Microbial Processes In The Weathering Crust Aquifer Of A Temperate Glacier, Brent C. Christner, Heather F. Lavender, Christina L. Davis, Erin E. Oliver, Sarah U. Neuhaus, Krista F. Myers, Birgit Hagedorn, Slawek M. Tulaczyk, Peter T. Doran, William C. Stone

Faculty Publications

© 2018 Author(s). Incident solar radiation absorbed within the ablation zone of glaciers generates a shallow perched aquifer and seasonal icebound microbial habitat. During the melt seasons of 2014 and 2015, borehole investigations were used to examine the physical, geochemical, and microbiological properties in the near-surface ice and aquifer of the temperate Matanuska Glacier (south-central Alaska). Based on temperature, solar forcing, and ice optical properties, the dissipation of shortwave radiation promoted internal melting and the formation of a weathering crust with a maximum depth of ∼2 m. Boreholes into the weathering crust provided access to water percolating through the porous …

The Role Of Epistemic Beliefs About Authority And Source Presence On Multiple Text Comprehension, Erica Kessler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The current research examined the role of epistemic beliefs about authority as well as source presence influence multiple text comprehension. Our sample was insensitive to our manipulation of source information availability (no source information, source information, embedded source information), however, several interesting relationships between the individual differences and measures of multiple text comprehension were observed. Prior knowledge was positively related to accurate essay information as well as source mentions in essays and rank-order justifications. In addition, justification by authority beliefs emerged as a positive predictor of source mentions in essays. Misconceptions about vaccines emerged a negative predictor of inclusion of …

Parallel Adaptive Collapsed Gibbs Sampling, Craig Nathan Kelly

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Rao-Blackwellisation is a technique that provably improves the performance of Gibbs sampling by summing-out variables from the PGM. However, collapsing variables is computationally expensive, since it changes the PGM structure introducing factors whose size is dependent upon the Markov blanket of the variable. Therefore, collapsing out several variables jointly is typically intractable in arbitrary PGM structures. This thesis proposes an adaptive approach for Rao-Blackwellisation, where additional parallel Markov chains are defined over different collapsed PGM structures. The collapsed variables are chosen based on their convergence diagnostics. Adding chains requires re-burn-in the chain, thus wasting samples. To address this, new chains …

Development And Impact Of A Stem Educational Outreach Program For K-12 Students, Holland Maye Aguayo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Studies show that K-12 students struggle more with math and science courses than other topics, which can deter K-12 students from pursuing opportunities in these fields. This leads to a shortage of STEM workers while job opportunities in STEM continue to grow at a faster pace than others. The STEM Ambassador program is designed to increase K-12 students’ interest in and preparation for STEM opportunities through employing undergraduate students as mentors, STEM activity leaders and tutors in K-12 schools. Impact of the program was assessed by analysis of K-12 student test score data and survey data from K-12 students, K-12 …

Defining Diagnosis: A Reflexive Account Of A Chronic Dis-Ease Process, Brandi Michelle Barnes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This is an autoethnographic account of the experience of living with chronic illness and a liminal status. This reflexive study is divided into three parts: 1) Lupus, the defining diagnosis, 2) Dis-ease, identity and reevaluation 3) Dis-identification, chronic dis-ease, and liminality. Throughout, music lyrics and my own poetry are used to represent my fluctuating identity. Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) is a rare yet complex disease. The etiology is constantly questioned by doctors and not readily seen; it is both contested and invisible. Patients with this illness are highly stigmatized, and their psychological welfare can become neglected in a biomedical system …

The Moccasin Project: Understanding A Sense Of Place Through Indigenous Art Making And Storytelling, Colleen Carew

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

The purpose of this arts-based and Indigenous research study was to explore how Native Americans understand ‘place-based imagery’ through an Indigenous art making and storytelling experience to illuminate perspectives and experiences of a ‘sense of place’. Storywork, an Indigenous research method directed the culturally grounded research project. The Native American moccasin was the symbolic cultural catalyst used to create a multimedia art piece to express and reflect traditional cultural knowledge rooted within this symbol. Native Americans representing five federally recognized tribes participated in the study. As a result of a pilot study, a definition of place-based imagery was developed. Place-based …

Comparison Between Kinetic And Kinetic-Kinematic Driven Knee Joint Finite Element Models, Paul O. Bolcos, Mika E. Mononen, Ali Mohammadi, Mohammadhossein Ebrahimi, Matthew S. Tanaka, Michael A. Samaan, Richard B. Souza, Xiaojuan Li, Juha-Sampo Suomalainen, Jukka S. Jurvelin, Juha Töyräs, Rami K. Korhonen

