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Award Credit- International Baccalaureat (Ib) Accepted Tests, Sue Harvey

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Online Learning Committee Report 2011-2012, Jeff Stowell

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Career Services Employment And Grad School Data 2006-2012, Linda Moore

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Writing Assessment Report 2013, Karla Sanders

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Undergraduate Assessment Report 2013, Karla Sanders

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Caa Learning Goals Report May 2013, Caa

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Casa Director Feedback And Data Use Summary From Assessment Reports, Karla Sanders

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Affirmative Action Plan 2012-2013, Nca Self-Study Committee

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Working Women And Motherhood: Failures Of The Weimar Republic’S Family Policies, Katelyn M. Quirin

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

This paper examines the Weimar Republic’s reaction to the population crisis after the First World War. The Reich government created welfare policies to boost the birth rate and decrease the infant mortality rate. These policies were often unrealistic or too exclusive for working-class women. As a result, they did not greatly impact the lives of working women or their procreation. The Weimar policies, therefore, failed in its efforts to increase the birth rate among working-class women.

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Intersectionality, Life Experience & Judicial Decision Making: A New View Of Gender At The Supreme Court, Angela Nicole Johnson

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Kraft Invited To Join National Study Section, Jim Bakken

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May 20, 2014 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Preference-Based Serial Decision Dynamics: Your First Sushi Reveals Your Eating Order At The Sushi Table, Jaeseung Jeong, Youngmin Oh, Miriam Chun, Jerald D. Kralik

Dartmouth Scholarship

In everyday life, we regularly choose among multiple items serially such as playing music in a playlist or determining priorities in a to-do list. However, our behavioral strategy to determine the order of choice is poorly understood. Here we defined ‘the sushi problem’ as how we serially choose multiple items of different degrees of preference when multiple sequences are possible, and no particular order is necessarily better than another, given that all items will eventually be chosen. In the current study, participants selected seven sushi pieces sequentially at the lunch table, and we examined the relationship between eating order and …

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Latino Emergent Bilingual Students' Experiences With The Middle School Transition, Kerry Pecho

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This thesis reports the findings of a qualitative study that examined how Latino emergent bilingual students anticipate and experience the transition from a bilingual elementary school program to middle school. Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students who were native Spanish-speakers participated in focus group discussions. Overall, participants described positive transition experiences, and much of the content was not unique to these students (e.g., feeling nervous, looking forward to more activities). Other content, though, revealed transition experiences that may be unique to this population (e.g., dramatic shift in ethnic and linguistic backgrounds of peers). Participants' responses suggested that they experience a …

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Characterization Of Secondhand Smoke (Shs) And Materno-Fetal Interactions In Receptors For Advanced Glycation End-Products (Rage)-Targeted Mice, Duane Ray Winden

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Receptors for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) are pattern recognition receptors of the immunoglobulin superfamily highly expressed in the lung. Likely functions include the modulation of pulmonary inflammation during disease. However, the contributions of RAGE in the developing lung in cases where secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure occurs are unknown. In order to test the hypothesis that RAGE misexpression adversely affects lung morphogenesis, we exposed gestating dams to a controlled dose of SHS during the last four critical days of in utero lung morphogenesis. We discovered that both maternal and fetal lungs respond to SHS by up-regulating RAGE. Exposed fetuses were markedly …

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Public Interest In Climate Change Over The Past Decade And The Effects Of The ‘Climategate’ Media Event, William R. L. Anderegg, Gregory R. Goldsmith

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Despite overwhelming scientific consensus concerning anthropogenic climate change, many in the non-expert public perceive climate change as debated and contentious. There is concern that two recent high-profile media events—the hacking of the University of East Anglia emails and the Himalayan glacier melt rate presented in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—may have altered public opinion of climate change. While survey data is valuable for tracking public perception and opinion over time, including in response to climate-related media events, emerging methods that facilitate rapid assessment of spatial and temporal patterns in public interest and opinion could …

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Time-Varying, Serotype-Specific Force Of Infection Of Dengue Virus, Kanya C. Long, Robert C. Reiner, Steven T. Stoddard, Brett M. Froshey, Aaron A. King, Alicia M. Ellis, Alun L. Lloyd, Claudio Rocha, Stalin Vilcarromero, Helvio Astete, Isabel Bazan, Audrey Lenhart, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, Valerie A. Paz-Soldan, Phlip J. Mccall, Uriel Kitron, John P. Elder, Eric S. Halsey, Amy C. Morrison, Tadeusz J. Kochel, Thomas W. Scott

