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Undergraduate Curriculum And Academic Policy Minutes, August 29, 2012 And 2012-2013 Committee Member List

Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee Minutes

Committee member list from 2012-2013 and minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee meeting on August 29, 2012.

Pertumbuhan Semai Cendana (Santalum Album Linn.) Pada Beberapa Ukuran Kantung Plastik Di Daerah Semiarid, I Komang Surata

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Mortality of sandalwood plantings in the semiarid region is high (less than 50 %), due to poor quality. One of seedling of the alternatives to reduce this mortality is using optimal container size. The method is hoped to increase the growth and survival rate of sandalwood seedlings in the field. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of various sizes of seedling container on growth and to recommend the best polybag size for sandalwood nursery. The study was conducted in Complete Randomized Design method using container size of polybag (wide x length as main treatment) i.e.: 7 …

Vegetasi Kunci Habitat Anoa Di Cagar Alam Pangi Binangga, Sulawesi Tengah, Wardah, E. Labiro, Sudirman Dg Massiri, Sustri, Mursidin

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Anoa is a wildlife species highly sensitive and selective to the habitat preferences. The study aims to identify the anoa habitat condition in the Nature Reserve of Pangi Binangga, environmental factors which determine the habitat of anoa, including other types of key vegetation of anoa habitats. The research method used is purposive sampling. Sample is determined by observation the track. Habitat of anoa is found such as footprints, skeleton and faeces that located on the highland, flat-sloping, near to the river, mild temperature on moist and acid soils. The density of trees, poles, sapling, seedlings and herbs respectively 302, 430, …

Current Status Of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Of High Grade Gliomas And Recurrent Head And Neck Cancer, Rolf F. Barth, M. Graca H. Vicente, Otto K. Harling, W. S. Kiger, Kent J. Riley, Peter J. Binns, Franz M. Wagner, Minoru Suzuki, Teruhito Aihara, Itsuro Kato, Shinji Kawabata

Faculty Publications

Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a biochemically targeted radiotherapy based on the nuclear capture and fission reactions that occur when non-radioactive boron-10, which is a constituent of natural elemental boron, is irradiated with low energy thermal neutrons to yield high linear energy transfer alpha particles and recoiling lithium-7 nuclei. Clinical interest in BNCT has focused primarily on the treatment of high grade gliomas, recurrent cancers of the head and neck region and either primary or metastatic melanoma. Neutron sources for BNCT currently have been limited to specially modified nuclear reactors, which are or until the recent Japanese natural disaster, …

August 29, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Martharaptor Greenriverensis, A New Theropod Dinosaur From The Lower Cretaceous Of Utah, Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, Donald D. Deblieux

College of Health, Science, and Technology

Background: The Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Early Cretaceous, Barremian?) of Utah has yielded a rich dinosaur fauna, including the basal therizinosauroid theropod Falcarius utahensis at its base. Recent excavation uncovered a new possible therizinosauroid taxon from a higher stratigraphic level in the Cedar Mountain Formation than F. utahensis. Methodology/Principal Findings: Here we describe a fragmentary skeleton of the new theropod and perform a phylogenetic analysis to determine its phylogenetic position. The skeleton includes fragments of vertebrae, a scapula, forelimb and hindlimb bones, and an ischium. It also includes several well-preserved manual unguals. Manual and pedal morphology …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Behind The Scenes: Secrets of Monticello
• Database trial and evaluation: BioOne

Faculty And Student Perceptions Of Post-Exam Attendance, Trent W. Maurer, Laura Frost, Diana Sturges, Simone Charles, Debbie Allen, Michelle Cawthorn, Cherry C. Brewton

Human Ecology: Faculty Publications

This project investigated differences between faculty and student perceptions of student attendance in courses for the class period after an exam, including factors thought to influence student attendance. Participants from a single university completed a mixed-methods on-line questionnaire. Quantitative analyses revealed significant differences between faculty and student perceptions on all but one project variable. Qualitative analyses reinforced those findings and suggested that faculty misunderstand what factors actually influence student attendance. Taken together, the results suggest a substantial disconnect between faculty and student perceptions of the importance of class attendance and highlight areas for faculty to influence student attendance.

