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Long‐Term Cattle Grazing Affected Specific Leaf Area And Its Components In Two Range Plant Species, Xuejun Dong, Paul Nyren, Bob Patton, Brian Kreft, Anne Nyren

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Photosynthesis And Soil Respiration From A Mixed‐Grass Prairie: Effects Of Grazing And Drought, Xuejun Dong, Paul Nyren, Bob Patton, Guojie Wang, Brian Kreft, Anne Nyren, Ryan Limb, Don Kirby, Larry Cihacek

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Salt Stress On The Tall Wheatgrass At The Stage Of Seedling, Kuanhu Dong, Yanqing Liu

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Efficacy Of Stem Cell Allograft In Maxillary Sinus Bone Regeneration: A Randomized Controlled Clinical And Blinded Histomorphometric Study, Josh Whitt, Mohanad Al-Sabbagh, Dolph R. Dawson Iii, Ehab Shehata, Moly Housley-Smith, Alejandro G. Villasante Tezanos, Ahmad Kutkut

Oral Health Practice Faculty Publications

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the quality and quantity of newly generated bone in the maxillary sinus grafted with stem cell-based allograft material.

Methods: This study was a single site, prospective, blinded, randomized, and controlled clinical trial. Eleven subjects with 18 edentulous posterior maxillary sites requiring sinus augmentation for delayed implant placement using a lateral window approach were enrolled. At the time of sinus augmentation, test sinus was grafted with stem cell-based allograft (Osteocel Plus; NuVasive Therapeutics), while the control sinus was grafted with conventional cortico-cancellous allograft (alloOss; ACE Surgical). Cone beam computer tomography (CBCT) scan was taken before …

06-29-2020 Weatherford Branch Helping Host The American Association Of University Women’S Virtual State Convention, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2020

Weatherford branch members, which include Southwestern Oklahoma State University employees and Weatherford community members, are assisting the American Association of University Women (AAUW) of Oklahoma to conduct a virtual, state-wide convention on July 6-11.

Statement Regarding The Confederate Monument Relocation And Cemetery Renovation, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Resolutions

A statement supporting the denouncement of plans to renovate the Confederate Cemetery.

‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’: A Documentary With A Dayton Connection, Kayla Harris

Marian Library Blog Archive

A new PBS documentary spotlights a social justice activist’s efforts to record history and preserve truth on videocassette; her work has a presence in a popular Marian Library archival collection.

Toward Freedom: A Reading Of The National Memorial For Peace And Justice, Margaret Pless

Study the South

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama in 2018 to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United States. The memorial’s monuments are unique because they resist the static, status quo understandings of history that so many of our monuments perpetuate. The memorial invites visitors to face disturbing truths in the hope of fostering reconciliation. Will it help us remember and reconcile as a nation? Montgomery is home to other monuments that undermine the history the memorial presents.

Benefits Of Palliative Care In The Intensive Care Unit, Stephen Swenson, Stephen M. Swenson

Nursing Masters Papers

Abstract

The use of palliative care is often overlooked until the terminal phase of serious illness when life-prolonging interventions are deemed futile and death is considered imminent.

Alongside the well regarded Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care (National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care, 2018), numerous critical care societies including the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (Medina & Puntillo, 2006), American College of Critical Care Medicine (Davidson et al., 2008), American College of Chest Physicians (Selecky et al., 2005), American College of Surgeons (2017), and the American Thoracic Society (Lanken et al., 2007) have each published individual policies highlighting …

Unh Researchers Aim To Boost U.S. Production Of Atlantic Salmon And Steelhead Trout With Cleanerfish, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Yingying Zheng Joins Usu Biological Engineering Department, Usu College Of Engineering

College of Engineering News

June 29, 2020 — Dr. Yingying Zheng will be joining the Biological Engineering faculty as a tenure-track assistant professor on August 1, 2020.

