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June 7, 2016 Finance & Facilities (F&F) Committee Meeting, Evp For Administration

Finance and Facilities Committee

Documents related to the June 7, 2016 Board of Regents' Finance and Facilities Committee Meeting. (Agenda, Minutes, eBook, Notice)

Abq Free Press, June 1, 2016, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

Piedra Lumbre Visitors Center Master Plan, New Mexico Land Grant Council, Moises Gonzales, Geoffery Adams

Resource Center for Raza Planning (RCRP)

The Purpose of the Piedra Lumbre Visitors Center Master Plan is to provide findings regarding the existing site conditions of the center as well as inventory the physical structures located on the site. The Resource Center for Raza Planning located in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico was contracted by the New Mexico Land Grant Council to provide technical planning and design services in the area of land use planning, economic development, and architectural design. The Scope of work for the Piedra Lumbre Visitors Center was to develop a master plan for the former …

Request For Class 3 Modification To The Resource Conservation And Recovery Act Facility Operating Permit, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Department Of Energy, Sandia Corporation

Corrective Action at SWMUs 8, 58, 68, 149, 154 and 502

The Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and Sandia Corporation (Sandia) are submitting a request for a Class 3 Modification to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Facility Operating Permit (the Permit). The DOE/NNSA and Sandia are requesting that the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) designate solid waste management units (SWMUs) 8, 58, 68, 149, 154, and 502 as approved for Corrective Action Complete status. The DOE/NNSA and Sandia have implemented corrective measures at these 6 SWMUs in accordance with the requirements of an April 2004 Compliance Order on Consent between NMED, DOE, and Sandia, and the plans approved …

A Variationist Perspective On Spanish-Origin Verbs In Paraguayan Guarani, Josefina Bittar Prieto

Linguistics ETDs

Paraguay presents a unique case of societal bilingualism in Latin America. Almost 90% of its population speaks the indigenous language Guarani, and half of the population is bilingual in Spanish and Guarani. However, contemporary Guarani has been described as an unpredictable, ad-hoc mix of Guarani and Spanish. This idea is also reflected in the local term jopara 'mixture', which is used to refer to the variety by its speakers. A particularly salient contact feature are loan verbs, i.e. Spanish-origin roots used with Guarani morphology. To gain an empirical perspective on the presence and motivation of Spanish loan verbs in Guarani, …

A Cognitive Grammar Analysis Of The Semantics Of The Russian Verbal Prefix Na-, Christopher Hart-Moynihan

Linguistics ETDs

The Russian verbal prefix na- is one of a set of aspectual prefixes that exhibit characteristics of both derivational and inflectional morphemes. In addition to forming aspectual pairs as a grammatical marker of Perfective aspect, na-, in many cases, also carries lexical meaning; in these cases, na-prefixation changes the lexical/semantic meaning of the verbal stem, resulting in a distinct lexical item. I examine a sample of 40 verbs to compare the frequencies of na- as a lexicalized prefix and as a grammaticalized prefix. I then propose a radial category model to account for the polysemous functions of na-, with several …

Illustrating The Prototype Structures Of Parts Of Speech: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis, Phillip Rogers

Linguistics ETDs

Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001) proposes that parts of speech can be explained as prototypes that emerge from the use of broad semantic classes of words--objects, properties, and actions--in basic propositional act functions of discourse--reference, modification, and predication. This theory predicts that each of these broad semantic classes will be typologically unmarked in its prototypical propositional act function and relatively marked in other propositional act functions. Because this theory speaks to such a broad and fundamental organization of linguistic structure, the rich structure of these prototypes has not been fully explored in a comprehensive manner. Gradience is a key characteristic …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 41-Xx, No. 5, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

All Year Realities for Many Families and Youth

Luchamos por Nuestras Vidas

Let Us Count the Ways

Warnings

Legacy Mining Metal Exposures Contribute To Circulating Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein And Serum Inflammatory Potential In A Native Community, Molly E. Harmon

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Numerous abandoned uranium mines (AUM) within the Navajo Nation contribute uranium (U), arsenic (As) and other metals to the soil, air and groundwater that continue to pose potential health risks to Navajo residents. The prevalence of inflammatory-related cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) has increased among the Navajo community in recent decades. Environmental exposure to metal contaminants may alter the circulation in ways that are associated with the inflammation-driven process of atherosclerotic plaque formation. Thus, we hypothesize that exposures to AUM metal contaminants are associated with pro-atherogenic changes in the circulation as evidenced by increased low-density lipoprotein (LDL) …

