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White Matter Disruption In Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Results From Enigma Pediatric Moderate To Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Emily L Dennis, Karen Caeyenberghs, Kristen R Hoskinson, Tricia L Merkley, Stacy J Suskauer, Robert F Asarnow, Talin Babikian, Brenda Bartnik-Olson, Kevin Bickart, Erin D Bigler, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, Anthony Figaji, Christopher C Giza, Naomi J Goodrich-Hunsaker, Cooper B Hodges, Elizabeth S Hovenden, Andrei Irimia, Marsh Königs, Harvey S Levin, Hannah M Lindsey, Jeffrey E Max, Mary R Newsome, Alexander Olsen, Nicholas P Ryan, Adam T Schmidt, Matthew S Spruiell, Benjamin S C Wade, Ashley L Ware, Christopher G Watson, Anne L Wheeler, Keith Owen Yeates, Brandon A Zielinski, Peter Kochunov, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M Thompson, David F Tate, Elisabeth A Wilde

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: Our study addressed aims (1) to test the hypothesis that moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in pediatric patients is associated with widespread white matter (WM) disruption, (2) to test the hypothesis that age and sex affect WM organization after injury, and (3) to examine associations between WM organization and neurobehavioral outcomes.

METHODS: Data from 10 previously enrolled, existing cohorts recruited from local hospitals and clinics were shared with the Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics Through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Pediatric Moderate/Severe TBI (msTBI) working group. We conducted a coordinated analysis of diffusion MRI (dMRI) data using the ENIGMA dMRI processing pipeline.

RESULTS: Five …

Pinpointing Pornography's Effects: Paring Off The Influences Of Masturbation, Sexual Desire Discrepancy, And Sexual Engagement In Heterosexual Dyads, Brady C. Eisert

Theses and Dissertations

Pornography has increasingly become a hot topic of discussion in the United States, likely due to its increasing rate of consumption. Recent scholarship has indicated the need to account for factors such as masturbation and sexual desire discrepancy when conducting pornography research. The current study isolated the influence pornography use had on those in heterosexual romantic relationships (N=713 couples) by parsing out the effects of sexual desire discrepancy and masturbation. This was done by using a series of nested actor-partner interdependence models (APIM) to see how the relationships between pornography use and sexual satisfaction changed in each model. Masturbation and …

Data From A Public–Industry Partnership For Enhancing Corn Nitrogen Research, C J. Ransom, J D. Clark, G M. Bean, C J. Bandura, M Shafer, N R. Kitchen, J J. Camberato, P R. Carter, R B. Ferguson, F G. Fernandez, D W. Franzen, C.A.M. Laboski, D B. Myers, E D. Nafziger, J E. Sawyer, J F. Shanahan

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Improving corn (Zea mays L.) N management is pertinent to economic and environmental objectives. However, there are limited comprehensive data sources to develop and test N fertilizer decision aid tools across a wide geographic range of soil and weather scenarios. Therefore, a public-industry partnership was formed to conduct standardized corn N rate response field studies throughout the U.S. Midwest. This research was conducted using a standardized protocol at 49 site-years across eight states over the 2014 to 2016 growing seasons with many soil, plant, and weather related measurements. This note provides the data (found in supplemental files), outlines the data, …

Pengendalian Peredaran Produk Secara Mandiri Sebagai Instrumen Wajib Dalam Pelaksanaan Tanggung Jawab Sosial Korporasi Rokok: Sebuah Perspektif Sosio-Legal

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

The number of smokers and cigarette sales in Indonesia has been increasing every year. In parallel with that, the latent risk faced by society is increased. In the socio-cultural context, the cigarette industry has been transformed into a hegemony whose expansion is unstoppable. The circulation of cigarette products is still become an unresolvable problem. Such problem expands from merely legal issues to the ethical dimension. The corporate social responsibility carried out by the corporation tends to be in favor of promotional motive, or creating false public reputation, which makes its implementation often deviate from its philosophy. Inevitably, the smoking phenomenon …

