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Sustainable Natural Resource Management Evs 518, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Natural Resource Management Planning Evs 519, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, December 7, 2018, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctor of Science - Melanie Sanford; President's Fellow Medallion - Mayor Bob Buckhorn; President's Global Leadership Award - Dyann Wirth; King O'Neal Scholars - Andrea Arciniegas, Jessica Bullock, Anna Eliason, Tiffany Garner, Bailey Gavulic, Victoria Hoang, Stephanie Hogue, Briana Luthman, Asgard Marroquin, Justin Mohr, Jenn Moser, Rida Mughal, Kristiana Nasto, Marilluly Peraza, Kirby Powers, Keska Register, Jordan Stofan, Michael Talavera, Veronica Vazquez, Thomas Vieiera, Rylee Wagner, Savannah Warner, Aubrey Wolfe, David Wylie, and Shahrzad Zamani; Outstanding Graduate - Shahriar "Shawn" Zamani

Assessment Of Patient-Centered Approaches To Collect Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity Information In The Emergency Department: The Equality Study, Adil H. Haider, Rachel R. Adler, Eric Schneider, Tarsicio Uribe Leitz, Anju Ranjit, Christina Ta, Adele Levine, Omar Harfouch, Danielle Pelaez, Lisa Kodadek

Section of General Surgery

Importance: Health care and government organizations call for routine collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) information in the clinical setting, yet patient preferences for collection methods remain unknown.
Objective: To assess of the optimal patient-centered approach for SOGI collection in the emergency department (ED) setting.
Design, setting, and participants: This matched cohort study (Emergency Department Query for Patient-Centered Approaches to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity [EQUALITY] Study) of 4 EDs on the east coast of the United States sequentially tested 2 different SOGI collection approaches between February 2016 and March 2017. Multivariable ordered logistic regression was used to …

Minutes, College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting, December 7, 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences

College Council Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the December 7, 2018, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Arts and Sciences' Council.

American Dream Gone Wrong: Patricia Highsmith’S Dark Suburban Domesticity, Katie Liggett

Honors Projects

This thesis explores how Patricia Highsmith’s novels, The Blunderer and Deep Water, critique the American suburbs and show how the American Dream is more of a fantasy, than a realistic goal that people can achieve. Her novels reveal how the American dream becomes unattainable, or one’s pursuit of it somehow goes wrong, leaving their lives unfulfilled and them resentful. Furthermore, I argue that the American Dream, itself, goes wrong for some individuals, and the pursuit of this unrealistic Dream can lead individuals to trouble in their personal or professional lives. Ultimately, through my analysis of Highsmith’s texts, it becomes …

Using Wearable Biomarker Technology To Determine The Effectiveness Of Assistive Technology Supports On The Anxiety And Writing Outcomes Of Students With Disabilities, Angela M. Lobdell

Honors Capstones

The purpose of this Capstone project is to determine the effects writing has on stress levels of students with anxiety-related disorders and to investigate the effectiveness of technology-based writing interventions to reduce anxiety and increase writing output when being utilized by students. One male and three females between the ages of 14-17 participated in the research. Each participant wore a biomarker device that allowed the researchers to track the participants' levels of anxiety. The levels transmitted by the biomarker would indicate a state of calm, focused, tense and neutral. Baseline involved observing students writing without technology supports. Upon completion of …

Elevating The Head Of Bed During Preoxygenation For Obese Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia: A Clinical Policy Proposal, Brian F. Seymour Jr.

Doctoral Projects

Preoxygenation plays a vital role in ensuring patient safety for all patient populations, especially those considered clinically obese. The negative pathophysiological effects obesity has related to body habitus and respiratory mechanics increases the risk of unexpected adverse events. Obese patients encounter a 50% decrease in functional residual capacity (FRC) when undergoing general anesthesia. Dixon et al., (2005) addressed the link between efficient oxygenation and improving oxygen storage by lessening atelectasis and intrapulmonary shunting via preoxygenation in a more upright position. Can standardizing preoxygenation techniques among anesthesia providers improve patient safety and decrease hospital system’s risk by implementing an evidence-based clinical …

