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Quidditas

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Daily Announcements October 2022, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

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An Assessment Of The Potential Use Of Forest Residues For The Production Of Bio-Oils In The Urban-Rural Interface Of Louisiana, Yaw A. Twumasi, Zhu H. Ning, John B. Namwamba, Edmund C. Merem, Abena B. Asare-Ansah, Harriet B. Yeboah, Matilda Anokye, Diana B. Frimpong, Priscilla M. Loh, Julia Atayi, Judith Oppong, Cynthia C. Ogbu, Rechael N.D. Armah, Caroline Y. Apraku, Opeyemi I. Oladigblou, Joyce Mcclendon-Peralta

Faculty Publications

Louisiana is endowed with forest resources. Forest wastes generated after thinning, land clearing, and logging operations, such as wood debris, tree trimmings, barks, sawdust, wood chips, and black liquor, among others, can serve as potential fuels for energy production in Louisiana. This paper aims to evaluate the potential annual volumes of forest wastes established on detailed and existing data on the forest structure in the rural-urban interface of Louisiana. It also demonstrates the state’s prospects of utilizing forest wastes to produce bio-oils. The data specific to the study was deduced from secondary data sources to obtain the annual average total …

Speciation Jigsaw Activity, Erika Crispo

Open Educational Resources

What is a species? Why are there so many species on the planet? The question of why we have different species of organisms was the key thesis of Charles Darwin’s most famous book, On the Origin of Species.While several definitions of what constitutes a species exists, the most common definition lies within thebiological species concept. This concept states that different species exist when two individuals of different sexes are unable to reproduce with one another to yield viable offspring in the wild. A major limitation of this definition is that it can only be applied to sexually reproducing organisms that …

Hybrid Sensors, Kv Santhosh

Technical Collection

With the ever increasing demand of quality product, efficient automation is of prime requirement. Automation involves the process of monitoring and control. Efficient monitoring is only possible with the best sensing mechanism. Conventional characteristics of sensors like accuracy, range, sensitivity, etc is not just sufficient for achieving the desired objective. Characteristics like cooperation, competition and complementary is the need of the hour.

Concept of a hybrid sensor involves the implementation of multi-sensor system architecture, such that each of the sensors will compliment and/or cooperate and/or compete with each of the other sensor to achieve the complete and efficient monitoring.

Research …

Walk Of Wild Things: A Cross-Grade Collaboration Teaches First- And Third-Grade Students Research Skills., Melinda Hammerschmidt, Rebecca Crowder Dischner, Dea Borneman

College of Education

Next, the classroom teachers provided a list of animals that the students could explore, and then the research partners ranked their top five choices. In closing, we found that multi-age collaboration was an enjoyable teaching tool that increased teacher efficacy, built student knowledge, and strengthened students' ability to work cooperatively with others. TEACHER COLLABORATION AND EFFICACY This cross-grade collaboration provided time for the teachers to work together in facilitating learning and increased teacher efficacy.

Dominant Frequency Extraction For Operational Underwater Sound Of Offshore Wind Turbines Using Adaptive Stochastic Resonance, Rongxin Wang, Xiaomei Xu, Zheguang Zou, Longfei Huang, Yi Tao

Faculty and Student Publications

Underwater sound generated by the rapidly increasing offshore wind farms worldwide greatly affects the underwater soundscape and may cause long-term cumulative effects on sound-sensitive marine organisms. However, its analysis and impact assessment are heavily interfered with by underwater ambient noise. In this study, an adaptive stochastic resonance method is proposed to extract the dominant frequency of wind turbine operational sound when heavy noise is present. In particular, a time–frequency–amplitude fusion index was proposed to guide the parameter tuning of an adaptive stochastic resonance system, and an equilibrium optimizer based on the physical dynamic source–sink principle was adopted to optimize the …

Amjambo Africa! (October 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Election special .....................2-3

Moonglade .............................4-5

Amjambo Arts.......................... 6

Credential equivalencies ....8-10

In 7 languages

Ask the doctor ........................11

In 7 languages

Housing update ......................12

Editorial ...................................13

Market Basket ................... 14-15

Beautiful Blackbird .......... 16-17

All about the Workforce ........18

Community Happenings..20-21

News from Africa ..............22-23

Health & Wellness .............24-31

In 7 languages

Community columns .............32

Financial literacy ....................33

New Voices columns ........34-35

Tips & Info ........................36-37

Hiv-1 Tat Upregulates The Receptor For Advanced Glycation End Products And Superoxide Dismutase-2 In The Heart Of Transgenic Mice, Alaa N. Qrareya, Nason S. Wise, Emmanuel R. Hodges, Fakhri Mahdi

