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Matrix Stiffness And Confinement Influence Yap Localization In Clustered Epithelial Cells, Samila Nasrollahi, Amit Pathak

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Independent Study

Epithelial cell clusters reside in complex extracellular matrices (ECMs) of varying mechanical properties including stiffness, topography, dimensionality, and confinement. Through mechanotransduction, cells sense and translate the mechanical cues presented by the surrounding ECM into biochemical signals, which control fundamental aspects of cell behavior including differentiation, proliferation, and motility. While it is well established that nuclear translocation of Yes-associated-protein (YAP) in single cells serves as a key sensor of ECM stiffness, it remains unknown whether grouped epithelial cells exhibit a similar nuclear YAP localization response on stiff substrates. Moreover, the regulation of YAP activity in clustered cells in confined microenvironments has …

10th Annual Research Week- Event Proceedings, Office Of Research Development

Excellence Summit (Research Week) Archived Proceedings

10th Annual Research Week

"Research Reconsidered: A Decade of Inquiry"

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 19, February 20, 2008

Central Florida Future

Student group wants kosher meals; A ball for a vote; Students win $4k for game design; Social work students send help to Kenya; UCF hosts series of physics lectures.

Remodeling Brain Activity By Repetitive Cervicothoracic Transspinal Stimulation After Human Spinal Cord Injury, Lynda M. Murray, Maria Knikou

Publications and Research

Interventions that can produce targeted brain plasticity after human spinal cord injury (SCI) are needed for restoration of impaired movement in these patients. In this study, we tested the effects of repetitive cervicothoracic transspinal stimulation in one person with cervical motor incomplete SCI on cortical and corticospinal excitability, which were assessed via transcranial magnetic stimulation with paired and single pulses, respectively. We found that repetitive cervicothoracic transspinal stimulation potentiated intracortical facilitation in flexor and extensor wrist muscles, recovered intracortical inhibition in the more impaired wrist flexor muscle, increased corticospinal excitability bilaterally, and improved voluntary muscle strength. These effects may have …

February 20, 2017 Armstrong Faculty Senate Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

February 20, 2017 Armstrong Faculty Senate Minutes

Majoring In Defense: Uab's New Undergraduate Immunology Program, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Cephalopod Biodiversity In The Vicinity Of Bear Seamount, Western North Atlantic Based On Exploratory Trawling From 2000 To 2014, Elizabeth K. Shea, Heather Judkins, Michelle D. Staudinger, Valerie H. Dimkovikj

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Bear Seamount (BSM) is the most inshore seamount in the New England Seamount chain. It is located within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and is contained within the recently established Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. In 2000, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Systematics Laboratory began an exploratory trawling program to document nekton diversity at BSM and its vicinity. Here, we summarize eight exploratory sampling cruises conducted between 2000 and 2014, and describe the cephalopod biodiversity and assemblage structure around BSM. Over the course of 174 deep–midwater and 56 bottom tows, 5088 cephalopods were identified, measured, …

Death And Destruction: Insight Into The Rhino Poaching Epidemic In South Africa, Richard Wayne Charlton

Theses and Dissertations

The poaching of wildlife has been a concern to many involved in the protection of wildlife. Poaching is found throughout the world and has been around for thousands of years. In the past century, poaching has reached new heights and the concern of an extinction of a species has bought the topic of poaching to new light. Whilst poaching has been seen as a biological or conservation topic in the past, criminologists around the world have now started to delve into the topic. The poaching of wildlife and more so in recent years, rhino poaching, has been a concern in …

Mothers, Morality And Abortion: The Politics Of Reproduction In The Formation Of The German Nation, Yvonne Frankfurth

Journal of International Women's Studies

A substantial amount of literature dealing with conceptualisations of the nation has neglected the importance that gender and the politics of reproduction play in the construction of national identities. Analysing images of political campaigns and activists as well as public discourses on motherhood, abortion and childcare, I will illustrate the importance that gender and sexuality assumed in German nation-building projects before and after its unification in 1990.

