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Model For Enhancing Mathematics Teacher Preparation, Daniel Brahier, Jonathan Bostic

School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

Mathematics teacher preparation programs include an induction process into the educational community composed of coursework as well as on campus and field experiences. This article describes a unique mathematics teacher preparation program at Bowling Green State University called “Science and Math Education in ACTION”. We share the aims of each year in ACTION as well as students’ reactions to their experiences in and from the program.

Undergraduate Bulletin 2015-2016, Cuny John Jay College

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2015-2016

Focal Brainstem Gliomas: Advances In Intra-Operative Management, Abdulrahman J. Sabbagh, Ahmed M. Alaqeel

Neurosciences

Improved neuronavigation guidance as well as intraoperative imaging and neurophysiologic monitoring technologies have enhanced the ability of neurosurgeons to resect focal brainstem gliomas. In contrast, diffuse brainstem gliomas are considered to be inoperable lesions. This article is a continuation of an article that discussed brainstem glioma diagnostics, imaging, and classification. Here, we address open surgical treatment of and approaches to focal, dorsally exophytic, and cervicomedullary brainstem gliomas. Intraoperative neuronavigation, intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring, as well as intraoperative imaging are discussed as adjunctive measures to help render these procedures safer, more acute, and closer to achieving surgical goals.

Treating Public Speaking Anxiety: A Comparison Of Exposure And Video Self-Modeling, Emily Marie Bartholomay

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This study examined the relative effectiveness of VSM and exposure in treating public speaking anxiety in reducing anxiety with a college student. The study employed a single-subject A-B design with parametric variations. Two phases were utilized in this study: baseline (exposure therapy) and treatment (video self-modeling) with a one-month follow-up. Generalization probes were also employed to assess whether or not decreases in PSA would generalize to other settings. Results indicate a significant decrease in public speaking anxiety from both pre- to post-treatment as well as from baseline to exposure. However, these results may be specific to public speaking anxiety, as …

Zebra Mussel (Dreissena Polymorpha) Habitat Associations In Four West-Central Minnesota Lakes, April Rose Londo

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

In 1989, zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) were first documented in the land of ten thousand lakes in the Lake Superior Basin at Duluth. Zebra mussels are successful invaders because the species attaches to substrates with byssal threads, can adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions, and has a free-swimming veligers that are easily transported. Although invasive mollusks pose a range of economic and ecological threats to inland waters, our understanding of zebra mussels in Minnesota lakes remains limited. To gain additional information regarding zebra mussel ecology in lake systems, I conducted research in four west-central Minnesota lakes that were …

Improving Sexual Health Education Through Graphic Design, Jocelyn A. Hall

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

For this portion of the thesis project, I will be submitting storyboards that will later translate into web-ready materials as a click-through game, also known as a visual novel. Visual novels are designed similarly to “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, but are, as the name suggests, visually based. Ultimately, I would like to create a functioning and playable game that could serve as a teaching tool as well as entertainment, thereby filling a niche in our digital-based age. In the event that publishing the game or creating a game that functions properly is not possible, the material to be included …

Drug Repurposing: A Study Of The Potential Antitumorgenic Activity Of Nonchemotherapeutic Drugs, Katelyn Hoagland

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

In this thesis, the topic and applications of drug repurposing are explained. Drug repurposing is the process of finding new biological targets for existing drugs which have already been approved for treatment of other diseases, or whose targets have already been discovered [1]. The fact that there are many drugs that interact with biological elements outside their targets is being continually reinforced as more and more drug repurposing success stories are revealed [2]. In this thesis, the process of drug development is outlined and the benefits and ethics of drug repurposing are discussed. Possible applications of drug discovery are outlined, …

A Conjoint Analysis Study Of Preferences And Purchasing Behavior Of Potential Adopters Of The Bureau Of Land Management Wild Horses, Omotoyosi O. Adekunle

Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics

This study uses conjoint analysis to examine the preferences of buyers for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wild horses based on physical attributes of wild horses and individual characteristics of the buyers. Generalized ordered logit models and multinomial logit models are used to study the impact of the buyers’ demographic characteristics such as age, gender, knowledge about wild horse care, and number of wild horses previously adopted on physical attributes of the horses such as color, age, height, training status, temperament, conformation, and unique markings. Using a choice experiment, taken together, these attributes determine buyer’s preferences for a wild horse. …

Usfh Collection Development Survey 2015, Usf Libraries

All Assessment Data

No abstract provided.

