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Correlation Between Microbiological Profiles Of Adenoid Tissue And Nasal Discharge In Children With Co-Existent Chronic Adenoiditis And Chronic Rhinosinusitis, Rohit Singh, R. Shilpa, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Padmaja A. Shenoy

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Chronic adenoiditis leading to adenoid hypertrophy is common in children. Many cases would also have co-existing chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Infact, long lasting bacterial infection of the adenoids has been hypothesized to be the cause for CRS in these children. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the departments of ENT and Micro-biology at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, India between 2016 and 2017. 20 subjects who were diagnosed with CRS and adenoid hypertrophy took part in the study. Aerobic, anaerobic and fungal culture sensitivity of adenoid tissue was done along with aerobic and fungal culture sensitivity of nasal swabs from middle meatus. 2 …

Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child And Adolescent Health And Related Behaviour Change Communication Strategies In Bangladesh, Nepal And India: A Narrative Review, Shradha S. Parsekar, Prachi Pundir, Valeria Bevilacqua

Open Access archive

Aim: The review was conducted to collate the evidence on the current status of “Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health” (RMNCAH) and related Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) interventions in RMNCAH in South Asia, particularly Bangladesh, Nepal and India. Methods: Literature search was conducted on multiple databases and websites in March 2019. The search was limited to English language publications. The data on health indicators for the eight South Asian countries are compared in the review. This review narratively summarises the key RMNCAH and related BCC initiatives undertaken in Bangladesh, Nepal and India. Results: The South Asian countries have achieved …

Factors Influencing Exclusive Breastfeeding (Ebf) In Empowered Action Group (Eag) States And Assam, Ravishankar N, Merisin Joseph, Sowmya Shashidhara

Open Access archive

Background and objectives: Exclusive breast feeding (EBF) has important protective effects on the survival of infants and decreasing risk for many early-life diseases of children. The purpose of this study was to find the patterns or factors associated with exclusive breast feeding and its variation among 8 Empowered Action Group (EAG) states and Assam. Materials and methods: The study utilized a secondary data source namely “Annual Health Survey (AHS) - 3” which covered nearly 4.3 million people from 8 EAG states and Assam. Exploratory factor analysis and Pearson's correlation coefficient were employed to identify the patterns or factors associated with …

Immunocompetence Of Gynaikothrips Uzeli (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) Populations From Different Latitudes Against Beauveria Bassiana (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae), Deyi Yu, Peng Huang, Yongwen Lin, Jinai Yao, Yanyang Lan, Komivi Senyo Akutse, Xiangyu Hou

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Gynaikothrips uzeli gall thrips are protected from insecticide exposure by their leaf gall habitat. A biocontrol strategy based on entomopathogenic fungi is an alternative approach for the control of G. uzeli. Higher temperatures can promote the reproduction and spread of pests; however, the impact of higher temperatures on biological control is unclear. We studied the immunocompetence of thrips from different latitudes and determined the effect of degree days on thrips immunity. We examined the potential impact of temperature on the biocontrol provided by entomopathogenic fungi. Beauveria bassiana pathogenicity against thrips increased with decreasing latitude, suggesting that immunity of thrips increased …

Influence Of Seeing A Red Face During The Male–Male Encounters Of Mosquito-Specialist Spiders, Fiona R. Cross, Robert R. Jackson, Lisa A. Taylor

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Males of Evarcha culicivora, an East African jumping spider (Salticidae), have bright red faces. Here, we investigated how seeing a red face might influence a male’s behaviour during encounters with another male. We applied black eyeliner to conceal the red on a male’s face and measured the spectral properties of male faces with and without the eyeliner. Only the faces without eyeliner reflected in the long-wavelength range corresponding to red. In experiments over 2 days, where eyeliner was absent on the first day and present on the second, we compared how two groups of males responded to their mirror images. …

A Assessment Of Long Distance Chasing Photometer (Nag-Adf-300-2) By Estimating The Drug Atenolol With Ammonium Molybdate Via Continuous Flow Injection Analysis, Nagam S. Turkey, Elham N. Mezaal

