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Ethnobotanical Studies Of Nubra Valley - A Cold Arid Zone Of Himalaya, Phani Kumar G, Sunil Gupta, Pal Murugan M, Shashi Bala Singh

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

An attempt has been made to explore traditional medicinal knowledge of Nubra valley, the cold arid zone of Himalaya. Ethnobotanical information were gathered through several visits, group discussions and cross checked with local medicine men. The study identified 65 plant species belonging to 30 families have been used to cure various diseases and ailments. Maximum number of species was recorded to be used in kidney complaints (14 spp.), cold & cough (13 spp.) and fever (11 spp.). Leaves of 27 species; whole plant extract of 20 species and root/bulb of 19 species were mostly used. Juice, raw items, paste and …

The Effect Of Anti-Diabetics In Kidney Of Rats, R. Mary Sujin, R. Mary Subin, R. Mahesh, J. Vinolyia Josephine Mary

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

The optimization of this study is anti-diabetic effect in kidney of albino wistar rats using Gymnema sylvestre (Retz) R.Br. herbal powder. The histopatholoical and biochemical assays were carried out in organ and blood serum of kidney. The different concentration of powder treated as 5, 10, 15, 20/gms/25 days. The effect of crude drugs in rats reduced the body weight and extent of diabetics was assessed in kidney by measuring the levels of selected blood parameters of protein, glucose, cholesterol, insulin and triglycerides and the effect of histopathology. The crude drugs reduced the body and kidney weight of animals and reduced …

Death Receptor 5 Internalization Is Required For Lysosomal Permeabilization By Trail In Malignant Liver Cell Lines., Yuko Akazawa, Justin L. Mott, Steven F. Bronk, Nathan W. Werneburg, Alisan Kahraman, Maria Eugenia Guicciardi, Xue Wei Meng, Shigeru Kohno, Vijay H. Shah, Scott H. Kaufmann, Mark A. Mcniven, Gregory J. Gores

Journal Articles: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) cytotoxicity in hepatocellular carcinoma cells is mediated by lysosomal permeabilization. Our aims were to determine which TRAIL receptor, death receptor (DR) 4 or DR5, mediates lysosomal permeabilization and assess whether receptor endocytosis followed by trafficking to lysosomes contributes in this process.

METHODS: TRAIL ligand internalization in Huh-7 cells was examined by confocal microscopy using Flag-tagged TRAIL, whereas DR4- and DR5-enhanced green fluorescent protein internalization was assessed by total internal reflection microscopy. Clathrin-dependent endocytosis was inhibited by expressing dominant negative dynamin.

RESULTS: Although Huh-7 cells express both TRAIL receptors, short hairpin RNA …

Hostility And Anger In: Cardiovascular Reactivity And Recovery To Mental Arithmetic Stress., Elizabeth J. Vella, Bruce H. Friedman

Faculty Publications

Hostility and anger have been attributed as psychosocial risk factors for coronary heart disease. Heightened cardiovascular reactivity (CVR), and poor recovery, to provocative stressors are thought to hasten this risk. Purpose: To examine the relationship between hostility and anger inhibition (AI), and the moderating situational influences of harassment and evaluation, in predicting CVR and recovery to mental arithmetic (MA) stress using a multiple regression approach.

Christenberry, Hipps Were Former Administrators, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

Gaussian Perturbations Of Circle Maps: A Spectral Approach, John Mayberry

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

In this work, we examine spectral properties of Markov transition operators corresponding to Gaussian perturbations of discrete time dynamical systems on the circle. We develop a method for calculating asymptotic expressions for eigenvalues (in the zero noise limit) and show that changes to the number or period of stable orbits for the deterministic system correspond to changes in the number of limiting modulus 1 eigenvalues of the transition operator for the perturbed process. We call this phenomenon a λ-bifurcation. Asymptotic expressions for the corresponding eigenfunctions and eigenmeasures are also derived and are related to Hermite functions. © Institute of Mathematical …

