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Discovery On Cross-Talk Among Cancer Cells Hailed As Best Paper, Reporter Staff

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Behavioral Criteria For The Diagnosis Of Domoic Acid Toxicosis In Zalophus Californianus, Christiana Wittmaack

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Introduction

California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) health is severely compromised by domoic acid toxicosis, which occurs in high levels during harmful algal blooms of Pseudonitzschia australis along the coast of California. Current diagnostic protocols are often inconclusive due to a 2-48 hour window of detectability within the urinary, circulatory, and gastric systems (Cook, et al. 2011 and Monte, Pers Comm, 2012). Past studies suggest that Z. californianus, with domoic acid toxicosis, commonly display abnormal behaviors (Goldstein, et al. 2008). However, many of these abnormal behaviors are also associated with other diagnoses and are therefore unreliable as diagnostic indicators. …

Volume 51, Number 37: April 30, 2014, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Gardner-Webb Honor Society Students Excel At National Convention, Office Of University Communications, Alyssa Gutierrez

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University students have long prided themselves on their academic fitness. Recently, members of the Alpha Chi Honor Society flexed those muscles at the Alpha Chi 2014 National Convention held in St. Louis, Mo. For the first time in Alpha Chi’s 92-year history, the organization offered a $5,000 prize for the best collaborative, interdisciplinary project on the assigned topic of “The Future of Water.” The Gardner-Webb team took first place.

Komposisi, Preferensi Dan Sebaran Jenis Tumbuhan Pakan Kakatua Sumba (Cacatua Sulphurea Citrinocristata) Di Taman Nasional Laiwangi Wanggameti, Oki Hidayat

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Sumba Cockatoo is an endemic bird and critically endangered in the island of Sumba. The population was declined drastically due to habitat degradation and illegal hunting. Management habitat activities such as enrichment important vegetation for Sumba Cockatoo has been made as in situ conservation ways. The purpose of this study was to determine the composition, preference and distribution of feeding plant species of Sumba Cockatoo at Laiwangi Wanggameti National Park. Vegetation analysis was made to know habitat characteristics by quadrat method with double compartment, with amount of 20 unit per location. The feeding preference was analyzed by Neu’s Method. The …

Perbandingan Vigoritas Benih Acacia Mangium Hasil Pemuliaan Dan Yang Belum Dimuliakan, Naning Yuniarti, M Zanzibar, Megawati, Budi Leksono

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Seeds with high vigour are seeds that can germinate normally in sub-optimum conditions and above normal in optimum condition. To predict the performance of seedlings after planting and the storability of seeds, it is necessary to test the seed vigour. This study aims to investigate the growth and storage vigour of Acacia mangium breeding and unbreeding seeds. The experiment design was arranged in completely randomized design with each treatment being replicated four times with 100 seeds. Results obtained showed that breeding seeds had better growth and storage vigour.

Pengaruh Komposisi Biopotting Terhadap Pertumbuhan Sengon Laut (Paraserianthes Falcataria L. Nietsen) Di Persemaian, Nursyamsi, Hermin Tikupadang

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

To support the growth of sengon laut optimal seeding in the field, it is necessary to have seed quality. Quality seedlings in the nursery are directly influenced among others by the condition of the growing medium. Biopotting is a pot growing medium made of compost derived from organic ingredients and blended with beneficial soil microbes eg mycorrhizae. This study aims to determine the optimal composition biopotting for seedling growth sengon laut (Paraserianthes falcataria L.Nielsen) for three months in the nursery. Experimental design used was completely randomized design with treatment composting saw dust 70% + clay 30%+ Mycorrhiza (S7T3M), sawdust …

Valuasi Total Ekonomi Hutan Mangrove Di Kawasan Delta Mahakam Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara Kalimantan Timur, Yuyun Wahyuni, Eka Intan Kumala Putri, Sahat Mh Simanjuntak

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Hutan mangrove merupakan komunitas vegetasi pantai tropis, yang didominasi oleh beberapa jenis pohon mangrove yang mampu tumbuh dan berkembang pada daerah pasang surut pantai berlumpur. Aktivitas penebangan dan pengalihan fungsi hutan mangrove oleh masyarakat sekitar menyebabkan luasan hutan mangrove di Kawasan Delta Mahakam mengalami penurunan. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu: untuk mengindentifikasi jenis dan fungsi ekosistem dari luasan hutan mangrove; menghitung nilai ekonomi total yang dihasilkan oleh hutan mangrove; mengkaji faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh terhadap manfaat ekonomi yang diperoleh pada kawasan hutan mangrove Delta Mahakam, Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan terdapat empat tipe hutan mangrove yang dominan pada kawasan tersebut …

