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Interactions Between Soil Mineral Composition And Particulate Organic Matter Mediate Bioavailable Nitrogen, Andrea Jilling, Marian Carrell, A Stuart Grandy, Rachel Hestrin, Marco Keiluweit, Erik Knatvold, Andrew Whitaker
Interactions Between Soil Mineral Composition And Particulate Organic Matter Mediate Bioavailable Nitrogen, Andrea Jilling, Marian Carrell, A Stuart Grandy, Rachel Hestrin, Marco Keiluweit, Erik Knatvold, Andrew Whitaker
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Soil organic matter (SOM) can supply critical quantities of nitrogen (N) to plants, but fundamental questions remain regarding from what pools and by which processes plants and microbes obtain N. The source of bioavailable N is generally assigned to polymeric or particulate organic matter (POM), but in mineral soils, POM is often a minor pool of N and can be a poor predictor of bioavailable N or plant N uptake. Mounting evidence suggests mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) is significantly more dynamic than previously assumed and may serve as an important source of N for plants and microbes. The abundance and …
Interactions Between Soil Mineral Composition And Particulate Organic Matter Mediate Bioavailable Nitrogen, Andrea Jilling, Marian Carrell, A Stuart Grandy, Rachel Hestrin, Marco Keiluweit, Erik Knatvold, Andrew Whitaker
Interactions Between Soil Mineral Composition And Particulate Organic Matter Mediate Bioavailable Nitrogen, Andrea Jilling, Marian Carrell, A Stuart Grandy, Rachel Hestrin, Marco Keiluweit, Erik Knatvold, Andrew Whitaker
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Soil organic matter (SOM) can supply critical quantities of nitrogen (N) to plants, but fundamental questions remain regarding from what pools and by which processes plants and microbes obtain N. The source of bioavailable N is generally assigned to polymeric or particulate organic matter (POM), but in mineral soils, POM is often a minor pool of N and can be a poor predictor of bioavailable N or plant N uptake. Mounting evidence suggests mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) is significantly more dynamic than previously assumed and may serve as an important source of N for plants and microbes. The abundance and …
Assessing Forage Research And Education Needs Of Organic Dairy Farms In The United States, Eric Hatungimana, Heather M. Darby, Kathy J. Soder, Sara E. Ziegler, Andre F. Brito, Lisa Kissing Kucek, Heathcliffe Riday, E Charles Brummer
Assessing Forage Research And Education Needs Of Organic Dairy Farms In The United States, Eric Hatungimana, Heather M. Darby, Kathy J. Soder, Sara E. Ziegler, Andre F. Brito, Lisa Kissing Kucek, Heathcliffe Riday, E Charles Brummer
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The viability of organic dairy operations in the United States (US) relies on forage production. The objectives of this study were to (1) assess producer and farm information regarding current forage production practices and producer knowledge gaps and (2) identify forage research and educational needs of organic dairy producers across the US. A survey was distributed to 643 organic dairy producers across the US, with 165 respondents (26% response rate). A focus group consisting of extension professionals, university researchers and staff, consultants, dairy industry representatives and organic dairy producers was also consulted for forage research needs. Results showed that approximately …
Assessing Forage Research And Education Needs Of Organic Dairy Farms In The United States, Eric Hatungimana, Heather M. Darby, Kathy J. Soder, Sara E. Ziegler, Andre F. Brito, Lisa Kissing Kucek, Heathcliffe Riday, E Charles Brummer
Assessing Forage Research And Education Needs Of Organic Dairy Farms In The United States, Eric Hatungimana, Heather M. Darby, Kathy J. Soder, Sara E. Ziegler, Andre F. Brito, Lisa Kissing Kucek, Heathcliffe Riday, E Charles Brummer
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The viability of organic dairy operations in the United States (US) relies on forage production. The objectives of this study were to (1) assess producer and farm information regarding current forage production practices and producer knowledge gaps and (2) identify forage research and educational needs of organic dairy producers across the US. A survey was distributed to 643 organic dairy producers across the US, with 165 respondents (26% response rate). A focus group consisting of extension professionals, university researchers and staff, consultants, dairy industry representatives and organic dairy producers was also consulted for forage research needs. Results showed that approximately …
Achieving Equity In Child And Adolescent Mental Health By Addressing Racism Through Prevention Science, Nada M. Goodrum, Daniel K. Cooper, Sarah Edmunds, Guillermo M. Wippold, Jessica Bradshaw, Julie K. Nguyen, Norweeta Milburn, Funlola Are
