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Multidimensional Governance And The Bp Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Hari M. Osofsky Feb 2013

Multidimensional Governance And The Bp Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Hari M. Osofsky

Florida Law Review

This Article explores the governance challenges posed by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and proposes strategies for developing more inclusive, responsive institutions to help meet them. It begins by analyzing the incident through five core dimensions—vertical, horizontal, direction of hierarchy, cooperativeness, and public- private—to demonstrate the multilevel, multiactor interactions taking place in offshore drilling and oil spill regulation. It then explains the ways in which the complex interactions in these dimensions translate into four core governance challenges: scientific and legal uncertainty, simultaneous overlap and fragmentation, the difficulties of balancing efficiency and inclusion, and inequality and resulting injustice. The Article …

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Pursuit Of Happiness And Resolution Of Conflict: An Agenda For The Future Of Adr, Arthur Pearlstein Feb 2013

Pursuit Of Happiness And Resolution Of Conflict: An Agenda For The Future Of Adr, Arthur Pearlstein

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

The article presents information on the study of happiness with respect to the conflict resolution and the goals of Alternative Dispute Resolution. The study of happiness with its disciplines and methodologies falls under the field of psychology. Information on the role of the American Psychological Association of the U.S. on the study and science of happiness that consists of the findings on the subject of medicine, economics, neuroscience and philosophy is also presented.

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Science Is A Moving Target: Escience, Team Science, The Data Deluge And More, Jackie Wirz, Amanda L. Whitmire Feb 2013

Science Is A Moving Target: Escience, Team Science, The Data Deluge And More, Jackie Wirz, Amanda L. Whitmire

Online Northwest

This presentation will be structured around the research cycle, beginning with experimental hypothesis, moving to data collection, analysis/writing, publication and finishing with scientific networking and collaboration. As we walk through the cycle, we will introduce and discuss many of the concepts that shape modern research. From big data, small data, curation and ontologies to open laboratory notebooks and team science initiatives, participants will come away with a working knowledge of the key issues surrounding eScience.

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Reporter - February 8th 2013, Rit Reporter Staff Feb 2013

Reporter - February 8th 2013, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

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Isoflurane Increases Neuronal Cell Death Vulnerability By Downregulating Mir-214, Hailiang Yan, Tao Xu, Hongfeng Zhao, Kuo-Chieh Lee, Hoau-Yan Wang, Yan Zhang Feb 2013

Isoflurane Increases Neuronal Cell Death Vulnerability By Downregulating Mir-214, Hailiang Yan, Tao Xu, Hongfeng Zhao, Kuo-Chieh Lee, Hoau-Yan Wang, Yan Zhang

Publications and Research

Since accumulating evidence suggests the application of anesthetics may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), we investigated the cytotoxicity of inhaled general anesthesia in neurons and its underlying mechanism. Using primary cultured rat hippocampal neurons as the study model, here we show that isoflurane increases vulnerability to intracellular or extracellular amyloid b with or without serum deprivation. This isoflurane-induced effect is mediated by the downregulation of miR-214 level that lead to an elevated expression of Bax, a prominent target for miR-214. We conclude that isoflurane increases cell death in the presence of amyloid b by increasing Bax level through …

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The Tiger Vol. 107 Issue 4 2013-02-08, Clemson University Feb 2013

The Tiger Vol. 107 Issue 4 2013-02-08, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

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Creating New Partnerships: Strategies For Growing Your Repository, Karen Bjork, Sue Kunda, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek Feb 2013

Creating New Partnerships: Strategies For Growing Your Repository, Karen Bjork, Sue Kunda, David Isaak, Kay Vyhnanek

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

This presentation was given February 8 at Online NW 2013 in Corvallis, OR. Academic institutions, as well as private corporations, have taken on the responsibility of building institutional repositories in order to collect, manage, archive and provide access to the intellectual work taking place on their respective campuses. Over the years, building or procuring a repository has become fairly straightforward. Filling it hasn't. Convincing faculty and academic units to contribute their research and scholarship is still a struggle for most repository owners and requires equal parts determination, imagination and perspiration. Join four repository managers from OSU, PSU, WSU and Kaiser …