Healthy Food Options At Dollar Discount Stores Are Equivalent In Quality And Lower In Price Compared To Grocery Stores: An Examination In Las Vegas, Nv, Courtney Coughenour, Timothy J. Bungum, M. Nikki Regalado

School of Public Health Faculty Research

Food deserts indicate limited access to and affordability of healthy foods. One potential mediator is the availability of healthy food in non-traditional outlets such as dollar-discount stores, stores selling produce at the fixed $1 price. The purpose of this study was to compare availability, quality, price differences in ‘healthier’ versus ‘regular’ food choices, price per each food item, and summary score in dollar-discount stores to grocery stores in Las Vegas using the NEMS-S; a protocol consisting of three subscores—availability, quality, price of healthier versus regular food, and a summary score. [...] see article for full abstract

The Circulation Of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical And Networking Strategies On Facebook, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Denise Tillery

Communication Studies Faculty Research

This study uses a topical, rhetorical approach to analyze how climate change denial circulates online through the 25 most popular posts on the Watts Up With That and the Global Warming Policy Forum Facebook pages. These groups adopt the appearance of credibility through reposting and hyperlinking, thus establishing a supportive, networked space among other skeptical sites, while distancing readers from original sources of scientific information. Visitors use a variety of rhetorical strategies to echo posts’ main themes and to discredit alternative viewpoints. Differences between the topoi and rhetorical strategies of WUWT and the GWPF show that the climate change denial …

Expanding The Use Of Spectral Libraries In Proteomics., Eric W Deutsch, Yasset Perez-Riverol, Robert J Chalkley, Mathias Wilhelm, Stephen Tate, Timo Sachsenberg, Mathias Walzer, Lukas Käll, Bernard Delanghe, Sebastian Böcker, Emma L Schymanski, Paul Wilmes, Viktoria Dorfer, Bernhard Kuster, Pieter-Jan Volders, Nico Jehmlich, Johannes P C Vissers, Dennis W Wolan, Ana Y Wang, Luis Mendoza, Jim Shofstahl, Andrew W Dowsey, Johannes Griss, Reza M Salek, Steffen Neumann, Pierre-Alain Binz, Henry Lam, Juan Antonio Vizcaíno, Nuno Bandeira, Hannes Röst

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

The 2017 Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Proteomics provided an opportunity for a broad discussion on the current state and future directions of the generation and use of peptide tandem mass spectrometry spectral libraries. Their use in proteomics is growing slowly, but there are multiple challenges in the field that must be addressed to further increase the adoption of spectral libraries and related techniques. The primary bottlenecks are the paucity of high quality and comprehensive libraries and the general difficulty of adopting spectral library searching into existing workflows. There are several existing spectral library formats, but none captures a satisfactory level …

Identification Of Experimental And Control Areas For Cctv Effectiveness Assessment—The Issue Of Spatially Aggregated Data, Adam Dabrowski, Piotr Matczak, Andrzej Wójtowicz, Michael Leitner

Faculty Publications

Progress in surveillance technology has led to the development of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) systems in cities around the world. Cameras are considered instrumental in crime reduction, yet existing research does not unambiguously answer the question whether installing them affects the number of crimes committed. The quasi-experimental method usually applied to evaluate CCTV systems’ effectiveness faces difficulties with data quantity and quality. Data quantity has a bearing on the number of crimes that can be conclusively inferred using the experimental procedure. Data quality affects the level of crime data aggregation. The lack of the exact location of a crime incident in …

Four Umn Morris Faculty Members Earn Research Awards, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

Four University of Minnesota Morris faculty members received Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship program (GIA) awards in the fall round.

Exploring Principals' Perceptions About Efficacy In Arizona Urban Schools Designated For The School Improvement Process, Charlotte Patterson

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Studies have determined a positive relationship exists between the self-efficacy of students and academic achievement, and teacher efficacy and student achievement. For over a decade schools have been publicly targeted for school improvement in a process with implications for efficacy. The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine if principals’ perceptions about efficacy impacted their practices leading school improvement. Principals’ responses to two research questions led this study:

1. How do principals describe their perceptions about the efficacy of their school community relative to the school improvement status, label, or rating for their school?

