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Grand Allusions: Vergil In Phaedrus, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz

Classics Faculty Works

This article focuses on two allusions to Vergil in the opening of the third book of Phaedrus’ Aesopic fables (3.Prol.) and suggests that Vergilian poetry plays a surprisingly central role in Phaedrus’ reflections on the nature and purpose of his poetic project. By linking his own avowedly humble poetry to the Aeneid and Eclogues, Phaedrus draws attention to some unexpected points of contact with Vergil; but he also quite clearly presents himself as a relatively unimportant poet who has had a particularly difficult time finding acceptance in Rome. The engagements with Vergil thus provide contexts for Phaedrus to highlight a …

Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Individuals' Perceptions Of Communication With Hearing Colleagues In Small Groups, Matt Huenerfauth, Lisa Elliot, Michael Stinson, James Mallory, Donna Easton

Presentations and other scholarship

This survey-based study investigated the the perception of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) individuals’ perceived need for technologies that may facilitate communication when meeting in small groups with hearing colleagues. Participants were 108 DHH postsecondary students who participated in co-op (internship) and capstone experiences at workplaces with hearing employees within the past two years. Participants’ responses to a survey indicated that they were generally not satisfied with their current strategies and technologies for communicating with hearing persons in small groups.

Extinction Intensity, Selectivity And Their Combined Macroevolutionary Influence In The Fossil Record, Jonathan L. Payne, Andrew M. Bush, Ellen T. Chang, Noel A. Heim, Matthew L. Knope, Sara B. Pruss

Geosciences: Faculty Publications

The macroevolutionary effects of extinction derive from both intensity of taxonomic losses and selectivity of losses with respect to ecology, physiology and/or higher taxonomy. Increasingly, palaeontologists are using logistic regression to quantify extinction selectivity because the selectivity metric is independent of extinction intensity and multiple predictor variables can be assessed simultaneously. We illustrate the use of logistic regression with an analysis of physiological buffering capacity and extinction risk in the Phanerozoic marine fossil record. We propose the geometric mean of extinction intensity and selectivity as a metric for the influence of extinction events. The end-Permian mass extinction had the largest …

Potential Applications For Halloysite Nanotubes Based Drug Delivery Systems, Lin Sun

Doctoral Dissertations

Drug delivery refers to approaches, formulations, technologies, and systems for transporting a drug in the body. The purpose is to enhance the drug efficacy and to reduce side reactions, which can significantly improve treatment outcomes. Halloysite is a naturally occurred alumino-silicate clay with a tubular structure. It is a biocompatible material with a big surface area which can be used for attachment of targeted molecules. Besides, loaded molecules can present a sustained release manner in solution. These properties make halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) a good option for drug delivery.

In this study, a drug delivery system was built based on halloysite …

From One Human To The Next: How Stories Might Save Our Lives, Stacie Lewton Rice

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

On the morning of October 1, 2015, a young man walked into a college writing classroom with a gun and killed nine people, injured many others, then shot himself.

Virginia Woolf And Illness, Cheryl Hindrichs

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

On Being Ill. “Is that a user’s guide?” This question, or a clever variation on it, became a familiar refrain when the elegant Paris Press edition’s cover, conspicuously abandoned on my bed table, caught the eye of one of the many nurses or phlebotomists who rotated through my ward over four weeks—weeks coinciding with what should have been my rereading of Woolf’s 1926 On Being Ill (OBI) as well as the impressive range of essays which you may now also read at your leisure in the second section of this double issue of the Miscellany, whether “in the army …

The Importance Of Nature: An Investigation On How Geography Influences Well-Being, Christina Cobb

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The objective of this community service project (CSP) was to study how a community’s location, specifically within nature, influences their well-being. I hoped to see how the community’s location, within Chapada Diamantina national park, influences the many ways health is promoted, and how these ways are affected by their location within nature. This project was built upon a review of the literature, which found that there is a theoretical basis for the notion that contact with nature is beneficial, a term deemed Biophilia. There is a robust body of academic research that highlights the health benefits deriving from contact …

Evaluating A Squirrel Monkey Troop In Natural Rehabilitation: An Assessment Of Population And Behavior Of Saimiri Sciureus In Preparation For Relocation From Sumak Allpa To Yasuní National Park, Bria Riggs

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Natural rehabilitation and translocation of primate species provide the opportunity for recovery of individuals and repopulation of species in the wild. However, there are few successful examples of primate translocation around the world, and no successful cases in Ecuador. This study assesses the population and overall behavioral activity of a troop of Saimiri sciureus on Sumak Allpa Island, Orellana, Ecuador from November 6^th to November 27^th, 2016. This specific troop, referred to as the Yasuní troop, is scheduled to be translocated from Sumak Allpa to Yasuní National Park in March or April of 2017, and would be …

