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Influence Of Organizational Change On Health Records Management Practices In Local Government Areas Of Osun State, Nigeria, Michael Segun Omole Dr., Tajudeen Temitayo Adebayo Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study reported the influence of organizational change on health records management practices in local government areas, with a view to contributing to finding solutions to problems associated with organizational change in relation to health records management practices in local government areas of Osun State.

Survey research design was adopted for the study. The study population was three hundred and six (306) medical and health officers in the 30 local government areas of Osun State. Total enumeration technique was used. A validated questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The response rate of 93.1% was obtained and data …

Density-Mediated Interactions Are Stronger But More Variable Than Trait-Mediated Interactions In Predator–Prey Systems, Travis M. Flock

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Theoretical and empirical considerations of predator-prey dynamics have sought to determine the dominant of two effects exerted by predators onto prey: consumptive effects of predators and non-consumptive, or trait-mediated, effects. Many studies have identified trait-mediated interactions (TMIs) in diverse taxa, and meta-analyses of these studies found that prey population dynamics are as strongly – if not more strongly – affected by TMIs as density-mediated interactions (DMIs). Since then, there is now an expanded primary literature, and given this potential for new insight on the direct and indirect effect of predators on prey, the cost of traits involved in TMIs relative …

Learning What’S Possible, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Observations Of Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog Predation By A Native Frog, Snake, And Giant Water Bug In A Central California Intermittent Stream, Robert A. Leidy, Rachael Ryan, Hana Moidu, Pablo Rodríguez-Lozano, Michael T. Bogan, Stephanie M. Carlson

Western North American Naturalist

During the summers of 2015 and 2018, we observed predation on Foothill Yellow-legged Frogs (Rana boylii) by a giant water bug (Abedus indentatus), a California Red-legged Frog (Rana draytonii), and a Diablo Range Gartersnake (Thamnophis atratus zaxanthus) adjacent to 3 separate isolated pools along intermittent reaches of Coyote Creek, Santa Clara County, California, USA. To the best of our knowledge, our observations provide the first published record of California Red-legged Frog and giant water bug preying upon Foothill Yellow-legged Frogs. As pool habitat contracts over the course of the dry season, locally …

Cytochrome Oxidase I Sequences From Northern And Southern California Suggest Cryptic Baetis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) Species, Natalie J. Stauffer-Olsen, Patrick M. O'Grady, Vincent H. Resh

Western North American Naturalist

The geographically widespread mayfly genus Baetis occurs from the subarctic to tropical regions of the world. Many of the 20 described Baetis species in North America are known to show cryptic species diversity. However, studies of Baetis that have examined morphology and genetic diversity have found mixed results in terms of cryptic species, with some studies indicating a complex of related species and others suggesting a single widespread species. We used Bayesian analyses, intra- and interspecific genetic diversity values, and median-joining haplotype networks to compare cytochrome oxidase I (COI) sequences from Baetis specimens from parts of northern and southern California …

Managing With Low Milk Prices: Three Areas That Can Help Your Bottom Line, Peter S. Erickson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Transfer Of Calibration To Cubesat On-Board Carbon Nanotube Sources, David Osterman, A. Amparan, A. Ghandour, T. Kampe, P. Kerrigan, J. Necas, R. Rohrschneider, G. Reavis, M. Veto, R. Warden

The Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting (CALCON)

Calibration of CubeSat and other small payloads presents a variety of challenges including greater susceptibility to the space environment, volume constraints on calibration sources and subsystems, and power constraints on electronics. CIRiS (Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space), built by Ball Aerospace, is a multispectral, thermal infrared, radiometric imaging instrument with on-board calibration system, whose small volume (< 8 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm), weight (< 2 kg) and power (< 9.5 W average, including heaters) are compatible with CubeSat spacecraft, or any application with resource constraints. CIRiS has been integrated to a 6U spacecraft bus for an upcoming mission in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The primary mission objective is demonstration of new technologies for radiometric imaging and calibration from CubeSats or SmallSats. New technologies on CIRiS include two 1/8 inch thick, flat-panel, high emissivity (e> .9965) carbon nanotube (CNT) blackbody sources and a new model of uncooled microbolometer Focal Plane Array (FPA) with less demanding temperature stabilization requirements than previous versions.

