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Daily Eastern News: September 13, 2018, Eastern Illinois University

September

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Curriculum Minutes 09/13/2018, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

In these minutes: Approval of new free-standing minor in Data Science

Limiting State Flexibility In Drug Pricing, Nicholas Bagley, Rachel E. Sachs

Articles

Throughout the United States, escalating drug prices are putting immense pressure on state budgets. Several states are looking for ways to push back. Last year, Massachusetts asked the Trump administration for a waiver that would, among other things, allow its Medicaid program to decline to cover costly drugs for which there is limited or inadequate evidence of clinical efficacy. By credibly threatening to exclude such drugs from coverage, Massachusetts hoped to extract price concessions and constrain the fastest-growing part of its Medicaid budget.

Prehistoric Shellfish Utilization And Settlement Systems On Western Santa Cruz Island, Michael A. Glassow

Western North American Naturalist

Archaeologists generally have not taken advantage of the distinctive characteristics of assemblages of shellfish remains from prehistoric sites to gain information about movement of people between sites within their territory. I attempt to demonstrate this potential through analysis of shell assemblages obtained through small-scale test excavation at 2 archaeological sites in the interior of Santa Cruz Island: CA-SCRI-796 in the western sector of the island and CA-SCRI-758 at an upland location in the central sector. An aspect of the data analysis focused on strata containing an abundance of red abalone shells, dating sometime between 3700 and 3350 cal BC at …

Marine Debris Trends: 30 Years Of Change On Ventura County And Channel Island Beaches, Michaela Miller, Clare Steele, Dorothy Horn, Cause Hanna

Western North American Naturalist

The persistence of plastics in marine ecosystems and the physical hazards marine debris pose to wildlife have become issues of global concern. The Santa Barbara Channel is home to a number of important marine and coastal ecosystems, including the 5 islands of Channel Islands National Park, and has a variety of factors that influence marine debris accumulation. We examined the spatial variation of marine debris density and composition across the Santa Barbara Channel by quantifying marine debris on beaches of Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands and the Ventura County mainland. Debris from surveyed beaches was cataloged, weighed, and measured …

Connecting With Alumni, Rose Rucoba

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

The Alumni Association made sure students were ready for life after UD at the Alumni Networking Mixer on Sept. 7.

Maxent Estimation Of Aquatic Escherichia Coli Stream Impairment, Dennis Gilfillan, Timothy Andrew Joyner, Phillip R. Scheuerman

ETSU Faculty Works

Background: The leading cause of surface water impairment in United States’ rivers and streams is pathogen contamination. Although use of fecal indicators has reduced human health risk, current approaches to identify and reduce exposure can be improved. One important knowledge gap within exposure assessment is characterization of complex fate and transport processes of fecal pollution. Novel modeling processes can inform watershed decision-making to improve exposure assessment.

Methods: We used the ecological model, Maxent, and the fecal indicator bacterium Escherichia coli to identify environmental factors associated with surface water impairment. Samples were collected August, November, February, and May for 8 …

Maxent Estimation Of Aquatic Escherichia Coli Stream Impairment, Dennis Gilfillan, Timothy A. Joyner, Phillip Scheuerman

ETSU Faculty Works

Background.The leading cause of surface water impairment in United States’ rivers and streams is pathogen contamination. Although use of fecal indicators has reduced human health risk, current approaches to identify and reduce exposure can be improved. One important knowledge gap within exposure assessment is characterization of complex fate and transport processes of fecal pollution. Novel modeling processes can inform watershed decision-making to improve exposure assessment.

The Bg News September 13, 2018, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 13, 2018. Volume 98-Issue 7.

Quantifying Cancer Cell Receptors With Paired-Agent Fluorescent Imaging: A Novel Method To Account For Tissue Optical Property Effects., Negar Sadeghipour, Scott C. Davis, Kenneth M. Tichauer

Dartmouth Scholarship

Dynamic fluorescence imaging approaches can be used to estimate the concentration of cell surface receptorsin vivo. Kinetic models are used to generate the final estimation by taking the targeted imaging agent concentration as a function of time. However, tissue absorption and scattering properties cause the final readout signal to be on a different scale than the real fluorescent agent concentration. In paired-agent imaging approaches, simultaneous injection of a suitable control imaging agent with a targeted one can account for non-specific uptake and retention of the targeted agent. Additionally, the signal from the control agent can be a normalizing …

The Cowl - V.83 - N.2 - Sep 13, 2018

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 83 - No. 2 - September 13, 2018. 24 pages.

