Lynn Chamber Music Competition 2019

Judges Ross Harbaugh, cello (University of Miami) Milana Strezeva, piano (Manhattan Piano Trio) Jeffrey Lyman, bassoon (University of Michigan) Schedule Preliminary Round - December 4, 2019, 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM Final Round - December 5, 2019, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Winners 1st Place - Chanson Quintet (Askar Salimdjanov, violin; David Brill, violin; Thomas Wong, viola; Georgiy Khokhlov, cello; Feruza Dadabaeva, piano) 2nd Place - The Gallant Quartet (Daniel Guevara, violin; Benjamin Kremer, violin; Mario Rivera, viola; Michael Puryear, cello) 3rd Place - The International Quartet (Alexander Babin, violin; Yu Xie, violin; Jovani Williams, viola; Davron Ziyadjanov, cello)https://spiral.lynn.edu/conservatory_chamber-music-competition/1004/thumbnail.jp

Fatty acid profiling of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) flesh as a means of authenticating production origin?

Seafood traceability and labelling as imposed by EU Regulation No 2065/2001 (REG in the following) requires that, in addition to commercial designation, both fishery and aquacultured products be qualified as to production method and either catch or farming area. This information is all the more crucial when it comes to widely appreciated species, such as European seabass, which may be available in a wild state or derive from aquaculture, retaining quite a different intrinsic value in the consumers’ opinions and therefore commanding widely different prices. A large study was therefore funded by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies to test the usefulness of several analytical methods, taken either alone or in combination, to authenticate European seabass origin, the part reported here exploring the possibility to confirm product label specifications based solely on the fatty acid profile of flesh total lipids. A total of 160 European seabass specimens were collected from November 2009 to December 2010. Aquacultured specimens (n=115) were obtained from 13 farms (Italy 8, Greece 2, Turkey 2, Croatia 1), one of the Italian farms adopting quite a typical extensive production system in brackish lagoons named “vallicoltura”, the others predominantly the floating cage intensive system. Wild specimens (n=45) were obtained from 5 main areas for seabass sourcing in Italy, 4 of which in the Mediterranean sea. Fish were received on ice and promptly filleted, skinned and deboned. Total lipids were extracted (chloroform/methanol 1:1, v/v) from the homogenised flesh of each specimen and fatty acid methyl esters were separated on 30-m DB-23 capillary column. Supervised methods (quadratic discriminant analysis with leave-one-out crossvalidation) were performed on the identified fatty acid data set (22/specimen). As to the “production method” (REG, Article 4), multivariate statistics allowed the correct classification of specimens according to their farmed or wild status, with the only exception of those deriving from Italian “vallicoltura” (n=10). As to the “catch area” (REG, Article 5), about 70% of the wild specimens was allocated to their proper FAO fishing area, whereas around 85% of the Italian product was properly differentiated within the intensive farmed group

Factors Associated With Forensic Nurses Offering HIV nPEP Status Post Sexual Assault

Non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis (nPEP) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is offered inconsistently to patients who have been sexually assaulted. This may be due to Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE) programs utilizing diverse nPEP protocols and HIV risk assessment algorithms. This study examines factors associated with FNEs offering nPEP to patients following sexual assault at two FNE programs in urban settings. Offering nPEP is mostly driven by site-specific protocol. At Site 1 in addition to open anal or open genital wounds, the presence of injury to the head or face was associated with FNEs offering nPEP (AOR 64.15, 95%CI [2.12 – 1942.37]). At Site 2, patients assaulted by someone of other race/ethnicity (non-White, non-African American) were 86% less likely to be offered nPEP (AOR 0.14, 95%CI [.03-.72]) than patients assaulted by Whites. In addition to following site specific protocols, future research should further explore the mechanisms influencing clinician decision making

Factors Associated With Forensic Nurses Offering HIV nPEP Status Post Sexual Assault.

Nonoccupational, postexposure prophylaxis (nPEP) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is offered inconsistently to patients who have been sexually assaulted. This may be due to Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE) programs utilizing diverse nPEP protocols and HIV risk assessment algorithms. This study examines factors associated with FNEs offering nPEP to patients following sexual assault at two FNE programs in urban settings. Offering nPEP is mostly driven by site-specific protocol. At Site 1, in addition to open anal or open genital wounds, the presence of injury to the head or face was associated with FNEs offering nPEP (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 64.15, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [2.12, 1942.37]). At Site 2, patients assaulted by someone of Other race/ethnicity (non-White, non-African American) were 86% less likely to be offered nPEP (AOR 0.14, 95% CI = [.03, .72]) than patients assaulted by Whites. In addition to following site-specific protocols, future research should further explore the mechanisms influencing clinician decision making

Serological and Molecular Detection of Senecavirus A Associated with an Outbreak of Swine Idiopathic Vesicular Disease and Neonatal Mortality

We performed a longitudinal field study in a swine breeding herd that presented with an outbreak of vesicular disease (VD) that was associated with an increase in neonatal mortality. Initially, a USDA Foreign Animal Disease (FAD) investigation confirmed the presence of Senecavirus A (SVA) and ruled out the presence of exotic agents that produce vesicular lesions, e.g., foot-and-mouth disease virus and others. Subsequently, serum samples, tonsil swabs, and feces were collected from sows (n = 22) and their piglets (n = 33) beginning 1 week after the onset of the clinical outbreak and weekly for 6 weeks. The presence of SVA RNA was evaluated in all specimens collected by reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) targeting a conserved region of the 5′ untranslated region (5′-UTR). The serological response (IgG) to SVA was evaluated by the weekly testing of sow and piglet serum samples on a SVA VP1 recombinant protein (rVP1) indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The rVP1 ELISA detected seroconversion against SVA in clinically affected and non-clinically affected sows at early stages of the outbreak as well as maternal SVA antibodies in offspring. Overall, the absence of vesicles (gross lesions) in SVA-infected animals and the variability of RT-qPCR results among specimen type demonstrated that a diagnostic algorithm based on the combination of clinical observations, RT-qPCR in multiple diagnostic specimens, and serology are essential to ensure an accurate diagnosis of SVA.This article is published as Gimenez-Lirola, Luis Gabriel, Chris Rademacher, Daniel Linhares, Karen Harmon, Marisa Rotolo, Yaxuan Sun, David H. Baum, Jeffrey Zimmerman, and Pablo Piñeyro. "Serological and molecular detection of Senecavirus A associated with an outbreak of swine idiopathic vesicular disease and neonatal mortality." Journal of clinical microbiology 54, no. 8 (2016): 2082-2089. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00710-16. Posted with permission.</p