Inadequacies Of Missouri Intestacy Law: Addressing The Rights Of Posthumously Conceived Children, The, Kimberly E. Naguit

Missouri Law Review

When Sergeant Dayne Darren Dhanoolal of Columbus, Georgia, died on March 31, 2008, while serving in Iraq, Kynesha Dhanoolal, his widow, hoped to be able to fulfill his expressed wish of having children.' She obtained a temporary restraining order in federal court to prevent the military from embalminp Sergeant Dhanoolal until someone extracted and froze samples of his sperm. Mrs. Dhanoolal planned to be artificially inseminated with the sperm as early as that summer. While this may sound like the stuff of science fiction, science and technology no longer limit human reproduction to the act of sexual intercourse. Couples today …

Clinical And Translational Implications Of The Caveolin Gene Family: Lessons From Mouse Models And Human Genetic Disorders., Isabelle Mercier, Jean-Francois Jasmin, Stephanos Pavlides, Carlo Minetti, Neal Flomenberg, Richard G Pestell, Philippe G Frank, Federica Sotgia, Michael P Lisanti

Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Faculty Papers & Presentations

Here we review the clinical and translational implications of the caveolin gene family for understanding the pathogenesis of human diseases, including breast and prostate cancers, pulmonary hypertension, cardiomyopathy, diabetes, and muscular dystrophy. Detailed phenotypic analysis of caveolin knockout mice has served to highlight the crucial role of a caveolin deficiency in the pathogenesis of many human disease processes. Mutations in the human caveolin genes are associated with a number of established genetic disorders (such as breast cancer, lipodystrophy, muscular dystrophy, and cardiomyopathy), making the caveolins important and novel targets for drug development. The implementation of new strategies for caveolin replacement …

Missouri S&T Magazine Summer 2009, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association

Missouri S&T Magazine

No abstract provided.

Sample Size Estimation While Controlling False Discovery Rate For Microarray Experiments Using The Ssize.Fdr Package, Megan Orr, Peng Liu

The R Journal

Microarray experiments are becoming more and more popular and critical in many biological disciplines. As in any statistical experiment, appropriate experimental design is essential for reliable statistical inference, and sample size has a crucial role in experimental design. Because microarray experiments are rather costly, it is important to have an adequate sample size that will achieve a desired power with out wasting resources.

For a given microarray data set, thousands of hypotheses, one for each gene, are simultaneously tested. Storey and Tibshirani (2003) argue that con trolling false discovery rate (FDR) is more reasonable and more powerful than controlling family-wise …

The Hwriter Package: Composing Html Documents With R Objects, Gregoire Pau, Wolfgang Huber

The R Journal

HTML documents are structured documents made of diverse elements such as paragraphs, sections, columns, figures and tables organized in a hierarchical layout. Combination of HTML documents and hyperlinking is useful to report analysis results; for example, in the package array Quality Metrics (Kauffmannetal., 2009), estimating the quality of mi croarray data sets and cellHTS2(Boutrosetal.,2006), performing the analysis of cell-based screens.

There are several tools for exporting data from R into HTML documents. The package R2HTML is able to render a large diversity of R objects in HTML but does not easily support combining them in a structured layout and …

Distribution And Biology Of The Rare Scarab Beetle Megatharsis Buckleyi Waterhouse, 1891 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini), Conrad P. D. T. Gillett, W. D. Edmonds, Santiago Villamarin

Insecta Mundi

Megatharsis buckleyi Waterhouse, 1891 is newly recorded from Brazil, extending its distributional range beyond Ecuador and Peru. A further new provincial record from Ecuador is presented in detail, and the species’ distribution and habitat is discussed. Color variation within the species, with a possible geographic correlation, is reported here for the first time.

