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Forced Wave Motion With Internal And Boundary Damping, Tobias Louw, Scott Whitney, Anu Subramanian, Hendrik J. Viljoen
Forced Wave Motion With Internal And Boundary Damping, Tobias Louw, Scott Whitney, Anu Subramanian, Hendrik J. Viljoen
Papers in Biomolecular Engineering
A d’Alembert-based solution of forced wave motion with internal and boundary damping is presented with the specific intention of investigating the transient response. The dynamic boundary condition is a convenient method to model the absorption and reflection effects of an interface without considering coupled PDE’s. Problems with boundary condition of the form dw/dz+αdw/dt= 0 are not self-adjoint which greatly complicates solution by spectral analysis. However, exact solutions are found with d’Alembert’s method. Solutions are also derived for a time-harmonically forced problem with internal damping and are used to investigate the effect of ultrasound …
Remodeling Of Chromatin Under Low Intensity Diffuse Ultrasound, Sandra Noriega, Gaurav Budhiraja, Anuradha Subramanian
Remodeling Of Chromatin Under Low Intensity Diffuse Ultrasound, Sandra Noriega, Gaurav Budhiraja, Anuradha Subramanian
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Faculty Publications
A variety of mechanotransduction pathways mediate the response of fibroblasts or chondrocytes to ultrasound stimulation. In addition, regulatory pathways that co-ordinate stimulus-specific cellular responses are likely to exist. In this study, analysis was confined to the hypothesis that ultrasound stimulation (US) influences the chromatin structure, and that these changes may reflect a regulatory pathway that connects nuclear architecture, chromatin structure and gene expression. Murine fibroblasts seeded on tissue culture plates were stimulated with US (5.0 MHz (14 kPa), 51- s per application) and the thermal denaturation profiles of nuclei isolated from fibroblasts were assessed by dynamic scanning calorimetry (DSC). When …
Integrin-Mediated Mechanotransduction Pathway Of Low-Intensity Continuous Ultrasound In Human Chondrocytes, Nicholas P. Whitney, Allyson C. Lamb, Tobias M. Louw, Anuradha Subramanian
Integrin-Mediated Mechanotransduction Pathway Of Low-Intensity Continuous Ultrasound In Human Chondrocytes, Nicholas P. Whitney, Allyson C. Lamb, Tobias M. Louw, Anuradha Subramanian
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Faculty Publications
Chondrocytes are mechanosensitive cells that require mechanical stimulation for proper growth and function in in vitro culture systems. Ultrasound (US) has emerged as a technique to deliver mechanical stress; however, the intracellular signaling components of the mechanotransduction pathways that transmit the extracellular mechanical stimulus to gene regulatory mechanisms are not fully defined. We evaluated a possible integrin/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) mechanotransduction pathway using Western blotting with antibodies targeting specific phosphorylation sites on intracellular signaling proteins. US stimulation of chondrocytes induced phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK), Src, p130 Crk-associated substrate (p130Cas), CrkII, and extracellular-regulated kinase (Erk). Furthermore, pre-incubation with inhibitors …
Reconstruction And Comparison Of The Metabolic Potential Of Cyanobacteria Cyanothece Sp. Atcc 51142 And Synechocystis Sp. Pcc 6803, Rajib Saha, Alex T. Verseput, Bertram M. Berla, Thomas J. Mueller, Himadri B. Pakrasi, Costas D. Maranas
Reconstruction And Comparison Of The Metabolic Potential Of Cyanobacteria Cyanothece Sp. Atcc 51142 And Synechocystis Sp. Pcc 6803, Rajib Saha, Alex T. Verseput, Bertram M. Berla, Thomas J. Mueller, Himadri B. Pakrasi, Costas D. Maranas
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Faculty Publications
