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Temporal And Spatial Distribution Of Cetacean Strandings Focusing On The Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) With A Synthesis Of Potential Causes, April D. Clark

HCNSO Student Capstones

A comprehensive review of the literature and a quantitative statistical analysis of that information are presented. A total of 6,015 cetaceans stranded at 36 locations from 24 peer reviewed articles published between 1999 and 2014 are documented, with the two most common stranding locations being the Canary Islands - accounting for 49 of the total cetacean stranding events - and Cape Cod - accounting for 31 of total cetacean stranding events. The documented cetacean stranding events included 805 for bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at a total of ten locations from 11 peer reviewed articles. When all single stranding …

Study On Physical Characteristics Of Buckwheat (Fagopyrum Esculentum Moench) Seeds, Li Jincai, Zhao Xiheng, Zhao Jiancheng, Guo Huimin, Wang Chao

Food and Machinery

To investigate the physical characteristics of buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) seeds, ten physical characteristics of five buckwheat cultivars were researched on their seeds, shells and kernels. The results showed that buckwheat seed moisture percentage was 11.6%-13.4% and the size of more than 90% of buckwheat seed grains was 3.8-5.0 mm. The color values of L^*, a^* and b^* in kernels were about 1.8 times, 1.7 times and 2.6 times higher than those in seeds, respectively. And then the thousand grain weight of buckwheat seeds and the volume weights of seeds and kernels were measured to be …

Study On Inhibition Kinetics Of Polysaccharide From Yam On Α-Glucosidase, Li Pei

Food and Machinery

The research extracted polysaccharide from the Chinese yam by the methods of enzymolysis. UV scanning and infrared spectroscopy were used to identify the components and structure. Using PNPG as the substrate, the enzyme-inhibitor model was used to study the inhibition ability of polysaccharide from the Chinese yam of the α-glucosidase, and the double reciprocal plot method was used to determine the type of inhibition. The UV scanning results showed that the extract does not contain nucleic acids and proteins, and the infrared spectra showed that the extracts had the characteristic absorption peak of polysaccharide. The enzyme-inhibitor model showed that the …

Effect Of Ultra-High Pressure Combined With Mild-Temperature Processing On Quality Of Strawberry Juice During Storage, Yin Linlin, Yang Jiantao, Liu Haitao, Ye Tao, Wang Jiao, Chen Jiluan

Food and Machinery

In order to study the effect of ultra-high pressure combined with mild-temperature processing (45 ℃, 400 MPa, 15 min) on microorganism, fluid properties, texture and the color stability of fresh strawberry juice when stored at 4 ℃, and the pure ultra-high pressure was as control. The result showed that the ultra-high pressure combined mild-temperature treatment could sterilizated effic-iently and no increasing microorganism was found (＜10 CFU/mL) during storage, and mold and yeast were not detected. Compared with wit pure ultra-high pressure processing, the rheological properties tended to increase the pseudoplastic fluid, the viscosity, pectin content, cloudy stability, brightness, weaken the …

Effect Of Micro-Perforated Package On Storage Quality Of Agaricus Bisporus, Li Yunyun, Wei Dan, Zhang Min

Food and Machinery

0（CK）, 2, 4, 6, and 8 microholes (Ф=0.3 mm) were evenly punctured on the PE packing bags (20 cm×30 cm×40 μm), and the effect of micro-perforated package on storage quality of Agaricus bisporus was studied. Results showed that in the 14 days storage period, each group micro-perforated package could improve internal O₂ and CO₂ content, effectively reduced the respiration rate and respiration peak , maintain good quality indexes, but micro-perforated package could promote the weight loss of Agaricus bisporus. Especially the 4 microholes treatment could maintain a low respiration rate, delay the appearance of respiration peak, inhibit the …

Research On Biological Activity Of Anthocyanins In Wild Blueberry, Jing Zhixing, Lv Liuzhuang, Xu Jianfeng, Wang Wenhan, Fan Hua

