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Creating An Online Institutional Research Record In Archivesspace, Lydia A. Howes, Mike Moseley, Geoff Pettys, Adam Roloff

Articles

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The School of Medicine was a pioneer in using problem-based learning and simulated patients in medical education. In January 2018 the Library was asked whether the School had a bibliography of the School's contributions to these topics. We did not, but agreed it would be a useful and interesting resource. During this time the Library was also planning to implement an online catalog and finding aid for our archives using the open source platform ArchivesSpace. The death of a distinguished and emeritus professor in June 2018 fast-tracked these projects.

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As a starting point for an institutional …

Toward A Better Understanding Of Recurrence Intervals, Bankfull, And Their Importance, Pamela J. Edwards, Edward A. Watson, Frederica Wood

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Bankfull is a concept that is intimately tied to the annual flood series through the well-accepted tenet that bankfull discharge occurs at approximately the 1.5-year recurrence interval on the annual series. Thus, due to this association the annual series provides a useful diagnostic tool for helping to identify the bankfull elevation in the field. The partial-duration series does not provide an equivalent tool because paired discharge and recurrence interval values from the flood frequency curve depend upon the minimum threshold selected for developing the partial-duration series. However, the interpretation that bankfull discharge occurs on average once every 1.5 years, or …

A Survey Of Public Perceptions And Attitudes About Water Availability Following Exceptional Drought In Texas, Drew M. Gholson, Diane E. Boellstorff, Scott R. Cummings, Kevin L. Wagner, Monty C. Dozier

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

This study examines the results of a random sample survey of Texans evaluating citizen awareness, attitudes, and willingness to adopt water conservation practices. The study investigates changes in public attitudes following the most intense one-year drought on record in Texas by evaluating public perception of water availability, assessing Texans’ attitudes and perceptions regarding drought conditions, and comparing the number of Texans adopting practices to conserve water before and after the drought of 2011. Almost 70% indicated that the likelihood of their area suffering from a prolonged drought was increasing. More than 61% of respondents have changed the way their yard …

Should Contact Recreation Water Quality Standards Be Consistent Across Hydrological Extremes?, Lucas F. Gregory, Anna Gitter, Stephen Muela, Kevin L. Wagner

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Water quality standards are developed to protect and define when waterbodies support their designated uses including public water supply, recreational use, aquatic life use, and others. Recreational use categories include various activities that typically do not occur under similar hydrologic conditions making protection of all uses challenging. This paper presents a case study where Escherichia coli concentrations were grouped by flow rate to demonstrate potential effects of developing use-specific water quality standards for contact recreation. Adopting this approach requires a shift from current water quality policy which applies to all hydrologic conditions; however, it also requires additional data collection on …

Iwrm And The Nexus Approach: Versatile Concepts For Water Resources Education, Neil S. Grigg

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the nexus approach are tools to identify solutions for water problems across interdependent sectors with interacting social and natural systems. Although both tools aim at solutions for complex water issues using an interdisciplinary approach, IWRM is a management process and the nexus approach is a systems tool to characterize problems. By clarifying their attributes and providing examples, instructors can use them to explain broad social problems and offer practical frameworks for problem-solving. Given their breadth, IWRM and the nexus approach can seem vague and attract criticism, but if they are replaced, the need for …

Water Scavenging From Roadside Springs In Appalachia, Leigh-Anne Krometis, Hannah Patton, Austin Wozniak, Emily Sarver

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Significant challenges in the provision of safe drinking water and appropriate, effective sanitation remain in the United States, particularly among communities with few financial resources and/or situated in challenging terrain. Though previous formal research is limited, anecdotal reports suggest that some households in Appalachia may rely on untreated, unregulated roadside “springs” as a primary source of potable water. This effort monitored the water quality at twenty-one of these springs in Central Appalachia and identified potential motivations for this behavior through volunteer surveys in order to better define community challenges and to establish communication for future outreach. The majority (>80%) …

Development And Validation Of New Models And Metrics For The Assessments Of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss, Wisam Subhi Talib Al-Dayyeni

Dissertations

Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is one of the most common illnesses that is frequently reported in the occupational and military sectors. Hearing loss due to high noise exposure is a major health problem with economic consequences. Industrial and military noise exposures often contain high-level impulsive noise components. The presence of these impulsive noise components complicates the assessment of noise levels for hearing conservation purposes. The current noise guidelines use equal energy hypothesis (EEH) based metrics to evaluate the risk of hearing loss. A number of studies show that the current noise metrics often underestimates the risk of hearing loss in …

The Baadasssss And The Avant-Garde: The Radical Aesthetics And Politics Of Melvin Van Peebles, Samuel Jay Smucker

Theses

Melvin Van Peebles is best known for Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) and that film’s role in inspiring the Blaxploitation cycle of films of the early 1970s. However, it was in France, where he had emigrated like other black creatives in the 1960s, that Van Peebles became a filmmaker. Drawing on biographical research and a close reading of his films, I connect Van Peebles to the institutions and aesthetics of the French New Wave. Van Peebles radicalizes New Wave techniques by employing them to illuminate issues of racism. I generate a new reading of Sweetback which connects the experimental aesthetics …

