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1.7 Committee Structure, Saint Mary's College Of California

Faculty Handbook

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The Health And Legal Implications Of Early Screening For Developmental Disabilities, Jennifer Safstrom, Jacqueline Safstrom

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Child development is a multifaceted process and there are certain milestones to reach that are imperative for healthy, timely growth and development.' Developmental monitoring, screening, and testing can aid in the identification, examination, and follow-up of a child's progress. However, there are a plethora of barriers which inhibit a child's ability to access and receive adequate, quality care. These broader factors, or social determinants of health, can lead to an underutilization of preventive health services, causing a delay in early identification and intervention for children. This can have serious, adverse repercussions, because targeting interventions among children from birth to five …

The Machine As Author, Daniel J. Gervais

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Machines are increasingly good at emulating humans and laying siege to what has been a strictly human outpost: intellectual creativity.

At this juncture, we cannot know with certainty how high machines will reach on the creativity ladder when compared to, or measured against, their human counterparts, but we do know this. They are far enough already to force us to ask a genuinely hard and complex question, one that intellectual property (“IP”) scholars and courts will need to answer soon; namely, whether copyrights should be granted to productions made not by humans but by machines.

This Article’s specific objective is …

The Pulmonary Venous Ridge Length To Stratify Stroke Risk In Atrial Fibrillation, Varun Singh, Joy Li, Mark Keroles, Daniel Frisch, Behzad B. Pavri, Baskaran Sundaram, Md, Jason Jacobson, Rajiv Kabadi

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

Purpose of Study: To evaluate the left superior pulmonary venous ridge length (RL) and the left atrial appendage fractal dimension (LAA FD) as predictors of cardioembolic ischemic stroke (CVA) and transient ischemic attack (TIA) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF).

Materials, Methods and Procedures: A multicenter, retrospective multicenter study was conducted on patients with AF who underwent cardiac CT prior to catheter ablation between 01/01/2010 and 12/31/2015. Patients were grouped by the presence or absence of prior CVA/TIA. Patients with mitral stenosis, prior mechanical aortic valve replacement, ascending aortic arch atheroma, highrisk patent foramen ovale, history of atrial septal repair …

Bioinformatic Analysis Of The Gut Microbiota Derived From The Oil Fly Helaeomyia Petrolei From The La Brea Tar Pits, Brian A. Dillard

School of Biological Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In the early 1930s, Thorpe a prominent entomologist, called for more research into Helaeomyia petrolei larva. These larvae live in the Californian La Brea tar pits where they are exposed to large amounts of polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Molecules like anthracene, phenanthrene, and toluene which should be highly toxic to both the oil fly larvae and its enteric bacteria. This extremophilic gut microbiome has yet to be studied using current day next gen sequencing and bioinformatic techniques. In fact, since Thorpe’s work in the 1930s, there have been only two publications characterizing the oil fly larvae. Both in the early 2000s by …

Religious Education In Byu’S Prophetic Historical Context, Elder Bruce C. Hafen

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

Dean Daniel Judd has invited me to offer a historical perspective on Religious Education within BYU’s larger historical context. In doing so, I speak more from experience than with authority, having been blessed with some opportunities to learn about the subject at fairly close range for several decades.

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Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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The Impact Of Social Media On Adolescent Mental Health, Nicole J. Critchfield

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

The number of adolescents reporting mental health issues such as anxiety and depression has dramatically increased in the last two decades. As this trend coincides with the increase in social media use by adolescents, many researchers have studied the correlation between the two. This literature review examines the correlation along with the pros and cons of adolescent social media use outside and inside the classroom. Most recently, research is showing how social media is used impacts the state of an adolescent’s mental health rather than the use of social media in general. Teachers and schools can help students learn how …

