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Economic Analyses Of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods For Documenting Costs And Benefits, David E. Schindel, Economic Study Group Of The Interagency Working Group On Scientific Collections

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Federal object-based scientific collections have been created to serve agency missions and, in a few cases, to comply with legislative and regulatory mandates. “Project collections” (those managed by the researchers who obtained them for restricted use) and their costs and benefits were considered too varied for standard methodologies that assess costs and benefits. In a few cases, departments and agencies are required by legislation or regulations to retain objects in long-term “institutional collections.” In most cases, decisions to retain objects are based on long-term costs relative to the perceived potential for benefits to taxpayers. Federal collections vary in their philosophies …

Basic Theory And Analytical Methodology For Identification Of Novel Environmental Organic Pollutants, Ruan Ting, Jiang Guibin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Since the twentieth century, the health hazards caused by chemical pollutants have become increasingly prominent. Tens of thousands of high throughput chemicals have entered into the environment along with the massive production and use, raising emerging scientific issues for research in environmental science related fields. In this article, background and scientific significance of establishing the research direction on identification of novel organic pollutants are introduced. Basic principles of discriminating molecular structures and environmental behaviors of pollutant candidates with regard to the characteristics of persistent organic pollutants are discussed. Technical strategy and advantages of the established analytical frameworks, including quantitative structure-property …

Strengthen Risk Management And Control Of High-Risk Chemicals, Promote Development Of Environmentally Friendly Alternatives, Wang Yawei, Liang Yong, Ma Donghui, Cao Huiming, Zhao Lixia, Cai Yaqi, Jiang Guibin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Environmental and health problems caused by chemical pollution, especially high-risk chemical pollution, have become an important factor affecting the public health. How to ensure that chemicals bring well-being to human society, while ensuring that they minimize their harm to the environment and human health, is a problem that needs to be solved urgently in the field of chemistry, especially environmental chemistry. This article summarizes the latest research progress in the risk identification, risk prevention, alternative research and development and evaluation of perfluorinated compounds and other substances, and systematically explores how to use green chemistry, combined with the risk management and …

Current Status And Thinking Of Environmental Health Research On Persistent Toxic Pollutants, Xu Ming, Kan Haidong, Sang Nan, Liu Sijin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Environmental pollution always threatens the public health of our country, and the incidence of diseases closely related to environmental pollution has continued to rise in recent years. With the rapid urbanization and industrialization, the pollutions of persistent toxic substances (PTS) in air, water, and soil constitute a major hidden danger, which are urgent to be investigated for ecological safety and environmental health risks. In order to solve realistic environmental issues, the potential health hazards of PTS desire to be uncovered through interdisciplinary research. In this article, we review the background and development history of environmental health research on PTS, as …

Suggestions On Strengthening Construction Of Animal Disease Prevention And Control System In China, Chen Weisheng, Zhang Miaojie, Wang Zhigang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Since the veterinary system reform in 2005, the animal disease prevention and control system in China has made great progress, which has played an important role in stabilizing the supply of animals and animal products, ensuring animal health and human health. The modern animal disease prevention and control system consistent with the Healthy China strategy is an indispensable part of building a strong national public health system. Based on current situation and main problems, this paper presents the basic ideas of building a modern animal disease prevention and control system, suggests to coordinate the existing resources to strengthen the core …

Role For Carbohydrate Response Element-Binding Protein (Chrebp) In High Glucose-Mediated Repression Of Long Noncoding Rna Tug1, Jianyin Long, Daniel L Galvan, Koki Mise, Yashpal S Kanwar, Li Li, Naravat Poungavrin, Paul A Overbeek, Benny H Chang, Farhad R Danesh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play key roles in a variety of biological activities of the cell. However, less is known about how lncRNAs respond to environmental cues and what transcriptional mechanisms regulate their expression. Studies from our laboratory have shown that the lncRNA Tug1 (taurine upregulated gene 1) is crucial for the progression of diabetic kidney disease, a major microvascular complication of diabetes. Using a combination of proximity labeling with the engineered soybean ascorbate peroxidase (APEX2), ChIP-qPCR, biotin-labeled oligonucleotide pulldown, and classical promoter luciferase assays in kidney podocytes, we extend our initial observations in the current …

