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Optimizing Ethanol-Water Cosolvent Systems For Green Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction Of Muscadine Grape Pomace Polyphenols, Arda Tuhanioglu, Sumanjot Kaur, Gabriel Laquete De Barros, Safoura Ahmadzadeh, Renee Threlfall, Ali Ubeyitogullari

Food Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study evaluated the ethanol-water modified (50%, v/v) supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) for the extraction of polyphenols from muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia Michgx.) pomace and compared with conventional solvent extractions (ethanol-water and HCl-methanol). The process was optimized with a central composite response surface design consisting of three levels of three independent variables: pressure (20-40 MPa), temperature (40-60 degrees C), and cosolvent concentration (5-15%) to maximize three responses: total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), and resveratrol yields. The optimal conditions were determined as 20 MPa, 60 degrees C, and 15% cosolvent concentration with TPC, TFC, and resveratrol yields of …

Population Variability Across Geographical Ranges: Perspectives And Challenges, Cleber Ten Caten, Tad Dallas

Faculty Publications

Populations fluctuate over time and across geographical space, and understanding how different factors contribute to population variability is a central goal in population ecology. There is a particular interest in identifying trends of population variability within geographical ranges as population densities of species can fluctuate substantially across geographical space. A common assumption is that populations vary more near species geographical range edges because of unsuitable environments and higher vulnerability to environmental variability in these areas. However, empirical data rarely support this expectation, suggesting that population variability is not related to its position within species geographical ranges. We propose that performance …

The Bg News January 29, 2025, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. January 29, 2025. Volume 104-Issue 15.

Propensity Score Matching: Should We Use It In Designing Observational Studies?, Fei Wan

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Propensity Score Matching (PSM) stands as a widely embraced method in comparative effectiveness research. PSM crafts matched datasets, mimicking some attributes of randomized designs, from observational data. In a valid PSM design where all baseline confounders are measured and matched, the confounders would be balanced, allowing the treatment status to be considered as if it were randomly assigned. Nevertheless, recent research has unveiled a different facet of PSM, termed "the PSM paradox". As PSM approaches exact matching by progressively pruning matched sets in order of decreasing propensity score distance, it can paradoxically lead to greater covariate imbalance, heightened model …

Assessing Water Quantity And Quality In The Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer And Coastal Louisiana Through Integrated Airborne Electromagnetic And Borehole Data, Michael George Henin Attia Khalil

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Numerical modeling has contributed significantly to the understanding of groundwater systems. Many challenges are associated with constructing groundwater models which include an accurate understanding of the geology and aquifer parameters estimation. Traditionally boreholes are a successful way to capture geological features, however, boreholes often have sparse data. Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data allows for efficient and cost-effective surveying of large areas, providing valuable information about the subsurface electrical resistivity. By bridging the gap between boreholes, AEM data offers a broader view of the aquifer system's structure and heterogeneity. However, interpreting geophysical AEM data has uncertainties. Developing a framework to apply the …

Raid And Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, And Violence In The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Dr. Brandon Morgan

LAII Events

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | 02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE)

801 Yale Blvd NE (campus building #165)

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Join the UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute for a presentation of Dr. Brandon Morgan’s book, Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border through the rise of capitalism brought new forms of violence, this time codified in law, land surveys, and capitalist land and resource regimes—the markers of modernity and progress that were the hallmarks …

John Ii Komnenos’S Campaign On The Levant And Cilicia In 531-532 Ah/ 1137-1138 Ad, Sahar Elsayed Ibrahim Dr.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

The Byzantine Crusader conflict emerged due to the first Crusader campaign, and John II’s campaign included the Levant and Cilicia as an extension of the Byzantine campaigns on the areas belonging to the Byzantine state in Little Armenia and the Levant, especially Antioch. This campaign is studied in two ways: the Byzantine Crusader conflict and the Byzantine and Seljuk conflict, especially Danishmendids. John II’s campaign had several reasons. In Armenia, the campaign coincided with the emperor's desire to secure the borders with Anatolia, while in Antioch, John II took the Davul Treaty as an excuse to declare its belongingness to …

