Politics and Jewish Identity in Today\u27s America

2018 Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies. [Speaker] Chuck Todd, Moderator of Meet the Press, Host of MTP Daily on MSNBC, and Political Director for NBC News.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1352/thumbnail.jp

Feline Infectious Peritonitis

Feline infectious peritonitis was diagnosed in a two-year-old Ragdoll cat at Bay Cities Pet Hospital, Torrance, California in August of 1974. The article describes the specific case and discusses the current knowledge of the disease

Comparison of Unix Communication Facilities Used In Linda

This report presents the results of an investigative effort that focuses on a first step toward providing a distributed framework for Linda system processes. In particular, we discuss the restructuring of the kernel "process" to support Tuple Space access through UNIX socket calls, rather than through shared memory primitives based on semaphore usage. A description of the restructured system and the rationale for such restructuring is presented first. Most intriguing, however, are the latter sections that discuss the ramifications and insights gained from our particular approach to system redesign, i.e., the unnecessary serialization of Tuple Space access, redundant memory copies, being victimized by the UNIX scheduler

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory within the Full-Potential Methods: Electronic structure of Ce-115 materials

We implemented the charge self-consistent combination of Density Functional Theory and Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) in two full-potential methods, the Augmented Plane Wave and the Linear Muffin-Tin Orbital methods. We categorize the commonly used projection methods in terms of the causality of the resulting DMFT equations and the amount of partial spectral weight retained. The detailed flow of the Dynamical Mean Field algorithm is described, including the computation of response functions such as transport coefficients. We discuss the implementation of the impurity solvers based on hybridization expansion and an analytic continuation method for self-energy. We also derive the formalism for the bold continuous time quantum Monte Carlo method. We test our method on a classic problem in strongly correlated physics, the isostructural transition in Ce metal. We apply our method to the class of heavy fermion materials CeIrIn_5, CeCoIn_5 and CeRhIn_5 and show that the Ce 4f electrons are more localized in CeRhIn_5 than in the other two, a result corroborated by experiment. We show that CeIrIn_5 is the most itinerant and has a very anisotropic hybridization, pointing mostly towards the out-of-plane In atoms. In CeRhIn_5 we stabilized the antiferromagnetic DMFT solution below 3K, in close agreement with the experimental N\'eel temperature.Comment: The implementation of Bold-CTQMC added and some test of the method adde

Influence of Water Quality on Cholesterol-Induced Tau Pathology: Preliminary Data

The studies employed the cholesterol-fed rabbit model of Alzheimer's disease (AD) to investigate the relationship between AD-like neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) neuropathology and tau protein levels as the main component of NFT. We measured brain and plasma tau levels and semiquantified NFT-like neuropathology in cholesterol-fed rabbits administered drinking water of varying quality (distilled, tap, and distilled+copper) compared to animals receiving normal chow and local tap water. Total tau levels in plasma were increased in all cholesterol-fed rabbits compared to animals on normal chow, regardless of quality of water. In contrast, increased tau in brain and increased AT8 immunoreactive NFT-like lesions were greatest in cholesterol-fed rabbits administered distilled water. A substantial decrease in brain tau and incidence and density of AT8 immunoreactive NFT-like lesions occurred in cholesterol-fed rabbits administered copper water, and an even greater decrease was observed in cholesterol-fed animals on local tap water. These studies suggest the possibility that circulating tau could be the source of the tau accumulating in the brain

UB Knightlines Fall 2014

The UB Knightlines newsletter for the Fall of 2014. This issue contains articles discussing UB student Dale Shepard's fellowship with D'Wayne Edwards, professor Miad Faezipour's use of smartphone technology to help lung cancer patients, UB's distance learning with its Global Learning Initiative, UBs new residence hall, UB's new therapy dog, state funding to help professor Prabit Patra to fight Lynch Syndrome, Dominick Pereira winning the Alumni Association Scholarship, the experience of UB Melissa Salguero who's school band's instruments were stolen and vandalized, the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Ernest C. Trefz School of Business, the UB partnering with the Peace Corps, a focus on the UB alum Larry Jasinski, faculty news, books published by alums and faculty, alumni news, the athletic and academic success of UB swimmer Ruben Gimenez, the 18th annual gold fundraiser, the addition of Gary Mullin as head coach of UB's volleyball team and Sean Raffle as the head coach for men and women's swimming, and other campus and sports news

A Comparison of Electron Transport Rate, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Light-Adapted Fluorescence, and Dark-Adapted Fluorescence Between Stipa pulchra and Pennisetium setaceum

The purpose of this investigation was to provide an explanation into how the invasive species Pennisetium setaceum, Fountain Grass, is able to outcompete the native California grassland species Stipa pulchra, Purple Needle Grass. We used a light adapted and a dark adapted fluorometer to measure the photosynthetic radiation (PAR), leaf temperature, alpha (α), light adapted fluorescence (Fv’/Fm’), dark adapted fluorescence (Fv/Fm), and the electron transport rate (ETR) on young Fountain Grass and Purple Needlegrass. After collecting and analyzing the data, we concluded that the dark adapted fluorescence (Fv/Fm) was the only statistically significant measurement where the Fv/Fm of S. pulchra is higher than that of P. setaceum which suggests that S. pulchra’s quantum yield of photosystem II is higher and is therefore more efficient. With this result, we are able to state that Fv/Fm is not the reason why Fountain Grass outcompetes Purple Needlegrass