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Why Consciousness Matters: Insights From A New Generation, Kathleen Noble

CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century

The University of Washington-Bothell is home to a transdisciplinary and integral minor in consciousness that is the first and only such program at a public research university. This study reports a content analysis of reflection essays submitted by 122 students who completed at least four of the five courses that comprise the minor between 2012 and 2016. Results indicate that students derived significant benefits from this approach to the study of consciousness, including a deep appreciation for the depth and breadth of the mind and the need to release their understanding of consciousness from the constraints of scientific materialism. They …

Report Of The President / September 21, 2016, José M. Torres

President's Report

IMSA Leadership Profile To provide Trustees with a report of activities and efforts of note, I continue to base the Report of the President on the Leadership Profile Components used by the Trustees to evaluate the President’s performance: (1) Institutional Planning (and Executing); (2) Financial/Business Model; (3) Innovations in Teaching and Learning and in STEM Talent Development; (4) Institutional Research and Scholarship on Program Effectiveness and RoI; (5) Thought Leadership in STEM Education Policy; and (6) Stakeholder’s Positive Action(s) on Behalf of IMSA. For additional information and updates on IMSA, please see my Personal Reflections that provide general observations shared …

The Collegian: September 21, 2016, The Collegian Staff

The Collegian, 2016-2017

Volume 132
Issue 5

A Revision Of The Genus Rhinolaemus Steel (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae), Michael C. Thomas

Insecta Mundi

The genus Rhinolaemus Steel is revised. A new island and a new country record are presented for the type species, R. maculatus Steel. A new species, R. niueensis Thomas, new species, is described from Niue, and Rhinolaemus tuberculatus (Grouvelle), new combination, is transferred from Laemophloeus (sens. lat.). The members of the genus are illustrated and a key to their identification is presented.

A New Species Of Neostenoptera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Winnertziinae) From Eastern North America, John D. Plakidas, Michael L. Ferro

Insecta Mundi

A new species of paedogenetic gall midge, Neostenoptera appalachiensis sp. nov., (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Winnertziinae: Heteropezini) from the eastern United States is described and illustrated, and pertinent collection and biological data are also provided. It is compared to its congeners, N. kiefferi (Meunier), a subfossil described from African copal, and N. congoensis Gagné, from the Congo. This rare, exciting discovery is the first record of the genus Neostenoptera in the New World.

While conducting research in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) (North Carolina and Tennessee, USA) (Ferro et al. 2012), MLF collected numerous unidentifi able fl ies as bycatch from …

Single-Cell Pcr Of The Luciferase Conserved Catalytic Domain Reveals A Unique Cluster In The Toxic Bioluminescent Dinoflagellate Pyrodinium Bahamense, Kathleen D. Cusick, Steven W. Wilhelm, Paul E. Hargraves, Gary S. Sayler

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Pyrodinium bahamense is a toxic, bioluminescent dinoflagellate with a record of intense bloom formation in both the Atlantic-Caribbean and Indo-Pacific regions. To date, limited genetic information exists for P. bahamense in comparison to other closely related harmful algal bloom taxa such as Alexandrium, or other bioluminescent taxa such as Pyrocystis. This study utilized single-cell PCR to explore the molecular diversity of P. bahamense within the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), Florida, USA, and a bioluminescent bay in Puerto Rico. Pyrodinium-specific primers targeting a ca.1.2-kb region of the 18S rRNA gene and degenerate primers targeting the conserved catalytic domain of the luciferase …

Free Energy-Based Virtual Screening And Optimization Of Rnase H Inhibitors Of Hiv‑1 Reverse Transcriptase, Baofeng Zhang, Michael P. D'Erasmo, Ryan P. Murelli, Emilio Gallicchio

Publications and Research

We report the results of a binding free energy-based virtual screening campaign of a library of 77 α-hydroxytropolone derivatives against the challenging RNase H active site of the reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme of human immunodeficiency virus-1. Multiple protonation states, rotamer states, and binding modalities of each compound were individually evaluated. The work involved more than 300 individual absolute alchemical binding free energy parallel molecular dynamics calculations and over 1 million CPU hours on national computing clusters and a local campus computational grid. The thermodynamic and structural measures obtained in this work rationalize a series of characteristics of this system useful …

Experts Explore How Early Childhood Educators Can Adapt To A Growing Number Of Diverse Family Structures, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

$8 Million Grant To Support Research To Repair Hearts With Bioengineered Patch, Jeff Hansen

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Volume 54, Number 6: September 21, 2016, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Minutes 09/21/2016, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

In these minutes: Social Sciences catalog course changes; and Interdisciplinary Studies catalog course changes

