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Quantifying Environmental Sensitivity Of Marine Resources To Oil Well Blowouts In The Gulf Of Mexico, Emily Chancellor

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation focused on oil spill risk assessment techniques historically utilized for coastal resources (e.g., environmental sensitivity indices (ESIs), vulnerability assessments, species-specific vulnerability frameworks) and their application and expansion to offshore resources found in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Additional included techniques (e.g., multi-sector trade-off analysis, marine spatial planning (MSP) software) provide support in decision making processes regarding the potential siting of oil production sites and/or the withdrawal of areas from oil and natural gas production. Chapter 1 included an overview and justification for this study. Chapter 2 demonstrated an initial methodology for the creation of offshore ESIs and how …

Depletion Of Cd206+ M2-Like Macrophages Induces Fibro-Adipogenic Progenitors Activation And Muscle Regeneration, Tomonobu Kado, Muhammad Rahil Aslam, Saeed Ahmed, Keisuke Okabe, Yoshiko Igarashi, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Takahide Kuwano, Koichi Tsuneyama, Ayumi Nishimura, Yasuhiro Nishida, Seiji Yamamoto, Masakiyo Sasahara, Johji Imura, Hisashi Mori, Martin M Matzuk, Fujimi Kudo, Ichiro Manabe, Akiyoshi Uezumi, Takashi Nakagawa, Yumiko Oishi, Kazuyuki Tobe

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Muscle regeneration requires the coordination of muscle stem cells, mesenchymal fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs), and macrophages. How macrophages regulate the paracrine secretion of FAPs during the recovery process remains elusive. Herein, we systemically investigated the communication between CD206+ M2-like macrophages and FAPs during the recovery process using a transgenic mouse model. Depletion of CD206+ M2-like macrophages or deletion of CD206+ M2-like macrophages-specific TGF-β1 gene induces myogenesis and muscle regeneration. We show that depletion of CD206+ M2-like macrophages activates FAPs and activated FAPs secrete follistatin, a promyogenic factor, thereby boosting the recovery process. Conversely, deletion of the FAP-specific follistatin gene results in …

Multi-Method Investigation Of Factors Influencing Amyloid Onset And Impairment In Three Cohorts, Tobey J Betthauser, Dean F Wong, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Alzheimer's disease biomarkers are becoming increasingly important for characterizing the longitudinal course of disease, predicting the timing of clinical and cognitive symptoms, and for recruitment and treatment monitoring in clinical trials. In this work, we develop and evaluate three methods for modelling the longitudinal course of amyloid accumulation in three cohorts using amyloid PET imaging. We then use these novel approaches to investigate factors that influence the timing of amyloid onset and the timing from amyloid onset to impairment onset in the Alzheimer's disease continuum. Data were acquired from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of …

Structural Basis Of Synthetic Agonist Activation Of The Nuclear Receptor Rev-Erb, Meghan H Murray, Aurore Cecile Valfort, Thomas Koelblen, Céline Ronin, Fabrice Ciesielski, Arindam Chatterjee, Giri Babu Veerakanellore, Bahaa Elgendy, John K Walker, Lamees Hegazy, Thomas P Burris

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The nuclear receptor REV-ERB plays an important role in a range of physiological processes. REV-ERB behaves as a ligand-dependent transcriptional repressor and heme has been identified as a physiological agonist. Our current understanding of how ligands bind to and regulate transcriptional repression by REV-ERB is based on the structure of heme bound to REV-ERB. However, porphyrin (heme) analogues have been avoided as a source of synthetic agonists due to the wide range of heme binding proteins and potential pleotropic effects. How non-porphyrin synthetic agonists bind to and regulate REV-ERB has not yet been defined. Here, we characterize a high affinity …

Post-Developmental Plasticity Of The Primary Rod Pathway Allows Restoration Of Visually Guided Behaviors, Yan Cao, Diego Fajardo, Debbie Guerrero-Given, Melanie A Samuel, Toshihisa Ohtsuka, Shannon E Boye, Naomi Kamasawa, Kirill A Martemyanov

