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Improving The Odds: Assessing Bait Availability Before Rodent Eradications To Aid In Selecting Bait Application Rates, Madeleine Pott, Alexander S. Wegmann, Richard Griffiths, Araceli Samaniego-Herrera, Richard J. Cuthbert, M. De L. Brooke, William C. Pitt, Are R. Berentsen, Nick D. Holmes, Gregg R. Howald, Karina Ramos-Rendon, James C. Russell Nov 2015

Improving The Odds: Assessing Bait Availability Before Rodent Eradications To Aid In Selecting Bait Application Rates, Madeleine Pott, Alexander S. Wegmann, Richard Griffiths, Araceli Samaniego-Herrera, Richard J. Cuthbert, M. De L. Brooke, William C. Pitt, Are R. Berentsen, Nick D. Holmes, Gregg R. Howald, Karina Ramos-Rendon, James C. Russell

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Rodent eradications undertaken on tropical islands are more likely to fail than eradications undertaken at higher latitudes. We report on 12 independent rodent eradication projects undertaken on tropical islands that utilized the results of an in situ bait availability study prior to eradication to inform, a priori, the bait application rate selected for the eradication. These projects also monitored bait availability during the eradication. The results from our analysis verified the utility of bait availability studies to future rodent eradication campaigns and confirmed the influence of two environmental factors that can affect bait availability over time: precipitation prior to the …

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Effects Of Prenatal Environment Are Revealed By Post-Natal Challenges: Embryonic Hormone Exposure, Adrenocortical Function And Food In Seabird Chicks, Z. Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks, Jannik Schultner, Alexander S. Kitaysky Nov 2015

Effects Of Prenatal Environment Are Revealed By Post-Natal Challenges: Embryonic Hormone Exposure, Adrenocortical Function And Food In Seabird Chicks, Z. Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks, Jannik Schultner, Alexander S. Kitaysky

Faculty Journal Articles

The interaction between prenatal environments and postnatal environments is an important source of phenotypic variability. We examined the ability of prenatal steroid exposure and postnatal energy restriction to explain adrenocortical function and fledging age in captive seabird chicks. We proposed and tested two hypotheses: (1) the strength of prenatal effects is attenuated by challenging postnatal environments (postnatal override) and (2) the strength of prenatal effects increases with the severity of postnatal challenges (postnatal reveal). We reared common murre (Uria aalge) chicks and measured prenatal exposure to corticosterone (CORT) and testosterone (T) from allantoic waste. Adrenocortical function was assessed after 10 …

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Dna-Mediated Excitonic Upconversion Fret Switching, Donald L. Kellis, Sarah M. Rehn, Brittany L. Cannon, Paul H. Davis, Elton Graugnard, Jeunghoon Lee, Bernard Yurke, William B. Knowlton Nov 2015

Dna-Mediated Excitonic Upconversion Fret Switching, Donald L. Kellis, Sarah M. Rehn, Brittany L. Cannon, Paul H. Davis, Elton Graugnard, Jeunghoon Lee, Bernard Yurke, William B. Knowlton

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Excitonics is a rapidly expanding field of nanophotonics in which the harvesting of photons, ensuing creation and transport of excitons via Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET), and subsequent charge separation or photon emission has led to the demonstration of excitonic wires, switches, Boolean logic and light harvesting antennas for many applications. FRET funnels excitons down an energy gradient resulting in energy loss with each step along the pathway. Conversely, excitonic energy upconversion via upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), although currently inefficient, serves as an energy ratchet to boost the exciton energy. Although FRET-based upconversion has been demonstrated, it suffers from low FRET …

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The Effects Of Thujone On The Function Of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Ahmed Salaheldin Mustafa Ali Sultan Nov 2015

The Effects Of Thujone On The Function Of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Ahmed Salaheldin Mustafa Ali Sultan

