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In Vitro Growth Of Human Ovarian Follicles For Fertility Preservation, Diego Marin, Min Yang, Tianren Wang Dec 2018

In Vitro Growth Of Human Ovarian Follicles For Fertility Preservation, Diego Marin, Min Yang, Tianren Wang

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Young female cancer survival rates significantly increased due to the great progress of cancer therapy. In fact, cryostorage and transplantation of ovarian tissue have already resulted in the birth of healthy babies. Follicle in vitro growth (IVG) has the great potential of restoring fertility by achieving functional oocytes from the most immature stages to maturation. This is suitable for a wide range of patients, from pubertal to perimenopause women. Notable achievements have been achieved in human follicle IVG in the past decade. Mature oocytes have been successfully collected from long-term sequential follicle IVG. However, it is still a major challenge …

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Information Needs Of Rural Women: A Case Study Of Bangalore North Taluk, Roja M Dec 2018

Information Needs Of Rural Women: A Case Study Of Bangalore North Taluk, Roja M

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study try to explore the occupational rural women information needs, sources and barriers to access information in Sonnenahalli and Dibburu villages, Bangalore North taluk, Karnataka state. The study employed survey method and data were collected by administrating a questionnaire. This study reveals that majority of the rural women occupation was agriculture followed by animal husbandry. 81.81% occupational rural women main information source was television and 52.72% rural women illiterate it’s a main information barrier in rural area. 50.9% occupational rural women are using information to polish their daily routine work.

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Simulating Detection-Censored Movement Records For Home Range Analysis Planning, Lyndsie S. Wszola, Victoria L. Simonsen, Lucía Corral, Christopher J. Chizinski, Joseph J. Fontaine Dec 2018

Simulating Detection-Censored Movement Records For Home Range Analysis Planning, Lyndsie S. Wszola, Victoria L. Simonsen, Lucía Corral, Christopher J. Chizinski, Joseph J. Fontaine

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Home range estimation is an important analytical method in applied spatial ecology, yet best practices for addressing the effects of spatial variation in detection probability on home range estimates remain elusive. We introduce the R package “DiagnoseHR,” simulation tools for assessing how variation in detection probability arising from landscape, animal behavior, and methodological processes affects home range inference. We demonstrate the utility of simulation methods for home range analysis planning by comparing bias arising from three home range estimation methods under multiple detection scenarios. We simulated correlated random walks in three landscapes that varied in detection probability and constructed home …

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Introduction: The Transatlantic Undead: Zombies In Hispanic And Luso-Brazilian Literatures And Cultures, David Dalton, Sara Potter Dec 2018

Introduction: The Transatlantic Undead: Zombies In Hispanic And Luso-Brazilian Literatures And Cultures, David Dalton, Sara Potter

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

This introduction lays out key questions that the contributors to The Transatlantic Undead: Zombies in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures aim to engage. Regardless of its exact articulation, the zombie constantly serves as a means for criticizing undemocratic elements of society. As the articles in this collection show, the nature of oppression differs depending on where a particular work of literary and cultural production is articulated. Furthermore, the zombie’s role in critiquing said social order also changes depending on numerous factors ranging from the author to the cultural context in which it appears. Nevertheless, when viewed in their entirety, …

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The Heart Of A Zombie: Dominican Literature's Sentient Undead, Emily A. Maguire Dec 2018

The Heart Of A Zombie: Dominican Literature's Sentient Undead, Emily A. Maguire

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

A formerly human being that has been separated from its human consciousness, the has always been marked as more dead than alive. Yet in recent cultural production, another kind of zombie has emerged, what we might call the “sentient undead.” In these recent narratives, the undead protagonist is conscious of his or her inhumanity/non-humanness, along with the marginality of this position, and his or her potential “redemption” or return to humanity is often what drives the plot. Although the sentient zombie’s outsider position can function as a meditation on the social mores that make up human behavior, it also allows …

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Postcolonial Pandemics And Undead Revolutions: Contagion As Resistance In Con Z De Zombie And Juan De Los Muertos, Sara A. Potter Dec 2018

