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Ad 150-005: Color And Composition, Yulia Veligurskaya

School of Art and Design Syllabi

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Ad 150-007: Color And Composition, Hannah Kum-Biocca

School of Art and Design Syllabi

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Ad 150-001-003: Color And Composition, Glenn Goldman

School of Art and Design Syllabi

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Id 203-001: Innovation: Past, Present And Future Of Design, Jose Alcala

School of Art and Design Syllabi

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A Neurotheological Approach To Spiritual Awakening, Andrew B. Newberg, Mark R. Waldman

Marcus Institute of Integrative Health Faculty Papers

A neurotheological approach suggests an analysis of spiritual awakening experiences by combining phenomenological data with neuroscience. This paper presents a synthesis combining information on the thoughts, feelings, and experiences associated with spiritual awakening experiences and neurophysiological data, primarily from neuroimaging studies, to help assess which brain structures might be associated with these experiences. Brain structures involved with emotions correlate with emotional responses while areas of the brain associated with the sense of self appear to correlate with the key feature of these experiences in which an individual loses the sense of self and feels intimately connected with God, universal consciousness, …

Mir-196b Target Screen Reveals Mechanisms Maintaining Leukemia Stemness With Therapeutic Potential., Sara E. Meyer, David E. Muench, Andrew M. Rogers, Tess J. Newkold, Emily Orr, Eric O'Brien, John P. Perentesis, John G. Doench, Ashish Lal, Patrick J. Morris, Craig J. Thomas, Judy Lieberman, Edwina Mcglinn, Bruce J. Aronow, Nathan Salomonis, H. Leighton Grimes

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

We have shown that antagomiR inhibition of miRNA miR-21 and miR-196b activity is sufficient to ablate MLL-AF9 leukemia stem cells (LSC) in vivo. Here, we used an shRNA screening approach to mimic miRNA activity on experimentally verified miR-196b targets to identify functionally important and therapeutically relevant pathways downstream of oncogenic miRNA in MLL-r AML. We found Cdkn1b (p27^Kip1) is a direct miR-196b target whose repression enhanced an embryonic stem cell–like signature associated with decreased leukemia latency and increased numbers of leukemia stem cells in vivo. Conversely, elevation of p27^Kip1 significantly reduced MLL-r leukemia self-renewal, promoted monocytic differentiation …

Salty Fertile Lakes: How Salinization And Eutrophication Alter The Structure Of Freshwater Communities, Lovisa Lind, Matthew S. Schuler, William D. Hintz, Aaron B. Stoler, Devin K. Jones, Brian M. Mattes, Rick A. Relyea

Integrative Biology Faculty and Staff Publications

The quality of freshwater ecosystems is decreasing worldwide because of anthropogenic activities. For example, nutrient over‐enrichment associated with agricultural, urban, and industrial development has led to an acceleration of primary production, or eutrophication. Additionally, in northern areas, deicing salts that are an evolutionary novel stressor to freshwater ecosystems have caused chloride levels of many freshwaters to exceed thresholds established for environmental protection. Even if excess nutrients and road deicing salts often contaminate freshwaters at the same time, the combined effects of eutrophication and salinization on freshwater communities are unknown. Thus by using outdoor mesocosms, we investigated the potentially interactive effects …

Administration Of 5-Ht-1b Agonist Ameliorates Pseudodementia Induced By Depression In Rats, Asia Afzal, Saara Ahmad, Faiza Agha, Zehra Batool, Saiqa Tabassum, Laraib Liaquat, Sadia Sadir, Amber Nawaz, Saida Haider

Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of memory impairment in general population. The serotonin hypothesis provides a target model for the treatment of depression and depression-associated memory loss. 5-HT-1B receptor is suggested as a potential candidate in the pathophysiology of depressive illness. Dysfunction of 5-HT-1B receptors has been observed previously in depressive patients. Zolmitriptan, 5-HT-1B agonist is clinically recommended for the treatment of migraine. However, in present study this drug was tested as a potential treatment for depression and associated memory loss by altering the serotonergic function at receptor level. Rats (n=24) were equally divided into unstressed and …

Exploratory Study Into Sustainability Expertise In The Irish Architecture, Engineering And Construction (Aec) Sector, Lloyd Scott, Emmanuella Asantewaa Twumasi

