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Native Ecosystems Council V. Tidwell, Josh Nichols

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the U.S. Forest Service‟s proxy-on-proxy approach, when considering livestock grazing levels in Southwest Montana‟s Antelope Basin/Elk Lake Project in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, did not comply with the National Forest Management Act. The court determined that the Forest Service failed to take a requisite “hard look” at environmental impacts, such as the impacts on sage grouse populations and the maintenance of diverse habitats for native wildlife, when it approved grazing allotment updates.

Center For Biological Diversity V. Kempthorne, Amanda Anderson

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the decision to grant summary judgment to the Fish and Wildlife Service, upholding MMPA and NEPA regulations. The court found the Service did not violate MMPA or NEPA in authorizing a period for oil and gas operators to apply to conduct non-lethal takes of polar bears and Pacific walrus. The Service was not required to address the possibility that climate change, in addition to the non-lethal takes, may put additional stress on polar bear populations.

Northern Cheyenne Tribe V. Montana Department Of Environmental Quality, Pat Beddow

Public Land & Resources Law Review

Northern Cheyenne Tribe v. Montana Department of Environmental Quality addressed the supremacy of standards within the Clean Water Act over Montana‟s state imposed water quality standards. The Montana Supreme Court found the Montana Department of Environmental Quality‟s water quality standards violated the Clean Water Act‟s requirement to use pre- discharge treatment for coal bed methane wastewater released into the Tongue River. This decision is likely to be persuasive to other states imposing their own regulations on the discharge of pollutants into waterways.

Butte Environmental Council V. United States Army Corps Of Engineers, Jesse Froehling

Public Land & Resources Law Review

A group of environmentalists brought suit against the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the City of Redding, California, appealing decisions to approve the City‟s plan to build a business park on protected wetlands. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held: (1) the Corps‟ decision to issue a dredge and fill permit to the City was not arbitrary and capricious; and (2) the FWS‟ finding of no “adverse modification” did not conflict with its determination that the proposed project would destroy critical habitat of protected vernal pool shrimp and Orcutt grass species.

Miccosukee Tribe Of Indians Of Florida V. United States Army Corps Of Engineers, Jesse Froehling

Public Land & Resources Law Review

In Miccosukee I, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wanted to build a bridge along the Tamiani Trail that would, in effect, flood part of the reservations of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida. The Tribe sued the Corps alleging that the construction of the bridge would violate the National Environmental Policy Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case. The court concluded that a ―notwithstanding‖ clause in a Congressional appropriations act overrode environmental procedural laws. After Miccosukee I, the tribe sued the …

Reed V. Salazar, Matt Newman

Public Land & Resources Law Review

Two environmental advocacy groups challenged the decision of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to grant operational management of the National Bison Range in western Montana to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. The District Court for the District of Columbia held the Service‘s decision to classify the management agreement as a categorical exclusion to environmental review violated the National Environmental Policy Act. The Court held the management agreement be set aside, effectively returning control of the National Bison Range to FWS.

National Parks & Conservation Association V. Bureau Of Land Management, John Wright

Public Land & Resources Law Review

Landowners and conservation group brought suit against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over a proposed public-private land swap adjacent to Joshua Tree National Park to allow a private company to build and operate a landfill. The Ninth Circuit held that: (1) the BLM must evaluate the land‘s probable use in its highest and best use analysis to ensure fair compensation to the public; (2) the BLM failed to consider alternatives in specific detail to meet the public‘s need for long-term landfill demand; and (3) the BLM‘s environmental impact statement was deficient regarding the potential for eutrophication altering the desert …

Session 1c, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Engaging Partners in the Cane Rune Watershed, Carol Hanley and others, College of Agriculture, UK
• Water Quality Monitoring Results from the McConnell Springs Stormwater Quality Wetland Pond and Gainseway Pond Retrofit Project, David Price and Susan Plueger, Lexington-Fayette County Government, Lexington, KY
• Hydrologic Characterization of a Tree- and Shrub-Vegetated Rain Garden in Central Kentucky, John McMaine and Carmen Agouridis, Dept Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, UK
• Watershed Based Planning in the Urban Wolf Run Watershed, Steven Evans, Third Rock Consultants, LLC, Lexington, KY
• Estimating Load Reduction Costs for Assessing Stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) Feasibility: A Case …