Postcolonial Pandemics And Undead Revolutions: Contagion As Resistance In Con Z De Zombie And Juan De Los Muertos, Sara A. Potter

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

Argentinian director Alejandro Brugués’s 2011 Cuban-Spanish film Juan de los muertos and Mexican playwright Pedro Valencia’s 2013 play Con Z de zombie spring from similar roots: both initially place the blame for each country’s zombie apocalypse at the feet of the United States. In Brugués’s film, the accusation is clear but never proven: news reports interspersed through the film state that the country is being invaded by “dissidents” paid by the U.S. government, though there is no political or military U.S. presence in the film beyond the symbolic presence of the country’s flag. In Valencia’s Mexico, the cause is entirely …

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Dosimetry Of In Vivo Experiment For Lung Cancer Based On Boron Neutron Capture Therapy On Radial Piercing Beam Port Kartini Nuclear Reactor By Mcnpx Simulation Method, Maysaroh Atika, Kusminarto Kusminarto, Palupi Dwi Satya, Sardjono Yohannes Dec 2018

Dosimetry Of In Vivo Experiment For Lung Cancer Based On Boron Neutron Capture Therapy On Radial Piercing Beam Port Kartini Nuclear Reactor By Mcnpx Simulation Method, Maysaroh Atika, Kusminarto Kusminarto, Palupi Dwi Satya, Sardjono Yohannes

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, with lung cancer being among the most prevalent. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a cancer therapy method that uses the interaction between thermal neutrons and boron-10 which produces a decaying boron-11 particle and emits alpha, lithium 7 and gamma particles. A study was carried out to model an in vivo experiment of rat organisms that have lung cancer. Dimensions of a rat’s body were used in Konijnenberg research. Modeling lung cancer type, non-small cell lung cancer, was used in Monte Carlo N Particle-X. Lung cancer was modeled with a …

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Zombies And Immune Discourses In Hazael González’S “Luna De Sangre Sobre Lepanto”, Kiersty Lemon-Rogers Dec 2018

Zombies And Immune Discourses In Hazael González’S “Luna De Sangre Sobre Lepanto”, Kiersty Lemon-Rogers

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

Using immune discourse to examine zombies in González’s “Luna de sangre,” I argue that his zombies function as embodied manifestations of physical, spiritual, and cultural contagion. The ideas of Roberto Esposito, Priscilla Wald, Mabel Moraña, Sarah J. Lauro and Karen Embry, put into conversation with González’s tale, help illuminate how the author uses monstrosity to demarcate the Other and define it as those who exist outside of the human, the normative, and more generally outside of the Western social order. The historical and contemporary context of “Luna de sangre” is one of nationalism, bigotry, walls, and anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic sentiment. …

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Differential Expression Of Genes Related To Innate Immune Responses In Ex Vivo Spinal Cord And Cerebellar Slice Cultures Infected With West Nile Virus, Parminder J.S. Vig, Deyin Lu, Amber M. Paul, Ram Kuwar, Maria Lopez, Dobrivoje S. Stokic, A. Arturo Leis, Michael R. Garrett, Fengwei Bai Dec 2018

Differential Expression Of Genes Related To Innate Immune Responses In Ex Vivo Spinal Cord And Cerebellar Slice Cultures Infected With West Nile Virus, Parminder J.S. Vig, Deyin Lu, Amber M. Paul, Ram Kuwar, Maria Lopez, Dobrivoje S. Stokic, A. Arturo Leis, Michael R. Garrett, Fengwei Bai

Faculty Publications

West Nile virus (WNV) infection results in a spectrum of neurological symptoms, ranging from a benign fever to severe WNV neuroinvasive disease with high mortality. Many who recover from WNV neuroinvasive infection present with long-term deficits, including weakness, fatigue, and cognitive problems. While neurons are a main target of WNV, other cell types, especially astrocytes, play an important role in promoting WNV-mediated central nervous system (CNS) damage. Conversely, it has been shown that cultured primary astrocytes secrete high levels of interferons (IFNs) immediately after WNV exposure to protect neighboring astrocytes, as well as neurons. However, how intrinsic responses to WNV …

