Georgia College & State University

About: Georgia College & State University is a education organization based out in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 950 authors who have published 1591 publications receiving 37027 citations.

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone in a bulldog with aspiration pneumonia.

Abstract: A 15-week-old, male intact, 9.8 kg English Bulldog presented to the University of Georgia Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) for surgical correction of presumed brachycephalic airway syndrome. For 3 weeks before admission, the dog experienced stertorous breathing that was not responsive to antibiotic treatment, including doxycycline, cefpodoxime, and marbofloxacin, for treatment of presumptive pneumonia. Thoracic radiographs performed a week before presentation disclosed a hypoplastic trachea and tracheal collapse, but no evidence of pneumonia. Baermann testing of feces did not identify parasites. On presentation, the puppy had loud referred upper airway noise and stertorous breathing on auscultation. The nares were stenotic bilaterally. Preoperative laboratory assessment was normal. Serum electrolyte concentrations were not measured. An upper airway examination was performed under propofol anesthesia, and disclosed a moderately elongated soft palate and everted laryngeal saccules, indicating grade 1 laryngeal collapse. The dog was intubated and maintained under anesthesia using isoflurane in 100% oxygen. A CO2 laser was used to perform a staphylectomy and metzenbaum scissors were used to perform laryngeal sacculectomy. A bilateral rhinoplasty was performed with the CO2 laser. Upon recovery, the dog was eupneic but its breathing remained stertorous; however, he seemed comfortable and eupneic. The dog was maintained on lactated ringer’s solution during anesthesia and surgery at a rate of 10 mL/kg/h, which was discontinued upon extubation. The postoperative course was complicated by several episodes of regurgitation, which were temporally associated with administration of hydromorphone (0.05 mg/ kg IV q4h). Overnight, progressive respiratory distress developed and 12 h after surgery, the dog became orthopneic, with dull mentation. The puppy was transferred to an oxygen cage with a fractional inspired oxygen concentration of 40%. Thoracic radiographs identified severe alveolar disease in both the left cranial lung lobe and the right middle lung lobe. Plasma electrolyte concentrations were measured and identified moderate hyponatremia (134 mEq/L; reference interval, 140–152 mEq/L) and mild hypochloremia (106 mEq/L; reference interval, 110–121 mEq/L). Venous blood gas analysis identified hypercapnia (50 mm Hg; reference interval, 22–33 mmHg), consistent with a respiratory acidosis (pH = 7.30; reference interval, 7.42–7.50). All chemistry values were obtained from heparinized blood, thus plasma values are reported. Severe leukopenia was identified on CBC with total white blood cell (WBC) count of 1.5 9 10/lL (reference interval, 5.5–13.9 9 10/lL) characterized by neutropenia (0.375 9 10/lL; reference interval, 2.9–12 9 10/lL) and a mild left shift (band neutrophils 0.135 9 10/lL; reference interval, 0–0.45 9 10/lL). A CBC performed several days later had leukocytosis (22.3 9 10/lL), with an inflammatory leukogram (segmented neutrophils 18.286 9 10/lL, band neutrophils 0.223 9 10/lL and monocytosis 1.784 9 10/lL; reference interval, 0.1–1.4 9 10/lL) with slight toxic changes in the neutrophils. Antimicrobial treatment with ampicillin and sulbactam (22 mg/kg IV q8h) and amikacin (15 mg/kg IV q24h 9 5 days) was initiated to treat presumed bronchopneumonia. In addition, intermittent (q4h) nebulization using 0.9% saline with gentle thoracic coupage and aminophylline treatment (5 mg/kg IV q8h) were instituted. Postoperative analgesia was provided with buprenorphine (0.01 mg/kg IV q8h), and both famotidine (1 mg/kg IV q12h) and metoclopramide (1 mg/kg/day IV as constant rate infusion) were administered to decrease the effects of or development of reflux esophagitis. Food was withheld for 24 h, and subsequently frequent (q4h) feedings of canned food were offered after an absence of observed regurgitation. Fluid therapy also was instituted on the first postoperative day using a balanced polyionic crystalloid solution with a sodium concentration of 130 mEq/L, supplemented with 16 mEq KCl/L (for a total of 20 mEq/L of potassium). The initial intravenous fluid This article was published online on 9 April 2015. An error was subsequently identified. This notice is included in the online and print versions to indicate that both have been corrected on 30 April 2015. From the Department of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, GA (Bowles, Brainard, Coleman). Corresponding author: K.D. Bowles, Department of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine, 2015 SW 16th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32608; e-mail: bowlesk@ufl.edu. Submitted July 14, 2014; Revised January 11, 2015; Accepted February 23, 2015. Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. DOI: 10.1111/jvim.12577 Abbreviations:

Interdisciplinary Studies and Management Faculty Involvement

Abstract: An innovative approach to course development is introduced that may facilitate the learning process and better prepare students to satisfy the changing needs of their future employers. The uniqueness of this method lies in the refocusing of basic business concepts. For years, functional area emphasis has been construed as the most efficient method to teach introductory business concepts to all business majors. This article suggests that a stakeholder approach could assist learning while meeting goals proposed by accrediting agencies and the general public.

Women’s hostility toward women in rape trials: Testing the intra-female gender hostility thesis

Abstract: This study examined the intra-female gender hostility hypothesis in rape trials. The relationship between the dependent variable, verdict, and a number of juror characteristics was examined among volunteer mock jurors. Each mock jury deliberated to verdict after reading one of three versions of a scripted consent-defense rape case. The study also examined the extent that gender predicts a guilty verdict among jurors in rape cases using logistic regression analysis. The results showed that gender had a statistically significant effect on juror verdicts and significantly contributed to the ability to predict a juror’s decision.

Rearrangement of bacterial community structure during peat diagenesis

Abstract: The relationship between microbial diagenesis of Sphagnum peat (SP) and reed-sedge peat (RSP) and the spatial organization of peat bacterial communities was studied. Peats were aerobically incubated at 18–22 °C for 4 months. Changes in molecular composition of peat organic matter were monitored with solid-state 13 C NMR, and the respective amount of functional groups was determined by integration of corresponding peaks. No abiotic peat transformation was detected. SP diagenesis caused about a 4% loss of parent materials with a similar yield of ketones, phenols, aromatic, and carbonyl compounds; whereas about 20% of RSP carbohydrates, along with ketones and methoxyl compounds were gradually transformed into carbonyl and aliphatic compounds. SP and RSP substantially varied in bacterial composition. To address spatial community structure, bacterial populations were dissected by a differential elution technique into three fractions based on the degree of their attachment to peat. Community composition was surveyed with T-RFLP ( Hha I, Msp I, and Rsa I). The fragments were further attributed to freely-dispersed (FD), particle-associated (PA), or omnipresent (OMN) bacterial fractions. In both peats, bacterial communities have gradually shifted with the progress of diagenesis. In SP, numbers of exclusively FD or PA bacteria slightly decreased while in RSP their numbers more than doubled after 4-month incubation, and the number of OMN bacteria respectively decreased. The substantially greater changes in the spatial structure of RSP bacterial community compared to SP were consistent with the chemical transformations detected in these peats suggesting the diagenesis-driven divergence of RSP bacterial community into FD and PA sub-communities.

Teaching programmable shaders: lightweight versus heavyweight approach

Abstract: The most exciting recent advance in computer graphics has been the development of programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). We discuss different approaches to and some of the issues involved in teaching the use of GPUs.