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Landscaping Perceptions And Behaviors: Socio-Ecological Drivers Of Nitrogen In The Residential Landscape, Leesa Souto Jan 2012

Landscaping Perceptions And Behaviors: Socio-Ecological Drivers Of Nitrogen In The Residential Landscape, Leesa Souto

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Driven by individual influences such as beliefs, attitudes, personal norms, and abilities, as well as by social influences like community norms, mandates, and the market, suburban homeowners are motivated to select and maintain a turf grass landscape. In many areas of Florida, effective suburban lawn maintenance requires regular inputs of nitrogenous fertilizer, some of which is lost to the environment, contributing to water quality degradation and ecosystem dysfunction. Reducing nitrogen inputs to aquatic systems requires a better understanding of the links between residential landscape management and the potential for fertilizer loss. This dissertation examines the linkages between the human behaviors …

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The Relationship Between Identity And Intimacy As Moderated By Culture, Garima Jhingon Jan 2012

The Relationship Between Identity And Intimacy As Moderated By Culture, Garima Jhingon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Several important developmental processes occur in the young adulthood period. Young adults form their identities, determine trajectories regarding careers, and typically they form intimate relationships. Erikson (1963) stated that healthy identity development during adolescence is a necessary precursor to intimacy in romantic relationships during emerging adulthood. Although findings from cross-sectional and short-term longitudinal studies somewhat confirm the proposed link between identity and intimacy development, none of them addresses the role of culture in moderating Erikson‘s tenets of developmental ordering. The primary goal of the present investigation was to determine the role of cultural orientation in identity and intimacy development among …

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Understanding Phonological Memory Deficits In Boys With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd): Dissociation Of Short-Term Storage And Articulatory Rehearsal Processes, Jennifer Bolden Jan 2012

Understanding Phonological Memory Deficits In Boys With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd): Dissociation Of Short-Term Storage And Articulatory Rehearsal Processes, Jennifer Bolden

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The current study dissociated and examined the two primary components of the phonological working memory subsystem – the short-term store and articulatory rehearsal mechanism – in boys with ADHD (n = 18) relative to typically developing boys (n = 15). Word lists of increasing length (2, 4, and 6 words per trial) were presented to and recalled by children following a brief (3 s) interval to assess their phonological short-term storage capacity. Children’s ability to utilize the articulatory rehearsal mechanism to actively maintain information in the phonological short-term store was assessed using word lists at their established memory span but …

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Predictors Of Immunosuppressant Adherence In Long-Term Renal Transplant Recipients, Sandra J. Galura Jan 2012

Predictors Of Immunosuppressant Adherence In Long-Term Renal Transplant Recipients, Sandra J. Galura

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

To sustain the health and viability of renal transplants, adherence to immunosuppressant therapy (IST) medications is critical. Studies continue to identify decreased adherence rates as time from transplant increases (Chisholm-Burns, Kwong, Mulloy & Spivey, 2008; Chisholm, Lance, Mulloy, 2005; Chisholm, Mulloy, & DiPiro, 2005; Nivens & Thomas, 2009). While previous research has explored the effect of variables known to influence IST adherence in adult renal transplant recipients, limited studies have explored these variables in a population of renal transplant recipients with longer time posttransplant intervals. The purpose of this study was to examine demographic variables, time posttransplant, immunosuppressive agents, health …

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The Dynamic Functions Of Bax Are Dependent On Key Structural And Regulatory Features, Rebecca Boohaker Jan 2012

The Dynamic Functions Of Bax Are Dependent On Key Structural And Regulatory Features, Rebecca Boohaker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Bax is an essential mediator of cell fate. Since its discovery in 1985 as a protein that interacts with the anti-apoptotic protein, Bcl-2, key elements related to its function, structure and regulation remains to be determined. To this end, mitochondrial metabolism was examined in non-apoptotic Bax-deficient HCT-116 cells as well as primary hepatocytes from Bax-deficient mice. Although mitochondrial density and mitochondrial DNA content was the same in Bax-containing and Bax -deficient cells, MitoTracker staining patterns differed, suggesting the existence of Bax -dependent functional differences in mitochondrial physiology. Oxygen consumption and cellular ATP levels were reduced in Bax -deficient cells, while …

