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The Effect Of Mosquito Ditching On Carbon Sequestration In Mangrove Ecosystems And Associated Management Implications, Race Stryker

Theses & ETDs

Mangroves are coastal wetlands that are critical to the global carbon cycle. Mangroves account for about 10-15% of the carbon sequestered by forests while only occupying 0.5% of the total forested area on the planet. Many mangrove ecosystems in the state of Florida suffer from the historic impacts of ditches that were created to reduce viable breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Unfortunately, the full effects of these ditches on rates of carbon sequestration have yet to be investigated or understood. This thesis presents an exploration of the policies that lead to mosquito ditching in Florida; provides an assessment of the impacts …

Innumerable Views Of The Sunshine State: Locating Florida In The Literature Of The Everglades And Central Florida, Chelsea M. Torregrosa

Theses & ETDs

Florida literature is not merely a part of Southern literature, but rather its own category of writing. Its prose and poetry cannot be defined except as the sum of its parts, so this thesis explores two regions of Florida: the Everglades and Central Florida. The Everglades chapter examines Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country, and Campbell McGrath’s poems “A City in the Clouds” and “The Everglades.” It identifies magic, Southern influence and outlaw culture, and conservation of land as prominent themes in Everglades literature. In the Central Florida chapter, it analyzes Susan Lilley’s poem “Fall,” Nathan Holic’s 15 Views …

Targeted Nanoparticle Delivery For In Utero Treatment Of Congenital Disorders, Valerie Luks

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Congenital disorders represent a large unmet clinical need with significant morbidity and premature mortality resulting from mutations and anomalies that can be diagnosed, and eventually treated, in utero. Nanoparticles (NP) have been used as versatile protective vessels for the delivery of a variety of therapeutic agents. Importantly, the potency of NPs can be amplified by modifications to the molecular composition as well as to the delivery to allow targeting to specific tissues. We hypothesize that optimization of NP targeting both by nanoparticle modification and the route of administration can increase overall uptake in specific cells and tissues of interest. To …

In Reply To 'Idarucizumab Dosing In Kidney Failure', James E. Novak, Khalid Alamiri, Jerry Yee

Nephrology Articles

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Metformin Suppresses Retinal Angiogenesis And Inflammation In Vitro And In Vivo, Jing Han, Yue Li, Xiuli Liu, Tongrong Zhou, Haijing Sun, Paul Edwards, Hua Gao, Fu-Shin Yu, Xiaoxi Qiao

Ophthalmology Articles

The oral anti-diabetic drug metformin has been found to reduce cardiovascular complications independent of glycemic control in diabetic patients. However, its role in diabetic retinal microvascular complications is not clear. This study is to investigate the effects of metformin on retinal vascular endothelium and its possible mechanisms, regarding two major pathogenic features of diabetic retinopathy: angiogenesis and inflammation. In human retinal vascular endothelial cell culture, metformin inhibited various steps of angiogenesis including endothelial cell proliferation, migration, and tube formation in a dose-dependent manner. Its anti-angiogenic activity was confirmed in vivo that metformin significantly reduced spontaneous intraretinal neovascularization in a very-low-density …

Association Of Metformin Treatment With Reduced Severity Of Diabetic Retinopathy In Type 2 Diabetic Patients, Yue Li, Christina Ryu, Metasebia Munie, Salma Noorulla, Satyesh Rana, Paul Edwards, Hua Gao, Xiaoxi Qiao

Ophthalmology Articles

Purpose: To evaluate effects of long-term metformin on the severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in high-risk type 2 diabetic (T2D) patients.

Methods: A retrospective chart review study was conducted involving 335 DR patients with T2D ≥ 15 years from 1990 to 2013. The severity of DR was determined by Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study scale. The associations between metformin and DR severity were evaluated. Comparison with stratification for the use of sulfonylurea and insulin was performed to identify possible confounding effects.

