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Neurofibromatosis-1 Regulates Neuroglial Progenitor Proliferation And Glial Differentiation In A Brain Region-Specific Manner, Da Yong Lee, Tu-Hsueh Yeh, Ryan J. Emnett, Crystal R. White, David H. Gutmann

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Antiviral Properties Of Isg15, Deborah J. Lenschow

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Prolonged Intensive Dominance Behavior Between Gray Wolves, Canis Lupus, L. David Mech, H. Dean Cluff

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Dominance is one of the most pervasive and important behaviors among wolves in a pack, yet its significance in free-ranging packs has been little studied. Insights into a behavior can often be gained by examining unusual examples of it. In the High Arctic near Eureka, Nunavut, Canada, we videotaped and described an unusually prolonged and intensive behavioral bout between an adult male Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) and a male member of his pack, thought to be a maturing son.With tail raised, the adult approached a male pack mate about 50 m from us and pinned and straddled this …

The State Of The Birds 2010 Report On Climate Change: United States Of America, Brad Bortner, Paul Schmidt, Alicia Frances King, Steve Holmer

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Foreword- Birds are telling us an important story about climate change

The first State of the Birds report in 2009 revealed troubling declines of bird populations in the United States during the last 40 years—a warning signal of the failing health of our ecosystems. It also highlighted heartening evidence that concerted conservation efforts can make a positive difference in restoring habitats and reversing declines.

In this 2010 State of the Birds report, we consider one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time, climate change. How will climate change affect birds and their habitats? Accelerated by human activities, climate change …

Quantitative Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance For Molecular Imaging, Patrick M. Winter, Shelton D. Caruthers, Gregory M. Lanza, Samuel A. Wickline

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Sliding Set-Points Of Immune Responses For Therapy Of Autoimmunity, Chyi-Song Hsieh, Jhoanne Lynne Bautista

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Defective Camp Generation Underlies The Sensitivity Of Cns Neurons To Neurofibromatosis-1 Heterozygosity, Jacquelyn A. Brown, Scott M. Gianino, David H. Gutmann

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Ret Signaling Is Required For Survival And Normal Function Of Nonpeptidergic Nociceptors, Judith P. Golden, Masato Hoshi, Mohammed A. Nassar, Hideki Enomoto, John N. Wood, Jeffrey Milbrandt, Robert W. Gereau Iv, Eugene M. Johnson Jr, Sanjay Jain

Open Access Publications

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Vav2 And Vav3 As Candidate Disease Genes For Spontaneous Glaucoma In Mice And Humans, Keiko Fujikawa, Takeshi Iwata, Kaoru Inoue, Masakazu Akahori, Hanako Kadotani, Masahiro Fukaya, Masahiko Watanabe, Qing Chang, Edward M. Barnett, Wojciech Swat

Open Access Publications

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The Arf Tumor Suppressor Regulates Bone Remodeling And Osteosarcoma Development In Mice, Daniel A. Rauch, Michelle A. Hurchla, John C. Harding, Hongju Deng, Lauren K. Shea, Mark C. Eagleton, Stefan Niewiesk, Michael D. Lairmore, David Piwnica-Worms, Thomas J. Rosol, Jason D. Weber, Lee Ratner, Katherine N. Weilbaecher

Open Access Publications

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Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Gene 5 (Mda5) Is Involved In The Innate Immune Response To Paramyxoviridae Infection In Vivo, Leonid Gitlin, Loralyn Benoit, Christina Song, Marina Cella, Susan Gilfillan, Michael J. Holtzman, Marco Colonna

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Altered Lung Morphogenesis, Epithelial Cell Differentiation And Mechanics In Mice Deficient In The Wnt/Beta-Catenin Antagonist Chibby, Damon Love, Feng-Qian Li, Michael C. Burke, Benjamin Cyge, Masao Ohmitsu, Jeffery Cabello, Janet E. Larson, Steven L. Brody, J. Craig Cohen, Ken-Ichi Takemaru

Open Access Publications

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Microbial Treatment Of Swine Fecal Waste To Generate Long-Chain Linear Alkanes After Fast Pyrolysis, Lisa A. Fitzgerald, C. Ziemer, S. E. Lizewski, Bradley R. Ringeisen, K. Henry, Justin C. Biffinger

United States Navy: Publications

Research into the generation of energy from human and animal waste has been primarily focused on gas production (especially methane and hydrogen). While there is some work concentrated on ethanol and biodiesel creation from wastes (fuels used for ground transportation primarily), increasing research interest has been recently directed toward long chain hydrocarbon production for aviation fuels. Kerosene components from swine fecal waste have been generated from four natural sources: undigested dietary lipids, host lipids excreted in feces, bacterial cell walls and products of bacterial fermentation.

