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Beginnings: Physics, Sentience And Luca, Carolyn A. Ristau

Animal Sentience

According to Reber’s model, Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC), sentience had its origins in a unicellular organism and is an inherent property of living, mobile organic forms. He argues by analogy to basic physical forces which he considers to be inherent properties of matter; I suggest that they are instead the stuff of scientific investigation in physics. I find no convincing argument that sentience had to begin in endogenously mobile cells, a criterial attribute of the originator cell(s)for sentience according to CBC. Non-endogenously mobile cells, (i.e., plants or precursors) in a moving environment would suffice. Despite my concerns and the …

Falling Though Space... Portrait Of A Poet From A Bird's Eye View, Christopher Kean

The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal

In his wartime writing, Falling through Space, Richard Hillary reveals the perspective of a Royal Air Force pilot which leads to a contemplation of existence between two zones: the tragic and the trivial. Aviation literature from this period, in fact, leads to contemplation of the opposing spaces of existence once left only to poets: earth and sky. The middle space between these two, between elevation and rooted humanity, is the topic of this paper.

Building from a series excerpts from literature, I will address the plight of the poet in particular, and of mankind in general. The unique aviator …

Might Insects Experience Pain?, Robert W. Elwood

Animal Sentience

The aim of this commentary is to expand the discussion about subjective experience to other arthropods, notably crustaceans. Various species of crustaceans show responses consistent with their feeling pain. Hermit crabs also show prolonged investigation of new shells. They clearly attend to and integrate information from a wide variety of sources that enable them to evaluate the quality of the new shell relative to their current shell. These observations too are consistent with their having subjective experience.

The Firece Green Fire: Vol. 7 Issue 1, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

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Nitrate Uptake Across Biomes And The Influence Of Elemental Stoichiometry: A New Look At Linx Ii, Adam S. Wymore, Ashley A. Coble, Bianca Rodriguez-Cardona, William H. Mcdowell

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Publications

Considering recent increases in anthropogenic N loading, it is essential to identify the controls on N removal and retention in aquatic ecosystems because the fate of N has consequences for water quality in streams and downstream ecosystems. Biological uptake of nitrate (NO3−) is a major pathway by which N is removed from these ecosystems. Here we used data from the second Lotic Intersite Nitrogen eXperiment (LINX II) in a multivariate analysis to identify the primary drivers of variation in NO3− uptake velocity among biomes. Across 69 study watersheds in North America, dissolved organic carbon:NO3− ratios and photosynthetically active radiation were …

2016-09-09, Board Of Regents, Murray State University

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Chapman Is A National Voice For Reforming 'Wasteland Of The Mind', Deb Lucas

Browse All News

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Membrane-Dependent Activities Of Human 15-Lox-2 And Its Murine Counterpart Implications For Murine Models Of Atherosclerosis, Gunes Bender, Erin E. Schexnaydre, Robert C. Murphy, Charis Uhlson, Marcia E. Newcomer

Faculty Publications

© 2016 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. The enzyme encoded by the ALOX15B gene has been linked to the development of atherosclerotic plaques in humans and in a mouse model of hypercholesterolemia. In vitro, these enzymes, which share 78% sequence identity, generate distinct products from their substrate arachidonic acid: the human enzyme, a 15-S-hydroperoxy product; and the murine enzyme, an 8-S-product. We probed the activities of these enzymes with nanodiscs as membrane mimics to determine whether they can access substrate esterified in a bilayer and characterized their activities at the membrane interface. We observed that …

The Productivity Puzzle: How Can We Speed Up The Growth Of The Economy?, Jonathan Baker, Louise Sheiner, Martin Neil Baily, David Wessel, Robert Barro, J. Bradford Delong, Bronwyn Hall

Presentations

Video link: https://youtu.be/dojtWYrjnbc After nearly a decade of strong productivity growth starting in the mid-1990s, productivity growth has slowed down over the most recent decade. Output per hour worked in the U.S. business sector has grown at only 1.3 percent per year from 2004 to 2015, and growth was even slower from 2010 to 2015 at just 0.5 percent a year. These rates are only half or less of the pace of growth achieved in the past. The United States is not alone in facing this problem, as all of the major advanced economies have also seen slow productivity growth. …

Nitrogen Application Decision-Making Under Climate Risk In The U.S. Corn Belt, Benjamin M. Gramig, Raymond Massey, Seong Do Yun

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

Nitrogen fertilizer is one of the most important inputs to corn production and farmers manage their crop by deciding how much to apply, when to apply it and how to apply it to maximize their yields and resulting profit. There is risk inherent in crop fertility manage- ment because once nitrogen is applied to the soil it is no longer immobile and cropland is subject to loss of this costly input under different weather conditions. Days suitable for field work, a farm’s machinery set, and weather conditions determine when field prepara- tion and planting activities are completed each year. This …

Students And Faculty Members Partner On Hhmi Summer Research Projects, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Thirteen University of Minnesota, Morris professors and 23 student researchers collaborated in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Undergraduate Summer Research Program. The program gives students extended research opportunities during their undergraduate years to better prepare them for careers in science and for graduate work.

