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Three For The Record Books, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Pathway To Colsa, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Future-Proofing The Cenozoic Macroperforate Planktonic Foraminifera Phylogeny Of Aze & Others (2011), Barry G. Fordham, Tracy Aze, Christian Haller, Abdullah K. Zehady, Paul N. Pearson, James G. Ogg, Bridget S. Wade

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The unique macroevolutionary dataset of Aze & others has been transferred onto the TimeScale Creator visualisation platform while, as much as practicable, preserving the original unrevised content of its morphospecies and lineage evolutionary trees. This is a “Corrected Version” (not a revision), which can serve as an on-going historical case example because it is now updatable with future time scales. Both macroevolutionary and biostratigraphic communities are now equipped with an enduring phylogenetic database of Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminiferal morphospecies and lineages for which both graphics and content can be visualised together. Key to maintaining the currency of the trees has …

Epifaunal Foraminifera In An Infaunal World: Insights Into The Influence Of Heterogeneity On The Benthic Ecology Of Oxygen-Poor, Deep-Sea Habitats, Ryan A. Venturelli, Anthony E. Rathburn, Ashley M. Burkett, Wiebke Ziebis

Marine Science Faculty Publications

A reduction in dissolved oxygen availability in marine habitats is among the predicted consequences of increasing global temperatures. An understanding of past oxygenation is critical for predictions of future changes in the extent and distribution of oxygen minimum zones (OMZs). Benthic foraminifera have been used to assess changes in paleo-oxygenation, and according to prevailing thought, oxygen-poor marine benthic habitats are dominated by sediment-dwelling infaunal foraminifera, while more oxygenated environments are populated with more epifaunal taxa. However, in this study we found elevated densities of epifaunal taxa in oxygen-poor habitats. A series of 16 multicores were taken on depth transects (360–3000 …

Southwest Talks: The Taos Commune Movement Fifty Years Later, Iris Keltz

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

The Honors Beacon, Issue 14, Fall 2018, Honors Program At Minnesota State University, Mankato

Honors Beacon

Fall 2018 newsletter of the Honors Program at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Delay Causality Network In Air Transport Systems, Wen-Bo Du, Ming-Yuan Zhang, Yu Zhang, Xian-Bin Cao, Jun Zhang

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

To better understand the mechanism of flight delay propagation at the system-level, we built a delay causality network (DCN) based on the Granger causality test. Through topological analysis of DCNs, we found that only about a quarter of airports were involved in delay propagation during the peak travel period and large airports affected by many upstream airports impact fewer downstream airports. Furthermore, temporal analysis of DCNs indicates that the culprits of delay propagation in the air transport system are not a fixed set of airports; instead, they vary daily depending on the operational environment.

Uis Commission On Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 73, October 2018, Ed Waters

Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) Commission on Volcanic Caves

Contents: Editorial -- Message from the Chairman -- A Pre-symposium raft trip on the Rogue River -- Pre-Symposium Excursion to Medicine Lake Volcano -- The 18th International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology -- Crater Lake Field Trip -- Recent Volcanospeleological Publications -- Images From the 18th ISV -- Ancient skeletons discovered in Krong No volcanic caves, Vietnam

A New Health Care Professional-Based Model For Medication Adherence, Muhammad Amir, Zeeshan Feroz, Anwar Ejaz Beg

Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences

This paper presents a practice-based conceptual (theoretical) model to address medication adherence. The study reviews literature for different rationales of medication adherence and its associated factors. It also reviews the interventions involved in improving medication adherence and its effect. It is known that many interventions applied have not received great success owing to the fact that they have not been employed in regular clinical practice. Furthermore, models or theories utilized for different interventions were based on patient perspective only. The model presented in the paper is based on health care professionals' perspective, with an aim to be employed in clinical …

T&C Magazine Issue 17 - Fall 2018, T&C Media

T&C Magazine

Articles Include: 100 years in print// More than a hashtag: Social media activism// Student caretakers// The food fight// Fighting the stigma// Meet the president// Alumni with cool businesses// The cost of college// Cardinal survival guide// Letters home: Students in service// No longer a dry campus// Meet the staff

Here Comes The Sun..., Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

When I climbed up on the roof of Fitz Hall this spring to observe the installation of solar panels, I caught a glimpse of a bright future.

