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Mirror Neuron, Pakaratee Chaiyawat

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

Twenty years ago, the researchers have discovered mirror neuron in macaque monkeys. These areas are area PF of the inferior parietal lobule and area F5 of the ventral premotor cortex. The continuous studies have examined the presence of mirror neurons in humans. These include the ventral premotor cortex, in the rostral inferior parietal lobe and particular Brodmann Area (BA) 6/44. This review focuses on the function of mirror neurons regarding action understanding, imitation, language, empathy, and mindreading. The future study on the mirror neuron system will have future clinical applications.

Preventable Lifestyle Risk Factors For Non-Communicable Diseases In The Pakistan Adolescents Schools Study 1 (Pass-1)., Ali Khan Khuwaja, Saleem Khawaja, Komal Motwani, Adeel Khoja, Iqbal Azam Syed, Zafar Fatmi, Badar Sabir Ali, Muhammad Masood Kadir

Department of Medicine

Objectives: The rising burden of preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among adolescents is a major public health challenge worldwide. We identified the preventable risk factors for NCDs in adolescents.

Methods: In a school-based study, pre-tested structured questionnaires were completed by 414 adolescents (14 to 17 years) at six schools in three cities in Pakistan. The chi-squared test and adjusted odds ratio (aOR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated in a multinomial logistic regression analysis.

Results: Over 80% of the adolescents had unhealthy diets, and 54% were physically inactive. Most adolescents were exposed to passive smoking, and 14% …

Google Scholar Users And User Behaviors: An Exploratory Study, Gail Herrera

Library Publications

The University of Mississippi Library created a profile to provide linking from Google Scholar to library resources in 2005. Although Google Scholar does not provide usage statistics for institutions, use of Google Scholar is clearly evident in looking at library link resolver logs. The purpose of this project is to examine users of Google Scholar using existing data from interlibrary loan transactions and library website click-through logs and analytics. Questions about user status and discipline as well as behaviors related to use of other library resources, are explored.

Pages News, Volume 19, No. 2, July 2011, John Dearing, Markus Dotterwelch, Thomas Foster

PAGES

Contents: Inside PAGES -- PAGES calendar -- Special Section: Integrative Paleoscience for Sustainable Management -- Editorial -- Integrative paleoscience for sustainable management -- Workshop Report -- Regional integration of past records for management of modern resources -- Science Highlights -- Conservation and habitat restoration of moorland and bog in the UK uplands -- Spatial and temporal controls on hydro-geomorphic processes in French Prealps -- Past land use and soil erosion processes in central Europe -- Long-term perspectives on an iconic landscape: Origins and future trajectories -- Grazing activities and biodiversity history in the Pyrenees -- Managing biodiversity using long-term regional …

The Voice, Summer 2011: Volume 56, Issue 4, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Keeping up with the Times; There Really Is a Difference; Timmer Demonstrates a Residential Solar-Assisted Hot Water System; What Students Want Profs to Know; Library Now Sports Both Their Names and Their Photo; Grad Ed Will Now Prepare Principals; Student Photographers Take NYC by Storm During Spring Break; Students Play Cowboy and More on the Range; Concrete Canoe Team Is Elated with Results of First Year's Work; Dordt College Is Well Represented at Princeton's Annual Kuyper Conference; New Mural Brings the Prairie Inside; Students Head to the Cities; From One Student's Perspective... ; A Look Back: Photos from Graduate Andrew …

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine Of The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 27, Summer 2011), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

Montana Business Quarterly, Summer 2011, University Of Montana--Missoula. Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Montana Business Quarterly, 1949-2021

This is an academic publication produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at the University of Montana’s College of Business. This is volume 49, number 2.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Summer 2011, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• News briefs
• Tech transfer increases trigger product development
• Printed electronics work garnering international kudos
• Researchers tackle rare neurological disease with Vanderbilt colleagues
• Prof puts democratic theories to test in Afghanistan
• Science role models and characters few for female students
• High school mathematics course reduces remedial needs in college
• WMU creative writer wins nation’s top book award
• ‘HeroRats’ combat land mines, tuberculosis
• Multiuniversity team minimizes global warming crop damage
• Lives of Kalamazoo children with autism changed

Not Perfect, But Better Than Most: South Carolina's Tpr Process And Its Surprisingly Fair Treatment Of Incarcerated Parents, Stuart M. Jones Jr.

