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Neonatal Intestinal Dysbiosis In Necrotizing Enterocolitis, N. Denning, J. M. Prince

Journal Articles

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B-1a Cells Protect Mice From Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury, M. Aziz, Y. Ode, M. Zhou, M. Ochani, N. E. Holodick, T. L. Rothstein, P. Wang

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Efficacy Of Multi-Detector Computed Tomography For The Diagnosis Of Medullary Sponge Kidney, G. S. Gaunay, R. G. Berkenblit, C. H. Tabib, J. R. Blitstein, M. Patel, D. M. Hoenig

Journal Articles

© 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel. Objective: To expand the diagnostic armamentarium for medullary sponge kidney (MSK), we evaluate the use of high-resolution multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) for MSK diagnosis and compare to the standard intravenous urography (IVU). Despite a significant prevalence amongst stone formers, diagnosis of this well described condition has declined. IVU, the gold standard in MSK diagnosis, has largely been replaced by CT, which has previously been shown unable to demonstrate signs of MSK. Methods and Materials: Patients with known history of MSK based on IVU underwent limited MDCT urogram. Control group patients, without MSK, also had …

Plasma Cell Differentiation Pathways In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, S. Malkiel, A. N. Barlev, Y. Atisha-Fregoso, J. Suurmond, B. Diamond

Journal Articles

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Identification Of Cytokine-Specific Sensory Neural Signals By Decoding Murine Vagus Nerve Activity, T. P. Zanos, H. A. Silverman, T. Levy, T. Tsaava, E. Battinelli, P. W. Lorraine, J. M. Ashe, S. S. Chavan, K. J. Tracey, C. E. Bouton

Journal Articles

© 2018 National Academy of Sciences. All Rights Reserved. The nervous system maintains physiological homeostasis through reflex pathways that modulate organ function. This process begins when changes in the internal milieu (e.g., blood pressure, temperature, or pH) activate visceral sensory neurons that transmit action potentials along the vagus nerve to the brainstem. IL-1β and TNF, inflammatory cytokines produced by immune cells during infection and injury, and other inflammatory mediators have been implicated in activating sensory action potentials in the vagus nerve. However, it remains unclear whether neural responses encode cytokine-specific information. Here we develop methods to isolate and decode specific …

Increased Reactive Oxygen Species And Cell Cycle Defects Contribute To Anemia In The Rasa3 Mutant Mouse Model Scat, E. S. Hartman, E. C. Brindley, J. Papoin, S. L. Ciciotte, Y. Zhao, L. L. Peters, L. Blanc

Journal Articles

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Analysis Of Menstrual Effluent: Diagnostic Potential For Endometriosis, L. A. Warren, A. Shih, S. M. Renteira, T. Seckin, B. Blau, K. Simpfendorfer, C. N. Metz, P. K. Gregersen

Journal Articles

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Panther First Recipients Of 2018, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Panther First Awards

The Panther First Award identifies and rewards employees who have provided excellent customer service to customers, co-workers, or other members of the UNI community. This is the list of recipients from 2018.

Investigating Aromatherapy As A Test Anxiety Intervention For Undergraduate Nursing Students, Brittany Graham

Education Dissertations and Projects

This project seeks to explore the concept of aromatherapy as an intervention for undergraduate nursing student test anxiety in greater depth. Test anxiety is significant in nursing education because of the high stakes weight of exams and difficulties associated with answering multiple choice and multiple response questions. Historically, the Hunt School of Nursing has not provided specific procedures or interventions to assist students with test anxiety; however, this project seeks to outline a pathway for the development and achievement of a successful aromatherapy program for undergraduate students. On an informal trial basis, the use of aromatherapy lotions prior to exams …

The Impact Of The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Professional Development On Teacher Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Head Danley

Education Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the Gradual Release of Responsibility instructional framework professional development on teacher self-efficacy and the perception of its impact on student achievement. The scope of this study was a qualitative study including focus group interviews and open-ended question responses of teachers and administrators who had participated in the professional development in a rural district in the foothills of North Carolina. The methodology included focus group interviews and coding the responses from the open-ended professional development questions. The findings include teacher quotes from the transcriptions of the interviews as supporting the …

Filling The Reading Void: Studying Reading Stamina In A Suburban High School Through Action Research: A Companion Research Study, Lindsey Ruth Weycker

