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November 4, 2020 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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Heterotopic Autotransplantation Of Ovarian Tissue In A Large Animal Model: Effects Of Cooling And Vegf., Samara S Souza, Benner G Alves, Kele A Alves, Fabiana A S Brandão, Danielle C C Brito, Melba O Gastal, Ana P R Rodrigues, José R Figueireod, Dárcio I A Teixeira, Eduardo L Gastal

Peer-reviewed Articles

Heterotopic and orthotopic ovarian tissue autotransplantation techniques, currently used in humans, will become promising alternative methods for fertility preservation in domestic and wild animals. Thus, this study describes for the first time the efficiency of a heterotopic ovarian tissue autotransplantation technique in a large livestock species (i.e., horses) after ovarian fragments were exposed or not to a cooling process (4°C/24 h) and/or VEGF before grafting. Ovarian fragments were collected in vivo via an ultrasound-guided biopsy pick-up method and surgically autografted in a subcutaneous site in both sides of the neck in each mare. The blood flow perfusion at the transplantation …

The Lumberjack, November 04, 2020

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

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Seventeen Pieces: Displacement, Misplacement, And Conservation, Yasmin Merali, Kevork Mourad, Manas Ghanem

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article explores the systemic importance of art in the conservation of images, historical reference, and cultural meaning as displaced victims of humanitarian crises make the transition from the land of their birth to a new country with a different history and cultural landscape. In presenting the work of Kevork Mourad, an artist of Armenian descent displaced from Syria, we show the essential, layered interplay of visceral, lived individual experiences and the historic collective memory of real and imagined pasts that survive the destruction of physical artifacts.

Understanding Myanmar’S Buddhist Extremists: Some Preliminary Musings, Kumar Ramakrishna

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article examines Buddhist extremism in Myanmar. It argues that Buddhist extremism—like other types of religious extremism—is an acute form of fundamentalism. The article begins with a survey of how extremism is usually understood in the theoretical literature, showing that its religious variant is best conceived of as an acute form of fundamentalism. It then fine tunes this understanding, arguing that religious extremism is a fundamentalist belief system that justifies structural violence against relevant out-groups. The article outlines seven core characteristics of the religious extremist culled from the various theoretical approaches to extremism. It employs these seven characteristics to examine …

Editor’S Note, Padraig O’Malley

New England Journal of Public Policy

Other than “The Troubled Backstory of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment,” articles in this issue of the journal have their origins in presentations at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflicts conference at Oxford University, September 2019, which addressed themes arising from dual anniversaries—the 150th birthday anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and the 140th birthday anniversary of Albert Einstein. The presentations covered a wide and disparate geographical spread—with authors from Singapore, Australia, Turkey, the United States, Syria, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, and articles covering Myanmar, Japan, Australia, Turkey and Syria and Europe.

The Parthenon, November 4, 2020, Douglas Harding, Denise Jackson, Meg Keller, Brittany Hively, Isabella Robinson, Taylor Huddleston, Grant Goodrich, Zach Hiser

The Parthenon

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Trophic Cascades Alter Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics And Body Size Evolution, Thomas M. Luhring, John Delong

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Trait evolution in predator–prey systems can feed back to the dynamics of interacting species as well as cascade to impact the dynamics of indirectly linked species (eco-evolutionary trophic cascades; EETCs). A key mediator of trophic cascades is body mass, as it both strongly influences and evolves in response to predator–prey interactions. Here, we use Gillespie ecoevolutionary models to explore EETCs resulting from top predator loss and mediated by body mass evolution. Our four-trophic-level food chain model uses allometric scaling to link body mass to different functions (ecological pleiotropy) and is realistically parameterized from the FORAGE database to mimic the parameter …

Rsif Weekly Vol.1 No.23, Regional Scholarship And Innovation Fund (Rsif)1

Rsif Newsletters

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Aspergillosis In An Augmented Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus Urophasianus) Population In Central Utah: A Case Report, Melissa S. Chelak, Avery A. Cook, David D. Frame, Terry A. Messmer

