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Recent Dieback In A Keystone Chaparral Species Is Caused By A Fungal Pathogen, Botryosphaeria Dothidea, Adriana Borges, Frida Morales, Emily Pierce, Mariah Taylor

Biology

Due to the recent drought in Southern California, the abundance of a keystone species, Malosma laurina, within the Santa Monica Mountains (SMM) has been dwindling. This species has a rooting depth that exceeds 13 m, so it typically has little difficulty tapping into the water table. Recently, this species has undergone extensive dieback, which might be attributed to the unprecedented drought in California and predisposition fungal pathogen Botryosphaeria. dothidea. While this fungi appears to be innocuous to M. laurina when the plant is healthy, it is more susceptible to invasion under water stress due to the dry and …

Investigating The Role Of The Host Multidrug Resistance Associated Protein Transporter Family In Burkholderia Cepacia Complex Pathogenicity Using A Caenorhabditis Elegans Infection Model, Pietro Tedesco, Marco Visone, Ermenegilda Parrilli, Maria Luisa Tutino, Elena Perrin, Isabel Maida, Renato Fani, Francesco Ballestriero, Radleigh Santos, Clemencia Pinilla, Elia Di Schiavi, George Tegos, Donatella De Pascale

Mathematics Faculty Articles

This study investigated the relationship between host efflux system of the non-vertebrate nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) strain virulence. This is the first comprehensive effort to profile host-transporters within the context of Bcc infection. With this aim, two different toxicity tests were performed: a slow killing assay that monitors mortality of the host by intestinal colonization and a fast killing assay that assesses production of toxins. A Virulence Ranking scheme was defined, that expressed the toxicity of the Bcc panel members, based on the percentage of surviving worms. According to this ranking the 18 Bcc strains were …

Hear Us Roar, November 20, 2015, Michael Shonrock

Michael Shonrock

Digital newsletter produced by the office of President Michael Shonrock.

Mills Family Letters (Sc 2952), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2952. Letters to Edgar L. Mills, his wife Thelma Rose Mills and daughter Diana, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Thelma’s mother and sister write of general news and health problems, and Thelma’s brother Ray D. Brown writes of his work in Florida. Includes a postcard from Ray’s brother to his parents in Brandenburg, Kentucky.

Governing Water In Canada: The Legislative Experiments In New Governance, Patricia Hania

PhD Dissertations

Governing water in Canada is in transition. Since 2000, episodes of drought, unsafe drinking water, and polluted watersheds have affected local and First Nations communities. In reaction to these crises, provincial regulators entered a new governance phase. This regulatory turn profoundly transforms the traditional environmental regulatory approach by introducing a collaborative new governance arrangement. The legal scholarship is generally supportive of this trend, however, a dearth of empirical research exists to understand how decisions are made under this new regulatory approach.

This dissertation presents an eco-resiliency framework to examine the responsiveness of this new governance mode to environmental change. The …

Lvhn Weekly, Lehigh Valley Health Network

LVHN Weekly

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Quality Of Reporting And Adherence To Arrive Guidelines In Animal Studies For Chagas Disease Preclinical Drug Research: A Systematic Review, Julián Ernesto Nicolás Gulin, Daniela Marisa Rocco, Facundo García-Bournissen

Paediatrics Publications

Publication of accurate and detailed descriptions of methods in research articles involving animals is essential for health scientists to accurately interpret published data, evaluate results and replicate findings. Inadequate reporting of key aspects of experimental design may reduce the impact of studies and could act as a barrier to translation of research findings. Reporting of animal use must be as comprehensive as possible in order to take advantage of every study and every animal used. Animal models are essential to understanding and assessing new chemotherapy candidates for Chagas disease pathology, a widespread parasitic disease with few treatment options currently available. …

The Scarlet - Volume Xcv, No. 9 (November 20, 2015), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The November 20, 2015 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

Tax To Fund Education, Healthcare, And Child Development. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

Initiatives

Permanently establishes the temporary personal income tax increases enacted in 2012 for annual earnings over $290,000, currently set to expire in 2018. Imposes new personal income tax on annual earnings over $1 million. Allocates these tax revenues 50% to K-12 education, community colleges, and universities; 40% to healthcare for low-income individuals; and 10% to childcare and child development programs. Excludes these revenues from Proposition 98 funding requirements. Establishes a reserve fund, capped at 20% of the annual revenues, for use during state budget emergencies. Requires annual audit of expenditures. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of …

Easterner, Vol. 67, No. 9, November 20, 2015, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about dissatisfaction amongst faculty about proposed laboratory classrooms, Spokane County elections, a student production of Pocatello, National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, writing professor Rachel Toor, Thanksgiving plans for international students, cross-country team Sarah Reiter, the men's and women's basketball seasons, and the football season.

The Murray Ledger And Times, November 20, 2015, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Corey Bracey V. Secretary Pennsylvania Departm

2015 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Isso Newsletter, November 20, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. International Students And Scholars Office.