Faculty Publications

Infectious disease models play a key role in public health planning. These models rely on accurate estimates of key transmission parameters such as the force of infection (FoI), which is the percapita risk of a susceptible person being infected. The FoI captures the fundamental dynamics of transmission and is crucial for gauging control efforts, such as identifying vaccination targets. Dengue virus (DENV) is a mosquito-borne, multiserotype pathogen that currently infects ∼390 million people a year. Existing estimates of the DENV FoI are inaccurate because they rely on the unrealistic assumption that risk is constant over time. Dengue models are thus …

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Do You Trust Scientists About The Environment?, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Carsey Publications

In this brief, author Lawrence Hamilton examines the results of a Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center in late January–early February 2014. The poll asked about public trust in scientists, along with other questions on science, political, and social issues that help to place the science-trust results in perspective. Almost two-thirds of New Hampshire residents surveyed say that they trust scientists to provide accurate information about environmental issues. Only 12 percent do not trust scientists to provide this information. Wide disparities occur along party lines, however, regarding this and other questions about science. The …

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Do Right-Handed Monkeys Use The Right Cheek Pouch Before The Left?, Madhur Mangalam, Nisarg Desai, Mewa Singh

Journal Articles

There can be several factors that are likely to have played a role in the evolution of hand preference in humans and non-human primates, which the existing theories do not consider. There exists a possibility that hand preference in non-human primates evolved from the pre-existing lateralities in more elementary brain functions and behavior, or alternatively, the two coevolved. A basic example can be a hand-mouth command system that could have evolved in the context of ingestion. In the present study, we examined the relationship between lateralities in prehension and mastication processes, that is, hand and cheek pouch usage, in free-ranging …

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Genomic Classification Of The Ras Network Identifies A Personalized Treatment Strategy For Lung Cancer, Nader N. El-Chaar, Stephen R. Piccolo, Kenneth M. Boucher, Adam L. Cohen, Jeffrey T. Chang, Philip J. Moos, Andrea H. Bild

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Better approaches are needed to evaluate a single patient's drug response at the genomic level. Targeted therapy for signaling pathways in cancer has met limited success in part due to the exceedingly interwoven nature of the pathways. In particular, the highly complex RAS network has been challenging to target. Effectively targeting the pathway requires development of techniques that measure global network activity to account for pathway complexity. For this purpose, we used a gene-expression-based biomarker for RAS network activity in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells, and screened for drugs whose efficacy was significantly highly correlated to RAS network activity. …

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Inferring Conversation Episodes From Respiratory Measurements, Md Mahbubur Rahman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Automated detection of social interactions in the natural environment has resulted in promising advances in organizational behavior, consumer behavior, and behavioral health. Progress, however, has been limited since the primary means of assessing social interactions today (i.e., audio recording) has several issue in field usage such as microphone occlusion, lack of speaker specificity, and high energy drain, in addition to significant privacy concerns.In this thesis, we present a new mobile-based system mConverse to infer conversation episodes from respiration measurements collected in field from an unobtrusively wearable Respiratory Inductive Plethysmograph (RIP) band worn around the user's chest. The measurements are wirelessly …

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Identifying The Provenance Of Leach's Storm Petrels In The North Atlantic Using Polychlorinated Biphenyl Signatures Derived From Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography With Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry., David Megson, Thomas A. Brown, Glenn W. Johnson, Gwen O'Sullivan, Anthony W.J. Bicknell, Stephen C. Votier, Maeve C. Lohan, Sean Comber, Robert Kalin, Paul J. Worsfold

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

PCB signatures can be used for source identification, exposure studies, age dating and bio-monitoring. This study uses comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GCxGC-ToFMS) to produce a PCB signature comprised of over 80 PCBs for individual Leach's storm petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa). The Leach's storm petrel is a relatively small, elusive, understudied pelagic bird, which only returns to remote islands under darkness during the breeding season. Samples were obtained from 25 Leach's storm petrels found dead in Canada and the UK following storm events in 2006 and 2009. Tissue samples were extracted and analysed by GCxGC-ToFMS and results showed …

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Cal Poly Alumna To Lead May 30 Workshop On Stem Students Creating Socialchange, Public Affairs Office

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The Effect Of A Culturally-Informed Therapy For Schizophrenia On Caregiver Burden, Perceptions Of Interdependence And Self-Conscious Emotions, Giulia Caitlin Suro

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Research has demonstrated that taking care of a patient with schizophrenia has serious mental health costs to caregivers that include high levels of burden and poorer overall mental health. Thus, it is necessary to pinpoint predictors of caregiver distress and develop strategies to reduce it. We have developed a family focused, culturally-informed treatment for schizophrenia (CIT-S). We examined this intervention and its ability to decrease the maladaptive behaviors, beliefs, and values that we believe contribute to caregiver distress. CIT-S was compared against a three-session psychoeducation condition in a sample of 113 caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Specifically, we hypothesized that …

