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2012 Fall - Schedule Of Classes, Office Of The Registrar, East Tennessee State University

Registration Resources

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Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 88, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

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The Japanimated Folktale: Analysis Concerning The Use And Adaptation Of Folktale Characteristics In Anime, Amber N. Slaven

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In this thesis, I examine the relationship between folk tales and Japanese animation, or anime. In spite of the popular association between animation and adolescence, animated television series and films have a dynamic and compelling relationship with various age groups and nationalities. Additionally, anime and animation draw liberally from a number of folk tale traditions. Consequently, in this essay, anime is understood as a global phenomenon that draws on international cultural elements and is consumed in several international markets.

Before entering an analysis of the use of folk tales in anime, a history of animation and the place of …

Nebline, August 2012

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: 9 Reasons to Shop at Farmers Markets

Farm Views

Urban Agriculture

Food & Fitness

Home & Family Living

Horticulture

Environmental Focus

4-H & Youth

Community Focus

Extension Calendar

Nutrition Education Program

Family and Community Education (FCE) Clubs

and other extension news and events

Individual Prey Choices Of Octopuses: Are They Generalist Or Specialist?, Jennifer A. Mather, Tatiana S. Leite, Allan T. Batista

Sentience Collection

Prey choice is often evaluated at the species or population level. Here, we analyzed the diet of octopuses of different populations with the aim to assess the importance of individual feeding habits as a factor affecting prey choice. Two methods were used, an assessment of the extent to which an individual octopus made choices of species representative of those population (PSi and IS) and 25% cutoff values for number of choices and percentage intake of individual on their prey. In one population of Octopus cf vulgaris in Bermuda individuals were generalist by IS=0.77, but most chose many prey of the …

Why (And How) Personalities In Invertebrates?, Jennifer A. Mather

Sentience Collection

No abstract provided.

Immune Responses In Lactating Holstein Cows Supplemented With Cu, Mn, And Zn As Sulfates Or Methionine Hydroxy Analogue Chelates, L. M. Nemec, J. D. Richards, C. A. Atwell, D. E. Diaz, G. I. Zanton, T. F. Gressley

Physiology Collection

The aim of this study was to compare effects of inorganic sulfate versus chelated forms of supplemental Cu, Mn, and Zn on milk production, plasma and milk mineral concentrations, neutrophil activity, and antibody titer response to a model vaccination. Holstein cows (n = 25) were assigned in 2 cohorts based on calving date to a 12-wk randomized complete block design study. The first cohort consisted of 17 cows that had greater days in milk (DIM; mean of 77 DIM at the start of the trial) than the second cohort of 8 cows (32 DIM at the start of the trial). …

Augb2012, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From August 2012 Robert Kelly Archives

Analyzing Nurse-Physician Discursive Practices In Acute Patient Care, John Dinolfo

All Dissertations

This mixed methods study in inter-professional health communication assesses the pedagogical role of writing and visual communication in the education of non-traditional and traditional Nursing students as they interpret and apply the concepts of message framing and message reception in nurse-physician communication. To achieve that goal, this study analyzes the dynamics of terministic screens as message frames that can determine message reception in nurse-physician communication regarding the status of an acute care patient.
The study was conducted in two Nursing writing and communication classes during the Spring 2011 semester. Two study groups (combined across classes) included a mixed population of …

Characterization Of A Vibrio Fischeri Aminopeptidase And Evidence For Its Influence On An Early Stage Of Squid Colonization, Pat M. Fidopiastis, Bethany A. Rader, David G. Gerling, Nestor A. Gutierrez, Katherine H. Watkins, Michelle West Frey, Spencer V. Nyholm, Cheryl A. Whistler

Biological Sciences

Vibrio fischeri cells are the sole colonists of a specialized light organ in the mantle cavity of the sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes. The process begins when the bacteria aggregate in mucus secretions outside the light organ. The cells eventually leave the aggregate, enter the light organ, and encounter a rich supply of peptides. The need to dissociate from mucus and presumably utilize peptides led us to hypothesize that protease activity is integral to the colonization process. Protease activity associated with whole cells of Vibrio fischeri strain ES114 was identified as the product of a putative cell membrane-associated aminopeptidase (PepN). To …

How Do Host Sex And Reproductive State Affect Host Preference And Feeding Duration Of Ticks?, Nicholas B. Pollock, Larisa K. Vredevoe, Emily N. Taylor

Biological Sciences

Parasitism is one of the most notable forms of symbiosis in the biological world, with nearly all organisms hosting parasites. In many vertebrates, males have higher ectoparasite burdens than females, especially when testosterone concentrations are elevated. Furthermore, reproductive females may have higher ectoparasite burdens than non-reproductive females. It is possible that testosterone-stimulated behaviors in males and offspring investment by females incur energetic costs that inhibit immune function. If questing ticks can sense host sex or reproductive condition prior to attachment, they could potentially choose hosts with the poorest immune function, thereby leading to improved feeding success and decreased feeding duration. …