Analisis Stakeholders Pengelolaan Kawasan Hutan Dengan Tujuan Khusus (Khdtk) Mengkendek, Kabupaten Tana Toraja, Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan, Abd. Kadir Wakka

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Forest for special purpose of Mengkendek (KHDTK Mengekendek) which directly adjacent to settlement is vulnerable to encroachment, illegal logging, illegal grazing, and forest fires. Requiring the involvement of stakeholders in helping to overcome the existing problems so that the objectives of KHDTK Mengkendek can be realized. This study aims to identify, mapping and formulate the role of stakeholders in the management KHDTK Mengkendek. The data was collected through interviews and focus group discussions then analyzed in descriptive qualitative. The results showed that there are six stakheholders in the management KHDTK Mengkendek. Forestry Research Institute of Makassar, Forestry Office of Tana …

Pertumbuhan Semai Alstonia Scholaris, Acacia Auriculiformis Dan Muntingia Calabura Yang Diinokulasi Fungi Mikoriza Arbuskula Pada Media Tanah Bekas Tambang Kapur, Retno Prayudyaningsih

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

The application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) is a solution to produce high quality seedlings. Seedlings inoculated by AMF has high survival rate, especially on extreme land condition such as post mining limestone. Alstonia scholaris, Acacia auriculiformis and Muntingia calabura are tolerant plants species to alkaline and poor soils such as post mining limestone. The research was conducted to determine the effect of inoculation of indigenous AMF from post mining limestone on the seedling growth A. scholaris, A. auriculiformis and M. calabura. A complete randomized design with five treatments of AMF types (Acaulospora sp., Gigaspora sp., mix of Acaulospora sp. …

Genotypic Variation In A Foundation Tree (Populus Tremula L.) Explains Community Structure Of Associated Epiphytes, Chantel Davies, Christopher J. Ellis, Glenn R. Iason, Richard A. Ennos

Aspen Bibliography

Community genetics hypothesizes that within a foundation species, the genotype of an individual significantly influences the assemblage of dependent organisms. To assess whether these intra-specific genetic effects are ecologically important, it is required to compare their impact on dependent organisms with that attributable to environmental variation experienced over relevant spatial scales. We assessed bark epiphytes on 27 aspen (Populus tremula L.) genotypes grown in a randomized experimental array at two contrasting sites spanning the environmental conditions from which the aspen genotypes were collected. We found that variation in aspen genotype significantly influenced bark epiphyte community composition, and to the …

Modeling And Monitoring Terrestrial Primary Production In A Changing Global Environment: Toward A Multiscale Synthesis Of Observation And Simulation, Shufen Pan, Hanqin Tian, Shree R. S. Dangal, Zhiyun Ouyang, Bo Tao, Wei Ren, Chaoqun Lu, Steven W. Running

Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences Faculty Publications

There is a critical need to monitor and predict terrestrial primary production, the key indicator of ecosystem functioning, in a changing global environment. Here we provide a brief review of three major approaches to monitoring and predicting terrestrial primary production: (1) ground-based field measurements, (2) satellite-based observations, and (3) process-based ecosystem modelling. Much uncertainty exists in the multi-approach estimations of terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) and net primary production (NPP). To improve the capacity of model simulation and prediction, it is essential to evaluate ecosystem models against ground and satellite-based measurements and observations. As a case, we have shown the …

The Moral Panic About The Socializing Of Young People In Minangkabau, Lyn Parker

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper analyses the discourse surrounding the perceived threat of free seks and pergaulan bebas (free socializing) to the moral health of young Minangkabau people, and in particular, young women, in West Sumatra. It uses the sociological frame of "moral panic" to examine contemporary discussions about globalization and the influence of "the West" in West Sumatra. The paper examines the way in which "the authorities" in West Sumatra (media, such as teen magazines and newspapers, academics, government and law, teachers, and community leaders) present the threat, and the way in which young people, who are the target of the moral …

Montana Kaimin, April 30, 2014, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Lia4 And Hp1-Like Proteins Facilitate Dna Elimination During Tetrahymena Macronuclear Development, Scott Horrell

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

As part of its sexual development, the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila establishes a differentiated somatic genome called the macronucleus. A key aspect of this differentiation is the genome-wide removal of transposon-like and other repetitive elements. This process, referred to DNA rearrangement, involves RNAi-directed formation of subnuclear heterochromatic foci. Many of the factors necessary to direct the DNA rearrangement machinery to proper loci have been discovered, but less is known about how these subnuclear heterochromatic foci are formed. My thesis work focuses on identification and investigation of factors important for the formation of these subnuclear structures which are referred to as DNA …

Predicting Targeted Drug Combinations Based On Pareto Optimal Patterns Of Coexpression Network Connectivity, Nadia M. Penrod, Casey S. Greene, Jason H. Moore

