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Hydrologic And Microclimate Characterizations Of Thornton’S Cave, West-Central Florida (Usa), Dorien K. Mcgee

Studia UBB Geologia

A cave’s environment is controlled by a suite of factors unique to the environments in which they formed, including, but not limited to, regional geologic and climate settings. These factors collectively owe to wide variations in cave biology, geomorphology and overall speleogenesis. This report combines local climate, hydrologic, and CO₂ data collected over the course of a two-year study at Thornton’s Cave, a partially-flooded cave in the West-Central Florida karst belt, to characterize its current environment and yield insight regarding how changes in regional climate and hydrology impact its past and future speleogenesis. Data loggers continuously monitoring cave and …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - February 5, 2012, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the February 5, 2012 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• Sneak Peek - USA Health System Patient Shares His Story
• February Med School Café - 'New Developments in the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis'
• USA Chapter of Gold Humanism Honor Society to Focus on Compassion
• AAMC Representatives to Present Two Workshops

Papaya (Carica Papaya) Seed As A Low-Cost Sorbent For Zinc Removal, Siew-Teng Ong, Shiau-Ping Yip, Pei-Sin Keng, Siew-Ling Lee, Yung-Tse Hung

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

The potential of using papaya seed as a sorbent for the removal of Zn from aqueous solution was investigated. The sorption characteristics of the sorbent was studied under various experimental conditions, such as pH, contact time, concentration of Zn(II), agitation rate and sorbent’s particle size. The equilibrium data have been studied using Langmuir, Freundlich and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller equations. The best correlation was obtained using Langmuir isotherm with the regression coefficient value of 0.9799 and maximum sorption capacity of 19.88 mg/g. The effective pH for the maximum uptake of Zn(II) was at pH 5.0. An increase in percentage uptake of Zn(II) can …

Modeling Spontaneous Three-Dimensional Polymerization, Zhitong Zhao

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

For human beings, the origin of life has always been an interesting and mysterious matter, particularly how life arose from inorganic matter through natural processes. Polymerization is always involved in such processes. In this paper we built what we refer to as ideal and physical models to simulate spontaneous polymerization based on certain physical principles. As the modeling confirms, without taking external energy, small and simple inorganic molecules formed bigger and more complicated molecules, which are necessary ingredients of all living organisms. In our simulations, we utilized actual ranges of parameters according to their experimentally observed values. The results from …

Predicting Natural Base-Flow Stream Water Chemistry In The Western United States, John R. Olson, Charles P. Hawkins

School of Natural Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Robust predictions of stream solute concentrations expected under natural (reference) conditions would help establish more realistic water quality standards and improve stream ecological assessments. Models predicting solute concentrations from environmental factors would also help identify the relative importance of different factors that influence water chemistry. Although data are available describing the major factors controlling water chemistry (i.e., geology, climate, atmospheric deposition, soils, vegetation, topography), geologic maps do not adequately convey how rocks vary in their chemical and physical properties. We addressed this issue by associating rock chemical and physical properties with geological map units to produce continuous maps of percentages …

Regulating "Healing": Notes On The Ecology Of Awareness And The Awareness Of Ecology, Michael H. Cohen

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

Liability Of Media Companies For The Violent Content Of Their Products Marketed To Children, Jonathan M. Proman

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

Volume 47 - Issue 16 - Friday, February 3, 2012, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

The Echo: February 3, 2012, Taylor University

2011-2012 (Volume 99)

And #16 goes to… Women’s Golf – Job market junction – Library updates – Top 5 News Events of the Week – Jeffrey Moshier – Manuel Rosado – The Bubble – Department Announcements – Soccer slaughter – Obama lets it slip – Around The World In 30 Seconds – To India and back – Part of this balanced brunch – Career by spring: “It’s all the new rage” – By my Valentine? – J-Term Quiz – Trend of the Week – Life & Times Love Words – Social Media gone Taylor – Fact of the Week – Lights out on …

The Utah Statesman, February 3, 2012, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 101 [102], No. 25 (Feb. 3, 2012), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 101, but it is the 102nd volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Volume Cxxix, Number 13, February 3, 2012, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Feb 3, 2012, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 59, No. 25 (Feb. 3, 2012), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Slow Amyloid Nucleation Via Α-Helix-Rich Oligomeric Intermediates In Short Polyglutamine-Containing Huntingtin Fragments, Murali Jayaraman, Ravindra Kodali, Bankanidhi Sahoo, Ashwani K. Thakur, Anand Mayasundari, Rakesh Mishra, Cynthia B. Peterson, Ronald Wetzel

Faculty Publications

The 17-amino-acid N-terminal segment (httNT) that leads into the polyglutamine (polyQ) segment in the Huntington's disease protein huntingtin (htt) dramatically increases aggregation rates and changes the aggregation mechanism, compared to a simple polyQ peptide of similar length. With polyQ segments near or above the pathological repeat length threshold of about 37, aggregation of htt N-terminal fragments is so rapid that it is difficult to tease out mechanistic details. We describe here the use of very short polyQ repeat lengths in htt N-terminal fragments to slow this disease-associated aggregation. Although all of these peptides, in addition to httNT itself, form α-helix-rich …

The Bg News February 3, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 3, 2012. Volume 102-Issue 65.

