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Emu Today, January 27, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Emu Today, January 26, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Emu Today, January 25, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Emu Today, February 8, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Emu Today, March 30, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Emu Today, March 29, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, November 1, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Individual Variations In Nucleus Accumbens Responses Associated With Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms, Masaya Misaki, Hideo Suzuki, Jonathan Savitz, Wayne C. Drevets, Jerzy Bodurka

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Abnormal reward-related responses in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) have been reported for major depressive disorder (MDD) patients. However, variability exists in the reported results, which could be due to heterogeneity in neuropathology of depression. To parse the heterogeneity of MDD we investigated variation of NAcc responses to gain and loss anticipations using fMRI. We found NAcc responses to monetary gain and loss were significantly variable across subjects in both MDD and healthy control (HC) groups. The variations were seen as a hyperactive response subtype that showed elevated activation to the anticipation of both gain and loss, an intermediate response with …

Investigating The Influence Of Stress Hormones On The Partial Migratory Tendencies Of The American Goldfinch (Spinus Tristis), Katherine E. Campbell

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Migrants may employ different strategies that best optimize energetic trade-offs/ costs associated with specific metabolic demands in preparation for and during their seasonal movements. One strategy is known as partial migration, where members of the same population exhibit either migratory or sedentary behavior patterns. The American goldfinch (Spinus tristis), a known partial migratory species, displays a latitudinal distribution of age-sex classes across the winter range during their migratory phase. Females and adult males migrate further south than juvenile males to overwinter. The purpose of this study was to determine whether corticosterone (CORT), a hormone related to high-energy costs …

The Intersectionalities Of Identity In Young Adult Fiction With Biracial Protagonists, Tiffany Nicole Browne

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

In recent years, a notable increase of diverse texts, including those written about non- White characters, has entered the field of children's literature helping to represent a racially comprehensive audience. One area that does not garner as much attention in the field, even in multicultural children's literature, is biracial children's literature, with little emphasis falling on novels with biracial protagonists. With the growing number of families in the United States identifying as biracial or multi-racial, it is important to examine the representations of biracial characters encountered by youth in books. The young adult novels, Sarah Jamila Stevenson's The Latte Rebellion …

Analysis Of Gene Conversion Tracts In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Shahana Ahmed Chumki

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Common fragile sites are regions of the genome prone to gaps and breakage under replication stress. Repair of breaks at CFS can occur through homologous recombination. yet may lead to loss of heterozygosity (LOH) events that manifest themselves as gene conversions. Gene conversions associated with LOH have the potential to deactivate tumor suppressor genes, driving tumor progression. Using the yeast model, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, evidence of two types of gene conversions has emerged: short-tract and long-tract gene conversions. Gene conversion maps show a high frequency of short-tract gene conversions ending near or at the SUP4-o tRNA, in yeast strain Y657 …

Asexuality And Boundaries In Online Discourse, Dominique A. Canning

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

In this research, I will analyze the ongoing online discussion about whether or not asexuality "can" or "should" be considered "queer enough" to be included in queer spaces. By combining research based in both discourse analysis and queer theory, this paper offers a unique view not only of asexuality's status in contemporary culture, but also of the way language is used to make statements about who belongs and who doesn't, particularly in online spaces. This work will further explore how ideologies affect the formation of, and discourse between, different groups (van Dijk 2006b: 733-734).

Determination Of Feline Leukemia Proviral Sequences In Naturally Infected Cats, Courtney Gorrell

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Felines are susceptible to many different viruses throughout their lifetime, one being Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV). FeLV is a transmittable RNA retrovirus that inhabits the cells of feline species' immune systems leading to possible infections and diseases such as seizures and other neurological disorders, anemia, stomatitis, enteritis, and lymphoma. There are four different types of this virus, FeLV-A, FeLV-B, FeLV-C, or FeLV-T, that enter cells via different cellular receptors causing different symptoms. FeLV-A is horizontally transmittable, and all FeLV-positive cats carry this form. Of the subtypes, FeLV-B is the most common, being found in approximately 50% of all cases, most …

The Impact Of Font Type On Reading, Stephanie Hoffmeister

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Significant differences in brain activation patterns exist between readers with and without dyslexia (Shaywitz, 1998). One possible area of difference involves font style that has led to the development of specific fonts to help individuals with dyslexia. Recent studies of dyslexia-specific fonts provide no specific evidence that they improve an individual's reading ability or speed of reading.

