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Simulated Seawater Flooding Reduces Oilseed Rape Growth, Yield And Progeny Performance, Mick E. Hanley, Francesca C. Hartley, Louise Hayes, Miguel Franco

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Background and Aims Of the many threats to global food security, one of the most pressing is the increased incidence of extreme weather events. In addition to extreme rainfall, a combination of global sea level rise and storm surge is likely to result in frequent episodes of seawater flooding in arable systems along low-lying coasts. Our aim was to elucidate the effects of simulated seawater and freshwater flooding on the survival, growth and reproductive potential of four cultivars of the important seed crop, Brassica napus [canola, or oilseed rape (OSR)]. Methods Established plants were exposed to 24 or 96 h …

Approval Of Curricula Actions - Graduate Committee Minutes - January 2020, Y'Lonne Hodges

Faculty Senate: Index

Georgia Southern University's Faculty Senate has approved the Graduate Committee meeting minutes, which includes approved curricula actions.

Changes In Health Behaviors And Outcomes Following Graduation From Higher Education, Oliver W A Wilson, Peter J. Matthews, Michele Duffey, Zack Papalia, Melissa Bopp

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 13(5): 131-139, 2020. The purpose of this study was to examine changes in health behaviors and outcomes of higher education (college) students following graduation. Undergraduate students (n= 206) enrolled at a large, northeastern United States university in general education health and wellness courses were assessed pre and post-graduation. Participants self-reported their demographics, physical activity behaviors, dietary behaviors, sleep, and stress pre and post-graduation via an online survey. Paired sample t-tests examined changes health behaviors pre and post-graduation. Following graduation, fruit and vegetable consumption increased significantly, moderate physical activity declined significantly, and both vigorous …

Whole-Body Vibration Training In Frail, Skilled Nursing Home Residents, Brandon Grubbs, Arturo Figueroa, Jeong-Su Kim, Robert Contreras, Karla Schmitt, Lynn Panton

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 13(3): 140-156, 2020. Frailty is a geriatric syndrome characterized by diminished muscle strength, endurance, and weakened physical function. Physical frailty is often unaddressed clinically as it tends to manifest among chronic illnesses and sarcopenia, and consensus criteria for frailty diagnosis remains elusive. Whole-body vibration training (WBVT) has been used to improve deficits in lower body muscular strength and functional performance in healthy and high functioning older adults; therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of WBVT on physical frailty in skilled nursing home residents. This study compared the effects of 12 …

Wednesdays Are All About Eating Well, Haley Herfurth

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Metformin Uptake And Translocation In Chickpeas: Determination Using Liquid Chromatography−Mass Spectrometry, Brett Nespor, Anastasia Andrianova, Sean Pollack, Creighton Pfau, Muhammad Arifuzzaman, Nazrul Islam, Alena Kubatova, Khwaja Hossain

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, arthritis, asthma, and common respiratory problems are prevalent in over one-fourth of Americans, and separate drugs are prescribed to manage each of the diseases. The nutritive crop seeds loaded with multiple drugs could be a cheap and sustainable alternative to drugs produced by pharmaceutical companies. Our long-term goal is to produce chickpea seeds containing comparable dosages of multiple drugs regularly prescribed for managing MCC. In this work, we conducted experiments to understand the uptake and translocation of metformin into the tissues of chickpea to demonstrate the applicability of LC–HR-ToF-MS in …

Edge In Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: How Does It Compare To Laparoscopy-Assisted And Balloon Enteroscopy Ercp: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Banreet Singh Dhindsa, Amaninder Dhaliwal, Babu P. Mohan, Harmeet Singh Mashiana, Mohit Girotra, Gordon Ohning, Ishfaq Bhat, Douglas G. Adler

School of Medicine Faculty Research

Background and study aims Endoscopic ultrasound-directed transgastric ERCP (EDGE) is a new endoscopic procedure to perform ERCP in Roux-en-y gastric bypass (RYGB) patients. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate technical success, clinical success and adverse effects of EDGE and compare it to laparoscopic ERCP (LA-ERCP) and balloon ERCP (BE-ERCP). Patients and methods We conducted a comprehensive search of several databases and conference proceedings including PubMed, EMBASE, Google-Scholar, LILACS, SCOPUS, and Web of Science databases to identify studies reporting on EDGE, LA-ERCP, and BE-ERCP. The primary outcome was to evaluate technical and …

January 22, 2020, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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A Multicenter Case Control Study Of Association Of Vitamin D With Breast Cancer Among Women In Karachi, Pakistan, Uzma Shamsi, Shaista Khan, Syed Iqbal Azam, Aysha Habib, Amir Maqbool, Mohammad Hanif, Tiffany Gill, Romaina Iqbal, David Callen

