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Collaborating With Catastrophe: The User's Guide To, Patricia Cafferky

Architecture Thesis Prep

This thesis contends that the narrative nature of architecture gives it the potential to act as a jeremiad, taking the present day failings of society in the face of climate change and extrapolating out a potential future dystopia to instigate a critical dialogue and challenge the status quo. Here, architecture will act as a medium, as opposed to more typical literary works or photojournalism techniques which are usually associated with communicating social critique.

Algorithmic Settlements, Benjamin Anderson-Nelson

Architecture Thesis Prep

Utilizing a typological understanding of the spatial conditions of informal settlements to help suggest how interventions will affect conditions is the goal. Understanding the beneficial aspects of communal space created as well as the nature of adaptability within the settlement provides architects with a better understanding of where and how they might intervene. Simulating the conditions of an informal settlement digitally would help to better understand the individualistic agency involved in their creation. Modeling the inter-relational actions between neighboring entities within the system allows for the system to be understood more complexly than before. Designers would be able to add …

Into Instrument: A Case For The Musical Tectonic, Alex Lievens

Architecture Thesis Prep

This thesis will observe and investigate the relationship between musical objects and architectonic construction. It will begin to test relationships between musical notational systems and architectural notational systems. Musical instruments can provide key insights into how architecture might possess the same qualities of interactivity, action and personal value that musical instruments inherently own.

The Museum Of Ideas: Fantastic Wilderness Park, Alyssa Goraieb

Architecture Thesis Prep

The history of wilderness is the history of an idea. A missing element of the natural history museum is the human attitude within which nature is captured and displayed. This project wants to put the historical displays of the museum within a context by making an addition to the natural history museum that archives the historical attitudes, experiences and perceptions towards wilderness.

The Border Land, Zhuocen Yao

Architecture Thesis Prep

This thesis aims to explore the issue of the conceptual space for the establishment of difference: the border, in both literal and phenomenal term. What can architecture do to change the way we perceive borders. How can the border politics construct border architecture and can the new border architecture in another way result in new border politics. How can we transform the indeterminate nature of the border from a threshold that demarcates into a new in between landscape typology that mediates between the need for quality space of hosted events and influences and security?

The Ottoman Han: Recovery Of A Lost Typology, Asli Germirli

Architecture Thesis Prep

This thesis will focus on the architectural interventions for the 17th century structure of Buyuk Valide Han. The project will be shaped through the multiple lenses of Critical Regionalism, urban planning, conservation and sustainability. The aim is to add value to the Hans District and to revive the commercial and cultural identity through the preservation of the older structures and the introduction of modern architecture.

Alternative Visions For The Federal Criminal Justice And Corrections System: Is True Change Possible?, Nora V. Demleitner

Scholarly Articles

None available.

Functional Analysis Of The Unique Cytochrome P450 Of The Liver Fluke Opisthorchis Felineus., Mariya Y. Pakharukova, Valentin A. Vavilin, Banchob Sripa, Thewarach Laha, Paul J. Brindley, Viatcheslav A. Mordvinov

Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine Faculty Publications

The basic metabolic cytochrome P450 (CYP) system is essential for biotransformation of sterols and xenobiotics including drugs, for synthesis and degradation of signaling molecules in all living organisms. Most eukaryotes including free-living flatworms have numerous paralogues of the CYP gene encoding heme monooxygenases with specific substrate range. Notably, by contrast, the parasitic flatworms have only one CYP gene. The role of this enzyme in the physiology and biochemistry of helminths is not known. The flukes and tapeworms are the etiologic agents of major neglected tropical diseases of humanity. Three helminth infections (Opisthorchis viverrini, Clonorchis sinensis and Schistosoma haematobium) are considered …

A Cannibal Of Sexuality, Angela Ferdinardo

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

"I Have Chicken Fat In My Urine!" A Case Of Candida Tropicalis Induced Emphysematous Pyelitis, Ahmed Alansari, Manuel D. Borras, Noella Boma

NYMC Faculty Publications

A patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus presented with fever and flank pain. A computed tomography scan showed free air within both collecting systems. A diagnosis of emphysematous pyelitis was made after other alternative diagnoses were ruled out. Urine culture grew Candida tropicalis. The emphysematous pyelitis resolved with conservative management using antifungal therapy.

The Narrative Of Traumatic Memory In Postcolonial Irish Fiction, Kayla Mccarthy-Curtis

Master’s Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.

