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Ag Stewardship Center Expands, Liz Frisbee

The Voice

No abstract provided.

Investigating A Frisian Genetic Mutation, Sarah Moss

The Voice

No abstract provided.

Improvement To The Means And Methods Of Developing Special Physical Preparation Of Young Handball Players As Well As Controling The Level Of Preparation, Shakhzod Nodirovich Mukhsinov

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

The article covers the matters of the scientific and practical experience of domestic and foreign scientists in the field of sports in the development of special physical preparation of young handball players, scientific and theoretical ideas cited in scientific literatures. Scientific and theoretical ideas were put forward to identify modern innovative methods for the development of special physical preparation of young handball players based on the study of the training process, control of the level of preparation, research carried out, the results are summarized in tables. The purpose of the study was to provide a theoretical justification and experimental confirmation …

Education Of Patriotic Education In The Social Environment And Cholpon's Creation In The Early Xx Century, Umida Sapaevna Shermatova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

This article covers the social environment in the early twentieth century, which played a key role in the formation of Cholpon's creative career, and analyzes the lyrical poems written in the spirit of patriotism.

Efficiency Of Using The Strategic Complex Control Algorithm For Planning The Training Process Of Gymnasts At The Phase Of Sports Development, Djamshid Khasanovich Umarov

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

Uzbekistan has been paying great attention to the development and promotion of physical education and sports conducted in all higher education institutions over the past three decades. The formation of a healthy lifestyle, creation of modern conditions for regular physical education and mass sports of the population, specifically the younger generation, as well as the further development of physical education and mass sports constitutes the Government’s overriding priority. This article covers a comprehensive control system for managing the training process, the individual capabilities of gymnasts that are at the stage of sports development. The possibilities of gymnasts' use of differentiated …

Genomics Of Postprandial Lipidomics In The Genetics Of Lipid-Lowering Drugs And Diet Network Study, Marguerite R. Irvin, May E. Montasser, Tobias Kind, Sili Fan, Dinesh K. Barupal, Amit Patki, Rikki M. Tanner, Nicole D. Armstrong, Kathleen A. Ryan, Steven A. Claas, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Hemant K. Tiwari, Donna K. Arnett

Epidemiology and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

Postprandial lipemia (PPL) is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Inter-individual variation in the dietary response to a meal is known to be influenced by genetic factors, yet genes that dictate variation in postprandial lipids are not completely characterized. Genetic studies of the plasma lipidome can help to better understand postprandial metabolism by isolating lipid molecular species which are more closely related to the genome. We measured the plasma lipidome at fasting and 6 h after a standardized high-fat meal in 668 participants from the Genetics of Lipid-Lowering Drugs and Diet Network study (GOLDN) using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled …

We Are ... Marshall, November 10, 2021, Office Of Marshall University Communications

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

No abstract provided.

College Faculty In The News: Nov. 10, 2021, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Spartan Daily, November 10, 2021, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2021

Volume 157, Issue 36

An Asp To Strike Out Cancer? Therapeutic Possibilities Arising From Aspartate's Emerging Roles In Cell Proliferation And Survival., Iiro Taneli Helenius, Hanumantha Rao Madala, Jing-Ruey Joanna Yeh

Faculty Research 2021

A better understanding of the metabolic constraints of a tumor may lead to more effective anticancer treatments. Evidence has emerged in recent years shedding light on a crucial aspartate dependency of many tumor types. As a precursor for nucleotide synthesis, aspartate is indispensable for cell proliferation. Moreover, the malate-aspartate shuttle plays a key role in redox balance, and a deficit in aspartate can lead to oxidative stress. It is now recognized that aspartate biosynthesis is largely governed by mitochondrial metabolism, including respiration and glutaminolysis in cancer cells. Therefore, under conditions that suppress mitochondrial metabolism, including mutations, hypoxia, or chemical inhibitors, …

Bio-Acoustic Tracking And Localization Using Heterogeneous, Scalable Microphone Arrays, Erik Verreycken, Ralph Simon, Brandt Quirk-Royal, Walter Daems, Jesse Barber, Jan Steckel

