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Hydrologic Evaluation Of Established Rain Gardens In Lincoln, Nebraska, Andrew R. Anderson, Thomas G. Franti, David P. Shelton

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Increased urbanization has resulted in water quality and flooding problems for many receiving waters in the United States. Rain gardens are one type of best management practice commonly used in low impact development (LID). Many studies have evaluated large engineered bioretention cells in research settings. There is little information on the effectiveness of homeowner-maintained rain gardens that rely on deep percolation as the method for water exfiltration. Repeatable controlled experiments are very rare in hydrologic studies due to the inherent variability of weather data. The objective of this study was to evaluate the hydrologic properties of twelve established rain gardens …

A Molecular Rheostat Coupling Cell Size To Nutrient Availability In Bacteria, Anchun Chien

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Cell size control is of universal importance to all organisms. Regulation of cell size ensures that cells are of the appropriate size for a given growth condition or developmental fate. Nutrient availability is a primary determinant of cell size in bacteria. Bacterial cells, including the Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis and the Gram-negative Escherichia coli increase size in a nutrient-dependent manner. Cells cultured in nutrient-rich medium can be up to twice the size of their counterparts cultured in nutrient-poor medium, suggesting that bacteria have ways of sensing nutrient availability and transmitting this information to the division machinery.

This dissertation first examines the …

Moderating Mayo, Bernard Chao

NULR Online

No abstract provided.

2012 Summer Commencement, Harding University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Harding University Commencement on July 28.

Commencement Speaker: Randy Owens

A Multi-Gene Phylogeny Of Cephalopoda Supports Convergent Morphological Evolution In Association With Multiple Habitat Shifts In The Marine Environment, Annie R. Lindgren, Molly S. Pankey, Frederick G. Hochberg, Todd H. Oakley

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The marine environment is comprised of numerous divergent organisms living under similar selective pressures, often resulting in the evolution of convergent structures such as the fusiform body shape of pelagic squids, fishes, and some marine mammals. However, little is known about the frequency of, and circumstances leading to, convergent evolution in the open ocean. Here, we present a comparative study of the molluscan class Cephalopoda, a marine group known to occupy habitats from the intertidal to the deep sea. Several lineages bear features that may coincide with a benthic or pelagic existence, making this a valuable group for testing hypotheses …

Serum Anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide (Anti_Ccp) Antibody Level In Rheumatoid Arthritic Patients With And Without Nodal Osteoarthritis, Ahmed A. Gassid

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is chronic systemic inflammatory disease affects synovial joints , articular structures and extra articular , the prevalence rate occurs aprox in about 1% of population Anti citrullinated peptide/protein antibody (Anti-CCP) antibody are autoantibodies(antibodies directed against one or more of the individuals own proteins) frequently detected in RA patients during inflammation. citrulline is incorporated enzymatically into proteins . The current study is a trail to ensure that Anti-CCP marker is more specific and sensitive for diagnosis of RA patients and to detect the effect of the presence of other disease like NOA on Anti-CCP value OBJECTIVE: …

Ki-67(Mib-1) And Progesterone Receptor In Meningioma An Immunohistochemical Study, Wahda Mohammed Taib Al- Nuaimy

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In meningioma the tumor grade, subtype, and extent of surgical resection are strong prognostic factors, the growth of this tumor is still unpredictable, and additional prognostic markers are needed. Many studies have shown that the detection of the proliferative potential of meningioma by Ki-67 (MIB-1) and the detection of the progesterone receptor might predict the natural history of tumor and patient survival. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the proliferative fraction Ki-67 (MIB-1) and progesterone receptor in meningioma, To correlate the expression of these two markers with various clinico- pathological parameters, To compare these results with other studies . PATIENTS AND …

Inhibitory Effect Of Lactobacilli Filtrate On Klebsiella Pneumoniae Biofilm, Harith J.F. Al-Mathkhury

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The formation of biofilms by K. pneumoniae is thought to protect the bacteria from antibiotics since these entities are highly resistant to such antimicrobial agents. OBJECTIVE: Investigating the role of Lactobacillus spp. supernatant in eliminating K. pneumoniae biofilms. METHODS: Three hundred and twelve specimens of urine, wounds and sputum were collected from patients attending five hospitals in Baghdad. All specimens were identified using biochemical tests and Api 20 E system. The ability of K. pneumoniae isolates to produce biofilm were evaluated using crystal violet staining technique in pre-sterilized 96-well polystyrene microtiter plates. The effect of MIC of Amikacin …

