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Catalan And Galician Literatures In Iberian And European Contexts, Olivia Rodríguez González Dec 2011

Catalan And Galician Literatures In Iberian And European Contexts, Olivia Rodríguez González

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Catalan and Galician Literatures in Iberian and European Contexts" Olivia Rodríguez González investigates the problematics of canon formation and proposes an approach within which the formation of a multi-system canon is possible. Reflections on the constitution of a European canon that would be the result of a proportional or market-driven combination of national literary canons leads to the conclusion that, with respect to the multicultural Spanish state, what will succeed in getting into the European canon will do so as a consequence of one of two processes. The first depends on what each literary system does to …


Classification Of Plants According To Their Heavy Metal Content Around North Mara Gold Mine, Tanzania: Implication For Phytoremediation, N. Mganga, Mlk Manoko, Z. K. Rulangaranga Dec 2011

Classification Of Plants According To Their Heavy Metal Content Around North Mara Gold Mine, Tanzania: Implication For Phytoremediation, N. Mganga, Mlk Manoko, Z. K. Rulangaranga

Tanzania Journal of Science

Plants like other living organisms respond differently under different environmental conditions. An elevated level of heavy metals is one of the stresses which results into three classes of plants depending on their heavy metal content. The classes of plant species according to their accumulated heavy metals around North Mara Gold Mine were not known. To study such classes, a line transect of 700m long was established opposite the gold mine wastes. A total of eight sampling points were systematically established each after every 100m in that transect. Fifteen plant species were sampled; at least one species per sampling point. Approximately …


Agriculture In Sub-Saharan Africa, Troy M. Null Dec 2011

Agriculture In Sub-Saharan Africa, Troy M. Null

Rollins Undergraduate Research Journal

According to the World Food Programme, with the exception of Haiti, all of the world’s countries that experienced a malnourishment rate of 35% of the population or higher last year are located in sub-Saharan Africa. Of the nearly one billion hungry people in the world, one quarter of them are of them are Africans. Why is it that they are not better-able to feed themselves (or others, for that matter) with their vast amounts of undeveloped land? The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the historical and developing influences of globalization and gender on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, and …


Somali Bibliography By Keyword --2012, Elizabeth A. Eames, Mame Nyarko F. Bonsu Dec 2011

Somali Bibliography By Keyword --2012, Elizabeth A. Eames, Mame Nyarko F. Bonsu

Somalis in Maine Bibliography

A bibliography of resources organized by topical keyword and published before 2012.


Spt5 Affects The Rate Of Mrna Degradation And Physically Interacts With Ccr4 But Does Not Control Mrna Deadenylation, Yajun Cui, Yueh-Chin Chiang, Palaniswamy Viswanathan, Darren J. Lee, Clyde L. Denis Dec 2011

Spt5 Affects The Rate Of Mrna Degradation And Physically Interacts With Ccr4 But Does Not Control Mrna Deadenylation, Yajun Cui, Yueh-Chin Chiang, Palaniswamy Viswanathan, Darren J. Lee, Clyde L. Denis

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

The CCR4-NOT complex has been shown to have multiple roles in mRNA metabolism, including that of transcriptional elongation, mRNA transport, and nuclear exosome function, but the primary function of CCR4 and CAF1 is in the deadenylation and degradation of cytoplasmic mRNA. As previous genetic analysis supported an interaction between SPT5, known to be involved in transcriptional elongation, and that of CCR4, the physical association of SPT5 with CCR4 was examined. A two-hybrid screen utilizing the deadenylase domain of CCR4 as a bait identified SPT5 as a potential interacting protein. SPT5 at its physiological concentration was shown to immunoprecipitate CCR4 and …


Step Down, Justice Melvin, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2011

Step Down, Justice Melvin, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Energy Savings And Peak Demand Reduction Of A Seer 21 Heat Pump Vs. A Seer 13 Heat Pump With Attic And Indoor Duct Systems - December 2011, Florida Solar Energy Center, James Cummings Dec 2011

Energy Savings And Peak Demand Reduction Of A Seer 21 Heat Pump Vs. A Seer 13 Heat Pump With Attic And Indoor Duct Systems - December 2011, Florida Solar Energy Center, James Cummings

FSEC Energy Research Center®

Experiments were run in an unoccupied 1600 ft2 house, the Manufactured Housing (MH Lab) at the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), to evaluate the delivered performance as well as the relative performance of a SEER 21 variable capacity heat pump versus a SEER 13 heat pump. The performance was evaluated with two different duct systems: a standard attic duct system and an indoor duct system located in a dropped-ceiling space.


