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A Review Of Non-Destructive Methods For Detection Of Insect Infestation In Fruits And Vegetables, Nader Ekramirad, Akinbode A. Adedeji, Reza Alimardani

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

Insect damage in fruits and vegetables cause major production and economic losses in the agriculture and food industry worldwide. Monitoring of internal quality and detection of insect infestation in fruits and vegetables is critical for sustainable agriculture. Early detection of an infestation in fruits can facilitate the control of insects and the quarantine operations through proper post-harvest management strategies and can improve productivity. The present review recognizes the need for developing a rapid, cost-effective, and reliable insect infestation monitoring system that would lead to advancements in agriculture and food industry. In this paper, an overview of non-destructive detection insect damages …

Nozzle Sensor For In-System Chemical Concentration Monitoring, Joseph S. Dvorak, Timothy S. Stombaugh, Yongbo Wan

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

Chemical concentration is a vital parameter for determining appropriate chemical application. This study describes the design and testing of a sensor that attempted to monitor concentration of chemicals upstream from each nozzle body. The sensor is based on an LED and photodiode pair. Its ability to detect chemical concentration within the main carrier was tested with a 2,4-D formulation, a glyphosate formulation, and a powdered Acid Blue 9 dye. The liquid herbicide formulations of glyphosate and 2,4-D were tested across common application concentrations of 0% to 12.5% by volume. The powdered dye produced a much stronger effect on the sensor …

Mutation Of Surface Histidines In Haemophilus Influenzae Carbonic Anhydrase To Enable Purification By Metal Affinity Chromatography, Shelby E. Scola, Kathleen Cornely

Chemistry & Biochemistry Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Illegally Yours, With Updated Foreword, Laura Weinstock

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

After a drastic change in landscape in the legality of same-sex marriage, the author readdresses the issues faced by the LGBT community just over a decade ago. The author highlights what challenges were presented when same-sex marriage was just becoming legal on a state level and the predictions for what was to come.

In The Padded Closet: Thoughts On A Secret Life, Naomi A. Himmelhoch

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

The author highlights their personal experience with several mental issues as a law student as UC Hastings. This piece explains one's approach to the battling the societal and legal issues through their secret battle against mental illness.

The Consequences Of ‘Choice’: Experiencing Youth Peer Culture In A Racial And Ethnic Integration School Reform, Grace Hall

Sociology Honors Papers

Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, racial and ethnic diversity and integration as well as educational equality has become a prominent consideration for American educational policy. While attempts have been made to increase integration, reforms have often fallen short due to residential segregation and choices spurred by parental privilege. These racial and ethnic integration reforms have had effects on individuals and communities; yet, the young people who daily experience these reforms are not having their voices heard. Therefore, this qualitative analysis examines how young people of color perceive and experience a racial and ethnic integration reform, especially with …

Artificial Wombs: The Third Era Of Human Reproduction And The Likely Impact On French And U.S. Law, Marion Abecassis

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

Advances in reproductive technology are outpacing statutory and regulatory authority, and artificial wombs as a form of assistive reproductive technology are no longer the subject of science fiction. This article begins with insight to the original ideas of artificial wombs and the subsequent effect these ideas had science and technology at the time. Artificial wombs, being disconnected from the body, were the subjects of dystopian portrayals of society, and many critics denied the possibility that such technology would ever exist. Experiments in the 20th century, however, have made artificial wombs a real possibility. The author explores how artificial wombs would …

Natural Incubators: Somatic Support As Reproductive Technology, And The Comparative Constitutional Implications On Cases Of Maternal Brain Death In The U.S., Canada, And Ireland, Sonya Laddon Rahders

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

Should a brain dead pregnant person be kept alive on life support, despite the family's wishes otherwise, in order to fully gestate the fetus? A 2013 grand rounds study out of United Arab Emirates found that medical technology has reached such an advanced stage that gestational age is no longer a barrier to whether or not a pregnant person may be kept on somatic support until the fetus is delivered. The study concluded that a brain dead pregnant person might serve as a "natural incubator" and successfully deliver a baby after the mother becomes brain dead at just 16 weeks' …

Empty Benefits: Employer-Sponsored Oocyte Cryopreservation And Potential For Employment Discrimination, Ali L. Nicolette

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

This note analyzes the complexities employer-sponsored egg freezing poses to female employees. The author highlights that with the high-cost procedure and low success rates, this enticing procedure should not be everyone's choice. Given the legal, social, and individual implications for female employees, the author notes that such employer-sponsored egg freezing is an implicit form of gender discrimination as employers push the female employees to work harder selling the sponsorship as a "benefit" of delaying having a family.

