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Aquaponics & Landfill Methane Use: These Fetid Miasmata Smell Like Profitable Conservation, Blake M. Mensing

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

This article outlines the basic processes involved in aquaponics and landfill methane utilization and then proposes that more synergistic systems should be developed and then implemented on a larger scale to minimize total human waste output. Aquaponics is a sustainable practice because the waste of one system is used to fuel another symbiotic system and the only input is the fish food.

Disability Rights, Disability Discrimination, And Social Insurance, Mark C. Weber

Georgia State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Proteomic Comparison Of Entamoeba Histolytica And Entamoeba Dispar And The Role Of E. Histolytica Alcohol Dehydrogenase 3 In Virulence, Paul H. Davis, Minghe Chen, Xiaochun Zhang, C. Graham Clark, R. Reid Townsend, Samuel L. Stanley

Biology Faculty Publications

The protozoan intestinal parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects millions of people worldwide and is capable of causing amebic dysentery and amebic liver abscess. The closely related species Entamoeba dispar colonizes many more individuals, but this organism does not induce disease. To identify molecular differences between these two organisms that may account for their differential ability to cause disease in humans, we used two-dimensional gel-based (DIGE) proteomic analysis to compare whole cell lysates of E. histolytica and E. dispar. We observed 141 spots expressed at a substantially (.5- fold) higher level in E. histolytica HM-1:IMSS than E. dispar and 189 spots showing …

April 1, 2009 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Report, Fourth Monitoring Report, April 1, 2009, Norine E. Noonan

SACS Documentation

The fourth monitoring report from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for reaccreditation purposes by the Southern Associations of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).

Interactive Software Incorporated Into Education To Improve Learning, Brittany S. Keller

Senior Seminars

Today, in a society that is growing more and more into technology, teachers find themselves faced with learning the new technology and incorporating it into their classroom environments. Teachers have moved to internet questions and smart boards in forms of teaching styles compared to the old days where most lectures were done on chalkboards, dry erase boards, or overheads. With the upcoming technology advances, studies find that children are enjoying video and computer games more and more because the graphics and designs are just getting better and better. Therefore, many companies and educational programs are bringin in interactive software to …

Alaskan Caver, Volume 29, No. 2, April 2009, Carlene Allred

Alaskan Caver

Contents: From the Editor - White Nose Syndrome - White Nose Syndrome Updates - Caving in the Misty Wrangell Mountains, by Kevin Allred - Map of Fosse Pothole - Map of Frosty Cave - Map of Meadow Pit - Map of Willow Pit - Map of goat track Cave - Letter to Grotto Members - New Cave Sketching Technique Discovered, b Dr. Science - Earth Hummocks on Alpine Karst, By Carlene Allred - Grotto Meetings - Vertical practice with the Boy Scouts

The Perfect Match, Rachel Hatch

Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, 2002-2017

The combined talents of Professors Bruce and Norma Criley breathed new life into biology studies at Illinois Wesleyan.

Letter From The Editor, Dan Wexler

The Park Place Economist

No abstract provided.

Adopted Children’S Outcomes As Young Adults In Regards To Educational Attainment And Income, Nicole Spear

The Park Place Economist

No abstract provided.

Wbwg News, Volume 5, No. 1, Spring 2009, Cori Lausen, Kristi Dubois

WBWG News

Contents: President's Corner -- Letter from the Editors -- State/Provincial Updates -- Bob Berry Memorial Fund -- Upcoming Events -- Bats and Wind Energy Workshop Summary -- WBWG 2009 Biennial Meeting Summary and Abstracts -- WBWG 2009 Biennial Meeting Photo Gallery

05. 2009 Imsaloquium Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Class of 2010

No abstract provided.

