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Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - November 13, 2020, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the November 13, 2020 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• Video now online: 'Advances in Lung Cancer Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment'
• Pediatric grand rounds: Early hearing detection and intervention
• Students enjoy opening of COM Medical Student Center
• Ob-Gyn Interest Group hosts menstrual product drive
• State health officer to speak at public health grand rounds

Forward Together Update [Update To The Panther Health Survey], November 13, 2020, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Response to COVID-19

Explains the update to the Panther Health Survey based on new guidance from the Black Hawk County Health Department. Questions were revised to include the household members as a component of determining COVID exposure.

Multiple Covid-19 Outbreaks Linked To A Wedding Reception In Rural Maine — August 7–September 14, 2020, Parag Mahale Mbbs, Phd, Craig Rothfuss Mpa, Mph, Sarah Bly, Megan Kelley, Siiri Bennett Md, Sara L. Huston Phd, Sara Robinson

Population Health & Health Policy

Summary

What is already known about this topic?

Large gatherings pose a high risk for SARS-CoV-2 transmission.

What is added by this report?

A wedding reception with 55 persons in a rural Maine town led to COVID-19 outbreaks in the local community, as well as at a long-term care facility and a correctional facility in other counties. Overall, 177 COVID-19 cases were linked to the event, including seven hospitalizations and seven deaths (four in hospitalized persons). Investigation revealed noncompliance with CDC’s recommended mitigation measures.

What are the implications for public health practice?

To mitigate transmission, persons should avoid large gatherings, …

Sex Workers And The Best Interests Of Their Children: Identifying Issues Faced By Sex Workers Involved In Custody And Access Legal Proceedings, Julie Eleanor Dewolf

LLM Theses

Sex worker parents often lose custody of their children. The purpose of this research was to determine what impact the status of a parent as a past or present sex worker has had on judicial decision-making in custody and access disputes. Through doctrinal legal research, I explored judicial treatment of sex worker parents in custody and access disputes in Ontario Child Protection and Family Law case law. Parental involvement in sex work was often presented as an unfavourable aspect of the parent, or otherwise had a negative influence on their claim. Sex work was treated as a negative quality in …

Osl Newsletter, Office Of Student Life

Newsletters

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2020-11-13_Michigandaily_Covidmap, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Daily Michigan COVID-19 Update

The "WHERE WE STAND WITH COVID-19" map was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus. Data was compiled by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The information was updated daily at 3p.m., Monday - Saturday.

The State of Michigan is working around the clock to test and treat COVID-19 patients. Below is the most recent data healthcare experts across the state have compiled.

The image contained a map, indicating total cases by county, and also provides statistics on Total Confirmed Cases, Total COVID-19 Deaths, Daily Confirmed Cases, and Daily COVID-19 Deaths. There …

Child Food Insecurity In Nevada Counties, 2018, Ally Beckwith, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Health

This fact sheet synthesizes data on the child hunger discrepancies in Nevada counties from the Feeding America 2018 Map the Meal Gap Study. The information focuses on food insecurity experienced by children, and the food budget shortfall in Nevada.

2020-11-13_Michiganoverview_Covidbedppe, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Hospital Data

The webpage was obtained from Michigan's Coronavirus Cumulative Data page, under the link Data About Places. Data is self-reported by hospitals daily to the EM Resource System per MDHHS Director Robert Gordon's Emergency Order.

Contains the tables Statewide Hospital Capacity Report for COVID-19, COVID-19 Metrics, Statewide Hospital Available PPE Tracking for COVID-19, as well as the tables PPE Days On Hand and Patient Census.

2020-11-13_Michiganoverview_Covidsymptoms, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Syndromic Surveillance System Data

The Syndromic Surveillance System Data report was obtained from Michigan's COVID-19 dashboard, from under the link "​Coronavirus Symptoms": https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus. Data was compiled by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The information was updated daily.

Syndromic Surveillance System data is obtained from approximately 183 facilities participating in syndromic surveillance (132 Emergency Departments (ED), 51 Urgent Cares) across the State of Michigan. The reporting is based on individuals who present at EDs and may not be representative of the overall population. The coronavirus-like symptoms query searches visit free-text (chief complaint, triage notes, and clinical impression) for fever or …

2020-11-13_Michiganoverview_Covidstats, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Cumulative Michigan COVID-19 Data

The COVID Overview page was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https:/www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163-520743--,00.html.