Inhibitory Effect Of Lactobacilli Filtrate On Klebsiella Pneumoniae Biofilm, Harith J.F. Al-Mathkhury

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The formation of biofilms by K. pneumoniae is thought to protect the bacteria from antibiotics since these entities are highly resistant to such antimicrobial agents. OBJECTIVE: Investigating the role of Lactobacillus spp. supernatant in eliminating K. pneumoniae biofilms. METHODS: Three hundred and twelve specimens of urine, wounds and sputum were collected from patients attending five hospitals in Baghdad. All specimens were identified using biochemical tests and Api 20 E system. The ability of K. pneumoniae isolates to produce biofilm were evaluated using crystal violet staining technique in pre-sterilized 96-well polystyrene microtiter plates. The effect of MIC of Amikacin …

Obesity And Asthma Severity Among Adults Presenting To The Out Patient Clinic, Hashim M. Al-Kadhimi

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Recent studies have suggested a relationship between asthma and obesity. The risk for developing asthma increases with increasing obesity among individuals. Yet little is known about how obesity influences asthma. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a relation of Obesity to asthma exists among adults presenting to the out patient respiratory clinic , and the correlation between Obesity and spirometric changes in patients with asthma. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was done for one hundred patients aged 17 to 70 years patients with asthma diagnosed by clinical and pulmonary function test , in the respiratory outpatient's clinic in AL Kadhmia Teaching …

Association Between Testicular Microlithiasis And Infertility, Waleed Nassar Jaffal

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Testicular microlithiasis (TM) is an uncommon condition, usually brought to attention when some other condition is being investigated. There have been reports suggesting a link between testicular microlithiasis and testicular dysfunction and tumors. OBJECTIVE: To study the association between testicular microlithiasis and male infertility. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From January 2010 to January 2011, 140 patients with different scrotal lesions presented to urologic consultation department at Al-Ramadi teaching hospital were included in this prospective study, all patients were examined by gray scale and doppler ultrasonograghy, their age ranges from 15 to 55 years. All cases of microlithiasis were recorded …

Histopathological Effect Of Lactobacilli On Murine Spleen, Abed Hassan Baraaj

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Lactobacilli are ubiquitous in the environment and in human body. They widely used as probiotic therapeutic agents. However, several authors reported that this bacteria may cause several serious infections in various parts of human body. OBJECTIVE: This work is aimed to illustrate the histopathological effect of lactobacilli in murine spleen which play a major role in the immune system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Three Lactobacillus isolates (namely, L. bulgaricus, L. plantarum and L. acidophilus) were isolated form yogurt, vinegar and vagina, respectively. These isolates were injected intraperitoneally in mice in a dose 1.5 X 108 CFU/ml. RESULTS: Several histopathological …

Fibroepithelial Tumors Of Female Breast: A Review Of 250 Cases Of Fibroadenomas And Phylloides Tumors., Sazan A. Al-Atrooshi

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Fibroepithelial tumors of the breast including fibroadenomas and phylloides tumors arise from epithelial and stromal components of the terminal duct-lobular unit. Fibroadenoma is the commonest benign neoplasm of the female breast. These tumors are found as early as puberty. Mammary phylloides tumors are uncommon stromal-epithelial neoplasms and are divided into benign, borderline malignant and frankly malignant groups on the basis of their histological features. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of morphologic diagnosis in a series of fibroepithelial (biphasic) tumors of the breast including fibroadenoma and phylloides tumor, highlighting the morphological and Histopathological …

Association Of Environmental Traits With The Geographic Ranges Of Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) Of Medical And Veterinary Importance In The Western Palearctic. A Digital Data Set, A. Estrada-Peña, Robert Farkas, Thomas G.T. Jaenson, Frank Koenen, Maxime Madder, Ilaria Pascucci, Mo Salman, Jordi Tarrés-Call, Frans Jongejan

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

We compiled information on the distribution of ticks in the western Palearctic (11^oW, 45^oE; 29^oN, 71^oN), published during 1970–2010. The literature search was filtered by the tick’s species name and an unambiguous reference to the point of capture. Records from some curated collections were included. We focused on tick species of importance to human and animal health, in particular: Ixodes ricinus, Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Haemaphysalis punctata, H. sulcata, Hyalomma marginatum, Hy. lusitanicum, Rhipicephalus annulatus, R. bursa, and the R. sanguineus group. A few records of other species (I. canisuga, I. …

Gene Ontology Analysis Of Pairwise Genetic Associations In Two Genome-Wide Studies Of Sporadic Als, Nora Chung Kim, Peter C. Andrews, Folkert W. Asselbergs, H Robert Frost, Scott M. Williams, Brent T. Harris, Cynthia Read, Kathleen D. Askland, Jason H. Moore

Dartmouth Scholarship

It is increasingly clear that common human diseases have a complex genetic architecture characterized by both additive and nonadditive genetic effects. The goal of the present study was to determine whether patterns of both additive and nonadditive genetic associations aggregate in specific functional groups as defined by the Gene Ontology (GO).

