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2016.06.23 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2016

Meeting materials for the NEIU Board of Trustees

Antenatal Glucocorticoid Treatment Is Associated With Diurnal Cortisol Regulation In Term-Born Children, M. N. Edelmann, Curt A. Sandman, Laura M. Glynn, D. A. Wing, Elyssia Poggi Davis

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Due to the rapid developmental changes that occur during the fetal period, prenatal influences can affect the developing central nervous system with lifelong consequences for physical and mental health. Glucocorticoids are one of the proposed mechanisms by which fetal programing occurs. Glucocorticoids pass through the blood-brain barrier and target receptors throughout the central nervous system. Unlike endogenous glucocorticoids, synthetic glucocorticoids readily pass through the placental barrier to reach the developing fetus. The synthetic glucocorticoid, betamethasone, is routinely given prenatally to mothers at risk for preterm delivery. Over 25% of the fetuses exposed to betamethasone will be born at term. Few …

Botanical Therapeutics In The Modern World, Vyacheslav Dushenkov, Brittany L. Graf, Mary Ann Lila

Publications and Research

Plants are the source of a broad spectrum of biologically active phytochemicals. For effective defense against pathogens and abiotic stress, plants have developed complicated chemical strategies with different mechanisms of action. By harnessing these phytochemicals, humans have used plants for medicinal purposes for over 30,000 years, and they remain a valuable source for the development of modern therapeutics. Plant-derived materials are utilized as pharmaceuticals, botanical drugs, dietary supplements (nutraceuticals), functional food ingredients, and cosmeceuticals. The Global Institute for Bioexploration (GIBEX), an international conglomerate of researchers, is involved in multiple botanical therapeutics discovery and development programs.

June 23, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Cosm News, Georgia Southern University

College of Science & Mathematics: News & Publications (2012-2022)

• Biology Alumnus Elected American Statistical Association Vice President

Use Of A Game-Based App As A Learning Tool For Students With Mathematics Learning Disabilities To Increase Fraction Knowledge/Skill, Orhan Simsek

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a game-based app (Motion Math: Fraction) to help students with Mathematics Learning Disabilities (MLD) to gain fraction skills including comparison, estimation, and word problem solving in an after school program. The researcher used multiple baseline design by extending with follow-up phase to determine whether students retained the knowledge they learned while engaging with the app. Even though six students participated to the study, the researcher withdrew two of them and analyzed data came from four students. The result o the study showed that all of the students …

Why The Clarification Petition Filed By The Union Of India In The Transgender Case Is Incorrect In Law And In Bad Faith On The Question Of Reservation, Surabhi Shukla

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

In this Article, I make an argument that the state, including the Government of India, is empowered by the Constitution of India to decide which classes qualify as “backward classes” for affirmative action measures under the Constitution. The Supreme Court of India has directed the government to include the transgender population as a backward class and to extend to them affirmative action measures such as reservation in public appointments and university admissions. In response, the Union of India has filed a clarification petition stating that it is incompetent to suo motu include the transgender population as a backward class and …

Measuring Motivation In Children Served By Head Start, Andres Sebastian Bustamante

Open Access Dissertations

There is a well-established achievement gap between children from low income families and their middle to high income counterparts. One avenue towards narrowing the achievement gap is improving domain-general school readiness skills, such as motivation, persistence, and preference for challenge which support learning regardless of content area. Motivation orientation, one example of a malleable domain-general construct, encompasses two approaches at opposite ends of a continuum: mastery and performance motivations. The former is characterized by viewing failure as an opportunity for growth, while the latter views failure as a confirmation of a low innate ability level. Interventions targeting motivation orientation have …