Cyanobacteria are an important group of photoautotrophic organisms that can synthesize valuable bio-products by harnessing solar energy. They are endowed with high photosynthetic efficiencies and diverse metabolic capabilities that confer the ability to convert solar energy into a variety of biofuels and their precursors. However, less well studied are the similarities and differences in metabolism of different species of cyanobacteria as they pertain to their suitability as microbial production chassis. Here we assemble, update and compare genome-scale models (iCyt773 and iSyn731) for two phylogenetically related cyanobacterial species, namely Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 and Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. …
Explicit Finite Element Modeling Of The Human Lumbar Spine, Milind Rao
Explicit Finite Element Modeling Of The Human Lumbar Spine, Milind Rao
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Validated finite element (FE) models of the functional spinal unit (FSU) and lumbar spine are essential in design-phase device development and in assessing the mechanics associated with normal spine function and degenerative disc disease (DDD), as well as the impact of fusion and total disc replacement (TDR). Although experimental data from fully intact specimens can be used for model calibration and validation, the contributions from the individual structures (disc, facets, and ligaments) may be inappropriately distributed. Hence, creation of decompression conditions or device implantations that require structure removal may not have the proper resulting mechanics. An explicit FE formulation may …
Overview Of The 2010 Carbonaceous Aerosols And Radiative Effects Study (Cares), Rahul A. Zaveri, William J. Shaw, Daniel J. Cziczo, Beat Schmid, Richard Ferrare, M. Lizabeth Alexander, Raul Alvarez, W. Patrick Arnott, Dean B. Atkinson, Sunil Baidar, Robert M. Banta, James Barnard, Josef Beranek, Larry K. Berg, Fred Brechtel, W. Alan Brewer, John F. Cahill, Brian Cairns, Christopher D. Cappa, D. Chand, S. China, Jennifer M. Comstock, Manvendra K. Dubey, Robert C. Easter, M. H. Erickson, Jerome Fast, Cody Floerchinger, B. Flowers, Edward C. Fortner, Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Mary K. Gilles, Kyle Gorkowski, William Gustafson, Madhu Gyawali, J. Hair, R. M. Hardesty, Joseph Harworth, Scott C. Herndon, Naruki Hiranuma, Chris Hostetler, John M. Hubbe, John T. Jayne, H. Jeong, B. Tom Jobson, Evgueni Kassianov, Lawrence I. Kleinman, C. Kluzek, W. Berk Knighton, Katheryn R. Kolesar, Chongai Kuang, Alena Kubátová, Andrew O. Langford, Alexander Laskin, N. Laulainen, Richard D. Marchbanks, Claudio Mazzoleni, Fan Mei, Ryan C. Moffet, Dan Nelson, Michael Obland, Hilke Oetjen, Timothy B. Onasch, I. Ortega, Matteo Ottaviani, Mikhail Pekour, Kimberly A. Prather, James Gregory Radney, Raymond R. Rogers, Scott P. Sandberg, Arthur J. Sedlacek, Christoph J. Senff, Gunnar I. Senum, Ari Setyan, John E. Shilling, Manishkumar Shrivastava, C. Song, Stephen R. Springston, R. Subramanian, Kaitlyn Suski, Jason Tomlinson, Rainer M. Volkamer, H. W. Wallace, Jian Wang, A. M. Weickmann, Douglas R. Worsnop, Xiao-Ying Yu, Alla Zelenyuk, Qi Zhang
Overview Of The 2010 Carbonaceous Aerosols And Radiative Effects Study (Cares), Rahul A. Zaveri, William J. Shaw, Daniel J. Cziczo, Beat Schmid, Richard Ferrare, M. Lizabeth Alexander, Raul Alvarez, W. Patrick Arnott, Dean B. Atkinson, Sunil Baidar, Robert M. Banta, James Barnard, Josef Beranek, Larry K. Berg, Fred Brechtel, W. Alan Brewer, John F. Cahill, Brian Cairns, Christopher D. Cappa, D. Chand, S. China, Jennifer M. Comstock, Manvendra K. Dubey, Robert C. Easter, M. H. Erickson, Jerome Fast, Cody Floerchinger, B. Flowers, Edward C. Fortner, Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Mary K. Gilles, Kyle Gorkowski, William Gustafson, Madhu Gyawali, J. Hair, R. M. Hardesty, Joseph Harworth, Scott C. Herndon, Naruki Hiranuma, Chris Hostetler, John M. Hubbe, John T. Jayne, H. Jeong, B. Tom