Center on Aging Staff Publications

Formation of neural circuits occurs in a programmed fashion, but proper activity in the circuit is essential for refining the organization necessary for driving complex behavioral tasks. In the retina, sensory deprivation during the critical period of development is well known to perturb organization of the visual circuit making the animals unable to use vision for behavior. However, the extent of plasticity, molecular factors involved and malleability of individual channels in the circuit to manipulations outside of the critical period are not well understood. In this study we selectively disconnected and reconnected rod photoreceptors in mature animals after completion of …

Expanding The Focus Of Occupational Safety And Health: Lessons From A Series Of Linked Scientific Meetings, Michelle Mcdaniel, Faiyaz A Bhojani, Rene Pana-Cryan, Naomi G Swanson

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

There is widespread recognition that the world of work is changing, and agreement is growing that the occupational safety and health (OSH) field must change to contribute to the protection of workers now and in the future. Discourse on the evolution of OSH has been active for many decades, but formalized support of an expanded focus for OSH has greatly increased over the past 20 years. Development of approaches such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)'s total Worker Health

Association Between Therapeutic Interventions And Quality Of Life In People With Autism, Taline Movsessian, Tolulope A. Osoba

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

Research exploring the association of autism interventions with the quality of life (QoL) of adults with autism spectrum disorders was scarce. Although a multitude of interventions are used to target a specific challenge facing the individual with autism, their correlation with achieving a better QoL is largely unknown. We conducted a cross-sectional, correlational survey study to determine the association between seven interventions—behavioral, social, mental health, daily living skills (DLS), vocational, mindfulness, and medications—and the QoL of adults 18 years and older with autism with no intellectual disability (ID) living in Canada. A national sample of 182 autistic adults or proxy …

Causes Of Death In Children Under-Age Of Five Years In Babylon Province, Abbas Mehdi Kadim, Mohammed Abdul Kareem Abdullah

Muthanna Medical Journal

Iraq lacks data on under-5 mortality causes. The vital registration system is poor in rural regions where access to health care is restricted and most fatalities occur at home, outside the health system, and the reason of death remains undetected. Knowing under-5 mortality patterns and trends helps decision-makers evaluate programmatic requirements, priorities interventions, and track progress. The aim of study is to describe the main causes of death under 5 years and evaluate the effects of different variables like: age, sex, body weight, residency, day and time of death and month of year, on the cause of death. Method: This …

Comparison Of Static And Rolling Logistic Regression Models On Predicting Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Or Death From Covid-19-A Retrospective, Multicentre Study, Milo Engoren, Carlo Pancaro, Nicholas S. Yeldo, Lotfi S. Kerzabi, Nicholas Douville

Anesthesiology Articles

INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 virus has undergone mutations, and the introduction of vaccines and effective treatments have changed its clinical severity. We hypothesized that models that evolve may better predict invasive mechanical ventilation or death than do static models.

METHODS: This retrospective study of adult patients with COVID-19 from six Michigan hospitals analysed 20 demographic, comorbid, vital sign and laboratory factors, one derived factor and nine factors representing changes in vital signs or laboratory values with time for their ability to predict death or invasive mechanical ventilation within the next 4, 8 or 24 h. Static logistic regression was constructed on the …

From Model Organisms To Humans, The Opportunity For More Rigor In Methodologic And Statistical Analysis, Design, And Interpretation Of Aging And Senescence Research, Daniella E Chusyd, Steven N Austad, Andrew W Brown, Xiwei Chen, Stephanie L Dickinson, Keisuke Ejima, David Fluharty, Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, Richard Holden, Yasaman Jamshidi-Naeini, Doug Landsittel, Stella Lartey, Edward Mannix, Colby J Vorland, David B Allison

