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Summer Transplant Surgical Internship In Graz, Austria, Reena Parikh, Catalina Rodriguez

Undergraduate Student Symposium

In the summer of 2011, we were given the opportunity to travel to Graz, Austria to complete a sevenweek surgical internship. We were able to assist with an organ transplant team at the Medical University of Graz. As interns, our responsibilities included attending morning rounds, drawing blood samples, setting up IVs and assisting in several surgeries. We also had the chance to observe several different specialties in surgery including cardiothoracic, neurology, obstetrics, pulmonary, pediatrics, reconstructive, and orthopedics. During our entire stay, we were on-call and responded to emergencies, which included traveling to a nearby city to collect organs for transplantation. …

The Epistemological Status Of Theoretical Simplicity, Yineth Sanchez

Undergraduate Student Symposium

In this paper, I argue that theoretical simplicity is not an epistemic virtue. Therefore, we need not prefer the simpler explanation of two competing scientific theories. First, I clarify the concept of theoretical simplicity as it figures into discussions in the philosophy of science. Next, I evaluate the strongest arguments in favor of this view as a criterion of theory selection. Then, I present two instances where theoretical simplicity is not preferable as such a criterion. Lastly, I show that while there may be a number of nonepistemic criteria of theory choice, including simplicity, none of them bears upon truth. …

The Study Of Lagenidium Giganteum Crinkler Genes, Ana Paula Delgado

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Lagenidium giganteum is an entomopathogenic oomycete known for its ability to infect and kill the larvae of mosquitoes. This project seeks to find a potential alternative to chemical insecticides by isolating and sequencing the pathogenic genes found in this organism. More specifically, crinkler genes were targeted, as they have been associated with host cell toxicity in plant pathogens. A combination of several wet-lab techniques such as polymerase chain reaction, gel electrophoresis, gel extraction, and RNA extraction; and the use of bioinformatics tools are used in this project. These techniques will be used for the analysis and screening of the transcriptome …

Total Synthesis Of Functionalized Acenes, Reena Parikh

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Research project focused on the preparation of acene dinitriles from benzene 1,2-dicarbaldehyde. A Wittig reagent of fumaronitrile and triethylphosphine yielded a new C-C double. The increased the acidity of the α-H, between the new alkene bond and a cyano group, allowed an Aldol reaction to take place and resulted in a ring closure. Condensation reaction established aromaticity in the new ring, carrying dicyano functionality. To allow additional ring formations via reaction sequence repetitions, nitrile groups were reduced with DIBALH to dialdehydes.

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Unpublished, Victoria Rajkumar

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“Unpublished” is a short film about a young woman struggling to get her novel published in the midst of abusive relationships and rejection. She believes that her published book is the key to her salvation, but comes to face the harsh reality that happy endings are not meant for everyone. The film is directed by Victoria L. Rajkumar. Other crew members and actors include: Davis Yahn, Esther Swilley, Alyssa Sterkle, Vittoria Santini, Dean Williams, Darshani Singh, and Carlos Alanya.

What Is Owed, Davis Yahn

Undergraduate Student Symposium

“What is Owed” is a short film about a man who faces intense physical and mental hardships after being forced back into the life of crime that he had previously abandoned. The film is directed by Davis Yahn. Other crew members and actors include Esther Swilley, Victoria Rajkumar, Kevin Phillips, Taylor Acre, Brandon Ralph, and Vitoria Santini.

15th Syracuse University French Colloquium Flyer, Department Of Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics, Syracuse University

Syracuse University French Colloquium

Quinzième colloque par les étudiants dans le programme de maîtrise en langue et littérature

11th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The Undergraduate Student Symposium, sponsored by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, presents student projects through presentations, papers, and poster displays. The event serves as a “showcase” demonstrating the outstanding scholarship of undergraduate students at NSU. The Symposium is open to undergraduate students from all disciplines. Projects cover areas of student scholarship ranging from the experimental and the applied to the computational, theoretical, artistic, and literary. They are taken from class assignments as well as from independent projects. The projects do not have to be complete; presentations can represent any stage in the concept’s evolution, from proposal and literature …

Twentieth Annual Student Research And Creative Activities Symposium - April 13, 2012, Symposium Steering Committee

Student Research and Creative Activities Symposium 1993-2018

Participants - College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Management, College of Education, Graduate College, University Honors Program, McNair Scholars Program, Student Center for Science Engagement

Reporter - April 13th 2012, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

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Agenda And Minutes, University General Education Day, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, April 13, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda and minutes from the April 13, 2012, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate on the occasion of University General Education Day.

Umcur 2012 Program Pdf

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

The original program includes the general schedule as well as individual poster and presentation schedules and abstracts.

The Effect Of Verbal Versus Nonverbal Parent Cues On Children's Listening Skills, Alaina Joy Galliford Lorenzo

Open Access Theses

This research sought to find a relationship between parental verbal and nonverbal cues and children's focused listening skill. The data collection took place in February 2012 with children participating in the University of Miami MusicTime 3 program who were four to six years of age. Seventy-four children and parents participated in the study. A review of the literature established the basis for the theory that various types of parental cues and time enrolled in this music program could positively effect a child's focused listening skill. A child's focused listening checklist and verbal vs. nonverbal parental cue scale were devised to …

2012 Research Day Program

Research Day 2010-2016

"Highlighting and recognizing graduate and undergraduate student research throughout all disciplines at the University of Northern Colorado." Program of oral and poster presentations from student researchers, presented at UNC's Annual Research Conference during Academic Excellence Week.