The Bg News August 29, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 29, 2012. Volume 103-Issue 6.

Prioritizing Key Resilience Indicators To Support Coral Reef Management In A Changing Climate, Tim R. Mcclanahan, Simon D. Donner, Jeffrey Allen Maynard, M. Aaron Macneil, Nicholas Anthony James Graham, Joseph M. Maina, Andrew C. Baker, Jahson Berhane Alemu I, Maria Beger, Robert Van Woesik

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Managing coral reefs for resilience to climate change is a popular concept but has been difficult to implement because the empirical scientific evidence has either not been evaluated or is sometimes unsupportive of theory, which leads to uncertainty when considering methods and identifying priority reefs. We asked experts and reviewed the scientific literature for guidance on the multiple physical and biological factors that affect the ability of coral reefs to resist and recover from climate disturbance. Eleven key factors to inform decisions based on scaling scientific evidence and the achievability of quantifying the factors were identified. Factors important to resistance …

Biodegradation Of Textile Dye Anthraquinone Vat Blue 4 By Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Rajee Olaganathan, Jamila Patterson

Publications

Uncontaminated and Vat blue 4 contaminated soil were screened for heterotrophic bacterial population and the bacterial density were found to be 19.3 X 104 and 5.5 X 104 CFU/gm respectively. The bacterial genera of dye contaminated soil was dominated by Pseudomonas sp. (32.5 %) followed by Bacillus sp. (27.5 %), Aeromonas sp. (15.0 %), Micrococcus sp. (12.5 %) and Achromobacter sp. (12.5 %). The optimum inoculums load, pH and temperature were found to be 5%, 7 and 35oC respectively. The initial pH of the effluent prepared using Vat Blue 4 was 8.5. The free cells of P. aeruginosa reduced the …

Targets Of Heterochromatin Assembly In Drosophila Melanogaster, Monica F. Sentmanat

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Heterochromatin is classically defined as densely staining regions of the genome; these domains are typically late replicating and show little recombination. Correct assembly of heterochromatin is critical for chromosome stability. Assembly begins with histone deacetylation and H3 lysine 9 di- and trimethylation: H3K9me2/3); the methylated H3 is typically bound by Heterochromatin Protein 1a: HP1a). Heterochromatin predominates at pericentric and telomeric domains --regions abundant in transposable elements: TEs) and satellite repeats. Transcription of these TEs has been found to generate a platform for assembly of heterochromatin through RNAi in S. pombe and A. thaliana, and may play a critical role in …

Silencing Through Heterochromatin Formation: The Role Of Piwi In Transposon Targeting, Hsiming Wang

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Heterochromatin packages a large portion of the genome in eukaryotes, and plays important roles in mitosis, telomere homeostasis, and transposon: TE) control, all necessary to ensure genome stability. A precisely controlled mechanism to designate which regions of the genome should be so packaged is critical to the fitness of an organism. Mis-localized heterochromatin can lead to mis-regulation of nearby and even distant genes, with pleotropic consequences. How cells: and hence organisms) precisely control the location and extent of heterochromatin formation is an intriguing question. Models involving small RNAs, epigenetic inheritance of histone modifications, DNA binding proteins targeting specific motifs, and …

Explaining Korematsu: A Response To Dean Chemerinsky , Robert J. Pushaw Jr.

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Putting Buck V. Bell In Scientific And Historical Context: A Response To Victoria Nourse , Edward J. Larson

Pepperdine Law Review

In this article written for a law-review symposium in response to a presentation on the infamous 1927 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Buck v. Bell, Edward J. Larson argues that, at the time that the case was decided, eugenics was on the incline, not the decline. In the 1920s, the American scientific and medical community broadly backed eugenic remedies for various forms of mental illness and retardation. Legislatures, lawyers, and jurists took their cue from this scientific and medical consensus. Absent any question that the statute at issue in Buck v. Bell was validly passed by the Virginia legislature or …