Jobson, Evgueni Kassianov, Lawrence I. Kleinman, C. Kluzek, W. Berk Knighton, Katheryn R. Kolesar, Chongai Kuang, Alena Kubátová, Andrew O. Langford, Alexander Laskin, N. Laulainen, Richard D. Marchbanks, Claudio Mazzoleni, Fan Mei, Ryan C. Moffet, Dan Nelson, Michael Obland, Hilke Oetjen, Timothy B. Onasch, I. Ortega, Matteo Ottaviani, Mikhail Pekour, Kimberly A. Prather, James Gregory Radney, Raymond R. Rogers, Scott P. Sandberg, Arthur J. Sedlacek, Christoph J. Senff, Gunnar I. Senum, Ari Setyan, John E. Shilling, Manishkumar Shrivastava, C. Song, Stephen R. Springston, R. Subramanian, Kaitlyn Suski, Jason Tomlinson, Rainer M. Volkamer, H. W. Wallace, Jian Wang, A. M. Weickmann, Douglas R. Worsnop, Xiao-Ying Yu, Alla Zelenyuk, Qi Zhang
Chemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations
Substantial uncertainties still exist in the scientific understanding of the possible interactions between urban and natural (biogenic) emissions in the production and transformation of atmospheric aerosol and the resulting impact on climate change. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program’s Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study (CARES) carried out in June 2010 in Central Valley, California, was a comprehensive effort designed to improve this understanding. The primary objective of the field study was to investigate the evolution of secondary organic and black carbon aerosols and their climate-related properties in the Sacramento urban plume as it was …
Advanced Nanohybrid Materials: Surface Modification And Applications, Li-Hung Liu, Rémi Métivier, Shanfeng Wang, Hui Wang
Advanced Nanohybrid Materials: Surface Modification And Applications, Li-Hung Liu, Rémi Métivier, Shanfeng Wang, Hui Wang
Chemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations
The field of functional nanoscale hybrid materials is one of the most promising and rapidly emerging research areas in materials chemistry. Nanoscale hybrid materials can be broadly defined as synthetic materials with organic and inorganic components that are linked together by noncovalent bonds (Class I, linked by hydrogen bond, electrostatic force, or van der Waals force) or covalent bonds (Class II) at nanometer scale. The unlimited possible combinations of the distinct properties of inorganic, organic, or even bioactive components in a single material, either in molecular or nanoscale dimensions, have attracted considerable attention. This approach provides an opportunity to create …
Subunit Organization Of The Membrane-Bound Hiv-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Trimer, Youdong Mao, Liping Wang, Christopher Gu, Alon Herschhorn, Shi-Hua Xiang, Hillel Haim, Xinzhen Yang, Joseph Sodroski
Subunit Organization Of The Membrane-Bound Hiv-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Trimer, Youdong Mao, Liping Wang, Christopher Gu, Alon Herschhorn, Shi-Hua Xiang, Hillel Haim, Xinzhen Yang, Joseph Sodroski
Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications
The trimeric human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein (Env) spike is a molecular machine that mediates virus entry into host cells and is the sole target for virus-neutralizing antibodies. The mature Env spike results from cleavage of a trimeric gp160 precursor into three gp120 and three gp41 subunits. Here we describe an ~11-Å cryo-EM structure of the trimeric HIV-1 Env precursor in its unliganded state. The three gp120 and three gp41 subunits form a cage-like structure with an interior void surrounding the trimer axis. Interprotomer contacts are limited to the gp41 transmembrane region, the torus-like gp41 ectodomain, and …
Tennessee Archivist 35, No. 1, Society Of Tennessee Archivists
Tennessee Archivist 35, No. 1, Society Of Tennessee Archivists
Tennessee Archivist newsletters
Winter 2012 issue of the Tennessee Archivist, a newsletter produced by the Society of Tennessee Archivists.