Achieving Equity In Child And Adolescent Mental Health By Addressing Racism Through Prevention Science, Nada M. Goodrum, Daniel K. Cooper, Sarah Edmunds, Guillermo M. Wippold, Jessica Bradshaw, Julie K. Nguyen, Norweeta Milburn, Funlola Are
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Prevention science is a multidisciplinary field dedicated to promoting public health and reducing early risk factors that lead to negative health outcomes. It has been used to successfully improve child and family mental health and well-being, including for families affected by adversity. Despite advances in prevention efforts, major public health inequities remain for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) children and families, in part because of equity-implicit “one-size-fits-all” approaches that do not directly address racism which in part underlies the very health concerns these efforts aim to prevent. Structural racism not only introduces additional risk for negative health …
Worldwide Forest Surveys Reveal Forty-Three New Species In Phytophthora Major Clade 2 With Fundamental Implications For The Evolution And Biogeography Of The Genus And Global Plant Biosecurity, T. Jung, I. Milenković, Y. Balci, J. Janoušek, T. Kudláček, Z. Nagy, B. Baharuddin, J. Bakonyi, K. D. Broders, S. O. Cacciola, T. T. Chang, N. M. Chi, T. Corcobado, A. Cravador, B. Dordević, A. Durán, M. Ferreira, C. H. Fu, L. Garcia, A. Hieno, H. H. Ho, C. Hong, M. Junaid, K. Kageyama, T. Kuswinanti, C. Maia, T. Májek, H. Masuya, G. Magnano Di San Lio, B. Mendieta-Araica, N. Nasri, L. S.S. Oliveira, A. Pane
Worldwide Forest Surveys Reveal Forty-Three New Species In Phytophthora Major Clade 2 With Fundamental Implications For The Evolution And Biogeography Of The Genus And Global Plant Biosecurity, T. Jung, I. Milenković, Y. Balci, J. Janoušek, T. Kudláček, Z. Nagy, B. Baharuddin, J. Bakonyi, K. D. Broders, S. O. Cacciola, T. T. Chang, N. M. Chi, T. Corcobado, A. Cravador, B. Dordević, A. Durán, M. Ferreira, C. H. Fu, L. Garcia, A. Hieno, H. H. Ho, C. Hong, M. Junaid, K. Kageyama, T. Kuswinanti, C. Maia, T. Májek, H. Masuya, G. Magnano Di San Lio, B. Mendieta-Araica, N. Nasri, L. S.S. Oliveira, A. Pane
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During 25 surveys of global Phytophthora diversity, conducted between 1998 and 2020, 43 new species were detected in natural ecosystems and, occasionally, in nurseries and outplantings in Europe, Southeast and East Asia and the Americas. Based on a multigene phylogeny of nine nuclear and four mitochondrial gene regions they were assigned to five of the six known subclades, 2a-c, e and f, of Phytophthora major Clade 2 and the new subclade 2g. The evolutionary history of the Clade appears to have involved the pre-Gondwanan divergence of three extant subclades, 2c, 2e and 2f, all having disjunct natural distributions on separate …
Influence Of Hesperidin On The Physico-Chemical, Microbiological And Sensory Characteristics Of Frozen Yogurt †, Roberto Cedillos, Ricardo S. Aleman, Ryan Page, Douglas W. Olson, Charles Boeneke, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul, Kayanush Aryana
Influence Of Hesperidin On The Physico-Chemical, Microbiological And Sensory Characteristics Of Frozen Yogurt †, Roberto Cedillos, Ricardo S. Aleman, Ryan Page, Douglas W. Olson, Charles Boeneke, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul, Kayanush Aryana
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Frozen yogurts contain yogurt culture bacteria, which might impart health benefits to their consumers. Global frozen yogurt market sales are expected to grow by 4.8% by 2028, which represents an important opportunity for the industry, consumers and researchers. Polyphenols are metabolites found in plants which have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and might prevent chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The objective of this study was to elucidate the effect of the polyphenol hesperidin on the physico-chemical, microbiological and sensory characteristics of frozen yogurts. Hesperidin was incorporated into frozen yogurt at three concentrations (125, 250 and 500 mg/90 …
Transformative Insights: Break Up With Salt (Buws) Program’S Short-Term Influence On Hypertension Risk Factors, Jean Pierre Enriquez, Helena Salgado, Christopher Kuetsinya, Li Hsiang Lin, Elizabeth Gollub
Transformative Insights: Break Up With Salt (Buws) Program’S Short-Term Influence On Hypertension Risk Factors, Jean Pierre Enriquez, Helena Salgado, Christopher Kuetsinya, Li Hsiang Lin, Elizabeth Gollub
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Break Up with Salt (BUWS) is a four-session community-based nutrition education program aimed at reducing key controllable hypertension risk factors. This pilot study utilized a pre-post survey design to assess short-term outcomes on food behaviors (including DASH diet eating patterns), physical activity, and overall well-being, in two groups of participants. The first “pilot” group (n = 25) completed a comprehensive, 16-item survey; the second “abbreviated” group (n = 27) completed a 5-item survey. The pilot group experienced improvements in whole grain (p = 0.04), sweetened beverage consumption, watching/reducing sodium (p = 0.04) and fat (p = 0.05) consumption, and time …
