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Paraventricular Hypothalamus Mediates Diurnal Rhythm Of Metabolism, Eun Ran Kim, Yuanzhong Xu, Ryan M Cassidy, Yungang Lu, Yongjie Yang, Jinbin Tian, De-Pei Li, Rachel Van Drunen, Aleix Ribas-Latre, Zhao-Lin Cai, Mingshan Xue, Benjamin R Arenkiel, Kristin Eckel-Mahan, Yong Xu, Qingchun Tong Jul 2020

Paraventricular Hypothalamus Mediates Diurnal Rhythm Of Metabolism, Eun Ran Kim, Yuanzhong Xu, Ryan M Cassidy, Yungang Lu, Yongjie Yang, Jinbin Tian, De-Pei Li, Rachel Van Drunen, Aleix Ribas-Latre, Zhao-Lin Cai, Mingshan Xue, Benjamin R Arenkiel, Kristin Eckel-Mahan, Yong Xu, Qingchun Tong

Children’s Nutrition Research Center Staff Publications

Defective rhythmic metabolism is associated with high-fat high-caloric diet (HFD) feeding, ageing and obesity; however, the neural basis underlying HFD effects on diurnal metabolism remains elusive. Here we show that deletion of BMAL1, a core clock gene, in paraventricular hypothalamic (PVH) neurons reduces diurnal rhythmicity in metabolism, causes obesity and diminishes PVH neuron activation in response to fast-refeeding. Animal models mimicking deficiency in PVH neuron responsiveness, achieved through clamping PVH neuron activity at high or low levels, both show obesity and reduced diurnal rhythmicity in metabolism. Interestingly, the PVH exhibits BMAL1-controlled rhythmic expression of GABA-A receptor γ2 subunit, and dampening …

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On-Farm Research And Student Engagement To Assess And Promote The Use Of Organic Amendments To Improve Agricultural Soil Health And Resilience Of Crop Production Systems In Nebraska, Agustin Jose Olivo Jul 2020

On-Farm Research And Student Engagement To Assess And Promote The Use Of Organic Amendments To Improve Agricultural Soil Health And Resilience Of Crop Production Systems In Nebraska, Agustin Jose Olivo

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In nearly every production environment, there are opportunities to capture profits if waste streams can be further processed or enhanced to create “value added” products. On-farm research studies were initiated in 2019 at four locations across Nebraska to assess the impacts of livestock manure, cedar mulch from forestry management and coal char from sugar beet processing, on agricultural cropland. Study treatments included beef cattle manure (CM), beef cattle slurry (CS), coal char (CC), woody biomass (WB) CM+WB, CS+WB, CM+CC and control (CON; no organic amendment). Soil properties and corn yield were evaluated after a single growing season. Results indicate that …

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محرمات الطعام والشراب في القرآن الكريم وأثرها في حفظ صحة الإنسان في الحضارة الإسلامية, Mohamed Abu Zeid Jul 2020

محرمات الطعام والشراب في القرآن الكريم وأثرها في حفظ صحة الإنسان في الحضارة الإسلامية, Mohamed Abu Zeid

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What was deprived of food and drink it was harmful to a person's health or himself. In this research, the researcher deals with the prohibitions of food and drink in the Holy Quran, as it explains how the ban of these beverages had a definite impact on the Islamic nation in the best conditions of physical and psychological health. This research will solve according to the inductive and descriptive approach, whereby the researcher will extrapolate the Quranic text and determine the prohibitions of foods and beverages in it, whether they are specific or outlined in the Quranic texts such as …

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Therapeutic Impact Of Fun Learning On Depression Level Among Students At Selected School In Hospital, Premma Kandasamy, Mohd Mokhtar Tahar Jul 2020

Therapeutic Impact Of Fun Learning On Depression Level Among Students At Selected School In Hospital, Premma Kandasamy, Mohd Mokhtar Tahar