Dendriplex - Cyclodextrin Conjugates For Gene Delivery To Retina, Durga Deepak Puro

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Gene therapy holds promise for treating a wide range of diseases including cancer and several other polygenic and monogenic disorder arising in different organs. Due to its immune privilege nature, eye is an ideal organ for gene therapy,as various visual pathologies arise from gene defect and can lead to partial or complete vision loss. The last decade, several nanoparticles have been developed and tested for their transfection efficiency in vitro and in vivo. Among them, dendrimers with small size, good physicochemical properties and endosomal escape activity have shown high transfection efficiency in various cell lines. In an attempt to further …

“How Could You Even Ask That?”: Moral Considerability, Uncertainty And Vulnerability In Social Robotics, Alexis Elder

The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique

When it comes to social robotics (robots that engage human social responses via “eyes” and other facial features, voice-based natural-language interactions, and even evocative movements), ethicists, particularly in European and North American traditions, are divided over whether and why they might be morally considerable. Some argue that moral considerability is based on internal psychological states like consciousness and sentience, and debate about thresholds of such features sufficient for ethical consideration, a move sometimes criticized for being overly dualistic in its framing of mind versus body. Others, meanwhile, focus on the effects of these robots on human beings, arguing that psychological …

Autonomous Vehicles And The Ethical Tension Between Occupant And Non-Occupant Safety, Jason Borenstein, Joseph Herkert, Keith Miller

The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique

Given that the creation and deployment of autonomous vehicles is likely to continue, it is important to explore the ethical responsibilities of designers, manufacturers, operators, and regulators of the technology. We specifically focus on the ethical responsibilities surrounding autonomous vehicles that these stakeholders have to protect the safety of non-occupants, meaning individuals who are around the vehicles while they are operating. The term “non-occupants” includes, but is not limited to, pedestrians and cyclists. We are particularly interested in how to assign moral responsibility for the safety of non-occupants when autonomous vehicles are deployed in a complex, land-based transportation system.

The Collective Submitted Works From Honors 2030, Rob Wilson, Odette Beagrie, Sophia Bell, Neeha Chaudhry, Allison Christman, Zahrak Farese, Olivia Fuller, Kathryn Grothen, Meghan Hruskocy, Cullen Landolt, Maddesyn Langley, Sarah Jane Matt, Samantha Mcklin, Hunter Moore, Maxwell R. Wootten

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Students in the Honors 2030, Inquiries in the Social and Behavioral Sciences course each participated in the URS 2020 as their final project for the course. Dr. Wilson worked with each student as a faculty mentor to create, draft, edit, approve and publish each of the final posters and papers submitted to the 2020 URS for the course.

Nutrient Concentration For Cyanotoxins At Turnbull (Proposal), Mori Williams

2020 McNair Scholar Collection

The purpose of this study is to analyze the concentration of microcystins from cyanobacteria along with factors that increase the likelihood of microcystins found in water systems at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge (TNWR) near Cheney, Washington. Cyanobacteria are oxygen-producing bacteria that use sunlight as an energy source to convert CO2 into biomass. This bacterium has been around for around 3 billion years. However, in recent years, cyanobacteria have been a major issue in drinking water and aquatic ecosystems due to eutrophication, rising CO2 levels, and global warming (Huisman et al). Due to anthropogenic sources such as agricultural run-off and …

Marijuana Policy

Human Resources Policies

The State of Missouri has legalized the cultivation, possession, dispensing, distribution, sale, and use of marijuana for recreational use and treatment of specific diseases and chronic illnesses by patients upon the recommendation of a Missouri licensed physician and receipt of a valid Missouri registration card. Missouri and other states’ laws that legalize medical and/or recreational marijuana conflict with University (UHSP) policy and the federal Controlled Substance Act, which classifies marijuana as an illegal drug. The University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy (“UHSP”), as a recipient of federal funding, is required to maintain policies that prohibit the unlawful growth, possession, use, …

Lane Snapper (Lutjanus Synagris) Neurocranium, Jordan Warren, David Kerstetter

All Scans: Kerstetter Fisheries and Avian Ecology 3D Scan Series

No abstract provided.

