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Functional Heterogeneity In Cd4+ T Cell Responses Against A Bacterial Pathogen, Ashley Viehmann Milam, Paul M. Allen

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Treatment-Resistant Major Depression: Rationale For Nmda Receptors As Targets And Nitrous Oxide As Therapy, Charles F. Zorumski, Peter Nagele, Steven Mennerick, Charles R. Conway

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Ibrutinib As Initial Therapy For Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, N. L. Bartlett, Et Al

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Tourette Syndrome Research Highlights 2014, Cheryl A. Richards, Kevin J. Black

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Prospective Validation Of A 21-Gene Expression Assay In Breast Cancer, Matthew J. Ellis, Et Al

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The Atf6 Pathway Of The Er Stress Response Contributes To Enhanced Viability In Glioblastoma, David Y A Dadey, Vaishali Kapoor, Arpine Khudanyan, Fumihiko Urano, Albert H. Kim, Dinesh Thotala, Dennis E. Hallahan

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Nonverbal Reasoning In Preschool Children: Investigating The Putative Risk Of Secondhand Smoke Exposure And Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder As A Mediator, Duneesha De Alwis, Mini Tandon, Rebecca Tillman, Joan Luby

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Postmenopausal Mammographic Breast Density And Subsequent Breast Cancer Risk According To Selected Tissue Markers, Lusine Yaghjyan, Andreas Pettersson, Graham A. Colditz, Laura C. Collins, Stuart J. Schnitt, Andrew H. Beck, Bernard Rosner, Celine Vachon, Rulla M. Tamimi

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The Drosophila Prosecretory Transcription Factor Dimmed Is Dynamically Regulated In Adult Enteroendocrine Cells And Protects Against Gram-Negative Infection, Katherine Beebe, Dongkook Park, Paul H. Taghert, Craig A. Micchelli

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Caenorhabditis Elegans Glp-4 Encodes A Valyl Aminoacyl Trna Synthetase, Suchita Rastogi, Ben Borgo, Nanette Pazdernik, Paul Fox, Elaine R. Mardis, Yuji Kohara, Jim Havranek, Tim Schedl

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Exome Sequencing Identifies A Rare Hspg2 Variant Associated With Familial Idiopathic Scoliosis, Erin E. Baschal, Cambria I. Wethey, Kandice Swindle, Robin M. Baschal, Katherine Gowan, Nelson L.S. Tang, David M. Alvarado, Gabe E. Haller, Matthew B. Dobbs, Matthew R.G. Taylor, Christina A. Gurnett, Kenneth L. Jones, Nancy H. Miller

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Molecular Approaches For Improving Desiccation Tolerance : Insights From The Brine Shrimp Artemia Franciscana., Steven Hand, Michael Menze

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Main conclusion We have evaluated the endogenous expression and molecular properties of selected Group 3 LEA proteins from Artemia franciscana , and the capacity of selected Groups 1 and 3 proteins transfected into various desiccation-sensitive cell lines to improve tolerance to drying. Organisms inhabiting both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems frequently are confronted with the problem of water loss for multiple reasons—exposure to hypersalinity, evaporative water loss, and restriction of intracellular water due to freezing of extracellular fluids. Seasonal desiccation can become severe and lead to the production of tolerant propagules and entry into the state of anhydrobiosis at various stages …

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Do Depressive Symptoms Predict The Incidence Of Myocardial Infarction Independent Of Hopelessness?, Patrick Pössel, Amanda M. Mitchell, Kimmo Ronkainen, George A. Kaplan, Jussi Kauhanen, Maarit Valtonen

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Depression and hopelessness predict myocardial infarction (MI), but it is unclear whether depression and hopelessness are independent predictors of MI incidents. Hopelessness, depression, and MI incidence rate 18 years later were measured in 2005 men. Cox regressions were conducted with hopelessness and depression serving as individual predictors of MI. Another Cox model examined whether the two predictors predict MI when adjusting for each other. Depression and hopelessness predicted MI in independent regressions but when adjusting for each other, hopelessness, but not depression, predicted MI incidents. Thus, these results suggest that depression and hopelessness are not independent predictors of MI.

