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The Tijeras Pueblo (La 581) Archaeofaunal Project, Emily Lena Jones, Scott Kirk, Caitlin S. Ainsworth, Asia Alsgaard, Jana Valesca Meyer, Cyler Conrad

Anthropology Datasets

These files contain data generated by the Tijeras Pueblo (LA 581) Archaeofaunal Project, a project of the University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology Zooarchaeology Laboratory between 2011 and the present. This project has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1732622 and by a grant from the Research Allocations Committee of the University of New Mexico.

These data are the basis of the analyses presented in the following publication:

Jones, Emily Lena, Scott Kirk, Caitlin S. Ainsworth, Asia Alsgaard, Jana Valesca Meyer, and Cyler Conrad. 2021. The Community at the Crossroads: Artiodactyl Exploitation and …

Overlapping Roles Of Nadph Oxidase 4 (Nox4) For Diabetic And Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent-Induced Systemic Fibrosis-Animal Equivalent Dosing Of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents Supplementary Figure 2, Francesca Bruno, Joshua Deaguero, Catherine Do, Doug Yoon Lee, Chunyan Tan, G Patricia Escobar, Brent Wagner

The Kidney Institute of New Mexico

Supplementary figure for the forthcoming publication entitled “Overlapping roles of NADPH Oxidase 4 (Nox4) for diabetic and gadolinium-based contrast agent-induced systemic fibrosis”. Supplementary Figure 2 demonstrates renal changes induced by gadolinium-based contrast agent treatment and experimental diabetes. Photomicrographs analyzed by a blinded veterinary pathologist.

Nature’S Personhood And Property’S Virtues, Laura Spitz, Eduardo M. Peñalver

Faculty Scholarship

This Article evaluates the strategy of claiming personhood for natural objects as a way to advance environmental goals in the United States. Using the Colorado River Ecosystem v. Colorado litigation as the focus, we explore the normative foundation of the claim—elements of nature are legal persons—and the work personhood is being asked to do by the plaintiff and other environmental activists. We identify three possibilities: procedural work, substantive work, and rhetorical work. Of those, we suggest the plaintiff’s strongest case is rhetorical. We say this not only because it will likely be difficult to convince a judge to extend standing …

Bad Apples Or A Rotten Tree: Ameliorating The Double Pandemic Of Covid-19 And Racial Economic Inequality, Nathalie Martin

Faculty Scholarship

Black Lives Matter signs pepper our rural, middle class neighborhood. The lawn signs raise a fundamental question: if Black Lives Matter, what will it take to reverse the longstanding trend that has left many dead and so many others, perhaps all others, suffering? What will it take to create some semblance of equality and equity across racial lines in America?

Part I of this essay discusses race and Covid 19. It reviews and updates statistics on Covid deaths and race, and discusses some of the reasons for the racial disparities in Covid deaths. Part II briefly reviews the stratification of …

Racial Triangulation, Interest-Convergence, And The Double-Consciousness Of Asian Americans, Vinay Harpalani

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay integrates Professor Claire Jean Kim’s racial triangulation framework, Professor Derrick Bell’s interest-convergence theory, and W.E.B. Du Bois’s notion of double-consciousness, all to examine the racial positioning of Asian Americans and the dilemmas we face as a result. To do so, this Essay considers the history of Asian immigration to the United States, the model minority and perpetual foreigner stereotypes, Asian Americans’ positioning in the affirmative action debate, COVID-19-related hate and bias incidents, and Andrew Yang’s 2020 Democratic presidential candidacy. The Essay examines how racial stereotypes of Asian Americans have emerged through historical cycles of valorization and ostracism, as …

Rapid Deployment Of A Statewide Covid-19 Echo Program For Frontline Clinicians: Early Results And Lessons Learned., Anna L. Steeves-Reece, Nancy C Elder, Tuesday A Graham, Miriam L Wolf, Isabel Stock, Melinda M Davis, Ronald D Stock

Project ECHO Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Issue No. 114: Spring 2021