Faculty and Student Publications

Cardiovascular disorder (CVD) is a common comorbidity in people living with HIV (PLWH). Although the underlying mechanisms are unknown, virotoxic HIV proteins, such as the trans-activator of transcription (Tat), likely contribute to CVD pathogenesis. Tat expression in mouse myocardium has been found to induce cardiac dysfunction and increase markers of endothelial toxicity. However, the role that Tat may play in the development of CVD pathogenesis is unclear. The capacity for Tat to impact cardiac function was assessed using AC16 human cardiomyocyte cells and adult male and female transgenic mice that conditionally expressed Tat [Tat(+)], or did not [Tat(−)]. In AC16 …

Immunomodulatory Effects Of Plant Extracts From Salvia Deserta Schang. And Salvia Sclarea L., Aizhan Zhussupova, Gaziza Zhumaliyeva, Vyacheslav Ogay, Assel Issabekova

Faculty and Student Publications

Medicines, their safety, effectiveness and quality are indispensable factors of national security, important on a global scale. The COVID-19 pandemic has once again emphasized the importance of improving the immune response of the body in the face of severe viral infections. Plants from the Salvia L. genus have long been used in traditional medicine for treatment of inflammatory processes, parasitic diseases, bacterial and viral infections. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory effects of plant extracts LS-1, LS-2 from Salvia deserta Schang. and LS-3, LS-4 from Salvia sclarea L. plants growing in southern Kazakhstan by conventional …

Pour Une Église Synodale : Vivre La Communion, Réaliser La Participation, Se Rendre Disponible Pour La Mission., James Chukwuma Okoye C.S.Sp.

Horizons Spiritains

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La Consultation Des Fidèles : L'Importance De John Henry Newman Et Sa Pertinence Pour Une Synodalité Pleinement Catholique., Shaun Blanchard

Horizons Spiritains

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Du Ginkgo Biloba À La Fleur D’Dmandier: Spiritualité Spiritaine Au Portugal., Tony Neves C.S.Sp.

Horizons Spiritains

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Fostering Implementation Of The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals In Africa: Prospects Of Revenue Generation Under The Tax Treaties Signed By Nigeria, Tanzania, And Botswana, Oladiwura Ayeyemi Eyitayo-Oyesode

PhD Dissertations

African countries are behind in social and economic development. The citizens of these countries experience high levels of poverty and hunger, unemployment, maternal and infant mortality, lack of access to quality education, gender inequality and other social, economic and environmental ills. To fix these development challenges, African countries have been encouraged to improve on domestic resource mobilization. This is regarded as a more viable and sustainable way of actualizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) against reliance on aids and grants. Also, emphasis is placed on taxation as the primary source of revenue for funding development because it ensures ownership …

Noisy Label Regularisation For Textual Regression, Yuxia Wang, Timothy Baldwin, Karin Verspoor

Natural Language Processing Faculty Publications

Training with noisy labelled data is known to be detrimental to model performance, especially for high-capacity neural network models in low-resource domains. Our experiments suggest that standard regularisation strategies, such as weight decay and dropout, are ineffective in the face of noisy labels. We propose a simple noisy label detection method that prevents error propagation from the input layer. The approach is based on the observation that the projection of noisy labels is learned through memorisation at advanced stages of learning, and that the Pearson correlation is sensitive to outliers. Extensive experiments over real-world human-disagreement annotations as well as randomly-corrupted …

October 2022, Nova Southeastern University

OTD News

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Rapidly Declining Body Size In An Insectivorous Bat Is Associated With Increased Precipitation And Decreased Survival, Christina M. Davy, Valerie Von Zuben, Pila M. Kukka, Brian D. Gerber, Brian G. Slough, Thomas S. Jung

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Reduced food availability is implicated in declines in avian aerial insectivores, but the effect of nutritional stress on mammalian aerial insectivores is unclear. Unlike birds, insectivorous bats provision their young through lactation, which might protect nursing juveniles when prey availability is low but could increase the energetic burden on lactating females. We analyzed a 15-year capture–mark–recapture data set from 5312 individual little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus) captured at 11 maternity colonies in northwestern Canada, to test the hypothesis that nutritional stress is impacting these mammalian aerial insectivores. We used long-bone (forearm [FA]) length as a proxy for relative access to …

Helping Animals Find Their Forever Homes, Madison P. Wilmot

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

Animals in shelters and foster care face unique challenges. The goal of this project is to come up with a creative solution to the major problems the animals face. The main problems the shelters are facing are overpopulation and negative environments. The foster care takers are struggling with a lack of resources, which is anything from education to connecting to other foster care takers. After researching the main problems, the best solution was creating a website that provides solutions and can be accessed at any time.

