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Njit Libraries 2015/2016 Annual Report, Njit Libraries

Library Annual Reports

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Northeast Ocean Planning Baseline Assessment: Marine Resources, Infrastructure, And Economics, Hauke Kite-Powell, Charles Colgan, Porter Hoagland, Di Jin, Vinton Valentine, Brooke Wikgren

Publications

This document summarizes the status of coastal and marine resources in the Northeast region of the United States, and how these resources generate economic and ecological value. The Northeast region, for ocean planning purposes, includes the coastal counties of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and the New York counties (bordering Long Island Sound) of Queens, Bronx, Suffolk, Nassau, and Westchester. The coastal and marine natural resources and coastal infrastructure of the Northeast, and the economic activities and cultural/recreational services that rely them, directly and indirectly support more than 500,000 jobs and $40 billion in economic value (GDP) …

Delayed Emergence Of Trachykele Blondeli Blondeli (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Joshua P. Basham, Jason B. Oliver, Claire E. Herzog

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Prolonged emergence of Trachykele blondeli blondeli Marseul (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is reported from kiln-dried and subsequently painted wood in this report. The specimen emergence is a new record for Florida. Because the specimen did not emerge from host plant material grown in Florida, it is likely that its origin was exterior to Florida. Because of delayed and prolonged emergence capability in Buprestidae, as well as specimen survival of wood preservation processes like kiln drying, the current report does indicate a concern for redistribution of non-indigenous buprestid species to new areas.

Formulation And Characterization Of Thermosensitive In Situ Gel Of Moxifloxacin For Ocular Delivery, Nagesh C, Patel Sujit, Chandrasekhara S

Manipal Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

The objective of this work was to develop temperature triggered in situ ophthalmic gel of moxifloxacin using Pluronic F-127 as a gelling agent to improve duration of contact with cornea. These systems are used as eye drops as they undergo reversible phase transformation within the cul-de-sac and thereby increase the ocular bioavailability and reduce the administration frequency. In the present study, moxifloxacin (a fluoroquinolone antibiotic) was used as a model drug. The work was planned to formulate ophthalmic in situ gel using Pluronic F-127 a gelling agent with hydroxyl propyl methyl cellulose K4M as viscosity imparting agent, sodium chloride as …

Awareness Of Pharmacovigilance, Prasanna Sagar

Manipal Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pharmacovigilance (PV) department plays an important and critical role in the drug development progress. According to WHO, PV, also known as drug safety, is the pharmacological science relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. The safety of pharmaceutical product may not be well defined. When drugs are used in combination, its’ post effects are generally unknown and safety concerned in different groups can be different as in young children, elderly patients and pregnant women.

Ribbon Cutting For The Valley Dining Center, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

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Keynoter, September/October 2016, Boise State University Association Of Office Professionals

Boise State University Association of Office Professionals - Keynoter

President’s Message

AOP Purpose

Nominations

The Invisible People

Professional Admin of the Year

April Brown Bag Recap

Grad Tech Comm Program

IAEOP Recap

IAEOP President Speech

NAEOP Conference Reviews

Membership

PSP Standards

List & Calendar of Events

Scholarworks Statistics - September 2016, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of September 2016, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 23,198 full-text and additional file downloads and 10,214 page views.

From The Editor: Caring For Our Common Home - We're Doing Well, Edward W. Schmidt S.J.

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Natura Revelata The Importance Of Nature In The Jesuit University: Reflections On Environmental Biology, The Liberal Arts, And Laudato Si', Catherine Kleier

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Composting, Food Waste, And Trust The Tap, Isabella Kaser, Jake Gilchrest Dudley

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Fairfield's Water Theme: A Student's Experience, Samantha Porter

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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A Theologian Looks At "Laudato Si'": An Interview With Elzabeth Johnson, C.S.J., By James P. Mccartin, James P. Mccartin

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Natura Revelata The Importance Of Nature In The Jesuit University: Reflections On Environmental Biology, The Liberal Arts, And Laudato Si', Catherine Kleier

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Fairfield's Water Theme: A Student's Experience, Samantha Porter

