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3d Printing And Occupational Therapy: The Process Of 3d Printing Adaptive Devices, Amber K. Willett

Honors Theses

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has been used in the healthcare field in order to create devices that improve the lives of patients. In occupational therapy, this technology is being used to create splints and adaptive devices that allow patients to heal and better perform tasks in their everyday life. Some of the benefits of 3D printing is that allows devices to be created faster and cheaper than traditional treatment methods. The purpose of this project was to determine how feasible it would be to buy a 3D printer and use it to print open-source assistive devices that could be used by …

Searching For A Voice: An Introduction To Transgender Voice And Communication Therapy, Nicholas Brock

Honors Theses

Over the last 50 years, the cultural shift in the ideologies that shape the minds of individuals have primarily focused on social progressivism. Specifically regarding the United States, prominent leaders such as Harvey Milk pushed for social freedoms for members of the LGBTQ+ community. While Milk and his following fought for freedom and recognition, other leaders and supporters of the LGBTQ+ movement across the world were also fighting with fire in their hearts in their search for social justice. Barriers broke and glass ceilings shattered during these movements, but there is more to be done, today. As recognition of the …

The Impact Of Anti-Opioid Print Messages On High-Sensation-Seeking Personalities And Behaviors: A Comparative Study Of Public Service Announcements And Research, Allison B. Gordon

Honors Theses

The rate of opioid overdose deaths has dramatically increased over the past several years. Efforts to reach users to describe the negative consequences of use appear to have little effect on users. This research seeks to understand how mass media messages, specifically printed public service announcements (PSAs), can reverse the upward trend of opioid use by targeting the attitudes and motivations of high-sensation-seekers. The hypothesis suggests a positive correlation between some advertisements and expressed intention to avoid trying or using opioids. Samples included students at Eastern Kentucky University in the Nursing, Psychology, and Sociology departments in addition to accredited, professional …

Do Negative Perceptions Of Students' Built Environment Affect Their Health Status?, Karissa Hunt

Honors Theses

Research suggests that the social determinants of health should be evaluated in order to combat health disparities for disadvantaged populations. The five social determinants of health are economic stability, education, health and healthcare, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context. Research has been done concerning built environment’s impact on health, however little research has been done on college student’s perception of their campus built environment and how it impacts their health. The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a relationship between negative perceptions of built environment and poor student health statuses, and if so …

Frequent Fire Reorganizes Fungal Communities And Slows Decomposition Across A Heterogeneous Pine Savanna Landscape, Tatiana A. Semenova-Nelsen, William J. Platt, Taylor R. Patterson, Jean Huffman, Benjamin A. Sikes

Faculty Publications

© 2019 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2019 New Phytologist Trust Pyrogenic savannas with a tree–grassland ‘matrix’ experience frequent fires (i.e. every 1–3 yr). Aboveground responses to frequent fires have been well studied, but responses of fungal litter decomposers, which directly affect fuels, remain poorly known. We hypothesized that each fire reorganizes belowground communities and slows litter decomposition, thereby influencing savanna fuel dynamics. In a pine savanna, we established patches near and away from pines that were either burned or unburned in that year. Within patches, we assessed fungal communities and microbial decomposition of newly deposited litter. Soil variables and …

Pacts 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard For Paleoclimate Data, Kristine Delong

Faculty Publications

The progress of science is tied to the standardization of measurements, instruments, and data. This is especially true in the Big Data age, where analyzing large data volumes critically hinges on the data being standardized. Accordingly, the lack of community-sanctioned data standards in paleoclimatology has largely precluded the benefits of Big Data advances in the field. Building upon recent efforts to standardize the format and terminology of paleoclimate data, this article describes the Paleoclimate Community reporTing Standard (PaCTS), a crowdsourced reporting standard for such data. PaCTS captures which information should be included when reporting paleoclimate data, with the goal of …

Hinge Region In Dna Packaging Terminase Pul15 Of Herpes Simplex Virus: A Potential Allosteric Target For Antiviral Drugs, Lana F. Thaljeh, J. Ainsley Rothschild, Misagh Naderi, Lyndon M. Coghill, Jeremy M. Brown, Michal Brylinski

