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The P17 Protein As An Activator Of The Coll11a2 Gene, William Wittwer, Dr. Laura Bridgewater

Journal of Undergraduate Research

One of the main things that I have learned over the course of this project is that things work better in theory than in practice. I spent two semesters attempting to builda plasmid containing the the p17 cDNA sequence in order to test the ability of p17 as an activator of the Coll11a2 gene. Unfortunately, I was not able to produce the plasmid given to me.

Thymidine Kinase-1 Activity Of Uv Induced B Lymphocytes, Geoffrey G. Wood, Dr. Kim L. O'Neill

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The normal life of a eukaryotic cell involves a dynamic struggle between survival and death. When a cell is no longer capable of living, certain pathways are initiated for natural cell death. These “programmed cell deaths” transpire in predictable patterns, and are regulated by many proteins and signals that either activate or inactivate the cell death pathways. Changes in the various homeostatic molecules initiate the apoptotic pathway. However, there are other agents within the cell that regulate these apoptotic triggers. Tumors can arise when these regulatory proteins are mutated, inactivated, or ignored, resulting in the aggressive replicating nature of tumor …

Mononuclear Leukocyte And Breast Cancer Cell Interaction Affects Angiogenic Activity, Philip Maximilian Scherer, Dr. Kim L. O'Neill

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In 2005, the National Cancer Society estimated that about 211,240 new cases of invasive breast cancer in the United States will be diagnosed. Overall, an estimated 1,372,910 new cases of cancer and 570,280 cancer deaths in the United States are predicted for 2005. The National Institutes of Health estimated that the overall costs for cancer in 2004 were $189.9 billion. Cancer is thus a growing health concern. While past research has investigated genes in order to find a cure to cancer, current research now emphasizes a study of the microenvironment surrounding the cancer. The purpose of this research was to …

Structural Identification Of The Bioactive Components Of The Samoan Fish Poison Plant Barringtonia Asiatica, Robert A. Burton, Dr. Noel L. Owen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The seed of the Futu tree, Barringtonia asiatica, has been used by inhabitants of the Pacific islands for many years as a highly toxic fish poison.1 These ethnobotanical studies were responsible for the initiation of this investigation.

Merocyanine 540 Fluorescence In Apoptotic Lymphocytes, Kristen H. Parker, Dr. John D. Bell

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Our research team in Dr. Bell’s laboratory has focused primarily on studying interactions between cell membranes and the enzyme secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2). This enzyme is able to distinguish between healthy cells and foreign or damaged cells, which it hydrolyzes. The purpose of my individual project was to use a specific fluorescent probe to study the mechanism for the selective susceptibility and degradation of cell membranes by sPLA2.

Quaker Campus, September 12, 2013 (Vol. 100, Issue 2), Whittier College

Quaker Campus

No abstract provided.

Heading To Rio For The 2013 World Congress On Huntington's Disease, Kenneth P. Serbin

At Risk for Huntington's Disease

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - September 12, 2013

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

A Satellite And Ground Evaluation Of Urban Vegetation And Infrastructure In The Landscape Of A Tropical City: Heredia, Costa Rica, Julian Monge-Najera, Zaidett Barrientos, Maribel Zúñiga-Solís

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Urban vegetation can have beneficial effects on biodiversity and human health and has been widely studied in temperate cities. The situation, however, is different in the tropics: there is a knowledge gap describing the influence of the growth and expansion of tropical cities on vegetation within the cities. There is also a scarcity of work discussing appropriate methods to quantify urban vegetation in the tropics, where financial resources for research are normally quite limited. Our objectives in this article were to measure the amount of urban vegetation in a tropical city, its relationship to population and infrastructure, and to determine …

Racial Hegemony In America: The Struggle For Identity Among The Black Indians Of The Five Civilized Tribes Of The Southern United States, Natasha Hartsfield

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

The notion of race was introduced to the Americas at the time of colonization. For the Black Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes, racism has led to the rejection of their tribal heritage from both tribal and United States governments. The Black Indians are of both African and Native American ancestry with a history born in America and rich with resistance against colonial power. Blood quantum, the governmental requisite for tribal membership, is but one of the many laws put in place to govern Native American tribes. This introduces the question: Why, in a Nation that claims "freedom for all," …

