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First Record Of The Hairy Maggot Blow Fly, Chrysomya Rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) In Indiana, Kristi Bugajski, Raenah Bailey

The Great Lakes Entomologist

The hairy maggot blow fly, Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) is native to Australia but has been spreading to a worldwide distribution and is becoming established in the United States. This paper presents the first documentation of the species in Indiana, specifically Valparaiso, Indiana. The species was found in September 2017 and again in October 2019. Its presence is variable in Northwest Indiana, but seems to be found in the fall when the temperatures are at least 30°C prior to collection.

First Records Of Megachile Apicalis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) For Illinois Found In Heavily Urbanized Areas Within The City Of Chicago, Andrea M. Gruver, Paul J. Caradonna

The Great Lakes Entomologist

We provide the first record of the non-native Megachile apicalis Spinola (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Illinois. Thirty Megachile apicalis specimens were collected in the summer of 2018 in a highly urban area of Chicago, IL, USA. Our findings suggest that the range of Megachile apicalis appears to be rapidly expanding across North America, inward from both the East and Western Coasts. Megachile apicalis in Chicago has a broad activity period, can take advantage of abundant non-native floral food resources, and has competitive nesting behavior, all of which may facilitate its successful establishment in disturbed urban environments, as well as its continued …

The Impact Of Overgrazing On Needlegrass‐Peashrub‐Forbs Community, D. Bolormaa, B. Avaadorj, B. Enkhmaa, Ts. Altanzul

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Initial Study On The Construction Of Evaluation Index System Of The Herdsman Rights And Interests Protection--Taking Tianshan Pasture Of Urumqi, Xinjiang As An Example, Ying Ao, Litao Feng, Weifeng Chen

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Application Of Nuclear Techniques In Improving Pasture/Range Management, Majid Ajorlo, Ramdzani B. Abdullah

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Echo: September 28, 2020, Taylor University

2020-2021 (Volume 108)

Survey changes bump Taylor to No. 2 — Student termination sparks controversy — Students register to vote for upcoming election — WTUR to soon launch podcasts — Getting to know student body leaders — Two professors honored for their leadership at Taylor — Transfer students are calling Taylor home — WTUR — Chorale works with IWU in first performance — Marion Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off season outside — ‘Tenet’ brings a unique twist to time travel movie trope — The dangers of fast-food politics — Our View — New beginnings for Taylor cheer — Trojans run in Bullock Invite — …

First Insights Into The Vertical Habitat Use Of The Whitespotted Eagle Ray Aetobatus Narinari Revealed By Pop‐Up Satellite Archival Tags, Lauran R. Brewster, Brianna V. Cahill, Miranda N. Burton, Cassady Dougan, Jeffrey S. Herr, Laura I. Norton, Samantha A. Mcguire, Marisa Pico, Elizabeth Urban-Gedamke, Kim Bassos-Hull, John P. Tyminski, Robert E. Hueter, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Mahmood Shivji, Neil Burnie, Matthew J. Ajemian

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The whitespotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari is a tropical to warm‐temperate benthopelagic batoid that ranges widely throughout the western Atlantic Ocean. Despite conservation concerns for the species, its vertical habitat use and diving behaviour remain unknown. Patterns and drivers in the depth distribution of A. narinari were investigated at two separate locations, the western North Atlantic (Islands of Bermuda) and the eastern Gulf of Mexico (Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.). Between 2010 and 2014, seven pop‐up satellite archival tags were attached to A. narinari using three methods: a through‐tail suture, an external tail‐band and through‐wing attachment. Retention time ranged from 0 to …

Implementing Culture-Centered Diabetes Self-Management For The South Asian Population, Kalpana Prasai

DNP Qualifying Manuscripts

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder that requires complex care and involves a variety of self-management decisions on a regular basis to manage the symptoms and avoid complications. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes among the South Asian population is six times higher than their European and white American counterparts (Gujral et al. 2013). Culturally sensitive education may be the key to overcoming the barriers related to standard diabetes patient education and culturally appropriate type 2 diabetes management. Research and evidence-based practices show Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) is associated with significant improvements in glycemic control and overall better …

Volume 56 - Issue 03 - Monday, September 28, 2020, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

Tissue-Specific Usage Of Transposable Element-Derived Promoters In Mouse Development, Benpeng Miao, Shuhua Fu, Cheng Lyu, Paul Gontarz, Ting Wang, Bo Zhang

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Transposable elements (TEs) are a significant component of eukaryotic genomes and play essential roles in genome evolution. Mounting evidence indicates that TEs are highly transcribed in early embryo development and contribute to distinct biological functions and tissue morphology.

