Columbia University is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting groundbreaking research in medicine, science, the arts, and the humanities. The University collaborated with the...

Jul 16, 2002 ... On Earth, moss spores that take root send out hundreds of tiny filaments known as ... But the moss onboard Columbia did something different. ...

... Title : A Summer Program in Mathematics and Computer Science for Academically Oriented Students Held in Washington, District of Columbia on ...

This book traces the development of educational philosophy from ideas of the ancient Greeks to modern America. The volume notes the early collaboration efforts with other traditional disciplines in higher learning and the emergence of pedagogical knowledge at such institutions as Teachers College at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University. ...

Technical progress and Federal Cash Transaction reports are presented for the first quarter. The work has been valuable in providing opportunities for greater academic achievement in mathematics and science for minority students in the District of Columbia.

COLUMBIA/LDEO/IRI/CDL (77) Climate Data Library, International Research ...... Laboratory Science Management Office, Climate Change Research Center, ...

As part of a multi-nation research project on the institutionalization of political economy in European, Japanese, and North American universities, the 14 essays in this volume explore the roots of academic economics in the United States during the 19th century. The organization of the essays is designed to show the catalytic role economists played in ...

... led by scientists at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory about ... 7.1 San Francisco quake in 1989, occurred 300 years ago near Humboldt ... ...

of the Academic Leader (NCCAH) to function effectively as an institutional leader during the period of the review 10, 2009 Page 1 of 2 President Executive Council SUBJECT: REVIEW OF THE ACADEMIC LEADER.0 Authority 1.1 The review of the Academic Leader of NCCAH reflects the accountability of the Academic Leader

The purpose of this project is to implement an intensive pre-college intervention program for academically talented students, mainly ninth and tenth grade students from the District of Columbia area, that is designed to increase their representation in ma...

at the margins; reconciling values of academic freedom and economic justice; alternative economic models-Columbia Columbia, MO Date Posted: Mar. 29th, 2006 http://medicine.AcademicKeys.com/redirect.php?6557-MD06060413 Children's National Medical Center Washington, DC Date Posted: Mar. 24th, 2006 http://medicine

The Earth Institute, Columbia University16 annual donor report 2010 17 "What is heartening is that the Earth Institute and Columbia University transcend academics and engage with issues that concern mankind, which will help make sustainable development in India a reality." -- Mrs. Rajashree Birla Aditya Birla

French Cultural Studies in a Global Context Degree Program: Free-Standing M.A. Program Director-mail:bb.columbia@reidhall.com Faculty Advisor: Danielle Haase-Dubosc Adjunct Professor of French; Associate Provost, Columbia University; Executive Director, Reid Hall e-mail:dhd.columbia@reidhall.com Academic ...

the Columbia, Satilla, Susquehanna and Parker Rivers and groundwater was sampled from the Childs River. SeveralM for the Columbia River to >2000 pM for the Satilla River. Elemental analysis of DOM concentrates (>I000 D) was used between 26 and 36%, with aliphatic content lowest in the Satilla and highest in the Columbia River

The Columbia root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) (CRN) is a serious pest that reduces tuber quality of potato in the Northwest of the US and other parts of the World. A gene, RMc1(blb), derived from the Mexican wild species Solanum bulbocastanum, controls resistance to this pest. A F1 mappi...

The Columbia root-knot nematode CRKN (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) is a serious pest of potato in the Pacific Northwest. In the warmer zones, with longer growing seasons, this nematode builds up to high populations and damages the potato tubers by invading and causing discoloration and galling. It is pr...

Columbia root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne chitwoodi, is a major pest of potato in the Pacific Northwest of the USA and is controlled by costly soil fumigation. Potato breeding lines have been developed with resistance to the predominant race 1 (CRN-1) of M. chitwoodi. Hairy nightshade, Solanum sarr...

The Columbia root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) causes a severe disease on potato in the Northwest of the US and other parts of the World. The natural resistance has been discovered in several wild potato species, Solanum bulbocastanum, S. hougasii and S. fendleri, endemic to Mexico and the ...

