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Satellite remote sensing of submerged aquatic vegetation distribution and status in the Currituck Sound, NC / by Nelson, Stacy A. C.(CARDINAL)315507; Hartis, Brett M.; North Carolina.Department of Transportation.Research and Analysis Group.(CARDINAL)272064; North Carolina State University.Center for Earth Observation and Geospatial Sciences.; North Carolina State University.Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-68).Final report;Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) is an important component in any estuarine ecosystem. As such, it is regulated by federal and state agencies as a jurisdictional resource, where impacts to SAV are compensated through mitigation. Historically, traditional detection methodologies have been proven to be ineffective or inappropriate for SAV mitigation over very large areas. These tasks are further complicated in that the location and density of SAV can change from year to year depending on variances in weather and water quality. Satellite remote sensing holds great promise for providing a labor and cost-effective means of monitoring and quantifying SAV distribution. For this analysis, sensor specific models based on multinomial logit procedures proved to be the best approach for predicting SAV presence or absence. No models could be developed for low distribution occurrence categories due to a low ratio of events to non-events. Statistical automated selection methods were developed to produce the final models we selected for each sensor. The use of the automated best-subsets method allowed for exploration of a number of potential candidate models based on the number of variables input in the model. The automated stepwise selection method led to the final, most reasonable model as decided upon in the best-subset procedure. For a variable to enter into or remain in the model, a p-value of <0.01 was necessary. A model was considered fit if the Hosmer and Lemeshow test yielded an insignificant difference in groups (p>0.05). Sensor specific models were developed for both the Quickbird and Worldview-II sensors, however LANDSAT 5 specific models were inconclusive largely due to quality of the data.Performed by Center for Earth Observation and Geospatial Sciences, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, sponsored by North Carolina Department of Transportation, Research and Analysis Group
Subjects: Aquatic plants; Estuarine health; Plant genome mapping; Submerged lands; Wetland mitigation;
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Genetic engineering / by Spangenburg, Ray,1939-(CARDINAL)725888; Moser, Diane,1944-(CARDINAL)725887;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-117) and index.Jack and the beanstalk -- Genetically manufactured food crops -- From douglas fir to bacterial saviors -- Is it in the wind? or not? -- Cloning bossy, Mickey, and the blue ox -- Alliance or danger? -- The human genome -- The stem cell controversy -- For and against -- At the heart of the matter.Discusses the use of genetic engineering in plants and animals, and the hopes spurred by the mapping of human DNA by the Human Genome Project as well as the controversy over using stem cells for disease research.
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Genetic engineering.;
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Life, the science of biology / by Purves, William K.(William Kirkwood),1934-(CARDINAL)726684;
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Subjects: Biology.;
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Me, myself, and why : searching for the science of self / by Ouellette, Jennifer.(CARDINAL)471485;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-337) and index."A fascinating survey of the forces that shape who we are and how we act-from the author of The Calculus Diaries Following her previous tours through the worlds of physics (Black Bodies and Quantum Cats) and calculus (The Calculus Diaries), acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ouellette now turns her attention to the mysteries of human identity and behavior with Me, Myself, and Why. She draws on genetics, neuroscience, and psychology-enlivened as always with her signature sense of humor and pop-culture references-to explore how we become who we are. Ouellette lets readers in on her own surprising journey of self-discovery, as she has her genome sequenced, her brain mapped, her personality typed, and even samples a popular hallucinogen. Bringing together everything from Mendel's famous pea plant experiments and mutations in The X-Men to our taste in food and our relationship with avatars and our online selves, Ouellette delivers another fun and enlightening work of popular science that's sure to be enjoyed by her many fans"--
Subjects: Self psychology.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Identity (Philosophical concept);
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The cat in the box : a history of science in 100 experiments / by Gribbin, Mary,author.(CARDINAL)355168; Gribbin, John,1946-author.(CARDINAL)329803;
