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Ipulse: December 2014, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• December 1, 2014
• December 2, 2014
• December 10, 2014

Front Matter

West Virginia Law Review

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One Stick In The Bundle: Characterizing Nonparticipating Royalty Interests Under West Virginia Law, Andrew S. Graham, Allison J. Farrell, Lauren A. Williams, Amber M. Moore

West Virginia Law Review

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Courts Cap The "Trade": Regulation Of Competitive Markets When Courts Overturn State And Federal Cap-And-Trade Regulation, Steven Ferrey

West Virginia Law Review

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Development Through Trade Disputes: Building A Reputation Using The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement System, Jason L. Holliday

West Virginia Law Review

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Stuck Between A Lump Of Coal And A Hard Place: The Mine Safety And Health Administration's Struggle With Due Process And America's Coal Industry, Patrick R. Baker

West Virginia Law Review

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Contents, First Amendment Law Review

First Amendment Law Review

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What Medical Education Can Do To Ensure Robust Language Development In Deaf Children, T. Humphries, P. Kushalnagar, G. Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, C. Padden, R. Pollard, C. Rathmann, S. Smith

Linguistics Faculty Works

The typical medical education curriculum does not address language development for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children. However, this issue is medical because of the frequency with which DHH children as a population face health complications due to linguistic deprivation. The critical period for language development is early; if a child does not acquire an intact language before age five, the child is unlikely to ever have native-like use of any language. Such linguistic deprivation carries risks of cognitive delay and psycho-social health difficulties. Spoken language is inaccessible for many DHH children despite assistive-technology developments. But sign languages, because they are …

Episode 13: Katilyn Herzog, Thomas Kenny Mphil

Communication Students Podcasts

Professor Tom Kenny speaks with Kaitlyn Herzog, communications alumnus. They will discuss communications media and Kaitlyn's work in the post production industry. This final podcast of the fall 2014 semester also includes an excerpt from episode 6 with Mike Mendez.

Identification Of The Infection Route Of A Fusarium Seed Pathogen Into Non-Dormant Bromus Tectorum Seeds, Janalynn Franke

Theses and Dissertations

The genus Fusarium has a wide host range and causes many different forms of plant disease. These include seed rot and seedling blight diseases of cultivated plants. The Fusarium-caused diseases of wild plants are less well-known. In this study we examined Fusarium sp. n-caused disease development on non-dormant seeds of the important rangeland weed Bromus tectorum as part of broader studies of the phenomenon of stand failure or ‘die-off’ in this annual grass. We previously isolated an undescribed species in the Fusarium tricinctum species complex from die-off soils and showed that it is pathogenic on seeds. It can cause high …

Developing Critical Loads And Dynamic Critical Loads For Acidification For Watersheds In The Adirondack Region Of New York And Great Smoky Mountain National Park (Grsm), Qingtao Zhou

Dissertations - ALL

Critical loads (CLs) and dynamic critical loads (DCLs) are important tools for the management of ecosystems that are impacted by high sulfate, nitrate and ammonium deposition. In this study, a biogeochemical model (PnET-BGC) was applied to 20 watersheds in the Adirondack region and 12 watersheds in Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GRSM) to calculate CLs and DCLs. I evaluated ecosystem changes in response to historical and potential future changes in acidic deposition. I analyzed factors affecting CLs and DCLs for acidification in the acid impacted Constable Pond Watershed in the Adirondack region, specifically evaluating trade-offs of sulfate and nitrate deposition, …

Implementation Of The Essential Elements Of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools And Programs And Their Relationship To Student Achievement, Jeffrey Craig

Dissertations - ALL

In New York State, there are regulations that describe many of the practices that middle-level schools are supposed to implement. Yet, little is known about the effectiveness of these middle-level practices in schools in the state. Without definitive information about the impact of middle-level practices on student achievement, it's difficult for practitioners and leaders to know if the school improvement decisions they make are the right ones and whether they will have the desired impact on student achievement.

