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Melding Data Collection Methodology With Community Assistance: Benefits To Both Researchers And The Indigenous Groups They Study, Douglas S. London Mar 2015

Melding Data Collection Methodology With Community Assistance: Benefits To Both Researchers And The Indigenous Groups They Study, Douglas S. London

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

I present a description of a model of melding data collection with community aid in the form of health educator training that emerged in the process of research collaboration during 2009-2011 with the Kawymeno Waorani foragers of Amazonian Ecuador. Some guidelines are suggested as to how benefits to both parties might be achieved when collecting data with indigenous populations. In this article I describe some of the advantages and pitfalls of melding data collection and community aid with research when collaborating with vulnerable indigenous groups.

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Isolation And Identification Of An Extracellular Subtilisin-Like Serine Protease Secreted By The Bat Pathogen Pseudogymnoascus Destructans, Evan L. Pannkuk, Thomas S. Risch, Brett J. Savary Mar 2015

Isolation And Identification Of An Extracellular Subtilisin-Like Serine Protease Secreted By The Bat Pathogen Pseudogymnoascus Destructans, Evan L. Pannkuk, Thomas S. Risch, Brett J. Savary

KIP Articles

White nose syndrome (WNS) is a cutaneous fungal disease of bats. WNS is responsible for unprecedented mortalities in North American cave bat populations. There have been few descriptions of enzyme activities that may function in WNS host/pathogen interactions, while no study has isolated and described secreted proteases. To address the hypothesis that Pseudogymnoascus destructans secretes extracellular proteases that function in wing necrosis during WNS infection, the object of this study was to culture P. destructans on various media, then isolate and structurally identify those proteases accumulated stably in the culture medium. We found a single dominant protease activity on minimal …

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Using Token Reinforcement To Increase Walking For Adults With Intellectual Disabilities, Haley Nicole Krentz Mar 2015

Using Token Reinforcement To Increase Walking For Adults With Intellectual Disabilities, Haley Nicole Krentz

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) are at risk for negative health conditions due to high levels of sedentary behavior. Walking and cycling are the most common forms of physical activity engaged in by adults with ID. Research is limited in evaluating physical activity interventions for this population. The purpose of this study will be to evaluate the effectiveness of a token reinforcement intervention to increase distance walked for adults with mild to moderate ID at adult day training centers.

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Direct Detection Of Fungal Siderophores On Bats With White-Nose Syndrome Via Fluorescence Microscopy-Guided Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Samantha J. Mascuch, Wilna J. Moree, Cheng-Chih Hsu Mar 2015

Direct Detection Of Fungal Siderophores On Bats With White-Nose Syndrome Via Fluorescence Microscopy-Guided Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Samantha J. Mascuch, Wilna J. Moree, Cheng-Chih Hsu

KIP Articles

White-nose syndrome (WNS) caused by the pathogenic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans is decimating the populations of several hibernating North American bat species. Little is known about the molecular interplay between pathogen and host in this disease. Fluorescence microscopy ambient ionization mass spectrometry was used to generate metabolic profiles from the wings of both healthy and diseased bats of the genus Myotis. Fungal siderophores, molecules that scavenge iron from the environment, were detected on the wings of bats with WNS, but not on healthy bats. This work is among the first examples in which microbial molecules are directly detected from an infected …

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Crow's Nest, March 16, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff Mar 2015

Crow's Nest, March 16, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 16, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

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Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board, March 12, 2015, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County Mar 2015

Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board, March 12, 2015, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Agenda for the March 12, 2015, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Also included are previous meetings' minutes and documents to review before the meeting.

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Crow's Nest, March 9, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff Mar 2015

Crow's Nest, March 9, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 9, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

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Citizens Or Customers? Transit Agency Approaches To Community Engagement, Gerard C. Wellman Mar 2015

Citizens Or Customers? Transit Agency Approaches To Community Engagement, Gerard C. Wellman

Journal of Public Transportation

This research considers what public administrators at mass transit agencies say they do in pursuit of engagement with their communities. The decisions that public administrators in transit agencies make regarding service retrenchment or expansion have deep, profound consequences on poor and vulnerable transit-dependent populations. Such transit administrators exercise a great deal of power over their ridership’s lives since agency decisions have real-world consequences. Therefore, it is a critical research question to examine the methods, techniques, and underlying rationale of transit administrators’ pursuit of community engagement. This research finds that public transportation agency approaches to community engagement can be typified into …

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Parental Deportation And Cape Verdean Youth Experiences: A Case Study, Leila Rosa Feb 2015

Parental Deportation And Cape Verdean Youth Experiences: A Case Study, Leila Rosa