Kinesiology and Health Promotion Faculty Publications

Use of knee joint finite element models for diagnostic purposes is challenging due to their complexity. Therefore, simpler models are needed for studies where a high number of patients need to be analyzed, without compromising the results of the model. In this study, more complex, kinetic (forces and moments) and simpler, kinetic-kinematic (forces and angles) driven finite element models were compared during the stance phase of gait. Patella and tendons were included in the most complex model, while they were absent in the simplest model. The greatest difference between the most complex and simplest models was observed in the internal-external …

Effects Of Ambient Carbon Monoxide On Daily Hospitalizations For Cardiovascular Disease: A Time-Stratified Case-Crossover Study Of 460,938 Cases In Beijing, China From 2013 To 2017, Haibin Li, Jingwei Wu, Anxin Wang, Xia Li, Songxi Chen, Tianqi Wang, Endawoke Amsalu, Qi Gao, Yanxia Luo, Xinghua Yang, Wei Wang, Jin Guo, Yuming Guo, Xiuhua Guo

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

BACKGROUND: Evidence focused on exposure to ambient carbon monoxide (CO) and the risk of hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is lacking in developing countries. This study aimed to examine the effect of CO exposure on hospitalizations for CVD in Beijing, China.

METHODS: A total of 460,938 hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases were obtained from electronic hospitalization summary reports from 2013 to 2017. A time-stratified case-crossover design was conducted to investigate the association between CO exposure and hospitalizations for total and cause-specific CVD, including coronary heart disease (CHD), atrial fibrillation (AF), and heart failure (HF). Stratified analysis was also conducted by age …

Optimal Physical Preprocessing For Example-Based Super-Resolution, Alexander B. Robey , '18, Vidya Ganapati

Engineering Faculty Works

Fourier ptychographic microscopy is a technique that achieves a high space-bandwidth product, i.e. high resolution and high field-of-view. In Fourier ptychographic microscopy, variable illumination patterns are used to collect multiple low-resolution images. These low-resolution images are then computationally combined to create an image with resolution exceeding that of any single image from the microscope. Due to the necessity of acquiring multiple low-resolution images, Fourier ptychographic microscopy has poor temporal resolution. Our aim is to improve temporal resolution in Fourier ptychographic microscopy, achieving single-shot imaging without sacrificing space-bandwidth product. We use example-based super-resolution to achieve this goal by trading off generality …

A Dualist Approach To Offshore Renewable Energy Governance: A Case For The Third World, Adebayo Majekolagbe

Research Papers, Working Papers, Conference Papers

The need for an environmentally sustainable alternative to fossilsourced energy has led to a global increase in offshore renewable energy ORE ventures in the past decade With fastadvancing technologies these ventures are moving into deeper waters putting the likelihood of ORE installations in the High Seas in sight Concerns about potential conflict with other traditional uses of the marine space marine pollution inefficient and inequitable deployments have been raised However asides from few Statebased regulatory frameworks there is no international legal framework to regulate this burgeoning ORE industry Adopting a sociolegal approach this paper mainstreams Arvid Pardo's argument for the …

Cassava As An Insurance Crop In A Changing Climate: The Changing Role And Potential Applications Of Cassava For Smallholder Farmers In Northeastern Thailand, Anan Polthanee

Forest and Society

Approximately 80 percent of the 22 million people in Northeastern Thailand are engaged in agriculture, and the per capita income of the region is lower than in any other part of Thailand. The major constraint to crop production is rainfall. Although the region has an average annual rainfall greater than 1200 mm, the seasonal distribution of rainfall makes for challenging agricultural cultivation opportunities. The climate is characterized by rainy (May-October) and dry (November-April) seasons. Most (90%) farming is cultivated under rainfed conditions. In addition, most soils are characterized by a sandy texture, high acidity, low organic matter, low level of …

Temporal Changes In The Diversity And Composition Of Tropical Andean Forest Communities, Claudia Andrea Aparicio-Chavez

Theses

During the last few thousand years, human population growth and resource use has been reshaping the planet’s nutrient cycles, climate and biodiversity and might be causing significant changes to spatial and temporal patterns in the distribution of species, and a general erosion of biodiversity at global scales. Many studies have been looking to model and predict how species could respond to actual rates of change on environmental conditions, with a high interest in terms of species distribution and richness with potential extinctions. However, how global change impact local communities still remains unclear. Moreover, previous research suffers from a significant bias …