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Map1272c Encodes An Nlpc/P60 Protein, An Antigen Detected In Cattle With Johne’S Disease, John Bannantine, Cari K. Lingle, Judith R. Stabel, Kasra X. Ramyar, Brandon L. Garcia, Alex J. Raeber, Pascal Schacher, Vivek Kapur, Brian V. Geisbrechtb Jan 2012

Map1272c Encodes An Nlpc/P60 Protein, An Antigen Detected In Cattle With Johne’S Disease, John Bannantine, Cari K. Lingle, Judith R. Stabel, Kasra X. Ramyar, Brandon L. Garcia, Alex J. Raeber, Pascal Schacher, Vivek Kapur, Brian V. Geisbrechtb

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The protein encoded by MAP1272c has been shown to be an antigen of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis that con- tains an NlpC/P60 superfamily domain found in lipoproteins or integral membrane proteins. Proteins containing this domain have diverse enzymatic functions that include peptidases, amidases, and acetyltransferases. The NlpC protein was examined in comparison to over 100 recombinant proteins and showed the strongest antigenicity when analyzed with sera from cattle with Johne’s disease. To further localize the immunogenicity of NlpC, recombinant proteins representing defined regions were ex- pressed and evaluated with sera from cattle with Johne’s disease. The region from amino acids …

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Characterization Of Sorghum Grain And Evaluation Of Sorghum Flour In A Chinese Egg Noodle System, Liman Liu, Thomas J. Herald, Donghai Wang, Jeff D. Wilson, Scott R. Bean, Fadi M. Aramouni Jan 2012

Characterization Of Sorghum Grain And Evaluation Of Sorghum Flour In A Chinese Egg Noodle System, Liman Liu, Thomas J. Herald, Donghai Wang, Jeff D. Wilson, Scott R. Bean, Fadi M. Aramouni

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Sorghum is a gluten free grain that has potential to be used as an alternative to wheat flour for the Celiac Sprue market. There are thousands of sorghum lines that have not been characterized for grain, flour or end product quality. The objective of the research was to gain an understanding among grain sorghum quality factors and Chinese egg noodles quality. Four sorghum hybrids were characterized and evaluated for kernel characteristics, proximate analysis, flour composition and end product in a Chinese egg noodle system. Kernel size and weight affected the flour particle size and the amount of starch damage. Flour …

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Post-Biological Control Invasion Trajectory For Melaleuca Quinquenervia In A Seasonally Inundated Wetland, Philip W. Tipping, Melissa R. Martin, Ryan Pierce, Ted D. Center, Paul R. Pratt, Min B. Rayamajhi Jan 2012

Post-Biological Control Invasion Trajectory For Melaleuca Quinquenervia In A Seasonally Inundated Wetland, Philip W. Tipping, Melissa R. Martin, Ryan Pierce, Ted D. Center, Paul R. Pratt, Min B. Rayamajhi

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The recruitment and mortality of Melaleuca quinquenervia seedlings were evaluated over a 3-year period in a seasonally inundated wetland in the western Everglades region. The mean (±SE) density of seedlings/ saplingsm-1 declined from 64.8 (±4.5) to 0.5 (±0.2) over the 3 years, a population reduction of 99.2%. Four distinct water regimes characterized this site: dry, dry to wet transition, flooded, and wet to dry transition. Seedling recruitment was highest in the dry to wet transition and lowest in the flooded water regime, while mortality was highest under flooded and dry water regimes. The mean estimate of population growth (λ) …

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Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality, And Termination Of Parental Rights, Janet L. Wallace, Lisa R. Pruitt Jan 2012

Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality, And Termination Of Parental Rights, Janet L. Wallace, Lisa R. Pruitt

Missouri Law Review

Parents are judged constantly, by fellow parents and by wider society. But the consequences of judging parents may extend beyond community reputation and social status. One of the harshest potential consequences is the state's termination of parental rights. In such legal contexts, the state assesses parents' merits as parents in relation to a wide array of their characteristics, decisions and actions, including where the parents live. Among those parents judged harshly in relation to geography are impoverished parents who live in rural places. We argue that such judgments are unjust because poor rural parents often do not have ready access …

