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Phosphorus Sorption Dynamics In Shallow Groundwater, Coastal Everglades, Florida, Usa, Hilary Flower

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

For this dissertation I studied phosphorus (P) sorption dynamics in the shallow groundwater of the southern Everglades. In particular, I examined how the ambient water type governs soluble reactive P (SRP) availability through adsorption/desorption reactions with the aquifer matrix. Chapter 2 investigated how P sorption dynamics of the mangrove root zone sediment are affected by high bicarbonate brackish groundwater compared to both fresh groundwater and saltwater. The results from chapter 2 show that the sediment exhibited exceptionally low sorption efficiency in the high bicarbonate brackish water, which would allow ambient water SRP concentration to be maintained at a higher level. …

Water Quality And Biomonitoring In The Río Lagarto, Costa Rica, Bozeman Dominique, Stephanie Colburn, Laura Gibbs, Jessica Hunnicutt, Lauren Miller, Savannah Moritzky, Ariba Naz, Cynthia Snelling, Leigha Snelling, Leigha Stahl, Leighton Wise

Water in the World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Access and Sustainability

Every odd-year in March, from 2005-2015, the Río Lagarto, Costa Rica has been surveyed by students in Tropical Watersheds and Coastal Ecology. The Río Lagarto originates at approximately 1,500 m in the Monteverde cloudforest region of the Cordillera de Tilarán and steeply descends toward the Pacific coast discharging into the mangrove forests bordering the Gulf of Nicoya. This small Pacific slope river is the western-most of the three rivers, along with their watersheds, that define the Bellbird Biological Corridor. The Bellbird Biological Corridor is a long-term community-based effort to restore natural forest cover to a largely deforested terrain. This reforestation …

A Study On Tibiofemoral Joint Contact Area Stresses Using Finite Element Method, Anjeza Gjini, Altin Bidaj, Enio Deneko, Drilona Disha

UBT International Conference

The joints of the human body act as mechanical or building structures joints. Joints connect different segments by enabling the movement of these segments. The design of a joint that provides durability or static support differs from that one which provides only movement. Joints of the human body, as organic joints, are considered more complex than other types of joints. Finite element models help to comprehend the knee structure behavior under the action of dynamic and static loads. Deformations in the articulating cartilage and the distribution of loads from meniscus provide data to understand the effect of loads in different …

Challenging Alcohol Expectancies: How To Reduce Underage Drinking In A Single Session, Peter Debenedittis

National Youth-At-Risk Conference, West (Archived)

Learn the fundamentals of Alcohol Expectancy Theory, allowing you to challenge student's beliefs about the effects of alcohol and reduce underage and binge drinking in a single session. NIAAA recommends this new approach to youth alcohol prevention. Learn how to apply this in a classroom setting.

A Phase I Study Of Ad5-Gucy2c-Padre In Stage I And Ii Colon Cancer Patients, Adam E. Snook, Trevor R. Baybutt, Michael J. Mastrangelo, Nancy L. Lewis, Scott D. Goldstein, Walter K. Kraft, Yaa D. Oppong, Terry Hyslop, Ronald E. Myers, Vitali Alexeev, Laurence C. Eisenlohr, Takami Sato, Scott A. Waldman

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Posters

Background

Ad5-GUCY2C-PADRE is a replication-deficient human type 5 recombinant adenovirus (Ad5) vaccine encoding guanylyl cyclase C (GUCY2C) fused to the PAn DR Epitope (PADRE). GUCY2C, a paracrine hormone receptor producing the second messenger cyclic GMP (cGMP), is selectively expressed by intestinal epithelial cells and a subset of hypothalamic neurons, but not other tissues. Importantly, GUCY2C is over-expressed in nearly all primary and metastatic human colorectal tumors. Preclinical studies in mice demonstrated selective tolerance of GUCY2C-specific CD4+ T cells, but not CD8+ T or B cells, necessitating inclusion of the exogenous CD4+ T helper cell epitope PADRE to maximize GUCY2C-specific CD8+ …