Abstrato: A ocorrência de Megatharsis buckleyi Waterhouse, 1891 é registrada pela primeira vez para o Brasil, implicando um grande aumento na sua área de distribuição, além do Equador e do Peru. O registro da espécie para a província equatoriana de Orellana é registrada pela primeira vez. …

Beetle Species Diversity In The Lesser Antilles Islands: How Many Species Are Really There?, Stewart B. Peck

Insecta Mundi

Recent extensive and intensive field work by the team of M. A. Ivie on the Lesser Antillean island of Montserrat suggests that a mean of 827 beetle species may be expected on that island. This datum makes possible the generation of hypotheses of the probable beetle species diversity on other islands of the Lesser Antilles as a function of the areas of the islands. Figures are given for the presently known, estimated total, and estimated number of unknown species for each principal island. This predicts that many hundreds (if not thousands) of beetle species remain to be discovered. This is …

The Indo-Australian Weevil Genus Platytenes Pascoe, 1870 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae), Gregory P. Setliff, Peter A. Larson

Insecta Mundi

The formerly monotypic weevil genus Platytenes Pascoe (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae: Cryptorhynchini: Cryptorhynchina) as treated here, includes two commonly encountered and broadly distributed species in the eastern Indo-Australian region. Label data indicate that both species are associated with semicultivated betel palm (Areca catechu L., Arecaceae) and human mediated dispersal is suggested to have influenced their present-day distribution. Herein, we provide a diagnosis for Platytenes and redescribe its type species, P. varius Pascoe. We also describe P. occultus Setliff and Larson, a new species from the Solomon Islands. New host and locality records are provided, including the first records of the …

A Review Of The Genus Megalographa Lafontaine And Poole (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) With The Description Of A New Species From Costa Rica, J. Donald Lafontaine, J. Bolling Sullivan

Insecta Mundi

The classification of the genus Megalographa Lafontaine and Poole, 1991, is reviewed and the five known species diagnosed. The genus is essentially restricted to the New World, although one species M. biloba (Stephens) is migratory and has occasionally straggled to western Europe. A new species (Megalographa talamanca Lafontaine and Sullivan) endemic to the Talamanca Mountain Range in Costa Rica is described. Adults and genitalia are illustrated.

List Of Coleoptera Holotypes In Museo De Historia Natural, Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autonoma “Gabriel Rene Moreno,” Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia, James E. Wappes, Julieta Ledezma Arias, Eugenio H. Nearns

Insecta Mundi

The 144 Coleoptera holotypes in the Museo de Historia Natural, Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia are listed alphabetically within their respective family. Full literature citations for the original descriptions of listed holotypes are included in the Literature Cited section. Los 144 holotipos de Coleoptera depositados en el Museo de Historia Natural, Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia se presentan en orden alfabético dentro de sus familias respectivas de Coleoptera. Citas de literatura completas para trabajos incluidos están representadas en la sección de referencias.

On-Line Studies On Nebraska Ornithology, Paul A. Johnsgard

Nebraska Bird Review

In recent years the University of Nebraska has been developing a DigitalCommons Internet library (http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/) that is freely available online, and that includes publications in the humanities and sciences. The DigitalCommons is a national online digital library that serves as a repository for scholarly publishing. It is a collection of a university's scholarly effort that preserves and makes accessible information via the Internet that is produced by that institution. It may include preliminary or final copies of journal articles, theses, dissertations, conference proceedings, books, or other scholarly materials. The University of Nebraska has been an active participant in this national …

The Use Of Dihydroxy Fatty Acid And Palm-Based Polyol As Selected Components Of Envo-Diesel Fuel Blends To Reduce C.I. Engine Gaseous Emissions And Carbon Deposits, H. Husnawan, Haji Hassan Masjuki, T.M.I. Mahlia, M.G. Saifullah, M.A. Kalam

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Nowadays, engine problems such as higher NOx, increase in smoke content and low brake power output due to biofuel fueled engine have been reduced by several improvements by using additives or modifications on engine itself. This paper presents a type of compositions and proper combination of selected chemical components which may be used in palm oleindiesel blends namely “Envo-Diesel”. The blended component was designed as an additive package which was blended with diesel-biofuel at 99:1 up to 95:5 percent ratios. Blended fuels with additive have been used in the single cylinder engine which operated under 2000 rpm for 100 hours. …

