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Gene Expression Analysis Of Bovine Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells In Response To Adenovirus-Vectored Foot-And-Mouth Disease Vaccine, Frank Zappulla

Master's Theses

Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) gives rise to a highly contagious and economically important disease of cloven-hooved animals. Vaccination reduces the economic impact by inducing serotype-specific protection. Recently, a replication-defective adenovirus-vectored foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) subunit vaccine was developed and licensed. Serum virus neutralization (SVN) titer ≥1.5 to FMDV is the best predictor of vaccine-induced protection. However, protection does not always correlate with the presence of neutralizing antibodies. For example, some animals with high SVN titer develop signs of disease, and conversely, some animals with negligible SVN titer are protected. Categorizing cattle on the parameters of seroconversion and protection status yields four …

Induced Phytoextraction Of Lead From Contaminated Urban Soil Through Manipulation Of Rhizosphere And Plant Biogeochemical Functions In Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum), Deayne M. Johnson

Master of Science in Integrative Biology Theses

Contamination of soils with lead (Pb) continues to pose a risk to the health of humans especially in residential urban areas. Remediation of these soils is necessary to reduce the amount of Pb and alleviate risk to human health. Phytoextraction of Pb through chemically induced accumulation of Pb in the harvestable foliage and removal of contaminated plant material has great potential in offering a solution to this environmental problem. The effects of the combined application of a soil fungicide (benomyl), synthetic chelates (ethylenediamineteteraacetic acid, EDTA), and foliar-Fe supplement on lead (Pb) phytoextraction from contaminated soil by switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) was …

A Dietary-Wide Association Study (Dwas) Of Environmental Metal Exposure In Us Children And Adults, Matthew A. Davis, Diane Gilbert-Diamond, Margaret R. Karagas, Zhigang Li, Jason H. Moore, Scott M. Williams, H. Robert Frost

Dartmouth Scholarship

Background: A growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to toxic metals occurs through diet but few studies have comprehensively examined dietary sources of exposure in US populations.

Purpose: Our goal was to perform a novel dietary-wide association study (DWAS) to identify specific dietary sources of lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic exposure in US children and adults.

Methods: We combined data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey with data from the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Intakes Converted to Retail Commodities Database to examine associations between 49 different foods and environmental metal exposure. Using blood and urinary biomarkers …

Macroinvertebrate Prey Availability And Food Web Dynamics Of Nonnative Trout In A Colorado River Tributary, Grand Canyon, Daniel P. Whiting, Craig P. Paukert, Brian D. Healy, Jonathan Spurgeon

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Nonnative fishes have been linked to the decline of native fishes and may affect aquatic food webs through direct and indirect pathways. These concerns have led to efforts to remove nonnative Brown and Rainbow Trout, which are abundant in tributaries of the Colorado River, to enhance native fish communities. We sampled fish, benthic, and drifting macroinvertebrates in November 2010, January 2011, June 2011, and September 2011 to assess resource availability and to evaluate the effects of nonnative Brown and Rainbow Trout in a tributary of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. We evaluated trout diets from stomach samples collected …

Troublesome Reflection: Racism As The Blind Spot In The Scientific Critique Of Race, Charles C. Roseman

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Review of A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, by Nicholas Wade. New York: Penguin Press, 2013. x + 278 pp. 978-1-5942-0446-3 (hardcover). US $27.95.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital, American Modern, Michael Stroeher, Trombone, Richard Kravchak, Oboe, Henning Vauth, Piano, Michael Stroeher, Richard Kravchak, Henning Vauth

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Aspirin Drug In Liver Tissue Of Swiss White Mice Mus Musculus, Zainab K. Al-Timimi

Baghdad Science Journal

This study was designed to identify the extent of the effect of drug Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) on histological structure of liver in Swiss albino mice Mus musculus.(16) mice were used and divided into two groups. The first groupwas orally treated with )0.5ml(of aspirinat concentration of (50 mcg / kg) and the second group was considered as control group Treated with distiled water lasted for 30 days. Treatment with Aspirin led to the occurrence of histopathological cases included liver necrosis ,cellular infilitration, congestion in central vein and a case of Hemorrhage. The results also showed the absence of radial arrangement of …

The Immunological Effectiveness Of Some Common Plants, Anwar I. S. Al-Assaf, Zahraa H. M. Kadri