Pulmonary Bcg Vaccination For Uniform Protection Against Tuberculosis In Environmental Mycobacteria Endemic Regions, Dominique Nicole Price

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Currently, over one-third of the global population is infected with tuberculosis (TB), one of the world's most deadly infectious diseases. The current vaccine against TB, Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), is a live attenuated vaccine that is intradermally administered in over 150 countries around the world. Despite its widespread use, the vaccine has a variable protective efficacy of 0-80%, with the lowest efficacy rates in regions of the world where TB is most prevalent. This variability is partially due to environmental mycobacteria (EM) found in soil and water sources in areas of the world where BCG efficacy is poor. The research hypothesis …

Bacteriophage Virus-Like Particles As Vaccine Platforms: From Heart Disease To Malaria, Erin Crossey

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Virus-like particles (VLPs) make excellent vaccines. They are non-infectious, often easy to produce in bacterial expression systems, and highly immunogenic. The latter feature is granted by the regularity of the capsid structure, which presents viral (or other) epitopes as dense, highly repetitive arrays that strongly stimulate B cells. VLPs can be used as the basis for vaccines targeting the virus from which they were derived, or they can be used as platforms to display practically any short peptide epitope in a multivalent format. Foreign peptides displayed on VLPs exhibit the same high immunogenicity as unmodified VLPs. Even self-antigens, normally subject …

Ecocultural Adjustment: A Peace Corps Sojourn, Melissa Michelle Parks

Communication ETDs

This work serves as a case study to extend, expand, and challenge the conventionally anthropocentric framing of cultural adjustment. I examine cultural adjustment through an ecocultural lens, reconceptualizing the process as ecocultural adjustment, which combines both cultural (human-centered) factors with environmental (both human-constructed and greater-than-human) elements in the process of sojourner adaptation. I utilize journal and blog entries along with my own memories through performative autoethnography to explore a 26-month sojourn with the US Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, as well as the departure, travel, and return to the United States. Over the course of this reflective study, I explore …

Female Gender Role Representation Between 1990 And 2010 In Imported Childrens Cartoons And Their Implications For Conservative Yemeni Culture, Fatima Al-Hattami

Communication ETDs

This thesis explores the female gender role representations in imported cartoons across the years 1990 and 2010 and their resonance with the conservative Yemeni Muslim culture. The two selected cartoons are A Little Princess Sara (a Nippon Animation production) and Totally Spies (a Marathon Media production), both of which are imported to the Arab countries, dubbed into the Arabic language, aired on Arab childrens channels and popular among girls. The study is inspired by theories of media and cultural globalization and imperialism, which were developed to explain media policies and flow around the globe. The study also draws on the …

Inhaled Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Induce Systemic Inflammation And Endothelial Dysfunction Via Mmp-9 Induction, Mario Aragon

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Assessing the mechanisms underlying adverse cardiovascular effects induced by inhaled toxins presents a substantial research challenge. We propose that blood carries an as yet unknown "inflammatory potential" consisting of modified proteins or other biomolecules and reaction byproducts that affects a pathological bioactivity which can be assessed using naïve endothelial cells and blood vessels. The approach involves applying serum from exposed animals to cultured primary endothelial cells or ex vivo isolated arteries. Mice were exposed to multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT; 0, 10 or 40 μg) or other pollutants via pharyngeal aspiration and serum was collected at 4 and 24 h post-exposure. …

Stochastic Methods For One-Sided Bipartite Crossing Minimization And Its Variants, Tanya Jeffries

Computer Science ETDs

The one-sided bipartite graph drawing problem has been extensively studied in the graph drawing literature, with numerous papers appearing over the years showing novel algorithms and heuristics for minimizing associated edge crossings. Although stochastic methods have been highly successful when applied to bipartite graph drawing, a large, comprehensive study to compare said methods has not been carried out for one-sided crossing minimization on traditional, unweighted graphs. Even more so, the variant problems of weighted and bottleneck bipartite crossing minimization have seldom been studied, with only one published algorithm, 3-WOLF (designed for one-sided weighted crossing minimization), and one published heuristic, MEC …

Resurgence Of Paramilitary Violence In Colombia As Peace Deal Nears, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.

