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Transformation Or Revival: St. Louis Culture Before And After The Great Fire Of 1849, Daron Patrick Dierkes

Theses

It is commonly accepted that Antebellum St. Louis was reborn in the wake of fire and disease. A boom in cultural activities during the 1850s has allowed the Great Fire of 1849 to serve as a historical landmark separating an older fur trading town from a new cosmopolitan city. This study examines that transformation hypothesis from a broader frame of reference and concludes that the Great Fire merely coincided with the end of a temporary lull in cultural activities that had begun much earlier in the 1830s. By following the ebb and flow of museums, panoramic paintings, and public lectures …

Behavioral Observation And Paternal Investment Of Eastern Kingbirds At Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Christopher Michael Chutter

Dissertations and Theses

We have been studying the population of Eastern Kingbirds breeding in riparian habitats in Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (eastern Oregon) since 2002. These efforts have created an ideal research environment wherein most adults in the population have been color banded and DNA sampled and, as part of other research projects, nearly all broods since 2003 have been paternity tested. I decided to use behavioral video recordings of parental nest behavior undertaken between 2003 and 2010 for two unrelated projects. First, I tested the effectiveness of video sampling nesting behavior (see below and chapter 2). Second, I tested whether male kingbirds …

Development Of An Efficient Human Hepatocyte Culture Platform For Assessing Novel Therapeutic Efficacy Against Plasmodium Liver Parasites, Steven Patrick Maher

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Malaria is a critical and global public health problem, affecting over 200 million people every year, resulting in over 500,000 deaths. A vaccine is not currently available and only one drug, primaquine, is effective against the dormant stages of Plasmodium vivax. Preclinical assessment of novel therapeutic drugs and vaccines is hampered by the lack of an in vitro liver model for P. falciparum and P. vivax. To provide a stable human hepatocyte-based culture platform for parasite development, we engineered a microfluidic bilayer device capable of both simple and complex culture methods, including perfusion and co-culture, to better understand the requirements …

From The Hill

Colby Magazine

The Liberal Art of Giving
William D. Adams, President

Colby to the Corps: Colby tops list for Peace Corps volunteers per capita

'Nijikai to follow'

Gourley's Collected Works: Colby's retiring museum director praised for his legacy

WMHB's New Wave

wit & wisdom

The Tooth, the Whole Tooth and Nothing But...

Q&A: Bets Brown on carrying a torch for the Olympics and science

Raising Hardy Girls: Lyn Mikel Brown and Karen Heck '74 create spaces where girls can thrive

How We Teach

No Time to Wait: Student activists press for change- now

Jan Plan Goes South

Internship Fund is the Jan …

One Click Away From Untangling The Web: The United States Food And Drug Administration & Interactive Promotional Media, Abraham Gitterman

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Alumni At Large

Colby Magazine

Class Notes

Profiles
Curious Behavior: Melvin Lyon '52
Challenge Match: Marjeanne Banks Vacco '62
No Place Like Home: Karen Caputo Craft '77
Down to the Wire: Mary Schwalm '99

Obituaries

From The Hill, Gerry Boyle, Milan Babik, Stephen Collins, Alicia Nemiccolo Macleay

Colby Magazine

September 11: Colby Reacts

Giving Victims a Voice: Oak Fellow Sevdie Ahmetti chronicles travails of Kosovo casualties

Following Lovejoy: Award winners Pat and Tom Gish stand on principle at The Mountain Eagle

A Formula for Fun

wit & wisdom

Professional Life After Death

Q&A: Frances York

The Fruits of HIs Labor: Professor Russell Johnson brings science to community service

A Bigger Better Canvas: Colby artists stretch out in Crawford Art Studios

IM me on AOL

On the Bison Track: Matthew Testa documents the controversy surrounding Yellowstone's roving herds

Ghostliness and Grief

Recent Releases:
Plan B, by After 8
Colby College …

Full Issue

Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 90, no. 2 (Spring 2001): full issue

Alumni At Large

Colby Magazine

Class Notes

Profiles
A Good Skate: W. Malcolm Wilson '33
A View Down East: Dale Kuhnert '68
For Her Eyes Only: Judith Kenoyer Stoy '71
Country Communion: Gwynelle Dismukes '73
Going the distance, swimmingly: Morgan Filler '97
A HIgh Diva: Kathryn Johnson '00

Obituaries

Small Triumphs: Alex Quigley '99 Finds Hope And Despair In The Mississippi Delta, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

It was an hour into the school day and Alex Quigley '99 was standing in front of a room full of kindergarten students. The students were sitting on a carpet, each child assigned to a colored square. Quigley, motioning with a pointer tipped by a yellow star, looked like he was waving a magic wand.

"Who knows a word like bat?" he said. "Bat. Bah-tuh."

"Cat," a boy named Tony said.

"Good," said Quigley.

"Fat," said a little girl named Quintina.

"What letter makes the 'fuh, fuh' sound?" Quigley asked.

Quintina looked stumped.

"Fuh, fuh," Quigley said, his pointer at …

Student Life, Gerry Boyle, Jennifer Carlson, Alicia Nemiccolo Macleay

Colby Magazine

Putting the V in the CVC: Rebecca Solomon '00 has guided the Colby Volunteer Center to new heights

Is That Your Final Answer?

Macro in a Month

Ever Get Writer's Block at 3 in the Morning?

The Birdman Of Colby: Eagle-Eyed Professor Herb Wilson Is Winging His Way Into The Hearts Of Students And Birders Alike, Robert Gillespie

Colby Magazine

Professor Herb Wilson's passion for ornithology is contagious- at Colby and in the community.

