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The Cow Said Meow, Phyllis Rosen Nov 2017

The Cow Said Meow, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

Who knew that farm animals had a sense of humor and were so smart? A cat wants to come inside from the rain, so it stands at the door and meows until the farmer's wife opens the door and lets it in. The cow hears the cat and decides to try to the same thing, standing in front of the door and saying "meow." The pig sees the cow and tries the same ploy. Each time one animal is admitted, another animal sees the incident and tries the same trick. Eventually the living room is filled with animals. When the …

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Grimelda And The Spooktacular Pet Show, Karen Abbott Nov 2017

Grimelda And The Spooktacular Pet Show, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

While flying on her broom through town, Grimelda sees a poster for the Spooktacular Pet Show. Sure that her cat is the most spooktacular pet around, she rushes home to find Wizzleworts sound asleep. Her friend wooshes by on her fire-breathing dragon and Grimelda wonders if Wizzleworts is up to the competition. She searches for another spooky pet and in a bog she finds a monster eel, but he is a bit too much for her to handle. She escapes the eel and finds that a spell will turn Wizzleworts into a truly spooktacular pet. They rush to the competition …

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Scholastic Discover More: Dolphins, Kristie Hinckley Nov 2017

Scholastic Discover More: Dolphins, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Readers will learn more than they ever knew about dolphins in Scholastic Discover More: Dolphins. Dolphins are similar to humans in many ways, including their status as mammals. Readers will learn how dolphins breathe, communicate, travel, and hunt. Many interesting facts are scattered throughout the book; for example, did you know that a dolphin can rest half of its brain while the other half is alert? This book is also full of captivating photographs of dolphins in their natural habitats.

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I Took The Moon For A Walk, Jess Verzello Nov 2017

I Took The Moon For A Walk, Jess Verzello

Children's Book and Media Review

A little boy is joined by the moon as they take a walk across the town, through the park, and over the bridge. They see many nocturnal animals and enjoy the beauty of nighttime before heading home and settling down to sleep.

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Farmyard Security, Kristie Hinckley Nov 2017

Farmyard Security, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Farmyard Security is a reader’s theater script and guide and the play is appropriate for students reading between a third- and sixth-grade level. This fairy tale, with elements of Chicken Little, is set on a farm. The hen, who is woken up from her nap by a fallen apple, informs all the animals on the farm that “the sky is falling!” While informing all the animals, the hen and other farmyard friends are lured to “safety” in the wolf’s den. Thankfully, the farmer saves his precious animals from the wolf’s guile and the mystery of the falling sky is resolved.

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I Am Not A Chair!, Ariel Woodbury Nov 2017

I Am Not A Chair!, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

All the other animals keep mistaking Giraffe for a chair! He tries to speak up, but every time he does something happens! So he tries a different approach: he decides to show them the difference between himself and the chair by making one. Unfortunately for Giraffe, the chair looks just like him! A hungry lion sits on Giraffe while he looks for an animal to eat. Giraffe stands still until he finally tells the lion that he's a giraffe. The lion is so scared that his chair is talking that he runs away. The next day, Giraffe tells everyone what …

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Alligators Eat And Grow, Kristie Hinckley Nov 2017

Alligators Eat And Grow, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Alligators start their life in a small egg, but they can grow to be twelve feet long and weigh 550 pounds! Mother alligators try to keep their babies safe from birds and raccoons. Baby alligators eat bugs, frogs, and small fish; adult alligators eat snakes, turtles, and birds. Alligators eat their food whole and can live to be fifty years old! Readers will learn all this and more in Alligators Eat and Grow.

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The Shady Tree, Sierra Beveridge Nov 2017

The Shady Tree, Sierra Beveridge

Children's Book and Media Review

Tan Tan is an angry rich boy who loves his Shady Tree. He lives in a big house and loves to play under the shade of the tree with all of his toys, but then Ping shows up. Tan Tan does not like Ping and tells him to leave. Ping gets the idea to buy the shade from the beautiful tree and Tan Tan agrees to sell Ping the shade because he thinks Ping is being silly. But Tan Tan slowly learns that this was a mistake as Ping invites his friends (and their animals) over to sit with him …

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Mingo The Flamingo, Ariel Woodbury Nov 2017

Mingo The Flamingo, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Mingo is heading out on his very first migration. Everything is going well until his family flies into a storm and Mingo crash-lands on a farm! The farm animals aren't sure what Mingo is. After determining that he is indeed an animal and not a golf club or lawn ornament, Mingo tries to remember who he is. But nothing seems right until one day he remembers! But poor Mingo's wing is still hurt and he can't fly to meet his family. Mingo trains to become strong enough to fly, but he still can't! His friends on the farm build him …

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Green Animals, Kristie Hinckley Nov 2017

Green Animals, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

In Green Animals, readers learn that green is the combination of the primary colors blue and yellow which makes it a secondary color. There are green animals that live in water and on land. Some of these animals include tree pythons, European tree frogs, green basilisks, caterpillars, and Amazon parrots. Many animals, including several varieties of mantis, use their green characteristics as camouflage. Some animals like tree sloths turn green from the algae that grows on them. Readers will learn all kinds of interesting facts about green animals in this book.

