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Fisheries Research Report No. 233 - Status Of The Blue Swimmer Crab Fishery In Shark Bay, Western Australia Fishery Assessment Document, David Harris, Danielle Johnston, Errol Sporer, Mervi Kangas, Felipe Nieves, Nick Caputi

Fisheries Research Reports

The Shark Bay Crab Fishery on the central coast of Western Australia has developed rapidly in the last 10 years to become Australia’s highest producing blue swimmer crab fishery, with peak landings in 2010 of 828t valued at over AU$6 million. The resource is harvested commercially by the Shark Bay crab trap and Shark Bay prawn trawl fisheries, with negligible amounts retained by the Shark Bay scallop fishery. There are currently five 300-trap licences and 28 trawl (18 prawn and 10 scallop) licences authorized to take blue swimmer crabs in Shark Bay.

Measured And Modeled Soil Moisture Compared With Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probe Estimates In A Mixed Forest, L. Ling, T. Franz, D. Robinson, S. Jones

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Application Of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (Lamp) In Microbiological Water Quality Analysis, Nduta F. Mwangi

All Master’s Theses

Water is life thus access to safe drinking water is essential to health and a basic human right. Kenya is considered a water scarce country whose water sources are becoming more contaminated through changes in land use and poor solid waste management. This has in turn affected the quantity and quality of portable water available. There are nearly 1.7 billion cases of waterborne diarrheal disease every year with over 760 000 deaths of children under five years. Traditional methods of identification of waterborne pathogens are less specific, sensitive, timeconsuming and laborious, so there is a need for the development of …

Genome-Wide Annotation Of Chemosensory And Glutamate-Gated Receptors, And Related Genes In Glossina Morsitans Morsitans Tsetse Fly, George Fredrick Obiero Opondo

All PhD Dissertations

Tsetse flies are the sole vectors of trypanosomes that cause nagana and sleeping sickness in animals and humans respectively in tropical Africa. Tsetse are unique: both sexes adults are exclusive blood-feeders, females are mated young and give birth to a single mature larva in sheltered habitats per pregnancy. Tsetse use chemoreception to detect and respond to chemical stimuli, helping them to locate hosts, mates, larviposition and resting sites. The detection is facilitated by chemoreceptors expressed on sensory neurons to cause specific responses. Specific molecular factors that mediate these responses are poorly understood in tsetse flies. This study aimed to identify …

Berita Autumn 2014, Timothy P. Daniels

Berita

Table of Contents

Chair’s Address ... 2

Editor’s Foreword...4

Members’ Updates...5

Prizes ... 8

Announcements...10

Malaysian Chinese Muslims in Search of an Identity...11

Brunei’s Syariah Penal Code and Secular Fundamentalism...14

A comparative analysis of online and print media during the 2013 Malaysian General Election: A Research Note...22

Book Review...36

Obituary...39

Southeast Ohio Winter/Spring 2014, E.W. Scripps School Of Journalism

Southeast Ohio Magazine

Table of contents:

History
Discover quilt trails, a drive-in theater and more ... 4

Around the Region
Find a distillery, parade, new hobby and an artist on the move ...6

Vineyard in the Valley
Enjoy river views, award-winning wines and elegant dining at Moyer Winery ... 8

Under the Shell
See why Southeast Ohioans are crazy for turtles ... 10

It’s a Small World
Danny Yahini creates tiny homes full of character ... 12

Shoot for Flavor
Area hunters offer their tips for cooking wild game ... 14

The Sweetest Sound
The Big Scioty Dulcimer Club strings together tranquil music …

Microrna-194 (Mir-194) Regulates Romk Channel Activity By Targeting Intersectin 1, Dao-Hong Lin, Peng Yue, Chengbiao Zhang, Wen-Hui Wang

NYMC Faculty Publications

The aim of the study is to explore the role of miR-194 in mediating the effect of high-K (HK) intake on ROMK channel. Northern blot analysis showed that miR-194 was expressed in kidney and that HK intake increased while low-K intake decreased the expression of miR-194. Real-time PCR analysis further demonstrated that HK intake increased the miR-194 expression in the cortical collecting duct. HK intake decreased the expression of intersectin 1 (ITSN1) which enhanced With-No-Lysine Kinase (WNK)-induced endocytosis of ROMK. Expression of miR-194 mimic decreased luciferase reporter gene activity in HEK293 T cells transfected with ITSN-1-3'UTR containing the complementary seed …

De La Repulsion Chez Les Insectes - Cas D'éTude Du Moustique Anopheles Gambiae Et De La Mouche Blanche Bemisia Tabaci -, Emilie Deletre