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Arabidopsis Pht1;5 Mobilizes Phosphate Between Source And Sink Organs And Influences The Interaction Between Phosphate Homeostasis And Ethylene Signaling, Vinay K. Nagarajan, Ajay Jain, Michael D. Poling, Anthony J. Lewis, Kashchandra G. Raghothama, Aaron P. Smith

Faculty Publications

Phosphorus (P) remobilization in plants is required for continuous growth and development. The Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) inorganic phosphate (Pi) transporter Pht1;5 has been implicated in mobilizing stored Pi out of older leaves. In this study, we used a reverse genetics approach to study the role of Pht1;5 in Pi homeostasis. Under low-Pi conditions, Pht1;5 loss of function (pht1;5-1) resulted in reduced P allocation to shoots and elevated transcript levels for several Pi starvation-response genes. Under Pi-replete conditions, pht1;5-1 had higher shoot P content compared with the wild type but had reduced P content in roots. Constitutive overexpression of Pht1;5 had …

Regulation Of The Edwardsiella Ictaluri Type Iii Secretion System By Ph And Phosphate Concentration Through Esra, Esrb, And Esrc, Matthew L. Rogge, Ronald L. Thune

Faculty Publications

A recently described Edwardsiella ictaluri type III secretion system (T3SS) with functional similarity to the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 T3SS is required for replication in channel catfish head-kidney-derived macrophages (HKDM) and virulence in channel catfish. Quantitative PCR and Western blotting identified low pH and phosphate limitation as conducive to expression of the E. ictaluri T3SS, growth conditions that mimic the phagosomal environment. Mutagenesis studies demonstrated that expression is under the control of the EsrAB two-component regulatory system. EsrB also induces upregulation of the AraC-type regulatory protein EsrC, which enhances expression of the EscB/EseG chaperone/effector operon in concert with EsrB and …

Acquisition Of Rickettsia Felis By Cat Fleas During Feeding, Kathryn E. Reif, Michael T. Kearney, Lane D. Foil, Kevin R. Macaluso

Faculty Publications

Evidence for horizontal routes of transmission for Rickettsia felis has come from detection of R. felis infection in vertebrates and multiple blood-feeding arthropods; however, infection of cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis, during blood feeding has not been demonstrated. In this study, the ability of cat fleas to acquire R. felis through an infectious blood meal with subsequent vertical transmission was examined. Utilizing an artificial feeding system, Rickettsia-naive fleas were exposed to R. felis-infected blood meals and monitored for subsequent infection at weekly intervals for 4 weeks. At 7 days postexposure (dpe) ∼52% of fleas successfully acquired rickettsiae and R. felis DNA; …

Mammalian Diversification Across The Holarctic: Spatiotemporal Evolution In Response To Environmental Change, Andrew G. Hope

Biology ETDs

The primary focus in this dissertation is on the processes of environmental change that drive evolution. We are currently witnessing unparalleled changes in climate and associated changes in biotic communities. With a growing understanding that climate and habitat change, coupled with natural variability, will have an increased influence on biota into the future, it is our responsibility to learn how best to manage and conserve the Earths natural resources. Among other things, this will require a firmer understanding of biodiversity, life histories, evolutionary relationships among species, and community dynamics over multiple species. One method of understanding how species will respond …

Orange & White - Summer 2011, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine

No abstract provided.

