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Marine Aquarium Fish Trade Study Reveals Fewer Fish, More Species Imported, Public Affairs, Roger Williams University

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First study of its kind finds aquarium tropical fish imports to the U.S. often misreported.

2012 Commencement For Jefferson Medical College, Jefferson College Of Graduate Studies, And Jefferson School Of Population Health

Sidney Kimmel Medical College Commencements

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Tolerogenic Vaccination Exploiting Apoptotic Mechanisms Via Erythrocyte-To- Hepatic/Splenic Targeting, Jeffrey Hubbell

Vaccine Technology IV

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Bringing Vaccine Manufacturing Capabilities To The Developing World, George Robertson

Vaccine Technology IV

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Magnetic Ordering And Structural Phase Transition In Strained Ultrathin Srruo3/Srtio3 Superlattice, Mingquiang Gu, Xiaoshan Wu, Guoping Zhang

Symposium 2012

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Cloning And Characterization Of Sas0754, A Hypothetical Protein From Community Associated Staphylococcus Aureus, Unknown Unknown

Symposium 2012

Community associated Staphylococcus aureus (strain MSSA476) is a gram positive cocci capable of infecting many different parts of the body and known to cause serious infections that can be fatal, such as bacterial arthritis and acute endocarditis. To find effective ways of fighting against CA-MRSA strains we must learn more about their ability to infect. The focus of this study was cloning and characterization of a protein referred to as SAS0754. The size of SAS0754 is 340 amino acids and the gene sequence is 1023 nucleotides. The hypothetical function of this protein is that it is an extracellular matrix binding …

Energy-Saving Hypothermia Reduces Flight Ability In Mourning Doves, Jennie M. Carr, Steven L. Lima

Symposium 2012

Overwintering birds are frequently exposed to thermal challenges that can quickly decrease energy reserves, thus leading to an increase in the risk of starvation. During these periods of energetic hardship, many avian species use nocturnal hypothermia to conserve energy that would otherwise be lost remaining warm throughout the night (McKechnie & Lovegrove 2002). However, a cool body temperature (Tb) may limit a bird’s ability to monitor the environment and may slow their response to a potential threat. Thus, birds likely trade-off between the benefits of energy-saving hypothermia and the potential costs of reduced behavioral responsiveness to predators (Welton et al. …

Rabies Virus-Like Particles Expressed In Hek293 Cells, Diego Fontana, Ricardo Kratje, Marina Etcheverrigaray, Claudio Prieto

Vaccine Technology IV

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Expectation Of China's Contribution To World Vaccine Development And Supplies: Status, Strategy And International Approach, Li Shi

Vaccine Technology IV

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A Convenient Synthesis Of 2,6-Dichlorohomonicotinic Acid, Chase Buchanan, Richard W. Fitch

Symposium 2012

In our synthetic efforts toward the alkaloid phantasmidine, we required a convenient source of the title compound. Herein, we describe a short synthesis of 2,6-dichlorohomonicotinic acid by direct allylation of 2,6-dichloropyridine with LDA/allyl chloride, followed by permanganate oxidation of the side chain [figure1]. Yields for the allylation are high, while permanganate oxidation required more adjustment. Successful conditions require the modest acidification of the mixture with acetic acid and cleanup by acid base workup. No chromatography is needed.

Convenient Parallel Synthesis Of Alkyl- And Aryl-S-Tert-Butyl Thiothers, Rebecca Norcross, Jessica Stanfield, Richard W. Fitch

Symposium 2012

While preparing novel cysteine derivatives as oxidation catalysts, we needed S-tert-butylcysteine. We also examined acid-promoted tert-butylation of thiols using tert-butanol as reagent and solvent. While cysteine and aminoethanethiol work well using tBuOH in 4M HCl, other thiols fail in the aqueous environment and aerobic conditions. We examined a variety of aliphatic and aromatic thiols in tBuOH with H2SO4 catalysis and found that argon sparging and the use of 1 eq of acid led to good yields in a parallel format.

Process Understanding Approach For A Late-Stage Recombinant Protein Vaccine Produced In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Jose Manuel Otero, Brian Mickus, Amanda Schallop, Brian Doyle, Nedim Altaras

Vaccine Technology IV

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Challenges In Development Of An Anti-Idiotypic Cancer Vaccine, Adolfo Castillo

Vaccine Technology IV

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The Role Of Public-Private Partnerships In Advancing Vaccine Technologies And Improving Vaccine Effectiveness And Delivery For Developing Countries, Ray Cummings

Vaccine Technology IV

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Challenges In Batch Production Of Malaria Vaccines, Nicolas Havelange

Vaccine Technology IV

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Establishing Human Vaccine Manufacturing In Southern Africa, Morena Makhoana

Vaccine Technology IV

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Rational Design Of A Fully Synthetic Nanoparticle-Based Vaccine For Smoking Cessatio, Takashi Kishimoto

Vaccine Technology IV

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Recombinant Vlp Based Human Vaccines For Emerging Markets, Qinjian Zhao

Vaccine Technology IV

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111 Years Producing Immunobiologicals: New Challenges, Jorge Kalil

