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54th Annual Holiday Wassail Concert, Chapman University Singers, Chapman University Choir, Chapman University Women's Choir, Chapman Orchestra

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

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54th Annual Holiday Wassail Concert, Chapman University Singers, Chapman University Choir, Chapman University Women's Choir, Chapman Orchestra

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Connected And Automated Vehicle Technology: Business And Regulatory Issues, University Of Michigan Law School

Event Materials

A program for December 2017 Problem Solving Initiative at the University of Michigan Law School on the topic of automated vehicle technology.

Implementing “Level 3” automation (i.e., the driving mode in which an automated driving system performs the driving task until the human driver is asked to take over) is a significant legal/regulatory, technological, and business challenge. Many issues are presented: How do we assess the costs and benefits of Level 3 automation? How does one address the car to human driver “handoff?” What type of licensing and training of the human driver should be required? What will prevent the …

2017-December-08-Secret History Of Rdx, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2017-December-08-'Twilight' Story Slam, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Changes In The Utilization Of Osteoporosis Drugs After The 2010 Fda Bisphosphonate Drug Safety Communication, Bander Balkhi, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Introduction

In October 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety communication regarding the risks of atypical fractures of the femur, with bisphosphonates drugs. This study evaluated the impact of the bisphosphonates FDA safety communication on the utilization of osteoporosis medications in Medicaid programs.

Methods

Osteoporosis drugs utilization data from the July 2006 to June 2014 were extracted from the national Summary Files from the Medicaid State Drug Utilization Data maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We performed an interrupted time series analyses to evaluate trends in utilization of osteoporosis drugs before and …

Senior Recital: Kynan Draa Clymore, Violin, Kynan Draa Clymore, Arie Motschman, Anthony Newman, Justin Rawlings, Muhammad Askari

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Mr. Clymore studies violin with Kenn Wagner.

Hyland Arena Plays Host To National Guard ‘Welcome Home’ Ceremony, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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The Relevance And Resiliency Of The Humanities, Stephen C. Behrendt

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Discussion has grown increasingly urgent among those involved in the humanities; threats to funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts are only the most highly visible indicators of what many call a “war on the humanities.” The issue is a familiar one. With everyone’s finances under increasing stress, there is mounting pressure to “cut back on nonessentials,” and among both educational institutions and the broader public community, the humanities seem easy targets for the cutters and the pruners. There’s a general sense that the humanities are not very useful when it comes …

The 13th Data Release Of The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data From The Sdss-Iv Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies At Apache Point Observatory, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida, Friedrich Anders, Scott Anderson, Brett H. Andrews, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Maria Argudo-Fernández, Eric Armengaud, Eric Aubourg, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Stephen Bailey, Beatriz Barbuy, Kat Barger, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Curtis Bartosz, Sarbani Basu, Dominic Bates, Giuseppina Battaglia, Falk Baumgarten, Julien Baur, Julian Bautista, Timothy C. Beers, Francesco Belfiore, Matthew Bershady, Sara Bertran De Lis, Jonathan C. Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Renbin Yan, Kai Zhang

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in 2014 July. It pursues three core programs: the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2), Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA), and the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). As well as its core program, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) and the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS). This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13). DR13 makes publicly available the first 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA. It …

Ran Translation At C9orf72-Associated Repeat Expansions Is Selectively Enhanced By The Integrated Stress Response, Katelyn M. Green, M. Rebecca Glineburg, Michael G. Kearse, Brittany N. Flores, Alexander E. Linsalata, Stephen J. Fedak, Aaron C. Goldstrohm, Sami J. Barmada, Peter K. Todd

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Repeat-associated non-AUG (RAN) translation allows for unconventional initiation at disease-causing repeat expansions. As RAN translation contributes to pathogenesis in multiple neurodegenerative disorders, determining its mechanistic underpinnings may inform therapeutic development. Here we analyze RAN translation at G₄C₂ repeat expansions that cause C9orf72-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (C9RAN) and at CGG repeats that cause fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome. We find that C9RAN translation initiates through a cap- and eIF4A-dependent mechanism that utilizes a CUG start codon. C9RAN and CGG RAN are both selectively enhanced by integrated stress response (ISR) activation. ISR-enhanced RAN translation requires an …

