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Health Services Foundation Awards $1.5 Million In General Endowment Fund Grants, Kendra Carter

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Be Students Attend Bmes Conference | Biological Engineering, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is a society of professionals devoted to developing and using engineering and technology to advancing human health and well-being. This year students from the Biological Engineering department at Utah State University attended the annual BMES conference. Here is what one of our students, Ian Wadsworth had to say about the conference.

The Diamond, November 2, 2016, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Culture Shock: More Than a Language or Behavior; Library: Thou Shalt, or Thou Shalt Not?; Police Shut Down Halloween Dance
• News: Recycling at Dordt: Reuse or Abuse?; Faculty Adoptions Continue with Baarts' Newest Addition; Nanoparticles: The Future of Oil Spills; Dordt Goes Digital with Student Feedback; Publish or Perish: What Happens When Funding Drives Science; Colony Collapse Disorder of Unknown Causes; Hunting for Graduate Schools; Ag and Admissions Departments Recruit at National FFA Convention; Living Gluten-Free in the Dordt Commons; Schiaparelli Landing Dashes Hopes, Dreams and Mars Rover; Debate Spikes Around Teachers and Concealed Carry
• Features: Provost Eric …

Campus Chronicle, Caleb Brendlinger, Bailey Brooker, Ryan Burger, Emily Kuebler, Samantha Watsabaugh, Andy Langager

Campus Chronicle

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Resistance Of Escherichia Coli From Rectal Swab Culture In Hemato-Oncology Wards, Dr. Soetomo Hospital, Surabaya, Rahmi Rusanti, Igaa Putri Sri Rejeki

Folia Medica Indonesiana

Malignant hematology patients in the hospital are particularly susceptible to infection associated with endogenous microorganism originating from their own body. The most common etiology of infection is bacteria from gastrointestinal tract. Escherichia coli is a gram-negative facultative anaerobic bacteria, and part of the intestinal normal flora. However, E. coli is the most common cause of nosocomial infection. Resistance of E. coli to antibiotics has been widely reported. The aim of this study was to identify the development of antibiotic resistant properties of Escherichia coli from rectal swab of malignant hematology pediatric patients. A descriptive study of collected secondary data on …

Daily Eastern News: November 02, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Magazine Influence On Body Dissatisfaction: Fashion Vs. Health?, Paulina Swiatkowski

Faculty Publications

Fashion magazines have been shown to have a negative relationship with body dissatisfaction and psychological health, while the effects of health magazines on body dissatisfaction and psychological health have mainly been studied with men. However, because of gender differences, health magazine consumption effects on men cannot be applied equally to women. Therefore, the present study uses sociocultural theory to study health magazine and possible similarities to fashion magazine effects on women’s body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness. Sociocultural attitude toward appearance is then explored as a mediator and potential moderator in the established relationship between magazine consumption and psychological health, …

November 2, 2016 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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Morris Holds Fourth Founders Scholar Forum On The Liberal Arts, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The fourth annual Founders Scholar Forum on the Liberal Arts will take place on Tuesday, November 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities Fine Arts Recital Hall. The topic for the forum is “Making the Case for the Liberal Arts: So You Want to Change the World?”

Syndepositional Diagenetic Control Of Molybdenum Isotope Variations In Carbonate Sediments From The Bahamas, Stephen J. Romaniello, Achim D. Herrmann, Ariel D. Anbar

Faculty Publications

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Molybdenum (Mo) isotope variations recorded in black shales provide important constraints on marine paleoredox conditions. However, suitable shales are not ubiquitous in the geologic record. Moreover, reliable reconstruction of Mo isotope records from shales requires deposition from a water column containing very high concentrations of sulfide-a condition which is both rare and difficult to verify with certainty when examining preserved sediments. The utility of Mo isotopic records could be improved if reconstructions were possible using alternative lithologies, such as marine carbonates, which are more abundant in the geologic record.Here, we focus on the role of early …

Video Capture And Post-Processing Technique For Approximating 3d Projectile Trajectory, Chase M. Pfeifer, Judith M. Burnfield, Guilherme M. Cesar, Max H. Twedt, Jeff A. Hawks

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Faculty Publications

In this paper we introduce a low-cost procedure and methodology for markerless projectile tracking in three-dimensional (3D) space. Understanding the 3D trajectory of an object in flight can often be essential in examining variables relating to launch and landing conditions. Many systems exist to track the 3D motion of projectiles but are often constrained by space or the type of object the system can recognize (Qualisys, Göteborg, Sweden; Vicon, Oxford, United Kingdom; Opti-Track, Corvallis, Oregon USA; Motion Analysis, Santa Rosa, California USA; Flight Scope, Orlando, Florida USA). These technologies can also be quite expensive, often costing hundreds of thousand dollars. …

Identification Of Hot Spots In Protein Structures Using Gaussian Network Model And Gaussian Naive Bayes, H Zhang, T Jiang, Guogen Shan

Environmental & Global Health Faculty Research

Residue fluctuations in protein structures have been shown to be highly associated with various protein functions. Gaussian network model (GNM), a simple representative coarse-grained model, was widely adopted to reveal function-related protein dynamics. We directly utilized the high frequency modes generated by GNM and further performed Gaussian Naive Bayes (GNB) to identify hot spot residues. Two coding schemes about the feature vectors were implemented with varying distance cutoffs for GNM and sliding window sizes for GNB based on tenfold cross validations: one by using only a single high mode and the other by combining multiple modes with the highest frequency. …

Soil Microbial Biomass And Function Are Altered By 12 Years Of Crop Rotation, Marshall D. Mcdaniel, A. Stuart Grandy

Faculty Publications

Declines in plant diversity will likely reduce soil microbial biomass, alter microbial functions, and threaten the provisioning of soil ecosystem services. We examined whether increasing temporal plant biodiversity in agroecosystems (by rotating crops) can partially reverse these trends and enhance soil microbial biomass and function. We quantified seasonal patterns in soil microbial biomass, respiration rates, extracellular enzyme activity, and catabolic potential three times over one growing season in a 12-year crop rotation study at the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station LTER. Rotation treatments varied from one to five crops in a 3-year rotation cycle, but all soils were sampled under …

From Recovery To Discovery: Ethnic American Science Fiction And (Re)Creating The Future, Daoine S. Bachran

English Language and Literature ETDs

My project assesses how science fiction by writers of color challenges the scientific racism embedded in genetics, nuclear development, digital technology, and molecular biology, demonstrating how these fields are deployed disproportionately against people of color. By contextualizing current scientific development with its often overlooked history and exposing the full life cycle of scientific practices and technological changes, ethnic science fiction authors challenge science’s purported objectivity and make room for alternative scientific methods steeped in Indigenous epistemologies. The first chapter argues that genetics is deployed disproportionally against black Americans, from the pseudo-scientific racial classifications of the nineteenth century and earlier through …

Using Auditory Feedback To Improve Striking For Mixed Martial Artists, Frank Krukauskas Krukauskas

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to evaluate, auditory feedback as a training procedure to increase the effectiveness of throwing a "right cross.” Auditory feedback was evaluated in multiple baselines across behaviors design with 4 mixed martial arts students, two males and two females, 25-54 years old. The percentage of correct steps of the right crosses.” was stable .during baseline for all participants improved substantially following the introduction of the auditory feedback, and maintained at 90 percent or more for all participants during follow-up.