Journal of ICSAR

This study aims to look at the effectiveness of therapeutic use of amusement on Depression In School In The Hospital. This study aimed to identify levels of depression among SDH students through behavioral observation using the DSM-5 scale and to explain the therapeutic impact of the amusement-based approach on the depression of SDH students using the Child Depression Inventory. This study used a qualitative approach to collect data. Therefore, this study uses approaches such as observations and interviews. The study population was SDH students/patients at the University of Malaya Medical Centre. The sample consisted of 24 SDH students selected for …

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Snowy Plover Activity In The Central Platte River Valley In May 2019, Bethany L. Ostrom, Andrew J. Caven, Jenna M. Malzahn, Alyx Vogel Jul 2020

Snowy Plover Activity In The Central Platte River Valley In May 2019, Bethany L. Ostrom, Andrew J. Caven, Jenna M. Malzahn, Alyx Vogel

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

During five of eight site visits between 14 and 27 May 2019 we detected up to four Snowy Plovers (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) in the Central Platte River Valley (CPRV) near Mormon Island, Hall County, Nebraska, and recorded their behavior using an instantaneous scan sampling approach. We recorded loafing (47%), foraging (43%), mating (4%), flying (4%), and external threat (1%) related behavior. Most notably, we documented a copulation event on 23 May. During the 10-day span from 14 to 23 May when Snowy Plovers were detected, river stage and discharge were near median levels, but from 23 to 27 …

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Rapid: Covid-19 Induced Cessation Of Ecotourism And Supplemental Feeding: Implications For Wildlife Physiology, Reproduction, And The Microbiome, Susannah S. French Jul 2020

Rapid: Covid-19 Induced Cessation Of Ecotourism And Supplemental Feeding: Implications For Wildlife Physiology, Reproduction, And The Microbiome, Susannah S. French

Funded Research Records

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Placing Elsewhere: Approaches For Physical And Digital Flânerie, Ying-Lan Dann, Liz Lambrou Jul 2020

Placing Elsewhere: Approaches For Physical And Digital Flânerie, Ying-Lan Dann, Liz Lambrou

Interiority

This paper will discuss approaches and tools for physical and digital flânerie that emerged within an RMIT second- and third-year Interior Design Studio, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the third week of classes in March 2020, social distancing measures in Australia led us to transpose urban site-based student projects online. Though unforeseen, this was taken as an opportunity for the interior design studio to explicate modes of physical and digital flânerie, via meandering and looking. We discuss teaching and learning experiences within the digital classroom, which we discovered was a dynamic chat-scape of hyperlinks, fragments, displacements and delays. We …

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Age And Growth Of Predatory Mesopelagic Fishes In A Low-Latitude Oceanic Ecosystem, Natalie Slayden Jul 2020

Age And Growth Of Predatory Mesopelagic Fishes In A Low-Latitude Oceanic Ecosystem, Natalie Slayden

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Mesopelagic and bathypelagic fishes provide important global ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration via the biological pump and provision of food for economically important (billfishes and tuna) and federally protected (cetaceans and seabirds) species. These attributes are becoming increasingly recognized, while simultaneously mesopelagic fisheries are becoming of interest for direct harvest as coastal fisheries have become overexploited. Additionally, climate change, ocean acidification, and seabed mining threaten deep-sea fishes. With increasing interest in deep-sea fisheries and anthropogenic threats, age and growth information on these fishes is necessary for management and conservation. Currently ecosystem models lack data such as sexual maturity and …

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Formal Language Constraints In Deep Reinforcement Learning For Self-Driving Vehicles, Tyler Bienhoff Jul 2020

Formal Language Constraints In Deep Reinforcement Learning For Self-Driving Vehicles, Tyler Bienhoff

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In recent years, self-driving vehicles have become a holy grail technology that, once fully developed, could radically change the daily behaviors of people and enhance safety. The complexities of controlling a car in a constantly changing environment are too immense to directly program how the vehicle should behave in each specific scenario. Thus, a common technique when developing autonomous vehicles is to use reinforcement learning, where vehicles can be trained in simulated and real-world environments to make proper decisions in a wide variety of scenarios. Reinforcement learning models, however, have uncertainties in how the vehicle acts, especially in a previously …

