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Analysis Of Hepatitis C Prevalence In A Justice-Involved Medicaid Population In Louisiana, William R. Boles Iii

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Emergence Of Transitive Class Containment, Jensen Chotto

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Industriflo Business Plan, Charles Soileau

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The Social Logic Of Space In Early Horizon Peru: 3d Reconstructions Of Residential Compounds At Caylán, Nepeña Valley, Ashleigh V. Passafume

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The Effect Of Time Pressure On Cue Utilization In Academic Selection Decisions, Dominique Carr

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A Protocol For Producing Light-Harvesting Complex Ii Lipoproteins And Investigation Of Their Interactions With Hydrophobically Modified Polypeptoids, Omead Darvish

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Purification Of Rpl-135: The Large Subunit Of Rna Polymerase I In Drosophila Melanogaster, Malcolm J. Youngblood

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Development And Application Of A Pexophagy Sensor In Caenorhabditis Elegans, Dominique Dolese

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Search For Light Sterile Neutrinos With The T2k Far Detector Super-Kamiokande At A Baseline Of 295 Km, K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali, C. Andreopoulos, L. Anthony, M. Antonova, S. Aoki, A. Ariga, Y. Ashida, Y. Awataguchi, Y. Azuma, S. Ban, M. Barbi, G. J. Barker, G. Barr, C. Barry, M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, F. Bench, V. Berardi, S. Berkman, R. M. Berner, L. Berns, S. Bhadra, S. Bienstock, A. Blondel, S. Bolognesi, B. Bourguille, S. B. Boyd

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We perform a search for light sterile neutrinos using the data from the T2K far detector at a baseline of 295 km, with an exposure of 14.7(7.6)×1020 protons on target in neutrino (antineutrino) mode. A selection of neutral-current interaction samples is also used to enhance the sensitivity to sterile mixing. No evidence of sterile neutrino mixing in the 3+1 model was found from a simultaneous fit to the charged-current muon, electron and neutral-current neutrino samples. We set the most stringent limit on the sterile oscillation amplitude sin2θ24 for the sterile neutrino mass splitting Δm412<3×10-3 eV2/c4.

Community Music Can Happen Anywhere: A Field Report, Lorenzo Gapud

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Communicating The Coastal Crisis: Effects Of Priming, Nudging, And Information Provision On Pro-Environmental Behavior, Raleigh E. Goodwin

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Long-Term Effects Of The Chronic Administration Of Risperidone On Adolescent Mice, Serena Nguyen

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Transitional Granulite-Facies Mafic Xenoliths In The 2.8 Ga Trondjhemite-Tonalite-Granodiorite (Ttg) Gneisses Of The Eastern Beartooth Mountains, Mt/Wy: Evidence For Variable Fluid Interactions, Andrew W. Osborne

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Physiological Plasticity And Tolerance To Aquatic Hypoxia In Fundulid Killifish, Ryan Hoffman

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Material Analysis Of A Tympanostomy Myringotomy Simulator, Abishek Stanley

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The Effects Of Threat-Evoked Anxiety On Visuospatial Memory Encoding, Rebecca Wallace

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Characterization Of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Proteins From Methanococcus Maripaludis, Melody Salmanian

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Amplification Dynamics Of Platy-1 Retrotransposons In The Cebidae Platyrrhine Lineage, Mark A. Batzer, Jessica M. Storer, Jackson R. Mierl, Sarah A. Brantley

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Platy-1 elements are Platyrrhine-specific, short interspersed elements originally discovered in the Callithrix jacchus (common marmoset) genome. To date, only the marmoset genome has been analyzed for Platy-1 repeat content. Here, we report full-length Platy-1 insertions in other New World monkey (NWM) genomes (Saimiri boliviensis, squirrel monkey; Cebus imitator, capuchin monkey; and Aotus nancymaae, owl monkey) and analyze the amplification dynamics of lineage-specific Platy-1 insertions. A relatively small number of full-length and lineage-specific Platy-1 elements were found in the squirrel, capuchin, and owl monkey genomes compared with the marmoset genome. In addition, only a few older Platy-1 subfamilies were recovered in …

The Cure For Cultivating Fastidious Microbes, William Wischusen, Arundhati Bakshi, Austen T. Webber, Lorelei E. Patrick

