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Growing Niche Business Through Innovation: A Family Run Open Farm In Ireland, Trudie Murray, Fred Creedon, Aisling Conwaylenihan Sep 2021

Growing Niche Business Through Innovation: A Family Run Open Farm In Ireland, Trudie Murray, Fred Creedon, Aisling Conwaylenihan

Dept. of Management & Enterprise Conference Material

This case study presents an analysis of Leahy’s Open Farm, a family business that has continuously reinvented itself, since its launch in 1996. The open-farm industry in Ireland is a niche that faces many regulatory, organisational and economic challenges. This case study presents an overview of the challenges and potential for this growing market. Challenges include; rising insurance costs (33% increase) and dealing with (50% reduction in revenue in 2020) and recovering from the economic impact of COVID-19 restrictions. Leahy’s have been able to develop the business by adding new revenue streams, nurturing employee skills, harnessing their competency base and …

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Cryptosporidium Spp. Diagnosis And Research In The 21st Century, Jennifer K. O'Leary, Roy D. Sleator, Brigid Lucey Sep 2021

Cryptosporidium Spp. Diagnosis And Research In The 21st Century, Jennifer K. O'Leary, Roy D. Sleator, Brigid Lucey

Department of Biological Sciences Publications

The protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium has emerged as a leading cause of diarrhoeal illness worldwide, posing a significant threat to young children and immunocompromised patients. While endemic in the vast majority of developing countries, Cryptosporidium also has the potential to cause waterborne epidemics and large scale outbreaks in both developing and developed nations. Anthroponontic and zoonotic transmission routes are well defined, with the ingestion of faecally contaminated food and water supplies a common source of infection. Microscopy, the current diagnostic mainstay, is considered by many to be suboptimal. This has prompted a shift towards alternative diagnostic techniques in the advent of …

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Going Off The Deep End - The Life And Controversies Of Henry Heimlich, Md, Bradford L. Walters, Matthew Drogowski Sep 2021

Going Off The Deep End - The Life And Controversies Of Henry Heimlich, Md, Bradford L. Walters, Matthew Drogowski

Articles

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Reallocating Redevelopment Risk, Michael C. Pollack Sep 2021

Reallocating Redevelopment Risk, Michael C. Pollack

Articles

Scores of cities across the country face devastating financial crises, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought even more to the brink. But economically distressed municipalities have few places to turn for help. Saddled by rising unemployment, weak tax bases, and state law limitations on deficit spending and debt assumption, they generally cannot spend their way out. And as conditions deteriorate, mobile capital and labor move to greener pastures, further hollowing out the cities they leave behind. With state and federal lifelines tenuous at best, offers by large developers to redevelop an area of the city can thus appear to be …

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Pharmaceuticals And Personal Care Products In New Hampshire: Prevalence And The Influence Of Microbial Communities On Removal During Wastewater Treatment, Carmela Sarah Antonellis Sep 2021

Pharmaceuticals And Personal Care Products In New Hampshire: Prevalence And The Influence Of Microbial Communities On Removal During Wastewater Treatment, Carmela Sarah Antonellis

Master's Theses and Capstones

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) represent a class of 10,000+ emerging contaminants that are widely used in communities for a variety of medical, health, and care applications. Many PPCPs are biologically active compounds, are typically unregulated in drinking water and surface waters, and may be incompletely removed in our municipal wastewater treatment systems. Understanding the sources and fate of PPCPs in the environment is important to protecting ecosystems because some compounds may pose toxicity or result in behavioral impacts to aquatic species. This thesis evaluated the presence and concentration of PPCPs in surface water sample locations in New Hampshire's …

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The Presence Of Sea Lice On Steelhead Trout At A Marine Farm In Nh Waters And The Utilization Of Lumpfish As A Biological Delouser, Michael Brian Doherty Sep 2021

The Presence Of Sea Lice On Steelhead Trout At A Marine Farm In Nh Waters And The Utilization Of Lumpfish As A Biological Delouser, Michael Brian Doherty

