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The Utah Statesman, November 16, 2020, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan

Full Issue - Jgi V.14, N.1

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

Full issue of Journal of Global Initiatives volume 15, number 1 - Special Issue: The Year of Cube

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, November 16, 2020, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• EPC Monthly Report
• Spring Calendar Update
• Course Fee Policy
• Dixie State Faculty Senate resolution to change university name
• Faculty Senate Meeting dates for Spring 2021
• Center for Student Analytics Student Insights Report
• USUSA Annual Report
• Faculty Forum Task Force
• Term Appointment Faculty Task Force
• Code 404.3.6 Changes/Final (first reading)

Gec Meeting Minutes For Nov 16, 2020, General Education Committee

General Education Committee Minutes

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Effect Of Varietal Resistance On The Yield Loss Function Of Wheat To Nodorum Blotch, Manisha Shankar, Karyn Reeves, Jason Bradley, Ryan Varischetti, Robert Loughman

Grain and Other Field Crops Research Articles

Cultivar disease resistance ratings to nodorum blotch (caused by Parastagonospora nodorum) provide critical information to growers to assist with disease management. However, less has been done in terms of yield losses from diseases under different cultivar resistance scenarios. The purpose of this study was to characterize yield and quality loss responses to wheat nodorum blotch as influenced by variety partial resistance, epidemic intensity, and environment. The trial series includes four site/years in Western Australia. Five varieties, Magenta, Calingiri, Trojan, Janz, and Scout were used for all four trials. These varieties represented resistant/susceptible categories MRMS, MS, MSS, S, and SVS, …

Week Of November 16, 2020 - November 20, 2020, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Today at Cardozo 2020

Events occurring this week have been sponsored by:

• Cardozo Business Law Society
• Cardozo Center for Public Service Law
• Cardozo Criminal Law Society (CCLS)
• Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review
• Cardozo Law Punnytive Damages (CLPD)
• Cardozo Law Review
• Cardozo Office of Alumni Affairs
• Cardozo Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF)
• Cardozo Women's Law Initiative (WLI)
• Cardozo’s Retail & Luxury Alumni Practice Group
• Chabad at Cardozo
• Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy
• Intellectual Property Law Society (IPLS)
• Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA
• Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
• Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB)
• Women in Tech Law

The Rider (2020-11-16), Jacqueline Peraza

The Rider Archives

Vol.6 No.13

Safety And Tolerability Of Srx246, A Vasopressin 1a Antagonist, In Irritable Huntington's Disease Patients-A Randomized Phase 2 Clinical Trial., Michael J Brownstein, Neal G Simon, Jeffrey D Long, Jon Yankey, Hilda T Maibach, Merit Cudkowicz, Christopher Coffey, Robin A Conwit, Codrin Lungu, Karen E Anderson, Steven M Hersch, Dixie J Ecklund, Eve M Damiano, Debra E Itzkowitz, Shifang Lu, Marianne K Chase, Jeremy M Shefner, Andrew Mcgarry, Brenda Thornell, Catherine Gladden, Michele Costigan, Padraig O'Suilleabhain, Frederick J Marshall, Amy M Chesire, Paul Deritis, Jamie L Adams, Peter Hedera, Kelly Lowen, H Diana Rosas, Amie L Hiller, Joseph Quinn, Kellie Keith, Andrew P Duker, Christina Gruenwald, Angela Molloy, Cara Jacob, Stewart Factor, Elaine Sperin, Danny Bega, Zsazsa R Brown, Lauren C Seeberger, Victor W Sung, Melanie Benge, Sandra K Kostyk, Allison M Daley, Susan Perlman, Valerie Suski, Patricia Conlon, Matthew J Barrett, Stephanie Lowenhaupt, Mark Quigg, Joel S Perlmutter, Brenton A Wright, Elaine Most, Guy J Schwartz, Jessica Lamb, Rosalind S Chuang, Carlos Singer, Karen Marder, Joyce A Moran, John R Singleton, Meghan Zorn, Paola V Wall, Richard M Dubinsky, Carolyn Gray, Carolyn Drazinic

