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Untitled, Jasmine Settles Jan 2020

Untitled, Jasmine Settles

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Winner of the 2020 Barry Hannah Prize for Fiction

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Stress, Burnout, Compassion Satisfaction, And Compassion Fatigue Among Resident Assistants At The University Of Mississippi, Lionel Maten Jan 2020

Stress, Burnout, Compassion Satisfaction, And Compassion Fatigue Among Resident Assistants At The University Of Mississippi, Lionel Maten

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The study explores the lived experience of Resident Assistants at the University of Mississippi regarding stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction, and compassion fatigue to help improve paraprofessional development. The study addresses a scarcity of research on the prevalence and severity of RA’s stress and burnout in their roles as caregivers. A qualitative design approach was designed for this study to investigate insightful perspectives and implications of the complexities of stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction, and compassion fatigue among RAs at the University of Mississippi. For this study, 15 RAs were selected to participate in semi-structured interviews to facilitate for further probing questions …

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Instant Schools: The Frenzied Formation And Early Days Of The Mississippi Private School Association, Ernest Flora Iv Jan 2020

Instant Schools: The Frenzied Formation And Early Days Of The Mississippi Private School Association, Ernest Flora Iv

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The founding leadership of the Mississippi Private School Association (MPSA) used individual experience and extensive networking via the Citizens’ Council along with the community’s belief and desire to maintain white-only schools to create a coalition of quickly formed but well-resourced private schools. This political and social clout afforded them the ability to create a large, powerful organization almost “instantly” during a pivotal moment of southern educational history. Scholar Kenneth T. Andrews called the establishment of all-white academies in Mississippi, “a countermovement strategy that floout of the prior history of organized white resistance to the civil-rights movement.” The significance of this …

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Transition Stories Of Student Veterans, Kelley J. Jenkins Jan 2020

Transition Stories Of Student Veterans, Kelley J. Jenkins

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The purpose of this phenomenological study is to describe the transition experience for student veterans enrolled in the three largest universities in Mississippi: Mississippi State University, The University of Mississippi, and The University of Southern Mississippi. Schlossberg’s Transition Theory was used as a lens for viewing the results of this study. This phenological approach will take a social constructivist worldview in order to describe the veteran transition experience. Data was collected using semi structured interviews, transcribed, and analyzed. Each veteran’s story was written in a narrative form to provide rich detail for better understanding of their experiences. The interview transcripts …

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Admission Officers' Perceptions Of Implicit Bias In The Admission Process, Christi Denise Hardy Jan 2020

Admission Officers' Perceptions Of Implicit Bias In The Admission Process, Christi Denise Hardy

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Although they are not involved in the decision making process, admission officers at institutions of higher learning could have a significant effect on the admission process. For the purposes of this research, admission officers are defined as the primary personnel assisting applicants to complete their applications through the collection of applications, fees, essays, transcripts, test scores, and other supplemental documents required by the institution for admission consideration. More specifically, their implicit biases could significantly affect the admission process. Research on implicit biases is on the rise, and studies investigating this issue in health care and hiring practices are abundant. Implicit …

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Elucidating The Sloth Hair Microbiome: A Metagenomic Comparison Of Two- And Three-Fingered Sloths, Maya Kaup Jan 2020

Elucidating The Sloth Hair Microbiome: A Metagenomic Comparison Of Two- And Three-Fingered Sloths, Maya Kaup

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sloths are unusual mobile ecosystems containing a high diversity of symbionts living and growing in their fur. These symbionts include poorly studied algae, arthropods, fungi, and bacteria, making sloths likely reservoirs of unexplored biodiversity. I aim to identify gaps and eliminate misconceptions in our knowledge of sloths and their symbionts, and to identify key questions to spur future research into the functions and roles of sloths within a broader ecological and evolutionary context. I also seek to position the sloth fur ecosystem as a model for addressing fundamental questions in microbial and metacommunity ecology. I used whole-community shotgun metagenomic sequencing …

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Cyanines, Squaraines, And Xanthene Based Nir Emissive Materials For Biological Imaging, Jacqueline N. Gayton Jan 2020

Cyanines, Squaraines, And Xanthene Based Nir Emissive Materials For Biological Imaging, Jacqueline N. Gayton

