BACKGROUND: Matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 (MMP-2 and MMP-9) are increased in the brain after experimental ischemic stroke in rats. These two proteases are involved with the degradation of the basal lamina and loss of ...

Succinate has a wide range of applications in the chemical, food, and pharmaceutical industries, and its production by the metabolically engineering Escherichia coli AFP111 was studied. The principal aims of this research ...

Double-strand break (DSB) repair is essential for cell survival and for the maintenance of genome integrity. In this study, we utilized I-Sce I, an endonuclease from yeast with an 18-bp recognition site to introduce DSB ...

This thesis examines the career of Clarence N. Crocker (1894-1995), the work of the Georgia Bridge Department during his twenty-three-year tenure as State Bridge Engineer, and the challenge of preserving his legacy, and ...

This dissertation focuses on Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi from 1956 until his death in office in 1969. As a prominent white politician in the Deep South, he was an outspoken segregationist. ...

The overall goals of this research were to: 1) determine prevalence of Clostridium difficile from healthy beef cattle fecal samples by comparing a single versus a double alcohol shock method using selective (cycloserine-cefoxitin ...

The adoption of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) as a metadata representation standard is spurring the development of high-level mechanisms for storing and querying RDF data. Many of the proposed systems are built ...

This thesis explores the phenomenon of loan word assimilation in the German language, both in its historical and contemporary contexts. This thesis begins by examining the phenomenon of lexical assimilation during the late ...

Cdc37 is a protein kinase-specific chaperone that either acts by itself or in concert with Hsp90. Cdc37 is phosphorylated by the evolutionarily conserved, ubiquitously distributed Ser/Thr kinase, CKII; and this dissertation ...

In the past, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) techniques have routinely been used to test for measurement equivalence in longitudinal data. However, item response theory (IRT) techniques also can be used for this task. ...