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Economic Valuation Of Marine And Coastal Ecosystems: Is It Currently Fit For Purpose?, Nick Hanley, Stephen Hynes, David Patterson, Niels Jobstvogt

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

In this paper, we consider whether the current “state of the art” of environmental valuation is suitable for producing policy-relevant estimates of the benefits or costs of changes in marine and coastal ecosystems. We review recent changes in European legislation which has meant an increasing demand for economic valuation from the policy and regulatory community. The next section considers, at a more conceptual level, whether the economic “toolbox” and scientific evidence is up to the task of meeting the demand for more evidence-based policy. Finally, three case studies are used to explore the nature of the valuation task and review …

4-H 401 Water Riches For Youth : Developer Workbook

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

4-H 401: Water riches for youth developer workbook with learning activities.

4-H 402 Water Riches For Youth : Educator Workbook

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

4-H 402: Water riches for youth educator workbook with learning activities.

4-H 403 Water Riches For Youth : Elected Official Workbook

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

4-H 403: Water Riches for Youth elected official workbook with learning activities.

4-H 404 Water Riches For Youth : Reporter Workbook

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

4-H 404: Water Riches for Youth reporter workbook with learning activities.

4-H 405 Water Riches For Youth : Technical Expert Workbook

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

4-H 405: Water Riches for Youth technical expert workbook with learning activities.

4-H 425 Citizen Safety

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

4-H 425: How to participate in your community as a safe citizen.

Life, Death, And Somewhere In Between, Giuliana Macaluso

Lexia: Undergraduate Journal in Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication

"Life support creates a vague, artificial state of being that lies somewhere between life and death, complicating situations that would have otherwise been natural."

A Crocodile's Touch: Tactile Communication In Humans And Crocodiles, Mackenzie Kelley

Lexia: Undergraduate Journal in Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication

Mackenzie Kelley takes a deeper look into a distinct biological feature of crocodiles, the ridges and bumps on their skin, and concludes that these reptiles may be more like humans than we would ever suppose.

Land Cover Change Image Analysis For Assateague Island National Seashore Following Hurricane Sandy, Heather Grybas, Russell G. Congalton

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

The assessment of storm damages is critically important if resource managers are to understand the impacts of weather pattern changes and sea level rise on their lands and develop management strategies to mitigate its effects. This study was performed to detect land cover change on Assateague Island as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Several single-date classifications were performed on the pre and post hurricane imagery utilized using both a pixel-based and object-based approach with the Random Forest classifier. Univariate image differencing and a post classification comparison were used to conduct the change detection. This study found that the addition of …

Plasma Membrane Restricted Rhogef Activity Is Sufficient For Rhoa-Mediated Actin Polymerization, Taofei Yin, Yi I. Wu

UCHC Articles - Research

The small GTPase RhoA is involved in cell morphology and migration. RhoA activity is tightly regulated in time and space and depends on guanine exchange factors (GEFs). However, the kinetics and subcellular localization of GEF activity towards RhoA are poorly defined. To study the mechanism underlying the spatiotemporal control of RhoA activity by GEFs, we performed single cell imaging with an improved FRET sensor reporting on the nucleotide loading state of RhoA. By employing the FRET sensor we show that a plasma membrane located RhoGEF, p63RhoGEF, can rapidly activate RhoA through endogenous GPCRs and that localized RhoA activity at the …

Fluctuating Fire Regimes And Their Historical Effects On Genetic Variation In An Endangered Shrubland Specialist, Hernan Vázquez-Miranda, Kelly R. Barr, C. Craig Farquhar, Robert M. Zink

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The Pleistocene was characterized by worldwide shifts in community compositions. Some of these shifts were a result of changes in fire regimes, which influenced the distribution of species belonging to fire-dependent communities. We studied an endangered juniper–oak shrubland specialist, the black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla). This species was locally extirpated in parts of Texas and Oklahoma by the end of the 1980s as a result of habitat change and loss, predation, brood parasitism, and anthropogenic fire suppression. We sequenced multiple nuclear loci and used coalescence methods to obtain a deeper understanding of historical population trends than that typically available …

Tars Sports Weekly - Issue 5, 2015, Rollins College Athletics

Tars Sports Weekly

No abstract provided.