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Microphone arrays are an essential tool in the field of bioacoustics as they provide a non-intrusive way to study animal vocalizations and monitor their movement and behavior. Microphone arrays can be used for passive localization and tracking of sound sources while analyzing beamforming or spatial filtering of the emitted sound. Studying free roaming animals usually requires setting up equipment over large areas and attaching a tracking device to the animal which may alter their behavior. However, monitoring vocalizing animals through arrays of microphones, spatially distributed over their habitat has the advantage that unrestricted/unmanipulated animals can be observed. Important insights have …

Evidence Of Myomir Regulation Of The Pentose Phosphate Pathway During Mechanical Load-Induced Hypertrophy, Taylor Valentino, Vandre C. Figueiredo, C. Brooks Mobley, John J. Mccarthy, Ivan Jose Vechetti Jr

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Many of the molecular and cellular mechanisms discovered to regulate skeletal muscle hypertrophy were first identified using the rodent synergist ablation model. This model reveals the intrinsic capability and necessary pathways of skeletal muscle growth in response to mechanical overload (MOV). Reminiscent of the rapid cellular growth observed with cancer, we hypothesized that in response to MOV, skeletal muscle would undergo metabolic programming to sustain increased demands to support hypertrophy. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed the gene expression of specific metabolic pathways taken from transcriptomic microarray data of a MOV time course. We found an upregulation of genes involved …

Natural Products Induce Lysosomal Membrane Permeabilization As An Anticancer Strategy, Reginald Halaby

Department of Biology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Cancer is a global health and economic issue. The majority of anticancer therapies become ineffective due to frequent genomic turnover and chemoresistance. Furthermore, chemotherapy and radiation are non-specific, killing all rapidly dividing cells including healthy cells. In this review, we examine the ability of some natural products to induce lysosomal-mediated cell death in neoplastic cells as a way to kill them more specifically than conventional therapies. This list is by no means exhaustive. We postulate mechanisms to explain lysosomal membrane permeabilization and its role in triggering cell death in cancer cells.

Two New Species Of Byrrhinus Motschulsky, 1858 (Coleoptera, Limnichidae, Limnichinae) From Negros, Philippines, Emmanuel D. Delocado, Hendrik Freitag

Biology Faculty Publications

Two new species of Limnichidae beetles, Byrrhinus negrosensis sp. nov. and Byrrhinus villarini sp. nov., are described from the Island of Negros in the Philippines. The adult specimens of the new species can be differentiated by patterns of body punctation, colour and orientation of elytral pubescence, posterolateral angle of pronotum, tarsomere length ratio and aedeagal form. Two clades, representing the two new species, were retrieved in the Maximum Likelihood gene tree using the 3’-end of the COI gene. Maximum genetic divergence within B. negrosensis sp. nov. and B. villarini sp. nov. were recorded to be 2.3% and 1.3%, respectively, while …

The Parthenon, November 10, 2021, Xena Bunton, Isabella Robinson, Madison Perdue, Abby Hanlon, Catherine Blankenship, Zach Hiser, Tyler Spence, Carter Truman, Tyler Kennett, Abby Ayes, Noah Hickman

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

A Chickpea Genetic Variation Map Based On The Sequencing Of 3,366 Genomes, Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Shuai Sun, Prasad Bajaj, Annapurna Chitikineni, Mahendar Thudi, Narendra P. Singh, Xiao Du, Hari D. Upadhyaya, Diego Jarquin

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Zero hunger and good health could be realized by 2030 through effective conservation, characterization and utilization of germplasm resources1 . So far, few chickpea (Cicerarietinum) germplasm accessions have been characterized at the genome sequence level2 . Here we present a detailed map of variation in 3,171 cultivated and 195 wild accessions to provide publicly available resources for chickpea genomics research and breeding. We constructed a chickpea pan-genome to describe genomic diversity across cultivated chickpea and its wild progenitor accessions. A divergence tree using genes present in around 80% of individuals in one species allowed us to estimate the divergence of …

Getting Out Of A Sticky Situation: Differential Escape Of Spotted Lanternfly From Two Commonly-Used Trapping Techniques, Jennifer L. Chandler

