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Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 08, September 19, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, September 19, 2016, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• EPC Items - September 2016
• Honors Program
• Libraries Advisory Council
• Parking Committee
• Student Code of Conduct

Total Diet Approach To Cancer Prevention: A Narrative Review Of The Literature Since 2011 Concerning The Association Of Colorectal Cancer And Meat Consumption, Krista E. King, Patricia M. Sheean

Nursing: School of Nursing Faculty Publications and Other Works

Diet serves as a primary prevention approach to reduce the global burden of cancer. In 2007, the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research published the Second Expert Report (SER) Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective outlining lifestyle recommendations for primary cancer prevention. Results support a strong link between red and processed meat and colorectal carcinogenesis. Findings from the Colorectal Cancer 2011 Report: Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Colorectal Cancer, a review conducted through the WCRF Continuous Update Project (CUP), strengthened the evidence and supported the …

Ohio University Mock Trial Selects 20 Team Members, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, September 19, 2016, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Rider (2016-09-19), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.4

Interactions Between Temozolomide And Guanine And Its S And Se‐Substituted Analogues, Okuma Emile Kasende, Aristote Matondo, Jules Tshishimbi Muya, Steve Scheiner

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Temozolomide was paired with guanine, 6-selenoguanine, and 6-thioguanine, as well as the SH tautomer of the latter. The potential energy surface of each heterodimer was searched for all minima, using Dispersion-Corrected Density Functional Theory and MP2 methods. Among the dozens of minima, three categories were observed. Stacked geometries place the aromatic systems of the two molecules parallel to one another, while the two systems are roughly perpendicular to one another in a second category. Also found are coplanar structures held together by H-bonds. Dispersion proves to be a dominating attractive force for the stacked structures, less so for perpendicular, and …

Rotunda - Vol 95, No. 4 - Sep. 19, 2016, Longwood University

Rotunda

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Eugenia En Su Contexto: Utopía Y Proyecto Alterno De Nación, Miguel García

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

En fechas recientes la novela Eugenia: esbozo novelesco de costumbres futuras (Mérida, 1919), escrita por el doctor, funcionario público y pedagogo Eduardo Urzaiz, se ha vuelto una pieza clave para entender la ciencia ficción mexicana y latinoamericana, al ser uno de los ejemplos tempranos de especulaciones futuristas y por integrar en su discurso a la eugenesia, una ciencia alrededor de la cual se desarrolló un movimiento global cuyos alcances se siguen mapeando hoy en día. Sin embargo, dos problemas principales han impedido el entendimiento cabal de la novela: 1) una insuficiente comprensión de la relevancia de las ideas eugenésicas …

Black Tarps Over Cover Crops Suppress Weeds In Organic No-Till Vegetable Garden, Lori Wright

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The Functional Extinction Of Andean Megafauna, Angela Rozas-Dávila, Bryan G. Valencia, Mark B. Bush

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Faculty Publications

Controversy exists over the cause and timing of the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna. In the tropical Andes, deglaciation and associated rapid climate change began ∼8,000 years before human arrival, providing an opportunity to separate the effects of climate change from human hunting on megafaunal extinction. We present a paleoecological record spanning the last 25,000 years from Lake Pacucha, Peru (3,100 m elevation). Fossil pollen, charcoal, diatoms, and the dung fungus Sporormiella, chronicle a two-stage megaherbivore population collapse. Sporormiella abundance, the proxy for megafaunal presence, fell sharply at ∼21,000 years ago, but rebounded prior to a permanent decline between ∼16,800 …

Don’T Give Up Section 101, Don’T Ever Give Up, Brady P. Gleason

Catholic University Law Review

In an era of tremendous and rapid technological advancement, coupled with the massive influence patents have on the global economy, determining the specific categories of inventions eligible for patent protection is of great importance. The statute governing patent eligible subject matter, 35 U.S.C. § 101, has unfortunately fallen steadily into a morass, wherein a great number of judicial philosophies as to the proper role and scope of § 101 occupy the statutes jurisprudence. This frustrates the utilitarian purpose of the patent system as research companies are uncertain whether certain categories of inventions will maintain their eligibly for patent protection. Because …

The Free Press Vol. 48, Issue No. 3, 09-19-2016, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

Molly Ringwald visits campus to campaign for Clinton -- Popping pills for pop quizzes: Is Adderall a study drug? -- Changes to take place in Multicultural Center

Crow's Nest, September 19, 2016, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 19, 2016, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Prenatal Androgen Exposure And Parental Care Interact To Influence Timing Of Reproductive Maturation In Marmosets, Michelle C. Huffman, Jonathan Santo, Jeffrey French

Psychology Faculty Publications

The timing of reproductive maturation is susceptible to hormonal and environmental influences, and variation in this timing can be partially attributed to the prenatal and post-natal environment. We examined associations between prenatal steroid exposure and the post-natal family environment on the variability in reproductive maturation timing in young marmosets (Callithrix geoffroyi). Urine samples from pregnant females were analyzed for cortisol (CORT) and androgens (uA). Post-natal uA was measured in males to determine age (in days) of adult-like levels of androgens associated with spermatogenesis; post-natal pregnanediol glucuronide (PdG) was measured in females to determine age (in days) of first …