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Flyer News, Vol. 60, No. 26 (Feb. 8, 2013), University Of Dayton Feb 2013

Flyer News, Vol. 60, No. 26 (Feb. 8, 2013), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

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Ms171: Interview With Anna Steinberger, Anna Steinberger Ph.D., Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library Feb 2013

Ms171: Interview With Anna Steinberger, Anna Steinberger Ph.D., Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project

An oral interview with Dr. Anna Steinberger, who taught and conducted basic research in Reproductive Biology and served as Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs at UT Medical School-Houston. Her research yielded over 250 scientific articles, books, and book chapters for which she received numerous awards and recognitions in the USA and abroad. See more at Texas Medical Center-Women's History Project and its finding aid.

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Pay Phone Protections In A Smartphone Society: The Need To Restrict Searches Of Modern Technology Incident To Arrest, Marty Koresawa Feb 2013

Pay Phone Protections In A Smartphone Society: The Need To Restrict Searches Of Modern Technology Incident To Arrest, Marty Koresawa

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Since their development in the 1980s, cell phones have become ubiquitous in modern society. Today, cell phones feature large data-storage capacities and can access various types of personal media, making them pocket-sized windows into intimate aspects of an individual’s life. Yet many courts treat cell phones as if they were ordinary physical containers, allowing police officers to search the contents of an arrestee’s cell phone incident to an arrest. The warrantless search of electronic devices incident to an arrest, however, cannot be justified on the same grounds as a similar search of physical containers. The government does not have a …

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Antitrust Symposium—Introduction: So What Else Is New?, Daniel E. Lazaroff Feb 2013

Antitrust Symposium—Introduction: So What Else Is New?, Daniel E. Lazaroff

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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February 8, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2013

February 8, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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February Science Cafe Examines Um/Nasa Space Seeds Program, Edwin Smith Feb 2013

February Science Cafe Examines Um/Nasa Space Seeds Program, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

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Teacher Design Using Online Learning Resources: A Comparative Case Study Of Science And Mathematics Teachers, Mimi Recker Feb 2013

Teacher Design Using Online Learning Resources: A Comparative Case Study Of Science And Mathematics Teachers, Mimi Recker

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Using a comparative case study design, this paper explores the impacts of a technology-related professional development (TTPD) design aimed at helping science and mathematics teachers design classroom activities using the wealth of resources available on the Internet. Using the lens of curricular adaption and the notion of teachers’ varying pedagogical design capacity, we analyzed the experiences of four teachers in terms of the kinds of instructional activities teachers designed, how these were supported with online resources, and teachers’ perceptions of impacts on student learning. Findings suggested that participants used a variety of personally relevant design strategies when applying TTPD concepts …

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Flowering Branches Cause Injuries To Second-Year Main Stems Of Artemisia Tridentata Nutt. Subspecies Tridentata, Lance S. Evans, Angela Citta, Stewart C. Sanderson Feb 2013

Flowering Branches Cause Injuries To Second-Year Main Stems Of Artemisia Tridentata Nutt. Subspecies Tridentata, Lance S. Evans, Angela Citta, Stewart C. Sanderson

Western North American Naturalist

Eccentricity of stems of Artemisia tridentata Nutt. (big sagebrush) has been reported previously. Analysis of samples observed over 2 years documented that each stem terminal produces about 8–10 branches each year, and during second-year growth, 3–8 of these develop into short, flowering, determinate branches. Each flowering branch produces hundreds of seeds and then dies at the end of the season, while the other vegetative branches persist. However, growth of the determinate flowering branches causes the death of vascular cambium surrounding their attachment points on the main stem. This death then results in the observed eccentric growth of the stem. In …

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Population Genetics Of Neviusia Cliftonii (Shasta Snow-Wreath): Patterns Of Diversity In A Rare Endemic, Jennifer Dewoody, Len Lindstrand Iii, Valerie D. Hipkins, Julie Kierstead Nelson Feb 2013

