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Precision-Feeding Dairy Heifers With Different Levels Of Dietary Fiber And F:C. Effects On Protein Utilization, N Efficiency, And Rumen Fermentation, G. J. Lascano, A. J. Heinrichs

Dairy Science

No abstract provided.

Current, July 16, 2012, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

07-16-2012 Swosu Announces Panorama Series For 2012-13, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

One of the stars of the hit TV show Big Bang Theory, political satire humorists from Washington, D.C., a storm chaser, and legendary animal expert Jack Hanna highlight the 2012-13 Panorama series at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

Energetic Costs Of Thermoregulation And Population Life-History Characterization In Eastern Collared Lizards, Casey Lee Brewster

Theses and Dissertations

Thermoregulation theory makes distinct predictions as to the optimal level of thermoregulation when the costs associated with the thermal habitat are less favorable. I designed a manipulative experiment to test the hypothesis that thermal constraints reduce growth rates in hatchling-collared lizards by imposing high and low cost thermoregulation treatments. Lizards thermoregulated similarly between treatments, but grew more slowly in the high cost thermoregulation treatment. My results suggest that the decrement to growth in the high cost treatment is primarily the result of energy diverted from growth to locomotion shuttling between suitable micro- habitats. I combined this experiment with a field …

Evolution Of Growth Habit, Inflorescence Architecture, Flower Size, And Fruit Type In Rubiaceae: Its Ecological And Evolutionary Implications, Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison, Stefan Ekman, Timothy D. Mcdowell, Birgitta Bremer

ETSU Faculty Works

During angiosperm evolution, innovations in vegetative and reproductive organs have resulted in tremendous morphological diversity, which has played a crucial role in the ecological success of flowering plants. Morindeae (Rubiaceae) display considerable diversity in growth form, inflorescence architecture, flower size, and fruit type. Lianescent habit, head inflorescence, small flower, and multiple fruit are the predominant states, but arborescent habit, non-headed inflorescence, large flower, and simple fruit states occur in various genera. This makes Morindeae an ideal model for exploring the evolutionary appearances and transitions between the states of these characters. We reconstructed ancestral states for these four traits using a …

Canopy Ants Of Central Arkansas And The Atlantic Forest Of Brazil: Community Patterns, Petrus Fauaze Moreira

Theses and Dissertations

Ants in the forest canopy are of special ecological interest due to their high diversity and ecological importance in this relatively inaccessible system. I explored the ecology of ants of temperate and tropical arboreal settings in Central Arkansas and Brazil respectively. I tested the hypothesis that biotic (e.g., tree identity) and abiotic (e.g., spatial distribution) factors regulate the diversity and composition of ants in the forest canopy, as well as the potential conservation benefits of agroforests in the tropics. In Arkansas, tree identity influenced ant species richness in tree crowns, in Brazil, ant species richness was significantly different between primary …

Users' Preference For And Perception Of Animated Pedagogical Agents, Kyle Randall Cheney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This thesis investigated the effect that ethnicity and gender of animated pedagogical agents (APAs) has on preference and perception by participatns. It was hypothosized that participants would choose to work with and give more favorable ratings to those agents who most resemble themselves. Ratings of four professor agents, an African American male and female and a Caucasian male and female, were collected from 120 workers on Mechanical Turk, an online crowd sourcing marketplace. Ethnicity and gender of the agents were externally validated before use in the study. Results indicated that users did not prefer agents who were indentical to themselves. …

Murray Ledger And Times, July 16, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Spontaneous Spheroid Budding From Monolayers: A Potential Contribution To Ovarian Cancer Dissemination, Jillian C. Pease, Molly Brewer, Jennifer S. Tirnauer

UCHC Articles - Research

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynaecologic cancer, in large part because of its early dissemination and rapid development of chemotherapy resistance. Spheroids are clusters of tumor cells found in the peritoneal fluid of patients that are thought to promote this dissemination. Current models suggest that spheroids form by aggregation of single tumor cells shed from the primary tumor. Here, we demonstrate that spheroids can also form by budding directly as adherent clusters from a monolayer. Formation of budded spheroids correlated with expression of vimentin and lack of cortical E-cadherin. We also found that compared to cells grown in monolayers, …

Clear Path International, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Founded in 2000, Clear Path International is a nonprofit organization that serves persons affected by landmines or other explosive remnants of war and who are disabled or displaced by armed conflict.