Common Data Set 2015, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Common Data Sets

Common Data Set (2015 - 2016) for the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Volume Cxxxiv, Number 1, September 9, 2016, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

A Direct, Early Stage Guanidinylation Protocol For The Synthesis Of Complex Aminoguanidine-Containing Natural Products, Christopher E. Malmberg, Stephen Chamberland

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

The guanidine functional group, displayed most prominently in the amino acid arginine, one of the fundamental building blocks of life, is an important structural element found in many complex natural products and pharmaceuticals. Owing to the continual discovery of new guanidinecontaining natural products and designed small molecules, rapid and efficient guanidinylation methods are of keen interest to synthetic and medicinal organic chemists. Because the nucleophilicity and basicity of guanidines can affect subsequent chemical transformations, traditional, indirect guanidinylation is typically pursued. Indirect methods commonly employ multiple protection steps involving a latent amine precursor, such as an azide, phthalimide, or carbamate. By …

Computational Design Of Ceramic Bone Scaffolds Fabricated Via Direct Ink Writing, Jeffrey Roberge

Master's Theses

Bone scaffold porosity and stiffness play a critical role in the success of critical-size bone defect rehabilitation. In this work, we present a computational procedure to design ceramic bone scaffolds to provide adequate mechanical support and foster bone healing. The scaffolds considered in our study consist of a lattice of curved rods fabricated via direct ink writing. We develop cellular solids models of the scaffold's effective elastic constants as functions of its geometric parameters, up to some unknown coefficients. To determine numeric values for these coefficients, we execute a computational design of experiments whereby effective elastic properties are obtained using …

Characterization Of Biopolymeric Micro- Nano Structured 3d Porous Matrices In Combination With Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells For Bone Regeneration, Aja Aravamudhan

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

A Global Edna Comparison Of Freshwater Bacterioplankton Assemblages Focusing On Large-River Floodplain Lakes Of Brazil, Michael Tessler, Mercer R. Brugler, Rob Desalle, Rebecca Hersch, Luiz Felipe M. Velho, Bianca T. Segovia, Fabio A. Lansac-Toha, Michael J. Lemke

Publications and Research

With its network of lotic and lentic habitats that shift during changes in seasonal connection, the tropical and subtropical large-river systems represent possibly the most dynamic of all aquatic environments. Pelagic water samples were collected from Brazilian floodplain lakes (total n = 58) in four floodpulsed systems (Amazon [n = 21], Araguaia [n = 14], Paraná [n = 15], and Pantanal [n = 8]) in 2011–2012 and sequenced via 454 for bacterial environmental DNA using 16S amplicons; additional abiotic field and laboratory measurements were collected for the assayed lakes.We report here a global comparison of the bacterioplankton makeup of freshwater …

Development Of An Improved Live Attenuated Antigenic Marker Csf Vaccine Strain Candidate With An Increased Genetic Stability, Lauren Gayle Holinka-Patterson

Doctoral Dissertations

Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV) is an extremely contagious, hemorrhagic and often fatal disease of pigs that causes serious socioeconomic impact on countries which experience outbreaks or are endemically infected. Current control measures utilized for CSFV are contingent upon the epidemiological status of the inflicted area and entail either prophylactic vaccination or non-vaccination, “stamping out”, protocol with the elimination of infected herds and culling of animals on neighboring farms. This latter practice results in less than satisfactory consequences, although once thought to be the answer to eradication of CSFV from a region, “stamping out” results in tremendous economic losses as …

Integration Of Biomolecular Recognition Elements With Solid-State Devices, Kan Fu

Doctoral Dissertations

Continued advances in stand-alone chemical sensors requires the introduction of new materials and transducers, and the seamless integration of the two. Electronic sensors represent one of the most efficient and versatile sensing transducers that offer advantages of high sensitivity, compatibility with multiple types of materials, network connectivity, and capability of miniaturization. With respect to materials to be used on this platform, many classes and subclasses of materials, including polymers, oxides, semiconductors, and composites have been investigated for various sensing environments. Despite numerous commercial products, major challenges remain. These include enhancing materials for selectivity/specificity, and low cost integration/ miniaturization of devices. …

