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Educational Policies Committee Agenda, April 5, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Adolescents With Asperger’S: The Effects Of Special Interest Areas, Madeline J. Gale

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Flier, Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library Annual Meeting 2012: Dalliance With Dali's Ants, April 5, 2012, Society For Advancement Of Poynter Library

Poynter Library Events

Flier for the Society for Advancement of Poynter Library's annual meeting with a talk with Peter Tush and Deby Cassill about connections between art and biology in the work of Salvador Dali.

The Pan American (2012-04-05), Reynaldo Leal, Nadia Tamez-Robledo

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 68, No. 24

The Comment, April 5, 2012, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Nantucket Shellfish Management Plan, Kristin Uiterwyk, Steve Bliven, Dan Leavitt, Jack Wiggin, Urban Harbors Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

Nantucket’s shellfish resources are an important part of the Island’s history, culture, and economy. Nantucket waters support one of the country’s last wild-caught bay scallop fisheries. Elsewhere along the Atlantic coast, fishing pressure, habitat loss, and disease have severely depleted bay scallop populations. Although Nantucketers continue to make a living harvesting shellfish from the Island’s waters, many do so with concern for the future of the resources and the habitats that support them. Urban Harbors Institute (UHI) provided technical assistance to the community to develop a Shellfish Management Plan (SMP) that addresses issues of water quality, habitat loss, climate change, …

Model-Based Systems And Methods For Analyzing And Predicting Outcomes Of Vascular Interventions And Reconstructions, Yuris A. Dzenis, Alexey Kamenskiy, Iraklis I. Pipinos, Jason N. Mactaggart

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Faculty Publications

Systems and methods for analyzing and predicting treatment outcomes of medical procedures such as vascular interventions and reconstructions are disclosed. An illustrative system for analyzing and predicting therapeutic outcomes of medical procedures comprises a relational database configured for classifying and storing patient specific input data for multiple patients, a fluid-solid interaction biomechanical model configured for performing a biomechanics simulation and generating biomechanics data, and a graphical user interface.

Daily Eastern News: April 05, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

April

No abstract provided.

Umass Boston Anthropology Outreach, Claire L. Gold

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

The program serves as a science enrichment program for the Boston area K-12 public schools where science teachers are provided with fossil casts of early human ancestors and the expertise of UMass Boston faculty. The program helps students further their understanding of biological evolution and the program was free to13 prequalified Boston area schools.

Widespread Diversity In African Toads (Anura: Amietophrynus), Nancy P. Conkey ^, Eli Greenbaum *

COURI Symposium Abstracts, Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Engineering The Human Immunodeficiency Virus To Infect Drosophila Melanogaster Cells, Laura F. Porras ^, Elizabeth R. Aguilera, Eduardo Urias, Daniel Reyes, Adarsh Saheba, Manuel Llano *

COURI Symposium Abstracts, Spring 2012

HIV continues to infect at pandemic levels despite the significant progress in research, treatment and prevention. Advances in anti-HIV retroviral drugs have led to significant reduction in AIDS-related deaths, delayed the progression of the HIV infection to AIDS and diminished the rates of HIV transmission. However, the current antiretroviral treatment frequently encounters drug-resistant viruses due to the high mutation rate of HIV proteins. Therefore, identification of cellular cofactors of HIV infection is critical to identify new targets for anti-HIV drug development. However, the genetic complexity of mammalian cells imposes additional obstacles to the identification of HIV-1 cellular cofactors. To mitigate …

Zooplankton Biomass Changes In Response To Arctic Warming, Jacob N. Bilbo ^, Vanessa Lougheed *

COURI Symposium Abstracts, Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Multi-State Analysis Of The Ocs Ultraviolet Absorption Including Vibrational Structure, Johan A. Schmidt, M. S. Johnson, George C. Mcbane, Reinhard Schinke

Peer Reviewed Articles

The first absorption band of OCS (carbonyl sulfide) is analyzed using potential energy surfaces and transition dipole moment functions of the lowest four singlet and the lowest four triplet states. Excitation of the 2¹A' state is predominant except at very low photon energies. It is shown that the vibrational structures in the center of the band are due to excitation of the 2³A" triplet state, whereas the structures at the very low energies are caused by bending excitation in the potential wells of states 2¹A' and 1¹A".

