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Agco Corporation Valuation, Sean Michael Miller

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

This paper will discuss the excellent growth potential that AGCO Corporation faces and the reason that this company's stock is rated as a hold position. AGCO has seen tremendous progress and is in an industry that shows that a growing world population will continue to need food and more efficient ways to create food. However, based on sensitivities of assumptions in the models presented herein and on a current share price that is already close to my assumed fair value I do not issue a buy recommendation.

Mitochondrial Dna Variation In North Dakota Residents Of European Ancestry, Katelyn Kjelland

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

Globally, many groups have been subject to studies of genetic variation and structure. However, studies of this sort rarely engage populations in the United States and are often limited to analysis of continental supergroups (European, African American, Hispanic, Native American) that cluster several ancestral origins of diverse genetic and cultural pasts. The aim of this study is to examine the degree of mtDNA variation in the residents of European ancestry living in North Dakota. This state, located in north-central United States, has been relatively recently settled by European migrants of distinct origins who originally formed isolated ethnic enclaves.

Analysis of …

Preliminary Pages, No Author

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Contemporary Christian Ethics, Katie Kreutter

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"From an ethical standpoint, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and parable of the Good Samaritan are complex and thought-provoking. In this work, multiple lenses for examining these passages will be evaluated and considered in an effort to better understand this material in respect to ethics and practical application."

Have You Ever Come To A Point…?, Karen Delgado

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"Have you ever come to a point in your life when you realized you should reexamine your life as a whole? I have often wondered what it is like to go through a “mid-life crisis”. I have recently turned 31 and although I may be considered too young to be going through such a crisis, I have definitely reached a crossroad. My crisis revolves around a recent turn of events that have swayed my beliefs and shifted my emotions. I am currently separated from my husband of almost seven …

Clarifying Jeremiah's Complaints, Amy Ryan

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"It is easy to believe that God does not enforce His own laws when one witnesses a sinner go unpunished for a crime. However, sinners are not condemned upon the execution of sin to an afterlife of damnation because as God’s children, we are always given the choice to repent and follow God’s teachings."

A Rae Of God's Son, Michael Costanzo

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A Moment In Time, Alan Pogroszewski

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"It was my junior year at SUNY Fredonia and I was our starting goalie in the 1986 NCAA Final Four. Our opponents in the semi-final game that sunny but cool Friday afternoon were the defending National Champions, UNC Greensboro. Fredonia’s team had lost to Greensboro in the national semi-finals the previous year, and we had spent the entire year awaiting this rematch. We may have been considered the underdogs; however, entering the game, our team had only one loss in the previous 19 games and was ranked seventh in …

Application Of Linear Sequences To Cryptography, Amanda C. Yeates

Honors Theses

Cryptography is the study of a centuries–old technique of secretly transferring information between parties. Linear recurrences were the chosen method of encryption and decryption in the thesis. The Fibonacci sequence, with its Zeckendorf representation, allows for the flexibility of encoding any number desired based on a particular encoding technique used in the film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. The main goal is to find other linear recurrences that possess characteristics similar to the Fibonacci sequence to use as suitable substitutes for encoding. Different sequences were analyzed based on a number of criteria. In order for a sequence to be …

Peregrination Of The Selectivity Filter Delineates The Pore Of The Human Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Hhv1, Deri Morgan, Boris Musset, Kethika Kulleperuma, Susan M. E. Smith, Sindhu Rajan, Vladimir V. Cherny, Régis Pomès, Thomas E. Decoursey

Faculty Articles

Extraordinary selectivity is crucial to all proton-conducting molecules, including the human voltage-gated proton channel (hH_v1), because the proton concentration is >10⁶ times lower than that of other cations. Here we use "selectivity filter scanning" to elucidate the molecular requirements for proton-specific conduction in hH_v1. Asp¹¹², in the middle of the S1 transmembrane helix, is an essential part of the selectivity filter in wild-type (WT) channels. After neutralizing Asp¹¹² by mutating it to Ala (D112A), we introduced Asp at each position along S1 from 108 to 118, searching for "second site suppressor" activity. …

Distinct Phenotypes In Zebrafish Models Of Human Startle Disease, Lisa R. Ganser, Qing Yan, Victoria M. James, Robert Kozol, Maya Topf, Robert J. Harvey, Julia E. Dallman

