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From The Provost 2017-10-25, Karen Carey

From the Provost

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Whalesong 2017-10-25, N/A N/A

Whalesong

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Intelligibility And Normativity In The Study Of Religion, Bharat Ranganathan

Religion Faculty Publications

In his essay “The Devil in Mr. Jones,” J. Z. Smith issues a call. If religionists do not, he writes, “persist in the quest for intelligibility, there can be no human sciences, let alone, any place for the study of religion within them.” How should Smith’s call be construed? In other words, what constitutes the “quest for intelligibility”? And what (if anything) differentiates the religionist’s quest for intelligibility from that of other humanistic scholars? Taking as my starting point Smith’s call, I will mount a constructive proposal. On my proposal, religionists should conceive their task as twofold. First, religionists should …

Using An Avatar Virtual Service Animal To Decrease Falls And Delirium In Hospitalized Older Adults, Sharon Stahl Wexler, Lin J. Drury

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This study examined the effect of an avatar virtual service animal on delirium and falls in hospitalized elders. Patients who used the avatar during their hospital stay had less delirium and falls than those who did not. Study findings support the use of this innovative technology for hospitalized older adults.

Statement To The Board Of Trustees, Fall 2017, David Trubatch

University Senate - Board of Trustees Statements

Reports to the University Board of Trustees by the Senate President Reports to the University Board of Trustees by the Senate President - President Trubatch's Board of Trustees Address (2017)

Signatures Of Somatic Inhibition And Dendritic Excitation In Auditory Brainstem Field Potentials, Joshua H. Goldwyn, M. Mclaughlin, E. Verschooten, P. X. Joris, J. Rinzel

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Works

Extracellular voltage recordings (Vₑ; field potentials) provide an accessible view of in vivo neural activity, but proper interpretation of field potentials is a long-standing challenge. Computational modeling can aid in identifying neural generators of field potentials. In the auditory brainstem of cats, spatial patterns of sound-evoked Vₑ can resemble, strikingly, Vₑ generated by current dipoles. Previously, we developed a biophysically-based model of a binaural brainstem nucleus, the medial superior olive (MSO), that accounts qualitatively for observed dipole-like Vₑ patterns in sustained responses to monaural tones with frequencies >~1000 Hz (Goldwyn et al., 2014). We have observed, however, that Vₑ patterns …

Volume 113 Issue 8, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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Modifiable And Non-Modifiable Factors Related To The Macular Pigment Optical Density (Mpod) In A Population Of College-Aged Adults, Genesis Gisselle Guerra Gaitan

LSU Master's Theses

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness among the elderly worldwide. Retinal problems, specifically in the macula, hold potential for development of AMD. Macular pigment optical density (MPOD) gives a measure of the thickness of the macula and therefore health of the macula. Some of the populations at risk for development of AMD include being white, female, and having light eye color. Factors related to the development of the disease have been divided into modifiable and non-modifiable; non-modifiable include a genetic predisposition. Control of modifiable factors, including body mass index (BMI) and diet [dietary intake …

President, University Of New Hampshire, The Search, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Inhibition Of Cholesterol Biosynthesis Through Rnf145-Dependent Ubiquitination Of Scap, Li Zhang, Prashant Rajbhandari, Christina Priest, Jaspreet Sandhu, Xiaohui Wu, Ryan E. Temel, Antonio Castrillo, Thomas Q. De Aguiar Vallim, Tamer Sallam, Peter Tontonoz

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center Faculty Publications

Cholesterol homeostasis is maintained through concerted action of the SREBPs and LXRs. Here, we report that RNF145, a previously uncharacterized ER membrane ubiquitin ligase, participates in crosstalk between these critical signaling pathways. RNF145 expression is induced in response to LXR activation and high-cholesterol diet feeding. Transduction of RNF145 into mouse liver inhibits the expression of genes involved in cholesterol biosynthesis and reduces plasma cholesterol levels. Conversely, acute suppression of RNF145 via shRNA-mediated knockdown, or chronic inactivation of RNF145 by genetic deletion, potentiates the expression of cholesterol biosynthetic genes and increases cholesterol levels both in liver and plasma. Mechanistic studies show …

Abrazando Nopales—Prickly Embrace: Undocumented Women’S Life Stories/Poetic Performance Narratives, Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

I chose poetic performance narratives to create a provocative piece offering a glimpse of the reality, tragedies, dreams, and hopes lived daily by more than 12 million people in the United States. These individuals are reported as unauthorized, undocumented immigrants by the U.S. Census Bureau. These specific stories were shared and collected ethnographically on the agricultural fields of the South East of the United States. My goal is to have “captured” readers to be seduced into the “uncomfortable” world of undocumented people and have the poems/performance narratives become not only representation of the events but, as Renato Rosaldo said, “the …

Spectator 2017-10-25, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

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Underwater Image Segmentation With Co-Saliency Detection And Local Statistical Active Contour Model, Yue Zhu, Baochen Hao, Baohua Jiang, Rui Nian, Bo He, Xinmin Ren, Amaury Lendasse

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Image Segmentation of Underwater Environment with Inhomogeneous Intensity Turns Out to Be One of the Most Challenging Topics These Years. in This Paper, We Try to Combine Co-Saliency Detection with Local Statistical Active Contour Model Together for Underwater Image Segmentation. the Cluster-Based Algorithm is First Taken for Co-Saliency Detection, Which Makes Salient Region in the Underwater Images Be Highlighted. the Local Statistical Active Contour Model, a Novel Region-Based Level Set Method, is Then Made Full Use of two Segment Underwater Images. It is Shown in Our Simulation Experiment that Our Proposed Scheme Could Achieve Great Segmentation Performance in Both Efficiency …

Shrubs Facilitate Recruitment Of Caragana Stenophylla Pojark: Microhabitat Amelioration And Protection Against Herbivory, Li-Na Xie, Hong-Yu Guo, Zhe Liu, Christopher A. Gabler, Wei-Zhong Chen, Song Gu, Cheng-Cang Ma

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Key message

Mature Caragana stenophylla shrubs facilitated intraspecific sapling establishment by two mechanisms: microhabitat amelioration and protection against herbivory. Facilitation was mediated by climate, grazing, and sapling age.

