Test Environmental Research Collection
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This is a test collection created as part of a Fondren Fellows project (2024-2025). This collection is intended to serve as a proof of concept for a permanent collection that showcases environmental research conducted by Rice researchers.
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Item Induction and Intuition, on the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Metholology(Rice University, 1/1/2009) Hooper, Rachel; Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston; Blaffer GallerySince 1994, The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)--a research organization based in Culver City, California--has studied the U.S. landscape, using multidisciplinary research, information processing and interpretive tools to stimulate thought and discussion around contemporary land-use issues. During a residency at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the CLUI established a field station on the banks of the Buffalo Bayou, revealing aspects of the relationship between oil and the landscape in Houston that are often overlooked--even by the city's residents. The CLUI's findings are presented in this volume and a concurrent exhibition at the Blaffer Gallery, titled Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry. The book documents the CLUI's methodology in a series of interviews and includes a photographic essay on land use in Houston featuring a panoramic, foldout section and a comprehensive chronology of the CLUI's projects and publications over the past 14 years.Item RefSeq database growth influences the accuracy of k-mer-based lowest common ancestor species identification(BioMed Central, 10/30/2018) Nasko, Daniel J; Koren, Sergey; Phillippy, Adam M; Treangen, Todd JAbstract In order to determine the role of the database in taxonomic sequence classification, we examine the influence of the database over time on k-mer-based lowest common ancestor taxonomic classification. We present three major findings: the number of new species added to the NCBI RefSeq database greatly outpaces the number of new genera; as a result, more reads are classified with newer database versions, but fewer are classified at the species level; and Bayesian-based re-estimation mitigates this effect but struggles with novel genomes. These results suggest a need for new classification approaches specially adapted for large databases.Item Gene characteristics predicting missense, nonsense and frameshift mutations in tumor samples(BioMed Central, 11/19/2018) Gorlov, Ivan P.; Pikielny, Claudio W.; Frost, Hildreth R.; Her, Stephanie C.; Cole, Michael D.; Strohbehn, Samuel D.; Wallace-Bradley, David; Kimmel, Marek; Gorlova, Olga Y.; Amos, Christopher I.Background: Because driver mutations provide selective advantage to the mutant clone, they tend to occur at a higher frequency in tumor samples compared to selectively neutral (passenger) mutations. However, mutation frequency alone is insufficient to identify cancer genes because mutability is influenced by many gene characteristics, such as size, nucleotide composition, etc. The goal of this study was to identify gene characteristics associated with the frequency of somatic mutations in the gene in tumor samples. Results: We used data on somatic mutations detected by genome wide screens from the Catalog of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC). Gene size, nucleotide composition, expression level of the gene, relative replication time in the cell cycle, level of evolutionary conservation and other gene characteristics (totaling 11) were used as predictors of the number of somatic mutations. We applied stepwise multiple linear regression to predict the number of mutations per gene. Because missense, nonsense, and frameshift mutations are associated with different sets of gene characteristics, they were modeled separately. Gene characteristics explain 88% of the variation in the number of missense, 40% of nonsense, and 23% of frameshift mutations. Comparisons of the observed and expected numbers of mutations identified genes with a higher than expected number of mutations– positive outliers. Many of these are known driver genes. A number of novel candidate driver genes was also identified. Conclusions: By comparing the observed and predicted number of mutations in a gene, we have identified known cancer-associated genes as well as 111 novel cancer associated genes. We also showed that adding the number of silent mutations per gene reported by genome/exome wide screens across all cancer type (COSMIC data) as a predictor substantially exceeds predicting accuracy of the most popular cancer gene predicting tool - MutsigCV.Item Sara Rozin Video Interview(Rice University, 11/19/2020) Rozin, Sara; Khemka, SachiSara Rozin has had fifteen years of management experience in public and private sectors in the areas of health education, disaster preparedness, and disease management, in both domestic and international healthcare settings funded by governments, non‐government agencies, and private industries. Her project management experience includes project design, needs assessment, implementation and evaluation, and budgeting. She has also facilitated International Healthcare Partnership Programs between Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital of Houston, TX, and countries of former Soviet Republics Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia, funded through the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) under a cooperative agreement with the United States Agency of