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Oral Cancer Screening, Damon Omar Watson Jun 1997

Oral Cancer Screening, Damon Omar Watson

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Cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx have increased throughout the decades. Since oral cancer represents a small percentage of the total cancers in the United States, it is often overlooked. Though this is the case, the results of this cancer can be devastating. To address this issue, an Oral Cancer Screening was organized on August 14, 1996 at the West Michigan Cancer Center in Kalamazoo. This was a joint collaboration between the author, the West Michigan Cancer Center, and the Kalamazoo Valley Dental Society. This event allowed research to take place concerning the data obtained. Confidential results and information …


The Effect Of Color On The Feed Preferences Of Chickens, Danny Paul Pino Jr May 1997

The Effect Of Color On The Feed Preferences Of Chickens, Danny Paul Pino Jr

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No abstract provided.


The Effect Of In Ovo Glucose Injections On Hatchability, Chick Weight, And Subsequent Body Weight, James Woodard Barr Iii May 1997

The Effect Of In Ovo Glucose Injections On Hatchability, Chick Weight, And Subsequent Body Weight, James Woodard Barr Iii

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No abstract provided.


Celluloid Blackness : Race, Modernity, And The Conflicted Roots Of American Cinema (1915-1939), Lincoln Farr May 1997

Celluloid Blackness : Race, Modernity, And The Conflicted Roots Of American Cinema (1915-1939), Lincoln Farr

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Introduction: "The Problem of the Twentieth Century" In a full page interview in the New York Times on May 29, 1912, the Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Carl G. Jung told the American people, "It seems to me that you are about to discover yourselves. You have discovered everything else-all the land of this continent; all the resources, all the hidden things of nature."Jung used the interview to address the American people, at a moment which he somehow recognized as crucial in the development of human civilization. America, the "tragic" country which he struggled to comprehend, would soon become the harbinger of …


Receptor Kinase Gene Expression In Olfactory Receptor Neurons, Michael Moore Apr 1997

Receptor Kinase Gene Expression In Olfactory Receptor Neurons, Michael Moore

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No abstract provided.


Lectin Binding Affinities Of Egg Coats And Sperm Of The Freshwater Zebra Mussel, Dreissena Polymorpha, Kathryn Margaret Kreimborg Jan 1997

Lectin Binding Affinities Of Egg Coats And Sperm Of The Freshwater Zebra Mussel, Dreissena Polymorpha, Kathryn Margaret Kreimborg

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No abstract provided.


Residents’ Satisfaction With Nursing Homes, Hanna Pearce Plauche Jan 1997

Residents’ Satisfaction With Nursing Homes, Hanna Pearce Plauche

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No abstract provided.


Internal Oral Anatomy: A Comparative Analysis Of The Phyllomedusinae (Anura:Hylidae), Erin B. Hines Jan 1997

Internal Oral Anatomy: A Comparative Analysis Of The Phyllomedusinae (Anura:Hylidae), Erin B. Hines

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The internal oral anatomy of phyllomedusines has only been described for Agalychnis callydrias using light microscopy. Herein, we compare the internal oral anatomy of the genera Phyllomedusa, Agalychnis, Pachymedusa, and Phasmahyla, using SEM methodology. Tadpoles of ten species were prepared using standard SEM techniques; these larvae ranged from Gosner stages 34-39. Phasmahyla has a unique prenarial arena with three well developed pre-narial arena papillae, whereas the other genera possess the prenarial arena papillae in a semicircular arrangement with the opening directed posteriorly. Pachymedusa differs from Phyllomedusa and Agalychnis by having a low, straight-edge, median ridge; also, its buccal floor arena …


Ubiquitin-Mediated Proteolysis During Gametogenis In Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii, Hall Thomas Mcgee Jan 1997

Ubiquitin-Mediated Proteolysis During Gametogenis In Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii, Hall Thomas Mcgee

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Scientists in the field of cell biology have focused considerable attention on a unicellular species of green algae known as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. This organism is relatively common in bodies of fresh water and some types of soil, but most of the attention is due to its value as a model for biochemical studies. This laboratory has undertaken a broad study of the species including exploration into a special class of proteins, called heat shock proteins, and certain biochemical processes of the organism. The work herein described is a part of this latter study, and also a preliminary step in a …


The Stabilizing Efects Of Disulfide Bonds On Limulus And Octopus Hemocyanin, Danielle Mercatante Jan 1997

The Stabilizing Efects Of Disulfide Bonds On Limulus And Octopus Hemocyanin, Danielle Mercatante

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Hemocyanin is a large molecular weight, oxygen carrying protein that is present in the hemolymph of mollusks and arthropods . Limulus, horseshoe crab, hemocyanin is made up of 48 hexamer subunits ( consisting of seven different repeating subunits) each of which have oxygen binding dinuclear copper active centers. Octopus hemocyanin is composed of a single kind of polypeptide chain that has seven functional units, or oxygen binding domains.

The goals of research conducted by Gregory Cole and Danielle Mercatante during the fall of 1996 and spring of 1997 were to gain a biochemical understanding of the structure of Limulus and …