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Response Of Co2 Emissions To The Grazing And Enclosure In Temperate Grassland Ecosystem, Junbo Chen, Zhigang Li, Fujiang Hou

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Soil Carbon In Soils Of South Coastal Western Australia Under Different Farm Management Systems, Including Sub‐Tropical Perennial Pastures, N. Y. Chalmer

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Interactions Between Defoliation, Warming, And Drought In A Native Northern Grassland In Alberta, Canada, J. F. Cahill, E. W. Bork, S. X. Chang, H. C. Proctor, S. D. Wilson

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Carbon Balance In Stand Of An Annual Herb At An Elevated Co2 Concentration, Almaz Borjigidai, Kouki Hikosaka, Tadaki Hirose

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Climate Change On Grassland--A Modelling Approach, Lianhai Wu, C. F. E. Topp

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Climate Change Challenge For Managed Grasslands In New Zealand, Judy Lawrence

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Carbon Stocks And Environmental Controls Of China's Grasslands, Jingyun Fang, Yuanhe Yang, Wenhong Ma, Anwar Mohammat

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Study Of Effects Of Irrigation With Waste Water On Growing Season Of Bromus Tecrum, Nafiseh Taghavi, Mohammad Jaafari

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Examination Of Grazing Intensity Effects On Capability Of Water Influence In Rangelands Soil--A Case Study: Alpine Rangelands In North Of Iran (Alborz Mountains), Sirous Azadi, N. Safaian, R. Safaian

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Use Of Benthic Macroinvertebrates As Indicators Of Water Quality In River Njoro, Kenya, H. Makoba, W. A. Shivoga

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Stocking Rate And Corn Gluten Supplemental Feed On The Performance Of Young Beef Cows, A. D. Nkengafac, P. Tinta, G. Ayuk, M. Mansue, F. Fuh

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Smokejumper Obituary: Morrissey, Donald T. (Missoula 1955), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

No abstract provided.

Marginal Bone Stability Around Bone Level Versus Tissue Level Implants In Non-Compliant Patients With Healthy Or Reduced Periodontium: A 10-Year Retrospective Study, Joyce Nicolas, Nada Bou Abboud Naaman, Johnny Nohra, Mark Bou Chaaya

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the effects of bone level implants (BL) in non-compliant patients on marginal bone alterations compared with the tissue level implants group (TL) at a mean follow-up period of at least 10 years.This study reports on 44 non-compliant patients selected from 3 private practices located in Beirut. Patients selected underwent implant surgery between 2005 and 2009 and had BL (Branemark and 3I Biomet) or TL (Straumann) implants. Periapical radiographs were taken directly after loading and at least at 10 years later. Crestal bone loss (CBL) for a total of 140 implants, including …

Combined Surgical Ablation With Superpulsed Co2 Laser For Treatment Of Facial Basel Cell Carcinoma, Eiad Khoury

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancers in face region. The most concern for surgeons is success of treatment with high cure rate and good cosmetic result. There are several methods for treatment , including laser therapy. The objectives of the present study were to evaluate the healing of wounds (recurrence and cosmetic outcome) after treatment by surgical ablation and irradiation by superpulsed mode of laser CO2.A total of 18 patients with BCC, age between 58-71 years, from both gender (7 males and 11 females) were included in the study. The tumorous mass was ablated firstly, then …

Climate-Related Geographical Variation In Performance Traits Across The Invasion Front Of A Widespread Non-Native Insect, Lily M. Thompson, Sean D. Powers, Ashley Appolon, Petra Hafker, Leila Milner, Dylan Parry, Salvatore J. Agosta, Kristine L. Grayson

Biology Faculty Publications

Aim

Invasive species are ideal systems for testing geographical differences in performance traits and measuring evolutionary responses as a species spreads across divergent climates and habitats. The European gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar dispar L. (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), is a generalist forest defoliator introduced to Medford, Massachusetts, USA in 1869. The invasion front extends from Minnesota to North Carolina and the ability of this species to adapt to local climate may contribute to its continuing spread. We evaluated the performance of populations along the climatic gradient of the invasion front to test for a relationship between climate and ecologically important performance traits. …

Multidecadal Analysis Of Beach Loss At The Major Offshore Sea Turtle Nesting Islands In The Northern Arabian Gulf, Rommel H. Maneja, Jeffrey D. Miller, Wenzhao Li, Rejoice Thomas, Hesham El-Askary, Sachi Perera, Ace Vincent B. Flandez, Abdullajid U. Basali, Joselito Francis A. Alcaria, Jinoy Gopalan, Surya Prakash Tiwari, Mubarak Al-Jedani, Perdana K. Prihartato, Ronald A. Loughlan, Ali Qasem, Mohamed A. Qurban, Wail Falath, Daniele Struppa

