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What’S In A Name?, Michael D. Schaller, Gary Mcdowell, André Porter, Dorothy Shippen, Katherine L. Friedman, Matthew S. Gentry, Tricia R. Serio, Wesley I. Sundquist

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Numerous concerns have been raised about the sustainability of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States. Improving the postdoctoral training experience is seen as a priority in addressing these concerns, but even identifying who the postdocs are is made difficult by the multitude of different job titles they can carry. Here, we summarize the detrimental effects that current employment structures have on training, compensation and benefits for postdocs, and argue that academic research institutions should standardize the categorization and treatment of postdocs. We also present brief case studies of two institutions that have addressed these challenges and can provide …

The Current Volume 28: Issue 10, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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Effect Of Population, Collection Year, After-Ripening And Incubation Condition On Seed Germination Of Stipa Bungeana, Rui Zhang, Jerry M. Baskin, Carol C. Baskin, Qing Mo, Lijun Chen, Xiaowen Hu, Yanrong Wang

Biology Faculty Publications

Knowledge of the germination behavior of different populations of a species can be useful in the selection of appropriate seed sources for restoration. The aim of this study was to test the effect of seed population, collection year, after-ripening and incubation conditions on seed dormancy and germination of Stipa bungeana, a perennial grass used for revegetation of degraded grasslands on the Loess Plateau, China. Fresh S. bungeana seeds were collected from eight locally-adapted populations in 2015 and 2016. Dormancy and germination characteristics of fresh and 6-month-old dry-stored seeds were determined by incubating them over a range of alternating temperature …

The Parthenon, October 24, 2017, Jared Casto

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, was published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly on Thursdays during the summer. Due to budgetary constraints, beginning with the 2016 Fall semester, the newspaper is only published two days a week. Physical issues are printed on Tuesdays and Fridays. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Um Students, Faculty Take Learning On The Road, Pam Starling

University of Mississippi News

Study USA program gearing up for hands-on Wintersession courses in four exciting locales

Effects Of A Six-Week Strength Training Programme On Change Of Direction Performance In Youth Team Sport Athletes, Frank A. Bourgeois, Paul Gamble, Nic D. Gill, Mike R. Mcguigan

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This study investigated the effects of eccentric phase-emphasis strength training (EPE) on unilateral strength and performance in 180- and 45-degree change of direction (COD) tasks in rugby union players. A 12-week cross-over design was used to compare the efficacy of resistance training executed with 3 s eccentric duration (EPE, n = 12) against conventional strength training, with no constraints on tempo (CON, n = 6). Players in each condition were categorised as ‘fast’ (FAST) or ‘slow’ (SLOW) using median trial times from baseline testing. Players recorded greater isometric strength improvements following EPE (ES = − 0.54 to 1.80). Whilst these …

Discovery Of Yellow-Bellied Marmots In The Pilot Range: Implications For Species Distribution Models In The Great Basin, Chris H. Floyd

Western North American Naturalist

The array of island-like mountains that characterizes the Great Basin has long been a model system for studying the effects of past and present climate change on distributions of montane mammals. One of the smallest of these mountains is the Pilot Range (Nevada/Utah). This range has relatively few species of montane mammals, presumably because of its small size and the fact that it was isolated by the waters of Lake Bonneville during much of Pleistocene. One of the species previously assumed to be absent in the Pilot Range is the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris). On 23 May 2016, …

The Prospector, October 24, 2017, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Learn to Love Your Body

Research Reputation And Open Access, Anne E. Rauh

Librarian Publications

Discussion of the intersection of research reputation management and Open Access, including an introduction to scholarly profiles, scholarly impact, altmetrics, and more.

An Interprofessional Approach To Pain Education In Schools Of Nursing, Medicine, And Pharmacy, Tammy Diane Barbe, Annesha White, Kimberly Vernachio, David Rhoads, John Licciardone, Simone Jiandani, Sumihiro Suzuki

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The purpose of this presentation is to share the early findings of a study that explored current practices in pain education within schools of nursing, medicine, and pharmacy. This presentation will include discussion of educational gaps and recommendations for interprofessional pain education.

