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Toward A Mathematics For Life: Whitehead On Education, William Parker

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

The twentieth century mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, conceived the ideal education to be an adventure of the human spirit whereby the manifold aspects of the individual’s capacities are explored and developed. It’s not clear how much mathematics, viewed as a dry mechanical activity consisting of mere technical calculation, could contribute to education so conceived. Yet Whitehead considered mathematical training crucial for developing mental capacity in its abstract, general, and particular operations. Mathematical activity by its very nature promotes the modes of engagement that constitute the ideal education. Understanding is best facilitated by an education where the particular and …

Placebo Use In Clinical Practice, Lauren Lowy

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

This thesis examines placebos and their potential for use in clinical settings. I begin by defining “placebo” and “placebo effect” in various contexts, including associated biochemical mechanisms. I then discuss how expectation, conditioning, and patient-physician interactions influence the magnitude of the placebo effect on patients. My research delves into the difficulty of defining and measuring the placebo effect given its subjective nature, and supports the harnessing of this effect as a viable treatment option for certain conditions, including but not limited to depression and pain management. Finally, I address the accompanying ethical concerns of placebo use in clinical practice in …

Top To Bottom Shelf: Redistributive Crime, Alyssa Sangeeta Jacobson

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Loss prevention personnel in retail firms face difficult and expensive decisions regarding the technologies they should implement to reduce product loss and redistributive crime. Using Office Depot as a case study, this paper evaluates redistributive crime, which is the tendency for theft of unprotected products to increase when surveillance systems are placed on protected ones. I also analyze the security measures used to combat these crimes, focusing mainly on the Electronic Article Surveillance systems and the product loss for a single high-risk department as compared to several standard departments. My results allowed for the calculation of a loss prevention equilibrium …

Policing And Privacy: The Use Of Body Worn Cameras By Law Enforcement Officers, Ian Kaye

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

There is an apparent dilemma concerning the interactions between law enforcement personnel and civilians. In certain instances, law enforcement officers have acted brutally and unlawfully against suspects, or civilians have reported false claims of excessive force. A possible solution to reduce these problems is a policy requiring officers to wear Body Worn Cameras (BWC) while on duty. BWC’s have the potential to diminish excessive force in altercations between law enforcers and the general population. A claim of excessive force or unacceptable behavior and brutality can be disputed or confirmed with video evidence, although video cameras are not completely reliable due …

Phenotypic Characterization Of Mice Lacking Dna Repair In The Muscle, Danielle Hennessy-Wack

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

DNA is damaged by many environmental factors like ultraviolet light from the sun and even by by-products of normal metabolism in our bodies, for example reactive oxygen species. A mouse model was used to test the effects DNA damage has on aging and age-related diseases. Damaged DNA is an early sign of muscle aging. The ERCC1- XPF complex is important because it repairs DNA. Using the Cre-Lox system, we knocked-out the Ercc1 gene in differentiated myocytes or muscle fibers. We measured body weight, fat content, muscle strength, and the ability of muscle to break down glucose, and found no comparable …

Age Related And Methamphetamine-Associated Changes To Basolateral Amygdala Spine Density In Young To Adolescent Animals, Jillian Herman

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Early development and adolescence are critical periods for humans and rodent brain development which makes teenage drug use particularly worrisome. We previously demonstrated that dendritic spine density increased following METH training in adult animals. Given the importance of these critical periods for neuronal development and the importance of dendritic spines for memory formation the first aim was to examine basolateral amygdala (BLA) spine density in mice postnatal day 16-20 and 28-35. Furthermore, the effect of METH training on BLA dendritic spine density in adolescent animals was also examined. We found that there were no significant differences in the spine density …

Projection And Impression: Construction Of Anxiety In The Horror Story, Alexandra Harrington

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Derek Attridge and Wolfgang Iser’s argument that fiction possesses the ability to change the reader shows that the reader is permanently altered by their exposure to the horror story. Horror texts employ both narratorial and structural devices to build tension while implementing images and tropes meant to evoke unease in the reader. By causing the reader to experience anxiety through these devices, horror novels transform the reader into a victim. This victimization of the reader is furthered through the horror novel’s ability to transcend the page and affect the reader physically. The reader’s perception of their surroundings are also affected …

Invasion Assay Of Melanoma Cells Wm115 And Wm266-4, Dominique Davis

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of zinc-dependent endopeptidases that play an important role in tumor growth and invasion (Gialeli, 2010). They can degrade cell-adhesion molecules that allow for cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions, which is necessary for cancer cells to degrade physical barriers (Gialeli, 2010). The presence of MMPs in cancer cells help promote cell invasion. In this project, melanoma cell lines WM115 (primary) and WM266-4 (metastatic) were used to conduct the invasion assay. The invasion assay was designed and optimized to test the ability of the cell to cut and pass through the collagen membrane. Next, a general …

Optogenetic Control Of Grooming In Nf1 Mutant Drosophila Melanogaster, Éamonn Byrnes

