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Cannabinoids For The Treatment Of Dermatologic Conditions, Torunn E. Sivesind, Jalal Maghfour, Hope Rietcheck, Kevin Kamel, Ali S. Malik, Robert P. Dellavalle

Dermatology Articles

In recent years, cannabinoid (CB) products have gained popularity among the public. The anti-inflammatory properties of CBs have piqued the interest of researchers and clinicians because they represent promising avenues for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory skin disorders that may be refractory to conventional therapy. The objective of this study was to review the existing literature regarding CBs for dermatologic conditions. A primary literature search was conducted in October 2020, using the PubMed and Embase databases, for all articles published from 1965 to October 2020. Review articles, studies using animal models, and nondermatologic and pharmacologic studies were excluded. From …

Current Water Quality Guidelines Across North America And Europe Do Not Protect Lakes From Salinization, Matthew Schuler

Department of Biology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Human-induced salinization caused by the use of road deicing salts, agricultural practices, mining operations, and climate change is a major threat to the biodiversity and functioning of freshwater ecosystems. Yet, it is unclear if freshwater ecosystems are protected from salinization by current water quality guidelines. Leveraging an experimental network of land-based and in-lake mesocosms across North America and Europe, we tested how salinization—indicated as elevated chloride (Cl²) concentration—will affect lake food webs and if two of the lowest Cl² thresholds found globally are sufficient to protect these food webs. Our results indicated that salinization will cause substantial …

Surviving The Field: Providing The Bare Minimum For Farmworkers In New Mexico, Annie Swift

New Mexico Law Review

People have cultivated the land now known as New Mexico for millennia. Throughout the last century, however, state law has denied important protections to agricultural workers and thereby contributed to the creation of an agrarian working class that is especially vulnerable to political majorities and powerful interests. For example, the New Mexico legislature explicitly exempted certain farm workers from the Workers’ Compensation Act in 1937, and from the Minimum Wage Act in 1966. Nationally, farm workers have faced exclusion from various labor, health, and safety laws. Consequently, farm workers have enjoyed few legal safeguards against the risk of injury and …

Analysis Of Livestock Movements And The Benefits And Costs Of Livestock Standstills In Australia As Part Of The Response To Foot-And-Mouth Disease, Ann Seitzinger, Graeme Garner, Richard Bradhurst, Walter Okelo, Michelle Rodan

Animal production and livestock published reports

This project involved analysis of livestock movements and used epidemiological modelling and cost analysis to estimate the benefits and costs of implementing livestock standstills in response to a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Australia. This was done in four steps: 1) assessing the extent of livestock movement, 2) conducting a cross sectional analysis of the impact (reduction of outbreak size and economic cost) of implementing a national standstill/movement control, 3) use of case specific studies to estimate impact of state/territory level implementation of standstill, and 4) cost analysis and comparison of national standstill with the state/jurisdictional level and risk-based approach …

Functional And Conformational Plasticity Of An Animal Group 1 Lea Protein, Brett Janis, Clinton Belott, Tyler Brockman, Michael Menze

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Group 1 (Dur-19, PF00477, LEA_5) Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins are present in organisms from all three domains of life, Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. Surprisingly, Artemia is the only genus known to include animals that express group 1 LEA proteins in their desiccation-tolerant life-history stages. Bioinformatics analysis of circular dichroism data indicates that the group 1 LEA protein AfLEA1 is surprisingly ordered in the hydrated state and undergoes during desiccation one of the most pronounced disorder-to-order transitions described for LEA proteins from A. franciscana. The secondary structure in the hydrated state is dominated by random coils (42%) and β-sheets (35%) …

March 2022 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Vol. 99, No. 3: Table Of Contents, Denver Law Review

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

Forage News [2022-03], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Platelet Based Preparation On Orthodontic Tooth Movement In Rabbits, Salma A. Mahmoud, Ahmed M. Fouda, Mohammed E. Grawish, Yasser L. Abdelnaby

Mansoura Journal of Dentistry

Objective: Autologous Platelet rich plasma (PRP) is used to accelerate orthodontic tooth movement, but its effect is still controversial. Materials and Methods: Twenty-eight male white Vienna rabbits were divided randomly into two main groups control and PRP. Each group included fourteen rabbits. Tooth movement was measured in seven rabbits from each group after 3 and 14 days respectively. Orthodontic tooth movement was generated by closed coil spring ligated between the mandibular first premolar and mandibular central incisors on both sides. The tooth movement was measured by measuring the space between mandibular first and second premolar using an orthodontic gauge and …