The Effects Of Social-Emotional Learning At The Secondary Level, Karmen Keltner

Master's Theses & Capstone Projects

This literature review aims to examine social-emotional learning in schools, and more specifically, at the secondary level. The review explains the importance of SEL at the secondary level and its continuation from preschool through high school. Evidence-based secondary SEL programs are presented, and research, including several meta-analyses, are shared that outline the benefits and disadvantages of social-emotional learning programs. Mandated SEL standards at the federal and state levels are covered, as well as policies and laws that enforce and support SEL. An analysis of the published literature on SEL programs at the secondary level suggests they lead to improved academics, …

Genome Editing 2020: Ethics And Human Rights In Germline Editing In Humans And Gene Drives In Mosquitoes, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

The moon landing, now more than a half century in the past, has turned out to be the culmination of human space travel, rather than its beginning. Genetic engineering, especially applications of CRISPR, now presents the most publicly discussed engineering challenges—and not just technical, but ethical as well. In this article, I will use the two most controversial genomic engineering applications to help identify the ethics and human rights implications of these research projects. Each of these techniques directly modifies the mechanisms of evolution, threatens to alter our views of ourselves as humans and our planet as our home, and …

Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference: A Meeting Report, Erin L. Dolan, Michelle Borrero, Kristine Callis-Duehl, Miranda M. Chen Musgrove, Joelyn De Lima, Isi Ero-Tolliver, Laci M. Gerhart, Emma Goodwin, Lindsey R. Hamilton, Meredith A. Henry, Jose Herrera, Bethany Huot, Stacey Kiser, Melissa E. Ko, Marcy E. Kravec, Mark Lee, Lisa B. Limeri, Melanie E. Peffer, Debra Pires, Juan S. Ramirez Lugo, Starlette M. Sharp, Nicole A. Suarez

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The 2019 Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference (UBER GRC), titled “Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education,” brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners working to identify, promote, and understand widespread adoption of evidence-based teaching, learning, and success strategies in undergraduate biology. Graduate students and postdocs had the additional opportunity to present and discuss research during a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) that preceded the GRC. This report provides a broad overview of the UBER GRC and GRS and highlights major themes that cut across invited talks, poster presentations, and informal discussions. Such themes include the importance of …

Pre-Emptive Detection Of Mature Pine Drought Stress Using Multispectral Aerial Imagery, Nancy Grulke, Jason Maxfield, Phillip Riggan, Charlie Schrader-Patton

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Drought, ozone (O₃), and nitrogen deposition (N) alter foliar pigments and tree crown structure that may be remotely detectable. Remote sensing tools are needed that pre-emptively identify trees susceptible to environmental stresses could inform forest managers in advance of tree mortality risk. Jeffrey pine, a component of the economically important and widespread western yellow pine in North America was investigated in the southern Sierra Nevada. Transpiration of mature trees differed by 20% between microsites with adequate (mesic (M)) vs. limited (xeric (X)) water availability as described in a previous study. In this study, in-the-crown morphological traits (needle chlorosis, …

Racial Ideology Between Fascist Italy And Nazi Germany: Julius Evola And The Aryan Myth, 1933–43, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

One of the troublesome factors in the Rome–Berlin Axis before and during the Second World War centered on disagreements over racial ideology and corresponding antisemitic policies. A common image sees Fascist Italy as a reluctant partner on racial matters, largely dominated by its more powerful Nazi ally. This article offers a contrasting assessment, tracing the efforts by Italian theorist Julius Evola to cultivate a closer rapport between Italian and German variants of racism as part of a campaign by committed antisemites to strengthen the bonds uniting the fascist and Nazi cause. Evola's spiritual form of racism, based on a distinctive …

Using Genetic Diversity To Differentiate Mosquito Populations, Rachel Christine Malampy

Theses and Dissertations

Experiment 1: Little is known about Aedes aegypti females sharing oviposition sites. We examined four different oviposition sites in McAllen, TX. A mitochondrial gene was used to analyze the variation within the oviposition site to understand how many egg-laying females are sharing oviposition sites. These results will aid in the understanding of Aedes. aegypti oviposition behavior and contribute to more effective mosquito control techniques.

