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Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving Enhances Psychosocial Stress And Vice Versa In Chronic Cocaine Users, Ann-Kathrin Kexel, Bruno Kluwe-Schiavon, Markus R Baumgartner, Etna J E Engeli, Monika Visentini, Clemens Kirschbaum, Erich Seifritz, Beate Ditzen, Leila M Soravia, Boris B Quednow

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Stress and craving, it has been found, contribute to the development and maintenance of and relapse in cocaine use disorder. Chronic cocaine users (CU), previous research has shown, display altered physiological responses to psychosocial stress and increased vegetative responding to substance-related cues. However, how psychosocial stress and cue-induced craving interact in relation to the CU's physiological responses remains largely unknown. We thus investigated the interaction between acute psychosocial stress and cocaine-cue-related reactivity in 47 CU and 38 controls. In a crossed and balanced design, the participants were randomly exposed to a video-based cocaine-cue paradigm and the Trier Social Stress Test …

20221011: Student Conduct And Welfare Committee Minutes, 1980-1987, Faculty Senate

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the office of Faculty Senate at Marshall University from 1980-1987. Items were received in before 2000, but were not accessioned until 2022. Notable materials include minutes and correspondence from the Student Conduct and Welfare Committee as well as correspondence from the years described in this collection. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

A Bilevel Optimization Model Based On Edge Computing For Microgrid, Yi Chen, Kadhim Hayawi, Meikai Fan, Shih Yu Chang, Jie Tang, Ling Yang, Rui Zhao, Zhongqi Mao, Hong Wen

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

With the continuous progress of renewable energy technology and the large-scale construction of microgrids, the architecture of power systems is becoming increasingly complex and huge. In order to achieve efficient and low-delay data processing and meet the needs of smart grid users, emerging smart energy systems are often deployed at the edge of the power grid, and edge computing modules are integrated into the microgrids system, so as to realize the cost-optimal control decision of the microgrids under the condition of load balancing. Therefore, this paper presents a bilevel optimization control model, which is divided into an upper-level optimal control …

A Mixed Assessment For The Science Learning Via A Bayesian Network Representation, Zhidong Zhang, Angelica Guanzon

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

This study explored an alternative assessment model to examine Chemistry learners’ progress. “The Assessment of Problem-Solving in Chemistry Learning” as a model represented students’ mastery of chemistry study. The data were from journaling narratives and analyzed through cognitive task analysis. Based on the analyses, a student model was established, which represents the qualitative information in a structure, and provides a potential framework of the assessment model for the quantitative representation—a Bayesian network assessment model. The student’s performance was assessed via the Bayesian network assessment model, and classified into three categories: low level, middle level, and high level. The mastery …

Studying The Behavior Of Cold-Formed Steel Sections In Lightweight Buildings, ِAml Badr, Nabil Mahmoud, Fikry A. Salem

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Over the last decade, the use of cold-formed steel (CFS) sections has increased significantly increasing in lightweight buildings and many other industrial constructions worldwide. The present research paper aims to investigate the distributed load capacity of CFS sections in lightweight buildings. Three CFS built-up sections were investigated for column and other three for girder in a frame of building study case. Channels, channels with lip, sigma section, hollow section, and/or plates were used to obtain column and girder profiles in frame. Self-tapping screws were applied to assemble the elements of each section. The finite element (FE) model was used to …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern Professor Named Sociologist of the Year

• State Health Leader to Discuss Past, Present and Future of Georgia’s Public Health at Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

College Of Business News, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• FA & SIA Jointly Host E*Trade Speakers

• Finance Association Hosts Northwestern Mutual Guest Speakers

The George-Anne Inkwell Edition

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Language Proficiency And Use Of Interpreters/Translators In Fieldwork: A Survey Of Us-Based Anthropologists And Sociologists, Katarzyna Sepielak, Dawid K. Wladyka, William Yaworsky

Sociology Faculty Publications

The proficiency in vernacular has long been a methodological ethos pervasive among field researchers and—despite new dynamics of fieldwork—still overshadows discussions related to collaboration with translators and interpreters, which are either marginalized or hidden within the category of a ‘research assistant’. The purpose of this study is to take a step beyond anecdotal evidence and explore trends in language proficiency and use of translation services among US based field researchers who had conducted international or domestic studies in an area where a language other than English was present. We conducted the largest-to-date survey on the subject and analyzed 913 responses …

