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Teaching Learning Newsletter Vol 1 Issue 2, Sastra Deemed To Be University

TLC Newsletter

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The Pacifican February 2021, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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Faculty Senate Monthly Packet February 2021, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The February 1, 2021 Monthly packet includes the February agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held January 4, 2021.

The Relationship Of Acupuncture Use To The Endometriosis Risk In Females With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Real-World Evidence From Population-Based Health Claims, Hanoch Livneh, Wei-Jen Chen, Chien-Hui Hsu, Ying-To Hu, Ning-Sheng Lai, How-Ran Guo, Tzung-Yi Tsai

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

Objectives: Women affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a higher risk of endometriosis, an estrogen-dependent, chronic inflammatory disease. Though acupuncture has long been a safe and effective therapy for treating inflammatory conditions, it is unclear whether it could prevent the onset of endometriosis. This study aims to determine the effect of acupuncture on the subsequent risk of endometriosis in female RA patients.

Methods: Between 1998 and 2010, female subjects with RA were recruited from a nationwide database (5,736 patients; age ≥20 years). Enrolled patients included 2,407 acupuncture users and 2,407 nonusers randomly selected using propensity scores. The occurrence of endometriosis …

Corn Residue Baling And Grazing Impacts On Corn Yield Under Irrigated Conservation Tillage Systems, Sabrina J. Ruis, Charles Burr, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Brian Olson, Mark Reiman, Daran Rudnick, Johnna Baller, Kathryn J. Hanford

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Crop residue grazing or baling is common in the western Corn Belt. However, its impacts on subsequent crop yields under different irrigation levels and tillage systems are unclear. We investigated the impacts of corn (Zea mays L.) residue baling and cattle grazing on soil compaction, water content, and corn yield under full and limited irrigated no-till in Nebraska during three years. In Years 2 and 3, an additional tillage treatment (strip till) was implemented to evaluate its effects on grain yield under the above treatments. Residue removal effects on compaction and water content did not vary with irrigation level. …

Implications Of Covid-19 On Progress In The Un Conventions On Biodiversity And Climate Change, Andrea Monica D. Ortiz, Alaya M. De Leon, Justine Nicole V. Torres, Cecilia Therese T. Guiao, Antonio Gabriel M. La Viña

Environmental Science Faculty Publications

2020 was to be a landmark year for setting targets to stop biodiversity loss and prevent dangerous climate change. However, COVID-19 has caused delays to the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the 26th COP of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Negotiations on the Global Biodiversity Framework and the second submission of Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement were due to take place at these COPs. There is uncertainty as to how the COVID-19 disruption will affect the negotiations, whether parties will pursue more ambitious actions or take a …

Mathematical Modeling Of The Impact Of Recirculation On Exchange Kinetics In Tandem Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation And Therapeutic Plasma Exchange, Charles Puelz, Jonathan L. Marinaro, Yara A. Park, Boyce E. Griffith, Charles S. Peskin, Jay S. Raval

Pathology Research and Scholarship

Vascular access connection configurations during tandem extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) may impact exchange kinetics. In these tandem procedures, typically the TPE inlet line is proximal to the TPE return line with respect to blood flow in the ECMO device, maximizing the opportunity for replacement fluid homogenization within the ECMO circuit. However, if TPE inlet and return line connections are switched, recirculation-a phenomenon in which replacement fluid leaving the TPE return line is prematurely drawn into the TPE inlet line prior to satisfactory homogenization within the ECMO circuit-will occur. Such recirculation could diminish TPE efficacy in …

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy In Hiv-Associated Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Case Series Of 3 Patients., Song Y Park, Candice Church, Nora A Alexander, Michi M Shinohara, Kelly G Paulson, Karl D Lewis, Nancy S Lee, Paul Nghiem

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Prognostic And Predictive Effect Of Kras Gene Copy Number And Mutation Status In Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients, Andrea S. Fung, Maryam Karimi, Stefan Michiels, Lesley Seymour, Elisabeth Brambilla, Thierry Le-Chevalier, Jean-Charles Soria, Robert Kratzke, Stephen L. Graziano, Siddhartha Devarakonda, Ramaswamy Govindan, Ming-Sound Tsao, Frances A. Shepherd, Lace-Bio Collaborative Group