Food and Machinery

Anthocyanins was extracted from wild blueberry. The evaluations were made on activities of antioxidant in vitro with superoxide anion and hydrogen peroxide radical scavenging, mice in vivo anti-inflammatory with mice swollen foot swollen ear inflammatory model and anti-tumor activity in vitro by AlamarBlue method after purified by XAD-7 macroporous resin. Results: the anthocyanins of Chinese wild blueberry have obvious antioxidant capacity, and have a positive correlation between the concentration; in concentration of 800 μg/mL, the superoxide anion scavenging rate was 86.86%, and at a concentration of 100 μg/mL, the hydrogen peroxide scavenging rate come to 73.93%; in addition, the anthocyanins …

Optimization On Ultrasonic-Assisted Extraction Of Polyphenols From Dendrobium Huoshanense And Its Antioxidant Activity, Wei Ming, Liu Yanyan, Cai Weirong, Qian Senhe, Zhang Ke

Food and Machinery

In order to determine the optimal conditions for the extraction of polyphenols from Dendrobium huoshanense by ultrasonic-assisted cellulase, response surface methodology was used to optimize the extraction process. Antioxidant activity of Dendrobium huoshanense polyphenols was evaluated. The results showed that the optimal conditions for the extraction of polyphenols were as follows: ultrasonic power 180 W, ultrasonic time 20 min, cellulase concentra-tion 2.1 mg/mL, enzymolysis temperature 57 ℃, enzymolysis time 71 min, and enzymolysis pH 5. Under these conditions, the average yield of polyphenols was 13.74 mg/g. Antioxidant assays revealed that Dendrobium huoshanense polyphenols had significant antioxidant activity. DPPH and ABTS …

Study On Process Of Sugar Permeation By Microwave Vacuum Technology In Preserved Fruit Making Of Low Sugar Purple Sweet Potato, Wang Shunmin, Li Yong, Cao Weibing

Food and Machinery

Using purple sweet potato as material, the effects were evaluated, including microwave power, microwave treatment time, vacuum degree, ratio of liquid to solid and gelatin addition on sugar permeability of purple sweet potato under low concentration sugar condition. Response surface methodology was used to determine the five process parameters based on reducing sugar content in purple sweet potato preserved fruit. Results showed that the optimal process conditions were liquid-material ratio of 7∶1 (g/g) (the gelatin content of 1.0%, ratio of maltose sugar to sucrose of 35∶5, and maltose sugar and sucrose concentration of 20%, respectively), microwave power of 560 W, …

Stability Of “Shell-Core” Micelles Formed By Amphiphilic Polysaccharides, Xiang Zhuoya, Zhao Guohua, Ye Fayin, Lv Xia

Food and Machinery

In recent years, the amphiphilic polysaccharide as the carrier of lipophilic components has become a research hotspot in food science. In the aqueous system, the soluble amphiphilic polysaccharide can self-aggregate to form the shell-core structure with the hydrophobic moieties forming the core of the micelle and the hydrophilic moieties forming the corona. The structural characteristic is the basis of the function of the micelle. Therefore, it is very important for practical application to maintain or stabilize the structure of the micelle. In this review, it describes the amphiphilic polysaccharide micelle stability, inter-molecular force, influence factors (structural factors and environmental factors) …

The Application Of Seaweed Polysaccharides In Plant Hard Capsule, He Huanghuang, Xiao Meitian, Zhang Xueqin, Ye Jing, Huang Yayan

Food and Machinery

The application of sodium alginate in enteric hard capsule and carrageenan in gastric hard capsule was clarified in this study. Moreover, the structure and physicochemical properties of the gel and rheology of seaweed polysaccharides compound with other polysaccharides, the film-forming of blended polysaccharides and preparation process of plant hard capsule were also summarized. It was reviewed that the researches and applications of film-forming mechanism in plant hard capsule productions in the present paper. The expectation of the future research direction may provide some strategies to the applications of seaweed polysaccharides plant hard capsules.