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Neurofibromatosis is an inherited neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the tumor suppressor gene NF1 in humans. Symptoms include nerve tumors, learning impairment, and ADHD. The cognitive effects of neurofibromatosis were studied by using grooming as a behavioral phenotype of Nf1 mutations in Drosophila melanogaster. Previous studies indicate Nf1 mutations increase grooming up to seven times. If Nf1 mutant flies are optogenetically stimulated, will grooming levels increase? The CsChrimson protein can be stimulated with light to excite motor neurons of flies and initiate grooming. Drosophila subjects were placed in a chamber, stimulated with red light, and a camera recorded grooming …

On The Rag, On The Web: An Analysis Of Textual And Visual Content Found On Traditional And Alternative Menstrual Product Websites, Genesis Marie R. Buendia

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Menstruation is historically a taboo topic, and people see periods as a curse rather than a natural experience of the body. Past media content such as menstrual advertisements found in magazines and on televisions often depicted women doing activities as if they did not have a period. People bought traditional menstrual products to be free from embarrassment only to be controlled by consumerism. These advertisements were one of the few sources of information regarding menstruation due to the silence on the topic. Present media content found on menstrual product websites, however, show a shift in ideology. I argue that, unlike …

Well Enough Alone: Stories, Sarah Jane Huskey

Theses and Dissertations

This collection of short stories aims to capture the difficulties of telling anything at all, let alone the truth, the whole story, or the abstract reality. Though its thematic concerns might seem a bit cheerless at first blush, Well Enough Alone aims to treat them as prominent features of day-to-day life rather than gloomy afflictions or the loci of trauma.

A Phenomenological Investigation Of Counselor Competencies In Working With Children Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder And Their Families, Katherine A. Feather

Theses and Dissertations

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a profound diagnosis that affects 1% of the world’s population (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]; 2015a). Counselors can play a dynamic role in treating ASD and promoting greater life satisfaction; however, the counseling field has not identified how counselors develop their competencies working with children with ASD and their families. Therefore, the phenomenological investigation examined the experiences of 15 counselors in the field and their self-perceived competencies of treating ASD. A model of ASD counseling competencies development emerged from the data. Participants described the developmental components of Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies …

Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series (Biomiss) 2016 - 2017, Libbye A. Morris

Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series (BioMISS)

No abstract provided.

Hslic Annual Report Fy2016-17, University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

HSLIC Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Dockyard, Naval Base And Town: The Social And Political Dynamics Of Plymouth 1800-1950, Gh Bennett

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Nidus Idearum. Scilogs, Iii: Viva La Neutrosophia!, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Welcome into my scientific lab! My lab[oratory] is a virtual facility with noncontrolled conditions in which I mostly perform scientific meditation and chats: a nest of ideas (nidus idearum, in Latin). I called the jottings herein scilogs (truncations of the words scientific, and gr. Λόγος – appealing rather to its original meanings "ground", "opinion", "expectation"), combining the welly of both science and informal (via internet) talks (in English, French, and Romanian). * In this third book of scilogs collected from my nest of ideas, one may find new and old questions and solutions, referring to topics on NEUTROSOPHY – email …

An Outline Of Cellular Automaton Universe Via Cosmological Kdv Equation, Florentin Smarandache, Victor Christianto, Yunita Umniyati

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

It has been known for long time that the cosmic sound wave was there since the early epoch of the Universe. Signatures of its existence are abound. However, such a sound wave model of cosmology is rarely developed fully into a complete framework. This paper can be considered as our second attempt towards such a complete description of the Universe based on soliton wave solution of cosmological KdV equation. Then we advance further this KdV equation by virtue of Cellular Automaton method to solve the PDEs. We submit wholeheartedly Robert Kuruczs hypothesis that Big Bang should be replaced with a …

A Bipolar Single Valued Neutrosophic Isolated Graphs: Revisited, Florentin Smarandache, Said Broumi, Assia Bakali, Mohamed Talea, Mohsin Khan

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this research paper, the graph of the bipolar single-valued neutrosophic set model (BSVNS) is proposed. The graphs of single valued neutrosophic set models is generalized by this graph. For the BSVNS model, several results have been proved on complete and isolated graphs. Adding, an important and suitable condition for the graphs of the BSVNS model to become an isolated graph of the BSVNS model has been demonstrated.

An Operational View In Computational Construction Of Information, Florentin Smarandache, Stefan Vladutescu, Constantin Dima, Valeriu Voinea

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The paper aims to explain the technology of emergence of information. Our research proves that information as communicational product is the result of processing within some operations, actions, mechanisms and strategies of informational material meanings. Are determined eight computational-communicative operations of building information. Information occurs in two communication phases, syncretic and the segregation-synthetic. The syncretic phase consists of four operations: referral of significant field, primary delimitation of information, detection-looking information and an anticipative-draft constitution (feedforward). The segregation-synthetic phase also includes four operations: discrimination, identification, interpretation and confrontation (feedback). In the future we will investigate informational actions, mechanisms and strategies.

