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Seeing Light From A Different Angle: The Effects Of Diffuse Light Environments On The Function, Structure, And Growth Of Tomato Plants, Kendra B.L. Ellertson, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Z. Carter Berry

RURALS: Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences

While considerable attention has been paid to how plants respond to changes in the spectral distribution, less attention has been paid to how plants respond to changes in the angular qualities of light. Evidence from both leaf- and ecosystem-scale measurements indicate that plants vary in their response to diffuse compared to direct light growing environments. Because of the significant implications for agricultural production, we quantified how changes in the angular quality of light affect the structure, function, and growth of Roma tomatoes in a greenhouse experiment with direct and diffuse light treatments. Diffuse light conditions (ca. 50-60% diffuse) were created …

Highlights Of The 2021 Brano Heart Failure Forum, Rajko Radovancevic, Bojan Vrtovec, Igor D. Gregoric

The VAD Journal

Since 2007, the Branislav “Brano” Radovancevic Heart Failure Forum has been held annually to provide a venue for experts to present and discuss “Innovations and New Treatment Strategies in Heart Failure.” Clinicians and researchers gather yearly in a different Eastern European city to discuss the latest in heart failure diagnostics and therapeutics. The forum was postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then resumed in September of 2021 in Graz, Austria. It was attended by over 75 faculty from 13 countries. Due to the ongoing pandemic, 13 presentations were given virtually. Throughout the forum, 17 separate sessions focused …

Delivering, Rylee Betchkal

Exile

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Contributors

Exile

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القضاء على العوامل التي تمنع طلاب كلية اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية من التحدث داخل فصول اللغة, بلال علي برهان

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تعتبر المهارة اللفظية في اللغة الأجنبية مهمة في اكتساب اللغة ، لذلك فهي تعتبر من المهارات المهمة التي يجب على المتعلمين إتقانها في مختلف المراحل الابتدائية أو الثانوية أو المتقدمة. تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى تقليل العوامل التي تمنع المتعلمين العراقيين الذين يتعلمون اللغة الإنجليزية (كلغة أجنبية) من التحدث واستخدام اللغة في الفصل.

• · لاتوجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين المتوسطين الحسابية للطلاب الذين درسوا الاستيعاب القرائي باستخدام تقنية العصف الذهني ؤالمناقشة ؤالمناظرة عن الطلاب الذين درسوا بالطريقة التقليدية.
• § لاتوجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين المتوسطين الحسابية للطلاب (العينة التجريبية) في الاختبار القبلي ؤالبعدي.

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التحليل الهيدرولوجي لحوض بحر الملح وهور ابو دبس في بحيره الرزازة (دراسة مقارنه), م.د جوان سمين احمد الجاف

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تعد دراسة التحليل الهيدرولوجي لهور ابو دبس وبحر الملح ضمن الامتداد المكاني لبحيره الرزازة والواقعة ضمن الاقاليم الطبيعية (الفيز وغرافيه للعراق) لذا جاء اختيار موضوع البحث التحليل الهيدرولوجي لهذين المنخفضين (دراسة مقارنه) لما له من اهميه اقتصاديه كبرى ودرء خطر الفيضان عن المدن العراقية. فَـ بدأت اثار الجفاف تظهر على بحيره الرزازة متمثلة بتقلص مساحه المسطح المائي جراء انخفاض حصتها المائية كما توصلت الدراسة الى تأثير الظروف المناخية التي ادت الى تغيرات حاصله في الخصائص الفيزيائية والكيميائية لهذه البيئة المائية فضلاً عن استخدام مياه بزل كربلاء الشمالي لكونه مصدر لتغذيه هور ابو دبس من الجهة الجنوبية الشرقية من بحيره الرزازة …

From The Atomic Bomb To Covid-19; The Ethical Responsibility Of Scientists: A Thematic Study In Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Physicists, م.سعاد حسين علي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

من القنبلة النووية الى كوفد تسعة عشر: المسؤولية الاخلاقية للعلماء: دراسة موضوعاتية في مسرحية فردرك دورمانت (الفيزيائيون)

عندما نفكر بالمسؤولية الاخلاقية الواقعة على عاتق العلماء, يتبادر الى الذهن احد الاعمال الادبية للكاتب السويدي فردرك دورمانت (الفيزيائيون) والتي كتبت في وقت اختراع القنبلة النووية . ناقشت المسرحية موضوع الصراع الانساني فيما يخص التطور العلمي وعلاقته بالمسؤولية الاخلاقية للعلماء. والان وتحت تأثير التفشي الحالي لوباء كوفد تسعة عشر عادت نفس القضايا والتساؤلات لتطرح نفسها بقوة خاصة بوجود النظرية التي تدعي بتصنيع وتطوير هذا الفايروس في المختبرات من قبل العلماء لغرض السيطرة على العالم كما حدث عند اختراع القنبلة النووية. تسلط هذه الدراسة …

The Effect Of Peer Tutoring Technique On Iraqi Efl College Students’ Performance In Reading Comprehension, Shamma Mustafa Hameed (Ph.D.).

