75 research outputs found
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Law Library (But Were Afraid to Ask)
There\u27s more to the library than books and a pretty view! Come learn about the useful and not-so-obvious services the law library has to offer. Topics covered will include: Navigating the library facility, browsing the shelves by subject, and emergency prep info Other items (other than books!) that are available for checkout How to find and request items in Course Reserves or through Interlibrary Loan How to search GAVEL (the library catalog) and use subject headings to discover related items by topic What our most popular databases are (other than Westlaw and Lexis Nexis) and how to use our A to Z list and research guides What types of questions the Circulation Desk and the Reference Desk can answe
How to Hack Outreach: An A–Z Guide of Ideas, Tips, and Tools
In this article librarians and staff collaborate to deliver an alphabetical list of tips, tools, tricks and other resources for how they effectively work inter-departmentally to promote their library and institutional resources, services and information. The piece includes specific examples featuring several ideas from past library events, exhibits and displays, and other efforts with nods to several other colleagues from UGA Law Library. This article served as written documentation of this group\u27s fall 2019 panel presentation at the Georgia Libraries Conference
How to Hack Outreach: An A to Z Guide of Collaborative Ideas, Tips & Tools
In an increasingly digital word, how do we communicate to library users? How can librarians and staff collaborate effectively on a variety of outreach efforts? In this session, panelists from UGA Law Library take turns sharing an alphabetically organized catalog of favorite tools, tips and general ideas including library displays, social media, and face-to-face offerings. At the close of the presentation attendees will have a chance to ask questions, participate in an open discussion about what has worked or not for them and why, and take a handout of our complete A to Z guide with resource links and examples
Welcoming Wellness to Your Library
Promoting wellness in the library is a natural extension of our roles as librarians and the role of the library in the community. Librarians have an opportunity to be role models and to exhibit the importance of making time for daily healthy habits. In this presentation, we will discuss the ways in which we have included wellness programming at an academic law library, our successes and failures, and the impact this programming has had on our law school community. Examples of our wellness programming include yoga in the library; circulating recreational equipment; magazine subscriptions; sound baths; virtual reality; jigsaw puzzles; exam period “stressbusters” like coloring pages, word searches, and games; mindfulness sessions; and therapy dogs. For each event, we will share photos and discuss time commitment, advertising, cost, engagement level, and lessons learned
Let’s Celebrate!
This presentation will take you through the academic year of celebrations we plan and host at the Law Library, such as Valentine’s Day, ALA’s International Games Week, Dictionary Day, and Constitution Day. By recognizing and celebrating both major and minor holidays, we boost morale, build community, expose our students to new information, and give our patrons something to look forward to. Details on purpose, time commitment, advertising, cost, engagement level, and lessons learned will be shared
Ruthenium on Carbonaceous Materials for the Selective Hydrogenation of HMF
We report the use of Ru catalysts supported in the activated carbon (AC) and carbon nanofibers (CNFs) for the selective production of liquid fuel dimethylfuran (DMF) and fuel additives alkoxymethyl furfurals (AMF). Parameters such as the reaction temperature and hydrogen pressure were firstly investigated in order to optimise the synthesis of the desired products. Simply by using a different support, the selectivity of the reaction drastically changed. DMF was produced with AC as support, while a high amount of AMF was produced when CNFs were employed. Moreover, the reusability of the catalysts was tested and deactivation phenomena were identified and properly addressed. Further studies need to be performed in order to optimise the stability of the catalysts
Search for Decay in LSND
We observe a net beam-excess of (stat) (syst) events,
above 160 MeV, resulting from the charged-current reaction of
and/or on C and H in the LSND detector. No beam related muon
background is expected in this energy regime. Within an analysis framework of
, we set a direct upper limit for this
branching ratio of at 90% confidence level.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
The selectivity, voltage-dependence and acid sensitivity of the tandem pore potassium channel TASK-1 : contributions of the pore domains
We have investigated the contribution to ionic
selectivity of residues in the selectivity filter and pore
helices of the P1 and P2 domains in the acid sensitive
potassium channel TASK-1. We used site directed mutagenesis
and electrophysiological studies, assisted by structural
models built through computational methods. We have
measured selectivity in channels expressed in Xenopus
oocytes, using voltage clamp to measure shifts in reversal
potential and current amplitudes when Rb+ or Na+ replaced
extracellular K+. Both P1 and P2 contribute to selectivity,
and most mutations, including mutation of residues in the
triplets GYG and GFG in P1 and P2, made channels nonselective.
We interpret the effects of these—and of other
mutations—in terms of the way the pore is likely to be
stabilised structurally. We show also that residues in the
outer pore mouth contribute to selectivity in TASK-1.
Mutations resulting in loss of selectivity (e.g. I94S, G95A)
were associated with slowing of the response of channels to
depolarisation. More important physiologically, pH sensitivity
is also lost or altered by such mutations. Mutations
that retained selectivity (e.g. I94L, I94V) also retained their
response to acidification. It is likely that responses both to
voltage and pH changes involve gating at the selectivity filter
Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation of roots of grass species differing in invasiveness
Recent research indicates that the soil microbial community, particularly arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi (AMF), can influence plant invasion in several ways. We tested if 1) invasive species are
colonised by AMF to a lower degree than resident native species, and 2) AMF colonisation of native
plants is lower in a community inhabited by an invasive species than in an uninvaded resident
community. The two tests were run in semiarid temperate grasslands on grass (Poaceae) species,
and the frequency and intensity of mycorrhizal colonisation, and the proportion of arbuscules and
vesicles in plant roots have been measured. In the first test, grasses representing three classes of
invasiveness were included: invasive species, resident species becoming abundant upon
disturbance, and non-invasive native species. Each class contained one C3 and one C4 species. The
AMF colonisation of the invasive Calamagrostis epigejos and Cynodon dactylon was consistently
lower than that of the non-invasive native Chrysopogon gryllus and Bromus inermis, and contained
fewer arbuscules than the post-disturbance dominant resident grasses Bothriochloa ischaemum and
Brachypodium pinnatum. The C3 and C4 grasses behaved alike despite their displaced phenologies
in these habitats. The second test compared AMF colonisation for sand grassland dominant grasses
Festuca vaginata and Stipa borysthenica in stands invaded by either C. epigejos or C. dactylon, and
in the uninvaded natural community. Resident grasses showed lower degree of AMF colonisation in the invaded stand compared to the uninvaded natural community with F. vaginata responding so to
both invaders, while S. borysthenica responding to C. dactylon only. These results indicate that
invasive grasses supposedly less reliant on AMF symbionts have the capacity of altering the soil
mycorrhizal community in such a way that resident native species can establish a considerably
reduced extent of the beneficial AMF associations, hence their growth, reproduction and ultimately
abundance may decline. Accumulating evidence suggests that such indirect influences of invasive
alien plants on resident native species mediated by AMF or other members of the soil biota is probably more the rule than the exception
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