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The Critter Club: Liz Learns A Lesson, Kristie Hinckley Nov 2017

The Critter Club: Liz Learns A Lesson, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Liz is one of four girls that make up the Critter Club. After school, the girls help run a small animal shelter in Ms. Sullivan’s barn. As summer approaches, Liz can’t wait to take care of the animals and take an art class at the local library. But her plans change when her mom and principal decide she needs a little help with math over the summer. She has to go to the school library every week and take a class for kids who struggle with math instead of going to art class. Even though she’s daydreamed about art class …

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Room On The Broom, Annie Huish Nov 2017

Room On The Broom, Annie Huish

Children's Book and Media Review

The witch tapped her broomstick and whoosh! The witch and her cat were gone. This captivating motion picture, as inspired by the book Room on the Broom, by Julia Donaldson, follows a witch and her cat as they fly through the wind. Along the way, the witch loses articles including her hat, bow, and wand. As each article is lost, the witch and her cat fly down to find what they are looking for, and on their way pick up a dog, a bird, and a frog. Everyone seems happy (even though the cat may not have been at first), …

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Room On The Broom, Annie Huish Nov 2017

Room On The Broom, Annie Huish

Children's Book and Media Review

The witch tapped her broomstick and whoosh! The witch and her cat were gone. This captivating book follows a witch and her cat as they fly through the wind. Along the way, the witch loses articles including her hat, bow, and wand. As each article is lost, the witch and her cat fly down to find what they are looking for, and on their way befriend a dog, a bird, and a frog. Everyone seems happy, but when the frog jumps on the broomstick, it snaps in two and the animals all fall into a bog! As the witch gains …

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The Utah Statesman, November 21, 2017, Utah State University Nov 2017

The Utah Statesman, November 21, 2017, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

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Moisus From The Sierra, Kellen Johansen Nov 2017

Moisus From The Sierra, Kellen Johansen

2017-18 Field Notes

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Kellen Johansen describes his observations during his study abroad program at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.

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Student Affairs Bi-Weekly Newsletter, November 21, 2017, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Division Of Student Affairs Nov 2017

Student Affairs Bi-Weekly Newsletter, November 21, 2017, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Division Of Student Affairs

Student Affairs Bi-Weekly Newsletter

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Emily Orr Family History, Emily Orr Nov 2017

Emily Orr Family History, Emily Orr

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

The family history of Emily Knapp Orr. A history of the Brooks and Knapp family as it relates to Emily.

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Athena Cinema Announces Sixth Annual Holiday Film Series (November 21, 2017), University Communications And Marketing Nov 2017

Athena Cinema Announces Sixth Annual Holiday Film Series (November 21, 2017), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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Noninvasive Liquid Diet Delivery Of Stable Isotopes Into Mouse Models For Deep Metabolic Network Tracing, Ramon C. Sun, Teresa W.-M. Fan, Pan Deng, Richard M. Higashi, Andrew N. Lane, Anh-Thu Le, Timothy L. Scott, Qiushi Sun, Marc O. Warmoes, Ye Yang Nov 2017

Noninvasive Liquid Diet Delivery Of Stable Isotopes Into Mouse Models For Deep Metabolic Network Tracing, Ramon C. Sun, Teresa W.-M. Fan, Pan Deng, Richard M. Higashi, Andrew N. Lane, Anh-Thu Le, Timothy L. Scott, Qiushi Sun, Marc O. Warmoes, Ye Yang

Center for Environmental and Systems Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Delivering isotopic tracers for metabolic studies in rodents without overt stress is challenging. Current methods achieve low label enrichment in proteins and lipids. Here, we report noninvasive introduction of 13C6-glucose via a stress-free, ad libitum liquid diet. Using NMR and ion chromatography-mass spectrometry, we quantify extensive 13C enrichment in products of glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, the pentose phosphate pathway, nucleobases, UDP-sugars, glycogen, lipids, and proteins in mouse tissues during 12 to 48 h of 13C6-glucose feeding. Applying this approach to patient-derived lung tumor xenografts (PDTX), we show that the liver supplies glucose-derived Gln …