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Jen Chandler, Biology - Getting out of a Sticky Situation: Differential Escape of Spotted Lanternfly from Two Commonly-Used Trapping Techniques

Comparing Genetic Variation Among Latin American Immigrants: Implications For Forensic Casework In The Arizona- And Texas-México Borderlands, Briana T. New, Bridget F.B. Algee-Hewitt, M. Katherine Spradley, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Cris C. Hughes, Bruce E. Anderson, Marek E. Jasinski, Joanna Arciszewska, Grażyna Zielińska, Maria Szargut, Sandra Cytacka, Andrzej Ossowski

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

The humanitarian crisis on the United States-México border is a long standing and evolving crisis in which nearly 8,000 deaths have been reported in the last two decades. These deaths are largely distributed across the Arizona-México and Texas-México border regions where demographic trends for immigrants attempting to cross into the U.S. have shifted dramatically. The demographic change and volume of immigrants seeking shelter in the U.S. presents new challenges for the forensic practitioners entrusted with the identification of individuals who lose their lives during the final segment of their journey. Within this Border context, the present study investigates how genetic …

Panoramic Spatial Vision In The Bay Scallop Argopecten Irradians, Daniel R. Chappell, Tyler M. Horan, Daniel Isaac Speiser

Faculty Publications

We have a growing understanding of the light-sensing organs and light-influenced behaviours of animals with distributed visual systems, but we have yet to learn how these animals convert visual input into behavioural output. It has been suggested they consolidate visual information early in their sensory-motor pathways, resulting in them being able to detect visual cues (spatial resolution) without being able to locate them (spatial vision). To explore how an animal with dozens of eyes processes visual information, we analysed the responses of the bay scallop Argopecten irradians to both static and rotating visual stimuli. We found A. irradians distinguish between …

Machine Learning In Apache Spark Environment For Diagnosis Of Diabetes, Farshid Bagheri Saravi

Student Scholarship

Disease-related data and information collected by physicians, patients, and researchers seem insignificant at first glance. Still, the same unorganized data contain valuable information that is often hidden. The task of data mining techniques is to extract patterns to classify the data accurately. One of the various Data mining and its methods have been used often to diagnose various diseases. In this study, a machine learning (ML) technique based on distributed computing in the Apache Spark computing space is used to diagnose diabetics or hidden pattern of the illness to detect the disease using a large dataset in real-time. Implementation results …

College Of Business News, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• Lt. Gen. Smith named Carter Chair of Leadership at Georgia Southern

Changing The Landscape Of Identity In Forensic Anthropology, Briana T. New, Bridget F.B. Algee-Hewitt

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

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Explorations And Developments In Multifunctionality, 3d Printing, And Accelerated Aging For Thermoplastics And Thermosets, Zachary Brounstein

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

If the world is to progress through the fourth industrial revolution, rapid advances in materials science must complement new technological feats in manufacturing, computation and device functionality, and a broader understanding of how materials behave as they age and degrade. To this effect, much effort has been directed towards polymeric materials to address and solve many problems in this new era. This includes developing polymer composites that incorporate fillers to imbue multifunctionality, fabricating novel formulations for additive manufacturing, and conducting aging studies to assess the performance of these materials over long time spans. Building and expanding on the latest research …

Mt10-Cvb3 Vaccine Virus Protects Against Cvb4 Infection By Inducing Cross-Reactive, Antigen-Specific Immune Responses, Ninaad Lasrado, Rajkumar Arumugam, Mahima T. Rasquinha, Meghna Sur, David Steffen, Jay Reddy

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Group B coxsackieviruses (CVB) containing six serotypes, B1–B6, affect various organs, and multiple serotypes can induce similar diseases such as myocarditis and pancreatitis. Yet, no vaccines are currently available to prevent these infections. Translationally, the derivation of vaccines that offer protection against multiple serotypes is highly desired. In that direction, we recently reported the generation of an attenuated strain of CVB3, termed Mt10, which completely protects against both myocarditis and pancreatitis induced by the homologous wild-type CVB3 strain. Here, we report that the Mt10 vaccine can induce cross-protection against multiple CVB serotypes as demonstrated with CVB4. We note that the …