Neprilysin Is A Mediator Of Alternative Renin-Angiotensin-System Activation In The Murine And Human Kidney, Oliver Domenig, Arndt Manzel, Nadja Grobe, Eva Königshausen, Christopher C. Kaltenecker, Johannes J. Kovarik, Susan B. Gurley, Dunja Van Oyen, Marlies Antlanger, Michael Bader, Daisy Motta-Santos, Jose Carlos Santos, Robson A. Santos, Khalid M. Elased, Marcus D. Säemann, Ralf A. Linker, Marko Poglitsch

Pharmacology and Toxicology Faculty Publications

Cardiovascular and renal pathologies are frequently associated with an activated renin-angiotensin-system (RAS) and increased levels of its main effector and vasoconstrictor hormone angiotensin II (Ang II). Angiotensin-converting-enzyme-2 (ACE2) has been described as a crucial enzymatic player in shifting the RAS towards its so-called alternative vasodilative and reno-protective axis by enzymatically converting Ang II to angiotensin-(1-7) (Ang-(1-7)). Yet, the relative contribution of ACE2 to Ang-(1-7) formation in vivo has not been elucidated. Mass spectrometry based quantification of angiotensin metabolites in the kidney and plasma of ACE2 KO mice surprisingly revealed an increase in Ang-(1-7), suggesting additional pathways to be responsible for …

An Examination Of Factors Associated With Self-Efficacy For Food Choice And Healthy Eating Among Low-Income Adolescents In Three Us States, Nancy W. Muturi, Tandalayo Kidd, Tazrin Khan, Kendra Kattelmann, Susan Zies, Erika Lindshield, Koushik Adhikari

Health and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: Self-efficacy is a crucial component in effective health communication and health promotion interventions and serves as a moderator for behavior change. Although awareness and risk perception are important in the behavior change process, self-efficacy gives people the necessary confidence in their ability to engage in advocated health behaviors. In addressing childhood obesity, self-efficacy plays a crucial role in dietary decisions. Informed by the social cognitive theory, this study examines the personal and environmental factors that determine self-efficacy for healthy food choices and healthy eating among adolescents in low-income communities.
Methods: A survey was administered among adolescents in sixth to …

Water Quality Monitoring At Impaired Sites On The Cache River, Ar, Usa, Molly Elaine Kennon-Lacy

Student Theses and Dissertations

Cache River Watershed, AR has several impairments, including: dissolved lead (Pb) and copper (Cu), and total dissolved solids (TDS). Eight sites were monitored monthly measuring: pH, conductivity, DO, total suspended solids (TSS), TDS, turbidity, hardness, dissolved and total nutrients and metals (Pb and Cu), to add to ADEQ’s database. Flow was measured to determine if there was a relationship between measured parameters and periods of low or high flow. Filtration size (0.45 vs 0.20 µm) was compared to conclude if using different size filters on water samples affected concentrations of metals in water. Bioassays were performed using aquatic organisms on …

$1.9 Million Nih Grant To Fund Children's Health Research, Annie Oeth

University of Mississippi News

Medical Center will use award to build infrastructure, expand pediatric clinical trials

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Biology Professor Receives Grant

The Guardian, September 21, 2016, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

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

Minutes From September 21 2016, University Senate

University Senate Minutes

Minutes from September 21 2016 University Senate Meeting

Understanding The Regulation Of Ube3a-Ats And The Process Of Ube3a Imprinting Using Ipsc Modeling And Crispr/Cas9 Editing, Jack Shuo-Hung Hsiao

Doctoral Dissertations

Angelman Syndrome (AS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by loss of the maternal copy of UBE3A. The paternal copy cannot compensate for the loss because it is subject to tissue-specific imprinting in the brain. This imprinting is controlled by the reciprocal UBE3A antisense transcript (UBE3A-ATS) expressed only in the brain. The goal of my thesis projects is to understand the underlying mechanism by which the UBE3A-ATS is regulated. We found that UBE3A-ATS is expressed and UBE3A is imprinted in non-neurons from an individual with 187 kb deletion at the paternal allele. This suggests that expression of UBE3A-ATS …

Concurrent Investigation Of Global Motion And Form Processing In Amblyopia: An Equivalent Noise Approach, Mahesh R. Joshi, Anita J. Simmers, Seong T. Jeon

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.

