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Mystifying Mimics: The Influence Of Distribution On Mimicry, Taylor Probst, Dallin Kohler, Alison Whiting, Jacob Searcy

Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2023

Many animals display bright colors or patterns to advertise or warn predators that they are dangerous. Coral snakes effectively use bright red and yellow bands to warn of their venom. There are also many harmless snakes which try to copy or mimic the color patterns of the coral snakes to gain that same protection from predators without the venom. This is known as Batesian mimicry. It has long been thought that for mimicry to be effective, both the dangerous animals and their mimics need to be found in the same geographic area. This study focuses on two species of kingsnake, …

The Student Movement Volume 107 Issue 17: "I Dreamed A Dream": Au One Day Closer To Spring, Solana Campbell, Grace No, Gloria Oh, Nathaniel Reid, Ysabelle Fernando, Amelia Stefanescu, Alannah Tjhatra, Alexander Navarro, Melissa Moore, Rachel Ingram-Clay, Wambui Karanja, Lexie Dunham, Terika Williams

The Student Movement v. 107 (2022-2023)

HUMANS

Joyful Resilience: An Interview with Artist Jasmin Hislop, Interviewed by Solana Campbell

Love is in the Air, Interviewed by Grace No

Working at the Writing Center: Interview With Camilia Howell, Interviewed by Gloria Oh

Arts & Entertainment

Blackventist Praise, Nathaniel Reid

Ceramics: Revival of the Art Elective, Ysabelle Fernando

Currently: The Romantics, Solana Campbell

Freedom: a Black History Month Playlist, Amelia Stefanescu

NEWS

Dinosaurs Under the Microscope: Mary Higby Schweitzer Visits Andrews, Alannah Tjhatra

Les Misérables at the Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre, Gloria Oh

IDEAS

Engineering What We Eat: The Past, Present, and Future of Genetically Modified Food, Alexander …

A Quantitative Analysis Of The Views And Perceptions Of Building Leaders On Discipline And Special Education For Urban Students, Dementred T. Young

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation involved summarizing and critically evaluating principals’ views on students who have been traumatized and the treatment these students receive as a result of these perceptions. The main focus was to ascertain whether administrators’ upbringing has a mediating effect on the treatment of students being educated in an urban community. The central question focused on the views and perceptions of building leaders raised in urban, suburban, or rural areas and the impact of their perception of urban students who have experienced trauma. Sub-questions were designed to uncover the relationship between the building administrator’s life experiences and perceptions of disciplinary …

Mental Health Disorders Among The Adolescent Population In Nigeria: An Integrative Review, Njideka Nkemjika Emenyi

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Mental illness is a public health crisis with extensive stigma that has been substantially neglected in Nigeria. The general belief in Nigeria is that mental illness originates from supernatural causes such as possession of evil spirits; hence, individuals with mental illness are left in the hands of “the gods” or traditional healers for help. The prevalence of mental health disorders is high amongst adolescents in Nigeria due to rapid biological, social, and psychological changes that increase their susceptibility to mental health complications. Despite the high prevalence of mental illness among Nigerian adolescents, mental health care access and utilization in this …

Faculty Bridging Individual And Organizational Resilience: Results Of A Qualitative Analysis, Meera Deva, Gary L. Beck Dallaghan, Neva Howard, Brenda J.B. Roman

School of Medicine Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Medical student burnout and anxiety has received growing attention in the past decade. The culture of competition and assessment has resulted in increasing stress levels amongst medical students, causing a decline in their academic performance and overall mental health. The objective of this qualitative analysis was to characterize recommendations from educational experts to aid students’ academic progress. Methods: At an international meeting in 2019, worksheets were completed by medical educators during a panel discussion. Participants responded to four scenarios representing common challenges medical students face in school (eg. Postponing Step 1, failing clerkships, etc.). For each case, participants addressed …

Thc On The Brain: Adult Vs. Adolescent Changes, Addison Smartt, Jeffrey Edwards Phd

Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2023

Δ9 -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been demonstrated to cause elimination of cannabinoid 1 receptor (CB1) mediated long term depression (LTD) of GABA neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain. Through electrophysiology and quantitative PCR experiments, this study reveals that LTD elimination is more pronounced in adolescents than adults, giving an explanation for the increased risk of THC dependency in adolescence. However, after a seven day withdrawal period, these effects were reversed. The data also supports the hypothesis that removal or desensitization of CB1 receptors from the synapse is an important mechanism of THC-induced neural and cognitive changes.

