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Seed Priming as a Breeding Tool for Perennial Warm-Season Grasses: Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Pennisetum and Doubling the Chromosomes in Sorghum
(2015-08-12)
Warm-season perennial grasses are leading candidates for lignocellulosic biofuel feedstocks because of their relatively high photosynthetic rates, water use efficiency, and nutrient use efficiency. Interspecific F1 hybrids ...
Endocrine Disruptors and the Regulation of Voluntary Physical Activity in Mice
(2015-05-12)
Physical inactivity is the underlying cause of a large variety of chronic health conditions, is the second leading actual cause of death in the United States, and is a major contributor to obesity and diabetes. In spite ...
Matrix Acidizing Core Flooding Apparatus: Equipment and Procedure Description
(2012-12-10)
Core flooding is a commonly used experimental procedure in the petroleum industry. It involves pressurizing a reservoir rock and flowing fluid through it in the laboratory. The cylindrical rock, called a core, can be cut ...
Population Composition of an Exploited Hawaiian Fishery
(2015-05-26)
Overharvesting has been implicated in altering the population structure of marine
organisms, reducing genetic diversity and adaptive capacity. Overharvested fisheries can
be particularly vulnerable to environmental and ...
Development of New Whole Building Fault Detection and Diagnosis Techniques for Commissioning Persistence
(2012-12-07)
Commercial building owners spent $167 billion for energy in 2006. Building commissioning services have proven to be successful in saving building energy consumption. However, the optimal energy performance obtained by ...
What Shall I Give My Children? Student Affairs Professionals and Their Influence on the Academic Resilience of Underprepared African American Students
(2015-06-05)
Currently and historically, the significant gap in educational achievement between Black and White students in P-20 education has influenced the access, persistence, and graduation rates of African Americans in higher ...
Engineering, Financial and Net Energy Performance, and Risk Analysis for Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plants
(2014-08-08)
An investigation was conducted to determine how technology innovations, potential risks, plant configuration and size, operating strategy, and financial incentives affect the electricity output, financial payback, and net ...
Novel Mechanisms Used by Salmonella Typhimurium to Colonize the Intestine
(2014-07-17)
Non-typhoidal salmonellae are zoonotic pathogens that cause the largest number of cases of bacterial foodborne gastroenteritis in the United States annually. Food products of animal origin contaminated with Salmonella are ...
Development of Fluorescent Reporters for Monitoring Fe-S Cluster Transfer Reactions and Discerning the Role of Glutaredoxin Proteins in Fe-S Cluster Assembly
(2015-04-27)
Iron-sulfur clusters are critical cofactors in living organisms. They are synthesized using complex biosynthetic machinery that has evolved to control the reactivity of iron and sulfide and to appropriately target clusters ...
The Effects of Pre and Post Hatch LED Lighting on Development and Behavior in Chickens
(2015-05-08)
Lighting is an important factor in raising poultry and has been shown to impact behavior as well as physical aspects of birds. To investigate how light may impact poultry embryos differently depending on egg shell color ...