Identification Of Functionally Distinct Traf Proinflammatory And Pi3k/Mek Transforming Activities Emanating From The Ret/Ptc Fusion Oncoprotein, Josephine H.F. Wixted, Jay L. Rothstein, Laurence C. Eisenlohr

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

Thyroid carcinomas that harbor RET/PTC oncogenes are well differentiated, relatively benign neoplasms compared with those expressing oncogenic RAS or BRAF mutations despite signaling through shared transforming pathways. A distinction, however, is that RET/PTCs induce immunostimulatory programs, suggesting that, in the case of this tumor type, the additional pro-inflammatory pathway reduces aggressiveness. Here, we demonstrate that pro-inflammatory programs are selectively activated by TRAF2 and TRAF6 association with RET/PTC oncoproteins. Eliminating this mechanism reduces pro-inflammatory cytokine production without decreasing transformation efficiency. Conversely, ablating MEK/ERK or PI3K/AKT signaling eliminates transformation but not pro-inflammatory cytokine secretion. Functional uncoupling of the two pathways demonstrates that …

Ecosystem Services: The Making Of A Metaphor We Live (?) By, Richard B. Norgaard

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

What started as a humble metaphor to help us think about our relation to nature has become integral to how we are addressing the future of humanity and the course of biological evolution. The metaphor of nature as a stock that provides a flow of services is insufficient for the difficulties we are in or the task ahead. Indeed, combined with the mistaken presumption that we can analyze a global problem within a partial equilibrium economic framework and reach a new economy project-by-project without major institutional change, the simplicity of the stock-flow framework blinds us to the complexity of the …

February 3, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The Parthenon, February 3, 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.

The Second Annual William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Conversation With Justice Clarence Thomas, Clarence Thomas, Kenneth W. Starr, Shelley Saxer, Douglas W. Kmiec, Charles R. Eskridge

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cracking The Foundation: Highlighting And Criticizing The Shortcomings Of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning Practices, Michael Floryan

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Significant Statistics: The Unwitting Policy Making Of Mathematically Ignorant Judges , Michael I. Meyerson, William Meyerson

Pepperdine Law Review

This article will explore several areas in which judges, hampered by their mathematical ignorance, have permitted numerical analysis to subvert the goals of our legal system. In Part II, I will examine the perversion of the presumption of innocence in paternity cases, where courts make the counter-factual assumption that regardless of the evidence, prior to DNA testing, a suspect has a 50/50 chance of being the father. In Part III, I will explore the unnecessary injection of race into trials involving the statistics of DNA matching, even when race is entirely irrelevant to the particular case. Next, in Part IV, …

The Mother-Love Myth: The Effect Of The Provider-Nurturer Dichotomy In Custody Cases, Kalie Caetano

The Macalester Review

This paper is a discursive analysis that evaluates the effect of gender stereotypes relating to parenting roles and how they have influenced custody cases. Specifically it looks at the historically gendered distinction between the provider (typically the father) and the nurturer (typically the mother) and speculates as to how those identities may have initially formed in US society, what changes they have undergone and how these stereotypes still affect family court outcomes in cases of divorce. Particular focus is given to an article appearing in Working Mother magazine entitled “Custody Lost,” detailing a new trend in custody cases, which allegedly …

Memo On Binary Economics To Attorneys For Women And People Of Color Re: What Else Can Public Corporations Do For Your Clients?, Robert Ashford

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

United States V. Kincade And The Constitutionality Of The Federal Dna Act: Why We'll Need A New Pair Of Genes To Wear Down The Slippery Slope, Kathryn Zunno

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

Involuntary Cloning: A Battery, June Mary Zekan Makdisi

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.

Paternalism, Obesity, And Tolerable Levels Of Risk, Michael S. Merry

Democracy & Education

In this article the author examines the relationship between paternalism and childhood obesity. In particular he examines the risks of paternalistic intervention in order to prevent or curtail the occurrence of obesity among young children.

The Future Of Citizen Science, Michael P. Mueller, Deborah Tippins, Lynn A. Bryan Ph. D.

Democracy & Education

There is an emerging trend of democratizing science and schooling within science education that can be characterized as citizen science. We explore the roots of this movement and some current projects to underscore the meaning of citizen science in science and schooling. We show that citizen science, as it is currently conceptualized, does not go far enough to resolve the concerns of communities and environments when considered holistically and when compared with more dynamic and multidimensional ideas for characterizing science. We use the examples of colony collapse disorder (CCD) and emerging trends of nanotechnology as cases in point. Then we …

Same-Sex Marriage: A Threat To Tiered Equal Protection Doctrine?, Randall P. Ewing Jr.

St. John's Law Review

No abstract provided.