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The Comment, December 6, 2018, Bridgewater State University
The Comment, December 6, 2018, Bridgewater State University
The Comment
No abstract provided.
Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, December 6, 2018, Utah State University
Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, December 6, 2018, Utah State University
Educational Policies Committee
Program Proposals
- Adding an Associate of Science Degree in Veterinary Technology
- Offering a Certificate of Completion in Ranch Horse Science at the Blanding Regional Campus
- Changing the name from Master of Science International Food and Agribusiness to MS Agribusiness
- Offering a BA/BS Degree in Business Administration with Emphases
- Renaming the BA/BS Degree in Business Administration to Management
- Adding a Social Media Emphasis
- Changing the department name from Geology to Earth Sciences
Semester Course Approval Reviews
Other
- Zero Credit Course Discussion
- Changing January’s meeting date
- Future Discussion Items
Educational Policies Committee Agenda, December 6, 2018, Utah State University
Educational Policies Committee Agenda, December 6, 2018, Utah State University
Educational Policies Committee
- Curriculum Subcommittee
- Academic Standards Subcommittee
- General Education Subcommittee
- Zero Credit Course Discussion
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes December 6, 2018, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes December 6, 2018, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Slandering Women: Literary And Ecclesiastical Misogyny In High To Late Medieval France, Kevin Johannes Mccoy
Slandering Women: Literary And Ecclesiastical Misogyny In High To Late Medieval France, Kevin Johannes Mccoy
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive
This work examines literary and ecclesiastical misogyny in high to late medieval France. It explores how two popular French genres, pastourelle and fabliaux, reinforced negative female stereotypes and perpetuated misogyny by slandering women. In order to contextualize the misogyny in those terms, this thesis also conducts an examination of contemporary ecclesiastical literature and thought as well as a few popular, secular works. The approach first analyzed in-depth the pastourelle and fabliaux and connected those works to contemporary society in its treatment of women. Next, it analyzed ecclesiastical misogyny in both the literature and society and compared those forms of misogyny …
December 2018 Faculty Senate Packet, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Faculty Senate
December 2018 Faculty Senate Packet, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Faculty Senate
Faculty Senate Packets
No abstract provided.
How Kuwaiti College Students In The United States Use And Perceive Electronic News Media: A Case Study, Musaed Fahad Alshammari
How Kuwaiti College Students In The United States Use And Perceive Electronic News Media: A Case Study, Musaed Fahad Alshammari
Student Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to formulate a preliminary conceptual perception about how Kuwaiti college students in the United States use and perceive electronic media. This qualitative study has sought to recognize the utilization habits and perception of Kuwaiti college students in the USA toward electronic media. The study examines the reasons for the high degree of dependency on electronic media by Kuwaiti students in the USA and the most significant features and properties that are available by electronic media, which attract youth attention. This research conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with a sample of 15 Kuwaiti college students in …
College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Fall 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Fall 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition Projects
Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs, and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge. The senior design competition helps focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects on …
The Native Species Protection Act: A Deceptively-Named Measure To Destroy The Endangered Species Act, Daniel Fors
The Native Species Protection Act: A Deceptively-Named Measure To Destroy The Endangered Species Act, Daniel Fors
Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )
No abstract provided.
Vista: December 6, 2018, University Of San Diego
Vista: December 6, 2018, University Of San Diego
USD Vista (1965-)
No abstract provided.
