zona Arizona-based Nextcare Inc. to Pay US $10 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations By www.justice.gov Published On :: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 12:17:32 EDT NextCare Inc., an Arizona-based company, has agreed to pay $10 million to settle federal and state allegations that it submitted false claims, the Justice Department announced today. NextCare is an owner of a chain of urgent care facilities with locations in Arizona, Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Arizona Tax Defier Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Fraud and Tax Conspiracy By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:01:33 EDT Richard Kellogg Armstrong, 77, of Prescott, Ariz., was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to 108 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Blackburn ordered the sentence to run consecutively to the 660 day prison term and $1,021,500 of fines cumulatively imposed upon Armstrong as punitive sanctions for 10 acts of contempt of court. He also ordered Armstrong to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the amount of $1,678,834 and to forfeit two residences and a personal aircraft. The sentence was announced by the Justice Department’s Tax Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and the IRS Criminal Investigation Denver Field Office. Codefendant Curtis L. Morris, age 43, of Elizabeth, Colo., is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 6, 2012. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Arizona Man Sentenced to More Than 15 Years in Prison in Money Laundering and Tax Scheme By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:33:40 EDT Gino Carlucci was sentenced to 188 months in prison for his role in conspiracies to commit money laundering and to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and for filing a false income tax return, the Justice Department and the IRS announced today. On July 25, 2011, a federal jury in Phoenix convicted Carlucci of both conspiracies and the tax crime after an eight-day trial. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Justice Department to Monitor Elections in Alabama and Arizona By www.justice.gov Published On :: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:37:11 EDT The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor elections on Aug. 28, 2012, in Lanett, Reform, and Phenix City, Ala., and Maricopa County, Ariz., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Departments of Justice and Education Reach Settlement with Arizona Department of Education to Ensure That ELL Students Are Properly Identified and Not Prematurely Exited By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:34:40 EDT The Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, today entered into a settlement agreement with the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) that requires ADE and Arizona public schools to offer targeted reading and writing intervention services to tens of thousands of English Language Learner (ELL) students who were prematurely exited or incorrectly identified as Initially Fluent English Proficient (IFEP) over the past five school years. The agreement also requires ADE to develop proficiency criteria that accurately identify and exit ELL students. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Arizona Man Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Selling Access to Botnets By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:03:00 EDT Joshua Schichtel, 30, of Phoenix, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for selling command-and-control access to and use of thousands of malware-infected computers. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Arizona State Representative Pleads Guilty, Admits Taking Bribe to Influence Official Duties By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 15:10:07 EDT Arizona State Representative Paul Ben Arredondo pleaded guilty today in Phoenix federal court, admitting that he solicited and took a bribe in exchange for promises of official action both as a city councilmember and a state representative. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Justice Department to Monitor Election in Maricopa County, Arizona By www.justice.gov Published On :: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:34:39 EDT The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor the municipal election on March 12, 2013, in the town of Guadalupe, in Maricopa County, Ariz., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Hospice of Arizona and Related Entities Pay $12 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations By www.justice.gov Published On :: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:38:08 EDT Hospice of Arizona L.C., along with a related entity, American Hospice Management LLC, and their parent corporation, American Hospice Management Holdings LLC, have agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to the Medicare program for ineligible hospice services. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Arizona Businessmen and California Attorney Convicted for Hiding Millions in Secret Foreign Bank Accounts at UBS AG and Pictet & Cie By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:08:35 EDT A jury convicted Stephen M. Kerr and Michael Quiel yesterday on federal tax charges stemming from their failure to disclose secret offshore bank accounts in Switzerland. Full Article OPA Press Releases
