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The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

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The Missouri Miner, September 8, 2016

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

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The Murray Ledger And Times, September 8, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Prospective And Dyadic Associations Between Expectant Parents’ Prenatal Hormone Changes And Postpartum Parenting Outcomes, Robin S. Edelstein, William J. Chopik, Darby E. Saxbe, Britney M. Wardecker, Amy C. Moors, Onawa P. Labelle

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

During the transition to parenthood, both men and women experience hormone changes that are thought to promote parental care. Yet very few studies have explicitly tested the hypothesis that prenatal hormone changes are associated with postpartum parenting behavior. In a longitudinal study of 27 first-time expectant couples, we assessed whether prenatal hormone changes predicted self and partner-reported parenting outcomes at three months postpartum. Expectant fathers showed prenatal declines in testosterone and estradiol, and larger declines in these hormones predicted larger contributions to household and infant care tasks postpartum. Women whose partners showed larger testosterone declines also reported receiving more support …

The Lumberjack, September 7, 2016, The Lumberjack Staff

2016

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University

Tributyltin Exposure Alters Cytokine Levels In Mouse Serum, Shanieek Lawrence, Samuel T. Pellom Jr., Anil Shanker, Margaret M. Whalen

Chemistry Faculty Research

Tributyltin (TBT), a toxic environmental contaminant, has been widely utilized for various industrial, agricultural and household purposes. Its usage has led to a global contamination and its bioaccumulation in aquatic organisms and terrestrial mammals. Previous studies suggest that TBT has debilitating effects on the overall immune function of animals, rendering them more vulnerable to diseases. TBT (at concentrations that have been detected in human blood) alters secretion of inflammatory cytokines from human lymphocytes ex vivo. Thus, it is important to determine if specified levels of TBT can alter levels of cytokines in an in vivo system. Mice were exposed to …

The Anchor, Volume 130.02: September 7, 2016, Hope College

The Anchor: 2016

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Robert Addie V. Christian Kjaer

2016 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands

Montana Kaimin, September 7-13, 2016, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

The Collegian: September 07, 2016, The Collegian Staff

The Collegian, 2016-2017

Volume 132
Issue 3

Tequila-Cachaã§A Agreement Part Of Mexico’S And Brazil’S Effort To Expand Trade Relations, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Volume 112 Issue 2, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Aptitude For Discovery, Carrie Sherman

UNH Today Archive

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The Guardian, September 7, 2016, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Eight page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

A Species-Level Phylogeny Of Extant Snakes With Description Of A New Colubrid Subfamily And Genus, Alex Figueroa, Alexander D. Mckelvy, L. Lee Grismer, Charles D. Bell, Simon P. Lailvaux

Publications and Research

Background With over 3,500 species encompassing a diverse range of morphologies and ecologies, snakes make up 36% of squamate diversity. Despite several attempts at estimating higherlevel snake relationships and numerous assessments of generic- or species-level phylogenies, a large-scale species-level phylogeny solely focusing on snakes has not been completed. Here, we provide the largest-yet estimate of the snake tree of life using maximum likelihood on a supermatrix of 1745 taxa (1652 snake species + 7 outgroup taxa) and 9,523 base pairs from 10 loci (5 nuclear, 5 mitochondrial), including previously unsequenced genera (2) and species (61).

Results Increased taxon sampling resulted …

Joint Action And Action-Effect Association In A Movement Control Task, Jiuyang Bai

Theses and Dissertations

Interpersonal action coordination relies on an information channel between co-actors. Previous studies have shown that offline or online visual, auditory, and haptic information can facilitate joint action. However, most previous studies only investigated the information that is naturally meaningful in the task context. Few explanations have been given about the underlying mechanism of this facilitation effect. The current study was designed to investigate what makes the information useful in improving joint action performance. I argued that externally added information (action effects) can also facilitate joint action. According to the Theory of Event Coding (TEC), once the association between an action …

The Prognostic Capability And Molecular Function Of Duodenal Cytochrome B In Breast Cancer, David Lemler

Doctoral Dissertations

Iron is an essential growth factor and cofactor for multiple molecular functions in the human body. It is a reactive metal and in excess is capable of participating in Fenton reactions, generating reactive oxygen species and damaging cells. Patients with the iron overload disease hemochromatosis, are at increased risk of hepatic and other cancers. Due to the necessity and toxicity of iron, it is tightly regulated. Cancerous cells have an increased demand for iron and to meet these needs, regulation of iron import (upregulation of transferrin receptor) and export (downregulation of ferroportin) proteins is altered. Differential expression of these iron …

Assessing The Effect Of Mobile Word-Of-Mouth On Consumers : The Physical, Psychological And Social Influences, Juanyi Jiang

