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Ucc Minutes, 01/05/2009, Lon Smith

UCC 2009

Minutes from the 01/05/2009 meeting of the University Curriculum Committee.

Arthralgia Resolution Rate Following Chikungunya Virus Infection., Megan O'Driscoll, Henrik Salje, Aileen Y. Chang, Hugh Watson

Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Companion Animal Tick Encounters As Revealed By Photograph-Based Crowdsourced Data, Heather L. Kopsco, Roland J. Duhaime, Thomas N. Mather

Plant Sciences and Entomology Faculty Publications

Background: Community science is increasingly utilized to track important vectors of companion animal disease, providing a scalable, cost-effective strategy for identifying new foci, changing phenology, and disease prevalence across wide geographies. Objectives: We examined photographs of ticks found attached to predominately dogs and cats reported to a photograph-based tick surveillance program to identify potential areas for improvements in tick prevention education and risk intervention. Methods: We compared estimated days of tick attachment using a Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance, and a Pearson's chi-square analysis of variance on the number of submissions by host type submitted for each season. Results: The …

Assessing The Impact Of Vaccination On Covid-19 In South Africa Using Mathematical Modeling, Musyoka Kinyili, Justin B. Munyakazi, Abdulaziz Y. A. Mukhtar

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The unexpected continuing mushrooming tendency of the COVID-19 epidemic calls for alarm in the entire globe especially with the cropping up of more divergent contagious variants being witnessed. On top of the many non-pharmaceutical measures put in place for containment of the pandemic, pharmacological measures have been incorporated in the battle against the SARS-CoV-2 especially with the commencement of vaccination in the early December 2020. This study develops a deterministic compartmental model that incorporates vaccination as a measure to combat the spread of COVID-19 epidemic. We use the model particularly to assess the potential impact of vaccination in shattering the …

On Dynamical Analysis Of A Prey-Diseased Predator Model With Refuge In Prey, Srinivasarao Thota, Abayomi Ayoade

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, we propose a mathematical model of a prey-diseased predator model with refuge in prey system. In other words, a prey-predator model with an infectious disease in the prey population is formulated. This model is constituted by a system of three nonlinear ordinary differential equations of first order, which describe the interaction between the infected prey, non-infected prey and predator. The equilibria of the system are derived and the stability analyses of the disease-free and the endemic equilibria are conducted.

Statistical Analysis Of Anxiety And Self-Perceived Stress Level Among People During Covid-19 Pandemic, Md. Tanwir Akhtar, Neha Gupta, Saeed H. K. Al-Dulaimi

Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability

In this paper, a survey was conducted online to analyze anxiety and perceived stress level among the people living in Delhi- NCR. A questionnaire was developed on the web, and its link was distributed via the internet to the people of Delhi NCR, which consists of students, professionals, nonprofessional’s, etc. The results confirm that between the two groups, female shows more anxiety level, whereas males have more perceived stress during the COVID-19 outbreak. Alternatively, the level of anxiety is high among the people aged 36-45 years, whereas perceived stress rate was higher among older people.

Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model Of Covid-19 Infected Cases And Deaths, Rajarathinam Arunachalam, Tamilselvan Pakkirisamy

Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability

The primary objectives of the present study are to investigate the short- and long-term cointegration relationships between the cumulative number of new cases of COVID-19 infections (X) and the cumulative numbers of deaths due to COVID-19 (Y), to investigate the long-run equilibrium relationship between these variables using an autoregressive distributed lag model and bounds cointegration tests, and to study the stability of the estimated model. The cumulative sum of recursive residuals test and the cumulative sum of recursive residuals squares tests are used to assess the consistency of the model parameters.

Statistical Analysis Of Anxiety And Self-Perceived Stress Level Among People During Covid-19 Pandemic, Md. Tanwir Akhtar, Neha Gupta, Saeed H. K. Al-Dulaimi

Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability

In this paper, a survey was conducted online to analyze anxiety and perceived stress level among the people living in Delhi- NCR. A questionnaire was developed on the web, and its link was distributed via the internet to the people of Delhi NCR, which consists of students, professionals, nonprofessional’s, etc. The results confirm that between the two groups, female shows more anxiety level, whereas males have more perceived stress during the COVID-19 outbreak. Alternatively, the level of anxiety is high among the people aged 36-45 years, whereas perceived stress rate was higher among older people.

Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model Of Covid-19 Infected Cases And Deaths, Rajarathinam Arunachalam, Tamilselvan Pakkirisamy

Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability

The primary objectives of the present study are to investigate the short- and long-term cointegration relationships between the cumulative number of new cases of COVID-19 infections (X) and the cumulative numbers of deaths due to COVID-19 (Y), to investigate the long-run equilibrium relationship between these variables using an autoregressive distributed lag model and bounds cointegration tests, and to study the stability of the estimated model. The cumulative sum of recursive residuals test and the cumulative sum of recursive residuals squares tests are used to assess the consistency of the model parameters.

Pseudo-Science And ‘Fake’ News ‘Inventing’ Epidemics And The Police State, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

No abstract provided.

Birds Of A Feather Lockdown Together: Mutual Bird-Human Benefits During A Global Pandemic, Michael Brock, Jacqueline Doremus, Liqing Li

Economics

Feeding backyard wildlife has impure public good characteristics - it provides satisfaction to humans, both private and public, while also improving bird populations. We document a surge in human interest in connecting with wild birds during lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using an event-study design, we find large increases in bird engagement began soon after the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns in Spring 2020. Responses were stronger for areas with more bird species. Investments appear sustained, beginning first with bird feeders, then seed and finally baths. Beyond bird survival, bird feeding can potentially enhance humans' connection to nature …

An Uncommon Presentation Of Cryptococcal Meningitis In An Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report, Kelly Correa, Scott Craver, Amar Sandhu

Emergency Medicine Articles

INTRODUCTION: Meningitis is a serious and potentially life-threatening infection of the central nervous system. Cryptococcus neoformans is a rare fungal cause of meningitis that commonly presents with atypical symptoms. Although this infection is most common in immunocompromised patients, it also occurs in immunocompetent patients. This case report describes an atypical presentation of cryptococcal meningitis in a seemingly immunocompetent patient.

CASE REPORT: A 40-year-old immunocompetent patient with no significant past medical history had visited the emergency department (ED) five times within a span of 30 days reporting dental pain and headache. Throughout each of the visits, no clear symptoms signaling the …

Shea Pediatric Leadership Council Commentary: Inpatient Visitor Considerations For Pediatric Patients During The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Pandemic, Allison H. Bartlett, Karen A Ravin, Lorry G Rubin, Caitlin Mcgrath, Annabelle De St Maurice, W Matthew Linam, Latania K. Logan, Martha Muller, Carolyn Caughell, Lynn Ramirez-Avila, Shea Pediatric Leadership Council

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

38th Annual Reception Bibliography, 2020-2021, Leonard H. Axe Library

Bibliographies

Since 1984, Leonard H. Axe Library at Pittsburg State University has honored book authors and other creators for their outstanding scholarship and contributions to their fields.

The Sulfur Microbial Diet Is Associated With Increased Risk Of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Precursors, Long H. Nguyen, Yin Cao, Jinhee Hur, Raaj S. Mehta, Daniel R. Sikavi, Yiqing Wang, Wenjie Ma, Kana Wu, Mingyang Song, Edward L. Giovannucci, Eric B. Rimm, Walter C. Willett, Wendy S. Garrett, Jacques Izard, Curtis Huttenhower, Andrew T. Chan

Food for Health: Publications

Background and aims: Diet may contribute to the increasing incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) before age 50 (early-onset CRC). Microbial metabolism of dietary sulfur produces hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), a gastrointestinal carcinogen that cannot be easily measured at scale. As a result, evidence supporting its role in early neoplasia is lacking.

Methods: We evaluated long-term adherence to the sulfur microbial diet, a dietary index defined a priori based on increased abundance of 43 bacterial species involved with sulfur metabolism, with risk of CRC precursors among 59,013 individuals who underwent lower endoscopy in the Nurses’ Health Study II …

Shifts In Unaids Ethics Guidance And Implications For Ethics Review Of Preventive Hiv Vaccine Trials., Catherine Slack, Paul Ndebele, Mary Allen, Jessica Salzwedel

Global Health Faculty Publications

INTRODUCTION: A major change in the ethics framework for preventive HIV vaccine trials worldwide is the release of the UNAIDS 2021 ethical considerations in HIV prevention trials. This new guidance comes at an exciting time when there are multiple HIV vaccine efficacy trials in the field. Research Ethics Committees (RECs) or Institutional Review Boards are a most likely audience for these guidelines. Our objective is to highlight shifts in ethics recommendations from the earlier 2012 UNAIDS guidance.