Education Dissertations and Projects

A common practice in elementary schools is to allow students silent reading time during school. Experts agree this is best practice due to the benefits to students, especially in vocabulary development and reading stamina. As students age, however, this practice tends to decline in favor of activities that are meant to teach vocabulary in isolation and test preparation skills. In addition to these activities, English language arts classes typically read and study novels together as a class for the purpose of studying literary devices and literary analysis. Because of these practices, secondary students tend to read less, which in turn …

Teacher Preparation Programs And Motivation Strategies For Student Achievement In Select Elementary Schools, Sharonne Denise Simmons

Education Dissertations and Projects

According to Ashton (1984), teacher self-efficacy can produce a prevailing paradigm in the field of education. Ashton stated that there is no other personality trait of teachers that has such a profound effect on student academic success. A teacher preparation program that has an aim of developing teacher self-efficacy and includes the important elements of motivating students, “should develop teachers who possess the motivation essential for effective classroom performance” (Ashton, 1984, p. 2). Teacher self-efficacy denotes the belief or discernment that one can perform tasks adequately to reach a desired goal (Bandura, 1997).

According to Bandura (1986), self-efficacy judgments are …

Design Of A Novel Tissue Culture System To Subject Aortic Tissue To Multidirectional Bicuspid Aortic Valve Wall Shear Stress, Janet Liu

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Blood vessels experience complex hemodynamics marked by three-dimensionality and pulsatility. Arterial endothelial cells interact with the characteristics of the fluid wall shear stress (WSS) to maintain homeostasis or promote disease states. In particular, the bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), a congenital heart valve anatomy consisting of two leaflets instead of three, is associated with aortic complications presumably promoted by hemodynamic abnormalities. While devices have been used to test this hypothesis, their capabilities are limited to the generation of time-varying WSS magnitude in one direction. However, the increased flow helicity generated by BAVs in the aorta is expected to result in increased …

Resource Assessment Report Western Australian Sea Cucumber Resource, Anthony M. Hart, D. V. Murphy, N Caputi, Alexander Hesp, E. A. Fisher

WA Marine Stewardship Council report series

This document provides a cumulative description and assessment of the Sea Cucumber Resource and all of the fishing activities (i.e. fisheries / fishing sectors) affecting this resource in Western Australia (WA). The overall resource comprises two main species (sandfish Holothuria scabra and redfish Actinopyga echinites), and few minor species that inhabit the tropical shallow continental shelf waters of the North Coast Bioregion.

Reconstructing Regional Midwestern Hydroclimate Utilizing Diatom Assemblages From Pretty Lake, Indiana, Emily Starbuck

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Over the past 2000 years, the hydroclimatic setting of Pretty Lake, a 16,000-year-old, hydrologically closed kettle lake in northeastern Indiana, has shifted from cool and dry to warm and wet. The lake has experienced marked periods of increased and decreased average temperatures during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and the Little Ice Age (LIA), respectively. Major shifts in the dominant diatom taxa within the lake system correspond well with hydroclimatic records concerning the MCA and LIA in Europe and are interpreted as responses to changes in stratification and nutrient cycling. Recent trends in anthropogenically forced climate change and human land …

Connecting North And South: Engaging Latin American English Learners, Kenyan Intercultural Communications And American Undergraduate Students Through Reciprocal Service Learning, Laureen Fregeau, Ukaiko A. Bitrus-Ojiambo, Suhana Chikatla, William Cornejo

ECTESOL Review

Reciprocal Service Learning through videoconferencing is an efficient tool for connecting native English speakers of various world Englishes and ELs in other nations for the benefit of all. The authors of this study recognize the reciprocal nature of teaching and learning and the social justice of equalizing power structures through the inclusion of participants and researchers from both North and South as members of a project and research team. Through participant observation and document review the authors examine the experiences of educators and learners in the phenomenon of reciprocal service learning through videoconferencing focused on cultural competence and English language …

Four Blue Windbreakers, Mari Molen

Inscape

Aimee and I wear ours at eight in the morning-alone. The night before, Mom had weaved Aimee's lightning-blonde hair into a tight braid. But now in the morning light, Aimee looks like an albino Klingon or something, random hairs flying from her head like alien antennas. Her light blue windbreaker pulls tight along her bird shoulders as she slides into the passenger seat.

Parameterization Of Secondary And Backscattered Electron Yields For Spacecraft Charging, Justin Christensen, Phil Lundgreen, Jr Dennison

Posters

No abstract provided.