Theses

Thujone is a natural compound found in plants such as “wormwood” and “sage” and it’s also found in the alcoholic drink “Absinthe”. Thujone has been suggested as a neurotoxic compound and reported to modulate GABAA receptors. In this study, we investigated the pharmacology of Thujone on nicotinic receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes using the two electrode voltage clamp method. Thujone (100μM) caused an 80% inhibition of Acetylcholine (ACh) induced currents in human α7-nAChRs expressed in frog oocytes while only 30% inhibition currents in α4β2 expressed oocytes and no effect on α3β4, α3β2 and α4β4 nAChRs. The mechanisms of Thujone effect …

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Assessment Of Scientific Graphical Literacy Of 10th Grade Students In Al-Ain Educational Office, United Arab Emirates, Sarah Elheir Elhassan Hamad Nov 2015

Assessment Of Scientific Graphical Literacy Of 10th Grade Students In Al-Ain Educational Office, United Arab Emirates, Sarah Elheir Elhassan Hamad

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the scientific graphical literacy level of the 10th grade science students, and explore the extent to which students at 10th grade have the essential skills to process and interpret visual scientific graphs in the private and public schools in Al Ain educational Zone. This study was exploratory survey design in which an attempt was made to explore student understanding of scientific graphs. A Graphical Literacy Test was developed for this study to evaluate the student ability to interpret, and construct graphical information. 125 grade10th science students participated in the present study. Sixty …

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Predicting Subjective Well-Being Using Social Support And Mindfulness For United Arab Emirates University Students, Sarah El Nabulsi Nov 2015

Predicting Subjective Well-Being Using Social Support And Mindfulness For United Arab Emirates University Students, Sarah El Nabulsi

Theses

This thesis is concerned with assessing the psychological well-being of the United Arab Emirates University students’ community and predicting the integral factors that significantly contribute to it. Existing studies have explored pathologies such as depression and anxiety in an attempt to deduce knowledge indispensable to clinical interventions. This study deals with what the individuals with high psychological well-being are doing well and takes this knowledge to inform clinical interventions. In this context, it is noteworthy to argue that this thesis is one of the pioneering studies involving a predominantly local population, which allows for more successful and more culturally sensitive …

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Human Action Recognition In Unconstrained Videos By Explicit Motion Modeling, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qi Dai, Wei Liu, Xiangyang Xue, Chong-Wah Ngo Nov 2015

Human Action Recognition In Unconstrained Videos By Explicit Motion Modeling, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qi Dai, Wei Liu, Xiangyang Xue, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Human action recognition in unconstrained videos is a challenging problem with many applications. Most state-of-the-art approaches adopted the well-known bag-of-features representations, generated based on isolated local patches or patch trajectories, where motion patterns, such as object-object and object-background relationships are mostly discarded. In this paper, we propose a simple representation aiming at modeling these motion relationships. We adopt global and local reference points to explicitly characterize motion information, so that the final representation is more robust to camera movements, which widely exist in unconstrained videos. Our approach operates on the top of visual codewords generated on dense local patch trajectories, …

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Event Detection In Wireless Sensor Networks In Random Spatial Sensors Deployments, Pengfei Zhang, Ido Nevat, Gareth W. Peters, Gaoxi Xiao, Hwee-Pink Tan Nov 2015

Event Detection In Wireless Sensor Networks In Random Spatial Sensors Deployments, Pengfei Zhang, Ido Nevat, Gareth W. Peters, Gaoxi Xiao, Hwee-Pink Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We develop a new class of event detection algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks where the sensors are randomly deployed spatially. We formulate the detection problem as a binary hypothesis testing problem and design the optimal decision rules for two scenarios, namely the Poisson Point Process and Binomial Point Process random deployments. To calculate the intractable marginal likelihood density, we develop three types of series expansion methods which are based on an Askey-orthogonal polynomials. In addition, we develop a novel framework to provide guidance on which series expansion is most suitable (i.e., most accurate) to use for different system parameters. Extensive …

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Modelling Cascades Over Time In Microblogs, Xie Wei, Feida Zhu, Siyuan Liu, Ke Wang Nov 2015

