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Predation Of Appendicularians On Prochlorococcus, Carey Sweeney

Dissertations and Theses

Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic cell on Earth. This picocyanobacterium is critical to primary productivity and biogeochemical cycles of the open ocean. While abiotic environmental factors that influence Prochlorococcus are relatively well-understood, biotic controls are less well known. Appendicularians are ubiquitous gelatinous zooplankton that feed on marine microorganisms including Prochlorococcus. However, the details of this feeding interaction are extremely understudied relative to its potential importance. In this study, I characterized the relationship between appendicularians and Prochlorococcus with laboratory experiments. I showed that feeding on Prochlorococcus changes with the life stage of the appendicularians and concentration of prey. I …

Unveiling Competitive Adsorption In Tio2 Photocatalysis Through Machine-Learning-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics, Dft, And Experimental Methods, Omar Allam, Mostafa Maghsoodi, Seung Soon Jang, Samuel D. Snow

Faculty Publications

The efficient harnessing of solar power for water treatment via photocatalytic processes has long been constrained by the challenge of understanding and optimizing the interactions at the photocatalyst surface, particularly in the presence of nontarget cosolutes. The adsorption of these cosolutes, such as natural organic matter, onto photocatalysts can inhibit the degradation of pollutants, drastically decreasing the photocatalytic efficiency. In the present work, computational methods are employed to predict the inhibitory action of a suite of small organic molecules during TiO2 photocatalytic degradation of para-chlorobenzoic acid (pCBA). Specifically, tryptophan, coniferyl alcohol, succinic acid, gallic acid, and trimesic acid were selected …

New Species Discovery: Unraveling The Blueberry Gall Midge Complex, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Oregon State Rank Assessment For Disappearing Monkeyflower (Erythranthe Inflatula), Lindsey K. Wise

Institute for Natural Resources Publications

Oregon state conservation status assessment for Disappearing monkeyflower (Erythranthe inflatula) using NatureServe methodology, 2024.

Cognitive Representation Of Mountaineering Risks And Its Change By Expertise, Shin Murakoshi, Kenta Mitsushita

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

Various risks exist during mountaineering. Appropriate representation of characteristics of risks is the basis of survival in such extreme environments. The aim of the present study is to clarify cognitive representation of risks of mountaineering and individual difference according to the experience by psychometric approach. Ninety-seven mountaineers, consisting of top-class leaders and prospective leaders who participated in the training courses of the National Mountaineering Training Center in Japan, were asked to evaluate nine target mountaineering risks repeatedly with nine judgment scales, and the responses were analyzed using three-mode principal component analysis (3MPCA). As a result, two types of risks, sudden …

Understanding The Roles Of Economy And Society In The Relative Risks Of Zoonosis Emergence From Livestock, Stephen Hinchcliffe, Alex Blanchette, Kin Wang (Ray) Chan, Chris Degeling, Jody Emel, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Michael Winter

Geography

The emergence of zoonotic infections that can develop into pathogens of pandemic potential is a major concern for public health. The risks of emergence and transmission relate to multiple factors that range from land use to human-non-human animal contacts. Livestock agriculture plays a potentially significant role in those risks, shaping landscapes and providing hosts that can act as the source or amplifiers of emergent pathogens. The relative risks will be contingent upon the nature of those systems, with comparisons often made between intensive, indoor, biosecure systems and more extensive, outdoor, insecure systems. Microbiological, ecological and veterinary sciences provide useful entry …

Erdrich, Schmitz Scoping Out The Possibilities For The Umn Morris Observatory, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.

Medication Management For Older Adults: Bridging Learning From Us And Uk Perspectives, Blaise B. Nieve

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

The aging population globally necessitates an effective approach to medication management, particularly among older adults who are at a higher risk for adverse drug events (ADEs). This presentation explores the intricacies of medication management for older adults by comparing and contrasting practices and guidelines from the United States and the United Kingdom.

Free Via Library Etextbooks (Fvls) At Franklin University, Marc Jaffy

All Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The Franklin University Library has a library etextbook initiative to provide free via library (FVL) textbooks for student use in courses to enhance affordable learning. This presentation discusses the library's etextbook initiative: how it developed, how it works, data showing student savings resulting from the initiative, and issues/problems we have encountered.