All PhD Dissertations

D'après la FAO, il faudra nourrir 9 milliards de personnes en 2050 ce qui équivaudrait à augmenter de 70% la production actuelle. Une manière simple d'augmenter la production serait de limiter les pertes de rendement et de récolte en luttant contre les insectes. Il faudra donc produire plus mais il faut produire mieux. Les insecticides ont été et sont largement utilisés mais avec l'apparition de résistances, la pollution de l'environnement et l'impact sur la santé nous amène à chercher de nouvelles alternatives de lutte. La FAO a également montré que l'Afrique avait le meilleur potentiel de changement. En effet, le …

Effects Of Drought On The Production Of Electrophysiologically Active Biogenic Volatiles Important For Cereal Pest Management, Frank Chidawanyika

All PhD Dissertations

Drought has the potential to reset trophic interactions within natural and managed ecosystems. I tested how drought stress in maize and companion plants that are used in cereal agroecosystems of Kenya affect oviposition preference, larval feeding, and development of the spotted stemborer, Chilo partellus Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Five host species were tested (all Poaceae): maize (Zea mays L.), Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schumach), signal grass [Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich) Stapf], Brachiaria cv 'Mulato', and molasses grass [Melinis minutiflora (Beauv.)]. Under periods of water deficit, maize was oviposited on as much as under control unstressed maize in both choice and no-choice …

Odour-Based Strategies For Surveillance And Behavioural Disruption Of Host-Seeking Malaria And Other Mosquitoes, Collins K. Mweresa

All PhD Dissertations

Malaria is one of the most important diseases that threaten the lives of a large proportion of the human population in the tropics. Currently, the application of novel technologies for malaria control is encouraged to provide reliable and robust tools for monitoring of anopheline vectors and to reduce the application of chemical insecticides. This thesis has investigated the potential of using odour-based strategies for surveillance and behavioural disruption of host-seeking malaria and other mosquitoes. All studies were done under semifield and field conditions in western Kenya. A study conducted in a semi-field enclosure demonstrated that nylon strips performed significantly better …

Ecosystem Services And Disservices In Small-Scale Tropical Agriculture, Peter Steward,

All PhD Dissertations

Small-scale farmlands are dynamic systems crucial to the food-security and livelihoods of more than two billion people and there is political pressure in many developing nations to consolidate and expand small farms into larger units of management. This could have consequences for agro-ecosystem processes and the ecosystem services and disservices that regulate crop production. This thesis aims to highlight and address these issues in smallholder farming landscapes, which are poorly studied and represent significant knowledge gaps.Research on pollination and biological control is biased towards large-scale systems,and biological control research shows a strong geographic bias to temperate developed nations, whilst pollination …

Development Of A Gravid Mosquito Trap For Surveillance Of The Malaria Vector Anopheles Gambiae S.I. Giles (Diptera: Culicidae), Dugassa Lemma Sisay

All PhD Dissertations

This study was intended to develop a trap for surveillance of gravid malaria vectors,Anopheles gambiae s.l., in outdoor venue.First, a suite of tools were developed for studying the oviposition behaviour of gravid An. gambiae s.l. A square of four electric nets with yellow sticky filmmounted boards to collect electrocuted mosquitoes was developed as a tool to quantify gravid mosquitoes approaching an oviposition site. On average 33% (95% CI 28-38%) of mosquitoes released were recollected with the e-nets. The electric net (e-net) setup was evaluated for any influence on the response of gravid mosquitoes to a pond it surrounds compared to …

Realizing Value And Creating Protection: A Practical Approach To Monetizing The Value Of A Racehorse While Retaining Control Over Future Interests, Brad Butler

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Curaçao As A Transit Center To The Spanish Main And The French West Indies, Wim Klooster

History

An official Dutch government report described Curaçao in the late eighteenth century as “the only safe port that the state has in the West Indies, one in which more than 300 ships of the largest size can be sheltered and where they are shielded against the force of wind and sea, where all the ships can be keel- hauled and recover from sustained damage, where a defeated fleet or merchantmen coming from our colonies can always flee because of its leeward location…”. Ideal for shipping traffic, the island had long since been an important regional market, described by a contemporary …

The Scope Of Published Population Genetic Data For Indo-Pacific Marine Fauna And Future Research Opportunities In The Region, Jude Keyse, Eric D. Crandall, Robert J. Toonen, Christopher P. Meyer, Eric A. Treml, Cynthia Riginos

School of Natural Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Marine biodiversity reaches its pinnacle in the tropical Indo-Pacific region, with high levels of both species richness and endemism, especially in coral reef habitats. While this pattern of biodiversity has been known to biogeographers for centuries, causal mechanisms remain enigmatic. Over the past 20 yrs, genetic markers have been employed by many researchers as a tool to elucidate patterns of biodiversity above and below the species level, as well as to make inferences about the underlying processes of diversification, demographic history, and dispersal. In a quantitative, comparative framework, these data can be synthesized to address questions about this bewildering diversity …

An Evaluation Of Pharmacogenomic Information Provided By Five Common Drug Information Resources, K.T. L. Vaughan, Kelly L. Scolaro, Heidi N. Anksorus, Mary W. Roederer

Libraries

No abstract provided.

