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You’Ve Got To Keep ‘Em Separated: Characterizing Lagging Chromosome Prevention In Oral Cancer Cells, Rosa Nathalie Beltran

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Mitosis is the separation of duplicated chromosomes into two daughter cells in order to create viable offspring. There are many checks in mitosis to ensure the inherited chromosome number is correct. Sometimes, these checkpoints are overcome and daughter cells inherit defects which can lead to cancer. One defect is the appearance of lagging chromosomes, the result of inaccurate chromosomal separation which leads to incorrect chromosome number termed aneuploidy. Aneuploidy is one of the defining traits of cancerous cells. The potential mechanism of lagging chromosomes in the cancerous cell line UPCI:OSCC070 is investigated in this study. siRNA-induced knockdown of KIFC1, a …

Some Like It Hot: The Isolation Of An Aconitase Mutant Resistant To Heat Shock-Induced Oxidative Stress, Imarhia Enogieru

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Aconitase is a multifunctional enzyme essential for mitochondrial DNA maintenance and cellular respiration. For my thesis, I used an error prone PCR mutagenesis method to mutate the yeast aconitase (ACO1) gene and created a mutant library of Sacchromyces cerevisiae yeast cells. The library underwent 50oC heat shocks to select for cells expressing an aconitase mutant that increased the cells’ resistance to heat shock-induced oxidative stress. Oxidative stress has been implicated as a theory of cellular aging. Isolated aconitase mutants with increased oxidative stress resistance will be assayed for increased lifespan, which would support the free radical theory of aging and …

From Snow White To Brave: The Evolution Of The Disney Princess, Jaquelyn Guizerix

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

This paper traces the evolution of the Disney Princess and critically evaluates the role of the Disney Princess icon in American history using a feminist perspective. The term Disney Princess refers to Disney’s ten animated female heroines who were either born royal or marry princes before the end of the film; collectively these princesses became iconic through the creation of the enormous Disney Princess marketing franchise in 2001. Since Snow White in 1937 and culminating with the 2012 film Brave, the Disney Princesses have undergone subtle developments in appearance, attitude, relationships, and cultural heritage that have expanded the function of …

Impact Of Reduction Mowing On Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formiciade) At Gopher Tortoise (Testudines: Testudinidae) Burrows, Richard Jones

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Many species prey upon the threatened gopher tortoises, including the Red Imported Fir Ants Solenopsis invicta. While human alterations to native habitat have led to a decline in gopher tortoises, “disturbance specialists” like S. invicta often thrive on such changes. This study examines three ant surveys at gopher tortoise burrows within a section of residential “greenway” in southeastern Florida before and after “reduction mowing”. While the presence of S. invicta did decrease aftrer the reduction mowing, the numbers of native ants and ant species richness in general showed a significant decline. Another invasive ant, the Little Fire Ant, Wasmannia auropunctata …

Right Mindfulness Leads To Right Livelihood: Exploring The Connections Between Mindfulness, Stress, Religiosity, And Personality, Morgan Levy

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Mindfulness refers to the ability to think in the present moment and to be cognizant of one's own thoughts and physical state. We examined whether openness to experience and religiosity affected the experience of mindfulness. Undergraduate college students underwent a 55-minute session learning about mindfulness techniques and various meditations such as body relaxation meditation, a nature meditation, and a guided imagery meditation. After completing the session, participants completed post-treatment questionnaires and one week later they completed follow-up questionnaires. Participants showed an increase in mindfulness immediately following the session and one week later. They also experienced a decrease in stress one …

The Comparison Of Two Undescribed Species Of Skates, Bathyraja Sp. 2 And Bathyraja Sp (C.F. Eatonii) From The Antarctic Waters Of The South Orkney Islands, Heather Kalisz

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Skates of the genus Bathyraja belong to the subfamily Arhynchobatinae in the family Rajidae. This family is comprised currently of 228 recognized species and about 50 unnamed species (McEachran and Dunn, 1998). Some authors elevate the Arhynchobatidae to the rank of family (Nelson, 2006). Two unnamed species of skates Bathyraja sp. 2 and Bahtyraja cf. eatonii were examined and measured in the preparation of formally describing these species. A total of 20 preserved specimens of Bathyraja sp. 2 and a total of 4 preserved specimens of Bathyraja cf. eatonii, collected during the 2008- 2009 AMLR survey cruise of the South …