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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) expand the scientific educational benefits of research to large groups of students in a course setting. As part of an ongoing effort to integrate CUREs into first-year biology labs, we developed a microbiology CURE (mCURE) that uses a modified dilution-to-extinction high throughput culturing protocol for isolating abundant yet fastidious aquatic bacterioplankton during one semester. Students learn common molecular biology techniques like nucleic acid extraction, PCR, and molecular characterization; read and evaluate scientific literature; and receive training in scientific communication through written and oral exercises that incorporate social media elements. In the first three semesters, the …

Virulence-Driven Trade-Offs In Disease Transmission: A Meta-Analysis*, Miguel A. Acevedo, Forrest P. Dillemuth, Andrew J. Flick, Matthew J. Faldyn, Bret D. Elderd

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© 2019 The Author(s). Evolution © 2019 The Society for the Study of Evolution. The virulence–transmission trade-off hypothesis proposed more than 30 years ago is the cornerstone in the study of host–parasite co-evolution. This hypothesis rests on the premise that virulence is an unavoidable and increasing cost because the parasite uses host resources to replicate. This cost associated with replication ultimately results in a deceleration in transmission rate because increasing within-host replication increases host mortality. Empirical tests of predictions of the hypothesis have found mixed support, which cast doubt about its overall generalizability. To quantitatively address this issue, we conducted …

Formation Of Authigenic Low-Magnesium Calcite From Sites Ss296 And Gc53 Of The Gulf Of Mexico, Huiwen Huang, Shanggui Gong, Niu Li, Daniel Birgel, Jörn Peckmann, Meng Jin, Ming Cheng, Harry H. Roberts, Duofu Chen, Dong Feng

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Authigenic low-magnesium calcite (LMC)—a mineral phase that should precipitate in calcite seas rather than today’s aragonite sea—was recently discovered at the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) at water depths of 65 m (site SS296) and 189 m (site GC53). This study investigates the mineralogical, petrographic, and geochemical characteristics of LMC from both sites to reveal its formation process. The δ O values of LMC from site SS296 cluster in two groups (−0.6% to 1.7‰; 6.3‰ to 7.5‰) and the presence of cone-in-cone texture in the samples with lower δ O values suggest precipitation at higher temperatures and greater …

A Discontinuity In The Teff-Radius Relation Of M-Dwarfs, Markus Rabus, Régis Lachaume, Andrés Jordán, Rafael Brahm, Tabetha Boyajian, Kaspar Von Braun, Néstor Espinoza, Jean Philippe Berger, Jean Baptiste Le Bouquin, Olivier Absil

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We report on 13 new high-precision measurements of stellar diameters for low-mass dwarfs obtained by means of near-infrared long-baseline interferometry with PIONIER at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. Together with accurate parallaxes from Gaia DR2, these measurements provide precise estimates for their linear radii, effective temperatures, masses, and luminosities. This allows us to refine the effective temperature scale, in particular towards the coolest M-dwarfs. We measure for late-type stars with enhanced metallicity slightly inflated radii, whereas for stars with decreased metallicity we measure smaller radii. We further show that Gaia DR2 effective temperatures for M-dwarfs are underestimated by ∼8.2 per …

Retrieval-Based Word Learning In Young Typically Developing Children And Children With Developmental Language Disorder I: The Benefits Of Repeated Retrieval, Laurence B. Leonard, Jeffrey Karpicke, Patricia Deevy, Christine Weber, Sharon Christ, Eileen Haebig, Sofía Souto, Justin B. Kueser, Windi Krok

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Purpose: Scholars have long noted that retention improves significantly when learners frequently test themselves on the new material rather than engage in continuous study with no intermittent testing. In this study, we apply the notion of repeated testing or retrieval to the process of word learning in preschool-age children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Novel words and their meanings were taught to 10 children with DLD and 10 typically developing (TD) children matched on age (DLD, M = 63.4 months; TD, M = 63.2 months). Recall was assessed immediately after the 2nd learning session and then again …

Retrieval-Based Word Learning In Young Typically Developing Children And Children With Development Language Disorder Ii: A Comparison Of Retrieval Schedules, Eileen Haebig, Laurence B. Leonard, Patricia Deevy, Jeffrey Karpicke, Sharon L. Christ, Evan Usler, Justin B. Kueser, Sofía Souto, Windi Krok, Christine Weber