The Scientific Conquest Of New Mexico: Local Legacies Of The Manhattan Project 1942-2015, Lucie Anne Genay

American Studies ETDs

In the initial scoping phase of this research project, the main question I used for guidance was "to what extent and how did the Manhattan Project impact New Mexico and New Mexicans?" My first objective was to assess the magnitude of the state's transformation before addressing the other questions that soon ensued from this original reflection. A brief historical review of the state's transformation will introduce these questions, and comparing pre-World War II and post-Cold War New Mexico will justify the term "revolutionized" I used above. This dissertation retraces the story of this scientific colonization from the point of view …

Considerations In Caring For People With Physical Disabilities: A Course Elective, Ingrid C. Hendrix, Sarah K. Morley, Jennifer Benson

Posters and Presentations

Context: People with disabilities represent a significant portion of the population. A 2007 Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Disability in America' noted that barriers to equal health care for people with disabilities include physical barriers, and knowledge and attitudes related to caring and interacting with people with disabilities. People with disabilities (PWD), as with many other groups disadvantaged by social inequities, often receive suboptimal care from health care providers. The root cause of this inequity in care can be traced to a lack of training for health care providers in dealing with PWD. The AAMC has recommended medical …

Green Turtles Taken Off The Endangered List In Mexico, Florida, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Abq Free Press, April 6, 2016, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

Science 2016 Los Alamos Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Los Alamos Science self-study report, review team report, comments from the dean, and response to review report for Spring 2016.

Sophie Aberle Among The Pueblos, Stephen J. Kunitz

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Tlaxcalans In New Mexico: Fading Traces, Contested Legacies, Enrique Lamadrid

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Advancing The Knowledge Of Organic Farming Data In New Mexico: Health And Injury Surveillance Systems, Virginia Sedore

Population Health

While the concept and practice of organic farming has been around since the mid-1800s, there is little data currently being collected on injury, illness, or fatality within the organic farming population, leaving the health risks unknown. This paper intends to look at the surveillance systems currently in place to collect injury and illness data as it relates to organic farmers, and in particular, the New Mexico organic farmer. Evaluations of the current surveillance systems were conducted, and organic farmer demographics were analyzed using rate ratio comparisons of United States(U.S.), Texas, and New Mexico. The results show that the current surveillance …

Gunnison's Prairie Dog Relocation Project: Vegetation Cover Data From The Sevilleta National Wildife Refuge, New Mexico (2005-2013), Ana Davidson, David Lightfoot

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

Prairie dogs are keystone species that impact both animals and plants in grassland habitats. They are a food resource for secondary consumers such as badgers, foxes, and raptors. Also, the mounds that they construct are home to many arthropod and reptile species that otherwise might not survive in grasslands. Both Gunnison’s and black-tailed prairie dogs can increase the number of plant species in grasslands and landscape heterogeneity with their ecosystem engineering that creates disturbed patches on the landscape. Gunnison’s prairie dogs, which were native herbivores at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) before their populations disappeared, were reintroduced at the …

Abq Free Press, March 23, 2016, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

The Neural Representation Of Concepts At The Sensor Level, Michael John Healy, Thoms Preston Caudell

Electrical & Computer Engineering Technical Reports

This report presents a mathematical model of the semantics, or meaning, of the connec-tionist structure and stimulus activity of a neural network, whether artificial or biologi-cal. The mathematical model associates concepts about sensed objects with the neuron-like nodes in a neural network and composable concept relationships with the connec-tion pathways in the network. Category-theoretic constructs, specifically colimits, limits, and functors, organize the concept structure and map it to a formal neural network in a structure-preserving manner. Starting with a simple example of a neural vision system, we show that this mathematical model of neural network structure and activity can be …

Investigating Host Feeding Strategy As A Determinant Of Insect Gut Microbial Community Profile At The Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, Daniel Colman, Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, Eric Toolson

Sevilleta LTER Program Data

Diverse microbial communities live in the gut regions of animals. The precise ecological and evolutionary circumstances that govern relationships between hosts and their gut communities is unclear. In this study, we hypothesize that host feeding strategy shapes the microbial communities within the gut systems of insects. We collected five insect species from the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge that exhibited herbivorous, detritovorous and carnivorous diets. Using gut samples from the insects we measured if and how microbial communities are shaped based on any effect host feeding strategy might have. Preliminary analysis of bacterial communities using 16S rDNA sequences has thus far …

President Evo Morales Loses Bolivian Reelection Referendum, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.