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The Missouri Miner, August 31, 2017

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, August 31, 2017, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 31, 2017, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Ovarian Cancer Patients Receive Individualized Care Through Comprehensive Program For Mind, Body And Soul, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: August 31, 2017, Eastern Illinois University

August

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The Value Of Urban Parklands: A User Study Of The Baldwin Hills, Michele Romolini, Eric G. Strauss, Sarah Bruce-Eisen, Emily Simso

Center for Urban Resilience Reports

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report provides the results of a two-year research study by the Loyola Marymount University Center for Urban Resilience (CURes) to examine park visitation and user behavior and attitudes in the Baldwin Hills Parklands. Supported by the Baldwin Hill Conservancy through California Proposition 84 funding, the goal of this study was to better understand how individuals are using and interacting with the Baldwin Hills Parklands. It is the first large-scale, multi-year, field-based attendance survey and multifaceted analysis of visitors’ experiences in the Parklands, consisting of a pilot and four comprehensive field seasons.

Building on a pilot phase in …

Cosm Biology News, Georgia Southern University

Biology: News & Publications (2012-2017)

• Biology professor Dongyu Jia, Ph.D., recognized for research contributions

Multifunctional Nanosystems For Targeting And Treating Cancer Cells, Vijayalakshmi Dantuluri

Theses and Dissertations

In the United States, breast cancer is one of the most frequently occurring and deadly cancers. Though various therapies have seen success, they have numerous negative side effects. The incorporation of nanomaterials with anticancer drugs could help avoid these side effects and enhance the drugs’ effects. Nanomaterials have many properties, such as size, shape, structure, morphology, and surface features, that can be precisely tuned by altering their chemical composition. In this work, we explored the use of graphene and gold nanorods to enhance drug localization in and destruction of cancer cells by targeted delivery of the drugs doxorubicin (Dox) and …

Matrix Completion Algorithms With Applications In Biomedicine, E-Commerce And Social Science, Yiran Wang

Theses

This thesis investigates matrix completion algorithms with applications in biomedicine, e-commerce and social science. In general, matrix completion algorithms work well for low rank matrices. Such matrices find many applications in recommender systems and social network analysis. On the other hand, biological networks often yield high rank matrices. For example, the adjacency matrix representing interactions between transcription factors and target genes in the cell is a highly sparse matrix, in which most entries correspond to absent interactions and only a few entries correspond to present interactions. This sparse matrix is a high rank or even full rank matrix. Matrix completion …

Pattern Of Pigmentation Disorder In Cosmetic Dermatology Clinic H. Adam Malik General Hospital, Medan, 2012 - 2015, Nelva Karmila Jusuf

Journal of General - Procedural Dermatology and Venereology Indonesia

Background: Abnormalities of pigmentation is a cosmetic problem which affects the overall appearance of an individual. Pigmentation disorder are caused by the increase (hypermelanosis) or the decrease (hypomelanosis) amount of melanin.

Objective: To determine the pattern of pigmentation disorder in Cosmetic Dermatology Clinic H. Adam Malik General Hospital Medan in 2012-2015.

Methods: A retrospective study using subject's medical records from the Cosmetic Dermatology Clinic H. Adam Malik General Hospital Medan in 2012 - 2015, presented descriptively.

Results: In 2012 - 2015 the number of patients who visited the Cosmetic Dermatology Clinic were respectively 210, 228, 211, 142. …

The Role Of Oral Vitamin D In Several Skin Diseases, Astri Adelia, Larisa Paramitha Wibawa, Adhimukti T. Sampurna, Windy K. Budianti, Farida Zubier

Journal of General - Procedural Dermatology and Venereology Indonesia

Vitamin D has many benefits for body and skin health. One of them is to regulate the immune system, both cellular and humoral. The pathogenesis of many skin diseases is associated with disturbance in regulation of cellular immune system. Research on the relationship between blood level of vitamin D and several diseases in dermatology is currently very advanced. Oral vitamin D is known to have many functions that play a role in the pathogenesis of several diseases of the skin. Therefore, its current use as a primary or supplemental therapy has been widely studied. Knowledge on various skin diseases with …