Dartmouth Scholarship

Molecularly targeted drugs promise a safer and more effective treatment modality than conventional chemotherapy for cancer patients. However, tumors are dynamic systems that readily adapt to these agents activating alternative survival pathways as they evolve resistant phenotypes. Combination therapies can overcome resistance but finding the optimal combinations efficiently presents a formidable challenge. Here we introduce a new paradigm for the design of combination therapy treatment strategies that exploits the tumor adaptive process to identify context-dependent essential genes as druggable targets. We have developed a framework to mine high-throughput transcriptomic data, based on differential coexpression and Pareto optimization, to investigate drug-induced …

Science Fiction/Fantasy And The Representation Of Ethnic Futurity, Joy Ann Sanchez-Taylor

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity examines the influence of science fiction/fantasy (SFF) as applied to twentieth century and contemporary African American, Native American and Latina/o texts. Bringing together theories of racial identity, hybridity, and postcolonialism, this project demonstrates how twentieth century and contemporary ethnic American SFF authors are currently utilizing tropes of SFF to blur racial distinctions and challenge white/other or colonizer/colonized binaries. Ethnic American SFF authors are able to employ SFF landscapes that address narratives of victimization or colonization while still imagining worlds where alternate representations of racial and ethnic identity are possible.

My multicultural approach …

Parks Of Pinellas: A Reflection, Ryan Ballogg

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

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Galapagos Mosquitoes As Avian Disease Vectors, Daniel Anthony Hartman

Theses

An avian malaria parasite of the genus Plasmodium has been detected consistently in the Galapagos Penguin (Speniscus mendiculus) in recent years. Subsequent screening of passerines has revealed more PCR positive birds, with most of them sampled on the southern coasts of Isabela and Santa Cruz islands. We sampled the two zoophilic mosquito species (Aedes taeniorhynchus and Culex quinquefasciatus) using both CDC light traps and CDC gravid traps along an altitudinal gradient from the southern coasts of these islands to the highlands to investigate whether mosquitoes occur at all elevations, and whether there may be mosquito-free refugia at higher elevation zones …

Precautionary Labelling Of Foods For Allergen Content: Are We Ready For A Global Framework?, Katrina J. Allen, Paul J. Turner, Ruby Pawankar, Steve Taylor, Scott Sicherer, Gideon Lack, Nelson Rosario, Motohiro Ebisawa, Gary Wong, E. N. Clare Mills, Kirsten Beyer, Alessandro Fiocchi, Hugh A. Sampson

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

Food allergy appears to be on the rise with the current mainstay of treatment centred on allergen avoidance. Mandatory allergen labelling has improved the safety of food for allergic consumers. However an additional form of voluntary labelling (termed precautionary allergen labelling) has evolved on a wide range of packaged goods, in a bid by manufacturers to minimise risk to customers, and the negative impact on business that might result from exposure to trace amounts of food allergen present during cross-contamination during production. This has resulted in near ubiquitous utilisation of a multitude of different precautionary allergen labels with subsequent confusion …

Queeranimal Imaginary: An Intra-Active Investigation Of Ecology, Performance, And Sound, Caryn Brissey

Theses and Dissertations

Through interrelated experiments in writing, video, sound, and movement, this research investigates the intersections of intimacy, ecology, and performance. Integrating an autoethnographic approach to gender and sexuality with creative practice and theoretical inquiry, this layered investigation offers implications that are both deeply personal and widely accessible. I am using my own experiences growing up as a queer child to generative corporeal and experience-based material, while also incorporating the ideas of current queer and gender theorists to frame my own research within the larger context of feminist studies. This research culminated into an evening length performance at Dogtown Dance Theatre on …

Bakhtin’S Carnivalesque: A Gauge Of Dialogism In Soviet And Post-Soviet Cinema, Randy Davis

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines fifteen films produced in seven political eras from 1926 thru 2008 in Soviet / Post-Soviet Russia. Its aim is to determine if the cinematic presence of Bakhtin’s ten signifiers of the carnivalesque (parody, death, grotesque display, satirical humor, billingsgate, metaphor, fearlessness, madness, the mask, and the interior infinite) increase in their significance with the historical progression from a totalitarian State (e.g., USSR under Stalin) to a federal semi-residential constitutional republic (e.g., The Russian Federation under Yeltsin - Putin). In this study, the carnivalesque signifiers act as a gauge of dialogism, the presence of which is indicative of …

Mafia Or Farmer? Coevolutionary Consequences Of Retaliation And Farming As Predator Strategies Upon Host Nests By Avian Brood Parasites, Mark E. Hauber