Modelling Cascades Over Time In Microblogs, Xie Wei, Feida Zhu, Siyuan Liu, Ke Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

One of the most important features of microblogging services such as Twitter is how easy it is to re-share a piece of information across the network through various user connections, forming what we call a "cascade". Business applications such as viral marketing have driven a tremendous amount of research effort predicting whether a certain cascade will go viral. Yet the rarity of viral cascades in real data poses a challenge to all existing prediction methods. One solution is to simulate cascades that well fit the real viral ones, which requires our ability to tell how a certain cascade grows over …

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Stereotypic Mice Are Aggressed By Their Cage-Mates, And Tend To Be Poor Demonstrators In Social Learning Tasks, L Harper, E Choleris, K Ervin, C Fureix, Et Al Nov 2015

Stereotypic Mice Are Aggressed By Their Cage-Mates, And Tend To Be Poor Demonstrators In Social Learning Tasks, L Harper, E Choleris, K Ervin, C Fureix, Et Al

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Stereotypic behaviours (SBs) are linked with behavioural inflexibility and resemble symptoms of autism, suggesting that stereotypic animals could have autistic-like social impairments. SBs are also common in caged mice. We therefore hypothesised relationships between stereotypic and social behaviours, predicting that highly stereotypic mice would give/receive more agonism and be less effective in social learning tasks. Experiment One used C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice in non-enriched or enriched housing (15 cages each); Experiment Two, more cages (six non-enriched, 44 enriched) plus a third strain (BALB/c). Across both experiments, enrichment reduced SB and agonism (aggression, plus ‘displacements’ where one mouse supplants another at …

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Rapid Liana Colonization Along A Secondary Forest Chronosequence, Kathryn E. Barry, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Michiel Van Breugel, Jefferson S. Hall Nov 2015

Rapid Liana Colonization Along A Secondary Forest Chronosequence, Kathryn E. Barry, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Michiel Van Breugel, Jefferson S. Hall

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Lianas (woody vines) can have profound effects on tree recruitment, growth, survival, and diversity in tropical forests. However, the dynamics of liana colonization soon after land abandonment are poorly understood, and thus it is unknown whether lianas alter tree regeneration early in succession. We examined the liana community in 43 forests that ranged from 1 to 31 yr old in central Panama to determine how fast lianas colonize young forests and how the liana community changes with forest succession. We found that lianas reached high densities early in succession, commonly exceeding 1000 stems/ha within the first 5 yr of forest …

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Huntington’S Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid Seeds Aggregation Of Mutant Huntingtin, Z. Tan, W. Dai, Theo G.M. Van Erp, J. Overman, A. Demuro, M. A. Digman, A. Hatami, R. Albay, Emily M. Sontag, K. T. Potkin, S. Ling, F. Macciardi, W. E. Bunney, J. D. Long, J. S. Paulsen, J. M. Ringman, I. Parker, Charles G. Glabe, L. M. Thompson, W. Chiu, Steven G. Potkin Nov 2015

Huntington’S Disease Cerebrospinal Fluid Seeds Aggregation Of Mutant Huntingtin, Z. Tan, W. Dai, Theo G.M. Van Erp, J. Overman, A. Demuro, M. A. Digman, A. Hatami, R. Albay, Emily M. Sontag, K. T. Potkin, S. Ling, F. Macciardi, W. E. Bunney, J. D. Long, J. S. Paulsen, J. M. Ringman, I. Parker, Charles G. Glabe, L. M. Thompson, W. Chiu, Steven G. Potkin

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Huntington’s disease (HD), a progressive neurodegenerative disease, is caused by an expanded CAG triplet repeat producing a mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT) with a polyglutamine-repeat expansion. Onset of symptoms in mutant huntingtin gene-carrying individuals remains unpredictable. We report that synthetic polyglutamine oligomers and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from BACHD transgenic rats and from human HD subjects can seed mutant huntingtin aggregation in a cell model and its cell lysate. Our studies demonstrate that seeding requires the mutant huntingtin template and may reflect an underlying prion-like protein propagation mechanism. Light and cryo-electron microscopy show that synthetic seeds nucleate and enhance mutant huntingtin aggregation. …

