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Understanding The Relationship Between Food Variety, Food Intake, And Energy Balance, Hollie A. Raynor, Maya Vadiveloo

Nutrition Faculty Publications

Purpose of Review:

In accordance with US dietary guidance, incorporating variety into the diet can align with energy balance, though greater food variety in some categories may make energy balance more challenging. Thus, experimental and epidemiologic evidence is summarized on the relationship between food variety, food and energy intake, and energy balance.

Recent Findings:

Lab-based, experimental research consistently demonstrates that greater variety within foods or sensory characteristics of food increases food and energy intake within an eating occasion. Epidemiologic evidence is less consistent, potentially driven by differing methodologies, particularly in defining and measuring food variety. Moreover, the effect of variety …

Toward Optimizing Global Learning Opportunities For Us Physical Therapy Students: A Description Of Current Practices And Initial Recommendations, Jennifer Audette, Cathy Peterson, Lana Svien

Physical Therapy Faculty Publications

Purpose. To examine and describe the structure, curricular objectives, and outcome measurement practices of faculty developing and providing international opportunities in physical therapy education programs and to provide guidance and initial recommendations for faculty.

Background. Physical therapy educational programs are adding international opportunities as a way to address the increasingly global nature of the profession. Guidelines to enhance practice, optimize the experience, and provide structure for managing risk are warranted.

Methods. A researcher-developed survey was distributed to 216 physical therapy education programs and professional listservs. Respondents from 56 programs (26%) returned the survey. Data were analyzed descriptively.

Results. Most respondents …

"They Chase Us Like Dogs": Exploring The Vulnerabilities Of "Ladyboys" In The Cambodian Sex Trade, Jarrett D. Davis, Glenn Miles

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

While the vulnerability of women and girls continues to be the subject of research and concern among social service providers, few attempts have been made to understand the vulnerabilities and lived experiences of transgender persons in the sex industry. Among the studies that have been done, most have focused on sexual health and their likelihood to contract or spread HIV/AIDS, often ignoring other potential vulnerabilities. This study aims to provide a broad baseline of data on the perspectives and experiences of transgendered persons in the sex trade in Phnom Penh, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of their needs, and …

Graduate Certificate In Aquaculture And Fisheries, Joanna Burkhardt

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Sustainable Grain Production Pls 321, Michael Cerbo

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Sustainable Grain Production Pls 321x, Michael Cerbo

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A Comment On Priors For Bayesian Occupancy Models, Joseph Northrup, Brian D. Gerber

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Understanding patterns of species occurrence and the processes underlying these patterns is fundamental to the study of ecology. One of the more commonly used approaches to investigate species occurrence patterns is occupancy modeling, which can account for imperfect detection of a species during surveys. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of Bayesian modeling in ecology, which includes fitting Bayesian occupancy models. The Bayesian framework is appealing to ecologists for many reasons, including the ability to incorporate prior information through the specification of prior distributions on parameters. While ecologists almost exclusively intend to choose priors so that they are …

Tumor Microenvironment Interactions: Forcing Cancer Progression, Michelle Dawson

Amgen Seminar Series in Chemical Engineering

Many of the hallmarks associated with cancer, including unlimited replicative potential, apoptotic evasion, and tissue invasion and metastasis, can be linked to abnormal cytoskeletal or matrix mechanics – important biophysical parameters. A common feature of these biophysical interactions is the transmission of force from the extracellular matrix to the internal cytoskeleton, which forms the structure of the cell. My lab recently showed that increased traction forces transmitted from the internal cytoskeleton to the external environment correlate with increased cancer cell motility, proliferation, and chemoresistance; this was demonstrated in mechanosensitive breast and ovarian cancer cells that respond to changes in matrix …

The Five Hundred And Forty-Sixth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee: Change The Name Of The College Of Business Administration To College Of Business, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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The Five Hundred.And Forty-Sixth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee: Curricular Proposals, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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The Five Hundred And Forty-Sixth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes February 22, 2018, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Coastal Resiliance And Management Evs 510x, Michael Cerbo

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Dendrimer Nanocarriers And Their Aerosol Formulations For The Delivery Of Therapeutics To And Through The Lungs, Sandro R.P. Da Rocha

Amgen Seminar Series in Chemical Engineering

In this presentation we discuss how the chemistry of dendrimer nanocarriers can be used to modulate their interaction with the pulmonary epithelium and how such knowledge can be used to develop efficient strategies for local or systemic delivery of drugs to and through the lungs. We also discuss particle engineering approaches that allow us to design portable oral inhalation formulations of the dendrimer nanocarriers with aerosols conducive to deep lung deposition. We employ a range of experimental and computational tools to probe the system at various size scales, from atomic to molecular to nano and micron, in order to design …

Identification Of A Putative Man-Made Object From An Underwater Crash Site Using Cad Model Superimposition, Jay Vincelli, Fatih Calakli, Michael Stone, Graham E. Forrester, Timothy Mellon, John Jarrell

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

In order to identify an object in video, a comparison with an exemplar object is typically needed. In this paper, we discuss the methodology used to identify an object detected in underwater video that was recorded during an investigation into Amelia Earhart's purported crash site. A computer aided design (CAD) model of the suspected aircraft component was created based on measurements made from orthogonally rectified images of a reference aircraft, and validated against historical photographs of the subject aircraft prior to the crash. The CAD model was then superimposed on the underwater video, and specific features on the object were …

Short-Term Thermal Acclimation Modifies The Metabolic Condition Of The Coral Holobiont, Emma M. Gibbin, Thomas Kreuger, Hollie M. Putnam, Katie L. Barrot, Julia Bodin, Ruth D. Gates, Anders Meibom

