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Crow's Nest, September 30, 2019, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 30, 2019, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Using Digital Pedagogy To Navigate Ethics In Technical Communication Classes, Rachel Tanski, Megan Stowe

Critical & Creative Thinking Conference

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, September 26, 2019, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 26, 2019, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Probabilistic Modeling Of Democracy, Corruption, Hemophilia A And Prediabetes Data, A. K. M. Raquibul Bashar

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Parametric analysis of any real-world data is the most powerful tool to characterize the probabilistic behavior in social, economic, medical, epidemiological, and other areas of study. In the present study, we identify the theoretical Probability Distribution Function(PDF) for Democracy Index Scores (DIS) from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) database and estimate the maximum likelihood estimates of the theoretical PDFS. We also identify the individual PDFs for each of the clusters, Full Democracy, Flawed Democracy, Hybrid Regime, and Authoritarian Regime defined by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

A statistical model is a convenient instrument to predict the future value of any …

Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board Public Hearing, September 23, 2019, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Agenda and reports for the September 23, 2019, public hearing of the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County.

Crow's Nest, September 23, 2019, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 23, 2019, issue of the Crow's Nest.

The Weekly Challenger, September 19, 2019, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 19, 2019, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Gas-Inflatable Personal Flotation Devices, Aydin Kemal Sunol, Evan James Ticknor, Selina Kyle Guardiano, Timothy Warren Jacobson, Everett David Rogers, Kyle Louis Cogswell, Robert Dana Frisina, Christopher Lawrence Passaglia

USF Patents

In one embodiment, a personal flotation device that can be worn by a user includes an inflation system including an inflatable bladder and a gas-generating component, the gas-generating component being configured to generate gas using a chemical reaction and inject the generated gas into the bladder to inflate it, and an inflation control system configured to control activation of the gas-generating component.

Using Flipped Classrooms To Teach Mathematics To Elementary Students In Saudi Arabia, Fawaz Alrouqi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

During the years 2003, 2007, 2011, and 2015, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) revealed that students in Saudi Arabia had a below-average mathematics performance among 4th and 8th-grade students. The modern and innovative techniques and strategies of teaching, such as the flipped classroom method, should replace traditional teaching methods to improve the performance and growth of students. This qualitative multiple case study explores a deeper understanding of the perspectives and the experiences of three elementary mathematics teachers when using a flipped classroom model in Saudi Arabia. This case study shows a promise of using the flipped classroom …

Crow's Nest, September 16, 2019, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 16, 2019, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Usft Prog Proposal Cas Cell Bio Microbio Molecular Bio Cell Molecular Bio Bs 20190913, Usf Libraries

All Assessment Data

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, September 12, 2019, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 12, 2019, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Resistance Is Futile: Rna-Sequencing Reveals Differing Responses To Bat Fungal Pathogen In Nearctic Myotis Lucifugus And Palearctic Myotis Myotis, Thomas M. Lilley, Jenni M. Prokkola, Anna S. Blomberg

KIP Articles

Resistance and tolerance allow organisms to cope with potentially life-threatening pathogens. Recently introduced pathogens initially induce resistance responses, but natural selection favors the development of tolerance, allowing for a commensal relationship to evolve. Mycosis by Pseudogymnoascus destructans, causing white-nose syndrome (WNS) in Nearctic hibernating bats, has resulted in population declines since 2006. The pathogen, which spread from Europe, has infected species of Palearctic Myotis for a longer period. We compared ecologically relevant responses to the fungal infection in the susceptible Nearctic M. lucifugus and less susceptible Palearctic M. myotis, to uncover factors contributing to survival differences in the two species. …

Standardized Oral Health Assessment And Scoring Using Digital Imaging, Cindy L. Munro, Paula Louise Cairns, Xusheng Chen, Gwendolyn J. Good, Kevin Edward Kip

USF Patents

System and methodology objectively capture clinical data on oral health and provide standardized scoring for quantifying oral health. The process of capturing clinical data is based on use of an intraoral camera with imaging software that has the capacity to capture digital images of all tooth surfaces. Digital plaque data are collected in a standardized manner per tooth, and with the ability to select optimal frames for analysis. Data are extracted per tooth into a software program. Color classification of each pixel is determined by the software program using an algorithm that makes use of red/green/blue color code combinations. These …