Invited Review: Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells In Intramuscular Connective Tissue Development, Z. G. Miao, L. P. Zhang, X. Fu, Q. Y. Yang, M. J. Zhu, M. V. Dodson, M. Du

Faculty Publications

© The Animal Consortium 2015. The abundance and cross-linking of intramuscular connective tissue contributes to the background toughness of meat, and is thus undesirable. Connective tissue is mainly synthesized by intramuscular fibroblasts. Myocytes, adipocytes and fibroblasts are derived from a common pool of progenitor cells during the early embryonic development. It appears that multipotent mesenchymal stem cells first diverge into either myogenic or non-myogenic lineages; non-myogenic mesenchymal progenitors then develop into the stromal-vascular fraction of skeletal muscle wherein adipocytes, fibroblasts and derived mesenchymal progenitors reside. Because non-myogenic mesenchymal progenitors mainly undergo adipogenic or fibrogenic differentiation during muscle development, strengthening progenitor …

Screening For Genes Important For Cold Acclimatization In Neurospora Crassa, Michael K. Watters, Holly Howell, Victor Manzanilla

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

The environmental conditions that life must contend with can vary widely.

Organisms have evolved a wide range of mechanisms for contending with

these changing conditions. For relatively simple, sessile organisms (such

as fungi), they must adapt themselves to the extremes of the environment.

When subjected to rapid drops of temperature (cold shock), Neurospora

responds with a dramatic, but temporary shift in its branching pattern. The

fungal response, seems to parallel the physiological response to similar

cold shock which has been observed in E. coli in which a set of genes is

activated transiently in order to adjust the cell for …

Stabilization In A Chemostat With Sampled And Delayed Measurements, Frédéric Mazenc, Jérome Harmand, Michael Malisoff

Faculty Publications

We study chemostat models with constant substrate input concentrations. We allow growth functions that are not necessarily monotone. The measurement is the substrate concentration, which is piecewise constant with a nonconstant delay, so only sampled observations are available. Under new conditions on the size of the delay and on the largest sampling interval, we solve the problem of asymptotically stabilizing a componentwise positive equilibrium point with the dilution rate as the control. We use a new Lyapunov approach.

Managing Our Microbial Mark: What We Can Learn About Pay For Performance From Ebola's Arrival At Our Shores, Ann Marie Marciarille

Faculty Works

The narrative of Ebola’s arrival in the United States has been overwhelmed by our fear of a West African-style epidemic. The real story of Ebola’s arrival is about our healthcare system’s failure to identify, treat, and contain healthcare associated infections. Having long been willfully ignorant of the path of fatal infectious diseases through our healthcare facilities, this paper considers why our reimbursement and quality reporting systems made it easy for this to be so. West Africa’s challenges in controlling Ebola resonate with our own struggles to standardize, centralize, and enforce infection control procedures in American healthcare facilities.

Busy Summers, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton junior Corey Kuminecz could have worked a typical summer job back home in Indiana, but it would have done little to advance his skills for a potential career in environmental biology. Instead, he is assisting a National Science Foundation-funded research project to study the impact of invasive honeysuckle shrubs on Dayton-area streams.

Wearable Fitness Devices: Personal Health Data Privacy In Washington State, Steven Spann

Seattle University Law Review

Private entities are increasingly targeting individuals in the United States and around the world to gather personal data for such purposes as product development, market identification, and insurance risk assessment. While credit card records and online browsing histories have long been the medium through which this data is gathered, in more recent years, wearable fitness devices have added a new dimension to data production and collection. These devices are capable of gathering a significant amount of data regarding a person’s physical and physiological characteristics, thereby exposing these data producers to personal privacy infringement. Washington State lawmakers and citizens must be …

Samarium-153-Edtmp (Quadramet®) With Or Without Vaccine In Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: A Randomized Phase 2 Trial, Christopher R. Heery, Ravi A. Madan, Mark N. Stein, Walter M. Stadler, Robert S. Dipaola, Myrna Rauckhorst, Seth M. Steinberg, Jennifer L. Marté, Clara C. Chen, Italia Grenga, Renee N. Donahue, Caroline Jochems, William L. Dahut, Jeffrey Schlom, James L. Gulley

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

PSA-TRICOM is a therapeutic vaccine in late stage clinical testing in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Samarium-153-ethylene diamine tetramethylene phosphonate (Sm-153-EDTMP; Quadramet^®), a radiopharmaceutical, binds osteoblastic bone lesions and emits beta particles causing local tumor cell destruction. Preclinically, Sm-153-EDTMP alters tumor cell phenotype facilitating immune-mediated killing. This phase 2 multi-center trial randomized patients to Sm-153-EDTMP alone or with PSA-TRICOM vaccine. Eligibility required mCRPC, bone metastases, prior docetaxel and no visceral disease. The primary endpoint was the proportion of patients without radiographic disease progression at 4 months. Secondary endpoints included progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and immune responses. …