Custom Compression Algorithm Shows Potential To Reduce Tabular Data By A Magnitude Of 17 Using Huffman Coding And N-Grams, Maren Callaway, Stephen R. Piccolo

Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2023

Read file and rearrange its contents to a json file that sorts data by column.

Implement Huffman coding using the bitarray package’s canonical Huffman function.

Use the Huffman dictionaries for each column to encode all values.

Compress each line individually using zstandard

A Transcriptomic Analysis Of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Revealing Alternative Drug Therapeutics, Mauri Dobbs Spendlove, Jenna Birchall Poulsen, Naomi Rapier-Sharman, Brett Pickett

Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2023

Breast cancer is the most common tumor type in men and women combined this year the National Cancer Institute estimates there will be 290 560 new cases in the United States and 43 780 deaths 1 Triple Negative Breast Cancer ( lacks three typical surface markers of breast cancer estrogen receptor ( progesterone receptor ( and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER 2 which are common targets for endocrine or drug therapy, severely limiting TNBC treatment options 40 of TNBC patients will die within five years of diagnosis 2 Additionally, it has heightened risk for metastasis after neoadjuvant chemotherapy …

Has Coral Abundance In Hawaii Changed Since 2007?, Natalie Wride, Richard Gill Ph.D

Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2023

2nd place poster design

Hypothesis: Molokai, Hawaii’s southern fringing reef has experienced a decrease in coral abundance from 2007 to 2022.

Functional Annotation Of The Animal Genomes: An Integrated Annotation Resource For The Horse, Sichong Peng, Anna R. Dahlgren, Callum G. Donnelly, Erin N. Hales, Jessica Lynn Petersen, Rebecca R. Bellone, Ted Kalbfleisch, Carrie J. Finno

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

The genomic sequence of the horse has been available since 2009, providing critical resources for discovering important genomic variants regarding both animal health and population structures. However, to fully understand the functional implications of these variants, detailed annotation of the horse genome is required. Due to the limited availability of functional data for the equine genome, as well as the technical limitations of short-read RNAseq, existing annotation of the equine genome contains limited information about important aspects of gene regulation, such as alternate isoforms and regulatory elements, which are either not transcribed or transcribed at a very low level. To …

Myo19 Tethers Mitochondria To Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Actin To Promote Mitochondrial Fission, Stephen M. Coscia, Cameron P. Thompson, Qing Tang, Elana E. Baltrusaitis, Joseph A. Rhodenhiser, Omar A. Quintero, E. Michael Ostap, Melike Lakadamyali, Erika L. Holzbaur

Biology Faculty Publications

Mitochondrial homeostasis requires a dynamic balance of fission and fusion. The actin cytoskeleton promotes fission, and we found that the mitochondrially localized myosin, myosin 19 (Myo19), is integral to this process. Myo19 knockdown induced mitochondrial elongation, whereas Myo19 overexpression induced fragmentation. This mitochondrial fragmentation was blocked by a Myo19 mutation predicted to inhibit ATPase activity and strong actin binding but not by mutations predicted to affect the working stroke of the motor that preserve ATPase activity. Super-resolution imaging indicated a dispersed localization of Myo19 on mitochondria, which we found to be dependent on metaxins. These observations suggest that Myo19 acts …

Wallaby Pilot Survey: Hydra Cluster Galaxies Uv And H I Morphometrics, Benne W. Holwerda, Frank Bigiel, Albert Bosma, Helene M. Courtois, Nathan Deg, Helga Dénes, Ahmed Elagali, Bi-Qing For, Baerbel Koribalski, Denis A. Leahy, Karen Lee-Waddell, Ángel R. López-Sánchez, Se-Heon Oh, Tristan N. Reynolds, Jonghwan Rhee, Kristine Spekkens, Jing Wang, Tobias Westmeier, O Ivy Wong