Publications and Research

Many host species of avian brood parasites have evolved to recognize and reject foreign eggs and chicks in the nest. Yet, other hosts accept and care for parasitic young, despite the fitness losses associated with raising non-kin. It has been suggested that nest predation upon host nests by brood parasites could select for coevolved acceptance by hosts, even when their cognitive and motor traits allow for the successful rejection of brood parasitism. Using a modeling approach, I analyzed the conditions that favor the evolution of two predatory strategies by parasites and the acceptance of parasitism in the presence of predatory …

Application Of 10% Ascorbic Acid Improves Resin Shear Bond Stregth In Bleached Dentin, Kamizar Kamizar, Endang Suprastiwi, Yusi Heptorina

Journal of Dentistry Indonesia

Restoration of the teeth immediately after bleaching with H2 O2 35% is contraindicated due to the remnants of free radical that will stay inside dentin for 2-3 weeks which will compromise the adhesiveness of composite resin. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of 10% ascorbic acid on shear bond strength of composite placed on bleached dentin. Methods: Twenty seven samples were divided equally into three groups. Group 1: dentin was etched with 35% phosphoric acid; Group 2: dentin was bleached with 35% H2 O2 followed by etching with 35% phosphoric acid; Group 3: dentin was …

Neurogenic Inflammation Involves In Systemic Spread Of Oral Infection, Haryono Utomo

Journal of Dentistry Indonesia

Focal infection theory proposed in early 1900’s stated that dental infection caused systemic disorders. Nevertheless, the theory was abandoned since large number of teeth were extracted with no satisfying result. Recent reports revealed that oral infections were able to spread systemically. However, there is no rationalization available to explain how assisted drainage therapy (ADT), a periodontal therapy that could relief migraine and asthma within minutes. Oral neurogenic and immunogenic inflammation interaction involving pro-inflammatory markers such as calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), TNF-α; and antiinflammatory vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) was still under investigation. Objective: To verify the spread of oral inflammation to …

Academic Stress Influences Periodontal Health Condition And Interleukin-1 Beta Level, Sandra O. Kuswandani, Sri Lc. Masulili, Nurtami Soedarsono, Yulianti Kemal

Journal of Dentistry Indonesia

Stress is a risk factor for periodontal disease, causing increase levels of interleukin-1 beta that involve in periodontal destruction. Objective: To analyze the relationship between academic stress in residency program students conditions and levels of interleukin-1 beta in gingival crevicular fluid. Methods: Thirty eight subjects filled the questionnaire of Graduate Dental Environtmental Stress (GDES), periodontal examination and samples of gingival crevicular fluid were tested for interleukin-1 beta with the Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test. Results: There were significant differences between academic stress to periodontal tissue in oral hygiene (p=0.038), bleeding on probing index (p=0.02), but no significant differences in pocket …

Physiology Of Saliva: An Overview, Abhay K. Pandey

Journal of Dentistry Indonesia

and living condition as well as eating habit would influence salivary function. Saliva palys a role in determining the development pattern and oral health. Saliva has a unique function in the defense mechanism to microorganism in the oral environment. Research focuses on the salivary physiology is limited and seems to be separated from medical and dental professional education. Better and deeper comprehensive understanding of saliva in health and disease is needed. Nowadays, many studies have used saliva to find diagnosis markers for specific diseases. Salivary analysis is intended to give descriptive information on disease status for prevention, monitoring and treatment …

Cloning The Ultrabithorax Gene In Tribolium Castaneum, Kara I. Ludlow, Dr. Randy Bennett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My original proposal was to clone the extradenticle gene in Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle); however, I worked in conjunction with Laura Newell who received an ORCA grant to work with Dr. Bennett cloning the Ultrabithorax gene of the red flour beetle. To further previous research, it was determined that the Ultrabithorax gene needed to be cloned first, so Laura and I worked on that project together. Due to complications and unexpected delays, we were only able to finish cloning the Ultrabithorax gene of the beetle and did not have time to clone the extradenticle gene, as well.

Requiring A Nexus To National Security: Immigration, “Terrorist Activities,” And Statutory Reform, Jared Hatch

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Salient Distractors Can Induce Saccade Adaptation, Afsheen Khan, Sally A. Mcfadden, Mark Harwood, Josh Wallman

Publications and Research

When saccadic eye movements consistently fail to land on their intended target, saccade accuracy is maintained by gradually adapting the movement size of successive saccades. The proposed error signal for saccade adaptation has been based on the distance between where the eye lands and the visual target (retinal error). We studied whether the error signal could alternatively be based on the distance between the predicted and actual locus of attention after the saccade. Unlike conventional adaptation experiments that surreptitiously displace the target once a saccade is initiated towards it, we instead attempted to draw attention away from the target by …