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The need for NIR fluorescent dyes is widely accepted for imaging and communications applications. Cyanines are a commonly used family of dyes for biological imaging due to their tunability, often rapid synthesis, ease of bioconjugation, intense molar absorptivities and strong NIR emissions. Since the invention of indocyanine green (ICG), many efforts have been made to improve on the design achieving farther red-shifted dyes with larger quantum yields and enhanced Stokes shifts. A series of squaraine, cyanine, and xanthene based dyes using the indolizine heterocycle as a donor in place of the commonly used indoline donor are discussed. The indolizine donor …

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Carceral Matrix: Black Women's Writing In Response To Mass Incarceration, 1963-2019, Allison Michelle Serraes Jan 2020

Carceral Matrix: Black Women's Writing In Response To Mass Incarceration, 1963-2019, Allison Michelle Serraes

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This dissertation broadens the definition of confinement literature, a critical and developing subfield in African American literary studies. It argues that contemporary Black women writers are the early theorists of the complex and insidious reach of the U.S. prison-industrial complex. Through their probing representations of Black female characters’ interactions with state-sanctioned social control and patriarchal violence, Gayl Jones, Alice Walker, Suzan-Lori Parks, and DaMaris B. Hill expand critical understandings of confinement and imprisonment. This dissertation contends that these writers’ depictions of sexual and reproductive control as part of the developing carceral state reveal how confinement and imprisonment operate on intersecting …

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The Prosodic Profile Of Individuals With Prader-Willi Syndrome, Emma Kate Thome Jan 2020

The Prosodic Profile Of Individuals With Prader-Willi Syndrome, Emma Kate Thome

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Prosody is an important component of effective communication, playing a major role in language comprehension and expression. Despite its importance, little research has examined prosody in individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a population that struggles with communication. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to compare prosodic skills in individuals with PWS to individuals with mixed-etiology intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) as well as determine patterns of prosodic strengths and weakness among individuals with PWS. Adolescents and adults with PWS (n = 9) were matched to adults with mixed-etiology IDD (n = 9) on nonverbal ability. Participants completed standardized …

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Topics In Analytic And Combinatorial Number Theory, Zhenchao Ge Jan 2020

Topics In Analytic And Combinatorial Number Theory, Zhenchao Ge

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In this dissertation, I introduce some results that I have proved (collaboratively and independently) in analytic number theory and additive combinatorics. In analytic number theory, I study certain continuous and discrete mean value estimates for the Z-function associated to a Dirichlet L-functions. These problems lead naturally to an investigation of certain Gauss type sums which are studied in some depth. This is joint work with Jonathan W. Bober and Micah B. Milinovich. In additive combinatorics, I study two problems on sumsets. This is joint work with Thai Hoang Le.

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Nonstandard Interactions And B-Hadron Decays, Saeed Kamali Jan 2020

Nonstandard Interactions And B-Hadron Decays, Saeed Kamali

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In this work, we study the decays of heavy hadrons that contain the b quark. We study the decay modes B → D(*) τ-¯ʋ_τ Λb → Λc τ -¯ʋ_τ and B → Xc τ -¯ʋ_τ and analyze the effects of beyond the standard model new physics in various observables of these decay modes. This is important since the measurements of the decay B → D(*)τ -¯ʋ_τ deviate from the standard model predictions and this points to physics beyond the standard model. We also study CP violation in the angular distribution of the decay B → D*(→ Dπ) µ- ¯ʋµ and …

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Application Of Fluorinated Reagents In Synthesis And Drug Discovery, Amna T. Adam Jan 2020

Application Of Fluorinated Reagents In Synthesis And Drug Discovery, Amna T. Adam

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ABSTRACT The introduction of fluorine or fluorine containing moieties in pharmaceuticals may increase metabolic stability, binding affinity, bioavailability, lipophilicity, selectivity for targets, and fluorine-labelled groups can be used as imagining probes, i.e. in positron emission tomography (PET). Within the past decade, approximately 20% of all marketed pharmaceuticals contain fluorine and in 2018 alone 36% of the top 50 selling drugs on the market contained one or more fluorine atoms. Fluorinated reagents also plays an important role in the development of methods to introduce unique groups into an organic molecule, such as fluorination and methylenation. In this work, the scope of …

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Understanding Depression During The Covid-19 Pandemic Through Social Media Data, Nusrat Armin Jan 2020