zona Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:45:00 -0400 Editor's Note: For full disclosure, Tom Mann (joined by Norm Ornstein) filed an amicus curiae brief in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. James Madison would be pleased. The 5-4 decision announced today by the Supreme Court upholding Arizona’s use of the initiative to establish an independent redistricting commission is a model of constitutional reasoning and statutory interpretation. It underscores the essential connection between republican government and popular sovereignty, in which the people have the ultimate authority over who shall represent them in public office. The majority opinion quotes Madison to powerful effect: “The genius of republican liberty seems to demand . . . not only that all power should be derived from the people, but those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people.” Madison worried about the dangers of the manipulation of electoral rules to serve the immediate interests of political actors. He was himself the target of a gerrymander designed (unsuccessfully) to deny him a seat in the first Congress. The Elections Clause of the Constitution, by granting Congress the power to override state actions setting the time, place and manner of elections, was designed partly as a safety valve to contain the abuse of power by those in a position to determine which voters will hold them accountable. Today’s intensely polarized politics drive major partisan campaigns to seize control of the redistricting authority in the states and to wield that power to boost prospects for majority standing in the House. Partisan gerrymandering is not the major source of our dysfunctional politics but it surely reinforces and exacerbates the tribal wars between the parties. A number of states have used the initiative device provided in their constitutions to establish independent commissions to replace or supplement the regular state legislative process in redrawing congressional and/or state legislative district boundaries. Such commissions are no panacea for partisan gerrymandering. Their composition and rules vary in ways that can shape the outcome. But the evidence suggests they can mitigate the conflicts of interest that are a part of the regular process and produce more timely plans less subject to judicial preemption. The Court has upheld the right of those states to legislate electoral rules through a popular vote. Had the minority position prevailed, state laws governing many aspects of the electoral process would have been subject to constitutional challenge. And an important safety value available to the people of the states for responding to abuses of power by those in public office has been preserved. This should not be read more broadly as a triumph of direct democracy over representative government. Many scholars who provided expert opinion supporting the majority opinion retain serious concerns about the overuse and misuse of initiatives and referendums. Instead, the decision strengthens the legitimacy of representative democracy by reinforcing the essential link between republican government and popular sovereignty. Authors Thomas E. Mann Image Source: © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Full Article
zona Better schools or different students? Immigration reform and school performance in Arizona By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:00:00 -0400 Donald Trump has made waves during this year’s election cycle by taking a hard line on illegal immigration. This, however, builds on years of heated debate among policymakers. It is also an enduring hot-button issue in Arizona, which has passed several immigration laws over the years. In 2010, the passage of SB 1070 brought national attention to this debate. Deemed the strictest immigration law to date, SB 1070 sought to achieve “attrition [of illegal immigrants] through enforcement” by requiring law enforcement to detain any person whom they believed to be residing in the country illegally. Although SB 1070’s effects on individuals and families have been well documented, little is known about its impact on students and schools. To this end, we sought to estimate the relationship between the passage of SB 1070 and school-level student achievement. We anticipated that anti-immigration policies would primarily affect children from the families of undocumented immigrants. Such effects could be observed in different ways. For instance, the emotional and psychological distress of these children could result in a decline in average test scores at the school-level. On the other hand, students might have left the country or the state under the threat of being deported in which case school-level test scores would rise (since these students often perform below their peers). To this end, we considered three scenarios: Immigrant children remain in the state but experience higher levels of stress. As a result, average school-level test scores will drop while Hispanic enrollment remains