Constructs Of Freedom And Identity: The Ethnogenesis Of The Jamaican Maroons And The Treaties Of 1739, Jessica Krug

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

This article is a study of the Maroons communities in eighteenth-century Jamaica. The Maroons did not end the institution of slavery, but they ended the condition of their own enslavement, and so made possible such actions as the successful revolt in Haiti, which, ultimately, collapsed racialized slavery in the New World. Understanding the ethnogenesis of the Jamaican Maroons provides an excellent opportunity for people to escape the narrow duality of victim-and-oppressor which most often shapes discussion of the history of slavery.

Faculty Mentor: John Ott

Comparative Colonialsims: Variations In Japanese Colonial Policy In Taiwan And Korea, 1895 ‐ 1945, Gunnar Abramson

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

Japan's seizure and early governance of Taiwan and Korea, both of which would become its most important subject territories, is widely understood by historians as being informed by the context of late nineteenth century "new" imperialism. The belief, widely held in the West at the time, that the measure of a nation's strength was dependent on the reality of its political control over territories outside of the metropole, was accepted by Meiji era Japanese elites. Believing that they had, in large part, successfully navigated the inaugural decades of a wide ranging policy of promoting economic modernization, these elites could more …

Another Visit To Red And Blue States, Jason Gary Damron

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

In this paper, I will be examining how the political right in the United States—those in the "red states"—have redefined political discourse to shift focus away from material concerns and onto issues of the “family”—actually a code name for arousing fears around topics of sexuality. Unfortunately, the left—those in the "blue states"—have been surprisingly complicit in this shift in focus, allowing so-called cultural (and especially sexual) issues to eclipse real, material concerns facing most U.S. citizenry.

Faculty Mentors: Marcia Klotz and Cherry Muhanji

Gene Flow In An Invasive Species Of Grass, Brachypodium Sylvaticum, Trieste Dobberstein

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

Invasive species of plants are responsible for a staggering amount of damage to the landscape and floral and faunal communities. Invasions remain largely ignored until invasive populations have reached critical levels, at which point costly and time consuming efforts are required for containment or control. Studying the early stages of an invasion can provide insight into the mechanics behind the establishment and spread of invaders, as well as shed more light on the processes of microevolution. Brachypodium sylvaticum is a grass recently invasive to the Willamette Valley, and possesses many traits valuable to a migration and evolutionary study. This study …

The Role Of The Environmental Manager In Advancing Environmental Sustainability And Social Responsibility In The Organization, Lisa Greenwood, Joseph Rosenbeck, Jason Scott

Journal of Environmental Sustainability

A changing business climate has led many organizations to embrace environmental sustainability and social responsibility; however, organizational roles and responsibilities in sustainability initiatives have not been clearly defined. This paper specifically examines the role of environmental managers in advancing environmental sustainability and social responsibility. It is part of a broader study to identify the extent to which various departments or functional units within an organization are prepared to play a role in these initiatives based on a survey of various professionals in relation to activities and action items derived from the ISO 26000 standard on social responsibility. As expected, the …

Volume 105 Issue 2, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Cold Atmospheric Plasma For Selectively Ablating Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells, Mian Wang, Benjamin Holmes, Xiaoqian Cheng, Wei Zhu, Michael Keidar, Lijie Grace Zhang

Medicine Faculty Publications

Traditional breast cancer treatments such as surgery and radiotherapy contain many inherent limitations with regards to incomplete and nonselective tumor ablation. Cold atomospheric plasma (CAP) is an ionized gas where the ion temperature is close to room temperature. It contains electrons, charged particles, radicals, various excited molecules, UV photons and transient electric fields. These various compositional elements have the potential to either enhance and promote cellular activity, or disrupt and destroy them. In particular, based on this unique composition, CAP could offer a minimally-invasive surgical approach allowing for specific cancer cell or tumor tissue removal without influencing healthy cells. Thus, …

Emu Today, September 11, 2013, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Role Of Programmed Proteolysis During Meiosis, Vincent Matthews, G. Valentin Borner Ph.D.

