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Even President Obama Makes Mistakes: Why Expansion Of The Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument Was Improper, Leila Javanshir

Seattle University Law Review

In 2000, President Clinton created the Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument to protect the Klamath and Siskiyou ecoregions that are home to a variety of rare and endemic plant and animal species. Later, on January 12, 2017, President Obama expanded the Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument, but timber industry representatives and Oregon counties have challenged this expansion because approximately forty thousand of the additional acres were previously reserved for permanent forest production under the Oregon and California Lands Act of 1937. This Note discusses the creation and expansion of this Monument, elaborating on its history and the purposes behind it, and sets forth the …

Mucosal Infection Rewires Tnfɑ Signaling Dynamics To Skew Susceptibility To Recurrence, Lu Yu, Valerie P. O'Brien, Jonathan Livny, Denise Dorsey, Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay, Marco Colonna, Michael G. Caparon, Elisha D.O. Roberson, Scott J. Hultgren, Thomas Hannan

Open Access Publications

A mucosal infectious disease episode can render the host either more or less susceptible to recurrent infection, but the specific mechanisms that tip the balance remain unclear. We investigated this question in a mouse model of recurrent urinary tract infection and found that a prior bladder infection resulted in an earlier onset of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFɑ)-mediated bladder inflammation upon subsequent bacterial challenge, relative to age-matched naive mice. However, the duration of TNFɑ signaling activation differed according to whether the first infection was chronic (Sensitized) or self-limiting (Resolved). TNFɑ depletion studies revealed that transient early-phase TNFɑ signaling in Resolved mice …

Daily Eastern News: August 20,2019, Eastern Illinois University

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Alteration Of Tobacco Alkaloid Content Through Modification Of Specific Cytochrome P450 Genes, Ralph E. Dewey, Balazs Siminszky, Steven W. Bowen, Lily Gavilano

Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Patents

Compositions and methods for reducing the level of nornicotine and N'-nitrosonomicotine (NNN) in Nicotiana plants and plant parts thereof are provided. The compositions comprise isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides for cytochrome P450s that are involved in the metabolic conversion of nicotine to nornicotine in these plants. Expression cassettes, vectors, plants, and plant parts thereof comprising inhibitory sequences that target expression or function of the disclosed cytochrome P450 polypeptides are also provided. Methods for the use of these novel sequences to inhibit expression or function of cytochrome P450 polypeptides involved in this metabolic conversion are also provided. The methods find use in …

Exploring The Implementation Of Lesson-Level Udl Principles Through An Observation Protocol, Joanne M. Van Boxtel, Trisha Sugita

Education Faculty Articles and Research

The researchers piloted an observational protocol to examine the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and checkpoint strategies used during daily instruction with a small sample of general and special education teachers. Observational research on UDL has been recommended within the literature. Researchers used the high-leverage practice of explicit instruction as the anchor for the design of the observation protocol. Findings indicate there is alignment between observed UDL principles and strategies employed at the lesson level and teachers’ self-reports of the UDL principles and strategies employed. Findings also suggest that teachers are using several UDL principles within their daily instruction …

The Influence Of A Growing Urban Tree Canopy On Municipalities And Urban Stormwater: A Cost Analysis, Lisa Rain

Theses

As many cities and local municipalities face the increasing problems associated with climate change, many are turning to trees to rebuild the natural environment and ecosystems within their urban cores. Many are choosing to increase their tree canopies in order to conserve energy, remove carbon dioxide and other pollutants from the air, provide habitat for animals, and much more. While urban tree canopies have countless benefits, and should be protected and expanded, they also have costs. These costs are often direct dollar values that fall onto the responsibility of the local municipalities. Costs include maintenance, debris cleanup, irrigation, infrastructure repair, …

Prospects For The Sustainable Management Of Public Oyster Resources, Thomas M. Soniat, Nathan A. Cooper, Eric N. Powell

Faculty Publications

Common-pool resources such as public oyster grounds are especially vulnerable to overexploitation and habitat loss. Like those elsewhere, oyster populations and habitat of Louisiana public grounds are in decline. To maintain reef habitat and increase oyster abundance, a sustainable harvest model is applied, which allows harvest above that required to maintain reef cultch stasis. The model is restrained to promote shell gain by limiting fishing by area, type (sack versus seed), effort, and season. Harvest quotas and cultch removal rates derived from shell-budget–based modeling are a foundation for sustainable management of public oyster resources.