Firearms Safety In Somaliland: From Mine Action To Community Safety, William Vest-Lillesøe

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Multiple border and civil wars have left Somaliland contaminated with explosive remnants of war and a surplus of small arms and light weapons. Today, unsecured firearms threaten daily life in rural villages, resulting in more deaths in Somaliland than from recent landmine incidents. Addressing the need for firearm security, Danish Demining Group provides training and awareness through its Community Safety program.

Landmines Blow!, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Landmines and cluster munitions kill or injure thousands of people each year, while also restricting access to water and agriculture necessary to maintain health, income and greater livelihood sustainability.

The Gichd Tool For Management Of Mechanical Demining Operations, Pehr Lodhammar, Erik De Brun

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

In response to a need for an operational management tool for the mechanical demining community, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining developed a system called the Management Tool for Mechanical Demining Operations. This system increases the efficiency of mine-clearance operations by using a database that organizes and creates data reports. GICHD is working to improve the system including the addition of a GPS tool in 2012.

Animal Health Matters, David H. Zeman, Russ Daly

Animal Health MATTERS Newsletter

[Page] 1- SDVMA and SDSU Initiate Stethoscope Ceremopny for Outgoing Pre-Veterinary Students [Page] 2- Director's Message: Planting Seeds for the Next Generation of Veterinarians in South Dakota [Page] 2- Dr. David Francis Honored at Retirement Ceremony [Page] 3- 2012-2013 SDSU Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Department Scholarship Award Winners [Page] 4- Accounting and Human Resources Staff Keep the VBS Department Running [Page] 5- Pre-Veterinary Club Sparks SDSU One Health Coalition; Hosts One Health Commission CEO Pieces and Parts [Page] 5- Faculty Members Learn of Admission Changes at Iowa State University Regional Veterinary Education Conference [Page] 6- South Dakota Honors Veterinary and …

Myxobacteria Versus Sponge-Derived Alkaloids: The Bengamide Family Identified As Potent Immune Modulating Agents By Scrutiny Of Lc-Ms/Elsd Libraries., Tyler A. Johnson, Johann Sohn, Yvette M. Vaske, Kimberly N. White, Tanya L. Cohen, Helene C. Vervoort, Karen Tenney, Frederick A. Valeriote, Leonard F. Bjeldanes, Phillip Crews

Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Faculty Scholarship

A nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) luciferase assay has been employed to identify the bengamides, previously known for their anti-tumor activity, as a new class of immune modulators. A unique element of this study was that the bengamide analogs were isolated from two disparate sources, Myxococcus virescens (bacterium) and Jaspis coriacea (sponge). Comparative LC-MS/ELSD and NMR analysis facilitated the isolation of M. viriscens derived samples of bengamide E (8) and two congeners, bengamide E' (13) and F' (14) each isolated as an insperable mixture of diastereomers. Additional compounds drawn from the UC, Santa Cruz repository allowed expansion of the structure activity relationship …

Family Affairs Newsletter 2012-07-15, Zack Paakkonen

Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)

FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.

A Portable Wireless Particulate Sensor System For Continuous Real-Time Environmental Monitoring, James A. Hall Jr., Sin Ming Loo, Dale Stephenson, Ross Butler, Michael Pook, Joshua Kiepert, Jordan Anderson, Nicholas Terrell

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Airborne particulate matter has been shown to be associated with morbidity and mortality, and may interfere with certain sensitive experiment. Understanding the levels and movements of particulate matter in an enclosed space can lead to a reduction in the impact of this material on health and experimental results. A system of environmental sensors including particulate matter, selected gasses, humidity, temperature, and pressure can be used to assist in tracking air movement, providing real-time mapping of potential contaminants as they move through a space. In this paper we present a system that is capable of sensing these environmental factors, collecting data …

Exploring Rural Contexts With Digital Storytelling, Donna G. Wake

The Rural Educator

This article describes rural middle school students’ exploration of their identity and their rural contexts through the vehicle of digital storytelling. Participants included 40 7th and 40 9th grade students at two rural schools in the Southeast United States. Students worked in shared writing groups to create digital stories expressing their views on teen life in a small, rural town. The resultant stories were analyzed using comparative grounded theory yielding some themes which may be posited as unique to a rural population while other themes were typical of the developmental age regardless of geographical context. Study findings indicate that the …

The King Of The Forest, Dag Rossman

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

The Big Bad Wolf Versus Hogzilla, Raymond G. Falgui

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Mythic Circle #34, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Nitric Oxide And Antioxidant Enzymes In Venous And Cord Blood Of Late Preterm And Term Omani Mothers, Clifford Abiaka, Lovina Machado

