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The Implementation Research Institute: Training Mental Health Implementation Researchers In The United States, Enola K. Proctor, John Landsverk, Ana A. Baumann, Brian S. Mittman, Gregory A. Aarons, Ross C. Brownson, Charles Glisson, David Chambers

Open Access Publications

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Katanin Localization Requires Triplet Microtubules In Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii, Jessica M. Esparza, Eileen O'Toole, Linya Li, Thomas H. Giddings Jr., Benjamin Kozak, Alison J. Albee, Susan K. Dutcher

Open Access Publications

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Recruitment And Retention Of Participants In A Pragmatic Randomized Intervention Trial At Three Community Health Clinics: Results And Lessons Learned, Erica T. Warner, Russell E. Glasgow, Karen M. Emmons, Gary G. Bennett, Sandy Askew, Bernard Rosner, Graham A. Colditz

Open Access Publications

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Clinical Features Of Bacterial Vaginosis In A Murine Model Of Vaginal Infection With Gardnerella Vaginalis, Nicole M. Gilbert, Warren G. Lewis, Amanda L. Lewis

Open Access Publications

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Maternal High-Fat Diet Induces Hyperproliferation And Alters Pten/Akt Signaling In Prostates Of Offspring, Emily C. Benesh, Peter A. Humphrey, Qiang Wang, Kelle H. Moley

Open Access Publications

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Hirschsprung-Like Disease Is Exacerbated By Reduced De Novo Gmp Synthesis, Jonathan I. Lake, Olga A. Tusheva, Brittany L. Graham, Robert O. Heuckeroth

Open Access Publications

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A Colanic Acid Operon Deletion Mutation Enhances Induction Of Early Antibody Responses By Live Attenuated Salmonella Vaccine Strains, Shifeng Wang, Huoying Shi, Yuhua Li, Zhaoxing Shi, Xin Zhang, Chang-Ho Baek, Tabor Mothershead, Roy Curtiss Iii

Open Access Publications

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Snps Located At Cpg Sites Modulate Genome-Epigenome Interaction, Degui Zhi, Stella Aslibekyan, Marguerite R. Irvin, Steven A. Claas, Ingrid B. Borecki, Jose M. Ordovas, Devin M. Absher, Donna K. Arnett

Open Access Publications

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Atg5 Regulates Plasma Cell Differentiation, Kara L. Conway, Petric Kuballa, Bernard Khor, Mei Zhang, Hai Ning Shi, Herbert W. Virgin, Ramnik J. Xavier

Open Access Publications

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Weight Loss That Works, Winston J. Craig

Lake Union Herald

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Andrews University Students Fill Shoeboxes For Distribution To Needy Children, Kristina Paris

Lake Union Herald

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School-Based Legal Services As A Tool In Dismantling The School-To-Prison Pipeline And Achieving Educational Equity, Barbara A. Fedders, Jason Langberg

Faculty Publications

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The Impact Of University Rankings On Higher Education Policy In Europe: A Challenge To Perceived Wisdom And A Stimulus For Change, Ellen Hazelkorn, Martin Ryan

Books/Book chapters

The arrival of global rankings in 2003 was a clarion call for urgent reform of European higher education. The results of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education QS World University Ranking, first published in 2003 and 2004 respectively, challenged the perceived wisdom about the reputation and excellence of European universities. Since then, the EU and its Member States have sought to reshape and modernise higher education in Europe. This paper argues that the emergence of global rankings was not only a challenge to perceived wisdom, but also a stimulus for change in European higher …

Globalisation And Competitiveness: Challenges To The Purpose, Performance And Impact Of Higher Education, Ellen Hazelkorn

Other resources

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Joint And Double/Multiple Degrees In Ireland, Frank Mcmahon

Reports

This report derives from a project that was undertaken to document the current position in regard to the provision of Joint and Double/Multiple degrees in Ireland. The back-drop to the project was the rapid growth in the provision of such degrees in Continental Europe and the arrangements being put in place to facilitate a further expansion of their number. Initially, it was the intention to explore the provision of joint and double degrees in Irish public sector institutions only but it became evident at an early stage that some private colleges were major providers of joint degrees and so data …

The New Baby Mama Drama: Equal Rights To Compensation For Birth Mothers Of Adopted Infants As Granted To Egg Donors And Surrogates, Jenny Beecroft

Student Works

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Advancing Maternal Survival In The Global Context: Are Our Strategies Working?, Omar A Khan, Richard Derman, Nancy L Sloan

Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers

There have been significant gains in improving maternal mortality over the last two decades. Researchers have suggested a variety of interventions and mechanisms to explain these improvements. While it is likely that much of what has been done in research and programs has contributed to this decline, the evidence regarding what works in the settings in which women deliver continues to face many challenges. We review the evidence for these improvements and suggest that there remain areas to focus on, particularly the births which currently take place in an unsupervised or substandard environments. We highlight the main areas where more …

