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09-15-2020 Swosu Plans Hispanic Heritage Month Events, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2020

The Hispanic American Leadership Organization (HALO) and SWOSU Student Affairs at Southwestern Oklahoma State University are planning several events in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month on the Weatherford campus.

Computer Science Principles With Java, Seth D. Bergmann

Open Educational Resources

This textbook is intended to be used for a first course in computer science, such as the College Board’s Advanced Placement course known as AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). This book includes all the topics on the CSP exam, plus some additional topics. It takes a breadth-first approach, with an emphasis on the principles which form the foundation for hardware and software. No prior experience with programming should be required to use this book. This version of the book uses the Java programming language.

A Synopsis And Extension Of Thayne And Gantt's Who Is Truth? Reframing Our Questions For A Richer Faith, Lane Fischer

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Thayne and Gantt’s recent book, Who is Truth?: Reframing Our Questions for a Richer Faith, presents an ancient but revolutionary conception of truth. They compare the ancient Greek conception of Idea-truth with the ancient Hebrew conception of Person-truth. They explore the implications of Person-truth for our faith. They use Person-truth to reframe questions. This article presents a synopsis of the book and extends its implications around the issue of suffering and psychotherapy.

The Indiana Statesman, September 15, 2020, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Voter registration is available to ISU; COVID-19 or the flu?; Suicide Awareness: Student works to educate others; US appeals court allows Trump to officially deport immigrants

Union Decline And Labor Revival In The 21st Century United States, Ruth Milkman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Role Of Extracellular Vesicles In Substance Abuse And Hiv-Related Neurological Pathologies, Katherine E. Odegaard, Subhash Chand, Sydney Wheeler, Sneham Tiwari, Adrian Flores, Jordan Hernandez, Mason Savine, Austin Gowen, Gurudutt Pendyala, Sowmya V. Yelamanchili

Journal Articles: Anesthesiology

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a broad, heterogeneous class of membranous lipid-bilayer vesicles that facilitate intercellular communication throughout the body. As important carriers of various types of cargo, including proteins, lipids, DNA fragments, and a variety of small noncoding RNAs, including miRNAs, mRNAs, and siRNAs, EVs may play an important role in the development of addiction and other neurological pathologies, particularly those related to HIV. In this review, we summarize the findings of EV studies in the context of methamphetamine (METH), cocaine, nicotine, opioid, and alcohol use disorders, highlighting important EV cargoes that may contribute to addiction. Additionally, as HIV and …

Rudenstine Fellow Abigail Finkelman Defends Nyc’S Children, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2020

Surrounded by plush stuffed animals resting on the windowsill and children’s drawings adorning the walls, Cardozo’s 2019 Rudenstine fellow, Abigail Finkelman, looks right at home. Finkelman is spending her fellowship year at the Children’s Law Center, representing children in court and researching New York’s pilot program for civil court alternative dispute resolution initiatives.

Endogenous Cyclin D1 Promotes The Rate Of Onset And Magnitude Of Mitogenic Signaling Via Akt1 Ser473 Phosphorylation., Ke Chen, Xuanmao Jiao, Agnese Di Rocco, Duanwen Shen, Shaohua Xu, Adam Ertel, Zuoren Yu, Gabriele Di Sante, Min Wang, Zhiping Li, Timothy G Pestell, Mathew C Casimiro, Emmanuel Skordalakes, Samuel Achilefu, Richard G Pestell

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Cyclin D1 encodes the regulatory subunit of a holoenzyme that phosphorylates RB and functions as a collaborative nuclear oncogene. The serine threonine kinase Akt plays a pivotal role in the control of cellular metabolism, survival, and mitogenic signaling. Herein, Akt1-mediated phosphorylation of downstream substrates in the mammary gland is reduced by cyclin D1 genetic deletion and is induced by mammary-gland-targeted cyclin D1 overexpression. Cyclin D1 is associated with Akt1 and augments the rate of onset and maximal cellular Akt1 activity induced by mitogens. Cyclin D1 is identified in a cytoplasmic-membrane-associated pool, and cytoplasmic-membrane-localized cyclin D1-but not nuclear-localized cyclin D1-recapitulates Akt1 …