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Aerobic And Resistance Training Improves Mood State Among Adults Living With Hiv., Jason R. Jaggers, Gregory A. Hand, Wesley D. Dudgeon, Stephanie Burgess, Kenneth D. Phillips, Larry Durstine, Steven N. Blair

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of combined aerobic and resistance exercise training among self-reported mood disturbances, perceived stress, frequency of self-reported symptoms, and symptom distress in a sample of HIV+ adults. For this purpose, 49 participants were randomly assigned into an exercise (EX) or control (CON) group. Those in the EX group completed 50 min of supervised aerobic and resistance training at a moderate intensity twice a week for 6 weeks. The CON group reported to the university and engaged in sedentary activities. Data were collected at baseline before randomization and 6 weeks post intervention. …

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"Goodbye, Old Arm": The Domestication Of Veterans' Disabilities In Civil War Era Popular Songs, Devin Burke

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

IN October of 1863, two years into the Civil War, a short editorial titled "Empty Sleeves" appeared on the front page of the Staunton Spectator.1 It addressed a question that had become familiar in the wake of the war's unprecedented violence; namely, how to encounter, or how to look at (in both the literal and figurative senses), the quickly growing population of veterans whose injuries marked them as "disabled:' This question could be cause for considerable anxiety in able-bodied Americans whose beliefs were shaped by Victorian and muscular Christian values.

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Exploring The Meaning Of Cohabitation: A Relationship Dialectics Perspective, Lindsey J. Thomas, Kristina M. Scharp

Iowa Journal of Communication

This study employed relational dialectics theory to investigate what cohabitation means to cohabiters. Cohabitation is an ambiguous relationship state (e.g., perceived as "more than dating" but "less than marriage") associated with negative outcomes. Scholars have empirically investigated cohabitation; however, little research explores what cohabitation means using a qualitative approach. Exploring the meaning of cohabitation can illuminate perceptions that might coincide with negative outcomes. Framed by Relational Dialectics Theory, a contrapuntal analysis of cohabiters' online stories (n=27) revealed three counter-discourses: Narratives of Cohabitation as a Normal Relationship, Cohabitation as an Easy Relationship, and Cohabitation as a Worthwhile Struggle. Each counter-discourse resisted …

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Southeast Polk High School's Suicide Culture: Analysis Of Communication And Community Resilience Strategies, Molly D. Wells

Iowa Journal of Communication

This paper analyzes the response to the outbreak of student suicides at Southeast Polk High School in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, during the 2008-09 school year, by applying the theoretical framework of the communication and community resilience approach to crisis management. The key strategies of the communication and resilience framework were applied to assess the efforts of the school district to adapt and build resilience. It was identified that the school district succeeded in implementing two out of the five recommended strategies. The framework highlighted the need to consider suicide as a crisis and to employ all the strategies in order …

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Three Essays On Shellfish Management In Rhode Island, Pratheesh Omana Sudhakaran

Open Access Dissertations

Shellfish resources are the main fishery resources commercially harvested and cultured in Rhode Island. Wild shellfish management in Rhode Island is undertaken by the RI Department of Environmental Management (DEM) aiming to achieve, among other objectives, conserving naturally occurring shellfish populations in RI waters and managing public health outcomes due to, water quality issues. However, for any management scheme or regulation to be effective, policy must recognize the economic forces at work when evaluating proposed intervention or regulation of shellfishing. Regulations would influence the harvesters’ behavior through the change in the harvested quantity or market price of the product and …

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Review Of The Sage Handbook Of Family Communication, Donna R. Pawlowski

Iowa Journal of Communication

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Review Of Alienation: The Divide And Conquer Election Of 2012, Matthew L. Spialeck

Iowa Journal of Communication

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Higher Education Expenditures And Revenues : A Case Study On The University Of Northern Iowa, Thomas Keld Madsen