Chlorella Viruses Encode Most, If Not All, Of The Machinery To Glycosylate Their Glycoproteins Independent Of The Endoplasmic Reticulum And Golgi, James L. Van Etten, James Gurnon, Giane M. Yanai-Balser, David Dunigan, Michael V. Graves

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

In contrast to all other viruses that use the host machinery located in the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi to glycosylate their glycoproteins, the large dsDNA-containing chlorella viruses encode most, if not all, of the components to glycosylate their major capsid proteins. Furthermore, all experimental results indicate that glycosylation occurs independent of the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi. (Review article)

Activity Of Topical Antimicrobial Agents Against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Recovered From Burn Patients, Jessie S. Glasser, Charles H. Guymon, Katrin Mende, Steven E. Wolf, Duane R. Hospenthal, Clinton K. Murray

United States Army: Publications

Background:

Topical antimicrobials are employed for prophylaxis and treatment of burn
wound infections despite no established susceptibility breakpoints, which are becoming vital in an era of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. We compared two methods of determining topical antimicrobial susceptibilities.

Methods:

Isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Acinetobacter baumanii-calcoaceticus (ABC) from burn patients were tested using broth microdilution and agar well diffusion to determine minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and zones of inhibition (ZI). Isolates had systemic antibiotic resistance and clonality determined. MDR included resistance to antibiotics in three or more …

Toxicity And Bioaccumulation Of Tnt In Marine Fish In Sediment Exposures, Guilherme R. Lotufo, William Blackburn, Sydney J. Marlborough, John W. Fleeger

United States Army: Publications

The bioaccumulation potential and toxicity of 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) spiked to sediment was evaluated in juvenile sheeps head minnows (JSHM, Cyprinodon variegatus) and adult freckled blennies (FB, Hypsoblennius ionthas). The JSHM were exposed for 4 days in the presence or absence of a mesh separating fish from sediment. FB were exposed to sediment for 7 days. During the 24-day storage period(4 °C), extensive transformation of spiked TNT occurred and concentrations are expressed as the sum of TNT, aminodinitrotoluenes and diaminonitrotoluenes (Sum TNT), on a dry weight basis. Sum TNT in the overlying water, not exchanged during exposure, …

University Of Nebraska- Lincoln: Fact Book 2009-2010

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Administration: Reports, Papers, Publications, and Presentations

Fact Book Table of Contents

General Information

UNL Core Values ....................................................................... 4

Role and Mission Statement .............................................................................. 5

Institutional & Professional Accreditations ........................................................... 8

UNL Organizational Chart ............................................................................... 10

Student Credit Hours

Fall SCH Since 1979 .......................................................................... 11

SCH by College and Student Level, Fall & Spring Semesters, 5 Year Trend ...... 12

SCH by College and Student Level, Fall Semester, 5 Year Trend .................... 13

SCH by College and Student Level, Spring Semester, 5 Year Trend ................. 14

Summer Sessions Student Credit Hours ............................................ 15

Retention, Degrees and Majors

Student Retention & Graduation Rate Analysis ................................................. 16

Total Degrees …

Of Gods And Gangs: Indigo As A New Educational Model, Jenny Balfour Paul

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In late August 2009, a multi-year educational initiative called Silk Road Connect was launched in five pilot schools in underserved neighbourhoods of New York City as part of its Department of Education’s Campaign for Middle School Success. The brainchild of cellist Yo Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project, Silk Road Connect ‘inspires passion-driven learning by empowering students and educators to seek connections across all areas of study and to follow their interests from the familiar to the foreign. In a spirit of playfulness and investigation, collaboration and creativity, this program invites students to experience learning as a continual process …

The Fiber Of Our Lives: A Conceptual Framework For Looking At Textiles’ Meanings, Beverly Gordon

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Based on the model explicated in my forthcoming (Thames & Hudson, Fall 2010) book, The Fiber of Our Lives: Why Textiles Matter, I will present a holistic framework that can be used to articulate and compare the meanings of textiles of any given culture or historic period. The framework considers the range of human activities and concerns, including meeting practical survival needs and securing physical, psychological and psychic protection; social interactions; the propensity to seek and wield power; the communication of ideas and aesthetic expression; and activities geared to transcending the limits of human experience—i.e., the spiritual realm. This approach …

Future Reliquaries, Barbara Heller

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

As a tapestry weaver, spinner, and dyer, I cherish the handmade. But, as a full-fledged member of the electronic age, I realize that the haptic has had a hard time maintaining its status. My Future Reliquary Series is an attempt to reconcile three apparently separate but, in my mind, connected histories: weaving, computing, and religion.

Weaving is a binary system of up/down, just as computing is a binary system of on/off. The first computer was a jacquard loom, complete with punch cards. The process of mechanization removed the human hand from weaving. In an analogous manner, today’s computers have introduced …

The Way Of Sami Duodji: From Nomadic Necessity To Trademarked Lifestyle, Desiree Koslin

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The Sami people of Northwestern Eurasia in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia share historical vicissitudes brought upon them with most other First Peoples. Their languages were suppressed, their religion and culture obliterated, and their way of life ultimately condemned to marginality. In a painful process that was first given wider attention in texts of the seventeenth century, the Sami were given few options for survival but to acquiesce and adapt to the dictates issued, largely losing their cultural identity in the process.