Understanding Depression During The Covid-19 Pandemic Through Social Media Data, Nusrat Armin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected peoples’ daily lives all over theworld - physically, economically, and emotionally. Due to the virus, many people have died, and many hospitalized. A record number of people have lost their job, and many businesses have closed. The global economy is at risk. People are facing new realities of their lives. Studies have shown that the level of depression is three times higher than before this pandemic. Previous studies have shown that people use social media to express their emotions and feelings. The purpose of this study is to understand the depression during this COVID-19 …

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Mechanical Performance Of Graphene Enhanced Nitrile Rubber, Torkel Nord Bjaerneman Jan 2020

Mechanical Performance Of Graphene Enhanced Nitrile Rubber, Torkel Nord Bjaerneman

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After the discovery in 2004, graphene and its different forms have been studied as nanofillers into a wide range of polymers and elastomers. It is now known that these nanofillers can have a significant effect on the polymer’s or elastomer’s mechanical performance. One area that has been overlooked is the effect these nanofiller can have on the cutting resistance – an essential mechanical property when it comes to occupational safety products – when they are being incorporated into the polymer or elastomer matrix. Reported are the effects on the mechanical performance after adding graphene nanoplatelets, and a functionalized form thereof, …

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The Saltpan Microbiome Is Structured By Sediment Depth And Minimally Influenced By Variable Hydration, Eric A. Weingarten, Lauren A. Lawson, Colin R. Jackson Jan 2020

The Saltpan Microbiome Is Structured By Sediment Depth And Minimally Influenced By Variable Hydration, Eric A. Weingarten, Lauren A. Lawson, Colin R. Jackson

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Saltpans are a class of ephemeral wetland characterized by alternating periods of inundation, rising salinity, and desiccation. We obtained soil cores from a saltpan on the Mississippi Gulf coast in both the inundated and desiccated state. The microbiomes of surface and 30 cm deep sediment were determined using Illumina sequencing of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene. Bacterial and archaeal community composition differed significantly between sediment depths but did not differ between inundated and desiccated states. Well-represented taxa included marine microorganisms as well as multiple halophiles, both observed in …

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Trust Perceptions Of Metadata In Open-Source Software: The Role Of Performance And Reputation, Gene M. Alarcon, Anthony M. Gibson, Charles Walter, Rose F. Gamble, Tyler J. Ryan, Sarah A. Jessup, Brian E. Boyd, August Capiola Jan 2020

Trust Perceptions Of Metadata In Open-Source Software: The Role Of Performance And Reputation, Gene M. Alarcon, Anthony M. Gibson, Charles Walter, Rose F. Gamble, Tyler J. Ryan, Sarah A. Jessup, Brian E. Boyd, August Capiola

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Open-source software (OSS) is a key aspect of software creation. However, little is known about programmers’ decisions to trust software from OSS websites. The current study emulated OSS websites and manipulated reputation and performance factors in the stimuli according to the heuristic-systematic processing model. We sampled professional programmers—with a minimum experience of three years—from Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 38). We used a 3 × 3 within-subjects design to investigate the relationship between OSS reputation and performance on users’ time spent on code, the number of interface clicks, trustworthiness perceptions, and …

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Determining The Effectiveness Of Rock Mass Classification Schemes When Used To Derive Empirical Predictions For Rock Mass Deformation Modulus, Tanner Cecil Avery Jan 2020

Determining The Effectiveness Of Rock Mass Classification Schemes When Used To Derive Empirical Predictions For Rock Mass Deformation Modulus, Tanner Cecil Avery

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Normal deformation modulus of rock masses (Erm) is a critical design parameter for any permanent excavation and infrastructure project that requires limited or controlled deformations to ensure performance of permanent support systems and of foundations. Despite being a key parameter, the optimal methods for determining Erm is still debated. These methods can be put into three categories: in-situ tests, empirical solutions, and numerical solutions. Current efforts to derive empirical predictions rely on rock mass classification schemes (RMCS) with the assumption that all RMCS are similarly effective at predicting Erm. Since different RMCS use different sets of variables this assumption does …

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Making The Cut: Nutrition, Hydration, & Performance In Combat Sports, Katharine Halfacre Jan 2020

Making The Cut: Nutrition, Hydration, & Performance In Combat Sports, Katharine Halfacre

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This study investigated nutrition, hydration, supplementation, and body composition in relation to performance among mixed martial arts athletes practicing rapid weight loss. Mixed martial arts athletes practice intentional dehydration and nutritional fasting to achieve rapid weight loss, a practice that can damage health and performance. Male mixed martial arts athletes practicing rapid weight loss participated in the study during a week of competition which was not the same for all athletes. Food/activity journals were collected to assess nutrition, fasting, and supplementation. Urine specific gravity was assessed at baseline, weigh-ins, and endpoint. Body composition and punch velocity were assessed at baseline …

