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Equine Arteritis Virus Long-Term Persistence Is Orchestrated By Cd8+ T Lymphocyte Transcription Factors, Inhibitory Receptors, And The Cxcl16/Cxcr6 Axis, Mariano Carossino, Nikolaus Osterrieder, Pouya Dini, Theodore S. Kalbfleisch, Alan T. Loynachan, Igor F. Canisso, R. Frank Cook, Peter J. Timoney, Udeni B. R. Balasuriya

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ecuador: Rainwater Catchment And Water Projects, Ryan Martini

ETHOS Technical Reports

The main function of this trip was to serve in a supporting role for various ongoing projects at Fundación Ingenieros en Acción (FIEA). FIEA is part of Engineers in Action (EIA) and oversees projects in Bolivia and Ecuador. The main office for the Ecuador branch is based in Quito. The projects being worked on this past summer were in the following communities: San Ramon, Agua Fria, Pasto Calle, Guangaje, and Manabi. Each project was at a different stage and required different resources and tasks to be completed. San Ramon involved two short trips to gather social and topographic data to …

Marketing Medicine To Millennials: Preparing Institutions And Regulations For Direct-To-Consumer Healthcare, Mollie Levy

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Good V. Harry's Dairy Llc Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 46350

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Spinal V2b Neurons Reveal A Role For Ipsilateral Inhibition In Speed Control, Rebecca A. Callahan, Richard Roberts, Mohini Sengupta, Yukiko Kimura, Shin-Ichi Higashijima, Martha W. Bagnall

Open Access Publications

The spinal cord contains a diverse array of interneurons that govern motor output. Traditionally, models of spinal circuits have emphasized the role of inhibition in enforcing reciprocal alternation between left and right sides or flexors and extensors. However, recent work has shown that inhibition also increases coincident with excitation during contraction. Here, using larval zebrafish, we investigate the V2b (Gata3+) class of neurons, which contribute to flexor-extensor alternation but are otherwise poorly understood. Using newly generated transgenic lines we define two stable subclasses with distinct neurotransmitter and morphological properties. These V2b subclasses synapse directly onto motor neurons with differential targeting …

This Land Is Your Land? Survey Delegation Laws As A Compensable Taking, Doug Chapman

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

While every state in the Union has a statute delegating in some form surveying authority to private entities, the practice has been especially visible and controversial due to pipeline construction in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A major point of contention in pipeline development has centered upon the ability of private companies to use delegated eminent domain powers to survey land for possible future development. While recent decisions by both a federal Virginia District Court and the state’s Supreme Court have upheld the state’s surveying delegation law from landowner challenges, the issue is far from resolved. Virginia therefore provides an ideal …

An Automated Standard-Based Life Cycle Quality Inspection Methodology For Smart Precast Concrete Solutions In Buildings, M Hajdukiewicz, J Goggins, O De La Torre, D Holleran, M Keane

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Built2Spec research project brought together a new and breakthrough set of tools in order to improve construction quality inspection processes. These can be put into the hands of construction stakeholders to help meet Europe’s energy efficiency targets, standards for constructing and retrofitting buildings, and related policy ambitions. This paper focuses on the automated standard-based life cycle quality inspections for precast concrete structural building elements that can be enhanced by leveraging a range of different technologies. Particular attention is placed on the use of embedded sensors in the precast concrete structural building elements as a tool to support quality assurance of …

Nh Veterinary Diagnostic Lab Identifies First Ever Reported Case Of A Virus In Chimney Swifts, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

An Empirical Examination Of Formal And Informal Institutional Factors’ Influence On Global Food Industry Sustainability Engagement, Kat Yamamoto

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

This study contributes to the sustainability literature through empirical investigation on how both formal and informal institutional factors influence the level of global food industry’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) engagement (also known as sustainability engagement). This study proposed six hypotheses to be tested for formal and informal institutional factors’ influence on sustainability engagement with simple and multiple linear regression analyses, correlation analysis to examine the relationship between sustainability engagement and individual countries’ institutional factors. Six institutional factors the author studied include Yale’s World Economic Forum’s environmental performance index; the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) Foundation’s food loss and …

Addressing Non-Communicable Disease In Rural Nigeria Through Dietary Assessment, Tamara Dochelle Otey

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are major problems in Nigeria. For management and prevention of NCDs, dietary modifications must occur and coincide with the culture. We obtained 24hr diet recall and favorite recipe with methods of cooking from participants to gain knowledge of their current diet to develop cultural dietary modifications.