Seven-Year Prospective Study On Yearly Incidence Of Orbivirus Infection Of Captive White-Tailed Deer And Potential Culicoides Vectors, Michael Becker, Glen Gentry, Claudia Husseneder, Lane Foil
Seven-Year Prospective Study On Yearly Incidence Of Orbivirus Infection Of Captive White-Tailed Deer And Potential Culicoides Vectors, Michael Becker, Glen Gentry, Claudia Husseneder, Lane Foil
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Bluetongue virus (BTV) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) are arthropod-borne viruses that are transmitted by biting midges in the genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and can cause hemorrhagic disease in certain ruminants. The objectives of this study were to measure the incidence of BTV and EHDV infections in captive white-tailed deer herd as well as tissues and corresponding presence of Culicoides midges at a location near Clinton, LA. During a 7-yr study with yearly outbreaks of hemorrhagic disease in the deer herd, 15 species of Culicoides were captured using Centers for Disease Control (CDC) black light traps. Reverse transcriptase quantitative …
Sustainable Sweetpotato Production In The United States: Current Status, Challenges, And Opportunities, Justin George, Gadi V.P. Reddy, Phillip A. Wadl, William Rutter, Julianna Culbreath, Pierre W. Lau, Tahir Rashid, Matthew C. Allan, Suzanne D. Johaningsmeier, Amanda M. Nelson, Ming Li Wang, Augustine Gubba, Kai Shu Ling, Yan Meng, Daniel J. Collins, Sathish K. Ponniah, Prasanna H. Gowda
Sustainable Sweetpotato Production In The United States: Current Status, Challenges, And Opportunities, Justin George, Gadi V.P. Reddy, Phillip A. Wadl, William Rutter, Julianna Culbreath, Pierre W. Lau, Tahir Rashid, Matthew C. Allan, Suzanne D. Johaningsmeier, Amanda M. Nelson, Ming Li Wang, Augustine Gubba, Kai Shu Ling, Yan Meng, Daniel J. Collins, Sathish K. Ponniah, Prasanna H. Gowda
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Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is an important staple crop cultivated in over 100 countries, and the storage roots and vines provide food for humans and livestock. Sweetpotato consumption and demand for its value-added products have increased significantly in the last two decades and have led to new cultivar development, expansion in acreage, and increased demand in the United States and its export markets. Despite the known nutritional components and other health benefits, further research is needed to characterize the genetic diversity and chemical composition related to their storage root qualities, essential in developing consumer-preferred cultivars that offer host plant resistance …
Growing The Next Generation Of Horticulture Customers And Stakeholders Through Industry And Extension Outreach Collaborations1, Natalie Bumgarner, Alicia Rihn, Julie Campbell, Sheri Dorn, Heather Kirk-Ballard
Growing The Next Generation Of Horticulture Customers And Stakeholders Through Industry And Extension Outreach Collaborations1, Natalie Bumgarner, Alicia Rihn, Julie Campbell, Sheri Dorn, Heather Kirk-Ballard
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As the horticulture consumer base transitions to younger generations, educational outreach collaborations between Extension and industry could be a mutually beneficial way to serve an increasingly diverse customer audience. A recent study investigated drivers of, and opportunities for, increased participation in plant-related activities using an online survey of 2,134 respondents. Both participants and non-participants in plant-related activities were surveyed. Some of the commonly cited reasons for non-participation were a lack of knowledge and overall success, illustrating an opportunity for education to be beneficial. While many plant retailers may not have the personnel or resources to engage widely in education, collaborations …
Using Risk Ratios To Quantify Potential Behavior-Environment Relations, P. Raymond Joslyn, Samuel L. Morris
Using Risk Ratios To Quantify Potential Behavior-Environment Relations, P. Raymond Joslyn, Samuel L. Morris
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Behavior-environment functional relations are the units of explanation in applied behavior analysis (ABA). Whether hypothesized experimentally or descriptively, quantification of putative functional relations improves our ability to predict and influence behavior. Risk ratios are an accessible, straightforward quantitative analysis that can serve this purpose. They have been employed to great effect in other fields (e.g., medicine, public health), but are rarely used within ABA. In this tutorial, we describe risk ratios and how they are calculated, discuss why risk ratios are well suited for quantifying behavior–environment relations, and illustrate their utility and applicability across five demonstrations from real clinical cases. …