High School Horticulture Curriculum, Margaret Maratsos

Horticulture and Crop Science

Horticulture is just one of the many topics covered in a high school agriculture curriculum, and yet, there are very few lesson plans or resources available to teachers for these classes specifically. The objectives of this project were to compile a set of lesson plans, lab plans, and tests that would emphasize interactive and investigative learning. The lesson plans were written in such a way that they reflected a certain set of standards, set down by the state of California, and were meant to serve as a bare outline of topics that would be discussed within a week’s worth of …

Island Times, Aug 2012, Kevin Attra

Island Times Newspaper, 2012

No abstract provided.

Identification Of Small Molecules That Bind To The Hemopexin Domain Of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9, Zhu Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play an important role in cancer progression by degrading extracellular matrix components, promoting tumor cell migration, and thus enhancing tumor metastasis. Several generations of anticancer drug were designed to inhibit the proteolytic functions of MMPs, but these drugs failed in clinic trails due to lack of selectivity. This study focused on the hemopexin domain of MMP-9, a nonproteolytic domain, which is essential for MMP-9 regulated tumor cell migration. Compared with the catalytic domain of MMPs, fewer amino acids are conserved between the hemopexin domains of MMP family members. This difference provides the principle basis for identification of …

Radiosynthesis And Bioimaging Of Antibacterial Agents, Li Liu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The dose and duration of treatment of antibacterial agents is normally established using plasma pharmacokinetic (PK) data together with information on drug efficacy once treatment has been initiated. Although plasma drug concentration is an important guide for establishing treatment protocols, recent studies indicate that the distribution of antibiotics in tissues is a more critical determinant and predictive factor for their activity. This is because most drugs exert their bactericidal effects at the site of infection rather than in the plasma, and because drug equilibration between plasma and infection site cannot always be achieved Therefore the tissue distribution of front-line TB …

Phospho-Sulindac Inhibits Pancreatic Cancer Growth: The Role Of Nfatc1, Onika T. Murray

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

While significant progress has been made in the battle against pancreatic cancer, it ranks 4th in cancer-related deaths in the U.S. Lending to the lethality of the disease is its ability to grow virtually undetected. Once pancreatic cancer is diagnosed, chances are that it has advanced beyond the point of surgical resection, as well as having become quite resistant to chemotherapy. While some chemotherapeutic agents have been able to improve patients' short-term quality of life, the impact on long-term survival has been minimal. The Nuclear Factor of Activated T-cells (NFAT) family is a calcineurin-responsive group of transcription factors initially identified …

Inhibitors Of 3&Beta-Hydroxysteroid? Dehydrogenase And Metabolic? And Enzymatic Characterization Of The Cholesterol? ? Metabolizing Intracellular Growth? Operon? Of? Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Suzanne T. Thomas

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

New drugs with novel mechanisms of action are required to meet the severe threat to human health posed by the emergence of multidrug and extensively drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). The cholesterol metabolism pathway in M. tuberculosis is a potential source of energy as well as secondary metabolite production that is important for survival of M. tuberculosis in the host macrophage. Oxidation and isomerization of 3Β-hydroxysterols to 4-en-3-ones by M. tuberculosis 3Β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3Β-HSD) is required for sterol metabolism, and inhibitors of 3Β-HSD are important for targeting the cholesterol metabolic pathway. In this work, we evaluated a …

Invasion Of Centaurea Nigrescens, Tyrol Knapweed, In North America, Rebecca Ann Grella

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Centaurea nigrescens is a native plant in Europe that was introduced to North America in the 1800s. This dissertation focuses on the introduction and spread of C. nigrescens across North America using herbaria records and genetic differences between native and non-native populations to construct likely invasion routes. Herbarium records and the results of a Minimum Cost Arborescence model coupled with chloroplast DNA analysis support the hypothesis that there was an initial introduction of C. nigrescens near Worcester, Massachusetts in 1830. Significant haplotype differences between the populations from the northeastern and the northwestern US support the hypothesis that there was a …

The Learning Of The Grammatical Gender In A Second Language, Heidy A. De Jesus

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This study investigates why and where within a sentence, non-L1 Spanish students still make mistakes when classifying the grammatical gender after being exposed to the grammar explanations. Thirty-six L1 and non- L1 English speakers from two Spanish beginner college level class were asked to complete five different experiments, in which students had to match the gender of the noun with the correspondent article and make the gender of the nouns agree by writing or selecting the correct descriptive adjective. Results showed that (1) at a very early stage, students' Cultural Language Perception could interfere with the learning of the grammatical …

