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Seasonal Changes In Tawny Owl (Strix Aluco) Diet In An Oak Forest In Eastern Ukraine, Yehor Yatsiuk, Yuliya Filatova Jan 2017

Seasonal Changes In Tawny Owl (Strix Aluco) Diet In An Oak Forest In Eastern Ukraine, Yehor Yatsiuk, Yuliya Filatova

Turkish Journal of Zoology

We analyzed seasonal changes in Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) diet in a broadleaved forest in Eastern Ukraine over 6 years (2007-2012). Annual seasons were divided as follows: December-mid-April, April-June, July-early October, and late October-November. In total, 1648 pellets were analyzed. The most important prey was the bank vole (Myodes glareolus) (41.9%), but the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) (17.8%) dominated in some seasons. According to trapping results, the bank vole was the most abundant rodent species in the study region. The most diverse diet was in late spring and early summer. Small forest mammals constituted the dominant group in all seasons, …

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The Incidence Of Rare Males In Seven Parthenogeneticartemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) Populations, Muhammad Saleem Chang, Alireza Asem, Shichun Sun Jan 2017

The Incidence Of Rare Males In Seven Parthenogeneticartemia (Crustacea: Anostraca) Populations, Muhammad Saleem Chang, Alireza Asem, Shichun Sun

Turkish Journal of Zoology

Males that present infrequently in parthenogenetic Artemia are commonly called "rare males". By rearing cloned parthenogenetic Artemia in the laboratory, the frequency of rare males was observed for seven Artemia populations with different ploidy compositions. The results showed that the values of the male:female ratio varied from 0.53:1000 to 1.40:1000 in diploids from different populations, and there were significant differences among populations and clones. No rare males were found in any of the 46 polyploid clones (217,197 individuals) observed.

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Developing Historic Building Information Modelling Guidelines And Procedures For Architectural Heritage In Ireland, Maurice Murphy, A. Corns, John Cahill, K. Eliashvli, Alain Chenaux, C. Pybus, R. Shaw, G. Devlin, A. Deevy, L. Truong-Hong Jan 2017

Developing Historic Building Information Modelling Guidelines And Procedures For Architectural Heritage In Ireland, Maurice Murphy, A. Corns, John Cahill, K. Eliashvli, Alain Chenaux, C. Pybus, R. Shaw, G. Devlin, A. Deevy, L. Truong-Hong

Articles

Cultural heritage researchers have recently begun applying Building Information Modelling (BIM) to historic buildings. The model is comprised of intelligent objects with semantic attributes which represent the elements of a building structure and are organised within a 3D virtual environment. Case studies in Ireland are used to test and develop the suitable systems for (a) data capture/digital surveying/processing (b) developing library of architectural components and (c) mapping these architectural components onto the laser scan or digital survey to relate the intelligent virtual representation of a historic structure (HBIM). While BIM platforms have the potential to create a virtual and intelligent …

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Justifying The Precautionary Principle With Expected Net-Welfare Maximization, Yew-Kwang Ng Jan 2017

Justifying The Precautionary Principle With Expected Net-Welfare Maximization, Yew-Kwang Ng

Animal Sentience

The precautionary principle may be best justified on the principle of expected net-welfare/benefit maximization; there is no conflict between the two principles. We should want to be more cautious for cases with high benefit-to-cost ratios; there should thus be different degrees of precaution. For measures to reduce extinction-threatening environmental disruption or to reduce animal suffering that cost us little or nothing, we should adopt them even for species having only a small likelihood of being sentient, i.e., we should be more cautious. This argument is based on welfarism, which I strongly defend elsewhere (Ng 1990 & forthcoming).

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Red Snapper Distribution On Natural Habitats And Artificial Structures In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Mandy Karnauskas, John F. Walter Iii, Matthew D. Campbell, Adam G. Pollack, J. Marcus Drymon, Sean P. Powers Jan 2017

Red Snapper Distribution On Natural Habitats And Artificial Structures In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Mandy Karnauskas, John F. Walter Iii, Matthew D. Campbell, Adam G. Pollack, J. Marcus Drymon, Sean P. Powers

University Faculty and Staff Publications

In 2011, an intensive, multiple-gear, fishery-independent survey was carried out in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to collect comprehensive age and length information on Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus. Based on this synoptic survey, we produced a spatial map of Red Snapper relative abundance that integrates both gear selectivity effects and ontogenetically varying habitat usage. Our methodology generated a spatial map of Red Snapper at a 10-km2 grid resolution that is consistent with existing knowledge of the species: Red Snapper occurred in relatively high abundances at depths of 50–90 m along the coasts of Texas and Louisiana and in smaller, …

