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Collection Development For The Department Of Psychology,, Charles D. Bernholz

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1871, but it took almost two decades until psychology courses were offered. The man who was singularly responsible for bringing psychology to the University was Professor Harry Kirk Wolfe, and thus the history of the Psychology Department begins with him.

Harry K. Wolfe enrolled as an undergraduate in the University in 1876, just five years after the University was chartered. Four years later, he graduated in a class of eight. Three years later, he went to Leipzig Germany to study in the laboratory of the founder of experimental psychology, Professor Wilhelm …

Florida Board Of Governors, State University System (Sus) Annual Report : Usfsp/Usf System : 2009 : 12 : 16, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg., University Of South Florida. System., Florida. Board Of Governors., State University System Of Florida.

Statewide Governing Boards: Reports and Planning Documents

No abstract provided.

The Enemy Within: Microbes And Genes, Jamuna Vadivelu

Archival Material (2000s)

Life as we know would not exist without bacteria to decompose waste and dead organisms. These bacteria ensure that the cycle of chemical exchange between organisms and their environment is continuous. The environment plays a critical role as a source for the emergence of pathogens and in the manifestation, course, and prognosis of human and animal diseases. Bacteria survive in a host of environmental niches such as soil, surface waters, plants, and in humans. In each of these niches they have specific roles in order to survive. Amongst environmental factors the physiological characteristics, temperature and humidity are critical. In the …

Unh Researchers: Oyster Thief Is Here To Stay, Rebecca Zeiber

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

College Of Dentistry Collection Development Policy, Joan Latta Konecky

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The dentistry collection supports the teaching, research and service activities of the College of Dentistry and the related research endeavors of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln community. College of Dentistry cooperative research has been conducted with various departments in the College of Engineering, as well as those in chemistry, geology, pharmacy, and medicine. The College of Dentistry Faculty, staff and students also use the related biomedical research collections at the UNMC McGoogan Library of Medicine and have UNMC affiliate status and remote access privileges to the UNMC Library collections and subscriptions. They also have been granted UNL affiliate status and remote …

State University System Of Florida Board Of Governors, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Annual Report, December 16, 2009, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg, Florida. Board Of Governors., State University System Of Florida., University Of South Florida. System.

Academic Learning Compacts

The 2009 annual report for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the State University System and the Florida Board of Governors.

Engineering Mechanics Collection Development Policy, Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The Department of Engineering Mechanics offers an M.S. degree and participates in the "Mechanics and Energetics Field" option of the Unified Ph.D. Program of the College of Engineering. At the undergraduate level, the Department provides required courses such as engineering graphics, mechanics of rigid and non-rigid bodies, materials science and numerical methods for the various departments of the colleges of Engineering and Architecture. At the graduate level courses are offered in advanced dynamics, advanced mechanics of materials, experimental stress analysis, dimensional analysis, theory of models, finite element techniques, vibrations, digital and analog computer techniques, continuum mechanics, theory of plates and …

Food Science And Technology Collection Development Policy, Rebecca Bernthal

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The Department of Food Science and Technology is located in the Food Industry Complex on East Campus at UNL. The department started out as a part of many departments in the College of Agriculture, the most important being the Department of Dairy Science. Up until 1960, food processing was incorporated in the various College of Agriculture departments of dairy science, agronomy, animal science, poultry science, and agricultural engineering and in the Foods and Nutrition Department of the College of Home Economics. In 1960 the new Food Technology major was approved as an inter-departmental major involving all departments with food processing …

Industrial And Management Systems Engineering, Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering offers a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering. It also offers an M.S. degree and participates in the "Electrical and Systems Engineering" option of the college-wide Ph.D. Program in Engineering. The Department offers coursework in manufacturing, operations research, ergonomics, engineering management, decision modeling, occupational safety and health, quality control, inventory control, facility planning and design, automation, biomechanics, queueing theory, non-linear programming, robotics. The major research emphases in the Department are in ergonomics, dealing with the human being in the industrial workplace, and in applied operations research where energy, government and industrial problems are …

Staff Council Meeting Minutes, Georgia Southern University, Staff Council

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.

Release From Cross-Orientation Suppression Facilitates 3d Shape Perception, Andrea Li, Qasim Zaidi

Publications and Research

Cross-orientation suppression (COS) in striate cortex has been implicated in the efficient encoding of visual stimuli. We show that release from COS facilitates the decoding of 3-D shape. In planar surfaces overlaid with textures, slanting the surface can increase the visibility of the component parallel to the slant. Since this component provides the orientation flows that signify 3-D shape, the enhancement of visibility facilitates 3-D slant perception. Contrast thresholds reveal that this enhancement results from a decrease in COS when 3-D slant creates a frequency mismatch between texture components. We show that coupling compressive nonlinearities in LGN neurons with expansive …