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Queer Transnationality: Narrative, Theatre, And Performance Across Temporal, Spatial, And Social Geographies, Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins

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This study investigates the ways narrative, theatre, and performance art negotiate identities across Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the United States, and larger global contexts. I research how physical, social, and temporal spaces transform enactments and receptions of text and performance. Particularly, I investigate the effects of transnationality in works that represent queer subjectivities. I intervene in Queer Studies, expanding the notion of queer beyond sexuality to include nationality, race, and class. While identity politics emerges around fixed categories of identity, I argue that representations of subjectivity in transnational networks of production dissociate politicized identification from the rigid geographic …

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Distribution And Dynamic Habitat Use Of Young Bull Sharks Carcharhinus Leucas In A Highly Stratified Northern Gulf Of Mexico Estuary, J. Marcus Drymon, Matthew J. Ajemian, Sean P. Powers

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Understanding how animals alter habitat use in response to changing abiotic conditions is important for effective conservation management. For bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas), habitat use has been widely examined in the eastern and western Gulf of Mexico; however, knowledge of their movements and the factors influencing them is lacking for populations in the more temperate north-central Gulf of Mexico. To examine how changes in hydrographic conditions affected the presence of young bull sharks in Mobile Bay, Alabama, thirty-five sharks were fitted with internal acoustic transmitters and monitored with an acoustic monitoring array consisting of thirty-three receivers between June …

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Ua42/3/3 Commencement Program, Wku Owensboro

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Award Credit- International Baccalaureat (Ib) Accepted Tests, Sue Harvey

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Online Learning Committee Report 2011-2012, Jeff Stowell

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Career Services Employment And Grad School Data 2006-2012, Linda Moore

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Writing Assessment Report 2013, Karla Sanders

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Undergraduate Assessment Report 2013, Karla Sanders

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Casa Director Feedback And Data Use Summary From Assessment Reports, Karla Sanders

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Affirmative Action Plan 2012-2013, Nca Self-Study Committee

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Working Women And Motherhood: Failures Of The Weimar Republic’S Family Policies, Katelyn M. Quirin

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

Intersectionality, Life Experience & Judicial Decision Making: A New View Of Gender At The Supreme Court, Angela Nicole Johnson

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

Kraft Invited To Join National Study Section, Jim Bakken

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May 20, 2014 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Preference-Based Serial Decision Dynamics: Your First Sushi Reveals Your Eating Order At The Sushi Table, Jaeseung Jeong, Youngmin Oh, Miriam Chun, Jerald D. Kralik

Dartmouth Scholarship

Latino Emergent Bilingual Students' Experiences With The Middle School Transition, Kerry Pecho

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Characterization Of Secondhand Smoke (Shs) And Materno-Fetal Interactions In Receptors For Advanced Glycation End-Products (Rage)-Targeted Mice, Duane Ray Winden

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Public Interest In Climate Change Over The Past Decade And The Effects Of The ‘Climategate’ Media Event, William R. L. Anderegg, Gregory R. Goldsmith

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

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Do You Trust Scientists About The Environment?, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Carsey Publications

Do Right-Handed Monkeys Use The Right Cheek Pouch Before The Left?, Madhur Mangalam, Nisarg Desai, Mewa Singh

Journal Articles

Genomic Classification Of The Ras Network Identifies A Personalized Treatment Strategy For Lung Cancer, Nader N. El-Chaar, Stephen R. Piccolo, Kenneth M. Boucher, Adam L. Cohen, Jeffrey T. Chang, Philip J. Moos, Andrea H. Bild

Faculty Publications

Inferring Conversation Episodes From Respiratory Measurements, Md Mahbubur Rahman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Cal Poly Alumna To Lead May 30 Workshop On Stem Students Creating Socialchange, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

The Effect Of A Culturally-Informed Therapy For Schizophrenia On Caregiver Burden, Perceptions Of Interdependence And Self-Conscious Emotions, Giulia Caitlin Suro

Open Access Dissertations

Queer Transnationality: Narrative, Theatre, And Performance Across Temporal, Spatial, And Social Geographies, Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins

Open Access Dissertations

Distribution And Dynamic Habitat Use Of Young Bull Sharks Carcharhinus Leucas In A Highly Stratified Northern Gulf Of Mexico Estuary, J. Marcus Drymon, Matthew J. Ajemian, Sean P. Powers

University Faculty and Staff Publications

Ua42/3/3 Commencement Program, Wku Owensboro

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