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Current Applications Of Absolute Bacterial Quantification In Microbiome Studies And Decision-Making Regarding Different Biological Questions, Xiaofan Wang, Samantha Howe, Feilong Deng, Jiangchao Zhao

Animal Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

High throughput sequencing has emerged as one of the most important techniques for characterizing microbial dynamics and revealing bacteria and host interactions. However, data interpretation using this technique is mainly based on relative abundance and ignores total bacteria load. In certain cases, absolute abundance is more important than compositional relative data, and interpretation of microbiota data based solely on relative abundance can be misleading. The available approaches for absolute quantification are highly diverse and challenging, especially for quantification in differing biological situations, such as distinguishing between live and dead cells, quantification of specific taxa, enumeration of low biomass samples, large …

Fixing The Business Of Food: Aligning Food Company Practices With The Sdgs, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment, Sanda Chiara Lab, Barilla Center For Food And Nutrition

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

The food sector confronts significant sustainable development challenges. It both contributes to, and suffers from, environmental degradation, especially human-induced climate change and deforestation. Although it can provide farming communities with livelihoods and incomes, it also can fuel land grabs that undermine community rights and wellbeing. The sector feeds the growing global population, but also contributes to the epidemics of obesity and metabolic diseases, while chronic malnutrition has continued to worsen in the years since adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In light of these challenges and opportunities, a number of frameworks, guidance documents, and standards have aimed to create …

Biological Soil Crusts Of The Great Plains: A Review, Steven D. Warren, Roger Rosentreter, Nicole Pietrasiak

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Biological soil crusts (BSCs), or biocrusts, are composed of fungi, bacteria, algae, and bryophytes (mosses, etc.) that occupy bare soil, entwining soil particles with filaments or rootlike structures and/or gluing them together with polysaccharide exudates to form a consolidated surface crust that stabilizes the soil against erosion. BSCs are common in arid and semiarid regions where vascular plant cover is naturally sparse, maximizing the exposure of surface-dwelling organisms to direct sunlight. Although less prominent and less studied there, BSC organisms are also present in more mesic areas such as the Great Plains where they can be found in shortgrass and …

Ensc 360.01: Applied Ecology, Ethan Alexander Smith

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Soci 220s.01: Race, Gender And Class, Daisy Rooks

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Control Strategies To Contain Sars-Cov-2 In A Data-Driven Sir Model For The State Of Michigan, Norma Ortiz-Robinson, Cyrus Foster-Bey

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

In this paper we use a data driven SIR model to capture the dynamics of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the state of Michigan. The model is then used to formulate an optimal control problem in which we perform sensitivity analysis involving vaccine efficacy and capacity, and vaccination willingness by the public. We obtain numerical approximations for best strategies for vaccination, treatment, and social distancing measures and their effect on the spread of the virus.

Solving The U.S. Plastic Crisis: Chemical Recycling To Advance Plastic To Fuel Creation, Rachel Blue

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

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Traditional Theories For Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Revisiting Their Current Applicability On The Transition Of Mexican Postgraduate Students To Life In The Uk

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

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Neurobehavioral Correlates Associated With Melodic Intonation Therapy For Adults With Nonfluent Aphasia, Caitlin Norquist

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Recent trends in neuroimaging, as it relates to the field of communication disorders, have shed new light on the nature of neuroplasticity and reorganization of brain function as it pertains to recovery from nonfluent aphasia following Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT). However, demographic limitations in these client populations necessitate synthesis across individual studies to form meaningful patterns for application to clinical practice. We conducted a systematic review of all studies involving pre-and post-treatment neurological and behavioral measures following MIT treatment for adults with nonfluent aphasia. Ten studies were identified for synthesis involving a variety of languages, treatment conditions, and neuroimaging and …

Who's Checking? A Proposal To Protect Employee Health Screening Data, Andrew Schuman

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

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Aronofsky’S Black Swan As A Postmodern Fairy Tale: Mirroring A Narcissistic Society, Margarete Johanna Landwehr

