20 research outputs found
PenQuest Volume 3, Number 2
Table of Contents for this Volume:
Untitled by Joe Avanzini
Woodcutting on Lost Mountain by Tess Gallagher
Untitled by Judith Mizrahi
Women I have loved by Dottie Fletcher
Untitled by Rick Wagner
Untold Stories by William Slaughter
Untitled by Steve Balunan
Two German Women by Dottie Fletcher
Untitled by Anne Calloway
Tourists by Carol Grimes
Untitled by Win Lyons
Rollin\u27 Bones by Barbara Ritchey
Untitled by Steve Balunan
Hannukah Harbor by Jerry Nelson
Night-letter by William Slaughter
Untitled by Bruce Abbey
Domestic by Carol Grimes
Untitled by Steve Balunan
The Storm Pit by Howard Denson
Untitled by Judith Mizrahi
Hattie by Dottie Fletcher
Untitled by Linda Willcox
Untitled by Helen Hagador
PenQuest Volume 3, Number 1
The Table of Contents for this Volume:
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Seeing the Unseen by Sharon Gresham
Untitled by Helen Hagadorn
Untitled by Steve Balunan
Happy Holidays by Donna Kaluzniak
River-walking, Night-talking by William Slaughter
Ribbon of Light by Judith Mizrahi
Love in Parentheses by Sharon Gresham
Untitled by Steve Balunan
Protohistory by Patricia Kraft
Untitled by Bruce Abbey
Untitled by Rick Wagner
Thanatopsis by Pat Kraft
Untitled by Sue Hightower
Untitled by Rick Wagner
Conversations of a Woman by Sharon Gresham
Thur, Fri, Sat, at Mr. B\u27s by Patricia Kraft
Untitled by Rick Wagner
Untitled by Cindy Carlisle
Untitled by Win Lyons
Untitled by Cindy Carlisle
Untitled by Modesta Matthews
Untitled by James Tutten
A Light at Mill Pond Crossing by Joe Palmer
Untitled by Rick Wagner
Two People by Kathleen Gay
Untitled by Rick Wagner
American Dream (Russian Version) by William Slaughter
Untitled by Judith Mizrahi
Untitled by Linda Willco
A host KH RNA-binding protein is a susceptibility factor targeted by an RXLR effector to promote late blight disease
Plant pathogens deliver effector proteins that alter host processes to create an environment conducive to colonization. Attention has focused on identifying the targets of effectors and how their manipulation facilitates disease. RXLR effector Pi04089 from the potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans accumulates in the host nucleus and enhances colonization when transiently expressed in planta. Its nuclear localization is required for enhanced P. infestans colonization. Pi04089 interacts in yeast and in planta with a putative potato K-homology (KH) RNA-binding protein, StKRBP1. Co-localization of Pi04089 and StKRBP1, and bimolecular fluorescence complementation between them, indicate they associate at nuclear speckles. StKRBP1 protein levels increased when it was co-expressed with Pi04089. Indeed, such accumulation of StKRBP1 was observed also on the first day of leaf colonization by the pathogen. Remarkably, overexpression of StKRBP1 significantly enhances P. infestans infection. Mutation of the nucleotide-binding motif GxxG to GDDG in all three KH domains of StKRBP1 abolishes its interaction with Pi04089, its localization to nuclear speckles, and its increased accumulation when co-expressed with the effector. Moreover, the mutant StKRBP1 protein no longer enhances leaf colonization by P. infestans, implying that nucleotide binding is likely required for this activity. We thus argue that StKRBP1 can be regarded as a susceptibility factor, as its activity is beneficial to the pathogen
Metaphors we die by? Geoengineering, metaphors and the argument from catastrophe
Geoeengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy makers and the media. This article examines promotional discourse related to geoengineering from the 1980s to 2010. It asks in particular how this option for dealing with the problems posed by climate change were framed through the use of conceptual and discourse metaphors and whether one can argue that these are metaphors we ‘live by’ or metaphors we might ‘die by’. Findings show that an overarching argument from catastrophe was bolstered by three conceptual master-metaphors, namely The Planet is a body, The Planet is a machine and The planet is a patient/addict, linked to a variety of discourse metaphors, older conceptual metaphors and clichés. This metaphorical landscape began to shift while the article was being written and will have to be closely monitored in the future
Testing associations between cannabis use and subcortical volumes in two large population-based samples
Background and aims Disentangling the putative impact of cannabis on brain morphology from other comorbid substance use is critical. After controlling for the effects of nicotine, alcohol and multi‐substance use, this study aimed to determine whether frequent cannabis use is associated with significantly smaller subcortical grey matter volumes. Design Exploratory analyses using mixed linear models, one per region of interest (ROI), were performed whereby individual differences in volume (outcome) at seven subcortical ROIs were regressed onto cannabis and comorbid substance use (predictors). Setting Two large population‐based twin samples from the United States and Australia. Participants A total of 622 young Australian adults [66% female; μage = 25.9, standard deviation SD) = 3.6] and 474 middle‐aged US males (μage = 56.1SD = 2.6) of predominately Anglo‐Saxon ancestry with complete substance use and imaging data. Subjects with a history of stroke or traumatic brain injury were excluded. Measurements Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and volumetric segmentation methods were used to estimate volume in seven subcortical ROIs: thalamus, caudate nucleus, putamen, pallidum, hippocampus, amygdala and nucleus accumbens. Substance use measurements included maximum nicotine and alcohol use, total life‐time multi‐substance use, maximum cannabis use in the young adults and regular cannabis use in the middle‐aged males. Findings After correcting for multiple testing (P = 0.007), cannabis use was unrelated to any subcortical ROI. However, maximum nicotine use was associated with significantly smaller thalamus volumes in middle‐aged males. Conclusions In exploratory analyses based on young adult and middle‐aged samples, normal variation in cannabis use is unrelated statistically to individual differences in brain morphology as measured by subcortical volume