Children’s Nutrition Research Center Staff Publications

This review identifies frequent design and analysis errors in aging and senescence research and discusses best practices in study design, statistical methods, analyses, and interpretation. Recommendations are offered for how to avoid these problems. The following issues are addressed: (a) errors in randomization, (b) errors related to testing within-group instead of between-group differences, (c) failing to account for clustering, (d) failing to consider interference effects, (e) standardizing metrics of effect size, (f) maximum life-span testing, (g) testing for effects beyond the mean, (h) tests for power and sample size, (i) compression of morbidity versus survival curve squaring, and (j) other …

Uab Comprehensive Diabetes Center Receives Legacy Gift, Staff

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Promoting Early Language Development In The Arab World And Sustainable Development Goals 3, 4, 10 And 17, Ghada Khattab, Alshaimaa Gaber Salah Abdelwahab, Khalid Al-Shdifat, Zakiyah Alsiddiqi, Caroline Floccia, Hreich E Kouba, Cristina Mckean, Camille Moitel Messarra, Thair Odeh, Anastasia Trebacz

School of Psychology

PurposeThis commentary describes a multi-national project which addresses gaps in the design and delivery of health and education services in Arabic-speaking countries in relation to early language development, with a focus on Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. This includes: (1) co-production with early years professionals and NGOs of approaches to support early language development; (2) development and standardisation of tools to identify monolingual and multilingual Arabic-speaking children at risk of poor language development; and (3) examination of language development in refugee communities.ResultThe importance of inter-professional partnership and the inclusion of families in planning support for oral language development …

Three Collat Students, Staff Awarded Alabama Inno Under 25 Recognition, Staff

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Helping Responses By Indirect Bystanders Of Coercive Sexual Harassment In Academia: Friendship Status With Source Of Information, Donna M. L. Heretick, Inna Learn, Jessica M. Holmes

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

Coercive sexual harassment (CSH) by faculty is a risk factor for women in higher education. Bystander intervention and support for a victim are critical. Social networks can influence peers’ social reactions to victims of sexual violations. This is the first study to explore the responses of peers who learn about CSH of a peer indirectly, thus becoming indirect bystanders. In this scenario, a peer classmate learns of CSH of a classmate from another classmate who witnessed the CSH. The 181 participants (52.8% female) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions where a written vignette described an interaction between the …

The Bg News November 21, 2022, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 21, 2022. Volume 102-Issue 13.

Implementing Just Climate Adaptation Policy: An Analysis Of Recognition, Framing, And Advocacy Coalitions In Boston, U.S.A., Jeffrey T. Malloy, Catherine Ashcraft, Paul Kirshen, Thomas G. Safford, Semra Aytur, Shannon H. Rogers

Faculty Publications

Cities face intersectional challenges implementing climate adaptation policy. This research contributes to scholarship dedicated to understanding how policy implementation affects socially vulnerable groups, with the overarching goal of promoting justice and equity in climate policy implementation. We apply a novel framework that integrates social justice theory and the advocacy coalition framework to incrementally assess just climate adaptation in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Boston made an ambitious commitment to address equity as part of its climate planning and implementation efforts. In this paper, we evaluate the first implementation stage over the period 2016–2019 during which Boston developed coastal resilience …

Remote Learning For Students With A Disability: Game Changer Or Moment In Time? Literature Review, Marijne Medhurst, Maya Conway, Kathryn Richardson

School and system improvement

This literature review draws from Australian and international research into the impact of remote learning for students with disability, published between March 2020 and April 2022. The literature relates to pedagogical services provided by early childhood services and schools to support students with disability, rather than therapeutic services. The social implications for students are reviewed along with educational factors, and implications for inclusion and support by schools. Following an overview of the legal and policy frameworks supporting the education of students with disability, this review investigates benefits, challenges and opportunities for both remote learning and transition back to in-person educational …

The Backyard Garden - Pea Pests, Bridger Carey, Nick Volesky, Marion Murray

All Current Publications

As part of a series, The Backyard Garden, this fact sheet reviews pea pests. It includes general information, symptoms, and management for the following pea pest issues: thrips, spider mites, pea weevil, aphids, pea leaf weevil, damping-off, powdery mildew, fusarium wilt, fusarium root rot, and bacterial blight.