Baghdad Science Journal

Atenolol was used with ammonium molybdate to prove the efficiency, reliability and repeatability of the long distance chasing photometer (NAG-ADF-300-2) using continuous flow injection analysis. The method is based on reaction between atenolol and ammonium molybdate in an aqueous medium to obtain a dark brown precipitate. Optimum parameters was studied to increase the sensitivity for developed method. A linear range for calibration graph was 0.1-3.5 mmol/L for cell A and 0.3-3.5 mmol/L for cell B, and LOD 133.1680 ng/100 µL and 532.6720 ng/100 µL for cell A and cell B respectively with correlation coefficient (r) 0.9910 for cell A and …

Ctx Phage Of Vibrio Cholerae: Genomics And Applications, Archana Pant, Bhabatosh Das, Rupak K. Bhadra

Open Access archive

The bipartite genome of Vibrio cholerae is divided into two circular non-homologous chromosomes, which harbor several genetic elements like phages, plasmids, transposons, integrative conjugative elements, and pathogenic islands that encode functions responsible for disease development, antimicrobial resistance, and subsistence in hostile environments. These elements are highly heterogeneous, mobile in nature, and encode their own mobility functions or exploit host-encoded enzymes for intra- and inter-cellular movements. The key toxin of V. cholerae responsible for the life-threatening diarrheal disease cholera, the cholera toxin, is coded by part of the genome of a filamentous phage, CTXϕ. The replicative genome of CTXϕ is divided …

Analysis Of Limited Skeletal Elements, Anna-Marie David

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Forensic Anthropologists around the world use a variety of techniques to understand people using analysis of human remains. However, in instances when a researcher is given an incomplete set of remains it narrows the variety of methods that can be used as well as the accuracy of those methods. Therefore, information about the individual is restrained and can limit positive identification. At the University of Montana graduate students in the Forensic Anthropology program work together under the supervision of their professors to analyze skeletal remains cases. A Forensic Anthropology skeletal report consists of; minimum number of individuals (MNI), sex, age, …

Conceptions & Receptions: Examining Four Local Museums And Their Communities, Mary Casey

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Between 2017-2018, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), in partnership with Wilkening Consulting, found that 97% of the American public believe that museums are educational assets for their communities, and regardless of political persuasion, 96% approve of elected officials who support museums, and take legislative action to fund their operations. Additionally, 66% of all leisure travel in the United States involves cultural heritage sites or activities, such as visiting museums (AAM). The statistics presented here represent the AAM’s efforts to understand how museums, of all institutional type, are received by their communities and the general public on a national scale. …

The Impact Of Conventional And Organic Farming On Soil Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study On Termites In The Long-Term Farming Systems Comparison Trials In Kenya, John J. Anyango, David Bautze, Komi K.M. Fiaboe, Zipporah O. Lagat, Anne W. Muriuki, Sibylle Stöckli, Judith Riedel, Gladys K. Onyambu, Martha W. Musyoka, Edward N. Karanja, Noah Adamtey

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Background: A long-term experiment at two trial sites in Kenya has been on-going since 2007 to assess the effect of organic and conventional farming systems on productivity, profitability and sustainability. During these trials the presence of significant numbers of termites (Isoptera) was observed. Termites are major soil macrofauna and within literature they are either depict as 'pests' or as important indicator for environmental sustainability. The extent by which termites may be managed to avoid crop damage, but improve sustainability of farming systems is worthwhile to understand. Therefore, a study on termites was added to the long-term experiments in Kenya. The …

Leading A Middle Management Program For Women In Academic Librarianship, Ariel Turner

Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Documents From The February 26, 2020 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana, University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the February 26, 2020 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). The following resolutions were discussed during the meeting:

Evidence Of Transformative Learning In Public Health Clinical For Rn2bsn Students, Mary Joan Polchert

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Discussion of teaching and learning strategies that provide evidence of transformative learning in the RN2BSN student during a Public Health Nursing Clinical experience. Documentation through self-reflection demonstrates emancipatory knowledge development in the RN2BSN student.

Why Change In The Gaming Industry Should Never Surprise Anyone, David Schwartz

Executive Vice President & Provost Faculty Research

There has been a great deal of change in the news lately for the gaming world. After more than a decade as head of MGM Resorts, Jim Murren is stepping down. The Chinese coronavirus outbreak has sent Macau gaming revenues into a tailspin. On a happier note, a big brand name is returning to a Las Vegas casino, with the announcement that Hilton will be operating three hotels as part of the Genting Group’s Resorts World development. Change is in the air. But that’s nothing new, and nothing the industry shouldn’t be expecting.

