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The Non-Native Plant Rosa Multifl Ora Expresses Shade Avoidance Traits Under Low Light Availability, Rebecca E. Drenovsky, Daniel M. Dlugos, Hillary Collins, Elise M. Bartelme

Biology

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Shade tolerance is a key trait promoting invasive plant performance in forest interiors. Rosa multifl ora is a problematic invasive shrub in the northeastern United States, occurring in edge habitats and encroaching into forests. Our objective was to evaluate the shade tolerance of R. multifl ora to assess how ecophysiological traits may facilitate its spread into forest interiors. METHODS: In the fi eld, we documented shrub and seed bank density, fecundity, phenology, and seasonal photosynthetic rates of R. multifl ora in contrasting light environments. In the greenhouse, we exposed seedlings to simulated canopy treatments by altering …

Responses Of Primate Frontal Cortex Neurons During Natural Vocal Communication, Cory T. Miller, A. Wren Thomas, Samuel U. Nummela, Lisa A. De La Mothe

Psychological Sciences and Counseling Faculty Research

The role of primate frontal cortex in vocal communication and its significance in language evolution have a controversial history. While evidence indicates that vocalization processing occurs in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex neurons, vocal-motor activity has been conjectured to be primarily subcortical and suggestive of a distinctly different neural architecture from humans. Direct evidence of neural activity during natural vocal communication is limited, as previous studies were performed in chair-restrained animals. Here we recorded the activity of single neurons across multiple regions of prefrontal and premotor cortex while freely moving marmosets engaged in a natural vocal behavior known as antiphonal calling. Our …

Redefining Disease Emergence To Improve Prioritization And Macro-Ecological Analyses, Samantha R. Rosenthal, Richard S. Ostfeld, Stephen T. Mcgarvey, Mark N. Lurie, Katherine F. Smith

Health & Wellness Department Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Physical Education Teacher Candidates' Beliefs About Instructing Students With Disabilities In Adapted Aquatics, Takahiro Sato, Samuel R. Hodge, Kevin Casebolt, Amaury Samalot-Rivera

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

The purpose of this study was to describe and explain teacher candidates’ beliefs about instructing students with severe disabilities in adapted aquatics as a requirement of their physical education teacher education (PETE) program. The participants were 10 PETE teacher candidates (6 male and 4 female) enrolled in adapted physical education courses coupled with an adapted aquatic practicum. This explanatory case study was situated in the theory of planned behavior. The data sources were face-to-face interviews, self-reflective journaling entries, and follow-up e-mail messages. Data were analyzed using constant comparative analysis, and we uncovered the following themes: (a) expectations unmet, (b) limited …

School Psychologists’ Training And Knowledge Of Tourette Syndrome, Leticia Cornejo

Educational Studies Dissertations

A web-based survey was conducted that included 97 practicing school psychologists in California. The results from the survey indicated that the majority (88%) of respondents were knowledgeable about Tourette Syndrome. Many respondents (28%) had never worked with a student with Tourette’s, 20% had at least one case, and 52% indicated that they had worked with more than two cases in their careers as school psychologists. The majority of respondents indicated that their school psychology program did not adequately train them to assess or counsel students with Tourette’s. The majority of participants also did not feel confident to work with students …

Comparing The Efficacy Of Laser Fluorescence And Explorer Examination In Detecting Subgingival Calculus In Vivo, Mark Mccawley

Student Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This paper investigated the sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and precision of laser fluorescence and tactile probing for the detection of subgingival calculus. The gold standard for subgingival calculus detection has always been tactile probing. In this study 27 teeth were collected and 108 surfaces investigated, one tooth was excluded (group #13) where no calculus was observed on any surface, and three surfaces because of subgingival root caries to avoid confounding data, which left a total of 101 surfaces of 26 extracted teeth that meet the investigation criteria. The presence of subgingival calculus was observed on 75 tooth surfaces (74.25%). There was …