Cd4+ T Cells Induce Rejection Of Urothelial Tumors After Immune Checkpoint Blockade, Yuji Sato, Jennifer K Bolzenius, Abdallah M Eteleeb, Xinming Su, Christopher A Maher, Jennifer K Sehn, Vivek K Arora
Cd4+ T Cells Induce Rejection Of Urothelial Tumors After Immune Checkpoint Blockade, Yuji Sato, Jennifer K Bolzenius, Abdallah M Eteleeb, Xinming Su, Christopher A Maher, Jennifer K Sehn, Vivek K Arora
Open Access Publications
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) provides clinical benefit to a minority of patients with urothelial carcinoma (UC). The role of CD4+ T cells in ICB-induced antitumor activity is not well defined; however, CD4+ T cells are speculated to play a supportive role in the development of CD8+ T cells that kill tumor cells after recognition of tumor antigens presented by MHC class I. To investigate the mechanisms of ICB-induced activity against UC, we developed mouse organoid-based transplantable models that have histologic and genetic similarity to human bladder cancer. We found that ICB can induce tumor rejection and protective immunity with these …
The Pacifican December 6, 2018, University Of The Pacific
The Pacifican December 6, 2018, University Of The Pacific
All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Feliway On The Stress Of Cats During Veterinary Examination, Colleen Doonan
The Effects Of Feliway On The Stress Of Cats During Veterinary Examination, Colleen Doonan
Honors Theses
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Feliway® during veterinary examination. Feliway® contains a synthetic version of the F3 pheromone, secreted from the cheeks of Felis sylvestris catus when rubbing against objects in the environment. It is presumed to allow cats to establish a home range to feel secure. A double-blind study was conducted to address the limitations of another study that concluded Feliway® is useful for reducing stress experienced by cats during veterinary examination. The current study found that Feliway® is not useful by itself for adequate stress reduction during feline examinations. It was concluded …
2018-2019 Performance Forum - December 6, 2018, Luis Angel Guiterrez Rapalda, Austin King, Evan Musgrave, Jordan Nashman, Shuyi Wang, Ming Yue Fei, Clarissa Vieira, Yu Chen Yang, Shanshan Wei, Kayla Williams, William Ford-Smith, Niki Khabbazvahed, Mario Rivieccio, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Yiming Tang, Tyler Coffman, Melanie Riordan, John Antisz, Michael Puryear, Kristine Mezines
2018-2019 Performance Forum - December 6, 2018, Luis Angel Guiterrez Rapalda, Austin King, Evan Musgrave, Jordan Nashman, Shuyi Wang, Ming Yue Fei, Clarissa Vieira, Yu Chen Yang, Shanshan Wei, Kayla Williams, William Ford-Smith, Niki Khabbazvahed, Mario Rivieccio, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Yiming Tang, Tyler Coffman, Melanie Riordan, John Antisz, Michael Puryear, Kristine Mezines
Performance Forum
No abstract provided.
Lone: An Interactive Mobile Application Introducing An Authentic Shopping Experience. Discover Joys Of The World, Experience Authentic Shopping., Xi He
Theses
LONE is an interactive mobile application, which introduces an authentic international shopping experience, helps customers to buy authentic products from a small store in another country. Based on the survey of usage of cross-border e-commerce in selected countries done by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Statista, today’s customers have higher demands on traveling and purchasing authentic products from overseas ever than before. Since the majority of them don’t have the time or budget of going around the world, people buying authentic items from other places become one of the sources for people to get to understand about …
Prominin-1 Controls Stem Cell Activation By Orchestrating Ciliary Dynamics, Donald Singer, Kristina Thamm, Heng Zhuang, Jana Karbanová, Yan Gao, Jemma Victoria Walker, Heng Jin, Xiangnan Wu, Clarissa R. Coveney, Pauline Marangoni, Dongmei Lu, Portia Rebecca Clare Grayson, Tulay Gulsen, Karen J. Liu, Stefano Ardu, Angus K.T. Wann, Shouqing Luo, Alexander C. Zambon, Anton M. Jetten, Christopher Tredwin, Ophir D. Klein, Massimo Attanasio, Peter Carmeliet, Wieland B. Huttner, Denis Corbeil, Bing Hu
