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Uksesi Mikroba Dan Aspek Biokimiawi Fermentasi Mandai Dengan Kadar Garam Rendah, Hasrul Satria Nur Apr 2009

Uksesi Mikroba Dan Aspek Biokimiawi Fermentasi Mandai Dengan Kadar Garam Rendah, Hasrul Satria Nur

Makara Journal of Science

Microbial succession and biochemical aspects of mandai fermentation at low salt concentration. Mandai is fermented food that traditionally made from the flesh of jack fruit (Arthocarphus champeden Spreg.). Usually mandai is made as high salt concentration. However, the objective of this research is to study the succession and biochemical aspects of microbials during fermentation at low salt concentration (10% w/v) for 14 days. During the period of fermentation microbial cell numbers and biochemical aspects were observed at the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 14th day. Total cell number of bacteria and yeast were measured by pour plate method. The measurement was …

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Watch Without A Watchmaker: Philosophical Questions Of Non-Believing, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University Apr 2009

Watch Without A Watchmaker: Philosophical Questions Of Non-Believing, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

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Imaging Schizophrenia: Data Fusion Approaches To Characterize And Classify, Andrew M. Michael Apr 2009

Imaging Schizophrenia: Data Fusion Approaches To Characterize And Classify, Andrew M. Michael

Theses

Schizophrenia is a complex, chronic and disabling mental disorder that affects about one percent of the adult population. The etiology of schizophrenia remains elusive and to date there are no image based tools to diagnose it. Advancements in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have enabled researchers to develop less invasive and in vivo techniques, such as structural MRI (sMRI), functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), to construct theories about the neural underpinnings of schizophrenia. With sMRI, fMRI and DTI the distribution of tissues, the functional activity and the brain network are imaged respectively. Subjects with schizophrenia (SZ) and healthy …

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Exercise Science Academic Programs And Research In Brazil, Roberto Simão, Jonato Prestes Apr 2009

Exercise Science Academic Programs And Research In Brazil, Roberto Simão, Jonato Prestes

International Journal of Exercise Science

The International Journal of Exercise Science has enjoyed an association with several students and professionals from Brazil. In this invited editorial, professors from leading institutions in Brazil, Roberto Simão from Rio de Janeiro Federal University, and Jonato Prestes from the Federal University of São Carlos, share information regarding their programs relating to Exercise Science. They have provided information on academic components such as entrance requirements, progression through programs, and professional opportunities available to students following completion; as well as details regarding funding available to students to participate in research, collaboration, and specific research interests.

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Quarterly Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents Apr 2009

Quarterly Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents quarterly meeting. Agenda items include: room naming opportunities, endowed professorship funding, 2008-09 financial reports, personnel actions, red flag identity theft prevention program, School of Teacher Education, Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility, Physical Education & Recreation name change, sustainability minor, creative writing minor, professional writing minor, historic preservation certificate, science & math education major, middle grades mathematics major, middle school science education major and emeritus faculty.

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Annual Graduate Faculty Meeting [Program], April 24, 2009, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College. Apr 2009

Annual Graduate Faculty Meeting [Program], April 24, 2009, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

Annual Graduate Faculty Meeting & Awards Ceremony Programs

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Seventeenth Annual Student Research And Creative Activities Symposium - April 24, 2009, Symposium Steering Committee Apr 2009

Seventeenth Annual Student Research And Creative Activities Symposium - April 24, 2009, Symposium Steering Committee

Student Research and Creative Activities Symposium 1993-2018

Participants - College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Management, College of Education, Graduate College, University Honors Program, McNair Scholars Program

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Moral Concerns In Genomic Medicine Beyond Gina, Stuart Paul Reeves Apr 2009

Moral Concerns In Genomic Medicine Beyond Gina, Stuart Paul Reeves

Theses

Genomic medicine, including pharmacogenomics, represents a potential paradigm shift in the diagnosis of disease and delivery of healthcare. Beyond the promise to address and resolve pandemics affecting specific ethnic/racial communities is the potential to develop pharmacological therapies custom tailored to the individual patient¿s genomic profile. However, the delivery of such promise rests on the contribution of genomic samples from individuals in communities where the culpable polymorphisms are present in high volumes. With the potential for an ever-widening disparity in overall population health among the socio-economic tiers in which these communities are often found, a theory of justice is needed to …

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Noisy Signal Recovery Via Iterative Reweighted L1-Minimization, Deanna Needell Apr 2009

Noisy Signal Recovery Via Iterative Reweighted L1-Minimization, Deanna Needell

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Compressed sensing has shown that it is possible to reconstruct sparse high dimensional signals from few linear measurements. In many cases, the solution can be obtained by solving an L1-minimization problem, and this method is accurate even in the presence of noise. Recent a modified version of this method, reweighted L1-minimization, has been suggested. Although no provable results have yet been attained, empirical studies have suggested the reweighted version outperforms the standard method. Here we analyze the reweighted L1-minimization method in the noisy case, and provide provable results showing an improvement in the error bound over the standard bounds.