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

SRX246 is a vasopressin (AVP) 1a receptor antagonist that crosses the blood-brain barrier. It reduced impulsive aggression, fear, depression and anxiety in animal models, blocked the actions of intranasal AVP on aggression/fear circuits in an experimental medicine fMRI study and demonstrated excellent safety in Phase 1 multiple-ascending dose clinical trials. The present study was a 3-arm, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, 12-week, dose escalation study of SRX246 in early symptomatic Huntington's disease (HD) patients with irritability. Our goal was to determine whether SRX246 was safe and well tolerated in these HD patients given its potential use for the treatment of problematic …

Orda Weekly Update, 2020.11.16, Office Of Research And Development Administration

ORDA Weekly Update

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Natalia Shustova Answers Questions About 15 Years Of Research On Covalent Organic Frameworks, Natalia B. Shustova Prof. Dr.

Faculty Publications

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Spontaneity And The Supernatural: Simulating Improv On Twine, Angelica Zadak

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

This thesis is an improv-based digital role-playing game (RPG) created on Twine titled Spontaneity and the Supernatural. The game synthesizes Dustin Edward’s scholarship on remix and digital rhetoric, Kathleen Blake Yancy and Stephen J. McElroy’s application of assemblage theory in composition, and Viola Spolin’s improv theory and practices to take improv from the stage to a digital space. This game uses Twine as a development tool to deliver improv concepts, such as Spolin’s ensemble, environment, and intuition, procedurally. To incorporate these elements into the game, the thesis engages potential players with a narrative that suggests all players can practice improv …

Between Subject And Object: The Identity Of A Slave In Juan Francisco Manzano’S Autobiography, Carmen Salama

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

The purpose of this research is to explore how the oscillation between violence and benevolence by the patriarchal master marks the dual status of the slave as the subject-object. This duplicity exists not only in the identity of the slave but also in the identity of Cuban society in the Cuban abolitionist narrative of the 19th century. My research focuses on the abolitionist work La Autobiografía de un Esclavo (1835) by Juan Francisco Manzano. Expanding the post-colonial approach of academics such as Claudette Williams and Lorna Williams, first I analyze the limits of property rights over the slave imposed by …

Daily Eastern News: November 16, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

November

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Crow's Nest, November 16, 2020, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 16, 2020, issue of the Crow's Nest.

An Agent-Based Simulator For The Gastrointestinal Pathway Of Listeria Monocytogenes, Ashrafur Rahman, Ali Asgary, Daniel Munther, Aamir Fazil, Ben A. Smith, Jianhong Wu

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

We developed an agent-based gastric simulator for a human host to illustrate the within host survival mechanisms of Listeria monocytogenes. The simulator incorporates the gastric physiology and digestion processes that are critical for pathogen survival in the stomach. Mathematical formulations for the pH dynamics, stomach emptying time, and survival probability in the presence of gastric acid are integrated in the simulator to evaluate the portion of ingested bacteria that survives in the stomach and reaches the small intestine. The parameters are estimated using in vitro data relevant to the human stomach and L. monocytogenes. The simulator predicts that 5%–29% of …

Radial Basis Densities And The Density Functional-Based Atom-In-Molecule: Designing Charge-Transfer Potentials, Godwin Amo-Kwao

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

Classical potentials that are capable of describing charge transfer and charge polarization in complex systems are of central importance for classical atomistic simulation of biomolecules and materials. Current potentials—regardless of the system—do not generalize well, and, with the exception of highly-specialized empirical potentials tuned for specific systems, cannot describe chemical bond formation and breaking. The charge-transfer embedded atom method (CT-EAM), a formal, DFT-based extension to the original EAM for metals, has been developed to address these issues by modeling charge distortion and charge transfer in interacting systems using pseudoatom building blocks instead of the electron densities of isolated atoms. CT-EAM …

Finalists Announced For Annual Innovative Idea Competition, Sustainability Institute