Prominin-1 Controls Stem Cell Activation By Orchestrating Ciliary Dynamics, Donald Singer, Kristina Thamm, Heng Zhuang, Jana Karbanová, Yan Gao, Jemma Victoria Walker, Heng Jin, Xiangnan Wu, Clarissa R. Coveney, Pauline Marangoni, Dongmei Lu, Portia Rebecca Clare Grayson, Tulay Gulsen, Karen J. Liu, Stefano Ardu, Angus K.T. Wann, Shouqing Luo, Alexander C. Zambon, Anton M. Jetten, Christopher Tredwin, Ophir D. Klein, Massimo Attanasio, Peter Carmeliet, Wieland B. Huttner, Denis Corbeil, Bing Hu
Peninsula Medical School
Proper temporal and spatial activation of stem cells relies on highly coordinated cell signaling. The primary cilium is the sensory organelle that is responsible for transmitting extracellular signals into a cell. Primary cilium size, architecture, and assembly-disassembly dynamics are under rigid cell cycle-dependent control. Using mouse incisor tooth epithelia as a model, we show that ciliary dynamics in stem cells require the proper functions of a cholesterol-binding membrane glycoprotein, Prominin-1 (Prom1/CD133), which controls sequential recruitment of ciliary membrane components, histone deacetylase, and transcription factors. Nuclear translocation of Prom1 and these molecules is particularly evident in transit amplifying cells, the immediate …
Potensi Metabolit Sekunder Gulma Sebagai Pestisida Nabati Di Indonesia, Koko Tampubolon, Fransisca Natalia Sihombing, Zavandri Purba, Sony Tri Septian Samosir, Syahibal Karim
Potensi Metabolit Sekunder Gulma Sebagai Pestisida Nabati Di Indonesia, Koko Tampubolon, Fransisca Natalia Sihombing, Zavandri Purba, Sony Tri Septian Samosir, Syahibal Karim
Jurnal Kultivasi
Tujuan kajian ilmiah ini adalah untuk mengetahui manfaat dan mekanisme metabolit sekunder gulma, kelebihan dan kekurangan pestisida nabati gulma, identifikasi metabolit sekunder gulma, prosedur pembuatan pestisida nabati dari gulma, dan implikasi kebijakan dari pestisida nabati gulma dalam mengendalikan organisme pengganggu tanaman. Hasil kajian menunjukkan potensi senyawa metabolit sekunder dari gulma dapat berfungsi ganda sebagai pestisida nabati. Kelebihan pestisida nabati dari gulma antara lain: (1) metabolit sekunder gulma bersifat organik dan tidak bersifat racun, (2) gulma yang digunakan mudah diperoleh dari lapangan dan tidak membutuhkan biaya yang mahal, (3) beberapa mekanisme metabolit sekunder gulma tidak ditemui dalam mekanisme kerja pestisida sintetis, …
The Curious Case Of Cady Noland And The Disappearing Cabin, Amanda Hoefer
The Curious Case Of Cady Noland And The Disappearing Cabin, Amanda Hoefer
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
“Moving From A Good To Great Pbis Team”, Tara Davis, Jaime Espinosa
“Moving From A Good To Great Pbis Team”, Tara Davis, Jaime Espinosa
Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference
This session is intended for participants supporting or implementing PBIS within schools tha want to gain more knowledge about developing stronger teams. Implementing and sustaining PBIS happens through the guidance and actions of a strong, effective leadership team. All members of the PBIS Leadership Team must clearly understand their roles and responsibilities so they can be active supporters, implementers, and leaders of the PBIS framework in their schools. Research discusses the importance of understanding team dynamics and the purpose of the team, which makes people mutually accountable about working toward a common goal. Team dynamics are created by the nature …
Special Education In Juvenile Residential Facilities: Can Animals Help?, Sally E. Thigpen, Stephanie K. Ellis, Rebecca G. Smith
Special Education In Juvenile Residential Facilities: Can Animals Help?, Sally E. Thigpen, Stephanie K. Ellis, Rebecca G. Smith
Essays in Education
Children with emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) are arguably one of the highest at-risk groups for dropping out before graduating high school. They are the group of students with disabilities who are most likely to be educated in residential facilities. Residential facilities such as Green Chimneys have incorporated animals into the treatment milieu with success. Animals have been used in various settings to improve the quality of life as well as the emotional and physical needs of people served by these facilities. This article describes the requirements for using animals in residential treatment, the limitations of such programs, and the research findings …
Surface Chemistry And Spectroscopic Studies Of Enzymatic, Non-Enzymatic Molecules And Their Applications, Shiv K. Sharma
Surface Chemistry And Spectroscopic Studies Of Enzymatic, Non-Enzymatic Molecules And Their Applications, Shiv K. Sharma