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“For Tomorrow Will Worry About Itself": Ivan Illich’S Deschooling Society And The Rediscovery Of Hope, Jared Gibbs Jan 2012

“For Tomorrow Will Worry About Itself": Ivan Illich’S Deschooling Society And The Rediscovery Of Hope, Jared Gibbs

Western New England Law Review

This Article examines Ivan Illich’s critique of American schooling and suggested educational reforms in his book, Deschooling Schooling. Illich's critique is based upon his position that American schools are manipulative institutions based on the law of rising expectations which creates a growing frustration gap. Manipulative institutions foster consumer dependence on an institution’s service. Illich suggests schools be reformed to become convivial, allowing for individual agency that permits an individual to freely act as one chooses. Illich refers to this suggested system as learning webs or opportunity webs. The Author identifies problems with instituting Illich’s learning webs. Illich proposed that private …

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Exchange As A Cornerstone Of Families, Martha M. Ertman Jan 2012

Exchange As A Cornerstone Of Families, Martha M. Ertman

Western New England Law Review

In this Article, the Author examines Ivan Illich’s linkages between gender and industrial capitalism discussed in Illich’s book, Gender. First, the Article describes Illich’s allergy to exchange as the agent that replaced households defined by vernacular gender with married pairs in “inhumane” sex-neutral economic partnerships. Second, the Article challenges Illich’s view of exchange as a destroyer that has meddled in families for only a few hundred years. The Author uses sociobiological literature to counter Illich’s case against exchange with one valorizing two exchanges that she calls “primal deals” that played crucial roles in the evolution of humans, families, and day-to-day …

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Symposium: Radical Nemesis: Re-Envisioning Ivan Illich’S Theories On Social Institutions: Foreword, Jennifer L. Levi Jan 2012

Symposium: Radical Nemesis: Re-Envisioning Ivan Illich’S Theories On Social Institutions: Foreword, Jennifer L. Levi

Western New England Law Review

The eight articles in this Symposium issue reflect the divergent topics that Ivan Illich managed to reflect upon in his life’s works. The topics include discussion of prisons, education, family law structures, privatization of welfare services and its impact on labor consciousness, media, and the rule of law. The pieces speak for themselves and need no elaboration here.

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Land Use For Energy Conservation And Sustainable Development: A New Path Toward Climate Change Mitigation, John R. Nolon Jan 2012

Land Use For Energy Conservation And Sustainable Development: A New Path Toward Climate Change Mitigation, John R. Nolon

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Land use tools and techniques have impressive potential to reduce energy consumption, improve the economy, and mitigate climate change. This article explores the little understood influence of local land use decision-making on energy conservation and sustainable development and how it can mitigate climate change if properly assisted by the federal and state governments. The construction and use of buildings combined with extensive vehicular travel throughout the nation’s human settlements consume large amounts of energy, and much of that consumption is highly inefficient. By enforcing and enhancing energy codes, encouraging the use of combined heat and power and district energy systems, …

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Arctic Justice: Addressing Persistent Organic Pollutants, Elizabeth Burleson Jan 2012

Arctic Justice: Addressing Persistent Organic Pollutants, Elizabeth Burleson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article recommends enhanced governance of persistent organic pollutants through incentives to develop environmentally sound, climate friendly technologies as well as caution in developing the Arctic. It highlights the toxicity challenges presented by POPs to Arctic people and ecosystems.

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Reflections On Oceans And Sids, Ann Powers Jan 2012

Reflections On Oceans And Sids, Ann Powers

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

A great deal has already been written about the UN Conference on Sustainable Development and its outcome document, “The Future We Want”. Much of the commentary has been critical of both the process and the document. To understand the process and the final result, it may be useful to look at how one or two issues advanced over the course of the negotiations. Both ocean advocates and representatives of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) seemed relatively satisfied with the results of the conference, and a look at those interlinked matters is interesting.

