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Creator:: Yu, Zhen
Abstract:: The antimutagenic potency of wheat grain and berry extracts was studied in vitro against several heterocyclic amines (HCAs) using the Salmonella mutagenicity assay and the anticarcinogencity of wheat grain was studied in vivo using the rat colonic aberrant crypt focus assay. Wheat bran, which binds HCAs in vitro, as well...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Meints, Brigid M. A.
Abstract:: Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the oldest known domesticated crops. Originally cultivated for human consumption, other end-uses have gained importance over the millennia. Barley is the fourth most important cereal crop in the world (FAO-STAT, 2011), and today it is mainly used as animal feed or malted for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Schumer, Jean Ellen
Abstract:: The focus of this study was threefold. This research examined the extent to which parenting alliance between incarcerated parents and the caregivers of their children, influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs. This research explored the extent to which family contact influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: this reason that HHS provides grant-funding to organizations that deliver parenting and counseling

Creator:: Peng, Songshi S.
Abstract:: Total energy calculations based on density functional theory are generally a good approach to obtain the properties of solids. The local density approximation (LDA) is widely used for calculating the ground state properties of electronic systems; for excited states the errors are in general unknown. The important aspects of LDA...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , the Marquart algorithm, uses : (Anm+ X8nm) em = gn; for n=1, 2, ... m The advantage of the modified

Creator:: Brown, D. W. (David W.), 1937-
Abstract:: Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy was used to monitor the effects of varying ionic strength on nucleosome core particle structure. Two main methods were used in these studies. First, the fluorescence anisotropy decay of bound ethidium was measured and was shown to reflect the rotational tumbling of the core particle through solution,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Training Grant GM07774, as well as from NIH Grant GM25663 throughout my studies. Special acknowledgement

Creator:: Cerny-Chipman, Elizabeth B.
Abstract:: The multifaceted role of the environment in regulating the structure and dynamics of biological communities has long fascinated ecologists and motivated much debate and research. Now, in a time of accelerated global changes due to human impacts, the need to understand how the environment shapes communities has gained new urgency....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: allowed me to do my mesocosm work. A grant from the Pacific Northwest Shell Club, an NSF RAPID Grant

Creator:: Elliott, William E.
Abstract:: The resurgence of creationism the past few years has been led by advocates of recent-creationism. These individuals, a minority among creationists in general, argue that the entire universe was created approximately 10,000 years ago in one six-day period of time. Recent-creationists support their position by appealing to the Genesis account...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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