Primary data on economic activity and water use in prototype oil shale development areas of Colorado; an initial inquiry

Includes bibliographical references.June 1974.Potential impacts of oil shale development on the economies of certain Western Slope communities in Colorado are quite large. These impacts will likely exert a substantial pressure on the land and water resource lease of the area in addition to the effects upon community development, regional income, income distribution, and a changing mix of business activity. In order to approach future research on these issues this "seed" research effort was designed to (1) promote interaction and interchange of ideas among researchers and members of the affected communities, (2) to identify important areas of research needs in the oil shale region, and (3) to initialize the collection of primary data depicting the economic structure of the oi1 shale communities.OWRR Project no. A-024-COLO; report based (in part) on funds provided by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research

Economic role of water in Colorado: an input-output analysis, The

September 1988.Bibliography: pages 79-82.Grant no. 14-08-0001-1411-03, Project no. G1411-03; financed in part by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey

Economic benefits from instream flow in a Colorado mountain stream

Submitted to Office of Water Research and Technology, U.S. Department of Interior.Bibliography: pages [131]-135.OWRT project no. A-035-COLO and OWRT project no. A-040-COLO

Identification of novel conserved peptide uORF homology groups in Arabidopsis and rice reveals ancient eukaryotic origin of select groups and preferential association with transcription factor-encoding genes

Abstract Background Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) can mediate translational control over the largest, or major ORF (mORF) in response to starvation, polyamine concentrations, and sucrose concentrations. One plant uORF with conserved peptide sequences has been shown to exert this control in an amino acid sequence-dependent manner but generally it is not clear what kinds of genes are regulated, or how extensively this mechanism is invoked in a given genome. Results By comparing full-length cDNA sequences from Arabidopsis and rice we identified 26 distinct homology groups of conserved peptide uORFs, only three of which have been reported previously. Pairwise Ka/Ks analysis showed that purifying selection had acted on nearly all conserved peptide uORFs and their associated mORFs. Functions of predicted mORF proteins could be inferred for 16 homology groups and many of these proteins appear to have a regulatory function, including 6 transcription factors, 5 signal transduction factors, 3 developmental signal molecules, a homolog of translation initiation factor eIF5, and a RING finger protein. Transcription factors are clearly overrepresented in this data set when compared to the frequency calculated for the entire genome (p = 1.2 × 10-7). Duplicate gene pairs arising from a whole genome duplication (ohnologs) with a conserved uORF are much more likely to have been retained in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) than are ohnologs of other genes (39% vs 14% of ancestral genes, p = 5 × 10-3). Two uORF groups were found in animals, indicating an ancient origin of these putative regulatory elements. Conclusion Conservation of uORF amino acid sequence, association with homologous mORFs over long evolutionary time periods, preferential retention after whole genome duplications, and preferential association with mORFs coding for transcription factors suggest that the conserved peptide uORFs identified in this study are strong candidates for translational controllers of regulatory genes.</p

Economic issues in resolving conflicts in water use

February 1983.This constitutes the final technical completion report for Project A-037-COLO.Bibliography: pages 25-26.Project A-037-COLO; supported in part by federal funds provided by the United States Department of the Interior through annual cooperative program agreement number 14-34-0001-8006

Economy of northwestern Colorado: description and analysis, The

Submitted to U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office, Denver, Colorado.January 1981.Includes bibliography

Economic analysis of water use in Colorado's economy, An

Bibliography: pages 107-113.December 1975.OWRT Project no. B-059-COLO; supported (in part) by funds provided by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Water Research and Technology, as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, and pursuant to Grant Agreement no. 14-31-0001-3265