Genome-Wide Polygenic Risk Score For Ckd In Individuals With Apol1 High-Risk Genotypes, Ha My T. Vy, Steven G. Coca, Ashwin Sawant, Ankit Sakhuja, Orlando M. Gutierrez, Richard Cooper, Ruth J.F. Loos, Carol R. Horowitz, Ron Do, Girish N. Nadkarni
Genome-Wide Polygenic Risk Score For Ckd In Individuals With Apol1 High-Risk Genotypes, Ha My T. Vy, Steven G. Coca, Ashwin Sawant, Ankit Sakhuja, Orlando M. Gutierrez, Richard Cooper, Ruth J.F. Loos, Carol R. Horowitz, Ron Do, Girish N. Nadkarni
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Data Augmentation Enhances Plant-Genomic-Enabled Predictions, Osval A. Montesinos-López, Mario Alberto Solis-Camacho, Leonardo Crespo-Herrera, Carolina Saint Pierre, Gloria Isabel Huerta Prado, Sofia Ramos-Pulido, Khalid Al-Nowibet, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Guillermo Gerard, Abelardo Montesinos-López, José Crossa
Data Augmentation Enhances Plant-Genomic-Enabled Predictions, Osval A. Montesinos-López, Mario Alberto Solis-Camacho, Leonardo Crespo-Herrera, Carolina Saint Pierre, Gloria Isabel Huerta Prado, Sofia Ramos-Pulido, Khalid Al-Nowibet, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Guillermo Gerard, Abelardo Montesinos-López, José Crossa
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Genomic selection (GS) is revolutionizing plant breeding. However, its practical implementation is still challenging, since there are many factors that affect its accuracy. For this reason, this research explores data augmentation with the goal of improving its accuracy. Deep neural networks with data augmentation (DA) generate synthetic data from the original training set to increase the training set and to improve the prediction performance of any statistical or machine learning algorithm. There is much empirical evidence of their success in many computer vision applications. Due to this, DA was explored in the context of GS using 14 real datasets. We …
Effects Of Teosinte Flour (Dioon Mejiae) On Selected Physicochemical Characteristics And Consumer Perceptions Of Gluten-Free Cocoa Cookies Formulated With Mung Bean (Vigna Radiata) Flour, Carlos José Rivera, Ricardo S. Aleman, Jorge Ortega, Andrea Muela, Jhunior Marcia, Joan King, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul
Effects Of Teosinte Flour (Dioon Mejiae) On Selected Physicochemical Characteristics And Consumer Perceptions Of Gluten-Free Cocoa Cookies Formulated With Mung Bean (Vigna Radiata) Flour, Carlos José Rivera, Ricardo S. Aleman, Jorge Ortega, Andrea Muela, Jhunior Marcia, Joan King, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul
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Dioon mejiae, or teosinte, is a living fossil tree discovered in Olancho, Honduras, whose seeds have a desirable nutritional profile that can provide health benefits. As a result, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of teosinte flour obtained from seeds on selected physicochemical characteristics and consumer perceptions of gluten-free cocoa cookies formulated with mung bean (Vigna radiata) flour. Gluten-free cocoa cookies were prepared with different levels of teosinte flour (0%, 70%, 80%, 90%, and 100% by weight of mung bean flour) in substitution of mung bean flour. The cookies were evaluated for texture hardness, color (L*, …
Unlocking The Potential Of Artificial Intelligence In Fashion Design And E-Commerce Applications: The Case Of Midjourney, Yanbo Zhang, Chuanlan Liu
Unlocking The Potential Of Artificial Intelligence In Fashion Design And E-Commerce Applications: The Case Of Midjourney, Yanbo Zhang, Chuanlan Liu
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The fashion industry has shown increasing interest in applying artificial intelligence (AI), yet there is a significant gap in exploring the potential of emerging diffusion-modeling-based AI image-generation systems for fashion design and commerce. Therefore, this study aims to assess the effectiveness of Midjourney, one such AI system, in both fashion design and related commerce applications. We employed the action research approach with the Functional, Expressive, and Aesthetic (FEA) Consumer Needs Model as the theoretical framework. Our research comprised three stages: refining an initial idea into well-defined textual design concepts, facilitating concept development, and validating the preceding observations and reflections by …
Planetary Protection Knowledge Gap Closure Enabling Crewed Missions To Mars, James A. Spry, Bette Siegel, Corien Bakermans, David W. Beaty, Mary Sue Bell, James N. Benardini, Rosalba Bonaccorsi, Sarah L. Castro-Wallace, David A. Coil, Athena Coustenis, Peter T. Doran, Lori Fenton, David P. Fidler, Brian Glass, Stephen J. Hoffman, Fathi Karouia, Joel S. Levine, Mark L. Lupisella, Javier Martin-Torres, Rakesh Mogul, Karen Olsson-Francis, Sandra Ortega-Ugalde, Manish R. Patel, David A. Pearce, Margaret S. Race, Aaron B. Regberg, Petra Rettberg, John D. Rummel, Kevin Y. Sato, Andrew C. Schuerger, Elliot Sefton-Nash, Matthew Sharkey, Nitin K. Singh