After 1949, East and West German ideas of nationhood were premised on opposing ideas of gender roles, in that politicians within these two German nations mobilised distinct gender identities to assert their respective …

Feminist Epistemology And The Question Of Difference Reconfigured: What Can Wittgenstein Tell Us About "Women"?, Jana Cattien

Journal of International Women's Studies

Feminist standpoint theory is an important tool of many a feminist activist. It provides us with the epistemological justification to take women’s experiences seriously – not as an obstacle to “objectivity”, but as a form of epistemic privilege. This paper takes postmodern and intersectional critiques of feminist standpoint theory as a critical point of departure to re-examine the debate around the relevance of the signifier “women” in feminist epistemology. Its aim is two-fold: first, it seeks to shed new light on these criticisms by using the lived experiences of mixed-race women as an innovative lens through which to examine the …

Sexagesima (Epiphany 7) One Year Year Series 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

No abstract provided.

Coming Of Age At The End Of Nature Edited By Julie Dunlap And Susan A. Cohen, Matthew Zantingh

The Goose

Review of Julie Dunlap and Susan A. Cohen's edited collection Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living On a Changed Planet.

Calcium's Role As Nuanced Modulator Of Cellular Physiology In The Brain, Hilaree N. Frazier, Shaniya Maimaiti, Katie L. Anderson, Lawrence D. Brewer, John C. Gant, Nada M. Porter, Olivier Thibault

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

Neuroscientists studying normal brain aging, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases have focused considerable effort on carefully characterizing intracellular perturbations in calcium dynamics or levels. At the cellular level, calcium is known for controlling life and death and orchestrating most events in between. For many years, intracellular calcium has been recognized as an essential ion associated with nearly all cellular functions from cell growth to degeneration. Often the emphasis is on the negative impact of calcium dysregulation and the typical worse-case-scenario leading inevitably to cell death. However, even high amplitude calcium transients, when executed acutely can …

Auditory Multistability And Neurotransmitter Concentrations In The Human Brain, Hm Kondo, D Farkas, Sl Denham, T Asai, I Winkler

School of Psychology

Multistability in perception is a powerful tool for investigating sensory–perceptual transformations, because it produces dissociations between sensory inputs and subjective experience. Spontaneous switching between different perceptual objects occurs during prolonged listening to a sound sequence of tone triplets or repeated words (termed auditory streaming and verbal transformations, respectively). We used these examples of auditory multistability to examine to what extent neurochemical and cognitive factors influence the observed idiosyncratic patterns of switching between perceptual objects. The concentrations of glutamate–glutamine (Glx) and ?-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in brain regions were measured by magnetic resonance spectroscopy, while personality traits and executive functions were assessed …

Oral Concurrent Session Ii: Interdisciplinary Research In Computer Science, Biology, And Physics, Jing He

Undergraduate Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Oral Concurrent Session I: Biological Sciences, Holly Gaff

Undergraduate Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Poster Session, Honors College, Odu

Undergraduate Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

2017 Undergraduate Research Symposium: Full Program, Honors College, Old Dominion University

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Full program with schedule and abstracts for the 2017 Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 18, February 18, 2008

Central Florida Future

NIU mourns tragedy; A kiss for the liberty to love; Jeff Corwin visits campus; Theta Chi holds fundraiser for troops.

Endowment Honors Memories Of Three Friends, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

Motivating Emotional Intelligence: A Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (Rst) Perspective, Alison M. Bacon, Philip J. Corr

School of Psychology

Trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) is generally associated with positive outcomes and can inform clinical and social interventions. We investigated the sub-factors of trait EI: Wellbeing, Self-control, Emotionality, and Sociability, in the context of the reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) of motivation. In Study 1, participants (N = 247) completed Carver and White’s (J Personal Soc Psychol 67:319–333; Carver, White, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 67:319–333, 1994) BIS/BAS scales and a measure of trait EI. All EI sub-factors were positively associated with BAS Drive and negatively with BIS. Study 2 (N = 382) employed a new questionnaire based on revised …

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 12, November 2016, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Fall 2016.

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 11.1, April 2016, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Spring 2016.

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 10.1, November 2015, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Fall 2015.

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 9.1, May 2015, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Spring 2015.

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 8.1, November 2014, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Fall 2014.

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 7.1, May 2014, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Spring 2014.

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 7, November 2013, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Fall 2013.

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 6.2, May 2013, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Spring 2013.

Bio Buzz Newsletter, Issue 6, December 2012, Department Of Biology

Biology Buzz Newsletter

Denison University, Department of Biology newsletter for Fall 2012.