Dynamics Of Co2 Consumption, And Biomass And Lipid Carbon Production During Photobioreactor Cultivation Of The Diatom Cyclotella, Altan Özkan

Turkish Journal of Botany

Understanding of CO₂ delivery and consumption dynamics in algal photobioreactors are critical to unravel microalgae?s full potential for bioproduct generation and carbon capture from flue gas streams. This study aims to expand our current understanding by cultivating the diatom Cyclotella under controlled process conditions of a bubble column photobioreactor and analyzing CO₂ consumption dynamics in real time using results from an online CO₂ sensor connected to the reactor exhaust. Two sets of experiments were conducted: they served to contrast the influence of silicon and nitrate (Si&N colimitation) and Si limitation, and the light availability, respectively. CO2 consumption …

Hplc-Uv Analysis Of Phenolic Compounds And Biological Activities Of Padina Pavonica And Zanardinia Typus Marine Macroalgae Species, Hati̇ce Banu Keski̇nkaya, Ebru Deveci̇, Bahar Yilmaz Altinok, Numan Emre Gümüş, Emi̇ne Şükran Okudan Aslan, Cengi̇z Akköz, Serdar Karakurt

Turkish Journal of Botany

The marine macroalgae species are recognized as the food of the future with excellent bioactive properties. This study aimed to investigate phenolic compounds; cytotoxic, antibacterial, and antioxidant activities; total phenolic (TPC) and flavonoid (TFC) contents of the methanol, ethanol, and water extracts of Padina pavonica (PP) and Zanardinia typus (ZT). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report in which ZT was evaluated in terms of phenolic content, antioxidant, antibacterial, and cytotoxic activities. The HPLC analysis allowed the identification of five phenolic compounds containing rutin (0.31 ± 0.04 ? 3.00 ± 0.21 ppm) in all extracts and …

Moments Of Excess: Type 1 Diabetes And The Myth Of Control In Adolescent Fiction For Girls, Michelle E. Legault

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis is the first academic work to analyze the stories of the Type 1 diabetic teen girls of adolescent fiction. In novels for adolescent readers, these girls are often White, female, heterosexual, and middle class—resulting in a collective disability narrative that portrays an “every girl” and lacks cultural or political dimensions. This thesis explores the narratives of five fictional teen protagonists with Type 1 diabetes. They are: Stacey McGill from the Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin, Rachel Deering in Lurlene McDaniel’s Will I Ever Dance Again? (1982), Mackenzie “Zie” Clark in Sarah White’s Let Me List the …

Comparison Of Mediterranean Diet Adherence Across Scoring Systems In U.S. Adults, Meghan Pendleton

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The Mediterranean diet is characterized by high intake of fruits, vegetables, legumes, olive oil, and seafood; moderate intake of dairy, lean proteins, and alcohol; and low intake of red meat and sweets. This pattern consistently correlates with health benefits in epidemiological research, which uses numerous scoring systems to measure diet adherence. No withinpopulation system comparisons have been conducted in the U.S. to understand how differences in system constructs may impact adherence measurement. This study used food intake data from a U.S. sample of 72 older adults to calculate scores with the Alternative Mediterranean Diet Scale, Mediterranean Diet Scale, Pyramid-Based Mediterranean …

Prediction Of Kinase-Substrate Associations Using The Functional Landscape Of Kinases And Phosphorylation Sites, Serhan Yilmaz, Filipa Blasco Tavares Pereira Lopes, Mark R. Chance, Mehmet Koyutürk

Faculty Scholarship

Protein phosphorylation is a key post-translational modification that plays a central role in many cellular processes. With recent advances in biotechnology, thousands of phosphorylated sites can be identified and quantified in a given sample, enabling proteome-wide screening of cellular signaling. However, for most (> 90%) of the phosphorylation sites that are identified in these experiments, the kinase(s) that target these sites are unknown. To broadly utilize available structural, functional, evolutionary, and contextual information in predicting kinase-substrate associations (KSAs), we develop a network-based machine learning framework. Our framework integrates a multitude of data sources to characterize the landscape of functional relationships …

Streamlining The Postpartum Educational Process For Safe And Equitable Patient Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Shea N. Cook

Master's Theses and Capstones

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Postpartum discharge education is essential in the care of mothers, newborns, and their families as they transition from the hospital setting to home. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services has identified postpartum discharge education content as a public health priority to reduce physical and mood-related postpartum complications. Over half of all serious morbidity and mortality complications occur after a postpartum patient leaves the hospital. It is essential that hospitals utilize the best evidence-based practices to maximize the impact of patient education during maternity care in the hospital.

