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Digital Ethnography: Integrating Digital Methods Into Field Research And Ethnographic Representation, Wendy Hsu

Wendy Hsu

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Efficacy Of A Doxycycline Treatment Regimen Initiated During Three Different Phases Of Experimental Ehrlichiosis, Jennifer C. Mcclure, Michelle L. Crothers, John J. Schaefer, Patrick D. Stanley, Glen R. Needham, S A. Ewing, Roger W. Stich

John J Schaefer

Doxycycline is the treatment of choice for canine monocytic ehrlichiosis (CME), a well-characterized disease and valuable model for tick-borne zoonoses. Conflicting reports of clearance of Ehrlichia canis after treatment with doxycycline suggested that the disease phase during which treatment is initiated influences outcomes of these treatments. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a 28-day doxycycline regimen for clearance of experimental E. canis infections from dogs treated during three phases of the disease. Ten dogs were inoculated with blood from E. canis carriers and treated with doxycycline during acute, subclinical, or chronic phases of CME. Daily …

Observation Of A Red-Blue Detuning Asymmetry In Matter-Wave Superradiance, L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, Qiang Cao, Xiaorui Wang, Xinyu Luo, Ruquan Wang, Marvin G. Payne, Fan Yang, Xiaoji Chen, Mingsheng Zhan

Marvin G. Payne

We report the first experimental observation of strong suppression of matter-wave superradiance using blue-detuned pump light and demonstrate a pump-laser detuning asymmetry in the collective atomic recoil motion. In contrast to all previous theoretical frameworks, which predict that the process should be symmetric with respect to the sign of the detuning of the pump laser from the one-photon resonance, we find that for condensates the symmetry is broken. With high condensate densities and red-detuned pump light the distinctive multiorder, matter-wave scattering pattern is clearly visible, whereas with blue-detuned pump light superradiance is strongly suppressed. However, in the limit of a …

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Reaching Out To The Wilderness Of America’: Performing Punk Minoritarian Politics And Creating A Post-9/11 Taqwacore Diaspora, Wendy Hsu

Wendy Hsu

No abstract provided.

Differential Geometry Based Solvation Model I: Eulerian Formulation, Zhan Chen, Nathan A. Baker, Guo-Wei Wei

Zhan Chen

This paper presents a differential geometry based model for the analysis and computation of the equilibrium property of solvation. Differential geometry theory of surfaces is utilized to define and construct smooth interfaces with good stability and differentiability for use in characterizing the solvent–solute boundaries and in generating continuous dielectric functions across the computational domain. A total free energy functional is constructed to couple polar and nonpolar contributions to the solvation process. Geometric measure theory is employed to rigorously convert a Lagrangian formulation of the surface energy into an Eulerian formulation so as to bring all energy terms into an equal …

X, Emily Ford

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The author focuses on the issue of undisclosed publications, by which she means works published under pseudonyms or anonymously. The author comments on the proliferation of anonymity in the era of the Internet, saying that technology allows people to be not accountable for their actions and to break social contracts in the scholarly world. The author uses the example of the library field and discusses peer review and professional discourse.

Potential For Kochia Prostrata And Perennial Grasses For Rangeland Rehabilitation Efforts In Jordan, Raed Al-Tabini, D. Bailey, B. Waldron, J. Libbin, M. Al-Oun, K. Al-Khlidi

Raed Al-Tabini

Six varieties of forage kochia [Kochia prostrata (L.) Shad.], two Atriplex shrubs native to cold deserts in the western United States, and four drought-tolerant perennial grass varieties were seeded and evaluated under arid rangeland conditions in Jordan. Varieties were seeded in December 2007 and evaluated in August 2008 and June 2009 for frequency and height at two sites in arid rangeland areas of southern and northern Jordan. Conditions were very dry with the southern site (Qurain) receiving 110 mm and 73 mm of annual precipitation, and the northern site (Tal Rimah) receiving 58 and 43 mm during the winters of …

Wave-Induced Transport Of Atmospheric Constituents And Its Effect On The Mesospheric Na Layer, Chester S. Gardner, Alan Z. Liu

Alan Z Liu

No abstract provided.