Open Access Publications

Background: In the current analysis, we characterize the prognostic significance of

Methods: Clinical and genomic data from the LACE (Lung Adjuvant Cisplatin Evaluation)-Bio consortium was utilized. CNAs were categorized as Gain (CN ≥2) or Neutral (Neut)/Loss;

Results: Of the 946 (399 adenocarcinoma) NSCLC patients, 41 [30] had MUT + Gain, 145 [99] MUT + Neut/Loss, 125 [16] WT + Gain, and 635 [254] WT + Neut/Loss. A non-significant trend towards worse lung cancer-specific survival (LCSS; HR =1.34; 95% CI, 0.83-2.17, P=0.232), DFS (HR =1.34; 95% CI, 0.86-2.09, P=0.202) and OS (HR =1.59; 95% CI, 0.99-2.54, P=0.055) was seen in

Conclusions: …

Polygenic Burden Has Broader Impact On Health, Cognition, And Socioeconomic Outcomes Than Most Rare And High-Risk Copy Number Variants, Elmo Christian Saarentaus, Lei Chen, Ira M Hall, Et Al

Open Access Publications

Copy number variants (CNVs) are associated with syndromic and severe neurological and psychiatric disorders (SNPDs), such as intellectual disability, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Although considered high-impact, CNVs are also observed in the general population. This presents a diagnostic challenge in evaluating their clinical significance. To estimate the phenotypic differences between CNV carriers and non-carriers regarding general health and well-being, we compared the impact of SNPD-associated CNVs on health, cognition, and socioeconomic phenotypes to the impact of three genome-wide polygenic risk score (PRS) in two Finnish cohorts (FINRISK, n = 23,053 and NFBC1966, n = 4895). The focus was on …

Flortaucipir (Tau) Pet In Lgi1 Antibody Encephalitis, Gregory S Day, Brian A Gordon, Austin Mccullough, Robert C Bucelli, Richard J Perrin, Tammie L S Benzinger, Beau M Ances

Open Access Publications

The contributors to persistent cognitive impairment and hippocampal atrophy in leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 antibody encephalitis (LGI1) patients are unknown. We evaluated whether tau neuropathology measured with [

From Coast To Coast To Coast: Ecology And Management Of Eelgrass Systems Across Canada, Sarah Joy Bittick

Biology Faculty Works

Seagrass meadows are among the most productive and diverse marine ecosystems, providing essential structure, functions, and services. They are also among the most impacted by human activities and in urgent need of better management and protection. In Canada, eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows are found along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic coasts, and thus occur across a wide range of biogeographic conditions. Here, we synthesize knowledge of eelgrass ecosystems across Canada’s coasts, highlighting commonalities and differences in environmental conditions, plant, habitat, and community structure, as well as current trends and human impacts. Across regions, eelgrass life history, phenology, and general species …

Report From The Conference, ‘Identifying Obstacles To Applying Big Data In Agriculture’, Emma L. White, J. Alex Thomasson, Brent Auvermann, Newell R. Kitchen, Leland Sandy Pierson, Dana Porter, Craig Baillie, Hendrik Hamann, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Todd Janzen, Rajiv Khosla, James Lowenberg-Deboer, Matt Mcintosh, Seth Murray, Dave Osborn, Ashoo Shetty, Craig Stevenson, Joe Tevis, Fletcher Werner

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Data-centric technology has not undergone widespread adoption in production agriculture but could address global needs for food security and farm profitability. Participants in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) funded conference, “Identifying Obstacles to Applying Big Data in Agriculture,” held in Houston, TX, in August 2018, defined detailed scenarios in which on-farm decisions could benefit from the application of Big Data. The participants came from multiple academic fields, agricultural industries and government organizations and, in addition to defining the scenarios, they identified obstacles to implementing Big Data in these scenarios as well as …

Computational Modelling Enables Robust Multidimensional Nanoscopy, Matthew D. Lew

Electrical & Systems Engineering Publications and Presentations

The following sections are included:

