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St. Norbert College Students Named To Fall 2018 Dean's List, St. Norbert College

Press Releases 2018

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Trypanosoma Brucei Prmt1 Is A Nucleic Acid Binding Protein With A Role In Energy Metabolism And The Starvation Stress Response., Lucie Kafková, Chengjian Tu, Kyle L. Pazzo, Kyle P. Smith, Erik W. Debler, Kimberly S. Paul, Jun Qu, Laurie K. Read

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

In Trypanosoma brucei and related kinetoplastid parasites, transcription of protein coding genes is largely unregulated. Rather, mRNA binding proteins, which impact processes such as transcript stability and translation efficiency, are the predominant regulators of gene expression. Arginine methylation is a posttranslational modification that preferentially targets RNA binding proteins and is, therefore, likely to have a substantial impact on T. brucei biology. The data presented here demonstrate that cells depleted of T. brucei PRMT1 (TbPRMT1), a major type I protein arginine methyltransferase, exhibit decreased virulence in an animal model. To understand the basis of this phenotype, quantitative global proteomics was employed …

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Bulloch County Papers

This is the digital file of the Statesboro-Bulloch County Library's Public History Files. Many of the items within are news articles from the Statesboro Herald Newspaper or its predecessors.

Proteomic Profile Of Carbonylated Proteins Screen Regulation Of Apoptosis Via Camk Signaling In Response To Regular Aerobic Exercise, Wenfeng Liu, Li Li, Heyu Kuang, Yan Xia, Zhiyuan Wang, Shaopeng Liu, Dazhong Yin

Health Sciences & Kinesiology: Faculty Publications

To research carbonylated proteins and screen molecular targets in the rat striatum on regular aerobic exercise, male SpragueDawley rats (13 months old, n = 24) were randomly divided into middle-aged sedentary control (M-SED) and aerobic exercise (M-EX) groups (n = 12 each). Maximum oxygen consumption (VO2max) gradually increased from 50%–55% to 65%–70% for a total of 10 weeks. A total of 36 carbonylated proteins with modifed oxidative sites were identifed by Electrospray IonizationQuadrupole-Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometer (ESI-Q-TOF-MS), including 17 carbonylated proteins unique to the M-SED group, calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type II subunit beta (CaMKII�), and heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A2/B1 (Hnrnpa2b1), …

Immigration Law Under The Mclachlin Court, Catherine Dauvergne

All Faculty Publications

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Numerical Simulations Of Flow Past A Triangular Airfoil And In A Sweeping Jet Actuator Using Different Turbulence Models, Han Yang

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

The goal of this research is to perform 2D turbulent flow simulations to predict the flow past a triangular airfoil used for a Mars air vehicle and in a sweeping jet actuator used for active flow control. Simulations are performed using the commercial CFD software ANSYS Fluent.

The thesis consists of two parts. The first part of the thesis deals with the CFD simulations of a triangular airfoil in low-Reynolds-number compressible flow. This airfoil is one of the candidates for propeller blades on a possible future Martian air vehicle design. The aerodynamics and flow physics of the triangular airfoil is …

Provision Of Reference And Information Services To The Physically Challenged Persons In Nigeria: Challenges And Prospects, Ogagaoghene U. Idhalama

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This paper examines the provision of reference and information services to the physically challenged persons in Nigeria: Challenges and prospects. The article demystifies the conceptual framework of information services and physically challenged persons, the information needs of the physically challenged as a concept was succinctly analyzed and the attention or relegation received by this group of library users discussed. The public library for instance is there to provide its services to all classes of users irrespective of age, sex, colour and disability. This paper is therefore timely as it ascertained how all libraries can help to meet up with …

Noise And Gain Characterization Of Interband Cascade Infrared Photodetectors, Eli A. Garduño

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Infrared (IR) detectors are an enabling technology for a broad and growing list of applications including gas detection, night vision, and space-based missile warning. There are ongoing efforts in IR detector research to explore the potential of new material systems and energy band structures in addition to continuously improving their sensitivity through increasing their quantum efficiency and lowering their dark current and noise. This dissertation examines an emerging class of IR detectors known as Interband Cascade Infrared Photodetectors (ICIPs).