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يعد الفهم القرائي من المهارات الأساسية في تعلم اللغة و الصعبة الاتقان في الوقت ذاته . وإتقان مهارة الفهم القرائي في اللغة الإنجليزية هي من أولويات متعلمي اللغة الانكليزية كلغة الأجنبية ولذلك هدف البحث الحالي إلى معرفة تأثير استخدام تدريس الإقران كأسلوب تعليمي على أداء متعلمي اللغة الإنجليزية كلغة أجنبية في الفهم القرائي.

افترضت الدراسة الحالية عدم وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين متوسط درجات الأداء للمجموعة التجريبية الذين يدرسون مهارة الفهم القرائي باستخدام تقنية تعليم الأقران عن المجموعة الضابطة التي تدرس بالطريقة التقليدية. تتألف عينة هذه الدراسة من طلاب المرحلة الثانية / قسم اللغة الإنجليزية / كلية الآداب خلال …

The Ecology And Evolution Of Species Rarity In Oaks (Quercus Spp.), Yingtong Wu

Dissertations

Rare species are susceptible to extinction due to ecological and genetic factors. Understanding the distribution, ecology, and evolution of rare species can provide useful information for effective conservation. To investigate species rarity, this dissertation focuses on a species-rich and ecologically diverse genus, Quercus (oaks). In Chapter 1, I aimed to understand how interactions between hosts and soil microbes contribute to habitat restriction in oak species. I performed a soil inoculum experiment on two pairs of sister oak species that show habitat divergence. I found that host-specific soil microbes contribute to habitat divergence and exclusion among sister species of oaks, but …

Transcriptomics-Based Network Medicine Approach Identifies Metformin As A Repurposable Drug For Atrial Fibrillation, Jessica C. Lal, Chengsheng Mao, Yadi Zhou, Shamone R. Gore-Panter, Julie H. Rennison, Beth S. Lovano, Et. Al

Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications

Effective drugs for atrial fibrillation (AF) are lacking, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. This study demonstrates that network proximity analysis of differentially expressed genes from atrial tissue to drug tar-gets can help prioritize repurposed drugs for AF. Using enrichment analysis of drug-gene signatures and functional testing in human inducible pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived atrial-like cardiomyocytes, we identify metformin as a top repurposed drug candidate for AF. Using the active compactor, a new design analysis of large-scale longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) data, we determine that metformin use is significantly associated with a reduced risk of AF (odds ratio = …

Faculty Senate Minutes 2022-10-18, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Unh Receives Grant To Study Atlantic Cod, Common Terns In Warming Gulf Of Maine, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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A Long-Term Vision For An Ecologically Sound Platte River, Andrew J. Caven, Melissa M. Mosier, Kristal Stoner, Bill Taddicken, Brice Krohn, Ashley Gramza, Craig R. Allen, Mike Carter, Michelle Koch, Kirk D. Schroeder, Sarah Bailey, Rich Walters, Brian C. Chaffin, Erica Gnuse, Amy Jones, Kate Bird

Zea E-Books Collection

The Platte River extends about 310 mi (499 km) from North Platte, Nebraska, to its terminus at the Missouri River confluence near Plattsmouth, Nebraska. The Platte River Valley is a continentally significant ecosystem that serves as a major stopover for migratory waterbirds in the Central Flyway including the endangered Whooping Crane (Grus americana) and >1 million Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis) at the peak of spring migration. However, the Platte River Valley also supports a great diversity of avifauna including grassland breeding birds, native stream fish, vascular plants, herpetofauna, mammals, pollinators, and aquatic macroinvertebrates. Despite ongoing conservation …

Computational Simulations Of The Effects Of Gravity On Lymphatic Transport, Huabing Li, Huajian Wei, Timothy P. Padera, James W. Baish, Lance L. Munn