Influence Of Gender On Hours Of Supervised Library Use On Students’ Performance In Senior Secondary Schools In Imo State., Kelechi Ibegbulem

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this study, the researcher examined the influence of gender on hours of supervised library use on students’ performance in senior secondary schools in Imo State. Four objectives, four research questions were posed and four hypotheses formulated in the study. The study was carried out using quasi-experimental design which involved pre-test, treatment and post-test of non-equivalent group method. The population of the study was 94,963 Senior Secondary School Students (SS1-SS3) from 275 public secondary schools in Imo State. The sample size for the study comprised of 127 senior secondary II students drawn from three senior public secondary schools in Imo …

Livestock, Rangelands And Grasslands‐-A Specific Case For The Management Of Genetic Resources For Food And Agriculture, Irene Hoffmann, David Boerma, Alvaro Toledo

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Social Determinants Of Sustainable Grassland Management — A Case‐Based Analysis Of 3 Tibetan Villages In Sichuan, China, Xiaoming Guo, Wei Han

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Community‐Based Management Is The Basic Way To Realize Sustainable Use And Achieve Environmental Protection For Grasslands On The Tibetan Plateau, Guozhen Du, Jianjun Cao

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Reconsidering Effects Of Grassland Use Certificates In Xinjiang, Michael L. Zukosky

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

A Policy To Strengthen Pastoral Communities And To Restore Cultural Landscapes For Climate Change Adaptation And Sustainability, T. Chuluun, S. Davaanyam, M. Altanbagana, D. S. Ojima

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Health Disparity And Covid-19—A Retrospective Analysis, Sanjay Sarkar, Archie Taylor, Pratik Dutta, Bidisha Sengupta, Debarshi Roy

Faculty Publications

Background and Aims

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 75.7 million confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a global pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), have been reported so far. Researchers are working relentlessly to find effective solutions to this catastrophe, using genomic sequence-based investigation, immunological analysis, and more. The role of health disparity has also emerged as an intriguing factor that made a huge impact on the lives of people.

Methods

We analyzed various factors that triggered the health disparity in the United States of America along with the rate of …

Modeling Forage Yield Losses For Crop Insurance In Eastern Canada, I. Duchesne‐Ortiz, Gilles Bélanger, L. Martel, Guy Allard

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Is Rangeland Co‐Management A Feasible Policy Option In China?, A. J. Wilkes, Y. Liang, Mandula, J. Z. Tan

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

A New Approach To Elicit And Aggregate Stakeholders' Preferences Towards Rangelands Policies: A Case Study Of Lar Rangeland, Iran, Kamran Zendehdel, Guido Van Huylenbroeck

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

To Fence Or Not To Fence—An Economic Study On The Decision‐Making Behavior Of Herders In Gannan Prefecture, Gansu Province, Huilan Wei, Guozhen Du, Xianglian Wu, Bin Lu

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Stamping Out Stigma: Does Mental Health Literacy On Eating Disorders And Adhd Lower Stigma?, Liabette Ailene Rodriguez

Theses and Dissertations

Beginning college presents unique stressors and challenges for students. These stressors can be compounded by culture, mental health issues, and lack of knowledge about available resources. Mental health literacy aims to provide the necessary knowledge about mental health issues and promote action upon that knowledge to benefit the individual (Jorm, et al., 1997). This study focuses on utilizing mental health literacy workshops in attempts to lower stigma against ADHD and symptomology for anorexia and bulimia. The study was conducted on a predominantly Hispanic populated campus in south Texas. Students were provided one hour of mental health literacy on ADHD and …

The Tragedy Of Conscience In Edgar Allan Poe's Tales: A Nietzschean/Freudian Dialectical Approach, Melissa Christina Castro

Theses and Dissertations

The American Gothic tales of Edgar Allan Poe often follow protagonists that are mentally plagued by their conscience. These protagonists attempt to rid themselves of their conscience through violent actions that bring them a momentary sense of freedom before their immediate downfall. For various literary critics, Poe’s recurrent theme of ridding oneself of a conscience has put into question the need or motivation for such actions. As Poe’s protagonists demonstrate an internal split of the mind, it is evident that there are extreme oppositional forces in the psyche that influence the actions of his characters. The theoretical studies put forth …

