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Impressions From Durban: Cop- 17 And Current Climate Change Policies, Jason Obold, Matthew Burns, Caroline Baker

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Making Farming Work Above Franconia Notch, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

Cooperative Extension Lends a Hand

Human Genome-Wide Association And Mouse Knockout Approaches Identify Platelet Supervillin As An Inhibitor Of Thrombus Formation Under Shear Stress., Leonard C. Edelstein, Elizabeth J. Luna, Ian B. Gibson, Molly Bray, Ying Jin, Altaf Kondkar, Srikanth Nagalla, Nacima Hadjout-Rabi, Tara C. Smith, Daniel Covarrubias, Stephen N. Jones, Firdos Ahmad, Moritz Stolla, Xianguo Kong, Zhiyou Fang, Wolfgang Bergmeier, Chad Shaw, Suzanne M. Leal, Paul Bray

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: High shear force critically regulates platelet adhesion and thrombus formation during ischemic vascular events. To identify genetic factors that influence platelet thrombus formation under high shear stress, we performed a genome-wide association study and confirmatory experiments in human and animal platelets.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Closure times in the shear-dependent platelet function analyzer (PFA)-100 were measured on healthy, nondiabetic European Americans (n=125) and blacks (n=116). A genome-wide association (P

CONCLUSIONS: We show for the first time that (1) platelets contain supervillin; (2) platelet thrombus formation in the PFA-100 is associated with human SVIL variants and low SVIL expression; and (3) …

Toward A Working Theory Of Neurorhetorics, Jeffrey L. Honnold

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This piece makes the claim that rhetoric is first philosophy--before philosophy, epistemology, ontology, or any other field--or that rhetoric is, at the least, on equal footing as these fields because:

empathy--and thusly the impulse for communication--is physiologically hardwired into humans; special distinctions between human and animal are largely artificial constructions, as is evidenced by neurosciences; "hard" science, in the form of neurosciences, is providing entrance points & opportunities for rhetoric to raise its status within the academy; and said neurosciences, in addition to empathy studies, have shown strong evidence supporting linguistic and evolutionary links between humans and other species, thereby …

Creating A Materials Samples Collection To Support The Engineering Curriculum, Dee Magnoni, Ananya Kejriwal, Charles Offenbacher

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Engineers fundamentally solve problems. Engineering students are obtaining the education necessary to develop problem-solving skills and tools. Olin College of Engineering was founded on the philosophy that a hands-on, entrepreneurial, design-centered engineering education would create engineers ready to solve current and emerging problems.

Olin’s library has embraced the college’s philosophy through the development of a realia, or learning objects collection that supports multiple intelligences. Moving beyond these learning objects, library staff wanted to build a collection of materials samples that enhance the engineering curriculum, and specifically design, sustainability and materials science courses. Students use the objects to make project decisions …

The Eastern Echo, June 5, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, June 5, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, June 5, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

A Genetic Study Of Ssv1, The Prototypical Fusellovirus, Eric Iverson, Kenneth M. Stedman

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Viruses of thermophilic Archaea are unique in both their structures and genomic sequences. The most widespread and arguably best studied are the lemon-shaped fuselloviruses. The spindle-shaped virus morphology is unique to Archaea but widespread therein. The best studied fusellovirus is SSV1 from Beppu, Japan, which infects Sulfolobus solfataricus. Very little is known about the function of the genes in the SSV1 genome. Recently we have developed genetic tools to analyze these genes. In this study, we have deleted three SSV1 open reading frames (ORFs) ranging from completely conserved to poorly conserved: VP2, d244, and b129. Deletion of the universally conserved …

June 5, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Stick Your Head In Gravy (1995, Autumn), Olivia Weissblum

Passwords

No abstract provided.

Transcendental Thermodynamics, Richard E. Morel, George Fleck

Kahn Institute Projects

Thermodynamics is often viewed as a narrow, introspective discipline, trapped by its origins in the 18th and 19th centuries. By dramatic contrast, we show that the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics provides explanations and interpretations of all natural events, extending across artificial boundaries of tradition- al academic disciplines. The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics states that far-from-equilibrium systems increase entropy at the maximum rate available to them. This broadly inclusive paradigm applies to systems from molecules, to organisms, to the biosphere. The Fourth Law is the Law of Evolution. All systems that communicate with their environment exhibit self-organization and self-optimization, enabling the …

Turning A Novel Yeast Into A Platform Host For Industrial Production Of Fuels And Chemicals, Bryan Rush

Metabolic Engineering IX

No abstract provided.