Population Genetics Of Neviusia Cliftonii (Shasta Snow-Wreath): Patterns Of Diversity In A Rare Endemic, Jennifer Dewoody, Len Lindstrand Iii, Valerie D. Hipkins, Julie Kierstead Nelson

Western North American Naturalist

Neviusia cliftonii (Rosaceae), the Shasta snow-wreath, is an endemic shrub found in the vicinity of Shasta Lake, Shasta County, California. First described 20 years ago, the species is of conservation concern due to its restricted range, a low number of known populations, and the potential impacts on or threats to many of these populations. To assess the genetic structure of N. cliftonii, 21 of the 23 known populations were sampled for isozyme analysis. Genetic and multivariate analyses were used to assess levels of genet (genotypic) diversity, allelic variation, and population differentiation. When assessed at 17 loci, a total of 48 …

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Associations Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages With Environmental Variables In The Upper Clear Creek Watershed, California, Larry R. Brown, Jason T. May, Marissa Wulff Feb 2013

Associations Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages With Environmental Variables In The Upper Clear Creek Watershed, California, Larry R. Brown, Jason T. May, Marissa Wulff

Western North American Naturalist

Benthic macroinvertebrates are integral components of stream ecosystems and are often used to assess the ecological integrity of streams. We sampled streams in the upper Clear Creek drainage in the Klamath–Siskiyou Ecoregion of northwestern California in fall 2004 (17 sites) and 2005 (original 17 plus 4 new sites) with the objectives of documenting the benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages supported by the streams in the area, determining how those assemblages respond to environmental variables, assessing the biological condition of the streams using a benthic index of biotic integrity (IBI), and understanding the assemblages in the context of biodiversity of the ecoregion. We …

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Nest-Area Fidelity Of Greater Sage-Grouse In Strawberry Valley, Utah, Riley D. Peck, Rick J. Baxter, Randy T. Larsen, Jerran T. Flinders Feb 2013

Nest-Area Fidelity Of Greater Sage-Grouse In Strawberry Valley, Utah, Riley D. Peck, Rick J. Baxter, Randy T. Larsen, Jerran T. Flinders

Western North American Naturalist

Nest-area fidelity is common among many birds including those in the orders Anseriformes, Ciconiiformes, and Procellariiformes. Successful nesting attempts are often associated with a higher probability that nesting adults will return in a consecutive year. Conversely, unsuccessful birds are often less likely to show fidelity in subsequent years. Despite substantial natural history information from across the range of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), the prevalence of sage-grouse nest-area fidelity remains unclear. Our objectives were to (1) determine if individual female sage-grouse showed fidelity to nesting areas in subsequent years, (2) test whether successful females were more likely to demonstrate …

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Seed Source Affects Establishment Of Elymus Multisetus In Postfire Revegetation In The Great Basin, Courtney L. J. Rowe, Elizabeth A. Leger Feb 2013

Seed Source Affects Establishment Of Elymus Multisetus In Postfire Revegetation In The Great Basin, Courtney L. J. Rowe, Elizabeth A. Leger

Western North American Naturalist

Postfire revegetation with native perennial grasses is difficult to achieve in disturbed arid rangelands. If local populations are adapted to current conditions, then locally collected seed would be predicted to have higher survival than nonlocal seed, and using local seed should improve revegetation success. However, for revegetation projects in the Great Basin, sufficient quantity of local seed is often difficult to obtain commercially, so seeds often originate from source populations that are hundreds of kilometers from the project site. We investigated whether seed source affected first-year establishment of big squirreltail (Elymus multisetus M.E. Jones) seedlings in a common garden …

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Current Status Of The Plains Pocket Mouse (Perognathus Flavescens) In Eastern Nebraska, Keith Geluso, Greg D. Wright Feb 2013

Current Status Of The Plains Pocket Mouse (Perognathus Flavescens) In Eastern Nebraska, Keith Geluso, Greg D. Wright

