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The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2011-01-28, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2001-2011

This is the Wooster Voice from January of 2011. The front page of this edition features a disturbing article about the attempted abduction of a female first year student on Beall Ave. The student, thankfully, was able to escape the abductors and informed/filed a report with security and the Wooster Police Department. The pages that follow include an article about the fallout of the Haitian earthquake, an article about changes to the student dining plan, student viewpoints, and Wooster street style. The current exhibition at the College of Wooster Art Museum is titled "Trees: an interdisciplinary dialogue." Page six has …

The Parthenon, January 28, 2011, Marshall University

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

Aberrant Promoter Cpg Methylation Is A Mechanism For Impaired Phd3 Expression In A Diverse Set Of Malignant Cells., Trenton L. Place, Matthew P. Fitzgerald, Sujatha Venkataraman, Sabine U. Vorrink, Adam J. Case, Melissa L.T. Teoh, Frederick E. Domann

Journal Articles: Cellular & Integrative Physiology

BACKGROUND: The prolyl-hydroxylase domain family of enzymes (PHD1-3) plays an important role in the cellular response to hypoxia by negatively regulating HIF-α proteins. Disruption of this process can lead to up-regulation of factors that promote tumorigenesis. We observed decreased basal expression of PHD3 in prostate cancer tissue and tumor cell lines representing diverse tissues of origin. Furthermore, some cancer lines displayed a failure of PHD3 mRNA induction when introduced to a hypoxic environment. This study explores the mechanism by which malignancies neither basally express PHD3 nor induce PHD3 under hypoxic conditions.

METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Using bisulfite sequencing and methylated DNA enrichment …

Prolactin-Induced Mouse Mammary Carcinomas Model Estrogen Resistant Luminal Breast Cancer., Lisa M Arendt, Debra E Rugowski, Tara A Grafwallner-Huseth, Maria Jose Garcia-Barchino, Hallgeir Rui, Linda A Schuler

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

INTRODUCTION: Tumors that express estrogen receptor alpha (ERα+) comprise 75% of breast cancers in women. While treatments directed against this receptor have successfully lowered mortality rates, many primary tumors initially or later exhibit resistance. The paucity of murine models of this "luminal" tumor subtype has hindered studies of factors that promote their pathogenesis and modulate responsiveness to estrogen-directed therapeutics. Since epidemiologic studies closely link prolactin and the development of ERα+ tumors in women, we examined characteristics of the aggressive ERα+ and ERα- carcinomas which develop in response to mammary prolactin in a murine transgenic model (neu-related lipocalin- prolactin (NRL-PRL)). To …

The Bg News January 28, 2011, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. January 28, 2011. Volume 101-Issue 89.

On The Effect Of Criticality And Topology On Learning In Random Boolean Networks, Alireza Goudarzi

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

Random Boolean networks (RBN) are discrete dynamical systems composed of N automata with a binary state, each of which interacts with other automata in the network. RBNs were originally introduced as simplified models of gene regulation. In this presentation, I will present recent work done conjointly with Natali Gulbahce (UCSF), Thimo Rohlf (MPI, CNRS), and Christof Teuscher (PSU). We extend the study of learning in feedforward Boolean networks to random Boolean networks (RBNs) and systematically explore the relationship between the learning capability, the network topology, the system size N, the training sample T, and the complexity of the computational task. …

Does Sustainable Certification Knowledge Influence Tourist Behavior?, J. Joy James, Stephanie West, Stuart Davis, Laura Reddick

Journal of Tourism Insights

In this study, the investigators use scores from the Tourist Ecological Orientation (TEO) Scale (Uriely, Reichel & Shani, 2007) of Costa Rica visitors to understand how their ecological orientation and interest in ecological practices influence accommodation and destination site choices. Results from this study were intended to be used to inform professionals in the tourism industry on how they might best develop their tourism sites, policies and programs according to the ecological orientation of the visitors. Based on the findings from this study, however, it seems that the Tourist Ecological Orientation Score derived by Uriely, Reichel and Shani (2007) is …

Nature-Based Tourism Businesses In Colorado: Interpreting Environmental Ethics And Responsible Behavior, Diane Gaede, Drew Strickert, Richard R. Jurin

Journal of Tourism Insights

Tourism businesses operate from a primarily economic-centric point of view, but nature-based tourism businesses are also acutely aware of the need to sustain the natural resource that attracts the client to their outdoor recreation service. A preliminary qualitative inquiry reveals how nature-based tourism organizations in Colorado view themselves as operating from environmentally ethical positions, what specific actions they take to minimize negative environmental impacts, and how they educate their clients about resource conservation. Findings indicate that too often companies fail to realize opportunities in which they can encourage meaningful bonds between people and nature through the use of education and …

Ucc Minutes January 27. 2011, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Minutes

No abstract provided.