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Galaxy morphology in atomic hydrogen (H I) and in the ultraviolet (UV) are closely linked. This has motivated their combined use to quantify morphology over the full H I disc for both H I and UV imaging. We apply galaxy morphometrics: concentration, asymmetry, gini, M₂₀ and multimode-intensity-deviation statistics to the first moment-0 maps of the WALLABY Survey of galaxies in the hydra cluster centre. Taking advantage of this new H I survey, we apply the same morphometrics over the full H I extent on archival GALEX FUV and NUV data to explore how well H I truncated, extended ultraviolet …

March 2, 2023, Caa

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A Square Double Helix In A Round Hole: Forensic Genetic Genealogy Searches And The Fourth Amendment, Matthew Sweat

Georgia State University Law Review

A forensic genetic genealogy search (FGGS) involves law enforcement’s use of consumer DNA databases to generate leads to solve cold cases. As a result of more modern technological processes, the DNA profiles kept in consumer databases are far more revealing than the DNA profiles stored in the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). Accordingly, each DNA profile in a consumer database can be used to identify hundreds of relatives related to the DNA’s contributor.

The government’s use of consumer DNA databases to locate the perpetrators of horrific, unsolved crimes has generated fans and critics. Supporters of FGGSs argue that, in …

First, Do No Harm: Prioritizing Patients Over Politics In The Battle Over Gender-Affirming Care, Greg Mercer

Georgia State University Law Review

The medical community’s move to reclassify gender dysphoria as a condition that results in distress rather than a mental disorder has been instrumental in destigmatizing transgender people. However, state laws that aim to strip physicians of their ability to prescribe gender-affirming care, along with physicians’ refusal to comply with federal regulations requiring access to gender-affirming care, threaten to undo those gains. Opponents of gender-affirming care attempt to wield the concept of medical judgment as both a sword and a shield—preventing physicians from exercising their medical judgment to provide gender-affirming care while simultaneously allowing physicians to abstain from providing it. Although …

Fluid Management In Septic Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension, Review Of The Literature, Blerina Asllanaj, Elizabeth Benge, Jieun Bae, Yi Mcwhorter

School of Medicine Faculty Research

The management of sepsis in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) is challenging due to significant conflicting goals of management and complex hemodynamics. As PH progresses, the ability of right heart to perfuse lungs at a normal central venous pressure (CVP) is impaired. Elevated pulmonary vascular pressure, due to pulmonary vasoconstriction and vascular remodeling, opposes blood flow through lungs thus limiting the ability of right ventricle (RV) to increase cardiac output (CO) and maintain adequate oxygen delivery to tissue. In sepsis without PH, avoidance of volume depletion with intravascular volume replacement, followed by vasopressor therapy if hypoperfusion persists, remains the cornerstone …

Social Transmission Of Predator Information Through Referential Alarm Calls Within And Across Species, Carly Trebac

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Animals can encode information about a predator’s size, identity, or threat through alarm calls. This can provide referential information that can be used by individuals within and across species receiving the information. Referential alarm calls can encode information through changes in structure or rate of the call, and these variances in their call can elicit different responses, such as fleeing or mobbing, in conspecifics and heterospecifics. We aimed to investigate whether white-breasted nuthatch alarm calls can encode referential information and elicit different responses from conspecifics. Previous studies showed that a related species of nuthatch varies their call rate in the …

Bi-Allelic Tti1 Variants Cause An Autosomal-Recessive Neurodevelopmental Disorder With Microcephaly, Margaux Serey-Gaut, Marisol Cortes, Periklis Makrythanasis, Mohnish Suri, Alexander M R Taylor, Jennifer A Sullivan, Ayat N Asleh, Jaba Mitra, Mohamad A Dar, Amy Mcnamara, Vandana Shashi, Sarah Dugan, Xiaofei Song, Jill A Rosenfeld, Christelle Cabrol, Justyna Iwaszkiewicz, Vincent Zoete, Davut Pehlivan, Zeynep Coban Akdemir, Elizabeth R Roeder, Rebecca Okashah Littlejohn, Harpreet K Dibra, Philip J Byrd, Grant S Stewart, Bilgen B Geckinli, Jennifer Posey, Rachel Westman, Chelsy Jungbluth, Jacqueline Eason, Rani Sachdev, Carey-Anne Evans, Gabrielle Lemire, Grace E Vannoy, Anne O'Donnell-Luria, Frédéric Tran Mau-Them, Aurélien Juven, Juliette Piard, Cheng Yee Nixon, Ying Zhu, Taekjip Ha, Michael F Buckley, Christel Thauvin, George K Essien Umanah, Lionel Van Maldergem, James R Lupski, Tony Roscioli, Valina L Dawson, Ted M Dawson, Stylianos E Antonarakis