Conference papers

The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector is a rich environment, involving the use of expertise at various levels with much intensity and in unique situations. In the attainment of sustainable construction, construction sustainability performance is indispensable. The participants implementing sustainable construction practices are key to a sustainable construction sector. This study seeks to understand the level of sustainability expertise in the Irish AEC sector which is part of an ongoing research at the Technological University of Dublin, within the School of Surveying and Construction Management. The early explorative phase of this research involves getting a depth of understanding as …

Alumni Journal - Volume 89, Number 3, Loma Linda University School Of Medicine

Alumni Journal, School of Medicine

Features
16 | The Unwritten Curriculum
18 | Engaging the Next Generation in the Pursuit of Medicine
21 | Department Reports: Surgery and Radiation Medicine
26 | Graduation 2018
40 | Last Chance Ranch
41 | The Struggle Is a Victory
42 | The Rhythm in the Words

Departments
2 | From the Editor
5 | From the President
6 | From the Dean
8 | This and That
10 | School of Medicine News
14 | The Student Fund
44 | Book Review
45 | AIMS Report
46 | Alumni News
47 | Classified/Placement Ads
48 | In Memoriam …

An Observed Instance Of Cooper’S Hawk (Accipiter Cooperii) Predation On A Chicken In An Urban Environment, Don Arp Jr.

Nebraska Bird Review

On February 21, 2015, I had the opportunity to observe a Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) attack, kill, and feed on a chicken in an urban environment.

The attack occurred around 1:10 p.m. on February 21, 2015, in Lincoln, Nebraska, in a residential area that is often referred to as the Bethany neighborhood. With large mature trees and landscape hedges, it provided excellent cover for the hawk’s attack. Weather data for that day show a low temperature of 18 degrees Fahrenheit and a high temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit. There was residual snow cover in some areas, as Lincoln had experienced …

The Nebraska Bird Review, Volume 86 September 2018 Number 3

Nebraska Bird Review

Summer Field Report, June - July 2018, by W. Ross Silcock …102

An Observed Instance of Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) Predation on a Chicken in an Urban Environment, by Don Arp, Jr. …124

Possible Double-brooding in Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus), by Wayne J. Mollhoff …128

2017 (29th) Report of the NOU Records Committee, by Mark A. Brogie …131

Subscription and Organization Information … 143

Possible Double-Brooding In Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus Forficatus), Wayne Mollhoff

Nebraska Bird Review

In a follow-up visit to the site near Alexandria, Thayer Co., where I documented a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher nest with eggs in 2017, I found a pair present at the same site on 8 June 2018. After some searching, I found that their nest, with 4 eggs, was built in the same upright crotch of the same branch where it was located the year before. I knew it was a completely new nest, since the previous nest had been removed after the nesting season the year before. On a second visit on 13 August 2018, to see if the birds and/or …

Summer Field Report, June-July 2018, W. Ross Silcock

Nebraska Bird Review

This was a rather lackluster summer season, notably among waterfowl, shorebirds, and gulls. However, the discovery of a couple of amazing rarities spiced things up. Not only were there a few reports of the increasing Black-bellied Whistling- Duck, but the Fulvous Whistling-Ducks in Lancaster Co were a first state record, albeit a bit overdue. Another major rarity was a Reddish Egret, Nebraska’s third, in Hall Co, seen by almost as many folks as the Fulvous Whistling-Ducks. Close behind were the 6th and 7th Nebraska records of Black-chinned Hummingbird, probably on its way to regular occurrence in the next few years. …

Distinctive Structural And Molecular Features Of Myelinated Inhibitory Axons In Human Neocortex., Kristina D Micheva, Edward F Chang, Alissa L Nana, William W Seeley, Jonathan T Ting, Charles Cobbs, Ed Lein, Stephen J Smith, Richard J Weinberg, Daniel V Madison

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Numerous types of inhibitory neurons sculpt the performance of human neocortical circuits, with each type exhibiting a constellation of subcellular phenotypic features in support of its specialized functions. Axonal myelination has been absent among the characteristics used to distinguish inhibitory neuron types; in fact, very little is known about myelinated inhibitory axons in human neocortex. Here, using array tomography to analyze samples of neurosurgically excised human neocortex, we show that inhibitory myelinated axons originate predominantly from parvalbumin-containing interneurons. Compared to myelinated excitatory axons, they have higher neurofilament and lower microtubule content, shorter nodes of Ranvier, and more myelin basic protein …