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A Spatial Collaboration: Building A Multi-Institution Geospatial Data Discovery Portal, Mara Blake, Karen Majewicz, Ryan Mattke, Kathleen W. Weessies Nov 2017

A Spatial Collaboration: Building A Multi-Institution Geospatial Data Discovery Portal, Mara Blake, Karen Majewicz, Ryan Mattke, Kathleen W. Weessies

Collaborative Librarianship

As academic education and research increasingly take advantage of geospatial data and methodologies, we see a corresponding exponential growth in the number of available geospatial resources in the form of GIS datasets and scanned historical maps. However, users can experience difficulty finding these resources due to the unconnected multitude of platforms and clearinghouses that host them. Additionally, the resources are not always well described with web semantic metadata that facilitates discovery. In response to this challenge, The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project began in 2015 to provide discoverability, facilitate access, and connect scholars to geospatial resources. Our project …

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The Association Of Social Anxiety Disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder And Reproduction: Results From Four Nationally Representative Samples Of Adults In The Usa., B Miloyan, A Bulley, B Brilot, T Suddendorf Nov 2017

The Association Of Social Anxiety Disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder And Reproduction: Results From Four Nationally Representative Samples Of Adults In The Usa., B Miloyan, A Bulley, B Brilot, T Suddendorf

School of Psychology

Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) are highly prevalent and frequently co-occur. The results of population studies suggest that SAD tends to precede AUD, and the results of laboratory studies suggest that alcohol use facilitates social behaviors in socially anxious individuals. Therefore, we posited that, in a modern context, a tendency to consume alcohol may be positively selected for among socially anxious individuals by its effect on the likelihood of finding a partner and reproducing. We tested the hypothesis that a higher proportion of individuals with a lifetime diagnosis of SAD and AUD reproduce (i.e., have at …

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Caenorhabditis Elegans Dbl-1/Bmp Regulates Lipid Accumulation Via Interaction With Insulin Signaling, James F. Clark, Michael Meade, Gehan Ranepura, David H. Hall, Cathy Savage-Dunn Nov 2017

Caenorhabditis Elegans Dbl-1/Bmp Regulates Lipid Accumulation Via Interaction With Insulin Signaling, James F. Clark, Michael Meade, Gehan Ranepura, David H. Hall, Cathy Savage-Dunn

Publications and Research

Metabolic homeostasis is coordinately controlled by diverse inputs. Understanding these regulatory networks is vital to combating metabolic disorders. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as a powerful, genetically tractable model system for the discovery of lipid regulatory mechanisms. Here we introduce DBL-1, the C. elegans homolog of bone morphogenetic protein 2/4 (BMP2/4), as a significant regulator of lipid homeostasis. We used neutral lipid staining and a lipid droplet marker to demonstrate that both increases and decreases in DBL-1/BMP signaling result in reduced lipid stores and lipid droplet count. We find that lipid droplet size, however, correlates positively with the level …

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Niche Cadherins Control The Quiescence-To-Activation Transition In Muscle Stem Cells., Aviva J. Goel, Marysia-Kolbe Rieder, Hans-Henning Arnold, Glenn L. Radice, Robert S. Krauss Nov 2017

Niche Cadherins Control The Quiescence-To-Activation Transition In Muscle Stem Cells., Aviva J. Goel, Marysia-Kolbe Rieder, Hans-Henning Arnold, Glenn L. Radice, Robert S. Krauss

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Many adult stem cells display prolonged quiescence, promoted by cues from their niche. Upon tissue damage, a coordinated transition to the activated state is required because non-physiological breaks in quiescence often lead to stem cell depletion and impaired regeneration. Here, we identify cadherin-mediated adhesion and signaling between muscle stem cells (satellite cells [SCs]) and their myofiber niche as a mechanism that orchestrates the quiescence-to-activation transition. Conditional removal of N-cadherin and M-cadherin in mice leads to a break in SC quiescence, with long-term expansion of a regeneration-proficient SC pool. These SCs have an incomplete disruption of the myofiber-SC adhesive junction and …

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The Revolution Will Not Be Politicized: Political Expression In The Manga Adaptations Of KanikōSen, Benjamin Robert Burton Nov 2017

The Revolution Will Not Be Politicized: Political Expression In The Manga Adaptations Of KanikōSen, Benjamin Robert Burton