A Lattice Theoretic Look: A Negated Approach To Adjectival (Intersective, Neutrosophic And Private) Phrases, Florentin Smarandache, Selcuk Topal

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Computation Of Shortest Path Problem In A Network With Sv-Triangular Neutrosophic Numbers, Florentin Smarandache, Said Broumi, Assia Bakali, Mohamed Talea

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this article, we present an algorithm method for finding the shortest path length between a paired nodes on a network where the edge weights are characterized by single valued triangular neutrosophic numbers. The proposed algorithm gives the shortest shortest path length from source node to destination node based on a ranking method. Finally, a numerical example is also presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.

Curiozităţi Ale Funcţiilor Supermatematice, Florentin Smarandache, Mircea Eugen Selariu

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Numbers In Base B That Generate Primes With Help The Luhn Function Of Order Ω, Florentin Smarandache, Octavian Cira

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

We put the problem to determine the sets of integers in base b ≥ 2 that generate primes with using a function.

The Use Of The Pivot Pairwise Relative Criteria Importance Assessment Method For Determining The Weights Of Criteria, Florentin Smarandache, Dragisa Stanujkic, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Darjan Karabasevic, Zenonas Turskis

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The weights of evaluation criteria could have a significant impact on the results obtained by applying multiple criteria decision-making methods. Therefore, the two extensions of the SWARA method that can be used in cases when it is not easy, or even is impossible to reach a consensus on the expected importance of the evaluation criteria are proposed in this paper. The primary objective of the proposed extensions is to provide an understandable and easy-to-use approach to the collecting of respondents’ real attitudes towards the significance of evaluation criteria and to also provide an approach to the checking of the reliability …

P-Union And P-Intersection Of Neutrosophic Cubic Sets, Florentin Smarandache, Young Bae Jun, Chang Su Kim

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Conditions for the P-intersection and P-intersection of falsity-external (resp. indeterminacy-external and truth-external) neutrosophic cubic sets to be an falsity-external (resp. indeterminacy-external and truthexternal) neutrosophic cubic set are provided. Conditions for the Punion and the P-intersection of two truth-external (resp. indeterminacyexternal and falsity-external) neutrosophic cubic sets to be a truthinternal (resp. indeterminacy-internal and falsity-internal) neutrosophic cubic set are discussed.

Multicriteria Decision Making Using Double Refined Indeterminacy Neutrosophic Cross Entropy And Indeterminacy Based Cross Entropy, Ilanthenral Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Double Refined Indeterminacy Neutrosophic Set (DRINS) is an inclusive case of the refined neutrosophic set, defined by Smarandache [1], which provides the additional possibility to represent with sensitivity and accuracy the uncertain, imprecise, incomplete, and inconsistent information which are available in real world.

More precision is provided in handling indeterminacy; by classifying indeterminacy (I) into two, based on membership; as indeterminacy leaning towards truth membership (IT ) and indeterminacy leaning towards false membership (IF ). This kind of classification of indeterminacy is not feasible with the existing Single Valued Neutrosophic Set (SVNS), but it is a particular case of the …

Special Types Of Bipolar Single Valued Neutrosophic Graphs, Ali Hassan, Muhammad Aslam Malik, Said Broumi, Assia Bakali, Mohamed Talea, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Neutrosophic theory has many applications in graph theory, bipolar single valued neutrosophic graphs (BSVNGs) is the generalization of fuzzy graphs and intuitionistic fuzzy graphs, SVNGs. In this paper we introduce some types of BSVNGs, such as subdivision BSVNGs, middle BSVNGs, total BSVNGs and bipolar single valued neutrosophic line graphs (BSVNLGs), also investigate the isomorphism, co weak isomorphism and weak isomorphism properties of subdivision BSVNGs, middle BSVNGs, total BSVNGs and BSVNLGs.

Neutrosophic Quadruple Algebraic Hyperstructures, A. A. A. Agboola, B. Davvaz, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The objective of this paper is to develop neutrosophic quadruple algebraic hyperstructures. Specifically, we develop neutrosophic quadruple semihypergroups, neutrosophic quadruple canonical hypergroups and neutrosophic quadruple hyperrings and we present elementary properties which characterize them.

Hyperuncertain, Superuncertain, And Superhyperuncertain Sets/Logics/Probabilities/Statistics, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this paper, we define for the first time the HyperUncertain, SuperUncertain, and SuperHyperUncertain Sets/Logics/Probabilities/Statistics, the classical case (when the appurtenance degree of a generic element belongs to the unit interval [0, 1]), and the non-classical case (when the appurtenance degree of a generic element is outside on the interval [0, 1]; such theories are called Over/Under/Off-Sets/Logics/Probabilities/Statistics). We prove that the Unary SuperHyperFunction is a generalization of all Uncertain Sets/Logics/Probabilities.

Information Seeking Behavior Of Visually Impaired Students In Maulana Azad Library, Amu: A Survey, Nishat Fatima Dr., Dolly Kumari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information seeking is a form of human behavior that involves seeking for information by means of the active examination of information sources or information retrieval systems to satisfy the information need or to solve a problem. This study explores the information seeking behavior of visually impaired students in Maulana Azad Library, AMU. The purpose of the study is to examine the information seeking behavior of visually impaired students in Maulana Azad Library, AMU. A well structured schedule (Performa containing assets of questions) was designed and administered among the visually impaired students. The schedules were also supplemented by informal interviews. The …