Wildlife Trafficking And Poaching: Contemporary Context And Dynamics For Security Cooperation And Military Assistance, Christopher Jasparro

CIWAG Case Studies

Wildlife Trafficking and Poaching: Contemporary Context and Dynamics for Security Cooperation and Military Assistance, by Dr. Christopher Jasparro, examines the impact wildlife crime has played on exacerbating the delicate security situation in Africa, and the effectiveness of the security cooperation and assistance programs that have formed as a result. Wildlife crime has become a significant international security issue as poaching is used to fund terrorism, drug trades, and other illicit activities that destabilize local African governments and endanger vulnerable species. Wildlife crime is complex and varied with no individual solution. To combat this growing issue, plans and programs carefully …

Spatial And Temporal Variability Of PCo2, Carbon Fluxes, And Saturation State On The West Florida Shelf, Lisa L. Robbins, Kendra L. Daly, L. Barbero, R. Wanninkhof, R. He, H. Zong, J. T. Lisle, W. J. Cai, C. G. Smith

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The West Florida Shelf (WFS) is a source of uncertainty for the Gulf of Mexico carbon budget. Data from the synthesis of approximately 135,000 pCO₂ values from 97 cruises from the WFS show that the shelf waters fluctuate between being a weak source to a weak sink of carbon. Overall, the shelf acts as a weak source of CO₂ at 0.32 ± 1.5 mol m⁻² yr⁻¹. Subregions, however, reveal slightly different trends, where surface waters associated with 40–200‐m isobath in the northern and southern WFS are generally weak sinks all year, except for summer …

Propofol Inhibits The Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Nachbac At Multiple Sites., Yali Wang, Elaine Yang, Marta M. Wells, Vasyl Bondarenko, Kellie Woll, Vincenzo Carnevale, Daniele Granata, Michael L. Klein, Roderic G. Eckenhoff, William P. Dailey, Manuel Covarrubias, Pei Tang, Yan Xu

Department of Neuroscience Faculty Papers

Voltage-gated sodium (Na_V) channels are important targets of general anesthetics, including the intravenous anesthetic propofol. Electrophysiology studies on the prokaryotic Na_V channel NaChBac have demonstrated that propofol promotes channel activation and accelerates activation-coupled inactivation, but the molecular mechanisms of these effects are unclear. Here, guided by computational docking and molecular dynamics simulations, we predict several propofol-binding sites in NaChBac. We then strategically place small fluorinated probes at these putative binding sites and experimentally quantify the interaction strengths with a fluorinated propofol analogue, 4-fluoropropofol. In vitro and in vivo measurements show that 4-fluoropropofol and propofol have similar effects …

Ekosistemi I Zonës Së Blinajës Dhe Funksionalizimi Urban, Florim Gashi

Theses and Dissertations

Mundësitë për investime në zonat e përshatshme për turizëm dhe mundësia që ato të sjellin përfitime dhe të jenë të vetëqëndrueshme janë të limituara në Republikën në e Kosovës. Mirëpo në veçanti, Rezervati i Blinajës do të mund të ishte një mundësi e mirë dhe shembull i suksesit për projekte të ngjajshme në të ardhmën. Ky hulumtim është përpjekje që të dëshëmohet se ndërlidhja e ekosistemit, gjeografisë, natyrës si dhe projekti arkitektonik i dizajnuar nga autori në funksion të kësaj, synon që përmes të dhënave burimore por edhe atyre sekondare të dëshmojë që Blinaja është investim real në të ardhmën …

Psychosocial Capacity Building In Response To Cascading Disasters: A Culturally Informed Approach, Joshua Miller, Gianluca Pescaroli

School for Social Work: Faculty Publications

The dominant paradigm guiding mental health professionals responding to major disasters is the field of 'disaster mental health', which historically focused more on psychological factors than social factors, privileging individual over collective interventions. However, resilience to complex events is a result of multiple drivers, such as social networks and local culture, that must be considered together in the assessment and planning process. This paper adopts a multi-disciplinary perspective for disaster response, applying a social-ecological approach to disaster risk reduction which has been developed through practice and a review of the literature. In particular, we investigated how psychosocial healing, collective efficacy …