Identifying Potential Areas For Biofuel Production And Evaluating The Environmental Effects: A Case Study Of The James River Basin In The Midwestern United States, Yiping Wu, Shuguang Liu, Zhengpeng Li
Identifying Potential Areas For Biofuel Production And Evaluating The Environmental Effects: A Case Study Of The James River Basin In The Midwestern United States, Yiping Wu, Shuguang Liu, Zhengpeng Li
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Biofuels are now an important resource in the United States because of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Both increased corn growth for ethanol production and perennial dedicated energy crop growth for cellulosic feedstocks are potential sources to meet the rising demand for biofuels. However, these measures may cause adverse environmental consequences that are not yet fully understood. This study 1) evaluates the long-term impacts of increased frequency of corn in the crop rotation system on water quantity and quality as well as soil fertility in the James River Basin and 2) identifies potential grasslands for cultivating bioenergy …
Insights From A Synthesis Of Old And New Climate-Proxy Data From The Pyramid And Winnemucca Lake Basins For The Period 48 To 11.5 Cal Ka, Larry Benson, J.P. Smoot, S.P. Lund, S.A. Mensing, F.F. Foit Jr., R.O. Rye
Insights From A Synthesis Of Old And New Climate-Proxy Data From The Pyramid And Winnemucca Lake Basins For The Period 48 To 11.5 Cal Ka, Larry Benson, J.P. Smoot, S.P. Lund, S.A. Mensing, F.F. Foit Jr., R.O. Rye
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
A synthesis of old and new paleoclimatic data from the Pyramid and Winnemucca lake basins indicates that, between 48.0 and 11.5∙103 calibrated years BP (hereafter ka), the climate of the western Great Basin was, to a degree, linked with the climate of the North Atlantic. Paleomagnetic secular variation (PSV) records from Pyramid Lake core PLC08-1 were tied to the GISP2 ice-core record via PSV matches to North Atlantic sediment cores whose isotopic and(or) carbonate records could be linked to the GISP2δ18O record. Relatively dry intervals in the western Great Basin were associated with cold Heinrich events and …
Improved Mapping Of National Atmospheric Deposition Program Wet-Deposition In Complex Terrain Using Prism-Gridded Data Sets, Natalie E. Latysh, Gregory Alan Wetherbee
Improved Mapping Of National Atmospheric Deposition Program Wet-Deposition In Complex Terrain Using Prism-Gridded Data Sets, Natalie E. Latysh, Gregory Alan Wetherbee
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
High-elevation regions in the United States lack detailed atmospheric wet-deposition data. The National Atmospheric Deposition Program/ National Trends Network (NADP/NTN) measures and reports precipitation amounts and chemical constituent concentration and deposition data for the United States on annual isopleth maps using inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation methods. This interpolation for unsampled areas does not account for topographic influences. Therefore, NADP/NTN isopleth maps lack detail and potentially underestimate wet deposition in high-elevation regions. The NADP/NTN wet-deposition maps may be improved using precipitation grids generated by other networks. The Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) produces digital grids of precipitation estimates …
Wildlife Toxicology: Environmental Contaminants And Their National And International Regulation, K. Christiana Grim, Anne Fairbrother, Barnett A. Rattner
Wildlife Toxicology: Environmental Contaminants And Their National And International Regulation, K. Christiana Grim, Anne Fairbrother, Barnett A. Rattner
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Wildlife toxicology is the study of potentially harmful effects of toxic agents in wild animals, focusing on amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Fish and aquatic invertebrates are not usually included as part of wildlife toxicology since they fall within the field of aquatic toxicology, but collectively both disciplines often provide inSight into one another and both are integral parts of ecotoxicology (Hoffman et al. 2003). It entails monitoring, hypothesis testing, forensics, and risk assessment; encompasses molecular through ecosystem responses and various research venues (laboratory, mesocosm, field); and has been shaped by chemical use and misuse, ecological mishaps, and biomedical research. …
