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Carbon Dioxide Capture From Fossil Fuel Power Plants Using Dolomite, Drupatie Latchman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The main objective of this research is to develop a simple and cost effective separation method that captures carbon dioxide from power plant flue gas, as a pure stream that can be stored using regenerable dolomite (calcium magnesium carbonate) as the sorbent. The developed dolomite sorbent was evaluated for carbon dioxide capture capacity using muti-cycle tests of cyclical carbonation/calcination experiments in the thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) model SDT 600. The variables controlled in the experiment were weight of calcium oxide and sintering time of the sample. The dolomite materials investigated were from two sources Alfa Aesar and Specialty Minerals. The prepared …

Founding Fathers: An Ethnic And Gender Study Of The Iliadic Aeneid, Rob Brannon

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In a 2005 work, Yasmin Syed concluded that the Aeneid created for ancient readers an idea of Romanness that was inclusive for all and not founded along strict genetic lines. Under this hypothesis, the Aeneid offers a sort of blueprint for becoming Roman, one in which biological descent from Aeneas is unnecessary. Syed reached this conclusion by analyzing themes of ethnicity and gender, in particular the ethnic other represented by the epic's female characters. This was accomplished in the manner so often chosen by Vergil scholars-by limiting analysis to the first half of the epic. The work concludes with an …

Holism And Human History, Martin Zwick

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

This paper uses a systems-theoretic model to structure an account of human history. According to the model, a process, after its beginning and early development, often reaches a critical stage where it encounters some limitation. If the limitation is overcome, development does not face a comparable challenge until a second critical juncture is reached, where obstacles to further advance are more severe. At the first juncture, continued development requires some complexity-managing innovation; at the second, it needs some event of systemic integration in which the old organizing principle of the process is replaced by a new principle. Overcoming the first …

Assessing Invasive Plant Species As Threats In Mojave Desert Parks, Sara L. Mcpherson, Donovan J. Craig, Scott R. Abella

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

The invasion and persistence of exotic plant species threatens the natural features that national parks are designed to protect. For example, park managers have witnessed an increase in the frequency, extent and intensity of fires along with a reduction in native species richness and diversity. Many park managers are familiar with a suite of highly invasive plants, but lack a comprehensive and systematic way of prioritizing invasive plant species based on potential threats to the parks’ resources. We have entered into a collaborative project with the National Park Service’s Inventory and Monitoring program to develop an invasive plant early detection …

29 Years Of Vegetation Community Change Across Environmental Gradients In A Mojave Desert Mountain Range, Christopher L. Roberts, James S. Holland, Scott R. Abella

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

There is a great deal of uncertainty as to how biological communities respond to changes in land use and climate change, a situation particularly relevant in protected areas such as national parks that were designated to conserve specific biological features. Utilizing extant vegetation data sets with repeatable methodology can provide opportunities for insight into previous vegetation change and provide base line data for long-term monitoring projects useful for modeling vegetation community trajectories. We have relocated and resurveyed 106 sites from a vegetation community study initiated in 1979 in the Newberry Mountains, southern Nevada, within Lake Mead National Recreation Area managed …

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Apr 15, 2010, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Gsu View, 2010-04-15, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Spartan Daily April 15, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 38

Does Ap Economics Improve Student Achievement?, Benjamin Scafidi, John Swinton, Chris Clark

Faculty Articles

We employ a cautious empirical approach to estimate the effect of taking Advanced Placement (AP) Economics in high school on student performance on a high-stakes, statewide End-of-Course Test (EOCT). Using data on all Georgia students who took economics from 2006 to 2008, we use propensity score matching to control for the selection of students into AP Economics. Our most conservative estimate makes an adjustment for teacher effects and suggests that students who take high school economics in an AP class score 0.283 standard deviations higher on the economics EOCT than “matched” students who are in high schools that do not …

Commonwealth Times 2010-04-15

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Patients Do Not Need Congressman Langevin’S Clone-To-Kill Bill, Nicanor Austriaco

