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New England Classical Journal

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A Super Cover Illustration Highlights Superconductivity Research, Jeff Hansen

Browse All News

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@Houstonpolice: An Exploratory Case Of Twitter During Hurricane Harvey, Seungwon Yang, Brenton Stewart

Faculty Publications

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Houston Police Department (HPD)’s public engagement efforts using Twitter during Hurricane Harvey, which was a large-scale urban crisis event.

Design/methodology/approach

This study harvested a corpus of over 13,000 tweets using Twitter’s streaming API, across three phases of the Hurricane Harvey event: preparedness, response and recovery. Both text and social network analysis (SNA) techniques were employed including word clouds, n-gram analysis and eigenvector centrality to analyze data.

Findings

Findings indicate that departmental tweets coalesced around topics of protocol, reassurance and community resilience. Twitter accounts of governmental agencies, such as …

Erotic Manga, Its Artists, And The Pressures Of Censorship, Dominique Andrée Lief

University Honors Theses

Erotic manga (エロマンガ), a genre of adult-oriented Japanese comics is subjected to censorship that may seem irrelevant or confusing to people outside of the industry. Why is erotic manga censored? How is erotic manga censored? How does censorship affect erotic manga artists? These questions are examined through use of English academic sources, Japanese academic sources and news articles, and interviews with professional erotic manga artists translated into English.

Elevated Glucose Acts Directly On Osteocytes To Increase Sclerostin Expression In Diabetes, Donna M. Pacicca, Tammy Brown, Dara Watkins, Karen Kover, Yun Yan, Matthew Prideaux, Lynda Bonewald

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

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Bone quality in diabetic patients is compromised, leading to weaker bones and increased fracture risk. However, the mechanism by which this occurs in diabetic bone remains to be fully elucidated. We hypothesized that elevated glucose and glucose variation would affect the function of osteocytes, essential regulators of bone homeostasis and quality. To first test this hypothesis, we used the IDG-SW3 osteocyte-like cell line to examine the effects of glucose levels on osteocyte function and viability in vitro. We confirmed our in vitro findings using the in vivo streptozotocin-induced (STZ) diabetic rat model and ex-vivo cultured osteocytes …

High Concentrations Of Trimethylamines In Slime Glands Inhibit Skein Unraveling In Pacific Hagfish, Gaurav Jain, Marie Starksen, Kashika Singh, Christopher Hoang, Paul Yancey, Charlene Mccord, Douglas S. Fudge

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Hagfish defend themselves from fish predators by producing large volumes of gill-clogging slime when they are attacked. The slime consists of seawater and two major components that are ejected from the slime glands: mucus and threads. The threads are produced within specialized cells and packaged into intricately coiled bundles called skeins. Skeins are kept from unraveling via a protein adhesive that dissolves when the skeins are ejected from the slime glands. Previous work revealed that hagfish slime glands have high concentrations of methylamines including trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), trimethylglycine (betaine) and dimethylglycine (DMG); however, the function of these compounds in the …

Investigation Of Genetic Modifiers Of Neurodegeneration Using Synthetic Lethality In Drosophila Melanogaster, Kavitha Kannan

Doctoral Dissertations

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Colorful Techniques In Canvas: Engaging Gen Z With Visual Learning In A Blended Environment, Harika Rao, Jennifer A. Torres

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

In today’s day and age of a dynamic education system, it is crucial to keep students engaged, especially in a blended environment. There are a plethora of techniques available in the learning management system, that can propagate healthy and interactive learning outcomes for students.

The learning management system that we will use to demonstrate is Canvas. Everyone can create, conversations in Canvas! Utilizing apps into online course environments allows instructors and learners to communicate in an interactive method creating visual cues to demonstrate learning objectives. Instructors are discovering the possibilities of reaching their audience with images, videos, Keynote, and animation …

Rare, Endangered, And Threatened Vascular Plants Of North America: A Bibliography, James P. Smith Jr

Botanical Studies

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Chemical Tools And Treatments For Neurological Disorders And Infectious Diseases, Andrea Lemus

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Neurological disorders have multiple etiologies such as genetics and age. Stress related disorders are becoming more common and diagnosed more often. Mental health disorders are no longer being treated as purely psychological. Mechanisms into the underlying factors of these disorders continue to bring this area to new frontiers. Chapter 2 of this dissertation focuses on the efforts made to prove the association of the protein FKBP51 to the stress response. We synthesized and used a molecular tool to discover and prove these interactions.

The study of neurodegenerative diseases is of continued importance as the world reaches record numbers of an …

Antarctic Deep Sea Coral And Tropical Fungal Endophyte: Novel Chemistry For Drug Discovery, Anne-Claire D. Limon

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Considered the pulse controlling the biological interactions and contributing to the ecological survival of organisms, natural products have intrigued, challenged, and stimulated the scientific and non-scientific minds for millennia. Drug resistance and the lack of suitable potent drugs against neglected tropical diseases further motivate the biological activity assessment of these secondary metabolites, when possible.