Sustainability Institute Blog

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Impact Of Diabetes On The Gut And Salivary Iga Microbiomes, Eric L Brown, Heather T Essigmann, Kristi L Hoffman, Noah W Palm, Sarah M Gunter, Joel M Sederstrom, Joseph F Petrosino, Goo Jun, David Aguilar, William B Perkison, Craig L Hanis, Herbert L Dupont

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Mucosal surfaces like those present in the lung, gut, and mouth interface with distinct external environments. These mucosal gateways are not only portals of entry for potential pathogens but also homes to microbial communities that impact host health. Secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) is the single most abundant acquired immune component secreted onto mucosal surfaces and, via the process of immune exclusion, shapes the architecture of these microbiomes. Not all microorganisms at mucosal surfaces are targeted by SIgA; therefore, a better understanding of the SIgA-coated fraction may identify the microbial constituents that stimulate host immune responses in the context of health …

The Birds Of The Nebraska Sandhills, Paul A. Johnsgard, Josef Kren

Zea E-Books Collection

This book provides basic information on all the species of birds that have been reliably reported from the Nebraska Sandhills region as of 2020. They include 46 permanent residents, 125 summer breeders, 125 migrants, and 102 rare or accidental species, totaling 398 species. Information on status, migration, and habitats is provided for all but the very rare and accidental species. There are also descriptions of 46 refuges, preserves, and other public-access natural areas in the region and seven suggested birding routes. The text contains more than 90,000 words and over 250 literature references along with more than 20 drawings, 9 …

Probing The Magnetic Anisotropy Of Co(Ii) Complexes Featuring Redox-Active Ligands, Praveen Kumar, Daniel J. Santa Lucia, Kinga Kaniewska-Laskowska, Sergey V. Lindeman, Andrew Ozarowski, J. Krzystek, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Joshua Telser, John F. Berry, Adam T. Fiedler

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

Coordination complexes that possess large magnetic anisotropy (otherwise known as zero-field splitting, ZFS) have possible applications in the field of magnetic materials, including single molecule magnets (SMMs). Previous studies have explored the role of coordination number and geometry in controlling the magnetic anisotropy and SMM behavior of high-spin (S = 3/2) Co(II) complexes. Building upon these efforts, the present work examines the impact of ligand oxidation state and structural distortions on the spin states and ZFS parameters of pentacoordinate Co(II) complexes. The five complexes included in this study (1–5) have the general formula, [Co(Tp^{Ph2 …}

Efficacy Of Phytochemicals In Inhibiting Horizontal Gene Transfer Of Antibiotic Resistance Between Multidrug Resistant Salmonella And Commensal E. Coli, Poonam Vinayamohan

Doctoral Dissertations

Bacterial antibiotic resistance (AR) imposes a huge threat to public health worldwide. Overuse and misuse of antibiotics in human medicine and animal agriculture resulted in the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria, including pathogens. Bacteria possess an inherent ability to share their genetic information by means of horizontal gene transfer (HGT), a property that favors dissemination of AR genes among neighboring bacteria. The animal gut, the reservoir of AR bacteria and AR genes, acts as a source for environmental contamination and propagation of AR through manure and water. There has been an increased incidence of AR Salmonella infections in humans in …

Interleukin-17a Facilitates Chikungunya Virus Infection By Inhibiting Ifn-Α2 Expression, Biswas Neupane, Dhiraj Acharya, Farzana Nazneen, Gabriel Gonzalez-Fernandez, Alex Sutton Flynt, Fengwei Bai

Faculty Publications

Interferons (IFNs) are the key components of innate immunity and are crucial for host defense against viral infections. Here, we report a novel role of interleukin-17A (IL-17A) in inhibiting IFN-α2 expression thus promoting chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection. CHIKV infected IL-17A deficient (Il17a^−/−) mice expressed a higher level of IFN-α2 and developed diminished viremia and milder footpad swelling in comparison to wild-type (WT) control mice, which was also recapitulated in IL-17A receptor-deficient (Il17ra^−/−) mice. Interestingly, IL-17A selectively blocked IFN-α2 production during CHIKV, but not West Nile virus (WNV) or Zika virus (ZIKV), infections. Recombinant IL-17A …

