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Novel Thermophilic Bacteria Isolated From Marine Hydrothermal Vents, Christine Demko Sislak

Dissertations and Theses

As part of a large study aimed at searching for patterns of diversity in the genus Persephonella along the north to south geochemical gradient of the ELSC, ten novel strains of Alphaproteobacteria were isolated unexpectedly. Using defined media under microaerophilic conditions to enrich for Persephonella from chimney samples collected at the seven vent fields on the ELSC and the dilution to extinction by serial dilution method to purify cultures, a total of ten strains belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria were isolated. Two of these isolates, designate MN-5 and TC-2 were chosen for further characterization and are proposed as two new species …

Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim On Themselves, Loucynda Elayne Sandeen

Dissertations and Theses

During the antebellum period of U.S. slavery (1830-1861), many people claimed ownership of the enslaved woman's body, both legally and figuratively. The assumption that they were merely property, however, belies the unstable, shifting truths about bodily ownership. This thesis inquires into the gendered specifics and ambiguities of the law, the body, and women under slavery. By examining the particular bodily regulation and exploitation of enslaved women, especially around their reproductive labor, I suggest that new operations of oppression and also of resistance come into focus.

The legal structure recognized enslaved women in the interest of owners, and this limitation was …

Learning To Teach Mathematics And To Analyze Teaching Effectiveness: Evidence From A Video- And Practice-Based Pre-Service Course, Rossella Santagata, Cathery Yeh

Education Faculty Articles and Research

Although emerging consensus exists that practice-based approaches to teacher preparation assist in closing the distance between university coursework and fieldwork experiences and in assuring that future teachers learn to implement innovative research-based instructional strategies, little empirical research has investigated teacher learning from this approach. This study examines the impact of a video- and practice-based course on prospective teachers’ mathematics classroom practices and analysis of their own teaching. Two groups of elementary prospective teachers participated in the study—one attended the course and one did not. Findings reveal that the course assisted participants in making student thinking visible and in pursuing it …

Middle Level Teacher Preparation: Principals’ Perceptions Of New Teacher Preparedness--Research, Chris M. Cook, Penny B. Howell, Shawn A. Faulkner

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Drawing on the Framework for Effective Middle Level Teaching(Faulkner, Howell, &Cook, 2012; Howell, Cook, Faulkner, 2013), this interpretive, exploratory study utilized survey methodology to analyze 38 middle level principals’ perceptions of effective teaching practices and the preparedness of newly hired middle level teachers. The findings suggest there is difference in perceptions of new teacher preparedness between principals with middle level teacher certification and principals that were prepared to teach at other grade levels. While both groups acknowledged the need for better teacher preparation, principals with middle level teacher certification reported that newly hired teachers were less prepared for effective middle …

Location As Vocation: An Urban College's Engagement With Their Somali Neighbors, Matthew Maruggi, Annette Gerten

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

This article focuses on the significance of an urban college’s location and mission in guiding disciplines within the college to engage with its immigrant neighbors through service-learning.The authors describe how social connectedness theory and transformational learning theory were used to facilitate learning and increase students’ awareness of their sense of vocation.Student reflections on the service learning experience in both disciplines, religion and social work, are used to illustrate the application of each theory.

Understanding Community Engagement Motives: A "Functional" Approach, Richard J. Harnish, Kevin J. Snider

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

Current theoretical lenses do not fully explain the motives of those involved in community engagement activities. This article introduces a needed additional lens, functionalism, that emphasizes how underlying personal goals explain involvement in community engagement activities. To illustrate this perspective, an administrator’s and a faculty member’s motives for becoming involved in community engagement activities are presented and analyzed. We conclude by suggesting the functional approach to motivation may be integrated within an organizational behavior framework to better illuminate the interaction between individual goals and organizational practices, policies, and norms.

Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Program: Outreach To Southeast Kentucky Families In Poverty, S. Brooke Jenkins-Howard, Laura Stephenson, Mark Mains

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service provides community engagement and outreach efforts for Kentucky families living in poverty as part of the land grant mission. Food security is a primary concern for those with limited resources and income. To address food availability and nutrition concerns of these families, Cooperative Extension delivers researched-based educational programming through the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). EFNEP is a federally funded program that works to improve the quality of life of families living in poverty through education and behavior modifi cation. The EFNEP program uses a community-based outreach approach where food and …

Walking As Experimental Poiesis, Katherine E. Bash

Artl@s Bulletin

This experimental text, created by way of bricolage, is a form of mapping that activates relationships between the experience of the body, meanings accrued over time, and the inhabited landscape. This work situates the body as the first site and engages walking to open up fields of experimental making of meaning through experiences collected (visually, textually, physically, etc.) along the way. These experiences are forms of ‘data’ that over time, gain more meaning as the archive expands to include new references. Specifically, the walk being mapped begins in 2004 in Florianopolis, Santa Caterina, Brazil, and continues temporally through to today.