LOCAL PROBLEM:

Within the given microsystem there is a …

Performance Of Phytase-Treated Fishmeal-Free And All-Plant Protein Diets In Pond Production Of Market Sized Hybrid Striped Bass, Bartholomew W. Green, Steven D. Rawles, T. Gibson Gaylord, Kevin K. Schrader, Matthew E. Mcentire, Carl D. Webster

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

We determined if ideal protein (IP) fishmeal-free (FMF) or all-plant protein (PP) diets of available ingredients satisfied production needs of hybrid striped bass (HSB; Morone chrysops x M. saxatilis) grown to market size in ponds managed according to industry practices, and if phytase (Phy) superdosing (20,000 FTUs) could alleviate inorganic phosphorus supplementation. An off-the-shelf commercial feed (COM), an IP control diet containing 16% fishmeal (FM), and four IP test diets with or without phytase superdosing (FMF, FMF + Phy, PP, PP + Phy) were evaluated. Inorganic phosphorus was excluded from phytase treated diets. Hybrid striped bass (averaging 344 …

A Comparison Of Barriers To Traditional And Home-Based Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Participation: Potential Implications For The Maintenance Phase, Erin Rose Madison

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Cardiac rehabilitation provides medically supervised therapeutic exercise and multifaceted risk factor modification as a form of secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease, a persistent leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and internationally. Despite robust evidence of compelling patient outcomes, decreased disease recurrence, and the indications from the ACC/AHA endorsing phase II cardiac rehabilitation (CR) as a crucial aspect of recovery from cardiac events and qualifying conditions, CR is widely underutilized. A variety of patient barriers can serve as mitigating factors to CR referral, enrollment, participation, and completion contributing to, in part, the underutilization of CR. Barriers to …

Variation In Body Composition In Deer Mice: The Biogeography And Ecophysiology Of Energy Allocation, Cole Joseph Wolf

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Body composition, the percent of lean and fat mass, is a snapshot of an individual’s energetic state at a moment in time. Wild organisms should allocate energy to optimize fitness, so tracking changes in body composition provides a window into how priorities may shift throughout the year or across environments. While seasonal variation in body composition is wellcharacterized in systems such migrating birds (Scott et al. 1994) and hibernating mammals (Hellgren 1998), much less is known about how this trait varies across species ranges and thus how organisms modify their body composition and to meet local environmental challenges. For my …

Impact Of Hvfr Loading Concentrations On Its Viscoelastic Properties And Proppant Transport Performance, Ghith Biheri, Shari Dunn Norman, Abdulmohsin Imqam

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In unconventional reservoirs, increasing the low formation conductivities through hydraulic fracturing may substantially increase oil production from wells. This work of improving the fracture conductivity could be conducted by distributing and transporting proppant within the fracture lengths using high fracture fluid concentrations. This research focused on three areas. First, it assessed the fluid rheology including the viscosity and elasticity of a high viscosity friction reducer (HVFR) and linear guar using deionized (DI) water at different fluid concentrations (i.e., 2, 4, and 8 gpt for the HVFR and 15, 25, and 35 ppt for linear guar), and measured the impact of …

The Code^Shift Model: A Data Justice Framework For Collective Impact And Social Transformation, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Mohan Dutta

Media Studies - Open-Access Faculty Scholarship

In this article, we present an alternative framework that resists hegemonic social sciences within data-driven communication theorizing through a culture-centered approach (CCA). Building on the CCA in co-creating voice infrastructures at the margins, we argue that data justice requires transforming interpretive data framings, disrupting the hegemonic registers of knowledge production constituted around data, and working with/through data to challenge the structures of capitalism and colonialism that circulate the practices of exploitation and extraction. We build upon community-engaged projects emergent from the CCA in/with/from the Global South to propose the CODE^SHIFT Model, grounded in principles of equity-mindedness, collective impact, purposiveness, and …

The Short- And Long-Term Readmission Of Four Major Categories Of Digestive System Cancers: Does Obesity Or Metabolic Disorder Matter?, Yan Li, Xiaoqin Wu, Yongfeng Song, Peipei Wang, Bofei Zhang, Bingzhou Guo, Ziwei Liu, Yafei Wu, Shanshan Shao, Yiping Cheng, Honglin Guo, Xiude Fan, Jiajun Zhao

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: Patients with digestive system cancers (DSCs) are at a high risk for hospitalizations; however, the risk factors for readmission remain unknown. Here, we established a retrospective cohort study to assess the association between metabolic obesity phenotypes and readmission risks of DSC.