Nuisance Most Fowl: The Problem With Chicago's Permissive Livestock Ordinance And How To Fix It, Shelley Geiszler

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cocaine Hydrolase-Fc Fusion Proteins For Cocaine And Methods For Utilizing The Same, Chang-Guo Zhan, Fang Zheng, Hsin-Hsiung Tai, Xiabin Chen, Liu Xue, Shurong Hou

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

The presently-disclosed subject matter includes isolated polypeptides that comprise a butyrylcholinestrase (BChE) polypeptide and a second polypeptide. The BChE polypeptide as well as the second polypeptide can be variants and/or fragments thereof. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes a pharmaceutical composition that comprises the present isolated polypeptide and a suitable pharmaceutical carrier. Further still, methods are provided for treating cocaine-induced conditions, and comprise administering the isolated polypeptide and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof to an individual.

Environmental Variability Supports Chimpanzee Behavioural Diversity, Ammie K. Kalan, Lars Kulik, Mimi Arandjelovic, Christophe Boesch, Fabian Haas, Paula Dieguez, Christopher D. Barratt, Ekwoge E. Abwe, Anthony Agbor, Samuel Angedakin, Floris Aubert, Emmanuel Ayuk Ayimisin, Emma Bailey, Mattia Bessone, Gregory Brazzola, Valentine Ebua Buh, Rebecca Chancellor, Heather Cohen, Charlotte Coupland, Bryan Curran, Emmanuel Danquah, Tobias Deschner, Dervla Dowd, Manasseh Eno-Nku, J. Michael Fay, Annemarie Goedmakers, Anne-Celine Granjon, Josephine Head, Daniela Hedwig, Veerle Hermans, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Sorrel Jones, Jessica Junker, Parag Kadam, Mohamed Kambi, Ivonne Kienast, Deo Kujirakwinja, Kevin E. Langergraber, Juan Lapuente, Bradley Larson, Kevin C. Lee, Vera Leinert, Manuel Llana, Sergio Marrocoli, Amelia C. Meier, Bethan Morgan, David Morgan, Emily Neil, Sonia Nicholl, Emmanuelle Normand, Lucy Jayne Ormsby, Liliana Pacheco, Alex Piel, Jodie Preece, Martha M. Robbins, Aaron S. Rundus, Crickette Sanz, Volker Sommer, Fiona Stewart, Nikki Tagg, Claudio Tennie, Virginie Vergnes, Adam Welsh, Erin G. Wessling, Jacob Willie, Roman M. Wittig, Yisa Ginath Yuh, Klaus Zuberbuhler, Hjalmar S. Kuehl

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

Large brains and behavioural innovation are positively correlated, species-specific traits, associated with the behavioural flexibility animals need for adapting to seasonal and unpredictable habitats. Similar ecological challenges would have been important drivers throughout human evolution. However, studies examining the influence of environmental variability on within-species behavioural diversity are lacking despite the critical assumption that population diversification precedes genetic divergence and speciation. Here, using a dataset of 144 wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) communities, we show that chimpanzees exhibit greater behavioural diversity in environments with more variability - in both recent and historical timescales. Notably, distance from Pleistocene forest refugia is associated …

Lightly Peaceful: Facilitating College Transition Through Instagram Delivered Mindfulness Experiences, Cheryl Lynn Kress

Mindfulness Studies Theses

This creative project is an investigation into the feasibility and efficacy of offering mindfulness experiences to college freshmen through Instagram, a popular social media platform. Research indicates that many college freshmen struggle with issues such as depression, social isolation, anxiety, substance abuse, poor academic performance, overeating, etc., all of which may increase the likelihood of dropping out of college or the establishment of long-term dysfunctional coping patterns. Mindfulness has been noted to mitigate many of the difficulties associated with making the transition from high school to college; however, very few studies investigate the effects of offering mindfulness experiences through social …

Having Your Cake And Eating It, Too: Using Special Masters In Daubert Hearings To Promote Scientific Analyses Of Expert Testimony, Luis Balart

Louisiana Law Review

The article discusses issues on the admissibility of scientific evidence in federal court trials in the U.S., and the use by judges of court-appointed experts and advisors to help in making evidentiary decisions requiring technical or scientific knowledge.

