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Comparison Of Antioxidant And Anti-Collagenase Activity Of Genistein And Epicatechin, Geeta, Wahyu Setia Widodo, Wahyu Widowati, Chrismis Novalinda Ginting, I Nyoman Ehrich Lister, Adek Armansyah, Ermi Girsang

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

Background: Skin aging is a complex natural process caused by both intrinsic or genetically programmed aging and extrinsic aging caused by environmental factors, such as free radical. The use of antioxidant and anti-collagenase to prevent the aging proses has been known. Natural compounds from plants are one of the sources of antioxidant and anti-collagenase that has ability to prevent aging. Genistein and Epicatechin are the major phenolic compound found in G. max. Objectives: This research was to evaluate the antiaging potential of genistein and epicatechin through antioxidant activity assay (ABTS-reducing activity assay) and collagenase inhibitory activity assay. Methods: Antioxidant analysis …

Preventive Effects Of Alpha-Lipoic Acid On Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction In Rats, Fransiska Maria Christianty, Suharjono, Imam Susilo, Junaidi Khotib

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

Endothelial dysfunction has been considered as one of the key initial events in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Several studies imply that chronic inflammation and oxidative stress play a critical role in endothelial dysfunction. The present study was designed to evaluate the preventive effect of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) on lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced endothelial dysfunction in rat based on malondialdehyde (MDA) level and vascular cell adhesion molecules-1 (VCAM-1) expression. Thirty Wistar rats were administered ALA for 2 weeks in different doses (30, 60, 120 mg.kg-1 BW) 1 hour before LPS 0.5 mg.kg-1 BW i.p challenge. The LPS …

Budaya Nomad Dalam Pertarungan Wacana Musik Industri Indonesia Studi Kasus: Boy-Girl Band, Dolly Nofer, Titis Srimuda Pitana, Dwi Susanto

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

Boy-girl band K-Pop music appearing in Indonesian music industry is a discourse contruction, teritorial or music life style which is brought by pop culture and Korean culture industry. The intrance of this music culture then cause a few problems which are the battle of discourse and the construction of the K-Pop music discourse itself, which does the culture migration for any purpose. For, this research is due to solve the problems, (1) boy-girl band as once of music life style discourse, (2) boy-girl band music discourse in battle arena of music life style, and (3) impact of K-Pop discourse construction …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern presents 'Our Lost Years' at annual Mark Finlay Memorial Lecture
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Karakter Fisik Dan Aktivitas Antibakteri Nanopartikel Perak Hasil Green Synthesis Menggunakan Ekstrak Air Daun Sendok (Plantago Major L.), Komang Tri Aksari Dewi, Kartini, Johan Sukweenadhi, Christina Avanti

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

Silver nanoparticles have been studied for its application in wound healing therapy, while aqueous extract of Plantago major L has been studied also for its antibacterial and wound healing activity. This study aimed to obtain silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) through a green synthesis pathway using aqueous extract of Plantago major L. The initial study was performed to optimize the three concentration points of Plantago major L. aqueous extract, namely 0.125%, 0.25% and 0.5% and three synthetic temperature points (60 °C, 70 °C, and 80 °C). The formation of AgNPs were confirmed using a UV-Vis spectrophotometer which shows a peak at a …

Genetic Polymorphism Cytochrome P4502a6 Allel *4 And *9: Studi On Glycohemoglobine Level Among Javanese Indonesian Smokers, Christine Patramurti, Fenty

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

Nicotine, the active compound in cigarettes, was considered as the risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In the human body, nicotine would be metabolized by the enzyme cytochrome P450 2A6 (CYP2A6). CYP2A6 was known to be highly polymorphic. The active form of this gene was CYP2A6 *1, while the CYP2A6 *4 and CYP2A *9 alleles were the inactive alleles. The presence of this inactive allele caused the decreased activity of CYP2A6 so that it would affect the level of nicotine in the blood and would eventually cause an increased blood sugar levels. This study aimed to determine the …

African American Women's Experiences Of Race-Based Traumatic Stress, Amina Y. Simmons

Open Access Dissertations

Assessments of racism are linked to increased risk of anxiety (Soto, Dawson- Andoh, & BeLue, 2011), depression (Lee & Turney, 2012), and increased symptoms of PTSD (Polanco-Roman, Danies, & Anglin, 2016), leading scholars to infer racism may be a type of traumatic stress (Carter, 2007; Helms, Nicolas, & Green, 2010). African American men and women report similar frequency and levels of racism-related stress (Jackson, Shestov, & Saadatmand, 2017; Kwate & Goodman, 2015) however, the impacts appear significant for Black women (Chyu and Upchurch, 2011; Jackson, Shestov, & Saadatmand, 2017). This exploratory study sought greater understanding of Black women’s experiences with …

Spartan Daily, August 29, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 4

The Indiana Statesman, August 29, 2019, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Women’s Equality March 2019; Deedee Morrison’s ‘Our River-Our Future’ sculpture inspires students, honors the Wabash; Indiana State sees enrollment decrease this fall; 13th annual Bat Festival set for Sept. 21 at Indiana State