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The nutritional symbiosis between coral hosts and photosynthetic dinoflagellates is fundamental to the functioning of coral reefs. Rising seawater temperatures destabilize this relationship, resulting in drastic declines in world-wide coral cover. Thermal history is thought to play an important role in shaping a coral's response to subsequent thermal stress. Here, we exposed Pocillopora damicornis to two thermal acclimation regimes (ambient vs. warm) and compared the effect that acclimation had on the coral holobiont's response to a subsequent seven day heat stress event. We conducted daily physiological measurements at the holobiont level (gross photosynthesis, respiration, host protein content, symbiont density and …

Are Metabolic Pathways Nash Equilibria?, Angelo Lucia

Amgen Seminar Series in Chemical Engineering

Flux balance analysis (FBA) has been the mainstay for understanding metabolic networks for many years. However, recently Lucia and DiMaggio have shown that metabolic pathways are more correctly modeled using game theory, specifically Nash Equilibrium, because it captures the natural competition among enzymes. The key ideas behind the Nash equilibrium approach to metabolic pathway analysis are that

1. Enzymes are treated as players in a multi-player game.

2. The objective or payoff function for each player is a constrained nonlinear programming (NLP) problem where each player (enzyme) minimizes the Gibbs free energy of the reaction it catalyzes subject to element …

Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents As Natural Egg-Case Incubators At The Galapagos Rift, Pelayo Salinas-De-León, Brennan Phillips, David Ebert, Mahmood Shivji, Florencia Cerutti-Pereyra, Cassandra Ruck, Charles R. Fisher, Leigh Marsh

Ocean Engineering Faculty Publications

The discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in 1977 challenged our views of ecosystem functioning and yet, the research conducted at these extreme and logistically challenging environments still continues to reveal unique biological processes. Here, we report for the first time, a unique behavior where the deep-sea skate, Bathyraja spinosissima, appears to be actively using the elevated temperature of a hydrothermal vent environment to naturally “incubate” developing egg-cases. We hypothesize that this behavior is directly targeted to accelerate embryo development time given that deep-sea skates have some of the longest egg incubation times reported for the animal kingdom. Similar egg …

Biology Of Bees And Pollination Ecology Ent 388, Michael Cerbo

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Evaluation Of Polyphenol Anthocyanin-Enriched Extracts Of Blackberry, Black Raspberry, Blueberry, Cranberry, Red Raspberry, And Strawberry For Free Radical Scavenging, Reactive Carbonyl Species Trapping, Anti-Glycation, Anti-Β-Amyloid Aggregation, And Microglial Neuroprotective Effect, Hang Ma, Shelby L. Johnson, Weixi Lu, Nicholas A. Dasilva, Susan Meschwitz, Joel A. Dain, Navindra P. Seeram

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Glycation is associated with several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), where it potentiates the aggregation and toxicity of proteins such as β-amyloid (Aβ). Published studies support the anti-glycation and neuroprotective effects of several polyphenol-rich fruits, including berries, which are rich in anthocyanins. Herein, blackberry, black raspberry, blueberry, cranberry, red raspberry, and strawberry extracts were evaluated for: (1) total phenolic and anthocyanins contents, (2) free radical (DPPH) scavenging and reactive carbonyl species (methylglyoxal; MGO) trapping, (3) anti-glycation (using BSA-fructose and BSA-MGO models), (4) anti-Aβ aggregation (using thermal- and MGO-induced fibrillation models), and, (5) murine microglia (BV-2) neuroprotective properties. Berry crude …

Food Systems, Sustainability And Health Afs 404, Michael Cerbo

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Findprimarypairs: An Efficient Algorithm For Predicting Element-Transferring Reactant/Product Pairs In Metabolic Networks, Jon Lund Steffensen, Keith M. Dufault-Thompson, Ying Zhang

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Faculty Publications

The metabolism of individual organisms and biological communities can be viewed as a network of metabolites connected to each other through chemical reactions. In metabolic networks, chemical reactions transform reactants into products, thereby transferring elements between these metabolites. Knowledge of how elements are transferred through reactant/product pairs allows for the identification of primary compound connections through a metabolic network. However, such information is not readily available and is often challenging to obtain for large reaction databases or genome-scale metabolic models. In this study, a new algorithm was developed for automatically predicting the element-transferring reactant/product pairs using the limited information available …

Introduction To Ecological Data Analysis Bio 263x, Michael Cerbo

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Two Decades Of Commercializing Medical Devices Using Nanotechnology, Thomas Weber

Amgen Seminar Series in Chemical Engineering

There is an acute shortage of organs due to disease, trauma, congenital defects, and most importantly, age related maladies. The synthetic materials used in tissue engineering applications today are typically composed of millimeter or micron sized particles and/or fiber dimensions. Although human cells are on the micron scale, their individual components, e.g. proteins, are composed of nanometer features. By modifying only the nanofeatures on material surfaces without changing surface chemistry, it is possible to increase tissue growth of any human tissue by controlling the endogenous adsorption of adhesive proteins onto the material surface. In addition, our group has shown that …

The Five Hundred And Forty-Fifth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Curricular Report No. 2017-18-5 From The Graduate Council To The Faculty Senate, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Curricular Report No. 2017-18-5 From The Graduate Council To The Faculty Senate, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes January 25, 2018, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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History Of Television I Flm 214, Joanna Burkhardt

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Usage Statistics: Project Counter R4 Book Report 2 (Br2) By Title 2016-2017, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R4 Book Report 2 (BR2) for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017. Book Report 2 is defined as "Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title." This report presents the data by title on an annual basis.

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