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Connecting To Students Through Place, Ann K. Schulte

The Rural Educator

Two teaching residency programs in northern California have provided some insight into graduates’ preparation for, and inclination to pursue, teaching in a rural school. Both programs include early coursework that addresses the needs and strengths of rural communities and requires candidates to conduct an in-depth study of their placement community. This article specifically describes features of the community study assignment that aims to have preservice teachers examine their understandings about rural places, to create a connection to the place where students live, and to promote place-based pedagogy. Student feedback suggests the assignment is a promising practice for teacher preparation. A …

Modeling The Influence Of Eutrophication And Redox Conditions On Mercury Cycling At The Sediment-Water Interface In The Berre Lagoon, Svetlana Pakhomova, Evgeniy Yakushev, Elizaveta Protsenko, Sylvain Rigaud, Daniel Cossa, Joel Knoery, Raoul Marie Couture, Olivier Radakovitch, Shamil Yakubov, Dominika Krzeminska, Alice Newton

Faculty Publications

© 2018 Pakhomova, Yakushev, Protsenko, Rigaud, Cossa, Knoery, Couture, Radakovitch, Yakubov, Krzeminska and Newton. This study presents a specifically designed Mercury module in a coupled benthic-pelagic reactive-transport model - Bottom RedOx Model (BROM) that allows to study mercury (Hg) biogeochemistry under different conditions. This module considers the transformation of elemental mercury (Hg(0)), divalent mercury (Hg(II)) and methylmercury (MeHg). The behavior of mercury species in the model is interconnected with changes of oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, iron oxides, organic matter, and biota. We simulated the transformation and transport of Hg species in the water column and upper sediment layer under five different …

Hamberlin V. Bradford Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 45697

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Bis-Cyclic Guanidine Compound Compositions, Methods Of Use And Treatment Thereof, Lindsey Neil Shaw, Renee Marie Fleeman, Richard Allen Houghten, Marcello Angelo Giulianotti, Radleigh G. Santos, Adel Nefzi

USF Patents

The present disclosure provides compositions including a bis-cyclic guanidine compound, pharmaceutical compositions including a bis-cyclic guanidine compound, methods of treatment of a condition (e.g., bacterial infection) or disease, methods of treatment using compositions or pharmaceutical compositions, and the like.

Merrimack College Record, Merrimack College

Merrimack College Record

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The Effects Of Juvenile Exposure To Sub-Lethal Concentrations Of Pesticides On The Adult Reproductive Biology Of The Male Southern House Mosquitoe, Culex Quinquefasciatus, Shiloh Dean Judd

LSU Master's Theses

Mosquitoes transmit pathogens capable of causing significant diseases, the worst of which can permanently disfigure or kill. Mosquito control efforts can be strengthened by better understanding all aspects of mosquito biology, but there is deficient information regarding sperm production in male mosquitoes. Understanding the sperm production and capacity of vector species may reveal new control strategies.

The goal of this research was to determine if larval exposure to sub-lethal concentrations, defined as killing less than half of the sample population, of pesticides negatively impacts the adult male reproductive health of the southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus Say. This study quantified …

Sintering-Induced Nucleation And Growth Of Noble Metal Nanoparticles For Plasmonic Resonance Ceramic Color, Nathan Dinh, Michael C. Leopold, Ryan Coppage

Chemistry Faculty Publications

This study demonstrates the formation of nanoparticles (NPs) from metal salts within ceramic glazes, such that the use of this colorant technology is more accessible to artisans, employs less metal content, is less environmentally harmful, and allows for the use of traditional kilns. Gold NPs have been demonstrated to possess a specific, low material loading use as a ceramic glaze colorant via plasmon resonance. Pre-synthesized gold NPs that are added to ceramic glazes have been found to significantly change in size after firing in both reductive and oxidative atmospheres, but still maintain some size relationships and color properties. Unfortunately, it …

2018-August-21-Research Discovery, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

The Mitochondrial Single-Stranded Dna Binding Protein From S. Cerevisiae, Rim1, Does Not Form Stable Homo-Tetramers And Binds Dna As A Dimer Of Dimers, Saurabh P. Singh, Vandna Kukshal, Paolo De Bona, Edwin Antony, Roberto Galletto

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Rim1 is the mitochondrial single-stranded DNA binding protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and functions to coordinate replication and maintenance of mtDNA. Rim1 can form homo-tetramers in solution and this species has been assumed to be solely responsible for ssDNA binding. We solved structures of tetrameric Rim1 in two crystals forms which differ in the relative orientation of the dimers within the tetramer. In testing whether the different arrangement of the dimers was due to formation of unstable tetramers, we discovered that while Rim1 forms tetramers at high protein concentration, it dissociates into a smaller oligomeric species at low protein concentrations. A …

