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Animal Grieving And Human Mourning, Matteo Colombo

Animal Sentience

King’s How animals grieve beautifully describes several ways in which animals and humans show a similar capacity for grief. Yet this book does not sufficiently emphasise the language-empowered capacity to objectify thinking and sentiments about death, which makes human mourning unique. Here I put this capacity into focus and relate it to the social-normative aspect of human mourning that seems to be missing in other animals.

Biosentinel: A 6u Nanosatellite For Deep Space Biological Science, Hugo Sanchez, James Chartres, Robert Hanel, Sharmila Bhattacharya, Antonio Ricco, Matthew Dortenzio

Small Satellite Conference

BioSentinel is a "6U" (10 x 22 x 34 cm; 14 kg) nanosatellite flying as a secondary payload aboard NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Exploration Mission (EM) 1, scheduled for launch in 2018. BioSentinel measures the damage and repair of DNA in a biological organism and compares that to information to onboard physical radiation sensors. In order to understand the relative contributions of the space environment's two dominant biological perturbations, reduced gravity and ionizing radiation, results from deep space will be compared to data obtained in LEO (on ISS) and a ground control on Earth. These data points allow the …

Real-Time Pcr Detection And Phylogenetic Relationships Of Neorickettsia In Digeneans From Egypt, Phillipines, Thailand, Vietnam And The United States, Stephen E. Greiman, Jefferson A. Vaughan, Rasha Elmahy, Poom Adisakwattana, Nguyen Van Ha, Thomas J. Fayton, Amal I. Khalil, Vasyl V. Tkach

Student Publications

Neorickettsia (Rickettsiales, Anaplasmataceae) is a genus of obligate intracellular bacterial endosymbionts of digeneans (Platyhelminthes, Digenea). Some Neorickettsia are able to invade cells of the digenean's vertebrate host and are known to cause diseases of domestic animals, wildlife, and humans. In this study we report the results of screening digenean samples for Neorickettsia collected from bats in Egypt and Mindoro Island, Philippines, snails and fishes from Thailand, and fishes from Vietnam and the USA. Neorickettsia were detected using a real-time PCR protocol targeting a 152bp fragment of the heat shock protein coding gene, GroEL, and verified with nested PCR and sequencing …

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, August 6, 2016, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

President's Fellow Medallion - Harold W. Mullis; Honorary Doctor of Nursing - Loretta Ford; Outstanding Graduate - Patrick Mullen; King O'Neal Scholars - Alex Andrews, John Healer, Heather Rambo, Jordyn Rinehart, Wei Lue Tong, and Nicole Wood

Investigating The Role Of Anaerobic Bacteria In Colorectal Carcinoma, Oluwadara Coker

Theses

Colorectal cancer (CRC), with multifactorial influences of genetic, molecular, inflammatory, and environmental factors, is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Due to the high diversity and concentration of microbes found in the human colon, the microbiome has become a prime suspect of being a biological contributor. This prompts the need to investigate the relationship between microorganisms and CRC. Recent studies have shown that Fusobacterium nucleatum, Campylobacter showae, Leptrotrichia buccalis, and Selenomonas sputigena are overrepresented in colon tumors. These anaerobes have known associations to the oral microbiome and cause infections. Here, these findings are further expanded in an experimental attempt to …

Can A Speaker Of Syllable-Timed L1 (Spanish) Recognize The Stress-Timed Pattern Of The English Language?, Masooma Naqvi

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

This is an action-based case study focusing on the ability of a Spanish speaking adult female learner (Lucy) to recognize her incorrect sentence stress in English and recognize what the target stress pattern should be. Following a pre and post-test procedure to collect data over the course of four consecutive once-a-week sessions the participant of the study is interviewed and recorded on the first and the last session while the sessions in between are interventional. The results of the study revealed that adult learners of English are able to recognize and be aware of the English sentence stress pattern but …

Dissolved Organic Carbon Uptake In Streams: A Review And Assessment Of Reach‐Scale Measurements, Madeleine M. Mineau, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Ishi Buffam, Stuart E. G. Findlay, Robert O. Hall Jr., Erin R. Hotchkiss, Lauren E. Koenig, William H. Mcdowell, Thomas B. Parr

Faculty Publications

Quantifying the role that freshwater ecosystems play in the global carbon cycle requires accurate measurement and scaling of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal in river networks. We reviewed reach‐scale measurements of DOC uptake from experimental additions of simple organic compounds or leachates to inform development of aquatic DOC models that operate at the river network, regional, or continental scale. Median DOC uptake velocity (vf) across all measurements was 2.28 mm min−1. Measurements using simple compound additions resulted in faster vf (2.94 mm min−1) than additions of leachates (1.11 mm min−1). We also reviewed published data of DOC bioavailability for ambient …