Uab This Week: Dec. 8, Staff

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Uab Extends 100 Gigabit Speed Internet To Innovation Depot, Staff

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New Artplay Arts Classes, Private Lessons Announced For 2018, Shannon Thomason

Browse All News

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Immigration-Related Identity Markers And Well-Being In Academia: Perceptions Of Conflict At Work And Life Satisfaction Among Foreign-Born Professors In The United States, Elena Gheorghiu

Doctor of International Conflict Management Dissertations

Although immigrant professionals contribute significantly to the American economy, their processes of adaptation to the host country and integration into work departments has not been sufficiently examined. Based on a survey of 241 immigrant professors in the United States, the current study sought to reveal how immigration-related identity markers, that is acculturation strategy adopted and migrant personality, impact the levels of private life satisfaction, work satisfaction, and perceptions of conflict at work. Results of Ordinary Least Squares regression analyses revealed that maintaining a balance between original cultural values and local ones, as well as scoring towards the lower-end of the …

Daily Eastern News: December 08, 2017, Eastern Illinois University

December

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How Do Slums Change The Relationship Between Urbanization And The Carbon Intensity Of Well-Being?, Julius Mcgee, Christina Ergas, Patrick Trent Greiner, Matthew Thomas Clement

Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study examines how the relationship between urbanization (measured as the percentage of total population living in urban areas) and the carbon intensity of well-being (CIWB) (measured as a ratio of carbon dioxide emissions and life expectancy) in most nations from 1960±2013 varies based on the economic context and whereabouts of a substantial portion of a nation's urban population. To accomplish this, we use the United Nations' (UN) definition of slum households to identify developing countries that have substantial slum populations, and estimate a Prais-Winsten regression model with panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE), allowing for disturbances that are heteroskedastic and contemporaneously …

Student Affairs Minutes 12/08/2017, Student Affairs Committee

Student Affairs Committee

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Microstructural Behavior And Multiscale Structure-Property Relations For Cyclic Loading Of Metallic Alloys Procured From Additive Manufacturing (Laser Engineered Net Shaping -- Lens), Mohammad Ali Bagheri

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this study is to investigate the microstructure and microstructure-based fatigue (MSF) model of additively-manufactured (AM) metallic materials. Several challenges associated with different metals produced through additive manufacturing (Laser Enhanced Net Shaping – LENS®) have been addressed experimentally and numerically. Significant research efforts are focused on optimizing the process parameters for AM manufacturing; however, achieving a homogenous, defectree AM product immediately after its fabrication without postabrication processing has not been fully established yet. Thus, in order to adopt AM materials for applications, a thorough understanding of the impact of AM process parameters on the mechanical behavior of AM …

Genetic Analysis Of The Major Capsid Protein Of The Archaeal Fusellovirus Ssv1: Mutational Flexibility And Conformational Change, Eric A. Iverson, David A. Goodman, Madeline E. Gorchels, Kenneth M. Stedman

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Viruses with spindle or lemon-shaped virions are rare in the world of viruses, but are common in viruses of archaeal extremophiles, possibly due to the extreme conditions in which they thrive. However, the structural and genetic basis for the unique spindle shape is unknown. The best-studied spindle-shaped virus, Sulfolobus Spindle-shaped Virus 1 (SSV1), is composed mostly of the major capsid protein VP1. Similar to many other viruses, proteolytic cleavage of VP1 is thought to be critical for virion formation. Unlike half of the genes in SSV1, including the minor capsid protein gene VP3, the VP1 gene does not tolerate …

The Pepperbox - December 8, 2017, Student Newspaper Of Arcata High School

The Pepperbox

Volume 90, Number 3

Photoelectron Angular Distributions From Rotationally Resolved Autoionizing States Of N2, Alexander M. Chartrand, Elizabeth F. Mccormack, Ugo Jacovella, David M P Holland, Berenger Gans, Xiaofeng Tang, Gustavo A. García, Laurent Nahon, Stephen T. Pratt