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Hubble Parameter Measurement Constraints On The Redshift Of The Deceleration-Acceleration Transition, Dynamical Dark Energy, And Space Curvature, Omer Farooq, Foram Ranjeet Madiyar, Sara Crandall, Bharat Ratra Jan 2017

Hubble Parameter Measurement Constraints On The Redshift Of The Deceleration-Acceleration Transition, Dynamical Dark Energy, And Space Curvature, Omer Farooq, Foram Ranjeet Madiyar, Sara Crandall, Bharat Ratra

Publications

We compile an updated list of 38 measurements of the Hubble parameter H(z) between redshifts 0.07 ≤ z ≤ 2.36 and use them to place constraints on model parameters of constant and time-varying dark energy cosmological models, both spatially flat and curved. We use five models to measure the redshift of the cosmological deceleration-acceleration transition, zda, from these H(z) data. Within the error bars, the measured zda are insensitive to the model used, depending only on the value assumed for the Hubble constant H0. The weighted mean of our measurements is zda = 0.72±0.05 (0.84±0.03) for H0 = 68 ± …

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Parental Input To Children With Asd And Its Influence On Later Language, Aparna Nadig, Janet Bang Jan 2017

Parental Input To Children With Asd And Its Influence On Later Language, Aparna Nadig, Janet Bang

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

In this chapter, we review evidence on parental input to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), moving from quantitative measures of linguistic features to qualitative measures of interaction. First, we examine lexical and syntactic features (e.g., number of utterances, mean length of utterance [MLU]) in the input provided to children with ASD compared with TD [typically developing] children matched on language level. Second, we turn to work on parental responsiveness, or the tendency to provide verbal or gestural input in sync with the child’s focus of attention, and how this compares across dyads including a child with ASD or a …

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Botanist And Plant Exploration On The Pacific Coast Of North America: A Bibliography, James P. Smith Jr Jan 2017

Botanist And Plant Exploration On The Pacific Coast Of North America: A Bibliography, James P. Smith Jr

Botanical Studies

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Suppression Of Mapk11 Or Hipk3 Reduces Mutant Huntingtin Levels In Huntington's Disease Models, Meng Yu, Yuhua Fu, Yijiang Liang, Haikun Song, Y Yao, Peng Wu, Y Yao, Yuyin Pan, Xue Wen, Lixiang Ma, Saiyin Hexige, Yu Ding, Shouqing Luo, Boxun Lu Jan 2017

Suppression Of Mapk11 Or Hipk3 Reduces Mutant Huntingtin Levels In Huntington's Disease Models, Meng Yu, Yuhua Fu, Yijiang Liang, Haikun Song, Y Yao, Peng Wu, Y Yao, Yuyin Pan, Xue Wen, Lixiang Ma, Saiyin Hexige, Yu Ding, Shouqing Luo, Boxun Lu

Peninsula Medical School

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A Qualitative Study Of Family Forest Owners' Experiences With Timber Transactions, Adam Maltempie Jan 2017

A Qualitative Study Of Family Forest Owners' Experiences With Timber Transactions, Adam Maltempie

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The majority of forestland in America is privately owned. Family forest owners own 62% of all private forestland in America. In West Virginia family forest owners own 6.5 million acres (53%) of all forestland in the state. Timber harvesting from these family forests is crucial to the states and nations timber industry. We examined family forest owners' experiences during the complex timber transaction process. This process covers the time from when the landowner decides to sell timber until all harvest, legal, and financial aspects are completed. We conducted a focus group with nine participants representing eight different family owned forests …

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Examining The Efficacy Of A 1-Session Brief Behavioral Activation Intervention With University Students With Mild To Moderate Depressive Symptoms, D. Lee Mccluskey Jan 2017

Examining The Efficacy Of A 1-Session Brief Behavioral Activation Intervention With University Students With Mild To Moderate Depressive Symptoms, D. Lee Mccluskey