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Reliable Science: Overcoming Public Doubts In The Climate Change Debate, Michelle S. Simon Jan 2012

Reliable Science: Overcoming Public Doubts In The Climate Change Debate, Michelle S. Simon

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article will consider the case for instituting a domestic agency that would evaluate the findings from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments to improve the credibility and legitimacy of those claims and conclusions for multiple purposes. The proposed agency would consider the robustness of an assessment's conclusions by construing the evidence through the lens of Daubert rather than Frye. Part I will outline the public debate about climate science-what the debate is about and why it exists. Part II will examine the current role of the IPCC-what it is and why it has not been successful in legitimating …

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Climate Change And Cercla Remedies: Adaptation Strategies For Contaminated Sediment Sites, Katrina Fischer Kuh Jan 2012

Climate Change And Cercla Remedies: Adaptation Strategies For Contaminated Sediment Sites, Katrina Fischer Kuh

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article considers climate change questions in the context of a particular type of contaminated site--sites with contaminated sediments subject to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Although climate change may impact a variety of waste sites in different ways, even those without sediment contamination, this article focuses on sediment sites so as to frame a more manageable inquiry susceptible to in-depth treatment. The following section, Part II, identifies the vulnerability of contaminated sediment sites to climate change. The section describes sediment contamination, regulatory approaches to remediating contaminated sediments, and how climate change may impact sediment remedies. …

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"Only Dust Remains[?]":The 9/11 Memorial Litigation And The Reach Of Quasi-Property Rights, Patrick J. Mulqueen Jan 2012

"Only Dust Remains[?]":The 9/11 Memorial Litigation And The Reach Of Quasi-Property Rights, Patrick J. Mulqueen

Brooklyn Law Review

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Religion, Schools, And Judicial Decision Making: An Empirical Perspective, Michael Heise, Gregory C. Sisk Jan 2012

Religion, Schools, And Judicial Decision Making: An Empirical Perspective, Michael Heise, Gregory C. Sisk

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Brucellosis Transmission Between Wildlife And Livestock In The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Inferences From Dna Genotyping, Michael Patrick O'Brien Jan 2012

Brucellosis Transmission Between Wildlife And Livestock In The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Inferences From Dna Genotyping, Michael Patrick O'Brien

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Brucellosis transmission between wildlife species and cattle in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem has been difficult to assess because the causative agent Brucella abortus bacteria is extremely difficult to isolate for DNA genotyping. We examined transmission of B. abortus between bison, elk, and cattle using nine variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) markers on DNA from 98 isolates of B. abortus recovered from elk, bison, and cattle. All specimens were from geographically distinct populations in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. A haplotype network consisting of 54 individual haplogroups was generated from these isolates using Network v4.61. Network assessments of genetic relatedness among Brucella isolates …

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The Effect Of Background Music On Translation Quality, Amin Karimnia, Nastaran Sadeghzadeh Lari Jan 2012

The Effect Of Background Music On Translation Quality, Amin Karimnia, Nastaran Sadeghzadeh Lari

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The current study was designed to investigate the effect of background classical music of Mozart on the students’ English-into-Persian translation quality. To achieve this purpose, at first 90 B. A. junior and senior students majoring in Translation were selected randomly from Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran. These 90 students participated in a translation pretest. The pretests were assessed and the researchers chose 58 ones whose scores in the pretest were in the same range. These 58 students were then divided into an experimental and a control group, each of which having 29 students. They were asked to participate in the …

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Women, Men And Education In Azerbaijan, Kifayat Aghayeva Jan 2012

Women, Men And Education In Azerbaijan, Kifayat Aghayeva

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

There is a very popular saying in my country, “science is for a man, a woman’s place is at home.” Many talented women have struggled for a doctoral degree and most of them could not complete it because of one reason, a “violence rule of the main gatekeepers” of academia who are inclined to preserve the ideals to authorize their positions. As my research and teaching focus is gender, I always raise gender inequality problems in my scientific works. I have some articles dealing with marginalization of women within academia or slow inclusion of women into the National Academia of …

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Modern Warfare And Its Evolving Weapons – Assumptions And Inherent Contradictions, Richard Rousseau Jan 2012

Modern Warfare And Its Evolving Weapons – Assumptions And Inherent Contradictions, Richard Rousseau

