• Chemoselective aerobic oxidation of aliphatic alcohols in lignin in micellar system 

  Azadfar, Mohammadali; Hiscox, William C.; Chen, Shulin (2016-05)

  A micellar catalytic system for chemoselective aerobic oxidation of primary alcohol in the diol fragment guaiacylglycerol-guaiacyl ether as one of the most common structure in lignin has been proposed. The catalyst system ...

• The effect of Potato virus S infection on late blight severity in selected potato genotypes 

  Lin, Yu-Hsuan; Johnson, Dennis A.; Pappu, Hanu R. (4/30/2012)

  Late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, is an important disease of potato. Potato cv. Defender is the only cultivar with foliar resistance to late blight. However, this cultivar exhibited susceptibility to infection ...

• Exploring Smart Home Sensor Placement Algorithms 

  Crandall, Aaron S.; Thomas, Brian L.; Cook, Diane J. (4/27/2012)

  With the continued success of research into using smart homes for elder care applications, there is a commiserate drive to build tools to assist in the deployment of these smart technologies in the real world. This deployment ...

• The use of 1H NMR spectroscopy to assay triglyceride content in microalgae, yeast and diatoms for biofuel production. 

  Helms, Gregory L.; Davey, Peter; Hiscox, William C.; Zheng, Yubin; Chen, Shulin (3/30/2012)

  The need for an alternative liquid fuel source to traditional fossil fuels has led researchers to consider microalgae as such a source, especially for biodiesel and aviation fuels. Many species of microalgae produce large ...

• Whose job is harder? Assessments of the job effort requirements by mothers, fathers, and non-parents in and outside of academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines 

  Magnuson, Nancy; Kmec, Julie A. (3/30/2012)

  Mothers employed in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines perceive they must work harder than fathers in STEM/non-STEM and mother in non-STEM disciplines.

• Profiles of social relationships for low-income youth in physical activity based positive youth development programs 

  Ullrich-French, Sarah; McDonough, Meghan H.; Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Amorose, Anthony (3/30/2012)

  Participants in a physical activity based positive youth development program formed three groups based on patterns of their social relationships, groups had distinct program outcomes.

• Evaluation of ion mobility mass spectrometry (IMMS) for determining the isomeric heterogeneity of bovine submaxillary mucin (BSM) 

  Li, Hongli; Bendiak, Brad; Kaplan, Kimberly; Siems, William; Hill, Herbert H. Jr. (3/30/2012)

  Rapid separation and analysis of isomeric species are essential steps in the analytical protocol of carbohydrate structure analysis for glycomics research. This study evaluated the use of ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) ...

• Vibrio parahaemolyticus toxin TDH-A contributes to in vitro cytotoxicity, but not in vivo mortality 

  Nydam, Seth D.; Erwin, Daniel P.; Pineyro, Pablo; Orfe, Lisa; Call, Douglas R. (3/30/2012)

  Vibrio parahaemolyticus toxin TDH-A plays a previously unexplored role in cytotoxicity of HeLa cells, but does not affect mouse mortality using a pulmonary challenge model.

• On-chip network-enabled multi-core platforms targeting maximum likelihood phylogeny reconstruction 

  Majumder, Turbo (3/30/2012)

  On-chip network-enabled multi-core platform shown to accelerate biocomputing application

• Controlling wireworms with neonicotinoid insecticides in wheat 

  Esser, Aaron D.; Pike, K. S.; Dewald, R. (3/30/2012)

  Wireworm (Limoniusspp.) populations and crop damage have been increasing in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production across eastern Washington. Today nearly all spring cereal crop acres throughout eastern Washington are ...

• Use of 31P NMR to characterize HDEHP-lanthanide complexes formed in a non-polar organic phase 

  Marie, Cecile; Hiscox, William C.; Nash, Kenneth L. (3/30/2012)

• Tripal: a construction toolkit for online genome databases. 

  Ficklin, Stephen P.; Sanderson, Lacey-Ann; Cheng, Chun-Huai; Staton, Margaret; Jung, Sook; Lee, Taein; Cho, II-Hyung; Bett, Kirstin E.; Main, Dorrie (3/30/2012)

  We are developing a comprehensive genomics, genetics and breeding database infrastructur basic, transaltional and applied research.

• The global relationship between women and control: a timeless affair 

  Carboy, Jade (3/30/2012)

  The perpetuation of suppression of women by women across the globe; cross-cultural perspectives.

• Neurogenin 3 is a critical downstream effector for STAT3-regulated differentiation of male germline stem cells 

  Kaucher, Amy V.; Oatley, Jon M. (3/30/2012)

  Sperm are vehicles for male genetic contribution to the next generation, and their formation relies on a series of germ cell differentiation events. Germ cell differentiation initiates with development of progenitors from ...

• Agricultural intensification promotes West Nile virus incidence 

  Martin, Emily; Crowder, David; Owen, Jeb (3/30/2012)

  Orchards and vineyards enhance mosquito breeding and increase West Nile Virus incidence.

• Genetic diversity among endogenous plant pararetroviral sequences from geographically diverse sources of dahlia (Dahlia spp). 

  Almeyda, C.V.; Druffel, K. L.; Eid, S.G.; Pappu, H.R. (3/30/2012)

  Two distinct caulimoviruses, Dahlia mosaic virus (DMV) and Dahlia common mosaic virus (DCMV), and an endogenous plant pararetroviral sequence (DvEPRS) were reported in Dahlia spp. DvEPRS, previously referred to as DMV-D10, ...

• Application of a novel cognitive bias task for measuring the psychological value of enrichment 

  Keen, Heidi A.; Nelson, O. Lynne; Robbins, Charles T.; Newberry, Ruth C. (3/30/2012)

  Application of a novel cognitive bias task for measuring the psychological value of enrichment.

• Reproductive effort of federally threatened silene spaldingii relative to temperature, precipitation, and snow pack 

  Heinse, Laura; Hardesty, Linda; Clark, Taryn (3/30/2012)

  Silene spaldingii is a federally threatened plant species found in high-quality grasslands. We evaluated correlations between plant variables and temperature and precipitation using regression analysis.

• Involvement of endocannabinoid mechanisms in the antinociceptive effect of N2O in mice 

  Zhang, Yangmiao; Zhang, Yao; Liu, Mengwei; Nelson-Brown, Sabrina N.; Vaughn, Linda K.; Quock, Raymond M. (3/30/2012)

  Role of endocannabinoid mechanisms in pain relief induced by nitrous oxide (laughing gas).

• Analyzing Asian indian immigrant identity as racial incorporation 

  Pande, Somava (3/30/2012)

  Asian Indian immigrants' racial incorporation show that racial advantage is propagated through temporal, cultural, and situated processes of assimilation and absorption within dominant racial formations.

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