Peptide Presentation By Bat Mhc Class I Provides New Insight Into The Antiviral Immunity Of Bats, Dan Lu, Kefang Liu, Di Zhang, Can Yue, Qiong Lu, Hao Cheng, Liang Wang, Yan Chai, Jianxun Qi, Lin-Fa Wang, George F. Gao, William J. Liu

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board Public Hearing, September 9, 2019, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Agenda and reports for the September 9, 2019, public hearing of the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County.

Crow's Nest, September 9, 2019, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 9, 2019, issue of the Crow's Nest.

The Weekly Challenger, September 5, 2019, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 5, 2019, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Assessment Of Planning Risks And Alternative Futures For The Florida Transportation Plan Update, Kristine M. Williams, Tia Boyd, Evangeline Linkous, Corinn Beem, Nicole Tremblay, Yaye Keita, Steven Polzin

Transportation Planning, Policy, and Processes (TP3) Final Reports

Transportation is in a period of transformation as technology offers new ways to travel, shop, ship goods, and do business. Rapid technological changes, along with changing demographics, extreme weather events, fluctuating revenues, and other potential disruptors, have increased uncertainty in long-range transportation plans and forecasts. To address this uncertainty and reduce risk, planners are attempting to anticipate alternative futures and the potential timing of technological changes so they may adapt policy and investment strategies to offer value across a range of alternative futures.

This research project, entitled Assessment of Planning Risks and Alternative futures for the Florida Transportation Plan, involves …

Urp6711 Multimodal Transportation Planning, Kristine M. Williams, Taylor Dinehart

Transportation Planning, Policy, and Processes (TP3) Final Reports

No abstract provided.

Cave Temperature And Management Implications In Lehman Caves, Great Basin National Park, Usa, Stanka Šebela, Gretchen Baker, Barbara Luke

KIP Articles

Cave air temperature was measured at six locations in Lehman Caves (USA) for one year at hourly intervals. Lehman is a show cave in a national park, treasured for its geological and biological resources. The two monitoring locations that are off of the tour route and, also, relatively distant from the cave’s entrances displayed nearly constant air temperature during the year. The other four sites, along the tour route, show daily temperature variation as well as annual fluctuation. After visitation levels decreased in the autumn, cave temperatures lagged but eventually reached an equilibrium which demonstrates recovery in the quiet winter. …

Harbor Notes, September 2019, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of University Advancement.

Harbor Notes

The September 2019, issue of Harbor Notes.

What Fortune 500 Companies Want: Recruiting In China, Eugene P. Kim, Katherine Bruehler

Journal of Global Business Insights

The growth of Fortune 500 companies in China has its complementary challenge in managing human resources. In this study, we describe the skill sets, language fluency, educational credentials, job experience, and other key job qualifications that are solicited on Fortune 500 Companies’ LinkedIn advertisements in China. The characteristics that were most represented in the job advertisements in our sample of 111 US Fortune 500 companies in China were from companies ranked 201-500 (39.6%), in secondary sectors (57.7%), in Tier 1 cities (91.9%) offering lower management positions (47.8%) requiring a bachelor’s degree (55.9%) and English fluency (55.0%) with 6-10 years of …

Hepatobiliary Analyses Suggest Chronic Pah Exposurein Hakes (Urophycis Spp.) Following The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Rachel Struch, Erin Pulster, Andrea D. Schreier, Steven Murawski

C-IMAGE Publications

Prior to theDeepwater Horizon oil spill, we lacked a comprehensive baseline of oil contamination in the Gulf of Mexico’s sediments, water column, and biota. Gaps in prespill knowledge limit our ability to determine the aftereffects of the Deepwater Horizon blowout or prepare to mitigate similar impacts during future oil spill disasters. We examined spatio temporal differences in exposure to and metabolism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in 2 hake species (Urophycis spp.)to establish a current baseline for these ecologically important, abundant, and at‐risk demersal fishes. Gulf hake (Urophycis cirrata) and southern hake (Urophycis floridana) were …