Boy Or Girl: Who Gets To Decide: Gender-Nonconforming Children In Child Custody Cases, David Alan Perkiss

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

Transgender youth, especially those in families that express rejecting behavior, are at great risk for physical and psychological harms that can be alleviated by the support of family. However, when separated parents disagree about whether to support their gender-nonconforming children in their felt genders, especially as more transgender youth come out at earlier ages, disagreements between the parents leads to harm for the child as well as renewed custody challenges. This disagreement was adjudicated in the custody dispute Smith v. Smith. This Article analyzes Smith and applies to cases involving gender-nonconforming children, regardless of a court's finding of gender identity …

Annotated Legal Bibliography

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Federalism, Regulatory Architecture, And The Clean Water Rule: Seeking Consensus On The Waters Of The United States, Erin Ryan

Scholarly Publications

This article reviews the troubled history of the “Waters of the United States” Rule of the Clean Water Act, and analyzes how its newest incarnation harnesses a surprising point of convergence between the conflicting Supreme Court interpretations in Rapanos v. United States that necessitated its development. While debate over the federalism implications of the Rule rages on, the framework it creates from the multiple Rapanos opinions suggests that the path forward hinges less on the substantive rule of jurisdiction and more on the regulatory architecture of presumptions, default rules, and burden shifting. Splitting the difference between competing judicial approaches, the …

Discordant Classification Of Transposable Elements In Segmental Duplications Raise Concerns About Subfamily Definitions, Gilia R. Patterson

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

Most of the human genome comes from transposable elements (TEs), sequences of DNA that can move and insert copies of themselves throughout the genome. TE sequences both inform and complicate analyses of genomes, so it is important that TEs are annotated completely and accurately. Remnants of TEs are annotated and classified into subfamilies based on their DNA sequences. A subfamily represents all the copies generated in a burst of replication by a few closely related TEs. Wacholder et al. (2014) suggested that the current methods for representing subfamilies are not accurate and should be reevaluated. We expand on this discussion …

Influence Of Fine Sediment On Arctic Grayling (Thymallus Arcticus) Egg Survival And Spawning Habitat Suitability, Ian R. Anderson

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

The Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) is a freshwater salmonid that is found in clear, cold waters throughout the northern regions of North America. Arctic grayling are still widespread in Alaska and Canada but have declined substantially in their two historic, disjunct southern populations in the contiguous United States. One of these populations was found in the AuSable River in Michigan and went extinct in the mid-1900s (Vincent 1962) while the other, found in the Upper Missouri River drainage in Montana, now inhabits a small portion of its historical range (Nelson 1954). Currently, only two native populations of Arctic …

President's Report, 2015-2016, University Of Montana (Missoula, Mont.). Office Of The President

University of Montana President’s Report, 1993-2016

The President’s Report of the University of Montana, produced by University Relations on behalf of the President’s Office.

Impedance Characterization Of Ysz Based Nox Sensors, Ling Cui

Doctoral Dissertations

Yttria-stabilized zirconia has been utilized as an electrolyte of SOFC (Solid Oxide Fuel Cell) studies for years. It is also preferred as the electrolyte for solid state electrochemical sensor which is able to measure nitrogen oxides in the exhaust system. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy method yields the change in impedance which is caused by an electron exchange of NO x gases at the sensing electrodes. From the EIS data, the fractional change in the phase angle is calculated for detecting sensor sensitivity.

Considering the fabrication of a sensor, several variables have been investigated which include the choice of electrolyte processing, sensing …

Physical And Oxidative Stability Of Functional Olive Oil-In-Water Emulsions Formulated Using Olive Mill Wastewater And Whey Proteins, Nicola Caporaso, Alessandro Genovese, Roisin Burke, Catherine Barry-Ryan, Raffaele Sacchi

Articles

The present paper reports on the use of phenolic extracts from olive mill wastewater (OMW) in model olive oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions to study their effect on their physical and chemical stability. Spray-dried OMW polyphenols were added to a model 20% olive O/W emulsion stabilized with whey protein isolate (WPI) and xanthan gum, in phosphate buffer solution at pH 7. The emulsions were characterised under accelerated storage conditions (40 °C) up to 30 days. Physical stability was evaluated by analysing the creaming rate, mean particle size distribution and mean droplet size, viscosity and rheological properties, while chemical stability was assessed through …

Size Specific Transfection To Mammalian Cells By Micropillar Array Electroporation, Yingbo Zu

Doctoral Dissertations

Electroporation serves as a promising non-viral gene delivery approach, while its current configurations carry drawbacks associated with high-voltage electrical pulses and heterogeneous treatment on individual cells. Here, we developed a new micropillar array electroporation (MAE) platform to advance the delivery of plasmid DNA and RNA to mammalian cells. By introducing well-patterned micropillar array on the electrode surface, the number of pillars each cell faces varies with its cell membrane surface area, despite their large population and random locations. In this way, cell size specific electroporation is conveniently done and contributed to a 2.5~3 fold increase on plasmid DNA transfection and …

Sem Studies Of Two Riparian New-Caledonian Conifers Reveal Air Channels In Stem Wood; Field Observations, Sherwin Carlquist, Mare Nazaire

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Two New Caledonian conifers, Dacrydium guillauminii and Retrophyllum minor, both of Podocarpaceae, occupy distinctive habitats in which roots are characteristically inundated. SEM studies of stem wood anatomy of both reveal characteristic vertical intercellular channels, not apparent in light microscope examination. These channels are regular in spacing as seen in radial sections and indefinite in vertical extent; they were observed only adjacent to rays. These channels, not reported in other conifers, are a potential source of aeration for roots and submersed stem portions. Other wood details are reported. In order to provide a more comprehensive picture of adaptation to these …