Faculty Journal Articles

Physical forces, including mechanical stretch, fluid pressure, and shear forces alter lymphatic vessel contractions and lymph flow. Gravitational forces can affect these forces, resulting in altered lymphatic transport, but the mechanisms involved have not been studied in detail. Here, we combine a lattice Boltzmann-based fluid dynamics computational model with known lymphatic mechanobiological mechanisms to investigate the movement of fluid through a lymphatic vessel under the effects of gravity that may either oppose or assist flow. Regularly spaced, mechanical bi-leaflet valves in the vessel enforce net positive flow as the vessel walls contract autonomously in response to calcium and nitric oxide …

October 18, 2022 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Nanoparticles And Nanogel Drug Compositions For Treatment Of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Vijaykumar Bhadabhai Sutariya, Priyanka Sureshbhai Bhatt, Vipul B. Amin, Srinivas M. Tipparaju

USF Patents

Disclosed are nanoparticles and nanogel drug compositions and the use thereof for treating age-related macular degeneration.

A Virtue-Ethical Approach To Cultured Meat, Carlo Alvaro

Publications and Research

The proposed benefits of cultured meat fail to track our moral intuitions because they are focused on the practical aspect of cultured meat production and consumption. A virtue-oriented approach can show cultured meat in a different light.

A Numerical And Machine Learning Investigation Of Water Quality In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, From Estuaries To Shelf, Yanda Ou

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In this study, numerical and machine learning (ML) models are developed and adapted to investigate the water quality of the Barataria Estuary and the Louisiana-Texas (LaTex) Shelf in northern Gulf of Mexico. By using a 3-D hydrodynamic ROMS model, the salinity variability of the Barataria Estuary is found highly influenced by the Mississippi River discharges and man-made river diversion systems. The Mississippi River freshwater can intrude into the estuary through the middle and the east passes. Sensitivity tests indicate that decreases in lower estuarine salinity due to the elevated Mississippi River discharges are more apparent than the salinity increases due …

Prenatal Exposure To Maternal Social Disadvantage And Psychosocial Stress And Neonatal White Matter Connectivity At Birth, Rachel E Lean, Christopher D Smyser, Rebecca G Brady, Regina L Triplett, Sydney Kaplan, Jeanette K Kenley, Joshua S Shimony, Tara A Smyser, J Phillip Miller, Deanna M Barch, Joan L Luby, Barbara B Warner, Cynthia E Rogers

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Early life adversity (social disadvantage and psychosocial stressors) is associated with altered microstructure in fronto-limbic pathways important for socioemotional development. Understanding when these associations begin to emerge may inform the timing and design of preventative interventions. In this longitudinal study, 399 mothers were oversampled for low income and completed social background measures during pregnancy. Measures were analyzed with structural equation analysis resulting in two latent factors: social disadvantage (education, insurance status, income-to-needs ratio [INR], neighborhood deprivation, and nutrition) and psychosocial stress (depression, stress, life events, and racial discrimination). At birth, 289 healthy term-born neonates underwent a diffusion MRI (dMRI) scan. …

Focus, 2022, Summer, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Conference Proceedings: Select Abstracts Presented At Advocate Aurora Scientific Day 2022

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

The abstracts published in this supplement were presented at the 48th annual Advocate Aurora Scientific Day on May 25, 2022. This scholarly symposium provides a closed forum for sharing preliminary results from research studies conducted by faculty physicians and nurses, fellows, residents, scientists, and other health professionals associated with U.S. Midwest-based health system Advocate Aurora Health, publisher of the Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews.

Daphnia As A Sentinel Species For Environmental Health Protection: A Perspective On Biomonitoring And Bioremediation Of Chemical Pollution, Muhammad Abdullahi, Xiaojing Li, Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah, William Stubbings, Norman Yan, Marianne Barnard, Liang-Hong Guo, John K Colbourne, Luisa Orsini

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Despite available technology and the knowledge that chemical pollution damages human and ecosystem health, chemical pollution remains rampant, ineffectively monitored, rarely prevented, and only occasionally mitigated. We present a framework that helps address current major challenges in the monitoring and assessment of chemical pollution by broadening the use of the sentinel species Daphnia as a diagnostic agent of water pollution. And where prevention has failed, we propose the application of Daphnia as a bioremediation agent to help reduce hazards from chemical mixtures in the environment. By applying “omics” technologies to Daphnia exposed to real-world ambient chemical mixtures, we show improvements …

Translingual And Translational Practices As Rhetorical Care Technologies In Covid-19 Recovery, Soyeon Lee

