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Sitc 2018 Workshop Report: Immuno-Oncology Biomarkers: State Of The Art., Lisa H Butterfield, Mary L Disis, Bernard A Fox, David R Kaufman, Samir N Khleif, Ena Wang

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Identification of biomarkers in cancer immunotherapy that predict therapeutic response and/or limit adverse events are a critical need in the field. To address recent progress and hurdles around cancer biomarker development and utilization, the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) convened a workshop, "Immuno-Oncology Biomarkers: State of the Art," on May 16-17, 2018. Topics discussed included challenges in handling biospecimens, identification and validation of new biomarkers, data sharing, and collaborating across disciplines to advance biomarker development. Panel discussions followed session presentations to help foster participant conversation and discuss future projects and collaborations. The results of the Workshop include the development …

Targeting The Stat5 Pathway In Ph+ Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Valentina Minieri, Marco De Dominici, Marja T. Nevalainen, Bruno Calabretta

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.

Comics, Questions, Action! Engaging Students And Instruction Librarians With The Comics-Questions Curriculum, Stephanie Margolin, Mason Brown, Sarah Laleman Ward

Publications and Research

In a four-session Summer Bridge programme, we experimented with new curricular and pedagogical ideas with a group of incoming freshmen. We developed the Comics-Questions Curriculum (CQC), which melds students’ question asking with a focus on comics. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rationale for and ongoing development of the CQC as well as the ways the CQC fosters engagement of students and librarians, builds upon students’ existing skills but propels them forward toward college-level work, and positions librarians as partners in students’ college work. Although it was designed for a specific purpose initially, the CQC in its …

Three Square, Betelehame Tegaye

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Three square addresses the social issue of hunger due to poverty.

Unlv/Csun Preschool, Emily Thompson

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

At this community engagement site, the UNLV/CSUN Preschool, they address the absence of child care facilities and schools effort to adapt to every child’s individual needs in terms of health, development, and academics.

Project 150, Kyla Borja

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150 addresses the issue of youth homelessness in the Clark County School District. Project 150 currently serves more than 6,000 disadvantaged high school students at 58 schools in Southern Nevada.

The Breakdown, Jada Campbell

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The Breakdown team strives to be positive role models for our youth by educating them to overcome tobacco usage, peer pressure, societal norms, and environmental.

Community Service Trifecta, Vitoria Queiroz

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The first Rebel Homecoming Festival was started to celebrate homecoming week. It was on Thursday right before the big game. The purposeof the festival was to bring all colleges together to celebrate UNLV as a whole. Girls on the Run is an non-profit program that strives to teach young women self-love and how to live a healthy life. They do this by running an afterschool program that focus on education and self-esteem building. At the end of the year the girls run a celebratory 5K run. The Boys and Girls Clubs is organization that offers a variety of afterschool programs …

Arbor View High School Marching Band, Mateo Rodriguez-Maldonado

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that the AVHS Band and the Band Boosters face is the lack of funding for the program. The Clark County School District has been reducing the budget of many schools in the past decade. This year, over $17.6 million has been cut from all high schools in the county and Arbor View has loss $579 thousand dollars in budget cuts (Forest 2018).

Spread The Word, Janet Wu

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The goal for the organization is to make the children have their own library at home, especially for the elementary school kids. They can read and share their book to their friend and family. The organization hopes that third grade children can read because it is hard for them to catch out with other kid if they do not know how to read.

Academic Senate - Agenda, 12/04/2018, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Outside Colby (2018 - December 4), Colby College

Outside Colby

No abstract provided.

2018 December 4, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, December 4, 2018

2018 December 4, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 6, December 4, 2018

Hiv Virologic Response Better With Single-Tablet Once Daily Regimens Compared To Multiple-Tablet Daily Regimens, Shashi N. Kapadia, Robert R. Grant, Susan B. German, Baljinder Singh, Amy L. Davidow, Shobha Swaminathan, Sally Hodder

Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Background: Single-tablet regimens are preferred prescription choices for HIV treatment, but there are limited outcomes data comparing single-tablet regimens to multiple-tablet regimens. Methods: We retrospectively assessed treatment-naïve patients at a single urban HIV clinic in the United States for viral load suppression at 6 and 12months after initiating either single-tablet or multiple-tablet regimens. Multivariate regression was performed to obtain relative risks and adjust for potential confounders. Results: Of 218 patients, 47% were on single-tablet regimens and 53% on multiple-tablet regimens; 77% of single-tablet regimen patients had undetectable viral load at 6months compared to 61% of multiple-tablet regimen patients (p=0.012). At …

Faculty Senate Chronicle For November 1, 2018, Heather Howley

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Trustworthiness Appraisal Deficits In Borderline Personality Disorder Are Associated With Prefrontal Cortex, Not Amygdala, Impairment, Eric A. Fertuck, Jack Grinband, J. John Mann, Joy Hirsch, Kevin Ochsner, Paul Pilkonis, Jeff Erbe, Barbara Stanley

Publications and Research

Background

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is associated with sensitivity to signals of interpersonal threats and misplaced trust in others. The amygdala, an integral part of the threat evaluation and response network, responds to both fear- and trust-related stimuli in non-clinical samples, and is more sensitive to emotional stimuli in BPD compared to controls. However, it is unknown whether the amygdalar response can account for deficits of trust and elevated sensitivity to interpersonal threat in BPD.

