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Taylor & Francis, Publishing in Open Access
No full textElyse Profera is currently the Regional Sales Manager for the Central U.S. at Taylor & Francis Group and has nearly ten years of corporate marketing experience. Prior, Elyse was Library Communications Manager for the Americas region at Taylor & Francis Group. Elyse joined the company in July 2012 and is responsible for managing library sales in the Central U.S. Prior to this, Elyse worked for Synygy, Inc., the largest provider of sales performance management software and services, as its Marketing Manager, Vertical Markets, and Swets, a leading information services company, as its Marketing Communications Manager. Elyse received her MA in Public Relations from Rowan University and BA from Saint Joseph’s University. She is published in: Serials Review, Serials Librarian, and Information Today. Elyse has hosted a variety of industry focus groups, presentations, panel discussions, workshops, training sessions, webinars, and Twitter parties. Elyse also frequently partners with library professionals to speak at Library and Information Science industry conferences and events. Recent speaking engagements include: “Personalizing the Library Service to Improve Scholarly Communication” (NASIG, 2014), “Meeting User Needs and Expectations: One Library’s Quest for Discovery” (Charleston, 2013), and “Facilitating Access to Free Online Content: Challenges and Opportunities for the Library Community” (NASIG, 2013).
Stacy Sieck is the Library Communications Manager at Taylor & Francis Group and is responsible for managing the library marketing and communications activities for North and South America. She first joined Taylor & Francis in 2008 as the manager of the library and information science journals portfolio and has implemented several open access programs, including Taylor & Francis’ Library & Information Sciences Author Rights Pilot Program, a zero embargo pilot program for the LIS author community. Prior to coming to Taylor & Francis, Stacy worked for Merion Matters, the media, marketing, and merchandising company behind the popular ADVANCE brand, as the Editor of a medical magazine
Spatial training in the Morris water maze induces differential changes in interleukin-1 beta(IL-1β) expression in hippocampal and extra-hippocampal tissue
No full textIt is now well accepted that the brain and the immune system are intimately linked and that cytokines, small proteins secreted by cells of the immune system, exert diverse effects on CNS function. Of particular importance in this regard is the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) which is critically involved in peripheral and central inflammatory responses. Although early research surrounding the biological effects of IL-1β has focused on its detrimental role in cognitive function, emerging data strongly suggest that physiologically-low levels of IL-1β are required for hippocampal-dependent learning and long-term memory formation. In light of these observations, the present series of experiments were conducted in order to better characterize the spatio-temporal expression of IL-1β during spatial learning in the Morris water maze (MWM). To that end, IL-1β (protein) expression was measured in the dorsal hippocampus at different time points and after one or three sessions of spatial training in the MWM (experiment 1). Moreover, because spatial navigation may depend on a distributed network of structures besides the hippocampus, IL-1β expression was also measured in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Results from experiment 1 are suggestive of a coordinated modulation of IL-1β between the dorsal hippocampus and PFC that persists for at least the first three days of spatial training. In light of these observations and because microglial cells represent a primary source of IL-1β in the CNS, experiment 2 was conducted in order to determine whether learning induced changes in microglial activation. Results from experiment 2 reveal a training-specific downregulation of microglial cell activity in the PFC and are in agreement with a physiological role for microglia in the normal healthy brain. Finally, a third experiment was conducted in order to determine whether massed spatial training induces the expression of IL-1β, and other components of the IL-1 system.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Elyse M Mallim
Opioid receptor like-1 receptor deficient mice show dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis following acute immunologic challenge with staphylococcal enterotoxin A