Justice’S Suspension Is Dubious, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2011

Justice’S Suspension Is Dubious, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Ines Lomando V. Usa Dec 2011

Ines Lomando V. Usa

2011 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey


In Re: Harold C. Lampe Jr Dec 2011

In Re: Harold C. Lampe Jr

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Usa V. Frank Chappell Dec 2011

Usa V. Frank Chappell

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Usa V. Raymond Jackson Dec 2011

Usa V. Raymond Jackson

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania


State Funding To Local Governments. Criminal Justice. Social Services. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Dec 2011

State Funding To Local Governments. Criminal Justice. Social Services. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

Initiatives

Guarantees local governments their existing statutory allocations of state sales tax and vehicle license fees, to fund government services that were shifted from state to local responsibility in 2011. Continues guarantee as long as local governments have responsibility for shifted services. Prohibits legislation that increases scope of services shifted, unless state provides adequate, ongoing funds to pay for increased costs. Caps state obligation for actual costs of shifted services at amounts of guaranteed allocations. Requires four-fifths vote in Legislature to reduce local law enforcement mandates predating shift. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst of fiscal impact on state and local …


Supply Chain Process Collaboration And Internet Utilization: An International Perspective Of Business To Business Relationships, Marcos Paulo Valadares De Oliveira, Kevin Mccormack, Marcelo Bronzo Ladeira, Peter Trkman, Joachim Van Den Bergh Dec 2011

Supply Chain Process Collaboration And Internet Utilization: An International Perspective Of Business To Business Relationships, Marcos Paulo Valadares De Oliveira, Kevin Mccormack, Marcelo Bronzo Ladeira, Peter Trkman, Joachim Van Den Bergh

Economic and Business Review

This paper compiles the findings of an international study which primary objective was to investigate the relationships between Internet utilization in business-to-business relationships, collaborative efforts and their impact over supplier and customer-oriented processes performance. It highlights the Internet as an important enhancer of collaboration in supply chains and addresses the effects of such efforts on companies’ overall performance. As a conclusive-descriptive and quantitative study, data from a survey of 788 companies from the USA, China, Canada, United Kingdom, and Brazil were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics, reliability evaluation of the research model’s internal scales, path analysis and structural …


Information System Maturity And The Hospitality Enterprise Performance, Daniela Garbin Praničević, Nikša Alfirević, Mojca Indihar Štemberger Dec 2011

Information System Maturity And The Hospitality Enterprise Performance, Daniela Garbin Praničević, Nikša Alfirević, Mojca Indihar Štemberger

Economic and Business Review

The purpose of this paper is to empirically evaluate the relationship between the maturity of hotels’ information systems and their performance. This study uses customized models of information system (IS) maturity and hotel performance measurement. Since we wanted to include the intangible aspects of performance, we opted for an adapted application of the Balanced Scorecard model. In the empirical part of the paper, fundamental constructs of the model are verified, while the individual items are further evaluated by employing discriminant analysis to distinguish hotels with relatively low and high performance levels. The findings demonstrate the existence of a significant and …


Search For Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos In Highly Inclined Events At The Pierre Auger Observatory, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E. J. Ahn, I. F.M. Albuquerque, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, J. Allen, P. Allison, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, M. Ambrosio, A. Aminaei, L. Anchordoqui, S. Andringa, T. Antičić, A. Anzalone, C. Aramo, E. Arganda, F. Arqueros, H. Asorey, P. Assis, J. Aublin, M. Ave, M. Avenier, G. Avila, T. Bäcker, M. Balzer, K. B. Barber, A. F. Barbosa, R. Bardenet, S. L.C. Barroso, B. Baughman, J. Bäuml Dec 2011

Search For Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos In Highly Inclined Events At The Pierre Auger Observatory, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E. J. Ahn, I. F.M. Albuquerque, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, J. Allen, P. Allison, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, M. Ambrosio, A. Aminaei, L. Anchordoqui, S. Andringa, T. Antičić, A. Anzalone, C. Aramo, E. Arganda, F. Arqueros, H. Asorey, P. Assis, J. Aublin, M. Ave, M. Avenier, G. Avila, T. Bäcker, M. Balzer, K. B. Barber, A. F. Barbosa, R. Bardenet, S. L.C. Barroso, B. Baughman, J. Bäuml

Faculty Publications

The Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to neutrinos of all flavors above 0.1 EeV. These interact through charged and neutral currents in the atmosphere giving rise to extensive air showers. When interacting deeply in the atmosphere at nearly horizontal incidence, neutrinos can be distinguished from regular hadronic cosmic rays by the broad time structure of their shower signals in the water-Cherenkov detectors. In this paper we present for the first time an analysis based on down-going neutrinos. We describe the search procedure, the possible sources of background, the method to compute the exposure and the associated …


Enhanced Microbial Utilization Of Recalcitrant Cellulose By An Ex Vivo Cellulosome-Microbe Complex, Chun You, Xiao-Zhou Zhang, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, Lee R. Lynd Dec 2011

Enhanced Microbial Utilization Of Recalcitrant Cellulose By An Ex Vivo Cellulosome-Microbe Complex, Chun You, Xiao-Zhou Zhang, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, Lee R. Lynd

