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Unraveling Identity Signifier Literacy: A Case Study Of First-Year Composition Students' Communication Practices, Bailey Mcalister

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

Identity signifier literacy is defined as one’s ability to accurately read – via personal interactions or via visual, verbal, written, or digital communication – the signifiers others display in direct and indirect ways and interpret these signifiers to gain understanding of others’ identities. In this study, 22 first-year composition students were surveyed about their communication practices in order to see how their identity signifier literacies influence and are influenced by digital environments and composition. These results are meant to improve first-year composition pedagogy by making connections between students’ informal composition practices and their academic composition courses.

Reflecting On And Shattering My White Lens: A Critical Autoethnography On My Experience As A White Editor Working With Authors Of Color, Kelsey Medlin

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

This critical autoethnography aims to reveal how the cultural biases of a white majority industry impact the stories they select for acquisition and how they are edited. As an editor, I came to this topic from my personal desire to see if my own whiteness affects the way I view writers of color, their stories, and the audience that the companies market to. Thus, the purpose of this project is to explore the current conversations on the topic of diversity within the publishing industry and whether the conversation is making a connection between the lack of diversity in the workforce …

Modeling And Mapping Addiction In The Zebrafish, Danio Rerio, Bradley Serpa

Master of Science in Integrative Biology Theses

Driven by the communication of dopamine, the vertebrate reward system has been evolutionarily conserved to maintain survival and optimize fitness. The neural circuits governing this system integrate sensory stimuli to produce appropriate, self-preserving responses that underlie experience-based learning. In the most primitive vertebrates, dopamine release in neuronal circuits drives homeostatic behaviors, such as seeking nutrients, finding a mate, or avoiding danger. From agnathans to mammals, dopaminergic synthesis and signaling genes and molecules, along with neuronal pathways and reward system-based behaviors, remain highly conserved. Dopamine signaling proteins include two classes of metabotropic G-Protein Receptor Coupled Dopamine Receptors, D1-like (DRD1) and D2-like …

A Numerical Investigation Of Multiple Traveling Pulse And Front Solutions, Faisal Duraihem

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Algorithms are proposed to calculate traveling pulses and fronts in both directions

for the FitzHugh- Nagumo equations in one dimensional spatial domain. The rst

algorithm is based on the application of the steepest descent method to a certain

functional on some admissible sets. These sets are dierent for pulses and for fronts.

This approach is global in nature, so that an initial guess for the wave prole and the

speed can be quite dierent from the correct solution. The second algorithm is the

pseudo arc length continuation method, which solves the governing equations directly.

The two algorithms are complementary. …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

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White Space, Black Space: Community Gardens In Portland, Oregon, David Ross Billings Jr.

Dissertations and Theses

Community gardens have been the focus of social science research in the United States for several decades and the benefits associated with these alternative food spaces has been well documented. More recently, scholars have begun to argue that these benefits are inequitably distributed across society. Largely as a result of the whiteness of these spaces, people of color are less represented in community and benefit less from their presence. Portland, Oregon is recognized as a leader in sustainability, with its abundance of community gardens and urban agriculture. It is also one of the whitest urban cities in the United States. …

Caring Moments Within An Interprofessional Healthcare Team: Children And Adolescent Perspectives, Amélia Didier, David Gachoud, Gabriela Von Niederhäusern, Lazare Benaroyo, Maya Zumstein-Shaha

Patient Experience Journal

Patients are now recognized as key partners to improve healthcare outcomes. Some organisations such as the WHO or the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) encourage considering patients as partners in the interprofessional healthcare team. However, limited knowledge exists on patients’ perspective of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and of their role in the collaborative process, particularly in pediatric settings. The experiences and perspectives of patients regarding IPC have to be considered in order to fully understand the concept of IPC and integrate it into practice. This qualitative study aimed at gaining a better understanding of the perspective of children of IPC, how …

Pathophysiology Of Human Papillomavirus (Hpv), Kara Shroff

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted virus and infects millions of men and women yearly. Prevention and screening are crucial to help minimize the spread of this disease. This poster provides an explanation of the disease, how it affects people differently, and the ways in which Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) are essential in intervening before patients are affected.

