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Family Structure, Family Stability And Outcomes Of Five-Year-Old Children, Terry Ann L. Craigie, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Jane Waldfogel

Economics: Faculty Publications

This study exploits data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a birth cohort study of a diverse sample of children from 20 cities in the United States (N = 3,676), to examine how cognitive, behavioural and health outcomes of five-year-old children differ according to their family structure and family stability. We define three models: one that measures family structure at birth only, a second that measures current family structure at year five conditional on family structure at birth, and a third that measures changes in family structure from birth to age five. We find that while family structure …

Life, Transferable: Questioning The Commodity-Based Approach To Transplantation Ethics, David Dillard-Wright

Faculty Publications

Some bioethicists have proposed a legalized market in human organs as a solution to transplant waiting lists and global poverty. Solutions to organ procurement problems that are solely market-based would unfairly shift the burdens of medical procedures onto developing nations. Market advocates base their claims on the understanding of organs as property, a position that should be problematized. Instrumentalizing people in this way is made part of the broader commodification of animals and the environment. Combating the market mentality requires a return to the holistic view of bioethics that led to the founding of the field.

Voices Raised, Issue 35, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Included in this issue: LaFrae Sci: The Healing Power of Music; Celebrating Women’s History Month; Miryam Award Recognizes Students; Marianist Sisters: 50 years at UD; Cancer Prevention; Mindfulness Meditation; The Plague of a Learned Wife; Miryam Award Evolves.

Nebline, March 2012

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: National Agriculture Week is March 4–10: A Time to Celebrate and Reflect About Nebraska’s Leading Industry

Farm Views

Urban Agriculture

Food & Fitness

Home & Family Living

Horticulture

Environmental Focus

4-H & Youth

Community Focus

Extension Calendar

Nutrition Education Program

Family and Community Education (FCE) Clubs

and other extension news and events

Weed Awareness Special Pullout Section

Teens, Sexts, & Cyberspace: The Constitutional Implications Of Current Sexting & Cyberbullying Laws, Jamie L. Williams

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Tolerance, Fermentation, And Cytokine Expression In Healthy Aged Male C57bl/6j Mice Fed Resistant Starch, June Zhou, Michael J. Keenan, Jeffrey Keller, Sun O. Fernandez-Kim, Paul J. Pistell, Richard T. Tulley, Anne M. Raggio, Li Shen, Hanjie Zhang, Roy J. Martin, Marc R. Blackman

Faculty Publications

Health benefits of resistant starch (RS), a dietary fermentable fiber, have been well documented in young, but not in old populations. As the essential step of more comprehensive evaluations of RS on healthy aging, we examined the effects of dietary RS on tolerance, colonic fermentation, and cytokine expression in aged mice. Healthy older (18-20 months) C57BL/6J male mice were fed control, 18% RS, or 36% RS diets for 10weeks. Body weight gain, body composition, and fat pad weights did not differ among the three groups after 10weeks, indicating good tolerance of the RS diet. Fermentation indicators (cecum weights, and cecal …

An Analysis Of Preservation Versus Conservation: The Future Of Whaling, Elizabeth Paige Fennie

History

No abstract provided.

Health Care Issues Affecting People With An Intersex Condition Or Dsd: Sex Or Disability Discrimination?, Julie A. Greenberg

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

People with an intersex condition or a Difference of Sex Development (DSD) depend on health care professionals for critical medical treatment. Many intersex activists assert that some current medical practices are not in the best interests of patients with an intersex condition. They contend that greater safeguards should be adopted to ensure that the rights to liberty and autonomy of people with a DSD are respected.

Thus far, intersex advocacy has focused on extralegal strategies. The movement is at a point, however, where legal challenges to current medical protocols could provide an additional tool to improve life-altering health care practices. …

Akirin Links Twist-Regulated Transcription With The Brahma Chromatin Remodeling Complex During Embryogenesis, Scott J. Nowak, Hitoshi Aihara, Katie Gonzalez, Yutaka Nibu, Mary K. Baylies

Faculty Articles

The activities of developmentally critical transcription factors are regulated via interactions with cofactors. Such interactions influence transcription factor activity either directly through protein–protein interactions or indirectly by altering the local chromatin environment. Using a yeast double-interaction screen, we identified a highly conserved nuclear protein, Akirin, as a novel cofactor of the key Drosophila melanogaster mesoderm and muscle transcription factor Twist. We find that Akirin interacts genetically and physically with Twist to facilitate expression of some, but not all, Twist-regulated genes during embryonic myogenesis. akirin mutant embryos have muscle defects consistent with altered regulation of a subset of Twistregulated genes. To …

Emergent Criticality Through Adaptive Information Processing In Boolean Networks, Alireza Goudarzi, Christof Teuscher, Natali Gulbahce, Thimo Rohlf

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

We study information processing in populations of Boolean networks with evolving connectivity and systematically explore the interplay between the learning capability, robustness, the network topology, and the task complexity. We solve a long-standing open question and find computationally that, for large system sizes N, adaptive information processing drives the networks to a critical connectivity K_{c}=2. For finite size networks, the connectivity approaches the critical value with a power law of the system size N. We show that network learning and generalization are optimized near criticality, given that the task complexity and the amount of information provided surpass threshold values. Both …