La Crónica de Nuevo México

2 A Letter From the President

3 The Memory of their Magic: Dance Halls of the Rio Abajo and Beyond by Richard Melzer and Matt Baca

11 The 1899 Attempt to Form the New State of El Paso, USA by John E. Ramsay

18 Despedidas del Mundo: Death Songs by Robert J. Tórrez

30 HSNM Award Winners

32 New Books

Sex-Specific Anti-Allodynic Mechanisms Of Cav3.3 T-Type Calcium Channels In Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain, Aleyah Goins, Marena Montera, Mitra Afaghpour-Becklund, Sabrina Mcilwrath, Karin Westlund-High, Sascha Alles

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Chronic pain is a serious and debilitating condition that affects one in five people around the world. In order to address this public health problem, we performed studies to elucidate the role of Cav3.3 T-type voltage-gated calcium channels in the FRICT-ION model of trigeminal (TG) neuropathic pain. Western blot and immunohistochemical analyses of TG revealed protein upregulation of Cav3.3 compared to controls. Intraperitoneal injection of a highly selective TAT-based Cav3.3 blocking peptide (TAT-C3P) in FRICT-ION mice elicited a significant reduction of allodynia that correlated with a reduction of TG Cav3.3. These data suggest that a blockade of Cav3.3 may be …

In Sync!® Support Group Leader Program, Andrea Merriam

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

A multi-faceted training program to help volunteer support group leaders learn leadership and facilitation skills, and provide them with supportive resources.

Many people impacted by PD rely heavily on support groups and peers for support, socialization, tips and assistance. Most support groups are led by people with movement disorders or their care partners. They dedicate their time and energy over multiple years as volunteer leaders. Yet while they support so many others, they seldom receive the support they need. With limited understanding of how to start, grow and sustain a group, the leaders are often untrained and isolated. To address …

Accuracy Of Spanish Translation Of Alcohol Screening Questionnaires For Use In Brain And Behavioral Health Research, D E. Rodriguez, L Enriquez, L Stacy, R Rai, L N. Bakhireva, J Lowe

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Purpose: Spanish speakers represented 13% of the U.S. population in 2015. Alcohol use in pregnancy, including Spanish-speakers, affects 1 in 10 U.S. women. The rising population of U.S. Spanish-speakers necessitates availability of Spanish-language tools to consistently measure alcohol consumption. This study compares existing Spanish translations of alcohol questionnaires to English questionnaire items and examines dialectal differences.

Methods & Data: Spanish-translations of common alcohol screening questionnaires, including AUDIT (1 translation, validated), CAGE (4 total, 2 validated), and TWEAK (1, unvalidated) were compiled from peer-reviewed articles, government-agencies and universities. Each item was back-translated to English separately (by two bi-lingual English/Spanish speakers with …

Effects Of Neuronal Activation And Psychiatric Treatment On Circhomer1 Biogenesis, Grigorios Papageorgiou, Nikolaos Mellios

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Schizophrenia (SCZ) and Bipolar disorder (BD) are heterogeneous psychiatric disorders that together affect more than 3.5% of the US population. Studies using animal, pharmacological models

and post-mortem data, have revealed abnormalities in the dopaminergic and glutamatergic pathways, however, the pathogenesis remains vague. Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been shown to play a role in regulating gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level and having implications on brain development and psychiatric diseases. Circular RNAs are a category of ncRNAs, formed after back-splicing of exons/introns, covalently linked, enriched in the mammalian brain and derived from genes that are implicated in synaptic plasticity. …

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Enhances Morphine-Mediated Toll Like Receptor (Tlr)-4 Actions And Paradoxically Prolongs Nerve Injury-Induced Pathological Pain, Shahani Noor, Melody S. Sun, Chaselyn D. Ruffaner-Hanson, Monique V. Nysus, Diane C. Jimenez, Fernando F. Valenzuela, Erin D. Milligan

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Our prior work demonstrates that adult prenatal alcohol exposed (PAE) rats with minimal nerve injury develop allodynia (pathological light touch sensitivity) in concert with aberrant peripheral-spinal glial and immune activation. Nerve-injured PAE rats display heightened proinflammatory cytokine production (IL-1β, TNF-α, CCL2) typically produced following activation of innate immune receptors, TLR4 and Nod-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasomes. This suggests that PAE-related adaptations prime peripheral macrophages and central nervous system (CNS) glia to over-respond to subtle challenges through exaggerated TLR4 and NLRP3 inflammasome reactivity. Interestingly, morphine, a standard opioid pain therapeutic, binds the μ-opioid receptor and also glial …