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Early intervention may increase the likelihood that students with depressive symptoms complete degree requirements and reduce the likelihood of negative outcomes associated with depression in adults. The goal of this study was to assess the efficacy of a 1-session version of Brief Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression-Revised (BATD-R; Lejuez, Hopko, Acierno, Daughters, & Pagoto, 2011) with university students with mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms. Participants (N = 39) were randomly assigned to either a clinical or a control group. Participants completed measures of depression, negativity bias, mindfulness, and experiential avoidance at pre-intervention, two-week follow-up, and one-month follow-up. Both ITT and study completer …

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The Economic Benefits Of Portable Instrumentation On The Criminal Justice System: A Comprehensive Return-On-Investment Analysis, Korina Menking-Hoggatt Jan 2017

The Economic Benefits Of Portable Instrumentation On The Criminal Justice System: A Comprehensive Return-On-Investment Analysis, Korina Menking-Hoggatt

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Prosecuting crime is an expensive endeavor. This thesis compiles data from a variety of sources to show that, in 2015, the average cost of prosecuting a seized-drug case in the United States was about {dollar}26,000. Of that amount, crime laboratories only cost about {dollar}275 per seized-drug case, or less than ~1% of the total cost of prosecuting a drug case. We show that the criminal justice system could save millions of dollars per year by strategically investing in portable chemical instrumentation and conducting seized-drug confirmatory analyses at the scene of the crime, or at booking, instead of in the laboratory. …

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A New Balance Of Evils: Prosecutorial Misconduct, Iqbal, And The End Of Absolute Immunity, Mark Niles Jan 2017

A New Balance Of Evils: Prosecutorial Misconduct, Iqbal, And The End Of Absolute Immunity, Mark Niles

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Criminal prosecutors wield immense power in the criminal justice system. While the majority of prosecutors exercise this power in a professional manner, there is compelling evidence of a serious and growing problem ofprosecutorial misconduct in this country. Although much prosecutorial misconduct results in the violation of the constitutional and other legal rights of criminal defendants, prosecutors arep rotectedfrom any liability arisingf rom these violations in all but the most exceptional cases by the defense of absolute immunity. The US. Supreme Court has justified the application ofabsolute prosecutorial immunity, in part, by noting that other means of incentivizing appropriate prosecutorial conduct …

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Using Carbon And Oxygen Isotopes To Monitor Water-Rock Interaction Under Simulated Geothermal Conditions, Stephen J. Henry Jan 2017

Using Carbon And Oxygen Isotopes To Monitor Water-Rock Interaction Under Simulated Geothermal Conditions, Stephen J. Henry

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Engineered or Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) have to potential to unlock vast high-temperature energy resources that lack the natural permeability and fluid flow required for power generation. In order to ensure sustained fracture connectivity in EGS, water-rock interactions must be understood in high temperature and pressure systems. Using cores from Brady's Field Well BCH-03, investigations were conducted to test the feasibility of using carbon and oxygen isotopes to monitor water-rock interactions under simulated geothermal conditions. Reactions were examined in a series of high-temperature pressure vessels and a high-temperature flow-through system in which a calcium bicarbonate solution was exposed to meta-volcanic …

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Differential Response Policy And Child Maltreatment Re-Report, Amy A. Hunter Jan 2017

Differential Response Policy And Child Maltreatment Re-Report, Amy A. Hunter

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Child maltreatment is a serious public health issue. The decisions made by Child Protective Services (CPS) in response to reports of maltreatment may influence a child's risk of subsequent maltreatment. Studies have found a direct relationship between adverse childhood events (ACEs), (e.g., experiencing maltreatment, exposure to violence) and negative health outcomes across the lifespan (e.g., disease, developmental delays, suicidality, injury and death). Traditional CPS investigations focus on determining details of abuse events, and use that information to assess child safety and risk of future harm. The introduction of differential response policy provides supportive and preventive services to mitigate the risk …

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The Evolution Of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies In Cosmos Between Z~0.0-1.0, Lucas Hunt Jan 2017

The Evolution Of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies In Cosmos Between Z~0.0-1.0, Lucas Hunt

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) are bright, compact star forming galaxies that are common in the distant universe, but rare locally. In this thesis we have conducted studies tracing changes in the LCBG population between z = 0.0--1.0 in the COSMOS survey region. We used the luminosity function to show LCBG's contribution to the luminosity density is increasing between z = 0.0--1.0. From this we also find the number density of LCBGs is increasing by an order of magnitude from z = 0.0--1.0. Finally we show that 10% of galaxies brighter than MB = --18.5 are LCBGs at z ~ …

