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Study Of Primary Cilia In Early Development, Pharmacology, And Brainwave Activity., Matthew Roderick Strobel

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary cilium is a unique cellular organelle that emanates from the mother centriole and extends out of the plasma membrane of nearly every mammalian cell. While originally believed to be a vestigial appendage, the cilium is now known to be a signaling hub where various intercellular communication pathways intersect to regulate morphogenesis, proliferation, polarity, differentiation, and homeostasis. Due to their importance in regulating cellular functions the cilium has become a growing focus of biomedical research as it has been linked to at least 35 human developmental disorders which have been termed ciliopathies. In the nervous system, primary cilia regulate …

Distribution Of Soil Enzyme Activity Across Soil Organic Matter Fractions: A Meta-Analysis, Christina Lyons

Master's Theses and Capstones

Enzymes are the drivers of organic matter degradation and biogeochemical cycling. Extracellular enzyme activity is often examined on a bulk soil level though some studies explore their activity within soil fractions. Across soil size fractions, organic matter turnover differs greatly suggesting that enzymes are either unevenly distributed across fractions or their activity or efficacy is concentrated in certain fractions, likely those with the greatest quantities of organic matter. By examining the distribution of soil enzyme activity across different size fractions, we can better understand the relative role individual particles and aggregate building blocks have on enzyme activity, and also the …

"It's Not Just Sailors And Bikers Anymore": How Tattoo Artists' Experiences Of Stigma Vary By Gender, Morgan Stevens

Master's Theses and Capstones

Past literature has largely focused on the stigmatization of those with tattoos, but the experiences of tattoo artists themselves have largely been overlooked. It is important to focus on tattoo artists given their critical position as the subjects of stigma and their role in challenging it. Tattoo artists are privy to their own experiences with tattoo stigma, the stigma of working in a deviant occupation, and are frequent observers of the stigma others experience for similar reasons. To explore these topics and how the occupation itself is gendered, thirteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with tattoo artists in New Hampshire. From …

Condors And Capitalism: Changing Interactions Between Presidents And Indigenous Movements In The 21st Century In Ecuador, Bolivia And Peru., Heather E. Austin

Master's Theses and Capstones

Indigenous social movements began proliferating across Latin America in the late 20th century. Since then, scholars have focused analyses on the factors shaping indigenous movement-state dynamics, with little consideration for how these interactions impact the larger indigenous population. This work addresses the question of how changing indigenous movement-presidential relationships affect indigenous political attitudes and behavior in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, qualitatively using comparative historical analysis, and quantitatively using binomial logistical and ordinal logistical regressions. I conclude first that the inclusion of indigenous movements represents a democratic deepening, but has a destabilizing effect, as the system must expand and adapt to …

Pharmaceuticals And Personal Care Products In New Hampshire: Prevalence And The Influence Of Microbial Communities On Removal During Wastewater Treatment, Carmela Sarah Antonellis

Master's Theses and Capstones

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) represent a class of 10,000+ emerging contaminants that are widely used in communities for a variety of medical, health, and care applications. Many PPCPs are biologically active compounds, are typically unregulated in drinking water and surface waters, and may be incompletely removed in our municipal wastewater treatment systems. Understanding the sources and fate of PPCPs in the environment is important to protecting ecosystems because some compounds may pose toxicity or result in behavioral impacts to aquatic species. This thesis evaluated the presence and concentration of PPCPs in surface water sample locations in New Hampshire's …

A Longitudinal Examination Of The Mediating Role Of Various Sources Of Social Support On The Relation Between Peer And Sibling Victimization And Adolescent Delinquency, Katie Chantlos