Insects Join The Consciousness Fray, Bjorn H. Merker

Animal Sentience

Klein & Barron's review of recent insect neurobiology helps correct the impression that insect behavior is orchestrated without the benefit of central integrative mechanisms. Given their existence, the authors go on to ask whether these central mechanisms also feature the kind of integrative operations that support sentience, and propose that they do. Along the way they raise a number of conceptual and evidentiary issues of fundamental importance for the neuroscience of consciousness, allowing me to comment favorably on a number of them. I conclude by pointing to ways in which the conception of insect sentience they outline might be tested …

Face Of The Future, Megan Downs

UNLV Innovation

Paul Oh, robotics visionary, believes Nevada is poised to become the nation’s premier destination for all manner of “unmanned systems,” those technological marvels that are rapidly redrawing the boundaries between man and machine.

Research Briefs

UNLV Innovation

• Unwelcome flora
• An attack on HIV
• Body-camera survey
• Up-close Nobel laureates
• A battery-powered partnership
• Gaming law
• Robotic “muscles”
• Full-day kindergarten
• Funds for biomedical research
• A low-oxygen fish

In Nursing And Allied Health, Recent Research Promises Patient Benefits, Kevin Dunegan

UNLV Innovation

By expanding research and encouraging collaboration, UNLV’s nursing and allied health faculty are advancing patient outcomes.

• Yu Kuang
• Kai-Yu Ho
• Barbara St. Pierre Schneider
• Jennifer Kawi
• Susan VanBeuge
• Steen Madsen

Paths To Innovation, Megan Downs, Robyn Campbell-Ouchida, Shane Bevell

UNLV Innovation

As uncertainties cloud the future of funding support for higher education, UNLV’s ability to market its intellectual property becomes ever more crucial. Three projects provide textbook cases for how it’s done.

• Kwang Kim
• Mark Yoseloff
• Bryan Spangelo

Research Briefs

UNLV Innovation

• Switch SUPERNAP, Intel Partner with UNLV to Boost Scientific Research and Economic Development
• How Long Is It Safe To Stay In Space?
• “Exquisitely Preserved” Fossil Find Sheds Light on a Distant Era
• Graduate Programs Earn High Marks from U.S. News
• Southwest Found To Be Among the Most “Climate-Challenged” Regions in the Nation
• Public Weighs in on Pros and Cons of Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Historical Nevada Newspapers To Be Digitized Through NEH Grant
• Earth’s Most Plentiful Mineral Finally Makes an Appearance
• $1.4 Million Grant To Expand Clinical Social Work Education & Research
• Researchers Employ Bluetooth Technology In Blood-Flow Sensor

Identifying Genetic Risk Factors For Coronary Artery Angiographic Stenosis In A Genetically Diverse Population, Zhi Liu

Open Access Dissertations

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death world-wide. It is a multifactorial genetic disease with an estimated heritability of 40%. Many genetic studies had been performed on CAD, but they explained only 10% of the total heritability, partially due to most of these studies were performed on Europeans only. Admixed populations, such as Hispanics, were understudied, despite their higher risks of CAD than Europeans. To explain additional heritability of CAD, 2023 individuals were ascertained from the Miami Cardiovascular Registry catheterization labs, which were representative of the South Florida population – a mixture of Hispanics, Europeans, and African …

A Model For Emerging Infectious Disease/Disaster Preparedness Training For Nursing Students, Susana Barroso

Open Access Dissertations

Disasters can occur due to natural events or environmental accidents, or they can be purposeful and man-made. Regardless of how they occur, disasters place extraordinary stresses on society’s ability to deal with the catastrophic effects. Given the prevalence of disasters and infectious disease pandemics, there is an urgent need to improve education of healthcare providers. Because nurses comprise the largest percentage of healthcare providers and are early disaster responders, disaster preparedness is critical. Some studies have shown that an education gap exists between nursing school curricula and the expectations of nurses and nursing faculty with regard to disaster preparedness. While …

Moral Injury In Contemporary Ethics: The Application Of A Socratic Idea, Heleana Theixos

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation is an investigation of the Socratic moral claim that being a moral wrongdoer is worse for the wrongdoer than it is for the victim. Chapter One investigates this moral claim in the context of Plato’s Gorgias and the historical Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen. Chapter Two brings the ancient conception into contemporary ethics into a typology of what the ancient concept looks like in contemporary ethics. Chapter Three prepares for an investigation of a certain moral wrongdoer, the military interrogator/ torturer and wrongdoing, by first examining a standard torture hypothetical, the Ticking Time Bomb. All three chapters work together …

Long-Term Overstory Vegetation Responses To Prescribed Fire Management For Longleaf Pine At Big Thicket National Preserve, Deanna M. Boensch

Student Publications

At the western edge of the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) range, federal land managers have burned the forests of Big Thicket National Preserve to bring back the structure and diversity of the longleaf pine forest. In the early 1990’s, a four year study was conducted by Rice University, and the National Park Service continued monitoring the study’s fire ecology research plots. After two decades of data collection, ordination was applied to species abundance data to examine changes in vegetation communities from a variety of prescribed fire treatments and controls. The vegetation data was separated by size class to …

08-05-2016 Swosu Student Wins Best Poster At Summer Research Symposium, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2016

Southwestern Oklahoma State University honors program and biology student Ashley Powers-Watson of Loco recently won the best poster presentation at the Oklahoma IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (OK-INBRE) summer research symposium held at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.

