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Turkish Journal of Biology

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Introduction To Macroeconomics, Kenny Christianson

Economics Faculty Scholarship

The textbook begins by looking at basic economic concepts and models, such as scarcity, choice, model-building, opportunity cost, production possibilities curves, comparative advantage, and supply and demand analysis. After a chapter exploring the relationships between markets and government, the text then delves into a rigorous analysis of the theory and practice of macroeconomics. Topics include the measurement of macroeconomic variables, macroeconomic models, and fiscal and monetary policy. The text emphasizes the connections between theory and policy in exploring the field of macroeconomics.

Efficient Recovery Of Lithium And Cobalt From Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries By P-Toluene Sulfonic Acid, Jiadong Liu, Tsz Yau Mak, Xuyang Wang, Zhouguang Lu, Dawson Wai Shun Suen, Xiaoying Helen Lu, Yuanyuan Tang

Faculty of Science & Technology (THEi)

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles. In terms of environmental restrictions and circular economy, proper treatment of spent LIBs is of great significance for achieving sustainable development. In this study, organic p-toluene sulfonic acid (PTSA) was employed to recycle valuable Li and Co elements from the spent LIBs for production of battery raw materials. Operation parameters such as PTSA concentration, hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) concentration, solid-to-liquid ratio, leaching temperature and time, were systematically investigated. Under the optimal conditions (0.9 vol% H₂O₂, 1.5 mol L^-1 PTSA, …

Precision Exercise Medicine: Sex Specific Differences In Immune And Cns Responses To Physical Activity, Constanza J. Cortes, Zurine De Miguel

Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Physical activity is a powerful lifestyle factor capable of improving cognitive function, modifying the risk for dementia associated with neurodegeneration and possibly slowing neurodegenerative disease progression in both men and women. However, men and women show differences in the biological responses to physical activity and in the vulnerabilities to the onset, progression and outcome of neurodegenerative diseases, prompting the question of whether sex-specific regulatory mechanisms might differentially modulate the benefits of exercise on the brain. Mechanistic studies aimed to better understand how physical activity improves brain health and function suggest that the brain responds to physical exercise by overall reducing …

The Transformative Female Body: Embodied Womanhood, Domestic Imagery, And Scriptural Language In Mother's Milk: Poems In Search Of Heavenly Mother By Rachel Hunt Steenblik, Kaitlin Hoelzer

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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An Examination Of School Characteristics Related To Racial Disparities In Special Education Identification In New York State, Teresa Ann Mcgrath

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined special education numbers for public school populations of White, Black, and Hispanic students in New York State and factors hypothesized to contribute to identification and subsequent disproportionality of minority students in special education. Data from the Civil Rights Data Collection (CDRC), combined with data from the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) for New York state public schools in the academic school year of 2015-2016 are evaluated. Histograms of the percent difference in IDEA status of White and Black/Hispanic students are considered to identify if there is disproportionality in the schools in New York. The implication of …

2021 Celebration Of Faculty Scholars Program, University Of Northern Colorado Libraries

Celebration of Faculty Scholars

The program of the inaugural Celebration of Faculty Scholars, an event designed to highlight and celebrate the scholarly and creative works of our faculty, as well as grant awards from the previous calendar year. The event recognized and celebrated 467 unique works and over 8 million dollars in grant awards by faculty from all colleges across campus.

Neural Plasticity For Speech Sound Processing In Adults: The Effect Of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, Garrett Sweitzer

Theses and Dissertations

We examined the possible modulatory effect of tDCS on the automatic processing of speech sounds by evaluating the components of two ERP waveforms (P1-N1-P2 and T-Complex. The P1-N1-P2 components were measured at frontocentral sites F3, F4, C3, C4, Cz, and Fz while the T-Complex components were measured at temporal cortices T7 and T8. A 64-channel sensor cap from Electrical Geodesics, Inc was placed on each of the participants’ scalp. The 17 young adults (12 females, 5 males) sat comfortably during the EEG measurements within an electrically shielded and sound-attenuated booth while watching a silenced movie with subtitles delivered through a …

A Ribosomal Protein Homolog Governs Gene Expression And Virulence In A Bacterial Pathogen, Hannah S. Trautmann, Kathryn M. Ramsey

Cell and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications

The molecular machine necessary for protein synthesis, the ribosome, is generally considered constitutively functioning and lacking any inherent regulatory capacity. Yet ribosomes are commonly heterogeneous in composition and the impact of ribosome heterogeneity on translation is not well understood. Here, we determined that changes in ribosome protein composition govern gene expression in the intracellular bacterial pathogen Francisella tularensis. F. tularensis encodes three distinct homologs for bS21, a ribosomal protein involved in translation initiation, and analysis of purified F. tularensis ribosomes revealed they are heterogeneous with respect to bS21. The loss of one homolog, bS21-2, resulted in significant changes …

Golimumab, Inderbir S. Padda, Rajat Bhatt, Mayur S. Parmar

HPD Articles

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A Decade Of Time Series Sampling Reveals Thermal Variation And Shifts In Pseudo-Nitzschia Species Composition That Contribute To Harmful Algal Blooms In An Eastern Us Estuary, Katherine M. Roche, Alexa R. Sterling, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Matthew J. Bertin, Bethany D. Jenkins

Cell and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications

In 2016-17, shellfish harvesting closed for the first time in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA, from domoic acid (DA), a neurotoxin produced by diatoms of the Pseudo-nitzschiagenus. Pseudo-nitzschia have occurred frequently for over 60 years in Narragansett Bay’s Long-Term Plankton Time Series (NBPTS), therefore it is surprising that the first closure only recently occurred. Pseudo-nitzschia species are known to vary in their toxin production, thus species identification is critical for understanding the underlying ecological causes of these harmful algal blooms (HABs). DNA in plankton biomass can be preserved for many years, so molecular barcoding of archived samples is useful …

Unh Library Annual Report, 2022: Return To Campus, University Of New Hampshire Library

Annual Reports and Statistics

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The Impact Of Mandated Physical Fitness Testing On Mental Health, Kourtney Avila

IdeaFest 2022

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City Of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Annual Comprehensive Financial Report For The Year Ended June 30, 2022., Portsmouth Town Representatives

Portsmouth, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Stakeholder Management, Engagement & Identification, Stephen Puopolo

Lean in Higher Education

USNH 2022 Virtual Lean presentation.