10-05-2015 Trio To Be Honored By Swosu At Homecoming, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2015

Three individuals with long ties to Southwestern Oklahoma State University will be honored with the prestigious Presidential Award of Merit at Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s Homecoming activities planned this Saturday, October 10, in Weatherford.

Cerium Oxide Nanoparticle Treatment Ameliorates Peritonitis-Induced Diaphragm Dysfunction, Shinichi Asano, Ravikumar Arvapalli, Nandini D. Manne, Mani Maheshwari, Bing Ma, Kevin M. Rice, Vellaisamy Selvaraj, Eric Blough

MIIR Faculty Research

The severe inflammation observed during sepsis is thought to cause diaphragm dysfunction, which is associated with poor patient prognosis. Cerium oxide (CeO₂) nanoparticles have been posited to exhibit anti-inflammatory and antioxidative activities suggesting that these particles may be of potential use for the treatment of inflammatory disorders. To investigate this possibility, Sprague Dawley rats were randomly assigned to the following groups: sham control, CeO₂ nanoparticle treatment only (0.5 mg/kg iv), sepsis, and sepsis+CeO₂ nanoparticles. Sepsis was induced by the introduction of cecal material (600 mg/kg) directly into the peritoneal cavity. Nanoparticle treatment decreased sepsis-associated impairments in …

Cwu General Education Committee Minutes - 10/05/15, Janet Shields

All Faculty Committee Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University General Education Task Force minutes for the October 5, 2015 meeting.

Ada News - 10/05/2015, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Identification Of In Situ Lignin Strength Based On Micropillar Compression And Micromechanical Modeling Of Wood Cell Walls, Jakob Schwiedrzik, Rejin Raghavan, Markus Ruggerberg, Silla Hansen, Juri Wehrs, Ramesh Adusumalli, Johann Michler, Tanjia Zimmerman

Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development V

Many biological materials feature a hierarchical architecture with remarkable mechanical properties combining low weight with both toughness and strength. In order to better understand the mechanisms leading to this unusual combination of traits, structure-property relationships have to be assessed on all length scales. Wood is such a hierarchical material. Its cell walls feature semi-crystalline cellulose fibrils embedded in an amorphous polymer network that are aligned at an angle to the cell main axis resembling a fiber reinforced composite.

Continuum micromechanics can predict mechanical behavior on a higher length scale based on the composition, microstructure, and properties of the individual phases. …

Nanotwin Governed Toughening Mechanism In Hierarchically Structured Materials, Sungwin Moon, Subin Lee, Jiwon Jeong, Minhyug Kwon, Sang Ho Oh, Sheng Yi

Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development V

As an important class of natural biocomposite materials, mollusk shells possess remarkable mechanical strength and toughness as a consequence of their hierarchical structuring of soft organic and hard mineral constituents through biomineralization. Strombus gigas, one of the toughest mollusk shell (99 wt% CaCO₃, 1 wt% organic), contains high density of nanoscale {110} growth twins in its third order lamellae, the basic building block of the material [1]. Although the existence of these nanotwins has been known for decades their roles and functions in mechanical behaviors and properties of biological materials are still unrevealed because numerous studies in recent …

The Statesman, V. 59, I. 6, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 59;i. 6

Faculty Senate Agenda, October 5, 2015, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• EPC Annual Report
• EPC Items September 2015
• Honors Program
• Libraries Advisory Council
• Parking Committee
• 402.12.7(1) Add “Faculty University Service Award” to the list of the Faculty Evaluation Committee duties (Second Reading)

Colonization Of Lutzomyia Verrucarum And Lutzomyia Longipalpis Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) By Bartonella Bacilliformis, The Etiologic Agent Of Carrion's Disease, James M. Battisti, Phillip G. Lawyer, Michael F. Minnick

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Bartonella bacilliformis is a pathogenic bacterium transmitted to humans presumably by bites of phlebotomine sand flies, infection with which results in a bi-phasic syndrome termed Carrion's disease. After constructing a low-passage GFP-labeled strain of B. bacilliformis, we artificially infected Lutzomyia verrucarum and L. longipalpis populations, and subsequently monitored colonization of sand flies by fluorescence microscopy. Initially, colonization of the two fly species was indistinguishable, with bacteria exhibiting a high degree of motility, yet still confined to the abdominal midgut. After 48h, B. bacilliformis transitioned from bacillus-shape to a non-motile, small coccoid form and appeared to be digested along with …