Overwintering Biology Of The Carob Moth Apomyelois Ceratoniae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), Banafsheh Ahmadi, Saeid Moharramipour, Brent J Sinclair

Biology Publications

The pomegranate fruit moth, Apomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller), is the most important pest of pomegranate orchards in Iran, where infestations lead to 20%–80% fruit loss. A. ceratoniae overwinters as larvae in several instars. The success in overwintering determines the fruit loss in the following season, thus overwintering physiology of A. ceratoniae could provide insights into population prediction. To this end, overwintering strategy and some seasonal physiological and biochemical changes were investigated in the field-collected larvae of A. ceratoniae. The lowest supercooling point was recorded in November (−14.6 ± 0.9 °C) and the highest in both October and March (−10.2 ± …

2015-November-07-Pushpa Reddyvari, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Youth Matters: The Need To Treat Children Like Children, Vincent M. Southerland

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Dr. Panopticon, Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Drone, Caren Myers Morrison

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

No abstract provided.

Breaking The Ice: Expanding The Class Of "Issue" To Include Posthumously Conceived Children, Daniel C. Perrone

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Chimpanzee Use In Invasive Biomedical Research: The One-Percent Difference That Affects One-Hundred-Percent Of The Studies, Samantha Fox

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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A Teacher Who Looks Like Me, Chris Chambers Goodman, Sarah E. Redfield

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Fuzzy Logic And Neural Networks - A Glimpse Of The Future, Raymond Manley

The ITB Journal

In 1965 Lofti Zadeh published his paper on fuzzy set theory , putting it forward as a way of more closely realising the human thought process. Many systems developed to aid human activities have been based on definitive , yes/no, type decision making processes. An example is the way all computers are based on the binary logic system where only two possible and separate logic levels are allowed, a logic 1 or logic 0. However, we know from everyday experience that humans think in terms of vague linguistic categories, for example, the weather is fairly good today. "Fairly good" represents …

Tools To Treat Adult Patients With Obesity: An Update On Bariatric Surgery And Pharmacologic Agents, Robin S. Schroeder Md

Department of Family Medicine

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The Echo: November 6, 2015, Taylor University

2015-2016 (Volume 103)

Chickens across the road (almost) – Pre-K partnerships – Molding young artists – Forbidden fruit for thought – Ancient Israeli Science – In The Loop – A house divided – Anonymous hacks the KKK – Fostering love – Quake shakes Afghanistan and Pakistan – All hail The Bean – Registration rush – Grandma Gracie – Noveling in November – Echograms #TaylorU -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – First step into fiction – Chords of culture – Paul’s Picks – A child-free family – Sex, words and buffalo – Out of the Loop – Shooting for the stars – Weekly Preview – …

Gsrs Event Program Booklet 2015, Office Of Research

Graduate Student Research Symposium

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Gsrs 2015 Award Winners, Office Of Research

Graduate Student Research Symposium

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Antioncogenic And Oncogenic Properties Of Nrf2 In Arsenic-Induced Carcinogenesis, Young-Ok Son, Poyil Pratheeshkumar, Ram Vinod Roy, Andrew Hitron, Lei Wang, Sasidharan Padmaja Divya, Mei Xu, Jia Luo, Gang Chen, Zhuo Zhang, Xianglin Shi

Center for Research on Environmental Disease Faculty Publications

Arsenic (As³⁺) is a carcinogen with considerable environmental and occupational relevancy. The present study shows that As³⁺-transformed human lung bronchial epithelial BEAS-2B cells (AsT cells) exhibit the property of apoptosis resistance. The level of basal reactive oxygen species (ROS) is very low in AsT cells in correlation with elevated expressions of both antioxidant enzymes and antiapoptotic proteins. Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor (Nrf2) and p62 are constitutively expressed. These two proteins up-regulate antioxidant enzymes and antiapoptotic proteins. The knockdown of Nrf2 or p62 by small interfering RNA (siRNA) enhanced both ROS levels and As³⁺-induced …

Dr. Allan Guymon Undergraduate Seminar | Biological Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

Photopolymerization has taken an increasing prominent role as a tool in providing unique properties for a wide array of advanced materials. The inherent spatial and temporal control allow great ability to tailor processing conditions and change ultimate properties. This talk will focus on two projects, including work from two Utah State alumni, in which photopolymerization enables directed structure both on the micron and nanometer size scale for unique functionality.