Honors Program Theses

Higher education costs have skyrocketed in recent years, leaving millions of students in copious amounts of debt. Facing problems with decreased support from state legislators, universities have increased tuition and fees to compensate. At the same time, university spending, especially in non-academic programs and services, has continued to rise. A fight as emerged between states and the schools residing in them for who is to blame for the increasing cost of higher education, and in the middle of the debate are schools such as the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). A medium-sized school, UNI faces decreasing financial support from the …

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Relevant Decision Criteria And Their Level Of Importance In Consumers' Choice Of Hospital, Jordan Brelje

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As the health care industry becomes increasingly consumer-driven, it is crucial for hospitals to understand the considerations involved in their patients’ choice of health care institution. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors which most heavily influence consumers’ choice of hospital, as well as to make recommendations to health care marketers based upon the conclusions reached. This study also hoped to provide beneficial insights to public policy makers who desire to give consumers more control in the health care decision-making process. Very little research has been performed in recent years as to consumers’ choice of hospital decision …

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A Plasmid-Based Reporter System For Live Cell Imaging Of Dengue Infected Cells, Carey L. Medin, Sierra Valois, Chinmay G. Patkar, Alan Rothman

Institute for Immunology and Informatics Faculty Publications

Cell culture models are used widely to study the effects of dengue virus (DENV) on host cell function. Current methods of identification of cells infected with an unmodified DENV requires fixation and permeablization of cells to allow DENV-specific antibody staining. This method does not permit imaging of viable cells over time. In this report, a plasmid-based reporter was developed to allow non-destructive identification of DENV-infected cells. The plasmid-based reporter was demonstrated to be broadly applicable to the four DENV serotypes, including low-passaged strains, and was specifically cleaved by the viral protease with minimal interference on viral production. This study reveals …

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Is What Is Past Always Prologue? Priming To Past Conflicts And Fear Of Terrorism Influence Americans’ Support For Military Intervention In Syria, Daniel Walter Snook Ii

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Implicit knowledge influences decision-making in a variety of areas, including conflict resolution and decisions about war. Individuals may unknowingly apply implicit knowledge from past experiences to present experiences, even if that information leads to less accurate decisions in the present experience. The current study is an exploration into how implicit knowledge of past international conflicts and fear of terrorism affects recommendations for military conflict resolution in current international conflicts. Priming is one way to make implicit knowledge salient, and participants in this study were implicitly primed to think of either the Iraq War, World War II, or no war in …

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Comparison Of Glenohumeral Internal Rotation Deficit (Gird) And Humeral Retroversion In College Baseball Pitchers Over The Course Of A Competative Season, Shawn T. Huntsman

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Lesson Unplanned: Teenage Pregnancy And A Lack Of Education In The Dominican Republic, A Documentary Short, Jennifer D. Gonzalez

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As teenage pregnancy rates are slowly decreasing in the United States, rates in the Dominican Republic are double the world average. 105 out of 1,000 teen girls became pregnant in 2013 according to a study conducted by the United Nations Population Fund. This paper supplements the documentary “Lesson Unplanned” and elaborates on the process of the visual work as well as trends in use/misuse of contraceptives by teenagers, the reason pregnancy occurs in teenagers, and the social impact in the Dominican Republic. Information was collected by on-camera interviews with subjects during field work, both by verbal and visual reporting in …

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Focusing The Village: Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali And Prafulla Mohanti's My Village, My Life, Geoffrey Kain

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Gandhi insisted that the spirit of India lives in its villages, but the drift away from the village and toward urbanization in post- independence India continues. Questions arise regarding the ideological motivations driving artists’ treatments of the village in various notable works in the modern South Asian canon. A comparison is drawn between Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali [1955] and Orissan artist and author Prafulla Mohanti’s My Village, My Life [1973]. While at first glance the two may seem to have little to do with another, a close consideration reveals some striking similarities between them, providing some compelling insights into Ray’s …