Novel Injectable Plga-Peg-Plga Self-Assembled Hydrogels For The Extended And Controlled Release Of Dna Nanocarriers To Prevent Secondary Cataracts, Laura L. Osorno

Theses and Dissertations

Cataracts are the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. There are over 20 million cataract surgeries each year, and these cases are expected to double within the next ten years. Over 40% of adults and nearly all children develop secondary cataracts, or posterior capsule opacification (PCO), following cataract surgery. Currently, Nd:YAG laser therapy is used to treat PCO; however, laser therapy is not available worldwide and treatment may have adverse effects on surrounding ocular tissues. Thus, there is a considerable unmet need for more efficacious and convenient treatments to prevent PCO.

Injectable, stimuli-responsive gels were designed using poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-b-poly(ethylene glycol)) …

Leaf Traits Can Be Used To Predict Rates Of Litter Decomposition, Marc Rosenfield, Jennifer L. Funk, Jason K. Keller, Catrina Clausen, Kimberlee Cyphers

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Strong relationships exist between litter chemistry traits and rates of litter decomposition. However, leaf traits are more commonly found in online trait databases than litter traits and fewer studies have examined how well leaf traits predict litter decomposition rates. Furthermore, while bulk leaf nitrogen (N) content is known to regulate litter decomposition, few studies have explored the importance of N biochemistry fractions, such as protein and amino acid concentration. Here, we decomposed green leaves and naturally senesced leaf litter of nine species representing a wide range of leaf functional traits. We evaluated the ability of traits associated with leaf and …

Active Deep Learning Method To Automate Unbiased Stereology Cell Counting, Saeed Alahmari

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Cell quantification in histopathology images plays a significant role in understanding and diagnosing diseases such as cancer and Alzheimers. The gold-standard for quantifying cells in tissue sections is the unbiased stereology approach. Unfortunately, in unbiased stereology current practices rely on a well-trained human to manually count hundreds of cells in microscopy images. However, this human-based manual approach is time-consuming, labor-intensive, subject to human errors, recognition bias, fatigue, variable training, poor reproducibility, and inter-observer error. Thus, the lack of high-throughput technology for automating unbiased stereology analyses remains a major obstacle to further progress in a wide range of neuroscience and cancer …

Cache Policies For Smartphone In Flexible Learning: A Comparative Study., Ibrahim Abdel-Baset, Mohamed A. Mohamed, Ahmed Samra, Ahmed Abou Taleb

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The rapid evolution of technology has changed the face of education especially usage of mobile device that aren't devoid of any student hand. The term “mobile devices” covers many different kinds of devices (e.g. smart phones, cell phones, personal digital assistant (PDA), tablets, netbooks, etc.). Hoping take advantages of these devices in mobile learning which allow learning anywhere and anytime. There may be some obstacles to use these devices, such as wireless bandwidth and client’s battery power Data caching is an appropriate technique for reducing wireless data transmissions in mobile information systems. In this paper we present overview of most …

A Novel New Light Recipe Significantly Increases The Growth And Yield Of Sweet Basil (Ocimum Basilicum) Grown In A Plant Factory System, Hz Rihan, Mohammed Aldarkazali, Sj Mohamed, Nb Mcmulkin, Marwa H. Jbara, Mp Fuller

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Light is a crucial element for plant growth and production. High-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps are considered not very electrically efficient as they generate high radiant heat, and as a consequence, there has been a lot of interest in replacing HPS lamps with new more efficient lighting sources in the form of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LEDs have a linear photon output with the electrical input current, and this great feature allows the design of lighting arrays that match the plant’s needs. In the current study, light spectrum absorbance of pigments extracted from 14 plant species was analyzed. Two absorbance peaks were …

Designing Silk Protein-Based Composite Materials With Tunable Heat Transfer And Magnetic Properties, Ye Xue