Vaccine Technology IV

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Development Of A Vaccine Against Clostridium Difficile Infection (Cdi): Design, Purification, And Biological Activities Of The Recombinant Toxin 1 Antigens, Jerzy Karczewski

Vaccine Technology IV

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Cloning And Purification Of Sas0397 From Community Associated Staphylococcus Aureus, Amber Wannemacher, H. Kathleen Dannelly

Symposium 2012

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a unique bacterium that can cause painful abscesses that require surgical treatment and can be confined to the skin surface or burrow into the skin causing life-threatening infections. There are two types of MRSA: hospital associated-MRSA (HA-MRSA) and community associated-MRSA (CA-MRSA). Community associated-MRSA is acquired through direct contact with an infected individual or sharing of personal items and is often seen in locations such as athletic facilities, dormitories, and daycare centers. This study involves cloning and purification of SAS0397, a putative exported protein predicted, according to bioinformatics, to be unique to community associated Staphylococcus …

Will Extreme Climatic Events Facilitate Biological Invasions?, Jeffrey M. Diez, Carla M. D'Antonio, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Edwin D. Grosholz, Julian D. Olden, Cascade J.B. Sorte, Dana M. Blumenthal, Bethany A. Bradley, Regan I. Early, Inés Ibáñez, Sierra J. Jones, Joshua J. Lawler, Luke P. Miller

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

Extreme climatic events (ECEs) – such as unusual heat waves, hurricanes, floods, and droughts – can dramatically affect ecological and evolutionary processes, and these events are projected to become more frequent and more intense with ongoing climate change. However, the implications of ECEs for biological invasions remain poorly understood. Using concepts and empirical evidence from invasion ecology, we identify mechanisms by which ECEs may influence the invasion process, from initial introduction through establishment and spread. We summarize how ECEs can enhance invasions by promoting the transport of propagules into new regions, by decreasing the resistance of native communities to establishment, …

Development Of Nabla Fractional Calculus And A New Approach To Data Fitting In Time Dependent Cancer Therapeutic Study, Nihan Acar

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The aim of this thesis is to develop discrete fractional models of tumor growth for a given data and to estimate parameters of these models in order to have better data tting. We use discrete nabla fractional calculus because we believe the discrete counterpart of this mathematical theory will give us a better and more accurate outcome.

This thesis consists of ve chapters. In the rst chapter, we give the history of the fractional calculus, and we present some basic de nitions and properties that are used in this theory. We de ne nabla fractional exponential and then nabla fractional …

2012 Commencement For Jefferson Medical College, Jefferson College Of Graduate Studies, And Jefferson School Of Population Health

Jefferson College of Biomedical Sciences Commencement

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2012 Commencement For Jefferson Medical College, Jefferson College Of Graduate Studies, And Jefferson School Of Population Health

Jefferson College of Population Health Commencement

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The Cyprus Question: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, Cristen Borling

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Since WWII, ethnic conflict has been the most common and the most violent form of human conflicts. These brutal disputes have inflicted unimaginable human suffering through the destabilization of entire regions, devastation of economic development, and the deracination of entire communities. Violent ethnic conflicts have been re-writing the geo-political map as we know it and forcing colossal changes to the realm of diplomatic relations. Despite the wide-ranging implications of ethno-conflict, insufficient analysis has been paid to their resolution worldwide. Most of the culture conflicts drawing our attention today are based on historic or ancestral claims. Interestingly, ancient history may be …

Recombinant Influenza Vaccine, Manon Cox

Vaccine Technology IV

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Cdo Patterns The Musculature Of The Esophagus And Is Required For Esophageal Motility In Mice, Anthony I. Romera, Jagmohan Singhb, Satish Rattan, Robert S. Krauss

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Introduction:

Cdo is a multifunctional cell surface co-receptor that promotes Hedgehog signaling during rostroventral midline development and cadherin-mediated signaling during skeletal myogenesis. We report here novel roles for Cdo in patterning of the murine esophageal musculature and esophageal motility disorders such as achalasia.

Three New Species Of Sesioctonus Viereck (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) From Peru, Lidia Sulca, Michael J. Sharkey

Entomology Faculty Publications

Three new species of Sesioctonus (Braconidae: Agathidinae) are described and illustrated, i.e., Sesioctonus huggerti, Sesioctonus wayquecha, and Sesioctonus bina. Two new Peruvian species records for Sesioctonus are reported: Sesioctonus longinoi and Sesioctonus diazi. A revised key to all known species of Sesioctonus is presented.

Traumatized Voices: The Transformation Of Personal Trauma Into Public Writing During The Romantic Era, Karalyne S. Lowery

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Beginning as early as the 1790s and continuing throughout the nineteenth century, it is possible to trace in British literature a distinctive line of fascination among authors with what we now understand to be trauma and its profound effects on the lives and behaviors of it victims/survivors. With today’s neurological proof of the changes that take place in the brains of traumatized individuals, it stands to reason that these changes have taken place in every century, not just the century in which we have had the technology to view it or the vocabulary to describe it. This means that psychological …