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The link between the world of 1906 and that of 2012 is diffuse and weak; it is more the product of chaos theory than a proverbial golden thread. So far in the 21st century the world has been shocked and surprised by dramatic international events. There is little convincing evidence that this tendency to be shocked and surprised will not continue into the indefinite future. In today’s world, the military focuses predominantly on land based irregular warfare, even if attacks can also come from the air and sea. However, despite the continued threat these pose, international air and sea trade …

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Consideration Of Climate Change In Federal Eiss, 2009-2011, Patrick Woolsey Jan 2012

Consideration Of Climate Change In Federal Eiss, 2009-2011, Patrick Woolsey

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

In recent years, climate change has become an increasingly prominent subject of discussion in EISs. A comparison of agency approaches to EIS scope and methodology shows widely varying treatment of climate change impacts. Agencies differ in the methods used to calculate emissions and assess their significance. In addition, the types of indirect impacts addressed and the extent to which the impacts of climate change on the project are included vary.

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This Paper Is Only Skin Deep: The Socio-Cultural And Biological Reality Of Human Variation, Paige Jamieson Jan 2012

This Paper Is Only Skin Deep: The Socio-Cultural And Biological Reality Of Human Variation, Paige Jamieson

A with Honors Projects

This project is an anthropological study of human variation and "race".

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Chemotherapy: The Physiological Cost Of A Cure, Megan Ellis Jan 2012

Chemotherapy: The Physiological Cost Of A Cure, Megan Ellis

A with Honors Projects

This project focuses on the common long term side effects of cancer treatments, apart from cure. In addition to physiological function changes, it focuses on the chemical composition of chemotherapy drugs.

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Impacts Of Soil Heavy Metal Contamination On Methane Flux And The Primary Production Of Phragmites Australis, Adam G. Piombino Jan 2012

Impacts Of Soil Heavy Metal Contamination On Methane Flux And The Primary Production Of Phragmites Australis, Adam G. Piombino

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ, a mixed landscape encompassing areas of freshwater wetlands, was the site of an abandoned train yard and contains several areas in which soil concentrations of As, Cr, Cu, Pb, V and Zn occur above ambient levels of New Jersey soil. Human population growth and expanding urbanization are both placing an increased amount of stress on wetland environments. Methane, a greenhouse gas is both produced and consumed by the respiration of microorganisms in the soil. The methane flux rate and direction might be impacted by soil metal contamination. This variation could have broad implications …

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The Effects Of Cancer, Mara Lapayne Jan 2012

The Effects Of Cancer, Mara Lapayne

A with Honors Projects

I chose to do a project related to cancer for my Painting 1 class. Using oil paint, I wanted to create a more symbolic representation of cancer. So I made a cloud-like, cancerous mass with streaks of chaotic color swirling around a central face. The face represents any person affected by cancer and has had to “shut down” their emotions in order to function. I wanted the skin texture to be almost metallic as if it is metal armor or robotic-like, to support the idea of “shutting down” one’s emotions. The blank expression also portrays this idea.

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Global Workspace Theory, Its Lida Model And The Underlying Neuroscience, S. Franklin, S. Strain, J. Snaider, R. Mccall, U. Faghihi Jan 2012

Global Workspace Theory, Its Lida Model And The Underlying Neuroscience, S. Franklin, S. Strain, J. Snaider, R. Mccall, U. Faghihi

CCRG Papers

No abstract provided.

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Cannabinoids Facilitate The Swallowing Reflex Elicited By The Superior Laryngeal Nerve Stimulation In Rats, H.M. Zakir Jan 2012

Cannabinoids Facilitate The Swallowing Reflex Elicited By The Superior Laryngeal Nerve Stimulation In Rats, H.M. Zakir

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Cannabinoids have been reported to be involved in affecting various biological functions through binding with cannabinoid receptors type 1 (CB1) and 2 (CB2). The present study was designed to investigate whether swallowing, an essential component of feeding behavior, is modulated after the administration of cannabinoid. The swallowing reflex evoked by the repetitive electrical stimulation of the superior laryngeal nerve in rats was recorded before and after the administration of the cannabinoid receptor agonist, WIN 55-212-2 (WIN), with or without CB1 or CB2 antagonist. The onset latency of the first swallow and the time intervals between swallows were analyzed. The onset …

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