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Prospectus, February 16, 2011, Kelley Heaney, Joseph Rosenbaum, Chuck Shepherd, Josh Grube, Janelle O'Dea, Kassandra Coan, Jake Godin, David Busboom, Zach Streff

Prospectus 2011

ARE STUDENTS APATHETIC OR JUST BUSY?; 'Tiger Mother' meets reality: Asian students struggle, too; Townsend Press reading contest gives students chance to read for cash; Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird; Album Review: Bright Eyes The People's Key; Obama budget certain to spark strong debate; Fitness center hopes to educate community; New dietary guidelines are ‘fishy'; The mouse can roar; Successful Parkland Alumni Represent Students’ Potential; Bonus Stage! The official gaming column of the Prospectus; Prospectus Pick: Band of Joy; Success the norm for Head Coach Karrie Redeker

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2010s

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, February 16, 2011, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Peoria Students Tour With Collegiate Choir, Kathy Thilmany

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Danville Student Tours With Collegiate Choir, Kathy Thilmany

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

February 16, 2011, Library Advisory Board

Booth Collaborative Advisory Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

All Biologic Drugs For Arthritis Not Equal: Some Pose More Risk, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Retinal: The Biological Role And Significance, Frances Flowers

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

Retinal, one of several vitamin A compounds serves a vital role in human vision (Tver and Russell, 458). Discovered in 1913, Vitamin A was the first vitamin to be discovered. The Vitamin A group includes the carotenoids, retinol and retinal. Each of these forms plays a significant role in animal vision, and vision is what led to vitamin A’s discovery. During the early 1900s, many researchers were conducting studies on the eyes of animals. They found that if the animals were consuming diets deficient in what are recognized today as vitamin A-rich sources, the animals’ eyes became inflamed and eventually …

Spectator 2011-02-16, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Phase I Study Of 'Dose-Dense' Pemetrexed Plus Carboplatin/Radiotherapy For Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma., Xinglei Shen, Albert Denittis, Maria Werner-Wasik, Rita Axelrod, Paul Gilman, Thomas Meyer, Joseph Treat, Walter J Curran, Mitchell Machtay

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: This phase I study investigates the feasibility of carboplatin plus dose-dense (q2-week) pemetrexed given concurrently with radiotherapy (XRT) for locally advanced and oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

METHODS: Eligible patients had Stage III or IV (oligometastatic) NSCLC. Patients received XRT to 63 Gy in standard fractionation. Patients received concurrent carboplatin (AUC = 6) during weeks 1 and 5 of XRT, and pemetrexed during weeks 1, 3, 5, and 7 of XRT. The starting dose level (level 1) of pemetrexed was 300 mg/m2. Following the finding of dose limiting toxicity (DLT) in dose level 1, an amended dose level …

Volume 48, Number 26: February 16, 2011, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Improving Tree-Thinking One Learnable Skill At A Time, Kristy Lynn Halverson

Faculty Publications

Representations are a critical way to communicate scientific knowledge. Systematists biologists are acknowledged as expert tree thinkers who can both read and build phylogenetic trees (e.g., cladograms) accurately. The purpose of this study was to identify the core skills essential to help college students overcome tree-thinking challenges. In this study, I used pre/posttests, interviews, weekly reflective journal entries, field notes from course observations, and student responses to coursework to learn how upper-level college biology students developed representational competence with phylogenetic trees. I identified essential core skills by investigating students' tree-thinking progression over the course of the semester. Three major patterns …

Thermodynamic, Sulfide, Redox Potential, And Ph Effects On Syngas Fermentation, Peng Hu

Theses and Dissertations

Recently, work in ethanol production is exploring the fermentation of syngas (primarily CO, CO2, and H2) following gasification of cellulosic biomass. The syngas fermentation by clostridium microbes utilizes the Wood-Ljungdahl metabolic pathway. Along this pathway, the intermediate Acetyl-CoA typically diverges to produce ethanol, acetic acid, and/or cell mass. To develop strategies for process optimization, a thermodynamic analysis was conducted that provided a detailed understanding of the favorability of the reactions along the metabolic pathway. Thermodynamic analysis provided identification of potentially limiting steps. Once these limiting reactions were identified, further thermodynamic analysis provided additional insights into the ways in which reaction …

Micropropagation And Medium-Term Conservation Of Rosa Pulverulenta, Somayeh Kavand, Maryam Jafarkhani Kermani, Ali Haghnazari, Pegah Khosravi, Mohamad Reza Azimi

Publications and Research

In Iran, a large number of Rosa species have been exposed to extinction and therefore preservation techniques are necessary to safeguard their future. In the present investigation, the objectives were to optimize the micropropagation and medium-term conservation of one of these wild species, Rosa pulverulenta. At proliferation stage, the maximum number of new leaves (9.6) were produced on the medium containing 4 µM BAP + 0 µM GA₃, whereas the maximum number of axillary shoots (4.1) were observed in the medium containing 4 µM BAP + 3 µM GA₃. The results for rooting experiments suggested …

Circular Single-Stranded Synthetic Dna Delivery Vectors For Microrna, Christine I. Seidl, Kevin Ryan