Community Health Sciences

Background: The prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy and breast cancer are both high among women living in Karachi, Pakistan.
Methods: A matched case control study was conducted in two hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan to evaluate the association of vitamin D (serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D) concentrations, vitamin D supplementation and sun exposure with breast cancer among Pakistani women. A total of 411 newly diagnosed histologically confirmed primary breast cancer cases were enrolled and 784 controls, free of breast and any other cancers, were matched by age (year of birth ± 5 years), residence in the same geographic area and study site. Information …

Relationship Between Sleep And Obesity Among U.S. And South Korean College Students, Jaesin Sa, Siyoung Choe, Beom-Young Cho, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Gyurin Kim, Chae-Hee Park, Joon Chung, Yoojin Choi, Beatrice Nelson, Yongkyu Kim

Background

Little is known about the relationship between sleep and obesity in young adults, particularly college students. This study examined the relationship between sleep (i.e., sleep duration and quality) and obesity in a large and diverse binational sample of college students.

Methods

Analyses were based on a 40-item paper survey from 2016/2017 to 2017/2018 academic years, with a 72% response rate. The samples were 1578 college students aged 18–25 years from five universities (two in the U.S. and three in South Korea). Weight and height were measured objectively; other measures (e.g., health behaviors) were self-reported. Multinomial logistic regression was used …

Validation And Human Factor Analysis Study Of An Infant Weight Estimation Device., Susan M. Abdel-Rahman, Ian M. Paul, Paula Delmore, Jia-Yuh Chen, Mary Mills, Rachel G. Greenberg, Best Pharmaceuticals For Children Act – Pediatric Trials Network

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Weight is critical for the medical management of infants; however, scales can be unavailable or inaccessible in some practice settings. We recently developed and validated a robust infant weight estimation method based on chest circumference (CC) and head circumference (HC). This study was designed to determine the human factors (HF) experience with, and predictive performance of, an infant weight estimation device that implements this method.

METHODS: Prospective, multi-center, observational, masked study of 486 preterm and term infants (0-90 days) assessed by 15 raters. Raters measured the infant using calibrated scales/measures and masked versions of the device. Raters also evaluated …

Spatial Variability Of Soil Phosphorus In Grazing Systems, Mark Trotter, Warwick B. Badgery, Joshua Barron, Chris Guppy, Rebecca Haling, David Mitchell, Geoff Millar

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Phosphorus (P) use efficiency has been identified as a key issue for Australian grazing systems. This project examined the spatial variability in soil P concentration from two separate surveys of grazed pasture fields. A field on the central tablelands of NSW had a range in Bray P of 1.2 to 140 mg/kg and a COV of 107%. The other field on the northern tablelands of NSW reported a range in Colwell P from 13.0 to 121.1 mg/kg and a COV of 59%. Maps of the spatial variability of soil P demonstrated that there is a relationship with field elevation. Application …

Experimental And Computational Tools For Single Cell Analysis In Cancer Diagnostics, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Substantial evidence shows that cellular heterogeneity commonly exists within an isogenic or clonal population. Whether in isolation or caused through a combination of the above events, cellular heterogeneity can dramatically influence cellular decision making and cell fate, however, this can be masked by the average response from a population. One approach to solve this issue is to analyze a population at the individual cell level. The goal of this work is to develop high-throughput experimental and computational platforms to screen and quantify single cancer cells for specific intracellular enzyme activities. An interdisciplinary approach was taken to 1) better understand the …

Alternative For Intensification Of Beef Production Under Grazing, Valéria P. B. Euclides, Kepler Euclides Filho, Denise B. Montagner, Geraldo Ramos Figueiredo, Flávia Da Conceição Lopes

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

One of the challenges to overcome in order to assure the position occupied by Brazil as one of the most important players in the world beef market is to design sustainable technological alternatives, which will maintain a constant uniform beef supply all year round. This crucial problem could be solved by using more intensively, the alternatives available for pastures management and feed supplement-ation. However, the potential results created by these strategies might be better explored by using the right choice of animals as far as genetic group and weaning weight is concerned. Thus, in order to fulfill this goal it …

The Nutritional Status Of Japanese Black Breeding Cows Grazed In A Larger Abandoned Paddy Field, Motohiko Ishida, Naoki Matsumoto, Yojiro Maki, Jyunichi Tanimoto, Kohei Takahashi, Keigo Asano, Mizuho Ogino