Experiment 2: Mosquito flight patterns and movement from habitat to habitat can drastically influence the spread of diseases. The anthropophilic Aedes aegypti mosquito has historically been identified as having a very limited flight range. Studies also …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 69, Issue 2, Summer 2020

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• A Message from the President Facing Crises with Creativity
• Dean’s Column Difficult Times Define Us
• Jefferson COVID Stories
• Reflections from the Frontlines
• One Step of Many White Coats for Black Lives Peaceful Protest at Jefferson
• Time Capsule Philadelphia 1918: The Flu Pandemic Hits Home
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale Helping the Heroes
• Discovery Combating COVID-19
• Heroes on the Sidelines Sidelined from Patient Care, SKMC Students Find Purpose in Volunteer Work
• From the Front Lines to Online SKMC Doesn’t Miss a Beat in Medical Education
• Navigating Uncharted Waters in Search of the Class of 2024
• You’ve Got …

Arguing To Theism From Consciousness, Ben Page

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Prelimbic Input To Basolateral Amygdala Facilitates The Acquisition Of Trace Cued Fear Memory Under Weak Training Conditions, Adam Kirry, Robert C. Twining, Marieke R. Gilmartin

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

The ability to predict the occurrence of an aversive outcome based on available cues requires associative learning and plastic changes in the amygdala. When the predictive cue and aversive shock outcome are separated in time as in trace fear conditioning, additional circuitry is needed, including the prelimbic (PL) area of the prefrontal cortex. We have previously shown that neuronal firing in the PL during the trace interval separating the cue and shock is required for trace cued fear memory formation, but whether this mnemonic signal is conveyed to the amygdala is unknown. Here we show in males that silencing PL …

Faculty Research Profile: Jingyi Chen, Lutishoor Salisbury, Yang Tian, Jeremy Smith

University Libraries Faculty Publications and Presentations

This poster was compiled to commemorate the promotion of Dr. Jingyi Chen to full professor in the Department of the Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas in July 2020. It provides a summary of her research achievements and their scholarly impact.

Mean Arterial Pressure In Acute Ischemic Stroke Study, Mary Angela Grove

Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

Background. There is little, if any, evidence available on the validation of blood pressure (BP) measurements obtained in the acute care setting. Despite this, acute stroke practitioners trust and rely on non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) devices to guide acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients’ treatment. Although systolic blood pressure (SBP) has been found to be the most unreliable measurement displayed on NIBP devices, treatment decisions for AIS are based on them. Today, 25 years after the FDA’s approval of alteplase, practitioners continue to use BP parameters of 185/110 and 180/105 to guide the initiation of alteplase bolus and infusion, although the …

Doing Latinidad While Black: Afro-Latino Identity And Belonging, Vianny Jasmin Nolasco

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study centers on the experiences of Afro-Latinos and how the racialization of Latino as a distinctly ‘brown’ identity—thereby excluding Blackness—shapes their identity and sense of belonging within Latino communities and spaces. Through in-depth interviews with eight Afro-Latinos, and using West and Fenstermaker’s (1995) work, ‘Doing Difference’, I find that the invisibility of Blackness, being categorized as Black, and therefore not Latino, and the negative meanings attached to Blackness may make it difficult for Afro-Latinos to come into their racial and ethnic identity and feel like they belong in Latino spaces. However, these experiences are also an important step to …

Growing South Dakota (Summer 2020), College Of Agriculture, Food And Environmental Sciences

Growing South Dakota (Publication of the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences)

[Page] 3 COVID-19: From Our Students' Perspective
[Page] 11 Class of 2020 Q&A
[Page] 19 Alumni Advice for the Future Generation
[Page] 21 Recent Alumni Features
[Page] 25 Student Features
[Page] 31 CAFES News, Student Success, Awards and Achievements
[Page] 57 Jackrabbits Now and Then: A Current Student and Alumni Q&A

Growing South Dakota (Spring/Summer 2020), College Of Agriculture, Food And Environmental Sciences

Growing South Dakota (Publication of the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences)

This issue contains the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station 2019 Annual Report.