Faculty Articles

Startle disease is an inherited neurological disorder that causes affected individuals to suffer noise- or touch-induced non-epileptic seizures, excessive muscle stiffness and neonatal apnea episodes. Mutations known to cause startle disease have been identified in glycine receptor subunit (GLRA1 and GLRB) and glycine transporter (SLC6A5) genes, which serve essential functions at glycinergic synapses. Despite the significant successes in identifying startle disease mutations, many idiopathic cases remain unresolved. Exome sequencing in these individuals will identify new candidate genes. To validate these candidate disease genes, zebrafish is an ideal choice due to rapid knockdown strategies, accessible embryonic stages, and stereotyped behaviors. The …

A Meta-Analytic Review Of The Dark Triad-Intelligence Connection, Ernest H. O'Boyle, Donelson R. Forsyth, George C. Banks, Paul A. Story

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

We conducted a meta-analytic review of the relations between general mental ability (GMA) and the Dark Triad (DT) personality traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—to determine if individuals who display socially exploitative social qualities tend to be more intelligent or less intelligent. Across 48 independent samples, GMA showed no consistent relation with any DT trait. These effects were not sufficient to support either the “evil genius” hypothesis (highly intelligent individuals tend to display socially exploitative personality traits) or the “compensatory” hypothesis (less intelligent individuals compensate for their cognitive disadvantages by adopting manipulative behavioral tendencies). However, these relations were moderated, to some extent, …

Depleted Energy Charge And Increased Pulmonary Endothelial Permeability Induced By Mitochondrial Complex I Inhibition Are Mitigated By Coenzyme Q1 In The Isolated Perfused Rat Lung, Robert D. Bongard, Ke Yan, Raymond G. Hoffmann, Said H. Audi, Xiao Zhang, Brian J. Lindemer, Mary I. Townsley, Marilyn P. Merker

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with various forms of lung injury and disease that also involve alterations in pulmonary endothelial permeability, but the relationship, if any, between the two is not well understood. This question was addressed by perfusing isolated intact rat lung with a buffered physiological saline solution in the absence or presence of the mitochondrial complex I inhibitor rotenone (20 μM). Compared to control, rotenone depressed whole lung tissue ATP from 5.66±0.46 (SEM) to 2.34±0.15 µmol·g⁻¹ dry lung, with concomitant increases in the ADP:ATP and AMP:ATP ratios. Rotenone also increased lung perfusate lactate (from 12.36±1.64 to 38.62±3.14 µmol·15 …

Mixing The Emic And Etic Perspectives: A Study Exploring Development Of Fixed-Answer Questions To Measure In-Service Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, M. Brooke Robertshaw

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this dissertation study was to develop fixed-answer questions to measure teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge when teaching with online learning resources. Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) is a framework to describe the kind of knowledge that teachers use when they are teaching with technology. Online learning resources include text, video, images, and interactive websites that teachers can use to help teach subject matter to their students. Fixed-answer questions are the kinds of questions found on standardized tests like the SAT, and tests that K-12 students take as a part of state and national testing. Many measures have …

Analysis Of Energy Flow In Us Globec Ecosystems Using End-To-End Models, James J. Ruzicka, John H. Steele, Sarah K. Gaichas, Tosca Ballerini, Dian J. Gifford, Richard D. Brodeur, Eileen E. Hofmann

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

End-to-end models were constructed to examine and compare the trophic structure and energy flow in coastal shelf ecosystems of four US Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) study regions: the Northern California Current, the Central Gulf of Alaska, Georges Bank, and the Southwestern Antarctic Peninsula. High-quality data collected on system components and processes over the life of the program were used as input to the models. Although the US GLOBEC program was species-centric, focused on the study of a selected set of target species of ecological or economic importance, we took a broader community-level approach to describe end-to-end energy flow, from …

The Role Of Heparin In Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling, Rebecca Kerr

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are a superfamily of 23 heparin-binding proteins. Acidic fibroblast growth factor (FGF1) is a 16 kDa protein that is involved in many important biological processes such as cell differentiation, angiogenesis, and wound healing. FGF1 exhibits its activity by binding to cell-surface tyrosine kinase receptors (FGFRs). In addition to binding to FGFRs, FGF1 binds to heparin/HLGAGs. Heparin is proposed to have two functions: it protects FGFs from degradation by proteases and from thermal denaturation; and upon binding it induces FGF1 oligomerization, which is mandatory for binding to FGFR. However, it remains controversial whether or not heparin is …