Short Amylin Receptor Antagonist Peptides Improve Memory Deficits In Alzheimer’S Disease Mouse Model, Rania Soudy, Ryoichi Kimura, Aarti Patel, Wen Fu, Kamaljit Kaur, David Westaway, Jing Yang, Jack Jhamandas

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Recent evidence supports involvement of amylin and the amylin receptor in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We have previously shown that amylin receptor antagonist, AC253, improves spatial memory in AD mouse models. Herein, we generated and screened a peptide library and identified two short sequence amylin peptides (12–14 aa) that are proteolytically stable, brain penetrant when administered intraperitoneally, neuroprotective against Aβ toxicity and restore diminished levels of hippocampal long term potentiation in AD mice. Systemic administration of the peptides for five weeks in aged 5XFAD mice improved spatial memory, reduced amyloid plaque burden, and neuroinflammation. The common residue SQELHRLQTY …

Nh Veterinary Diagnostic Lab Identifies Virus In Chimney Swifts, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Equine Arteritis Virus Long-Term Persistence Is Orchestrated By Cd8+ T Lymphocyte Transcription Factors, Inhibitory Receptors, And The Cxcl16/Cxcr6 Axis, Mariano Carossino, Pouya Dini, Theodore S. Kalbfleisch, Alan T. Loynachan, Igor F. Canisso, R. Frank Cook, Peter J. Timoney, Udeni B. R. Balasuriya

Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

Equine arteritis virus (EAV) has the unique ability to establish long-term persistent infection in the reproductive tract of stallions and be sexually transmitted. Previous studies showed that long-term persistent infection is associated with a specific allele of the CXCL16 gene (CXCL16S) and that persistence is maintained despite the presence of local inflammatory and humoral and mucosal antibody responses. Here, we performed transcriptomic analysis of the ampullae, the primary site of EAV persistence in long-term EAV carrier stallions, to understand the molecular signatures of viral persistence. We demonstrated that the local CD8⁺ T lymphocyte response is predominantly orchestrated …

Situating Dissemination And Implementation Sciences Within And Across The Translational Research Spectrum, Aaron L Leppin, Jane E Mahoney, Kathleen R Stevens, Stephen J Bartels, Laura-Mae Baldwin, Rowena J Dolor, Enola K Proctor, Linda Scholl, Justin B Moore, Ana A Baumann, Catherine L Rohweder, Joan Luby, Paul Meissner

Open Access Publications

The efficient and effective movement of research into practice is acknowledged as crucial to improving population health and assuring return on investment in healthcare research. The National Center for Advancing Translational Science which sponsors Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) recognizes that dissemination and implementation (D&I) sciences have matured over the last 15 years and are central to its goals to shift academic health institutions to better align with this reality. In 2016, the CTSA Collaboration and Engagement Domain Task Force chartered a D&I Science Workgroup to explore the role of D&I sciences across the translational research spectrum. This special …

Type X Strains Of Toxoplasma Gondii Are Virulent For Southern Sea Otters (Enhydra Lutris Nereis) And Present In Felids From Nearby Watersheds, Karen Shapiro, Elizabeth Vanwormer, Andrea Packham, Erin Dodd, Patricia A. Conrad, Melissa Miller

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Why some Toxoplasma gondii-infected southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) develop fatal toxoplasmosis while others have incidental or mild chronic infections has long puzzled the scientific community. We assessed robust datasets on T. gondii molecular characterization in relation to detailed necropsy and histopathology results to evaluate whether parasite genotype influences pathological outcomes in sea otters that stranded along the central California coast. Genotypes isolated from sea otters were also compared with T. gondii strains circulating in felids from nearby coastal regions to assess land-to-sea parasite transmission. The predominant T. gondii genotypes isolated from 135 necropsied sea otters were atypical Type …

Current-Use Pesticides In New Zealand Streams: Comparing Results From Grab Samples And Three Types Of Passive Samplers, Kimberly J. Hageman, Christopher H.F. Aebig, Kim Hoang Luong, Sarit L. Kaserzon, Charles S. Wong, Tim Reeks, Michelle Greenwood, Samuel Macaulay, Christoph D. Matthaei

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

New Zealand uses more than a ton of pesticides each year; many of these are mobile, relatively persistent, and can make their way into waterways. While considerable effort goes into monitoring nutrients in agricultural streams and programs exist to monitor pesticides in groundwater, very little is known about pesticide detection frequencies, concentrations, or their potential impacts in New Zealand streams. We used the ‘Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler’ (POCIS) approach and grab water sampling to survey pesticide concentrations in 36 agricultural streams in Waikato, Canterbury, Otago and Southland during a period of stable stream flows in Austral summer 2017/18. We …