An Auther's Depth Discovered Through A Freudian Lens: An Analysis Of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaum's, Raquel Victoria Buitron

Theses and Dissertations

While examining Anderson as an auteur, many aspects of his unique style allow me to relate characters and plot development to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic concepts. Throughout Wes Anderson’s film The Royal Tenenbaums (2002), I recognize specific Freudian theories of the life instinct and death drive, the pleasure and reality principles, and the Oedipus and narcissist complexes. Specifically, the children of the Tenenbaum family are prime examples of characters who attain multiple emotional flaws due to their parents’ divorce early in their adolescence. Anderson is able to use his acquired film techniques to enhance two points that I will discuss: Freudian …

A Comparative Study Of The Microhabitat Selection Of The Scorpion Centruroides Vittatus In The Tamaulipan Biotic Region Of South Texas, Fatima Malanastas

Theses and Dissertations

Microhabitat selection of the striped-bark scorpion (Scorpiones; Buthidae), Centruroides vittatus (Say 1821), can be affected by different factors such as prey availability, risk of predation and environmental factors such as temperature and humidity. The effects of temperature, humidity, range were also performed. There was a significant interaction among the three different study sites, microhabitats, and size classes. For all threestudy sites, the pooled smaller scorpions and the large scorpions were seen at higher frequencies compared to the intermediate scorpions. Both the small and intermediate scorpions were seen on vegetation at a higher frequency. However, the large scorpions were seen on …

Hydrochloric Acid Modification And Lead Removal Studies On Naturally Occurring Zeolites From Nevada, New Mexico, And Arizona, Garven M. Huntley, Rudy Luck, Michael Mullins, Nick Newberry

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Four naturally occurring zeolites were examined to verify their assignments as chabazites AZLB-Ca and AZLB-Na (Bowie, Arizona) and clinoptilolites NM-Ca (Winston, New Mexico) and NV-Na (Ash Meadows, Nevada). Based on powder X-ray diffraction, NM-Ca was discovered to be mostly quartz with some clinoptilolite residues. Treatment with concentrated HCl (12.1 M) acid resulted in AZLB-Ca and AZLB-Na, the chabazite-like species, becoming amorphous, as confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction. In contrast, NM-Ca and NV-Na, which are clinoptilolite-like species, withstood boiling in concentrated HCl acid. This treatment removes calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, aluminum, and iron atoms or ions from the framework while leaving …

Investigating The Genomic Distribution Of Phylogenetic Signal With Cloudforest, Reid Wagner, Benjamin S. Toups, Zhifeng Deng, Kyle A. Gallivan, Jeremy M. Brown, James C. Wilgenbusch

Faculty Publications

A central focus of evolutionary biology is inferring the historical relationships among species and using this context to learn about how evolution has shaped diverse organisms these historical relationships are represented by phylogenetic trees, and the methods used to infer these trees have been an active area of research for several decades. Despite this attention, phylogenetic workflows have changed little, even though extraordinary advances have occurred in the scale and pace at which genomic data have been collected in the past 20 years. Modern phylogenomic datasets have also raised fascinating new questions. Why do different parts of a genome often …

Chancellor’S Cabinet Updates 2021-07, Karen Carey

Chancellor's Cabinet Updates

No abstract provided.

Compliance With Hand Sanitizer Quality During The Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic: Assessing The Impurities In An Ethanol Plant, Gabriel Cohen, Nathan Kreutzer, Katie M. Mowat, Ashraf Aly Hassan, Bruce I. Dvorak

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

Using alcohol-based disinfectants is an effective method for preventing the spread of COVID-19. However, non-traditional manufacturers of alcohol-based disinfectants, such as ethanol plants, need to undergo additional treatment to curb their impurities to limits set by the Food and Drug Association (FDA) to produce alcohol-based disinfectants. To transform them to disinfectant-grade alcohol, 17 process streams in a dry-mill ethanol plant were analyzed to determine the quality parameters for acetaldehyde, acetal, propanol, methanol, and water, including chemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids, and nutrients. Results suggest that the process stream generated by the distillation column requires further treatment because the acetaldehyde …