Rnai Screen Indicates Widespread Biological Function For Human Natural Antisense Transcripts, Mohammad A. Faghihi, Jannet Kocerha, F. Modarresi, P. G. Engstrom, A. M. Chalk, S. P. Brothers, E. Koesema, G. St. Laurent, Claes Wahlestedt

Jannet Kocerha

Natural antisense transcripts represent a class of regulatory RNA molecules, which are characterized by their complementary sequence to another RNA transcript. Extensive sequencing efforts suggest that natural antisense transcripts are prevalent throughout the mammalian genome; however, their biological significance has not been well defined. We performed a loss-of-function RNA interference (RNAi) screen, which targeted 797 evolutionary conserved antisense transcripts, and found evidence for a regulatory role for a number of natural antisense transcripts. Specifically, we found that natural antisense transcripts for CCPG1 and RAPGEF3 may functionally disrupt signaling pathways and corresponding biological phenotypes, such as cell viability, either independently or …

Women Of The Long View, Victoria Rue

Faculty Publications, Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: Bibliography - 2009, University Libraries

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A bibliography of faculty publications submitted for inclusion in the second annual 'Celebrating Faculty Scholarship' event sponsored by Loyola University Libraries. The event, which took place on October 21, 2010 in the Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons on the university's Lake Shore Campus, featured articles, books, creative works, and other materials authored by Loyola University Chicago faculty in 2009.

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Blog Posts

No abstract provided.

Mission Performance As Point Performance, Robert A. Mcdonald

Robert A. McDonald

The cruise or loiter performance of an aircraft is intimately tied to its wing loading (W/S) and its thrust to weight ratio (T/W). Paradoxically, mission performance is often not considered when these fundamental aircraft parameters are determined in conceptual design. In this research, the traditional constraint diagram is extended to include contours of range parameter. This point performance metric represents the mission performance capability of the aircraft without sizing the aircraft to a particular mission. This gives the designer an immediate and intuitive understanding of the tradeoff between the point and mission performance of the aircraft. This improved constraint diagram …

Publications, Michele Faioli

Michele Faioli

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Single Vs. Co-Authored And Multi-Authored Research Articles: Evaluating The Views And Opinions Of Ichrie Scholars, Robert H. Woods, Hyewon Youn, Misty M. Johanson

International CHRIE Conference-Refereed Track

In 1998, a study was conducted to determine whether CHRIE faculty believed scholars should receive the same amount of credit for single- and co-authored article. This study replicates and updates that information and offers new issues on the subject.

Understanding Considerate Systems - Ucs (Pronounced: You See Us), Ted Selker

Ted Selker

Interactions between people occur in a social realm. On the other hand, “things”, including devices for communication and computation, are generally socially deficient. Imagine socially aware systems moving from an interruption model of communication to an introduction model. To create considerate systems, there is a need to model social context, social behavior, and communication goals. This paper describes early systems that work to understand and eliminate the socially disruptive qualities of the ubiquitous systems people increasingly use and rely on in all aspects of their personal, educational, social and business lives. We show performance improving systems: an instant message arrives …

Who Said What When? Capturing The Important Moments Of A Meeting, Shoou-Jong Yu, Ted Selker

Ted Selker

Current meeting information capturing paradigms such as pen and paper has been found to be tedious and distractive. This paper presents CollabMeet, a mobile phone based, one screen meeting information capture system to address these issues. We also introduce a new social interaction centric recording paradigm, where only moments deemed important by meeting participants are recorded with a single click of a button. Results from our pilot experiment shows that our system positively contributes to the quality of meeting reconstruction, while being minimally-distractive to the meeting participants.

Travelrole: A Carpooling/ Physical Social Network Creator, Ted Selker, Paula Helen Saphir

Ted Selker

This paper describes a system that extends concepts of social networking application to create a physical social network, with the extra advantage of also working to save energy. TravelRole is a system that helps people choose to use their commute time to fulfill work, educational and recreational goals. The system matches people to rides that allow them to link carpooling with a personal goal such as practicing their French, talking about rebuilding an engine, discussing religion, and so on.

