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A New Vine Snake (Reptilia, Colubridae, Oxybelis) From Peru And Redescription Of O. Acuminatus, Robert C. Jadin, Michael J. Jowers, Sarah A. Orlofske, William E. Duellman, Christopher Blair, John C. Murphy

Publications and Research

The Brown Vine Snake, Oxybelis aeneus, was until recently considered a single species, distributed from southern Arizona through the Neotropics into southeastern Brazil. However, newly conducted research restructured the species with a substantial taxonomic revision, recognizing five additional taxa (i.e. O. koehleri, O. microphthalmus, O. potosiensis, O. rutherfordi, O. vittatus) in this species complex. This revision focused on populations in North America, Central America, and northern South America while neglecting the southern portion of its distribution. Here, we examine the taxonomic history of the complex and use it along with specimen data to resurrect O. acuminatus from southeastern Brazil. Finally, …

Associations Between Daily Affect And Sleep Vary By Sleep Assessment Type: What Can Ambulatory Eeg Add To The Picture?, Brett Messman, Danica C. Slavish, Jessica R. Dietch, Brooke N. Jenkins, Maia Ten Brink, Daniel J. Taylor

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Objective/Background

Disrupted sleep can be a cause and a consequence of affective experiences. However, daily longitudinal studies show sleep assessed via sleep diaries is more consistently associated with positive and negative affect than sleep assessed via actigraphy. The objective of the study was to test whether sleep parameters derived from ambulatory electroencephalography (EEG) in a naturalistic setting were associated with day-to-day changes in affect.

Participants/Method

Eighty adults (mean age = 32.65 years, 63% female) completed 7 days of affect and sleep assessments. We examined bidirectional associations between morning positive affect and negative affect with sleep assessed via diary, actigraphy, and …

Characteristics And Turf Quality Traits Of Native Poa Pratensisin Humid Subtropical Sichuan, Yan Peng, Ying Qiu, Youmin Gan, Xia Liu

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

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Breeding To Adapt Annual Ryegrass (Lolium Multiflorum Lam.) From A Forage To A Dwarf Turfgrass For Overseeding Sports Fields, L. R. Nelson, Jimmy Crowder

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Dynamics Of Gender Differences On Tourism Governance In Indonesia, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, Roel Popping, Rara Sugiarti, Rino Ardhian Nugroho

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

Research on gender and tourism is very important at least because of three reasons. First, processes involved in tourism are constructed out of gender ideologies in the society. Second, gender relations contribute to the dynamics of the fluidity of gender identity in tourism. Finally, gender perspective is a tool for understanding the relationship between tourism and social process. Unfortunately, there have been limited studies on gender in tourism. This study offers empirical evidence of gender in tourism governance from Indonesia’s experience. It assesses the gender differences in tourism governance by proposing three variables, namely involvement, competence, and barriers to women …

How To Play The Blues, Rosanna Durst

Yalobusha Review

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Yalobusha Review

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Personhood, Threshold And Equality, Benjamin Leon Williamson

Quaerens Deum: The Liberty Undergraduate Journal for Philosophy of Religion

Whether abortion and infanticide are permissible has been debated for a long time in philosophical literature and continues to this day. In this paper, I will assume without argument that one’s view about the moral status of the fetus and newborn will determine what side he/she comes down on in this debate. I am also proceeding with the assumption that personhood is not a conventional or linguistically effective device that has little or no connection to reality. Persons exist and personhood itself is real. With that being said, I will defend a more controversial claim that will undoubtedly stir a …

Latest Developments In Turfgrass Research, Robert C. Shearman

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Provision Of Turf Surfaces For Major Football Stadiums In Europe: Environmental Issues And Design Criteria, Stephen W. Baker

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Integrating Forage Into Traditional Farming System In The Western Loess Plateau, China--Challenges, Constraints And The Future, Yuying Shen, Murray Unkovich, Zhibiao Nan

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

We Are...Marshall, January 13, 2021, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

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First-Generation Student Success: Rafael Vilches, Sarah Gardner, David Albee

Press Releases

First-generation college students – those who are the first in their immediate family to attend college – now comprise more than one-quarter of Dominican University of California undergraduates. Each year, incoming first-gen students are invited to join the Torch Student Success Program, a powerful multi-year campus program created to cultivate leadership, develop community, and promote academic success.

White And Pordel Study Impact Of Bulky Ligands On Photochemical Co Release, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Gwu Alumnus And Trustee To Speak For Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Virtual Observance On Jan. 20, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University will celebrate the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a virtual observance on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. Rev. Dr. M. Lamont Littlejohn of Shelby, N.C., who is a pastor, GWU alumnus and Board of Trustee member, will present a keynote entitled, “Beloved Community.” Registration, available here, is required for the Zoom webinar, and the community is invited to participate.