Problems Of Newly-Formed Families And The Relationship Thereof To Early Divorce In The Saudi Society, Norah Mufleh Alruwaili Dr.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

This study aims to specify the relationship between the problems of newly-formed families and early divorce in the Saudi society, and to come up with a set of suggestions for overcoming the problems encountered by newly-married families. The study is an analytical-descriptive and is based on surveying with a social non-probability sample consisting of 156 recently-divorced Saudi women in Riyadh. The study used the questionnaire as a tool to achieve the objectives and answer the questions, and concluded that newly-formed families are subject to some problems, namely poor marital compatibility (frequent marital disputes) and marital dissatisfaction. It has also shown …

Factors Affecting Fast Food Consumption Among King Faisal University Students, Hassan Ahmed Abozeed Dr.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

This study is an attempt to identify the factors affecting fast food consumption among King Faisal   University students. The following five variables are used: family, friends, media and social media, health awareness, personal and material factors. A social survey and a questionnaire are used as tools to collect data from a sample of (352 students). The results indicate that all factors seem to have had an impact on increasing the consumption of fast food. However, the material factor seems to be the most influential factor, followed by friends’ factor, then health awareness in third place, then the media and social …

The Middle Voice In Najdi Arabic: A Morphological Description, Abdulrahman N/A Althawab Dr., Sara Alotaishan Mrs.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

Voice category is an essential grammatical aspect of verb constructions in linguistics. It is widely known that voice involves two main types: active and passive. However, there is a possibility of having a third grammatical voice known as the middle voice. Based on the relevant literature, the middle voice is a controversial topic that has aroused debate over its linguistic properties. This paper, therefore, aims to investigate some of the middle voice linguistic properties within a morphological context. More specifically, it attempts to identify the middle voice verb patterns and examine their existence using a linguistic test in one of …

Finding Their Voices: The Impact Of Explicit Instruction On Second Language Students’ Authorial Voice Construction In Argumentative Writing, Najlaa N/A Alharbi Dr.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

Authorial voice, crucial for academic writing, reflects a writer's identity and engagement with readers. However, second-language (L2) writing instruction often prioritizes coherence over fostering this voice. This mixed-methods study explored the impact of explicit authorial voice instruction on 74 Saudi female undergraduate students' argumentative writing. Divided into experimental and control groups, the experimental group received voice instruction, while the control group continued with the standard curriculum. Pre and posttests along with focus group interviews were used for data collection. Results showed significant improvement in the presence and clarity of ideas, manner of presentation, and writer-reader engagement in the experimental group's …

Diverse Roles Of Antibodies In Antibody-Drug Conjugates, Aiko Yamaguchi, H Charles Manning

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The emergence of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) has transformed the treatment landscape of a variety of cancers. ADCs typically consist of three main components: monoclonal antibody, chemical linker, and cytotoxic payload. These integrated therapeutic modalities harness the benefits of each component to provide a therapeutic response that cannot be achieved by conventional chemotherapy. Antibodies play roles in determining tumor specificity through target-mediated uptake, prolonging the circulation half-life of cytotoxic payloads, and providing additional mechanisms of action inherent to the original antibody, thus significantly contributing to the overall performance of ADCs. However, ADCs have unique safety concerns, such as drug-induced adverse events …

2025-01-29 Where Does The Ceasefire In Gaza Leave Palestinians?, Abdullah El-Sherbeeny, Naja Johnson, Dylan Berman

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

2025-01-29 The State Of Higher Education In 2025, Diego Gonzalez

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

Exploring Enablers Of And Barriers To A Fruit And Vegetable Voucher Scheme In England:: Insights From The Fresh Street Community Feasibility Study, Jiang Pan, Clare Relton, Lisa Howard, Paridhi Garg, Manik Puranik, Michelle Thomas, Jane Bradbeer, Rachel Sutton, Carol Wagstaff, Clare Pettinger