• Present State of Computational Modelling in Fluorescence Nanoscopy

• Recent Contributions to Computational Modelling in Fluorescence Nanoscopy

• Outlook on Computational Modelling in Fluorescence Nanoscopy

• Acknowledgments

• References

An Exploratory Study On The Introduction And Removal Of Different Types Of Technical Debt In Deep Learning Frameworks, Jiakun Liu, Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, Emad Shihab, David Lo, Shanping Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

To complete tasks faster, developers often have to sacrifice the quality of the software. Such compromised practice results in the increasing burden to developers in future development. The metaphor, technical debt, describes such practice. Prior research has illustrated the negative impact of technical debt, and many researchers investigated how developers deal with a certain type of technical debt. However, few studies focused on the removal of different types of technical debt in practice. To fill this gap, we use the introduction and removal of different types of self-admitted technical debt (i.e., SATD) in 7 deep learning frameworks as an example. …

Lignin-Zein Composite: Synthesis, Three-Dimensional Printing, And Microbial Degradation, Jin Gyun Lee, Yusheng Guo, Jorge A. Belgodere, Ahmed Al Harraq, Aubry A. Hymel, Amber J. Pete, Kalliat T. Valsaraj, Michael G. Benton, Mary G. Miller, Jangwook P. Jung, Bhuvnesh Bharti

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Worldwide use and disposal of plastics have reached a dramatic saturation point, polluting lands, oceans, and air across the globe. Responding to such a challenge requires, among other environmental remediation measures, the manufacture of alternative sustainable plastics. Recent studies in the area have enabled the development of degradable plastics; however, the rate and conditions required for the degradation of such materials remains under scrutiny. Here, we introduce a new class of fully plant-based, rapidly degradable lignin and zein composite blend that can be transformed into macroscopic structures using extrusion three-dimensional (3D) printing. Corn-derived zein forms the polymeric solution, while insoluble …

The Effects Of Resveratrol On Prostate Cancer Through Targeting The Tumor Microenvironment., Natalie Silk, Jeremy Reich, Rahul Sinha, Shivansh Chawla, Kyla Geary, Dianzheng Zhang

PCOM Scholarly Works

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed in men in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Since over 60% of prostate cancer cases occur in men over 65 years of age, and this population will increase steadily in the coming years, prostate cancer will be a major cancer-related burden in the foreseeable future. Accumulating data from more recent research suggest that the tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a previously unrecognized role in every stage of cancer development, including initiation, proliferation, and metastasis. Prostate cancer is not only diagnosed in the late stages …

Creation Of Male-Sterile Lines That Can Be Restored To Fertility By Exogenous Methyl Jasmonate For The Establishment Of A Two-Line System For The Hybrid Production Of Rice (Oryza Sativa L.), Haksong Pak, Haoyi Wang, Yusin Kim, Unchol Song, Mengxin Tu, Dezhi Wu, Lixi Jiang

Publications

Male sterility is widely used in the production of hybrid seeds in rice, but the use of genic male sterility is limited because of the high labour cost for maintaining male-sterile lines. Previous studies using T-DNA insertional mutagenesis demonstrated that disrupting the expression of oxophytodienoic acid reductase 3 (OPR3), which is involved in the jasmonate biosynthesis pathway, results in a kind of male sterility that can be restored to fertility by exogenous jasmonate in Arabidopsis. Here, we created male-sterile mutations by editing the second and fourth exons of OsOPR7 in rice through clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated system …

Gouldian Finch Non Breeding Counts 2020: Ord-East Kimberley Expansion Project - Weaber Plain Development Area, Nigel Jackett

Irrigated Agricultural Development in the North

The Weaber Plain Development Project (the Project) is an irrigated agricultural development located approximately 30 km north-north-east of Kununurra in Western Australia. The Project was approved by the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities in 2011 under EPBC 2010/5491 Condition 6.