From Postmodernism To Posthumanism - The Photographed Animal, C Baker

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This essay was inspired by the growing critical and artistic attention currently afforded to the subject of the nonhuman animal within Posthumanism and a curiosity to explore photographic practices that could potentially contribute to this endeavour. An exploration of Postmodernist art practice has revealed a dramatic shift in approach to the nonhuman animal subject; essentially characterised as a move from a sceptical, emotionally-distanced, theoretically-grounded range of practices to those that are emotionally-engaged, affective and ethically responsive. This is not to suggest that this characterises all Posthumanist photographic practices; a number of critical writers ably theorise about global networks, nonhuman photography, …

Genetically Modified Salmon And The Future Of Food: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of Twitter, Margaret Markham Siebert

Communication ETDs

This dissertation is a qualitative content analysis of the ongoing online debate on Twitter regarding the AquAdvantage Salmon™, the first genetically engineered animal, fish, and meat product approved by the FDA for sale and consumption in the US. On Twitter, Topics can be discussed by any account user creating a public sphere and forum of discussion. In a time when the anthropogenic impacts on the environment are observable and at times detrimental, it remains in question how we will produce our food; this study problematizes whether or not genetic engineering is the solution and the future of our food, and …

Interdependencies Between Energy, The Environment, And Stakeholder Choices, Saleh Nur Muhammad Al Mamun

Economics ETDs

This dissertation contributes to the field of energy economics by expanding the knowledge of energy stakeholders’ decisions amid the interdependence of energy and environmental policies. I analyze three specific energy development decisions from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives. Chapter 2 introduces a broader state-level policymakers’ decision on renewable portfolio standards (RPS). The renewable portfolio standards is a state-mandated obligation that requires electric load-serving entities to distribute a certain percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources. I investigate the public preferences of RPS for residents in New Mexico in 2017. I find that households are willing to pay for an increase in RPS …

Evaluation Of Commercial Protective Cultures For The Control Of Listeria Monocytogenes And Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia Coli In Raw Milk Cheese, Catherine Gensler

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Od Postmodernizma K Posthumanizmu - Fotografirana Žival, C Baker

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Povzetek: Esej je navdihnila vse večja pozornost, ki jo kritiki in umetniki v posthumanizmu posvečajo predmetu nečloveške živali, in pa vedoželjnost glede raziskovanja fotografskih praks, ki bi potencialno lahko doprinesle k tovrstnim poskusom. Raziskava postmodernističnih umetniških praks je razkrila dramatičen premik v pristopanju k predmetu nečloveške živali, kar v bistvu označuje prehod od skeptičnega, čustveno distanciranega, v teoriji utemeljenega nabora praks k takšnim, ki so čustveno angažirane, afektivne in etično odzivne. S tem nočem reči, da je to značilno za vse posthumanistične fotografske prakse; ni malo kritičnih piscev, ki kompetentno pišejo o globalnih omrežjih, nečloveški fotografiji, abstrakciji vida. Sama pa …

Nephrolithiasis, Erin Layton

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

Nephrolithiasis, also known as kidney stones and calculi, pose a significant health and financial burden in the United States and worldwide. With the increasing incidence and prevalence of pediatric and adult nephrolithiasis, health care costs and morbidity are expected to rise (Batavia & Tasian, 2016). Once thought to be an isolated condition, nephrolithiasis is now considered to be a systemic disease and a marker for other systemic diseases like cardiovascular disease and hypertension. Furthermore, there is a correlation between nephrolithiasis and obesity, fractures, and chronic kidney disease (Ziemba & Matlaga, 2017). In the case of obstruction of an infected kidney, …

Detection Of Salmonella Typhimurium In Romaine Lettuce Using A Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor, Devendra Bhandari, Fur-Chi Chen, Roger C. Bridgman

Human Sciences Faculty Research

Leafy vegetables have been associated with high-profile outbreaks causing severe illnesses. Timely and accurate identification of potential contamination is essential to ensure food safety. A surface plasmon resonance (SPR) assay has been developed for the detection of Salmonella Typhimurium in leafy vegetables. The assay utilizes a pair of well characterized monoclonal antibodies specific to the flagellin of S. Typhimurium. Samples of romaine lettuce contaminated with S. Typhimurium at different levels (between 0.9 and 5.9 log cfu/g) were pre-enriched in buffered peptone water. Three SPR assay formats, direct assay, sequential two-step sandwich assay, and pre-incubation one-step sandwich assay were evaluated. All …

Another Pro-Life Movement Is Possible, Emily Reimer-Barry

Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ap Studio Art - Beginning The Sustained Investigation, Hannah Cone

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This UbD unit is intended for use in AP Studio Art classes and guides students through the process of developing ideas for their Sustained Investigations. Beginning the 2019-2020 school-year, all AP Studio Art courses will revolve entirely around the Sustained Investigation. This is a year-long, extended exploration of a student-generated topic of inquiry. By the end of the year, students must submit 15 images of work with coherent focus and demonstrate: practice, experimentation, and revision.

