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The Identity In-Between: A Historical Close Reading Of Sylvia Plath's "Morning Song", Allison Barrett

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Lindenwood Digest, September 12, 2017, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been an employee newsletter since 2009.

Bee Bullies, Sarah Schaier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Volume 115, Number 2 - Tuesday, September 12, 2017, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

No abstract provided.

Discovering Forensic Fraud, Jennifer D. Oliva, Valena E. Beety

NULR Online

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, September 12, 2017, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Preparing for a Future Without DACA

Rapid Litigation Management Ltd. V. Cellzdirect, Inc.: Limiting The Use Of Subject Matter As A Functional Barrier To Patent Eligibility In The Biotechnology Industry, Casey M. Olesen

Maine Law Review

In recent years, the biotechnology industry has surpassed a market worth of $200 billion dollars, with over 1.4 million jobs dependent on that market. However, the biotechnology industry is also uniquely dependent on the patent system to protect the huge investments of time and money required to bring new research to the market. Increasingly, courts have improperly used the Patent Act's Section 101 subject matter eligibility requirement as a functional barrier for new biotechnological patents, creating substantial uncertainty in the validity of many patents. In particular, the courts have utilized judicially created exceptions to allowable subject matter--laws of nature, natural …

Putting The Restroom Debate To Rest: Addressing Title Ix And Equal Protection In G.G. Ex Rel. Grimm V. Gloucester County School Board, Alexandra A. Harriman

Maine Law Review

Courts, legislatures, and citizens have been debating whether transgender students should use the restroom that corresponds to their biological sex, or whether they can choose to use the facilities which align with their gender identity. The Fourth Circuit decided that Title IX required the latter in G.G. ex. rel. Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, but that didn't settle the issue. To complicate things, the Trump Administration revoked the guidance that the Fourth Circuit had relied on. This Note argues that a court should resolve this once and for all by finding that a school policy that requires students to …

A Framework For Untangling Intents In Posthumous Sperm Extraction, Lark Zink

Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology

No abstract provided.

The Advent Of University-Level Packaging Scholarship: The Time, The Place And The People, Diana Twede, Laura Bix

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

In 1952, Michigan State College (MSC), now Michigan State University (MSU), was the first university in the world to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in Packaging. Other universities had previously offered related courses like canning (as part of a food science degree) or military packaging (in wartime), but MSU was the first to propose packaging as its own academic field of scholarship.

Other universities followed, sharing faculty and curriculum models developed at MSU. As a result, graduates’ careers in packaging now have a higher professional status, and universities play a key role in developing our international community of packaging …

Quantification Of Areal Extent Of Soil Erosion In Dryland Urban Areas: An Example From Windhoek, Namibia, Rosemary Shikangalah, Eva Paton, Florian Jetlsch, Niels Blaum

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Soil erosion, while often studied in dryland settings for rural regions, has only occasionally been studied in urban settings. This study maps and quantifies areal extent and severity of water erosion in a dryland city (Windhoek, Namibia) using a snap-shot field survey approach. The results show that nearly 56% of the city could be affected by water erosion with signs of accelerated erosion in the form of rills and gullies. These occur mainly in the underdeveloped, informal and semi-formal areas of the city. Factors influencing the extent of erosion in Windhoek include vegetation cover and type, socio-urban factors, and to …

Can The Global Forest Sector Survive 11°C Warming?, Alice Favero, Robert Mendelsohn, Brent Sohngen

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

It is well known that the forestry sector is sensitive to climate change but most studies have examined impacts only through 2100 and warming of less than 4°C. This is the first timber analysis to consider possible climate change impacts out to 2250 and warming up to 11°C above 1900 levels. The results suggest that large productivity gains through 2190 lead to a continued expansion of the global timber supply. However, as carbon fertilization effects diminish and continued warming causes forestland to continue to shrink, warming above 8°C is predicted to become harmful to the forest sector.

Challenges And Opportunities For Integrated Modeling Of Climate Engineering, Massimo Tavoni, Valentina Bosetti, Soheil Shayegh, Laurent Drouet, Johannes Emmerling, Sabine Fuss, Timo Goeschl, Celine Guivarch, Thomas S. Lontzek, Vassilik Manoussi, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Helene Muri, Martin Quaas, Wilfried Rickels

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

The Paris Agreement has set stringent temperature targets to limit global warming to 2°C above preindustrial level, with efforts to stay well below 2°C. At the same time, its bottom-up approach with voluntary national contributions makes the implementation of these ambitious targets particularly challenging. Climate engineering – both through carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM) – is currently discussed to potentially complement mitigation and adaptation. Results from integrated assessment models already suggest a significant role for some forms of climate engineering in achieving stringent climate objectives1. However, these estimates and their underlying assumptions are uncertain and currently …

Special Issue: Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding 2017, Steve Scheiner

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Even after more than a century of study [1–6], scrutiny, and detailed examination, the H-bond continues [7–12] to evoke a level of fascination that surpasses many other phenomena. Perhaps it is the ability of the simple H atom, with but a single electron, to act as a glue that maintains contact between much more complicated species. Or it might be its geometry, which prefers to hold the bridging proton on a direct line between the two heavy atoms. Not to be ignored are the spectral features of the H-bond: the large red shift of the stretching frequency of the covalent …