Stochastic Simulation And Analysis Of Biomolecular Reaction Networks, John M. Frazier, Yaroslov Chushak, Brent Foy

Physics Faculty Publications

Background: In recent years, several stochastic simulation algorithms have been developed to generate Monte Carlo trajectories that describe the time evolution of the behavior of biomolecular reaction networks. However, the effects of various stochastic simulation and data analysis conditions on the observed dynamics of complex biomolecular reaction networks have not recieved much attention. In order to investigate these issues, we employed a a software package developed in out group, called Biomolecular Network Simulator (BNS), to simulate and analyze the behavior of such systems. The behavior of a hypothetical two gene in vitro transcription-translation reaction network is investigated using the Gillespie …

Best Practices And The State Of Information Security, Kevin Cronin

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The forces of globalization, together with widely available industry standards and best practices, and heightened state legislative activity, are driving the U.S. towards a more unified approach to data security. But the success of this unified approach requires more than free market efficiency and innovation. In order to maintain a state of evolutionary equilibrium in the global information economy, the U.S. must move from a fragmented approach towards data security and privacy standards, towards a more comprehensive set of standards with new penalties and effective enforcement, to better reflect the inherent value of personal data in today's global marketplace.

A Follow Up Study On The Efficacy Of The Homoeopathic Remedy Arsenicum Album In Volunteers Living In High Risk Arsenic Contaminated Areas, Anisur Rahman Khuda-Bukhsh, Susanta Roy Karmakar, Antara Benerjee, Pathikrit Benerjee, Surajit Pathak, Surjyo Jyoti Biswas, Saiful Haque, Debarsi Das

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

In continuation of our short-term pilot studies reported earlier, results on certain toxicity biomarkers in volunteers who continued to take the potentized Arsenicum Album 200C till 2 years are presented. Out of some 130 verum-fed volunteers of pilot study, 96 continued to take the remedy till 6 months, 65 till 1 year and 15 among them continued till 2 years. They provided samples of their urine and blood at 6 months, 1 year and finally at 2 years. None out of 17 who received 'placebo turned up for providing blood or urine at these longer intervals. Standard methodologies were used …

Pages News, Volume 17, No. 2, June 2009, Mark Siddall, William G. Thompson, Claire Waelbroeck

PAGES

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- Tales from the field -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- Special Section: Understanding sea level: Ways forward from the past -- Editorial: Past ice sheet dynamics and sea level—placing the future in context -- Science Highlights -- Recent Antarctic and Greenland ice-mass fluxes from satellite observations -- U-series dating of fossil coral reefs: Consensus and controversy -- Using models to inform the field community: Far-field sea level data applications -- PLIOMAX: Pliocene maximum sea level project -- The dimensions of the Greenland Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum -- Extending the …

Kissing In Marital And Cohabiting Relationships: Effects On Blood Lipids, Stress, And Relationship Satisfaction, Justin P. Boren, Kory Floyd, Annegret F. Hannawa, Colin Hesse, Breanna Mcewan, Alice E. Veksler

Communication

Affection exchange theory and previous research suggest that affectionate behavior has stress-ameliorating effects. On this basis, we hypothesized that increasing affectionate behavior would effect improvements in physical and psychological conditions known to be exacerbated by stress. This study tested this proposition by examining the effects of increased romantic kissing on blood lipids, perceived stress, depression, and relationship satisfaction. Fifty-two healthy adults who were in marital or cohabiting romantic relationships provided self-report data for psychological outcomes and blood samples for hematological tests, and were then randomly assigned to experimental and control groups for a 6-week trial. Those in the experimental group …

Does Student Leadership Participation Enhance The Development Of Emotional Intelligence, Michelle Breanne Curro