Mitigating Toxic Stress In Children Affected By Conflict And Displacement, Anushka Ataullahjan, Muthanna Samara, Theresa S. Betancourt, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Woman and Child Health

Anushka Ataullahjan and colleagues describe the myriad stressors related to conflict and displacement experienced by children and how best to reduce their negative effect

Bifurcation Analysis Of Newcastle Disease Eco-Epidemiological Model In The Presence Of Vaccination: A Case Of The Backyard Chicken, Furaha M. Chuma, Gasper G. Mwanga

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, Volume 9 No. 2, 2020: 42–59 © Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE), 2020 Bifurcation Analysis of Newcastle Disease Eco-epidemiological Model in the Presence of Vaccination: A Case of the Backyard Chicken Furaha M. Chuma Dar es Salaam University College of Education University of Dar es Salaam [email protected] Gasper G. Mwanga Dar es Salaam University College of Education University of Dar es Salaam [email protected] Abstract Newcastle is an infectious disease caused by the avian paramyxomovirus-1. It occurs most frequently as a disease of Avians (e.g., chicken, ducks, pigeons, guinea fowls and other …

Effect Of Environmental Enrichment On The Acquisition Of Sign-Tracking Of An Ethanol Bottle In The Home Environment, Amanda Pra Sisto

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Sign tracking is a Pavlovian conditioning procedure that has been used in preclinical drug-addiction research with rats to investigate individual differences in the attribution of incentive motivational value to reward cues that may lead to problematic behavior such as drug addiction. Animals demonstrate a tendency to interact with an object conditioned stimulus (CS) that signals the presentation or delivery of a reward, even though the delivery of the reward is independent of any interaction with the stimulus. Thus, it can be argued that sign tracking is a compulsive-like behavior, or an indication of compulsive “wanting” that is associated with increased …

Doctoral Thesis As Entangled Becomings: Moments That Tremble With Potential., H Bowstead

Professional Services

No abstract provided.

Syracuse University Contemporary Ensemble: Dr. Alina Plourde, Director, Syracuse University Contemporary Ensemble, Setnor School Of Music, Alina Plourde

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Mapping Of Diabetes Susceptibility Loci In A Domestic Cat Breed With An Unusually High Incidence Of Diabetes Mellitus, Lois Balmer, Caroline Ann O'Leary, Marilyn Menotti-Raymond, Victor David, Stephen James O'Brien, Belinda Penglis, Sher Hendrickson, Mia Reeves-Johnson, Susan Gottlieb, Linda Fleeman, Dianne Vankan, Jacquie Rand, Grant Morahan

Biology Faculty Articles

Genetic variants that are associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes (T2D) are important for identification of individuals at risk and can provide insights into the molecular basis of disease. Analysis of T2D in domestic animals provides both the opportunity to improve veterinary management and breeding programs as well as to identify novel T2D risk genes. Australian-bred Burmese (ABB) cats have a 4-fold increased incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to Burmese cats bred in the United States. This is likely attributable to a genetic founder effect. We investigated this by performing a genome-wide association scan on ABB cats. …

The Colby Echo (2020-11-19), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

An Evaluation Of Current Policy Guidelines For The Best Practices Of Robotic Surgery Training, Zachary Geffert

Theses

Robotic surgery is a young and new technology, becoming widely used only within the past twenty years. Robotic surgery is categorized as minimally invasive and has immense patient benefits, including shorter hospital stays, reduction of human errors, increased precision, and faster recovery time. A recent study looked “at more than 10,000 incident reports from the FDA spanning from 2000 to 2013…found [finding] that robots were involved in 144 patient deaths and 1,391 patient injuries” (Wagstaff, 2015, pp. 2). Wagstaff (2015) also notes that very little information regarding cause of death was provided by the incident reports, which brings forth the …

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Social And Leisure Activities Predict Transitions In Cognitive Functioning In Older Mexican Adults: A Latent Transition Analysis Of The Mexican Health And Aging Study, Heather Mary Brown, Stephen A Murray, Hope Northrup, Kit Sing Au, Lee A Niswander