Theta-Burst Microstimulation In The Human Entorhinal Area Improves Memory Specificity, Ali S. Titiz, Michael R. H. Hill, Emily A. Mankin, Zahra M. Aghajan, Dawn Eliashiv, Natalia Tchemodanov, Uri Maoz, John Stern, Michelle E. Tran, Peter Schuette, Eric Behnke, Nanthia A. Suthana, Itzhak Fried

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

The hippocampus is critical for episodic memory, and synaptic changes induced by long-term potentiation (LTP) are thought to underlie memory formation. In rodents, hippocampal LTP may be induced through electrical stimulation of the perforant path. To test whether similar techniques could improve episodic memory in humans, we implemented a microstimulation technique that allowed delivery of low-current electrical stimulation via 100 μm-diameter microelectrodes. As thirteen neurosurgical patients performed a person recognition task, microstimulation was applied in a theta-burst pattern, shown to optimally induce LTP. Microstimulation in the right entorhinal area during learning significantly improved subsequent memory specificity for novel portraits; participants …

Bibliotaxonomy: Definition, Scope And Implication For Lis Scholarship, Chuma O. Nnadozie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper introduces bibliotaxonomy as a generic name for those aspects of Library and Information Science (LIS) scholarship that deal with the processing and organization of books, documents and other information materials. It traces the origin of, and inspiration for bibliotaxonomy to different taxonomic practices in various communities, societies, as well as earlier philosophical and botanical classifications. A sketch of the contours of the field of bibliotaxonomy was presented which shows that this phenomenon cuts across specific library technical services of cataloguing, classification, indexing and accessioning. In addition, successful application of taxonomic principles from other disciplines in the organization of …

Col4a2 Is Associated With Lacunar Ischemic Stroke And Deep Ich: Meta-Analyses Among 21,500 Cases And 40,600 Controls, Kristiina Rannikmäe, Vhinoth Sivakumaran, Henry Millar, Rainer Malik, Christopher D Anderson, Mike Chong, Tushar Dave, Guido J Falcone, Israel Fernandez-Cadenas, Jordi Jimenez-Conde, Arne Lindgren, Joan Montaner, Martin O'Donnell, Guillaume Paré, Farid Radmanesh, Natalia S Rost, Agnieszka Slowik, Martin Söderholm, Matthew Traylor, Sara L Pulit, Sudha Seshadri, Brad B Worrall, Daniel Woo, Hugh S Markus, Braxton D Mitchell, Martin Dichgans, Jonathan Rosand, Cathie L M Sudlow

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether common variants in familial cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) genes confer risk of sporadic cerebral SVD.

METHODS: We meta-analyzed genotype data from individuals of European ancestry to determine associations of common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 6 familial cerebral SVD genes (

RESULTS: A locus in

CONCLUSIONS: These results provide evidence of shared genetic determinants and suggest common pathophysiologic mechanisms of distinct ischemic and hemorrhagic cerebral SVD stroke phenotypes, offering new insights into the causal mechanisms of cerebral SVD.

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Genome-Wide Association Studies Of Smooth Pursuit And Antisaccade Eye Movements In Psychotic Disorders: Findings From The B-Snip Study, R. Lencer, L. J. Mills, Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, R. Shafee

School of Medicine Publications

Eye movement deviations, particularly deficits of initial sensorimotor processing and sustained pursuit maintenance, and antisaccade inhibition errors, are established intermediate phenotypes for psychotic disorders. We here studied eye movement measures of 849 participants from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) study (schizophrenia N = 230, schizoaffective disorder N = 155, psychotic bipolar disorder N = 206 and healthy controls N = 258) as quantitative phenotypes in relation to genetic data, while controlling for genetically derived ancestry measures, age and sex. A mixed-modeling genome-wide association studies approach was used including ~ 4.4 million genotypes (PsychChip and 1000 Genomes imputation). Across …

Association Of Metabolic Syndrome And Change In Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Scores., Maureen Leehey, Sheng Luo, Saloni Sharma, Anne-Marie A. Wills, Jacquelyn L. Bainbridge, Pei Shieen Wong, David K. Simon, Jay S Schneider, Yunxi Zhang, Adriana Pérez, Rohit Dhall, Chadwick W. Christine, Carlos Singer, Franca Cambi, James T Boyd

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between metabolic syndrome and the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) scores and, secondarily, the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT).