No full textOpioid receptor like-1 receptor (ORL1) shares considerable sequence identity with the classical µ, δ, and κ opioid receptors yet shows no affinity to the classical opioid ligands. Rather, ORL1 is selective for its endogenous ligand, orphaninFQ/Nociceptin (OFQ/N). The nociceptin system is integral to many physiological processes (e.g., nociception) and plays a prominent role in regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the stress response, and anxiety. Since immunologic stimuli exert stressor-like effects, the neuroendocrine and behavioral effects of the T-cell superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) were tested in 129S6, ORL1 wildtype (ORL1+/+) and knockout (ORL1-/-) mice. Within 2 h of SEA challenge both genotypes showed elevated levels of plasma corticosterone, but only wildtypes remained elevated after 4 h. The effects of SEA on corticosterone levels were determined to be associated with changes in corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH), CRH receptor 1 (CRH-R1) and CRH-R2 mRNA expression in the hypothalamus. Moreover, SEA-induced changes in CRH and CRH-R1 were dependent on the presence of the ORL1 gene and suggest that activation of the ORL1 receptor may modulate positive and negative feedback control of CRH activity in the hypothalamus. These findings are consistent with the idea that ORL1 activation prolongs stress-induced levels of corticosterone, possibly through ORL1 dependent modulation of the CRH system. Furthermore, gustatory neophobia due to SEA challenge was augmented in ORL1-/- mice and is consistent with the anxiolytic role for the nociceptin system. In summary, these results suggest that the ORL1 gene may be necessary for normal HPA axis activity and may confer resistance to novelty-induced anorexia following acute SEA challenge in 129S6 mice.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Elyse M Mallim
Clamor
No full textElyse Fenton is the author of Clamor (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010), selected by D.A. Powell as winner of the 2009 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. Winner of the 2008 Pablo Neruda Award from Nimrod International Literary Journal, her poetry and nonfiction have also appeared in American Poetry Review, Pleiades, Bat City Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The New York Times. In 2010, she received the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize for Clamor. Born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, Elyse Fenton received her B.A. from Reed College and her M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. She has worked in the woods, on farms, and in schools in New England, the Pacific Northwest, Mongolia, and Texas. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
“From the smoldering wreckage of a battle-scarred Iraq to ‘the last unmuzzled throatful of air,’ Elyse Fenton’s debut collection clamors with such exigency that it drops us right into the danger zone. Her art is precise, persistent and volatile when deployed to the front lines. But also, sparing: a ‘human camera’ embedded within a relationship tested by the distance from battlefield to home. This book certainly has its disquietude but how else to measure the brutality of the world? The recompense of it, though, is Fenton s passionate eloquence; her unfaltering fidelity to the word.” –D. A. Powell
“Elyse Fenton’s Clamor connects the forward operating bases in Iraq with the home front here in America. It is a necessary poetry which brings us ‘the work of shrapnel;’ ‘the thing that, trying and trying / you can never spit out’ (while continually recognizing that there is always more to give). In keeping with the best traditions of war poetry, the underlying subjects of Clamor are love and loss.Clamor is a book that refuses to turn away. It exists within the deeply personal, the deeply private, and yet as the poems finish within the reader it is a work which ultimately speaks to the universal.”–Brian Turner
“With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.” – Jericho Brown
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Happy Birthday
No full text'Happy Birthday' is a short story contribution to the From the other side publication, that features curatorial texts by Elyse Goldfinch and Jessica Clark, alongside writings from Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous Feminine; Canadian film writer Kier-La Janisse, author of the cult classic, House of Psychotic Women, 2012; Lisa Fuller, a Murri woman and author of the novel Ghost Bird, 2021; and a horror-themed screenplay by UK-based author and filmmaker Alison Peirse, editor of the Women Make Horror anthology, 2021. Produced in association with the upcoming ACCA exhibition of the same name, this publication casts a lens upon feminist, queer, and non-binary subjectivities to consider the transgressive pleasures and liberations of horror, as makers, masters and consumers of the genre. The exhibition crosses the artificial parameters of horror in the everyday, as something that exists as part of society but also from outside of it. Culminating in a potent synthesis of dread, camp, humour and catharsis, From the other side challenges the traditional narratives and assumed boundaries of the body, gender, the self and the ‘other’
Diversity of biodegradative gene populations in aquatic sediments examined by gene-targeted metagenomics