International Development (USAID).Item Robert Emery Video Interview(Rice University, 11/23/2020) Emery, Robert; Khemka, SachiDr. Robert Emery is Vice President for Safety, Health, Environment & Risk Management for The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Professor of Occupational Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health. Bob has over 35 years of experience in health & safety and possesses master’s degrees in health physics and environmental sciences, and a doctorate in occupational health. Bob holds the unique distinction of holding national board certification all of the seven main areas of health & safety.Item Dickens and social reform(Rice University, 1916-01) Axson, Stockton, 1867-1935; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item Addresses of welcome and responses at a luncheon given at the City Auditorium by the Municipal Government of Houston(Rice University, 1916-10) Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item The obligations and privileges of citizenship - a plea for the study of social science(Rice University, 1919-07) Jones, Henry, Sir, 1852-1922; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item American education since the Civil War(Rice University, 1922-01) Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item The Spanish-American universities(Rice University, 1923-10) Belaunde, Victor Andres, 1883-; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item The centennial of South American independence(Rice University, 1923-10) Belaunde, Victor Andres, 1883-; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item Christ and social unrest(Rice University, 1925-07) Hay, Samuel Ross; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item An interpretative study of the Venezuelan boundary dispute(1933) Lallier, Charline EstelleThrough a second-hand book catalogue, the Rice Library was able to secure, in the spring of 1932, a small, but unique collection of documents. These were the volumes actually used by Sir Richard Webster (afterwards Lord Alverstone) when he was Attorney-General, in preparing his case for presentation to the Arbitral Tribunal which determined the boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana. Each book of this collection contains the autograph of Sir Richard and two of them have marginal notes in his handwriting. The Synopsis is particularly well marked with "cites" and "mentions" which show the materials which appeared to Sir Richard to be particularly significant. He has also marked errors and given the references which verify the corrections. In addition, the Rice Library has a full set of the London Times Weekly for the years when the dispute was in its most critical stages. The Times is an exceedingly valuable, indeed an essential, source for any study of the Venezuelan controversy. Besides its obvious value as a source of public opinion, and for its prints of the important documents, its editor, Mr.. Buckner, and its Few York correspondent, Mr. Smalley, played no little part in the settlement of the dispute. With these materials as a starting point and chief source, it has been the purpose of this paper to interpret the Venezuelan Boundary Dispute in certain phases which have, so far, been neglected by historians. In this thesis, the early history of the contested area has been depleted because of Its value In determining the right of the case. The Anglo-Venezuelan correspondence, as well as the Anglo-American and American-Venezuelan, has been used. For the period of the Anglo-American crisis, instead of discussing the documents alone, an attempt has been made to interpret public opinion, both English and American, and its bearing on the controversy. The standard treatments usually become exceedingly sketchy after January of 1896. This paper attempts to remedy this fault somewhat, by continuing the discussion, in fuller detail, through the final award of 1899.Item The American tradition in the next generation(Rice University, 1936-07) Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item American colonial colleges(Rice University, 1936-10) Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item French policy on the execution of the Convention of 15 September 1864(1937) Johnston, Helen ElizabethItem Leadership as a social function(Rice University, 1937-10) Graves, Frank Pierrepont, 1869-1943; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item An independent determination of the binding energy of the deuteron(1939) Rogers, Fred Terry, JrThis paper is an account of an experiment designed to determine the binding energy of the deuteron by a method which is relatively insensitive to uncertainties in the energy-range relation for protons of low energy. The protons, produced by the disintegration of deuterium by Th C″ gamma-radiation, were observed in a low-pressure cloud chamber in a strong magnetic field. The curvatures of the tracks allowed the calculation of the corresponding kinetic energies. The final value of the binding energy as got by this experiment is VB=2.17+/- 0.05x106 electron-volts, which is in excellent agreement with the values previously got by Bethe (from the data of Chadwick, Feather and Bretscher) and by J. R. Richardson and Emo.Item Religion and social control in the society of today(Rice University, 1940-04) Pound, Roscoe, 1870-1964; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.Item Race as a social question in Brazil(Rice University, 1940-10) Delgado de Carvalho, Carlos M., 1884-; Electronic version made possible with funding from the Rice Historical Society and Thomas R. Williams, Ph.D., class of 2000.