Development And Application Of Methods Used To Source Prehistoric Southwestern Maize: A Review, Larry Benson
Development And Application Of Methods Used To Source Prehistoric Southwestern Maize: A Review, Larry Benson
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Archaeological cobs free of mineral contaminants should be used to source the soils in which they were grown. Mineral contaminants often contain much higher concentrations of metals than vegetal materials and can alter a cob’s apparent metal and heavy-isotope content. Cleaning a cob via immersion in an acid solution for more than a few minutes will result in the incongruent and sometimes complete leaching of metals, including strontium (Sr), from the cob. When using 87Sr/86Sr to determine the location of potential agriculture fields, it is best to either integrate several depth-integrated soil samples or to integrate several …
Metabolic Engineering Of Novel Lignin In Biomass Crops, Ruben Vanholme, Kris Morreel, Chiarina Darrah, Paula Oyarce, John H. Grabber, John Ralph, Wout Boerjan
Metabolic Engineering Of Novel Lignin In Biomass Crops, Ruben Vanholme, Kris Morreel, Chiarina Darrah, Paula Oyarce, John H. Grabber, John Ralph, Wout Boerjan
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications
Lignin, a phenolic polymer in the secondary wall, is the major cause of lignocellulosic biomass recalcitrance to efficient industrial processing. From an applications perspective, it is desirable that second-generation bioenergy crops have lignin that is readily degraded by chemical pretreatments but still fulfill its biological role in plants. Because plants can tolerate large variations in lignin composition, often without apparent adverse effects, substitution of some fraction of the traditional monolignols by alternative monomers through genetic engineering is a promising strategy to tailor lignin in bioenergy crops. However, successful engineering of lignin incorporating alternative monomers requires knowledge about phenolic metabolism in …
Heme Oxygenase-1 Regulates The Immune Response To Influenza Virus Infection And Vaccination In Aged Mice, Nathan W. Cummins, Eric A. Weaver, Shannon M. May, Anthony J. Croatt, Oded Foreman, Richard B. Kennedy, Gregory A. Polan, Michael A. Barry, Karl A. Nath, Andrew D. Badley
Heme Oxygenase-1 Regulates The Immune Response To Influenza Virus Infection And Vaccination In Aged Mice, Nathan W. Cummins, Eric A. Weaver, Shannon M. May, Anthony J. Croatt, Oded Foreman, Richard B. Kennedy, Gregory A. Polan, Michael A. Barry, Karl A. Nath, Andrew D. Badley
Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications
Underlying mechanisms of individual variation in severity of influenza infection and response to vaccination are poorly understood. We investigated the effect of reduced heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) expression on vaccine response and outcome of influenza infection. HO-1-deficient and wild-type (WT) mice (kingdom, Animalia; phylum, Chordata; genus/species, Mus musculus) were infected with influenza virus A/PR/8/34 with or without prior vaccination with an adenoviral-based influenza vaccine. A genome-wide association study evaluated the expression of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the HO-1 gene and the response to influenza vaccination in healthy humans. HO-1-deficient mice had decreased survival after influenza infection compared to WT mice (median …
Long-Term Impacts Of Invasive Species On A Native Top Predator In A Large Lake System, Scott A. Rush, Gordon Paterson, Tim B. Johnson, Ken G. Drouillard, Gordon D. Haffner, Craig E. Hebert, Michael T. Arts, Daryl J. Mcgoldric, Sean M. Backus, Brian F. Lantry, Jana R. Lantry, Ted Schaner, Aaron T. Fisk
Long-Term Impacts Of Invasive Species On A Native Top Predator In A Large Lake System, Scott A. Rush, Gordon Paterson, Tim B. Johnson, Ken G. Drouillard, Gordon D. Haffner, Craig E. Hebert, Michael T. Arts, Daryl J. Mcgoldric, Sean M. Backus, Brian F. Lantry, Jana R. Lantry, Ted Schaner, Aaron T. Fisk
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
1. Declining abundances of forage fish and the introduction and establishment of non-indigenous species have the potential to substantially alter resource and habitat exploitation by top predators in large lakes.
