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The Collegian: January 31, 2019, The Collegian Staff, South Dakota State University

The Collegian, 2018-2019

Volume: 134

Issue: 15

Prospectus, January 31, 2019, Parkland College, Emma Fleming, Paul Benson, Ayla Mcdonald, Nic Hansen

Prospectus 2019

Black History Month in Full Swing, The government shutdown and how it affects Parkland, Meet the CobraVenture Student Entrepreneurs! Part 1, Meet the Editors - Part 2

The University Of San Francisco Fact Book And Almanac 2019, Alan Ziajka

USF Fact Book and Almanac

No abstract provided.

The Setonian, January 31, 2019, Seton Hall University

2019

No abstract provided.

The Lived Experience Of Spiritual Well-Being Amongst Informal Caregivers Of Persons With Dementia On Palliative Care Living At Home, Michael Baumgardner

Dissertations

Title. The Lived Experience of Spiritual Well-Being Amongst Informal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia on Palliative Care Living at Home.

Purpose.This study explored the lived experience of spiritual well-being amongst informal caregivers of a person with dementia who were living at home and enrolled in palliative care.

Background. Patients with dementia comprise the third leading diagnosis in palliative care patients and many receive informal care from family members. Palliative care improves quality of life in patients and their informal caregivers. However, little is known about spiritual well-being in the setting of caregiving of persons with dementia on palliative care. …

Application Of Aacn Healthy Work Environment Standards To Launch A Clinical Research Partnership, Nicole D. Osier, Beily Snow, Claire Lindsay Slote, Mindy T. Nguyen, Catherine Zhang

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Effective academic-clinical partnerships are unique to each team's social dynamic, yet essential for successful research. Many clinicians perceive a lack a time for research and insufficiency of research opportunities. This abstract highlights how our team applied the AACN Healthy Work Environment Standards to launch a successful academic-clinical partnership.

The Many Benefits Of Urban Green Spaces, Junainah Abu Kasim, Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof, Helmi Zulhaidi Mohd Shafri

CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development

Recently, the ideology of greenery city has received global attention which aimed to address the issues of rapid urbanization, population growth and climate change. Urban green spaces (UGS) seem as the most essential asset that could help cities to mitigate the adverse effects of rapid urbanization and urban sprawl in a sustainable way. It plays a vital role in our cities as an urban lung, discharging oxygen to reduce the city’s heat, the wall for harmful air pollution and offer greatest benefits in term of environment, social and economy to a city. However, the presence of UGS as one of …

Mitf Has A Central Role In Regulating Starvation-Induced Autophagy In Melanoma., Katrin Möller, Sara Sigurbjornsdottir, Asgeir O Arnthorsson, Vivian Pogenberg, Ramile Dilshat, Valerie Fock, Solveig H Brynjolfsdottir, Christian Bindesboll, Margret Bessadottir, Helga M Ogmundsdottir, Anne Simonsen, Lionel Larue, Matthias Wilmanns, Vesteinn Thorsson, Eirikur Steingrimsson, Margret H Ogmundsdottir

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

The MITF transcription factor is a master regulator of melanocyte development and a critical factor in melanomagenesis. The related transcription factors TFEB and TFE3 regulate lysosomal activity and autophagy processes known to be important in melanoma. Here we show that MITF binds the CLEAR-box element in the promoters of lysosomal and autophagosomal genes in melanocytes and melanoma cells. The crystal structure of MITF bound to the CLEAR-box reveals how the palindromic nature of this motif induces symmetric MITF homodimer binding. In metastatic melanoma tumors and cell lines, MITF positively correlates with the expression of lysosomal and autophagosomal genes, which, interestingly, …

Optimizing Gastrointestinal Integrity In Poultry: The Role Of Nutrients And Feed Additives, Sunday A. Adedokun, Opeyemi C. Olojede

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Immunomodulation of the immune system by stimulating or suppressing one or both arms, is an emerging concept driven by the understanding of the host defense system. In particular, the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) functions not only as a site for digestion and absorption of nutrients but also acts as a metabolic and immunological organ. This serves as a barrier against abnormal presentation of luminal constituents, caused by dysfunctional intestinal epithelial barrier, to the mucosal immune system. Invasion by pathogens in the case of disease or stress or a massive influx of commensal bacteria overcomes the defensive mechanisms, resulting in the full …

