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Wind Symphony, September 22, 2019, Anthony C. Marinello Iii, Davis Hale

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
September 22, 2019
Sunday Evening
5:00 p.m.

An Empirical Analysis Of A Social Skills Training Program Used With Hearing Impaired Youths, Maureen A. Smith, Patrick J. Schloss, Cynthia N. Schloss

JADARA

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C57bl/6 Substrain Differences In Pharmacological Effects After Acute And Repeated Nicotine Administration., Lois S Akinola, Bryan Mckiver, Wisam Toma, Andy Z X Zhu, Rachel F Tyndale, Vivek Kumar, M Imad Damaj

Faculty Research 2019

Tobacco smoking is the major cause of disability and death in the United States and around the world. In addition, tobacco dependence and addiction express themselves as complex behaviors involving an interplay of genetics, environment, and psychological state. Mouse genetic studies could potentially elucidate the novel genes and/or gene networks regulating various aspects of nicotine dependence. Using the closely related C57BL/6 (B6) mice substrains, recent reports have noted phenotypic differences within C57BL/6J (B6J) and C57BL/6N (B6N) mice for some drugs of abuse: alcohol, opiates, and cocaine. However, the differences in nicotine's effects have not yet been described in these substrains. …

Vascular Leak And Hypercytokinemia Associated With Severe Fever With Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection In Mice, Jonna B. Westover, Brady T. Hickerson, Arnaud J. Van Wettere, Brett L. Hurst, Jacqueline P. Kurz, Ashley Dagley, Petra Wülfroth, Takashi Komeno, Yousuke Furuta, Thomas Steiner, Brian B. Gowen

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) endemic to China, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Here we characterize the pathogenesis and natural history of disease in IFNAR^-/- mice challenged with the HB29 strain of SFTS virus (SFTSV) and demonstrate hallmark features of VHF such as vascular leak and high concentrations of proinflammatory cytokines in blood and tissues. Treatment with FX06, a natural plasmin digest product of fibrin in clinical development as a treatment for vascular leak, reduced vascular permeability associated with SFTSV infection but did not significantly improve survival outcome. Further studies are …

A Gis-Based Study Of Wild Atlantic Way In The West Of Ireland: Its Associated Organisations And Environmental Impacts., Leanne Leonard

SURE Journal: Science Undergraduate Research Experience Journal

Background

Coastal regions are heavily reliant on tourism in order to achieve socio-economic sustainability. However, tourism impacts both positively and negatively on many coastal destinations. The world’s longest defined coastal route of 2600km, the Wild Atlantic Way (WAW), attracts tourists to the region of the West of Ireland after Fáilte Ireland began a promotional tourism drive in 2014. The association between WAW tourism and environmental impacts requires investigation.

The West of Ireland is home to a range of areas protected by the Birds and Habitats Directives which aim to safeguard against potentially damaging developments, meaning the anthropogenic effects from tourists …

Hydrophilic Flora Of Different Water Bodies Of The Samarkand Region, Aktam Abdunazarovich Nurniyozov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

Ponds, watercourses, wetlands called wetlands, are represented by a huge variety of habitat types; contain a significant part of the biodiversity of a given territory and many rare, relict and species requiring protection. The hydrophilic flora of water bodies in the Samarkand region is diverse and a unique flora was formed in each type of water body. This is due to the physical-geographical and soil-climatic nature of this reservoir. Monocotyledonous plants dominate in the composition of the hydrophilic flora of the region by the number of species. In various reservoirs of the Samarkand region, 72 species of aquatic and coastal …

Helminthes Synanthropic Rodents Of North-East Region Uzbekistan., Zebiniso Khamrokulovna Khamrokulova, Kalandar Abdullaevich Saparov, Firuza Jaloliddinovna Akramova

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article gives an information about helminthological researches. Helminthological researches of rodents in Uzbekistan were carried out by Davlatov (1970), Koshanov (1972) and Bikova (2002). The information, given in these works, in the first position, belongs to the fauna of helminthes of rodents in the North-west region, in the second position; information represents the systematic aspects of the study of parasites of house mice and gray rats in urban areas. On peculiar ecosystems of the North-east region, similar researches of rodents have not been conducted. In this connection, the research of mouse-like helminthes and their role in the epizootology of …

Gender Based Problems In Translation Of Literary Texts, Toshtemir Alimov Teacher Of Foreign Languages Faculty

Philology Matters

The study focuses on the investigation of the impact of gender on translation of literary texts.To be more specific, the article is aimed to explore the distinctive features of translated work by male and female translators. Previous researches and studies in this area of investigation have been gathered and analyzed. The aim of the following paper is to identify gender-specific language and the influence of the translator’s gender identity on the translation result, at the morphological, lexicaland syntactic levels, on the basis of a comparative analysis of the original and translated texts.Studies of gender differences on the material of the …

Results Of Experimental Study Silicon Influence On Morphofunctional Structure Of Liver, Sh.R. Abzalova

