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The Effect Of Carbon Dioxide On The Density And Compressibility Of Kimberlitic Magma, Alison R. Santos

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Constraints were placed on the density of kimberlitic melts containing varying amounts of CO2 using high pressure sink/float experiments. The melt composition used was carefully selected and was prepared free of H2O and minor elements in order to focus on the effect of CO2. Experiments were run in graphite capsules over a pressure range of 4-10 GPa in a multi-anvil apparatus using Fo100 and Fo90 spheres as density markers. The compositions used contained 0, 3, 6, and 12 wt% CO2 and were derived from mixing the 0 and 12 wt% CO2 compositions together. Run products were analyzed with FTIR to …

Quantifying The Contribution Of Bank Storage Due To An Alteration In Stream Stage, Jeffrey Samson

Civil Engineering ETDs

The desire to control rivers to reduce risks of flooding while providing water storage for municipal and agricultural uses has resulted in the disconnection of rivers from their floodplains. An important and often neglected outcome of this detachment is the loss of a plethora of important ecosystem services. This research was focused on answering the following questions related to riparian groundwater storage (bank storage): 1) What is the time to saturation (maximum storage) and time to release of bank storage water as the result of a flood pulse that overbanks a portion of the floodplain?; 2) How does soil stratigraphy …

The Unfolding Of Methodological Identity: An Autobiographical Study Using Humor, Competing Voices, And Twists, James A. Bernauer

The Qualitative Report

This article explores my journey from quantitative to qualitative researcher, including the effects this journey has had on my identity as well as on those whom I previously referred to as “subjects”. “Identity” is examined from both an historical as well as from a self-dialogical, autobiographical perspective. Eleven “twists” that mark turning points and detours describe this journey, and this paper employs “voices” that offer contextual background and contradictory advice on the road towards methodological identity. These twists describe experiences as both teacher and student and readers are invited to join in this retrospective reflection in order to experience insights …

Conexão Subterrânea, No. 100, August 26, 2012, Karen Perez, Leda Zogbi, Marcos Silverio

KIP Articles

Nesta edição você saberá mais sobre os seguintes assuntos: - 100a edição do Conexão Subterrânea - Instituto do Carste disponibiliza o "Documento síntese do Workshop de Espeleometria" - Reunião sobre o PAN Cavernas do São Francisco é realizada em Belo Horizonte - Palestras sobre Bioespeleologia foram realizadas no Petar - Últimos dias para inscrição no Curso de Espeleo Resgate - 6º Encontro Mineiro de Espeleologia reuniu diversos especialistas em Belo Horizonte - Arqueólogos fazem escavações na Lapa do Santo, em Lagoa Santa - Pesquisadores da UFS encontram novas espécies de morcegos na Mata do Junco - Cavernas em Cunani ameaçadas …

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Antihypertensive Effect Of Brucea Javanica (L.) Merr. Fruit Extract, Anna P. Roswiem, Bambang Kiranadi, Trias Sanjaya Putra Bachtiar

Makara Journal of Science

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Dryden's Poetry (Earl Miner) (Reviewed by J. A. Levine, University of Rochester)

Quests Surd and Absurd: Essays in American Literature (James E. Miller, Jr.) (Reviewed by William C. Spengemann, Claremont Graduate School)

Language as Symbolic Action; Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (Kenneth Burke) (Reviewed by Daniel Hughes, Wayne State University)

The Picaresque Novel (Stuart Miller) (Reviewed by Philip Stevick, Temple University)

Literature and the Delinquent: The Picaresque Novel in Spain and Europe 1599-1753 (Alexander A. Parker) (Reviewed by Philip Stevick, Temple University)

The Fictions of Satire (Ronald Paulson) (Reviewed by George R. Levine, State University of New York at …

Biphenyl Inhibitors Of Carbonyl Reductase, Henry A. Charlier, Christopher K. Ewing

