Common Carp Abundance and Age Structure in East and West Lake Winona

The objective of this project was to determine if populations of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) in East Lake Winona varied from West Lake Winona carp populations in abundance and age/size structure. Field work included boat-electrofishing along shorelines of East and West Lake Winona, extracting 3-4 scales, weighing, and measuring length of each Common Carp caught. Lab work included aging each common carp caught using a dissecting microscope, fine-tip permanent marker, and calipers to determine the distance of each growth ring from the center of the scale. A total of 44 Common Carp were sampled during the study, 14 individuals from East Lake Winona and 30 individuals from West Lake Winona. West Lake had a Common Carp density of 26.25 fish per hectare and East Lake had a density of 10.00 fish per hectare. Age-size structure showed a difference in the common carp populations between East Lake Winona and West Lake Winona.https://openriver.winona.edu/urc2019/1098/thumbnail.jp

Down Among The Sugar-Cane

[Verse 1] Down in Lousianna,Where the sugar can grows,Oh Oh my!Lives Miss Susiana,She\u27s the sweetest girl I know,Oh! Oh! my!When my work is over-mongst the sugar caneTo her home I go just at the bend of the lane\u27neath her cabin window I am singing this refrainOh! Oh! my! [Chorus] Can\u27t you see the night am falling?Whippoorwill am singing lowDon\u27t you hear the crickets calling?Calling you and met to goSusie don\u27t you keep me waitingIf you do \u27twill cause me painThe moon am shining, and my heart am piningMeet me down among the sugar cane [Verse 2] \u27Taint no use atalking,There will be a wedding soon,Oh, Oh my!Met her last Decemberand we are goin\u27 to wed in JuneOh, Oh my!Susiana\u27s goin\u27 to be my blushing brideI can see myself a-standing closer by her side\u27deed I\u27ll be happy person when the knot am tiedOh! Oh! my! [Chorus

Determining Expression Levels of the Notch Signaling Pathway in Self-Renewing hASCs

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Maine’s Aquaculture Sector & Its R&D Priorities

Within a competitive world economy, Maine’s economic prosperity is dependent on its geography, physical resources and human capital. In this context, Maine’s coastline and marine resources represent a unique asset supporting a wide spectrum of interlinked sectors and within this spectrum the aquaculture sector plays a major role. Of the approximate 107 aquaculture businesses in production in Maine in 2014, 71 replied to the 2015 Maine Aquaculture Economic Impact Survey. In order to provide current insights on the nature of Maine’s industry, the study aims to provide an up-to-date and accurate understanding of the economic impact aquaculture has on the state of Maine, and to determine aquaculture business owner and farm demographics

Investigating Expression Levels of the Notch Pathway in Self-Renewing hASCs

Chris Miller and Mengcheng Lieu are graduate students in Molecular Science and Nanotechnology at Louisiana Tech University. Avery Bryan and John Bradley Cart are undergraduate students in the School of Biological Sciences at Louisiana Tech University. Dr. Jamie Newman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Louisiana Tech University. The abstract for this presentation can be downloaded by clicking on the blue download button

Hyperspherical Description of the Degenerate Fermi Gas: S-wave Interactions

We present a unique theoretical description of the physics of the spherically trapped $N$-atom degenerate Fermi gas (DFG) at zero temperature based on an ordinary Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a microscopic, two body interaction potential. With a careful choice of coordinates and a variational wavefunction, the many body Schr\"{o}dinger equation can be accurately described by a \emph{linear}, one dimensional effective Schr\"{o}dinger equation in a single collective coordinate, the rms radius of the gas. Comparisons of the energy, rms radius and peak density of ground state energy are made to those predicted by Hartree-Fock (HF). Also the lowest radial excitation frequency (the breathing mode frequency) agrees with a sum rule calculation, but deviates from a HF prediction

Maine Aquaculture Economic Impact Report

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms (such as finfish, shellfish or plants) in water (freshwater or marine). Aquaculture produces food fish, sport fish, bait fish, ornamental fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae, sea vegetables, research animals, and fish eggs. Aquaculture also includes the production of ornamental fish for the aquarium trade, and growing plant species used in a range of food, pharmaceutical, nutritional, and biotechnology products. Stock restoration or “enhancement” is a form of aquaculture in which hatchery fish and shellfish are released into the wild to rebuild wild populations or coastal habitats such as oyster reefs. Business entities practicing stock enhancement did not report revenue for the purposes of this report