1,306 results match your criteria: "College of Charleston.[Affiliation]"
Nephron
September 2024
Department of Nephrology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with adverse outcomes, including death and dialysis. The goal of this study was to identify prognostic biomarkers of AKI that could be used across multiple phenotypes of AKI and across different species.
Methods: Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry analysis of urine samples from three species (human, rat, and mouse) and four etiologies of AKI identified five potential biomarkers, of which two were validated, complement C3 and vitamin D-binding protein, in a cohort of 157 patients that developed AKI following cardiothoracic surgery.
Curr Opin Psychol
December 2024
Department of Health and Human Performance, School of Health Sciences, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC, 29424, USA; Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, McNeil Building, Room 438, 3710 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. Electronic address:
Social norms are thought to spread through processes of collective contagion, requiring multiple social contacts for diffusion. The spread of harmful social norms is heightened with the spread of misinformation online, especially as falsehoods spread faster than truth. Social inoculation, an intervention approach developed in the 1960s, is an effective prophylactic against harmful social norms spread.
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September 2024
The Anson Street African Burial Ground Project, Mount Pleasant, SC, USA.
As part of the Anson Street African Burial Ground Project, we characterized the oral microbiomes of twelve 18th century African-descended individuals (Ancestors) from Charleston, South Carolina, USA, to study their oral health and diet. We found that their oral microbiome composition resembled that of other historic (18th-19th century) dental calculus samples but differed from that of modern samples, and was not influenced by indicators of oral health and wear observed in the dentition. Phylogenetic analysis of the oral bacteria, Tannerella forsythia and Pseudoramibacter alactolyticus, revealed varied patterns of lineage diversity and replacement in the Americas, with the Ancestors carrying strains similar to historic period Europeans and Africans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Health Commun
October 2024
Leadership, Fact Forward, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
Young people account for over half of new STI cases and youth of color face increased sexual health disparities. In partnership with Fact Forward, researchers conducted qualitative formative audience research to develop a culture-centered health communication campaign to increase access to and use of sexual health services among youth of color in South Carolina. Grounded in a reproductive justice theoretical framework, this study employed innovative strategies, including training youth ambassadors to moderate peer-to-peer focus groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Sex Behav
September 2024
Department of Communication, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
PeerJ
September 2024
Department of Biology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States.
The microbiota of hydrothermal vents has been widely implicated in the dynamics of oceanic biogeochemical cycling. Lithotrophic organisms utilize reduced chemicals in the vent effluent for energy, which fuels carbon fixation, and their metabolic byproducts can then support higher trophic levels and high-biomass ecosystems. However, despite the important role these microorganisms play in our oceans, they are difficult to study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Infect Dis
September 2024
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina.
Conscious Cogn
October 2024
Philosophy Department, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
Some research suggests that moral behavior can be strongly influenced by trivial features of the environment of which we are completely unaware. Philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists have argued that these findings undermine our commonsense notions of agency and responsibility, both of which emphasize the role of practical reasoning and conscious deliberation in action. We present the results of four vignette-based studies (N=1,437) designed to investigate how people think about the metaphysical and moral implications of scientific findings that reveal our susceptibility to automaticity and situational influences.
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September 2024
Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 29412, USA.
The spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, is a popular game fish in the southeastern USA. It is estimated that nearly 90% of the adult population in South Carolina estuaries are infected in their skeletal muscle by the myxosporean, Kudoa inornata. However, little is known about this parasite's biology, including the distribution and densities of myxospores within tissues of infected fish, which we expect affect the physiology of their hosts.
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August 2024
Department of Biology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States.
Hydrothermal vents host a diverse community of microorganisms that utilize chemical gradients from the venting fluid for their metabolisms. The venting fluid can solidify to form chimney structures that these microbes adhere to and colonize. These chimney structures are found throughout many different locations in the world's oceans.