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: This study assessed the role of oxidative stress in parturition in Omani mothers following growing reports that late preterm neonates were at greater risk than term neonates of perinatal death. Methods: Venous blood samples were collected during labour, and cord (neonatal) blood samples were taken after childbirth in late preterm and term from women at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman. Plasma nitric oxide (NO) concentrations, erythrocyte catalase (CAT). Erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activities were measured using spectrophotometric Methods. Results: When compared with term mothers, late preterm mothers had markedly higher NO concentrations (μmol/L) 17.1 ± 3.3 versus 11.0 ± …

Immunotherapy For B-Cell Neoplasms Using T Cells Expressing Chimeric Antigen Receptors : From Antigen Choice To Clinical Implementation, Mohamed-Rachid Boulassel, Ahmed Galal

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Immunotherapy with T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) is being evaluated as a potential treatment for B-cell neoplasms. In recent clinical trials it has shown promising results. As the number of potential candidate antigens expands, the choice of suitable target antigens becomes more challenging to design studies and to assess optimal efficacy of CAR. Careful evaluation of candidate target antigens is required to ensure that T cells expressing CAR will preferentially kill malignant cells with a minimal toxicity against normal tissues. B cells express specific surface antigens that can theoretically act as targets for CAR design. Although many of …

Effectiveness Of Hemcon Dental Dressing Versus Conventional Method Of Haemostasis In 40 Patients On Oral Antiplatelet Drugs, Tejraj P. Kale, Amit K. Singh, Sm Kapoor, Abhishek

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the HemCon Dental Dressing (HDD) in controlling post extraction bleeding and to ascertain its role in healing of extraction wounds, as compared to control. Methods: The 40 participants in the study were all receiving oral antiplatelet therapy (OAT). A total of 80 extractions were conducted without altering the patients’ drug therapy. The extraction sites were divided into 2 groups: one group received a HDD, and the control group where the conventional method of pressure pack with sterile gauze under biting pressure (followed by suturing if required) was used …

International Conference On Consanguinity Towards The Discovery Of Genes Predisposing To And Protecting From Disease Sultan Qaboos University, 17-19 March 2011, Sultan Qaboos University

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

What (If Anything) Do We Owe Wild Animals?, Clare A. Palmer

Between the Species

It’s widely agreed that animal pain matters morally – that we shouldn’t, for instance, starve our animal companions, and that we should provide medical care to sick or injured agricultural animals, and not only because it benefits us to do so. But do we have the same moral responsibilities towards wild animals? Should we feed them if they are starving, and intervene to prevent them from undergoing other forms of suffering, for instance from predation? Using an example that includes both wild and domesticated animals, I outline two contrasting ways of thinking about our moral responsibilities with respect to assisting …

Stress- And Sex-Related Differences In The Activation Of Neuronal Subtypes In The Basolateral Amygdala Of The Rat, Alejandra E. Lopez, Christina C. Ruiz, Juan M. Bolanos, Jameel N. Hamdan, Kristin Gosselink

COURI Symposium Abstracts, Summer 2012

Previous studies suggest that stress alters the activational profiles among phenotypically-distinct subpopulations of neurons within the basolateral amygdala (BLA) of the rat. Given the connectivity of this region of the brain to the hippocampus, and the implications of the role of the BLA in modulating long-term potentiation associated with memory and learning, inferences of stress having a negative impact on cognition and memory can be drawn. Observations regarding stress response disparities between males and females in our model prompted the investigation of the role gender plays in cognition under conditions of stress, as well as the responses to stress itself. …

The Library As Hub Of The Network Universe, Patrick Kelly

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In submitting a proposed paper for this conference I made four definitive statements:

1. The library is positioned at the hub or cross-over point of three network levels: the library network, the University LAN and WANs/VANs.
2. There is a perfect marriage between the library and networks: the satisfaction of mutual need. Academic networks need the services the libraries can deliver as much as the library needs network services.
3. The metamorphoses of the traditional 'computer services' function to the management of networks and networks services will justify the amalgamation of academic library and computer services as the network becomes the source of …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (W. J. T. Mitchell) (Reviewed by Karl Kroeber)

The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Wendy Wall) (Reviewed by Marilyn L. Williamson)

Shepheards Devises: Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and the Institutions of Elizabeth Society (Robert Lane) (Reviewed by Tim Montbriand)

The Snowflake on the Belfry: Dogma and Disquietude in the Critical Arena (Anna Balakian) (Reviewed by Clarise Samuels)

Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History (Michael André Bernstein) (Reviewed by David H. Hirsch)