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Political Conjuncture And Scholarly Disjunctures: Reflections On Studies Of The Philippine State Under Marcos, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr

History Department Faculty Publications

This professorial address contends that a scholarly, systematic, and impartial study of Marcos's authoritarian rule is necessary, given the highly politicized interpretations of the past bequeathed to younger generations through textbooks and social media as well as the Philippine academic community's general inability to analyze the defunct regime and to influence public discourse and shape public history. Social scientists must tap new sources of information, such as the Marcos Papers, to produce truthful and nuanced narratives of the past, even as they must endeavor to understand the Marcosian social fantasy and the sources of Filipino authoritarianism, which can illumine both …

Irruptions: Evidence For Breeding Season Habitat Limitation In Piping Plover (Charadrius Melodus), Samantha Robinson, James Fraser, Daniel Catlin, Sarah Karpanty, Jon Altman, Ruth Boettcher, Kevin Holcomb, Coral Huber, Kelsi Hunt, Alexandra Wilke

United States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

Effective management of wildlife populations requires identification of the factors limiting their growth. The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is an imperiled, disturbance-dependent, shorebird species that nests on broad, sparsely vegetated beaches, sandbars, and lakeshores. In areas minimally affected by human use, plover habitat loss occurs through vegetation encroachment and erosion. Alternatively, habitat availability may be increased by sand deposition caused by storm- or flood-induced sediment transport or scouring that removes vegetation, or by receding lake levels. To test the hypothesis that plover populations are limited by available breeding habitat, we estimated the amount of habitat available before and after four …

Urease Is An Essential Component Of The Acid Response Network Of Staphylococcus Aureus And Is Required For A Persistent Murine Kidney Infection, Chunyi Zhou, Fatema Bhinderwala, Mckenzie K. Lehman, Vinai Chittezham Thomas, Sujata S. Chaudhari, Kelsey J. Yamada, Kirk W. Foster, Robert Powers, Tammy Kielian, Paul D. Fey

Journal Articles: Pathology and Microbiology

Staphylococcus aureus causes acute and chronic infections resulting in significant morbidity. Urease, an enzyme that generates NH3 and CO2 from urea, is key to pH homeostasis in bacterial pathogens under acidic stress and nitrogen limitation. However, the function of urease in S. aureus niche colonization and nitrogen metabolism has not been extensively studied. We discovered that urease is essential for pH homeostasis and viability in urea-rich environments under weak acid stress. The regulation of urease transcription by CcpA, Agr, and CodY was identified in this study, implying a complex network that controls urease expression in response to changes in metabolic …

Design And Characterization Of A Consensus Hemagglutinin Vaccine Immunogen Against H3 Influenza A Viruses Of Swine, Haiyan Sun, Jung-Hyang Sur, Sarah Vitosh-Sillman, David J. Steffen, Hiep Vu

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

The substantial genetic diversity exhibited by influenza A viruses of swine (IAV-S) represents the main challenge for the development of a broadly protective vaccine against this important pathogen. The consensus vaccine immunogen has proven an effective vaccinology approach to overcome the extraordinary genetic diversity of RNA viruses. In this project, we sought to determine if a consensus IAV-S hemagglutinin (HA) immunogen would elicit broadly protective immunity in pigs. To address this question, a consensus HA gene (designated H3-CON.1) was generated from a set of 1,112 H3 sequences of IAV-S recorded in GenBank from 2011 to 2015. The consensus HA gene …

Mechanical Circulatory Support In Management Of Cardiogenic Shock And Myxedema Coma., Jelena Z. Arnautovic, Randi Connor-Schuler, Randy Ip

Emergency Medicine Articles

The cardiovascular system is a major target of thyroid hormone action and the two systems are closely interlinked. It can be greatly impacted even with subtle alterations in thyroid function. Caution is needed when implementing thyroid hormone replacement in patients with severe hypothyroidism, especially in the setting of ischemic coronary artery disease. If not properly treated, myxedema may ensue. Given the high mortality of myxedema coma, supportive care may not always suffice and patients may require more invasive interventions. We present a challenging case of a patient with overt hypothyroidism with concurrent acute coronary syndrome which subsequently lead to myxedema …

The Association Between Neonatal Death And Facility Birth In Regions Of India, Diane Coffey

Journal Articles

BACKGROUND Reducing neonatal mortality in India is critical to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of a global neonatal mortality rate (NNM) of no more than 12 per 1,000. Policy efforts to reduce India's NNM, including a large-scale conditional cash transfer program, have focused on promoting birth in health facilities, rather than at home. Between 2005 and 2015, the percentage of facility births doubled, from 40% to 80%. OBJECTIVE We assess evidence for the hypothesis that facility births reduce NNM by using new data from the National Family Health Survey, 2015-2016. METHODS We analyze the association between neonatal death and …