This thesis describes the chemical investigation of two marine organisms and the elucidation of eight novel structures.

The study of a deep sea Antarctic coral unveils six novel terpenoid structures from three different molecular classes: sesquiterpenoid alcyopterosins, a triterpene steroid, and three prostaglandins. While mass availability …

African Safari, Connor Bailey

.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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.RAW Journal of Art and Design

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Doing More At Dordt, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Up For An Adventure, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Male Burmese Pythons Follow Female Scent Trails And Show Sex-Specific Behaviors, Shannon A. Richard, Eric A. Tillman, John S. Humphrey, Michael L. Avery, M. Rockwell Parker

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Animals communicate with potential mates using species-specific signals, and pheromones are powerful sexual signals that modify conspecific behavior to facilitate mate location. Among the vertebrates, snakes are especially adept in mate searching via chemical trailing, which is particularly relevant given that many snake species are invasive outside their native ranges. Chemical signals used in mate choice are, thus, potentially valuable tools for management of invasive snake species. The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is an invasive snake in the Florida Everglades where it is negatively impacting native fauna. In this study, we sought to: (i) determine if males can follow conspecific …

2016 Symposium Program, Joe Geigel, David Long

Frameless

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Adjusting The Margins: Harnessing The Foundations Of American Sign Language For Vr, Luane Davis Haggerty

Frameless

Del-Sign is a physical approach to acting that uses elements of Francois Delsarte mime techniques with the foundations of American Sign Language. This acting and presentational technique uses cross-cultural physical communication as a way to deepen an actors’ performance, support a presenter’s lecture, or can be used as a format from which to create animations that communicate with or without verbal language. It is a historical fact that Deaf actors using the foundations of Sign Language influenced the movie industry (Higgins). In silent movie infancy Deaf performers were brought in as consultants to ensure that the gestures, relational positions, facial …

The Role Of Multidrug Resistance Regulators Mara, Soxs, Rob And Rama In Regulating Virulence Traits In Salmonella Enterica, Srinivas Thota

Dissertations

Enteric pathogens sense numerous signals specific to the anatomical location in the intestine and integrate them with the complex regulatory networks to temporally and spatially regulate their virulence genes. MarA, SoxS, Rob and RamA are homologous transcription factors that belong to AraC family of proteins in Salmonella enterica that primarily were thought to be involved in rendering antibiotic resistance to bacteria by up regulating efflux pumps and down regulating outer membrane porins. The fact that these transcription factors respond to the same intestinal compounds that regulate virulence genes in Salmonella motivated us to look for other roles of these transcription …

Regional And Historical Influences On The Spatial Distribution Of Neotropical Trees, Maria Isabel Loza

Dissertations

At small spatial scales, the composition of species assemblages depends on local conditions and the dispersal of propagules from surrounding regions. In turn, processes taking place at broad temporal and spatial scales, including changes in regional physiography and climate, shape the species pools in these source regions. This dissertation seeks to understand the effects of regional and historical processes on the spatial distribution of Neotropical tree species. In chapter 1, I investigate regional enrichment of local species assemblages testing two hypothesis: i) local species assemblages are enriched by unfiltered species pools, which are composed of all species that can …

Chanticleer | Vol 85, Issue 21, Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

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The Indiana Statesman, November 21, 2019, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

A Celebration of American Indian, Alaska Native Culture; Seniors Neeley, James honored with Hines, Bradley medals; Obama talks climate change at green building conference, avoids politics; Uber shows a big rise in government requests for rider information

Targeting Civilians, Daniel Ivo Odon

SJD Dissertations

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Fall 2019 Student Showcase For Research And Creative Inquiry, Office Of Student Research

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

The Fall Student Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry will be held on Thursday, November 21, 2019 from 3:30 PM - 6 PM at Longwood University.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes November 21, 2019, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

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The Weekly Challenger, November 21, 2019, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The November 21, 2019, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Comment, November 21, 2019, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

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Casey Dué, Achilles Unbound. Multiformity And Tradition In The Homeric Epics. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press 2019. Pp. 228 (Isbn 978-0-674-98736-4) $27.50., Pura Nieto Hernández

New England Classical Journal

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Margarita Sánchez Romero And Rosa Cid López, Eds. Motherhood And Infancies In The Mediterranean In Antiquity. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2018. Pp. 296. Paper (Isbn 978-1-78925-038-1) $59.99., Lauren Caldwell

New England Classical Journal

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Sheramy Bundrick, Athens, Etruria, And The Many Lives Of Greek Figured Pottery. Madison, Wi: University Of Wisconsin Press, 2019. Pp. 352. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-299- 32100-0) $119.95., Amanda Reiterman

New England Classical Journal

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