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Mississippi Teachers Who Are Nationally Board Certified Or Those With Advanced Degrees: Effects On Student Achievement, Amy Tate Barnett Jan 2020

Mississippi Teachers Who Are Nationally Board Certified Or Those With Advanced Degrees: Effects On Student Achievement, Amy Tate Barnett

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The purpose of this research study was to determine the interaction effects national board certified teachers (NBCTs) and teachers with advanced degrees (ADs); while considering school accountability levels, had on student achievement. This study examined whether significant differences existed in student achievement between the eight identified groups of teachers and how the factors of NBCT status, AD status, and accountability contributed. The study examined student achievement in grades three through eight on the end-of-the-year state assessments for the 2017-18 school year. This research endeavor relied upon the recruitment of local Mississippi school districts and their willingness to participate and share …

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The Preparedness Of First-Year Football Student-Athletes In Online Classes At The University Of Mississippi, Cliff Mccain Jan 2020

The Preparedness Of First-Year Football Student-Athletes In Online Classes At The University Of Mississippi, Cliff Mccain

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Colleges and universities in the United States currently face an n issue of student-athletes enrolling in online courses and not being prepared. Research has shown that students take these classes for a variety of reasons and perceive a variety of advantages and disadvantages to these types of classes and even more specifically, the subjects taken in the online format. Their level of preparedness, the reasons for this level, and the perceived assistance needed were also issues to be examined. This study aims to determine how prepared for online courses the first-year football student - athletes were during the 2018-2019 school …

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Chemical And Biological Evaluations Of Asimina Triloba And Rollinia Mucosa., Taghreed Ali Majrashi Jan 2020

Chemical And Biological Evaluations Of Asimina Triloba And Rollinia Mucosa., Taghreed Ali Majrashi

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Studies have shown the potential risks of neurodegeneration associated with chronic consumption of plants of the Annonaceae family, which emphasize the need for further studies to identify the neurotoxic compounds in the edible annonaceous plants and compare their risk to their benefits in defeating cancer. Our study is focused on the alkaloidal constituents of two plants from the Annonaceae family, Asimina triloba and Rollinia mocusa. This study was carried out to explore the anticancer and neurotoxic constituents of the plants with the intention that separating neurotoxic constituents would help in reducing the undesirable effects of the plants if it is …

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Perceptions Of Academic Writing From First Generation Non-Traditional Students, Margaret Jeanine Rauch Jan 2020

Perceptions Of Academic Writing From First Generation Non-Traditional Students, Margaret Jeanine Rauch

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Across the country, many students struggle with writing making it a national concern for society to find a solution to resolve this issue. By understanding how first generation non-traditional students perceive their own writing, educators and administrators can provide the resources to help these students achieve their academic goals. It is imperative that educators and administrators be aware of this social issue of concern and try to find the best means to help eradicate it. Higher education affords students the opportunity to become critical thinkers, command their own voices, and express their ideas. This dissertation is comprised of three manuscripts …

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The Effect Of Loanword Status In Japanese On The Length Of The Vowel Inserted Between Consonant Clusters In L2 English By L1 Japanese Speakers Of English, Keiji Iwamoto Jan 2020

The Effect Of Loanword Status In Japanese On The Length Of The Vowel Inserted Between Consonant Clusters In L2 English By L1 Japanese Speakers Of English, Keiji Iwamoto

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In L2 phonological acquisition, the difference in phonotactics between two languages might result in misperception and non-target like pronunciation (Dupoux et al., 1999; Nogita & Fan, 2012). If a language does not allow consonant clusters (CC), the language speaker may perceive an illusory vowel between the two consonants in the cluster (e.g., Japanese, Dupoux et al., 1999) and also they may insert a vowel between two consonants (i.e., vowel epenthesis). Similarly, the pronunciation of loanwords when adopted is usually modified according to the phonological system of the recipient language (Kay, 1995). The current study investigates the effect of loanwords in …

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Effects Of Nutrition, Hydration, Exertion, And Sleep On Injury And Illness In Female Collegiate Soccer Players, Ronald Corbit Franks Jr. Jan 2020

Effects Of Nutrition, Hydration, Exertion, And Sleep On Injury And Illness In Female Collegiate Soccer Players, Ronald Corbit Franks Jr.