The Marine Biogeochemistry Of Trace Metals, Saeed Roshan

Open Access Dissertations

Some of the transition metals play major roles within the biology of the ocean, but occur in the ocean at the “trace” levels of concentration. They, particularly, function in the metabolism and thriving of the marine primary producers which contribute significantly to the global photosynthesis and are the base of the marine food web. Iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), cadmium (Cd), and manganese (Mn) are among the most important trace metals whose oceanic behavior in terms of distribution, cycling, sources, sinks, and similarities to macronutrients such as phosphate (PO4 3-), nitrate (NO3 -), and silicate (SiO4 4-) are studied …

Toxicity Assessment Of Industrial- And Sunscreen-Derived Zno Nanoparticles, Eleonora Spisni

Open Access Theses

The aim of the present case study is investigating the toxic effects derived from nanosized zinc oxide nanoparticles toward the marine life. In particular, the present study evaluates for the first time the growth inhibition induced by both industrial-derived and sunscreen self-extracted zinc oxide nanoparticles on the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. The experiments, performed at the Environmental Engineering Laboratory of the University of Miami, showed that the toxic effects induced by nano-ZnO were influenced by the type of nanoparticle, as well as their concentration in aqueous media and the exposure time. Specifically, smaller, industrial-derived nano-ZnO induced a greater growth inhibition compared …

Biology Graduate Selected For Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Award, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2016

• The Fellowship will enable Barrera, who graduated in May from Winthrop with a biology degree, to pursue a medical degree from the University of South Carolina program in Greenville.
• Barrera was one of four seniors to receive the President’s Award for Academic Excellence at the undergraduate Commencement for having the top grade point average in the class.

A Powerful Statistical Framework For Generalization Testing In Gwas, With Application To The Hchs/Sol, Tamar Sofer, Ruth Heller, Marina Bogomolov, Christy L. Avery, Mariaelisa Graff, Kari E. North, Alex Reiner, Timothy A. Thornton, Kenneth Rice, Yoav Benjamini, Cathy C. Laurie, Kathleen F. Kerr

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

In GWAS, “generalization” is the replication of genotype-phenotype association in a population with different ancestry than the population in which it was first identified. The standard for reporting findings from a GWAS requires a two-stage design, in which discovered associations are replicated in an independent follow-up study. Current practices for declaring generalizations rely on testing associations while controlling the Family Wise Error Rate (FWER) in the discovery study, then separately controlling error measures in the follow-up study. While this approach limits false generalizations, we show that it does not guarantee control over the FWER or False Discovery Rate (FDR) of …

Technological Breakthrough And Innovation In The Production Of Whey Powders, With 30-40% Reduction In Energy Costs, Pierre Schuck, Anne Dolivet, Serge Méjean, Gaelle Tanguy, Daniel Garreau, Corrado Vezzani, Romain Jeantet

5th International Congress on Green Process Engineering (GPE 2016)

There are two essential stages in the elimination of water for the production of whey and permeate powders: concentration by vacuum evaporation followed by spray drying. These two operations alone represent 25% of the energy consumed by the French dairy industry, the major part of which is due to the drying stage. Indeed, 96.7% of the whey water is removed during the vacuum evaporation/concentration stage, whereas drying, which removes only 3.3% of the water, requires 31% of the total energy used over the entire process.

One possible way to reduce energy consumption would be for the product to enter the …

Using Social Media To Enhance Student Learning, Patricia A. Halpin

Life Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Use of Twitter for asynchronous discussions on selected science topics.

Experimental Demonstration Of The Microscopic Origin Of Circular Dichroism In Two-Dimensional Metamaterials, Alexander B. Khanikaev, N. Arju, Z. Fan, D. Purtseladze, F. Lu, J. Lee, P. Sarriugarte, M. Schnell, R. Hillenbrand, M. A. Belkin, G. Shvets

Publications and Research

Optical activity and circular dichroism are fascinating physical phenomena originating from the interaction of light with chiral molecules or other nano objects lacking mirror symmetries in three-dimensional (3D) space. While chiral optical properties are weak in most of naturally occurring materials, they can be engineered and significantly enhanced in synthetic optical media known as chiral metamaterials, where the spatial symmetry of their building blocks is broken on a nanoscale. Although originally discovered in 3D structures, circular dichroism can also emerge in a two-dimensional (2D) metasurface. The origin of the resulting circular dichroism is rather subtle, and is related to non-radiative …