Increasing Use Of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation In Patients Aged 70 Years And Older In The United States, Lori Muffly, Marcelo C. Pasquini, Michael Martens, Ruta Brazauskas, Xiaochun Zhu, Kehinde Adekola, Mahmoud Aljurf, Karen K. Ballen, Ashish Bajel, Frederic Baron, Minoo Battiwalla, Amer Beitinjaneh, Jean-Yves Cahn, Mathew Carabasi, Yi-Bin Chen, Saurabh Chhabra, Stefan Ciurea, Edward Copelan, Anita D'Souza, John Edwards, James Foran, Cesar O. Freytes, Henry C. Fung, Robert Peter Gale, Sergio Giralt, Shahrukh K. Hashmi, Gerhard C. Hildebrandt, Vincent Ho, Ann Jakubowski, Hillard Lazarus

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

In this study, we evaluated trends and outcomes of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in adults ≥ 70 years with hematologic malignancies across the United States. Adults ≥ 70 years with a hematologic malignancy undergoing first allogeneic HCT in the United States between 2000 and 2013 and reported to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research were eligible. Transplant utilization and transplant outcomes, including overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and transplant-related mortality (TRM) were studied. One thousand one hundred and six patients ≥ 70 years underwent HCT across 103 transplant centers. The number and proportion of allografts …

Bancroftian Filariasis Transmission Parameters After The Fifth Year Of Filiariasis Mass Drug Administration In Pekalongan City, Tutik Ida Rosanti, Sugeng Juwono Mardihusodo, Wayan Artama

Kesmas

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur parameter parasitologi (microfilaria rate, kepadatan mikrofilaria), parameter imunologi (antigen prevalence) dan parameter entomologi (infection rate dan infective rate) pada tahun kelima pelaksanaan mass drug administration di Kelurahan Pabean Kota Pekalongan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian observasional dengan pendekatan potong lintang yang dilaksanakan pada bulan Juli sampai dengan Agustus 2015 di Kelurahan Pabean Kota Pekalongan. Microfilaria rate dan kepadatan mikrofilaria ditentukan dengan pemeriksaan darah jari pada 313 responden. Antigen prevalence ditentukan dengan mengukur antigen beredar menggunakan metode immunochromatographic test (ICT) Wuchereria bancrofti. Incective rate dan infection rate diukur dengan cara menemukan larva cacing filaria pada nyamuk hasil …

Effects Of Contraceptive Use On Productivity Of Women Labor At Pt. Bomar Makassar Industrial Area, Masni Mappajanci, Andi Misnawati, Darmawansyah Darmawansyah

Kesmas

Produktivitas kerja potensial pada kelangsungan hidup perusahaan. Penggunaan kontrasepsi dapat memengaruhi fisiologi setiap perempuan, sehingga dapat memengaruhi aktivitas sehari-hari dan akan berdampak terhadap produktivitas tenaga kerja. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh penggunaan alat kontrasepsi terhadap produktivitas tenaga kerja perempuan dengan mengontrol usia, pendidikan dan motivasi kerja. Penelitian dengan rancangan potong lintang melibatkan 71 pekerja perempuan PT Bomar Makassar yang telah menikah. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara menggunakan kuesioner pada bulan Mei sampai Juni 2015, kemudian dianalisis secara univariat, bivariat, dan multivariat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh penggunaan alat kontrasepsi terhadap produktivitas kerja setelah dikontrol dengan variabel usia (nilai …

Indonesian Food Security Policy, Michelle Engel Limenta, Sianti Chandra

Indonesia Law Review

Food security has been an issue of endless discussions given its sensitive nature of being associated with the wellbeing of individuals. Pursuant to Article 33 of the Indonesian Constitution, the Indonesian Government, in principle, have the legal capacity to utilize to the greatest extent the nation’s natural resources for the sake of the welfare of Indonesian citizens through regulating and issuing relevant policies. As regards food security, Indonesian policies, in general, have been more focused on programs that aim to promote self-sufficiency in food production in order to achieve food security, as stated in Law No. 18 of 2012 regarding …