ICIPs contain multiple regions to facilitate the collection of photogenerated electrons and to limit unwanted dark current. Theory regarding their performance …

Agility And Resilience As Antecedents Of Supply Chain Performance Under Moderating Effects Of Organizational Culture Within Humanitarian Setting: A Dynamic Capability View, N Altay, A Gunasekaran, R Dubey, Sj Childe

Plymouth Business School

This study examines the effects of supply chain agility and supply chain resilience on performance under the moderating effect of organizational culture. We have used the dynamic capability view to conceptualize our theoretical models for different phases of humanitarian supply chain (pre-disaster and post-disaster phases). These phases do not have clear boundaries, but overlap chronologically, as well as in terms of ongoing activities. We used partial least squares (PLS) to examine our proposed research hypotheses using 335 responses gathered from organizations in India using survey based questionnaires designed for a single respondent. The results from our data suggest that SCAG …

Rapid Detection Of Extra-Intestinal Pathogenic Escherichia Coli Multi-Locus Sequence Type 127 Using A Specific Pcr Assay., Rw O'Hara, Peter J. Jenks, Matthew Emery, Mathew Upton

School of Biomedical Sciences

PURPOSE: Members of the ST127 uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) clone have a high virulence potential and are also highly virulent in insect infection models. However, strains of this lineage are reported in relatively low numbers in many studies. ST127 strains are also usually widely susceptible to antibiotics and, consequently, their true prevalence may be under-recognized as they will be eradicated during empirical therapy. A genuine concern is the possibility that members of this highly virulent lineage will acquire resistance, leading to a more serious threat. The aim of this study was to design and validate a PCR assay specific to …

Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration And Polychromatic Image Quality Metrics Of Intraocular Lenses, G Łabuz, E Papadatou, R Khoramnia, Gu Auffarth

School of Health Professions

PURPOSE:To measure longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA) of various intraocular lenses (IOLs) and to assess LCA effects on polychromatic image quality with a focus on multifocal IOL designs. METHODS:The LCA values of four multifocal IOL models (three diffractive models: AT LARA 829MP and AT LISA 809M [both from Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena, Germany] and Restor SN6AD1 [Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Fort Worth, TX] and one refractive model [Mini Well Ready; SIFI Medtech, Sant'Antonio, Italy]) were compared with that of their monofocal counterparts. Optical properties were assessed using an optical bench device with spectral filters. LCA was calculated as a difference of …

Group Facilitation, Terry Bresnick

Operations Management Presentations

As a management consultant, over the course of more than 40 years, I have facilitated more than 1500 workshops, seminars, and decision conferences. But when I think back on the times I was a college professor at West Point in the 70s, I often found myself in a position where in addition to teaching, I had to bring together and integrate the needs of very diverse groups of people. Typically, there was time pressure, the stakes were high, and the objectives of the participants conflicted. As an assistant professor, I had no real decision-making authority, but I could help the …

Matter Dis//Assembled: Revealing The Economies And Ecologies Of Aluminum, Noah Anderson

Architecture Thesis Prep

This project seeks to understand matter through the environments it creates. These environments, created through production, end-use, and disposal, extend to the scale of the world, the territory and the product. In a globalized world, the separate environments of a single material are highly external, and while we may know where a material comes from, the consequences of its extraction and manufacture are out-of-site, out-of-mind. This externalization is evident for Aluminum, which has a diverse and often contradictory range of environments.