Three Illinois Wesleyan Alumni Honored At 2015 Emmy Television Awards, Kim Hill

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Sprouse, Mario, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Mario Sprouse, born October 10^th, 1948 in Spanish Harlem, is a well-known musician,arranger, composer, and musical director. His parents immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic in 1929, and would meet in Harlem and begin their family after the war.

His parents worked hard to provide for their children, but always had a passion for music, which they would instill upon Mario and his siblings. After moving to the Bronx in 1950, the family would begin living on Ritter Place, where each household showcased musical ability, and stars such as Maxine Sullivan, lived just down the …

Development And Characterization Of Microsatellite Loci For Common Raven (Corvus Corax) And Cross Species Amplification In Other Corvidae, Christin L. Pruett, Leping Wan, Tianyu Li, Cory Spern, Stacey Lyn Lance, Travis C. Glenn, Brant C. Faircloth, Kevin S. Winker

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: A priority for conservation is the identification of endemic populations. We developed microsatellite markers for common raven (Corvus corax), a bird species with a Holarctic distribution, to identify and assess endemic populations in Alaska. Results: From a total of 50 microsatellite loci, we isolated and characterized 15 loci. Eight of these loci were polymorphic and readily scoreable. Eighteen to 20 common ravens from Fairbanks, Alaska were genotyped showing the following variability: 3-8 alleles per locus, 0.25-0.80 observed heterozygosity (Ho), and 0.30-0.80 expected heterozygosity (He). All loci were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and linkage equilibrium and many loci amplified and were …

God, Human Nature, And Psychology, Mark Christians

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"God created humans to think, act, and feel and to be in relationship with other humans."

Posting about exploring the many realms of human expression­­­­­­­­ 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/god-human-nature-and-psychology/

Biosafety Research For Non-Target Organism Risk Assessment Of Rnai-Based Ge Plants, Andrew F. Roberts, Yann Devos, Godwin N. Y. Lemgo, Xuguo Zhou

Entomology Faculty Publications

RNA interference, or RNAi, refers to a set of biological processes that make use of conserved cellular machinery to silence genes. Although there are several variations in the source and mechanism, they are all triggered by double stranded RNA (dsRNA) which is processed by a protein complex into small, single stranded RNA, referred to as small interfering RNAs (siRNA) with complementarity to sequences in genes targeted for silencing. The use of the RNAi mechanism to develop new traits in plants has fueled a discussion about the environmental safety of the technology for these applications, and this was the subject of …

20-Hydroxyecdysone (20e) Primary Response Gene E93 Modulates 20e Signaling To Promote Bombyx Larval-Pupal Metamorphosis, Xi Liu, Fangyin Dai, Enen Guo, Kang Li, Li Ma, Ling Tian, Yang Cao, Guozheng Zhang, Subba Reddy Palli, Sheng Li

Entomology Faculty Publications

As revealed in a previous microarray study to identify genes regulated by 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) and juvenile hormone (JH) in the silkworm, Bombyx mori, E93 expression in the fat body was markedly low prior to the wandering stage but abundant during larval-pupal metamorphosis. Induced by 20E and suppressed by JH, E93 expression follows this developmental profile in multiple silkworm alleles. The reduction of E93 expression by RNAi disrupted 20E signaling and the 20E-induced autophagy, caspase activity, and cell dissociation in the fat body. Reducing E93 expression also decreased the expression of the 20E-induced pupal-specific cuticle protein genes and prevented growth …

November 6-7, 2015, Vs. Wisconsin, University Of North Dakota

UND Athletics Publications: Men's Hockey

Program for the November 6-7, 2015, weekend series against the Wisconsin Badgers.