No full textAlkanes are common environmental pollutants in soil and water. The degradation of medium length n-alkanes is initiated under aerobic conditions by alkane monooxygenases which add one atom of molecular oxygen to the terminal carbon resulting in an alkanol product. Alkane monooxygenases fall into two distinct classes: the integral membrane bound AlkB family and the cytoplasmic cytochrome P450 family. Gene-targeted metagenomics was used to examine the microbial diversity and distribution of these two types of alkane monooxygenases in sediments in the United States and Central Asia. The Passaic River in Newark, New Jersey has a long history of industrial pollution making it an ideal site to study monooxygenase diversity. 16S rRNA and alkane monooxgyenase gene populations were analyzed by pyrosequencing to determine if sampling location on the river influenced the microbial community and if triplicate enrichments yield comparable results. Samples were collected at an arbitrary start point (0 meters) and at 10 and 1000 meters down the river. The replicates were similar to each other at two of the three sampling locations and differed slightly at 1000 meters. Sediments from rivers and streams in Central Asia were compared to determine if novel alkane monooxygenase families could be found in a largely unstudied geographic region. The 16S rRNA and monooxygenase gene communities recovered from sediment and enrichments originating from disparate environments with varied anthropogenic influence were compared by pyrosequencing. Novel alkane monooxygenase populations were recovered from sites in Central Asia and comparisons between sites showed that each population was distinct due to their distant geographic origins. The effect of salinity on alkane monooxygenase populations was examined in sediments obtained from Puerto Rico. Samples were collected from the Port of San Juan, an estuary, mangroves, and shore locations. Salinity was not the major determinant of alkane monooxygenase community composition in hexadecane enrichment cultures. The type of environment (mangrove compared to shore or port locations) had the greatest affect on the gene populations recovered.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Elyse Anne Rodgers-Vieir
Reading the middle: US women novelists and print culture, 1930-1960
Get PDF"""Reading the Middle: US Women Novelists and Print Culture, 1930-1960"" is about feminist protest as a core value of the American bourgeoisie, bringing gender studies, digital humanities, and American literature and print culture together in analyses of a collection of thirty-plus novels of mid-twentieth-century women writers. In it, I argue that the women writers of mainstream fiction in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s summoned carefully circumscribed deployments of critical paradigms such as feminism, antiracism, and anticapitalism to allow their American middle-class audience to elevate their leisure reading to a passively productive exercise in intellectual stimulation. In so doing, these writers helped establish and refine a uniquely twentieth-century phase of American progressivism that persisted long past their individual novels' fame."Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Elyse Vigiletti, accepted the attached license on 2016-03-15 at 14:20.The student, Elyse Vigiletti, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-03-15 at 14:28.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-04-22 at 11:29.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9094 on 2016-07-07 at 14:16:04Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T21:04:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Marian Bantjes, graphic artist and author
Get PDFMarian Bantjes provided the keynote address at the BC Library Conference on April 1st, 2014. She is a graphic artist and the author of I Wonder and Pretty Pictures
Conversations With Myself
Get PDFThis purpose of this project was to grow and evolve as a storyteller. Ti is of great importance of the author to be able to communicate her ideas effectively while being able to affect the emotions of those around her. It explores the process of taking words from a piece a paper and turning them into a living breathing sonic environment, in the hopes of developing the voice and music production process for the author. Interestingly enough, it resulted in a full length spoken word album. Each track (or piece) consists of an original prose or poem, musical composition, and sound design. Major challenges, originating from mental illness, greatly impacted the project execution and its contents both positively and negatively. The resulting album will be released on all digital platforms in September of 2019. This entire process allowed the author to realize her artistry and grow not only as an artist, but as a person as well.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/1170/thumbnail.jp
Using Accelerometry to Detect Upper-Extremity Motor Deficits and Delays in Early Childhood
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
Identifying subtle motor delays in early childhood is challenging. Accelerometry is a novel way to characterize upper-extremity motor patterns in typically developing children. Differences were identified between typically developing children and children with hemiparesis ages 0–5 yr.
Primary Author and Speaker: Catherine Hoyt Drazen
Contributing Authors: Annie Nguyen, Elyse Everet, Melanie Berner, Jonathan Koller, Dustin K. Ragan, Nico U. F. Dosenbach</jats:p
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