Central Asian Journal of Pediatrics

The aim of study was to research long-term hepatic morphofunctional adaptations of rats being undegone to various doses of silicon in experimental conditions. The materials were 22 male Wistar rats weighing 250-280 grams (256.8 ± 3.44 g) at the age from 4 to 7 months. All experimental proce-dures were carried out according to the requirements of International Rules for Treatment Animals. The research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Silicon chloride (SiCl4) being used forexperiment was dissolved in distilled water and administered intraperitoneally (IP) in a single dose depending …

Architectural Rhetoric In Shakespeare And Spenser, Jennifer C. Vaught

Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare’s drama and Spenser’s allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural allegories exemplified by the morality play The Castle of Perseverance. Intertextual and analogous connections between the generically hybrid works of Shakespeare and Spenser demonstrate how they conceived of individuals not in isolation from the physical environment but in profound relation to it. This book approaches …

Increasing Family And Caregiver Engagement In Benton Harbor Area Schools, Susan V. Piazza, Patricia A. Edwards

Academic Leadership Academy

Increasing Family and Caregiver Engagement in Benton Harbor Area Schools

Sciatic Nerve Cut And Repair Using Fibrin Glue In Adult Mice, Erica T. Akhter, Travis M. Rotterman, Arthur W. English, Francisco J. Alvarez

Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Physiology Faculty Publications

Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is an excellent model for studying neural responses to injury and elucidating the mechanisms that can facilitate axon regeneration. As such, several animal models have been employed to study regenerative mechanisms after PNI, including Aplysia, zebrafish, rabbits, cats and rodents. This protocol describes how to perform a sciatic nerve injury and repair in mice, one of the most frequently used models to study mechanisms that facilitate recovery after PNI, and that takes advantage of the availability of many genetic models. In this protocol, we describe a method for using fibrin glue to secure the proximal …

Singing Dancing And Churning The Cheese In Sicily, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Uncertainty In Employee Status Across Federal Law, Ryan G. Vacca

Law Faculty Scholarship

Numerous federal statutes rely on a distinction between employees and independent contractors. Based on a series of Supreme Court decisions from 1968 through 2003, courts and administrative agencies have used a common law multifactor test to draw this distinction. In an effort to enhance predictability and certainty within and across legislation, these cases have rejected a purposive approach in applying the test. But the Supreme Court has never said which, if any, of the factors are the most important in the analysis, nor has anyone determined whether the underlying purpose—enhancing predictability and certainty—has been attained.

This empirical Study uses content …

The Scarlet - September 20, 2019, Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The September 20, 2019 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

The Bison, September 20, 2019

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

On Role And Potential Of Grass-Based Livestock Husbandry In Poverty Alleviation—Practice And Pattern Exploration Of S&T Poverty Alleviation By Institute Of Botany, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Gao Shuqin, Hu Zhaomin, Han Yong, Liu Zhiquan, Pan Qingmin, Duan Rui, Zhong Jin, Jing Haichun

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Poverty alleviation or mitigation through science and technology is one of the strategies implemented in China. Grassbased Livestock Husbandry aims to develop sustainable and profitable ruminant farming systems and is an attractive and effective countermeasure for poverty alleviation in grasslands of China. Our survey indicated that 152 counties in the grassland region are in poverty, representing 56.7% of the total 268 counties. Hence, grasslands are the regions where the "hard core" poverty populations reside. As a pilot initiative, Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched projects in the grasslands in the north and the moutain meadows in the south to couple …

Breeding Of Hybrid Rice And Hybrid Wheat (1960-2000) -China Agricultural Science And Technology Facing The Main Battlefield Of National Economy, Zhu Guannan, Cao Xingsui

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

This paper reviews the hybrid breeding project of rice and wheat in China, revealing that the agricultural research must face the sacred mission of the main battlefield of economic development. Agricultural research system in China has exerted the institutional advantages of concentrating power to carry out major tasks, insisted on top-level design and planning, insisted on constantly advancing and innovating, as well as prompted agricultural scientific and technological progress to make great contributions in safeguarding national food security and improving people's living standards. In the past 70 years, China has cultivated a large number of new rice and wheat varieties, …

Dead Man's Cave In Pocatello, Idaho, Ryann Henderson

Individual Item Submissions

A story, told to me by a senior zookeeper, about a spooky cave in the brushland next to the Pocatello Zoo.

Fgf-Signaling Is Compartmentalized Within The Mesenchyme And Controls Proliferation During Salamander Limb Development, Sruthi Purushothaman, Ahmed Elewa, Ashley W. Seifert

Biology Faculty Publications

Although decades of studies have produced a generalized model for tetrapod limb development, urodeles deviate from anurans and amniotes in at least two key respects: their limbs exhibit preaxial skeletal differentiation and do not develop an apical ectodermal ridge (AER). Here, we investigated how Sonic hedgehog (Shh) and Fibroblast growth factor (Fgf) signaling regulate limb development in the axolotl. We found that Shh-expressing cells contributed to the most posterior digit, and that inhibiting Shh-signaling inhibited Fgf8 expression, anteroposterior patterning, and distal cell proliferation. In addition to lack of a morphological AER, we found that salamander …

Insect Hybridization And Climate Change, Erica Larson, R. M. Tinghitella, Scott A. Taylor