Testing Dose-Dependent Effects Of The Nectar Alkaloid Anabasine On Trypanosome Parasite Loads In Adult Bumble Bees, Winston E. Anthony, Evan C. Palmer-Young, Anne S. Leonard, Rebecca E. Irwin, Lynn S. Adler

Dartmouth Scholarship

The impact of consuming biologically active compounds is often dose-dependent, where small quantities can be medicinal while larger doses are toxic. The consumption of plant secondary compounds can be toxic to herbivores in large doses, but can also improve survival in parasitized herbivores. In addition, recent studies have found that consuming nectar secondary compounds may decrease parasite loads in pollinators. However, the effect of compound dose on bee survival and parasite loads has not been assessed. To determine how secondary compound consumption affects survival and pathogen load in Bombus impatiens, we manipulated the presence of a common gut parasite, …

Integrin Α6Β4 Promotes Autocrine Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (Egfr) Signaling To Stimulate Migration And Invasion Toward Hepatocyte Growth Factor (Hgf), Brittany L. Carpenter, Min Chen, Teresa Knifley, Kelley A. Davis, Susan M.W. Harrison, Rachel L. Stewart, Kathleen O'Connor

Markey Cancer Center Faculty Publications

Integrin α6β4 is up-regulated in pancreatic adenocarcinomas where it contributes to carcinoma cell invasion by altering the transcriptome. In this study, we found that integrin α6β4 up-regulates several genes in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway, including amphiregulin (AREG), epiregulin (EREG), and ectodomain cleavage protease MMP1, which is mediated by promoter demethylation and NFAT5. The correlation of these genes with integrin α6β4 was confirmed in The Cancer Genome Atlas Pancreatic Cancer Database. Based on previous observations that integrin α6β4 cooperates with c-Met in pancreatic cancers, we examined the impact of EGFR signaling on hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)-stimulated migration and …

A Population Structure And Genome-Wide Association Analysis On The Usda Soybean Germplasm Collection, Nonoy Bandillo, Diego Jarquin, Qijian Song, Randall L. Nelson, Perry Cregan, James Specht, Aaron Lorenz

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Population structure analyses and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted on crop germplasm collections provide valuable information on the frequency and distribution of alleles governing economically important traits. The value of these analyses is substantially enhanced when the accession numbers can be increased from ~1,000 to ~10,000 or more. In this research, we conducted the first comprehensive analysis of population structure on the collection of 14,000 soybean accessions [Glycine max (L.) Merr. and G. soja Siebold & Zucc.] using a 50KSNP chip. Accessions originating from Japan were relatively homogenous and distinct from the Korean accessions. As a whole, both Japanese and …

Orally Administered Extract From Prunella Vulgaris Attenuates Spontaneous Colitis In Mdr1a-/- Mice, Kelley M.K. Haarberg, Meghan J. Wymore Brand, Anne-Marie C. Overstreet, Catherine C. Hauck, Patricia A. Murphy, Jesse M. Hostetter, Amanda Ramer-Tait, Michael J. Wannemuehler

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

AIM: To investigate the ability of a Prunella vulgaris (P. vulgaris) ethanolic extract to attenuate spontaneous typhlocolitis in mdr1a^-/- mice.

METHODS: Vehicle (5% ethanol) or P. vulgaris ethanolic extract (2.4 mg/d) were administered daily by oral gavage to mdr1a^-/- or wild type FVB^WT mice from 6 wk of age up to 20 wk of age. Clinical signs of disease were noted by monitoring weight loss. Mice experiencing weight loss in excess of 15% were removed from the study. At the time mice were removed from the study, blood and colon tissue were collected for analyses that …