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The Montclarion, March 08, 2012, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

The Montclarion, March 08, 2012, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

The Origin Of Malarial Parasites In Orangutans, M. Andreína Pacheco, Michael J.C. Reid, Michael A. Schillaci, Carl A. Lowenberger, Biruté M. F. Galdikas, Lisa Jones-Engel, Ananias A. Escalante

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Background: Recent findings of Plasmodium in African apes have changed our perspectives on the evolution of malarial parasites in hominids. However, phylogenetic analyses of primate malarias are still missing information from Southeast Asian apes. In this study, we report molecular data for a malaria parasite lineage found in orangutans.

Methodology/Principal Findings: We screened twenty-four blood samples from Pongo pygmaeus (Kalimantan, Indonesia) for Plasmodium parasites by PCR. For all the malaria positive orangutan samples, parasite mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA) and two antigens: merozoite surface protein 1 42 kDa (MSP-1₄₂) and circumsporozoite protein gene (CSP) were amplified, cloned, and …

Novel Phosducin-Like Protein Binding Partners: Exploring Chaperone And Tumor Suppressor Protein Interactions, Amy Jetaun Gray

Theses and Dissertations

Many proteins cannot fold into their native state without the assistance of one or more molecular chaperones. Chaperonins are an essential class of chaperones that provide an isolated chamber for proteins to fold. CCT, a group II chaperonin found in eukaryotes assists in the folding of actins, tubulins, and many other cellular proteins. PhLP1 is a member of the phosducin protein family that assists CCT in the folding of Gβ and its subsequent assembly with Gγ. However, previous studies have not addressed the scope of PhLP1 and CCT-mediated Gβγ; assembly. The data presented in Chapter 2 shows that PhLP1 plays …

Family Implicit Rules, Child Self Regulation, And Observed Child Emotional Responsiveness To Parents, Mark J. Mauzy

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine how implicit family process rules are related to observed child emotional responsiveness with child self regulation as a possible mediating variable. Data from Wave 1 of the Flourishing Families project was used and included 337 two parent families and a target child between the ages of 10 and 13. Mother and father perception of family implicit rules were used to measure family implicit rules; child and mother report of the child's self regulation were used to measure self regulation, and child's emotional responsiveness to mother and father were taken from coding data. …

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Nato's Role In The Global War On Terror: Is The Alliance Obsolete?, Benjamin Forster

Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union

No abstract provided.

International Symposium On Earth System Sciences (Istambul-Turkey), Vlad Codrea, Ovidiu Barbu

Studia UBB Geologia

No abstract provided.

New Approach On The Saiga Antelopes (Saiga Tatarica/Borealis; Bovidae) From The Late Pleistocene And Holocene Of Crimea (Se Ukraine), Matei M. Vremir

Studia UBB Geologia

The present paper is a short review of the knowledge regarding the fossil saiga antelopes from the Pleistocene and Holocene of Crimea, in the context of the general taxonomic and phylogenetic problems in question. According to the newly discovered paleontological material from the Crimean Mountain cave-sites, a new point of view is considered.

Comparison Of Some Morpho-Anatomical Features At Fossil Vegetal Species And Their Actual Correspondent Species, Gabriel C. Corneanu, Mihaela Corneanu, Rodica Bercu

Studia UBB Geologia

The values of some morpho-anatomical features (the size and shape of the epidermic cells of the leaves, as well as the size and features of the stomata) recorded in some fossil vegetal species and their actual correspondent species were analysed. These differences offer information about the evolution process. In the case of the analysed species (Ginkgo sp., Taxus sp., Magnolia sp. and Buxus sempervirens), two hypotheses concerning the genetic mechanisms involved in evolution and in the speciation processes or in the adaptation to the environmental conditions can be considered. These genetic mechanisms are: the multiplication of genomes and the process …

Anomalinoides Dividens Bioevent At The Badenian/Sarmatioan Boundary – A Response To Paleogeographic And Paleoenvironmental Chnages, Sorin Filipescu

Studia UBB Geologia

Recent investigations on the microfauna at the Badenian / Sarmatian boundary (Middle Miocene) showed interesting characters of the Anomalinoides dividens foraminifera assemblages. Several taxonomic aspects are considered in order to clarify the meaning of different stratigraphic approaches. A possible planktonic or pseudo-planktonic life of the species is suggested by micropaleontologic, paleogeographic and paleoenvironmental data.

A Middle Miocene Dolphin From Domasnea (Caransebes-Mehadia Miocene Basin), Vlad Codrea, Vasile Serețan

Studia UBB Geologia

A small-sized dolphin humerus originating from a drill core sample collected from a borehole located at Domaşnea (Middle Miocene Caransebeş-Mehadia Basin, South Carpatians) was found. This dolphin is assigned to Kentriodontidae family. The level the fossil originated from is Late Volhynian-Early Bessarabian (Sarmatian s. str.), probably located either to the top of Globu Craiovei Formation, or to the lowermost Petnic Formation succession. The bone is comparable with similar discoveries reported from Tăşad and Cluj-Napoca, both located in the inner Carpatian area. This new Kentriodontidae locality proves the large geographic extension of these dolphins in the Sarmatian Paratethys.

