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Economic Analyses Of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods For Documenting Costs And Benefits, David E. Schindel, Economic Study Group Of The Interagency Working Group On Scientific Collections

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Federal object-based scientific collections have been created to serve agency missions and, in a few cases, to comply with legislative and regulatory mandates. “Project collections” (those managed by the researchers who obtained them for restricted use) and their costs and benefits were considered too varied for standard methodologies that assess costs and benefits. In a few cases, departments and agencies are required by legislation or regulations to retain objects in long-term “institutional collections.” In most cases, decisions to retain objects are based on long-term costs relative to the perceived potential for benefits to taxpayers. Federal collections vary in their philosophies …

Interview With Sandra Hise, Sandra Hise

Auntie Sewing Squad Interviews

Sandra Hise is one of the original Auntie’s in the Auntie Sewing Squad. She’s done all sorts of work from being a Sewing and Care Auntie. She’s sewn, ran errands, shared materials, as well as provided support and tutelage to the new members. She is a retired high school English and Media Arts teacher from the Los Angeles Unified School District. She grew up in Los Angeles, California but made many trips back to the South to visit her family. It was in her teens that her mistrust for organized religion and zeal for social justice was born, as she …

Effect Of High-Dose Vs Standard-Dose Vitamin D Supplementation On Body Composition Among Patients With Advanced Or Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Randomized Trial, Justin C. Brown, Michael H. Rosenthal, Chao Ma, Sui Zhang, Halla S. Nimeiri, Nadine J. Mccleary, Thomas A. Abrams, Matthew B. Yurgelun, James M. Cleary, Douglas A. Rubinson, Deborah Schrag, Andrea J. Bullock, Jill Allen, Dan Zuckerman, Emily Chan, Jennifer A. Chan, Brian Wolpin, Michael Constantine

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

Skeletal muscle and adipose tissue express the vitamin D receptor and may be a mechanism through which vitamin D supplementation slows cancer progression and reduces cancer death. In this exploratory analysis of a double-blind, multicenter, randomized phase II clinical trial, 105 patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer who were receiving chemotherapy were randomized to either high-dose vitamin D3 (4000 IU) or standard-dose (400 IU) vitamin D3. Body composition was measured with abdominal computed tomography at enrollment (baseline) and after cycle 8 of chemotherapy (16 weeks). As compared with standard-dose vitamin D3, high-dose vitamin D3 did not significantly change body …

Reaching New Heights In Plastic Pollution—Preliminary Findings Of Microplastics On Mount Everest, Imogen E. Napper, Bede F.R. Davies, Heather Clifford, Sandra Elvin, Heather J. Koldewey, Paul A. Mayewski, Kimberley R. Miner, Mariusz Potocki, Aurora C. Elmore, Ananta P. Gajurel, Richard C. Thompson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Basic Theory And Analytical Methodology For Identification Of Novel Environmental Organic Pollutants, Ruan Ting, Jiang Guibin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Since the twentieth century, the health hazards caused by chemical pollutants have become increasingly prominent. Tens of thousands of high throughput chemicals have entered into the environment along with the massive production and use, raising emerging scientific issues for research in environmental science related fields. In this article, background and scientific significance of establishing the research direction on identification of novel organic pollutants are introduced. Basic principles of discriminating molecular structures and environmental behaviors of pollutant candidates with regard to the characteristics of persistent organic pollutants are discussed. Technical strategy and advantages of the established analytical frameworks, including quantitative structure-property …

Progress Of Mercury Pollution Research And Implementation Of Minamata Convention In China, Feng Xinbin, Shi Jianbo, Li Ping, Yin Yongguang, Jiang Guibin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Mercury (Hg) is one of the most toxic heavy metal and a global pollutant. The Minamata Convention on mercury entered into force in August 2017, which aims to control and reduce global anthropogenic Hg emissions and use, and highlights that Hg pollution has become an important global environmental issue. At present, China is one of the larger countries on Hg production, use, and emission, which faced with great pressure of Hg pollution control and implementation of the Convention. Based on this background, this paper systematically describes the production, use, and emission of Hg in China, the migration, transformation, and health …