2. How do principals describe …

Whalesong 2018-12-07, Erin Laughlin, Kortney Stevens, Jordan Lewis, Sierra Lissick, Caitlin Burnham, Khrystl Brouillette, Melissa Scriven, Alyssa Madrid

Whalesong

No abstract provided.

The Echo: December 7, 2018, Taylor University

2018-2019 (Volume 106)

Christmas Edition

Breaking the silence again – Chapel hosts Candles and Carols – A Taylor family Christmas decorating tradition – Film crimes committed in ‘The Crimes of Grindelwald’ – Multiplayer video games build community – Poet’s Corner – A&E Stay Up To Date – Meet the editors: Rayce Patterson and Holly Gaskill – Holiday Gift Guide – Making the most of a study abroad experience – Open houses of November and December – Taylor University Survival Guide – Weekly Crossword – The Weekly Bachelor and Bachelorette -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – Our View – Christmas confusion – When the jokes …

Audit Of The Exchange Stabilization Fund's Financial Statements For The Fiscal Years 2018 And 2017, United States: Department Of The Treasury: Office Of The Inspector General

Documents

No abstract provided.

Helping Children Overcome Reading Difficulties Using Response To Intervention, Corinne M. Sannino

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine if Argryis and Schon's (1974) Theory-of-Action framework could be used as a viable professional development tool to improve teachers' professional practices when providing Tier II literacy interventions within the context of a Response to Intervention (RTI) program in an elementary school. This multicase study sought to understand more deeply the espoused beliefs and theories-in-use of four elementary literacy interventionists' when delivering intensive literacy interventions to students not reading on grade level within the context of the RTI program by using semi-structured interviews, collection of student work, and classroom observations. Discrepancies were …

Higher Education Reform: A Time For Action, The Lincy Institute

Brookings Scholar Lecture Series

The Lincy Institute has been at the forefront of research and analysis on higher education governance reform in Nevada. Following numerous statewide studies, The Lincy Institute has produced reports and policy briefs recommending significant structural changes to the State’s higher education landscape. To provide future generations of students with quality education and training in our 21st-century economy, researchers summarized findings and presented model legislation to improve the quality of education offered by Nevada’s eight institutions of higher learning. All Nevadans should demand an honest and transparent discussion of higher education reform. The 2019 legislative session will be a time for …

Commencement Ceremonies, University Of North Florida

Commencement Printed Materials

Program for the Fall Commencement ceremonies.

Scrud, Cy Robinson

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Equipment: a pool table and two billiard balls

The object of the game is to be the last player at the billiards table. You are no longer an eligible player if you have received 4 letters (the amount of letters can change to the groups liking)

Starting the game:

To start the game the object ball is placed in the center of the table between the second diamonds, (the position called the kitchen in normal pool) The game starts with everyone standing around the table, this determines the throwing order. Each individual throws after the person on their right. So …

Desecration With A Wonderful Meaning, Alexa Bills

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

The Semi Colon tattoo is a part of a movement for mental health awareness. The punctuation mark is used when you can choose to end a sentence but decide not to. The tattoo has a similar meaning. It’s meant to indicate that you have power over yourself and can decide what happens. You can choose to continue your story. It’s also a symbol of comradery amongst those who have suffered from depression. A lot of people have this tattoo, a lot of people have struggled with their mental health. And seeing that, seeing people with similar struggles, people that have …

Bah, Alexa Bills

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

I first remember my dad telling this joke, when I was little. I remember him asking for a BAH. “Do you know what that means, Lex?” No, I didn’t. “A Big Ass Hammer.” HA Ha HA HaHa. He thought he was hilarious, sure he was no John Mulaney, but his stupid giggle laugh that follows it, makes the joke. A joke that quickly became a common familial occurrence. Simple at first it was like:

“That’s a BAS, Lex, you know what that stands for?”

“No Dad, what?” I say this every time.

“Big Ass Ship.”

