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12-04-18 Hsc Committee Meeting Notice, Hsc Committee

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

Um Offers New Multidisciplinary Disaster Sciences Minor, Kendall Patterson

University of Mississippi News

From dealing with wildfires to hurricanes, program aims to prepare students to help others

Business School Launches Networking Program, Stella Connell

University of Mississippi News

Business Connect will link students with former graduates for employment

Backpack Pcr: A Point-Of-Collection Diagnostic Platform For The Rapid Detection Of Brugia Parasites In Mosquitoes, Weam I. Zaky, Francesca R. Tomaino, Nils Pilotte, Sandra J. Laney, Steven A. Williams

Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

University Of Dayton To Celebrate 20 Years Of Human Rights Studies, 70 Years Of U.N. Declaration, University Of Dayton

News Releases

DAYTON, Ohio — The University of Dayton will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the University's human rights studies program and 70th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a pair of free, public events Thursday, Dec. 6, featuring a current U.S. State Department official and the editor-in-chief of top academic human rights journal Human Rights Quarterly.

Higgins V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 45752

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

12.18.2018 Board Of Medical Investigators State Of New Mexico Notice Of General Meeting, Anthony Cervantes

Office of the Medical Investigator Notices and Agendas

No abstract provided.

Altered Expression Of Phox2 Transcription Factors In The Locus Coeruleus In Major Depressive Disorder Mimicked By Chronic Stress And Corticosterone Treatment In Vivo And In Vitro, Yan Fan, Ping Chen, Muhammad U. Raza, Attila Szebeni, Katalin Szebeni, Gregory A. Ordway, Craig A. Stockmeier, Meng Yang Zhu

ETSU Faculty Works

Phox2a and Phox2b are two homeodomain transcription factors playing a pivotal role in the development of noradrenergic neurons during the embryonic period. However, their expression and function in adulthood remain to be elucidated. Using human postmortem brain tissues, rat stress models and cultured cells, this study aimed to examine the alteration of Phox2a and Phox2b expression. The results show that Phox2a and Phox2b are normally expressed in the human locus coeruleus (LC) in adulthood. Furthermore, the levels of Phox2a protein and mRNA and protein levels of Phox2b were significantly elevated in the LC of brain donors that suffered from the …

Key Word Use In Letters Of Recommendation For Ophthalmology Residency Applicants According To Race, Gender, And Achievements, Sahil Aggarwal, Seanna Grob, Dhruba Banerjee, Preston Putzel, Jeremiah Tao

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Objectives To identify differences in letters of recommendation (LORs) of applicants to a single ophthalmology residency program by gender, race, academic performance, and match outcome.

Design This was a retrospective analysis of LORS for 2,523 applicants (7,569 letters) to the University of California, Irvine ophthalmology residency program from 2011 to 2018.

Methods Programming scripts were employed to determine the number of times 22 key words from four thematic categories (standout words, ability, grindstone, and compassion) appeared in LORs for each applicant. A chi-square test was performed to assess for possible differences in the presence of each key word by the …

A Sport-Specific Wearable Jump Monitor For Figure Skating, Dustin A. Bruening, Riley E. Reynolds, Chris W. Adair, Peter Zapalo, Sarah T. Ridge

Faculty Publications

Advancements in wearable technology have facilitated performance monitoring in a number of sports. Figure skating may also benefit from this technology, but the inherent movements present some unique challenges. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to monitor three aspects of figure skating jumping performance: jump count, jump height, and rotation speed. Seven competitive figure skaters, outfitted with a waist-mounted IMU, performed a total of 59 isolated multi-revolution jumps and their competition routines, which consisted of 41 multi-revolution jumps along with spins, footwork, and other skills. The isolated jumps were …

Radiofrequency Renal Denervation Attenuates Kidney Fibrosis In Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (2267), Juan Gao, Ian Bart Denys, Luis Del Valle, Mihran V. Naljayan, Daniel R. Kapusta

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

State V. Smith Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45778

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

State V. Simmons Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45970

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Cinematic Amnesia As Remembering: Coming Home (2014) And Red Amnesia (2014), Ying Bao

Department of World Languages Faculty Research

This article examines the trope of amnesia—the crisis of memory—in two recent Chinese-language films dealing with traumatic memories of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath: Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home (Guilai, 2014) and Wang Xiaoshuai’s Red Amnesia (Chuangru zhe, 2014). Cinematic representation of real and symbolic amnesia, I argue, can be an affective way to overcome historical amnesia, both institutionalized by the Party-state and privatized by individuals. By exploring the dynamics between forgetting and remembering at both collective and individual levels, we can reach a deeper understanding of the profound impact of the Cultural Revolution and its present-day repercussions.