Center For Brain Recovery And Repair-Clinical Core, Rick Campbell, Michel Torbey, Darbi Gill, Davin Quinn, Jessica Richardson, Jeremy Hogeveen, Cndrew Carlson, Kevin Wilson, Nick Mertens, Marcus Sterling, Saul Fernandez

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Survivors of brain injuries such as stroke and trauma often endure life-long disabilities, which span a spectrum of deficits and are associated with enormous individual and societal costs. There is an urgent need to develop effective interventions that can improve cognitive and motor outcomes, especially individualized approaches that target specific disruptions of brain physiology or circuits. The Center for Brain Recovery and Repair (CBRR) is a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (NIH/NIGMS P20 GM109089; PI: Shuttleworth) established as an interdisciplinary community of clinical and preclinical investigators to address these issues. The Clinical Core is an ideally-situated brain injury research hub, …

Effect Of Dexpramipexole In Neuropathic Pain In Prenatal Alcohol Exposed Female Subjects, Andrea A. Pasmay, Justine R. Zimmerly, Shahani Noor, Annette K. Fernandez, Melody S. Sun, Suzy Davies, Daniel D. Savage, C Fernando Valenzuela, Nikolaos Mellios, Rodrigo Escalona, Erin D. Milligan

Brain & Behavioral Health Research Day

Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) results in deficiencies of the central nervous system (CNS) and an overactive proinflammatory neuroimmune response. This response is mediated by cytokines secreted from infiltrating peripheral immune cells like T cells that secrete interferon-g (IFNg). Interleukin-10 is a potent anti-inflammatory cytokine that inhibits the production of a variety of proinflammatory cytokines. While IFN is secreted from and further activates T cells, it is also secreted from activated macrophage in response to tissue injury and inflammation and further enhances inflammatory processes. Neuropathic pain results from damage to peripheral nerves and can be experienced as an increased sensitivity to …

11-30-2021 Hsc Committee Meeting Minutes, Hsc Committee

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

02-08-2022 Hsc Commitee, Hsc Committee

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

Unm Health Sciences Center Data Book 2020-21, University Of New Mexico - Health Sciences Center

Health Sciences Center Databook (1990-ongoing)

No abstract provided.

Unm Hslic Organizational Chart 2021, Sally Bowler-Hill

HSLIC Organizational Charts

No abstract provided.

2021 Multi-Sector General Permit Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan V.1, Notice Of Intent, 2020 Msgp Annual Report, National Technology & Engineering Solutions Of Sandia

2015 Multi-Sector General Permit

Stormwater discharges from industrial activities at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (SNL/NM) are eligible for coverage under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP). This Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) was prepared by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) for the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia Field Office (SFO), owner of SNL/NM, located in Albuquerque, NM. This SWPPP was prepared in compliance with the 2021 MSGP (effective March 1, 2021) and includes a description, potential pollutant sources, and control measures for each permitted site; and stormwater monitoring and compliance plans.

Indeterminacy In Neutrosophic Theories And Their Applications, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Indeterminacy makes the main distinction between fuzzy / intuitionistic fuzzy (and other extensions of fuzzy) set / logic vs. neutrosophic set / logic, and between classical probability and neutrosophic probability. Also, between classical statistics vs. neutrosophic and plithogenic statistics, between classical algebraic structures vs. neutrosophic algebrais structures, between crisp numbers vs. neutrosophic numbers. We present a broad definition of indeterminacy, various types of indeterminacies, and many practical applications.

New Mexico’S Independent Ethics Commission And The Long Fight To Constrain Public Corruption, Lane Towery

New Mexico Law Review

After a string of high-profile corruption scandals in state government, and a decade-long legislative fight to find a solution, in 2018 New Mexico voters passed a popular constitutional amendment creating an independent ethics commission. Enabling legislation cleared the legislature during the 2019 session, and the commission began operating on January 1, 2020. The ethics commission hears complaints made against candidates, lobbyists, and public officials in the executive and legislative branches. In addition, it publishes opinions on questions of ethics in state government. The commission, however, risks failing at its mission to reduce unethical behavior because of a lack of power …

A Standardized Protocol For The Comprehensive Assessment Of Dental Hygiene Work, Shawn C Roll, Mark E Hardison, Jane L Forrest, Nikki L Colclazier, Joyce Y Sumi, Nancy A Baker

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are prevalent in dental hygienists. Although engineering controls and ergonomic training is available, it is unclear why this intransigent problem continues. One possible barrier is that a comprehensive, standardized protocol for evaluating dental hygiene work does not exist.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to generate a valid and reliable observational protocol for the assessment of dental hygiene work.