Theology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Otter Realm, April 15, 2010, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Where Is CSUMB Going? -- What You Otter Do! April 15 - April 29 -- The Future -- Troubled Waters: The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna -- Governor Candidates: Educational Policies Side By Side -- Sun Protection: The Silent Bright Killer ...-- No Pants Friday -- Just Like Home:Minus Your Parents -- New Masters of Social Work Program -- Where is CSUMB Going?- East Campus Cable Internet -CSUMB Athletics-Here Comes the Sun - A Glowing Future --All the World's a Stage -- Student of the Issue: Jena Cleveland -- Staff of the Issue: Angelica Muro -- Celebrating Culture, Remembering History: African American …

The Carroll News- Vol. 86, No. 18, John Carroll University

The Carroll News

No abstract provided.

A Dna-Binding Peroxiredoxin Of Coxiella Burnetii Is Involved In Countering Oxidative Stress During Exponential-Phase Growth, Linda D. Hicks, Rahul Raghavan, James M. Battisti, Michael F. Minnick

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Coxiella burnetii is a Gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that resides within the harsh, acidic confines of a lysosome-like compartment of the host cell that is termed a parasitophorous vacuole. In this study, we characterized a thiol-specific peroxidase of C. burnetii that belongs to the atypical 2-cysteine subfamily of peroxiredoxins, commonly referred to as bacterioferritin comigratory proteins (BCPs). Coxiella BCP was initially identified as a potential DNA-binding protein by two-dimensional Southwestern (SW) blots of the pathogen's proteome, probed with biotinylated C. burnetii genomic DNA. Confirmation of the identity of the DNA-binding protein as BCP (CBU_0963) was established by matrix-assisted laser …

Direct Activation Of Shroom3 Transcription By Pitx Proteins Drives Epithelial Morphogenesis In The Developing Gut, Mei I. Chung, Nanette M. Nascone-Yoder, Stephanie A. Grover, Thomas A. Drysdale, John B. Wallingford

Paediatrics Publications

Individual cell shape changes are essential for epithelial morphogenesis. A transcriptional network for epithelial cell shape change is emerging in Drosophila, but this area remains largely unexplored in vertebrates. The distinction is important as so far, key downstream effectors of cell shape change in Drosophila appear not to be conserved. Rather, Shroom3 has emerged as a central effector of epithelial morphogenesis in vertebrates, driving both actin- and microtubule-based cell shape changes. To date, the morphogenetic role of Shroom3 has been explored only in the neural epithelium, so the broad expression of this gene raises two important questions: what are the …

Letter, Norine Noonan To Faculty, April 15, 2011, Norine E. Noonan

About: Office of Academic Affairs

Spring letter to the faculty from the Regional Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Noonan touches on the following areas: Distance Learning Course Development Program; Accreditation update; the budget; Multipurpose Student Center, Campus Activities Center and Harbor Hall; new academic programs; kudos; transitions; Research Month; Semi-Annual Finals Week Cookie Bake Extravaganza; and commencement.

The Scarlet - Volume Xc, No. 22 (April 15, 2010), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet Archive (Student Newspaper) (1939-2011) (In Progress)

The April 15, 2010 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

The cover story for this issue is "VegFest digested: A preview of VegWorcester's first annual VegFest". Other headlines and coverage include a Nez Perce exhibit at the Strassler Center, Clark's "Fifth Year" program, Spree Day coverage, Clark's New Play Festival, and more.

Every issue of The Scarlet from the 2011-2012 academic year to the present can be found here, located in our Student Works section.

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Polarized Light Based Scheme To Monitor Column Performance In A Continuous Foam Fractionation Column, Janakiraman N. Swamy, Czarena L. Crofcheck, M.P. Mengüç

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: A polarized light scattering technique was used to monitor the performance of a continuously operated foam fractionation process. The S11 and S12 parameters, elements of the light scattering matrix, combined together (S11+S12) have been correlated with the bubble size and liquid content for the case of a freely draining foam. The performance of a foam fractionation column is known to have a strong dependence on the bubble size distribution and liquid hold up in foam. In this study the enrichment is used as a metric, representative of foam properties and column performance, and correlated to the S11+S12 parameter.