The State of Michigan is working around the clock to test and treat COVID-19 patients. Below is the most recent data healthcare experts across the state have compiled. It is updated Monday - Saturday.
This report is provisional and subject to change. City of Detroit and Wayne County are reported separately. MDHHS began tracking probable cases April 5, 2020. FCI indicates federal correctional institute. MDOC indicates Michigan Department of Corrections. Diagnostic tests, including nucleic acid amplification/real-time polymerase chain reaction (NAAT/RT-PCR) and rapid virus antigen detection point of …

The Role Of "Commercial Morality" In Trade Secret Doctrine, Lynda J. Oswald

Notre Dame Law Review

The approaching anniversary of E.I. duPont deNemours & Co. v. Christopher is the impetus for this exploration and evaluation of the role of “commercial morality” in trade secret misappropriation doctrine. Christopher is the well-known industrial espionage case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that flying an airplane over an under-construction manufacturing facility to take photos of briefly-but-inevitably exposed trade secrets was an “improper means” of accessing a trade secret and was contrary to standards of “commercial morality.”

Commercial morality has played a significant but shifting role in trade secret law over the past seven …

Gtpbp1 Resolves Paused Ribosomes To Maintain Neuronal Homeostasis., Markus Terrey, Scott I Adamson, Alana L Gibson, Tianda Deng, Ryuta Ishimura, Jeffrey Chuang, Susan L Ackerman

Faculty Research 2020

Ribosome-associated quality control pathways respond to defects in translational elongation to recycle arrested ribosomes and degrade aberrant polypeptides and mRNAs. Loss of a tRNA gene leads to ribosomal pausing that is resolved by the translational GTPase GTPBP2, and in its absence causes neuron death. Here, we show that loss of the homologous protein GTPBP1 during tRNA deficiency in the mouse brain also leads to codon-specific ribosome pausing and neurodegeneration, suggesting that these non-redundant GTPases function in the same pathway to mitigate ribosome pausing. As observed in

Coronavirus Update 11-13-20, The Coronavirus Planning Team

University Briefings & Virtual Events

Active Cases --Rollovers for Meal Plans --Updated Exit Guidance for College Students from the Department of Health.

The Historical Origins Of Judicial Religious Exemptions, Stephanie H. Barclay

Notre Dame Law Review

The Supreme Court has recently expressed a renewed interest in the question of when the Free Exercise Clause requires exemptions from generally applicable laws. While scholars have vigorously debated what the historical evidence has to say about this question, the conventional wisdom holds that judicially created exemptions would have been a new or extraordinary means of protecting religious exercise—a sea change in the American approach to judicial review when compared to the English common law.

This Article, however, questions that assumption and looks at this question from a broader perspective. When one views judicial decisions through the lens of equitable …

Diet Behaviors, Physical Activity, And Sociodemographic Factors In A Sample Of Racially Diverse Adults: A Secondary Analysis Of Nhanes (2017-2018) Data, Fatemeh Choupani

Dissertations

Background: The prevalence of obesity is increasing among adults in the United States and is related to a high risk to health. Obesity has been linked to lifestyle behaviors such as diet behaviors and physical activity.

Purpose: This study aimed to determine if an association exits between foods prepared outside of the home, walking or biking, vigorous/moderate recreational activities, sociodemographic factors and the outcomes, body mass index, percentage of body fat, and waist circumference.

Method: A secondary analysis was conducted using data from 3942 adults from the U.S. aged 20 years, as recorded in the National Health …

Mental Health Literacy In A Diverse Sample Of Undergraduate Students: Demographic, Psychological, And Academic Correlates, Rona Miles, Laura Rabin, Anjali Krishnan, Evan Grandoit, Kamil Kloskowski

Publications and Research

Background: Investigating variables associated with mental health literacy in the college-age population takes us one step closer to providing intervention for this vulnerable group, where growing rates of psychological disorders are a serious public concern. This study adds to the existing literature by incorporating, within a single model, multi-faceted variables (demographic, psychological, and academic) that contribute to mental health literacy in demographically and ethnically diverse college students.

Methods: Participants were undergraduate students enrolled at nine different colleges that are part of a large, urban, public university system. A total of 1213 respondents (62.0% female, 73.3% non-white) completed an in- person …

Mayors Partner With Live Healthsmart Alabama To Bring Covid-19 Testing To Their Communities, Staff

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2020-November-13-Railroad Museum Anniversary, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Nov. 13, 2020) – The George L. Carter Railroad Museum on the campus of East Tennessee State University will mark its 13^th year of operation on Saturday, Nov. 14. 

Dedicated by former ETSU President Dr. Paul E. Stanton Jr. in 2007, the railroad museum has continued to grow in size and popularity for more than a decade.  It hosts thousands of visitors annually even though it is only open to the public for five hours each Saturday.  It has become a vessel to remind the public of the importance of railroads in regional history. 

Johnson City was …

2020-November-13-Tniph To Expand Correctional Career Pathways, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Ginny Kidwell, TNIPH Executive Director

“Reintegrating inmates as contributing members of society will positively impact the social and economic well-being of participating communities by redirecting money and social capital and by strengthening families."