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Brazilan Court Hands Down Historic Ruling Regarding Indigenous Lands, Ladb Staff Apr 2009

Brazilan Court Hands Down Historic Ruling Regarding Indigenous Lands, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

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The Murray State News, April 24, 2009, The Murray State News Apr 2009

The Murray State News, April 24, 2009, The Murray State News

Murray State University Collection

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The Bison, April 24, 2009 Apr 2009

The Bison, April 24, 2009

The Bison Newspapers

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Analyzing The Interconnectedness Between Space, Place, And Human Interaction With The Natural Environment: "Ecological Reawakening: Organic Dna And Evolution", Sarah Moos Apr 2009

Analyzing The Interconnectedness Between Space, Place, And Human Interaction With The Natural Environment: "Ecological Reawakening: Organic Dna And Evolution", Sarah Moos

Scripps Senior Theses

I have organized this paper into four chapters: "The Environmental Situation," "Space and Place," "Art and the Natural Environment," and "Creating Work of My Own." Chapter 1 explains human beings' intrinsic interconnection to the natural environment, outlining why humans should be concerned about the current degraded state of the natural world. Chapter 2 discusses the concepts of space and place. It analyzes how human beings interact with and experience spaces, developing their sense of place - within physical, theoretical, and spiritual realms. It finally illustrates the importance that spaces and places have in humans' lives. Chapter 3 describes the Land …

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An Analysis Of The Environmental And Hormonal Effects On The Growth And Development Of The Moss Ceratodon Purpureus, Megan Knight Apr 2009

An Analysis Of The Environmental And Hormonal Effects On The Growth And Development Of The Moss Ceratodon Purpureus, Megan Knight

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Ceratodon has not been documented in scientific literature as thoroughly as other species of moss such as Funaria or Tortula. Commonly known as fire moss or purple horned moss, Ceratodon is often reddish or yellow-brown and the spore capsules are usually purple (Crum, 1983). A picture of the species growing in its natural habitat is shown in Figure 4. Ceratodon often grows in tufts and is considered a weed, often thriving in polluted or disturbed areas and frequently invading after a fire (Crum 1983). Ceratodon belongs to the class Bryopsida, which also contains the previously mentioned Funaria and Tortula species. …

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Some Big Rivers Show A Big Shrinkage, Timothy Shaffer Apr 2009

Some Big Rivers Show A Big Shrinkage, Timothy Shaffer

Blog Archive: River Reflections at the University of Dayton

The flow of water in some of the world's largest rivers has declined over a half century, according to a new, comprehensive study whose authors tied the discovery to global warming.

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Sediment And Nutrient Tradeoffs In Restoring Mississippi River Delta: Restoration Vs Eutrophication, Robert R. Twilley, Victor Rivera-Monroy Apr 2009

Sediment And Nutrient Tradeoffs In Restoring Mississippi River Delta: Restoration Vs Eutrophication, Robert R. Twilley, Victor Rivera-Monroy

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

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The Structure Of A Receptor With Two Associating Transmembrane Domains On The Cell Surface: Integrin ΑIibΒ3, Jieqing Zhu, Bing Hao Luo, Patrick Barth, Jack Schonbrun, David Baker, Timothy A. Springer Apr 2009

The Structure Of A Receptor With Two Associating Transmembrane Domains On The Cell Surface: Integrin ΑIibΒ3, Jieqing Zhu, Bing Hao Luo, Patrick Barth, Jack Schonbrun, David Baker, Timothy A. Springer

Faculty Publications

Structures of intact receptors with single-pass transmembrane domains are essential to understand how extracellular and cytoplasmic domains regulate association and signaling through transmembrane domains. A chemical and computational method to determine structures of the membrane regions of such receptors on the cell surface is developed here and validated with glycophorin A. An integrin heterodimer structure reveals association over most of the lengths of the α and β transmembrane domains and shows that the principles governing association of hetero and homo transmembrane dimers differ. A turn at the Gly of the juxtamembrane GFFKR motif caps the α TM helix and brings …

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Faculty Senate Motion 019.08/09: University Curriculum Committee, Armstrong Atlantic State University Apr 2009

Faculty Senate Motion 019.08/09: University Curriculum Committee, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Bills, Motions & Resolutions (Archived)

Faculty Senate Motion 019.08/09: University Curriculum Committee

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Lead Bullet Fragments In Venison From Rifle-Killed Deer: Potential For Human Dietary Exposure, W. Grainger Hunt, Richard T. Watson, J. Lindsay Oaks, Chris N. Parish, Kurt K. Burnham, Russell L. Tucker, James R. Belthoff, Garret Hart Apr 2009

