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Forgetting Distractors: Inhibition Or Decay?, Laura Werner

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Research on forgetting irrelevant information in working memory (WM) has supported two

conflicting theories, inhibition (Oberauer & Lewndowsky, 2016) and decay (Dagry et al., 2017;

Dagry & Barrouillet, 2017). However, these conflicting results may be due to the fact that different methods were used to assess each model. In Experiment 1, we combined those methods to create a modified distractor span task that allows for a direct comparison of the models. Participants processed words that were to be remembered (targets) and others that were to be forgotten (distractors); the amount of free time after each distractor varied, with total trial …

The Perplexing Paradox Of Clostridioides (Clostridium) Difficile Infection (Cdi) - Analysis Of Anti-Germinants As Part Of Cdi Prophylaxis, Christopher Yip

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infections (CDI) have become the leading cause of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhea worldwide. Under normal circumstances, bacteria found in the gastrointestinal tract provide a barrier against C. difficile colonization. Upon antibiotic therapy, the protective barrier is lost as the microbial community becomes depleted thus providing the opportunity for C. difficile to colonize the human gut. Exposure to taurocholate, a bile acid produced within the mammalian gastrointestinal tract, causes C. difficile spores to begin their transition, a process known as germination, from metabolically dormant structures to toxin-producing cells. As germination is required for the onset of CDI, anti-germination compounds …

Minimizing The Dangers Of Air Pollution Using Alternative Facts: A Science Museum Case Study, David H. Lee

Publications and Research

A science museum exhibition about human health contains an exhibit that minimizes health impacts of air pollution. Relevant details, such as the full range of health risks; fossil fuel combustion; air quality statutes (and the local electrical utility’s violations of these statues), are omitted, while end users of electricity are blamed. The exhibit accomplishes this, not through outright falsification, but through selected “alternative facts” that change the focus and imply misleading alternate explanations. Using two classical rhetorical concepts (the practical syllogism and the enthymeme) allows for the surfacing of missing evidence and unstated directives underlying multimodal rhetoric. By stating multimedia …

Cosmology And Practice In Amazonia: The Inspiring Career Of Stephen Hugh-Jones, Chloe Nahum-Claudel, Olivier Allard

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Stephen Hugh-Jones’s ethnographic and collaborative engagement with the peoples of the Pirá-Paraná and, more widely, the Vaupés and Upper Rio Negro today spans 50 years. In this Introduction we chart the evolution of Hugh-Jones’s hybrid identity as iconoclast scholar, knowledgeable elder, and long-term collaborator. A biographical sketch identifies phases in this anthropological life: that of the ethnographer and initiate, steeped in the intellectual world of Barasana shaman-priests; that of lecturer and theorist in anthropology; and that of areal specialist, developing a synthesis of the ethnography of North West Amazonia through an engagement with Brazilian and indigenous intellectuals. We characterize the …

Pretreatment Of Waste Biomass In Deep Eutectic Solvents: Conductive Heating Versus Microwave Heating, Narendra Kumar, Pranjali D. Muley, Dorin Boldor, Gary G. Coty, Joan G. Lynam

Faculty Publications

Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) have recently emerged as an environmentally-friendly way to separate lignin from cellulose and hemicellulose in recalcitrant biomass prior to enzymatic hydrolysis to enhance glucose yields. Rice hulls, a widely-available secondary agricultural residue was pretreated with FA: CC (formic acid and choline chloride in a 2:1 mol ratio) using conductive heating and microwave heating. Pretreated biomass using either heating technique gave glucose titers 100 times higher than raw rice hulls after enzymatic hydrolysis. FTIR analysis shows similar findings for both heating techniques. For biomass pretreatment using DESs, microwave heating requires less than half of the energy (0.10 …

Project F.O.C.U.S, Justin Munoz

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

The Shuar Writing Boom: Cultural Experts And The Creation Of A "Scholarly Tradition", Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoulliere

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In dialogue with Stephen Hugh-Jones’s work on Tukanoan writing, this article analyzes the boom in patrimonial writing among Chicham (Jivaroan)-speaking Shuar people. Patrimonial writing foregrounds collective identity and understandings of culture as group property common to the Tukanoan speakers of the Upper Rio Negro but foreign to the pre-missionized Shuar. We argue that the Shuar interest in patrimonial writing can be explained through the history of missionization and the recent shift to intercultural exchange within the plurinational project of state-building spearheaded by the indigenous movement. By analyzing the wider context of knowledge production and the forms of knowledge Shuar scholars …

First-Personal Body Aesthetics As Affirmations Of Subjectivity, Madeline Martin-Seaver