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Spatial Centering Of A Quadcopter In An Underground Coal Mine, Jonathan Itschner Jan 2017

Spatial Centering Of A Quadcopter In An Underground Coal Mine, Jonathan Itschner

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The recent proliferation of smaller and more affordable sensing and computing has contributed to an increased availability of unmanned aerial vehicles, UAV's. Specifically, quadrotor platforms have become popular due to their low cost, versatility, and relative ease of operation. There are a variety of applications for this type of aerial vehicle, ranging from hobbyist photography to search and rescue operations. This thesis documents the feasibility of using a quadrotor UAV within the confined space of an underground coal mine during an emergency. Additionally, this paper notes in the Appendix an experiment to remotely operate a quadcopter that is located underground. …

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The Effect Of Kinesio Tape® Applied To Forward Shoulder Posture Observed And Quantified With Diagnositc Ultrasound, Taylor Jean Ashcraft Jan 2017

The Effect Of Kinesio Tape® Applied To Forward Shoulder Posture Observed And Quantified With Diagnositc Ultrasound, Taylor Jean Ashcraft

Health Nutrition and Exercise Science

Allied health care professionals use Kinesio Tape® to reduce pain and increase performance without evidence of the impact on anatomical structures. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effects of three Kinesio Taping Methods® on Forward Shoulder Posture (FSP). Thirty adults were randomized in a pre-/post-test study randomly assigned to one of the three Kinesio Tape® conditions: (1) inhibition of the pectoralis minor; (2) facilitation of the lower trapezius; and (3) a combination of both techniques. A baseline measurement of the location of the humerus was obtained using diagnostic ultrasound. Participants wore the respective taping technique for 24 …

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Exploration Of A Confidence-Based Assessment Tool Within An Aviation Training Program, Paul F. Novacek Jan 2017

Exploration Of A Confidence-Based Assessment Tool Within An Aviation Training Program, Paul F. Novacek

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Traditional use of multiple-choice questions reward a student for guessing. This technique encourages rote memorization of questions to pass a lengthy exam, and does not promote comprehensive understanding or subject correlation. In an effort to identify guessing on answers during an exam within a safety-critical aviation pilot training course, a qualitative research study was undertaken that introduced a confidence-based element to the end-of-ground-school exam. Confidence-based assessments consist of students’ self-reported level of certainty in their responses, indicating which answers they believe are correct while also indicating how confident they feel with their selections. The research goals were to clearly identify …

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Property And The True-Sale Doctrine, Heather Hughes Jan 2017

Property And The True-Sale Doctrine, Heather Hughes

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

The true-sale doctrine governs financial transactions involving hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Yet this doctrine is confused, unsettled and subject to differing approaches from state to state: it lacks normative foundation and it lacks coherence. The true-sale doctrine determines the fate of investors asserting ownership of securitized assets at the expense of unsecured creditors, such as employees. It distinguishes assignments to secure loans (leaving assets potentially reachable by unsecured creditors), from outright sales (making assets the exclusive property of investors). A rich literature addresses the efficiency of securitization. But scholars and policy-makers have failed to sufficiently relate positions …

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Protein-Ligand Docking Application And Comparison Using Discovery Studio And Autodock, Qi Wang Jan 2017

Protein-Ligand Docking Application And Comparison Using Discovery Studio And Autodock, Qi Wang

Plant Sciences

Protein-ligand docking is a structure-based computational method, which is used to predict the small molecule binding modes and binding affinities with protein receptors. The goals of this study are to compare the docking performances of different software and apply the docking method to predict how protein fatty acid desaturase 1 (FADS1) interact with ligands. Two docking software, Discovery Studio and AutoDock, are used for docking comparison of 195 protein-ligand complexes from PDBind dataset. AutoDock performs a little bit better than Discovery Studio on the docking percentage, which is the percent of the docked complexes out of 195. On the other …

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Genetic Diversity Of The Guatemalan Climbing Bean Collections, Maria Gabriela Tobar Pinon Jan 2017

Genetic Diversity Of The Guatemalan Climbing Bean Collections, Maria Gabriela Tobar Pinon

Plant Sciences

Since common bean is the most important legume crop for human consumption around the world, bean breeders are challenged to increase production of beans while facing new problems like climate change. Guatemalan climbing beans have been suggested to represent race Guatemala, a newly identified race in the Middle American gene pool that may represent an untapped source of alleles for bean improvement. This study confirmed the existence of race Guatemala in the Middle American gene pool and its differentiation from other races. The low population structure found within these Guatemalan beans also makes this population ideal for discovery of candidate …

