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Survey of mesomycetozoans in millipedes and terrestrial iospods.
No full textii, 88 leaves.Includes bibliographical references: leaves 85-88.Trichomycetes are a group of symbiotic organisms found in the gut of arthropods. They were recently split into two fungal groups and two protistan groups. The protists have been recatagorized as Mesomycetozoa (also known as Ichthysporea). This group lies somewhere at the animal-fungal evolutionary divergence and can help pinpoint a more precise date for this divergence with further phylogenetic studies. However, with confusing phylogenies, obscure lifecycles, and not enough worldwide research, answers have been difficult to come by. This study surveyed the trichomycete populations in Julidae millipedes and terrestrial isopods in Southeast New England. We found that in SE New England, Porcellio and Oniscidea isopods likely carry Parataeniella and Eccrinoides and Julidae carry Enterobryus. Further research should focus on how hibernation and seasonality affects trichomycete prevalence in these host organisms
Course Catalog 2017-2018
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The positivity effect and its influence on financial decision-making ability.
No full textii, 45 leavesIncludes bibliographical references: leaves 40-45.This research examined the relationship between the positivity effect and financial decision-making ability. The positivity effect refers to an attentional bias observed in older adults for positive over negative stimuli in cognitive processing. Previous research on this topic has focused on the positivity effect’s influence on visual attention and memory for emotionally valanced material. However, few studies have examined the relationship between the positivity effect and decision-making ability. It is possible that older adults focus too much attention on the positive aspects of financial decisions and therefore, overlook important negative information. This study used eye tracking technology to determine if there was a relationship between visual attention and age-related financial decision-making. Older and younger participants first read financial information related to three made-up charities, then viewed happy and sad images associated with the charities. At the end of the experiment, participants were asked to allocate play money to each charity. Results showed a positivity effect in terms of looking time at the images, so that older participants spentmore time looking at the positive images and less time looking at the negative images than younger adults. However, charity giving in both groups was not statistically different, indicating that greater attention to positive stimuli did not detrimentally affect charitable behavior. Interestingly, while elderly participants showed no correlation between looking time and giving rates, this correlation was negative for younger adults – that is, greater looking times were correlated with smaller donations to that charity. Overall, results provide evidence that the positivity effect,while robust in measures of visual attention, may not affect real-world financial decisions
Preliminary observation of neuroprotective effects of k252a on axonal outgrowth in Gallus gallus neurons exposed to amyloid-ß.
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Bleb formation in response to the presence of lipopolysaccharide in Gallus gallus embryonic sympathetic neuronal and glial cells as a measure of cytotoxicity.
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The amount of glia may decrease the abundance of mitochondria in axons
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