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    Problems of the Dual in Soqotri

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    Property rights and land use regulation: a comparative evaluation

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    This paper reviews the rationale for policies aimed at limiting the conversion of farmland to nonfarm uses from the perspective of the economic theory of property rights. Policy measures to restrict the conversion of agricultural land to non-farm uses are commonplace in many countries. Typically, these policies are introduced to address long-run food security issues and possible externalities associated with incompatibility in land uses. The paper argues that the presence of externalities in the land market does not warrant farmland protection policies. Farmland protection policies in themselves can be a source of policy failure. It concludes that well-defined property rights along with nuisance and trespass laws, are necessary and sufficient for efficient allocation of land and can be a better alternative to farmland protection policies.Land Economics/Use,

    Assessment of Concussion and Sub-Concussive Blows using Impact and Dual-Task Tests during a High School Football Season.

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    M.S. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2017

    Mapping And Characterization Of 18-5 And 12-5, Genes Which Potentially Link The Rhoa Signaling Pathway To The Ecdysone Response

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    Systemic steroid hormone and intracellular signaling pathways are known to act cooperatively during the development of vertebrate and invertebrate epithelia. However, the mechanism of this interaction is poorly understood. Morphogenesis of Drosophila leg imaginal disc epithelia is regulated both by the steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone (ecdysone) and the RhoA GTPase signaling pathway. Recent evidence suggests that these pathways act cooperatively to control imaginal disc morphogenesis. Thus, leg imaginal disc morphogenesis is an excellent system in which to study the interaction of steroid hormone and intracellular signaling pathways. We have identified mutations in three genes, 12-5, 18-5, and 31-6, with roles in the morphogenesis of leg epithelia. Of particular interest, these mutations interact genetically with each other, mutations in the RhoA signaling pathway, and the ecdysone regulated Sb-sbd (Stubble) transmembrane serine protease. This suggests that the 12-5, 18-5, and 31-6 gene products may link hormone and RhoA signaling responses. The goal of this research was to identify and characterize the 18-5 and 12-5 genes in order to discern the mechanistic relationship between the RhoA pathway and ecdysone hierarchy.18-5 and 12-5 were precisely mapped to molecular locations within the Drosophila genome utilizing a P-element recombination mapping technique. This work narrowed the location of the 18-5 locus to within an interval of 112 kb within the Drosophila genome sequence. This interval contains 17 known and predicted genes. I also mapped the location of the 12-5 locus to a 2.6 Mb interval of the 2nd chromosome. Based on phenotypic analyses and the site of the molecularly mapped interval, a candidate gene for the 18-5 mutation was identified. Sequence analysis of the candidate gene was inconclusive and requires further analysis. Genetic interaction assays indicate that the 18-5 gene product acts upstream or at the level of Rho kinase in the RhoA signaling pathway

    King on ice: history of the Alaska Gold Kings and the transformation of Fairbanks into a hockeytown

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    Master's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020Wanting a higher level of hockey for local youth to aspire to, city hockey officials created the semi-professional Teamsters hockey team in 1975. The team was initially comprised of the best local recreational players, many of whom relocated to Fairbanks to work on the TransAlaska Pipeline from the upper Midwest and Seattle. Two years later the team took on the name Fairbanks Gold Kings (later changed to the Alaska Gold Kings), and quickly began proving itself against teams from Anchorage and the Pacific Northwest. From 1975 to 1995 the Gold Kings were an amateur senior men’s team, and from 1995-1997 they spent their last two Fairbanks years in the professional minor league West Coast Hockey League. Between its inception in 1975 as the Teamsters, and in spite of its relocation to Colorado Springs in 1998 as the Alaska Gold Kings, Fairbanks’ team was a huge success. The Gold Kings won five national championships, played 16 different international and Olympic teams, played overseas in Asia and Europe on multiple occasions, and laid the foundation for the level of hockey found in Fairbanks today
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