Act-Based Statements Effect On Bartending Tips, Mariah Patz

Theses

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a behaviorally-based intervention that emphasizes psychological processes related to mindfulness, values, committed actions towards values, defusion from troubling thoughts, and acceptance. ACT is often used with populations who experience psychological inflexibility or stress, but not much research has been done understanding how ACT processes may affect everyday tasks within the common public or within business practices. The present study used a randomized controlled trial to determine the effect that statements related to ACT processes given while receiving a bar tending service altered the outcome tipping percentage from guests. The current research also discussed how …

Arab And Muslim Women In American Entertainment Media: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of ‘Homeland’., Sjanne Adams

Research Papers

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Confronting Masculinity: The Gen X Novel (1984-2000) And The Sentimental Man, Robert E. Woolridge

Dissertations

Experimental novels written from 1984-2000 by authors associated with Generation X collectively struggle with common sense notions of masculinity in their various decades at the end of the twentieth century. Relying on confessional, first-person narration, first novels written by white men stage a critical engagement of outdated patriarchal norms in an effort to produce a more progressive masculinity based on sentimentality. In the 1980s, McInerney and Ellis novels, Bright Lights, Big City and Less Than Zero chronicle the struggles of empty, yuppie men who cannot make connections with their peers due to their emotionally devoid lives. By the 1990s, Douglas …

Sexual Harassment In Illinois: Public Opinion And Legislative Action, Oluwaseyi Amosu

The Simon Review (Occasional Papers of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute)

The last several years have brought sexual harassment in the public and private sector to the forefront of a national conversation. This paper addresses the issue of sexual harassment specifically within the Illinois public sector. First, to understand how Illinoisans view sexual harassment, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute conducted statewide polling. This endeavor asked respondents about their perceptions of how well the public understands sexual harassment, how likely people who engage in harassing behavior are to be held accountable, and whether or not the respondents would be likely to vote for a political candidate accused of sexual harassment. This …

2019 Abstract Book, Undergraduate And Graduate Research Forum

Undergraduate and Graduate Research Forum Abstract Books

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An Artistic Contemplative Inquiry: What Arrives In Co-Contemplating Assessment And Evaluation, Michelle Searle, Lynn M. Fels

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

Contemporary arts-based inquiry invites us to linger in moments, to reflect upon our lives, our encounters, our relationships within the grander context of the worlds within which we dwell and those that we co-create. Here, we explore the landscape of the arts in relation to assessment and evaluation. Through a collaborative artistic contemplative inquiry, an emergent dialogue exploring assessment and evaluation is recorded and presented as a found poem, “What Arrives.” Our hope, when we embarked upon this artistic contemplation, was that we would evoke, provoke, and interrupt each other for the purpose of creating possibilities of alliance and (re)cognition …

The Human Ortholog Of Archaeal Pus10 Produces Pseudouridine 54 In Select Trnas Where Its Recognition Sequence Contains A Modified Residue., Manisha Deogharia, Shaoni Mukhopadhyay, Archi Joardar, Ramesh Gupta

Articles

The nearly conserved U54 of tRNA is mostly converted to a version of ribothymidine (T) in Bacteria and eukaryotes and to a version of pseudouridine (Ψ) in Archaea. Conserved U55 is nearly always modified to Ψ55 in all organisms. Orthologs of TrmA and TruB that produce T54 and Ψ55, respectively, in Bacteria and eukaryotes are absent in Archaea. Pus10 produces both Ψ54 and Ψ55 in Archaea. Pus10 orthologs are found in nearly all sequenced archaeal and most eukaryal genomes, but not in yeast and bacteria. This coincides with the presence of Ψ54 in most archaeal tRNAs and some animal tRNAs, …

Building Police-Community Trust In Illinois: Will We Ever Get There? An Examination Of The Illinois Police And Community Relations Act, Tosha Childs

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

The following comment analyzes the 2016 Police and Community Relations Improvement Act. The Act implements the Six Pillars of Change promulgated by President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. The pillars represent the best practices to promote effective crime reduction and to build public trust with respect to law enforcement. The pillars are (1) building trust and legitimacy, (2) policy and oversight, (3) technology and social media, (4) community policing and crime reduction, (5) training and education, and (6) officer wellness and safety.

This comment discusses how the Act specifically incorporates the Six Pillars of Change, and it …

Fairness Towards Authors: Does It Necessarily Mean Caring For The Weak?, Omri Alter

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

According to a common narrative in recent copyright scholarship, authors deserve fairness in their relationship with commercial entities, such as publishers and producers. This narrative is reflected most conspicuously in a growing trend all over the world to adopt mandatory rules designed to provide authors with a larger share of the profits generated by exploitation of their work.

