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3 - Visualizing Wealth and Personal Finance
Full text linkPart 3 of the Data Visualization Lab\u27s workshop on Wealth and Personal Finance (credit cards)https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/data_instruct/1009/thumbnail.jp
5 - Visualizing Wealth and Personal Finance
Full text linkPart 5 of Visualizing Wealth and Personal Finance: assessing how long it will take to pay off student loans!https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/data_instruct/1011/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Demond Melancon, Big Chief of the Young Seminole Hunters.
No full textInterview with contemporary artist Demond Melancon by Kim Vaz-Deville at his home in New Orleans. He talked about the history of his association with Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, his own family connections to the Indian tribes, the Mardi-Gras Indian suits and the masks he made and representations of african heritage.https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/1010/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Ivan Watkins, Painter, Film Documentarian, Sculptor and Multimedia Artist Muralist.
No full textVideo interview with Ivan Watkins by Kim Vaz-Deville. Ivan Watkins, an artist, sculptor and multimedia artist muralist, member of the Northside Skull and Bone Gang and Wild Man for the Yellow Pocahontas Black masking Indians. He talked about his history of joining the Mardi Gras Indian group, the African spirituality, and his understanding of what it means to be part of the group.https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/1019/thumbnail.jp
Time Spent at Work and Its Impact on the Academic Performance of Pharmacy Students.
No full textThe objective of this study was to determine the impact of time spent at work (workload) on the academic performance of pharmacy students. A cross-sectional 12-item survey was administered to pharmacy students at the end of the spring 2011 semester to primarily assess the type of employment and their weekly workload during the 2010–2011 academic year. Academic performance was determined by semester and cumulative grade point average (GPA). Descriptive statistics were performed. Stratified multiple linear regression models were obtained to assess the association between students’ workload and GPA. Analysis of covariance was used to compare academic performance by workload after accounting for work type and potential covariates. Statistical significance was defined a priori as p \u3c 0.05. For both fall and spring semesters, nonpharmacy-related work was significant and positively associated with GPA. Both semester GPAs were fairly similar among three student classifications (P1–P3). However, GPAs across both semesters varied by classification. The negative association of workload on GPA was significant in the fall but not in the spring semester. Although workload matters, future studies using a mixed-method approach might help explain the role of workload on the academic performance of pharmacy during the first three years of their professional training
Exosomes Influence TRAIL Expression in MCF-7 Estrogen Sensitive Breast Cancer Cells
No full textpremenopausal African American and Hispanic women. Our group has taken an interest in nanosize membrane vesicles known as exosomes. We are particularly interested in the interaction that occurs between these exosomes and the tumor microenvironment, as it is believed that they promote proliferation, migration, and invasion. Therefore, we plan to evaluate the protein expression of TNFSF10 (TRAIL) in starved MCF-10A cells and the MCF-7 cell line. TRAIL is an apoptosis inducing ligand apart of the TNF superfamily. The MCF-7 cell line tends to be most insensitive to the TRAIL protein. In most cases cell lines are not sensitive to TRAIL because they lack the DR4 and/or DR5 receptors on their cell line surface or because they are deficient in caspase -8 and -3. The MCF-7 cell line contains both receptors, however they are deficient in both caspases. Therefore, we plan to evaluate the protein expression of TNFSF10 (TRAIL) in starved MCF-10A cells and the MCF-7 cell line. We plan to upregulate and down regulate TNFSF10 in the MCF-7 cell line to examine the functionality of the protein within the cell and tag our exosomes with TRAIL.https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/build_xula/1013/thumbnail.jp
Eric Burt, is the Drum Chief of the Monogram Hunters Black Masking Indians
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/1033/thumbnail.jp
Ceramide Analog 315 and its Inhibitory Effects on Breast Cancer Tumor Growth
No full textin women. Invasive breast cancer results in approximately 28% of all cancers diagnosed in the United States. This year, an estimated 276,480 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. It is estimated that 42,690 deaths (42,170 women and 520 men) from breast cancer will occur this year. As a result, there is an urgent need for more effective and less toxic treatments for this devastating disease. Many anticancer drugs used to clinically treat cancers mediate tumor cell death through the induction of apoptosis. Cancer cells, however, often acquire resistance following prolonged exposure to clinical chemotherapeutic drugs. Consequently, molecular pathways involved in tumor cell proliferation and apoptosis have become potential targets for pharmacological intervention. Our group has targeted ceramide metabolism as a potential pharmacological intervention in the treatment of breast cancer. One novel approach is to synthesize ceramide analogs with greater efficacy and specificity than endogenous ceramides. Multiple families of ceramide analogs have been synthesized and evaluated in our previous studies leading to the current structure-activity relationship information. Analog 315 has been identified as the most promising analog. Analog 315 has proven to be less toxic and more effective than several previously studied ceramide analogs and will be used as a lead compound to synthesize additional ceramide analogs.https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/build_xula/1003/thumbnail.jp