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Spatiotemporal Structure Of Molecular Evolution Of H5n1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses In Vietnam., Margaret A. Carrel, Michael Emch, R. Todd Jobe, Aaron Moody, Xiu-Feng Wan

CVM Publications

BACKGROUND: Vietnam is one of the countries most affected by outbreaks of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses. First identified in Vietnam in poultry in 2001 and in humans in 2004, the virus has since caused 111 cases and 56 deaths in humans. In 2003/2004 H5N1 outbreaks, nearly the entire poultry population of Vietnam was culled. Our earlier study (Wan et al., 2008, PLoS ONE, 3(10): e3462) demonstrated that there have been at least six independent H5N1 introductions into Vietnam and there were nine newly emerged reassortants from 2001 to 2007 in Vietnam. H5N1 viruses in Vietnam cluster distinctly around …

Ethylene Receptors Function As Components Of High-Molecular-Mass Protein Complexes In Arabidopsis, Yi-Feng Chen, Zhiyong Gao, Robert J. Kerris, Wuyi Wang, Brad M. Binder, G. Eric Schaller

Dartmouth Scholarship

Background: The gaseous plant hormone ethylene is perceived in Arabidopsis thaliana by a five-member receptor family composed of ETR1, ERS1, ETR2, ERS2, and EIN4. Methodology/Principal Findings: Gel-filtration analysis of ethylene receptors solubilized from Arabidopsis membranes demonstrates that the receptors exist as components of high-molecular-mass protein complexes. The ERS1 protein complex exhibits an ethylene-induced change in size consistent with ligand-mediated nucleation of protein-protein interactions. Deletion analysis supports the participation of multiple domains from ETR1 in formation of the protein complex, and also demonstrates that targeting to and retention of ETR1 at the endoplasmic reticulum only requires the first 147 amino acids …

Baffle Box Effectiveness Monitoring Report, Stormwater Academy

BMP Trains Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Cwu Curriculum Committee Minutes - 01/07/10, Janet Shields

All Faculty Committee Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University Curriculum Committee minutes for the 01/07/10 meeting.

Tuning A Nose To Forage: Evidence For Olfactory Learning In A Procellariiform Seabird Chicks, Gregory B. Cunningham, Gabrielle A. Nevitt

Biology Faculty/Staff Publications

Burrow nesting procellariiform seabirds use olfactory cues for both foraging and nest recognition. As chicks, burrow nesters develop in the dark, but are exposed to both prey-related and individual-specific scents through contact with their parents. This exposure suggests that chicks may have the opportunity to learn odours while still in the nest. In this study, we examined whether exposure to odourants during development might influence olfactory search behaviour expressed later in life. To test this idea, we exposed eggs of thin-billed prions Pachyptila belcheri to a rosy-scented novel odour (phenyl ethyl alcohol, PEA) or a control (water) just before hatching; …

The Final Hubble Mission

News Releases

No abstract provided.

2010-01-07 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2010

No abstract provided.

Keeping It Local: Improving The Incentive Structure In Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programs, Katherine L. Babcock

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Cord (January 6, 2010)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

Keeping Bpa From Baby: Why The Endocrine Disruptor Bisphenol-A Should Be Banned From Products For Infants And Children, Michelle Crozier-Haynes

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Civil Engineering Collection Development Policy, Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The Department of Civil Engineering offers Bachelor of Science, Masters, and Doctoral degrees. As a professional discipline, civil engineering is closely related to the total human environment. Undergraduate students are required to take classes in each of the following subject areas, and can emphasize one or more areas during their course of study: Environmental engineering Geotechnical/Materials engineering Structural engineering Transportation engineering Water resources engineering

Course offerings cover environmental quality, pollution control, chemical and microbiological wastewater treatment, soil mechanics, foundation engineering, structural analysis, reinforced concrete, steel design, plastic analysis, finite element analysis, water resources development, hydraulic engineering, hydrology, groundwater engineering, transportation …

Electrical Engineering Collection Development Policy, Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The Department of Electrical Engineering offers degrees of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and Doctor of Philosophy in the College of Engineering’s unified Ph.D. Program.

