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May 28th 2012, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 27, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

Lipid Peroxides And Glutathione Status In Human Progenitor Mononuclear (U937) Cells Following Exposure To Low Doses Of Nickel And Copper, William Y. Boadi, Shalandus Harris, Justin B. Anderson, Samuel E. Adunyah

Chemistry Faculty Research

Effects of Cu2+, Ni2+ or Cu2+ + Ni2+ on lipid peroxide and glutathione (GSH) levels in U937 cells were investigated. Cells were treated with 0, 5, 10, and 20 µM of Cu2+ and/or Ni2+ and H2O2 (0.01 mM) and incubated for 24 hours at 37°C. Lipid peroxides were measured by the thiobarbituric acid assay (TBA). GSH intracellular levels were assayed by the GSH assay kit from EMD/Calbiochem (San Diego, California, USA). Cu2+ or Ni2+ significantly (P < 0.01) increased lipid peroxides in a dose-dependent manner, compared to controls. The effect was more pronounced for Cu2+, compared to the Ni2+-treated samples. Cu2+ + Ni2+ increased lipid peroxides in a significant (P < 0.001), dose-dependent manner, compared to Cu2+ or Ni2+ alone (i.e., ratio of 2.5:1-fold for combined versus single treatments, respectively). Cu2+ or Ni2+ significantly decreased GSH levels in U937 cells, with the effect being pronounced for Cu2+. Cu2+ + Ni2+ metal ions significantly (P < 0.001) depleted cells of GSH in a dose-dependent manner. Ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) at 50 or 100 µM moderately reduced the Cu2+- or Ni2+-induced effects on GSH levels. Interestingly, GSH levels generally decreased to half (except for the combined metal dose of 20 µM at 100 µM EDTA) of its level at the highest metal concentration tested for both the single or combined treatments. In conclusion, multiple exposures of cells to metal ions may be lethal to cells, compared to their single treatments.

May 26, 2012 (Pages 2947-3118), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 42 (2012)

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Nicotine On Body Composition, Laura O'Dell

Departmental Papers (Psych)

No abstract provided.

Avoiding "Silent Fall": Ethics And The Future Of Hunting, Derek Larson

Headwaters

No abstract provided.

Table Rites And Animal Rights: Revisiting The Animal Question In The 21st Century, Vera Theisen

Headwaters

No abstract provided.

Sundance Film Festival 2012 Report, John C. Lyden, William Blizek, Dereck Daschke, Kutter Callaway, Jeanette Reedy Solano

Journal of Religion & Film

This is the report of our editors from the Sundance Film Festival, held in Park City, Utah from January 19-29, 2012.

Irruptions Of The Sacred In A “World Of Shit”: Profanity, Sacred Words, And Cinematic Hierophanies In Stanley Kubrick’S Full Metal Jacket (1987), Joseph E. Bisson

Journal of Religion & Film

Full Metal Jacket remains embedded in the consciousness of the popular culture mainly because of its abundance of profane language, violent imagery, and salacious set pieces. The juxtaposition of profane language and imagery with sacred language and religious symbolism reveals that Kubrick’s Vietnam film has powerful religious overtones that comprise an important element of the film’s critique of homo religiosus and the modern human condition. By continually juxtaposing the sacred and profane, Kubrick created “cinematic hierophanies” that advanced a cultural critique that inventively integrated ideas from some of the mid-20^th Century’s greatest interpreters of myths -- Carl Jung, Joseph …

There’S No Place Like Home: From Oz To Antichrist, J. Sage Elwell

Journal of Religion & Film

This article explores the dialectic of the uncanny in The Wizard of Oz (Victor Flemming, 1939) and Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009), treating the latter as a sequel to the former such that we encounter Dorothy first as a young girl and then as a grown woman. I observe that the uncanny entails a repressive and expressive moment that is cinematically rendered in these two films, and drawing on Freud and Žižek, I argue that in Dorothy’s evolution from Oz to Antichrist we see that the witches and wizards and gods and devils of our own minds are known to …

