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Faculty Senate Agenda, December 5, 2016, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Retention and Student Success
• EPC Items (November)
• USUSA Annual Report
• 402.12 Senate Standing Committees (Second Reading)

Improving Healthcare Provider Knowledge In Acute And Primary Transgender Health Needs: The Implementation Of A Clinical Education Program With Urgent Care And Emergency Room Staff And Providers, Tonia Lower

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

The purpose of this project was to improve knowledge and identify personal bias and beliefs in the acute and primary healthcare needs of transgender persons, through the implementation of a clinical education program with healthcare providers and staff working within the urgent care and emergency department settings. The need for such a program exists due to the lack of suitable and accessible healthcare that may lead to misdiagnosis, delay of treatment and poor health outcomes. Including clinical education in the acute and primary healthcare needs of transgender persons that can be integrated into healthcare organizations may aid in the improvement …

The Rider (2016-12-05), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.14

The Vertical And Horizontal Distribution Of Deep-Sea Crustaceans Of The Order Euphausiacea (Malacostraca: Eucarida) From The Northern Gulf Of Mexico With Notes On Reproductive Seasonality., Charles Douglas Fine

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

The vertical and horizontal distributions of Euphausiacea in the northern Gulf of Mexico, including the location of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, were analyzed from 340 trawl samples collected between April-June, 2011. This study is the first comprehensive survey of euphausiid distributions from depths deeper than 1000 m in the Gulf of Mexico and included stratified sampling from five discrete depth ranges (0-200 m, 200-600 m, 600-1000 m, 1000-1200 m, and 1200-1500 m). In addition, this study encompasses the region heavily impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Data presented here could potentially be used in ecosystem models investigating trophic …

Efficient Method For Transfer Of Microinjected Eggs To Mouse Ampulla For Generating Transgenic Mice, Guang Wen, Jin Di, Qian Li, Jianling Chen, Ling Jin, Cheng Wang, Sanqing Xu

Publications and Research

Background: The new method described here is highly efficient in transferring microinjected mouse eggs (MEs) through the bursa membrane of a surrogate mother mouse to the ampulla of the oviduct without damaging the blood vessels on the bursa membrane.

Results: This method causes no loss of blood, and it produces newborn pups/founders from approximately 70% of the transferred MEs, because only a small hole is made on the blood vessel–free area of the bursa membrane and ampulla of the surrogate mother mouse. The infundibulum remains intact. The small hole on the bursa membrane/ ampulla may already heal up before the …

A Visual Representation Of Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Heather Leigh Hoskins

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Memory Effects In Brownian Motion, Random Walks Under Confining Potentials, And Relaxation Of Quantum Systems, Matthew Chase

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

This dissertation is a report on a number of distinct topics in the field of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics including the evolution of classical as well as quantum systems.

The evolution of an object that is described by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process generalized through a time-nonlocal attraction is considered. The time-nonlocality is taken to be represented in the Langevin description through the presence of memory. Analysis of the Langevin equation is performed for algebraic and delay-type memories. An equivalent \emph{bona-fide} Fokker-Planck equation is constructed.

A random walker subjected to a non-standard confining potential, taken to be a piece-wise linear function, is analyzed. …

Ten Students Faculty Receive Funding From 2016 Kopchick Awards, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Transcription Factor Reb1 Is Required For Proper Transcriptional Start Site Usage At The Divergently Transcribed Tfc6-Esc2 Locus In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Qing Wang, David Donze

Faculty Publications

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Eukaryotic promoters generally contain nucleosome depleted regions near their transcription start sites. In the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae, these regions are adjacent to binding sites for general regulatory transcription factors, and the Reb1 protein is commonly bound to promoter DNA near such regions. The yeast TFC6 promoter is a unique RNA polymerase II promoter in that it is autoregulated by its own gene product Tfc6p, which is part of the RNA polymerase III transcription factor complex TFIIIC. We previously demonstrated that mutation of a potential Reb1 binding site adjacent to the TFIIIC binding site in the …

A Structural Etiology Of The U.S. Constitution, Charles Lincoln

Journal of Legislation

This article offers an interpretation of the problems addressed by and the eventual purpose of the United States government. Simultaneously, it seeks to analyze and explain the continued three-part structure of the United States federal government as outlined in the Constitution. Subsequently I define the three parts of the federal government—judiciary, executive, and legislative—as explained through the lens of the Platonic paradigm of (logos = word = law), (thymos = external driving spirit = executive), and (eros = general welfare = legislative) extrapolated from Plato’s dialogues.