A Psychopathological Approach To Safety Engineering In Ai And Agi, Vahid Behzadan, Arslan Munir, Roman V. Yampolskiy

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The complexity of dynamics in AI techniques is already approaching that of complex adaptive systems, thus curtailing the feasibility of formal controllability and reachability analysis in the context of AI safety. It follows that the envisioned instances of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will also suffer from challenges of complexity. To tackle such issues, we propose the modeling of deleterious behaviors in AI and AGI as psychological disorders, thereby enabling the employment of psychopathological approaches to analysis and control of misbehaviors. Accordingly, we present a discussion on the feasibility of the psychopathological approaches to AI safety, and propose general directions for …

Generalist And Specialist Mite Herbivores Induce Similar Defense Responses In Maize And Barley But Differ In Susceptibility To Benzoxazinoids, Huyen Bui, Robert Greenhalgh, Alice Ruckert, Gunbharpur S. Gill, Sarah Lee, Ricardo A. Ramirez, Richard M. Clark

Biology Faculty Publications

While substantial progress has been made in understanding defense responses of cereals to insect herbivores, comparatively little is known about responses to feeding by spider mites. Nevertheless, several spider mite species, including the generalist Tetranychus urticae and the grass specialist Oligonychus pratensis, cause damage on cereals such as maize and wheat, especially during drought stress. To understand defense responses of cereals to spider mites, we characterized the transcriptomic responses of maize and barley to herbivory by both mite species, and included a wounding control against which modulation of defenses could be tested. T. urticae and O. pratensis induced highly …

Twelve Tips For Teaching Twelve Transferable Skills, Hr Watson, Sa Burr

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

Global Research Trends In Entomology During 2012 – 2016: An Analytical Study, Radhakrishnan Natarajan, Priya Saravanan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study explores the quantum of productivity in the field of Entomology. For this study, the data were downloaded from the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ database and there were 1671 records contributed globally level over a period of five years i.e. 2012-2016. The study contributes to the different aspects of Entomology research, such as year wise distribution, country wise, authorship pattern, the degree of collaboration, and most prolific authors etc. The highest number of records was published in the year 2016, while lowest numbers of records was published in 2012. The doubling time for publications at the decreased …

Evaluation Of Site Variability And Its Application In Design, Abu Hakim Muhammad Hasan Faisal

LSU Master's Theses

Geotechnical characterization has an important role in engineering geology as well as in implementation of any project. There are several variables and uncertainties involved in characterizing a project site. Four different sources of uncertainties represent the characterization of geotechnical variability, which include spatial variability, measurement error, statistical error and model bias. Spatial variability is expressed in terms of the mean, variance, and scale of fluctuation. Several statistical techniques such as the Gauge R & R, which includes X-Bar/R and ANOVA, and the Second Moment can be applied to compute site variability in terms of the coefficient of variations. Measurement error …

Direct Quantification Of Deubiquitinating Enzyme Activity In Single Intact Cells, Nora Safabakhsh

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Challenges in drug efficacy occur during the treatment of most types of cancer due to the heterogeneity of the tumor microenvironment. This has led to the development of personalized medicine. Due to the clinical success of the proteasome inhibitors Bortezomib and Carfilzomib in treatment of multiple myeloma, interest has shifted towards molecularly-targeted chemotherapeutics for ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS). Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) are an essential part of this pathway which have been found to promote Bortezomib resistance in multiple myeloma patients. Unfortunately, there is a lack of specific, high throughput biochemical assays to characterize DUB activity in patient samples before and after …

St. Luke's Medical Center Annual Report Cancer Program 1988 Statistics, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

St. Luke's Medical Center: 1988 Annual Report for St. Luke's Medical Center Cancer Program. Includes articles about the Vince Lombardi Memorial Classic, colon cancer care and treatment, colorectum cancer patient care evaluation studies, new developments in 1988, the cancer registry report, and St. Luke's cancer conferences.

St. Luke's Medical Center Annual Report Cancer Program 1989 Annual Statistics, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

St. Luke's Medical Center: 1989 Annual Report for St. Luke's Medical Center Cancer Program. Includes information about new developments, gynecologic cancer care and treatment, ovarian cancer research studies, cancer screening programs, other research studies, the cancer registry report, St. Luke's Medical Center cancer research, and St. Luke's cancer conferences.

St. Luke's Medical Center Annual Report Cancer Program 1987 Statistics, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

St. Luke's Medical Center: 1987 Annual Report for Cancer Program. Includes articles about new developments in 1987, ancillary treatment centers, results of breast and stomach cancer patient evaluation studies, the cancer registry report, and conference opportunities.

