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An Ecological Assessment Of A Juvenile Estuarine Sportfish, Common Snook (Centropomus Undecimalis), In A Tidal Tributary Of Tampa Bay, Florida, Adam Benjamin Brame

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The common snook, Centropomus undecimalis, is an estuarine dependent sport fish that relies upon subtidal wetlands as nursery habitat. Despite the economic and recreational significance of this species, there are portions of its life history and biology that are poorly understood, particularly its early life history. Understanding juvenile snook use of wetland habitats is crucial given the rapid loss and degradation of these areas to anthropogenic impacts. Young-of-the-year snook were collected in pond and creek habitats of a single wetland system to assess early life ecology and habitat use. Proxies of habitat quality were used to determine which habitats …

Small-Network Approximations For Geometrically Frustrated Ising Systems, Bilin Zhuang, Courtney Lannert

Physics: Faculty Publications

The study of frustrated spin systems often requires time-consuming numerical simulations. As the simplest approach, the classical Ising model is often used to investigate the thermodynamic behavior of such systems. Exploiting the small correlation lengths in frustrated Ising systems, we develop a method for obtaining first approximations to the energetic properties of frustrated two-dimensional Ising systems using small networks of less than 30 spins. These small networks allow much faster numerical simulations, and more importantly, analytical evaluations of their properties are numerically tractable. We choose Ising systems on the triangular lattice, the kagome lattice, and the triangular kagome lattice as …

Connections Between Sphingosine Kinase And Phospholipase D In The Abscisic Acid Signaling Pathway In Arabidopsis, Liang Guo, Girish Mishra, Jennifer E. Markham, Maoyin Li, Amanda Tawfall, Ruth Welti, Xuemin Wang

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

Background: Sphingosine kinase (SPHK) and phospholipaseD(PLD) produce different lipid mediators involved in abscisic acid (ABA) response.

Results: Ablation of SPHKs and PLDα1 attenuates ABA-induced production of LCBPs and PA. Phyto-S1P closes stomata in sphk1, sphk2, but not in pldα1, whereas PA closes stomata in all mutants.

Conclusion: SPHK acts upstream of PLDα1, whereas PLDα1 promotes SPHK.

Significance: The roles of lipid messengers in the ABA signaling pathway are clarified.

Phylogenetics Of Thysanoptera (Insecta: Paraneoptera), Rebecca S. Buckman

Theses and Dissertations

The order Thysanoptera (Insecta: Paraneoptera), commonly known as thrips, includes organisms that exhibit a wide range of social and feeding behaviors that are of particular interest in evolutionary studies. These studies within thrips have been inhibited by the lack of knowledge of thrips relationships. The recognized classification scheme strives to reflect evolutionary relationships and is based upon morphology. Molecular data is next as morphology alone is not enough to resolve relationships. Few molecular studies have been conducted and all were limited in their taxon sampling and genetic sampling. To provide a foundation of future evolutionary studies, the objectives of this …

The Positive Role Of Breastfeeding On Infant Health During The First 6 Weeks: Findings From A Prospective Observational Study Based On Maternal Reports, Roslyn Tarrant, Margaret Sheridan-Pereira, Katherine Younger, John Kearney

Articles

This study aimed to report on adverse infant and maternal clinical outcomes, and investigate the relationship between infant feedingpractice and such adverse clinical outcomes in infants during the first 6 weeks postpartum. From an eligible sample of 450 motherterminfant pairs recruited from the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital in Dublin, 27.1% of infants (n=122) werematernally reported to have had an illness during the first 6 weeks that necessitated the provision of prescribed medication ± generalpractitioner/paediatrician attendance ± hospitalisation. Of these, 90 infants had ≥1 episode of infection ± viral ± gastro-intestinalrelatedcondition. After adjustment, ‘any’ breastfeeding to 6 weeks was …

The Poetics Of A Dominican Holocaust And The Aesthetics Of Witnessing, Andrew Mark Merrill