Law Student's Novella Promotes Suicide Prevention, Seattle University School Of Law

News Center Articles

No abstract provided.

Unilateral, 3d Arm Movement Kinematics Are Encoded In Ipsilateral Human Cortex, David T. Bundy, Nicholas Szrama, Mrinal Pahwa, Eric C. Leuthardt

Open Access Publications

There is increasing evidence that the hemisphere ipsilateral to a moving limb plays a role in planning and executing movements. However, the exact relationship between cortical activity and ipsilateral limb movements is uncertain. We sought to determine whether 3D arm movement kinematics (speed, velocity, and position) could be decoded from cortical signals recorded from the hemisphere ipsilateral to the moving limb. By having invasively monitored patients perform unilateral reaches with each arm, we also compared the encoding of contralateral and ipsilateral limb kinematics from a single cortical hemisphere. In four motor-intact human patients (three male, one female) implanted with electrocorticography …

Tio2-Based Hybrid Nanocomposites Modified By Phosphonate Molecules As Selective Pah Adsorbents, Nadine Bou Orm, Quoc An Trieu, Stephane Daniele

All Works

© 2018 by the authors. A robust sol-gel process was developed for the synthesis of surface-functionalized titania nanocrystallites bearing unsaturated groups starting from molecular heteroleptic single-source precursors. Molecules and nanomaterials were thoroughly characterized by multinuclear liquid and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infra-red (FT-IR, DRIFT) spectroscopies. Nitrogen adsorption-desorption (BET), thermogravimetric (TG) and elemental analyses demonstrated the reliability and the fine tuning of the surface functionalization in terms of ratio TiO2:ligand. The as-prepared materials were used as nano-adsorbents to remove mixture of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) from aqueous solutions. Adsorption kinetic experiments were carried out for 24 h in solutions …

Molecular Signatures For Ccn1, P21 And P27 In Progressive Mantle Cell Lymphoma, A Zaidi, S Dresman, B Charoltte, S Rule, Lmr Mccallum

School of Biomedical Sciences

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a comparatively rare non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma characterised by overexpression of cyclin D1.Many patients present with or progress to advanced stage disease within 3 years. MCL is considered an incurable disease withmedian survival between 3 and 4 years. We have investigated the role(s) of CCN1 (CYR61) and cell cycle regulators inprogressive MCL. We have used the human MCL cell lines REC1 < G519 < JVM2 as a model for disease aggression. Themagnitude of CCN1 expression in human MCL cells is REC1 > G519 > JVM2 cells by RQ-PCR, depicting a decrease in CCN1expression with disease progression. Investigation of CCN1 isoform expression by western blotting showed that whilst expres-sion of full-length CCN1 was barely altered in the cell lines, expression …

Metabolic Syndrome Among Adolescents In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Is Attributable To The High Prevalence Of Low Hdl Levels: A Cross-Sectional Study, Dalia Haroun, Rola Mechli, Razan Sahuri, Safa Alkhatib, Omar Obeid, Carla El Mallah, Lesley Wood, Khulood Alsuwaidi

All Works

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) describes a combination of risk factors that increase the risk of developing chronic diseases. The prevalences of MetS and its risk factors are increasing, especially in the Arab region. A cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the prevalences of MetS and its associated risk factors among adolescents in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Methods: A total of 596 students (308 boys and 288 girls) aged 10 to 15.9 years old were recruited from 14 public secondary schools in Dubai, UAE. Anthropometric and biochemical data were measured. Results: According to the International …

Implementation Of A Standardized Patient Safety Checklist In Ophthalmic Surgery, Erin Boese, Paul Lee, Grant Greenberg, Richard Harrison, Jennifer Weizer

Journal of Academic Ophthalmology

Objective To develop and institute a standardized ophthalmology-specific operating room checklist, and to test adherence to the surgical checklist components after implementation.

Design An ophthalmology-specific operative room checklist was developed using recommendations from surgical preoperative checklists from other subspecialties and checklists specific to cataract surgery. This standardized checklist was then implemented into the operating rooms. Operative room staff was trained on its use. Adherence to the checklist was measured prospectively.

Setting Surgical centers at Kellogg Eye Center in Ann Arbor and Livonia, Michigan.