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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A Theologian Looks At "Laudato Si'": An Interview With Elzabeth Johnson, C.S.J., By James P. Mccartin, James P. Mccartin

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Intention And Moral Enhancement, William Simkulet

Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications

Recently philosophers have proposed a wide variety of interventions referred to as 'moral enhancements'. Some of these interventions are concerned with helping individuals make more informed decisions; others, however, are designed to compel people to act as the intervener sees fit. Somewhere between these two extremes lie interventions designed to direct an agent's attention either towards morally relevant issues - hat-hanging - or away from temptations to do wrong - hat-hiding. I argue that these interventions fail to constitute genuine moral enhancement because, although they may result in more desirable outcomes - more altruism, more law-following, and/or less self-destructive behavior, …

Honors Oracle, September 2016, Marshall University Honors College

Honors Oracle

Marshall University’s Honors College newsletter

A Framework For Collaborative Multi-Task, Multi-Robot Missions, John T. Shepard

Engineering Ph.D. Theses

Robotics is a transformative technology that will empower our civilization for a new scale of human endeavors. Massive scale is only possible through the collaboration of individual or groups of robots. Collaboration allows specialization, meaning a multirobot system may accommodate heterogeneous platforms including human partners.

This work develops a unified control architecture for collaborative missions comprised of multiple, multi-robot tasks. Using kinematic equations and Jacobian matrices, the system states are transformed into alternative control spaces which are more useful for the designer or more convenient for the operator. The architecture allows multiple tasks to be combined, composing tightly coordinated missions. …

The Global Economic And Health Burden Of Human Hookworm Infection., Sarah M Bartsch, Peter J. Hotez, Lindsey Asti, Kristina M Zapf, Maria Elena Bottazzi, David J. Diemert, Bruce Y Lee

Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Even though human hookworm infection is highly endemic in many countries throughout the world, its global economic and health impact is not well known. Without a better understanding of hookworm's economic burden worldwide, it is difficult for decision makers such as funders, policy makers, disease control officials, and intervention manufacturers to determine how much time, energy, and resources to invest in hookworm control.

METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPLE FINDINGS: We developed a computational simulation model to estimate the economic and health burden of hookworm infection in every country, WHO region, and globally, in 2016 from the societal perspective. Globally, hookworm infection resulted in …

Airway Secretory Micrornaome Changes During Rhinovirus Infection In Early Childhood., M. Gutierrez, J. Gomez, Geovanny Perez, Krishna Pancham, Dinesh K. Pillai, M. Giri, S. Ferrante, Robert J. Freishtat, Mary C. Rose, Diego A. 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 …

Cyp2c44 Gene Disruption Exacerbated Pulmonary Hypertension And Heart Failure In Female But Not Male Mice, Sachindra R. Joshi, Anand Lakhkar, Vidhi Dhagia, Ariadne Zias, Vasiliki Soldatos, Kaori Oshima, Houli Jiang, Katherine Gotlinger, Jorge H Capdevila, Michal L. Schwartzman, Ivan F. Mcmurtry, Sachin A. Gupte

NYMC Faculty Publications

Epoxyeicosatrienoicacids (EETs), synthesized from arachidonic acid by epoxygenases of the CYP2C and CYP2J gene subfamilies, contribute to hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) in mice. Despite their roles in HPV, it is controversial whether EETs mediate or ameliorate pulmonary hypertension (PH). A recent study showed that deficiency of Cyp2j did not protect male and female mice from hypoxia-induced PH. Since CYP2C44 is a functionally important epoxygenase, we hypothesized that knockout of the Cyp2c44 gene would protect both sexes of mice from hypoxia-induced PH. We tested this hypothesis in wild-type (WT) and Cyp2c44 knockout (Cyp2c44 (-/-)) mice exposed to normoxia (room air) and …

221 Newborn-Screened Neonates With Medium-Chain Acyl-Coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Deficiency: Findings From The Inborn Errors Of Metabolism Collaborative, K Bentler, S Zhai, S Elsbecker, G Arnold, B Burton, J Vockley, C Cameron, S Hiner, M Edick, S Berry, J Thomas, M Dodge, R Singh, S Lakshman, David Kronn, Inborn Errors Of Metabolism Collaborative