Dual Activities Of Acc Synthase: Novel Clues Regarding The Molecular Evolution Of Acs Genes, Chang Xu, Bowei Hao, Gongling Sun, Yuanyuan Mei, Lifang Sun, Yunmei Sun, Yibo Wang, Yongyan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Mengyuan Zhang, Yue Zhang, Dan Wang, Zihe Rao, Xin Li, Jeffery Shen, Ning Ning Wang

Life Sciences Faculty Research

Ethylene plays profound roles in plant development. The rate-limiting enzyme of ethylene biosynthesis is 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase (ACS), which is generally believed to be a single-activity enzyme evolving from aspartate aminotransferases. Here, we demonstrate that, in addition to catalyzing the conversion of S-adenosyl-methionine to the ethylene precursor ACC, genuine ACSs widely have Cβ-S lyase activity. Two N-terminal motifs, including a glutamine residue, are essential for conferring ACS activity to ACS-like proteins. Motif and activity analyses of ACS-like proteins from plants at different evolutionary stages suggest that the ACC-dependent pathway is uniquely developed in seed plants. A putative catalytic mechanism for …

Spectrum, Volume 47, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: New Provost at SHU -- News: Republicans Take Over Blue States -- Closing the Chapter on Facebook -- Perspectives: Fairfield Restaurant Week -- Sophomores Finding Housing Off -Campus -- SHU’s Elves Holiday Toy Drive -- “Songs of Sanctuary: A Concert Against Bullying -- Spring 2022 Registration: How Did it Go? -- Athlete Spotlight: Malik Grant Q&A

Distribution, Habitat Affinities, And Conservation Of Prairie Moonwort (Botrychium Campestre) On Its Northern Range Limit, Vladimir Kricsfalusy

Western North American Naturalist

Prairie moonwort (Botrychium campestre W.H. Wagner & D.R. Farrar) from the adder’s tongue family (Ophioglossaceae) is a rare plant species in North America with a NatureServe designation of G3N2 (Globally Vulnerable, Nationally Imperiled). The species reaches its northern distribution limit in Saskatchewan, Canada. The range of B. campestre is described here from literature, herbarium data, and field studies. Two newly discovered peripheral populations are reported, and their habitats are characterized in detail. One of the new occurrences was monitored over a multiyear period, and changes in population and vegetation cover are described. Possible threats to the newest occurrences are …

The Student Movement Volume 106 Issue 7: Honors Church Embraces The Many Voices Of Worship, Karenna Lee

The Student Movement v. 106 (2021-2022)

HUMANS

A Life in Missions: Interview with Nathan Gulzar, Interviewed by: Karenna Lee

ACA Student Interview: Terika Williams, Interviewed by: Grace No

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Creative Spotlight: AU's Dance Studio, Interviewed by: Megan Napod

Jaguar, Hannah Cruse

Squid Game; A Netflix Phenomenon, Brendan Syto

What went wrong on the set of "Rust"?, Solana Campbell

NEWS

AUSA Senate: Improving Student Life, Jenae Rogers

Honors Church: Honoring the Many Voices of Worship, Andrew Pak

The Planning and Partnership behind the White Rabbit Night Market Program, Nathan Mathieu

IDEAS

How Discrimination and Neglect Led to Toxic Water in Benton Harbor, Lyle Goulbourne

Social …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Lt. Gen. Smith named Carter Chair of Leadership at Georgia Southern

Shortcut Nitrogen Removal In Photo-Sequencing Batch Reactor, Experiments, Dynamic Model And Full-Scale Design, Sahand Iman Shayan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Nitrogen is one of the essential elements for life; however, inefficient use of nitrogen creates major environmental problems. Nitrogen-rich streams from urban areas, farms, and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) lead to surface and groundwater contamination, resulting in eutrophication, hypoxia, and notable environmental, public health and economic damage. Ammonia is a form of nitrogen that can be created during industrial or biological nitrogen fixation or decomposition of biomass. Anaerobic digesters (ADs) in WWTP generate biogas from collected sludge from primary and secondary clarifiers to achieve energy recovery in the plant. However, sidestream effluent from dewatering AD sludge contains high concentrations of …