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Effects Of Percutaneous Closure Of Patent Ductus Arteriosus In Infants Less Than One Year Of Age: A Systematic Review, Megan K. Locke

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and feasibility of percutaneous PDA closure in infants as reported in the available medical literature. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is the continuous opening of the ductus arteriosus in an infant’s heart after birth. This, when left untreated, can lead to severe health complications. Historically, the first treatment options to correct PDA were the use of medications and surgical ligation. Percutaneous PDA closure is a newer treatment option that is increasingly performed during infancy (age); however, its safety and feasibility is not yet understood in infants. We conducted a systematic review …

The Direction His Eyes Are Facing: An American Geography, Amelia R. Gramling

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

This paper tracks the archetypical figure of the conquistador across the historical impressions and canonical depictions left in his wake since European “explorers” like Columbus sailed into an unidentified land mass five hundred years ago and ushered the New World into the Imperial age. Through diverse and disparate set of sources--from pop culture to Columbus' log books--this paper maps conquest across the mythology of the American nation, weaving school shooters manifestos in with fictionalizations of the American West in with personal interviews and memoir to complicate and challenge the American understanding of nation—our gendered mappings of power and identity then …

Assessing Cultural Competence In Nursing Students At A Small Private Liberal Arts University, Mikah K. Barrueta Ms

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

Appropriate care across cultures can occur only when patient, family, and community expectations are aligned with provider knowledge, attitude, and behavior (Doorenbos et al, 2005). Because nurses treat patients from all types of backgrounds, a culturally competent approach should and must be used when educating and training future nurses. The purpose of this study is to assess various cultural competence components of senior nursing students at a small Midwestern University. In order to assess this sample population, two peer-reviewed surveys were chosen; the Quality and Culture Quiz and the Affective Racial Attitudes subscale from the Quick Discrimination Index. Three more …

Revealing Student Misconceptions And Instructor Blind Spots With Muddiest Point Formative Feedback, Cindy Waters, Stephen J. Krause, Janet Callahan, Barry Dupen, Mary B. Vollaro, Peggie Weeks

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Of interest to all engineering disciplines, well-designed formative feedback has the potential to enhance both instructor teaching and student learning. Delivering fundamental courses year after year, can ultimately lead faculty to use stale notes or slides from past years. This approach may save time, but does not meet the shifting needs of our students who have high expectations from their instructors. One simple method to improve teaching is to employ muddiest point reflections. Muddiest point reflections involve simply asking students to anonymously reflect on what was “muddy”, i.e. confusing, during class and to rank their level of confusion which not …

Progression Of Friedreich Ataxia: Quantitative Characterization Over 5 Years, Maya Patel, Charles J. Isaacs, Lauren Seyer, Karlla Brigatti, Sarah Gelbard, Cassandra Strawser, Debbie Foerster, Julianna Shinnick, Kimberly Schadt, Eppie M. Yiu, Martin B. Delatycki, Susan Perlman, George R. Wilmot, Theresa Zesiewicz, Katherine Mathews, Christopher M. Gomez, Grace Yoon, Sub H. Subramony, Alicia Brocht, Jennifer Farmer, David R. Lynch

Neurology Faculty Publications

Objective Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of adults and children. This study analyzed neurological outcomes and changes to identify predictors of progression and generate power calculations for clinical trials.

Methods Eight hundred and twelve subjects in a natural history study were evaluated annually across 12 sites using the Friedreich Ataxia Rating Scale (FARS), 9-Hole Peg Test, Timed 25-Foot Walk, visual acuity tests, self-reported surveys and disability scales. Cross-sectional outcomes were assessed from recent visits, and longitudinal changes were gaged over 5 years from baseline.