Epithelial Cell Integrin Β1 Is Required For Developmental Angiogenesis In The Pituitary Gland, Kathleen M. Scully, Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, Michal Krawczyk, Daria Merkurjev, Havilah Taylor, Antonia Livolsi, Jessica Tollkuhn, Radu V. Stan, Michael G. Rosenfeld

Dartmouth Scholarship

As a key component of the vertebrate neuroendocrine system, the pituitary gland relies on the progressive and coordinated development of distinct hormone-producing cell types and an invading vascular network. The molecular mechanisms that drive formation of the pituitary vasculature, which is necessary for regulated synthesis and secretion of hormones that maintain homeostasis, metabolism, and endocrine function, remain poorly understood. Here, we report that expression of integrin β1 in embryonic pituitary epithelial cells is required for angiogenesis in the developing mouse pituitary gland. Deletion of pituitary epithelial integrin β1 before the onset of angiogenesis resulted in failure of invading endothelial cells …

Airway Secretory Micrornaome Changes During Rhinovirus Infection In Early Childhood, Maria J. Gutierrez, Jose L. Gomez, Geovanny F. Perez, Krishna Pancham, Stephanie Val, Dinesh K. Pillai, Mamta Giri, Sarah Ferrante, Robert Freishtat, Mary C. Rose, Diego 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 …

Scientist Finds New Calling At Ole Miss, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

Fabrication Of Nano Patterned Arrays And Optical Applications, Aktaruzzaman Al-Hossain

Student Theses and Dissertations

Most of the researches in developing arrayed patterns have utilized the lithography process with pre-patterned structures. However, lithography itself is considerably low efficient in terms of cost and time, especially by the chemical etching process. Furthermore, the chemical etching process is also a potential barrier in three dimensional structures with multi-layered patterns. The limitation of substrate and mask size is also disadvantageous to the larger area in real-time fabrication process. In this study, a new approach using the solid thin-film dewetting process with intense pulsed light annealing and optical study towards wavelength transformation is introduced to overcome the addressed problems. …

The Role Of The Chloroplastic And Endoplasmic Reticulum Ascorbate Subcellular Pools In Plant Physiology, Jessica Patricia Yactayo-Chang

Student Theses and Dissertations

Vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid, AsA) is the most abundant water-soluble antioxidant in plants. Ascorbate scavenges free radicals, is an enzyme cofactor, and a donor/ acceptor of electrons in the chloroplast. Ascorbate protects tissues against damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced through normal metabolism or generated from stress. The inositol route to AsA involves four enzymes: myo-inositol oxygenase, glucuronate reductase, gluconolactonase (GNL), and L-gulono-1,4-lactone oxidase (GulLO). The third enzyme, GNL, has been characterized in rat and bacteria but not in plants. Eighteen putative GNLs were identified in Arabidopsis, one of which, AtGNL, is interesting because it possesses a chloroplastic …

Competition Between Hydrophilic And Argyrophilic Interactions In Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, John T. Kelly, Annie K. Mcclellan, Lynn V. Joe, Ashley M. Wright, Lawson T. Lloyd, Gregory S. Tschumper, Nathan I. Hammer

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The competition for binding and charge-transfer (CT) from the nitrogen containing heterocycle pyrimidine to either silver or to water in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is discussed. The correlation between the shifting observed for vibrational normal modes and CT is analyzed both experimentally using Raman spectroscopy and theoretically using electronic structure theory. Discrete features in the Raman spectrum correspond to the binding of either water or silver to each of pyrimidine's nitrogen atoms with comparable frequency shifts. Natural bond orbital (NBO) calculations in each chemical environment reveal that the magnitude of charge transfer from pyrimidine to adjacent silver atoms is …

A New Class Of Allosteric Hiv-1 Integrase Inhibitors Identified By Crstallographic Fragment Screening Of The Catalytic Core Domain, Disha Patel, Janet Antwi, Pratibha C. Koneru, Erik Serrao, Stefano Forli, Jacques J. Kessl, Lei Feng, Nanjie Deng, Ronald M. Levy, James R. Fuchs, Arthur J. Olson, Alan N. Engelman, Joseph D. Bauman, Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, Eddy Arnold

Faculty Publications

HIV-1 integrase (IN) is essential for virus replication and represents an important multifunctional therapeutic target. Recently discovered quinoline-based allosteric IN inhibitors (ALLINIs) potently impair HIV-1 replication and are currently in clinical trials. ALLINIs exhibit a multimodal mechanism of action by inducing aberrant IN multimerization during virion morphogenesis and by competing with IN for binding to its cognate cellular cofactor LEDGF/p75 during early steps of HIV-1 infection. However, quinoline-based ALLINIs impose a low genetic barrier for the evolution of resistant phenotypes, which highlights a need for discovery of second-generation inhibitors. Using crystallographic screening of a library of 971 fragments against the …

Investigating The Impact Of Unsupervised Feature-Extraction From Multi-Wavelength Image Data For Photometric Classification Of Stars, Galaxies And Qsos, Annika Lindh

Dissertations

This thesis reviews the current state of photometric classification in Astronomy and identifies two main gaps: a dependence on handcrafted rules, and a lack of interpretability in the more successful classifiers. To address this, Deep Learning and Computer Vision were used to create a more interpretable model, using unsupervised training to reduce human bias.