Entomology Collection Development Policy, Dana W. R. Boden

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The Entomology collection supports the teaching, research and service activities of the entire university community. Its primary audience is the faculty, staff, and students of the Entomology department in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The collection’s primary focus is support for the undergraduate and graduate curricula for entomology. Specific and transient research needs of Entomology faculty and graduate students are supplemented through Interlibrary Loan. Materials are not purchased for the general public though they may benefit from the collection for their information needs.

School Of Natural Resources Collection Development Policy, Joan Latta Konecky

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The collection supports the teaching, research and service activities of the School of Natural Resources and the related research endeavors of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln community.

School of Natural Resources cooperative research is conducted with various academic units including Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Geosciences, Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Department of Agricultural Economics, Arsenic Info System, College of Law, Public Policy Center, and Cooperative Extension.

Veterinary Medicine And Biomedical Sciences, Dana W. R. Boden

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences collection supports the teaching, research and service activities of the entire university community. Its primary audience is the faculty, staff, and students of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources within the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The collection’s primary focus is support for the undergraduate and graduate curricula for Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine. Specific and transient research needs of Veterinary Medical and Biomedical Research faculty and graduate students are supplemented through Interlibrary Loan.

Materials …

The Murray Ledger And Times, January 6, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Volume 47, Number 20: January 06, 2010, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

The Spinnaker [Vol. 33 No. 18], University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

A Plan For Recovery: Steps To Finally Provide Adequate Insurance Coverage For Those Starving For It The Most, Melissa M. Mcgow

Roger Williams University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering Collection Development Policy, Virginia Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department offers the Bachelor of Science degree, the Master of Science Chemical Engineering (M.S.Ch.E) degree and the Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering with Specialization in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Ph.D.) degree. The Ph.D. is offered through the Unified Ph.D. Program in Engineering. Graduate courses include transport phenomena and operations, separation, thermodynamics and kinetics, diffusion, chemical engineering design, chemical processes, process control, automated operations, polymers, biochemical engineering, air pollution assessment and control, membrane principles and control, and system analysis. Research emphasis of the Department include absorption studies, distillation, applied thermodynamics, crystallization from solution, polymerization kinetics, heat …

Mathematics Collection Development Policy, Jolie Ogg Graybill

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Collection Development Policies

The mathematics collection supports the teaching, research, and service activities of the entire university community; although its primary audience is the faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and secondary audience is the faculty, staff, and students in Computer Science. Its primary focus is support for the undergraduate and graduate curricula for mathematics; its secondary focus is support for research and teaching in mathematics. Specific and transient research needs of mathematics faculty and graduate students should be supplemented through Interlibrary Loan. Materials are not purchased for the general public, though they …

Proliferation Of Aneuploid Human Cells Is Limited By A P53-Dependent Mechanism, Sarah L. Thompson, Duane A. Compton

Dartmouth Scholarship

Most solid tumors are aneuploid, and it has been proposed that aneuploidy is the consequence of an elevated rate of chromosome missegregation in a process called chromosomal instability (CIN). However, the relationship of aneuploidy and CIN is unclear because the proliferation of cultured diploid cells is compromised by chromosome missegregation. The mechanism for this intolerance of nondiploid genomes is unknown. In this study, we show that in otherwise diploid human cells, chromosome missegregation causes a cell cycle delay with nuclear accumulation of the tumor suppressor p53 and the cyclin kinase inhibitor p21. Deletion of the p53 gene permits the accumulation …

January 6, 2010 Aasu Staff Advisory Council Minutes, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Staff Council: Staff Advisory Council Minutes (Archived)

January 6, 2010 AASU Staff Advisory Council Minutes

Easterner, Vol. 61, No. 11, January 6, 2010, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about a breach of Eastern Washington University's computer security, the 25th anniversary of the computer science department, the Patterson Hall remodel, proposals for the Student Technology Fee, the death of former editor-in-chief Scott Sawyer, a students who moonlight as comedians, winter sports in the region, the hockey season, and sports announcer Larry Weir.