Authenticity In Material Culture, Consumption And Branding, Valerie Gannon, Andrea Prothero

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Discussion around authenticity has grown in marketing and consumption discourse in the last two decades. Consumers are viewed as seeking authenticity, and brands have responded to this. This chapter identifies three foundational categories of authenticity: personal, expressive and material. The main elements of each category are outlined. Key tensions are identified between authenticity as experienced by consumers and authenticity as leveraged for instrumental purposes by the marketplace.

Eeg-Based Grading Of Immune Effector Cell-Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome, Daniel K Jones, Fábio A Nascimento, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

CAR-T cell therapy is an effective cancer therapy for multiple refractory/relapsed hematologic malignancies but is associated with substantial toxicity, including Immune Effector Cell Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome (ICANS). Improved detection and assessment of ICANS could improve management and allow greater utilization of CAR-T cell therapy, however, an objective, specific biomarker has not been identified. We hypothesized that the severity of ICANS can be quantified based on patterns of abnormal brain activity seen in electroencephalography (EEG) signals. We conducted a retrospective observational study of 120 CAR-T cell therapy patients who had received EEG monitoring. We determined a daily ICANS grade for each …

Let's Talk About Antibiotics: A Randomised Trial Of Two Interventions To Reduce Antibiotic Misuse, Kathy Goggin, Emily A. Hurley, Brian R. Lee, Andrea Bradley-Ewing, Carey Bickford, Kimberly Pina, Evelyn Donis De Miranda, David Yu, Kirsten Weltmer, Sebastian Linnemayr, Christopher C. Butler, Jason G. Newland, Angela L Myers

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Children with acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) receive ≈11.4 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions annually. A noted contributor is inadequate parent-clinician communication, however, efforts to reduce overprescribing have only indirectly targeted communication or been impractical.

OBJECTIVES: Compare two feasible (higher vs lower intensity) interventions for enhancing parent-clinician communication on the rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

DESIGN: Multisite, parallel group, cluster randomised comparative effectiveness trial. Data collected between March 2017 and March 2019.

SETTING: Academic and private practice outpatient clinics.

PARTICIPANTS: Clinicians (n=41, 85% of eligible approached) and 1599 parent-child dyads (ages 1-5 years with ARTI symptoms, 71% of eligible approached). …

Transversus Abdominis Plane Block With Different Bupivacaine Concentrations In Children Undergoing Unilateral Inguinal Hernia Repair: A Single-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial, Meltem Savran Karadeniz, Ayşe Gülşah Atasever, Emine Aysu Salviz, Emre Sertaç Bingül, Hayriye Şentürk Çiftçi, Müşerref Beril Dinçer, Mukadder Orhan Sungur

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Current knowledge on the ideal local anesthetic concentration for the ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block (TAPB) in pediatrics is scarce. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of US-guided TAPB at two different concentrations of bupivacaine in pediatrics undergoing unilateral inguinal hernia repair.

METHODS: After random allocation, 74 children aged 1-8 were randomized to receive US-guided TAPB by using 1 mg.kg

RESULTS: Sixty-four children were recruited for the study. Postoperative pain scores were equal between the two groups. There was no need for a rescue analgesic in any group after the postoperative 6

CONCLUSION: TAPB using …

The Effect Of Community-Based Rehabilitation Programs On Behavioral Problems Among Children With Disabilities And The Quality Of Life Of Their Families أثر برامج التأهيل المجتمعيّ على المشكلات السلوكيّة لدى الأطفال ذوي الإعاقة ونوعيّة الحياة لدى أُسرهم, Mohammad Abedel Hameed Ananzeh, Prof. Jamal Al -Khateeb

Jordanian Educational Journal

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This study aimed at revealing the impact of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programs on behavioral problems of children with disabilities and the quality of life of their families. A sample consisting of (115) families (75 beneficiary families and 40 non-beneficiary families). A behavioral problem scale and a quality of life (QoL) measure were applied. Results indicated statistically significant differences in the degree of behavioral problems between the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of CBR in favor of the first group, where the degree of behavioral problems among the children of the beneficiary families was medium, while it was high among the children …