Okanagan Senate Vancouver Senate Policy #: 18 Passed: June 5, 2008 History: 1) Approvals � UBC Vancouver Review: TBD Responsible Executive: � President Title: Appointment of Designated Senior Academic academic administrators. Note: Who Should Read This Policy Generally: � Provost and Vice-President Academic

This paper reviews the relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and academic performance. First, the relationship at different developmental stages is examined, focusing on pre-schoolers, children, adolescents and adults. Second, the review examines the factors underpinning the relationship between ADHD and academic ...

Introduction: The Columbia University Online Books Evaluation Project As the Libraries and Academic Information Systems at Columbia University have proceeded with a pilot project 1 to provide the Columbia community with a substantial collection of online books and to evaluate the reactions of scholars to those ...

Root cap is proposed to be a graviperceptive tissue in the plant root, and it is composed of several cell types. One such cell type, the columella cells, are thought to initiate the gravity-induced signal transduction cascade, and these cells arise from the activity of the meristematic zone of the root cap. There is, in fact, a ...

... event was the first time that autonomous vehicles had been exercised in the ... academic organizations were on hand at the Root Hall gym to present ...

as in the case of the PMT gene family remains to be determined. In Hyoscyamus niger and other plant species roots of Hyoscyamus albus

access to either residence or parking. Burnaby � British Columbia � Canada #12;Shad Valley Shrum winners,000 Gordon M. Shrum Scholarships (40) Recognize high academic standing and a commitment to school. Shrum Scholarships (3-5) In addition to the Shrum criteria noted above, this scholarship recognizes

of Yale's academic strength derives from the interconnections among schools, departments and programs League schools: Yale, to the left, is drawn at the same scale as the other Ivy League schools. Streets Harvard University 2 Columbia University Compared to the other Ivy League schools, Yale has several

if the Vice-President expresses an interest in re-appointment will these procedures be implemented. 2. Mandate, established as required by the President, and mandated to review the performance of the Vice by the Vice-President (Academic) & Provost Search Committee in its search for that individual, as well

.0 Mandate 2.1 This Committee is an advisory committee to the Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, established as required by the President, and mandated to review the performance of the College Dean the criteria established by the College Dean Search Committee in its search for that individual, as well

, Merced, San Diego, and San Francisco � Carnegie Mellon University � University of Cincinnati � Columbia of engineering and computer science, (synthesis.morganclaypool.com) is an innovative information source for the professional and academic engineering and computing communities. The basic component of the library is a 50

This report presents results from a survey of approximately 165 academic libraries in Alberta, British Columbia, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, based on 138 responses from 2-year college libraries, 4-year college and university libraries,...

. Greene Science Center Project. This contract award is anticipated in April 2011. Steel fabrication would Project Background Columbia is developing its new academic mixed-use campus in the Manhattanville area in Manhattan. The structure is 9 stories in height. The supply and installation of metal decking

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in African-American Studies Student Handbook ACADEMIC YEAR 2005-2006 http: www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/ 212 Parsons worked together to train students in African-American Studies. Together, they transformed social service and civil rights organization dedicated to helping African Americans achieve social

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@columbia.edu #12;2 Part I. Program Information and Services History: Dr. Ronald E. McNair was the second African-American fees to many graduate schools. 1. Students applying to the program must be in good academic standing to the student's scholastic abilities, including the capacity to conduct research and the motivation to progress

Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) is a soil-borne pathogen that is transmitted by stubby root nematodes. In the Columbia Basin of Washington and Oregon the only nematode positively shown to transmit the virus is Paratrichodorus allius. When the virus is transmitted to young tubers by the nematode, variou...

discrepancies in the environmental conditions or in the genetic background of the hosts. The expression of A of disease expression. However, the characteristics of indi- vidual genets are only relevant if genets occupy of genets in these plantations and the aboveground expression of root disease symptoms. Single infection

... spp. are implicated with pre- and post-emergence damping-off, seedling wilt, late damping-off, root rot, and seedling mortality after outplanting. ... ...