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Living Arrangements And Psychological Well-Being Of The Elderly After The Economic Transition In Vietnam, Ken Yamada, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan Nov 2015

Living Arrangements And Psychological Well-Being Of The Elderly After The Economic Transition In Vietnam, Ken Yamada, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Objectives: We examine the relationship between living arrangements and psychological well-being of the older adults in Vietnam, where there is an influence of Confucian values and a lack of close substitutes for family care of the older adults, by exploiting a great deal of regional variation in economic development. We also examine the role of living arrangements in well-being differentials across regions. Method: We estimate a triangular simultaneous-equation discrete-response model, which accounts for the simultaneity between living arrangements and psychological well-being (happiness, depression, loneliness, poor appetite, and sleep disorder), using a nationally representative sample of 2,225 adults aged 60 and …

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Identification Of Arabidopsis Candidate Genes In Response To Biotic And Abiotic Stresses Using Comparative Microarrays, Salma Omar Al Ameri Nov 2015

Identification Of Arabidopsis Candidate Genes In Response To Biotic And Abiotic Stresses Using Comparative Microarrays, Salma Omar Al Ameri

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Plants have evolved with intricate mechanisms to cope with multiple environmental stresses. To adapt with biotic and abiotic stresses, plant responses involve changes at the cellular and molecular levels. The current study was designed to investigate the effects of combinations of different environmental stresses on the transcriptome level of Arabidopsis thaliana genome using public microarray databases. We investigated the role of cyclopentenones in mediating plant responses to environmental stress through TGA (TGACG motif-binding factor) transcription factor, independently from jasmonic acid. Candidate genes were identified by comparing plants inoculated with Botrytis cinerea or treated with heat, salt or osmotic stress with …

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Anti-Colon Cancer Activity Of Origanum Majorana, Nedaa Faisal Al Tamimi Nov 2015

Anti-Colon Cancer Activity Of Origanum Majorana, Nedaa Faisal Al Tamimi

Theses

In the present project, we extend the previous studies of Origanum majorana by evaluating the anti-cancer potential of this plant extract on proliferation of colon cancer. Toward this, we first evaluated the effect of the plant extract on the proliferation and DNA damage, in vitro, of the human colon cancer HT-29 cell line. We also determine the mechanism by which Origanum majorana induced cell death by this extract using biochemical approach. Our results revealed that O. majorana inhibited the growth of HT-29 cells by effecting the cells viability. Further work showed the ability of the extract to cause DNA damage, …

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Modeling And Experimental Study Of Carbon Dioxide Absorption/Stripping In Gas Liquid Membrane Contactor, Nihmiya Abdul Rahim Nov 2015

Modeling And Experimental Study Of Carbon Dioxide Absorption/Stripping In Gas Liquid Membrane Contactor, Nihmiya Abdul Rahim

Dissertations

Natural gas consists primarily of methane (CH4) but it also contains considerable amounts of contaminating compounds mainly carbon dioxide (CO2). The presence of CO2 reduces the heating value of the gas and due to its acidic character causes several operational problems. Hence the removal of CO2 from natural gas is crucially important. The focus of this research work is to investigate the potential for the energy efficient and effective separation of CO2/CH4 gas mixture via lean solvent and regenerating of the rich solvent through absorption/stripping mechanism taking place in a hollow fiber gas liquid membrane contactor process (GLMC) which combines …

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Sweet Love: The Effects Of Sweet Taste Experience On Romantic Perceptions, Ren Dongning, Kenneth Tan, Ximena B. Arriaga, Kai Qin Chan Nov 2015