Dissertations and Theses

Kobayashi Takiji's (1903-1933) Kanikōsen (The Crab Cannery Ship, 1929), the outstanding work from the proletarian literary movement, experienced an influx of new adaptations into various mediums during the years that preceded and followed the "Kanikōsen boom" of 2008. This thesis focuses on two manga adaptations that provide readers with starkly different takes on the original story. Using theories by Scott McCloud and Azuma Hiroki, I first attempt to draw parallels between the form of manga and that of the novel. Then, I examine the manner in which the most explicitly political content of the novel is adapted …

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Effects Of Pedagogical Agent Design On Training Evaluation Measures: A Meta-Analysis, Timothy J. Quesnell Nov 2017

Effects Of Pedagogical Agent Design On Training Evaluation Measures: A Meta-Analysis, Timothy J. Quesnell

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Pedagogical agents are, "conversational virtual characters employed in electronic learning environments to serve various instructional functions" (Veletsianos & Miller, 2008). They can take a variety of forms, and have been designed to serve various instructional roles, such as mentors, experts, motivators, and others. Given the increased availability and sophistication of technology in recent decades, these agents have become increasingly common as facilitators to training in educational settings, private institutions, and the military. Software to aid in the creation of pedagogical agents is widely available. Additionally, software use and agent creation often requires little formal training, affording nearly anyone the opportunity …

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Conversationpiece Ii: Displaced And Rehacked, Mathew Emmett, Thomas Wennekers, Susan L. Denham Nov 2017

Conversationpiece Ii: Displaced And Rehacked, Mathew Emmett, Thomas Wennekers, Susan L. Denham

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Creativity And Blocking: No Evidence For An Association, Tara Zaksaite, Peter M. Jones, Chris J. Mitchell Nov 2017

Creativity And Blocking: No Evidence For An Association, Tara Zaksaite, Peter M. Jones, Chris J. Mitchell

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

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Don't Try This At Home: The Fda's Restrictive Regulation Of Home-Testing Devices, Shelby Baird Nov 2017

Don't Try This At Home: The Fda's Restrictive Regulation Of Home-Testing Devices, Shelby Baird

Duke Law Journal

Over the past forty years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has successfully restricted consumers' access to home-testing applications based on the notion that it should protect individuals from their own reactions to test results. In the 1970s, the FDA briefly denied women access to home pregnancy tests that were identical to those used in laboratories. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it relied on concerns about consumer responses to HIV status results to justify a categorical ban on applications for HIV home-testing technology. More recently, it placed burdensome restrictions on direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing companies, such as 23andMe, …

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Toward Improving Metalloenzyme Inhibitor Design: A Thermodynamic Study Of Small Molecule Interactions With Copper(Ii), Cobalt(Ii) And Manganese(Ii), Fatimah Aldakheel Nov 2017

Toward Improving Metalloenzyme Inhibitor Design: A Thermodynamic Study Of Small Molecule Interactions With Copper(Ii), Cobalt(Ii) And Manganese(Ii), Fatimah Aldakheel

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

This work aimed at understanding the interactions of 1) three physiologically relevant transition metal ions copper(II), cobalt(II) and manganese(II) with five tri- or tetra-dentate metal chelators (ligand or L) and 2) the resulting ML complexes with two known metalloenzyme inhibitors, 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) and acetohydroxamic acid (AHA). The ultimate goal of the work was to identify ligands that can form enzyme active site M2+ structural mimetics capable of interacting with metalloenzyme active site inhibitors. The ligands studied were N-(2-(1-methylimidazolyl)methyl)iminodiacetic acid (DA2Im), nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TREN), tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (TPA), and bis(2-picolyl)amine (BPA) and they were chosen to mimic the coordination environment …

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Temperature Effects On An Axon’S Ability To Maintain Phasing Of A Rhythmic Motor System, Marissa Elaine Cruz Nov 2017

Temperature Effects On An Axon’S Ability To Maintain Phasing Of A Rhythmic Motor System, Marissa Elaine Cruz

Theses and Dissertations

The precise timing of action potentials generated in the nervous system is crucial for generating adequate behavior. Once generated, action potentials travel along axons towards the neurons or muscles they innervate. Axons are also responsible for preserving the temporal fidelity of the generated action potentials. One challenge axons face is that they can be of considerable length, and exposed to changes in internal and external conditions. Temperature fluctuations, for example, affect the ion channels that generate and propagate action potentials causing changes in action potential speed. It is unclear if, and how, the timing of action potentials can be preserved …

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