Session 1a, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Development and Testing of a New Phosphorus Index for Kentucky, Carl Bolster and others, USDA-ARS, Bowling Green, KY
• The New Kentucky Nitrogen and Phosphorus Risk Assessment Tool to Protect Water Quality, Tibor Horvath and others, USDA-NRCS, Lexington, KY
• Herbicide Transport Within Shallow Karst Groundwater on Kentucky's Pennyroyal Plateau Beneath Row Crop Agriculture, Chris Groves and others, Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, WKU, Bowling Green, KY
• Groundwater Tracing in the West Pennyrile Karst Region, Robert Blair and Jessica Moore, Kentucky Division of Water, Frankfort, KY

Current, March 18, 2013, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Dissociated Grey Matter Changes With Prolonged Addiction And Extended Abstinence In Cocaine Users, Colm G. Connolly, Ryan P. Bell, John J. Foxe, Hugh Garavan

Publications and Research

Extensive evidence indicates that current and recently abstinent cocaine abusers compared to drug-naïve controls have decreased grey matter in regions such as the anterior cingulate, lateral prefrontal and insular cortex. Relatively little is known, however, about the persistence of these deficits in long-term abstinence despite the implications this has for recovery and relapse. Optimized voxel based morphometry was used to assess how local grey matter volume varies with years of drug use and length of abstinence in a cross-sectional study of cocaine users with various durations of abstinence (1–102 weeks) and years of use (0.3–24 years). Lower grey matter volume …

Supplemental Feeding For Ecotourism Reverses Diel Activity And Alters Movement Patterns And Spatial Distribution Of The Southern Stingray, Dasyatis Americana, Mark John Corcoran, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Mahmood S. Shivji, Matthew Potenski, Demian D. Chapman, Guy Harvey

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Southern stingrays, Dasyatis americana, have been provided supplemental food in ecotourism operations at Stingray City Sandbar (SCS), Grand Cayman since 1986, with this site becoming one of the world’s most famous and heavily visited marine wildlife interaction venues. Given expansion of marine wildlife interactive tourism worldwide, there are questions about the effects of such activities on the focal species and their ecosystems. We used a combination of acoustic telemetry and tag-recapture efforts to test the hypothesis that human-sourced supplemental feeding has altered stingray activity patterns and habitat use at SCS relative to wild animals at control sites. Secondarily, we …

Loss Of Fbp1 By Snail-Mediated Repression Provides Metabolic Advantages In Basal-Like Breast Cancer, Chenfang Dong, Tingting Yuan, Yadi Wu, Yifan Wang, Teresa W-M Fan, Sumitra Miriyala, Yiwei Lin, Jun Yao, Jian Shi, Tiebang Kang, Pawel Lorkiewicz, Daret St. Clair, Mien-Chie Hung, B. Mark Evers, Binhua P. Zhou

Toxicology and Cancer Biology Faculty Publications

The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) enhances cancer invasiveness and confers tumor cells with cancer stem cell (CSC)-like characteristics. We show that the Snail-G9a-Dnmt1 complex, which is critical for E-cadherin promoter silencing, is also required for the promoter methylation of fructose-1,6-biphosphatase (FBP1) in basal-like breast cancer (BLBC). Loss of FBP1 induces glycolysis and results in increased glucose uptake, macromolecule biosynthesis, formation of tetrameric PKM2, and maintenance of ATP production under hypoxia. Loss of FBP1 also inhibits oxygen consumption and reactive oxygen species production by suppressing mitochondrial complex I activity; this metabolic reprogramming results in an increased CSC-like property and tumorigenicity by enhancing …

Supplemental Feeding For Ecotourism Reverses Diel Activity And Alters Movement Patterns And Spatial Distribution Of The Southern Stingray, Dasyatis Americana, Mark J. Corcoran, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Mahmood S. Shivji, Matthew D. Potenski, Demian D. Chapman, Guy M. Harvey