Zika Virus Infection Causes Widespread Damage To The Inner Ear, Kathleen T. Yee, Biswas Neupane, Fengwei Bai, Douglas E. Vetter

Faculty Publications

Zika virus (ZIKV) has been recently recognized as a causative agent of newborn microcephaly, as well as other neurological consequences. A less well recognized comorbidity of prenatal ZIKV infection is hearing loss, but cases of hearing impairment following adult ZIKV infection have also been recognized. Diminished hearing following prenatal ZIKV infection in a mouse model has been reported, but no cellular consequences were observed. We examined the effects of ZIKV infection on inner ear cellular integrity and expression levels of various proteins important for cochlear function in type I interferon receptor null (Ifnar1^−/−) mice following infection at …

Semantic-Driven Unsupervised Image-To-Image Translation For Distinct Image Domains, Wesley Ackerman

Theses and Dissertations

We expand the scope of image-to-image translation to include more distinct image domains, where the image sets have analogous structures, but may not share object types between them. Semantic-Driven Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation for Distinct Image Domains (SUNIT) is built to more successfully translate images in this setting, where content from one domain is not found in the other. Our method trains an image translation model by learning encodings for semantic segmentations of images. These segmentations are translated between image domains to learn meaningful mappings between the structures in the two domains. The translated segmentations are then used as the basis …

Lindenwood Digest, September 15, 2020, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

A Bio-Inspired Transportation Network For Scalable Swarm Foraging, Qi Lu, G. Matthew Fricke, Takaya Tsuno, Melanie E. Moses

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Scalability is a significant challenge for robot swarms. Generally, larger groups of cooperating robots produce more inter-robot collisions, and in swarm robot foraging, larger search arenas result in larger travel costs. This paper demonstrates a scale-invariant swarm foraging algorithm that ensures that each robot finds and delivers targets to a central collection zone at the same rate regardless of the size of the swarm or the search area. Dispersed mobile depots aggregate locally collected targets and transport them to a central place via a hierarchical branching transportation network. This approach is inspired by ubiquitous fractal branching networks such as tree …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 9/15/2020, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Consequences Of Surface Coatings And Soil Ageing On The Toxicity Of Cadmium Telluride Quantum Dots To The Earthworm Eisenia Fetida, K Tatsi, Th Hutchinson, Rd Handy

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Cells From Discarded Dressings Differentiate Chronic From Acute Wounds In Patients With Epidermolysis Bullosa, Ignacia Fuentes, Christina Guttmann-Gruber, Birgit Tockner, Anja Diem, Alfred Klausegger, Glenda Cofré-Araneda, Olga Figuera, Yessia Hidalgo, Pilar Morandé, Francis Palisson, Boris Rebolledo-Jaramillo, María Joao Yubero, Raymond J Cho, Heather I Rishel, M Peter Marinkovich, Joyce M C Teng, Timothy G. Webster, Marco Prisco, Luis H. Eraso, Josefina Piñon Hofbauer, Andrew P. South

Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Faculty Papers

Impaired wound healing complicates a wide range of diseases and represents a major cost to healthcare systems. Here we describe the use of discarded wound dressings as a novel, cost effective, accessible, and non-invasive method of isolating viable human cells present at the site of skin wounds. By analyzing 133 discarded wound dressings from 51 patients with the inherited skin-blistering disease epidermolysis bullosa (EB), we show that large numbers of cells, often in excess of 100 million per day, continually infiltrate wound dressings. We show, that the method is able to differentiate chronic from acute wounds, identifying significant increases in …

Vista: September 15, 2020, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Plasmodium Berghei Laps Form An Extended Protein Complex That Facilitates Crystalloid Targeting And Biogenesis, Annie Z. Tremp, Sadia Saeed, Vikram Sharma, Edwin Lasonder, Johannes T. Dessens

School of Biomedical Sciences

No abstract provided.