Faculty Publications

Approximately 80% of adults are infected with a member of the herpesviridae family. Herpesviruses establish life-long latent infections within neurons, which may reactivate into lytic infections due to stress or immune suppression. There are nine human herpesviruses (HHV) posing health concerns from benign conditions to life threatening encephalitis, including cancers associated with viral infections. The current treatment options for most HHV conditions mainly include several nucleoside and nucleotide analogs targeting viral DNA polymerase. Although these drugs help manage infections, their common mechanism of action may lead to the development of drug resistance, which is particularly devastating in immunocompromised patients. Therefore, …

Sympathetic Innervation Of The Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue In Mouse, Marie François, Hayden Torres, Clara Huesing, Rui Zhang, Carson Saurage, Nathan Lee, Emily Qualls-Creekmore, Sangho Yu, Christopher D. Morrison, David Burk, Hans Rudolf Berthoud, Heike Münzberg

Faculty Publications

© 2019 The Authors. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of New York Academy of Sciences. The recent discovery of significant brown fat depots in adult humans has revived discussion of exploiting brown fat thermogenesis in the control of energy balance and body weight. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) has a key role in the activation of brown fat and functional mapping of its components will be crucial for the development of specific neuromodulation techniques. The mouse is an important species used for molecular genetic modulations, but its small size is …

Preventing Skin Exposure To Pesticides Among Apple Growers And Factors Influencing Use Of Protective Clothing, Danièle Champoux, Caroline Jolly, Sylvie Beaugrand, Ludovic Tuduri

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Des recherches internationales ont déterminé que la peau constituait la principale voie d’exposition aux pesticides utilisés en agriculture. L’utilisation des équipements de protection individuelle (ÉPI) joue un rôle clé dans la prévention des risques liés à l’exposition. L’utilisation non systématique des ÉPI prescrits est toutefois documentée et constitue une cible prioritaire des interventions pour la réduction de l’exposition aux pesticides. Cette étude approfondit les résultats d’une première enquête auprès des producteurs de pommes en ciblant spécifiquement l’exposition cutanée aux pesticides et l’utilisation des vêtements de protection (VP). Elle a comme objectif de décrire les situations …

Occupational Exposure To Microorganisms When Using Biological Degreasing Stations, Carol-Anne Villeneuve, Geneviève Marchand, Marie Gardette, Jacques Lavoie, Denis Bégin, Maximilien Debia

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les fontaines biologiques appelées fontaines de biodégradation ou simplement biofontaines contiennent des dégraissants qui renferment des bactéries dont la tâche est de dégrader, par minéralisation, les salissures hydrocarbonées (huiles et graisses). Les fabricants de dégraissants pour biofontaines affirment que les microorganismes utilisés dans leurs préparations sont inoffensifs puisqu’ils se classent dans le groupe de risque 1; ils se référent alors à la classification des microorganismes en quatre groupes de risque infectieux. Cependant, des auteurs ont identifié plusieurs bactéries du groupe 2 (risque infectieux modéré pour la personne, mais faible pour la communauté) dans les liquides des biofontaines, par exemple Pseudomonas …

Talking About Black Lives Matter And #Metoo, Bridget J. Crawford, Linda S. Greene, Lolita Buckner Inniss, Mehrsa Baradaran, Noa Ben-Asher, I. Bennett Capers, Osamudia R. James, Keisha Lindsay

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This essay explores the apparent differences and similarities between the Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movements. In April 2019, the Wisconsin Journal of Gender, Law and Society hosted a symposium entitled “Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis in the Twenty-First Century.” That program facilitated examination of the historical antecedents, cultural contexts, methods, and goals of these linked equality movements. Conversations continued among the symposium participants long after the end of the official program. In this essay, the symposium’s speakers memorialize their robust conversations and also dive more deeply into the phenomena, …

The Diversity And Distribution Of Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) Along An Outdoor – Indoor Habitat Gradient: Preliminary Findings From Piedmont Virginia, William Kish, Sujan Henkanaththegedara

