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Tapped: An Inside Perspective on the Craft Beer Movement
An ethnography of participants of the craft beer movement. This work investigates how craft beer is consumed, how it is made, and what it means to society. -
Dare to Be a Wildflower: an in depth study of heliostat technology
Through an in depth study and analysis of heliostats, this paper will explore the concepts and attributes offered through the emittance of indirect daylighting within structures. Heliostats, hence bears a dual function in ... -
Ohio Nursing Home and Residential Care Facility Satisfaction: Survey Development and Testing for Residents and Families
This report describes a project to update consumer surveys for residents and families in Ohio's nursing homes and residential care facilities. It also includes a newly created survey for families of residential care facility ... -
Transfer Today: Updates on the Transfer Code of Practice
Transfer Code of Practice updates and changes. -
Transfer Code of Practice
Update on the Transfer Code of Practice, which is now under the umbrella of NISO. -
Opening Minds through Art For One (OMA41): Direct Care Workers and Volunteers as Creative Arts Facilitators of Older Adults
This brief describes the pilot implementation and evaluation of OMA For One (OMA41). OMA41 is an adaptation of Opening Minds through Art (OMA), a visual arts program for elders with cognitive impairments. OMA41 is conducted ... -
Physical Chemistry Interactive Plot: Kinetics: Parallel First Order Reaction, v1.1
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Cryoprotectants and extreme freeze tolerance in a subarctic population of the wood frog.
Wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) exhibit marked geographic variation in freeze tolerance, with subarctic populations tolerating experimental freezing to temperatures at least 10-13 degrees Celsius below the lethal limits for ... -
Compact genome of the Antarctic midge is likely an adaptation to an extreme environment
The midge, Belgica antarctica, is the only insect endemic to Antarctica, and thus it offers a powerful model for probing responses to extreme temperatures, freeze tolerance, dehydration, osmotic stress, ultraviolet radiation ... -
Seasonality of Freeze Tolerance in a Subarctic Population of the Wood Frog, Rana sylvatica
We compared physiological characteristics and responses to experimental freezing and thawing in winter and spring samples of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, indigenous to Interior Alaska, USA. Whereas winter frogs can survive ... -
Identification and expression of a putative facilitative urea transporter in three species of true frogs (Ranidae): implications for terrestrial adaptation.
Urea transporters (UTs) help mediate the transmembrane movement of urea and therefore are likely important in amphibian osmoregulation. Although UTs contribute to urea reabsorption in anuran excretory organs, little is ... -
Enzymatic regulation of glycogenolysis in a subarctic population of the wood frog: implications for extreme freeze tolerance
The wood frog, Rana sylvatica, from Interior Alaska survives freezing at –16°C, a temperature 10–13°C below that tolerated by its southern conspecifics. We investigated the hepatic freezing response in this northern phenotype ... -
Seasonal variation in the hepatoproteome of the dehydration- and freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica
Winter’s advent invokes physiological adjustments that permit temperate ectotherms to cope with stresses such as food shortage, water deprivation, hypoxia, and hypothermia. We used liquid chromatography (LC) in combination ... -
Brief chilling to subzero temperature increases cold hardiness in the hatchling painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)
Although many studies of ectothermic vertebrates have documented compensatory changes in cold hardiness associated with changes of season, much less attention has been paid to adjustment of physiological functions and ... -
Carrion - It's what's for dinner: Wolves reduce the impact of climate change.
Humans have viewed wolves as competitors, threats to personal safety, and symbols of evil throughout history. By the early part of the 20th century, grey wolves (Canis lupus) had been eradicated from 42% of their historic ... -
Full-Cycle Assessment of Critical Thinking in an Ethics and Science Course
Enhancing critical thinking skills for undergraduate students is important across the curriculum and between disciplines. We report on a method of improving critical thinking skills, which was studied through an Ethics and ... -
Using Matched Samples to Look for Sex Differences
The reasons for observed differences in physics performance between men and women have yet to be clearly determined. This study asks the question: if men and women have a similar background at the start of an introductory ...