April 12, 2012: Arnie Johnston In Concert With Guest D. N. Bremer, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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Accommodations For English Language Learners On Statewide English Language Proficiency Assessment, Laura M. Kuti, Yaoying Xu

The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship

This exploratory research study was conducted to examine federally- mandated annual English language proficiency (ELP) assessment of English language learners (ELLs) and their use of accommodations on the assessment. The literature was examined for differences and similarities between the three types of testing scenarios as well as identifying gaps in the literature for students who are both ELLs and who also have a disability and how their ELP is assessed, taking into account their disability. The results from investigating data related to ELLs with disabilities and specific accommodations used by ELLs with disabilities contributes to the limited current research available …

School Culture: A Sequential Mixed Methods Exploratory Meta-Analysis, Cynthia Pritchett

Theses and Dissertations

This multi-national study used systematic review as a data collection technique to determine the current field of empirical studies that posit a definition of school culture and its characteristics. The data gathered from a qualitative synthesis and analysis of the acquired studies informed school culture taxonomy. The taxonomy presented domains, classes, categories, characteristics, and elements, which became the variables for meta-analysis. This adapted methodological process resulted in a valid and generalizable definition of school culture. The adapted sequential mixed methods exploratory approach used in this study resulted in the generation of grounded theory. The grounded theory is a definition of …

Daily Eastern News: April 12, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

April

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Writing And Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Author talk with Professor Laura Valeri on April 13

A Historical Case Study Of The Arikara, Hidatsa, And Mandan Indians Attending Hampton Normal And Agricultural Institute, Virginia, 1878-1911., Nancy Jones-Oltjenbruns

Theses and Dissertations

A HISTORICAL CASE STUDY OF THE ARIKARA, HIDATSA, AND MANDAN INDIANS AT HAMPTON NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE, VIRGINIA, 1878-1911 By Nancy E. Jones-Oltjenbruns, Ph.D. A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012 Director: Maike I. Philipsen, PhD Professor, School of Education Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute played a role in the education of American Indians. This facet of American Indians education was examined through the lives of Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandan students from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. The Three Affiliated Tribes’ …

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Impact Of Hispanic Ethnic Concentration And Socioeconomic Status On Obesity Prevalence In Texas Counties, Jennifer J. Salinas, Elizabeth Rocha, Bassent Abdelbary, Jennifer L. Gay, Ken Sexton

Physician Assistant Studies Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Hispanic ethnic concentration is associated with a higher prevalence of obesity and, if this relationship exists, whether it is affected by the socioeconomic environment. The study uses the Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) linked to 2000 census data to access the relationship between prevalence of obesity, Hispanic ethnic concentration, poverty and level of education at a county-level. The findings suggest that the association of Hispanic ethnic concentration and obesity varies by socioeconomic environment. Although little influence was observed for % poverty, the relationship between Hispanic ethnic concentration and obesity …

Buddhist Reductionism And Free Will: Paleo-Compatibilism, Rick Repetti

Publications and Research

This is the second article in a four-article series that examines Buddhist responses to the Western philosophical problem of whether free will is compatible with “determinism,” the doctrine of universal causation. The first article focused on the first publications on this issue in the 1970s, the “early period”; the present article and the next examine key responses published in the last part of the Twentieth century and first part of the Twenty-first, the “middle period”; and the fourth article will examine responses published in the last few years. Whereas early-period scholars endorsed compatibilism, in the middle period the pendulum moved …

Pathways To Family Success Final Evaluation Report, Berna Kahraman, Ghazal Zulfiqar, Donna H. Friedman, Alice Carter

Center for Social Policy Publications

This report presents findings from the second year of the evaluation of the Pathways to Family Success Programs (PFS) funded by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) and conducted by the Center for Social Policy (CSP) for the period September 2010 through June 2011. The 2010-2011 evaluation aimed to determine the extent to which PFS activities and interventions were effective in supporting learning outcomes and goal attainment for participating families and their children, and to identify strengths and areas of growth for the PFS Programs and partners. There were four Program sites implementing the PFS indepth project during …

Triggering Relationships That Contextualize The Pathway For Student Success, Darin R. Eckton

Theses and Dissertations

America invests large amounts of money in K-12 education to develop its human capital. As such, K-12 student success is vital to the human capital development and future of America's children and adolescents. There is significant concern for the K-12 students who are predictably at risk of not graduating from high school (e.g., low-income, ethnic minority, and first generation college students) let alone qualifying for and enrolling in postsecondary education. Over the past four decades student success has primarily been explained by sociological research on status attainment as well as social capital and cultural capital. However, very little research addresses …

April 10, 2012: Nagle & Wennerstrom ~ Gws Talk On Poly Legacies (Thurs., 4/12), Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

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2012 - The Seventeenth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars

Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books

The full program book from the Seventeenth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 10, 2012. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.

Celebration Of Faculty Creative Works 2011, University Of Texas At Arlington Library, Ut Arlington Office Of The Provost

Faculty Creative Works-Archive

The University of Texas at Arlington Library and the Office of the Provost are pleased to host the fourth Celebration of Faculty Creative Works, an exhibition that showcases the books, art, music, media, patents, and journal editorial contributions made by the UT Arlington faculty and staff in 2011, as well as the awards and honors they received.

The Nurse In The School Health Office: Exploring Health Care In A Public School, Pamela A. Rademacher

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

To provide a high-quality education for all its students, schools must address a variety of needs that are related to physical, social and/or emotional health. School nurses are positioned to do that in the schools that they serve. Exploring how the school nurse intervenes to help children and their families to maintain a high level of health may contribute to an understanding of health care and academic achievement in the educational community. The purpose of this qualitative study is to gain an understanding of what a nurse does on a regular basis to provide health care to all children in …

The Current Volume 22: Issue 27, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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