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The Bg News November 27, 2017, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 27, 2017. Volume 97-Issue 30.

Polyploidy And Hybridization Have A Role In Plant Distribution In The United States: A Bioinformatics Study, Andrea Ortiz

Biology Theses

Introduction: Polyploidy is the doubling of a genome. Autopolyploidy and allopolyploidy are two different modes of genome duplication. These events are common in angiosperms and usually involve diploids and tetraploids, a resulting polyploid species. Both cytotypes exhibit competitive exclusion and environmental adaptation according to their spatial distributions. My research focuses on how abiotic environmental factors affect the range and the amount of range overlap of the taxon within the Callisia graminea and Allium canadense systems over time. Niche modeling determines whether there is substantial niche overlap between the Callisia graminea diploid and tetraploid, whether range shifts occur between the Callisia …

The Chuck Norris-Saurus, Brad Melville

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

The dinosaurs went extinct because of the Chuck Norris-saurus.

Chuck Norris And Cyanide, Brad Melville

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Chuck Norris’s initials are the same as the chemical compound cyanide, which is a deadly poison. This is not a coincidence.

Ghost Warnings, Nicole Pope

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[Kay]: Ok so this next story is basically an eerie type of ghost story which um my grandparents told me. a lot of things come from my grandparents because they're freakin cool [smiles] anyway um so we have a saying where if you ever see a ghost or a relative like especially like a dead relative as a ghost ever in your life that means that they are warning you or you're life is near end. it's just kind of creepy and the eery thing about it is that they will just look at you I don't know I think …

Dragonflies And Swimming, Nicole Pope

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[Me]: So do you want to tell me a little bit about the dragonfly story you were telling me earlier?

[Kay]: Ok so when I was younger my grandparents would tell me that I needed to swim and they threatened all the children to ugh catch a dragonfly they'll use the dragonfly and put it on your belly button and let it bite us until we could swim and [pauses] I am terrified until now about dragonflies [laughs]

[Me]: you don't like dragonflies? [Kay]: I don't like dragonflies. yep

Sainte Anne's Retreat Legend Tripping, Dylan Cahoon

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

I first heard of the nunnery when I was a freshman in 2012. Me and a friend met some people in a parking lot who said they were going to a haunted nunnery and invited us to go with. We rode up the canyon in the back of their truck and all I remember is getting out, walking around with phone flash lights and looking at old abandoned buildings. I don't remember who I was with or any of the story behind the nunnery.

My sophomore year I met Dylan Cahoon and my life was forever changed. We drove up …

Saint Anne's Retreat Legend Trip, Dylan Cahoon

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Every student that goes to USU hears the story of the Nunnery. How its haunted by the spirits of babies that were drowned in the swimming pool. During our sophomore year we went out to the Nunnery on a dark, rainy night. Which made it much creepier. We had a decent sized group, maybe a dozen or so. We went around looking at the spooky, run-down old buildings. Then we went inside the main building. There were bats flying around and signs that someone been their recently so after some brief exploration we left.

Conducting And Ensemble Direction 1500 To 1800: The Evidence Of Selected Theorists, Mathias Elmer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation discusses writings on conducting and ensemble direction from 1500 to 1800 with a focus on time-beating technique, the development of modern conducting patterns, and the function of the most common types of ensemble direction in the eighteenth century: the Kapellmeister, the keyboardist-leader, the violinist-leader, and the double-leadership. Evidence are writings of selected theorists from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century; all primary sources which are originally written in either German, French, or Italian are revised and presented with a side-by-side English translation. The examination on time-beating includes treatises from 1532 until 1768 by the theorists Martin Agricola, Etienne …

A Bilingual Diabetes Self-Management Education Program For Hispanic Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Juanita Castillo

DNP and Student Works

The aim of this intervention was to determine whether diabetes self-management education will help Hispanics/Latinos with type 2 diabetes mellitus change unhealthy behaviors and effectively manage their disease. Healthcare free clinics serve a large majority of Hispanic/Latino patients who could benefit from a formalized diabetes education program.