Studying Biomimetic Coated Niobium As An Alternative Dental Implant Material To Titanium (In Vitro And In Vivo Study), Ali Am, Thair L., Intisar J

Baghdad Science Journal

Commercially pure titanium (cpTi) is widely used as dental implant material although it was found that titanium exhibited high modulus of elasticity and the lower corrosion tendency in oral environment. Niobium(Nb) was chosen for this study as an alternative to cpTi implant material due to its bioinert behavior and good elastic modulus and moderate cost in addition to corrosion resistance. This study was done to evaluate the effect of biomimetic coating on the surface properties of the commercially pure titanium and niobium implants by in vitro and in vivo experiments. The in vitro study was involved etching the samples of …

B-Hydroxybutyrate Favorably Alters Muscle Cell Survival And Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, Brian Parker, Benjamin Bikman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The growing worldwide incidence of obesity and its associated pathologies, like type 2 diabetes, has received much deserved attention. However, despite this attention and substantial research efforts, little meaningful progress has been made in slowing or reversing the growing cost and trends of obesity worldwide. As of 2008, almost 10% of medical costs in the United States were incurred due to obesity or other obesity-related diseases,ⁱ with the substantial amount of this cost stemming from the dramatically increased risk of diabetes with excess fat mass.ⁱⁱ According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one …

Neighborhood And Social Environmental Influences On Child Chronic Disease Prevalence, Ashley Wendell Kranjac, Justin T. Denney, Rachel T. Kimbro, Brady S. Moffett, Keila N. Lopez

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

We investigate how distinct residential environments uniquely influence chronic child disease. Aggregating over 200,000 pediatric geocoded medical records to the census tract of residence and linking them to neighborhood-level measures, we use multiple data analysis techniques to assess how heterogeneous exposures of social and environmental neighborhood conditions influence an index of child chronic disease (CCD) prevalence for the neighborhood. We find there is a graded relationship between degree of overall neighborhood disadvantage and children’s chronic disease such that the highest neighborhood CCD scores reside in communities with the highest concentrated disadvantage. Finally, results show that higher levels of neighborhood concentrated …

Vista: September 13, 2018, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

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Biological Activity Of Levan Produced From Rhizospheric Soil Bacterium Brachybacterium Phenoliresistens Kx139300, Mohammad M.F. Al-Halbosiy, Zaid A. Thabit, Safaa Al-Deen A. S Al-Qaysi, Tarek A.A. Moussa

Baghdad Science Journal

Levan is an exopolysaccharide produced by various microorganisms and has a variety of applications. In this research, the aim was to demonstrate the biological activity of levan which produced from B. phenoliresistens KX139300. These were done via study the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer and antileishmanial activities in vitro. The antioxidant levan was shown 80.9% activity at 1250 µg/mL concentration. The efficient anti-inflammatory activity of 88% protein inhibition was noticed with levan concentration at 35 µg/mL. The cytotoxic activity of levan at 2500 µg/mL concentration showed a maximum cytotoxic effect on L20B cell line and promastigotes of Leishmani tropica. Levan has dose-dependent …

The Prognostic Value Of Some Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Markers And Metastasis-Related Markers In Human Transitional Cell Carcinoma Of The Bladder, May Khaleel Ismael

Baghdad Science Journal

Recent reports provided evidence that epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) and some matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) contribute to the invasion and metastasis of cancer cells. This study investigated the expression pattern of some EMT markers (E-cadherin and Vimentin) and some MMPs (MMP-2 and MMP-9) in transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). Fifty five paraffin embedded biopsies were included in this study. Expression pattern of E-cadherin and Vimentin was evaluated by immunohistochemistry while cytoplasmic mRNA expression of both MMP-2 and MMP-9 were determined by in situ hybridization. The expression of all markers were significantly increased with the increase of patient's age (≥ 50 years), …

Characterization And Cytotoxic Activity Of Cytosine Deaminase Enzyme Purified From Locally Isolated Escherichia Coli, Asmaa A. Hussein, Ali Saadi Al-Baer

Baghdad Science Journal

This research was aimed to the purification and characterization of cytosine deaminase as a medically important enzyme from locally isolated Escherichia coli; then studying its cytotoxic anticancer effects against colon cancer cell line. Cytosine deaminase was subjected to three purification steps including precipitation with 90% ammonium sulfate saturation, ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose column, and gel filtration chromatography throughout Sephadex G-200 column. Specific activity of the purified enzyme was increased up to 9 U/mg with 12.85 folds of purification and 30.85% enzyme recovery. Characterization study of purified enzyme revealed that the molecular weight of cytosine deaminase produced by E. coli …