Inclusive Teaching, Bryan Dewsbury, Cynthia J. Brame

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Over the past two decades, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty have been striving to make their teaching practices more inclusive and welcoming to the variety of students who enter college. However, many STEM faculty, even those at teaching-focused institutions, have been educated in a traditional environment that emphasizes research and may not include classroom teaching. This can produce a deficit in training that leaves many STEM faculty feeling uncertain about inclusive teaching practices and their essential undergirding principles. This essay describes an online, evidence-based teaching guide (https://lse.ascb.org/evidence-based-teaching-guides/inclusive-teaching) intended to help fill this gap, serving as a resource for …

Global Spatial Risk Assessment Of Sharks Under The Footprint Of Fisheries, Nuno Queiroz, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Et Al

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Effective ocean management and the conservation of highly migratory species depend on resolving the overlap between animal movements and distributions, and fishing effort. However, this information is lacking at a global scale. Here we show, using a big-data approach that combines satellite-tracked movements of pelagic sharks and global fishing fleets, that 24% of the mean monthly space used by sharks falls under the footprint of pelagic longline fisheries. Space-use hotspots of commercially valuable sharks and of internationally protected species had the highest overlap with longlines (up to 76% and 64%, respectively), and were also associated with significant increases in fishing …

Genome Analysis Of The Rice Coral Montipora Capitata, Alexander Shumaker, Hollie M. Putnam, Huan Qiu, Dana C. Price, Ehud Zelzion, Arye Harel, Nicole E. Wagner, Ruth D. Gates, Hwan Su Yoon, Debashish Bhattacharya

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Corals comprise a biomineralizing cnidarian, dinoflagellate algal symbionts, and associated microbiome of prokaryotes and viruses. Ongoing efforts to conserve coral reefs by identifying the major stress response pathways and thereby laying the foundation to select resistant genotypes rely on a robust genomic foundation. Here we generated and analyzed a high quality long-read based ~886 Mbp nuclear genome assembly and transcriptome data from the dominant rice coral, Montipora capitata from Hawai’i. Our work provides insights into the architecture of coral genomes and shows how they differ in size and gene inventory, putatively due to population size variation. We describe a recent …

Vulnerability Of Resource Users In Louisiana’S Oyster Fishery To Environmental Hazards, Austin T. Humphries, Lauren I. Josephs, Megan K. La Peyre, Steven Hall, Rachel Dowty Beech

Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences Faculty Publications

Knowledge of vulnerability provides the foundation for developing actions that minimize impacts on people while maximizing the sustainability of ecosystem goods and services. As a result, it is becoming increasingly important to determine how resource-dependent people are vulnerable to environmental hazards. This idea is particularly true in coastal Louisiana, USA, where the current era of rapid land loss has the potential to undermine oyster fisheries. However, little is known about how such environmental change might differentially affect resource users and stakeholders. We examined social components of vulnerability to environmental hazards using indicators of susceptibility and adaptive capacity within the oyster …

Complex Transboundary Movements Of Marine Megafauna In The Western Indian Ocean, Amanda N. Barkley, Matthew Gollock, Melita Samoilys, Fiona Llewellyn, Mahmood Shivji, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Nigel E. Hussey

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Transboundary marine species have an increased risk of overexploitation as management regimes and enforcement can vary among states. The complex geopolitical layout of exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) introduces the potential for migratory species to cross multiple boundaries, consequently a lack of scientific data could complicate regional management. In the current study, we highlight both the relative lack of spatial data available in the WIO, and the prevalence of transboundary movements in species that have previously been studied in the region. Five tiger sharks Galeocerdo cuvier were tracked with near real‐time positioning (SPOT) satellite tags …

The School Of Hard Knocks: Examining How Pennsylvania School Disciplinary Policies Push Black Girls Into The Criminal Justice System, Brazitte A. Poole

Duquesne Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Integrative Medicine Practices On The Use Of Obstetric Intervention In Labor And Delivery, Rachel Cochran

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Background/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review scholarly writings to discern if the use of integrative medicine practices affects the use of obstetric intervention in labor and delivery. Theoretical Framework: The Theory of Human Caring by Jean Watson will be used as the theoretical structure of this literature review. Watson’s theory places caring at the center of all activities, decisions, and practices within the discipline of nursing and emphasizes a journey of caring for the whole person. Methods: Nineteen research articles were critically reviewed with the purpose of determining whether the use of specific integrative medicine practices affects …

Impact Of Work-Life Balance On Health-Related Quality Of Life Among College Students, Emily Vernet