Strengthen Risk Management And Control Of High-Risk Chemicals, Promote Development Of Environmentally Friendly Alternatives, Wang Yawei, Liang Yong, Ma Donghui, Cao Huiming, Zhao Lixia, Cai Yaqi, Jiang Guibin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Environmental and health problems caused by chemical pollution, especially high-risk chemical pollution, have become an important factor affecting the public health. How to ensure that chemicals bring well-being to human society, while ensuring that they minimize their harm to the environment and human health, is a problem that needs to be solved urgently in the field of chemistry, especially environmental chemistry. This article summarizes the latest research progress in the risk identification, risk prevention, alternative research and development and evaluation of perfluorinated compounds and other substances, and systematically explores how to use green chemistry, combined with the risk management and …

Current Status And Thinking Of Environmental Health Research On Persistent Toxic Pollutants, Xu Ming, Kan Haidong, Sang Nan, Liu Sijin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Environmental pollution always threatens the public health of our country, and the incidence of diseases closely related to environmental pollution has continued to rise in recent years. With the rapid urbanization and industrialization, the pollutions of persistent toxic substances (PTS) in air, water, and soil constitute a major hidden danger, which are urgent to be investigated for ecological safety and environmental health risks. In order to solve realistic environmental issues, the potential health hazards of PTS desire to be uncovered through interdisciplinary research. In this article, we review the background and development history of environmental health research on PTS, as …

Role For Carbohydrate Response Element-Binding Protein (Chrebp) In High Glucose-Mediated Repression Of Long Noncoding Rna Tug1, Jianyin Long, Daniel L Galvan, Koki Mise, Yashpal S Kanwar, Li Li, Naravat Poungavrin, Paul A Overbeek, Benny H Chang, Farhad R Danesh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play key roles in a variety of biological activities of the cell. However, less is known about how lncRNAs respond to environmental cues and what transcriptional mechanisms regulate their expression. Studies from our laboratory have shown that the lncRNA Tug1 (taurine upregulated gene 1) is crucial for the progression of diabetic kidney disease, a major microvascular complication of diabetes. Using a combination of proximity labeling with the engineered soybean ascorbate peroxidase (APEX2), ChIP-qPCR, biotin-labeled oligonucleotide pulldown, and classical promoter luciferase assays in kidney podocytes, we extend our initial observations in the current …

Journal Usage Level Changes At Morehouse School Of Medicine Library 2011-2020, Joe Swanson, Roland B. Welmaker, Monica Riley, Tara Douglas-Williams

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Conference

OBJECTIVE: To determine faculty and researcher journal usage levels and their implications on library’s journal collection and access models for the past five years and compare to previous usage and implications.

1. The librarians would like to investigate changes made in the journal collection as we moved to fewer print based resources through a comparison of usage levels prior to the changes to usage levels after the changes. We had sought to seek optimum pathways for supporting the school’s curricula, research agendas, and health care enterprise. Our ultimate question is ‘How have changes correlated and compared to previous usage and …

“How Could You Even Ask That?”: Moral Considerability, Uncertainty And Vulnerability In Social Robotics, Alexis Elder

The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique

When it comes to social robotics (robots that engage human social responses via “eyes” and other facial features, voice-based natural-language interactions, and even evocative movements), ethicists, particularly in European and North American traditions, are divided over whether and why they might be morally considerable. Some argue that moral considerability is based on internal psychological states like consciousness and sentience, and debate about thresholds of such features sufficient for ethical consideration, a move sometimes criticized for being overly dualistic in its framing of mind versus body. Others, meanwhile, focus on the effects of these robots on human beings, arguing that psychological …

The Collective Submitted Works From Honors 2030, Rob Wilson, Odette Beagrie, Sophia Bell, Neeha Chaudhry, Allison Christman, Zahrak Farese, Olivia Fuller, Kathryn Grothen, Meghan Hruskocy, Cullen Landolt, Maddesyn Langley, Sarah Jane Matt, Samantha Mcklin, Hunter Moore, Maxwell R. Wootten

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Students in the Honors 2030, Inquiries in the Social and Behavioral Sciences course each participated in the URS 2020 as their final project for the course. Dr. Wilson worked with each student as a faculty mentor to create, draft, edit, approve and publish each of the final posters and papers submitted to the 2020 URS for the course.