School of Health Professions

Background/Objectives: Many deprived communities in the UK have low fruit and vegetable (FV) intake, leading to poor health outcomes. Fresh Street is a place-based voucher approach that enables households to buy FV from local independent suppliers. Fresh Street Community embeds this approach within community hubs, thus enabling households to use vouchers to purchase FV from community centres. This paper explores the enablers and barriers influencing the uptake of Fresh Street Community in two UK urban areas of high deprivation. Methods: This three-phase exploratory qualitative study was informed by ‘co-production’ with community researchers at both sites: (1) literature review and observations …

2025-01-29 Little Shop Hops: Meowtropolitan, Milan Damjanac

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

2025-01-29 Debi Tirar Mas Fotos: Political, Personal, And Unapologetically Puerto Rican, Hadia Ahmed, Keagen Brooks-Torres

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

2025-01-29 The Legacy Of The Hiv & Aids Epidemic, Naja Johnson

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

2025-01-29 Dormiliciouse: Breakfast Prepegg Muffins, Fern Creson

The Spectator Online

No abstract provided.

Ligand Distances As Key Predictors Of Pathogenicity And Function In Nmda Receptors, Sukhan Kim, Ilona Krey, Piero Fariselli, Patrick May, Johannes R Lemke, Scott J Myers, Hongjie Yuan, Stephen F Traynelis, Dennis Lal

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Genetic variants in the genes GRIN1, GRIN2A, GRIN2B, and GRIN2D, which encode subunits of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR), have been associated with severe and heterogeneous neurologic and neurodevelopmental disorders, including early onset epilepsy, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, intellectual disability, and autism spectrum disorders. Missense variants in these genes can result in gain or loss of the NMDAR function, requiring opposite therapeutic treatments. Computational methods that predict pathogenicity and molecular functional effects of missense variants are therefore crucial for therapeutic applications. We assembled 223 missense variants from patients, 631 control variants from the general population, and 160 missense variants characterized by …

Dog Skull Shape Challenges Assumptions Of Performance Specialization From Selective Breeding, Nicholas Hebdon, Alexa Ortega, Alexander Orlove, Nichole Wheeler, Mia Pham, Vivian Nguyen, Justin Gladman, Lindsay D. Waldrop

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Through selective breeding, humans have driven exceptional morphological diversity in domestic dogs, creating more than 200 recognized breeds developed for specialized functional tasks such as herding, protection, and hunting. Here, we use three-dimensional reconstructions of dog skulls to ask whether these function-oriented kennel-club groups reflect differences in morphology that correspond to those functions. We analyzed 117 canid skulls, representing 40 domestic dog breeds and 18 wild subspecies, using geometric morphometric techniques and k-means clustering. Results show near-full overlap in kennel-club groups and with natural species, except for companion dogs having extreme snout shape. When categorized by task-specific historic function …

Mental Health And Wellness Among Plastic Surgeons During Oral Board Certification Examination Preparation., Hannah J. Bergman, Charles C. Jehle, Ibrahim Khansa

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: The field of plastic and reconstructive surgery has recently made a dramatic shift toward attention to mental health, with residency curricula expanding to include training on burnout prevention and the promotion of well-being. After graduation, however, new surgeons face a difficult year of preparation for the oral board certification examination. This group of young surgeons remains largely unstudied and undersupported throughout what may be the most challenging period of their educational journey.

METHODS: In spring of 2024, an electronic survey was sent to members of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons who had completed their oral board examination within …

Factors Associated With Link Workers Considering Leaving Their Role: A Cross-Sectional Survey, Stephanie Tierney, Lucy Moore, Debra Westlake, Kamal R. Mahtani, David Nunan, Kerryn Husk, Shoba Dawson, Jane Smith, Emma Fuller, Lilly Sabir, Pauline Roberts, Obioha C. Ukoumunne

Peninsula Medical School

Background: Social prescribing (SP) link workers (LWs) listen to patients’ concerns and difficulties, and connect them to relevant community assets (groups, organisations, or charities) that can help with their non-medical issues (for example, loneliness, debt, housing). LW retention is key to sustaining SP within primary care. Aim: To examine occupational self-efficacy, job discrepancy, and other factors as potential predictors of LWs’ intentions to leave or remain in their posts. Design & setting: Cross-sectional survey involving LWs from the United Kingdom. Method: An online questionnaire was distributed via SP-related organisations. Questions were on the following: (a) intention to leave the role; …