Sleeping Through Anything: The Effects Of Unpredictable Disruptions On Mouse Sleep, Healing, And Affect, Amy Robinson-Junker, Bruce O'Hara, Abigail Durkes, Brianna Gaskill

Biology Faculty Publications

Many aspects of the laboratory environment are not tailored to the needs of rodents, which may cause stress. Unpredictable stressors can cause ulcers, prolonged pituitary-adrenal activation, and anhedonia. Similarly, pain has been demonstrated to slow wound healing, and mice experiencing pain exhibit altered behavior. However it is unknown how husbandry, which occurs when the mice are inactive, and lack of analgesia, specifically in a punch biopsy procedure, effects animal physiology, behavior, and welfare, particularly as it relates to sleep fragmentation. We hypothesized that sleep fragmentation, induced by unpredictable husbandry and lack of pain management will slow wound healing. Two main …

Restoration Of Soil Microbial Function Following Degradation On Department Of Defense Lands: Mediating Biological Invasions In A Global Change Context, Kristina Stinson, Serita D. Frey

Faculty Publications

This project was designed to better understand the roles of soil biota in 1 mediating native species-NIS interactions and 2 facilitating the recovery of degraded ecosystems. The associated Research Needs were listed as follows 1. To quantify the functional diversity of soil biota and the role of key taxa in maintaining desired functional ecosystem attributes 2. To identify processes by which desired soil properties and associated soil biotic communities are degraded by NIS invasion and test potential mechanisms to restore them 3. To examine the role of disturbance in determining the functional attributes of the soil community 4. To test …

Informational Asymmetry In Public Participation On Environmental Monitoring In Indonesian Regulation: A Preliminary Discourse, Deni Daniel, Palupi Hapsari

CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development

Public participation has been viewed as crucial component in environmental management. Public participation enables the community to inform the project proponents and government agencies on local knowledge and aspiration to be considered in decision-making process. Based on our literature review we found that effective participation in monitoring might be hampered by informational asymmetry and the opportunistic nature of firms. In the case of Indonesia, little has been discussed on the possible informational asymmetry on the public participation process in environmental management. This paper aims to give a normative analysis on the current regulation of public participation in Indonesia to identify …

Application Of The Coping With Labor Toolkit To Assist Laboring Women, Kasey Chance, Carrie Lee Gardner, Stacey J. Jones

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The Coping with Labor Toolkit was created to assist intrapartum nurses in applying the Coping with Labor Algorithm. Participants will receive an overview of the Coping with Labor Toolkit and other information about various methods of providing labor support within their practice setting.

Developing An Evidence-Based Workplace Wellness Program For A Native Hawaiian Clinical Partner, Julie Kientz Elting, Daynnie Capili

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Quality educational experiences for nursing students depend upon clinical sites with healthy work environments. To facilitate this mutual goal, BSN faculty and senior students collaborated with a clinical partner to design an evidence-based, culturally relevant health promotion program for their employees.

Anolis Newsletter Vii, James T. Stroud, Anthony J. Geneva, Jonathan B. Losos

Biology Faculty Research

Newsletter for the 7th Anolis Symposium, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, Miami, Florida, 17-18 March 2018.

It had been nearly a decade since the previous Anolis symposium was held in Cambridge, MA, at the Museum for Comparative Zoology, Harvard. A reunion of anole biologists en masse was long past due and it was decided that this symposium would be slightly different – we were going to hold it somewhere with anoles! And so, on the weekend of 17-18th March, 2018, nearly 70 anole biologists traveled to sunny south Florida to attend the 7th Anolis Symposium held at the beautiful Fairchild Tropical …

Hawks' Herald -- Jan. 31 , 2019, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

Whalesong 2019-01-31, Khrystl Brouillette, Jordan Lewis, Melissa Scriven, Kortney Stevens, Alyssa Madrid, Sierra Lissick, Caitlin Purdome, Nick Bursell

Whalesong

No abstract provided.