Um Hires New Director To Oversee Research Integrity, Compliance, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Mandy King brings more than 15 years of experience to position

Such News Of The Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers, Thomas S. Edwards, Elizabeth A. Dewolfe

History Faculty Books

This pathbreaking collection, which contains 19 essays from scholars in a variety of fields, illuminates the work of two centuries of American women nature writers. Some discuss traditional nature writers such as Susan Fenimore Cooper, Mary Austin, Gene Stratton Porter, and Annie Dillard. Others examine the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Anzaldua, and Leslie Marmon Silko, writers not often associated with this genre. Essays on germinal texts such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas's The Everglades: River of Grass stand alongside examinations of market bulletins and women's gardens, showing how the rich diversity of women's nature writing has shaped and expanded …

Blood Leukocyte Dna Methylation Predicts Risk Of Future Myocardial Infarction And Coronary Heart Disease, Golareh Agha, Michael M Mendelson, Cavin K Ward-Caviness, Roby Joehanes, Tianxiao Huan, Rahul Gondalia, Elias Salfati, Jennifer A Brody, Giovanni Fiorito, Jan Bressler, Brian H Chen, Symen Ligthart, Simonetta Guarrera, Elena Colicino, Allan C Just, Simone Wahl, Christian Gieger, Amy R Vandiver, Toshiko Tanaka, Dena G Hernandez, Luke C Pilling, Andrew B Singleton, Carlotta Sacerdote, Vittorio Krogh, Salvatore Panico, Rosario Tumino, Yun Li, Guosheng Zhang, James D Stewart, James S Floyd, Kerri L Wiggins, Jerome I Rotter, Michael Multhaup, Kelly Bakulski, Steven Horvath, Philip S Tsao, Devin M Absher, Pantel Vokonas, Joel Hirschhorn, M Daniele Fallin, Chunyu Liu, Stefania Bandinelli, Eric Boerwinkle, Abbas Dehghan, Joel D Schwartz, Bruce M Psaty, Andrew P Feinberg, Lifang Hou, Luigi Ferrucci, Nona Sotoodehnia, Giuseppe Matullo, Annette Peters, Myriam Fornage, Themistocles L Assimes, Eric A Whitsel, Daniel Levy, Andrea A Baccarelli

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: DNA methylation is implicated in coronary heart disease (CHD), but current evidence is based on small, cross-sectional studies. We examined blood DNA methylation in relation to incident CHD across multiple prospective cohorts.

METHODS: Nine population-based cohorts from the United States and Europe profiled epigenome-wide blood leukocyte DNA methylation using the Illumina Infinium 450k microarray, and prospectively ascertained CHD events including coronary insufficiency/unstable angina, recognized myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, and coronary death. Cohorts conducted race-specific analyses adjusted for age, sex, smoking, education, body mass index, blood cell type proportions, and technical variables. We conducted fixed-effect meta-analyses across cohorts.

RESULTS: Among …

Editorial: Cancer Ecosystems., Ubaldo E. Martinez-Outshoorn, Mireia Bartrons, Ramon Bartrons

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

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Genetically-Encoded Sensors To Detect Fatty Acid Production And Trafficking, Emilio P. Mottillo

Hypertension and Vascular Research Articles

Objective: Fatty acids are important for biological function; however, in excess, they can cause metabolic dysregulation. Methods to image and detect fatty acids in real time are lacking. Therefore, the current study examined the dynamics of fatty acid trafficking and signaling utilizing novel fluorescent and luminescent approaches.

Methods: We generated fluorescent and luminescent-based genetically-encoded sensors based upon the ligand-dependent interaction between PPARα and SRC-1 to image and detect cellular dynamics of fatty acid trafficking.

Results: The use of a fluorescent sensor demonstrates that fatty acids traffic rapidly from lipid droplets to the nucleus. Both major lipases ATGL and HSL contribute …

The Effect Of Deep Oceanic Flushing On Water Properties And Ecosystem Functioning Within Atolls In The British Indian Ocean Territory, Emma V. Sheehan, Phil Hosegood, Chloe A. Game, Martin J. Attrill, David Tickler, Marianne Wootton, David G. Johns, Jessica J. Meeuwig

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Neighborhood Landscape Characteristics On Native Bird Communities: Implications For Increasing Biodiversity In Our Yards, Michael E. Vermeulen

Dissertations and Theses

Avian communities, because of their potential high diversity, are ideal for studying the response to potential quantity of resources provided by local and regional habitat. Urban neighborhoods vary in types and magnitudes of anthropogenic stressors they experience, resulting in a continuum of anthropogenic disturbance, often referred to as a gradient of urbanization. The aim of this study was to investigate anthropogenic drivers of urban bird communities in three Portland, OR neighborhoods (Hillsdale, Lents, and Pearl). The three major questions of this study were: 1) What are the significant landscape traits that characterize the neighborhoods? 2) Is there evidence that the …

A Journey Down The Rabbit Hole Of The Oed In Search Of The Meaning Of “Master” Elrond, Kristine Larsen

Journal of Tolkien Research

An editorial commentary on the use of the title “Master” to describe Elrond, with heavy reliance on the Oxford English Dictionary.