DISCUSSION: We review recommendations related to four key issues, namely standard of prevention, post-trial access to safe and effective vaccines, enrolment of adolescents …

Experimental Challenge Of A North American Bat Species, Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus Fuscus), With Sars-Cov-2, Jeffrey S. Hall, Susan Knowles, Sean W. Nashold, Hon S. Ip, Ariel E. Leon, Tonie Rocke, Saskia Keller, Mariano Carossino, Udeni Balasuriya, Erik Hofmeister

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

The Rider (2021-11-01), Verilu Infante

The Rider Archives

Vol.7 No.11

Effect Of Intubation Timing On The Outcome Of Patients With Severe Respiratory Distress Secondary To Covid-19 Pneumonia., Mohamed Fayed, Nimesh Patel, Nicholas S. Yeldo, Katherine A. Nowak, Donald H. Penning, Felipe Vasconcelos Torres, Abdul Kader Natour, Anoop Chhina

Anesthesiology Articles

Background: The optimal timing of intubation for critically ill patients with severe respiratory illness remains controversial among healthcare providers. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has raised even more questions about when to implement this life-saving therapy. While one group of providers prefers early intubation for patients with respiratory distress because these patients may deteriorate rapidly without it, other providers believe that intubation should be delayed or avoided because of its associated risks including worse outcomes.

Research question: Our objective was to assess whether the timing of intubation in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia was associated with differences in mortality …

New Look Of Ebv Lmp1 Signaling Landscape, Ling Wang, Shunbin Ning

ETSU Faculty Works

The Epstein–Barr Virus (EBV) principal oncoprotein Latent Membrane Protein 1 (LMP1) is a member of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor (TNFR) superfamily with constitutive activity. LMP1 shares many features with Pathogen Recognition Receptors (PRRs), including the use of TRAFs, adaptors, and kinase cascades, for signal transduction leading to the activation of NFκB, AP1, and Akt, as well as a subset of IRFs and likely the master antioxidative transcription factor NRF2, which we have gradually added to the list. In recent years, we have discovered the Linear UBiquitin Assembly Complex (LUBAC), the adaptor protein LIMD1, and the ubiquitin sensor and signaling …

Bulletin Ninth District Ny November 2021

Bulletin of the Ninth District Dental Association

The Bulletin of the Ninth District Dental Association is published four times annually in the months of March, May, September and November. It is distributed to all Association members from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester in the state of New York.

The Bulletin keeps our members up-to-date on NDDA activities as well as on a variety of topics important to the profession.

Uab's Alys Stephens Center Presents Anthony Trionfo And Albert Cano Smit, Young Concert Artists, Shannon Thomason

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Covid-19 And Tourism: Analyzing The Effects Of Covid-19 Statistics And Media Coverage On Attitudes Toward Tourism, Maksim Godovykh, Jorge Ridderstaat, Carissa Baker, Alan Fyall

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

COVID-19 has significantly influenced tourism, including tourists’ and residents’ attitudes toward tourism. At the same time, attitudes and consumer confidence are important for economic recovery in the tourism sector. This study explores the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s attitudes toward tourism by analyzing time-series data on the number of COVID-19 positive cases, vaccinations, news sentiment, a total number of daily mentions of tourism, and the share of voice for positive and negative sentiment toward tourism. The applied data analysis techniques include descriptive analysis, visual representation of data, data decomposition into trend and cycle components, unit root tests, Granger …

How Work From Home Has Affected The Occupant’S Well-Being In The Residential Built Environment: An International Survey Amid The Covid-19 Pandemic, Zhihong Pang, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Simi Hoque, Zheng O’Neill, Giulia Pedrielli, Jin Wen, Teresa Wu

Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results from an international survey that investigated the impacts of the built environment on occupant well-being during the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic when most professionals were forced to work from home (WFH). The survey was comprised of 81 questions focusing on the respondent’s profiles, residences, home indoor environmental quality, health, and home working experiences. A total of 1460 responses were collected from 35 countries, and 1137 of them were considered complete for the analysis. The results suggest that home spatial layout has a significant impact on occupant well-being during WFH since home-life distractions and …

Rickettsia Conorii Survival In Thp-1 Macrophages Involves Host Lipid Droplet Alterations And Active Rickettsial Protein Production, Paige E. Allen, Robert C. Noland, Juan J. Martinez

Division of Basic Science Faculty Publications

Rickettsia conorii is a Gram-negative, cytosolic intracellular bacterium that has classically been investigated in terms of endothelial cell infection. However, R. conorii and other human pathogenic Rickettsia species have evolved mechanisms to grow in various cell types, including macrophages, during mammalian infection. During infection of these phagocytes, R. conorii shifts the host cell's overall metabolism towards an anti-inflammatory M2 response, metabolically defined by an increase in host lipid metabolism and oxidative phosphorylation. Lipid metabolism has more recently been identified as a key regulator of host homeostasis through modulation of immune signalling and metabolism. Intracellular pathogens have adapted mechanisms of hijacking …