The Security And Foreign Policy Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran: An Offensive Realism Perspective, Bledar Prifti

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study argues that security and foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is mainly driven by the main principles of the Offensive Realism theory of international relations. While the Iranian political system is considered a theocratic system, based on the Islamic Shi'a ideology, its survival is defined as the ultimate ideology-an ideology that is paramount to any other ideology. Iran's security and foreign policy is determined and shaped by its need to survive in an anarchic international system. Iran's cooperation with "two Satans", Israel and the United States, during the Iran-Iraq war demonstrates that the ultimate ideology of …

Carbon Coated Tellurium For Optical Data Storage, Jonathan D. Abbott

Theses and Dissertations

A highly durable optical disk has been developed for data archiving. This optical disk uses tellurium as the write layer and carbon as a dielectric and oxidation prevention layer. The sandwich style CTeC film was deposited on polycarbonate and silicon substrates by plasma sputtering. These films were then characterized with SEM, TEM, EELS, ellipsometry, ToF-SIMS, etc, and were tested for writability and longevity. Results show the films were uniform in physical structure, are stable, and able to form permanent pits. Data was written to a disk and successfully read back in a commercial DVD drive.

Nor'easter News Volume 3 Issue 6, Nor'easter News Staff

Nor'easter News

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

12/15/2009 - Eiu Fall Commencement Ceremonies Set For Saturday, Dec. 19, University Marketing And Communications

2009

No abstract provided.

Words Of Hate, Words Of Love, Constance K. Lundberg

Vol. 2: Service & Integrity

This devotional address was given to the BYU student body on March 11, 2003.

A Walk By Faith: Founding Stories Of The Law School, Bruce C. Hafen

Vol. 2: Service & Integrity

This Founders Day address was given to the J. Reuben Clark Law Society at Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City on August 30, 2007.

Curricular Affairs Committee Minutes December 15, 2009, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.

Inferring Dispersal Of Aquatic Invertebrates From Genetic Variation: A Comparative Study Of An Amphipod (Talitridae Hyalella Azteca) And Mayfly (Baetidae Callibaetis Americanus) In Great Basin Springs, Heather Lynn Stutz

Theses and Dissertations

Whether active or passive, dispersal accompanied by gene flow shapes the population genetics and evolutionary divergence of species. Indirect methods which use genetic markers have the ability to assess effective dispersal—that which resulted in gene flow. My objective was to see if an aquatic insect and an obligate aquatic invertebrate show similar phylogeographic patterns and genetic uniqueness. Hyalella azteca and Callibaetis americanus were collected from 4-5 springs in each of six basins in the Great Basin of western North America. No dispersal or genetic studies of C. americanus have been conducted to date. However, several studies focusing on mtDNA diversity …

Phylogeny Of The Macaques (Cercopithecidae: Macaca) Based On Alu Elements, Jing Li, Kyudong Han, Jinchuan Xing, Heui Soo Kim, Jeffrey Rogers, Oliver A. Ryder, Todd Disotell, Bisong Yue, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

Genus Macaca (Cercopithecidae: Papionini) is one of the most successful primate radiations. Despite previous studies on morphology and mitochondrial DNA analysis, a number of issues regarding the details of macaque evolution remain unsolved. Alu elements are a class of non-autonomous retroposons belonging to short interspersed elements that are specific to the primate lineage. Because retroposon insertions show very little homoplasy, and because the ancestral state (absence of the SINE) is known, Alu elements are useful genetic markers and have been utilized for analyzing primate phylogenentic relationships and human population genetic relationships. Using PCR display methodology, 298 new Alu insertions have …

The Portland Spectator, December 2009, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Portland Spectator

Editor: Joe Wirtheim

Articles in this issue include: One pill makes you smarter; Proudfoot takes a side step; Sustainability keeps on going; More than a student club; Witnessing the purge; and Fueling free speech with FIRE

Internal Priming: An Opportunistic Pathway For L1 And Alu Retrotransposition In Hominins, Deepa Srikanta, Shurjo K. Sen, Erin M. Conlin, Mark A. Batzer

Faculty Publications

Retrotransposons, specifically Alu and L1 elements, have been especially successful in their expansion throughout primate genomes. While most of these elements integrate through an endonuclease-mediated process termed target primed reverse transcription, a minority integrate using alternative methods. Here we present evidence for one such mechanism, which we term internal priming and demonstrate that loci integrating through this mechanism are qualitatively different from "classical" insertions. Previous examples of this mechanism are limited to cell culture assays, which show that reverse transcription can initiate upstream of the 3′ poly-A tail during retrotransposon integration. To detect whether this mechanism occurs in vivo as …

Applied Climate-Change Analysis: The Climate Wizard Tool, Evan H. Girvetz, Chris Zganjar, George T. Raber, Edwin P. Maurer, Peter Kareiva, Joshua J. Lawler