Publications and Research

Single-stranded (ss) circular oligodeoxynucleotides were previously found to undergo rolling circle transcription (RCT) by phage and bacterial RNA polymerases (RNAPs) into tandemly repetitive RNA multimers. Here, we redesign them to encode minimal primary miRNA mimics, with the long term aim of intracellular transcription followed by RNA processing and maturation via endogenous pathways. We describe an improved method for circularizing ss synthetic DNA for RCT by using a recently described thermostable RNA ligase, which does not require a splint oligonucleotide to juxtapose the ligating ends. In vitro transcription of four templates demonstrates that the secondary structure inherent in miRNA-encoding vectors does …

February 16, 2011, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Short-Duration Low-Magnitude Cyclic Loading Versus Immobilization On Tendon-Bone Healing After Acl Reconstruction In A Rat Model, Robert H. Brophy, David Kovacevic, Carl W. Imhauser, Mark Stasiak, Asheesh Bedi, Alice J.S. Fox, Xiang-Hua Deng, Scott A. Rodeo

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Final Report: Appendix A. Proposed Norton Wetland Protection Bylaw And Regulations, Horsley Witten Group, Inc.

Phase II Final Report

No abstract provided.

Final Report: Example Code Reform And Demonstration Projects. (All Appendices), Horsley Witten Group, Inc.

Phase II Final Report

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, February 15, 2011, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2011

No abstract provided.

Aspirin Treatment Of Mice Infected With Trypanosoma Cruzi And Implications For The Pathogenesis Of Chagas Disease, Shankar Mukherjee, Fabiana S. Machado, Huang Huang, Helieh S. Oz, Linda A. Jelicks, Cibele M. Prado, Wade Koba, Eugene J. Fine, Dazhi Zhao, Stephen M. Factor, J. Elias Collado, Louis M. Weiss, Herbert B. Tanowitz, Anthony W. Ashton

Center for Oral Health Research Faculty Publications

Chagas disease, caused by infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, is an important cause of cardiovascular disease. It is increasingly clear that parasite-derived prostaglandins potently modulate host response and disease progression. Here, we report that treatment of experimental T. cruzi infection (Brazil strain) beginning 5 days post infection (dpi) with aspirin (ASA) increased mortality (2-fold) and parasitemia (12-fold). However, there were no differences regarding histopathology or cardiac structure or function. Delayed treatment with ASA (20 mg/kg) beginning 60 dpi did not increase parasitemia or mortality but improved ejection fraction. ASA treatment diminished the profile of parasite- and host-derived circulating prostaglandins in infected …

Exposure To Ultraviolet Radiation Causes Proteomic Changes In Embryos Of The Purple Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus, Joseph P. Campanale, Lars Tomanek, Nikki L. Adams

Biological Sciences

We performed experiments to determine how environmentally relevant ultraviolet radiation (UVR) affects protein expression during early development in the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. To model the protein-mediated cell cycle response to UV-irradiation, six batches of embryos were exposed to UVR, monitored for both delays in the first mitotic division and changes in the proteome at two specific developmental time points. Embryos were exposed to or protected from artificial UVR (11.5 W/m²) for 25 or 60 min. These levels of UVR are within the range we have measured in coastal waters between 0.5 and 2 m. Embryos treated with …

Genome-Wide Discovery Of Missing Genes In Biological Pathways Of Prokaryotes., Yong Chen, Fenglou Mao, Guojun Li, Ying Xu

College of Science & Mathematics Departmental Research

BACKGROUND: Reconstruction of biological pathways is typically done through mapping well-characterized pathways of model organisms to a target genome, through orthologous gene mapping. A limitation of such pathway-mapping approaches is that the mapped pathway models are constrained by the composition of the template pathways, e.g., some genes in a target pathway may not have corresponding genes in the template pathways, the so-called "missing gene" problem.

METHODS: We present a novel pathway-expansion method for identifying additional genes that are possibly involved in a target pathway after pathway mapping, to fill holes caused by missing genes as well as to expand the …

Stony Brook Press, V. 32, N. 08, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 32, n. 08, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For February 15, 2011, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the February 15, 2011 Board of Regents Meeting

Report: The Illinois State University Faculty-Staff Newsletter, February 15, 2011, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

The Prospector, February 15, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: King of the Hill: Miners stay on top of C-USA

Security Monitoring System For A Bulk Foodstuff Transport Container, Christopher Dwight Thompson, Suraj M. Alexander, William L. Christ, Brian D. Luck, James Ryan Moore, Jonathan C. Paschal, Frederick Payne, Timothy S. Stombaugh, Nasrin Tabayehnejad, Phillip C. Womble

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Patents

A security monitoring system provides for the secure transport of a bulk foodstuff container. The system includes an electromechanical locking mechanism allowing access by only authorized persons, a positional locator for determining the geographical position of the bulk foodstuff transport container, and a controller associated with the transport container. The controller controls operation of the electromechanical locking mechanism, stores data received from the electromechanical locking mechanism and the positional locator, and communicates with a remote data processor in near real time. A handheld user interface device is configured to control operation of the controller, to process and store data received …

Mary Welklin Interview For A Wright State University History Course, Audriana Quafisi, Mary Welklin

Dayton and Miami Valley Oral History Project

On February 15, 2011 Audriana Quafisi interviewed Mary Welkin, a former teacher, for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview Mary discussed her education, her work at the Knoop Children’s Home, and her volunteer work.