In order to offset the potential impacts of the Project on the endangered Gouldian Finch (Erythrura gouldiae), a Gouldian Finch Conservation Plan was prepared. The Gouldian Finch Conservation Plan was prepared to ensure appropriate management of the Gouldian Finch and its habitat during construction and operation of the Project. An action arising from the Conservation Plan was …

The Scales Of Reproductive Justice: Casey’S Failure To Rebalance Liberty Interests In The Racially Disparate State Of Maternal Medicine, Mallori D. Thompson

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Despite the maternal medicine crisis in the U.S., especially for Black women, legislatures are challenging constitutional abortion doctrine and forcing women to interact with a system that may cost them their lives. This Article proposes that because of abysmal maternal mortality rates and the arbitrary nature of most abortion restrictions, the right to choose an abortion is embedded in our Fourteenth Amendment right to not be arbitrarily deprived of life by the State. This Article is a call to abortion advocates to begin submitting state maternal mortality data when challenging abortion restrictions. The call for attention to life was central …

The Integration Of Roman Catholic Traditions And Evidence-Based Psychological Services, Thomas G. Plante

Psychology

The Roman Catholic Church is the largest, and most enduring continuous organization, secular or religious, of any kind in the world with a 2,000-plus-year history. It currently includes well over a billion people. Regardless of its size, scope, history, and impact, the Roman Catholic Church is often greatly misunderstood and people frequently maintain stereotypic and even discriminatory views about Catholics and their clerical leaders. The purpose of this article is to present the integration of the Roman Catholic tradition into psychological assessment and therapy and to provide several examples of this integration. The article highlights how this integration can be …

Seedextractor: An Open-Source Gui For Seed Image Analysis, Feiyu Zhu, Puneet Paul, Waseem Hussain, Kyle Wallman, Balpreet K. Dhatt, Jaspreet Sandhu, Larissa Irvin, Gota Morota, Hongfeng Yu, Harkamal Walia

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Accurate measurement of seed size parameters is essential for both breeding efforts aimed at enhancing yields and basic research focused on discovering genetic components that regulate seed size. To address this need, we have developed an open source graphical user interface (GUI) software, SeedExtractor that determines seed size and shape (including area, perimeter, length, width, circularity, and centroid), and seed color with capability to process a large number of images in a time-efficient manner. In this context, our application takes 2 s for analyzing an image, i.e., significantly less compared to the other tools. As this software is open-source, it …

Maternal And Newborn Health Risks Of Climate Change: A Call For Awareness And Global Action, Nathalie Roos, Sari Kovats, Shakoor Hajat, Veronique Filippi, Matthew Chersich, Stanley Luchters, Fiona Scorgie, Britt Nakstad, Olof Stephansson, Chamnha Consortium

Population Health, East Africa

Climate change represents one of the largest global health threats of the 21st century with immediate and long‐term consequences for the most vulnerable populations, especially in the poorest countries with the least capacity to adapt to climate change. Pregnant women and newborns are increasingly being recognized as vulnerable populations in the context of climate change. The effects can be direct or indirect through heat stress, extreme weather events and air pollution, potentially impacting both the immediate and long‐term health of pregnant women and newborns through a broad range of mechanisms. In 2008, the World Health Organization passed a resolution during …

Synergistic Efficacies Of Thymoquinone And Standard Antibiotics Against Multi-Drug Resistant Isolates, Ayed A. Dera, Irfan Ahmad, Prasanna Rajagopalan, Mesfer Al Shahrani, Ahmed Saif, Mohammad Y. Alshahrani, Yasser Alraey, Ahmad M. Alamri, Sultan Alasmari, Mohammed Makkawi, Ali G. Alkhathami, Gaffar Zaman, Abdulrahim Hakami, Razan Alhefzi, Mohammad A. Alfhili

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To explore the antibacterial activity of thymoquinone (TQ), a quinone extracted from Nigella sativa . Methods: This study was conducted from May 2019 to March 2020 at the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia. The antimicrobial activity, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) of TQ were determined using an agar well diffusion method and broth microdilution assays, and the synergistic effect was evaluated using antibiotics in parallel. The disruptive effect of TQ on bacterial cell membranes was determined using scanning electron microscopy. The antivirulence properties of …

