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The World Coral Conservatory (Wcc): A Noah's Ark For Corals To Support Survival Of Reef Ecosystems, Didier Zoccola, Nadia Ounais, Dominique Barthelemy, Robert Calcagno, Françoise Gaill, Stephane Henard, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Max Janse, Jean Jaubert, Hollie M. Putnam, Bernard Salvat, Christian R. Voolstra, Denis Allemand

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Global change causes widespread decline of coral reefs. In order to counter the anticipated disappearance of coral reefs by the end of this century, many initiatives are emerging, including creation of marine protected areas (MPAs), reef restoration projects, and assisted evolution initiatives. Such efforts, although critically important, are locally constrained. We propose to build a “Noah's Ark” biological repository for corals that taps into the network of the world’s public aquaria and coral reef scientists. Public aquaria will serve not only as a reservoir for the purpose of conservation, restoration, and research of reef-building corals but also as a laboratory …

The Identity Formation Process Of Immigrant Children: A Case Study Synthesis, Jose Carbajal

Faculty Publications

Introduction: Children who immigrate often have difficulties in adjusting to their host country. A single case study based on similar narratives is composed to develop the character of a child’s developmental cultural issues as he immigrated to the United States from El Salvador. Attachment theory is reviewed to discuss how detachment and re-attachment affected him. A review of the literature on assimilation and acculturation is also provided. Objectives: The author synthesizes the work experience with the population with migration history to illustrate how attachment and loss impact these individuals, through a composed case study illustrated through the experience of Ramni, …

Comparison Of Sex Specific Data Among Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients, J. Fleischer, Ba, R. A. Pallay, D. S. Corwin, Md

Sex and Gender Health Education Summit 2020 – Virtual Meeting

It is critical to identify factors that contribute to disease severity among patients diagnosed with COVID-19. A systematic review of sex specific COVID-19 clinical outcomes demonstrated that female patients have lower rates of severe infection and mortality. This study investigates the correlation between biological sex and predisposing conditions as well as COVID-19 disease severity among 689 patients hospitalized within the St. Luke’s Hospital Network in Eastern PA/Western NJ. The sample is comprised of 45.8% female participants, of whom 30.2% identify as Hispanic or Latino, and 57.9% identidied their race as caucasian. Mean age of participants is 64.0 years (+/- 16.7). …

Seasonal Movements And Habitat Use Of Juvenile Smooth Hammerhead Sharks In The Western North Atlantic Ocean And Significance For Management, Ryan K. Logan, Jeremy Vaudo, Lara L. Sousa, Mark Sampson, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Mahmood S. Shivji

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Upper trophic level predators dramatically impacted by fisheries include the large-bodied hammerhead sharks, which have become species of conservation concern worldwide. Implementing spatial management for conservation of hammerhead populations requires knowledge of temporal distribution patterns and habitat use, identification of essential habitat for protection, and quantification of interactions with human activities. There is little such information for the smooth hammerhead shark, Sphyrna zygaena. We used fin-mounted satellite tags to examine the movements and habitat use of juvenile smooth hammerheads, a demographic segment particularly threatened by exploitation. Six sharks were tagged off the US mid-Atlantic and tracked for 49–441 days …

Teaching Across Disciplines: A Case Study Of A Project-Based Short Course To Teach Holistic Coastal Adaptation Design, Pamela K. Judge, Jane A. Buxton, Thomas C. Sheahan, Eleanor R. Phetteplace, David L. Kriebel, Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield

Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications

Climate change has led to the need for innovation in resilient infrastructure and the social policies which will support those. This requires greater interdisciplinary interactions and knowledge building among emerging professionals. This paper presents a case study of a pilot short course intended to immerse graduate students in the design of resilient infrastructure using place-based and interdisciplinary active team learning. This course helps graduate students bridge the gap between research and practice on the social science and engineering of resilient infrastructure for coastal adaptation. The intellectual framework for the course (the Adaptive Gradients Framework) provides a holistic evaluation of adaptation …