the same. Children of undocumented immigrants leave the state, which results in a drop in Hispanic enrollment accompanied by an increase in school-level test scores. Or, the first two scenarios occur simultaneously and we do not observe any change in test scores since the two effects would cancel each other, but note a slight decrease in Hispanic enrollment. In order to see which of these hypothetical scenarios is supported by the data, we first estimated the relationship between the passage of SB 1070 and average school-level reading test scores. We then attempted to unpack the mechanism through which such an effect might have taken place. To this end, we used publicly available data on school-level achievement and enrollment collected by the Arizona Department of Education (ADE). Given the targeted nature of the policy and the demographics of immigrants in Arizona, the majority of whom are of Hispanic or Mexican descent, we focused on schools that traditionally enroll large proportions of Hispanic students. We identified schools with high (more than 75 percent) shares of Hispanic students as those whose average achievement and student composition are most likely to be affected by immigration reform. We contrasted changes in school-level achievement and enrollment in those schools with schools that enroll less than 25 percent Hispanic students, as these schools are less likely to experience any changes as a result of tightening immigration laws. Figures 1 and 2 show trends in the average percentage of students passing the state reading test and average Hispanic enrollment at these schools between 2006-2007 and 2011-2012. Figure 1. Average Percent of Students Passing AIMS Reading Figure 2. Average Hispanic Student Enrollment Clearly, the rate of growth in school-level reading scores was much higher for high Hispanic schools after the passage of SB 1070 in 2010 (Figure 1). At the same time, there was a significant decrease in Hispanic enrollment in these schools (Figure 2). Thus, it appears the second scenario is likely driving the patterns we observe. The data also suggest that the trends for high Hispanic and low Hispanic schools started diverging before the passage of SB 1070 - after the 2007-2008 school year. This happens to be the year that Arizona passed an even more restrictive, though less controversial, immigration law – the Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA). LAWA required Arizona business owners to verify the legal status of their employees using E-Verify, an online tool managed by the federal government. Although LAWA used a different mechanism, similar to SB 1070 it sought to achieve the attrition of undocumented immigrants from the state. We then would anticipate both laws to have similar effects on school-level achievement and Hispanic enrollment. Indeed, we estimated that LAWA likely led to an average increase of roughly 4 percent of students passing the state reading test at high Hispanic schools. This was accompanied by an average loss of 38 Hispanic students per school. Because the passage of SB 1070 was preceded by the passage LAWA as well as a language policy that would have affected treatment schools, disentangling the effects of these two policies is not straightforward. However, based on our analysis, we estimate that SB 1070 is associated with an average increase of between 1.5 percent and 4.5 percent of students passing the state reading test at the school-level accompanied by an average loss of between 14 and 40 Hispanic students. Despite the fact that we cannot pin down the exact magnitude of SB 1070’s effect on school-level achievement, our analysis shows that when Arizona passed restrictive immigration laws in 2008 and 2010, it looked as if the state’s lowest performing schools were improving rapidly. This, however, likely had more to do with the changing composition of schools as an indirect though anticipated effect of immigration policies than with policies aimed at improving student achievement. Despite this, the Arizona Department of Education took credit for these gains. Similarly, Arizona was recently recognized as one of the nation’s leaders in growth on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) over the last ten years. Although wrongly attributing these gains may seem harmless at first glance, it is important to remember that Arizona is viewed by many as a model for controversial education reforms like school choice and high-stakes accountability. It is easy to imagine how policymakers might look at increasing test scores in Arizona and wrongly attribute them to these kinds of reforms. That’s not to say that these policies don’t have merit. However, if other states adopt education policy reforms under the assumption that they worked in Arizona, then they might find that these policies fail to deliver. Authors Margarita PivovarovaRobert Vagi Image Source: Jonathan Drake / Reuters Full Article
zona Arizona Art Museum Seeks to Define Sustainability By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:33:00 -0400 From a painter's satirical take on 1950s images of a bucolic world to Full Article Living
zona Clever rainwater garden grows squash and corn in Arizona desert By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 06:44:05 -0400 When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use. Full Article Living