Distribution And Antibiotic Resistance Profiles Of Salmonella Enterica In Rural Areas Of North Carolina After Hurricane Florence In 2018, Yuqing Mao, Mohamed Zeineldin, Moiz Usmani, Sital Uprety, Joanna Shisler, Antarpreet Jutla, Avinash Unnikrishnan, Thanh H. Nguyen

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The frequency and magnitude of extreme events are increasing globally (Arnell & Gosling, 2016). Inundation, as a result of massive flooding, has the potential to change environmental conditions abruptly, and as a result, add pressure to the metabolism and proliferation of microorganisms (Furtak et al., 2020). The resulting overland flows and additional burden from domestic sewer and septic tank systems during an extreme flood event can introduce pathogens into ecologically unstable water bodies. For example, Yu et al. (2018) reported elevated levels of Escherichia coli and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in river water samples 6 months after flooding in Houston, …

Concordance Between Antibiotic Resistance Genes By Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction And Antibiotic Susceptibility By Pooled Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing In Symptomatic Patients With Urinary Tract Infection, Annah Vollstedt, Dakun Wang, Natalie Luke, David Baunoch, Kirk J Wojno, Kevin Cline, Natalie Gaines, Howard Korman, S Mohammad Jafri, David Wenzler, Frank Burks, Larry Sirls

Conference Presentation Abstracts

Introduction: Studies have shown many genes influence antibiotic resistance, and the relationship between genotypic and phenotypic antibiotic resistance is unclear. We sought to analyze the concordance between the presence of antibiotic resistance (ABR) genes and antibiotic susceptibility results in urine samples collected from symptomatic UTI patients. Methods: Urine samples were collected from patients presenting with possible UTI to 37 geographically disparate Urology clinics from July 2018 to February 2019. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (M-PCR) was used to test for 33 different ABR genes. Samples in which at least one organism was identified at a quantity of ≥104 cells per mL, …

Assessment Of The Diagnostic Accuracy Of Core Needle Biopsies In The Diagnosis Of Lymphoma, Austin Redilla, George Ye, Catherine Tucker, Md, Christopher Gardner, Guldeep Uppal, Md, Adam F. Binder, Md

Phase 1

Introduction: Excisional biopsy remains the gold standard in the diagnosis of lymphomas. However, recent studies have shown that core needle biopsy (CNB) may have similar accuracy. CNB offers several advantages over excisional biopsy, including reduced cost and morbidity, thus we set out to determine the diagnostic accuracy of CNB at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) to understand if this approach should be utilized more in our system.

Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review of all suspected new diagnosis of lymphoma at TJUH from January 1^st, 2016 to December 31^st, 2019. All CNB and excisional …

Cns Derived Extracellular Vesicles As Biomarkers In Multiple Sclerosis (Ms), Anshel Kenkare, Abdolmohamad Rostami

Phase 1

This project aims to develop biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), a clinically heterogenous disease resulting from demyelination of the central nervous system. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have shown potential as such a biomarker.

EVs were isolated from the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with suspected MS and patients with headaches. Participants are recruited before starting treatment for their condition and controls were only included if the cause of headache was determined to be non-inflammatory. Proteomic analysis will be conducted on the plasma and CSF before isolating the EVs, as well as the isolated plasma …

Comparative Observational Study For Bifurcating Aneurysm Treatment; Open Versus Endovascular Approaches And Classical Versus New Techniques., Samuel Fallon, Ahmad Sweid, Md, Nikolaos Mouchtouris, Md, Michael Reid Gooch, Md, Pascal Jabbour, Md

Phase 1

Introduction: Aneurysm occur in approximately 3.2% of the population with a mean age of 50 years, a 1:1 gender ratio, and an estimate mortality rate of 70%. Aneurysms develop at branch points with elevated intravascular turbulence and vessel wall shear stress. we aim to compare the efficacy and safety of different surgical treatment modalities for bifurcating intracranial aneurysms.

Methods: A retrospective review of 398 patients who underwent surgical management of a bifurcating aneurysm at Thomas Jefferson University hospital from 2010 to 2020. Aneurysm size, location, modality of treatment, and treatment complications were assessed.

Results: Data analysis is expected to …

Coun 242s.01: Intimate Relationships, Hana S. Meshesha

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

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