Biological Sciences: Faculty Scholarship

Contemporary global change is altering ecosystems at an unprecedented pace and scale. This critical period is a crisis for biodiversity, but the perturbations caused by global environmental change also offer new opportunities to study the evolution of species boundaries—their persistence, formation, or collapse—over rapid evolutionary timescales. Increasing temperature means and fluctuations have the potential to alter gene flow between species through changes in species distributions, interactions, life history, and temperature-dependent behavior. This is particularly true for insects, whose geographic ranges, behaviors, and life history traits are temperature dependent. Here, we review the potential for climate change to influence gene flow …

Reorganization Of Surviving Mammal Communities After The End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction, Anikó B. Tóth, S. Kathleen Lyons, W. Andrew Barr, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Jessica L. Blois, René Bobe, Matt Davis, Andrew Du, Jussi T. Eronen, J. Tyler Faith, Danielle Fraser, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Gary R. Graves, Advait M. Jukar, Joshua H. Miller, Silvia Pineda-Munoz, Laura C. Soul, Amelia Villaseñor, John Alroy

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Large mammals are at high risk of extinction globally. To understand the consequences of their demise for community assembly, we tracked community structure through the end- Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in North America.We decomposed the effects of biotic and abiotic factors by analyzing co-occurrence within the mutual ranges of species pairs. Although shifting climate drove an increase in niche overlap, co-occurrence decreased, signaling shifts in biotic interactions. Furthermore, the effect of abiotic factors on cooccurrence remained constant over time while the effect of biotic factors decreased. Biotic factors apparently played a key role in continental-scale community assembly before the extinctions. Specifically, …

Bayesmetab: Treatment Of Missing Values In Metabolomic Studies Using A Bayesian Modeling Approach, Jasmit Shah, Guy N. Brock, Jeremy Gaskins

Internal Medicine, East Africa

Background: With the rise of metabolomics, the development of methods to address analytical challenges in the analysis of metabolomics data is of great importance. Missing values (MVs) are pervasive, yet the treatment of MVs can have a substantial impact on downstream statistical analyses. The MVs problem in metabolomics is quite challenging and can arise because the metabolite is not biologically present in the sample, or is present in the sample but at a concentration below the lower limit of detection (LOD), or is present in the sample but undetected due to technical issues related to sample pre-processing steps. The …

September 20, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Adoption Of The Coronary Artery Disease-Reporting And Data System: Reduced Downstream Testing And Cardiology Referral Rates In Patients With Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease, Ricardo Cury

All Publications

No abstract provided.

Chimes: September 20, 2019, Calvin University

Chimes

Declining enrollment forces staff, service cuts by Juliana Knot

Calvin soccer beats Wooster, Aquinas in comeback victories by Ellington Smith

Calvin University ranks #3 in new report by Naomi Vroegop

Presidential fellows bridge gap between executives, students at Calvin by Ethan Stafford

Calvin community reacts to vaping bans by McKinley Anderson

"Something for Us": Calvin's new underpass artwork by Harm Venhuizern

Calvin professors publish new book rethinking Christian stewardship by Sophia Morgan

CPI embodies Christian hospitality for Muslim students by Ahmad Nelson & Diarra Kenyatta Bryant

Analyzing Source Preferences In Student Writing When Integrating Diverse Texts, Lauren Covington

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

This article examines the sources cited by sixth grade who had been exposed to multiple sources pertaining to a historical topic. The purpose of this study was to determine whether students exhibited a preference for specific types of sources when constructing and demonstrating knowledge about historic events, figures, or a specific time period. A total of 46 students participated in the study which extended over eight class periods of approximately 50 minutes each. During these class periods students constructed knowledge about historical figure, Rosa Parks, and the events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Students were presented with a variety of …

Embracing The Past: Transatlantic Slave Trade In Ghana And The Holocaust In Germany, Anitha Oforiwah Adu-Boahen, Justina Akansor

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

The history of the transatlantic slave trade and the holocaust is a history of different cultures, which explains the diverse and growing efforts to remember these phenomena. This paper compared how the transatlantic slave trade and holocaust are embraced through memory culture, specifically looking at monuments available in Germany and Ghana to represent them, how they are taught in schools and whether they are being discussed. To do this various holocaust and slave trade sites were visited within Ghana and Germany to illicit how these monuments help people to learn about, and embrace these events. Interview guide and focus group …

Seeing It For Wearing It: Autoethnography As Black Feminist Methodology, Layla D. Brown-Vincent

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

No abstract provided.

An Alternative Visual Narrative: Latoya Ruby Frazier's The Notion Of Family, Madison Schultz

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s body of photographic work titled The Notion of Family (2003-2014) explores the toll the steel industry in Braddock, Pennsylvania, took on the black community there. The history of black Braddock is riddled with social, political, racial, economic and environmental hardship spurred on by the steel industry. Frazier intimately chronicles the lives of three generations of women—herself, her mother, and her grandmother—and their place in that history. The alternative visual narrative that Frazier creates commands viewers’ attention in telling a story that has been largely ignored by the American public. This essay contrasts Frazier’s work with that of …