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Undocumented historical losses of sea turtle nesting beaches worldwide could overestimate the successes of conservation measures and misrepresent the actual status of the sea turtle population. In addition, the suitability of many sea turtle nesting sites continues to decline even without in-depth scientific studies of the extent of losses and impacts to the population. In this study, multidecadal changes in the outlines and area of Jana and Karan islands, major sea turtle nesting sites in the Arabian Gulf, were compared using available Kodak aerographic images, USGS EROS Declassified satellite imagery, and ESRI satellite images. A decrease of 5.1% and 1.7% …

The Development Of Aapeptides, Lulu Wei

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Non-natural peptide mimics are referred to as peptidomimetics, which contains unnatural backbones that mimic the primary peptide structure. There are a large number of peptidomimetics that have been developed including α-peptides, β-peptides, peptoids, arylamide oligomers, cationic polymers, and other peptidomimetics in the last decades. Compared to conventional peptides, these peptidomimetics have many advantages such as resistance to proteolysis, improved bioavailability, and reduced immunogenicity. However, the development of peptidomimetics is still far below the expectation due to the limitation of the availability of backbones. It is an urgent need to generate a new diverse library for novel drug discovery, design antimicrobial …

Microbial Load Of Touch Screen Mobile Phones Used By University Students And Healthcare Staff, Abdelraouf Elmanama

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

Mobile phones have become an indispensable part of our lives. Though they offer plenty of advantages, they are prolific breeding grounds for infectious pathogens in communities and hospitals. The present study seeks to identify the counts and types of bacteria contaminating touch screen mobile phones (TSMP) used by students of the Islamic University-Gaza (IUG) and healthcare workers (HCWs) at Al-Shifa Hospital. It also tries to investigate the antimicrobial resistance profiles. A cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2013 to April 2014. Two hundred and fifty swab samples were collected: 100 IUG female students, 100 IUG male students and 50 from …

A Whiteheadian Innervation Of The Soma: A New Vision For The Peripheral Nervous System, David Milliern

Journal of Conscious Evolution

This essay draws attention to two problems in neuroscience’s set of assumptions. These self-defeating assumptions include: 1) the assumption that what the nervous system, especially the brain, does is synthesize experience, while also assuming philosophical realism, and 2) the problem of biological signal transduction. In the latter, neuroscientists and philosophers of biology have left unaddressed the issue that the signal differences between the inside and outside of the organismic boundary are of distinct ontological types; and yet no concern has been expressed regarding how it is possible that an organism’s inner states could reflect the experiential content flowing from outside …

Analytical Methods And Critical Analyses Supporting Thermodynamically Consistent Characterizations Of The Marine Co2 System, Jonathan D. Sharp

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Chemical equilibria describing the unique behavior of gaseous and ionic forms of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO₂) in seawater comprise what is known as the marine CO₂ (or carbonate) system. Observations of the marine CO₂ system with high degrees of accuracy, reproducibility, spatial coverage, and temporal resolution are critical for evaluating natural cycles of carbon within the Earth system, as well as chemical and biological responses to anthropogenic CO₂ emissions.

One component of the CO₂ system is the carbonate ion (CO²−₃), a dissolved ion that is produced when carbonic acid (H …

An Exploration Of Linguistic Relativity Theory For Consideration Of Terence Mckenna’S “Stoned Ape Theory” On The Origins Of Consciousness And Language: Implications For Language Pedagogy, Nicole Lopez

Journal of Conscious Evolution

The “linguistic turn” from the early 20^th century created a shift in the ontological underpinnings of various disciplines within the social sciences. Several key figures asserted that much of what we think of as reality is constructed based on a system of social institution that we call language. Language shifted to becoming a fundamental aspect of the ontological realities within a given discipline in the social sciences. Most significant to my understanding of the relationship between language, its origins, and the emergence of higher forms of human consciousness is Terence McKenna’s Stoned Ape Theory. In this article, …

Looking At Environmental Consciousness Through The Lenses Of Morphic Fields And Systems Theory, Johara Bellali

Journal of Conscious Evolution

This paper is an exploration of a space in which questions of self-determination and planetary crises can co-exist. It swims in uncomfortable seas of accepting that environmental consciousness is as innate as our existence, and at the same time not aligned to healthy ecosystems. In this paper, I will first explore environmental consciousness from an ecosystem perspective and present some self-organizing principles of our systems; then I will look into our perceptions, awareness, and sensing of them and finally propose an understanding of how the morphic fields in ecosystems and the creative flow of the life force co-exist in our …

