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Through The Eye Of The Needle: Investigations Of Ethnographic, Experimental, And Archaeological Bone Tool Use Wear From Perishable Technologies, Elisabeth Ann Stone

Anthropology ETDs

Perishable technologies - objects made from soft, organic materials that often decay quickly in the archaeological record - are known to be both ubiquitous and abundant in contemporary and historic societies, regardless of variation in social and economic organization or local environment. They are commonly made by women, children and elders, members of society that are often underrepresented in reconstructions of the past. However, their perishable nature means that these objects are recovered from the archaeological record at low rates, relative to that of more durable materials. Consequently, most evidence for these technologies is indirect. Use wear on the surface …

The Perception Of 2d Orientation Is Categorically Biased, Frank H. Durgin, Z. Li

Psychology Faculty Works

Three experimental paradigms were used to investigate the perception of orientation relative to internal categorical standards of vertical and horizontal. In Experiment 1, magnitude estimation of orientation (in degrees) relative to vertical and horizontal replicated a previously reported spatial orientation bias also measured using verbal report: Orientations appear farther from horizontal than they are, whether numeric judgments are made relative to vertical or to horizontal. Analyses of verbal response patterns, however, suggested that verbal reports underestimate the true spatial bias. A non-verbal orientation bisection task (Experiment 2) confirmed that spatial errors are not due to numeric coding and are larger …

Predicting Body Mass From The Skeleton With An Application To The Georgia Coast, Shamsi R. Daneshvari

Anthropology ETDs

Body mass has been studied in multiple subfields within anthropology, including paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, biomechanics, and forensics. Most previous studies that focused on predicting mass from the skeleton utilized population averages, living subjects, and/or small sample sizes. This study sought to create an individualized predictive model of body mass estimation from multiple skeletal elements. The new multiple element model was then compared to three models currently used by anthropologists. Three hypotheses were tested: 1) the multiple element model has a lower predictive error than the other models, 2) upper limb elements will predict mass more accurately and 3) articular dimensions predict …

The Discourse And Practice Of Native American Cuisine: Native American Chefs And Native American Cooks In Contemporary Southwest Kitchens, Lois Ellen Frank

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation analyzes the emergent Native American cuisine of the American Southwest. It consists of an ethnography of both Native American cooks, who are largely self-taught and practice in noncommercial settings, as well as Native American chefs, some self taught and some professionally trained and working in commercial settings. The ethnographic work includes both extensive and intensive field interviews with chefs and cooks, and close attention to their work in home and professional kitchens. Particular attention is paid to histories of food knowledge, as well as to food preparation concepts, techniques, performance, and aesthetics. The foods employed by these cooks …

Paralinguistic And Kinesic Codes Of Performance: An Intercultural Gilgamesh, Patrick Michael Finelli

Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications

This paper examines the directing, acting and rehearsal process in transforming the ancient Babylonian epic Gilgamesh for the stage using performers’ journals as a means of determining the effect of corporeal non-western styles on actors whose prior experience was almost exclusively in naturalistic and text-based theatre. The introduction of theatrical elements from multiple cultures including puppetry and the masks and techniques of Noh drama created a multi-tiered field for intercultural exchange. While Patrice Pavis’s hourglass model for the transfer of theatrical material from a source to a target culture may hold true for productions that use linear modes of transmission, …

A Conversation With President Obama: A Dialogue About Poverty, Race, And Class In Black America, Joseph K. Grant

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

No abstract provided.

Current Reviews Of Teaching Methods For Primary School Student With Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder: A Malaysian Case Study, A. Mohd Yusof, E.G. Sarojini Daniel, W.Y. Low, K. Ab. Aziz

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder known as ADHD has been classified as a learning challenging condition which led to special needs specification in education. Children with ADHD often are inattentive, impulsive, and combination of impulsive and inattentive when in the classrooms. Malaysian education system has been focusing on early intervention for addressing the needs of the children with ADHD. The strategy also includes the integration between special education with the national school curriculum where the students with ADHD are grouped together with the other students. However it was found that they just share the same facilities but the teaching methods used …

Designing To Please: A Case Study Of Personalizing Learning For A Malaysian Secondary School, M.S. Mat Khalid, R.M. Raja Hussain

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Personalized Learning and Students' Engagement (PLEaSE) is a model used to design virtual learning environments as part of the e-Iearning initiative of the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE). The key elements in PLEaSE methodology are 1) tailoring content to user needs and learning styles; 2) continuity of learning and out-of-hours learning; 3) supporting anytime, anywhere learning; 4) enabling peer/mentor dialog, 5) assessing learners for learning; and 6) involving learners in their own learning. Having implemented the key elements in the training of pre-service teachers in a higher institution, the same concepts are being extended to the secondary school in …

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine 2011, Summer (Volume 45 No. 2), Noel T. Manning Ii

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine, previously titled The Webb Magazine, focuses on alumni news and campus events from Gardner-Webb College; now Gardner-Webb University. Inside this issue there are several new stories such as how GWU is setting new standards, for God and Humanity. GWU also bids farewell to Dr. Tony Eastman and Trustee Frank Stewart and his family gave $2 million to go toward the Tucker Student Center. Lastly, a few alum shares stories about culture, history, and heritage of the Cherokee to further support the idea of diversity on campus and why that is so important.