zona Arizona State management school holds graduation ceremony via robot By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:05:51 GMT Arizona State plans to use robots during the graduation ceremony for its Thunderbird School of Global Management. The school's dean, Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, and Juili Kale, one of its soon-to-be graduates discuss. Full Article
zona Missing Idaho kids' uncle died of blood clot in Arizona By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:14:06 -0400 A pulmonary blood clot killed the brother of an Idaho woman who’s facing charges in the disappearance of her children — a case that attracted worldwide attention with revelations of her doomsday beliefs and connection to three mysterious deaths. Autopsy and toxicology reports were released Friday for Alex Cox, who died in Arizona in December. In July, Cox fatally shot his sister’s estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in what he said was self-defense. Full Article
zona The Tuxon, A Modern Boutique Hotel, Named The First Design Hotels™ Property In Arizona By www.hospitalitynet.org Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:39:11 +0200 The Tuxon, a modern boutique hotel in the heart of Tucson, has joined Marriott International's coveted Design Hotels™ portfolio, an exclusive collection of hotels celebrated for their individuality, thoughtful design, and unique, discoverable pleasures. The new hotel, the first-ever Design Hotels™ property in Arizona, will debut in Summer 2020. Guests of The Tuxon will also have access to Marriott International's unrivaled loyalty program, Marriott Bonvoy. The Tuxon joins the Design Hotels™ network of the world's most sophisticated hospitality brands with properties that span a wide variety of fascinating locales - from world capitals and mountaintops to off-the-beaten-path escapes. As a Design Hotels™ destination, The Tuxon will tap into an engaged community of travelers who seek original, inspiring experiences in new and intriguing places. Each year, more than 400 hotels apply to become members of the Design Hotels™ portfolio. Only five percent are approved, and the chosen few are r... Full Article
zona Boy, 16, arrested for 'raping two women in brutal attack that rattled small Arizona community' By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:14:05 GMT A teenager from Scottsdale, Arizona has been arrested for allegedly raping two women, including a neighbor who lives in his apartment building. DNA evidence linked the 16-year-old boy to the assaults, which happened one week apart on Oct. 18 and Oct. 24, police said. Full Article
zona Boy, 16, arrested for 'raping two women in brutal attacks that have shaken small Arizona community' By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:36:58 GMT A teenager from Scottsdale, Arizona has been arrested for allegedly raping two women, including a neighbor who lives in his apartment building. DNA evidence linked the 16-year-old boy to the assaults, which happened one week apart on Oct. 18 and Oct. 24, police said. Full Article
zona US election polls show Trump pulling Texas and Arizona back into his column By Published On :: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:14:02 +0000 Two red states that once looked liked they could be snatched up by Hillary Clinton are now trending back Donald Trump's way – while the two party hopefuls are tied in another. Full Article
zona Arizona CBP agents find two migrants in a car trunk and send them back across the Mexico border By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:47:07 GMT CBP agents detained and quickly deported two Honduran migrants who were found hiding in the trunk of a car that was stopped Sunday near Gila Bend, Arizona. Full Article
zona Lori Vallow's brother, 51, had Narcan in his system but died of NATURAL CAUSES, Arizona coroner said By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 02:22:54 GMT Maricopa County Medical Examiner has concluded that Alex Cox (left), 51, died of natural causes. Cox, the brother of 'cult mom' Lori Vallow (right), fatally shot her estranged husband Charles Vallow. Full Article
zona Arizona man, 26, is TRAPPED in Moscow airport after Russia shut its borders over coronavirus By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:39:28 GMT Trenton Thurber had been trying to make it home to Tucson via JFK from Sheremetyevo International Airport on March 30 when his flight was canceled. 'There's no way to get out', he said. Full Article
zona Homicide detectives are investigating the death of Arizona man who drank fish tank cleaner By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:51:25 GMT Gary Lenius, 68, died in March after he and his wife Wanda both drank the fish tank cleaner that contained chloroquine phosphate. Detectives say it is normal protocol for homicide to look into it. Full Article
zona Donald Trump reveals plans to travel to Arizona and Ohio and wants to bring back campaign rallies By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:44:33 GMT President Donald Trump on Wednesday revealed plans to travel the country in the next few weeks that could eventually lead to the return of his massive campaign rallies. Full Article