Evaluation Of Age-Related Spermatozoa Morphological Section Lengths In Gloster Canary Spermatozoa Using Computer Aided Sperm Analysis (Casa) System, Arda Onur Özkök, Burcu Esi̇n, Cumali̇ Kaya

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The canary is a small passerine bird of the finch family. Canary spermatozoa are also morphologically similar to many other songbird species. In this study, the morphological characteristics of Gloster canary spermatozoa of different age ranges were examined, and the length values of the parts forming the spermatozoa were compared. The study used ten active Gloster canaries between the ages of 3 (Trial-1) and four years (Trial-2). Semen samples from 3-year-old canaries in the study were evaluated, and morphological segment lengths were recorded. In the study, to avoid individual differences and make homogeneous measurements, semen samples were retaken from the …

Antimicrobial Peptides: Could It Be An Alternative To Antibiotics In Boar Semen Extender?, Krittika Keeratikunakorn, Panida Chanapiwat, Kampon Kaeoket

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Since antimicrobial resistance is a major global issue, “One Health” approaches such as the use of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) was developed as an alternative antimicrobial agent which might be used in pig farms to reduce or replace non-rationale antibiotics usage. Although AMPs showed several effects on antimicrobial agents, including against bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses, as well as effects on host immunity, their most notable property is their ability to kill bacteria without causing damage to the host cell. Two major mechanisms of action of AMPs include membrane-active and intracellular-active. During the past decade, many AMPs have been tested for …

Color Difference Tuned Color Sets, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure relates to the field of color characterization and management. Controlling the color of an imaging system requires the measurement of sets of color inputs or outputs. The properties of such sets of colors then impact the goodness of color characterization or management. A solution is disclosed here for tuning color samplings so as to make them more uniform in terms of a chosen color difference metric, which leads to improved color performance, as evaluated using the metric used for sampling tuning.

120-Degree Ai Imaging Earbuds, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

Customers seeking to utilize computer vision capabilities in ear buds often encounter difficulties due to device limitations and form factor constraints. The AI Imaging Earbuds, disclosed herin, equipped with a 120-degree lens and an integrated image sensor, are designed to overcome these challenges. This disclosure, combined with machine learning technologies, enables efficient data capture and processing either on a paired mobile phone or directly on the earbuds. This flexible and user-friendly solution creates a rich environmental experiences and extends the capability of your ear buds to include environmental image AI.

Local Tissue Damage Treatment Of Snake Venom, Suchitra Khunsap

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Local tissue damage caused by snake envenomation was a medical problem that caused morbidity and mortality for more than a decade, with no defined treatment guidelines. Nowadays, antivenom is the primary treatment for snakebite, which substantially reduces systemic venom but not significantly reducing local symptoms. We compiled a list of local damage therapies, including antivenom medication, surgery and skin grafting, small molecule medicines, and alternative therapies. Although each was not approved as a standard treatment, it may be a treatment option for tissue damage caused by snake venom. However, antivenoms and most resistant compounds may not be the best strategy …

The Survey Of The Prevalence Of Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (Egus) In Non-Racing Thoroughbred Horses In Thailand, Teerapol Tum Chinkangsadarn, Sangtawan Tubkleaw, Ananya Rungjarusub, Jitsupa Trangkatarn, Kawinthida Thaworn, Parichart Tesena

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

This study aimed to determine the prevalence, types, and risk factors of Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS) in non-racing Thoroughbred horses in Thailand. A total of 56 Thoroughbreds, aged 5 to 22 years (mean age: 12.43 ± 4.65 years), were included. Before sedation, a comprehensive history and physical examination were conducted. Gastroscopy was performed to identify gastric ulcers, using the Equine Gastric Ulcer Council 0–4 scoring system for non-glandular ulcers, while glandular ulcers were assessed as present or absent. Data on breed, age, sex, activity status, behavior, appetite, and medical rehistory were collected. The overall prevalence of gastric ulcers was …

Contributors, Lucas Vergara

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

No abstract provided.