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Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter Newsletter, Issue #61 Fall Break 2022

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters

President’s Message

Award of Merit Recipients: Dr. Richard B. Ferguson & Dr. Janos Zempleni

Teaching Award Recipient: Dr. Renee McFee

Research Award Recipient: Dr. Patricio Grassini

Extension Award Recipient: Dr. Justin McMechan

Outstanding Graduate Student: Gabriela Inveninato Carmona

Outstanding Senior Award: Callie McCright

Outstanding Undergraduate Student: Elizabeth Karnopp

New Members Inducted

When Someone Tells You They’ve Received An Invitation to GSD Membership… How do you respond?

Gamma Sigma Delta Committees

In Memoriam: James Henry Williams Jr., 100; Howard Lyle Wiegers, 105; Terry J. Klopfenstein, 82; William (Bill) Robert Raun, 64; Don Joseph Kubik, 85; Mary Rosalind Morris, 101; Roy L. …

Humanities Center Annual Report 2021-22, Humanities Center, University Of San Diego

Humanities Center Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Ants And Spices: The Potential Of Spices To Repel Pest Ants (Formicidae), Jenny Vu, Hritam Mitra, Joe Steven Hardy, Nirupama Chauhan

2022 REYES Proceedings

We examined the spices nutmeg, cinnamon, Ngo Hiang Spice Mix (anise, galangale, cinnamon and star anise) and turmeric for repellent activity against foraging ants. Control baits consisting of a cracker substrate topped with granulated sugar were presented next to treatment baits (cracker, granulated sugar and spice spread over the sugar) to ants in natural habitats. After an hour, the numbers of ants recruiting to the control and treatment baits were recorded. Jenny Vu first tested nutmeg and then cinnamon; Hritam Mitra tested turmeric; Joe Steven Hardy tested Ngo Hiang Spice Mix and Nirupama Chauhan tested turmeric. Data were analyzed with …

Wofford Today Summer 2022, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Wofford Today

No abstract provided.

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2022), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year, Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list. We hope to inspire students and the rest of our community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read or watch a memorable film.

With the 2022 collection, 104 employees offer 175 recommendations of favorite books, films, television shows, and podcasts. This year's selections range from poetry to physics, and transport readers from the Antarctic to Arkansas.

This year's booklet features a special section of Reading Reflections from Musselman Library staff and a column in remembrance of …

A Review Of Impact Assessments For Deep-Sea Fisheries On The High Seas, Laura Kaikkonen, Lissette Victorero, Matthew Gianni, Teresa Amaro, Sofia Graça Aranha, Peter J. Auster, David M. Bailey, James Bell, Angelika Brandt, Jeff Drazen, Malcolm R. Clark, Cherisse Du Preez, Isa Elegbede Olalekan, Elva Escobar-Briones, Eva Giacomello, Kerry L. Howell, Andrew F. Johnson, Lisa Levin, Lucien Maloueki, Rosanna J. Milligan, Tina N. Molodtsova, Stephen Oduware, Tabitha R R Pearman, Christopher K. Pham, Sofia P. Ramalho, Ashley A. Rowden, Tracey Sutton, Michelle Taylor, Les Watling, Patience Whitten

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

The intensity of deep-sea fisheries on the high seas and the impacts on the marine environment call for effective measures to ensure that fishing does not compromise the commitments established for protecting biodiversity in the deep ocean by the United Nations. In order to prevent significant adverse impacts (SAIs) on vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs), high seas fishing nations agreed to stop fishing activities where VMEs are known or likely to occur unless the fishing can be managed to prevent SAIs on VMEs. To determine whether fishing activities can be conducted in a sustainable manner that prevents impacts on VMEs, States …

Innovation In Adversity, Clark D. Asay, Stephanie Plamondon Bair

Florida State University Law Review

Adverse experiences, like long-term poverty, can inhibit innovation. But as much research and many real-world examples show, adversity can also stimulate innovation. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic provides a number of recent examples where adverse conditions have led individuals, firms, and governments to innovate in the hope of benefiting society. Despite the fact that some forms of adversity undermine innovation while others stimulate it, legal scholars have largely failed to distinguish between the two forms or even account for adversity's relationship to innovation when assessing innovation law and policy, including intellectual property (IP) laws. Yet given adversity's significant role in affecting …

Water Availability Dictates How Plant Traits Predict Demographic Rates, Alice E. Stears, Peter B. Adler, Dana M. Blumenthal, Julie A. Kray, Kevin E. Mueller

Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications

A major goal in ecology is to make generalizable predictions of organism responses to environmental variation based on their traits. However, straightforward relationships between traits and fitness are rare and likely to vary with environmental context. Characterizing how traits mediate demographic responses to the environment may enhance the predictions of organism responses to global change. We synthesized 15 years of demographic data and species-level traits in a shortgrass steppe to determine whether the effects of leaf and root traits on growth and survival depended on seasonal water availability. We predicted that (1) species with drought-tolerant traits, such as lower leaf …

Incorporation Of Torsion Springs In A Knee Exoskeleton For Stance Phase Correction Of Crouch Gait, Katy Baker Bumbard, Harold Herrington, Chung-Hyun Goh, Alwathiqbellah Ibrahim

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Crouch gait is a motor complication that is commonly associated with cerebral palsy, spastic diplegia, stroke, and motor-neurological pathologies, broadly defined as knee flexion in excess of 20° in the gait cycle. Uncorrected crouch gait results in fatigue, joint degradation, and loss of ambulation. Torsion springs have been used in cycling to store energy in the knee flexion to reduce fatigue in the quadriceps during knee extension. SolidWorks was used to design a passive exoskeleton for the knee, incorporating torsion springs of stiffnesses 20,000 N/mm and 30,000 N/mm at the knee joint, to correct four different crouch gaits. OpenSim was …

The Greenbook, Faculty Handbook, 2022-2023, Marshall University Academic Affairs

The Greenbook

This book has been published for the faculty of Marshall University for the specified period of time. This book was created by what is now known as Academic Affairs and is for the period of 2022-2023.

The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 32.02: Summer 2022, Maria Seidl, Kelly Jacobsma, Sarah Lundy

The Joint Archives Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Visit To A Nursing School In Bangladesh: Shared Bonds That Transcend Culture, Suzanne Parkman Phd, Rn, Cne

School of Nursing

This is a description of an educational collaboration with a nursing school in Bangladesh. It includes the history of nursing education, philosophy, curriculum plan, grading, and the experience of teaching.

Chemical Authentication And Speciation Of Salvia Botanicals: An Investigation Utilizing Gc/Q-Tof And Chemometrics, Joseph Lee, Mei Wang, Jianping Zhao, Bharathi Avula

Faculty and Student Publications

Members of the genus Salvia are used as culinary herbs and are prized for their purported medicinal attributes. Since physiological effects can vary widely between species of Salvia, it is of great importance to accurately identify botanical material to ensure safety for consumers. In the present study, an in-depth chemical investigation is performed utilizing GC/Q-ToF combined with chemometrics. Twenty-four authentic plant samples representing five commonly used Salvia species, viz. S. apiana, S. divinorum, S. mellifera, S. miltiorrhiza, and S. officinalis, are analyzed using a GC/Q-ToF technique. High-resolution spectral data are employed to construct a sample class prediction (SCP) model followed …

Synergistic Antibacterial Activity With Conventional Antibiotics And Mechanism Of Action Of Shikonin Against Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, Qian Qian Li, Hee Sung Chae, Ok Hwa Kang, Dong Yeul Kwon

Faculty and Student Publications

Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a troublesome pathogen that poses a global threat to public health. Shikonin (SKN) isolated from Lithospermum erythrorhizon (L. erythro-rhizon) possesses a variety of biological activities. This study aims to explore the effect of the combined application of SKN and traditional antibiotics on the vitality of MRSA and the inherent anti-bacterial mechanism of SKN. The synergies between SKN and antibiotics against MRSA and its clinical strain have been demonstrated by the checkerboard assay and the time‐kill assay. The effect of SKN on disrupting the integrity and permeability of bacterial cell membranes was verified by a nucleotide …

Chemical Fingerprinting Profile And Targeted Quantitative Analysis Of Phenolic Compounds From Rooibos Tea (Aspalathus Linearis) And Dietary Supplements Using Uhplc‐Pda‐Ms, Omer I. Fantoukh, Yan Hong Wang, Abidah Parveen, Mohammed F. Hawwal

