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practitioner, on paper, what a community’s list of favorite values are, but by observing the people interacting with one another and the organization itself will reveal how they act out and act upon those values. It will...
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Overall ethnography allows a practitioner to learn enough about a community’s culture to understand those processual matters, not products. In other words, the practitioner learns about the community’s thought process,...
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ABSTRACT
Currently, knowledge of the impact of selection on maize diversity has focused on modern specimens rather than ancient. An expanded understanding of the genetic variation, evolutionary history, and domestication of maize can be gained...
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TABLE OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Illustration contrasting teosinte and maize................................................... 2
Figure 2: Location of the geographical Four Corners region...................................... 4
Figure 3: Aerial photo...
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Influences on SWATC
Because few of SWATC’s programs included financial aid at the time, and our student base for adults going into full-time programs was much smaller than Bridgerland, members of the administration team at...
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Ancient maize specimens used in this study were collected from F-448, a trench located on the lower northwest of the Corngrowers Site in a midden, garbage area (Figure 3 & 4). These were collected in 10-centimeter (cm) increments from a depth of...
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beginning of the year. For this reason, teachers and administrators began to allocate much more
time and resources to children who were below-grade level. Kindergarten teachers in a local
school district were surveyed mid-way through the year to...
with John L. Sevy, who had seen them and asked for a ride back to Cedar City that night. He and Mr. Sevy traveled up the canyon from Newcastle past Castle Ranch and on to Irontown and then past Woolsey's Ranch to Cedar City. It took them most of...
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Study Hypotheses
Employing molecular methods, this study investigated desiccated maize samples collected from the Anasazi Corngrowers Site (F-448 trench; ~1100 C.E.) in Arizona. Collected samples were identified previously as maize using...
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CHAPTER 2: MATERIALS & METHODS
DNA Extraction and Regions Sampled
Ancient maize specimens were previously collected from the Corngrowers Site and identified based on their depth of occurrence from the trench surface. These specimens were ground...
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CHAPTER 3: RESULTS
Real Time PCR (qPCR)
Differences in temperature represented sequence length changes of amplified PCR products and were designated as MTAs for each locus. Melting temperatures representing allelic changes for modern and ancient...
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Table 4: Sample depth and MTAs identified using 1 μl DNA in solution using SYBR Green. 10 out of 26 Ancient maize specimens were amplified successfully.
Tm (°C)
Sample
Depth...
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Table 6: Total number of samples successfully amplified and their percentage for each amount of DNA in solution. Totals represent the number of samples successfully amplified for each amount of DNA in solution plus earlier successes. For...
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Figure 7: MTAs and their defined bins for loci phi029 and phi127 according to the depth (cm) at which they occurred. Letters A-E indicates the binned alleles as defined.
phi029
phi127
Presence of MTA
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Chapter 7
Conclusion
Current crisis research has uncovered numerous successful methods for responding to a crisis situation. However the ability to correctly select a response strategy and pair it to a type of crisis still...
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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
John's efficiency rating for 1943-44, signed by the Administrative Assistant to the U S . Attorney General, was marked "Excellent." His years as Assistant U.S. Attorney had given him breadth and some depth of...
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of black and white television screens came into
use. These displays were available in black and
white, green and later even amber became com-mon.
It was thought that green and amber were
easier on the...
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CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS
Real Time PCR and Melting Temperature Alleles
This study provided evidence supporting Hypothesis 1 that results generated from qPCR and SYBR Green 1 fluorescent labeling confirms the presence of aDNA in...