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Quantum Dot Immuno-Conjugates Allow For Reliable Photo-Stable Detection Of Intracellular Stages Of Toxoplasma Gondii, Natalia Barahona Guerrero

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Luminescent quantum dot nanoparticles have emerged as a highly effective alternative to organic fluorescence probes in a variety of applications employing the use of immunoconjugates. In the present study, we have successfully used quantum dot technology for the immunofluorescent detection of intracellular stages of Toxoplasma gondii in a CV-1 mammalian cell line. This assay will allow us to investigate the question of whether selenium and other antioxidants have a direct impact on the intracellular cycle of the parasite. A Lab-Tek cell culture system was used to determine optimal concentrations of primary and secondary antibodies. Infected CV-1 monolayers were fixed in …

Communion In The South Union: An Archaeological Analysis Of A Shaker Colony, Daniel Tallent

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Where Do They Go When They Die?, Meridith L. Bartley

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Food webs and matrices are vital to understanding feeding relationships and ecology. Adjacency matrices can be employed to present the direct relationships between predators and prey; these binary matrices utilize 0’s to denote no direct link and 1’s to denote a direct link. We analyzed a variety of published food webs ranging from pine forests in the United States to tussock grasslands in New Zealand. The food webs varied in number of distinguishable taxa present, functional diversity, climates and habitats. Consequently, we expect that our results are not specific to a given system. The published food webs lack flows from …

The Collapse: An Annotated Screenplay, Brandon Colvin

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The Collapse: An Annotated Screenplay consists of an in-depth theoretical essay and an original feature-length screenplay, with a series of annotations to the screenplay explicating how the principles established in the essay are implemented in a creative work. The essay, entitled “The Absurd Screen: Bresson, Tarkovsky, and ‘Waterless Deserts,’” investigates how Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd applies to the cinematic styles of two directors – Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky – using examples from the filmmakers’ own theoretical writings and specific scenes and sequences from their films. The Collapse provides a practical example of the essay’s conclusions and categorizations, …

Scaling Of Feesing Behavior And Performance In The Goliath Grouper, Epinephelus Itajara, Michelle Riggs

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Scaling is defined as the changes related to body size an animal undergoes during its life history. This change in body size can have implications for habitat use, prey consumed, and predatory threats, among others. The goliath grouper, Epinephelus itajara, undergoes one of the greatest amounts of scaling of any animal known, growing from 3mm at hatching to 2.3 m as adults. This tremendous change has implications for their development and niche as a top-level predator in their habitats. However, the consequences of their drastic change in body size for feeding performance have never been quantified. Here, a juvenile goliath …

The Impacts Of Global Warming On Appalachian Wildflower Phenologies, Rachel D. Wigginton

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Public and private interest in global warming has prompted exploration of the impacts this phenomenon may impart on ecosystem functions. Flowering phenology has been one of the areas many scientists believe is particularly susceptible to the impacts of anthropogenic warming. Over three weekends in spring of 2008, the vernal herb community was surveyed at five sites within the Great Smoky Mountains regions of the southern Appalachian Mountains. The intent was to capture the naturally occurring elevational gradient and determine if the temperature cue for blooming was the same for all co-flowering species in the study. This information would allow for …

Abstracts Of Presentations, Colby College

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

No abstract provided.

Solar And Topographical Breeding Habitat Preferences Of Two Damselflies Calopteryx Aequabilis And Calopteryx Maculata, Christopher St. Andre

Undergraduate Review

As the global climate changes many species are forced to adapt, but if the climate changes beyond their tolerance levels they can face extinction1. Scientists need to work fast in order to mitigate these extinctions. Using field observations of species’ habitats coupled with the use of geographic information systems (GIS), researchers can model the locations of ideal habitats. Using these models, scientists can work to improve conservation efforts by raising the populations of dwindling species or predicting locations to place new subpopulations. Data used in GIS are spatially explicit, so stored within individual data sets and information systems are locational …

New College Class Of 2009 Commencement Program, New College Of Florida

Office of the Registrar Collection

Twelve page program detailing the order of events for commencement at the New College of Florida, including location and dates of events, speakers' names and subjects.

