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Study The Effect Of Polyphenols Extracted From Iraqi Grape Seeds On Glucose , Mda Levels And Gst Activity In Streptozotocin (Stz ) Induced Diabetic Mice., Ammar Maola Hmod, Rasha Zuhair Jasim, Samira Muayed Yaseen

Baghdad Science Journal

1-Objective:-Polyphenols are biochemical compounds with antioxidant activity against differences diseases related to Lipid peroxidation such as diabetes mellitus. Polyphenols distributed widely in medical plants, the aim of the study is to extract and analyze some polyphenolic compounds from grape seeds and examine their effects on (STZ) induced diabetic mice. 2-Methods:-In the present study , a group of polyphenols has been extracted from Iraqi grape seeds by ethanol and the extract has been analyzed by usingHigh Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) coupled to ultra violet (UV) detection. Five fractions were eluted from the column : procyanidin B1, gallic acid , quercetin , …

Histological Study Of Culex Pipiens Pipiens Larvae And Adults Infected With Beauveria Bassiana, Hala Haitham Mohamed Ali, Hussam Alddin Abdallaa

Baghdad Science Journal

This study aimed to show the histological changes that 0ccured in Culex pipiens pipiens larvae and adults infected with Beauveria bassiana . The 4th instar larvae and adult mosquitoes were infected with B.bassiana in 10-4 spore/ml dilution, after 96 hours histological section was studied showing that the fungi infected all the body parts specially Cuticle , Epiderms, fat bodies and midgut. After 120 hours of exposure to the fungi the insect have a white appearance and covered with a thick coat of hyphea. Thus study shows biological control of B .bassiana on mosquitoes.

Evaluating The Inhibitory Activity Of Apigenin Extracted From Salvia Officinalis Leaves On The Growth Of L20b Cancer Cell Line, Entessar H.A. Al-Mosawe, Essam F. Al-Jumaily, Ali H. Ad'hiah

Baghdad Science Journal

The study aimed to evaluating the inhibitory activity of apigenin extracted from Salvia officinalis leaves on the growth of L20B cancer cell in vitro, and through two incubation periods; 48 and 72 hours. Accordingly, eight concentrations (1.56, 3.13, 6.25, 12.5, 25.0, 50.0, 100.0 and 200.0 micromol) of apigenin and similar concentrations of vitamin C and carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) were tested. The apigenin revealed its significant inhibitory potentials against the growth of L20B cell line, especially at the low concentrations (1.56, 3.13 and 6.25 micromol) and at 72 incubation period in comparison with vitamin C and CCl4.

Survey Study On Cholera Disease In South Baghdad, Mohammed J. L. Al-Obaidi

Baghdad Science Journal

The study includes collection of data about cholera disease from six health centers from nine locations with 2500km2 and a population of 750000individual. The average of infection for six centers during the 2000-2003 was recorded. There were 3007 cases of diarrhea diagnosed as cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae. The percentage of male infection was 14. 7% while for female were 13. 2%. The percentage of infection for children (less than one year) was 6.1%, it while for the age (1-5 years) was 6.9%and for the ages more than 5 years was 14.5%.The total percentage of the patients stayed in hospital …

Evaluation Of The Functional Response Of Chrysoperla Carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera:Chrysopidae) Larvae Feeding On Cabbage Aphid, Brevicoryne Brassicae (L.)(Homoptera: Aphididae) In Laboratory, Hind S. Abdul Hay, Mohammed A. Al-Rawy

Baghdad Science Journal

This study evaluated the functional response of the larva of the predator Chrysoperla carnea by offering varying densities of cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.) . Results showed conformity with type–II functional response, where the number of prey killed approaches asymptote hyperbolically as prey density increases (declining proportion of prey killed or the inverse density dependent) till it reached the stability stage determined by handling time and predator satiation. Also, the values of attack rate and handling time changed with age progress for both predator and prey. It has been observed an increase in the attack rate and reduction in handling …

Study Of Some Epidemiological Aspects Of Giardiasis In North Of Baghdad, Harith S.J. Al-Warid

Baghdad Science Journal

Different factors have been examined to be related with the prevalence of Girdiasis in the north of Baghdad in human beings which were (gender, age , occupation ,family size,faecal status and presence of domestic animals) during the period from the beginning of April 2009 till the end of March 2010. This study revealed that the total rate of infection in human being was 11.66% , and no significant differences (p?0.05) were noticed between male and female as their rates of infection were 52.32% and 47.68% respectively , as well as no significant relation was observed between faecal status and the …

Influence Of Chemical And Physical Conditions On The Production Of Bacteriocin By Aeromonas Hydrophila, Munrim R. Ali, Hadeel A. Majeed, Sinna M. Shakir

Baghdad Science Journal

Aeromonas hydrophilahave been isolated as a cause of a cute gastroenteritis in 23 (5.6%) of 410 patients. Other bacterial enteropathogens have been isolated from 783patients with diarrhea, were 19 different strains. A. hydrophila occurred more commonly in children with acute diarrhea, the results showed that 18(78.92%) isolates of A. hydrophila found in children under 10 years old ,distributed to 10(37.47%) in male and 8(34.78%) in female ,and in adults with diarrhea 5 (21.73%). In the other hand, we noticed frequency of isolation was higher in male 14(60.86%) when compared with 2(39.14%) in female. Six strains of A. hydrophila have been …