Spiritan Magazine Vol. 35 No. 3

Spiritan Magazine

No abstract provided.

Vics, Bob Colburn, Ellen Herie, Kathy Murtha

Spiritan Magazine

VICS at 40, Bob Colburn
The million dollar store, Ellen Herie
Journey of a lifetime, Kathy Murtha

Miniature Nation Building: Model Railroading And The Dialectics Of Scale In Post-Wwii America, Ivan Weber

American Studies ETDs

This thesis advances a critical understanding of how scale informs the production and consumption of the American nation, and it makes a foray into Marxist critical analysis by integrating the theoretical and methodological objectives of historical materialism with the multiple, dialectically construed dimensionalities of scale. The hobby of model railroading serves as the case study for this analysis, and the dialectics of scale as the theoretical apparatus with which this analysis is articulated. The central argument of the thesis is that the model railroad hobby builds the nation, in miniature, through the continual regeneration of American masculinity, the traditional American …

Synthesis Of A Folate Receptor Mass Spectrometry Probe, Audrea Rhymes

All Capstone Projects

Drug delivery is one of the most important concepts for cancer patients because it is oftentimes very difficult or nearly impossible to exclusively target cancerous cells. In this study, the aim was to target receptors on cancerous cells, specifically the Folate Receptor (FR). This specific receptor was targeted because it has been proven to enhance intracellular delivery being that folic acid is an integral species in normal cell function and also that cancerous cells tend to exhibit an abnormally high concentration of Folic Acid on cell surfaces.

The application of dyes is a very common practice used to link folic …

Mirror Neuron, Pakaratee Chaiyawat

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

Twenty years ago, the researchers have discovered mirror neuron in macaque monkeys. These areas are area PF of the inferior parietal lobule and area F5 of the ventral premotor cortex. The continuous studies have examined the presence of mirror neurons in humans. These include the ventral premotor cortex, in the rostral inferior parietal lobe and particular Brodmann Area (BA) 6/44. This review focuses on the function of mirror neurons regarding action understanding, imitation, language, empathy, and mindreading. The future study on the mirror neuron system will have future clinical applications.

Learning From The Grassroots, Uzramma .

Socio-Legal Review

When I visited villages in Adilabad, I learnt that the Indian samaaj was very different from what I had learnt about Indian society through a Westernised education. I learnt that the larger part of rural Indian society is made up of closely inter-connected producer communities, who though they do not socialise with each other are professionally interdependent. My companions and I learnt about the traditions of village life from Ravindra Sharma of Kala Ashram. We found that Government interventions in local cotton textile production tended to centralize the process and to break traditional relationships among producers. We based our own …

"A Simple, Human Measure Of Privacy": Public Disclosure Of Private Facts In The World Of Tiger Woods, Patricia S. Abril

Articles

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective By Brian M. Howell And Jenell Williams Paris, M. David Sills, Faye Stone

Great Commission Research Journal

No abstract provided.

The Voice, Summer 2011: Volume 56, Issue 4, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Keeping up with the Times; There Really Is a Difference; Timmer Demonstrates a Residential Solar-Assisted Hot Water System; What Students Want Profs to Know; Library Now Sports Both Their Names and Their Photo; Grad Ed Will Now Prepare Principals; Student Photographers Take NYC by Storm During Spring Break; Students Play Cowboy and More on the Range; Concrete Canoe Team Is Elated with Results of First Year's Work; Dordt College Is Well Represented at Princeton's Annual Kuyper Conference; New Mural Brings the Prairie Inside; Students Head to the Cities; From One Student's Perspective... ; A Look Back: Photos from Graduate Andrew …

Vol. 6, No. 4, Summer 2011, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Cornerstone

No abstract provided.

Appetite, Dixie L. Partridge

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Montana Business Quarterly, Summer 2011, University Of Montana--Missoula. Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Montana Business Quarterly, 1949-2021

This is an academic publication produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at the University of Montana’s College of Business. This is volume 49, number 2.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Summer 2011, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• News briefs
• Tech transfer increases trigger product development
• Printed electronics work garnering international kudos
• Researchers tackle rare neurological disease with Vanderbilt colleagues
• Prof puts democratic theories to test in Afghanistan
• Science role models and characters few for female students
• High school mathematics course reduces remedial needs in college
• WMU creative writer wins nation’s top book award
• ‘HeroRats’ combat land mines, tuberculosis
• Multiuniversity team minimizes global warming crop damage
• Lives of Kalamazoo children with autism changed

Generating Keywords Improves Metacomprehension And Self-Regulation In Elementary And Middle School Children, Anique B. H. De Bruin, Keith Thiede, Gino Camp, Joshua Redford

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Metacomprehension accuracy is typically quite poor; however, recently interventions have been developed to improve accuracy. In two experiments, we evaluated whether generating delayed keywords prior to judging comprehension improved metacomprehension accuracy for children. For sixth and seventh graders, metacomprehension accuracy was greater for the delayed-keyword condition than for a control group. By contrast, for fourth graders, accuracy did not differ across conditions. Improved metacomprehension accuracy led to improved regulation of study.