Modeling Embryonic Tubulogenesis With Polarized Particles, Lucas Ortiz

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Epithelial morphogenesis is driven by the formation, growth, and bending of thin sheets of cells with distinct interior (apical) and exterior (basal) sides. In this study we attempted to improve on past particle-based cell models to form a model of morphogenesis based on a two-particle polarized cell structure. We began by modeling a stable cyst-like structure. We then tested and calibrated the viscoelastic properties of our model by compressing the cell structure between two plates, which is comparable to real world data collected by Forgacs et al. (1998). We also simulated the growth of a hollow sphere into a tube-like …

"Death Is Nothing In Comparison To Dishonor": Sarah Morgan’S Diary And Women’S Roles In Southern Honor, Brooke Radaker

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

In their studies of the code of honor in the Old South, historians such as Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Edward L. Ayers consider women incapable of possessing honor. However, the diary of Sarah Morgan, a young woman living in Baton Rouge and New Orleans during the Civil War, reveals the many ways that women actively engaged in the code of honor and even considered themselves to be honorable. In her diary, Sarah Morgan described her own reverence for any honorable gentleman and the ways in which women like her preached the ideologies of the code of honor to men. Women reinforced …

Keep It Together: Knockdowns Of Dynactin Subunits Demonstrate Varying Levels Of Importance In Dynactin Structure And Microtubule Organization, Christina Turn

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Dynactin, a multisubunit protein complex, serves as a processivity factor and cargo adaptor for the microtubule motor cytoplasmic dynein. Together, these proteins permit mitotic progression, intracellular trafficking, and endomembrane organization. Dynactin also independently anchors microtubules at the centrosome during interphase. In this study, we use shRNAs to knock down expression of the p24, p27, p62, and Arp1 subunits of dynactin to determine those components’ roles in anchoring. Recent work has shown p62’s importance to dynactin integrity (Yeh et al., 2012), and we confirm that its loss disrupts microtubule organization. The peripheral p27 and binding partner p25 seem to contribute to …

Reparations And Reconciliation: Negotiating Claims Of Historical Injustice In The Case Of The Herero Genocide, Leslie Williams

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

To date, Germany has denied any obligation to financial compensation for the Herero genocide of 1904-1907. The Herero began petitioning in 1995 and haven’t yet seen results. The reconciliation process has been slowed by German denial and Namibian politics alike. Germany maintains that genocide was not technically illegal until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948, an argument that contradicts the hundreds of millions of dollars they continue to pay to Jewish victims as restitution for WWII. Historians argue that there are extensive links between German colonialism and the Jewish Holocaust. German concentration …

Mainstreet Art & Cultural Theater Districts - Clovis & Tucumcari Communities, Kelly Gard, Janell Furrow, Cameron Treme, Dale Lusk, Laura Baca, Servando Miranda, Trupti Stellus Pereira, Eliah Guerrero, Daniel Osuna, Kevin Maynard, Justin Depoy, Pete Collins, Stacey George

Design and Planning Assistance Center - Projects

During the spring of 2013 Design Planning Assistance Center (DPAC) of the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning worked with New Mexico MainStreet to assist Clovis and Tucumcari MainStreet communities and Arts and Cultural District (ACD) initiatives. The work focused on the three historic theaters in Clovis and two in Tucumcari as part of a larger initiative on New Mexico's historic theaters. The studio proposed renovations, adaptive reuses, and additions to the theaters, and proposed both permanent and temporary facilities to create art and cultural theater districts. While these proposals are specific to each theater and community, …

Hslic Annual Report Fy2012-13, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

HSLIC Annual Reports

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Qualitative And Visualization Methodologies For Modeling Social-Ecological Dimensions Of Regional Water Planning On The Rio Chama, Moises Gonzales, José A. Rivera, J. Jarrett García, Sam Markwell

The Rio Chama Basin: Land, Water and Community

No abstract provided.

