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2024 Disease Management At A Glance, Sai Sree Uppala, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

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2024 Nutrition Management At A Glance, Peter Jeranyama

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

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2024 Insect Management At A Glance, Anne Averill, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

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2024 Weed Management At A Glance, Hilary A. Sandler, Katherine Ghantous

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

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2024 Update Mtg Jan 30: Pesticide And Mdar Updates, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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2024 Update Mtg Jan 30: Addressing Cranberry Fruit Rot: Research Updates And Effective Solutions, Sai Sree Uppala, Salisu Sulley

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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2024 Update Mtg Jan 30: Irrigation, Frost And Fertilizer Nitrogen In Cranberry Production, Peter Jeranyama, Sandeep Bhatti, Brian Makeredza

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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2024 Update Mtg Jan 30: Changes In Cranberry Phenology From 1958 To 2022 Implications For Spring Frost, Sandeep Bhatti, Peter Jeranyama

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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2024 Update Mtg Jan 30: Phytophthora Root Rot Study Updates, Sai Sree Uppala, Salisu Sulley

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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2024 Update Mtg Jan 30: Weevil Management In 2024, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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2024 Update Mtg Jan 30: Cranberry False Blossom, Leslie Holland

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

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Valley On Board 2023 Addendum Safety And Access To Pvta Bus Stops A, Tatum Thomas

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA), Massachusetts’ largest regional transit authority (RTA), has partnered with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass) on a two-year project. The goal of this project is to analyze and redesign the current transit network and service offerings to enhance equity and economic vitality throughout its service area in Hampshire and Hampden counties. The UMass planning project, Valley On Board (VOB), is part of a larger Pioneer Valley Transit Review and Improvement Planning Study (PV-TRIPS project). Funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the US Department of Transportation through a Helping Obtain Prosperity for …

The Effect Of Judicial Decisions On Issue Salience And Legal Consciousness In Media Serving The Lgbtq+ Community, Christine M. Bailey, Paul M. Collins Jr., Jesse H. Rhodes, Douglas Rice

Political Science Department Faculty Publication Series

Scholars have long questioned whether and how courts influence society. We contribute to this debate by investigating the ability of judicial decisions to shape issue attention and affect toward courts in media serving the LGBTQ+ community. To do so, we compiled an original database of LGBTQ+ magazine coverage of court cases over an extended period covering major decisions, including Lawrence v. Texas (2003), Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health (2003), and Lofton v. Secretary of Department of Children & Family Services (2004). We argue these cases influence the volume and tone of LGBTQ+ media coverage. Combining computational social science …

Preconception Phthalate Exposure And Women’S Reproductive Health: Pregnancy, Pregnancy Loss, And Underlying Mechanisms, Carrie J. Nobles, Et. Al.

Environmental Health Sciences Faculty Publication Series

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Mammary Epithelium Permeability During Established Lactation: Associations With Cytokine Levels In Human Milk, Eva P. Browne, Brian T. Pentecost, Kathleen F. Arcaro, Et. Al.

Veterinary & Animal Sciences Department Faculty Publication Series

Objective: The cytokine profile of human milk may be a key indicator of mammary gland health and has been linked to infant nutrition, growth, and immune system development. The current study examines the extent to which mammary epithelium permeability (MEP) is associated with cytokine profiles during established lactation within a sample of US mothers.

Methods: Participants were drawn from a previous study of human milk cytokines. The present analysis includes 162 participants (98 Black, 64 White) with infants ranging from 1 to 18 months of age. Levels of cytokines were determined previously. Here we measure milk sodium (Na) and potassium …

A Remotely Accessible Plant-Based Culinary Intervention For Latina/O/X Adults At Risk For Diabetes: Lessons Learned, Favorite Iradukunda, Rae K. Walker, Et. Al.

Elaine Marieb College of Nursing Faculty Publication Series

Introduction: Little research has examined how community-engaged and -participatory dietary interventions adapted to remotely-accessible settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: To identify lessons learned in design, implementation, and evaluation of a remotely-accessible, community-based, nurse-led approach of a culturally-tailored whole food plant-based culinary intervention for Latina/o/x adults to reduce type 2 diabetes risk, delivered during a pandemic.

Methods: A mixed methods quasi-experimental design consisting of a pre-post evaluation comprised of questionnaires, culinary classes, biometrics, and focus groups.

