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Deans' Council Meeting : 2016 : 05 : 18 : Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of The Regional Vice Chancellor For Academic Affairs.

Deans' Council

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The Soil Geochemistry In The Beardmore Glacier Region, Antarctica: Implications For Terrestrial Ecosystem History, William Berry Lyons, Kelly M. Deuerling, Kathleen A. Welch, Susan A. Welch, G. Michalski, W. W. Walters, U. Nielsen, D. H. Wall, I. Hogg, B. J. Adams

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

Although most models suggest continental Antarctica was covered by ice during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) it has been speculated that endemic species of soil invertebrates could have survived the Pleistocene at high elevation habitats protruding above the ice sheets. We analyzed a series of soil samples from different elevations at three locations along the Beardmore Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains (in order of increasing elevation): Ebony Ridge (ER), Cloudmaker (CM), and Meyer Desert (MD). Geochemical analyses show the MD soils, which were exposed during the LGM, were the least weathered compared to lower elevations, and also had the highest …

School Readiness In Urban Communities, Cree Brooks

Theses and Dissertations

The purposes of this exploratory investigation were to (a) ascertain school readiness influences of young children ages birth to three in the New Jersey Early Intervention System, (b) to analyze race and ethnicity trends of the children within the program, (c) and to see if individual race/ethnicity played a role in children’s school readiness. Publicly available data from the Department of Health/Division of Family Health Services / Early Intervention System was used to analyze two New Jersey counties, Camden County and Somerset County, and to identify amount of school readiness in early intervention results reported from 2013 to 2014. The …

Volume 53, Number 40: May 18, 2016, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Bone-Associated Gene Evolution And The Origin Of Flight In Birds, Joao P. Machado, Warren E. Johnson, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Guojie Zhang, Erich D. Jarvis, Stephen J. O'Brien, Agostinho Antunes

Biology Faculty Articles

Background

Bones have been subjected to considerable selective pressure throughout vertebrate evolution, such as occurred during the adaptations associated with the development of powered flight. Powered flight evolved independently in two extant clades of vertebrates, birds and bats. While this trait provided advantages such as in aerial foraging habits, escape from predators or long-distance travels, it also imposed great challenges, namely in the bone structure.

Results

We performed comparative genomic analyses of 89 bone-associated genes from 47 avian genomes (including 45 new), 39 mammalian, and 20 reptilian genomes, and demonstrate that birds, after correcting for multiple testing, have an almost …

Steinemer V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 43231

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Genetic Manipulation Of Putrescine Biosynthesis Reprograms The Cellular Transcriptome And The Metabolome., Andrew Francis Page, Leland J. Cseke, Rakesh Minocha, Swathi A. Turlapati, Gopi K. Podila, Alexander V. Ulanov, Zhong Li, Subhash C. Minocha

Faculty Publications

With the increasing interest in metabolic engineering of plants using genetic manipulation and gene editing technologies to enhance growth, nutritional value and environmental adaptation, a major concern is the potential of undesirable broad and distant effects of manipulating the target gene or metabolic step in the resulting plant. A comprehensive transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of the product may shed some useful light in this regard. The present study used these two techniques with plant cell cultures to analyze the effects of genetic manipulation of a single step in the biosynthesis of polyamines because of their well-known roles in plant growth, …

Spectator 2016-05-18, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

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Domestic Tranquility: The Goals Of Home Protection, Burke Bindbeutel

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

This Article proposes an explanation for the special place of the home by surveying the development of privacy jurisprudence and grounding that development in our political tradition. Our earliest conception of rights began with a kind of home protection. But then there was a crucial shift into the abstract realm of privacy. Legal home protection has evolved beyond a ceasefire between state and citizen. Where before it was enough to stay the government’s intrusion into the home, there is today a recognition of the value of the intimate association of free individuals and the trust in government which arises from …

Everybody's Vaping For The Weekend: Nicotine Addiction As A Workplace Disability, Matthew M. Allen

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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A Functional Approach To Copyright Policy, Robert E. Suggs

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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Defend And Protect: National Security Restrictions On Foreign Investments In The United States, Matthew Aglialoro

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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The Pelagic Plastic Problem, Ciera Dye

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

The ubiquitous plastic bag can claim the dubious distinction of ranking among the most abundant types of marine debris In the world’s oceans, plastic bags slowly degrade into small pieces, take an unknown amount of time to mineralize, and harm aquatic life at all depths and in all stages of the degradation process. Whales, sharks, and sea turtles regularly ingest whole floating plastic bags, mistaking them for prey, while sea birds and fish indiscriminately feed upon floating plastic particles. Encounters with floating plastic can also result in entanglement, impairing the mobility of aquatic creatures. Plastic bags cause additional environmental harm …

Environmental Organizations Wokring With Respect To Aquatic Nuisance Species In The Great Lakes Area, Jessica A. Lordi