Western North American Naturalist

We present the first known case of aspergillosis found in a wild, augmented Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) population. This case was not directly associated with the sage-grouse translocations and is the first documented in wild sage-grouse populations since the mid-1900s. Aspergillosis is a fungal infection of the lungs caused by an inoculation of Aspergillus spp. spores. Wild birds that are infected by the pathogen’s spores die from the resulting infection. We hypothesize that the Aspergillus spp. spores were propagated either in mesic nesting conditions or in residual damp mulch piles created from sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitat restoration …

Team-Based Effects On Individual Human Capital: A Proxy For Organizational Performance, Rob Carpenter

Human Resource Development Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation argues that in today’s changing and uncertain business environment, the success of an organization can be influenced by the organization’s ability to harness team-level feedback behaviors as drivers for organizational performance. This study illustrates this argument by conducting a stream of inquiry on higher-order cognitive capacities. Learning as cognition, critical thinking, sensemaking, and social identity were studied as output behaviors from the cognitive interplay of team-based activity. Then, rooted in a view of human capital theory, each higher-order cognitive output behavior was conceptually explored for successive benefit on individual human capital and a model for each benefit provided. …

The Bg News November 04, 2020, Bowling Green State University

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The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 04, 2020. Volume 100-Issue 12.

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Nonlinear Landscape And Cultural Response To Sea-Level Rise, Robert L. Barnett, Dan J. Charman, Charles Johns, Sophie L. Ward, Andrew Bevan, Sarah L. Bradley, Kevin Camidge, Ralph M. Fyfe, Wr Gehrels, Mj Gehrels, Jackie Hatton, Nicole S. Khan, Peter Marshall, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Steve Mills, Jacqui Mulville, Marta Perez, Helen M. Roberts, James D. Scourse, Francis Shepherd, Todd Stevens

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Rising sea levels have been associated with human migration and behavioral shifts throughout prehistory, often with an emphasis on landscape submergence and consequent societal collapse. However, the assumption that future sea-level rise will drive similar adaptive responses is overly simplistic. While the change from land to sea represents a dramatic and permanent shift for preexisting human populations, the process of change is driven by a complex set of physical and cultural processes with long transitional phases of landscape and socioeconomic change. Here, we use reconstructions of prehistoric sea-level rise, paleogeographies, terrestrial landscape change, and human population dynamics to show how …

The Role Of Microbiologic Agents In The Progression Of The Atherosclerosis: A Comprehensive Review, Ahmet Karabulut

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Atherosclerosis is a leading cause of disability, morbidity and mortality in the world. Atherosclerosis is accepted as a chronic progressive inflammatory disease. The inflammatory cascade in the vascular wall is well-defined. However, the predictors and contributors of the inflammatory response in atherosclerosis are not completely understood. Systemic and local inflammation, which enhance the burden of inflammation in the vascular wall, have been proposed as risk factors for the progression of atherosclerosis. Infectious micro-organisms are one of the major triggering factors for local and systemic inflammation. In this review, we aimed to emphasize the linkage between micro-organisms and the progression of …

P-Cresol Biogenesis During Bioremediation Aimed At Stimulating Chlorinated Solvent Dehalogenation, Alexis Gathings

LSU Master's Theses

The broad goal of the research described in this thesis was to better understand the potential for biologically mediated production of p-cresol in groundwater at a Superfund site located in south Louisiana. Previous literature reports that microorganisms known to carry out the transformation from L-tyrosine to p-cresol occur in diverse environments.