An Integrated Multidisciplinary Nanoscience Concentration Certificate Program For Stem Education, Karen S. Martirosyan, Mikhail M. Bouniaev, Malik Rakhmanov, Ahmed Touhami, Nazmul Islam, Davood Askari, Tarek Trad, Dmitri Litvinov, Sergey E. Lyshevski

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

Integration of nanoscience and nanotechnology curricula into the College of Science, Mathematics, and Technology (CSMT) at the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) is reported. The rationale for the established multidisciplinary Nanoscience Concentration Certificate Program (NCCP) is to: (i) develop nanotechnology-relevant courses within a comprehensive Science, Engineering and Technology curriculum, and, to offer students an opportunity to graduate with a certificate in nanoscience and nanotechnology; (ii) to contribute to students' success in achieving student outcomes across all college's majors, and, improve the breath, depth and quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates' education; (iii) through NCCP, recruit certificate- …

The Most Important Effective Leadership Characteristics Of School Principals In Terms Of Their Significance And Implementation From Perspective Of Al-Ain Education Office Teachers, Aysha Rashed Abdulla Ali Al Hassani

Theses

This study aims to investigate about the school principal’s leadership characteristics in terms of their significance and implementation from the perspective Al-Ain schools teachers. Hence, the study employed the quantitative method to collect data about the principals descriptors reviewed in the previous studies. The sample consists of 500 teachers; 200 males and 300 females randomly selected from each school. The study investigated the significance of the principal’s descriptors as well as their significance and to what extent they are implemented by Principals. The study found out that the most significant descriptors of the principals are: keeping promises and punctuality, achieving …

Hybridity On Architecture And Urban Spaces In The Colonial Tin Mining Town Of Muntok-Bangka, Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan, Ratu Arum Kusumawardhani, Evawani Ellisa, Muhammad Nanda Widyarta

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

This paper concerns the importance of socio-cultural hybridity in the process of architecture and urban development. It confronts spatial particularity occurring between the discourses of colonialism and multiculturalism. As a result of centuries of dynamic interaction amongst several ethnic groups including Malay, Chinese and European, Muntok as the colonial capital town of Bangka Island before 20thcentury offers various architectural edifices and urban forms. The scope of this paper focuses on the intersection between colonial history and hybridity itself and the research analyses its material represent through architecture and urban form. The methods of the research are conducted through a combination …

Fesyen Dan Identitas: Simbolisasi Budaya Dan Agama Dalam Busana Pengantin Jawa Muslim Di Surabaya, Dewi Meyrasyawati

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

This study is conducted to investigate a popular practice of modifying Javanese bridal costumes based on religious considerations. Transformation from purely traditional Javanese bridal costumes to those with some application of Islamic clothing style is gaining rapid acceptance and begins to be considered as a popular fashion style by a great number of Indonesians, especially in urban areas like Surabaya. The purpose of this study is to discover cultural (Java) and religious (Islam) symbolisms implied in the modification and to examine the signification involved in the process. By applying the fashion system theory, this paper seeks to unravel the symbolisms …

Kecerdasan Emosional Dan Kecerdasan Spiritual Meningkatkan Kompetensi Sosial Guru, Citro W.. Puluhulawa

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Teacher as a professional educational is demanded to have a set of competence in carrying out the daily tasks. One of the competences is social competence. The social competence of teachers is that teachers have an objective, inclusive and non discriminative attitude, well-mannered eitherin speech or in act, capable in communicating verbally, writtenly and gesture. In addition, teachers have to coordinate with the students, other fellow teachers, educational staff, student’s parents as well asthe society. They must also be able to adapt with the community. This study aims to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence work with …

Mode I Fracture Toughness Of Eight-Harness-Satin Carbon Cloth Weaves For Co-Cured And Post-Bonded Laminates, Josh E. Smith

Master's Theses

Mode I interlaminar fracture of 3k 8-Harness-Satin Carbon cloth, with identical fill and weft yarns, pre-impregnated with Newport 307 resin was investigated through the DCB test (ASTM D5528). Crack propagations along both the fill and weft yarns were considered for both post-bonded (co-bonded) and co-cured laminates. A patent-pending delamination insertion method was compared to the standard Teflon film option to assess its applicability to mode I fracture testing. The Modified Beam Theory, Compliance Calibration method, and Modified Compliance Calibration method were used for comparative purposes for these investigations and to evaluate the validity of the proposed Equivalent Stiffness (EQS) method. …