Effects Of Eutrophication On Birds In Three Bays Of Great Salt Lake: A Comparative Analysis With Utah Dwr Waterbird Survey Data, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Farmington Bay and Bear River support massive numbers of migratory birds. Because of Farmington Bay’s high nutrient loading and hypereutrophic condition, the Utah DWQ has proposed to list it as impaired under EPA’s and Utah’s 303d criteria. There is concern, however, that changing nutrient loading might influence invertebrate prey of birds, but it is not known if this would be a positive or negative effect. Bear River Bay is far less eutrophic, but has a similar shallow morphometry, and thus presents an ideal comparative opportunity to assess the influence of eutrophication on birds.

From 2007‐2011 the Utah Division of Wildlife …

P62-Dependent Phase Separation Of Patient-Derived Keap1 Mutations And Nrf2, E. W. Cloer, P. F. Siesser, E. M. Cousins, D Goldfarb, D. D. Mowrey, Joseph S. Harrison, S. J. Weir, N. V. Dokholyan, M. B. Major

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

Cancer-derived loss-of-function mutations in the KEAP1 tumor suppressor gene stabilize the NRF2 transcription factor, resulting in a pro-survival gene expression program that alters cellular metabolism and neutralizes oxidative stress. In a recent genotype-phenotype study, we classified 40% of KEAP1 mutations as ANCHOR mutants. By immunoprecipitation, these mutants bind more NRF2 than wild-type KEAP1 and ubiquitylate NRF2, but are incapable of promoting NRF2 degradation. BioID-based protein interaction studies confirmed increased abundance of NRF2 within the KEAP1 ANCHOR mutant complexes with no other statistically significant changes to the complexes. Discrete molecular dynamic simulation modeling and limited proteolysis suggest that the ANCHOR mutations …

Ada News - 08/20/2018, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

The Geotraces Intermediate Data Product 2017, Reiner Schlitzer, Robert F. Anderson, Elena Dodas, Maeve Lohan, Walter Geibert, Alessandro Tagliabue, Kristen N. Buck, Tim Conway, Stephen Galer, Ruifang Xie

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017 (IDP2017) is the second publicly available data product of the international GEOTRACES programme, and contains data measured and quality controlled before the end of 2016. The IDP2017 includes data from the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Southern and Indian oceans, with about twice the data volume of the previous IDP2014. For the first time, the IDP2017 contains data for a large suite of biogeochemical parameters as well as aerosol and rain data characterising atmospheric trace element and isotope (TEI) sources. The TEI data in the IDP2017 are quality controlled by careful assessment of intercalibration results and …

The Current Volume 29 : Issue 2, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Unh Recommendations Seek To Help Farmers Curb Agricultural Nitrogen Losses Under Climate Variability, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Combined Effect Of Oxidative Treatment And Residual Alcohol On The Mechanics Of A Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Laden Interface, William Ivancic, Christopher L. Wirth

Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Single and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT & MWCNT) have been investigated over the past three decades because of their excellent properties, including their mechanical strength and large electrical and thermal conductivities. Incorporating CNTs into consumer and industrial products is challenging because of strong attractive interactions, heterogeneity, and lack of separation techniques for these nanomaterials. Further challenges include those associated with CNT interaction and adsorption to interfaces. In the present work, the properties of an air/water interface laden with industrial grade MWCNTs with systematically varied oxidative treatment in nitric acid were measured. The duration of treatment was varied and the surface …

Daily Eastern News: August 20, 2018, Eastern Illinois University

August

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, August 20, 2018, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The August 20, 2018, issue of the Crow's Nest.

New Guidelines Provide Farmers In Nation’S Breadbasket A Roadmap In Changing World, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Determining The First Intermediate Host To Parasites Glossocercus Caribaensis And Cyclustera Ibisae That Are Found In Fundulus Heteroclitus In The North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Emiley Masloski, Marlee B. Marsh

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

Fundulus heteroclitus serves as a host to many parasites, providing a model system to investigate questions regarding evolution and ecology of host-parasite interactions in natural populations. Previous research from the North Inlet Estuary at Belle W. Baruch shows that F. heteroclitus serve as second intermediate hosts to cestodes, Glossocercus caribaensis and Cyclustera ibisae. Finding larval parasites in the first intermediate host will complete gaps in the knowledge about these parasites’ life cycles. In the experiment, 27 fish were collected from the North Inlet Estuary and were dissected and examined for parasites around the gastrointestinal tract. Parasites collected were sent …

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.