The Statesman, V. 61, I. 03, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 02, September 11, 2017, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Faculty Senate Agenda, September 11, 2017, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Research & Graduate Studies
• Graduate School Feedback

Hooper Edits Book On Neurobiology Of Motor Control Fundamental Concepts And New Directions, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Unh Student Discovers New Type Of Pituitary Cell In Lamprey, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

2017 September 11 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Space Data Industries, Abram Gibson (Pre-Med), Bruno Jacobsen, Axel Juslin, Philip Smith (Biology)

Nexus Maximus

Winner of the most entrepreneurial award for its concept of helping government institutions predict, understand and prepare for refugee migration flows through data insights.

A poster that explains a hypothetical company that helps proactively assist governments and refugees during the migration process. The company is based off of data from the groundbreaking nano-satellites being produced at Aalto University.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around …

Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Activity Predicts Internalizing And Externalizing Behaviors In Non-Referred Boys, Wei Zhang, Shawn E. Fagan, Yu Gao

Publications and Research

Atypical respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), a biomarker of emotion dysregulation, is associated with both externalizing and internalizing behaviors. In addition, social adversity and gender may moderate this association. In this study, we investigated if RSA (both resting RSA and RSA reactivity in an emotion regulation task) predicts externalizing and/or internalizing behaviors and the extent to which social adversity moderates this relationship. Two hundred and fifty-three children (at Time 1, mean age D 9.05, SD D 0.60, 48% boys) and their caregivers from the community participated in this study. Resting RSA and RSA reactivity were assessed, and caregivers reported children’s externalizing …

Daily Eastern News: September 11, 2017, Eastern Illinois University

September

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Effects Of Pectin Molecular Weight Changes On The Structure, Dynamics, And Polysaccharide Interactions Of Primary Cell Walls Of Arabidopsis Thaliana: Insights From Solid-State Nmr, Pyae Phyo, Tuo Wang, Chaowen Xiao, Charles T. Anderson, Mei Hong

Faculty Publications

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Significant cellulose-pectin interactions in plant cell walls have been reported recently based on 2D 13C solid-state NMR spectra of intact cell walls, but how these interactions affect cell growth has not been probed. Here, we characterize two Arabidopsis thaliana lines with altered expression of the POLYGALACTURONASE INVOLVED IN EXPANSION1 (PGX1) gene, which encodes a polygalacturonase that cleaves homogalacturonan (HG). PGX1AT plants overexpress PGX1, have HG with lower molecular weight, and grow larger, whereas pgx1-2 knockout plants have HG with higher molecular weight and grow smaller. Quantitative 13C solid-state NMR spectra show that PGX1AT cell walls …

The Spinnaker September 11, 2017, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community

2017-18 Faculty Senate Xxii - September 11, 2017 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Minutes 09/11/2017, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Fibroblast-Specific Tgf-Β–Smad2/3 Signaling Underlies Cardiac Fibrosis, Hadi Khalil, Onur Kanisicak, Vikram Prasad, Robert N. Correll, Xing Fu, Tobias Schips, Ronald J. Vagnozzi, Ruijie Liu, Thanh Huynh, Se-Jin Lee, Jason Karch, Jeffery D. Molkentin

Peer Reviewed Articles

The master cytokine TGF-β mediates tissue fibrosis associated with inflammation and tissue injury. TGF-β induces fibroblast activation and differentiation into myofibroblasts that secrete extracellular matrix proteins. Canonical TGF-β signaling mobilizes Smad2 and Smad3 transcription factors that control fibrosis by promoting gene expression. However, the importance of TGF-β–Smad2/3 signaling in fibroblast-mediated cardiac fibrosis has not been directly evaluated in vivo. Here, we examined pressure overload–induced cardiac fibrosis in fibroblast- and myofibroblast-specific inducible Cre-expressing mouse lines with selective deletion of the TGF-β receptors Tgfbr1/2, Smad2, or Smad3. Fibroblast-specific deletion of Tgfbr1/2 or Smad3, but not Smad2, markedly …

A Validated Measure For Fertility Awareness: An Essential Step Toward Informed Reproductive Decision-Making, Brennan Peterson

Marriage and Family Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

"The efforts by Kudesia and colleagues (1) to create and validate a fertility awareness survey is a vital development in the field of reproductive health care. The 29-item Fertility and Infertility Treatment Knowledge Score (FIT-KS) was created to measure fertility awareness and infertility treatment knowledge in the general population and among medical trainees. Using a combination of existing questionnaires, consultation with specialists in test construction, and clinical recommendations of an expert panel of 15 reproductive endocrinologists, the FIT-KS is the first of its kind in the United States. The authors should be commended for their foresight and attempts to address …

Where Are They Now: New Alumni Go On To Graduate School, Sarah Freske

Campus News Archive

University of Minnesota, Morris alumni go on to attend outstanding graduate schools, and members of the Class of 2017 are no exception. Torri Jordan ’17 and Megan Schrader ’17 are two of the many new Morris grads who are starting the school year at exceptional institutions.