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Work-life balance involves the management of work and social responsibilities. Specifically, it describes the ability to meet the demands of multiple roles involving academics, social, personal, and professional life. Literature has shown that there is an increasing number of students who are working while taking classes at a university. Previous research has described how young adults balance working and going to school and how work hours influence student's mental, physical, and health behaviors. The purpose of this study is to examine the association between a student's ability to balance work demands, student and life responsibilities, and health outcomes. Using a …

Backward Bifurcation, Oscillations And Chaos In An Eco-Epidemiological Model With Fear Effect, Amar Sha, Sudip Samanta, Maia Martcheva, Joydev Chattopadhyay

Journal Articles

This paper considers an eco-epidemiological model with disease in the prey population. The disease in the prey divides the total prey population into two subclasses, susceptible prey and infected prey. The model also incorporates fear of predator that reduces the growth rate of the prey population. Furthermore, fear of predator lowers the activity of the prey population, which reduces the disease transmission. The model is well-posed with bounded solutions. It has an extinction equilibrium, susceptible prey equilibrium, susceptible prey-predator equilibrium, and coexistence equilibria. Conditions for local stability of equilibria are established. The model exhibits fear- induced backward bifurcation and bistability. …

2019-2020 Catalog, Wku Graduate Catalog

Graduate School

Graduate School catalog regarding admissions, curriculum and policies.

Repeated Neonatal Isoflurane Exposures In The Mouse Induce Apoptotic Degenerative Changes In The Brain And Relatively Mild Long-Term Behavioral Deficits, George Taylor, Susan Maloney, Carla Yuede, Catherine Creeley, Sasha Williams, Jacob Hufman, Kevin Noguchi, David Wozniak

Psychology Faculty Works

Epidemiological studies suggest exposures to anesthetic agents and/or sedative drugs (AASDs) in children under three years old, or pregnant women during the third trimester, may adversely afect brain development. Evidence suggests lengthy or repeated AASD exposures are associated with increased risk of neurobehavioral defcits. Animal models have been valuable in determining the type of acute damage in the developing brain induced by AASD exposures, as well as in elucidating long-term functional consequences. Few studies examining very early exposure to AASDs suggest this may be a critical period for inducing long-term functional consequences, but the impact of repeated exposures at these …

Health Sciences/Allied Health, 2019-2020, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for the Bachelor's of Science in Health Sciences or Allied Health, 2019-2020.

Clemmer College Extramural Funding Research Impact Report - 2019, Clemmer College, East Tennessee State University

Clemmer College Research Impact Reports

No abstract provided.

Investigation Of Transient Expression System In Nicotiana Bethamiana To Produce Novel Tales And The Development Of (Ds)Dna Detection With Quantum Dot-Labeled Proteins In Graphene Oxide Quenching Arrays, Colleen Jackson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Our objective was to develop a faster method of quantitively detecting double stranded (ds)DNA of pathogenic bacteria such as the Shiga Toxin 2 gene present in E. coli O157. Transcription Activator-Like Effectors (TALEs) are a new class of DNA-binding proteins which selectively bind to dsDNA with the 12th and 13th amino acids of each repeat, called repeat variable diresidues (RVDs). Novel TALE proteins were designed to target the stx2 gene and were cloned into existing AvrBs3 TALE protein in the pMAL c2x vector system for bacterial BL-21 E. Coli expression. The protein’s DNA-binding region was then subcloned pEAQ vectors for …

Radium Dial Watches, Zainab Alzoubi

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This slide presentation for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College summarizes the history of radium dial watches, including the Radium Girls, and explores whether radium dial watches might still be dangerous.

Ta Systems: The Key To New Antibacterial Strategies?, Nathan A. Baker

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This slide presentation for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College summarizes a study investigating the use of toxin-antitoxin systems as a treatment for antibiotic resistant e-coli.

Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Winter 2019, Communications & Marketing

Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine

From The President Janet Morgan Riggs '77

Table of Contents

New Multidisciplinary Imaging Suite In Sciences (Alexander Paredes ’20, Prof. Kate Buettner, Prof. Shelli Frey, Prof. Kurt Andresen, Prof. Lucas Thompson)

Prof Notes: William D. Bowman (Prof. Bowman)

The Making Of An Entrepreneur (Cathie Wood P’15, Caroline Wood ’15, Prof. Drew Murphy ’84, P’20, Betsy Duncan Diehl ’84, P’14, President Janet Morgan Riggs ’77)

The 411 (Daria Lo Presti Wallach ’76)

Visionary Faculty (Prof. Abdulkareem Said Ramadan, Prof. Christopher Barlett, Prof. Andrew Wilson, Prof. Gary Mullen, Prof. Hakim Williams, Prof. McKinley E. Melton, Prof. Kathy Berenson, Prof. Ryan Kerney)