Faculty Publications

Background: Although the message of "global climate change'' is catalyzing international action, it is local and regional changes that directly affect people and ecosystems and are of immediate concern to scientists, managers, and policy makers. A major barrier preventing informed climate-change adaptation planning is the difficulty accessing, analyzing, and interpreting climate-change information. To address this problem, we developed a powerful, yet easy to use, web-based tool called Climate Wizard (http://ClimateWizard.org) that provides non-climate specialists with simple analyses and innovative graphical depictions for conveying how climate has and is projected to change within specific geographic areas throughout the world. Methodology/Principal Findings: …

Hyd1 Peptides As Anti-Cancer Agents, Lori Anne Hazlehurst, William S. Dalton, Anne E. Cress, Kit Lam

USF Patents

The present invention concerns fragments and variants of the HYD1 peptide; polynucleotides encoding the peptides; host cells genetically modified with the polynucleotides; vectors comprising the polynucleotides; compositions containing these peptides, polynucleotides, vectors, or host cells; and methods of using the peptides, polynucleotides, vectors, and host cells as inhibitors of aberrant cell growth in vitro or in vivo, e.g., as anti-cancer agents for treatment of cancer, such as myeloma. The present invention further includes a method of increasing the efficacy of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, comprising administering an agent that binds β1 integrin to a patient in need thereof. In one …

Growth Factor Binding Molecules, Said Sebti, Andrew D. Hamilton

USF Patents

Growth factor binding molecules having a plurality of peptide loops attached to a non-peptide organic scaffold, preferably having pseudo-six amino acid peptide loops with four amino acid sidechains. The growth factor binding molecules specifically bind various growth factors and are suitable for treating a subject having tumors or restinosis. In one embodiment a platelet-derived growth factor binding molecule is disclosed that is used to inhibit tumor growth and angiogenesis in solid tumors.

Actions Of Octocoral And Tobacco Cembranoids On Nicotinic Receptors, P. A. Ferchmin, Oné R. Pagán, Henning Ulrich, Ada C. Szeto, Richard M. Hann, Vesna A. Eterović

Biology Faculty Publications

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) are pentameric proteins that form agonist-gated cation channels through the plasma membrane. AChR agonists and antagonists are potential candidates for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Cembranoids are naturally occurring diterpenoids that contain a 14-carbon ring. These diterpenoids interact with AChRs in complex ways: as irreversible inhibitors at the agonist sites, as noncompetitive inhibitors, or as positive modulators, but no cembranoid was ever shown to have agonistic activity on AChRs. The cembranoid eupalmerin acetate displays positive modulation of agonist-induced currents in the muscle-type AChR and in the related gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A receptor. Moreover, cembranoids display …

Protein Rrcovered From Oyster Wash Water By Ultrafiltration And Their Utilization As Oyster Sauce Through Fermentation, Chyuan-Yuan Shiau, Tuu-Jyi Chai

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The use of ultrafiltration to recover proteins from oyster wash water was found to increase the protein concentration by 18 folds. The concentrations of total suspended solids and chemical oxygen demand in the permeate were reduced by 98 and 47%, respectively. Fermentation was a good method to improve the flavor of the retentate from ultrafiltration. The increase in concentrations of extractive-N, free amino acids and small peptides supported the idea that the fermentation process with Koji (cultured with Aspergillus oryzae) could accelerate the hydrolysis of the recovered protein. The Koji fermented juice was made into oyster sauce, which was accepted …

Fleet Dynamic Analysis Of The Taiwan Offshore Trawl Fishery: An Application Of The Sea Surface Temperature Measures, Chin-Hwa Sun, Fu-Sung Chiang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The overall goal of this paper is to provide important information documenting and analyzing Taiwan’s trawl fishing fleet activities in the northeastern of Taiwan. Seasonal SST data are used to analyze different seasonal fishing patterns and the density of fleet dynamics of offshore trawl fleet is used to identify five distinct fishing areas (A, B, C, D, and E) in the northeastern of Taiwan. A Wilcoxon sign test is used to examine the variability in the percent of days spent in each fishing area from 1993 to 1996. Results show that a significant portion of trawl vessels have shifted from …

Influence Of Surface Currents On Post-Nesting Migration Of Green Sea Turtles Nesting On Wan-An Island, Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan, I-Jiunn Cheng, Yu-Huai Wang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The relationships between ambient flows and the migration corridors of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) nesting at Wan-an Island, Penghu Archipelago in Taiwan Strait were determined. Six turtles deployed with Argos-linked satellite tags from 1996 to 2004 were used. The ambient flows were derived from the combination of ship board measurements, a global tidal model, and the geostrophic flows derived from sea surface height anomalies. The results showed that there were, basically, three migrating patterns. Turtles that migrated northeastward rode the main surface currents, traveling 2000 km in a month. The swimming speeds along the track were less than 0.5 m …