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Week Ending December 27, 2014

Arts & Sciences

On Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with convex gradient constraints. ArXiv, 22 December 2014. Ryan Hynd and Henok Mawi.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Analysis of SI models with multiple interacting populations using subpopulations. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Vol.12, No.1 (1 February 2015): 135-161. Thomas, E.K.a , Katharine F. Gurski, Hoffman, K.A.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Small-molecule detection in thiol-yne nanocomposites via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry, Vol.86, No.24 (16 December 2014): 12315-12320. Boyd, D.A., Bezares, F.J., Pacardo, D.B., Maraizu Ukaegbu, Charles M. Hosten, C., Ligler, F.S.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

De la literatura ecuatoguineana en cuestión, bajo "l'arbre à palabres". Revista Iberoamericana, Vol.80, No.248-249 (1 July 2014): 1025-1037. Clément Akassi Animan.
Department of World Languages & Cultures, CoAS.

Five new species of Miconia (Melastomataceae) from the central Peruvian Andes. Phytotaxa, Vol.188, No.3 (2014): 121-134. Lizeth A. Cardenas, Janelle M. Burke, Fabian A. Michelangeli.
Department of Biiology, CoAS..

Communications

A broken system of self-regulation of privacy online? Surveillance, control, and limits of user features in U.S. websites. Policy & Internet, Vol.6, No.4 (December 2014): 360–376. Yong Jin Park.
Schoolof Communications.

Education

Not just black and white: Peer victimization and the intersectionality of school diversity and race. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 19 December 2014. Sycarah Fisher, Kyndra Middleton, Elizabeth Ricks, Celeste Malone, Candyce Briggs, Jessica Barnes.
Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Optimizing renewable energy control for building using model predictive control (Conference Paper). 2014 North American Power Symposium, NAPS 2014, 21 November 2014, Article number 6965371.
James A. Momoh, Feng Zhang, Wenzhong Gao.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Energy Systems and Controls (CESaC), CEACS.

Prony analysis of damping characteristic for micro-grid with energy storage system. 2014 North American Power Symposium, NAPS 2014, 21 November 2014, Article number 6965458. Li, J. , James A. Momoh, Surender S. Reddy.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Energy Systems and Controls (CESaC), CEACS.

Health Sciences

Optimal time for early laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis. AMA Surg, 17 December 2014. Syed Nabeel Zafar, Augustine Obirize, Babawande Adesibikan, Edward E. Cornwell III, Terrence M. Fullum, Daniel D. Tran.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Incremental cost of emergency versus elective surgery. Annals of Surgery, 17 December 2014. Adil H. Haider, Augustine Obirieze, Catherine Velopulos, Patrick Richard, Asad Latif, Valerie Scott, Cheryl K. Zogg, Elliott R. Haut, David T. Efron, Edward E. Cornwell III, Ellen J. MacKenzie, Darrell J. Gaskin.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Allosteric modulation of GABAA receptors by an anilino enaminone in an olfactory center of the mouse brain. Pharmaceuticals, Vol.7, No.12 (2014): 1069-1090. Thomas Heinbockel, Ze-Jun Wang, Patrice L. Jackson-Ayotunde.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Hepatitis e-associated lower extremity weakness: Case report and review of literature. Journal of Medical Cases, Vol.6, No.1 (January 2015): 6-7. Belen Tesfaye, Firew Wubiee, Angesom Kibrea, Rehana Begum.
College of Medicine.

Pathway activation profiling reveals new insights into age-related macular degeneration and provides avenues for therapeutic interventions. Aging, December 2014, Vol.6, No.12 (December 2014). Evgeny Makarev, Charles Cantor, Alex Zhavoronkov, Anton Buzdin, Alexander Aliper, Antonei Benjamin Csoka.
Epigenetics Laboratory, Deptartment of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Olfactory neurons obtained through nasal biopsy combined with laser-capture microdissection: A potential approach to study treatment response in mental disorders. Journal of Visualized Experiments, No.94 (4 December 2014): Article number e51853. S. Narayan, C. McLean, A. Sawa, S.Y. Lin, Narayan Rai, Maria M.S. Hipolito, N. Cascella, J.J.J. Nurnberger Jre, K. Ishizuka, Evaristus A. Nwulia.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, , College of Medicine.


Week Ending December 20, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Face recognition in the presence of angry expressions: A target-race effect rather than a cross-race effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Available online 12 December 2014. Jason Gwinn, Jamie Barden, Charles M. Judd.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Targeting versus saturation: Derived dDemand dDirect mail. In: Postal and Delivery Innovation in the Digital Economy. Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Vol.50 (2015): 65-75. Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin, Mary K. Perkins.
Department of Economics, CoAS.

+ Crystal structures of 2-methoxyisoindoline-1,3-dione, 1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl methyl carbonate and 1,3-dioxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[de]isoquinolin-2-yl methyl carbonate: Three anticonvulsant compounds. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.12 (1 December 2014): 456-461. Fortune Ezemobi1, H. North, K.R. Scott, Anthony K. Wutoh2, Raymond J. Butcher3.
1Department of Biology, CoAS, 2Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, 3Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Spatial sorting of African immigrants in the French public housing market. Review of Black Political Economy, 6 December 2014, Article available online. Benoit Schmutz.
Department of Economics, CoAS.

Characteristics of lake chad level variability and links to enso, precipitation, and river discharge. Scientific World Journal, 2014, Article number 145893. Churchill Okonkwo, Belay B. Demoz, Sium Gebremariam.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation (BCCSO), Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Health Sciences

In vivo tumor-targeted dual-modal fluorescence/CT imaging using a nanoprobe co-loaded with an aggregation-induced emission dye and gold nanoparticles. Biomaterials, Vol.42 (February 2015): 103-111. Jimei Zhang, Chan Li, Xu Zhang, Shuaidong Huo, Shubin Jin, Fei-Fei An, Xiaodan Wang, Xiangdong Xue, C.I. Okeke, Guiyun Duan, Fengguang Guo, Xiaohong Zhang, Jifu Hao, Paul C. Wang, Jinchao Zhang, Xing-Jie Liang.
Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiolog, College of Medicine.

The diverse Surgeons’ Initiative: Longitudinal assessment of a successful national program. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Available online 12 December 2014. Paris D. Butler, L.D. Britt, Chase E. Richard, Benjamin Chang, Joseph M. Serletti, Michael L. Green, Terrence M. Fullum.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Effects of dietary sodium and the DASH diet on the occurrence of headaches: Results from randomised multicentre DASH-sodium clinical trial. BMJ, 2014. Muhammad Amer, Mark Woodward, Lawrence J Appel.
College of Medicine.

Methamphetamine-induced toxicity in indusium griseum of mice is associated with astro- and microgliosis. Neurotoxicity Research, 10 December 2014. Ana Carmena, Noelia Granado, Sara Ares-Santos, Samuel Alberquilla, Yousef Tizabi, Rosario Moratalla.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

RECQ1 promotes the expression of genes significantly associated with cancer progression. Cancer Res, Vol.74 (1 December 2014): 22. Xing Lu, Xiao Ling Li, Swetha Parvathaneni, Ashish Lal, Sudha Sharma.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Multicenter COMPACT study of complications in patients with sickle cell disease and utilization of iron chelation therapy. Current Medical Research & Opinion, 15 December 2014. Lanetta Jordan, Patricia Adams-Graves, Julie Kanter-Washko, Patricia A. Oneal, Medha Sasane, Francis Vekeman, Christine Bieri, Matthew Magestro, Andrea Marcellari, and Mei Sheng Duh.
Depaartment of Medicine and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Preponderance of bacterial isolates in urine of HIV-positive malaria-infected pregnant women with urinary tract infection. J Infect Dev Ctries, Vol.8, No.12 (2014): 1591-1600. Kwashie Ajibade Ako-Nai, Blessing Itohan Ebhodaghe, Patrick Osho, Ebun Adejuyigbe, Folasade Mubiat Adeyemi, Olakunle O Kassim.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Use of allogenic (iliac) corticocancellous graft for le fort i interpositional defects: Technique and results. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vol.73, No.1 (1 January 2015): 168.e1-168.e12. Jeffrey C. Posnick, A. Sami.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Medicine.

Methamphetamine-induced toxicity in Indusium Griseum of mice is associated with astro- and microgliosis. Neurotoxicity Research, 10 December 2014. A. Carmena, N. Granado, S. Ares-Santos, S. Alberquilla, Yousef Tizabi, R. Moratalla.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine
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+ Crystal structures of 2-methoxyisoindoline-1,3-dione, 1,3-dioxoisoindolin-2-yl methyl carbonate and 1,3-dioxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[de]isoquinolin-2-yl methyl carbonate: Three anticonvulsant compounds. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.12 (1 December 2014): 456-461. Fortune Ezemobi1, H. North, K.R. Scott, Anthony K. Wutoh2, Raymond J. Butcher3.
1Department of Biology, CoAS, 2Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, 3Department of Chemistry, CoAS.


Week Ending December 13, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Crystal structure of (5R)-5-[(1S)-1,2-di-hydroxy-eth-yl]-4-meth-oxy-3-phenyl-2,5-di-hydro-furan-2-one. Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.10 (30 September 2014): o1141-o1142. S.R. Kote, S.R. Thopate, S.K. Gupta, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Crystal structure of anhydrous poly[bis-(μ2-sarcosinato-κ3 O,N:O')copper(II)]. Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.10 (17 September 2014): 207-209. Raymond J. Butcher, G. Brewer, M. Zemba.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Co(II), Cu(II), Mn(II) and Ni(II) complexes of maleic hydrazide. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol.425 (2014): 247-254. Khaled A. Shennara, Raymond J. Butcher, Frederick T. Greenawaya.

WRF-Chem model estimates of equatorial Atlantic Ocean tropospheric ozone increases via June 2006 African biomass burning ozone precursor transport. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 2014, Available online. Jonathan W. Smith, Gregory S. Jenkins, Kenneth E. Pickering.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS.

Meteorological controls on particle growth events in Beltsville, MD, USA during July 2011. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 4 December 2014. Megan K. Payne1, Everette Joseph1, Ricardo Sakai2, Jose D. Fuentes, William R. Stockwell2.
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Optical soliton perturbation in magneto-optic waveguides with spatio-temporal dispersion. Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol.16, No.9-10 (1 September 2014): 1063-1070. Vega-Guzman, J., Alshaery, A.A., Hilal, E.M., Bhrawy, A.H., Muhammad F. Mahmood, Moraru, L., Biswas, A.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Solitons in optical metamaterials by F-expansion scheme. Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Rapid Communications, Vol.8, No.9-10 (2014): 828-832. Ebadi, G., Mojaver, A., Vega-Guzman, J., Khan, K.R., Muhammad F. Mahmood, Moraru, L., Biswas, A., Belic, M.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Predicting Pavement Condition Index from International Roughness Index in Washington, DC. 2014. Stephen A Arhin, Errol C Noel.
http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=1331670
Depatment of Civil Engineering, CEACS.

Stochastic resonance in bistable spin-crossover compounds with light-induced transitions. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Physics, Vol.90, No.5-1 (November 2014): 052135. I. Gudyma, A. Maksymov, Mihai Dimian.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

A randomized non-inferiority trial of condensed protocols for genetic risk disclosure of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Available online 9 December 2014. Robert C. Green, Kurt D. Christensen, L. Adrienne Cupples, Norman R. Relkin, Peter J. Whitehouse, Charmaine D.M. Royal, Thomas O. Obisesan, Robert Cook-Deegan, Erin P. Linnenbringer, Melissa Barber Butson, Grace-Ann Fasaye, Elana Levinson, J. Scott Roberts, REVEAL Study Group.
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, College of Medicine.

Information-seeking strategies of dental hygienists. Journal of Dental Education, Vol.78, No.12 (1 December 2014): 1615-1622. Sandra D. Osborne, Garnett L. Henley, Yolanda I. Josey-Baker, Cheryl E.S. Fryer.
College of Dentistry.

Prasugrel in children with Sickle cell disease: Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data from an open-label, adaptive-design, dose-ranging study. J Pediatr Hematol Oncology, 9 December 2014. Styles L1, Heiselman D, Heath LE, Moser BA, Small DS, Jakubowski JA, Zhou C, Redding-Lallinger R, Heeney MM, Quinn CT, Soheil R. Rana, Kanter J, Winters KJ.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Possible contribution of PTSD to altered cortisol activity in young adult obese African-American women. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 6 December 2014. Teletia R. Taylor1, Kendra Van Kirk1, Denia Tapscott1, Monet Bernard2, Juliana Llano1, Thomas A. Mellman2.
1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Social Work

African American care givers raising children with disabilities: Doing more with less. In: Sandra E. Crewe and Charnetta Gatling-Cole (eds.), African American Caregivers: Seasons of Care: Practice and Policy Perspectives for Social Workers and Human Service Professionals, Ch.10 (Nova Science Publishers, 2014). Carl L. Algood, Ruby M. Gourdine.
School of Social Work.

African American Caregivers: Seasons of Care: Practice and Policy Perspectives for Social Workers and Human Service Professionals. Nova Science Publishers, 2014. Sandra E. Crewe and Charnetta Gatling-Cole (eds.).
School of Social Work


Week Ending December 6, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Duality for image and kernel partition regularity of infinite matrices. 2014. Neil Hindman, Imre Leader, Dona Strauss.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

My response to trainer. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol.25, No.4 (2 October 2014): 109-115. David Schwartzman.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Native arboreal land snails in the Mt Kaala Natural Area Reserve, Oahu, Hawaii, have similar plant preferences: Implications for conservation. Journal of Molluscan Studies, Vol.80, No.4 (1 November 2014): 469-472. W.M. Meyer, D.T.A. Gary, D.T.A., N.W. Yeung, C. Dirks, K. Leung, J.A. Léon, D.T.B. Ressler, P.A. Curry, Kenneth A. Hayes.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Palladium complexes of 2-formylpyridine thiosemicarbazone and two related ligands: Synthesis, structure and, spectral and catalytic properties. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol.425 (30 January 2015): 67-75. P. Paul, Raymond J. Butcher, S. Bhattacharya.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

N-(naphthyl)-N′-(methoxy carbonyl)thiocarbamide and its Cu(I) complex: synthesis, spectroscopic, X-ray, DFT and in vitro cytotoxicity study. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 13 November 2014. D.P. Singh, S. Pratap, S.K. Pandey, Raymond J. Butcher, G. Marverti.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Nanotechnology: Nature’s gift or scientists' brainchild? Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2 December 2014. Michael F. Hochella, Michael Spencer, Kimberly L. Jones.
Department of Civil Engineering, CEACS.

Analysis of earth effects on transmitting and receiving antennas characteristics with applications in subsurface object detection systems. Conference Proceedings - IEEE , 7 November 2014, Article number 6950700, IEEE SoutheastCon 2014; Lexington; United States; 13 March 2014 through 16 March 2014. Ang Yu, Skander Chaouch-Bouraoui, Mihai Dimian.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Analysis of the radiation patterns and transmission for a subsurface object detection system. Conference Proceedings - IEEE , 7 November 2014, Article number 6950728, IEEE SoutheastCon 2014; Lexington; United States; 13 March 2014 through 16 March 2014. Ang Yu, Skander Chaouch-Bouraoui, Mihai Dimian.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Motivators and barriers to Latinas' participation in clinical trials: The role of contextual factors. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 26 November 2014. Laricca London, Alejandra Hurtado-de-Mendoza, Minna Song, Ankita Nagirimadugu, Gheorghe Luta, Vanessa B. Sheppard.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Patterns of 21-gene assay testing and chemotherapy use in Black and White breast cancer patients. Clinical Breast Cancer, Available online 1 December 2014. Vanessa B. Sheppard, Suzanne C. O’Neill, Asma Dilawari, Sara Horton, Fikru A. Hirpa, Claudine Isaacs.
Department of Oncology, College of Medicine.

Calcitonin gene-related peptide regulates cardiomyocyte survival through regulation of oxidative stress by PI3K/Akt and MAPK signaling pathways. Ann Clin Exp Hypertens, Vol.2, No.1 (2017): 1007. Nsini A. Umoh, R.K. Walker, Richard M. Millis, M. Al-Rubaiee, P.R. Gangula, Georges E. Haddad.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Hemodynamic correlates of low umbilical cord vitamin D and ionized calcium. Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, Vol.36, No.7 (1 November 2014): 459-464. I. Reeves, G. Rosario, M. Young, K. Lewis, K. Washington, Richard M. Millis.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Development, metamorphosis, morphology and diversity: The Evolution of chordate muscles and the origin of vertebrates. Dev Dyn, 5 December 2014. Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Alzheimer's disease and other dementia in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol.62, No.10 (1 October 2014): 1991-1992. Jean S. Rowe, Chica Okafor, Thomas Cudjoe, Thomas O. Obisesan, Ricard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

A topical imiquimod-induced oral mucosal lichenoid reaction: A case report. Journal of the American Dental Association, Vol.145, No.11 (1 November 2014): 1141-1145. Ronald S. Brown, André A. Farquharson.
Division of Oral Diagnosis& Radiology, Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, College of Dentistry.

Recent patents on ophthalmic nanoformulations and therapeutic implications. Recent Patents on Engineering, Vol.8, No.2 (2014): 193-201. Ann Marie Ako-Adounvo, Ramesh Chand Nagarwal, Lais Oliveira, S.H.S. Boddu, Xiang S. Wang, S. Dey, Pradeep K. Karla.
College of Pharmacy.

Optimization of the fabrication of novel stealth PLA-based nanoparticles by dispersion polymerization using D-optimal mixture design. Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, Vol.40, No.11 (1 November 2014): 1547-1556. Simeon K. Adesina, S.A. Wight, Emmanuel O. Akala.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Center for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), College of Pharmacy.

Benchmarking methods and data sets for ligand enrichment assessment in virtual screening. Methods, Available online 3 December 2014. Jie Xia, Ermias Lemma Tilahun, Terry-Elinor Reid, Liangren Zhang, Xiang Simon Wang.
Laboratory of Cheminfomatics & Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending November 29, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Synthesis of highly dispersed, block copolymer-grafted TiO2 nanoparticles within neat block copolymer films. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 1 January 2015. Shimelis T. Hailu, Saumil Samant, Christopher Grabowski, Michael Durstock, Alamgir Karim. Dharmaraj Raghavan.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Thermopower anisotropy in quantum wires of pure bismuth. 62 Conferinţa Fizicienilor din Moldova, 22-25 octombrie 2014. A.A. Nikolaeva, L.A. Konopko, Tito E. Huber, A.K. Tsurkan, O. Botnary.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Role of 4,4'-bipyridine versus longer spacers 4,4'-azobipyridine, 1,4-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene, and 1,2-bis(pyridin-3-ylmethylene)hydrazine in the formation of thermally labile metallophosphate coordination polymers. Inorg. Chem. Front., 2014. Palanisamy Rajakannu, Rana Howlader, Alok Ch Kalita, Raymond J. Butcher, Ramaswamy Murugavel.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Age at immigration and kidney function among self-identified healthy Africans in the United States. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, November 2014. Mana Ali, Denée T. Mwendwa, Regina Sims, Madia Ricks, Anne E. Sumner.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Mono-isotope prediction for mass spectra using Bayes network. Tsinghua Science and Technology, Vol.19, No.6 (December 2014): 617-623. Hui Li, Chunmei Liu, Mugizi Robert Rwebangira, Legand Burge III.
Department of Systems & Computer Science, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Metabolic profile of triple-negative breast cancer in African-American women reveals potential biomarkers of aggressive disease. Cancer Genomics Proteomics, Vol.11, No.6 (2014): 279-294. Yasmine M. Kanaan, B.P. Sampey, Desta Beyene, A.K. Esnakula, Tammey J. Naab, Luisel J. Ricks-Santi, Sylvia Dasi, Agnes Day, Kwesi W. Blackman, Wayne A.I. Frederick, Robert L. Copeland Jr, E. Gabrielson, Robert L. Dewitty Jr.
Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, College of Medicine

Motivators and barriers to Latinas' participation in clinical trials: The role of contextual factors. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 26 November 2014. Laricca Londona, Alejandra Hurtado-de-Mendoza, Minna Song, Ankita Nagirimadugu, Gheorghe Luta, Vanessa B. Sheppard.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

An appraisal of RECQ1 expression in cancer progression. Frontiers in Genetics, Vol.5 (November 2014): 426. Sudha Sharma.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Rewriting the history of an extinction - was a population of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) at St. Lawrence Island also driven to extinction? Biology Letters, 2014, 5 pp. Lorelei D. Crerar, Andrew P. Crerar, Daryl P. Domning, E.C.M. Parsons. http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/11/20140878
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine..

Rare late Miocene seal Taxa (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Sea Basin. Vestnik Zoologii, Vol.48, No.5 (October 2014): 419–432. Irina Koretsky, Sulman J. Rahmat, N. Peters.
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Tracheal cancer mortality trends in the United States. The Internet Journal of Oncology, Vol.10, No.1 (2014). Alvin D. Thompson III, Yousef Talavari, Alem Mehari, Richard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Acute respiratory distress syndrome after traumatic Hemorrhagic shock: more than just vent settings! Critical Care Medicine, Vol.42, No.12 (December 2014): A1621. John Hwabejire, Christine Nembhard, Tolulope Oyetunji, Suryanarayana Siram, Edward Cornwell III, Wendy Greene.
Department of surgery, College of Medicine
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Resibufogenin and Cinobufagin activate central neurons through an ouabain-like action, PLOS One, 24 November 2014. Ze-Jun Wang, Liqin Sun, Thomas Heinbockel.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Fossil focus: Porpoises. Paleontology, Vol.4, No.10 (2014): 1-8. Rachel A. Racicot.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Impact of coagulopathy on traumatic splenic injuries. Critical Care Medicine, Vol.42, No.12 (December 2014): A1625. Norma Smalls-Mantey, Augustine Obirieze, Imudia Ehanire.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Drugs in perspective: Zykadia (ceritinib). Formulary Journal, 9 October 2014. Clarence D. Moore.
Department of clinical and administrative sciences, College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending November 22, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Awake/sleep cortisol levels and the development of posttraumatic stress disorder in injury patients with peritraumatic dissociation. Psychol Trauma, Vol.6, No.5 (September 2014): 449-456. Ihori Kobayashi, D.L. Delahanty.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

+ Effects of nitrate supplementation on cardiovascular and autonomic reactivity in African-American females. ISRN Physiol, 23 February 2014. Vernon Bond1, Bryan H. Curry2, R. George Adams2, Sadegh M. Asadi3, Kimani A. Stancil5, Richard M. Millis4, Georges E. Haddad4.
1Department of Health, Human Performance and Leisure Studies, GS; 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, 3Department of Neurology, 4Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine; 5Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS.

Co(II), Cu(II), Mn(II) and Ni(II) complexes of maleic hydrazide. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol.425 (30 January 2015): 247-254. Khaled A. Shennara, Raymond J. Butcher, Frederick T. Greenaway.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Business

Individualism-collectivism and tenure intent among knowledge workers in India and Bulgaria: Moderating effects of equity perceptions and task interdependence. Journal of High Technology Management Research, Vol.25, Vol.2 (2014): 201-209. N. Ramamoorthy, P.C. Flood, Subodh P. Kulkarni, A. Gupta.
School of Business.

Health Sciences

Effect of Lung Cancer Screening Awareness on Smoking Cessation Behavior. Fam Med, Vol.46, No.10 (November-December 2014): 70-775. Dianne N. Thompson1, Richard Barrett1, Anand Deonarine1, Carla D. Williams2, Debra White-Coleman1, Sara Horton, Alicia Thomas1*, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1.
1Department of Medicine, 2Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Racial-specific differences in breast cancer treatment. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, Vol.23 (November 2014): C48. Brittany N. Barley, Sara Horton, Jacqueline Dunmore-Griffith, Luisel Ricks-Santi.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Use of tanning potential as a predictor for prostate cancer risk in African-American men. In Vivo, Vol. 28, No.6 (November-December 2014): 1181-1187. Desta Beyene1, Mohammad Daremipouran1, Victor Apprey2, Robert Williams4, Luisel Ricks-Santi5, Olakunle O. Kassim5, Tammey J. Naab6, Yasmine M. Kanaan1, Robert L. Copeland Jr.1.
1Cancer Center, 2National Human Genome Center, 3Community and Family Medicine, 4Department of Family Medicine, 5Department of Microbiology, 6Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Nocturnal autonomic balance and sleep in PTSD and resilience. Journal of Traumatic Stress, October 2014. Ihori Kobayashi, Joseph Lavela, Thomas A. Mellman.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Surveying the knowledge, attitudes and practices of District of Columbia ACOG members related to breastfeeding. Breastfeeding Medicine, 2014. Alexandra M. Sims, Sahira A. Long, Jennifer A.F. Tender Jennifer, Michal A. Young.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Phenyl-1-Pyridin-2yl-Ethanone-Based Iron Chelators Increase IκB-α Expression, modulate CDK2 and CDK9 activities, and inhibit HIV-1 transcription. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Vol.58, No.11 (2014): 6558-6571. Namita Kumari, Iordanskiy, S., Kovalskyy, D., Breuer, D., Xiaomei Niu, Lin Xionghao, Xu, M., Gavrilenko, K., Kashanchi, F., Dhawan, S., Sergei Nekhai.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Large-scale proteomic characterization of melanoma expressed proteins reveals nestin and vimentin as biomarkers that can potentially distinguish melanoma subtypes. Journal of Proteome Research, Vol.13, No.11 (2014): 5031-5040. Qendro, V., Lundgren, D.H., Rezaul, K., Mahony, F., Ferrell, N., Bi, A., Latifi, A., Chowdhury, D., Gygi, S., Haas, W., Lori Wilson, Murphy, M., Han, D.K.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

DNA cleaving "tandem-array" metallopeptides activated with KHSO5: Towards the development of multi-metallated bioactive conjugates and compounds. Curr Bioact Compd, Vol.10, No.1 (2014): 13-20. Lewis MA1, Williams KM1, Ya-Yin Fang, Schultz FA1, Long EC1.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

+ Effects of nitrate supplementation on cardiovascular and autonomic reactivity in African-American females. ISRN Physiol, 23 February 2014. Vernon Bond1, Bryan H. Curry2, R. George Adams2, Sadegh M. Asadi3, Kimani A. Stancil5, Richard M. Millis4, Georges E. Haddad4.
1Department of Health, Human Performance and Leisure Studies, and the Cancer Center Physical Medicine and Nutrition Laboratory, 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, 3Department of Neurology, 4Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine; 5Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS.


Week Ending November 15, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Arsine, (1R)-[1,1′-Binapththalene]-2,2′-diylbis[diphenyl- and Arsine, (1S)-[1,1′-Binapththalene]-2,2′-diylbis[diphenyl-. e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. 2014. Amol A. Kulkarni.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Anatomical evidence for low frequency sensitivity in an archaeocete whale: comparison of the inner ear of Zygorhiza kochii with that of crown Mysticeti. Journal of Anatomy, November 2014. Eric G. Ekdale, Rachel A. Racicot.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Engaging Latina cancer survivors, their caregivers, and community partners in a randomized controlled trial: Nueva Vida intervention. Quality of Life Research, November 2014. Christina L. Rush, Margaret Darling, Maria Gloria Elliott, Ivis Febus-Sampayo, Charlene Kuo, Juliana Muñoz, Ysabel Duron, Migdalia Torres, Claudia Campos Galván, Florencia Gonzalez, Larisa Caicedo, Anna Nápoles, Roxanne E. Jensen, Emily Anderson, Kristi D. Graves.
CoAS.

Health Sciences

Cultural adaptation considerations for HBCU student mental health services: An exploratory report. Innovations in Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacotherapy, 2014. Valerie Oji, Mousa Abkhezr, Lovely Thornton, Elaine Bourne Heath1, Donna Holland Barnes2.
1Special Student Services, CoAS, 2Suicide Prevention Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Renal replacement therapy in children. Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, Available online 7 November 2014. Felix C. Blanco, Gezzer Ortega, Faisal G. Qureshi.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Racial disparities in diagnosis in patients presenting to emergency rooms: Persisting problem of misdiagnosis? Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol.55, No.8 (November 2014): e53. William B. Lawson.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Ureteral injury after laparoscopic versus open colectomy. JSLS, Vol.18, No.3 (2014): Seyed Nabeel Zafar1, Chiledum Ahaghotu2, L. Libuit3, Gezzer Ortega1, Coleman PW2, Edward E. Cornwell III1, Daniel D. Tran4, Terrence M. Fullum4.
1Department of Surgery, 2Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, 3Department of Medicine, 4Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Non-invasive MRI and spectroscopy of mdx mice reveal temporal changes in dystrophic muscle imaging and in energy deficits. PLoS One. Vol.9, No.11 (12 November 2014): e112477. Heier CR1, Guerron AD1, Korotcov A2, Lin S2, Gordish-Dressman H3, Fricke S4, Sze RW5, Hoffman EP3, Paul Wang, Nagaraju K3.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

In-office use of the intrector for the removal of retained lens cortex. Retin Cases Brief Rep, 28 July 2014. [Epub ahead of print]. S.M. Qureshi, S. Shaikh.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Cardiovascular disease mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Ethnicity and Disease, Vol.24, No.4 (1 September): 495-501. Hakeem Ayinde, Richard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Identification and characterization of novel renal sensory receptors. PLoS ONE, Vol.9, No.10 (23 October 2014): e111053. Rajkumar P., Aisenberg W.H., Omar W. Acres, Protzko R.J., Pluznick J.L.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Social Work

The importance of advancing one social Work: NASW 60 years later. Social Work, First published online: 10 November 2014. Tricia B. Bent-Goodley.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending November 8, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Ali Al'Amin Mazrui—The Mwalimu, The Ali: A tribute. CODESRIA E-Newsletter (CODESRIA Web), October 29, 2014. Abdul Karim Bangura.
Department of Political Science, CoAS.

Review of: Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination, by Salamishah Tillet. Journal of American Ethnic History Vol.33, No.4 (2014), 116–117. Ana Lucia Araujo.
Department of History, CoAS.

Bis-tetradentate complexes of Cd(ii) and Hg(ii) with N8 coordination: Structural and NMR comparisons. Dalton Transactions, Vol.43, No.43 (21 November 2014): 16475-16485. Bowers, E.V., Murphy, G.S., Till, S.N., Vandenbussche, C.J., Yaroschak, M.M., Pike, R.D., Raymond J. Butcher, Bebout, D.C.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Bis-tetradentate complexes of Cd(ii) and Hg(ii) with N8 coordination: Structural and NMR comparisons. Dalton Transactions, Volume 43, Issue 43, 21 November 2014, Pages 16475-16485. Bowers, E.V., Murphy, G.S., Till, S.N., (...), Raymond J. Butcher, Bebout, D.C.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Direct Polymerization of Vernonia Oil through Cationic Means. JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 2014. Biswas, A., Cheng, H.N., Klasson, K.T., Liu, Z., Berfield, J., Folahan O. Ayorinde.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Communications

Media use, gender, and African American college attendance: The Cosby effect. Howard Journal of Communications, Vol.25, No.4 (2014): 452-471. Paula W. Matabane, Bishetta D. Merritt.
Department of Media, Journalism and Film Communication, School of Communications.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Controlled-release analysis of potassium permanganate using PMMA matrix. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, Vol.2 (November 2014): 539-544. Jude O. Ighere, Ramesh C. Chawla.
Department of Chemical Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Comparative anatomy of the pelvic vessels in the bearded Capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus) and baboons, apes and modern humans. Folia Primatologica, Vol.85, No.4 (2014): 252-264. Roqueline A.G.M.F. Aversi-Ferreira , V. de Souza Vieira, C. Tomaz, T.A. Aversi-Ferreira.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Alcohol and inflammatory responses: Summary of the 2013 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting. Alcohol, Available online 3 November 2014. Niya L. Morris, Jill A. Ippolito, Brenda J. Curtis, Michael M. Chen, Scott L. Friedman, Ian N. Hines, Georges E. Haddad, Sulie L. Chang, Lou Ann Brown, Thomas Waldschmidt, Pranoti Mandrekar, Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Mashkoor A. Choudhry.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

The changing democratic functions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. New Political Science, Vol.36, No.4 - Special Issue: The Future of Higher Education and American Democracy (30 October 2014): 556-572. Clyde Wilcox, JoVita Wells, Georges E. Haddad, Judith K. Wilcox.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Sex differences in obesity prevalence and cardiometabolic factors among Western Alaska native people. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, Available online 29 October 2014. S.E. Hopkins, M.A. Austin, J.S. Metzger, K.R. Koller, Jason G. Umans, C. Kaufmann, A.W. Wolfe, B.V. Howard, B.B. Boyer.
Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Georgetown-Howard Universities, College of Medicine.

Isolated pulmonary valve infective endocarditis in a middle aged man caused by Candida albicans: A case report. BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol.14 (2014): 4p. Sudhakar Devathi1, Bryan Curry2, Saumil Doshi1.
1Division of Infectious Diseases, 2Division of Cardiology, College of Medicine.

Cellular deficiency of werner syndrome protein or RECQ1 promotes genotoxic potential of hydroquinone and benzo[a]pyrene exposure. International Journal of Toxicology, Vol.33, No.5 (27 September 2014): 373-381. Mamatha Garige, Sudha S. Sharma.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Characteristics and health perceptions of complementary and alternative medicine users in the United States. Am J Med Sci, 6 November 2014. Maryam A. Laiyemo1, Gail Nunlee-Bland2, Frederick A. Lombardo3, R. George Adams2, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo2.
1Department of Biology, CoAS, 2Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, 3Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Iron, inflammation, and early death in adults with sickle cell disease. Circ Res, 6 November 2014. van Beers E, Yang Y, Raghavachari N, Tian X, Allen DT, Nichols JS, Mendelsohn L, Sergei Nekhai, Gordeuk VR, Taylor JG, Kato GJ.
Sickle Cell Center & Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

A topical imiquimod-induced oral mucosal lichenoid reaction: A case report. J Am Dent Assoc, Vol.145, No.11 (November 2014): 1141-1145. Ronald S. Brown, André A. Farquharson.
Division of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, College of Dentistry.

Hospital admissions for pneumonia more likely with concomitant dental infections. Clin Oral Investig, 31 October 2014. Brian Laurence, Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, Frank A. Scannapieco, Armin Abron.
Department of Restorative Services, College of Dentistry.

