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The Daily Gamecock, October 2023, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

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Harnessing Large Language Models (Llms) For Candidate Gene Prioritization And Selection., Mohammed Toufiq, Darawan Rinchai, Eleonore Bettacchioli, Basirudeen Syed Ahamed Kabeer, Taushif Khan, Bishesh Subba, Olivia White, Marina Yurieva, Joshy George, Noemie Jourde-Chiche, Laurent Chiche, Karolina Palucka, Damien Chaussabel

Faculty Research 2023

BACKGROUND: Feature selection is a critical step for translating advances afforded by systems-scale molecular profiling into actionable clinical insights. While data-driven methods are commonly utilized for selecting candidate genes, knowledge-driven methods must contend with the challenge of efficiently sifting through extensive volumes of biomedical information. This work aimed to assess the utility of large language models (LLMs) for knowledge-driven gene prioritization and selection.

METHODS: In this proof of concept, we focused on 11 blood transcriptional modules associated with an Erythroid cells signature. We evaluated four leading LLMs across multiple tasks. Next, we established a workflow leveraging LLMs. The steps consisted …

Haddin Arts And Sciences Forums Set For Fall 2023, Micah Hardge

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Spotted Stem Borer, Chilo Partellus (Swinhoe) Infestation In Corn Fields Of Türkiye, Vahdetti̇n Akmeşe, Sevcan Öztemi̇z, Efkan Akçali, Mustafa Gökhan Bi̇lgi̇n, Serap Toker Demi̇ray, Erdal Sertkaya

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Potential Roles Of Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes In Wheat Adaptation And Tolerance To Herbicide And Drought Stress Combination, Oksana Lastochkina, Massimo Bosacchi

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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The Study Of The Quality Parameters Of The Tortilla Chips Products Formulated From Mixtures Of Corn Flour And Legumes, Giorgiana Buzgau, Romi̇na Alina Marc, Crina Carmen Muresan, Anca Farcas, Sonia Ancuta Socaci, Andruta Muresan, Sevastita Muste

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Crossing Success Of 'Pot Miniature Rose X Cut Rose', Merve Uran Şener, Soner Kazaz, Tuğba Kiliç, Ezgi̇ Doğan Meral

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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An Interdisciplinary Approach To Experiential Learning In Cyberbiosecurity And Agriculture Through Workforce Development, Kellie Johnson, Tiffany Drape, Joseph Oakes, Joseph Simpson, Ann Brown, Donna M. Westfall-Rudd, Susan Duncan

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Cyberbiosecurity and workforce development in agriculture and the life sciences (ALS) is a growing area of need in the curriculum in higher education. Students that pursue majors related to ALS often do not include training in cyber-related concepts or expose the ‘hidden curriculum’ of seeking internships and jobs. Exposing students through workforce development training and hands-on engagement with industry professionals can provide learning opportunities to bridge the two and is an area of growth and demand as the workforce evolves. The objectives of this work were 1) to learn key concepts in cybersecurity, including data security, visualization, and analysis, to …

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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Neonicotinoid Resistance In Populations Of The Cotton Aphid, Aphis Gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae) In Cotton Plantation Areas Of Turkey, Cahi̇t Kaya, Naci̇ye Sena Çağatay, John T. Margaritopoulos, John Vontas, Remzi̇ Atlihan, Nurper Güz

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Plant Growth Regulators Ameliorate Biochemical And Molecular Parameters In Plantago Ovata Forssk. Under Salt Stress, Abdul Samad, Kanval Shaukat, Mahmood Ur Rahman Ansari, Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad, Mereen Nizar, Abdul Hakeem, Sajid Fiaz, Hayat Ali Alafari, Areej S. Jalal, Kotb A. Attia, Neva Karataş

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Delm: Deep Ensemble Learning Model For Multiclass Classification Of Super-Resolution Leaf Disease Images, Prabhjot Kaur, Mukund Pratap Singh, Anand Muni Mishra, Achyut Shankar, Prabhishek Singh, Manoj Diwakar, Soumya Ranjan Nayak

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Conventional And Organic Fertilization Improve The Growth Responses And Essential Oil Content Of Salvia Fruticosa Mill., Fi̇li̇z Öktüren Asri̇, Memi̇ş Ensar Ertürk, Murat Şi̇mşek, Fati̇h Alpay Vuran, Fatma Uysal Bayar

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Organic Amendments: A Natural Way To Suppress Phytopathogens: A Sustainable Approach To Go Green, Rameesha Naghman, Mahnoor Tanveer Bhatti, Zarqa Najabat, Sajjad Hyder, Zarrin Fatima Rizvi, Amjad Shahzad Gondal, Zikria Zafar, Sadia Malik, Rashid Iqbal, Aqsa Hafeez, Baber Ali, Romi̇na Alina Marc