RESULTS: …

How The Sequence Of A Gene Can Tune Its Translation, Kurt Fredrick, Michael Ibba

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Sixty-one codons specify 20 amino acids, offering cells many options for encoding a polypeptide sequence. Two new studies (Cannarrozzi et al., 2010, Tuller et al., 2010) now foster the idea that patterns of codon usage can control ribosome speed, fine-tuning translation to increase the efficiency of protein synthesis.

Minutes, Planning, Effectiveness, And Budgeting Committee Meeting, April 15, 2010, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Planning, Effectiveness, And Budgeting Committee

Institutional Research: Meeting Minutes and Agendas

Minutes of the April 15, 2010, meeting of the Planning, Effectiveness, and Budgeting Committee.

The Pan American (2010-04-15), Brian Silva

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 66, No. 25

Q-DockLhm: Low-Resolution Refinement For Ligand Comparative Modeling, Michal Brylinski, Jeffrey Skolnick

Faculty Publications

The success of ligand docking calculations typically depends on the quality of the receptor structure. Given improvements in protein structure prediction approaches, approximate protein models now can be routinely obtained for the majority of gene products in a given proteome. Structure-based virtual screening of large combinatorial libraries of lead candidates against theoretically modeled receptor structures requires fast and reliable docking techniques capable of dealing with structural inaccuracies in protein models. Here, we present Q-DockLHM, a method for low-resolution refinement of binding poses provided by FINDSITELHM, a ligand homology modeling approach. We compare its performance to that of classical ligand docking …

Daily Eastern News: April 15, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

April

No abstract provided.

The Alestle - Vol. 62 No. 30 - 04/15/2010, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 62 No. 30

Nanostructured Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene)–Metalloporphyrin Films: Improved Catalytic Detection Of Peroxynitrite, Serban Peteu, Pubudu Peiris, Ermias Gebermichael, Mekki Bayachou

Chemistry Faculty Publications

We investigated in this paper the sensing performance of inherently conductive polymer, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT), functionalized with hemin (iron protoporphyrin) as an electrocatalytic reporter. The sensing platform is prepared by electrodeposition of a composite film of hemin–PEDOT on a 30-μm diameter carbon fiber electrode (CFE). The polymerized films were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), which pointed to nanostructured films with tortuous pores. The electrocatalytic oxidation of peroxynitrite was characterized by cyclic voltammetry as well as other electrochemical methods. The catalytic current is proportional to the analyte's concentration. Optimized hemin–PEDOT modified CFEs were utilized for the first time to …

Hawks' Herald -- April 15, 2010, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

Whole-Genome Snp Association In The Horse: Identification Of A Deletion In Myosin Va Responsible For Lavender Foal Syndrome, Samantha A. Brooks, Nicole Gabreski, Donald Miller, Abra Brisbin, Helen E. Brown, Cassandra Streeter, Jason Mezey, Deborah Cook, Douglas F. Antczak

Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Lavender Foal Syndrome (LFS) is a lethal inherited disease of horses with a suspected autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. LFS has been primarily diagnosed in a subgroup of the Arabian breed, the Egyptian Arabian horse. The condition is characterized by multiple neurological abnormalities and a dilute coat color. Candidate genes based on comparative phenotypes in mice and humans include the ras-associated protein RAB27a (RAB27A) and myosin Va (MYO5A). Here we report mapping of the locus responsible for LFS using a small set of 36 horses segregating for LFS. These horses were genotyped using a newly available single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) …

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for April 15-21, 2010. Vol. 85, No. 2.

The Montclarion, April 15, 2010, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

The Cowl - V. 74 - N. 20 - Apr 15, 2010

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 74 - Number 20 - April 15, 2010. 36 pages.