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Attributing Meaning To Online Social Network Analysis For Tailored Socio-Behavioral Support Systems, Sahiti Myneni

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Ubiquitous online social networks provide us with a unique opportunity to deliver scalable interventions for the support of lifestyle modifications in order to change behaviors that predispose toward cancer and other diseases. At the same time these networks act as rich data sources to inform our understanding of end-user needs. Traditionally, social network analysis is based on communication frequency among members. In this work, I introduce communication content as a complementary frame for studying these networks.

QuitNet, an online social network developed to provide smoking cessation support is considered for analysis. Qualitative coding, automated content analysis, and network analysis were …

The Weekly Challenger, December 5, 2013, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 5, 2013, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Comment, December 5, 2013, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Dance 2013: Once Again, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2013-2014 Season

No abstract provided.

Hawks' Herald -- Dec. 5 , 2013, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

Campus Report, Vol. 41, No. 4, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

The publication for faculty and staff of the University of Dayton. Chapel renovations; health care changes; Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.

Sandspur, Vol 120, No 12, December 05, 2013, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Nnb News, Campbell Park, December 5, 2013, Jenna Shaw

Neighborhood News Bureau

A spotlight on Campbell Park in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Nnb News, Midtown Woman Motivated To Lead By Her Desire To Help Others, December 5, 2013, Courtney Parish

Neighborhood News Bureau

A spotlight on LaVerne Feaster-Johnson, the Program Manager at the Department of Veterans Affairs for Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Healthcare system.

2012-13 Annual Accountability Report : University Of South Florida St. Petersburg, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg., Florida. Board Of Governors., State University System Of Florida., University Of South Florida. System.

Statewide Governing Boards: Reports and Planning Documents

No abstract provided.

Low-Income Minority Patients With Diabetes Have Low Eye-Care-Usage Rates, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, December 05, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2013

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Resolution 13-14, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Faculty Senate Resolution calling for the protection of privacy rights of LSU staff, first read on December 5, 2013.

December 5, 2013, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the December 5, 2013, meeting of the University Senate. 25 pages

December 5, 2013, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Emu Today, December 5, 2013, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

The Cowl - V.78 - N.12 - Dec 5, 2013

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 78 - No. 12 - December 5, 2013. 24 pages.

The Alestle - Vol. 66 No. 15 - 12/05/2013, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 66 No. 15

Impact Of Noise On Molecular Network Inference, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Marco Scutari

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Molecular entities work in concert as a system and mediate phenotypic outcomes and disease states. There has been recent interest in modelling the associations between molecular entities from their observed expression profiles as networks using a battery of algorithms. These networks have proven to be useful abstractions of the underlying pathways and signalling mechanisms. Noise is ubiquitous in molecular data and can have a pronounced effect on the inferred network. Noise can be an outcome of several factors including: inherent stochastic mechanisms at the molecular level, variation in the abundance of molecules, heterogeneity, sensitivity of the biological assay or measurement …

Community College Pathways: A Narrative Inquiry With One Student, Philip Ross

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Developmental education is a field that has a long history in higher education in the United States. Some have called it remedial education, but the field promotes a pedagogy that addresses what it claims is broader in the development of the whole person, his or cognitive, social/behavioral, and vocational growth. This study, set in a Midwestern community college, acknowledges the absence of recognition of the role of developmental education in higher education and responds to a lack of qualitative research in this area. A six-month study using narrative inquiry results in the documentary Crossroads Community College: Flying Solo and following …

Studies On The Regulation Of Fgf21 Gene Expression By (R)-Α-Lipoic Acid: Mechanistic Insight Into The Lipid Lowering Properties Of A Dithiol Dietary Molecule, Xiaohua Yi

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Controlling blood lipids is a major public health challenge of our time. The pleiotropic hormone-like polypeptide fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) was recently recognized as a potent modulator of lipid and glucose metabolism and a promising treatment strategy for obesity related metabolic disorders, including dyslipidemia. A cost effective and practical alternative to the administration of recombinant FGF21 is to stimulate endogenous FGF21 production through diet. Our research identified (R)-a-lipoic acid (LA), a naturally occurring enzyme cofactor and dietary molecule found in green leafy vegetable and red meat, as an inducer of FGF21 expression. LA stimulated FGF21 production, demonstrated by a …

Office Of Financial Stability – Troubled Asset Relief Program (Fy 2013), United States: Department Of The Treasury

Documents

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session December 5, 2013, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the December 5, 2013 WMU Board of Trustees minutes include:

• Remarks by Board Chair Jeanne Carlson
• Remarks by President John Dunn
• WMU Tobacco-Free Campus Policy
• Building Project Priority List Revised FY 2015

