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Does Urbanization Drive Evolution In White Clover?, Victor Alfonso, Seika Shiba, Yangjie Tan, Philips Akinwole

Annual Student Research Poster Session

Urban areas are functioning ecosystems with profound effects on the ecology and evolution of organisms. Systematic investigations of species interactions in urban versus rural environments can improve our understanding of the mechanisms through which urbanization drives natural selection on populations. To facilitate our understanding of the selective factors driving adaptation in cities, we examined adaptive phenotypic changes by quantifying the relative frequency of cyanogenesis (hydrogen cyanide production after tissue damage) in 180 white clover (Trifolium repens) populations along urbanization gradients in six Midwest (USA) cities. White clover, a perennial plant is naturally polymorphic for cyanogenesis; a chemical defense against herbivores. …

Effects Of Mono- And Di- Saccharide Osmolytes On The Stability And Folding Dynamics Of Src Sh3, Mahmoud Abouelkheir, Emily Guinn

Annual Student Research Poster Session

Osmolytes are small molecules that stabilize protein’s native structures in living systems. In order to better understand this process, we investigate how changes in specific structural properties of osmolytes affect folding dynamics and stability of proteins. This study focuses on one common structural property that varies in quantity, linkage, and arrangement amongst some osmolytes: glucose subunits. Comparing the effects of osmolytes with varying quantities of cyclic glucose subunits, varying types of glycosidic linkages of cyclic glucose subunits, and a linear glucose analogue on the stability and folding dynamics of proteins may reveal the potential role of these structures on osmolyte-protein …

Synthesis Of Ether Alcohols With Varying Catalysts, Hannah Grady, Frida Li, Jeffrey A. Hansen

Annual Student Research Poster Session

It has previously been found that acids and bases are effective catalysts in the opening of epoxides into ether alcohols. Our first goal for this summer was to determine which of the acids and bases available were the most effective. After figuring out which of the acids and bases are the optimal catalysts, our second goal was producing ether alcohols in the shortest amount of time with higher yields. Our final goal was to see how biologically reactive the ether alcohols we produced were.

Opening Of An Epoxide Ring Using Azide To Form A Triazole, Emily Hufnagel, Jeffrey A. Hansen

Annual Student Research Poster Session

The purpose of this research project is to identify and synthesize biologically active compounds that could potentially aid in pharmaceutical research. Once a compound is correctly identified and purified, the sample can be diluted and added to a Brine Shrimp Lethality Assay in order to determine the toxicity of the compound. This experiment was designed using an epoxide compound to form an azide that would eventually form a triazole. In carrying out this project, two main procedures were used in order to create two different compounds that would eventually create the final result. The triazole was not successful in the …

Documents From The October 2, 2019 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), Anna-Marie David

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Minutes for the October 2, 2019 ASUM Senate Meeting

Imperatrix, Domina, Rex: Conceptualizing The Female King In Twelfth-Century England, Coral Lumbley

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

This article draws on methods from transgender theory, historicist literary studies, and visual analysis of medieval sealing practices to show that Empress Matilda of England was controversially styled as a female king during her career in the early to mid twelfth century. While the chronicle Gesta Stephani castigates Matilda’s failure to engage in sanctioned gendered behaviors as she waged civil war to claim her inherited throne, Matilda’s seal harnesses both masculine and feminine signifiers in order to proclaim herself both king and queen. While Matilda’s transgressive gender position was targeted by her detractors during her lifetime, the obstinately transgender object …

A Space Of Her Own: Genderfluidity And Negotiation In The Life Of Christina Of Markyate, Meghan L. Nestel

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

This paper draws on transgender studies and theories of gender performativity and genderfluidity to consider how twelfth-century holy woman Christina of Markyate resists traditional and third-gender binary policing. It argues that Christina is genderfluid, and that as a secular, masculinized, and religious virgin, she co-exists within and moves among multiple gender spaces that allow her to establish her own authority.