Planetary Protection Knowledge Gap Closure Enabling Crewed Missions To Mars, James A. Spry, Bette Siegel, Corien Bakermans, David W. Beaty, Mary Sue Bell, James N. Benardini, Rosalba Bonaccorsi, Sarah L. Castro-Wallace, David A. Coil, Athena Coustenis, Peter T. Doran, Lori Fenton, David P. Fidler, Brian Glass, Stephen J. Hoffman, Fathi Karouia, Joel S. Levine, Mark L. Lupisella, Javier Martin-Torres, Rakesh Mogul, Karen Olsson-Francis, Sandra Ortega-Ugalde, Manish R. Patel, David A. Pearce, Margaret S. Race, Aaron B. Regberg, Petra Rettberg, John D. Rummel, Kevin Y. Sato, Andrew C. Schuerger, Elliot Sefton-Nash, Matthew Sharkey, Nitin K. Singh
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As focus for exploration of Mars transitions from current robotic explorers to development of crewed missions, it remains important to protect the integrity of scientific investigations at Mars, as well as protect the Earth's biosphere from any potential harmful effects from returned martian material. This is the discipline of planetary protection, and the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) maintains the consensus international policy and guidelines on how this is implemented. Based on National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA) studies that began in 2001, COSPAR adopted principles and guidelines for human missions to Mars in 2008. …
A Simplified Model For The Study Of Film-Boiling Droplet Motion On Microscale Ratchets, Sheldon Wang, Jeong Tae Ok, Sunggook Park, Mahmoud Elsharafi, Yu Guo
A Simplified Model For The Study Of Film-Boiling Droplet Motion On Microscale Ratchets, Sheldon Wang, Jeong Tae Ok, Sunggook Park, Mahmoud Elsharafi, Yu Guo
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In this work, we explore a simplified model based on both analytical and computational methods for the study of film-boiling droplet motion on microscale ratchets. We consider a specific ratchet design with the length periods and depth of ratchets much smaller than the size of the droplet. We conclude based on our modeling that for the ratchet configuration considered in this paper, the conduction within the vapor film is the dominant means of heat transfer in comparison with convection and radiation. Furthermore, we demonstrate a more manageable two-dimensional model in which analytical approaches coupled with computational approaches yield reasonably accurate …
Random Forests For Detecting Weak Signals And Extracting Physical Information: A Case Study Of Magnetic Navigation, Mohammadamin Moradi, Zheng-Meng Zhai, Aaron Nielsen, Ying-Cheng Lai, Aaron P. Nielsen
Random Forests For Detecting Weak Signals And Extracting Physical Information: A Case Study Of Magnetic Navigation, Mohammadamin Moradi, Zheng-Meng Zhai, Aaron Nielsen, Ying-Cheng Lai, Aaron P. Nielsen
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It has been recently demonstrated that two machine-learning architectures, reservoir computing and time-delayed feed-forward neural networks, can be exploited for detecting the Earth’s anomaly magnetic field immersed in overwhelming complex signals for magnetic navigation in a GPS-denied environment. The accuracy of the detected anomaly field corresponds to a positioning accuracy in the range of 10–40 m. To increase the accuracy and reduce the uncertainty of weak signal detection as well as to directly obtain the position information, we exploit the machine-learning model of random forests that combines the output of multiple decision trees to give optimal values of the physical …
Association Between Short Birth Spacing And Child Malnutrition In Bangladesh: A Propensity Score Matching Approach, Foyez Ahmmed, Nahid Hasan, Faruk Hossain, Tareq Ferdous Khan
Association Between Short Birth Spacing And Child Malnutrition In Bangladesh: A Propensity Score Matching Approach, Foyez Ahmmed, Nahid Hasan, Faruk Hossain, Tareq Ferdous Khan
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Objectives: This study aimed to explore the effects of short birth spacing (SBS), which is defined as a period of less than 33 months between two successive births, on multiple concurrent forms of child malnutrition (MCFCM) and at least one form of child malnutrition (ALOFCM) using propensity score matching (PSM). Methods: This study used data extracted from the 2017- 18 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. PSM with four different distance functions, including logistic regression, classification and regression tree, single hidden layer neural network and random forest, were performed to evaluate the effects of SBS on MCFCM and ALOFCM. We also …
Waning Effectiveness Of Mrna Covid-19 Vaccines Against Inpatient And Emergency Department Encounters, Theodoros V. Giannouchos, Nicole L. Hair Ph.D., Bankole Olatosi Ph.D., Xiaoming Li Ph.D.