Aaas Honor, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Estimating Actual Evapotranspiration From Stony-Soils In Montane Ecosystems, Kshitij Parajuli, Scott B. Jones, David G. Tarboton, Gerald N. Flerchinger, Lawrence E. Hipps, L. Niel Allen, Mark S. Seyfried

Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications

Quantification of evapotranspiration (ET) is crucial for understanding the water balance and for efficient water resources planning. Agricultural settings have received most attention regarding ET measurements while less knowledge is available for actual ET (ET_A) in natural ecosystems, many of which have soils containing significant amounts of stones. This study is focused on modelling ET_A from stony soil, particularly in montane ecosystems where we estimate the contribution of stone content on water retention properties in soil. We employed a numerical model (HYDRUS-1D) to simulate ET_A in natural settings in northern Utah and southern Idaho during the …

Litterfall, Litter Decomposition, Soil Macrofauna, And Nutrient Contents In Rubber Monoculture And Rubber-Based Agroforestry Plantations, Uraiwan Tongkaemkaew, J. Sukkul, Narathorn Sumkhan, Phantip Panklang, Alain Brauman, Roslan Ismail

Forest and Society

This study is a comparison of the litterfall, litter decomposition, soil macrofauna, and nutrient contents in rubber monoculture and rubber-based agroforestry plantations. The three intra-couple differences examined are rubber with pakliang (RP) compared with rubber monoculture (RMP), rubber with timber (RT) compared with rubber monoculture (RMT) and rubber with fruit (RF) compared with rubber monoculture (RMF). Rubber plantation systems were selected at 3 plantations located in nearest pairs at 18 plantations in total. Data collected included litterfall at monthly intervals from October 2016 to April 2017, as well as decomposition conditions for assessment at the end of the experimental trials. …

Comparison Of Germline Versus Somatic Bap1 Mutations For Risk Of Metastasis In Uveal Melanoma., K. G. Ewens, E. Lalonde, J. Richards-Yutz, C. L. Shields, A. Ganguly

Wills Eye Hospital Papers

BACKGROUND: Germline mutations in BAP1 have been associated with BAP1-Tumor Predisposition Syndrome (BAP1-TPDS), a predisposition to multiple tumors within a family that includes uveal melanoma (UM), cutaneous melanoma, malignant mesothelioma and renal cell carcinoma. Alternatively, somatic mutations in BAP1 in UM have been associated with high risk for metastasis. In this study, we compare the risk of metastasis in UM that carry germline versus somatic BAP1 mutations and mutation-negative tumors.

METHODS: DNA extracted from 142 UM and matched blood samples was sequenced using Sanger or next generation sequencing to identify BAP1 gene mutations.

RESULTS: Eleven of 142 UM (8%) carried …

Wave Transformation Across Coral Reef Platforms (2016 Experiment) , Gerd Masselink

Faculty of Science and Engineering Datasets

In December 2016 a small-scale laboratory experiment was carried out in one of the wave flumes of the COAST facility, University of Plymouth, in collaboration with Auckland University. The purpose of the experiment was to: (1) study wave transformation processes across coral reef platforms; and (2) investigate the impact of sea-level rise on coral reef islands. Experiment Series A-C addressed the former, Series E the latter. This data set covers most of the data collected during this experiment (Series D and part of Series E are not archived). Citation: Masselink, G. (2018). Wave transformation across coral reef platforms (2016 experiment). …

Constructing A Data-Based Mortality Profile For Avian Tower Kills At Telecommunication Towers In Illinois, Rachel Dipietro

Theses and Dissertations

During spring and fall seasons, Neotropical migratory passerines travel nocturnally across the Western Hemisphere between their wintering and breeding grounds, often encountering man-made threats. One hazard that has gained considerable publicity in recent decades is the communication tower. While there have been many tower kill studies recorded, there has been no attempt at predicting the risk of towers based on their different attributes (e.g., height, type of light, landscape placement) spatially on a regional scale. The objective of this study was to create seasonal mortality profile maps in GIS for Illinois, based on tower attributes combined with key factors such …

High-Precision Lead Isotope Analysis On Modern Populations To Determine Geolocation Reliability, Gennifer M. Goad

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Forensic anthropologists increasingly use chemical isotope analysis in the investigation of unidentified human remains, as biochemical georeferencing continually improves with the development of modern reference data of known origins. Isotope variations in trace elements such as strontium (Sr) and lead (Pb) in human teeth are some of the most useful indicators of past domicile in archaeological research and thus have high potential for modern, forensic applications. In this study, high-precision lead isotope analysis was conducted on 63 modern human teeth, which were previously analyzed for strontium isotopes. The results present new lead isotope data for the following countries: United States …