The main contribution is the investigation into the impact of using unsupervised feature-extraction from multi-wavelength image data for the classification task. The feature-extraction is achieved by implementing an unsupervised Deep Belief Network to extract lower-dimensionality features from the multi-wavelength image data captured by the Sloan Digital …

September 19, 2016 Armstrong Faculty Senate Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

September 19, 2016 Armstrong Faculty Senate Minutes

Cycle Training Modulates Satellite Cell And Transcriptional Responses To A Bout Of Resistance Exercise, Kevin A. Murach, R. Grace Walton, Christopher S. Fry, Sami L. Michaelis, Jason S. Groshong, Brian S. Finlin, Philip A. Kern, Charlotte A. Peterson

Physical Therapy Faculty Publications

This investigation evaluated whether moderate‐intensity cycle ergometer training affects satellite cell and molecular responses to acute maximal concentric/eccentric resistance exercise in middle‐aged women. Baseline and 72 h postresistance exercise vastus lateralis biopsies were obtained from seven healthy middle‐aged women (56 ± 5 years, BMI 26 ± 1, VO_2max 27 ± 4) before and after 12 weeks of cycle training. Myosin heavy chain (MyHC) I‐ and II‐associated satellite cell density and cross‐sectional area was determined via immunohistochemistry. Expression of 93 genes representative of the muscle‐remodeling environment was also measured via NanoString. Overall fiber size increased ~20% with cycle training ( …

Aspects Of Host Usage Of The Chestnut Lamprey (Ichthyomyzon Castaneus) In Arkansas, Jeremiah Max Salinger

Student Theses and Dissertations

Most native North American lamprey species are imperiled in some manner, but are curiously understudied. The research described in this thesis addresses the adult feeding biology of the Chestnut Lamprey (Ichthyomyzon castaneus), a freshwater parasitic lamprey native to the southeastern United States. This thesis addresses Chestnut Lamprey attachment site selection and size-selective parasitism of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in an outdoor laboratory setting, as well as Chestnut Lamprey host usage and distribution in Arkansas. Approximately 75% of the 80 wounded Rainbow Trout studied were attacked in their dorsal mid-section. Chestnut Lampreys were found to select shorter hosts, with no mass …

Reconciling Agriculture, Carbon And Biodiversity In A Savannah Transformation Frontier, Lyndon Estes, T. Searchinger, M. Spiegel, D. Tian, S. Sichinga, M. Mwale, L. Kehoe, T. Kuemmerle, A. Berven, N. Chaney, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, K. K. Caylor

Geography

Rapidly rising populations and likely increases in incomes in sub-Saharan Africa make tens of millions of hectares of cropland expansion nearly inevitable, even with large increases in crop yields. Much of that expansion is likely to occur in higher rainfall savannas, with substantial costs to biodiversity and carbon storage. Zambia presents an acute example of this challenge, with an expected tripling of population by 2050, good potential to expand maize and soya bean production, and large areas of relatively undisturbed miombo woodland and associated habitat types of high biodiversity value. Here, we present a new model designed to explore the …

Systematically Characterizing Dysfunctional Long Intergenic Noncoding Rnas In Multiple Brain Regions Of Major Psychosis, Jing Hu, Jinyuan Xu, Lin Pang, Hongying Zhao, Feng Li, Yulan Deng, Ling Liu, Yujia Lan, Xinxin Zhang, Chun Xu

Health & Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

Schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe neuropsychiatric disorders with serious impact on patients, together termed “major psychosis”. Recently, long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) were reported to play important roles in mental diseases. However, little was known about their molecular mechanism in pathogenesis of SZ and BD. Here, we performed RNA sequencing on 82 postmortem brain tissues from three brain regions (orbitofrontal cortex (BA11), anterior cingulate cortex (BA24) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (BA9)) of patients with SZ and BD and control subjects, generating over one billion reads. We characterized lincRNA transcriptome in the three brain regions and identified 20 …

"Cells In Motion" The Focus Of This Month's Cafe Scientifique, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The next Café Scientifique will take place on Tuesday, September 27, at 6 p.m. at the Common Cup Coffeehouse (501 Atlantic Avenue, Morris, MN 56267). Associate Professor of Biology PZ Myers and Katrine Sjovold ’18, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, will lead the discussion: “Cells in Motion: How Cells Move to Build Embryos, Create Patterns, and Cause Cancer.”

Week Of September 19, 2016, New York Medical College

InTouch

• NYMC Lights It Up Gold
• Dental Students Host a Week of Wellness