Whole Genome Sequence Analysis Of Blood Lipid Levels In >66,000 Individuals, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Akhil Pampana, David Y. Zhang, Joanne E. Curran, Ravi Duggirala, John Blangero, Juan M. Peralta, Harald Hh Goring, Michael Mahaney

School of Medicine Publications

Blood lipids are heritable modifiable causal factors for coronary artery disease. Despite well-described monogenic and polygenic bases of dyslipidemia, limitations remain in discovery of lipid-associated alleles using whole genome sequencing (WGS), partly due to limited sample sizes, ancestral diversity, and interpretation of clinical significance. Among 66,329 ancestrally diverse (56% non-European) participants, we associate 428M variants from deep-coverage WGS with lipid levels; ~400M variants were not assessed in prior lipids genetic analyses. We find multiple lipid-related genes strongly associated with blood lipids through analysis of common and rare coding variants. We discover several associated rare non-coding variants, largely at Mendelian lipid …

Nursing In A Different World: Remote Area Nursing As A Specialist–Generalist Practice Area, Kylie Mccullough, Sara Bayes, Lisa Whitehead, Anne Williams, Vicki Cope

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Objective

Remote area nurses provide primary health care services to isolated communities across Australia. They manage acute health issues, chronic illness, health promotion and emergency responses. This article discusses why their generalist scope of practice should be formally recognised as a specialist nursing practice area.

Design

Constructivist grounded theory, using telephone interviews (n = 24) with registered nurses and nurse practitioners.

Setting

Primary health care clinics, in communities of 150–1500 residents across Australia.

Participants

A total of 24 nurses participated in this study.

Results

Nurses' perceived their clinical knowledge and skill as insufficient for the advanced, generalist, scope of …

Coherent Enhancement Of Optical Remission In Diffusive Media, Nicholas Bender, Arthur Goetschy, Chia Wei Hsu, Hasan Yılmaz, Pablo Jara Palacios, Alexey Yamilov, Hui Cao

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Remitted waves are used for sensing and imaging in diverse diffusive media from the Earth's crust to the human brain. Separating the source and detector increases the penetration depth of light, but the signal strength decreases rapidly, leading to a poor signal-to-noise ratio. Here, we show, experimentally and numerically, that wavefront shaping a laser beam incident on a diffusive sample enables an enhancement of remission by an order of magnitude at depths of up to 10 transport mean free paths. We develop a theoretical model which predicts the maximal remission enhancement. Our analysis reveals a significant improvement in the sensitivity …

Expert Clinical Management Of Severe Immune-Related Adverse Events: Results From A Multicenter Survey On Hot Topics For Management, Mar Riveiro-Barciela, Maria Jose Soler, Ana Barreira-Diaz, Sheila Bermejo, Sebastian Bruera, Maria E Suarez-Almazor

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

There are differences in recommendations for the management of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). To assess the real-world management of irAEs, three surveys regarding ICI-induced hepatitis (IIH), renal irAEs, and myositis were developed and sent to experts in each area. Fifty-six surveys were completed (17 IIH, 20 renal irAEs, and 19 myositis). All experts agreed on performing imaging in every suspected case of severe IIH. Sixty-five percent agreed on performing a liver biopsy in patients not responding to corticosteroids. The most common indication for corticosteroid use (59%) was for severe IIH not improving after discontinuation …

Maternal Gut Microbiota Mediate Intergenerational Effects Of High-Fat Diet On Descendant Social Behavior, Claudia M Di Gesù, Lisa M Matz, Ian J Bolding, Robert Fultz, Kristi L Hoffman, Antonella Marino Gammazza, Joseph F Petrosino, Shelly A Buffington

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Dysbiosis of the maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy is associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. We previously showed that maternal high-fat diet (MHFD) in mice induces gut dysbiosis, social dysfunction, and underlying synaptic plasticity deficits in male offspring (F1). Here, we reason that, if HFD-mediated changes in maternal gut microbiota drive offspring social deficits, then MHFD-induced dysbiosis in F1 female MHFD offspring would likewise impair F2 social behavior. Metataxonomic sequencing reveals reduced microbial richness among female F1 MHFD offspring. Despite recovery of microbial richness among MHFD-descendant F2 mice, they display social dysfunction. Post-weaning Limosilactobacillus reuteri treatment increases the abundance of short-chain …

