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Unopa Notes Volume 52, Issue 6, February 3, 2014

UNOPA: Newsletters

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Commonwealth Times 2014-02-03

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Examining Historical And Current Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes In Ponderosa Pine And Mixed-Conifer Forests Of Western North America, Dennis C. Odion, Chad T. Hanson, Andre Arsenault, William L. Baker, Dominick A. Dellasala, Richard L. Hutto, Walt Klenner, Max A. Moritz, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Thomas T. Veblen, Mark A. Williams

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

There is widespread concern that fire exclusion has led to an unprecedented threat of uncharacteristically severe fires in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex. Laws) and mixed-conifer forests of western North America. These extensive montane forests are considered to be adapted to a low/moderate-severity fire regime that maintained stands of relatively old trees. However, there is increasing recognition from landscape-scale assessments that, prior to any significant effects of fire exclusion, fires and forest structure were more variable in these forests. Biota in these forests are also dependent on the resources made available by higher-severity fire. A better understanding of …

Scholastic Minutes 02/03/2014, Scholastic Committee

Scholastic Committee

The committee discussed recommendations regarding the International Students Program, the foreign language (FL) general education requirement, heard a report from Ashleigh Thompson, the Scholastic Committee's Morris Administrative Fellow, and prepared for its meeting with the Office of Admissions director.

College Voice Vol. 97 No. 9, Connecticut College

2013-2014

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Host Specificity And Co-Speciation In Avian Haemosporidia In The Western Cape, South Africa, Sharon Okanga, Graeme S. Cumming, Philip A.R. Hockey, Lisa Nupen, Jeffrey L. Peters

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Host and pathogen ecology are often closely linked, with evolutionary processes often leading to the development of host specificity traits in some pathogens. Host specificity may range from ‘generalist’, where pathogens infect any available competent host; to ‘specialist’, where pathogens repeatedly infect specific host species or families. Avian malaria ecology in the region remains largely unexplored, despite the presence of vulnerable endemic avian species. We analysed the expression of host specificity in avian haemosporidia, by applying a previously developed host specificity index to lineages isolated from wetland passerines in the Western Cape, South Africa. Parasite lineages were isolated using PCR …

Numerical Analysis And Computational Topology For Scientific Visualization, Hugh Cassidy

Doctoral Dissertations

In Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) B-splines are frequently used to model complex geometric objects. The spline models are smooth structures but piecewise linear (PL) approximations are typically used to render the spline. Aeronautical, automotive and chemical simulations rely on topological algorithms to provide mathematically correct visualization. Topological changes are of significant interest to domain scientists, where self-intersection is a critical event that is often difficult to detect. This research focuses on algorithms that guarantee topology, in terms of ambient isotopic equivalence, between a spline curve and its PL approximations, as used in both static and dynamic visualization. Sufficient conditions …

The Known Myod Enhancers Are Largely Dispensable For Proper Embryonic Expression And Cells Of The Myod Expressing Lineage Are Multipotent In The Trunk But Not The Limbs Of Amyogenic Embryos, James R. Camp

Doctoral Dissertations

In the developing vertebrate embryo, multipotent cells of the paraxial mesoderm form epithelial spheres called somites that physically define the segmentation pattern of the embryo. MyoD is transcribed in the myogenic precursor cells of the developing somite and is essential for proper hypaxial muscle formation. Whether MyoD is a determination factor or downstream member of the myogenic program had yet to be shown and the cis-transcriptional control of this important gene was incompletely defined.

By permanently labeling cells that have transcribed the MyoD locus in MyoD^-/-/Myf-5^-/- embryos, where myogenesis does not occur, the determination state of presumptive …

The Bg News February 03, 2014, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 03, 2014. Volume 93-Issue 60.

Biophysical Mechanism Of Anesthetics, David Busath

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I was awarded a MEG in 2008 (with support continuing through 2009) for the project entitled “Biophysical Mechanism of Anesthetics.” The goals of the project were to measure the impact of volatile general anesthetics (isoflurane, sevoflurane, and desflurane) on:

The Daily Egyptian, February 03, 2014, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2014

No abstract provided.

