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Targeted Gene Expression Profiling in Beef Cattle under Finishing Conditions in the South Eastern United States: Identification of regulatory factors involved in metabolic efficiency, energy partitioning, and intramuscular fat deposition 

Burnett, Derris (2014-04-25)
Three studies were conducted in order to examine the molecular events associated with metabolic efficiency in specific skeletal muscle and adipose tissue depots in finishing beef cattle. In the first study a total of 15 ...

Targeted Gene Insertion and the Effect of Random Insertion of the Masou Salmon Delta5-Desaturase Transgene on n-3 Fatty Acid Production and Culture Traits of Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) 

Huang, Yingqi (2018-11-07)
Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) is one of the most abundant catfish species in North America. The objectives of this study were to determine the effectiveness of the Masou salmon delta5-desaturase transgene driven ...

Targeting Neuroinflammation as a Therapeutic Approach in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model 

Abdallah, Ihab (2020-08-24)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder and the most common form of dementia that affects people in their middle age, in the case of familial cases, and the elderly causing significant losses to ...

Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Revision of the Family Chiasmodontidae (Perciformes: Acanthomorpha) 

Melo, Marcelo (2009-08-07)
The family Chiasmodontidae, commonly known as swallowers, comprises four genera and 33 species distributed in the meso and bathypelagic regions of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans. The species of Chiasmodon ...

Taxonomic Profiling of the Lumen and Epimural Surface of the Duodenum, Rumen and Ileum Using a Cannulated Bovine Model 

Stockler, Ricardo (2021-04-16)
The gut microbiome provides important metabolic functions for the host animal. Bacterial dysbiosis as a result of bacterial, viral, and parasitic gastrointestinal infections can adversely affect the metabolism, productivity, ...

Taxonomy and phylogenetics of fish blood flukes using morphology, life history, and molecular markers 

Orélis-Ribeiro, Raphael (2016-08-05)
Fish blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) are of rapidly progressing and emerging interest to ecology and evolutionary biologists because some lineages may have coevolved with the major lineages of non-tetrapod vertebrates ...

Taxonomy and Systematics of Early Lineage Fish Blood Flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) 

Warren, Micah (2019-07-15)
The monophyletic fish blood flukes (Platyhelminthes: Digenea: Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912) comprise ~166 species assigned to 40 genera infecting freshwater, marine, and estuarine fishes. They are occasional pathogens of ...

Taxonomy and Systematics of Fish Blood Flukes (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) using Morphology, Phylogenetics, and Life History 

Warren, Micah (2023-11-06)  ETD File Embargoed
The monophyletic fish blood flukes (Platyhelminthes: Digenea: Schistosomatoidea Stiles, 1898) comprise ~186 species of 46 genera infecting freshwater, marine, and estuarine fishes. They are occasional pathogens of cultured ...

Taxonomy and systematics of freshwater turtle blood flukes (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) 

Roberts, Jackson (2017-07-26)
Blood flukes (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda: Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) currently comprise three families: Schistosomatidae Stiles and Hassall, 1898 (species infecting mammals and birds and one crocodilian), Aporocotylidae ...

Taxonomy and Systematics of Myxozoans (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) and Disease Epidemiology of Myxobolus cerebralis in the Southeast United States 

Ksepka, Steven (2020-04-17)  ETD File Embargoed
Myxozoa (Cnidaria) comprises over 2500 species of parasitic cnidarians infecting primarily freshwater, marine, and estuarine fishes. They represent some of the most demonstrable pathogens to cultured fishes including: ...

Taxonomy, Systematics, and Histopathology of Myxozoan (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) Parasites of Fishes 

Ksepka, Steven (2023-11-08)  ETD File Embargoed
Myxozoans, a parasitic lineage of cnidarians, comprise over 2500 species infecting primarily freshwater, marine, and estuarine fishes. This includes several demonstrable pathogens to cultured fishes including: Myxobolus ...

Taxonomy, systematics, and life cycle of digeneans (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) infecting freshwater fishes 

Truong, Triet (2023-11-08)  ETD File Embargoed
This dissertation is structured in 7 chapters. In the dissertation, I described 4 new digenean species and redescribed 3 species belonging to 7 genera of 5 families, erected 1 new genus, resurrected and emended the ...

Taxonomy, systematics, and life cycles of Azygiids (Digenea: Azygiidae) of the Southeastern United States 

Womble, Matthew (2015-12-08)
Digeneans (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda: Digenea) comprise the vast majority of Trematoda, which is one of three entirely parasitic classes within the Platyhelminthes. They are characterized as having complex life cycles ...

Taylor Kriging Metamodeling for Simulation Interpolation, Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization 

Liu, Heping (2009-04-02)
The dissertation explores Kriging metamodeling for the interpolation, sensitivity analysis and optimization of simulation models with costly computational or economic expenses. The key theoretical contribution is that a ...

TCP/IP Implementation of Hadoop Acceleration 

Xu, Cong (2012-05-18)
Cloud Computing is a booming technology in computer science. Since Google released the design details of the MapReduce technique in 2004 [1], cloud computing has been more and more popular. Hadoop [2] has been developed ...

Teacher Absenteeism and Student Reading Growth and Achievement 

Conradson, Kathryn (2021-07-19)
This study aims to explore the association between teacher absenteeism and student achievement. Specificially, this study aims to determine if an association exists between teacher absenteeism and elementary student reading ...

Teacher and Student Perspectives on Motivation Within the High School Science Classroom 

Pickens, Melanie (2007-05-15)
The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher and student perspectives on the motivation of high school science students and to explore specific motivational strategies used by teachers as they attempt to enhance ...

A Teacher of Souls: Elizabeth Ann Seton, Theologian 

Goldschmidt, Paige (2019-11-15)
This thesis is an analysis of Elizabeth Anne Seton’s conversion to Catholicism. It is also a discussion of her interpretation of traditional Catholic doctrine and eventual teaching and systemization of it within the American ...

Teacher Perception of the Georgia Middle School Agricultural Education Curriculum and its Relationship to Secondary Agricultural Education Enrollment. 

Chapman, David (2017-11-27)
The purpose of this study was to describe teacher perceptions of the middle school agricultural education curriculum and its relationship to secondary agricultural education enrollment in Georgia. The participants in this ...

Teacher Perception of the Three-Component Model of Agriculture Education by Georgia’s Agriculture Education Teachers 

Wilson, Jeff (2022-05-01)
The purpose of this study was to describe teacher perceptions of the three-component model of agriculture education. The participants in this study were agriculture education teachers in Georgia. This study used a ...