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Alzheimer's and other related neurodegenerative diseases affect nearly 24.3 million individuals globally‐a number that will likely increase with the rising world population [1]. In a recent survey, a panel of experts discussed existing data and concluded that there are higher rates of dementia in developed regions than developing regions. A link between air pollution and neurodegeneration has been established [2–4]. We are looking at the ability of two different types of particulate matter, diesel exhaust and urban dust, to activate microglial cells and determine if there is an increase in oxidative stress when the microglial cells are exposed to these types of particulate matter in vitro. We utilize fluorescence and ELIZA kits to measure production of TNF‐alpha and hydrogen peroxide.Support or Funding InformationResearch reported in this publication was supported by an institutional development award from the National Institute of general medical sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant number P20GM103443.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

Scott Slovic and Paul Slovic (Eds.). Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2015). 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-87071-776-5. Literature and environment professor Scott Slovic, and his father, psychologist Paul Slovic, editors of this collection of essays and interviews, describe and demonstrate the psychological effects which hamper our ability to comprehend and respond appropriately to large numerical data. The collection then offers a brief survey of art works which, by first appealing to viewers’ emotions, can potentially move the viewer to a better understanding of numbers.

Wheelan, Charles. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from Data (New York, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014). 282 pp. ISBN 978-0-393-07195-5 In his review of What Numbers Say and The Numbers Game, Rob Root (Numeracy 3(1): 9) writes “Popular books on quantitative literacy need to be easy to read, reasonably comprehensive in scope, and include examples that are thought-provoking and memorable.” Wheelan’s book certainly meets this description, and should be of interest to both the general public and those with a professional interest in numeracy. A moderately diligent learner can get a decent understanding of basic statistics from the book. Teachers of statistics and quantitative literacy will find a wealth of well-related examples and stories to use in their classes.

Although historians have not neglected fire on the Great Plains, according to the author of this study they have focused much more on the roles played by other historical entities and processes, pa...

In recent years much has been written about the teaching of diffusion and osmosis, two concepts that are vital to explaining molecular transport at the cellular level. Studies have documented student misunderstandings (Freidler et al. 1987; Johnstone & Mahmoud 1980; Odom 1995; Zuckerman 1994), educator misunderstandings (Vogel 1994), and textbook author misunderstandings (Vogel 1987) of these concepts. Using a diagnostic test, Odom (1995) identified numerous misconceptions retained by high school and college students after having been exposed recently to laboratory exercises and discussions dealing with diffusion and osmosis. One of the test questions frequently answered incorrectly dealt with whether osmosis would continue in a poisoned plant cell. Only 36.2% of the high school students, 35.8% of the college nonbiology majors, and 55.6% of the college biology majors selected the correct response (i.e. that it would). Although much has been done to identify the problem and to offer activities to address it (Allard & Granberry 1992; Fox et al. 1993; McLaughin et al. 1994; Snow 1991; Suzuki 1993; Tatina 1989), more needs to be done to foster concept development regarding diffusion and osmo-

Analysis of Holocene soricid fossils, previously regarded as Sorex cf. cinereus , from Moonshiner and Middle Butte caves, Bingham Co., Idaho, revealed Sorex merriami, S. monticolus, S. nanus , and S. cf. haydeni . The latter two taxa are new records for Idaho; their former presence is consistent with cooler temperatures and greater precipitation postulated to have occurred during part of the time that these caves operated as natural traps.

Journal Article South Dakota Historical Collections Get access South Dakota Historical Collections. Vol. 41. Compiled by the South Dakota State Historical Society and the Board of Cultural Preservation. (Pierre, South Dakota: State Publishing Company, 1983. xvi + 470 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, index. $15.50.) James McLaird James McLaird Dakota Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 4, October 1984, Pages 473–474, https://doi.org/10.2307/969485 Published: 01 October 1984