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Functional analyses of somatic embryogenesis receptor-like kinase family in multiple signaling pathways in Arabidopsis
(2008)
Arabidopsis SERK family contains five members: AtSERK1, AtSERK2 , AtSERK3 (BAK1) , AtSERK4 (BKK1) and AtSERK5. SERK5 might not be functional due to a natural point mutation at a highly conserved "RD" motif. All other SERKs ...
"They Sang What They Lived": Reconstructions of Lakota Culture Through Songs
(2008)
In my dissertation, I analyze Lakota song texts to show how songs served as a cultural and historical records. Traditionally, Lakota culture was oral and information was transmitted in family circles in the form of stories, ...
Cultural identity and personal involvement of community interpreters
(2008)
The current study is based on 30 in-depth interviews with Russian professional interpreters. It addresses three broad questions: cultural identity, invisibility / involvement, and the relationship between the two. In doing ...
"THE CITY THAT KNOWS HOW": SAN FRANCISCO, THE GREAT WAR, AND URBAN IDENTITY
(2008)
This dissertation examines the identity crisis that the city of San Francisco experienced in the decade following the 1906 earthquake and fire and how the Great War intensified the debate over what urban characteristics ...
SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS AS A PROBE OF NAD+-BINDING SITE IN MALIC ENZYME
(2008)
The mitochondrial NAD-malic enzyme catalyzes the oxidative decarboxylation of malate to pyruvate and CO2. The role of the dinucleotide substrate in oxidative decarboxylation is probed in this study using site-directed ...
Learning Physics Concepts as a Function of Colloquial Language Usage
(2008)
Data from two sections of college introductory, algebra-based physics courses (n1 = 139, n2 = 91) were collected using three separate instruments to investigate the relationships between reasoning ability, conceptual gain ...
A systematic study of genus
(2008)
First, pollen grains of tribe Sanguisorbeae (Rosaceae, Rosoideae) were examined using scanning electron microscopy in order to identify useful characters in the tribe, test taxonomic and phylogenetic hypotheses among genera, ...
Data gathering techniques on wireless sensor networks
(2008)
The nearly exponential growth of the performance/price and performance/size ratios of computers has given rise to the development of inexpensive, miniaturized systems with wireless and sensing capabilities. Such wireless ...
INTEGRATING SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES FOR QUANTITATIVE RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF A PLIOCENE RESERVOIR, CAMPECHE SOUND, MEXICO
(2008)
An integrated workflow including analysis of seismic, core, well log and biostratigraphic data was developed and conducted to both construct a reliable geologic model and characterize a Pliocene gas reservoir which overlies ...
Tendon Tissue Engineering Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells, the Human Umbilical Vein, and Mechanical Stimulation
(2008)
The umbilical cord is a biological tissue that is readily available and is usually discarded. Previous studies suggested the use of the Human Umbilical Vein (HUV) as an acellular vascular grafting material. In this study, ...