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Differential Expression Of Genes Related To Innate Immune Responses In Ex Vivo Spinal Cord And Cerebellar Slice Cultures Infected With West Nile Virus, Amber M. Paul, Parminder J.S. Vig, Deyin Lu, Ram Kuwar, Maria Lopez, Dobrivoje S. Stokic, A. Arturo Leis, Michael R. Garrett, Fengwei Bai Dec 2018

Differential Expression Of Genes Related To Innate Immune Responses In Ex Vivo Spinal Cord And Cerebellar Slice Cultures Infected With West Nile Virus, Amber M. Paul, Parminder J.S. Vig, Deyin Lu, Ram Kuwar, Maria Lopez, Dobrivoje S. Stokic, A. Arturo Leis, Michael R. Garrett, Fengwei Bai

Publications

West Nile virus (WNV) infection results in a spectrum of neurological symptoms, ranging from a benign fever to severe WNV neuroinvasive disease with high mortality. Many who recover from WNV neuroinvasive infection present with long-term deficits, including weakness, fatigue, and cognitive problems. While neurons are a main target of WNV, other cell types, especially astrocytes, play an important role in promoting WNV-mediated central nervous system (CNS) damage. Conversely, it has been shown that cultured primary astrocytes secrete high levels of interferons (IFNs) immediately after WNV exposure to protect neighboring astrocytes, as well as neurons. However, how intrinsic responses to WNV …

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Advent 4 Series C 2018, Phillip L. Brandt Dec 2018

Advent 4 Series C 2018, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Fourth Sunday in Advent, Series C and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.

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Bovine Mammary Gland Biopsy Techniques, Veridiana L. Daley, Charles Dye, Sophie H. Bogers, R. Michael Akers, Francisco C. Rodriguez, John P. Cant, John Doelman, Peter Yoder, Karan Kumar, Dane Webster, Mark D. Hanigan Dec 2018

Bovine Mammary Gland Biopsy Techniques, Veridiana L. Daley, Charles Dye, Sophie H. Bogers, R. Michael Akers, Francisco C. Rodriguez, John P. Cant, John Doelman, Peter Yoder, Karan Kumar, Dane Webster, Mark D. Hanigan

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Bovine mammary gland biopsies allow researchers to collect tissue samples to study cell biology including gene expression, histological analysis, signaling pathways, and protein translation. This article describes two techniques for biopsy of the bovine mammary gland (MG). Three healthy Holstein dairy cows were the subjects. Before biopsies, cows were milked and subsequently restrained in a cattle chute. An analgesic (flunixin meglumine, 1.1 to 2.2 mg/kg of body weight) was administered via jugular intravenous [IV] injection 15-20 min prior to biopsy. For standing sedation, xylazine hydrochloride (0.01-0.05 mg/kg of body weight) was injected via the coccygeal vessels 5-10 min before the …

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Reflections Of Hajj And Umrah Pilgrimage On Religious Stores In Mugla-Turkey, Onur Akbulut, Yakin Ekin Dec 2018

Reflections Of Hajj And Umrah Pilgrimage On Religious Stores In Mugla-Turkey, Onur Akbulut, Yakin Ekin

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Islam’s Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages comprise two of the oldest forms of religious tourism. Hajj and Umrah have some specific features which come from the Holy Quran and thus, those individuals wanting to participate in the pilgrimages have a number of needs and requirements, both before and after their journey. Therefore, this study is intended to present a profile of religious stores based on a tourist’s origin and destination. It concentrates on a relatively less studied component of pilgrimage tourism, this being religious stores, which mainly cater for potential pilgrims of Hajj and Umrah. These stores provide a contribution to …

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Contributors Page Fall 2018, Byu Criterion Dec 2018

Contributors Page Fall 2018, Byu Criterion

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.

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Wonder Woman's Fight For Autonomy: How Patty Jenkins Did What No Man Could, Hanann Morris Dec 2018

Wonder Woman's Fight For Autonomy: How Patty Jenkins Did What No Man Could, Hanann Morris

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.

