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Attentional Bias In Moderate And Heavy College Drinkers: An Eye-Tracking Study, Ansley Victoria Geno

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Behavioral economic research regarding alcohol use aims to understand how substance use becomes favored over other rewarding non-substance activities (Meshesha, Dennhardt, & Murphy, 2014). The present study investigated attentional bias as an objective index of the relative valuation of substance-related rewards versus substance-free rewards among college students categorized as either heavy or moderate drinkers. The primary goal of this study was to assess the relative valuation of alcohol-related and alcohol-free rewards using multiple behavioral methods, such as attentional bias for alcohol measured via eye-tracking device, subjective ratings of the pleasantness of alcohol-related and alcohol-free stimuli, and measurement of recent activit …

Dual Drug Delivery With Calcium Sulfate-Chitosan Based Scaffolds For Bone Regeneration And Infection Control, Heather Alisa Doty

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The incidence of infection and non-union in severe musculoskeletal fractures continues to plague the medical community. This work investigated calcium sulfate (CS)-chitosan composite scaffolds with dual drug delivery capabilities. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate potential strategies for a dual delivery composite scaffolds that will allow for sufficient delivery of two therapeutic agents to control infection and regrow bone. Initial work focused on a chitosan microspheres-composite for delivery of antibiotics and growth factors. The dual delivery of antibiotics from both the CS and chitosan components was an approach to treat polymicrobial infections, while the dual delivery of an …

Hierarchy And Exclusion: The Construction And Maintenance Of Order In First-Generation Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1660, Scott Roth

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In 1630, a company of English Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony and, in doing so, the settlement that offered a foundation for life in Colonial New England. Facing great change, the colony's leadership developed religious, economic, political and social devices to maintain control throughout the transition, thereby establishing a strict order that permeated the lives of all who settled. Those who sought to transcend their place in this order faced discipline in various ways, though the General Court doled out these punishments unevenly. The inconsistency of application of these devices allowed for progress in some areas but restricted growth in …

Implementation And Assessment Of Novel Functional Hemodynamic Mri Measurements In The Brain For Evaluation Of Disease And Treatment, Adam Martin Winchell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The characterization and quantification of cerebral hemodynamics can provide critical biological information of current physiology. Divergent hemodynamic processes can provide integral knowledge into different pathophysiologies and aid in the diagnosis and evaluation of treatment. A variety of different magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques were implemented to quantify cerebral hemodynamics in a diverse set of neurological conditions. The first study investigated the association of blood flow and blood volume of a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma tumor by arterial spin labeling (ASL) and dynamic susceptibility weighted contrast MR as a predictive marker of survival. Higher tumor blood flow and maintenance of higher …

Stories Of The Trenton Six: Race And The Early Cold War In America, 1948 - 1953, Harry Roger Young

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation reveals the complex post war world, in the emerging Cold War era, with the intersecting disputed worlds of race and ideology through the lens of the Trenton Six case. It provides the reader with a glimpse of one city's story, but it enveloped the entire nation; as Americans attempted to make sense of their chaotic and complicated world, prior to the 1960s civil rights movement. This study explores the problem of race in the criminal justice system. Even as racial attitudes were liberalizing in the post war world, race still pervaded criminal justice proceedings in subtle and unsubtle …

"Today's Not Yesterday, And All Things Have An Ending"--Stevie Wonder's Proximate Soul And The Black Arts Movement, Amber M. Hendricks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Starting with the album Where I’m Coming From (1970) through Hotter Than July (1980), Stevie Wonder’s music embodies a hero’s cycle, attaching his voice to myths rendered from the the Black experience. As manifestations of Wonder’s unconsciousness, the myths remind the reader of the Black diaspora and project listeners into his musical dreams. Through his music and lyrics, Stevie Wonder defines Blackness as inclusive, resisting the restrictive notions set by both Motown and the Black Power/ Arts Movements. During his mythmaking process, Stevie Wonder enters into a "supernatural" world of the Black Power/ Arts Movement (hereafter BP/AM) that Motown once …

An Assessment Of Haplotype And Nucleotide Diversity In The Southern Short-Tailed Shrew (Blarina Carolinensis), Anthony Christopher Grow

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The control region of mitochondrial DNA in the southern short-tailed shrew (Blarina carolinensis) was examined to further understand haplotype and nucleotide diversity of the species within a chromosomal-polymorphic zone in western Tennessee, as well as, in populations west of the Mississippi River. A congruent 214 base-pair region of 78 aligned sequences was analyzed from populations in western Tennessee, eastern Arkansas, eastern Texas, and eastern Oklahoma. Of the 78 sequences, 54 unique haplotypes were found. High haplotype and nucleotide diversity were reported for each locality and for the area sampled as a whole. Fixation indices also further support the degree of …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Vidalia Onion Oral History Performance opens at the Black Box Theatre

How Does Poetry Confess? Zhai Yongming's Poems And The Landscape Of "Confession", Xin Xu