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Southern stingrays, Dasyatis americana, have been provided supplemental food in ecotourism operations at Stingray City Sandbar (SCS), Grand Cayman since 1986, with this site becoming one of the world’s most famous and heavily visited marine wildlife interaction venues. Given expansion of marine wildlife interactive tourism worldwide, there are questions about the effects of such activities on the focal species and their ecosystems. We used a combination of acoustic telemetry and tag-recapture efforts to test the hypothesis that human-sourced supplemental feeding has altered stingray activity patterns and habitat use at SCS relative to wild animals at control sites. Secondarily, we …

Resorcinarene-Based Cavitands: From Structural Design And Synthesis To Separations Applications, Na Li

Theses and Dissertations

Resorcinarenes are cyclic tetramers that are synthesized by the condensation of resorcinol and various aldehydes. The upper and lower rims can be modified with substituents that provide specific selectivity and other chemical features. In this work, resorcinarene-based macrocyclic ligands with specific selectivities have been designed, synthesized and applied to chiral amine discrimination and transition metal ion separations.These resorcinarenes fall into two categories. In the first type, the upper rims of resorcinarenes were modified with amino acid groups, including chiral alanine groups. The lower rims were modified with --CH3, or --C11H23 groups. The structures were studied by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), …

Meta-Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Biological And Non-Biological Treatments For Postpartum Depression, Sarah Jeung Soon Christian

Theses and Dissertations

I provided an updated, comprehensive review of treatments for mothers diagnosed with postpartum depression. Studies included in this meta-analysis were single-group pre-posttest, non-randomized and randomized controlled studies published from 1986 to 2010 that included face-to-face psychotherapy and psychopharmacology as well as non-traditional methods such as exercise and nurse-assisted counseling. 53 published studies were analyzed. The randomized studies showed a moderate to large effects (d= 0.72 to 1.25, k= 9) when postpartum interventions were compared to a control condition, and smaller effects (d= 0.3 to 0.57, k = 13) to treatment as usual. When postpartum interventions were compared to each other …

Real Wounds: Navigating Women Past Abuse And Bitterness, Patricia Walker

Theses and Dissertations

"Real W.O.U.N.D.S.: Navigating Women Past Abuse and Bitterness" identifies how a website could better assist women victims who are coping with the aftermath of domestic abuse and violence in the state of Arkansas. The study focuses around the elements of user-centered design that include: visibility, limitation, accessibility, legibility, and language. Examinations further indicate the website should contain the following basic conventions: page header, persistent navigation, feature area, content area, text links, sidebars, and footer navigation. Accompanying the manuscript is a cassette disc of the website with color changes from what is originally noted in this Thesis.

2012-13 Faculty Senate - March 18, 2013 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Graduate Research Fair Program, 2013, Emu Graduate School

Graduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, March 18, 2013, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 18, 2013, issue of the Crow's Nest.

A Qualitative Examination Of Recent Public Participation Activities In Association With Ecosystem Management In The Great Lakes, Erin Muench

Theses

Government approaches to the management of the North American Great Lakes have evolved following the introduction of ecosystem management principles in the 1978 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada. This approach was adopted as a way to address the complexities associated with the interconnections between the air, land, and water in the Great Lakes basin and its more than 30 million inhabitants. Although there is no universally accepted definition of ecosystem management, a key element is stakeholder participation in policy formulation and implementation to validate decisions within the public sphere. In this thesis I assess …

The Relationship Between Frequency Of Incest And Relational Outcomes With Family-Of-Origin Characteristics As A Potential Moderating Variable, Kathleen Diane Baxter

Theses and Dissertations

As we examined research on the relational effects of incest on survivors, several researchers noted that some of the negative outcomes may be moderated by certain family characteristic variables. Using RELATE data, we examined a subsample of females and males who reported being survivors of incest in childhood and compared them on key family-of-origin processes such as mother and father's marital satisfaction as well as family violence. We used a path analysis to determine whether family processes, specifically functional parents' marriage and low physical violence, moderate the relationship between incest and marital quality in adulthood. Functional family-of-origin processes significantly moderated …

The Protective Effect Of Antioxidants On Vitamin A Stability In Nonfat Dry Milk During Thermally Accelerated Storage, Amalie Brown Kurzer

