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July 24, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Getting Energy Out Of Wind, Alexis Rojas Aguilera

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This article briefly discusses the positive impact of the wind industry on both social and economic development in Cuba.

User Assisted Tree Reconstruction From Point Clouds, William P. Leavenworth Ii

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

LIDAR is a useful tool for quickly digitalizing real world objects, but it usually takes some effort to produce a recognizable object from the raw input. When the object is a tree, the challenge is to create a three‐dimensional model that represents its general shape, while avoiding the influence of undersampling and noise. In the method developed for this research, the user creates a sketch overlaying a display of the raw input data. Each node in the sketch creates an estimated slice of the tree skeleton at that point, and the slices are connected according to the connectivity of the …

Secreted Semaphorin 5a Suppressed Pancreatic Tumour Burden But Increased Metastasis And Endothelial Cell Proliferation., A Sadanandam, S S. Sidhu, S Wullschleger, S Singh, M L. Varney, C-S Yang, A E. Ashour, Surinder K. Batra, Rakesh Singh

Journal Articles: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

BACKGROUND: Our earlier reports demonstrated that membrane-bound semaphorin 5A (SEMA5A) is expressed in aggressive pancreatic cancer cells and tumours, and promotes tumour growth and metastasis. In this study, we examine whether (1) pancreatic cancer cells secrete SEMA5A and (2) that secreted SEMA5A modulates certain phenotypes associated with tumour progression, angiogenesis and metastasis through various other molecular factors and signalling proteins.

METHODS AND RESULTS: In this study, we show that human pancreatic cancer cell lines secrete the extracellular domain (ECD) of SEMA5A (SEMA5A-ECD) and overexpression of mouse Sema5A-ECD in Panc1 cells (not expressing SEMA5A; Panc1-Sema5A-ECD; control cells - Panc1-control) significantly increases …

Apparatus And Method For Predicting Meat Tenderness, Jean-Francois C. Meullenet

Patents Granted

An apparatus and method for predicting meat tenderness, particularly with respect to raw meat, is disclosed. The invention does not require the removal or destruction of any cuts of meat from the carcass to which the method is applied. The method allows for the identification of tender meat product that might not be identified as tender using conventional United States Department of Agriculture quality grading methods. It includes the insertion of one or more blunt, flat-tipped blades into a meat sample, measuring a value such as stress, force, or energy upon insertion of the blade, and calculating a tenderness factor …

Development Of Nano-Scale Featured Materials For Electrode Modification And Solid Supports., Amy Rue

Theses and Dissertations

This work utilized the sol-gel process in two ways. First, macroporous silica thin films were developed using a combination of casting techniques and templating. Macroporsity was introduced to the silica thin films by either doping the silica sol before casting or by ordering the template on a substrate and then casting a sol over it. These techniques were first used to create silica thin films with long microchannel pores (200 nm x 60 µm) from a doped sol with the bacteria, B. Megaterium, as the template for nanomaterial formation. To enable the formation long microchannels, the flexible bacteria chains were …

Sykes V. Schepp Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39687

Not Reported

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Terry-Lee V. Young Appellant's Reply Brief 2 Dckt. 38939

Not Reported

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State V. Navejar Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39548

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Florida Sentinel Bulletin, July 24, 2012, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The July 24, 2012, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Take Pride In America Phase Iii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering April 25, 2012-July 24, 2012, Margaret N. Rees

Anti-littering Programs

• The GIS database continued to be populated with data.
• Hector’s Helpers added an additional youth group.
• The new website launched and social media efforts began.
• The pilot testing of the litter monitoring program continued.

The University of Nevada Las Vegas Public Lands Institute (PLI) designed the Take Pride in America (TPIA) Phase III work plan based on the strategic plan developed by the Southern Nevada Agency Partnership (SNAP) anti-litter and desert dumping team during Phase II of the program.

Who Shot Charles Summers?, Kyle Graham

Faculty Publications

This short piece ties up a loose end from the somewhat famous Torts case of Summers v. Tice. In it, St. Peter considers who, as between Harold Tice and Ernest Simonson, actually shot Charles Summers.

Nationwide Life Ins V. Commonwealth Land Title Ins

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Barry Shelley V. George Patrick

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Gary Still V. Secretary Us Department Of Vet

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Usa V. Carlos Jackson-Escolastico

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USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Shawn Clark

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USDC for the District of New Jersey

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• Georgia Southern University Hosting HIV/AIDS Education and Training Conference

Quantity And Capacity Expansion Decisions For Ethanol In Nebraska And A Medium Sized Plant, Mahsa Khoshnoud

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Corn-based ethanol is the leader of sustainable sources of energy in the United States due to the abundance of corn and the popularity of ethanol-gasoline mixes. Over the past decade, ethanol production has risen from 1.5 million gallons in 1999 to 13 million gallons in 2011. This increase in production requires expansion of ethanol plants. Since Nebraska is the second highest producer of ethanol, we focus our research on the expansion of ethanol plants in Nebraska.