Experimental design: A total of 142,753 and 74,566 patients at index hospitalization were ultimately selected from the Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) 2018 to establish the 30-day and 180-day readmission cohorts, respectively. The study population was classified into four groups: metabolically healthy non-obese (MHNO), metabolically healthy obese (MHO), metabolically unhealthy non-obese (MUNO), and metabolically unhealthy obese (MUO). Multivariate Cox …

Distinct Patterns Of Auto-Reactive Antibodies Associated With Organ-Specific Immune-Related Adverse Events, Mehmet Altan, Quan-Zhen Li, Qi Wang, Natalie I Vokes, Ajay Sheshadri, Jianjun Gao, Chengsong Zhu, Hai T Tran, Saumil Gandhi, Mara B Antonoff, Stephen Swisher, Jing Wang, Lauren A Byers, Noha Abdel-Wahab, Maria C Franco-Vega, Yinghong Wang, J Jack Lee, Jianjun Zhang, John V Heymach

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

UNLABELLED: The roles of preexisting auto-reactive antibodies in immune-related adverse events (irAEs) associated with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy are not well defined. Here, we analyzed plasma samples longitudinally collected at predefined time points and at the time of irAEs from 58 patients with immunotherapy naïve metastatic non-small cell lung cancer treated on clinical protocol with ipilimumab and nivolumab. We used a proteomic microarray system capable of assaying antibody reactivity for IgG and IgM fractions against 120 antigens for systemically evaluating the correlations between auto-reactive antibodies and certain organ-specific irAEs. We found that distinct patterns of auto-reactive antibodies at baseline were …

Integrating Comorbidity Knowledge For Alzheimer's Disease Drug Repurposing Using Multi-Task Graph Neural Network, Ko-Hong Lin, Kang-Lin Hsieh, Xiaoqian Jiang, Yejin Kim

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a multifactorial disease that shares common etiologies with its multiple comorbidities, especially vascular diseases. To predict repurposable drugs for AD utilizing the relatively well-investigated comorbidities' knowledge, we proposed a multi-task graph neural network (GNN)-based pipeline that incorporates the corresponding biomedical interactome of these diseases with their genetic markers and effective therapeutics. Our pipeline can accurately capture the interactions and disease classification in the network. Next, we predicted drugs that might interact with the AD module by the node embedding similarity. Our candidates are mostly BBB permeable, and literature evidence showed their potential for treating AD pathologies, …

School-Based Intervention Impacts Availability Of Vegetables And Beverages In Participants’ Homes, Erin A Hudson, Marissa Burgermaster, Sophia M Isis, Matthew R Jeans, Sarvenaz Vandyousefi, Matthew J Landry, Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Joya Chandra, Jaimie Davis

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

As rates of metabolic syndrome rise, children consume too few vegetables and too much added sugar. Because children tend to eat what is available at home, the home environment plays a key role in shaping dietary habits. This secondary analysis evaluated the effects of a school-based gardening, cooking, and nutrition education intervention (TX Sprouts) compared to control on the availability of vegetables, fruit juice, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) at home. In the TX Sprouts cluster-randomized trial, 16 schools were randomized to TX Sprouts (

Data Mining Pipeline For Covid-19 Vaccine Safety Analysis Using A Large Electronic Health Record, Yan Huang, Xiaojin Li, Deepa Dongarwar, Hulin Wu, Guo-Qiang Zhang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

We developed a novel data mining pipeline that automatically extracts potential COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events from a large Electronic Health Record (EHR) dataset. We applied this pipeline to Optum® de-identified COVID-19 EHR dataset containing COVID-19 vaccine records between December 11, 2020 and January 20, 2022. We compared post-vaccination diagnoses between the COVID-19 vaccine group and the influenza vaccine group among 553,682 individuals without COVID-19 infection. We extracted 1,414 ICD-10 diagnosis categories (first three ICD10 digits) within 180 days after the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. We then ranked the diagnosis codes using the adverse event rates and adjusted odds …

Digital Solutions Observed In Clinical Trials: A Formative Feasibility Scoping Review, Taylor M Harrison, Sungrim Moon, Liwei Wang, Sunyang Fu, Hongfang Liu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Growing digital access accelerates digital transformation of clinical trials where digital solutions (DSs) are increasingly and widely leveraged for improving trial efficiency, effectiveness, and accessibility. Many factors impact DS success including technology barriers, privacy concerns, or user engagement activities. It is unclear how those factors are considered or reported in the literature. Here, we perform a formative feasibility scoping review to identify gaps impacting DS quality and reproducibility in trials. Articles containing digital terms published in English from 2009 to 2022 were collected (n=4,167). 130 articles published between 2016 and 2022 were randomly selected for full-text review. Eligible articles (n=100) …