ISSO Weekly Newsletter

Inside This Issue:

--Have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving
--Thanksgiving Break On Campus Dining Hours
--Full-Time Enrollment Requirement
--Optional Practical Training (OPT) for Eligible F-1 Students
--Survey to Assess the UNI Career Services Website
--Activities and Events
--Mike and Leona Adams' Thanksgiving Dinner Open to the Public November 23
--Health and Wellness
--UNI Sees Surge in Mumps Cases
--Money Matters
--Live Like a Student Financial Literacy Classes
--Transit Financial Literacy
--The Sue Follon Scholarship for Women in Leadership

Larry Dossey To Present Lecture On Integrative Medicine Dec. 3, Uab Heersink School Of Medicine News

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Nursing School Students' Licensure Examination Pass Rates Reach New Heights, Adam Pope

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State Health Care Task Force Recommends Medicaid Expansion, Staff

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13C Tracer Studies Of Metabolism In Mouse Tumor Xenografts, Andrew N. Lane, Jun Yan, Teresa W-M Fan

Toxicology and Cancer Biology Faculty Publications

Mice are widely used for human tumor xenograft studies of cancer development and drug efficacy and toxicity. Stable isotope tracing coupled with metabolomic analysis is an emerging approach for assaying metabolic network activity. In mouse models there are several routes of tracer introduction, which have particular advantages and disadvantages that depend on the model and the questions addressed. This protocol describes the bolus i.v. route via repeated tail vein injections of solutions of stable isotope enriched tracers including ¹³C₆-glucose and ¹³C₅,¹⁵N₂-glutamine. Repeated injections give higher enrichments and over longer labeling …

A Comparison Of Site Manager Competencies And Attributes In Ireland With Those Of The Site Superintendent In The United States, David Gunderson, Lloyd Scott, Gene Glockner

Conference papers

The construction industry is one of the oldest internationalized economic sectors dating back more than 100 years. The role of construction site manager or superintendent is one of the most important contributing to project success. In 2013 the authors utilized mixed methods research to determine which Site Manager competencies and attributes were most important for project success in Ireland. These data were compared to a 2010 research project in the United States which used a similar survey to identify construction Superintendents’ competencies and attributes required forsuccess. Forty-two competencies and attributes were identified and ranked in order of importance. Comparing data …

2015-November-20-College Of Nursing Hires Executive Director For Student Health Clinics, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Usa V. Natalya Shvets

2015 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

A Comparison Of Macroinfaunal Community Structure Between Artificial Concrete Boulder Reefs And Adjacent Natural Reefs In Broward County, Florida, Amber C. Metallo

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Relatively little is known about either the biological (i.e., predation) or physical (i.e., current, sedimentation) effects that artificial reefs may have on surrounding benthic infaunal communities. Following deployment of artificial reefs (concrete boulders) between the first and second reefs off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 30 October 2009, sediment cores were taken at 4 distances along three replicate 10-m transects on 13 and 26 September 2013, and 24 and 25 May 2014 at each of four artificial reef sites and four of their adjacent natural reef sites using SCUBA. Infauna (>0.5mm) were extracted from the sediment and identified to the …

Blondin Bioscience Wins Big With $749,000 Sbir From The National Institutes Of Health, Staff

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Smith Family Clinic For Genomic Medicine Opens, Alicia Rohan

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State V. Sepulveda Respondent's Brief Dckt. 42758

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Bridging The Gap: A Pictorial History Of The Arkansas Affiliate Of The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Nikki K. Senn

Theses and Dissertations

The Arkansas Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, functions as a not-for-profit, philanthropic entity within the breast cancer movement, which gained momentum in the 1980s. This process paper delves into how the Susan G. Komen Arkansas piece fits into the puzzle that is the breast cancer movement. I assessed the breast cancer movement and the development of medical philanthropic entities. The paper also covers methodology and guidelines followed throughout the project. Results of my research exist in this process paper that accompanies the actual project portion of the thesis, a coffee table …

Effects Of Phosphorus On Chemical Forms Of Cd In Plants Of Four Spinach (Spinacia Oleracea L.) Cultivars Differing In Cd Accumulation, Aiguo Yin, Zhongyi Yang, Stephen Ebbs, Jiangang Yuan, Jianbin Wang, Junzhi Yang

Publications

In order to clarify how cadmium (Cd) chemical forms in planta relate to the genotype difference in Cd accumulation of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.), two low-Cd and two high-Cd cultivars were compared under a hydroponic experiment with two concentrations of Cd (8.98 or 44.71 μmol Cd L(-1)). The concentrations of phosphorus in the hydroponic system were also adjusted to two levels (0.5 and 1.0 mmol L(-1)) to investigate the influence of phosphorus on the forms and accumulation of Cd in the tested cultivars. Average Cd concentrations in shoots were 8.50-10.06 mg kg(-1) for high-Cd cultivars and 6.11-6.64 mg kg(-1) for …

The Death Of Rules And Standards, Anthony Casey, Anthony Niblett

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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Complete Genome Sequence Of Staphylococcus Aureus, Strain Ilri_Eymole1/1, Isolated From A Kenyan Dromedary Camel, Saima Zubair, Anne Fischer, Anne Liljander, Jochen Meens, Jan Hegerman, Hadrien Gourlé, Richard P. Bishop, Ina Roebbelen, Mario Younan, Mudassir Imran Mustafa, Mamoona Mushtaq, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Joerg Jores

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

We report the genome of a Staphylococcus aureus strain (ILRI_Eymole1/1) isolated from a nasal swab of a dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) in North Kenya. The complete genome sequence of this strain consists of a circular chromosome of 2,874,302 bp with a GC-content of 32.88 %. In silico annotation predicted 2755 protein-encoding genes and 76 non-coding genes. This isolate belongs to MLST sequence type 30 (ST30). Phylogenetic analysis based on a subset of 283 core genes revealed that it falls within the human clonal complex 30 (CC30) S. aureus isolate cluster but is genetically distinct. About 79 % of the protein …

Curriculum Minutes 11/20/2015, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

In these minutes: Approval of Courses; and EDP Review Committee Recommendation

Soundings 2015-11-20, N/A N/A

Soundings

No abstract provided.