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Composting, Food Waste, And Trust The Tap, Isabella Kaser, Jake Gilchrest Dudley

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Cry Of The Earth, Cry Of The Poor: "Laudato Si'" And Jesuit Higher Education, Daniel R. Dileo

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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A Theologian Looks At "Laudato Si'": An Interview With Elzabeth Johnson, C.S.J., By James P. Mccartin, James P. Mccartin

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Natura Revelata The Importance Of Nature In The Jesuit University: Reflections On Environmental Biology, The Liberal Arts, And Laudato Si', Catherine Kleier

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Cry Of The Earth, Cry Of The Poor: "Laudato Si'" And Jesuit Higher Education, Daniel R. Dileo

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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A Theologian Looks At "Laudato Si'": An Interview With Elzabeth Johnson, C.S.J., By James P. Mccartin, James P. Mccartin

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Catalyst Asia Issue 03, Institute For Societal Leadership

Catalyst Asia

STORIES FROM THE GROUND

Grooming The Bright But Underprivileged For A Better Future

A Gift From The Forest

No Ordinary Clinic

Helping The Most Vulnerable In A Thai Border Town

Fighting To Change The Fate Of Street Children In Vietnam

Voices That Must Not Be Forgotten

Giving Children A New Lease Of Life

Leading The Long Road To Recovery

Helping Girls In Myanmar Find Their Voices

Cambodia’s Growing Mental Health Problem

Saving Babies One At A Time

Gone Adventurin’ For Good

IN THE HOT SEAT

Rohingya – A Forgotten People

Want To Help, Will Travel

Coffee Against Cultural Colonisation

Empowering …

Microfluidic Platform For Electrophysiological Recordings From Host-Stage Hookworm And Ascaris Suum Larvae: A New Tool For Anthelmintic Research, Janis Weeks, William Roberts, Kristin Robinson, Melissa Keaney, Jon Vermiere, Joseph Urban, Shawn Lockery, John M. Hawdon

Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine Faculty Publications

The screening of candidate compounds and natural products for anthelmintic activity is important for discovering new drugs against human and animal parasites. We previously validated in Caenorhabditis elegans a microfluidic device (‘chip’) that records non-invasively the tiny electrophysiological signals generated by rhythmic contraction (pumping) of the worm's pharynx. These electropharyngeograms (EPGs) are recorded simultaneously from multiple worms per chip, providing a medium-throughput readout of muscular and neural activity that is especially useful for compounds targeting neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels. Microfluidic technologies have transformedC. elegans research and the goal of the current study was to validate hookworm andAscaris …

Airway Secretory Micrornaome Changes During Rhinovirus Infection In Early Childhood., M. Gutierrez, J. Gomez, Geovanny Perez, Krishna Pancham, Dinesh K. Pillai, M. Giri, S. Ferrante, Robert J. Freishtat, Mary C. Rose, Diego A. Preciado, Gustavo Nino

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND:

Innate immune responses are fine-tuned by small noncoding RNA molecules termed microRNAs (miRs) that modify gene expression in response to the environment. During acute infections, miRs can be secreted in extracellular vesicles (EV) to facilitate cell-to-cell genetic communication. The purpose of this study was to characterize the baseline population of miRs secreted in EVs in the airways of young children (airway secretory microRNAome) and examine the changes during rhinovirus (RV) infection, the most common cause of asthma exacerbations and the most important early risk factor for the development of asthma beyond childhood.

METHODS:

Nasal airway secretions were obtained from …

Cyp2c44 Gene Disruption Exacerbated Pulmonary Hypertension And Heart Failure In Female But Not Male Mice, Sachindra R. Joshi, Anand Lakhkar, Vidhi Dhagia, Ariadne Zias, Vasiliki Soldatos, Kaori Oshima, Houli Jiang, Katherine Gotlinger, Jorge H Capdevila, Michal L. Schwartzman, Ivan F. Mcmurtry, Sachin A. Gupte

NYMC Faculty Publications

Epoxyeicosatrienoicacids (EETs), synthesized from arachidonic acid by epoxygenases of the CYP2C and CYP2J gene subfamilies, contribute to hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) in mice. Despite their roles in HPV, it is controversial whether EETs mediate or ameliorate pulmonary hypertension (PH). A recent study showed that deficiency of Cyp2j did not protect male and female mice from hypoxia-induced PH. Since CYP2C44 is a functionally important epoxygenase, we hypothesized that knockout of the Cyp2c44 gene would protect both sexes of mice from hypoxia-induced PH. We tested this hypothesis in wild-type (WT) and Cyp2c44 knockout (Cyp2c44 (-/-)) mice exposed to normoxia (room air) and …

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Communication, Fall 2016, Richard Harrison

Libraries' Newsletters

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The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Judaic Studies, Fall 2016, Richard Harrison

Libraries' Newsletters

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The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Music, Fall 2016, Richard Harrison

Libraries' Newsletters

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Full Issue Vol. 36 No. 3

Swedish American Genealogist

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Concerning The Treatment Of Diabetes Before Insulin, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

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Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, And Masochism, Amber Jamilla Musser (2014), Octavio R. Gonzalez

Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Economic Contribution Of The Agricultural Sector To The Arkansas Economy In 1997-2014, Leah English, Jennie Popp, Wayne Miller

AAES Research Reports and Research Bulletins

Agricultural production, processing, and retail industries are major contributors to the Arkansas economy in terms of GDP. Agriculture contributes to the economy through direct agricultural production, value-added processing, and agricultural retail activities.

