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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 ...
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(2014-09-05)Existential philosophy has long asserted human life serves a purpose beyond simple existence and, further, that humans have a fundamental need to seek and understand this purpose. Humans are undeniably meaning seekers, ...
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(2017-04-24)In the “Oxen of the Sun” episode, Joyce’s manuscripts reveal a systematic appropriation from canonical texts to produce a profile of style as gestation. Focusing on his adaptations from Sir Thomas Malory in the construction ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-12-02)Japan, the third-largest economy in the world by GDP, is also the most heavily indebted of the highly developed countries. Its gross debt of 1,175.84 trillion yen is an eye-popping 213.7% of GDP. In this issue of Data ...
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(2007-09-17)The purpose of this research is to identify the effect of varying constraints on the planning and organization of multijoint movements, specifically how amplitude and movement direction affect the planning and organization ...
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Most modern communication systems rely on separate source encoding and channel encoding schemes to transmit data. Despite the long-lasting success of separate schemes, joint source channel coding schemes have been proven ...
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This thesis breaks down the ideas and processes of an adaptation. It investigates the methods for adapting artistic materials from one medium to another and how my process changed the more I learned. Originally this was ...
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(2015-09-25)Often termed the “invisible people,” ancient Roman slaves leave almost no visible footprint in archaeological sites. Furthermore, though their presence is intricately woven throughout the very fabric of the Roman Empire, ...