Three calibration views are available in space: to 1) deep space 2) an on-board CNT source at …

Comments On Steven Smith, Pagans And Christians In The City, Michael P. Moreland

Journal of Catholic Legal Studies

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One of the most interesting aspects of this generally very interesting book was the discussion of sexual morality in paganism and Christianity. I have thought for a while that much of the contemporary debate about religious freedom is not about religious freedom in a generic sense but instead about religious freedom in a very particular context—sex. But that is a descriptive point—much more challenging is trying to give an account of why sex should have come to be (or as Smith’s argument implies, has long been) the battlefield on which much of the fight over religious freedom takes place. …

The Interdisciplinary Aspects Of Computing, Warren Wang

JCCC Honors Journal

The role of computing has aided humankind for over thousands of years, helping them with calculating and crunching large numbers with ease. Although it has been around for millenniums, the advancement we had in these past few decades has been significantly greater than the past century. Intel 4004 was leading the technology revolution, creating the first ever single chip microprocessor containing 2300 transistors and producing 60,000 instructions per second. Consequently, the computing power exponentially grew to achieve a performance rate of over four million times the speed of the original microprocessor. The advancement of computing has allowed us to solve …

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Correspondence: Anti-integration

No abstract provided.

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Correspondence: Anti-integration

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Supplemental Fos Article Materials, Sarah Gumbleton, David W. Kerstetter, Amy Hirons, Christopher Blanar

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Datasets

This extended table documents the endoparasites found within great egrets, great blue herons, green herons, yellow-crowned night herons, black-crowned night herons and white ibis from this study and previous studies.

Paradoxical Patterns Of Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome-Like Liver Injury In Aged Female Cd-1 Mice Triggered By Cannabidiol-Rich Cannabis Extract And Acetaminophen Co-Administration, Laura E. Ewing, Mitchell R. Mcgill, Eric U. Yee, Charles M. Quick, Charles M. Skinner, Stefanie Kennon-Mcgill, Melissa Clemens, Joel H. Vazquez, Sandra S. Mccullough, D. Keith Williams, Kristy R. Kutanzi, Larry A. Walker, Mahmoud A. Elsohly, Laura P. James, Bill J. Gurley, Igor Koturbash

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2019 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Exposure to environmental contaminants and consumption of a high, saturated fatty diet has been demonstrated to promote precursors for metabolic syndrome (hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, and hypertriglyceridemia). The purpose of this study was to determine if exposure to the most prevalent environmental persistent organic pollutants (POPs) would act as causative agents to promote metabolic syndrome independent of dietary intake. We hypothesized that POPs will activate the advanced glycated end-product (AGE)-and receptor for AGE (RAGE) signaling cascade to promote downstream signaling modulators of cardiovascular remodeling and oxidative stress in the heart. At …

Probabilistic Modeling Of Personalized Drug Combinations From Integrated Chemical Screen And Molecular Data In Sarcoma, Noah E. Berlow, Rishi Rikhi, Mathew Geltzeiler, Jinu Abraham, Matthew N. Svalina, Lara E. Davis, Erin Wise, Maria Mancini, Jonathan Noujaim, Atiya Mansoor, Michael J. Quist, Kevin L. Matlock, Martin W. Goros, Brian S. Hernandez, Yee C. Doung, Khin Thway, Tomohide Tsukahara, Jun Nishio, Elaine T. Huang, Susan Airhart, Carol J. Bult, Regina Gandour-Edwards, Robert G. Maki, Robin L. Jones, Joel E. Michalek, Milan Milovancev, Souparno Ghosh, Ranadip Pal, Charles Keller

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

Background: Cancer patients with advanced disease routinely exhaust available clinical regimens and lack actionable genomic medicine results, leaving a large patient population without effective treatments options when their disease inevitably progresses. To address the unmet clinical need for evidence-based therapy assignment when standard clinical approaches have failed, we have developed a probabilistic computational modeling approach which integrates molecular sequencing data with functional assay data to develop patient-specific combination cancer treatments. Methods: Tissue taken from a murine model of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma was used to perform single agent drug screening and DNA/RNA sequencing experiments; results integrated via our computational modeling approach identified …