Global Experts Convene At Unh To Discuss Illegal Fishing, Nicholas Gosling

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Seed Dispersal By Martu Peoples Promotes The Distribution Of Native Plants In Arid Australia, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas Bird, Christopher T. Martine, Chloe Mcguire, Leanne Greenwood, Desmond Taylor, Tanisha M. Williams, Peter M. Veth

Faculty Journal Articles

Commensal relationships between wild plants and their dispersers play a key ecological and evolutionary role in community structure and function. While non-human dispersers are often considered critical to plant recruitment, human dispersers have received much less attention, especially when it comes to non-domesticated plants. Australia, as a continent historically characterized by economies reliant on non-domesticated plants, is thus a key system for exploring the ecological role of people as seed dispersers in the absence of agriculture. Here, we utilize a controlled observation research design, employing ecological surveys and ethnographic observations to examine how seed dispersal and landscape burning by Martu …

Neurostructural Subgroup In 4291 Individuals With Schizophrenia Identified Using The Subtype And Stage Inference Algorithm, Yuchao Jiang, Cheng Luo, Jijun Wang, Lena Palaniyappan, Xiao Chang, Shitong Xiang, Jie Zhang, Mingjun Duan, Huan Huang, John Blangero

School of Medicine Publications

Machine learning can be used to define subtypes of psychiatric conditions based on shared biological foundations of mental disorders. Here we analyzed cross-sectional brain images from 4,222 individuals with schizophrenia and 7038 healthy subjects pooled across 41 international cohorts from the ENIGMA, non-ENIGMA cohorts and public datasets. Using the Subtype and Stage Inference (SuStaIn) algorithm, we identify two distinct neurostructural subgroups by mapping the spatial and temporal ‘trajectory’ of gray matter change in schizophrenia. Subgroup 1 was characterized by an early cortical-predominant loss with enlarged striatum, whereas subgroup 2 displayed an early subcortical-predominant loss in the hippocampus, striatum and other …

Bell, Shulamit, Reyna Lee Stovall

Bronx Jewish History Project

Summarized by Lily Weston

Shulamit Bell spent her formative years growing up in the Bronx and much of her early life there centered around her community shul, the Young Israel of Pelham Parkway on Barnes Avenue. She also spent much time at the Bronx House attending Purim carnivals, Hanukkah parties, and more. The legacy of the Holocaust loomed large in her family and community, as both her parents and many other community members were survivors. She recounts how her mother did not work, and her father worked in the garment district. They lived a simple, happy life in an apartment …

Gender-Specific Mental Health Outcomes In Central America: A Natural Experiment, Thea Nagasuru

Computer Science Summer Fellows

While COVID lockdown measures have had varying effects on the mental health of different demographics, several bodies of research have noted their disparate effect on women. Why is women's mental health more negatively impacted by lockdown measures, and how much more are they impacted than men? How can we predict and mitigate these negative effects on women? This paper aims to contribute to answering those questions by comparing COVID stringency measures and their effect on the gap in depression rates between men and women in two neighboring countries: Nicaragua and Honduras.

Records Of The Red-Bellied Snake (Storeria Occipitomaculata) In Central And Northeastern Nebraska, Taylor Lowe, Sarah M. Bailey, Dan D. Fogell, Keith Geluso

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Red-bellied Snakes (Storeria occipitomaculata) are a distinctive, small species that live in moist woodlands throughout much of eastern North America. In the Great Plains, isolated populations exist in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska. In Nebraska, the only known extant population occurs in wooded riparian habitats along the Big Bend Reach of the Platte River in southcentral parts of the state. Herein, we report on new county records of Red-bellied Snakes in Nebraska, with two observations from Merrick County along the Platte River adjacent to known populations and two observations of a new population in the extreme northeastern part …

The Parthenon, July 17, 2024, Evan Green, Sarah Davis, Baylee Parsons, Scott Price, Abigail Cutlip, Maggie Gibbs

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

Jewish Nationalism In Israel: A Measurement, Hannah M. Ridge

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

Since Israel’s founding, being a “Jewish state” has been central to its self-representation. However, Israel has struggled to identify what that means. This article examines the strength of Jewish nationalism in Jewish Israeli public opinion. It draws on a recent survey of 200 Jewish Israelis for a qualitative and quantitative investigation of public responses to religious nationalist statements. These findings offer a utilizable survey short scale for measuring Jewish nationalism and to understand how Jewish Israelis are interpreting these statements. This study is a necessary step to empirically evaluating religious nationalism in the “Jewish state”.