Virginia Journal of Science

Although the United States supports a considerable diversity of spiders, some aspects of spider habitat use and niche specialization are poorly documented. Specifically, little attention has been given to explore how urban development affects the diversity and abundance of arthropods. We sampled spiders along an outdoor – indoor habitat gradient at Longwood University to understand the impact of urbanization on species diversity and abundance. We found 50 taxa of spiders belonging to 43 genera and 16 families. Overall, the most abundant spider family across three sampling sites was Araneidae (orb-weavers; 18.2%) followed by Lycosidae (wolf spiders; 14.8%), Salticidae (jumping spiders; …

Swosu Fact Book Fall 2019, Joel Harrel Kendall, Diane Fitzsimmons, Kayleigh Brown

Fact Books

The 28th annual Southwestern Oklahoma State University Fact Book provides a ready source of information to answer frequently asked questions about the University and its operations. The Fact Book is compiled annually by the Office of Institutional Research to assist the university with strategic planning, academic program reviews, grant writing, accreditation, and institutional information to help guide decision-making. The report is designed to help faculty, staff, administrators, and external stakeholders better understand the student body and university trends. The data analyzed for this report was collected from 2010 to 2019.

Unless otherwise noted, the information in the Fact Book is …

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2019 Fall, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Fall 2019.

Watershed Assessment Of Tryon Creek Of Oregon, Danielle Goodrich

Environmental Science and Management Professional Master's Project Reports

As the Tryon Creek Watershed Council (TCWC) continues to grow its organization, it is important to focus their efforts on lasting changes that most positively affect the watershed. The TCWC plays a community-appointed role as the binding element of agency and stakeholder partnerships throughout the Tryon Creek watershed by providing communication and cooperation. The watershed assessment aims to provide a compilation of existing data as well as an identification of data gaps and recommendations for future cooperative management of the watershed. Developing an understanding of the processes that shape the watershed can shed light on the status of measurable ecosystem …

Which Components Of Processing Speed Are Affected In Adhd Subtypes?, Michelle Y Kibby, Sarah A Vadnais, Audreyana C Jagger-Rickels

Publications

The term "processing speed" (PS) encompasses many components including perceptual, cognitive and output speed. Despite evidence for reduced PS in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), little is known about which component(s) is most impacted in ADHD, or how it may vary by subtypes. Participants included 151 children, ages 8-12 years, with ADHD Predominantly Inattentive Type, ADHD Combined Type and typically developing controls using DSM-IV criteria. All children completed four measures of processing speed: Symbol Search, Coding, Decision Speed, and simple reaction time. We found children with ADHD-PI and ADHD-C had slower perceptual and psychomotor/incidental learning speed than controls and that ADHD-PI had …

The Spinnaker Fall 2019, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community. Date: Fall 2019

Louisiana Agriculture Fall, 2019, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Lsu Research Fall 2019, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

Research Magazine

LSU Research is published annually by the Office of Research & Economic Development, Louisiana State University.

Ecological And Genomic Attributes Of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive In Subsurface Soil Horizons, Tess E. Brewer, Emma L. Aronson, Keshav Arogyaswamy, Sharon A. Billings, Jon K. Botthoff, Ashley N. Campbell, Nicholas C. Dove, Dawson Fairbanks, Rachel E. Gallery, Stephen C. Hart, Jason Kaye, Gary King, Geoffrey Logan, Kathleen A. Lohse, Mia R. Maltz, Emilio Mayorga, Caitlin O'Neill, Sarah M. Owens, Aaron Packman, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Alain F. Plante, Daniel D. Richter, Whendee L. Silver, Wendy H. Yang, Noah Fierer

Faculty Publications

While most bacterial and archaeal taxa living in surface soils remain undescribed, this problem is exacerbated in deeper soils, owing to the unique oligotrophic conditions found in the subsurface. Additionally, previous studies of soil microbiomes have focused almost exclusively on surface soils, even though the microbes living in deeper soils also play critical roles in a wide range of biogeochemical processes. We examined soils collected from 20 distinct profiles across the United States to characterize the bacterial and archaeal communities that live in subsurface soils and to determine whether there are consistent changes in soil microbial communities with depth across …