Master's Theses and Capstones

Peer victimization has proven to be a prevalent issue for children and adolescents. The current study examined the possible bidirectional effect between peer and sibling victimization and delinquency, and assessed whether social support from family, friends, and other non-parental adults would mediate this association. Using longitudinal data from the Technology Harassment Victimization study, 791 participants were surveyed via telephone. Bivariate correlations were calculated first, and two Poisson regressions predicting delinquency and peer and sibling victimization at Time 2 were also performed. Three structural equation models with cross-lagged designs were also calculated. In the Poisson regressions, family and other adult social …

The Presence Of Sea Lice On Steelhead Trout At A Marine Farm In Nh Waters And The Utilization Of Lumpfish As A Biological Delouser, Michael Brian Doherty

Master's Theses and Capstones

Sea lice are copepodid ectoparasites that infect fish, and cost salmonid farmers millions of dollars each year in damaged product and mitigation efforts. Conventional treatments can unintentionally impact the ambient environment and lead to the lice developing resistance to the treatments. In recent years, lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) have been utilized successfully to naturally clean sea lice from infected salmonids in European and Atlantic Canadian farms, however this technology has yet to be used in US farms. In New Hampshire coastal waters, New Hampshire Sea Grant and the University of New Hampshire operate an experimental steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) farm, AquaFort. …

Microbiomes And Disease Suppressiveness Of Soils From Managed And Abandoned Orchards In New Hampshire, Madeleine Hassett

Master's Theses and Capstones

The soil microbiome is an essential component of ecosystem productivity. In agricultural systems, the soil microbiome significantly impacts plant health and the subsequent yield and productivity of those systems. Due to increasing demands on the food supply and the many challenges posed by climate change, soil fertility loss, and plant pathogens, modern agricultural systems often employ the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides that can have detrimental effects on human health and the environment. These chemicals also significantly affect soil microbiomes, and although the extent of these effects are still unknown, changes in diversity or functionality of plant associated microbiomes …

The Non-Conservative Behavior Of Organic Alkalinity In Simulated Gulf Of Maine Estuary Mixing, Jessica A. Hinckley

Master's Theses and Capstones

Estuaries are essential coastal ecosystems facing the threat of coastal acidification due tothe anthropogenic burning of fossil fuels and eutrophication. Total alkalinity is a measure of the buffering capacity in an ecosystem and is commonly comprised of both inorganic and organic species. While the contribution of inorganic species to the total alkalinity of an ecosystem is well understood, the contribution of organic alkalinity has been understudied. This investigation looked to outline the behavior of organic alkalinity during estuary mixing and identify organic pKas through Gran + Whole titrations. Freshwater endmember samples were collected from 8 estuaries of the Gulf of …

Efficacy Of Snap Education And Associations Between Diet Quality And Chronic Disease Risk In Bhutanese Refugees, Dustin Moore

Master's Theses and Capstones

OBJECTIVES: To quantify the longitudinal effects of a direct SNAP-Ed intervention on diet, systemic inflammation, and gut microbiota among adult Bhutanese refugees. To measure the cross-sectional associations between dietary quality, inflammation, and gut microbial producers of short chain fatty acids (SCFA).METHODS: A convenience sample of 54 Bhutanese refugee adults (mean age=47 ± 2 years, 83% female) residing in New Hampshire was block randomized into the SNAP-Ed or control group. The SNAP-Ed intervention consisted of six one-hour nutrition lessons taught by a bi-cultural community health worker in the participants’ homes. Three 24-hour recalls were used to assess dietary intake at baseline …

Quantification Of Marine Acoustic Environments, Dylan Charles Wilford

Master's Theses and Capstones

The soundscape is an acoustic environment made up of all sounds arriving at a receiver. A methodology for the analysis of soundscapes was developed in an attempt to facilitate efficient and accurate soundscape comparisons across time and space. The methodology included generating and combining results from a collection of traditional soundscape metrics, statistical measures, and acoustic indices that were selected to quantify several salient properties of marine soundscapes: amplitude, impulsiveness, periodicity, and uniformity. The metrics were calculated using approximately 30 hours using semi-continuous passive acoustic data gathered in seven unique acoustic environments. The calculated values for each candidate metric were …