Fungal Community Structure And Function Shifts With Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition, Jessica A. M. Moore, Mark A. Anthony, Gregory J. Pec, Lidia K. Trocha, Artur Trzebny, Kevin M. Geyer, Linda T. A. Van Diepen, Serita D. Frey

Faculty Publications

Fungal decomposition of soil organic matter depends on soil nitrogen (N) availability. This ecosystem process is being jeopardized by changes in N inputs that have resulted from a tripling of atmospheric N deposition in the last century. Soil fungi are impacted by atmospheric N deposition due to higher N availability, as soils are acidified, or as micronutrients become increasingly limiting. Fungal communities that persist with chronic N deposition may be enriched with traits that enable them to tolerate environmental stress, which may trade-off with traits enabling organic matter decomposition. We hypothesized that fungal communities would respond to N deposition by …

Loss Of Class Iii Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Vps34 Results In Cone Degeneration, Ammaji Rajala, Feng He, Robert E Anderson, Theodore G Wensel, Raju V S Rajala

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The major pathway for the production of the low-abundance membrane lipid phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI(3)P) synthesis is catalyzed by class III phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) Vps34. The absence of Vps34 was previously found to disrupt autophagy and other membrane-trafficking pathways in some sensory neurons, but the roles of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate and Vps34 in cone photoreceptor cells have not previously been explored. We found that the deletion of Vps34 in neighboring rods in mouse retina did not disrupt cone function up to 8 weeks after birth, despite diminished rod function. Immunoblotting and lipid analysis of cones isolated from the cone-dominant retinas of the …

Research On Establishing Webgis Of Grassland Resources For Inner Mongolia, Qing Yuan, Jiating Wang, Dongmei Zhang, Yongping Dong

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Remote Sensing Monitoring For The Key Phonological Stages Of Rangeland — A Case Study About Xilingol Grassland, Aijun Liu, Jianguo Han

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Lessons Learned From The Pandemic, Lee Ann Clements

Southeast ICAI Sharing Conference

The incidents of academic integrity violations increased dramatically with the move to entirely online instruction in March 2020. In addition, the types of infractions shifted towards more unauthorized collaboration and cheating on tests rather than plagiarism. Student stress and lack of timely communication with faculty during a testing situation seemed to be the drivers of the collaboration behaviors. Strategies will be discussed for preventing this problem as we remain in hybrid or online teaching with traditional students.

Students’ With Blindness And Visual Impairments Level Of Engagement In Science And Engineering Practices, Tiffany A. Wild, Natalie Shaheen, Danene K. Fast, Julia Averill, Karen Koehler, Kathleen Farrand

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

There is a lack of research on science-process skills and abilities of students with blindness and visual impairments to apply those skills (Jones, Forrester, Robertson, Gardner, & Taylor, 2012). This study aims to provide additional information on how students with blindness and visual impairment are engaged in science and engineering practices in order for teachers to gain a better understanding of how students with visual impairments can learn engineering practices. The Student Inquiry Review (Hilson & Wild, 2015) that examines the scientific and engineering practices as defined in the Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas …

Investigating The General Public's Perceptions Of Bias In Forensic Science, Sarah Riley

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

In recent years, the place of forensic science in the courtroom has been reevaluated. Past research has shown that bias found in forensic science disciplines makes its way into the court system and that pre-judgement expectations influence individuals attending a court trial. Despite these reults, relatively little has been done to understand public opinions on forensic bias. To begin investigating these perceptions, a survey was designed to gauge public perspective on bias in forensic science. Multiple choice, ranking, multiple answer, and free response questions sent to the public focused on evaluating a general understanding of forensic science, the existence of …

The Gut Microbiome And Trimethylamine N-Oxide: Implications For Chronic Disease Risk And Dietary Regulation, Connor W. Nevin

Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review

The leading causes of death in the United States include many chronic diseases with modifiable risk factors including ischemic heart diseases. Gut microbiota-dependent trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) synthesis has been implicated in cardiovascular disease risk in recent years. New evidence may also implicate TMAO involvement in other chronic diseases including diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease. The role of diet in TMAO synthesis has also been of considerable interest, as certain dietary precursors are known to modulate circulating TMAO. The gut microbiome is indeed susceptible to diet-induced change which may modulate the risk for chronic disease. Plant-based diets are considered by …