U.S. EPA superfund radiation risk assessment: A community toolkit. Embedded Topical Meeting on Decommissioning and Remote Systems 2014, Held at the American Nuclear Society 2014 Annual Meeting 2014, p.118-120. Walker, S. , Dreyfus, M.G. , Dain C. Thorpe.
College of Medicine.

Social Work

Racism and homophobia in Cuba: A historical and contempory overview. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 27 October 2014, 9p. Kamilah F. Majied.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending November 1, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Africa Command Center (AFRICOM) and U.S. foreign policy of militarization of Africa under the Obama administration. In: Adebayo Oyebade (ed.), The United States' Foreign Policy in Africa in the 21st Century: Issues and Perspectives, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014. Olayiwola Abegunrin.
Department of Political Science, CoAS.

Africa: The State of the Continent Fifty Years after the Liberation. New York: Nova Publishers, 2014. Olayiwola Abegunrin (ed.).
Department of Political Science, CoAS.

Africa in the New World Order: Peace and Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. Olayiwola Abegunrin (ed.).
Department of Political Science, CoAS.

Gender, sex, and power: Images of the enslavement women bodies. In: Elizabeth Elbourne and Gwyn Campbell (eds.), Sex, Power, and Slavery, 469–499. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2014. Ana Lucia Araujo.
Department of History, CoAS.

Metal derivatives of N-substituted imidazolidine-2-thiones with d10 metal ions (Zn- Hg): Synthesis, spectroscopy, ESI-mass and structures. Polyhedron, 25 October 2014. Tarlok S. Lobana, Amanpreet K. Sandhu, Amanpreet K. Jassal, Geeta Hundal, R.K. Mahajan, Jerry P. Jasinski, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Palladium complexes of 2-formylpyridine thiosemicarbazone and two related ligands: Synthesis, structure and, spectral and catalytic properties. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 22 October 2014. Piyali Paul, Raymond J. Butcher, Samaresh Bhattacharya.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Isolation and structures of some selenium and tellurium derivatives of 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12-exabromododecahydrotriphenylene as co-crystals of triphenylene. J. Chem. Sci., Vol.126, No.5 (September 2014): 1311–1321. Poonam Rajesh Prasad, Harkesh B. Singh, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Applied Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials - Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, Vol.2. New York: Springer, 2015. Prabhakar Misra (ed.).
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Raman spectroscopy, modeling and simulation studies of carbon nanotubes. In: Prabhakar Misra (ed.), Applied Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials - Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, Vol.2. (New York: Springer, 2015), 1-20. Daniel Casimir, Raul Garcia-Sanchez, Prabhakar Misra.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Laser optogalvanic spectroscopy and collisional state dynamics associated with hollow cathode discharge plasmas. In: Prabhakar Misra (ed.), Applied Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials - Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, Vol.2 (New York: Springer, 2015), 21-40. Michael Blosser, Xianming L. Han, Raul F. Garcia-Sanchez, Prabhakar Misra.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Adsorption of gases in nanomaterials: Theory and simulations. In: Prabhakar Misra (ed.), Applied Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials, Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, Vol.2 (New York: Springer, 2015), 121-140. Mamadou T. Mbaye, S.M. Maiga, Silvina M. Gatica.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Retrievals and uncertainty analysis of aerosol single scattering albedo from MFRSR measurements. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol.150 (January 2015): 95-106. Bangsheng Yin, Qilong Min, Everette Joseph.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Are heterotrophic and silica-rich eukaryotic microbes an important part of the lichen symbiosis? Mycology: An International Journal on Fungal Biology, 28 October 2014. David M. Wilkinson, Angela L. Creevy, Chiamaka L. Kalu, David W. Schwartzman.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Impact of the safe routes to school program on walking and bicycling. Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol.80, No.2 (2014): 153-N.C. McDonald, R.L. Steiner, C. Lee, Tori Rhoulac Smith, X. Zhu, Y. Yang.
CEACS.

Health Sciences

The impact of complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy in elderly patients: A review of the nationwide inpatient sample database. Am Surg, Vol.80, No.11 (November 2014): 1175-1178. Peju Adekoya, Augustine Obirieze, Michael Onwugbufor, Melissa Cole, Edward E. Cornwell III, Wayne A.I. Frederick.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

1E7-03, a low MW compound targeting host protein phosphatase-1, inhibits HIV-1 transcription. British Journal of Pharmacology,
Vol.171, No.22 (November 2014): 5059–5075. Tatyana Ammosova1, Maxim Platonov, Andrei Ivanov, Yasemin Saygideğer Kont, Namita Kumari, Kylene Kehn-Hall, Marina Jerebtsova, Amol A Kulkarni2, Aykut Üren, Dmytro Kovalskyy and Sergei Nekhai1.
1Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine; 2College of Pharmacy.

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in nanomedicine. In: Prabhakar Misra (ed.), Applied Spectroscopy and the Science of Nanomaterials, Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, Vol.2 (New York: Springer, 2015), 59-84. Ping-Chang Lin.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Effect of medical school clerkship on obstetrics and gynecology career choice by gender. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, Vol.21, No.6, Suppl. (November–December 2014): S123-S124. K.S. Smith, E.E. Miller.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine.

Validation of a method to directly and specifically measure nitrite in biological matrices. Nitric Oxide, 28 October 2014. Luis E.F. Almeida, Sayuri Kamimura, Nicholas Kenyon, Alfia Khaibullina, Li Wang, Celia M. de Souza Batista, Zenaide M.N. Quezado.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Cellular reprogramming for understanding and treating human disease. Front. Cell Dev. Biol., Vol.2 (2014): 67. Antonei B. Csoka, Riya R. Kanherkar, Naina Bhatia-Dey, Evgeny Makarev.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The fused anthranilate synthase from Streptomyces venezuelae functions as a monomer. Mol Cell Biochem, 30 October 30 2014. Meseret Ashenafi, Prasad T. Reddy, James F. Parsons, W. Malcolm Byrnes.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

The effect of root canal irrigation with combination of sodium hypo-chlorite and chlorhexidine gluconate on the sealing ability of obturation materials. Open Dent J,, Vol.8 (22 October 2014): 184-187..H. Homayouni, Nima Moradi Majd, H. Zohrehei, B. Mosavari, M. Adel, R. Dajmar, A. Homayouni.
Dental Research Laboratory, College of Dentistry.


Week Ending October 25, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Synthesis, crystal structures and DFT molecular orbital surface calculations of two new salts of a piperazine derivative. Journal of Chemical Crystallography, 2 October 2014. Kavitha, C.N., Jasinski, J.P., Kaur, M., Yathirajan, H.S., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Palladium complexes of 2-formylpyridine thiosemicarbazone and two related ligands: Synthesis, structure and, spectral and catalytic properties. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 22 October 2014. Piyali Paul, Raymond J. Butcher, Samaresh Bhattacharya.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Anomalous behaviour of the bis(benzimidazolium)butane [2]pseudorotaxanes of dibenzo-24-crown-8: a comparative study of methane, ethane, propane and butane bis(benzimidazolium)alkane]dibenzo-24-crown-8 systems with variable spacers. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry, 22 October 2014. Sabari Ghosh, Ann Marie Schmiedekamp, E. Padmanaban, Raymond J. Butcher, Tandrima Chaudhuri, Nina Rao, Chhanda Mukhopadhyay.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

MALDI-TOF MS as a supportive tool for the evaluation of bacterial diversity in soils from Africa and the Americas. Aerobiologia, October 2014. Adrian Douglas Allen1,4, Maria Velez-Quinones2, Broderick E. Eribo2, Vernon Morris3,4.
1Department of Comprehensive Sciences, 2Department of Biology, 3Department of Chemistry, 4Department of Physics & Astronomy/NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences, CoAS.

Cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetry of η mesons in p↑+p collisions at s√=200  GeV at forward rapidity. Phys. Rev. D, 90, 072008 (20 October 2014). Multiple authors, incl. Marcus Alfred.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Exposure to prison sexual assault among incarcerated Black men. J Afr Am Stud (New Brunsw), Vol.18, No.1 (2014): 54-62. T.L. Rowell-Cunsolo, Roderick J. Harrison, R. Haile.
Department of Sociology, CoAS.

Divinity

Using latent profile regression to explore the relationship between religiosity and work-related ethical judgments. Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol.3 (2014): Art.12. Alan G. Walker, L. Allison Jones-Farmer, Jason D. DeBode, James W. Smither, Raymond D. Smith.
School of Divinity.

Health Sciences

Alzheimer's disease and other dementia in sub-saharan Africa and the Caribbean. J Am Geriatr Soc., Vol.62, No.10 (October 2014): 1991-1992. Jean S. Rowe, Chika Okafor, Thomas Cudjoe, Thomas O. Obisesan, Ricard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, College of Medicine.

Unconscious race and class bias: its association with decision making by trauma and acute care surgeons. J Trauma Acute Care Surg., Vol.77, No.3 (September 2014): 409-416. Haider AH1, Schneider EB, Sriram N, Dossick DS, Scott VK, Swoboda SM, Losonczy L, Haut ER, Efron DT, Pronovost PJ, Freischlag JA, Lipsett PA, Edward E. Cornwell III, MacKenzie EJ, Cooper LA.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Extranodal marginal zone B cell lymphoma of the orbit in a patient with sarcoidosis: A case report. Sarcoidosis, Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases, Vol.31 (2014): 252-255. Nikisha Q. Richards, Earl D. R. Kidwell Jr., AliM. Ramadan, Tammey J.Naad.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Evaluation of hypothalamic murine and human melanocortin 3 receptor transcript structure. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 22 October 2014. Dezmond C. Taylor-Douglas, Arunabha Basu, Ryan M. Gardner, Sender Aspelund, Xin Wen, Jack A. Yanovski.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Predictive and prognostic analysis of KRAS and MSI markers in treatment of urban African American colorectal cancer patients. Cancer Res, Vol.74 (1 October 2014): 3853. Priya Gopie, Maryam Yazdy, Bashira Giwa, Sanjeev Solomon, Gladys Onojobi, Mehdi Nouraie, Bonnie Davis, Kamyar Sartip, Shokrani Babak, Lee Edward, Hassan Brim, Hassan Ashktorab.
Department of Medicine & Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Changes in global chromatin landscape identify bladder cancer progression. Cancer Res, Vol.74 (1 October 2014): 474. Sohyoung Kim, Lyuba Varticovski, Lars Grontved, Songjoon Baek, Bethrice Thompson, Michael Dean, Daniel Theodoresco, Michael L. Nickerson, Gordon L. Hager.
Department of Medicine & Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Epigenome-wide profiling identified significant differences in DNA methylation between African-American and European-American men with prostate cancer. Cancer Res, Vol.74 (1 October 2014): 388. Bernard Kwabi-Addo, Songping Wang, Joseph Devaney.
Department of Medicine & Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

GPNMB methylation: a new marker of potentially colonic adenoma in African Americans. Cancer Res, Vol.74 (1 October 2014): 554. Hamed Rahi, Tahmineh Haidary, Hassan Brim, Edward L. Lee, Babak Shokrani, H Zhifeng, Peter M. Siegel, Hassan Ashktorab.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Can MACC1 plasma transcripts in colon adenoma patients be used as an early indicator of metastasis potential. Cancer Res, Vol.74 (1 October 2014): 553. Hassan Brim, Pia Hermann, Mehdi Nouraie, Babak Shokrani, Ed Lee, Tahmineh Haidary, Hassan Ashktorab, Ulrik Stein.
Department of Medicine &Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

The role of DLL4 in cancer immune-surveillance and its pathogenicity in p53-dysregulated environment. Cancer Res, Vol.74 (1 October 2014): 1104. Zhixing Yao, Zaki A. Sherif.
Department of Medicine & Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

B-catenin expression and obesity in African Americans with colorectal neoplasia: Is there a relationship. Cancer Res, Vol.74 (1 October 2014): 3854. Babak Shokrani, Tahmineh Hydari, Mehdi Nouraie, Sally Hassan, Vandana Kansal, Edward Lee, Hassan Brim, Hassan Ashktorab.
Department of Medicine & Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Sensitivity and specificity of univariate MRI analysis of experimentally degraded cartilage under clinical imaging conditions. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol.40, No.5 (18 October 2014). Vanessa A. Lukas, Kenneth W. Fishbein, David A. Reiter, Ping-Chang Lin, Erika Schneider, Richard G. Spencer.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Social Work

Serving Allah, serving humanity: Volunteerism among immigrant Muslims. In: Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American Islam (Oxford University Press, 2014), 304-324. Altaf Husain.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending October 18, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Review of: Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and their eyes were watching God, ed. La Vinia Delois Jennings (Northwestern University Press, 2013.). Affilia, Vol.29 (2014): 512-513. Amber Davis.
Coas.

+ Active pharmaceutical ingredients for antiretroviral treatment in low- and middle-income countries: A survey. Antivir Ther., Vol.19, Suppl.3 (2014): 15-29. Joseph M Fortunak1, Rodrigo OMA de Souza1, Amol A Kulkarni2, Christopher L King1, Tiffany Ellison1, Leandro SM Miranda1.
1Departments of Chemistry, CoAS, 2College of Pharmacy.

Active pharmaceutical ingredients for antiretroviral treatment in low- and middle-income countries: A survey. Antivir Ther., Vol.19, Suppl.3 (2014): 15-29. Joseph M Fortunak, Rodrigo OMA de Souza, Amol A Kulkarni, Christopher L King, Tiffany Ellison, Leandro SM Miranda .
Departments of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

Crystal structure of N (1)-benzyl-N (1),N (2),N (2)-tri-methyl-ethane-1,2-diaminium dichloride. Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online,Vol.70, Pt.9 (6 August 2014): o911-2. Singh P, Singh HB, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Crystal structure of (N (1)-benzyl-N (1),N (2),N (2)-tri-methyl-ethane-1,2-di-amine-κ(2) N,N')di-chloridomercury(II). Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.9 (6 August 2014): 118-20. Manjare ST, Singh HB, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Distinguishing subgroups of the rationals by their Ramsey properties. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Vol.129 (January 2015): 93-104. Ben Barber, Neil Hindman, Imre Leader, Dona Strauss.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Non-Edible Vernonia galamensis Oil and Mixed Bacterial Cultures for the Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates. Mod Chem appl, Vol.2, No.3 (2014). Adrian D Allen1, Folahan O Ayorinde2, Broderick E Eribo2.
1Department of Biology, 2Department of Chemistry, CoAS..

Diversity at 100: Women and underrepresented minorities in the ESA: Peer-reviewed letter. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Vol.12, No.8 (1 October 2014): 434-436. C. Beck, K. Boersma, C.S. Tysor, George Middendorf.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Business

Dual-class versus single-class firms: Information asymmetry. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 12 October 2014. Lucy Lim
School of Business.

Health Sciences

Effect of medical school clerkship on obstetrics and gynecology career choice by gender. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, Vol.21, No.6, Sppl. (November–December 2014): S123-S124. K.S. Smith, E.E. Miller.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine.

Prevalence of uterine leiomyoma in an adolescent population. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, Vol.21, No.6, Sppl. (November–December 2014): S195, N. Nwachuku, K.S. Smith, A.C. Obirieze, K. Pew.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine.

The 4th Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, 5 –9 April 2014, Florence, Italy: A summary of topics and trends. Schizophrenia Research, 11 October 2014. Olukayode Abayomi, Davide Amato, Candace Bailey, Byron Bitanihirwe, Lynneice Bowen, Shimon Burshtein, Alexis Cullen, Montserrat Fusté, Ana P. Herrmann, Babak Khodaie, Sanja Kilian, Qortni A. Lang, et al.
College of Medicine.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in nonagenarians. Annals of Vascular Surgery, Available online 15 October 2014. Kakra Hughes1, Hamdi Abdulrahman1, Tahira Prendergast1, David A. Rose1, Sharon Ongu’ti2, Daniel Tran1, Edward E. Cornwell1, Thomas Obisesan3, Kwame S. Amankwah.
1Department of Surgery, 2Department of Medicine, 3Division of Geriatics, College of Medicine.

QbD approach to investigate product and process variabilities for brain targeting liposomes. J Liposome Res., 13 October 2014: 1-16. Kamal N1, Anthony J. Cutie, Muhammad J. Habib, Ahmed S. Zidan.
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy.

Reducing racial disparity in colorectal cancer burden. Dig Dis Sci., Vol.59, No.9 (September 2014): 2025-7. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Abstract LB-3: Apolipoprotein (E) is a determinant of colon carcinogenesis potentially by regulating inflammation and β-catenin independently of its role in lipid metabolism. Cancer Res., Vol.74 (1 October 2014): LB-3. Ali I. Elbahrawy1, Abdelmetalab Tarhuni1, Amarjit S. Naura2, Youssef Errami, Mohamed Alwan, Samar Hammad, Jimena Trillo-Tinoco, Ramadan Hemeida, Hassan Brim, Hassan Ashktorab, Luis Del Valle, Hamid A. Boulares.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Feasibility of tomotherapy for postoperative irradiation of lower extremity sarcomas. Tumori, Vol.100, No.4 (2014): 466-469. Nam P Nguyen, Jacqueline Vock, Vincent Vinh-Hung, Rihan Khan, Benjamin Slane, Thomas Sroka, Siyoung Jang, Vigil Dias, Richard A Vo, Ulf Karlsson, Alexander Chi.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

PACAP protects against inflammatory-mediated toxicity in dopaminergic SH-SY5Y cells: Implication for Parkinson's disease. Neurotoxicity Research, Vol.26, No.3 (October 2014): 230-239. D. Brown, A. Tamas, D. Reglodi, Yusef Tizabi.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

+ Active pharmaceutical ingredients for antiretroviral treatment in low- and middle-income countries: A survey. Antivir Ther., Vol.19, Suppl.3 (2014): 15-29. Joseph M Fortunak1, Rodrigo OMA de Souza1, Amol A Kulkarni2, Christopher L King1, Tiffany Ellison1, Leandro SM Miranda1.
1Departments of Chemistry, CoAS, 2College of Pharmacy.


September 28-October 11, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Three closely-related cyclohexanols (C35H27X2N3O3; X = F, Cl or Br): Similar molecular structures but different crystal structures. Acta Crystallographica Section C, September 2014. Seranthimata Samshuddin, Jerry P. Jasinski, Raymond J. Butcher, Elizabeth A. Neuhardt, Badiadka Narayana, Hemmige S. Yathirajan and Christopher Glidewell.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Crystal structure of (5R)-5-[(1S)-1,2-di­hydroxy­eth­yl]-4-meth­oxy-3-phenyl-2,5-di­hydro­furan-2-one. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.10 (October 2014): o1141-o1142. S. R. Kote, S. R. Thopate, S. K. Gupta, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Synthesis, crystal structure and antifungal activity of a newly synthesized polymeric mixed ligand complex of Zn(II) with 1,1-dithiolate and nitrogen donors. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2014. Mahesh Kumar Singh, sanjit sutradhar, Bijaya Paul, Suman Adhikari, Raymond J. Butcher, Sandeep Acharya, Arijit Dase.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Three closely-related cyclo­hexa­nols (C35H27X2N3O3; X = F, Cl or Br): similar mol­ecular structures but different crystal structures. Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry, Vol.70, Pt.10 (October 2014): 953-959. S. Samshuddin, J. P. Jasinski, Raymond J. Butcher, E. A. Neuhardt, B. Narayana, H. S. Yathirajan and C. Glidewell.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

The relationship between El Niño Southern Oscillations and cereal production in Sahel. Environmental Hazards, Vol.13, No.4 (2014): 343-357. Churchill Okonkwo, Belay Demoz.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Egge triples and unbalanced Wilf-equivalence. arXiv:1410.0230v2 [math.CO], 9 October 2014. Jonathan Bloom, Alexander Burstein.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Neonatal NMDA receptor blockade disrupts spike timing and glutamatergic synapses in fast spiking interneurons in a NMDA receptor hypofunction model of schizophrenia. PLoS One., Vol.9, No.10 (7 October 2014): e109303. Kevin S. Jones, Corbin JG, Huntsman MM.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Diversity at 100: Women and underrepresented minorities in the ESA, Write Back, 2014. Christopher Beck, Kate Boersma, Susannah Tysor, George Middendorf.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Exploring a graph theory based algorithm for automated identification and characterization of large mesoscale convective systems in satellite datasets. Earth Science Informatics, October 2014. Kim Whitehall, Chris A. Mattmann, Gregory Jenkins, Mugizi Rwebangira, Belay Demoz, et al.
Department of Physics & Astornomy, CoAS.

Information dynamics of whole genome adaptation. Natural Science, Vol.6 (2014): 1228-1231. William Hercules1, James Lindesay1, Tshela E. Mason2, Georgia M. Dunston1,3.
1Computational Physics Laboratory, CoAS, 2National Human Genome Center, 3Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Mutation effects in ordered trees. arXiv:1410.1249v1 [math.CO], 6 October 2014. Gi-Sang Cheon, Hana Kim, Louis W. Shapiro.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Qualitative community-based research and community-based organizations: Are we on the right track? Psychology Research, Vol.4, No.9 (September 2014): 716-725. Asha Layne.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Business

Individualism–collectivism and tenure intent among knowledge workers in India and Bulgaria: Moderating effects of equity perceptions and task interdependence. The Journal of High Technology Management Research, 3 October 2014. Nagarajan Ramamoorthy, Patrick C. Flood, Subodh P. Kulkarni, Amit Gupta.
School of Business.

Divinity

Judaism and Islam in America. The Muslim World, Special Issue edited by Zainab Alwani and Burton L. Visotzky, Vol.104, No.4 (October 2014): 381–487. Zainab Alwani.
School of Divinity.

Maqāṣid Qur ̓āniyya: A methodology on evaluating modern challenges and fiqh. The Muslim World, Vol.104, No.4 (October 2014): 465–487. Zainab Alwani.
School of Divinity.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Rebound of Region of Interest (RROI), a New kernel-based Algorithm for video object tracking applications. Journal of Signal and Information Processing, Vol.5 (2014): 97-103. Andres Alarcon Ramirez, Mohamed Chouikha.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Review of optimization techniques for Renewable Energy Resources. Power Electronics and Machines for Wind and Water Applications (PEMWA), 2014 IEEE Symposium. James A. Momoh, S. Surender Reddy.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Energy Systems and Controls (CESaC), CEACS.

Health Sciences

Cephalic muscles of Cyclostomes (hagfishes and lampreys) and Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays and holocephalans): Comparative anatomy and early evolution of the vertebrate head muscles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2014. Janine M. Ziermann, Tetsuto Miyashita, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Racial/ethnic disparities in revascularization for limb salvage: An analysis of the national surgical quality improvement program database. Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol.48, No.5-6 (2014): 402-405. Kakra Hughes1, Christopher Boyd1, Tolulope Oyetunji1, Daniel Tran1, David Chang*, David Rose1, Suryanarayan Siram1, Edward E. Cornwell III1, Thomas Obisesan2.
1Department of Surgery, 2Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Cellular deficiency of Werner syndrome protein or RECQ1 promotes genotoxic potential of hydroquinone and benzo[a]pyrene exposure. International Journal of Toxicology, Vol.33, No.5 (September/October): 373-381. Mamatha Garige, Sudha Sharma.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Pediatric to adult transition: A quality improvement model for primary care. Journal of Adolescent Health, 3 October 2014. Margaret McManus, Patience White, April Barbour, Billie Downing, Kirsten Hawkins, Nathalie Quion, Lisa Tuchman, W. Carl Cooley, Jeanne W. McAllister.
College of Medicine.

Bioinspired amphiphilic phosphate block copolymers as non-fluoride materials to prevent dental erosion. RSC Adv., Vol.4, No.90 (2014): 49053=49060. Tongxin Wang.
College of Dentistry.

An RNAi-based suppressor screen identifies interactors of the Myt1 ortholog of caenorhabditis elegans. G3 (Bethesda), 8 October 2014. Anna K. Allen, J.E. Nesmith, A. Golden.
College of Medicine.

Anthracobunids from the middle eocene of India and pakistan are stem perissodactyls. PLoS One.,Vol.9, No.10 (8 October 2014): e109232. Cooper LN, Seiffert ER, Clementz M, Madar SI, Bajpai S, S. Taseer Hussain, Thewissen JG.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Cephalic muscles of Cyclostomes (hagfishes and lampreys) and Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays and holocephalans): comparative anatomy and early evolution of the vertebrate head muscles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 30 September 2014. Janine M. Ziermann, Tetsuto Miyashita, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Image-guided radiotherapy for cardiac sparing in patients with left-sided breast cancer. Front Oncol., Vol.4 (23 September 2014): 257. Lemanski C, Thariat J, Ampil FL, Bose S, Vock J, Davis R, Chi A, Dutta S8, Woods W, Desai A, Godinez J, Karlsson U, Mills M, Nam Phong Nguyen, Vincent Vinh-Hung, International Geriatric Radiotherapy Group.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

Evaluation of the influence of alcohol dehydrogenase polymorphisms on alcohol elimination rates in African Americans. Alcohol Clin Exp Res., Vol.38, No.1 (2014): 51-9. Vanessa J. Marshall, Vijay A. Ramchandani, Nnenna Kalu, John Kwagyan, Denise M. Scott, Cliffod L. Ferguson, Robert E. Taylor.
Alcohol Research Center, College of Medicine.

Unique presentation of Akinetic Mutism and coexisting thyroid storm relating to Stroke. 2014. Mohankumar Kurukumbi, Thao Dang, Najeeb Crossley, Alice Esame, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth. Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending September 27, 2014

Arts & Sciences

+ Quality factor temperature dependence of a surface phonon polariton resonance cavity. Appl. Phys. Letters, Vol.105, 114107 (2014). James S. Hammonds Jr.1, Kimani A. Stancil,2 Charlezetta E. Stokes2.
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Physics and Astronomy. CoAS.

Crystal structure of anhydrous poly[bis­([mu]2-sarcosinato-[kappa]3O,N:O')copper(II)]. Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.10 (October 2014): 207-209 . Raymond J. Butcher, G. Brewer and M. Zemba.
Department of Chemistry. CoAS.

Dissymmetric thiosemicarbazone ligands containing substituted aldehyde arm and their ruthenium(II) carbonyl complexes with PPh3/AsPh3 as ancillary ligands: Synthesis, structural characterization, DNA/BSA interaction and in vitro anticancer activity. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol.768 (1 October 2014): 163-177. Vijayan P, Viswanathamurthi P, Silambarasan V, Velmurugan D, Velmurugan K, Nandhakumar R, Raymond J. Butcher, Silambarasan I, Dhandapani R.
Department of Chemistry. CoAS.

Crystal structure of 4-bromo-N-(2-bromo-3-nitrobenzyl)-2-nitronaphthalen-1-amine. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.9 (6 August 2014): o960-o961. Singh VP, Venkateshwaran K, Singh H, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry. CoAS.

Jews, soldiering and citizenship in revolutionary and Napoleonic France. The Journal of Modern History, Vol.85, No.2 (June 2014): 233-257. Christopher Tozzi.
Department of History, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

+ Quality factor temperature dependence of a surface phonon polariton resonance cavity. Appl. Phys. Letters, Vol.105, 114107 (2014). James S. Hammonds Jr.1, Kimani A. Stancil,2 Charlezetta E. Stokes2.
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2Department of Physics and Astronomy. CoAS.

Health Sciences

130 emergency prophylaxis throughput study: An evaluation of medical students’ ability to effectively assemble and distribute mass prophylaxis to hospital employees and staff at a closed point of distribution. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol.64, No.4, Suppl. (October 2014): S47. Alex Boulos, Adam Benzing, Leila Zucker, R. Malanga.
College of Medicine.

The use of allogenic (Iliac) corticocancellous graft for Le Fort I interpositional defects: Technique and results. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 21 September 2014. Jeffrey C. Posnick, Ali Sami.
Depatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry.

Identification of novel mutations by exome sequencing in African American colorectal cancer patients. Cancer, 1 October 2014. Hassan Ashktorab1, Mohammad Daremipouran1, Joe Devaney, Sudhir Varma, Hamed Rahi1, Edward Lee2, Babak Shokrani2, Russell Schwartz, Michael L. Nickerson, Hassan Brim2.
1Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Gastrokine 1 inhibits the carcinogenic potentials of helicobacter pylori CagA. Carcinogenesis, (2014), 19 September 2014. Jung Hwan Yoon, Ho Suk Seo, Sung Sook Choi, Hyun Suk Chae1, Won Seok Choi, Olga Kim, Hassan Ashktorab2, Duane T. Smoot, Suk Woo Nam, Jung Young Lee1, Won Sang Park.
1Deparatment of Internal Medicine, 2Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Synthesis of carboxylic block copolymers via reversible addition fragmentation transfer polymerization for tooth eerosion prevention. Journal of Dental Research, 23 September 2014. Y. Lei, Tongxin Wang, J.W. Mitchell, J. Qiu, and L. Kilpatrick-Liverman.
College of Dentistry.

Effectiveness of radiotherapy for elderly patients with non-melanoma skin cancer of the head. Geriatrics & Gerontology International, July 2014. Nam P Nguyen, Tiffany Ries, Jacqueline Vock, Paul Vos, Alexander Chi, Vincent Vinh-Hung, Stephen Thompson, Anand Desai, Thomas Sroka, Richard A Vo, Steve Gelumbauskas, Russell Hamilton, Ulf Karlsson, Alan Mignault.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

Development of fore- and hindlimb muscles in frogs: Morphogenesis, homeotic transformations, digit reduction, and the forelimb-hindlimb enigma. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol., Vol.322, No.2 (2014): 86-105. Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.


Week Ending September 20, 2014

Arts & Sciences

On Clifford-algebraic "Holoraumy," dimensional extension, and SUSY holography. ArXiv, September 2014. S.J. Gates Jr., Tristan Hübsch, K. Stier.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Crystal structure of N 1-benzyl-N 1,N 2,N 2-trimethylethane-1,2-diaminium dichloride. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.9 (6 August 2014): o911-o912. Singh P. Singh HB, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Crystal structure of 4-bromo-N-(2-bromo-3-nitrobenzyl)-2-nitronaphthalen-1-amine. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.9 (6 August 2014): o960-o961. Singh VP, Venkateshwaran K, Singh HB, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Divinity

Introduction of Muslim articles editor. The Muslim World, 16 September 2014. Zainab Alwani.
School of Divinity.

Health Sciences

Interpolation of diffusion weighted imaging datasets. NeuroImage, 16 September 2014. Tim B. Dyrby, Henrik Lundell, Mark W. Burke, Nina L. Reislev, Olaf B. Paulson, Maurice Ptito, Hartwig R. Siebner.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Factors improving skin sparing, rib sparing, and D95 coverage in accelerated partial breast irradiation across 5 catheter subtypes. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, Vol.90, No.1, Suppl. (1 September 2014): S234-S235. Z.H. Rana, N. Nasr, H. Ji, V. Lorio, S. Akbari, M. Sebastian, M. Martin, R.L. Hong.
College of Medicine.

Improved irritative voiding symptoms 3 years after stereotactic body radiation therapy for prostate cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, Vol.90, No.1, Suppl. (1 September 2014): S712. Z.H. Rana, L.N. Chen, J.S. Kim, R. Moures, T. Yung, S. Lei, B.T. Collins, S. Suy, A. Dritschilo, S.P. Collins.
College of Medicine.

Factors affecting patient-reported outcomes following cyberKnife stereotactic body radiation therapy for prostate cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, Vol.90, No.1, Suppl. (1 September 2014): S714-S715. Z.H. Rana, R.L. Hong, D. McRae, G. Bernstein, R. Mordkin, A. Joel, N. Nasr.
College of Medicine.

Cellular deficiency of werner syndrome protein or RECQ1 promotes genotoxic potential of hydroquinone and benzo[a]pyrene exposure. International Journal of Toxicology, 15 September 2014. Mamatha Garige, Sudha Sharma.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Pharmacy students’ perceptions of ExamSoft® as the primary assessment tool in an integrated therapeutics course. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 16 September 2014. Mark Wadley, Salome Bwayo Weaver, Clarence Curry, Clarice Carthon.
Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Development and assessment of an evidence-based prostate cancer intervention programme for black men: the W.O.R.D. on prostate cancer video. Ecancermedicalscience, Vol.8, 460 (28 August 2014). Odedina F, Oluwayemisi AO, Pressey S, Gaddy S , Egensteiner E, Ojewale EO, Moline OM, Chloe Marie Martin
College of Medicine.

Angiotensin II mediates angiotensin converting enzyme type 2 internalization and degradation through an angiotensin II type I receptor-dependent mechanism. Hypertension, 15 September 2014. Deshotels MR, Xia H, Lazartigues E, Catalin M. Filipeanu.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

The structure and function of OxlT, the oxalate transporter of oxalobacter formigenes. J Membr Biol., 16 September 2014. Osigbemhe Iyalomhe, Khantwal CM, Kang DC.
1Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Neuroanatomical circuitry mediating the sensory impact of nicotine in the central nervous system. J Neurosci Res., 16 September 2014. Ozra Dehkordi1, Jed E. Rose, Sadegh Asadi1, Kebreten F. Manaye2, Richard M. Millis2, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth1.
1Department of Neurology, 2Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

The cost of defensive medicine on 3 hospital medicine services. JAMA Intern Med., 2014 Sep 15. Rothberg MB, Joshua Class, Bishop TF, Friderici J, Kleppel R, Lindenauer PK.
College of Medicine.


Week Ending September 13, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Review of: Claudius K. Fergus, Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol.112, No.3 (Summer 2014): 505-507. Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie.
Department of History, CoAS.

Exploring the globalization, stress and cancer: Relationship. A selected focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Global Awareness Society International 23nd Annual Conference–Montego Bay Jamaica, May 2014. Ivor L. Livingston1, Tariqah Nuriddin1, Jane Otado2, Jonathan Butler1.
1Department of Sociology and Anthropology, CoAS; 2College of Medicine.