Covering Ground: A Look At Movement Patterns And Random Walk Behavior In Aquilonastra Sea Stars, Amanda C. Lohmann, Dennis Evangelista, Lindsay D. Waldrop, Christopher L. Mah, Tyson L. Hedrick

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

The paths animals take while moving through their environments affect their likelihood of encountering food and other resources; thus, models of foraging behavior abound. To collect movement data appropriate for comparison with these models, we used time-lapse photography to track movements of a small, hardy, and easy-to-obtain organism, Aquilonastra anomala sea stars. We recorded the sea stars in a tank over many hours, with and without a food cue. With food present, they covered less distance, as predicted by theory; this strategy would allow them to remain near food. We then compared the paths of the sea stars to three …

Sales Management Portal, Yashwanth Nallamothu, Venkat Reddy Peddireddy, Venkateswara Sai Virat Puvvala, Pavuluri Sai Teja

All Capstone Projects

The sales management portal:

The sales management portal is mostly used to process and store the data of the client and the staff this helps us in maintaining the records and manage the sales environment in the most proper way this portal helps us to have a better communication with the client and help the client to know about the services we provide

This portal helps the employees to make proposals that could increase the sales and help them to work with the other staff towards the project this is also essential for the managers to organize the work force …

Sales Management Portal, Prakash Gudipudi, Kranthikumar Nammayalwar, Srinivas Neelarapu, Sai Himakar Vemula

All Capstone Projects

Sales Management Portal is a client information tracking portal. Which client’s info contains contacts and activities, opportunities and proposals, and eventually projects. This portal has ability to add clients and search clients based on the name and prospects and can update information of contacts and activities, opportunities and proposals to the respective client. This portal has ability to display announcements message on manager's screen. This portal should have a responsive design so it will adjust to diverse resolutions, making it easy for users to navigate the portal on their own devices.

There are not any existing systems for client side. …

Uncommon/Rare Avian Species Decline And Extirpation In Nested Assemblages Of Northeastern Illinois Wetlands, James M. Mcaley

All Capstone Projects

Baisa found that avian assemblages are highly nested in palustrine emergent wetlands in northeastern Illinois. He measured nestedness by constructing a binary matrix of species presence and absence across sites. Nestedness was also quantified using the Mann-Whitney U-test in his study.

The goal of this project was to sample the wetlands as Baisa had done in his study. By doing so, we will have 2 sampling events, approximately 10 years apart. Nestedness of the wetland communities will be checked, and data compared to that of Baisa. Emergent wetlands in northeastern Illinois were found by Baisa to contain highly nested avian …

Action Research Using Entomological Research To Promote Hands-On Science Inquiry In A High-Poverty, Midwest Urban High School, Dustin Stockmann

Dissertations

The purpose of this mixed-methods action research study was to examine to what extent entomological research can promote students’ hands-on learning in a high-poverty, urban, secondary setting. In reviewing the literature, the researcher was not able to find a specific study that investigated how entomological research could promote the hands-on learning of students. The researcher did find evidence that research on learning in a secondary setting was important to student growth. It should also be noted that support was established for the implementation of hands-on science inquiry in the classroom setting. The study’s purpose was to aid educators in their …

Playing Around Hart And Keller's Full-Court Press: Designing A Federal Compulsory Licensing Regime For Rights Of Publicity That Enables Developers And Compensates Rights Holders, Will Bucher

Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Ouroborous Of Political Institutions: Party Rules In Institutional Context, William B. Heller, Olga Shvetsova

Working Papers Series

Political parties are essential elements of the political landscape in most of the world and their role is essential as they connect citizens to policy change. Though precisely because they do so much and mean so much there is little agreement among scholars on how they should be studied or understood. Indeed, despite the centrality of parties, the comprehensive large-N analysis of institutions and politics inside rather than among them is yet to be attempted. Instead, cross-national data collection efforts are mostly driven by theories that take party structures as given and focus on systems of parties and competition among …

Teach The Partnership: Critical University Studies And The Future Of Service-Learning, David J. Fine

English Faculty Publications

Edward Zlotkowski’s (1995) article “Does Service-Learning Have a Future?” challenges the academy to integrate community-engaged learning into the curriculum. As Zlotkowski suggests, students, staff, and faculty ought to engender a culture of civic action and ethical accountability enhanced by rigorous coursework, but this goal necessitates resources: administrators must invest in service-learning to reap its full benefits. Issues arise, however, when one considers this investment in light of the academy’s corporatization. Nussbaum (2010) has noted, for instance, how colleges and universities increasingly emphasize vocational training and professional readiness at the expense of humanist inquiry and civic responsibility. The academy’s corporatization, she …

