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Congregational Development Research Study Executive Summary, Richard L. Wood

Sociology Faculty and Staff Publications

The Congregational Development Research Study (CDRS) examines the impact of faith-based community organizing on organizational development in its primary institutional sponsors— religious congregations. That is, we study whether and how congregational development results from the particular form of civic engagement sometimes known as congregation-based, institutional, or broad-based organizing, and termed here faith-based community organizing.'

The Guardian, May 19, 2010, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twelve page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Phylogenetic Analysis Of Aspergillus And Related Fungi Based Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase 1, Shaunte Hulett-Abdin

Theses (Pre-2016)

Microorganisms are hypothesized to experience rapid rates of mutation in space due to microgravity and ionizing radiation. As an initial effort to test the relative rates to which certain genes evolve under space-like conditions, we reviewed the usefulness and reliability of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 (Cal) gene in resolving the evolutionary relationships of Aspergillus and related fungi. The objectives of this study are to 1) characterize the mitochondrial Cal gene of Aspergillus and related fungi, 2) align the homologous sequences of Cal genes across the selected taxa, and 3) conduct phylogenetic analysis using parsimony, distance methods, and maximum likelihood. Most …

Lessons Learned From Positon-Electron Project Low Level Rf And Longitudinal Feedback, J. Fox, Themis Mastorides, C. Rivetta, D. Van Winkle, D. Teytelman

Physics

The PEP-II B-Factory collider ended the final phase of operation at nearly twice the design current and 4X the design luminosity. To highlight the evolution from the original conceptual design through to the 1.2E34 final machine we choose one example each from the broadband feedback and from the LLRF system. They illustrate the original design estimation missed some very significant details, and how in the course of PEP-II operation unexpected difficulties led to significant insights and new approaches which allowed higher machine performance. We present valuable ”lessons learned” which are of interest to designers of next generation feedback and impedance …

The Bg News May 19, 2010, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. May 19, 2010. Volume 100-Issue 150.

Mustang Daily, May 18, 2010

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Establishment And Partial Characterization Of A Cell Line From Burbot Lota Lota Maculosa: Susceptibility To Ihnv, Ipnv And Vhsv, Mark P. Polinski, John D. Drennan, William N. Batts, Susan C. Ireland, Kenneth D. Cain

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

This study describes the development and partial characterization of a continuous fibroblastic-like cell line (BEF-1) developed from late stage embryos of North American burbot Lota lota maculosa. This cell line has been maintained for over 5 yr and 100 passages in vitro. Cells were cultured using Eagle’s minimum essential medium with Earle’s salts (MEM) supplemented with GlutaMAX ™, and 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), pH 7.4. The addition of penicillin-streptomycinneomycin (PSN) antibiotic mixture (0.05, 0.05, 0.1 mg ml–1, respectively) did not negatively influence cell replication; however, the antimycotic Fungizone™ (2.5 μg ml–1, amphotericin B) caused cell rounding and …

Daily Eastern News: May 18, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

May

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Academic Senate - Agenda, 5/18/2010, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Growth Factor-Binding Compounds And Methods Of Use, Said M. Sebti, Andrew D. Hamilton, Rishi Jain

USF Patents

Growth factor binding compounds having a plurality of acyclic isophthalic acid groups attached to a non-peptide organic scaffold and pharmaceutical compositions of the same are disclosed. Methods of administering and using the growth factor binding compounds or the growth factor binding compositions are also taught. These novel growth factor binding compounds are useful for treating angiogenesis, excessive cellular proliferation, tumor growth, and a combination thereof as well as inhibiting growth factor binding to cells and phosphorylation.

Polynucleotides Targeted Against The Extended 5′-Utr Region Of Argininosuccinate Synthase And Uses Thereof, Duane C. Eichler, Larry P. Solomonson, Laura C. Pendleton

USF Patents

The present invention is based in part on the discovery that the upstream open reading frame (uORF) in the extended 5′-untranslated region (5′-UTR) argininosuccinate synthase (AS) mRNA species is functional, and when functional, limits overall AS expression as well as nitric oxide (NO) production. Thus, the extended 5′-UTR AS mRNA species is a mechanism for regulating AS expression and NO production, and provides a target for the treatment of pathophysiological conditions associated with vascular endothelial dysfunction and characterized by impairment of NO production, such as heart failure, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, and diabetes.