Western North American Naturalist

Distribution of the plains pocket mouse (Perognathus flavescens) overlaps tallgrass prairies in northeastern parts of the species’ range in the central United States. Distribution and abundance of the plains pocket mouse appears negatively impacted by agricultural practices during the last century due to the scarcity of records throughout the region. In eastern Nebraska, few plains pocket mice have been captured and no published account exists in recent decades. We investigated the current status of P. f. perniger, the eastern subspecies in Nebraska, because of a paucity of information regarding this subspecies’ natural history and suspected extirpation from the …

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Breeding Biology And Bee Guild Of Douglas' Dustymaiden, Chaenactis Douglasii (Asteraceae, Helenieae), James H. Cane, Byron Love, Katharine Swoboda Feb 2013

Breeding Biology And Bee Guild Of Douglas' Dustymaiden, Chaenactis Douglasii (Asteraceae, Helenieae), James H. Cane, Byron Love, Katharine Swoboda

Western North American Naturalist

Douglas’ dustymaiden, Chaenactis douglasii (Hook.) Hook. & Arn., is a widespread, inconspicuous, short-lived perennial wildflower that blooms in early summer and is found in basin sagesteppe to upper montane areas throughout the U.S. Intermountain West. The species is proving practical to grow for seed and is expected to be used for western rangeland rehabilitation. Through manual pollination experiments, C. douglasiiwas found to be only weakly self-fertile; 15% of flowers from geitonogamy and autogamy treatments yielded filled achenes. In contrast, 57% of outcrossed flowers produced achenes filled with endosperm, with every capitulum yielding some fertile seeds. Freely visited flowers from …

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Homing Behavior And Survival Of Pygmy Rabbits After Experimental Translocation, Timothy J. Lawes, Robert G. Anthony, W. Douglas Robinson, James T. Forbes, Glenn A. Lorton Feb 2013

Homing Behavior And Survival Of Pygmy Rabbits After Experimental Translocation, Timothy J. Lawes, Robert G. Anthony, W. Douglas Robinson, James T. Forbes, Glenn A. Lorton

Western North American Naturalist

Habitat fragmentation is hypothesized to influence movements of animals between isolated habitat fragments and to affect survival of animals moving between fragments. Translocation experiments can provide quantitative information on movements and survival. We assessed potential barriers to dispersal and survival of pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis), a species of conservation concern that is hypothesized to be sensitive, after translocation, to fragmentation of its sagebrush habitats. We measured homing tendency and estimated survival of pygmy rabbits after short-distance (1–2 km) experimental translocations at sites in southeastern Oregon. We captured, radio-tagged, and translocated 59 pygmy rabbits across 3 landscape categories of …

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Diet And Ectoparasites Of The Southern Short-Tailed Shrew (Blarina Carolinensis) In Louisiana, Terry L. Sylvester, Justin D. Hoffman, Eddie K. Lyons Feb 2013

Diet And Ectoparasites Of The Southern Short-Tailed Shrew (Blarina Carolinensis) In Louisiana, Terry L. Sylvester, Justin D. Hoffman, Eddie K. Lyons

Western North American Naturalist

Diet items and ectoparasites were identified from 15 southern short-tailed shrews (Blarina carolinensis) captured during a one-year study (December 2009–November 2010). Twenty different diet items were found in 13 southern short-tailed shrews. Collectively, insects made up the bulk of these shrews’ diet (92%), with Diptera and Hymenoptera being most prevalent. Plant material and arachnids occurred 46% of the time. Six of the diet items identified are new reports for the southern short-tailed shrew. Nine ectoparasite species were collected from 11 of the southern short-tailed shrews, comprising 8 species of mites and one species of tick. Orycteroxenus soricisand …

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Characterization Of Potential Interactions Between Transferrin Binding Proteins In Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, Shreni Mistry Feb 2013

Characterization Of Potential Interactions Between Transferrin Binding Proteins In Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, Shreni Mistry

Theses and Dissertations

Neisseria gonorrhoeae requires iron for survival and establishment of infection in the human host. Pathogenic Neisseriae have evolved a repertoire of high-affinity iron acquisition systems to facilitate iron uptake in the human host. This requires specific outer membrane receptors and energy-harnessing cytoplasmic membrane proteins. The transferrin receptor proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae are necessary for iron uptake from transferrin in the host. The iron uptake system consists of two transferrin binding proteins, (Tbp) A and B. TbpA is an integral outer membrane, TonB-dependent transporter that forms the pore for iron internalization. TbpB is a surface exposed lipoprotein that makes the iron …