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines Julia Alvarez's best-known works, García Girls and In the Time of the Butterflies, to explore the intertextuality within Dominican-American fiction through the vocabulary and methodology of trauma studies and witnessing. Alvarez's work indicates that traditional academic discourse about witnessing often translates trauma survivors into tourists by legally dispossessing them from the witnesses they could provide as they seek to assign blame and pass judgment on the source of their traumatic experience. This process of exclusion threatens to hinder the ability of Dominican-Americans to work through their shared, traumatic experience with the Trujillo regime. Furthermore, this study …

Cuban Offshore Drilling: Preparation And Prevention Within The Framework Of The United States’ Embargo, Richard Sadowski

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Natural Resource “Conflicts” In The U.S. Southwest: A Story Of Hype Over Substance, Laura Peterson, Jay C. Lininger, Marty Bergoffen, Bill Snape, Curt Bradley

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Foreign Investment Contracts In The Oil & Gas Sector: A Survey Of Environmentally Relevant Clauses, Kyla Tienhaara

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Nano, Bio And Planetary Sciences: The 19th Meeting Of The International Mineralogical Association, Corina Ionescu, Volker Hoeck

Studia UBB Geologia

No abstract provided.

Zeolitic Volcanic Tuffs From Macicas (Cluj County), Natural Raw Materials Used For Nh4+ Removal From Wastewaters, Horea Bedelean, Maria Stanca, Andrada MăIcăNeanu, Silvia Burcă

Studia UBB Geologia

Volcanic tuffs out cropping in Măcicaş area (Cluj County) have been investigated and tested for their ammonium removal capacity. The zeolitic volcanic tuffs from Măcicaş are mainly represented by vitric and vitric crystal tuffs. In this region, significant amounts of volcanic glass in the pyroclastic sequence have been replaced by zeolites (between 50-80 %). The main zeolite species identified in volcanic tuffs from Măcicaş is clinoptilolite and subordinately mordenite. The zeolitic tuff samples considered in zeolitic sodium form (labeled M1-Na and M2-Na) are tested in ammonium removal experiments. The ammonium ions were completely removed from 0.0716g/dm3 NH4+ solution onto 10g …

Telephragmoxylon Transsylvanicum Sp. Nov. (Cheirolepidiaceae), In Latest Cretaceous From Oarda-Lancram And Rapa Rosie, Romania, Eugenia Iamandei, StăNilă Iamandei, Vlad Codrea

Studia UBB Geologia

Telephragmoxylon transsylvanicum, a new morphospecies of cheirolepidiaceous conifer wood, typical for the Latest Cretaceous from Sebeş Valley in Oarda-Sebeş sector (Alba district), coeval with the latest dinosaurs, is described. Geological and palaeobotanical settings for South Apuseni Mts. area are sketched and paleoclimatical remarks are suggested.

Gsu View, 2012-03-08, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

03-08-2012 Former Pro Rodeo Bull Rider And His Wife To Speak On Brain Injury Experience, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

The wonders of brain plasticity will be the focus of a presentation scheduled for Wednesday, March 14, at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

College Senate Minutes March 8, 2012, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on March 8, 2012.

Cal Poly Students' Reptile Research Earns Nearly $11,000 In Grants, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Commonwealth Times 2012-03-08

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Change In Group Therapy: A Grounded Theory Inquiry Into Group And Interpersonal Patterns In A Community Sample, Rebecca R. Canate

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study investigated the group process and impact of pre-group feedback information on individuals in an eight-week therapy group. The feedback information was based on group members' results on the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) Intrex questionnaire given before the group began. The Intrex is based on Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT) theory, which is a combination of interpersonal psychoanalysis, attachment theory, operant conditioning, and studies of imitative learning, and has been utilized primarily in an individual treatment format. Because only a limited number of treatment strategies have utilized IRT theory in the group treatment setting, and because group …

Follicular Dendritic Cells, Human Immunodeficency Virus Type 1, And Alpha 1 Antitrypsin, Xueyuan Zhou

Theses and Dissertations

HIV/AIDS is raging and causing millions of deaths around the world. The major challenge in treating HIV/AIDS is the establishment of HIV reservoirs where the viruse escapes both drug and immune system attempts at eradication. Throughout the course of HIV/AIDS, productive HIV infection occurs primarily in the lymphoid follicles or germinal centers (GC) surrounding follicular dendritic cells (FDC). In the GCs, FDCs trap and maintain infectious HIV for years and provide these infectious viruses to the host cells. FDCs also attract B and T cells into the GCs and increase the ability of CD4+ T cells to be infected. Additionally, …