The Role Of Positive Affect In Asthma Control And Symptom Severity In Adolescents, Brooke N. Jenkins, Logan T. Martin, Jill S. Halterman, Judith T. Moskowitz, Laura M. Glynn, Pornchai Tirakitsoontorn, Sunil Kamath, Zeev N. Kain

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Introduction

We test the effects of positive affect and its arousal subscale components of calm, wellbeing, and vigor on asthma control and symptom severity in adolescents with moderate to severe asthma. Additionally, we test whether positive affect (and its arousal components) moderate how stress impacts asthma control and symptom severity.

Methods

Adolescents with asthma (N = 66, ages 12–17) completed brief surveys 4 times a day for 7 days reporting on their positive affect, stress, and asthma symptom severity and conducted a morning peak expiratory flow assessment each day. Asthma control and psychological asthma triggers were assessed at the …

Perceived Effects Of Climate Change On Aquaculture Production In Zambia: Status, Vulnerability Factors, And Adaptation Strategies, Sahya Maulu, Oliver J. Hasimuna, Moses Chibesa, Ian Bbole, Joseph Mphande, Mazuba Mwanachingwala, Kundananji Nawanzi, Doubt Chibeya, Sillah Siavwapa, Joyce Mbewe, Lucy Namukonda, Friday Balungu, Inyambo Mumbula, Mwangala Kabika, Shimbetu Mweemba, Mwaanda Sikanyenyene, Enock Siankwilimba, Imikendu Imbwae, Hansel M. Mweetwa

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Aquaculture plays a critical role in Zambia's food and nutrition security. However, aquaculture is highly vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate which can lead to economic losses, and food and nutrition insecurity. In this study, we investigated the perceived effects of climate change on aquaculture production in Zambia, vulnerability factors, and adaptation strategies. We used semi-structured and structured questionnaires to collect data from aquaculture producers in all provinces across the country. Results revealed high (over 80%) awareness of climate change, primarily attributed to literacy levels and access to media. Producers perceived occurrence of climate-related changes such as rising …

Majority Of Nh Dems Want Biden To Go, Harris Tipped As Successor 7/17/2024, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

A majority of New Hampshire residents think President Joe Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, including a majority of Democrats. Granite Staters are less likely than in 2023 to think Biden is physically and mentally capable of being president and only a quarter think he will be capable of fulfilling his responsibilities for another four-year term. Despite this, relatively few think Biden will withdraw from the race. If Biden does withdraw, Biden supporters think Vice President Kamala Harris should succeed him.

Granite Staters Disapprove Of Supreme Court; Half Oppose Ruling On Presidential Immunity 7/17/2024, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

In the wake of several high-profile decisions, majorities of New Hampshire residents disapprove of the Supreme Court and think Justices make decisions based on their personal opinions rather than the law. A plurality of Granite Staters oppose the Court's ruling in Trump v. U.S. which defined presidential immunity for some of their actions in office. On abortion policies, fewer Granite Staters than in 2022 say abortion should be legal in all circumstances and state residents remain divided on a 2021 law banning abortion after 24 weeks in New Hampshire.

Development Of Ground Motion Models In Central And Eastern United States For Use In The Coastal Plain Using Sediment Thickness, Mohsen Akhani Senejani

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Ground motion models (GMMs) are essential components of probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) in developing engineering response spectra conditional on earthquake magnitude, source-receiver distance, and site condition. The Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coastal Plain regions of the United States, referred to as the Coastal Plain by researchers such as Chapman and Guo (2021), have site conditions systematically different from others in the Central and Eastern United States (CEUS). This study aims to develop adjustment factors for the GMMs developed for CEUS, which are developed for regions outside the Coastal Plain, to be used for sites within the Coastal Plain regions. …

Essays In Healthcare And Public Policy Economics, Babasoji Oyemakinde

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The first essay investigates the short, medium, and long run differential motor vehicle crash fatality effects and gender heterogeneity for the US states that switched to primary enforcement (drivers cited for failure to use seat belts) from secondary enforcement (non-belted drivers further cited for other traffic violations) of the seat belt law. The current study, employing an event study empirical strategy and 1979 to 2019 US state level data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), fills an important void in the literature. This design enables us to exploit variation in the location (treated and control states) and staggered timing …