Lead Bullet Fragments In Venison From Rifle-Killed Deer: Potential For Human Dietary Exposure, W. Grainger Hunt, Richard T. Watson, J. Lindsay Oaks, Chris N. Parish, Kurt K. Burnham, Russell L. Tucker, James R. Belthoff, Garret Hart

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Human consumers of wildlife killed with lead ammunition may be exposed to health risks associated with lead ingestion. This hypothesis is based on published studies showing elevated blood lead concentrations in subsistence hunter populations, retention of ammunition residues in the tissues of hunter-killed animals, and systemic, cognitive, and behavioral disorders associated with human lead body burdens once considered safe. Our objective was to determine the incidence and bioavailability of lead bullet fragments in hunter-killed venison, a widely-eaten food among hunters and their families. We radiographed 30 eviscerated carcasses of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) shot by hunters with standard …

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Divine Fluidity: Shifts Of Gender And Sexuality In Conservative Christian Communities, Sarah Stewart Burgess Apr 2009

Divine Fluidity: Shifts Of Gender And Sexuality In Conservative Christian Communities, Sarah Stewart Burgess

Pomona Senior Theses

This thesis draws on ethnographic research from three communities of conservative Christian women who find empowerment and agency through their religious traditions. Two communities are politically active, outspoken women who also believe strongly in "traditional" roles for women, and one community idealizes conservative standards of sexuality while accepting women who work as sex workers. These women did not view their positions as contradictory, rather, they used religious beliefs and religious practices to enact, embody or explain their complex genders and sexualities. This thesis draws on ethnographic, feminist and queer theories while showcasing the diversity within a movement largely believed to …

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"The Earth Nourishing Itself": Bodies And Theology In American Food Production Systems, Katherine M. Dutcher Apr 2009

"The Earth Nourishing Itself": Bodies And Theology In American Food Production Systems, Katherine M. Dutcher

Pomona Senior Theses

The industrial food production system is a head-on collision of ecology, morality, and human health, and their respective bodies of earth, animal and human. This thesis is an attempt to grapple with that damage from a theological perspective. What would it mean for a theology to answer to the degradation of American soil that sustains nothing but oil-drenched monoculture? to the horrifying conditions under which we as a nation raise, feed, and slaughter the animals for our consumption? to the dizzying array of food-related diseases that now affect our country in staggering frequency, particularly among lower socioeconomic classes? And what …

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Newscast, April 24, 2009, Illinois State University, College Of Applied Science And Technology Apr 2009

Newscast, April 24, 2009, Illinois State University, College Of Applied Science And Technology

newsCAST

Newsletter of the Illinois State University College of Applied Science and Technology

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A Moment In Archaeology: A Reflexive Examination Of The Culture Of Meaning-Making In Archaeological Fieldwork, Jonathan W. Irons Apr 2009

A Moment In Archaeology: A Reflexive Examination Of The Culture Of Meaning-Making In Archaeological Fieldwork, Jonathan W. Irons

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

To many, archaeology is a science. It is not, however, a traditional laboratory science with controls and variables. Its experiments cannot be repeated and its variables cannot be controlled so much as managed and standardized. This regulation in archaeology has, until recently, attempted to eliminate human error, indeed, the human experience from fieldwork. Though the experiences I had in Indiana and Kenya could not have been more different, the control and regulation in archaeological fieldwork attempts to minimize the importance of those differences.

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Developmental Changes In Zebrafish Embryos Exposed To Bisphenol A Leeched From Commonly Used Plastics, David L. Ortiz Apr 2009

Developmental Changes In Zebrafish Embryos Exposed To Bisphenol A Leeched From Commonly Used Plastics, David L. Ortiz

Senior Honors Theses

Bisphenol A, an estrogen mimicker, is found in the commonly used plastic, polycarbonate. Zebrafish embryos were raised in water that had been heated in polycarbonate water bottles by either microwaving for 5 minutes, or boiling for one hour. Near total mortality was seen in 7 days for the embryos growing in bottle-microwaved water, and 9 days for those raised in bottle-boiled water. Zebrafish embryos were also grown in the following known concentrations of BPA: 2mg/l, 14mg/l, 16mg/l, 50mg/l, 135mg/l, and 235mg/l. A stepwise relationship between concentration of BPA and embryo lifespan was seen, and the lowest observed adverse effect level …

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Spring Commencement Ceremonies, University Of North Florida Apr 2009

Spring Commencement Ceremonies, University Of North Florida

Commencement Printed Materials

Program for the Spring Commencement ceremonies.