A Reluctant Apology For Plessy: A Response To Akhil Amar, Barry P. Mcdonald

Pepperdine Law Review

A response to the article "Plessy v. Ferguson and the Anti-Canon," by Akhil Amar, published in the November 2011 issue of the "Pepperdine Law Review," is presented. Topics include an examination of Justice Henry Billings Brown's decision in the case, the constitutionality of segregating U.S. citizens by race, and the impact of public opinion on U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Innovating A New Future For Learning: Finding Our Path, Valerie Hannon

2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences

This keynote paper makes the case that the pursuit of ‘school improvement’ is insufficient to address the challenges facing us if the world is to make available equitable, effective learning systems for all its citizens. A set of drivers of change are explored. It is argued that a ‘split screen’ approach is needed by system leaders and policy makers in which, while school improvement must continue to be pursued, simultaneously a ‘learning ecosystem’ should be created. Such a mutually supportive system would engage a much wider range of partners and players, and would locate learning in a new variety of …

Factors Related To Successful Course Completion In An Online Program For Returning High School Dropouts, Barbara Rothweiler

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

Dropping out of high school has been declared an educational crisis in the United States with national and individual consequences. In New Mexico, adult dropouts only option for a high school credential has been a GED. In August 2010, Graduate New Mexico (GNM), an online asynchronous program, was implemented to help adult dropouts earn a high school diploma. The program was closed in March 2011. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors related to successful course completion of the GNM program that helped returning dropout students complete online course work. Using a qualitative design and interviews as …

Flow, Nutrients, And Light Availability Influence Neotropical Epilithon Biomass And Stoichiometry, Tyler J. Kohler, Thomas N. Heatherly Ii, Rana W. El-Sabaawi, Eugenia Zandona, Michael C. Marshall, Alexander S. Flecker, Catherine M. Pringle, David N. Reznick, Steven A. Thomas

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Light, nutrient availability, and flow are strong factors controlling the elemental composition and biomass of epilithon in temperate stream ecosystems. However, comparatively little is known about these relationships in tropical streams. We investigated how gradients of light and nutrient availability, seasonality, and habitat influenced epilithon biomass, chlorophyll a, and nutrient ratios in montane streams of Trinidad, West Indies. We sampled 4 focal tributaries of a single river, 2 of which had canopies experimentally thinned, every other month over a 2-y period to observe temporal dynamics and light effects on epilithon. We also sampled 18 sites across Trinidad’s Northern Range Mountains …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 037, Number 01, August 28, 2012, Grand Valley State University

2012-2013, Volume 37

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

The Utah Statesman, August 28, 2012, Utah State Univesity

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Genomic Characteristics Of An Environmental Microbial Community Harboring A Novel Human Uncultured Tm7 Bacterium Associated With Oral Diseases, Michael Abrams, David Barton, Eamon Vandaei, Diana Romero, Adam Caldwell, Cleber C. Ouverney

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

The diversity of prokaryotes associated with humans has been dominated by uncultured species (not isolated in pure culture). For instance, nearly 80% of the human gut and 68% of the human oral microbes are thought to be uncultured; some of which have been associated with human oral, digestive, vaginal, and cardiovascular diseases. The revalence of uncultured pathogens is expected to continue to increase within the near future. In fact, public databases such as GenBank have nearly quadrupled the number of candidate phyla (those made entirely of uncultured organisms) since the 1980s and currently lists many new lineages of unclassified Bacteria …

Integrated Next-Generation Sequencing Of 16s Rdna And Metaproteomics Differentiate The Healthy Urine Microbiome From Asymptomatic Bacteriuria In Neuropathic Bladder Associated With Spinal Cord Injury, Derrick E. Foutts, Rembert Pieper, Sebastian Szpakowski, Hans G. Pohl, Susan M. Knoblach, Moo-Jin Suh, Shih-Ting Huang, Inger Ljungberg, Bruce M. Sprague, Sarah K. Lucas, Manolito Torralba, Karen E. Nelson, Suzanne L. Groah

Urology Faculty Publications

Background

Clinical dogma is that healthy urine is sterile and the presence of bacteria with an inflammatory response is indicative of urinary tract infection (UTI). Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) represents the state in which bacteria are present but the inflammatory response is negligible. Differentiating ABU from UTI is diagnostically challenging, but critical because overtreatment of ABU can perpetuate antimicrobial resistance while undertreatment of UTI can result in increased morbidity and mortality. In this study, we describe key characteristics of the healthy and ABU urine microbiomes utilizing 16S rRNA gene (16S rDNA) sequencing and metaproteomics, with the future goal of utilizing this …

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, August 28, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

No abstract provided.