Challenges Facing Young Scientists In Academia And Industry In The United States From The Lens Of A Millennial Academic, Joseph R. Clark

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Rising to the challenge: Pictured from left to right: Salma L. Nuñez, Albert Reyes and Lisandra Santiago-Capeles, Ph.D. The challenges that young scientists face in academia and industry in the United States are discussed. Prof. Joseph Clark provides insight about how social media, funding, diversity, natural disasters, COVID-19 and student loan debt are impacting young scientists. A discussion of strategies to meet these challenges and support young scientists are presented.

Myosight-Semi-Automated Image Analysis Of Skeletal Muscle Cross Sections, Lyle W Babcock, Amy D Hanna, Nadia H Agha, Susan L Hamilton

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Manual analysis of cross-sectional area, fiber-type distribution, and total and centralized nuclei in skeletal muscle cross sections is tedious and time consuming, necessitating an accurate, automated method of analysis. While several excellent programs are available, our analyses of skeletal muscle disease models suggest the need for additional features and flexibility to adequately describe disease pathology. We introduce a new semi-automated analysis program, MyoSight, which is designed to facilitate image analysis of skeletal muscle cross sections and provide additional flexibility in the analyses.

RESULTS: We describe staining and imaging methods that generate high-quality images of immunofluorescent-labelled cross sections from mouse …

Ryanodine Receptor 1-Related Disorders: An Historical Perspective And Proposal For A Unified Nomenclature, Tokunbor A Lawal, Joshua J Todd, Jessica W Witherspoon, Carsten G Bönnemann, James J Dowling, Susan L Hamilton, Katherine G Meilleur, Robert T Dirksen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The RYR1 gene, which encodes the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release channel or type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1) of skeletal muscle, was sequenced in 1988 and RYR1 variations that impair calcium homeostasis and increase susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia were first identified in 1991. Since then, RYR1-related myopathies (RYR1-RM) have been described as rare, histopathologically and clinically heterogeneous, and slowly progressive neuromuscular disorders. RYR1 variants can lead to dysfunctional RyR1-mediated calcium release, malignant hyperthermia susceptibility, elevated oxidative stress, deleterious post-translational modifications, and decreased RyR1 expression. RYR1-RM-affected individuals can present with delayed motor milestones, contractures, scoliosis, ophthalmoplegia, and respiratory insufficiency.Historically, RYR1-RM-affected individuals were …

Effects Of Different Management On Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics In Chinese Grassland Systems, Feng Shi, Yu'e Li, Qingzhu Gao, Lin Jin

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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The Application Of Dynamic Evaluating Models Of The Meteorological Condition Effects On Natural Grassland Vegetation In China, Shuan Qian, L. X. Mao, M. Wang, Y. H. Zhang

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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Methane Yields From Grazing Livestock: An Overview, Cesar S. Pinares-Patiño, H. Clark

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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Understanding The Rules Of Life Summit (Nsf), Adriana T. Dawes, Marisa Eisenberg, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

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Revision Of Genus-Group Taxa In The Family Scorpiopidae Kraepelin, 1905, With Description Of 15 New Species (Arachnida: Scorpiones), František Kovařík, Graeme Lowe, Mark Stockmann, František Šťáhlavský

Euscorpius

The scorpiopids comprise a large scorpion family, distributed widely across the Oriental region, that currently encompasses 82 species placed under 8 genera and one subgenus. A variety of morphological characters have been used in the diagnoses of these genera or subgenera. Some characters were introduced by Vachon (1980) and Soleglad & Sissom (2001) when less than a few dozen species were known, while other more recent characters have not been fully evaluated. We critically review all characters that have been applied to generic or subgeneric taxonomy of the family, as well as several others hitherto neglected. We analyze their variation …