Includes bibliographical references (page 280) and index.The upward thrust of water -- Measuring the diameter of the Earth -- The eye as a pinhole camera -- Dissecting the human body -- Measuring the magnetic field of the Earth -- Measuring inertia -- Circulation of the blood -- Weighing the atmosphere -- Resisting the squeeze -- Revealing the microscopic world -- All the colors of the rainbow -- The speed of light is finite -- Vitamin at sea -- Conducting the lightning -- The heat of ice -- Steaming ahead -- Breathing plants and pure air -- Opening up the solar system -- Animal heat, but no animal magic -- Twitching frogs and electric piles -- Weighing the Earth -- Boring experiments on heat -- The first vaccine -- Feeling invisible light -- Cosmic rubble -- Flying high with hydrogen -- Light is a wave -- Discovering atoms -- Electrifying science -- Quantifying chemistry -- Thinking about the power of fire -- A random walk -- The magnetism of electricity -- The death of vitalism -- Making electricity -- An uplifting experience -- Blood heat -- Trumpeters on a train -- The speed of ice -- Absorbing radiant heat -- The leviathan of Parsonstown -- Controversy and controls -- From fire light to star light -- Prevention is better than cure -- Pinning down the speed of light -- Death to bacteria -- The flowering of evolution theory -- The benzene snake dance -- The monk and the peas -- The importance of nothing -- Feeling the squeeze -- The speed of light is constant -- Sparking radio into light -- Noble gases and a noble Lord -- The birth of biochemistry -- Enter the X-ray -- Enter the electron -- Radioactivity revealed -- Knocking electrons with light -- A Pavlovian response -- Journey to the center of the Earth -- Inside the atom -- A ruler for the universe -- The discovery of nucleic acids -- Evolution at work -- Something to brag about -- Light from the darkness -- Electron waves and quantum duality -- Taking the rough with the smooth -- An antibiotic breakthrough? -- Splitting th atom -- Making vitamin C -- Probing proteins -- Artificial radioactivity -- The cat in the box -- Fission gets heavy -- The first nuclear reactor -- The first programmable computer -- Discovering the role of DNA -- Jumping genes -- The Alpha helix -- Making the molecules of life -- Masers and lasers -- Magnetic stripes and sea-floor spreading -- Detecting the Ghost particle -- A vital vitamin -- The breathing planet -- The echo of the Big Bang -- Clocking into relativity -- Making waves in the universe -- The pacemaker of ice ages -- the world is non-local -- The ultimate quantum experiment -- The accelerating universe -- Mapping the human genome -- Fifteen equals three times five -- Making matter massive -- The composition of the universe -- Experiment 101."This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending of light as it goes past the Sun. As the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman said, "If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong." From the discovery of microscopic worlds and gravitational waves, to the weighing the Earth, to making electricity, this stunning book by renowned science writers John and Mary Gribbin tells the enlightening, fascinating, and somewhat oddball story of scientific innovation."--(WorldCAT).
Subjects: Science; Science; Technological innovations;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Genetic engineering : manipulating the mechanisms of life / by Hodge, Russ,1961-(CARDINAL)358066;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From breeding to a science of heredity -- The origins of domestic plants and animals -- The rise of agriculture and domestication -- Early ideas of inheritance -- The girl who gave birth to rabbits -- Heredity and the theory of evolution -- Gregor mendel discovers the laws of heredity -- Classical genetics (1900-1950) -- Cell theory and the discovery of chromosomes -- The rediscovery of mendel's work -- The debate over natural selection -- Chromosomes and heredity -- Sex and the X-Y chromosomes -- Fruit flies and the birth of the modern laboratory -- Gene maps -- Chromosome puzzles -- Maize and "jumping genes" -- "One gene makes one enzyme" -- Molecular genetics: what genes are and how they work (1950-1970) -- Physics stimulates new ways of thinking about genes -- Genes are made of DNA -- The double helix -- RNA is the messenger -- The architecture of genes -- On-off switches for genes -- The flow of information from gene to protein in complex organisms -- The rise of genetic engineering (1970-1990) -- Recombinant DNA -- "Natural" genetic engineering -- Molecular cloning and using bacteria as drug factories -- DNA sequencing -- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- Making and marketing genetically modified plants and animals for food -- Knock outs, knock ins, and other methods to study gene functions -- Beatrice Mintz: a pioneer of mouse genetics -- Transgenic animals and models of human disease -- DNA fingerprinting -- Genetic engineering in the age of genomes -- The complexity of genomes -- Introns and alternative splicing -- Non-coding RNAs -- Quality control: how cells detect defective genes -- RNA knock outs -- Molecular machines -- Conditional mutagenesis -- Other methods of controlling the output of genes -- Molecular medicine and gene therapies -- Personalized medicine in the genome age -- DNA vaccines and t cell therapies -- Ethics and genetic engineering -- Reproductive cloning -- Therapeutic cloning and experiments with human cells -- Genetic testing and concerns about eugenics -- GM foods and the rise of environmental movements -- Owning genes, genomes, and living beings -- A look farther ahead.