George Henry Lewes, The Real Man Of Science Behind George Eliot’S Fictional Pedants, Beverley Rilett

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This paper demonstrates that George Eliot drew on George Henry Lewes’s actual experience as an emerging scientist in her depiction of two fictional scholars, Edward Casaubon of Middlemarch and Proteus Merman, a lesser-known character from the chapter entitled “How We Encourage Research” in her final work, Impressions of Theophrastus Such. After Thomas Huxley published a devastating review of Lewes’s first book of science, Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences, the evidence suggests that Lewes became highly focused on disproving his critics and earning lasting recognition as a scientist, a feat he expected to achieve with his five-volume series, Problems …

Courtly Connections: Anthony Sherley’S Relation Of His Travels (1613) In A Global Context, Kaya Sahin, Julia Schleck

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This article revisits Anthony Sherley’s Relation of his travels into Persia (1613), reading the text within the larger context of early modern Eurasia. It highlights the ways in which at least one European traveler sought and found not alterity, but commensurable structures, social roles, political ideologies, and personal motivations in the Islamic polities to the east and emphasized these connections to his European readers. Furthermore, in making the case that Sherley’s narrative is informed by local actors in Safavid Persia, it maintains that a certain level of Eastern knowledge is present within Western texts from this period and awaits scholarly …

Courtly Connections: Anthony Sherley’S Relation Of His Trauels (1613) In A Global Context, Julia Schleck, Kaya Sahin

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Despite various attempts by literary theorists and historians to find more integrative ways of studying early modern societies and cultures, fairly essentialist notions of the difference between Europe and the rest of the world continue to persist in scholarship. The assumption of fundamental differences then leads to a search for sundry misperceptions, misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, and other skewed representations in early modern texts, particularly in those produced by European travelers. Similarly, studies on cultural, ideological, religious, and intellectual exchanges have not always been able to transcend approaches that solely focus on encounters, a word that sometimes implies haphazard meetings and difficult …

Mcnair Challenger, March 2016, Mcnair Scholars Program

EMU McNair Challenger

No abstract provided.

Emu Mcnair Scholars Program 2015-2016 Newsletter, Mcnair Scholars Program

EMU McNair Challenger

No abstract provided.

Biodiversity Of Insect Populations In The Springfield Bog Metropark In Summit County, Ohio: A Secondary Succession Site, Cynthia Perkovich

Department of Entomology: Distance Master of Science Projects

An initiative has been taken up by many environmental agencies for the conservation and restoration of endangered wetland habitats. These unique ecosystems are being depleted of resources and acreage due to industrialization and extensive anthropogenic activities. Bogs are a unique subgroup that are diminishing worldwide. The Springfield Metropark Bog is a newly established conservation area in Summit County, Ohio, in the United States. Insect populations were recorded over four seasons, starting in March 2015 and concluding in February 2016. Samples were taken from 3 different sites within the conserved habitat including field site, forested area, and a manufactured pond. Using …

A Survey Of The Insect Orders Present In The Gypsum Dunes Of The White Sands National Monument, Zell Zanarkand

Department of Entomology: Distance Master of Science Projects

•Introduction Video to White Sands National Monument (WSNM) •Facts and History •Insects Orders and Families Found in WSNM •Introduction Video to Theories Regarding Lighter Coloration •Three Theories on Color Change •Insects in WSNM depicting lighter coloration •Conclusion Video

Undergraduate Symposium, 2016, College Of Arts & Sciences

Undergraduate Symposium Programs

No abstract provided.

Dama Dentition: A New Tooth Eruption And Wear Method For Assessing The Age Of Fallow Deer (Dama Dama), Frazer Bowen, Ruth F. Carden, Julie Daujat, Sandrine Grouard, Holly Miller, Sophia Perdikaris, Naomi Sykes

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

Reliable aging techniques for wild animals are notoriously challenging to develop because of the scarcity of sizeable collections of known-age specimens. Without such techniques it is difficult to reconstruct hunting patterns, which is a significant problem for the examination of assemblages from pre-farming cultures. This paper presents a new method, based on mandibular tooth eruption and wear, for assessing the age of fallow deer. The method was developed from a large collection (n = 156) of known-age Dama dama specimens, has been blind tested by members of the zooarchaeological community and represents a user-friendly system with the potential to …

Western Australian Biosecurity Strategy 2016 - 2025, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia

Biosecurity published reports

Vision

The vision of WA’s Biosecurity Strategy is ‘working together to minimise the risks to the state’s economic development, environmental assets and social amenity from terrestrial and aquatic pests and diseases’.