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The consistent academic underperformance of students from diverse backgrounds is a national concern and the subject of study by numerous researchers. Some scholars suggest this underperformance indicates teacher lack of preparation to address the needs of a highly diverse student population (Hollins & Guzman, 2005; Ford, 2008; Darling-Hamond, 2004). Central to the overall efforts for improving achievement outcomes should be a focus on the educational experiences of the segment of population that is underperforming, namely students of color, from diverse cultural and linguistic background. Policies of immigration are particularly relevant for the students who are immigrants to the United States …

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The Weekly Challenger, February 26, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Feb 2015

The Weekly Challenger, February 26, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The February 26, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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5-Aminolevulinate Synthase: Characterization Of The Enzymatic Mechanism, Reaction Selectivity, And Structural Plasticity, Bosko M. Stojanovski Feb 2015

5-Aminolevulinate Synthase: Characterization Of The Enzymatic Mechanism, Reaction Selectivity, And Structural Plasticity, Bosko M. Stojanovski

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

5-Aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS) catalyzes the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent condensation between glycine and succinyl-CoA to generate coenzyme A (CoA), CO2, and 5-aminolevulinate (ALA). The chemical mechanism of this reaction, which represents the first and regulated step of heme biosynthesis in mammals, involves the formation of a short-lived glycine quinonoid intermediate and an unstable 2-amino-3-ketoadipate intermediate. Using liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry to analyze the products from the reaction of murine erythroid ALAS (mALAS2) with O-methylglycine and succinyl-CoA, we directly identified the chemical nature of the inherently unstable 2-amino-3-ketoadipate intermediate, which predicates the glycine quinonoid species as …

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Cyanobacteria, Algae And Microfungi Present In Biofilm From Božana Cave (Serbia), Slađana Popović, Gordana Subakov Simić, Miloš Stupar, Nikola Unković, Dragana Predojević, Jelena Jovanović, Milica Ljaljević Grbić Feb 2015

Cyanobacteria, Algae And Microfungi Present In Biofilm From Božana Cave (Serbia), Slađana Popović, Gordana Subakov Simić, Miloš Stupar, Nikola Unković, Dragana Predojević, Jelena Jovanović, Milica Ljaljević Grbić

International Journal of Speleology

Phototrophic microorganisms (cyanobacteria and algae) and microfungi, were identified from biofilm on the walls of the entrance of BožanaCavein west Serbia. Temperature, relative humidity and light intensity were measured, and chlorophyll a content determined. Light intensity differed from the entrance inwards. However, Chl a content was not proportional to light intensity, instead it was positively correlated to biofilm weight. Biofilm samples from two sites were also observed using a scanning electron microscope. Coccoid forms of cyanobacteria were abundant at the sampling site with the lowest light intensity, while members of the order Nostocales were predominant at the sampling site with …

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The Weekly Challenger, February 19, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Feb 2015

The Weekly Challenger, February 19, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The February 19, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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Minutes, Management Team Meeting, February 4, 2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Management Team Feb 2015

Minutes, Management Team Meeting, February 4, 2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Management Team

Regional Chancellor's Cabinet

Minutes from the February 4, 2015, meeting of the Management Team at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

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Presentations And Posters From The 2015 Research That Matters Sustainable Food Conference: People, Policy, & Practice, Various Authors Jan 2015

Presentations And Posters From The 2015 Research That Matters Sustainable Food Conference: People, Policy, & Practice, Various Authors

Food and Gardening Working Group

The University of South Florida Sustainable Food Conference: People, Policy, & Practice brought together food researchers from USF and the larger Tampa Bay community to share ideas and findings that will pave the path toward more sustainable and resilient communities. It featured research papers and presentations from all disciplines and methodologies addressing issues concerning food production, distribution, retail, and/or consumption.

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The Weekly Challenger, January 22, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Jan 2015

The Weekly Challenger, January 22, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 22, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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Crow's Nest, January 19, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff Jan 2015

Crow's Nest, January 19, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The January 19, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

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The Weekly Challenger, January 15, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Jan 2015

The Weekly Challenger, January 15, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 15, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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Quantitative Literacy And Co-Construction In A High School Math Course, Mark Russo Jan 2015

Quantitative Literacy And Co-Construction In A High School Math Course, Mark Russo

Numeracy

This article reports some of the key findings from a practitioner-action research study that analyzed the impact of co-construction on students’ quantitative literacy (QL) and attitudes towards mathematics. Co-construction is a process where students work alongside their teachers to plan units, lessons, and assessments, and this approach was chosen because of its potential to help students advocate for the specific mathematical contexts that would best develop their QL. This yearlong study took place in a public high school, with forty-five students in two different classes participating. Students formally contributed to the development of the course by completing written questionnaires and …