Understanding Potassium Toxicity Stress Responses Of The Extremophyte Schrenkiella Parvula Using Systems Biology Approaches, Pramod Pantha

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Schrenkiella parvula is an extremophyte model closely related to Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica crops. Its natural habitat includes shores of saline lakes in the Irano-Turanian region. It has adapted to grow in soils rich in multiple salts including Na⁺ and K⁺. I have investigated the genetic basis for high K⁺ tolerance in plants using S. parvula as a stress tolerant model compared to the premier plant model, Arabidopsis thaliana which is highly sensitive to salt stresses using physiological, ionomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic approaches. Under high K⁺ stress, root system architecture changes significantly compared to control …

Examining Intraindividual Variability As A Predictor Of Cognitive And Functional Decline In Older Adulthood, Alyssa N. De Vito

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Intraindividual variability (IIV) has recently emerged as a promising early indicator of future cognitive decline (Haynes et al., 2017). However, the literature is currently limited in that the majority of studies have only examined IIV in one cognitive domain: reaction time. Explorations into the relationship between IIV and functional status are also sparse, with only one recent study exploring this relationship (Schmitter-Edgecombe et al., 2020). The present study aimed to address gaps in the literature by examining IIV in differing cognitive domains to determine which measure(s) were the best predictors of cognitive and functional status at baseline as well as …

Using Amanhi-Act Cohorts For External Validation Of Iowa New-Born Metabolic Profiles Based Models For Postnatal Gestational Age Estimation, Sunil Sazawal, Kelli K. Ryckman, Harshita Mittal, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Usma Mehmood, Amina Barkat, Farah Khalid, Muhammad Ilyas, Ambreen Nizar, Fyezah Jehan

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: Globally, 15 million infants are born preterm and another 23.2 million infants are born small for gestational age (SGA). Determining burden of preterm and SGA births, is essential for effective planning, modification of health policies and targeting interventions for reducing these outcomes for which accurate estimation of gestational age (GA) is crucial. Early pregnancy ultrasound measurements, last menstrual period and post-natal neonatal examinations have proven to be not feasible or inaccurate. Proposed algorithms for GA estimation in western populations, based on routine new-born screening, though promising, lack validation in developing country settings. We evaluated the hypothesis that models developed …

A Vision For Science Gateways: Bridging The Gap And Broadening The Outreach, Sandra Gesing, Steven R. Brandt, Shannon Bradley, Mark Potkewitz, Kirk F. Kee, Noreen Y. Whysel, Mark J. Perri, Sean B. Cleveland, Annalie Rugg, Jack A. Smith

Publications and Research

The future for science gateways warrants exploration as we consider the possibilities that extend well beyond science and high performance computing into new interfaces, applications and user communities. In this paper, we look retrospectively at the successes of representative gateways thus far. This serves to highlight existing gaps gateways need to overcome in areas such as accessibility, usability and interoperability, and in the need for broader outreach by drawing insights from technology adoption research. We explore two particularly promising opportunities for gateways - computational social sciences and virtual reality – and make the case for the gateway community to be …

Gimme A Break: The Patent Term Restoration Act Should Give Environmental Innovators A Chance To Catch A (Cleaner) Breath, Gabrielle Gravel

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

There is an abundance of frightening data painting a grim picture of Earth’s future. Humans have undoubtedly left a carbon footprint so deep, it will take drastic measures to undo our damage. To continue enjoying life as we know it, we humans must shift our focus to the powerful minds of creators and engineers to find ways to untangle our manmade webs. To generate interest and attract the best and brightest to do the challenging and time-consuming work of environmental inventions, the first step is to provide a greater incentive. This note calls upon the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office …

Poster 5, Alicja Urbaniak

Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium

No abstract provided.

Poster 9, Nicole Vita

Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium

No abstract provided.