177 research outputs found
The Vehicle, Spring 1984
Vol. 25, No. 2
Table of Contents
The OpeningKathy Fordpage 3
PaintThomas B. Waltrippage 3
PhotographLisa Fresepage 4
City as Castigating AnimalJerry McAnultypage 5
LimitsMichelle Mitchellpage 6
In SilenceKeila Tooleypage 6
PhotographLisa Fresepage 7
Indian CreekJerry McAnultypage 8
The Right Idea about RainMichelle Mitchellpage 8
Van Gogh\u27s Young Male PeasantKeila Tooleypage 9
AbigailMaggie Kennedypage 9
CleaningJennifer K. Soulepage 10
Heat WaveJerry McAnultypage 11
VigilJanet Gracepage 11
Hatred of ClownsMichelle Mitchellpage 12
Trees in the YardKeila Tooleypage 13
Lost on Back RoadsToby Mirabellipage 13
The Death of My Father\u27s HandsGina Grillopage 14
Soft LandingMaggie Kennedypage 14
Incident in the Generic AisleMaggie Kennedypage 15
Happy Well-adjusted Individuals, ConsideringJennifer K. Soulepage 16
Old ManGina Grillopage 17
It Doesn\u27t MatterTed Boonepage 18
A Love Poem for Charles DonaldCathy Moepage 18
David Willey at Whitman WharfSue Oiler Millerpage 19
I Am the ArtsBrenda Renee Drummerpage 20
Mothers and DaughtersJennifer K. Soulepage 22
ScratchesMichelle Mitchellpage 26
SedativeStacey Flanniganpage 26
Calloused HandJanet Gracepage 27
Cool CatStacey Flanniganpage 27
For My History Teacher, Miss WilhelmCathy Moepage 28
Short Poem for Chris\u27s EyesBob Zordanipage 28
MissingMichelle Mitchellpage 29
Over ThereGraham Lewispage 30
Strange BedfellowsMaggie Kennedypage 31
Retired PlumberMichelle Mitchellpage 32
Rumors of War DeadKathy Fordpage 33
Night LightsKeila Tooleypage 33
Fish on the Train TracksJerry McAnultypage 34
DaddyKeily Tooleypage 34
A Message to the MessengerAmy Eadespage 35
Dancing AloneKathy Bowerpage 36
HandsMaggie Kennedypage 36
The Key to the Ladies\u27s RoomMichelle Mitchellpage 37
Crashing the BlueStacey Flanniganpage 37
The Cradle will FallMichelle Mitchellpate 38
One IslandKeila Tooleypage 38
Black Walnut PaintSue Oiler Millerpage 39
SerendipityGraham Lewispage 40
Cover ArtLisa Fresehttps://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1045/thumbnail.jp
The Vehicle, Spring 1985
Vol. 26, No. 2
Table of Contents
Beyond the FieldsKeila Tooleypage 3
Lonely Sculptor Accustomed to Living AloneMichelle Mitchellpage 4
Mona LisaBob Zordanipage 4
Poet Born in Pearl HarborAngelique Jenningspage 5
IntroductionsGraham Lewispage 6
Living InsideJennifer Soulepage 9
PictureKathy Greypage 10
Salvadore Dali in a Wheelchair on TVAngelique Jenningspage 11
Sonata in E FlatBecky Lawsonpage 12
Myopia and Wild KingdomMichelle Mitchellpage 12
On Becoming a GrandmotherKeila Tooleypage 13
A VisionJennifer D. Pringlepage 14
The Covered BridgeDebbie Woodleypage 14
Jacob\u27s LifeJoan Sebastianpage 15
ForgotGraham Lewispage 15
A Dozen and One TrainsongsAngelique Jenningspage 16
Women\u27s PlaceJennifer Soulepage 19
Night SailingKim Dumentatpage 20
She Isn\u27t There WhenMichelle Mitchellpage 20
A Case for the Common ColdMaggie Kennedypage 21
the cityTammy Batespage 22
The RattlesnakeEric S. McGeepage 22
New PictureKeila Tooleypage 23
Lewis and SinGraham Lewispage 24
Funny BarbecueBob Zordanipage 26
In a DreamF. Link Rapierpage 26
The Winter\u27s ColdJennifer Soulepage 27
Diary EntryTammy Batespage 27
Minor God and Patron Saint of Rabbits SpeaksAngelique Jenningspage 28
A MomentBrett Wilhelmpage 29
The Bishop SeatF. Link Rapierpage 30
The Thought of Being Rid of MyselfKeila Tooleypage 33
I Saw A ChildBea Cessnapage 33
Complacent gourmetGary Burrowspage 34
Night DreamsJennifer Soulepage 35
Changing ImagesAmy Callpage 35
Olsen Rug Co. Waterfall & ParkMaggie Kennedypage 36
Edge of the WildF. Link Rapierpage 37
DragonS. Hillpage 37
Harvests of CornBob Zordanipage 38
The Club JeromeGary Burrowspage 39
Tarzan And The CabPatrick Peterspage 39
The Rain That Never CameLynanne Feilenpage 40
Wonderment of the Far CrescentF. Link Rapierpage 40https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1047/thumbnail.jp
Results from the centers for disease control and prevention's predict the 2013-2014 Influenza Season Challenge
