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Nasig 2011 Conference Reports

NASIG Newsletter

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Bioenergy Feedstock-Specific Enrichment Of Microbial Populations During High-Solids Thermophilic Deconstruction, Amitha P. Reddy, Martin Allgaier, Steven W. Singer, Terry C. Hazen, Blake A. Simmons, Philip Hugenholtz, Jean S. Vandergheynst

United States Department of Energy: Publications

Thermophilic microbial communities that are active in a high-solids environment offer great potential for the discovery of industrially relevant enzymes that efficiently deconstruct bioenergy feedstocks. In this study, finished green waste compost was used as an inoculum source to enrich microbial communities and associated enzymes that hydrolyze cellulose and hemicellulose during thermophilic high-solids fermentation of the bioenergy feedstocks switchgrass and corn stover. Methods involving the disruption of enzyme and plant cell wall polysaccharide interactions were developed to recover xylanase and endoglucanase activity from deconstructed solids. Xylanase and endoglucanase activity increased by more than a factor of 5, upon four successive …

The “Marine Heat Wave” Off Western Australia During The Summer Of 2010/11, Alan Pearce, Gary Jackson, Jenny Moore, Ming Feng, Daniel J. Gaughan

Fisheries Research Reports

Water temperatures off the south-western coast of Western Australia rose to unprecedented levels during February and March 2011, and this warming event has been termed a “marine heat wave”. While surface temperatures were more than 3°C above the long-term monthly average over an extended area in February 2011, the temperature in some localised areas in coastal waters exceeded the long-term monthly average by 5°C for periods of a day or two in late February/early March

Winona Currents Magazine, University Advancement - Winona State University

Winona Currents

This magazine published by Winona State University’s University Advancement was intended to inform WSU Alumni, students, faculty, staff and the greater community about Alumni and the university.Teacher of the Year, Top Marks, Monster Mash.

The Western Cultural Model Of Creativity: Its Influence On Intellectual Property Law, R. Keith Sawyer

Notre Dame Law Review

The article discusses intellectual property law in light of the 10 structural elements of the Western cultural model of creativity. The author mentions Article I of the U.S. Constitution which grants the U.S. Congress the power to promote science and the useful arts. He argues that the law governing joint inventions and authorship is designed to cover collaborations, but it is not expansive enough to cover editors and literary agents.

Atypical Inventions, Sean B. Seymore

Notre Dame Law Review

The article discusses U.S. patent law as of September 2011 and the author's view that the patent laws need to evolve to encompass the ever-growing changes within the scientific and technical communities regarding atypical inventions. The author examines various aspects of the U.S. patent laws, including the structural bias of the U.S. patent laws against accidental inventions, a proposed alternative legal framework to resolve any disparities, and the process of patenting an impossible invention

Art Practice As Research In The Classroom: A New Paradigm In Art Education, Julia Marshall, Kimberley D'Adamo

Kimberley D'Adamo: Art, Curriculum, Publications, and Other Scholarly Works

Student experiences at Berkeley High School reveal the generative potential of the art practice-as-research approach—how deep, broad, and creative the learning can be, and how powerful this model is in changing student attitudes toward art and themselves as artists and learners. This model of self-directed, inquiry-based learning works well because student art practice is cast as research and is structured as research. As a result, students make discoveries and connections that go beyond their expectations. They also acquire skills and understandings that transfer into their academic studies. In partic-ular, they find that learning can be engaging and that a trail …

When Push Comes To Shove: Mandatory Immunization In Times Of Pandemic-Type Emergencies, Philip P. Houle, Suzanne R. Houle

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

No abstract provided.

0605 Capital Development Committee, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

Canonicity, Reprint Series, And Copyright, Gordon B. Neavill

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Psci 451e.01: Ancient And Medieval Political Philosophy, Ramona Grey

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

2010 Annual Report, Thomas F. Turner

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Using Nighttime Falconry For Roosting Blackbird Abatement At Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Cathy Boyles

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 13th (2011)

DFW Airport Overview

DFW Airport is located in Texas along a major path of the Central Flyway- one of four North American migratory bird routes.

Migratory species in addition to year round residents pose a challenge for the airport.

18,000+ acres

Fifty five percent of land area is developed.

Operations numbers typically exceed 600,000 flights annually.

Birds, migratory and resident, pose the biggest wildlife challenge

Contributing attractants to bird activity are human activity and development:

• Construction
• Mowing operations
• Leaseholders
• Employees
• Surrounding development

DFW Airport Design

Original design and landscape scheme contributes to bird challenges

• Live Oaks central to original landscape …

Beaver Sterilization Project, Castor Canadensis, In An Urban Setting, Marc-André Fortin

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 13th (2011)

Presentation

• The problem;
• The Biology of Castor canadensis;
• Capture procedures;
• The benefits of sterilisation;
• The Montreal Airport Project;
• The Farnham Garrison Project;

One beaver too many

Why is the population growing

• The price of beaver pelts has dropped;
• The lack of natural predators in urban and semi-urban areas;
• A species that re-produces rapidly.