Device Dash: Designing, Implementing, And Evaluating An Educational Computer Security Game, Era Vuksani

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Diet As A Prevention Tool For Chronic, Low-Level Lead Exposure: A Population-Specific Intervention Model For Massachusetts, Phoebe Handler

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Investigating The Biochemical Function Of Wvita Type Iv Effectors, The Wolbachia Of Nasonia Vitripennis, Heidi Park

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Good Girls: A Pilot, Kathleen Leonard

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Hematopoietic-Derived Cells As Potential Neural Precursors In Adult Neurogenesis: An Astakine-1 Mediated Pathway?, Rachel Kery

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Man Of The Field, Gary Dop

Booth

The man got kicked in the head by a mare
ripped inside birthing her foal. He staggered,
tried in his stupor to make the mother

Dynamic Scoping For Browser Based Access Control System, Vinaykumar Nadipelly

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

We have inorganically increased the use of web applications to the point of using them for almost everything and making them an essential part of our everyday lives. As a result, the enhancement of privacy and security policies for the web applications is becoming increasingly essential. The importance and stateless nature of the web infrastructure made the web a preferred target of attacks. The current web access control system is a reason behind the victory of attacks. The current web consists of two major components, the browser and the server, where the effective access control system needs to be implemented. …

A Single Amino Acid Mutation In An Abc Transporter Gene Causes Resistance To Bt Toxin Cry1ab In The Silkworm, Bombyx Mori, Shogo Atsumi, Kazuhisa Miyamoto, Kimiko Yamamoto, Junko Narukawa, Sawako Kawai, Hideki Sezutsu, Isao Kobayashi, Keiro Uchino, Toshiki Tamura, Kazuei Mita, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Sanae Wada, Kohzo Kanda, Marian R. Goldsmith

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Bt toxins derived from the arthropod bacterial pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis are widely used for insect control as insecticides or in transgenic crops. Bt resistance has been found in field populations of several lepidopteran pests and in laboratory strains selected with Bt toxin. Widespread planting of crops expressing Bt toxins has raised concerns about the potential increase of resistance mutations in targeted insects. By using Bombyx mori as a model, we identified a candidate gene for a recessive form of resistance to Cry1Ab toxin on chromosome 15 by positional cloning. BGIBMGA007792-93, which encodes an ATP-binding cassette transporter similar to human multidrug …

Mountain Movement: The Design, Implementation, & Evaluation Of A Youth Yoga Program, Abigail A. Long

Capstone Collection

Abigail Ann Long – PIM 70

Mountain Movement: The Design, Implementation, & Evaluation

of a Youth Yoga Program

May 2012

Mountain Movement is a youth yoga program designed to introduce children to the sustainable practice of yoga as well as convey the ability to recognize stress and utilize relaxation techniques. Children face a number of challenges throughout their daily lives. These challenges, ranging from academic pressures to bullying, can create stresses with negative impacts. Yoga is an activity that can provide children with tools and methods to better deal with and cope with these challenges. Mountain Movement has demonstrated that …

Cdc42-Dependent Activation Of Nadph Oxidase Is Involved In Ethanol-Induced Neuronal Oxidative Stress, Xin Wang, Zunji Ke, Gang Chen, Mei Xu, Kimberly A. Bower, Jacqueline A. Frank, Zhuo Zhang, Xianglin Shi, Jia Luo

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

It has been suggested that excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidative stress play an important role in ethanol-induced damage to both the developing and mature central nervous system (CNS). The mechanisms underlying ethanol-induced neuronal ROS, however, remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the role of NADPH oxidase (NOX) in ethanol-induced ROS generation. We demonstrated that ethanol activated NOX and inhibition of NOX reduced ethanol-promoted ROS generation. Ethanol significantly increased the expression of p47^phox and p67^phox, the essential subunits for NOX activation in cultured neuronal cells and the cerebral cortex of infant mice. Ethanol caused serine …