June 4th 2012, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda And Minutes, June 4, 2012

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Meeting held on, June 4, 2012.

Yale’S Partnership Against Huntington’S Disease: An Alumnus Reconnects And Finds Hope As Scientists Pursue 'Viagra For The Brain' And Other Solutions, Kenneth P. Serbin

At Risk for Huntington's Disease

No abstract provided.

Exposure To Dietary Selenium And Soy Isoflavones In Utero Provides Greater Protection Against Prostate Cancer Risk Factors In Tramp Mice Than Exposure Beginning At 6 Weeks, Heather Schofield Lindsay

Theses and Dissertations

Prostate cancer is the second most commonly occurring cancer in men in the United States. Generally, an extended period of time is needed for a mutation to develop into a full scale tumor. Because of this long latency period, lifestyle and environmental factors, such as diet, may play an important role in the development and progression of the disease. Diet is one factor that has been implicated in the risk for developing prostate cancer. We previously showed that diets high in soy isoflavones and selenium (Se) decreased androgen receptor expression and expression of androgen regulated genes in healthy rat prostates. …

Coordinating Environmental Genomics And Geochemistry Reveals Metabolic Transitions In A Hot Spring Ecosystem, Wesley D. Swingley, D'Arcy R. Meyer-Dombard, Everett Shock, Eric B. Alsop, Heinz D. Falenski, Jeff R. Havig, Jason Raymond

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

We have constructed a conceptual model of biogeochemical cycles and metabolic and microbial community shifts within a hot spring ecosystem via coordinated analysis of the ‘‘Bison Pool’’ (BP) Environmental Genome and a complementary contextual geochemical dataset of ,75 geochemical parameters. 2,321 16S rRNA clones and 470 megabases of environmental sequence data were produced from biofilms at five sites along the outflow of BP, an alkaline hot spring in Sentinel Meadow (Lower Geyser Basin) of Yellowstone National Park. This channel acts as a .22 m gradient of decreasing temperature, increasing dissolved oxygen, and changing availability of biologically important chemical species, such …

Riding The Wave: Move Beyond Text, Uwe Rosemann, Irina Sens

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The European High Level Expert Group on Scientific data (2010) has formulated the challenges for a scientific infrastructure to be reached by 2030: “Our vision is a scientific e‐infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re‐use, and trust of data. In a sense, the physical and technical infrastructure becomes invisible and the data themselves become the infrastructure – a valuable asset, on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance”.

Here, “data” is not restricted to primary data but also includes all non‐textual material (graphs, spectra, videos, 3D objects, etc.). The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) must …

Using Library Statistics To Inform, Promote, And Advocate Library Services For New Generation Users, Deborah Becker, Hillary Hartle

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper is based on a case study of how the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) is actively using library statistics to promote and advocate for better library services for its users in a new digital environment.

At CPUT Libraries we realized that we need to promote our activities, determine our return on investment and show what value we add to the lives of our clients. This could be determined by the increase in the quality of work done and services used by the different user market segments. Four market segments have been identified namely, CPUT management, library staff, …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 3, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

Semester Courses And Course Equivalents: Graduate Courses Summary

Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee Wright State University Quarter to Semester Transition

A list comprised of summaries of all graduate courses and course equivalents at Wright State University.

Unh Research: Black Bears May Play Important Role In Protecting Gray Fox, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Caudate Nucleus Volume Mediates The Link Between Cardiorespiratory Fitness And Cognitive Flexibility In Older Adults, Timothy D. Verstynen, Brighid Lynch, Destiny L. Miller, Michelle W. Voss, Ruchika Shaurya Prakash, Laura Chaddock, Chandramallika Basak, Amanda Szabo, Erin A. Olson, Thomas R. Wojcicki, Jason Fanning, Neha P. Gothe, Edward Mcauley, Arthur F. Kramer, Kirk I. Erickson

Kinesiology, Health and Sport Studies

The basal ganglia play a central role in regulating the response selection abilities that are critical formental flexibility. In neocortical areas, higher cardiorespiratory fitness levels are associated with increased gray matter volume, and these volumetric differences mediate enhanced cognitive performance in a variety of tasks. Here we examine whether cardiorespiratory fitness correlates with the volume of the subcortical nuclei that make up the basal ganglia and whether this relationship predicts cognitive flexibility in older adults. Structural MRI was used to determine the volume of the basal ganglia nuclei in a group of older, neurologically healthy individuals (mean age 66 years, …

