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Noyce Science, 2012-2021 Ten Cohorts Of Teachers, Master Of Arts For Science Teaching Brings Science To Life, Unl Noyce Track 1, Phase 2 Grant Activity Brochure, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Elizabeth Hasseler, Lindsay Augustyn, Tori Pederson, Grace Kovar

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Summary of UNL NSF Robert Noyce Track 1, Phase 2 grant (2015-2020) to recruit and prepare new secondary science teachers and associated research activities.

The perennial drive to recruit and prepare science professionals to become science teachers requires an enormous, collaborative effort. At the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, we have pledged ourselves to that worthy cause of educating new science teachers. This report summarizes the accomplishments of and celebrates those science teachers who have dedicated themselves to educating diverse youth and fostering a love of science in a world of STEM possibilities. They are the new generation of educators who face, …

Unilateral Adrenal Hemorrhage: A Rare Complication Of Anticoagulant Use, Batoul Nasser, Moneb S. Bughrara, Hazem Alakhras, Zeinab Nasser, Omar F. Jameel

Internal Medicine Articles

Unilateral adrenal hemorrhage is a rare but deadly complication that can occur secondary to causes such as trauma and metastasis. A 55-year-old male with a history of metastatic lung adenocarcinoma and deep vein thrombosis managed with rivaroxaban presented with acute right abdominal and flank pain. A CT angiogram of the abdomen showed a retroperitoneal hematoma around the right adrenal gland, consistent with a unilateral adrenal hemorrhage. An MRI showed no signs of adrenal metastasis and the patient had no history of trauma. The volume of the hematoma did not change in size and the patient was hemodynamically stable, which only …

Biob 160n.01: Principles Of Living Systems, Katie M. Holick

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Jujutsu Persuasion: Learning How To Coopt With Another’S Values, Robert D. Costigan, Kyle Brink

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

The purpose of this pedagogical paper is to present three innovative exercises that foster learning of oral-persuasion skills at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Namely, business students are instructed to frame their arguments on delicate issues with the other person’s values. The technique is called jujutsu persuasion because it uses an adversary’s force (i.e., their key values) against them, instead of attempting to persuade with one’s own values. Prior research has shown that jujutsu persuasion can moderate the other person’s more extreme attitudes and reduce their defensiveness. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy as a framework, the first exercise develops knowledge and understanding …

Sex Differences In Competitiveness In Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (Mmorpgs), Robert O. Deaner, Lucretia C. Dunlap, April Bleske-Rechek

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

Sex differences in the use of competitive tactics have been well established. Although many factors may contribute to these sex differences, according to social role theory (SRT), stereotypes and expectations about men's and women's typical social roles are crucial. We addressed the potential impact of social roles by studying massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), a setting where individuals represent themselves with avatars and thus enjoy the opportunity to compete without regard to the typical expectations and behaviors associated with men's and women's roles. We surveyed players via MTurk (63 women, 191 men) and Reddit (166 women, 1,326 men) regarding …

More Than Just Captions: Using Universal Design For Learning Principles To Create Accessible Videos, Rachel L. Edford

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Talk given for the Summer 2022 Stay Savvy with Scholarly Communication Series through UCF Libraries.

Botulinum Toxin For The Treatment Of Leg Spasticity In Children With Cerebral Palsy, Kathleen Matzke

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Papers

Cerebral palsy affects 3 out of every 1000 children in the United States. It is multifactorial and not fully understood. What is known is that most of the cerebral palsy cases are congenital and the majority of motor dysfunction is classified as spastic. Over the last 25 years botulinum toxin has been a part of the first line treatment in children with spasticity. The purpose of this literature review is to determine if botulinum toxin is as safe and effective compared to a placebo or therapy alone in children. Key words and mesh terms were used in AccessMedicine, Cochrane Review, …

Risk Factors Of Intracerebral Hemorrhage – A Cross Sectional Study, Mir Jalal-Ud-Din, Raheel Jehangir Jadoon, Syed Affan Ali, Samia Wazir Khawaja, Zahid Gul Jadoon, Ibtisam .

