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Stem Students Help Reinvent The Teacher, Staff

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Thermophilic Phosphatases And Methods For Processing Starch Using The Same, Matthew S. Gentry, Craig W. Vander Kooi

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Patents

The presently-disclosed subject matter includes thermophilic glucan phosphatase polypeptides. In some embodiments the polypeptide includes non-native laforin polypeptides, or fragments and/or variants thereof, and in some instances the polypeptide can alter the biophysical properties of starch in vitro or in planta. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes isolated polynucleotides encoding the present polypeptides, methods for processing starch by exposing starch to the present polypeptides, and methods for making the present polypeptides.

Cummings V. Stephens Respondent's Brief Dckt. 43081

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Tissue Restricted Splice Junctions Originate Not Only From Tissue-Specific Gene Loci, But Gene Loci With A Broad Pattern Of Expression, Matthew S. Hestand, Zheng Zeng, Stephen J. Coleman, Jinze Liu, James N. Macleod

Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center Faculty Publications

Cellular mechanisms that achieve protein diversity in eukaryotes are multifaceted, including transcriptional components such as RNA splicing. Through alternative splicing, a single protein-coding gene can generate multiple mRNA transcripts and protein isoforms, some of which are tissue-specific. We have conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses of the Bodymap 2.0 messenger RNA-sequencing data from 16 human tissue samples and identified 209,363 splice junctions. Of these, 22,231 (10.6%) were not previously annotated and 21,650 (10.3%) were expressed in a tissue-restricted pattern. Tissue-restricted alternative splicing was found to be widespread, with approximately 65% of expressed multi-exon genes containing at least one tissue-specific splice junction. …

Tennessee Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2015, Tennessee. Department Of Finance & Administration.

Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports

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Reliability Of The American Community Survey For Unintentional Drowning And Submersion Injury Surveillance: A Comprehensive Assessment Of 10 Socioeconomic Indicators Derived From The 2006-2013 Annual And Multi-Year Data Cycles, Nathaniel Bell, Bo Cai

Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Our objective was to evaluate the reliability and predictability of ten socioeconomic indicators obtained from the 2006-2013 annual and multi-year ACS data cycles for unintentional drowning and submersion injury surveillance.

METHODS: Each indicator was evaluated using its margin of error and coefficient of variation. For the multi-year data cycles we calculated the frequency that estimates for the same geographic areas from consecutive surveys were statistically significantly different. Relative risk estimates of drowning-related deaths were constructed using the National Center for Health Statistics compressed mortality file. All analyses were derived using census counties.

RESULTS: Five of the …

5 Legal Developments You May Have Missed In 2015, Donald Roth

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Posting summarizing important, but less headline-making, developments in American law during the past year from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/5-legal-developments-you-may-have-missed-in-2015/

The Association Of C-Reactive Protein In The Pathogenesis Of Meconium Stained Amniotic Fluid In Al- Najaf City, Basima Sh. Alghazali, Shameem R. Mohammed Hussien

Muthanna Medical Journal

The objectives of this study is to study the association of C-reactive protein in the pathogenesisof meconium stained amniotic fluid in women presented in labour. A case control study, 90women presented in labour 45 with meconium stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) and 45 clearamniotic fluid (CAF), from March 2013 to July 2013 in the labour room and operative theater.Data collected regarding their age, gestational age, mode of delivery, neonatal outcome, parityand maternal blood for C- reactive protein. Complete physical examination of the neonateregarding Apgar score, color of baby, response to a catheter in the nostril, muscle tone, heart rate and breathing …

Risk Factors Of Perinatal Asphyxia: A Study At Al-Diwaniya Maternity And Children Teaching Hospital, Hulal Saleh Sahib

Muthanna Medical Journal

Perinatal asphyxia is a common neonatal problem that contribute significantly to neonatal morbidity and mortality. Total number of patient enrolled in our study was one-hundred seventy-one. Data collected from October 01, 2013 to the September 30, 2014. Many variables are included such as GA, BWT, gender, mode of delivery, maternal age, parity and their ANC. In addition, a number of risk factor were encountered; maternal anemia, maternal hypertension, maternal DM, PROM, prolong labor, meconium- stained amniotic fluid, maternal fever, fetal distress, multiple gestation and APH. As a result, there is no gender difference between patient and control. Among patients group, …

A New Strategy For Enhancing Imputation Quality Of Rare Variants From Next-Generation Sequencing Data Via Combining Snp And Exome Chip Data, Young Jin Kim, Taesung Park, Gonçalo Abecasis, Marcio A. Almeida, David Altshuler, Jennifer L. Asimit, Gil Atzmon, Mathew Barber, John Blangero, Thomas D. Dyer