Context

Pre-existing shrubs could facilitate sapling establishment of woody plants; however, how these facilitation vary across abiotic and biotic stress gradients and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.

Aims

The aim of this study is understanding the facilitation of shrub on sapling establishment and how the two underlying mechanisms, microhabitat amelioration and protection against herbivory, vary across climatic aridity gradients, grazing gradients, and sapling age.

Methods

We conducted field sowing experiments to examine …

Texture And Narrative In Wall-E And Tangled, Emily Sider

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

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Introduction, Mitchell Kooh, Mynt Marsellus

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

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The Anchor, Volume 131.07: October 25, 2017, Hope College

The Anchor: 2017

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Curated Collection For Educators: Five Key Papers About The Flipped Classroom Methodology., Andrew King, Megan Boysen-Osborn, Robert Cooney, Jennifer Mitzman, Asit Misra, Jennifer Williams, Tina Dulani, Michael Gottlieb

Medical Education Articles

The flipped classroom (FC) pedagogy is becoming increasingly popular in medical education due to its appeal to the millennial learner and potential benefits in knowledge acquisition. Despite its popularity and effectiveness, the FC educational method is not without challenges. In this article, we identify and summarize several key papers relevant to medical educators interested in exploring the FC teaching methodology. The authors identified an extensive list of papers relevant to FC pedagogy via online discussions within the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) Faculty Incubator. This list was augmented by an open call on Twitter (utilizing the #meded, #FOAMed, and …

Multi-Class Computational Evolution: Development, Benchmark Comparison, And Application To Rna-Seq Biomarker Discovery, Nathaniel Mark Crabtree

Theses and Dissertations

A computational evolution system (CES) is a knowledge-discovery engine that constructs and evolves classifiers with a small number of features to identify subtle, synergistic relationships among features and to discriminate groups in high-dimensional data analysis. CESs have previously been designed to only analyze binary datasets. In this work, the CES method has been expanded to accommodate multi-class data. The multi-class CES was compared to three common classification and feature selection methods: random forest, random k-nearest neighbor, and support vector machines. The four classifiers were evaluated on three real RNA sequencing datasets. Performance was evaluated via cross validation to assess classification …

October 25, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Seek Another Land, Phillip Leteka

Theses

A family in a country village is tested and torn apart by their own religious fanaticism. A young shoemaker, Eynaud (Matty Oaks), has to stand up against conformity after his sick wife, Çyska (Caroline Duncan), is put through an extreme ordeal by her parents due to their religious beliefs.

Allocation In The Life Cycle Assessment (Lca) Of Flax Fibres For The Reinforcement Of Composites, John Summerscales, Nilmini P. J. Dissanayake

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

The ISO 14040 series of standards describe the principles and framework for the conduct of life cycle assessment (LCA). The system defines four phases: (i) definition of the goal and scope of the LCA, (ii) the life cycle inventory analysis (LCI), (iii) the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), and (iv) the life cycle interpretation. The standards do not describe the LCA technique in detail, nor do they specify methodologies for the individual phases of the LCA. Dependent of the goal and scope, there can be very different outcomes from the analysis. This paper considers how the outcomes might change for …

Isolation, Detection, And Prevention Of Foodborne Bacteria In Irrigation Water And Dairy Food, Mohammed Saleemallah Alhejaili

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Foodborne microorganisms can be beneficial to humans or cause disease. Salmonella is one of the most causative foodborne disease outbreaks in the U.S.A. Salmonella has been detected in surface water used in irrigation, and can survive for weeks to years in water. The purpose of the study was to detect low levels of Salmonella spp. by comparing surfactant modified zeolite (SMZ) filtration and Activated Carbon (AC) filtration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) method 1200. Also, to determine the generic E.coli counts and if there was a direct correlation of Salmonella to generic E. coli in irrigation water. The EPA …

Can The Eu Carbon Tax The U.S. In Retaliation?, Annum Rashedi

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Regional Disputes: It Is Not Just Ground Beef, Nicholas W. Laneville

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Fighting The Wrong Fight: Why The Mlp Parity Act Is A Misguided Attempt At Achieving Renewable Energy Capital Raising Parity, David Powers

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Paris Agreement And The International Trade Regime: Considerations For Harmonization, Charles E. Di Leva, Xiaoxin Shi

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Never For-Gatt: What Recent Tbt Decisions Reveal About The Appellate Body’S Analysis Of Environmental Regulation Under The Wto Agreements, Ravi Soopramanien

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Few environmentalists have positive things to say on the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the environment. WTO legal obligations are frequently cited as the most significant impediment to a range of environmental initiatives, including notably meaningful international coordination to combat climate change, particularly through carbon tax initiatives, and imposition of electronic waste disposal export bans. In this vein, adverse findings of WTO dispute panels on environmental conservation measures tend to attract the ire of international civil society. The tensions between liberal trade and environmental protection can be traced back to the days of the General Agreement on …

Crushing The Bandwagon: The Millennial Paradox Of Employment Opportunity And Social Media, Terrie Sullivan

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dismantling Collateral Consequences: The Case For Abolishing Illinois' Criminal Name-Change Restrictions, Lark Muligan

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.