2. We measured stable isotopes of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in field-collected and archived samples of Lake Ontario lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) and five species of prey fish and compared current trophic relationships of this top predator with historical samples.
3. Relationships between δ15N and lake trout age were temporally consistent throughout Lake Ontario and confirmed the role of lake trout …
Lake Sturgeon Population Attributes And Reproductive Structure In The Namakan Reservoir, Minnesota And Ontario, S. L. Shaw, S. R. Chipps, Steve K. Windels, M. A. H. Webb, Darryl T. Mcleod, D. W. Willis
Lake Sturgeon Population Attributes And Reproductive Structure In The Namakan Reservoir, Minnesota And Ontario, S. L. Shaw, S. R. Chipps, Steve K. Windels, M. A. H. Webb, Darryl T. Mcleod, D. W. Willis
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Quantified were the age, growth, mortality and reproductive structure of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) collected in the US and Canadian waters of the Namakan Reservoir. The hypotheses were tested that (i) age and growth of lake sturgeon in the Namakan Reservoir would differ by sex and reproductive stage of maturity, and (ii) that the relative strength of year classes of lake sturgeon in the reservoir would be affected by environmental variables. To quantify age, growth and mortality of the population, existing data was used from a multiagency database containing information on all lake sturgeon sampled in the reservoir …
The Driving Forces Of Land Change In The Northern Piedmont Of The United States, Roger F. Auch, Darrell E. Napton, Steven Kambly, Thomas R. Moreland Jr., Kristi L. Sayler
The Driving Forces Of Land Change In The Northern Piedmont Of The United States, Roger F. Auch, Darrell E. Napton, Steven Kambly, Thomas R. Moreland Jr., Kristi L. Sayler
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Driving forces facilitate or inhibit land-use / land-cover change. Human driving forces include political, economic, cultural, and social attributes that often change across time and space. Remotely sensed imagery provides regional land-change data for the Northern Piedmont, an ecoregion of the United States that continued to urbanize after 1970 through conversion of agricultural and forest land covers to developed uses. Eight major driving forces facilitated most of the land conversion; other drivers inhibited or slowed change. A synergistic web of drivers may be more important in understanding land change than individual drivers by themselves.
Remote Sensing Of Sagebrush Canopy Nitrogen, Jessica J. Mitchell, Nancy F. Glenn, Temuulen T. Sankey, Dewayne R. Derryberry, Matthew J. Germino
Remote Sensing Of Sagebrush Canopy Nitrogen, Jessica J. Mitchell, Nancy F. Glenn, Temuulen T. Sankey, Dewayne R. Derryberry, Matthew J. Germino
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
This paper presents a combination of techniques suitable for remotely sensing foliar Nitrogen (N) in semiarid shrublands – a capability that would significantly improve our limited understanding of vegetation functionality in dryland ecosystems. The ability to estimate foliar N distributions across arid and semi-arid environments could help answer process-driven questions related to topics such as controls on canopy photosynthesis, the influence of N on carbon cycling behavior, nutrient pulse dynamics, and post-fire recovery. Our study determined that further exploration into estimating sagebrush canopy N concentrations from an airborne platform is warranted, despite remote sensing challenges inherent to open canopy systems. …
Forest Bioenergy Feedstock Harvesting Effects On Water Supply, Daniel G. Neary, Karen A. Koestner
Forest Bioenergy Feedstock Harvesting Effects On Water Supply, Daniel G. Neary, Karen A. Koestner
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications
Water flowing from forested catchments, both unmanaged and managed, is highly valued in terms of both quantity and quality. Increasing energy production using wood feedstocks produces varying degrees of impacts and thereby raises concerns about environmental impacts on the highly valued water supply resources of forest ecosystems. The term water supply encompasses both key components of water quantity and water quality. Water quantity considers the amount of increases or decreases, timing, consistency, and relative magnitude of water yields. Plant nutrients (anions and cations), fertilizers, herbicides, ash additions, temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, bacteria, and sediment comprise water quality. Within the life …