This study compares the implementation of the middle-level guidelines for New York State, known as The Essential Elements of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools …

Climatology And Predictability Of Cool-Season High Wind Events In The New York City Metropolitan And Surrounding Area, Michael Layer

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Damaging wind events not associated with severe convective storms or tropical cyclones can occur over the Northeast U.S. during the cool season and can cause significant problems with transportation, infrastructure, and public safety. These non-convective wind events (NCWEs) events are difficult for operational forecasters to predict in the NYC region as revealed by relatively poor verification statistics in recent years. This study investigates the climatology of NCWEs occurring between 15 September and 15 May over 13 seasons from 2000-2001 through 2012-2013. The events are broken down into three distinct types commonly observed in the region: pre-cold frontal (PRF), post-cold frontal …

Rheological Characterization Of Nano Composite Hydrogels, Jack Lombardi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Engineered Polymer hydrogels and hydrogels from Bio macromolecules have visco-elastic properties that can be measured using Oscillatory Shear Rheology. Manipulation and measurement of physical properties in gels including F-127 Pluronic Block Co-Polymer and Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Clay are shown through OSR by addition of salts, clays and glucose at physiological levels. Rheological analysis of f-127 illustrates changes in G' reduction with phase transition temperature. Measurements also indicate physical changes due to the aforementioned additives vary as a function of the gel physical and chemical structure. In particular, non-enzymatic glycation is shown to change the modulus of elasticity in both of the gels tested. …

Analysis And Design Of Thermal Management System For Thermoelectric Generators For Nuclear Power Plant Safety, Chih-Chieh Lin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This project aims to develop thermoelectric generators (TEG)-based devices for sensing during normal and off-normal conditions in Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). Locations such as reactor core vessels, steam generators, housings of pumps, heat exchangers, and steam pipe housings in primary loop and secondary loop are potential installation sites. The heat is conducted through an adaptor to the TEGs and removed by a heat sink by means of natural convection. The electrical power generated by the TEGs is then used to drive sensors and wireless communications. Additional power can be stored in batteries or in super capacitors for emergency operations. The …

A Cultural Trade? Canadian Magazine Illustrators At Home And In The United States, 1880-1960, Shannon Jaleen Grove

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation analyzes nationalisms in the work of Canadian magazine illustrators in Toronto and New York, 1880 to 1960. Using a continentalist approach--rather than the nationalist lens often employed by historians of Canadian art--I show the existence of an integrated, joint North American visual culture. Drawing from primary sources and biography, I document the social, political, corporate, and communication networks that illustrators traded in. I focus on two common visual tropes of the day--that of the pretty girl and that of wilderness imagery. Through visual and verbal rhetoric, and through institutional controls to exclude particular kinds of illustration from counting …

Finding Place: The Art Of Wangechi Mutu, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons And Ingridmwangiroberthutter, Eva Susanne Hericks-Bares

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation examines the issue of " place" in the lives and works of three contemporary women artists of the African Diaspora: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, and Wangechi Mutu. Place as a location is a core challenge of globalism: though fundamental to our existence, it has ceased to be permanent or definite. However, place is more than location--it is cultural, gendered, historical, interactive, personal and social, among other things--and can only be fully understood in considering several of these different facets. Each of the artists in this dissertation has had to navigate through instances of bias (such as racism and …

Expression, Purification, And Characterization Of The Short Isoform Of Adenylosuccinate Lyase, Benjamin Rajan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Cells require purines for critical biological processes that can be created by the de novo biosynthetic pathway or maintained by the salvage pathways. The de novo pathway in humans requires 6 enzymes, some of which are multifunctional. Adenylosuccinate lyase (ASL) catalyzes step 8 of the de novo pathway converting susuccinylaminoimidazolecarboxamide ribonucleotide (SAICAR) to aminoimidazolecarboxamide ribotide (AICAR). It also catalyzes the second step of the purine nucleotide cycle by converting SAMP to AMP. A short isoform of ASL (sASL) is ubiquitously expressed in all cell types at a lower concentration. This shortened splice variant does not perform catalysis on either of …