Study On The Diagenetic Calcareous Accumulations In A Soil Profile From Floresti (Cluj County, Romania), Horea Bedelean

Studia UBB Geologia

The studied calcretes developed in two different levels (horizons) in the soil profile from Floreşti (Cluj County). The deposits outcropping in the area are represented by Bartonian-Priabonian sedimentary rocks (Ciuleni Member, Viştea Limestone) and the Quaternary horizon (terrace of Someşul Mic River, consisting of pebbles of different origin), which represent the parent rock of the soil. A detailed petrographical and mineralogical description of the calcretes is given below, based on macroscopic, microscopic and X-ray diffraction analysis. It led to the conclusion that the calcretes from the studied profile have a pedogenic origin. The calcretes consist of distinctive subhorizons within the …

Proceedings And Abstracts Of The 6th International Symposium On Mineralogy - Cluj-Napoca ─ Romania, September 18-21, 2003, Editor: Corina Ionescu, Editor: Volker Hoeck

Studia UBB Geologia

No abstract provided.

Coptocampylodon Pantici N. Morpho Sp. From The Turonian Of Nw Serbia, Darivojka Ljubović-Obradović, Rajka RadoičIć

Studia UBB Geologia

This note describes Coptocampylodon pantici, a new morpho species from Upper Cretaceous outcrops of the Poćuta region (NW Serbia). Based on the rudists in superincumbent calcarenites and planktonic foraminifers of the D. concavata Zone overlying the calcarenites, the shallow water “Poćuta limestone” is dated Turonian. The genus Coptocampylodon Elliott is emended.

Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) New Thalamid Sponges From Northern Calabria (Southern Italy), Baba Senowbari-Daryan, Valeria Zamparelli

Studia UBB Geologia

Two new “sphinctozoan” sponges, Calabrisiphonella labyrinthica nov. gen., nov. sp. and Calabrispongia globosa nov. gen., nov. sp., are described from reef boulders derived from Triassic dolomites (“Dolomia principale“) of the Argentino valley in Northern Calabria (Southern Italy). Calabrisiphonella is an Amblysiphonella-type sponge characterized by having a complicated canal system (labyrinth-like) within the chamber walls. The structure of Calabrispongia is similar to some Paleozoic or Jurassic "Stromatoporoidea“, which are attributed to the sponges. The systemtic position of both sponges, described here, is discussed. The age of the sponge-bearing reefs represented in the boulders is Norian-Rhaetian.

Correlations Between The Air Pollution And The Rainfall Composition In Jiului Valley Area, Eugen Traistă, MăDăLina Ionică, Vlad Codrea, Ovidiu Barbu

Studia UBB Geologia

Rainfall composition is conditional on the air quality. If the air is polluted, the rainfall will be also polluted. In fact, rainfall contains the same compounds like the air as nitrites, nitrates, sulphites, sulphates, ammonia etc. Some cations like calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium are present in rainfall because of dust. This paper presents the air qualities and the soil composition influenced by the rainfall in one of the most polluted mining areas from our country, Jiului Valley.

Compositional Data On Boumonite - Cupbsbs3 From Varatec Ore Deposit, Baiut Mine Field, Eastern Carpathians, Romania, Dan Costin

Studia UBB Geologia

Mineralogical features and compositional data on bournonite from epithermal vein deposit of Văratec, Băiuţ mine field in the Baia Mare district, Romania are presented. Bournonite is disposed in quartz matrix or it is associated with chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite. SEM images demonstrate the absence of intergrown derivates with distinct compositions. Variations of chemical composition of bournonit have been recorded using electron probe microanalyses. The negative correlation of Sb – As contents indicates a substitution process between the two elements and the presence of limited solid solution towards seligmanite.

The First Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Dinosaur Footprints From Transylvania (Romania), Matei Vremir, Vlad A. Codrea

Studia UBB Geologia

An Uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) site exposing dinosaur footprints is reported from the Sebes̡ area (Transylvanian Depression). This is the first dinoturbated layer discovered in our country, containing also numerous bones belonging to various dinosaurs. The track-site is located near Lancrăm village and provides only two quite well preserved footprints (one track). The medium sized (FL = 23,3 cm; FW = 17,8 cm; pace = 103 cm; ST = 200 cm) plantigrad-tridactyle footprints belong to Ornithopedoidei, according to their morphology. An assignment to the Iguanodontichnus CASAMIQUELA & FASOLA, 1968 group seems to be appropriate (tentatively, associated to the “Rhabdodon” iguanodontian dinosaur). …

Ecological Safety Of The Carpathian Region As A Process Of Oil And Gas Complexes Functioning, Georgiy Rudko

Studia UBB Geologia

There have been considered the main ecological problems of Western Ukraine and changes of geological environment under the influence of oil and gas complexes functioning. Ecochemical investigations of the environment give us a possibility to reveal the areas with abnormal hydrocarbon concentration in the near-surface layers and in ground waters. On the basis of the investigation results there have been worked out organizational, technological and environmental measures to eliminate pollution or to reduce its negative influence on geological environment.