Baghdad Science Journal

Three plant species were picked randomly and their alcoholic extracts have been screened to know their effects on the phagocytic capability and intracellular killing of yeast by human peripheral macrophages. Macrophage cultures were incubated with different concentration of each plant extract: for 15 min., 30 min .and 45 min. The phagocytes activity in Iresine herbstii extract was significantly (p≤0.05) increased with increasing dose and time of incubation. In Mentha piperita extract, increasing in dose and time of incubation leads to elevate phagocytic capbility, especially in the dose of 20% and 25% of plant extract, perhaps because the antimicrobial and antiviral …

Effect Of Alcoholic Catechin Extract On Hyperglycemia,Hyperlipidemia And Liver Functions In Alloxan Diabetic Mice, Kadhim K. Ghudhaib

Baghdad Science Journal

The objective of this study is to estimate the effect of the hydro-ethanolic catechin extract toward blood glucose, lipid profile and liver functions in alloxan diabetic mice. 50 healthy mice (25-30 g) were divided into five groups of ten animals for each. Group A received normal saline as normal control group. To induce diabetes, alloxan (150 mg/kg), intraperitoneal (i.p.) single dose was injected to groups B, C, D and E. Group B represents diabetic control group. Groups C, D and E received ethanolic catechin extract (30 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg) for different periods of 1, 2 and 3 weeks as …

Checklist Of Aquatic Oligochaetes Species In Tigris–Euphrates River Basin, Haifa J. Jaweir

Baghdad Science Journal

A total of 60 species of aquatic oligochaetes were identified in different sites within Tigris-Euphrates basin / Iraq, including River Tigris, River Euphrates, Southern marshes ( Al-Haweiza , Al-Hammar and Al-Chebaiesh ) , Shutt Al-Germa, and Shatt Al-Arab. In River Euphrates 39 species were identified, 40 species from River Tigris and 32 species from Shatt-Al-Arab and southern marshes.The identified species were classified as four species of Family Aeolosomatidae, 54 species of Naididae ( 31 Naidinae , 8 Pristininae and 15 Tubificid worms), one species of each of Lumbriculidae ( Lumbriculus variegates) and Lumbricidae ( Eiseiella tetraedra). Among Aeolosomatidae , Aelosoma …

The Aqueous Crude Extract Of Carrot Seeds ( Daucus Carota L.) And It Role In Fertility Of Male Albino Mice, Roaa M Al-Saadi, Sabah A.R Al-Obaidi, Waleed H Yousif

Baghdad Science Journal

This study was designed to test the effect of the treatment with aqueous extract of carrot seeds( Daucus carota) onfertility of male albino mice by effected on Body weight,testis weight ,secondary sex organs (prostate , seminal vesicle) and sperms properties .This experiment used (24) albino male mice aged(8-10)weeks. these animals were randomly divided into three groups contain two doses (200,400mg\kg) were used from both extracts ,they were daily and orally given for (35)days ,and control group was given physiological saline. After the end of the experiment the animals were sacrificed after taken their body weights. The results were show: 1. …

Response Of Green Lacewing Chrysoperla Carnea (Stephens) To Various Densities Of Ephestia Cautella (Walk)Eggs, Bassim Sh Hamad, Sahar A. Kathiar, Ahmed M. Abdullatif, Ahmed G. Abed

Baghdad Science Journal

Results of exposure larvae of the most important predator in the integrated pest management , the green lacewings, Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) to various densities of fig moth Ephestia cautella eggs showed increasing in the number of consumed prey at decreasing rate of increasing prey density where curve slope consumption decreased gradually until leveling off. These specifications concurred with type II functional response that predators appear towards varied densities of its preys ,that was confirm by logistic regression between the proportion of prey eaten in relation to prey offered . Third larval instars of the predator showed attack rate (a) of …

Study Abo / Rh Systems With Il-18 & Il-33 In Iraqipatients With Diabetes Mellitus Type Ii, Asmaa M. Salih, Isam N Salman, Zainab Khudhair, Rafid Abdulwahid

Baghdad Science Journal

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic disorder disease. The inflammatory markers act as a new risk factor for development of type 2 diabetes with a possible association with ABO/Rh blood groups. Human ABO genes are located on chromosome 9q34.1-q34.2.The aim of this study was to investigate the possible association between inflammatory markers, interleukin (IL) -18 and IL-33 in type 2DM and ABO blood groups.Sixty four patients with newly diagnosed type2 DM and control group consist of twenty healthy Iraqi individual. Laboratory test were include ABO blood groups using standard serological procedures and detection IL-18 and IL-33in …