[Page] 2 South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Update
[Page] 4 Featured Research
[Page] 14 Graduate and Undergraduate Research: In Our Own Words
[Page] 20 Featured Research
[Page] 32 Research in Progress
[Page] 38 CAFES News and Updates
[Page] 56 Jackrabbits Now and Then: A Current Student and Alumni Q&A

Mesozooplankton Grazing Minimally Impacts Phytoplankton Abundance During Spring In The Western North Atlantic, Francoise Morison, James Joseph Pierson, Andreas Oikonomou, Susanne Menden-Deuer

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

The impacts of grazing by meso- and microzooplankton on phytoplankton primary production (PP) was investigated in the surface layer of the western North Atlantic during spring. Shipboard experiments were performed on a latitudinal transect at three stations that differed in mixed layer depth, temperature, and mesozooplankton taxonomic composition. The mesozooplankton community was numerically dominated by Calanus finmarchicus at the northern and central station, with Calanus hyperboreusalso present at the northern station. The southern station was >10 °C warmer than the other stations and had the most diverse mesozooplankton assemblage, dominated by small copepods including Paracalanus spp. Microzooplankton grazing was …

Allopatric And Sympatric Drivers Of Speciation In Alviniconcha Hydrothermal Vent Snails, Corinna Breusing, Shannon B. Johnson, Verena Tunnicliffe, David A. Clague, Robert C. Vrijenhoek, Roxanne A. Beinart

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Despite significant advances in our understanding of speciation in the marine environment, the mechanisms underlying evolutionary diversification in deep-sea habitats remain poorly investigated. Here, we used multigene molecular clocks and population genetic inferences to examine processes that led to the emergence of the six extant lineages of Alviniconcha snails, a key taxon inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. We show that both allopatric divergence through historical vicariance and ecological isolation due to niche segregation contributed to speciation in this genus. The split between the two major Alviniconcha clades (separating A. boucheti and A. marisindica from A. kojimai, …

Abl1, Overexpressed In Hepatocellular Carcinomas, Regulates Expression Of Notch1 And Promotes Development Of Liver Tumors In Mice, Fang Wang, Wei Hou, Lennox Chitsike, Yingchen Xu, Carlee Bettler, Aldeb Perera, Thomas Bank, Scott J. Cotler, Asha Dhanarajan, Mitchell F. Denning, Xianzhong Ding, Peter W. Breslin, Wenan Qiang, Jun Li, Anthony J. Koleske, Wei Qiu

Biology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Background & Aims

We investigated whether ABL proto-oncogene 1, non-receptor tyrosine kinase (ABL1) is involved in development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Methods

We analyzed clinical and gene expression data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Albumin-Cre (HepWT) mice and mice with hepatocyte-specific disruption of Abl1 (HepAbl–/– mice) were given hydrodynamic injections of plasmids encoding the Sleeping Beauty transposase and transposons with the MET gene and a catenin β1 gene with an N-terminal truncation, which induces development of liver tumors. Some mice were then gavaged with the ABL1 inhibitor nilotinib or vehicle (control) daily for 4 weeks. We knocked …

The Air Gap Effect Between A Bolus And The Skin Surface For Chest Wall Irradiation, Marisa Clark

Masters Projects

Planning technique and bolus choice are important aspects in planning chest wall irradiation (CWI). Many previous studies have tested various combinations of photon energies, electron energies, bolus types and sizes, air gaps sizes, and treatment methods. This study aims to assess the effect of smaller, clinically relevant air gap sizes on specific chest wall treatments using a variety of common bolus types. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, no data was able to be collected and was instead fabricated by the researcher. Four different treatment plans were created on a phantom patient using various energies of photons (6MV and 10MV) and …

Spatial Analysis Of Factors Associated With Hiv Infection In Malawi: Indicators For Effective Prevention, Jerry John Nutor, Henry Ofori Duah, Pascal Agbadi, Precious Adade Duodu, Kaboni W. Gondwe

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Background

The objective of this study was to model the predictors of HIV prevalence in Malawi through a complex sample logistic regression and spatial mapping approach using the national Demographic and Health Survey datasets.

