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Trophic Model Closure Influences Ecosystem Response To Enrichment, Anne Willem Omta

Faculty Scholarship

There exists considerable uncertainty about the most appropriate functional form to describe mortality at the highest trophic level (the closure problem). Although linear and quadratic formulations predict strongly different dynamics, it is unclear which of these formulations is more realistic. We introduce an implicit predator population feeding on the highest trophic level, parameterized through a Holling Type II functional response and empirically observed predator–prey scaling relations. Thus, we arrive at a hyperbolic mortality formulation that is a hybrid between the linear and quadratic forms. Subsequently, we investigate the impact of this formulation on the modeled population dynamics. In particular, we …

The Student Movement Volume 107 Issue 8: Cuffing Season, Co-Curriculars, And Ctc Telehealth: The Student Movement Highlights Important Issues On Campus, Lauren Kim, Nora Martin, Caryn Cruz, Ceiry Flores, Solana Campbell, Skyler Campbell, Neesa Richards, Nicholas C. Gunn, Gloria Oh, Andrew Francis, T Bruggemann, Alexander Navarro, Jonathon Woolford-Hunt, Scott Moncrieff, Joseph Keough, Brendan Syto, Alannah Tjhatra

The Student Movement v. 107 (2022-2023)

HUMANS

CTC Prevention Coordinator/Staff Counselor Interview: Nycole Goldberg, Interviewed by: Lauren Kim

Meet Ellie Dovich: Cast/Cardinal Lead Editor, Interviewed by: Nora Martin

Women in Stem: A Peek into Physics, Interviewed by: Caryn Cruz

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Creatives on Campus: Art via Insta, Ceiry Flores

Currently..., Solana Campbell

Spotlight: The Parent Trap, Skyler Campbell

NEWS

AUSA Senate News Update, November 2022, Neesa Richards, AUSA Senate Public Relations Officer

Governor Whitmer Takes A Stop In Benton Harbor, Nicholas C. Gunn

Home Season Opener, Solana Campbell

Hopes and Plans Behind the Seminary Center of Community Change, Interviewed by: Gloria Oh

The Days Speak …

Vista: November 10, 2022, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

The Writing Center Journal

Front matter and editors' introduction to The Writing Center Journal 40:2 (2022).

Characterizations And Potential Recovery Pathways Of Phosphate Mines Waste Rocks, Amine El Mahdi Safhi, Hicham Amar, Yahya El Berdai, Mustapha El Ghorfi, Yassine Taha, Rachid Hakkou, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan, Mostafa Benzaazoua

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The Phosphate Ore Production is Steadily Increasing Due to its High Demand for Agriculture, Medicine, and Others. Ore Extraction Generates a Considerable Quantity of Waste Rocks that Are Generally Stocked in Piles. the Current Research Aims to Investigate the Characterization of Phosphate Mine Waste Rocks (PMWR) Generated in Benguerir, Morocco Mine Site. as a Part of a Wide Project Aiming to Recycle Those Stockpiles, Sensor-Based Ore Sorting Will Be Employed to Separate the Different Lithologies. as a Prior Investigation Before Implementing This Technology, Two Samples of 25 Tons from the Destoning and Screening PMWR Piles Were Sampled and Submitted to …

Disparities In Neighborhood Park Access Among Adults In Philadelphia, Russell K. Mcintire, Tiara Halstead, Devesh Dajee, Meghan Buckley, Kyle Mcgregor, Sharon Larson

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

Researchers have clearly identified the importance of green space to promote mental and physical health among humans. In urban areas, public parks are essential for providing access to green space for many residents. This study identified the relationships between demographics, neighborhood social capital, violent crime, and residential distance to the closest park (park proximity) with self-reported access to neighborhood parks, among a population-representative sample of adults in Philadelphia. Women, older age groups, minorities, and those with lower education levels had lower self-reported access to neighborhood parks. Those reporting high neighborhood social capital had higher self-reported access to neighborhood parks. Park …

Community Heritage: A Source Of Health/Medical Aspirational Capital For Black Males, Lafrance Clarke Jr.