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

ABSTRACT Background and Objective: Stroke is the major cause of disability and one of the top causes of death in the globe. Though the rate is decreasing in the West, it is most likely growing in Asia. In Pakistan, the burden of stroke risk factors is substantial. Although data on the incidence and prevalence of stroke in Pakistan is limited, there are several published case studies demonstrating major disparities in stroke epidemiology, risk factors, kinds, and patterns. This study aims to identify risk factors of intracerebral hemorrhage among patients presenting to a teaching hospital. Methods: From August 2019 to February …

Practical Measures For Disabled’S Empowerment-Time For Economic Growth!, Mahnoor Hafeez

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

The objective of this article is to advocate for persons with disabilities’ (PWD) rights, to discuss issues solutions, social awareness and to promote diversity and inclusion. The word ‘Disability’ covers a wide range of irreversible permanent impairments including physical and mobility difficulties, hearing, visual impairment, specific learning disabilities including dyslexia, medical conditions and mental health problems that may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.1 Handicap is the condition of being unable to perform due to physical or mental unfitness.

Immunosuppression Broadens Evolutionary Pathways To Drug Resistance And Treatment Failure During Acinetobacter Baumannii Pneumonia In Mice, Wenwen Ho, Lindsay M. Busch, Juan Hernandez-Bird, Efrat Hamami, Christopher Marshall, Edward Geisinger, Vaughn S. Cooper, Tim Van Opijnen, Jason W. Rosch, Ralph R. Isberg

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Acinetobacter baumannii is increasingly refractory to antibiotic treatment in healthcare settings. As is true of most human pathogens, the genetic path to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the role that the immune system plays in modulating AMR during disease are poorly understood. Here we reproduced several routes to fluoroquinolone resistance, performing evolution experiments using sequential lung infections in mice that are replete with or depleted of neutrophils, providing two key insights into the evolution of drug resistance. First, neutropenic hosts acted as reservoirs for the accumulation of drug resistance during drug treatment. Selection for variants with altered drug sensitivity profiles arose …

Ebba’S 2023 Meeting Announcement, Lisa Kiziuk

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Inland Flyway Review Fall 2021, North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Mindfulness And Its Impact On Leader-Employee Relations In Higher Education Social Work Departments, Autumn A. Straw

All Theses And Dissertations

This sequential, fixed, mixed-methods study explores how mindfulness practice by leaders in higher education social work programs influences the leader-employee relationship among a sample of higher education social work department leaders and their faculty. This study was developed out of the intersection of personal, professional, and academic interests in both mindfulness and leadership. Additionally, this study fills a gap in the existing literature on how leaders’ individual mindfulness practice influences the relationship between them and their employees (Reb et al., 2019; Rooney et al., 2021; Urrila, 2021).

The results of this study were that the sample of social work higher …

Blue Resilience: Is There A Need For An Alaskan Coastal Career Development Framework?, Jared Fuller

All Theses And Dissertations

Youth career outmigration has increased in Alaska’s coastal communities in the last few decades. The ocean and ocean-adjacent industries that comprise the blue economy make up the majority of the employment options in places have experienced declines within these regions which has been attributed to the outward movement of young people. The dynamic history of Alaska has had specific impacts with regards to Alaskan coastal communities, their ocean-resource economies, and thus, the potential for young people to find career paths within them. Potential economic-resource vulnerabilities could be mapped along with the complex systems to help build resilience within those communities. …

A Brief Overview Of The Effects Of Exercise And Red Beets On The Immune System In Patients With Prostate Cancer, Hadi Nobari, Saber Saedmocheshi, Kelly Johnson, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Marcos Maynar-Mariño

Kinesiology

Research over the past few decades has focused on the use of functional ingredients such as an active lifestyle and proper diet as a treatment for many diseases in the world. Recent studies have shown a variety of health benefits for red beets and their active ingredients such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, blood pressure and fat reduction, anti-diabetic, and anti-obesity effects. This review article examines the effects of exercise and red beet consumption and the effective mechanisms of these two interventions on cellular and molecular pathways in prostate cancer. However, there is a significant relationship between an active lifestyle and …

Agency And Criticality In Statistics Teaching Practices: The Account Of A Teacher, Celi Espasandin Lopes, Nathalia Tornisiello Scarlassari

The Mathematics Enthusiast

The objective of this article is to discuss actions of agency by analyzing the practices and conceptions of a mathematics teacher working in the municipal school system of Valinhos, state of São Paulo, while teaching statistics and probability to students in the final years of elementary school. The concept of agency is related to transformative capacity and refers to the power of the individual over the context in which they are inserted. The concept of agency is significant for teacher education and is linked to critical professional development, as criticality is essential for people’s transformation processes. This study adopted principles …

Evaluation Of Sibel’S Advanced Neonatal Epidermal (Anne) Wireless Continuous Physiological Monitor In Nairobi, Kenya, Jesse Coleman, Amy Sarah Ginsburg, William Macharia, Roseline Ochieng, Dorothy Chomba, Guohai Zhou, Dustin Dunsmuir, Shuai Xu, J. Mark Ansermino

Paediatrics and Child Health, East Africa

Background: Neonatal multiparameter continuous physiological monitoring (MCPM) technologies assist with early detection of preventable and treatable causes of neonatal mortality. Evaluating accuracy of novel MCPM technologies is critical for their appropriate use and adoption.