New Hampshire Is Becoming More Diverse, With Children At The Forefront, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, September 22, 2021, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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Estimating The Value Of Disease Regulation Services Under Climate Change: A Bioeconomic Model Of Coffee Leaf Rust And Shade-Grown Coffee, Khashayar Ghorbani

Master's Theses and Capstones

Coffee is the most valuable agricultural product in international trade. It is projected to face a decrease in production by as much as 50% by 2050, mainly due to rising temperature, changes in rainfall patterns, deforestation, and the spread of fungal pathogens and pests. Among the biological threats to coffee, the Coffee Leaf Rust (CLR) has the most destructive economic impact all around the world. The most recent widespread outbreak resulted in a 16% harvest loss in Central America and a 31% loss in Colombia during the 2012-2013 season, and a record of 50% loss was reported in Costa Rica …

Biogeochemical Stressors And Ecological Response In Great Bay Estuary, Nh/Me, Anna Lowien

Master's Theses and Capstones

Estuaries are threatened by eutrophication due to increasing anthropogenic nutrient loading from surrounding coastal watersheds. The Great Bay Estuary, NH/ME, has been designated as nitrogen impaired primarily due to a 44% loss in eelgrass coverage since 1996. Since 2014, wastewater treatment plants in the watershed have begun upgrading to reduce nitrogen loads to Great Bay. This region has also experienced changes in climate, with multiple, consecutive years of low annual precipitation totals. The loss of eelgrass, increased variability in precipitation, and continued anthropogenic land-use influence on the region have biogeochemical consequences for Great Bay. Solute budgets for a portion of …

Graphene Transistor-Based Printable Electronics For Wearable Biosensing Applications, Kaitlyn Laliberte

Master's Theses and Capstones

Graphene field-effect transistor (GFET) is becoming an increasingly popular biosensing platform for monitoring health conditions through biomarker detection. Moreover, the graphene’s 2-dimensional geometry makes it ideal for implementing flexible or wearable electronic devices. By using a GFET platform as a biosensor, users can easily monitor numerous health conditions. A sweat-based biosensor can non-invasively monitor levels of proteins in the body and alert the user to possible issues such as a steep increase or decrease in a particular protein. By creating a platform that can be used as a wearable biosensor, it allows for rapid results and a cheaper way to …

The Effect Of Wood-Fiber Substrates On Natural Disease Suppression And The Efficacy Of Rootshield®Wp Against Rhizoctonia Solani, Isobel Michaud

Master's Theses and Capstones

As by-products of the forest industry, wood fibers (WFs) are affordable and sustainable raw materials that have risen in popularity in the last decade to help meet the demand for soilless substrates. Wood fibers are high in hemicellulose and cellulose content yet have lower lignin content than Sphagnum peat, coconut coir, and tree bark-based growing medium components. Researchers have demonstrated that wood is more microbially active than peat and that WFs from pine and poplar have significantly greater fungal diversity and abundance than peat and coir, which can have higher bacterial diversity than WFs. However, the effects of WF-associated microbial …

Home Isn't Where The Office Is: Black Professionals Discuss Challenges Of Working Remotely, John Jones, Jordan Hensley

Carsey Publications

Working from home, once a rare feature of office culture, became common during the COVID-19 pandemic. As infections fall and rise working remotely seems likely to persist and even become standard procedure. But in the top-down American office, where facetime with your manager or the chief can make the difference between thriving or languishing, can working from home work against you? And if so, are Black professionals, who already experience discrimination in pay and promotion in the American workplace, at special risk? With the pandemic shining light on the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion these questions are as important …

Honoring The Mother Of All People; Contemporary Indigenous Leadership In Revitalizing Environmental And Cultural Sustainability, Katharine A. Duderstadt, Alexandra G. Martin, Svetlana Peshkova, Siobhan Senier, Jennifer F. Brewer, Daniel R. Howard