Historical Trauma Response Scores As A Function Of Unresolved Grief And Substance Use Disorder In American Indian Populations, Andrew R. Saunders

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Abstract

Researchers are interested in the outcomes of interventions, specifically, measuring historical trauma (HT) among American Indian/Alaska Native communities and the long-term distress and substance abuse as a result of historical trauma response (HTR). Previous literature has implicated limitations in the clinical conceptualization of the relationship between intergenerational transfer of HTR and substance abuse. The aim of the current study is to examine treatment efficacy of 50 homosexual, American Indian males randomized to a culturally-adapted juxtaposition of (1) Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), (2) Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and (3) Historical Trauma and Unresolved Grief Intervention (HTUG), or (4) waitlisted on …

Chronic Stress In Relation To Locus Of Control, Kendra Clark, Miranda Jany, Carissa Philippi

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Stress is prominent in everyone’s lives, and if the right precautions are not taken, stress can become chronic and harmful to an individual’s health (Schmitz, Neumann, & Oppermann, 2000). To prevent chronic stress, researchers seek to find out important factors that lead to chronic stress. One of the most prominent factors leading to chronic stress is locus of control (LOC), or how much control people feel they have over situations (Cummins, 1988). People can endorse an internal locus of control which means individual attributes events occurring in their life to their own behavior, or an external, which one would consider …

The Level Of Job Satisfaction And The Ability To Psychosocial Adjustment For Workers Special Needs In The Irbid Governorate In View Of Some Variables, Mahdi Rababa'h, Seiaeh Alshamaly

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to detect the level of job satisfaction and psychological and social adjustment among a sample of workers special needs in the Irbid governorate, the sample consisted of 236 male and female. The results indicated that level of job satisfaction and its dimensions were in come moderately except the relationship with co-worker’s dimension came highly. The psychosocial adjustment level and its dimensions in come moderately with the exception of the social dimension came highly. The results showed a statistically significant due to the variable-gender job satisfaction and psychosocial adjustment scales differences in favor of females, and there were …

Assessing 10th Grade Student's Levels Of Biological Literacy In Light Of The Biological Science Curriculum Studies And Bybee Frameworks In Jordan, Zeyad Jarrah

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aims to assess the levels of nominal, functional, conceptual, and multi-dimensional biological literacy of the tenth grade students in Jordan. To achieve these objectives, the researcher used the descriptive analytical method on a sample consisting of 170 students that were selected randomly. Based on theoretical frameworks by Bybee (1997) and the BSCS (1993), different assessment tools were developed, which measured students’ ability to: recognize the biological concepts (nominal literacy); define some biological concepts (functional literacy); connect between biological concepts to explain biological phenomena (conceptual literacy); and use their knowledge in biology to read and understand a short article …

Sustainable Development Of The Service Sector: Theoretical-Methodological Approach, B.H. Kuziboev

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

The services sector is one of the leading sectors of the economy. Today the share of this sector in the gross domestic product and employment is more than 70% in world economy. The service sector began to be studied in the 20th century as a separate discipline and field. Therefore, the theoretical and methodological foundations of this area are not yet perfect. In particular, most of the research in the field of services to date has focused on the socio-economic aspects of it. The purpose of this study is to improve the theoretical and methodological foundations of not only socio-economic …

Approximate Solution Of An Initial-Boundary Value Problem For An Nonhomogeneous Second-Order Differential Equation Of Mixed Type With Two Degenerate Lines, Y.K. Khudayberganov

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

This work is devoted to the study of an approximate solution of the initial-boundary value problem for the second order mixed type nonhomogeneous differential equation with two degenerate lines. Similar equations have many different applications, for example, boundary value problems for mixed type equations are applicable in various fields of the natural sciences: in problems of laser physics, in magneto hydrodynamics, in the theory of infinitesimal bindings of surfaces, in the theory of shells, in predicting the groundwater level, in plasma modeling, and in mathematical biology. In this paper, based on the idea of A.N. Tikhonov, the conditional correctness of …

Nutrient Concentration For Cyanotoxins At Turnbull (Proposal), Mori Williams

2020 McNair Scholar Collection

The purpose of this study is to analyze the concentration of microcystins from cyanobacteria along with factors that increase the likelihood of microcystins found in water systems at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge (TNWR) near Cheney, Washington. Cyanobacteria are oxygen-producing bacteria that use sunlight as an energy source to convert CO2 into biomass. This bacterium has been around for around 3 billion years. However, in recent years, cyanobacteria have been a major issue in drinking water and aquatic ecosystems due to eutrophication, rising CO2 levels, and global warming (Huisman et al). Due to anthropogenic sources such as agricultural run-off and …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - November 19, 2020, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the November 19, 2020 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• Virtual COM Research Forum set for Dec. 11
• Audia receives grant to study pneumonia, inflammation and sepsis
• Mark your calendar for upcoming grand rounds

Conquer And Prevail Issue 41 Nov 19 2020, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Conquer and Prevail Newsletter

No abstract provided.