Lingnan Theses

Mobile technologies enable users to discover and research products anytime, anywhere. Mobile devices allow consumers to create and share content based on physical location, facilitate seamless interactions, and provide context-relevant information that can better satisfy users’ needs and enhance their shopping experience. As consumers increasingly rely on mobile devices to search information and purchase products, they need immediate, updated, informative and credible opinions in concise forms. Meanwhile, marketers face unprecedented opportunities for mobile marketing, making ever important for them to understand the mobile word-of-mouth and its effect on the purchase behaviors of consumers on the mobile platform vs. those on …

The Murray Ledger And Times, September 7, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Psychology Of Programming Interest Group (Ppig), Lj Stuart

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

This paper presents a study of how visualization tools and methods are used to support the study of computer programming. The purpose of this study was to establish whether visualization could be exploited more fully or more effectively to support this learning. Furthermore, if that were the case, then this study would aim to define the requirements of novice programmers. Greater understanding of the requirements of novice programmers is expected to steer this research towards finding better solutions to the challenges faced by students of programming. Visualisation tools are used in many academic institutions to support learning in many diverse …

Mind/Body “Hard Problem” Is Not A Category Error, Linda A.W. Brakel

Animal Sentience

Reber’s Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC) has much to recommend it. However, while the CBC effectively renders null any ontological gap between mind and body, it leaves two important remaining gaps unaddressed: the epistemologic and the causal gap. Brakel’s (2013) Diachronic Conjunctive Token Physicalism (DiCoToP) is briefly introduced as a beginning remedy for the epistemologic, but unfortunately not the causal, gap. Thus the “hard problem” remains both hard and problematic.

Phenomenal Consciousness In Insects? A Possible Way Forward, Brian Key

Animal Sentience

Klein & Barron (2016) propose that subjective experience in humans arises in the midbrain and then argue that insects have the capacity for subjective experience because their nervous system can perform neural processing similar to that of the midbrain. This approach ultimately fails because it is built on the false premise that the midbrain is the source of the awareness of sensory stimuli. I instead propose that the capacity for subjective experience must be based on fundamental neural computations that generate the “what it feels like” experience. Two such computations associated with metarepresentations and high level representations entering working memory …

Church And State; Toleration; Ethics Of Advocacy; Right To Work Laws; Aid To Education; The American Tradition; Censorship; Catholic Law Schools; The Eichmann Trial

The Catholic Lawyer

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The "Higher Law" Doctrine In Bracton And St. Thomas, Charles M. Whelan, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Nicotine Regulates Activity Of Lateral Habenula Neurons Via Presynaptic And Postsynaptic Mechanisms, Wanhong Zuo, Cheng Xiao, Ming Gao, F. Woodward Hopf, Kreå¡Imir Krnjeviä‡, J. Michael Mcintosh, Rao Fu, Jie Wu, Alex Bekker, Jiang Hong Ye

Translational Neuroscience

There is much interest in brain regions that drive nicotine intake in smokers. Interestingly, both the rewarding and aversive effects of nicotine are probably critical for sustaining nicotine addiction. The medial and lateral habenular (LHb) nuclei play important roles in processing aversion, and recent work has focused on the critical involvement of the LHb in encoding and responding to aversive stimuli. Several neurotransmitter systems are implicated in nicotine's actions, but very little is known about how nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) regulate LHb activity. Here we report in brain slices that activation of nAChRs depolarizes LHb cells and robustly increases firing, …

Columbia Chronicle (09/06/2016), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from September 6, 2016 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 48 pages and is listed as Volume 52, Issue 1. Cover story: "Convocation urges students to explore city, themselves'" Editor-in-Chief: Megan Bennett

New Paleontology Minor Offers Fossil And Earth History Experience, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Review Of Experimental Compounds Demonstrating Anti-Toxoplasma Activity, Madalyn M. Mcfarland, Sydney J. Zach, Xiaofang Wang, Lakshmi-Prasad Potluri, Andrew J. Neville, Jonathan L. Vennerstrom, Paul H. Davis

Biology Faculty Publications

Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous apicomplexan parasite capable of infecting humans and other animals. Current treatment options for T. gondii infection are limited and most have drawbacks, including high toxicity and low tolerability. Additionally, no FDA-approved treatments are available for pregnant women, a high-risk population due to transplacental infection. Therefore, the development of novel treatment options is needed. To aid this effort, this review highlights experimental compounds that, at a minimum, demonstrate inhibition of in vitro growth of T. gondii. When available, host cell toxicity and in vivo data are also discussed. The purpose of this review is to facilitate …

Polymeric Prodrug, David A. Puleo, Thomas D. Dziubla, Theodora Asafo-Adjei

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Patents

The presently-disclosed subject matter includes compounds that comprise an initiator and an active agent that is covalently bonded to the initiator through a ring-opening polymerization process, an atom-transfer radical polymerization process, a Michael addition reaction, or a ring-opening metathesis polymerization process. In some embodiments the active agent includes simvastatin. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes methods for making the compositions and methods for using the compositions to treat tissue wounds.