Food For Thought: The Imagination-Intellect And The Role Of Empathy, Mary E. Weems

Iowa Journal of Communication

This auto/ethnographic essay expands upon my imagination-intellect theory (See: Weems, 2003) by exploring the role of empathy in developing a social consciousness, which is its fifth component. In it, I describe my creative process and discuss the various degrees of empathy I've experienced. It includes three creative writings as exemplars of the kinds of empathy I continue to explore in my work and to facilitate with teacher education and other students at the university and k-12 level.

Department Of Cardiac Function In Lcad Deficient Mice After A Single Bout Of Endurance Exercise, Evan M. Lord

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Fatty acids are the primary fuel source for cardiac tissue in both humans and animals. These become especially important during times of starvation and long bouts of exercise. Fatty acids are broken down into smaller, useable acyl-CoA subunits through a process called beta-oxidation. The first step in this process must be catalyzed by one of four acyl-CoA dehydrogenase enzymes depending on the length of the fatty acid to be metabolized. The enzyme that catalyzes the break-down of long-chain fatty acids, long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCAD), was examined. The objective of this study was to determine how a single bout of endurance …

Evolution Of Gene Structure In Multicellular Eukaryotes, Maria Hester

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

We investigated the patterns of intron conservation in eukaryotes for five different genes. The genes examined were ribosomal proteins L8, S14 and S17, along with elongation factor 2B and triose phosphate isomerase. Intron conservation for S14, S17, and triose phosphate isomerase was determined for 32 species representing the major branches of multicellular eukaryotes. For 25 conserved introns 16 were phase 0, five were phase 1, and four were phase 2. Triose phosphate isomerase had five of nine conserved introns shared between plants and animals, where S14 had one of nine and S17 had one of seven. However, there were two …

The Digest Edition 2009/1 : The Use Of Icts In Schools In The Digital Age: What Does The Research Say?, Marion Meiers, Pat Knight, Gerry White

Research Digest

This edition of The Digest is focused on research that has investigated aspects of digital learning. The body of research sometimes described as ‘e-learning research’ encompasses many aspects of ICT in education, at many levels and in many contexts. For the purposes of this digest, the key question is What does research tell us about digital learning in schools? The first section of the digest is focused on the diverse uses of ICT in schools, and evidence about the ICT literacy of Australian students. This is followed by an overview of evidence about the impact of ICT on student learning. …

Allaby, M. (Ed.). (2009). Dictionary Of Zoology (3rd Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press [Book Review]., Kevin Mcdonough

Publication

No abstract provided.

"The Status And Distribution Of Freshwater Crabs [West Africa]" , Neil Cumberlidge

Book Sections/Chapters

No abstract provided.

Alteration Of Renal Respiratory Complex-Iii During Experimental Type-1 Diabetes, Shankar Munusamy, Hamida Saba, Tanecia Mitchell, Judit K. Megyesi, Robert W. Brock, Lee A. Macmillian-Crow

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Background

Diabetes has become the single most common cause for end-stage renal disease in the United States. It has been established that mitochondrial damage occurs during diabetes; however, little is known about what initiates mitochondrial injury and oxidant production during the early stages of diabetes. Inactivation of mitochondrial respiratory complexes or alteration of their critical subunits can lead to generation of mitochondrial oxidants, mitochondrial damage, and organ injury. Thus, one goal of this study was to determine the status of mitochondrial respiratory complexes in the rat kidney during the early stages of diabetes (5-weeks post streptozotocin injection).

Methods

Mitochondrial complex …

The Effects Of Opioids And Opioid Analogs On Animal And Human Endocrine Systems, Laura O'Dell

Departmental Papers (Psych)

No abstract provided.

