Researchers invent better tool for assessing infant brain health ANI | Updated: Apr 30, 2021 15:15 IST
Washington [US], April 30 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a new, open-access tool that allows doctors and scientists to evaluate infant brain health by assessing the concentration of various chemical markers, called metabolites, in the brain.
The tool compiled data from 140 infants to determine normal ranges for these metabolites.
Published in the journal NMR in Biomedicine, the study describes an easier and more reliable way to evaluate metabolite concentrations in the infant s brain than was previously available, said study lead Ryan Larsen, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Elizabeth Reese, Yunpoví (Willow Flower in the Tewa language), was born on the Nambé Pueblo reservation, one of the oldest continually inhabited Indigenous communities in the U.S. that sits just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico and where she is tribally enrolled. She grew up immersed in Nambé’s culture, participating in traditions that date back thousands of years to that exact location.
But when her parents decided to pursue Ph.D. degrees, her family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois where they found themselves the only Native American family in a town where the mascot of the local university, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was a racist caricature of a Native American person. Though Reese remained close to her community, spending summers and holidays at the Pueblo, she experienced racially-charged bullying in her new town. Always, she was the only Native person in her classes. She never had a Native
College of DuPage student to tackle artificial intelligence, network interaction at Dept. of Energy internship Blerim Abdullai, who is graduating from College of DuPage this spring, received a 10-week internship with the U.S. Department of Energy s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington. Courtesy of College of DuPage
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College of DuPage student Blerim Abdullai will gain crucial practical experience thanks to a U.S. Department of Energy internship at the prestigious Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington.
For 10 weeks this summer, Abdullai will work with artificial intelligence and develop a machine learning algorithm to give insight to the interactions of 4G and 5G networks.
Among the 60 Fellows named were Retika Adhikari and Utathya Chattopadhyaya.
Adhikari, a postdoctoral Fellow of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the ACLS Centennial Fellow in the Dynamics of Place.
Her fellowship is on âRefugee Crossings: Everyday Geographies of Bhutanese Refugee Encampment and Resettlement.â
Refugee Crossings is the first book to examine refugee camps in the global South and relocation sites in the global north together to provide an ethnographic account of the entire process of refugee resettlement.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted with Bhutanese refugees as they move through the nodes of their resettlement trailâfrom refugee camps in Nepal to international airports to resettlement cities in Central New Yorkâthis project argues that refugees understand their political and humanitarian status as unresolved even after the UN and US refugee programs declare them resolved, her bio notes.
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Millicom offers wireless and fixed-line telecom services primarily in smaller, less congested markets or in less developed countries in Latin America. Countries served include Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Colombia, and Costa Rica. It also operates in Africa but has been selling out of African markets over the past couple years. Increasingly, it offers a converged package that may include fixed-line phone, broadband, and pay television in conjunction with wireless services.
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