Ecological Effectiveness Of Protected Areas In Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem, Northern Tanzania, Francesca Spruiell

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

Protected areas in Tanzania, while plentiful, are not routinely monitored. So, little insight into the areas? successes or failures in the meeting of their goals for animal population maintenance is produced. This study assessed the conservation efforts of protected areas in the Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem through the monitoring of population densities of five species: elephant (Loxodonta africana), giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi), zebra (Equus quagga), wildebeest (Connochaetes), impala (Aepyceros melampus). We drove terrestrial line transects seasonally- dry, long rains, and short rains- from 2011 to 2018 in four conservation areas of varying protection levels: Tarangire National Park and Lake Manyara National Park, Manyara …

Pet Policies And Rental Prices: How Do Pet Restrictions Affect Rental Prices?, Brian Smith

Creative Collaborations: Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Research

This research examines the relationship between pet restrictions and condominium sales prices. It will focus on sales of condominiums in the Downtown San Diego area. There is expected to be a premium in sales prices of condominiums without pet restrictions due to the theory that potential buyers with pets will be less sensitive to price increases.

The Proceedings Of Great Day 2015, Proceedings Of Great Day

Proceedings of GREAT Day

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The Proceedings Of Great Day 2014, Proceedings Of Great Day

Proceedings of GREAT Day

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The Proceedings Of Great Day 2013, Proceedings Of Great Day

Proceedings of GREAT Day

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The Proceedings Of Great Day 2012, Proceedings Of Great Day

Proceedings of GREAT Day

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The Proceedings Of Great Day 2011, Proceedings Of Great Day

Proceedings of GREAT Day

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The Proceedings Of Great Day 2010, Proceedings Of Great Day

Proceedings of GREAT Day

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Trophic Upgrading And Mobilization Of Wax Esters In Microzooplankton, Keyana Roohani, Brad A. Haubrich, Kai-Lou Yue, Nigel D'Souza, Amanda Mantalbano, Tatiana Rynearson, Susanne Menden-Deuer, Christopher Reid

Science and Technology Department Faculty Journal Articles

Heterotrophic protists play pivotal roles in aquatic ecosystems by transferring matter and energy, including lipids, from primary producers to higher trophic predators. Using Oxyrrhis marina as a model organism, changes to the non-saponifiable protist lipids were investigated under satiation and starvation conditions. During active feeding on the alga Cryptomonas sp., the O. marina hexane soluble non-saponifiable fraction lipid profile reflected its food source with the observed presence of long chain mono-unsaturated fatty alcohols up to C25:1. Evidence of trophic upgrading in O. marina was observed with long chain mono-unsaturated fatty alcohol accumulation of up to C35:1. To the best of …

Chapter 7: Perspectives On West Africa: Reminiscences Of The Global Education Seminar In Ghana And Togo, Sharon Davis Gratto

Myth and Reality: Reflections on Our Travels through West Africa

A reflection on the 2018-19 Global Education Seminars in West Africa.

Brangus Cows Have Ovarian Reserve Parameters More Like Brahman Than Angus Cows, Robert A. Cushman, Émerson M. Soares, Hannah K. Yake, Allyson L. Patterson, Shelby L. Rosasco, Joslyn K. Beard, Emmalee J. Northrop, Jerica J.J. Rich, Jeremy R. Miles, Chadwick C. Chase Jr., Michael G. Gonda, George A. Perry, Anthony K. Mcneel, Adam F. Summers

Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center: Reports

Bos indicus females have more surface antral follicles than Bos taurus females; however, histological studies demonstrated no difference in total number of primordial follicles between these two biological types of cattle. Primordial follicle density in the ovary was less in Nelore ovaries compared to Angus ovaries, but no studies have examined the primordial follicle density in Bos indicus cross-bred females. It, therefore, was hypothesized that primordial follicle density in the ovary would decrease as percentage Bos indicus increased. Ovaries were collected from cross-bred Angus (n=32, no Bos indicus influence), Brangus (n=15), or Brahman (n=9) …

Evaluating Urban Odor With Field Olfactometry In Camden, Nj, Jennifer L. Kitson, Monica Leiva, Zachary Christman, Pamela Dalton

School of Earth & Environment Departmental Research

Odor annoyance negatively impacts residents of communities adjacent to persistent nuisance industries. These residents, often with a high percentage of minority or otherwise marginalized residents, experience subjective and objective impacts on health and well-being; yet, reliable methods for quantifying and categorizing odors have been elusive. Field olfactometry is integral to the study of odor annoyance experienced by communities as it includes both qualitative (human perception) and quantitative (intensity measurement) dimensions of human odor experience and has been employed by municipalities in the U.S. to evaluate odor pollution levels. Cartographic visualization of odor data recorded using a field olfactometer offers further …

What's Happening: August 19, 2019, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Pet's Love And Affection Promotes Health And Healing, Brooke Carbo

Browse All News

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Exploring Saudi Journalists’ Attitudes Towards Ethical Issues Of Mobile Journalism, Ahmed Ali Deen

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study aims to better understand Saudi mobile journalists’ attitudes toward the ethical issues of MOJO by exploring Saudi mobile journalist’s influence of some journalistic values of the Saudi, Egyptian and American code of ethics. In addition, the study also seeks to explore the relationship of minimizing harm on seeking-truth among Saudi mobile journalists and their perceptions of MOJO. A quantitative method survey through a survey monkey website used to collect data between March and April of 2019. Moreover, the scales that use in this study are the Code of Ethics of Society of Professional Journalists, the Charter of Honor …