Results: Severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy or proliferative diabetic retinopathy (SNPDR/PDR) was more often diagnosed in nonmetformin users (67/142, 47%) …

Implicit Racial Biases In Prosecutorial Summations: Proposing An Integrated Response, Praatika Prasad

Fordham Law Review

Racial bias has evolved from the explicit racism of the Jim Crow era to amore subtle and difficult-to-detect form: implicit racial bias. Implicit racial biases exist unconsciously and include negative racial stereotypes andassociations. Everyone, including actors in the criminal justice system who believe themselves to be fair, possess these biases. Although inaccessible through introspection, implicit biases can easily be triggered through language. When trials involve Black defendants, prosecutors’ summations increasingly include racial themes that could trigger jurors’ implicit biases, lead to the perpetuation of unfair stereotypes, and contribute to racial injustice and disparate outcomes. This Note examines and critiques the …

Letter From The Dean, Deacue Fields

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

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The Tower Of Babel Revisited: Global Governance As A Problematic Solution To Existential Threats, Craig S. Lerner

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

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Taming The Golem: Challenges Of Ethical Algorithmic Decision-Making, Omer Tene, Jules Polonetsky

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

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Putting The Reins On Autonomous Vehicle Liability: Why Horse Accidents Are The Best Common Law Analogy, David King

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

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On The Efficacy Of High-Dose Ascorbic Acid As Anticancer Treatment: A Literature Survey, Florentin Smarandache, Victor Christianto

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid, ascorbate) has a controversial history in cancer treatment. Emerging evidence indicates that ascorbate in cancer treatment deserves re-examination. As research results concerning ascorbate pharmacokinetics and its mechanisms of action against tumor cells have been published, and as evidence from case studies has continued to mount that ascorbate therapy could be effective if the right protocols were used, interest among physicians and scientists has increased.

Agency And Insanity, Stephen P. Garvey

Buffalo Law Review

This Article offers an unorthodox theory of insanity. According to the traditional theory, insanity is a cognitive or volitional incapacity arising from a mental disease or defect. As an alternative to the traditional theory, some commentators have proposed that insanity is an especially debilitating form of irrationality. Each of these theories faces fair-minded objections. In contrast to these theories, this Article proposes that a person is insane if and because he lacks a sense of agency. The theory of insanity it defends might therefore be called the lost-agency theory.According to the lost-agency theory, a person lacks a sense of agency …

Resolving The Position Of Astragalus Borysthenicus Klokov Within The Astragalus L. Species, Nataliia Karpenko, Viktoriia Martyniuk, Oksana Tyshchenko, Andrii Tarieiev, Ayten Tekpinar, Vitaliia Didenko, Igor Kostikov

Turkish Journal of Botany

The present study is focused on several species from the genus Astragalus L. with the aim to clarify the taxonomic status of Ukrainian local endemic species Astragalus borysthenicus Klokov, which is sometimes considered a synonym to A. onobrychis L. In this study, the morphological features, current taxonomy, taxonomical history, and phylogenetic analysis based on rDNA Bayesian inference, as well as comparative analysis of ITS1 and ITS2 secondary structures, were investigated. It was found that A. borysthenicus is distant from A. onobrychis according to phylogenetic analysis. Moreover, A. borysthenicus has differences from the investigated taxa in its secondary structures of ITS1 …

"Smart" Repression, Lee A. Smithey, L. R. Kurtz

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Works

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Fertilizers And Nitrates In Drinking Water: State Water Board Tackles The Public Health Threat Of Contaminated Groundwater, Emel G. Wadhwani

UC Law Environmental Journal

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Nsu M.S. In Criminal Justice Overview 2018, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

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On The Phantoms Of (Nietzsche’S) Woman And The Matter Of God, Raiany Romanni

Comparative Literature M.A. Essays

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Political Phlebotomy: The Poetics And Politics Of Blood In Giambattista Marino’S La Strage Degliinnocenti, Evan Strouss

Comparative Literature M.A. Essays

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The Expansion Of Child Pornography Law, Carissa Byrne Hessick

Faculty Publications

This Symposium essay identifies two dramatic expansions of child pornography law: prosecutions for possessing images of children who are clothed and not engaged in any sexual activity, and prosecutions for possessing smaller portions of artistic and non-pornographic images. These prosecutions have expanded the definition of the term ‘‘child pornography’’ well beyond its initial meaning. What is more, they signal that child pornography laws are being used to punish people not necessarily because of the nature of the picture they possess, but rather because of the conclusion that those individuals are sexually attracted to children. If law enforcement concludes that a …

Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions By Faculty And Staff, January To December, 2018, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2018.