A study on the receptivity to cancer prevention among African American muslims. Journal of Social Science for Policy Implications, Vol.2, No.2 (June 2014): 1-17. Samantha R. Obuobi, Fatimah Jackson.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Order of actions mitigates hypocrisy judgments for ingroup more than outgroup members. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Vol.17, No.5 (September 2014): 590-601. Jamie Barden, Derek D. Rucker, Richard E. Petty, Kimberly Rios.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Oxalato-bridged neutral octanuclear heterometallic complexes [Ln 4K4(L)4(μ-H2O) 4(NO3)2(μ-Ox)] (Ln = Dy(III), Gd(III), Tb(III), Ho(III); LH3 = N[CH2CH2N=CH-C 6H3-2-OH-3-OMe]3; Ox = (C2O 4)2-): Synthesis, structure, magnetic and luminescent properties. Crystal Growth and Design, Vol.14, No.9 (2014): 4583-4592. P. Bag, A. Chakraborty, M. Rouzières, R. Clérac, Raymond J. Butcher, V. Chandrasekhar.
Department of Chemistr, CoAS.

Communications

Respiratory difficulty after parathyroidectomy due to laryngospasm. Grand Rounds, Vol.14 (2014): 21-23. Ronald C. Pearlman, Bijan Bahmanyar.
Department of Communication, Sciences and Disorders, School of Communications.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

An MM-based maximum a posteriori algorithm for GPR image reconstruction. IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings, art. no. 6875671 (2014): 651-655. Henry C. Ogworonjo, John M.M. Anderson.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

The potential benefits of mobile microwork services in developing nations: Research opportunities and challenges. IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition, IST-Africa 2014, art. no. 6880636 (2014). Mtsweni, J., Legand Burge III.
Department of Systems & Computer Science, CEACS.

Health Sciences

What is the long-term emotional and behavioral impact of genetic risk assessment for alzheimer's disease? findings from the REVEAL Study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol.10, No.4, Suppl. (July 2014): P211. J. Scott Roberts, Kurt Derek Christensen, Leo B. Waterston, Jake Duggan, Stephen Alerhand, L. Adrienne Cupples, Peter J. Whitehouse, Thomas O. Obisesan, Robert C. Green, The REVEAL Study.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

A phase ii study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of plasma replacement with 5% albumin in beta-amyloid peptide clearance in cerebrospinal fluid, and its effects in patients with mild-moderate alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol.10, No.4, Suppl. (July 2014): P274. Mercè Boada-Rovira, Oscar Lopez, Laura Núñez, Pilar Ortiz, Fernando Anaya, Isabel Hernandez, Javier Olazarán, Lluis Tarraga, Mar Buendia, Ramon P. Pla, Isidro Ferrer, Thomas Olabode Obisesan, Joshua R. Shua-Haim, Antonio Páez.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

DNA Methylation and Colorectal Cancer. Current Colorectal Cancer Reports, 2014. Hassan Ashktorab, Hassan Brim.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in African-American patients-the need to measure disease burden. Clinical Rheumatology, 2014. Gail S. Kerr, Qaiyumi S., Richards J., Vahabzadeh-Monshie H., Kindred C., Whelton S., Constantinescu F.
Department of Rheumatology, College of Medicine.

Parents' views of thchild's death by suicide. Illness Crisis and Loss, Vol.22, No.3 (2014): 181-193. Donna Holland Barnes, D. Pazur, D. Lester.
Suicide Prevention Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine
.

Evaluation of a coordinated school-based obesity prevention program in a Hispanic community: Choosing healthy and active lifestyles for kids/health y schools healthy families. American Journal of Health Education, Vol.45, No.5 (2014): 261-270. Berger-Jenkins, E., Rausch, J., Okah, E., Daisy Tsao, Nieto, A., Lyda, E., Meyer, D., McCord, M.
College of Medicine.

Hair transplantation in the surgical treatment of central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia. Dermatol Surg., 9 September 2014. Valerie D. Callender, C.N. Lawson, O.C. Onwudiwe.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

A double-blind, randomized, multicenter, controlled trial of suspended polymethylmethacrylate microspheres for the correction of atrophic facial acne scars. J Am Acad Dermatol., Vol.71, No.1 (July 2014): 77-83. Karnik J, Baumann L, Bruce S, Valerie D. Callender, Cohen S, Grimes P, Joseph J, Shamban A, Spencer J, Tedaldi R, Werschler WP, Smith SR.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Muscles of chondrichthyan paired appendages: Comparison with osteichthyans, deconstruction of the fore-hindlimb serial homology dogma, and new insights on the evolution of the vertebrate neck. Anat Rec (Hoboken), 10 September 2014. Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The risk of colonic adenomas and colonic cancer in obesity. Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol., Vol.28, No.4 (August 2014): 655-663. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Perceived discrimination, patient trust, and adherence to medical recommendations among persons with sickle cell disease. Journal of General Internal Medicine, September 2014. Carlton Haywood Jr., Sophie Lanzkron, Shawn Bediako, John J. Strouse, Jennifer Haythornthwaite, C. Patrick Carroll, Marie Diener-West, Gladys Onojobi, Mary Catherine Beach.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending September 6, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Outdoor learning in formal ecological education: Looking to the future. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Vol.12 (2014): 419–420. Dave Oberbillig, DC Randle, George Middendorf, Catherine L Cardelús.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Community awareness of intestinal parasites and the prevalence of infection among community members of rural Abaye Deneba area, Ethiopia. Asian Pac J Trop Biomed., Vol.4 Suppl.1 (2014 May): S152-157. Nyantekyi L, Legesse M, Medhin G, Animut A, Tadesse K, Chanda Macias, Degarege A, Erko B.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Almost automorphic solutions to a Beverton–Holt dynamic equation with survival rate. Applied Mathematics Letters, Vol.36 (October 2014): 19-24. Toka Diagana.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Voices from the street: Exploring the realities of family homelessness. Journal of Family Nursing, 3 September 2014. Laura Gültekin, Barbara L. Brush, Janet M. Baiardi, Keri Kirk*, Kelley VanMaldeghem.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

+ Ethnicity: how much of our understanding of suicide is applicable across ethnic cultures? In: Stephen H. Koslow, Pedro Ruiz, Charles B. Nemeroff (eds.), A Concise Guide to Understanding Suicide: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Prevention, Chapter 7 (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Donna Holland Barnes1, William B. Lawson,1 Kelsey Bell*2.
1Suicide Prevention Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, 2Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Dissymmetric thiosemicarbazone ligands containing substituted aldehyde arm and their ruthenium(II) carbonyl complexes with PPh3/AsPh3 as ancillary ligands: Synthesis, structural characterization, DNA/BSA interaction and in vitro anticancer activity. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol.768 (1 October 2014): 163-177. P. Vijayan, P. Viswanathamurthi, V. Silambarasan, D. Velmurugan, K. Velmurugan, R. Nandhakumar, Raymond J. Butcher, T. Silambarasan, R. Dhandapani.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Experimental and computational study on 2,2′-[(1E,2E)-hydrazine-1,2- diylidenedi(1E)eth-1-yl-1-ylidene]diphenol and its Ni(II), Pt(II), Pd(II) complexes. Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Vol.130 (15 September 2014): 198-207. S. Alyar, N. Özbek, S.Ö. Yildirim, S. Ide, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Synthesis, structure and in vitro biological activity of pyridoxal N(4)-substituted thiosemicarbazone cobalt(III) complexes. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol.421 (1 September 2014): 80-90. R. Manikandan, P. Vijayan, P. Anitha, G. Prakash, P. Viswanathamurthi, Raymond J. Butcher, K. Velmurugan, N. Nandhakumar.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Health Sciences

Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in African-American patients—the need to measure disease burden. Clinical Rheumatology, August 2014. Gail S. Kerr1, Seema Qaiyumi, John Richards, Hashem Vahabzadeh-Monshie, Chesahna Kindred2, Sean Whelton, Florina Constantinescu.
1Department of Rheumatology, 2Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Factors associated with attendance to scheduled outpatient endoscopy. Postgrad Med J., 1 September 2014. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1, Carla D. Williams2, Clinton Burnside1, Sepideh Moghadam1, Kamla D. Sanasi-Bhola1, John Kwagyan3, Hassan Brim4, Hassan Ashktorab1,2, Victor F. Scott1, Duane Smoot1.
1Department of Medicine, 2Cancer Center, 3Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Translational Science, 4Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Unconscious race and class bias: Its association with decision making by trauma and acute care surgeons. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Vol.77, No.3 (2014): 409-416. Haider AH, Schneider EB, Sriram N, Dossick DS, Scott VK, Swoboda SM, Losonczy L, Haut ER, Efron DT, Pronovost PJ, Freischlag JA, Lipsett PA, Edward E. Cornwell III, MacKenzie EJ, Cooper LA.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

A molecular dynamics simulation study of the association of 1,1′-binaphthyl-2,2′-diyl hydrogenphosphate enantiomers with a chiral molecular micelle. Chemical Physics, Vol.439 (17 August 2014): 36-43. K.F. Morris, F.J. Billiot, F.H. Billiot, A.A. Gladis, K.B. Lipkowitz, William M. Southerland, V. Fang.
Department of Biochmistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine

+ Ethnicity: how much of our understanding of suicide is applicable across ethnic cultures? In: Stephen H. Koslow, Pedro Ruiz, Charles B. Nemeroff (eds.), A Concise Guide to Understanding Suicide: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Prevention, Chapter 7 (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Donna Holland Barnes1, William B. Lawson,1 Kelsey Bell*2.
1Suicide Prevention Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, 2Department of Psychology, CoAS.


Week Ending August 30, 2014

Arts & Sciences

A case study of mid-Atlantic nocturnal boundary layer events during WAVES 2006. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2014. S. Rabenhorst, D. N. Whiteman, D.-L. Zhang, Belay Demoz.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Retrievals and uncertainties analysis of aerosol single scattering albedo from MFRSR measurements. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 27 August 2014. Bangsheng Yin, Qilong Min, Everette Joseph.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Non-linearity in the inflation-growth relationship in developing economies: Evidence from a semiparametric panel model. Economics Letters, 23 August 2014. Deniz Baglan, Emre Yoldas.
Department of Economics, CoAS.

Task of ethics. In: Bruce Jennings (ed.), Bioethics, 4th ed. Vol.2, 1049-1056. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2014. Assya Pascalev.
Department of Philosophy, CoAS.

Occupational health care providers. In: Bruce Jennings (ed.), Bioethics, 4th ed. Vol.4, 2236-2241. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2014. Assya Pascalev, Bailus Walker Jr and Reuben Warren.
Department of Philosophy, CoAS.

The trafficking of human beings for the purpose of organ removal: Ethical and conceptual challenges. American Journal of Transplantation, Vol.14, No.S3 (27 June 2014): 821. Assya Pascalev.
Department of Philosophy, CoAS.

Is there a paradox of altruism? In: J. Seglow (ed.), The Ethics of Altruism, 89-106 (Elsevier, 2004). R.P. Churchill, Erin Street*.
Department of Philosophy, CoAS.

Let minority-serving institutions lead. Science. Vol.345, No.6199 (22 August 2014): 885. Fatimah Jackson, Clarrence M. Lee, Sherese Taylor.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Emerging functional similarities and divergences between Drosophila Spargel/dPGC-1 and mammalian PGC-1 protein. Frontiers in Genetics, Vol.5 (July 2014): art. no. Article 216. Subras Mukherjee, Mohammed A. Basar, Claudette Davis, Atanu Duttaroy.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Auxiliary ligand-aided tuning of aggregation of transition metal benzoates: Isolation of four different types of coordination polymers. CrystEngComm, Vol.16, No.36 (2014): 8429-8441. Banerjee, S., Rajakannu, P., Raymond J. Butcher, Murugavel, R.

Health Sciences

Epigenetics across the human lifespan. Front. Cell Dev. Biol., Vol.2 (2014). Antonei Benjamin Csoka, Riya Rajan Kanherkar, Naina Bhatia-Dey. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2014.00049
Epigenetics Laboratory, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Building a literature review: A citation analysis of medical educator's research patterns in Balint Group Studies. eScholarship@UMMS/University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2014. Len L. Levin, Young-Joo Lee.
Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library.

Emergency general surgery in older patients: A national comparison of presentation and outcomes. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Vol.219, No.3, Suppl. (September 2014): S52-S53. Syed Nabeel Zafar, Adil A. Shah, Zain G. Hashmi, Aftab Iqbal, Wendy R. Greene, Edward E. Cornwell, Adil H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Extracorporeal fetal support: A new animal model with preservation of the placenta. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 24 August 2014. Jose H. Salazar, Alodia Gabre-Kidan, Gezzer Ortega, Diana Scorpio, Gary Oldenburg, Haven Custis, Dawn Ruben, Melanie Albano, Shelly S. Choo, Daniel S. Rhee, William B. Fulton, Qihong Wang, Dominic Papandria, Jude P. Crino, Fizan Abdullah.
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine.

Specialize or risk disappearance – empirical evidence of anisomerism based on comparative and developmental studies of gnathostome head and limb musculature. Biological Reviews, August 2014. Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann and Marta Linde-Medina.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Unconscious race and class bias: Its association with decision making by trauma and acute care surgeons. J Trauma Acute Care Surg., Vol.77, No.3 (September 2014): 409-16. Haider AH1, Schneider EB, Sriram N, Dossick DS, Scott VK, Swoboda SM, Losonczy L, Haut ER, Efron DT, Pronovost PJ, Freischlag JA, Lipsett PA, Edward E. Cornwell III, MacKenzie EJ, Cooper LA.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine

Asa G Yancey: A quiet giant in American surgery. J Am Coll Surg., 26 June 2014. Stewart JH 4th, Kwayisi G, Edward E. Cornwell III.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Hydroxyurea and growth in young children with sickle cell disease. Pediatrics. 2014 Aug 25. Sohail Rana, Patricia E. Houston, Wang WC, Iyer RV, Goldsmith J, Casella JF, Caroline K. Reed, Rogers ZR, Waclawiw MA, Thompson B; for the BABY HUG Investigators.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Phenyl-1-pyridin-2yl-ethanone (PPY)-based iron chelators increase IKBα expression, modulate CDK2 and CDK9 activities and inhibit HIV-1 transcription. Antimicrob Agents Chemother., 25 August 2014. Namita Kumari, Iordanskiy S, Kovalskyy D, Breuer D, Xiaomei Niu, Xionghao Lin, Min Xu, Gavrilenko K, Kashanchi F, Dhawan S, Sergei Nekhai.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Hydroxycarbamide treatment in sickle cell disease: estimates of possible leukaemia risk and of hospitalization survival benefit. Br J Haematol., 22 August 2014. Oswaldo Castro, Mehdi Nouraie, Patricia Oneal.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Role of protein phosphatase 1 in dephosphorylation of Ebola virus VP30 protein and its targeting for the inhibition of viral transcription. Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol.289, No.33 (2014): 22723-22738. Ilinykh, P.A., Tigabu, B., Andrey Ivanov, Tatiana Ammosova, Yuri Obukhov, Garron, T., Namita Kumari, Kovalskyy, D., Platonov, M.O., Naumchik, V.S., Freiberg, A.N., Sergei Nekhai, Bukreyev, A.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Pathways community HUB: A model for coordination of community health care. Population Health Management, Vol.17, No.4 (2014): 199-201. Zeigler, B.P., Redding, S.A., Leath, B.A., Ernest L. Carter.
College of Medicine.

The role of exergaming in improving physical activity: A review. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, Vol.11, No.4 (2014): 864-870. Sween, J., Wallington, S.F., Sheppard, V., Teletia R. Taylor, Llanos, A.A., Adams-Campbell, L.L.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Report of the 2013 AMCP partnership forum on electronic solutions to medication reconciliation and improving transitions of care. Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, Vol.20, No.9 (2014): 937-947. Hillblom, D., Pindolia, V., Schulke, D., Boesen, K., Burgoyne, D., Caldwell, K., Cannon, E., Cohen, E., Felkey, R., Ferrell, S., Green, L., Kahlon, S., Kumbera, P., Loveland, K., André Melvin, Nishida, L., Nwachukwu, U., Peters, L.M., Wasi, M., Eichelberger, B., Carden, M.J., Duclas Charles, Dragovich, C., Hagel, H., Ridderhoff, K., Rosato, E.A.
College of Pharmacy.

Law

Teaching scholarship through a seminar on the Wire. Journal of Legal Education, Vol.64, No.1 (2014): 123-125. Josephine Ross.
Law School.


Week Ending August 23, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Fractal Complexity in the Works of Major Black Thinkers. San Diego, CA: Cognella Press, 2015. Abdul Karim Bangura (ed).
Department of Political Science, CoAS.

Sleep competing activities and sleep problems in minority college students. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 15 August 2014. Timothy Billings and Linda Berg-Cross.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Tunable silicon carbide – polyethylene nanocomposites: correlation between mass ratio and surface phonon-polariton resonance properties. August 2014. Jesse Gray, Kimani A. Stancil, James S. Hammonds and Cory Davis.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Identifying and visualizing mesoscale convective complexes in West Africa. August 2014. Nicole Giggey.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

On a perturbative extension of Lorentz symmetry. August 2014. D. Gordine and Tristan Hübsch.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Drinking to cope among African American college students: An assessment of episode-specific motives. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18 August 2014. Ross E. O’Hara, Marcella H. Boynton, Denise M. Scott, Stephen Armeli, Hoeard Tennen, Carla Williams, Jonthan Covault.
Department of Pschology, CoAS.

Health Sciences

The baby or the bath water?: Lessons learned from the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Research Prioritization Task Force Literature Review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol.47, No.3, Suppl.2 (September 2014): S115-S121. Sherry Davis Molock, Janet M. Heekin, Samantha G. Matlin, Crystal L. Barksdale, Ekwenzi Gray, Chelsea L. Booth.
Counseling Center, Division of Student Affairs.

Pathways community HUB: A model for coordination of community health care. Population Health Management, Vol.17, No.4 (August 2014): 199-201. Bernard P. Zeigler, Sarah A. Redding, Brenda A. Leath, and Ernest L. Carter.
College of Medicine.

The prevalence of sarcopenia in patients with respiratory failure classified as normally nourished using computed yomography and subjective global assessment. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr., Vol.38, No.7 (September 2014): 873-879. Patricia M. Sheean, Sarah J. Peterson, Sandra Gomez Perez, Karen L. Troy, Ankur Patel, Joy S. Sclamberg, Folabomi C. Ajanaku, and Carol A. Braunschweig.
College of Medicine.

Exploitation of diagnostic computed tomography scans to assess the impact of nutrition support on body composition changes in respiratory failure patients. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr., Vol.38, No.7 (September 2014): 880-885. Carol A. Braunschweig, Patricia M. Sheean, Sarah J. Peterson, Sandra Gomez Perez, Sally Freels, Karen L. Troy, Folabomi C. Ajanaku, Ankur Patel, Joy S. Sclamberg, and Zebin Wang.
College of Medicine.

Hydroxycarbamide treatment in sickle cell disease: Estimates of possible leukaemia risk and of hospitalization survival benefit. British Journal of Haematology, September 2014. Oswaldo Castro, Mehdi Nouraie and Patricia Oneal
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Suicide in men is systematically underreported in Afghanistan. Journal of Medicine in the Tropics, Vol.16, No.2 (2014): 109-110. Janeris Loredo, Partam Manalai.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Phylogenetic signatures in the juvenile skull and dentition of Olduvai Eurygnathohippus cornelianus (mammalia: Equidae). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol.120, No.2 (2014): 243-252. Raymond L. Bernor, Coillot, T., Wolf, D.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

DNA cleaving "tandem-array" metallopeptides activated with KHSO5: Towards the development of multi-metallated bioactive conjugates and compounds. Current Bioactive Compounds, Vol.10, No.1 (2014): 13-20. Lewis, M.A., Williams, K.M., Ya-Yin Fang, Schultz, F.A., Long, E.C.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Socil Work

Social work and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Social Work, 17 August 2014. Tricia B. Bent-Goodley.
School of Social Work.

Week Ending August 16, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University: Building a Legacy of Black History. The History Press, 2014. Janet Sims-Wood.
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.

Review of: Cynthia R. Nielsen, Foucault, Douglass, Fanon, and Scotus in Dialogue: On Social Construction and Freedom (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Black Theology: An International Journal, Vol.12, No.2 (August 2014). René K. Harrison.
Department of Afro-American Studies, CoAS.

Pyridoxine-derived organoselenium compounds with glutathione peroxidase-like and chain-breaking antioxidant activity. Chemistry - A European Journal, 18 August 2014. Vijay P. Singh, Jia-fei Poon, Raymond J. Butcher, Lars Engman.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Singular solitons in optical metamaterials by ansatz method and simplest equation approach. Journal of Modern Optics, 2014. Biswas, A., Mirzazadeh, M., Savescu, M., Milovic, D., Khan, K.R., Mohammad F. Mahmood, Belic, M.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Business

African Americans' image attributes and preferences for ethnic or international restaurants. Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 2014. Maryam Khan, Philemon O. Oyewole.
School of Business.

Divinity

Making the unseen seen: Pedagogy and aesthetics in African American preaching. In: James Abbington (ed.), Readings in African American Church Music and Worship, Volume 2, 291-305 (Chicago: GIA Publications, 2014). Kenyatta Gilbert.
School of Divinity.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Collaborative research: Center for mobile hands-On STEM. 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2014. Connor, K.A., Meehan, K., Newman, D.L., Walter, D., Ferri, B.H., Astatke, Y., Mohamed Chouikha.
Department of Electrical Engineering, CEACS.

Beyond persistence: Graduate school aspirations of hispanic engineering students at HSIs. 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2014. Lorraine N. Fleming, Silas E. Burris, Kalinda Chivon Smith, L.B. Bliss, Inez N. Moore, Fabiana Bornmann.
Department of Civil Engineering, CEACS.

Black undergraduate success in engineering: The "prove them wrong syndrome" or social responsibility. 2014 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2014. Kalinda Chivon Smith, Lorraine N. Fleming, Inez N. Moore, Silas E. Burris, Fabiana Bornmann.
Department of Civil Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Pharmacy students’ perceptions of ExamSoft® as the primary assessment tool in an integrated therapeutics course. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning, 6 August 2014. Mark Wadley* , Salome Bwayo Weaver, Clarence Curry, Clarice Carthon*.
College of Pharmacy.

Oxytocin ameliorates the immediate myocardial injury in heart transplant through down regulation of the neutrophil dependent myocardial apoptosis. Heart Views, Vol.15, No.2 (April 2014): 37-45. Al-Amran FF1, Murtezza Shahkolahi.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in African Americans provides insights into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes. PLoS Genet., Vol.10, No.8 (7 August 2014): e1004517. Ng MC, Shriner D, Chen BH, Li J, Chen WM, Guo X, Liu J, Bielinski SJ, Yanek LR, Nalls MA, Comeau ME, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Jensen RA, Evans DS, Sun YV, An P, Patel SR, Lu Y, Long J, Armstrong LL, Wagenknecht L, Yang L, Snively BM, Palmer ND, Mudgal P, Langefeld CD, Keene KL, Freedman BI, Mychaleckyj JC Nayak U, Raffel LJ, Goodarzi MO, Chen YD, Taylor HA Jr, Correa A, Sims M, Couper D, Pankow JS, Boerwinkle E, Adebowale Adeyemo, Ayo Doumatey, Guanje Chen, et al.
National Genome Center at Howard University and Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Proneural transcription factor Atoh1 drives highly efficient differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into dopaminergic neurons. Stem Cells Translational Medicine, 2014. Sagal, J., Xin Zhan*, Jinchong, X., Tilghman, J., Karuppagounder, S.S., Chen, L., Dawson, V.L., Dawson, T.M., Laterra, J.acfh, Ying, M..
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Improving diversity, inclusion, and representation in radiology and radiation oncology Part 2: Challenges and recommendations. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2014. Lightfoote, J.B. , Fielding, J.R., Deville, C., Gunderman, R.B., Morgan, G.N., Pandharipande, P.V., André J. Duerinckx, Wynn, R.B., MacUra, K.J.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Reducing risk for youth violence by promoting healthy development with pyramid mentoring: A proposal for a culturally centered group mentoring. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2014. Washington, G., Donna Holland Barnes, Watts, R.J.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Perceptions of prostate cancer fatalism and screening behavior between United States-born and Caribbean-born Black males. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Vol.16, No.3 (2014): 394-400. Ewan K. Cobran, Anthony K. Wutoh, Euni Lee, Folakemi T. Odedina, Camille Ragin, William Aiken, Paul A. Godley.
Center for Minority Health Service Research, College of Pharmacy.

New applications of nanotechnology for neuroimaging. American Journal of Neuroradiology, Vol.35, No.7 (2014): 1246-1253. G. Suffredini, J.E. East, L.M. Levy.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

An unequal burden: Poor patient–provider communication and sickle cell disease. Patient Education and Counseling, Vol.96, No.2 (August 2014): 159–164. Carlton Haywood Jr, Shawn Bediako, Sophie Lanzkron, Marie Diener-West, John Strouse, Jennifer Haythornthwaite, Gladys Onojobi, Mary Catherine Beach, for the IMPORT Investigators.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Prevalence and clinical correlation of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in African Americans with ischemic stroke. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vol.23, No.7 (August 2014): 1965-1968. Saravana Devulapalli, Shariff Dunlap, Nakia Wilson, Stephen Cockburn, Mohankumar Kurukumbi, Prafulla Mehrotra, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.

The effect of Helicobacter pylori CagA on the HER-2 copy number and expression in gastric cancer. Gene, Vol.546, No.2 (10 August 2014): 288-296. Jung Ho Shim, Jung Hwan Yoon, Sung Sook Choi, Hassan Ashktorab, Duane T. Smoot, Kyo Young Song, Suk Woo Nam, Jung Young Lee, Cho Hyun Park, Won Sang Park.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Social Work

Factors influencing child care-related maternal work exits. Children and Youth Services Review, 9 August 2014. Meirong Liu, Manrong Chen, Steven G. Anderson.
School of Socical Work.


Week Ending August 9, 2014

Arts & Sciences

The relationship between El Niño southern oscillations and cereal production in Sahel. Environmental Hazards, 2014. Churchill Okonkwo, Belay Demoz.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Evidence of a LNOX influence on middle/upper troposphere ozone-mixing ratios at Dakar, senegal during Northern Hemisphere summer season. Atmospheric Science Letters, Vol.15, No.3 (2014): 195 - 203. Gregory S. Jenkins, Gueye, M., Drame, M.S., Ndiaye, S.A.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS.

Heterocyclic-2-thione derivatives of silver(I): The methyl substituent at N1atom of a imidazoline-2-thione/imidazolidine-2-thione alters a dimer [Ag2(HL)4(PPh3)2](NO 3)2 into a monomer [Ag(HL)2(PPh 3)](NO3) . Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie , Vol.640, No.8-9 (2014): 1688 - 1695. Lobana, T.S., Sultana, R., Raymond J. Butcher, Jasinski, J.P., Akitsu, T.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Coordination variability of CuI in multidonor heterocyclic thioamides: Synthesis, crystal structures, luminescent properties and ESI-mass studies of complexes. RSC Advances, Vol.4, No.58 (2014): 30511-30522. T.S. Lobana, A.K. Sandhu, R. Sultana, A. Castineiras, Raymond J. Butcher, J.P. Jasinski.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Non-linearity in the inflation-growth relationship in developing economies: Evidence from a semiparametric panel model. July 2014. Deniz Baglan, Emre Yoldas.
Department of Economics, CoAS.

Endangered indigenous archives in Mbum land of Cameroon: Which way forward? International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE), Vol.1, No.7 (July 2014): 157-170. Richard Tanto Talla, Ignatius Womai Song*.
Department of History, CoAS.

Animal transport in the early indigenous market economy of Northern Nigeria. International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE), Vol.1, No.7 (July 2014): 148-156. Richard Tanto Talla, Ignatius Womai Song*.
Department of History, CoAS.

Separating linear expressions in the Stone-Cech compactification of direct sums. 2014. Neil Hindman, Dona Strauss.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Education

Who are Black Americans? A primer for educators (Editor's commentary). The Journal of Negro Education, Vol.83, No.2, Elements of a 21st Century Movement for Excellence with Equity (Spring 2014): 101-102. Ivory A. Toldson.
School of Education.

Health Sciences

Sickle erythrocytes and platelets augment lung leukotriene synthesis with downregulation of anti-inflammatory proteins: relevance in the pathology of the acute chest syndrome. Pulmonary Circulation, 2014. Michael Opene, Joseph Kurantsin-Mills, Sumair Husain, Basil O. Ibe.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Improving diversity, inclusion, and representation in radiology and radiation oncology, Part 2: Challenges and recommendations. Journal of the American College of Radiology, Vol.11, No.8 (August 2014): 764-770. Johnson B. Lightfoote, Julia R. Fielding, Curtiland Deville, Richard B. Gunderman, Gail N. Morgan, Pari V. Pandharipande, André J. Duerinckx, Raymond B. Wynn, Katarzyna J. Macura.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Pleiotropic genes for metabolic syndrome and inflammation. Molecular Genetics & Metabolism, Vol.112, No.4 (August 2014): 317-338. Schnabel RB, Jorgensen T, Jorgensen ME, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Stolk RP, Snieder H, Hofman A, Uitterlinden AG, Franco OH, Ikram MA, Richards JB, Charles N. Rotimi, Wilson JG, Lange L, Ganesh SK, Nalls M, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Pankow JS, Coresh J, Tang W, Linda Kao WH, Boerwinkle E, Morrison AC, Ridker PM, Becker DM, Rotter JI, Kardia SL, Loos RJ, Larson MG, Hsu YH, Province MA, Tracy R, Voight BF, Vaidya D, O'Donnell CJ, Benjamin EJ, Alizadeh BZ, Prokopenko I, Meigs JB, Borecki IB.
National Genome Center at Howard University, College of Medicine.

Mechanism of drug-induced gingival overgrowth revisited: a unifying hypothesis. Oral Diseases, July 2014. Ronald S. Brown, P.R. Arany.
Division of Oral Diagnosis, Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, College of Dentistry.

Pediatric helmet use in residential areas. The American surgeon, Vol.80, No.5 (2014): 511-513. Tolulope Oyetunji, Michael A. Fisher, S.K. Onguti, Edward E. Cornwell III, F.G. Qureshi, F. Abdullah, A.H. Haider, B.C. Nwomeh.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Obesity and weight loss attempts among subjects with a personal history of cancer. Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, Vol.14, No.3 (2014): e330-e336. Ambria Moten1, Kayin Jeffers1, Daniel Larbi1, Roxanne Smith-White1, Teletia R. Taylor3, Lori Wilson2, Babafemi B. Adenuga1, Wayne A.I. Frederick2, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1.
Departments of 1Medicine, 2Surgery, 3Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

10-year FRAX calculations with and without femoral neck BONE mineral density in African American patients with type 2 diabetes. Endocrine Society's 96th Annual Meeting and Expo, June 21–24, 2014 - Chicago. Suja S Shenoy, Sujay Madduri, Rabia Cherqaoui, Gail Louise Nunlee-Bland.
Departments of Endocrinology, Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Betatrophin expression in a Diet Induced Obesity (DIO) mouse model treated with Metformin. Endocrine Society's 96th Annual Meeting and Expo, June 21–24, 2014 - Chicago. Katherine Beckwith-Fickas1, Sajad Salehi, Wei Quan How, DeAsia Gilmer, Amanda Nwaopara, Ikeoluwa Adeshina, Sally Radovick, Fredric Edward Wondisford.
College of Medicine.

Reduction of pyramidal and immature hippocampal neurons in pediatric simian immunodeficiency virus infection. Neuroreport., Vol.25, No.13 (10 September 2014): 973-978. Kimberly Curtis1, Matthewa Rollins1, Heather Carryl1, Bradshaw Kimberley3, Koen K.A. Van Rompay, Kristina Abel, Mark W. Burke2.
Departments of 1Physiology and Biophysics, 2Psychiatry, 3Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Treatment planning comparison between high dose rate and intensity-modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer as a means of boost dose. Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, Vol.13, No.3 (September 2014): 332-339 Satya Bose, S. Bahri, R. Lalonde.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending August 2, 2014

Arts & Sciences

The MCH navigator: Tools for MCH workforce development and lifelong learning. Maternal and Child Health Journal, August 2014. Holly Grason, Colleen Huebner, Alyssa Kim Crawford, Marjory Ruderman, Cathy R. Taylor, Laura Kavanagh, Anita Farel, Joan Wightkin, Deneen Long-White, Shokufeh M. Ramirez, Julie Preskitt, Meredith Morrissette, Arden Handler
Department of Health, Human Performance and Leisure Studies, CoAS.

Spectral analysis for finite rank perturbations of diagonal operators in non-archimedean Hilbert space. P-Adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis, and Applications, Vol.6, No.3 (July 2014): 171-187. Toka Diagana, R. Kerby, TeyLama H. Miabey, F. Ramaroson.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Pseudo-chaotic oscillations in CRISPR-virus coevolution predicted by bifurcation analysis. Biology Direct, July 2014. Faina S Berezovskaya, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin, Georgy P Karev.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

On the exponential growth of norms in semigroups of linear endomorphisms and the Hausdorff dimension of attractors of projective iterated function systems. The Journal of Geometric Analysis, June 2014. Roberto De Leo.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Left large subsets of free semigroups and groups that are not right large. Semigroup Forum, July 2014. Neil Hindman, Lakeshia Legette Jones, Monique Agnes Peters.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Maximality of infinite partition regular matrices. 2014. Neil Hindman, Imre Leader, Dona Strauss.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

A paradigm of medical humanitarianism: The case of Médecins sans frontières (Doctors without Borders) in Africa. Online Journal of African Affairs, Vol.3, No.6 (July 2014): 87-94. Yon Chen.
Department of African Studies, CoAS.

Introduction to Marcus Alexis special issue. The Review of Black Political Economy, June 2014. Margaret C. Simms, Omari H. Swinton.
Department of Economics, CoAS.

The persistent myths of “Acting White” and race neutral alternatives to affirmative action in admissions. The Review of Black Political Economy, June 2014. Rodney J. Andrews, Omari H. Swinton.
Department of Economics, CoAS.