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Telomere maintenance 2 (TELO2), Tel2 interacting protein 2 (TTI2), and Tel2 interacting protein 1 (TTI1) are the three components of the conserved Triple T (TTT) complex that modulates activity of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-related protein kinases (PIKKs), including mTOR, ATM, and ATR, by regulating the assembly of mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1). The TTT complex is essential for the expression, maturation, and stability of ATM and ATR in response to DNA damage. TELO2- and TTI2-related bi-allelic autosomal-recessive (AR) encephalopathies have been described in individuals with moderate to severe intellectual disability (ID), short stature, postnatal microcephaly, and a movement disorder (in the case of …

[Excerpt From] Beyond Burnout: Overcoming Stress In Nursing & Healthcare For Optimal Health & Well-Being (2nd Ed.), Suzanne Waddill-Goad

Sigma Publications: Book Excerpts

This item record pertains to an excerpt from Beyond Burnout, Second Edition, which is provided free of charge by the publisher.

About this book:

Healthcare professions typically attract those who give deeply of themselves to make a positive difference in others' lives. But that giving can come at a significant price: burnout. While the healthcare vocation offers myriad options in work settings and career paths, it can also involve tremendous amounts of stress because of long shifts, mental and physical exhaustion, patient challenges, and regulatory changes. When stress and fatigue overtake a healthcare provider's ability to adequately cope with …

Benthic Habitat Mapping Of Mountain Top Bank Within The Northern Gulf Of Mexico Through Integrated Geophysical And Visual Data Analysis, Bethany Pertain

Master's Theses

Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) are among the seafloor ecosystems that have been poorly studied throughout the world’s oceans, but they are a vital and diverse ecosystem that should be prioritized for future mapping and ecological studies. Priority should be given to them because they possess natural, social, and economic values, and face a variety of threats, all of which, if not better understood will result in the loss of this unique ecosystem. Insights into these ecosystems, among other deep-sea environments, are lacking due to difficulty accessing them, inherent lag between data collection by an autonomous system and observation by a …

Memory Retrieval, Reconsolidation, And Extinction: Exploring The Boundary Conditions Of Post-Conditioning Cue Exposure, Nicole C. Ferrara, Janine L. Kwapis, Sydney Trask

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Following fear conditioning, behavior can be reduced by giving many CS-alone presentations in a process known as extinction or by presenting a few CS-alone presentations and interfering with subsequent memory reconsolidation. While the two share procedural similarities, both the behavioral outcomes and the neurobiological underpinnings are distinct. Here we review the neural and behavioral mechanisms that produce these separate behavioral reductions, as well as some factors that determine whether or not a retrieval-dependent reconsolidation process or an extinction process will be in effect.

Initial Impacts Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Australian Fisheries Production, Research Organisations And Assessment: Shocks, Responses And Implications For Decision Support And Resilience, Emily M. Ogier, David C. Smith, Sian Breen, Caleb Gardner, Daniel J. Gaughan, Harry K. Gorfine, Alistair J. Hobday, Natalie Moltschaniwskyj, Ryan Murphy, Thor Saunders, Michael Steer, James Woodhams

Fisheries Research Articles

Australia’s fisheries have experience in responding individually to specific shocks to stock levels (for example, marine heatwaves, floods) and markets (for example, global financial crisis, food safety access barriers). The COVID-19 pandemic was, however, novel in triggering a series of systemic shocks and disruptions to the activities and operating conditions for all Australia’s commercial fisheries sectors including those of the research agencies that provide the information needed for their sustainable management. While these disruptions have a single root cause—the public health impacts and containment responses to the COVID-19 pandemic—their transmission and effects have been varied. We examine both the impacts …

Deep Learning Methods For Prediction Of And Escape From Protein Recognition, Bowen Dai

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

Protein interactions drive diverse processes essential to living organisms, and thus numerous biomedical applications center on understanding, predicting, and designing how proteins recognize their partners. While unfortunately the number of interactions of interest still vastly exceeds the capabilities of experimental determination methods, computational methods promise to fill the gap. My thesis pursues the development and application of computational methods for several protein interaction prediction and design tasks. First, to improve protein-glycan interaction specificity prediction, I developed GlyBERT, which learns biologically relevant glycan representations encapsulating the components most important for glycan recognition within their structures. GlyBERT encodes glycans with a branched …

The Colby Echo (2023-03-02), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present.