Western News, Jan. 27, 2011, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Founding medical school dean announced; Carnegie Foundation lauds WMU's community engagement efforts; Service anniversaries for January; On Campus with Lisa Johnson.

Daily Eastern News: January 27, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

January

No abstract provided.

Comparative And Demographic Analysis Of Orang-Utan Genomes, Devin P. Locke, Ladeana W. Hillier, Wesley C. Warren, Kim C. Worley, Lynne V. Nazareth, Donna M. Muzny, Shiaw Pyng Yang, Zhengyuan Wang, Asif T. Chinwalla, Pat Minx, Makedonka Mitreva, Lisa Cook, Kim D. Delehaunty, Catrina Fronick, Heather Schmidt, Lucinda A. Fulton, Robert S. Fulton, Joanne O. Nelson, Vincent Magrini, Craig Pohl, Tina A. Graves, Chris Markovic, Andy Cree, Huyen H. Dinh, Jennifer Hume, Christie L. Kovar, Gerald R. Fowler, Gerton Lunter, Stephen Meader, Andreas Heger, Chris P. Ponting, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Can Alkan, Lin Chen

Faculty Publications

Orang-utan- is derived from a Malay term meaning man of the forest- and aptly describes the southeast Asian great apes native to Sumatra and Borneo. The orang-utan species, Pongo abelii (Sumatran) and Pongo pygmaeus (Bornean), are the most phylogenetically distant great apes from humans, thereby providing an informative perspective on hominid evolution. Here we present a Sumatran orang-utan draft genome assembly and short read sequence data from five Sumatran and five Bornean orang-utan genomes. Our analyses reveal that, compared to other primates, the orang-utan genome has many unique features. Structural evolution of the orang-utan genome has proceeded much more slowly …

January 27, 2011, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Alestle - Vol. 63 No. 18 - 01/27/2011, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 63 No. 18

The Grizzly, January 27, 2011, Katie Callahan, Traci Johnson, Sarah Bollert, Jessica Long, Lisa Jobe, Kristen Wampole, Megan Ormsby, Jarod Groome, Katie Haldeman, Fran Macera, Kyu Chul Shin, Jason K. Mullins, Elizabeth Burns, Christopher Michael

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Bonner Leaders Host Hunger Banquet • UC Alumnus Discusses Alternative Careers in Science • Students Find Internships While Studying Abroad • Berman Museum Opens Two New Exhibitions • MLK Celebrations • Student Experiences Australian Flood • Students Travel to Spain for New Experiences • Internship Profile: Ananda Holton • Diversity Through Monologues • Opinion: Scheduling Classes is Too Difficult; Tragedy in Arizona: The Work of a Madman; Snapshots of London From my Time Studying Abroad • Swimming Training Trip to Florida Proves Rewarding

Computer Simulations Of Heterologous Immunity: Highlights Of An Interdisciplinary Cooperation, Claudia Calcagno, Roberto Puzone, Yanthe E. Pearson, Yiming Cheng, Dario Ghersi, Liisa K. Selin, Raymond M. Welsh, Franco Celada

Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Publications

The relationship between biological research and mathematical modeling is complex, critical, and vital. In this review, we summarize the results of the collaboration between two laboratories, exploring the interaction between mathematical modeling and wet-lab immunology. During this collaboration several aspects of the immune defence against viral infections were investigated, focusing primarily on the subject of heterologous immunity. In this manuscript, we emphasize the topics where computational simulations were applied in conjunction with experiments, such as immune attrition, the growing and shrinking of cross-reactive T cell repertoires following repeated infections, the short and long-term effects of cross-reactive immunological memory, and the …

Vimentin Is A Novel Akt1 Target Mediating Motility And Invasion., Q-S Zhu, K Rosenblatt, K-L Huang, G Lahat, R Brobey, S Bolshakov, T Nguyen, Z Ding, R Belousov, K Bill, X Luo, A Lazar, Adam Dicker, Md, Phd, G B Mills, M-C Hung, D Lev

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

The PI3K/AKT signaling pathway is aberrant in a wide variety of cancers. Downstream effectors of AKT are involved in survival, growth and metabolic-related pathways. In contrast, contradictory data relating to AKT effects on cell motility and invasion, crucial prometastatic processes, have been reported pointing to a potential cell type and isoform type-specific AKT-driven function. By implication, study of AKT signaling should optimally be conducted in an appropriate intracellular environment. Prognosis in soft-tissue sarcoma (STS), the aggressive malignancies of mesenchymal origin, is poor, reflecting our modest ability to control metastasis, an effort hampered by lack of insight into molecular mechanisms driving …