The Teacher As Servant Leader: Revisited, David W. Anderson

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

This essay revisits an original conference proceedings chapter from 1997, examining the biblical and educational underpinnings for the concept of teacher and servant leader.

The Effect Of Dynamic Kinetic Selection On An Evolving Ribozyme Population, Patrick David Poletti

Dissertations and Theses

Dynamic Kinetic Selection (DKS) suggests that kinetic, rather than thermodynamic, stability will dictate the composition of a replicating population of biomolecules. Here, the results obtained from a series of five related reactions involving gradually increasing percentages of randomly-mutated substrate fragments to generate variants of full-length Azoarcus group I intron through an autocatalytic self-assembly reaction involving a series of recombination events, showed DKS as a driving factor in dictating the population composition of full-length product assembled from substrates that had fewer positions available to randomization.

In trying to elucidate a plausible scheme for the origins of complex biomolecules on the prebiotic …

Fungsi Tuturan Motivatif Guru Dalam Pembelajaran Di Sma, Fransisca Dike Desintya Dipta Sasmaya, Imam Suyitno, Sunoto Sunoto

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This research was aimed to describe the function of teacher’s motivation speech in SMA Katolik Diponegoro Blitar. The function of speech is divided into three categories, those are the function of fact information exchange, function f emotion exchange, and function of convicing of affecting. These three functions appear when the teacher gives the motivation speech in learning process, especially on Bahasa subject. The existence of those functions in the teacher’s motivation speech shows that in the learning process is not only focus on the material delivery, but also giving motivation from the teacher to students with purposed function.

The Effectiveness Of A Proposed Program Based On Triz’S Theory (Innovative Solutions To Problems) In Treating Sixth-Grade Students’ Reading Difficulties, Ahmed S. Al-Ahwal

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

The aim of the study was to prepare a program based on some of the principles of TRIZ (Innovative Solutions to Problems) to overcome some of the difficulties encountered by sixth-grade students. The study tools included a list of reading difficulties on two levels: identification and comprehension, the proposed program, teacher of the program application of the program, and the reading-test measuring the effectiveness of the proposed program. Seventy male and female sixth-grade students were randomly divided in two groups: experimental and control. The study confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed program in treating some reading difficulties. In addition, the …

Connecting Bridges Through Theatrical Design: An Examination Of “Asiri Nla” In Performance, Tochukwu J. Okeke

International Review of Humanities Studies

The theatre provides an avenue for the expression of very salient and topical issues about a people through the presentation of performances. These performances, which are often in form of plays, are always created by playwrights and that is why playwrights are said to be the watch dogs of the society because their works x-ray past and present situations while proffering solutions for the future. However, the theatre is a composite art which involves the collaboration of many creative artists: Playwright, Director, Stage Manager, Actor(s), Designer(s), amongst others. The designer(s) are the creative artists that interpret the play in visual …

Effects Of Egg Intake On Choline Metabolism And Hdl Functionality In A Healthy Population, Bruno S. Lemos

Doctoral Dissertations

A major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) is elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). High-density lipoprotein (HDL) functionality can play a role in reducing risk for CVD by assisting in cholesterol homeostasis. Additionally, high plasma trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) concentrations are related to increased CVD risk and increased atherosclerosis progression. Eggs are a rich source of dietary choline, a precursor for TMAO formation. Therefore, the effects of egg intake in comparison to a choline bitartrate supplement were explored in a young, healthy population. The aim was to show the benefits of egg consumption without increasing risk for CVD in young adults. The …

Back To The Future: Conserving Functional And Phylogenetic Diversity In The Amphibian-Climate Refuges, Ricardo Lourenço-De-Moraes, Felipe S. Campos, Rodrigo B. Ferreira, Mirco Solé, Karen H. Beard, Rogério P. Bastos

Ecology Center Publications

Climate refuges have been used by several species over historical climate change. Ectothermic species often display good models for climate change studies because they are highly sensitive to temperature. Analysis of species loss with ecosystem and evolutionary values helps to understand environmental processes and climate change consequences. We determined the functional and phylogenetic diversity of amphibians in the Atlantic Forest hotspot, using multiple models representing present and future conditions. Through a novel approach, we predict species’ threat status by 2080, following the IUCN’s criterion B1. Our results estimate a drastic reduction in species richness, ecosystem functioning and evolutionary history at …