Being-With Dying: Tacit Wisdom Embedded In The Experiences Of Nurses Who Attend To Dying, Virginia L. Burton

Dissertations

Dying persons and their family members have needs that are notably unidentified and unmet in the United States today. This is in large part due to health professionals' being unprepared to provide end of life care that assists persons in their transition from dying to death with personal dignity and peace. Martin Heidegger's existential, interpretive phenomenology informed this study, providing the philosophical background, structures, language and metaphors to interpret narratives for patterns of being-with dying.

Implementing Authentic Materials Through Critical Friends Group (Cfg): A Case From Turkey, Elif Basak Gunbay, Enisa Mede

The Qualitative Report

The purpose of this exploratory case study is to investigate the use of authentic materials through Critical Friends Groups (CFG) in a language preparatory program, at a private university in Turkey. Specifically, the study attempted to identify the perceptions and observed behaviours of native and non-native EFL instructors on the use of authentic materials, find out the potential reasons behind the implementation of authentic materials in their classroom practices and finally, examine the influence of incorporating authentic materials through CFG on classrooms practices as well as teachers’ professional development. The participants were eight EFL instructors offering English courses in the …

Dedan Kimathi On Trial : Colonial Justice And Popular Memory In Kenya’S Mau Mau Rebellion, Julie Macarthur

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an already contentious Kenyan history and its reverberations in the postcolonial present.

Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau Mau Rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate …

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 27, November 27, 2017, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Effectiveness Of Motivational Interviewing-Based Telephone Follow-Up In Diabetes Management, Jasseena Veliyathumalil

DNP and Student Works

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic complex disease requiring persistent self-management by patients and ongoing support from the providers. The outpatient diabetes clinic of a teaching hospital in the Midwest has 78.3% patients with uncontrolled diabetes. The purpose of the project was to assess the effectiveness of telephone follow up using motivational interviewing techniques in improving glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), glycemic control, and self-efficacy of patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes.

November 27, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Agenda, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Armstrong Faculty Senate Agenda (Archived)

November 27, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Agenda

Headteacher Performance Management In England: Balancing Internal And External Accountability Through Performance Leadership, M Crawford, D Eddy-Spicer, S Bubb, P Earley

Plymouth Institute of Education

No abstract provided.

(Dis)Appearing Subjects: Managing Violence Through The Discourse Of Bullying, Rachel E. Levitt

American Studies ETDs

In the early 2000’s, “bullying” became the new center of LGBTQ justice organizing. As part of this development a bullied subject emerged. This bullied person on whose behalf liberation was being sought took various forms from the bullied school shooter, to the cyberbullying victim, to the bullied suicidal queer. As the subtitle of my dissertation suggests, I focus on “managing violence through the discourse of bullying.” This marks a two part process: how the discourse of bullying manages to do violence and how it manages populations biopolitically. This study tackles one of the core paradoxes that inform the formation of …

November 27, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Supporting Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder In Understanding And Coping With Complex Social Emotional Issues, Kaitlyn P. Ahlers, Terisa P. Gabrielsen, Danielle Lewis, Anna M. Brady, April Litchford

Faculty Publications

Core deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) center around social communication and behavior. For those with ASD, these deficits complicate the task of learning how to cope with and manage complex social emotional issues. Although individuals with ASD may receive sufficient academic and basic behavioral support in school settings, supports for dealing with complex social emotional issues are more difficult to access, even though these issues significantly impact student learning. When addressing these challenging social- and emotional-based issues, school and professional personnel need more specific instructional skill sets and resources to effectively and compassionately support students with ASD. In this …

Christmas Morning Rolls, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Christmas Morning Rolls

1pkg. butterscotch pudding mix (not instant)

½ c. butter

¾ c. brown sugar

½ c. nuts [Nuts, however, can be removed to taste]

18-24 Rhodes frozen dinner rolls

Grease pan. Arrange rolls in pain loosely.

Sprinkle pudding over rolls. Cook butter, brown sugar

and nuts till sugars dissolved. Pour sugar mixture

over rolls. Cover w/tin foil. Let stand on

counter over night.

[on reverse side of recipe]:

Christmas Morning bake 350 for 30 min.

Move it immediately into a deep dish. Don’t get

burned!