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Jeffrey Pine Seed Dispersal In The Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Mark S. Enders, Sarah Barga, Christopher Moore, Amy Seaman, Ramón Perea Feb 2013

Jeffrey Pine Seed Dispersal In The Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Mark S. Enders, Sarah Barga, Christopher Moore, Amy Seaman, Ramón Perea

Western North American Naturalist

The Sierra San Pedro Mártir (SSPM) in northern Baja California, Mexico, is a remote mountain at the southern edge of the California Floristic Province, a vegetation type that includes the Sierra Nevada of California and western Nevada. Unlike most forests in the southwestern United States, the forests of the SSPM have never been logged and have experienced only light grazing in recent years, and wildfires have not been suppressed until recent decades. The SSPM represents one of the best examples of an intact presettlement forest in the California Floristic Province. We investigated the mode of seed dispersal of Jeffrey pine …

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Front Matter, Vol. 72 No. 4 Feb 2013

Front Matter, Vol. 72 No. 4

Western North American Naturalist

No abstract provided.

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The Bg News February 08, 2013, Bowling Green State University Feb 2013

The Bg News February 08, 2013, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 08, 2013. Volume 92-Issue 65.

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Site-Occupancy Monitoring Of An Ecosystem Indicator: Linking Characteristics Of Riparian Vegetation To Beaver Occurrence, Stewart W. Breck, Michael I. Goldstein, Sanjay Pyare Feb 2013

Site-Occupancy Monitoring Of An Ecosystem Indicator: Linking Characteristics Of Riparian Vegetation To Beaver Occurrence, Stewart W. Breck, Michael I. Goldstein, Sanjay Pyare

Western North American Naturalist

Establishing sampling frameworks to monitor the occurrence of ecological indicators, and to identify the covariates that influence occurrence, are high priority needs for natural-resource restoration and management efforts. We utilized occupancy modeling to identify patterns of beaver occurrence and factors influencing these patterns (i.e., type and amount of vegetation cover) in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River ecosystem. We used rafts and kayaks to access a stratified random sample of sites (i.e., 100 m long sections of river bank) and used repeated sampling procedures to sample for beaver sign (i.e., lodges, cuttings, tracks, and beaver observed). We quantified the …

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Ringtail (Bassariscus Astutus) Ecology And Behavior In Central New Mexico, Usa, Robert L. Harrison Feb 2013

Ringtail (Bassariscus Astutus) Ecology And Behavior In Central New Mexico, Usa, Robert L. Harrison

Western North American Naturalist

I studied the ecology and behavior of ringtails (Bassariscus astutus) in juniper (Juniperus monosperma) woodland on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. Average home-range sizes of ringtails (males 462 ha, females 94 ha, 95% fixed kernel) were among the largest reported to date. Females moved least in summer and most in autumn, but males showed no seasonal trend in movements. The average stay in a single den was 1.3 days. I found no effect of the closeness of approach of the den observer on the distance moved between successive dens. Ringtails used a …

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Recreational Trails As Corridors For Alien Plants In The Rocky Mountains, Usa, Floye H. Wells, William K. Lauenroth, John B. Bradford Feb 2013

Recreational Trails As Corridors For Alien Plants In The Rocky Mountains, Usa, Floye H. Wells, William K. Lauenroth, John B. Bradford

Western North American Naturalist

Alien plant species often use areas of heavy human activity for habitat and dispersal. Roads and utility corridors have been shown to harbor more alien species than the surrounding vegetation and are therefore believed to contribute to alien plant persistence and spread. Recreational trails represent another corridor that could harbor alien species and aid their spread. Effective management of invasive species requires understanding how alien plants are distributed at trailheads and trails and how their dispersal may be influenced by native vegetation. Our overall goal was to investigate the distribution of alien plants at trailheads and trails in the Rocky …

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