WMU Board of Trustees

Clinically Relevant Intronic Splicing Enhancer Mutation In Myelin Proteolipid Protein Leads To Progressive Microglia And Astrocyte Activation In White And Gray Matter Regions Of The Brain, Adam D. Bachstetter, Scott J. Webster, Linda J. Van Eldik, Franca Cambi

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Publications

INTRODUCTION: Mutations in proteolipid protein (PLP), the most abundant myelin protein in the CNS, cause the X-linked dysmyelinating leukodystrophies, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) and spastic paraplegia type 2 (SPG2). Point mutations, deletion, and duplication of the PLP1 gene cause PMD/SPG2 with varying clinical presentation. Deletion of an intronic splicing enhancer (ISEdel) within intron 3 of the PLP1 gene is associated with a mild form of PMD. Clinical and preclinical studies have indicated that mutations in myelin proteins, including PLP, can induce neuroinflammation, but the temporal and spatial onset of the reactive glia response in a clinically relevant mild form of PMD …

"Ovar" Come The Silence For Ovarian Cancer Awareness, Amanda Klage

Honors Theses

Growing up, most of us consider our parents to be invincible or untouchable. I know that I did. Sadly, my life took a dramatic turn at the age of 19. That’s when my dear mom, Maureen Klage--the one who was always there for me, passed away from ovarian cancer. She was just 48 years old.

At the time, I didn’t know much about ovarian cancer. I had learned only a little bit of information from my mom while she was battling the disease. But, realizing that I, too, might be at risk for this cancer, I decided to find out …

Transcriptional Crosstalk Between Helper Bacteriophages And Staphylococcal Aureus Pathogenicity Islands, Kristin Lane

Theses and Dissertations

Acquisition of a superantigen pathogenicity island (SaPI) significantly increases virulence in Staphylococcus aureus. Horizontal transfer of SaPIs occurs at high frequency and depends upon a helper bacteriophage, either through direct infection or SOS-mediated induction of a lysogen. SaPIs hijack the packaging machinery of the helper phage, leading to the formation of SaPI-containing transducing particles that can introduce the pathogenicity island into neighboring SaPI-negative cells. All SaPIs contain a conserved core of genes, some of which are co-transcribed as an operon and encode functions involved in helper exploitation. The goal of this study was to more fully understand the intricate relationships …

Analgesic Tolerance Of Opioid Agonists In Mutant Mu-Opioid Receptors Expressed In Sensory Neurons Following Intrathecal Plasmid Gene Delivery, Guangwen Li, Fei Ma, Yanping Gu, Li-Yen Mae Huang

Physiology Faculty Publications

Background: Phosphorylation sites in the C-terminus of mu-opioid receptors (MORs) are known to play critical roles in the receptor functions. Our understanding of their participation in opioid analgesia is mostly based on studies of opioid effects on mutant receptors expressed in in vitro preparations, including cell lines, isolated neurons and brain slices. The behavioral consequences of the mutation have not been fully explored due to the complexity in studies of mutant receptors in vivo. To facilitate the determination of the contribution of phosphorylation sites in MOR to opioid-induced analgesic behaviors, we expressed mutant and wild-type human MORs (hMORs) in sensory …

The Montclarion, December 05, 2013, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Transformation Of Stimulus Correlations By The Retina, Kristina D. Simmons, Jason Prentice, Gašper Tkačik, Jan Homann, Heather K. Yee, Stephanie E. Palmer, Philip C. Nelson, Vijay Balasubramanian

Publications and Research

Redundancies and correlations in the responses of sensory neurons may seem to waste neural resources, but they can also carry cues about structured stimuli and may help the brain to correct for response errors. To investigate the effect of stimulus structure on redundancy in retina, we measured simultaneous responses from populations of retinal ganglion cells presented with natural and artificial stimuli that varied greatly in correlation structure; these stimuli and recordings are publicly available online. Responding to spatio-temporally structured stimuli such as natural movies, pairs of ganglion cells were modestly more correlated than in response to white noise checkerboards, but …

What Factors Influence Wind Perceptions, Tatiana Stein

Theses

Over the last decade, wind power has emerged as a possible source of energy and has attracted the attention of homeowners and policy makers worldwide. Many technological hurdles have been overcome in the last few years that make this technology feasible and economical. The United States has added more wind power than any other type of electric generation in 2012. Depending on the location, wind resources have shown to have the potential to offer 20% of the nation's electricity; a single, large wind turbine has the capacity to produce enough electricity to power 350 homes. Throughout the development of wind …