A Revision Of The Rona Member, Vlad A. Codrea, Emanoil SăSăRan

Studia UBB Geologia

Lacustrine deposits occurring in the Jibou Formation (Late Maastrichtian – Lutetian) were mentioned in the Rona village area since the first half of the 19th century. Hungarian and Romanian geologists also carried out several researches in the last century, referring to the so-call “Rona Limestone” or “Rona Member”. In the last years, new outcrops resulted as a consequence of works made for the Botanical Garden at Jibou, adding details concerning mainly the base of the lacustrine succession. The new geological section from Jibou Botanical Garden should complete the old stratotype of the "Rona Limestone”, as a hypostratotype.

Contributions On The Mineralogy Of The Corund Carbonate Deposit, Tóth Attila

Studia UBB Geologia

The carbonate deposit with aragonitic aspect from Corund (Harghita county) is the result of post-volcanic phenomena, and it is deposited from salty bicarbonatic springs. Mineralogically it consists of calcite, magnesium calcite and aragonite. Most of the calcite layers are in fact paramorphoses after aragonite, fact revealed by the diagenetic processes.

Implications Resulting From The Study Of The Fluid Inclusions In The Shear Zone-Type Gold Mineralization From Bozovici (Banat) And Somesul Rece (Gilau Mountains), Vasile PomâRleanu, Ioan MâRza

Studia UBB Geologia

The paper presents the results of a study on fluid inclusions (petrography, chemistry, Th, Td) from the gold-containing quartz in the shear zone – type mineralizations from Bozovici (Banat) and Some¿ul Rece (Gil¾u Mountains). Four types of fluid inclusions were identified: A – aqueous, AS – aqueous with efflorescences and crystals of nahcolite, C – monophasic and biphasic containing CO2, and AC – aqueous solutions with CO2. Microthermometry (Th and Td) indicated homogenisation temperatures of nahcolite between 136-2600 C, total homogenisation temperatures of 283-3900 C, and a maximum temperature (Td) between 380-4200 C. The molar content of the CO2/H2O ratio …

Arenite Concretions With Axial Channel From The Badenian Deposits Of Cheia (Turda) - A New Type Of Concretions, Ioan Mârza, Ciprian Constantina, Horea PâRlea

Studia UBB Geologia

The paper introduces a new type of arenite concretions (max. 40-50 cm in diameter). Spheroidal concretions with an axial cylindrical channel (1-6 cm in diameter) resulted from the levigation of the concretion centre consisting of soft fusiform clasts with a clayey-carbonate composition. The concretions are hosted by a level of Badenian sandstones and microconglomerates (about 10-m thick) which occur in the place called “Groapa cu Piersici” (Cheia, Turda).

Middle Miocene (Badenian) Conidae From Lapugiu De Sus, Romania: Systematical And Palaeoecological Data, Carmen Chira, Ileana Voia

Studia UBB Geologia

The paper presents in synthesis the conids from Lăpugiu de Sus, especially those which are preserved in the collections of Palaeontology-Stratigraphy Museum of the Babeş-Bolyai University. Conids, carnivorous gastropods who lived in shallow waters from neritic zones, in warm seas, respectivelly subtropical to tropical, with a normal salinity, have been the most diversified gastropods at Lăpugiu de Sus during the Middle Miocene (Badenian). There are also species which could tolerate slight decreasing of salinity such as Conus (Conolithus) dujardini brezinae. It was remarked that the conids from Lăpugiu de Sus lived in the conditions of shore-offshore zones where the temperature …

Africa And The Climate Change Agenda: Hurd Les And Prospects In Sustaining The Outcomes Of The Seventh African Development Forum, James Forole Jarso

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Is Redd Accounting Myopic?: Why Reducing Emissions From Deforestation And Forest Degradation Programs Should Recognize And Include Other Ecosystems And Services Beyond Co 2 Sequestration, Paulo A. Lopes

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Molecular Pathways Of Cell Death And Regulation By Jnk-1 And Bnip3 During Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Weiwen Wang

Open Access Dissertations

The c-Jun N-terminal kinase-1 (JNK-1) is rapidly induced by reactive oxygen species generated when the heart is reperfused during acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, the role of JNK-1 activation in reperfusion injury has remained controversial because different groups have reported both protective and injurious consequences. My thesis work has resolved much of this controversy. I have demonstrated that JNK-1 switches from a pro-survival role when the period of ischemia is brief to become injurious when the period of ischemia is extended. My results further show that this switch in function is driven by dynamic changes in the metabolic state of …

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 2 Issue 18, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.

Phoenix, 2012-03-07, Student Life

Phoenix

The Phoenix is a student newspaper published at Governors State University since August 2002. The newspaper features student reporting, opinions, news, and photos.