Oncolog Volume 54, Number 04, April 2009, Sunita Patterson, Sunni Hosemann

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Rebuilding What Cancer Has Ravaged
• Organ-Confined Prostate Cancer
• House Call: Integrative Medicine: Understanding Complementary and Alternative Therapies

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Summer 2009), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Summer 2009 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Opening Remarks
• PCOM Updates and Kudos
• Development News
• GA-PCOM Mason W. Pressly Memorial Medal
• Crisis in the ER: Repairing the Nation’s Health Care Safety Net
• Challenges
• Finding Answers
• Physician Assistants Ease Burden
• Primary Care Physicians Are Key
• PCOM Provides Leadership
• Reunion Years Roundtable
• The Inspiration Behind the Simmy Ginsburg Humanitarian Award
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• My Turn Essay
• PCOM Events

From Silent Film To Youtube™ : Tracing The Historical Roots Of Motion Picture Technologies In Education, Chareen Snelson, Ross A. Perkins

Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article traces the historical roots of YouTube™ and online video to examine it within the context of educational motion picture history. The current state of online video is discussed first followed by a thematic analysis of the history of educational motion pictures from silent film to YouTube. The historical literature reveals recurring themes and issues, which include: (1) the intrinsic advantages of motion picture technologies, (2) differing opinions about the benefits of film and video, and (3) access and equipment issues. Previous historical accounts fall short of addressing how these themes connect to online video. The potential future of …

Mcnair News, Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2009

McNair News: Newsletter of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln McNair Scholars Program

Recognition Reception: Achievements and Awards
McNair Recruitment Video Created
Community Outreach, Volunteerism & Leadership
Spotlight on Dr. Laura Damuth: UCARE & Fellowships
McNair Research Projects Funded by UCARE for 2008-09 & 2009-10
Alumni News
How to Be a Successful Graduate Student Panel
Kudos to McNair Scholars
McNair Scholars Headed for Graduate School
Dean’s List: It’s Academic
Once a McNair Scholar - Always a McNair Scholar by Carol Boehler

Contact Networks In A Wildlife-Livestock Host Community: Identifying High-Risk Individuals In The Transmission Of Bovine Tb Among Badgers And Cattle, Monika Böhm, Michael R. Hutchings, Piran C. L. White

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

Background: The management of many pathogens, which are of concern to humans and their livestock, is complicated by the pathogens’ ability to cross-infect multiple host species, including wildlife. This has major implications for the management of such diseases, since the dynamics of infection are dependent on the rates of both intra- and inter-specific transmission. However, the difficulty of studying transmission networks in free-living populations means that the relative opportunities for intra- versus inter-specific disease transmission have not previously been demonstrated empirically within any wildlife-livestock disease system. Methodology/Principal Findings: Using recently-developed proximity data loggers, we quantify both intra-and interspecific contacts in …

Final Report -- Missouri River Fish And Wildlife Mitigation Program: Fish Community Monitoring And Habitat Assessment Of Off-Channel Mitigation Sites, Van Sterner, Royce Bowman, Brandon L. Eder, Sabrina Negus, Gerald Mestl, Kasey Whiteman, Darrick Garner, Vince Travnichek, Joshua Schloesser, Joseph Mcmullen, Tracy Hill

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

The Missouri River has been developed for flood control, commercial navigation, irrigation, fish and wildlife conservation, municipal water supply, water quality control and hydropower production through a series of congressional acts. However, prior to development, the lower Missouri River was characterized by a highly sinuous to braided channel with abundant log jams, sand bars, secondary channels and cut-off channels. Construction of the Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project (BSNP) converted the lower Missouri River into a narrow, self scouring channel. The active channel downstream of Sioux City, Iowa was as wide as 1.8 km before river modification, but is now confined …

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

United States Geological Survey: Publications

Contents:
Integrated Science for the Nation’s Northern Great Plains
Core Science Capabilities
Center Expertise
Highlights of Current Research Program
Our Mission
Locations of the Center and Duty Stations

Celebration Of Faculty Creative Works, 2007-2008, University Of Texas At Arlington Library, Ut Arlington Office Of The Provost

Faculty Creative Works-Archive

The UT Arlington Library and the Office of the Provost are pleased to host the first exhibition of books, creative works, and patents created by UT Arlington faculty and staff in 2007-2008. We plan to make this signature event an annual celebration at UT Arlington. The idea of the exhibition started with Tommie Wingfield, assistant to the dean of the library for marketing and external relations, and the fact that the exhibit is taking place is testament to her tenacity and hard work.