Estimating Bighorn Sheep (Ovis Canadensis) Abundance Using Noninvasive Sampling At A Mineral Lick Within A National Park Wilderness Area, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Mary Kay Watry, Laura E. Ellison, Michael K. Schwartz, Gordon Luikart

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Conservation of species requires accurate population estimates. We used genetic markers from feces to determine bighorn sheep abundance for a herd that was hypothesized to be declining and in need of population status monitoring. We sampled from a small but accessible portion of the population's range where animals natural congregate at a natural mineral lick to test whether we could accurately estimate population size by sampling from an area where animals concentrate. We used mark-recapture analysis to derive population estimates, and compared estimates from this smaller spatial sampling to estimates from sampling of the entire bighorn sheep range. We found …

Contrasting Styles In Cognition And Behaviour In Bumblebees And Honeybees., David F Sherry, Caroline G Strang

Psychology Publications

Bumblebees and honeybees have been the subjects of a great deal of recent research in animal cognition. Many of the major topics in cognition, including memory, attention, concept learning, numerosity, spatial cognition, timing, social learning, and metacognition have been examined in bumblebees, honeybees, or both. Although bumblebees and honeybees are very closely related, they also differ in important ways, including social organization, development, and foraging behaviour. We examine whether differences between bumblebees and honeybees in cognitive processes are related to differences in their natural history and behaviour. There are differences in some cognitive traits, such as serial reversal learning and …

Lindenwood University Student Handbook, 2015-2016, Lindenwood University

Student Handbooks

Information and guidelines for Lindenwood University students.

Quarry: Poems, Christina Ann Rothenbeck

Dissertations

A book-length poetry manuscript including poems about hunting, illness, domesticity, illness, girlhood, and the body.

The Hair: Reflections By A White Parent, Aana Marie Vigen

Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Aaron Wildavsky: The Rise Of Radical Egalitarianism Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Versatility Of Using Major Histocompatibility Complex Class Ii Dextramers For Derivation And Characterization Of Antigen-Specific, Autoreactive T Cell Hybridomas, Bharathi Krishnan, Chandirasegaran Massilamany, Rakesh H. Basavalingappa, Rajkumar A. Rajasekaran, Charles Kuszynski, Barbara Switzer, Daniel A. Peterson, Jay Reddy

Jay Reddy Publications

Antigen-specific, T cell hybridomas are useful to study the cellular, molecular and functional events, but their generation is a lengthy process. Thus, there is a need to develop robust methods to generate the hybridoma clones rapidly in a short period of time. To this end, we have demonstrated a novel approach using major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II dextramers to generate T cell hybridomas for an autoantigen, proteolipid protein (PLP) 139–151. Using MHC class II dextramers assembled with PLP 139–151 as screening and sorting tools, we successfully obtained mono antigen-specific clones within seven to eight weeks. In conjunction with other …

Call Me, Maybe? The Seventh Circuit's Call In Motorola Mobility, Jeffrey H. Smith

Notre Dame Law Review

This Note seeks to establish that the Seventh Circuit should have held in Motorola Mobility that the FTAIA’s “direct . . . effect” requirement is satisfied when a foreign subsidiary suffers a harm due to anticompetitive activity abroad and there exists a reasonably proximate causal nexus between that harm and the domestic effect in the United States. Furthermore, the “gives rise to” requirement of the FTAIA sufficiently accounts for concerns of international comity and, under the facts of this case, causes Motorola’s claim to fail. Part I explores the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act and its international application before …

Assessing The Role Of History In The Federal Courts Canon: A Word Of Caution, Amanda L. Tyler

Notre Dame Law Review

In undertaking historical inquiry in the field of federal courts, one must be careful about assigning certain data points from the Founding period determinative weight, rather than treating them as part of a larger conversation about the role of the judicial power in our constitutional framework. This is because in studying the early years following ratification of the Constitution, one tends to find both examples of major principles that remained the subject of disagreement as well as examples of early legislation and practices that today we would reject as plainly inconsistent with the constitutional separation of powers. In support of …