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

The Great Lakes hold the largest freshwater system on Earth. Both a highly valuable and vulnerable asset, the United States and Canada have established myriad laws and agencies to protect against environmental degradation in the Great Lakes region. This Article discusses the organizations that preserve this precious resource. These organizations are not an exhaustive list and are limited to principle organizations working with respect to aquatic nuisance species in the Great Lakes. Here, the objective is to define the goals, administrative processes, and relations between all of these organizations. This Article relates these functions, based on prior environmental proceedings, to …

A Salmon Eye Lens On Climate Adaptation, Paul Stanton Kibel

Ocean and Coastal Law Journal

In terms of climate change law and policy, at present there are efforts underway at the state, federal and international levels to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These efforts to reduce GHG emissions (and thereby mitigate global warming and other climate changes resulting from such GHG emissions) are generally referred to as “climate mitigation” laws and policies. In addition to climate mitigation, however, there is increasing recognition that the global warming and climate changes resulting from past and present GHG emissions are happening now and will continue to happen for many decades to come, regardless of whether we are successful …

The Role Of Cholesterol And Sphingolipids In Glomerular Disease, Christopher E. Pedigo

Open Access Dissertations

Abnormalities in lipid metabolism can be observed in patients at all stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Most commonly, dyslipidemia is due to defects in cholesterol or sphingolipid metabolism. However, the exact mechanisms by which dyslipidemia contributes to or causes glomerular disease have not been well defined. To elucidate the role of dyslipidemia in podocytes, which are cells with an important role in glomerular function, we focused our interest on studying the mechanisms by which altered cholesterol and sphingolipid metabolism contributes to podocyte injury. As inflammation is highly prevalent in patients with CKD and inflammation was shown to contribute to …

Dibutyltin-Induced Alterations Of Interleukin 1beta Secretion From Human Immune Cells, Shyretha Brown, Shahin Tehrani, Margaret M. Whalen

Chemistry Faculty Research

Dibutyltin (DBT) is used to stabilize polyvinyl chloride plastics (including pipes that distribute drinking water) and as a de-worming agent in poultry. DBT is found in human blood, and DBT exposures alter the secretion of tumor necrosis factor alpha and interferon gamma from lymphocytes. Interleukin (IL)-1β is a proinflammatory cytokine that regulates cellular growth, tissue restoration and immune response regulation. IL-1β plays a role in increasing invasiveness of certain tumors. This study reveals that exposures to DBT (24 h, 48 h and 6 days) modify the secretion of IL-1β from increasingly reconstituted preparations of human immune cells (highly enriched human …

Exploring Potential Connections Between Parental Divorce, Deviance And Negative Child Outcomes: A Literature Review, Haley Robertson

Theses and Dissertations from 2016

Today, divorce is at an all-time high in the United States. Divorce not only impacts adults, but it greatly impacts children. The number of children affected by divorce has increased dramatically since the 1950s. Many studies over the years have linked juvenile delinquency, deviancy, and antisocial behavior to children who have experienced a parental divorce. I believe there is a connection between juvenile delinquency and parental divorce. In this paper, I will explore how existing research has proven that parental divorce and juvenile delinquency are connected. This article focuses on the impact of divorce on children through various characteristics such …

Ecology Of Conflict: Marine Food Supply Affects Human-Wildlife Interactions On Land, Kyle A. Artelle, Sean Anderson, John D. Reynolds, Andrew B. Cooper, Paul C. Paquet, Chris T. Darimont

Human-Animal Interactions Collection

Human-wildlife conflicts impose considerable costs to people and wildlife worldwide. Most research focuses on proximate causes, offering limited generalizable understanding of ultimate drivers. We tested three competing hypotheses (problem individuals, regional population saturation, limited food supply) that relate to underlying processes of human-grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) conflict, using data from British Columbia, Canada, between 1960–2014. We found most support for the limited food supply hypothesis: in bear populations that feed on spawning salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), the annual number of bears/km2killed due to conflicts with humans increased by an average of 20% (6–32% [95% CI]) for each 50% …

Review: Living In Obscurity: Danté Fenolio – Life In The Dark., Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

The reduction and/or disappearance of phenotypic features is a biological phenomenon that has intrigued humans ever since prehistoric times. The earliest known anthropological representation of a creature showing the loss of phenotypic features dates back to ca. 22,000 YBP (Upper Paleolithic). It is a carved drawing of a wingless cave cricket, Troglophilus sp., on a bison (Bison bonasus) bone found in the Grotte des Trois Frères (Three Brothers Cave) in the central Pyrénées, France. Since then, we have witnessed how the study of organisms living in lightless environments went through a number of scientific historical periods. First was the age …

Resilient Rivers Hpr 132g, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

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Under The Sea, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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Sipper Plankton And Marine Snow Abundance And Distribution Data For The Northeastern Gulf Of Mexico: June 2012 – August 2014, Kendra L. Daly