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Qtl-Seq For The Identification Of Candidate Genes Responsible For Double Seeds In Almond, Harun Karci

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Crop Weed Infestation Forecasting Using Data Mining Methods, Kirill Maksimovich, Olga Alsova, Vladimir Kalichkin, Dmitry Fedorov

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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The Effect Of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria Both In Vitro And Hydroponic Culture Of Barley (Hordeum Vulgare) Growth, Fati̇h Dadaşoğlu, Esi̇n Dadaşoğlu, Furkan Orhan

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Impact Of Dust Load And Lead (Pb) Stress On Leaf Functioning Of Urban Vegetation, Muhammad Azeem Sabir, Muhammad Farrakh Nawaz, Tanveer Hussain Khan, Usman Zulfiqar, Junaid Naseer, Sadam Hussain, Sadaf Gul, Muhammad Faisal Maqsood, Rashid Iqbal, Baber Ali, Rana Roy

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Brown Rust Resistance Screening And Molecular Characterization Of Wheat Cultivars By Molecular Markers, Behi̇ye Banu Bi̇lgen, Büşra Yürük, Hazal Nasi̇ri̇an

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Tolfenamic Acid Derivatives: A New Class Of Transcriptional Modulators With Potential Therapeutic Applications For Alzheimer’S Disease And Related Disorders, Juanetta Hill, Karim E. Shalaby, Syed W. Bihaqi, Bothaina H. Alansi, Benjamin Barlock, Keykavous Parang, Richard Thompson, Khalid Ourarhni, Nasser H. Zawia

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

The field of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has witnessed recent breakthroughs in the development of disease-modifying biologics and diagnostic markers. While immunotherapeutic interventions have provided much-awaited solutions, nucleic acid-based tools represent other avenues of intervention; however, these approaches are costly and invasive, and they have serious side effects. Previously, we have shown in AD animal models that tolfenamic acid (TA) can lower the expression of AD-related genes and their products and subsequently reduce pathological burden and improve cognition. Using TA as a scaffold and the zinc finger domain of SP1 as a pharmacophore, we developed safer and more potent brain-penetrating analogs …

Towards Fluorescence Molecular In Vivo Liquid Biopsy Of Circulating Tumor Cells, Mark Niedre

Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery XVII [2023]

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Us Climate Policy Yields Water Quality Cobenefits In The Mississippi Basin And Gulf Of Mexico, Shan Zuidema, Jing Liu, Maksym Chepeliev, David R. Johnson, Uris Baldos, Steve Frolking, Christopher J. Kucharik, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Thomas Hertel

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

We utilize a coupled economy–agroecology–hydrology modeling framework to capture the cascading impacts of climate change mitigation policy on agriculture and the resulting water quality cobenefits. We analyze a policy that assigns a range of United States government’s social cost of carbon estimates ($51, $76, and $152/ton of CO2-equivalents) to fossil fuel–based CO2 emissions. This policy raises energy costs and, importantly for agriculture, boosts the price of nitrogen fertilizer production. At the highest carbon price, US carbon emissions are reduced by about 50%, and nitrogen fertilizer prices rise by about 90%, leading to an approximate 15% reduction in fertilizer applications for …

Untargeted Metabolomics Analysis On Kidney Tissues From Mice Reveals Potential Hypoxia Biomarkers, Muhammad Imran Sajid, Francisco J. Nunez, Farideh Amirrad, Moom Rahman Roosan, Tom Vojtko, Scott Mcculloch, Amal Alachkar, Surya M. Nauli

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Chronic hypoxia may have a huge impact on the cardiovascular and renal systems. Advancements in microscopy, metabolomics, and bioinformatics provide opportunities to identify new biomarkers. In this study, we aimed at elucidating the metabolic alterations in kidney tissues induced by chronic hypoxia using untargeted metabolomic analyses. Reverse phase ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy/mass spectroscopy (RP–UPLC–MS/MS) and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC)–UPLC–MS/MS methods with positive and negative ion mode electrospray ionization were used for metabolic profiling. The metabolomic profiling revealed an increase in metabolites related to carnitine synthesis and purine metabolism. Additionally, there was a notable increase in bilirubin. Heme, N-acetyl-L-aspartic …

Gardner-Webb Students Examine Reptiles And Amphibians On Campus And At Broad River, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University students in the animal physiology class with Assistant Professor of Biology Jay Zimmer recently conducted two outdoor labs to collect and record data about local reptiles and amphibians. For their survey, they explored the creek behind the Gardner-Webb football practice field as well as the Broad River Greenway the following week.