The Health-Promoting Effects And The Mechanism Of Intermittent Fasting, Simin Liu, Min Zeng, Weixi Wan, Ming Huang, Xiang Li, Zixian Xie, Shang Wang, Yu Cai

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Intermittent fasting (IF) is an eating pattern in which individuals go extended periods with little or no energy intake after consuming regular food in intervening periods. IF has several health-promoting effects. It can effectively reduce weight, fasting insulin levels, and blood glucose levels. It can also increase the antitumor activity of medicines and cause improvement in the case of neurological diseases, such as memory deficit, to achieve enhanced metabolic function and prolonged longevity. Additionally, IF activates several biological pathways to induce autophagy, encourages cell renewal, prevents cancer cells from multiplying and spreading, and delays senescence. However, IF has specific adverse …

Selinexor In Combination With Weekly Paclitaxel In Patients With Metastatic Solid Tumors: Results Of An Open Label, Single-Center, Multi-Arm Phase 1b Study With Expansion Phase In Ovarian Cancer, Shannon N Westin, Siqing Fu, Apostolia Tsimberidou, Sarina Piha-Paul, Fechukwu Akhmedzhanov, Bulent Yilmaz, Lacey Mcquinn, Amanda L Brink, Jing Gong, Cheuk Hong Leung, Heather Lin, David S Hong, Shubham Pant, Brett Carter, Amir Jazaeri, David Gershenson, Anil K Sood, Robert L Coleman, Jatin Shah, Funda Meric-Bernstam, Aung Naing

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: Selinexor is a first-in-class, oral selective inhibitor of nuclear export (SINE) compound which blocks Exportin-1 (XPO1). Our objective was to determine maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and recommended phase II dose (RP2D) of selinexor and weekly paclitaxel.

METHODS: This was an open label, single-center, multi-arm phase 1b study utilizing a "3 + 3" design and a "basket-type" expansion in recurrent solid tumors. Selinexor (60 mg or 80 mg twice weekly orally) and weekly paclitaxel (80 mg IV 2 week on, 1 week off) were one of 13 parallel arms. Efficacy was evaluated using RECIST version 1.1.

RESULTS: All 35 patients …

Review Article: New Treatments For Advanced Differentiated Thyroid Cancers And Potential Mechanisms Of Drug Resistance, Sarah Hamidi, Marie-Claude Hofmann, Priyanka C Iyer, Maria E Cabanillas, Mimi I Hu, Naifa L Busaidy, Ramona Dadu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The treatment of advanced, radioiodine refractory, differentiated thyroid cancers (RR-DTCs) has undergone major advancements in the last decade, causing a paradigm shift in the management and prognosis of these patients. Better understanding of the molecular drivers of tumorigenesis and access to next generation sequencing of tumors have led to the development and Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approval of numerous targeted therapies for RR-DTCs, including antiangiogenic multikinase inhibitors, and more recently, fusion-specific kinase inhibitors such as RET inhibitors and NTRK inhibitors. BRAF + MEK inhibitors have also been approved for BRAF-mutated solid tumors and are routinely used in RR-DTCs in …

Trends And Correlates Of Low Hiv Knowledge Among Ever-Married Women Of Reproductive Age: Evidence From Cross-Sectional Bangladesh Demographic And Health Survey 1996–2014, Md Tariqujjaman, Md Mehedi Hasan, Mohammad Abdullah Heel Kafi, Md Alamgir Hossain, Saad A Khan, Nadia Sultana, Rashidul Azad, Md Arif Hossain, Mahfuzur Rahman, Mohammad Bellal Hossain

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) burden has frequently been changing over time due to epidemiological and demographic transitions. To safeguard people, particularly women of reproductive age, who can be exposed to transmitting this burden to the next generation, knowledge regarding this life-threatening virus needs to be increased. This research intends to identify the trends and associated correlates of "low" HIV knowledge among ever-married women of reproductive age in Bangladesh from 1996 to 2014.