Kinetic Study Of Tire Carbon Black And Biomass Soot Steam Activation Used For The Removal Of Phenol And Chlorine From Drinking Water, Anna Trubetskaya, Manuel Garcia Perez

Pyroliq 2019: Pyrolysis and Liquefaction of Biomass and Wastes

This study aims to demonstrate a novel method for removing toxic chemicals using soot produced from wood and herbaceous biomass pyrolyzed in a drop tube reactor and tire pyrolytic carbon black. In order to improve the economic performance and reliability of entrained flow gasification, biomass soot has the potential to be captured, activated and further used as a sorbent to remove a broad range of pollutants from wastewater. In recent years, the disposal of waste tires has become an important issue. The liquid hydrocarbons and solid char residue from thermal conversion of waste tires have potential to be used as …

The Effects Of Edaphic And Climatic Factors On Secondary Lichen Chemistry: A Case Study Using Saxicolous Lichens, Alexander Paukov, Anzhelika Teptina, Maria Morozova, Ekaterina Kruglova, Sergio E. Favero-Longo, Cora Bishop, Nishanti Rajakaruna

Biological Sciences

Diversity of secondary lichen metabolites and their relationship to substrate and environmental parameters were studied in saxicolous lichens in the Middle and South Urals of Russia. Atranorin, usnic acid, gyrophoric acid, zeorin, norstictic acid, antraquinones and stictic acid were found in 73, 42, 41, 37, 36, 35 and 32 species, respectively, of 543 taxa collected. One hundred and ninety six species (i.e., 36% of total species documented) contained no secondary metabolites. Spectra of secondary metabolites of crustose lichens varied on different rock types, while in fruticose and foliose groups only those species without lichen acids were dependent on the substrate …

Population Structure Of Avian Malaria Parasites, Robert Ricklefs, Meghann Humphries, Matthew Stacy

Biology Department Faculty Works

The geographic distribution of genetic diversity in malaria parasite populations (Apicomplexa: Haemosporida) presumably influences local patterns of virulence and the evolution of host‐resistance, but little is known about population genetic structure in these parasites. We assess the distribution of genetic diversity in the partial Domain I of apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) in three mtDNA‐defined lineages of avian Plasmodium to determine spatial population structure and host–parasite genetic relationships. We find that one parasite lineage is genetically differentiated in association with a single host genus and among some locations, but not with respect to other hosts. Two other parasite lineages are …

Leonardo And The Whale, Kay Etheridge

Biology Faculty Publications

Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside:

Having wandered for some distance among overhanging rocks, I can to the entrance of a great cavern... [and after some hesitation I entered] drawn by a desire to see whether there might be any marvelous thing within..."

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Assessment Of Physical Fitness After Bariatric Surgery And Its Association With Protein Intake And Type Of Cholecalciferol Supplementation, Hendrika J M Smelt, Sjaak Pouwels, Alper Celik, Adarsh Gupta, Johannes F Smulders

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

Background: Several studies showed that there is a relationship between vitamin and mineral status and muscle strength. In particular this is the case for handgrip strength (HS) and vitamin D deficiency. In bariatric surgery there is a risk of decrease in muscle strength after surgery and also vitamin and mineral deficiencies are not uncommon. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of low vitamin 25 (OH) cholecalciferol levels, high dose cholecalciferol supplementation regime and protein intake on physical fitness, measured using handgrip strength (HS) and the shuttle walk run test (SWRT). Methods: For this retrospective …

Probabilistic Modeling Of Personalized Drug Combinations From Integrated Chemical Screen And Molecular Data In Sarcoma., Noah E Berlow, Rishi Rikhi, Mathew Geltzeiler, Jinu Abraham, Matthew N Svalina, Lara E Davis, Erin Wise, Maria Mancini, Jonathan Noujaim, Atiya Mansoor, Michael J Quist, Kevin L Matlock, Martin W Goros, Brian S Hernandez, Yee C Doung, Khin Thway, Tomohide Tsukahara, Jun Nishio, Elaine T Huang, Susan Airhart, Carol J Bult, Regina Gandour-Edwards, Robert G Maki, Robin L Jones, Joel E Michalek, Milan Milovancev, Souparno Ghosh, Ranadip Pal, Charles Keller

Faculty Research 2019

BACKGROUND: Cancer patients with advanced disease routinely exhaust available clinical regimens and lack actionable genomic medicine results, leaving a large patient population without effective treatments options when their disease inevitably progresses. To address the unmet clinical need for evidence-based therapy assignment when standard clinical approaches have failed, we have developed a probabilistic computational modeling approach which integrates molecular sequencing data with functional assay data to develop patient-specific combination cancer treatments.