November 2020 Academic Affairs Packets, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Everyday Gratitude In Times Of Uncertainty, Carol Wittmeyer

Business Faculty/Staff Publications

It’s worth reiterating: although Election Day has come and gone, political upheaval and uncertainty are far from over. And rather than drawing to a close, all evidence points to the Coronavirus pandemic gaining momentum before the arrival of a scarce vaccine requiring a demanding supply chain. Add ongoing (and perhaps escalating) racial tensions and economic disruption from which it will takes months and years to recover, and it’s no wonder so many of us are struggling to cultivate a positive outlook—and to help our employees, colleagues, students and families manage successfully through this time of complex, inter-related crises.

Applications Of Nanoporous Gold To Drug Release And Glycoscience, Dharmendra Neupane

Dissertations

Nanoporous gold (NPG) is a versatile material because of its three-dimensional nanoscale network, facile surface functionalization, biocompatibility, and potential usage in biotechnology applications. The field of glycoscience is growing in significance as the importance of glycans in human health and disease becomes more fully understood at the molecular level. NPG can be applied to several needs in the field of glycoscience. Our lab has applied NPG to applications in glycoscience including the capture and release of glycoproteins, and the detection of glycoprotein interactions by using either electrochemical methods or localized surface plasmon spectroscopy (LSPR). The capture of glycoproteins onto high …

Northern Giant Hornet (Vespa Mandarinia) And Yellow-Legged Hornet (Vespa Velutina), Potential Pests Of Honey Bees, Benjamin Andrew Powell

Agricultural Education

Exotic hornets present a significant threat to apiculture. Recent introductions of the yellow-legged hornet to Europe and the asian giant hornet to North America have made it critical that regulators, beekeepers and the general public be able to detect and identify these exotic hornets and to understand their biology to minimize the potential impacts to apiculture in South Carolina were they to be introduced.

Minutes, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty Meeting, Thursday, November 19, 2020, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty, Rollins College

The College of Liberal Arts Faculty Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Bauer Lecture With Jeh Johnson, Former U.S. Secretary Of Homeland Security, Cardozo Law Review

2020 Event Invitations

The Cardozo Law Review was thrilled to welcome Secretary Jeh Johnson to reflect and analyze United States homeland security in today’s political environment.

Lane Snapper (Lutjanus Synagris) Neurocranium, Jordan Warren, David Kerstetter

All Scans: Kerstetter Fisheries and Avian Ecology 3D Scan Series

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Education, Humanities And Sciences, Volume 9 No. 2, 2020: 107–113 © Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education (Duce), 2020 Fatty Acids Composition Of Adansonia Digitata (Baobab) Seed Oil From Tanzania, James T. Zacharia

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Samples of baobab fruits from which oils were extracted were collected from Sandawi and Chamwino villages in Dodoma region, Tanzania. The oil was extracted from the kernel powders using n-hexane and the extracts were derivatized to fatty acid methyl esters, and then subjected to GC and GC-MS analyses for fatty acids content. The physiochemical properties of the oil indicated that baobab seed oil is suitable for soap-making and other cosmetics. The combined GC and GC-MS results showed the existence of eight fatty acids, namely: palmitic acid (22.02%), palmitoleic acid (1.87%), tariric acid (7.08%), elaidic acid (41.29%), oleic acid (35.72%), linoleic …

Status Of Soil Transmitted Helminths Infection Among School-Going Children In Momba, Mbeya, Siame Zebius, Winifrida B. Kidima

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This study conducted cross-sectional and retrospective studies to investigate the burden of intestinal helminths among school-going children in Momba. Direct wet mount and Kato-Katz thick smears techniques were used to determine the prevalence and intensity of intestinal parasites, respectively. Out of 359 stool samples analysed, 28% were positive for intestinal parasites. Hookworm infections attributed to 10% of total infection, Ascaris lumbricoides 6%, Giardia lamblia 7%, and Entamoeba histolytica 5%. The prevalence of intestinal infection decreased with increasing age (p < 0.5). Hookworm was the most prevalent STH infection among children (p = 0.048). There was an association between taking ant-helminthic drugs and the absence of helminth infection in children (OR = 1.9, p < 0.05). No relationship existed between parents’ education level and the presence of STH infection among children (p > 0.05). Overall, children in Momba harboured low intensity helminths infection. The mean intensity of hookworm and ascaris infection decreased with age, …