Faculty Publications

This series of events brings Indigenous perspectives from 22 Indigenous speakers across the U.S. and Arctic regions to discussions of sustainable futures within the New Hampshire community. There is growing movement in the academic community to understand how Indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage can deepen our thinking about sustainable futures. While most researchers recognize that anthropogenic climate change and other sustainability challenges require humanistic as well as scientific approaches, many have yet to thoroughly understand the colonial legacies that initiated many of these sustainability problems and continue to impede our study and solutions. The 2020-2021 Sidore Series was designed to …

Modest Population Gains, But Growing Diversity In New Hampshire With Children In The Vanguard, Kenneth M. Johnson

Carsey Publications

In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that New Hampshire’s population grew by a modest 4.6 percent during the past decade to 1,377,500 in April 2020. In contrast, the number of minority residents, defined as those who were other than non-Hispanic Whites, increased by 74.4 percent to 176,900 in 2020. Minority residents now represent 12.8 percent of the state’s population compared to 7.5 percent (101,400) in 2010. Though the minority population grew, a substantial majority of the state’s population remains non-Hispanic White.

Hispanics are the largest minority population in New Hampshire with 59,500 residents, or 4.3 percent of the population. …

2020-2021 Faculty Senate Xxvi - August 30, 2021 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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2021 Franchise Sector Recovery Advances In 2q As Economy Reopens, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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7 Tips For Your First Week Of Class, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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Microbial Activity Responses To Water Stress In Agricultural Soils From Simple And Complex Crop Rotations, Jorg Schnecker, D. Boone Meeden, Francisco Calderon, Michel Cavigelli, R. Michael Lehman, Lisa K. Tiemann, A. Stuart Grandy

Faculty Publications

Increasing climatic pressures such as drought and flooding challenge agricultural systems and their management globally. How agricultural soils respond to soil water extremes will influence biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen in these systems. We investigated the response of soils from long-term agricultural field sites under varying crop rotational complexity to either drought or flooding stress. Focusing on these contrasting stressors separately, we investigated soil heterotrophic respiration during single and repeated stress cycles in soils from four different sites along a precipitation gradient (Colorado, MAP 421 mm; South Dakota, MAP 580 mm; Michigan, MAP 893 mm; Maryland, MAP 1192 mm); …

Delta Variant Has Little Effect On Covid Vaccination In Nh; Majority Support Allowing Employer Vaccine Mandates 8/25/2021, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

One in five New Hampshire adults continue to say they will not get a COVID-19 vaccine. Those who do not plan to get vaccinated are far less likely than earlier in the year to doubt the threat of COVID-19, but are more dubious about the efficacy of the vaccine and very few say the Delta variant will encourage them to get vaccinated. A majority support employers being allowed to mandate vaccinations, but nearly half of the vaccine-resistant say they would leave their job if their employer mandated vaccination. Most support allowing local school districts to determine whether students and staff …

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, August 25, 2021, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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Relationship Form And Function: Exploring Meaning-Making In Young Adults' Romantic Histories, Tyler B. Jamison, Caroline M. Sanner

Faculty Publications

Forming stable, supportive romantic relationships is an important determinant of well-being for adults. Yet, there has been limited research about if and how prior romantic experiences help individuals develop the capacity to enter into such unions. Using grounded theory methods, relationship history interviews were conducted with 35 young adults who provided data about 256 romantic and sexual relationships. The different relationship forms (e.g., hooking up, casual dating, committed partnering) were found to contribute in nuanced ways to romantic development. Specifically, romantic development was characterized by gaining romantic experience, identifying preferences for partners and partnership, and learning to maintain healthy relational …

Unh Scientists Receive $650,000 Grant To Study Genetics Of Costly Dairy Cattle Disease, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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The Pull Of Public Health, Callie Carr

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Receives $3.2 Million To Help Low Income Students In New Hampshire, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.