Pseudomonas syringae is a Gram-negative bacterium that can infect a variety of important crops. Infection by P. syringae is dependent on a type III secretion system (T3SS) that delivers effector proteins to plant cells to suppress host defenses. Previous work has shown that, in the presence of simple sugars, specific...
This project performs a style analysis of three sentences from three military manuals written across an 80 year time-period. I first discuss the history of style within academic discourse and how it has impacted the study of style within the field of writing and rhetoric. Using this background, I then...
This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
Gamma irradiation survival curves of Salmonella enteriditis,
Salmonella paratyphi A, Salmonella cholerasuis, Salmonella
pullorum and Streptococcus pyogenes were determined in crabmeat
and in Hartsell's broth. The survival pattern of Staphylococcus
aureus in crabmeat was also determined.
A "tailing off" was found in the survival patterns of
Salmonella paratyphi A, Salmonella...
Knot Theory: In Imitation of Lewis Thomas is a collection of 14, 1200-word essays written in the style of Lewis Thomas, a physician who regularly contributed to The New England Journal of Medicine. His 1200-word column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," ran from 1971 - 1980. The resulting compilations collectively...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the professional
preparation of teachers of health in selected Oregon high schools.
The accomplishment of this problem was dependent upon (1)
determining the standards or content areas for professional education
of all high school health teachers and (2) determining the
present professional...
The major purpose of the study was to compare reverse transfer
students and four year college students for attitude toward
mother, father, and both parents. A secondary purpose was to
collect demographic data on the reverse transfer students.
The experimental and control groups were chosen from the
winter term enrollment...
Purpose of the Study:
The School Health Fair is an experiential method used to supplement classroom theory in a teacher preparation course at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL). The purpose of this study was to determine how this method affected student attitude toward teaching. The following null hypotheses were...