Potential Influence Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill On Phytoplankton Primary Productivity In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Yao Li, Chuanmin Hu, Antonietta Quigg, Huilin Gao

C-IMAGE Publications

Nine years after the Deepwater Horizon (DwH) oil spill (20 April–15 July 2010), the recovery of primary productivity at the ocean surface remains to be investigated. Here, we used the normalized fluorescence line height (nFLH) from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer as an indicator of chlorophyll a concentration (Chl a). First, from the spatiotemporal variations of nFLH between 2001 and 2017, a reduction of nFLH after the DwH oil spill was observed (for a relatively long period, from 2011 to 2014). Second, a stepwise multiple regression model was used to examine which of the following environmental factors could explain …

Vitamin D Status And Risk Of Incident Tuberculosis Disease: A Nested Case-Control Study, Systematic Review, And Individual-Participant Data Meta-Analysis, Omowunmi Aibana, Chuan-Chin Huang, Said Aboud, Alberto Arnedo-Pena, Mercedes C. Becerra, Juan B. Bellido-Blasco, Ramesh Bhosale, Roger Calderon, Silvia Chiang, Jerome Galea

Social Work Faculty Publications

Background: Few studies have evaluated the association between preexisting vitamin D deficiency and incident tuberculosis (TB). We assessed the impact of baseline vitamins D levels on TB disease risk.

Methods and findings: We assessed the association between baseline vitamin D and incident TB in a prospective cohort of 6,751 HIV-negative household contacts of TB patients enrolled between September 1, 2009, and August 29, 2012, in Lima, Peru. We screened for TB disease at 2, 6, and 12 months after enrollment. We defined cases as household contacts who developed TB disease at least 15 days after enrollment of the index patient. …

Forum, Volume 43, No. 3, Fall 2019, Florida Humanities Council, Jacki Levine

FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

Contents: Help Us Tell the Story of Florida Together -- Finding My Florida, and Yours -- Humanities Today -- This Florida Life -- What Does It Mean to be a Floridian? 1919-2019, a Florida Portrait -- Three Floridians Tell Their Stories -- Unsung Pioneers -- Portal to History -- Future Florida -- Literary Footsteps: Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Florida Snowbird -- Heritage Kitchen: Taste of the Sun -- 100 Years of History -- Insider's Florida -- State of Wonder: Birds of a Colorful Feather

The Impact Of Burnout On Organizational Commitment: A Study Of Public Sector Employees In Turkey, Mehmet Sarisik, Erhan Bogan, Burhanettin Zengin, Bekir Bora Dedeoglu

Journal of Global Business Insights

This study investigates the relationship between burnout and organizational commitment. It tests the relationship using a sample of 700 public officers in Istanbul by using structural equation modeling. The model tested via partial least squares method via SmartPls software. Results have shown that employees’ burnout are negatively related to organizational commitment. Specifically, while emotional exhaustion is negatively related to commitment, personal accomplishment contributes positively to commitment. The experience of depersonalization has no significant relationship with all three dimensions of commitment. Findings discussed and some practical implications offered to practitioners as well as some future directions to researchers.

Associations Between Chronic Exposure To Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons And Health Indices In Gulf Of Mexico Tilefish (Lopholatilus Chamaeleonticeps) Post Deepwater Horizon, Susan M. Syder, Erin Pulster, Steven Murawski

C-IMAGE Publications

A time series of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) data was collected for Gulf of Mexico demersal fishes in the years following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2012–2017). Tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps ) were sampled via demersal longline at repeat stations in the northern Gulf of Mexico in 2012 to 2015 and 2017. Bile samples (n  = 256) were analyzed via high‐performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection for PAH metabolites as a biomarker of exposure to PAHs. Liver tissues (n  = 230) were analyzed for accumulation of PAHs and alkylated homologs via quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe …

The Weekly Challenger, August 29, 2019, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 29, 2019, issue of The Weekly Challenger.