Correction To: The Genome Sequence Of The Grape Phylloxera Provides Insights Into The Evolution, Adaptation, And Invasion Routes Of An Iconic Pest, Claude Rispe, Fabrice Legeai, Paul D. Nabity, Rosa Fernández, Arinder K. Arora, Patrice Baa-Puyoulet, Celeste R. Banfill, Leticia Bao, Miquel Barberà, Maryem Bouallègue, Anthony Bretaudeau, Jennifer A. Brisson, Federica Calevro, Pierre Capy, Olivier Catrice, Thomas Chertemps, Carole Couture, Laurent Delière, Angela E. Douglas, Keith Dufault-Thompson, Paula Escuer, Honglin Feng, Astrid Forneck, Toni Gabaldón, Roderic Guigó, Frédérique Hilliou, Silvia Hinojosa-Alvarez, Yi-Min Hsiao, Sylvie Hudaverdian, Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly, Edward B. James, Spencer Johnston, Benjamin Joubard, Gaëlle Le Goff, Gaël Le Trionnaire, Pablo Librado, Shanlin Liu, Eric Lombaert, Hsiao-Ling Lu, Martine Maïbèche, Mohamed Makni, Marina Marcet-Houben, David Martínez-Torres, Camille Meslin, Nicolas Montagné, Nancy A. Moran, Daciana Papura, Nicolas Parisot, Yvan Rahbé, Mélanie Ribeiro Lopes, Aida Ripoll-Cladellas, Stéphanie Robin, Céline Roques, Pascale Roux, Julio Rozas, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Jose F. Sánchez-Herrero, Didac Santesmasses, Iris Scatoni, Rémy-Félix Serre, Ming Tang, Wenhua Tian, Paul A. Umina, Manuella Van Munster, Carole Vincent-Monégat, Joshua Wemmer, Alex C. C. Wilson, Ying Zhang, Chaoyang Zhao, Jing Zhao, Serena Zhao, Xin Zhou, François Delmotte, Denis Tagu

Cell and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in Fig. 4. The error was made in the x-axis labels of the three panels, which were noted as “pairwise dN/dS”. The figure represents distributions of dS, so the labels were corrected as “pairwise dS”.

Observing And Measuring Water Quality Of Central California Estuaries For Steelhead Trout (Onchorynchus Mykiss), Charles Alexander Taylor

Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Management Projects

Estuaries support abundant biodiversity but are threatened by anthropogenic influences making it a priority to effectively monitor water quality to identify if and when it becomes detrimental to aquatic life. The purpose of the study was to analyze water quality in local San Luis Obispo estuaries to measure baseline conditions to inform future studies and management and to identify if key water quality parameters such as dissolved oxygen or temperature result in stressful or lethal conditions for steelhead trout (Onchorynchus mykiss). An EXO1 multiparameter snode (probe) was used to measure dissolved oxygen (mg/l), temperature (in Celsius), conductivity (Us/cm), salinity (parts …

Molecular And Biological Epidemiology Of Mosquito Vecors For Canine Heartworm Infection In The Cumberland Gap Region, Charles T. Faulkner, Michelle Norden

Faculty Other Scholarly Content

Canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis), is a nematode parasite that infects canines, both wild and domestic and other vertebrate hosts like ferrets, otters, and cats worldwide. The disease, dirofilariasis, can be fatal in advanced stages if untreated and is recognized as a significant concern in veterinary medicine. Canine heartworm has been reported in 49 states of the United States (U.S.) and is considered enzootic. The nematode lifecycle is dependent upon canines infected with adult worms that produce microfilaria, the vermiform embryonic stage, that circulate in the peripheral blood of the host and the mosquito vectors that ingest them taking …

Computer Science Teacher Survey, Josh B. Mcgee, Sarah C. Mckenzie

Arkansas Education Reports

In April/May of 2020, the University of Arkansas’ Office for Education Policy (OEP), in partnership with Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson's Computer Science and Cyber Security Task Force, fielded a survey with the 400+ Arkansas educators who at that time held a computer science endorsement (528), computer science approval code (5016), or computer science technical permit (5014) on their educator’s license. The survey received 153 responses, a nearly 40 percent response rate.

Inequality In The Sharing Economy, Gregory M. Stein

Scholarly Works

The rise of the sharing economy benefits consumers and providers alike. Consumers can access a wider range of goods and services on an as-needed basis and no longer need to own a smaller number of costly assets that sit unused most of the time. Providers can engage in profitable short-term ventures, working on their own schedule and enjoying many new opportunities to supplement their income.

Sharing economy platforms often employ dynamic pricing, which means that the price of a good or service varies in real time as supply and demand change. Under dynamic pricing, the price of a good or …

A Fractal Epistemology For Transpersonal Psychology, Terry Marks-Tarlow

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

The role of science has been controversial within the nascent field of transpersonal psychology. Traditional linear and reductionist models are insufficient to address rare and unreproducible states of mind, fringe rather than normative experiences, and highly personal or culturally specific aspects of awareness. Through a fractal epistemology this paper introduces novel metaphors, models, and methods within a more holistic, organic, and synthetic branch of science. Principles of the epistemology illuminate observer dependence, fuzzy boundaries, recursive patterns, and higher dimensional phenomena that emerge within the infinite expanses between ordinary, finite (Euclidean) dimensions.