Waning Effectiveness Of Mrna Covid-19 Vaccines Against Inpatient And Emergency Department Encounters, Theodoros V. Giannouchos, Nicole L. Hair Ph.D., Bankole Olatosi Ph.D., Xiaoming Li Ph.D.
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In the United States, most real-world estimates of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness are based on data drawn from large health systems or sentinel populations. More data is needed to understand how the benefits of vaccination may vary across US populations with disparate risk profiles and policy contexts. We aimed to provide estimates of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against moderate and severe outcomes of COVID-19 based on state population-level data sources. Using statewide integrated administrative and clinical data and a test-negative case-control study design, we assessed mRNA COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits among adults in South Carolina. …
Enhancing Pastoralist Women's Knowledge Of Danger Signs Through Home-Based Life-Saving Skills Intervention In Northern Kenya: A Quasi Experimental Study, Dabo Galgalo Halake, Elijah Isinta Maranga, Japheth Mativo Nzioki, John Gachohi
Enhancing Pastoralist Women's Knowledge Of Danger Signs Through Home-Based Life-Saving Skills Intervention In Northern Kenya: A Quasi Experimental Study, Dabo Galgalo Halake, Elijah Isinta Maranga, Japheth Mativo Nzioki, John Gachohi
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Background: Maternal recognition of obstetric danger signs is crucial for reducing maternal mortality and delays in seeking emergency care. However, there is insufficient knowledge about obstetric danger signs among women in rural Kenya, especially in the hard-to-reach pastoralist communities. This study aimed to determine whether home-based life-saving skills intervention improves knowledge about obstetric danger signs among women in Marsabit County, Kenya. Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental study with pre-posttests among 256 pregnant women, allocated to intervention and control groups. We implemented sensitization of pregnant women on obstetric danger signs and basic life-saving actions as components of home-based life-saving skills intervention. …
Impaired, In Pairs, Cristina Carmody Tilley
Impaired, In Pairs, Cristina Carmody Tilley
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Rape, like many other one-on-one aggressions, can be treated as both a crime and a tort. But neither body of law responds effectively to these aggressions. Criminal rape prosecution is notoriously difficult, and civil rape suits are notoriously rare. Today, as private law theorists have begun to study tort’s potential to drive social justice on issues of race, gender, and class, it is an ideal time to reassess the terms of civil liability for intimate injury. Culture has long limited “real rape” to premeditated, stranger-on-stranger, aggression. Consequently, tort has long categorized what this Essay terms “non-collaborative sex” as an intentional …
New Features Of Laboratory-Generated Epfrs From 1,2-Dichlorobenzene (Dcb) And 2-Monochlorophenol (Mcp), Lavrent Khachatryan, Marwan Y. Rezk, Divine Nde, Farhana Hasan, Slawomir Lomnicki, Dorin Boldor, Robert Cook, Phillip Sprunger, Randall Hall, Stephania Cormier
New Features Of Laboratory-Generated Epfrs From 1,2-Dichlorobenzene (Dcb) And 2-Monochlorophenol (Mcp), Lavrent Khachatryan, Marwan Y. Rezk, Divine Nde, Farhana Hasan, Slawomir Lomnicki, Dorin Boldor, Robert Cook, Phillip Sprunger, Randall Hall, Stephania Cormier
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The present research is primarily focused on investigating the characteristics of environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) generated from commonly recognized aromatic precursors, namely, 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB) and 2-monochlorophenol (MCP), within controlled laboratory conditions at a temperature of 230 °C, termed as DCB230 and MCP230 EPFRs, respectively. An intriguing observation has emerged during the creation of EPFRs from MCP and DCB utilizing a catalyst 5% CuO/SiO2, which was prepared through various methods. A previously proposed mechanism, advanced by Dellinger and colleagues (a conventional model), postulated a positive correlation between the degree of hydroxylation on the catalyst’s surface (higher hydroxylated, HH and less …
Predictors Of Prior Hiv Testing And Acceptance Of A Community-Based Hiv Test Offer Among Male Bar Patrons In Northern Tanzania, Deng B. Madut, Preeti Manavalan, Antipas Mtalo, Timothy Peter, Jan Ostermann, Bernard Njau, Nathan M. Thielman
Predictors Of Prior Hiv Testing And Acceptance Of A Community-Based Hiv Test Offer Among Male Bar Patrons In Northern Tanzania, Deng B. Madut, Preeti Manavalan, Antipas Mtalo, Timothy Peter, Jan Ostermann, Bernard Njau, Nathan M. Thielman