Ten Years Of The Aarhus Convention: How Procedural Democracy Is Paving The Way For Substantive Change In National And International Environmental Law, Mariane Dellinger

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Histological Study Of Culex Pipiens Pipiens Larvae And Adults Infected With Beauveria Bassiana, Hala Haitham Mohamed Ali, Hussam Alddin Abdallaa

Baghdad Science Journal

This study aimed to show the histological changes that 0ccured in Culex pipiens pipiens larvae and adults infected with Beauveria bassiana . The 4th instar larvae and adult mosquitoes were infected with B.bassiana in 10-4 spore/ml dilution, after 96 hours histological section was studied showing that the fungi infected all the body parts specially Cuticle , Epiderms, fat bodies and midgut. After 120 hours of exposure to the fungi the insect have a white appearance and covered with a thick coat of hyphea. Thus study shows biological control of B .bassiana on mosquitoes.

Study Of Some Epidemiological Aspects Of Giardiasis In North Of Baghdad, Harith S.J. Al-Warid

Baghdad Science Journal

Different factors have been examined to be related with the prevalence of Girdiasis in the north of Baghdad in human beings which were (gender, age , occupation ,family size,faecal status and presence of domestic animals) during the period from the beginning of April 2009 till the end of March 2010. This study revealed that the total rate of infection in human being was 11.66% , and no significant differences (p?0.05) were noticed between male and female as their rates of infection were 52.32% and 47.68% respectively , as well as no significant relation was observed between faecal status and the …

Study Of Cytotoxic Effect Of Aqueous Extract Fenugreek(Trigonella Foenum Graecum L.S) Seeds And The New Complexes Of Rh (Iii) And Pd (Ii) On Cancer Cell Lines, Mahasin Faisal Alias, Jinan Hussain Murtadha, Iman Hashim Abdul Alrazzaq

Baghdad Science Journal

The effect of the aqueous extract of fenugreek seeds (Trigonella Foenum GraecumL.),Rhodium complex (Ш) with formula [RhL2CLH2O].1 1/2 ETOH and palladium (П) [pdl2].2ETOH,where L=2-hydroxy phenyl piperonalidine was studied on two cancer cell lines. The first cell line was intestine cancer of female albino mice (L20B), the second one was Rhabdomysarcomas (RD)cell line in human. The activity of the new complexes and the aqueous extract wascompared to the well-known anticancer drug (cis-platin) by utilizing the in vitro system. The cell lines were treated with four concentrations of cis-platin 31.25,62.5,125 and 250 μg/ml for 72 hour exposure time. The same concentrations were …

Study The Effect Of The Mixture Aquatic Extract Of Peganum Harmala Seeds And Pericarp Of Punica Granutum On Viability Of Protoscolices Of Echinococcus Granulosus In Vitro And In Vivo, Fawzia Ahmed Al-Shanawi, Noor Nihad Baker, Amjed Qays Ibrahim

Baghdad Science Journal

This study included the preparation of the mixture aquatic extracts of Peganum harmala seeds and Pericarp of Punica granutum at concentration (10+50) ?(15+55)? (20+60) mgml .To study the influence of the mixture on the percentage of vitality of the protoscolices of E. granulosus In vitro, as the vitality of protoscolices had caused complete death when the using concentration at time 120,90,60 minute respectively. Also study the effect of mixture in white mice with infectious protoscolices In vivo and study the change occurred in the averages of the weights of the liver and spleen and the averages of its distension In …

Evaluation Of The Functional Response Of Chrysoperla Carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae) Larvae Feeding On Cabbage Aphid, Brevicoryne Brassicae (L.)(Homoptera: Aphididae) In Laboratory, Hind S. Abdul Hay, Mohammed A. Al-Rawy

Baghdad Science Journal

This study evaluated the functional response of the larva of the predator Chrysoperla carnea by offering varying densities of cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.) . Results showed conformity with type–II functional response, where the number of prey killed approaches asymptote hyperbolically as prey density increases (declining proportion of prey killed or the inverse density dependent) till it reached the stability stage determined by handling time and predator satiation. Also, the values of attack rate and handling time changed with age progress for both predator and prey. It has been observed an increase in the attack rate and reduction in handling …