Method For Filtering Displayed Content Based On Occupants, Scott Randolph, Bradley Stenning, Steve Paik

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes an operating system (OS) that re-defines a user as a sum of all occupants in a shared space, and not merely as a single individual who has signed into a shared device. To identify the occupants of a space, the OS uses objective markers, such as: facial recognition, radar signature, biometric sensors, media address control identification (MAC ID), voice recognition, various sensors, radio-frequency identification (RFID), or other Internet-of-Things (IoT) data. Then, the OS filters out the displayed content on the shared device based on a level of trust amongst the occupants and a level of sensitivity. To …

Determining Breakpoints In Media Content, Migle Padegimaite, Sammy El Ghazzal

Defensive Publications Series

Systems and methods for determining breakpoints in media content via a machine learning architecture by accounting for the context of the media content, and for placing separate pieces of additional content into the breakpoints, are described. The machine learning architecture determines the number of pieces of additional content to insert into the media content, divides the media content into a number of scenes and tags each scene with appropriate identifiers based on comparison to reference content, identifies break points at the end of each scene, identifies which break point to insert pieces of additional content into, and then inserts the …

Revision Of The Central Asian Scorpion Genus Anomalobuthus Kraepelin, 1900, With Descriptions Of Three New Species And A Generic Synonymy (Scorpiones: Buthidae), Rolando Teruel, František Kovařík, Victor Fet

Euscorpius

We revise the Central Asian endemic genus Anomalobuthus Kraepelin, 1900, which was considered monotypic for more than 100 years until the recent addition of a second species from Iran (Teruel et al., 2014). We redefine the generic diagnosis of Anomalobuthus and reveal that it is composed of no less than six species, three of which are described as new: A. krivochatskyi, sp. n. (central Uzbekistan and extreme southern Kazakhstan), A. lowei, sp. n. (southeastern Kazakhstan), and A. pavlovskyi, sp. n. (south-central Kazakhstan and extreme northern Turkmenistan). The monotypic genus Psammobuthus Birula, 1911 (described from the Ferghana Valley …

Zoom In On Science Concepts: Living And Nonliving, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Living and Nonliving is a great book to introduce the concept that somethings (even inanimate objects) can be living things. Things that have never been alive are nonliving. They are things like rocks and sand. Living things are or have been alive. Things like plants and animals are living things. Living things all need energy, reproduce, grow and breathe.

Wish Girl, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

The first time Peter goes to the valley, it’s to get away from his family. The second time he goes, it’s to feel that magic in the air again. Almost every time after that, it’s to see Annie. Annie calls herself a wish girl because she makes wishes and people usually grant them, but it’s only because she’s sick. She’s so sick that she could die or, through invasive treatments, become a different person. She has only a few weeks before her next treatments, and she intends to witness as much magic and create as much art in that time …

Wave, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

An intrepid little girl faces the ocean for perhaps the first time. She has a seagull crew to back her up. As the wave rolls toward them, it causes a bit of alarm to her and the gulls. She roars back to it, and it retreats to gather strength, rolling back in a little stronger and bigger each time until it clobbers her with water. As the wave recedes, she discovers many wonderful treasures left behind. This might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Violet is a seven-year-old girl who is fascinated by birds, bugs, and their habitats. She becomes interested in some ladybugs that she finds in her backyard. She makes what seems like the perfect habitat for a little ladybug that she names Small Gloria. When Small Gloria dies in the jar with a leaf and a pebble, Violet becomes discouraged. She goes to her older sister, Nicola, to find comfort, but her sister needs comfort and advice herself. Nicola has a big science project to complete but has absolutely no ideas for it. Violet gives her the idea of creating a …

Us, In Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos, Emily Loveless

Children's Book and Media Review

Us, in Progress is a collection of short stories written from the perspectives of twelve diverse young Latinos who live in the United States. The stories cover topics including health issues, prejudice, personal identity struggles, dreamers, and cultural and family pressure. Each story is based on news reports or personal stories related directly to the author, Lulu Delacre. The struggles and victories contained within the stories help to paint a broader understanding of the Latino community in the US today.