Aortic Stenosis, Dereck Vonallman

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

The poster pertains to aortic stenosis (AS) and how it relates to the nurse anesthesia profession. Topic was chosen due to my current role in the cardiovascular intensive care unit and future role as a certified nurse anesthetist. Case presentation was offered in the form of an OR patient who suffered AS and became hypotensive. The underlying pathophysiology was listed as; hereditary, scaring and calcium deposits. Significance of the pathophysiology is identified in the proper management of a patient with AS who suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and how a hypotension crisis in the OR needs to be managed differently than …

Aortic Stenosis, Meredith Kanet

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

This poster was completed on the topic of aortic stenosis. Emphasis on the poster was placed on the underlying pathophysiology of aortic stenosis and its significant impact on the function of the heart. Diagnostic testing, as well as presence of signs and symptoms, can assist the practitioner in assessing the severity of aortic stenosis in the patient. Treatment options, including medical management and surgical interventions, are reviewed and correlate along with nursing implication for care of the patient with aortic stenosis. Concluding facts regarding aortic stenosis are included as a summation of the poster topic.

Accounting For Location Uncertainty In Azimuthal Telemetry Data Improves Ecological Inference, Brian D. Gerber, Mevin B. B. Hooten, Christopher P. Peck, Mindy B. Rice, James H. Gammonley, Anthony D. Apa, Amy J. Davis

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Background: Characterizing animal space use is critical for understanding ecological relationships. Animal telemetry technology has revolutionized the fields of ecology and conservation biology by providing high quality spatial data on animal movement. Radio-telemetry with very high frequency (VHF) radio signals continues to be a useful technology because of its low cost, miniaturization, and low battery requirements. Despite a number of statistical developments synthetically integrating animal location estimation and uncertainty with spatial process models using satellite telemetry data, we are unaware of similar developments for azimuthal telemetry data. As such, there are few statistical options to handle these unique data …

Diverse Lignocellulosic Feedstocks Can Achieve High Field‐Scale Ethanol Yields While Providing Flexibility For The Biorefinery And Landscape‐Level Environmental Benefits, Yaoping Zhang, Lawrence G. Oates, Jose Serate, Dan Xie, Edward Pohlman, Yury Bukhman, Rebecca Garlock Ong, Et Al.

Department of Chemical Engineering Publications

Increasing the diversity of lignocellulosic feedstocks accepted by a regional biorefinery has the potential to improve the environmental footprint of the facility; harvest,storage, and transportation logistics; and biorefinery economics. However, feedstocks can vary widely in terms of their biomass yields and quality characteristics (chemical composition, moisture content, etc.). To investigate how the diversity of potential biofuel cropping systems and feedstock supply might affect process and field‐scale ethanol yields, we processed and experimentally quantified ethanol production from five different herbaceous feedstocks: two annuals (corn stover and energy sorghum) and three perennials (switchgrass, miscanthus, and mixed prairie). The feedstocks werepretreated using ammonia …

Bhatia Receives Grant From The Leukemia And Lymphoma Society, Uab Heersink School Of Medicine News

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Adoption Has Been The Most Wonderfully Difficult Thing We’Ve Ever Done, Adam Meyer

UCF Forum

My wife and I have decided to toss common sense out the window – and adopt a second child from China with Down syndrome.

Bibliometric Analysis Of Gaps In Research On Asbestos-Related Diseases: Declining Emphasis On Public Health Over 26 Years, Ro-Ting Lin, Matthew John Soeberg, Lung-Chang Chien, Scott Fisher, Jukka Takala, Richard Lemen, Tim Driscoll, Ken Takahashi

School of Public Health Faculty Research

Objectives The global burden of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs) is significant, and most of the world’s population live in countries where asbestos use continues. We examined the gaps between ARD research and suggestions of WHO and the International Labour Organization on prevention. Methods From the Web of Science, we collected data on all articles published during 1991–2016 and identified a subset of ARD-related articles. We classified articles into three research areas—laboratory, clinical and public health—and examined their time trends. For all and the top 11 countries publishing ARD-related articles, we calculated the proportions of all ARD-related articles that were in each …

Responses Of Non-Native Earthworms To Experimental Eradication Of Garlic Mustard And Implications For Native Vegetation, Kristina A. Stinson, Serita D. Frey, M. R. Jackson, E. Coates-Connor, Mark A. Anthony, K. Martinez