Methods

Facial stimuli were presented to 16 medication-free women with BPD and 17 demographically-matched healthy controls (total n = 33). Participants appraised fearfulness or trustworthiness …

Why Can’T We Be Friends? Examining The Benefits And Challenges Of Maintaining Your Friends Of The Library, Maureen Rust, Julia Stringfellow

Collaborative Librarianship

One of the most fruitful collaborative relationships a library can have is with its Friends of the Library organization, providing that group is vibrant and progressive. This article provides insight into the history of the Friends of the Library group at a regional comprehensive university since its founding in 1962 to nearly becoming defunct in 2015. The steps taken in the transformation of the Friends of the Library since then from an inactive group with no clear direction, to a robust organization with an active board who have identified goals and strategies for successful library advocacy are described. The work …

Documenting The Stewardship Of Libraries: The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust Validation Sample Studies, Sara Amato, Susan Stearns

Collaborative Librarianship

The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST), a regional shared print collaboration of sixty academic and research libraries, conducted validation studies of the collective monograph collection in 2016 and 2017. Methodology, results and limitations of the studies are presented along with thoughts on further research areas.

Redefining The Review Process For Collaborative Librarianship, Jill Emery, Michael Levine-Clark

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

A Problem None Can Solve Alone: Ra21 As Collaborative Effort, Jill O'Neill

Collaborative Librarianship

Stakeholders in the information community recognize the challenges surrounding user authentication in the context of licensed information resources. Resource Access in the 21st Century (RA21) is one cross-sector initiative that is intended to reduce those challenges for both academic libraries as well as content and technology providers. Further collaboration by stakeholders may assuage some of the hesitations regarding RA21.

The Prospector, December 4, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Graduation Issue

Prevalence And Risk Factors Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome In Korean College Students, Jin-Hee Park, Sun Hyoung Bae

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional gastrointestinal disorder in the West. But information on the prevalence of IBS in Asia is still lacking, especially in Korea. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of IBS and to investigate the related factors in Korean college students.

Searles Is Preventive Medicine's Go-To Person For Tech Support, Haley Herfurth

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Curriculum Committee Meeting, Tuesday, December 4, 2018, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

γ-Aapeptides With Potent And Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Activity, Jianfeng Cai, Youhong Niu, Haifan Wu, Shruti Padhee

USF Patents

The present invention is directed to a novel class of antimicrobial agents called γ-AApeptides. The current invention provides various categories of γ-AApeptides, for example, linear γ-AApeptides, cyclic γ-AApeptides, and lipidated γ-AApeptides. γ-AApeptides of the current invention are designed to exert antimicrobial activity while being stable and non-toxic. γ-AApeptides also do not appear to lead to the development of microbial resistance in treated microorganisms. Thus, the disclosed γ-AApeptides can be used for the treatment of various medical conditions associated with pathogenic microorganisms.

Antimicrobials From An Epigenetics Based Fungal Metabolite Screening Program, Danielle H. Demers, Bill J. Baker, Ala Azhari, Renee M. Fleeman, Dennis E. Kyle, Lindsey Neil Shaw

USF Patents

Novel antimicrobial compounds against drug targets such as Eskape pathogens, Leishmania donovani, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Clostridium difficile, Naegleria fowleri, and cancer are presented herein.

Systems And Methods For Producing Liquid Fuels From Landfill Gases, John N. Kuhn, Babu Joseph, Devin Walker, Syed Ali Gardezi, Timothy Roberge

USF Patents

In some embodiments, method for producing liquid fuel from landfill gas, the method including providing landfill gas to a tri-reformer, performing a tri-reforming process on the landfill gas within the tri-reformer to convert the landfill gas into synthesis gas, wherein the tri-reforming process combines carbon dioxide reforming, steam reforming, water-gas shifting, and methane oxidation and wherein the synthesis gas has a H2:CO ratio of approximately 2:1, providing the synthesis gas to a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) reformer, and converting the synthesis gas into liquid fuel within the FTS reformer.

Method For The Treatment Of Malignancies, Richard Heller, Kenneth E. Ugen

USF Patents

A method of treating cancerous tumors is presented herein. The method includes injecting an effective dose of a plasmid encoded for IL-12, B7-1 or IL-15 into a cancerous tumor and subsequently administering at least one high voltage, short duration pulse to the tumor. The electroporation pulses may be administered at at least 700V/cm for a duration of less than 1 millisecond. The intratumor treatments with electroporation may be administered in at least a two-treatment protocol with the time between treatments being about 7 days. The intratumor treatments with electroporation may be administered in a three-treatment protocol with a time of …

An Exploration Of The Experiences Of People Living With Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Qualitative Study, Saneh Khunkaew

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This qualitative study explored the experiences of people living with a diabetic foot ulcer. The findings provide an understanding of how people with DFUs experience and endure the realities of having a DFU including their experiences of undertaking daily foot care.