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Assessing Post-Fire Treatment Effects And Burn Severity On The Sandy Loam Soils Of Oregon, Shari Anstedt

Joint Fire Science Program Briefs (2007-2012)

Fire helps reduce dead and accumulated vegetation and enriches the soil by releasing nutrients bound in litter. But when fuel loads are too high and wildfi res burn too hot, problems may arise. A perfect example of this is the 2003 Booth and Bear Butte (B&B) fire in central Oregon, which consumed more than 90,000 acres of mixed conifer forest. On the surface, the effects on trees and vegetation seemed obvious, but what about the wildfi re effects on what we don’t see? How do post-fi re management activities support or impede forest recovery? Furthermore, how were the soils, and …

Ok-Fire: Weather-Based Decision Support For Wildland Fire Management, Shari Anstedt

Joint Fire Science Program Briefs (2007-2012)

There’s a lot of wildland in Oklahoma—and as a result, a lot of potential for fire. To help prepare for wildfire and perform fi re management activities, land managers previously used weather, fire danger, and smoke management products provided by the Oklahoma Mesonet, the state’s automated weather station network. But unfortunately, the products were not easily found or easy to use, and very little user training was provided. Fire managers also expressed the need for multi-day forecasting capabilities to help anticipate periods of high fire danger and severe wildfi re conditions and to improve pre-burn planning and management. These critical …

Assessing Mechanical Mastication And Thinning-Piling-Burning Treatments On The Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands Of Southwestern Colorado, Shari Anstedt

Joint Fire Science Program Briefs (2007-2012)

New knowledge of fire regimes in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the interior western United States has altered management views. Once known as being at low wildfire risk, these woodlands are now at a higher risk for severe wildfires because of high tree densities exacerbated by ongoing drought and region-wide bark beetle (Ips confusus) infestation. To help reduce fuels and fi re hazards and to create defensible space in the wildland urban interface, regional land managers have conducted thinning-piling-burning treatments. Recently, however, a different treatment has been used—mechanical mastication. Although mechanical mastication is typically more cost effective, there is concern about …

Identification Of Factors Influencing The Commission Of Burglaries, Mustafa Donmez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As in many countries, burglary is a very serious crime in Turkey. Scientific methods and techniques are needed to solve complex burglary cases. This study is completed in the Bursa Police context since they classified many crime data conducive to scientific studies under a project called BEMTAP. The main purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing the commission of burglaries, using an epid-criminological perspective. It can be argued that factors leading to the commission of a crime are important for formulating preventive strategies in the community. In this study, the contributing factors are categorized into three main …

Synthesis Of Knowledge: Fire History And Climate Change, William T. Sommers, Stanley G. Coloff, Susan G. Conard

Joint Fire Science Program Synthesis Reports

This report synthesizes available fire history climate change scientific knowledge to aid managers with fire decisions in tile face of ongoing 21^st Century cIimate change. Fire history and climate change mange (FHCC} have been ongoing for over 400 million years of Earth history, but increasing human influences during tile Holocene epoch have changed both climate and fire regimes. We describe basic concepts of climate science and explain the causes of accelerating 21H Century climate change. Fire regimes and ecosystems classification serve to unify ecological and climate factors influencing fire, and are useful for applying fire history and climate manage …

Expression Of The Distalless-B Gene In Ciona Is Regulated By A Pan-Ectodermal Enhancer Module, Steven Q. Irvine, David A. Vierra, Brad J. Millette, Matthew D. Blanchette, Rachel E. Holbert

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The Ci-Dll-B gene is an early regulator of ectodermal development in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis (Imai et al., 2006). Ci-Dll-B is located in a convergently transcribed bigene cluster with a tandem duplicate, Ci-Dll-A. This clustered genomic arrangement is the same as those of the homologous vertebrate Dlx genes, which are also arranged in convergently transcribed bigene clusters. Sequence analysis of the C. intestinalis Dll-A-B cluster reveals a 378 bp region upstream of Ci-Dll-B, termed B1, which is highly conserved with the corresponding region from the congener Ciona savignyi. The B1 element is necessary and sufficient to …

Prevalence Of Metabolic Abnormalities In Children With Varying Degrees Of Obesity, Leah Sabato

Master of Public Health Program Student Publications

As the prevalence of obesity among children has risen, metabolic syndrome, a cluster of abnormalities which includes obesity, altered glucose metabolism, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, has increasingly become recognized in the pediatric population. Metabolic syndrome has been studied extensively in adults, and there is increasing interest to understand the condition in adolescents; however, studies of metabolic syndrome in younger children are limited. The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its individual components among children aged 6-10 years. Demographic, anthropometric, and biochemical data were gathered retrospectively from the medical records of 222 obese children aged …

The Impact Of Single-Gender Scheduling On Students In A Title I School, Janet L. Moss

Education Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation was designed to examine the impact that single-gender scheduling would have on students who attend a struggling Title I middle school. The importance of the middle level cannot be denied. Strong research points to this time in a student's life as the pivotal crux on which success and failure are balanced. Middle level educators are charged with the responsibility of tipping the scales in the favor of student success by arming them with the skills they will need to survive and succeed.