Merry Christmas

Dutch Oven Ham, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

So, the, my dad started getting into Dutch Oven cooking when he went to Woodbadge I think is when he started getting into it. And, um, so we were out East — and there weren’t as many people that did Dutch Oven cooking, my dad’s really into it now— he even, designed and had someone manufacture his own Dutch oven table. Anyway so as he started doing this —I’m not sure where he got the recipe, but he makes this, um, Coke ham. So you buy the cheap ham, um smoked ham? Is that right?

Jenn: No.

No, oh, you’re …

The Cupcake Chug, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

So, the woodwind bus at Sky View, for every competition, woodwind captain would pass out all the cupcakes, and give a speech of some kind, usually motivating, and we would say ‘cupcake chug on three’ and everyone would yell ‘three!’, and you’d shove in your cupcake and eat it as fast as you can and it had to be totally swallowed, nothing in the mouth, and as soon as you were done you’d slap the ceiling of the bus, and winner got bragging rights

Interviewer: So, this was in, a, school bus on the way to…?

A band competition, competitions …

Examining The Relationship Between Park Neighborhoods, Features, Cleanliness, And Condition With Observed Weekday Park Usage And Physical Activity: A Case Study, Kerry Hamilton, Andrew T. Kaczynski, Melissa L. Fair, Lucie Levesque

Faculty Publications

Background. Little research has comprehensively explored how park features, quality indicators, and neighborhood environments are associated with observed park usage and physical activity (PA). This case study examined whether weekday park usage and PA differ by neighborhood type, across numerous categories of park features, and according to park feature condition and cleanliness. Methods. Direct observation was used to capture the number of users and PA levels within 143 park features in 6 parks (3 urban, 3 suburban) over the course of six weeks. Audits of park environments assessed the type, condition, and cleanliness of all features and amenities. …

Norwegian Missionary Linguistic Mishap, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[Interviewer introduces the topic of a family legend about the informant’s religious, LDS mission to Norway, and some of the linguistic troubles some of the American missionaries had while learning Norwegian.]

Well the fun part about learning a new language is that you get to learn that they have, different words for, to mean different things. So a good example of that in English is change, and, in English you can have change on a dollar and so you have coins, or you can have, um, a, change your clothes, from you know, change your clothes, you can change you …

Special Hot Chocolate Recipe, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Um, Hot chocolate has become a, premium item in our house, ‘cause every time, we make it uh, Josh has to make it, ‘cause he has a special way of making it, with the dry, hot chocolate powder and then, a bunch of non-dairy creamer, on top then put the water in, mix it up so it has a big ole chunk of foam at the top, put it in the microwave, make sure it doesn’t, boil over ‘cause that makes a sticky mess, and it makes a nice kind of almost crunch on the top, so we don’t, we …

Christmas Eve Pizza, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Becca: Our mom’s family, her dad is Italian, and when they moved to Mantua everyone in Mantua is Dutch, primarily Dutch, who has very traditional ham, Christmas dinner, and they went ‘You know what, we’re Italian, we should do something different’, so they made homemade pizza, crust and everything for Christmas dinner.

Ben: Christmas Eve Dinner

Becca: Yeah we do it on Christmas Eve

Ben: Oh, so they did it on Christmas dinner

Jenn: Yeah, that’s because we get all together, we would, for most of our, childhood we’d get together with that family for Christmas Day, and we’d have …

Farghis, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Josh: So, the Story goes that Ben was at a band competition and—

Jenn: no he wasn’t he was at a demolition derby

Josh: oh was it? I remembered it as at a stadium —

Ben: yeah, it was a fundraiser —

Josh: Oh you were at a demolition derby as a band to work at the, concessions yes, and you were walking by and there was a inch of booths or whatever and there was one booth, and it was for a music store, the local music store, and they had a drawing for a guitar, and you had …

Superman's Underwear, Brad Melville

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[quietly]. Uh, okay, I got one. [Regular voice] Most people wear Superman underwear. Superman wears Chuck Norris underwear

A Historical Overview Of The Impact Of The Reformation On East Asia, Christina Han

Consensus

No abstract provided.