The Versatile Applications Of 6-Alkynyl Fucose And Other Fucose Analogs In Studying Protein Fucosylation, Esam Al-Shareffi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Glycosylation is the modification of a target molecule with carbohydrate. It is a common and complex co- or post-translational protein modification that is responsible for diverse and essential biological roles including cellular communication, modulation of function, and the provision of specific ligands for carbohydrate-binding proteins. Fucosylation is a specific type of glycosylation that results from the transfer of fucose, a unique monosaccharide with the L-configuration, to its target proteins or glycans through the action of fucosyltransferases. Thirteen fucosyltransferases have been identified, including protein O-fucosyltransferases 1 and 2 (POFUT1 and POFUT2), responsible for addition of fucose to the hydroxyl group of …

Development Of A Line-Scanned Dual-Axis Confocal Microscope For Video-Rate Diagnostic Imaging, Danni Wang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The prevalence of oral cancer has been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years. Due to a limited understanding of the cause and progression of this disease, patient prognosis remain poor, and the mortality and morbidity of the disease remain significant. The need to diagnose cancerous regions early is key to patient survival. However, the high cost and invasive nature of standard pathological analysis motivates the search for an alternative real-time imaging technology that provides accurate non-invasive early diagnosis of the disease. The goal of this thesis is to develop a line-scanned dual-axis confocal (LS-DAC) microscope for high-resolution, high-contrast, …

Improved Generalized Born Solvent Model Parameters For Protein And Nucleic Acid Simulations, Hai Minh Nguyen

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Generalized Born solvent model offers inexpensive approach for solvation energy calculation as compared to explicit solvent and Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) method. Thanks to its speed, GB models have been widely used in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. However the speed comes with tradeoffs. Literatures have pointed out the weaknesses of GB models in inaccurately calculating solvation energy that leads to helical bias in protein simulation or unstable DNA/RNA duplex in nucleic acid simulation. Here we introduced the reparameterization of the recently developed GB-Neck model to improve its accuracy. Compared to other pairwise GB models (e.g. GB-OBC and GB-Neck) the new GB models …

Design, Synthesis, And Biological Evaluation Of Novel Taxoid-Based Drug Conjugates And Theranostic Imaging Agents Towards Tumor-Targeted Chemotherapy, Jacob G. Vineberg

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for nearly a quarter of all deaths, and is exceeded only by heart disease. Traditional chemotherapy uses highly potent cytotoxic agents to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells, relying on the premise that these fast-growing cancer cells are more likely to be killed by these drugs. Despite the profound impact of traditional chemotherapy, lack of tumor-specificity continues to be a serious issue for cancer treatment. Paclitaxel and docetaxel are among the most widely used chemotherapeutic agents, in particular against cancers such as ovarian, breast, lung, and Kaposi's sarcoma; …

The Macroeconomics Of Bank Competition Over The Business Cycle, Yan Liu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Two empirical regularities of bank lending practices stand out: interest rate spreads on loans and lending standards both are lower during booms than in recessions. I provide a unified explanation of these two facts, stressing procyclical competition of the banking sector as the driving force. I first develop a game of bank lending with screening. Borrowers have private information about the creditworthiness of their projects. Banks rely on a screening technology to distinguish good projects from bad ones by choosing the screening intensity, which I identify with the lending standards. Because screening is costly, in the optimum the screening intensities …

Disability And The Young Adult Reader: How Has The Portrayal Of Disability Changed In The Last Fifty Years?, Sharon Munroe Hinkson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Literature offers an opportunity to share in the lived experiences of others, experiences that as readers we may otherwise never personally encounter. Disability in our society is a reality, yet one that has not been fully embraced--not unlike issues with race, gender, age, or sexual orientation. Individuals begin to encounter many of these matters early in life, but as impressionable adolescents, a time when they begin to understand and navigate the world, often times they meet these experiences in books. Since books are an especially important part of how thoughts and attitudes are shaped, this paper seeks to analyze a …