Boise State Patents

Compositions of matter and methods of treating cancer patients may prevent or limit cardiotoxicity during or after chemotherapy, and/or may prevent or lower resistance to anthracycline drugs, both of which are believed to be caused by the human enzyme carbonyl reductase. Thus, the compositions and methods may be used to reduce the dosages of anthracycline anti-cancer drugs necessary to produce a desired cancer-cell-killing performance. Preferred embodiments comprise treating cancer patients with a pharmaceutical composition comprising biphenyl compounds having two halogenated (or pseudo-halogenated) and/or hydroxylated, aryl groups that are linked by a bridging atom. The preferred composition of biphenyl compound(s) may …

Mammalian Alteration/Deficiency In Activation 3 (Ada3) Is Essential For Embryonic Development And Cell Cycle Progression., Shakur Mohibi, Channabasavaiah B. Gurumurthy, Alo Nag, Jun Wang, Sameer Mirza, Yousaf Mian, Meghan Quinn, Bryan J. Katafiasz, James D. Eudy, Sanjit Pandey, Chittibabu Guda, Mayumi Naramura, Hamid Band, Vimla Band

Journal Articles: Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy

Ada3 protein is an essential component of histone acetyl transferase containing coactivator complexes conserved from yeast to human. We show here that germline deletion of Ada3 in mouse is embryonic lethal, and adenovirus-Cre mediated conditional deletion of Ada3 in Ada3(FL/FL) mouse embryonic fibroblasts leads to a severe proliferation defect which was rescued by ectopic expression of human Ada3. A delay in G(1) to S phase of cell cycle was also seen that was due to accumulation of Cdk inhibitor p27 which was an indirect effect of c-myc gene transcription control by Ada3. We further showed that this defect could be …

First Recorded Introduction Of The Milliped Order Stemmiulida (Eugnatha: Nematophora): Potential Establishment In Florida, Usa, And New Records From Mexico; Northward Range Extension Into Southern Tamaulipas, Rowland M. Shelley, G. B. Edwards, Arthur E. Bogan

Insecta Mundi

Based on two “uni-ocellate” females, the world’s first introductions of the milliped order Stemmiulida are recorded from Florida, United States (US). One individual was collected in 1976 in Gainesville, Alachua County (Co.)., in northcentral peninsular Florida, and the other was taken in 1991 some 408 km (255 mi) to the south-southeast in Pompano Beach, Broward Co. The absence of further individuals and additional samples suggests that the introductions did not result in viable populations, and stemmiulidans are not presently established in the state; the Gainesville site was reinvestigated in 2012 without finding additional specimens. New records from Mexico include the …

Daily Eastern News: August 24, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

August

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, August 24, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

No abstract provided.

Role Of Sequence And Structure Of The Hendra Fusion Protein Fusion Peptide In Membrane Fusion, Everett Clinton Smith, Sonia M. Gregory, Lukas K. Tamm, Trevor P. Creamer, Rebecca Ellis Dutch

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Viral fusion proteins are intriguing molecular machines that undergo drastic conformational changes to facilitate virus-cell membrane fusion. During fusion a hydrophobic region of the protein, termed the fusion peptide (FP), is inserted into the target host cell membrane, with subsequent conformational changes culminating in membrane merger. Class I fusion proteins contain FPs between 20 and 30 amino acids in length that are highly conserved within viral families but not between. To examine the sequence dependence of the Hendra virus (HeV) fusion (F) protein FP, the first eight amino acids were mutated first as double, then single, alanine mutants. Mutation of …

Development Of Repressible Systems To Control Gene Expression In Vaccinia Virus, Allison Titong

Master's Theses

Two vaccinia virus (VACV) expression systems that contain elements from the lactose (lac) and the tetracycline (tet) operons of E. coli were developed to repress the expression of a reporter gene, enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), in the presence of tet operon inducers. In the first system, lac and tet operon elements were arranged in a gene circuit, and in the presence of increasing concentrations of a lac operon inducer (isopropyl-β-D-thiogalactoside, IPTG), EGFP expression increased in a dose dependent manner and at high IPTG concentrations, expression reached the same levels as a positive control virus. Importantly, in the …

Sex Determination In Beetles: Production Of All Male Progeny By Parental Rnai Knockdown Of Transformer, Jayendra Nath Shukla, Subba Reddy Palli