A middle school in the northeastern part of Mecklenburg County had the majority of its students …

Faculty Handbook 2011-12, All Faculty

Faculty Handbooks

No abstract provided.

Actions Memo January 2011, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

No abstract provided.

Title Page - Table Of Contents

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.

Fusion, 2011, George Washington University, William H. Beaumont Medical Research Honor Society

Fusion

No abstract provided.

Cuentos - 2011, George Washington University, Medical Faculty Associates

Cuentos

Cuentos is an artistic and literary magazine created by medical residents, attendings, and faculty of the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates Department of Internal Medicine.

Runecraft: Book I, The Seven Runes Of Power, Michael J. Losacco

Celebrating Our Own 2009

RuneCraft is the first book in a trilogy of high fantasy novels that explores deep, metaphysical themes. The story revolves around Peter Uriel, who, after making his transition, is sent to another world to save them from utter ruination.

Thermodynamics Of The Solar Corona And Evolution Of The Solar Magnetic Field As Inferred From The Total Solar Eclipse Observations Of 2010 July 11, Shadia Rifai Habbal, Miloslav Druckmüller, Huw Morgan, Adalbert Ding, Judd Johnson, Hana Druckmüllerová, Adrian Daw, Martina B. Arndt, Martin Dietzel, Jon Saken

Physics Faculty Publications

We report on the first multi-wavelength coronal observations, taken simultaneously in white light, Hα 656.3 nm, Fe IX 435.9 nm, Fe X 637.4 nm, Fe XI 789.2 nm, Fe XIII 1074.7 nm, Fe XIV 530.3 nm, and Ni XV 670.2 nm, during the total solar eclipse of 2010 July 11 from the atoll of Tatakoto in French Polynesia. The data enabled temperature differentiations as low as 0.2 × 10⁶ K. The first-ever images of the corona in Fe IX and Ni XV showed that there was very little plasma below 5 × 10⁵ K and above 2.5 × …

Spearmint (L-Carvone) Oil And Wintergreen (Methyl Salicylate) Oil Emulsion Is An Effective Immersion Anesthetic Of Fishes, G. Russell Danner, Katherine W. Muto, Anna M. Zieba, Chelsea M. Stillman, Joseph A. Seggio, S. Tariq Ahmad

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

This study evaluates the effects of a spearmint (/-carvone) and wintergreen oil (methyl salicylate) emulsion (CMSE) on age 1 landlocked Atlantic salmon Salmo salar sebago (hereafter salmon). Salmon were immersed in either 257 µl/L CMSE or 75 mg/L tricaine methanesulfonate (MS-222) to induce anesthesia (stage 4), useful for emersion and noninvasive husbandry procedures, and then salmon were recovered in fresh water. Induction was quicker in the CMSE group; however, recovery was quicker in the MS-222 group. A second experiment was conducted in which salmon were immersed in 257 µl/L CMSE for 8.5 min, or 75 mg/L MS-222 for 8.5 min …

Increased Survivorship And Altered Cytokine Profile From Treatment Of Influenza A H1n1-Infected Mice With Ekybion: A Drug Complex Of Natural Extracts And Inorganic Compounds, Manoj Pastey, Christopher R. Lupfer, Didier Besnouin, Samuel E. Tepper, Maciej Maselko, Kristin M. Patton

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Ekybion is a drug complex of 16 natural extracts and inorganic compounds designed to treat a variety of respiratory pathogens of bacterial and viral origin. It is licensed throughout Europe for the treatment of respiratory tract infections from equine parainfluenza type 3 and equine herpes virus type 1 in equine stables. The purpose of this paper was to test the efficacy of Ekybion on a well-developed animal model of influenza A infection and determine a mode of action. Experiments were performed with Balb/c mice infected with a lethal dose of influenza A/PR/8/34 H1N1 virus and treated with nebulized Ekybion every …

Review Of The Interactions Between Catfishes And Freshwater Mollusks In North America, Jeremy S. Tiemann, Stephen E. Mcmurray, M. Christopher Barnhart, G. Thomas Watters

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Catfishes are important in freshwater ecosystems not only as consumers, but also as essential partners in symbiotic relationships with other organisms. Freshwater mollusks are among the many organisms that have interactions with catfishes. For example, ictalurids are hosts for larvae of several native freshwater mussel species. The larvae, which attach briefly to gills or fins of fish to complete their development to the free-living juvenile stage, disperse via upstream and downstream movement of host fish. In turn, freshwater mussels serve as a food source for some catfish species while other catfish species may use spent mussel shells for habitat. Ictalurids …

Encuentros, Summer 2011, Damián Fernández, Guadalupe T. Luna, Sandy López, Michael J. Gonzales

Encuentros

No abstract provided.