First Choice, July 2011, Wusf Public Media

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

The July 2011 issue of WUSF's newsletter "First Choice."

Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Encoding 15-Prostaglandin Dehydrogenase Mitigates Immune Suppression And Reduces Ectopic Primary And Metastatic Breast Cancer In Mice, Jason D. Walker, Inder Sehgal, Konstantin G. Kousoulas

Faculty Publications

Oncolytic herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) viruses armed with immunomodulatory transgenes have shown potential for enhanced antitumor therapy by overcoming tumor-based immune suppression and promoting antitumor effector cell development. Previously, we reported that the new oncolytic HSV-1 virus, OncSyn (OS), engineered to fuse tumor cells, prevented tumor growth and metastasis to distal organs in the 4T1/BALB/c immunocompetent breast cancer mouse model, suggesting the elicitation of antitumor immune responses (Israyelyan et al., Hum. Gen. Ther. 18:5, 2007, and Israyelyan et al., Virol. J. 5:68, 2008). The OSV virus was constructed by deleting the OS viral host shutoff gene (vhs; UL41) to …

Regulation Of The Edwardsiella Ictaluri Type Iii Secretion System By Ph And Phosphate Concentration Through Esra, Esrb, And Esrc, Matthew L. Rogge, Ronald L. Thune

Faculty Publications

A recently described Edwardsiella ictaluri type III secretion system (T3SS) with functional similarity to the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 T3SS is required for replication in channel catfish head-kidney-derived macrophages (HKDM) and virulence in channel catfish. Quantitative PCR and Western blotting identified low pH and phosphate limitation as conducive to expression of the E. ictaluri T3SS, growth conditions that mimic the phagosomal environment. Mutagenesis studies demonstrated that expression is under the control of the EsrAB two-component regulatory system. EsrB also induces upregulation of the AraC-type regulatory protein EsrC, which enhances expression of the EscB/EseG chaperone/effector operon in concert with EsrB and …

Acquisition Of Rickettsia Felis By Cat Fleas During Feeding, Kathryn E. Reif, Michael T. Kearney, Lane D. Foil, Kevin R. Macaluso

Faculty Publications

Evidence for horizontal routes of transmission for Rickettsia felis has come from detection of R. felis infection in vertebrates and multiple blood-feeding arthropods; however, infection of cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis, during blood feeding has not been demonstrated. In this study, the ability of cat fleas to acquire R. felis through an infectious blood meal with subsequent vertical transmission was examined. Utilizing an artificial feeding system, Rickettsia-naive fleas were exposed to R. felis-infected blood meals and monitored for subsequent infection at weekly intervals for 4 weeks. At 7 days postexposure (dpe) ∼52% of fleas successfully acquired rickettsiae and R. felis DNA; …

Mammalian Diversification Across The Holarctic: Spatiotemporal Evolution In Response To Environmental Change, Andrew G. Hope

Biology ETDs

The primary focus in this dissertation is on the processes of environmental change that drive evolution. We are currently witnessing unparalleled changes in climate and associated changes in biotic communities. With a growing understanding that climate and habitat change, coupled with natural variability, will have an increased influence on biota into the future, it is our responsibility to learn how best to manage and conserve the Earths natural resources. Among other things, this will require a firmer understanding of biodiversity, life histories, evolutionary relationships among species, and community dynamics over multiple species. One method of understanding how species will respond …

Transcriptional Analysis Of Schistosoma Mansoni Treated With Sub-Lethal Doses Of The Anthelmintic Drug Praziquantel, Jarrett Hines-Kay

Biology ETDs

Schistosoma mansoni is one of the most common etiological agents responsible for the disease schistosomiasis. More than 200 million people suffer from this disease making it the most severe tropical disease after malaria in terms of morbidity. Praziquantel (PZQ) is the treatment of choice for schistosomiasis and has been used almost exclusively to treat the disease since the 1970s. However, while the drug is lethal for sexually mature schistosomes, it is ineffective against juveniles. Thus, while morbidity can be eased, a cure is difficult to achieve. As a result there is an urgent need to develop a new generation of …

Prevalencia Del Virus De La Diarrea Viral Bovina Y De Animales Portadores Del Virus En Bovinos En La Provincia De Espinar, Cusco., Cesar Cardenas A., Hermelinda G. Rivera, Mariluz Araínga, Mercy Ramirez V., Jimmy De Paz M.

Journal Articles: Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience

The prevalence of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in 406 cattle was evaluated of both sexes and older than 6 months. Animals belonged to 114 small farmers from three rural communities of the province of Espinar, Cusco, Peru. Blood samples were collected according to three age groups Ɩ-12, 13-23, >24 months old). Serum samples were tested for antibodies against BVDV using the viral neutralization test. The 56.2 ± 4.8% 鴤/406) of samples had antibodies against BVDV. Persistently infected animals were not detected. Antibodies were present in the three age groups, but the highest prevalence ࿡.4%) was detected in animals older …