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The New Hampshire, Vol. 100 [101], No. 32 (Feb. 18, 2011), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 100, but it is the 101st volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Optimality In Neural Adaptation, Adrienne Fairhall

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

Nervous systems tune themselves to the statistical structure of the stimuli they encounter. This sensitivity to statistics appears in phenomena ranging over many timescales, from the adaptation of vision to a rapid change in light level to the loss of ability to distinguish the sounds of non-native languages. While multiple neural mechanisms contribute to this on-line learning of stimulus distributions, we show that the intrinsic nonlinearities of single neurons provide them with the ability to represent time-varying stimuli optimally. While such sensitivity to stimulus statistics does not require learning, slower timescales of adaptation are consistent with optimal inference of statistical …

Uncertainty, Irreversibility, And Water Project Assessment, Jinhua Zhao

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

The Pacifican February 17, 2011, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Eastern Progress - 17 Feb 2011, Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Progress 2010-2011

No abstract provided.

Oral History Interview With Ho Kwon Ping: Conceptualising Smu, Kwon Ping Ho

Oral History Collection

The interview covered: capturing SMU history, view of Singapore education system, Singapore Institute of Management, third university, business schools, business education, faculty recruitment, differentiating SMU, board of trustees, governance, student interaction, job satisfaction, non-profit organisations, inaugural convocation, differentiating SMU, future of SMU.

Biography:

Chairman, Board of Trustees, SMU, 2000–present
Chairman, Governing Council for Singapore Institute of Management, 1997–2000

One of Singapore’s most prominent businessmen, Mr Ho Kwon Ping, was tapped by Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan in 1997 to lead the effort to establish a new national university which would be autonomous and based on an American-style of education. An …

Seropositivity To Cytomegalovirus, Inflammation, All-Cause And Cardiovascular Disease-Related Mortality In The United States, Amanda M. Simanek, Jennifer Beam Dowd, Graham Pawelec, David Melzer, Ambarish Dutta, Allison E. Aiello

Publications and Research

Background: Studies have suggested that CMV infection may influence cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and mortality. However, there have been no large-scale examinations of these relationships among demographically diverse populations. The inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) is also linked with CVD outcomes and mortality and may play an important role in the pathway between CMV and mortality. We utilized a U.S. nationally representative study to examine whether CMV infection is associated with all-cause and CVD-related mortality. We also assessed whether CRP level mediated or modified these relationships.

Methodology/Principal Findings: Data come from subjects $25 years of age who were tested for …

The Setonian, February 17, 2011, Seton Hall University

2011

No abstract provided.

Otter Realm, Feb. 17, 2011, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Celebrating Our Voice: Bata Drums for Black History -- What You Otter Be Doing! Feb. 17 - March 2 -- Kill the Kill Switch -- "Won't Stop Believing" in the Cure -- Service Learning Wants CSUMB to "Like" Them -- Cal State Monterey Bay Shuttle Change -- Performance Group Voices of Freedom Connects the Dots -- Ready, Set, Go! President Obama's Plan for Students of America to Race to the Top --Trabajo a la Vista para Graduados del 2011: Mejora el Panorama Laboral -- Job Opportunities Change for Class of 2011: Graduate Job Climate On the Rise -- What is …

Harvest Management Working Group 2011 Annual Meeting Report, G. Scott Boomer

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

BACKGROUND 4

2 REPORTS FROM PARTNERS 4
2.1 Atlantic Flyway (Min Huang and Bryan Swift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2 Mississippi Flyway (Larry Reynolds and Adam Phelps) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Central Flyway (Mike Johnson and Mark Vrtiska) . . . . . . . . . …

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, February 17, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

No abstract provided.

2011-02-17 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2011

No abstract provided.

The Advocate, February 17, 2011, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

Interconnection Of The Trinity (Glen Rose) And Edwards Aquifers Along The Balcones Fault Zone And Related Topics Proceedings Karst Conservation Initiative Febrary 17, 2011 Meeting, Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District

KIP Talks and Conferences

Contents: Introduction and Acknowledgements -- Interconnection of the Edwards and Trinity Aquifers, Central Texas, U.S.A. / Marcus O. Gary -- Spatial and Temporal Recharge Variability Related to Groundwater Interconnection of the Edwards and Trinity Aquifers, Camp Bullis, Bexar and Comal Counties, Texas / Marcus O.Gary, George Veni, Beverly Shade, and Robin Gary -- Potential for Vertical Flow Between the Edwards and Trinity Aquifer, Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer / Brian A. Smith and Brian B. Hunt -- Could Much of Edwards Aquifer "Matrix Storage" Actually be Trinity Aquifer Contributions from the Blanco River? / Nico M. Hauwert -- …

Trail Blazer - Volume 87, Number 3, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on February 17, 2011.