Damage

• Chews trees, up to 100m from the pond;
• Blocks up culvers with dams;
• Floods roads, rail tracks and farm land;
• Creates a welcome habitat for water fowl and increases the risk of bird strikes
• Airports and beavers do not mix!

Castor canadensis (General Information)

• Location: …

Probing Single-Molecule Enzyme Active-Site Conformational State Intermittent Coherence, Yufan He, Yue Li, Saptarshi Mukherjee, Yan Wu, Honggao Yan, H. Peter Lu

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The relationship between protein conformational dynamics and enzymatic reactions has been a fundamental focus in modern enzymology. Using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) with a combined statistical data analysis approach, we have identified the intermittently appearing coherence of the enzymatic conformational state from the recorded single-molecule intensity-time trajectories of enzyme 6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropterin pyrophosphokinase (HPPK) in catalytic reaction. The coherent conformational state dynamics suggests that the enzymatic catalysis involves a multistep conformational motion along the coordinates of substrate-enzyme complex formation and product releasing, presenting as an extreme dynamic behavior intrinsically related to the time bunching effect that we have reported previously. …

Energy Transfer From Fluorescent Proteins To Metal Nanoparticles, Suraj Saraswat, Anil Desireddy, Desheng Zheng, Lijun Guo, H. Peter Lu, Terry P. Bigioni, Dragan Isailovic

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Energy transfer plays a significant role in numerous chemical, physical, and biological processes. While the use of fluorescent proteins in Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) studies of biomolecules is common, energy transfer between fluorescent proteins and inorganic nanoparticles has not been explored in detail. In this study, energy transfer from fluorescent phycobiliproteins to noble metal nanoparticles was analyzed. Solutions of B-phycoerythrin (B-PE) were mixed with colloidal Au and Ag nanoparticles and were characterized by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy to determine the magnitude and mechanism of the energy transfer. It was found that the protein fluorescence was quenched after the …

Open Courseware And Stem Initiatives In Career And Technical Education, Paul A. Asunda

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

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The Banner - V. 146, No. 9 - (September 2011), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

6 - Editorial: How Do We Show That God Matters? by Bob De Moor / 7 - Catch Your Breath: Happy Exhaustion by Peter Schuurman / 8 - IMHO: A Defining Issue for the 21st Century Church by A.J. Gretz / 8 - Letters to the Editor / 10 - News: Canada loses social justice leader. / 18 - Evangelism for Everyone by John Wildeboer / 21 - Next: Would Jesus Use Facebook? by Ryan Struyk / 22 - Called to Serve . . . By Learning Where You Are by Jul Medenblik, Ronald Feenstra, and Lyle Bierma / 27 …

The Experiences And Views Of Lesbian Parents And Adult Children Of Lesbian Parents In Ireland: An Exploratory Study, Aoife Quille

Dissertations

This research focused on the experiences and views of lesbian parents and adult children of lesbian parents. The experiences of the members of lesbian-parented families determined the main areas that were explored. The lack of international and Irish research on the lived experiences of lesbian parents and their children prompted this investigation. The study was conducted using qualitative, semi-structured interviews. The sample consisted of three lesbian parents and two adult children of lesbian parents from two parent lesbian families. The findings highlighted the experiences of the parents and adult children from lesbian-parented families in reference to: the Irish legal context; …

What Sex-Ed Didn't Teach You: Addressing The Inadequacies Of West Virginia Code Section 42-1-8 And The Future Of Posthumously Conceived Children, Andrew S. Felts

West Virginia Law Review

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Upscaling Fluxes From Towers To Regions, Continents And Global Scales Using Datadriven Approaches, Jingfeng Xiao, Kenneth J. Davis, Nathan M. Urban, Klaus Keller, Nicanor Z. Saliendra

All Materials

Quantifying the current carbon cycle of terrestrial ecosystems requires that we translate spatially sparse measurements into consistent, gridded flux estimates at the regional scale. This is particularly challenging in heterogeneous regions such as the northern forests of the United States. We use a network of 17 eddy covariance flux towers deployed across the Upper Midwest region of northern Wisconsin and Michigan and upscale flux observations from towers to the regional scale. This region is densely instrumented and provides a unique test bed for regional upscaling. We develop a simple Diagnostic Carbon Flux Model (DCFM) and use flux observations and a …

Upscaling Carbon Fluxes From Towers To The Regional Scale: Influence Of Parameter Variability And Land Cover Representation On Regional Flux Estimates, Jingfeng Xiao, Kenneth J. Davis, Nathan M. Urban, Klaus Keller, Nicanor Z. Saliendra

All Materials

Quantifying the current carbon cycle of terrestrial ecosystems requires that we translate spatially sparse measurements into consistent, gridded flux estimates at the regional scale. This is particularly challenging in heterogeneous regions such as the northern forests of the United States. We use a network of 17 eddy covariance flux towers deployed across the Upper Midwest region of northern Wisconsin and Michigan and upscale flux observations from towers to the regional scale. This region is densely instrumented and provides a unique test bed for regional upscaling. We develop a simple Diagnostic Carbon Flux Model (DCFM) and use flux observations and a …

The Texas Caver, Volume 57, No. 3, July - September 2011, Mark Alman

The Texas Caver

Contents: Twinkies Palace Cave Project Report - Amazing Cavers—Amazing Maze Cave on July 4th Weekend, 2011 - The 2011 NSS Convention: Glenwood Springs, Colorado - The Chuck Stuehm Award: An Annual Grotto Award for Exceptional New Cavers - 34th Annual Texas Cavers Reunion!