Estimation Of Some Organophosphorus Pesticides Using Carbon Paste Electrode Coupled With Molecularly Imprinted Polymers, Yehya Kamal Al-Bayati

Baghdad Science Journal

The aim of this study was to develop a sensor based on a carbon paste electrodes (CPEs) modified with used MIP for determination of organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs). The modified electrode exhibited a significantly increased sensitivity and selectivity of (OPPs). The MIP was prepared by thermo-polymerization method using N,N-diethylaminoethymethacrylate (NNDAA) as functional monomer, N,N-1,4-phenylenediacrylamide (NNPDA) as cross-linker, the acetonitrile used as solvent and (Opps) as the template molecule. The three OPPs (diazinon, quinalphos and chlorpyrifos) were chosen as the templates, which have been selected as base analytes which used widely in agriculture sector. The extraction efficiency of the imprinted polymers has …

An Efficient Numerical Method For Solving Volterra-Fredholm Integro-Differential Equations Of Fractional Order By Using Shifted Jacobi-Spectral Collocation Method, Mohammed G. S. Al-Safi

Baghdad Science Journal

The aim of this article is to solve the Volterra-Fredholm integro-differential equations of fractional order numerically by using the shifted Jacobi polynomial collocation method. The Jacobi polynomial and collocation method properties are presented. This technique is used to convert the problem into the solution of linear algebraic equations. The fractional derivatives are considered in the Caputo sense. Numerical examples are given to show the accuracy and reliability of the proposed technique.

Dynamic Routing Method Over Hybrid Sdn For Flying Ad Hoc Networks, Alaa Taima Albu-Salih, Seyed Amin Hosseini Seno, Saad Jasim Mohammed

Baghdad Science Journal

Due to the high mobility and dynamic topology of the FANET network, maintaining communication links between UAVs is a challenging task. The topology of these networks is more dynamic than traditional mobile networks, which raises challenges for the routing protocol. The existing routing protocols for these networks partly fail to detect network topology changes. Few methods have recently been proposed to overcome this problem due to the rapid changes of network topology. We try to solve this problem by designing a new dynamic routing method for a group of UAVs using Hybrid SDN technology (SDN and a distributed routing protocol) …

The Grizzly, September 13, 2018, Courtney A. Duchene, Kim Corona, Jenna Severa, Kevin Leon, Madison Rodak, Sophia Dibattista, William Wehrs, Gabriela Howell, Sam Rosenthal

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Reim Time? Not Until After 8 P.M. • Welcoming the New Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life • Pre-plated Portions Prove Perplexing, Promising? • Ursinus is Crafting a "Values Statement" • IDC, But They Do: Professors Weigh In On the IDC • Return of the Ursinusaur • Opinion: Betsy DeVos' Proposed Changes Would be Harmful; Elon Musk is Not That Great • Massive First-Year Football Class Adjusts to Life at Ursinus • Field Hockey Aims to Regain Centennial Conference Supremacy

September 13, 2018, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Kenyon Collegian - September 13, 2018

The Kenyon Collegian

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Research Productivity Of Indian Institute Of Toxicology Research (Iitr): A Scientometric Analysis, Renuka S. Mulimani Senior Research Fellow, Gururaj S. Hadagali Assistant Professor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT: The present study analyses the research output of the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) for the period of 25 years (1993 to 2017). The study emphasizes on the various characteristics of the publications such as highly cited papers, national & international collaboration profile, Degree of Collaboration, most prolific authors, most preferred journals for communication, citation impact of the publications, most frequently used author keywords. The Web of Science, a multidisciplinary bibliographic database was used to retrieve the data for the study. The scientists of IITR preferred to publish in the foreign journals. No journal in which the research …

Are You A Poser? Pilates: Full Body Experience, Andrews University

Student Movement V. 103 (2018-2019)

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It Seems Rational: A Contemporary Review Of Decision-Making Models Convergence With Addiction In The 21st Century, Justin Mckinley Flint

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts by Justin McKinley Flint on September 12, 2018.

Faculty Assembly Powerpoint Presentation 9-12-18, Salve Regina University

Faculty Assembly Documents

FA PPT 9-12-18.pptx

Committee On Academic Standing Minutes September 12, 2018, Bronx Community College Committee On Academic Standing

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the Committee on Academic Standing on September 12, 2018.

We Are ... Marshall, September 12, 2018, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

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