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Animal Shelter Management Of Feline Leukemia Virus And Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infections In Cats, Julie Levy, Cynda Crawford, Keegan Spera, E. Susan Amirian, Paola Dezubiria

Diseases and Health

Approximately 5% of cats in animal shelters in the United States test positive for either feline leukemia virus (FeLV) or feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which translates to more than 100,000 positive cats managed by shelters each year. Little is known about the current status of retroviral management in animal shelters, particularly in regions burdened by chronic pet overpopulation and high shelter admissions, such as the southern United States. The purpose of this study was to describe feline retroviral management in Florida shelters. Shelters were surveyed on practices including selection of cats for testing, diagnostic techniques, and outcome options for cats …

Lakota Language Revitalization And The Meaning Of Life, Gabriel Bruguier

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Lakota Language Revitalization and the Meaning of Life

Thesis: Indigenous languages reveal information about that peoples’ conception of the meaning of life.

Notes/working document from a presentation given at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy conference, 2023.

Early American Disabilities Studies: Teaching (And Confronting) Internalized Ableism, Vivian Delchamps

English and Creative Writing | Faculty Scholarship

How might college instructors introduce students to disabled people in an earlier America who expressed negative views about disability? How can we discuss ableism and internalized ableism in the classroom without chastising or shaming?

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Annual Report Of The Officers Of The Town Of Bartlett, New Hampshire, For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2022., Bartlett Town Representatives

Bartlett, NH Annual Reports

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

Town Of Bethlehem, New Hampshire, 2022 Annual Report., Bethlehem Town Representatives

Bethlehem, NH Annual Reports

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

A Unique Killing: Adoptive Parents Who Kill Their Adopted Children; Adopted Children Who Kill Their Adoptive Parents, Karen Greenberg, Daniel Pollack, Ellen Crane, Khaya Eisenberg

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Aquaponics On Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum) Sensory, Quality, And Safety Outcomes, Brittany Kralik, Natalie Nieschwitz, Kevin Neves, Nicholas Zeedyk, Hans Wildschutte, Jonathan Kershaw

Public and Allied Health Faculty Publications

Resource-efficient food production practices are needed to support a sustainable food system. Aquaponics, a system where fish and produce are grown symbiotically in the same water circulating system, minimizes water usage, fertilizer input, and waste production. However, the impact of aquaponics on produce quality is underexplored. We utilize objective testing, descriptive analysis, and consumer acceptance to characterize the impact of aquaponics on tomato quality. Two tomato varieties were grown in an aquaponics system and compared with soil-grown controls across 3 years. Safety was assessed by analyzing coliforms and confirming the absence of Escherichia coli. Weight, texture, color, moisture, titratable …

Practical Study Of Some Antibiotics And Their Effect On Some Pathogenic Bacteria, Fatima Rammadan Abdul, Maysoon K. Abbas, Ihsan A. Raheem, Hanan T. Subhi

Al-Nisour Journal for Medical Sciences

Despite the discovery of many new antibiotics, bacteria over time develop the ability to resist these antibiotics, a total of one hundred and seventy-three samples of different bacterial isolates of bacteria (158 isolates, and 15 isolates are not cultured) were taken from different patients in Iraqi Kurdistan hospitals from May 2021 to September 2021. Bacteria were isolated from a vaginal swab, a urine sample and ear swab samples from two patients with otitis media. Bacterial susceptibility to biofilm formation was examined. An antibiotic susceptibility test was examined for all bacterial isolates for thirty-one antibiotics. Where it was found that out …

State Of New Hampshire Carroll County Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31, 2022, Carroll County Representatives

Carroll County, NH Annual Reports

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

Programme Note: Acting In Good Faith, Tanya Dean

Concert Programmes

No abstract provided.