A Review Of Optimal Procedures For Combining P-Values With A Proposal Of A Bayesian Approach To Identify Auxiliary Covariates, Tiffany Geistkemper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In this thesis, we review a meta-analytic procedure for evaluating tests from several studies based on the combination of P -values. We provide a summary of properties of several well-known methods that combine P-values of continuous and independent test statistics. We note that it is not uncommon that, in the process of performing statistical tests, potentially important covariates are sometimes inadvertently not accounted for in the individual studies. We outline a procedure based on a Bayesian regression approach that introduces latent variables that may be used to account for and evaluate the significance of such covariates.

The Lived Experiences Of Black American Mental Health Therapist Seeking Personal Therapy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Tera Brownlee Warfield

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Black Americans face unique challenges in America that impact their mental health. Research as specifically shown that Black therapist experience unique challenges within work with clients due to microaggressions and holding space for other people of color related to racial trauma. There is an established body of research pertaining to therapist mental health but limited research pertaining to the mental health of Black mental health therapist especially pertaining to addressing this populations mental health needed. The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experiences of twelve Black therapist who have sought personal therapy. This topic was explored to …

Understanding Student-Athletes' Social Justice Commitment: Utilizing Social Cognitive Framework, Katie M. Califano

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Inequality and discrimination occur within college athletics as well as in general society. As a result, collegiate athletes are increasingly engaging in social justice advocacy. The present study builds on the growing body of research on the development of social justice commitment through a social-cognitive model but adds an additional variable of perceived discrimination as many athletes represent populations that have been discriminated against based on race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or other identities. Using a sample of 128 NCAA Division I, II, and III student-athletes in a variety of sports, results supported utilizing the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) model …

Linguistic Features In Mild And Moderate Dementia, Alexsandra Murphy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The aim of this study is to understand what linguistic measures differ in individuals who have dementia versus a healthy control group as linguistic measures can provide insight to discrepancies in cognitive abilities, notably language. The problem with identifying and diagnosing diseases related to memory, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, is that diagnoses require involved medical examinations, such as neuroimaging, and descriptive diagnostics that may be subjective and relative. This can lead to ambiguous results and lack of clarity for patients and their families and medical care team, making it difficult to chart a course of action or make …

Automatic Domain Model Extraction For Introductory Computer Programming, Rabin Banjade

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation addresses the difficulties of creating domain models for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) in computer programming. One significant challenge of designing ITS for computer programming involves determining the essential knowledge components a student must learn to become proficient in programming. One possible solution is to engage programming experts, which is impractical due to scalability and cost constraints. Existing approaches for automatically extracting domain models for computer programming focus on parsing code examples, but their scope is limited. While they can extract some domain terms, they do not adequately address the pedagogical requirements. We address the challenges of automatically extracting …

The Relationship Between State Policies And Gun Violence In The United States, Purba Bhattacharjee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study investigates the impact of state policies and socio-economic factors on gun violence across the United States, aiming to unravel the dynamics that contribute to variations in violence rates at the state level. The study primarily explores the effects of firearm accessibility, state-level alcohol, drug, and healthcare policies, and broader socio-economic and demographic variables on gun violence incidents. Using comprehensive datasets from the Gun Violence Archive, State Policy & Politics Database, and U.S. Census, the research employs linear and Poisson regression models to quantitatively analyze the relationship between gun violence rates and an array of predictive factors over the …

Social Reward And Mesolimbic Dopamine Release, Travis Ried Erickson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The mesolimbic dopamine system plays a critical role in mediating reward-seeking and motivation, most researched in relation to drug reward. This study examined the relationship between aspects of phasic and tonic NAc dopamine release and behaviors related to social reward in C57Bl/6J mice. Social conditioned place preference (sCPP) was used to assess preference/aversion to chambers associated with social interaction, as well as the frequency/duration of social interactions during the conditioning days. Following sCPP, fixed potential amperometry was used to measure stimulation-evoked dopamine release in the NAc of anesthetized mice before and after an injection of cocaine (10 mg/kg, ip). We …