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The Weekly Challenger, January 8, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Jan 2015

The Weekly Challenger, January 8, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 8, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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And On Top Of All That… Coping With Ocean Acidification In The Midst Of Many Stressors, Denise L. Breitburg, Joseph Salisbury, Joan M. Bernhard, Wei-Jun Cai, Sam Dupont, Scott C. Doney, Kristy J. Kroeker, Lisa A. Levin, W. Christopher Long, Lisa M. Milke, Seth H. Miller, Beth Phelan, Uta Passow, Brad A. Seibel, Anne E. Todgham, Ann M. Tarrant Jan 2015

And On Top Of All That… Coping With Ocean Acidification In The Midst Of Many Stressors, Denise L. Breitburg, Joseph Salisbury, Joan M. Bernhard, Wei-Jun Cai, Sam Dupont, Scott C. Doney, Kristy J. Kroeker, Lisa A. Levin, W. Christopher Long, Lisa M. Milke, Seth H. Miller, Beth Phelan, Uta Passow, Brad A. Seibel, Anne E. Todgham, Ann M. Tarrant

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Oceanic and coastal waters are acidifying due to processes dominated in the open ocean by increasing atmospheric CO2 and dominated in estuaries and some coastal waters by nutrient-fueled respiration. The patterns and severity of acidification, as well as its effects, are modified by the host of stressors related to human activities that also influence these habitats. Temperature, deoxygenation, and changes in food webs are particularly important co-stressors because they are pervasive, and both their causes and effects are often mechanistically linked to acidification. Development of a theoretical underpinning to multiple stressor research that considers physiological, ecological, and evolutionary perspectives is …

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Integration Of Gis And Logistic Regression To Develop A Habitat Suitability Model For Predicting Seagrass Distribution, Samantha Cope Jan 2015

Integration Of Gis And Logistic Regression To Develop A Habitat Suitability Model For Predicting Seagrass Distribution, Samantha Cope

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Habitat suitability modeling can reveal connections between seagrass and environmental variables namely water quality. This can help predict seagrass distribution affected by changing water quality variables. Seagrass, and its density distribution in Tampa Bay, Florida, is an important environmental and economic resource providing a habitat for fish and invertebrates, a food source for larger vertebrates, and a significant source of primary productivity. The overall goal of this study was to loosely couple GIS and logistic regression methods to analyze relationships between seagrass distribution and water quality variables. Specific objectives were i) to determine key water quality variables that influenced seagrass …

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Drug Repurposing: A Study Of The Potential Antitumorgenic Activity Of Nonchemotherapeutic Drugs, Katelyn Hoagland Jan 2015

Drug Repurposing: A Study Of The Potential Antitumorgenic Activity Of Nonchemotherapeutic Drugs, Katelyn Hoagland

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

In this thesis, the topic and applications of drug repurposing are explained. Drug repurposing is the process of finding new biological targets for existing drugs which have already been approved for treatment of other diseases, or whose targets have already been discovered [1]. The fact that there are many drugs that interact with biological elements outside their targets is being continually reinforced as more and more drug repurposing success stories are revealed [2]. In this thesis, the process of drug development is outlined and the benefits and ethics of drug repurposing are discussed. Possible applications of drug discovery are outlined, …

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Distant War Clouds, With Clearing Paths For Development Ahead [1942-1951], James Anthony Schnur Jan 2015

Distant War Clouds, With Clearing Paths For Development Ahead [1942-1951], James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Remarks delivered by Schnur at the fifth program of the "Pinellas by the Decades" centennial lecture series, Pinellas Room, Heritage Village, on 12 February 2012. The Pinellas County Communications Office videotaped the program and the actual lecture varies slightly from this printed document due to time constraints. The program, including questions, was approximately 61 minutes in length.

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Health Science Professions, 2015-2016, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Jan 2015

Health Science Professions, 2015-2016, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2015-2016 for Health Science Professions.