Overcoming Obstacles To Religious Exercise In K-12 Education, Lewis M. Wasserman

Journal of Legislation

No abstract provided.

"Student Collective" Yearbook 2013-2014, George Fox University Archives

Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Gendered Readings On The Winning Short Stories In Cebuano Of The Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, Ma. Dolores L. Aday

CNU Journal of Higher Education

This study attempts to examine the notions of gender in the first prize winning short stories in Cebuano of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. These stories are discussed based on the social relations of men and women in the Cebuano society. The purpose of this study is to point out the dominant gender system as well as the role of women in the man- woman relationships in the societies projected in the stories. Further, it will also have to look into sexism in language as used in the narratives and conversations in the stories. The challenges to the dominant …

Victorian Sexual Politics And The Unsettling Case Of George Eliot’S Response To Walt Whitman, Beverley Rilett

Department of English: Faculty Publications

George Eliot and Walt Whitman, two of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century, are rarely discussed in relation to one another. They did not correspond, nor did either writer ever cross the Atlantic. There may have been several degrees of separation between Eliot and Whitman personally, but even from a distance, the two writers influenced each other’s careers. There has been some misconception that Eliot disdained and discounted Whitman. This essay seeks to refute that assumption by examining the context in which Eliot appeared to reject him. Perhaps more significantly, this essay breaks new critical ground by attributing …

The Death Of Inference, Andrew S. Pollis

Faculty Publications

This Article examines a disturbing trend in civil litigation: the demise of the jury’s historic prerogative to draw inferences from circumstantial evidence. Judges have arrogated to themselves the power to dismiss cases if they find the proffered inferenc

Qualitative Inquiry In An Age Of Educationalese, Gustavo F. Fischman, Adai Tefera

Foundations of Education Publications

In this introduction we reflect on two key questions that initiated this special issue on qualitative inquiry: What can qualitative researchers do to regain their post-paradigm-wars cache? How do we avoid distracting “science wars” in the future? We suggest that the strong tendency to narrow the research methods accepted as “scientific” – because they adopt quantitative perspectives and are presumed a priori to be more rigorous – has created an educationalese, a narrative of rigid categories that has not necessarily contributed to more effective or persuasive educational research. The article ends by suggesting that the use of “knowledge mobilization” strategies …

Chapter 11 The Role Of Surveillance Methods And Technologies In Plant Biosecurity, Tom Kalaris, Daniel Fieselmann, Roger Magarey, Manuel Colunga-Garcia, Amy Roda, Darryl Hardie, Naomi Cogger, Nichole Hammond, P.A. Tony Martin, Peter Whittle

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

Countries design biosecurity systems to protect their animal, plant, and environmental resources from invasive alien species. Countries maintain biosecurity systems to safely manage trade and prevent the introduction of invasive pests (insects, diseases and weeds) through numerous pathways of entry. Plant biosecurity programmes seek to exclude exotic organisms from becoming established on agricultural crops, ornamental plants and “natural” areas. Without barriers for entry, invasive organisms can expand their range, colonize new territory and cause considerable economic and environmental damage (Magarey et al. 2009). Spatially, one country’s biosecurity efforts may be categorised as “pre-border”, “border” and “post-border” when describing that country’s …

The Impact Of Movements And Animal Density On Continental Scale Cattle Disease Outbreaks In The United States, Michael Buhnerkempe, Michael J. Tildesley, Tom Lindstrom, Daniel A. Grear, Katie Portacci, Ryan S. Miller, Jason E. Lombard, Marleen Werkman, Matt J. Keeling, Uno Wennergren, Colleen T. Webb

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

Globalization has increased the potential for the introduction and spread of novel pathogens over large spatial scales necessitating continental-scale disease models to guide emergency preparedness. Livestock disease spread models, such as those for the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) epidemic in the United Kingdom, represent some of the best case studies of large-scale disease spread. However, generalization of these models to explore disease outcomes in other systems, such as the United States’s cattle industry, has been hampered by differences in system size and complexity and the absence of suitable livestock movement data. Here, a unique database of US cattle shipments allows …

Pathogens At The Livestock-Wildlife Interface In Western Alberta: Does Transmission Route Matter?, Mathieu Pruvot, Susan Kutz, Frank Van Der Meer, Marco Musiani, Herman W. Barkema, Karin Orsel