Improving The Thermal Stability Of Cellobiohydrolase Cel7a From Hypocrea Jecorina By Directed Evolution, Frits Goedegebuur, Lydia Dankmeyer, Peter Gualfetti, Saeid Karkehabadi, Henrik Hansson, Suvamay Jana, Vicky Huynh, Bradley R. Kelemen, Paulien Kruithof, Edmund A. Larenas, Pauline J. M. Teunissen, Jerry Ståhlberg, Christina M. Payne, Colin Mitchinson, Mats Sandgren

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Secreted mixtures of Hypocrea jecorina cellulases are able to efficiently degrade cellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars at large, commercially relevant scales. H. jecorina Cel7A, cellobiohydrolase I, from glycoside hydrolase family 7, is the workhorse enzyme of the process. However, the thermal stability of Cel7A limits its use to processes where temperatures are no higher than 50 °C. Enhanced thermal stability is desirable to enable the use of higher processing temperatures and to improve the economic feasibility of industrial biomass conversion. Here, we enhanced the thermal stability of Cel7A through directed evolution. Sites with increased thermal stability properties were combined, and …

Numerical Simulation For Identification Of Insects Using A Cw Lidar System, Christo Videlov

Theses

Mosquitos are the most common vector of disease in the world, causing millions of deaths a year. While curing the diseases they cause is one approach to this problem, another could be to avoid the mosquitos in the first place. Knowing their flight patterns, location, and population in one area could aid in this. Additionally, classifying the mosquitos in an area would be helpful. The age and sex of the mosquito is important to find as they affect the chances of the insect carrying diseases such as malaria or yellow fever.

Many current methodologies to monitor insects are based on …

Plasmonic Enhancement Of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (Oleds) With Periodic And Random Nanostructures, Pavel Markeev

Graduate Masters Theses

This revised thesis has been submitted in 2021 due to findings of academic misconduct in the original thesis. The misconduct included improper citation and plagiarism of Dr. Khadir’s PhD thesis [1], particularly in the introduction, the state of the art and images 1.1-1.6, 2.4, 3.2, 3.4.

The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is known as a phenomenon that allow to enhance the efficiency of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED). This work researches the dependence of OLED performance with and without metallic nanoparticle incorporated in the organic layers. Diodes with periodic (PMN) and random (RMN) metallic nanoparticles along with both types …

The Value Of Urban Parklands: A User Study Of The Baldwin Hills, Michele Romolini, Eric Strauss, Sarah Bruce-Eisen, Emily Simso

Center for Urban Resilience Scholarship

This report provides the results of a two-year research study by the Loyola Marymount University Center for Urban Resilience (CURes) to examine park visitation and user behavior and attitudes in the Baldwin Hills Parklands. Supported by the Baldwin Hill Conservancy through California Proposition 84 funding, the goal of this study was to better understand how individuals are using and interacting with the Baldwin Hills Parklands. It is the first large-scale, multi-year, field-based attendance survey and multifaceted analysis of visitors’ experiences in the Parklands, consisting of a pilot and four comprehensive field seasons.

Building on a pilot phase in 2014, 38 …

The Cowl - Vol V.82 - N.1 - Aug 31, 2017

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 82, Number 1 - August 31, 2017. 20 pages.

Structural Poverty And College Enrollment: The Impact Of Rural American Determinism, Bryan Robinson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones

Abstract

The pervasiveness of generational poverty in the US and the potential of a postsecondary (college) education to serve as an ameliorator and catalyst for societal change – both in individual, familial and broader community contexts – is established in the literature (Enberg & Wolniak, 2010; Kaufman, 2014; Turley, 2009; Rank, Yoon & Hirschl, 2015). Rank et al. (2003) found that American poverty is structural in nature as it relates to the labor market and related ineffective social policy, resulting in predictable and repetitious cycles of systemic and generational poverty, which is particularly relevant in rural contexts. Tickameyer and Duncan …

Multiple Modes Of Hepcidin Regulation In Breast Cancer, Nicole Farra

Doctoral Dissertations

Iron is an essential nutrient for normal cellular functioning, but excess iron retention is a hallmark of breast cancer, used to fuel cancer cells proliferative demands. Breast cancer cells alter genes that control iron metabolism to promote accumulation of cellular iron. One way breast cancer cells retain iron is through decreased iron export. Breast cancer cells have reduced expression of the iron efflux pump, ferroportin (FPN). FPN is reduced by the iron regulating peptide hepcidin, which binds to FPN and triggers its degradation, resulting in decreased iron export. Hepcidin is elevated in breast cancer to promote accumulation of cellular iron. …

The Bg News August 31, 2017, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 31, 2017. Volume 97-Issue 5.

