Hydrodynamic Impacts of a Marine Renewable Energy Installation on the Benthic Boundary Layer in a Tidal Channel

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Tinkering with Technology: A Library Workshop to Support 4-H Youth Development

When University of Idaho (UI) Extension brought the Idaho 4-H Teen Conference to UI\u27s main campus, the conference organizers collaborated with UI librarians to organize a workshop in the library\u27s newly established makerspace, the Making, Innovating, and Learning Laboratory (MILL). In the MILL, the students used cutting-edge technology to foster new or existing interests in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This article describes how Extension and 4-H youth development professionals can team with librarians to use library makerspaces to introduce 4-H high school students to STEM technologies and digital literacies that will be necessary for jobs of the future

Predictable changes in fish school characteristics due to a tidal turbine support structure

This work was funded by NERC and Defra (NE/J004308/1, NE/J004200/1 and NE/J004332/1). BW was also funded by a NERC MREKEP Internship, an Innovate UK KTP with MeyGen Ltd. (KTP009812), the NERC VertIBase project (NE/N01765X/1) and BEIS OESEA-16-75.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Predictable hydrodynamic conditions explain temporal variations in the density of benthic foraging seabirds in a tidal stream environment

VC International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 2016. James J. Waggitt was funded by a NERC Case studentship supported by OpenHydro Ltd and Marine Scotland Science (NE/J500148/1). Shore-based surveys were funded by a NERC (NE/J004340/1) and a Scottish National Heritage (SNH) grant. FVCOM was funded by a NERC grant (NE/J004316/1). The bathymetry data used in hydrodynamic models (HI 1122 Sanday Sound to Westray Firth) was collected by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) as part of the UK Civil Hydrography Programme. We wish to thank Christina Bristow, Matthew Finn and Jennifer Norris at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC); Ian Davies at Marine Scotland Science; Gail Davoren, Shaun Fraser, Pauline Goulet, Alex Robbins and Helen Wade for invaluable discussions; Thomas Cornulier, Alex Douglas, James Grecian and Samantha Patrick for their help with statistical analysis; and Jenny Campbell and the Cockram family for assistance during fieldwork.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Application of a multibeam echosounder to document changes in animal movement and behaviour around a tidal turbine structure

Acknowledgements We acknowledge the support of Shaun Fraser, Vladimir Nikora, James Waggitt, Paul Bell, Ian Davies, Eric Armstrong, and staff at Marine Scotland Science and the European Marine Energy Centre. Hydrodynamic model data were provided by Pierre Cazenave and Ricardo Torres (Plymouth Marine Laboratory). The constructive and extensive comments from three reviewers of an earlier version of this manuscript are gratefully acknowledged. Funding This work was funded by NERC and Defra (NE/J004308/1, NE/J004200/1, NE/J004332/1, NE/N01765X/1), a NERC MREKEP Internship, Innovate UK KTP (KTP009812), and the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s offshore energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Determinants of transcriptional regulation of transport and oxidative processes in human model systems

Initial predictions of drug response and drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are made following high-throughput in vitro screening. Such assays are indispensible in the pharmaceutical industry to determine the metabolism, transport and pharmacokinetics of new chemical entities. However, they often fail when extrapolated to in vivo response due to unsuitable pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic prediction. The primary aim of this thesis was to investigate and understand the differences in the expression profiles of drug disposition genes, between transformed hepatic cell lines and primary human hepatocytes. Primary human hepatocytes were also analysed to determine uptake contribution, induction and genotype of key drug disposition-relevant genes. The loss of hepatic phenotype in HepG2 and Huh7 cells is partly due to the altered expression of transcriptional regulators including; chaperones, co-chaperones, co-activators and co-repressors. Indeed, Chapter 2 of this thesis shows lower levels of the Gadd45β and PGC1α gene expression in HepG2 cells corresponds to a deficient expression and activity of cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4), with the levels reducing further as cell passage increases, in comparison to primary human hepatocytes. HepG2 cells were transfected with a novel complex transfection of Gadd45β and PGC1α with the aim to improve CYP3A4 activity in Chapter 3. CYP3A4 activity was improved by 54% and induction response was enhanced in comparison to control cells with no off-target effects. Over the last decade it has become apparent that transporters can play a significant role in the disposition of many drugs. Organic anion transporting polypeptide (OATP) transporters have received considerable recent attention since they mediate sodium-independent uptake of a broad array of xenobiotics. A method to determine the specific contribution of OATP1B1 in the hepatic uptake was successfully optimised and applied for 5 therapeutic drugs in Chapter 4. Future application of this strategy is likely to have broad importance in determining relative contribution that individual transporters play in drug disposition. To prevent accumulation and toxicity of xenobiotics, biotransformation and transport of foreign compounds occurs. However, these processes can be altered by induction or inhibition mechanisms. Rifampicin is a first line drug in tuberculosis (TB) treatment but it is a potent inducer of CYPs and transporters. DDIs during TB treatment are common but the induction potential of different rifamycins has not been comprehensively ranked. Chapter 5 investigated the induction potential of rifampicin, rifapentine and rifabutin. Rifampicin significantly induced CYP3A4, ABCB1, OATP1B1 and ABCC2 in primary human hepatocytes. Induction by rifabutin was observed for CYP3A4, OATP1B3 whilst rifapentine only significantly induced OATP1B1. This work serves as a basis for further study into the extent to which rifamycins induce key metabolism and transporter genes. Nuclear receptors (NR) regulate the expression of CYPs and drug transporters influencing pharmacokinetics. PXR and VDR have been found to synergistically increase CYP3A4 expression and activity in intestinal cell lines. This effect has been observed in vivo with seasonal variations apparent for CYP3A4 substrates. In Chapter 6, novel associations between vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and expression of it and its target genes involved in drug disposition were shown in D2 intestinal biopsies. This thesis reports generation of model systems and their application to enable many questions to be answered relating to pharmacokinetics and DDIs. The thesis forms a solid platform from which to further investigate these issues in future studies

A review of unmanned aerial vehicles usage, as an environmental survey tool, within tidal stream environments

Funding Information: This work was funded by the Bryden Centre project, supported by the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme and managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). The views and opinions expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission or the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). Aspects of this research were also funded by a Royal Society Research Grant (RSG\R1\180430), the NERC VertIBase project (NE/N01765X/1), the UK Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy’s offshore energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme and EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub (EP/S000747/1).Peer reviewe

Psychology Research Methods and Statistics

This Grants Collection for Psychology Research Methods and Statistics was created under a Round Five ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process. Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials: Linked Syllabus Initial Proposal Final Reporthttps://oer.galileo.usg.edu/psychology-collections/1015/thumbnail.jp

Experimental Design and Analysis

This Grants Collection for Experimental Design and Analysis was created under a Round Five ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process. Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials: Linked Syllabus Initial Proposal Final Reporthttps://oer.galileo.usg.edu/psychology-collections/1016/thumbnail.jp