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

In the 1980s, a Chinese poet, Zhai Yongming (翟永明), published a linked suite of nineteen poems. Zhai entitled this sequence “Women” (Nǚren女人) and claimed that her poems were largely influenced by American confessional poets such as Sylvia Plath. Chinese critics suggest that Zhai inaugurates the trend of confessional poetry in China. This paper will first contextualize the Chinese translation of American confessional poetry in the Mao and post-Mao age, and then problematize the concept of “confession” in Chinese poetry criticism by making American confessional poetry a counter point. Under the term of confessional poetry it is “the illusion of a …

Middle-Income Latinos In Middle-Class Communities: A Study On Parental Involvement Dynamics, Rafael Inoa

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The academic underperformance of students of Latino backgrounds is a serious cause for concern in the United States, especially considering the significant portion of the total U.S. population that Latinos constitute. Since parental involvement is known as a powerful resource in helping all students succeed academically, it can be used as a way to counter the achievement gap that Latinos are currently facing. However, middle-class Latinos, who are also plagued by this gap in academic achievement, are continuously overlooked throughout the educational literature. The current study lays focus on this group by centering on the perspectives of middle-income Latino parents …

Arizona Christian Shoots Down Pirates, 91-73, On Tuesday, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Basketball News (Archived)

Arizona Christian Shoots Down Pirates, 91-73, On Tuesday. The Arizona Christian University men's basketball team hit 11-of-19 three pointers, shooting 50.8 percent from the field in collecting a 91-73 victory over Armstrong State University on Tuesday afternoon in the Hope International Mid-November Classic in Fullerton, Calif.

Armstrong State Women's Tennis Tops Ita Dii Fall National Rankings, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Tennis News (Archived)

Armstrong State Women's Tennis Tops ITA DII Fall National Rankings. The defending NCAA Division II National Champion Armstrong State University women's tennis team sits atop the ITA DII Fall National Rankings, released Tuesdsay by the organization.

Bfs News Online, Georgia Southern University

Art: News & Publications (2008-2023)

• Majumdar will be Keynote Speaker at Critical Thinking Conference 2016
• Schmuki’s Work Featured in Publications
• Bieski’s Work Accepted to Vying 2015: The International Art Competition for Art Basel

The Concept Of Mattering As Critical To Nursing-Student Recovery, Ronald Steven Hutchins

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This qualitative study using a phenomenological case study and grounded-theory design was conducted to examine the phenomena of nursing-student recovery following a failure in a clinical nursing course. For the purpose of this study nursing-student recovery was defined as: The academic progression of a student who failed a core clinical nursing course, and subsequently successfully completed the course, the nursing program, and passed the NCLEX-RN exam. A literature review was conducted focusing on student academic recovery, and three conceptual theories that support transitional change, growth and stability: Neuman System Model (NSM), Self Determination Theory (SDT), and Schlossberg's Transitional Theory (STT). …

Forced Migration, The Human Face Of A Health Crisis, Lawrence O. Gostin, Anna E. Roberts

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Nearly 60 million refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced persons (IDPs) fled their homes in 2014, predominately from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. The global response to assisting this vulnerable group has been wholly incommensurate with the need given the profound health hazards faced by forced migrants at each stage of their journey. The majority of forced migrants are housed in lower-income countries that do not have the infrastructure to assist the significant numbers of individuals who are crossing their borders and the humanitarian organizations who seek to assist in the response are grossly underfunded and under-resourced.

Countries have varying responsibilities …

Count The Limbs: Designing Robust Aggregation Clauses In Sovereign Bonds, Anna Gelpern, Ben Heller, Brad Setser

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

On August 29, 2014, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) published new recommended terms for sovereign bond contracts governed by English law. One of the new terms would allow a super majority of creditors to approve a debtor’s restructuring proposal in one vote across multiple bond series. The vote could bind all bond holders, even if a series voted unanimously against restructuring, so long as enough holders in the other series voted for it. An apparently technical change, awkwardly named “single-limb aggregated collective action clauses (CACs)” promised to eliminate free-riders for the first time in the history of sovereign bond …

Old Testament Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon

Faculty Publications

This report offers visual costume research support for artists working on Old Testament Bible projects, with an historical overview of Mesopotamia and how to understand its historical clothing pieces, an annotated listing of the best research sources, a list of garment and fabric terms for the 4000 BC to 0 AD period, and sample sketches from historical artifacts to suggest how to interpret the original research images the artist will encounter.

Enormous, Rapidly Growing Breast Mass., Vivek Verma, Sanjay Muttineni, Rajesh R. Kulkarni, Edibaldo Silva, William W. West, Robert B. Thompson

Journal Articles: Oncology and Hematology

BACKGROUND: Signs and symptoms of a rapidly enlarging breast mass are not only important for all clinicians to recognize and assess, but also are not uncommon occurrences. We describe a similar but unique case that developed into an enormous, 36 cm exophytic mass.