Explaining Success And Failure In The Commons: The Configural Nature Of Ostrom’S Institutional Design Principles, Jacopo A. Baggio, Allain J. Barnett, Irene Perez-Ibarra, Ute Brady, Elicia Ratajczyk, Nathan Rollins, Cathy Rubiños, Hoon C. Shin, David J. Yu, Rimjhim Aggarwal, John M. Anderies, Marco A. Janssen

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

Governing common pool resources (CPR) in the face of disturbances such as globalization and climate change is challenging. The outcome of any CPR governance regime is the influenced by local combinations of social, institutional, and biophysical factors, as well as cross-scale interdependencies. In this study, we take a step towards understanding multiple-causation of CPR outcomes by analyzing 1) the co-occurrence of Destign Principles (DP) by activity (irrigation, fishery and forestry), and 2) the combination(s) of DPs leading to social and ecological success. We analyzed 69 cases pertaining to three different activities: irrigation, fishery, and forestry. We find that the importance …

Challenges And Opportunities In Coding The Commons: Problems, Procedures, And Potential Solutions In Large-N Comparative Case Studies, Elicia Ratajczyk, Ute Brady, Jacopo A. Baggio, Allain J. Barnett, Irene Perez-Ibarra, Nathan Rollins, Cathy Rubiños, Hoon C. Shin, David J. Yu, Rimjhim Aggarwal, John M. Anderies, Marco A. Janssen

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

On-going efforts to understand the dynamics of coupled social-ecological (or more broadly, coupled infrastructure) systems and common pool resources have led to the generation of numerous datasets based on a large number of case studies. This data has facilitated the identification of important factors and fundamental principles which increase our understanding of such complex systems. However, the data at our disposal are often not easily comparable, have limited scope and scale, and are based on disparate underlying frameworks inhibiting synthesis, meta-analysis, and the validation of findings. Research efforts are further hampered when case inclusion criteria, variable definitions, coding schema, and …

Reconsidering Trade Agreements, William T. Neese

Atlantic Marketing Association Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Cheating Online: The Effects Of Time And Distraction On Performance In Marketing Concept Tests, Susan Brudvig

Atlantic Marketing Association Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Technology Over-Consumption: Helping Students Find Balance In A World Of Alluring Distractions, G. David Shows, Pia A. Albinsson, Tatyana B. Ruseva, Diane M. Waryold

Atlantic Marketing Association Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Trade Secrets As Property: Theory And Consequences, Charles Tait Graves

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

When The ‘Escape Ends Responsibility Of The Ioc And Fifa At The Intersection Of Sport Law And Human Rights, Trista Turley

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

This note argues that major governing bodies of international sport should and can assume a greater role in the field of human rights by pursuing enhanced status as an actor under international law, facilitating a treaty between nation states with the cooperation of UNESCO, or some combination of both. The note focuses on the IOC and FIFA—the two largest and arguably most sophisticated governing organizations in international sport. However, the note also carries implications for smaller organizations such as the Commonwealth Games Family (CGF) and the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO). Furthermore, the note only addresses issues that fit neatly …

Transnational Corporations And International Human Rights Law, Sufyan Droubi

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

National courts often face many obstacles in enforcing human rights law in the private sphere. There is the difficulty in determining the effect that human rights have in private legal relationships. With regard to criminal liability, only a very limited number of states have legislation that makes the attribution of criminal responsibility to legal entities possible. As to responsibility under civil law, it can easily become an empty exercise, if the company directly involved with the violation has no means to bear the costs of remediation, since it is an established doctrine of corporate law in most jurisdictions that the …

Western News, September 8, 2016, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: President Dunn to retire at end of 2016-17, New trustee; vice president among recent appointee, Proposed campus wayfinding plan ready to be shown, University continued making improvements all summer long, Event held to showcase Valley Dining Center, Revised University strategic plan now in effect through 2020, Strike Gold ad campaign designed to demonstrate WMU’s value

Longer-Term Therapy For Symptoms Attributed To Lyme Disease, Gary P. Wormser

NYMC Faculty Publications

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• Randomized Trial of Longer-Term Therapy for Symptoms Attributed to Lyme Disease. [N Engl J Med. 2016]

The Setonian, September 8, 2016, Seton Hall University

2016

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