Faculty and Student Publications

Aspalathus linearis (Burm.f.) R. Dahlgren, commonly known as rooibos tea, was consumed traditionally by the indigenous South African inhabitants as an herbal remedy. Beside antioxidant properties, it displays antiallergic, antispasmodic, and hypoglycemic activities. An ultra‐high-performance liquid chromatography method coupled with photodiode array and mass spectrometry detectors were developed for the determination of 14 phenolic constituents from leaves and stems of A. linearis. The efficient separation was performed within 30 min at a temperature of 30 °C by using C‐18 column as the stationary phase and water/acetonitrile with 0.05% formic acid as the mobile phase. Method validation for linearity, repeatability, limits …

Immunotherapy Before Solid Organ Transplantation: An International Transplant Community-Focused Survey, Tommy Ivanics, Marco Claasen, David Al-Adra, Gonzalo Sapisochin

Surgery Meeting Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Tissue Decay Tested In Modern Metasequoia Leaves: Implications For Early Diagenesis Of Leaves In Fossil Lagerstätten, Caitlyn R. Witkowski, Qin Leng, Christopher W. Reid, Liang Feng, Hong Yang

Science and Technology Department Faculty Journal Articles

Sedimentary deposits yielding extraordinarily-preserved fossils (known as Lagerstätten) may provide significant insights into the physiology and environments of ancient plants, particularly when the fossils represent their original characteristics with limited diagenetic modifications. To better understand molecular, isotopic, and morphological changes during the early stages of diagenesis, degradation experiments were conducted in two time series: 1) a laboratory decay series using fungi on leaves over the course of a month and 2) a natural decay series with leaves collected from different stages of leaf senescence and early diagenesis. Both experiments used modern leaves of the dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 63 Number 1, Summer 2022, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

16 - SHARED DREAMS Meet incoming University President Julie Sullivan, the first layperson and woman selected to lead SCU. Leslie Griffy

20 - BD KNOWS BEST Discovering who you really are, being grateful, and dinosaurs with BD Wong. Lauren Loftus.

22 - SWEPT AWAY Being homeless in Silicon Valley is particularly deadly. One professor explores why so many die in a land of such excess. Leslie Griffy .

28 - ON THE OUTSIDE A first-person account of being wrongly convicted, as told by Arturo Jimenez.

30 - BOOKED AND BUSY The secret behind the Hollywood success of so many Bronco …

Sentimentalism And The Feeling Body, Claudia Stokes

English Faculty Research

Sentimental literature of the nineteenth century depicts the struggles of errant young women as they attempt to achieve self-control and comply with normative ideals of feminine conduct. Religious piety often figures centrally in these efforts, as sentimental heroines learn to imitate Christ in their pursuit of self-mastery and acquire moral instruction through the study of scripture. Sentimentalism’s preoccupation with spiritual matters, however, did not preclude an interest in corporeal matters, and sentimental writers afford particular attention to the body. Focused principally on depicting female development – and sustained by women writers and readers alike – sentimentalism attended to the female …

Comprehensive Pain Assessment For Veterans In Long-Term Care., Christopher Jenkins

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Background Literature supports the need for comprehensive pain assessment (CPA) in long-term care facilities. CPAs provide valuable information for facility providers and health care staff to intervene appropriately regardless of cognitive ability. Without the use of such tools, pain can go undertreated or ignored for this underserved population causing undue suffering and poor quality of life. Chronic pain perpetuates an endless cycle of immobility, falls, injury, functional decline, and eventual death for this population.

Purpose: A CPA was implemented, evaluated, and integrated into the care processes in a long-term care facility for veterans

Method: The IHI improvement model with a …

The Impact Of Perioperative Atrial Fibrillation On Patient Outcomes Following Repair Of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms, Jennifer Morrone, Jonathan Price, Annie Laurie Shroyer

Department of Surgery Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Pathophysiology Of Aortic Stenosis, Melissa Lee

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

Pathophysiology of Aortic Stenosis

Melissa J. Lee

Department of Nursing, Otterbein University

NURS 6810: Advanced Pathophysiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse

Dr. Deana Batross & Dr. Shivani Bhatnagar

July 29, 2022

Pathophysiology of Aortic Stenosis

Proper evaluation of co-morbidities is imperative for patient safety and successful outcomes for patients undergoing anesthesia. Aortic stenosis (AS) is one of the most complex diseases encountered in anesthesia, affecting five percent of older adults and ten percent of the 80-89-year-old-cohort (Joseph et al., 2017). The pathophysiological development of AS is the end result of an inflammatory process caused by endothelial damage from mechanical stress, …

Perioperative Management In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Jonathan Wagner

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) results in three million deaths a year globally; COPD is becoming the third leading cause of death worldwide (Shin et al., 2017). The prevalence of COPD has a significant impact on the delivery of anesthesia in surgery.