Methods

We conducted a secondary data analysis using the 2015–2016 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey and AIDS Indicator Survey. The analysis was performed in three stages while incorporating population survey sampling weights to: i) interpolate HIV data, ii) identify the spatial clusters with the high prevalence of HIV infection, and iii) perform a multivariate complex sample logistic regression.

Results

In all, 14,779 participants were included in …

Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Studies Of Peroxo And Hydroperoxo Intermediates In Lauric Acid (La)-Bound Cytochrome P450 119, Remigio Usai, Daniel Kaluka, Piotr J. Mak, Yilin Liu, James R. Kincaid

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

Cytochromes P450 bind and cleave dioxygen to generate a potent intermediate compound I, capable of hydroxylating inert hydrocarbon substrates. Cytochrome P450 119, a bacterial cytochrome P450 that serves as a good model system for the study of the intermediate states in the P450 catalytic cycle. CYP119 is found in high temperature and sulfur rich environments. Though the natural substrate and redox partner are still unknown, a potential application of such thermophilic P450s is utilizing them as biocatalysts in biotechnological industry; e.g., the synthesis of organic compounds otherwise requiring hostile environments like extremes of pH or temperature. In the present work …

A Transdiagnostic Perspective Of Constructs Underlying Obsessive-Compulsive And Related Disorders: An International Delphi Consensus Study, Leonardo F. Fontenelle, Erin Oldenhof, Maria Eduarda Moreira-De-Oliveira, Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Martin M. Antony, Danielle Cath, Adrian Carter, Darin D. Dougherty, Ygor A. Ferrao, Martijn Figee, Ben J. Harrison, Marcelo Hoexter, Jun Soo Kwon, Anne Küelz, Luisa Lazaro, Christine Lochner, Donatella Marazziti, David Mataix-Cols, Dean Mckay, Euripedes C. Miguel, Sharon Morein-Zamir, Steffen Mortiz, Gerald Nestadt, Kieron O'Connor, Stefano Pallanti, Christine Purdon, Scott Rauch, Peggy Richter, Jean-Yves Rotge, Roseli G. Shavitt, Carles Soriano-Mas, Vladan Starcevic, Dan J. Stein, Gail Steketee, Eric A. Storch, Steven Taylor, Odile A. Van Den Heuvel, David Veale, Douglas W. Woods, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia, Murat Yucel

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Background:

The Research Domain Criteria seeks to bridge knowledge from neuroscience with clinical practice by promoting research into valid neurocognitive phenotypes and dimensions, irrespective of symptoms and diagnoses as currently conceptualized. While the Research Domain Criteria offers a vision of future research and practice, its 39 functional constructs need refinement to better target new phenotyping efforts. This study aimed to determine which Research Domain Criteria constructs are most relevant to understanding obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, based on a consensus between experts in the field of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.

Methods:

Based on a modified Delphi method, 46 experts were recruited …

Knowledge Of Mental Health And Mental Illness Among Students Of Selected Health Professional Colleges, Henshaw Ekanem N S A Ms, Tessy Treesa Jose Dr, Asha K. Nayak Ms

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

Introduction: For the effective delivery of mental health care, knowledge and awareness regarding mental illness has to be increased in the general population. Mental health has to be a concern for all of us, rather than only for those who feel pain from a psychological disorder. Objective: To determine the level of knowledge of mental health and mental illness among students of selected health professional colleges. Methods: The research approach was quantitative and descriptive survey design was used. The population in this study comprised of 385 first year students of selected health professional colleges who were selected through convenience sampling. …