Thirty Years Of Compositional Change In An Old-Growth Temperate Forest: The Role Of Topographic Gradients In Oak-Maple Dynamics, Julia I. Chapman, Ryan W. Mcewan

Biology Faculty Publications

Ecological communities are structured in response to spatial and temporal variation of numerous factors, including edaphic conditions, biotic interactions, climatic patterns and disturbance regimes. Widespread anthropogenic factors such as timber harvesting can create long-lasting impacts, obscuring the relationship between community structure and environmental conditions. Minimally impacted systems such as old-growth forests can serve as a useful ecological baseline for predicting long-term compositional shifts. We utilized decadal tree species sampling data (1979–2010) divided into three strata (understory, midstory, overstory) to examine temporal changes in relative abundances and spatial distributions of dominant taxa, as well as overall shifts in community composition, in …

Perceived Effectiveness Of E-Learning For Technology Instruction In Public Library Staff Development Programs: A Survey Based On The Technology Acceptance Model, Julia Huprich

Master of Science in Information Technology Theses

The purpose of this research study was to determine the perceived effectiveness of e-learning for staff members in public libraries. In addition, the effects of user demographics - including a user’s age and gender - were analyzed to determine if these factors impacted the perceived effectiveness of e-learning as a training delivery model.

Davis’s Technology Acceptance Model (1989) was used to develop a questionnaire related to the perceived effectiveness and value of e-learning, and a survey of public library staff members across the United States was conducted. Results of the survey showed the impact that previous e-learning experience and the …

Libraries As Publishers, Authors, And Textbook Providers, Amy Filiatreau

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

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Pete Wyckoff And Timna Wyckoff Awarded Elite Science Policy Fellowships, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Professor of Biology Pete Wyckoff and Associate Professor of Biology Timna Wyckoff ’94 were awarded prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF). They will spend a year in Washington, DC influencing policymakers and politicians for the betterment of science.

Exome-Based Variant Detection In Core Promoters., Yeong C. Kim, Jian Cui, Jiangtao Luo, Fengxia Xiao, Bradley Downs, San Ming Wang

Journal Articles: Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy

Core promoter controls the initiation of transcription. Core promoter sequence change can disrupt transcriptional regulation, lead to impairment of gene expression and ultimately diseases. Therefore, comprehensive characterization of core promoters is essential to understand normal and abnormal gene expression in biomedical studies. Here we report the development of EVDC (Exome-based Variant Detection in Core promoters) method for genome-scale analysis of core-promoter sequence variation. This method is based on the fact that exome sequences contain the sequences not only from coding exons but also from non-coding region including core promoters generated by random fragmentation in exome sequencing process. Using exome data …

Comparable Analysis Of Nutrition And Functional Active Ingredients In Different Varieties Of Tartary Buckwheat, Wang Shixia, Li Xiaorui, Yun Tingting, Yao Yang, Ren Guixing, Qi Wentao

Food and Machinery

The components of nutritional and functional ingredients in 7 kinds of tartary buckwheat were detected and comparable analysis in this paper. The mean contents of basic components (moisture and ash)，nutritional compositions (amino acid, fatty acid, starch and protein) and functional active ingredient (flavonoids, polyphenols and rutin) in 7 kinds of tartary buckwheat were determined. The starch contents varied from 60.23% to 65.44%, and there were no significant difference between different varieties, while the differences of slowly digestible and resistant starch (RS) starch (SDS) were large. The protein contents varied from 11.80% and 15.83% and no difference were found among different …

Research On Optimization Method Of Sensor Array Based On Electronic Tongue Identification, Wang Yanfen

Food and Machinery

This paper introduces the development status of the technology of electronic tongue in food detection, expounds the structure and working principle of electronic tongue; investigates the sensor types and characteristics, discusses the electronic tongue in food and beverage identify sensor array optimization process and the method of analysis, and then makes comprehensive comparison of various methods, aiming at electronic tongue identify provide the reference for its application in food detection.