Results Cross-sectional outcomes correlated with measures of disease severity. Age, genetic severity (guanine-adenine-adenine …

Charles Austin Beard And Robinson Jeffers: A Historian And A Poet Against The American Empire, Richard Drake

Jeffers Studies

For its artistic originality and intellectual depth, The Double Axe and Other Poems (1948) by Robinson Jeffers ranks as one of the major works of political poetry in American literature. This collection also became one of the most controversial books ever published by an American poet. Jeffers wrote his scathing rebuke of America’s wartime foreign policy at the peak of the country’s euphoria over winning the “good war.” He condemned Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s incessant war mongering leading up to America’s intervention in that conflict. In Jeffers’s telling, Roosevelt lied the country into the war, concealing his real motive all the …

The Edith Wherry Muckleston Collection, University Of Oregon Library, James Karman

Jeffers Studies

Novelist Edith Wherry Muckleston (1876–1961) and Una Jeffers met in 1907 at a sorority event at the University of California, Berkeley. Edith describes their meeting and the friendship that ensued in a 1929 memoir titled “A Poet’s Wife — Una Jeffers.” The memoir is included among Edith’s papers at the University of Oregon, along with ten letters to her from Una, one from Robinson, and a draft of a letter from Edith to Robinson. These documents are published here for the first time, along with a biographical introduction.

Home Vegetable Gardening In Kentucky [2016], Richard Durham, Shubin Saha, John Strang, Mark A. Williams, Shawn Wright, Ricardo Bessin, Brad Lee, Emily Pfeufer

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Every aspiring gardener should follow seven steps to have a successful gardening season:

1. Plan your garden on paper before you begin.
2. Select a good gardening site that is:
   a. in full sun for at least eight hours each day,
   b. relatively level,
   c. well‑drained,
   d. close to a water source,
   e. dries quickly from morning dew.
3. Prepare the soil properly, conduct a soil test, and add fertilizer and lime according to U.K. test result recommendations.
4. Plan only as large a garden as you can easily maintain. Beginning gardeners often overplant, and then they fail because they cannot keep up with …

Effect Of Coal Fly Ash Leachate On The Bioluminescence Intensity Of Vibrio Fischeri, Shiro Ikeda, Irena Kostova, Hideaki Sekine, Yoshika Sekine

Coal Combustion and Gasification Products Journal Archive

Coal fly ash is a residue of coal-fired thermoelectric power plants (TPPs) and is mostly dumped in ash ponds or landfill sites, even though it potentially contains significant amounts of water-soluble hazardous contaminants. Bioassay using the bioluminescent bacterium *Vibrio fischeri* is known to be applicable for assessing the short-term and sublethal toxicity of complex mixtures without the need for precise chemical characterization. However, this type of bioassay is potentially adversely influenced by the pH-induced protein denaturation of cells. Because coal fly ash leachates often have alkaline or acidic properties, when applying the *V. fischeri*-based bioassay to the samples, we need …

Agriculture, Drainage Districts, And The Clean Water Act: Does What Happens In Des Moines Stay In Des Moines?, Harrison Pittman, Rusty Rumley

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

Trademarking Animal Abuse: Should The Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' And Exhibitors' Association ("Twhbea") Lose The Twhbea Trademark Portfolio Under The Lanham Act For Failure To Comply With The Horse Protection Act?, Esther L. Roberts

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

All In The (Prison) Family: Genre Mixing And Queer Representation, Kyra Hunting

Journalism and Media Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Identification Of Neuregulin-2 As A Novel Stress Granule Component, Jin Ah Kim, Aravinth K. Jayabalan, Vinoth K. Kothandan, Ramesh Mariappan, Younghoon Kee, Takbum Ohn

Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications

Stress Granules (SGs) are microscopically visible, phase dense aggregates of translationally stalled messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complexes formed in response to distinct stress conditions. It is generally considered that SG formation is induced to protect cells from conditions of stress. The precise constituents of SGs and the mechanism through which SGs are dynamically regulated in response to stress are not completely understood. Hence, it is important to identify proteins which regulate SG assembly and disassembly. In the present study, we report Neuregulin-2 (NRG2) as a novel component of SGs; furthermore, depletion of NRG2 potently inhibits SG formation. We also demonstrate that …