The Nine-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Scale (Igds9-Sf): Its Psychometric Properties Among Sri Lankan Students And Measurement Invariance Across Sri Lanka, Turkey, Australia, And The Usa, Amira Mohammed Ali, Rasmieh Al-Amer, Maha Atout, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Ayman M Hamdan Mansour, Haitham Khatatbeh, Abdulmajeed A. Alkhamees, Amin Omar Hendawy

School of Nursing & Midwifery

The prevalence of internet gaming disorders (IGD) is considerably high among youth, especially with the social isolation imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. IGD adversely affects mental health, quality of life, and academic performance. The Internet Gaming Disorder Scale (IGDS9-SF) is designed to detect IGD according to DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. However, inconsistent results are reported on its capacity to diagnose IGD evenly across different cultures. To ensure the suitability of the IGDS9-SF as a global measure of IGD, this study examined the psychometric properties of the IGDS9-SF in a sample of Sri Lankan university students (N = 322, mean age …

A Longitudinal And Cross-Sectional Study Of Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain Concentration In Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Alexander Martin Rossor, Mahima Kapoor, Henny Wellington, Emily L Spaulding, James N. Sleigh, Robert W. Burgess, Matilde Laura, Henrik Zetterberg, Alexa Bacha, Xingyao Wu, Amanda Heslegrave, Michael E. Shy, Mary M. Reilly

Faculty Research 2022

Advances in genetic technology and small molecule drug development have paved the way for clinical trials in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT); however, the current FDA-approved clinical trial outcome measures are insensitive to detect a meaningful clinical response. There is, therefore, a need to identify sensitive outcome measures or clinically relevant biomarkers. The aim of this study was to further evaluate plasma neurofilament light chain (NFL) as a disease biomarker in CMT. Plasma NFL was measured using SIMOA technology in both a cross-sectional study of a US cohort of CMT patients and longitudinally over 6‚Äâyears in a UK CMT cohort. In addition, …

A Novel Superabsorbent Material Based On Soybean Straw: Synthesis And Characterization, Jun Gau, Jingsong Huang, Tingguo Liu, Jianbin Chen, Srinivas Janaswamy

Dairy Science and Food Science Faculty Publications: 2022 to Present

A novel superabsorbent copolymer (SAP) was developed by grafting acrylic acid onto the pretreated soybean straw (PSBS) using gamma-ray irradiation. The structure of soybean straw, treated soybean straw, and SAP were characterized through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermo- gravimetric analysis (TG), and scanning electron micro- scopy (SEM). The effect of irradiation dose, the dosage of cross-link agent, and the monomer ratio of the graft copolymer on the water absorbency of the SAP was inves- tigated. The highest water absorbency of 1,489 g/g in dis- tilled water and 56 g/g in 0.9 wt% NaCl solution was obtained, …

How Free Is Free Speech: Media Bias, Pretrial Publicity, And Defendants' Need For A Universal Appellate Rule To Combat Prejudiced Juries, Haley Loquercio

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Saving Family Farms From Eliminated Step-Up In Basis, Sydney Burckart

The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review

To achieve tax equality, lawmakers have proposed eliminating the step-up in basis for assets passing through an estate at death. Closing the loophole would indeed tax the rich, but it would also impact middle-class Americans, including full-time farmers. Farmers would incur large tax liability, inhibiting their ability to earn a living exclusively on the farm. Eliminating step-up in basis is a volatile issue that lawmakers have considered implementing to achieve tax equality. This article will present the history of the step-up in basis debate and analyze past efforts to close the step-up in basis loophole. That history informs recent tax …

Fda-Approved: How Pfas-Laden Food Contact Materials Are Poisoning Consumers And What To Do About It, Katya S. Cronin

The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review

Nearly every person in the United States currently has in their body dangerous amounts of chemicals proven to cause cancer, endocrine disruptions, liver and kidney failures, infertility, developmental difficulties, learning disorders, and immunodeficiencies. These chemicals are known collectively as “PFAS”—per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances—and they were designed for heavily industrial applications. However, over the last two decades, they have surreptitiously and successfully migrated from heavy machinery and building sites onto the many items that consumers use to cook, serve, or store their food. With the FDA’s blessing, PFAS are now ubiquitous in food contact materials, from where they leach directly into …

Genetically Engineered Food, Food Security, And Climate Change, Joanna K. Sax

The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review

Malnutrition is the leading cause of death and disease worldwide. Climate change is an existential crisis. We need to feed people and address the role of agriculture in climate change – at the same time. This is problematic, as agriculture inherently creates issues that contributes to climate change. Utilizing science, through genetically engineered crops, is one way to close the harm gap between food security and climate change. This essay addresses the controversial issue of genetically engineered crops with the complicated issues of food security and cli-mate change by analyzing three main issues: (1) how the science of genetically engineered …

Creating Sustainable Food Systems With Trademarks And Technology, Agnes Beatrice Gambill

The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review

A geographical indication (GI) is a type of trademark that conveys the geographical origin and unique characteristics of a specialty product. Well-known examples of geographical indications include Champagne and Roquefort cheese. Numerous case studies from across the globe underscore the benefits that geographical indications can contribute to rural regions, such as increased job production, repopulation of rural areas, visibility, and renewed local pride. An international treaty called the Geneva Act grants intellectual property protection for geographical indications on a worldwide basis. Notably, the U.S. is not a party to this treaty and takes a hostile stance towards the use of …

Should The Great Food Transformation Be Fake-Meat Free? Considering Strategies For A Future Of Food That Is Kinder To People, Animals, And The Planet, Iselin Gambert

The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review

In 2019, former Trump White House adviser Sebastian Gorka infamously denounced advocates of the Green New Deal with the pithy admonishment, “They want to take away your hamburgers.” This rhetoric is ironic given that none of the politicians supporting the Deal have suggested widescale adoption of vegan diets, much less any laws or policies restricting the consumption of animal-based meat. However, given our species’ broken relationship to food, perhaps they should. The 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission Food in the Anthropocene report laid bare the scope of our current global predicament, warning that “[g]lobal food production threatens climate stability and ecosystem resilience …

Annual Color Photo Section

Nebraska Bird Review

The next seven pages show examples of this year's theme: cavity nesting birds. A cavity nest can be in a birdhouse, a hole in a tree, a hole in a stream bank, a burrow in the ground, or even a mud nest the birds construct themselves.

Female Yellowbellied Sapsucker, photographer's residence, Garfield Co., 5 Jan 2022. Photo by Bob Gerten.

Louisiana Waterthrush with young at nest under bank overhang, Rock Creek Station State Historical Park, Jefferson Co., 18 May 2016. Photo by John Carlini.

Pygmy Nuthatch, GilbertBaker WMA, Sioux Co., 11 July 2021. Photo by Colleen Childers.

Winter Wren, Platte …

The Nebraska Bird Review Volume 90 Number 1, March 2022

Nebraska Bird Review

Winter Field Report, Dec. 2021 - Feb. 2022 by W. Ross Silcock

2021-2022 Christmas Bird Counts by Don Paseka

Annual Color Photo Section

Annual Treasurer's Report for 2021 by Jan Johnson

Subscription and Organization Information

2021-2022 Christmas Bird Counts, Don Paseka

Nebraska Bird Review

With the addition of the new Fort Niobrara circle, 19 counts were run during the 2021-2022 CBC season. Thirteen of them were run from December 14 through December 21 and the other six were done December 27 or later. The weather was mild to start the count period with almost all water open. As the count period progressed, the weather became more seasonable and much of the standing water froze, but conditions remained fairly benign with the exception of the Lake McConaughy count on January 2. Though it was cold but sunny on that day, the previous day’s snow and …

Winter Field Report, December 2021-February 2022, W. Ross Silcock

Nebraska Bird Review

After compiling and reviewing the observations reported to NEBIRDS, various Facebook groups, and eBird, I reiterate my leadoff comments from last winter: the increasing numbers of observers taking time to report turned up some fascinating trends. Those cited as well as those not cited, all contributed to the firmness of the database that allows better-supported conclusions to be drawn than from our past reliance all too often on anecdotal supposition. Continuing a trend pointed out last winter were the many records of species north and west of their expected winter ranges. As I suggested last winter, “it is tempting to …

[Whm] Rio Grande Valley Women's History Poster Exhibit 2022, Shannon Pensa, Utrgv Special Collections & Archives

Library Display Posters

March is Women's History Month— a time to honor the historic achievements and contributions of women in the Rio Grande Valley.

New Treatment For Multiple Sclerosis Could Halt Disease Progression Without Weakening Immune System, Carter Helquist, Dario Mizrachi

Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2022

• Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neurological and autoimmune disease in which immune cells cause demyelination of axons in nervous tissue.
• Current treatments for the disease are principally aimed at weakening the immune system to therefore weaken the autoimmune attack on the brain. This leaves patients prone to other sicknesses.
• We seek a treatment that prevents the immune cells from entering the central nervous system (CNS) thereby protecting its cells.
• We can prevent immune cells from entering the CNS by strengthening the blood brain barrier through targeting claudin 5 proteins in the tight junctions.
• This new treatment could mean increased …

Rangeland Legacies Of Utah, Ethan Ostraff, Amber Johnson, Samuel Knuth, Rebecca Black

Library/Life Sciences Undergraduate Poster Competition 2022

In the heart of Utah lies a rich history of rangeland sciences and land use. Ephraim, Utah and the surrounding mountains and valleys have long been a valuable source of shelter and food for the peoples that have inhabited the region. Bands of Paiute and Ute Native Americans called this valley home until the 1850’s when Scandinavian pioneers began settling it. European settlers brought farming techniques that transformed the landscape.

Investigating Students’ Perceptions Of Screencasting Style Of Video Feedback In Online Courses, Patrick R. Lowenthal, Holly S. Fiock, Dana L. Shreaves, Eric S. Belt

Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Feedback is an essential part of the learning process. Asynchronous online courses are marked by an abundance of text-based feedback. Yet, video feedback in asynchronous online courses is a nascent field of inquiry. This study investigated student perceptions of screencasting style of video feedback in online courses. During this course, students received video feedback from their instructor, and provided and received video feedback to their peers. A total of 84 graduate students completed an end-of-course survey between 2018 and 2020 that focused in part on student satisfaction and perceived learning with video feedback and overall perceptions of social presence. Results …

An Abolitionist Critique Of Violence, Allegra Mcleod

University of Chicago Law Review

The violence experienced by young people of color in the city is multidimensional—both interpersonal and structural. So many of the young have to swallow their rage as they are surveilled in stores and on the streets, as they are targeted by cops for endless stops and frisks, as they are denied jobs, as their schools are closed, and as they are locked in cages by the thousands. For some, the violations and the deprivation turn outward. The instrumental use of violence by some young people becomes a rational adaptive strategy in response to racial and economic oppression. For some of …

Prevalence, Virulence Genes, And Antibiotic Resistance Of Escherichia Coli And Salmonella Spp. Isolated From Pigeons And Humans, Ahmed Hagag, Doaa Naguib, Amro Mohamed, Adel Elgohary

Mansoura Veterinary Medical Journal

AbstractObjective: To investigate the prevalence of Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. and their virulence genes and antimicrobial resistance in pigeons and humans in El-Dakahlia province, Egypt.Design: Descriptive study.Samples: A total of 274 samples were collected from pigeons (148 cloacal swabs, 20 feather swabs, and 26 egg samples), pigeons’ environment (21 feed samples and 21 water samples), and their contact humans (20 hand swabs and 18 stool samples) in El- Dakahlia province, EgyptProcedures: Cultural media, biochemical tests, and serotyping were used to isolate and identify E. coli and Salmonella from the collected samples. Moreover, multiplex-PCR for detecting virulence genes and antibiotic …

Additional Records Of Ectosymbionts From The Ovenbird (Seiurus Aurocapilla) On Vaca Key, Florida, Lawrence J. Hribar

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Fourteen Years Of Jay Watch Data Gathered On Small Scrub Fragments In Indian River County, Florida, Eleanor K. Van Os, Joseph D. Carroll

Florida Field Naturalist

The Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) is the only bird en- demic to Florida and is now listed as imperiled under the Federal Endangered Species Act. The primary reasons for this status are the loss of scrub habitat to development and inconsistent land management. Even with the protection provided by state and fed- eral laws, many jay populations are likely to disappear as a result of their small size and isolation from larger populations. We assessed 14 years (2007–2020) of data from Jay Watch, a statewide citizen-science initiative, in Indian River County Florida where fragmented sites range from 3.5–6.5 …