Sweet Love: The Effects Of Sweet Taste Experience On Romantic Perceptions, Ren Dongning, Kenneth Tan, Ximena B. Arriaga, Kai Qin Chan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Terms of endearment such as sweetie, honey, and sugar are commonly used in the context of describing romantic partners. This article explores how a relatively subtle manipulation, namely taste sensations, might influence romantic perceptions of a nonestablished relationship. Consistent with predictions, results from Studies 1 and 2 (n = 280) showed that participants evaluated a hypothetical relationship, but not an existing relationship, more favorably when exposed to sweet taste compared to non-sweet taste control. Study 3 (n = 142) further showed that participants indicated greater interest in initiating a relationship with a potential partner when exposed to sweet taste, as …

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Butterfly Eyespots: Their Potential Influence On Aesthetic Preferences And Conservation Attitudes, Zoi Manesi, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Thomas V. Pollet Nov 2015

Butterfly Eyespots: Their Potential Influence On Aesthetic Preferences And Conservation Attitudes, Zoi Manesi, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Thomas V. Pollet

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Research has shown that the mere presence of stimuli that resemble eyes is sufficient to attract attention, elicit aesthetic responses, and can even enhance prosocial behavior. However, it is less clear whether eye-like stimuli could also be used as a tool for nature conservation. Several animal species, including butterflies, develop eye-like markings that are known as eyespots. In the present research, we explored whether the mere display of eyespots on butterfly wings can enhance: (a) liking for a butterfly species, and (b) attitudes and behaviors towards conservation of a butterfly species. Four online experimental studies, involving 613 participants, demonstrated that …

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A How-To Guide To Single-Parent Ministry: An Inside Look To The Single Parent World In The Christian Community, John E. Walker Ii Nov 2015

A How-To Guide To Single-Parent Ministry: An Inside Look To The Single Parent World In The Christian Community, John E. Walker Ii

Senior Honors Theses

The status of the family dynamic in the church has changed significantly, but the cultural understanding of ministers regarding the dynamic has changed little to none. As a result, the church’s ministry has become ineffective to the single-parent community because of ignorance. The goal of this thesis is to help educate Christian ministers and lay staff on the single-parent family condition and ministry opportunities to serve this demographic. This proposition includes information gained from interviews of single-parents, and ministers with experience regarding single-parents by someone with a single-parent upbringing. Overall, the single-parents interviewed stated that the Christian church is missing …

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An Examination Of The Relationship Between Instructional Technology Integration And Student Achievement, Carla Holt Nov 2015

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Instructional Technology Integration And Student Achievement, Carla Holt

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This correlational, causal-comparative research study examined the relationships between secondary career and technical education teachers’ gender, experience, professional development and their perceptions of technology use. The research also investigated how the teachers in this study perceive the adequacy of their student’s technology skills for meeting college and workplace demands. Eighty-four career and technical education teachers in six North Carolina high schools completed the School Technology Needs Assessment Survey 4.0 (STNA), which also included demographic questions that asked about age, gender and years of experience. A two sample t test, correlation analysis and multiple linear regression were performed. The results of …

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A Phenomenological Study Of Public School Biology Teachers Who Believe In The Literal Genesis Account Of Creation, Eric Dougherty Nov 2015

A Phenomenological Study Of Public School Biology Teachers Who Believe In The Literal Genesis Account Of Creation, Eric Dougherty

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

he purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the experiences of Christian public high school biology teachers who believe in a literal, young earth account of creation as revealed in the book of Genesis. There is a gap in the literature regarding understanding the teaching experiences of Christians who believe in a strict interpretation of the biblical book of Genesis. This study was conducted by interviewing 11 Christian public school biology teachers from multiple states who met the criteria for being identified as young earth creationists. Data were also collected through a focus group and reflective vignettes. Data were …

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How Science Teachers Balance Religion And Evolution In The Science Classroom: A Case Study Of Science Classes In A Florida Public School District, Pierre Willems Nov 2015

How Science Teachers Balance Religion And Evolution In The Science Classroom: A Case Study Of Science Classes In A Florida Public School District, Pierre Willems