Living Culture Corridors Plan: The Rio Arriba Indo-Hispano Homeland, Resource Center For Raza Planning Field School

The Rio Chama Basin: Land, Water and Community

No abstract provided.

Adobe Medicus 2013 1 January-February, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

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Clan Capitalism, Graph Distance, And Other Issues, Florentin Smarandache, Victor Christianto

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

This book consists of 6 papers focusing on social and economic issues. The topics covered include graph distance and optimal communication, migration in Jaipur, urbanization, clan capitalism, world population growth rate, and scientific inquiry. These papers were written in the period between 20092010. Hopefully the readers will find some new insights in this collection of papers.

The Hyperbolic Menelaus Theorem In The Poincare Disc Model Of Hyperbolic Geometry, Florentin Smarandache, Catalin Barbu

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this note, we present the hyperbolic Menelaus theorem in the Poincar´e disc of hyperbolic geometry.

Filters Via Neutrosophic Crisp Sets, A. A. Salama, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this paper we introduce the notion of filter on the neutrosophic crisp set, then we consider a generalization of the filter’s studies. Afterwards, we present the important neutrosophic crisp filters. We also study several relations between different neutrosophic crisp filters and neutrosophic topologies. Possible applications to database systems are touched upon.

Correlation Coefficient Of Interval Neutrosophic Set, Said Broumi, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this paper we introduce for the first time the concept of correlation coefficients of interval valued neutrosophic set (INS for short). Respective numerical examples are presented.

Intuitionistic Neutrosophic Soft Set, Said Broumi, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this paper we study the concept of intuitionistic neutrosophic set of Bhowmik and Pal. We have introduced this concept in soft sets and defined intuitionistic neutrosophic soft set. Some definitions and operations have been introduced on intuitionistic neutrosophic soft set. Some properties of this concept have been established.

More On Intuitionistic Neutrosophic Soft Sets, Said Broumi, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Intuitionistic Neutrosophic Soft Set theory proposed by S. Broumi and F. Samarandache [28], has been regarded as an effective mathematical tool to deal with uncertainties. In this paper new operations on intuitionistic neutrosophic soft sets have been introduced . Some results relating to the properties of these operations have been established. Moreover ,we illustrate their interconnections between each other.

The Use Of Icts In The Public Lbraries: A Case Study Of Oyo State Library Board, Ibadan, Nigeria, Olanike Oladunni Olaniyi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study attempts to investigate the efforts of the Oyo State Library Board in the use of ICTs among its users and staff. The study appraises the library services in the state to highlight the library services development to the populace of the state. The survey research method was adopted and questionnaire was used to collect data from 110 library users and 20 library staff within the headquarter library. The instrument contained three sections with thirty-five questions. The findings of the study reveal that despite the fact that the level of ICT literacy among the users and staff is relatively …

Moving Object Detection With Laser Scanners, Christoph Mertz, Luis E. Navarro-Serment, Robert Maclachlan, Paul Rybski, Aaron Steinfeld, Arne Suppe, Christopher Urmson, Nicolas Vandapel, Martial Hebert, Chuck Thorpe, David Duggins, Jay Gowdy

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The detection and tracking of moving objects is an essential task in robotics. The CMU-RI Navlab group has developed such a system that uses a laser scanner as its primary sensor. We will describe our algorithm and its use in several applications. Our system worked successfully on indoor and outdoor platforms and with several different kinds and configurations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional laser scanners. The applications vary from collision warning systems, people classification, observing human tracks, and input to a dynamic planner. Several of these systems were evaluated in live field tests and shown to be robust and reliable. (C) …

Ethical Considerations In The Use Of Pharmaceutical Promotions: The Impact On Egyptian Physicians Prescribing Behavior, Madiha Metawie, Rasha Hussien Mostafa

Business Administration

Purpose - The aim of this research paper is to examine some of the ethical issues which may arise when physicians accept promotional items from pharmaceutical companies and the influence on the prescribing behaviour.