Background: Early insights into the timing of the start, peak, and intensity of the influenza season could be useful in planning influenza prevention and control activities. To encourage development and innovation in influenza forecasting, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organized a challenge to predict the 2013-14 Unites States influenza season. Methods: Challenge contestants were asked to forecast the start, peak, and intensity of the 2013-2014 influenza season at the national level and at any or all Health and Human Services (HHS) region level(s). The challenge ran from December 1, 2013-March 27, 2014; contestants were required to submit 9 biweekly forecasts at the national level to be eligible. The selection of the winner was based on expert evaluation of the methodology used to make the prediction and the accuracy of the prediction as judged against the U.S. Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet). Results: Nine teams submitted 13 forecasts for all required milestones. The first forecast was due on December 2, 2013; 3/13 forecasts received correctly predicted the start of the influenza season within one week, 1/13 predicted the peak within 1 week, 3/13 predicted the peak ILINet percentage within 1 %, and 4/13 predicted the season duration within 1 week. For the prediction due on December 19, 2013, the number of forecasts that correctly forecasted the peak week increased to 2/13, the peak percentage to 6/13, and the duration of the season to 6/13. As the season progressed, the forecasts became more stable and were closer to the season milestones. Conclusion: Forecasting has become technically feasible, but further efforts are needed to improve forecast accuracy so that policy makers can reliably use these predictions. CDC and challenge contestants plan to build upon the methods developed during this contest to improve the accuracy of influenza forecasts. © 2016 The Author(s)
Pairing of Homologous Regions in the Mouse Genome Is Associated with Transcription but Not Imprinting Status
This work was funded by the BBSRC, grant BB/H088071/1 (www.bbsrc.ac.uk), MRC, grant G0700760 (www.mrc.ac.uk), Wellcome Trust, grant 095645/Z/11/Z (www.wellcome.ac.uk) and the EU through EpiGeneSys (www.epigenesys.eu) and Blueprint (www.blueprint-epigenome.eu). C.K. was funded by the DFG, personal fellowship KR 3317/2-1 (www.dfg.de) and CTR, personal short term fellowship (www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk). M.J.H. received funding through grant NCI/NIH 2RO1 CA089426 (www.nih.gov)
Detection of a MicroRNA Signal in an In Vivo Expression Set of mRNAs
Background. microRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 21 nucleotide non-coding transcripts capable of regulating gene expression. The most widely studied mechanism of regulation involves binding of a miRNA to the target mRNA. As a result, translation of the target mRNA is inhibited and the mRNA may be destabilized. The inhibitory effects of miRNAs have been linked to diverse cellular processes including malignant proliferation, apoptosis, development, differentiation, and metabolic processes. We asked whether endogenous fluctuations in a set of mRNA and miRNA profiles contain correlated changes that are statistically distinguishable from the many other fluctuations in the data set. Methodology/Principal Findings. RNA was extracted from 12 human primary brain tumor biopsies. These samples were used to determine genome-wide mRN
Pan-Cancer Analysis of lncRNA Regulation Supports Their Targeting of Cancer Genes in Each Tumor Context
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are commonly dys-regulated in tumors, but only a handful are known toplay pathophysiological roles in cancer. We inferredlncRNAs that dysregulate cancer pathways, onco-genes, and tumor suppressors (cancer genes) bymodeling their effects on the activity of transcriptionfactors, RNA-binding proteins, and microRNAs in5,185 TCGA tumors and 1,019 ENCODE assays.Our predictions included hundreds of candidateonco- and tumor-suppressor lncRNAs (cancerlncRNAs) whose somatic alterations account for thedysregulation of dozens of cancer genes and path-ways in each of 14 tumor contexts. To demonstrateproof of concept, we showed that perturbations tar-geting OIP5-AS1 (an inferred tumor suppressor) andTUG1 and WT1-AS (inferred onco-lncRNAs) dysre-gulated cancer genes and altered proliferation ofbreast and gynecologic cancer cells. Our analysis in-dicates that, although most lncRNAs are dysregu-lated in a tumor-specific manner, some, includingOIP5-AS1, TUG1, NEAT1, MEG3, and TSIX, synergis-tically dysregulate cancer pathways in multiple tumorcontexts