What A World – What A World: Scene/Script Analysis For Fight Plays, T. Fulton Burns

Theatre Faculty Research

“While perfection is a wonderful goal, there comes a point where you have to let your creation out into the world or it isn’t worth a tinkerer’s damn.” This is a fantastic quote by Twyla Tharp from her book The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life: A Practical Guide. So what does this have to do with you, the stage combatant? Well you are working hard but you are being told not to strive for perfection because perfection can never truly be achieved in the arts, so naturally itwarrants the question “then for what exactly do you …

Raising A Stink: Why Michigan Cafo Regulations Fail To Protect The State's Air And Great Lakes And Are In Need Of Revision, Karly Zande

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Jousting At Wind Mills: When Wind Power Development Collides With Oil, Gas, And Mineral Development, K.K. Duvivier, Roderick E. Wetsel

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Success for the renewable energy economy rides on wind power. Although wind currently accounts for only one percent of the total electricity generation in the United States, the Obama administration hopes to leverage it to twenty-five percent by 2025. Even before setting the current goals, our government recognized wind power as 'the fastest growing source of new power generation.' As fate would dictate, some of the nation’s most promising wind resources overlap regions of the country rich in oil, gas, and other minerals. The intensive surface footprint of wind farms makes conflict with the development of underlying resources inevitable. This …

Teaching Law Students To Comfort The Troubled And Trouble The Comfortable: An Essay On The Place Of Poverty Law In The Law School Curriculum, Robert Hornstein

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ocular Microtremor Laser Speckle Metrology, Mohammed Al-Kalbani, Emilia Mihaylova, Niamh Collins, David Coakley, Gerard Boyle, Vincent Toal

Conference Papers

Ocular Microtremor (OMT) is a continual, high frequency physiological tremor of the eye present in all subjects even when the eye is apparently at rest. OMT causes a peak to peak displacement of around 150nm-2500nm with a broadband frequency spectrum between 30Hz to 120Hz; with a peak at about 83Hz. OMT carries useful clinical information on depth of consciousness and on some neurological disorders. Nearly all quantitative clinical investigations have been based on OMT measurements using an eye contacting piezoelectric probe which has low clinical acceptability. Laser speckle metrology is a candidate for a high resolution, non-contacting, compact, portable OMT …

The Time Factor: Leveraging Intelligent Agents And Directed Narratives In Online Learning , Greg Jones, Scott Warren

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

God Speaks In The Heart Language, Gideon Petersen

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Nanobiotechnology, Synthetic Biology, And Rnai: Patent Portfolios For Maximal Near-Term Commercialization And Commons For Maximal Long-Term Medical Gain, Thomas M. Mackey

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

This article examines patent portfolio construction and management of three nascent technologies: nanobiotechnology, synthetic biology, and interference RNA. The author outlines how a practitioner can use patent portfolios to help his or her client to maximize long-term gain. Finally, the article advocates changes that would remove barriers to patentability and increase patent quality.

Cross-Talk In The Gut, Jennifer E. Dinalo, David A. Relman

Faculty and Staff Publications

Modulation of host signaling by the products of microbial activity in the gut may affect weight gain and fat formation.

Sabbatical Leave Proposal And Report, Don Bergfield

Sabbaticals

The primary goal of my sabbatical is to become more proficient in Spanish by cultural immersion. Additionally, I plan to study various forms of agriculture in Central America and possibly South America. The time afforded through this sabbatical will allow me to have an extended stay in Costa Rica to interact with colleagues teaching agriculture at the University of Costa Rica and to immerse myself in the Latino culture.

New Adventures Of Old Pauline Law, Tawia Baidoe Ansah

Faculty Publications

This article examines the idea of law within two recent philosophical approaches to a theological text. Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou, two postmodern philosophers on the political left, look to the letters of St. Paul for the definition and extraction of the political subject. They look to Paul’s messianism and his conversion to discover, within their own philosophical projects, what is truly political within the Western philosophical tradition, for which Paul’s theology is unconditional. The article focuses on the conception of law that, in turn, derives from these projects. The article suggests that within both, despite the objective rejection of …

It’S Just A Shot Away: Mmr Vaccines And Autism And The End Of The Daubertista Revolution, Joelle A. Moreno

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Heterogeneous Drive Mechanisms For Novel Locomotion In Rough Terrain, Roy Godzdanker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The smaller the robot the easier it is for it to access voids in a collapsed structure, however small size brings a host of other problems related to constrained resources. One of the primary constraints on small robots is limited motive power to surmount obstacles and navigate rough terrain. This thesis examines the addition of bulk motive force actuators to existing locomotion platforms and the impact of these heterogeneous actuators on conventional steering methods. The steering methods examined are those associated with skid steered vehicles and differential drive vehicles. In developing the Crabinator, a robot composed of a limbed crawler …