Speciation, Ecological Divergence, And Phylogeny In Plethodontid Salamanders, Margaret Caitlin Fisher-Reid

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Speciation has been a subject of great interest and study since the founding of evolutionary biology by Darwin in 1859. In my thesis, I examine speciation from multiple perspectives in plethodontid salamanders. Molecular phylogenies based on combined mitochondrial and nuclear DNA are commonly used to infer patterns of speciation. Yet, we know little about how mitochondrial and nuclear DNA interact to produce a combined-data tree. How much do trees from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA differ? How are topological conflicts between these data types typically resolved in the combined-data tree? I compare mitochondrial, nuclear, and combined-data trees for 14 vertebrate clades …

Tumors As Wounds That Never Heal:Signaling Modalities Governing Lung Epithelial Repair And Tumor Heterogeneity, Matthew Joseph Camiolo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The attrition of cells within organs necessitates replenishment from tissue resident progenitor populations. Study of the murine lung has suggested a number of niches present at different levels of the airways along the proximal-distal axis responsible for steady state epithelial turnover as well as response to catastrophic injury. Within the distal most bronchiole airspaces, injury resistant cells termed bronchioalveolar stem cells (BASCs) have been reported to reside at the bronchioalveolar duct junction (BADJ). Since the initial reporting of BASCs, controversy over their true nature has confounded progress towards useful application of insights from their biology towards new therapeutic modalities. We …

Moot Points Notes From The Sarita Kenedy East Law Library, Liana Morales Editor

Moot Points: Notes from the Sarita Kenedy East Law Library

No abstract provided.

Food Availability, Foraging Behavior, And Diet Of Autumn Migrant Landbirds In The Boise Foothills Of Southwestern Idaho, Jay D. Carlisle, Karen L. Olmstead, Casey H. Richart, David L. Swanson

Intermountain Bird Observatory Publications and Presentations

Food availability and acquisition are critical components of a stopover site's suitability, but we know relatively little about how changes in food availability affect the stopover ecology of migrating landbirds. We examined fruit and arthropod availability in three habitats, studied foraging behavior and diet, and investigated use versus availability for passerines migrating through southwestern Idaho in autumn. Hemiptera dominated foliage-dwelling arthropod communities in all three habitats, whereas Hymenoptera were most numerous among ground-dwelling arthropods. Mountain shrubland had relatively high biomass of both ground-dwelling and foliage-dwelling arthropods, whereas conifer forest had high biomass of foliage-dwelling arthropods only and shrub steppe had …

Consonance And Dissonance In Visual Music, Bill Alves

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

The concepts of consonance and dissonance broadly understood can provide structural models for creators of visual music. The application of words such as 'harmony' across both music and visual arts indicated potential correspondences not just between sensory elements such as pitch and colour but also with the manipulation of tension and resolution, anticipation and stability in visual music. Concepts of harmony have a long history in proportions of space, colour and motion as well as music that artists can now exploit with new technologies. I will offer examples from my own work as well as techniques from artists such as …

Augi2012, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From August 2012 Robert Kelly Archives

What's Up Newsletter, August 2012

What's Up Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

What's Up Newsletter Finding Aid

Icda Midwest Region E-Newsletter, August 2012

ICDA Mid-West Region Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA Mid-West Region Newsletter

Do The Right Thing The Role Of Public Service Advertisements On The Behaviors Of Contemporary College Students, Jessica Jones

HIM 1990-2015

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between public service advertising and the likelihood of Generation Y to react in the prescribed manner. Public service advertising can be paid or unpaid but is used to try and influence a particular audience to act in a prescribed manner. This research will be comparing two different types of message styles, argumentative and emotional, and two contemporary prominent issues, organ donation and prescription drug abuse. The two issues are classified as either altruistic, where there is no direct benefit, or self-help, where the results are personal. Four different messages will …

Treasures And Dreams_2012-8_2013-1, Nova Southeastern University

Treasures and Dreams: The Literary Magazine of the NSU Lower School

No abstract provided.

Hybridization Of Common Reed In North America? The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind, Laura A. Meyerson, C. Lambertini, M. K. Mccormick, D. F. Whigham

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Background and aims: We review evidence for hybridization of Phragmites australis in North America and the implications for the persistence of native P. australis ssp. americanus populations in North America. We also highlight the need for an updated classification system, which takes P. australis intraspecific variation and hybridization into account.

Methodology: We reviewed available published, in press, and in preparation literature to assess the likelihood of hybridization and interbreeding in genotypes of Phragmites australis present in North America.

Principal results: Experimental results demonstrate that hybridization among introduced and native haplotypes is possible within the genus Phragmites …