Dartmouth Scholarship

A cellulosome-microbe complex was assembled ex vivo on the surface of Bacillus subtilis displaying a miniscaffoldin that can bind with three dockerin-containing cellulase components: the endoglucanase Cel5, the processive endoglucanase Cel9, and the cellobiohydrolase Cel48. The hydrolysis performances of the synthetic cellulosome bound to living cells, the synthetic cellulosome, a noncomplexed cellulase mixture with the same catalytic components, and a commercial fungal enzyme mixture were investigated on low-accessibility recalcitrant Avicel and high accessibility regenerated amorphous cellulose (RAC). The cellbound cellulosome exhibited 4.5- and 2.3-fold-higher hydrolysis ability than cell-free cellulosome on Avicel and RAC, respectively. The cellulosome-microbe synergy was not completely …


Newman V. State Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 38281 Dec 2011

Newman V. State Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 38281

Not Reported

No abstract provided.


State V. L'Abbe Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39376 Dec 2011

State V. L'Abbe Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39376

Not Reported

No abstract provided.


Revisiting The Relationship Between Exchange Rates And Output Within Svar Blanchard-Quah Framework: Empirical Evidence From Turkey, Germany And Russia, Oguzhan Ozcelebi, Nurtac Yildirim Dec 2011

Revisiting The Relationship Between Exchange Rates And Output Within Svar Blanchard-Quah Framework: Empirical Evidence From Turkey, Germany And Russia, Oguzhan Ozcelebi, Nurtac Yildirim

Economic and Business Review

It seems important to determine the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on economic performance. In this study, we attempt to shed some light the relationship between industrial production difference and exchange rates using two Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) Blanchard-Quah models for the cases of Turkey and Germany and Turkey and Russia. Results from the impulse response functions (IRFs) and forecast error variance decompositions (FEVDs) of the two SVAR models emphasized that effects of nominal exchange rate on industrial production difference and real exchange rate are temporary. Nevertheless, macroeconomic policies of Turkey, Germany and Russia influencing nominal exchange rates should be …


Effective Use Of Secondary Data Analysis In Gifted Education Research: Opportunities And Challenges, Christian E. Mueller, Caroline O. Hart Dec 2011

Effective Use Of Secondary Data Analysis In Gifted Education Research: Opportunities And Challenges, Christian E. Mueller, Caroline O. Hart

Gifted Children

No abstract provided.


Using Life-Story Research For Gifted Education: Part Three: Implications For Practice, Lori J. Flint Dec 2011

Using Life-Story Research For Gifted Education: Part Three: Implications For Practice, Lori J. Flint

Gifted Children

No abstract provided.


The Ap Challenge Program: Advancing Gifted Minority Student Achievement In High School And Beyond, Mary Nguyen, Carolyn M. Callahan, Dean L. Stevenson Dec 2011

The Ap Challenge Program: Advancing Gifted Minority Student Achievement In High School And Beyond, Mary Nguyen, Carolyn M. Callahan, Dean L. Stevenson

Gifted Children

No abstract provided.


Interest Rate Policy In China: The Impact Of Suppressed Deposit Rates On Household Income From 2000-2007, Zhuliang James Zhang Dec 2011

Interest Rate Policy In China: The Impact Of Suppressed Deposit Rates On Household Income From 2000-2007, Zhuliang James Zhang

Undergraduate Economic Review

An often-overlooked impact of China’s policy of maintaining low interest has been the suppression of household interest income, which has increased the propensity of households to save while decreasing their consumption rates. This paper posits that from 2000 to 2007, deposit rates in China were suppressed annually by around 720 basis points, imposing an implicit tax on annual per-capita income of 12.8% on average. Raising deposit rates will increase household income and boost consumption in the medium-term if the Chinese government is able to initiate policy shifts that distribute the gains of economic growth more equitably to households. Research advised …


Request For Articles, Jill Adelson Dec 2011

Request For Articles, Jill Adelson

Gifted Children

No abstract provided.


Request For Articles, Jill Adelson Dec 2011

Request For Articles, Jill Adelson

Gifted Children

No abstract provided.


Nagc 2007, Matthew Makel Dec 2011

Nagc 2007, Matthew Makel

Gifted Children

No abstract provided.


In Re: Nortel Networks Dec 2011

In Re: Nortel Networks

2011 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware


Usa V. Claudelle Mcmahill Dec 2011

Usa V. Claudelle Mcmahill

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania


State Budget. State And Local Government. Initiative Constitutional Amendment And Statute. Dec 2011

State Budget. State And Local Government. Initiative Constitutional Amendment And Statute.

Initiatives

Establishes two-year state budget cycle. Prohibits Legislature from creating expenditures of more than $25 million unless offsetting revenues or spending cuts are identified. Permits Governor to cut budget unilaterally during declared fiscal emergencies if Legislature fails to act. Requires performance reviews of all state programs. Requires performance goals in state and local budgets. Requires publication of all bills at least three days prior to legislative vote. Gives counties power to alter state statutes or regulations related to spending unless Legislature or state agency vetoes changes within 60 days. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal …