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Harnessing Poverty Alleviation To Reduce The Stigma Of Hiv In Sub-Saharan Africa, Alexander C. Tsai, David Bangsberg, Sheri D. Weiser

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

HIV is highly stigmatized throughout sub-Saharan Africa. In studies conducted among general population samples, stigma has been shown to impede uptake of HIV testing and increase sexual risktaking behavior. Among HIV-infected persons, stigma has also been associated with inhibited serostatus disclosure to sexual partners and potential treatment supporters, delays in HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation, and ART nonadherence. The stigma of HIV also intensifies the poverty, stress, and insecurity endemic to many resource-limited settings, resulting in worsened mental health, itself an important determinant of AIDS-related mortality. Until we can better understand how to effectively intervene to reduce the stigma of …

Suprachiasmatic Astrocytes Modulate The Circadian Clock In Response To Tnf-Α, José M. Duhart, María Juliana Leone, Natalia Paladino, Jennifer A. Evans, Oscar Castanon-Cervantes, Alec J. Davidson, Diego A. Golombek

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

The immune and the circadian systems interact in a bidirectional fashion. The master circadian oscillator, located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus, responds to peripheral and local immune stimuli, such as proinflammatory cytokines and bacterial endotoxin. Astrocytes exert several immune functions in the CNS, and there is growing evidence that points toward a role of these cells in the regulation of circadian rhythms. The aim of this work was to assess the response of SCN astrocytes to immune stimuli, particularly to the proinflammatory cytokine TNF-α. TNF-α applied to cultures of SCN astrocytes from Per2^luc knockin mice altered …

Oral Branched-Chain Amino Acid Supplements That Reduce Brain Serotonin During Exercise In Rats Also Lower Brain Catecholamines, Sujean Choi, Briana Disilvio, Madelyn H. Fernstrom, John D. Fernstrom

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Exercise raises brain serotonin release and is postulated to cause fatigue in athletes; ingestion of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), by competitively inhibiting tryptophan transport into brain, lowers brain tryptophan uptake and serotonin synthesis and release in rats, and reputedly in humans prevents exercise-induced increases in serotonin and fatigue. This latter effect in humans is disputed. But BCAA also competitively inhibit tyrosine uptake into brain, and thus catecholamine synthesis and release. Since increasing brain catecholamines enhances physical performance, BCAA ingestion could lower catecholamines, reduce performance and thus negate any serotonin-linked benefit. We therefore examined in rats whether BCAA would reduce both …

The Charism Of Unity In Dialogue With Contemporary Culture And The Paradigm Of Fraternity, Maria Voce

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

In this article based on her speech to the Economic Science Faculty at the University of Buenos Aires on April 12, 2012, the author begins by asking the question: Does the charism of unity have something to say to contemporary culture? She presents Chiara Lubich’s experience of unity and her vision for contributing to a more united and peaceful world. Looking briefly at the cultural situation in Europe today, the author presents the difficult cultural situations on that continent. But she quickly turns her attention to Latin America and the positive social, economic, and political changes that have recently taken …

The Forgotten Principle: Fraternity In Its Public Dimension, Antonio Maria Baggio

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

In this article, the author presents background on the notion of fraternity, as well as events in Europe and in Latin America during the past decade or so that have led to a new scholarship on this “forgotten principle.” This scholarship that began in Europe, spread to Latin America, and then back to Europe with new insights and publications in the fields of philosophy, political science, sociology, psychology, economics, and theology. The author cites publications in both Europe and Latin America that have been important contributions to this scholarship. Chiara Lubich, as we will see in the following articles, has …

"When The Tree Has Blossomed Fully . . .": Reflections On The Church, Hubertus Blaumeiser, Brendan Leahy

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

The Second Vatican Council presented a vision of the church particularly suited to contemporary times. The authors propose that a seminal text of Chiara Lubich, “Look at All the Flowers,” suggests how the Council’s vision can be realized through mutual personal relationships that reflect the very life of the Trinity. The model of such relationships and therefore of the Christian community and of the church itself is Mary at the foot of the Cross, who “lost” the God in herself for the God who is present or will be present in every human being, then and now. “Look at All …

Look At All The Flowers: Editors' Introduction

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

Pope Francis presented the following reflection in his homily on July 25, 2013 at the World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro: “With him [Christ], our life is transformed and renewed, and we can see reality with new eyes, from Jesus’ standpoint, with his own eyes (cf. Lumen Fidei, 18).” In her meditation, “Look at All the Flowers,” Chiara Lubich says that “to look at all the flowers is to have Jesus’ vision.” She presents a short yet deep and mystical reflection on her own experience of seeing reality with “Jesus’ vision.” In this meditation, she also presents the collective …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 21, October 31, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Santa Clara, 2013-10-31, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, October 31, 2013, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 141, Issue 28

The Utah Statesman, October 31, 2013, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Animal Question In Deconstruction, Rafe Mcgregor

Between the Species

Review of The Animal Question in Deconstruction, edited by Lynn Turner (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013)

October 31, 2013, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Spatially Explicit Model Of Wintering Common Loons: Conservation Implications, Kristopher J. Winiarski, David L. Miller, Peter W. C. Patton, Scott R. Mcwilliams

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Common loons Gavia immer are a conservation concern in New England due to a variety of anthropogenic factors, yet little is known about biotic and abiotic environmental factors determining their wintering distribution and abundance in nearshore and offshore waters. The primary objective of this study was to develop a spatially explicit abundance model of wintering common loons in the maritime waters of southern New England (USA) that could inform decisions about offshore development. Aerial line-transect surveys were conducted throughout a 3800 km² study area off the coast of Rhode Island during the winters of 2010–2011 and 2011–2012. A density …

The Missouri Miner, October 31, 2013

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

Synthesis Of Environmentally-Friendly Polyurethane Dispersions Based On Soybean Oil- Derived Polyols And Their Applications In Advanced Water-Based And Uv-Cure Coatings, Senthikumar Rengasamy

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Polyurethane dispersions (PUD) have established themselves as most versatile polymeric binder in coating, adhesive, sealant, and elastomer industries. Like any other polymers, PUDs also have certain limitations, such as hydrolytic stability, water resistance, and oil resistance. In order to develop these properties, two different polyol families were synthesized. The first polyol can be used in ambient curable systems, and the second can be utilized in ultraviolet radiation cure coatings. For ambient curable systems polyether chemistry based soy-polyol was developed from epoxidized soy fatty acid methyl ester (ESFAME). The cationic ring opening of oxirane oxygen groups from ESFAME resulted in polyol …

Epigenetic Dominance Of Prion Conformers, Eri Saijo, Hae-Eun Kang, Jifeng Bian, Kristi G. Bowling, Shawn Browning, Sehun Kim, Nora Hunter, Glenn C. Telling

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

Although they share certain biological properties with nucleic acid based infectious agents, prions, the causative agents of invariably fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, sheep scrapie, and human Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, propagate by conformational templating of host encoded proteins. Once thought to be unique to these diseases, this mechanism is now recognized as a ubiquitous means of information transfer in biological systems, including other protein misfolding disorders such as those causing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. To address the poorly understood mechanism by which host prion protein (PrP) primary structures interact with distinct prion conformations to influence pathogenesis, …

Charger Times Vol. 2, No. 8, 2013-10-31, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Charger Times (2012-2014)

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, October 31, 2013, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The October 31, 2013, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Emu Today, October 31, 2013, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Mri Characterization Of Radiation Necrosis In An Animal Model: Time To Onset, Progression, And Therapeutic Response, Xiaoyu Jiang

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Radiation necrosis is a severe, but late occurring type of injury to normal tissue, within and surrounding a radiation treatment field, which can lead to significant complications for neurooncology patients. Radiation necrosis is difficult to distinguish from recurrent tumor by either neurologic examination or clinical imaging protocols. Concerns for the development of radiation necrosis often limit therapeutic radiation doses. Current treatment options for radiation necrosis are limited. The development of solutions to these clinical challenges has been hampered by an appropriate animal model of radiation necrosis.

With a novel mouse model of radiation necrosis developed in our lab employing a …

Chanticleer | October 31, 2013, Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

No abstract provided.

Annual Report: 2012, N/A N/A

Annual Reports

I submit herewith the annual reports from the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, for the period ending December 31, 2012. This is done in accordance with an act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, entitled, “An act to establish agricultural experiment stations, in connection with the agricultural college established in the several states under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and under the acts supplementary thereto,” and also of the act of the Alaska Territorial Legislature, approved March 12, 1935, accepting the provisions of the act …

Mismatch Repair Genes Mlh1 And Mlh3 Modify Cag Instability In Huntington's Disease Mice: Genome-Wide And Candidate Approaches, Ricardo Mouro Pinto, Ella Dragileva, Andrew Kirby, Alejandro Lloret, Edith Lopez, Jason St. Claire, Gagan B. Panigrahi, Caixia Hou, Kim Holloway, Tammy Gillis, Jolene R. Guide, Paula E. Cohen, Guo-Min Li, Christopher E. Pearson, Mark J. Daly, Vanessa C. Wheeler

Toxicology and Cancer Biology Faculty Publications

The Huntington's disease gene (HTT) CAG repeat mutation undergoes somatic expansion that correlates with pathogenesis. Modifiers of somatic expansion may therefore provide routes for therapies targeting the underlying mutation, an approach that is likely applicable to other trinucleotide repeat diseases. Huntington's disease Hdh(Q111) mice exhibit higher levels of somatic HTT CAG expansion on a C57BL/6 genetic background (B6.Hdh(Q111) ) than on a 129 background (129.Hdh(Q111) ). Linkage mapping in (B6x129).Hdh(Q111) F2 intercross animals identified a single quantitative trait locus underlying the strain-specific difference in expansion in the striatum, implicating mismatch repair (MMR) gene Mlh1 as the most likely candidate modifier. …

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, October 31, 2013, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

No abstract provided.

Tick, Tick, Moose, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

My Inner Mask, Genevieve Ivan

Theses and Dissertations

My work is comprised of masks. The indigenous power of masks inspires the spirit, energy, and soul of my work. I use masks to reveal my inner self, similar to how masks were used in ritual ceremonies in the ancient past. The masks that I create break the grounds of my physical containment and open the curtains of my creative energy and psychological chaos. They allow me to embrace my vulnerability and my strength. My work encompasses prints, paintings, and ceramic sculptures. I work expressively by layering the process of mark making in an intuitive manner. Each layer I create …

The Parthenon, October 31, 2013, Bishop Nash

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Otter Realm, October 31, 2013, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Dia de los Muertos: When Life and Death Go Hand in Hand -- What You Otter Be Doing October 31 - November 14 -- Shifting Priorities and Making Decisions -- Giving for the Sake of Sharing: "Really, Really Free Market" a Success in North Quad -- Volunteering for the Youth of the Nations: Village Project in Seaside Provides Opportunities for Service Learning -- Campus Prepares for New Business and Information Technology Building: Parking Options Subject to Change with New Construction -- No Privacy in Public Locations: City of Seaside May Install New Surveillance Cameras -- Gatorade Pong A Splash: Otter …

Killerflip: A Novel Lytic Peptide Specifically Inducing Cancer Cell Death, B Pennarun, G. Gaidos, O Bucur, A Tinari

Dartmouth Scholarship

One of the objectives in the development of effective cancer therapy is induction of tumor-selective cell death. Toward this end, we have identified a small peptide that, when introduced into cells via a TAT cell-delivery system, shows a remarkably potent cytoxicity in a variety of cancer cell lines and inhibits tumor growth in vivo, whereas sparing normal cells and tissues. This fusion peptide was named killer FLIP as its sequence was derived from the C-terminal domain of c-FLIP, an anti-apoptotic protein. Using structure activity analysis, we determined the minimal bioactive core of killerFLIP, namely killerFLIP-E. Structural analysis of cells using …