Circadian Rhythms Of Per2::Luc In Individual Primary Mouse Hepatocytes And Cultures, Casey J. Guenthner, Martha E. Luitje, Lorna A. Pyle, Penny C. Molyneux, Jimmy K. Yu, Alexander S. Li, Tanya L. Leise, Mary E. Harrington

Psychology: Faculty Publications

Background: Hepatocytes, the parenchymal cells of the liver, express core clock genes, such as Period2 and Cryptochrome2, which are involved in the transcriptional/translational feedback loop of the circadian clock. Whether or not the liver is capable of sustaining rhythms independent of a central pacemaker is controversial. Whether and how circadian information may be shared among cells in the liver in order to sustain oscillations is currently unknown. Results: In this study we isolated primary hepatocytes from transgenic Per2 Luc mice and used bioluminescence as a read-out of the state of the circadian clock. Hepatocytes cultured in a collagen gel sandwich …

Emu Today, February 3, 2014, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, February 3, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The February 3, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet February 2014, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The February 2014 Monthly packet includes the February agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held January 2014.

Autoantibody Profiling For Lung Cancer Screening Longitudinal Retrospective Analysis Of Ct Screening Cohorts, Kourtney Trudgen, Nada H. Khattar, Eric Bensadoun, Susanne Arnold, Arnold J. Stromberg, Edward A. Hirschowitz

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

Recommendations for lung cancer screening present a tangible opportunity to integrate predictive blood-based assays with radiographic imaging. This study compares performance of autoantibody markers from prior discovery in sample cohorts from two CT screening trials. One-hundred eighty non-cancer and 6 prevalence and 44 incidence cancer cases detected in the Mayo Lung Screening Trial were tested using a panel of six autoantibody markers to define a normal range and assign cutoff values for class prediction. A cutoff for minimal specificity and best achievable sensitivity were applied to 256 samples drawn annually for three years from 95 participants in the Kentucky Lung …

On A Roll, Suki Casanave

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Implications For Agriculture And Water Resources, George B. Frisvold, Kazim Konyar

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

This study examines how the proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) would affect U.S. agriculture with special reference to water resources. The bill's cap and trade provisions for greenhouse gases would significantly raise fertilizer, irrigation pumping, and other energy-related costs. By 2030, it would reduce U.S. irrigation water use by >11 percent and fertilizer use by >18 percent with positive implications for water conservation and quality. Carbon offset provisions create financial incentives for farmers to sequester carbon by planting trees on cropland, reducing agricultural production and raising prices. Because sequestration potential differs by region, most of the …

Farm And Ecological Resilience To Water Supply Variability, Elizabeth Schuster, Bonnie Colby

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Water supplies are constrained in the lower Colorado River Basin in the western United States and northern Mexico by extensive agricultural use, increasing urban populations, ecosystem needs, and the pressures of climate change. Agriculture is the largest consumptive use of water, and better understanding of how farmers are managing water supply risk and adapting to unreliable water supplies can help lead to the creation of appropriate solutions for the region. Based upon original primary data collected in 2012 in the Mexicali Valley of northern Mexico, we present findings on farm households that give us a better understanding of agricultural water …

Suitability Assessment Of Non-Potable Water To Meet The Electricity Generation Demands In 2030, Katie Zemlick, Vincent C. Tidwell, Barry L. Roberts, Cesar R. Castillo

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Large amounts of water are required for electricity generation, and demand for thermoelectric power is predicted to increase significantly over the next several decades. Of concern, is that nearly half of this new demand is in regions currently subject to fresh water shortages due to over-appropriation, drought, and climatic drivers. This study explores the suitability of using non-traditional sources of water, namely wastewater and brackish ground water for future thermoelectric cooling in 22 continental Electricity Market Module Regions. Both sources pose unique financial, technical, and management challenges, but are widely available and in the majority of instances economically feasible. While …

The Collegian (2014-02-03), Cleiri Quezada

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 66, No. 18

Safety With Ocrelizumab In Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results From The Ocrelizumab Phase Iii Program, Paul Emery, William Rigby, Paul P. Tak, Thomas Dörner, Ewa Olech, Carmen Martin, Laurie Millar, Helen Travers, Elena Fisheleva

Dartmouth Scholarship

Objective: The objective was to determine the safety of ocrelizumab (OCR) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Methods: This was an analysis of the double-blind, placebo-controlled periods and long-term follow-up of 4 OCR phase III trials in RA (SCRIPT, STAGE, FILM and FEATURE). Safety data per study and the results of a meta-analysis of serious infectious events (SIEs) are presented.