Enhanced Photocatalytic Inactivation Of E. Coli In Water Using Nanocomposite Graphene-Titanium Dioxide, Hazel Decina Anderson

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Over the years, the use of TiO2 in photocatalytic water treatment technologies has been well documented, along with various efforts to enhance its photoresponse to include visible light absorption. For this study, a nanocomposite of TiO2 and graphene was used to enhance the photocatalytic inactivation of the indicator bacteria, E.coli. Factors affecting the treatment such as light intensity, temperature, G-TiO2 concentration, and water composition were examined. Experiments were conducted using 100 ml of ultrapure water inoculated with initial E.coli concentrations of 1.0 x 104 – 1.0 x 105 CFU/ml, and exposed to various intensities of visible light for 120 minutes. …

From Silicon Valley To The Kitchen Table: Innovative Online Agriculture & Food Start-Ups And The Law, Matthew A. Forcum

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute Annual Technical Report Fy 2014, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

KWRRI Annual Technical Reports (USGS’s 104b Grant Program)

The 2014 Annual Technical Report for Kentucky consolidates reporting requirements for the Section 104(b) base grant award into a single document that includes: 1) a synopsis of each research project that was conducted during the period, 2) citations for related publications, reports, and presentations, 3) a description of information transfer activities, 4) a summary a student support during the reporting period, and 5) notable awards and achievements during the year.

Jimbo's Handy Handbook Of Historiography : The Historiography Of The United States, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Schnur, a graduate student in history at USF at the time, created this booklet as a study guide to assist in preparations for his comprehensive examinations in the USF History M.A. program. Although most of the focus is on historians prior to the 1970s, this booklet does provide biographical vignettes that may assist those interested in learning about various schools of thought in the American historical profession. Most of the information in this handbook came from Schnur's notes in various classes, as well as other helpful sources, such as the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

2015 Program, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Undergraduate Research Symposium

University of Missouri-St. Louis Undergraduate Research Symposium Program

The Public Trust Doctrine In The Shadow Of State Environmental Rights Laws: A Case Study, Alexandra B. Klass

Articles

This Article looks at the relationship between state environmental rights statutes and the common law public trust doctrine. In addressing this issue, it focuses on the state of Minnesota, where, in the early 1970s, the state legislature enacted a far-reaching environmental rights statute, the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act (MERA), that served to codify many public trust principles. Beginning in the early 1970s and for the next forty years, litigants in Minnesota that might otherwise have brought common law public trust doctrine claims for environmental protection purposes instead channeled that litigation through MERA. As a result, Minnesota courts have rarely been …

Rethinking The Geography Of Local Climate Action: Multi-Level Network Participation In Metropolitan Regions, Hari M. Osofsky

Articles

As the United States and the world become increasingly urbanized, cities are a key site for addressing the problem of climate change. However, urban climate change action is not simply about local officials making decisions within their cities. In major U.S. urban areas, “local” involves multiple layers of government, including county and metro-regional entities. Moreover, many of the cities taking action on climate change also participate in and shape networks of local governments based at state, regional, national, and international levels. This Article argues that multilevel climate change networks could be more effective by embracing this geography of local action …

Identity And Form, Jessica A. Clarke

Articles

Recent controversies over identity claims have prompted questions about who should qualify for affirmative action, who counts as family, who is a man or a woman, and who is entitled to the benefits of U.S. citizenship. Commentators across the political spectrum have made calls to settle these debates with evidence of official designations on birth certificates, application forms, or other records. This move toward formalities seeks to transcend the usual divide between those who believe identities should be determined based on objective biological or social standards, and those who believe identities are a matter of individual choice. Yet legal scholars …

Connecting The Dots: Social Capital And The College-Going Beliefs Of Rural Appalachian Students, Amanda R. Butz

Theses and Dissertations--Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology

First-generation students and students of lower socioeconomic status often prepare for postsecondary education without the benefit of information provided by their families, resulting in lower levels of college access (Lundberg, 2007). Few researchers have sought to understand how potential first-generation college students might go about obtaining the necessary information for a successful transition to college. The purpose of this dissertation was to determine to whom students talk about college and to explore the potential reciprocal relationship between resources for and information about college provided by others and students’ educational beliefs.