Exclusion And Equality: How Exclusion From The Political Process Renders Religious Liberty Unequal, Philip Hamburger

Notre Dame Law Review

Exclusion from the political process is a central question in American law. Thus far, however, it has not been recognized how religious Americans are excluded from the political process and what this means for religious equality. Put simply, both administrative lawmaking and § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code substantially exclude religious Americans from the political process that produces laws. As a result, apparently equal laws are apt, in reality, to be unequal for religious Americans. Political exclusion threatens religious equality. The primary practical conclusion concerns administrative law. It will be seen that this sort of “law” is made through …

Nebline, August 2015

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Nutrition Education Program Reaches 15-Year-Milestone Teaching Nutrition in Lincoln Schools

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Home & Family Living

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Special pullout section: Lancaster County Super Fair 2015 Schedule & Map

Optimisations And Challenges Involved In The Creation Of Various Bioluminescent And Fluorescent Influenza A Virus Strains For In Vitro And In Vivo Applications, Monique I. Spronken, Kristy Short, Sander Herfst, Theo M. Bestebroer, Vincent P. Vaes, Erin Sorrell, + 9 More

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

Bioluminescent and fluorescent influenza A viruses offer new opportunities to study influenza virus replication, tropism and pathogenesis. To date, several influenza A reporter viruses have been described. These strategies typically focused on a single reporter gene (either bioluminescent or fluorescent) in a single virus backbone. However, whilst bioluminescence is suited to in vivo imaging, fluorescent viruses are more appropriate for microscopy. Therefore, the idea l reporter virus varies depending on the experiment in question, and it is important that any reporter virus strategy can be adapted accordingly. Herein, a strategy was developed to create five different reporter viruses in a …

Gender And Climate Change In The Indian Himalayas: Global Threats, Local Vulnerabilities, And Livelihood Diversification At The Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Monica V. Ogra, Ruchi Badola

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Global climate change has numerous implications for members of mountain communities who feel the impacts in both physical and social dimensions. In the western Himalayas of India, a majority of residents maintain a livelihood strategy that includes a combination of subsistence or small-scale agriculture, livestock rearing, seasonal or long-term migration, and localized natural resource extraction. While warming temperatures, irregular patterns of precipitation and snowmelt, and changing biological systems present challenges to the viability of these traditional livelihood portfolios in general, we find that climate change is also undermining local communities’ livelihood assets in gender-specific ways. In this paper, we present …

Altered Structure And Function Of Astrocytes Following Status Epilepticus., Wilcox Ks, Gee Jm, Gibbons Mb, Tvrdik P, White Ja

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Biological Sciences Newsletter - August 2015, Department Of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University

Biological Sciences Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Toxic Leadership, Organizational Citizenship, And Turnover Behaviors Among San Diego Nonprofit Paid Staff, Melanie J. Hitchcock

Dissertations

Toxic leadership is associated with a number of negative consequences to the long-term health and welfare of people in organizations. Destructive leader styles redirect employee efforts from mission accomplishment to self-protection and survival behaviors, undermining the organization. Increased demand and decreased funding are characteristic of the nonprofit sector. Therefore, successful nonprofit organizations tend to rely on creativity and innovation to ensure their communities are appropriately and sufficiently sustained. Supportive, not toxic, leadership helps foster organizational environments that encourage prudent risk-taking and innovation.

This concurrent mixed methods study explored the relationship between toxic leadership and organizational citizenship and turnover behaviors among …

Freshman Summer Reading Display, Maggie Mason Smith

Presentations

Karen Joy Fowler’s latest work, We are all Completely beside Ourselves, is this year’s Freshman Summer Reading selection.

Using this work as a foundation, a display of further research and leisure reading material has been set up in Cooper Library.

The display will be up throughout the month of August and everything on display is available for checkout.