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Community-based HIV testing offers an alternative approach to encourage HIV testing among men in sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, we evaluated a community-based HIV testing strategy targeting male bar patrons in northern Tanzania to assess factors predictive of prior HIV testing and factors predictive of accepting a real-time HIV test offer. Participants completed a detailed survey and were offered HIV testing upon survey completion. Poisson regression was used to identify prevalence ratios for the association between potential predictors and prior HIV testing or real-time testing uptake. Of 359 participants analyzed, the median age was 41 (range 19–82) years, 257 (71.6%) …
Improving The Practical Skills Of Stem Students At A Historically Black College And University (Hbcu), Yasser Ismail, Phyllis Okwan, Fred Lacy
Improving The Practical Skills Of Stem Students At A Historically Black College And University (Hbcu), Yasser Ismail, Phyllis Okwan, Fred Lacy
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Improving the practical skills of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students at a historically black college and university (HBCU) was done by implementing a transformative teaching model. The model was implemented on undergraduate students of different educational levels in the Electrical Engineering (EE) Department at HBCU. The model was also extended to carefully chosen high and middle schools. These middle and high school students serve as a pipeline to the university, with a particular emphasis on fostering growth within the EE Department. The model aligns well with the core mission of the EE Department, aiming to enhance the theoretical …
The Mediating Effect Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Heuristic Techniques And Cognitive Biases On Investment Decision-Making, Williams Kwasi Peprah, Christopher Ampadu Kwakwah-Oppong, Francis Osei-Kuffour, Lenny Leorina Evinita
The Mediating Effect Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Heuristic Techniques And Cognitive Biases On Investment Decision-Making, Williams Kwasi Peprah, Christopher Ampadu Kwakwah-Oppong, Francis Osei-Kuffour, Lenny Leorina Evinita
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US investors’ behavioral finance and investment decision-making approach became a concern during the COVID-19 pandemic era as the capital market crashed. The study used mediation analysis to explain how or why the COVID-19 pandemic intervened in the causal association of behavioral finance concepts of heuristic techniques and cognitive biases on their investment decision-making. This causal research design study was based on 500 snowball-sampled US investors who answered self-constructed, validated, and reliability-tested Likert-scale quantitative variables measured through a first-party data collection approach. The results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic was a specific moderate to partial significant mediator on the low positive …
Establishment And Characterization Of Turtle Liver Organoids Provides A Potential Model To Decode Their Unique Adaptations, Christopher Zdyrski, Vojtech Gabriel, Thea B. Gessler, Abigail Ralston, Itzel Sifuentes-Romero, Debosmita Kundu, Sydney Honold, Hannah Wickham, Nicholas E. Topping, Dipak Kumar Sahoo, Basanta Bista, Jeffrey Tamplin, Oscar Ospina, Pablo Piñeyro, Marco Arriaga, Jacob A. Galan, David K. Meyerholz, Karin Allenspach, Jonathan P. Mochel, Nicole Valenzuela
Establishment And Characterization Of Turtle Liver Organoids Provides A Potential Model To Decode Their Unique Adaptations, Christopher Zdyrski, Vojtech Gabriel, Thea B. Gessler, Abigail Ralston, Itzel Sifuentes-Romero, Debosmita Kundu, Sydney Honold, Hannah Wickham, Nicholas E. Topping, Dipak Kumar Sahoo, Basanta Bista, Jeffrey Tamplin, Oscar Ospina, Pablo Piñeyro, Marco Arriaga, Jacob A. Galan, David K. Meyerholz, Karin Allenspach, Jonathan P. Mochel, Nicole Valenzuela
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Painted turtles are remarkable for their freeze tolerance and supercooling ability along with their associated resilience to hypoxia/anoxia and oxidative stress, rendering them an ideal biomedical model for hypoxia-induced injuries (including strokes), tissue cooling during surgeries, and organ cryopreservation. Yet, such research is hindered by their seasonal reproduction and slow maturation. Here we developed and characterized adult stem cell-derived turtle liver organoids (3D self-assembled in vitro structures) from painted, snapping, and spiny softshell turtles spanning ~175My of evolution, with a subset cryopreserved. This development is, to the best of our knowledge, a first for this vertebrate Order, and complements the …