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August 2024
Department of Sociology and Environmental Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Dyslexia
November 2024
Department of Communication, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Through a reflexive thematic analysis of a large online support group for dyslexia and a sensemaking lens, this study investigated how mothers made sense of their child's dyslexia through metaphors. Mothers used metaphors to characterise their feelings surrounding dyslexia, their school-based interactions and their identity as advocates. The language mothers use offers a generative, textured way to understand the lived experiences of supporting a child with learning differences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Exerc Sci
June 2024
Department of Health and Human Performance, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) risk factors in high school (HS) athletes. Thirty-three male soccer players from a public HS in the southeastern United States (ages 14-17) self-reported survey data. Participants reported demographic, lifestyle, heart health, COVID-19 history, and symptoms indicative of SCA risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
September 2024
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Comparative studies suggest remarkable similarities among food webs across habitats, including systematic changes in their structure with diversity and complexity (scale-dependence). However, historic aboveground terrestrial food webs (ATFWs) have coarsely grouped plants and insects such that these webs are generally small, and herbivory is disproportionately under-represented compared to vertebrate predator-prey interactions. Furthermore, terrestrial herbivory is thought to be structured by unique processes compared to size-structured feeding in other systems.
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October 2024
Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC, 29424, USA.
Microplastics are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment, and bivalves such as the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) can accumulate these particles directly from the water column. Bivalves are concurrently exposed to pathogenic and toxin-producing bacteria, including Vibrio spp. and Microcystis spp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Med Sci
September 2024
Department of Biology, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC 29424, USA. Electronic address:
Background: The presence of "muddy" brown granular casts (MBGC) in the urine sediment is pathognomonic for acute tubular injury (ATI). Although MBGC have been noted for years, there are no reports regarding their length nor width. The objective of this study was to measure MBGC using images obtained by light microscopy and investigate associations with clinically relevant parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Proteome Res
July 2024
Department of Biology, Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 29412, United States.
Since 1998, California sea lion () stranding events associated with domoic acid toxicosis (DAT) have consistently increased. Outside of direct measurement of domoic acid in bodily fluids at the time of stranding, there are no practical nonlethal clinical tests for the diagnosis of DAT that can be utilized in a rehabilitation facility. Proteomics analysis was conducted to discover candidate protein markers of DAT using cerebrospinal fluid from stranded California sea lions with acute DAT ( = 8), chronic DAT ( = 19), or without DAT ( = 13).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil
May 2024
School of Business, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 29424, USA.
Sports and tourism are connected in various parts of economies, cultures, and nations. However, there has been a limited understanding of sports event tourism involving disabled athletes. This study explored the behavioral and socio-demographic implications of the disabled sports event tourism and investigated the motivational factors involved.
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May 2024
Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
The Longxiang tracksite (lower Upper Cretaceous, Shanghang Basin) includes twelve didactyl deinonychosaur tracks that fall into two morphologies, differentiated by both size and form. The smaller tracks (∼11 cm long) are referable to the ichnogenus . The larger tracks (∼36 cm long) establish the ichnotaxon .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSensors (Basel)
May 2024
Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Systems, Najran University, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia.
Smart power grids suffer from electricity theft cyber-attacks, where malicious consumers compromise their smart meters (SMs) to downscale the reported electricity consumption readings. This problem costs electric utility companies worldwide considerable financial burdens and threatens power grid stability. Therefore, several machine learning (ML)-based solutions have been proposed to detect electricity theft; however, they have limitations.
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May 2024
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina 29424, United States.
Condensation processes such as wet-dry cycling are thought to have played significant roles in the emergence of proto-peptides. Here, we describe a simple and low-cost method, differential Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, for qualitative analysis of peptide condensation products in model primordial reactions. We optimize differential FTIR for depsipeptides and apply this method to investigate their polymerization in the presence of extraterrestrial dust simulants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Hist Med Allied Sci
September 2024
University of California, San Diego, USA.
Parasitology
June 2024
College of Charleston Marine Laboratory and Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.
With the increasing affordability of next-generation sequencing technologies, genotype-by-sequencing has become a cost-effective tool for ecologists and conservation biologists to describe a species' evolutionary history. For host–parasite interactions, genotype-by-sequencing can allow the simultaneous examination of host and parasite genomes and can yield insight into co-evolutionary processes. The eastern oyster, , is among the most important aquacultured species in the United States.
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December 2023
Department of Biology, The Citadel, Charleston, SC 29409, USA.
Microplastic ingestion was reported for common bottlenose dolphins () inhabiting Sarasota Bay, FL, USA, a community that also has prevalent exposure to plasticizers (i.e., phthalates) at concentrations higher than human reference populations.
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May 2024
Department of Pharmacology, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
Midbrain dopamine neurons impact neural processing in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) through mesocortical projections. However, the signals conveyed by dopamine projections to the PFC remain unclear, particularly at the single-axon level. Here, we investigated dopaminergic axonal activity in the medial PFC (mPFC) during reward and aversive processing.
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