Methods: We prospectively compared the accuracy of Sibel’s Advanced Neonatal Epidermal (ANNE) technology with Masimo’s Rad-97 pulse CO-oximeter with capnography and Spengler’s Tempo Easy reference technologies during four evaluation rounds. We compared accuracy of heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), oxygen saturation (SpO₂), and skin temperature using Bland-Altman plots and root-mean-square deviation analyses (RMSD). Sibel’s ANNE algorithms were optimized between each round. …

June 2022 Quarterly Budget And Expenditure Reporting For All Heerf I, Ii, And Iii Grant Funds, East Tennessee State University

ETSU COVID-19 Information [2020-2023]

No abstract provided.

Wastewater-Recycled Struvite As A Phosphorus Source In A Wheat-Soybean Double-Crop Production System In Eastern Arkansas, Niyi Sunday Omidire, Kristofor R. Brye

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Fertilizer-phosphorus (P) sources are mainly derived from rock phosphate (RP), which is a finite, actively mined resource. With growing human populations globally, alternative P sources are vitally important to ensure future food security. Precipitation of the mineral struvite (MgNH₄PO₄·6H₂O) from wastewater could be a potential alternative fertilizer-P option from crop production. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of chemically precipitated struvite (CPST), compared with triple superphosphate (TSP) and an unamended control (UC) treatment, and irrigation (irrigated and non-irrigated/dryland) on above- (dry matter, yield, and tissue-N, -P, and -Mg concentrations and …

Analysis Of Global Banking Network, Sonali Kannan

Theses

The outbreak of the Global Pandemic Covid-19 that spread terribly across various countries from the end of 2019, has severely altered people’s life and economy. Various reports across papers and news articles on how each government was managing the costs of vaccines, medical equipment, and necessities. The world saw shifts in stock markets, unemployment, the tourism industry completely coming to a standstill, and more. Has this Covid Pandemic which played a crucial role within geographical boundaries altered the financial transactions across countries on a higher level? With the help of the statistics available with the Bank of International Settlements, this …

Phase I Trial Of Atm Inhibitor M3541 In Combination With Palliative Radiotherapy In Patients With Solid Tumors, Saiama N Waqar, Clifford Robinson, Anthony J Olszanski, Alexander Spira, Melissa Hackmaster, Luisa Lucas, Laura Sponton, Hulin Jin, Ursula Hering, Damien Cronier, Marianna Grinberg, Annick Seithel-Keuth, Ivan Diaz-Padilla, Jordan Berlin

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) kinase orchestrates DNA double strand break (DSB) repair; ATM inhibitors may therefore enhance the therapeutic effect of DSB-inducing treatments such as radiotherapy (RT). M3541 is an orally administered selective inhibitor of ATM.

METHODS: This phase I dose-escalation study evaluated the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD), recommended phase II dose(s) (RP2D), safety, pharmacokinetics (PK) and antitumor activity of M3541 in combination with fractionated palliative RT in patients with solid tumors. Fifteen patients received palliative RT (30 Gy in 10 fractions) and escalating doses of M3541 (50-300 mg administered on RT fraction days) guided by a Bayesian 2-parameter logistic …

Pdxnet Portal: Patient-Derived Xenograft Model, Data, Workflow And Tool Discovery, Soner Koc, Ramaswamy Govindan, Li Ding, Shunqiang Li, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

We created the PDX Network (PDXNet) portal (https://portal.pdxnetwork.org/) to centralize access to the National Cancer Institute-funded PDXNet consortium resources, to facilitate collaboration among researchers and to make these data easily available for research. The portal includes sections for resources, analysis results, metrics for PDXNet activities, data processing protocols and training materials for processing PDX data. Currently, the portal contains PDXNet model information and data resources from 334 new models across 33 cancer types. Tissue samples of these models were deposited in the NCI's Patient-Derived Model Repository (PDMR) for public access. These models have 2134 associated sequencing files from 873 samples …