In the TRANSFORM experiment for IML-2 on the Space Shuttle Columbia, normal (wild type = WT) and genetically transformed agravitropic rapeseed roots were tested under microgravity conditions. The aim of the experiment was to determine if the wild-type roots behaved differently (growth, morphology, gravitropical sensitivity) from the ...

to bioethical standards. 5.Joint ownership of research results/data, confidentiality obligation, protection of personal information Disclose published results and data to help further the advancement of the research of Conduct for Scientists' Academic research has its roots in the intrinsic inquisitiveness of researchers

Grugliasco, Italy d University of Missouri--Columbia, Division of Plant Sciences, 108 Waters Hall, Columbia are significant root-rot pathogens of conifers throughout the northern hemisphere. We utilize a multilocus.l. is among the most significant pathogens in northern temperate coniferous forests worldwide

Irrigated green pea fields in the southern Columbia basin of Oregon and Washington often exhibit areas of unthrifty plants occurring in circular patches. During 2005, plant-pathogenic nematodes were extracted from root and soil samples taken from both healthy and unhealthy areas within thirty-six gr...

Students and teachers at Hand Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina, were in the midst of a two-year, comprehensive renovation and construction project in which some sections of their 75-year-old, historic building were being renovated and new sections added. When parts of the school were boarded up and oversized machinery first moved onto campus, approximately half of the ...

Though mergers, affiliations, and financial challenges pervade all of academic medicine, New York City exhibits in microcosm the changes taking place throughout the country. At the helm of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons is Herbert Pardes, MD, who came to Columbia in 1984 from the NIH and has served as dean since ...

A combined root growth and water extraction model is described that simulates the affects of mechanical impedance on root elongation in soil. The model simulates the vertical redistribution of water in the soil profile, water uptake by plant roots, and the effects of decreasing water content on increasing soil strength and decreasing ...

Mobile Networks and Applications 7, 127�141, 2002 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manufactured in The Netherlands. P-MIP: Paging Extensions for Mobile IP XIAOWEI ZHANG, JAVIER GOMEZ CASTELLANOS and ANDREW T. CAMPBELL Comet Group, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA Abstract. As the number of Mobile IP

The use of Folio Views, a PC DOS based product for free text databases, is explored in three applications in an Integrated Academic Information System (IAIMS): (1) a telephone directory, (2) a grants and contracts newsletter, and (3) nursing care plans.

The use of Folio Views, a PC DOS based product for free text databases, is explored in three applications in an Integrated Academic Information System (IAIMS): (1) a telephone directory, (2) a grants and contracts newsletter, and (3) nursing care plans. PMID:1666967

Transgenic hairy roots of Brassica napus (cv. Omega) have been developed, using Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain AR 25, for use as a model system in the investigation of physiological and morphological differences between transgenic and normal roots. The basic parameters of growth and normal or altered gravitropical behaviour of hairy ...

maize (C4) plants in this soil, we used nat- ural 13C abundance as a tracer to separately measure root previous study (Kuzyakov and Cheng, 2001), maize plants have very slow growth of shoots and roots) induced by maize roots under different light regimes: normal light, 12 h; prolonged night, 36 h; strongly

:shoot, or the depth placement of fine roots in the soil profile as belowground biomass increased. Though further tube was cut into three strata, 0�24 cm, 24�56 cm and 56�96 cm in depth. Root biomass was washed free weighing, fine roots were compos- ited over the 3 depths, ground with a Udy cyclone mill (Udy Corporation

and microbial respiration derived from root associated materials) and soil microbial respiration (derived fromprecipitate, plant materials and soils) were ground with a Spex mill (Certiprep 8000), and their 13C were respira- tion (root respiration and microbial respiration derived from root associated materials) and soil

of dissolved organic carbon by a N-fixing tree (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) Shauna M. Uselman1, Robert G. Qualls1 exudation of dissolved organic C from the roots of seedlings of the N-fixing tree Robinia pseudoacacia L to root exudation did not exceed 1.2% of the net C fixed by Robinia pseudoacacia, root exudation

(root distribution up to 120 cm soil depth by core this procedure allows the calculation of root mass per unit area. Three samples per depth and position were and Vogt (1993) for forest ecosystems. Root mass distri- bution was given as a function of depth

#12;236 variation in resource levels. For example plants select habitats through flexible root growth suggested inhibitory effects that regulate growth in some parts of plants and promote growth in other parts-root bean plant should allo- cate root growth between two equal habitats. The first views plant

This study hypothesized that student performance in a First Year Introduction program (FYI), representing an initial sampling of students' academic behaviors, would correlate with subsequent academic success. Subjects were 1,501 first-time, first-year students attending Columbia Basin College in fall quarter 2007, whose FYI performance ...