Purpose: This poster analyzes risk factors associated with COPD and the complications associated with the disease. The implications and nursing considerations are outlined to direct goals of care and ventilator management during surgery.

Methodology: The data was collected from various control trials and meta-analysis studies. Information was also derived from pathophysiology and anesthesia resources.

Results: Patients …

Electronic - Cigarettes And Anesthesia Implications, Duane Robinson

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

Electronic cigarettes (ECs) became available in the United States in 2007. They were originally marketed as a safer alternative to smoking (Arndt et al., 2020). The number of users has exceeded 14M people in the U.S. (Bulat et al., 2022). ECs are not as regulated as tobacco cigarettes. The levels of nicotine in the e-liquid vary significantly and the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate the non-nicotine ingredients in e-liquid (Krishna et al., 2020). The vapor from ECs contains heavy metals, volatile hydrocarbons, and over 70 carcinogenic substances. Lung damage from EC use has created a new respiratory ailment, …

Monitoring Whitebark Pine Stand Health In The Central Washington Cascades, Nancy H. Parra, Teresa J. Lorenz, Taza D. Schaming, Alison Scoville

Student Published Works

Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) plays a vital role in colonizing newly disturbed areas, providing shade for other tree species to germinate, and supplying food for a variety of birds and mammals, such as Clark’s Nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) and grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis). Decline of whitebark pine populations has been attributed to several factors, including white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreaks, and fire exclusion. In 2009, the U.S. Forest Service began to install permanent plots in whitebark pine stands in Washington and Oregon as …

Is Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) Wounding Frequency Affected By The Presence Versus Absence Of Visitors? A Multi-Institutional Study, Robin Elana Salak, Christina Cloutier Barbour

Student Published Works

Visitor effect studies have had inconsistent results, due in part to the inability to control for all confounding variables such as time of day, seasonal weather patterns, and so forth. This study represents the first instance where chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) wounding frequencies were investigated across extensive time periods in the presence and complete absence of visitors, thus eliminating many visitor-related variables. Additional variables were eliminated through the zoo selection process, based on institutional responses to a 29-question survey, providing a novel approach to the question of visitor effects. The aim of this study was to determine if visitors …

Application Of Lerch Polynomials To Approximate Solution Of Singular Fredholm Integral Equations With Cauchy Kernelapplication Of Lerch Polynomials To Approximate Solution Of Singular Fredholm Integral Equations With Cauchy Kernel, Doaa Shokry Mohamed

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, we develop an effective method based on Lerch polynomials to provide an approximate solution of various cases of Cauchy type singular integral equations. The method reduces the solution of given singular integral equation to the solution of a matrix equation corresponding to linear system of algebraic equations with unknown Lerch coefficients. Error estimation of the presented method is mentioned. Finally, several examples show the reliability and efficiently of the proposed method.

The Cordiality For The Join Of Pairs Of The Third Power Of Paths, E. A. Elsakhawy

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

A graph is said to be cordial if it has a 0−1 labeling that satisfies certain properties. The third power of path P3, is the graph n obtained from the path Pn by adding edges that join all vertices and with d ≤ 3. In this paper, we show that Pn3 is cordial if and only if n ̸= 4. Moreover, we study the cordiality for the sum of pairs of the third power of paths. Keywords:

On Categorical Property Of Fuzzy Soft Topological Spaces, S. Saleh, Radwan Abu-Gdairi, Tareq M. Al-Shami, Mohammed S. Abdo

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The main aim of this work is to provide a categorical framework for fuzzy soft topological spaces FST. We define some of their subcategories such as Top, STop, δτ-FST, χ􏰀-FST, and α􏰀-FST. In general, we initiate some functors between them and discuss some results and relations of fuzzy soft maps. The relationships between FST and their subcategories are studied, for instance, we show that Top, STop are bireflective full subcategories of FST and α􏰀-FSTis a bicoreflective full subcategory of FST. Moreover, we demonstrate that Top, δτ -FST, and χ􏰀-FST are isomorphic.

Comparative Metabolite Profiling And Fingerprinting Of Medicinal Cinnamon Bark And Its Commercial Preparations Via A Multiplex Approach Of Gc–Ms, Uv, And Nmr Techniques, Mohamed A. Farag, Sally E. Khaled, Zeina El Gingeehy, Samir Nabhan Shamma

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.