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Simulation Analysis Of Virtual Platform Of Close-Coupling Multiple Robots Combined Lifting System, Su Cheng, Yanlin Wang, Jitao Liu, Zhigang Zhao Jul 2020

Simulation Analysis Of Virtual Platform Of Close-Coupling Multiple Robots Combined Lifting System, Su Cheng, Yanlin Wang, Jitao Liu, Zhigang Zhao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A framework of virtual simulation platform of close-coupling multiple robots combined lifting system was constructed. The model of the multiple robots system was established based on UG. The mathematical model of the mobile robot and the static equilibrium equation of the operated object was established. A collaborative control simulation system was set up based on ADAMS and MATLAB closed loop. In close-coupling multiple robots combined lifting system, according to two different trajectory planning, calculating draw of the mathematical model and the co-simulation model output curves were compared and analyzed to verify the correctness of the mathematical model of the …

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A Rhetorical Analysis Through American Indian/Indigenous Tribal Leadership: The Rhetorics Of Four North American Tribal Leaders, Loyola Bird Jul 2020

A Rhetorical Analysis Through American Indian/Indigenous Tribal Leadership: The Rhetorics Of Four North American Tribal Leaders, Loyola Bird

English Language and Literature ETDs

I establish that there are American Indian rhetoric(s) still in place today, evidenced by the four tribal North American leaders that I interviewed. This dissertation project’s main focus was to examine their rhetorical practices and strategies, situated within tribally local, national and global political contexts. Tribal leaders are responsible for the management and leadership of American Indian/Indigenous nations throughout North America. Therefore, they must continue to create, utilize, and develop rhetorical strategies that enhance the art of persuasion for two different audiences (native and nonnative) for diverse reasons. The rhetorical settings may have changed slightly from when Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute, …

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Pdgfrα-Cre Mediated Knockout Of The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Protects Mice From High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity And Hepatic Steatosis, Francoise A. Gourronc, Kathleen R. Markan, Katarina Kulhankova, Jingpeng Zhu, Zhiyong Zhu, Ryan Sheehy, Dawn E. Quelle, Leonid V. Zingman, Zoya B. Kurago, James A. Ankrum, Aloysius J. Klingelhutz Jul 2020

Pdgfrα-Cre Mediated Knockout Of The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Protects Mice From High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity And Hepatic Steatosis, Francoise A. Gourronc, Kathleen R. Markan, Katarina Kulhankova, Jingpeng Zhu, Zhiyong Zhu, Ryan Sheehy, Dawn E. Quelle, Leonid V. Zingman, Zoya B. Kurago, James A. Ankrum, Aloysius J. Klingelhutz

Faculty and Staff Publications

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) agonists such as dioxin have been associated with obesity and the development of diabetes. Whole-body Ahr knockout mice on high-fat diet (HFD) have been shown to resist obesity and hepatic steatosis. Tissue-specific knockout of Ahr in mature adipocytes via adiponectin-Cre exacerbates obesity while knockout in liver increases steatosis without having significant effects on obesity. Our previous studies demonstrated that treatment of subcutaneous preadipocytes with exogenous or endogenous AHR agonists disrupts maturation into functional adipocytes in vitro. Here, we used platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (Pdgfrα)-Cre mice, a Cre model previously established to knock out genes in …

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Prospects For Rnai Therapy Of Covid-19, Hasan Uludağ, Kylie Parent, Hamidreza Montazeri Aliabadi, Azita Haddadi Jul 2020

Prospects For Rnai Therapy Of Covid-19, Hasan Uludağ, Kylie Parent, Hamidreza Montazeri Aliabadi, Azita Haddadi

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a fast emerging disease with deadly consequences. The pulmonary system and lungs in particular are most prone to damage caused by the SARS-CoV-2 infection, which leaves a destructive footprint in the lung tissue, making it incapable of conducting its respiratory functions and resulting in severe acute respiratory disease and loss of life. There were no drug treatments or vaccines approved for SARS-CoV-2 at the onset of pandemic, necessitating an urgent need to develop effective therapeutics. To this end, the innate RNA interference (RNAi) mechanism can be employed to develop front line therapies against …