METHODS: Tissue taken from a murine model of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma was used to perform single agent drug screening and DNA/RNA sequencing experiments; results integrated via our computational modeling approach identified …

Synthesis Paper: Targeted Livestock Grazing: Prescription For Healthy Rangelands, Derek W. Bailey, Jeffrey C. Mosley, Richard E. Estell, Andres F. Cibils, Marc Horney, John R. Hendrickson, John W. Walker, Karen L. Launchbaugh, Elizabeth A. Burritt

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Targeted livestock grazing is a proven tool for manipulating range land vegetation, and current knowledge about targeted livestock grazing is extensive and expanding rapidly. Targeted grazing prescriptions optimize the timing, frequency, intensity, and selectivity of grazing (or browsing) in combinations that purposely exert grazing/ browsing pressure on specific plant species or portions of the landscape. Targeted grazing differs from traditional grazing management in that the goal of targeted grazing is to apply defoliation or trampling to achieve specific vegetation management objectives,whereas the goal of traditional livestock grazing management is generally the production of livestock commodities. A shared aim of targeted …

Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals The Interplay Between Transcription Factors, Nucleosomes, And Transcriptional Bursting, Matthew L. Ferguson

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Transcription factors show rapid and reversible binding to chromatin in living cells, and transcription occurs in sporadic bursts, but how these phenomena are related is unknown. Using a combination of in vitro and in vivo single-molecule imaging approaches, we directly correlated binding of the Gal4 transcription factor with the transcriptional bursting kinetics of the Gal4 target genes GAL3 and GAL10 in living yeast cells. We find that Gal4 dwell time sets the transcriptional burst size. Gal4 dwell time depends on the affinity of the binding site and is reduced by orders of magnitude by nucleosomes. Using a novel imaging platform …

Challenges And Progresses Made On The Microkinetic Description Of Lignin Liquefaction: Application Of Group Contribution Methods, Manuel Garcia-Perez, Evan Terrell, Linda Broadbelt

Pyroliq 2019: Pyrolysis and Liquefaction of Biomass and Wastes

In this presentation a comprehensive microkinetic modelling framework and experimental tools are used to describe product yield and composition of direct lignin liquefaction processes with and without solvents (See Figure 1). With the framework proposed we aim to develop a unified theory and models capable of describing both dry (pyrolysis) and wet (hydrothermal and solvolysis) lignin liquefaction processes. An important phenomenon that has been shown to occur during lignin pyrolysis (as well as cellulose) is the formation of a liquid intermediate phase, and subsequent ejection of heavy products (>~250 Da) as aerosols from this intermediate. In our presentation we …

Notable Employee Benefits Articles Of 2018, 163 Tax Notes 1829 (2019), Kathryn J. Kennedy, Melissa Travis

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

Kathryn J. Kennedy and Melissa Travis summarize 10 noteworthy law review articles published in 2018.

Preoperative Stimulation Of Resolution And Inflammation Blockade Eradicates Micrometastases., Dipak Panigrahy, Allison Gartung, Jun Yang, Haixia Yang, Molly M Gilligan, Megan L Sulciner, Swati S Bhasin, Diane R Bielenberg, Jaimie Chang, Birgitta A Schmidt, Julia Piwowarski, Anna Fishbein, Dulce Soler-Ferran, Matthew A Sparks, Steven J Staffa, Vidula Sukhatme, Bruce D Hammock, Mark W Kieran, Sui Huang, Manoj Bhasin, Charles N Serhan, Vikas P Sukhatme

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Cancer therapy is a double-edged sword, as surgery and chemotherapy can induce an inflammatory/immunosuppressive injury response that promotes dormancy escape and tumor recurrence. We hypothesized that these events could be altered by early blockade of the inflammatory cascade and/or by accelerating the resolution of inflammation. Preoperative, but not postoperative, administration of the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug ketorolac and/or resolvins, a family of specialized proresolving autacoid mediators, eliminated micrometastases in multiple tumor-resection models, resulting in long-term survival. Ketorolac unleashed anticancer T cell immunity that was augmented by immune checkpoint blockade, negated by adjuvant chemotherapy, and dependent on inhibition of the COX-1/thromboxane A2 …