Juvenile Justice, Sullivan, And Graham: How The Supreme Court’S Decision Will Change The Neuroscience Debate, Johanna Cooper Jennings

Duke Law & Technology Review

Over the past twenty years, neuroscientists have discovered that brain maturation continues through an individual’s mid-twenties. The United States Supreme Court cited this research to support its abolition of the juvenile death penalty in Roper v. Simmons. Now the Court is faced with two cases that challenge the constitutionality of sentencing juveniles to life imprisonment without parole. Many believe these studies indicate that juveniles are both less culpable for their actions and more likely to reform; therefore, life in prison for juveniles is disproportionate, cruel, and unusual. However, others caution against the use of these studies in deciding issues of …

Deaf Cuban-American Male Making Art, Jeremy Quiroga

Theses

I am an artist who harvests from nature and the industrial remains of humans. As in Esiaks: "The dust shall return to earth as it was." Before becoming dust I hope to give the remains a new life. Breathing a new life into visual language is the opportunity to be shamanic which is a welcoming thought. Shamans are known as people who understand their culture and community well and respond to it by using symbols and meanings. They are also known as intermediaries between human and spirit world, people like Beuys, Kandinsky, Smithson, Rauschenberg and Duchamp themselves are known shamanic …

The Taxation Of Cause-Related Marketing, Terri Lynn Helge

Faculty Scholarship

With the economy in turmoil, charitable organizations are looking to nontraditional sources of financing to supplement contributions and fee-based revenues. One potentially lucrative source of revenue stems from cause-related marketing. Cause-related marketing is the public association of a for-profit company with a charitable organization to promote the company’s product or service in order to raise money for the charitable organization. Introduced almost twenty-five years ago, cause-related marketing has now become a $1 billion a year industry. Cause-related marketing has evolved beyond mere use of a charitable organization’s name to an apparent union for the purpose of promoting products that carry …

Gsu Continues To Go Green, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

No one is quite sure how long the automobile engine had been in the bottom of Thorn Creek, but it isn't there any longer. Or how long the bowling shoes, bald tires, and yards and yards of coiled wire have blocked the water flow. But all that trash and truckloads more were hauled recently from the banks and bottom of the creek, and deposited where they belong.

The tires were sent to a tire recycling center to be shredded for ground material. Most of the metal, such as the engine block and wire coils, were sold as scrap, and what …

Economics Of Carbon Regulation: An Exploration To The Nuance Of Carbon Regulation, Timothy J. Schwartz

Student Theses 2001-2013

This dissertation is written for the purpose of understanding the complexities and issues involved with greenhouse gas regulation. It explores the economics of international and local policies and would be valuable in aiding the common American on the current state of affairs.

New York Botanical Garden Internship: From Photography To Policy, Christine Willeford

Student Theses 2001-2013

No abstract provided.

Ada News - 05/17/2010, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Discovering Alaska's Interior: A Historical Geography Of The 1885 Allen Expedition, Russell W. Vander Lugt

Arctic and Northern Studies

"This thesis examines the geography and history of interior Alaska by tracing the route of Henry Allen's 1885 expedition and evaluating Alaska's physiography from both Clyde Wahrhaftig's and Allen's perspectives. Since the U.S. Army took a leading role in Alaska's era of exploration during the late nineteenth century, specific insights are drawn from Lieutenant Allen's expedition and its context within early Russian and American exploration to interpret the historical geography of Alaska. The purpose of this monograph., however, is more comprehensive than merely tracing Allen's expedition or Wahrhaftig's classification. This study's measure of success will be the extent to which …

Marine-Derived Nutrients In Riverine Ecosystems: Developing Tools For Tracking Movement And Assessing Effects In Food Webs On The Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, Daniel J. Rinella

Biological Sciences

Marine-derived nutrients (MDN) delivered by spawning Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) contribute to the productivity of riverine ecosystems. Optimizing methods for measuring MDN assimilation in food webs will foster the development of ecologically based resource management approaches. This dissertation aims to better understand relationships among spawning salmon abundance, biochemical measures of MDN assimilation, and the fitness of stream-dwelling fishes. The goals of my first research chapter were (1) to understand the factors that influence stable isotope ([delta]¹³C, [delta]¹⁵N, and [delta]³⁴S) and fatty acid measures of MDN assimilation in stream and riparian biota, and (2) to examine the ability of these measures …

Common Ravens In Alaska's North Slope Oil Fields: An Integrated Study Using Local Knowledge And Science, Stacia Ann Backensto

Biological Sciences

Common ravens (Corvus corax) that nest on human structures in the Kuparuk and Prudhoe Bay oil fields on Alaska's North Slope are believed to present a predation risk to tundra-nesting birds in this area. In order to gain more information about the history of the resident raven population and their use of anthropogenic resources in the oil fields, I documented oil field worker knowledge of ravens in this area. In order to understand how anthropogenic subsidies in the oil fields affect the breeding population, I examined the influence of types of structures and food subsidies on raven nest site use …