School of Medicine Publications

Background: Rare variants have gathered increasing attention as a possible alternative source of missing heritability. Since next generation sequencing technology is not yet cost-effective for large-scale genomic studies, a widely used alternative approach is imputation. However, the imputation approach may be limited by the low accuracy of the imputed rare variants. To improve imputation accuracy of rare variants, various approaches have been suggested, including increasing the sample size of the reference panel, using sequencing data from study-specific samples (i.e., specific populations), and using local reference panels by genotyping or sequencing a subset of study samples. While these approaches mainly utilize …

Atp-Site Binding Inhibitor Effectively Targets Mtorc1 And Mtorc2 Complexes In Glioblastoma, Jayson Neil, Craig Shannon, Avinash Mohan, Dimitri Laurent, Raj Murali, Meena Jhanwar-Uniyal

NYMC Faculty Publications

The PI3K-AKT-mTOR signaling axis is central to the transformed phenotype of glioblastoma (GBM) cells, due to frequent loss of tumor suppressor PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10). The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase is present in two cellular multi-protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, which have distinct subunit composition, substrates and mechanisms of action. Targeting the mTOR protein is a promising strategy for GBM therapy. However, neither of these complexes is fully inhibited by the allosteric inhibitor of mTOR, rapamycin or its analogs. Herein, we provide evidence that the combined inhibition of mTORC1/2, using the ATP-competitive binding …

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $4.92 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; water recycling and desalination; capturing urban runoff; flood management; water for wildlife; water conservation; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $9.8 billion to pay off principal ($4.9 billion) and interest …

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $4.92 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; water recycling and desalination; capturing urban runoff; flood management; water for wildlife; water conservation; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $9.8 billion to pay off principal ($4.9 billion) and interest …

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $4.92 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; water recycling and desalination; capturing urban runoff; flood management; water for wildlife; water conservation; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $9.8 billion to pay off principal ($4.9 billion) and interest …

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $4.92 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; water recycling and desalination; capturing urban runoff; flood management; water for wildlife; water conservation; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $9.8 billion to pay off principal ($4.9 billion) and interest …

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $6.02 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; capturing urban runoff; water recycling and desalination; flood management; water conservation; water for wildlife; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $12 billion to pay off principal ($6 billion) and interest …

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $6.02 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; capturing urban runoff; water recycling and desalination; flood management; water conservation; water for wildlife; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $12 billion to pay off principal ($6 billion) and interest …

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $6.02 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; capturing urban runoff; water recycling and desalination; flood management; water conservation; water for wildlife; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $12 billion to pay off principal ($6 billion) and interest …

Water Bond. Funding For Water Quality, Supply, Recycling, And Storage Projects. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Authorizes $6.02 billion in general obligation bonds for water supply infrastructure projects, including watershed improvement and water quality enhancement; capturing urban runoff; water recycling and desalination; flood management; water conservation; water for wildlife; groundwater sustainability and storage; and safe drinking water. Appropriates money from the General Fund to pay off bonds. Requires certain projects to provide matching funds from non-state sources in order to receive bond funds. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: State General Fund costs of $12 billion to pay off principal ($6 billion) and interest …

What's Happening: December 28, 2015, Maine Medical Center

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Study To Look At Social Support, Intuitive Eating Impact On Older Diabetic African-American Men, Adam Pope

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Determination On Salt Content Of Dry-Cured Meat By Rapid And Non-Invasion Impedance Technology, Chen Tianhao, Han Minyi, Wang Peng, Wei Ran, Xu Xinglian

Food and Machinery

The experiment was conducted to establish a new method to determine the salt content in cured meat and treated the meat with different salt content as samples. Impedance, salt content and water content were measured in the experiment and the results showed that the method would be a good choice for the determination of the salt content. Result: And, there was strong relationship between the impedance and the salt content. It is possible to construct some linear model between these two parameters. It indicated that there is good correlation between the predicted salt content and impedance magnitude (R²=0.980 …

Extraction Of Animal-Derived Dna In Processed Food And Establishment Of Multiplex Pcr Method, He Haining, Hong Xia, Feng Yusheng, Wang Yongsong, Jin Ying, Yuan Caixia, Qian Yingwen, Liu Qi, Gao Zhiying