First, the article establishes Plato’s theory of the three-part Platonic soul …

Multilevel Perspective On High-Order Harmonic Generation In Solids, Mengxi Wu, Dana A. Browne, Kenneth J. Schafer, Mette B. Gaarde

Faculty Publications

We investigate high-order harmonic generation in a solid, modeled as a multilevel system dressed by a strong infrared laser field. We show that the cutoff energies and the relative strengths of the multiple plateaus that emerge in the harmonic spectrum can be understood both qualitatively and quantitatively by considering a combination of adiabatic and diabatic processes driven by the strong field. Such a model was recently used to interpret the multiple plateaus exhibited in harmonic spectra generated by solid argon and krypton [G. Ndabashimiye, Nature 534, 520 (2016)NATUAS0028-083610.1038/nature17660]. We also show that when the multilevel system originates from the Bloch …

Water Wizards, Debbie Kane

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Mcsa Forum Minutes 12/05/2016, Morris Campus Student Association

Morris Campus Student Association

No abstract provided.

Bacterial Colonization And Antibiotic Resistance In A Prospective Cohort Of Newborn Infants During The First Year Of Life, Sharon B. Meropol, Kurt C. Stange, Michael R. Jacobs, Judith K. Weiss, Saralee Bajaksouzian, Robert A. Bonomo

Faculty Scholarship

Background. Infants are virtually sterile at birth and frequently use antibiotics; our objective was to (1) characterize the longitudinal colonization with bacterial pathogens and associated antibiotic resistance in a cohort of community-dwelling infants in Northeast Ohio and (2) describe longitudinal concurrent antibiotic and daycare exposures. Methods. For 35 newborns, nasopharyngeal swabs were cultured for Streptococcus pneumoniae, anterior nasal for Staphylococcus aureus, and perirectal for extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Gram-negative enteric bacteria, at 3-month intervals for 12 months. Infant and household antibiotics and daycare exposure were assessed longitudinally. Results. Thirteen infants received perinatal or nursery antibiotics. By 3 months, at least 22 …

Epha2 Is A Functional Receptor For The Growth Factor Progranulin., Thomas Neill, Simone Buraschi, Atul Goyal, Catherine Sharpe, Elizabeth Natkanski, Liliana Schaefer, Andrea Morrione, Renato V. Iozzo

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Although the growth factor progranulin was discovered more than two decades ago, the functional receptor remains elusive. Here, we discovered that EphA2, a member of the large family of Ephrin receptor tyrosine kinases, is a functional signaling receptor for progranulin. Recombinant progranulin bound with high affinity to EphA2 in both solid phase and solution. Interaction of progranulin with EphA2 caused prolonged activation of the receptor, downstream stimulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase and Akt, and promotion of capillary morphogenesis. Furthermore, we found an autoregulatory mechanism of progranulin whereby a feed-forward loop occurred in an EphA2-dependent manner that was independent of the …

“Hey, Nice Run!” Exploring Motives For Smartphone Exercise App Use, Michael S. Fuller

Doctoral Dissertations

The rapid pace at which smartphone applications are currently diffusing through society have made them a very popular form of media. Smartphone applications (commonly referred to as apps) allow users the ability to complete a variety of media functions such as receive news updates, sport scores, view television programs, and listen to the radio. Exercise apps are a sub category of smartphone apps which allow users to monitor their exercise progress through the Global Positioning System included in most smartphones. To date, the motives for exercise apps have not been examined within the framework of Uses and Gratifications. This essay …

Week Of December 5, 2016, New York Medical College

InTouch

• NYMC Earns MSCHE Full Accreditation
• Department of Pediatrics Hosts Sixth Annual Assistant Professor Pediatric Research Symposium
• Symposium Focuses on Pediatric Hematologic and Oncologic Problems

Understanding The Importance Of Intermittently Fragmented Stream Habitat For Isolated Westslope Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus Clarki Lewisi) In The Colville National Forest, Washington, Forrest Michael Carpenter

Dissertations and Theses

Climate change and anthropogenic effects have vastly reduced Westslope Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi, WCT) habitat throughout their range, including the Colville National Forest in northeastern Washington where this study was conducted. Many native salmonid populations have declined in abundance since the early 1900s due to a variety of climate- and human-driven forces. Westslope Cutthroat Trout are especially sensitive to habitat loss or degradation and to climate change. Together, climate change, habitat degradation, and non-native salmonid invasions are contributing to increasingly fragmented WCT populations. Ongoing and predicted future warming trends are expected to further fragment these populations and …

Policy Dissemination: Public Administration Theory And International Organizations | A Case Study On The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities In The Kingdom Of Morocco, Rachelle Ann Wilson