An End To The Violence: Justifying Gender As A "Particular Social Group", Suzanne Sidun

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

Chinese Students Visit Lawrence University As Part Of Midwest “Rivers As Bridges” Tour, Lawrence University

Press Releases

Lawrence University welcomes more than 20 top Chinese high school students and their advisors Saturday, August 4 as part of an 18-day educational tour of Midwest colleges.

The visit is part of the “Rivers as Bridges” program, which seeks to establish relationships between the people of the Mississippi and Yangtze basins using culture, conservation and commerce as frames of reference. During the nearly three-week-long program, the students are learning scientific procedures in field research, wet labs and hands-on experiments involving air, water, biology, soil, fisheries, wildlife and wetlands.

In conjunction with their visit, the students will conduct a poster session …

Robust Analysis Of Metabolic Pathways, Emily Gruber, Amy Ko, Michael Macgillvray, Miranda Sawyer

Mathematical Sciences Technical Reports (MSTR)

Flux Balance Analysis (FBA) is a widely used computational model for studying the metabolic pathways of cells and the role individual metabolites and reactions play in maintaining cell function. However, the successes of FBA have been limited by faulty biological assumptions and computational imperfections. We introduce Robust Analysis of Metabolic Pathways (RAMP) to provide a more theoretically sound and computationally accurate model of cellular metabolism. RAMP overcomes the faulty assumptions of traditional FBA by allowing deviation from steady-state and accounting for variability across a cellular culture. Computationally, RAMP more successfully predicts the lethality of gene knockouts and reduces degeneracy in …

A Multicriteria Decision Making Approach For Estimating The Number Of Clusters In A Data Set, Yi Peng, Yong Zhang, Gang Kou, Yong Shi

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications

Determining the number of clusters in a data set is an essential yet difficult step in cluster analysis. Since this task involves more than one criterion, it can be modeled as a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. This paper proposes a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM)-based approach to estimate the number of clusters for a given data set. In this approach, MCDM methods consider different numbers of clusters as alternatives and the outputs of any clustering algorithm on validity measures as criteria. The proposed method is examined by an experimental study using three MCDM methods, the well-known clustering algorithm–k-means, …

Discovery Of Novel Dsrna Viral Sequences By In Silico Cloning And Implications For Viral Diversity, Host Range And Evolution, Huiquan Liu, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Said A. Ghabrial, Guoqing Li, Xianhong Yi, Daohong Jiang

Plant Pathology Faculty Publications

Genome sequence of viruses can contribute greatly to the study of viral evolution, diversity and the interaction between viruses and hosts. Traditional molecular cloning methods for obtaining RNA viral genomes are time-consuming and often difficult because many viruses occur in extremely low titers. DsRNA viruses in the families, Partitiviridae, Totiviridae, Endornaviridae, Chrysoviridae, and other related unclassified dsRNA viruses are generally associated with symptomless or persistent infections of their hosts. These characteristics indicate that samples or materials derived from eukaryotic organisms used to construct cDNA libraries and EST sequencing might carry these viruses, which were not easily detected by the researchers. …

Murray Ledger And Times, July 27, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Tracking The Emergence Of A New Breed Using 49,034 Snp In Sheep, James W. Kijas, James E. Miller, Tracy Hadfield, Russell Mcculloch, Elsa Garcia-Gamez, Laercio R. Neto, Noelle Cockett

Faculty Publications

Domestic animals are unique in that they have been organised into managed populations called breeds. The strength of genetic divergence between breeds may vary dependent on the age of the breed, the scenario under which it emerged and the strength of reproductive isolation it has from other breeds. In this study, we investigated the Gulf Coast Native breed of sheep to determine if it contains lines of animals that are sufficiently divergent to be considered separate breeds. Allele sharing and principal component analysis (PCA) using nearly 50,000 SNP loci revealed a clear genetic division that corresponded with membership of either …