In the research described in this thesis, studies were conducted utilizing groundwater from the Superfund site during the course of enhanced in situ bioremediation practices aimed at stimulating reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated solvent contamination. Microbial communities established with groundwater sampled from the Superfund site were observed to …

Assessing The Environmental Impacts Of Effluent From Aerobic Treatment Units, Sarah Deeb, Tamylles Souza Da Costa, Zahaan Eswani, Christopher Struchtemeyer

RURALS: Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences

Aerobic treatment units (ATUs) serve as an alternative to traditional septic systems in many rural homes that lack access to municipal utilities. ATU effluent often flows directly into ditches that contain overgrown vegetation and rely on sunlight for disinfection. To date, it is unclear if effluent gets properly disinfected in these ditches, which is problematic since they often flow directly into major recreational water bodies. The goal of this work was to determine if ATUs negatively impact the environment by quantifying Escherichia coli and thermotolerant coliforms in: 1) ATU effluent, 2) Disposal ditches that received ATU effluent, and 3) Water …

Safe At Home? Narratives Of Reintegrated Victims Of Child Trafficking From Lake Volta, Ghana, Emma Seyram Hamenoo, Geraldine Macdonald, Edmond Kwablah Hamenoo

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Abstract

Trafficking in persons; especially children, have been a major concern in the fields of medicine, early childhood development, and social welfare among others. The impact of trafficking on victims of all ages is devastating. However, after their rescue, intervention processes have been rehabilitation and reintegration into societies of origin in most instances. The current study investigated the experiences of child victims rescued from fishing on Lake Volta, Ghana and reunited with their families in communities from where they were once trafficked. The study explored (a) whether or not reintegrated trafficked victims of school going age were placed in school; …

The Tissues Of Adult Female Reproductive System Of The Pipistrellus Kuhlii Bat: Comparative Study With Other Mammals, Muna Rashid

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

This study is attempt for investigating the tissues, which comprise the female reproductive system of the bat. Then, compare it with the same system of other mammals. The bat has been anatomized and the organs of female reproductive system was taken away. They include: ovary, ovarian duct and uterus, where they have been studied histological.

The results of the microscopic investigation of the tissue of the female bat, showed that the ovary has two parts; an outer cortex and an inner medulla. The cortex consists of follicles, different growth stages and the proper tissues have net of connective tissue fibers. …

Verification And Explanation Of The Prophetic Traditions (Hadiths) Of Kindness To Animals, Helmi Abed El- Hadi

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

This research includes a collection of Hadiths (prophetic traditions) mentioned by Prophet Mohammad (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), in which he urged Muslims to deal kindly with the animals when Muslims use these animals for all purposes like riding, loading milking and even slaughtering them.

The researcher has also verified the authenticity, judged and explained all of these respective Hadiths in a wise way to show the greatness of Islam in dealing with animals; he was neither lengthy nor short. In fact, the greatness of Islam is clearly shown in dignifying these animals which, in turn, entails …

Inoculation Of Grass-Cyclingcompost With N2-Fixing Bacteria, Merfat Taher Ben Mahmoud

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

Inoculation of grass-cyclingcompost with N2-fixing bacteria may improve its quality by increasing total N and available P. Compost was inoculated with Azotobacter,Burkholderia and Azospirillum sp. each alone and all three together. Numbers of all N2-fixing bacteria in compost declined from an initial population of (5 x 105 cells/ g) during incubation. The population of Azotobacter declined to approximately (2 x 102cells/g) and the population of Burkholderia and Azospirillum declined to approximately (9 x103 and 4x 104 cells/ g) respectively, at day 40. Inoculation with N2-fixing bacteria increased acetylene reduction, total N by 5–15% and available P by 20–30% in comparison …

Pecification Of Antimony And Its Inorganic Species In Grass Samples Along An Austrian Motorway By Hplc-Id-Icp-Ms, Sameer Amereih

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

In this study the distribution of Sb concentrations and Sb species (Sb III and Sb V) in grass samples in a roadside profile were investigated. The Sb depositions on the grass surfaces are higher than the bioaccumulations of Sb in grass samples where it reaches two-fold concentrations at locations nearest to the traffic. The Sb species distribution, after a chromatographic separation, was determined using on-line isotope dilution (ID). The extraction of Sb species from contaminated grass samples was carried out using 100 mmol L-1 citric acid (pH 2.08). The concentrations of Sb species in grass show decrease with increasing distance …