Ribosome Component Turnover Kinetics Describes A Two-Pool Kinetic Model In Dietary Restriction That Suggests Rpl10 Is Exchanged During Ribosome Lifespan, Andrew David Mathis

Theses and Dissertations

The eukaryotic ribosome is a large molecular machine consisting of ~80 ribosomal proteins and 4 rRNAs. The 40S and 60S ribosomal subunits are assembled in the nucleolus by ~200 helper proteins then shipped into the cytoplasm or to the endoplasmic reticulum where protein translation takes place. Eventually ribosomes are removed from the cytoplasm and recycled through ribophagy, however, very is little is known about ribosomal protein exchange after assembly but before ribophagy. Using kinetic turnover measurements of ribosomal proteins and rRNA in vivo we determined ribosomal protein replacement rates are diverse suggesting ribosomal components may be replaced without destruction of …

Material Characterization Of Healthy And Osteoporotic Rat Femur Bone, Kaushik Chava

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

Bone is a bio composite material made of organic and inorganic components. This unique material composition supported by hierarchical level structure enables it to perform wide range of activities and functions in human body. The inorganic phase consists of hydroxyapatite mineral crystals and the majority of organic phase is made of collagen fibers. A mineralized collagen fiber is the basic building unit in the structure of bone. The ability of bone to fine-tune its structure according to mechanical stress and repair its damaged regions differentiates it from modern synthetic materials. The bone modelling and remodeling is a very complex process …

Development Of A Green Cost-Efficient Technology For Biogas Purification To Pipeline Quality Natural Gas, Saurabh U. Patel

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

Biogas is a clean renewable energy source which can be directly substituted in place for conventional fossil fuel. Regrettably, biogas often contains a large amount of H2S which must be removed for its effective usage. The focus of this study was to assess potential of local biogas production on Long Island, NY and develop a cost-effective and environmentally friendly technology for removal of H2S in a biogas stream. An assessment of the biogas potential found that 234 x 106 m3 of CH4 can be locally produced, which is equivalent to 2.54 TW-h of electricity, approximately 12% of fossil fuel power …

Energy Efficient Ethanol Dehydration Using Nanofiborus Based Membranes, Tsung-Ming Yeh

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

In this study, nanofibrous based membranes were designed, fabricated, characterized and then evaluated for ethanol dehydration in terms of flux, separation factor and energy efficiency. The developed pervaporation (PV) membranes comprise of a barrier layer and a thin-film nanofibrous composite (TFNC) as the supporting scaffold. The TFNC scaffold consisted of three layers: an ultra-fine cellulose nanofibrous (CN) layer, a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) electrospun nanofibrous mid-layer and a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) nonwoven microfibrous bottom layer. The TFNC scaffold had high bulk porosity (up to 80% on electrospun nanofibers) and high surface to volume ratio, and formed a fully interconnected pore structure with …

Destruction Of The Cute And Delicate, Nicole Robilotta

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

The purpose of this thesis is to explain the reasoning behind my sociopathic behaviors toward the cute and delicate figurine collections of the average American society. | 32 pages

Fragments & Context, Nicholas Warndorf

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

I intend this thesis to be a narration of my thoughts about the artwork I create. This thesis is divided into two parts. In part one, I explore the conceptual aspects of my work and discuss my use of fragments, grids and context, and why the formal qualities of my work are derived from semiotics. In part two, I discuss six bodies of work. | 39 pages

The Influence Of Genetic And Social Structure On Reproduction In Phayre's Leaf Monkeys (Trachypithecus Phayrei Crepusculus), Eileen Larney

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

Dispersal patterns, reproductive skew, and social structure have important fitness consequences for individuals. Intra-sexual competition and kinship have been suggested to directly or indirectly increase inclusive fitness. Thus individual, social, and ecological aspects may shape non-random dispersal and subsequent reproductive success. Primate studies have also shown strong support for the importance of kin interactions on dispersal decisions including contexts favoring an individual to leave to avoid inbreeding or competition and contexts favoring an individual to stay to increase fitness through cooperation. The genetic, ecological and social contexts are particularly important for female primates who also directly influence the growth, maturation, …