Lessons learned: Community partnerships are essential for successful recruitment/retention. To optimally deliver a remotely-accessible intervention, community leadership and study volunteers should be included in …

Adastreamlite: Environment-Adaptive Streaming Speech Recognition On Mobile Devices, Yuheng Wei, Jie Xiong, Hui Liu, Yingtao Yu, Jiangtao Pan, Junzhao Du

Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series

Streaming speech recognition aims to transcribe speech to text in a streaming manner, providing real-time speech interaction for smartphone users. However, it is not trivial to develop a high-performance streaming speech recognition system purely running on mobile platforms, due to the complex real-world acoustic environments and the limited computational resources of smartphones. Most existing solutions lack the generalization to unseen environments and have difficulty to work with streaming speech. In this paper, we design AdaStreamLite, an environment-adaptive streaming speech recognition tool for smartphones. AdaStreamLite interacts with its surroundings to capture the characteristics of the current acoustic environment to improve the …

Contactless Monitoring System Versus Gold Standard For Respiratory Rate Monitoring In Emergency Department Patients: Pilot Comparison Study, Md Farhan Tasnim Oshim, Brittany P. Chapman, Deepak Ganesan, Stephanie P. Carreiro, Et. Al.

Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series

Background: Respiratory rate is a crucial indicator of disease severity yet is the most neglected vital sign. Subtle changes in respiratory rate may be the first sign of clinical deterioration in a variety of disease states. Current methods of respiratory rate monitoring are labor-intensive and sensitive to motion artifacts, which often leads to inaccurate readings or underreporting; therefore, new methods of respiratory monitoring are needed. The PulsON 440 (P440; TSDR Ultra Wideband Radios and Radars) radar module is a contactless sensor that uses an ultrawideband impulse radar to detect respiratory rate. It has previously demonstrated accuracy in a laboratory setting …

Systemic Sclerosis Is Associated With Increased In-Patient Mortality In Patients Hospitalized For Heart Failure, Aiswarya Rajendran, Et. Al.

Public Health Department Faculty Publication Series

Aims We aimed to analyse the characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) with co-morbid systemic sclerosis (SSc) and compare them to those without SSc, using data from the National Inpatient Sample from years 2016 to 2019.

Conclusions In patients hospitalized for HF, those with SSc were noted to have higher odds of in-hospital mortality than those without SSc. Patients with HF and SSc were more likely to be younger, female, and have higher rates of co-morbid in-terstitial lung disease and pulmonary hypertension at baseline with fewer traditional cardiovascular risk factors.

Clinician Risk Tolerance And Rates Of Admission From The Emergency Department, Linda Isbell, Et. Al.

Psychological and Brain Sciences Faculty Publication Series

IMPORTANCE Much remains unknown about the extent of and factors that influence clinician-level variation in rates of admission from the emergency department (ED). In particular, emergency clinician risk tolerance is a potentially important attribute, but it is not well defined in terms of its association with the decision to admit.

OBJECTIVE To further characterize this variation in rates of admission from the ED and to determine whether clinician risk attitudes are associated with the propensity to admit.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS In this observational cohort study, data were analyzed from the Massachusetts All Payer Claims Database to identify all ED …

Dangerous And Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams For Alternate Nursing Futures, Jess Dillard-Wright, Danisha Jenkins

Elaine Marieb College of Nursing Faculty Publication Series

Professionalized nursing and anarchism could not be more at odds. And yet, if nursing wishes to have a future in the precarious times in which we live and die, the discipline must take on the lessons that anarchism has on offer. Part love note to a problematic profession we love and hate, part fever dream of what could be, we set out to think about what nursing and care might look like after it all falls down, because it is all falling down. Drawing on alternate histories, alternate visions of nursing history, we imagine what nursing values would look like, …

Using Evidence-Based Interventions To Improve The Completion Rates Of Advance Care Directives, Fariba Sohrabi

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

Background: Advance care directives reduce unnecessary suffering, improve life quality, and further engage patients and families in the decision-making process to ensure that end-of-life care preferences are considered and applied. Despite the proven benefits of advance care directives, advance directives completion rates are approximately 33% in the United States. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to increase advance directive completion rates among patients at one clinic through an educational intervention. Methods: The intervention was used to educate patients about the benefits of advance care directives, and present opportunities for patients to complete the directive. The intervention included …

Axiomatic Marxian Exploitation Theory: A Survey Of The Recent Literature, Rylan Chinnock, Roberto Veneziani, Naoki Yoshihara

Economics Department Working Paper Series

In this paper we review recent developments in axiomatic studies of Marxian exploitation theory. First, given the acute controversy over the formal definition of exploitation during the 1970-1990s, we review the study of the axiomatic frame- work, which identifies some fundamental properties – technically, domain conditions – that any definition of exploitation should satisfy. Moreover, we provide a survey on the axiomatic studies about the proper measures of exploitation which coherently preserve the basic Marxian perceptions represented by two axioms, Profit- Exploitation Correspondence Principle and Class-Exploitation Correspondence Principle. Finally, we examine the relevance of the labour theory of value in …

Surface Modified Carvacrol-Rich Satureja Khuzestanica Essential Oil Nanoemulsion: A Novel Paclitaxel Formulation Induced Apoptosis On Paclitaxel-Resistant Breast Cancer Cells, David Julian Mcclements, Et. Al.