Horizontal Gene Transfer Provides Insights Into The Deep Evolutionary History And Biology Of Trichinella, Dante Zarlenga, Peter Thompson, Makedonka Mitreva, Bruce A Rosa, Eric Hoberg

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Evolution involves temporal changes in the characteristics of a species that are subsequently propagated or rejected through natural selection. In the case of parasites, host switching also plays a prominent role in the evolutionary process. These changes are rooted in genetic variation and gene flow where genes may be deleted, mutated (sequence), duplicated, rearranged and/or translocated and then transmitted through vertical gene transfer. However, the introduction of new genes is not driven only by Mendelian inheritance and mutation but also by the introduction of DNA from outside a lineage in the form of horizontal gene transfer between donor and recipient …

Intracorporeal And Extracorporeal Anastomosis For Robotic-Assisted And Laparoscopic Right Colectomy: Short-Term Outcomes Of A Multi-Center Prospective Trial, Robert K Cleary, Matthew Silviera, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Studies to date show contrasting conclusions when comparing intracorporeal and extracorporeal anastomoses for minimally invasive right colectomy. Large multi-center prospective studies comparing perioperative outcomes between these two techniques are needed. The purpose of this study was to compare intracorporeal and extracorporeal anastomoses outcomes for robotic assisted and laparoscopic right colectomy.

METHODS: Multi-center, prospective, observational study of patients with malignant or benign disease scheduled for laparoscopic or robotic-assisted right colectomy. Outcomes included conversion rate, gastrointestinal recovery, and complication rates.

RESULTS: There were 280 patients: 156 in the robotic assisted and laparoscopic intracorporeal anastomosis (IA) group and 124 in the robotic …

Network Assisted Analysis Of De Novo Variants Using Protein-Protein Interaction Information Identified 46 Candidate Genes For Congenital Heart Disease, Yuhan Xie, Wei Jiang, Weilai Dong, Hongyu Li, Sheng Chih Jin, Martina Brueckner, Hongyu Zhao

2020-Current year OA Pubs

De novo variants (DNVs) with deleterious effects have proved informative in identifying risk genes for early-onset diseases such as congenital heart disease (CHD). A number of statistical methods have been proposed for family-based studies or case/control studies to identify risk genes by screening genes with more DNVs than expected by chance in Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) studies. However, the statistical power is still limited for cohorts with thousands of subjects. Under the hypothesis that connected genes in protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks are more likely to share similar disease association status, we developed a Markov Random Field model that can leverage …

Rationale Of Using The Dual Chemokine Receptor Ccr2/Ccr5 Inhibitor Cenicriviroc For The Treatment Of Covid-19, Daniel Clark Files, Frank Tacke, Alexandra O'Sullivan, Patrick Dorr, William G. Ferguson, William G. Powderly

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has created a global pandemic infecting over 230 million people and costing millions of lives. Therapies to attenuate severe disease are desperately needed. Cenicriviroc (CVC), a C-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5) and C-C chemokine receptor type 2 (CCR2) antagonist, an agent previously studied in advanced clinical trials for patients with HIV or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), may have the potential to reduce respiratory and cardiovascular organ failures related to COVID-19. Inhibiting the CCR2 and CCR5 pathways could attenuate or prevent inflammation or fibrosis in both early and …

Utility Of The Motivation To Change Lifestyle And Health Behaviors For Dementia Risk Reduction Scale (Mclhb-Drr) Based On A North American Sample, Angelina E. Witbeck

Dissertations

As the population ages, the prevalence rates of dementia continue to increase. Without a cure or promising treatment for dementia, the best course of lowering the prevalence rates of dementia is through preventative measures. Through an electronic survey, the study utilized the MCLHB-DRR scale to determine whether (1) gender, age, educational background, and socioeconomic status will impact the motivational factors to change lifestyle and health behaviors to reduce the risk of developing dementia and (2) direct experiences with individuals that have a dementia diagnosis are likely to impact one's motivational factors to change lifestyle and health behaviors to reduce the …

Preexisting Sexual Trauma And The Impacts On Psychological Well-Being Of College Students, Victoria Johnson

Dissertations

Childhood sexual abuse appears to be a taboo topic with a long history of being left out of the discussion regarding mental health in adulthood despite the varied and devastating consequences. The overall lack of research on this topic, especially regarding the college student population, can be considered a barrier to treatment for those individuals. The current literature review attempts to fill the research gap by discussing the epidemiology, prevalence, and description of preexisting sexual trauma in college students. The potential negative effects of preexisting sexual trauma and how they occur with college students were explored to highlight how pervasive …