Development And Characterization Of Oxygen Sensitive Microbial Biosensors, Jonathan Lee

Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Research Publications

Microbial biosensors are useful in detecting suboptimal conditions in a bioreactor. This detection can help in development of improved mixing methods to reduce the occurrence of these conditions. In this research, the activities of 3 promoters known to have activity under anaerobic conditions, the gadB promoter, an FNR protein activated promoter, and the pfl promoter, were tested for activity under anaerobic conditions by connecting them to a green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene. Using two types of media, Luria-Bertani (LB) and Wilms-Reuss media, the activity of these promoters under aerobic and anaerobic conditions were tested. Results indicate that while the FNR …

Summer Commencement Program, August 5, 2016, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

Morris Elected Fellow Of Animal Behavior Society, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

From "Brief Eulogies For Lost Species", Daniel Hudon

The Goose

Since the year 1500, almost 900 species around the world have officially become extinct. Several of these species resided in Canada and though some are well known to the public, others are not. Here, briefly, are stories of five of them.

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Upregulates Bdnf-Trkb Signaling, Andreas Stucky, Kalindi P. Bakshi, Eitan Friedman, Hoau-Yan Wang

Publications and Research

Prenatal cocaine exposure causes profound changes in neurobehavior as well as synaptic function and structure with compromised glutamatergic transmission. Since synaptic health and glutamatergic activity are tightly regulated by brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling through its cognate tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB), we hypothesized that prenatal cocaine exposure alters BDNF-TrkB signaling during brain development. Here we show prenatal cocaine exposure enhances BDNF-TrkB signaling in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFCX) of 21-day-old rats without affecting the expression levels of TrkB, P75NTR, signaling molecules, NMDA receptor—NR1 subunit as well as proBDNF and BDNF. Prenatal cocaine exposure reduces activity-dependent proBDNF and BDNF release …

International Academy Of Cardiology Awards Malinski For Research, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Templated Oligosaccharide Synthesis, Jia Guang Xiao

Dissertations

Glycosyl transfer within the active site of an enzyme involves the arrangement of the gly-cosyl donor and glycosyl acceptor in close proximity to each other. To mimic this pro-cess, intramolecular glycosylations are carried out where the donor and acceptor are linked together via a spacer. Correct orientation, rigidity and position of the spacer play a vital role in the selectivity and yield of reactions in this “molecular clamp method”. Though current methodologies show promising results in terms of yield and selectivity, the need to synthesize different complexes to ensure selectivities in all types of glycosidic linkages is a large deterrent …

Discovery Of Infants' Airway Microbiomes May Help Predict Lung Disease, Jeff Hansen

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Summer Commencement: August 5, 2016, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Summer Commencement program from August 5, 2016.

Passing: Professor Emeritus Donald Green, Stacia Sower

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Agriculture And The Environment, Elise Nicole Volz

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

Southern Minnesota is an agricultural hub, and there is a deeply rooted methodology when it comes to the techniques used to plant, grow, and harvest grain crops. These techniques have come under scrutiny as they are being accused of causing harm to the environment. As an alternative to these conventional agricultural techniques, sustainable agriculture provides an agricultural methodology that aims to grow crops in such a way that the environment is harmed a little as possible. This project was designed to determine awareness of sustainable agriculture among a group of students and develop a curriculum that allows students to explore …

Ethics Of Biological Sampling Research With Aboriginal Communities In Canada, Behdin Nowrouzi, Lorrilee Mcgregor, Alicia Mcdougall, Donna Debassige, Jennifer Casole, Christine Nguyen, Behnam Nowrouzi-Kia, Deborah Mcgregor

Articles & Book Chapters

The objective of this paper is to identify key ethical issues associated with biological sampling in Aboriginal populations in Canada and to recommend approaches that can be taken to address these issues. Our work included the review of notable biological sampling cases and issues. We examined several significant cases (Nuu-chah-nult people of British Columbia, Hagahai peoples of Papua New Guinea and the Havasupai tribe of Arizona) on the inappropriate use of biological samples and secondary research in Aboriginal populations by researchers. Considerations for biological sampling in Aboriginal communities with a focus on community-based participatory research involving Aboriginal communities and partners …