Developmental Programming In Response To Intrauterine Growth Restriction Impairs Myoblast Function And Skeletal Muscle Metabolism, Dustin T. Yates, A.R. Macko, M. Nearing, X. Chen, R.P. Rhoads, Sean W. Limesand

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Fetal adaptations to placental insufficiency alter postnatal metabolic homeostasis in skeletal muscle by reducing glucose oxidation rates, impairing insulin action, and lowering the proportion of oxidative fibers. In animal models of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), skeletalmuscle fibers have lessmyonuclei at birth. This means thatmyoblasts, the sole source formyonuclei accumulation in fibers, are compromised. Fetal hypoglycemia and hypoxemia are complications that result from placental insufficiency. Hypoxemia elevates circulating catecholamines, and chronic hypercatecholaminemia has been shown to reduce fetal muscle development and growth. We have found evidence for adaptations in adrenergic receptor expression profiles in myoblasts and skeletal muscle of IUGR sheep …

Childishness, Consumption And Sovereignty: Georges Bataille On Writers And Poets, Sheng Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper aims at exploring Georges Bataille's view on writers or poets by describing what characteristics he believes contribute to a writer. These characteristics include childishness, consumption in the life style and the lofty sovereignty in the spiritual pursuit. Bataille argues that a writer can be a real writer because of these three characteristics when he can creates his own works.

Validation Of Pcr-Based Assays And Laboratory Accreditation For Environmental Detection Of Aquatic Invasive Species, Invasive Species Advisory Committee

National Invasive Species Council

This white paper provides:

a) Background information on the use, accuracy and reliability of PCR-based assays such as environmentally sampled DNA (eDNA) for early detection of aquatic invasive species (AIS) and;

b) Recommendations for establishing a system for validating assays and accrediting laboratories that report on the presence or absence of AIS.

This white paper was developed by the members of ISAC and discusses the need for developing validation requirements for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and other DNA-based molecular assays that are increasingly being used to detect AIS. It does not provide a simplified checklist for evaluation of their ability …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, May 25, 2012, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The May 25, 2012, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Internationalization Of K-12 Schools Through The Eyes Of Public School Principals, Megan M. Landwehr

Capstone Collection

Today’s teacher education students have more opportunities than ever to incorporate study abroad into their degree and licensure requirements. This Capstone examines the value that public school principals place on internationalization, especially when it comes to hiring teachers. I approached this qualitative study utilizing action research through case studies. Data was gathered by conducting six in-depth interviews. Of these, three are current principals and three have been principals their entire careers and are now retired. The main research question is; what value do principals in Wake County, North Carolina place on global competence of teacher job applicants? The findings answer …

Levels Of Altruism, Martin Zwick, Jeffrey Alan Fletcher

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

The phenomenon of altruism extends from the biological realm to the human sociocultural realm. This paper sketches a coherent outline of multiple types of altruism of progressively increasing scope that span these two realms and are grounded in an ever-expanding sense of “self.” Discussion of this framework notes difficulties associated with altruisms at different levels. It links scientific ideas about the evolution of cooperation and about hierarchical order to perennial philosophical and religious concerns. It offers a conceptual background for inquiry into societal challenges that call for altruistic behavior, especially the challenge of environmental and social sustainability.

This talk was …

U.S. Praises Brazil, Offers Technology Transfer For Fighter-Jet Purchase, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Christina Britzolakis) (Reviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside)

Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi) (Reviewed by Yael Halevi-Wise, Brandeis University)

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (Laura Hinton) (Reviewed by Andrea Henderson, University of Michigan)

The Life of Henry Fielding (Ronald Paulson) (Reviewed by John Stevenson, University of Colorado, Bolder)

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for May 24-30, 2012. Vol. 91, No. 8

Plant-Made Influenza Virus-Like Particles: For Pandemic And Beyond, Nathalie Charland

Vaccine Technology IV

No abstract provided.