The Rider (2015-10-05), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.1 No.6

Week Of October 5, 2015, New York Medical College

InTouch

• School of Medicine Retreat Focuses on Diversity and Inclusion
• Late 19th Century Prize Microscopes Return to NYMC
• Historic Finds Now on Display in Sunshine Heritage Hall
• NYMC Seeds Selected for the Flu Vaccine
• NYMC Recognizes Three Decades of TB and HIV Lectures
• Meet the Farmers of the Good Food Farmers Network

Real-Time Detection Of Breast Cancer Cells Using Peptidefunctionalized Microcantilever Arrays, Hashem Etayash, Keren Jiang, Sarfuddin Azmi, Thomas Thundat, Kamaljit Kaur

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Ligand-directed targeting and capturing of cancer cells is a new approach for detecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Ligands such as antibodies have been successfully used for capturing cancer cells and an antibody based system (CellSearch®) is currently used clinically to enumerate CTCs. Here we report the use of a peptide moiety in conjunction with a microcantilever array system to selectively detect CTCs resulting from cancer, specifically breast cancer. A sensing microcantilever, functionalized with a breast cancer specific peptide 18-4 (WxEAAYQrFL), showed significant deflection on cancer cell (MCF7 and MDA-MB-231) binding compared to when exposed to noncancerous (MCF10A and HUVEC) cells. …

Usu Faculty Senate Minutes, October 5, 2015, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Human Participants in Research Policy Code 584 –Mark McLellan
• Reducing the size of Faculty Senate Committees –Ronda Callister
• EPC Annual Report & EPC September Report –Larry Smith
• Honors Program –Kristine Miller
• Libraries Advisory Council –Britt Fagerheim
• Parking Committee –James Nye
• 402.12.7(1) Add “Faculty University Service Award” to the list of FEC Duties (Second Reading) –Jerry Goodspeed
• 405.7.2(1) Allow for Presidential exceptions to external reviewers when teaching is the major role assignment (First Reading) –Jerry Goodspeed
• 401.4.2(4) Proposal to change code to include State with Federal Cooperators(First Reading) –Jerry Goodspeed
• Faculty SenateReapportionment Proposal –Doug-Jackson-Smith
• New Business from the Floor –Committee on …

Uab Study Finds Possible Frontline Therapy For Older Patients With Hodgkin Lymphoma, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Uab Study Finds Possible Frontline Therapy For Older Patients With Hodgkin Lymphoma, Beena Thannickal

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet October 2015, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The October 2015 Monthly packet includes the October agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held June 1, 2015.

Temporal Variation In Optical Properties Of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (Cdom) In Southern California Coastal Waters With Nearshore Kelp And Seagrass, Catherine D. Clark, Warren J. De Bruyn, Paige Aiona

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Optical properties of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) were measured in surf zone waters in diurnal field studies at a Southern California beach with nearshore kelp and seagrass beds and intertidal plant wrack. Absorption coefficients (aCDOM(300 nm)) ranged from 0.35 m21 to 3.7 m21 with short-term variability<1 h, increases at ebb and flood tides and higher values (6 m21) during an offshore storm event. Spectral slopes (S) ranged from 0.0028 nm21 to 0.017 nm21, with higher values after the storm; S was generally inversely correlated with aCDOM(300 nm). 3-D excitation–emission matrix spectra (EEMs) for samples with lower S values had humic-type peaks associated with terrestrial material (A, C), marine microbial material (M) and protein peaks, characteristic of freshly produced organic material. Samples with high S values had no or reduced protein peaks, consistent with aged material. Fluorescent indexes (f450/f500 >2.5, BIX>1.1) were consistent with microbial aquatic sources. Leachates of senescent kelp and seagrass had protein and humic-type EEM peaks. After solar simulator irradiation (4 h), protein peaks rapidly photochemically degraded, humic-type peak C increased in intensity and peak M disappeared. Optical characteristics of kelp leachates were most similar to field samples, …