METHODS: An iterative process was used to establish and refine an ecologically valid video acquisition and observation protocol to assess key activities, tasks, and performance components of dental hygiene work.

RESULTS: Good inter-rater reliability was achieved across all variables …

Amplification Of School-Based Strategies Resulting From The Application Of The Dynamic Adaptation Process To Reduce Sexual And Gender Minority Youth Suicide, Lara M Gunderson, Daniel G Shattuck, Amy E Green, C Ann Vitous, Mary M Ramos, Cathleen E Willging

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Evidence-informed practices (EIPs) are imperative to increase school safety for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) students and their peers. Recently, the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC), a taxonomy of discrete implementation strategies used in health care settings, was adapted for schools. The School Implementation Strategies, Translating the ERIC Resources (SISTER) resulted in 75 discrete implementation strategies. In this article, we examine which SISTER strategies were used to implement six EIPs to reduce suicidality among LGBTQ high school students. We applied the dynamic adaptation process (DAP), a phased, data-driven implementation planning process, that accounts for …

Introduction, Sarah Mclain, Dharma Khalsa

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Moonlight: A Photo Essay, David A. Westbrook

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Southwestern Acequia Systems And Communities; Nurturing A Culture Of Place, Eric Romero

Natural Resources Journal

El Aqua es La Vida” (Water is Life) is a ubiquitous bumper sticker on trucks, mini vans and tractors in New Mexico, Colorado and the greater southwest. Besides a succinct, pithy statement for natural resource management, the maxim references a land ethic that is particularly evidenced in acequia communities. Put simply, acequias are human-constructed hydrological systems that deliver water to agricultural fields. These community-governed irrigation systems are common in southwestern states– particularly northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. However, the English connotation of ‘irrigation ditch” fails to reflect the different levels of meaning associated with these important water channels. A …

Exploring The History Of Charging And Sentencing Patterns In U.S. Clean Air Act Criminal Prosecutions, Joshua Ozymy, Melissa Jarrell Ozymy

Natural Resources Journal

The institutionalization of criminal investigation and prosecution of companies and individuals that violate federal clean air laws has been ongoing for almost four decades. Yet our empirical understanding of how defendants are criminally prosecuted and sanctioned under the U.S. Clean Air Act is mostly unknown. Our goal is to analyze historical charging and sentencing patterns in Clean Air Act criminal prosecutions and show the broader themes that emerge over time. Through content analysis of all 2,588 criminal prosecutions resulting from U.S. EPA criminal investigations, 1983-2019, we select all 377 prosecutions focusing on Clean Air Act violations. Findings suggest that prosecutions …

Integrating The Law Of The Rio Chama Through Institutional Ontologies Of The Middle Rio Grande Basin, Colin Mckenzie

Natural Resources Journal

The Law of the River is paradigmatically the legal and policy framework for river basin governance in the largely arid Western United Sates. In parsing this notoriously arcane body of law, complexity theory and jurisprudence, or the philosophy of law, are useful tools. This work develops and applies a conceptual model of the Middle Rio Grande basin as a social–ecological system in an attempt to improve understanding, transparency, and a sense of meaning of the so-called Law of the River. This project confronts the legal ecology of the “Great River” and its principle middle valley tributary, northern New Mexico’s Rio …

Volume 61 Masthead, Natural Resources Journal

NRJ Mastheads

No abstract provided.

Move From Surviving To Thriving: The Positive Psychology Workbook For Challenging Times, Bruce W. Smith

Psychology Faculty and Staff Publications

This workbook is freely offered to anyone who wants to use it to create a life of greater joy, happiness, meaning, and fulfillment in spite of the challenges we often face.

You have my permission to use anything in this workbook as long as you use it for increasing human happiness and well-being and make it as freely available as you can.