Women's Access To Secondary Education In Colonial And Postcolonial Tanzania And Rwanda, Emlyn Ashley Ricketts

Master's Theses

This paper will examine how the politics of colonialism and independence during the twentieth century, as well as the culture of each country, have created and limited secondary educational opportunities for women in Tanzania and in Rwanda. I will argue that the English and Belgian colonizers' goals of the education systems in colonial Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi-how much education they thought was appropriate for women to have and their overarching goals in creating the education systems in the colonies-shaped the place of women within Tanzania and Rwanda today. I will argue that English and Belgian colonizers imposed a western, Christian, patriarchal …

A Healthier Bottom Line: Distilling Best Practices In Corporate Wellness, Mark Auriemma, Cfa, Angela Cassidy, Kelly Dougherty, Despina Garalis, Pharmd, Rph, Judith Pelletier, Jennifer Springer

Emerging Leaders Program Team Projects

The Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) collaborated with a team from the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) from the University of Massachusetts Boston to explore ways to control health care costs. One strategy being implemented by employers to control health care costs is through “wellness programs,” employer-sponsored efforts to improve the health of employees. Members of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) and other large employers have had success in reducing their health care costs through the implementation of corporate wellness initiatives. The purpose of this paper is to define what is working in private sector wellness programs to determine whether there is …

Use Of A Virtual-Reference Concept To Interpret Active Crop Canopy Sensor Data, Kyle H. Holland, James S. Schepers

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Active crop canopy sensors make possible in-season fertilizer nitrogen (N) applications by using the crop as a bio-indicator of vigor and N status. However, sensor calibration is difficult early in the growing season when crops are rapidly growing. Studies were conducted in the United States and Mexico to evaluate procedures to determine the vegetation index of adequately fertilized plants in producer fields without establishing a nitrogen-rich reference area. The virtual-reference concept uses a histogram to characterize and display the sensor data from which the vegetation index of adequately fertilized plants can be identified. Corn in Mexico at the five-leaf growth …

Morpho-Physiological Parameters Affecting Iron Deficiency Chlorosis In Soybean (Glycine Max L.), Marta W. Vasconcelos, Michael A. Grusak

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Background and aims Iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC) leads to severe leaf chlorosis, low photosynthetic rates, and yield reductions of several million metric tonnes each year. In order to devise breeding and genetic transformation programs that aim at generating high-yielding and IDC-tolerant soybean lines, it is necessary to better understand the mechanisms that enable tolerant plants to survive under Fe-limiting conditions.

Methods An in silico analysis in the USDA soybean collection allowed the identification of a set of novel efficient and inefficient soybean cultivars which can be used in future studies concerning IDC response. Plants were grown in iron deficient and …

Variant High-Molecular-Weight Glutenin Subunits Arising From Biolistic Transformation Of Wheat, Ann E. Blechl, William H. Vensel

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Genetic transformation via the biolistic method has been used to introduce genes encoding natural and novel high-molecular-weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) into wheat. The appearance of new seed proteins of sizes not predicted by the transgene coding sequences was noted in some experiments. In this report, the identities of thirteen of these novel proteins were determined by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Seven different proteins larger than and two proteins smaller than the native protein were shown to contain peptides from 1Dx5. A novel protein found in some progeny of crosses between a transgenic plant and Great Plains winter wheats was larger …

Invited Review: Sustainability Of The Us Dairy Industry, M. A. G. Von Keyserlingk, N. P. Martin, E. Kebreab, K. F. Knowlton, R.J. Grant, M. Stephenson Ii, C.J. Sniffen, J.P. Harner Iii, A.D. Wright, S.I. Smith

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The US dairy industry has realized tremendous improvements in efficiencies and milk production since the 1940s. During this time, farm and total cow numbers have decreased and average herd size has increased. This intensification, combined with the shift to a largely urban public, has resulted in increased scrutiny of the dairy industry by social and environmental movements and increased concern regarding the dairy industry’s sustainability. In response to these concerns, a group of scientists specializing in animal welfare, nutrient management, greenhouse gas emissions, animal science, agronomy, agricultural engineering, microbiology, and economics undertook a critical review of the US dairy industry. …

High-Impact Animal Health Research Conducted At The Usda’S National Animal Disease Center, J. P. Bannantine, Steven C. Olsen, Marcus E. Kehrli Jr., Thad B. Stanton, Eduardo Casas, Diana L. Whipple, Kurt A. Zuelke