Present Limits To Heat-Adaptability In Corals And Population-Level Responses To Climate Extremes, Bernhard Riegl, Samuel J. Purkis, Ashraf S. Al-Cibahy, Mohammed A. Abdel-Moati, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Climate change scenarios suggest an increase in tropical ocean temperature by 1–3°C by 2099, potentially killing many coral reefs. But Arabian/Persian Gulf corals already exist in this future thermal environment predicted for most tropical reefs and survived severe bleaching in 2010, one of the hottest years on record. Exposure to 33–35°C was on average twice as long as in non-bleaching years. Gulf corals bleached after exposure to temperatures above 34°C for a total of 8 weeks of which 3 weeks were above 35°C. This is more heat than any other corals can survive, providing an insight into the present limits …

Benchmarks 2011, September 9, The Rockefeller University

BenchMarks 2011

BenchMarks. Friday, September 9, 2011

The community newsletter of The Rockefeller University

BenchMarks is published monthly and is distributed on the campus of The Rockefeller University. It produced by the Office of Communications and Public Affairs

Evaluation Of Perennial Forage Legumes And Herbs In Six Mediterranean Environments, Daniel Real, Guangdi D. Li, Steve Clark, Tony Albertsen, Richard C. Hayes, Matt D. Denton, Mario F. D'Antuono, B S. Dear

Grain and Other Field Crops Research Articles

There is an absence of drought tolerant herbaceous perennial forage legume and herb options other than lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) for environments with Mediterranean-like climates common in extensive areas of Southern Australia, the Mediterranean basin, and Chile. Therefore, a collection of 174 forage perennial legume and herb entries from 103 species and 32 genera was evaluated for adaptation in a diverse range of Mediterranean climatic environments in Southern Australia. The seasonal rainfall distribution varied from moderately to highly winter dominant with long term average annual rainfall ranging from 318 to 655 mm. The entries were rated for productivity and …

Cryopreservation Of Spin-Dried Mammalian Cells., Nilay Chakraborty, Michael Menze, Jason Malsam, Alptekin Aksan, Steven Hand, Mehmet Toner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This study reports an alternative approach to achieve vitrification where cells are pre-desiccated prior to cooling to cryogenic temperatures for storage. Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells suspended in a trehalose solution were rapidly and uniformly desiccated to a low moisture content (< 0.12 g of water per g of dry weight) using a spin-drying technique. Trehalose was also introduced into the cells using a high-capacity trehalose transporter (TRET1). Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) was used to examine the uniformity of water concentration distribution in the spin-dried samples. 62% of the cells were shown to survive spin-drying in the presence of trehalose following immediate rehydration. The spin-dried samples were stored in liquid nitrogen (LN2) at a vitrified state. It was shown that following re-warming to room temperature and re-hydration with a fully complemented cell culture medium, 51% of the spin-dried and vitrified cells survived and demonstrated normal growth characteristics. Spin-drying is a novel strategy that can be used to improve cryopreservation outcome by promoting rapid vitrification.

Mechanisms Of Resistance To Raf Inhibitors In Melanoma., A E Aplin, Fred M Kaplan, Yongping Shao

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

The recent RAF inhibitor trial with PLX4032/RG7204 in late-stage mutant B-RAF melanoma patients has been lauded as a success story for personalized cancer therapy since short-term clinical responses were observed in the majority of patients. However, initial responses were followed by subsequent tumor re-growth, and a subset of patients showed intrinsic resistance. Bi-directional translational efforts are now essential to determine the mechanisms underlying acquired/secondary and intrinsic resistance to RAF inhibitors.

Sex And Sexuality In The United States: A Brief History Of Culture Wars, Olivia Marcus

Spectrum

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has entered its thirtieth year; sex trafficking persists as an $8 billion industry (May 2006); unwanted pregnancies and transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continuously occur due to a lack of simple knowledge. Despite these exigencies, we find our politicians, parents, and teachers still merely quibbling about standards of modesty considered to be essential for maintaining a distorted concept of virtue. There are many questions concerning sexual education in the United States that beg unified answers. Should we increase the depth of sexual education and access to birth control? Or should we emphasize the role of abstinence …

The Changing Understanding Of North American Archaeology And Native American Heritage, Ashley Bourgault

Spectrum

This article explores the evolving ways in which anthropologists, archaeologists, and the United States government have viewed Native American cultural heritage, especially in terms of burials and grave goods. I begin with a historical view of the looting and racism that plagued the disciplines since their inception, and move into the present, while examining how NAGPRA has enabled indigenous communities to have a voice concerning what happens to their heritage, thus transforming archaeology in beneficial and productive ways that were previously not thought possible.