The aim of this study is to develop an optimization model for capital investments in ethanol in Nebraska and a medium sized ethanol plant …

Specimen, Mary Richardson

Theses

Ideas of human interaction and levels of physical construction touched upon in geometry and physics have saturated my practice for many years. Having come from a small town in Virginia and moving to a big city like Chicago, I was confronted with massive amounts of people, ideas, cultures, and stimuli of which I had never before conceived. I realized that how we interact as people is a similar dynamic found in molecular interaction. This same interaction takes place in celestial formation, plant growth, decomposition, and even emotion. As I came to terms with my own presence in the world, my …

Early Human Vocalization Development: A Collection Of Studies Utilizing Automated Analysis Of Naturalistic Recordings And Neural Network Modeling, Anne Sanda Warlaumont

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Understanding early human vocalization development is a key part of understanding the origins of human communication. What are the characteristics of early human vocalizations and how do they change over time? What mechanisms underlie these changes? This dissertation is a collection of three papers that take a computational approach to addressing these questions, using neural network simulation and automated analysis of naturalistic data.The first paper uses a self-organizing neural network to automatically derive holistic acoustic features characteristic of prelinguistic vocalizations. A supervised neural network is used to classify vocalizations into human-judged categories and to predict the age of the child …

Tensile Testing Of Polyurea Crosslinked Silica Aerogel Impregnated Silicone And Amine Functionalized Polyoligomeric Silsesquioxane Crosslinked Polyimide Aerogel For Cryogenic Tank Applications., K M Rifat Faysal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Polymer-based thermally insulating vessels are an attractive option for future space exploratory missions as well as energy conserving terresterial applications as an alternative to the conventional metal-based structures. Aerogel due to its unique set of material properties, such as superior thermal insulation and light weight, makes it an attractive for future space applications. Room Temperature (RT) and Low Temperature (LT)evaluation of the mechanical properties of Polyurea Crosslinked Silica Aerogel (PCSA) impregnated RTV655 was performed under increasing concentrations of PCSA. The effect of PCSAparticles size on the tensile behavior of RTV655 was also assessed and compared with the tensile behavior of …

Spatial/Landscape Genetics Of Native Plant Species In Arches And Canyonlands National Parks, Meeyoon Choo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Stipa hymenoides and Sphaeralcea parvifolia are native to rangelands in western North America and have been selected as priority species for the restoration of degraded grasslands in the Colorado Plateau. To study the natural population structure of these species, individuals were collected from 44 populations of Stipa hymenoides and 23 populations of Sphaeralcea (22 populations of S. parvifolia and one population of S. grossulariifolia) distributed throughout southwest U.S. including Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah. Amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) were used to assess the genetic diversity and population genetic structure of both species. Moderate levels of genetic differentiation …

Optical Detection Of Surface Damage Of Rtv 655 Using A Laser Speckle Contrast Technique - A Feasibility Study, Charles Nathan Melton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Surface damage to critical instruments during space exploration is a factor that must be identified if it were to occur. A non-invasive remote sensing optical technique for detecting surface damage on RTV 655 was investigated under different environmental conditions. The adopted sesning mechanism utilizes speckle contrast fluctuations and inteference patterns created as a result of defect illumination with a 50 mW He-Ne laser. Defects expected to occur in orbit were simulated in a laboratory environment and the effect of defect geometry on the optical sensing technique was also explored. Compound samples containing both RTV 655 and polyurea crosslinked silica aerogel …

Social Influences And Intentions To Smoke In Adolescent Smokers: A Mediation Model, Ashley Jackson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Research on the Theory of Planned Behavior has previously demonstrated that, as measures of subjective norms, descriptive norms and normative beliefs predict intentions to engage in behaviors such as smoking. Descriptive norms measuring the prevalence of parent and peer smoking have been investigated as predictors of intentions among adolescent smokers. Normative beliefs representing parent and peer attitudes toward smoking have also been shown to predict adolescents' plans to smoke. Within a sample of 356 adolescent smokers, the present study attempted to model the relationships between these measures of social influence and intentions using Structural Equation Modeling. Three emotional and cognitive …

Becoming Isis: Myth, Magic, Medicine, And Reproduction In Ancient Egypt, Chrystal Elaine Goudsouzian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In ancient Egypt, sexuality, fertility, and the conception of children was of central importance not just to personal identity, but also to family and social structure. Because of the significance of birth in both the physical world and in the spiritual realm, references to reproduction, including fertility, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, can be found in a wide variety of textual sources. Specifically, mythic events and scenarios, including those in magical spells, medico-magical spells, and funerary texts, reflected Egyptian reproductive conceptions and practices. Further, the Egyptians employed and called on these mythic episodes and archetypes to create divinely charged myth-mirroring space, …