Factors Associated With Being Overweight And Obesity In People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus On Antiretroviral Therapy: Socioclinical, Inflammation, And Metabolic Markers, Jeanne Goupil De Bouillé, Corinne Vigouroux, Lorraine Plessis, Mathilde Ghislain, Jean Paul Teglas, Faroudy Boufassa, Cécile Goujard, Dorothée Vignes, Olivier Bouchaud, Dominique Salmon, Laurence Meyer, Sophie Abgrall, O. B., O. B., F. B., F. B., Robert Carlier, Rosemary Dray-Spira, M. G., C. G., C. G., C. G., L. P., L. P., Lucie Marchand, L. M., Ventzislava Petrov-Sanchez, Christine Rouzioux, Rémonie Seng, Rémonie Seng, Rodolphe Thiebaut, Jean Paul Viard, Jean Paul Viard, S. A.

Division of Basic Science Faculty Publications

Background: We investigated the association between socioclinical, inflammatory, and metabolic markers and weight gain in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). Methods: Individuals from the COPANA cohort of normal weight (body mass index [BMI], 18.5-24.9 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) at cART initiation who achieved virological suppression (viral load, < 50 copies/mL) and maintained it through 36 months of treatment were selected. Clinical, immunovirological, and socioeconomic data and inflammation (high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, CXCL10, CXCL8, interleukin 6, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptors 1 and 2, soluble CD14, and soluble CD16) and serum metabolic (glucose, insulin, lipid profile, adiponectin, and leptin) markers were assessed. Factors associated with becoming overweight (BMI, 25-29.9) or obese (BMI, ≥30) at 36 months were assessed using multivariate logistic regression models. Results: After 36 months of cART, 32 of 158 people with HIV (20%) became overweight or obese (21% female; 65% born in France and 23% born in sub-Saharan Africa; median BMI at cART initiation, 22 [interquartile range, 21-23]). After adjustment, higher BMI, originating from sub-Saharan Africa, living in a couple, and higher soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor 2 and lower adiponectin concentrations at cART initiation were associated with becoming overweight or obese. Conclusion: Weight gain on cART is multifactorial. Special attention should be given to migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Monocyte activation and adipocyte dysfunction at cART initiation affect weight regulation.

Interactions 2021, Thomas J. Long School Of Pharmacy

Interactions

In each issue of Interactions, the School’s annual magazine you will find stories about students, faculty and alumni from each of our disciplines. Learn about the ways our students, faculty and alumni are impacting their communities through health care outreach. Read about their research and how they are contributing to advances in patient care. Meet our Alumni of the Year and get to know our faculty.

Peri-Implant Microbiome: A Literature Review Part Ii, Rudy Khayat, Gabriel Menassa, Carole Chakar

International Arab Journal of Dentistry

Dental implants are now considered the treatment option for missing teeth. They hold a high survival rate with great patient satisfaction. In the last 3 decades, new infectious diseases emerged around dental implants, termed peri-implant mucositits and peri-implantitis. These infectious diseases comprise similar characteristics to periodontitis, including soft and hard tissue loss. The etiology of peri-implant disease is many, one of them is the alteration of the peri-implant microbiome. In health, implants comprise mainly of facultative anaerobic gram-positive cocci, in which the microbiome resides in a symbiotic state where all microorganisms co-exist with each other. On the other hand, diseased …

Moraxella Species Associated With Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis: Detection, Characterization, And Immunity, Matthew M. Hille

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) represents the most common ocular disease of cattle. Moraxella bovis (M. bovis) is the only bacteria proven to cause IBK under experimental conditions. A closely related bacteria, Moraxella bovoculi (M. bovoculi) is cultured from IBK lesions more frequently than M. bovis, and is suspected to cause IBK, although a causal relationship between M. bovoculi and IBK has not been confirmed experimentally. Two distinct genotypes were recently characterized in M. bovoculi based on whole genome sequencing. Genotype 1 M. bovoculi appears to represent a potential pathogen …

Responding To The Pandemic: A Multicountry Study On Social-Political Factors And Health Outcomes Of Covid-19, Lan Yao

Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

Introduction. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a major global threat to human beings, which has caused devastating consequences of population health, political, and economic crises in many countries. This dissertation was composed of three research activities to study the following aims: (1) review the existing literature focusing on political factors and health outcomes of COVID-19; (2) assess the relationship between democracy and case fatality rate of COVID-19 by controlling for the effect of age, comorbidity, health expenditure, healthcare workforce, and population density; and (3) identify the trajectory pattern cases peak days, deaths peak days, and peak periods.

Methods. We accessed …