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

There is a recognized need for more Black male healers who pursue careers in medical fields.Thus, the purpose of this study was twofold: to explore historical documents to tell the histories of men of African descent who practiced healing in Florida and, from those histories, create a virtual heritage tour to support teaching about leadership through African American history and narratives of healing. The research questions were: How does the heritage curriculum history about Black men healers of FL provide a historical counter-narrative about Black men and their leadership in connection to health/medicine?How do historical counter-narratives about Black men support …

The Effects Of Motivationally Enhanced Digital Game-Based Learning On Undergraduate Students’ Learning Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, And Learning Retention In College Algebra, Dennis Ward

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to design, develop, and test the effects of digital game-based learning on undergraduate students’ learning motivation, mathematics achievement, and learning retention in a college algebra course. Digital games utilize interactive digital media that offer rules-based challenges and react to the individual’s choices. Digital games have been used in preschool, K-12, higher education, and workplace environments in a wide range of subject areas, including language arts, secondary language acquisition, social studies, science, and math. Specifically, the effectiveness of digital game-based learning on students’ learning and motivation has been studied in college-level mathematics courses. However, previous …

Assessing The Contribution Of Rare Genetic Variants To Phenotypes Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Using Whole-Genome Sequence Data, Wonji Kim, Julian Hecker, R Graham Barr, Eric Boerwinkle, Brian Cade, Adolfo Correa, Josée Dupuis, Sina A Gharib, Leslie Lange, Stephanie J London, Alanna C Morrison, George T O'Connor, Elizabeth C Oelsner, Bruce M Psaty, Ramachandran S Vasan, Susan Redline, Stephen S Rich, Jerome I Rotter, Bing Yu, Christoph Lange, Ani Manichaikul, Jin J Zhou, Tamar Sofer, Edwin K Silverman, Dandi Qiao, Michael H Cho, Nhlbi Trans-Omics In Precision Medicine (Topmed) Consortium And Topmed Lung Working Group

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Rationale: Genetic variation has a substantial contribution to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung function measurements. Heritability estimates using genome-wide genotyping data can be biased if analyses do not appropriately account for the nonuniform distribution of genetic effects across the allele frequency and linkage disequilibrium (LD) spectrum. In addition, the contribution of rare variants has been unclear.

Objectives: We sought to assess the heritability of COPD and lung function using whole-genome sequence data from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program.

Methods: Using the genome-based restricted maximum likelihood method, we partitioned the genome into bins based on minor allele frequency …

Erk Inhibitor Ulixertinib Inhibits High-Risk Neuroblastoma Growth In Vitro And In Vivo, Yang Yu, Yanling Zhao, Jongmin Choi, Zhongcheng Shi, Linjie Guo, John Elizarraras, Andy Gu, Feng Cheng, Yanxin Pei, Dai Lu, Muller Fabbri, Saurabh Agarwal, Chunchao Zhang, Sung Yun Jung, Jennifer H Foster, Jianhua Yang

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Neuroblastoma (NB) is a pediatric tumor of the peripheral nervous system. Approximately 80% of relapsed NB show RAS-MAPK pathway mutations that activate ERK, resulting in the promotion of cell proliferation and drug resistance. Ulixertinib, a first-in-class ERK-specific inhibitor, has shown promising antitumor activity in phase 1 clinical trials for advanced solid tumors. Here, we show that ulixertinib significantly and dose-dependently inhibits cell proliferation and colony formation in different NB cell lines, including PDX cells. Transcriptomic analysis revealed that ulixertinib extensively inhibits different oncogenic and neuronal developmental pathways, including EGFR, VEGF, WNT, MAPK, NGF, and NTRK1. The proteomic analysis further revealed …