“Good Morning Class! Buenos Días Clase!, Haley Fedalizo

Redwood Roots Videos and Resources

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Pacific Banana Slug Habitat Selection Using Occupied And Paired-Random Microhabitat Analysis In The Arcata Community Forest, Rainey Strippelhoff

IdeaFest 2022

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Cancer Care Annual Report 2020-2021, Children's Mercy Kansas City

Cancer Center Annual Reports

Annual report of cancer care and oncology services at the Children's Mercy Kansas City, a pediatric medical center. This year’s report focuses on Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Office For Spiritual And Religious Life End Of Year Report 2021-2022, Lawrence University

Spiritual and Religious Life Annual Reports

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Water Quality Observations From Space: A Review Of Critical Issues And Challenges, Cameron Murray, Albert Larson, Joseph E. Goodwill, Yeqiao Wang, Dawn Cardace, Ali S. Akanda

Geosciences Faculty Publications

Water is the basis of all life on this planet. Yet, approximately one in seven people in the world do not have access to safe water. Water can become unsafe due to contamination by various organic and inorganic compounds due to various natural and anthropogenic processes. Identifying and monitoring water quality changes in space and time remains a challenge, especially when contamination events occur over large geographic areas. This study investigates recent advances in remote sensing that allow us to detect and monitor the unique spectral characteristics of water quality events over large areas. Based on an extensive literature review, …

Variation In Mallard Foraging Strategy In Relation To Group Size, Kyle Rader

IdeaFest 2022

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Nanodisc Assisted Terbinafine Transport Into Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Joshua Chapman, Parker Chapman, Vini Buttino

IdeaFest 2022

No abstract provided.

Human Disturbance Influences The Long-Billed Curlew’S Foraging Behavior (Numenius Americanus), Isaac Rath

IdeaFest 2022

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Characterizing The Genetic Diversity Of Immune Genes In A Non-Native Population Of American Bullfrogs In Humboldt County, California, Angel Klawiter

IdeaFest 2022

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Midwest Intellectual Property Summit, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2022

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held November 17, 2022

20th Annual Family Law Institute, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2022

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held November 3-4, 2022.

Seasonal Variation In Terrestrial Invertebrate Subsidies To Tropical Streams And Implications For The Feeding Ecology Of Hart’S Rivulus (Anablepsoides Hartii), David C. Owens, Thomas N. Heatherly, Kent M. Eskridge, Colden V. Baxter, Steven A. Thomas

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

Terrestrial invertebrates are important subsidies to fish diets, though their seasonal dynamics and importance to tropical stream consumers are particularly understudied. In this year-round study of terrestrial invertebrate input to two Trinidadian headwater streams with different forest canopy densities, we sought to (a) measure the mass and composition of terrestrial inputs with fall-in traps to evaluate the influences of seasonality, canopy cover, and rainfall intensity, and; (b) compare terrestrial and benthic prey importance to Anablepsoides hartii(Hart’s Rivulus), the dominant invertivorous fish in these streams, by concurrently measuring benthic and drifting invertebrate standing stocks and the volume and composition of …

Kryging: Geostatistical Analysis Of Large-Scale Datasets Using Krylov Subspace Methods, Suman Majumder, Yawen Guan, Brian J. Reich, Arvind K. Saibaba

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

Analyzing massive spatial datasets using a Gaussian process model poses computational challenges. This is a problem prevailing heavily in applications such as environmental modeling, ecology, forestry and environmental health. We present a novel approximate inference methodology that uses profile likelihood and Krylov subspace methods to estimate the spatial covariance parameters and makes spatial predictions with uncertainty quantification for point-referenced spatial data. The proposed method, Kryging, applies for both observations on regular grid and irregularly-spaced observations, and for any Gaussian process with a stationary isotropic (and certain geometrically anisotropic) covariance function, including the popular Matérn covariance family. We make use of …

The Interrai Chess Scale Is Comparable To The Palliative Performance Scale In Predicting 90-Day Mortality In A Palliative Home Care Population, Nicole Williams, Kirsten Hermans, Joachim Cohen, Anja Declercq, Ahmed Jakda, James Downar, Dawn M. Guthrie, John P. Hirdes

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: Prognostic accuracy is important throughout all stages of the illness trajectory as it has implications for the timing of important conversations and decisions around care. Physicians often tend to over-estimate prognosis and may under-recognize palliative care (PC) needs. It is therefore essential that all relevant stakeholders have as much information available to them as possible when estimating prognosis.

Aims: The current study examined whether the interRAI Changes in Health, End-Stage Disease, Signs and Symptoms (CHESS) Scale is a good predictor of mortality in a known PC population and to see how it compares to the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) …

How Timing And Authority In Peer Review Impact Stem Students: A Comparative Assessment Of Writing And Critical Thinking In Kinesiology Courses, Joseph Zeccardi, Chi An Emhoff, Claire Williams, Robin Dunn, Additional Author(S)

Interdisciplinary Works

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