RESULTS: We examine the epigenetic dynamics of mouse TEs during the development of five tissues: intestine, liver, lung, stomach, and kidney. We found that TEs are associated with over 20% of open chromatin regions during development. Close to half of these accessible TEs are only activated in a single tissue and a specific developmental stage. Most accessible TEs are rodent-specific. Across …

Student Insights Report, Fall 2020, The Center For Student Analytics

Publications

For the past four years, the staff of the Center for Student Analytics have collaborated with dozens of units across campus to discover data-informed insights about what helps students succeed at Utah State University. The following pages highlight 20 of the most useful insights that we have come across over the past year, organized across five audiences—students, faculty, staff, university leadership, and prospective students. As you explore this report, we encourage you to see the student data as a window onto Utah State University itself. We have discovered that while big data helps us to understand how individual students are …

First Insights Into The Vertical Habitat Use Of The Whitespotted Eagle Ray Aetobatus Narinari Revealed By Pop‐Up Satellite Archival Tags, L. R. Brewster, B. V. Cahill, M. N. Burton, C. Dougan, J. S. Herr, L. Issac Norton, S. A. Mcguire, M. Pico, E. Urban-Gedamke, K. Bassos-Hull, J. P. Tyminski, R. E. Hueter, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Mahmood S. Shivji, N. Burnie, M. J. Ajemian

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

The whitespotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari is a tropical to warm‐temperate benthopelagic batoid that ranges widely throughout the western Atlantic Ocean. Despite conservation concerns for the species, its vertical habitat use and diving behaviour remain unknown. Patterns and drivers in depth distribution of A. narinari were investigated at two separate locations—western North Atlantic (Islands of Bermuda) and Eastern Gulf of Mexico (Sarasota, Florida, USA). Between 2010 and 2014, seven pop‐up satellite archival tags (PSATs) were attached to A. narinari using three methods: a through‐tail suture; external tail‐band; and through‐wing attachment. Retention time ranged from 0–180 days, with tags attached via …

The Utah Statesman, September 28, 2020, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan

Cytokine-Targeted Therapeutics For Kshv-Associated Disease, Nedaa Alomari, Jennifer Totonchy

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) also known as human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), is linked to several human malignancies including Kaposi sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), multicentric Castleman’s disease (MCD) and recently KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS). As with other diseases that have a significant inflammatory component, current therapy for KSHV-associated disease is associated with significant off-target effects. However, recent advances in our understanding of the pathogenesis of KSHV have produced new insight into the use of cytokines as potential therapeutic targets. Better understanding of the role of cytokines during KSHV infection and tumorigenesis may lead to new preventive or therapeutic …

Crow's Nest, September 28, 2020, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 28, 2020, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Medical Civil Liability Without Deterrence: Preliminary Remarks For Future Research, Emiliano Marchisio

Journal of Civil Law Studies

The traditional deterrence-based paradigm of civil liability may be understood as indirect market regulation, as the risk of incurring liability for damages provides an incentive to invest in safety. Such an approach, however, has proven to be inappropriate in medical civil liability. Extensive literature shows that the increase in the asymmetric protection of patients by extending medical civil liability beyond a certain limit does not improve safety; instead, that strategy determines the adoption of “defensive” techniques (the so-called “defensive medicine”). Paradoxically, this approach leads to a reduction in market efficiency and overall patient safety. The traditional paradigm of medical civil …

Annual Report 2019-2020, Tennessee. Bureau Of Investigation.

Annual Report

No abstract provided.

Detrimental Effects Of Malaria, Toxoplasmosis, Leishmaniosis And Chagas Disease On Cardiac And Skeletal Muscles, Mauro Toledo Marrelli, Matthew William Fiedler, Cláudia Cristina Biguetti, Marco Brotto

School of Podiatric Medicine Publications

The pathogenic mechanisms of several diseases triggered by protozoan parasites, such as the causative agents of Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniosis, and malaria, have demonstrated to cause direct detrimental effect on cardiac and skeletal muscle. These are amongst the most prevalent and epidemiologically relevant protozoan infections worldwide and infecting millions of people per year. As such, this review focuses on the current knowledge on the pathogenic mechanisms of these diseases on muscles. Case studies and original research addressing the mechanisms of action for direct and indirect damage to cardiac and skeletal muscle were analyzed and the main findings summarized. Importantly, all …

Understanding The Impact Of Antibiotic Perturbation On The Human Microbiome, Drew J Schwartz, Amy E Langdon, Gautam Dantas

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The human gut microbiome is a dynamic collection of bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses that performs essential functions for immune development, pathogen colonization resistance, and food metabolism. Perturbation of the gut microbiome's ecological balance, commonly by antibiotics, can cause and exacerbate diseases. To predict and successfully rescue such perturbations, first, we must understand the underlying taxonomic and functional dynamics of the microbiome as it changes throughout infancy, childhood, and adulthood. We offer an overview of the healthy gut bacterial architecture over these life stages and comment on vulnerability to short and long courses of antibiotics. Second, the resilience of the …

Social Work Research And Evidence-Based Practice In Experimental Medicine Exploring Issues In The Xenotransplantation Context, Alan Lipps, Kyeonghee Jang

School of Social Work

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to discuss challenges to interdisciplinary evidence-based social work practice (EBP) within a context of xenotransplantation (XTx) using genetically modified animal organs, and the broader context of experimental medicine.

