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Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Adrian Matejka, 34th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAdrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden and Mixology, which was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has been featured in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, and Ploughshares, among other journals and anthologies. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY SIMULATION FROM 3D CT IMAGES
No full textThe purpose of the project is to analyze Simplant CMF software (Materialise, Leuven, Belgium) for planning the aesthetic impact of the more frequent osteotomies used to correct dentoskeletal malocclusions, such as maxillary hypoplasia and mandibular progranthism. The software allows the surgeon to plan treatment accurately and to predict the soft tissue behaviour realistically to evaluate the aesthetic result
Assembly, annotation, and read counts for 2016 Sargasso Sea incubations
No full textData sets for:
Lampe RH, Wang S, Cassar N, and Marchetti A. (in prep) Strategies among phytoplankton in response to alleviation of nutrient stress in a subtropical gyre.
File descriptions:
site1_clust99.fa.gz - Assembled contigs for site 1 after clustering based on 99% similarity.
site2_clust99.fa.gz - Assembled contigs for site 2 after clustering based on 99% similarity.
site1_results.tsv.gz - annotations and counts for each contig from site 1 (tab-delimited)
site2_results.csv.gz - annotations and counts for each contig from site 2 (tab-delimited)
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Performing the archive: following in the footsteps
No full textUsing documentation of Mike Pearson's performance 'Bubbling Tom', Deirdre Heddon attempts to step into his shoes and re-perform it
Ferritin Gene Expression among Pennate and Centric Diatoms
No full textThe ability to store iron through the use of iron storage proteins, ferritins, has evolved as an advantageous strategy for numerous diatom species. Iron is a micronutrient in the ocean that typically exists at low concentrations throughout much of the marine system. Therefore, iron deficiency often plays a central role in controlling primary productivity, and thus, diatom populations within the ocean (Martin, 1990). This project investigates the expression of an iron storage gene, ferritin, in three pennate diatoms and four centric diatoms. The strains were cultured at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and grown as triplicate cultures under various iron conditions. This experiment allowed for the comparison of ferritin gene expression along with iron storage capabilities, in contrasting iron environments among phylogenetically distinct diatoms. This was achieved by utilizing the ΔCt method. Our results suggest that pennates may upregulate ferritin levels in high iron environments. Marchetti et al (2009) similarly demonstrated that pennates such as Pseudo-nitzschia granii store iron during temporary pulses, which allows them to continue to proliferate once iron limited conditions return. Two of the examined centrics, however, demonstrated greatest ferritin gene expression under low iron conditions. This result is counterintuitive, as ferritin is a storage gene and high expression during low iron levels appears inefficient. However, this finding supports the theory that centrics may be using their ferritin as an iron buffer and thus eludes to physiological differences in the way these two diatom lineages are storing iron and utilizing their ferritin genes. There is also evidence of a biogeographical distinction among ferritin use in certain species. Diatoms in open ocean regions, where iron is often limited, may be utilizing their ferritin differently than those persisting in high-iron coastal areas.Bachelor of Scienc
Electrochemical-control of abrasive polishing and machining rates, U.S. Patent 6,171,467
No full textAn apparatus and method is disclosed; both of which use electrochemistry to selectively grow and remove hard oxide coatings on metals, and capacitive double layers on non-metals and semiconductors in order to predict and control the rate of surface abrasion during planarization of the surface of such materials
ADRIAN POP - IN SEARCH OF A LONG LOST SMILE
No full textAn anniversary, especially in the case of a generation colleague, the renowned composer Adrian Pop, generates the remembrance of a long series of musical events that have become notorious, with works included in the national and international concert repertoire. The avoidance of nostalgic memories made that a stage miniature be chosen for the present paper, an incursion of the author into the naive world of childhood reading. The result was a modern, glamorous musical transposition of a sequence with Max and Moritz, the playful heroes created by the famous humorist and cartoonist Wilhelm Busch in the middle of the 19th century. The musical act Onkel Fritz by Adrian Pop was first performed in Cluj in 2016, on October 22, on the occasion of his previous anniversary, within the Cluj Musical Autumn Festival. The graceful performers of the act, presented under the title “Anniversaries at the Festival, Adrian Pop compositional portrait”, were soprano Mihaela Maxim, in the role of Max and pianist Eva Butean, in the role of Moritz. How did composer Adrian Pop manage to musically enliven a 150 years old humorous story? The author of the following text will try to answer this question.