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains seasonal and interannual marine snow, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and larval fish abundance and distributions collected from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico using the Shadowed Image Particle Profiling Evaluation Recorder (SIPPER). The purpose of the dataset is to assess the seasonal and interannual zooplankton abundance and distribution after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Tropical Trees As Islands: Diversity Accumulation Of Armored Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) On Trees As A Function Of Forest Age, Hannah Shapiro

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) are some of the most invasive insects in the world. These cryptic plant parasites are most often encountered in managed agricultural ecosystems, but very little is known about their distribution, abundance, and diversity in tropical rainforest canopies, where they are likely to have their highest diversity. Because these ubiquitous insects are extreme generalists with undirected dispersal, their diversity (alpha and beta) accumulation can conceivably be modeled according to tenets derived from island biogeography theory. For example, one expectation is that older established trees should boast a higher species diversity and abundance than younger ones. Other …

Student Participation In Coil Programs And Its Impact On Study Abroad Enrollment, Ashley E. Reed

Capstone Collection

This capstone paper delves into and exposes the impact of participating in the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) program has on students’ decision to study abroad. Focusing on State University of New York (SUNY) institutions, a survey was administered to 25 students who participated in a course which employed COIL principles or pedagogy in its design with the primary intent of discovering: 1) the demographics of who enrolled in the COIL courses, 2) why they enrolled, and 3) if their experience had any impact on their interest to study abroad. The survey employed methods which were largely quantitative in nature, …

The Transcription Factor Runx2 Regulates Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Expression In Melanoma., Rajeev K Boregowda, Daniel J Medina, Elke Markert, Michael A Bryan, Wenjin Chen, Suzie Chen, Anna Rabkin, Michael J Vido, Samuel I Gunderson, Marina Chekmareva, David J Foran, Ahmed Lasfar, James S Goydos, Karine A Cohen-Solal

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Receptor tyrosine kinases-based autocrine loops largely contribute to activate the MAPK and PI3K/AKT pathways in melanoma. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in generating these autocrine loops are still largely unknown. In the present study, we examine the role of the transcription factor RUNX2 in the regulation of receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) expression in melanoma. We have demonstrated that RUNX2-deficient melanoma cells display a significant decrease in three receptor tyrosine kinases, EGFR, IGF-1R and PDGFRβ. In addition, we found co-expression of RUNX2 and another RTK, AXL, in both melanoma cells and melanoma patient samples. We observed a decrease in phosphoAKT2 (S474) …

De-Westernizing The Far East, Jericho K. Kakaio-Edwards

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Isolated by the Tibetan highlands which frame Yunnan’s northwest fringes, the ethnic minorities who call the region home live in rural settings ranging from rice-terraced fields to tropical forests; lifestyle unchanged for hundreds of years. However, with globalization causing an exposure to western standards of living, in conjunction with the country’s predisposition towards all things foreign, the people of Yunnan have begun forgoing generations of vernacular architecture in favor of modern materials and regionally defunct construction methods. Here, we will seek to address this foible of architectural development by offering theoretical construction methods for housing types found throughout the region, …

Role Of Fire Severity In Controlling Patterns Of Stand Dominance Following Wildfire In Boreal Forests, Aditi Shenoy

Biological Sciences

Global trends of climate warming have been particularly pronounced in northern latitudes, and have been linked to an intensification of the fire regime in Arctic and boreal ecosystems. Increases in fire frequency, extent, and severity that have been observed over the past several decades are expected to continue under a warming climate. Severe fires can drastically reduce or remove the deep organic layers that accumulate in mature black spruce forests. Extensive studies in the boreal forests of interior Alaska and Canada have shown that parts of the landscape that undergo severe burning provide favorable seedbeds for the recruitment of deciduous …

Zooplankton Dry Weight Biomass Data For The Northeastern Gulf Of Mexico And West Florida Shelf: June 2012 – August 2014, Kendra L. Daly

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains zooplankton dry weight biomass calculated from samples collected during RV Weatherbird II and RV Bellows cruises from June 2012 to August 2014. Zooplankton was collected using towed bongo nets from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and the west Florida shelf. The contents of the dataset are an assessment of the seasonal and interannual changes in zooplankton biomass after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Landscape Sensitivity To Climate Change In Northern Alaska: Lessons From The Past, Benjamin V. Gaglioti

Geosciences

The climate is now changing rapidly at high-latitudes, and observing how the Arctic and sub-Arctic environment responded to prehistoric climate changes can hold valuable lessons as we adapt in the future. This dissertation presents four studies that use biogeochemical proxies to reconstruct environmental changes in northern Alaska over the last 40,000 years (40 ka). These records are used to infer how the environment responded to climate changes at different locations and over varying spatial and temporal scales. The first study presents a time series of stable oxygen isotopes contained in radiocarbon-dated (¹⁴C) willow wood to quantify the nature and rates …