Undergraduate Research Posters 2013

Meiosis is the process which forms gametes and spores for reproduction in eukaryotic cells. During the pachytene phase of meiosis I, a protein structure, called the Synaptonemal Complex (SC), forms between homologous chromosomes and creates a scaffold for genetic recombination. In yeast, the Zip1 protein is a major structural component of the SC. At restrictive temperature for meiosis, ZIP1 is required for completion of meiotic divisions. At permissive temperature ZIP1 is required for proper chromosome segregation. We observed that chemical inhibition of the proteasome, with MG132, results in arrest at prophase of meiosis I. Based on these results, we questioned …

Prospectus, September 11, 2013, Ashton Gwin, Ted Sutterlund, Ernie Springer, Matthew Jackson, Mace Mackiewicz, Gerardo Jiminez, Alex Wallner

Prospectus 2013

MEN'S SOCCER HOSTS "KICK FOR THE CURE"; International Student Award recipient: YoungSuk Oh; Parkland PRIDE backs LGBT community; How to stay safe on campus; Video game violence may go too far; Candidate statements for fall election; Parkland volleyball serves one up for community

Fashion Vs. Function In Cultural Evolution: The Case Of Dog Breed Popularity, Stefano Ghirlanda, Alberto Acerbi, Harold A. Herzog, James A. Serpell

Pets Collection

We investigate the relationship between characteristics of dog breeds and their popularity between years 1926 and 2005. We consider breed health, longevity, and behavioral qualities such as aggressiveness, trainability, and fearfulness. We show that a breed’s overall popularity, fluctuations in popularity, and rates of increase and decrease around popularity peaks show typically no correlation with these breed characteristics. One exception is the finding that more popular breeds tend to suffer from more inherited disorders. Our results support the hypothesis that dog breed popularity has been primarily determined by fashion rather than function.

Weekly News Digest 09/11/2013, Jenna Ray

Weekly Bulletin Archive

In this issue:

● Thursday Afternoon Faculty Seminars Resume

● Morris to Host Gloria Ladson-Billings This Fall

● Morris Named a Top 10 Public Liberal Arts College

● Livingston Receives Pay it Forward Stevens County Award

The Lumberjack, September 11, 2013, The Lumberjack Staff

2013

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University

Science Café, Conversations Kick Off On Sept. 11, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Anchor, Volume 127.02: September 11, 2013, Hope College

The Anchor: 2013

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Volume 51, Number 4: September 11, 2013, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Forebrain Deletion Of The Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter Results In Deficits In Executive Function, Metabolic, And Rna Splicing Abnormalities In The Prefrontal Cortex, Benjamin Kolisnyk, Mohammed A. Al-Onaizi, Pedro H. F. Hirata, Monica S. Guzman, Simona Nikolova, Shahar Barbash, Hermona Soreq, Robert Bartha, Marco A. M. Prado, Vania F. Prado

Anatomy and Cell Biology Publications

One of the key brain regions in cognitive processing and executive function is the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which receives cholinergic input from basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. We evaluated the contribution of synaptically released acetylcholine (ACh) to executive function by genetically targeting the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) in the mouse forebrain. Executive function was assessed using a pairwise visual discrimination paradigm and the 5-choice serial reaction time task (5-CSRT). In the pairwise test, VAChT-deficient mice were able to learn, but were impaired in reversal learning, suggesting that these mice present cognitive inflexibility. Interestingly, VAChT-targeted mice took longer to reach criteria in …

Public Services Annual Report 2012-2013, Deborah Mongeau

Public Services Reports

Annual report of the Public Services Department of the University of Rhode Island Libraries.

Banner News, Trevor Gutknecht, Kaycee Purdy, Adrienne Lu, Jessica Mcneece, Cainon Leeds, Sierra Pilk, Zach Kowalic

Banner News

No abstract provided.

A&S Faculty Get New 1804 Fund Awards For Research, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.