Languages & Cultures Faculty Publications

Based on the plot of Swan Lake, Black Swan depicts an ingenue's metamorphosis into a woman and a prima ballerina that contains a fairy-tale plot in which a naive heroine overcomes enemies and obstacles in order to achieve success and sexual maturity. Unlike a traditional fairy tale, this cinematic tale concludes with death and the clear distinctions between good and evil, helper and adversary and reality vs. fantasy are fluid. As in many fairy tales, the film criticizes the values of its era, namely, the narcissistic aspects of contemporary society with its excessive worship of youth, beauty and celebrity, and …

Forum, Volume 45, No. 3, Fall 2021, Florida Humanities, Jacki Levine

FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

Contents: Letter from the Director -- Florida Magazine Association's Charlie Awards -- Letter from the Editor -- Listen to the Voices of Generations in the Pages of Florida's Newspapers -- What's New at Florida Humanities -- A History Museum with an Intriguing Past -- Newspapers in Education -- Let's Talk about Water -- A Forgotten Newspaper -- An Evening with Danielle Allen -- A Conversation with Nashid Madyun -- Under the Gaze of the Sun -- Making the Invisible, Visible -- A New Model for News? -- Literary Florida -- Heritage Kitchen -- State of Wonder

Cover Crop-Based No-Till For Small Farms: Tradeoffs Of Termination Time, Method, And Ecosystem Services, Natalie Lounsbury

Doctoral Dissertations

Agriculture must adapt to and mitigate multiple environmental crises including climate change, overuse of herbicides, and soil degradation. Cover crops are a promising tool to do so because they protect soil from erosion, increase perenniality (i.e. year-round plant cover) and carbon contributions to farming systems, capture, recycle, and fix nitrogen, and suppress weeds through multiple mechanisms. Terminating high-residue cover crops to produce an in situ mulch for no-till production has added benefits of eliminating the need for tillage, protecting soil against extreme precipitation events and drought, and contributing to weed suppression. However, there are few non-chemical ways to terminate cover …

Seneca, The Humors, And Revenge Tragedy, Andrew Stesienko

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation argues that moral and religious authorities of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods adapted rules for emotional governance from Senecan philosophy. These Senecan rules helped institute a performance-based approach to managing emotion, which relied on programmatic meditation, rhetoric, and behavior to change one’s emotional state. This approach ostensibly offered more personal control over affective inclination, which according to the period’s Galenic paradigms, was heavily influenced by environmental and physiological factors. My project examines revenge tragedy to highlight Senecan-inspired affect management as practiced by aspiring avengers. Because revenging hopefuls must amplify and then mobilize their feelings in order to achieve …

Study Of Primary Cilia In Early Development, Pharmacology, And Brainwave Activity., Matthew Roderick Strobel

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary cilium is a unique cellular organelle that emanates from the mother centriole and extends out of the plasma membrane of nearly every mammalian cell. While originally believed to be a vestigial appendage, the cilium is now known to be a signaling hub where various intercellular communication pathways intersect to regulate morphogenesis, proliferation, polarity, differentiation, and homeostasis. Due to their importance in regulating cellular functions the cilium has become a growing focus of biomedical research as it has been linked to at least 35 human developmental disorders which have been termed ciliopathies. In the nervous system, primary cilia regulate …

Crwr 211a.02: Introduction To Poetry Workshop, Madeline Rose Tecmire

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Enst 230h.01: Nature And Society, Daniel T. Spencer

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Hsta 501.01: Readings In Early American History, Claire H.R. Arcenas

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Geo 107n.50: Natural Disasters (Online), Hilary R. Martens

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Phl 110e.50: Introduction To Ethics, Armond J. Duwell

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Phl 572.01: Thoreau, Paul Muench

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Russ 201.01: Intermediate Russian I, Clint B. Walker

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Jpns 371.01: Japanese Film And Anime, Michihiro Ama

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Gdsn 149a.50: Digital Imaging I, Jordan Alec Costello

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Artz 302a.01: Foundations Of Visual Art Education, Steven Michael Krutek

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Artz 194.01: Seminar - First Year, Karl Yonner Schwiesow

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Artz 131a.01: Ceramics For Non-Majors, Drake Michael Gerber

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Artz 105a.04: Visual Language - Drawing, Karl Yonner Schwiesow

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Mart 510.01: Core Research - Narrativity And Experiments In Media, Michael Robert Murphy

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Mart 416.01: Production Studio I, Gregory David Twigg

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