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Disruptions in neural tube (NT) closure result in neural tube defects (NTDs). To understand the molecular processes required for mammalian NT closure, we investigated the role of Snx3, a sorting nexin gene. Snx3−/− mutant mouse embryos display a fully-penetrant cranial NTD. In vivo, we observed decreased canonical WNT target gene expression in the cranial neural epithelium of the Snx3−/− embryos and a defect in convergent extension of the neural epithelium. Snx3−/− cells show decreased WNT secretion, and live cell imaging reveals aberrant recycling of the WNT ligand-binding protein WLS and mis-trafficking to the lysosome for degradation. The importance …

Wheat Production Management In Uzbekistan: Current Status And Perspectives, L. Gafurova

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Examining Environmental Injustice In Detroit Over Spring Break, Aakrista Shakya

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

Detroit is a city with Environmental Injustice, but yet its story is unheard of. In my Journal, investigate the extent of Environmental Injustice in Detroit by sharing my experience of my service-learning trip to Detroit over Spring Break and the story of people in Detroit.

Reflections On Applied Social Enterprise Education: Using Weaver’S Social Enterprise Directory To Teach Social Entrepreneurship, Maimouna Mbacke, Kati Gallagher, Rasheda L. Weaver

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

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Behind The Mask: 40 Quarantine Poems From Humboldt County, David Holper, Anne Fricke

Humboldt in the Time of COVID - Digital Archive

David Holper and Anne Fricke. Poems in Humboldt County. September 20, 2020.

Table of Context:

L.F. Allen, Refugee

R. Allen, Raptured

G. Bee, The Morning of April 7th after COVID-19

M. Bickford, The Following

S. Bigham, Weathering the Storm

L. Birdsong, No More Doing To Be Done

S. Bloch-Welliver, White Fog

S. Brooks, Virulent

W. Butler, Personal neuroses and pandemic

D.N. Chinn, In the Shadow of Waiting

L. Crist, An Introvert Laments

D. Collins, Meet me on the Corner

T. Fitzmaurice, April 18, 2020

J. Floss, The Trouble with Pebble

M. Franco, Do What You Love

A. Fricke, Rehearsal may …

Pandemic Lockdown In Kerala: Vishu And Thrissur Pooram Festivals, Yadukrishna Puthanparambil Radhakrishnan

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

This paper reflects on the impact of Covid 19 lockdown in India on religious festivals. Two Hindu religious festivals in the state of Kerala namely Vishu and Thrissur Pooram are addressed here. Both festivals are immensely popular and close to the heart of the Malayali Hindu and non-Hindu communities alike. Rather than focusing on the economic impact, the emphasis here is on the socio cultural and psychological impact that it has had on the community. The nature and spirit of these festivals differ from one another which has helped or worsened the impact for the festival lovers. Due to the …

Saint Nicola’S Feast In Bari: Before And After Covid-19. A Short Reflection, Antonietta Ivona, Donatella Privitera

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

This research note has three primary goals. First, it seeks to analyse the field of religious tourism in terms of the impact of the health emergency caused by Covid-19. Second, it offers knowledge of religious tourism in Bari with its San Nicola patron feast that reflects key areas of academic insight into the religion–tourism nexus. Third, it synthesises perceptions of devotees, locals, tourism professionals and spiritual guides using the method of photography as a research technique. As a result of this reflection, the paper will show that faith and the inner experiences of the pilgrims will remain while religious tourism …

The Impact Of Coronavirus On Religious Tourism: Is This The End Of Pilgrimage?, Maximiliano E. Korstanje

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The present paper, attends to the theme of COVID-19 and its negative effects on the tourism and pilgrimage industries. To be honest, although conclusive findings on this topic are premature in view of the velocity of facts, no less true seems to be that COVID-19 reaffirms a tendency originally stipulated just after 9/11 and declaration of the War On Terror by Bush’s administration. COVID-19 not only has shocked the world cancelling international flights, closing borders and airspaces, making irreparable damages to tourism and hospitality but it has operated on a much deeper level, developing a culture of fear, where ‘other’ …