Today, thanks to extensive advocacy of Sami activists starting in the 1960s, a reawakened Sami identity is fostered …

Tradition Embraces “The New”: Depictions Of Modernity On Japanese Kurume E-Gasuri Futon-Ji, Ann Marie Moeller

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Kurume is a city on Kyushu Island in Japan known for producing dramatic hand-woven e-gasuri (picture ikat) futon-ji (bedding covers). The most famous have a single picture which runs across four or five panels. Both the warp and weft threads were resist dyed using indigo before being woven into a single long and narrow length of fabric. This cloth was then cut into the panel sections and sewn together. Extraordinary skill was required to both accurately tie the areas of thread to be resisted and to maintain a consistent tension when weaving the fabric. This precision produced complex designs with …

Tracing Cochineal Through The Collection Of The Metropolitan Museum, Elena Phipps, Nobuko Shibayama

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Cochineal, with its origin in the Americas, by the 16th century was exported throughout the world. From the time of the Spanish encounter with the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th century, a dyestuff for a strong, fast, red color was in high demand. While many archival documents and scholarly writing exist on the use and shipment of cochineal throughout the world, and on its impact on the textile industry, this paper traces the pathway of its use through an examination of artworks in the Metropolitan Museum. Scientific analysis aids the study in the identification of cochineal (and …

Urban Textiles: From Yarn Bombing To Crochet Ivy Chains, Ruth Scheuing

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Small hand-knitted little cozies appear in my local neighborhood; overgrown weeds in an urban community garden become a source for materials and inspiration.

These new approaches to textiles by emerging artists explore new aesthetics and explode relationships between process and material and ideas about the use for handmade objects. These artists question the use of galleries as exhibition venues, curators, and juries as judges, and commerce/consumerism around finished objects. Instead they use the street as exhibition space and blogs or flickr sites as venues to create local and global communities.

KnitGirl’s work consists of knitted patches attached to telephone poles, …

From Traditional To Digital Tools, Grethe Sorensen

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

By the invention of digital thread control and digital subject processing programs, quite new possibilities for creating woven textiles have come into existence.

I will describe my way from the traditional to the digital tools. A development that over the last ten years has lead me to new expressions in woven textiles—elusive optical phenomena, color gradations and a new weave-construction based on digital technology.

It was the absorption in digital subject processing that inspired me to explore the possibilities of developing new methods for creating weave-constructions.

The similarity between pixelated pictures and the graphic expression for a weave-construction gave the …

Performing The Quilt: The Block To The Blog And Back Again, Sarah E. Tucker

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper will examine the work of three contemporary Australian quiltmakers in terms of a Deleuzian ‘smooth space’. It will be argued that the patchwork quilt represents a material manifestation of a concept which marks out networked, relational and transversal thought and, has the potential to link both the most similar and the most disparate of ideas. A weblog (hhtp://quilted-out-ofspace.blogspot.com) will document the process and in turn be analysed to explore parallels with the processes of making a quilt— including the potential for alternative social networks such as ‘cybermovements’, ‘submerged networks’, and ‘counterpublics’.

The quilts of Emma Rowden, Judy McDermott, …

Capturing The Landscape : Textiles For The Australian Fashion Industry, Liz Williamson

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Textiles are intricately interlaced with fashion, giving texture, drape, feel, detail and color to garments. In Australia, tracing the place of textiles in the fashion industry presents a complex story of materials, individual designers, studio practices, commercial production, textiles, art, craft and design. Overwhelmingly, makers of textiles for fashion have shown a desire to represent Australia, its character and spirit in cloth.

This paper documents research into how textiles have been designed and made for fashion over the last six decades, focusing on designers whose practice specializes in fashion fabrics. Many of these artists and designers gained experience overseas, returning …

Cloth Settlers: Fine Art Dolls Populating The Textile Art Landscape, Shelley Thornton

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This presentation will offer a view of the work of a group of renowned world-class artists who have chosen dollmaking as their mode of expression and textiles as their medium. Art-quality images will portray work by contemporary artists creating cutting-edge textile dolls today as well as some earlier artists active as far back as the nineteen forties who, working in a more traditional vein, helped set high standards for doll artistry and built the foundation for the current state of the art form. Dolls of this caliber have found their way into the collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the …

Water Current, Volume 42, No. 1, Winter 2010

Water Current Newsletter

Meet the Faculty (Tala Awada and Cody Knutson)
Above Average Precipitation Causes Groundwater Level Rises
$3.1 million NSF Grant Funds Innovative Grad Education Program
From the Interim Director: Getting a Feel for the Job With Lots Ahead for the Water Center
Free Water and Resources Lectures Continue
Planning Continues for Platte Basin Tour
October River Basins Symposium and Law Conference
Feds Mull Regulating Drugs in Water
Sediments and Emerging Contaminants: On the Menu and in the Air
Watching Water Consumption
Improved Site Adds New Features
Featured Partner: Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership
Wastewater Treatment Education Helps Protect Nebraska’s Water Resources …

The Rural Firefighter, Issue 01-10--February 2010

The Rural Firefighter

NFS is Moving!Nebraska Wildland Fire Academy;Tips From Tex;Nugget of the Day;One Stop Shopping for Fire Prevention Assistance;Smokey Bear & Fire Prevention Materials;Sandy’s Corner;Calendar of Events