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Bell, Anthony W. | The expansion of pinyon-juniper woodland and the appearance of peromyscus truel in the Toiyabe range of central Nevada | In the early twentieth century field biologists from the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology conducted vertebrate faunal surveys throughout the Great Basin region. Over the past several years we have been conducting resurveys of many of the localities visited by MVZ scientists. Our... | Piñon mouse -- Nevada -- Toiyabe Range; Piñon mouse -- Habitat -- Nevada -- Toiyabe Range; Piñon mouse -- Climatic factors -- Nevada -- Toiyabe Range | 2012-05 |
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Trakhimets, Alesia | Pre-clinical trials of anti-neoplastic drugs using zebrafish with T-cell cancer | Note: To agree with NCBI nomenclature guidelines, human gene abbreviations are italicized and capitalized; human protein abbreviations are non-italicized and capitalized, and zebrafish gene abbreviations are italicized in lowercase. T lymphocytes, or T-cells, are blood cells that normally fight vira... | Antineoplastic agents - Testing; Zebra danio | 2013-04 |
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Scott, Isabelle | Tropical analog to the log canonical threshold | In algebraic geometry, the log canonical threshold is a property of singularities of planar curves. While singularities have multiplicities, the log canonical threshold can be a more telling invariant. It helps to classify curves beyond what the multiplicity indicates by examining how quickly the in... | Geometry, Algebraic | 2013-04 |
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Rose, Steven | Biofuel cells for self powered arsenic detection | Research in the Minteer group has centered on procedures for immobilizing enzymes and organelles on carbon electrodes for use in sensory and fuel cell applications. Similar strategies have been used to prepare a series of electrodes capable of pyruvate oxidation which, in the presence of arsenic, wi... | Fuel cells; Arsenic - Detection | 2013-05 |
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Burga, Carlos Alberto | Binary superlattices of semiconductor nanocrystals : a path towards possible high-temperature superconductivity | This thesis provides a platform to experimentally test Dr. Daniel Mattis' theoretical work on the possible superconductive behavior of nanostructured intrinsic semiconductors1-2. The theoretical work hinged on the nano-scale architecture of semiconductors. Therefore, using various types of semicondu... | Semiconductor nanocrystals; Superconductivity; Superlattices as materials | 2013-05 |
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Edwards, Jennifer Lynn | Application of a TBHP-mediated Wacker-type oxidation to internal alkenes | The Wacker oxidation allows access to methyl ketones from terminal alkenes. This transformation is important for industrial, synthetic, and medicinal chemists, as carbonyls are present in many natural and pharmaceutical products. With the carbonyl, a wide variety of reactions become available, such ... | Wacker-type oxidatioin - Research; TBHP | 2013-05 |
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Chure, Griffin Daniel | FLHE influences cellular morphology through control of flagellar assembly in escherichia coli | The bacterial flagellar motor is a complex nanomachine composed of thousands of individual protein subunits. One of these proteins, FlhE, has not been studied in depth and its function is not completely understood. The flhE gene is cotranscribed with flhB and flhA in the flhBAE flagellar operon. In ... | Escherichia coli; Flagella (Microbiology) | 2013-05 |
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Little, Nancy Ann | Characterizing and mapping l(3)7E103 a gene required for Drosophila dorsal closure | Dorsal closure in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a complex morphogenetic process dependent upon three embryonic tissues: the lateral epidermis, leading edge epidermis, and amnioserosa. Additionally, the Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK) and Decapentaplegic (Dpp) signaling cascades are required f... | Drosophila melanogaster - Genetics; Drosophila melanogaster - Embryology | 2013-05 |
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Thomas, Nikita | Cellular ultrastructure of C. elegans nervous system | Determining the ultrastructural organization of the nervous system is a key step in understanding how complex behavior is generated. For a nervous system to function, it must be wired accurately. A complete wiring diagram, referred to as a connectome, can be created by tracing neuronal profiles thro... | Caenorhabditis elegans - Nervous system | 2013-05 |
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Richards, Jackson | Chasing channels: Progress in calcium channel localization in the C. Elegans synapse | Calcium channels play a crucial role in neurotransmission by facilitating the flow of calcium ions necessary for synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release. Different types of calcium channels participate in this process in the neurons of the nematode C. elegans. L- and N-type channels res... | Calcium channels; Synaptic vesicles; Caenorhabditis elegans | 2013-05 |
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Gondolo, Alessandro | Characterization and Synthesis of Rayleigh Damped Elastodynamic Networks | We consider damped elastodynamic networks where the damping matrix is assumed to be a non-negative linear combination of the stiffness and mass matrices (Rayleigh damping). We give here a characterization of the frequency response of such networks. We also answer the synthesis question for such netw... | Damping (Mechanics) - Mathematics | 2013-05 |
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Lee, Zachary | Using Drosophila to investigate p53 life-or-death decisions | The p53 tumor suppressor is a central regulator of cellular responses to DNA damage. When DNA damage cannot be repaired most cells undergo p53-dependent cell death. Thisp55-mediated apoptosis is important to eliminate cells with damaged genomes and provides an important block to the development of c... | Biology | 2013-05 |
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Nicolo, Tera | Characterization of mitochondria-modified electrodes | In order to develop an herbicide sensor, yeast, potato, and bovine heart mitochondria were isolated and immobilized onto Toray paper electrodes. Cyclic voltammetry showed two redox peaks at 186 ± 14 mV vs. SCE and -357 ± 24 mV vs. SCE with an E1/2 of -128 mV. Scan rate studies suggested the proces... | Electrodes; Herbicides - Detection | 2013-05 |
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Sullivan, Steven M. | A trace formula for G2 | An n-dimensional matrix representation of a group G on a vector space V is a homomorphism from G to GL(V). For our purposes, we consider an irreducible representation to be a representation which cannot be decomposed into the direct sum of smaller-dimensional representations. Let H be a subgroup of ... | Trace formulas | 2013-05 |
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Simonsen, Kyle | Breast cancer knowledge and attitudes among women in Armenia | Background: Breast cancer, the most common invasive cancer among women, has high incidence and mortality rates among women in the Republic of Armenia. Advanced stage at detection limits treatment options and contributes to high morbidity and mortality. Understanding women's breast cancer knowledge a... | Breast - Cancer; Breast - Cancer - Patients - Attitudes; Breast - Cancer - Patients - Armenia (Republic) | 2013-07 |
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Pecchia-Bekkum, Annika | Applications of controlled DNA assembly and disassembly in biosensing and responsive drug delivery | Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) provides many exciting functions outside of simply encoding genetic information. Herein, we report two techniques to control the assembly and disassembly of nucleic acids. Within these techniques, DNA is used as a programmable material for biosensing and drug delivery. In... | Nucleic acids - Biotechnology | 2013-08 |