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Obit - Harold Malehorn, Journal-Gazette Times-Courier Dec 2018

Obit - Harold Malehorn, Journal-Gazette Times-Courier

EIU in the News

No abstract provided.

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Tense Sensitivity Of Shambala Relative Markers, Salehe Kaoneka Dec 2018

Tense Sensitivity Of Shambala Relative Markers, Salehe Kaoneka

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This article goes a step ahead from the focus of relative clause formation strategies in Shambala provided in previous Shambala studies (c.f. Besha, 200; and Riedel, 2009). It describes relative formation strategies in the Shambala Bantu language (G.23) by focusing on the analysis of the constraints posed by relative markers on tense systems of the language. The study reveals three important issues: first, the positioning of the Shambala relative markers is highly constrained by tense; second, in unmarked situations, every relative marker is restricted to a particular tense; and third, when marked, some relative markers may refer to other tenses …

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What The Ladybug Heard Next, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

What The Ladybug Heard Next, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

With the fat red hen’s eggs disappearing, the heroic ladybug is back to defend the barnyard. The ladybug overhears the plan of robbers Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh to sneak onto the farm to steal the hen and get rich by selling her eggs. Working together, the animals hatch a plan to trick them. The hen persuades the dimwitted duo to search for the downy duck instead, toting the duck’s larger size and eggs as bait. Eventually the trail leads to goose who claims that the imaginary Snuggly Snerd, hiding in the compost heap, has the hugest eggs of all. …

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Elmer's Walk, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

Elmer's Walk, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

While life swarms on around him, Elmer the elephant enjoys the beauty and peace of nature. A beautiful spider web doesn’t entice the monkeys to pause, but Elmer observes it thoughtfully. Elmer points out an interesting log to the crocodiles—but they keep on moving. He invites the snake to admire the colorful flowers to no avail. Even the lion won’t delay his nap to look at the waterfall. Rush, rush, rush—no one has time to appreciate nature with Elmer. Eventually, Elmer finds and joins his cousin Wilbur in watching the sun setting and stars rising in the night sky. But …

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My Best Friend Is A Goldfish, Megan Hall Dec 2018

My Best Friend Is A Goldfish, Megan Hall

Children's Book and Media Review

Having a best friend isn’t always easy, but it is always worth the struggle. After an argument with his best friend, a boy tries to become best friends with a dog, a cat, a goldfish, and a hamster. Although they are fun to play with for a brief amount of time, he realizes they do not have enough in common to be best friends. My Best Friend Is a Goldfish teaches the importance of sticking with our friends through thick and thin.

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Knock, Knock, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

Knock, Knock, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

Bear is snuggling down for a long winter of hibernation. But other forest animals keep pestering him, knocking on the door and scooting inside with food and decorations. After each knock at the door, Bear grows more impatient. How is he ever going to get some sleep? With his den filled to the brim, a frustrated Bear is ready to tell the giddy bunch all to get out. When he sees the cause for the celebration—“Happy Hibernation!”—he realizes his friends are going to miss him, and he will miss them, too. And once spring arrives, Bear is ready to party …

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Shell, Beak, Tusk: Shared Traits And The Wonders Of Adaptation, Maryn Wheeler Dec 2018

Shell, Beak, Tusk: Shared Traits And The Wonders Of Adaptation, Maryn Wheeler

Children's Book and Media Review

In a world of predators and prey, animals have adapted to survive. Animals have specific traits to help them eat, while other traits protect them from being eaten. This vivid picture book explores convergent evolution where similar traits are seen in unrelated animals. Each informative page compares animals from different environments who share a helpful trait such as spines, shells, or tall ears. Animals use these survival traits in parallel ways even though they are distinct species. When a trait works, it works in multiple circumstances!

