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2013-2014 - Quillen College Of Medicine Operating Budget (October), Budget And Financial Planning, East Tennessee State University

College of Medicine Operating Budgets and Analysis

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2013-2014 - Etsu General Academic Operating Budget (October), Budget And Financial Planning, East Tennessee State University

ETSU General Academic Operating Budgets and Analysis

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Ohio Northern University Catalog, 2013-2014, Ohio Northern University

University Catalogs

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Annual Report 2012-13: Legacy Of Excellence, Institute Of Business Administration

Annual Reports

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Influence Of Exposure To Benzo[A]Pyrene On Mice Testicular Germ Cells During Spermatogenesis, Hueiwang Anna Jeng, Silvina M. Bocca

Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications

The objective of this study was to assess the toxicological effect of exposure to benzo(a)pyrene, B[a]P, on germ cells during spermatogenesis. Mice were exposed to B[a]P at 1, 10, 50, and 100 mg/kg/day for 30 days via oral ingestion. Germ cells, including spermatogonia, spermatocytes, pachytene spermatocytes, and round spermatids, were recovered from testes of mice exposed to B[a]P, while mature spermatozoa were isolated from vas deferens. Reproductive organs were collected and weighed. Apoptotic response of germ cells and mature spermatozoa were qualified using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated deoxy-UTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay. B[a]P exposure at

An Examination Of Elementary School Leadership Seen Through The Lens Of Complexity Theory, Carole L. Benedict

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The knowledge era has been described as a time when new information will be developing through a lens of globalization and technology. Many organizational theorists are thinking of leadership that abandons age-old bureaucratic practices and enables the organization to meet its goals. Through the lens of complexity theory, schools are seen as organizations that are constantly adapting to environmental change. Leadership for such organizations is seen as moving away from command and control and toward democratic, person-centered relational styles. The primary goals for this research were to identify the leader behaviors of elementary school principals who effectively lead for change …

Vision 2013

Vision

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Ua12/13 2013 Sustainability Report [Western Kentucky University], Wku Office Of Sustainability, Christian Ryan-Downing

Sustainability Publications and Resources

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Size And Age Variation Of Larval Gyrinophilus Porphyriticus Porphyriticus In Sympatry With Salvelinus Fontinalis, Aaron Jacob Semasko

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The Northern Spring Salamander (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus) has a larval stage that could extend up to six years, an anomaly unheard of in other plethodontid salamanders. The size of a larva could be larger than an adult of a younger age. A sympatric species, Salvelinus fontinalis, the native brook trout, negatively alters the individual mass and survival of G. p. porphyriticus larvae. In the absence of trout, the role of G. porphyriticus ascends to top predator in a small stream community. Amphibians specifically have proven their role as stream indicators, a position attributed to their porous skin. I attempted to determine …

Ua3/9/7 President's Office-Ransdell Correspondence, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Selected correspondence not duplicated in the Reading File. Contains incoming correspondence and responses.

Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, And Demographic History Of Exploited Sea Urchin Populations (Tripneustes Gratilla) In The Philippines, Inggat Laya N. Casilagan, Marie Antonette Juinio-Menez, Eric D. Crandall

School of Natural Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

The sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla is ecologically and economically important in the Indo-Pacific region. We use population genetic methods to investigate the population structure and historical demography of exploited populations in the Philippines. Sea urchins sampled in 6 localities in western Luzon and 4 outgroup sites were sequenced for mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase-1 gene (n = 282) and genotyped for seven microsatellite loci (n = 277). No significant genetic structure was found for either class of markers, indicating either extensive gene flow across the archipelago, or that populations have high genetic diversity and have not yet attained equilibrium between genetic drift …

Linking Land Use, In-Stream Stressors, And Biological Condition To Infer Causes Of Regional Ecological Impairment In Streams, Jacob J. Vander Laan, Charles P. Hawkins, John R. Olson, Ryan A. Hill

School of Natural Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

We used field-derived data from streams in Nevada, USA, to quantify relationships between stream biological condition, in-stream stressors, and potential sources of stress (land use). We used 2 freshwater macroinvertebrate-based indices to measure biological condition: a multimetric index (MMI) and an observed to expected (O/E) index of taxonomic completeness. We considered 4 categories of potential stressors: dissolved metals, total dissolved solids, nutrients, and flow alteration. For physicochemical factors that varied predictably across natural environmental gradients, we quantified potential stress as the site-specific difference between observed (O) and expected (E) levels of each factor (O–Estress). We then used 2 sets of …

Discovery: Research Annual Report 2013, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research Annual Reports

• BRCC spells return on investment
• MDOT Collaborates with WMU
• Starting Gate puts student entrepreneurs on the fast track
• 2013 Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellows at WMU
• Faculty receive awards
• WMU research facility assists in rediscovery of rare mineral deposit

Ua12/13 Big Red, Small Planet, Christian Ryan-Downing , Editor, Leslie North , Editor

Sustainability Publications and Resources

At WKU, “The Spirit Makes the Master”. Our commitment to continuous improvement is clearly reflected in our sustainability efforts. WKU’s commitment to sustainability, whether demonstrated in campus operations or in educational programs, helps to ensure that our graduates are prepared to address the complicated environmental, social and economic issues we face today. They will be able to think critically, solve problems creatively and be engaged citizens. If that’s all we accomplish then we will have achieved great success. But our sustainability commitment pays dividends, as it also leads us to reduce our environmental footprint, practice social responsibility, and conserve natural …