zona Trump gets out of the WH for first time in weeks with weekend in Camp David ahead of Arizona trip By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 19:03:59 GMT Donald Trump will leave the White House for the first time in more than a month as he departs for Camp David Friday night after the president has expressed his desire to get out of Washington, D.C. Full Article
zona Trump makes a break for Arizona tomorrow - but will he wear a mask? By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 01:35:23 GMT President Trump will begin traveling in earnest on Tuesday, with a planned trip to a Honeywell plant in Phoenix, Arizona where masks are being made to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article
zona Coronavirus: Donald Trump 'MIGHT' wear mask on Arizona visit By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 20:31:36 GMT President Donald Trump said Tuesday he 'might' wear a mask during his visit to an Arizona factory that expanded to make N95 masks in response to the coronavirus epidemic. Full Article
zona Coronavirus US: Trump says he wore face mask at Arizona factory By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 23:34:59 GMT Trump claimed he did wear a mask behind the scenes when he visited a factory in Arizona that makes the face coverings, but asserted he was told he didn't need to don one during the plant tour. Full Article
zona Trump is ridiculed for touring Arizona mask factory while 'Live and Let Die' blares from speakers By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 16:30:32 GMT The bungled PR stunt at a mask manufacturer in Arizona yesterday set Twitter alight, with many pointing out it came as the president piles pressure on states to ease lockdown. Full Article
zona Arizona border sheriff says Mexican drug cartels pose ISIS-like threat By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 22:24:26 GMT An Arizona border sheriff says Mexican drug cartels like the one behind the Mormon family massacre pose an ISIS-like threat as authorities fear the same group could be running drug operations in Utah. Full Article
zona Democrat delegate Jerry Emmett casts Arizona ballots for Hillary Clinton aged 102 By Published On :: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:10:57 +0100 Jerry Emmett, 102, was given the honor of reading out Arizona's votes for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Full Article
zona Joe Biden storms ahead of Bernie Sanders in poll in Arizona on eve of Super Tuesday III By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:44:08 GMT Former vice president Biden now holds a 20 point lead over Sanders in Arizona in a new Monmouth poll as a group of populous states prepares to vote Tuesday. Full Article
zona Joe Biden wins Florida, Illinois AND Arizona By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:14:08 GMT Joe Biden easily won Florida, Illinois and Arizona over Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, further cementing his position of probable 2020 Democratic nominee over the democratic socialist. Full Article
zona Bernie Sanders will 'assess his campaign' after Joe Biden sweeps Illinois, Florida and Arizona By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:02:39 GMT Sanders' campaign manager said the socialist will be having 'further conversations.' The next primaries are three weeks away. Biden took Florida, Illinois and Arizona easily on Tuesday. Full Article
zona Arizona Republican congressional candidate suspends campaign after overdose By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:36:37 GMT Safford City Councilman Chris Taylor, a married father-of-two, was found unresponsive at his home last week and had to be revived with Narcan, prompting him to pull out of the congressional race. Full Article
zona Endangered Arizona Republican senator snaps 'You're a liberal hack!' at CNN reporter By www.dailymail.co.uk Published On :: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:21:44 GMT Republican Sen. Martha McSally lashed out at a CNN reporter Thursday morning, calling him a 'liberal hack' and blowing off his question. ' Full Article
zona Zonal quarantine centre set up at Tezpur University By timesofindia.indiatimes.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:24:44 IST Deputy commissioner (Sonitpur) Manvendra Pratap Singh told TOI, "I have held a review meeting will all government officials and the preparations are complete. Full Article
zona Robots to the rescue! Arizona students in lockdown will still get their graduation day By feeds.reuters.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:54:26 +0530 Juili Kale's dreams to receive her master's degree diploma in a ceremony cheered on by her family were dashed by the coronavirus - until robots came to the rescue. Full Article lifestyleMolt
zona Robots to the rescue! Arizona students in lockdown will still get their graduation day By feeds.reuters.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:59:24 +0530 Juili Kale's dreams to receive her master's degree diploma in a ceremony cheered on by her family were dashed by the coronavirus - until robots came to the rescue. Full Article technologyNews