Food and Machinery

In order to get high quantity and quality animal-derived DNA extraction from processed food, the CTAB method was improved for the PCR test. According to duck mitochondrial gene sequences, primers were designed and synthesized for detecting PCR system, optimizing reaction conditions and screening, establishing a triple PCR method. The amplified lengths of fragments were 116 bp for bovine, 212 bp for porcine, 322 bp for duck, respectively. The triple PCR assay to distinguish pork and duck from beef was developed. Lower amounts of meat than declared on the label. These practices are of great importance in the fight of forged …

Brewing Process Optimization Of Gordon Euryale Seed Wine, Li Yan, Lin Meiying, Li Yunsong

Food and Machinery

The gordon euryale seed starch was hydrolyzed by α-amylase and glucoamylase to prepare starch syrup, and then the saccharomyces cerevisiae was added to prepare the health wine. The technology parameters were optimized by single factor and orthogonal experiments. And the optimal fermentation conditions were gotten. With the ratio of mass to water of 1︰10, the optimum liquefaction conditions were: addition of α-amylase of 0.4%, liquefaction temperature 70 ℃, and liquefaction time 60 min. The optimum saccharifying conditions were: addition of glucoamylase 0.5%, saccharifying temperature 60 ℃,and saccharifying time of 1 h. Under the saccharifying conditions, the sugar content of the …

Uab's Undiagnosed Diseases Program Gives Answers Where There Were None, Staff

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Framework For Hyperspectral Image Processing And Quantification For Cancer Detection During Animal Tumor Surgery, Guolan Lu, Dongsheng Wang, Xulei Qin, Luma Halig, Susan Muller, Hongzheng Zhang, Amy Chen, Brian W. Pogue, Zhuo G. Chen

Dartmouth Scholarship

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is an imaging modality that holds strong potential for rapid cancer detection during image-guided surgery. But the data from HSI often needs to be processed appropriately in order to extract the maximum useful information that differentiates cancer from normal tissue. We proposed a framework for hyperspectral image processing and quantification, which includes a set of steps including image preprocessing, glare removal, feature extraction, and ultimately image classification. The framework has been tested on images from mice with head and neck cancer, using spectra from 450- to 900-nm wavelength. The image analysis computed Fourier coefficients, normalized reflectance, mean, …

Is There An Ideal Level Of Platelet P2y12-Receptor Inhibition In Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?: "Window" Analysis From The Adapt-Des Study (Assessment Of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy With Drug-Eluting Stents)., Ajay J. Kirtane Md, Puja B. Parikh Md, Thomas D. Stuckey Md, Ke Xu Phd, Bernhard Witzenbichler Md, Giora Weisz Md, Michael J. Rinaldi Md, Franz-Josef Neumann Md, D Christopher Metzger Md, Timothy D. Henry Md, David A. Cox Md, Peter L. Duffy Md, Bruce R. Brodie Md, Ernest L. Mazzaferri Md, Rupa Parvataneni Ms, Akiko Maehara Md, Philippe Généreux Md, Roxana Mehran Md, Gregg W. Stone Md

Department of Medicine

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine whether there is an ideal level of platelet reactivity (PR) to optimize safety and efficacy within the large multicenter ADAPT-DES (Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy With Drug-Eluting Stents) study of 8,582 patients receiving successful drug-eluting stent implantation.

BACKGROUND: Patients with high PR on clopidogrel have a greater incidence of adverse ischemic events after stent implantation, whereas low PR may increase bleeding. Due to limited sample size, previous studies have not been able to adjust for differences in baseline characteristics that may confound the relationship of PR and outcomes.

METHODS: In the ADAPT-DES study, routine …

West-Strum Honored For Commitment To Pharmacy Quality, Gabrielle Gero

University of Mississippi News

Chair of pharmacy administration receives Duncan Neuhauser Award

Relationship Of Specialty Diets To The Severity Of Symptoms Associated With Autism, Rachele Lee

Nursing Capstones

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Study Of Occurrence Of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Among Infertile Women, Hanaa Rahman Eleawi, Enas Talib Abdul-Karim, Anam Rasheed Al- Salihi

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Most women with polycystic ovary syndrome PCOS don’t even know that they have it ,and do not get a diagnosis until they begin trying to get pregnant. OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence of the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) among infertile women attending the Institute of Embryo Research and Infertility Treatment in AL-KadhymiaBaghdad, and to identify some of the common characteristics of infertile women with PCOS and others without PCOS . METHODOLOGY: A cross sectional study was conducted for about four months,during which a review of records of all the women attending the Institute during the year 2010 (six …