The most common normative argument in favor of mandatory rules rests on considerations of distributive justice, according to which authors are poor and suffer from low bargaining power. Framing the issue as a conflict between weak, starving authors and large capitalist conglomerates …

Youtube Vs. The Music Industry: Are Online Service Providers Doing Enough To Prevent Piracy?, Karl Borgsmiller

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to create a set of rules and procedures online service providers must meet in order to prevent liability from extending to them. 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), dubbed the “safe-harbor provision,” sets out what actions an online service provider must take in order to be free from liability. Recently, this legislation has come under scrutiny because critics argue the safe-harbor provisions over protect online service providers and allow artists to face the consequences of online piracy. This Note argues that instead of reforming the DMCA, new technology and innovation, such as …

The Rise And Fall Of Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft, 1783 – 1937, Marc Mercado

Legacy

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The Ghetto Brothers: Reconciliation, Music, And The Brokerage Of Peace Among Bronx Street Gangs In The 1970s, Margaret Mckinney

Legacy

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The American Engine, Kyle Garrity

Legacy

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Alice Paul And The Fight For The Nineteenth Amendment, Jenny Bottrell

Legacy

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From The Sidelines To Center Field: The Improvement Of Opportunities For Female Athletes At Southern Illinois University, Jacquelin Biggs

Legacy

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Comparison Of Heparg Cells Following Growth In Proliferative And Differentiated Culture Conditions Reveals Distinct Bioenergetic Profiles., Carolyn K J Young, Matthew J Young

Articles

HepaRG is a proliferative human hepatoma-derived cell line that can be differentiated into hepatocyte-like and biliary-like cells. Differentiated HepaRG cultures maintain key hepatic functions including drug transporters and xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes. To gain insight into proliferative and differentiated HepaRG metabolism we profiled various bioenergetic parameters and investigated cell culture levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), lactate, and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity. Compared to differentiated-derived HepaRG, cells from proliferative cultures had increased basal and ATP-linked respiration and decreased maximal and spare respiratory capacities. Basal ATP levels but not lactate or LDH activity were increased in samples from proliferative-derived compared to differentiated-derived HepaRG. Further …

Exploring The Impact Of Discrimination On The Quality Of Life Of African Americans In America, Jariah Henderson

Research Papers

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The Value Of Green Water Management In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review, Clever Mafuta

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Due to its multiple uses, water is a highly competed-for resource. While the competition is mainly in the use of the resource, contestation over water resources is also demonstrated through how the resource is defined and described. Terms such as water stress and water scarcity are commonly used in literature, and so are various colors that define water quality, including white, grey, yellow, and black water. Water that is useful for agriculture is distinctly known as blue or green water, with the latter increasingly gaining prominence in water planning for improved agricultural productivity. Proper management of green water has been …

Agricultural Use Of Reclaimed Water In Florida: Food For Thought, Lawrence R. Parsons

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Florida has successfully irrigated agricultural crops with reclaimed water (RW) for more than 50 years. Florida and California are the two largest producers and users of RW in the U.S. To allay early fears about RW, Florida regulatory agencies established rules in the 1980s that prohibited direct contact of RW with crops that are not processed but eaten raw. This means that RW cannot be used for direct contact irrigation or frost protection of crops such as strawberries or blueberries. Other states do not have such limitations on RW use. Reclaimed water has an excellent safety record, and no health …

Combatting Military Corruption In China, Thomas H. Au

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Recent scandals involving high-level Chinese military officers have energized to reform the Chinese military justice system. These efforts have resulted in some of the most significant structure changes to China’s military legal system since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This article reviews the legal authorities underpinning China’s military justice system, compares the military justice systems of the U.S. and China, and assess China’s current reform efforts. It also discusses the impact of corruption on Chine military readiness, military-to-military relations, and international relations. The article concludes that China’s current military justice reforms are likely to be inadequate to …

“Outrunning” The Fourth Amendment: A Functional Approach To Searches Of Wearable Fitness Tracking Devices, William Kendall

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

This Note applies Riley v. California, 134 S. Ct. 2473 (2014), and other cases to fitness trackers and argues that a blanket rule, which would require police to obtain a warrant prior to searching any digital device found on an arrestee at the time of arrest, is not in line with the Court’s search and seizure precedent. Instead, as in Riley, the appropriate rule is a narrowly tailored rule, easy to apply in the field, which allows a workable balance between government interest and interest of the people.

Part II of this note explores the variety and functionality of fitness …

Return To Rehabilitation: Illinois’ Evolving Juvenile Sentencing Practices In Light Of Miller V. Alabama, Brad Taylor

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

In Miller v. Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment requires a court to, prior to sentencing juveniles to life-without-parole, consider mitigating factors attendant to youth. The Court noted that a life-without-parole sentence was only appropriate punishment for a juvenile when the juvenile’s act reflected true incorrigibility. Given the transient nature of youthful characteristics, like impetuosity, true incorrigibility is vanishingly rare. As such, after Miller, the imposition of life-without-parole sentences for juveniles should be similarly rare.

As the birthplace of the juvenile justice system, Illinois holds a special place in the history of the American …