Population And Coherence Dynamics In Light Harvesting Complex Ii (Lh2), Shu-Hao Yeh, Jing Zhu, Sabre Kais

Birck and NCN Publications

The electronic excitation population and coherence dynamics in the chromophores of the photosynthetic light harvesting complex 2 (LH2) B850 ring from purple bacteria (Rhodopseudomonas acidophila) have been studied theoretically at both physiological and cryogenic temperatures. Similar to the well-studied Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein, oscillations of the excitation population and coherence in the site basis are observed in LH2 by using a scaled hierarchical equation of motion approach. However, this oscillation time (300 fs) is much shorter compared to the FMO protein (650 fs) at cryogenic temperature. Both environment and high temperature are found to enhance the propagation speed of the exciton …

Transcriptional Repression Of Sodium-Iodide Symporter In Thyroid Carcinoma, Kenneth B. Ain, Wei Li

Internal Medicine Faculty Patents

The present disclosure relates to a sodium iodide symporter (NIS)-repressor binding site (NRBS) consisting of a DNA molecule spanning from −645 to −605 nucleotides (SEQ ID NO:4) or from −648 to −620 nucleotides (SEQ ID NO:5) upstream from the translation start site of human NIS gene. The disclosure further relates to a method of restoring iodide transport to a human thyroid carcinoma cell, including: the steps of: i) contacting the cell expressing and forming a NIS repressor protein complex capable of binding to the NRBS of the disclosure with a modulator of said complex, and ii) administering to the cell …

Uab Studies Find Deep-Brain Stimulation Changes Rhythms To Treat Parkinson's Disease And Tremor, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Relationships Between Food Reinforcement And Eating Behaviors To Bariatric Surgery Weight Loss And Substance Abuse Outcomes, Summar Reslan

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Bariatric surgery is rapidly gaining acceptance among the morbidly obese population, yet studies assessing variables associated with post-surgical outcomes have yielded inconsistent findings. The purpose of this investigation was to assess the association between the relative reinforcing value of food (RRV-F), delay discounting for food (DD-F), and other eating-related and non eating-related variables to post-bariatric surgery percent total weight loss (%TWL) and substance-related outcomes. Participants were a convenience sample of 147 adults with a history of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. Using online survey methodology, variables that may contribute to post-surgical %TWL and substance use outcomes were assessed: the RRV-F, DDF, …

Viscous Flow Past Plates, Xu Ling

Mathematics & Statistics ETDs

I devise a numerical method of high order in space (FDMHS) to simulate flow past a finite plate and a semi-infinite plate. The method solves the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation in the stream function-vorticity formulation. The focus is to study a fundamental problem in fluid dynamics, namely, flow past sharp edges. Resolving this flow structure is difficult, in particular at early times. The difficulty is due to the fact that large velocity gradients and vorticity are present in a very thin boundary layer attached to the plate initially. FDMHS is a splitting method, implicit in time and uses compact fourth order …

The First Record Of A Trans-Oceanic Sister-Group Relationship Between Obligate Vertebrate Troglobites, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Matthew P. Davis, John S. Sparks

Faculty Publications

We show using the most complete phylogeny of one of the most species-rich orders of vertebrates (Gobiiformes), and calibrations from the rich fossil record of teleost fishes, that the genus Typhleotris, endemic to subterranean karst habitats in southwestern Madagascar, is the sister group to Milyeringa, endemic to similar subterranean systems in northwestern Australia. Both groups are eyeless, and our phylogenetic and biogeographic results show that these obligate cave fishes now found on opposite ends of the Indian Ocean (separated by nearly 7,000 km) are each others closest relatives and owe their origins to the break up of the southern supercontinent, …