The Advocate, April 5, 2012, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

The Parthenon, April 5, 2012, Crystal Myers

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

I, Synthesis Of Β-Sitosterol And Phytosterol Esters. Ii, New Methodology For Singlet Oxygen Generation From 1,1-Dihydroperoxides, Jiliang Hang

Department of Chemistry: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Phytosterols are steroid compounds structurally similar with cholesterol and vary in the nature of carbon side chain. β-Sitosterol is commercially available in preparative amount only as mixtures with other phytosterols. New semipreparative synthesis of pure β-sitosterol and sidechain-modified phytosterols is discussed in this dissertation. This new synthesis is achieved via a temporary masking of the stigmasterol 5,6-alkene as an epoxide. Following performance of the desired modification, the alkene is regenerated through a mild deoxygenation. Preparation of phytosterol esters for cholesterol metabolism study is also discussed in this dissertation.

Singlet oxygen (¹O₂) is the lowest excited state …

Do Populations Of An Invasive Weed Differ Greatly In Their Per-Gram Competitive Effects?, James E. Sowerwine, Matthew J. Rinella, Matthew L. Carlson

Western North American Naturalist

Quantifying an invasive species’ negative impacts across its introduced range will be quite challenging if the impacts vary unpredictably from site to site or from population to population. Little emphasis, however, has been placed on quantifying such interpopulation variation in the impacts of individual invasive species. We studied the response of a native grass (Festuca rubra) to competition from 4 geographically dispersed invasive plant (Melilotus albus) populations in order to determine if some populations of this invader have greater competitive impacts than others. Despite the relatively large number of experimental units in our greenhouse study, we …

April 5, 2012, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the April 5, 2012, meeting of the University Senate. 51 pages

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, April 5, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, April 5, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Utah State University

• New Course

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• New Course

Department of Plants, Soils and Climate

• Prerequisite Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change

Department of Art and Design

• New Course
• Course Number Change, Dual List Change
• Course Number Change
• Title Change, Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change, Dual List Change
• Title Change, Course Number Change, Course Description Change, Dual List Change
• Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Course Number Change, Title Change, Course Description Change
• Course Number Change, Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change, …

Obituary: Kimball Taylor Harper, 1931–2011, Renée Van Buren

Western North American Naturalist

Obituary: Kimball Taylor Harper, 1931–2011

Antibody Seroprevalence To Hantaviruses In Rodents From Reserva De La Biosfera Sierra De Huatla, Morelos, Elizabeth Arellano, Iván Castro-Arellano, Gerardo Suzán, Francisco X. González-Cózatl, Ricardo Morales Jiménez

Western North American Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Age And Growth Of Spawning Longnose Gar (Lepisosteus Osseus) In A North Central Texas Reservoir, Samuel W. Kelley

Western North American Naturalist

The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) is a primitive predaceous fish common throughout much of the east central United States, but research on its age and growth in lacustrine systems is rare. To characterize gar age and growth, I used bowfishing to collect spawning longnose gar in spring 2010 from littoral zones at Lake Arrowhead, Clay County, Texas. Females were older than males but significantly exceeded males in total length and mass when age was controlled. Von Bertalanffy growth curves suggested that males had faster growth rates, smaller maximum lengths, and shorter life spans than did females. However, females …

Shifting Prehistoric Abundances Of Leporids At Five Finger Ridge, A Central Utah Archaeological Site, Jacob L. Fisher

Western North American Naturalist

The faunal assemblage from Five Finger Ridge, an archaeological site in central Utah that was occupied by the Fremont from approximately AD 1100 to 1350, shows marked transitions in the relative abundances of 3 leporid taxa. At the time of initial occupation of the site, Sylvilagus audubonii and Lepus sp. dominated the assemblage but through time were gradually replaced by Sylvilagus nuttallii. I contextualized the shifting frequencies of these species using independent paleovegetation data. The data collectively suggest that the altitudinal range of the leporid species shifted during occupation of the site as a response to expanding pinyon-juniper woodlands.


