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Water And Energy Balance Response Of A Riparian Wetland To The Removal Of Phragmites Australis, Phillip Mykleby

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Vegetation and climate both play integral roles in water availability, particularly for arid to semi-arid regions. Changes in these variables can lead to extreme shortages in water for regions that rely on water for crop irrigation (i.e., the Great Plains). The objective of this study is to evaluate the impacts of vegetation on water availability in the Republican River basin in central Nebraska. Decreases in streamflow have been observed in the river basin for many years and, as a result, an invasive riparian plant species (Phragmites australis) is being removed in an effort to reduce evapotranspiration and reclaim …

Environmental Programs And Material Culture: The 1934 Livestock Reduction Program And Weaving Among The Navajo, Jessica L. Bertolozzi

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Alcohol Abuse Among Persons With Traumatic Brain Injuries, Alissa Sisirak

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

The Epidemic Of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Veterans, Tai Hawk

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Science And Technology Undergraduate Students' Use Of The Internet, Cell Phones And Social Networking Sites To Access Library Information, Lutishoor Salisbury, Jozef Laincz, Jeremy J. Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

Many academic libraries and publishers have developed mobile-optimized versions of their web sites and catalogs. Almost all database vendors and major journal publishers have provided a way to connect to their resources via the Internet and the mobile web. In light of this pervasive use of the Internet, mobile devices and social networking, this study examines the habits of 290 science and technology students (with majors in biology (51%), chemical engineering (15%), biological engineering (9%), kinesiology (5%), and animal science (4%)), to identify whether they use this technology for library-related activities. The primary objective of this study was to identify …

Enrollment Report, Spring 2012, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Enrollment Reports (2004-2019)

Enrollment Report for Spring 2012 for Illinois State University

Coarse Woody Debris In A Tropical Rainforest In North Queensland, Australia: Relationships With Stand Structure And Disturbance, Nadine Rea

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Coarse woody debris (CWD) refers to the woody material on the forest floor, including fallen stems, large branches, coarse roots, wood pieces, and standing dead trees (snags) (Harmon et al. 1986). CWD is an essential but often overlooked aspect of ecosystems. It plays many key ecosystem roles and is instrumental in overall ecosystem functionality. While a piece of CWD decomposes, it provides key habitat for many different species, minimizes soil erosion, affects soil development, stores nutrients and water, and influences the global carbon cycle (Harmon and Hua 1991). In some forests, CWD can exist on the forest floor for hundreds …

Reflections On The Forum At Forty, David Hafemeister

Physics

No abstract provided.

Remaking Culture And Truth: Cultural And Necro-Citizenship In The Borderlands, Miguel Diaz-Barriga

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

New Orleans Connection: The Feibleman-Toynbee Interface, James B. Sullivan

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Pyburn, K. Anne, Editor. Ungendering Civilization., Connie Lamb

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Advocate, April 1, 2012, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 74, No. 1, April 2012, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

Addiction In Alaska: How Alcohol Abuse Is Impacting Community Members In Native Villages Throughout Rural Alaska, Cristina Casillo

Capstone Collection

Across rural Alaska are over 200 Alaska Native villages so isolated, they are only accessible by airplane, boat, and snowmachine. These villages strive to keep their Native culture alive and rich, but continue to struggle against Western influences. Introduced to Alaska Natives by European and Russian explorers in the 1700s, this paper examines how alcohol addiction is affecting community members throughout villages in rural Alaska. The research was conducted in two Iñupiaq Eskimo villages, Point Hope and Selawik, both located above the Arctic Circle in rural Alaska. Drawing from three years of personal observations and a series of interviews, this …

Profile: Morris Alums At Work: Unique Jobs, University Relations

Profile (1996-)

This issue of Profile features living examples of the benefits of a liberal arts education as it introduces us to alumni who have used their education as a springboard for interesting careers and meaningful lives. This issue also features a faculty member who is well known to many of you who read Profile—chemistry professor Jim Togeas. This year, Togeas celebrates an extraordinary milestone in his career: fifty years of teaching at Morris, and still going strong! But there’s more to his extraordinary story: fifty years of teaching at the same institution; five decades of alumni who have learned about chemistry …

Csbs Statements, V14, Spring 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Statements

Contents:

-- From the desk of the Dean
-- Greetings from Hong Kong
-- common threads: Alumni connection facilitates Hong Kong internship for TAPP student
-- A Diplomatic Mission: History alumna dedicated to the service of her country
-- keeping up with Rhonda
-- Back to School: CSBS alumni return to UNI as up-and-coming teachers & scholars
-- College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Loyalty Roster
-- Dean's Fund Inner Circle
-- Donor Wall Installed in Sabin Hall
-- Davis family increases generous gift ot gerontology program
-- Boatrights establish Undergraduate History Research Grant
-- from our director of development …

The Search, The Jackson Laboratory

Search Magazine

No abstract provided.

