences students’ writing and learning and how journal writing influences my mathematics teaching. I discovered that students enjoyed writing in their journals and reading my responses. Students could openly communicate their questions, thoughts, and opinions. They shared with me what it was like for a sixth grade math student. They also pointed out the concepts they understood or the ones that challenged them. Some students stated that the journal writing helped them think harder. As a teacher, reading and responding to their journal writing …

Students Writing Original Word Problems, Marcia Ostmeyer

Action Research Projects

In this action research study of my eighth grade mathematics classroom, I investigated what would happen when I shifted part of my instruction to focus on students writing original word problems. I also investigated whether students could show measureable growth in the quality of word problems they wrote throughout the research project. Additionally, I explored whether my students would develop a more positive attitude toward word problems as a result of writing their own word problems. Through surveys and journal responses, I discovered that the focus of my teaching shifted to a role as a facilitator for my students’ writings …

Direction Of The Play/Musical: Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Joshua Robert Johnson

Master of Theater Production Graduate Projects

This project entailed the background research and documentation, assistant direction, assistant scenic design, and post-production analysis of Central Theatre Ensemble's production of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. Documentation includes research and analysis of the play, and an evaluation of the musical as a production vehicle for the department of Theatre Arts at Central Washington University. The analysis also includes a discussion as to the non-traditional directorial vision of this production.

Direction Of The Musical: The Sound Of Music, Richard A. Vitanovec

Master of Theater Production Graduate Projects

This project entailed the selection, background research and documentation, musical analysis, casting, direction, and post-production analysis of Easton Middle School's production of The Sound of Music. Documentation includes research and analysis of the play, its music, and an evaluation of the musical as a production vehicle for the department of Theatre Arts at Central Washington University. The analysis also includes a discussion as to the directorial vision of this production.