Context-Dependent Activation Of Sirt3 Is Necessary For Anchorage-Independent Survival And Metastasis Of Ovarian Cancer Cells, Yeon Soo Kim, Piyushi Gupta Vallur, Victoria M. Jones, Beth L. Worley, Sara Shimko, Dong Hui Shin, La Taijah C. Crawford, Chi Wei Chen, Katherine M. Aird, Thomas Abraham, Trevor G. Shepherd, Joshua I. Warrick, Nam Y. Lee, Rebecca Phaeton, Karthikeyan Mythreye, Nadine Hempel

Paediatrics Publications

Tumor cells must alter their antioxidant capacity for maximal metastatic potential. Yet the antioxidant adaptations required for ovarian cancer transcoelomic metastasis, which is the passive dissemination of cells in the peritoneal cavity, remain largely unexplored. Somewhat contradicting the need for oxidant scavenging are previous observations that expression of SIRT3, a nutrient stress sensor and regulator of mitochondrial antioxidant defenses, is often suppressed in many primary tumors. We have discovered that this mitochondrial deacetylase is specifically upregulated in a context-dependent manner in cancer cells. SIRT3 activity and expression transiently increased following ovarian cancer cell detachment and in tumor cells derived from …

A Mysterious Upper Eyelid Mass In A Child, Teena Mariet Mendonca, Kausalya Kumari Sahu, Shobha G. Pai, Tishya Vepakomma

Open Access archive

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African Naked Mole-Rat Colony Behavior Based On Whole Colony Radio Frequency Identification (Colony Tt-2, April 2015), Dan Mccloskey, Michael E. Kress

Publications and Research

This file contains Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) data for routine activity of members of the TT-2 colony during a 26 day period in April 2015. The data are organized into a state matrix where the last known location for each of the 49 animals in the colony is listed in each row. A new row means that the raw data file updated the location of one animal. The leftmost column gives the date and time of the event, the headers for the other 49 columns give the RFID code for each of the animals in the colony. Animals demonstrated to …

Data From: Consumption Of The Total Western Diet Promotes Colitis And Inflammation-Associated Colorectal Cancer In Mice, Abby D. Benninghoff

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Gene expression data for colon tissues obtained prior to, during, and after onset of colitis in mice fed either a standard or Western type diet.

File 1: probe annotations.

File 2: nSolver differential expression analysis results.

File 3: Gene set analysis

File 4: nSolver pathway scores

File 5: STRING-db networks and clusters

File 6: Metascape ontology results

File 7: nSolver cell type profiling scores

Guest Editorial, Gang Li, Srikanth Prabhu, Qingfeng Chen, Jia Wu

Open Access archive

No abstract provided.

Documents From The February 19, 2020 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the February 19, 2020 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). The following resolutions were discussed during the meeting:

SB54-19/20: Resolution Amending Board on Member Organizations Bylaws

SB58-19/20: Resolution Regarding an Increase to the ASUM Student Activity Fee

SB59-19/20: Resolution Regarding Restructuring the ASUM Activity Fee

SB60-19/20: Resolution Approving Zero-Base Transfer for Final Budgeting

Carbon Dioxide Attracts Nesting Behavior In Captive African Naked Mole-Rats, Dan Mccloskey

Publications and Research

This dataset contains raw Radio Frequency Identification data for a 185 hour gas infusion study conducted in the TT-2 colony at the College of Staten Island in May-June 2019. The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether colony members would be attracted to a chamber with elevated carbon dioxide levels matching the highest values recorded in the typical colony nest. The results show a significant attraction to the CO2-infused chamber during and after the period of CO2 in=fusion, with the relocation of the colony nest to this site for the first time in the history of this colony. These …

Winter Bandfest, St. Norbert College Music Department

Music Performances

The St. Norbert College Jazz and Wind Ensemble performed with the 2020 High School Honors Band comprised of high schoolers from the area at the Walter Theatre on Sunday February 16th, 2020

Thermal-Irradiance Behaviours Of Subtropical Intensive Green Roof In Winter And Landscape-Soil Design Implications, Louis S.H. Lee, C. Y. Jim