Genomic, Pathway Network, and Immunologic Features Distinguishing Squamous Carcinomas
This integrated, multiplatform PanCancer Atlas study co-mapped and identified distinguishing
molecular features of squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) from five sites associated with smokin
Spatial Organization and Molecular Correlation of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes Using Deep Learning on Pathology Images
Beyond sample curation and basic pathologic characterization, the digitized H&E-stained images
of TCGA samples remain underutilized. To highlight this resource, we present mappings of tumorinfiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) based on H&E images from 13 TCGA tumor types. These TIL
maps are derived through computational staining using a convolutional neural network trained to
classify patches of images. Affinity propagation revealed local spatial structure in TIL patterns and
correlation with overall survival. TIL map structural patterns were grouped using standard
histopathological parameters. These patterns are enriched in particular T cell subpopulations
derived from molecular measures. TIL densities and spatial structure were differentially enriched
among tumor types, immune subtypes, and tumor molecular subtypes, implying that spatial
infiltrate state could reflect particular tumor cell aberration states. Obtaining spatial lymphocytic
patterns linked to the rich genomic characterization of TCGA samples demonstrates one use for
the TCGA image archives with insights into the tumor-immune microenvironment
Pan-cancer Alterations of the MYC Oncogene and Its Proximal Network across the Cancer Genome Atlas
Although theMYConcogene has been implicated incancer, a systematic assessment of alterations ofMYC, related transcription factors, and co-regulatoryproteins, forming the proximal MYC network (PMN),across human cancers is lacking. Using computa-tional approaches, we define genomic and proteo-mic features associated with MYC and the PMNacross the 33 cancers of The Cancer Genome Atlas.Pan-cancer, 28% of all samples had at least one ofthe MYC paralogs amplified. In contrast, the MYCantagonists MGA and MNT were the most frequentlymutated or deleted members, proposing a roleas tumor suppressors.MYCalterations were mutu-ally exclusive withPIK3CA,PTEN,APC,orBRAFalterations, suggesting that MYC is a distinct onco-genic driver. Expression analysis revealed MYC-associated pathways in tumor subtypes, such asimmune response and growth factor signaling; chro-matin, translation, and DNA replication/repair wereconserved pan-cancer. This analysis reveals insightsinto MYC biology and is a reference for biomarkersand therapeutics for cancers with alterations ofMYC or the PMN
Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.
We report above-ground biomass (AGB), basal area, stem density and wood mass density estimates from 260 sample plots (mean size: 1.2 ha) in intact closed-canopy tropical forests across 12 African countries. Mean AGB is 395.7 Mg dry mass ha⁻¹ (95% CI: 14.3), substantially higher than Amazonian values, with the Congo Basin and contiguous forest region attaining AGB values (429 Mg ha⁻¹) similar to those of Bornean forests, and significantly greater than East or West African forests. AGB therefore appears generally higher in palaeo- compared with neotropical forests. However, mean stem density is low (426 ± 11 stems ha⁻¹ greater than or equal to 100 mm diameter) compared with both Amazonian and Bornean forests (cf. approx. 600) and is the signature structural feature of African tropical forests. While spatial autocorrelation complicates analyses, AGB shows a positive relationship with rainfall in the driest nine months of the year, and an opposite association with the wettest three months of the year; a negative relationship with temperature; positive relationship with clay-rich soils; and negative relationships with C : N ratio (suggesting a positive soil phosphorus-AGB relationship), and soil fertility computed as the sum of base cations. The results indicate that AGB is mediated by both climate and soils, and suggest that the AGB of African closed-canopy tropical forests may be particularly sensitive to future precipitation and temperature changes
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