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Seeking Common Ground: Making Connections Big And Small, David Lee Keiser

Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works

Purpose: This essay furthers cross-cultural exchange, and understanding. Written for a general audience by a teacher educator, it argues for accepting all others into the academic conversation. Using varied examples, the purpose of this paper is to illustrate both lifelong learning and the power of connecting across difference.

Design/methodology/approach: The author draws upon experience as a teacher and professor and his engagement with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for examples of edification and engagement.

Findings: The author cites both the current period and a mid-twentieth-century American major event, the civil rights March on Washington to illustrate possibilities for connection, clarity …

Site-Specific Selection Reveals Selective Constraints And Functionality Of Tumor Somatic Mtdna Mutations., Deyang Li, Xiaohong Du, Xu Guo, Lei Zhan, Xin Li, Chun Yin, Cheng Chen, Mingkun Li, Bingshan Li, Hushan Yang, Jinliang Xing

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have indicated that tumor mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are primarily shaped by relaxed negative selection, which is contradictory to the critical roles of mtDNA mutations in tumorigenesis. Therefore, we hypothesized that site-specific selection may influence tumor mtDNA mutations.

METHODS: To test our hypothesis, we developed the largest collection of tumor mtDNA mutations to date and evaluated how natural selection shaped mtDNA mutation patterns.

RESULTS: Our data demonstrated that both positive and negative selections acted on specific positions or functional units of tumor mtDNAs, although the landscape of these mutations was consistent with the relaxation of negative selection. …

Phyllotactic Regularity Requires The Paf1 Complex In Arabidopsis, Kateryna Fal, Mengying Liu, Assem Duisembekova, Yassin Refahi, Elizabeth S. Haswell, Olivier Hamant

Biology Faculty Research

In plants, aerial organs are initiated at stereotyped intervals, both spatially (every 137° in a pattern called phyllotaxis) and temporally (at prescribed time intervals called plastochrons). To investigate the molecular basis of such regularity, mutants with altered architecture have been isolated. However, most of them only exhibit plastochron defects and/or produce a new, albeit equally reproducible, phyllotactic pattern. This leaves open the question of a molecular control of phyllotaxis regularity. Here, we show that phyllotaxis regularity depends on the function of VIP proteins, components of the RNA polymerase II-associated factor 1 complex (Paf1c). Divergence angles between successive organs along the …

Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, The Auditor’S Responsibilities Relating To Other Information Included In Annual Reports, November 28, 2017, Comments Are Requested By May 15, 2018; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2017, November 28, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Ensemble Machine Learning And Forecasting Can Achieve 99% Uptime For Rural Handpumps, Daniel L. Wilson, Jeremy R. Coyle, Evan A. Thomas

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Broken water pumps continue to impede efforts to deliver clean and economically-viable water to the global poor. The literature has demonstrated that customers’ health benefits and willingness to pay for clean water are best realized when clean water infrastructure performs extremely well (>99% uptime). In this paper, we used sensor data from 42 Afridev-brand handpumps observed for 14 months in western Kenya to demonstrate how sensors and supervised ensemble machine learning could be used to increase total fleet uptime from a best-practices baseline of about 70% to >99%. We accomplish this increase in uptime by forecasting pump failures and …

The Use Of Evidentials In Hearsay Contexts In Japanese And English, Tomomi Matsumura

Dissertations and Theses

Evidentials are one of the language codes that convey the speaker's beliefs in terms of the degree of reliability of information and how the speaker obtained information (Chafe, 1986; Ishida, 2006; McCready and Ogata, 2007). Evidentials play an important role in communication since they also function to show the speaker's attitude toward the interlocutors by making a sentence softer (Trent 1998). In his theory of territory of information, Kamio (1990, 1997, 2002) proposed that pragmatic rules of evidentials are different in Japanese than in English. Ishida (2006) studied these differences and argued that learners of Japanese (JF learners) face difficulties …

Language Proficiency And Academic Success Of Bilingual Hispanic Nursing Students, Cristina Dominguez

Nursing Theses and Dissertations

The United States (U.S.) experienced recent growth in its minority population. This requires an increase of culturally diverse healthcare providers. English as a second language (ESL) students face challenges such as overcoming their inability to write, comprehend, and communicate in a language different from their native tongue. The study explored the role of language proficiency on academic success among bilingual nursing students on the U.S. and Mexico border.

Cummins Language Proficiency Model guided the study, which aimed to answer whether the dimensions of language proficiency or language acculturation predicted self - assessed language proficiency and academic success. The relationship between …

Hoplistoscelis Sordidus (Heteroptera: Nabidae) In Canada, M. C. Lariviere

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Hoplistoscelis sordidus is recorded for the first time from Canada. The distribution of the species, its establishment in Canada, and its bionomics are discussed. Characters are given that distinguish Hoplistoscelis from all other eastern Canadian genera of Nabinae. The potential role of the genus as a biological control agent is also briefly outlined.