Master's Theses and Capstones

Sea lice are copepodid ectoparasites that infect fish, and cost salmonid farmers millions of dollars each year in damaged product and mitigation efforts. Conventional treatments can unintentionally impact the ambient environment and lead to the lice developing resistance to the treatments. In recent years, lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) have been utilized successfully to naturally clean sea lice from infected salmonids in European and Atlantic Canadian farms, however this technology has yet to be used in US farms. In New Hampshire coastal waters, New Hampshire Sea Grant and the University of New Hampshire operate an experimental steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) farm, AquaFort. …

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Efficacy Of Snap Education And Associations Between Diet Quality And Chronic Disease Risk In Bhutanese Refugees, Dustin Moore Sep 2021

Efficacy Of Snap Education And Associations Between Diet Quality And Chronic Disease Risk In Bhutanese Refugees, Dustin Moore

Master's Theses and Capstones

OBJECTIVES: To quantify the longitudinal effects of a direct SNAP-Ed intervention on diet, systemic inflammation, and gut microbiota among adult Bhutanese refugees. To measure the cross-sectional associations between dietary quality, inflammation, and gut microbial producers of short chain fatty acids (SCFA).METHODS: A convenience sample of 54 Bhutanese refugee adults (mean age=47 ± 2 years, 83% female) residing in New Hampshire was block randomized into the SNAP-Ed or control group. The SNAP-Ed intervention consisted of six one-hour nutrition lessons taught by a bi-cultural community health worker in the participants’ homes. Three 24-hour recalls were used to assess dietary intake at baseline …

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The Effect Of Wood-Fiber Substrates On Natural Disease Suppression And The Efficacy Of Rootshield®Wp Against Rhizoctonia Solani, Isobel Michaud Sep 2021

The Effect Of Wood-Fiber Substrates On Natural Disease Suppression And The Efficacy Of Rootshield®Wp Against Rhizoctonia Solani, Isobel Michaud

Master's Theses and Capstones

As by-products of the forest industry, wood fibers (WFs) are affordable and sustainable raw materials that have risen in popularity in the last decade to help meet the demand for soilless substrates. Wood fibers are high in hemicellulose and cellulose content yet have lower lignin content than Sphagnum peat, coconut coir, and tree bark-based growing medium components. Researchers have demonstrated that wood is more microbially active than peat and that WFs from pine and poplar have significantly greater fungal diversity and abundance than peat and coir, which can have higher bacterial diversity than WFs. However, the effects of WF-associated microbial …

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Green Economics: Assessing The Feasibility Of A New England Green Crab (Carcinus Maenas) Fishery Through Fishermen Perspectives, William L. Walter Sep 2021

Green Economics: Assessing The Feasibility Of A New England Green Crab (Carcinus Maenas) Fishery Through Fishermen Perspectives, William L. Walter

All Theses And Dissertations

The European green crab (Carcinus maenas) is a well-adapted invasive species that has flourished throughout coastal New England. Its arrival has caused numerous negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts, including the decline of the Maine soft shell clam (Mya arenaria) fishery. Increases in north Atlantic sea surface temperatures have simultaneously propelled the proliferation of C. maenas and caused northward shifts in the geographic ranges of commercially relevant species, including the American lobster (Homarus americanus). C. maenas represents an underutilized species that H. americanus and M. arenaria fishers can target to supplement any lost income if …

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Isolation And Identification Of Fungi From Clinical Samples Of Diabetic Patients And Studying The Anti-Fungal Activity Of Some Natural Oils On Isolated Fungi, Mosleh Mohammad Abomughaid Sep 2021

Isolation And Identification Of Fungi From Clinical Samples Of Diabetic Patients And Studying The Anti-Fungal Activity Of Some Natural Oils On Isolated Fungi, Mosleh Mohammad Abomughaid

Baghdad Science Journal

Isolation of fungi was performed from February to July, 2019. One hundred clinical specimens were collected from King Abdullah Hospital (KAH) Bisha, Saudi Arabia. Samples were collected from twenty patients of different ages (30 - 70 years old) ten males and ten females. The samples were collected from patients with the two types of diabetics. Specimens included blood, hair, nail, oral swabs and skin. Specimens were inoculated on Sabourauds Dextrose agar containing chloramphenicol. Thirteen fungal species were isolated and identified. The isolated species were: Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, A. terrus, A. nidulans, A. fumigatus, Candida albicans, C. krusei, C. parapsilosis, …