Pseudomyxoma Pleurii And Peritonei Secondary To Sigmoid Colon Adenocarcinoma: A Rare Clinico-Pathologico-Radiological Presentation, Casmir Wambura, Ahmed Jusabani, Salim Surani

Faculty of Health Sciences, East Africa

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare condition resulting from mucin-producing tumors that have disseminated intointraperitoneal implants and mucinous ascites. The extra-abdominal spread of PMP is exceptionally rare, with few reportedcases in the medical literature. Pseudomyxoma pleurii is an infrequently encountered clinical syndrome characterized bytransdiaphragmatic pleural extension and spread of PMP. The disease is highly fatal. We hereby report a case of 58 years oldwoman who presented with an abdominal distension and shortness of breath of 2 months duration. Histopathology confirmedthe diagnosis of large mucin-producing rectosigmoid adenomatous polypoid lesion with malignant transformation and PMPthat had spread to the right pleural space. …

Nongovernmental China: 300 Million Migrant Workers And The Ngo Response, Ian Dorfman

Anthropology Theses and Dissertations

Based on seventy weeks of field research in Beijing and Shenzhen, as well as a review of relevant literature, this dissertation explores the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in creating and redefining local economic relationships with China’s 300 million internal migrant workers. The founders/directors of these organizations run programs to improve migrants’ access to legal aid, education, and sense of community. Their perspectives, experiences, and decision-making provide significant insights into China’s paradoxical relationship with its migrant workers as well as changing state-society relations in the transition to capitalism.

Life Cycle Costing And Food Systems: Concepts, Trends, And Challenges Of Impact Valuation, Jason J. Czarnezki

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Our global food systems create pervasive environmental, social, and health impacts. Impact valuation is an emerging concept that aims to quantify all environmental, social, and health costs of food systems in an attempt to make the true cost of food more transparent. It also is designed to facilitate the transformation of global food systems. The concept of impact valuation is emerging at the same time as, and partly as a response to, calls for the development of legal mechanisms to address environmental, social, and health concerns. Information has long been understood both as a necessary precursor for regulation and as …

Long Noncoding Rna Afap1-As1 Acts As A Competing Endogenous Rna Of Mir-423-5p To Facilitate Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Metastasis Through Regulating The Rho/Rac Pathway, Yu Lian, Fang Xiong, Liting Yang, Hao Bo, Zhaojian Gong, Yumin Wang, Fang Wei, Yanyan Tang, Xiayu Li, Qianjin Liao, Hui Wang, Ming Zhou, Bo Xiang, Xu Wu, Yong Li, Xiaoling Li, Xiang Chen, Guiyuan Li, Can Guo, Zhaoyang Zeng, Wei Xiong

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Background: Actin filament-associated protein 1 antisense RNA 1 (AFAP1-AS1), a long noncoding RNA, is significantly highly expressed and associated with metastasis and poor prognosis in many cancers, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). In this study, we aim to identify the role of AFAP1-AS1 acting as an oncogenic lncRNA to promote NPC metastasis.

Methods: The role of AFAP1-AS1, miR-423-5p, and FOSL2 in NPC metastasis was investigated in vitro and in vivo. Bioinformatics analysis and luciferase activity assays were used to identify the interaction between AFAP1-AS1, miR-423- 5p, and FOSL2. Additionally, real-time PCR and western blotting were used to assess the …

The Effectiveness Of A Boys For Positive Change Program At Changing Attitudes And Behaviors Toward Gender Equality, Bethany Grupp

Capstone Collection

There has been tremendous research done regarding programs involving the empowerment of women, girls, and gender equality. Even Sustainable Development Goal number five focuses on gender equality. An analysis of the research reveals that most programs for girls and women address the inequalities and discrimination that they face, along with obstacles to girls’ access, completion, and retention in school. Increasingly, non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, and other international organizations have found that these programs are not changing the view of gender norms in society and that men and boys also need to be included in the discussion. This paper examines …

The Kiwi Way: Marketing In New Zealand, A Program Design For Johnson & Wales University, Rachael L. Peters

Capstone Collection

The proposal for a study abroad program to be implemented at Johnson & Wales University [JWU] results from a five-month internship in the JWU Abroad office and multiple interviews with full-time colleagues in the department. It is designed to not only expand the current JWU portfolio in subject matter and program location, but to strengthen a newly built partnership with American Universities International Programs Limited [AUIP] through the addition of a second collaborative program in the provider’s catalogue.

The Kiwi Way: Marketing in New Zealand is a twelve-day faculty-led study abroad [FLSA] program that splits time between the cities of …

Effect Of Stocking Rate On Growing Juvenile Sunshine Bass, Morone Chrysops × M. Saxatilis, In An Outdoor Biofloc Production System, Bartholomew W. Green, Steven D. Rawles, Carl D. Webster, Matthew E. Mcentire

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The biofloc technology production system is a production intensifying management strategy used primarily for culturing tilapia and penaeid shrimp, both of which can consume the biofloc. Other fish can be grown in biofloc systems because the biofloc serves to maintain water quality, metabolizing the ammonia excreted by intensively fed fish. A dose-response study was conducted in an outdoor biofloc system to begin quantifying the stocking rate-production function for sunshine bass, Morone chrysops x M. saxatilis, advanced fingerlings. Sunshine bass (2.9 ± 0.2 g/fish) were stocked into tanks at 50 to 250 fish/m² in 50 fish/m² increments. After …

Google, Charlottesville, And The Need To Protect Private Employees’ Political Speech, Chloe M. Gordils