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization

Drawing from an ethnographic study with Korean-speaking language minority communities in an urban metropolitan area in the United Sates, this study illuminates how multilingual transnational community workers and members cope with disaster recovery–specific technologies in the aftermath of COVID-19. Networking studies on language and cultural differences and studies on care rhetorics in feminist science and technology studies, this study examines how language minorities enact translingual and translational activities as care practices. By attending to racial, linguistic, and cultural differences and unequal power structures, this study identifies four emerging findings: 1) developing translingual attunements; 2) cultivating transmodal attunements; 3) producing translational …

Building Coalitions To Support Indigenous Language Speakers During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Erika Hernández Cuevas, Laura J. Gonzales

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization

While the work of language access is ongoing and has been taking place for a long time in various contexts, language access efforts often ignore Indigenous communities. As such, more interventions are needed to recognize how health-related messaging needs to be adapted not only across languages, but across worldviews. In this article, a technical communication scholar and Spanish-English translator and a Chinateco-Spanish translator, interpreter, and activist from the Municipio de San Pedro Yolox discuss their work to foster language access during the COVID-19 pandemic for and with Indigenous language speakers in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico, and Gainesville, Florida, USA. Through …

Tennessee Historically Black Colleges & Universities Success Strategic Plan 2022-2025, Tennessee. Higher Education Commission.

Miscellaneous Reports

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Fabricating 3-Dimensional Human Brown Adipose Microtissues For Transplantation Studies, Ou Wang, Li Han, Haishuang Lin, Mingmei Tian, Shuyang Zhang, Bin Duan, Soonkyu Chung, Chi Zhang, Xiaojun Lian, Yong Wang, Yuguo Lei

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Faculty Publications

Transplanting cell cultured brown adipocytes (BAs) represents a promising approach to prevent and treat obesity (OB) and its associated metabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, transplanted BAs have a very low survival rate in vivo. The enzymatic dissociation during the harvest of fully differentiated BAs also loses significant cells. There is a critical need for novel methods that can avoid cell death during cell preparation, transplantation, and in vivo. Here, we reported that preparing BAs as injectable microtissues could overcome the problem. We found that 3D culture promoted BA differentiation and UCP-1 expression, and the optimal initial …

The Cod And The Tern, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Should Health Systems Share Genetic Findings With At-Risk Relatives When The Proband Is Deceased? Interviews With Individuals Diagnosed With Lynch Syndrome, Jessica Ezzell Hunter, Jennifer L. Schneider, Alison J. Firemark, James V. Davis, Sara Gille, Pamala A. Pawloski, Su-Ying Liang, Victoria Schlieder, Alanna Kulchak Rahm

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: Genetic information has health implications for patients and their biological relatives. Death of a patient before sharing a genetic diagnosis with at-risk relatives is a missed opportunity to provide important information that could guide interventions to minimize cancer-related morbidity and mortality in relatives.

Methods: We performed semi-structured interviews with individuals diagnosed with Lynch syndrome at 1 of 4 health systems to explore their perspectives on whether health systems should share genetic risk information with relatives following a patient’s death. An inductive, open-coding approach was used to analyze audio-recorded content, with software-generated code reports undergoing iterative comparative analysis by a …

A Holistic Investigation Of Acidosis In Breast Cancer, Bryce Ordway

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the early 20th century, Nobel laureate Otto Warburg made the observation that cells of a carcinoma had considerably higher glycolytic metabolism and considerably lower oxidative metabolism compared to cells of a normal tissue. He postulated that within this observation was the key to deciphering the differences between malignant and normal tissue. It is now well established that tumors of the breast are unequivocally acidic, caused by an abnormal amount of aerobic glycolysis, colloquially known as the Warburg effect. Over the last decades, our group, led by Dr. Robert J. Gillies, has set out to characterize the causes and consequences …

Molecular Mechanisms Of Diverse Auxin Responses During Plant Growth And Development, Yang Zhang, Jiajie Yu, Xiuyue Xu, Ruiqi Wang, Yingying Liu, Shan Huang, Hairong Wei, Zhigang Wei

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

The plant hormone auxin acts as a signaling molecule to regulate numerous developmental processes throughout all stages of plant growth. Understanding how auxin regulates various physiological and developmental processes has been a hot topic and an intriguing field. Recent studies have unveiled more molecular details into how diverse auxin responses function in every aspect of plant growth and development. In this review, we systematically summarized and classified the molecular mechanisms of diverse auxin responses, and comprehensively elaborated the characteristics and multilevel regulation mechanisms of the canonical transcriptional auxin response. On this basis, we described the characteristics and differences between different …