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Learning To Eat French, John Westbrook Sep 2021

Learning To Eat French, John Westbrook

Faculty Journal Articles

Ferguson’s Accounting for Taste reveals a gap in our understanding: How did French culinary discourse move beyond the bourgeois sphere in which it emerged in the nineteenth century? Picking up on her comparison of the Proustian synthesis of regional and national culinary culture in the Recherche to the project of national identity creation in the Third Republic’s best-selling textbook, Le Tour de la France par deux enfants, this essay argues that the culinary model Ferguson describes was in fact widely disseminated through mass primary education under the Third Republic. Examining an overlooked corpus of primary school readers and textbooks, I …

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Fors 333.01: Fire Ecology, Kyra D. Wolf Sep 2021

Fors 333.01: Fire Ecology, Kyra D. Wolf

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

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Nrsm 360.00: Rangeland Management, Walter Lujan Sep 2021

Nrsm 360.00: Rangeland Management, Walter Lujan

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

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Microrna‐146a‐5p, Neurotropic Viral Infection And Prion Disease (Prd), Aileen I. Pogue, Walter J. Lukiw Sep 2021

Microrna‐146a‐5p, Neurotropic Viral Infection And Prion Disease (Prd), Aileen I. Pogue, Walter J. Lukiw

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

The human brain and central nervous system (CNS) harbor a select sub‐group of potentially pathogenic microRNAs (miRNAs), including a well‐characterized NF‐kB‐sensitive Homo sapiens microRNA hsa‐miRNA‐146a‐5p (miRNA‐146a). miRNA‐146a is significantly over-expressed in progressive and often lethal viral‐ and prion‐mediated and related neurological syndromes associated with progressive inflammatory neurodegeneration. These include ~18 different viral‐induced encephalopathies for which data are available, at least ~10 known prion diseases (PrD) of animals and humans, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other sporadic and progressive age‐related neurological disorders. Despite the apparent lack of nucleic acids in prions, both DNA‐ and RNA‐containing viruses along with prions significantly induce miRNA‐146a …

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Heritable Cognitive Phenotypes Influence Appetitive Learning But Not Extinction In Honey Bees, Eda Sezen, Emily Dereszkiewicz, Alvin Hozan, Meghan M. Bennett, Cahit Ozturk, Brian H. Smith, Chelsea N. Cook Sep 2021

Heritable Cognitive Phenotypes Influence Appetitive Learning But Not Extinction In Honey Bees, Eda Sezen, Emily Dereszkiewicz, Alvin Hozan, Meghan M. Bennett, Cahit Ozturk, Brian H. Smith, Chelsea N. Cook

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Learning and attention allow animals to better navigate complex environments. While foraging, honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) learn several aspects of their foraging environment, such as color and odor of flowers, which likely begins to happen before they evaluate the quality of the food. If bees begin to evaluate quality before they taste food, and then learn the food is depleted, this may create a conflict in what the bee learns and remembers. Individual honey bees differ in their sensitivity to information, thus creating variation in how they learn or do not learn certain environmental stimuli. For example, foraging …

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Vol. 25, No. 1: Masthead, Water Law Review Sep 2021

Vol. 25, No. 1: Masthead, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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Vol. 25, No. 1: Full Issue, Water Law Review Sep 2021

Vol. 25, No. 1: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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Iowa, Richard Arnett Sep 2021

Iowa, Richard Arnett

Water Law Review

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41st Annual Colorado Law Conference On Natural Resources, Max Bricker Sep 2021

41st Annual Colorado Law Conference On Natural Resources, Max Bricker

Water Law Review

Equity in the Colorado River Basin: How to Sustainably Manage Shrinking Resource
Boulder, Colorado
September 30 - October 1, 2021

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Vol 48, No. 1: Full Issue, Transportation Law Journal Sep 2021

Vol 48, No. 1: Full Issue, Transportation Law Journal

Transportation Law Journal

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Tasting Tea, Tasting China: Tearooms And The Everyday Culture In Dalian, Yingkun Hou Sep 2021