Asking More Of Our Metaphors: Narrative Strategies To End The "War On Alzheimer's" And Humanize Cognitive Aging, Peter J. Whitehouse

Faculty Scholarship

In all facets of our lives, humans construct meaning to understand their place in the world and their relationships to one another and to broader environments. Within this semantic web, words, stories, and metaphors play a key role in the meaning-making process, with the latter serving as a particularly important means of fluidly integrating thoughts, values, and actions across cognitive domains. Derived from the Greek roots “meta” (over/across) and “phor” (to carry) and literally meaning “carrying across,” metaphor guides an understanding of one thing in terms of another. It is such a pervasive tendency in human speech and thought that …

A Novel Benzodiazepine Compound Inhibits Yellow Fever Virus Infection By Specifically Targeting Ns4b Protein, Fang Guo, Shuo Wu, Justin Julander, Julia Ma, Xuexiang Zhang, John Kulp, Andrea Cuconati, Timothy M. Block, Yanming Du, Ju-Tao Guo, Jinhong Chang

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Although a highly effective vaccine is available, the number of yellow fever cases has increased over the past 2 decades, which highlights the pressing need for antiviral therapeutics. In a high-throughput screening campaign, we identified an acetic acid benzodiazepine (BDAA) compound which potently inhibits yellow fever virus (YFV). Interestingly, while treatment of YFV-infected cultures with 2 MBDAA reduced the virion production by greater than 2 logs, the compound was not active against 21 other viruses from 14 different viral families. Selection and genetic analysis of drug-resistant viruses revealed that replacement of the proline at amino acid 219 (P219) of the …

Montana Kaimin, September 21-28, 2016, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Evolutionary Continuity Of Personhood, Anne Benvenuti

Animal Sentience

Rowlands applies the two organizing ideas of the Lockean concept of personhood — mental life and unity — to animals as potential persons. Especially valuable in this context is his descriptive phenomenology of pre-reflective self-awareness as a fundamental form of mental life that necessarily entails unity. Rowland describes certain fundamentals of mental experience that exist across species boundaries, challenging assumptions of early modern philosophers regarding the definition of human personhood and affirming the principle of evolutionary continuity. This opens the door to a broader and deeper set of questions, related to whether we should continue to attempt to apply to …

Antidepressant And Molecular Responses To Ketamine Linked To Its Inhibition Of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (Gsk3), Steven F. Grieco

Open Access Dissertations

Herein are described two novel outcomes, the up-regulation of 5HTR2C cluster miRNAs and IGF2, as a result of GSK3 inhibition by an antidepressant dose of ketamine that may contribute to the behavioral responses to ketamine.

International Variability In 20 M Shuttle Run Performance In Children And Youth: Who Are The Fittest From A 50-Country Comparison? A Systematic Literature Review With Pooling Of Aggregate Results, Justin J. Lang, Mark S. Tremblay, Luc Léger, Tim Olds, Grant Tomkinson

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

Objectives To describe and compare 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT) performance among children and youth across 50 countries; to explore broad socioeconomic indicators that correlate with 20mSRT performance in children and youth across countries and to evaluate the utility of the 20mSRT as an international population health indicator for children and youth.

Methods A systematic review was undertaken to identify papers that explicitly reported descriptive 20mSRT (with 1-min stages) data on apparently healthy 9–17 year-olds. Descriptive data were standardised to running speed (km/h) at the last completed stage. Country-specific 20mSRT performance indices were calculated as population-weighted mean z-scores relative …

Retreat And Extinction Of The Late Pleistocene Cave Bear (Ursus Spelaeus Sensu Lato), Mateusz Baca, Danijela Popović

KIP Articles

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus sensu lato) is a typical representative of Pleistocene megafauna which became extinct at the end of the Last Glacial. Detailed knowledge of cave bear extinction could explain this spectacular ecological transformation. The paper provides a report on the youngest remains of the cave bear dated to 20,930 ± 140 14C years before present (BP). Ancient DNA analyses proved its affiliation to the Ursus ingressus haplotype. Using this record and 205 other dates, we determined, following eight approaches, the extinction time of this mammal at 26,100–24,300 cal. years BP. The time is only slightly earlier, i.e. …

Total Physical Response And The Natural Approach To Teaching Foreign Language To Students With Disabilities, Jessica Lynn Dalessandro

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using the instructional strategies of Total Physical Response (TPR) and Natural Approach (NA) on the foreign language acquisition of students with learning disabilities (LD) in an inclusion Spanish classroom. The study utilized an ABAB single subject design, and was designed to build on the research recommendation of Duran (1993) to examine the effect of a combined approach utilizing TPR and NA strategies to teach foreign language to students with LD. Results reveal that the daily language acquisition scores of two of the four students increased during both intervention phases, …

Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Mid-South Cotton Grown On Heterogeneous Soils With Cereal Cover Crops In Northeast Arkansas, Erin Jane Kelly

Student Theses and Dissertations

The Mississippi Alluvial Plain has some of the most productive landscape for production agriculture in the world. This area also is known for highly variable soil within agricultural fields. In response to high input costs, many Midsouth cotton producers seek to improve input use efficiency using precision agriculture approaches including use of site-specific application of fertilizers, seed and other inputs directed at sub-regions of spatially variable fields. These sub-regions are known as management zones. One barrier to producer adoption of this type of site-specific management is a lack of practical guidelines for defining management zones tailored for the Midsouth region. …