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

In southwestern Alberta, interactions between beef cattle and free-ranging elk (Cervus elaphus) may provide opportunities for pathogen transmission. To assess the importance of the transmission route on the potential for interspecies transmission, we conducted a cross-sectional study on four endemic livestock pathogens with three different transmission routes: Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus and Bovine Herpesvirus 1 (predominantly direct transmission), Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) (indirect fecal-oral transmission), Neospora caninum (indirect transmission with definitive host). We assessed the occurrence of these pathogens in 28 cow-calf operations exposed or non-exposed to elk, and in 10 elk herds exposed or not to cattle. We …

Development Of Status Epilepticus, Sustained Calcium Elevations And Neuronal Injury In A Rat Survival Model Of Lethal Paraoxon Intoxication, Laxmikant Sudhir Deshpande, Dawn S. Carter, Kristin Phillips, Robert E. Blair, Robert J. Delorenzo

Neurology Publications

Paraoxon (POX) is an active metabolite of organophosphate (OP) pesticide parathion that has been weaponized and used against civilian populations. Exposure to POX produces high mortality. OP poisoning is often associated with chronic neurological disorders. In this study, we optimize a rat survival model of lethal POX exposures in order to mimic both acute and long-term effects of POX intoxication. Male Sprague–Dawley rats injected with POX (4 mg/kg, ice-cold PBS, s.c.) produced a rapid cholinergic crisis that evolved into status epilepticus (SE) and death within 6–8 min. The EEG profile for POX induced SE was characterized and showed clinical and …

Dynamics Of Coupled Noisy Neural Oscillators With Heterogeneous Phase Resetting Curves, Cheng Ly

Statistical Sciences and Operations Research Publications

Pulse-coupled phase oscillators have been utilized in a variety of contexts. Motivated by neuroscience, we study a network of pulse-coupled phase oscillators receiving independent and correlated noise. An additional physiological attribute, heterogeneity, is incorporated in the phase resetting curve (PRC), which is a vital entity for modeling the biophysical dynamics of oscillators. An accurate probability density or mean field description is large dimensional, requiring reduction methods for tractability. We present a reduction method to capture the pairwise synchrony via the probability density of the phase differences, and explore the robustness of the method. We find the reduced methods can capture …

Metabolic Effects Of Acute Thiamine Depletion Are Reversed By Rapamycin In Breast And Leukemia Cells, Shuqian Liu, Sumitra Miriyala, Mignon A. Keaton, Craig T. Jordan, Christina Wiedl, Daret K. St. Clair, Jeffrey A. Moscow

Pediatrics Publications

Thiamine-dependent enzymes (TDEs) control metabolic pathways that are frequently altered in cancer and therefore present cancer-relevant targets. We have previously shown that the recombinant enzyme thiaminase cleaves and depletes intracellular thiamine, has growth inhibitory activity against leukemia and breast cancer cell lines, and that its growth inhibitory effects were reversed in leukemia cell lines by rapamycin. Now, we first show further evidence of thiaminase therapeutic potential by demonstrating its activity against breast and leukemia xenografts, and against a primary leukemia xenograft. We therefore further explored the metabolic effects of thiaminase in combination with rapamycin in leukemia and breast cell lines. …

The Omega-3 Fatty Acid Eicosapentaenoic Acid Is Required For Normal Alcohol Response Behaviors In C. Elegans, Richard C. Raabe, Laura D. Mathies, Andrew G. Davies, Jill C. Bettinger

Pharmacology and Toxicology Publications

Alcohol addiction is a widespread societal problem, for which there are few treatments. There are significant genetic and environmental influences on abuse liability, and understanding these factors will be important for the identification of susceptible individuals and the development of effective pharmacotherapies. In humans, the level of response to alcohol is strongly predictive of subsequent alcohol abuse. Level of response is a combination of counteracting responses to alcohol, the level of sensitivity to the drug and the degree to which tolerance develops during the drug exposure, called acute functional tolerance. We use the simple and well-characterized nervous system of Caenorhabditis …

A Dynamic Model For Delta Rhythm Fit To High-Frequency Cortical Activity Data Shows Discrete Functional Connectivity In Mouse Cortex, Mark A. Reimers, Majid Mohajerani, Timothy H. Murphy

Psychiatry Publications

Spontaneous activity as recorded by fMRI has often been used to infer active connections ('functional connectivity') in the human brain through correlations of activity measures. Some serious questions have been raised about the interpretation of these correlations, which are often apparent only on time scales of tens of seconds. Confirmation of correlations in measures of activity on shorter time-scales closer to those of neural activity would be very desirable.

Numerous mechanisms have been proposed for various rhythms but in the past half-century little consensus has been reached on the mechanism of any major rhythm. The recent development of high-throughput imaging …