Sine-Wave Electrical Stimulation Initiates A Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel-Dependent Soft Tissue Response Characterized By Induction Of Hemocyte Recruitment And Collagen Deposition, Brandon M. Franklin, Eleni Maroudas, Jeffrey L. Osborn

Biology Faculty Publications

Soft tissue repair is a complex process that requires specific communication between multiple cell types to orchestrate effective restoration of physiological functions. Macrophages play a critical role in this wound healing process beginning at the onset of tissue injury. Understanding the signaling mechanisms involved in macrophage recruitment to the wound site is an essential step for developing more effective clinical therapies. Macrophages are known to respond to electrical fields, but the underlying cellular mechanisms mediating this response is unknown. This study demonstrated that low‐amplitude sine‐wave electrical stimulation (ES) initiates a soft tissue response in the absence of injury in Procambarus …

Benchmarking, Brokering, And Branding: Resources For Success Across Sectors, Maureen Scully, Lisa Deangelis, Katie Bates

Emerging Leaders Program Team Projects

The fellows in the Center for Collaborative Leadership's Emerging Leaders Program practice collaborative leadership skills by working together in peer-led teams on projects that involve multiple stakeholders and have a civic impact. The theme that emerged for the 2016 projects was Benchmarking, Brokering, and Branding: Resources for Success Across Sectors - recognizing that the fellows' social capital and ability to step back and take a wide comparative view provided new resources for their partners.

Volume 53, Number 45: June 22, 2016, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

A Cell Cycle-Regulated Toxoplasma Deubiquitinase, Tgotud3a, Targets Polyubiquitins With Specific Lysine Linkages, Animesh Dhara, Anthony P. Sinai

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

The contribution of ubiquitin-mediated mechanisms in the regulation of the Toxoplasma gondii cell cycle has remained largely unexplored. Here, we describe the functional characterization of a T. gondii deubiquitinase (TGGT1_258780) of the ovarian-tumor domain-containing (OTU) family, which, based on its structural homology to the human OTUD3 clade, has been designated TgOTUD3A. The TgOTUD3A protein is expressed in a cell cycle-dependent manner mimicking its mRNA expression, indicating that it is regulated primarily at the transcriptional level. TgOTUD3A, which was found in the cytoplasm at low levels in G₁ parasites, increased in abundance with the progression of the …

Litigating Medical Device Premarket Classification Decisions For Small Businesses: Have The Courts Given The Fda Too Much Deference? The Case For Taking The Focus Off Of Efficacy, Stephanie P. Fekete

Catholic University Law Review

The manufacturing of innovative medical devices is important for the continued success and growth of the U.S. health care system and economy. The medical device industry is almost exclusively comprised of small businesses. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the medical device industry and employs a rigorous approval process to determine when products may enter the market. While the FDA’s goal is to authorize the sale of innovative devices that are safe for patient use, device manufacturers argue that the process to obtain FDA approval is unnecessarily expensive, burdensome, and has systemic problems. As a result of the …

A Power Conflict Approach To Animal Cruelty: Examining How Economic Power Influences The Creation Of Animal Cruelty Laws, Leonard J. Genco

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The current study examines the association of macro-level economic factors and the creation or enactment animal cruelty laws across the states at a fixed time. Criminologists have postulated that economic factors influence the legal system (Chambliss and Seidman, 1971). This thesis addresses whether state-level economic and related macro-level factors influences the amount and types of state animal cruelty legislation lawmakers enact. To do so, this thesis examined animal cruelty legislation and their association with measures of agricultural and farm production, Democratic Party, Republican Party, and pro-animal interest groups across all states of the United States for the time period (2012-2013). …

Local Versus Generalized Phenotypes In Two Sympatric Aurelia Species: Understanding Jellyfish Ecology Using Genetics And Morphometrics, Luciano M. Chiaverano, Keith Bayha, William M. Graham