Brooklyn Law Review

At a time when the freedom of speech is increasingly under attack, the question becomes: what protections are available to employees of private companies who wish to engage in political expression while off the clock? Although public employees are in many ways protected by the First Amendment from government intrusion into their political speech, private employees in many states are left largely unprotected. This note examines the current statutory protections offered to protect private employees from being fired or retaliated against based on their political opinions, and argues that the inconsistency and unpredictability of state laws call for a uniform …

Where Breaking Glass Ceilings Leads To Glass Walls: Gender-Disparate Managerial Decision-Making Power And Authority, Bina Nayee

Fordham Law Review

Today, litigation over plainly discriminatory employment practices is much less common than it was in the two decades following Title VII’s enactment as employers have largely reformed practices that most obviously violate employment discrimination law. But many less obvious employment practices, particularly those embedded in implicit bias or unconscious sex stereotyping, remain. One example is employers’ distribution of managerial decision-making power and authority based on assumptions about sex. Although this particular employment practice has not yet been litigated, there is a strong argument that a legal challenge to this practice could succeed. This Note argues that female managers can and …

Forage News [2018-10], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Profitability is focus of Kentucky Grazing Conference
• Bale Grazing: A Solution to the Mud in 2018?
• Poison Hemlock – Be Aware

Species-Specific Means And Within-Species Variance In Glucocorticoid Hormones And Speciation Rates In Birds, L. Z. Garamszegi, Jeremy W. Donald, C. D. Francis, M. J. Fuxjager, W. Goymann, M. Hau, Jerry F. Husak, Michele A. Johnson, Bonnie K. Kircher, R. Knapp, L. B. Martin, E. T. Miller, L. A. Schoenle, Maren N. Vitousek, T. D. Williams

Biology Faculty Research

At macroevolutionary scales, stress physiology may have consequences for species diversification and subspecies richness. Populations that exploit new resources or undergo range expansion should cope with new environmental challenges, which could favor higher mean stress responses. Within-species variation in the stress response may also play a role in mediating the speciation process: in species with broad variation, there will always be some individuals that can tolerate an unpredictable environment, whereas in species with narrow variation there will be fewer individuals that are able to thrive in a new ecological niche. We tested for the evolutionary relationship between stress response, speciation …

Where Have All The Cell Organelles Gone During The Cell Division?, Khalid Ahmed, H R. Ahmad

Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences

No abstract provided.

Research And Publication: Are We Moving In The Right Direction, A Khan, Rehana Rehman, Saara Ahmad

Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences

No abstract provided.

Integration Of Therapies In Autistic Children; A Survey Based In Karachi, Pakistan, Masnoon Akhter, Mussarat Ashraf, Adnan Ali, Irum Rizwan, Rehana Rehman

Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences

A cross-sectional study was conducted from January to June 2016 on autistic children at the Autism Unit of Dow University of Health Sciences to compare speech therapy, occupational therapy and combination of both for rehabilitation of autistic children in the selected population. A total of 55 children with autism age range from 1-12 years of both gender and all ethnic groups were recruited. All data was analysed in IBM-SPSS version 23.0. Pearson chi-square test was used to determine association of type of therapy with the diagnosed age of child, gender, mode of delivery, history of vaccination and parent's education. Educated …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 67, Issue 3, Fall 2018

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Explaining Uncertainty
• A Series of Fortunate Events
• 2018 Alumni Weekend
• The Dean's Column
• Findings
• The Jefferson Legacy
• Time Capsule
• On Campus
• Jefferson Researcher Explores Cell Death Controls and Effects
• New Alumni Association President
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• By the Numbers

Impulse (College Of Engineering Publication), Matt Schmidt, Emily Weber, Kristi Schelhaas, Dave Graves, Christine Delfanian, Heidi Kronaizl

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

[Page] 2 Welcoming Dean Bruce Berdanier
[Page] 5 Engineers without Borders Remains a Passion
[Page] 6 New Office Looks in Crothers
[Page] 8 Ground Broken for Precision Ag Center
[Page] 9 Alum Honors Arden Sigl with Office Donation
[Page] 10 3D Printing for Space Station
[Page] 12 Center for Power Systems Studies Turns 50
[Page] 14 Daktronics - A Partner for 50 Years
[Page] 17 Quarter- scale Tractor Team Takes Title
[Page] 18 Partnership with Wastewater Treatment Plant
[Page] 22 Horner Succeeds at HR Green
[Page] 23 Hard Work Pays Off for Vejvoda
[Page] 24 Engineering's Student-Athletes
[Page] 26 Student …

Gold & Blue, Fall 2018, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Fall 2018 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

Introduction To Psychology (Dalton), Travis Mckie-Voerste, Catie Clinard

Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Introduction to Psychology was created under a Round Ten ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Cross-Cultural Psychology (Gsw), Judy Grissett, Marianna Baykina

Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Cross-Cultural Psychology was created under a Round Ten ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report