De Novo Identification Of Microbial Contaminants In Low Microbial Biomass Microbiomes With Squeegee, Yunxi Liu, R A Leo Elworth, Michael D Jochum, Kjersti M Aagaard, Todd J Treangen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Computational analysis of host-associated microbiomes has opened the door to numerous discoveries relevant to human health and disease. However, contaminant sequences in metagenomic samples can potentially impact the interpretation of findings reported in microbiome studies, especially in low-biomass environments. Contamination from DNA extraction kits or sampling lab environments leaves taxonomic "bread crumbs" across multiple distinct sample types. Here we describe Squeegee, a de novo contamination detection tool that is based upon this principle, allowing the detection of microbial contaminants when negative controls are unavailable. On the low-biomass samples, we compare Squeegee predictions to experimental negative control data and show that …

Lifecourse Transitions: How Icts Support Older Migrants’ Adaptation To Transnational Lives, Hien Thi Nguyen, Loretta Baldassar, Raelene Wilding

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Lifecourse transitions from adulthood into older age are particularly complex for transnational migrants, bringing additional challenges and opportunities. Adding to the growing literature on ageing and migration, this article illustrates the ways ICTs facilitate the transnational lifecourse transitions of Vietnamese migrant grandparents in Australia through lifecourse digital learning. Research findings highlight the crucial role that digital citizenship plays in supporting migrant grandparents’ adaptation to increasingly mobile lives through practices of digital kinning and digital homing. These practices include using technological tools to maintain social support networks, exchange transnational caregiving, tackle language, nav-igation, and social integration barriers, and consume culturally relevant …

A Young Adult With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome In Adults With Concomitant Mycoplasma Infection: A Case Report, Punya Hari Dahal, Ojbindra Kc, Manisha Koirala, Afua Duker Ntem-Mensah

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Several cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults (MIS-A) have been reported in adults since June 2020 after COVID-19 was first reported in December 2019. It was initially reported in children as MIS-C with Kawasaki-like disease, but a similar condition has been well recognized in adults. Although Mycoplasma co-infection has been reported with COVID-19, to our knowledge, concomitant Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection has not been reported together with MIS-A. We present a case of MIS-A with concomitant Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. It is unclear if concomitant Mycoplasma infection resulted in increased severity of the patient’s illness or if it resulted in inciting …

The Gazette November 9, 2022, Langston University

LU Gazette, 2020-2029

The student newspaper for Langston University

We Are ... Marshall, November 9, 2022, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, November 9, 2022, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2022

Volume 159, Issue 34

Committee On Academic Standing Minutes November 9, 2022, Bronx Community College Committee On Academic Standing

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the Committee on Academic Standing on November 9, 2022.

Gen Impact Partners: How An Alum Used Her Passions To Start A Business, Anna Madden

Sustainability Institute Blog

No abstract provided.

The College Voice, Vol. 57, No. 4 [November 9, 2022], Connecticut College

2022-2023

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: November 09, 2022, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

Functional Data Analysis Of Covid-19, Nichole L. Fluke

Mathematics & Statistics ETDs

This thesis deals with Functional Data Analysis (FDA) on COVID data. The Data involves counts for new COVID cases, hospitalized COVID patients, and new COVID deaths. The data used is for all the states and regions in the United States. The data starts in March 1^st, 2020 and goes through March 31^st, 2021. The FDA smooths the data and looks to see if there are similarities or differences between the states and regions in the data. The data also shows which states and regions stand out from the others and which ones are similar. Also shown …

Commonwealth Times 2022-11-09

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

November 9, 2022 (Vol. 107, No. 12), Daily Eastern News

Daily Eastern News: 2022-2023

No abstract provided.

Standardization Of Care For Transition-Age Youth At Emancipation: An Analysis Of Service Provision, Sarah K. Sheffield

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Florida Department of Children and Families notes community-based care (CBC) agencies are competent entities who present with their own method of service delivery and design. Recent evaluations show concerns in service selection to include a tendency to choose programming based on face validity, a lack of capacity and availability of services by geographical location, and a failure to systematically encompass stakeholder voice. The purpose of this study was to gain insight on how agencies make decisions regarding the selection of services for transition-age youth at emancipation.