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Regional And Seasonal Diet Of The Western Burrowing Owl In South Central Nevada, Derek B. Hall, Paul D. Greger, Jeffrey R. Rosier Apr 2009

Regional And Seasonal Diet Of The Western Burrowing Owl In South Central Nevada, Derek B. Hall, Paul D. Greger, Jeffrey R. Rosier

Western North American Naturalist

We examined diets of Western Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia hypugaea) based on contents of pellets and large prey remains collected year-round at burrows in each of the 3 regions in south central Nevada (Mojave Desert, Great Basin Desert, and Transition region). The most common prey items, based on percent frequency of occurrence, were crickets and grasshoppers, beetles, rodents, sun spiders, and scorpions. The most common vertebrate prey was kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spp.). True bugs (Hemiptera), scorpions, and western harvest mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis) occurred most frequently in pellets from the Great Basin Desert region. Kangaroo rats …

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Age And Growth Of Bluehead Suckers And Flannelmouth Suckers In Headwater Tributaries, Wyoming, Diana E. Sweet, Robert I. Compton, Wayne A. Hubert Apr 2009

Age And Growth Of Bluehead Suckers And Flannelmouth Suckers In Headwater Tributaries, Wyoming, Diana E. Sweet, Robert I. Compton, Wayne A. Hubert

Western North American Naturalist

Bluehead sucker (Catostomus discobolus) and flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latipinnis) populations are declining throughout these species' native ranges in the Upper Colorado River Basin. In order to conserve these populations, an understanding of population dynamics is needed. Using age estimates from pectoral fin rays, we describe age and growth of these 2 species in 3 Wyoming stream systems: Muddy Creek, the Little Sandy River, and the Big Sandy River. Within all 3 stream systems, flannelmouth suckers were longer-lived than bluehead suckers, with maximum estimated ages of 16 years in Muddy Creek, 18 years in Little Sandy Creek, …

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Sperm Viability In The Reproductive Tract Of Females In A Population Of Sceloporus Mucronatus Exhibiting Asynchronous Reproduction, Angela M. Ortega-León, Maricela Villagrán–Santa Cruz, J. Jamie Zúñiga-Vega, Raúl Cueva–Del Castillo, Fausto R. Méndez–De La Cruz Apr 2009

Sperm Viability In The Reproductive Tract Of Females In A Population Of Sceloporus Mucronatus Exhibiting Asynchronous Reproduction, Angela M. Ortega-León, Maricela Villagrán–Santa Cruz, J. Jamie Zúñiga-Vega, Raúl Cueva–Del Castillo, Fausto R. Méndez–De La Cruz

Western North American Naturalist

Asynchronous reproduction is a common phenomenon in high-elevation populations of lizards from Central México. Sperm storage in the reproductive tract of females is the mechanism for making oocyte fertilization possible. Our study addresses questions related to functional oviductal sperm storage of females mating on different dates throughout the reproductive season. A population of Sceloporus mucronatus with copulation in the summer and ovulation in the fall was chosen for this experiment. Eleven females that copulated in the field during June and 13 females that copulated in captivity during August were maintained in the laboratory until parturition. The number of pregnant females …

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Grass Rhizosheaths: Associated Bacterial Communities And Potential For Nitrogen Fixation, David Bergmann, Mike Zehfus, Linda Zierer, Brian Smith, Mark Gable Apr 2009

Grass Rhizosheaths: Associated Bacterial Communities And Potential For Nitrogen Fixation, David Bergmann, Mike Zehfus, Linda Zierer, Brian Smith, Mark Gable

Western North American Naturalist

Rhizosheaths are structures composed of mucilage secreted from plants and adherent soil particles that form a cylinder around the root. Using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), we observed bacteria associated with rhizosheaths of the grasses Achnatherum hymenoides, Calamovilfa longifolia, Hesperostipa comata, and Pascopyrum smithii from a sand dune area in Harding County in northwestern South Dakota. The greatest numbers of bacteria, observed with SEM (529 mm−2), and the greatest number of culturable bacteria (9.9 × 107 CFU · g−1 or 5178 CFU · mm−2) were on rhizosheaths of C. longifolia. Rhizosheaths of all the grasses …

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Maternal Defensive Behavior Of Mountain Goats Against Predation By Golden Eagles, Sandra Hamel, Steeve D. Côté Apr 2009

Maternal Defensive Behavior Of Mountain Goats Against Predation By Golden Eagles, Sandra Hamel, Steeve D. Côté

Western North American Naturalist

Maternal defensive behavior against predators may appear risky but is common in many species. Herein we describe maternal defensive behavior of mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) against Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) predatory attempts. We found that Golden Eagles attacked goats in 1.9% of sightings (n = 311 sightings of active Golden Eagles over 12 years) but were never successful. Mothers always defended their young against Golden Eagle attacks. Predation by Golden Eagles on young-of-the-year appears low for most ungulate species, including mountain goats. The benefits of defending offspring against eagles are likely high in ungulates, and …

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