Organic Content In The Sediments Of Tigris And Diyala Rivers, South Of Baghdad, And Its Relationship With Some Environmental Factors, Benthic Invertebrates Groups And Values Of Diversity Indices, Dahlia M .Ali Hasan Al-Kinany, Emaduldeen A. Almukhtar

Baghdad Science Journal

This study was conducted to detectthe relationship between organic content in the sediment of Rivers Tigris and Diyala, at two locations south of Baghdad, with some environmental factors and the benthic invertebrates and values of diversity indices. Monthly samples collected from the area for the period November 2007 to October 2008.Results showed differences in the physical and chemical characteristics of the two sites, Where the annual average in Tigris and Diyala were respectively for: water temperature (19, 20) C°, pH (8, 8), dissolved oxygen (4, 8) mg / l , Biochemical oxygen Demand BOD5(3,44 ) mg/l, TDS (632,1585) mg / …

New Records Of Turbellarian Platyhelminthes From Al-Dalmage Lake / Iraq, Haifa J. Jaweir, Maysoon H Al-Seria

Baghdad Science Journal

A total of 437 individuals of Turbellarin Platyhelminthes were sorted from benthic samples collected monthly for a period of seven months( April to November 2013 ) from AL-Dalmage lake, a part of middle section for main outfall drain south of Baghdad. They were identified as Gyratrix hermaphroditus, Stenostomum leucops ,Stenostomum unicolar and Stenostomum bryophilum ,The relative abundance of worms decreased during hot season which (May to September) ,where they start rising again. The species were studied alive , the identification criteria were illustrated by photos. G. hermaphroditus was the most abundant species among the four species.

Roberta Darby Curtis, Aia / Bachelor Of Science, Architecture, 1982, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Staten Island Zoo, Carl F. Kauffeld Hall of Reptiles, Exhibit Architect, 2007

The Reptile Wing went through a transformative expansion and renovation to its 1930’s WPA Exhibit Hall. As Exhibit Architect, Darby Curtis developed a design to de-mystify and educate the public about reptiles.

The design includes aquatic, desert, amphibian, invertebrate, and venomous and non-venomous snake exhibit areas, incorporating very specific – variously warm, hot, dry and wet – environments; successfully supporting three distinct user groups: the animals, the keepers, and public visitors. The exhibits emphasize bio-diversity, with interactive zones to learn about reptiles and their crucial role in our …

Leslie Taylor Cockerham / Master Of Architecture, 1982, Sam Fox School Of Design And Visual Arts

Women in the Design World: Work in Progress

Alala Aviarys 13 & 14, Double-wide Keauhou Bird Conservation Center | Volcano, Hawaii | Taylor Cocerham AIA Architect, 2991-2014

Endangered birds are common in the Hawaii Archipelago. The Keauhou Bird Conservation Center is the vision of Dr. William Burnham of the Peregrine Fund, and Mr. Alan Lieberman and Mrs. Cindi Keuhler of the Zoological Society of San Diego for endangered forest song bird propagation and release. Construction was funded by numerous private gifts and the Congress of the United States of America. The land is leased from Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate Kamehameha Schools.

During a 20 year project, 2 forest …

September 6, 2014 (Pages 5747-5818), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 44 (2014)

No abstract provided.

Seasonality Of Birth Outcomes In Rural Sarlahi District, Nepal: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort, Michelle M. Hughes, Joanne Katz, Luke C. Mullany, Subarna K. Khatry, Steven C. Leclerq, Gary L. Darmstadt, James M. Tielsch

Global Health Faculty Publications

Background

While seasonality of birth outcomes has been documented in a variety of settings, data from rural South Asia are lacking. We report a descriptive study of the seasonality of prematurity, low birth weight, small for gestational age, neonatal deaths, and stillbirths in the plains of Nepal.

Methods

Using data collected prospectively during a randomized controlled trial of neonatal skin and umbilical cord cleansing with chlorhexidine, we analyzed a cohort of 23,662 babies born between September 2002 and January 2006. Project workers collected data on birth outcomes at the infant’s household. Supplemental data from other studies conducted at the same …

Two Poems, Martin Ott

Booth

Two Poems: Why I Worry Mom Is Dying While She Is Not Talking To Me After I Pointed Out How She Makes Us Feel Guilty For Not Visiting, Explained By Five Extinct Punctuation Marks and Dangers of the Road