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this case study was to research how science teachers balance both religion and evolution in the science classroom with as little controversy as possible. In this study I attempted to provide some insight on how teachers are currently teaching evolution in their science classes in light of the religious beliefs of the students as well as their own. The case study was conducted in a school district in Florida where I attempted to answer the following questions: (a) How do science teachers in the Florida School District (FSD) approach the religion–evolution issue in preparing students for a …

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The Genesis Of 'Hungarism': Bishop Ottokár Prohászka And The Extremist Right In 1920s Hungary, Csaba Fazekas Nov 2015

The Genesis Of 'Hungarism': Bishop Ottokár Prohászka And The Extremist Right In 1920s Hungary, Csaba Fazekas

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Ottokár Prohászka (1858–1927) was a famous and well-known Hungarian Catholic cleric, starting from 1905, when he became bishop of Székesfehérvár. His life and works often got into the center of discussions, not only among historians and ecclesiastical circles, but also among politicians. At the beginning of the 20th century, Prohászka was also extremely popular with liberals, as his activities represented a promise to renew and modernize Catholicism. Prohászka imagined this modernization on the basis of the social principles of Catholicism, and considered the spread of a “Jewish” mentality, alien to the Hungarian nation, as the fundamental problem.

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Comparing Antiproliferative And Proapoptotic Effects Of The Pan-Deacetylase Inhibitor Panobinostat With Doxorubicin On Hepg2 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Line, Neimat Abd Elhakam Elmetwaly, Mona Younis Youssef, Amal Abd Elhameed Mohammad, Karawan Mohammad Abd Elrahman, Farida Hanem Mohammad Ali Elbanna Nov 2015

Comparing Antiproliferative And Proapoptotic Effects Of The Pan-Deacetylase Inhibitor Panobinostat With Doxorubicin On Hepg2 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Line, Neimat Abd Elhakam Elmetwaly, Mona Younis Youssef, Amal Abd Elhameed Mohammad, Karawan Mohammad Abd Elrahman, Farida Hanem Mohammad Ali Elbanna

Mansoura Medical Journal

Panobinostat is a new histone deacetylaseinhibitor approved fortreatmentof advanced multiple myeloma.In this study we compare itseffectswith doxorubicin which is alreadyused for trans-arterial chemoembolizationof hepatocellular carcinoma. Methods: anti-proliferativeand pro-apoptotic effects of panobinostatand doxorubicin are tested bymeasuringcell viability, P53, pd1 expressionand cell cycle analysis inHepG2cells cultured in suitable mediaand incubated with both drugs for24hours. Results:Panobinostat wasfoundto highly significantly induce apoptosis via increasing expressionof both P53 and pd1 and decreasecell viability and mitosis more thandoxorubicin. Conclusion: These resultssuggest that panobinostat maybea potent alternative to doxorubicinfortreatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Pdgfra Expression In Adult Astrocytoma And Its Relation To Cell Cycle Regulators; P53 And Cyclin D1, Afaf. T Ibrahiem, Hoda Saleh, Shaimaa M Yussif Nov 2015

Pdgfra Expression In Adult Astrocytoma And Its Relation To Cell Cycle Regulators; P53 And Cyclin D1, Afaf. T Ibrahiem, Hoda Saleh, Shaimaa M Yussif

Mansoura Medical Journal

Background: Over the past decadethere have been several attempttries for molecular classification ofCNStumors, also to identify biologicalmarkers that reflect the degree oftumourmalignancy. Such markersmightassist in identifying tumorswitha poor prognosis and applicationof new medical target therapy.Platelet-derived growth factor(PDGF) signalling has been shownto be a key regulator of glioma development.Clinical trials evaluating theefficacyof anti-PDGFRA therapiesongliomas are ongoing31Objectives: evaluation of PDGFRAprotein in adult astrocytoma as anew hope to use PDGFRA as biologicalprognostic marker and possi- bility of using anti PDGFRA as a targettherapy in astrocytoma. Also weaimedto correlate expression ofPDGFRAprotein to p53 and cyclinD1expression in astrocytoma.Material & Methods: well representativeparaffin embedded blocksof57 cases …