Twindergarten, Katherine Cooper

Children's Book and Media Review

Zoe and Dax are more than just twins, they’re best friends. They do everything together from playing dress-up to brushing their teeth. But with Kindergarten about to start, Zoe and Dax are nervous about being in different classes. Full of anxiety, they head off to school prepared for the worst. This tender story about trying new things and facing fears is the perfect book for anyone with first-day jitters.

Tulip And Rex Write A Story, Katherine Cooper

Children's Book and Media Review

Rex is a sweet dog who loves going on adventures with his owner Tulip. In another lovely story about the friendship between Tulip and Rex, the two go on an adventure to find wonderful words to write in Tulip’s new notebook. With those words they write a story about King Rex and Queen Tulip. Tulip and Rex Write a Story is the second book in this series, following the book Tulip Loves Rex where we are first introduced to Tulip and her pet dog.

Tractor Mac School Day, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

When Betty the school bus visits her friends after a rough first day of school, she's feeling pretty low. She made so many mistakes. She forgot where to go, didn't use her blinkers, and she even got lost! She's feeling sad, embarrassed, and unsure if she should go back for the second day of school. Luckily, her friends cheer her up and boost her confidence. Tractor Mac and the other vehicles and animals on the farm help Betty come up with tricks for remembering her route. They rally behind her and let her know that they believe in her, which …

Toodles And Teeny: A Story About Friendship, Samantha Bullock

Children's Book and Media Review

Toodles the turkey is one lonely bird. She has friends—lots of them—but no best friend to make her feel secure. Teeny is a tiny little turkey that has no friends at all. When the two meet by chance one day, they instantly hit it off and quickly become best friends. There’s just one problem. Toodles’s barnyard pals feel left out and sad that Toodles has been spending so much time with Teeny, and eventually they decide to move on. Toodles tries to convince them she still wants to be friends, but to no avail. Teeny ends up providing the support …

Tiny Little Rocket, Maryn Wheeler

Children's Book and Media Review

Tiny Little Rocket goes on an extraordinary exploration through outer space. In the silver-finned rocket, the reader becomes the pilot zipping by the burning, golden sun, boosting further into space, and almost running into a meteor. Watch out! From the cockpit the quick-thinking pilot helps maneuver the rocket to safety through the solar system to find a spectacular view of Earth on New Year’s Eve, the world’s birthday.

This & That, Maryn Wheeler

Children's Book and Media Review

Story time is magical as an adult mouse shares them with a child mouse. The mice become part of the action as they weave through a story about this and a story about that. They float down a river, climb trees, join a market, catch a carriage, and attend a ball all while witnessing the magical things around them. In the end, the adult mouse tucks the child in bed with a kiss in their simple, hole-in-the-wall home.

The Unicorn Rescue Society #2: The Basque Dragon, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Uchenna and Elliot are swept away by Professor Fauna to far off Basque where a dragon has gone missing! In an ancient Basque family tale, they discover that dragon's blood has the power to heal all wounds. This can lead to only one conclusion. The dragon has been kidnapped by the uber-wealthy Schmoke brothers. Using Elliot's intelligence, Uchenna's courage, and Professor Fauna's dedication to the magical creature cause, they discover more than the missing dragon and still manage to arrive home in time for dinner.

The Three Pigs, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Life is delightful when a little pig escapes not only the big bad wolf but the entire story as well! He persuades the next little piggy to adventure into the unstructured space between drawings. Soon all three piggies, a dragon, and a wondering cat are safely enjoying one another's company in the red brick house whilst supping on alphabet soup with ingredients stolen from the text.

The Prince And The Pee, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Prince Freddie is enjoying his vacation when his horse, Sir Rushington, informs him that a terrible dragon is attacking Castle Crumbly. They race off, but they haven't gone long when Prince Freddie realizes he needs to pee! They stop quickly so Prince Freddie can pee behind a boulder, but an ogre is there. They stop again to pee at a tree, but there's a terribly long line and they don't have time to wait. Foiled again and again, Prince Freddie is desperate when they finally reach the castle. He charges past the dragon and finally can pee, conveniently putting out …