This dissertation consisted of two empirical studies. In the first …

Design And Fabrication Of Iridium Oxide-Based Multi-Electrode Array For Biomedical Applications, Cuong Manh Nguyen

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Multi-electrode array (MEA) has emerged as one of the most important and common tools to monitor physiological and biological signals. Advanced micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and innovative nanofabrication technologies provide means to fabricate micro-scale MEAs for implantable bio-applications. One of the prominent advantages of such miniature electrodes is to minimize tissue damage or injuries during surgical implantation. The micro-scale electrodes are normally coated with materials or functionalized with proteins and enzymes to sense different analyates. Iridium oxide (IrOx) owning with many important traits such as biocompatibility, high corrosion resistance in electrolyte materials, pH-sensitivity, large surface-to-volume ratio, and high charge storage has …

The Influence Of Thermal Effluent On Life History Evolution In The Western Mosquitofish, Gambusia Affinis, Amanda M. Boyles

Biology Theses - Archive

The evolutionary consequence of heated effluent on the Western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, was studied at Lake Fairfield, in Freestone County, Texas. The Lake Fairfield reservoir receives heated effluent from Luminant’s Big Brown Power Station. Heated effluent from the power station is discharged into a ‘hot pond’ reservoir before it is allowed to return after cooling to the main reservoir, or ‘main lake’ of Lake Fairfield. Heated effluent elevates the temperature of the hot pond throughout the year and the elevation in water temperature has selected various life history traits in G. affinis that are divergent from the main lake G. …

Cytotoxicty, Cellular Localization And Fluorescent Microscopy Of Malignant Cells Treated With Ruthenium (Ii) Complexes Of The Tetraazatetrapyridopentacene Ligand, Adam S. Dayoub

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses - Archive

The ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complexes [(phen)2Ru(tatpp)Ru(phen)2]4+, (P) and [(phen)2Ru(tatpp)]2+, (MP) are promising anticancer activity candidates due to their observed cytotoxic effect against multiple cancer cell lines. These complexes contain a redox-active (tatpp) bridge and a cytotoxic selectivity against cancer lines that are of interest in cellular biological systems. They also exhibit the ability to regress tumor growth in mouse models and have been shown to cleave DNA with an inverse dependence with (O2). Significantly, these complexes may show a higher cytotoxic action in a hypoxic environment similar to that of tumors in vivo. This thesis is a direct test of …

Advancements And Applications Of Nonstandard Finite Difference Methods, Daniel Wood

Mathematics Dissertations - Archive

A class of dynamically consistent numerical methods are analyzed for general n-dimensional productive-destructive systems (PDS). Using this analysis, a methodology for constructing positive and elementary stable nonstandard numerical methods is established. The nonstandard approach results in qualitatively superior numerical methods when compared to the standard ones. PDS model a wide range of dynamical systems, including ones with biological, chemical and physical interactions. Building upon this, a nonstandard finite difference method for solving autonomous dynamical systems with positive solutions is constructed. The proposed numerical methods are computationally efficient and easy to implement. Several examples are given which show that the numerical …

Synthesis And Phylogenetic Comparative Analyses Of The Causes And Consequences Of Karyotype Evolution In Arthropods, Heath Blackmon

Biology Dissertations - Archive

Cytogenetic data in the form of karyotypes are complex, highly-variable traits that offer opportunities to detect changes in genome organization, uncover phylogenetic history, and distinguish cryptic species. However, the synthesis of cytogenetic data across large taxonomic scales has been rare. Here I report the insights gained through a synthesis of all available karyotype data from Arthropoda. The first chapter focuses on two databases that were built to make these data openly available, and broad insights into the evolution of sex determination and chromosome number in Arthropoda that the collected data have made possible. This is followed by four chapters that …

The Idols Of Modernity: The Humanity Of Science And The Science Of Humanity, Lukas Szrot

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

The Idols of Modernity draws upon the work of early thinkers in the sociology of knowledge such as Karl Mannheim in an effort to delineate the history of--and unmask the ideology behind--many of the formative aspects of scientific knowledge that enjoy both a central and potentially controversial role in the twenty-first century. In touching upon the role of imagination and speculation in the `hardest' sciences, normative disputes between biological and social sciences, and the intellectual history of modern science, I attempt to reveal the humanity of science. In examining the democratization of the written word, the profound consequences of language …

International Environmental Law, Kristen Hite, Joseph W. Dellapenna, Stephanie Altman, Derek Campbell, David N. Cassuto, Royal Gardner, David M. Gravallese, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Erika Lennon, Joshua Meltzer, Thomas Parker Redick, Justin Smith