Every Adolescent Deserves A Parent, Dale Margolin Cecka

Law Faculty Publications

This article argues that all adolescents, indeed all human beings, deserve at least one parent—one person who takes the good with the bad because that person’s life is intertwined with the child’s. The child matters to the parent in a way that a friend, nephew, or foster child may not. Child welfare professionals must never lose sight of this principle when they recruit, train, and maintain parents for adolescents. The parent can be someone who is already in the young person’s life or someone who has been unable to parent in the past, but is now ready to secure that …

Metagenome – Processing And Analysis, Sheetal Gosrani

Master's Projects

Metagenome means “multiple genomes” and the study of culture independent genomic content in environment is called metagenomics. Because of the advent of powerful and economic next generation sequencing technology, sequencing has become cheaper and faster and thus the study of genes and phenotypes is transitioning from single organism to that of a community present in the natural environmental sample. Once sequence data are obtained from an environmental sample, the challenge is to process, assemble and bin the metagenome data in order to get as accurate and complete a representation of the populations present in the community or to get high …

Hidden Markov Models For Software Piracy Detection, Shabana Kazi

Master's Projects

The unauthorized copying of software is often referred to as software piracy. Soft- ware piracy causes billions of dollars of annual losses for companies and governments worldwide. In this project, we analyze a method for detecting software piracy. A meta- morphic generator is used to create morphed copies of a base piece of software. A hidden Markov Model is trained on the opcode sequences extracted from these mor- phed copies. The trained model is then used to score suspect software to determine its similarity to the base software. A high score indicates that the suspect software may be a modified …

Music, Mood, And Memory: An In-Depth Look At How Music Can Be Used As A Trigger To Elicit Specific Emotional Responses And Associated Memories, Jennifer Lynn Stubing

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

No matter how humans have evolved over the years, no matter how different the cultures or customs are across seas, every race in the history of humankind has had music. Music and emotions have been intertwined throughout history. While short-term memories are fleeting, it is theorized that music has the potential to become a long-term memory after just one hearing (Eschrich 48).

Music, memories, and emotions have all been proven to intertwine, yet not much research has demonstrated the interrelation of all three. Musicology focuses on the connection between the human psyche and music. The most common use of music …

The Price She Pays, Cheryl Hanna

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Focus On Boise State University, Kathleen Tuck (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

No abstract provided.

A Non-Canonical E-Box Within The Myod Core Enhancer Is Necessary For Circadian Expression In Skeletal Muscle, Xiping Zhang, Samir P. Patel, John J. Mccarthy, Alexander G. Rabchevsky, David J. Goldhamer, Karyn A. Esser

Center for Muscle Biology Faculty Publications

The myogenic differentiation 1 (MyoD) gene is a master regulator of myogenesis. We previously reported that the expression of MyoD mRNA oscillates over 24 h in skeletal muscle and that the circadian clock transcription factors, BMAL1 (brain and muscle ARNT-like 1) and CLOCK (circadian locomotor output cycles kaput), were bound to the core enhancer (CE) of the MyoD gene in vivo. In this study, we provide in vivo and in vitro evidence that the CE is necessary for circadian expression of MyoD in adult muscle. Gel shift assays identified a conserved non-canonical E-box within the CE that …

Special Ops: Vulnerable Populations And Tobacco Treatment, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Audrey Darville

Nursing Presentations

• Reasons for Smoking among individuals with co-morbid substance use (SUD)and/or psychiatric disorders (PD)

• Smoking cessation treatment for individuals with co-morbid substance use (SUD) and/or psychiatric disorders (PD)

• Smoking among the Homeless population

Lithiasis, Barbara Duffey

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Aluminum Dreams, Shara Sinor

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 4 Spring 2012, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Salinity- And Population-Dependent Genome Regulatory Response During Osmotic Acclimation In The Killifish (Fundulus Heteroclitus) Gill, Andrew Whitehead, Jennifer L. Roach, Shujun Zhang, Fernando Galvez

Faculty Publications

The killifish Fundulus heteroclitus is abundant in osmotically dynamic estuaries and it can quickly adjust to extremes in environmental salinity. We performed a comparative osmotic challenge experiment to track the transcriptomic and physiological responses to two salinities throughout a time course of acclimation, and to explore the genome regulatory mechanisms that enable extreme osmotic acclimation. One southern and one northern coastal population, known to differ in their tolerance to hypo-osmotic exposure, were used as our comparative model. Both populations could maintain osmotic homeostasis when transferred from 32 to 0.4 p.p.t., but diverged in their compensatory abilities when challenged down to …

Trehalose Transporter From African Chironomid Larvae Improves Desiccation Tolerance Of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells, Nilay Chakraborty, Michael A. Menze, Heidi Elmoazzen, Halong Vu, Martin L. Yarmush, Steven C. Hand, Mehmet Toner

Faculty Publications

Dry preservation has been explored as an energy-efficient alternative to cryopreservation, but the high sensitivity of mammalian cells to desiccation stress has been one of the major hurdles in storing cells in the desiccated state. An important strategy to reduce desiccation sensitivity involves use of the disaccharide trehalose. Trehalose is known to improve desiccation tolerance in mammalian cells when present on both sides of the cell membrane. Because trehalose is membrane impermeant the development of desiccation strategies involving this promising sugar is hindered. We explored the potential of using a high-capacity trehalose transporter (TRET1) from the African chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki …