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Guest Artist Recital Series; Winterreise: February 7, 2025, Nathan Windt, Marian Lee, Randal Richmond

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

February 7, 2025

Friday Evening

7:00 p.m.

Corn Tolerance To Florpyrauxifen-Benzyl Rates And Its Mixture With Atrazine And Mesotrione, Amar Godar, Jason K. Norsworthy, L. Tom Barber

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Florpyrauxifen-benzyl is a new synthetic auxin herbicide labeled in rice with a broad spectrum of control, typically more potent on broadleaf weeds. It has garnered some interest as a potential broadleaf weed control option for use in corn at low rates. Field experiments were conducted in Fayetteville, Arkansas, from 2019 through 2021 to examine the response of corn to postemergence applications of florpyrauxifen-benzyl at three rates (7.5, 15, and 30 g ae ha-1), as well as mixtures of the herbicide with atrazine (at half or full rate), mesotrione, or a combination of atrazine (at half rate) and mesotrione. Injury and …

Meditation Or Medication: Comparing Meditation To Phosphatidylserine In The Reduction Of Salivary Cortisol In Collegiate Tennis Players Post Exercise, Elizabeth Ann Novian Hughes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Phosphatidylserine (PS) is a glycerophospholipid made in the body that is a part of the cell membrane (Carter & Greenwood, 2015; McArdle et al., 2019). PS reduces cortisol levels in the body (McArdle et al., 2019). Meditation is a “consistent self-care practice…that allows for developing loving awareness of current thoughts and feelings” (Valluri et al., 2024. Definition section, para. 1). Sadimi et al. (2021) used mindfulness meditation and found cortisol reductions were high. Meditation (MED) has not been compared to PS in reducing cortisol. Cortisol is increased in the body in response to the reception of stress input, such as …

Beyond The Closed-Forest Paradigm: Cross-Scale Vegetation Structure In Temperate Europe Before The Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinctions, Elena A. Pearce, Florence Mazier, Charles W. Davison, Oliver Baines, Szymon Czyzewski, Ralph Fyfe, K Binka, Steve Boreham, Jacques Louis De Beaulieu, Cunhai Gao, Wojciech Granoszewski, Anna Hrynowiecka, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Tim Mighall, Bożena Noryśkiewicz, Irena Agnieszka Pidek, Jaqueline Strahl, Hanna Winter, Jens Christian Svenning

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Last Interglacial (∼129,000–116,000 years ago) provides key insights into temperate European vegetation dynamics before significant anthropogenic impacts. Using LOVE (Local Vegetation Estimates) and REVEALS (Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites) models, this study reconstructs vegetation patterns across local (∼9 km²) and regional (∼100 km²) scales. Local landscapes presented a heterogeneous mosaic, with averages of 17 % open vegetation, 21 % closed forests, and 63 % light woodlands, reflecting high fine-scale heterogeneity. Importantly, weak local-regional correlations highlight the importance of localised drivers. Longitude and, to a lesser extent, precipitation explained some variation in local vegetation openness, but heterogeneity …

Sc Poster Guide, Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Relationship Between Food And Connection To God, Angela M. Hall

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A person’s relationship with God is a personal one, as is the choice of the food we eat. Today we see more and more people struggle with unhealthy relationships with food. And our relationship with food affects more than just our physical health. Food and diet can play a role in how we hear from God. The present qualitative study aimed to understand the relationship between food and connection to God. Specifically, this study aimed to explain lived experiences with food and if diet affected connection to God. A total of twelve Christian, adult men and women participated in 1:1 …

Financial Illiteracy Elimination Through The Development Of A Biblical Financial Literacy Curriculum For New Life Sda Church, Christopher L. Hughes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The problem at New Life SDA Church is biblical financial illiteracy, caused by a lack of scriptural understanding of stewardship; the existence of knowledge gaps pertaining to modern, personal financial management practices; and substandard education across generations. As a result, there is a cascading effect of sustained cross-generational scarcity, difficulties fulfilling daily commitments and responsibilities, problematic family landscapes, and non-fulfillment of church-related stewardship. Protection against financial illiteracy is for New Life Seventh-day Adventist congregants to study and utilize biblical stewardship principles, along with modern financial concepts and practices in their lives. Therefore, this research project’s purpose was to train this …

Learning From Sesame Street: A Qualitative Analysis Of Acceptance, Inclusion, And Cultural Diversity, Justin M. Polette

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Sesame Street first aired on public television in 1968. Sesame Street was developed by television producer Joan Ganz Cooney in partnership with educational and developmental psychologists to bridge the achievement gap in school readiness, specifically in underserved and underrepresented urban communities. This achievement gap was credited to societal racism and a lack of acculturation and racial diversity. Sesame Street was one of the first television programs, and the first children’s program, to feature an urban setting and a culturally diverse cast. During the 1940s, television programming was an almost exclusively white, Caucasian medium. The roles written for minority characters were …

A Synthetic Chronogenetic Gene Circuit For Programmed Circadian Drug Delivery, Lara Pferdehirt, Anna R Damato, Kristin L Lenz, Maria F Gonzalez-Aponte, Daniel Palmer, Qing-Jun Meng, Erik D Herzog, Farshid Guilak

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Circadian medicine, the delivery of therapeutic interventions based on an individual's daily rhythms, has shown improved efficacy and reduced side-effects for various treatments. Rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases are characterized by diurnal changes in cytokines, leading to inflammatory flares, with peak disease activity in the early morning. Using a combination of synthetic biology and tissue engineering, we developed circadian-based gene circuits, termed "chronogenetics", that express a prescribed transgene downstream of the core clock gene promoter, Period2 (Per2). Gene circuits were transduced into induced pluripotent stem cells that were tissue-engineered into cartilage constructs. Our anti-inflammatory chronogenetic constructs produced therapeutic concentrations …

Bacterial Community Assembly Of Specific Pathogen-Free Neonatal Mice, Elizabeth A Kennedy, James S Weagley, Andrew H Kim, Avan Antia, Anna L Deveaux, Megan T Baldridge

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Neonatal mice are frequently used to model diseases that affect human infants. Microbial community composition has been shown to impact disease progression in these models. Despite this, the maturation of the early-life murine microbiome has not been well-characterized. We address this gap by characterizing the assembly of the bacterial microbiota of C57BL/6 and BALB/c litters from birth to adulthood across multiple independent litters.

RESULTS: The fecal microbiome of young pups is dominated by only a few pioneering bacterial taxa. These taxa are present at low levels in the microbiota of multiple maternal body sites, precluding a clear identification of …

Effectiveness Of Empagliflozin In Treating Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Systematic Review, Sara Abou Al-Saud

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Aim

The goal of this systematic review is to determine the effectiveness of empagliflozin in managing patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) as compared with a placebo

Methods

Web of Science, Cochrane, PubMed, and Scopus databases were searched for articles from 2000 to 2023. Reference lists of articles were manually screened. Trials that recruited patients with HFpEF and reported the effects of empagliflozin were included. Endnote X9 software was used for the study screening process.

Results

1029 non-duplicate articles were identified from the literature and 9 were selected for inclusion in this review. The included papers were …

System And Methods For A Unified Speaker And Microphone Design For Ultrasonics

Defensive Publications Series

Methods and systems are described for an acoustic system capable of facilitating an audio signal pathway and capture ultrasonic signals via applications and/or algorithms associated with an electronic device. In an example, systems or methods may receive, via a sensor associated with a device, an audio signal. The received audio data may be converted to audio data. The audio data may be analyzed to determine a difference in acoustic characteristics in relation to a threshold. When the difference in acoustic characteristics is above the threshold, an indication may be sent to stop emittance of an ultrasonic pulse. Conversely, when the …

2025 Sdsu Data Science Symposium Abstracts, South Dakota State University

SDSU Data Science Symposium

Abstracts for keynotes, invited sessions, and posters for the 2025 SDSU Data Symposium.

Comprehensive Sumo Proteomic Analyses Identify Hiv Latency-Associated Proteins In Microglia., Fergan Imbert, Dianne Langford

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

SUMOylation, the post-translational modification of proteins by small ubiquitin-like modifiers, plays a critical role in regulating various cellular processes, including innate immunity. This modification is essential for modulating immune responses and influencing signaling pathways that govern the activation and function of immune cells. Recent studies suggest that SUMOylation also contributes to the pathophysiology of central nervous system (CNS) viral infections, where it contributes to the host response and viral replication dynamics. Here, we explore the multifaceted role of SUMOylation in innate immune signaling and its implications for viral infections within the CNS. Notably, we present novel proteomic analyses aimed at …

Special Purpose Epr Resonators, Gareth R. Eaton

TeachEPR Submissions

Many types of EPR resonators are described.

Special applications that use various resonators are mentioned.

Trichromacy Is Insufficient For Mate Detection In A Mimetic Butterfly, Andrew Dang, Gary D. Bernard, Furong Yuan, Aide Macias-Muñoz, Ryan I. Hill, J. P. Lawrence, Aline Giselle Rangel Olguin, Armando Luis-Martínez, Sean P. Mullen, Jorge Llorente-Bousquets, Adriana D. Briscoe

Pacific Faculty Work

Color vision is thought to play a key role in the evolution of animal coloration, while achromatic vision is rarely considered as a mechanism for species recognition. Here we test the hypothesis that brightness vision rather than color vision helps Adelpha fessonia butterflies identify potential mates while their co-mimetic wing coloration is indiscriminable to avian predators. We examine the trichromatic visual system of A. fessonia and characterize its photoreceptors using RNA-seq, eyeshine, epi-microspectrophotometry, and optophysiology. We model the discriminability of its wing color patches in relation to those of its co-mimic, A. basiloides, through A. fessonia and avian eyes. Visual …

Education Policy Committee Agenda March 6, 2025, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Approval of Minutes - February 6, 2025
• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee
• Other Business
• Adjourn: 4:00 pm

The Current - Volume 35 Issue 8, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Rattler (Volume 113, Issue 5), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

Forever Chemicals And Livestock: Exploring Contmination Of Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances On Farms And Assessing Usda's Role In Indemnification, Chance Mitchell

Natural Resources Journal

This article examines the limitations of existing federal authorities in addressing the growing threat of PFAS contamination in livestock production operations. While existing programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), such as the Livestock Indemnity Program, provide critical support for producers facing natural disasters, they do not cover losses related to toxic substances like PFAS. The only USDA program offering PFAS-related indemnity is the Dairy Indemnity Payment Program (DIPP), but its narrow scope limits coverage to dairy farms. Efforts to amend the statutory language of existing programs or create new ones face significant hurdles, including Congress’s rigid approach to …

Dark Skies: Places, Practices, Communities Edited By Nick Dunn & Tim Edensor, Stella Rose-Wyatt

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Wellness Literature Review - 2024, Bidhu Sharma, Martin Huecker, Brian A. Ferguson

Journal of Wellness

Introduction: The Journal of Wellness has moved to a single calendar year editorial review of wellness literature. This annual review includes studies published in 2024.

Methods: Authors conducted a PubMed and Google Scholar keyword search, narrowing results to interventional studies / clinical trials in humans.

Literature in Review: We conducted a thematic review of a selection of relevant papers from the literature search. COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the rate of burnout and impacted well-being of healthcare providers. Need for intervention in this area has arisen significantly since the pandemic. Post pandemic, working conditions have been normalized to some extent, however, …

Winter Hay-Feeding Effects On Soil Properties In A Rotationally Grazed Pasture System In The Ozark Highlands, Larry Berry, Kristofor R. Brye, Andrew Sharpley, Ron Morrow, Dirk Phillip, Tim A. Glover, James M. Burke, Mike B. Daniels

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Soil nutrient management for pastures in Arkansas often ignores nutrients applied from feeding hay to cattle. Discounting nutrient contributions from hay may increase the likelihood of unnecessary fertilizer over-application. This study evaluated the effects of unrolling bales (unroll fed, UF) and using a ring feeder (ring fed, RF), compared to an unamended control, on changes in soil properties in the top 4 inches in a rotationally grazed, beef [red angus (Bos taurus)] pasture on silt-loam soils in northwest Arkansas. Forty-six cow-calf pairs were fed hay at 6.6 tons acre(-1) year(-1) (14.8 Mg ha(-1) year(-1); dry-weight basis) from December to February …

The Cowl - V. 88 N. 13 - February 6, 2025

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 88 No. 13 - February 6, 2025. 16 pages.

Spartan Daily, February 6, 2025, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2025

Volume 164, Issue 7

Oncogenic Kras Mutations Confer A Unique Mechanotransduction Response To Peristalsis In Colorectal Cancer Cells, Abigail J Clevenger, Claudia A Collier, John Paul M Gorley, Sarah Colijn, Maygan K Mcfarlin, Spencer C Solberg, Scott Kopetz, Amber N Stratman, Shreya A Raghavan

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Colorectal cancer tumors start as polyps on the inner lining of the colorectum, in which they are exposed to the mechanics of peristalsis. Our previous work leveraged a custom-built peristalsis bioreactor to demonstrate that colonic peristalsis led to cancer stem cell enrichment in colorectal cancer cells. However, this malignant mechanotransductive response was confined to select colorectal cancer lines that harbored an oncogenic mutation in the Kirsten rat sarcoma virus (KRAS) gene. In this study, we explored the involvement of activating KRAS mutations on peristalsis-associated mechanotransduction in colorectal cancer. Peristalsis enriched cancer stem cell marker Leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 …

Quaker Campus, February 6, 2025 (Vol. 23, Issue 8), Whittier College

Quaker Campus

No abstract provided.

February 6, 2025, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2020-

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Montana Kaimin, February 6, 2025, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Sc Packet, Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.