Tasting Tea, Tasting China: Tearooms And The Everyday Culture In Dalian, Yingkun Hou

Dissertations

Tea is a beverage that has long been taken to symbolize a key aspect of Chinese tradition and history. However, it is one of many beverages drunk in contemporary China, where in recent times knowledge of wine has come to stand for the West and as a much-desired cultural capital. This dissertation examines everyday tea drinking and tea tasting in Dalian—a northeastern city in Liaoning Province, China. Through ethnography of practices, processes, and interactions taking place in daily events of tea drinking and tasting, this dissertation provides a window into social conflicts, ideas and desires, historical consciousness, and national identity, …

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Effects Of Magnetic Water On Growth Performance And Immunity Of Nile Tilapia, Nevien Kamel Abdelkhalek, Ahmed Abdelhamid, Shaymaa Rezk, Mohamed Mabrouk Sep 2021

Effects Of Magnetic Water On Growth Performance And Immunity Of Nile Tilapia, Nevien Kamel Abdelkhalek, Ahmed Abdelhamid, Shaymaa Rezk, Mohamed Mabrouk

Mansoura Veterinary Medical Journal

Objective: The present study was designed to investigate the effect of magnetic water treatment technique and different feeding rates on growth performance, feed utilization, water quality parameters, chemical composition and intestinal histomorphometric parameters of monosex Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Design: Experimental study with a factorial design. Fish: A total of 2880 apparently healthy monosex Nile tilapia (O. niloticus) with an average initial body weight of 69.86 ± 0.8 g were randomly distributed into 18 concreate ponds. Procedures: Experimental fish were fed on commercial diet (30.1% protein and 4600 Kcal GE/kg diet) based on three levels of feeding rate 3, 4 …

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The Impact Of Different Estrus Synchronization Programs On Postpartum Holstein Dairy Cow Reproductive Performance, Adel Hussien, Heba Sharawy, Yasser Lenis, Daniela James, Ozge Turna, Engy Risha, Wael Eldomany Sep 2021

The Impact Of Different Estrus Synchronization Programs On Postpartum Holstein Dairy Cow Reproductive Performance, Adel Hussien, Heba Sharawy, Yasser Lenis, Daniela James, Ozge Turna, Engy Risha, Wael Eldomany

Mansoura Veterinary Medical Journal

Objective: The purpose of this study was to see how the Ovsynch, modified Ovsynch, presynch, and modified presynch protocols affected postpartum reproductive performance in dairy cows. Design: Randomized controlled experimental study. Animals: The current research involved 412 dairy cows. Procedures: The cows were split into four groups: GnRH was given on day 0, PGF2∝ on day 7, and GnRH on day 9. Group 1: (Ovsynch protocol, n= 117) received GnRH on day 0 and PGF2∝ on day 7. Group 2 (modified Ovsynch, n=113): PMSG on day 0, PGF2 on day 7, and PMSG on day 9. Group 3 (presynch protocol, …

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Food Insecurity Among Women In Uganda, Hanna R. Burgin Sep 2021

Food Insecurity Among Women In Uganda, Hanna R. Burgin

Ballard Brief

Many women in Uganda suffer from a lack of available food resources. With food insecurity being a well-known and significant challenge facing many in Uganda, the country has worked over the years to combat the issue and end hunger, yet many women must still face this battle daily.1 Uganda has seen a decrease in available food and consequently an increase in women suffering from food insecurity due to climate change, gender inequality, and rapid population growth. Among many others, the negative consequences of food insecurity include enduring poverty and economic insecurity, family malnutrition, and sexual risk. Empowering women through educational …

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Estimating The Associations Between Big Five Personality Traits, Testosterone, And Cortisol, Zachary Sundin, Lester Sim Sep 2021

Estimating The Associations Between Big Five Personality Traits, Testosterone, And Cortisol, Zachary Sundin, Lester Sim

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Objective: Hormones are often conceptualized as biological markers of individual differences and have been associated with a variety of behavioral indicators and characteristics, such as mating behavior or acquiring and maintaining dominance. However, before researchers create strong theoretical models for how hormones modulate individual and social behavior, information on how hormones are associated with dominant models of personality is needed. Although there have been some studies attempting to quantify the associations between personality traits, testosterone, and cortisol, there are many inconsistencies across these studies. Methods: In this registered report, we examined associations between testosterone, cortisol, and Big Five personality traits. …