METHODS: This is a secondary analysis of data from 1,022 of 1,741 participants of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Exploratory Clinical Trials in Parkinson Disease Long-Term Study 1, a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of creatine. Participants were categorized as having or not having metabolic syndrome on the basis of modified criteria from the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III. Those who had the same metabolic syndrome status at consecutive annual visits …

Insecticide Effects On Normal Development And Hatch Of Embryos Of Paratanytarsus Parthenogeneticus (Diptera: Chironomidae), Richard L. Anderson, Pam Shubat

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Simple, low cost methods are needed to determine the effect of pesticides on non-target aquatic organisms. In this report, embryos of Paratanytarsus parthenogenetic us were exposed from deposition to hatch to five pesticides. Four of the five pesticides affected development or hatch only at concentrations which exceeded 96-h LC50 values of other non-target invertebrates. One pesticide, fenitrothion, affected hatch at 13 Ilgll which is similar to 96-h LC50 values for other aquatic invertebrates. Because of the low sensitivity of the embryo to pesticides, this method may not be a useful pesticide screening test for non-target invertebrates.

Observations On North Dakota Sponges (Haplosclerina: Spongillidae) And Sisyrids (Neuroptera: Sisyridae), Ralph D. Stoaks, Joe K. Neel, Richard L. Post

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Factors influencing occurrence, distribution, and ecology of sponges and sisyrids are discussed, with emphasis on northeastern North Dakota. New state records for North Dakota sponges, Eunapius Jraguis Leidy and Ephydatia fluviatilis L. and the sisyrids, Sisyra vicaria (Hagen) and Climacia areolaris (Hagen), and new county records for C. areolaris in northwestern Minnesota and Eunapius fragilis in northeastern North Dakota are reported. A rare association of the parasite, S. vicaria with the host, Ephydatia fluviatilis is also reported. Some physicochcmical relations of Eunapius fragilis found in the Forest River, North Dakota, are discussed.

A Note On The Nesting Of Mimesa Lutaria (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), Frank E. Kurczewski, Mark F. O'Brien

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Five nests of Mimesa lutaria (Fabricius) were excavated and studied at Cranberry Lake, S1. Lawrence County, NY. The nests were shallower than those of other species previously studied, yet the tumuli were large and conspicuous. An average of about 11 adult and nymphal cicadellids were stored in a cell, except for one cell that held five Delphacodes sp. (Delphacidae).

An Assessment Of Gypsy Moth Eradication Attempts In Michigan (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae), Steve H. Dreistadt

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Michigan's infestation of gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, extends over 600,000 acres, First discovered in Michigan in the 19505, gypsy moth was reportedly eradicated through the use of DDT then reintroduced in the 1970s, Substantial circumstantial biological evidence, however, points to the probability that gypsy moth has resided continuously in Michigan for over 30 years, Environmental factors may be largely responsible for containing Michigan's gypsy moth popUlations,

Moths Of The Douglas Lake Region (Emmet And Cheboygan Counties), Michigan: Iii. Thyatiridae, Drepanidae, Lasiocampidae, Notodontidae, Lymantriidae (Lepidoptera), Edward G. Voss

The Great Lakes Entomologist

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The first list of Lepidoptera for the Douglas Lake region (Welch 1915) included 12 species in the group of five families for which 55 species are now reported. This 358% increase ronly in part the result of enlarging the' 'region" to include all of the two counties which share the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan) compares with an increase of 356'4:- in the families Sphingidae-Ctenuchidae (Voss 1970) and 623% in the Noctuidae (Voss 1981). Only the Geometridae remain to complete recording the consider- able expansion of our knowledge of the local macro1epidopteran fauna over the past …

Establishment Of The Alfalfa Weevil Parasite Microctonus Aethiopoides (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) In Michigan, Edward B. Radcliffe, Gerrit W. Cuperus, John K. Flessel

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Microctonus aethiopoides, a braconid parasite of adult alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica, is now established in southeastern Minnesota. Releases were made near Caledonia in Houston County, in 1978 and 1979, and near Rosemount in Dakota County, in 1979 and 1980. M. aethiopoides was recovered in Houston County in 1979, a new state record, and since has expanded its range more than 40 km from the release site. Establishment in Dakota County was unexpected because of low host densities, but parasites were recovered there in 1983. Other workers have recovered M. aethiopoides in Olmstead County.

