A Multidisciplinary Diabetes Collaborative

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The Right Stuff: biodegradable alternatives to plastic mulch

This project was a continuation of work started by Mark Ingman after he was bothered by the amount of plastic sheeting used in agriculture in China. He was determined to develop an alternative to this environmentally destructive use of plastic by farmers. The plastic “mulch” is used to prevent weeds and maintain soil moisture, but after a season of use the plastic is either thrown into a landfill or burned. Needless to say this creates a lot of unnecessary waste. Mark came back to the United States and put together a team to develop an alternative to the plastic mulch using wool and flax shive waste. The shive waste is an agricultural byproduct. It is composed of biomass available after processing the plant for fibers, oil and seeds. The project was sponsored by the EPA and given a P3 Phase 2 Grant after all initial work. Dr. Skip Rochefort was asked to consult to help develop the product further. He suggested using sodium alginate, a common food additive, to bind the flax shive into a sheet form. Sodium alginate is biodegradable and fit within the sustainability needs of the project. I was tasked with taking Dr. Rochefort's idea and turning it into the final mulch sheet product. The goal of the project was to make this sheet retain moisture and prevent weeds like other mulches but biodegrade over time. At the end of the season, this product would be tilled into the soil as a soil amendment

Basic Atomic Physics

Contains reports on five research projects.National Science Foundation Grant PHY 89-19381National Science Foundation Grant PHY 92-21489U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1322Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-92-C-0001National Science Foundation Grant PHY 89-21769U.S. Army - Office of Scientific Research Grant DAAL03-92-G-0229U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1207U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-164

Basic Atomic Physics

Contains reports on five research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-92-C-0001Joint Services Electronics Program Grant DAAH04-95-1-0038National Science Foundation Grant PHY 92-21489U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1322National Science Foundation Grant PHY 92-22768U.S. Army - Office of Scientific Research Grant DAAL03-92-G-0229U.S. Army - Office of Scientific Research Grant DAAL01-92-6-0197U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1207Alfred P. Sloan FoundationU.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1642U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-94-1-080

Basic Atomic Physics

Contains reports on five research projects.National Science Foundation Grant PHY 89-19381U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Contract N00014-90-J-1322Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-89-C-0001Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-92-C-0001U.S. Army Research Office Contract DAAL03-89-K-0082U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1207U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1642National Science Foundation Grant PHY 86-05893National Science Foundation Grant PHY 89-2176

Basic Atomic Physics

Contains reports on four research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program Contract DAAL03-92-C-0001National Science Foundation Grant PHY 89-19381U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1322National Science Foundation Grant PHY 89-21769U.S. Army - Office of Scientific Research Contract DAAL03-89-K-0082U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1207U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-164

Basic Atomic Physics

Contains reports on five research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program Grant DAAH04-95-1-0038National Science Foundation Grant PHY 92-21489U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1322National Science Foundation Grant PHY 92-22768Charles S. Draper Laboratory Contract DL-H-4847759U.S. Army - Office of Scientific Research Grant DAAL03-92-G-0229U.S. Army - Office of Scientific Research Grant DAAL01-92-6-0197U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-89-J-1207Alfred P. Sloan FoundationNational Science Foundation Grant PHY 95-01984U.S. Army Research Office Contract DAAL01-92-C-0001U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-1642U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-94-1-080

The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All of the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11 (DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12) adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previous data releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 deg2 of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocity measurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include the measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 5200 deg2 of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2) survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 deg2; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and 197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained over five million astronomical spectra. \ua9 2015. The American Astronomical Society

The Association of Absenteeism and Gender with Reading Achievement

Research shows how absenteeism and gender positively or negatively affect a child’s grades and classroom performance. If there were more resources and knowledge about how a student’s attendance and gender relate to his or her reading grades in the classroom setting as well as to reading scores on standardized tests, grades and scores could possibly increase due to a better understanding of what needs to take place in order for students to succeed academically in the area of reading. In this research study an examination was made as to what degree a student's absences and gender predict her or his reading achievement. This non-experimental, explanatory study used quantitative methods. This study was conducted by using data from second-grade students during the academic year of 2015-2016 at four different rural elementary schools in South Georgia. There were 336 males and 263 females included in this study. A multiple regression analysis was used to determine how well absenteeism and gender predict reading achievement, which was measured by STAR Reading data. I examined the relationships between student attendance and students’ reading achievement and between gender and students’ reading achievement. The reading achievement was measured via 2016 Spring STAR Reading Lexile scores. Analyses did not reveal a significant effect of gender or attendance on predicting the students’ STAR Lexile scores. The model summary and the ANOVA summary indicated that the overall model of the two independent variables (gender and absenteeism) did not significantly predict a student’s reading achievement.Chapter I: INTRODUCTION 1 | Statement of the Problem.6 | Significance of the Problem 7 | Research Questions 8 | Definition of Terms 9 | Chapter II: LITERATURE REVIEW12 | Early Literacy13 | Intervention.15 | Disabilities19 | Absenteeism 20 | Gender.24 | Education in Georgia28 | Rural Elementary Education29 | Chapter III: METHODOLOGY34 | Threats to Internal and External Validity.35 | Participants.36 | Instrumentation36 | Data Collection Procedures38 | Data Analysis.39 | Chapter IV: RESULTS40 | Chapter V: DISCUSSION44 | | Research Limitations.48 | Further Research50 Summary53 | REFERENCES55 | APPENDIX A: Demographics.69 | APPENDIX B: School System Permission 1.71 | APPENDIX A: School System Permission 2.73 | APPENDIX B: School System Permission 3.75 | APPENDIX A: School System Permission 4.77 | APPENDIX B: Institutional Review Board79 |Leader, LarsBochenko, MichaelDees, DianneHilgert, Larry D.Ed. D.Education In Leadershi

Mapping of pseudouridine residues on viral and cellular transcripts using a novel antibody-based technique

Pseudouridine (Ψ) is the most common noncanonical ribonucleoside present on mammalian noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), including rRNAs, tRNAs, and snRNAs, where it contributes ∼7% of the total uridine level. However, Ψ constitutes only ∼0.1% of the uridines present on mRNAs and its effect on mRNA function remains unclear. Ψ residues have been shown to inhibit the detection of exogenous RNA transcripts by host innate immune factors, thus raising the possibility that viruses might have subverted the addition of Ψ residues to mRNAs by host pseudouridine synthase (PUS) enzymes as a way to inhibit antiviral responses in infected cells. Here, we describe and validate a novel antibody-based Ψ mapping technique called photo-crosslinking-assisted Ψ sequencing (PA-Ψ-seq) and use it to map Ψ residues on not only multiple cellular RNAs but also on the mRNAs and genomic RNA encoded by HIV-1. We describe 293T-derived cell lines in which human PUS enzymes previously reported to add Ψ residues to human mRNAs, specifically PUS1, PUS7, and TRUB1/PUS4, were inactivated by gene editing. Surprisingly, while this allowed us to assign several sites of Ψ addition on cellular mRNAs to each of these three PUS enzymes, Ψ sites present on HIV-1 transcripts remained unaffected. Moreover, loss of PUS1, PUS7, or TRUB1 function did not significantly reduce the level of Ψ residues detected on total human mRNA below the ∼0.1% level seen in wild-type cells, thus implying that the PUS enzyme(s) that adds the bulk of Ψ residues to human mRNAs remains to be defined