Processing Quality Of Potato Tubers Produced During Autumn And Spring And Stored At Different Temperatures, Sergio T. De Freitas, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, Ana Cecilia S. Gomez, Auri Brackmann, Fernando Nicoloso, Dilson A. Bisognin

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

The objective of this work was to access processing quality of potato clones (Solanum tuberosum) Asterix, SMINIA793101-3, and Missaukee cultivated during spring and autumn growing seasons and stored at 4, 8, 12, or 25ºC. Clones grown in spring had shorter dormancy than clones grown in autumn. Potato tubers grown in spring and autumn and stored at 4ºC, as well as tubers grown in autumn and stored at 8ºC had no sprouting for six months. Among clones grown in autumn, the longest dormancy period during storage at 12ºC was observed in the clone SMINIA793101-3, and at 25ºC was in the clone …

Effect Of Maternal Hypoxia On The Cerebral And Cardiac Tissue Remodeling, Wenni Tong

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Large epidemiological studies and animal studies have indicated a clear association of adverse intrauterine environment with an increased incidence of low birth weight, perinatal mortality, and cardiovascular disease in later adult life. In humans, one of the most common stresses in utero is hypoxia. The goal of this project is to test the hypothesis that fetal hypoxia causes reprogramming of MMPs and TIMPs expression patterns and activities leading to aberrant brain and heart development in the fetuses and neonates. In the first part of project, we tested the hypothesis that maternal hypoxia increases the activity of MMPs and decreases the …

March 2012, University Archives And Special Collections Department

This Month in UT Tyler History

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Localized Deconvolution: Characterizing Nmr-Based Metabolomics Spectroscopic Data Using Localized High-Throughput Deconvolution, Paul E. Anderson, Ajith H. Ranabahu, Deirdre A. Mahle, Nicholas V. Reo, Michael L. Raymer, Amit P. Sheth, Nicholas J. Delraso

Kno.e.sis Publications

The interpretation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experimental results for metabolomics studies requires intensive signal processing and multivariate data analysis techniques. Standard quantification techniques attempt to minimize effects from variations in peak positions caused by sample pH, ionic strength, and composition. These techniques fail to account for adjacent signals which can lead to drastic quantification errors. Attempts at full spectrum deconvolution have been limited in adoption and development due to the computational resources required. Herein, we develop a novel localized deconvolution algorithm for general purpose quantification of NMR-based metabolomics studies. Localized deconvolution decreases average absolute quantification error by 97% and …

Biomedical Properties And Preparation Of Iron Oxide-Dextran Nanostructures By Maple Technique, Carmen Steluta Ciobanu, Simona Liliana Iconaru, Eniko Gyorgy, Mihaela Radu, Marieta Costache, Anca Dinischiotu, Philippe Le Coustumer, Khalid Lafdi, Daniela Predoi

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Background: In this work the chemical structure of dextran-iron oxide thin films was reported. The films were obtained by MAPLE technique from composite targets containing 10 wt. % dextran with 1 and 5 wt.% iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs). The IONPs were synthesized by co-precipitation method. A KrF* excimer laser source (λ = 248 nm, τFWHM≅25 ns, ν = 10 Hz) was used for the growth of the hybrid, iron oxide NPs-dextran thin films.

Results: Dextran coated iron oxide nanoparticles thin films were indexed into the spinel cubic lattice with a lattice parameter of 8.36 Å. The particle sized calculated was …

Gothic Architecture, Geometry, And The Aesthetics Of Transcendence, Robert Bork

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

In these remarks I will discuss Gothic architecture, geometry, and what I call the aesthetics of transcendence. I’ll focus mainly on the design of great buildings like Strasbourg Cathedral, whose spire is the tallest surviving work of the Middle Ages, a 466-foot symphony of intricately carved stone. I also want to talk about how I came to study and admire this material, starting out from a curiously backdoor approach involving the sciences. Ultimately, therefore, I will argue that Gothic architecture can be fruitfully compared to a variety of things, such as fractals, heavy metal guitar music, and dinosaurs. These are …

Contributors

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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Initial Plant Growth In Sand Mine Spoil Amended With Peat Moss And Fertilizer Under Greenhouse Conditions: Potential Species For Use In Reclamation, Todd A. Aschenbach, Elizabeth Brandt, Melissa Buzzard, Ryan Hargreaves, Thomas Schmidt, Amanda Zwagerman

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

The Great Lakes Basin exhibits the largest collection of freshwater sand dunes in the world. Sand dunes are ecologically important and support a unique assemblage of flora and fauna. Sand dunes are also economically valuable. However, when sand dunes are mined, soil quality is drastically reduced. Therefore, soil quality improvements followed by revegetation maybe necessary for successful reclamation. This study evaluates the germination and initial growth of 2 legume species, sundial lupine (Lupinus perennis) and Illinois bundleflower (Desmanthus illinoensis), and 2 warm-season grass species, Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) and little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), in the presence of 2 soil amendments …

Spinal Motor Control Differences Between The Sexes, Samuel T. Johnson, Kristof Kipp, Mark A. Hoffman

Exercise Science Faculty Research and Publications

Activity-related knee joint dysfunction is more prevalent in females than males. One explanation for the discrepancy is differences in movement patterns between the sexes. However, the underlying mechanisms responsible for these differences remain unidentified. This study tested spinal motor control mechanisms influencing motor neuron pool output and subsequent muscle activation in 17 males and 17 females. The following variables were assessed at the soleus: the gain of the unconditioned H-reflex, gain of both intrinsic pre-synaptic inhibition (IPI) and extrinsic presynaptic inhibition (EPI), the level of recurrent inhibition (RI), the level of supraspinal drive determined by the ratio of the Vmax:Mmax …

Phylogeny And Cryptic Diversity In Geckos (Phyllopezus; Phyllodactylidae; Gekkota) From South America’S Open Biomes, Tony Gamble, Guarino R. Colli, Miguel T. Rodrigues, Fernanda P. Werneck, Andrew M. Simons

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

The gecko genus Phyllopezus occurs across South America’s open biomes: Cerrado, Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTF, including Caatinga), and Chaco. We generated a multi-gene dataset and estimated phylogenetic relationships among described Phyllopezus taxa and related species. We included exemplars from both described Phyllopezus pollicaris subspecies, P. p. pollicaris and P. p. przewalskii. Phylogenies from the concatenated data as well as species trees constructed from individual gene trees were largely congruent. All phylogeny reconstruction methods showed Bogertia lutzae as the sister species of Phyllopezus maranjonensis, rendering Phyllopezus paraphyletic. We synonymized the monotypic genus Bogertia with Phyllopezus to maintain a …

Gifts Of The Heart… And Other Tissues: Legalizing The Sale Of Human Organs And Tissues, J. Randall Boyer

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Marriage, Fundamental Premises, And The California, Connecticut, And Iowa Supreme Courts, Monte Neil Stewart, Jacob D. Briggs, Julie Slater

BYU Law Review

The highest courts in California, Connecticut, and Iowa recently held that the constitutional norm of equality requires the redefinition of marriage from “the union of a man and a woman” to “the union of any two persons.” The argument leading to that holding, like all arguments, proceeds from premises that the argument does not prove but that serve as the starting point for reasoning. Those premises range from the nature of contemporary American marriage to the equivalence of the pre- and post-redefinition marriage institutions, to the social costs, if any, resulting from redefinition, and to marriage’s relationship with other social …

Dragon's Time: Dragonriders Of Pern, By Anne Mccaffrey And Todd Mccaffrey. Reviewed By Daniel Baird., Daniel Baird

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

Western Striped And Western Spotted Cucumber Beetles, Diane Alston, Dennis Worwood

All Current Publications

Cucumber beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are pests of cucurbits throughout the U.S. Western species of cucumber beetles will also feed on leaves of other vegetables (especially corn, tomato, potato, and bean) and soft fruits (especially apricot and peach) (Table 1). In Utah, watermelon and cantaloupe have been the main commercial crops attacked. In home gardens, zucchini, cucumber and cantaloupe have suffered the most damage.

High Tunnel Winter Spinach Production, Dan Drost, Brent Black, Taunya Ernst

All Current Publications

This publication provides information on growing high tunnel winter spinach including site preparation, site and irrigation management, and planting dates and spacing.

Why Are Caribou Declining In The Oil Sands?, Stan Boutin, Mark S. Boyce, Mark Hebblewhite

Wildlife Biology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Response Of Calcareous Nannofossil Communities To Environmental Variation During The Late Middle Eocene At Blake Nose, Western North Atlantic, Odp Leg 171b, Johnathon P. Kell

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Ocean Drilling Program Leg 171B Hole 1051B penetrated a continuous sequence of upper middle Eocene pelagic sediment dominated by rich calcareous nannofossil assemblages. Samples were taken at 10 cm spacing from a 20.2 meter section of the upper middle Eocene. This interval of pelagic sediment had previously been interpreted to represent ~500ky. Our revised age model, using additional data, indicates this section represents ~842ky.

The Eocene Epoch was characterized by one of the most dramatic climatic transitions in the last 65 my, changing the greenhouse earth of the early Eocene to the icehouse world of early Oligocene. Here changes in …

Radiocarbon And Luminescence Dating At Flamingo Bay (38ak469): Implications For Site Formation Processes And Artifact Burial At A Carolina Bay, Christopher R. Moore, Mark J. Brooks, Andrew H. Ivester, Terry Ferguson, James K. Feathers

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Talking Around Marriage, Douglas Nejaime

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lgbt Identity: A Demographer's Perspective, Gary J. Gates

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

In a recent study, the Author of this Article estimated that the self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community makes up 3.8 percent of the American population. The Author’s estimate was far lower than many scholars and activists had contended, and it included a relatively high proportion of persons self-identifying as bisexuals. This Article responds to two of the central criticisms that arose in the controversy that followed. First, in response to claims that his estimate did not account for people who are in the closet, the Author describes how demographers might measure the size of the closet. Second, …