Capstone Projects – Politics and Government

With the advent of international organizations comes international law. Unprecedented at such a global and influential level, there is no theoretical framework within public administration explicitly focused on administrative structure and strategies for the implementation of international law. Consequently, the current administrative literature and theoretical framework must be looked to and transposed, as much as possible, to the international stage. This paper explores public administration theory and how it would manifest if applied to international policy implementation. By taking a closer look into the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its implementation strategy within the …

Effect Of Soil Textural Classes On The Biological Nitrogen Fixation By Bradyrhizobium Measured By 15n Dilution Analysis, Suad A. Al-Saedi, Ibrahim B. Razaq, Norrya A. Ali

Baghdad Science Journal

The current study was conductedas a pot experiment to determine the effect of soil texture on biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) of six most efficient local isolates, specified, of Bradyrhizobium. Cowpea (Vignaunguiculata L.), as a legume host crop, was used as a host crop and 15N dilution analysis was used for accurate determination of the amount of N biologically fixed under experimental parameters specified. Soils used are clay loam, sandy clay loam and sandy loam. Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF), in different soil textural classes, was as in the following order: medium texture soil > heavy texture soil > light textured soil. Statistical analysis …

Biochemical Study On Anti Thyroid Peroxidase In Type 2 Diabetic Patients With Thyroid Disorders, Sanad B. Al–A'Araji, Taufeek F. Rasen, Reiam A. Kadhum

Baghdad Science Journal

This study investigated the prevalence of anti-thyroid peroxidase (Anti-TPO) antibodies in type 2 diabetes patients with thyroid disorders. Conducted at the Specialized Center for Endocrinology and Diabetes in Baghdad from December 2014 to October 2015, the study included 80 subjects: 60 type 2 diabetic patients (20 with hyperthyroidism, 20 with hypothyroidism, 20 with euthyroidism) and 20 healthy controls. The results showed significantly higher levels of age, gender, and BMI in the patient groups compared to healthy controls (p<0.01). The hypothyroidism group had the highest mean Anti-TPO levels (333.57 ± 104.77). T3 and T4 levels were higher in the hyperthyroidism group, while TSH levels were elevated in the hypothyroidism group.

Synthesis And Characterization Of Some New 1,3,4-Oxadiazole Derivatives Based On 4-Amino Benzoic Acid, Shatha F. Al-Zobaydi, Bushra K. Hamed, Ban D. Ismael

Baghdad Science Journal

Various of 2,5- disubstituted 1,3,4-oxadiazole (Schiff base, β- lactam and azo) were synthesized from 2,5-di (4,4'-amino-1,3,4-oxadiazole which usequently synth-esized from mixture of 4- amino benzoic acid and hydrazine arch of polyphosphorus acid. The synthesized compounds were cherecterized by using some spectral data (UV, FT-IR , and 1H-NMR)

Synthesis Of New Polyimides Derived From 4- Minoantipyrine, Sameaa J. K. Al-Bayati, Amaal S. Sadiq, Wasan A. R. Mahmood

Baghdad Science Journal

In the present study, new five polymers of acryloyl chloride have been synthesized by reaction 4-aminoantipyrine with many substituted acid chloride (A-E). Then condensation of polyacryloyl chloride with the product in one step (A-E), in a suitable solvent in the presence amount of (Et3N) to obtain new polyimides(A1-E5). The prepared compounds were characterized by UV. FT-IR, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopy and measuring of other physical properties such as softening point, melting point and solublities.

Synthesis, Characterization, Antimicrobial And Theoretical Studies Of V(Iv),Fe(Iii),Co(Ii),Ni(Ii), Cu(Ii), And Zn(Ii)Complexes With Bidentate (Nn) Donar Azo Dye Ligand, Rehab A. M. Al-Hassani

Baghdad Science Journal

The new 4-[(7-chloro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole)azo]-4,5-diphenyl imidazole (L) have been synthesized and characterized by micro elemental and thermal analyses as well as 1H.NMR, FT-IR, and UV-Vis spectroscopic techniques. (L) acts as a ligand coordinating with some metal ions V(IV), Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II). Structures of the new compounds were characterized by elemental and thermal analyses as well as FT-IR and UV-Vis Spectra. The magnetic properties and electrical conductivities of metal complexes were also determined. Study of the nature of the complexes formed in ethanol following the mole ratio method. The work also includes a theoretical treatment of the formed complexes in …

Rose Marie Buckley

African American Funeral Programs

Interment at Riverview Memorial Gardens

The Effect Of Nitrogen And Sodium Chloride Stress In The Productivity Of Some Fatty Acids In Chlorococcum Humicola Green Alga, Ibrahim M.A Alsalman, Thaier I.M Alukaily