Utpa Commencement – Summer 2011, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The Plus One Policy: An Autonomous Model Of Family Reunification, Jessica Feinberg

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Transcriptional Analysis Of Schistosoma Mansoni Treated With Sub-Lethal Doses Of The Anthelmintic Drug Praziquantel, Jarrett Hines-Kay

Biology ETDs

Schistosoma mansoni is one of the most common etiological agents responsible for the disease schistosomiasis. More than 200 million people suffer from this disease making it the most severe tropical disease after malaria in terms of morbidity. Praziquantel (PZQ) is the treatment of choice for schistosomiasis and has been used almost exclusively to treat the disease since the 1970s. However, while the drug is lethal for sexually mature schistosomes, it is ineffective against juveniles. Thus, while morbidity can be eased, a cure is difficult to achieve. As a result there is an urgent need to develop a new generation of …

Substratum Interfacial Energetic Effects On The Attachment Of Marine Bacteria, Linnea Kathryn Ista

Biology ETDs

Biofilms represent an ancient, ubiquitous and influential form of life on earth. They are interesting both scientifically and because of their impacts on our environment, health and technology. Biofilm formation is initiated by attachment of bacterial cells from an aqueous suspension onto a suitable attachment substratum. While in certain, well studied cases initial attachment and subsequent biofilm formation is mediated by specific ligand-receptor pairs on the bacteria and attachment substratum, in the open environment, including the ocean, it is assumed to be non-specific and mediated by processes similar to those that drive adsorption of colloids at the water-solid interface. Colloidal …

Depletion Of Beclin-1 Due To Proteolytic Cleavage By Caspases In The Alzheimer's Disease Brain, Troy T. Rohn, Ellen Wirawan, Raquel J. Brown, Jordan R. Harris, Eliezer Masliah, Peter Vandenabeele

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Beclin-1 protein is essential for the initiation of autophagy and recent studies suggest this function may be compromised in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In addition, in vitro studies have supported a loss of function of Beclin-1 due to proteolytic modification by caspases. In the present study we examined whether caspase-cleavage of Beclin-1 occurs in the AD brain by designing a site-directed caspase-cleavage antibody based upon a known cleavage site within the protein at position D149. We confirmed that Beclin-1 is an excellent substrate for caspase-3 and demonstrate cleavage led to the formation of a 35 kDa C-terminal fragment labeled by …

Dysfunctional Play And Dopamine Physiology In The Fischer 344 Rat, Stephen M. Siviy, Cynthia A. Crawford, Garnik Akopian, John P. Walsh

Psychology Faculty Publications

Juvenile Fischer 344 rats are known to be less playful than other inbred strains, although the neurobiological substrate(s) responsible for this phenotype is uncertain. In the present study, Fischer 344 rats were compared to the commonly used outbred Sprague-Dawley strain on several behavioral and physiological parameters in order to ascertain whether the lack of play may be related to compromised activity of brain dopamine (DA) systems. As expected, Fischer 344 rats were far less playful than Sprague-Dawley rats, with Fischer 344 rats less likely to initiate playful contacts with a playful partner and less likely to respond playfully to these …

The Present And Future Of Game Theory, Martin Shubik

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

A broad nontechnical coverage of many of the developments in game theory since the 1950s is given together with some comments on important open problems and where some of the developments may take place. The nearly 90 references given serve only as a minimal guide to the many thousands of books and articles that have been written. The purpose here is to present a broad brush picture of the many areas of study and application that have come into being. The use of deep techniques flourishes best when it stays in touch with application. There is a vital symbiotic relationship …

Louisiana Agriculture Summer, 2011

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Altered Gene Expression And Spongiotrophoblast Differentiation In Placenta From A Mouse Model Of Diabetes In Pregnancy, J. M. Salbaum, C. Kruger, X. Zhang, N. Arbour Delahaye, G. Pavlinkova, D. H. Burk, C. Kappen

Faculty Publications

Aims/hypothesis: Pregnancies complicated by diabetes have a higher risk of adverse outcomes for mothers and children, including predisposition to disease later in life, e.g. metabolic syndrome and hypertension. We hypothesised that adverse outcomes from diabetic pregnancies may be linked to compromised placental function, and sought to identify cellular and molecular abnormalities in diabetic placenta. Methods: Using a mouse model of diabetic pregnancy, placental gene expression was assayed at mid-gestation and cellular composition analysed at various stages. Genome-wide expression profiling was validated by quantitative PCR and tissue localisation studies were performed to identify cellular correlates of altered gene expression in diabetic …