Copley Connects | Fall 2016, Copley Library

Copley Connects Library Newsletter

Catholic College Libraries Integrate Information Literacy with Social Justice | 1
Dean’s Update | 2
An Evening with Warren St. John | 3
Copley OER Initiative | 3
Copley Open Textbook Review | 3
Copley Supports 2nd USD STEAM Team Summer Academy | 4
Librarian Training Days | 4
On the Front Line: Copley Staff Keep Library Running During Summer Construction | 5
Copley Student Assistant Keeps Close Ties to Copley, USD After Graduation | 6
Staff Updates | 6
Wish List | 7
4th Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium | 8
Giving to Copley Library | 8

The Osprey, Fall 2016, The Osprey Staff

Osprey

The student magazine of Cal Poly Humboldt.

A Comparison Of Three Emerging Online Government 3d Printing Resources: Nasa 3d Resources, Smithsonian X3d, And The Nih 3d Print Exchange, Jennifer J. Horton, Jian Anna Xiong

Articles

United States governmental agencies, departments, and affiliates, are increasingly making 3D printable models available to the general public online. On March 20, 2014, a memorandum was sent out to United States executive departments and agencies about improving access to the government’s scientific collections (Holdren, 2014). This memorandum, from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), not only addressed physical collections, but specifically mentioned digital 3D models. On the White House’s blog, several reasons were given for making these collections more accessible including the idea that these collections are “… treasure troves of information ripe for exploration and …

Full Issue Fall 2016

Inscape

No abstract provided.

Solid Waste Management Of Disposable Diaper Sanitation And The Connection To Environmental Awareness For Women In Zanzibar, Micalea Leaska

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This project examined the solid waste management of disposable diapers in three locations, Stone Town, Mangapwani and Vikokotoni, within Zanzibar, Tanzania. Its methods included field observations of the solid waste disposal system in Zanzibar and interviews with women about their rationales for buying and using disposable diapers. For one of the first times, the data collected during this project will further assist to educate women about the benefits of cloth diapers and the negative effects disposable diapers create for Zanzibari families and the environment. This study has observed one of the most growing concerns regarding excess solid waste contributing to …

Fall 2016, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Augustana Magazine

No abstract provided.

Saviors Of Loneliness, S.K. Stringer

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Orphan Markdown, Dan Pinkerton

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Cutbank 85

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Winter Ecology And Behavior Of Eastern Towhees At Taylor Fork Ecological Area, Megan Martin

Honors Theses

The Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythropthalmus) is a type of sparrow, which has declined in number by about 50% since the mid-1960s. Since both their summer and winter habitat use is affected by changes in the prevailing vegetation, it is possible that the declining populations are a result of factors in both breeding and nonbreeding seasons. The objective of the study was to describe the behavior, habitat use, and foraging habits of the Eastern Towhee during the winter at a site in central Kentucky. Nine Towhees were captured, radio-tagged, and tracked using homing and triangulation for a total of …

The Calusa And Early Spanish Settlement: An Archaeological-Historic Analysis Of Early European Contact In Southern Florida, Rylan Cromer

Honors Theses

In 1513 Juan Ponce de León led an expedition force to explore the western coastline of Florida as part of a mission for the Spanish Crown to map the Gulf of Mexico and determine the capability of the area to potentially support Spanish colonization attempts. Instead, León established first contact with a powerful native society that successfully drove León and his fleet of three ships from their shores with nothing more than bows and basic dugout canoes. For nearly a century afterward, the mere presence of these people, the Calusa, was enough to limit Spanish settlement to the Eastern coastline …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2016, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: When November opens the calendrical gateway to the holidays, Thanksgiving, the holiday nominally devoted to appreciation, draws attention to the question of gratitude. Faculty members live, move, and have their being in the sphere of gratitude. These talented people, whose aptitudes would qualify them for a thousand high-paying careers, set aside lucrative opportunities in order to celebrate the bounty of knowledge. Even during the most depressing moments of an academic career—even despite excessive workloads, deteriorating facilities, and budget shortfalls—faculty members quietly applaud, through their service, the implicit generosity of a universe that not only makes itself interpretable, …

F16rs Sgr No. 22 (Enforce Proper Care For Pets), Jacob Phagan, Bailey Allmon

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To urge and request the Office of the Dean of Students, Department of Athletics, and LSU Police Department to communicate and enforce proper care for pets during tailgating and other events

F16rs Sgr No. 29 (Honor Mike Vi), David Lawrence

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Honor Mike VI for his nine (9) years of service to the Community of the Louisiana State University