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Brca1 185delag Mutation Enhances Interleukin-1Β Expression In Ovarian Surface Epithelial Cells, Kamisha T. Woolery, Mai Mohamed, Rebecca J. Linger, Kimberly P. Dobrinski, Jesse Roman, Patricia A. Kruk Jan 2015

Brca1 185delag Mutation Enhances Interleukin-1Β Expression In Ovarian Surface Epithelial Cells, Kamisha T. Woolery, Mai Mohamed, Rebecca J. Linger, Kimberly P. Dobrinski, Jesse Roman, Patricia A. Kruk

Pathology and Cell Biology Faculty Publications

Familial history remains the strongest risk factor for developing ovarian cancer (OC) and is associated with germline BRCA1 mutations, such as the 185delAG founder mutation. We sought to determine whether normal human ovarian surface epithelial (OSE) cells expressing the BRCA1 185delAG mutant, BRAT, could promote an inflammatory phenotype by investigating its impact on expression of the proinflammatory cytokine, Interleukin-1β (IL-1β). Cultured OSE cells with and without BRAT were analyzed for differential target gene expression by real-time PCR, western blot, ELISA, luciferase reporter, and siRNA assays. We found that BRAT cells expressed increased cellular and secreted levels of …

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Cancer Stem Cell Targeted Therapy: Progress Amid Controversies, Tao Wang, Sarah Shigdar, Michael P. Gantier, Yingchun Hou, Li Wang, Yong Li, Hadi Al Shamaileh, Wang Yin, Shu-Feng Zhou, Xinhan Zhao, Wei Duan Jan 2015

Cancer Stem Cell Targeted Therapy: Progress Amid Controversies, Tao Wang, Sarah Shigdar, Michael P. Gantier, Yingchun Hou, Li Wang, Yong Li, Hadi Al Shamaileh, Wang Yin, Shu-Feng Zhou, Xinhan Zhao, Wei Duan

Pharmacy Faculty Publications

Although cancer stem cells have been well characterized in numerous malignancies, the fundamental characteristics of this group of cells, however, have been challenged by some recent observations: cancer stem cells may not necessary to be rare within tumors; cancer stem cells and non-cancer stem cells may undergo reversible phenotypic changes; and the cancer stem cells phenotype can vary substantially between patients. Here the current status and progresses of cancer stem cells theory is illustrated and via providing a panoramic view of cancer therapy, we addressed the recent controversies regarding the feasibility of cancer stem cells targeted anti-cancer therapy.

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Small And Closed Vs. Large And Open: Some Lessons From Comparing Cuban To Colombian Agricultural Development, Bernd Reiter, Brandon S. Huson, Maria A. Gonzalez Jan 2015

Small And Closed Vs. Large And Open: Some Lessons From Comparing Cuban To Colombian Agricultural Development, Bernd Reiter, Brandon S. Huson, Maria A. Gonzalez

Government and International Affairs Faculty Publications

Comparing the experiences of selected Latin America and the Caribbean countries and their trajectories over the past 15 years offers rich insights into the dynamics and causes for not meeting the 2015 MDGs. They also offer clues for post-MDG strategies. Central to achieving sustainable growth are government policies able to support small and medium- sized farms and peasants, as they are crucial for the achievement of several goals, centrally: to achieve food security; to provide a sound and stable rural environment able to resist external (financial) shocks; to secure healthy food; to secure local food; and to protect vibrant and …

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Acute Putrescine Supplementation With Schwann Cell Implantation Improves Sensory And Serotonergic Axon Growth And Functional Recovery In Spinal Cord Injured Rats, J. Bryan Iorgulescu, Samik P. Patel, Jack Louro, Christian M. Andrade, Andre R. Sanchez, Damien D. Pearse Jan 2015

Acute Putrescine Supplementation With Schwann Cell Implantation Improves Sensory And Serotonergic Axon Growth And Functional Recovery In Spinal Cord Injured Rats, J. Bryan Iorgulescu, Samik P. Patel, Jack Louro, Christian M. Andrade, Andre R. Sanchez, Damien D. Pearse

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

Schwann cell (SC) transplantation exhibits significant potential for spinal cord injury (SCI) repair and its use as a therapeutic modality has now progressed to clinical trials for subacute and chronic human SCI. Although SC implants provide a receptive environment for axonal regrowth and support functional recovery in a number of experimental SCI models, axonal regeneration is largely limited to local systems and the behavioral improvements are modest without additional combinatory approaches. In the current study we investigated whether the concurrent delivery of the polyamine putrescine, started either 30 min or 1 week after SCI, could enhance the efficacy of SCs …

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Patient Populations, Clinical Associations, And System Efficiency In Healthcare Delivery System, Yazhuo Liu Jan 2015

Patient Populations, Clinical Associations, And System Efficiency In Healthcare Delivery System, Yazhuo Liu

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The efforts to improve health care delivery usually involve studies and analysis of patient populations and healthcare systems. In this dissertation, I present the research conducted in the following areas: identifying patient groups, improving treatments for specific conditions by using statistical as well as data mining techniques, and developing new operation research models to increase system efficiency from the health institutes’ perspective. The results provide better understanding of high risk patient groups, more accuracy in detecting disease’ correlations and practical scheduling tools that consider uncertain operation durations and real-life constraints.

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