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(1998)In the past few years the state of Texas, under the direction of Governor George W. Bush, has seriously considered the idea of cutting property taxes. Since schools are financed mainly through property taxes in Texas, ...
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(2015-12-09)Previous research has shown that people have the tendency to view the victim as being partly responsible for a violent assault, as though they themselves did something to deserve the crime. Known as victim-blaming, this ...
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(1978)A mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking 92 percent of its phosphomannose isomerase (E.C.5.3.1.8.) activity was isolated after mutation with E.M.S.. The mutant was found to have the same auxotrophic requirements as the ...
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(2006-07-11)As a defense against viral infection, plants are only very recently thought to use an RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) as part of the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway to target and cleave viral RNA. To counteract this, ...
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(2014-09-19)Burkholderia glumae, the primary causal agent of Bacterial Panicle Blight (BPB), results in the abortion of infected rice kernels and grain rot that may result in 75% yield loss. The significance of this disease and finding ...
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(1983)Two sets of deletion mutants of lambda pmet100 were isolated by EDTA/heat shock inactivation. A procedure has been developed to quickly screen large numbers of these mutants. The structures of the resultant mutants were ...
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The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is a globally distributed mosquito and the primary vector of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses. These Aedes-borne diseases impose ...
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(1990)A 16kb fragment of DNA containing the omp1 gene was isolated from Brucella abortus strain 19 and inserted into plasmid pBR322. The resultant plasmid, p1F8, was transformed into E. coli SE5000. Cells containing the plasmid ...
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(1984)Five media were compared for their efficiency in isolation of Ceratocystis fagacearum, the oak wilt fungus. The efficiency of bole and branch samples was also compared. Potato dextrose agar amended with streptomycin was ...
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(2013-02-04)Cyanide is both a useful and dangerous chemical compound that serves as a crucial component in multiple industrial processes, including metal mining. The leaching process that utilizes cyanide ions to help separate target ...
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(1990)Bacteria swim through their environment, but not that much is known about the "motor" which propels them. In Escherichia coli, a bacteria found in human intestines, six to eight flagella(4) move the cell around so that it ...
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(1978)Acid invertase was isolated from Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench. Activity was determined in a crude enzyme preparation by determining the increase in glucose and fructose and the decrease in sucrose. TMS derivatives of the ...
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(1982)The standard vitamin K dependent carboxylase assay was maximized for use with purified carboxylase preparation. This preparation represented a 100-fold increase in specific activity relative to microsomes. The carboxylation ...
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The unique situation of Palestine not being considered a state creates a rare situation for refugees who are thereby stateless and processed as such. Through this project, I explore how Palestinian refugees are impacted ...
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(2011-08-08)There are 600,000 American bison (Bison bison) that exist today, all of which can be traced to the less than 500 bison that were present after a severe bottleneck in the late 1800s. To save the species from extinction and ...
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(2012-04-20)Historic preservation is a topic that is well known throughout the United States today and many people believe that they completely understand it in full. However, historic preservation is much more detailed and confusing ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-09-12)This year, the Social Security program is projected to run a cash flow deficit of $121 billion, one-fifth of the U.S. annual federal deficit, and is expected to be insolvent in 12 years. In this issue of PERCspectives on ...
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It's a Jungle Out There: Filtering High Quality Reviews From Amazon Using Attention-Based Modeling Today, a large amount of misinformation proliferates on the internet, including online review websites. Because of the prevalence of fake or unknowledgeable reviewers, there is a need for new models to order and filter ...
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(2013-03-29)With the growing popularity of smart phones and tablets, development of multimedia applications is on the rise. Speedy transmission of this massive amount information is already pushing the limits of the capacity of ...
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(1986)Often in petroleum reservoir analysis it is necessary to measure the electrical resistivity of the water present in a formation. Formation water salinity and fluid saturations can both be calculated from the water resistivity ...