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Antimicrobial Resistance: Is Health Technology Assessment Part Of The Solution Or Part Of The Problem?, Abigail Colson, Alec Morton, Christine Årdal, Kalipso Chalkidou, Sally Davies, Louis Garrison, Mark Jit, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Itamar Megiddo, Chantal Morel, Justice Nonvignon, Kevin Outterson, John Rex, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Mark Sculpher, Beth Woods, Yue Xiao Sep 2021

Antimicrobial Resistance: Is Health Technology Assessment Part Of The Solution Or Part Of The Problem?, Abigail Colson, Alec Morton, Christine Årdal, Kalipso Chalkidou, Sally Davies, Louis Garrison, Mark Jit, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Itamar Megiddo, Chantal Morel, Justice Nonvignon, Kevin Outterson, John Rex, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Mark Sculpher, Beth Woods, Yue Xiao

Faculty Scholarship

Antimicrobial resistance is a serious challenge to the success and sustainability of our healthcare systems. There has been increasing policy attention given to antimicrobial resistance in the last few years, and increased amounts of funding have been channeled into funding for research and development of antimicrobial agents. Nevertheless, manufacturers doubt whether there will be a market for new antimicrobial technologies sufficient to enable them to recoup their investment. Health technology assessment (HTA) has a critical role in creating confidence that if valuable technologies can be developed they will be reimbursed at a level that captures their true value. We identify …

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Bigotry, Prophecy, Religion, And The Race Analogy In Marriage And Civil Rights Battles: Responding To Commentaries On Who's The Bigot?, Linda C. Mcclain Sep 2021

Bigotry, Prophecy, Religion, And The Race Analogy In Marriage And Civil Rights Battles: Responding To Commentaries On Who's The Bigot?, Linda C. Mcclain

Faculty Scholarship

One of the most rewarding parts of writing a book is that it opens the door for constructive conversation with thoughtful and perceptive readers like the scholars who generously contributed to this book symposium. Their various essays touch on and offer powerful insights about the core concerns that I had when I wrote Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law. They offer thoughtful empirical and normative observations and surface useful questions about important future investigations. Were I able to write a next chapter—or a sequel—all these commentaries would shape its content. As it is, I …

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Iatrogenic Acid-Induced Gingival Recession During Crown Cementation: A Case Report, Vrisiis Kofina, H. An, Swati Y. Rawal Sep 2021

Iatrogenic Acid-Induced Gingival Recession During Crown Cementation: A Case Report, Vrisiis Kofina, H. An, Swati Y. Rawal

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Accidental contact of various chemicals in dentistry may cause damage to the gingiva. A male patient presented for a full mouth rehabilitation with ceramic crowns. The patient underwent the steps of ceramic crown preparation uneventfully. At the time of crown delivery, cotton rolls were placed in several vestibular areas for isolation. They were regularly changed during different steps of etching and cementation process, which included the use of Multilink Primer B (Ivoclar Vivadent™). On removal of the cotton roll in the area of upper right canine, the gingival tissues appeared blanched and grayish white. The cotton roll was found to …

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Sep2021, Robert Kelly Sep 2021

Sep2021, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

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Autonomous Vehicle Communication Strategies Modeled In Virtual Reality, Nick N. Ferenchak Ph.D Sep 2021

Autonomous Vehicle Communication Strategies Modeled In Virtual Reality, Nick N. Ferenchak Ph.D

Publications

We sought to better understand how autonomous vehicle (AV) communication strategies impact human road users’ perceptions and behaviors. More specifically, we explored the impact of different external human-machine interface (eHMI) designs on understanding, task load, comfort, trust, acceptance, and reaction time. To accomplish this, we created virtual reality (VR) scenarios where human participants interacted with AVs. Participants experienced biking, driving, and pedestrian simulators and were brought back after initial testing to explore acclimation and learning effects. In terms of perceptions, the presence of an eHMI was the strongest predictor of understanding, comfort, trust, and acceptance outcomes in the statistical models …

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