Filling The Blank Space Of Global Art Peripheries: Measurements Of Art Mobility And Their Ambivalence In Nairobi, Kenya, Olivier Marcel

Artl@s Bulletin

In recent years, art made in Africa, particularly in the metropolitan context, has witnessed a substantial increase in attention coming from transnational institutions. While many researchers have pointed out the deceitful nature of contemporary art’s globalization, this turn of events still challenges the way we conceive the space of contemporary art. In this paper I use cartography as a critical tool to approach the international mobility facilitated by two art organizations based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Visualizing Spaces, Flows, Agents, And Networks Of The Art Markets In The 18th Century: Some Methodological Challenges, Sophie Raux

Artl@s Bulletin

This visualization project originated in a program entitled “Art Markets in Europe 1300-1800, Emergence, Development, Networks.” The latter focused mainly on the movement and dynamics of the art markets of the early modern age: Who were the agents of this mobility? What were its mechanisms? What idea do we have of the numbers of pictures circulating in Europe? Through what channels and networks were they distributed? These questions led the team to work out an experimental program of visualization aiming at endowing our research outcome with a visual and synthetic dimension that would help us renew our approaches and generate …

Mapping Eastern Europe: Cartography And Art History, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius

Artl@s Bulletin

This paper compares maps of Eastern Europe, beginning from the map of Slavic lands by Josef Pavol Šafárik of 1842, and it claims that cartographic imagery has played a significant role in the legitimisation of the region’s collective identity. It argues that the adoption the map as a tool of art history, in order to spatialise and quantify the understanding of art, cannot bypass the postmodern critique of the map. It reflects on the overlap between the approaches and methods of critical cartography and critical art history, as well as on the mutual benefits of the visual turn in cartography …

Introduction: Do Maps Lie?, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Artl@s Bulletin

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, December 12, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2013

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Using Stimulation And Repetitive Task Practice To Promote Neuroplasticity Targeted At Improving Hand Function In Individuals With Chronic Tetraplegia., Joyce Gomes-Osman

Open Access Dissertations

Injury to the cervical segments of the spinal cord causes significant functional deficits to the upper extremities, affecting the performance of daily life activities and quality of life. Functional impairments following a cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) are primarily attributed to the damage to ascending and descending tracts that hinders the flow of information to and from supraspinal centers and the hand muscles, but there is also evidence that post-injury patterns of cortical reorganization can also play an important role. This thesis explored the influence of different approaches used to activate the motor cortex combined with repetitive task practice, and …

Simulating Bipartite Networks To Reflect Uncertainty In Local Network Properties, Ravi Goyal, Joseph Blitzstein, Victor De Gruttola

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

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Recommended Funding And Retrofits For Stormwater Management Of The Hart Brook Watershed In Lewiston, Me, Yaa Asantewaa Agyare, Sarah Dik, Amy Wyeth

Community Engaged Research Reports

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Re-Envisioning The Otis Mill: A Project On The Renovation Of The Otis Mill In Jay, Me, Brittany Reid, Camille Smith, Anne Ngo, Nicole Danser

Community Engaged Research Reports

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Revitalizing Lewiston And Auburn's Riverfront Corridor, Caroline Daniels, Rakey Drammeh, Sonja Favaloro, Kathryn Mulholland

Community Engaged Research Reports

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Recommendations For The Growth And Development Of The Androscoggin Land Trust's Volunteer Stewardship Program, Hannah Mitchell, Jesse Bercaw, Teika Carlson

Community Engaged Research Reports

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Paddling Forward: An Exploration Of The Next Steps For River Recreation On The Androscoggin, Kristian B. Muldoon, Wallis H. Pierce, Zachary D. Abbott, Daniel E. Huston

Community Engaged Research Reports

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Reinventing Urban Park Space In Lewiston/Auburn, Lucy Louisa Brennan, Catherine Elizabeth Dioli, Rohan K. Jaffrey, Matthew R. Mosca

Community Engaged Research Reports

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #510, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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Sr-13-14-54 Cc, Marshall University

Recommendations

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Sr-13-14-55 Cc, Marshall University

Recommendations

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Fy2013 Ropa Presentation: University Of Southern Maine, Sightlines

Direction Package

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Three Dimensional Nutrition: Exploring Nourishment Of Spirit, Mind, And Body During A 28-Day Daniel Fast At Southern Adventist University, Caitlin S. Hobbs

Capstone Research Projects

A person who is living well can be said to be “making lifestyle choices with God’s help to support optimum physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and experiencing His gift of abundant life” (Tryon, 2009). All of these “dimensions” of health are interrelated, and in order for a person to truly flourish, each area must be nourished. Dietary choices can have an especially interesting impact on these dimensions. Eating healthfully is not always viewed as a joyous endeavor, but when viewed from a multi-dimensional perspective, it can become a more rewarding and intriguing pursuit.

One way to promote a nutritional …

College Senate Minutes December 12, 2013, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on December 12, 2013.

Vol.41 N.20 December 12th 2013, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Alexander Martin V. Commissioner Social Security

2013 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Adherence To Guidelines For The Screening And Treatment Of Vitamin D Deficiency In Elderly Patients, Alyssa Simmons, Mary Williams

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this study was to evaluate healthcare providers compliance with the guidelines established by The Endocrine Society regarding Vitamin D.