“Car Vallés Sui Et Nient Mescine”: Trans Heroism And Literary Masculinity In Le Roman De Silence, Caitlin G. Watt

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

The title character of Heldris de Cornüalle’s thirteenth-century Le Roman de Silence, raised as a boy because of a ban on female inheritance, achieves acclaim as a knight and minstrel before ultimately being relegated to a traditional feminine role when the deception is revealed and the knight becomes a queen. Although the text has offered prompted many fruitful analyses of its depiction of womanhood and women’s potential by scholars reading Silence as a cross-dressing woman, reading Silence instead as a transmasculine figure may offer new perspectives on Silence’s treatment of gender. This article explores the possibility of Silence …

"Calling [Herself] Eleanor": Gender Labor And Becoming A Woman In The Rykener Case, Kadin Henningsen

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Plant-Produced Oxidation/Reduction Enzymes As Bioremediation Agents, Joshua Byrd

Student Theses and Dissertations

Contamination of the environment directly impacts animal, plant, and human health and agricultural production. A potential solution this project is offering incorporates the use of enzymes from fungi; manganese peroxidase and laccase. Two formulations of recombinant manganese peroxidase (MnP) from corn and commercial laccase have been tested on synthetic dyes and atrazine in an aqueous environment. Laccase utilizes oxygen when degrading these pollutants. All dyes were degraded to some extent by both enzymes. The products from the enzymatic reactions of one dye, Methyl Orange were analyzed with High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). The HPLC showed that there were products of …

The Bg News October 02, 2019, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. October 02, 2019. Volume 99-Issue 8.

The Parthenon, October 2, 2019, Hanna Pennington

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, was published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly on Thursdays during the summer. Due to budgetary constraints, beginning with the 2018 Fall semester, the newspaper is only published one day a week (and once every other week during the summer). The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Montana Kaimin, October 2, 2019, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Validation Of A Miniaturized Permeability Assay Compatible With Crispr-Mediated Genome-Wide Screen., Claire Simonneau, Junning Yang, Xianguo Kong, Robert Kilker, Leonard Edelstein, Paolo Fortina, Eric R. Londin, Arie Horowitz

Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research

The impermeability of the luminal endothelial cell monolayer is crucial for the normal performance of the vascular and lymphatic systems. A key to this function is the integrity of the monolayer's intercellular junctions. The known repertoire of junction-regulating genes is incomplete. Current permeability assays are incompatible with high-throughput genome-wide screens that could identify these genes. To overcome these limitations, we designed a new permeability assay that consists of cell monolayers grown on ~150 μm microcarriers (MCs). Each MC functions as a miniature individual assay of permeability (MAP). We demonstrate that false-positive results can be minimized, and that MAP sensitivity to …

Association Of Acquired And Heritable Factors With Intergenerational Differences In Age At Symptomatic Onset Of Alzheimer Disease Between Offspring And Parents With Dementia, Gregory S. Day, Carlos Cruchaga, Thomas Wingo, Suzanne E. Schindler, Dean Coble, John C. Morris

Open Access Publications

Importance: Acquired and heritable traits are associated with dementia risk; however, how these traits are associated with age at symptomatic onset (AAO) of Alzheimer disease (AD) is unknown. Identifying the associations of acquired and heritable factors with variability in intergenerational AAO of AD could facilitate diagnosis, assessment, and counseling of the offspring of parents with AD.

Objective: To quantify the associations of acquired and heritable factors with intergenerational differences in AAO of AD.

Design, Setting, and Participants: This nested cohort study used data from the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center that included community-dwelling participants with symptomatic AD, parental history of …

Catholicism In The Neonatal Context: Belief, Practice, Challenge, Hope, M. Therese Lysaught Phd

Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Roman Catholics comprise the largest single denomination in the United States and are the nation’s largest group of not-for-profit healthcare providers. Yet, there is little or no available literature to assist neonatal caregivers in understanding how religious beliefs and values might influence parents’ responses to the challenges posed by their newborn’s care. Equally, there is little or no available literature on the academic or pastoral side addressing questions of neonatal medicine from a theological perspective. This chapter addresses how Roman Catholic teachings might affect the ways in which parents and caregivers make treatment decisions. It examines the neonatal context in …

Medieval Trans Lives In Anamorphosis: Looking Back And Seeing Differently (Pregnant Men And Backward Birth), Blake Gutt

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

This article employs Lacan’s notion of anamorphosis, and the retrospection which Kathryn Bond Stockton presents as fundamental to the assumption of queer identity, as it demonstrates the functions and value of transgender readings of medieval texts. The article analyses two thirteenth-century literary works, Le Roman de Saint Fanuel and Aucassin et Nicolette, both of which feature pregnant male characters, alongside A.K. Summers’ 2014 graphic novel, Pregnant Butch. This juxtaposition reveals the resonances between these medieval and modern portrayals of gender non-conformity, as well as the highly gendered cultural norms surrounding pregnancy. Finally, attention to Janice Raymond’s transmisogynistic claims …