Faculty Publications

For individuals living in environmentally heterogeneous environments, a key component for adaptation and persistence is the extent of phenotypic differentiation in response to local environmental conditions. In order to determine the extent of environmentally induced morphological variation in a natural population distributed along environmental gradients, it is necessary to account for potential genetic differences contributing to morphological differentiation. In this study, we set out to quantify geographic morphological variation in the moon jellyfish Aurelia exposed at the extremes of a latitudinal environmental gradient in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). We used morphological data based on 28 characters, and genetic data …

Range-Wide Patterns Of Geographic Variation In Songs Of Golden-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia Atricapilla), Daizaburo Shizuka, Glen Chilton, M Ross Lein

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Discrete geographic variation, or dialects, in songs of songbirds arise as a consequence of complex interactions between ecology and song learning. Four of the five species of Zonotrichia sparrows, including the model species White-crowned Sparrow (Z. leucophrys), have been studied with respect to the causes and consequences of geographic variation in song. Within White-crowned Sparrows, subspecies that migrate farther have larger range size of dialects. Here, we assessed geographic patterns of song variation in the fifth species of this genus, the Golden-crowned Sparrow (Z. atricapilla). We analyzed field-recorded songs from 2 sampling periods (1996–1998 and 2006–2013) covering most of its …

Range-Wide Patterns Of Geographic Variation In Songs Of Golden-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia Atricapilla), Daizaburo Shizuka, M Ross Lein, Glen Chilton

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Discrete geographic variation, or dialects, in songs of songbirds arise as a consequence of complex interactions between ecology and song learning. Four of the five species of Zonotrichia sparrows, including the model species White-crowned Sparrow (Z. leucophrys), have been studied with respect to the causes and consequences of geographic variation in song. Within White-crowned Sparrows, subspecies that migrate farther have larger range size of dialects. Here, we assessed geographic patterns of song variation in the fifth species of this genus, the Golden-crowned Sparrow (Z. atricapilla). We analyzed field-recorded songs from 2 sampling periods (1996–1998 and 2006–2013) …

Ab Blood Type And Its Genetic Relationship To Alzheimer’S Disease, Mark Wadsworth, John S. K. Kauwe

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a debilitating disease that has increased the hardship of many lives. Many people above the age of 65 have been diagnosed with this genetically complex disease, which financially and emotionally burdens those diagnosed and their families. Earlier this year a study was released that found, using a dataset of individuals that have had strokes, that individuals with AB blood type are more at risk of developing cognitive impairment[1]. This study however was not looking at the genetics of AD. My objective in performing this study was to see if there is a genetic association between Alzheimer’s …

Using Diffusion Tractography To Predict Cortical Connection Strength And Distance: A Quantitative Comparison With Tracers In The Monkey, Chad J. Donahue, Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos, Saad Jbabdi, Moises Hernandez-Fernandez, Timothy E. Behrens, Tim B. Dyrby, Timothy Coalson, Henry Kennedy, Kenneth Knoblauch, David C. Van Essen, Matthew F. Glasser

Open Access Publications

UNLABELLED: Tractography based on diffusion MRI offers the promise of characterizing many aspects of long-distance connectivity in the brain, but requires quantitative validation to assess its strengths and limitations. Here, we evaluate tractography's ability to estimate the presence and strength of connections between areas of macaque neocortex by comparing its results with published data from retrograde tracer injections. Probabilistic tractography was performed on high-quality postmortem diffusion imaging scans from two Old World monkey brains. Tractography connection weights were estimated using a fractional scaling method based on normalized streamline density. We found a correlation between log-transformed tractography and tracer connection weights …

Urgensi Perubahan Implementasi Kebijakan Dalam Menurunkan Ims, Hiv Dan Aids Pada Komunitas Lsl Di Kabupaten Jember, Dewi Rokhmah, Khoiron Khoiron