Method: This paper reviewed EBP terminology and discussed the meaning and function of evidence-based social work practice within an IDT in a XTx setting. Meta-analytic systematic reviews, and psychosocial surveys, were discussed to glean insights into ways in which IDTs can incorporate those research methodologies into EBP within an experimental medical (i.e., XTx) context. Several issues that arise while conducting psychosocial research in preparation for …

3,7-Dihydroxytropolones Inhibit Initiation Of Hepatitis B Virus Minus-Strand Dna Synthesis, Ellen Bak, Jennifer T. Miller, Andrea Noronha, John Tavis, Emilio Gallicchio, Ryan P. Murelli, Stuart F. J. Le Grice

Publications and Research

Initiation of protein-primed (-) strand DNA synthesis in hepatitis B virus (HBV) requires interaction of the viral reverse transcriptase with epsilon (ε), a cis-acting regulatory signal located at the 5’ terminus of pre-genomic RNA (pgRNA), and several host-encoded chaperone proteins. Binding of the viral polymerase (P protein) to ε is necessary for pgRNA encapsidation and synthesis of a short primer covalently attached to its terminal domain. Although we identified small molecules that recognize HBV ε RNA, these failed to inhibit protein-primed DNA synthesis. However, since initiation of HBV (-) strand DNA synthesis occurs within a complex of viral and host …

Comprehensive Assessment On The Environmental Conditions Of Abandoned And Inactive Mines In The Philippines, Samaniego Jessie, Gibaga Cris Reven, Tanciongco Alexandria, Rastrullo Rasty, Mendoza Norman, Racadio Charles Darwin

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

Most abandoned and inactive mines in the Philippines pose high risks to human health and the environment due to the disturbed and exposed heavy metal-laden soils and sediments and water-filled open pit mines. Establishing these mines’ environmental conditions remains a challenge as it requires time, effort, resources, and faces a lack of funding as the economic phase of the mine has already ceased. In order to contribute to the solution on the assessment of abandoned and inactive mines, integrated methods with combined essential testing, sampling, and analyses of different environmental media present in the mine site are suggested in this …

Roundtable 1: Genocide Scholarship: Publishing And The Future Of Genocide Research, Raz Segal, Christian Gudehus, Susanne Knittel, Elisabeth Hope Murray, Joanne Pettitt, Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Henry Theriault, Dirk Moses

International Conference on Genocide

No abstract provided.

Physical And Hydric Characterization Of A "Red‐Yellow Dystrophic Latossolo" Under Different Tillage System And Grassland Systems, Wellington W. Rocha, Rita De Cássia Ribeiro Carvalho, Bruno Da Silva Pires, Ayeska Hübner Braga Nunes

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Tdp-43 Mediated Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability And Leukocyte Infiltration Promote Neurodegeneration In A Low-Grade Systemic Inflammation Mouse Model, Frank Zamudio, Anjanet R. Loon, Shayna Smeltzer, Khawla Benyamine, Nanda K. Navalpur Shanmugam, Nicholas J. F. Stewart, Daniel C. Lee, Kevin Nash, Maj-Linda B. Selenica

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions containing TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) are a neuropathological feature of several neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Emerging evidence also indicates that systemic inflammation may be a contributor to the pathology progression of these neurodegenerative diseases.

METHODS: To investigate the role of systemic inflammation in the progression of neuronal TDP-43 pathology, AAV9 particles driven by the UCHL1 promoter were delivered to the frontal cortex of wild-type aged mice via intracranial injections to overexpress TDP-43 or green fluorescent protein (GFP) in corticospinal motor neurons. Animals were then subjected …

Nicholas C. Howson's Tribute To Professor William P. Alford, Nicholas C. Howson

Articles

No abstract provided.

Full Issue 49(2)

International Journal of Speleology

No abstract provided.

Mcculloch And The American Regime, Mark A. Graber

Arkansas Law Review

Professor David S. Schwartz’s magnificent The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland explicitly challenges how we teach government powers in first weeks or semester of constitutional law and implicitly challenges how we teach civil rights and liberties in later weeks or second semester of constitutional law. Contrary to the impression given in many classes on the constitutional law of national powers, no straight line exists from the Marshall opinion in McCulloch v. Maryland to the New Deal and beyond. Schwartz meticulously details how, for two-hundred years, different aspects of McCulloch have been …

Marshalling Mcculloch, Richard Primus

Arkansas Law Review

David Schwartz’s terrific new book is subtitled John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland. But the book is about much more than Marshall and McCulloch. It’s about the long struggle over the scope of national power. Marshall and McCulloch are characters in the story, but the story isn’t centrally about them. Indeed, an important part of Schwartz’s narrative is that McCulloch has mattered relatively little in that struggle, except as a protean symbol.

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 25, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stephen Russell Mallory Occie Clubbs
Captain Bunce’s Tampa Bay Fisheries Dorothy Dodd
Henry Morrison Flagler S. Walter Martin
Governors of Florida as Members of Congress James B. Whitfield
Thomas Frederick Davis
Book Reviews:

• Hanna, “A Prince in Their Midst” Robert S. Cotterill
• Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal Lawrence C. Wroth

Local and Regional Historical Societies:

• Jacksonville Historical Society
• Madison County Historical Society Edwin B. Browning

Notes
The Florida Historical Society

• New members
• Deceased members
• Donations to the Library