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Time Doesn’T Change Everything: The Longitudinal Course Of Distress Tolerance And Its Relationship With Internalizing And Externalizing Symptoms During Early Adolescence, Jenna R. Cummings, Marina Bornovalova, Tiina Ojanen, Elizabeth Hunt, Laura Macpherson, Carl W. Lejuez

Psychology Faculty Publications

Although distress tolerance is an emerging construct of empirical interest, we know little about its temporal change, developmental trajectory, and prospective relationships with maladaptive behaviors. The current study examined the developmental trajectory (mean- and individual-level change, and rank-order stability) of distress tolerance in an adolescent sample of boys and girls (N = 277) followed over a four-year period. Next we examined if distress tolerance influenced change in Externalizing (EXT) and Internalizing (INT) symptoms, and if EXT and INT symptoms in turn influenced change in distress tolerance. Finally, we examined if any of these trends differed by gender. Results indicated …

Uab Student Gets Prestigious Fellowship, Jim Bakken

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No abstract provided.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Summer 2013, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• Sound off: Many at excess risk for hearing problems, researcher says
• Treating hearing loss, training students: Carls Foundation grants a boon to speech pathology and audiology program
• Discovered skills direct path WMU partners with firm to offer career guidance
• Evading the ‘valley of death’: Fund helps discoveries transition from invention to market
• Tumor Paint: Alum’s research: Lighting the way to destroy brain cancer
• The environment and enterprise: Manufacturers seek WMU expertise to become greener
• Voices for action: WMU experts offer research-based strategies to reduce poverty
• Sea no more: WMU geographer recalls being among the first to reveal Aral Sea environmental …

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Summer 2013, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter

Contents:

Society Events Bring Literary World to USC..... p.1
Report of the President..... p.2
Board Members Welcomed..... p.2
Fitzgerald's Ledger is Now Online..... p.2
Learning Opportunities Abound During The Summer..... p.3
The W. Graham Arader Collection Is ‘A Transformative Gift’..... p.4
Volunteer Uses Rare Talents To Help Preserve Rare Items..... p.5
Calendar of Events..... p.6
Society’s Friends Live On Through Memorial Gifts..... p.6
David Rembert Remembers the Rise of the Thomas Cooper Society..... p.7
Society Launches High School Initiative..... p.7
Arader Creates Teaching Collection..... p.8

From Citizenship To Custody: Unwed Fathers Abroad And At Home, Albertina Antognini

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The sex-based distinctions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) have been remarkably resilient in the face of numerous equal protection challenges. In Miller v. Albright, Nguyen v. INS, and most recently United States v. Flores-Villar — collectively the "citizenship transmission cases" — the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the INA’s provisions that require unwed fathers, but not unwed mothers, to take a series of affirmative steps in order to transmit citizenship to their children born abroad.

The conventional account of these citizenship transmission cases is that the Court upholds sex-based distinctions that would otherwise fail …

In-Water Hull Cleaning And Filtration System: In-Water Cleaning Trials, Department Of Fisheries

Fisheries Occasional Publications

No abstract provided.

Introduction: From "Nauchnaia Fantastika" To Post-Soviet Dystopia, Sibelan E.S. Forrester, Y. Howell

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

From Punitive To Proactive: An Alternative Approach For Responding To Hiv Criminalization That Departs From Penalizing Marginalized Communities, Angela Perone

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

Laws passed during the early stages of the HIV epidemic targeted people with HIV before researchers fully understood transmission and prevention of the disease. These laws now serve as vestiges of fear and misinformation about HIV transmission. These laws also perpetuate systems of inequality by enabling bias and misinformation to permeate the courts. As such, new approaches to HIV transmission should move from a punitive model and more toward a proactive transformative model. This article proposes a multi-pronged approach to destigmatize and decriminalize HIV involving community, legislative, and educational structural changes.