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Vegetation Responses To Supplemental Winter Feeding Of Elk In Western Wyoming, Matthew J. Rinella, Ron Dean, Marty Vavra, Catherine G. Parks

Western North American Naturalist

To compensate for losses in overwintering habitat, elk are fed hay in winter at approximately 37 locations throughout the western United States. These winter feeding programs concentrate elk activity, and there is concern that such concentrations could degrade plant communities. Except for one study focused exclusively on aspen (Populus tremuloides), ours is the first to quantify vegetation responses to supplemental winter feeding of elk. The western Wyoming feedground we studied was established in winter 1981–1982, and supplemental feeding occurred every winter through 2006. Transects were arranged in a before-after control-impact (BACI) design, and vegetation data were gathered in …

Possible Effects Of Moss On Distribution And Performance Of A Threatened Endemic Primrose, Andrew P. Rayburn, Jacob B. Davidson, Hillary M. White

Western North American Naturalist

Mosses may compete with vascular plants for limited soil resources, facilitate vascular plants by buffering extremes in abiotic conditions, and potentially trap seeds and provide safe sites for germination and establishment. We conducted a field study to investigate the effects of moss on the distribution and performance of Primula cusickiana var. maguirei, a threatened endemic perennial forb that occurs in an extremely narrow range within a single canyon in northern Utah, USA. Within the study population, we found that primroses occurred far more often on moss patches than on other substrates and that primroses occurring on moss patches had increased …

First Record Of The Cicada Tibicen Pruinosus In Colorado, With A Key To Colorado Species Of Tibicen (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Brian Stucky

Western North American Naturalist

Tibicen pruinosus (Say)—a large, arboreal cicada typically found in the central United States—is reported for the first time from Colorado. This new state record represents a significant western extension of this cicada’s known range. Also reported are new records from Kansas that link the Colorado population to the previously known distribution of T. pruinosus. These results suggest that T. pruinosus has expanded its range westward, likely facilitated by human-induced changes in vegetation on the Great Plains. They also indicate the effectiveness of acoustic surveys as a tool for studying cicada distributions. Finally, an updated key including all 7 species of …

Intra-Annual Variation In Fish Communities And Habitat Associations In A Chihuahua Desert Reach Of The Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Del Norte, Thomas C. Heard, Joshuah S. Perkin, Timothy H. Bonner

Western North American Naturalist

Anthropogenic alterations to lotic systems are often implicated in global declines among stream-dwelling fishes. A primary step toward mediating fish declines is improving our understanding of species–environment relationships; unfortunately, such information is limited. The goal of this study was to assess relationships between fish communities and environmental variables in a relatively intact portion of the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo del Norte in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. We quantified the relationship between riverine habitats and local fish communities at 7 sites in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo del Norte during 2006. …

A New Species Of Springsnail (Pyrgulopsis) From The Owyhee River Basin, Nevada, Robert Hershler, Hsiu-Ping Liu

Western North American Naturalist

We describe a new springsnail species, Pyrgulopsis cybele, from the Owyhee River basin (northwestern Nevada) based on morphologic and molecular (mtCOI) evidence.Pyrgulopsis cybele differs from other members of its genus in its unique pattern of penial ornament, which consists of small glands on the distal edge of the penial lobe, base of the penial filament, and outer edge of the medial section of the penis. It is further differentiated from regional congeners by its thickened inner-shell lip and mtCOI sequences. A Bayesian analysis based on COI data placed P. cybele in a well-supported clade that contained congeners from Snake …

The Grizzly, April 5, 2012, Nick Pane, Liz Kilmer, Michael Schmidt, Samantha Mascia, Lisa Jobe, Sara Hourwitz, Allen Weaver, Sarah Bollert, Chelsea Callahan, Carly Siegler, Victoria Cameron, Shane Eachus, Keith Baker

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

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