Baghdad Science Journal

Algae have been considered a sources task of biofuels, which is a future alternative to fossil fuels, and this lead the environmental studies concerned with the lifting of curves or growth rates and time of replication of different kinds of algae, as well as algae cells in response to different environmental conditions, whether chemical or physical, to assess their impact on the composition of these cells and the extent of affected components that make up the living, especially fatty acid ,total fats, proteins and carbohydrates, Gbrha. Green Chlorococcum humicola showed a different response when treated with an average of agriculture …

Physiological Study To Investigate The Activity Of An Aqueous Extract Ofcinnamomum Cassiabark On The Blood Glucose Levels In Healthy And Diabetic Rats Induced By Streptozotocin (Stz), Qussay Noori Raddam Al-Muhammadi

Baghdad Science Journal

The present study was investigated the activity of aqueous extract from Cinnamomum cassia bark on the blood glucose levels in healthy and diabetic rats induced by Streptozotcin (STZ). In healthy rats, the blood glucose levels were slightly decreased after six hours of single oral administration with dose (25 mg/kg) of body weight, as well as four weeks after twice daily repeated oral administration of aqueous extract of Cinnamomum cassia bark. In streptozotocin induced diabetic rats, we observed a high significant decrease (p<0.05) in blood glucose levels, after four weeks of oral administration of aqueous extract (25 mg/kg). And blood glucose levels seem to be normal after the period of treatment. Glibenclamide was used as a standard drug to compare the aqueous extract in lowering blood glucose levels. Giving healthy rats led to a significant increase (p<0.05) in body weight, whereas diabetic rats induced by streptozotocin showed a significant decrease (p<0.05) in body weight. Also, in this study, we determined the extract's activity on lipid profile, liver enzymes (ALT, AST), creatinine, and urea in the serum of experimental rats. Results showed a significant increase (p<0.05) in cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL-C, and VLDL-C concentrations in diabetic rats, and after treatment with aqueous extract, a significant decrease was observed for all of the parameters. Additionally, non-significant differences were observed in creatinine, urea, and insulin concentration in healthy and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. This is approved that there are no side effects of aqueous extract on kidney and insulin secretion or concentration. In this study, our conclusion is that the aqueous extract of Cinnamomum cassia bark works as antihyperglycemic without any changes in insulin concentration.

A Comparative Anatomic Study Of Leaves Of The Genus Stachys L. In Iraq, Zainab A.A. Al-Zubaedy, Ali H.E. Al-Musawi, Ali H.A Al-Mousawi

Baghdad Science Journal

This study examined the anatomic characteristics of the leaves from 22 taxa of Stachys L. representing seven sections in northern Iraq. It found no variation in the stomatal system but noted significant taxonomic variations in other anatomical features. Differences in mesophyll tissue were observed, with S. kurdica var. brevidens showing bifacial mesophyll, while S. kurdica var. kurdica displayed unifacial mesophyll. Vascular bundle numbers varied, with S. benthamiana, S. lanigera, and S. kotscyi having 3 bundles in the middle vein, while S. ballotiformis, S. megalodonta, and S. kurdica had only 1. Additionally, S. lavandulifolia exhibited a unique V-shaped cross-section. These anatomical …

The Efficiency Of Terpenes Extracts Of Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Seed To Control Larval Stage Of Callosobruchus Maculates (Coleoptera:Bruchidae), Emad Ahmad Mahmood, Nawras Abdalmuhsen Mzahem, Bashair Nasser Hasson

Baghdad Science Journal

The current study has beenconduced to evaluate the effect of extracted crude terpens at the concentrations of 6,8% of seeds of Eucalyptuscamaldulensison the 4th larval instar oftheCallosobruchusmaculates and the percentage of the cowpea seed germination.The Results showed that the terpens extract of the concentration of 8% increases the mortality rate of the fourth larval instar and it reach to 63.3%, and then decrease of to 26.6,20% at concentration of 6%and forcontrol treatment respectively The percentage of adult emergence reduces to 0% at the concentration of 8% compared with control treatment in which it reach to 66.6%. The extraction atbothconcentrations 6,8% …

Extraction Of Iraqi Jasminumsambac (L.)Oil And Study It's Effect As Antioxidant Agents, Zainab O. Salman, Bushra M. J. Alwash

Baghdad Science Journal

This study focused on the extraction and evaluation of volatile oils from flowers, leaves, and stems of *Jasminum sambac* cultivated in Iraq using steam distillation. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was used to identify active compounds in the oils, and antioxidant activity was tested using the DPPH method. The results showed that the flower oil had the highest yield (5%) with 30 compounds, dominated by Benzyl acetate (59.37%). The leaf oil had a 1.5% yield with 43 compounds, where Benzyl acetate was also the highest (34.07%). Flower oil showed stronger antioxidant activity (96.10%) compared to leaf oil (82.30%) and ascorbic acid …