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. As urban green space, green roof has been increasingly installed in cities mainly for amenities, temperature regulation and energy conservation. Nevertheless, in subtropical urban setting and during winter, the thermal and radiation behaviours of green roofs, especially the intensive type, have remained poorly understood. This paper examined the effect of a woodland-type intensive green roof (IGR) on the roof-level microclimate by comparing temperature and radiation parameters against a reference bare roof (BR). In-situ microclimatic monitoring was conducted on an IGR and BR pair in subtropical Hong Kong throughout a winter. Using objective selection criteria, 30 sampled …

Music Faculty Showcase, St. Norbert College Music Department

Music Performances

Various St. Norbert College Faculty performed on Saturday February 15th at Dudley Birder Hall.

Processing Notes, William Flores, Kendra Lara, John B. Hawthorne

Cheryl Shepherd's Ten Tragic Days Collection (Mexican Revolution)

Reprocessed collection.

Naming conventions were changed.

Identifier from born digital collections was added.

Dates were inferred from photograph descriptions.

Library of Congress subjects were added.

Naming conventions were changed.

Donated by: Cheryl Hollis Shepherd, of Knoxville, Tennessee, great-grand-daughter of Captain Joseph F. Cummings Jr., superintendent of Public Schools at Brownsville from 1888 to 1898; Inspector of Customs from 1899 to 1900, and proprietor and editor of the Brownsville News to 1902. Uploaded to Texas Digital Library in 2011-06-23.

Migrated from UTRGV Texas Digital Library to BePress on February 12, 2020.

Documents From The February 13, 2020 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the February 13, 2020 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). No resolutions were discussed during this meeting.

Consolidation Of Key Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Information For Humboldt Bay By Hydrologic Unit Humboldt Bay, Aldaron Laird, Brian Powell

Spatial Data

This geodatabase holds the spatial data consolidated in Laird's 2020 report, Consolidation of Key Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Information for Humboldt Bay by Hydrologic Unit Humboldt Bay. See the full report on Cal Poly Humboldt’s Sea Level Rise Institute Digital Commons, which includes all figures and tables:

https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/hsuslri_local/1/

A Humboldt Bay region-wide spatial database of sea level rise vulnerability statistics/findings from 5 years of SLR assessments was created to facilitate prioritizing hydrologic units and/or assets for adaption planning. The consolidation was based on for the six hydrologic/hydrographic units on Humboldt Bay (Mad River Slough, Arcata Bay, Eureka Slough, Eureka Bay, …

Nick Thomas On Hospitality Industry Trends And Hospitality Leadership Education, University Marketing And Communications, Nick Thomas

DePaul Download

In the 10 years since DePaul’s School of Hospitality Leadership was established, the hospitality industry has seen dramatic changes. Advancements in technology are improving how hotels, restaurants and convention centers operate; new trends are reshaping the travel experience; and far-off destinations are more within reach. How does DePaul prepare students to enter this fast-growing sector? With a combination of classroom instruction led by professors with industry experience and hands-on training. In this episode, Nick Thomas, the school’s director, talks about how hospitality leadership educators are meeting the challenge of evolving with the industry—and shares what he’s learned from spending time …

Gas-Diffusivity Based Characterization Of Aggregated Agricultural Soils, J.R.R.N. Jayarathne, T.K.K. Chamindu Deepagoda, Timothy J. Clough, M.C.M. Nasvi, Steve Thomas, Bo Elberling, Kathleen Smits

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications - Archive

Grazed pastures and cultivated fields are significant sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in particular N2O emissions derived from fertilizer deposition and animal excreta. Net surface emissions rely on subsurface gas transfer controlled mainly by diffusion, expressed as the soil-gas diffusivity (Dp/Do). The value of Dp/Do is a function of soil air-filled porosity (e) and gaseous phase tortuosity (T), both of which vary with soil physical properties including soil texture and structure. Agricultural soils are often structurally aggregated and characterized by two distinct regions (inter- and intra-aggregated pores), however, such soils are subjected to frequent compaction and tillage resulting in …

Pills And Spills: An Assessment Of Medications And Fall Risk In Older Patients, Kelly L. Covert, Courtney D. Hall

ETSU Faculty Works

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