Long-Term Changes In A Spatially Subsidized Insular Ecosystem In The Archipelago Of Bahía De Los Ángeles, Baja California, Mexico, Thais Fournier

Theses

Interactions between climate change and the processes that structure coastal communities are poorly understood.Long – term weather patterns that include extreme events (e.g., El Niño Southern Oscillation, or “ENSO”) allow us to test hypotheses of how changes in weather (e.g., precipitation) will influence communities over long time frames. One system that is particularly vulnerable to climate changes is the coastal ecotone, which occupies 8% of the earth’s surface. A large exchange of resources (spatial subsidies) link habitats across this ocean – land interface, often with dramatic consequences for the recipient systems. Spatial subsidies such as marine input influence …

Designing And Implementing A Network For Sensing Water Quality And Hydrology Across Mountain To Urban Transitions, Amber Spackman Jones, Zachary T. Aanderud, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, David P. Eiriksson, Dylan Dastrup, Christopher Cox, Scott B. Jones, David R. Bowling, Jonathan Carlisle, Gregory T. Carling, Michelle A. Baker

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Water resources are increasingly impacted by growing human populations, land use, and climate changes, and complex interactions among biophysical processes. In an effort to better understand these factors in semiarid northern Utah, United States, we created a real-time observatory consisting of sensors deployed at aquatic and terrestrial stations to monitor water quality, water inputs, and outputs along mountain to urban gradients. The Gradients Along Mountain to Urban Transitions (GAMUT) monitoring network spans three watersheds with similar climates and streams fed by mountain winter-derived precipitation, but that differ in urbanization level, land use, and biophysical characteristics. The aquatic monitoring stations in …

Challenge In Diagnosis And Management Of Lentigo Maligna And Lentigo Maligna Melanoma, Ika Anggraini, Elisa Miranda, Larisa Paramitha Wibawa, Roro Inge Ade Krisanti, Adhimukti T. Sampurna

Journal of General - Procedural Dermatology and Venereology Indonesia

Lentigo maligna (LM) is a subtype of melanoma in situ, which can evolve into lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) if treated inadequately. LM and LMM are usually found on chronically sun damaged skin such as the face (cheek and nose) of the elderly on seventh or eight decades. Clinical manifestation of LM may be quite subtle, so early diagnosis is difficult to perform.The treatment of LM and LMM are challenging due to ill-defined clinical margin, predilection on the face with great size, and preponderance of the elderly, which are potential for recurrency and progressiveness from LM into LMM.

Deep Seeded Problems: A Look At Seed Bank Regulations, Jasmine Patel

Seattle Journal of Environmental Law

This paper examines the importance of preserving plant biodiversity through the use of genetic seed vaults, and how effective global legal and regulatory plans aimed at such preservation are in comparison to approaches being undertaken in the United States. An example of such initiatives, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, is meant to act as a global back up for other nation’s seed vaults. However, Norway’s laws do not allow for genetically modified organisms (“GMOs”) to be imported, including seeds from genetically modified plants. The United States needs to make sure that domestic vaults are protected by proper regulations …

The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Conducting Research Concerning Ecology Of Wild Carnivores, Eric Gese

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Problems Of Conducting Equal Education Rights For Non-Formal Education: Challenges For Batam Local Government, Win Sherly Tan

Indonesia Law Review

In order to fulfill the right to education as mandated by the 1945 Constitution, non-formal education has been introduced in Indonesian society. Non-formal education is provided for in Article 26 paragraphs 1-7 of Law No. 20 of 2003 on the National Education System. Since this provision has been mandated by the Law, the question arises as to whether the Government of Batam City has efficiently implemented the right to education for all. Another question is whether the system for implementing equal education through Community Learning Centers and Homeschooling in Batam City aimed at assisting the Batam City Government is the …

August 31, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.