Transcriptional Profiles Uncover Aspergillus Flavus-Induced Resistance In Maize Kernels, Meng Luo, Robert L. Brown, Zhi Yuan Chen, Abebe Menkir, Jiujiang Yu, Deepak Bhatnagar

Faculty Publications

Aflatoxin contamination caused by the opportunistic pathogen A. flavus is a major concern in maize production prior to harvest and through storage. Previous studies have highlighted the constitutive production of proteins involved in maize kernel resistance against A. flavus' infection. However, little is known about induced resistance nor about defense gene expression and regulation in kernels. In this study, maize oligonucleotide arrays and a pair of closely-related maize lines varying in aflatoxin accumulation were used to reveal the gene expression network in imbibed mature kernels in response to A. flavus' challenge. Inoculated kernels were incubated 72 h via the laboratory-based …

Summer 2011, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

Summer 2011 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 60 pages

Volume 94, Number 2

Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Of Persistent Functional Somatic Complaints And Pediatric Anxiety: An Initial Controlled Trial, Carrie Masia, Daniela Colognori, Rachel E. Kim, Laura C. Reigada, Rachel G. Klein, Karen J. Browner-Elhanan, Amy Saborsky, Eva Petkova, Philip Reiss, Manoj Chhabra, Yvonne B. Mcfarlane-Ferreira, Colin K. Phoon, Nanci Pittman, Keith Benkov

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Background: Children and adolescents who seek medical treatment for persistent physical distress often suffer from co-occurring anxiety disorders. Treatment options for this impaired population are limited. This study tests the feasibility and potential efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral intervention targeting pain and anxiety for youth with impairing functional physical symptoms and anxiety disorders presenting to pediatricians for medical care. Methods: Children and adolescents (aged 8-16) experiencing somatic complaints, without an explanatory medical disorder (i.e., functional), were recruited from primary care and specialty (gastroenterologists and cardiologists) pediatricians. Forty children, primarily with gastrointestinal symptoms, who met criteria for a co-occurring anxiety disorder, were …

The Eventual Periodicity Of { X-I I I Forf And Gin X } X, , ,-,L-X,-- X 1-X X X-, George Delali Kwakuyi

Theses (Pre-2016)

The central objective of this thesis is to analyze the eventual periodic properties of solutions of the second order difference equation Xn+l = max{F{xn), G{xn_1 )}, n = 0,1,2, ... , (1.2) where F and G are any two, not necessarily distinct, functions in the system S = Ifx, x -1 ,_1__ ,!,1- X,􁪽} and max is the maximum function, max {x,y} = the 1 x I-x x x-I larger of x and y. Chapter 2 highlights some preliminary concepts and the proof that the system itself is closed under function composition. Chapter 3 introduces the Analysis of Interval Sequences, …

2010-2011 Profile, Morehead State University. Institutional Research & Analysis.

Office of Institutional Research & Analysis Publication Archive

2010-2011 issue of Profile Magazine.

2011 - 2012 University Catalog, Loma Linda University

University Catalog (2005 - present)

Volume 101, Number 1, July 2011

Published once a year, July 2011

Molecular Typing Of Clostridium Perfringens Toxins Recovered From Central Saudi Arabia., Mohamed I. Moussa, Ashgan M. Hessan

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVES: This study reports on comparisons between polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and conventional diagnostic methods for typing Clostridium perfringens toxins collected from Central Saudi Arabia. METHODS: Fecal samples from 150 animals showing signs of enterotoxaemia were collected from 24 April 2009 to 25 September 2009, from different farms located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Twenty-seven toxigenic strains of Clostridium perfringens were recovered from 150 fecal and intestinal content samples were identified and typed by conventional methods. All the strains were analyzed by PCR using specific primers for alpha, beta, epsilon and iota toxin genes. The experimental work was carried …