Research Week 2013, Linda Gardiner

Office of Research Institutional Research and Scholarship

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Unified Variance In The Local Church : Fostering The Harmonics Of Difference By Following Christ, Valuing Relationships, And Rallying Around A Common Mission, John C. Tittle

Doctor of Ministry

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Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Justice: A Comparative Legal Study Of The Amanda Knox Case, Danielle Lenth

McGeorge Law Review

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Chapter 595: Banning The Use Of Dogs To Hunt Bears And Bobcats, Sean D. O’Dowd

McGeorge Law Review

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Chapter 533: Bipartisan Efforts To Limit California State Park Closures, David Vidal

McGeorge Law Review

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Chapter 821: Mandated Vaccinations Bring Informed Consent, Annakarina De La Torre-Fennell

McGeorge Law Review

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A New Crop For Agricultural Land: The Renewable Energy Mandate And Its Potential To Turn Farm Lands Into Energy Fields, Amy Odens

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.

Justice Kennedy’S Jurisprudence On The First Amendment Religion Clauses, R. Randall Kelso

McGeorge Law Review

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Streamlab Collaboratory: Experiments, Data Sets, And Research Synthesis, A. Singh, J. A. Czuba, E. Foufoula-Georiou, J. D.G. Marr, C. Hill, S. Johnson, C. Ellis, J. Mullin, C. H. Orr, Peter Wilcock, M. Hondzo, C. Paola

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

A series of community-led, large-scale laboratory experiments, termed “StreamLab”, were performed by the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) with the purpose of advancing multidisciplinary research, education, and knowledge transfer at the interface of physical/chemical/biological processes in streams, science-based stream restoration practice, and environmental sensing technologies. Two series of experiments, StreamLab06 and StreamLab08, were conducted in the Main Channel of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, a flume 84 m long and 2.75 m wide with water fed by the Mississippi River at a rate of up to 8.5 m3/s. The purpose of this paper is …

Genomics Of A Metamorphic Timing Qtl: Met1 Maps To A Unique Genomic Position And Regulates Morph And Species-Specific Patterns Of Brain Transcription, Robert B. Page, Meredith A. Boley, D. Kevin Kump, S. Randal Voss

Biology Faculty Publications

Very little is known about genetic factors that regulate life history transitions during ontogeny. Closely related tiger salamanders (Ambystoma species complex) show extreme variation in metamorphic timing, with some species foregoing metamorphosis altogether, an adaptive trait called paedomorphosis. Previous studies identified a major effect QTL (met1) for metamorphic timing and expression of paedomorphosis in hybrid crosses between the biphasic Eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum) and the paedomorphic Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). We used existing hybrid mapping panels and a newly created hybrid cross to map the met1 genomic region and determine the …

Gender, Spirituality, And Community Engagement: Complexities For Students At Catholic Women’S Colleges, Kathryn A. E. Enke, Kelly T. Winters

Administration Publications

In this research, we explored the ways that junior and senior students at two Catholic women’s colleges in the Midwestern United States understand community engagement, and we examined how they came to know and understand their gender and spiritual identities in relation to their engagement activities. Participants seemed to draw on both an ethic of care and an ethic of justice (Gilligan, 1982) when framing their motivations for doing community engagement work. The findings enhance what is "known" about how students experience and make meaning from structured programs that encourage community engagement.

A Role For Dynamin-Dependent Endocytosis During Drosophila Gastrulation, Marissa Kay Kuhl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Gastrulation, a process conserved among many higher organisms, is the directed migration of cells into layers that will establish various tissues targeted to become anatomical structures. This process is accomplished through another conserved morphogenetic event, known as cell intercalation. Early in development, this movement of cells within an organized tissue leads to unique cellular arrangements where neighboring cells contract their shared interfaces in order to meet at a shared vertex. In this thesis, I present work that demonstrates a requirement for Dynamin-dependent endocytosis during these contraction events. Using quantitative analysis, I have identified varied cell behaviors during experiments which knockdown …

The Influence Of Ubiquitin-Related Modifier Protein Urm1 On Prion Formation, Jacob Beaver

Bridges: A Journal of Student Research

Prions are infectious proteins that are autocatalyzing (formed by altering a regular protein into the structurally different prion form), and are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy (or Mad Cow disease). This experiment tested the effect of three different plasmids—pH317, pER62, and pMP46—on prion formation in both wild-type and Urm1 deletion mutants in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The proposed hypothesis was over-expression of the Ure2 prion forming protein would increase the frequency of prion formation, as well as yield less sustainable prion amyloids (or prion aggregations) that are easier to cure. Another …

“Chac Mool”: ¿Horror Gótico O Imaginación Activa?, Sara Ann Gottardi

Hipertexto

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Review Of Where Did The Heat Go? Review Of New Feminist Criticism: Essays On Women, Literature, And Theory Edited By Elaine Showalter New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Out Of Print; New And Used Editions Available Through Online Booksellers – Prices Vary. Isbn: 978-0394726472, Ruth Mikal Garza

Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Bridgewater State University Factbook, 2012-2013, Office Of Institutional Research, Bridgewater State University

Factbook

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