Chloroviruses: Not Your Everyday Plant Virus, James L. Van Etten, David D. Dunigan
Chloroviruses: Not Your Everyday Plant Virus, James L. Van Etten, David D. Dunigan
Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications
Viruses infecting higher plants are among the smallest viruses known and typically have four to ten protein-encoding genes. By contrast, many viruses that infect algae (classified in the virus family Phycodnaviridae) are among the largest viruses found to date and have up to 600 protein- encoding genes. This brief review focuses on one group of plaque-forming phycodnaviruses that infect unicellular chlorella-like green algae. The prototype chlorovirus PBCV-1 has more than 400 protein-encoding genes and 11 tRNA genes. About 40% of the PBCV-1 encoded proteins resemble proteins of known function including many that are completely unexpected for a virus. In many …
Regional Dissemination Of A Trimethoprim-Resistance Gene Cassette Via A Successful Transposable Element, Amy S. Labar '10, Jennifer S. Millman '09, E. Ruebrush, Iruka N. Okeke
Regional Dissemination Of A Trimethoprim-Resistance Gene Cassette Via A Successful Transposable Element, Amy S. Labar '10, Jennifer S. Millman '09, E. Ruebrush, Iruka N. Okeke
Biology Faculty Scholarship
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Leveraging Information About Patents: Settlements, Portfolios, And Holdups, Mark R. Patterson
Leveraging Information About Patents: Settlements, Portfolios, And Holdups, Mark R. Patterson
Faculty Scholarship
The purpose of this essay is twofold. First, it serves to emphasize the role played by uncertainty in three otherwise very different categories of cases, involving “reverse payment” settlements, patent portfolios and package licensing, and deception in standard-setting. The source of the uncertainty at issue in each of the cases is different, but in each the unavailable information is not protected by patent law. Second, the essay points out that in these cases the courts nevertheless apply rules that are more appropriate for the information about inventions that patent law is intended to protect. Patent law grants patentees the exclusive …
The Flood Of U.S. Lawyers: Natural Fluctuation Or Professional Climate Change?, Bruce A. Green
The Flood Of U.S. Lawyers: Natural Fluctuation Or Professional Climate Change?, Bruce A. Green
Faculty Scholarship
This paper considers how US courts, which regulate the US legal profession, should respond to the perceived excess of lawyers (i.e. to the lack of adequate employment opportunities for lawyers). It begins by summarizing the courts’ regulatory role. It then situates the contemporary flood-of-lawyers problem in the unavailability of well-paid legal work, not in the absence of a need for lawyers’ services: many people need lawyers, but they cannot afford them. Next, the paper explores whether the problem is simply a product of natural economic fluctuation which will be solved naturally, particularly if potential law school applicants become better informed, …
Effects Of Mining-Derived Metals On Riffle-Dwelling Crayfish In Southwestern Missouri And Southeastern Kansas, Usa, Ann L. Allert, Robert J. Distefano, Christopher J. Schmitt, James F. Fairchild, William G. Brumbaugh
Effects Of Mining-Derived Metals On Riffle-Dwelling Crayfish In Southwestern Missouri And Southeastern Kansas, Usa, Ann L. Allert, Robert J. Distefano, Christopher J. Schmitt, James F. Fairchild, William G. Brumbaugh
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Riffle-dwelling crayfish populations were sampled at 16 sites in 4 tributaries of the Spring River located within the Tri-State Mining District in southwest Missouri. Crayfish density, physical habitat quality, and water quality were examined at each site to assess the ecological effects of mining-derived metals on crayfish. Metals (lead, zinc, and cadmium) were analyzed in samples of surface water, sediment, detritus, and whole crayfish. Sites were classified a posteriori into reference, mining, and downstream sites primarily based on metal concentrations in the materials analyzed. Three species of crayfish (Orconectes neglectus neglectus, O. macrus, and O. virilis) were collected …
