An update to the MITRE/WPI Space Shuttle Program GASCAN G-408

The objective of the MITRE/WPI Space Shuttle Program was to develop a set of scientific meaningful experiments that could be flown in a Get Away Special Canister. Currently, the first GASCAN is finished (G-408) and ready to be launched. The program has been so successful that the design and development of a second set of experiments was started (G-533). Both of these programs are described and summarized

Groundwater quality regulation in Colorado: miscellaneous report

December 1982.Prepared as a Masters thesis.Bibliography: pages 92-94

Mobile Ideas and (Im)mobile Subjects: Women Writers and Women\u27s Fashion Magazines in Nineteenth-Century Germany and Austria

This dissertation explores how gender, class, and national identity were constructed and presented in three prominent nineteenth-century women\u27s magazines: Der Bazar, Illustrirte Damenzeitung, La Mode Illustrée, Journal de la Famille, and Harper\u27s Bazar), as well as in the works of three women writers of the time: Louise Otto, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Rosa Mayreder) through the lens of social, physical, and geographical mobility for women. At a time of increasing industrialization and communication between countries of the Western world, the discourse on women\u27s roles, as intersecting with their class and national belonging, was in many ways formed on an international level. Nineteenth-century femininity, like gender and class roles in general, thus became a product of broader discourses shaped by many voices and ideologies. This construction of class and gender roles on an international level begs the question of what remained national and particular to a given place and culture. By looking at how Der Bazar presented the image of the German wife and mother in comparison to its French and American sister publications, this dissertation offers insight into the process of forming a German identity during the mid to late-nineteenth century. Moreover, an analysis of the works written by Otto, Ebner-Eschenbach, and Mayreder and the ways in which these authors\u27 texts wrote back to the popular discourses on femininity offers a more nuanced understanding of a complex social landscape. As both the magazines and the works by these three women writers centered on the lives of nineteenth-century women, the texts and images presented to readers concentrated mainly on the domestic - the nineteenth-century woman\u27s natural habitat. Items that were both associated with femininity and played a role in women\u27s mobility: physical, geographical, social) were particularly telling of the roles and spaces allotted to women and the flexibility and freedom associated with them. Thus, a look at the corset and the crinoline: as symbols of physical mobility), the shoe and the riding habit: as symbols of geographical mobility) and, finally, at women\u27s education: as a vehicle of social mobility) reveals how fashion magazines and prominent women\u27s voices of the time engaged in the discourse surrounding women\u27s lives

The swine intestinal microbiota: localized adaptations and responses to in-feed antibiotics

After sixty years on antibiotic use in livestock production, antimicrobial resistance is an issue that cannot be ignored. While governments debate new regulations, evidence is accumulating that in-feed antibiotics are contributing to antibiotic resistance proliferation in intestinal microbes and potential pathogens. The mode of action for the growth benefits of antibiotics are not clear, but defining the intestinal bacterial communities and understanding the impact of antibiotics on it is an important link in developing viable alternatives to antibiotics. Identifying the members and functions within the bacterial communities is needed to identify niches within the intestinal tract. Here we evaluate the shifts in intestinal bacterial communities with in-feed antibiotics, which include membership and functional changes. Additionally, antibiotic-resistance genes increased in the intestinal communities after exposure to antibiotics. To evaluate localize adaptations of swine intestinal bacterial communities; the spatial distribution of bacterial communities was evaluated. Localized differences were detected and potential specialist such as mucin degraders were identified. Future research will need to direct therapies to mimic the beneficial effects of antibiotics on the host and gut bacteria while minimizing the collateral impact on health and safety

Public Education and Teacher Understanding of Dakota and Lakota Culture

This project was designed to collect and to share information in order to better prepare teachers of Native students. This study involved five in-depth, in-person interviews with Dakota and Lakota elders between 40 and 70 years old. Elders provided reflections on experiences of past generations, on their own educational experiences, on the preferred learning methods of Native students, and on their visions for teachers‟ practices and influences on Native children. Through grounded theory, data analysis was conducted to identify themes. Stories and comments from elders were organized around those themes. Future studies might include use of the videotaped interviews in MSU courses for future teachers and evaluating attitude shifts among the viewers

Leprosy: In Its Clinical and Pathological Aspects

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Mapping the porcine RN gene to chromosome 15

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