Effect Of Irrigation By Saline Magnetized Water On Seed Germination And Seedling Growth Of Wheat Triticum Aestivum L, Ashwaq Shanan Abd

Baghdad Science Journal

The effect of saline magnetized water irrigation on seed germination and seedling growth of wheat cultivar Iraq were studied. Irrigation water was supplemented with different levels of Sodium chloride 6, 12 or 18 mmhos/ cm in addition control treatment, and passed through a proper magnetic felid with 1000, 1250, 1500 or 2000 gaus in addition control treatment. The results showed significantly stimulated shoot development and led to the increase of germination, seedling emergence, area leaf, length of shoot and root and fresh and dry weight compared to the controls. Results also showed significant interaction between saline water and magnetized water. …

Study Of Cytotoxic Effect Of Aqueous Extract Fenugreek(Trigonella Foenum Graecum L.S) Seeds And The New Complexes Of Rh (Iii) And Pd (Ii) On Cancer Cell Lines, Mahasin Faisal Alias, Jinan Hussain Murtadha, Iman Hashim Abdul Alrazzaq

Baghdad Science Journal

The effect of the aqueous extract of fenugreek seeds (Trigonella Foenum GraecumL.),Rhodium complex (Ш) with formula [RhL2CLH2O].1 1/2 ETOH and palladium (П) [pdl2].2ETOH,where L=2-hydroxy phenyl piperonalidine was studied on two cancer cell lines. The first cell line was intestine cancer of female albino mice (L20B), the second one was Rhabdomysarcomas (RD)cell line in human. The activity of the new complexes and the aqueous extract wascompared to the well-known anticancer drug (cis-platin) by utilizing the in vitro system. The cell lines were treated with four concentrations of cis-platin 31.25,62.5,125 and 250 μg/ml for 72 hour exposure time. The same concentrations were …

Energy-Based Carrying Capacities Of Bufflehead Bucephala Albeola Wintering Habitats, Richard A. Mckinney, Scott R. Mcwilliams

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

We present a model for calculating energy-based carrying capacities for bufflehead (Bucephala albeola), a small North American sea duck wintering in coastal and estuarine habitats. Our model uses estimates of the seasonal energy expenditures that incorporate site-specific energetic costs of thermoregulation, along with available prey energy densities to calculate carrying capacities in numbers of birds per winter. The model was used to calculate carrying capacities under several foraging scenarios for bufflehead wintering at three urban and three rural sites in the coastal northeast U.S. We found that energy-based carrying capacities varied from 20 – 320 birds per site …

Book Review Of Pragmatism And The Reflective Life, Laura J. Mueller

Education and Culture

Review of Pragmatism and the Reflective Life

William Morris And John Dewey: Imagining Utopian Education, John Freeman-Moir

Education and Culture

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With strikingly resonance William Morris and John Dewey independently imagined what utopian education might plausibly be. Neither remotely thought of utopia as a perfectly ordered society, but rather as a process. Each understood education functionally in terms of how it fits with art, work, and democracy within a holistic conception of utopia. Their projections of utopian education envisage societies in which ends and means are integrated, and where useful productivity, pleasure and rest is the reasonable achievement of all. Starting out …

Maria Montessori, John Dewey, And William H. Kilpatrick, Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon

Education and Culture

I explore Montessori’s story in terms of her initial warm reception by America to her educational research, and her later cooling off, once Dewey’s student, Kilpatrick, published The Montessori System Examined and declared her work to be based on psychological theory that was fifty years behind the times. I argue that there is a troubling gendered side to Montessori’s story that affected her in significant ways and still lingers and limits her contribution to educational theory, and for my purposes, democratic theory. We recognize Dewey’s significant contributions to democratic theory but not Montessori’s; I hope to help right that wrong.

A Meaningful Hierarchy: How C.S. Lewis Perceives Humanity's Significance, Zachary A. Rhone

The C. S. Lewis & Friends Colloquium

"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal," writes Screwtape. In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis would clarify these halves as the Bios and the Zoe -- the biological and the spiritual, respectively. Humans are, as Dr. Ransom admits in That Hideous Strength, "More. But not less" than animals, yet humanity's Fall resulted from "the idea that they could 'be like gods' -- could set up on their own as if they had created themselves -- be their own masters -- invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God" (MC). Humans are …

Evolution Of A Sexually Dimorphic Trait In A Broadly Distributed Topminnow (Fundulus Olivaceus), Jacob F. Schaefer, David D. Duvernell, Brian R. Kreiser, Charles Champagne, Scott R. Clark, Melissa Gutierrez, Laura K. Stewart, Chazz Coleman

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Understanding the interaction between sexual and natural selection within variable environments is crucial to our understanding of evolutionary processes. The handicap principle predicts females will prefer males with exaggerated traits provided those traits are indicators of male quality to ensure direct or indirect female benefits. Spatial variability in ecological factors is expected to alter the balance between sexual and natural selection that defines the evolution of such traits. Male and female blackspotted topminnows (Fundulidae: Fundulus olivaceus) display prominent black dorsolateral spots that are variable in number across its broad range. We investigated variability in spot phenotypes at 117 sites …

