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Csd 222.51: Introduction To Audiology, Catherine A. Drescher

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Ptrm 210s.01: Nature-Based Tourism, Melissa J. Weddell

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Wild 280.00: Fisheries Techniques, Andrew R. Whiteley

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Wild 541.01: Research Design Lab, Scott M. Ferrenberg

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Psyx 360.01: Social Psychology, Stephanie Dimitroff

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Kneiffiella Palmae: A Non-Aspergillus Fungal Infection Isolated From A Pulmonary Nodule In A Child With Chronic Granulomatous Disease, Bianca E. Ituarte, Connie Canete-Gibas, Nathan P. Wiederhold, Liset Olarte

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

We report the first known human case of Kneiffiella palmae in the medical literature. K. palmae was isolated from a pulmonary nodule in a 7-year-old male with chronic granulomatous disease. The mold was identified as K. palmae at a national reference laboratory, where 17 other human respiratory samples tested positive for K. palmae from 2013 to 2021. Optimal antimicrobial treatment is unknown, but azoles and amphotericin B demonstrated in vitro activity against each tested isolate.

Anty 210n.50: Introduction To Biological Anthropology, Randall R. Skelton

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 412.01: Osteology, Matthew P. Rhode

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 553.01: Evolutionary Archaeology, Anna M. Prentiss

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Bch 380.00: Biochemistry, Klara Briknarova

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Biom 594.01: Mbs Professional Seminar, Brent J. Ryckman

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Biom 451.01: Microbial Physiology Lab, Patrick R. Secor

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Biom 428.01: General Parasitology Lab, Christopher S. Peterson

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Ensc 501.01: Scientific Approaches To Environmental Problems, Christopher Rowe

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Neur 280.01: Molecules To Mind - Fundamentals Of Neuroscience, Katie M. Holick

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Neur 441.01: Cns Diseases, Andrew R. Rau, Richard Bridges, Sarah J. Certel

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Physical Inactivity On Glucose Metabolism And Skeletal Muscle Secretions In Healthy Trained Rats And Potential Counteracting Effect Of Exercise And Protocatechuic Acid, Hira Shakoor

Dissertations

Modern societies have significantly transformed people's lifestyles, leading to a substantial increase in physical inactivity, which concerns 23% of adults and 81% of adolescents worldwide. Physical inactivity is a major factor contributing to the emergence of chronic diseases, most prominently Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), which exhibits a high prevalence in many countries. T2D is characterized by elevated blood glucose levels due to cells’ responsiveness to insulin. The shift towards inactivity likely occurred more rapidly than the genome's capacity to adapt, resulting in the metabolic dysfunctions underlying the development of T2D. Skeletal muscle is crucial in the onset of these metabolic …

Maximizing Wound Coverage In Full-Thickness Skin Defects: A Randomized-Controlled Trial Of Autologous Skin Cell Suspension And Widely Meshed Autograft Versus Standard Autografting, Sharon Henry, Steven Mapula, Mark Grevious, Kevin N. Foster, Herbert Phelan, Jeffrey Shupp, Rodney Chan, David Harrington, Neil Mashruwala, David A. Brown, Haaris Mir, George Singer, Alfredo Cordova, Lisa Rae, Theresa Chin, Lourdes Castanon, Derek Bell, William Hughes, Joseph A. Molnar

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND Traumatic insults, infection, and surgical procedures can leave skin defects that are not amenable to primary closure. Split-thickness skin grafting (STSG) is frequently used to achieve closure of these wounds. Although effective, STSG can be associated with donor site morbidity, compounding the burden of illness in patients undergoing soft tissue reconstruction procedures. With an expansion ratio of 1:80, autologous skin cell suspension (ASCS) has been demonstrated to significantly decrease donor skin requirements compared with traditional STSG in burn injuries. We hypothesized that the clinical performance of ASCS would be similar for soft tissue reconstruction of nonburn wounds. METHODS A …

Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Minimum Viable Products, And Partitive Innovation, Matthew R. Gaske

Emory Law Journal Online

This Essay identifies entrepreneurs’ experimentation with minimum viable products (“MVPs”) as a means for proposed AI-specific regulation to constrain innovation in other markets. To that end, the Essay coins the term “partitive innovation” to describe a business’s perspective when it uses a domain-agnostic, highly generalizable technology to introduce a product to a particular market, thereby eliciting overbroad domain-specific regulations that impair alternative innovative uses of the underlying technology. This process is unfolding with AI, as broadly constructed proposed regulation can restrict innovation in adjacent fields by shifting software MVPs’ mainly ex post regulatory regime to one with recurring duties or …

Prediagnostic Glycoprotein Acetyl Levels And Incident And Recurrent Flare Risk Accounting For Serum Urate Levels: A Population-Based, Prospective Study And Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Amit D Joshi, Natalie Mccormick, Chio Yokose, Bing Yu, Adrienne Tin, Robert Terkeltaub, Tony R Merriman, A Heather Eliassen, Gary C Curhan, Laura M Raffield, Hyon K Choi

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively investigate population-based metabolomics for incident gout and reproduce the findings for recurrent flares, accounting for serum urate.

METHODS: We conducted a prediagnostic metabolome-wide analysis among 105,615 UK Biobank participants with nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomic profiling data (168 total metabolites) from baseline blood samples collected 2006-2010 in those without history of gout. We calculated hazard ratios (HRs) for incident gout, adjusted for gout risk factors, excluding and including serum urate levels, overall and according to fasting duration before sample collection. Potential causal effects were tested with 2-sample Mendelian randomization. Poisson regression was used to calculate rate ratios (RRs) …

Epigenome-Wide Dna Methylation Association Study Of Circulating Ige Levels Identifies Novel Targets For Asthma, Kathryn Recto, Priyadarshini Kachroo, Tianxiao Huan, David Van Den Berg, Gha Young Lee, Helena Bui, Dong Heon Lee, Jessica Gereige, Chen Yao, Shih-Jen Hwang, Roby Joehanes, Scott T Weiss, George T O'Connor, Daniel Levy, Dawn L Demeo

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Identifying novel epigenetic signatures associated with serum immunoglobulin E (IgE) may improve our understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying asthma and IgE-mediated diseases.

METHODS: We performed an epigenome-wide association study using whole blood from Framingham Heart Study (FHS; n = 3,471, 46% females) participants and validated results using the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP; n = 674, 39% females) and the Genetic Epidemiology of Asthma in Costa Rica Study (CRA; n = 787, 41% females). Using the closest gene to each IgE-associated CpG, we highlighted biologically plausible pathways underlying IgE regulation and analyzed the transcription patterns linked to IgE-associated CpGs …

Multivariate Genetic Analysis Of Personality And Cognitive Traits Reveals Abundant Pleiotropy, Guy Hindley, Alexey A Shadrin, Dennis Van Der Meer, Nadine Parker, Weiqiu Cheng, Kevin S O'Connell, Shahram Bahrami, Aihua Lin, Naz Karadag, Børge Holen, Thomas Bjella, Ian J Deary, Gail Davies, W David Hill, Jan Bressler, Sudha Seshadri, Chun Chieh Fan, Torill Ueland, Srdjan Djurovic, Olav B Smeland, Oleksandr Frei, Anders M Dale, Ole A Andreassen

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Personality and cognitive function are heritable mental traits whose genetic foundations may be distributed across interconnected brain functions. Previous studies have typically treated these complex mental traits as distinct constructs. We applied the 'pleiotropy-informed' multivariate omnibus statistical test to genome-wide association studies of 35 measures of neuroticism and cognitive function from the UK Biobank (n = 336,993). We identified 431 significantly associated genetic loci with evidence of abundant shared genetic associations, across personality and cognitive function domains. Functional characterization implicated genes with significant tissue-specific expression in all tested brain tissues and brain-specific gene sets. We conditioned independent genome-wide association studies …