Self-Regulation Of Functional Pathways By Motifs Inside The Disordered Tails Of Beta-Catenin, Bi Zhao, Bin Xue

Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications

Background: Beta-catenin has two major functions: coordinating cell-cell adhesion by interacting with cadherin in cadherin junction formation pathway; and regulating gene expression through Wnt signaling pathway. Accomplishing these two functions requires synergistic action of various sequential regions of the same beta-Catenin molecule, including the N-terminal tail, the middle armadillo domain, and the C-terminal tail. Although the middle armadillo domain is the major functional unit of beta-Catenin, the involvement of tails in the regulation of interacti on between beta-Catenin and its partners has been well observed. Nonetheless, the regulatory processes of both tails are still elusive. In addition, it is interesting …

Mir146a-Mediated Targeting Of Fancm During Inflammation Compromises Genome Integrity, Devakumar Sundaravinayagam, Hye R. Kim, Ting T. Wu, Hyun H. Kim, Hyun-Seo Lee, Semo Jun, Jeong-Heon Cha, Younghoon Kee, Ho J. You, Jung-Hee Lee

Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications

Inflammation is a potent inducer of tumorigenesis. Increased DNA damage or loss of genome integrity is thought to be one of the mechanisms linking inflammation and cancer development. It has been suggested that NF-κB-induced microRNA-146 (miR146a) may be a mediator of the inflammatory response. Based on our initial observation that miR146a overexpression strongly increases DNA damage, we investigated its potential role as a modulator of DNA repair. Here, we demonstrate that FANCM, a component in the Fanconi Anemia pathway, is a novel target of miR146a. miR146a suppressed FANCM expression by directly binding to the 3’ untranslated region of the gene. …

Using Student Writing And Lexical Analysis To Reveal Student Thinking About The Role Of Stop Codons In The Central Dogma, Luanna B Prevost, Michelle K. Smith, Jennifer K. Knight

Molecular Biosciences Faculty Publications

Previous work has shown that students have persistent difficulties in understanding how central dogma processes can be affected by a stop codon mutation. To explore these difficulties, we modified two multiple-choice questions from the Genetics Concept Assessment into three open-ended questions that asked students to write about how a stop codon mutation potentially impacts replication, transcription, and translation. We then used computer-assisted lexical analysis combined with human scoring to categorize student responses. The lexical analysis models showed high agreement with human scoring, demonstrating that this approach can be successfully used to analyze large numbers of student written responses. The results …

Instances Of Parental Nest Defense Behavior In A Bachman’S Sparrow (Peucaea Aestivalis) And A Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus Savannarum Floridanus), Lindsay M. Wagner, Stephen N. Harris, Erin L. Hewett Ragheb

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

A Female-Female Same-Sex Pair Of Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma Coerulescens), Stephen M. Ferguson, Emily K. Elderbrock, Blake C. Jones, Stephan J. Schoech

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

A New Longevity Record For The Northern Caracara (Caracara Cheriway) In Florida, Joan L. Morrison, Brian K. Schmidt, Steven M. Mcgehee

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Productivity Of Ospreys (Pandion Haliaetus) Nesting In Highly Urbanized Pinellas County, Florida, Elizabeth A. Forys, Alison N. Clift, Alexandra A. Salsky

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

White-Crowned Pigeons (Patagioenas Leucocephala) In Suburban Miami-Dade County: A Review Of Literature And Citizen-Science Data, Joshua M. Diamond, Jesus Blanco, Junnio Freixa

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Twenty-Fifth Report Of The Florida Ornithological Society Records, Jon S. Greenlaw

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

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Florida Field Naturalist

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Twenty-Fourth Report Of The Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee: 2014, Jon S. Greenlaw