Snapshots …

The Effects Of First-Generation Status On Student Engagement And Outcomes At Liberal Arts Colleges, Suhua Dong

Institutional Research Staff Publications

Using data from the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) Senior Survey, I compared first-generation students’ self-reported levels of engagement and outcomes with those of continuing-generation students at 16 private liberal arts colleges (N=7,611). Membership in the first-generation group demonstrated significant, positive main effects on interactions with diversity, satisfaction with career services, and institutional preparation for career path. On a few variables, significant factor interactions were found between first-generation status and gender and first-generation status and race/ethnicity; no particular first-generation subgroup by gender or race/ethnicity appears to be systematically disadvantaged or advantaged relative to the continuing-generation peer subgroup.

Lights, Camera, Path Splitter: A New Approach For Truly Simultaneous Dual Optical Mapping Of The Heart With A Single Camera., Rafael Jaimes, Damon Mccullough, Bryan Siegel, Luther Swift, James Hiebert, Daniel Mclnerney, Nikki Gillum Posnack

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Background: Optical mapping of transmembrane voltage and intracellular calcium is a powerful tool for investigating cardiac physiology and pathophysiology. However, simultaneous dual mapping of two fluorescent probes remains technically challenging. We introduce a novel, easy-to-use approach that requires a path splitter, single camera and excitation light to simultaneously acquire voltage and calcium signals from whole heart preparations, which can be applied to other physiological models - including neurons and isolated cardiomyocytes.

Results: Complementary probes were selected that could be excited with a single wavelength light source. Langendorff-perfused hearts (rat, swine) were stained and imaged using a sCMOS camera outfitted with …

Is Diversity Possible In An Integrative Psychology-Transpersonal As A Whole Person-All Person Approach, Glenn Hartelius

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Organizing 6, 5-Carbon Nanotubes On Dna Origami Arrays, Kathryn A. Pitton

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Carbon nanotubes¹ are cylindrical carbon molecules and can be considered to be composed of one atom thick sheets of carbon called graphene. They have been at the forefront of nanochemistry due to their strength and multiple properties such as absorption, fluorescence, semiconduction, and light scattering capability. DNA Origami (DO)² has emerged as a novel domain for molecular design, resulting in the generation of numerous one, two, and three-dimensional structures that have provided platforms for the organization of organic species and inorganic nanoparticles through simple modifications. The use of DNA Origami to control the placement of single walled carbon …

Trade-Offs Relating To Grassland And Forest Mine Reclamation Approaches In The Central Appalachian Region And Implications For The Songbird Community, Eric L. Margenau, Petra B. Wood, Cathy A. Weakland, Donald J. Brown

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Surface mining in the Appalachian region (USA) converts large areas of mature forest to early successional habitat. This shift in landscape structure has the potential to reduce habitat availability and suitability for forest-dwelling songbirds by reducing and fragmenting mature forest, but also to increase habitat availability for grassland- and shrubland-associated songbirds. We examined the influence of mountaintop mining/valley fill (MTMVF) reclamation habitats (grassland, shrubland, and remnant forest) on songbird community composition and abundance at three former MTMVF mines in southwestern West Virginia, relative to intact forest. We quantified the songbird community in 1999 and 2000 using point counts arranged throughout …

A Critical Analysis Of Creativity In Sustainable Production And Design, Thnmas Epson, Shannon Chance, Shushma Patel

Conference papers

This paper provides a system level perspective of the contextual pressures facing designers, engineers and businesses today. In it, we challenge negative creative norms and we champion positive ‘post normal’ creativity to enable a sustainable future. We hypothesise that organisations working towards creative sustainable solutions are driven by a purpose designed to respond to the current and contextual pressures faced by the Earth’s systems, a global society and a global economy. Developing motivations within a sustainable system will require instilling a long-term world-view perspective in all learners— and in this we include international leaders and industrialists, business owners, academic teachers …

Gender Inclusivity And Discrimination On College Campuses: Focusing On Gender Nonconforming Students, Mariah Palmer

Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

Previous research reveals that transgender individuals suffer with greater mental health concerns than cisgender individuals (Borgogna, McDermott, Aita, & Kridel, 2018). Moreover, transgender and gender nonconforming students are experiencing more difficultly in college than their cisgender peers. The data show that transgender students experience greater levels of trauma, stressors in life, harassment, and discrimination (Greathouse et al., 2018; James et al., 2016; Swanbrow Becker et al., 2017). Further, James et al., (2016) found that the climate on campus has led some transgender students to drop out of their higher education institute. The current research examined both transgender or gender nonconforming …