Potential Consequences Of The Red Blood Cell Storage Lesion On Cardiac Electrophysiology, Marissa Reilly, Chantel D. Bruno, Tomas M. Prudencio, Nina Ciccarelli, Devon Guerrelli, Raj Nair, Manelle Ramadan, Naomi L C Luban, Nikki Gillum Posnack

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

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Overview Of Sponsored Programs Administration, Lesha Agnew, Melissa Hodge-Penn

ORSP Presentations

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The Experience Of Early Mobility After One Week Of Hospital-Acquired Deconditioning, Lila S. Moersch

Dissertations

Abstract

Older adults who are hospitalized spend most of their time in bed. Prolonged bed rest and immobility in older adults may result in deconditioning of the muscles, leading to a loss of muscle mass and strength. The loss of muscle mass results in weakness and reduced physiological functioning post-hospital discharge. Immobility is especially problematic in older adults who naturally lose muscle mass and strength due to the aging process. Older adults who experience weakness post-hospital discharge face challenges with mobility. The purpose of this study was to describe the early mobility experiences of adults who are 60 years old …

Fragment By Craig Russell, Marek Oziewicz

The Goose

Review of Craig Russell 's Fragment

Landscape-Scale Differences Among Cities Alter Common Species’ Responses To Urbanization, Mason Fidino, Travis Gallo, Elizabeth W. Lehrer, Maureen H. Murray, Cria Kay, Heather A. Sander, Brandon Macdougall, Carmen M. Salsbury, Travis J. Ryan, Julia L. Angstmann, J. Amy Belaire, Barbara Dugelby, Chris Schell, Theodore Stankowich, Max Amaya, David Drake, Sheryl H. Hursh, Adam A. Ahlers, Jacque Williamson, Laurel M. Hartley, Amanda J. Zellmer, Kelly Simon

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Understanding how biodiversity responds to urbanization is challenging, due in part to the single-city focus of most urban ecological research. Here, we delineate continent-scale patterns in urban species assemblages by leveraging data from a multi-city camera trap survey and quantify how differences in greenspace availability and average housing density among 10 North American cities relate to the distribution of eight widespread North American mammals. To do so, we deployed camera traps at 569 sites across these ten cities between 18 June and 14 August. Most data came from 2017, though some cities contributed 2016 or 2018 data if it was …

2020-November-03-Dr Erik Petersen Receives Grant To Study Salmonella Prevention, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Nov. 3, 2020) – Dr. Erik Petersen, assistant professor in East Tennessee State University College of Public Health’s Department of Health Sciences, has received $300,000 to study Salmonella sensing-based antibacterials for use in poultry. 

The award is a collaborative bi-national grant with Dr. Erez Mills from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Rehovot, Israel.

“Currently, among the food-borne zoonoses, or diseases that are spread between animals and people, Salmonellosis has become a frequent major public health concern,” Petersen said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates Salmonella bacteria cause about 1.35 million infections, 26,500 hospitalizations, and …

Using Triallelic Snps For Determining Parentage In North American Yak (Bos Grunniens) And Estimating Cattle (B. Taurus) Introgression, Theodore S. Kalbfleisch, Jessica L. Petersen, R. G. Tait Jr., Jiansheng Qiu, Veronica Basnayake, Peter H. Hackett, Michael P. Heaton

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Background: Genetic testing for pedigree accuracy is critical for managing genetic diversity in North American (NA) yak (Bos grunniens ), a population expanded mostly from imported zoological park specimens. DNA testing also enhances species conservation by identifying recent B. taurus F1 hybrid ancestors (within three generations). Biallelic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can accomplish either task, but increases the marker count and costs necessary to achieve both. Our aim was to identify novel, multifunctional, triallelic yak SNPs (tySNPs), with each having two alleles for yak parentage testing, and a third allele for identifying recent cattle introgression.

Methods: Genome sequences were …