Subjects: Genetic engineering;
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The monkey's voyage : how improbable journeys shaped the history of life / by De Queiroz, Alan.(CARDINAL)405495;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index.Of garter snakes and Gondwana -- Earth and life -- From Noah's ark to New York : the roots of the story -- The fragmented world -- Over the edge of reason -- New Zealand stirrings -- Trees and time -- The DNA explosion -- Believe the forest -- The improbable, the rare, the mysterious, and the miraculous -- The green web -- A frog's tale -- The monkey's voyage -- The long, strange history of the Gondwanan islands -- Transformations -- The structure of biogeographic "revolutions" -- A world shaped by miracles -- Epilogue : the driftwood coast."Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In the past decade, however, that theory has foundered, as the genomic revolution has made reams of new data available. And the data has revealed an extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story that has sparked a scientific upheaval. In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes the radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being: frogs and mammals rode on rafts and icebergs, tiny spiders drifted on storm winds, and plant seeds were carried in the plumage of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In other words, these organisms were not simply constrained by continental fate; they were the makers of their own geographic destiny. And as de Queiroz shows, the effects of oceanic dispersal have been crucial in generating the diversity of life on Earth, from monkeys and guinea pigs in South America to beech trees and kiwi birds in New Zealand. By toppling the idea that the slow process of continental drift is the main force behind the odd distributions of organisms, this theory highlights the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the history of life."--From publisher's description.
Subjects: Animals; Biogeography.; Plants;
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Genetics 101 / by Windelspecht, Michael,1963-(CARDINAL)293387;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.A genetics overview containing an introduction to the field; articles on topics such as DNA, RNA editing, the genetic code, chromosome structure, gene therapy, and mutations; information on genetics innovations; a glossary; and an annotated list of resources.
Subjects: Genetics;
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Genetics : the code of life / by Guttman, Burton S.(CARDINAL)732055;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-294) and index.Genetics : past, present, and future. The search for order and meaning ; The modern image of science ; The prospects of modern genetics -- From myth to modern science. Primitive interest in heredity ; Mythology and the domestication of plants and animals ; Heredity in human society ; How are children made? -- What is inherited? Cellular structure ; Molecular structure ; Growth and biosynthesis ; Enzymes ; Synthesizing polymers ; Cells as self-renewing, self-reproducing factories -- The breakthrough : Mendel's Laws. Mendel's discoveries ; Pedigrees ; Another example : tasters and non-tasters ; Blood types ; Multiple alleles and dominance ; Test crosses ; Probability ; Two or more genes ; Mendel's first law and disputed paternity ; Answers to blood types questions -- Chromosomes, reproduction, and sex. Cells and reproduction ; Mitosis and the cell cycle ; Karyotypes ; Meiosis ; Meiosis explains Mendel ; The location of genes ; Sex chromosomes ; Nondisjunction of chromosomes ; XYY males : a genetic dilemma -- The function of genes. Genes and metabolic disease ; Genes and enzymes ; Proteins and information ; Modification of hereditary disease -- The hereditary material, DNA. Bacteria ; The first clue ; Bacteriophages ; The Hershey-Chase experiment ; DNA structure ; Genetic implications ; Testing DNA structure -- The genetic dissection of gene structure. Gene arrangement ; Crossing over within genes ; Phage genetics ; Fine structure of genes ; Complementation and the definition of a gene ; What is a gene? ; Restriction enzymes and palindromes ; Restriction mapping -- Deciphering the code of life. How are proteins made? ; RNA molecules : the tools for protein synthesis ; RNA transcription ; The translation process ; The complexity of eucaryotic genes ; Cracking the code ; Colinearity of genes and proteins ; Stop codons ; Universality of the code -- Heredity in the bacterial world. Mutant bacteria ; Sex in E. coli ; Plasmids ; Resistance factors and antibiotic resistance ; Lysogeny ; Gene transfer by virus ; Transduction in humans -- Gene regulation and development. Bacterial gene regulation ; Regulating eucaryotic genes ; Embryonic development in general ; Regulation by time in a chick's wing ; Determination by position in a fly's body ; Forming a fly's eye -- DNA manipulation : the return of epimethius? Recombinant DNA and restriction enzymes ; Studies of individual cloned fragments ; Transgenic organisms ; Human gene therapy ; Genomics, the study of complete genomes -- The geneticist as Dr. Frankenstein. The regulation of recombinant-DNA research ; Genetically modified organisms ; Technology in context ; The arguments against producing GMOs ; Cloning as an ethical target ; The responsibility of scientists -- The fountain of change : mutation. Mutation rates ; Mutation in humans ; Radiation ; What are mutations like? ; DNA repair systems ; General effects of radiation ; Chromosome aberrations ; Looking at human chromosomes ; Aneuploidy ; Duplications and deficiencies ; Inversions ; Translocations -- Evolutionary genetics. Evidence for evolution ; Evolution as a process ; Population genetics ; Human evolution ; The migration and diversification of Homo sapiens ; Eugenics.Details the history of the study of genetics, from Mendel's discoveries to the decoding of the human genome, and explains the fundamentals of genetics, the function of genes, and DNA manipulation.
Subjects: Genetics;
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The secret of our success : how culture is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter / by Henrich, Joseph Patrick,author.(CARDINAL)528188;
"Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains--on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness."--Provided by publisher.Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-427) and index.
Subjects: Human evolution.; Social evolution.; Behavior evolution.; Cognition and culture.;
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