Faculty Publications

Recent studies in invasion biology suggest that positive feedback among two or more introduced organisms facilitate establishment within a new range and drive changes in native plant communities. Here, we experimentally tested for relationships between native plants and two non-native organisms invading forest habitats in North America: garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata, Brassicaceae) and earthworms. In two forested sites, we compared understory vegetation and earthworm biomass in plots where garlic mustard was removed for three years, plots without garlic mustard invasion, and plots invaded by garlic mustard that was not removed. Earthworm biomass was highest in the plots with garlic mustard, …

Volume 55, Number 48: July 25, 2018, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

College Faculty In The News: July 25, 2018, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Professor Julius Amin, Department of History and Alumni Chair in Humanities, discussed his recent travels in Cameroon, where he listened to ordinary voices about the ongoing Anglophone crisis. Follow this story and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.

Mathematical Model And Parameter Estimation For Tumor Growth, Lujun Yin

Theses

We consider a tumor growth model initially proposed by Ward and King in 1997. Our primary goal is to find an efficient and accurate numerical method for the identification of parameters in the model (an inverse problem) from measurements of the evolving tumor over time. The so-called direct problem, in this case, is to solve a system of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations for given fixed values of the unknown parameters. We compare several derivative-free and gradient-based methods for the solution of the inverse problem which is formulated as an optimization problem with the system of partial differential equations (PDEs) …

Dual Graph Partitioning Highlights A Small Group Of Pseudoknot-Containing Rna Submotifs, Swati Jain, Cigdem S. Bayrak, Louis Petingi, Tamar Schlick

Publications and Research

RNA molecules are composed of modular architectural units that define their unique structural and functional properties. Characterization of these building blocks can help interpret RNA structure/function relationships. We present an RNA secondary structure motif and submotif library using dual graph representation and partitioning. Dual graphs represent RNA helices as vertices and loops as edges. Unlike tree graphs, dual graphs can represent RNA pseudoknots (intertwined base pairs). For a representative set of RNA structures, we construct dual graphs from their secondary structures, and apply our partitioning algorithm to identify non-separable subgraphs (or blocks) without breaking pseudoknots. We report 56 subgraph blocks …

The Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Mc160 Protein Requires Both Death Effector Domains To Inhibit Mavs- And Tbk1-Induced Interferon Activation, Lissette Bouza

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The Molluscum Contagiosum Virus (MCV) causes a common persistent, skin infection. Two MCV immune evasion molecules, MCV MC159 and MC160 contain tandem death effector domains (DEDs). DEDs are found in several host proteins including pro-apoptotic proteins Fas-associated Death Domain (FADD) and procaspase-8 and are well characterized in innate immune signaling. MC159 blocks apoptosis induced by both Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) and the Fas ligand (FasL) and inhibits activation the host pro-inflammatory transcription factor nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB) (Shisler, 2001; Murao and Shisler 2005). MC160, however, does not inhibit apoptosis, but does dampen TNF-induced NF-κB activation (Shisler, …

Lowering Blood Pressure Reduces Risk Of Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, Staff

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Association Between Blood Eosinophil Count And Risk Of Readmission For Patients With Asthma: Historical Cohort Study, Rcm Jones, M Kerkhof, Db Price, T Tran, Den Berge M Van, G Brusselle, G Gopalan, J Kocks, A Menzies-Gow, J Nuevo, I Pavord, S Rastogi

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

"What Is The M/F Problem?": Critical Discourse Analysis In Anne Fausto-Sterling's Sexing The Body: Gender Politics And The Construction Of Sexuality, Marysarah Grace Reid

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Current dominant understandings of biological sex and gender that rely upon binary constructions are problematic on cultural, political, and individual levels. Cultural misunderstandings of the complexities of biological sex have harmful consequences, including the unnecessary surgical and medical interventions on intersexed bodies and the negative psychological effects of gender stereotypes. Anne Fausto-Sterling’s book, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (2000), advances necessary progressive feminist perspectives on the subject. I employ critical discourse analysis comparing original scientific and academic discourses with the author’s translations. I argue that she questions binary sex development and assignment in ways that …

Pias-Family Proteins Negatively Regulate Glis3 Transactivation Function Through Sumo Modification In Pancreatic Β Cells, Tyler M. Hoard, Xiaoping Yang, Anton M. Jetten, Gary T. Zeruth Dr.