A set of direct care providers from CBC and non-profit agencies participated in …

An Examination Of Parental Coping Strategies During Catastophic Events, Vivian K. Mills

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

On March 11, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Sars CoV-2 a global pandemic. The virus that originated in Wuhan, China, had spread to several other countries causing governments to shut down and issue safety mandates to slow and stop the spread. The pandemic caused global changes to normal routines and highlighted the importance of coping during these tough times. Although the global COVID-19 pandemic encompassed much of the news during the past few years, it is not an isolated catastrophic event to have impacted society. Natural disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, wars, and other disasters have …

Spa 201 Intermediate Spanish I Course, Paola Evangelista

Open Educational Resources

Spanish 201 is the first of a two-course sequence (201 and 202) designed for intermediate-level students of Spanish. In this course, students will continue grammar review, extensive reading, composition, and oral practice. THE CLASS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN SPANISH. The goal of the class is to improve students’ Spanish skills while also expanding their knowledge of the language by incorporating the students' shared cultural and historical backgrounds.

Textbook Affordability + Wordpress + Dc Api = Unique Etextbook Portal Collaboration, Lee Dotson, Bobby Ciullo, Lily Dubach, Kerri Bottorff

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

As part of a textbook affordability initiative, the University of Central Florida Libraries sought ways to inform students that hundreds of required textbooks are available for free as library eTextbooks. When other methods did not include necessary information such as a link to the eTextbook or other details, a secondary method was investigated: creating an eTextbook Portal. An eTextbook Portal serves as a searchable webpage to help students locate eTextbooks that match their courses. A collaboration between the institutional repository, textbook affordability, and web services produced this creative solution to organize and share information for each eTextbook using Digital Commons …

Communication And Mutual Support: A Team Stepps Approach To Teamwork, Melissa Oberle

Nursing

Introduction: Teamwork is critical to delivering safe patient care. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Department of Defense (DOD) teamed up to develop the TeamSTEPPS® program, based on just culture and high reliability to improve teamwork among healthcare providers.

Purpose: This integrative review aimed to improve medical-surgical nurses' communication and mutual support to ensure that proper teamwork is in place within the unit of a hospital that has recently opened.

Methodology: Fifteen studies were analyzed, and the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Evidence Summary Tool was used to gather qualitative data from the literature to support …

Females Exhibit Higher Glua2 Levels And Outperform Males In Active Place Avoidance Despite Increased Amyloid Plaques In Tgf344‑Alzheimer’S Rats, Osama Chaudry, Kelechi Ndukwe, Maria Figuiredo-Perira, Peter A. Serrano, Patricia Rockwell

Publications and Research

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is most prevalent in females. While estrogen provides neuroprotection in females, sex mediated differences in the development of AD pathology are not fully elucidated. Therefore, comparing events between sexes in early-stage AD pathology may reveal more effective therapeutic targets of intervention. To address sex differences, we analyzed early-stage 9-month male and female TgF344-AD (Tg-AD) rats, an AD model carrying the APPswe and Presenilin 1 (PS1ΔE9) mutations that develops progressive age-dependent AD pathology similar to humans. Tg-AD females significantly outperformed Tg-AD males in the active place avoidance (aPAT) test that assesses hippocampal-dependent …

A Comprehensive Artificial Intelligence Framework For Dental Diagnosis And Charting, Tanjida Kabir, Chun-Teh Lee, Luyao Chen, Xiaoqian Jiang, Shayan Shams

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to develop artificial intelligence (AI) guided framework to recognize tooth numbers in panoramic and intraoral radiographs (periapical and bitewing) without prior domain knowledge and arrange the intraoral radiographs into a full mouth series (FMS) arrangement template. This model can be integrated with different diseases diagnosis models, such as periodontitis or caries, to facilitate clinical examinations and diagnoses.

METHODS: The framework utilized image segmentation models to generate the masks of bone area, tooth, and cementoenamel junction (CEJ) lines from intraoral radiographs. These masks were used to detect and extract teeth bounding boxes utilizing several …