TravelRole’s interface encourages people to focus on reasons they would like to get together with other people to see how these …

Striatal Microrna Controls Cocaine Intake Through Creb Signalling, Jonathan A. Hollander, Heh-In Im, Antonio L. Amelio, Jannet Kocerha, Purva Bali, Qun Lu, David Willoughby, Claes Wahlestedt, Michael D. Conkright, Paul J. Kenny

Jannet Kocerha

Cocaine addiction is characterized by a gradual loss of control over drug use, but the molecular mechanisms regulating vulnerability to this process remain unclear. Here we report that microRNA-212 (miR-212) is upregulated in the dorsal striatum of rats with a history of extended access to cocaine. Striatal miR-212 decreases responsiveness to the motivational properties of cocaine by markedly amplifying the stimulatory effects of the drug on cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) signalling. This action occurs through miR-212-enhanced Raf1 activity, resulting in adenylyl cyclase sensitization and increased expression of the essential CREB co-activator TORC (transducer of regulated CREB; also known …

Overview Of The Essential Tremor, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, Abinaya Chari, Israt Jahan, Amber M. Miller, Kelly L. Sullivan

Kelly L. Sullivan

Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common movement disorders in the world. Despite this, only one medication (propranolol) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat it. Fortunately, recent studies have identified some additional medications as treatment of ET. Surgical procedures, such as deep brain stimulation of the ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus, offer treatment for refractory tremor. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, and medical and surgical treatment of ET will be discussed in this paper.

Are We Really Brands?, Trent Hennessey

Trent Hennessey

In 1969, Philip Kotler and Sidney Levy argued the frontiers of marketing could be expanded to include the health, education and arts sectors, places and ideas… and people. But are we really brands? To answer this question, this article reports on the lived experience of people in the know: high-profile self-marketers.

Identity, Geopolitics, And Networks In Transnational Asian Indie Rock Music, Wendy Hsu

Wendy Hsu

No abstract provided.

Arthur A. Dugoni School Of Dentistry 116th Commencement, University Of The Pacific

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Reduction Of Circulating Endothelial Cells In Peripheral Blood Of Als Patients, Svitlana Garbuzova-Davis, Robert L. Woods Iii, Michael K. Louis, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, Nicole Kuzmin-Nichols, Kelly L. Sullivan, Amber M. Miller, Diana G. Hernandez-Ontiveros, Paul R. Sanberg

Kelly L. Sullivan

Background: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) treatment is complicated by the various mechanisms underlying motor neuron degeneration. Recent studies showed that the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood-spinal cord barrier (BSCB) are compromised in an animal model of ALS due to endothelial cell degeneration. A later study demonstrated a loss of endothelium integrity in the spinal cords of ALS patients. Since circulating endothelial cells (CECs) in the peripheral blood are associated with endothelium damage, being detached dysfunctional endothelial cells, we hypothesized that CEC levels may reflect endothelium condition in ALS patients.
Methodology/Principal Findings: CEC levels were estimated in whole blood smears from …

De Novo Truncating Fus Gene Mutation As A Cause Of Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Mariely Dejesus-Hernandez, Jannet Kocerha, Nicole Finch, Richard Crook, Matt Baker, Pamela Desaro, Amelia Johnston, Nicola Rutherford, Aleksandra Wojtas

Jannet Kocerha

Mutations in the gene encoding fused in sarcoma (FUS) were recently identified as a novel cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), emphasizing the genetic heterogeneity of ALS. We sequenced the genes encoding superoxide dismutase (SOD1), TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TARDBP) and FUS in 99 sporadic and 17 familial ALS patients ascertained at Mayo Clinic. We identified two novel mutations in FUS in two out of 99 (2.0%) sporadic ALS patients and established the de novo occurrence of one FUS mutation. In familial patients, we identified three (17.6%) SOD1 mutations, while FUS and TARDBP mutations were excluded. The de novo FUS …

Does Niche Divergence Accompany Allopatric Divergence In Aphelocoma Jays As Predicted Under Ecological Speciation?: Insights From Tests With Niche Models, John Mccormack, Amanda Zellmer, L. Knowles

John E. McCormack

The role of ecology in the origin of species has been the subject of long-standing interest to evolutionary biologists. New sources of spatially explicit ecological data allow for large-scale tests of whether speciation is associated with niche divergence or whether closely related species tend to be similar ecologically (niche conservatism). Because of the confounding effects of spatial autocorrelation of environmental variables, we generate null expectations for niche divergence for both an ecological-niche modeling and a multivariate approach to address the question: do allopatrically distributed taxa occupy similar niches? In a classic system for the study of niche evolution—the Aphelocoma jays—we …

Mapping The Translocal Taqwacore Social Networks Via Digital Humanities, Wendy Hsu

Wendy Hsu

No abstract provided.

Department Of Agricultural Economics Publications In 2009, Pam A. Holmes

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Publications from the UNL Department of Agricultural Economics in 2009.

The New Rules Of For Measuring Teacher Quality: Lessons Learned From The Assessment Experts, Brent M. Duckor

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.