Fipronil And Ivermectin Treatment Of Cattle Reduced The Survival And Ovarian Development Of Field-Collection Anopheles Albimanus In A Pilot Trial Conducted In Northern Belize, Staci M. Dreyer, Donovan Leiva, Marla Magana, Marie Pott, Jonathan Kay, Alvaro Cruz, Nicole L. Achee, John P. Grieco, Jefferson A. Vaughan

Biology Faculty Publications

Background: Most malaria vector control programmes rely on indoor residual spraying of insecticides and insecticide-treated bed nets. This is efective against vector species that feed indoors at night and rest inside the house afterwards. In Central America, malaria vectors have diferent behaviours and are typically exophagic (i.e., bite outdoors), exophilic (i.e., remain outdoors after feeding), and zoophagic (i.e., as likely to feed on non-humans as humans). Thus, malaria elimination in Central America may require additional tactics. This pilot study investigated whether commercially-available products used to treat livestock for ticks could also be used to kill and/or sterilize zoophagic malaria vectors …

Frontal Alpha Asymmetry And Inhibitory Control Among Individuals With Cannabis Use Disorders, Alina Shevorykin, Lesia M. Ruglass, Robert D. Melara

Publications and Research

To better understand the biopsychosocial mechanisms associated with development and maintenance of cannabis use disorder (CUD), we examined frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) as a measure of approach bias and inhibitory control in cannabis users versus healthy nonusers. We investigated: (1) whether FAA could distinguish cannabis users from healthy controls; (2) whether there are cue-specific FAA effects in cannabis users versus controls; and (3) the time course of cue-specific approach motivation and inhibitory control processes. EEG data were analyzed from forty participants (CUD (n = 20) and controls (n = 20)) who completed a modified visual attention task. Results showed controls …

Vis Receives Fulbright Us Scholar Award To Brazil, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Palazzo To Step Down As Dean Of Cas, Effective July 1, Steve Yoder

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An Analysis Of The Potential Toxicological Effects Of Marine Plastics And Associated Organic And Inorganic Toxic Compounds On Six Commercially Significant Fishery Species, Nicole Marie Jackson

HCNSO Student Capstones

Marine plastics are a global issue which has garnered significant support for mitigation efforts in recent history. Research on the prevalence of plastic polymers in the marine environment has also come to the forefront of the scientific community, however studies on the toxicological impacts of their presence remains to be a little studied matter to date. In this study an intensive critical review of existing data was conducted to compile profiles (including: stability ranks, sorption capacities, organic and inorganic toxic constituent concentrations, bioaccumulations scores per constituent, biomagnification scores per constituent, and totaled threat scores out of five) for the three …

Pence's Bioethics Career Explores 'People Making Choices And Learning From Their Mistakes', Haley Herfurth

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This Game Helps Young Scientists Avoid Playing The Fool - And It's Catching On, Matt Windsor

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A Comparison Of Cave Microbial Communities To Cave Roosting Bat Microbiota In El Malpais National Monument, Usa, Nicole A. Caimi

Biology ETDs

The arrival of white-nose syndrome (WNS), a devastating fungal disease, has highlighted the need to better understand bat microbiota and how bats acquire their microbiota. To address this need, we investigated how bat microbiota compare to microbiota from the cave walls in two El Malpais National Monument caves. The external surfaces of six roosting bats from each cave, representing four different bat species, and their associated microbial mats were sampled. One to three air samples were taken in each cave. Samples were sequenced using Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene for bacterial diversity and the ITS region for …

September 5, 2019: Agenda, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Agenda for the September 5, 2019, meeting of the University Senate. 55 pages

A Mathematical Model For The Effect Of Domestic Animals On Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness), Sagi Shaier, Meghan Burke

The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a parasite infection that is spread by the bites of tsetse flies and it is almost 100% fatal if left untreated (World Health Organization, “Neglected”). Our hypothesis is that by adding domestic animals to areas where humans are found (villages and plantations), we can reduce the amount of biting on humans, and therefore reduce the rate at which humans become infected. Numerical simulations supported our hypothesis, showing that increasing the number of domestic animals (pigs in our model) slows down the spread of the disease in both humans and domestic animals.

Activation Of Lxrβ Inhibits Tumor Respiration And Is Synthetically Lethal With Bcl-Xl Inhibition, Trang Thi Thu Nguyen, Chiaki Tsuge Ishida, Enyuan Shang, Chang Shu, Consuelo Torrini, Yiru Zhang, Elena Bianchetti, Maria J. Sanchez-Quintero, Giulio Kleiner, Catarina M. Quinzii, Mike-Andrew Westhoff, Georg Karpel-Massler, Peter Canoll, Markus D. Siegelin