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Potential Effect Of Captopril, Valsartan On Nuclear Factor Kappa B And Lipid Peroxidation In Hepatic Ischemiareperfusion Injury In Rats., Sameh Abdel-Ghany, Hala Abdel-Malek Elashry, Maha Mohamad Ameen, Karawan Mohamed Abd-El Rhman, Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Fatah Yassin Nov 2015

Potential Effect Of Captopril, Valsartan On Nuclear Factor Kappa B And Lipid Peroxidation In Hepatic Ischemiareperfusion Injury In Rats., Sameh Abdel-Ghany, Hala Abdel-Malek Elashry, Maha Mohamad Ameen, Karawan Mohamed Abd-El Rhman, Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Fatah Yassin

Mansoura Medical Journal

objectives: to evaluate hepatoprotectiveeffect of captopril, valsartaninhepatic ischemia-reperfusion injuryby assessing nuclear factor kappaB(NF-κB)and lipid peroxidation. Method: Twenty four rats wererandomly divided into four groups,sham-operated group (controlgroup), ischemia-reperfusion model(I/R group), IR with pretreated captopril7 days before surgery(CAPgroup)and IR with pretreated valsartan7days before surgery(VAL group)3hafter induction of IR. Assay of serumliver enzymes alanine transaminase(ALT), aspartate transaminase (AST), serum tumor necrosis factoralpha(TNF- α)and interleukin – beta(IL-1β)as well as superoxide dismutase(SOD), malondialdehyde (MDA)inliver homogenates and liver NF-κBimmunohistochemicalanalysis andhepaticpathology were evaluated insacrificedrats after 3 hours of inductionof IR. Results: There was in IR group < br />decrease of SOD and increase ofMDA levels in liver homogenates 3hours …

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The Joy Of Combining Librarianship And Motherhood, Alexandra Gallin-Parisi Nov 2015

The Joy Of Combining Librarianship And Motherhood, Alexandra Gallin-Parisi

Library Faculty Research

While there is a rich literature about how academic faculty manage to balance work and family life, there is a surprising paucity of research centered on academic librarianship and motherhood. In this phenomenological study based on interviews, the lived experiences of 21 librarians who are also mothers of young children are explored. Six themes focused on the benefits and rewards of combining librarianship and motherhood emerge.

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Drugs For The Indigent: A Proposal To Revise The 340b Drug Pricing Program, Connor J. Baer Nov 2015

Drugs For The Indigent: A Proposal To Revise The 340b Drug Pricing Program, Connor J. Baer

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Genomic And Transcriptomic Evidence For Scavenging Of Diverse Organic Compounds By Widespread Deep-Sea Archaea, Meng Li, Brett J. Baker, Karthik Anantharaman, Sunit Jain, John A. Breier, Gregory J. Dick Nov 2015

Genomic And Transcriptomic Evidence For Scavenging Of Diverse Organic Compounds By Widespread Deep-Sea Archaea, Meng Li, Brett J. Baker, Karthik Anantharaman, Sunit Jain, John A. Breier, Gregory J. Dick

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Microbial activity is one of the most important processes to mediate the flux of organic carbon from the ocean surface to the seafloor. However, little is known about the microorganisms that underpin this key step of the global carbon cycle in the deep oceans. Here we present genomic and transcriptomic evidence that five ubiquitous archaeal groups actively use proteins, carbohydrates, fatty acids and lipids as sources of carbon and energy at depths ranging from 800 to 4,950 m in hydrothermal vent plumes and pelagic background seawater across three different ocean basins. Genome-enabled metabolic reconstructions and gene expression patterns show that …

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Class Notes Nov 2015

Class Notes

DePaul Magazine

Class notes for fall 2015, including a short article of Professor Emeritus Alexander Davis celebrating his 100th birthday, alumni event recaps, and DePaul Pride and photos.

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