Role Of Vitamin D3 In Modulation Of Δnp63Α Expression During Uvb Induced Tumor Formation In Skh-1 Mice, Natasha Tremayne Hill, Gabriel H. Gracia-Maldondo, Mary K. Leonard, Amanda R. Harper, Kathleen L. Tober, Tatiana M. Oberyszyn, Madhavi P. Kadakia

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications

ΔNp63α, a proto-oncogene, is up-regulated in non-melanoma skin cancers and directly regulates the expression of both Vitamin D receptor (VDR) and phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome ten (PTEN). Since ΔNp63α has been shown to inhibit cell invasion via regulation of VDR, we wanted to determine whether dietary Vitamin D₃ protected against UVB induced tumor formation in SKH-1 mice, a model for squamous cell carcinoma development. We examined whether there was a correlation between dietary Vitamin D₃ and ΔNp63α, VDR or PTEN expression in vivo in SKH-1 mice chronically exposed to UVB radiation and fed chow containing …

The Bison, September 5, 2014

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

September 5, 2014 - Alec Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

2014 Proceedings Of The 21th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College Of The Holy Cross

Summer Research Program

The 2014 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium, now in its 21st year, is a college-wide event that brings together faculty and students from all disciplines at Holy Cross and provides an opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments over the summer of 2014. This program lists participating students, the faculty with whom they worked and abstracts of their projects.

Development Of A Digital Noise Exposure System For Research On Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Jun Qin, Qing Wu, Jacob Walker, Kathleen Campbell, Daniel Fox

Conference Proceedings

Over thirty million Americans suffer from noise induced hearing loss (NIHL). Previous research demonstrated that different types of noises, even with equal sound energies, could produce different amounts of hearing loss. In this project, a novel digital noise exposure system has been developed for generating various noise signals (e.g. pure-tone, Gaussian, impulsive, and complex noise). The developed system can be used to study NIHL in animal models. The system could produce impulse noise with peak sound pressure level (SPL) up to 160 dB, which effectively mimics the noise generated by a military weapon (e.g., M-16 rifle). The preliminary results of …

Use Of Caenorhabditis Elegans As A Model To Study Alzheimer’S Disease And Other Neurodegenerative Diseases, Adanna G. Alexander, Vanessa Marfil, Chris Li

Publications and Research

Advances in research and technology has increased our quality of life, allowed us to combat diseases, and achieve increased longevity. Unfortunately, increased longevity is accompanied by a rise in the incidences of age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is the sixth leading cause of death, and one of the leading causes of dementia amongst the aged population in the USA. It is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by the prevalence of extracellular Aβ plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, derived from the proteolysis of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and the hyperphosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein tau, respectively. Despite years …

Intergeniculate Leaflet Lesions Result In Differential Activation Of Brain Regions Following The Presentation Of Photic Stimuli In Nile Grass Rats, Andrew J. Gall, Lily Yan, Laura Smale, Antonio A. Nunez

Faculty Publications

The intergeniculate leaflet (IGL) plays an important role in the entrainment of circadian rhythms and the mediation of acute behavioral responses to light (i.e., masking). Recently, we reported that IGL lesions in diurnal grass rats result in a reversal in masking responses to light as compared to controls. Here, we used Fos as a marker of neural activation to examine the mechanisms by which the IGL may influence this masking effect of light in grass rats. Specifically, we examined the patterns of Fos activation in retinorecipient areas and in brain regions that receive IGL inputs following 1-h light pulses given …

The Echo: September 5, 2014, Taylor University

2014-2015 (Volume 102)

With a side of dissatisfaction – A mobile campus – Top five news events of the week – New places for discovery – A hire calling – In The Loop – Top five bizarre news stories of the week – A race for a cure – China rules out full democracy in Hong Kong, tempers flare – Over the Line – The Breu Crew: 1 year later – Taylor Pick-A-Mate: The 5-Step Process – The Weekly Nugget – The truth behind the gamer label – Burning Questions – Echograms #TaylorU -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – Belle rings and sings – …

Journal Usage Report For Fiscal Year 2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Journal usage for the University Libraries are listed alphabetically by authority title. The report includes the usage statistics taken from each vendor and incorporated in Serials Solutions 360 Counter.

The report is broken down monthly for fiscal year 2014 and shows each journal's usage per month and the total usage for the year..

Electronic Journals Overlap Analysis 2014, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Overlap analysis for the University of Rhode Island's electronic journals are complied alphabetically by database name. The report shows the number or titles that are exclusive to that database as compiled by Serials Solutions.

The table located under the report gives a brief explanation of the headings used in the analysis.