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Phylogenomics of Phengodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): towards a natural classification of a bioluminescent and paedomorphic beetle lineage, with recognition of a new subfamily
Vinicius S Ferreira and others
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 201, Issue 4, August 2024, zlae093, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae093
Published: 10 August 2024
... contributed equally. 25 01 2024 05 05 2024 01 07 2024 Aside from the bioluminescence found in adults and larvae of these beetles, giving them their common names of glowworm beetles or railroad-worm beetles (lights on the body of some larvae and females look like the lights from train windows...
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Real-time automated deep learning based railroad trespassing violation detection and tracking at highway-rail grade crossing
Xue Yang and others
Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure, Volume 3, 2024, liae003, https://doi.org/10.1093/iti/liae003
Published: 19 April 2024
... concerns at highway-rail grade crossings (HRGCs) but many trespassing incidents have not been recorded and deeply studied since no collision or otherwise injured or killed, which might possibly contribute to crashes if they repeatedly occur. Detection and prevention of such events are critical for railroad...
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Proportionate mortality study of unionized maintenance of way railroad workers
D F Goldsmith and G Barlet
Occupational Medicine, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 41–47, https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqaa218
Published: 29 January 2021
... Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Background Railroad maintenance of way (MOW) workers are exposed to many workplace hazards, including diesel fuel and exhaust, ballast (silica) dust, asbestos...
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What Explains the Increased Utilization of Powder River Basin Coal in Electric Power Generation?
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Shelby Gerking and Stephen F. Hamilton
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 90, Issue 4, November 2008, Pages 933–950, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01147.x
Published: 01 November 2008
...Shelby Gerking; Stephen F. Hamilton The model developed in the following section has three types of agents (mines, railroads, and electric utilities) and two types of markets (a market between mines and railroads and a series of spatially distributed markets between railroads and individual...
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Active-Site Properties of Phrixotrix Railroad Worm Green and Red Bioluminescence-Eliciting Luciferases
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V.R. Viviani and others
The Journal of Biochemistry, Volume 140, Issue 4, October 2006, Pages 467–474, https://doi.org/10.1093/jb/mvj190
Published: 01 October 2006
... by comparison with a radioactive light standard, a gift of the J.W. Hastings Laboratory ( 38 ). The luciferases of the Phrixotrix railroad worms are the only [OLE2] luciferases that naturally catalyse bioluminescence in the red region of the spectrum. For this reason, they constitute useful...
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The influence of the region between residues 220 and 344 and beyond in Phrixotrix railroad worm luciferases green and red bioluminescence
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Vadim R. Viviani and others
Protein Engineering, Design and Selection, Volume 17, Issue 2, February 2004, Pages 113–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/protein/gzh016
Published: 01 February 2004
... To find the regions having a major influence on the bioluminescence spectra of railroad worm luciferases, we constructed new chimeric luciferases switching the fragments from residues 1–219 and from 220–545 between Phrixotrix viviani (PxvGR; λmax = 548 nm) green light‐emitting...
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An In vivo Dual-Reporter System of Cyanobacteria Using Two Railroad-Worm Luciferases with Different Color Emissions
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Yohko Kitayama and others
Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 45, Issue 1, 15 January 2004, Pages 109–113, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pch001
Published: 15 January 2004
... monitoring of reporters ( Hakkila et al. 2002 ), we attempted to develop a bioluminescence dual-reporter system in cyanobacteria. We selected two luciferases derived from railroad worms: PxvGR of Phrixothrix vivianii that catalyzes the emission of green bioluminescence (λmax = 549 nm...
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Bioluminescence and Biological Aspects of Brazilian Railroad-Worms (Coleoptera: Phengodidae)
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Vadim R. Viviani and Etelvino J. H. Bechara
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Volume 90, Issue 3, 1 May 1997, Pages 389–398, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/90.3.389
Published: 01 May 1997
...Vadim R. Viviani; Etelvino J. H. Bechara BEHAVIOR
Biolmninescence and Biological Aspects of Brazilian
Railroad-Worms (Coleoptera: Phengodidae)
VADIM R. VIVIANI AND ETELVINO J. H. BECHARA
Departamento de Bioquimica, Instituto de Quimica...