Ez Clear For Simple, Rapid, And Robust Mouse Whole Organ Clearing, Chih-Wei Hsu, Juan Cerda, Jason M Kirk, Williamson D Turner, Tara L Rasmussen, Carlos P Flores Suarez, Mary E Dickinson, Joshua D Wythe

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Tissue clearing for whole organ cell profiling has revolutionized biology and imaging for exploration of organs in three-dimensional space without compromising tissue architecture. But complicated, laborious procedures, or expensive equipment, as well as the use of hazardous, organic solvents prevent the widespread adoption of these methods. Here, we report a simple and rapid tissue clearing method, EZ Clear, that can clear whole adult mouse organs in 48 hr in just three simple steps. Samples stay at room temperature and remain hydrated throughout the clearing process, preserving endogenous and synthetic fluorescence, without altering sample size. After wholemount clearing and imaging, samples …

Union Ave. Estates Llc V. Russell

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Association Of Α-Klotho With Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis In Subjects With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Esmeralda Castelblanco, Marta Hernández, Nuria Alonso, Aina Ribes-Betriu, Jordi Real, Minerva Granado-Casas, Joana Rossell, Marina Idalia Rojo-López, Adriana Silvia Dusso, Josep Julve, Didac Mauricio

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Compelling evidence suggests that the fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) / α-klotho axis is impaired in subjects with diabetes mellitus. We examined the relationship between parameters related to calcium/phosphate homeostasis, including FGF23 and α-klotho, and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis burden in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) subjects.

METHODS: This cross-sectional study involved 226 subjects with T1D and 147 age-, sex- and plaque-matched, non-diabetic (non-T1D) subjects, both with normal renal function. Carotid ultrasound was performed to determine the presence and burden of atheromatous plaques. Concentrations of the intact form of FGF23 and α-klotho were assessed by ELISA. Calcium, phosphate, parathyroid hormone, …

Avoiding The Appearance Of Virtue: Reactivity To Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings In An Era Of Shareholder Primacy, Ben W. Lewis, W. Chad Carlos

Faculty Publications

We examine why organizations may at times decrease their performance after receiving a positive rating. We argue that in contrast to the prevailing assumption that organizations will strive for favorable ratings to achieve reputational benefits, incompatibility between a positive rating and a dominant institutional logic may cause recognized firms to question the perceived value of maintaining superior performance, thus leading them to strategically reduce their efforts on the rated dimension. Using a difference-in-differences design, we examine how companies responded to being rated as charitable organizations, an evaluation that we argue was generally perceived as incompatible with the dominant logic of …

Use Of High-Resolution Multi-Temporal Dem Data For Landslide Detection, Behnam Azmoon, Aynaz Biniyaz, Zhen (Leo) Liu

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Landslides in urban areas have been relatively well-documented in landslide inventories despite issues in accuracy and completeness, e.g., the absence of small landslides. By contrast, less attention has been paid to landslides in sparsely populated areas in terms of their occurrences and locations. This study utilizes high-resolution and LiDAR-derived digital elevation models (DEMs) at two different times for landslide detection to (1) improve the localization and detection accuracies in landslide inventories, (2) minimize human intervention in the landslide detection process, and (3) identify landslides that cannot be easily documented in the current state of the practice. To achieve this goal, …

Mesoscale Structure-Function Relationships In Mitochondrial Transcriptional Condensates, Marina Feric, Azadeh Sarfallah, Furqan Dar, Dmitry Temiakov, Rohit V Pappu, Tom Misteli

2020-Current year OA Pubs

In live cells, phase separation is thought to organize macromolecules into membraneless structures known as biomolecular condensates. Here, we reconstituted transcription in condensates from purified mitochondrial components using optimized in vitro reaction conditions to probe the structure-function relationships of biomolecular condensates. We find that the core components of the mt-transcription machinery form multiphasic, viscoelastic condensates in vitro. Strikingly, the rates of condensate-mediated transcription are substantially lower than in solution. The condensate-mediated decrease in transcriptional rates is associated with the formation of vesicle-like structures that are driven by the production and accumulation of RNA during transcription. The generation of RNA alters …

Whole Genome Sequence Analysis Of Blood Lipid Levels In >66,000 Individuals, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Lisa De Las Fuentes, Susan K. Dutcher, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

No abstract provided.