Theses and Dissertations

Two studies were conducted to determine the relative effect of various combinations of antioxidants on vitamin A oxidation and isomerization in nonfat dry milk (NDM). In the first study, one lot of pasteurized unfortified skim milk was divided, fortified with vitamins A and D and one of 11 antioxidant treatments, and spray dried. A control batch from the same lot was also fortified with vitamins A and D and spray dried. Samples were analyzed for total vitamin A bioactivity after zero, one, and two weeks of storage. After two weeks at 50°C, the only NDM samples that did not experience …

The Collegian (2013-03-18), Joe Molina

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 65, No. 23

Deep Sequencing And Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals The Expansion Of Microrna Genes In The Gall Midge Mayetiola Destructor, Chitvan Khajuria, Christie Williams, Mustapha El Bouhssini, R. Jeff Whitworth, Stephen Richards, Jeffrey J. Stuart, Ming-Shun Chen

Department of Agronomy Faculty Publications

Background

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that play critical roles in regulating post transcriptional gene expression. Gall midges encompass a large group of insects that are of economic importance and also possess fascinating biological traits. The gall midge Mayetiola destructor, commonly known as the Hessian fly, is a destructive pest of wheat and model organism for studying gall midge biology and insect – host plant interactions.

Results

In this study, we systematically analyzed miRNAs from the Hessian fly. Deep-sequencing a Hessian fly larval transcriptome led to the identification of 89 miRNA species that are either identical or very …

Deregulation Of Epigenetic Mechanisms By The Hepatitis B Virus X Protein In Hepatocarcinogenesis, Ourania M. Andrisani

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications

This review focuses on the significance of deregulation of epigenetic mechanisms by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) X protein in hepatocarcinogenesis and HBV replication. Epigenetic mechanisms, DNA methylation, and specific histone modifications, e.g., trimethylation of H3 on lysine-27 or lysine-4, maintain ‘cellular memory’ by silencing expression of lineage-inducing factors in stem cells and conversely, of pluripotency factors in differentiated cells. The X protein has been reported to induce expression of DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), likely promoting epigenetic changes during hepatocarcinogenesis. Furthermore, in cellular and animal models of X-mediated oncogenic transformation, protein levels of chromatin modifying proteins Suz12 and Znf198 are down-regulated. …

Habitat Selection And Response To Disturbance By Pygmy Rabbits In Utah, Robert John Edgel

Theses and Dissertations

The pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) is a sagebrush (Artemisia sp.) obligate that depends on sagebrush habitats for food and cover throughout its life cycle. Invasive species, frequent fires, overgrazing, conversion of land to agriculture, energy development, and many other factors have contributed to recent declines in both quantity and quality of sagebrush-steppe habitats required by pygmy rabbits. Because of the many threats to these habitats and the believed decline of pygmy rabbit populations, there is a need to further understand habitat requirements for this species and how they respond to disturbance. This study evaluated habitat selection by pygmy rabbits in …

Renewable Resource-Based Magnetic Nanocomposites For Removal And Recovery Of Phosphorous From Contaminated Waters, Sunil Kumar Ramasahayam

Theses and Dissertations

Water pollution by dissolved phosphorous (P) is a serious water related issue being faced by mankind during the past two decades. Several technologies already exist to remove P from contaminated water but each has its own drawbacks. This project provides a novel microwave assisted synthesis of reduced iron oxide containing renewable resource-based media for P removal from contaminated waters. It provides a fast, easy, and economical way to produce reduced iron oxide nanocomposites without requiring the need for hydrogen or inert gas during the transformation. A wide range of other metal/ carbon nanocomposites can also be synthesized using this technology …

How Does The Effect Of Cholesterol Vary Between The Inner And Outer Membrane?, Dr. John Bell

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This proposal was designed to use fluorescence spectroscopy to identify in as much detail as possible physical properties of model membranes in effort to understand roles of cholesterol in biological membranes. The following questions were addressed: how does the effect of cholesterol differ between the inner and outer faces of the cell membrane; can fluorescence spectroscopy distinguish between homogenous and heterogeneous mixtures of membrane components; and what is the biophysical mechanism associated with one of the fluorescent probes used (merocyanine 540)? These questions were addressed with three specific aims. All three aims have been accomplished. One paper was published during …

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 51, March 18, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.