Allele-Specific Enhancer Interaction At The Peg3 Imprinted Domain, Joomyeong Kim, Wesley D. Frey, Kaustubh Sharma, Subash Ghimire, Ryoichi Teruyama, Lisa Stubbs

Faculty Publications

Copyright: © 2019 Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The parental allele specificity of mammalian imprinted genes has been evolutionarily well conserved, although its functional constraints and associated mechanisms are not fully understood. In the current study, we generated a mouse mutant with switched active alleles driving the switch from paternal-to-maternal expression for Peg3 and the maternal-to-paternal expression for Zim1. The expression levels of Peg3 and Zim1, but not …

Efficiency Of Insect-Proof Net Tunnels In Reducing Virus-Related Seed Degeneration In Sweet Potato, K. O. Ogero, J. F. Kreuze, M. A. Mcewan, N. D. Luambano, H. Bachwenkizi, K. A. Garrett, K. F. Andersen, S. Thomas-Sharma, R. A.A. Van Der Vlugt

Faculty Publications

Virus-related degeneration constrains production of quality sweet potato seed, especially under open field conditions. Once in the open, virus-indexed seed is prone to virus infection leading to decline in performance. Insect-proof net tunnels have been proven to reduce virus infection under researcher management. However, their effectiveness under farmer-multiplier management is not known. This study investigated the ability of net tunnels to reduce degeneration in sweet potato under farmer-multiplier management. Infection and degeneration were assessed for two cultivars, Kabode and Polista, grown in net tunnels and open fields at two sites with varying virus pressures. There was zero virus incidence at …

Fecundity Of The Parental And Fitness Of The F1 Populations Of Corn Earworm From Refuge Ears Of Seed Blend Plantings With Genuity® Smartstax™ Maize, Jianguo Guo, Fei Yang, Sebe Brown, David Kern, Graham P. Head, Paula A. Price, Ying Niu, Fangneng Huang

Faculty Publications

Seed blend, also called ‘refuge-in-the-bag (RIB)’, has been used as a refuge strategy to generate susceptible insect populations for Bt maize resistance management in the U.S. Corn Belt. A major concern related to the use of RIB is the cross-pollination of maize plants that cause Bt protein expression in the kernels of refuge ears. Bt protein expression in the refuge ears can negatively affect the insect populations on refuge plants, especially for ear feeders such as the corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie). The current study investigated the reproduction of three populations of H. zea collected from a pure stand of …

Electrochemistry Of Illusive Barbosalite, Fe²⁺Fe³⁺ 2(Po₄)₂(Oh)₂: An Iron Phosphate Related To Lipscombite Structure, Prashanth Sandineni, Kartik Ghosh, Amitava Choudhury

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Barbosalite, an iron hydroxy-phosphate belonging to the family of Lazulite has been synthesized using hydrothermal route and its electrochemical property is investigated for the first time with respect to Li-ion batteries. The structure, as determined from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data, built up of undulating layers of FeO₆ octahedra, consisting of trimers and PO₄ tetrahedral units. Magnetic susceptibility measurements show predominant overall anti-ferromagnetic interactions and room temperature 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopic studies confirm the mixed 3+ and 2+ oxidation states of Fe in the compound. The compound is stable up to 400°C and undergo facile electrochemical lithium insertion. Galvanostatic charge-discharge …

Hinge Region In Dna Packaging Terminase Pul15 Of Herpes Simplex Virus: A Potential Allosteric Target For Antiviral Drugs, Lana F. Thaljeh, J. Ainsley Rothschild, Misagh Naderi, Lyndon M. Coghill

Faculty Publications

Approximately 80% of adults are infected with a member of the herpesviridae family. Herpesviruses establish life-long latent infections within neurons, which may reactivate into lytic infections due to stress or immune suppression. There are nine human herpesviruses (HHV) posing health concerns from benign conditions to life threatening encephalitis, including cancers associated with viral infections. The current treatment options for most HHV conditions mainly include several nucleoside and nucleotide analogs targeting viral DNA polymerase. Although these drugs help manage infections, their common mechanism of action may lead to the development of drug resistance, which is particularly devastating in immunocompromised patients. Therefore, …