NYMC Faculty Publications

Introduction: There is limited understanding of relationships between genotype, phenotype and other conditions contributing to health in neonates with medium-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) identified through newborn screening. Methods: Retrospective analysis of comprehensive data from a cohort of 221 newborn-screened subjects identified as affected with MCADD in the Inborn Errors of Metabolism-Information System (IBEM-IS), a long term follow-up database of the Inborn Errors of Metabolism Collaborative, was performed. Results: The average age at notification of first newborn screen results to primary care or metabolic providers was 7.45 days. The average octanoylcamitine (C8) value on first newborn screen was 11.2 …

Henna Tattoo Project, Kim Bernard

Artist in Residence: Kim Bernard

Description and images from Kim Bernard's first project as the University of New England Artist in Residence during fall semester 2016. Kim met with students at UNE's Biddeford Campus Ketchum Library to teach them about the history, chemistry, and application of henna tattoos. For two weeks, Kim's time at UNE was entirely concentrated on the henna tattoo project, as the UNE community lined up to learn about and work on their own tattoos.

Understanding Stakeholder Preferences For Flood Adaptation Alternatives With Natural Capital Implications, Jonathon R. Loos, Shannon H. Rogers

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Inland flood risks are defined by a range of environmental and social factors, including land use and floodplain management. Shifting patterns of storm intensity and precipitation, attributed to climate change, are exacerbating flood risk in regions across North America. Strategies for adapting to growing flood risks and climate change must account for a community’s specific vulnerabilities, and its local economic, environmental, and social conditions. Through a stakeholder-engaged methodology, we designed an interactive decision exercise to enable stakeholders to evaluate alternatives for addressing specific community flood vulnerabilities. We used a multicriteria framework to understand what drives stakeholder preferences for flood mitigation …

Optimization And Coding Of A Lcls Control Program, Tanner M. Worden

STAR Program Research Presentations

SLAS’s, Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) also known as X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) is the first X-ray laser of its kind. It gave Scientist from around the world the unique ability to observe the world at a subatomic level. Allowing for major advancements in the field of biological chemistry, drug science, material science and many more. Since the LCLS is a fairly unique scientific instrument, the demand for its use by the scientific community has always been high since it turned on back in 2009. This means that any and all time that the laser is not being used for …

Irrigation Efficiency Of Santa Rosa Island Cloud Forest Restoration Project, Rebecca Bernard, Kathryn Mceachern, Ken Niessen

STAR Program Research Presentations

Beginning in the 1800s, sheep and cattle ranching have caused significant erosion and devegetation of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park. In an effort to contain what little soil is left and rebuild the native chaparral, the Cloud Forest Restoration Project is testing erosion control structures such as wattles, leaf litter fences and silt dams. This summer a drip irrigation system was installed along with fog capturing fences to supply water to native plants transplanted near the erosion control structures. As the project has grown, more irrigation has been added to increase the area available for transplanting. This irrigation …

The Evaluation Of The Response Of American Eels To Rapid Decompression, Christina Macmillan, Alison Colotelo, John Stephenson, Briana Rhode, Trevor Macduff

STAR Program Research Presentations

Hydropower dams are used throughout the world to generate electricity and dams can negatively affect fish, as they can hinder or block migration or be a source of injury and mortality during passage. When moving downstream, fish can pass through the turbines instead of other routes (e.g. spillway and juvenile bypass system)where there is a sudden decrease in pressure that can cause barotraumas, injuries from the changes in barometric pressure, (e.g., hemorrhaging, embolism, ruptured organs) due to internal gases expanding. To determine the response of American eels, Anguilla rostrate, to rapid decompression, testing was conducted in the Mobile Aquatic …

Course Catalog 2016-17, Wellesley College

The Wellesley College Catalogs

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Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, And Masochism, Amber Jamilla Musser (2014), Octavio R. Gonzalez

Faculty Research and Scholarship

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