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Binding, Delivery, And Targeting: Improving Diagnostic And Therapeutic Technologies, Nelson R. Salgado

Open Access Theses

Advancements in diagnostics and therapeutics arise from acquiring new knowledge of biochemical and molecular processes. These breakthroughs can mean a quicker and more precise diagnosis, more efficient therapeutic treatments and a better quality of life for patients suffering from a disease. To better serve patients, scientists must find new and improved diagnostic tools and treatments. This starts by recognizing a shortcoming of the current methodologies or an unmet need in the medical field. The aim of the research of this thesis is to implement bionanotechnology strategies to generate new technologies to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of certain health …

Finite Element Simulation Of Pzt-Aided Interrogation Of Composite Laminates Exhibiting Damage, Amany Micheal, Yehia Bahei-El-Din

Centre for Advanced Materials

Piezoelectricity has proved effective in capturing changes in structures caused by various damage mechanisms. In one approach, piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) are mounted on the surface of the host structure and utilized as both actuators and sensors to interrogate the structure and monitor its health. This is achieved by subjecting the PWAS to a transient electric pulse and reading the resulting voltage. Changes in the stiffness of the substrate due to structural damage affect the response of the PWAS, which could be correlated to integrity of the structure. Applying this technique to fibrous composite laminates encounters particular challenges due …

Our Home By The Sea: Critical Race Reflections On Samuel Chapman Armstrong’S Accommodationism Through William Watkins’ White Architects Of Black Education, Theodorea Regina Berry, Michael Jennings

Faculty Publications

The work and words presented are a reflection of the multidimensionality of two critical race scholars and their engagement with the work of Dr. William H. Watkins, specifically his seminal text The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power, 1865-1954. This work will be framed similarly to the way Watkins framed his chapter on General Samuel Chapman Armstrong in this work. Our story, a critical auto-ethnographic narrative, will begin with a discussion of the historical context that frames the relationship we have with Watkins and the relationship we have with General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute. Next, …

Veterans, War Correspondents Find Common Ground, Jeremy Dobbins, Will Davis

Veterans' Voices on WYSO

This story begins Season 3 of Veterans Voices’, stories about local military veterans produced by student veterans at Wright State University. Last year, NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence visited Wright State to talk to students about his experiences as a war correspondent. He spoke to Marine Corps veteran, and Wright State student Jeremy Dobbins of Springfield about what they have in common.

Research Support Study: Agriculture; University Of Connecticut Local Report, Carolyn V. Mills, Sharon Giovenale

Published Works

The local University of Connecticut report of a 19 institution ethnographic agriculture research support study done with Ithaka S+R.

The Scarlet – Volume Xcvi, No. 8 (November 11, 2016) [Special Edition: Election 2016], Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The November 11, 2016 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University. The entirety of this issue focuses on the aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential election.

Making Your Reviews Into Workhorses, Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Excerpted and adapted from Carolyn Howard-Johnson's new How To Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically: The Ins and Outs of Using Free Reviews to Build and Sustain a Writing Career.

Dreams, Aspirations And Related Behavior In Children And Adolescents: Impacts On Child Developmental Outcomes, Florence K. Y. Wu, Daniel T. L. Shek, Hildie Leung

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

“Dreams”, “aspirations” and related constructs are traditionally regarded as facilitators of adolescent educational attainment in the Chinese context. Besides, there is an emergent need to widen the understanding of such constructs and their impact on children and adolescent developmental outcomes. This paper discusses the developmental outcomes of dreams, aspiration and related concepts based on a thorough review of the literature. Besides outlining the impacts of aspirations, dreams and related constructs on children and adolescents, features of related intervention programs, including themes of the intervention programs, program participants, methods of implementation and evaluation in both Western and Chinese contexts are also …

The Bison, November 11, 2016

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Is Group Therapy Democratic? Enduring Consequences Of Outward Bound’S Alignment With The Human Potential Movement, Jayson O. Seaman

Kinesiology

Franklin Vernon provided an example of how programs viewing themselves as “cultural islands” are in fact embedded within historical capitalist relations, through the discourses of self that they promote. In this response, I expand on Vernon’s argument to situate the quasi-therapeutic practices he identified in the history of the human potential movement, which effectively merged with Outward Bound starting in the 1960s and continues to define outdoor experiential education. Where Vernon sought the structural referents to different models of self, this response seeks their historical origins. The response concludes by linking Vernon’s argument with existing critiques and parallel efforts in …

Emu Today, November 11, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s performance of Oklahoma!. Books and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rogers.

Performed on November 11-13, 18-20, 2016 at the Mitchell Theatre.

The high-spirited rivalry between the farmers and cowmen of the Western Indian Territory provides the colorful, turn-of-the-century backdrop for Curley and Laurey’s love story. But with these headstrong romantics holding the reins, the road to love is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a dusty road. Despite many hardships, their rocky romance leads to a new life beginning in a brand new state. Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, …

Lindenwood Digest, November 11, 2016, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been an employee newsletter since 2009.

Faculty In The News: November 11, 2016, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The Fitz Center for Leadership in Community's River Stewards received national attention in a National Geographic blog post about the Great Miami River, and other highlights of recent media coverage of College of Arts and Sciences faculty research, scholarship and commentary.

