Thesis (M.A.)--University of Chicago. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-64).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-205).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-163).

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Homologous recombination (HR) is a precise mechanism for repairing harmful DNA double-strand breaks. The process has been extensively studied in microbial species leading to identification of the major proteins, HR models and homology requirements. Much less is known about HR in mammalian systems, especially early HR events. Our laboratory has recently devel-oped an assay that detects the new DNA synthesis that accompanies the early homology search and strand invasion steps of HR (the 3’ extension assay). The hypothesis that homology require-ments for the early steps of HR may differ from those identified in other HR assays was tested. Plasmids bearing varying amounts of homology to the chromosomal immunoglobulin μ target locus gene were constructed and tested in the 3’ extension assay. The homology require-ments for the 3’ extension assay were somewhat lower than might be expected based on other HR assays. An approximately linear relationship between homology length and 3’ extension was also established on each side of the double-strand break. The effect of excess Rad51, an essential protein involved in early HR, was also measured with respect to homology, leading to the dis-covery that increased Rad51 resulted in an increase in 3’ extension events independent of ho-mology. In summary, 3’ extension generates a potentially unstable, short-lived HR intermediate that has less dependence on homology than a completed HR product. Homology plays a role in the initiation of HR, but it may be more important in the stabilization of the intermediate than the actual generation of the early HR product detected in the 3’ extension assay. / CIHR

The purpose of this study was to assess planning and delivering agricultural extension activities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq for future program implementation. The study was a descriptive research and used a modified Delphi technique to identify needed improvements and highlight barriers in planning and delivering extension activities by the willingness of extension workers. The population of the study was 50 MOAWR purposely selected government employees consisted of 10 extension experts, 15 extension administrators, and 25 extension agents. The study used three rounds web-based survey questionnaires. In Round I, the panelists were responded to two open ended questions to identify needed improvements and barriers in planning and delivering extension activities. The gathered information from Round I was examined, organized, and combined to create the second questionnaire for Round II. In Round II, the panelists were indicated their levels of agreement or disagreement about each needed improvement and barrier. The study employed a six-Likert scale with 1=”Strongly Agree”, 2=”Agree”, 3=”Somewhat Agree”, 4=”Somewhat Disagree”, 5=”Disagree”, and 6=”Strongly Disagree”. The needed improvements and barriers that received two-thirds of agreement (numbers 1 and 2 in the six-point Likert scale) were used to create the third questionnaire for Round III. In Round III, panelists were developed consensus by rating the statements that received two-third agreement in Round II. Equally, the same Round II six-point Likert scale was used in Round III. The result findings of the study were revealed to the demands of extension policy implementation in the region. The results of the study were summarized in three overall implementation theme areas: community based program development, building capacity program, and institutional structuring and three distinct research areas: leadership in extension, personal traits of extension agents, and external communication. Furthermore, the results of the study provided key points and details for each implementation theme and distinct research area.

Because the history of Indian-White relations in Canada has focussed mainly on the colonized Indians and ignored the impact of colonization on the White colonizers, it has simplified a complex affiliation which, clearly, had an impact on both groups while reducing Indian peoples to objects to be studied. By understanding the concept of a relationship involved in colonization, we can alternatively focus on the effects colonization had on both the large and small colonizers. Not only will a study of this type allow us to emphasize the once-ignored impact of colonization on the colonizers, it will also help to avoid the over-study of the Indian peoples in Canada. Exploring the history of the Indian Homemaking Program, Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan, 1967-1972 is an excellent venue in which to perform such a study. The program, which involves White Extension Instructors travelling to Saskatchewan reserves to teach Indian women homemaking skills such as knitting and crocheting, sewing and food preparation, promoted informal cross-cultural education in a setting that was both relaxed and enjoyable. After speaking with Extension Instructors about their vast array of experiences with respect to the program, it is abundantly clear that their days in the program, and with Indian women, changed the way they saw and experienced Saskatchewan.

Black Tracking a Landscape Topology: Extension to Boat Harbour is a path of personal experience and design utilizing both lived and geometric spaces of a design process. The practicum explores and applies landscape topology as a hermeneutic phenomenological approach for designing points along a rejuvenated rail corridor for visitors to engage with a cultural landscape. The Black Track design consists of a path that transects twenty six kilometres through a unique coastal landscape with nine specifically located and designed places intersecting with the layers of natural ecology, past industrial coal mining, and First Nations cultures. This project gathers exposed site elements and celebrates the spirit of place for a design that rehabilitates the rail-bed for a heritage trail experience. The trail reveals the unique cross section of this heritage landscape with subtle signals for experiential discovery design interventions that engage the dimensions of perception and place.