Respiratory Anatomy, Physiology, And Central Co₂ Chemosensitivity Of The Arctic Air-Breathing Fish Dallia Pectoralis, Megan Hoffman

Biological Sciences

"Aerial respiration using a ancestral lung, central respiratory rhythm generation, and central CO₂ chemosensitivity arose early in vertebrate evolution prior to the divergence of sarcopterygian and actinopterygian fish. All vertebrate air breathing, however, is not homologous as this trait evolved independently several times among teleost fishes. Two long-standing questions in respiratory physiology are whether air breathing in fish is controlled by a central rhythm generator and whether air breathing and central CO₂ chemosensitivity co-evolved. One means to address these questions is to investigate control of breathing in the brainstem; therefore, we established an isolated brainstem preparation from the Alaska blackfish, …

Monitor Newsletter May 17, 2010, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

Factors Influencing The Development Of Wind Power In Rural Alaska Communities, Jill Erin Maynard

Natural Resources

"The state of Alaska is endowed with extensive and developable wind resources. The greatest areas of class seven, "superior" wind resources in the entire United States are located in Alaska. Developing these resources has the potential to play a pivotal role in reshaping Alaska's future by providing reliable, local, and stable-priced power. Despite this tremendous natural asset and the immeasurable benefits it harbors, Alaska's wind resources remain largely untapped and underutilized. Rural Alaskan communities, classified by their remote locations, small populations, and consequent low electric demands and high electric costs, possess some of the greatest wind resources in Alaska. The …

Fortitude Of The Ordinary World, Brooke O'Shay Sheridan

English

"Fortitude of the Ordinary World is a thesis in three parts, disparate in subject but with a common theme: some of the most identifying, challenging, and ingrained aspects of being human - love, the workings of the human brain, and war. The poems are based on personal experience in and out of love, addressing various functions of the brain, and my work with the U.S. Army during wartime. Most of the poems are in free verse, though I created some structure within the formless form depending on the needs of the poem. I have also included some formal poems, including …

Biologically Relevant Secondary Metabolites Of Vaccinium Uliginosum: Bioassay-Directed Natural Products Identification Of Anti-Neuroninflammatory Agents In The Alaska Bog Blueberry, Colin Mcgill

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Dietary blueberry supplementation has demonstrated numerous health benefits including improved learning and memory in aging and neurodegenerative models, neuroprotection from ischemic events, anti-diabetic properties, and modulation of multiple inflammatory cascades. Despite previous research on antioxidant components prevalent in blueberries, no adequate explanation for a molecular mechanism for the benefits of blueberry supplementation has been proposed. Vaccinium uliginosum, the Alaska bog blueberry, possesses higher concentrations of antioxidant components than commercial varietals, and exhibits a greater oxygen radical scavenging capacity, making it an excellent candidate for the identification of biologically relevant secondary metabolites. An approach of bioassay-directed natural products identification was utilized …

Natural Compounds Isolated From Wild Alaska Bog Blueberries Intervene With Molecular Targets Of Neuroinflammation, Sally Jane Gustafson

Chemistry and Biochemistry

NADPH Oxidase (NOX) has emerged as a key mediator of inflammatory processes that are prevalent in acute and chronic pathologies of the nervous system, cardiovascular system, and the immune system. Activation of NOX results in the formation of superoxide, a specific type of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Excessive accumulation of superoxide causes severe oxidative stress and ultimately, progressive cellular damage and degeneration. Despite the implications of NOX in a multitude of pathologies, pharmaceutical interventions against this molecular target remain non-existent. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables has immense health benefits beyond the high content of antioxidant compounds. Dietary intake …

Assessment Of An Alaskan Willow With Potential For Polychlorinated Biphenyl Rhizoremediation, Heather Ann Slater

Chemistry and Biochemistry

"Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) are priority pollutants targeted for remediation efforts in many areas of the world. Rhizoremediation, the use of plants and their associated root microorganisms for the degradation of a pollutant, may be an inexpensive and effective approach to biodegrading PCBs and detoxifying contaminated soils in situ. Two Alaskan native tree species, Salix alaxensis (willow) or Picea glauca (white spruce), were assessed for the ability to stimulate microbial PCB degradation by measuring PCB loss, toxicity and microbial community shifts in soil microcosms following the addition of crushed roots. Incubation of polluted soils with root crushates of S. alaxensis led …

Bulletin, Dmacc Marketing

Bulletin

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May 17, 2010 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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