zona Robots to the rescue! Arizona students in lockdown will still get their graduation day By feeds.reuters.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:59:24 +0530 Juili Kale's dreams to receive her master's degree diploma in a ceremony cheered on by her family were dashed by the coronavirus - until robots came to the rescue. Full Article entertainmentNews
zona An introduction to proof through real analysis / Daniel J. Madden and Jason A. Aubrey, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Madden, Daniel J., 1948- author Full Article
zona Introductory statistics / Neil A. Weiss (School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University) ; biographies by Carol A. Weiss By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Weiss, N. A. (Neil A.), author Full Article
zona Information systems today : managing the digital world / Joseph Valacich (University of Arizona), Christoph Schneider (City University of Hong Kong) By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Valacich, Joseph S., 1959- author Full Article
zona A locally funded Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) genome sequencing project increases avian data and advances young researcher education By hdl.handle.net Published On :: 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A locally funded Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) genome sequencing project increases avian data and advances young researcher education Oleksyk, Taras K.; Pombert, Jean-Francois; Siu, Daniel; Mazo-Vargas, Anyimilehidi; Ramos, Brian; Guiblet, Wilfried; Afanador, Yashira; Ruiz-Rodriguez, Christina T.; Nickerson, Michael L.; Logue, David M.; Dean, Michael; Figueroa, Luis; Valentin, Ricardo; Martinez-Cruzado, Juan-Carlos Background: Amazona vittata is a critically endangered Puerto Rican endemic bird, the only surviving native parrot species in the United States territory, and the first parrot in the large Neotropical genus Amazona, to be studied on a genomic scale. Findings: In a unique community-based funded project, DNA from an A. vittata female was sequenced using a HiSeq Illumina platform, resulting in a total of ~42.5 billion nucleotide bases. This provided approximately 26.89x average coverage depth at the completion of this funding phase. Filtering followed by assembly resulted in 259,423 contigs (N50=6,983 bp, longest=75,003 bp), which was further scaffolded into 148,255 fragments (N50=19,470, longest=206,462 bp). This provided ~76% coverage of the genome based on an estimated size of 1.58 Gb. The assembled scaffolds allowed basic genomic annotation and comparative analyses with other available avian whole-genome sequences. Conclusions: The current data represents the first genomic information from and work carried out with a unique source of funding. This analysis further provides a means for directed training of young researchers in genetic and bioinformatics analyses and will facilitate progress towards a full assembly and annotation of the Puerto Rican parrot genome. It also adds extensive genomic data to a new branch of the avian tree, making it useful for comparative analyses with other avian species. Ultimately, the knowledge acquired from these data will contribute to an improved understanding of the overall population health of this species and aid in ongoing and future conservation efforts. Sherpa Romeo green journal. Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0) applies Full Article
zona Fiber reinforced concrete for sustainable structures: at the Fall 2012 ACI Convention and the Fall 2013 ACI Convention: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21-25 October 2012, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 10-24 October 2013. By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 06:10:57 EST Barker Library - TA444.F53 2015 Full Article
zona Eco-efficient and sustainable concrete incorporating recycled post-consumer and industrial byproducts: held at the ACI Fall 2013 Convention, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 20-24 October 2013 / Editor: Moncef L. Nehdi By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 06:08:17 EDT Barker Library - TA441.E286 2013 Full Article
zona Evolution and selection of quantitative traits / Bruce Walsh, University of Arizona, Michael Lynch, Arizona State University By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 12:58:05 EST Hayden Library - QH452.7.W35 2019 Full Article
zona Design and analysis of experiments / Douglas C. Montgomery (Arizona State University) By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Montgomery, Douglas C., author Full Article
zona Zirconium stable isotope analysis of zircon by MC-ICP-MS: Methods and application to evaluating intra-crystalline zonation in a zircon megacryst By feeds.rsc.org Published On :: J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/C9JA00315K, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Hannah G. D. Tompkins, Lisa Joanne Zieman, Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia, François L.H. TissotZirconium (Zr) plays a key role in the development of phases like zircon (ZrSiO4) and baddeleyite (ZrO2) in magmatic systems. These minerals are crucial for the study of geologic time...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