Ubiquitin-Mediated Proteasome Degradation Regulates Optic Fissure Fusion, Warlen Pereira Piedade, Sydney Veith, Jakub Konrad Famulski

Biology Faculty Publications

Optic fissure fusion is a critical event during retinal development. Failure of fusion leads to coloboma, a potentially blinding congenital disorder. Pax2a is an essential regulator of optic fissure fusion and the target of numerous morphogenetic pathways. In our current study, we examined the negative regulator of pax2a expression, Nz2, and the mechanism modulating Nlz2 activity during optic fissure fusion. Upregulation of Nlz2 in zebrafish embryos resulted in downregulation of pax2a expression and fissure fusion failure. Conversely, upregulation of pax2a expression also led to fissure fusion failure suggesting Pax2 levels require modulation to ensure proper fusion. Interestingly, we discovered Nlz2 …

Re-Annotation Of Cough Events In The Ami Corpus, Paul Leamy, Damon Berry, David Dorran, Ted Burke

Conference papers

Cough sounds act as an important indicator of an individual's physical health, often used by medical professionals in diagnosing a patient's ailments. In recent years progress has been made in the area of automatically detecting cough events and, in certain cases, automatically identifying the ailment associated with a particular cough sound. Ethical and sensitivity issues associated with audio recordings of coughs makes it more difficult for this data to be made publicly available. However, without the public availability of a reliable database of cough sounds, developments in the area of audio event detection are likely to be hampered. The purpose …

Co2 Participation In Cross-Linking Reactions And Char Formation During Bio-Oil Pyrolysis, Farid Chejne, Javier Alonso Ordoñez, Carlos F. Valdes

Pyroliq 2019: Pyrolysis and Liquefaction of Biomass and Wastes

The integration of new CO2 capture and storage technologies into energy generation processes has led to the development and study of the oxy-fuel combustion, in which the nitrogen in the air is replaced by recirculated CO2 that facilitates its capture and storage to reduce polluting emissions. Currently, the integration of oxy-fuel technologies with the use of new fuels such as bio-oil obtained from the pyrolysis of biomass is a topic of interest. In this case, the CO2 content surrounding the bio-oil droplets modifies the pyrolysis mechanism due to barriers in the diffusion of light volatiles at low temperatures (less than …

Adipose Tissue Mast Cells Promote Human Adipose Beiging In Response To Cold, Brian S. Finlin, Amy L. Confides, Beibei Zhu, Mary C. Boulanger, Hasiyet Memetimin, Kyle W. Taylor, Zachary R. Johnson, Philip M. Westgate, Esther E. Dupont-Versteegden, Philip A. Kern

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

In a recent study, repeated cold application induced beiging in subcutaneous white adipose tissue (SC WAT) of humans independent of body mass index. To identify factors that promote or inhibit beiging, we performed multiplex analysis of gene expression with the Nanostring nCounter system (the probe set contained genes for specific immune cell markers, cytokines, and chemokines) on the SC WAT from lean subjects. Multiple correlations analysis identified mast cell tryptase and CCL26, a chemokine for mast cells, as genes whose change correlated positively with the change in UCP1 in SC WAT, leading to the hypothesis that mast cells promote SC …

Investigating Color Additive Molecules For Pharmaceutical And Cosmetic Applications: A Comparison Of Theoretical And Experimental Uv-Visible Absorbance Spectra In Tunable Solvents, Jacqueline Casey Mohen

Theses and Dissertations

Color additive molecules have widespread applications ranging from ingestible foods and pharmaceutics to non-ingestible cosmetics and other naturally or synthetically developed consumer products available worldwide. Certification for approved use of color additives varies globally; therefore, a feasible method to analyze existing color additives or to design novel color additive molecules with enhanced or otherwise desired physicochemical properties (such as hue) is in high demand for universal adoption. The studies herein provide sufficient proof that density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory serve as effective predictive modeling techniques for generating theoretical maximum absorbance spectral peak responsivity for a single color …