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Consider The Agent In The Arthropod, Nicolas Delon, Peter Cook, Gordon Bauer, Heidi Harley Jul 2020

Consider The Agent In The Arthropod, Nicolas Delon, Peter Cook, Gordon Bauer, Heidi Harley

Animal Sentience

Whether or not arthropods are sentient, they can have moral standing. Appeals to sentience are not necessary and retard progress in human treatment of other species, including invertebrates. Other increasingly well-documented aspects of invertebrate minds are pertinent to their welfare. Even if arthropods are not sentient, they can be agents whose goals—and therefore interests—can be frustrated. This kind of agency is sufficient for moral status and requires that we consider their welfare.

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Using Therapeutic Photography Techniques To Increase The Wellbeing Of College Students, Licia Tourigny, Ivelina Naydenova Jul 2020

Using Therapeutic Photography Techniques To Increase The Wellbeing Of College Students, Licia Tourigny, Ivelina Naydenova

Journal of Counseling and Psychology

In this study the benefits of therapeutic photography techniques were analyzed for people with varying degrees of depression and anxiety. In study 1, participants were placed in groups after taking the Beck’s Depression Inventory. After they were placed in groups, they also took Beck’s Anxiety Inventory and the Life Satisfaction Scale. For four weeks, participants were asked to take pictures of what makes them happy and share and discuss them with their groups. After four weeks, they took all three inventories a second time. We found significant results between the pretest and posttest scores of the depression and anxiety inventories; …

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Tasing The Constitution: Conducted Electrical Weapons, Other Forceful Arrest Means, And The Validity Of Subsequent Constitutional Rights Waivers, Andreas Kuersten Jul 2020

Tasing The Constitution: Conducted Electrical Weapons, Other Forceful Arrest Means, And The Validity Of Subsequent Constitutional Rights Waivers, Andreas Kuersten

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Conducted electrical weapons (CEWs)—the most famous and widely used of which are offered under the TASER brand—are ubiquitous tools of law enforcement, carried by the vast majority of law enforcement officers and routinely deployed. These devices subdue targets by coursing electric current through their bodies, thereby causing individuals to collapse as their muscles involuntarily contract. Yet this method of operation has raised concerns—voiced by researchers, advocates, and criminal defendants alike—that CEWs influence cognitive capacity in addition to muscle function as electric current potentially transits through the brain via the central nervous system. In the context of an arrest, this implicates …

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The Well-Stocked Bookshelf, Ed Spicer Jul 2020

The Well-Stocked Bookshelf, Ed Spicer

Michigan Reading Journal

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Of Cabbages And Kings: Reviews Of Children's Books, Lynette M. Autrey, Kelly House, Tara Mulvany, Kathleen Plond, Katharine Rener, Leah Van Belle, Melanie Zamborowski Jul 2020

Of Cabbages And Kings: Reviews Of Children's Books, Lynette M. Autrey, Kelly House, Tara Mulvany, Kathleen Plond, Katharine Rener, Leah Van Belle, Melanie Zamborowski

Michigan Reading Journal

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The Effects Of Home Literacy Bags On Kindergarteners' Concepts Of Print, Anne M. Kaman Jul 2020

The Effects Of Home Literacy Bags On Kindergarteners' Concepts Of Print, Anne M. Kaman

Michigan Reading Journal

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Scaffolds For Content Literacy, Vanessa B. Morrison, Sherrie Wiedyk, Ryan Cornelius Jul 2020

Scaffolds For Content Literacy, Vanessa B. Morrison, Sherrie Wiedyk, Ryan Cornelius

Michigan Reading Journal

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The Well-Stocked Bookshelf: Reviews Of Books For Young Adults, Ed Spicer, Marguerite Foshee, Katie Rener Jul 2020

The Well-Stocked Bookshelf: Reviews Of Books For Young Adults, Ed Spicer, Marguerite Foshee, Katie Rener

