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Short And Long-Term Soil Moisture Effects Of Liana Removal In A Seasonally Moist Tropical Forest, Joseph P. Reid, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Jennifer S. Powers

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Lianas (woody vines) are particularly abundant in tropical forests, and their abundance is increasing in the neotropics. Lianas can compete intensely with trees for above- and belowground resources, including water. As tropical forests experience longer and more intense dry seasons, competition for water is likely to intensify. However, we lack an understanding of how liana abundance affects soil moisture and hence competition with trees for water in tropical forests. To address this critical knowledge gap, we conducted a large-scale liana removal experiment in a seasonal tropical moist forest in central Panama. We monitored shallow and deep soil moisture over the …

The Scarlet - Volume Xcv, No. 7 (November 6, 2015), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The November 6, 2015 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

Analysis Of Rheumatoid Arthritis Data Using Logistic Regression And Penalized Approach, Wei Chen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this paper, a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) medicine clinical dataset with an ordinal response is selected to study this new medicine. In the dataset, there are four features, sex, age,treatment, and preliminary. Sex is a binary categorical variable with 1 indicates male, and 0 indicates female. Age is the numerical age of the patients. And treatment is a binary categorical variable with 1 indicates has RA, and 0 indicates does not have RA. And preliminary is a five class categorical variable indicates the patient’s RA severity status before taking the medication. The response Y is 5 class ordinal variable shows …

Understanding How Young People Experience Risk With Online-To-Offline Sexual Encounters: A Second Qualitative Phase For The Ch@T Project, Elizabeth Vp Marwah

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates how heterosexual young people understand and manage risks related to meeting sexual partners online in the United States. The purpose of this study is to help inform the development of culturally-appropriate sexual risk communication and health promotion messages for young people by linking public health knowledge of adolescent sexual health and eHealth with anthropological theories of risk. With qualitative data from two rounds of semi-structured interviews and two group interviews with university students in central Florida, this study shows how young people experience and prioritize more social-emotional risks in meeting online-to-offline sexual partners compared to physical risks. …

Stochastic Models For Plant Microtubule Self-Organization And Structure, Ezgi Can Eren, Ram Dixit, Natarajan Gautam

Biology Faculty Research

One of the key enablers of shape and growth in plant cells is the cortical microtubule (CMT) system, which is a polymer array that forms an appropriately-structured scaffolding in each cell. Plant biologists have shown that stochastic dynamics and simple rules of interactions between CMTs can lead to a coaligned CMT array structure. However, the mechanisms and conditions that cause CMT arrays to become organized are not well understood. It is prohibitively time-consuming to use actual plants to study the effect of various genetic mutations and environmental conditions on CMT self-organization. In fact, even computer simulations with multiple replications are …

Scholarly Publications By The Faculty Members Of Periyar University, Salem, India: A Scientometric Approach, Natarajan Radhakrishnan, Chandran Velmurugan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study aims to bring out the contributions made by the members of various departments of Periyar University, Salem. Further, it views the impact of the scholarly publications produced from Periyar University in India and the data analyzed for the study were retrieved from Web of Science (WOS) database for a period from 1998 to 2014. The study focuses on publishing trend, authorship pattern, and type of documents, country wise distribution of authors and individual authors’ research publications and their TLCS, TCLS, TLCR and so on.

Chimes: November 6, 2015, Calvin College

Chimes

Five professors let go due to program cuts by Josh Parks

Zombiefest returns to Calvin to the delight of students by Amelia Sterenberg

Student takes human eye research to Harvard University by Morgan Anderson

Biology class takes project to MSU by Amelia Sterenberg

Calvin student bank Liance releases first full-length album by Nate Hunt

Women's soccer adds to winning streak with defeat of Olivet by Mark Peless

Community celebrates Dia de los Muertos by Saraphina Sefcik

Engineering A New Home: Creating A Repository Collection For Faculty And Building A Larger Digital Presence For The School Of Engineering, Lauren Todd, Emily Symonds Stenberg

WashU Libraries Presentations

This talk is an expanded version of one given at the 2015 MOBIUS conference. Washington University librarians Emily Stenberg and Lauren Todd explain how they created and manage a collection in the university’s repository Open Scholarship for the Computer Science and Engineering department. This presentation will highlight how they developed a step-by-step workflow, addressed customization requests from the department, what really happened once that plan was implemented, and how they handle Bepress troubleshooting and faculty concerns. The presenters will also discuss how this project has helped them offer Open Scholarship as a service to other engineering faculty.

Thermal Imaging To Study Stress Non-Invasively In Unrestrained Birds, Paul Jerem, Katherine Herborn, Dominic Mccafferty, Dorothy Mckeegan, Ruedi Nager

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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 …

Redefining Public Education For Males, Nakia Douglas, Robert Edison, Kerry Shelton, Angela Fulbright

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

The moral imperative to educate and save the young men within our communities has never had a higher call to action. Come learn what “The” Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy in Dallas ISD is doing to Save Our Young Men one student at a time through their holistic approach to education.