Open Access Dissertations
The content of this thesis is an investigation into physicochemical, photophysical, and interfacial properties of β-galactosidase, a crucial enzyme, its conjugate with CDs, interaction of β-galactosidase with X-gal, and surface chemistry and spectroscopic study of toxins, Cholera toxin B (CTB) and Fumonisin B1 (FB1). The objective of the work was to understand the surface chemistry behavior of the important enzyme, conjugates and toxins in a model systems representing vaguely cell membrane environments, to prove the activity of the deposited enzyme, its conjugate, and toxins in a form of the monolayer. We also studied the effect of green LED light on …
Decoding The Sleep Homeostat Architecture, Andrey Lazopulo
Decoding The Sleep Homeostat Architecture, Andrey Lazopulo
Open Access Dissertations
Sleep is an ancient behavior that is observed in nearly all organisms. Animals typically spend a significant part of their life sleeping, and prolonged sleep deprivation leads to serious physiological changes, signifying the importance of sleep. However, little is known about the regulation of sleep. Sleep is thought to be controlled by two mechanisms: the circadian clock, a biological oscillator that controls daily activity, and the sleep homeostat that tracks organism’s sleep need and controls the duration of sleep. While the circuit of the circadian clock is well studied, almost nothing is known about the structure of the sleep homeostat. …
Making Covenants With Brute Beasts: Making Room For Non-Human Animals In A Contractualist Framework, Jennifer Lynn Burgis
Making Covenants With Brute Beasts: Making Room For Non-Human Animals In A Contractualist Framework, Jennifer Lynn Burgis
Open Access Dissertations
In this dissertation I explore the question of whether T.M. Scanlon's contractualist ethical theory can be revised such that the resulting theory makes room for moral obligations to non-human animals. A number of attempts have been made to justify our intuitions regarding the treatment of animals, but none of these has succeeded. I argue that Scanlon's reliance on the rationality criterion is flawed and that a focus on moral capacities creates both a more inclusive and a more satisfying moral framework. By building on Julia Driver's objective consequentialist account of virtue, I am able to support the claim that, at …
Effects Of Temperature, Ultraviolet Radiation And Crude Oil Exposure On Early-Life Staged Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena Hippurus), Christina Pasparakis
Effects Of Temperature, Ultraviolet Radiation And Crude Oil Exposure On Early-Life Staged Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena Hippurus), Christina Pasparakis
Open Access Dissertations
The timing and location of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster within the Gulf of Mexico resulted in crude oil exposure of many commercially and ecologically important fish species, such as mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), during their sensitive early life stages (ELS). Mahi produce positively buoyant and rapidly developing embryos. Therefore, ELS mahi may be directly exposed to the cardiotoxic tricyclic PAHs dominating the oil slicks in surface waters for a significant portion of their developmental period. Further, these embryos are transparent and are likely also exposed to simultaneous stressors occurring in surface waters, known to act synergistically in the presence …
Population Dynamics Of Seagrass Communities In Biscayne Bay, Florida: Exploring The Influence Of Salinity On Seascape Fragmentation, Clinton William Stipek
Population Dynamics Of Seagrass Communities In Biscayne Bay, Florida: Exploring The Influence Of Salinity On Seascape Fragmentation, Clinton William Stipek
Open Access Theses
Seagrass communities display complex population dynamics that are presently poorly understood. While most studies of disturbance on seagrass habitats have focused on changes in biomass at small, quadrat-level scales, limited information is available on the impacts of disturbances on seagrass patch dynamics on a broad scale. In this study, a landscape approach based on remote sensing imagery and population modelling were applied to understand seagrass patch dynamics and forecast the fate of these important communities in Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida, US. The seagrass communities of Biscayne Bay are especially influenced by the modifications of the Everglades watershed that has significantly …