Entomology Faculty Publications

Sex in insects is determined by a cascade of regulators ultimately controlling sex-specific splicing of a transcription factor, Doublesex (Dsx). We recently identified homolog of dsx in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Tcdsx). Here, we report on the identification and characterization of a regulator of Tcdsx splicing in T. castaneum. Two male-specific and one female-specific isoforms of T. castaneum transformer (Tctra) were identified. RNA interference-aided knockdown of Tctra in pupa or adults caused a change in sex from females to males by diverting the splicing of Tcdsx pre-mRNA to male-specific isoform. All the pupa and adults developed from Tctra …

Loss Of The Lipopolysaccharide Core Biosynthesis Rfad Gene Increases Antimicrobial Chemokine Binding And Bacterial Susceptibility To Ccl28 And Polymyxin: A Model For Understanding The Interface Of Antimicrobial Chemokines And Bacterial Host Defense Avoidance Mechanisms, Cynthia S. Lew

Theses and Dissertations

In order to better understand the mechanism of antimicrobial chemokine activity, including binding to and killing of bacteria, random transposon mutagenesis was performed in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Resulting mutants were screened for increased binding to chemokine and high binding clones were selected for further study. One mutant, designated mutant 27, was found to have a single insertion mutation in the rfaD gene. The rfaD gene product is involved in heptose biosynthesis, one of the sugars of the inner core oligosaccharide of Gram- negative lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Mutant 27 was found to bind both CCL25 and CCL28, two antimicrobial chemokines, more efficiently than …

Chronic Ketamine Administration Modulates Midbrain Dopamine System In Mice, Sijie Tan, Wai Ping Lam, Maria S. M. Wai, Wan-Hua Amy Yu, David T. Yew

Publications and Research

Ketamine is an anesthetic and a popular abusive drug. As an anesthetic, effects of ketamine on glutamate and GABA transmission have been well documented but little is known about its long-term effects on the dopamine system. In the present study, the effects of ketamine on dopamine were studied in vitro and in vivo. In pheochromocytoma (PC 12) cells and NGF differentiated-PC 12 cells, ketamine decreased the cell viability while increasing dopamine (DA) concentrations in a dose-related manner. However, ketamine did not affect the expression of genes involved in DA synthesis. In the long-term (3 months) ketamine treated mice, significant increases …

The Bg News August 24, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 24, 2012. Volume 103-Issue 4.

Tryptophan Hydroxylase-1 Regulates Immune Tolerance And Inflammation, Elizabeth C. Nowak, Victor C. De Vries, Anna Wasiuk, Cory Ahonen, Kathryn A. Bennett, Isabelle Le Mercier, Dae-Gon Ha, Randolph J. Noelle

Dartmouth Scholarship

Nutrient deprivation based on the loss of essential amino acids by catabolic enzymes in the microenvironment is a critical means to control in ammatory responses and immune tolerance. Here we report the novel nding that Tph-1 (tryptophan hydroxylase-1), a synthase which catalyses the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin and exhausts tryptophan, is a potent regulator of immunity. In models of skin allograft tolerance, tumor growth, and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, Tph-1 de ciency breaks allograft tolerance, induces tumor remission, and intensi es neuroin ammation, respectively. All of these effects of Tph-1 de ciency are independent of its downstream product serotonin. Because …

The Oppression Of Experience. A Book Review Of Beyond Learning By Doing: Theoretical Currents In Experiential Education , Paul A. Michalec

Democracy & Education

A review of the book Beyond Learning by Doing: Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education, by Jay W. Roberts (Routledge, 2012).