Inhibition Of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase By Fulvestrant And Sulfoxides, Christophe Morisseau, Svitlana Pakhomova, Sung Hee Hwang, Marcia E. Newcomer, Bruce D. Hammock

Faculty Publications

The soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) is a key enzyme in the metabolism of epoxy-fatty acids, signaling molecules involved in numerous biologies. Toward finding novel inhibitors of sEH, a library of known drugs was tested for inhibition of sEH. We found that fulvestrant, an anticancer agent, is a potent (KI = 26 nM) competitive inhibitor of sEH. From this observation, we found that alkyl-sulfoxides represent a new kind of pharmacophore for the inhibition of sEH. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Mobile Element Scanning (Me-Scan) Identifies Thousands Of Novel Alu Insertions In Diverse Human Populations, David J. Witherspoon, Yuhua Zhang, Jinchuan Xing, W. Scott Watkins, Hongseok Ha, Mark A. Batzer, Lynn B. Jorde

Faculty Publications

Alu retrotransposons are the most numerous and active mobile elements in humans, causing genetic disease and creating genomic diversity. Mobile element scanning (ME-Scan) enables comprehensive and affordable identification of mobile element insertions (MEI) using targeted high-throughput sequencing of multiplexed MEI junction libraries. In a single experiment, ME-Scan identifies nearly all AluYb8 and AluYb9 elements, with high sensitivity for both rare and common insertions, in 169 individuals of diverse ancestry. ME-Scan detects heterozygous insertions in single individuals with 91% sensitivity. Insertion presence or absence states determined by ME-Scan are 95% concordant with those determined by locus-specific PCR assays. By sampling diverse …

Scaling Of Crop Diversity And Optimal Allocation Of Foodshed Infrastructure, Michael Chang

Biology ETDs

Food hubs are organizations that manage the aggregation and distribution of local products, and are a small, but growing means to satisfy high demand for diverse, healthy diets. However, economic barriers inhibit small producers and distributors from developing mainstream, local consumer alternatives to industrial-scale products. To build foodshed, distribution hubs could help overcome these challenges by reducing costs through shared refrigeration, processing, and transportation infrastructure. However, there is no theory to help plan them. I present and test theory to allocate foodshed infrastructure based on insight by Dunn, et al. (2011) that Shannon diversity measured relative to a whole set …

The Effects Of Climate Change On Stream Invertebrates In Their Role As Biological Indicators And Responders To Disturbance, Anna T. Hamilton

Biology ETDs

Global climate models provide estimates of future changes in air temperature and precipitation patterns, drought, flooding, sea-level rise, and increases in the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme heat and storm events. These climate changes will affect stream invertebrate communities directly, indirectly, and through interactions with other stressors, resulting in a range of biological responses, including species range shifts, losses and replacements, novel community compositions, and altered ecosystem functions and services. Effects will vary regionally and present heretofore unaccounted influences on biomonitoring, which water-quality agencies use to assess the status and health of ecosystems as required by the Clean Water …

Utpa Commencement – Summer 2013, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Mhc And Mate Choice In Anolis Sagrei, Angela S. Hung

Biology ETDs

The study of sexual selection saw its intrepid inception when Charles Darwin observed the earnest with which many male birds must court a female before she will, but often not, mate with him. His idea of the choosy female' was a radical one in the Victorian era when women were regarded as the 'passive sex. In the century and a half that followed, sexual selection driven by female choice is now widely accepted and strongly supported. Today, with emerging technologies, the nuances and complexities of sexual reproductive are finally coming to light. Female choice in two species is described here. …

Sympatric Speciation Is Reinforced By Predation, Parasite Load, Reproductive Character Displacement, And Sexual Selection In Two Species Flocks Of Pupfish (Cyprinodon Spp), Rhiannon J. D. West

Biology ETDs

Sympatric speciation, the divergence of one lineage into two or more lineages within one geographic range, is often driven by disruptive selection on niche utilization. While niche specialization is found in sympatrically speciated groups, it is often reinforced by other strong selective pressure. This dissertation examines the role of predation, morphology, mate choice, and parasite load in maintaining reproductive isolation in two sympatrically speciated species flocks of pupfish (Cyprinodon). The role that predation, morphology and male and female mate choice play in reproductive isolation is examined in the Bahamian species flock. To examine the role of predation, we focus on …

Circadian Rhythms In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Khyla Rose Alorro, Sean Mcnabney

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Circadian rhythms are endogenous, time-oriented cycles that cause physical or behavioral changes in organisms. While several studies suggest that such rhythms are ubiquitous for life, recent experiments demonstrate that the regulatory mechanisms behind them differ for each organism. Little is known about the molecular machinery that governs the circadian clock in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but its output appears to directly influence the enzymes glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and peroxiredoxin. This project centered on linking GAPDH concentrations to various stages of the circadian rhythm in order to inductively determine components of the circadian clock. Spectroscopic assays and Western blots were used to determine …