Red Fox Genome Assembly Identifies Genomic Regions Associated With Tame And Aggressive Behaviours, Anna V. Kukekova, Jennifer L. Johnson, Xueyan Xiang, Shaohong Feng, Shiping Liu, Halie M. Rando, Anastasiya V. Kharlamova, Yury Herbeck, Natalya A. Serdyukova, Zijun Xiong, Violetta Beklemischeva, Klaus Peter Koepfli, Rimma G. Gulevich, Anastasiya V. Vladimirova, Jessica P. Hekman, Polina L. Perelman, Aleksander S. Graphodatsky, Stephen J. O’Brien, Xu Wang, Andrew G. Clark, Gregory M. Acland, Lyudmila N. Trut, Guojie Zhang

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Strains of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with markedly different behavioural phenotypes have been developed in the famous long-term selective breeding programme known as the Russian farm-fox experiment. Here we sequenced and assembled the red fox genome and re-sequenced a subset of foxes from the tame, aggressive and conventional farm-bred populations to identify genomic regions associated with the response to selection for behaviour. Analysis of the re-sequenced genomes identified 103 regions with either significantly decreased heterozygosity in one of the three populations or increased divergence between the populations. A strong positional candidate gene for tame behaviour was highlighted: SorCS1, which encodes …

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Used To Predict Soybean Seed Germination And Vigour, Maythem Al-Amery, Robert L. Geneve, Mauricio F. Sanches, Paul R. Armstrong, Elizabeth B. Maghirang, Chad Lee, Roberval D. Vieira, David F. Hildebrand

Horticulture Faculty Publications

Rapid, non-destructive methods for measuring seed germination and vigour are valuable. Standard germination and seed vigour were determined using 81 soybean seed lots. From these data, seed lots were separated into high and low germinating seed lots as well as high, medium and low vigour seed lots. Near-infrared spectra (950–1650 nm) were collected for training and validation samples for each seed category and used to create partial least squares (PLS) prediction models. For both germination and vigour, qualitative models provided better discrimination of high and low performing seed lots compared with quantitative models. The qualitative germination prediction models correctly identified …

Application Of Recurrent Neural Network For The Prediction Of Target Non-Apneic Arousal Regions In Physiological Signals, Naimahmed Nesaragi, Shubha Majumder, Ashish Sharma, Kouhyar Tavakolian, Shivnarayan Patidar

Electrical Engineering Faculty Publications

This work presents a new method for detection of target non-apneic arousals by applying a recurrent neural network architecture on the various specified polysomnographic (PSG) signals. The proposed two stage architecture uses sequences of instantaneous frequencies and spectral entropies of the chosen PSG signals as feature vectors. At the first stage, these feature vectors are used to train several long-short term memory (LSTM) models. The LSTM networks can learn long-term relationships between time steps of time-frequency based sequences obtained out of physiological signals. As a second stage, some quadratic discriminant (QD) layers are modelled and appended to the trained LSTMs …

A Comparison Study Of Colilert And Qpcr Methods At Pere Marquette Beach, Muskegon County, Mi, Safiya Best, Richard Rediske, Molly Lane

Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

Pere Marquette Beach serves as the primary attraction for tourism and coastal recreation in Muskegon, MI. Because beaches attract many people daily, it is important to monitor beach water quality for pathogens that may cause waterborne disease. Molecular-based methods are emerging as replacements for culture-based techniques for monitoring beaches. Culture-based methods require 18-hour incubation while Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) can yield results in two hours. My research examines the correlation between the culture-based Colilert-18® method and qPCR measurements of E. coli at a Lake Michigan beach in Muskegon County, MI. While Colilert 18 is a defined substrate method and …

Re-Imagining Embodiment And The Self In People With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries: A Narrative Approach, Namitha Kumar, Sangeetha Menon

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Traumatic spinal cord injuries from accidents cause physical and social suffering, pain and loss. After an initial period of physical and psychological trauma, the individual begins to cope and successfully crosses over. Crossing over as a term used in the spinal cord injury register refers to positive adaptation—physical, psychological and social. This paper is based on a qualitative narrative study of the lived experiences of individuals negotiating spinal cord injuries in the Indian context wherein the disability is no longer the location of inability, tragedy, pain, and loss, but one of creative possibilities. As individuals re-imagine embodiment and self, a …