In this unit, students will learn what series are and why artists create works in series. Students will develop and refine ideas for their own …

Cloning Of Aflatoxin-Detofizyme Gene And Fusion Expression In Escherichia Coli, Li Wang, Shi Dunsheng, Ding Ke, Cao Pinghua, Zhao Longmei

Food and Machinery

The ADTZ gene primers were synthesized through the ADTZ gene sequence published by GenBank. The ADTZ gene fragment was screened by PCR from the mixed bacterial solution which extracted of the moldy corn sample, and transformed into E. coli by constructing expression vector. The size and concentration of the ADTZ expression product were detected by SDS-PAGE. The degradation ability of the expression product to aflatoxin AFB₁ was tested by enzymatic hydrolysis. The results showed that the ADTZ gene was successfully amplified from the moldy maize suspension. The full length of the ADTZ gene sequence was 2 088 bp, and …

Study On The Dynamics Of Quality Changes In The Process Of Western-Style Ham Cooking, Shi Yu, Deng Li, Xie Le, Yu Bingyan, Liao Xiaomei, Su Jieyu

Food and Machinery

The stability and reliability of kinetic parameters can help enterprises to better predict food quality and use resources efficiently. In this study, the changes of mature quality factors (color and shear-force) and overheating quality factors (moisture and content) in the process of western-style ham cooking were measured and analyzed by kinetic methods. The results showed that in the process of cooking, the changes of color, the moisture content and shear-force of western-style ham followed the first-order reaction kinetics. The z-values of the luminance value and the redness value were 49.69 ℃ and 41.85 ℃, respectively, and the Ea-values were 46.73 …

Establishment Of Trace Pentachlorophenol And Its Sodium Salt In Animal-Origin Foods By Automated Solid Phase Extraction-Coupled With Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Chen Yanhong, Chen Sui, Song Anhua, Huang Jingchu, Chen Yueming, Liu Jia, Wang Yu

Food and Machinery

In order to develop a method for the determination of trace pentachlorophenol and its sodium salt in animal-origin foods by automated solid phase extraction-coupled with ultra performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, the effects of extractive solvents, solid phase extraction columns, eluents, mass spectrum and chromatographic separation conditions, internal standards were studied and compared. Finally, the sample was extracted by 5% ammonia acetonitrile, purified by MAX solid phase extraction column and eluted by 10% formic acid methanol. The extract was dried-up with nitrogen and re-dissolved with acetonitrile water solution (50∶50)．The solution was separated on a Kinetex C₁₈ column (100 mm×2.1 …

Evaluation On Preservation Of Lentinus Edodes By Pbat/Evoh Modified Atmosphere Film, Wang Limei, Hu Ningxuan, Zhang Jin, Liu Mengyu, Lu Hao, Hu Jian, Dong Tungalag

Food and Machinery

In order to study preservation effects of blend modified atmosphere film to harvested Lentinus edodes，compared with unpacked ones， discussed the preservation effect of PBAT/ EVOH blend films in which added different mass fractions of EVOH (0%, 10%) to Lentinus edodes. The gas composition of Lentinus edodes’ in packaging bag and physical indexes were measured, which stored at 4 ℃ and in humidity of 90%. The results demonstrated that PBAT/10% EVOH blend film could make the packaging environment in a low oxygen and high carbon dioxide status, effectively maintain the sensory quality， such as the color, hardness and vitamin C, in …

Variation Of Nutrition, Flavor And Antioxidant Activity In Tea Beverage Of Tartary Buckwheat Sprout After Fermentation, Li Jun, Lu Yang, Zhao Gang, Xiang Dabing, Chen Zhongai, Liu Hui

Food and Machinery

To identify the changing pattern of nutrition, flavor components, and antioxidant activity, some critical indexes were estimated in tea beverage fermented from plant lactobacillus in tartary buckwheat sprout. These indexes included the content of rutin, quercetin, kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside, total flavonoids, and amino acids, as well as volatile compounds identification, including the radical scavenging rate of DPPH and ABTS in buckwheat sprout beverage. The results showed that the content of rutin remained unchanged, but quercetin and kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside decreased slightly, and the total flavonoids decreased slightly from (120.6±1.9) μg/mL to (114.6±1.7) μg/mL after fermentation. Tea beverage of tartary buckwheat sprout contains six kinds …