Michigan Reading Journal

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Of Cabbages And Kings: Reviews Of Books For Children, Nicole Armstrong, Shannon Dusute, Julie Kayganich, Tara Mulvany, Nicole Podsiadlik, Katie Rener, Rhonda Turner, Maggie Wunderlich, Melanie Zamborowski Jul 2020

Of Cabbages And Kings: Reviews Of Books For Children, Nicole Armstrong, Shannon Dusute, Julie Kayganich, Tara Mulvany, Nicole Podsiadlik, Katie Rener, Rhonda Turner, Maggie Wunderlich, Melanie Zamborowski

Michigan Reading Journal

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Great Lakes Great Books In Your Classroom, Lynette Marten Suckow Jul 2020

Great Lakes Great Books In Your Classroom, Lynette Marten Suckow

Michigan Reading Journal

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For The Love Of Literature: Book Selection, Laura Apol Jul 2020

For The Love Of Literature: Book Selection, Laura Apol

Michigan Reading Journal

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Great Lakes Great Books Award Reviews, Lynette Marten Suckow Jul 2020

Great Lakes Great Books Award Reviews, Lynette Marten Suckow

Michigan Reading Journal

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For The Love Of Literature: Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction, Laura Apol Jul 2020

For The Love Of Literature: Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction, Laura Apol

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

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A Graphic Novel Project For Identifying Scholarly Journals And Supporting Classroom Instruction Of Informational Text, Nancy Gibney, Sue Homant Jul 2020

A Graphic Novel Project For Identifying Scholarly Journals And Supporting Classroom Instruction Of Informational Text, Nancy Gibney, Sue Homant

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Acquisition Of English Relative Clauses By University Students Of English In Jordan, Alaa Al-Maani, Lutfi Abu Al-Haija Jul 2020

The Acquisition Of English Relative Clauses By University Students Of English In Jordan, Alaa Al-Maani, Lutfi Abu Al-Haija

Jordanian Educational Journal

This study investigated the acquisition of English relative clauses by Jordanian EFL learners. It also examined whether the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH) for the acquisition of relative clauses proposed by Keenan and Comrie (1977) is applicable to Jordanian EFL learners. Moreover, the study investigated whether there is a relationship between participants' production of relative clauses and their proficiency level. Sixty undergraduate students of English completed a sentence combination task. In general, the results indicated that Jordanian EFL learners are good at producing relative clauses. However, their performance was influenced by their proficiency level whereby advanced learners outperformed intermediate learners. …

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القيم الوطنية في شعر محمود مفلح, منال الرياشي Jul 2020

القيم الوطنية في شعر محمود مفلح, منال الرياشي

Hebron University Research Journal-B (Humanities) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- ب (العلوم الانسانيه

Poetry is a life translator, the pulse of the heart, reflections of reality, selfrevealing detector, and detecting thoughts through it. Through its words, animated pictures with their colors, is drawn patterns and inventions. Poetry displays the scenes of life as it senses in front of the recipients, sneaks into their intents and steal their hearts. The Palestinian poet of expatriation (Mahmoud Mufleh) was able to stimulate the sentiments, to give brightness to the darkness, and to take his recipient into reality, portraying the struggle of his people, his sacrifice, his belonging, his adherence and his unity, where the lens of …

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His And Hers: Gender-Specific Design In Mid-Twentieth Century North America Through Film And Television, Morgan O'Shaughnessy Jul 2020

His And Hers: Gender-Specific Design In Mid-Twentieth Century North America Through Film And Television, Morgan O'Shaughnessy

Architecture Masters of Science Program: Theses

The built environment exists as a variety of ‘spaces’ which are constructed by, and for, the people who occupy them. What is the relationship between social constructs of gender and our built environment in the 20th century? How does film and television representing the mid-20th century exemplify this relationship? The overall theme of this topic will include a positive relationship between social gender constructs and our built environment. Through the exploration of select film and television, this study attempts to answer the question of how gender-focused design reinforces traditional gender roles in North American society in mid-20th …

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