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Because rice consumption has decreased in Japan, the number of abandoned paddy fields has increased. Some of the abandoned paddy fields are being used for livestock grazing, effectively using the abandoned fields and reducing the production costs on livestock farms. Such grazing may use an integrated grazing system of scattered small pastures where each of the small abandoned paddy fields scattered in a given agriculture area is defined as one grazing yard, and a herd consisting of two or three head of cattle is moved from one grazing yard to another. However, because the number of abandoned paddy fields has …

Pasture Grass Conversion In Digestive Tract Of Red Deer Over Different Grazing Periods, Imants Jansons, Ira I. Vitina, Vera Krastina, Aleksandrs Jemeljanovs, Sallija Cerina, Biruta Lujane, Baiba Osmane, Liga Proskina

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Deer farming is an alternative to traditional animal farming which also promotes a more economic use of pasture grass resources in Latvia. 61 holdings of farmed red deer and fallow deer have been registered in this country (Paeglits et al. 2006). Over the summer season, pasture grass is the main feed source for red deer (Cervus elaphus) (Miller 2004). No matter how much feed animals get, it is of no use unless it can be digested. This is the process that happens in the stomach and gut, when the feed is broken down (Tuckwell 2003).

The goal …

A Novel Smart Biomucoadhesent From Phoenix Sylvestris Fruit Pulp, Ashok K. Shakya, Pragati Shakya

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

Phoenix . Sylvestrise belongs to Arecaceae family is also known as the date palm. It is widely available in India. The aim of our research work was to isolate a novel biomucoadhesent from phoenix sylvestris (PS) fruit pulp. The fruit of the plant have potential nutraceuticals and fibers to be used as a food supplements for nutrition. The fruit pulp is rich of minerals. acid, flavanoids, vitamins etc. The fruit pulp was isolated by a simplified. economic process and was evaluated for its various physicochemical properties like solubility, Particle si7e, viscosity, angle of repose, Carrs index, Hausner’s ratio, color, texture, …

The Adverse Effects Of Stereotyping And Bias On Health In Low Socioeconomic Communities, Stephanie Jurado

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Studies have shown that low socioeconomic status negatively affects health due to factors such as unstable access to secure environments, full-coverage healthcare, and quality of education. Members of these communities face further health adversities when confronting healthcare staff who are blind to these challenges, and more, that they experience. Several studies examined in this paper looked specifically at the intersects of low socioeconomic status and how they negatively affected the healthcare experience of individuals of these communities. Others demonstrate how having healthcare staff be knowledgeable of these adverse effects can lead to positive changes in the health of these community …

Wellness Tips To Get You Over The New Year's Resolution Slump, Adam Pope

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Micom: Metagenome-Scale Modeling To Infer Metabolic Interactions In The Gut Microbiota., Christian Diener, Sean M Gibbons, Osbaldo Resendis-Antonio

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Compositional changes in the gut microbiota have been associated with a variety of medical conditions such as obesity, Crohn's disease, and diabetes. However, connecting microbial community composition to ecosystem function remains a challenge. Here, we introduce MICOM, a customizable metabolic model of the human gut microbiome. By using a heuristic optimization approach based on L2 regularization, we were able to obtain a unique set of realistic growth rates that corresponded well with observed replication rates. We integrated adjustable dietary and taxon abundance constraints to generate personalized metabolic models for individual metagenomic samples. We applied MICOM to a balanced cohort of …

Big Move Leads To Unh, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

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Contrasting Root System Structure And Belowground Interactions Between Black Spruce (Picea Mariana (Mill.) B.S.P) And Trembling Aspen (Populus Tremuloides Michx) In Boreal Mixedwoods Of Eastern Canada, Claudele Ghotsa Mekontchou, Daniel Houle, Yves Bergeron, Igor Drobyshev

Aspen Bibliography

This study explored the underground interactions between black spruce and trembling aspen in pure and mixed stands to understand how their soil resource use help these species coexist in the boreal mixedwoods of Western Quebec. We analyzed species-specific fine root foraging strategies (root biomass and root tissue density) along three soil layers (organic, top 0–15 cm, and bottom 15–30 cm mineral soil), using 180 soil cores. We collected cores in three sites, each containing three 20 × 50 m2 plots of pure spruce, pure aspen, and mixed spruce and aspen stands. Spruce had a shallow rooting, whereas aspen had a …

Approved Courses, January 21, 2020, Individual Course Committee

Individual Course Committee (ICC)

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Sodium Propionate And Sodium Butyrate Promote Fatty Acid Oxidation In Hepg2 Cells Under Oxidative Stress, Kristina Jazmin Cook