Response Of Water Resources To Future Climate Change In A High-Latitude River Basin, Peng Qi, Guangxin Zhang, Yi Jun Xu, Zhikun Xia, Ming Wang

Faculty Publications

Global water resources are affected by climate change as never before. However, it is still unclear how water resources in high latitudes respond to climate change. In this study, the water resource data for 2021-2050 in the Naoli River Basin, a high-latitude basin in China, are calculated by using the SWAT-Modflow Model and future climate scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The results show a decreasing trend. When compared to the present, future streamflow is predicted to decrease by 2.73 × 108 m3 in 2021-2035 and by 1.51 × 108 m3 in 2036-2050 in the RCP4.5 scenario, and by 8.16 × 108 …

Dam Effects On Downstream Riparian Wetlands: The Nenjiang River, Northeast China, Yuexin Zheng, Guangxin Zhang, Yanfeng Wu, Y. Jun Xu, Changlei Dai

Faculty Publications

Many studies have found that damming a river can change downstream hydrology, sediment transport, channel morphology, and fish habitat. However, little is known about river dam effects on downstream riparian wetland dynamics and their quantitative relationship with hydrological alterations. In this study, hydrological time series and wetland distribution data spanning nearly 40 years (1978-2016) before and after the construction of a large dam in 2005 across the Nenjiang River in Northeast China were used to reveal the impact of dam on the downstream discharge regime and wetland degradation. Hydro-statistical and stepwise multiple regression analyses were performed to quantify the relationship …

Quantifying Soil Health In A Topographically Diverse Warm-Season Perennial Pasture Over-Seeded With A Mix Of Cool-Season Annuals, Kathleen M. Bridges, Lisa M. Fultz, Montgomery W. Alison, Kun Jun Han, Bisoondat Macoon, William D. Pitman

Faculty Publications

Over-seeding cool-season annual forages in pastures in the southeastern US provides increased grazing opportunities for livestock and reduces the amount of hay needed during winter. The constant presence of vegetation can benefit soil health, the biological aspect of which has only received cursory investigation to date. Since 2009, a commercial cattle grazing operation located in south Mississippi has been over-seeding a diverse mixture of oats (Avena sativa L.), triticale (X Triticosecale Wittmack), annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth), radish (Raphanus sativus L.), turnips (Brassica rapa L. subsp. rapa), red clover (Trifolium pratense L.), ball clover (Trifolium …

Relative Resistance To Breaking Of Pinus Taeda And Pinus Palustris, Cory Garms, Thomas J. Dean

Faculty Publications

Patterns from hurricane damage indicate that longleaf pine is more windfirm than loblolly pine. Tree windfirmess has been attributed to many factors including species and material properties like wood strength and stiffness. Because longleaf pine wood is stronger and stiffer than loblolly pine wood, this study used static winching methodology to see if these properties account for differences in wind firmness by measuring bending force required to break stems (MMAX). Stress-strain diagrams were constructed for pulled trees to explore how they behave under increasing loads. Based on these diagrams, living trees appear to act as linear elastic materials as they …

Leaf Reflectance Spectroscopy Captures Variation In Carboxylation Capacity Across Species, Canopy Environment And Leaf Age In Lowland Moist Tropical Forests, Jin Wu, Alistair Rogers, Loren P. Albert, Kim Ely, Neill Prohaska, Brett T. Wolfe, Raimundo Cosme Oliveira, Scott R. Saleska, Shawn P. Serbin

Faculty Publications

Understanding the pronounced seasonal and spatial variation in leaf carboxylation capacity (Vc,max) is critical for determining terrestrial carbon cycling in tropical forests. However, an efficient and scalable approach for predicting Vc,max is still lacking. Here the ability of leaf spectroscopy for rapid estimation of Vc,max was tested. Vc,max was estimated using traditional gas exchange methods, and measured reflectance spectra and leaf age in leaves sampled from tropical forests in Panama and Brazil. These data were used to build a model to predict Vc,max from leaf spectra. The results demonstrated that leaf spectroscopy accurately predicts Vc,max of mature leaves in Panamanian …