Ecological Boundaries And Constraints On Viable Eco-Evolutionary Pathways, Kyle E. Coblentz, John P. Delong

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Evolutionary dynamics are subject to constraints ranging from limitations on what is physically possible to limitations on the pathways that evolution can take. One set of evolutionary constraints, known as ‘demographic constraints’, constrain what can occur evolutionarily due to the demographic or dynamical consequences of evolution leading to conditions that make populations susceptible to extinction. These demographic constraints can limit the strength of selection or the rates of environmental change populations can experience while remaining extant and the trait values a population can express. Here we further hypothesize that the population demographic and dynamic consequences of evolution also can constrain …

The Montclarion, March 2, 2023, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Social Media Perceptions Of Academic Performance And Self-Esteem As Defined By Female Adolescents, Michele T. Miller

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The essential need for developing social interaction and relationships through participation on social media has begun to have an influence on academic performance and self-esteem in adolescents. This study examined the perceptions of adolescent females on the effect social media has had on both academic success and self-esteem. The literature reviewed the effects social media has on this population as it relates to these two areas. This was a qualitative study with 10 participants ages 11-15. A convenience group of participants were interviewed through in-person discussion whenever possible or through Google Meet/Zoom meetings. Questions were posed from an interview guide …

The Grizzly, March 2, 2023, Layla Halterman, Gianna Mccarthy, Chase Portaro, Kate Horan, Marie Sykes, Renie Christensen, Quadai Brown, Ava Compagnoni

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Rachel Arthur '23 Earns Prestigious Fellowship • Reim Time: To Extend, or Not to Extend? • New Recovery Specialist Joins Prevention and Advocacy Team • A March Note From Our Editor • The Man Behind the Microscope (Donation) • Working to Work the Stage Soon! • Campus Safety: How Safe are Students? • Student Plans for St. Patrick's Day • Student Sports Photography: A Renaissance

Rehabilitation Technologies To Abate Infiltration In Sanitary Sewers, Steve Youssef

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In urban coastal environments, sewer infrastructure is plagued by infiltration which seeps into aging and compromised pipes. Infiltration increases pumping costs, reduces treatment efficiency, and may trigger release of partially treated wastewater at water reclamation facilities. To restore pipes and abate infiltration, local utilities rely on structural and non-structural trenchless rehabilitation technologies. These methods are commonly used throughout the United States and the world due to their numerous benefits compared to traditional open-cut construction. However, limited data is available regarding their efficacy in reducing infiltration in sewer systems. In this study, we analysed infiltration in a small urban sewershed in …

Epigenetic-Metabolic Interplay In The Dna Damage Response And Therapeutic Resistance Of Breast Cancer, Chandrima Das, Swagata Adhikari, Apoorva Bhattacharya, Sanjukta Chakraborty, Payel Mondal, Shalini S Yadav, Santanu Adhikary, Clayton R Hunt, Kamlesh K Yadav, Shruti Pandita, Siddhartha Roy, John A Tainer, Zamal Ahmed, Tej K Pandita

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Therapy resistance is imposing a daunting challenge on effective clinical management of breast cancer. Although the development of resistance to drugs is multifaceted, reprogramming of energy metabolism pathways is emerging as a central but heterogenous regulator of this therapeutic challenge. Metabolic heterogeneity in cancer cells is intricately associated with alterations of different signaling networks and activation of DNA damage response pathways. Here we consider how the dynamic metabolic milieu of cancer cells regulates their DNA damage repair ability to ultimately contribute to development of therapy resistance. Diverse epigenetic regulators are crucial in remodeling the metabolic landscape of cancer. This epigenetic-metabolic …