The Case Of The Missing Device Patents, Or: Why Device Patents Matter, Erika Lietzan, Kristina M.L. Acri, Evan Weidner

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

A company that earns premarket approval of its medical device is entitled to an extension of one patent claiming the device, to make up for some of the time it spent doing premarket research. Yet, surprisingly, a mere thirteen percent of those eligible for this extension (also known as patent term “restoration”) ask for one. In contrast, most drug companies entitled to this same patent extension ask for one. In this Article, we attribute the imbalance largely to differences between the two regulatory frameworks. In brief, because the FDA classifies and regulates devices based on what they do and how …

A Country That Hates The Skin You Wear (2023-2024), Gianna Mcgowan

CPN 101: Remix

This remix example uses poetry to convey information on civil rights activist, Fred Korematsu, who challenged the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans in internment camps in WWII. Alongside the poem is a brief summary statement on Korematsu’s history to contextualize the poem and offer the reader an additional way to engage with the remix.

Local-Scale Impacts Of Water Hyacinth On Water Quality In A Hypereutrophic Lake, J. R. Corman, A. Z. Roegner, Z. Ogari, T. R. Miller, C. M. Aura

School of Natural Resources: Documents and Reviews

No abstract provided.

Breeding Origins Of A Uniquely Regular Migrant Songbird In The Galápagos Islands, Noah Perlut, Logan M. Maxwell, Adrienne Kovach, Patricia Parker, Rosalind B. Renfrew

Biology Department Faculty Works

Little is known about the causes and consequences of alternative pathways flown by long-distance migratory birds. Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) breed in grasslands across northern North America and migrate from their breeding grounds toward the eastern Atlantic Coast and then proceed through the Caribbean to South America. However, a small but regular number of Bobolinks have been recorded on the Galapagos Islands. We collected genetic samples from nine Galapagos Bobolinks and performed double-digest restriction site-associated sequencing. We compared them with samples from seven locations across their breeding distribution to determine their population of origin. Galapagos Bobolinks shared the genetic structure of …

Gut Microbiome Composition Associated With Plasmodium Infection In The Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Sage D. Rohrer, Briana Q. Robertson, Lon M. Chubiz, Patricia G. Parker

Biology Department Faculty Works

Recent expansion of microbiome research has uncovered connections between resident microbial communities and blood parasite risk, establishing the potential for microbial disease treatments such as probiotics in the future. However, this field has largely focused on humans and model organisms, leaving much unknown about how microbial communities might directly or indirectly impact parasite infection in wild populations and non-mammals. To contribute to this knowledge base in wild birds, we collected fecal and blood samples from wild Eurasian tree sparrows (Passer montanus) in the United States to test for associations between blood parasite infection and the gut microbiome. We used a …

Recent Advances In Whiskey Analysis For Authentication, Discrimination, And Quality Control, Chioke A. Okolo, Kieran N. Kilcawley, Christine O'Connor

Articles

In order to safeguard authentic whiskey products from fraudulent or counterfeit practices, high throughput solutions that provide robust, rapid, and reliable solutions are required. The implementation of some analytical strategies is quite challenging or costly in routine analysis. Qualitative screening of whiskey products has been explored, but due to the nonspecificity of the chemical compounds, a more quantitative confirmatory technique is required to validate the result of the whiskey analysis. Hence, combining analytical and chemometric methods has been fundamental in whiskey sample differentiation and classification. A comprehensive update on the most relevant and current analytical techniques, including spectroscopic, chromatographic, and …

2022/2023 Lrsp: Eleanor Rideout, Eleanor Rideout

Library Research Scholars Program

Throughout history, life narratives have fueled and supported social movements through testimony and counter-narrative on the part of the author (Schaffer & Smith, 2004) and narrative empathy on the part of the reader (Keen, 2006). Narrative empathy invests individuals in a cause, and can serve as the basis for readers’ later involvement in social movements (Keen, 2006). These concepts of life narrative form an interesting connection with comics theory, which suggests that the form engages readers in unique ways through character identification, subjective reading, and closure. In connecting these ideas, this study explores how the medium of comics can be …