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The Confidence Information Ontology: A Step Towards A Standard For Asserting Confidence In Annotations, Frederic B. Bastian, Marcus C. Chibucos, Pascale Gaudet, Michelle Giglio, Gemma L. Holiday, Hong Huang, Suzanna E. Lewis, Anne Niknejad, Sandra Orchard, Sylvain Poux, Nives Skunca, Marc Robinson-Rechavi

School of Information Faculty Publications

Biocuration has become a cornerstone for analyses in biology, and to meet needs, the amount of annotations has considerably grown in recent years. However, the reliability of these annotations varies; it has thus become necessary to be able to assess the confidence in annotations. Although several resources already provide confidence information about the annotations that they produce, a standard way of providing such information has yet to be defined. This lack of standardization undermines the propagation of knowledge across resources, as well as the credibility of results from high-throughput analyses. Seeded at a workshop during the Biocuration 2012 conference, a …

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Examining Political Mobilization Of Online Communities Through E-Petitioning Behavior In We The People, Catherine L. Dumas, Daniel Lamanna, Teresa M. Harrison, S. S. Ravi, Christopher Kotfila, Norman Gervais, Loni Hagen, Feng Chen

School of Information Faculty Publications

This study aims to reveal patterns of e-petition co-signing behavior that are indicative of the political mobilization of online “communities”. We discuss the case of We the People, a US national experiment in the use of social media technology to enable users to propose and solicit support for policy suggestions to the White House. We apply Baumgartner and Jones's work on agenda setting and punctuated equilibrium, which suggests that policy issues may lie dormant for periods of time until some event triggers attention from the media, interest groups, and elected representatives. In the case study presented, we focus on …

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A Novel Algorithm For Analyzing Drug-Drug Interactions From Medline Literature, Yin Lu, Dan Shen, Maxwell Pietsch, Chetan Nagar, Zayd Fadli, Hong Huang, Yi-Cheng Tu, Feng Chen

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Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is becoming a serious clinical safety issue as the use of multiple medications becomes more common. Searching the MEDLINE database for journal articles related to DDI produces over 330,000 results. It is impossible to read and summarize these references manually. As the volume of biomedical reference in the MEDLINE database continues to expand at a rapid pace, automatic identification of DDIs from literature is becoming increasingly important. In this article, we present a random-sampling-based statistical algorithm to identify possible DDIs and the underlying mechanism from the substances field of MEDLINE records. The substances terms are essentially carriers …

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Functional Heterogeneity In Cd4+ T Cell Responses Against A Bacterial Pathogen, Ashley Viehmann Milam, Paul M. Allen

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Treatment-Resistant Major Depression: Rationale For Nmda Receptors As Targets And Nitrous Oxide As Therapy, Charles F. Zorumski, Peter Nagele, Steven Mennerick, Charles R. Conway

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Ibrutinib As Initial Therapy For Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, N. L. Bartlett, Et Al

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Tourette Syndrome Research Highlights 2014, Cheryl A. Richards, Kevin J. Black

Open Access Publications

Prospective Validation Of A 21-Gene Expression Assay In Breast Cancer, Matthew J. Ellis, Et Al

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The Atf6 Pathway Of The Er Stress Response Contributes To Enhanced Viability In Glioblastoma, David Y A Dadey, Vaishali Kapoor, Arpine Khudanyan, Fumihiko Urano, Albert H. Kim, Dinesh Thotala, Dennis E. Hallahan

Open Access Publications

Nonverbal Reasoning In Preschool Children: Investigating The Putative Risk Of Secondhand Smoke Exposure And Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder As A Mediator, Duneesha De Alwis, Mini Tandon, Rebecca Tillman, Joan Luby

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Postmenopausal Mammographic Breast Density And Subsequent Breast Cancer Risk According To Selected Tissue Markers, Lusine Yaghjyan, Andreas Pettersson, Graham A. Colditz, Laura C. Collins, Stuart J. Schnitt, Andrew H. Beck, Bernard Rosner, Celine Vachon, Rulla M. Tamimi