CASE PRESENTATION: A 51-year-old woman with history of psychiatric conditions presented for signs and symptoms of sepsis. It was determined that the source was an enormous 36 cm mass originating from the breast/chest wall. After stabilizing the patient with antibiotics, she underwent successful resection. Surgical margins were positive, and histopathology demonstrated bland spindle cells with stromal overgrowth. …

Study Finds Genetic Risk Factor Can Lead To Hyperinflammatory Disorder, Death After Viral Infection, Staff

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U.S. Doe Notice Of Intent, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Stormwater Program, Sandia Corporation, U.S. Department Of Energy

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit

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Graduate Students Internship Experience And Its Impact On Practical Skills Development In Lis Education: A Survey, Edonkumoh Victor Ebiye (Mlis)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study is carried out to identify graduate students internship experience and its impact on practical skills development in LIS Education. A survey design was adopted using a questionnaire as the main instrument for collecting data. The population consists of 120 postgraduate students of Library and Information Science, 30 PG Lecturers/coordinators in charge of internship and 50 Librarians/HOS of universities where internship has been carried out at the postgraduate level in two selected universities - Delta State University, Abraka and University of Calabar in Delta and Cross Rivers State all of South-South Nigeria. Data gathered were analyzed using simple percentages …

Information Seeking Behaviour Of Petroleum Engineers In Niger Delta Region Of Nigeria: A Survey, Edonkumoh Victor Ebiye (Mlis), Ngwuchukwu M. N (Phd), Emmanuel Agyo (Mlis)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The success of the petroleum industry at all levels depend largely on petroleum engineers’ awareness and access to relevant information for making sound Exploration and Production decisions. This study investigated the information seeking behaviour of Petroleum Engineers in selected companies in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. A survey design was adopted using questionnaire as the instrument for collecting primary data from 250 petroleum engineers randomly selected from four oil companies. Data gathered were analysed using frequencies, simple percentages and mean score count. Results showed that petroleum engineers spent time seeking health and safety information, oil and gas E&P information, …

Assessment Of Library Registration Between Fresh And Returning Undergraduate Students Of The Federal University Of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, Fehintola Nike Onifade, Adeniyi Sowole, Taiwo Aderonke Idowu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

The paper examines the rate at which students register with the library by comparing the fresh and the returning undergraduate students in the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta Nigeria. Two hundred and fifty (250) copies of questionnaire were randomly distributed among students in late August, 2015 while two hundred and twenty four (224) copies were returned. Also used as databases for the study are the library statistics of registered students and the University’s student enrolment list for a period of five years starting from 2009/2010 to 2013/2014 academic sessions. The study revealed that fresh undergraduate students registered more than …

Cancer Survivor Malia Mccoy Spends A Day At The Uab School Of Nursing, Staff

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The Impeccable Timing Of The Apple Maggot Fly, Rhagoletis Pomonella (Dipetera: Tephritidae), And Its Implications For Ecological Speciation, Monte Arthur Mattsson

Dissertations and Theses

Speciation is the process by which life diversifies into discrete forms, and understanding its underlying mechanisms remains a primary focus for biologists. Increasingly, empirical studies are helping explain the role of ecology in generating biodiversity. Adaptive radiations are often propelled by selective fitness tradeoffs experienced by individuals that invade new habitats, resulting in reproductive isolation from ancestral conspecifics and potentially cladogenesis. Host specialist insects are among the most speciose organisms known and serve as highly useful models for studying adaptive radiations. We are just beginning to understand the pace and degree with which these insects diversify. The apple maggot, Rhagoletis …

Mrs. Jeanette Scott Pugh

African American Funeral Programs

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Igf-1r Inhibition Induces Schedule-Dependent Sensitization Of Human Melanoma To Temozolomide, R Ramcharan, T Aleksic, Wp Kamdoum, S Gao, Et Al

School of Biomedical Sciences

Prior studies implicate type 1 IGF receptor (IGF-1R) in mediating chemo-resistance. Here, we investigated whether IGF-1R influences response to temozolomide (TMZ), which generates DNA adducts that are removed by O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), or persist causing replication-associated double-strand breaks (DSBs). Initial assessment in 10 melanoma cell lines revealed that TMZ resistance correlated with MGMT expression (r = 0.79, p = 0.009), and in MGMT-proficient cell lines, with phospho-IGF-1R (r = 0.81, p = 0.038), suggesting that TMZ resistance associates with IGF-1R activation. Next, effects of IGF-1R inhibitors (IGF-1Ri) AZ3801 and linsitinib (OSI-906) were tested on TMZ-sensitivity, cell cycle progression and DSB …

"Canada And The End Of The Imperial Dream: Beverley Baxter’S Reports From London Through War And Peace, 1936-1960 (Book Review)" By Neville Thompson, Brian Tennyson

Canadian Military History

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"Caen Controversy: The Battle For Sword Beach 1944 (Book Review)" By Andrew Stewart, David Stubbs

Canadian Military History

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"And All Their Glory Past: Fort Erie, Plattsburgh And The Final Battles In The North, 1814 (Book Review)" By Donald Graves, Rich Roy

Canadian Military History

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