Overexpression Of Abcc1 And Abcg2 Confers Resistance To Bmn-673, A Poly (Adp-Ribose) Polymerase (Parp) Inhibitors, Qiuxu Teng

Theses and Dissertations

Cancer remains a growing public health challenge worldwide. Although the development of chemotherapies has effectively reduced the cancer death rate and improved patients’ prognosis, the frequent occurrence of multi-drug resistance (MDR) in cancer has caused impairments on the efficacy of many structure-unrelated anticancer agents, leading to treatment failure and recurrence. One of the most common causes of MDR is the overexpression of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters on cancer cell membranes, which transport anticancer drugs out of cancer cells, thereby reducing the intracellular drug concentration. BMN-673 (talazoparib) is a potent poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor that is approved for BRCA-mutated HER2-negative …

Gating And Pathogenic Mechanism Of Polycystin Ion Channels, Yan Wang

Theses and Dissertations

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), one of the most common and life-threatening human genetic diseases, is caused by mutations in PKD1 or PKD2 genes. PKD1 gene encodes PKD1 (also known as polycystin-1 or PC1) protein, which are the founding members of the PKD1 proteins family; while PKD2 encodes TRPP2 (also known as polycystin-2 or PC2) protein, the founding member of the TRPP subfamily. PKD1 family consists of PKD1, PKD1L1, PKD1L2, PKD1L3, and PKDREJ. Whereas the TRPP subfamily includes: TRPP2, TRPP3, and TRPP5. Proteins in PKD1 and TRPP families are collectively called polycystins. TRPP proteins can either form homotetrameric ion …

Mancozeb Exposure Results In Oxidative Stress And Disruption Of Mitochondrial Complexes Iii & Iv In Transformed Human Colon Cells, Amanda Dhaneshwar

Theses and Dissertations

The ethylene bisdithiocarbamate pesticides, a subclass of the dithiocarbamate pesticides, are broad spectrum organometallic fungicides used on a variety of crops. The fungicide Mancozeb is comprised of an ethylene bisdithiocarbamate backbone complexed to the metals manganese and zinc. Ingestion of food containing pesticide residue and occupational exposure are common routes of Mancozeb exposure. Previous work demonstrated that Mancozeb exposure to HT-29 colon cancer cells resulted in cytotoxicity, apoptosis, and disruption of mitochondrial complex I, II, and V activity. The current study investigated the effect of Mancozeb exposure on mitochondrial complex III and IV activity and oxidative stress parameters in the …

Measurement Of Desmosine By Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry And Its Application To Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Michael Fagiola

Theses and Dissertations

The mechanical properties of lung elastic fibers are derived from the specialized features of their core elastin protein, which contains distensible, coiled peptides that store the energy needed to expel air from the lungs. Elastin crosslinks provide structural support for the fibers and play an important role in determining the morphologic features of the lung. Degradation of elastic fibers in lung disease is associated with the release of desmosine, a unique amino acid that can be readily identified and quantified in body fluids and solid tissue using LC–MS-MS. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of desmosine …

The Unstoppable Anthropocene Engine: Animal Studies In Literature And The Lack Of Individual Animal Study, Paul Spampanato

Theses and Dissertations

Animal studies is a growing field in the Humanities and, in particular, Literature studies. This dissertation, The Unstoppable Anthropocene Engine, focuses on canonical literature of the fin de siècle and Modernist eras that utilize animals in their narratives. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood are the literary texts examined throughout the dissertation to discuss the importance of looking at specific animals that represent particular groups. Through these novels and poem, readers will see that when we …

The Monsters And Their Racial Identities In Frankenstein And The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, Sara N. Rodia