Access Magazine, December 2013, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Access Magazine

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Titanic: Consuming The Myths And Meanings Of An Ambiguous Brand, Stephen Brown, Pierre Mcdonagh, Clifford J. Shultz

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Myths have come of age in consumer research. In the 22 years since Levy’s inaugural article, the literature has grown at an impressive rate. Yet important questions remain unanswered: What makes some myths especially meaningful to consumers? Why are certain consumer myths more prevalent and less perishable than others? This article argues that ambiguity is an influential factor. Using the RMS Titanic as an empirical exemplar, it unpacks the principal forms of myth-informed ambiguity surrounding “the unsinkable brand.” Predicated on William Empson’s hitherto unsung principles of literary criticism, the article posits that ambiguity in its multifaceted forms is integral to …

Filter-Based Multiscale Entropy Analysis Of Complex Physiological Time Series, Liang Zhao

Dissertations - ALL

The multiscale entropy (MSE) has been widely and successfully used in analyzing the complexity of physiologic time series. In this thesis, we re-interpret the averaging process in MSE as filtering a time series by a filter of a piecewise constant type. From this viewpoint, we introduce the {\it filter-based multiscale entropy} (FME) which filters a time series by filters to generate its multiple frequency components and then compute the {\it blockwise} entropy of the resulting components. By choosing filters adapted to the feature of a given time series, FME is able to better capture its multiscale information and to provide …

For Logs, For Traditional Purposes And For Food: Identification Of Multiple-Use Plant Species Of Northern Amazonia And An Assessment Of Factors Associated With Their Distribution, Anthony Ravindra Cummings

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation examines the multiplicity of uses associated with tree and palm species of the Rupununi, Southern Guyana and the factors associated with their distribution. As tropical forests continue to decline the most significant response has been to understand the implications for the carbon cycle, with the impacts on forest dwelling peoples and wildlife, inadequately addressed. Multiple-use plants, individual species which at their most critical level provide food for wildlife, non-timber forest products and are commercially logged, provide a suitable lens for appreciating additional ecosystem services that may be compromised as tropical forests decline. I completed a plant inventory in …

Structure, Rheology And Optical Properties Of Plasmonic Fluids, Tao Cong

Dissertations - ALL

Fluids with tunable optical and rheological properties are of fundamental and practical interest. They can be easily processed to manufacture thin films and interfaces for applications such as molecular detection and light trapping in photovoltaics. Cationic surfactants such as cetyl-trimethylammonium bromide have the ability to self assemble with metallic nanoparticles to form a corona or a double-layer vesicular structure. These structures upon further interaction with wormlike micelle fragments are hypothesized to form micelle-nanoparticle elastic networks. In this dissertation, solution phase self-assembly is utilized to uniformly distribute various metallic nanoparticles to produce stable multicomponent plasmonic fluids with remarkable color uniformity. The …

Development Of An Integrated Process, Modeling And Simulation Platform For Performance-Based Design Of Low-Energy And High Ieq Buildings, Yixing Chen

Dissertations - ALL

The objective of this study was to develop a "Virtual Design Studio (VDS)": a software platform for integrated, coordinated and optimized design of green building systems with low energy consumption, high indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and high level of sustainability. The VDS is intended to assist collaborating architects, engineers and project management team members throughout from the early phases to the detailed building design stages. It can be used to plan design tasks and workflow, and evaluate the potential impacts of various green building strategies on the building performance by using the state of the art simulation tools as well …

First Report Of Ndm-1-Producing Acinetobacter Baumannii In East Africa, Gunturu Revathi, Kristopher L. Siu, Po-Liang Lu, Li-Yueh Huang

Pathology, East Africa

Background: The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) was observed in a Kenyan hospital from 2009 to 2010. Further investigation of the dissemination of CRAB isolates and the molecular characterization of associated resistance determinants were therefore performed.

Methods: Antibiotic susceptibilities were determined by broth microdilution and Etest. Metallo-blactamases were detected by Etest method. Clonal relationships were studied by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). b-Lactam and aminoglycoside resistance determinants and the clonal relatedness to widespread European clones were studied by PCR and sequencing.

Results: Sixteen CRAB isolates from 10 patients possessed six pulsotypes; half of the isolates …

A Cultural Revolution: The Demise Of Corporate Culture Through The Whistleblower Bounty Provisions Of The Dodd-Frank Act, Rachel S. Taylor

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

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