Writing To Save The Earth, Jill Blye, Brea Caisey, Samantha Cicirelli, Brianna Davidson, Brianna Gallagher, Adam Hayes, Sydney Holbrook, Julianne Kilduff, Cassidy Morrow, Haley Piotrowski, Danielle Souza, William Tkaczuk, Leonarda Vieira

Student Scholarship and Projects

A Magazine of Sustainable Ideas from EN199 Writing for the Earth (Professor John Kucich, Fall 2015)

A Sense of Place: Essays on Where We Live

• Fogo, Cabo Verde, by Leonarda Vieira
• Weweantic River, by Sydney Holbrook
• Carver Pond, by Brianna Gallagher
• Nantasket Beach, by Brianna Davidson
• Ames Nowell, by Cassidy Morrow
• Old Orchard Beach, by Jill Blye
• A Place in the Sky, by Danielle Souza
• Pond Meadow, by Samantha Cicirelli

Imagining a Future: Speculative Fiction

• Peggy the Penguin in Antarctica, by Haley Piotrowski
• Lives Change in One Day, by Julianne Kilduff
• Dust, by Adam Hayes

Taking Action: Policy, Politics and …

Australian Child Wellbeing Project Technical Report, Petra Lietz, Elizabeth O'Grady, Mollie Tobin, Martin Murphy, Greg Macaskill, Gerry Redmond, Katherine Dix, Sue Thomson

Wellbeing

The Australian Child Wellbeing Project (ACWP) was conducted from 2012 – 2015 using a mixed-methods, child-centred approach. Young people’s perspectives were used to inform a nationally representative survey of children’s wellbeing in the middle years. The aims of the ACWP survey were to benchmark child wellbeing in Australia and to provide useful information for services that promote young people’s healthy development. A final outcome of this project was to make the extensive ACWP database publically available in order to provide further opportunity to exploit the rich data and improve understanding. Accordingly, this technical report consolidates the research conducted by ACER …

Commercial Kitchen Use And Capacity Around The Lewiston-Auburn Area In The Grow L+A And Irssc Assessment Of Development Opportunities For Bates Mill No. 5, Lewiston, Maine, Adam Auerbach, Catherine Dipietro, James Jhun, Hannah Kiesler

Community Engaged Research Reports

None

Identifying The Gaps In The Methodology Of Nh Farm Injury Surveillance Using Hospital Discharge Data, Karla R. Armenti, D. Weiss

Institute on Disability

No abstract provided.

Economic Impact To Shipping Industry : Economic Impact To Shipping Industry Considering Maritime Spatial Planning And Green Routes In Pilot Case Studies, Pantelis G. Anaxagorou, A Pappas, I Giraud, D Stratigis, E Papadopoulos, Lilitha Pongolini, Fabio Ballini, Piotr Treichel, Xavier Martínez De Osés, Sergio Velásquez Correa, M ·La Castells, I Ortigosa

MONALISA 2.0

In this project, three case studies are considered in order to examine the economic impact of the implementation of MSP when considering environmental impact of the shipping industry. Specific characteristics and limitations of areas in the Greek Sea, the Balearic Sea and the Baltic Sea are evaluated with respect to their economic effects on the maritime transport domain.

The purpose of the above is to evaluate the economic impacts and risk implications of different scenarios and particularly:

• The economic impact of vessel traffic rerouting and/or reducing the speed in order to reduce the probability of vessel strikes or other negative …

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The Science Of Christmas...Dinner Table, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Other resources

No abstract provided.

'Dust, Drought, And Dreams Gone Dry' Program Booklet, Eastern Illinois University

Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry: Program Booklet

No abstract provided.

Umsl Magazine - Fall 2015, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Magazine and other UMSL Magazines

The University of Missouri–St. Louis publishes UMSL Magazine for alumni and friends.

Empirical Evaluation Of Metadata For Video Games And Interactive Media, Rachel I. Clarke, Jin Ha Lee, Andrew Perti

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

Despite increasing interest in and acknowledgment of the significance of video games, current descriptive practices are not sufficiently robust to support searching, browsing, and other access behaviors from diverse user groups. To address this issue, the Game Metadata Research Group at the University of Washington Information School, in collaboration with the Seattle Interactive Media Museum, worked to create a standardized metadata schema. This metadata schema was empirically evaluated using multiple approaches—collaborative review, schema testing, semi-structured user interview, and a large-scale survey. Reviewing and testing the schema revealed issues and challenges in sourcing the metadata for particular elements, determining the level …

Central Illinois Landscapes: Permanent Art Collection By Illinois Artists, Eastern Illinois University

Library Publications

No abstract provided.

Motions 2015 Volume 52 Number 4, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

No abstract provided.