Intravenous Ascorbic Acid To Prevent And Treat Cancer-Associated Sepsis?, Thomas E. Ichim, Boris Minev, Todd Braciak, Brandon Luna, Ron Hunninghake, Nina A. Mikirova, James A. Jackson, Michael J. Gonzalez, Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Doru T. Alexandrescu, Constantin A. Dasanu, Vladimir Bogin, Janis Ancans, R. Brian Stevens, Boris Markosian, James Koropatnick, Chien-Shing Chen, Neil H. Riordan

Department of Surgery Faculty Publications

The history of ascorbic acid (AA) and cancer has been marked with controversy. Clinical studies evaluating AA in cancer outcome continue to the present day. However, the wealth of data suggesting that AA may be highly beneficial in addressing cancer-associated inflammation, particularly progression to systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and multi organ failure (MOF), has been largely overlooked. Patients with advanced cancer are generally deficient in AA. Once these patients develop septic symptoms, a further decrease in ascorbic acid levels occurs. Given the known role of ascorbate in: a) maintaining endothelial and suppression of inflammatory markers; b) protection from sepsis …

Effect Of Real Video Streaming Over Virtual Manet Environment, Manoj Patil

Theses

Wireless Ad hoc Network is promising in solving many challenging real-world communication problems. Examples of these are: military field operation, emergency response system, and oil drilling and mining operation. However, the wide deployment of this type of network is still a challenging task. It is very difficult to manage quality of services for real time applications like video transmission over mobile nodes. Mobile ad hoc networks are not so resilient and reliable because of their dynamic topology due to the mobile nodes and impact of environmental circumstances. However, it provides multiple routes from the source to the destination, which gives …

The Feathered Hand: Installation, Drawings, Prints By Alison Derby Hildreth, University Of New England Art Gallery

Exhibition Catalogues

The Feathered Hand: Installation, Drawings, Prints is the catalogue from the University of New England Art Gallery’s January 5 –April 3, 2011 exhibition of work by Alison Hildreth.

Hildreth described the work as: “… an installation and a group of drawings and prints that I have been working on over the past 2 years. The drawings and prints I think of as walks through a changing landscape of associative ideas; each carries something from the previous image but moves on to a new interpretation. They continue end to end: divided cities, natural and manmade terrains, maps of investigations inspired as …

Rising Tide 2011/2012, Une Office Of Research And Scholarship, Timothy E. Ford, Jenna Blake Davis

Rising Tide

Research and scholarship highlights from University of New England community members. This issue highlights in particular: scholarship, marine and environmental research, biomedical and chemistry research, undergraduate research, and public health research.

2011 Scholar's Day Program, State University Of New York At Cortland

Transformations

Scholars' Day was established in 1997 and is a day-long conference devoted to showcasing the wide array of scholarship, research and creative activities occurring on campus. In 2012, a new emphasis on student research lead to a name change to Transformations: A Student Research and Creativity Conference. This event focuses on student research, which is defined as an original investigation or creative activity through the primary efforts of a student or group of students. The work should show problem-solving skills and demonstrate new conceptual outcomes.

Annual Reports Of The Selectmen And Other Town Officers Of The Town Of Alstead, N.H. For The Year Ended December 31, 2010., Alstead Town Representatives

Alstead, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Footnotes, Issue 8, Jan.-Feb. 2011, Department Of English

Footnotes: Department of English Newsletter (2008-2012)

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of A Commercial Portable Air Purifier In Homes With Wood Burning Stoves: A Preliminary Study, Julie F. Hart, Tony J. Ward, Terry M. Spear, Richard J. Rossi, Nicholas N. Holland, Brodie G. Loushin

Public and Community Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Wood burning for residential heating is prevalent in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States. Studies have shown that wood stoves can be a significant source of PM2.5 within homes. In this study, the effectiveness of an electrostatic filter portable air purifier was evaluated (1) in a home where a wood stove was the sole heat source and (2) in a home where a wood stove was used as a supplemental heat source. Particle count concentrations in six particle sizes and particle mass concentrations in two particle sizes weremeasured for ten 12-hour purifier on and ten purifier off trials …

Self-Altering Injury: The Hidden Harms Of Hedonic Adaptation, Sean Hannon Williams

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Some Forms Of Trust, Willem A. Devries

Philosophy

Three forms of trust: topic-focused trust, general trust, and personal trust are distinguished. Personal trust is argued to be the most fundamental form of trust, deeply connected with the construction of one’s self. Information technology has posed new problems for us in assessing and developing appropriate forms of the trust that is central to our personhood.

Annual Water Report Reporting Year 2011, Manchester Water Works

Manchester Research Group

Report and chart summarizing the vulnerability of Manchester's public water sources.