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Gli-similar 3 (Glis3) is Krüppel-like transcription factor associated with the transcriptional regulation of insulin. Mutations within the Glis3 locus have been implicated in a number of pathologies including diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism. Despite its clinical significance, little is known about the proteins and posttranslational modifications that regulate Glis3 transcriptional activity. In this report, we demonstrate that the SUMO-pathway associated proteins, PIASy and Ubc9 are capable of regulating Glis3 transactivation function through a SUMO-dependent mechanism. We present evidence that SUMOylation of Glis3 by PIAS-family proteins occurs at two conserved lysine residues within the Glis3 N-terminus and modification of Glis3 by SUMO …

Human Fibroblast And Stem Cell Resource From The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network, Celeste M Karch, Damián Hernández, Jen-Chyong Wang, Jacob Marsh, Alex W Hewitt, Simon Hsu, Joanne Norton, Denise Levitch, Tamara Donahue, Wendy Sigurdson, Bernardino Ghetti, Martin Farlow, Jasmeer Chhatwal, Sarah Berman, Carlos Cruchaga, John C Morris, Randall J Bateman, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (Dian), Alice Pébay, Alison M Goate

Open Access Publications

BACKGROUND: Mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1 (PSEN1) and presenilin 2 (PSEN2) cause autosomal dominant forms of Alzheimer disease (ADAD). More than 280 pathogenic mutations have been reported in APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2. However, understanding of the basic biological mechanisms that drive the disease are limited. The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) is an international observational study of APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 mutation carriers with the goal of determining the sequence of changes in presymptomatic mutation carriers who are destined to develop Alzheimer disease.

RESULTS: We generated a library of 98 dermal fibroblast lines from 42 ADAD families …

Keynote: The Small World Of Material Handling Rearch, Parag J. Siddique, Kevin Gue, Md Salahuddin Ayuby

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Keynote Address

Identification And Functional Characterization Of Dishevelled-Interacting Proteins In The Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus And The Cnidarian Nematostella Vectensis, Wei Wu

Open Access Dissertations

Wnt signaling plays a central role in establishing anterior-posterior (AP) polarity in metazoan embryos. A key cytoplasmic component mediating Wnt signaling is the Disheveled (Dvl) protein, which is generally considered to be the central “hub” of the Wnt signaling pathway. In the sea urchin, Dvl is highly enriched and differentially post-translationally modified in a specialized vegetal cortical domain (VCD) of the egg, and the vegetal blastomeres that inherit the VCD during embryogenesis. Functional analysis has shown that localized Dvl activity mediates Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway in vegetal blastomeres, but the molecular basis of Dvl asymmetric localization and activation remain unresolved. Therefore, …

Dehydration Stress Memory: Gene Networks Linked To Physiological Responses During Repeated Stresses Of Zea Mays, Laetitia Virlouvet, Thomas J. Avenson, Qian Du, Chi Zhang, Ning Liu, Michael Fromm, Zoya Avramova, Sabrina E. Russo

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Stress memory refers to the observation that an initial, sub-lethal stress alters plants’ responses to subsequent stresses. Previous transcriptome analyses of maize seedlings exposed to a repeated dehydration stress has revealed the existence of transcriptional stress memory in Zea mays. Whether drought-related physiological responses also display memory and how transcriptional memory translates into physiological memory are fundamental questions that are still unanswered. Using a systems-biology approach we investigate whether/how transcription memory responses established in the genome-wide analysis of Z. mays correlate with 14 physiological parameters measured during a repeated exposure of maize seedlings to dehydration stress. Co-expression network analysis revealed …

Parasitic Indicators Of Foraging Strategies In Wading Birds, Sarah Gumbleton

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Feeding ecology and trophic interactions of six species of wading birds were explored through a combined analysis of stable isotope profiles and endoparasite communities. Stable isotopes broadly characterize the feeding preferences and geographic information, while parasite communities reflect long-term trends in feeding ecology. Deceased birds were obtained from four South Florida wildlife rehabilitation organizations. Of the 81 birds dissected, 73 contained parasites. Parasites were predominately found within the gastrointestinal tract. Host and range extensions were noted for several parasite taxa. Bird host species had a significant effect on the parasite community (P=0.001) while wildlife center location and maturity status did …