Identifying Brain Hierarchical Structures Associated With Alzheimer’S Disease Using A Regularized Regression Method With Tree Predictors, Yi Zhao, Bingkai Wang, Chin-Fu Liu, Andreia V Faria, Michael I Miller, Brian S Caffo, Xi Luo

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Brain segmentation at different levels is generally represented as hierarchical trees. Brain regional atrophy at specific levels was found to be marginally associated with Alzheimer's disease outcomes. In this study, we propose an ℓ1 -type regularization for predictors that follow a hierarchical tree structure. Considering a tree as a directed acyclic graph, we interpret the model parameters from a path analysis perspective. Under this concept, the proposed penalty regulates the total effect of each predictor on the outcome. With regularity conditions, it is shown that under the proposed regularization, the estimator of the model coefficient is consistent in ℓ2 -norm …

Abolition And Environmental Justice, Allegra M. Mcleod

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

During the coronavirus pandemic, movements for penal abolition and racial justice achieved dramatic growth and increased visibility. While much public discussion of abolition has centered on the call to divest from criminal law enforcement, contemporary abolitionists also understand public safety in terms of building new life-sustaining institutions and collective structures that improve human well-being, linking penal divestment to environmental justice. In urging a reimagination of public safety, abolitionists envision much more than decriminalization or a reallocation of police functions to social service agencies or other alternatives to imprisonment and policing. Instead, for abolitionists, meaningful public safety requires, among other things, …

Psyx 385.01: Psychology Of Personality, Duncan G. Campbell

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Wild 170.00: Fish And Wildlife Interest Group, Erim Gomez

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Medical Students' Attitudes And Beliefs Toward Psilocybin: Does Terminology And Personal Experience With Psychedelics Matter?, Antonio F Pagán, Claudia Lex, Jair C Soares, Thomas D Meyer

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Psilocybin and psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) have gained renewed interest due to recent findings that PAT can enhance therapeutic outcomes. In 2019, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved breakthrough therapy status to psilocybin for the treatment of depression, but PAT has yet to be approved as a therapeutic treatment for mental health disorders. Should the FDA approve PAT, medical students will serve as gatekeepers to PAT.

METHODS: Medical students (

RESULTS: Regardless of the terminology utilized, medical students held overall positive attitudes but their attitudes were significantly more positive when the term "psilocybin" was used. Furthermore, experience with …

Evaluation And Description Of Nature-Based Engineering Stream Restoration Through Dutton Shadyside Park, Julie Wildschut, Andrea Lubberts, David P. Warners, Haley Weesies

Faculty and Professional Research

As land uses change over time, from wetlands and forests to agricultural fields, suburban neighborhoods, and commercial areas, stormwater runoff increases in volume and moves more rapidly into nearby streams. This altered hydrology conveys pollutants directly to local waterways and increases erosion, resulting in deeply entrenched channels with steep banks lacking vegetation. Plaster Creek, located near Grand Rapids, MI, is an example of such an impaired stream, having become channelized and separated from adjacent floodplain habitat along much of its 26-mile length. As part of a Michigan EGLE 319 grant, Plaster Creek Stewards, an initiative of Calvin University, used nature-based …

Full Issue 15(4) 2023

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Risk Factors For Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury In The Pediatric Patient: A Systematic Review, Madison Schulz, Veronica Weihing, Manish N Shah, Charles S Cox, Irma Ugalde

The Brown Foundation: Institute of Molecular Medicine

Background: While blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) is a rare complication of blunt trauma, it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In the pediatric population, unique anatomy and development require screening criteria that accurately diagnose these injuries while limiting unwarranted radiation.

Methods: We searched Medline OVID, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases for studies that investigated the risk factors of BCVI in individuals younger than 18 years of age. We adhered to the Preferred Reporting Items in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and assessed the quality of each study using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. We compared key characteristics of the papers, …