A Collection Of Psocoptera From Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, Gary Eertmoed, Elizabeth Eertmoed

The Great Lakes Entomologist

A list of -1-3 species of Psocoptera from Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, includes 37 new state records and increases to 44 the number of species known from the state.

Bibliographic Guide To The Terrestrial Arthropods Of Michigan, Mark F. O'Brien

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Papers dealing with distribution, faunal extensions, and identification of Michigan insects and other terrestrial arthropods are listed by order, and cover the period of 1878 through 1982.

Flower Associations Of Mimetic Syrphidae (Diptera) In Northern Michigan, G. P. Waldbauer

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Collections of specialized (high fidelity) mimetic Syrphidae in northern Michigan revealed 19 species associated with 18 flowering plants. Almost 97% of these syrphids were taken on seven plant species or species groups, all with conspicuous white or yellow blossoms, and all but one with aggregate inflorescences. Pastinaca sativa (Umbelliferae) is visited by many mimetic syrphids in northern Michigan but by very few in central Illinois; the opposite is true of Sambucus canadensis (Caprifoliaceae). In northern Michigan mimetic syrphids exploit a sequence of blossoming plants that more or less replace each other as the season progresses. The cooling effect of Lake …

Host-Feeding Behavior Of The House Mosquito Culex Pipiens In Northwest Ohio (Diptera: Culicidae), C. Lee Rockett, Donald A. Somers

The Great Lakes Entomologist

The human-biting behavior of Culex pipiens was investigated in northwest Ohio. The biting studies were conducted by exposing a human volunteer for 33 h at ground and 10-m height levels in a field area which contained sizeable populations of C. pipiens. No significant feeding on humans was noted and only a single specimen of C. pipiens was observed to attempt feeding. Concurrent light trap data revcaled a definite stratification preference for C. pipiens at the 10-m height level. In the laboratory, caged C. pipiens were allowed to feed on humans (l2-h period) with no positive results. Other caged specimens …

Checklist Of American Uloboridae (Arachnida: Araneae), Brent D. Opell

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Names, synonyms, and distributions uloborid spiders known from North, Central, and South America are provided.

A Pyralid Moth (Lepidoptera) As Pollinator Of Blunt-Leaf Orchid, Edward G. Voss, Richard E. Riefner Jr.

The Great Lakes Entomologist

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As early as 1912, mosquitoes were observed bearing the pollen masses (pollinia) of the blunt-leaf orchid, Habenaria obtusata (Pursh) Richardson, in Reese's Bog, a cedar swamp at the north end of Burt Lake, Cheboygan County, Michigan, near the campus of the University of Michigan Biological Station (Dexter 1913).

Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, And Scolytidae Associated With Successive Stages Of Agrilus Bilineatus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Infestation Of Oaks In Wisconsin, Robert A. Haack, Daniel M. Benjamin, Kevin D. Haack

The Great Lakes Entomologist

The species of Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, and Scolytidae found in association with Agrilus bilineatus (Weber) in declining oaks, Quercus spp., in Wisconsin, were Chrysobothris femorata (Olivier) and Dicerca sp. (Buprestidae); Amniscus macula (Say),Cyrtaphorus verrucosus (Olivier), Euderces picipes (Fabricius), Graphisurus fasciatus (DeGeer), Neodytus acuminatus (Fabricius), Sarosesthes fulminans (Fabricius), and Xylotrechus colonus (Fabricius) (Cerambycidae); and Monarthrum fasciatum (Say), Monarthrum mali (Fitch), Pseudopityophthorus minutissimus (Zimmerman), and Xylaterinus politus (Say) (Scolytidae). In general, weakened oaks were first attacked by A. bilineatus. and at times that same year by C. femorata. G. fasdalus, and P. minutissimus. Infestation by M.fasciatum, M. mali, and X. politus began …

Effects Of Various Split Developmental Photophases And Constant Light During Each 24 Hour Period On Adult Morphology In Thyanta Calceata (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), J. E. Mcpherson, T. E. Vogt, S. M. Paskewitz

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Rearing immatures of Thyanta calceata in a range of split photophases during each 24 h period and in constant light showed that the adult dimorphic response in color and pu- bescence could be produced; individuals reared in photoperiods in which each scotophase was at least 2 h in length generally developed into the fall/spring morph.