Purpose

The purpose of the Strategy is to set the overall direction for the management of emerging and ongoing biosecurity issues within WA from 2016 to 2025.

Scope

The Strategy covers animal and plant pests, diseases and weeds, and zoonotic diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans. These have the potential to negatively affect WA’s economy, terrestrial and aquatic environments, biodiversity, agricultural resources, human health and social …

Grouse News 51-60 (2016-2020), Iucn/Ssc Galliformes Specialist Group

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Issue 51 (May 2016)

From the Editor

From the Chair of the Grouse Group and from the Galliformes Specialist Group

Research Reports

Our view: Greater sage-grouse habitat restoration: Sound science or wishful thinking?

Grouse News

Developing an Index to Sooty Grouse Abundance in Western Oregon, USA

Dusky and sharp-tailed grouse project starting near Clinton, BC addressing the effects of biosolids on grouse behavior and diet

Grouse research in North America: revisiting the forgotten forest grouse

New national survey of capercaillie in Scotland

Conferences 6th International Symposium on Galliformes 2016

The 16th NKV Congress

The 33rd IUGB and 14th Perdix Congress, …

Non-Homologous End Joining Repair In Xenopus Egg Extract, Songli Zhu, Aimin Peng

College of Dentistry: Faculty Publications

Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is a major DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair mechanism. We characterized here a series of plasmid-based DSB templates that were repaired in Xenopus egg extracts via the canonical, Ku-dependent NHEJ pathway. We showed that the template with compatible ends was efficiently repaired without end processing, in a manner that required the kinase activity of DNAPKcs but not ATM. Moreover, non-compatible ends with blunt/3′-overhang, blunt/5′-overhang, and 3′-overhang/5′ overhang were predominantly repaired with fill-in and ligation without the removal of end nucleotides. In contrast, 3′-overhang/3′-overhang and 5 …

College Of Agricultural Sciences And Natural Resources: 23rd Annual Report August 1, 2015-July 31, 2016

College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR): Annual Reports

Covers administration and staff, academic unit administrators, standing committees, ad hoc committees, departmental and academic program news and events, student leadership, student organizations, honors, Dean's list, degrees conferred, graduate fellowships, scholarship report, alumni, Curriculum Committee actions, substitutions and waivers, online education, recruitment, retention, and placement, international engagement, teaching faculty, faculty awards and recognitions, faculty publications, grants funded, faculty appointments, undergraduate student enrollment, graduate student enrollment, and enrollment charts.

The 2015-2016 Annual Report is dedicated to Ronnie and Jane Green.

Modeling The Geographic Distribution Of Ixodes Scapularis And Ixodes Pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) In The Contiguous United States, Micah B. Hahn, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Andrew J. Monaghan, Rebecca J. Eisen

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

In addition to serving as vectors of several other human pathogens, the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, and western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus Cooley and Kohls, are the primary vectors of the spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) that causes Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. Over the past two decades, the geographic range of I. pacificus has changed modestly while, in contrast, the I. scapularis range has expanded substantially, which likely contributes to the concurrent expansion in the distribution of human Lyme disease cases in the Northeastern, North-Central and Mid-Atlantic states. Identifying counties that contain …

New Records Of Basidiomycota From Trabzon, Tokat, And İstanbul Provinces In Turkey, Ertuğrul Sesli̇, İbrahi̇m Türkekul, Ilgaz Akata, Tuula Ni̇skanen

Turkish Journal of Botany

Basidiomata were collected from Trabzon, Tokat, and İstanbul provinces between 2011 and 2015. Standard methods were used during collecting and microscopic investigations. Cantharellus ianthinoxanthus (R.Maire) Kühner, Cortinarius humicola (Quél.) Maire, Cortinarius obtusorum Rob.Henry, Cortinarius rubicundulus (Rea) A.Pearson, Cortinarius sordescens Rob.Henry, Crinipellis subtomentosa

From Surviving To Thriving? An Investigation Of Asylee Integration In The United States, Lindsay M. Harris

Journal Articles

This article assesses the efficacy of the legal framework for asylees, individuals granted refugee status within the United States, through an examination of the human outcomes following the grant of asylum. To understand how the asylee benefits system actually functions, I conducted more than fifty field interviews with advocates, service providers, and government officials in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. This research fills a conspicuous gap in our understanding of what happens after the grant of asylum and reveals a number of insights about the ways in which the prevailing laws, policies, and programs …