Rethinking The Composition Of A Rational Antibiotic Arsenal For The 21st Century, Margaret A. Riley, Sandra M. Robinson, Christopher M. Roy, Robert L. Dorit

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

The importance of the human microbiome in health may be the single most valuable development in our conception of the microbial world since Pasteur's germ theory of the 1860s. Its implications for our understanding of health and pathogenesis are profound. Coupled with the revolution in diagnostics that we are now witnessing - a revolution that changes medicine from a science of symptoms to a science of causes - we cannot continue to develop antibiotics as we have for the past 80 years. Instead, we need to usher in a new conception of the role of antibiotics in treatment: away from …

The Tumor Suppressor Tere1 (Ubiad1) Prenyltransferase Regulates The Elevated Cholesterol Phenotype In Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer By Controlling A Program Of Ligand Dependent Sxr Target Genes., William J. Fredericks, Jorge Sepulveda, Priti Lai, John E. Tomaszewski, Ming-Fong Lin, Terry Mcgarvey, Frank J. Rauscher, S. Bruce Malkowicz

Journal Articles: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) is characterized by persistent androgen receptor-driven tumor growth in the apparent absence of systemic androgens. Current evidence suggests that CRPC cells can produce their own androgens from endogenous sterol precursors that act in an intracrine manner to stimulate tumor growth. The mechanisms by which CRPC cells become steroidogenic during tumor progression are not well defined. Herein we describe a novel link between the elevated cholesterol phenotype of CRPC and the TERE1 tumor suppressor protein, a prenyltransferase that synthesizes vitamin K-2, which is a potent endogenous ligand for the SXR nuclear hormone receptor. We show that 50% …

Duck Productivity In Restored Species-Rich Native And Species-Poor Non-Native Plantings, Ryan Haffele, Michael E. Eichholz, Cami S. Dixon

Publications

Conservation efforts to increase duck production have led the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to restore grasslands with multi-species (3-5) mixtures of introduced cool season vegetation often termed dense nesting cover (DNC). The effectiveness of DNC to increase duck production has been variable, and maintenance of the cover type is expensive. In an effort to decrease the financial and ecological costs (increased carbon emissions from plowing and reseeding) of maintaining DNC and provide a long-term, resilient cover that will support a diversity of grassland fauna, restoration of multi-species (16-32) plantings of native plants has been explored. We investigated the …

Inflammatory Cytokines Alter Normal Lipid Mobilization In Adipocytes, Nicholas Steven Card

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Obesity is an increasing trend within the United States and the importance of addressing both causation and effects of obesity are becoming more important. It has been shown that environment, genetics, and social behavior factors can lead to an increased risk of obesity. Obesity has also been associated with several negative health concerns including increased risk for heart disease, cancer, poor nutrition, and diabetes, among others. Beyond identifying individual factors that may lead to obesity, and be associated with it, it is important to take into account complex obese biological systems which may have multiple factors compounding any health problems. …

Identification Of Genes Required For Differentiation Of Quiescent And Nonquiescent Cells In Stationary Phase Cultures Of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Elaine E. Manzanilla

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Cellular differentiation is an important process for the development and maintenance of an organism. Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) has been successful as a tool for important discoveries relating to eukaryotic cellular processes. Stationary phase yeast cultures have been found to differentiate into two major cell types with distinct phenotypes. This genome-wide study using pooled samples of the yeast homozygous deletion set has identified over 400 genes which are important for differentiation of stationary phase yeast. These genes are predominantly involved in mitochondrial function thereby supporting our hypothesis that mitochondrial function is integral to the differentiation process. In addition, further experimentation focused …

Association Of Vitamin D Deficiency With Prediabetes Among Elderly New Mexicans, Srilatha Sankarappan

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

In New Mexico, the mortality rate due to diabetes is 1.5 times higher than the nation. Diabetes causes a huge healthcare burden. In 2012, the national cost due to diabetes was $245 billion. Prior studies have established a positive correlation between vitamin D deficiency and diabetes; whether the same relationship holds for prediabetes is not well studied. Our purpose of the study was to find whether there was an association between vitamin D deficiency and prediabetes. We also wanted to find out if the association was stronger among Hispanics than non-Hispanic whites (NHW). Our rationale was to delay the progression …