A Reflective Commentary On Fractal Epistemology, Deborah J. Armstrong

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Can Fractals Help Us Understand Transpersonal Experiences?, Elliot Benjamin

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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A Hearty Yes … And!, Katherine Peil Kauffman

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Academic Department Indicators, 2019-2020, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Academic Department Indicators

The audience is the Academic Planning Council (APC), college and department heads, and faculty. The purpose is to report instructional productivity measures useful for making comparisons and observing trends. Selected departmental information in this report is submitted annually to the Delaware Study, a National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity.

This Instructional Productivity information corresponds to the UNO state- and tuition-funded budget. The Supplemental Information at the end of the document provides counts and statistics for campus-wide programs embedded in most colleges. Only Dual Enrollment instruction is excluded from the productivity report since it is a fee-based instructional program for …

On Edge Computing For Remote Pathology Consultations And Computations, Alessio Sacco, Flavio Esposito, Guido Marchetto, Grant Kolar, Kate Schwetye

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Telepathology aims to replace the pathology operations performed on-site, but current systems are limited by their prohibitive cost, or by the adopted underlying technologies. In this work, we contribute to overcoming these limitations by bringing the recent advances of edge computing to reduce latency and increase local computation abilities to the pathology ecosystem. In particular, this paper presents LiveMicro, a system whose benefit is twofold: on one hand, it enables edge computing driven digital pathology computations, such as data-driven image processing on a live capture of the microscope. On the other hand, our system allows remote pathologists to diagnosis in …

2020 September 1 - Medical Student Education Committee Minutes, Medical Student Education Committee, East Tennessee State University

Medical Student Education Committee Minutes

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Uni Grad Student News, V19n1, September 2020, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

UNI Grad Student News

Inside This Issue:
--Message from the Dean
--Meet the Graduate College Staff
--Student Profiles
--Student Resources
--UNI Counseling Center Workshops
--Faculty Profile
--Alumni Profile
--Professional Development
--Current Happenings
--Student Accolades
--Take Care Tip
--Social Activities
--Important Deadlines

Consider Real Costs Before Implementing A 340b Program, Kenneth Maxik, Craig Kimble, Alberto Coustasse

Pharmacy Practice & Administration

The 340B drug pricing program was created to improve access to outpatient medications for low-income and underinsured r uninsured patients. It has exponentially grown with the expansion of the definition of a covered entity and the change to allow multiple contract pharmacies. Still, there are debates about the program’s financial impact and whether the discounts are passed along to enough underinsured or uninsured patients.

The Effects Of Music Medicine On Reducing Distress, Anxiety, And Pain During Bone Marrow Biopsy Procedures, Betsy Hartman, Sharon Mast, Judy Delismon

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Racial Justice And The Image Of Public Health, Marilyn Fischer

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The City Commission in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio recently adopted a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis. In doing so, Dayton joins municipalities around the country, as the global pandemic of coronavirus COVID19 swirls around us. The Commission gave compelling reasons for their action, citing the disparate rates of poor health outcomes in African American communities, as well as disproportionately high rates of poverty, unemployment, economic distress, homelessness, incarceration, and inadequate education.1 The Commission’s commitment to remedy these inequities is welcome. Others have laid out this evidence in much detail; I want to focus here on public health …

Give Grandma Her Ganja: Exploring The Need For An Exception To The Controlled Substances Act To Allow For Medical Marijuana Administration In Nursing Homes And Other Skilled Nursing Facilities, Katelyn Vaiana

Hofstra Law Review

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Linfield University Catalog, 2020-2021, Linfield Archives

Student Course Catalogs

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Fractals As Transpersonal Metaphor, Larry S. Liebovitch

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Because The Nature Of Nature Is Fractal: The Liberatory Potential Of A Fractal Epistemology, Katthe P. Wolf

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Ecolunch | Historical Perspective On Morphological Changes In Swordtail Fishes, Sept. 30, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Ecolunch | Multiphase Dispersal Of Perennial Forest Herb Seeds By Scatterhoarding Rodents, Sept. 23, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Validating Tackle Mechanics In American Football: Improving Safety And Performance, Arthur C. Maerlender, Caitlin J. Masterson, Rex Norris, Adam Hinthorne

Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior: Faculty Publications

Research has helped to understand the risks of injuries of tackling in American football and rugby; however, approaches to teaching and analysis are not well-documented. Shoulder-led tackling has been proposed as a safer approach to tackling even though data on the effectiveness for safety and defensive performance is limited. Additionally, some have argued that safety and effectiveness are incompatible. The purpose of the study was to validate a specific sequence of tackling actions as a tool for teaching safer and more effective tackling skills. Results suggested tackle scores help predict presence of head contact, and that higher tackle scores were …

Fitting Fractals Into Our Toolbox For Studying The Human Mind, Herb Klitzner

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Toward A Science Of Transpersonal Phenomena, Shapiro Yakov

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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