The Importance Of Caregivers, Family, And Context For Child Welfare Involved Youth And A National Child Sample: A Structural Equation Modeling Perspective, Nathan Michael Lutz

Dissertations

This bundled, three-study dissertation examines how the relationships that children have with adult family members impact mental health outcomes, including internalizing symptoms and externalizing behaviors. The first study examines the moderating effect of relationship satisfaction on the relationship between kin involvement and child psychopathology. The second study uses data from the 2017 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), examining the mediating effect of the parent-child relationship on the associations across various systems in which children are embedded and mental health diagnoses. The third paper examined the interactions between both family strengths and caregiver involvement with the parent child relationship and …

Lactation Physiokinetics—Using Advances In Technology For A Fresh Perspective On Human Milk Transfer, Jimi Francis, Paul Flynn, Maisha Naowar, Premananda Indic, Darby Dickton

Electrical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Introduction: Though the nature of breastfeeding is critical, scant information is available on how the action of the milk transfer from mother to infant is regulated in humans, where the points of dysfunction are, and what can be done to optimize breastfeeding outcomes. While better therapeutic strategies are needed, before they can be devised, a basic scientific understanding of the biomechanical mechanisms that regulate human milk transfer from breast to stomach must first be identified, defined, and understood. Methods: Combining systems biology and systems medicine into a conceptual framework, using engineering design principles, this work investigates the use of biosensors …

Fear Reduced Through Unconditional Stimulus Deflation Is Behaviorally Distinct From Extinction And Differentially Engages The Amygdala, Gabrielle R. Bonanno, Erisa Met Hoxha, Payton K. Robinson, Nicole C. Ferrara, Sydney Trask

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Background

Context fear memory can be reliably reduced by subsequent pairings of that context with a weaker shock. This procedure shares similarities with extinction learning: both involve extended time in the conditioning chamber following training and reduce context-elicited fear. Unlike extinction, this weak-shock exposure has been hypothesized to engage reconsolidation-like processes that weaken the original memory.

Methods

We directly compared the weak-shock procedure with extinction using male and female Long Evans rats.

Results

Both repeated weak-shock exposure and extinction resulted in decreased context freezing relative to animals that received context fear conditioning but no subsequent context exposure. Conditioning with …

Examining The Bidirectional Associations Between Parenting And Adolescent Coping In The Context Of Exposure To Community Violence, Jenny Phan

Dissertations

Coping refers to all the strategies and processes that an individual uses to eliminate, reduce or tolerate stress (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984; Rosario et al., 2003). Within the general coping literature, research has observed that use of approach-oriented coping strategies is associated with positive psychosocial outcomes, and avoidant-oriented coping strategies is associated with negative psychosocial outcomes (e.g., Compas et al., 2001; Wadsworth & Compas, 2002). However, most of these studies have focused exclusively or predominantly on middle-class White participants (e.g., Compas et al., 2001; Wadsworth & Compas, 2002) which may limit the generalizability of these findings to other groups. Further, …

Interactions Of Lewis Acids And Carbonyls In The Presence Of Ligands Or Additives: How Solution Behavior Differs And The Implication On Catalytic Systems, Sophi Rose Todtz

Dissertations

Lewis acids have proven extremely valuable to the field of organic synthesis. Their diverse application in reactions of carbonyl-containing substrates has caused a multitude of efforts towards characterization of solution interactions between Lewis bases and Lewis acids. Though Lewis initially described a 1:1 interaction between one acid and one base, our lab has previously employed in-situ IR spectroscopy to characterize 2:1, 3:1, and 4:1 solution structures under catalytic conditions. These insights have played a critical role in our understanding of catalyst behavior in carbonyl-containing systems, allowing us to describe byproduct inhibition in the carbonyl-olefin metathesis mechanism. The research presented in …

A Descriptive Exploration Of Quality And Opportunities In Outdoor Urban Play Spaces: The Case Of Chicago Public Schools, Katherine Anne Varey

Dissertations

This study investigated the quality of children’s play spaces, both green and built, in and surrounding urban public schools in Chicago. Given children’s declining access to nature and the outdoors, especially in urban areas, the aim of the study was to both assess the current potential for high-quality outdoor experiences, as well as to uncover additional, low-cost, and low-burden opportunities that may exist for enhancing outdoor experiences. Based on a selected sample of 60 Chicago Public Schools, this mixed methods study employed quantitative ratings of play space and neighborhood quality, geographic information systems (GIS) mapping techniques to show distribution of …