Next-Generation Sequencing For Biomedical Applications, Mingyan Xu

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

Based on the development of current status of Next-Generation Sequencing technologies (NGS), I developed several technologies to improve NGS technologies and exampled to apply the NGS technology to biomedical sciences. In the first chapter, I overviewed most of the NGS technologies, described the characteristics of the technologies, and compared the pits and falls, as well as the applications. Based on the current development status, I developed Dual-Primer emulsion PCR (DPePCR) to simplify the library preparation and elongate the read length, and the details were illustrated in the chapter 2. To minimize the sequencing feature/template and improve sequencing throughput, I developed …

Survey Of Illinois Law: Statutory Interpretation, Steven J. Macias

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Mobile Phone Short Message Service On Adherence Rates To Antihypertensives At The Family Medicine Clinic, Barbara Karau

Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine

Background: Systemic arterial hypertension is the main modifiable risk factor for development of cardiovascular disease, which is the number one cause of death in high income countries and is increasingly becoming a cause of concern in Sub-Saharan Africa (1). Awareness, management and overall control of hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa is poor (2,3). Poor control stems from various causes; one being patient non-adherence with medication, a factor amenable to modification. The use of mobile health for behavioural change from low resource settings is gaining widespread use in management of communicable diseases (4,6). Mobile phone has the potential to significantly influence patients …

Louisiana Agriculture Summer, 2013

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Holocene Evolution In Weathering And Erosion Patterns In The Pearl River Delta, Dengke Hu, Peter D. Clift, Philipp Böning, Robyn Hannigan, Stephen Hillier, Jerzy Blusztajn, Shiming Wan, Dorian Q. Fuller

Faculty Publications

Sediments in the Pearl River delta have the potential to record the weathering response of this river basin to climate change since 9.5 ka, most notably weakening of the Asian monsoon since the Early Holocene (∼8 ka). Cores from the Pearl River delta show a clear temporal evolution of weathering intensity, as measured by K/Al, K/Rb, and clay mineralogy, that shows deposition of less weathered sediment at a time of weakening monsoon rainfall in the Early-Mid Holocene (6.0-2.5 ka). This may reflect an immediate response to a less humid climate, or more likely reduced reworking of older deposits from river …

Lake Ice Ablation Rates From Permanently Ice-Covered Antarctic Lakes, H. A. Dugan, M. K. Obryk, P. T. Doran

Faculty Publications

In the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, three large, permanently ice-covered, closedbasin lakes exist along the floor of Taylor Valley. Lake ice ablation (loss of ice mass) is calculated as the sum of sublimation and surface melt, and is the driver of ice-cover turnover in these systems. In Taylor Valley, both manual and automated lake ice ablation rates have been calculated from 2001 to 2011. Results indicate relatively consistent winter ablation of 0.07-0.21m (0.2-0.7mmw.e. d-1). Summer ablation of lake ice is more variable and ranges from 0.25 to 1.62m (5-31mmw.e. d-1) over an average 51 day period. Previous to this …

Initial Epidemic Area Is Strongly Associated With The Yearly Extent Of Soybean Rust Spread In North America, Christopher C. Mundt, La Rae D. Wallace, Tom W. Allen, Clayton A. Hollier, Robert C. Kemerait, Edward J. Sikora

Faculty Publications

Hosts of soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi) are sensitive to low temperatures, limiting this obligate parasite in the United States to overwintering sites in a restricted area along the Gulf Coast. This temperature sensitivity of soybean rust hosts allowed us to study spatial spread of epidemic invasions over similar territory for seven sequential years, 2005-2011. The epidemic front expanded slowly from early April through July, with the majority of expansion occurring from August through November. There was a 7.4-fold range of final epidemic extent (0.4-3.0 million km2) from the year of smallest final disease extent (2011) to that of the largest …

Threshold-Based Spraying Decision Programmes For The Red Spider Mite Tetranychus Marianae On Eggplant, G. V.P. Reddy, R. Kikuchi, J. R. Bautista

Faculty Publications

The red spider mite, Tetranychus marianae McGregor (Acari: Tetranychidae), has been an important pest of eggplant Solanum melongena L. (Solanaceae) and other vegetables in the Mariana Islands. The damage due to T. marianae has been severe and caused huge economic losses. Because no threshold levels are available for T. marianae, many growers are applying up to 12 chemical applications per eggplant cropping period. This is not only expensive, but also results in lower yields because of extensive foliar damage and development of resistance in mites to chemicals. To diminish the calendar-based chemical applications and to preclude damage to foliage and …