Results: Overall, 868 patients received placebo, 1064 patients OCR 200 mg×2 (or 400 mg×1) (OCR200), and 827 patients OCR 500 mg×2 (OCR500) plus background methotrexate (MTX) at baseline and 24 weeks. During the double-blind, placebo-controlled periods, the incidence of adverse …

Anakinra And Related Drugs Targeting Interleukin-1 In The Treatment Of Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes, Inessa Bachove, Christopher Chang

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

Anakinra is an interleukin (IL) receptor antagonist that works by blocking the biological activity of IL-1 by competitively inhibiting binding of IL-1 to the type 1 interleukin receptor. IL-1 production is induced in response to inflammatory stimuli and mediates various physiological mechanisms, including inflammation and immunological reactions. Patients with neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID) produce excess IL-1β, a major proinflammatory cytokine that regulates innate immune responses. Anakinra binds competitively and this results in a rapid reduction in disease severity. NOMID, also known as chronic infantile neurologic, cutaneous, articular syndrome, is the most severe clinical phenotype in the spectrum of …

Ancient Buzz, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Ocean Interconnections, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

A Computational Approach To Qualitative Analysis In Large Textual Datasets, Michael Evans

Dartmouth Scholarship

In this paper I introduce computational techniques to extend qualitative analysis into the study of large textual datasets. I demonstrate these techniques by using probabilistic topic modeling to analyze a broad sample of 14,952 documents published in major American newspapers from 1980 through 2012. I show how computational data mining techniques can identify and evaluate the significance of qualitatively distinct subjects of discussion across a wide range of public discourse. I also show how examining large textual datasets with computational methods can overcome methodological limitations of conventional qualitative methods, such as how to measure the impact of particular cases on …

The Free Press Vol 45 Issue 14, 02-03-2014, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

Tar sands oil debate hits Portland campus--Direction Package Board nears next phase--Officials discuss active shooter policies--Students to urge Board to go green

Artificial Sinks: Opportunities And Challenges For Managing Offsite Nitrogen Losses, Arthur J. Gold, Kelly Addy, Mark B. David, Louis A. Schipper, Brian A. Needelman

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Advanced control measures are needed after nitrogen (N) leaves agricultural fields and begins to flow through a catchment. Bioreactors "“ simple, wood-chip filled trenches "“ and constructed wetlands afford additional treatment to reduce N from agricultural lands, but their success requires informed adoption and placement. Rates of N removal in field studies of bioreactors vary based on carbon substrate, hydrologic setting, temperature, N loading and hydraulic residence time. From limited measures in constructed wetlands, N removal can be substantial and influenced by seasonality. Additional research is needed to understand uncertainty and variability associated with these systems. Further synthesis of data …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 39, February 3, 2014, 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.

Biological Basis For Cerebral Dysfunction In Schizophrenia In Contrast With Alzheimer’S Disease, Rodrigo O. Kuljis, Luis V. Colom, Leonel E. Rojo

Health & Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease are two disorders that, while conceptualized as pathophysiologically and clinically distinct, cause substantial cognitive and behavioral impairment worldwide, and target apparently similar – or nearby – circuitry in regions such as the temporal and frontal lobes.We review the salient differences and similarities from selected historical, nosological, and putative mechanistic viewpoints, as a means to help both clinicians and researchers gain a better insight into these intriguing disorders, for which over a century of research and decades of translational development was needed to begin yielding treatments that are objectively effective, but still very far from entirely satisfactory. …