Chart 3: The Two Genealogies And Prefaces Relating To Jesus' Birth, Harold Willmington

The Second Person File

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Significant Inhibition Of Protein Binding Of Phenytoin, Sheril Alexander, Jesse Flores, Henrietta Ofuluozor, Mariana Babayeva

Touro College of Pharmacy (New York) Publications and Research

Aim: This research was aimed to assess the potential for inhibition of protein binding of phenytoin by tizoxanide in human plasma. Phenytoin was used because studies have proven to be a highly plasma protein-bound drug with a narrow therapeutic index and non-linear pharmacokinetics. Tizoxanide is another highly protein-bound active metabolite of an anti-infective prodrug nitazoxanide. Both drugs are expected to be administered together due to their therapeutic indications.

Study Design: The study was divided into two phases. Phase 1 produced a reference line of phenytoin protein binding values. Phase 2 was conducted to reveal the effect of the interactant tizoxanide …

Aerocom: Winter 2018, John D. Odegard School Of Aerospace Sciences

Aerocom: John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Academic Catalog, 2018-2019, University Of New Hampshire

Undergraduate Catalog

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An Analysis Of Multiple Stressors On Resident Benthic Communities In A California Agricultural Stream, Lenwood W. Hall Jr., Ronald D. Anderson, William D. Killen, Raymond W. Allen Iii

Office of the Provost (TUN) Publications and Research

This 3-year study (2015-2017) was designed to characterize benthic communities (macroinvertebrates) and physical habitat in an agriculturally dominated waterbody in the Central Coast area of California (Santa Maria River). Benthic communities as represented by various metrics that represent richness, composition, tolerance/intolerance and trophic measures were used as response variables for the various stressors described below. Concurrent water quality evaluations, physical sediment parameters (grain size and total organic carbon [TOC]), pyrethroids, bulk metals—including simultaneously extracted metals (SEM) and acid volatile sulfides (AVS) ratios—and nutrients were measured. The relationship of various benthic metrics to physical habitat metrics, pyrethroids, metals, nutrients and sediment …

Biosocial Criminology Versus The Constitution, Karen E. Balter

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The continually emerging field of biosocial criminology provides a basis for productively merging biology with sociological reasonings for criminal behavior. Mainstream research in criminology focuses on environmental factors as the sole reason individuals exhibit antisocial behavior patterns and may ultimately commit crimes. Criminological research has travelled in this direction for decades. The current climate within this community subscribes heavily to the notion that biology has very little to do with why people behave the way they do, and if it did, government control would be the norm. The nature of biocriminology opens a door through which constitutional issues may enter. …

Pittsburg State University Ichthyology Field Notebooks, Karisa Boyer

Ichthyology Collection

No abstract provided.

Jeremy Lent. The Patterning Instinct, David R. Blanks

Faculty Publications - History & Political Science

No abstract provided.

Healthcare, Privacy, Big Data And Cybercrime: Which One Is The Weakest Link?, Marin Mrcela, Igor Vuletic

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of A Korean Ginseng, Ginst15, On Hypo-Pituitary-Adrenal And Oxidative Activity Induced By Intense Work Stress, Shawn D. Flanagan, William H. Dupont, Lydia K. Caldwell, Vincent H. Hardesty, Emily C. Barnhart, Matthew K. Beeler, Emily M. Post, Jeff S. Volek, William J. Kraemer

Health and Sport Sciences Faculty Scholarship

The effect of GINST15, an enzyme fermented ginseng supplement, on hormonal and inflammatory responses to physical stress in humans is unknown. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the constitutive and stress-induced effects of GINST15 supplement on hypo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and antioxidant activity in addition to muscle damage. Ten women (age: 38.7 ± 7.8 years; height: 163.81 ± 4.4 cm; body mass 76.0 ± 11.6 kg) and nine men (age: 41.2. ± 9.7 years; height: 177.4 ± 5.3 cm; body mass: 88.5 ± 5.0 kg) participated in a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, counterbalanced within-group study. Participants completed three 14-day treatment cycles with …

Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury (Trali), Tony Lybarger

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

No abstract provided.

2018 Master Of Arts In Teaching Teacher Education Programs Offered By The Otterbein University Education Department, Otterbein Office Of Graduate Programs

Graduate School

A graduate handbook for the Master of Arts in Teaching Teacher Education Programs offered by the Otterbein University Education Department.