Open Access Publications

The Drosophila Prosecretory Transcription Factor Dimmed Is Dynamically Regulated In Adult Enteroendocrine Cells And Protects Against Gram-Negative Infection, Katherine Beebe, Dongkook Park, Paul H. Taghert, Craig A. Micchelli

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Caenorhabditis Elegans Glp-4 Encodes A Valyl Aminoacyl Trna Synthetase, Suchita Rastogi, Ben Borgo, Nanette Pazdernik, Paul Fox, Elaine R. Mardis, Yuji Kohara, Jim Havranek, Tim Schedl

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Molecular Approaches For Improving Desiccation Tolerance : Insights From The Brine Shrimp Artemia Franciscana., Steven Hand, Michael Menze

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Do Depressive Symptoms Predict The Incidence Of Myocardial Infarction Independent Of Hopelessness?, Patrick Pössel, Amanda M. Mitchell, Kimmo Ronkainen, George A. Kaplan, Jussi Kauhanen, Maarit Valtonen

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Aerobic And Resistance Training Improves Mood State Among Adults Living With Hiv., Jason R. Jaggers, Gregory A. Hand, Wesley D. Dudgeon, Stephanie Burgess, Kenneth D. Phillips, Larry Durstine, Steven N. Blair

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

"Goodbye, Old Arm": The Domestication Of Veterans' Disabilities In Civil War Era Popular Songs, Devin Burke

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Exploring The Meaning Of Cohabitation: A Relationship Dialectics Perspective, Lindsey J. Thomas, Kristina M. Scharp

Iowa Journal of Communication

Southeast Polk High School's Suicide Culture: Analysis Of Communication And Community Resilience Strategies, Molly D. Wells

Iowa Journal of Communication

Three Essays On Shellfish Management In Rhode Island, Pratheesh Omana Sudhakaran

Open Access Dissertations

Review Of The Sage Handbook Of Family Communication, Donna R. Pawlowski

Iowa Journal of Communication

Review Of Alienation: The Divide And Conquer Election Of 2012, Matthew L. Spialeck

Iowa Journal of Communication

Higher Education Expenditures And Revenues : A Case Study On The University Of Northern Iowa, Thomas Keld Madsen

Honors Program Theses

Relevant Decision Criteria And Their Level Of Importance In Consumers' Choice Of Hospital, Jordan Brelje

Honors Program Theses

A Plasmid-Based Reporter System For Live Cell Imaging Of Dengue Infected Cells, Carey L. Medin, Sierra Valois, Chinmay G. Patkar, Alan Rothman

Institute for Immunology and Informatics Faculty Publications

Is What Is Past Always Prologue? Priming To Past Conflicts And Fear Of Terrorism Influence Americans’ Support For Military Intervention In Syria, Daniel Walter Snook Ii

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Comparison Of Glenohumeral Internal Rotation Deficit (Gird) And Humeral Retroversion In College Baseball Pitchers Over The Course Of A Competative Season, Shawn T. Huntsman

Research Papers

Lesson Unplanned: Teenage Pregnancy And A Lack Of Education In The Dominican Republic, A Documentary Short, Jennifer D. Gonzalez

Research Papers

Focusing The Village: Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali And Prafulla Mohanti's My Village, My Life, Geoffrey Kain

Publications

School of Information Faculty Publications

Examining Political Mobilization Of Online Communities Through E-Petitioning Behavior In We The People, Catherine L. Dumas, Daniel Lamanna, Teresa M. Harrison, S. S. Ravi, Christopher Kotfila, Norman Gervais, Loni Hagen, Feng Chen

School of Information Faculty Publications

A Novel Algorithm For Analyzing Drug-Drug Interactions From Medline Literature, Yin Lu, Dan Shen, Maxwell Pietsch, Chetan Nagar, Zayd Fadli, Hong Huang, Yi-Cheng Tu, Feng Chen

School of Information Faculty Publications