Crystal structures of the complexes of Zn(II), Cd(II), and Hg(II) with 1,2,5-selenadiazolopyridine: Ligation of N vs Se? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences, Vol.84, No.2 (June 2014): 269-280. Puspendra Singh, Sagar Sharma, Harkesh B. Singh, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

2-Bromo-5-tert-butyl-N-methyl-N-[2-(methylamino)phenyl]-3-(1-methyl- 1Hbenzimidazol-2-yl)benzamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.7 (July 2014): o822-o823. Prasad, P.R., Das, S., Singh, H.B., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Dispersion morphology and correlation to moduli using buckling metrology in clay-biopolymer nanocomposite thin films. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 25 July 2014. Hongyi Yuan, Gurpreet Singh, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Abdullah M. Al-Enizi, Ahmed A. Elzatahry, Alamgir Karim.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Brave new worldview. Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol.20, No.2 (June 2014): 301-305. Taft H. Broome.
Department of Civil Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Palonosetron’s preferred status. Formulary Watch, 30 June 2014. Clarence D. Moore.
Department of Clinical and Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Racial/ethnic disparities in revascularization for limb salvage: An analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 30 July 2014. Kakra Hughes1, Christopher Boyd1, Tolulope Oyetunji1, Daniel Tran1, David Chang1, David Rose1, Suryanarayan Siram1, Edward Cornwell III1, Thomas Obisesan2.
1Department of Surgery, 2Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Bone mineral density and fractures in urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes. Journal of Clinical Densitometry, Vol.17, No.3 (July 2014): 424. Sujay Madduri1, Suja S. Shenoy2, Gail L. Nunlee-Bland1, Rabia Cherqaoui1, Cristina Bunton-Young2, M. Rampaul2, Wolali A. Odonkor1, Vijaya A. Ganta1, André J. Duerinckx3, N. Hasan3, John Kwagyan4, Juanita A. Archer1.
1Departments of Endocrinology, 2Internal Medicine, 3Radiology, 4Pathology, College of Medicine.

Common vitamin D pathway gene variants reveal contrasting effects on serum vitamin D levels in African Americans and European Americans. Human Genetics, August 2014. Ken Batai, Adam B. Murphy, Ebony Shah, Maria Ruden, Jennifer Newsome, Sara Agate, Michael A. Dixon, Hua Yun Chen, Leslie A. Deane, Courtney M. P. Hollowell, Chiledum Ahaghotu, Rick A. Kittles.
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Midterm outcomes of revisional surgery for gastric pouch and gastrojejunal anastomotic enlargement in patients with weight regain after gastric bypass for morbid obesity. Obesity Surgery, Vol.24, No.8 (August 2014): 1386-1390. Abdulrahman Hamdi, Christopher Julien, Phillip Brown, Ian Woods, Anas Hamdi, Gezzer Ortega, Terrence Fullum, Daniel Tran.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Incidence, predictors, and clinical course of atrial tachyarrhythmias in patients with pulmonary hypertension. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, July 2014. Arun Kanmanthareddy, Yeruva Madhu Reddy, Hemant Boolani, Sowjanya Duthuluru, Jayasree Pillarisetti, Ajay Vallakati, Sudharani Bommana, Donita Atkins, Timothy Williamson, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Surgery, Collge of Medicine.

A relationship between REM sleep measures and the duration of posttraumatic stress disorder in a young adult urban minority population. Sleep, Vol.37, No.8 (1 August 2014): 1321-6. Thomas A. Mellman, Ihori Kobayashi, Joseph Lavela, Bryonna Wilson, Tyish S. Hall Brown.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Childhood adversity, adult neighborhood context, and cumulative biological risk for chronic diseases in adulthood. Psychosom Med., 30 July 2014. Natalie Slopen, Non A, Williams DR, Roberts AL, Michelle A. Albert.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

1E7-03, a small molecule targeting host protein phosphatase-1, inhibits HIV-1 transcription. Br J Pharmacol., 30 July 2014. Tatiana Ammosova, Platonov M, Ivanov A, Saygideğer Kont Y, Kumari N, Kehn-Hall K, Jerebtsova M, Kulkarni AA, Uren A, Kovalskyy D, Sergei Nekhai.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Technology integration in undergraduate traditional nursing programs: Students online testing experience. Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics, Vol.9, No.1-2 (20 June 2014). Priscilla O. Okunji, Mary H. Hill.
College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences.

Preterm induction of labor: Predictors of vaginal delivery and labor curves. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 25 July 2014. Maisa Feghali, Julia Timofeev, Chun-Chih Huang, Rita Driggers, Menachem Miodovnik, Helain J. Landy, Jason G. Umans.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine.

Epidemiology of 577 pediatric firearm fatalities: a 2-year review of the National Trauma Data Bank. The American Surgeon, Vol.80, No.4 (2014): 366-371. Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Adil H. Haider, Augustine C. Obirieze, Michael Fisher, Edward E. Cornwell III, F.G. Qureshi, F.E. Abdullah, B.C. Nwomeh.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.


Week Ending July 26, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Gene-environment interactions in human health: Case studies and strategies for developing new paradigms and research methodologies. Front. Genet., 17 July 2014. Fatimah L. Jackson.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Long-term observation of aerosol–cloud relationships in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., Vol.14 (2014): 18943-18960. S. Li, Everette Joseph, Q. Min, B. Yin.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

2-Bromo-5-tert-butyl-N-methyl-N-[2-(methylamino)phenyl]-3-(1-methyl- 1Hbenzimidazol-2-yl)benzamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.7 (July 2014): o822-o823. Prasad, P.R., Das, S., Singh, H.B., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

4-(furan-2-carbonyl)piperazin-1-ium 3,5-dinitrobenzoate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.6 (June 2014): o700-o701. Kavitha, C.N., Kaur, M., Jasinski, J.P., Raymond J. Butcher, Yathirajan, H.S.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Divinity

Methodologies of African American theology. In: Anthony B. Pinn and Katie G. Cannon (eds.), Oxford Handbook of African American Theology, 124-135. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Frederick Ware.
School of Divinity.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

The Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 1: Lake Michigan (GRIP-M). Journal of Hydrology, Available online 21 July 2014. Lauren M. Fry, Andrew D. Gronewold, Vincent Fortin, Steven Buan, Anne H. Clites, Carol Luukkonen, David Holtschlag, Laura Diamond, Timothy Hunter, Frank Seglenieks, Dorothy Durnford, Milena Dimitrijevic, Christopher Subich, Erika Klyszejko, Kandace Kea, Pedro Restrepo.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Measuring physician adherence with gout quality indicators – A role for natural language processing. Arthritis Care & Research, 2014. Gail S. Kerr, John S. Richards, Carl Nunziato, Olga V. Patterson, Scott L. DuVall, Mireille Aujero, David Maron, Richard Amdur.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine.

Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region: X. Priscosiren atlantica, gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol.34, No.4 (July 2014): 951-964. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe*, Daryl P. Domning.
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Remarks on correlations and implications of the mandibular structure and diet in some seals (Mammalia, Phocidae). Vestnik Zoologii, Vol.48, No.3 (July 2014). Irina A. Koretsky, Sulman J. Rahmat, N. Peters. http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/vzoo.2014.48.issue-3/vzoo-2014-0029/vzoo-2014-0029.xml
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The anatomy and ontogeny of the head, neck, pectoral, and upper limb muscles of lemur catta and propithecus coquereli (primates): Discussion on the parallelism between ontogeny and phylogeny and implications for evolutionary and developmental biology. Anatomical Record, Vol.297, No.8 (August 2014): 1435-1453. Rui Diogo, Julia L. Molnar, T.D. Smith.
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Reducing racial disparity in colorectal cancer burden. Dig Dis Sci., 24 July 2014. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Maintenance of long-term adequate levels of Vitamin D lowers HbA 1c in African American patients with type 2 diabetes. Ethnicity and Disease, Vol.24, No.3 (Summer 2014): 335-341. Rhea T. Green1, Kanwal K. Gambhir1, Gail Nunlee-Bland2, Wolali A. Odonkor2, Vijaya A. Ganta2.
1Department of Genetics and Human Genetics, 2Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Executive function and negative eating behaviors in severely obese African Americans. Ethnicity and Disease, Vol.24, No.3 (Summer 2014): 328-334. R.C. Sims, Nomi Kaie Bennett1, Dené T. Mwendwa1, Mana K. Ali1, Shellie Anne T. Levy, Clive O. Callender2, Alfonso L. Campbell1
1Department of Psychology, CoAS, 2College of Medicine.

Social Work

Alcohol use, working conditions, job benefits, and the legacy of the "dop" system among farm workers in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: Hope despite high levels of risky drinking. Int J Environ Res Public Health, Vol.1, No.7 (21 July 2014): 7406-24. Gossage JP, Cudore L. Snell, Parry CD, Marais AS, Barnard R, de Vries M, Blankenship J, Seedat S, Hasken JM, May PA.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending July 19, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Women's rights in Africa: From feminism to reality. Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series, 2014. Neuvic Kalmar Malembanie.
Department of African Studies, CoAS.

An overview of language policies in African literature. Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series, 2014. Neuvic Kalmar Malembanie.
Department of African Studies, CoAS.

Dissymmetric thiosemicarbazone ligands containing substituted aldehyde arm and their ruthenium(II) carbonyl complexes with PPh3/AsPh3 as ancillary ligands: Synthesis, Structural characterization, DNA/BSA interaction and in vitro anticancer activity. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Available online 10 July 2014. Paranthaman Vijayan, Periasamy Viswanathamurthi, Vaidhyanathan Silambarasan, Devadasan Velmurugan, Krishnaswamy Velmurugan, Raju Nandhakumar, Raymond J. Butcher, Tamilselvan Silambarasan, Ramamurthy Dhandapani.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Chemistry of anionic cis-dioxidovanadium(V) complexes containing protonated organic bases as counterion: Self-assembly, oligomerization and photoinduced reactivity. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol.420 (2014): 135-143. Samanta, S., Bhattacharya, K., Kundu, S., Raymond J. Butcher, Chaudhury, M.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Black-White differences in consumption: An update and some policy implications. The Review of Black Political Economy, Available online July 2014. Charles L. Betsey.
Department of Economics, CoAS.

Review of: Deborah Tannen, Anna Marie Trester (eds.), Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 2013). Journal of Sociolinguistics, Vol.18, No.3 (June 2014): 398–401. Alla V. Tovares.
Department of English , CoAS

Same sex marriage in Maryland: The saliency of religiosity in determining voter support. Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series, 2014. Jonathan Wesley Hutto, Richard Seltzer.
Department of Political Science , CoAS.
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Business

A hedonic index of site selection with application to instructional technology. International Journal of Business and Administration Research Review, Vol.2, No.5 (April-June 2014): 228-236. L. Jide Iwarere, Philip Fanara Jr, and Youngho Lee.
Department of Finance, International Business and Insurance, School of Business.

Explaining the on-the-run puzzle. Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series, 2014. Anthony J. Anderson, Michael S. Long.
School of Business.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

3DProIN: Protein-protein interaction networks and structure visualization. American Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vol.2, No.1 (2014): 32-37. Hui Li, Chunmei Liu. http://paper.uscip.us/ajbcb/ajbcb.2014.1003.pdf
Department of Systems and Computer Science, CEACS.

Cloud computing vulnerability: DDoS as its main security threat, and analysis of IDS as a solution model. ITNG 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (2014): Article number 6822215, 307-312. R. Goel, Moses Garuba, Anteneh Girma.
Department of Systems and Computer Science, CEACS.

Health Sciences

The impact of leukoreduced red blood cell transfusion on mortality of neonates undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. J Surg Res., 12 June 2014. Jackson HT, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Thomas A, Oyetunji AO, Hamrick M, Nadler EP, Wong E, Qureshi FG.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Epidemiology of 577 pediatric firearm fatalities: A 2-year review of the National Trauma Data Bank. Am Surg., Vol.80, No.4 (April 2014): 366-371. Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Adil H. Haider, Augustine C. Obirieze, Michael Fisher, Edward E. Cornwell III, Faisal G. Qureshi, Fizan Abdullah, Benedict C. Nwomeh.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Effects of two bioactive materials on survival and osteoblastic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells. Journal of Conservative Dentistry, Vol.17, No.4 (2014): 349-353. Ashraf Hengameh, Dajmar Reyhaneh, Moradi Majd Nima, Homayouni Hamed.
Dental Research Laboratory, College of Dentistry.

The risk of colonic adenomas and colonic cancer in obesity. Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2014. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Sexual risk among young African American women who use alcohol: Results from two US cities. 2014 STD Prevention Conference, June 10, 2014. Forough Saadatmand, Andrea Swartzendruber, Ralph J. DiClemente, Jessica M. Sales, Erin Bradley, Eve S. Rose, Taqi Tirmazi, and Takisha Carter.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicne.

Gender and racial disparity of serum vitamin D inadequacy: Results from national data in the United States. Value in Health, Vol.17, No.3 (May 2014): A53. S. Lee, Euni Lee, Mary Maneno, Anthony K. Wutoh, Allan Johnson.
Center for Minority Health Services Research, College of Pharmacy.

High utilizers of health care resources: Results from the Multicenter Compact Study of Complications in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease and Utilization of Iron Chelation Therapy. Value in Health, Vol.17, No.3 (May 2014): A143-A144. L. Jordan, P. Adams-Graves, J. Kanter-Washko, P. O'Neal, M. Sasane, M. Magestro, A. Marcellari, F. Vekeman, C. Bieri, A. Adams, M.S. Duh.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.

Ultrasmall gold nanoparticles as carriers for nucleus-based gene therapy due to size-dependent nuclear entry. ACS Nano, Vol.8, No,6 (2014): 5852-5862. Huo, S., Jin, S., Ma, X., Xue, X., Yang, K., Kumar, A., Paul C. Wang, Zhang, J., Hu, Z., Liang, X.-J.
Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

A double-blind, randomized, multicenter, controlled trial of suspended polymethylmethacrylate microspheres for the correction of atrophic facial acne scars. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Vol.71, No.1 (2014): 77-83 . Karnik, J., Baumann, L., Bruce, S., Valerie Callender, Cohen, S., Grimes, P., Joseph, J., Shamban, A., Spencer, J., Tedaldi, R., Werschler, W.P., Smith, S.R.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

nc886, a non-coding RNA of anti-proliferative role, is suppressed by CpG DNA methylation in human gastric cancer. Oncotarget, Vol.5, No.11 (2014): 3944-3955. Lee, K.-S., Park, J.-L., Lee, K., Richardson, L.E., Johnson, B.H., Lee, H.-S., Lee, J.-S., Kim, S.-B., Kwon, O.-H., Song, K.S., Kim, Y.S., Hassan Ashktorab, Duane T. Smoot, Jeon, S.H., Kim, S.-Y., Lee, Y.S.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Reply: Practice guideline for pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell: Direct evidence needed before universal adoption. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol.190, No.2 (2014): 238-240. Elizabeth S. Klings, Roberto F. Machado, Claudia R. Morris, Victor R. Gordeuk, Gregory J. Kato, Kenneth I. Ataga, Oswaldo Castro, Lewis Hsu, Marilyn J. Telen, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, Martin H. Steinberg, and Mark T. Gladwin; On behalf of the ATS Clinical Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension in Sickle Cell Disease Committee.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.

Generic oncology drug shortages. US Pharm., Vol.39, No.6, Generic Drugs suppl. (2014): ): 38-43. Clarence D. Moore, Thomas Riehl*.
College of Pharmacy.

Adapting the Andersen model to a Francophone West African immigrant population: Hepatitis B screening and linkage to care in New York City. Journal of Community Health, 8 July 2014, article not published yet, but available online. Blanas, D.A. , Nichols, K., Bekele, M., Shankar, H., Bekele, S., Jandorf, L., Izzeldin, S., Ndiaye, D., Traore, A., Motahar Bassam, Perumalswami, P.V.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Document diversity in diagnostic radiology. Radiology, Vol.272, No.1 (July 2014): 301-302. Byrd, S., Bonnie Davis, Gibbs, I., Poussaint, T.Y., Simmons, V.J.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Benchmarking of trauma care worldwide: The potential value of an International Trauma Data Bank (ITDB). World Journal of Surgery, Vol.38, No.8 (August 2014): 1882-1891. Haider, A.H., Hashmi, Z.G., Gupta, S., Seyed Nabeel Zafar, David, J.-S., Efron, D.T., Stevens, K.A., Zafar, H., Schneider, E.B., Voiglio, E., Coimbra, R., Haut, E.R.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Law

To make freedom happen: Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court, and the creation myth of American voting rights. Northern Illinois University Law Review, Vol.34 (2014): 529-560. Anderson Bellegarde François.
Law School.

Social Work

The role of fathers in adolescent substance abuse prevention. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Vol.24, No.5 (July 2014): 565-572. Cudore Snell, J. Radosevich, M.D. Feit.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending July 12, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Generating metadata to study and teach about African issues. Information Technology & People, Vol.27, No.3 (2014): 1-33. Faleh Alshameri, Abdul Karim Bangura.

African philosophy: A key to African innovation and development. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Published online: 4 July 2014. Charles Verharen1, B. Gutema, John P. Tharakan2, Flordeliz Bugarin3, Joseph Fortunak4, G. Kadod, M. Liu5, George Middendorf6.
1Department of Philosophy, CoAS; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, CEACS; 3Department of Sociology and Anthropology, CoAS; 4Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy; 5School of Social Work, 6Department of Biology, CoAS.

Chaos theory and organizational crisis: A theoretical analysis of the challenges faced by the New Orleans police department during hurricane Katrina. Public Organization Review, June 2014. Terri Adams, L. Stewart.
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, CoAS.

Auxiliary ligand aided tuning of aggregation in transition metal benzoates: Isolation of four different types of coordination polymers. CrystEngComm, 7 July 2014. Subarna Banerjee, Palanisamy Rajakannu, Raymond Jay Butcher, Ramaswamy Murugavel.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Synthesis, structure and in vitro biological activity of pyridoxal N(4)-substituted thiosemicarbazone cobalt(III) complexes. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol.421 (1 September 2014): 80-90. Manikandan, R., Vijayan, P., Anitha, P., Prakash, G., Viswanathamurthi, P. , Raymond J. Butcher, Velmurugan, K., Nandhakumar, R..
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Chemistry of anionic cis-dioxidovanadium(V) complexes containing protonated organic bases as counterion: Self-assembly, oligomerization and photoinduced reactivity. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol.420 (24 August 2014): 135-143.
Samanta, S., Bhattacharya, K., Kundu, S., Raymond J. Butcher,, Chaudhury.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Business

The impact of writing assignments in business education: Toward a competitive advantage in the workplace. American Journal Of Business Education, Vol.7, No.3 (2014): 265-270. Melvin C. Washington.
School of Business.

Communications

Understanding privacy knowledge and skill in mobile communication. Computers in Human Behavior, Vol.38 (September 2014): 296-303. Yong Jin Park, S. Mo Jang.
School of Communications.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Outreach program in electrical engineering: Pre-College for Engineering Systems (PCES). IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.29, No.4 (July 2014): 1880-1887. James Momoh.
Center for Energy Systems and Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, CEACS. (CESaC)
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Health Sciences

A role for RUNX3 in inflammation-induced expression of IL23A in gastric epithelial cells. Cell Reports, 5 July 2014. Yit Teng Hor, Dominic Chih-Cheng Voon, Jason Kin Wai Koo, Huajing Wang, Wen Min Lau, Hassan Ashktorab, Shing Leng Chan, Yoshiaki Ito.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Risk factors for death in 632 patients with sickle cell disease in the United States and United Kingdom. PLO One, 2 July 2014. Mark T. Gladwin, Robyn J. Barst, J. Simon R. Gibbs, Mariana Hildesheim, Vandana Sachdev, Mehdi Nouraie, Kathryn L. Hassell, Jane A. Little, Dean E. Schraufnagel, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, Enrico Novelli, Reda E. Girgis, Claudia R. Morris, Erika Berman Rosenzweig, David B. Badesch, Sophie Lanzkron, Oswaldo L. Castro, James G. Taylor VI, Jonathan C. Goldsmith, Gregory J. Kato, Victor R. Gordeuk, Roberto F. Machado, on behalf of the walk-PHaSST Investigators and Patients
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.

Prognostication of electrocardiographic changes with status epilepticus in African American population. Journal of Neurological Research, Vol.4, No.2-3 (June 2014): 63-71. Mohankumar Kurukumbi, Noha Solieman, Suzanne Al-Hamad, Siddartha Bhandary, Nadia Yusuf, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.

What is the prognosis for newborns with congenitally acquired HIV? HDAs Help Desk Answers, 2014. Krishnan Narasimhan, Ethan Kellogg, Lalita Kaul.
College of Medicine.

Ethnicity: How much of our understanding of suicide is applicable across ethnic cultures. In: S.H. Koslow, P. Ruiz, and C. Nemeroff (eds.), A Concise Guide to Understanding Suicide: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Prevention, 62-65. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Donna Holland Barnes, William B. Lawson, Kelsey Ball.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Incidence, predictors, and clinical course of atrial tachyarrhythmias in patients with pulmonary hypertension. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, July 2014. Arun Kanmanthareddy, Yeruva Madhu Reddy, Hemant Boolani, Sowjanya Duthuluru, Jayasree Pillarisetti, Ajay Vallakati, Sudharani Bommana, Donita Atkins, Timothy Williamson, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy.
Division of Cardiology, College of Medicine.

Prehospital emergency care and injury prevention in Sudan / La prise en charge d’urgence préhospitalière et la prévention des blessures au Soudan. African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 8 July 2014. Khalid Elbashir, Robert J. Gore, Tariq Abuaaraki, Patricia Roblin, Martin Botha, Mohammed Yousif, Grigory Ostrovskiys, Christina Bloem, Stephen A. James.
College of Medicine.

Trends in pulmonary hypertension mortality and morbidity. Pulm Med., 1 June 2014: 105864. Alem Mehari, Orlando Valle, Richard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Rare manifestation of a rare disease, acute liver failure in adult onset Still's disease: Dramatic response to methylprednisolone pulse therapy-A case report and review. Case Rep Med., 4 June 2014: 375035. N. Valluru, Venkata S. Tammana, Michael Windham, Eyasu Mekonen, Rehana Begum, Andrew Sanderson.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, College of Medicine.

Management of acute diabetic foot disease. U.S. Pharmacist, Vol.39, No.6 (June (2014). Oluwaranti Akiyode, Bryan Sackey.
College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending July 5, 2014

Arts & Sciences

2-Bromo-5-tert-butyl-N-methyl-N-[2-(methyl­amino)­phen­yl]-3-(1-methyl-1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)benzamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.7 (July 2014). P. R. Prasad, S. Das, H. B. Singh, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Black-white differences in consumption: An update and some policy implications. The Review of Black Political Economy, June 2014. Charles L. Betsey.
Department of Economics, CoAS.

Racial economies of academia: Africana studies as arbiter. Journal of African American Studies, July 2014. Joshua Myers.
Department of Afro-American Studies, CoAS.

Filter characterizations of paralindelöf spaces and meta-Lindelöf spaces and some consequent product theorems. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol.93, No.1 (2014): 109-120. James E. Joseph, B.M.P. Nayar.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Extension of a probabilistic mesomechanics based model for fatigue notch factor to titanium alloy components. Procedia Materials Science, Vol.3 (2014): 1860-1865. Gbadebo Owolabi, Oluwamayowa Okeyoyin, Oluwakayode Bamiduro, Horace Whitworth.
Department of Mechanical Mechanical Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Improving diversity, inclusion, and representation in radiology and radiation oncology Part 1: Why these matter. Journal of the American College of Radiology, Vol.11, No.7 (July 2014): 673-680. Johnson B. Lightfoote, Julia R. Fielding, Curtiland Deville, Richard B. Gunderman, Gail N. Morgan, Pari V. Pandharipande, André J. Duerinckx, Raymond B. Wynn, Katarzyna J. Macura.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

MS-monitored conjugation of poly(ethylene glycol) monomethacrylate to RGD peptides. J Appl Polym Sci Symp., Vol. 131, No.14 (15 July 2014): 40385. Oleg I. Bol'shakov, Emmanuel O. Akala.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences/Center for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), College of Pharmacy.

A rare sequela of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Case Rep Neurol Med., 26 May 2014: 291380. Kodadhala V1, Devulapalli S2, Kurukumbi M2, Jayam-Trouth A2.
1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Department of Neurology,

Explaining the paradoxical age-based racial disparities in survival after trauma: The role of the treating facility. Ann Surg., 27 June 2014. Hicks CW1, Hashmi ZG, Hui X, Velopulos C, Efron DT, Schneider EB, Cooper L, Haut ER, Edward E. Cornwell III, Haider AH.
Department of Surgery, Outcomes Research Center, College of Medicine.

The measure of sickle cell stigma: Initial findings from the Improving Patient Outcomes through Respect and Trust study. J Health Psychol, 4 July 2014. Shawn M Bediako, Sophie Lanzkron, Marie Diener-West, Gladys Onojobi, Mary C Beach, and Carlton Haywood Jr.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Dual role for inflammasome sensors NLRP1 and NLRP3 in murine resistance to Toxoplasma gondii. mBio, Vol.5, No.1 (18 February 2014): e01117-13. Gezahegn Gorfu, Cirelli, K.M., Melo, M.B., Mayer-Barber, K., Crown, D., Koller, B.H., Masters, S., Sher, A. Leppla, S.H., Moayeri, M., Saeij, J.P.J., Grigg, M.E.
College of Medicine.


Week Ending June 28, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Peace and language: Eliminating sexist myths and metaphors as a step toward peaceful gender relations. Conflict Perspectives, 24 April 2014: 1-3. Abdul Karim Bangura.
Department of Political Science, CoAS.

Assessing Barack Obama's Africa Policy: Suggestions for Him and African Leaders. Lanham, MD: University Press of America/Rowman and Littlefield, 2014. Abdul Karim Bangura.
Department of Political Science, CoAS.

Optical soliton perturbation with spatio-temporal dispersion in parabolic and dual-power law media by semi-inverse variational principle. Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, 23 June 2014. A.H. Bhrawy, A.A. Alshaery, E.M. Hilal, Kaisar R. Khan, Mohammad F. Mahmood, Anjan Biswas.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Optical solitons in birefringent fibers with spatio-temporal dispersion. Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Available online 25 June 2014. A.H. Bhrawy, A.A. Alshaery, E.M. Hilal, Michelle Savescu, Daniela Milovic, Kaisar R. Khan, Mohammad F. Mahmood, Zlatko Jovanoski, Anjan Biswas.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Emerging functional similarities and divergences between Drosophila Spargel /dPGC-1 and mammalian PGC-1 protein. Front. Genet., 22 June 2014. Subhas Mukherjee, Claudette Davis, Mohammed A. Basar and Atanu Duttaroy.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Statistical modelling of collocation uncertainty in atmospheric thermodynamic profiles. Atmos. Meas. Tech., Vol.7 (2014): 1803-1816. A. Fassò, R. Ignaccolo, F. Madonna, Belay B. Demoz and M. Franco-Villoria.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Responsive nature of 1,2,4,5-Tetrakis(2-pyridylthiomethyl)benzene toward group 12 metal nitrates: Activity of coordinated nitrate in metal complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.53, No.12 (16 June 2014): 5887-5889. Neerua, Yadav, D., Tiwari, G., Singh, J.D., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Education

What the ACT and SAT mean for black students' higher education prospects (editor's commentary). Journal of Negro Education, Vol.83, No.1 (Winter 2014): 1-3. Ivory A. Toldson, T. McGee.
School of Education.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Fatigue strength reduction factor for polycrystalline nickel base superalloy with and without non-metallic inclusions. Procedia Engineering, Vol.74 (2014): 297-302. Gbadebo Owolabi, Oluwamayowa Okeyoyin, Oluwakayode Bamiduro, Horace Whitworth.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, CEACS.

Backbone construction with relay node placement for energy-efficient wireless sensor networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol.14, No.9 (25 June 2014): 922-936. Hui Guo, Hu, R.Q.b, Lu, K.c, Qian, Y.
Department of Systems and Computer Science, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Influence of provider discussion and specific recommendation on colorectal cancer screening uptake among U.S. adults. Preventive Medicine, 23 June 2014. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Akeem O. Adebogun, Chyke Doubeni, Luisel Ricks-Santi, Shelly McDonald-Pinkett, Patrick E. Young, Brooks D. Cash, Carrie N. Klabunde.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Biosafe nanoscale pharmaceutical adjuvant materials. Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Vol.10 (2014): 1–27. Shengliang Li, Chongxi Wang, Juan Liu, Xiaolong Yang, Paul C. Wang, Xin Zhang and Xing-Jie.
Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms: A window into the informatics of the living genome. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, Vol.5 (2014): 623-626. Georgia M. Dunston1, Tshela E. Mason1, William Hercules2, James Lindesay2.
1Department of Microbiology, National Human Genome Center, 2Computational Physics Laboratory, College of Medicine.

Polylactide-based paclitaxel-loaded nanoparticles fabricated by dispersion polymerization: Characterization, evaluation in cancer cell lines, and preliminary biodistribution studies. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, July 2014. Simeon K. Adesina, Alesia Holly, Gabriela Kramer-Marek, Jacek Capala and Emmanuel O. Akala.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Acute alcohol modulates cardiac function as PI3K/Akt regulates oxidative stress. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 24 June 2014. Nsini A. Umoh, Robin K. Walker, Mustafa Al-Rubaiee, Miara A. Jeffress and Georges E. Haddad.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Asa G. Yancey: A quiet giant in American surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Available online 26 June 2014. John H. Stewart, Golda Kwayisi, Edward E. Cornwell III.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

A molecular dynamics simulation study of the association of 1,1′-binaphthyl-2,2′-diyl hydrogenphosphate enantiomers with a chiral molecular micelle. Chemical Physics, Vol.439 (17 August 2014): 36-43. Morris, K.F.a, Billiot, E.J.b, Billiot, F.H.b, Gladis, A.A.a, Lipkowitz, K.B.c, William M. Southerland, Yayin Fang.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Is "time-out" an effective behavioral management technique for preschool-age children? Evidence-Based Practice, Vol.17, No.2 (February 2014): E13. TyWanda McLaurin-Jones, Aneesah Kelley-Henry.
College of Medicine.

Umbilical cord vitamin D, ionized calcium and myocardial oxygen demand. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, Vol.27, No.10 (July 2014): 1000-1004. Reeves, I.a, Willie Liang, W.b, Asadi, M.S., Richard M. Millis.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics. College of Medicine.

What is the prognosis for newborns with congenitally acquired HIV? Evidence-Based Practice, Vol.17, No.5 (May 2014): E13-E14. Krishnan Narasimhan, Ethan Kellogg, Lalita Kaul.
College of Medicine.

The role of acculturative stress factors on mental health and help-seeking behavior of sub-Saharan African immigrants. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, Vol.7, No.3 (July 2014): 315-325. Ola Edo Yvonne Orjiako, Dominicus So.
Department of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, CoAS.

The epidemiology of HIV seropositive malaria infected pregnant women in Akure Metropolis, Southwestern Nigeria. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Vol.6, No.5 (September-October 2013): 519-525. Ako-Nai, A.a , Ebhodaghe, B.a, Osho, P.b, Adejuyigbe, E.c, Adeyemi, F.d, Ikuomola, A.e, Olakunle Kassim.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Early results of massachusetts healthcare reform on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular care. Circulation, Vol.129, No.24 (17 June 2014): 2528-2538. Albert, M.A.a , Ayanian, J.Z.bcf, Silbaugh, T.S.e, Lovett, A.c, Resnic, F.ad, Aryana Jacobs, Normand, S.-L.T.
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Social Work

Domestic violence among African Americans: Strengthening knowledge to inform action. In: Lee E. Ross (ed.), Continuing the War against Domestic Violence, 67-82 (2nd ed.; CRC Press, 2014). Tricia B. Bent-Goodley, Zuleka Henderson and Akosoa McFagion.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending June 21, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Ted trainer and the simpler way: A somewhat less sympathetic critique. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol.25, Vol.2 (3 April 2014): 112-117. David Schwartzman.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Arabidopsis scaffold protein RACK1A interacts with diverse environmental stress and photosynthesis related proteins. Plant Signal Behav., Vol.8, No.5 (May 2013): e24012. Kundu N1, Dozier U, Deslandes L, Somssich IE, Hemayet Ullah.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

4-(Furan-2-carbon-yl)piperazin-1-ium 3,5-di-nitro-benzoate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.6 (24 May 2014): o700-1. Kavitha CN, Kaur M, Jasinski JP, Raymond J. Butcher, Yathirajan HS.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Outreach program in electrical engineering: Pre-College for Engineering Systems (PCES). IEEE Xplore, 2014. James A. Momoh.
Center for Energy Systems and Control (CESaC), CEACS.

Health Sciences

Open versus endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms: A nationwide inpatient sample study. Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 19 June 2014. Kakra Hughes, Jean Guerrier, Augustine Obirieze, Dora Ngwang, David Rose, Daniel Tran, Edward Cornwell, III, Thomas Obisesan, and Ourania Preventza.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Does serum uric acid predict incident metabolic syndrome in a population with high prevalence of obesity? Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, Available online 19 June 2014. Liberato Aldo Ferrara, Hong Wang, Jason G. Umans, Nora Franceschini, Stacey Jolly, Elisa T. Lee, Jeunliang Yeh, Richard B. Devereux, Barbara V. Howard, Giovanni de Simone.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

Role of protein phosphatase 1 in dephosphorylation of Ebola virus VP30 and its targeting for the inhibition of viral transcription. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 16 June 2014. Philipp A. Ilinykh, Bersabeh Tigabu, Andrey Ivanov, Tatiana Ammosova, Yuri Obukhov, Tania Garron, Namita Kumari, Dmytro Kovalskyy, Maxim O. Platonov, Vasiliy S. Naumchik, Alexander N. Freiberg, Sergei Nekhai and Alexander Bukreyev.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Rank-based tests for identifying multiple genetic variants associated with quantitative traits. Annals of Human Genetics, Vol.78, No.4 (July 2014): 306–310, Zhengbang Li, Ao Yuan, Gang Han, Guimin Gao and Qizhai Li.
National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine.