Effects Of Oil And Global Environmental Drivers On Two Keystone Marine Invertebrates, Maj Arnberg, Piero Calosi, John I. Spicer, Ingrid C. Taban, Shaw D. Bamber, Stig Westerlund, Sjur Vingen, Thierry Baussant, Renée K. Bechmann, Sam Dupont

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (Mbsr) Intervention On Emotional Distress And Glycemic Control In Diabetes Older Adults, Shu-Ming Chen

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This study was to evaluate the effects of a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) intervention for improving emotional distress and glycemic control (HbA1c) in diabetes older adults.

Standardized Exam Scores As Predictor For Nclex-Rn Pass Rates In A Second-Degree Accelerated Bsn Program, Nancy Haugen, Nandini Dasgupta

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This poster presents the development of a model for standardized exam scores as predictor for NCLEX-RN first-time pass rates in a second-degree accelerated BSN program.

Empowering The Oppressed: Factors Related To The Advanced Education Of Nurses, Mary Helen Durland, Ehrin Irvin, Rebecca Brown, Kristy Henegar, Diana Morrison, David Alex Snyder, Kate Rocklein Kemplin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

There are many factors that influence a registered nurse's decision to return to school once in the workforce. Our study examines the roles of institutions, culture of nursing, and nurses' intrinsic factors in the motivation to pursue further education in nursing.

Systematic Analysis And Biomarker Study For Alzheimer's Disease, Xinzhong Li, Haiyan Wang, Jintao Long, Genhua Pan, Taigang He, Oleg Anichtchik, Robert Belshaw, Diego Albani, Paul Edison, Elaine K. Green, James Scott

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - November 25, 2018, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the November 25, 2018 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• Dr. Glen Borchert Joins USA College of Medicine Faculty
• Mark Your Calendar: Pediatric Grand Rounds Dec. 21
• USA Physicians Group to Recognize Outstanding Employees
• USA Medical Students Take First Place in APPA Poster Contest

Kawamoto, Eric, Cosette Holmes, Tiana Cope-Ferland

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

This interview with Eric Kawamoto reveals a journey of self-discovery in Chicago, L.A., Boston, and Portland; an intersection between being Asian American and being queer; and survival of AIDS as a result of reserve. Kawamoto places these personal themes among his account of the LGBTQ+ and Asian American communities’ overarching struggles, like the fight for domestic partnership benefits, representation of Asian American gay men, and spreading awareness about Japanese American internment in California.

Citation

Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in …

Decreasing Phosphatidylcholine On The Surface Of The Lipid Droplet Correlates With Altered Protein Binding And Steatosis, Laura Listenberger, Elizabeth Townsend, Cassandra Rickertsen, Anastasia Hains, Elizabeth Brown, Emily G. Inwards, Angela K. Stoeckman

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD) is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of lipid droplets (LDs) in the liver. Here, we explore the composition of hepatic LDs in a rat model of AFLD. Five to seven weeks of alcohol consumption led to significant increases in hepatic triglyceride mass, along with increases in LD number and size. Additionally, hepatic LDs from rats with early alcoholic liver injury show a decreased ratio of surface phosphatidylcholine (PC) to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). This occurred in parallel with an increase in the LD association of perilipin 2, a prominent LD protein. To determine if changes to the …

West Allis Memorial Hospital Cancer Program Annual Report, 1988, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora West Allis Medical Center Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

West Allis Memorial Hospital, West Allis, WI: Annual report of the cancer program at West Allis Memorial Hospital for 1988. Includes sections on statistics, support services, research, stomach cancer, estrogen and progesterone receptor assays for breast cancer, and MRI.

Annual Report, Aurora Health Care Metro Region Cancer Program, 2001, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora Health Care Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI: Annual report of the cancer programs at four Aurora hospitals in the Milwaukee metro region: St. Luke’s Medical Center, Aurora Sinai Medical Center, West Allis Memorial Hospital, and Aurora Medical Center in Hartford. Includes statistics, regional activities, and a special section on brain cancer.

Annual Report, Aurora Health Care Metro Region Cancer Program, 2002, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora Health Care Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI: Annual report of the cancer programs at four Aurora hospitals in the Milwaukee metro region: St. Luke’s Medical Center, Aurora Sinai Medical Center, West Allis Memorial Hospital, and Aurora Medical Center in Hartford. Includes statistics, regional activities, and a special section on melanoma.