Representing Multi-Parent Organizational Structures For Use In High Performance Computing Resource Scheduling Algorithms, Lloyd T. Brown

Theses and Dissertations

Historically, organizational structures of many universities and corporations have followed a strictly tree-based, hierarchical model. These organizations are defined with no more than one parent organization, and typically resource requirements for the organization could be derived from the parent organization. In recent years, however, many institutions have created interdisciplinary research groups which incorporate multiple fields of research across multiple campus organizations. For example, at Brigham Young University, there exists a biophysics research group, a child organization of both the Department of Biology and the Department of Physics, making it unclear how to define its resource requirements in the context of …

Neural Network Model For Instruments That Store And Retrieve Sequential Information, Philip W. Landfield, Olivier Thibault

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Patents

A method and design is provided for distributing and storing sets of temporally ordered information in a systematic and sequential fashion. This method is based on a model of how the brain functions in the distribution and storage of temporally ordered memories, but it can also be applied to the design of new biological, electronic or optical devices. These devices may be used in the testing and development of new therapeutic drugs, in the detection of toxic agents or impaired performance, or in the development of new industrial and consumer devices in which the orderly storage of sequential information is …

Bayesian Methods For Network-Structured Genomics Data, Stefano Monni, Hongzhe Li

UPenn Biostatistics Working Papers

Graphs and networks are common ways of depicting information. In biology, many different processes are represented by graphs, such as regulatory networks, metabolic pathways and protein-protein interaction networks. This information provides useful supplement to the standard numerical genomic data such as microarray gene expression data. Effectively utilizing such an information can lead to a better identification of biologically relevant genomic features in the context of our prior biological knowledge. In this paper, we present a Bayesian variable selection procedure for network-structured covariates for both Gaussian linear and probit models. The key of our approach is the introduction of a Markov …

Orthogonal Frequency Coding For Surface Acoustic Wave Communication, Tag And Sensor Applications, Donald Malocha, Derek Puccio

UCF Patents

A secure apparatus, system, device and method for coding surface acoustic wave identification tags and sensors to enable unique sensor operation and identification for a multi-sensor environment. In an embodiment, a pseudo noise sequence is applied to the orthogonally coded signal for increased security. An orthogonal frequency coding technique is applied to the SAW tag using periodic reflector gratings for responding to an orthogonal interrogation signal to transmit the sensor identification and sensed data. A transceiver interrogates the sensor with a stepped up chirp corresponding to the orthogonal frequency coded chip frequency response, receives a response from the SAW device, …

Epoxyketone-Based Immunoproteasome Inhibitors, Kyung Bo Kim, Yik Khuan Ho

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

An efficient new route for the preparation of dihydroeponemycin, an active eponemycin derivative, is provided, which includes the synthesis of the intermediate compound, a hydroxymethyl-substituted enone. In addition, a method is provided for synthesizing inhibitors, which includes PI′-modified analogues. These analogues selectively bind to a major immunoproteasome catalytic subunit LMP2 and inactivate its proteolytic activity in a method of treating diseases, including myeloma and other cancers, Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Anaerobic Digestion Process For Low-Solid Waste, Peter George Stroot, Matthew Raymond Cutter

USF Patents

An anaerobic digestion process for the treatment of domestic wastewater sludge that requires less space and funding to construct. Sludge to be treated is combined with recycled anaerobic digester sludge to form a blended sludge. The recycled anaerobic digester sludge provides a source of microorganisms necessary to initiate the breakdown of organic matter in the sludge to be treated. The sludge is then concentrated to increase total solids content to about 10-20%. Excess liquid is removed from the concentrated sludge. The concentrated sludge is then digested in an anaerobic reactor system such as a plug-flow reactor. Some benefits of the …