A Morphometric Analysis Of Arceuthobium Campylopodum And Arceuthobium Divaricatum (Viscaceae), Robert L. Mathiasen, Shawn C. Kenaley, Carolyn M. Daugherty

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Although the classification of pinyon dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium divaricatum, Viscaceae) has not been controversial to any extent since Engelmann described it in 1878, a recent taxonomic treatment has included this species in western dwarf mistletoe (A. campylopodum). While pinyon dwarf mistletoe is only known to parasitize pinyon pines (Pinus subsection Cembroides), western dwarf mistletoe as it has been known since the late 1800s is a principal parasite of Pinus ponderosa and P. jeffreyi and has never been observed parasitizing pinyon pines. With reservations about the recent classification of pinyon dwarf mistletoe and its treatment …

Weatherford: Undergraduate Catalog 2016-2017, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Graduate Record 2016: Life Is Short Capture Every Moment, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

SWOSU Yearbooks

The 2016 Graduate Record was designed by SWOSU students of the Specialized Publications Class in the Communications Department.

Students' Reasoning Around The Functional Relationship, Michele Carney, Angela Crawford

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Proportional reasoning is related to flexible use of the scalar and functional relationships that exist in proportional situations. More specifically, in regard to the functional relationship, students’ understanding of the multiplicative comparison that exists between two quantities in a ratio is a key concept. We conducted student interviews with 12 high performing students to examine their conception of the functional relationship. Analyses provided initial evidence that the majority of students did not conceive of the multiplicative comparison when solving problems designed to press the functional relationship, indicating students’ written work that makes use of the functional relationship should not imply …

Cross–Cultural Generalizability Of The Alternative Five–Factor Model Using The Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire, Jérôme Rossier, Anton Aluja, Angel Blanch, Barry Oumar, Adam W. Stivers

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

Several personality models are known for being replicable across cultures, such as the Five–Factor Model (FFM) or Eysenck's Psychoticism–Extraversion–Neuroticism (PEN) model, and are for this reason considered universal. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the cross–cultural replicability of the recently revised Alternative FFM (AFFM). A total of 15 048 participants from 23 cultures completed the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire (ZKA–PQ) aimed at assessing personality according to this revised AFFM. Internal consistencies, gender differences and correlations with age were similar across cultures for all five factors and facet scales. The AFFM structure was very similar across samples and can …

Proceedings Of The South Dakota Academy Of Sciences, 2016, Volume 95., South Dakota Academy Of Science

Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science

Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, 2016, volume 95. The table of contents lists the minutes of the 101st annual meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science, senior papers presented, senior paper abstracts, and research papers and posters published by title only. The presidential address, titled An Opportunity We Must Seize, was delivered by George K. Mwangi.

Completed senior research papers: Development of a Multi-Phased Educational Program Designed to Enhance Student and Citizen Knowledge and Awareness of South Dakota's Natural History and Visual Arts Collections of Plants, Animals, and Fossils: Inconceivable Or Not? by Kenneth F. Higgins, …

Inside Csusb (Issue 6), California State University, San Bernardino

CSUSB Sound and video recordings

No abstract provided.

Phylogenetic Relationships Of The Simulium Esskose And Simulium Ceylonicum Species Groups (Diptera: Simuliidae) In Malaysia, V.L. Low, T. Hiroyuki, H.A. Peter, Y. Zubaidah, R. Yusoff Norma, D.C. Chee, A. Mohd Sofian

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Biology Ptechls Module In A Rural Secondary School In Malaysia, Norlidah Alias, Dorothy Dewitt, Saedah Siraj, A.R. Mohd Nazri, G. Rashidah Begum, Rose Amnah Abd Rauf

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

The PTechLS module combines learning styles with the use of technology to increase students’ learning experience, especially in learning abstract concepts. The PTechLS module prototype was developed by Alias (2010). The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the Biology PTechLS module in a rural secondary school in Malaysia. The PTechLS module was implemented from year 2012 to year 2014. The study adopted the exploratory implementation design which incorporates a quasi-experimental research design. 37 students agreed to participate in this study. In addition, a retrospective usability evaluation of the the implementation of thePTechLS module, …

Developing Leadership As Dialogic Practice, Kenneth J. Gergen, L. Hersted

Psychology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

A Generalized Spatial Measure For Resilience Of Microbial Systems, Ryan S. Renslow, Stephen R. Lindemann, Hyun-Seob Song

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

The emergent property of resilience is the ability of a system to return to an original state after a disturbance. Resilience may be used as an early warning system for significant or irreversible community transition; that is, a community with diminishing or low resilience may be close to catastrophic shift in function or an irreversible collapse. Typically, resilience is quantified using recovery time, which may be difficult or impossible to directly measure in microbial systems. A recent study in the literature showed that under certain conditions, a set of spatial-based metrics termed recovery length, can be correlated to recovery time, …