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Commissioned by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958 and opened with a dedication ceremony in December 1961, the USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Animal Disease Center (NADC) celebrated its 50-year anniversary in November 2011. Over these 50 years, the NADC established itself among the world’s premier animal health research centers. Its historic mission has been to conduct basic and applied research on selected endemic diseases of economic importance to the U.S. livestock and poultry industries. Research from NADC has impacted control or management efforts on nearly every major animal disease in the United States since 1961. For example, diagnostic tests …

Switchgrass Biomass Composition Altered By Six Generations Of Divergent Breeding For Digestibility, Kenneth P. Vogel, R. B. Mitchell, G. Sarath, H. G. Jung, B. S. Dien, M. D. Casler

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Biomass composition of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) can affect its utilization by ruminants and its conversion to liquid fuels in a biorefinery. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of six generations of divergent breeding for forage in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) on switchgrass biomass composition, forage quality traits, and ethanol yield. Initially there was one cycle of selection for both low (C-1) and high IVDMD (C1 = cv. Trailblazer), followed by four additional breeding cycles for high IVDMD. In cycles 4 and 5, winter survival was included as a selection criterion because of decreased …

Seasonal Temperature And Precipitation Effects On Cow–Calf Production In Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie, Justin L. Reeves, Justin D. Derner, Matt A. Sanderson, Mark K. Petersen, Lance T. Vermeire, John R. Hendrickson, Scott L. Kronberg

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Quantifying the effects of seasonal temperature and precipitation on cow–calf production on rangelands is challenging, as few long-term (420 yrs) studies have been reported. However, an understanding of how seasonal weather inconsistency affects beef production is needed for beef producers to better manage their herds on native rangelands to minimize enterprise risk with respect to climatic variability. Cow–calf beef production data collected at the USDA-ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station near Cheyenne, WY, USA from 1975 to 2012 were tested using model averaging for effects of spring (April–June) and summer (July–September) temperature and precipitation, as well as prior winter (October–March) …

Temperature And Precipitation Affect Steer Weight Gains Differentially By Stocking Rate In Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie, Justin L. Reeves, Justin D. Derner, Matt A. Sanderson, Mark K. Petersen, Lance T. Vermeire, John R. Hendrickson, Scott L. Kronberg

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Cattle weight gain responses to seasonal weather variability are difficult to predict for rangelands because few long-term (>20 yr) studies have been conducted. However, an increased understanding of temperature and precipitation influences on cattle weight gains is needed to optimize stocking rates and reduce enterprise risk associated with climatic variability. Yearling steer weight gain data collected at the USDA-ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station at light, moderate, and heavy stocking rates for 30 years (1982–2011) were used to examine the effects of spring (April–June) and summer (July–September) temperature and precipitation, as well as prior-growing-season (prior April–September) and fall/winter (October–March) …

Short- And Full-Season Soybean In Stale Seedbeds Versus Rolled-Crimped Winter Rye Mulch, Frank Forcella

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Stale seedbeds are used by organic growers to reduce weed populations prior to crop planting. Ryemulches, derived from mechanically killed (rolled and crimped) winter rye cover crops, can serve the same purpose for spring-planted organic crops. Both methods can also be employed by conventional growers who face looming problems with herbicide resistant weeds. The objective of this research was to compare these methods over 2 years in central Minnesota in terms of weed seedling emergence, populations, biomass and manual-weeding times, as well as stands and yields of short-season and full-season soybean varieties planted late, in mid June. Rye mulch greatly …

Thirty-Year Tillage Effects On Crop Yield And Soil Fertility Indicators, Douglas Karlen, John L. Kovar, Cynthia A. Cambardella, Thomas S. Colvin

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Long-term studies are crucial for quantifying tillage effects on productivity and soil fertility. Moldboard plow, chisel plow, spring disk, ridge-tillage, and no-tillage systems were evaluated after 32 years of a corn (Zea mays L.) and soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] rotation and 27 years of continuous corn in central Iowa, U.S.A. Productivity was quantified using yield, while soil fertility status was evaluated by collecting four, 5-cm diameter soil cores to a depth of 0.9 m from each treatment, dividing them into four depth increments (0–15-, 15–30-, 30–60-, and 60–90-cm), analyzing them for bulk density (BD), NO₃-N, …

Analysis Of Sources Of Variation And Relationships Among Sow Productivity Traits, Richard L. Cutshaw

Open Access Theses

The swine industry has witnessed major changes in the past three decades in terms of selection tools and implementation of effective selection. As the pork industry continues to consolidate, it is increasingly important to be able to accurately predict and direct future performance toward increased overall profitability. Overall, sow productivity greatly affects a pork producer's ability to be profitable in the industry and have sufficient knowledge of production levels to improve the likelihood of remaining profitable into the future.

The relationships among sow productivity traits including total number born, litter birth weight, number weaned, preweaning survival, mean piglet birth weight, …