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Bengt Leopold and Ed Palmer looking a paper machine
No full textBengt Leopold (2nd from left) and ESF president, Ed Palmer (4th from left) standing with a group of unknown males looking at a paper machine
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Carlton Dence seated
No full textCarlton Dence (seated) viewing a graph exiting a machine with an unknown Caucasian male
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Paper Mill Machine
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Student putting wood billet into grinder
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Developing a Localized Predictive Model for Sugar Maple Sap Production Season Termination
Get PDFFor thousands of years, humans have been extracting the sap of the sugar maple tree for use in many areas of life. The ability to predict, as a function of environmental conditions, the critical events, like the change in the flavor of maple sap, can be critical for the success and profitability for modern maple syrup production. Four models are developed to correlate the accumulation of heating and cooling over specified periods of time with the change in maple sap flavor at a maple operation in Attica, NY. Growing degree days and cooling degree days are used to simulate this heating and cooling accumulation. After testing the four models with varying date ranges, threshold/base temperatures, cooling accumulation thresholds, and heating start dates, the data suggests there is no significant correlation between heating and cooling accumulation and the flavor change of maple sap at this location
A Review of Traditional and Modern Viticulture Systems in the Lima and Cávado Subregions of the Vinho Verde DOC in Northern Portugal
Get PDFThis study topic is important as the density of traditional viticulture systems is diminishing and being replaced by modern, more efficient production methods. This is due to low perceived value of traditional wine production. The purpose of this study was to provide an analysis of the region and showcase what viticulture currently exists. In the coming future, climate change will alter important micro-climate conditions that allow for the production of this specific type of wine. The methods in which Vinho Verde wine are produced will need to adapt in order to keep a similar composition and taste. In summary, future objectives would be to provide design planning suggestions for maintaining Vinho Verde wine production in northern Portugal, based off of currently mapped viticulture practices and future climate change models
The 58kD Protein Promoter from Capsicum Fruit and its Biopharmaceutical Purposes
Get PDFThe use of injectable vaccines and pharmaceuticals pose logistical problems in many parts of the world. This problem has previously been investigated using various plants to produce pharmaceuticals, which would eliminate the problem of injection sterility. However, concentration determination in the harvested plants still pose a critical problem. For other medicines that might be cytotoxic, there is the additional problem that production in the living plant tissues could kill the plant before they could produce enough compound to be economically viable. The solution proposed by this project focused on the use of the promotor for a 58 kD protein in Capsicum to target pharmaceutical production to the ripened fruit of the red pepper plant. Due to time restraints in the lab this experiment and paper will focus on the isolation which can then be used in the future to begin work on the promotors. This avoids the issue of cytotoxicity as the promotor drives protein synthesis only in the final ripening states of the fruit, which can be harvested when ripened, thus preventing the entire plant from dying. These peppers can be harvested, ground and dried, providing a sample that can be tested for concentration and uniformly allocated into capsules. The protein has thus far been isolated from the chromoplast of the Capsicum fruit using a sucrose gradient centrifugation using a modified method for plant isolations. The next step will be the isolation of both mRNA and genomic DNA to search for the promoter regions using a cDNA clone for the protein of interest. Once the promoter regions are identified a DNA cassette can be produced containing a marker gene and inserted into a range of fruit bearing plants to determine which fruits produce the highest level of the marker, and also the timing of the marker. The final goal would be the insertion of a pharmaceutically relevant gene into the DNA cassette, and create transgenic plants that produce the desired compound only at the time of ripening thus preventing the entire plant being killed
High School Wildlife Education Through A First Job Experience: An Evaluation of Rosamond Gifford Zoo\u27s ZooGuides Program
Get PDFThere are many gaps in research within the field of zoo education. One of those gaps is the experience of young educators onsite. The Rosamond Gifford Zoo’s ZooGuides program hires 20 high school students each year to educate guests onsite throughout the summer. This study evaluated whether Zoo Guides increased wildlife knowledge, interest in wildlife, interest in wildlife careers, ability to educate guests, and gained relevant workplace skills as a result of the program. This evaluation found most Zoo Guides did increase knowledge, interest in wildlife, interest in related careers, ability to educate guests, and gained workplace skills as a result of the program. However, working on exhibit did not always have higher impacts than training alone
Investigating Impacts on the Environmental Literacy of Secondary School Students Attending a Summer Science Program
Get PDFAn environmentally literate public is crucial for combatting our world’s problems. This study evaluated impacts from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Outreach Department’s program: Summer Camps Investigating Ecology in Neighborhood and City Environments (SCIENCE). Environmental literacy was assessed by administering pre-, post-, and follow-up tests to both SCIENCE participants and a comparison group. Counselors were interviewed to determine how their expectations matched participants’ performance. Environmental attitude scores were higher for SCIENCE versus the comparison group, but attitude scores did not increase over the program. Environmental knowledge was higher at the end of the program for both SCIENCE and the comparison group, but gains in environmental knowledge did not differ between them. Counselors understand they had limited impacts but still overestimated the scores participants would receive. These results add to the understanding of how best to increase environmental literacy with non-formal education experiences
KINETIC MODELING AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE BIOPHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Get PDFIt has been well recognized that biologics are efficient for cancer and immune disease treatment. Kinetic modeling is to mathematically model or to quantitatively illustrate how reactions occur in a biological or chemical process. A systematic study and understanding of kinetic model and its application in the biopharmaceutical industry are important for both scientific research and industrial technology development. This work consists of six chapters. First, a review of kinetic modeling and its application for cell culture was introduced. Second, the current status of biologics development and screening strategies of biomarkers and indications were discussed. Third, one experimental and kinetic modeling study for the temperature effects and temperature shift strategy development was presented. Forth, novel kinetic models were built up and applied to elucidate lactate dehydrogenase catalyzed reactions, which is a crucial metabolic process within tumor cells and Chinese hamster ovary cells. In the fifth chapter, strategies of biologics quality control via process development were briefly summarized. And finally, summary and outlook were made based on the above five chapters. Though kinetic modeling is not a FDA request tool, kinetic data are required for regulation approval of new drug discovery and process development. These data are applicable for a rapidly screening of the best biologics and the optimized manufacturing process with little extra cost via kinetic modeling. This work is potentially beneficial for speeding up and better understanding of the current biologics development in biopharmaceutical industry