Benchmarking of trauma care worldwide: The potential value of an International Trauma Data Bank (ITDB). World Journal of Surgery, 2014. Haider, A.H., Hashmi, Z.G., Gupta, S., Syed Nabool Zafar, David, J.-S., Efron, D.T., Stevens, K.A., Zafar, H., Schneider, E.B., Voiglio, E., Coimbra, R., Haut, E.R.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Reduction of pyramidal and immature hippocampal neurons in pediatric simian immunodeficiency virus infection. NeuroReport, Vol.25, No.9 (18 June 2014): 647-652. Kimberley Curtis1, Matthew Rollins1, Heather Carryl1, Van Rompay, K.K.A., Abel, K., Mark W. Burke2.
1Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, 2Departments of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Techniques for physicochemical characterization of nanomaterials. Biotechnology Advances, Vol.32, No.4 (July 2014): 711-726. Ping Chang Lin1, Stephen Lin1, Paul C Wang1, Rajagopalan Sridhar2.
1Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, 2Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

Identification of RECQ1-regulated transcriptome uncovers a role of RECQ1 in regulation of cancer cell migration and invasion. Cell Cycle, Vol.13, No.15 (16 June 2014). Li XL, X. Lu, S. Parvathaneni, Bilke S, Zhang H, Thangavel S, Vindigni A, Hara T, Zhu Y, Meltzer PS, Lal A, Sudha Sharma.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; College of Medicine.

An unequal burden: Poor patient-provider communication and sickle cell disease. Patient Educ Couns., 23 May 2014. Jr CH, Bediako S, Lanzkron S, Diener-West M, Strouse J, Haythornthwaite J, Gladys Onojobi, Beach MC; for the IMPORT Investigators.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Demographic profile and epidemiology of injury in Mthatha, South Africa. Afr Health Sci., Vol.13, No.4 (December 2013): 1144-8. Dhaffala A, Longo-Mbenza B, Kingu J, Peden M, Kafuko-Bwoye A, M. Clarke, Mazwai E
College of Medicine.

Social Work

Social work: A profession of power, passion, and purpose. Social Work (2014). Tricia B. Bent-Goodley.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending June 14, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Synthesis, structure and in vitro biological activity of pyridoxal N(4)-substituted thiosemicarbazone cobalt(III) complexes. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Available online 6 June 2014. Rajendran Manikandan, Paranthaman Vijayan, Panneerselvam Anitha, Govindan Prakash, Periasamy Viswanathamurthia, Raymond J. Butcher, Krishnaswamy Velmurugan, Raju Nandhakumar.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Synthesis, structure and supramolecular features of homonuclear iron(III) and heteronuclear iron(III)- cobalt(III) complexes, [FeH3L][ML](ClO4)3 (M=Fe(III) or Co(III). 2D sheet and tetrahedral arrays. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Available online 5 June 2014. Greg Brewer, Luigi J. Alvarado, Cynthia T. Brewer, Raymond J. Butcher, Jacqueline Cipressi, Carol Viragh, Peter Y. Zavalij.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Almost automorphic solutions to a Beverton-Holt dynamic equation with survival rate. Applied Mathematics Letters, Vol.36 (2014): 19-24. Toka Diagana.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

The first nontrivial Hales-Jewett number is four. Ars Combinatoria, Vol.113 (2014): 385-390. Neil Hindman, E. Tressler.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Ozone profiles in the Baltimore-Washington region (2006-2011): Satellite comparisons and DISCOVER-AQ observations. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 2014, Article not published yet, but available online. Thompson, A.M., Stauffer, R.M., Miller, S.K., Martins, D.K., Everette Joseph, Weinheimer, A.J., Diskin, G.S.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Weaving worldsheet supermultiplets from the worldlines within. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Vol.17, No.5 (2013): 903-974. Tristan Hübsch.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Communications

Media conglomeration and women's interests: A global concern. Feminist Media Studies, Vol.14, No.2 (2014): 322-326. Carolyn Byerly.
School of Communications.

The role of social toxicity in responses to a slowly-evolving environmental disaster: The case of amphibole asbestos exposure in Libby, Montana, USA. American Journal of Community Psychology, 2014. Article not published yet, but available online. Cline, R.J.W., Orom, H., Jae Eun Chung, Hernandez, T.
School of Communications.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

An Iterative l1-regularized least absolute deviation algorithm for robust GPR imaging. 48th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2014, 2014, art. no. 6814099. Mandoye Ndoye, John M. Anderson.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

+ Perceived racial discrimination, drug use, and psychological distress in African American youth: A pathway to child health disparities. Journal of Social Issues, Vol.70, No.2 (June 2014): 279–297, Kathy Sanders-Phillips1, Wendy Kliewer, Taqi Tirmazi, Von Nebbitt2, Takisha Carter2and Heather Key2.
1Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine; 2School of Social Work.

Is evolutionary biology becoming too politically correct? A reflection on the scala naturae, phylogenetically basal clades, anatomically plesiomorphic taxa, and ‘lower’ animals. Biological Reviews, May 2014. Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann and Marta Linde-Medina.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The impact of leukoreduced red blood cell transfusion on mortality of neonates undergoing extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Journal of Surgical Research, Available online 12 June 2014. Hope T. Jackson, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Alexandra Thomas, Aderonke O. Oyetunji, Miller Hamrick, Evan P. Nadler, Edward Wong, Faisal. G. Qureshi.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

An unbiased method to build benchmarking sets for ligand-based virtual screening and its application to GPCRs. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. Vol.54, No.5 (2014): 1433-1450. Xia, J., Jin, H., Liu, Z., Zhang, L., Xiang Simon Wang.
Molecular Modeling and Drug Discovery Core for District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC D-CFAR), Laboratory of Cheminfomatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Fibrohistiocytic tumors in a lung transplant patient taking oral capecitabine for nonmelanoma skin cancer chemoprevention. Dermatol Surg. 2014 Jun 12. [Epub ahead of print]. Sailesh. Konda, V.A. Patel, K.W. O'Bryan, D. Ratner.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Genetic testing for the susceptibility to alcohol dependence: Interest and concerns in an African American population. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers. 2014 Jun 13. [Epub ahead of print]. Denise M. Scott1, Evaristus Nwulia2, John Kwagyan3, Gloria Cain1, Vanessa J. Marshall1, Nnenna Kalu1, A. Ewing1, Robert E. Taylor1.
1Department of Pharmacology, 2Department of Psychiatry, 3Department of Pathology, College of Medicine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24926856

Is evolutionary biology becoming too politically correct? A reflection on the scala naturae, phylogenetically basal clades, anatomically plesiomorphic taxa, and 'lower' animals. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc., 11 June 2014 [Epub ahead of print]. Rui Diogo, Janine Ziermann, M. Linde-Medina.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Smoking cessation treatment among office-based buprenorphine treatment patients. J Subst Abuse Treat., 2014 Apr 27. Nahvi S, Blackstock O, Sohler NL, Devin Thompson, Cunningham CO.
College of Medicine.

Comparative anatomy of the hind limb vessels of the bearded capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus) with apes, baboons, and Cebus capucinus: with comments on the vessels' role in bipedalism. Biomed Res Int., 2013: Art.737358. Roqueline A. G. M. F. Aversi-Ferreira, de Abreu T, Pfrimer GA, Silva SF, Janine M. Ziermann, Carneiro-E-Silva FO, Tomaz C, Tavares MC, Maior RS6, Aversi-Ferreira TA7.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Social Work

+ Perceived racial discrimination, drug use, and psychological distress in African American youth: A pathway to child health disparities. Journal of Social Issues, Vol.70, No.2 (June 2014): 279–297, Kathy Sanders-Phillips1, Wendy Kliewer, Taqi Tirmazi, Von Nebbitt2, Takisha Carter2and Heather Key2.
1Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine; 2School of Social Work.


Week Ending June 7, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Synthesis, structure and supramolecular features of homonuclear iron(III) and heteronuclear iron(III)- cobalt(III) complexes, [FeH3L][ML](ClO4)3 (M=Fe(III) or Co(III). 2D sheet and tetrahedral arrays. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 5 June 2014. Greg Brewer, Luigi J. Alvarado, Cynthia T. Brewer, Raymond J. Butcher, Jacqueline Cipressi, Carol Viragh, Peter Y. Zavalij.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Responsive nature of 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(2-pyridylthiomethyl)benzene toward group 12 metal nitrates: Activity of coordinated nitrate in metal complexes. Inorg. Chem., 2014. Neeru, Dolly Yadav, Geeta Tiwari, Jai Deo Singh, and Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Climate variability and water resources management in Lake Chad Basin: Integrating science and policy. American Geophysical Union, Science Policy Conferenc e, Washingotn, DC, June 16-18, 2014. Churchill Okonkwo.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Nonlinear systems in function spaces and applications in biomedical sciences, control theory, and engineering. Journal of Function Spaces, 2014, Article ID 460139. Jin Liang, C. Cuevas, Toka Diagana, G. N’Guérékata, and M. Van Nguyen.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol.171, No.2 (2014): 277-355. Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Nathan D. Smith, Budd, A.F.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Communications

Media conglomeration and women's interests: A global concern. (2014) Feminist Media Studies, Vol.14, No.2 (2014): 322-326. Carolyn M. Byerly.
School of Communications.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Hybrid fuzzy bang-bang mode controller with switching function for electric motor drive applications. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol.50, No.3 (2014): 2269-2276. Ahmed Rubaai, J. Jerry.
Department o Electrical Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Student perspectives on student leadership development programs (Letter). American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, Vol.78, No.4 (2014): Art.85. Arnall, J., Porscha Johnson*, Lee, J., Linder, M., Lund, N., Satpathy, S.
College of Pharmacy.

Increased mortality associated with EMS transport of gunshot wound victims when compared to private vehicle transport. Injury, 5 June 2014. Syed Nabeel Zafar, Adil H. Haider, Kent A. Stevens, Nik Ray-Mazumder, Mehreen T. Kisat, Eric B. Schneider, Albert Chi, Samuel M Galvagno Jr, Edward E. Cornwell III, David T. Efron, Elliott R. Haut.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Mechanism of drug-induced gingival overgrowth revisited: A unifying hypothesis. Oral Diseases, 2014. Ronald S. Brown and Preveen R. Arany.
College of Dentistry.

Strategies for enrollment of African Americans into cancer genetic studies. Journal of Cancer Education, June 2014. Altovise Ewing, Nicole Thompson, Luisel Ricks-Santi.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Proneural transcription factor atoh1 drives highly efficient differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into dopaminergic neurons. Stem Cells Transl Med., 5 June 2014. Sagal J, Xiping Zhan, Xu J, Tilghman J, Karuppagounder SS, Chen L, Dawson VL, Dawson TM, Laterra J, Ying M.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Pediatric helmet use in residential areas. Am Surg., Vol.80, No.5 (May 2014): 511-513. Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Fisher MA, Onguti SK, Edward E. Cornwell III, Qureshi FG, Abdullah F, Haider AH, Nwomeh BC.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Epidemiology of 577 pediatric firearm fatalities: A 2-year review of the National Trauma Data Bank. Am Surg., Vol.80, No.4 (April 2014): 366-371. Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Haider AH, Obirieze AC, Fisher M, Edward E. Cornwell III, Qureshi FG, Abdullah F, Nwomeh BC.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Perceived discrimination in health care is associated with a greater burden of pain in sickle cell disease. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2014, Article in Press. Haywood Jr., C., Diener-West, M., Strouse, J., Carroll, C.P., Bediako, S., Lanzkron, S., Haythornthwaite, J., Gladys Onojobi, Beach, M.C.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.


Week Ending May 31, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Review of: The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom, by Glenn DavidBrasher. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Historian, Vol.76, No.2 (Summer 2014): 348–349. Joseph P. Reidy.
Department of History, CoAS.

Growth of semiconducting iron sulfide thin films by chemical vapor deposition from air-stable single-source metal organic precursor for photovoltaic application. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2014. Saeed, S., Hussain, R., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

(E)-2-{[4-(dimethylamino)benzylidene]amino}-5-nitrophenol. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.5 (2014): o598-o599. Hijji, Y., Raymond J. Butcher, Jasinski, J.P.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Di-aqua-bis-(nicotinamide-κN (1))bis-(thio-cyanato-κN)nickel(II). Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.5 (16 April 2014): m183. Pandey D1, Narvi SS1, Mehrotra GK1, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

4-(Furan-2-carbonyl)piperazin-1-ium3,5-dinitrobenzoate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, (2014). Vol.70, Pt.6 (2014): o700–o701. Channappa N. Kavith, Manpreet Kaur, Jerry P.
Jasinski, Raymond J. Butcher and H.S. Yathirajan.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol.171, No.2 (June 2014): 277–355. Danwei Huang, Francesca Benzoni, Hironobu Fukami, Nancy Knowlton, Nathan D. Smith and Ann F. Budd.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Double bright band observations with high-resolution vertically pointing radar, lidar, and profilers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2014. Amber E. Emory, Belay Demoz, Kevin Vermeesch and Micheal Hicks.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Identifying anthropogenic 'hotspots' and management of water resources in Lake Chad Basin using GIS. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 2014. Churchill Okonkwo, Belay Demoz.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Contribution of chirality to the adsorption of a Kr atom on a single wall carbon nanotube. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol.175, No.3-4 (2014): 590-603 . Kim, H.-Y., Booth, E.C., Mamadou T. Mbaye, Silvina M. Gatica.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Corrigendum to "New indices for wet scavenging of air pollutants (O3,CO, NO2, SO2, and PM10) by summertime rain" [Atmos. Environ. 82(2014) 226-237]. Atmospheric Environment, Vol.91 (2014): 178. Yoo, J.-M., Lee, Y.-R., Kim, D., Jeong, M.-J., William R. Stockwell, Kundu, P.K., Oh, S.-M., Shin, D.-B., Lee, S.-J.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Professional responsibilities versus familial responsibilities: an examination of role conflict among first responders during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. J Emerg Manag., Vol.12, No.1 (January-February 2014): 45-54. Terry Adams, M. Turner.
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, CoAS.

Colorism and interracial intimacy: How skin color matters. In: Kimberly Jade Norwood (ed.), Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Postracial America, 119-138. New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. Kellina M. Craig-Henderson.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Review of: Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy, by Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy. Historical Materialism, Vol.22, No.1 (2014): 166-177. Christopher Gunderson.
Department of History, CoAS.

Using readers theatre to promote fluency in struggling readers. James T. Jackson, Kellee Jenkins, Katina January Vance. 2014.
Department of English, CoAS.

Business

Security requirement derivation by noun-verb analysis of use-misuse case relationships: A case study using positive train control. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, Vol.10, No.2 (2014): 103-122. Hartong, M., Rajni Goel, Wijesekera, D.
Department of Information Systems and Decision Science, School of Business.

Communications

Adult Neurogenic Language Disorders: Assessment and Treatment: A Comprehensive Ethnobiological Approach. 2nd ed.; San Diego, CA, US: Plural Publishing, 2014. Joan C. Payne.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Communications.

The more friends, the less political talk? predictors of facebook discussions among college students. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Vol.17, No.5 (2014): 271-275. Jang, S.M., Lee, H., Yong Jin Park.
School of Communications

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Water treatment by dendrimer-enhanced filtration: Principles and applications. In: Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water Solutions for Improving Water Quality (2nd ed.), 227-239 (William Andrew/Elsevier, 2014). Mamadou S. Diallo.
Department of Civil Engineering, CEACS.

Nanotechnology solutions for improving water quality. In: Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water Solutions for Improving Water Quality (2nd ed.), 647-649. (William Andrew/Elsevier, 2014). Mamadou S. Diallo, Jeremiah S. Duncan, Nora Savage, Anita Street, Richard Sustich.
Department of Civil Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

A new bioactive polylactide-based composite with high mechanical strength. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 28 May 2014. Quanxiao Dong, Laurence C. Chow, Tongxin Wang, Stanislav A. Frukhtbeyn, Feng Wang, Mingshu Yang, James W. Mitchell.
College of Dentistry.

The effect of helicobacter pylori CagA on the HER-2 copy number and expression in gastric cancer. Gene, 28 May 2014. Jung Ho Shim, Jung Hwan Yoon, Sung Sook Choi, Hassan Ashktorab, Duane T. Smoot, Kyo Young Song, Suk Woo Nam, Jung Young Lee, Cho Hyun Park, Won Sang Park.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

An unequal burden: Poor patient-provider communication and sickle cell disease. Patient Education and Counseling, 23 May 2014. Carlton Haywood Jr, Shawn Bediako, Sophie Lanzkron, Marie Diener-West, John Strouse, Jennifer Haythornthwaite, Gladys Onojobi, Mary Catherine Beach, for the IMPORT Investigators.
College of Medicine.

Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women of ethnic minority: A potential contributor to preeclampsia. Journal of Perinatology, 22 May 2014. I V Reeves, Z D Bamji, G B Rosario, Kerry M. Lewis, M A Young and K N Washington.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine.

Prevalence of high-grade cervical dysplasia in an inner city adolescent population. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, May 2014. Kevin S. Smith1, Vanessa J. McDonald1, Babak Shokrani2.
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

A rare sequela of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2014, Article ID 291380. Vijay Kodadhala1,
Saravana Devulapalli2,Mohankumar Kurukumbi2 and Annapurni Jayam-Trouth2.
1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.

Telemedicine for retinal care in developing nations: the ORBIS Cyber-Sight programme, 2003-2011. J Telemed Telecare, 29 May 2014. Amin S, Patel R, Beilan J, Helveston EM, Saad Shaikh.
College of Medicine.

A novel use of early radiation therapy in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in a patient with primary hepatic lymphoma and chronic hepatitis C.
Case Rep Gastrointest Med., 2014: 724256. Tammana VS1, Begum R1, Oneal P1, Karpurapu H1, Muley A1, Yeruva SL1, Dunmore-Griffith J2, Mekonen E1, Hasan N3.
1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Department of Radiation Oncology, 3Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Reduction of pyramidal and immature hippocampal neurons in pediatric simian immunodeficiency virus infection. Neuroreport, Vol.25, No.9 (18 June 2014): 647-52. K. Curtis, Rollins M, Carryl H, Van Rompay KK, Abel K, Burke MW. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24870982
Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Morphometric and statistical analysis of the palmaris longus muscle in human and non-human primates. Biomed Res Int., 2014:178906. Roqueline A. G. M. F. Aversi-Ferreira, Bretas RV, Maior RS, Davaasuren M, Paraguassú-Chaves CA, Nishijo H, Tales Alexandre Aversi-Ferreira.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Association between intentional injury and long-term survival after trauma. Ann Surg., Vol.259, No.5 (May 2014): 985-92. Haider AH1, Young JH, Kisat M, Villegas CV, Scott VK, Ladha KS, Haut ER, Edward E. Cornwell III, MacKenzie EJ, Efron DT.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Abnormal pulmonary function and associated risk factors in children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol., Vol.36, No.3 (2014): 185-9. Arteta M1, Campbell A, Mehdi Nouraie, Sohail Rana, OC Onyekwere, Ensing G, Sable C, Dham N, Darbari D, Luchtman-Jones L, Kato GJ, Gladwin MT, Oswaldo L. Castro, Minniti CP, Gordeuk VR.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Glomerular interactions in olfactory processing channels of the antennal lobes. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol., Vol.199, No.11 (November 2013): 929-46. Thomas Heinbockel, Shields VD, Reisenman CE.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

No conclusive evidence that histologically found granulomas and acute local reactions following hylan G-F 20 injections are related or have clinical significance. J Knee Surg., Vol.27, No.2 (April 2014): 99-104. Waddell DD, Beyer A, Terry L. Thompson, Morawiak J, Elkins C, Rosenberg A, Spitzer A.
Department of Orthopedics, College of Medicine.

Levamisole-induced occlusive necrotising vasculitis in cocaine abusers: An unusual cause of skin necrosis and neutropenia. Int Wound J. , Vl.10, No.5 (October 2013): 590-6. Belfonte CD1, Shanmugam VK, Kieffer N, Coker S, Boucree S, Gail Kerr.
Division of Cardiology, College of Medicine.

Gastric Helicobacter pylori infection associates with an increased risk of colorectal polyps in African Americans. BMC Cancer, Vol.14, No.1 (2014): art. no. 296. Hassan Brim1, Zahaf, M., Adeyinka O. Laiyemo2, Mehdi Nouraie3, Pérez-Pérez, G.I., Duane T. Smoot2, Edward Lee1, Razjouyan, H., Hassan Ashktorab2.
1Department of Pathology, 2Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 3Sickle Cell Disease Center, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending May 24, 2014

Arts & Sciences

La correspondance du Roi Adandozan avec la couronne portugaise: Petite Histoire d’une grande amitié. In: Guy Saupin (ed.), Africains et Européens dans le monde atlantique, XVe-XIXe siècle, 129-151. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014. Ana Lucia Araujo.
Department of History, CoAS.

Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery. Routledge, 2014. Ana Lucia Araujo.
Department of History, CoAS.

Filter characterizations of paraLindelöf spaces and meta-Lindelöf spaces and some consequent product theorems. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol.93, No.1 (2014). James E. Joseph, Bhamini M.P. Nayar.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and iploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol.171, No.2 (June 2014): 277–355, Danwei Huang, Francesca Benzoni, Hironobu Fukami, Nancy Knowlton, Nathan D. Smith and Ann F. Budd.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Identifying anthropogenic ‘hotspots’ and management of water resources in Lake Chad Basin using GIS. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 21 May 2014. Churchill Okonkwo and Belay Demoz.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Atmospheric Science Program, Depatment of Physics & stronomy, CoAS.

Removal of superparamagnetic corrosion products and contaminants from drinking water using activated carbon. Desalination and Water Treatment, Vol.52, No.16-18 (2014): 3096-3103. Pulvirenti, A.L., Barkatt, A., Adel-Hadadi, M.A., Arthur N. Thorpe, Frank E. Senftle and Julius R. Grant.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Diaquabis(nicotinamide-κN1)bis(thiocyanato-κN) nickel(II). Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.5 (2014): m183. Pandey, D., Narvi, S.S., Mehrotra, G.K., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

2-Chloro-N-(2-chlorobenzoyl)-N-(2-ethyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinazolin-3-yl) benzamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt. 4 (April 2014): o503-o504. Bakare, O., Thompson, C., Brandy, Y., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

(E)-2-{[4-(dimethylamino)benzylidene]amino}-5-nitrophenol. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.5 (2014): o598-o599. Hijji, Y., Raymond J. Butcher, Jasinski, J.P.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Communications

Coping with smart phone ‘distractions’ in a college classroom. Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication, Vol.4, No.1 (Winter 2014): 13-23. Kehbuma Langmia and Amy Glass.
School of Communications.

The more friends, the less political talk? predictors of facebook discussions among college students. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social
Networking,
Vol.17, No.5 (2014): 271-275. Jang, S.M., Lee, H., Yong Jin Park.
Management Communications Graduate Program in Communication, Culture and Media Studies (CCMS), School of Communications.

Education

The Development of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CIS). Research in Science Education, Vol.44, No.3 (2014): 461-481. Meredith W. Kier, Blanchard, M.R., Osborne, J.W., Albert, J.L.
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education.

Health Sciences

New analogs of 3-pyridyl ether as potential new ligands with high affinity and efficacy at selective nAChRs. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28 No.1, Suppl. (April 2014): 1059.10. Adebowale Ogunjirin, Joseph Fortunak1, LaVerne Brown, Yingxian Xiao, Martha Davila-Garcia2.
1Depatment of Chemistry, CoAS; 2Department of Pharmaclogy, College of Medicine.

Blood pressure control and cardiovascular outcomes in normal-weight, overweight, and obese hypertensive patients treated with three different antihypertensives in ALLHAT. Journal of Hypertension, 16 May 2014. Reisin, Efrain; Graves, John W.; Yamal, José-Miguel; Barzilay, Joshua I.; Pressel, Sara L.; Einhorn, Paula T.; Dart, Richard A.; Tamrat M. Retta; Saklayen, Mohammad G.; Davis, Barry R.; for the ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Plain faces are more expressive: Comparative study of facial colour, mobility and musculature in primates. Biol. Lett., Vol.10, No.5 (2014). Sharlene E. Santana, Seth D. Dobson and Rui Diogo.
Depatment of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Rare manifestation of a rare disease: Acute liver failure in adult onset Still’s disease – Dramatic response to methylprednisolone pulse therapy. A case report and review. 2014. Valluru Nalini, Venkata S. Tammana, Michael Windham, Eyasu Mekonen, Rehana Begum, Andrew Sanderson.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

On the estimation of mutation rate based on oalescence genealogy. Journal of Advanced Bioinformatics Applications and Research, Vol.5, No.2 (2014): 56-71. Ao Yuan and Guanjie Chen.
National Human Genome Center, Department of Microbioloy, College of Medicine.

Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women of ethnic minority: a potential contributor to preeclampsia. J Perinatol., 22 May 2014. Inez V. Reeves1, Zabalda D. Bamji2, G.B. Rosario1, K.M. Lewis3, M.A. Young1, K.N. Washington2.
1Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, 2Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Human Genetics, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine.

The potential role of magnetic resonance spectroscopy in image-guided radiotherapy. Front Oncol., Vol.4 (5 May 2014): 91. Nguyen ML, Willows B, Khan R, Chi A, Kim L, Nour SG, Sroka T, Kerr C, Godinez J, Mills M, Karlsson U, Altdorfer G, Nam P. Nguyen, Jendrasiak G.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

Theta frequency activity during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is greater in people with resilience versus PTSD. Experimental Brain Research, Vol.232, No.5 (2014): 1479-1485. Cowdin, N., Ihori Kobayashi, Thomas A. Mellman.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Student perspectives on student leadership development programs. Am J Pharm Educ., Vol.78, No.4 (15 May 2014): 85. Arnall J, Porscha Johnson*, Lee J, Linder M, Lund N, Satpathy S.
College of Pharmacy.

Varicella-Zoster virus infection in children and adolescents. U.S. Pharmacist, Vol.39, No.5 (2014): 39-43. Adebola Adesoye, * Linda Nwachukwu*, Muideen Adigun, Alexander Oladele*.
College of Pharmacy.

Management of hepatitis C genotype 1 monoinfection. U.S. Pharmacist, Vol.39, No.4 (2014): 75-79. Makia Dove*, Clarice Carthon*, Monika N. Daftary.
College of Pharmacy.

Social Work

Social work practice: Innovation and social justice for a changing world. Social Work (United States), Vol.59, No.2 (2014): 101-102. Tricia B. Bent-Goodley.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending May 17, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Almost automorphic solutions to a Beverton–Holt dynamic equation with survival rate. Applied Mathematics Letters, 9 May 2014. Toka Diagana.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Quantifying aerosol direct effects from broadband irradiance and spectral aerosol optical depth observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 13 May 2014. Torreon N. Creekmore, Everette Joseph, Charles N. Long and Siwei Li.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Galvanomagnetic and thermoelectric properties of Te doped single-crystal bismuth wires. Physica Status Solidi (c), 14 May 2014. A. Nikolaeva, L. A. Konopko, Tito E. Huber, A. K. Tsurkan, D. F. Meglei and D. Yu. Matveev.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Thermoelectric properties of Bi2Te3 microwires. Physica Status Solidi (c), 14 May 2014. A. Konopko, A. A. Nikolaeva, Tito E. Huber and D. F. Meglei.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Growth of semiconducting iron sulphide thin films by chemical vapour deposition from air-stable single-source metal organic precursor for photovoltaic application. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, May 2014. Sohail Saeed, Rizwan Hussain and Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

2-Chloro-N-(2-chloro-benzo-yl)-N-(2-ethyl-4-oxo-3,4-di-hydro-quinazolin-3-yl)benzamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports. Vol.70, Pt.4 (29 March 2014): o503-4. Oladapo Bakare., Candice Thompson, Brandy Y, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

(E)-2-{[(Furan-2-ylmeth-yl)imino]-meth-yl}-4-nitro-phenol. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports, Vol.70, Pt.4 (15 March 2014): o451-2. Hijji Y, Azemati S1, Raymond J. Butcher, Jasinski JP.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Lower hemoglobin is associated with poorer cognitive performance and smaller brain volume in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol.62, No.5 (May 2014): 972–973. Charles R. Jonassaint, Vijay R. Varma, Yi-Fang Chuang, Gregory C. Harris, Sevil Yasar, Harmke Polinder-Bos and Michelle C. Carlson.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Amphony: Volume 4. AuthorHouse, 2014. Lady Janét R. Griffin.
Department of English, CoAS.

Business

Perceptions of civility for mobile phone use in formal and informal meetings. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, Vol.77, No.1 (March 2014): 52-64. Melvin C. Washington, Ephraim A. Okoro, and Peter W. Cardon.
School of Business.

Education

What the ACT and SAT mean for Black students' higher education prospects (Editor's Commentary). The Journal of Negro Education, Vol.83, No.1, Special Focus: Black Radicalism, Family and Community Engagement in Education (Winter 2014): 1-4. Ivory A. Toldson, Tyne McGee.
School of Education.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

An Iterative ℓ1-regularized least absolute deviation algorithm for robust GPR Imaging. IEEEXplore. Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2014 48th Annual Conference, 19-21 March 2014. Ndoye, Mandoye.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

The overrepresentation of black children in special education and the human right to education. In: Michael Gill and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (eds.), Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism, 205-217 (Ashgate, 2014). Jennifer Bronson.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Hippocampal astrocytes and Alzheimer's disease. Curr Alzheimer Res., 5 May 2014. John Young.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Association between intentional injury and long-term survival after trauma. Annals of Surgery, Vol.259, No.5 (2014): 985-992. Haider, A.H., Young, J.H., Kisat, M., Villegas, C.V., Scott, V.K., Ladha, K.S., Haut, E.R., Edward E. Cornwell III, Mackenzie, E.J., Efron, D.T.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine
.

A molecular dynamics simulation study of the association of 1,1’-binaphthyl-2,2’-diyl hydrogenphosphate enantiomers with a chiral molecular micelle. Chemical Physics, 15 May 2014. Kevin F. Morris, Eugene J. Billiot, Fereshteh H. Billiot, Ashley A. Gladis, Kenny B. Lipkowitz, William M. Southerland, Yayin Fang.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Hypoxic response contributes to altered gene expression and precapillary pulmonary hypertension in patients with sickle cell disease. Circulation, Vol.129, No.16 (2014): 1650-1658. Zhang, X., Zhang, W., Ma, S.-F., Desai, A.A., Saraf, S., Miasniakova, G., Sergueeva, A., Tatiana Ammosova, Min Xu, Sergei Nekhai, Taimur Abbasi, Casanova, N.G., Steinberg, M.H., Baldwin, C.T., Sebastiani, P., Prchal, J.T., Kittles, R., Garcia, J.G.N., MacHado, R.F., Gordeuk, V.R.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Feasibility of intensity-modulated and image-guided radiotherapy for locally advanced esophageal cancer. BMC Cancer, Vol.14, No.1 (2014): Art. No. 265. Nam P. Nguyen, Jang, S., Vock, J., Vinh-Hung, V., Chi, A., Vos, P., Pugh, J., Vo, R.A., Ceizyk, M., Desai, A., Smith-Raymond, L.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

Should antihypertensive treatment recommendation differ for patients with and without coronary heart disease? Report from the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT). Journal of the American Society of Hypertension, Vol.8, No.4, Suppl. (April 2014): e72–e73. Michael Alderman, Charles Ford, Barry Davis, Sarah Baraniuk, Paula Einhorn, Julian Haywood, Suzanne Oparil, Linda Piller, Tamrat Retta, for the ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Long intrahemispheric pathways of the human cerebral cortex visualized by dissection. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28, No.1, Suppl. LB21 (April 2014). Blair Turner and Margaret Knapp.
Department of Anatomy. College of Medicine.

Parallelism between ontogeny and phylogeny: A case study in amphibians. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28 No.1, Suppl.921.10 (April 2014 ). Janine Ziermann and Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy. College of Medicine.

Chemical peeling for melasma. In: Koushik Lahiri, Manas Chatterjee, Rashmi Sarkar (eds.), Pigmentary Disorders, 340-344 (JP Medical, 2014). Annyce Treherne and Valerie D. Callender.
Department of Dermatology. College of Medicine.

Evidence-based dental education: Suggested course outlines for first- and second-year dental hygiene students. International Journal of Dental Hygiene, May 2014. Brian Laurence and Dawn Smith.
College of Dentistry.

Ultra-Small Gold Nanoparticles as Carriers for Nucleus-Based Gene Therapy Due to Size-Dependent Nuclear Entry. ACS Nano, 2014. Shuaidong Huo, Shubin Jin, Ma Xiaowei, Xiangdong Xue, Keni Yang, Anil Kumar, Paul C Wang, Jinchao Zhang, Zhongbo Hu, and Xing-Jie Liang.
Department of Radiology. College of Medicine.


Week Ending May 10, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Educational assessment for the 21st century: Multicultural considerations. In: Frederick T.L. Leong et al. (eds.), APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology, Vol. 2: Applications and Training, 197-213. (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2014). A. Wade Boykin.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Distinguishing subgroups of the rationals by their Ramsey properties, ArXiv, May 2014. Ben Barber. Neil Hindman, Imre Leader, Dona Strauss.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

A free boundary problem for higher order elliptic operators. Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations, Vol.59, No.7 (2014): 937-946. Henok Mawi.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Exposure to prison sexual assault among incarcerated Black men. Journal of African American Studies, Vol.18, No.1 (2014): 54-62. Tawandra L. Rowell-Cunsolo, Roderick J. Harrison, Rahwa Haile.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, CoAS.

Education

Self-assessed emotional health among first year students at our great university: A trend analysis. 2014. Michael B. Wallace, Gerunda B. Hughes and Linell D. Edwards.
School of Education.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Performance evaluation of fuzzy PI/PD-based H∞ controller for BLDC drives: A real-time implementation. 14th International Conference on Sciences and Techniques of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering, STA, art. no. 6783112 (2013): 96-103. Ahmed Rubaai.
Department of Electrical Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Pulmonary complications in fatal acute severe hemorrhagic pancreatitis with multi-organ failure. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 189, Meeting Abstracts, 2014, American Thoracic Society 2014 International Conference, May 16-21, 2014 - San Diego. Vijay Kodadhala, Jhansi Gajjala, Rosanna Setse, Alicia Thomas.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

New onset supraventricular arrhythmias and outcomes in African American patients with severe sepsis in the medical intensive care unit. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 189, Meeting Abstracts, 2014, American Thoracic Society 2014 International Conference, May 16-21, 2014 - San Diego. O'Dene Lewis, Alicia Thomas, Roasanna Setse, Alem Mehari.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Prevalence of smoking and smoking cessation behavior among US versus foreign born adults in the United States. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 189, Meeting Abstracts, 2014, American Thoracic Society 2014 International Conference, May 16-21, 2014 - San Diego. Alicia N. Thomas, Alem Mehari, Octavius Polk, Adeyinka Laiyemo.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Abnormal position of central venous catheter revealing persistent left superior vena cava: A case Report. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 189, Meeting Abstracts, 2014, American Thoracic Society 2014 International Conference, May 16-21, 2014 - San Diego. Ahmar Malik, Amruta Muley, Rachel Jeanty, Alicia N. Thomas.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Pulmonary function impairment and human immunodeficiency virus infection in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 189, Meeting Abstracts, 2014, American Thoracic Society 2014 International Conference, May 16-21, 2014 - San Diego. Mestawet Teka, Christelle S. Tchiendji, Nandita Shetty, Janan Gohari, Nesreen Hag Ahmed, Alem Mehari.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Prevalence and clinical correlation of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in African Americans with ischemic stroke. Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2014. Saravana Devulapalli, Shariff Dunlap, Nakia Wilson, Stephen Cockburn, Mohankumar Kurukumbi, Prafulla Mehrotra, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.