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Late Holocene Expansion Of Ponderosa Pine (Pinus Ponderosa) In The Central Rocky Mountains, Usa, Jodi R. Norris, Julio L. Betancourt, Stephen T. Jackson

United States National Park Service: Publications

Aim: Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) experienced one of the most extensive and rapid post-glacial plant migrations in western North America. We used plant macrofossils from woodrat (Neotoma) middens to reconstruct its spread in the Central Rocky Mountains, identify other vegetation changes coinciding with P. ponderosa expansion at the same sites, and relate P. ponderosa migrational history to both its modern phylogeography and to a parallel expansion by Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma).

Location: Central Rocky Mountains, Wyoming and Montana, and Black Hills, Wyoming and South Dakota, USA.

Methods: Plant macrofossils were analysed in …

Prehistoric Human Impact On Tree Island Lifecycles In The Florida Everglades, Traci Ardren, Justin P. Lowry, Melissa Memory, Kelin Flanagan, Alexandra Busot

United States National Park Service: Publications

The current study provides a fine-grained analysis of evidence for sustained pre-Columbian human occupation and socio-ecological interaction within Everglades National Park. Utilizing archaeological data on dietary and cultural patterns recovered from recent excavations at a prehistoric tree island site, we argue the role of ancient human populations in the formation or augmentation of tree islands should be incorporated into environmental models of the tree island lifecycle. High phosphorus levels in human waste, especially the largely organic waste of prehistoric populations, as well as other anthropogenic factors have not been adequately factored into current environmental models of tree island formation or …

Corrigendum: The Arabidopsis Homologs Of Trithorax (Atx1) And Enhancer Of Zeste (Clf) Establish ‘Bivalent Chromatin Marks’ At The Silent Agamous Locus, Abdelaty Saleh, Ayed Al-Abdallat, Ivan Ndamukong, Raul Alvarez-Venegas, Zoya Avramova

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

The authors wish to draw the attention to two irregularities in Figures 2a and 4. Both concern errors in duplicating images of "empty" lanes illustrating absence of DNA bands. We regret these omissions and apologize to readers for the inconvenience caused. The results and conclusions remain valid.

Higher Learning Commission Report, Wright State University

Annual Program Outcomes Assessments - All

The Higher Learning Commission Report, specifically for 2012-2016.

Evidence For Use Of Alliaria Petiolata In North America By The European Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris Rapae, Sam L. Davis, Don Cipollini

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Pieris rapae L., an invasive crop pest, may have recently begun using Alliaria petiolata Bieb. (Cavara & Grande), a European invasive biennial. We investigated how P. rapae uses forest habitats for nectar and oviposition and examined larval performance on A. petiolata in the field and laboratory. Being known primarily to occupy open habitats, we found that P. rapae regularly uses forest edge habitats, most surveyed A. petiolata plants had P. rapae damage, and P. rapae successfully used both stages of A. petiolata for larval development.

Home-Field Advantage? Evidence Of Local Adaptation Among Plants, Soil, And Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Through Meta-Analysis, Megan A. Rúa, Anita Antoninka, Pedro M. Antunes, V. Bala Chaudhary, Catherine Gehring, Louis J. Lamit, Bridget J. Piculell, James D. Bever, Cathy Zabinski, James F. Meadow, Marc J. Lajeunesse, Brook G. Milligan, Justine Karst, Jason D. Hoeksema

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: Local adaptation, the differential success of genotypes in their native versus foreign environment, arises from various evolutionary processes, but the importance of concurrent abiotic and biotic factors as drivers of local adaptation has only recently been investigated. Local adaptation to biotic interactions may be particularly important for plants, as they associate with microbial symbionts that can significantly affect their fitness and may enable rapid evolution. The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is ideal for investigations of local adaptation because it is globally widespread among most plant taxa and can significantly affect plant growth and fitness. Using meta-analysis on 1170 studies …