METHODS: We analyzed data derived from six surveys of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 1996, 1999, 2004, 2007, 2011, and 2014. Analyses were primarily …

High Resting Energy Expenditure In Women With Episodic Migraine: Exploring The Use Of Predictive Formulas, Laís Bhering Martins, Jéssica Sales Ribeiro, Ana Maria Dos Santos Rodrigues, Luana Caroline Dos Santos, Antonio Lúcio Teixeira, Adaliene Versiani Matos Ferreira

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

INTRODUCTION: Migraine is a common and disabling primary headache, and its pathophysiology is not fully understood. Previous studies have suggested that pain can increase humans' Resting Energy Expenditure (REE). However, no previous study has investigated whether the REE of individuals with migraine differs from the general population. Therefore, this study aims to assess whether the REE of women with migraine differs from that of women without headaches. We also tested the accuracy of REE predictive formulas in the migraine patients.

METHODS: This cross-sectional study involves 131 adult women aged between 18 and 65 years, 83 with migraine and 48 without …

Colorectal Surveillance Outcomes From An Institutional Longitudinal Cohort Of Lynch Syndrome Carriers, Gabriel Del Carmen, Laura Reyes-Uribe, Daniel Goyco, Kyera Evans, Charles M Bowen, Jennifer L Kinnison, Valerie O Sepeda, Diane M Weber, Julie Moskowitz, Maureen E Mork, Selvi Thirumurthi, Patrick M Lynch, Miguel A Rodriguez-Bigas, Melissa W Taggart, Y Nancy You, Eduardo Vilar

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: Lynch Syndrome (LS) carriers have a significantly increased risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) during their lifetimes. Further stratification of this patient population may help in identifying additional risk factors that predispose to colorectal carcinogenesis. In most LS patients CRC may arise from adenomas, although an alternative non-polypoid carcinogenesis pathway has been proposed for

DESIGN: We collected demographics, genetic, colonoscopy, and pathology results from a total of 163 LS carriers who obtained regular screening care at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Data were extracted from the electronic health records into a REDCap database for analysis. Logistic regressions were performed to …

Mailer Pamphlet, Bass Pecan Company Planting Guide & Catalog, 1929 Spring

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Mailer pamphlet, “Spring 1929 Planting Guide & Catalog,” Bass Pecan Company, "The Largest Pecan Nursery in the World", Lumberton, Mississippi, 31 pages, 1929.

"In buying from Bass, you are not bartering with a backlot nurseryman, nor a fly-by-night nursery, nor a one-man, one-truck outfit that makes many claims and promises, and tells how much 'better' his trees are than ours, and makes guarantees that cannot be backed up financially or otherwise. You are dealing with a veritable institution. This nursery has 600 acres in orchards and nurseries. In all it has 6,000 acres, which contains land being held for continued …

Is Intuitive Eating Effective In Improving Eating Related Attitudes And Behaviors In Adult Women?, Haley C. Delligatti

PCOM Physician Assistant Studies Student Scholarship

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this selective EBM review is to determine whether or not Intuitive Eating (IE) is effective in improving eating related attitudes and behaviors in adult women.

STUDY DESIGN: Systematic review of three randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

DATA SOURCES: PubMed was utilized to find three randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Results were filtered by English language, published after the year 2011, and with adult female participants.

OUTCOMES MEASURED: The outcome of significance is eating related attitudes and behaviors, as measured by the Intuitive Eating Scale (IES). An older, 27-Item IES was utilized in one study, while the newer 21-Item …

2023 Volunteer Impact Report, Tennessee. Commission On Aging & Disability.

Department of Disability & Aging

No abstract provided.

Annual Report State Fiscal Year July 2021-June 2022, Tennessee. Department Of Children's Services.

Department of Children's Services

No abstract provided.

Community-Acquired Pneumonia Among Hospitalized Children: Risk Factors, Characteristics, And Outcomes, Marwa Taha, Hanaa Abdel-Wahab

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) represents one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity among under-five children worldwide. More than 75% of these fatalities are caused by severe pneumonia. Objectives to identify the potential risk factors associated with severe CAP among under-five children hospitalized with CAP. Patients and Methods This prospective observational study was conducted on children, aged 1 to 59 months, who were admitted with CAP to the Department of Pediatrics, Mataria Teaching Hospital, Egypt. Based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, patients were classified into two groups; CAP and severe CAP. Data including demographic, children's history, clinical assessment, …

Teen Appeal, Memphis, 02.01, 1998

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Issue 2:1 of the “Teen Appeal” published by the University of Memphis Journalism Department and Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, on September 29, 1998.

Teen Appeal, Memphis, 02.05, 1999

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Issue 2:5 of the “Teen Appeal” published by the University of Memphis Journalism Department and Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, on February 23, 1999.