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Adaptive Targeting: Engaging Farmers To Assess Perceptions And Improve Watershed Modeling, Optimization, And Adoption Of Agricultural Conservation Practices, Margaret Mccahon Kalcic

Open Access Dissertations

Targeting agricultural conservation practices to farmland that has the greatest impact on surface water quality has received wide support from scientists and watershed managers. The targeting approach has, however, been politically contentious as many believe farmers will oppose the approach on grounds such as privacy invasion and unfair distribution of government incentives. Targeting conservation practices using complex optimization models has become common in the scientific community, and yet targeted results are underutilized in practice because of difficulties such as knowledge transfer and absence of a political framework for their use. For targeting to be successful, it must be politically supported …

Evaluation Of Factors That Increase The Severity Of Dysmenorrhoea Among University Female Students In Maiduguri, North Eastern Nigeria, Roland Nnaemeka Okoro, Helen Malgwi, Glory Ogechi Okoro

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Dysmenorrhoea is defined as painful menses in women.1 Dysmenorrhoea is frequently encountered in young women around adolescence. It affects the quality of life (QOL) of women during reproductive age. The aetiology of primary dysmenorrhoea is not precisely understood, but most symptoms can be explained by the action of uterine prostaglandins, particularly PG F2α. It may be associated with other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, back pain, fatigue, headache, dizziness, and fainting. These symptoms could be very severe and social activity is very limited during menstruation, reducing quality of life in women. Severity of symptoms is usually assessed by grading …

Using Second Language Learning To Improve Self-Esteem Among K-12 Homeless School Children Of Dallas, Texas, William Miller Walker

Collection of Engaged Learning

This dissertation will explain the process and steps taken to prove the statement that using second language learning can improve self-esteem among K-12 homeless school children of Dallas, Texas. I began by researching the hardships that homeless students experience and then used that information to formulate a program in which I would teach basic French language and culture to a group of K-12 homeless students. Through the use of a valid and reliable self-esteem measurement survey, I was able to track changes in participant’s self-esteem to validate my hypothesis.

Volume 2013 - Issue 4 - Fall, 2013, Echoes Staff

Rose Echoes

No abstract provided.

Four Join Division Of Cardiovascular Disease, Tyler Greer

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall 2013, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Cornerstone

No abstract provided.

Honors Research Symposium Program [Fall 2013], University Honors Program Students And Staff

Honors College: News & Publications (2008-2020)

No abstract provided.

Panther Press, Fall 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Military Science.

Panther Press

Inside this issue:

-- UNI Teams up with Dubuque for Fall Training
-- Ranger Challenge Teams Excel in Competition
-- UNI and Dubuque set to Host Military Ball in the Spring
-- Eight Cadets Took the Oath in the UNI Dome at Veteran's Appreciation Game
-- Cadet Highlight: MSI Tyler Jensen
-- Cadet Battalion Commander (CBC) Mark Wieneke
-- UNI ROTC Steps Up Involvement on Campus
-- UNI ROTC Highly Involved in Veteran's Week on Campus!
-- UNI ROTC Cadets Repeat Gold at GAFPB
-- A Bar of Gold
-- Cadets of the Semester
-- Contact Us
-- Military Science …

Csbs Kudos, October 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Kudos

Contents:

-- CSBS Welcomes New Faculty & Staff
-- CSBS News: New CSBS Center Opens
-- 2013 State of the College
-- Staying Connected...
-- Faculty & Staff Kudos
-- Student Kudos
-- Alumni Kudos
-- Panther Open House

Current Unrestricted Operating Budgets, Fiscal Year 2014, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of Administration And Finance

University of Montana Current Unrestricted Operating Budgets, 1993-2017

The unrestricted operating budget of the University of Montana, issued by the Office of University Planning, Budgeting and Analysis under the Office of Administration and Finance.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Fall 2013, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• Musical Milestone: School of Music celebrates 100 years
• All-Steinway Designation: 118 reasons WMU is among top music schools
• Jazz Studies: A history-making beginning
• Mending Fences: Students build community block by block
• Beyond Volunteerism: Service-learning earns WMU spot on presidential honor roll
• Legacy Secured: Archives get modern new home
• Legal Affiliation: WMU, Cooley Law School join forces
• Study in the States: Program offers study-abroad style experience without leaving North America
• Bronco Football Game Changer: P.J. Fleck is football’s best hire of 2013, says Sports Illustrated
• University News
• Campus Quick Reads
• Classnotes
• Obituaries
• Expert Insights
• Alumni Profile
• College News

Focus On Boise State University, Kathleen Tuck (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

No abstract provided.