Wireless Temperature Monitoring System For The Cal Poly Pilot Winery, Caitlin Devaney

Materials Engineering

This project, with an interdisciplinary group of two computer engineers and one materials engineer, was seeking to implement an automated temperature monitoring system which is affordable and easy to use, as well as adaptable to any arrangement and scale of a winemaker’s fermentation setup. My goal, as the materials engineer, was to design, fabricate, and test the enclosure, for the wireless nodes that are placed in the wine fermentation tanks, and the materials used for the node enclosure. For the enclosure of the system, materials selection was completed using CES software using limitations of only polymer materials which absorb less …

The Effects Of Biochar Age And Concentration On Soil Retention Of Phosphorus And Infiltration Rate, Emilie Schneider

Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences

Changes in land use and land management practices are regarded as one of the main factors in altering the hydrogeological system, causing changes in runoff, surface supply yields, and the quality of receiving water (Tong and Chen, 2002). Phosphorus is a significant contributor to accelerated eutrophication of fresh water and is largely sourced from agricultural runoff (Sharpley et al., 1994). The dominant processes controlling solution composition in agricultural soils are primarily ‘chemical’ for P (i.e. adsorption/desorption and dissolution/precipitation) (Edwards and Withers, 1998). Biochar has chemical characteristics that have the potential to adsorb P or influence precipitation of P insoluble pools …

A Demand Analysis For The New Dow Agrosciences Insecticide, Sulfoxaflor, Among California Pest Control Advisors, Andre Lima Alves

Agribusiness

No abstract provided.

Community Leader, Vol. 10, No. 03, University Of Dayton. Fitz Center For Leadership In Community

Newsletter: Community Leader

News and notes from the University of Dayton Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

A New Species Of Pterygodermatites (Nematoda: Rictulariidae) From The Incan Shrew Opossum, Lestoros Inca, F Agustín Jiménez, Bruce D. Patterson

Publications

Pterygodermatites (Paucipectines) hymanae n. sp. (Rictulariidae) collected from the Incan shrew opossum, Lestoros inca, from Peru is described herein. These nematodes show a subapical, slightly dorsal oral opening and a laterally compressed buccal capsule with 2 conspicuous lateral walls and a dorsal wall. Each lateroventral wall possesses 4 relatively large denticles, and the dorsal wall has 6 denticles. Females are characterized by a conspicuously large postvulvar 37th spine, which may reach 1 mm. This is the first record of endoparasites in the Incan shrew opossum and the fifth species of Pterygodermatites recorded in New World marsupials.

Earl Leroy Green Papers (1913-1995), The Jackson Laboratory

Personal Papers Collection

No abstract provided.

Abbie Lathrop Papers (1868-1918), The Jackson Laboratory

Personal Papers Collection

No abstract provided.

Clarence Cook Little Papers (1888-1971), The Jackson Laboratory

Personal Papers Collection

No abstract provided.

Nathan Kaliss Papers (1907-1999), The Jackson Laboratory

Personal Papers Collection

No abstract provided.

Leonell Clarence Strong Papers, The Jackson Laboratory

Personal Papers Collection

No abstract provided.

George Davis Snell Papers (1903-1996), The Jackson Laboratory

Personal Papers Collection

No abstract provided.

Charity Waymouth Papers (1915 - 1994), The Jackson Laboratory

Personal Papers Collection

No abstract provided.

Vitamin D: Myth Or Magic?, Elizabeth Szalay

UNM Orthopaedic Research Journal

No abstract provided.

The Implications Of Africa-Centered Conceptions Of Time And Space For Quantitative Theorizing: Limitations Of Paradigmatically-Bound Philosophical Meta-Assumptions, Nikitah O. Imani

Black Studies Faculty Publications

“The Implications of Africa-centered Conceptions of Time and Space for Quantitative Theorizing,” looks at Eurocentric scientific conceptions of time and space, how they effect theorizing concerned with these matters, and how they are altered as one considers non- Eurocentric conceptions. For example, one might look at the assertion of circularity, holism, and continuity in contrast to linearity, disjunction, and discontinuity. The example focused on is a scholarly article focusing on constraints associated with time travel. The article deconstructs the piece as Eurocentric and re-conceptualizes it from an African-centered cultural and social perspective.

A Proinflammatory Role For Eph Receptors After Spinal Cord Injury, Stephanie J. Glass

Open Access Theses

Activation of the inflammatory response following spinal cord injury (SCI) is thought to exacerbate cellular damage; however, the mechanisms initiating this process are poorly understood. Microglia and astrocytes, resident cells of the central nervous system (CNS), are recruited as part of the innate immune response following traumatic insult. Once triggered, these cells can initiate an inflammatory response by secreting proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Here, we examined the role of EphB3/A4 receptors in the immune response following SCI. We show that EphB3 and EphA4 are present on microglia and astrocytes in the adult spinal cord and that these receptors are phosphorylated …