Standing In Solidarity
St. Norbert Times
- News
- Standing in Solidarity
- Heid E. Erdrich Visits St. Norbert College
- Shelby Rodeffer “Paints Out” Towards the Reality of Social Media
- “God’s Got This”: The Story of the Decleenes
- Building Hope for Homelessness Week
- Hour of Power Honors Later Swimmer
- Opinion
- The Holiday Spirit
- A College Christmas List
- Politics Today
- Not Sorry
- Thankful for the Athem
- Features
- Political Diversity in WI Schools
- The Season of Giving and Emptying Wallets
- Entertainment
- Junk Drawer: Holiday Traditions
- Sudoku
- Trivia
- 2018 in Music… so far
- Review: “Devils Unto Dust” by Emma Berquist
- Mother Knows Best
- The Wild Kingdom of Black Friday Shopping
- Review Corner …
The Winonan, Winona State University
Targeting The Brd4/Foxo3a/Cdk6 Axis Sensitizes Akt Inhibition In Luminal Breast Cancer, Jingyi Liu, Weijie Guo, Zhibing Duan, Lei Zeng, Yadi Wu, Yule Chen, Fang Tai, Yifan Wang, Yiwei Lin, Qiang Zhang, Yanling He, Jiong Deng, Rachel L. Stewart, Chi Wang, Pengnian Charles Lin, Saghi Ghaffari, B. Mark Evers, Suling Liu, Ming-Ming Zhou, Binhua P. Zhou, Jian Shi
Targeting The Brd4/Foxo3a/Cdk6 Axis Sensitizes Akt Inhibition In Luminal Breast Cancer, Jingyi Liu, Weijie Guo, Zhibing Duan, Lei Zeng, Yadi Wu, Yule Chen, Fang Tai, Yifan Wang, Yiwei Lin, Qiang Zhang, Yanling He, Jiong Deng, Rachel L. Stewart, Chi Wang, Pengnian Charles Lin, Saghi Ghaffari, B. Mark Evers, Suling Liu, Ming-Ming Zhou, Binhua P. Zhou, Jian Shi
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Publications
BRD4 assembles transcriptional machinery at gene super-enhancer regions and governs the expression of genes that are critical for cancer progression. However, it remains unclear whether BRD4-mediated gene transcription is required for tumor cells to develop drug resistance. Our data show that prolonged treatment of luminal breast cancer cells with AKT inhibitors induces FOXO3a dephosphorylation, nuclear translocation, and disrupts its association with SirT6, eventually leading to FOXO3a acetylation as well as BRD4 recognition. Acetylated FOXO3a recognizes the BD2 domain of BRD4, recruits the BRD4/RNAPII complex to the CDK6 gene promoter, and induces its transcription. Pharmacological inhibition of either BRD4/FOXO3a association or …
Turbulent And Electromagnetic Signature Of Small- And Fine-Scale Biological And Oceanographic Processes, Cayla Whitney Dean
Turbulent And Electromagnetic Signature Of Small- And Fine-Scale Biological And Oceanographic Processes, Cayla Whitney Dean
HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations
Small- and fine-scale biological and oceanographic processes may have a measurable electromagnetic signature. These types of processes inherently involve turbulence and three-dimensional dynamics. Traditional models of the electromagnetic signature of oceanographic processes are of an analytical nature, do not account for three-dimensional boundary layer dynamics or turbulence, self-inductance, and may not describe the variety of the environmental conditions occurring in the ocean. In order to address this problem, I have implemented magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools, which has allowed for the evaluation of the electromagnetic signature of a number of small- and fine-scale biological and oceanographic processes in …
Indirect Effects Of Ocean Warming And Acidification On The Realized Recruitment Of Agaricia Agaricites, Allan Anderson
Indirect Effects Of Ocean Warming And Acidification On The Realized Recruitment Of Agaricia Agaricites, Allan Anderson
HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations
Over the past few decades, coral cover has declined worldwide due to overfishing, disease, and storms, and these effects have been exacerbated by ocean warming and acidification. Corals are extremely susceptible to these changes because they are already living close to their thermal and aragonite saturation thresholds. Ocean warming and acidification (OAW) may also impact coral survival and growth by impacting their settlement cues. Coral larvae use crustose coralline algae (CCA) and their associated biofilms as cues for settlement, i.e., habitat selection. Settlement cues can also be negatively affected by increased water temperature and acidity. It was hypothesized that the …