Spin Filtering With Euo: Insight From The Complex Band Structure, Pavel Lukashev, Aleksander L. Wysocki, Julian P. Velev, Mark Van Schilfgaarde, Sitaram Jaswal, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Spin Filtering With Euo: Insight From The Complex Band Structure, Pavel Lukashev, Aleksander L. Wysocki, Julian P. Velev, Mark Van Schilfgaarde, Sitaram Jaswal, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Kirill Belashchenko Publications
Spin-filter tunneling is a promising way to create highly-spin-polarized currents. So far the understanding of the spin-filtering effect has been limited to a free-electron description based on the spin-dependent tunneling barrier height. In this work we explore the complex of EuO as a representative ferromagnetic insulator used in spin-filter tunneling experiments and show that the mechanism of spin filtering is more intricate than it has been previously thought. We demonstrate the importance of the multiorbital band structure with an indirect band gap for spin-filter tunneling. By analyzing the symmetry of the complex bands and the decay rates for different wave …
Wildlife Services—A Leader In Developing Tools And Techniques For Managing Carnivores, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, Gail Keirn
Wildlife Services—A Leader In Developing Tools And Techniques For Managing Carnivores, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, Gail Keirn
United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications
Did you ever wonder who invented the breakaway snare or the Livestock Protection Collar? These and many other wildlife management tools and techniques are the result of the ingenuity and creativity of U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services (WS) program scientists, technicians, and field specialists, with the help of collaborators at universities, other federal and state agencies, and private partners. This manuscript will highlight some of the tools and methods that were developed, tested, or registered by WS National Wildlife Research Center scientists for use in predator damage management.
Understanding The Effect Of Ferroelectric Polarization On Power Conversion Efficiency Of Organic Photovoltaic Devices, Yongbo Yuan, Pankaj Sharma, Zhengguo Xiao, Shashi Poddar, Alexei Gruverman, Stephen Ducharme, Jinsong Huang
Understanding The Effect Of Ferroelectric Polarization On Power Conversion Efficiency Of Organic Photovoltaic Devices, Yongbo Yuan, Pankaj Sharma, Zhengguo Xiao, Shashi Poddar, Alexei Gruverman, Stephen Ducharme, Jinsong Huang
Stephen Ducharme Publications
It is demonstrated that the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic photovoltaic devices can be increased by inserting an ultrathin film of a ferroelectric co-polymer, poly(vinylidenefluoridetrifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE)), at the metal–organic interface, due to an enhancement of the charge extraction efficiency. Specifically, the effect of P(VDF-TrFE) crystallinity on its function in ferroelectric organic photovoltaic (FE-OPV) devices has been studied by several methods. Highly crystalline and amorphous P(VDF-TrFE) films have been prepared by the Langmuir–Blodgett method and spincoating from acetone solution, respectively. The polymer solar cell devices with a crystalline P(VDFTrFE) interfacial layer at the cathode have larger PCE than the structures …
Effects Of Glycerol And Creatine Hyperhydration On Doping-Relevant Blood Parameters, Thelma P. Polyviou, Chris Easton, Lukas Beis, Dalia Malkova, Pantazis Takas, Cathertine Hambly, John R. Speakman, Karsten Koehler, Yannis P. Pitsiladis
Effects Of Glycerol And Creatine Hyperhydration On Doping-Relevant Blood Parameters, Thelma P. Polyviou, Chris Easton, Lukas Beis, Dalia Malkova, Pantazis Takas, Cathertine Hambly, John R. Speakman, Karsten Koehler, Yannis P. Pitsiladis
Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications
Glycerol is prohibited as an ergogenic aid by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) due to the potential for its plasma expansion properties to have masking effects. However, the scientific basis of the inclusion of Gly as a “masking agent” remains inconclusive. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a hyperhydrating supplement containing Gly on doping-relevant blood parameters. Nine trained males ingested a hyperhydrating mixture twice per day for 7 days containing 1.0 g·kg−1 body mass (BM) of Gly, 10.0 g of creatine and 75.0 g of glucose. Blood samples were collected and total hemoglobin (Hb) …