The Pan American (2011-02-17), Kristen Cabrera

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 67, No. 18

Detecting Toxic Diatom Blooms From Ocean Color And A Regional Ocean Model, Clarissa R. Anderson, Raphael M. Kudela, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Emily Sekula-Wood, Christopher T. Burrell, Yi Chao, Gregg Langlois, Jo Goodman, David A. Siegel

Faculty Publications

[1] An apparent link between upwelling‐related physical signatures, macronutrients, and toxic diatom blooms in the various “hotspots” throughout California has motivated attempts to forecast harmful algal blooms (HABs) as a function of select environmental variables. Empirical models for predicting toxic Pseudo‐nitzschia blooms in one such region, the Santa Barbara Channel (SBC), are tested in a nowcast mode using predictions based on merging data from MODIS ocean color geophysical products and the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) applied to the Southern California Bight. Thresholds for each model generate event forecasts. Spatially‐explicit, monthly HAB maps are compared to shipboard observations and California …

Identifying Horizontal Gene Transfer Using Anomalies In Protein Structures And Sequences, Venkat Ram B. Santosh

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Genetics has traditionally focused on vertical gene transfer, which is the passing of the genetic material of an organism to its offspring. However, recent studies in genetics increased the awareness that horizontal gene transfer, which is the passing of the genetic material of an organism to another organism that is not its offspring, is also a significant phenomenon. Horizontal gene transfer is thought to play a major role in the natural evolution of bacteria, such as, when several different types of bacteria all suddenly develop the same drug resistance genes. Artificial horizontal gene transfer occurs in genetic engineering.

This thesis …

2011 - Emma's Child Program, Neiu Theatre Department

Theatre Production Programs

Emma's Child program

Secreted Bacterial Effectors That Inhibit Host Protein Synthesis Are Critical For Induction Of The Innate Immune Response To Virulent Legionella Pneumophila., Mary F. Fontana, Simran Banga, Kevin C. Barry, Xihui Shen, Yunhao Tan, Zhao-Qing Luo, Russell E. Vance

Department of Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The intracellular bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila causes an inflammatory pneumonia called Legionnaires' Disease. For virulence, L. pneumophila requires a Dot/Icm type IV secretion system that translocates bacterial effectors to the host cytosol. L. pneumophilalacking the Dot/Icm system is recognized by Toll-like receptors (TLRs), leading to a canonical NF-κB-dependent transcriptional response. In addition, L. pneumophila expressing a functional Dot/Icm system potently induces unique transcriptional targets, including proinflammatory genes such as Il23a and Csf2. Here we demonstrate that this Dot/Icm-dependent response, which we term the effector-triggered response (ETR), requires five translocated bacterial effectors that inhibit host protein synthesis. Upon infection …

Sandspur, Vol 117, No 18, February 17, 2011, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Chancellor's Report 2011-02, John Pugh

Chancellor's Report

No abstract provided.

Vista: February 17, 2011, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

The Bg News February 17, 2011, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 17, 2011. Volume 101-Issue 103.

Illinois State University Founders Day Convocation Program, February 17, 2011, Illinois State University

Founding Celebration Programs

Program for annual event celebrating the founding of Illinois State Normal University on February 18, 1857.

February 17, 2011, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Slave Story: A Tale Of Recovery, Rule A. S. Hiuallah-Messiah

Theses and Dissertations

It is my opinion that we, as human, as living-beings, we are complex and complicated vessels of ambiguous intent. We exchange information, opinions, and experiences with friends, family, co-workers, and colleagues, sometimes agreeing—sometimes not. We communicate about ordinary and extraordinary things—school affairs, movies, sports, dances, catastrophes, and death. Those of us who can communicate easily, and pleasantly, well, we are popular, and justly so. Those of us who wish to, but for whatever reasons, cannot, are categorized and marginalized and oft-times ostracized. I am communicating, by writing this dissertation, using autoethnography as a method, as one whom, for whatever reasons, …

Spatiality And Temporality In Communication Theories, Diana Iulia Nastasia

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation has been planned and written as an extended review of literature on space and time within and outside of communication studies, and as a thorough categorization of issues about spatiality and temporality that have been and might be employed outside of and within communication studies. This dissertation has been envisioned and conceived as a critical look at both theories that consider space and time as unproblematic, that reify an ideal-typical perspective of time and an absolute-universal perspective of space, and theories that problematize space and time, that challenge the settled and predominant view of spatiality and temporality. The …

Functional Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Containing α6 Subunits Are On Gabaergic Neuronal Boutons Adherent To Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons, Kechun Yang, Lori Buhlman, Ghous M. Khan, Robert A. Nichols, Guozhang Jin, J. Michael Mcintosh, Paul Whiteaker, Ronald J. Lukas, Jie Wu

Translational Neuroscience

Diverse nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subtypes containing different subunit combinations can be placed on nerve terminals or soma/dendrites in the ventral tegmental area (VTA). nAChR α6 subunit message is abundant in the VTA, but α6*-nAChR cellular localization, function, pharmacology, and roles in cholinergic modulation of dopaminergic (DA) neurons within the VTA are not well understood. Here, we report evidence for α6β2*-nAChR expression on GABA neuronal boutons terminating on VTA DA neurons. α-Conotoxin (α-Ctx) MII labeling coupled with immunocytochemical staining localizes putative α6*-nAChRs to presynaptic GABAergic boutons on acutely dissociated, rat VTA DA neurons. Functionally, acetylcholine (ACh) induces increases in the …

Curriculum Committee Course Proposals 02/16/11, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.