Unalienated Recognition As A Feature Of Democratic Schooling, Alison Rheingold

Democracy & Education

The current era of standards and accountability in U.S. public schooling narrows recognition and assessment to an almost exclusive focus on the production of test scores as legitimate markers of student achievement. This climate prevents rather than encourages democratic forms of exchange within and across social worlds. Via a case study of one student’s experience in a project on the civil rights movement, I present the concept of unalienated recognition to describe a form of democratic exchange that centers on what students produce through community-based projects.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Cavalier Mode from Jonson to Cotton (Earl Miner) (Reviewed by William Kerrigan, University of Virginia)

The Schlemiel as Modern Hero (Ruth R. Wisse) (Reviewed by Allen Guttmann, Amherst College)

Edmund Wilson (Leonard Kriegel) (Reviewed by William Alexander, University of Michigan)

Black Portraiture in American Fiction: Stock Characters, Archetypes, and Individuals (Catherine Juanita Starke) (Reviewed by Jean Fagan Yellin, Pace College)

A Scrupulous Meanness: a Study at Joyce's Early Work (Edward Brandabur) (Reviewed by David Hayman, University of Iowa)

Epiphany in the Modern Novel (Morris Beja) (Reviewed by David Hayman, University of Iowa)

The Ordeal at Stephen Dedalus: The Conflict …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Shelley: A Critical Reading (Earl R. Wasserman) (Reviewed by Stuart Curran, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf (Avrom Fleishman) (Reviewed by William Darby, Wayne State University)

A Companion to William Carlos Williams's 'Paterson' (Benjamin Sankey) (Reviewed by Jerome Mazzaro, State University of New York at Buffalo)

The Metaphor of Chance: Vision and Technique in the Works of Thomas Hardy (Bert G. Hornback) (Reviewed by Peter J. Casagrande, The University of Kansas)

A Genteel Endeavor: American Culture and Politics in the Gilded Age (John Tomsich) (Reviewed by Edward E. Chielens, Detroit College of Business) …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Styles in Fictional Structure: The Art of lane Austen, Charlotte Brome, George Eliot (Karl Kroeber) (Reviewed by G. B. Tennyson, University of California, Los Angeles)

Keats and His Poetry: A Study in Development (Morris Dickstein) (Reviewed by Walter H. Evert, University of Pittsburgh)

The Situation of the Novel (Bernard Bergonzi) (Reviewed by Peter Wolfe, University of Missouri--St. Louis)

After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson (John Cody) (Reviewed by Stephen A. Black, Simon Fraser University)

Allen Tate: A Literary Biography (Radcliffe Squires) (Reviewed by Ashley Brown, The University of South Carolina)

The Wild Prayer of Longing: Poetry and …

The Daily Egyptian, August 23, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

August 2012

No abstract provided.

Nuclear Dna Content And Genome Size Of American Ginseng, Samuel G. Obae

Open Access Author Fund Awardees' Articles

Flow cytometry analysis of propidium iodide (PI) stained nuclei isolated from leaf tissues was used to estimate the genome size of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) and evaluate inhibitor y effects of its secondary compounds on PI intercalation. American ginseng nuclear DNA content was estimated to be 10.05 ± 0.04 pg/2C, and therefore its haploid (1C) genome size is 4914 Mbp. There was no significant inhibition of PI fluorescence of reference standard nuclei co-processed with American ginseng. This indicates that secondary compounds of American ginseng do not interfere with PI intercalation. By comparison, the genome size of American ginseng is …

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, August 23, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, August 23, 2012, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 23, 2012, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Fat Dogs And Coughing Horses: Be The Vet! Solve The Case!, Kauline Cipriani Davis, Jessica Schneider, Henry Green Iii, Thad Blossom

College of Veterinary Medicine eBooks

This activity book highlights various careers in the veterinary profession and provides veterinary medical cases for the reader to solve.

This project was supported by the National Center for Research Resources and the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives of the National Institutes of Health through Grant Number R25 OD011115-04.

Also attached are the 6 fitness handouts - Canine Obesity, Dog Weight by Breed, Doggie Fitness, Eating Healthy, Healthy Treats, and Weather Tips.

How I Became A Veterinarian, Kauline Cipriani Davis, Sandra F. Amass, Paula Green

College of Veterinary Medicine eBooks

Veterinarians have fun and exciting jobs! In this book you will meet veterinarians from all over the world. These veterinarians work hard to make sure people and their animals stay healthy. Maybe one day you will be a veterinarian too!