JOHNSON CITY (Nov. 13, 2020) – The Tennessee Institute of Public Health (TNIPH) at the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health has been awarded a second grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to further expand the Correctional Career Pathways program in Appalachian Tennessee.

The first of its kind in the state, and possibly nationally, the Correctional Career Pathways (CCP) program began in the Greene …

A Pilot Study Comparing The Efficacy Of Lactate Dehydrogenase Levels Versus Circulating Cell-Free Micrornas In Monitoring Responses To Checkpoint Inhibitor Immunotherapy In Metastatic Melanoma Patients., Matias A Bustos, Rebecca Gross, Negin Rahimzadeh, Hunter Cole, Linh T Tran, Kevin Tran, Ling Takeshima, Stacey L Stern, Steven O'Day, Dave Hoon

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is a standard prognostic biomarker for stage IV melanoma patients. Often, LDH levels do not provide real-time information about the metastatic melanoma patients' disease status and treatment response. Therefore, there is a need to find reliable blood biomarkers for improved monitoring of metastatic melanoma patients who are undergoing checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy (CII). The objective in this prospective pilot study was to discover circulating cell-free microRNA (cfmiR) signatures in the plasma that could assess melanoma patients' responses during CII. The cfmiRs were evaluated by the next-generation sequencing (NGS) HTG EdgeSeq microRNA (miR) Whole Transcriptome Assay (WTA; 2083 …

The American Law Of Overruling Necessity: The Exceptional Origins Of State Police Power, William J. Novak

Book Chapters

One of the most significant legal-constitutional moments in the history of the American republic occurred in the Confederation Congress on September 26 and 27, 1787. On those dates, the handiwork of the historic Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was now "laid before the United States in Congress assembled." And the momentous question for the extant official lawmaking body of the US government was what to do next. Under Article 1 3 of the Articles of Confederation, any alteration of the articles had to be agreed to by Congress and confirmed by the legislatures of every state. Notably, the Philadelphia convention had …

2020 November 13 - Board Of Trustees Finance And Administration Committee Agenda And Minutes, Board Of Trustees, East Tennessee State University

Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes

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Ucc Minutes Nov 13, 2020, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Undergraduate Currirculum Committee Minutes

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A Reflection Of Real Time Educational, Within-Subjects Data In Diverse Classrooms: One-Way Anova As A Solution To Data With Nonignorable Missingness And Skew, Amilynn N. Campa

Honors Program Theses and Research Projects

Schools across the United States and throughout the world administer tests to students to evaluate their academic performance. In many instances, however, especially in classrooms with higher populations of racial/ethnic minorities and low SES students, there are often missing scores, attributed to higher rates of absenteeism among these demographics (Callahan, 2019; Friedman-Krauss & Raver, 2015; Evans, 2004). When evaluating within subjects, longitudinal data, many will utilize a pre, post significance test such as a paired samples T test or a Repeated Measures ANOVA, however, due to the assumptions of these tests, missing data has posed a problem and requires data …

Informed, Aware, Alive, Henry Handley

University Libraries Blog Archive

A UD librarian shares information and resources for Transgender Day of Remembrance and Trans Awareness Week.

Daily Eastern News: November 13, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

November

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E-Museletter: November 2020, William Taylor Muse Law Library

Museletter

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Ethoxylation And Polymerization Of Cardanol Derived Bifunctional Monomers, James Mgaya

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Cardanol and its derivative; 3-(non-8-enyl)phenol (obtained by ethenolysis reaction of cardanol) were ethoxylated via one-pot reaction with urea and ethylene glycol using Na2CO3/ZnO as co-catalysts. The ethoxylates were later methoxycarbonylated using a 1,2-bis(ditertbutylphosphinomethyl)benzene (DTBPMB) modified palladium catalyst to produce ethoxylated bifunctional monomers. Polymerization of these monomers by heating in the presence of a standard polymerization catalyst, Ti(OBu)4, formed oligomers that were plastic-like. Analysis of these oligomers by MALDI-TOF MS indicated the condensation of up to nine monomer units.

2020 Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall Of Fame: Conversation With The Honorees, Session 2, Jason E. Farley, Vanora Hundley, Susan M. Latter, Karen A. Monsen

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Attendees will experience the opportunity to hear International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame honorees discuss their work and their research journeys. Session moderated by 2019-2021 President, Richard Ricciardi, PhD, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN.

2020 Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall Of Fame: Conversation With The Honorees, Session 4, Connie White Delaney, Carol M. Musil, Jacquelyn Taylor

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Attendees will experience the opportunity to hear International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame honorees discuss their work and their research journeys. Session moderated by 2019-2021 President, Richard Ricciardi, PhD, CRNP, FAANP, FAAN.