Food Science Department Faculty Publication Series

Background: The ability of cancer cells to develop multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major challenge in modern chemotherapy. The current generation of commercially available paclitaxel formulations have not been designed to treat resistant tumours. In this study, a nanoemulsion-based delivery system was developed to enhance the efficacy of paclitaxel against resistant breast cancer cells.

Methods: The nanoemulsion was formulated using carvacrol-rich Satureja khuzestanica essential oil. Modification of nanoemulsion was performed by incorporating tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS) which could inhibit drug resistance in cancer cells. Fabrication of paclitaxel nanoemulsion was performed by high speed homogenization. The cytotoxicity of prepared …

Ewocs-I: The Catalog Of X-Ray Sources In Westerlund 1 From The Extended Westerlund 1 And 2 Open Clusters Survey, Daniela Calzetti, Et. Al.

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

Context. With a mass exceeding several 10⁴ M_⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions among stars.

Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars. The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and …

Encapsulation Of Inorganic Nanoparticles By Anionic Emulsion Polymerization Of Diethyl Methylene Malonate For Developing Hybrid Microparticles With Tailorable Composition, Peter J. Beltramo, Et. Al.

Chemical Engineering Faculty Publication Series

Colloidal particle self-assembly into higher-ordered structures has been of great interest due to the promise of creating metamaterials with novel macroscopic properties. The physicochemical properties of these metamaterials can be tailored to achieve composites with tunable functionalities, either by controlling the assembly morphology and/or chemistry of the colloidal building blocks. This work describes a strategy of developing microparticles with a hybrid configuration that have an inorganic and an organic part. The inorganic part comprises functional nanoparticles, which are embedded within an organic polymer particle composed of diethyl methylene malonate polymer [p(DEMM)] prepared using anionic emulsion polymerization. DEMM polymerization is initiated …

Biochemical Analysis Of The Tps-A Subfamily In Medicago Truncatula, Hannah Hendrickson, Monirul Islam, Ghislain Fotso Wabo, Sibongile Mafu

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department Faculty Publication Series

Terpenes are important mediators of plant chemical response to environmental cues. Here, we describe the genome-wide identification and biochemical characterization of TPS-a members in Medicago truncatula, a model legume crop. Genome mining identified thirty-nine full-length terpene synthases with a significant number predicted to produce monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes. Biochemical characterization of the TPS-a subfamily associated with sesquiterpene biosynthesis revealed such compounds, that exhibit substantial biological activity in other plants. Gene expression analysis using qPCR and the Medicago gene atlas illustrated distinct tissue and time-based variation in expression in leaves and roots. Together our work establishes the gene-to-metabolite relationships for sesquiterpene …

Uncover: Jwst Spectroscopy Of Three Cold Brown Dwarfs At Kiloparsec-Scale Distances, Sam E. Cutler, Et. Al.

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

We report JWST/NIRSpec spectra of three distant T-type brown dwarfs identified in the Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization (UNCOVER) survey of the Abell 2744 lensing field. One source was previously reported as a candidate T dwarf on the basis of NIRCam photometry, while two sources were initially identified as candidate active galactic nuclei. Low-resolution 1–5 μm spectra confirm the presence of molecular features consistent with T dwarf atmospheres, and comparison to spectral standards infers classifications of sdT1, T6, and T8–T9. The warmest source, UNCOVER-BD-1, shows evidence of subsolar metallicity, and atmosphere model fits indicate …

X-Ray Detection Of The Most Extreme Star-Forming Galaxies At The Cosmic Noon Via Strong Lensing, Q Daniel Wang, Carlos Garcia Diaz, Min S. Yun, Et. Al.

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

Hyperluminous infrared galaxies (HyLIRGs) are the most extreme star-forming systems observed in the early Universe, and their properties still elude comprehensive understanding. We have undertaken a large XMM–Newton observing programme to probe the total accreting black hole population in three HyLIRGs at z = 2.12, 3.25, and 3.55, gravitationally lensed by foreground galaxies. Selected from the Planck All-Sky Survey to Analyse Gravitationally lensed Extreme Starbursts (PASSAGES), these HyLIRGs have apparent infrared luminosities >1014 L_⊙. Our observations revealed X-ray emission in each of them. PJ1336+49 appears to be dominated by high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). Remarkably, the luminosity …

Alma-Legus. Ii. The Influence Of Subgalactic Environments On Molecular Cloud Properties, Daniela Calzetti, Et. Al.

Astronomy Department Faculty Publication Series

We compare the molecular cloud properties in subgalactic regions of two galaxies, barred spiral NGC 1313, which is forming many massive clusters, and flocculent spiral NGC 7793, which is forming significantly fewer massive clusters despite having a similar star formation rate to NGC 1313. We find that there are larger variations in cloud properties between different regions within each galaxy than there are between the galaxies on a global scale, especially for NGC 1313. There are higher masses, line widths, pressures, and virial parameters in the arms of NGC 1313 and the center of NGC 7793 than in the interarm …