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ABSTRACT Injury and illness rates in collegiate athletics continue to rise. Women’s soccer tends to have high numbers of injuries because it is a contact sport. Research has shown that there are several contributing factors to injury and illness rate in collegiate athletics. This study will provide an in depth look at female athletes, more specifically female collegiate soccer players and several factors – including dietary intake, hydration status, exertion and sleep that may attribute to injury and illness in this population. Researchers utilized weekly 3-day diet records, daily urine specific gravity, training load and self-reported sleep quantity to establish …

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An Analysis Of Efl Learners’ Foreign Language Anxiety And Their Motivation To Learn English, Maide Beyza Cayli Jan 2020

An Analysis Of Efl Learners’ Foreign Language Anxiety And Their Motivation To Learn English, Maide Beyza Cayli

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This thesis aims to investigate English-language learners’ foreign language anxiety and their motivations to learn English in an American context. The adapted versions of The Motivation/Attitude Questionnaire (Ozturk 2012), and Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (Horwitz et al 1986) were given to 34 Intensive English Program students at a college in Southeastern United States. The participants in the Advanced and Advanced Plus Level have shown moderate level of Foreign Language Anxiety and Motivation. The results have prevailed that the students with higher proficiency levels have had slightly higher level of motivation. Yet, the participants with a higher level of English proficiency …

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Computational Modeling Of Shock Wave Propagation In A Layered Composites, Nicholas Ryan Scott Jan 2020

Computational Modeling Of Shock Wave Propagation In A Layered Composites, Nicholas Ryan Scott

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Modeling and simulation of a metallic flyer plate impacting a woven glass-fiber reinforced plastic (GRP) plate at different velocities was performed using the ALE3D© finite element code. The one-dimensional strain-based shock wave propagation experimental data in terms of time history of GRP’s back surface material particle velocity, available in open literature [1], were utilized in the calibration of a continuum damage mechanics (CDM) model. The experimental data included D7 Tool Steel and 7075-T6 aluminum flyer plates and two different GRP thicknesses (6.8 mm or 13.6 mm) with varying impact velocities in the range of about 8.5 m/s to 418 m/s. …

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Codification Of Statements On Standards For Attestation Engagements, Number 20, As Of January 2020, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2020

Codification Of Statements On Standards For Attestation Engagements, Number 20, As Of January 2020, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

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The Concluding Chapter: Recircumscription Of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) To Include Four Allied Genera With An Updated Infrageneric Classification, Kelly A. Shepherd, Brendan J. Lepschi, Eden A. Johnson, Andrew G. Gardner, Emily B. Sessa, Rachel S. Jabaily Jan 2020

The Concluding Chapter: Recircumscription Of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) To Include Four Allied Genera With An Updated Infrageneric Classification, Kelly A. Shepherd, Brendan J. Lepschi, Eden A. Johnson, Andrew G. Gardner, Emily B. Sessa, Rachel S. Jabaily

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© 2020. Close scrutiny of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) and allied genera in the 'Core Goodeniaceae' over recent years has clarified our understanding of this captivating group. While expanded sampling, sequencing of multiple regions, and a genome skimming reinforced backbone clearly supported Goodenia s.l. as monophyletic and distinct from Scaevola and Coopernookia, there appears to be no synapomorphic characters that uniquely characterise this morphologically diverse clade. Within Goodenia s.l., there is strong support from nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial data for three major clades (Goodenia Clades A, B and C) and various subclades, which lead to earlier suggestions for the possible recognition of …

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Timescales Of Variation In Diversity And Production Of Bacterioplankton Assemblages In The Lower Mississippi River, Jason T. Payne, Colin R. Jackson, Justin J. Millar, Clifford A. Ochs Jan 2020

Timescales Of Variation In Diversity And Production Of Bacterioplankton Assemblages In The Lower Mississippi River, Jason T. Payne, Colin R. Jackson, Justin J. Millar, Clifford A. Ochs

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Copyright: © 2020 Payne et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Rivers are characterized by rapid and continuous one-way directional fluxes of flowing, aqueous habitat, chemicals, suspended particles, and resident plankton. Therefore, at any particular location in such systems there is the potential for continuous, and possibly abrupt, changes in diversity and metabolic activities of suspended biota. As microorganisms are the principal catalysts of organic matter degradation and nutrient cycling in …

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Full Issue, Journal Editors Jan 2020

Full Issue, Journal Editors

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