With spring around the corner, there s already buzz about when periodical cicadas will arrive.
The entrance of periodical cicadas, which have been living underground for the past 17 years, will be anything but subtle.
This year will mark the re-emergence of Brood X, or the Great Eastern Brood, of periodical cicadas those large, winged, kind of scary-looking but mostly harmless large flying insects known for their almost deafening buzz.
A jet plane flying in for landing at John Glenn International Airport in Columbus can reach about 80 decibels. But leave it to a group of male cicadas performing mating calls in a tree to top that. Male cicadas have been recorded to hit 96 decibels, said Gene Kritsky, dean of the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati. Kritsky authored, Periodical Cicadas: the Brood X Edition published by the Ohio Biological Survey, which is expected out in mid-February.
MLK Day of Service: ULM and LDCC collecting items for Food Bank
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Published Dec. 15, 2020
The University of Louisiana Monroe and Louisiana Delta Community College are again partnering to assist a local community agency for MLK Day of Service on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021.
We are all aware of the impact that the pandemic has had on individual s ability to feed themselves and/or their families. The Foodbank has met that need and will continue to do so throughout this holiday season. Therefore, we will help with replenishing the shelves after this holiday season, said Pamela Higgins Saulsbury, Ph.D., ULM
Post-Stroke Motor Skill Recovery Gets Boost from Vagus Nerve Stimulation
Pairing a physical therapy task aimed at improving the function of an upper limb in rodents along with vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) demonstrated a doubled long-term recovery rate relative to current therapy methods, suggest researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas.
The recovery rate was not only in the performance of the targeted task, but also in similar muscle movements that were not specifically rehabbed, the researchers add in their study, published recently in the journal
“Our experiment was designed to ask this new question: After a stroke, do you have to rehabilitate every single action?” says Dr Michael Kilgard, associate director of the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) and Margaret Forde Jonsson, professor of Neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.