Publications and Research

Liver-X-receptor (LXR) agonists are known to bear anti-tumor activity. However, their efficacy is limited and additional insights regarding the underlying mechanism are necessary. By performing transcriptome analysis coupled with global polar metabolite screening, we show that LXR agonists, LXR623 and GW3965, enhance synergistically the anti-proliferative effect of BH3 mimetics in solid tumor malignancies, which is predominantly mediated by cell death with features of apoptosis and is rescued by exogenous cholesterol. Extracellular flux analysis and carbon tracing experiments (U-¹³C-glucose and U-¹³C-glutamine) reveal that within 5 h, activation of LXRβ results in reprogramming of tumor cell metabolism, leading …

Initial Development Of A Prototype Sensor Testbed For Fetal Monitoring, Christian Beauvais

Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this research is to design and manufacture a device that exhibits some of the bio-physiological signals relevant to fetal health monitoring. Currently, limited options exist for testing the performance of monitoring devices such as the tocodynamometer (TOCO) and electrocardiograph (ECG) that measure the bio-physiological signals of a woman and her fetus. Sensor designers need ways of generating and acquiring signals that do not carry the ethical burden of human testing. The development of such a device, as considered in this work, may involve using muscle wire or an inflatable tube as prospective foundations for simulating uterine contraction. …

Summer At The Stem Lab Through The Eyes Of An Intern, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Using Microsoft Hololens To Improve Memory Recall In Anatomy And Physiology: A Pilot Study To Examine The Efficacy Of Using Augmented Reality In Education, Chen Chen, Lei Zhang, Tony Luczak, Eboni Smith, Reuben F. Burch

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

This paper explores the use of augmented reality (AR) to improve memory recall and learning experiences in human anatomy and physiology. In particular, the opportunity to assess new computer technologies to improve learning environments may allow for an improvement in self-efficacy and a reduction in test anxiety. Twenty-two undergraduates participated in one of two study groups, the Microsoft HoloLens group (HLNS) or the traditional projector-based Microsoft Power Point group (PPT). Each group completed a five-minute, three-subject anatomy identification and brain physiology memory test. After a three-minute time delay, participants completed a fill-in-the-blank anatomy identification test and brain physiology question test, …

Deep Machine Learning Techniques For The Detection And Classification Of Sperm Whale Bioacoustics, Peter C. Bermant, Michael M. Bronstein, Robert J. Wood, Shane Gero, David F. Gruber

Publications and Research

We implemented Machine Learning (ML) techniques to advance the study of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) bioacoustics. This entailed employing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to construct an echolocation click detector designed to classify spectrograms generated from sperm whale acoustic data according to the presence or absence of a click. The click detector achieved 99.5% accuracy in classifying 650 spectrograms. The successful application of CNNs to clicks reveals the potential of future studies to train CNN-based architectures to extract finer-scale details from cetacean spectrograms. Long short-term memory and gated recurrent unit recurrent neural networks were trained to perform classification tasks, including (1) …

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Editorial: Machine Learning In Biomolecular Simulations, Gennady M. Verkhivker, Vojtech Spiwok, Francesco Luigi Gervasio

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

"Interest in machine learning is growing in all fields of science, industry, and business. This interest was not primarily initiated by new theoretical findings. Interestingly, the theoretical basis of the majority of machine learning techniques, such as artificial neural networks, decision trees, or kernel methods, have been known for a relatively long time. Instead, there are other effects that triggered the recent boom of machine learning."

The Cowl - V. 84 - N. 1 - August 29, 2019

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 84 - Number 1 - August 29, 2019. 24 pages.

Note: Issue misprinted with Volume 83

Visual Boards To Improve Compliance With Administration Of Glucose Gel, Bonnie Hibbs

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones

The purpose of this quality improvement project is to increase staff compliance of administering glucose gel for the treatment of newborn hypoglycemia through use of a daily management board. Through improved compliance to gel administration, the project further seeks to decrease NICU admissions for hypoglycemia, decrease formula supplementation of breastfed newborns, and improve exclusive breastfeeding rates at discharge.

“What Will I Experience In My College Stem Courses?” An Investigation Of Student Predictions About Instructional Practices In Introductory Courses, Clara L. Meaders, Emma S. Toth, A. K. Lane, J. Kenny Shuman, Brian A. Couch, Marilyne Stains, Mackenzie R. Stetzer, Erin Vinson, Michelle K. Smith

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

The instructional practices used in introductory college courses often differ dramatically from those used in high school courses, and dissatisfaction with these practices is cited by students as a prominent reason for leaving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. To better characterize the transition to college course work, we investigated the extent to which incoming expectations of course activities differ based on student demographic characteristics, as well as how these expectations align with what students will experience. We surveyed more than 1500 undergraduate students in large introductory STEM courses at three research-intensive institutions during the first week of classes …

Draft Genome Sequences Of Four Lactococcus Lactis Strains Isolated From Diverse Niches, Including Dairy Products, Grass, And Green Peas, Desirée Roman Naranjo, Michael Callanan, Et. Al.

Department of Biological Sciences Publications

Lactococcus lactis has been used for millennia as a starter organism in the production of many fermented dairy products. This announcement includes the draft genome sequences of four strains of Lactococcus lactis, two of dairy origin and two from nondairy sources.