Enculturation Pedagogy, Robert Lane Rockett

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

As instructors, it is very clear to us that our students all come from different backgrounds, different places, and different social environments. Some students are returning to college as they change vocations, while others are entering a brand new environment quite different from those they may have encountered in previous scholastic endeavors, whether they come from another country or even a somewhat different part of the United States. Students, like travelers to foreign lands and cultures, enter the university facing new expectations and ideas for which many frequently find themselves ill-prepared. They might struggle as they learn to speak and …

Multiple New-Particle Growth Pathways Observed At The Us Doe Southern Great Plains Field Site, Anna L. Hodshire, Michael J. Lawler, Jun Zhao, John Ortega, Coty Jen, Taina Yli-Juuti, Jared F. Brewer, Jack K. Kodros, Kelley C. Barsanti, Dave R. Hanson, Peter H. Mcmurry, James N. Smith, Jeffery R. Pierce

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

New-particle formation (NPF) is a significant source of aerosol particles into the atmosphere. However, these particles are initially too small to have climatic importance and must grow, primarily through net uptake of low volatility species, from diameters ∼ 1 to 30–100 nm in order to potentially impact climate. There are currently uncertainties in the physical and chemical processes associated with the growth of these freshly formed particles that lead to uncertainties in aerosol-climate modeling. Four main pathways for new-particle growth have been identified: condensation of sulfuric-acid vapor (and associated bases when available), condensation of organic vapors, uptake of organic acids …

Aptamer-Hybrid Nanoparticle Bioconjugate Efficiently Delivers Mirna-29b To Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Cells And Inhibits Growth By Downregulating Essential Oncoproteins., Maryna Perepelyuk, Christina Maher, Ashakumary Lakshmikuttyamma, Sunday A. Shoyele

College of Pharmacy Faculty Papers

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are potentially attractive candidates for cancer therapy. However, their therapeutic application is limited by lack of availability of an efficient delivery system to stably deliver these potent molecules intracellularly to cancer cells while avoiding healthy cells. We developed a novel aptamer-hybrid nanoparticle bioconjugate delivery system to selectively deliver miRNA-29b to MUC1-expressing cancer cells. Significant downregulation of oncoproteins DNMT3b and MCL1 was demonstrated by these MUC1 aptamer-functionalized hybrid nanoparticles in A549 cells. Furthermore, downregulation of these oncoproteins led to antiproliferative effect and induction of apoptosis in a superior version when compared with Lipofectamine 2000. This novel aptamer-hybrid nanoparticle bioconjugate …

Integrating Indigenous Knowledge And Western Science Into Forestry, Natural Resources, And Environmental Programs, Priya Verma, Karen Vaughan, Kathleen J. Martin, Elvira Pulitano, James Garrett, Douglas D. Piirto

Ethnic Studies

A new minor titled “Indigenous Studies in Natural Resources and the Environment” (INRE) became available to students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, in the fall of 2013. This minor aims to bring together the principles of both Indigenous ecological knowledge and western science. Instruction in these two approaches provides students with practical knowledge, research, and critical thinking skills to address complex environmental issues and natural resources management problems facing both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities around the world today. The INRE minor seeks to prepare students by providing a balanced education in the arts, sciences, and …

Associations Between Male Testosterone And Immune Function In A Pathogenically Stressed Forager-Horticultural Population, Benjamin C. Trumble, Aaron D. Blackwell, Jonathan Stieglitz, Melissa Emery Thompson, Ivan Maldonado Suarez, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven

ESI Publications

Objectives—Despite well-known fitness advantages to males who produce and maintain high endogenous testosterone levels, such phenotypes may be costly if testosterone-mediated investment in reproductive effort trade-off against investment in somatic maintenance. Previous studies of androgen-mediated trade-offs in human immune function find mixed results, in part because most studies either focus on a few indicators of immunity, are confounded by phenotypic correlation, or are observational. Here the association between male endogenous testosterone and 13 circulating cytokines are examined before and after ex vivo antigen stimulation with phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in a high pathogen population of Bolivian forager-horticulturalists.

Materials …

Cosm Biology News, Georgia Southern University

Biology: News & Publications (2012-2017)

• New Georgia Southern Biology professor receives award