Theses and Dissertations

Renewable and biocompatible silk protein materials with desired physical properties show promising applications in biomedical field. In this work, a set of protein-based composites with desired thermal and magnetic properties, enhanced by the appropriate distribution of nanofillers in the protein matrix in both 2D-film and 1D-fiber forms was investigated. Results indicate that secondary structures of silk protein materials regenerated by a formic acid-calcium chloride method are different from those of their respective natural silk fibers. Intramolecular beta-sheet structures were found to dominate these silk films, causing these regenerated samples to be water-insoluble but more flexible than traditional silk films with …

An Enhanced Robot Massage System In Smart Homes Using Force Sensing And Dynamic Movement Primitive, C Li, A Fahmy, S Li, J Sienz

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

With requirements to improve life quality, smart homes, and healthcare have gradually become a future lifestyle. In particular, service robots with human behavioral sensing for private or personal use in the home have attracted a lot of research attention thanks to their advantages in relieving high labor costs and the fatigue of human assistance. In this paper, a novel force-sensing- and robotic learning algorithm-based teaching interface for robot massaging has been proposed. For the teaching purposes, a human operator physically holds the end-effector of the robot to perform the demonstration. At this stage, the end position data are outputted and …

Burned Shale As Coarse Aggregate In High Performance, Self Compacting Concrete., Mohamed El-Shikh, Ahmed Abdel Raheem, Islam Riad

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Aggregates occupy more than 60% of the volume of concrete, play a main role in affecting its fresh properties as well hardened properties. The main objective of this research is to produce Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) by using a new type of coarse aggregate (Burned shale) and locally available materials in our region such as sand, limestone powder and silica fume. Experimental programme was designed to characterize the properties of fresh and hardened SCC and the performance of SCC under influence of a solution of sodium sulphate. Two cement content 450 kg/m3 and 550 kg/m3 were chosen in this research. …

Prevalence, Incidence, And Clearance Of Human Papillomavirus Types Covered By Current Vaccines In Men With Human Immunodeficiency Virus In The Sun Study, Pragna Patel, Tim Bush, Lois Conley, Elizabeth R Unger, Teresa M Darragh, Keith Henry, Gerome Escota, John T Brooks, Erna Milunka Kojic

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: High-risk anal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is prevalent among men living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); the association between 9-valent (9v) high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) vaccine types and abnormal cytology has not been well characterized.

METHODS: We followed a prospective cohort study of persons with HIV at 7 HIV clinics in 4 US cities from March 2004 through June 2012. Annually, providers collected separate anal swabs for HPV detection and cytopathologic examination. Among men, we examined prevalence, incidence, and clearance of 9v HR-HPV vaccine types, compared with other HR types, and associations with abnormal cytology to assess potential vaccine impact. …

Spatial Heterogeneity Utilization In Ct Images For Lung Nodule Classication, Dmitrii Cherezov

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Lung cancer (LC) is leading in the number of deaths among the other types of cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, 135,720 deaths during 2020 in the USA will be associated with LC. The patient 5-year survival rate of 16\% was reported in 1986 and 19% in 2019. One of the reasons why survival rate remains low is that the majority of patients diagnosed with cancer had stages III and IV. In contrast, a 5-year survival rate of 70% was reported for patients of stage IA after surgical resection in the National Lung Screening Trial.

CT screening detects a …

An Enhanced Robot Massage System In Smart Homes Using Force Sensing And A Dynamic Movement Primitive, C Li, Ashraf Fahmy, S Li, Johann Sienz

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Lumpfish Hold Potential For Managing Sea Lice Infestations At Fish Farms, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Planetary Ethics: Russell Train And Richard Nixon At The Creation, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

This piece offers a retrospective review of a plenary speech at the 1969 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association by the leading environmentalist of the Nixon administration, attorney and judge Russell Train. Train's talk, titled “Prescription for a Planet,” can be seen as an early argument for uniting environmental health and public health as the two main determinants of both individual and population health and for the inclusion of these fields in the then-new field of “bioethics.”