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Characteristics of Grain Elevators that Contract with Railroads
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Steven D. Hanson and others
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 72, Issue 4, November 1990, Pages 1041–1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/1242635
Published: 01 November 1990
...Steven D. Hanson; Stephen B. Baumhover; C. Phillip Baumel Copyright 1990 American Agricultural Economics Association 1990 Abstract The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 allowed contracts between railroads and shippers which have resulted in increased grain prices to some farmers while, at the same time...
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Effect of Light and NaCI Salinity on the Growth of Callus Cultures of Ipomoea pes-caprae (L.) R. Brown and Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam
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N. OCHOA-ALEJO and F. LÓPEZ-GUTIÉRREZ
Annals of Botany, Volume 59, Issue 5, May 1987, Pages 495–497, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087342
Published: 01 May 1987
..., sweet potato, railroad vine, callus cultures, salinity,
light.
The members of genus Ipomoea belong to the McComb, 1981). Comparative studies of salt toler-
Convoluvulaceae family and are distributed in ance in plants and callus of Horaeum vulgare and
tropical and subtropical regions...
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Urban Suburbs
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Emily Talen
Published: 18 July 2024
... studies urban suburbs. The earliest suburbs were either relatively close in to the existing city or linked by public transit. Railroad suburbs were physically distinct, initially separated from the city by plenty of open land, but in many cases, these early suburbs now have a very urban feel. Often...
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Law and Machine Technology
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Susan W. Brenner
Published: 06 December 2007
... technologies railroad and ship technology bicycle technology State v Bradford State v City of Millville Taylor v The Union Traction Company defective implementation rules Doll v Devery “misuse” of technology Rowland v Wanamaker State v Yopp Toedtemeier v Clackamas County State v Collins common law...
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Free for All
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George Case
Published: 18 March 2021
...Takin’ Care of Business . George Case, Oxford University Press (2021).
© George Case. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197548813.003.0004 With bands like Grand Funk Railroad, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, and Alice Cooper plying their trade around the stadiums and arenas...
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Model Trains and Networks of Privilege
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Aaron Trammell
Published: 18 April 2023
...This chapter introduces the keyword “network of privilege” in order to explain how network structures further the advantages of white privilege. It explores the enthusiasm around model railroads in the early twentieth century to show how railroad hobbyists established a template for network...
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Republicans and Anarchists
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Tariq D. Khan
Published: 05 September 2023
... Nathaniel Kellogg Great Fire of 1871 King Henry W Pullman George Relief and Aid Society working class the Liberator The Thirteenth Amendment Chicago Times Inter Ocean Knights of Labor socialism Workingmen’s Party Arbeiter Zeitung Chicago Tribune Hickey Michael Railroad Uprisings 1877...
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1865
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Dan Gutstein
Published: 27 November 2023
... to Nevada, transcontinental railroad workers, newspapermen, and minstrel performers embraced the “Liza Jane” family, carrying the songs to new audiences and readership. In particular, a celebrity-scoundrel by the name of Johnny Tuers performed a “Liza Jane” variant in Gold Hill, Nevada, a few years before...
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When Black Folk Make the Record
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Jennifer Sdunzik
Published: 07 November 2023
... Railroad Washington County Cass County county histories La Porte County Parker Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ripley County Negro registers minstrelsy stereotypes about Black people vagrancy and trespassing ordinance Underground Railroad We had one that was a doctor here, Dr. Hill, he had a white wife...
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Introduction
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Randolph Paul Runyon
Published: 26 October 2021
... Gould's clerical career. It concludes with a return to Green, now in his final years, and to the problem with which it began: the contested rights of African-Americans to travel by rail. assault on Elisha Green Green Elisha W Maysville Paris Kentucky Millersburg race and racism railroads Separate...
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The Hunting Season at Pine Top
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Sam Aleckson
Published: 01 November 2021
... Mr Carney Sergeant William H hunting August Uncle Civil War humor secession South Carolina South Carolina Convention Ward family pseudonym Hudson family Underground Railroad Benton Mr Joe Uncle Tom Ben Uncle Confederacy Fort Sumter Jake Sumter Fort Hunting Fort Sumter Confederacy...
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History of Timbuctoo
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Christopher P. Barton
Published: 29 March 2022
... in this subsection is the role of Timbuctoo in Underground Railroad and the inactions between the community versus slave catchers. Additionally, Timbuctoo was the home to several United State Colored Troops veterans, including, William Davis. Davis’s homestead was the focus for the archaeological research...
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