Epigenetics, protein kinases and heart failure. In: Christopher J. Payne (ed.), Epigenetics and Epigenomics, 57-75. (InTech: 2014). Richard M. Millis1, M. Sadegh Asadi2, Vernon Bond, Jr.3, Georges E. Haddad1.
1Department of Physiology & Biophysics, 2Department of Neurology, 3Department of Health and Human Performance & Leisure Studies, College of Medicine and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Epigenetic mechanisms in autism spectrum disorders. In: Christopher J. Payne (ed.), Epgenetics and Epigenomics, 98-119. (InTech: 2014). Tafari Mbadiwe and Richard M. Millis.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics. College of Medicine.

Letter to the editor: Response to “Updated clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 30 April 2014. Elizabeth S. Klings, Claudia R. Morris, Lewis Hsu, Oswaldo Castro, Mark T. Gladwin, Kamal K. Mubarak.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Highly efficient production of a dengue pseudoinfectious virus. Vaccine, 4 May 2014. Xiaowu Pang, Yinhan Guo, Yanfei Zhou, Wenchuan Fu, Xinbin Gu.
Department of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry.

MS-monitored conjugation of poly(ethylene glycol) monomethacrylate to RGD peptides. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol.131, No.14 (2014), art. no. 40385. Oleg I. Bol'shakov and Emmanuel O. Akala
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences/Center for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), College of Pharmacy .

Highly sensitive simultaneous detection of mercury and copper ions by ultrasmall fluorescent DNA-Ag nanoclusters. New Journal of Chemistry, Vol.38, No.4 (2014): 1546-1550. Li, S., Cao, W., Kumar, A., Jin, S., Zhao, Y., Zhang, C., Zou, G., Paul C. Wang, Li, F., Liang, X.-J.
Department of Radiology. College of Medicine.

Comparison of a PCR serotyping assay, Check&Trace assay for Salmonella, and Luminex Salmonella serotyping assay for the characterization of Salmonella enterica identified from fresh and naturally contaminated cilantro. Food Microbiology, Vol.42 (2014): 181-187. Jean-Gilles Beaubrun, J., Ewing, L., Jarvis, K., Dudley, K., Grim, C., Gopinath, G., Flamer, M.-L., Auguste, W., Jayaram, A., J. Elmore, Lamont, M., McGrath, T., Hanes, D.E.
Department of Microbiology. College of Medicine.

Chemoprevention of skin cancer: Effect of Lawsonia inermis L. (henna) leaf powder and its pigment artifact, lawsone in the epstein- barr virus early antigen activation assay and in two-stage mouse skin carcinogenesis models. Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, Vol.13, No.10 (2013): 1500-1507. Govind J. Kapadia; Rao, G.S., Sridhar, R., Ichiishi, E., Takasaki, M., Suzuki, N., Konoshima, T., Iida, A., Tokuda, H.
College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending May 3, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Howard University Jazz Ensemble 2013 : Donald Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd, II. Washington, DC: Howard University/HUJE, 2013. Fred Irby III, Music Director.
Department of Music, CoAS.

Polymeric and cyclic manganese phosphates and phosphinates: Synthesis, spectral characterization and solid-state structures. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol.414 (1 April 2014): 264-273. Pothiraja, R., Rajakannu, P., Vishnoi, P., Raymond J. Butcher, Murugavel, R.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

(E)-2-{[4-(Dimethylamino)benzylidene]-amino}-5-nitrophenol. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports, Vol.70 (2014): o598–o599. Yousef Hijji, Raymond J. Butcher, Jerry P. Jasinsk.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

(E)-2-{[(Furan-2-ylmethyl)imino]methyl}-4-nitrophenol. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.4 (2014): o451-o452. Hijji, Y., Azemati, S., Raymond J. Butcher, Jasinski, J.P.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

2-Chloro-N-(2-chlorobenzoyl)-N-(2-ethyl-4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinazolin-3-yl) benzamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.4 (2014): o503-o504. Bakare, O., Thompson, C., Brandy, Y., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Unexpected hydrolytic instability of N-acylated amino acid amides and peptides. Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol.79, No.7 (2014): 3140-3151. J. Geno Samaritoni, Alexus T. Copes, Crews, D.K., Glos, C., Thompson, A.L., Wilson, C., O'Donnell, M.J., Scott, W.L.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

On general off-shell representations of world line (1D) supersymmetry. Symmetry, Vol.6, No.1 (2014): 67-88. Doran, C.F., Tristan Hübsch, Iga, K.M., Landweber, G.D.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Adinkra (in)equivalence from Coxeter group representations. International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol.29, No.6 (2014): Art. 1450029. Chappell, I., Gates, S.J., Tristan Hübsch.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

When all children comprehend: Increasing the external validity of narrative comprehension development research. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol.5 (13 March 2014): Article 168. Silas E. Burris, Danielle D. Brown.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Norms for five parameters of anger: How do incarcerated adults differ from the community? International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, Vol.13, No.1 (2014): 18-24. Fernandez, E., Irving Arevalo, Vargas, R., Torralba, A.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Diverse gastropod hosts of angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, globally and with a focus on the Hawaiian Islands. PLoS One, Vol.9, No.5 (2 May 2014): e94969. J.R.Kim, K.A. Hayes, N.W. Yeung, R.H. Cowie.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Business

Global use and access of social networking web sites: A national culture perspective. Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, Vol.8, No.1 (2014): 37-55. Wen Gong, Stump, R.L., Li, Z.G.
Department of Marketing, School of Business.

Telehealth-based systems for diagnosis, management, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders: Challenges, opportunities, and applications. In: Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care, (2013): 1044-1065. Angjellari-Dajci, F., Lawless, W.F., Agarwal, N., Oberleitner, R., Coleman, B., Masoud Kavoossi. http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/telehealth-based-systems-diagnosis-management/78069
Department of International Business, School of Business.

Communication

Medical dramas and viewer perception of health: Testing cultivation effects. Human Communication Research, 29 April 2014. Jae Eun Chung.
School of Communications.

Transnational communications, attitudes and fan identity: Studying Nigeria post-media reform. Soccer and Society, Vol.15, No.3 (2014): 389-410. Chuka Onwumechili, Oloruntola, S.
Department of Communication & Culture, School of Communications.

Education

Historically Black Colleges and Universities can promote leadership and excellence in STEM (Editor's commentary). Journal of Negro Education, Vol.82, No.4 (2013): 359-367. Ivory A. Toldson.
School of Education.

Health Sciences

Neurochemistry. Rijeka, Croatia: Intech Open Access Publisher, 2014. Thomas Heinbockel (ed.).
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Neurochemical communication: The case of endocannabinoids. In: Thomas Heinbockel (ed.), Neurochemistry, Ch. 6, 179-198, Rijeka, Croatia: Intech Open Access Publisher, 2014. Thomas Heinbockel.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

First detailed comparative, developmental and pathological analysis of the relationship between limb soft and hard tissues: muscle configuration is mainly related to the topological position, and not the anlage and/or homeotic identity, of digits. The FASEB Journal, April 2014, Vol.28, No.1, Suppl. (April 2014): 919.5. Rui Diogo, Sean Walsh, Christopher Smith, Janine Ziermann..

Smoking cessation treatment among office-based buprenorphine treatment patients. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 27 April 2014. Shadi Nahvi, Oni Blackstock, Nancy L. Sohler, Devin Thompson, Chinazo O. Cunningham.
College of Medicine.

Ischemic colitis in a patient With systemic lupus erythematosus: Case report and review of literature. Journal of Medical Cases, Vol.5, No.5 (May 2014): 292-294. Belen Asheber Tesfaye. Josia Narda Henry, Angesom Kibreab, Andrew Sanderson.
Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

MRI evidence of embryo implantation onto the fibromuscular uterine septum. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, 2014. Cox, J.M., Heitmann, R.J., Tiffany Hailstorks, Armstrong, A.Y.
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, College of Medicine.

Letter to the editor: Response to “Updated clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Available online 30 April 2014. Elizabeth S. Klings, Claudia R. Morris, Lewis Hsu, Oswaldo Castro, Mark T. Gladwin, Kamal K. Mubarak.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Prevalence and clinical correlation of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in African Americans with ischemic stroke. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Available online 29 April 2014. Saravana Devulapalli, Shariff Dunlap, Nakia Wilson, Stephen Cockburn, Mohankumar Kurukumbi, Prafulla Mehrotra, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.

Gastric helicobacter pylori infection associates with an increased risk of colorectal polyps in African Americans. BMC Cancer, Vol.14 (28 April 2014): 296 . Hassan Brim, Marwah Zahaf, Adeyinka O Laiyemo, Mehdi Nouraie, Guillermo I Pérez-Pérez, Duane T Smoot, Edward Lee, Hadie Razjouyan, Hassan Ashktorab.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

A novel use of early radiation therapy in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in a patient with primary hepatic lymphoma and chronic hepatitis C. Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, 2014, Article ID 724256, 5p. Venkata S. Tammana1, Rehana Begum1, Patricia Oneal1, Hemamalini Karpurapu1, Amruta Muley1, Sri Lakshmi Hyndavi Yeruva1, Jacquelyn Dunmore-Griffith2, EyasuMekonen1, Nabhani Hasan3.
1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Department of Radiation Oncology, 3Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Estimation of genetic effects incorporating prior information. Statistics and its Interface , Vol.7, No.1 (2014): 43-50. Ao Yuan, Li, Q., Qin, J., Zheng, G.
Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Unit, National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine.


Week Ending April 26, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Existence results for some damped second-order Volterra integro-differential equations. Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol.237 (15 June 2014): 304-317. Toka Diagana.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Parity-dependent rotational energy transfer in CN(A2Π, ν = 4, j F 1ε) + N2, O2, and CO2 Collisions. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.118, No.11 (2014): 2007-2017. McGurk, S.J., Joshua B. Halpern, McKendrick, K.G., Costen, M.L
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

4-Hydroxy-5-methoxy-N,1-dimethyl-2-oxo-N-[4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-1, 2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.3 (2014): o297-o298. Akinboye, E.S., Raymond J. Butcher, Yildirim, S.O., Isaacs, J.T.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Bis(η5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)aluminium tetrabromidoaluminate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.3 (2014): m88-m89. Purdy, A.P., Dugger, C., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Bis[(2-methylbenzyl)bis(pyridin-2-ylmethyl-κN)amine-κN] manganese(II) bis(perchlorate). Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.3 (2014): m100-m101. Raymond J. Butcher, Gultneh, Y., Yisgedu, T.B.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Poly[tetrakis(μ-1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropan-2-olato)iron(II)dipotassium]. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.2 (2014): m32-3. Purdy AP, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Tris(2,6-dibenzoyl-4-methyl-phenolato-κ(2) O (1),O (2))cobalt(III). Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.2 (2014): m67-8. Gupta AK, Srivastava S, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

1-Aza-niumyl-cyclo-butane-1-carboxyl-ate monohydrate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.2 (2014):o217-8. Raymond J. Butcher, Brewer G, Burton AS, Dworkin JP.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Education

Supporting teachers' technology integration: A descriptive analysis of social and teaching presence in technical support sessions. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, Vol.22, No.2 (2014): 137-165. J Albert, M Blanchard, Meredith Kier, S Carrier, G Gardner.
School of Education.

Health Sciences

Cranial muscle development in frogs with different developmental modes: Direct development versus biphasic development. Journal of Morphology, Vol.275, No.4 (2014): 398-413. Janine M. Ziermann, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The anatomy and ontogeny of the head, neck, pectoral, and upper limb muscles of lemur catta and propithecus coquereli (primates): Discussion on the parallelism between ontogeny and phylogeny and implications for evolutionary and developmental biology. The Anatomical Record, May 2014. Rui Diogo, Julia L. Molnar and Timothy D. Smith
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Ethnic differences in the relationship between birth weight and type 2 diabetes mellitus in postmenopausal women. Diabetes & Metabolism, Available online 21 April 2014. K.K. Ryckmana, E. Rillamas-Sunb, C.N. Spracklena, R.B. Wallacea, j, L. Garciac, F.A. Tylavskyd, B.V. Howard, S. Liuf, Y. Songf, E.S. LeBlancg, M.V. Whiteh, N.I. Parikhi, J.G. Robinsona.
Medstar Health Research Institute and Georgetown/Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Research, College of Medicine.

Feasibility of intensity-modulated and image-guided radiotherapy for locally advanced esophageal cancer. BMC Cancer, 2014, Vol.14 (2014): 7p. Nam P Nguyen, Siyoung Jang, Jacqueline Vock, Vincent Vinh-Hung, Alexander Chi, Paul Vos, Judith Pugh, Richard A Vo, Misty Ceizyk, Anand Desai, Lexie Smith-Raymond, and the International Geriatric Radiotherapy Group.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Benchmarking trauma centers on mortality alone does not reflect quality of care: Implications for pay-for-performance. J Trauma Acute Care Surg., Vol.76, No.5 (May 2014): 1184-91. Hashmi ZG1, Schneider EB, Castillo R, Haut ER, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Edward E. Cornwell III, Mackenzie EJ, Latif A, Haider AH.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

An evaluation of treatment strategies for head and neck cancer in an african american population. West Indian Med J., Vol.62, No.6 (2013): 504-9. D.N. Ignacio1, J.J. Griffin2, M.G. Daniel1, M.T. Serlemitsos-Day1, F.A. Lombardo1, Alleyne TA.
1College of Pharmacy, 2College of Dentistry.


Week Ending April 19, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie.
Department of History, CoAS.

Experimental and computational study on 2,2’-[(1E,2E)-hydrazine-1,2-diylidenedi(1E)eth-1-yl-1-ylidene]diphenol and Its Ni(II), Pt(II), Pd(II) Complexes. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 12 April 2014. Saliha Alyar, Neslihan Özbek, Sema Öztürk Yıldırım, Semra İde, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Heterocyclic-2-thione Derivatives of Silver(I): The Methyl Substituent at N1atom of a Imidazoline-2-thione/Imidazolidine-2-thione Alters a Dimer [Ag2(HL)4(PPh3)2](NO3)2 into a Monomer [Ag(HL)2(PPh3)](NO3). Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemiess, 2014. Lobana, T.S., Sultana, R., Raymond J. Butcher, Jasinski, J.P., Akitsu, T.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Temperature and magnetic dependence of the resistance and thermopower in the topological insulator Bi1−xSbx nanowires. Physica Status Solidi (a), April 2014. Albina Nikolaeva, Leonid Konopko, Tito E. Huber, Ivan Popov, Pavel Bodiul and Evghenii Moloshnik.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Effect of weak and high magnetic fields in longitudinal and transverse configurations on magneto-thermoelectric properties of quantum Bi wires. Surface Engineering and Applied Electrochemistry, Vol.50, No.1 (2014): 57-62. Nikolaeva, A., Konopko, L., Tito E. Huber, Para, G., Tsurkan, A.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Corrigendum to “New indices for wet scavenging of air pollutants (O3, CO, NO2, SO2, and PM10) by summertime rain” [Atmos. Environ. 82 (2014) 226–237]. Atmospheric Environment, 13 April 2014. Jung-Moon Yoo, Yu-Ri Lee, Dongchul Kim, Myeong-Jae Jeong, William R. Stockwell, Prasun K. Kundu, Soo-Min Oh, Dong-Bin Shin, Suk-Jo Lee.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Divinity

Methodologies in African American theology. In: Anthony B. Pinn, Katie G. Cannon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology, 124-138 (Oxford University Press, 2014). Frederick Ware.
School of Divinity.

Health Sciences

Folliculitis keloidalis nucchae and psuedofolliculitis barbae. In: Nonhlanhla P Khumalo (ed.), African Skin and Hair Disorders: An Issue of Dermatologic Clinics (Elsevier Health Sciences, 2014). Rebat M. Halder.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

A double-blind, randomized, multicenter, controlled trial of suspended polymethylmethacrylate microspheres for the correction of atrophic facial acne scars. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 13 April 2014. Jwala Karnik, Leslie Baumann, Suzanne Bruce, Valerie D. Callender, Steven Cohen, Pearl Grimes, John Joseph, Ava Shamban, James Spencer, Ruth Tedaldi, William Philip Werschler, Stacy R. Smith.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Comparative anatomy, evolution, and homologies of tetrapod hindlimb muscles, comparison with forelimb muscles, and deconstruction of the forelimb-hindlimb serial homology hypothesis. The Anatomical Record, April 2014. Rui Diogo, Julia Molnar.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Morphometric and sstatistical analysis of the palmaris longus muscle in human and non-human primates. BioMed Research International, 2014, Article ID 178906. Roqueline A. G.M. F. Aversi-Ferreira, Rafael Vieira Bretas, Rafael SoutoMaior, Munkhzul Davaasuren, Carlos Alberto Paraguassú-Chaves, Hisao Nishijo, and Tales Alexandre Aversi-Ferreira.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Maturation of vascular anatomy in the zebrafish brain. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28, No.1, Suppl.726.1 (April 2014). Sulman Rahmat, Edwin Gilland, Thomas Heinbockel.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Deconstructing the dogma of fore and hindlimb serial homology: Evidence from regenerative, developmental, comparative, paleontological and evolutionary studies. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28 No.1, Suppl.919.3 (April 2014). Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann, Peter Johnston.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Analyzing developmental sequences with parsimov-A case study of cranial muscle development in anuran larvae. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 2014. Janine M. Ziermann, C. Mitgutsch, L. Olsson.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Specialize or disappear: anisomerism, empirical evidence of the differentiation or loss of polyisomere structures during gnathostome evolution based on a comparative study of head and appendicular muscles. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28, No.1, Suppl.918.27 (April 2014). Janine Ziermann, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy College of Medicine.

Early results of Massachusetts health care reform on racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular care. Circulation, 11 April 2014. Michelle A. Albert, John Z. Ayanian, Treacy S. Silbaugh, Ann Lovett, Fred Resnic, Aryana Jacobs, Sharon-Lise T. Normand.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Etiology and epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in relation to gender differences among African American patients (I12-1.002). Neurology, 2 May 2014. Lien Diep, Robert Farney, Stacy Cary-Thompson, Jean Belcourt, Robert Farney, Janaki Kalyanam, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.

Mo1494 evaluation of pancreatic cysts without history of pancreatitis in African Americans. Can diabetes mellitus be considered as a risk factor? Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Vol.79, No.5, Suppl. (May 2014): AB350. Anahita Shahnazi, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Hassan Ashktorab, Andrew Sanderson.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Global burden of atrial fibrillation in developed and developing nations. Global Heart, Vol.9, No.1 (March 2014): 113-119. Sumeet S. Chugh, Gregory A. Roth, Richard F. Gillum, George A. Mensah.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Relationships of posttraumatic stress symptoms and sleep measures to cognitive performance in young-adult African Americans. Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol.27, No.2 (April 2014): 217–223, Janeese A. Brownlow, Tyish S. Hall Brown, Thomas A. Mellman.
Department of Psychiatry College of Medicine.

Perceived discrimination in health care is associated with a greater burden of ppain in sickle cell disease. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 15 April 2014. Carlton Haywood Jr., Marie Diener-West, John Strouse, C. Patrick Carroll, Shawn Bediako, Sophie Lanzkron, Jennifer Haythornthwaite, Gladys Onojobi, Mary Catherine Beach, for the IMPORT Investigators.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.

PACAP protects against inflammatory-mediated toxicity in dopaminergic SH-SY5Y Cells: Implication for Parkinson’s disease. Neurotoxicity Research, April 2014. Dwayne Brown, Andrea Tamas, Dora Reglodi, Yousef Tizabi.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Angiotensin-II mediates ACE2 internalization and degradation through an angiotensin-II type I receptor-dependent mechanism. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28, No.1, Suppl.1066.9 (April 2014 ). Catalin Filipeanu, Matthew Deshotels, Huijing Xia, Eric Lazartigues.
Department of Pharmacology College of Medicine.

Assessment of satisfaction with pharmaceutical services in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in outpatient HIV treatment setting. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, April 2014. Kenneth Anene Agu, Dorothy Oqua, Peter Agada, Samuel I. Ohiaeri, Afusat Adesina, Mohammed Habeeb Abdulkareem, Rosalyn C. King, Anthony K. Wutoh.
College of Pharmacy, Pharmacist and Continuing Education (PACE) Center.

pH-responsive mesoporous silica nanoparticles employed in controlled drug delivery systems for cancer treatment. Cancer Biol Med., Vol.11, No.1 (March 2014): 34-43. Yang KN, Zhang CQ, Wang W, Paul C. Wang, Zhou JP, Liang XJ.
Department of Radiology College of Medicine.

Abnormal pulmonary function and associated risk factors in children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Vol.36, No.3 (2014): 185-189. Arteta, M., Campbell, A., Mehdi Nouraie, Sohail Rana, Onyekwere, O.C., Ensing, G., Sable, C., Dham, N., Darbari, D., Luchtman-Jones, L., Kato, G.J., Gladwin, M.T., Oswaldo L. Castro, Minniti, C.P., Gordeuk, V.R.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.


Week Ending April 12, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Synthesis and characterization of novel fulleropyrrolidine in P3HT blended bulk heterojunction solar cells. Polymer (United Kingdom), Vol.55, No.7 (2014): 1769-1781. Praveen Pitliya, Sun, Y., Garza, J.C., Liu, C., Gong, X., Karim, A., Dharmaraj Raghavan.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Education

Differential treatment of African American males referred for special education services. African American Learners, Vol.2, No.2 (2014). William Drakeford, Mercedes E. Ebanks.
School of Education.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Modeling and simulation of microstructurally small crack formation and growth in notched nickel-base superalloy component. Journal of Materials Science and Technology, Vol.30, No.3 (2014): 203-212. Gbadebo M. Owolabi, Horace A. Whitworth.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, CEACS.

Preface. Procedia Computer Science, Vol.19 (2013): 962. Jiang Li.
Department of Computer Science, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Antidepressant effects of resveratrol in an animal model of depression. Behavioural Brain Research, 6 April 2014. Laura L. Hurley, Luli Akinfiresoye, Olubukola Kalejaiye, Yousef Tizabi.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

The effect of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor -α activation and apocynin on superoxide dismutase and NADPH oxidase expression in the brains of mice during angiotensin II-induced hypertension. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28, No.1, Suppl.1067.9 (April 2014). Michelle Bouchelion, Addias Mervin, Dexter Lee, Joanne Allard.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Akt/PI3K signaling sustains the chronic alcoholic effects on the heart. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28, No.1, Suppl.862.6 (April 2014). Nsini Umoh, Miara Jeffress, Georges Haddad.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Diabetes is not associated with an increased peri-operative mortality or non-infectious morbidity following lower extremity arterial reconstruction. American Journal of Surgery, Vol.207, No.4 (2014): 573-577. Kakra Hughes, Leybelis Padilla, Batul Al-Zubeidy, Oluwaseyi Bolorunduro, David Rose, Edward E. Cornwell III, Patricia Turner, Wendy Greene.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Glycated hemoglobin measurement and prediction of cardiovascular disease. JAMA, Vol.311, No.12 (26 March 2014): 1225-33. Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, [truncated], Richard F. Gillum, et al.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine.

Gender and the association of smoking with sleep quantity and quality in American adults. Women Health, Vol.54, No.1 (January 2014): 1-14. Alem Mehari, Nargues A. Weir, Richard F. Gillum.
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine.

Oxidized cholesterol is a potent inducer of hypertension and endothelial dysfunction. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28, No.1, Suppl.LB445 (2014). Thomas Fungwe, Tahar Hajri.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Chromium 3+ as a therapy for diabetes type 2. The FASEB Journal, Vol.28m No.1 Suppl.828.1 (April 2014). Barbara Harland, Donald Oberleas.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Social Work

Autism in the African American population. In: Vinood B. Patel et. al (eds.), Comprehensive Guide to Autism,. 2455-2467. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 2014. Ruby M. Gourdine, Carl L. Algood.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending April 5, 2014

Arts & Sciences

2-Chloro-N-(2-chloro­benzo­yl)-N-(2-ethyl-4-oxo-3,4-di­hydro­quinazolin-3-yl)benzamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.4 (April 2014). O. Bakare, C. Thompson, Y. Brandy, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Heterocyclic-2-thione derivatives of silver(I): The methyl substituent at N1atom of a imidazoline-2-thione/Imidazolidine-2-thione alters a dimer [Ag2(HL)4(PPh3)2](NO3)2 into a monomer [Ag(HL)2(PPh3)](NO3). Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, April 2014. Tarlok S. Lobana, Razia Sultana, Raymond J. Butcher, Jerry P. Jasinski and Takashiro Akitsu.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS. .

Ecoliteracy for ecology and ecologists: eroded underpinnings. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Vol.12 (2014): 194–195. George Middendorf, Bob R Pohlad.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Actualizing the human capital and social development of Nigeria Vision 20:2020: The role of social ethics. Online Journal of African Affairs, Vol.3, No.3 (March 2014): 37-41. Jude Chinweuba Asike, Ogugua Patricia Anwuluorah.
Department of African Studies, CoAS.

Professional responsibilities versus familial responsibilities: An examination of role conflict among first responders during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. J Emerg Manag., Vol.12, No.1 (January-February 2014): 45-54. T. Adams, M. Turner M.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, CoAS.

Health Sciences

Is evolutionary biology becoming too politically correct? A reflection on the scala naturae, phylogenetically basal clades, anatomically plesiomorphic taxa, and "lower" animals (919.4). FASEB Journal, Vol. 28, No.1, Suppl. 919.4 (April 2014). Rui Diogo, Janine Ziermann, Marta Linde-Medina.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Is salamander limb regeneration really perfect? Anatomical and morphogenetic analysis of forelimb muscle regeneration in GFP-transgenic axolotls as a basis for regenerative, developmental, and evolutionary studies. The Anatomical Record, Published Online : 2 April 2014. Rui Diogo, E. Nacu, E.M. Tanaka.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Analyzing developmental sequences with Parsimov—A case study of cranial muscle development in anuran larvae. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 2 April 2014. Janine M. Ziermann, Christian Mitgutsch, Lennart Olsson.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Adeno-associated virus Type 2 Rep proteins mediate integration of lentiviral vector. J PrePrints, 31 Mar 2014. Victor J. McAlister, Anthony T. Craig, Roland A. Owens.
Department of Genetics and Human Genetics, Howard University Graduate School.

A p H-responsive mesoporous silica nanoparticles employed in controlled drug delivery systems for cancer treatment. Cancer Biology & Medicine. Vol.11, No.1 (March 2014). Ke-Ni Yang, Chun-Qiu Zhang, Wei Wang, Paul C. Wang, Jian-Ping Zhou, Xing-Jie Liang.

Glycated hemoglobin measurement and prediction of cardiovascular disease. JAMA, Vol.311, No.12 (26 March 2014): 1225-33. Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, [truncated], Richard F. Gillum, et al.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Relationship between serum 1, 25(OH)2 D and non-calcified and calcified coronary artery plaque volume in asymptomatic adults with family history of early onset coronary artery disease: findings from the Genestar Cohort. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol.63, No.12, Suppl. (1 April 2014): A1327. Muhammad Amer, Rehan Qayyum, Lisa Yanek, Taryn Moy, Diane Becker, Lewis Becker, Brian Kral.
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Howard University Hospital.

Enhanced satellite cell activity in aging skeletal muscle after manual acupuncture-induced injury. Chinese Medicine, Vol.5 (2014): 22-33. Sonya K. Sobrian1, Eric Walters2.
1Department of Pharmacology, 2Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Improving HIV treatment adherence through a public private partnership in Zambia. World Journal of AIDS, Vol.4 (2014): 107-117. Henry Fomundam, Andrew Maranga, Joseph Kamanga, Abraham Tesfay, Tamara Choola, Stephen Nyangu, Anthony Wutoh.
Division of Nursing, CNAHS.

Challenges and possible solutions to colorectal cancer screening for the underserved. J Natl Cancer Institute, First published online 28 March 2014. Samir Gupta, Daniel A. Sussman, Chyke A. Doubeni, Daniel S. Anderson, Lukejohn Day, Amar R. Deshpande, B. Joseph Elmunzer, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, et al.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Comparative anatomy of the carotid basilar arterial trunk and hindbrain penetrating arteries in vertebrates. The Open Anatomy Journal, 2014, Vol.6, 1-26 2014. Sulman Rahmat, Edwin Gilland.
College of Medicine.

A novel use of Early Radiation Therapy in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in a patient with Primary Hepatic Lymphoma and Chronic Hepatitis C. Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, 2014. Venkata Tammana, Begum Rehana, Patricia Oneal, Hemamalini Karpurapu, Amruta Muley, Sri Lakshmi Hyndavi Yeruva, Jacquelyn Dunmore-Griffith, Eyasu Mekonen, and Nahani Hasan
Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

Associations of hydroxychloroquine use with lipid profiles in rheumatoid arthritis: Pharmacologic implications. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 1 April 2014. Gail Kerr, Aujero M, Richards J, Sayles H, Davis L, Cannon G, Caplan L, Michaud K, Mikuls T.
Division of Rheumatology, Howard University Hospital.

Polypodium leucotomos as an adjunct treatment of pigmentary disorders. J Clin Aesthet Dermatol., Vol.7, No.3 (March 2014): 13-17. M. Nestor, V. Bucay, Valerie D. Callender, J.L. Cohen, N. Sadick, H. Waldorf.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Social Work

Social work pPractice: Innovation and social justice for a changing world. Social Work, 1 April 2014 . Tricia B. Bent-Goodley.
School of Social Work.

Chronic fatigue syndrome: When being tired takes over your life. CSA Journal, Vol.57 (2013): 15-18. Irene V. Jackson-Brown.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending March 29, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Chemistry of anionic cis-dioxidovanadium(V) complexes containing protonated organic bases as counterion: Self-assembly, oligomerization and photoinduced reactivity. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2014, Article not published yet, but available online. Samanta, S., Bhattacharya, K., Kundu, S., Raymond J. Butcher, Chaudhury, M.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Bright and dark solitons in optical metamaterials. Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Available online 25 March 2014. Anjan Biswas, Kaisar R. Khan, Mohammad F. Mahmood, Milivoj Belic.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Characteristics of drought indices and rainfall in Lake Chad Basin. International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol.34, No.22 (2013): 7945-7961. Churchill Okonkwo, Belay Demoz, Kyrian Onyeukwu.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

+ Does quantum entanglement in DNA synchronize the catalytic centers of type II restriction endonucleases? arXiv, 1403.5342v1 [physics.bio-ph] 21 March 2014. P. Kurian1,2,3 , G. Dunston2,4, J. Lindesay1,2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS, 2Computational Physics Laboratory, CoAS, 3National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine, 4Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine. .

Divinity

Teaching exegesis in historically Black theological schools. Teaching Theology & Religion, Vol.17, No.2 (April 2014): 141–164, Andrew Mbuvi, James Ashmore, Alice Ogden Bellis, Robert Wafawanaka, Randall C. Bailey, Dora Mbuwayesango, Michael Willett Newheart.

Health Sciences

Estimating the influence of maternal height on under-five mortality in Nigeria. African Journal of Reproductive Health, Vol.18, No.1 (March 2014): 54-60. Ngozi Y Enwerem, Augustine C Obirieze, David M Bishai.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Maragheh ungulate mesowear: Interpreting paleodiet and paleoecology from a diverse fauna with restricted sample sizes. Ann. Zool. Fennici, Vol.51 (2014): 201-208. Raymond L. Bernor, G. Semprebon, J. Damuth.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Contributions from the Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, March 2014 update. Miranda J. Armour-Chelu1, Raymond L. Bernor1, Rui Diogo1, Daryl P. Domning1, S. Taseer Hussain1, Irina A. Koretsky1 Sulman J. Rahmat1, Nathan D. Smith2, Janine M. Ziermann1, et al.
1Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine; 2Department of Biology, CoAS.