Master's Theses

Emotional Intelligence is believed to explain how emotions may be used, monitored, and measured to predict workplace success and failure, the suggestion that if individuals can balance the emotions within themselves and others, they can use their skills to better their organization. This study explored the development of Emotional Intelligence in the ASI Student Manager Team in comparison to Student Government members at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) during the fall 2008 quarter. The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) was used to assess student leaders’ Emotional Intelligence (EI) development (N = 27). A two sample t-test …

Time-Frequency Analysis Of Intracardiac Electrogram, Erik Brockman

Master's Theses

The Cardiac Rhythm Management Division of St. Jude Medical specializes in the development of implantable cardioverter defibrillators that improve the quality of life for patients diagnosed with a variety of cardiac arrhythmias, especially for patients prone to sudden cardiac death. With the goal to improve detection of cardiac arrhythmias, this study explored the value in time-frequency analysis of intracardiac electrogram in four steps. The first two steps characterized, in the frequency domain, the waveforms that construct the cardiac cycle. The third step developed a new algorithm that putatively provides the least computationally expensive way to identifying cardiac waveforms in the …

Thriving In Today's Times: Childhood And Adolescent Depression, Ann Michelle Daniels

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Depression isn’t reserved only for adults. Depression can affect a child or teen’s appetite, sleep cycle, concentra¬tion, self-esteem, and relationships. It is not a child or teen being “difficult” on purpose, nor is it something the young person can “just snap out of.” Depression is a medical issue that must be addressed. Depression is linked to childhood and adolescent sui¬cides and runaways (National Mental Health Association). Suicide is the third leading cause of death in young people aged 15 to 24 and the fifth leading cause of death in 5- to 14-year-olds. A child or teen that has gone through …

Thriving In Today’S Times: A Role Change, Ann Michelle Daniels, Liz Gorham

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

John has worked for the same employer for over 15 years. John has always enjoyed working, and his wife, Mary, has always loved being in charge of the family’s ev¬eryday needs. John and Mary are proud of their work ethic and have always looked forward to sharing their heritage with their children. But due to circumstances beyond John’s control, John lost his job, and in order to make ends meet, Mary is now working in town at a local school. Both John and Mary struggle with their new responsibilities. In every family, roles and responsibilities have been established. For example, …

A Nonsense Mutation In A Cinnamyl Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Is Responsible For The Sorghum Brown Midrib6 Phenotype1[W][Oa], Scott E. Sattler, Aaron J. Saathoff, Eric J. Haas, Nathan A. Palmer, Deanna L. Funnell-Harris, Gautam Sarath, Jeffrey F. Pedersen

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

brown midrib6 (bmr6) affects phenylpropanoid metabolism, resulting in reduced lignin concentrations and altered lignin composition in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). Recently, bmr6 plants were shown to have limited cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity (CAD; EC 1.1.1.195), the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of hydroxycinnamoyl aldehydes (monolignals) to monolignols. A candidate gene approach was taken to identify Bmr6. Two CAD genes (Sb02g024190 and Sb04g005950) were identified in the sorghum genome based on similarity to known CAD genes and through DNA sequencing a nonsense mutation was discovered in Sb04g005950 that results in a truncated protein lacking the NADPH-binding and C-terminal …

Main Hall To Main Street, June 2009, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

Main Hall to Main Street, 2005-2010

This is volume 15, number 6 of Main Hall to Main Street.

Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 68 - A Quota Management System For The Western Rock Lobster Fishery, Rock Lobster Industry Advisory Committee (Rliac), Department Of Fisheries, Western Australia

Fisheries Occasional Publications

There has been much debate over the past two decades on the most appropriate long-term management framework for Western Australia’s Western Rock Lobster Fishery. More recently a debate over whether the fishery would be best managed under a Quota Management System (QMS) or the continuation of the current Input Control Management System (ICMS) culminated in an industry vote coordinated by the Western Rock Lobster Council (WRLC) in 2006 . The outcome of this vote resulted in industry support to retain the existing management system based on input controls2 , however, shortly after the vote there was a renewed level of …