Full Issue

Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 88, no. 4 (Fall 1999): full issue

Faculty File, Stephen B. Collins

Colby Magazine

Who's running for Congress and who's not; studying francophone women.

The Natural, Jeff Clark

Colby Magazine

Just before Thanksgiving Day last November, Kent Wommack '77 got the classic good-news, bad-news, worse-news call. Wommack is head of The Nature Conservancy in Maine, and the caller was a timberland manager who had asked Wommack to back a client in acquiring prime acres of Maine forest on the upper St. John River, one of the most unspoiled waterways left in the United States. The good news was that the owner had agreed to sell the breathtaking chunk of land in the first place. The bad news was that the client was no longer interested in the deal. The worse …

Full Issue

Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 87, no. 3 (Fall 1998): full issue

Alumni At Large

Colby Magazine

Reunion '98

Classnotes

Profiles
Doing Good to Feel Good: Lou Zambello '55
Shoots for the Top: Carol Simon '85
In Step with the Times: Courtney Morris '95

Obituaries

Western Collection

Colby Magazine

First-year students from the West discuss coping with homesickness, dressing warmly and adopting a Maine state of mind.

Pursuing The Universal Particular, Sally Baker

Colby Magazine

Teaching with passion and precision, Cedric Bryant demonstrates that, like politics, all literature is local.

Alumni At Large

Colby Magazine

Catching Up: Alumni Profiles
More Than Bears: Linda Wrigley '89 M.D.
Anything for Tampa: Kevin Plummer ’89
Pedaling Her Crops: Hannah Converse ’09

Updates

Newsmakers

Obituaries

07/09/2014 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 07/09/2014. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

The Murray Ledger And Times, July 9, 2014, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Scientific Novels And ‘Lady Novelists’: Nature And Nurture In Austen’S Pride And Prejudice And Gaskell’S Wives And Daughters, Ashlie Flanigan

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

This thesis explores the Darwinian concept of nature and nurture as found in 19th century British Fiction, specifically Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters. Austen identifies and explores the traits of her characters that are innate and learned, and considers the connection between those traits and indicators of class difference known as gentility. Gaskell uses the concept of natural and natured behaviors to explore the social construction of masculinity and femininity, and how those constructions evolve. Analyzing these novels for early scientific thought helps modern day readers understand how evolutionary science, primarily considered a masculine …

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, July 9, 2014, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

July

No abstract provided.

The Bg News July 09, 2014, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. July 09, 2014. Volume 93-Issue 107.

Summer 2014: Being Norbertine, Susan Allen Allen, Lisa Strandberg

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

We live where 900 years of tradition meet the youthful energy of each incoming class. We share a heritage infused with zeal, commitment, devout service and a loving spirit. All this combines to make St. Norbert College – its campus, the four-year student experience and the extended family scattered around the globe- unique worldwide.

A Multi-Scale Approach To Study Predator-Prey Interactions And Habitat Use Of Pinfish, Lagodon Rhomboids, Dinorah Helena Chacin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Biological processes like species interactions and patterns such as abundance and distribution observed in nature can vary depending on the scale at which the subject of interest is evaluated. Knowing that there is no single natural scale at which systems should be studied, in this thesis, I conducted a series of basic and applied ecological approaches in order to examine the phenomena that can occur at different scales of space, time, and ecological organization.

Species abundances can vary over large spatial and temporal scales. By studying the habitat use of an abundant species, which uses a wide range of habitats, …

Transpinal And Transcortical Stimulation Alter Corticospinal Excitability And Increase Spinal Output, Maria Knikou

Publications and Research

The objective of this study was to assess changes in corticospinal excitability and spinal output following noninvasive transpinal and transcortical stimulation in humans. The size of the motor evoked potentials (MEPs), induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and recorded from the right plantar flexor and extensor muscles, was assessed following transcutaneous electric stimulation of the spine (tsESS) over the thoracolumbar region at conditioning-test (C-T) intervals that ranged from negative 50 to positive 50 ms. The size of the transpinal evoked potentials (TEPs), induced by tsESS and recorded from the right and left plantar flexor and extensor muscles, was assessed following …

Increasing Maternal Or Post-Weaning Folic Acid Alters Gene Expression And Moderately Changes Behavior In The Offspring, Subit Barua, Kathryn K. Chadman, Salomon Kuizon, Diego Buenaventura, Nathan W. Stapley, Felicia Ruocco, Umme Begum, Sara R. Guariglia, W. Ted Brown, Mohamad Junaid

Publications and Research

Background: Studies have indicated that altered maternal micronutrients and vitamins influence the development of newborns and altered nutrient exposure throughout the lifetime may have potential health effects and increased susceptibility to chronic diseases. In recent years, folic acid (FA) exposure has significantly increased as a result of mandatory FA fortification and supplementation during pregnancy. Since FA modulates DNA methylation and affects gene expression, we investigated whether the amount of FA ingested during gestation alters gene expression in the newborn cerebral hemisphere, and if the increased exposure to FA during gestation and throughout the lifetime alters behavior in C57BL/6J mice.

Methods …

Interpolating Beach Profile Data Using Linear And Non-Linear Functions, Lance Calloway Croft

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Beach and nearshore surveys are conducted in a variety of ways, the most commonly used being the level-and-transit method; because it is inexpensive, time conducive and highly accurate. Specifically, beach surveys are conducted to better understand cross-shore, long-shore sediment transport processes, as well as to quantify volume changes, which are used to evaluate beach performance. In this study, a section of the beach on Sand Key, FL was surveyed using rod-and-transit. In addition to the commonly used linear data analysis, a non-linear analysis was conducted using NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines).

Survey data was collected within a short time window …