Physics Faculty Research and Scholarship

The single-photon, photoelectron-photoion coincidence spectrum of N₂ has been recorded at high (~1.5 cm^–1 ) resolution in the region between the N₂⁺ X ²Σ_g⁺, v⁺ = 0 and 1 ionization thresholds by using a double-imaging spectrometer and intense vacuum-ultraviolet light from the Synchrotron SOLEIL. This approach provides the relative photoionization cross section, the photoelectron energy distribution, and the photoelectron angular distribution as a function of photon energy. The region of interest contains autoionizing valence states, vibrationally autoionizing Rydberg states converging to vibrationally excited levels of the N₂⁺ X ^{2 …}

An Investigative Study Toward The Development Of A Crosslinked Porcine Xenograft Meniscus Total Replacement, Patrick Ehren Barton

Theses and Dissertations

Meniscus damage is very common and eventually leads to the deterioration of the entire knee joint. The goal of this study was to provide evidence that supports a proof of concept for a decellularized porcine meniscal xenograft to be used as a treatment method for meniscal injury as a partial or full meniscus transplant. This research adapted an antigen removal protocol for articular cartilage to produce decellularized xenografts in 48% of the time and with no significant difference in DNA content as other current methods. DNA and GAG content, and the compression moduli were significantly lower in the xenograft than …

An Analysis Of The Perceptions Of Quality Professional Development And Its Relationship To Teacher Turnover, Job Satisfaction, And School Performance, Cammesha Rana Sims

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between educators' perceptions of the quality of Professional Development to which they have been exposed and the three outcomes related to school productivity, specifically teacher retention, job satisfaction, and student proficiency in basic skills. For that purpose, secondary data extracted from the 2013 administration of the Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning Questionairre (TELL) were merged with pertinent school demographic information archived on the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) website.The results of the Hierarchial Multiple Regression indicated that the teacher- perceived quality of Professional Development appeared to make a substantial contribution …

Effectiveness Of Gluteal Muscle Strengthening In Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis, Patrick Idowu

Honors Capstones

Providing gluteal strengthening for people hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a widely used treatment approach. One of the most common deficits affecting hip OA identified by physical therapist is the weakness in the gluteal muscles. The efficacy of treatment using gluteal muscle strengthening is explored in this review.

[2017-12-08] Meeting Of The Academic And Health Affairs Policy Committee, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

The Automatic Bartender, Richard Wu, Alex Nassar, Keegan Lathrum

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

The automatic bartender will hold 2 liquors and 2 mixers. When the user selects the option to make a drink, the device will pour out the required amounts of liquid into a container, via tubing that feeds into the container. The container has an internal stirrer to mix the components together, and then empties into a cup. The end result is a finished cocktail, and the machine is designed for residential use.

2018 Asme Student Design Competition - Group T Senior Design Project, Thomas Hess, Anker Anderson, Drew Daugherty, Jack Dufelmeier

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

The purpose of this project is to create a single soccer playing robot to compete in the 2018 ASME student design competition. The robot, along with spare parts and all other devices must fit inside a 50x50x50 cm box. This robot must be able to traverse the field via remote control and have the ability to control a tennis ball and shoot it with sufficient force.

Torsional Stiffness Measuring Device, Cheyne Shiroma, Clayton Over, Nadab Wubshet

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

This device will measure the torsional stiffness of a FSAE race car frame. Our design will apply a torsional load to the frame while simultaneously providing precise measurements required to calculate the applied load, displacement, angular deflection, and torsional stiffness. Unlike the most popular method of testing torsional stiffness by applying load with a lever, our device twists the frame using hydraulic bottle jacks with an integrated pressure gauge. This aspect enables precise control of the twist, and the pressure gauges provide the capability of load-measurement. The validity of measurements will be assessed by comparing results to theoretical calculations.

Dry Ingredient Dispenser, Group S, 2017, Nick Caywood, Noelle T. Wojciechowsi

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

We wanted to come up with a way to automate the process of measuring and dispensing dry ingredients for baking.