Amyloid Β, Lipid Metabolism, Basal Cholinergic System, And Therapeutics In Alzheimer's Disease, Victoria Campos-Peña, Pavel Pichardo-Rojas, Talía Sánchez-Barbosa, Emma Ortíz-Islas, Citlali Ekaterina Rodríguez-Pérez, Pedro Montes, Gerardo Ramos-Palacios, Daniela Silva-Adaya, Rafael Valencia-Quintana, Jorge Francisco Cerna-Cortes, Danira Toral-Rios

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The presence of insoluble aggregates of amyloid β (Aβ) in the form of neuritic plaques (NPs) is one of the main features that define Alzheimer's disease. Studies have suggested that the accumulation of these peptides in the brain significantly contributes to extensive neuronal loss. Furthermore, the content and distribution of cholesterol in the membrane have been shown to have an important effect on the production and subsequent accumulation of Aβ peptides in the plasma membrane, contributing to dysfunction and neuronal death. The monomeric forms of these membrane-bound peptides undergo several conformational changes, ranging from oligomeric forms to beta-sheet structures, each …

Examining Price Discovery In The Gold Market: Evidence From India, Santosh Kumar Pk, Sanjeev M A

Management Dynamics

Background: Commodity markets are rapidly changing across the globe due to technological and financial innovations. The introduction of commodity exchanges and futures trading has significantly affected their price discovery with ramifications for the commodity users and traders. The price discovery mechanism in commodity markets is dynamic and needs regular reassessment.

Objective: This paper aims to determine the price discovery mechanism (the relation between spot and future prices) of gold in the Indian commodity markets for the ten years between 2011-2020 and the direction of the price influence.

Materials & Methods: The current study uses daily gold price data between January …

Forecasting The Demand For Asphalt Concrete In Karbala Governorate, Ghayath Ali, Sawsan R Mohammad, Shakir Al-Busaltan

Al-Bahir

The challenge of forecasting asphalt concrete demand in the Karbala governorate is the subject of this study. Population and number of vehicles in Karbala are considered among the independent (explanatory) variables taken into consideration. These explanatory variables ' historical data have been gathered and examined. The historical data of each explanatory variable has been linked to the historical demand for asphalt concrete in the governorate using regression techniques in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program version 26.

A model to forecast the governorate's demand for asphalt concrete has been developed based on these factors. The forecasts have …

Miss Lloyd Appointed Canning Manager

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping regarding Pauline Lloyd being appointed by the Board of County Commissioners to run the canning operations of the City Federation of Colored Women’s Club of Jacksonville. Eartha White mentioned as President of City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Undated.

Note To Eartha White From Mrs. R. A. Wells

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Note to Eartha M.M. White, President of the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs asking her to inform the ladies of the Federation to go to the parsonage.

Transcript: “To the Pres. Of the Federation - You will please inform the ladies of the Federation to come over to the parsonage for labatory purposes. Yours truly Mrs. R.A. Wells”

Petition To The Board Of County Commissioners By City Federation Of Women Clubs

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News clipping about Eartha M.M. White, president of the City Federation of Women’s Clubs petitioning the Board of County Commissioners regarding lack ventilation for the prisoners at the county prison farm and for a chapel for religious services for the prisoners. Metropolis. Undated.

Two Poems, Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

Journal of International Women's Studies

The poems “Other Fish to Fry” and “Lives of Others” reflect on how South Asian women fall victim to social systems and prejudices about gender. The first poem, “Other Fish to Fry,” metaphorically presents a mother bird and its kids, who represent women suffering from discrimination and torture. “Lives of Others” also depicts women who migrate to Middle Eastern countries in order to earn money and bring solvency to their families. But over time, they are victimized by landlords and brokers who regularly torture them. As a result, both poems address violence against South Asian women, including heinous crimes such …

Quest For The Ideal: Devi Versus Reality, Jayita Sengupta

Journal of International Women's Studies

This short essay is a reflective piece attempting to understand the cultural nuances of Indian society, which shapes the consciousness of Indian men and women. While Indian society worships the ‘Devi,’ it does not treat women with the respect they deserve. Also, women sometimes do not deserve that admiration. There is always a conflict between the ideal and the real, and the quest for love and beauty remains an eternal one.