"Everything Is Medicine": Burke’S Master Metaphor?, Carly Woods

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

For Kenneth Burke, humans are part of a diseased and ailing society. Yet while the rest of us are under an anesthetic, too doped up to know what is going on, Burke is partially awake and sees through the fog, watching the surgery unfold. Burke’s mission is to elucidate the curative potential of language and literature. Paying particular attention to biographical influences, this article traces key lineages of the medical metaphor in Burke’s major works. I argue that scholars should take seriously the idea that “everything is medicine” to Burke by considering the way that medicine may function as a …

Transforming Transsexual And Transgender Rights, L. Camille Hebert

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

State and federal employment anti-discrimination statutes have failed to adequately protect transsexual and transgendered individuals in the workplace. Although advancements have been made in recent years regarding the protection of sexual minorities, transsexual and transgendered employees continue to receive sporadic and noncomprehensive protection. Various approaches have been taken to extend protection against discrimination to these individuals, including the utilization of disability protection statutes, the expansion of anti-discrimination statutes, and the protection of transsexual and transgendered individuals as a class; however, these approaches have proven flawed in providing adequate protection.

An examination of anti-discrimination law shows that these measures, while perhaps …

Editors' Introduction, Robert K. Hitchcock, Samuel Totten

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Indigenous peoples—those people who consider themselves, or are considered by others, to be Aboriginal, ‘‘First Nations,’’ native peoples, Fourth World peoples, or ‘‘original occupants’’ of specific places on the planet—have faced genocide, cultural destruction, and forced removal from their ancestral areas for thousands of years. Over the centuries, colonization—the expansion of populations into new areas and the exploitation of natural and human resources there—has led to significant declines in the populations of indigenous groups. As Patrick Brantlinger notes, ‘‘One of the main causes for these declines is not mysterious: violence, warfare, genocide.’’1

Biological Absorption And Genocide: A Comparison Of Indigenous Assimilation Policies In The United States And Australia, Katherine Elinghaus

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article examines biological absorption (the imagined process by which indigenous identity would disappear through interracial sexual liaisons) and its relationship to the assimilation policies of the United States and Australia. In the debates about whether or not indigenous assimilation policies constituted genocide, biological absorption has often been pointed to as a particularly salient example of genocidal thinking. US and Australian historians, however, have mostly seen biological absorption as only a minor aspect of assimilation. This article argues that biological absorption should be recognized as a pervasive construct underlying many aspects of Australia’s and the United States’ dealings with Aborigines …

Ontological Destruction: Genocide And Canadian Aboriginal Peoples, Andrew Woolford

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

The impact of colonialism on Aboriginal groups in Canada is often described as ‘‘cultural genocide’’ or ‘‘ethnocide.’’ In contrast, this article offers a re-reading of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) that is sensitive to Aboriginal understandings and experiences of group life and group destruction. Through this re-reading, it is argued that genocide must be understood in a culturally contextualized manner so as to avoid modernist and Eurocentric biases. Only by opening up the conception of genocide will we be able to contend adequately with Canadian Aboriginal experiences of colonialism.

Moving Far From Far-From-Equilibrium: Opportunity Tension As The Driver Of Emergence, Benyamin B. Lichtenstein

College of Management Working Papers and Reports

Complexity scholars have identified two distinct drivers of emergence: (1) Far-from-equilibrium dynamics that trigger order creation, and (2) adaptive tension (McKelvey, 2004) which can push a system toward instability, leading to the emergence of new order. In this paper I suggest that both are true but incomplete. For example, when drawn out to the extreme, a far-fromequilibrium framework generates a contradiction by suggesting that the most dynamic organizations are the ones farthest-from-thermodynamic equilibrium – like Exxon or GE for example. Adaptive tension portrays the effect of a dynamic push without identifying the cause. I suggest “Opportunity Tension” as an alternative, …

Development Of Wildlife Damage Management: A Personal Perspective, Walter E. Howard

Human–Wildlife Interactions

During my professional career, many changes have occurred in the management of wildlife damage and human–wildlife conflicts, including some dramatic changes in people’s attitudes. ... Vertebrate pest control has now become a sophisticated scientific field. It is recognized that the factors responsible for some species of birds and mammals becoming pests are many. A species can overpopulate due to changes in habitat, lessening of predation, lack of competition with other species, or by transmitting disease. Additionally, the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council Agricultural Board recognized that wildlife and other competitors of agriculture are important to the economy of …

2009 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"SIR enables students to pursue solutions to problems that challenge our global community through partnerships with distinguished professionals at colleges and universities, research institutions, businesses, and museums.”

Assessment Of General Education Survey Report, 2009, Assessment Of Student Learning Committee

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

Psychology Discipline Assessment Report 2008/2009, Psychology Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.