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Coastal Ocean Forecasting: Science Foundation And User Benefits, V. H. Kourafalou, P. De Mey, J. Staneva, N. Ayoub, A. Barth, Robert H. Weisberg

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The advancement of Coastal Ocean Forecasting Systems (COFS) requires the support of continuous scientific progress addressing: (a) the primary mechanisms driving coastal circulation; (b) methods to achieve fully integrated coastal systems (observations and models), that are dynamically embedded in larger scale systems; and (c) methods to adequately represent air-sea and biophysical interactions. Issues of downscaling, data assimilation, atmosphere-wave-ocean couplings and ecosystem dynamics in the coastal ocean are discussed. These science topics are fundamental for successful COFS, which are connected to evolving downstream applications, dictated by the socioeconomic needs of rapidly increasing coastal populations.

Water Column Stratification Structures Viral Community Composition In The Sargasso Sea, Dawn Goldsmith, Jennifer Brum, Max Hopkins, Craig Carlson, Mya Breitbart

Marine Science Faculty Publications

A decade-long study of viral abundance at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site recently revealed an annually recurring pattern where viral abundance was fairly uniform in the well-mixed upper water column each winter, yet a subsurface peak in viral abundance between 60 and 100 m depth developed each summer during water column stratification (Parsons et al. 2012; ISME J 6:273–284). Building upon these findings, this study tests the hypothesis that in the well-mixed period (March), the viral communities at the surface and at 100 m depth are similar in composition, while during water column stratification (September), differences in the …

Vector-Enabled Metagenomic (Vem) Surveys Using Whiteflies (Aleyrodidae) Reveal Novel Begomovirus Species In The New And Oldworlds, Karyna Rosario, Yee Mey Seah, Christian Marr, Arvind Varsani, Simona Kraberger, Daisy Stainton, Enrique Moriones, Jane Polston, Siobain Duffy

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Whitefly-transmitted viruses belonging to the genus Begomovirus (family Geminiviridae) represent a substantial threat to agricultural food production. The rapid evolutionary potential of these single-stranded DNA viruses combined with the polyphagous feeding behavior of their whitefly vector (Bemisia tabaci) can lead to the emergence of damaging viral strains. Therefore, it is crucial to characterize begomoviruses circulating in different regions and crops globally. This study utilized vector-enabled metagenomics (VEM) coupled with high-throughput sequencing to survey begomoviruses directly from whiteflies collected in various locations (California (USA), Guatemala, Israel, Puerto Rico, and Spain). Begomoviruses were detected in all locations, with the highest diversity identified …

Novel Circular Single-Stranded Dna Viruses Identified In Marine Invertebrates Reveal High Sequence Diversity And Consistent Predicted Intrinsic Disorder Patterns Within Putative Structural Proteins, Karyna Rosario, Ryan Schenck, Rachel Harbeitner, Stephanie Lawler, Mya Breitbart

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Viral metagenomics has recently revealed the ubiquitous and diverse nature of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses that encode a conserved replication initiator protein (Rep) in the marine environment. Although eukaryotic circular Rep-encoding ssDNA (CRESS-DNA) viruses were originally thought to only infect plants and vertebrates, recent studies have identified these viruses in a number of invertebrates. To further explore CRESS-DNA viruses in the marine environment, this study surveyed CRESS-DNA viruses in various marine invertebrate species. A total of 27 novel CRESS-DNA genomes, with Reps that share less than 60.1% identity with previously reported viruses, were recovered from 21 invertebrate species, mainly crustaceans. …

Reduction Of Nutrients, Microbes, And Personal Care Products In Domestic Wastewater By A Benchtop Electrocoagulation Unit, E. Symonds, M. Cook, S. Mcquaig, R. Ulrich, R. Schenck, J. Lukasik, E. Van Vleet, Mya Breitbart

Marine Science Faculty Publications

To preserve environmental and human health, improved treatment processes are needed to reduce nutrients, microbes, and emerging chemical contaminants from domestic wastewater prior to discharge into the environment. Electrocoagulation (EC) treatment is increasingly used to treat industrial wastewater; however, this technology has not yet been thoroughly assessed for its potential to reduce concentrations of nutrients, a variety of microbial surrogates, and personal care products found in domestic wastewater. This investigation's objective was to determine the efficiency of a benchtop EC unit with aluminum sacrificial electrodes to reduce concentrations of the aforementioned biological and chemical pollutants from raw and tertiary-treated domestic …