Detecting Substance Use Disorder Using Social Media Data And Dark Web: Time And Knowledge Aware Study, Usha Lokala, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Triyasha Ghosh Dastidar, Francois Lamy, Raminta Daniulaityte, Amit Sheth
Detecting Substance Use Disorder Using Social Media Data And Dark Web: Time And Knowledge Aware Study, Usha Lokala, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Triyasha Ghosh Dastidar, Francois Lamy, Raminta Daniulaityte, Amit Sheth
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Opioid and substance misuse is rampant in the United States today, with the phenomenon known as the "opioid crisis". The relationship between substance use and mental health has been extensively studied, with one possible relationship being: substance misuse causes poor mental health. However, the lack of evidence on the relationship has resulted in opioids being largely inaccessible through legal means. This study analyzes the substance use posts on social media with opioids being sold through crypto market listings. We use the Drug Abuse Ontology, state-of-the-art deep learning, and knowledge-aware BERT-based models to generate sentiment and emotion for the social media …
Overview Of The Alaskan Layered Pollution And Chemical Analysis (Alpaca) Field Experiment, William R. Simpson, Jingqiu Mao, Gilberto J. Fochesatto, Kathy S. Law, Peter F. Decarlo, Julia Schmale, Kerri A. Pratt, Steve R. Arnold, Jochen Stutz, Jack E. Dibb, Jessie M. Creamean, Rodney J. Weber, Brent J. Williams, Becky Alexander, Lu Hu, Robert J. Yokelson, Manabu Shiraiwa, Stefano Decesari, Cort Anastasio, Barbara D’Anna, Robert C. Gilliam, Athanasios Nenes, Jason M. St. Clair, Barbara Trost, James H. Flynn, Joel Savarino, Laura D. Conner, Nathan Kettle, Krista M. Heeringa, Sarah Albertin, Andrea Baccarini, Brice Barret, Michael A. Battaglia, Slimane Bekki, T. J. Brado, Natalie Brett, David Brus, James R. Campbell, Meeta Cesler-Maloney, Sol Cooperdock, Karolina Cysneiros De Carvalho, Hervé Delbarre, Paul J. Demott, Conor J.S. Dennehy, Elsa Dieudonné, Kayane K. Dingilian, Antonio Donateo, Konstantinos M. Doulgeris, Kasey C. Edwards, Kathleen Fahey, Ting Fang, Fangzhou Guo, Laura M. D. Heinlein, Andrew L. Holen, Deanna Huff, Amna Ijaz, Sarah Johnson, Sukriti Kapur, Damien T. Ketcherside, Ezra Levin, Emily Lill, Allison R. Moon, Tatsuo Onishi, Gianluca Pappaccogli, Russell Perkins, Roman Pohorsky, Jean-Christophe Raut, Francois Ravetta, Tjarda Roberts, Ellis S. Robinson, Federico Scoto, Vanessa Selimovic, Michael O. Sunday, Brice Temime-Roussel, Xinxiu Tian, Judy Wu, Yuhan Yang
Overview Of The Alaskan Layered Pollution And Chemical Analysis (Alpaca) Field Experiment, William R. Simpson, Jingqiu Mao, Gilberto J. Fochesatto, Kathy S. Law, Peter F. Decarlo, Julia Schmale, Kerri A. Pratt, Steve R. Arnold, Jochen Stutz, Jack E. Dibb, Jessie M. Creamean, Rodney J. Weber, Brent J. Williams, Becky Alexander, Lu Hu, Robert J. Yokelson, Manabu Shiraiwa, Stefano Decesari, Cort Anastasio, Barbara D’Anna, Robert C. Gilliam, Athanasios Nenes, Jason M. St. Clair, Barbara Trost, James H. Flynn, Joel Savarino, Laura D. Conner, Nathan Kettle, Krista M. Heeringa, Sarah Albertin, Andrea Baccarini, Brice Barret, Michael A. Battaglia, Slimane Bekki, T. J. Brado, Natalie Brett, David Brus, James R. Campbell, Meeta Cesler-Maloney, Sol Cooperdock, Karolina Cysneiros De Carvalho, Hervé Delbarre, Paul J. Demott, Conor J.S. Dennehy, Elsa Dieudonné, Kayane K. Dingilian, Antonio Donateo, Konstantinos M. Doulgeris, Kasey C. Edwards, Kathleen Fahey, Ting Fang, Fangzhou Guo, Laura M. D. Heinlein, Andrew L. Holen, Deanna Huff, Amna Ijaz, Sarah Johnson, Sukriti Kapur, Damien T. Ketcherside, Ezra Levin, Emily Lill, Allison R. Moon, Tatsuo Onishi, Gianluca Pappaccogli, Russell Perkins, Roman Pohorsky, Jean-Christophe Raut, Francois Ravetta, Tjarda Roberts, Ellis S. Robinson, Federico Scoto, Vanessa Selimovic, Michael O. Sunday, Brice Temime-Roussel, Xinxiu Tian, Judy Wu, Yuhan Yang
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The Alaskan Layered Pollution And Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) field experiment was a collaborative study designed to improve understanding of pollution sources and chemical processes during winter (cold climate and low-photochemical activity), to investigate indoor pollution, and to study dispersion of pollution as affected by frequent temperature inversions. A number of the research goals were motivated by questions raised by residents of Fairbanks, Alaska, where the study was held. This paper describes the measurement strategies and the conditions encountered during the January and February 2022 field experiment, and reports early examples of how the measurements addressed research goals, particularly those of …