Decreased Cortisol Among Hikers Who Preferentially Visit And Value Biodiverse Riparian Zones, Ellie Opdahl, Kathryn Demps, Julie A. Heath

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

While outdoor recreationists often report increases to their well-being for time spent in nature, the mechanisms through which local ecologies affect human health have been difficult to quantify, and thus to manage. We combine data from pre-post salivary cortisol measures, GPS tracks, visitor photos, and surveys from 88 hikers traversing several types of landscape within peri-urban public lands in southwest Idaho, USA. We find that time in biodiverse riparian areas and areas of perceived aesthetic value correlates with decreases in salivary cortisol and improved well-being for hikers. Wildlife sightings were not associated with changes in salivary cortisol, but were associated …

Diaries Of Archaeological Expeditions To Alaska With The Smithsonian's Aleš HrdličKa In 1936, 1937, And 1938, Douglas W. Veltre, Alan G. May

Other Publications

For three summers in the late 1930s, Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, the preeminent physical anthropologist in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, led expeditions to southwestern Alaska to investigate the earliest peopling of that region. Curator of Physical Anthropology at the U.S. National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the acknowledged “founding father” of physical anthropology in the United States sailed north with small crews of young men—whom he called his “boys”—in the summers of 1936, 1937, and 1938 to probe ancient villages, camps, and burial places on Kodiak Island and throughout the Aleutian …

Rsif Weekly Vol.2 No.1 - Happy New Year!, Regional Scholarship And Innovation Fund (Rsif)

Rsif Newsletters

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Prenatal And Postnatal Nutrition Influence Pancreatic And Intestinal Carbohydrase Activities Of Ruminants, Ronald J. Trotta, Kendall C. Swanson

Animal and Food Sciences Graduate Research

In ruminant livestock species, nutrition can play an important role in the long-term programming of gastrointestinal function. Pancreatic and small intestinal digestive enzymes are important for postruminal digestion of carbohydrates and protein. Carbohydrases have been shown to respond to changes in the level of feed intake and the dietary inclusion of specific nutrients, including arginine, butyrate, folic acid, fructose, and leucine. Understanding how diet influences enzyme development and activity during prenatal and postnatal life could lead to the development of dietary strategies to optimize offspring growth and development to increase digestive efficiency of ruminant livestock species. More research is needed …

Uab Awarded $1.7 Million Nih Grant To Continue Cancer Prevention Research, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

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Understanding Vaccines Topic For Virtual Oxford Science Cafe, Edwin B. Smith

University of Mississippi News

UM biologist to discuss types, safety and side effects during Jan. 19 event on Zoom

Stoking The Flame: Subsistence And Wood Energy In Rural Alaska, United States, Jennifer I. Schmidt, Amanda Byrd, Jennifer Curl, Todd J. Brinkman, Krista Heeringa

ISER Articles

Energy costs are large and increasing in rural Alaska communities, so communities are turning to renewable energy. While, many of these communities have a mixed subsistence-cash economy, the relationship between renewable energy and subsistence has not been studied. Tanana, Alaska has a biomass program and we conducted interviews with 61 households in 2017 to understand how residents perceive the program and its association with subsistence activities. We analyzed Alaska Department of Fish & Game subsistence surveys from 89 communities to estimate differences in subsistence harvest between households that harvest wood and those that do not. Interviews indicated that people who …

Soil Health Management Enhances Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Capacity And Activity, Jianlin Hu, Virginia L. Jin, Julie Y.M. Konkel, Sean M. Schaeffer, Liesel G. Schneider, Jennifer M. Debruyn

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

Soil microbial transformations of nitrogen (N) can be affected by soil health management practices. Here, we report in situ seasonal dynamics of the population size (gene copy abundances) and functional activity (transcript copy abundances) of five bacterial genes involved in soil N cycling (ammonia-oxidizing bacteria [AOB] amoA, nifH, nirK, nirS, and nosZ) in a long-term continuous cotton production system under different management practices (cover crops, tillage, and inorganic N fertilization). Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth), a leguminous cover crop, most effectively promoted the expression of N cycle genes, which persisted after cover crop termination throughout the growing season. Moreover, we …

Methods For Object Tracking With Machine Vision, Zachary Simon Stamler

Dissertations and Theses

As machine learning and deep learning systems continue to find applications in science and engineering, the problem of providing these systems with high-quality data continues to increase in importance. Many of these systems utilize machine vision as their primary source of information, and in order to maximally leverage their abilities it is important to be able to provide them with high quality, accurate data. Unfortunately, many sets of tracking data extracted from video suffer from the problem of missing frames, which can arise from a multitude of causes depending on the system. These missing frames can result in confusion between …

Virtual Anatomy, Julie Jordan, Rebecca Hartley

HSC Education Days

Clinical Morphology is the foundational anatomy course for UNM School of Medicine MD and PA curricula. This 9-week block overviews normal human anatomy, histology and embryology as they relate to clinical practice. It relies heavily on dissection laboratories, peer instruction, and team-based learning. This July, Clinical Morphology successfully transitioned to a fully online course, with optional weekly prosection labs supplemented with prosection videos. All content was delivered asynchronously, using a learning management system on which weekly Independent Learning Modules (ILMs) were posted. ILMs consisted of overview videos and high yield notes with learning objectives and associated content. Formative self-assessments were …

Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Co-Delivering Sorafenib And Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Sirna Enhanced Tumor-Suppressing Effect On Liver Cancer., Zhili Wen, Yuliang Feng, Youwen Hu, Lingyan Lian, Hongyan Huang, Li Guo, Shanwen Chen, Qian Yang, Moran Zhang, Lijun Wan, Kedong Xu, Degejirifu, Xiaohua Yan

Faculty Research 2021

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the effects of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) co-delivering sorafenib (Sor) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) siRNA (MWNT/Sor/siRNA) on tumor growth in liver cancer (LC).

RESULTS: MWNT/Sor/siRNA was proved to possess increased Sor release, high siRNA stability, and enhanced cellular uptake. In addition, MWNT treatment has few effects on cell proliferation and apoptosis in HepG2 cells; however, MWNT/Sor/siRNA treatment significantly inhibited clone number and induced cell apoptosis, which shows a more favorable antitumor effect than MWNT/Sor and free Sor and free siRNA in HepG2 cells. Moreover MWNT/Sor/siRNA treatment has the most significant antitumor effect …

Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies New Loci Associated With Risk Of Hbv Infection And Disease Progression, Zheng Zeng, Liu Hankui, Xu Huifang, Lu Haiying, Yu Yanyan, Xu Xiaoyuan, Yu Min, Zhang Tao, Tian Xiulan, Xi Hongli, Guan Liping, Zhang Jianguo, Stephen James O'Brien

Biology Faculty Articles

Background: Recent studies have identified susceptibility genes of HBV clearance, chronic hepatitis B, liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and showed the host genetic factors play an important role in these HBV-related outcomes.

Results: In order to discover new susceptibility genes for HBV-related outcomes, we conducted a genome-wide association study in 1031 Chinese participants, including 275 HBV clearance subjects, 92 asymptomatic persistence infection carriers (ASPI), 93 chronic hepatitis B patients (CHB), 188 HBV-related decompensated cirrhosis patients (DC), 214 HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma patients (HCC) and 169 healthy controls (HC). In the case-control study, we observed novel locus significantly associated with CHB …

Alzgps: A Genome-Wide Positioning Systems Platform To Catalyze Multi-Omics For Alzheimer’S Drug Discovery, Yadi Zhou, Jiansong Fang, Lynn M. Bekris, Yeon Heon Kim, Andrew A. Pieper, James B. Leverenz, Jeffrey Cummings, Feixiong Cheng

School of Medicine Faculty Research

Background: Recent DNA/RNA sequencing and other multi-omics technologies have advanced the understanding of the biology and pathophysiology of AD, yet there is still a lack of disease-modifying treatments for AD. A new approach to integration of the genome, transcriptome, proteome, and human interactome in the drug discovery and development process is essential for this endeavor. Methods: In this study, we developed AlzGPS (Genome-wide Positioning Systems platform for Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery, https://alzgps.lerner.ccf.org), a comprehensive systems biology tool to enable searching, visualizing, and analyzing multi-omics, various types of heterogeneous biological networks, and clinical databases for target identification and development of effective prevention …

Library Publishing Directory 2021, Library Publishing Coalition

Library Publishing Directory

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Multiomics Longitudinal Modeling Of Preeclamptic Pregnancies, Ivana Maric, Kevin Contrepois, Mira Moufarrej, Ina A. Stelzer, Dorien Feyaerts, Xiaoyuan Han, Andy Tang, Natalie Stanley, Ronald J. Wong, Gavin M. Traber, Mathew Ellenberger, Alan Chang, Ramin Fallahzadeh, Huda Nassar, Martin Becker, Maria Xenochristou, Camilo Espinosa, Davide De Francesco, Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi, Elizabeth Costello, Anthony Culos, Xuefend B. Ling, Karl G. Sylvester, Gary L. Darmstadt, Virginia D. Winn, Gary M. Shaw, David A. Relman, Stephen R. Quake, Martin S. Angst, Michael P. Snyder, David K. Stevenson, Brice Gaudilliere, Nima Aghaeepour

All Dugoni School of Dentistry Faculty Articles

Preeclampsia is a complex disease of pregnancy whose physiopathology remains unclear and that poses a threat to both mothers and infants. Specific complex changes in women's physiology precede a diagnosis of preeclampsia. Understanding multiple aspects of such a complex changes at different levels of biology, can be enabled by simultaneous application of multiple assays. We developed prediction models for preeclampsia risk by analyzing six omics datasets from a longitudinal cohort of pregnant women. A machine learning-based multiomics model had high accuracy (area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) of 0.94, 95% confidence intervals (CI):[0.90, 0.99]). A prediction model using …