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Program penanggulangan AIDS populasi LSL selama ini telah menerapkan berbagai metode untuk merubah perilaku yang berisiko tinggi. Namun prevalensi HIV pada populasi LSL tetap saja naik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis urgensi perubahan Stategi Kebijakan dalam MenurunkanIMS dan HIV dan AIDS pada Komunitas LSL Di Kabupaten Jember. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian gabungan antara kuantitatif secara survei analitik dengan kualitatif melalui indept interview. Survei dilakukan melalui purposive sampling pada 89 LSL, kemudian data dianalisa menggunakan regeresi logistic. Data kualitatif dianalisis secara tematic content analysis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pendekatan Program PMTS melalui sosialisasi save sex pada komunitas LSL tidak efektif dalam …

Hubungan Karakteristik Dengan Perilaku Seksual Anak Jalanan Di Kota Makassar, Dewisnawati Dewisnawati, Stang Stang, Andi Ummu Salmah

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Pada umumnya perilaku seksual yang dilakukan oleh anak jalanan muncul karena adanya rasa ingin tahu yang besar dan adanya dorongan untuk mencoba pengalaman baru di masa remaja. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan karakteristik dengan perilaku seksual anak jalanan di Kota Makasar. Penelitian ini menggunakan rancangan cross sectional study. Populasi adalah semua anak jalanan di Kota Makassar berjumlah 500 anak sampai September 2013. Sampel merupakan sebagian dari anak jalanan yang diperoleh dengan metode accidental sampling selama penelitian berlangsung, sebanyak 212 responden. Data primer dikumpulkan dengan teknik wawancara menggunakan kuesioner. Data dianalisis secara univariat dan bivariat menggunakan uji chi-square yang berguna …

Model Tikus Diabetes Yang Diinduksi Streptozotocin-Sukrosa Untuk Pendekatan Penelitian Diabetes Melitus Gestasional, Firdaus Firdaus, Rimbawan Rimbawan, Sri Anna Marliyati, Katrin Roosita

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Diabetes melitus gestasional (DMG) merupakan intoleransi glukosa pada berbagai tingkatan yang terjadi selama kehamilan. DMG pada wanita meningkatkan risiko kematian sebelum kelahiran pada ibu dan bayinya, tingkat kesakitan pada ibu dan meningkatkan risiko berkembangnya DM tipe-2 setelah melahirkan. Penggunaan hewan coba alternatif dengan metode yang tepat dalam penelitian DMG dengan pendekatan DM tipe-2 telah banyak dilakukan dan cukup mendesak. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui apakah induksi Streptozotocin-sukrosa dapat menghasilkan DM tipe-2 pada tikus yang dapat digunakan sebagai pendekatan dalam penelitian DMG. Peneltian ini bersifat eksperimental, tikus Sprague Dawley jantan berjumlah 45 ekor berusia 6 minggu dialokasikan pada 2 kelompok: kontrol …

Pengaruh Latihan Aerobik Terhadap Asam Laktat Dan Skala Borg Atlet Sepakbola, Aditya Candra, Gusbakti Rusip, Yetty Machrina

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Kadar asam laktat yang tinggi pada atlet akan memberikan dampak negatif karena akan mempercepat kelelahan. Skala Borg digunakan untuk menilai tanggapan yang dirasakan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh latihan aerobik dapat menurunkan asam laktat dan skala borg. Penelitian yang dilakukan merupakan penelitian kuasi eksperimental dengan rancangan eksperimen ulang non-random. Penelitian dilakukan untuk membandingkan kadar asam laktat dan skala borg sebelum dan sesudah program latihan pada tiga kelompok, yaitu kelompok perlakuan latihan aerobik intensitas ringan (LAIR), kelompok latihan aerobik intensitas sedang (LAIS) dan kelompok kontrol. Penelitian dilaksanakan di stadion sepakbola Harapan Bangsa Banda Aceh dengan subjek atlet sepakbola PPLP Dispora …