Coffee Is Not Forever : A Global History Of The Coffee Leaf Rust, Stuart Mccook

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

The global coffee industry, which fuels the livelihoods of farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers around the world, rests on fragile ecological foundations. In Coffee Is Not Forever, Stuart McCook explores the transnational story of this essential crop through a history of one of its most devastating diseases, the coffee leaf rust. He deftly synthesizes agricultural, social, and economic histories with plant genetics and plant pathology to investigate the increasing interdependence of the world’s coffee-producing zones. In the process, he illuminates the progress and prognosis of the challenges—especially climate change—that pose an existential threat to a crop that global consumers often take …

Documents From The October 2, 2019 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), Anna-Marie David

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Minutes for the October 2, 2019 ASUM Senate Meeting

Forgetting Fallujah: Covert Silence, Digital Public Memory And The Civilian Consequences Of Operation Phantom Fury In Iraq, Jason L. Jarvis

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

“Forgetting Fallujah” challenges the institutional memory of Fallujah advanced in “US Marines.” For most people, the understanding of war is based entirely on media images (Schwalbe, 2006; Sontag, 2003). This essay, like the work of Jackie Orr (2016) is a salvo in an ideological struggle to re-signify the meaning of Fallujah. The invasion of Fallujah was more severe for civilians than the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, yet Fallujah caused almost no public outcry because it lacked visual evidence and went uncovered by mainstream American media (Entman, 2006). Covert silence in “US Marines” demonstrates that digital memory is easily …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 10/01/2019, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly Frankenreads: An All-Day Public Reading Of Mary Shelly’S Frankenstein, Robert E. Kennedy Library

Creative Works

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, the Cal Poly English Department and Kennedy Library organized a series of interdisciplinary events including FrankenReads, an all-day public reading of the novel. Spanning twelve hours, members of the Cal Poly community from all colleges participated in the celebration by volunteering to read portions of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

This catalog is based on the celebration of events “FrankenFall” which took place on October 31, 2018 at the Robert E. Kennedy Library.

Unraveled Fall 2019, Southern Adventist University

Unraveled - School of Education and Psychology Newsletter

The Fall 2019 issue of Unraveled features articles on a new addition to teaching liscensure, the new faculty member Tammy Overstreet, and a new student spotlight.

Search, The Jackson Laboratory

Search Magazine

No abstract provided.

This Week At Shain Library, Fall 2019, Carrie Kent

This Week at Shain Library

No abstract provided.

Inside Information Fall 2019, Ariela Mccaffrey

Inside Information

No abstract provided.

Academic Writing Productivity: Evidence Based Strategies, Lisa S. Sosin

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Fall 2019, Communications & Marketing

Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine

UPFRONT: Robert W. Iuliano is installed as our 15th president

Table of Contents

President's Letter, Bob Iuliano

Noteworthy: A New Look for Our Magazine, Carina Stikus

Conversations: Social (Edward B. Ryder IV ’77, Mary Gatterdam Folkemer ’68, Edmund Hardy ’09, Maihan Wali ’18, Keith Swaney ’04, Susan Johns Esworthy ’84)

Conversations: In The Media (Amy Butcher ’09, Prof. Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Susan Eisenhower, Alan Fuerstman ’78, Robert Burch ’17, Prof. Brian Meier)

On the Topic of Forgetting: What Do We Lose and Gain When Our Memories Fail Us, or When We Choose to Ignore Them? (Prof. Joanne Myers, Katherine …

The American Myth Of White Supremacy: A Review Of Myths America Lives By, Susan Vanzanten

Christ College Faculty Publications

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In 1989 a young white woman running through New York’s Central Park was seized, brutally beaten, raped, and dumped in a ravine. Miraculously, she survived, despite extensive injuries and a complete loss of memory. Five black and brown teenagers from Harlem, labeled the Central Park Five, were quickly apprehended and, after twenty-four hours of questioning without legal counsel, confessed to the crime. Although they were all minors, some as young as fourteen, the New York Police Department publicly released their names. Angry demands for punishment filled the local and national media. In subsequent trials, all five were found guilty …

Ethnobotany And Dai Medicine: Herbal Roots, Jasper Tsai

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Xishuangbanna is home to one of the most biologically and culturally diverse regions in China. Dai medicine from the Dai people has been recognized by China as one of the four major ethnic minority medicines. With over 2,500 years of practice, Dai medicine utilizes the herbs found in the diverse region mixed with principles and theories from Buddhism. There have been over 500 unique herbs used in Dai medicine, each with different properties and functions. As Xishuangbanna continues to develop as a city and expand its rubber and banana plantations, it has large impacts on the environment, living standard, education, …