Participants Patients undergoing ophthalmic surgery at the Livonia and Ann Arbor surgical centers.

Main Outcome(s) and Measure(s) …

This Thanksgiving, Appreciating Stable Health And New Plans For Huntington's Disease Advocacy, Kenneth P. Serbin

At Risk for Huntington's Disease

No abstract provided.

The Pornography Debate: Religiosity And Support For Censorship, Brian A. Droubay, Robert P. Butters, Kevin Shafer

Faculty Publications

Pornography has become an increasingly salient topic in public discourse. We sought to better understand the role of religiosity in shaping people’s support of policy stances against pornography, in the form of censorship, using nationally representative data from the 2014 General Social Survey (n = 1676). Results from logistic regression indicate that high religiosity significantly increases odds of supporting censorship. Holding control variables at their sample means, the least religious persons had a predicted probability of 0.09 of supporting censorship, compared to 0.57 for the most religious respondents. We discuss these findings within the context of the current public …

Access To Online Databases: Predicate For Faculty Research Output, Mercy A. Iroaganachi, Roland Izuagbe

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study examined the role of access to online databases as the basis for faculty research output in six universities (comprising two each of federal, state and private) in two Southwestern states in Nigeria. A descriptive research design guided the study. Multistage sampling procedures including purposive, stratification, randomization as well as proportionate sampling techniques were employed to select 339 faculty members who provided the data for the study. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Of the 339 copies of the questionnaires administered, 89 per cent were retrieved fully completed and found usable. The research questions that guided the …

Problem-Based Learning In Professional Studies From The Physiotherapy Students’ Perspective, Hilkka Korpi, Liisa Peltokallio, Arja Piirainen

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

The aim of the study was to investigate how physiotherapy students using a problem-based learning approach develop into experts during higher education, and answers the question: How do physiotherapy students at bachelor’s level understand the problem-based learning approach while learning to become professionals? PBL is examined using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of longitudinal data written by 15 voluntary students from two different higher education institutions and collected during 3.5 years. The main results on the new way of learning strengthen earlier conceptions of the importance of reflection in the learning process. The PBL method activates a reflection process by allowing …

Perceptions Of Shop Operators On Packaging Of Made-In-Ghana Products, Agnes Decardi-Nelson Dr, Adam Rahman

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

The importance of packaging in the marketing of a product cannot be overemphasized. It raises the appeal of the product and becomes its silent salesman. Proper packaging is a less expensive means of advertisement and leads to a direct reduction in production cost and indirectly increases sales by attracting the final consumer. The use of packaging as a marketing and sales promotional tool has been very well developed in the advanced countries with developing countries such as Ghana lagging far behind. In Ghana, many products are poorly labelled and packaged. This paper seeks to ascertain the views of sellers/traders about …

Multi-Device Authentication For Windows Environment, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

A secure technique for implementing multi-device-based authentication on a

Windows operating system is provided using a threshold signature mechanism.

A Method For Password Recovery Using A Quorum Of Companion Devices, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

A threshold-signature-based password recovery technique uses a quorum of

user devices to recover a password of the user more securely than prior techniques.

Adaptive Printhead Configuration To Provide Functional Compensation To The System With Physical Failures To Minimize The Impact Of Productivity, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The idea proposed in this disclosure is focused to minimize one of the most important metrics for our

industrial customers. Printing down is not evitable at all from time to time, so it turns into downtime, that

can be from hours to days within most of cases which are not predictable. If unfortunately, at the same time,

the customer is managing urgent jobs which do not have enough margin in time, it will end up most of time

with financial losses due to delivery delay and/or compensation to his/her customer.

Novel Methods For Reasoning With Uncertain Hard And Soft Data Using Probabilistic And Belief Theoretic Methods, Rafael Camilo Nunez Sanchez

Open Access Dissertations

Effectively combining multiple and complementary sources of information is becoming one of the most promising paths for increased accuracy and more detailed analysis in numerous applications. Neuroscience, business analytics, military intelligence, and sociology are among the areas that could significantly benefit from properly processing diverse data sources. However, traditional methods for combining multiple sources of information are based on slow or impractical methods that rely either on vast amounts of manual processing or on suboptimal representations of data. Moreover, most of the existing methods are not well suited for dealing with the increasing amount of human-generated data. We introduce an …

Disseminated Adenovirus Infection After Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation, M. Hemmersbach-Miller, E. S. Bailey, M. Kappus, V. K. Prasad, G. C. Gray, A. Alspaugh

Public Health

No abstract provided.