Towards Concolic Testing For Hybrid Systems, Pingfan Kong, Yi Li, Xiaohong Chen, Jun Sun, Meng Sun, Jingyi Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Hybrid systems exhibit both continuous and discrete behavior. Analyzing hybrid systems is known to be hard. Inspired by the idea of concolic testing (of programs), we investigate whether we can combine random sampling and symbolic execution in order to effectively verify hybrid systems. We identify a sufficient condition under which such a combination is more effective than random sampling. Furthermore, we analyze different strategies of combining random sampling and symbolic execution and propose an algorithm which allows us to dynamically switch between them so as to reduce the overall cost. Our method has been implemented as a web-based checker named …

Hawks' Herald -- Nov. 11 , 2016, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

Eagle Cross Country Wraps 2016 Season At Ncaa South Regional, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Eagle Cross Country Wraps 2016 Season at NCAA South Regional

Daily Eastern News: November 11, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

The Echo: November 11, 2016, Taylor University

2016-2017 (Volume 104)

The Taylor community speaks – Decision Grant County – Civility and constituent conversations – 2016 Election – A story of tears – Freedom and responsibility – Voices – Politics out of public view – International students and the election – Behind the Headlines

Tgf-Β1 Increases Resistance Of Nih/3t3 Fibroblasts Toward Apoptosis Through Activation Of Smad2/3 And Erk1/2 Pathways, Ulugbek Negmadjanov, Alisher Holmuhamedov, Larisa Emelyanova, Hao Xu, Farhan Rizvi, Gracious R. Ross, A. Jamil Tajik, Yang Shi, Ekhson Holmuhamedov, Arshad Jahangir

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose

Excessive fibrosis has been suggested to result from persistence of fibroblasts in injured tissue due to impaired apoptosis, but signaling pathways are not fully defined.

Methods

Suppression of apoptotic cell death following transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) exposure was studied using the culture of NIH/3T3 mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Caspase-3 activity, propidium iodide staining and annexin V binding induced by Fas-ligand (FasL) in NIH/3T3 fibroblasts in the absence and presence of TGF-β1 was determined, and relative contribution of signaling through Smad2/3 and noncanonical Erk1/2 and Akt pathways was dissected by assessing phosphorylation status of these kinases and caspase activity in the …

The Guardian, November 09, 2016, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twelve page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Membrane-Active Epithelial Keratin 6a Fragments (Kamps) Are Unique Human Antimicrobial Peptides With A Non-Αβ Structure., Judy T.Y. Lee, Guangshun Wang, Yu Tong Tam, Connie Tam

Journal Articles: Pathology and Microbiology

Antibiotic resistance is a pressing global health problem that threatens millions of lives each year. Natural antimicrobial peptides and their synthetic derivatives, including peptoids and peptidomimetics, are promising candidates as novel antibiotics. Recently, the C-terminal glycine-rich fragments of human epithelial keratin 6A were found to have bactericidal and cytoprotective activities. Here, we used an improved 2-dimensional NMR method coupled with a new protocol for structural refinement by low temperature simulated annealing to characterize the solution structure of these kerain-derived antimicrobial peptides (KAMPs). Two specific KAMPs in complex with membrane mimicking sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) micelles displayed amphipathic conformations with only …

The Parthenon, November 11, 2016, Lexi Browning

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, was published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly on Thursdays during the summer. Due to budgetary constraints, beginning with the 2016 Fall semester, the newspaper is only published two days a week. Physical issues are printed on Tuesdays and Fridays. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Volume Cxxxiv, Number 9, November 11, 2016, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, David Coucheron, Elizabeth Pridgen

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano returns to KSU. The program opens with Scriabin's Symphony No. 5, "Prometheus, Poem of Fire," featuring pianist Elizabeth Pridgen. Following is Stravinsky's magical Firebird Suite. Concertmaster David Coucheron plays the romantic Violin Concerto No. 1 by Prokofiev.

Winthrop Named To Victory Media's 2017 Military Friendly® Schools List, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2016

• Victory Media has included Winthrop on its 2017 Military Friendly® School List.
• Winthrop will be showcased in "G.I. Jobs®” magazine, "Military Spouse" magazine and online.

Archives In Action: What Kind Of Animal Is It?, Frederic W. Murray, Phillip Joe Fitzsimmons

Faculty Articles & Research

Archives in Action: What Kind of Animal is It

The opportunities to strengthen our relevance and center our value to our campus communities has never been stronger. The rise of digital publishing and scholarly communication as issues in academic librarianship and university life are both lively and multifaceted. There are many faculty and students on our campuses who are publishing in the digital environment, either through the mechanisms of traditional peer-reviewed journals, web publication, and even paper and ink. These university publications, until recently, have existed in most part as fragmented and disconnected coalitions, but with the rise of digital …

Eagles Cruise Past Aggies 65-50 In Season-Opener, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Eagles Cruise Past Aggies 65-50 in Season-Opener

Men’S Soccer Falls 2-0 To Georgia State In Sun Belt Championship Semifinal, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Men’s Soccer Falls 2-0 to Georgia State in Sun Belt Championship Semifinal

Nc State Holds Off Men’S Basketball 81-79, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• NC State Holds off Men’s Basketball 81-79