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The Rose Legacy, Gabrielle Borg Dec 2018

The Rose Legacy, Gabrielle Borg

Children's Book and Media Review

After being shifted about between family members and unwanted for nearly ten years, Anthea dreams about a loving family. Her long-lost uncle, Andrew, requests for her to come live with him at Last Farm. Little does she know that Last Farm hides an enormous secret: horses, the animal that has been forbidden in the kingdom for centuries. In a moment of weakness, Anthea writes to her aunt about the horses. As Anthea grows to love the horses, especially her dear Florian, she finds that she has an ability called The Way, an ancient power that allows humans to communicate with …

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Kiss Of The Spindle, Lisa Packard Dec 2018

Kiss Of The Spindle, Lisa Packard

Children's Book and Media Review

Doctor Isla Cooper is cursed to sleep as though dead from midnight to six in the morning. The curse affects her job, especially since she is supposed to work at night. Unfortunately, time is running out before the curse becomes permanent. She discovers the witch who cursed her is across the sea and must travel there immediately. She meets Captain Daniel Pickett on his ship and there is an undeniable attraction, but she doesn't want to tie him down with her problems. Daniel insists on helping her no matter what, and with the help of four other passengers, he is …

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Princesses Make It Now, Ashley Mckenzie Dec 2018

Princesses Make It Now, Ashley Mckenzie

Children's Book and Media Review

A busy book fit for a princess, this book contains five princesses to decorate and create. Each princess comes with a little animal friend, and both can be popped out of the board book and placed in the included stands, making them perfect for pretend play after they are completed. The princesses are partially colored, with black-and-white areas left to color in. Stickers in the back of the book allow readers to decorate the princesses with crowns, flowers and jewelry. The finished product is five sweet and customized paper princess dolls.

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Elmer And The Tune, Ashely Mckenzie Dec 2018

Elmer And The Tune, Ashely Mckenzie

Children's Book and Media Review

When Elmer the elephant runs into his friend Rose, the tune she is humming gets stuck in his head. It's a catchy tune, so Elmer starts humming it, and before long all the animals he runs into are humming it too. He tries to get it out of his head to no avail and finally joins his friends in a lively rendition of “Happy Birthday” to no one in particular. Finally free of the tune, the story takes a humorous twist as Lion says he wishes he could remember it. Children will be able to relate if they've ever had …

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The Night Box, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

The Night Box, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Max notices that the day is tired. It has long shadows and is sinking low in the sky. Everything is slowing down and preparing to rest, even Max. After brushing his teeth, he climbs into bed and says good night to his busy mother. But when the door is closed, Max gets out of bed and opens a box that releases the night and absorbs the day! Max makes some lovely observations about the night. How big it is, how playful, how friendly, until at last when he is exhausted, he climbs into bed. Night itself becomes tired and crawls …

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I'M A Girl!, Loretta Farnsworth Dec 2018

I'M A Girl!, Loretta Farnsworth

Children's Book and Media Review

I’m a Girl! depicts a little blue donkey who is frequently mistaken for being a boy. She wears necklaces and plays with dolls, but she also makes messes, runs fast, and plays her music loudly. Throughout all her activities, she is quick to remind others that she is a girl, despite not being sweet all the time. The book concludes with her dancing with her friend, a lion, who celebrates being a boy just as the donkey celebrates being a girl.

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Trickiest! 19 Sneaky Animals, Rachel Iba Dec 2018

Trickiest! 19 Sneaky Animals, Rachel Iba

Children's Book and Media Review

Trickiest! examines the odd survival traits of nineteen different animals. Each animal has been specially designed to survive in their environmental niche. Predators have come up with very creative ways to hide from or lure their prey. Likewise, prey have developed amazing ways to escape from predators. Everything from extreme camouflage to tails falling off can be found in this book of bizarre animal behaviors.

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The Squirrels' Busy Year: A First Science Storybook, Ariel Woodbury Dec 2018

The Squirrels' Busy Year: A First Science Storybook, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Winter is cold. The squirrels cuddle in their nest to stay warm when they aren't out looking for the acorns they've buried. Spring is warm. The squirrels are out looking for food like the yummy maple tree buds and bulbs that they dig up from the ground. Summer is hot. There is thunder and lightning. Fall is cool. Now that there are acorns, the squirrels are busy collecting them to save underground for winter.

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