Kelelahan Kerja Pada Pekerja Rumput Laut Di Kabupaten Takalar, Yahya Thamrin

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Fatigue is a common condition for all workers after doing their job One of the informal sectors that have not yet received adequate occupational health services is seaweed workers. This research aims to determine the relationship between age, working time, work period, work attitude, workload, and work process of workplace fatigue on seaweed workers in Takalar district. The type of this research is an analytical observational with a cross-sectional study approach. The samples in this study were 74 respondents using purposive sampling techniques. Data were obtained using the Work Fatigue Measurement Tool Questionnaire for fatigue and a Rapid Entire Body …

Analisis Ketercapaian Persyaratan Kesehatan Lingkungan Industri Di Pt X, Azmi Nur Fadlillah, Aditya Sukma Pawitra

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Environmental health and industry have a relationship that will have an impact on worker health, work productivity, and other things that support the effectiveness and efficiency of the industry, some components such as soil, water, food, facilities, buildings, as well as vector and disease-carrying animals are aspects and requirements of industrial environmental health. This study aims to analyze the achievement of industrial environmental health requirements at PT X, referring to the Minister of Health Regulation No. 70 of 2016. This research was conducted from January to February 2020, using a descriptive qualitative design. Researchers explore information through interviews with informants …

Gambaran Faktor Risiko Kontaminan Biologi Pada Uji Lingkungan Di Rsu “Y” Surabaya, Mochamad Rizal Maulana, Khuliyah Candraning Diyanah, Fransisca Susilastuti

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Hospitals as a place of health care and workplace have a variety of potential hazards that can harm health. One of the efforts of the hospital environment can be done by conducting supervision and inspection. The purpose of this research, to describe the risk factors of biological contaminants in the environmental test results conducted in Surabaya General Hospital "Y". This research was descriptive research with a cross-sectional approach. This research uses secondary data of the laboratory test results of BBTKLPP Surabaya in 2015-August 2017, as well as literature from several sources to support the data available. Data were analyzed in …

Robust Principal Component Analysis For Accurate Outlier Sample Detection In Rna-Seq Data, Xiaoying Chen, Bo Zhang, Ting Wang, Azad Bonni, Guoyan Zhao

Open Access Publications

BACKGROUND: High throughput RNA sequencing is a powerful approach to study gene expression. Due to the complex multiple-steps protocols in data acquisition, extreme deviation of a sample from samples of the same treatment group may occur due to technical variation or true biological differences. The high-dimensionality of the data with few biological replicates make it challenging to accurately detect those samples, and this issue is not well studied in the literature currently. Robust statistics is a family of theories and techniques aim to detect the outliers by first fitting the majority of the data and then flagging data points that …

No More “Social Distancing” But Practice Physical Separation, Debasree Das Gupta, David W. S. Wong

Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty Publications

Though not a new term, “social distancing” exploded onto the global stage as an expression to publicize the only means currently available to control the transmission of COVID-19. This term is increasingly being adopted and translated into the vernacular to inform and guide public behavior in most, if not all, countries around the world. However, any effective global response requires direct and unambiguous communication and sharing of ideas across communities with different cultural backgrounds as well as between researchers and responders across the disciplinary spectrum. Unfortunately, social distancing is a misnomer. The current use of social distancing – separating ourselves …

Modeling E-Textbook Tools Or Encouraging Reading From Paper: What Are The Effects On Medium Choice And Textbook Use?, Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Alison E. Kelly, Travis D. Clark

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

E-textbooks have become more popular with college students, but there are concerns that reading is not as effective from screens as paper. In addition, students may not take advantage of tools afforded by e-textbooks. The purpose of this study was to determine if encouraging students to read from paper or modeling e-textbook tools would be better for students in terms of reading and using their textbooks. Two instructors randomly assigned students (N = 144) to view a video and answer an essay question about either the benefits of reading from paper, how to use etextbook tools, or general information about …