A Pruritic Eyelid Lesion Followed By Conjunctival Swelling, Eun Young Choi, A D. Proia, Kyle Kirkland

Osteopathic Medicine, Jerry M. Wallace School of

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The Effects Of Coriander (Coriandrum Sativum) Seeds On The Growth Performance, Growth Hormone, Antibacterial Capacity, And Immune Response Of European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax), Ahmed M. Ashry, Mahmoud M. Habiba, Mohammed G. Desouky, Ahmed M. El-Zayat

Faculty Journal Articles

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Curriculum By Design: Innovation And The Liberal Arts Core [Appendix], Mary Crane, David Quigley, Andy Boynton

Education

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Brochure: 40th Annual Literary Festival, 2017: Lust For Life, Shara Weber

40th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 1-5, 2017

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Macalester Today Fall 2022, Macalester College

Macalester Today

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Lemurs Optimizer: A New Metaheuristic Algorithm For Global Optimization, Ammar Kamal Abasi, Sharif Naser Makhadmeh, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Osama Ahmad Alomari, Mohammed A. Awadallah, Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri, Iyad Abu Doush, Ashraf Elnagar, Eman H. Alkhammash, Myriam Hadjouni

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

The Lemur Optimizer (LO) is a novel nature-inspired algorithm we propose in this paper. This algorithm’s primary inspirations are based on two pillars of lemur behavior: leap up and dance hub. These two principles are mathematically modeled in the optimization context to handle local search, exploitation, and exploration search concepts. The LO is first benchmarked on twenty-three standard optimization functions. Additionally, the LO is used to solve three real-world problems to evaluate its performance and effectiveness. In this direction, LO is compared to six well-known algorithms: Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA), Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA), Bat Algorithm …

Office Of Student Research Newsletter (Fall 2022), Csusb - Office Of Student Research

Office of Student Research Newsletter

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Fall 2022, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-Last Year

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Profile: Outcomes Of A Umn Morris Education, Communications And Marketing

Profile (1996-)

In this issue: An endowed Psychology chair gift to impact generations of students; Former Physics professor provides out of this world support for Cougar Athletics; Scholarship support veterinary careers; Center for Renewable Energy storage technology launched; University of Minnesota Morris holds first Morris Youth Challenge Institute; Bartlett and Kivi are Fulbright finalists; Sustainability Careers and Pathways webinar series will focus on agriculture; NCHC posthumously honors Sam Schuman with Founders Award; Prayers for a Feverish Planet debuted during Earth Week; UMN Morris creates life-long community, career for international student; Spotlight; Alumni News; Class Notes; Cougar News

Office Of Research & Sponsored Programs Newsletter, Office Of Research & Sponsored Programs

Newsletters

In this Issue:

• New SPF Staff

• Featured Funding Opportunities

• RSCA Awards Announced

• 2023 CSU Student Research Competition Now Open!

Featured Articles:

• Recap of Fall Events - page 4

• Where's My Money? Internal Processing Timeline - page 6

• PI Spotlight: Dr. Jianmin Zhong - page 9

• Student Spotlight: Joshua Martinez - page 11

Artificial Intelligence Inventions, Haochen Sun

Florida State University Law Review

In the new technological era, artificial intelligence (AI) reigns supreme. With the assistance of AI systems, society is undergoing a radical transformation. AI may not only soon replace human labor in many industrial sectors, but as AI gains the power to generate greater inventions, it may also outsmart human inventors. How should patent law and policy adapt to the formidable challenges of the AI era? One of these challenges, addressed by patent offices and courts in 2020 and beyond, is whether AI inventorship should be recognized. The United States Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office declined to recognize …

Comparative Transcriptomics Reveals Small Rna Composition And Differential Microrna Responses Underlying Interferon-Mediated Antiviral Regulation In Porcine Alveolar Macrophages, Jiuyi Li, Eric R. Sang, Oluwaseun Adeyemi, Laura C. Miller, Yongming Sang

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Previous studies have shown that interferon-mediated antiviral activity is subtype-dependent. Using a whole transcriptome procedure, we aimed to characterize the small RNA transcriptome (sRNA-Seq) and specifically the differential microRNA (miRNA) responses in porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs) upon antiviral activation during viral infection and interferon (IFN) stimulation. Data showed that near 90% of the qualified reads of sRNA were miRNAs, and about 10% of the other sRNAs included rRNA, snoRNA, snRNA, and tRNA in order of enrichment. As the majority of sRNA (>98%) were commonly detected in all PAM samples under different treatments, about 2% sRNA were differentially expressed between …