Theses and Dissertations

By examining the monsters through a racial lens in Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, this thesis aims to show how the creature and Hyde can be reflective of the racial stereotypes in Britain in the 19th century. This thesis maps out how the monsters in the novels embody nonwhite races and how the narrative can either keep them in the category of monster, or humanize them. The creature represents nonwhite races, and Shelley critiques racist ideologies of the early 19th century through the creature’s narration in the novel. Further, Shelley demonstrates the monstrous nature …

Gender, Sex, And The Body In Medieval Armenia, Ashley Bozian

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates textual representation of the body, gender, and sexuality in Armenian chronicles produced between the fifth and eleventh centuries CE. In so doing, it reconstructs the development of Armenian somatology between Zoroastrian and Islamic suzerainties. Specifically, the dissertation examines the modalities by which the body functioned to medieval Armenian cognition as the locus of identity and alterity through the deployment of such devices as the following, to each of which is devoted a chapter: masculinity, femininity, archetypes of sexual morality, legislation of sexual conduct, sexual experientiality (in both temporal and eschatological dimensions), anatomy, and violence. As such, the …

Graduate Catalog Of Studies, 2022-2023, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Graduate School Catalog of Studies

No abstract provided.

Environmental Surveillance For Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes Scapularis) Across An Urban-Rural Gradient In West Michigan, William L. Miller, Sophia M. Bieri, An Vu, Audrey Luce, Erica Boldenow, Meghan May, Jean Tsao

Summer Research

The blacklegged tick is an emerging species of ticks (Family: Ixodidae) in Michigan and is the primary vector for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The range of the blacklegged tick has increased in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan over the past 20 years, expanding northward along the lakeshore and inland in southern portions of the state. The number of human cases has increased 5-fold over the same timeframe, facilitated by the expansion of blacklegged tick populations.

Carolyn Wilson Digital Collections Content Policy, Lipscomb University

Policies and Forms

No abstract provided.

Editorial: Physiology In Extreme Conditions: Adaptations And Unexpected Reactions, Volume Ii., Maria G Trivella, Enrico Capobianco, Antonio L'Abbate

Faculty Research 2023

No abstract provided.

Whole Genome Resequencing Reveals Genetic Diversity And Selection Signatures Of Ethiopian Indigenous Cattle Adapted To Local Environments, Endashaw Terefe, Gurja Belay, Abdulfatai Tijjani, Jianlin Han, Oliver Hanotte

Faculty Research 2023

Cattle are among the most important domesticated bovid species in the world, of which Ethiopia possesses large populations adapted to different agro-ecologies and production systems. Though several molecular population genetic studies have been done on Ethiopian indigenous cattle, genomic diversity and selection signatures pertinent to adaptation to the different local environments have yet to be comprehensively characterized. Here, the whole genome sequences of 151 samples from 14 Ethiopian indigenous cattle populations were analyzed to assess genomic diversity and differentiation as well as signatures of positive selection (using Hp, iHS, FST, and XP-CLR) in comparison to Sudanese zebu, Asian zebu, Ankole, …

L-Cysteine Ethyl Ester Prevents And Reverses Acquired Physical Dependence On Morphine In Male Sprague Dawley Rats., James N Bates, Paulina M Getsy, Gregory A Coffee, Santhosh M Baby, Peter M Macfarlane, Yee-Hsee Hsieh, Zackery T Knauss, Jason A. Bubier, Devin Mueller, Stephen J Lewis

Faculty Research 2023

The molecular mechanisms underlying the acquisition of addiction/dependence on morphine may result from the ability of the opioid to diminish the transport of L-cysteine into neurons via inhibition of excitatory amino acid transporter 3 (EAA3). The objective of this study was to determine whether the co-administration of the cell-penetrant L-thiol ester, L-cysteine ethyl ester (L-CYSee), would reduce physical dependence on morphine in male Sprague Dawley rats. Injection of the opioid-receptor antagonist, naloxone HCl (NLX; 1.5 mg/kg, IP), elicited pronounced withdrawal phenomena in rats which received a subcutaneous depot of morphine (150 mg/kg) for 36 h and were receiving a continuous …