Moths Of The Douglas Lake Region (Emmet And Cheboygan Counties), Michigan: Iv. Geometridae (Lepidoptera), Edward G. Voss

The Great Lakes Entomologist

An account, with known flight periods indicated, of 165 species of Geometridae concludes listing of the "macrolepidoptera" from the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. About 44OJo of these are previously unreported for the region, and 12 species are previously unreported for Michigan in earlier lists for the state.

Location And Condition Of Whitemarked Tussock Moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) Cocoons In A Michigan Black Walnut Plantation, Louis F. Wilson

The Great Lakes Entomologist

Whitemarked tussock moth, Orgyia leucostigma, cocoons were monitored in a black walnut, Juglans nigra, plantation in Michigan from 1978 to 1981. Larvae spun cocoons on the exposed bark of the bole (29.6070), in crevices on the bole formed by pruning wounds (17.5%), beneath limbs (24.2%), and in branch crotches (28.7%). Parasites and predators destroyed 88% of the pupae in their cocoons. The tussock moth population, although moderate to high in the egg stage, decreased sufficiently in the larval stages each year to cause no more than 5010 defoliation to individual trees.

Full Issue 46(3)

International Journal of Speleology

No abstract provided.

How To Read The Black Atlantic, Brian J. Klarman

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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A Dog's Life, Matt Zachowski

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Application Of Radio Frequency Identification Technology In Libraries And Information Centres: An Indian Perspective, Neeraj Kumar Singh Mr., Preeti Mahajan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the present status of RFID application,benefitsrealisedafterimplementing RFID, problems faced during RFID adoption and its implementation in the libraries andinformationcentresofNorthern India. The survey method of research was adopted in this research. In order to assess the required information about the implementation of RFID technology from the librarian/Inchargeof the library of the nine selected institutions of Northern India, the data was collected through a questionnaire method. Moreover, the respondents were also interviewed to obtain more information.The present study shows that all the selected libraries in Northern India are in the initial stages of RFID …

The Statesman, V. 61, I. 13, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 61, i. 13;

Current, November 27, 2017, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper, November 29, 2017, George Fox University Archives

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper

Student Newspaper of George Fox University.

Columbia Chronicle (11/27/2017), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle (student newspaper)

Student newspaper from November 27, 2017 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 53, Issue 13. Cover story: "Slaying dragons, fears one game at a time". Editor-in-Chief: Zoe Eitel

Usa V. Michael Free

2017 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

2017 November 27 - Graduate Council Minutes, College Of Graduate And Continuing Studies, East Tennessee State University

Graduate Council Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Current, November 27, 2017, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Mmu: 11/27/17–12/03/17, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

Father Mike Committee

HLSA Raffle

ISBA Moot Court Tournament

Mass Schedule

Student Support

This Week @ NDLS

1L of the Week: Austin Ridgeway

Experimental Study Of The Rearrangements Of Valence Protons And Neutrons Amongst Single-Particle Orbits During Double- Β Decay In Mo 100, S. J. Freeman, D. K. Sharp, S. A. Mcallister, B. P. Kay, C. M. Deibel, T. Faestermann, R. Hertenberger, A. J. Mitchell, J. P. Schiffer, S. V. Szwec, J. S. Thomas, H. F. Wirth

Faculty Publications

The rearrangements of protons and neutrons amongst the valence single-particle orbitals during double-β decay of Mo100 have been determined by measuring cross sections in (d,p), (p,d), (He3,α), and (He3,d) reactions on Mo98,100 and Ru100,102 targets. The deduced nucleon occupancies reveal significant discrepancies when compared with theoretical calculations; the same calculations have previously been used to determine the nuclear matrix element associated with the decay probability of double-β decay of the Mo100 system.

Lunneborg V. My Fun Life Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45200

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, November 27, 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Daily Eastern News: November 27, 2017, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, November 27, 2017, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 27, 2017, issue of the Crow's Nest.

State V. Gibson Clerk's Record Dckt. 45449

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Biases In Metallicity Measurements From Global Galaxy Spectra: The Effects Of Flux Weighting And Diffuse Ionized Gas Contamination, Ryan L. L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Kai Zhang, Renbin Yan

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Galaxy metallicity scaling relations provide a powerful tool for understanding galaxy evolution, but obtaining unbiased global galaxy gas-phase oxygen abundances requires proper treatment of the various line-emitting sources within spectroscopic apertures. We present a model framework that treats galaxies as ensembles of H II and diffuse ionized gas (DIG) regions of varying metallicities. These models are based upon empirical relations between line ratios and electron temperature for H II regions, and DIG strong-line ratio relations from SDSS-IV MaNGA IFU data. Flux-weighting effects and DIG contamination can significantly affect properties inferred from global galaxy spectra, biasing metallicity estimates by more than …