Quarterly Reporter - October 2013, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

2013 Field Training Course Part II..... p.1
October Quarterly Reports..... p.2
ASSC Fall Field Day..... p.2
Upcoming Events..... p.3
SDAMP News..... p.3
October Lecture Series..... p.4
August Artifact Identification Workshop..... p.5
The Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival..... p.5
3rd Annual Oyster Roast..... p.6
Hobby Diver of the Quarter..... p.6
2013 Black River Project..... p.7
Feature Hobby Diver Article..... p.8
A Week on the Black River..... p.8
Charleston Harbor Stone Fleet Survey..... p.8
Greetings from New SDAMP Intern!..... p.10
SDAMP Welcomes Jeremy Miller..... p.10
Carl Naylor Retires..... p.11
Diving Safety-A Culture..... p.12
Conserving a Small Fragment of Textile …

Chemical Attraction Of Dermacentor Variabilis Ticks Parasitic To Peromyscus Leucopus Based On Host Body Mass And Sex, Tad Dallas, Stephanie Foré

Faculty Publications

Macroparasites are commonly aggregated on a small subset of a host population. Previous explanations for this aggregation relate to differences in immunocompetence or the degree to which hosts encounter parasites. We propose active tick host choice through chemical attraction as a potential mechanism leading to aggregated tick burdens. We test this hypothesis using a Y-maze olfactometer, comparing chemical attraction responses of larval and nymphal Dermacentor variabilis ticks parasitic to the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus, as a function of host sex and host body mass. We hypothesized that larger hosts and male hosts would be most attractive to searching ticks, as …

Social Descent With Territory Loss Causes Rapid Behavioral, Endocrine And Transcriptional Changes In The Brain, Karen P. Maruska, Lisa Becker, Anoop Neboori, Russell D. Fernald

Faculty Publications

In social species that form hierarchies where only dominant males reproduce, lower-ranking individuals may challenge higherranking ones, often resulting in changes in relative social status. How does a losing animal respond to loss of status? Here, using the African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni, we manipulated the social environment, causing males to descend in rank, and then examined changes in behavior, circulating steroids and immediate early gene (IEG) expression (cfos, egr-1) in micro-dissected brain regions as a proxy for neuronal activation. In particular, we examined changes in the conserved 'social behavior network' (SBN), a collection of brain nuclei known to regulate …

Lsu Research Fall 2013, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

Research Magazine

LSU Research is published annually by the Office of Research & Economic Development, Louisiana State University.

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2013, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: A new shibboleth among the higher education leadership caste is that the good old days of ample state funding and generous budgets are “never coming back.” Few leaders of American public higher education systems or institutions challenge this seemingly intuitive axiom; none dare risk the loss of legislative or occasionally gubernatorial pity by expressing even a shred of optimism. The embrace of this apparent axiom—the incantation of the gloom-and-doom mantra as a peculiar status symbol indicating sophistication and membership in the highly briefed if not all-knowing leadership in-group—demonstrates the increasing naiveté among the professionalized leadership clique that …

Silencing Histone Deacetylase-Specific Isoforms Enhances Expression Of Pluripotency Genes In Bovine Fibroblasts, Jaroslaw Staszkiewicz, Rachel A. Power, Lettie L. Harkins, Christian W. Barnes, Karen L. Strickler, Jong S. Rim, Kenneth R. Bondioli, Kenneth J. Eilersten

Faculty Publications

Histone deacetylases (HDACs) catalyze deacetylation of histones that results in altered transcriptional activity. Inhibitors of HDACs have been shown to induce transcriptional changes that contribute positively to reprogramming somatic cells either by nuclear transfer or inducing a pluripotent state. However, the exact molecular mechanisms whereby HDAC inhibitors function and the specificity of the HDAC isoforms in cell reprogramming are not yet fully understood. Herein, we report the ability of individual isoform-specific HDACs to modulate endogenous expression of pluripotency-associated genes in bovine somatic cells. This in vitro study showed that a transient selective depletion of HDACs resulted in elevated mRNA levels …

Sin-Dependent Phosphoinhibition Of Formin Multimerization Controls Fission Yeast Cytokinesis, K. Adam Bohnert, Agnieszka P. Grzegorzewska, Alaina H. Willet, Craig W. Vander Kooi, David R. Kovar, Kathleen L. Gould

Faculty Publications

Many eukaryotes accomplish cell division by building and constricting a medial actomyosin-based cytokinetic ring (CR). In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, a Hippo-related signaling pathway termed the septation initiation network (SIN) controls CR formation, maintenance, and constriction. However, how the SIN regulates integral CR components was unknown. Here, we identify the essential cytokinetic formin Cdc12 as a key CR substrate of SIN kinase Sid2. Eliminating Sid2-mediated Cdc12 phosphorylation leads to persistent Cdc12 clustering, which prevents CR assembly in the absence of anillin-like Mid1 and causes CRs to collapse when cytokinesis is delayed. Molecularly, Sid2 phosphorylation of Cdc12 abrogates multimerization of a previously unrecognized …

Los Arcos - Summer / Fall 2013, University Of Texas-Pan American

UTPA Archives - Los Arcos Magazine

No abstract provided.

Utpa Stats At A Glance - Fall 2013, University Of Texas-Pan American

UTPA Archives - Stats At A Glance

No abstract provided.