Specialized features of the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus. In: Bertalan Dudás (ed.), The Human Hypothalamus: Anatomy, Functions and Disorders, 31-66 (New York: NOVA Publishers, 2013). John K. Young1, Eva K. Polson2.
1Department of Anatomy, 2Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Ernest Everett Just: Egg and embryo as excitable systems. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 24 March 2014. W. Malcolm Byrnes, Stuart A. Newman.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Advances and challenges in hair restoration of curly afrocentric hair. Dermatologic Clinics, Vol.32, No.2 (April 2014): 163-171. Nicole E. Rogers, Valerie D. Callender.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Folliculitis keloidalis nuchae and pseudofolliculitis barbae: Are prevention and effective treatment within reach? Dermatologic Clinics, Vol.32, No.2 (April 2014): 183-191. Andrew Alexis, Candrice R. Heath, Rebat M. Halder.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Hierarchical clustering methodology for exploration of proteomic profile in tears: Seeking for markers of uveitis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Arthritis & Rheumatology, Vol.66 (March 2014): S168. Sergei Nekhai, Alla Hynes, Tatiana Ammosova, Yuri Obukhov, Ekaterina Gaidar, Anatoly Kononov, Margarita Dubko, Tatiana Nikitina, Elena Serogodskaia, Mikhail Kostik, Olga Kalashnikova, Vera Masalova, Ludmila Snegireva and Vyacheslav Chasnyk.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Is the CCR5-delta32 mutation protective against systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis? Arthritis & Rheumatology, Vol.66 (March 2014): S171. Vyacheslav Chasnyk, Elena Fedorova, Andrey Egorov, Tatiana Ammosova, Sergei Nekhai, Mikhail Kostik, Andrei Santimov, Margarita Dubko, Olga Kalashnikova, Vera Masalova, Tatyana Likhacheva, Ludmila Snegireva and Alexei Grom.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

+ Does quantum entanglement in DNA synchronize the catalytic centers of type II restriction endonucleases? arXiv: 1403.5342v1 [physics.bio-ph], 21 March 2014. P. Kurian1,2,3 , G. Dunston2,4, J. Lindesay1,2.
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS,
2Computational Physics Laboratory, CoAS, 3National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine, 4Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

A mutant p53/let-7i-axis-regulated gene network drives cell migration, invasion and metastasis. Oncogene, 24 March 2014. M Subramanian, P Francis, S Bilke, X L Li, T Hara, X Lu, M F Jones, R L Walker, Y Zhu, M Pineda, C Lee, L Varanasi, Y Yang, L A Martinez, J Luo, S Ambs, Sudha Sharma, L M Wakefield, P S Meltzer, A Lal.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Developing best practices to study trauma outcomes in large databases: An evidence-based approach to determine the best mortality risk adjustment model. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Vol.76, No.4 (April 2014): 1061-1069. Adil H. Haider, Zain G. Hashmi, Syed Nabeel Zafaar, Renan Castillo, Elliott R. Haut, Eric B. Schneider, Edward E. Cornwell III, Ellen J. Mackenzie, David T. Efron.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.


Week Ending March 22, 2014

Arts & Science

Triphenyltellurium chloride. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports, 2014. Ambika Chopra, Shalini Jain, Sanjay K. Srivastava, Sushil K. Gupta, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

(E)-2-{[(Furan-2-ylmethyl)imino]methyl}-4-nitrophenol. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports, 2014. Yousef Hijji, Samira Azemati, Raymond J. Butcher, Jerry P. Jasinski.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Chemistry of anionic cis-dioxidovanadium(V) complexes containing protonated organic bases as counterion: Self-assembly, oligomerization and photoinduced reactivity. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2014, Article not published yet, but available online. Samanta, S., Bhattacharya, K., Kundu, S., Raymond J. Butcher, Chaudhury, M.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Adinkras and SUSY holography: Some explicit examples. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, Vol.29, No.7 (2014): 14p. S. James Gates Jr., Tristan Hübsch, Kory Stiffler.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Is zero economic growth necessary to prevent climate catastrophe? Science & Society, Vol.78, No.2 (2014): 235-240. David Schwartzman.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Toward a critical appreciation of political globalization: Gender in the service of the internationalized national security state. Mervat Hatem.
Department of Political Science, CoAS.

Health Sciences

Recovery in a family context: Experiences of mothers with serious mental illnesses. Journal Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2014. Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song1, Billy D. Holcombe1, John Torrey2, Maria Mananita S. Hipolito2, Loretta D. Peterson3.
1Department of Psychology, CoAS; 2Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine; 3Mental Health Clinic, HU Hospital.

Eccentric muscle challenge shows osteopontin polymorphism modulation of muscle damage. Human Molecular Genetics, 13 Mar 2014. Whitney Barfield1, Kitipong Uaesoontrachoon, Chung-Sheih Wu2, Stephen Lin2, Yue Chen2, Paul C. Wang2, Yasmine Kanaan1, Vernon Bond3, Eric P. Hoffman.
1Department of Microbiology, 2Department of Radiology, College of Medicine; 3Department of Health, Human Performance and Leisure Studies, Graduate School.

Respiratory health equality in the United States: the American thoracic society perspective. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, Feb 2014. Juan C. Celedón, Jesse Roman, Dean E Schraufnagel, Alvin Thomas, Jonathan Samet, and a working group of the Health Equality Sub-Committee of the American Thoracic Society Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Midterm outcomes of revisional surgery for gastric pouch and gastrojejunal anastomotic enlargement in patients with weight regain after gastric bypass for morbid obesity. Obesity Surgery, Mar 2014. Abdulrahman Hamdi, Christopher Julien, Phillip Brown, Ian Woods, Anas Hamdi, Gezzer Ortega, Terrence Fullum, Daniel Tran.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Do correlation patterns reflect the role of development in morphological evolution? Evolutionary Biology, Mar 2014. Marta Linde-Medina, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Identification of both GABAA receptors and voltage-activated Na(+) channels as molecular targets of anticonvulsant α-asarone. Front Pharmacology, Vol.5 (11 Mar 2014): 40. Z.J. Wang, S.R. Levinson, Sun L1, Thomas Heinbockel.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

A mediational model of racial discrimination and alcohol-related problems among african american college students. J Stud Alcohol Drugs, Vol.75, No.2 (2014): 228-34. Boynton MH, O'Hara RE, Covault J, Denise Scott, Tennen H.
Collaborative Alcohol Research Center, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Social Work

Relational cultural theory and field education. Field Scholar, Vol.3, No.2 (Fall 2013). Janice Berry Edwards, Janice M. Davis, Cynthia E Harris.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending March 15 , 2014

Arts & Science

Characterization of West African jet streams and their association to ENSO events and rainfall in ERA-interim 1979–2011. Advances in Meteorology, 2014, Article ID 405617, 12p. Churchill Okonkwo, Belay Demoz, Sium Tesfai.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

AEROSE truth datasets - Satellite sounder Environmental Data Record (EDR) validation over open ocean. NOAA Aerosols and Ocean Science Expeditions (AEROSE). 2014. Nicholas R. Nalli, C. D. Barnet, T. Reale, Everett Joseph, Vernon R. Morris, A. Gambacor, H. Xie, E. S. Maddy, F. Iturbide Sanchez, M. G. Divakarla, M. Szczodrak, J. W. Smith, C. Spells, E. D. Roper.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

NOAA aerosols and ocean science expeditions (AEROSE) and satellite sounder validation. 2014 AMS Annual Meeting. Nicholas R. Nalli, C. D. Barnet, D. Wolfe, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, M. Divakarla1, M. Szczodrak, P. J. Minnett, T. Reale, M. I. Oyola, Everette Joseph, Vernon R. Morris, B. Sun, H. Xie, J. W. Smith, A. Gambacorta, T. King, E. D. Roper.
Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

The association between mindfulness, depressive symptoms and neuroticism in older African Americans. J Depress Anxiety, 2014, S1. Mana K Ali, Denee T Mwendwa, Regina C Sims, Keith E Whitfield.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.
http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/the-association-between-mindfulness-depressive-symptoms-and-neuroticism-in-older-african-americans-2167-1044-S1-001.pdf

Ether formation on the tridentate Schiff base ligands of copper(II) complexes. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 4 Mar 2014. Raymond J. Butcher, Larry Hick, Roger Kanitz, Karin Maxwell, Garry Mockler, Cody Szczepina.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

The ecopoetics of Tijan M. Sallah. In: Wumi Raji (ed.), Contemporary Literature of Africa: Tijan M. Sallah and Literary Works of t he Gambia, 115-142 (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2014). R. Victoria Arana.
Department of English, CoAS.

Finite-sided deformation spaces of complete affine 3-manifolds. Journal of Topology, Vol.7, No.1 (2014): art. no. jtt028, 225-246. Charette, V., Todd A. Drumm, Goldman, W.M.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Was U.S. emancipation exceptional in the Atlantic, or other worlds? American South and the Atlantic World (Sep 2013): 149-169. Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie.
Department of History, CoAS.

White supremacy and the question of black citizenship in the post-emancipation South. In: William A. Link (ed.), Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South, 223-246 (University of Florida Press, 2013). Daryl M. Scott.
Department of History, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Studies of a rooftop cooling tower and its seismic protective system. 2014. C. Marin-Artieda, K. Kea, T. Valencia.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Polysomnographic sleep characteristics of generally-anxious and healthy children assessed in the home nnvironment. Journal of Affective Disorders, Available online 12 March 2014. Michelle A. Patriquin, Thomas A. Mellman, Daniel G. Glaze, Candice A. Alfano.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032714000858

Medical mistrust, conspiracy beliefs & HIV-related behavior among African Americans. Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Vol.1 No.1 (Dec 2013): Kelsey Ball, William Lawson, Tanya Alim.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Validation of the osteoporosis self-assessment tool in US male veterans Journal of Clinical Densitometry, Vol.17, No.1 (2014): 32-37. Richards, J.S., Lazzari, A.A., Teves Qualler, D.A., Desale, S., Howard, R., Gail S. Kerr.
Department of Rheumatology, College of Medicine.

Peritoneal tuberculosis: Looking beyond the typical pathology. Open Journal of Internal Medicine, Vol.4 (2014): 1-6. O'Dene Lewis, Suneel Tammana, Peter Sealy.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Not there yet: Medicare part d and elimination of cardiovascular medication usage sociodemographic disparities after myocardial infarction. Circulation, Vol.129, No.7 (2014): 723-724. Michelle A. Albert.
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Anatomical analysis of thumb opponency movement in the capuchin monkey (Sapajus sp). PLoS ONE, Vol.9, No.2 (2014): art. no. e87288. Aversi-Ferreira, R.A.G.M.F., Maior, R.S., Ashraf Aziz, Janine M. Ziermann, Nishijo, H., Tomaz, C., Tavares, M.C.H., Aversi-Ferreira, T.A.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Extensive peritoneal carcinomatosis secondary to renal cell carcinoma with sarcomatoid and rhabdoid differentiation. BMJ Case Reports, 2013. Ashwini K Esnakula, Tammey J Naab, William Green, Babak Shokrani.
Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Gene-based sequencing identifies lipid-influencing variants with ethnicity-specific effects in African Americans. PLOS | Genetics, 6 Marc 2014. Amy R. Bentley, Guanjie Chen, Daniel Shriner, Ayo P. Doumatey, Jie Zhou, Hanxia Huang, Adebowale Adeyemo, James C. Mullikin, Robert W. Blakesley, Nancy F. Hansen, Gerard G. Bouffard, Praveen F. Cherukuri, Baishali Maskeri, Alice C. Young, Charles N. Rotimi, et al.
National Genome Center at Howard University, College of Medicine.

Age-related brain expression and regulation of the chemokine CCL4/MIP-1β in APP/PS1 double-transgenic mice. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2014 Mar 6. [Epub ahead of print].
Zhu M1, Joanne S. Allard, Zhang Y, Perez E, Spangler EL, Becker KG, Rapp PR.
Department of physiology & biophysics, College of Medicine.

Muscadine grape skin extract reverts snail-mediated epithelial mesenchymal transition via superoxide species in human prostate cancer cells. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vol.14 (2014): 97. Liza J Burton,Petrina Barnett, Basil Smith, Rebecca S. Arnold, Tamaro Hudson, Kousik Kundu, Niren Murthy, Valerie A Odero-Marah.
College of Medicine.

Social Work

An exploration of African American women's perceptions of the intersection of domestic violence and HIV/AIDS. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, Vol.13, No.1 (2014): 97-116. Tricia B. Bent-Goodley.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending March 8, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Survival ethics in the real world: The research university and sustainable development. Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol.20, No.1 (2014): 135-154. Charles Verharen1, John Tharakan2, Flordeliz Bugarin3, Josph Fortunak4, Kadoda, George Middendorf5.
1Department of Philosophy, CoAS. 2Department of Chemical Engineering, CEACS; 3Department of Sociology and Anthropology, CoAS; 4Departments of Chemistry, CoAS; 5Department of Biology, CoAS.

Basic Concepts in Family Therapy: An Introductory Text. 2nd ed; New York: Routledge, 2014. Linda Berg-Cross.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Cloud computing and virtualization within the regional climate model and evaluation system. Earth Science Informatics, Vol.7, No.1 (2014): 1-12. Mattmann, C.A., Waliser, D., Kim, J., Goodale, C., Hart, A., Ramirez, P., Crichton, D., Zimdars, P., Boustani, M., Lee, K., Loikith, Kim Whitehall, K., Jack, C., Hewitson, B.
Department of Systems & Computer Science, CEACS.

Prediction of protein structures using a map-reduce Hadoop framework based simulated annealing algorithm. Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2013, art. no. 6732710 , pp. 6-10. Hui Li, Chunmei Liu.
Department of Systems & Computer Science, CEACS.

Intensity-based skeletonization of CryoEM Gray-Scale images using a true segmentation-free algorithm. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol.10, No.5 (2013): art. no. 6731359, 1289-1298. Kamal Al Nasr, Chunmei Liu, Mugizi Rwebangira, Legand Burge, Jing He.
Department of Systems & Computer Science, CEACS.

Health Sciences

The earliest Caribbean rodents: Oligocene caviomorphs from Puerto Rico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol.34, No.1 (2014): 157-163. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe*, Thomas Martin, Ross D. E. Macphee, Diana Ortega-Ariza.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. IX. Metaxytherium albifontanum, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol.34, No.2 (2014): 444-464. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe*, Daryl P. Domning.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

One of the oldest seals (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the Old World. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol.34, No.1 (2014): 224-229. Irina A. Koretsky, Daryl P. Domning.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Parallel tagged amplicon sequencing of transcriptome-based genetic markers for Triturus newts with the Ion Torrent next-generation sequencing platform. Molecular Ecology Resources, 2014. B. Wielstra, E. Duijm, P. Lagler, Y. Lammers, W.R.M. Meilink, J.M. Ziermann, J.W. Arntzen.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Pediatric hypertension. U.S. Pharmacist, Vol.39, No.2 (2014): 57-60. Hylick, E.V., Grubbs, C.R., Jewel Johnson*, Oliver, B.
College of Pharmacy.

Hybrid e-learning approach to health policy. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, Vol.2 (2014): 313-322. Salome Bwayo Weaver, V. Oji, E. Ettienne, S.Stolpe, M. Maneno.
College of Pharmacy.

Gender and the association of smoking with sleep quantity and quality in American adults. Women and Health, Vol.54, No.1 (2014): 1-14. Mehari, A., Weir, N.A., Richard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Prediction of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia using an ensemble of genetic risk prediction models. Circgenetics, Published online before print March 1, 2014. Jacqueline N. Milton, Victor R. Gordeuk, James G. Taylor, Mark T. Gladwin, Martin H. Steinberg, Paola Sebastiani.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Strong association of fascin expression with triple negative breast cancer and basal-like phenotype in African-American women. J Clin Pathol., Vol.67, No.2 (2014): 153-60. Ashwini K. Esnakula, Luisel Ricks-Santi, John Kwagyan, Yasmine M. Kanaan, Robert L. DeWitty, Lori L. Wilson, Bert Gold, Wayne A.I. Frederick, Tammey Naab.
Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Factors associated with the risk of adenoma recurrence in distal and proximal colon. Digestion, Vol.87, No.3 (2013): 141-6. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Doubeni C, Pinsky PF, Doria-Rose VP, Marcus PM, Schoen RE, Lanza E, Cross AJ.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Oral tissue irritants in toothpaste: A case report. J Clin Pediatr Dent., Vol.38, No.1 (Fall 2013): 75-8. Leslie M. Lawrence, André Farquharson, Ronald S. Brown, Heidi O. Vatanka.
College of Dentistry.

Body dismorphic disorder and cosmetic dentistry. Dentistry Today, 2014): Course No. 171. Willie J. Winfree, Leo E. Rouse, Ronald S. Brown.
College of Dentistry.

The importance of interprofessional eduction with regard to drug-induced gingival overgrowth. RDH (Jan 2014): 67-70. Crystal L McIntosh.
College of Dentistry.

Law

Borne back ceaselessly into the past: Fisher v. University of Texas, the Freedmen's Bureau Act, and the "originalist" meaning of color blindness. 21 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 313 (Winter 2014). Aderson Bellegarde François.
Law School.

Social Work

Storytelling slide shows to improve diabetes and high blood pressure knowledge and self-efficacy: Three year results among community dwelling older African Americans. Educational Gerontology, 26 Feb 2014. Elizabeth M. Bertera.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending March 1, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Distinct functions of social support and cognitive function among older adults. Experimental Aging Research, Vol.40, No.1 (2014): 40-59. Sims, R.C., Hosey, M., Shellie-Anne Levy, Whitfield, K.E., Katzel, L.I., Waldstein, S.R.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Domesticating mathematics in the African mother tongue. Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol.6, No.7 (2014): 12-58. Abdul Karim Bangura.
Department of Political Science, CoAS. .

Communications

Culture, technologies and democracy: A cross-national analysis of political development. Telematics and Informatics, Vol.31, No.3 (2014): 364-375. M.M. Skoric, Yong Jin Park.
School of Communications.

Divinity

Stassen on the Mount: the ethicist as exegete. In: Rick Axtell, et al. (eds.), Ethics as if Jesus mattered: Essays in honor of Glen Harold Stassen, 21-42. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2014. Michael Newheart.
School of Divinity.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Broadening the pipeline through the study of pathways and persistence of Black and Hispanic engineering undergraduates. Research in Engineering Education Symposium (2013): 394-401. Lorraine Fleming, K. Smith, D. Williams, L. Bliss.
Department of Civil Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Differences in the clinical and genotypic presentation of sickle cell disease around the world. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, Vol.15, No.1 (2014): 4-12. Saraf, S.L., Molokie, R.E., Mehdi Nouraie, Sable, C.A., Luchtman-Jones, L., Ensing, G.J., Campbell, A.D., Sohail R. Rana, Niu, X.M., Machado, R.F., Gladwin, M.T., Gordeuk, V.R.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Purification and characterization of aminoglycoside phosphotransferase APH(6)-Id, a streptomycin-inactivating enzyme. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Vol.387, No.1-2 (2013): 207-216. Meseret Ashenafi1, Tatiana Ammosova2, Sergei Nekhai2, W. Malcolm Byrnes1.
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Brief history of the Howard university department of microbiology. Microbe, Vol.9, No.2 (2014): 59-63. Marian Johnson-Thompson, Sterling M. Lloyd, Jr.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Diversity and inclusion: Strategies to improve pediatrics and pediatric health care delivery. Pediatrics, Vol.133, No.2 (2014): 327-330. Renée R. Jenkins.
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine.

Colorectal cancer disparities: Issues, controversies and solutions. World J Gastroenterology, Vol.20, No.4 (28 Jan 2014): 869-876. Venkata S Tammana, Adeyinka O Laiyemo.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Epigenetic silencing of CHD5, a novel tumor-suppressor gene, occurs in early colorectal cancer stages. Cancer, Vol.120, No.2 (15 Jan 2014): 172-80. Mehrnaz Fatemi, Thomas A. Paul, Garrett M. Brodeur, Babak Shokrani, HassanBrim, Hassan Ashktorab.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Abruptly stopping steroid therapy and time to death: A case report. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Vol.31, No.2 (2014): 225-226. Anuj Bhatnagar, Shannon Ryan-Cebula, Mary McDonald.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.


Week Ending February 22, 2014

Arts & Sciences

A study on the psychometric properties of Conners comprehensive behavior rating scales-self report scores in African Americans with juvenile court contact. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, Vol.14, No.1 (2014): 1-23. Andretta, J.R., Andrian D. Thompson, Ramirez, A.M., Kelly, J.C., Barnes, M.E., Woodland, M.H.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Bis([eta]5-penta­methyl­cyclo­penta­dien­yl)aluminium tetra­bromido­aluminate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.3 (Mar 2014). A. P. Purdy, C. Dugger, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Synthesis, X-ray structure, electrochemical behaviour and fluorescence studies of mononuclear dioxouranium complexes with oxygen donor ligands. Polyhedron, Vol.71 (2014): 34-41. Gupta, S.K., Sen, N., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

1,3,5-Tri-p-tolylpentane-1,5-diol. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No. (2014): o122-o123. Thiruvalluvar, A., Chithiravel, R., Muthusubramanian, S., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Tris(2,6-dibenzoyl-4-methyl­phenolato-2O1,O2)cobalt(III).. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No. (2014): m67-m68. Gupta, A.K., Srivastava, S., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Poly[tetrakis(μ-1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropan-2-olato)iron(II) dipotassium]. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No. (2014): m32-m33. Purdy, A.P., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

1-Azaniumylcyclobutane-1-carboxylate monohydrate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No. (2014): o217-218. Raymond J. Butcher, Brewer, G., Burton, A.S., Dworkin, J.P.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

N-(3-Chloro-1,4-dioxo-1,4-dihydronaphthalen-2-yl)-N-propionylpropionamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No. (2014): o102. Nail Idris, Raymond J. Butcher, Oladapo Bakare.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Business

Global use and access of social networking websites: a national culture perspective. Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, Vol. 8, No.1 (2014). Wen Gong, Rodney L. Stump, Zhan G. Li.
Department of Marketing, School of Business.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

MAP image reconstruction for land mine and IED detection using ground penetrating radar. Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2013 IEEE, 3-5 Dec 2013. Oludotun Ode.
Department of Electrical Engineering, CEACS.

Models of adoption and best practices for mobile hands-on learning in electrical engineering. Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2013, Art.6684876 (2013): 511-513. Astatke, Y., Mohamed F. Chouikha, Connor, K.A., Ferri, A.A., Ferri, B.H., Meehan, K., Newman, D.L., Deyoe, M.M., Walter, D.J.
Department of Electrical Engineering, CEACS.

Comparative analysis of Bayesian and classical approaches for software reliability measurement. IEEE International Symposium on Software. Reliability Engineering Workshops, ISSREW 2013, Art.6688851 (2013): 9-10. Wandji, T.K., Sarkani, S., Eveleigh, T., Holzer, T.H., Peter A, Keiller.
Department of Systems & Computer Science, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Complication of invasive molar pregnancy with clostridium perfringens sepsis. Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol.2014 (2014): Article ID 282141. Sanmeet Singh1, Kunal Angra1, Bonnie Davis2, Babak Shokrani3.
1Department of Medicine, 2Department of Radiology, 3Department of Pathology, College of Medicine,

Attitudes toward clinical trials among patients with sickle cell disease. Clinical Trials, 13 Feb 2014. Carlton Haywood, Jr, Sophie Lanzkron, Marie Diener-West, Jennifer Haythornthwaite, John J Strouse, Shawn Bediako, Gladys Onojobi, Mary Catherine Beach.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Effects of patients and hospital characteristics on myocardial infarction mortality: Health Disparity Outcomes. ABNF Journal, Vol.25, No.1 (Winter 2014): 13-18. Priscilla O. Okunji, Frank Gomez.
Division of Nursing, CNAHS.

Inpatients' outcomes following diabetic myocardial infarction: Income, insurance, and length of stay in teaching vs. nonteaching hospitals in the United States. Journal of Metabolic Syndrome, Vol.2, No.125 (2013): 2167-0943. Priscilla O. Okunji, J. Daniel, Anthony Wutoh.
Division of Nursing, CNAHS.

The severity of disparity: Increasing injury intensity accentuates disparate outcomes following trauma. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Vol.25, No.1 (Feb 2014): 308-320. Lia I. Losonczy, P. Logan Weygandt, Cassandra V. Villegas, Erin C. Hall, Eric B. Schneider, Lisa A. Cooper, Edward E. Cornwell III, Elliott R. Haut, David T. Efron, Adil H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

DNA methylation profile associated with rapid decline in kidney function: findings from the CRIC Study. Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. (2014). Maria R. Wing, Joseph M. Devaney, Marshall M. Joffe, Dawei Xie, Harold I. Feldman, Elizabeth A. Dominic, Nicolas J. Guzman, Ali Ramezani, Katalin Susztak, James G. Herman, Leslie Cope, Brennan Harmon, Bernard Kwabi-Addo, et al.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Abruptly stopping steroid therapy and time to death. Am J Hosp Palliat Care, Vol.31, No.2 (Mar 2014): 225-226. Anuj Bhatnagar*, Shannon Ryan-Cebula.
College of Medicine.

The hypoxic response contributes to altered gene expression and pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension in patients with sickle cell disease. Cirrculation, Published online before print 10 Feb 2014. Xu Zhang, Wei Zhang, Shwu-Fan Ma, Ankit A. Desai, Santosh Saraf, Galina Miasnikova, Adelina Sergueeva, Tatiana Ammosova, Min Xu, Sergei Nekhai, et al.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.

Reducing the risk of HIV/AIDS in African American college students: An exploratory investigation of the efficacy of a peer educator approach. Health Promotion Practice, Vol.15 No.2 (Mar 2014): 181-188. Denyce S. Calloway, Deneen N. Long-White, and Dennis E. Corbin.

BMI and the risk of colorectal adenoma in African-Americans. Obesity, 11 Feb 2014. Hassan Ashktorab1, Mansour Paydar1, Shahla Yazdi1, H.H. Namin1, Andrew Sanderson1, Rehana Begum1, Mohammad Semati1, Firoozh, Etaati1, Edward Lee2, Hassan Brim2, Anteneh Zenebe1, Gail Nunlee-Bland1, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1, Mehdi Nouraie1.
1Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 2Department of Pathology and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Alpha-thalassaemia and response to hydroxyurea in sickle cell anaemia. European Journal of Haematology, 2014. Darbari, D.S., Mehdi Nouraie, Taylor, J.G., Brugnara, C., Oswaldo Castro, Ballas, S.K.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.

Validation of the fear of sleep inventory (FOSI) in an Urban young adult African American sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol.27 (Feb 2014): 103-107. Huntley, E.D., Tyish S. Hall Brown, Ihori Kobayashi, Thomas A. Mellman.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Ion-pair chromatography for simultaneous analysis of ethionamide and pyrazinamide from their porous microparticles. AAPS PharmSciTech, Vol.14. Art.13131320 (2013). Chintan Bhanushali, Zidan, A.S., Rahman, Z., Muhammad J. Habib.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Social Work

In circle: A healthy relationship, domestic violence, and HIV intervention for African American couples. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Vol.24, No.2 (2014): 105-114. Tricia Bent-Goodley.
School of Social Work.


Week Ending February 15, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Idempotents in βS that are only products trivially. New York Journal of Mathematics, Vol.20 (2014): 57-80. Neil Hindman, L. Legette Jones.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Diaquabis(2-ethyl-5-methylimidazole-4-sulfonato-κ2 N 3,O)nickel(II) dihydrate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.1 (2014): m18-m19. Purdy, A.P., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Uranyl coordination polymers incorporating η5-cyclopentadienyliron-functionalized η6-phthalate metalloligands: Syntheses, structures and photophysical properties. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Vol.24, No.1 (Jan 2014): 128-136. Andrew T. Kerr, Sayon A. Kumalah, K. T. Holman, Raymond J. Butcher, Christopher L. Cahill.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

2-(Naphthalen-1-yl)-1-phenyl-1H-benzimidazole benzene hemisolvate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.1 (2014): o55-o56. Srinivasan, N., Thiruvalluvar, A., Rosepriya, S., Prakash, S.M., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

P-tert-Butylcalix[8]arene catalysed synthesis of 3,5-dinitrothiophene scaffolds: Antiproliferative effect of some representative compounds on selective anticancer cell lines. Tetrahedron Letters, Vol.55, No.5 (2014): 996-1001. Sarkar, P., Maiti, S., Ghosh, K., Sengupta, S., Raymond J. Butcher, Mukhopadhyay, C.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Synthesis and characterization of collagen grafted poly(hydroxybutyrate- valerate) (PHBV) scaffold for loading of bovine serum albumin capped silver (Ag/BSA) nanoparticles in the potential use of tissue engineering application. Biomacromolecules, Vol.15, No.1 (2014): 423-435. Rotimi A. Bakare, Chandra Bhan, Dharmaraj Raghavan.
Polymer Group, Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Book review: The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues & Controversies. Humanity & Society, Vol.38, No.1 (2014): 89-91. Anthony Justin Barnum.
Department of Political Science, CoAS, and Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center .

Impacts of mineral dust on ice clouds in tropical deep convection systems. Atmospheric Research, Available online 8 February 2014. Q.-L. Min, R. Li, B. Lin, Everett Joseph, Vernon Morris, Y. Hu, S.W. Li, S. Wang.
NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Elastic lidar measurements of summer nocturnal low level jet events over Baltimore, Maryland. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 2014, 23p. Delgado, R., Rabenhorst, S.D., Belay B. Demoz, Hoff, R.M.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Contribution of chirality to the adsorption of a Kr atom on a single wall carbon nanotube. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Feb 2014. Hye-Young Kim, Eric C. Booth, Mamadou T. Mbaye, Silvina M. Gatica.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Zebrafish: Modeling for herpes simplex virus infections. Zebrafish, Vol.11, No.1 (2014): 17-25. Antoine, T.E., Kevin S. Jones, Dale, R.M., Shukla, D., Tiwari, V.
Department of Biology, CoAS.

Race, class and transformation: Confronting our history to move forward. In: Kristin Haltinner (ed.), Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America, 2014, pp 265-273. Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerome Scott, Ralph Gomes.
Department of Sociology, CoAS.

Exposure to prison sexual assault among incarcerated Black men. Journal of African American Studies, Vol.18, No.1 (Mar 2014): 54-62. Tawandra L. Rowell-Cunsolo, Roderick J. Harrison, Rahwa Haile.
Department of Sociology, CoAS.

Psychometric properties of the Cook Medley hostility scale and its association with inflammatory markers in African Americans. Psychol Health Med., Vol.18, No.4 (2013): 431-44. Denee T. Mwendwa1, Mana K. Ali1, Regina C. Sims, Serge Madhere1, Shellie-Anne Levy1, Clive O. Callender2, Alfonso L. Campbell1.
1Department of Psychology, CoAS; 2College of Medicine.

Divinity

Shame and its sons: Black men, fatherhood, and filicide. Pastoral Psychology, Feb 2014. Jay-Paul Hinds.
School of Divinity.

Education

Handbook of Race-Ethnicity and Gender in Psychology. New York: Springer, 2014. Marie L. Miville and Angela D. Ferguson (eds.).
School of Education.

Intersections of race-ethnicity and gender on identity development and social roles. In: Marie L. Miville and Angela D. Ferguson (eds.), Handbook of Race-Ethnicity and Gender in Psychology, 3-21. 2014. Marie L. Miville, Angela D. Ferguson.
School of Education.

Intersections of race-ethnicity, gender, and sexual minority communities. In: Marie L. Miville and Angela D. Ferguson (eds.), Handbook of Race-Ethnicity and Gender in Psychology, 5-63. Angela D. Ferguson, Gizelle Carr, Aviella Snitman.
School of Education.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems. New York: Springer, 2014. (Signals and Communication Technology, Vol.218). Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Mathematical models of hysteresis. In: Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei, Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems, 1-63. New York: Springer, 2014.(Signals and Communication Technology, Vol.218). Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Noise and stochastic processes. In: Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei, Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems, 65-103. New York: Springer, 2014.(Signals and Communication Technology, Vol.218). Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Stochastically driven hysteretic systems in Science and Engineering. In: Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei, Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems, 105-138. New York: Springer, 2014.(Signals and Communication Technology, Vol.218). Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Noise driven relaxation phenomena in hysteretic systems. In: Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei, Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems, 141-165. New York: Springer, 2014. (Signals and Communication Technology, Vol.218). Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Noise spectral density of hysteretic systems. In: Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei, Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems, 167-200. New York: Springer, 2014. (Signals and Communication Technology, Vol.218). Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Constructive effects of noise in hysteretic systems. In: Mihai Dimian and Petru Andrei, Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems, 201-217. New York: Springer, 2014. (Signals and Communication Technology, Vol.218). Mihai Dimianand Petru Andrei.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEACS.

Prediction of protein structures using a map-reduce Hadoop framework based simulated annealing algorithm. IEEE Xplore/Bioinformatics and
Biomedicine (BIBM)
, 2013 IEEE International Conference, 2013. Hui Li, Chunmei Liu.
Department of Systems and Computer Science, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Framing ethnic variations in alcohol outcomes from biological pathways to neighborhood context. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 31 Jan 2014. Karen G. Chartier, Denise M. Scott, Tamara L. Wall, Jonathan Covault, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, Britain A. Mills, Susan E. Luczak, Raul Caetano, Judith A. Arroyo.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

CD4 counts of nonperinatally HIV–infected youth and young adults presenting for HIV care between 2002 and 2010. JAMA Pediatrics, 3 Feb 2014. Allison L. Agwu, Asha Neptune, Cindy Voss, Baligh Yehia, Richard Rutstein, for the HIV Research Network.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Anatomical analysis of thumb opponency movement in the Capuchin monkey (Sapajus sp). PLO One, 3 Feb 2014. Roqueline A. G. M. F. Aversi-Ferreira, Rafael Souto Maior, Ashraf Aziz, Janine M. Ziermann, Hisao Nishijo, Carlos Tomaz, Maria Clotilde H. Tavares.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Theta frequency activity during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is greater in people with resilience versus PTSD. Experimental Brain Research, Feb 2014. Nancy Cowdin, Ihori Kobayashi, Thomas A. Mellman. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00221-014-3857-5
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Before bioethics: A history of American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution. Journal of Religion and Health, Vol.53, No.1 (Feb 2014): 298-299. Richard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Differential methylation of the arsenic (III) methyltransferase promoter according to arsenic exposure. Archives of Toxicology, Vol.88, No.2 (Feb 2014): 275-282. Matthew O. Gribble, Wan-yee Tang, Yan Shang, Jonathan Pollak, Jason G. Umans, et al.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine.

Treating mentally ill offenders. In: Gerben Bruinsma, David Weisburd (eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 5313-5323. New York: Springer, 2014. William B. Lawson.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Body composition and arsenic metabolism: a cross-sectional analysis in the Strong Heart Study. Environmental Health, Vol.12 (Dec 2013). Matthew O Gribble, Ciprian M Crainiceanu, Barbara V Howard, Jason G Umans, et al.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine.

Regulation of CDK9 activity by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. Biomed Res Int., 12 Jan 2014: 964964. Sergei Nekhai, M. Petukhov, D. Breuer.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.