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a spectrum of disturbances that includes simple steatosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. NAFLD affects individuals that consume the typical Western diet consisting of high levels of fats and carbohydrates. The increase in circulating free fatty acids, palmitate and oleate, or lipopolysaccharides (LPS), induce oxidative stress and pro-inflammatory cytokine production in the liver, which all contribute to NAFLD progression. In this study, we are evaluating the mRNA expression of genes associated with fatty acid oxidation (FAO) and the protein expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines related to NAFLD using the HepG2 human liver …

Predictors Of Quality Of Life Of Elderly End-Stage Renal Disease Patients: An Application Of Roy's Model, Celia G. Hay

Dissertations

There is increasing recognition that what matters most to chronically ill patients is how well they are able to function and how they evaluate the quality of day-to-life. Understanding the impact of chronic illness and associated treatment on functioning and well-being in the physical and psychosocial dimensions of older people's lives is essential. In 2004, over half of all new patients starting dialysis were 65 years of age or older (USRDS, 2004). The physical and psychosocial impact of end-stage renal disease may lead older hemodialysis patients to withdraw from treatment and die from uremia, rather than live with seriously diminished …

Investigating The Relationship Between Corticosterone And Glucose In A Reptile, Lorin A. Neuman-Lee, Spencer B. Hudson, Alison C. Webb, Susannah S. French

Biology Faculty Publications

The glucocorticoid hormone corticosterone (CORT) has classically been used in ecophysiological studies as a proxy for stress and energy mobilization, but rarely are CORT and the energy metabolites themselves concurrently measured. To examine CORT's role in mobilizing glucose in a wild reptile, we conducted two studies. The first study measured natural baseline and stress-induced blood-borne CORT and glucose levels in snakes during spring emergence and again when snakes return to the denning sites in autumn. The second study manipulated the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis in male snakes in the autumn by taking a baseline blood sample, then subjecting individuals to one …

The Art Of Influencing Consumer Choices: A Reflection On Recent Advances In Decision Neuroscience, Nadège Bault, Elena Rusconi

School of Psychology

In recent years, our knowledge concerning the neurobiology of choice has increased tremendously. Research in the field of decision-making has identified important brain mechanisms by which a representation of the subjective value of an option is built based on previous experience, retrieved and compared to that of other available options in order to make a choice. One body of research, in particular, has focused on simple value-based choices (e.g., choices between two types of fruits) to study situations very similar to our daily life decisions as consumers. The use of neuroimaging techniques has deepened and refined our knowledge of decision …

Effect Of Plant Spacing On The Growth And Yield Of Forage Plant, Maize, Intercropped With Cowpea (Vigna Unguiculata Sub Spp. Sesquipedalis), Kelechi A. Ike, Leonard C. Nwaigbo, Ugochukwu H. Ukpabi, Sunday N. Ukachukwu, Olufemi S. Onifade, Uchenna Y. Anele, Princewill N. Njoku

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Feed constraint is the most important impediment to improved livestock production in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries (Agyemang 2003), as a result of seasonal shortages in the quantity and quality of forage from natural pastures that supply most of the feed for animals due to the prolonged annual dry season. Appropriate technologies to improve the performance of the local animal breeds and feed resources under the traditional system are generally lacking. Maize forms a major part of the cereal crops consumed by man and the residues serve as a source of fodder for livestock (Asawalam and Adesiyan 2001). Demand for …

Converge Development Of Biotechnology And Information Technology, Liu Xiao, Wang Yue, Mao Kaiyun, Fan Yuelei, Tao Cheng, Chen Daming

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Life is an open information system that is self-replicating, adaptive, and self-organizing. The collection, processing, storage, integration, and analysis of biological information based on modern information technology (IT) propel life science research into the Fourth Paradigm of "Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery", which definitely will make biotechnology (BT) toward a quantitative, computable, controllable, and predictable direction. Meanwhile, from the expression and regulation of genes to the information exchange and processing of neurons, information processing in organisms has infinitely inspired the development of information technology. From this perspective, the convergent development approach of BT and IT has its own essences in discipline connotation, …

Construction Of Long-Term Ecological Research Sites In Field Station: Status, Progress And Prospect, Yang Ping, Bai Yongfei, Song Changchun, Wu Dongxiu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Research sites are key facilities of a field station and basic conditions for conducting long-term observation, experiment, and research, which provide a great deal of direct and comprehensive data for long-term ecological research. In 2016, the Chinese Academy of Sciences started the project of construction of long-term research sites in some field stations. This project has achieved remarkable progress and provided a basis for pushing forward the construction of long-term research sites in other field stations.