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Purpose: Retrieval practice has been found to be a powerful strategy to enhance long-term retention of new information; however, the utility of retrieval practice when teaching young children new words is largely unknown, and even less is known for young children with language impairments. The current study examined the effect of 2 different retrieval schedules on word learning at both the behavioral and neural levels. Method: Participants included 16 typically developing children (MTD = 61.58 months) and 16 children with developmental language disorder (MDLD = 59.60 months). Children participated in novel word learning sessions in which the spacing of retrieval …

Influence Of Spatial Camera Resolution In Highspeed Videoendoscopy On Laryngeal Parameters, Patrick Schlegel, Melda Kunduk, Michael Stingl, Marion Semmler, Michael Döllinger, Christopher Bohr, Anne Schützenberger

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In laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy (HSV) the area between the vibrating vocal folds during phonation is of interest, being referred to as glottal area waveform (GAW). Varying camera resolution may influence parameters computed on the GAW and hence hinder the comparability between examinations. This study investigates the influence of spatial camera resolution on quantitative vocal fold vibratory function parameters obtained from the GAW. In total 40 HSV recordings during sustained phonation (20 healthy males and 20 healthy females) were investigated. A clinically used Photron Fastcam MC2 camera with a frame rate of 4000 fps and a spatial resolution of 512×256 pixels …

Towards Reliable Uncertainties In Ir Interferometry: The Bootstrap For Correlated Statistical And Systematic Errors, Régis Lachaume, Markus Rabus, Andrés Jordán, Rafael Brahm, Tabetha Boyajian, Kaspar Von Braun, Jean Philippe Berger

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We propose a method to overcome the usual limitation of current data processing techniques in optical and infrared long-baseline interferometry: most reduction pipelines assume uncorrelated statistical errors and ignore systematics. We use the bootstrap method to sample the multivariate probability density function of the interferometric observables. It allows us to determine the correlations between statistical error terms and their deviation from a Gaussian distribution. In addition, we introduce systematics as an additional, highly correlated error term whose magnitude is chosen to fit the data dispersion. We have applied the method to obtain accurate measurements of stellar diameters for underresolved stars, …

Demystifying Jadeite: An Underwater Maya Discovery At Ek Way Nal, Belize, Heather Mckillop, George Harlow, April Sievert, C. Wayne Smith, Michael C. Wiemann

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Jadeite artefacts at Maya sites are normally associated with ritual and ceremonial locations, with high-quality jadeite reserved for elite objects. The discovery of a jadeite gouge with a wooden handle at a Classic Maya salt-working site submerged by sea-level rise - Ek Way Nal, Belize - is therefore unexpected and provides new information about the utilitarian use of this stone. The extremely high quality of this jadeite tool is particularly surprising, offering new insight into the Classic Maya exchange systems and the role of salt makers such as those based at Ek Way Nal.

S19rs Sgb No. 1 (Rules Of Court), Victoria Pitre

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To Amend the Rules of Court

Flux Of Inorganic Carbon As Dissolved, Suspended, And Bed Loads Through A Karstic Basin, Randall Paylor, Carol Wicks

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© 2019 by the authors. Most studies of carbonate bedrock weathering have focused on the dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) flux while dismissing particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) as insignificant. However, under certain flow conditions PIC flux may be an important term in carbonate weathering. In this study, the total inorganic carbon (TIC) flux was calculated in a fluviokarst basin. Water samples and in situ data loggers were used to determine suspended sediment concentration and water chemistry. The mass of PIC within suspended sediments was quantified by cation/anion analysis of dual filtered/unfiltered samples. The flux of bed load material was calculated via …

Impacts Of Freight Consolidation And Truck Sharing On Freight Mobility, Tieming Liu, Chaoyue Zhao

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The trucking industry is an important sector of the U.S. economy. However, it is quite fragmented, hindering the efficiency of cargo transportation and the ability for small carriers to identify demands to fill full truck loads. The focus of this research is to study models and algorithms in order to aid online freight marketplaces to identify efficient consolidation strategies. To accomplish this aim, a new mixed integer programming model for the pickup and delivery problem has been developed. The model is geared towards identifying effective freight consolidation opportunities. A branch-and-cut algorithm to solve the model was also developed. The model …