Comparing The Effects Of Monensin And Sodium Butyrate On Coccidia In Post-Weaned Heifers, Hannah R. Coffin

Honors Theses and Capstones

The emergence of antibiotic resistances has raised concerns in society about the widespread use of antibiotics, such as monensin, as growth enhancers in agriculture. Pressure to find alternatives has increased since the European Union banned the use of ionophorous antibiotics. Butyrate supplementation has been found to enhance growth in pre-weaned calves and it has been recently suggested to enhance growth in post-weaned heifers. In a recent study by Rice in 2017, there was a quadratic (P=0.03) response for coccidia counts as sodium butyrate was increased, with the lowest counts being at the intermediate doses. This suggested that butyrate has the …

Osteohistology And Skeletochronology Of An Ontogenetic Series Of Clidastes (Squamata: Mosasauridae): Growth And Metabolism In Basal Mosasaurids, Cyrus C. Green

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Clidastes was a large marine reptile from the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of North America. Though the remains of Clidastes have been found in the Cretaceous chalks and shales for over 150 years, little is known about their growth rates.

Osteohistology is a well-documented technique used to investigate growth in extinct animals. Previous histological studies of Clidastes have hypothesized higher growth rates in basal mosasaurids than varanids due to higher vascularity. These studies focused on adult specimens but did not look at ontogenetic changes in growth rates. Isotopic studies of Clidastes indicate high metabolic temperatures, leading to speculation these …

Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference In The Atlantic World, 1780-1840, Alexandra Cornelius

Civil War Book Review

Using compelling evidence collected from archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, South Carolina, and Philadelphia, Rana Hogarth argues persuasively that physicians working among enslaved societies in the Atlantic world during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries played a decisive role in the racialization of physiological and physical differences among humans.

The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves, And The Remaking Of Citizenship In Civil War America, Bennett Parten

Civil War Book Review

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The Societal Impacts Of Climate Anomalies During The Past 50,000 Years And Their Implications For Solastalgia And Adaptation To Future Climate Change, Edward P. Richards

Journal Articles

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European And Indian Discoveries, Definitions And Portrayals Of Indic Religions: A Case Study Of 18th Century, Daniel Jeyaraj

Yale Divinity Library Occasional Publications

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The Grid And The Grouse: Cooperative Federal-State Conservation Planning In The Ages Of Obama And Trump, Bret C. Birdsong

Scholarly Works

This essay reviews two habitat conservation and planning initiatives undertaken by the Obama administration that relied on and envisioned extraordinary cooperation between the federal and state governments in order to overcome, or at least lessen, the disruptive impacts of jurisdictional lines on effective and comprehensive habitat conservation. These initiatives are the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) in California and the sage grouse conservation planning effort across eleven western states. Both initiatives embraced the common sense goal of coordinating development and conservation management across jurisdictional boundaries. In both initiatives, however, cooperation was motivated and sustained by specific legal and policy …

Smoking Cessation And Outcome After Ischemic Stroke Or Tia, Katherine Abigail Epstein

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

People who smoke cigarettes are 2-4 times more likely to have a stroke and 2-5 times more likely to have a myocardial infarction compared with people who do not smoke. On a population level, it is estimated that smoking accounts for 33% of all cardiovascular deaths. Fortunately, quitting smoking can rapidly normalize risk. After an MI, smoking cessation reduces the risk of recurrent coronary events to the level of a never-smoker's after 3 years. While the benefits of smoking cessation in patients with cardiovascular disease are well-known, the benefits of smoking cessation after stroke have never been adequately examined and …

Improving Therapeutics In Head And Neck Cancer, Cyril Sergei Gary

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Patients with head and neck cancer suffer not solely from disease but also from sequelae of radiation and chemotherapy treatment, and there is a large, unmet need to both develop novel therapies and improve existing ones to decrease deleterious, life-long side effects and improve patient survival. In the last several years, growing evidence has suggested that head and neck cancer represents two distinct disease entities based on Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) status. Unfortunately, HPV status is currently only used for prognosis and not for guiding management. Subsequently, this work focuses on 1) developing a novel targeted therapy for HPV-positive (HPV(+)) …