Infidelity, Jealousy, And Wife Abuse Among Tsimane Forager-Farmers: Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses Of Marital Conflict, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jeffrey Winking

ESI Publications

What causes marital conflict, and which marital conflicts are more likely to result in men’s violence against their wives? It has long been argued that men’s jealousy over women’s infidelity is the strongest impetus to men’s lethal and non-lethal violence against female partners. Less is known about the extent to which women’s jealousy over men’s infidelity precipitates men’s violence against female partners. Husbands are more likely than wives to commit infidelity, and men and women report a similar frequency and intensity of jealous emotions during recalls of potential infidelity. If men are likely to use time and resources for pursuit …

Buffalo, Bush Meat, And The Zoonotic Threat Of Brucellosis In Botswana, Kathleen Anne Alexander, Jason Kenna Blackburn, Mark Eric Vandewalle, Risa Pesapane, Eddie Kekgonne Baipoledi, Phil H. Elzer

Faculty Publications

Background: Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease of global importance infecting humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. Little is known about the epidemiology and persistence of brucellosis in wildlife in Southern Africa, particularly in Botswana. Methods: Archived wildlife samples from Botswana (1995-2000) were screened with the Rose Bengal Test (RBT) and fluorescence polarization assay (FPA) and included the African buffalo (247), bushbuck (1), eland (5), elephant (25), gemsbok (1), giraffe (9), hartebeest (12), impala (171), kudu (27), red lechwe (10), reedbuck (1), rhino (2), springbok (5), steenbok (2), warthog (24), waterbuck (1), wildebeest (33), honey badger (1), lion (43), and zebra (21). …

The Pan American (2012-03-08), Reynaldo Leal, Nadia Tamez-Robledo

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 68, No. 21

Undergraduate Curriculum And Academic Policy Committee Minutes, March 8, 2012

Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee meeting held on March 8, 2012.

Preserving And Using Germplasm And Dissociated Embryonic Cells For Conserving Caribbean And Pacific Coral, Mary Hagedorn, Virginia Carter, Kelly Martorana, Malia K. Paresa, Jason Acker, Iliana B. Baums, Eric Borneman, Michael Brittsan, Michael Byers, Michael Henley, Michael Laterveer, Jo Ann Leong, Megan Mccarthy, Stuart Meyers, Brian D. Nelson, Dirk Petersen, Terrence Tiersch, Rafael Cuevas Uribe, Erik Woods, David Wildt

Faculty Publications

Coral reefs are experiencing unprecedented degradation due to human activities, and protecting specific reef habitats may not stop this decline, because the most serious threats are global (i.e., climate change), not local. However, ex situ preservation practices can provide safeguards for coral reef conservation. Specifically, modern advances in cryobiology and genome banking could secure existing species and genetic diversity until genotypes can be introduced into rehabilitated habitats. We assessed the feasibility of recovering viable sperm and embryonic cells post-thaw from two coral species, Acropora palmata and Fungia scutaria that have diffferent evolutionary histories, ecological niches and reproductive strategies. In vitro …

The Missouri Miner, March 8, 2012

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

A Little Help From Their Friends, Kurt Mullen

UNH Today Archive

Peer learning program helps students stick with science

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for March 8-April 4, 2012. Vol. 90, No. 9.

Behavioral And Histological Effects Of Traumatic Brain Injury On Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic Mice, Sara Leilani Kellogg

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The main objective of this study was to elucidate the possible mechanistic link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) using an animal model. We examined behavioral and histological effects of TBI in pre-symptomatic AD-transgenic mice (C57B6/SJL/SwissWebster/B6D2F1). In previous studies, these mice displayed AD-like behavioral deficits by 15-17 months of age and AD-like neuropathology as early as six months of age. To clarify the effects of TBI on these mice, the present study began when they were about three months of age and the study ended when they were about five months of age. As a control, non-transgenic …

Minutes From The March 8, 2012 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the March 8, 2012 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.