The Fixation Thesis: The Role Of Historical Fact In Original Meaning, Lawrence B. Solum

Notre Dame Law Review

Part I begins by examining the role of the Fixation Thesis in contemporary originalist constitutional theory. The next step, in Part II, is to state the affirmative case for the Fixation Thesis. This is the heart of this Article and readers who are looking for the gist might limit themselves to the discussion here. Part III explores a variety of objections to the Fixation Thesis and clarifies the content of the thesis in light of the answers to these objections. Several theoretical views that reject (or seem to reject) the Fixation Thesis are examined in Part IV. Part V applies …

Borrelia Burgdorferi Pathogenesis And The Immune Response, Mary Petzke, Ira Schwartz

NYMC Faculty Publications

Borrelia burgdorferi is the tick-borne etiologic agent of Lyme disease. The spirochete must negotiate numerous barriers in order to establish a disseminated infection in a mammalian host. These barriers include migration from the feeding tick midgut to the salivary glands, deposition in skin, manipulation or evasion of the localized host immune response, adhesion to and extravasation through an endothelial barrier, hematogenous dissemination, and establishment of infection in distal tissue sites. Borrelia burgdorferi proteins that mediate many of these processes and the nature of the host response to infection are described.

Sexually Dimorphic Phenotype Of Arteriolar Responsiveness To Shear Stress In Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase-Knockout Mice, Jun Qin, Sharath Kandhi, Ghezal Froogh, Houli Jiang, Meng Luo, Dong Sun, An Huang

NYMC Faculty Publications

We hypothesized that potentiating the bioavailability of endothelial epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) via deletion of the gene for soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), or downregulation of sEH expression, enhances flow/shear stress-induced dilator responses (FID) of arterioles. With the use of male (M) and female (F) wild-type (WT) and sEH-knockout (KO) mice, isolated gracilis muscle arterioles were cannulated and pressurized at 80 mmHg. Basal tone and increases in diameter of arterioles as a function of perfusate flow (5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 μl/min) were recorded. The magnitude of FID was significantly smaller and associated with a greater arteriolar tone in M-WT than …

The Legacy, December 1, 2015, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

Pearls Of Meaning: Preschool Children Respond To Multicultural Picturebooks, Xiufang Chen, Susan Browne

College of Education Departmental Research

Employing a qualitative practitioner research method, this study examined pre-school children's responses to multicultural picture books and gained insight into how pre-school children make meaning about illustrations and textual features that include aspects of culture. The authors explored how multicultural literature can be used to develop cultural awareness and sensitivity among young children. Mem Fox's, Sophie (1994) emerged as a salient text that evoked personal connections and response to complex issues such as cycle of birth, life, and death. We contend that early exposure to multicultural literature contributes to ongoing processes of meaning making and serves as a rich reservoir …

Algorithms And Applications In Genome Assembly Using Long Read Sequencing Technology, Hayan Lee

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

The first generation sequencing technology represented by Sanger sequencing opened the era of de novo genome assembly. The assembled genome had good quality as a reference but it was very costly. The second generation, so called Next-Gen sequencing, produced tons of short reads in a day with economic cost. However de novo genome projects and other downstream research confronted limited quality. Now third generation begins with long reads sequencing technology and related algorithms with reasonable cost. The quality of reference genomes and downstream research has been recovered. Here we introduce third generation read sequencing technology and span sequencing technology, related …

Engineering High-Performance Parallel Algorithms With Applications To Bioinformatics, Jesmin Jahan Tithi

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

Since the beginning of the last decade, plateauing of the clock speed of computer processors has forced us to invest more in parallelism — for both hardware and software. This resulted in improvements in computing technologies that have favored parallelism over increased clock speed. Taking advantage of these improvements requires designing algorithms that can leverage parallelism well. In this dissertation, we show how to take advantage of several algorithm design techniques to harness modern heterogeneous parallel architectures for solving problems in bioinformatics efficiently. Our main goal while designing algorithms is to achieve high-performance in terms of running time and scalability. …

From €Œun-Dead†To €Œundeath†: Rehabilitating The Figure Of Dracula, Kaitlyn Frakl

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

The primary goal of this thesis is to offer a way of rehabilitating the figure of Dracula by using Victorian and modern death practices to inform our understanding of Stoker’s narrative. The method I propose is to extend Stoker’s antagonist beyond his construction as an “Un-Dead†being lacking complexity into what I am calling the ideology of “Undeath.†Undeath restores the identity of the Un-Dead being, and seeks to legitimatize the being’s current existence. Victorians were hindered from seeing Undeath in the narrative due to the contemporary tension between religious and secular approaches to death, however, modern scholars have the …