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Early Life History, Habitat Use, and Microsatellite Allele Frequency of Two Common Reef Fishes (Stegastes partitus and Thalassoma bifasciatum) in Marine Protected Areas of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Hansen, Anne (2014-06-02)

Two common reef fishes, the bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) and the bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus), are used as model species for understanding the function of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the ...
Ebola VP40 in Exosomes Can Cause Immune Cell Dysfunction

Pleet, Michelle L

Ebola virus (EBOV) is an enveloped, ssRNA virus from the family Filoviridae capable of causing severe hemorrhagic fever with up to 80-90% mortality rates. The most recent outbreak of EBOV in West Africa starting in 2014 ...
Economic and Spatial Aspects of Forest Restoration in Tropical Agricultural Landscapes: Evaluating Landowner Incentive Programs in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Richards, Ryan Clark (2017)

This dissertation describes the state of forest restoration on private land in the Cantareira region of São Paulo state, Brazil, specifically the municipalities of Nazaré Paulista, Piracaia, and Joanópolis. It includes ...
Ecosystem-Condition Evaluation of the Complex, Critically-Endangered Pine Rockland Ecosystem: Indicators, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), and an Emphasis on Herbaceous Ground Cover Diversity

Bolen, Layne E. (2021)

An ecosystem evaluation process was applied to the critically-endangered South Florida (S FL) pine rockland (PR)(pine/grassland) ecosystem, using a) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) surveys, and newly-developed ...
An Ectopic Synthesis of the Melanin in the Adipocytes of the Morbidly Obese Subjects

Randhawa, Manpreet Kaur (2008-08-20)

Melanocortins produced from the post-translational processing of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) are regulators of pigmentation in the hair and skin and are also critical for proper maintenance of energy balance. Particularly, ...
The Effect of Autophagy Inhibitors on RVFV Production

Boghdeh, Niloufar

Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVFV) is an arbovirus that can infect ruminants and humans. It can cause many diseases including encephalitis, hemorrhagic fever, and ocular disease. A severe version of the disease is observed ...
The Effect of Curcumin on Francisella and FtsZ

Bobde, Shravani

This thesis assesses the effect of curcumin on Francisella (F.) novicida and the protein FtsZ. Curcumin is a polyphenolic compound found in turmeric that is widely used as a spice and an ayurvedic medicine in South-East ...
The Effect of Environment on the Reproductive Potential of Ex Situ Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)

Koester, Diana C. (2014-09-18)

The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is recognized as threatened due to extirpation from most of its historic range, with continuing declines resulting in only about 10,000 individuals remaining in nature today. Smithsonian ...
The Effect of Probiotics on Metabiome in the Interleukin 10 Gene Deficient Mice Using Correlation Networks

Patibanda, Sugandha B. (2014-09-23)

Crohn’s disease, an Inflammatory Bowel Disease, is a chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, attributed to many factors such as genetics, environmental factors, microbial infections, and the immune system. When ...
The Effect of Serum Deprivation and Simulated Hypoxia on Clonal Interactions in U87MG Glioblastoma Cells

Krishna, Sreshta Shyam

Clonal heterogeneity in tumors is a critical problem, because it leads to increased metastasis and treatment resistance. In order to better understand the role of tumor heterogeneity in cancer malignancy, we developed a ...
The Effect of the Treatment with Various Lipid Species on Mitochondrial and Cellular Functions of Hepatocytes

Masschelin, Peter

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a growing epidemic characterized by increased intrahepatic lipid accumulation. In some individuals, NAFLD progresses to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), with complications ...
Effects of Apolipoprotein H and STAT3 on Cell Clustering of Glioblastoma Multiforme Sub-Clones

Abi Jomaa, Ryan

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a lethal primary brain cancer characterized by a World Health Organization grade IV tumor classification. Recurrence of this cancer is systemic, and median survival following diagnosis is 15 to 16 ...
Effects of Chimeric NMDA Receptor GluN2 Subunit Expression on Native NMDA Receptor Pools, Dendritic Morphology, and Synaptic Transmission in the Developing Hippocampus

Keith, Rachel E (2022)

The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) affects postnatal development of the rodent hippocampus: after the third postnatal week, NMDAR subunit composition shifts from GluN2B to GluN2A, changing both the calcium conductance ...
The Effects of Fragmentation on Habitat Usage in Native Small Mammals

Penthorn, Meredith (2014-06-05)

Habitat fragmentation removes original habitat and creates a matrix of new habitat with remnants of original habitat embedded within. Small mammals such as Peromyscus leucopus, Blarina brevicauda, Microtus pennsylvanicus, ...
The Effects of Habitat Fragmentation and Habitat Management in the Piedmont, Northern Virginia

Fabian, Tyler

Species diversity is hypothesized to decrease with increasing habitat fragmentation and human interaction. Species diversity is measured by calculating the species richness (number of different species) and species evenness ...
Effects of Hydrogel Nanoparticles as a Novel Adjuvant for a Purified Whole Inactivated Chikungunya Virus Vaccine

Jackson, Kassandra

This thesis describes a novel nanotrap nanoparticle adjuvant for a purified whole inactivated Chikungunya CHIK virus vaccine and its immune response and level of toxicity. For a vaccine to be good candidate it must be ...
The Effects of Hydrologic Connectivity, Age-Relate Soil Properties, and Microtopography on Nitrogen Dynamics in Created Wetlands of the Virginia Piedmont

Wolf, Kristin (2011-05-12)

Wetlands are unique ecosystems that provide the essential ecosystem service of excess nutrient retention, processing, and removal from the landscape. In the early 1990s the U.S. adopted a “no net loss” policy towards ...
Effects of Permian Basin Oil and Gas Wastewater Dumping on Soil Microbial Communities

Kashani, Mitra

The Permian Basin, straddling New Mexico and Texas, is the largest oil and gas (OG) producing region in the United States. OG production yields large volumes of wastewaters that have complex chemistries, which pose unknown ...
Effects of Regime Shift on Phytoplankton Community Composition in Gunston Cove of the Tidal Potomac River

Hack, Brandon (2015-03-24)

Numerous shallow aquatic ecosystems worldwide have demonstrated regime shifts from dominance by submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) to dominance by phytoplankton under nutrient over-enrichment. SAV decline under nutrient ...
Effects of Spatial Distribution of Stormwater Management Infrastructure on Pollutant Removal Efficiencies at the Watershed Scale: A Geographic Information Systems Approach

Sparkman, Stephanie (2015-08-19)

Although urban areas comprise only 7% of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, stormwater runoff from these areas represents a serious impairment to local streams and downstream ecosystems. Urban stormwater best management practices ...

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