The goals of this dissertation is to further the understanding of the roles of two genes identified by differential display polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) of cat visual cortex as candidate genes to play a role in visual cortical plasticity....
Through differential display PCR, Munc13-3 was identified as a gene whose relative expression in the visual cortex corresponds to critical period plasticity. Expression of the gene was low at the peak of the critical period and expression was high...
Background: Dental caries is the most common childhood ailment and one of the most prevalent chronic diseases of people worldwide. Approximately 91% of dentate adults 20 years or older have experienced dental caries. Carious lesions on proximal...
Ten algal isolates were obtained from soil into axenic culture and placed into defined media containing from 0 to 50 ppm of DDT, 2, 4-D,2,4,5-T, rotenone, or malathion (in two purities, 95 and 99%). For nine of the isolates, growth was measured...
Congenital stationary night blindness 1 (CSNBl) is a genetic disorder characterized in humans by night blindness, low visual acuity and myopia. CSNB 1 is caused by defects in genes that are involved in signaling between photoreceptors and...
Prints--Kentucky--Louisville--Exhibitions; Painting--Kentucky--Louisville--Exhibitions; Art quilts; Block designs; Screen process printing; Feminism and art
This thesis explores pattern juxtaposition using traditional American quilt block designs as the compositional basis for nine works pieced from screen printed paper. In the 1970s, the quilt was celebrated for its apparent connection to Modernist...
Varnish and its use has been known since ancient times. Altho the knowledge of varnish has been attributed to the Japanese as early as 500-600 B.C., Tschirsch and A.D. Stevens say that the Japs did not possess this art originally, but that they...
Address: 320 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A young couple stands in front of a jewelry counter at Roth Jewelry. The young man wears a dark coat and a hat and the young woman wears a fur coat and small dark hat. They appear to be looking...
A referee holds a basketball up between two young African American men. They each have an arm raised in anticipation of the ball being released. The two teams have distinctive uniforms. One uniform is made up of a white tank top with the letter M...
Women; Guitars; Trumpets; Musical instruments; Music stands
A woman in a large dark hat, a jacket with wide gathered sleeves, and a ruffled white blouse sits at a table, strumming a guitar. A music stand next to the table holds an open book and a trumpet lies on the table, as do some sheets of paper. The...
Educational facilities; Schools; Military academies; Kentucky Military Institute (1845-1971); Cadets
Cadet inspection, Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Kentucky. A man in dark uniform inspects the cadets, who are wearing white pants and dark jackets. Most of the cadets stand in two rows, and the dark uniformed man inspects the rifle of the...
Living room in Casa Mia, house of Alexander P. Witty on Red Fox Road in Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Dark wood ceiling with ladder patterned grid. Parquet floor with large solid area rug. Open double, dark wood doors at left between chair...
Buildings; Public accommodation facilities; Hotels
The Louisville Hotel, 612 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Close up of four-story light brick building with dark pillared entrance marked "Louisville Hotel" and dark window ornaments of bars with supports. Above the entrance, a...
Charlotta Matthews Osborn stands in front of a mural wearing a dark dress, a dark hat with a veil, and a dark necklace with a cross around her neck. She is looking straight at the camera and is holding a book, presumably a prayer book, in both...
A nurse from the Frontier Nursing Service approaches a group sitting on a porch. The nurse is holding the reins of a dark horse with a blaze on its muzzle. She's wearing a cap and jacket, riding pants and boots, and a dark tie. Another horse is...
Teachers; Students; Children; Women; Classrooms; Schools; Blackboards; Flags--United States; People
A teacher shakes hands with a young boy while a young girl stands with her arm around the teacher's waist. The teacher wears a dark dress with a frilled collar and has a whistle on a string around her neck. The young girl wears a dark hat and a...
Address: 328 W. Market Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A series of pendant lights hang above a u-shaped glass counter full of jewelry. The counter has numerous bouquets of flowers on it. Around the edges of the room are dark wood shelves filled with...
Buildings; Industry; Industrial facilities; Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company
Address: 1541 S. Seventh Street, Louisville, Kentucky. A series of United States flags are placed along a tent in front of the Standard Sanitary plant. More tents wrap around the side of the building and a line of people stand under a covered...
Firemen pose with their truck in front of a building labeled "Engine Co. No. 22." Siren horns are attached to the building's suspended canopy. The men wear dark coats, pants, and hats with white shirts and dark ties. The back wheel of the...
Schools; Carpentry; Religious facilities; Classrooms; Children; African Americans
Young African American boys work in a carpentry lab at the Presbyterian Colored Mission in Louisville, Kentucky. They use saws, hammers, mallets and other wood working tools as a man in dark slacks, a white shirt, and dark tie helps them.