Utpa Commencement – Fall 2013, University Of Texas - Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Barefoot And Footloose Doctors: Optimal Resource Allocation In Developing Countries With Medical Migration, John E. Roemer, Pedro Rosa Dias

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In light of the shortage of healthcare professionals, many developing countries operate a defacto two-tiered system of healthcare provision, in which Community Health Workers (CHWs) supplement service provision by fully qualified physicians. CHWs are relatively inexpensive to train but can treat only a limited range of medical conditions. This paper explicitly models a two-tiered structure of healthcare provision and characterizes the optimal allocation of resources between training doctors and CHWs, and implications for population health outcomes. We analyze how medical migration alters resource allocation and population health outcomes, shifting resources towards training CHWs. In the model, migration stimulates health care …

Symposium Foreword: Bombshell Or Baby Step? The Ramifications Of Miller V. Alabama For Sentencing Law And Juvenile Crime Policy, Paul J. Litton

Faculty Publications

This short essay, which serves as the Symposium Foreword, argues that the rationale of Miller is incoherent insofar as it permits juvenile LWOP sentences and that the Court misidentifies the foundational principle of Roper. First, in banning mandatory juvenile LWOP sentences, the Court invokes Woodson, which bans mandatory death sentences. The Court maintains that Woodson, from its capital jurisprudence, applies because juvenile LWOP is “akin to the death penalty” for juveniles. But if the Court’s capital jurisprudence is binding based on that equivalence, Roper should imply that juvenile LWOP, like the death penalty, is unconstitutional for juveniles. This essay briefly …

Nicu Lighting Design: Responding To The Diverse Lighting Needs Of Nicu Users, Rachel Browne, Corey T. Griffin, Nada Maani, Srg Architects, Luma

Research-Based Design Initiative

SRG is redesigning a NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) for a major healthcare provider in the Portland, OR metro area.This is an intensive care unit for babies born prematurely and up to 6 months of age. The space is in an existing hospital and has previously been used as an NICU. For the last several years it was being used as overflow office space, but now is being remodeled and re-commissioned as an NICU. The healthcare provider who owns the hospital recently realized that this could be a value-added service for their business model.

This paper focuses on two factors …

Grounding Equality In Social Relationships: Suspect Classification, Grounds Of Discrimination, And Relational Theory, Jessica Nichol Eisen

LLM Theses

This thesis considers the implications of relational theory for doctrinal debates in Canadian and American constitutional equality law, with a focus on grounds of discrimination and suspect classification. Chapter 1 sets out the fundamentals of feminist relational theory, emphasizing relational approaches to difference, equality, and rights. Chapter 2 considers the methodological implications of applying relational theory to doctrinal problems. Chapter 3 sets out the basic structure and evolution of the suspect classification inquiry in American equal protection law. Chapter 4 does the same in respect of the Canadian doctrinal approach to grounds of unconstitutional discrimination. Finally Chapter 5 ties together …

Equality Of Opportunity, John E. Roemer, Alain Trannoy

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Income Distribution (eds., A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon) summarizes the literature on equality of opportunity. We begin by reviewing the philosophical debate concerning equality since Rawls (sections 1 and 2), present economic algorithms for computing policies which equalize opportunities, or, more generally, ways of ordering social policies with respect to their efficacy in opportunity equalization (sections 3, 4 and 5), apply the approach to the conceptualization of economic development (section 6), discuss dynamic issues (section 7), give a preamble to a discussion of empirical work (section 8), provide evidence of population views from …

Louisiana Agriculture Fall, 2013

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Triacylglycerol Mobilization Is Suppressed By Brefeldin A In Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii, Naohiro Kato, Trung Dong, Michael Bailey, Tony Lum, Drury Ingram

Faculty Publications

Brefeldin A suppresses vesicle trafficking by inhibiting exchange of GDP for GTP in ADP-ribosylation factor. We report that brefeldin A suppresses mobilization of triacylglycerols in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a model organism of green microalgae. Analyses revealed that brefeldin A causes Chlamydomonas to form lipid droplets in which triacylglycerols accumulate in a dose-dependent manner. Pulse labeling experiment using fluorescent fatty acids suggested that brefeldin A inhibits the cells from degrading fatty acids. The experiment also revealed that the cells transiently form novel compartments that accumulate exogenously added fatty acids in the cytoplasm, designated fatty acid-induced microbodies (FAIMs). Brefeldin A up-regulates the formation …

Homologous Rig-I-Like Helicase Proteins Direct Rnaimediated Antièiral Immunity In C. Elegans By Distinct Mechanisms, Xunyang Guo, Rui Zhang, Jeffrey Wang, Shou Wei Ding, Rui Lu

Faculty Publications

RNAi-mediated antièiral immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans requires Dicer-related helicase 1 (DRH-1), which encodes the helicase and C-terminal domains homologous to the mammalian retinoic acid inducible gene I (RIG-I)-like helicase (RLH) family of cytosolic immune receptors. Here we show that the antièiral function of DRH-1 requires the RIG-I homologous domains as well as its wormspecific N-terminal domain. We also demonstrate that the helicase and C-terminal domains encoded by either worm DRH-2 or human RIG-I can functionally replace the corresponding domains of DRH-1 to mediate antièiral RNAi in C. elegans. Notably, substitutions in a three-residue motif of the C-terminal regulatory domain of …