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Distillers Byproduct Compared To Other Nitrogen Sources As A Fertilizer For Corn, Elizabeth Anne Lovering Jan 2017

Distillers Byproduct Compared To Other Nitrogen Sources As A Fertilizer For Corn, Elizabeth Anne Lovering

Plant Sciences

Corn (Zea mays L.) based ethanol and associated byproducts like wet (WDG) production has increased over the past decade. Research was conducted in five environments in North Dakota to determine the nitrogen (N) fertilization value of WDG compared to five other N fertilizer sources. In fertilizer responsive sites, 25% more WDG were required based on N equivalent than other N sources to obtain a similar yield and grain protein when applied in the spring. Effectiveness of WDG were reduced when applied to no-tilled corn. Utilizing WDG as a nitrogen source is not economical at the current product prices of WDG …

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Multilevel Orthogonal Coded Modulation, Sunil Kumar Gaire Jan 2017

Multilevel Orthogonal Coded Modulation, Sunil Kumar Gaire

Theses and Dissertations

Multilevel orthogonal coded modulation technique is a combination of orthogonal channel coding and M-ary modulation, where two or more codes are used simultaneously to detect and correct multiple errors with bandwidth efficiency. The concept, principles, and simulations of the multilevel orthogonal coding combined with M-ary modulations is presented in this thesis. In multilevel orthogonal coding, both information and orthogonal code blocks are split into multiple levels. The information data in each level are mapped to the corresponding orthogonal codes. The outputs of the encoders are then grouped to form symbols suitable for input to spectrally efficient multilevel modulations. The modulated …

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Does Rumination Cause “Inhibitory” Deficits?, Henrietta Roberts, Edward R. Watkins, Andy J. Wills Jan 2017

Does Rumination Cause “Inhibitory” Deficits?, Henrietta Roberts, Edward R. Watkins, Andy J. Wills

School of Psychology

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Free Classification Of Large Sets Of Everyday Objects Is More Thematic Than Taxonomic, Rebecca Lawson, Franklin Chang, Andy J. Wills Jan 2017

Free Classification Of Large Sets Of Everyday Objects Is More Thematic Than Taxonomic, Rebecca Lawson, Franklin Chang, Andy J. Wills

School of Psychology

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Drug Cue Reactivity Involves Hierarchical Instrumental Learning: Evidence From A Biconditional Pavlovian To Instrumental Transfer Task, Lorna Hardy, Chris Mitchell, Tina Seabrooke, Lee Hogarth Jan 2017

Drug Cue Reactivity Involves Hierarchical Instrumental Learning: Evidence From A Biconditional Pavlovian To Instrumental Transfer Task, Lorna Hardy, Chris Mitchell, Tina Seabrooke, Lee Hogarth

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

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Infants' First Words Are Not Phonetically Specified: Own Name Recognition In British English-Learning 5-Month-Olds, Luche C Delle, Caroline Floccia, Lionel Granjon, Thierry Nazzi Jan 2017

Infants' First Words Are Not Phonetically Specified: Own Name Recognition In British English-Learning 5-Month-Olds, Luche C Delle, Caroline Floccia, Lionel Granjon, Thierry Nazzi

School of Psychology

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Lifestyle Factors And Alzheimer's Disease In People With Down Syndrome, Athena V. Kenshole, Deanna Gallichan, Sabine Pahl, John Clibbens Jan 2017

Lifestyle Factors And Alzheimer's Disease In People With Down Syndrome, Athena V. Kenshole, Deanna Gallichan, Sabine Pahl, John Clibbens

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

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Integrated Biological Responses And Tissue-Specific Expression Of P53 And Ras Genes In Marine Mussels Following Exposure To Benzo(Α)Pyrene And C 60 Fullerenes, Either Alone Or In Combination, Yanan Di, Yann Aminot, Declan C. Schroeder, James W. Readman, Awadhesh N. Jha Jan 2017

Integrated Biological Responses And Tissue-Specific Expression Of P53 And Ras Genes In Marine Mussels Following Exposure To Benzo(Α)Pyrene And C 60 Fullerenes, Either Alone Or In Combination, Yanan Di, Yann Aminot, Declan C. Schroeder, James W. Readman, Awadhesh N. Jha

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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