Representations Of Disability In Of Mice And Men And One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Avoiding Handicapism In The Classroom, Lyndsay L. Mccabe

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In this thesis, I examine two novels that feature characters with disabilities and that are often taught in secondary English classes. These texts will be analyzed through a disability studies perspective - a form of analysis that is not often taught in schools. The disability studies perspective involves looking at disability in a critical light and examining the social, cultural, and political ramifications of assumptions that are made about those considered to be " disabled" by the able-bodied majority. Using this lens, I will explore the assumptions about disability that seem to be represented in these works through their use …

Is There Room For The Modern Narrator? A Study Of Narrative Intrusion In Henry James' The Golden Bowl, Rachael Pompeii

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

At the turn of the twentieth century, narrative presentation saw one of the most intense transitionary movements in literary history. The instructive, omniscient authorial narrator of Victorian literature slowly faced demise as an increasing turn towards subjective, stream-of-consciousness narration dominated the literary age of twentieth century modern realism. The critical and fictional work of Henry James, literary genius who wrote across the century line, persists in the presentation of a distinctive narrating body at the same time that it encourages and anticipates the incipient effacement of such a figure. In his final completed novel, The Golden Bowl, James' narrative choices …

God's Involvement In American Politics (A Brief History And Present), Michael Reich

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

There are myriad ways God has been included in modern American politics, but where does that inclusion stem from? The parallels between the Bible, American history, and modern day American politics are numerous. Once it can be seen that God has always been essential to America, and God has always been necessary to most Americans, we can find more avenues to identify God's roots in American political discourse and political activism, and legal literature. God is foremost necessary in the Bible and that idea was brought forth into the realm of American politics. He means everything and is everything to …

Shakespeare's Evil: From Vice To Villain, Jennifer Katherine Staehle

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis serves as an investigation of the Elizabethan villain and the ways this character contributes to the ongoing dialogue concerning morality. Through the examination of the evolution of evil, villainy, and morality via Shakespeare's villains Richard and Iago, one can conclude that Shakespeare's contribution to the discussion of evil, which still goes on today, is that evil is a part of human nature. Not only are his villains humorous and entertaining, but Richard and Iago are relatable, pitiful, and raise questions about the evil inherent in human nature. These characters challenge the way Renaissance audiences habitually thought about right …

The Effects Of Cpg And Upa Dinucleotides On The Attenuation Of Poliovirus By Codon Pair Deoptimization, Malka Arabov

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Codon pair bias, the preferential pairing of certain codons over others, has been observed in all species analyzed ranging from bacteria to mammals. Previous research has shown that artificial coupling of underrepresented codon pairs (codon pair deoptimization) in viral genomes (such as poliovirus and influenza virus) reduces gene function and leads to virus death or attenuation. Although the reason for this phenomenon is unclear, increasing underrepresented codon pairs in an RNA viral coding region consequently increases the frequency of CpG and UpA dinucleotides. These dinucleotides are suppressed in a variety of species and may be responsible for attenuation by codon …

The Adenovirus L4-22k Protein Serves As The Master Regulator To Coordinate Late Gene Expression And Viral Dna Packaging, Diana Guimet

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The adenovirus L4-22K protein is multifunctional and critical for different aspects of viral infection. Following DNA replication, increasing amounts of the L4-22K protein are observed prior to the appearance of other late viral proteins. We found that L4-22K controls viral gene expression at the post-transcriptional level and regulates the accumulation of the L4-33K protein, another critical viral regulator, at the level of alternative pre-mRNA splicing. This initiates an activation cascade of late viral proteins, while early genes are being turned off. To gain a better understanding of the mechanism of action of L4-22K, we sought to map the critical elements …