Cancún Summit On Global Climate Change A Success Or Failure, Depending On Whom You Ask, Carlos Navarro

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

Depending on whom you ask, the UN conference on climate change in Cancún, Mexico, on Nov. 29-Dec. 11, 2010, was a total failure or a step in the right direction to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, generally thought to be responsible for the warming of the Earth's atmosphere. The Cancún gathering was also known as COP16—-an abbreviation for the sixteenth edition of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Those who viewed the results of COP16 with the "glass-is-half-full" premise included the host of the gathering, Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who said the agreements reached …

On Two Subspecies Of Mesobuthus Eupeus (C. L. Koch, 1839) In Turkey (Scorpiones: Buthidae), František Kovařík, Ersen Aydın Yağmur, Victor Fet, Shahrokh Navidpour

Euscorpius

Examination of 268 specimens of Mesobuthus eupeus eupeus (C. L. Koch, 1839) and 1765 specimens of M. eupeus phillipsii (Pocock, 1889) from 163 localities, 92 of them in Turkey, has enabled us to establish distribution of the two subspecies and limits of their ranges in southeastern Turkey. A map of distribution of these subspecies in Turkey and a key to Turkish Mesobuthus species and subspecies are provided. Buthus eupeus philippovitschi Birula, 1905 is synonymized with Mesobuthus eupeus eupeus, and Buthus eupaeus mesopotamicus Penther, 1912 is synonymized with Mesobuthus eupeus phillipsii.

Model Snp Development For Complex Genomes Based On Hexaploid Oat Using High-Throughput 454 Sequencing Technology, Rebekah E. Oliver, Gerard R. Lazo, Joseph D. Lutz, Marc J. Rubenfield, Nicholas A. Tinker, Joseph M. Anderson, Nicole H. Wisniewski Morehead, Dinesh Adhikary, Eric N. Jellen, Jeffrey Maughan, Gina L. Brown Guedira, Shiaoman Chao, Aaron D. Beattie, Martin L. Carson, Howard W. Rines, Donald E. Obert, J. Michael Bonman, Eric W. Jackson

Department of Agronomy Faculty Publications

Background

Genetic markers are pivotal to modern genomics research; however, discovery and genotyping of molecular markers in oat has been hindered by the size and complexity of the genome, and by a scarcity of sequence data. The purpose of this study was to generate oat expressed sequence tag (EST) information, develop a bioinformatics pipeline for SNP discovery, and establish a method for rapid, cost-effective, and straightforward genotyping of SNP markers in complex polyploid genomes such as oat.

Results

Based on cDNA libraries of four cultivated oat genotypes, approximately 127,000 contigs were assembled from approximately one million Roche 454 sequence reads. …

Mustang Daily, January 27, 2011

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Moral Analysis Of A Procedure At Phoenix Hospital, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 27, Issue 12, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Blizzard Blankets Bridgeport, SHU Must Go On -- Picoult Explains 'Fact Behind Fiction' -- New Grad Programs in the New Year -- SHU Said It -- He Said/She Said -- Turning Frustration into Creation -- Track Teams Come Home With Victory

University Of Northern Iowa Graduate Council Minutes, January 27, 2011, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate Council.

Documents - Graduate Council

Meeting minutes from the Graduate Council of the University of Northern Iowa.

Organic Dairying: Role Of Grazing, Jake Schmitz

Kentucky Grazing Conference

Certified organic and many conventional dairy farmers are using grazing techniques for a number of reasons, including building better soil, reducing feed costs, improving milk quality, and enhancing herd health. Additionally, certified organic farmers must utilize their pastures because the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) organic rule requires organic cows to graze. Both the farmer and the USDA are working hard to ensure that “organic dairy” is synonymous with “grazing cows,” because the organic consumer vehemently demands dairy products from pasture-grazed livestock.

January 26, 2011 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Afforestation And Timber Management Compliance Strategies In Climate Policy. A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis, Melania Michetti, Renato Nunes Rosa

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This paper analyzes the role of afforestation-reforestation and timber management activities, and their major and secondary economic effects in stabilizing climate during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. In particular, with a Computable General Equilibrium framework, the ICES model, it is inferred how forest carbon sequestration fits within the European domestic portfolio of a 2020-20 and 2020-30 climate stabilization policy. Afforestation and land use are accounted for by introducing their effects in the model. This is done by relying on carbon sequestration curves provided by Sohngen (2005), which describe the average annual cost of sequestration for selected world …

Let It Be, Char Miller

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Cord (January 26, 2011)

The Cord

No abstract provided.