It got more complicated, over …

The Textbook Game, Cy Robinson

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

The spouse game. My friend came up with this game during a biology class in 7^th grade. The game is played as such. Each participant looks through the textbook that both students have, usually one provided in class. Each would sign to the others a page number containing an “attractive” person and then make eyes as the other flipped to the respective pages. The other person would try not to smile or make eyes back to the other person as they signed the next page back to them. The game started off really juvenile until we realized that the …

A Logitudinal Feature Selection Method Identifies Relevant Genes To Distinguish Complicated Injury And Uncomplicated Injury Over Time, Suyan Tian, Chi Wang, Howard H. Chang

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Background: Feature selection and gene set analysis are of increasing interest in the field of bioinformatics. While these two approaches have been developed for different purposes, we describe how some gene set analysis methods can be utilized to conduct feature selection.

Methods: We adopted a gene set analysis method, the significance analysis of microarray gene set reduction (SAMGSR) algorithm, to carry out feature selection for longitudinal gene expression data.

Results: Using a real-world application and simulated data, it is demonstrated that the proposed SAMGSR extension outperforms other relevant methods. In this study, we illustrate that a gene’s expression profiles over …

The Nature Of Ephemeral Secrets In Reverse Engineering Tasks, Antonio Miguel Espinoza

Computer Science ETDs

Reverse engineering is typically carried out on static binary objects, such as files or compiled programs. Often the goal of reverse engineering is to extract a secret that is ephemeral and only exists while the system is running. Automation and dynamic analysis enable reverse engineers to extract ephemeral secrets from dynamic systems, obviating the need for analyzing static artifacts such as executable binaries.

I support this thesis through four automated reverse engineering efforts: (1) named entity extraction to track Chinese Internet censorship based on keywords; (2) dynamic information flow tracking to locate secret keys in memory for a live program; …

A Qualitative Study On Teachers' Perceptions Of Co-Teaching In Inclusion Classrooms, Cheryl M. Banks

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The purpose of this research study was to examine teachers’ perceptions toward co- teaching in inclusion classrooms and provide valuable information on relevant content, activities and assignments that focus on collaboration between school professionals. A second purpose of this study was to add knowledge to the existing literature describing factors for developing effective co-teaching programs in schools that serve large populations of students with disabilities in urban schools. This included examining their perspectives about the co-teaching model, their relationships formed with their co-teacher, and the support given by administration. The study was a descriptive study that used qualitative research methods …

Nonlinear Optical Characterization Of Solids, Alex Farnsworth

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation (VSFG) and the similar Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) are both classified as nonlinear optical phenomena, with the hallmark trait being that the input and output frequencies are different. Both of these systems are remarkable tools due to their surface specific nature. Still, there is much that is not known about the response from these systems, especially the nonresonant SFG response. We have worked to better understand SFG signal, specifically the nonresonant temporal profile. We have also collected results that call into question some underlying assumptions about time-based suppression methods when working with single crystal substrates.

As …

Macromolecular-Clustered Facial Amphiphilic Antimicrobials, Md Anisur Rahman, Marpe Bam, Edgar Luat, Moumita Sharmin Jui, Mitra S. Ganewatta, Tinom Shokfai, Mitzi Nagarkatti, Alan W. Decho

Faculty Publications

Bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance, particularly by Gram-negative pathogens, have become a global healthcare crisis. We report the design of a class of cationic antimicrobial polymers that cluster local facial amphiphilicity from repeating units to enhance interactions with bacterial membranes without requiring a globally conformational arrangement associated with highly unfavorable entropic loss. This concept of macromolecular architectures is demonstrated with a series of multicyclic natural product-based cationic polymers. We have shown that cholic acid derivatives with three charged head groups are more potent and selective than lithocholic and deoxycholic counterparts, particularly against Gram-negative bacteria. This is ascribed to the formation …

The Shifting Politics Of Patient Activism: From Bio-Sociality To Bio-Digital Citizenship, Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen, Allegra Clare Schermuly

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Digital media provide novel tools for patient activists from disease- and condition-specific communities. While those with debilitating conditions or disabilities have long recognised the value of collective action for advancing their interests, digital media offers activists unparalleled opportunities to fulfil their goals. This article explores the shifting politics of ‘activism’ in the increasingly digitally mediated, commercialised context of healthcare, asking: what role have digital media played in the repertoire of activists’ strategies? And, to what extent and how has the use of such media impacted the very concept of activism? Building on sociological ideas on emergent forms of ‘biological citizenship’ …