“That Sucks?”: An Evaluation Of The Communication Competence And Enacted Social Support Of Response Messages To Depression Disclosures In College-Aged Students, Daniel Vieth

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

Recent communication research on depression has focused on which response messages are most effective in providing emotional comfort to depressed individuals during depression dialogues. This study investigates the impact that a confidant’s initial response to a disclosure has on the disclosing individual, a key moment of dialogue for those with depression. It examines the relationship between the communication competence of responses to depression disclosures and how individuals rate those responses’ enacted social support, hypothesizing that the higher the communication competence of a confidant’s response (where competence reflects the effectiveness of interdependent communication), the more enacted social support the discloser will …

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for November 5-11, 2015. Vol. 101, No. 6

The Setonian, November 5, 2015, Seton Hall University

2015

No abstract provided.

Western News, Nov. 5, 2015, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Michigan earns liberal education status; WMU, Peace Corps giving students added service edge; First Lady to spotlight campus assault prevention; On Campus with Teresa Ventimiglia.

The Utah Statesman, November 5, 2015, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

November 5, 2015, James Madison

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Vision: An Engineer's Tool In The Fight Against Eye Disease | College Of Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

If you’ve seen the latest news headlines about Dr. Elizabeth Vargis, you’d think she was an ophthalmologist – a medical expert on vision-related disease and treatment. But Vargis is no physician. She’s an engineer – pure and simple.

11/05/2015 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 11/05/2015. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

November 5, 2015, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the November 5, 2015, meeting of the University Senate. 31 pages

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Executive Committee Meeting, Thursday, November 5, 2015, Arts & Sciences Executive Committee

Executive Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, November 5, 2015, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Anthropologists Are Talking – About The Anthropocene, D. Haraway, N. Ishikawa, Scott F. Gilbert, K. Olwig, A. L. Tsing, N. Bubandt

Biology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Complete Genome Sequences Of Four Escherichia Coli St95 Isolates From Bloodstream Infections, Craig M. Stephens, Jeffrey M. Skerker, Manraj S. Sekhon, Adam P. Arkin, Lee W. Riley

Biology

Finished genome sequences are presented for four Escherichia coli strains isolated from bloodstream infections at San Francisco General Hospital. These strains provide reference sequences for four major fimH-identified sublineages within the multilocus sequence type (MLST) ST95 group, and provide insights into pathogenicity and differential antimicrobial susceptibility within this group.

Homogeneous Cosmology With Aggressively Expanding Civilizations, S. Jay Olson

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the context of a homogeneous Universe, we note that the appearance of aggressively expanding advanced life is geometrically similar to the process of nucleation and bubble growth in a first-order cosmological phase transition. We exploit this similarity to describe the dynamics of life saturating the Universe on a cosmic scale, adapting the phase transition model to incorporate probability distributions of expansion and resource consumption strategies. Through a series of numerical solutions spanning several orders of magnitude in the input assumption parameters, the resulting cosmological model is used to address basic questions related to the intergalactic spreading of life, dealing …

11-05-2015 Swosu Biology Students Present At Neuroscience International Meeting, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2015

Four Southwestern Oklahoma State University biology students and mentor Dr. Andrea Holgado recently presented at the 45th annual International Neuroscience meeting in Chicago.

Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (Chip) Assay For Detecting Direct And Indirect Protein -Dna Interactions In Magnaporthe Oryzae, Gang Li, Margarita Marroquin-Guzman, Richard A. Wilson

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a powerful technology for analyzing protein-DNA interactions in cells. Robust ChIP procedures have been established for investigating direct interactions between protein and DNA. However, detecting indirect protein-DNA interactions in vivo is challenging. Recently, we used ChIP to analyze an indirect protein-DNA interaction between a putative histone demethylase, MoJmjC, and the promoter of the superoxide dismutase 1-encoding gene MoSOD1 in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (M. oryzae) (Fernandez et al., 2014). We tagged MoJmjC with the 3x FLAG epitope (Fernandez et al., 2014), instead of the larger and more commonly used GFP epitope, to mitigate …

Equation Of Motion Coupled Cluster Methods For Electron Attachment And Ionization Potential In Polyacenes, Kiran Bhaskaran-Nair, Karol Kowalski, Mark Jarrell, Juana Moreno, William A. Shelton

Faculty Publications

Polyacenes have attracted considerable attention due to their various applications in organic optoelectronic materials. This study focuses on linear polyacenes and their electron affinity (EA) and ionization potential (IP) properties. We have employed our recent implementation of EA/IP equation of motion coupled cluster singles and doubles (EA/IP-EOMCCSD) methods which are accurate, computationally efficient and are capable of treating large systems employing reasonable basis sets size. The EA/IP results obtained for naphthalene, anthracene, tetracene, pentacene, hexacene and heptacene are in a good agreement with experiment. Comparison between quality of excitation energies obtained from IP-EOMCCSD and EE-EOMCCSD formalisms were also studied.

Innovation Levers In Diagnostic Patents, Colleen Chien

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Chronicle For October 1, 2015, Pamela A. Schulze

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes of the regular meeting of The University of Akron Faculty Senate on October 1, 2015.