Foundations For Open Scholarship Strategy Development, Version 2.1 [Pre-Print], Jonathan Tennant, Jennifer E. Beamer, Jeroen Bosman, Björn Brembs, Neo Christopher Chung, Gail Clement, Tom Crick, Jonathan Dugan, Alastair Dunning, David Eccles, Asura Enkhbayar, Daniel Graziotin, Rachel Harding, Johanna Havemann, Daniel S. Katz, Kshitiz Khanal, Jesper Norgaard Kjaer, Tim Koder, Paul Macklin, Christopher R. Madan, Paola Masuzzo, Lisa Matthias, Katja Mayer, David M. Nichols, Elli Papadopoulou, Thomas Pasquier, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Dan Sholler, Tobias Steiner, Pawel Szczesny, Andy Turner

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

This document aims to agree on a broad, international strategy for the implementation of open scholarship that meets the needs of different national and regional communities but works globally.

Scholarly research can be idealised as an inspirational process for advancing our collective knowledge to the benefit of all humankind. However, current research practices often struggle with a range of tensions, in part due to the fact that this collective (or “commons”) ideal conflicts with the competitive system in which most scholars work, and in part because much of the infrastructure of the scholarly world is becoming largely digital. What is …

Understanding Myd88-Dependent And -Independent Mechanisms Of Phagosomal Signaling And Inflammation Elicited By Borrelia Burgdorferi, The Lyme Disease Spirochete, Sarah Benjamin

Doctoral Dissertations

Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi(Bb). It is believed that the robust inflammatory response induced by the host’s innate immune system is responsible for the clinical manifestations associated with Bb infection. The macrophage plays a central role in the immune response to many bacterial infections and is thought to play a central role in activation of the innate immune response to Bb. Previous studies have shown that following phagocytosis of spirochetes by macrophages, phagosome maturation results in degradation of Bband liberation of bacterial lipoproteins and nucleic acids, which are recognized by …

Femtosecond Laser Transient Spectroscopy Of Carotenoids And Carbon Nanotubes, Soroush Khosravi Dehaghi

Doctoral Dissertations

Carotenoids and semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes, which are both nanoscale carbon-based quantum mechanical systems, were studied using different optical spectroscopy techniques in this dissertation. In both cases, adelocalized molecularorbital system governs the interaction with the visible light. The ultrafast dynamics of thesedelocalized molecularorbital systems right after the excitation with visible femtosecond laser pulses were investigated.

The lineshapes and respective lifetimes of the excited states involved in the decay process of two photoexcited carotenoids, spheroidene and spheroidenone, were examined using transient absorption and transient grating spectroscopy. By employing a model-based lifetime analysis routine, written as part of this dissertation, the lifetimes …

A Heuristic Classification Of Woody Plants Based On Contrasting Shade And Drought Strategies, Liang Wei, Chonggang Xu, Steven Jansen, Hang Zhou, Bradley O. Christoffersen, William T. Pockman, Richard S. Middleton, John D. Marshall, Nate G. Mcdowell

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Woody plants vary in their adaptations to drought and shade. For a better prediction of vegetation responses to drought and shade within dynamic global vegetation models, it is critical to group species into functional types with similar adaptations. One of the key challenges is that the adaptations are generally determined by a large number of plant traits that may not be available for a large number of species. In this study, we present two heuristic woody plant groups that were separated using cluster analysis in a three-dimensional trait–environment space based on three key metrics for each species: mean xylem embolism …

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Penggunaan Media Audiovisual Pada Model Inkuiri Terbimbing Terhadap Keterampilan Proses Sains Dan Penguasaan Konsep Ipa, Ainun Magfirah, Arif Hidayat, Susriyati Mahanal

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This research was aimed to know the use of audiovisual media in a guided inquiry model of science processskills and mastery of students' concepts in science subjects. The low level of science process skills and mastery of concepts that exist today, becomes the urgency of this research. in this study, the type of research used was quasi-experimental research using two learning classes as research samples with different treatments. The sample is divided into experimental class and control class with simple random sampling technique. The analysis showed that there were significant differences in the experimental class with media use audiovisual in …