Intimations Of A Spiritual New Age: Ii. Wilhelm Reich As Transpersonal Psychologist. Part 2: The Futural Promise Of Reich’S Naturalistic Bio-Energetic Spirituality, Harry T. Hunt

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This is the second part of a consideration of the later Wilhelm Reich as anticipating a future planetary-wide “New Age” form of this-worldly spirituality in ways overlapping with figures from the same era of Western crisis from the 1930s through the 1950s, including Jung, Toynbee, Bergson, Heidegger, Teilhard de Chardin, and Simone Weil. Where the first part of this treatment of Reich as transpersonal psychologist traced his evolution from his bio-energetic psychotherapy to a Weberian this-worldly mysticism of a universal life energy, his cosmic orgone, with its attendant features of conflicted “spiritual emergency,” this second paper seeks to further develop …

Achieving The Promise Of Integration In Social-Ecological Research: A Review And Prospectus, Neil Carter

Human-Environment Systems Research Center Faculty Publications and Presentations

An integrated understanding of both social and ecological aspects of environmental issues is essential to address pressing sustainability challenges. An integrated social-ecological systems perspective is purported to provide a better understanding of the complex relationships between humans and nature. Despite a threefold increase in the amount of social-ecological research published between 2010 and 2015, it is unclear whether these approaches have been truly integrative. We conducted a systematic literature review to investigate the conceptual, methodological, disciplinary, and functional aspects of social-ecological integration. In general, we found that overall integration is still lacking in social-ecological research. Some social variables deemed important …

Occupational Stress And Risk For Parkinson's Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study, Johanna Sieurin, Ross Andel, Annika Tillander, Elise G. Valdes, Nancy L. Pederson, Karin Wirdefeldt

Aging Studies Faculty Publications

Background: Stress has been suggested as a contributing factor in the etiology of Parkinson's Disease (PD), but epidemiological evidence is sparse.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the association between occupational stress according to the job demands‐control model and the risk for PD.

Methods: We conducted a population‐based cohort study with 2,544,748 Swedes born 1920 to 1950 who had an occupation reported in the population and housing censuses in 1980 or, if missing, in 1970. Job demands and control were measured using a job‐exposure matrix. Incident PD cases were identified using Swedish national health registers from 1987 …

Spatial And Temporal Variability Of PCo2, Carbon Fluxes, And Saturation State On The West Florida Shelf, L. L. Robbins, Kendra L. Daly, L. Barbero, R. Wanninkhof, R. He, H. Zong, J. T. Lisle, W. J. Cai, C. G. Smith

C-IMAGE Publications

The West Florida Shelf (WFS) is a source of uncertainty for the Gulf of Mexico carbon budget. Data from the synthesis of approximately 135,000 p CO₂ values from 97 cruises from the WFS show that the shelf waters fluctuate between being a weak source to a weak sink of carbon. Overall, the shelf acts as a weak source of CO₂ at 0.32 ± 1.5 mol m⁻² yr⁻¹. Subregions, however, reveal slightly different trends, where surface waters associated with 40–200‐m isobath in the northern and southern WFS are generally weak sinks all year, except for summer …

Differences In The Severity, Distress, Interference, And Frequency On Cancer-Related Symptoms Between Island Hispanic Puerto Ricans And Mainland Non-Hispanic Whites, Velda J. González-Mercado, Leorey N. Saligan, Ming Ji, Maureen Groer, Elsa Pedro, Susan Mcmillan

Nursing Faculty Publications

The knowledge base of cancer-related symptoms is increasing; yet, limited attention has been given to provide evidence on differences in the perception of cancer symptoms between ethnic groups, especially in the Hispanic Puerto Rican (PR) population. To examine whether there are significant differences in the severity, distress, interference, and frequency of cancer symptoms between island Hispanic PR and mainland non-Hispanic whites. In this secondary data analysis, data from 109 Hispanic PR was matched by age, gender and cancer diagnosis with data from non-Hispanic whites. Cancer symptoms were assessed using the Cancer Symptom Scale (CSS). Mann–Whitney statistical test was used to …