Corn Yield Loss Estimates Due To Diseases In The United States And Ontario, Canada From 2012 To 2015, Daren S. Mueller, Kiersten A. Wise, Adam J. Sisson, Tom W. Allen, Gary C. Bergstrom, D. Bruce Bosley, Carl A. Bradley, Kirk D. Broders, Emmanuel Byamukama, Martin I. Chilvers, Alyssa Collins, Travis R. Faske, Andrew J. Friskop, Ron W. Heiniger, Clayton A. Hollier, David C. Hooker, Tom Isakeit, Tamra A. Jackson-Ziems, Douglas J. Jardine, Heather M. Kelly, Kasia Kinzer, Steve R. Koenning, Dean K. Malvick, Marcia Mcmullen, Ron F. Meyer, Pierce A. Paul, Alison E. Robertson, Gregory W. Roth, Damon L. Smith, Connie A. Tande, Albert U. Tenuta, Paul Vincelli, Fred Warner

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Annual decreases in corn yield caused by diseases were estimated by surveying members of the Corn Disease Working Group in 22 corn-producing states in the United States and in Ontario, Canada, from 2012 through 2015. Estimated loss from each disease varied greatly by state and year. In general, foliar diseases such as northern corn leaf blight, gray leaf spot, and Goss’s wilt commonly caused the largest estimated yield loss in the northern United States and Ontario during nondrought years. Fusarium stalk rot and plant-parasitic nematodes caused the most estimated loss in the southern-most United States. The estimated mean economic loss …

Evolution Of Special Ruled Surfaces Via The Evolution Of Their Directrices In Euclidean 3-Space E3, R. A. Hussien, Taha Youssef

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, evolutions of ruled surfaces that are generated by the normal and binormal vector fields of space curve (normal and binormal surfaces) are presented. These evolutions of the ruled surfaces depend on the evolutions of their directrices. Geometric visualization of these ruled surfaces are presented. In addition, the conditions which make these surfaces of types inextensible, developable and minimal are obtained.

Co-Dynamics Of Trypanosomiasis And Cryptosporidiosis, Kazeem Oare Okosun, Mirirai Mukamuri, Oluwole Daniel Makinde

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper a mathematical model for trypanosomiasis-cryptosporidium co-infection dynamics is investigated to give a theoretical mathematical account of the impact of cryptosporidiosis on trypanosomiasis dynamics. The model steady states are analyzed. The disease-free equilibrium is shown to be locally asymptotically stable when the associated epidemic basic reproduction number for the model is less than unity. The trypanosomiasis only and the cryptosporidiosis only model are each found to exhibit transcritical and backward bifurcation phenomena respectively. While the co-infection model exhibits the possibility of multiple endemic equilibria. From the sensitivity analysis, the trypanosomiasis reproductive number Rlt 0 is more sensitive to …

Numerical Study Of Heat Exchange In Human Body Through Clothes And Thermal Stability Of Biological Tissues, Aijaz A. Najar, M. A. Khanday

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The change in ambient temperature plays a key role in body thermoregulation. The use of protective layer (clothes) has not only ethical values but also acts as a shield to combat with the severe environmental conditions. A mathematical model on bioheat transfer has been formulated with appropriate diffusing and matching conditions at the dermal layers and the protective layer. The finite difference scheme has been employed to solve the model and the conditions for the thermal stability of tissue temperatures were illustrated using MATLAB and FlexPDE software’s. The results obtained are applicable to a wide range of problems to maintain …

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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2016-2017 Bic Teaching Guide, Marta Moore Editor

Book in Common

Teaching guide for the 2016-2017 Book-in-Common: The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman.

From The Editor: Caring For Our Common Home - We're Doing Well, Edward W. Schmidt S.J.

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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On Care For Our Common Home: A Conversation Among Creatures, Elizabeth Groppe

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Composting, Food Waste, And Trust The Tap, Isabella Kaser, Jake Gilchrest Dudley

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Daily Devotions For The Deaf, September-December 2016

Daily Devotions for the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Council Bluffs, IA

Daily Devotions for the Deaf Finding Aid

On Care For Our Common Home: A Conversation Among Creatures, Elizabeth Groppe

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Aquilegia Volume 40 No. 2 Annual Conference Issue 2016 Annual Conference 2016; Forty Years Of Change: Plants, People, Places, Jan Loechell Turner, Charlie Turner, Linda Smith, Nan Daniels, Jen Bousselot

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

The CoNPS Annual Conference is the primary state gathering and annual fund-raiser for the Colorado Native Plant Society, a non-profit organization. Proceeds from the conference support CoNPS’ wide-ranging projects including education, conservation, native plant gardening, and botanical and horticultural publications and activities.

Riparian Fuel Treatments In The Western Usa: Challenges And Considerations, Kathleen A. Dwire, Kristen E. Meyer, Gregg Riegel, Timothy Burton

Joint Fire Science Program Synthesis Reports

Fuel reduction treatments are being conducted throughout watersheds of the western United States to reduce hazardous fuels in efforts to decrease the risk of high-severity fire. The number of fuel reduction projects that include near-stream environments is increasing, bringing new challenges to riparian management. Riparian areas are protected by administrative regulations, some of which are largely custodial and restrict active management. However, riparian areas have also been affected by fire suppression, land use, and human disturbance, so manipulative treatments of vegetation and other fuels may be needed in some locations to maintain riparian biodiversity and restore valued functions. This report …