The Predictability Of Parental Practices And Emotional Regulation Among Adolescents Students With Conduct Disorder المقدرة التنبؤية للممارسات الوالدية والتنظيم الانفعالي باضطراب التصرف لدى الطلبة المراهقين, Monther Saud Al-Olwan

Jordanian Educational Journal

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The current study aimed to identify the predictive power of parenting and emotional regulation with behavior disorder in adolescent students. The study sample consisted of (90) students from (ninth, tenth, and eleventh) grades, who were chosen from three governmental schools in the city of (Amman), the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, using the conduct disorder measure prepared by the researcher. To achieve the goals of the study, two other measures were developed: Parenting practices and the emotional regulation scale. The measures were applied to the current sample during the first semester of the year 2019-2020. The results of the study …

The Relationship Of Psychological Stress, Psychological Flexibility, And Parental Upbringing Methools Styles To Psychosocial Adjustment Of Gifted Students In Jordan علاقة الضغط النفسي والمرونة النفسية وأساليب التنشئة الأبوية بالتكيف النفسي لدى الطلبة الموهوبين بالأردن, Majed Mohammad Abu Orabi, Prof. Ibrahim El-Zraigat

Jordanian Educational Journal

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The study aimed at describing the relationship between psychological stress, psychological flexibility, and parental upbringing methools with psychological adjustment for gifted students in Jordan. The study sample included (180) male and female students enrolled at King Abdullah the second and Alyoubil for giftedness. To achieve the goal of the study, the researchers developed the study tools, which consisted of psychological stresses scale, flexibility scale, and parental upbringing methools scale, and psychological adjustment scale. The validity and reliability of study tools were achieved. The results indicated that there was a statistically negative relationship between psychological stress and adjustment. Also, the …

Hine, Rook, Ty Bolduc

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Rook Hine is a 47-year-old transfemme non-binary person from Connecticut. In this interview, Hine describe their life experiences, from challenges in her household, zir benefits and complications within education, and finding their identity as ze grew up. They discuss masking, performing arts as an outlet for gender expression, activism in college and beyond. Ze also mentions developing their non-binary identity, use of the term metagender, polyamory, and internalized transphobia, as well as adventures around the country - attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York, spending time in New Orleans as a tarot card reader, stripper, and phone sex operator after …

Saint Jude's, November 20, 2022

Saint Jude's

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Waltham, MA

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Investing In The Middle: A New Approach To Deliver On The Promise Of Equitable Neighborhood Development, Molly Schnoke, Shannon Driscoll, Madeline Frantz

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

The Center for Economic Development at Cleveland State University, through the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policies for Action Grant, has been conducting research into middle neighborhoods. As part of its ongoing research, the Center organized the Investing in the Middle forum to present the work the team has done and gain insight into policy and best practices from members of the community. The workshop took place on November 20, 2022 at the Cleveland State University Levin College of Public Affairs and Education.

Textualism, Judicial Supremacy, And The Independent State Legislature Theory, Leah M. Litman, Katherine A. Shaw

Articles

This piece offers an extended critique of one aspect of the so-called "independent state legislature" theory. That theory, in brief, holds that the federal Constitution gives state legislatures, and withholds from any other state entity, the power to regulate federal elections. Proponents ground their theory in two provisions of the federal Constitution: Article I's Elections Clause, which provides that "[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof," and Article H's Presidential Electors Clause, which provides that "[e]ach State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature …

Linus Babcock, Oral History Interview, 2022, Cellach Allen

COVID-19 Oral Histories

In October and November of 2022, You Li's Journalism 313 students conducted oral history interviews with one another to document the student experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, EMU undergraduate Linus Babcock describes the early days of COVID, the initial shutdown of the university and the experience of moving back home with family and siblings.