Cycle Of Rejection: A Psychoanalytical Reading Of Doris Lessing’S “The Fifth Child”, Widad Allawi Saddam, Rasha Hatem Abed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The children absorb the positive and negative conversation from their parents. Obviously, they response according to their receiving conversations and feeling. Doris Lessing shows the social complex relations between of diverse social character classes and their relationships to social institutions.

Indeed, one of the messages of the novel is that the more individuals and society at large reject the dark side of human nature, the more they relapse into primitive barbarity. The mother in “The fifth child” harbours the feeling of disgust and rejection towards the new born baby which results in more conflict and rejection in the novel.

This …

The Reality Of Huge Industries In Karbala Province In 2017, Maryam Saleh Shafiq

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The success of any country's economy depends mainly on the continuity of the work of industrial enterprises in any region, especially if natural and human resources are invested through the use of the best methods of production, which in turn contributes to increasing national income and thus raising the standard of living of the population and the development of social life. By providing jobs and thus contributing to the low level of unemployment and the transition from the reality of underdevelopment to the reality of industrial and economic development, the number and type of large industrial sectors in Karbala province …

Swell1 Regulates Skeletal Muscle Cell Size, Intracellular Signaling, Adiposity And Glucose Metabolism, Ashutosh Kumar, Litao Xie, Chau My Ta, Antentor O Hinton, Susheel K Gunasekar, Rachel A Minerath, Karen Shen, Joshua M Maurer, Chad E Grueter, E Dale Abel, Gretchen Meyer, Rajan Sah

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Maintenance of skeletal muscle is beneficial in obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Mechanical stimulation can regulate skeletal muscle differentiation, growth and metabolism; however, the molecular mechanosensor remains unknown. Here, we show that SWELL1 (

Structural Characterization Of A Clinically Described Heparin-Like Substance In Plasma Causing Bleeding, Yanlei Yu, Karen Bruzdoski, Vadim Kostousov, Lisa Hensch, Shiu-Ki Hui, Fakiha Siddiqui, Amber Farooqui, Ahmed Kouta, Fuming Zhang, Jawed Fareed, Jun Teruya, Robert J Linhardt

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Heparin-like substances (HLS) have been described in various clinical situations, including in settings of liver disease associated with infection, transplant, and metastasis. HLS are generally attributed to circulating glycosaminoglycans. Initial results for this patient showed coagulopathy due to liver disease without HLS. Two weeks after liver transplantation, a 10 year-old female with liver failure patient began to bleed from catheter insertion sites, mouth, and nares and HLS was suspected. The patient subsequently died and these clinical samples resulted in the isolation of a single heparan sulfate (HS) present at high concentrations in the plasma. Analysis of this HS showed it …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Extent and Importance of Federal Naval Raids on Salt-Making in Florida, 1862-1865 Ella Lonn
A Letter of James Innerarity on William Panton’s Estate
New Books
The Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society.

• Minutes
• Report of the president
• Report of the treasurer
• Membership roll of the Society

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Slavery and White Servitude in East Florida, 1726- 1776 Wilbur H. Siebert
United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-13 Part V. T. Frederick Davis
The Archival Distribution of Florida Manuscripts James Alexander Robertson
Documents Relating to Colonel Edward Nicholls and Captain George Woodbine in Pensacola, 1814

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 9, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Battle of Olustee Col.. George F. Baltzell, U.S.A.
The New City of Pensacola, 1835-1837 Dorothy Dodd
Soldiers Connected With Florida History Since 1812 Gen. Charles P. Summerall
United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-13 Part IV. T. Frederick Davis
A Journal of John Forbes, May, 1803 The Seizure of William Augustus Bowles
Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society

• Minutes
• Annual Report of the President
• Annual Report of the Treasurer
• In Memoriam

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 9, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Letters of John Innerarity The Seizure of Pensacola by Andrew Jackson, November 7, 1814
United States Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-13 Part III T. Frederick Davis
The Significance of William Augustus Bowles’s Seizure of Panton’s Apalachee Store in 1792 Lawrence Kinnaird
New Members
Donations