This program and proceedings document outlines the schedule of presentations at a 1-day conference on college student athletes' first year experiences. The schedule is followed by abstracts of 16 presentations. The presentations address the following topics: standards of the National Collegiate Athletics Association; sports counseling using cognitive therapy; academic support ...

Root and tuber crops are propagated vegetatively, each in a unique way; however, there are many production problems common to the two crop groups that can be solved with the same underlying principles. The report from a 9/83 workshop examines these common...

Root growth is a highly dynamic process influenced by genetic background and environment. This paper reports the development of R scripts that enable root growth kinematic analysis that complements a new motion analysis tool: PlantVis. Root growth of Arabidopsis thaliana expressing a plasma membrane targeted GFP (C24 and ...

In mathematics, curvature is an important magnitude in the description of plane curves: it represents the rate of change of direction of a curve with respect to distance along the curve. By looking at root tips of Arabidopsis, we observed that their shape is altered in ethylene insensitive mutants. Here we describe the mathematical meaning of the concept of curvature and how ...

Devil's root, Oplopanax horridus, is a widely used folk medicine in Alaska and British Columbia. The inner bark of the root and stem has been used to treat colds, cough, fever, and diabetes. The present study involves the development of high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and thin-layer chromatography (TLC) methods to detect the ...

We launched imbibed seeds of Zea mays into outer space aboard the space shuttle Columbia to determine the influence of microgravity on cellular differentiation in root caps. The influence of microgravity varied with different stages of cellular differentiation. Overall, microgravity tended to 1) increase relative volumes of hyaloplasm and lipid bodies, ...

Object Factors determining choice of an academic career in neurological surgery are unclear. This study seeks to evaluate the graduates of medical schools and US residency programs to determine those programs that produce a high number of graduates remaining within academic programs and the contribution of these graduates to academic ...

When British Columbia began establishing community colleges in the mid 1960s, the explicit decision to provide extensive university transfer opportunities for college students had the added benefit of making a wide array of academic courses available to students who were not university-bound. Some of these students had been in applied programs in which ...

The collective bargaining agreement between the University of the District of Columbia and the University of the District of Columbia Faculty Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association, for the period October 1, 1988 to September 30, 1993 is presented. The agreement's 33 articles cover the following: purpose and intent, scope of unit, ...

This article reports on an unsettled tenure case at Columbia University. The high-profile and controversial tenure bid of Joseph A. Massad, a Palestinian-American professor of Arab politics, was turned down by Columbia University's provost, Alan Brinkley. Mr. Massad's case follows closely on two other high-profile tenure bids affected by the controversy ...

focuses on: � Anthropology and Politics � Medical Anthropology � Intercultural Gender Studies � Urban the introduction of new media and new communication technologies, the changing features of cities worldwide under and a strong research tradition. Academic anthropology is partly rooted in past colonial relationships

projects produced under the supervision of individual faculty mentors--and defend them before com- mittees of researching, writing, and defending their theses. For further information, visit www in the College of Arts and Sciences reflects its roots in the values and traditions of liberal arts education

We demand too much of student-athletes. Because of the paucity of professional sport franchises, universities have created sports programs to cater to the entertainment needs of their constituencies. The roots of intercollegiate sports are discussed, and how problems of academic and athletic incompatibility can be resolved is examined. (RM)

This article discusses School-wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS), an evidence-based approach to teaching social competencies and enhancing the school social environment. The focus of this article is on the value of evaluation and evaluation plans at a district level for maintaining and increasing the effectiveness of SWPBS in a district. We review the key components of evaluation plans and ...

ContextThe Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which gave federal grantees and contractors the right to patent and license inventions stemming from federally funded research, was intended to encourage commercial dissemination of research that would otherwise languish for want of a patent incentive (Eisenberg 1996; Berman 2008). The case of Columbia University�s Axel patents, which ...

Women are now routinely chief scientists on major cruises, lead field parties to all continents, and have risen to leadership positions in professional organizations, academic departments and government agencies including major funding agencies. They teach at all levels, advise research students, make research discoveries and receive honors in recognition of their ...