Rezumat. ADRIAN POP - ÎN CĂUTAREA SURÂSULUI PIERDUT. O aniversare, mai ales în cazul unui coleg de generație, reputatul compozitor Adrian Pop, generează rememorarea unui lung șir de evenimente muzicale devenite notorii, cu lucrări intrate în repertoriul intern și internațional de concerte. Evitarea unor memorii nostalgice au făcut ca sorții acestei comunicări să cadă asupra unei miniaturi scenice, o incursiune a autorului în lumea ingenuă a lecturilor din copilărie. A rezultat o transpunere muzicală modernă, plină de farmec, a unei secvențe cu Max și Moritz, eroii poznași creați de celebrul umorist și caricaturist Wilhelm Busch la mijlocul secolului XIX. Prima audiție clujeană a scenetei muzicale Onkel Fritz de Adrian Pop a avut loc în 2016, la 22 octombrie, cu ocazia precedentei sale aniversări, în cadrul Toamnei Muzicale Clujene. Interpreții plini de har ai scenetei prezentate sub genericul „Aniversări în Festival, portret componistic Adrian Pop” au fost soprana Mihaela Maxim, în rolul lui Max și pianista Eva Butean, în rolul lui Moritz. Oare cum a reușit compozitorul Adrian Pop să însuflețească muzical o poveste umoristică de 150 de ani? La această întrebare va încerca să răspundă autoarea acestor rânduri.
Cuvinte cheie: Adrian Pop, Wilhelm Busch, Max și Moritz, Unchiul Fritz, act muzica
Intact polar diacylglycerol (IP-DAG) lipids measured in cultures of four Antarctic diatom isolates
No full textDiatoms were isolated by Adrian Marchetti (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4608-4775) from waters of the Bellingshausen Sea and grown on replete media. Cells were collected onto 0.7 µm GF/F filters. Extraction was performed using a modified Bligh and Dyer (Bligh and Dyer, 1959; https://doi.org/10.1139/o59-099) method described in Popendorf et al. (2013; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-012-3748-0). Lipid extracts were analyzed by HPLC-ESI-MS with data dependent-MS2 acquisition on a high-resolution, accurate mass Thermo Q Exactive Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer (ThermoFisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) coupled to an Agilent 1200 HPLC system (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA). The HPLC-ESI-MS method is described in Collins et al., 2016 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01260).
The LOBSTAHS lipidomics discovery software (Collins et al., 2016; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01260) was used to putatively identify HPLC-MS features in the data. We confirmed each LOBSTAHS identification using two additional means: (1) via comparison of data-dependent MS2 spectra with those from authentic standards or published reference spectra and (2) by requiring the presence of the same compound identity in data acquired in the opposite HPLC-ESI-MS ionization mode. We confirmed all LOBSTAHS identities at the lipid class level (e.g., PC versus PE, or MGDG versus TAG) using a new, experimental LOBSTAHS feature which automatically detects diagnostic product ion fragments and constant neutral losses (as given in Popendorf et al., 2013; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-012-3748-0) in the available data-dependent MS2 spectra for each sample. After identification, quantification of analytes was performed using a series of standard curves, followed by normalization to concentration of an internal standard.
Lipid identities are resolved only to the level of bulk fatty acid composition (i.e., the sum of the properties of the substituents at both the sn-1 and sn-2 positions). As a result, in some cases (e.g., PC 40:8), several different molecules having the same bulk fatty acid composition have been identified. These can be distinguished by retention time, which is given in the "Comment" field for each entry
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