Design/ methodology/ approach – Testable hypotheses were developed with respect to physicians prescribing behavior regarding ethical considerations while accepting pharmaceutical promotional items. A survey questionnaire was designed to capture the data from 134 Egyptian physicians located in greater Cairo. The hypotheses were tested using SPSS package.

Findings – The major finding is that there is a significant positive association between the type of promotional item offered …

Seller Diversity On A Technology-Based Platform, Ruhai Wu, Mei Lin

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Managing a technology portfolio is one of the great challenges for sustained success, especially in high-technology industrieswhere technologies can be a major selling point. For engineers, this portfolio is more of a toolbox for solving design problems,but in large organizations there can be so many technologies used in different business areas that even the engineers may not beaware of all of them. When the same technologies are used in different types of products, knowledge about them can also begenerated by various groups within an organization. To improve the usefulness of a company's technology base, this paperproposes the use of a …

How Strong Are The Effects Of Technological Disruption? Smartphones' Impacts On Internet And Cable Tv Services Consumption, M. R. Chang, Robert J. Kauffman, K.S. Kim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Emerging technologies have created disruptions in organizational, business process and industry contexts. They act as shocks to a system. We focus on a retail telecom service provider’s offerings of different bun-dles, including mobile phones, Internet and cable TV services. We conduct empirical regularities analysis for Singapore, which was affected by the emergence of smartphones in 2009. We assess the impacts on the service bundle choices of a provider’s customers. We analyze customer switching among service bundles involving three services. We compute switching proba-bilities for each of the service levels offered, as well as between bundles. We use Markov chain transition …

Towards Efficient Sparse Coding For Scalable Image Annotation, Junshi Huang, Hairong Liu, Jialie Shen, Shuicheng Yan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Nowadays, content-based retrieval methods are still the development trend of the traditional retrieval systems. Image labels, as one of the most popular approaches for the semantic representation of images, can fully capture the representative information of images. To achieve the high performance of retrieval systems, the precise annotation for images becomes inevitable. However, as the massive number of images in the Internet, one cannot annotate all the images without a scalable and flexible (i.e., training-free) annotation method. In this paper, we particularly investigate the problem of accelerating sparse coding based scalable image annotation, whose off-the-shelf solvers are generally inefficient on …

Hypergraph Index: An Index For Context-Aware Nearest Neighbor Query On Social Networks, Yazhe Wang, Baihua Zheng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Social network has been touted as the No. 2 innovation in a recent IEEE Spectrum Special Report on “Top 11 Technologies of the Decade”, and it has cemented its status as a bona fide Internet phenomenon. With more and more people starting using social networks to share ideas, activities, events, and interests with other members within the network, social networks contain a huge amount of content. However, it might not be easy to navigate social networks to find specific information. In this paper, we define a new type of queries, namely context-aware nearest neighbor (CANN) search over social network to …

Valuation Of Participation In Social Gaming, Kwansoo Kim, Byungjoon Yoo, Robert J. Kauffman

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This study examines the value of the time that a user spends to participate in a social game. We focus on how a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) vendor can establish prices to encourage participation and retain its players. We estimate value through an application of the hedonic pricing model and analyze a data set for an MMORPG in Korea. The results permit us to estimate the value of game-playing time in monetary terms. Based on our empirical results, we propose an economic model and conduct numerical simulation to show how a game vendor can apply differential pricing in …

Cqarank: Jointly Model Topics And Expertise In Community Question Answering, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Swapna Gottopati, Feida Zhu, Jing Jiang, Huiping Sun, Zhong Chen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Community Question Answering (CQA) websites, where people share expertise on open platforms, have become large repositories of valuable knowledge. To bring the best value out of these knowledge repositories, it is critically important for CQA services to know how to find the right experts, retrieve archived similar questions and recommend best answers to new questions. To tackle this cluster of closely related problems in a principled approach, we proposed Topic Expertise Model (TEM), a novel probabilistic generative model with GMM hybrid, to jointly model topics and expertise by integrating textual content model and link structure analysis. Based on TEM results, …