Fission Yeast Dma1 Requires Ring Domain Dimerization For Its Ubiquitin Ligase Activity And Mitotic Checkpoint Function, Alyssa E. Johnson, Scott E. Collier, Melanie D. Ohi, Kathleen L. Gould

Faculty Publications

In fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), the E3 ubiquitin ligase Dma1 delays cytokinesis if chromosomes are not properly attached to the mitotic spindle.Dma1contains a C-terminal RING domain, and we have found that the Dma1 RING domain forms a stable homodimer. Although the RING domain is required for dimerization, residues in the C-terminal tail are also required to help form or stabilize the dimeric structure because mutation of specific residues in this region disrupts Dma1 dimerization. Further analyses showed that Dma1 dimerization is required for proper localization at spindle pole bodies and the cell division site, E3 ligase activity, and mitotic checkpoint …

Today - July 27, 2012, Loma Linda University

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- Campus mourns the passing of a legend: G. Gordon Hadley, MD, 1921-2012
-- U.S. News ranks Loma Linda University Medical Center No. 1 in the Inland Empire
-- LLUMC overseas heart surgery team reaches out to Egypt
-- LLU among top schools in the nation for producing family doctors
-- New research shows that humor enhances short-term memory in elderly
-- Loma Linda to engage next generation of public health professionals August 16
-- Research details effects of pain in premature babies
-- Loma Linda students form chapter of new honor society on campus
-- Six …

Data Mining Of Protein Databases, Christopher Assi

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Data mining of protein databases poses special challenges because many protein databases are non-relational whereas most data mining and machine learning algorithms assume the input data to be a relational database. Protein databases are non-relational mainly because they often contain set data types. We developed new data mining algorithms that can restructure non-relational protein databases so that they become relational and amenable for various data mining and machine learning tools. We applied the new restructuring algorithms to a pancreatic protein database. After the restructuring, we also applied two classification methods, such as decision tree and SVM classifiers and compared their …

Graduate Commencement, Philadelphia (2012), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Commencements

Philadelphia Campus Graduate Program Commencement program, Class of 2012. Degrees include Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology, Doctor of Psychology in School Psychology, Educational Specialist in School Psychology, Master of Science in School Psychology, Master of Science in Counseling and Clinical Health Psychology, Master of Science in Organizational Development and Leadership, Master of Science in Forensic Medicine, Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences, and Master of Science in Health Sciences – Physician Assistant Studies.

Modeling Field-Scale Vulnerability To Pesticide Runoff, Atefeh Hosseini

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Identifying areas vulnerable to off-site agrichemical movement and surface and ground water contamination through conventional data collection is labor-intensive, costly and time-consuming. To promote efficient pesticide use and protect water resources, a process-based index model was previously developed to estimate landscape vulnerability to pesticide runoff and leaching at a watershed or regional scale using Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) data. Because mitigation of contamination requires implementation of best management practices, the model was adapted to the field scale. The field-scale model was developed based on a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with 5 ´ 5 m resolution for a research site in …

Bait Effects In Sampling Coral Reef Fish Assemblages With Stereo-Bruvs, Stacey R. Dorman, Euan S. Harvey, Stephen J. Newman

Fisheries Research Articles

Baited underwater video techniques are increasingly being utilised for assessing and monitoring demersal fishes because they are: 1) non extractive, 2) can be used to sample across multiple habitats and depths, 3) are cost effective, 4) sample a broader range of species than many other techniques, 5) and with greater statistical power. However, an examination of the literature demonstrates that a range of different bait types are being used. The use of different types of bait can create an additional source of variability in sampling programs. Coral reef fish assemblages at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, were sampled using …

Characterizing The Interaction Between Ve-Ptp, Tie2 And Ve-Cadherin, Sharif Ossai Muhammad

Theses and Dissertations

Many signaling pathways have been shown to be involved in the formation of the vascular system. Among them are the endothelial specific receptor families such as VEGF, Ang/Tie, as well as other signaling pathways such as semaphorins, which are also involved, in axonal guidance. It is known that the interaction between receptor tyrosine kinase, Tie2, VE-Cadherin, and VE-PTP mediate endothelial cell quiescence and adhesion. However, the structural basis of these interactions is not well understood. The aim of our study is to characterize the binding interactions between these players. Another important part of our study is describing the cross-talk between …

07-26-2012 Swosu Announces Summer Graduates, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

A total of 163 students at Southwestern Oklahoma State University complete requirements for either associate, bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees this summer on the Weatherford and Sayre campuses.