Week Ending February 1, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Microwave-assisted synthesis and myorelaxant activity of 9-Indolyl-1,8-Acridinedione derivatives. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Available online 30 Jan 2014. Miyase Gözde Gündüza, Fatma İşli, Ahmed El-Khouly, Şeniz Yildirim, Gökçe Sevim Öztürk Fincan, Rahime Şimşek, Cihat Şafak, Yusuf Sarioğlu, Sema Öztürk Yildirim, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Diaquabis(2-ethyl-5-methylimidazole-4-sulfonato-κ2 N 3,O)nickel(II) dihydrate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.1 (2014): m18-m19. Purdy, A.P., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

2-(Naphthalen-1-yl)-1-phenyl-1H-benzimidazole benzene hemisolvate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, No.1 (2014): o55-o56. Srinivasan, N., Thiruvalluvar, A., Rosepriya, S., Prakash, S.M., Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS
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Evidence of a LNOX influence on middle/upper troposphere ozone-mixing ratios at Dakar, Senegal during Northern Hemisphere summer season. Atmospheric Science Letters, Jan/Mar 2014. Gregory S. Jenkins, Moussa Gueye, Mamadou S. Drame, Seydi A. Ndiaye.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS.

Sonatas for One Piano, Four Hands, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 2013. Charles Timbrell (ed.)
Department of Music, CoAS.

Angela Hewitt plays Beethoven. International Record Review, Jan/Feb 2014: 61-62. Charles Timbrell.
Department of Music, CoAS.

Hélène Grimaud plays Brahms concertos. International Piano, Jan/Feb 2014: 81. Charles Timbrell.
Department of Music, CoAS.

Adam Lalou plays Schumann. International Record Review, Dec 2013:. 61-62. Charles Timbrell.
Department of Music, CoAS.
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Medium of instruction in Africa: Commentary. Current Issues in Language Planning, Vol.15, No.1 (2014): 1-3. Hamid, M.O., Nguyen, H.T.M., Nkonko Kamwangamalu. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14664208.2014.867574#.Uvaqm_uIT00
Department of English, CoAS.

Communications

Whither the Black Press? Glorious Past, Uncertain Future. XLIBRIS, 2014. Clint C. Wilson II.
School of Communications.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Polyethylenimine: Experimental and simulation study of polymer biophysics during Ph buffering. Biophysical Journal, Vol.106, No.2, Suppl.1 (28 Jan 2014): 617a. Bria J. Rice, Tasneem Abdus-Shakur, Kimberly A. Curtis, Jeffrey B. Klauda, Richard M. Venable, Richard W. Pastor, Preethi L. Chandran.
Department of Chemical Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

One of the oldest seals (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the Old World. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol.34, No.1 (2014): 224-229. Irina A. Koretsky, Daryl P. Domning.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Enhancing human resources for HIV/AIDS services delivery through pharmacists volunteer scheme: A case report of Global HIV/AIDS Initiative Nigeria Project. Public Health Research, Vol.4, No.1 (2014): 19-24. Chamberlin Onuoha, Kenneth Anene Agu, Dorothy Oqua, Idoko Onuche Omeh, Muhammadu Alfa Isah, Nnenna Ekechukwu, Zainab Adeyanju, Rosalyn C. King, Anthony K. Wutoh.
College of Pharmacy, PACE Center.

Association between intentional injury and long-term survival after trauma. Annals of Surgery, 30 Jan 2014. Adil H. Haider, J. Hunter Young, Mehreem Kisat, Mehreen, Cassandra V. Villegas, Valerie K. Scott, Karim S. Ladha, Elliott R. Haut, Edward E. Cornwell III, Ellen J. MacKenzie, David T. Efron.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

A collaboration between a historically Black university and an Ivy League psychiatric research center: A psychiatrist's reflections of the impact on residency training. Cult Med Psychiatry, Vol.37, No.2 (Jun 2013): 307-313. Mansoor Malik.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Anatomical analysis of thumb opponency movement in the Capuchin monkey (Sapajus sp). PLoS One, Vol.9, No.2 (3 Feb 2014): e87288. eCollection 2014. Aversi-Ferreira RA1, Maior RS2, Ashraf Aziz, Ziermann JM3, Nishijo H4, Tomaz C2, Tavares MC2, Aversi-Ferreira TA5.
Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine, Numa Adams Building, Washington DC, United States of America.

CD4 counts of nonperinatally HIV-infected youth and young adults presenting for HIV care between 2002 and 2010. JAMA Pediatr., 3 Feb 2014. A.L. Agwu AL, Asha Neptune, C. Voss, B. Yehia, R. Rutstein, for the HIV Research Network.
College of Medicine.

Oxygen consumption at 30 W of exercise is surrogate for peak oxygen consumption in evaluation of cardiorespiratory fitness in young-adult African-American females. ISRN Physiol., 2013:756276. Richard M. Millis1, Vernon Bond Jr2, M. Sadegh Asadi3, Georges E. Haddad1, R.G. Adams4.
1Department of Physiology & Biophysics, 2Department of Health, Human Performance & Leisure Studies, 3Department of Neurology, 4Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

A P21-ZEB1 complex inhibits epithelial-mesenchymal transition through the microRNA 183-96-182 cluster. Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vol.34, No.3 (2014): 533-550. Li, X.L., Hara, T., Choi, Y., Subramanian, M., Francis, P., Bilke, S., Walker, R.L., Pineda, M., Zhu, Y., Yang, Y., Luo, J., Wakefield, L.M., Brabletz, T., Park, B.H., Sudha Sharma, Chowdhury, D., Meltzer, P.S., Lal, A.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine. 


Week Ending February 1, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Synthesis, characterization and crystal structure of thiadiazoles derived from aroylthiourea. Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Jan 2014. Durga P. Singh, Seema Pratap, Raymond J. Butcher, Sushil K. Gupta.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Impact of sulfur dioxide oxidation by Stabilized Criegee Intermediate on sulfate. Atmospheric Environment, Vol.85 (2014): 204-214. Sarwar, G., Simon, H., Fahey, K., Mathur, R., Goliff, W.S., William R. Stockwell.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Business

Researching black entrepreneurship: Exploring the challenge of response bias. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Vol.18, No.4 (Dec 2013): art. no. 1350023. Michael N. Ogbolu, Robert P. Singh.
School of Business.

Communications

My whole world’s in my palm! The second-level divide of teenagers’ mobile use and skill. New Media Society, 27 Jan 2014. Yong Jin Park.
Strategic, Legal and Management Communications, School of Communications.

Divinity

An interim assessment of the Pentecostal Manifesto Series. Journal of Religion, Vol.94, No.1 (Jan 2014):: 97-107. Frederick Ware.
School of Divinity.

Education

Consanguineous marriage and intellectual and developmental disabilities among Arab bedouins children of the Negev Region in Southern Israel: A pilot study. Front Public Health, Vol.2 (28 Jan 2014): 3. H.A. Saad, Salman Elbedour, E. Hallaq, J. Merrick, A. Tenenbaum.
Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education.

Health Sciences

Framing ethnic variations in alcohol outcomes from biological pathways to neighborhood context. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Feb 2014. Karen G. Chartier, Denise M. Scott, Tamara L. Wall, Jonathan Covault, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, Britain A. Mills, Susan E. Luczak, Raul Caetano, Judith A. Arroyo.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Alpha-thalassaemia and response to hydroxyurea in sickle cell anaemia. European Journal of Haematology, Feb 2014. Deepika S. Darbari, Mehdi Nouraie, James G. Taylor, Carlo Brugnara, Oswaldo Castro, Samir K. Ballas
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Epigenetic silencing of CHD5, a novel tumor-suppressor gene, occurs in early colorectal cancer stages. Cancer, Vol.120, No.2 (2014): 172-180. Mehmaz Fatemi1, Paul, T.A., Brodeur, G.M., Babak Shokrani2, Hassan Brim2, Hassan Ashktorab1.
1Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Morphological and genetic differentiation of Bufo toads: Two cryptic species in Western Europe (Anura, Bufonidae). Contributions to Zoology, Vol.82, No.4 (2013): 147-169. Jan W. Arntzen, Jacob McAtear, Ernesto Recuero, Janine M. Ziermann, Annemarie Ohler, Jacques van Alphen, Iñigo Martínez-Solano
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Effect of congenital upregulation of hypoxia inducible factors on percentage of fetal hemoglobin in the blood. Blood, Vol.122, No.17 (2013): 3088-3089. Salomon-Andonie, J., Miasnikova, G., Sergueeva, A., Polyakova, L.A., Niu, X., Sergei Nekhai, Gordeuk, V.R.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

MicroRNA 135a suppresses lymph Node metastasis through down-regulation of ROCK1 in early gastric cancer. PLoS One (21 Jan 2014). Ji-Young Shin, Young-Il Kim, Soo-Jeong Cho, Mi Kyung Lee, Myeong-Cherl Kook, Jun Ho Lee, Sang Soo Lee, Hassan Ashktorab, Duane T. Smoot, Keun Won Ryu, Young-Woo Kim, Il Ju Choi.
Department of Pathology, Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Histopathological changes of the thyroid and parathyroid glands in HIV-infected patients. Journal of Thyroid Research, 2014: Article ID 364146, 7p. Rabia Cherqaoui1, K. M. Mohamed Shakir1, Babak Shokrani3, Sujay Madduri2, Faria Farhat3, and Vinod Mody3.
1Department of Pathology, 2Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 3Division of Infectious Disease, College of Medicine.

The Gabor-Einstein wavelet: A model for the receptive fields of V1 to MT neurons. arXiv, 22 Jan 2014. Stephen G. Odaibo.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Validation of the fear of sleep inventory (FOSI) in an urban young adult African American sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, Dec 2013. Edward D. Huntley, Tyish S. Hall Brown, Ihori Kobayashi, Thomas A. Mellman.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

An integrative CGH, MSI and candidate genes methylation analysis of colorectal tumors. PLoS One, Vol.9, No.1 (27 Jan 2014): e82185. Hassan Brim, M.S. Abu-Asab, Mehdi Nouraie, J. Salazar, J. Deleo, H. Razjouyan, P. Mokarram, A.A. Schaffer, F. Naghibhossaini, Hassan Ashktorab.
Department of Pathology, Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

The incidence and types of medication errors in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in resource-constrained settings. PLoS One, Vol.9, No.1 (28 Jan 2014). Kenneth Anene Agu, Dorothy Oqua, Zainab Adeyanju, Muhammadu Alfa Isah, Afusat Adesina, Samuel I. Ohiaeri, Pollock N. Ali, Nnenna Ekechukwu, Augustine Adah Akpakwu, Tindak Sani, Idoko Onuche Omeh, Rosalyn C. King, Anthony K. Wutoh.
College of Pharmacy.

Maximized mucoadhesion and skin permeation of anti-AIDS-loaded niosomal gels. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol.103, No.2 (Jan 2014). Ahmed S. Zidan, Muhammad J. Habib.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy.

Systematically Tabulated Outcomes Research Matrix (STORM): A methodology to generate research hypotheses. Surgery (United States), 2014. J.G. Crompton, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, E.R. Haut, Edward E. Cornwell III, A.H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Protective effects of curcumin against rotenone and salsolinol-induced toxicity: Implications for parkinson's disease. Neurotoxicity Research, Vol.25, No.1 (2014): 81-89. Zakiya Qualls, Dwayne Brown, Carlana Ramlochansingh, Laura L. Hurley, Yusef Tizabi.
Department of Phamacology, College of Medicine.

Cholecystectomy: Traditional laparoscopic and open techniques. In: Miyu Akiyama and Satomi Kunomasu (eds.), Cholecystectomies: Procedures, Prognosis and Potential Complications, 29-49 (Nova Publishers, 2013): 29-49. Shiva Seetahal, Dilip Dan, Vijay Naraynsingh
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.


Week Ending January 25, 2014

Arts & Sciences

2-Methyl-aspartic acid monohydrate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.69, Pt.12 (Nov 2013): o1856-7. G. Brewer, A.S. Burton, J.P. Dworkin , Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Ethyl 6-(4-chloro-phen-yl)-4-(4-fluoro-phen-yl)-2-oxo-cyclo-hex-3-ene-1-carboxyl-ate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.69, Pt.12 (Nov 2013): o1839-40. M. Sapnakumari, B. Narayana, H.S. Yathirajan, J.P. Jasinski, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

3-[1-(4-Bromo-phen-yl)eth-oxy]-2,2,5-trimethyl-4-phenyl-3-aza-hexa-ne. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.69, Pt.12 (Nov 2013): o1792-3. P. Pitliya, Raymond J. Butcher, A. Karim, Paul F. Hudrlik, Ann M. Hudrlik, Dharmaraj Raghavan.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS

2-(Phenyl-selenon-yl)pyridine. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.69, Pt.12 (Nov 2013): o1791. S. Gulati, K.K. Bhasin, V.A. Potapov, E. Arora, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

[meso-5,10,15,20-Tetra-kis(3-methyl-thio-phen-2-yl)porphyrinato-κ(4) N,N',N'',N''']nickel(II) benzene hemisolvate. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.69, Pt.12 (Nov 2013): m652-3. R. Prasath, P. Bhavana, S.K. Gupta, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

p-tert-Butylcalix[8]arene catalysed synthesis of 3,5-dinitrothiophene scaffolds: antiproliferative effect of some representative compounds on selective anticancer cell lines. Tetrahedron Letters, 2014. P. Sarkar, S. Maiti, K. Ghosh, S.S. (Bandyopadhyay), Raymond J. Butcher, C. Mukhopadhyay.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Elastic lidar measurements of summer nocturnal low level jet events over Baltimore, Maryland. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, Jan 2014. Ruben Delgado, Scott D. Rabenhorst, Belay B. Demoz, Raymond. M. Hoff.
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Multiply partition regular matrices. Discrete Mathematics, Vol.322 (6 May 2014): 61-68. Dennis Davenport, Neil Hindman, Imre Leader, Dona Strauss.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Speech stereotypes: Good vs. evil. Voice & Speech Review, 20 Jan 2014. Amy Stoller, Eric Armstrong, Kim James Bey, Doug Honorofd & Adrianne Moore.
Department of Theatre Arts, CoAS.

Health Sciences

MS-monitored conjugation of poly(ethylene glycol) monomethacrylate to RGD peptides. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 5 Apr 2014. Oleg I. Bol'shakov, Emmanuel O. Akala.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences/Center for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) College of Pharmacy.

Maximized mucoadhesion and skin permeation of anti-AIDS-loaded Niosomal gels. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Feb 2014. Ahmed S. Zidan, Muhammad J. Habib.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Some statistical properties of efficiency robust tests with applications to genetic association studies. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2014. Zheng, G., Li, Q., Ao Yuan.
National Genome Center at Howard University, College of Medicine.

Angiolipoma: Rare cause of adult ileoileal intussusception. BMJ case reports, 2013. Esnakula, A.K., Sinha, A., M. Fidelia-Lambert, Tammana, V.S. 2013.
Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Characterizing lobular carcinoma of the male breast using the SEER database. The Journal of surgical research, Vol185, No.2 (2013): e71-76 . Ambria Moten, Augustine Obirieze, Lori L. Wilson.
Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery.

Synergistic cytotoxicity of red beetroot (Beta vulgaris L.) extract with doxorubicin in human pancreatic, breast and prostate cancer cell lines. Journal of Complementary & Integrative Medicine, 2013. Govind J. Kapadia, G. Subba Rao, Cheppail Ramachandran, Akira Iida, Nobutaka Suzuki, Harukumi Tokuda.
College of Pharmacy.

Single-tooth intrusion with a cross tube and a cantilever spring. Journal of clinical orthodontics, Vol.47, No.7 (2013) p. 42. Bao T. Vu, Sheila Soroushian.
College of Dentistry.

Black sexual politics: African Americans, gender, and the new racism. Cult Health Sex, 2014 Jan 24. [Epub ahead of print]. G.N.Rider.

Effects of dietary nitrates on systemic and cerebrovascular hemodynamics. Cardiol Res Pract, 2013:435629. Vernon Bond Jr1, B.H. Curry2, R.G. Adams2, M.S. Asadi, Richard M. Millis4, Georges E. Haddad4.
1Department of Health, Human Performance & Leisure Studies and the Cancer Center Physical Medicine & Nutrition Laboratory, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, 3Department of Neurology, 4Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine

A hindbrain segmental scaffold specifying neuronal location in the adult goldfish, Carassius auratus. J Comp Neurol. 2014 Jan 22. Edwin H. Gilland, Straka H, Wong TW, Baker R, Zottoli SJ.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine,

Diversity and inclusion: Strategies to iImprove pediatrics and pediatric health care delivery. Pediatrics, 2014 Jan 20. Renée R. Jenkins.
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, College of Medicine.
College of Medicine.

Reply to Letter: "ATLS Protocols of Initial Intravenous Fluid Administration for Trauma Patients; Needing a Revision?" Ann Surg. 2014 Jan 16. Haut ER, Haider AH, Cotton BA, Stevens KA, Edward E. Cornwell III, D.T. Efron.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

DNA methylome profiling identifies novel methylated genes in African American patients with colorectal neoplasia. Epigenetics, Vol.9, No.4 (17 Jan 2014). Hassan Ashktorab1, Mohammad Daremipouran1, A. Goel2, S. Varma3, R. Leavitt4, X. Sun4, Hassan Brim1.
1Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 2Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 3Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 3Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.


Week Ending January 18, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Synthesis, X-ray structure, electrochemical behaviour and fluorescence studies of mononuclear dioxouranium complexes with oxygen donor ligands. Polyhedron, 13 Jan 2014. Sushil K. Gupta, Neha Sen, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Propagation of radiosonde pressure sensor errors to ozonesonde measurements. Atmos. Meas. Tech., Vol.7 (2014): 65–79. R. M. Stauffer, G. A. Morris, A. M. Thompson, Everett Joseph, G. J. R. Coetzee, N. R. Nalli.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS.

Poly[tetrakis([mu]-1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoropropan-2-olato)iron(II)dipotassium]. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.2 (Feb 2014): m32-m33. A. P. Purdy, Raymond J. Butcher.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Communications

Predictors of mobile sexting among teens: Toward a new explanatory framework. Mobile Media & Communication, Vol.2, No.1 (Jan 2014): 20-39. Scott W. Campbell, Yong Jin Park.
School of Communications.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Electronic transport in heavily doped Ag/n-Si composite films. AIP Advances, Vol.3, No.10 (2013): art. no. 102111. Clayton W. Bates Jr., Chichang Zhang.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and CREST Center for Nanoscale Analytical Sciences Research and Education, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Cannabinoid receptor- and metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated signaling in neural circuits of the main olfactory bulb. In: A. Costa and E. Villalba (eds), Horizons in Neuroscience Research, Vol.13, 37-62. (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2014). Thomas Heinbockel, Ze-Jun Wang.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Leukotriene haplotype × diet interaction on carotid artery hypertrophy and atherosclerosis in American Indians: The Strong Heart Family Study. Atherosclerosis, 10 Jan 2014. Jinying Zhao, Mary J. Roman, Richard B. Devereux, Fawn Yeh, Ying Zhang, Karin Haack, Lyle G. Best, Shelley A. Cole, Elisa T. Lee, Barbara V. Howard.
MedStar Health Research Institute Hyattsville, MD and Georgetown and Howard Universities Centers for Translational Sciences, Washington, DC, College of Medicine.

Application of quantitative structure-activity relationship models of 5-HT1A receptor binding to virtual screening identifies novel and potent 5-HT1A ligands. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 10 Jan 2014. Man Luo , Xiang Simon Wang, Bryan L Roth , Alexander Golbraikh, Alexander Tropsha
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Colldge of Pharmacy.

BMI and the risk of colorectal adenoma in African Americans. Obesity, 2014. Hassan Ashktorab1, Mansour Paydar1, Shahla Yazdi1, Hassan Hassanzadeh Namin1, Andrew Sanderson1, Rehana Begum1, Mohammad Semati1, Firoozeh Etaati1, Edward Lee2, Hassan Brim2, Anteneh Zenebe1, Gail Nunlee-Bland1, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1, Mehdi Nouraie1.
1Department of Medicine and Cancer Center; 2Department of Pathology and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Family history of cancer associated with breast tumor clinicopathological features. Journal of Community Genetics, Jan 2014. Luisel J. Ricks1, Altovise Ewing, Nicole Thompson1, Barbara Harrison1, Bradford Wilson2, Finie Richardson, Pamela Carter-Nolan4, Cherie Spencer3, Adeyinka Laiyemo3, Carla Williams3.
1Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Division of Genetics, College of Medicine, 2National Human Genome Center, 3Cancer Center, 4Department of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine.

Regulation of CDK9 activity by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. BioMed Research International, 2014: Article ID 964964. Sergei Nekhai, Michael Petukhov, Denitra Breuer.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine.

Statistical validity and clinical merits of a new civilian gunshot injury classification. Clin Orthop Relat Res., Vol.471, No.12 (2013): 3981-3987. Socrates A. Brito*, Zbigniew Gugala, Alai Tan, Ronald W. Lindsey.
Department of Orthopedics, College of Medicine.


Week Ending January 11, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Elaboration and attitude strength: The new meta-cognitive perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Vol.8, No.1 (Jan 2014):17–29, Jamie Barden, Zakary L. Tormala.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

N-(3-Chloro-1,4-dioxo-1,4-di­hydro­naph­thalen-2-yl)-N-propionylpropionamide. Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, Vol.70, Pt.2 (Feb 2014). N. Idris, Raymond J. Butcher, Oladapo Bakare.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Existence and attractivity results for some fractional order partial integro-differential equations with delay. Afr. Diaspora J. Math. (N.S.), Vol.15, No.2 (2013): 1-100. S. Abbas,M. Benchohra, Toka Diagana.
Department of Mathematics, CoAS.

Integrating science and policy in the management of Lake Chad. International Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol.70, No.6 (2013): 844-845. Churchill Okonkwo.
Atmospheric Science Program, Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CoAS.

Activated alumina ball catalyzed expeditious synthesis of 2-alkylbenzimidazoles with special emphasis on susceptible side chains possessing amide functionality. Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, Vol.90, No.10 (2013): 1737-1748. Sabari Ghosh, Anne Hudrlik, Chhanda Mukhopadhyay.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Engineering, Architecture & Computer Science

Learning geotemporal nonstationary failure and recovery of power distribution. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol.25, No.1 (2014): art. no. 6578575, 229-240. Wei, Y., Ji, C., Galvan, F., Couvillon, S., Orellana, G., James Momoh.
Department of Electrical Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Minimum costs for producing Hepatitis C Direct Acting Antivirals, for use in large-scale treatment access programs in developing countries. Clin Infect Dis., 6 Jan 2014. Andrew Hill, Saye Khoo, Joe Fortunak, Bryony Simmons, Nathan Ford.
College of Pharmacy.

Some statistical properties of efficiency robust tests with applications to genetic association studies. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Dec 2013. Gang Zheng, Qizhai Li, Ao Yuan.
National Human Genome Center at Howard University, College of Medicine.

Racial/ethnic disparities in amputation and revascularization: A nationwide inpatient sample study. Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol.48, No.1 (2014): 34-37. Kakra Hughes1, Shiva Seetahal1, Tolulope Oyetunji1, David Rose1, Wendy Greene1, David Chang1, Edward E. Cornwell III1, Thomas Obisesan2.
1Department of Surgery, 2Department of Medicine/Division of Geriatrics, College of Medicine.

Endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms in octogenarians and older. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 493. D. Robinson, O. Preventza, Augustine Obirieze, David A. Rose, Edward E. Cornwell III, Kakra Hughes.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Hepatitis B and C among liver transplant patients with hepatocellular cancer: Characteristics and outcomes across racial/ethnic groupings. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 494. P.H. Lam, Augustine C. Obirieze, S. Onyewu, I. Nwokeabia, K.L. Martin, Clive O. Callender, Wayne A. Frederick, Lori L. Wilson.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Spleen preserving distal pancreatectomy: Is it worth it? Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 495. B.I. Nwannunu, C. Thompson, I.D. Nwokeabia, Augustine C. Obirieze, Gezzer Ortega, Edward .E. Cornwell III, Terrence M. Fullum.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Characterization of colonic adenoma with high grade dysplasia among African Americans. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 504-505. I.D. Nwokeabia, Augustine C. Obirieze, S.C. Onyewu, P. Lam, K. Martin, K. Miles, Wayne A. Frederick, L.L. Wilson.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Massive transfusion for trauma care in a lower middle income country–A necessity or luxury? Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 511. A.A. Shah, A.H. Haider, Z.G. Hashmi, M. Kisat, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, A. Tareen, Z. Rehman, R.H. Sayyed, H. Zafar.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Cost of intentional injuries in the united states: Who is footing the bill? Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 511. V.K. Scott, X. Hui, C.G. Velopulos, E.B. Schneider, D.T. Efron, Edward E. Cornwell III, A.H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Transfer of trauma patients to level 1 and 2 trauma centers: Mortality outcomes and race–Insurance disparities . Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 511-512. B. Adesibikan, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Augustine Obirieze, Wendy R. Greene, Edward E. Cornwell III, A.H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Should damage control surgery be performed in a limited resource healthcare setting? Indications and outcomes from a lower-middle income country. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 512. M.T. Kisat, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Z.G. Hashmi, A. Pardhan, T.A. Mir, A. Shah, H. Zafar, Adil H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Angiographic embolization for major trauma in a resource limited healthcare setting. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 512. A.A. Shah, A.H. Haider, Z.G. Hashmi, K. Ali, M. Kisat, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Z. Rehman, R.H. Sayyed, H. Zafar.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Rreliability of mortality-based geriatric trauma center benchmarking: Do we have enough patient volumes to accurately compare centers? Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 512. Z.G. Hashmi, Seyed Nabell Zafar, J.B. Dimick, P.C. Jenkins, M.R. Hemmila, D.T. Efron, E.R. Haut, E.B. Schneider, Edward E. Cornwell III, Adil H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Outcomes of lower extremity arterial reconstruction in HIV positive patients. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 513. Jessica N. Brown, Thomas Obisesan, K. Amankwah#, Augustine Obirieze, David A. Rose, Daniel D. Tran, Edward E. Cornwell III, Kakra Hughes.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Outcomes of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in HIV positive patients. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 513. Anne E. Hardy-Henry1, Thomas Obisesan2, K. Amankwah, David A. Rose1, Wendy R. Greene1, Edward E. Cornwell III1, Kakra Hughes1.
1Department of Surgery, 2Department of Medicine/Division of Geriatrics, College of Medicine.

Using large administrative databases to study trauma outcomes and costs: can injury severity measures be added to these databases and reliably used? Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 660. Z.G. Hashmi, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, A.A. Shah, C.G. Velopulos, E.B. Schneider, E.R. Haut, D.T. Efron, A.H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Wound complications following reduction mammoplasty: an analysis of national surgical quality improvement program. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 672. C. Thompson, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Navin Changoor, Nahir Romero, Augustine Obirieze, K. Bolden, H. Paul.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Rates of immediate breast reconstruction post-mastectomy: a trend analysis across race/ethnicity. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 673. C. Thompson, Augustine Obirieze, Chiledum A. Ahaghotu, K. Bolden.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Uutilization of total hip and knee arthroplasty in new york state: The impact of race and sex. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 674. Nisha N. Branch, O. Khatib, J.D. Zuckerman.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Utilization of total shoulder arthroplasty in new york state: The impact of race and sex. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 674-675. Nisha N. Branch, O. Khatib, J.D. Zuckerman.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Epidemiologic characteristics of obstructed umbilical hernia in children. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 684. Tolulope A. Oyetunji, H.T. Jackson, Namita Akolkar, F.G. Qureshi, B.C. Nwomeh.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Exploratory laparotomy in adult patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: Is it safe? Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 687. Amal L. Khoury, M.R. Phillips, S.N. Kim, A.E. Mendoza, B.A. Cairns, S.E. McLean, A.G. Charles.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Morbidity or mortality? Variations in trauma centers in the rescue of older injured patients. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.186, No.2 (Feb 2014): 687. Seyed Nabell Zafar, Z.G. Hashmi, E. Schneider, Wendy R. Greene, A.A. Shah, E.R. Haut, Edward E. Cornwell III, A.H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

MicroRNA-301b promotes cell invasiveness through targeting TP63 in pancreatic carcinoma cells. Department of Medicine, 7 Jan 2014. N. Funamizu, Curtis Ray Lacy, S.T. Parpart, A. Takai, Y. Hiyoshi, K. Yanaga.
Department of Medicine, Collge of Medicine.

Reply to letter: "prehospital intravenous fluid administration is associated with higher mortality in trauma patients: a national trauma data bank analysis". Ann Surg, Vol.259, No.2 (Feb 2014): e17-8. Elliott R. Haut, Adil H. Haider, B.A. Cotton, Kent A. Stevens, Edward E. Cornwell III, David T. Efron.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Reply to Letter: "Prehospital intravenous fluid administration is associated with higher mortality in trauma patients". Ann Surg, Vol.259, No.2 (Feb 2014): e23. Elliott R. Haut, B.T. Kalish, B.A. Cotton, David T. Efron, Adil H. Haider, Kent A. Stevens, A.N. Kieninger, Edward E. Cornwell III, David C. Chang.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Reply to Letter: "Prehospital intravenous fluid administration is associated with higher mortality in trauma patients". Ann Surg, Vol.259, No.2 (Feb 2014): e20-1. Elliott R. Haut, B.T. Kalish, B.A. Cotton, David T. Efron, Adil H. Haider, Kent A. Stevens, A.N. Kieninger, Edward E. Cornwell III, David C. Chang.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Pneumoperitoneum 48 days after laparoscopic hysterectomy. JSLS, Vol.17, No.4 (2013): 661-664. K.S. Smith, T.C. Wilson, L. Luces, A.A. Stevenson, B. Hajhosseini, S.M. Siram.
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, College of Medicine.

Comparative Anatomy of the Hind Limb Vessels of the Bearded Capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus) with Apes, Baboons, and Cebus capucinus: With Comments on the Vessels' Role in Bipedalism. Biomed Res Int, 2013: 737358. R.A. Aversi-Ferreira, de Abreu T, Pfrimer GA, Silva SF, Ziermann JM, Carneiro-E-Silva FO, Tomaz C, Tavares MC, Maior RS, Aversi-Ferreira TA.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine,

Uncomplicated obesity in an African American population seeking medical weight loss. Ethn Dis, Vol.23, No.4 (Fall 2013): 441-444. Denia Tapscott1, Monet D. Bernard1, Thomas A. Mellman2.
1Department of Medicine, 2Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Fasting plasma ghrelin levels are reduced, but not suppressed during OGTT in obese African American adolescents. Ethn Dis, Vol.23, No.4 (Fall 2013): 436-440. Maurice B. Fluitt1, Kanwal K. Gambhir2, Gail Nunlee-Bland3, Wolali Odonkor3.
1Department of Medicine, 2Department of Genetics and Human Genetics and Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, 3 Department of Medicine, Diabetes Treatment Center, College of Medicine.


Week Ending January 4, 2014

Arts & Sciences

Cu(ii) conjugation along the transformation of a vitamin K3 derivative to a dinaphthoquinone methide radical. New Journal of Chemistry, Vol.38, No.1 (2014): 277-284. Badave, K.D., Patil, S.S., Khan, A.A., Srinivas, D., Raymond J. Butcher, Gonnade, R.G., Puranik, V.G., Pinjari, R.V., Gejji, S.P., Rane, S.Y.
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

+DFT investigation of the mechanism and chemical kinetics for the gelation of colloidal silica. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1547 (2013): 173-182. Steven S. Burnett1, James W. Mitchell2.
1Department of Chemistry, CoAS; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, CEACS.

SPR studies of the adsorption of silver/bovine serum albumin nanoparticles (Ag/BSA NPs) onto the model biological substrates. J Colloid Interface Sci., Vol.402 ( 2013): 40-49. Chandra Bhan, Tina Louise Brower, Raghavan Dharmaraj.
Polymer Group, Department of Chemistry, CoAS..
Department of Chemistry, CoAS.

Religious bias among religiously conscious Black Christians in the United States. Journal of Social Psychology, Vol.154, No.1 (2014): 4-7. Debbie Van Camp, Lloyd Ren Sloan, Amanda ElBassiouny.
Department of Psychology, CoAS.

The essential Langston Hughes. Re-Markings, Vol.13, No.1 (Jan 2014): 14-18. E. Ethelbert Miller.
Department of Afro-American Studies, CoAS.

Thermal effects associated with the raman spectroscopy of WO3 gas-sensor materials. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.117, No.50 (2013): 13825-13831. Raul F. Garcia-Sanchez, Tariq Ahmido, Daniel Casimir, Shankar Baliga, Prabhakar Misra.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS.

Education

Evaluation guidelines for the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs). Clinical and Translational Science, Vol.6, No.4 (2013): 303-309. Trochim, W.M., Rubio, D.M., Veronica G. Thomas.
Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education.

Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences

+DFT investigation of the mechanism and chemical kinetics for the gelation of colloidal silica. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1547 (2013): 173-182. Steven S. Burnett1, James W. Mitchell2.
1Department of Chemistry, CoAS; 2Department of Electrical Engineering, CEACS.

Health Sciences

Social support and physical activity as moderators of life stress in predicting baseline depression and change in depression over time in the Women's Health Initiative. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol.48, No.12 (2013): 1971-1982. Uebelacker, L.A., Eaton, C.B., Weisberg, R., Sands, M., Carla Williams, Calhoun, D., Manson, J.E., Denburg, N.L., Taylor, T.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Student pharmacists' perceptions of community pharmacy residency programs. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, Vol.53, No.2 (2013): 193-197. M.V. Datar, Erin R. Holmes, Alex J. Adams, Samuel F. Stolpe.
College of Pharmacy.

Environmental nursing diagnoses / Diagnosticos de enfermagem relacionados ao ambiente. In: NANDA International & T. H. Herdman (Eds.), PRONANDA Programa de atualizacao em diagnosticos de enfermagem: Ciclo 1, 29-51. Porto Alegre, BZ: Semcad, 2013. Pauline Green.
Division of Nursing, CNAHS.

BRCA1 polymorphisms and breast cancer epidemiology in the Western New York exposures and breast cancer (WEB) study. Genet Epidemiol., Vol.37, No.5 (2013): 504-11. Luisel J. Ricks-Santi, Nie J, Marian C, Ochs-Balcom HM, Trevisan M, Edge SB, Kanaan Y, Freudenheim JL, Shields PG.
National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine.

Possible APOE genotype and sex dependent effects of 17-α- estradiol on Alzheimers disease pathology. Alzheimer’s Disease & Parkinsonism, Parkinsonism, Vol.3, No.4 (2013): 1000e130. Kebreten F Manaye, William Rebeck G.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.