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper redirects some of the philosophical discussion of sexual objectification. Rather than contributing further to debates over what constitutes objectification and whether it is harmful, I argue that aesthetic experience is a useful tool for resisting objectification. Attending to our embodied experiences provides immediate evidence that we are subjects; aesthetically attending to that evidence is a way of valuing it. I consider the human body as an aesthetic site, then as an ethico-aesthetic site, and finally as a site of resistance. In addition to deepening accounts of body aesthetic experience, this paper helps frame human bodies as integral to …

Habitat Selection Of The Spotfin Killifish In Coastal Connecticut, Megan L. Upp

Master's Theses

The Spotfin Killifish (Fundulus luciae) is a salt marsh inhabitant, occupying a habitat subject to change from 1) historic changes from mosquito ditching practices to 2) more contemporary anthropogenic changes from sea level rise and coastal development. Though thought to be a habitat specialist along the Atlantic coast, Spotfin Killifish resource selection has yet to be quantified. Spotfin Killifish presence or absence data was recorded with measured habitat characteristics at sites along a 14 km stretch of coastal Connecticut. Three hypotheses were proposed to create probabilistic models that could predict Spotfin Killifish presence or absence using logistic regression: …

Allies In Training: The Construction & Management Of Cis Allyship At State University, Davida J. Schiffer

Master's Theses

Many universities provide LGBT Ally Training Programs, but who are the allies who attend them? My research examines how participants conceptualize cis allyship and how they enact it in their professional and personal lives. In describing the gendered and racialized role of cis allyship, I situate my analysis in theories of doing gender & performativity (West & Zimmerman 1987; Johnson 2013) and the scholarship around white allies in academic diversity narratives (Bonilla-Silva 2006; Collins & Bilge 2016). Focusing on an Ally Training program at State University, I conducted an ethnography of 4 Ally Trainings and performed 21 interviews with 12 …

Atrial Fibrillation Detection From Smartwatch Based Photoplethysmography Signals, Syed Khairul Bashar

Master's Theses

Detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) from a wrist watch photoplethysmography (PPG) signal is important because the wrist watch form factor enables long term continuous monitoring of arrhythmia in an easy and non-invasive manner. We have developed a novel method not only to detect AF from a smart wrist watch PPG signal, but also to determine whether the recorded PPG signal is corrupted by motion artifacts or not. In order to detect the motion and noise artifacts from PPG signal, we have used both the accelerometer signal and variable frequency complex demodulation based time-frequency analysis of the PPG signal. After the …

Exploring Parallel Algorithmic Choices For Graph Analytics, Akif Rehman

Master's Theses

Sequential graph algorithms are implemented through ordered execution of tasks to achieve high work efficiency. Exposing parallelism in these ordered workloads tends to be an elusive problem. Strict-ordered parallel implementations find nodes that don't have read-write dependencies and hence can be executed in parallel. They have the work efficiency of their sequential counter-parts due to strict ordering constraints. Larger amount of parallelism can be achieved at the expense of redundant work. Relax-ordered implementations remove the global order and only impose the local order. They go through multiple iterations and have the property of monotonically increasing or decreasing output values allowing …

Keeping Track Of Change: Developmental Insights Into The Ability To Represent Objects In Episodic Terms, Emily Yearling

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Late-Stage Deformation And Exhumation Of A High-Pressure Metamorphic Belt In An Active Arc-Continent Collision, Taiwan, Michael Chojnacki

Master's Theses

Structural analyses and fluid inclusion microthermometry were conducted within the blueschist facies, Yuli Belt in the Taiwan arc-continent collision in order to better understand the kinematics and pressure and temperature conditions associated with rapid exhumation (~10 km/myr) of high-pressure rocks. The most recent ductile deformation, observed as a penetrative fabric, S3, and relatively late, steeply dipping, mineral-filled, mode-I fractures, was characterized by vertical shortening, top-to-the southwest shear, and northeast-southwest extension. The late-stage veins record entrapment conditions ranging from 200°C to 450°C. To generalize, this structural and metamorphic history is interpreted to reflect the later stages of exhumation of the Yuli …

St. Norbert College Students Participate In Trips Program Over Winter Break, St. Norbert College

Press Releases 2019

No abstract provided.

The Poetry Of Ruins In Al-Sharif Al-Radi, Akram Ali Anbar

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research has handled the ruins scene in the poems of Al Sahreef Al Radhi with an attempt to depict the most distinguishing artistic and literary factors.this is done through tracing stanzas whose significance and great role have been revealed as they represent the total image components of the poem. These stanzas had also expressed the poet's experience and passions which turn into e memoir of the good old days and a rejection of the societal restrictions and time-awareness questioning.throughout some mechanisms, the poet appears victorious, not defeated in the face of the spatial obliteration.

Time Share Contract, Shahd Mazen Hekmat Al-Dahhan, Dhamir Hussein Nasser Al-Mamouri

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

That the modern era has become the cradle of many modern and diverse transactions Which was not before its age, in view of the activity of economic movement at the local and global level, so this aspect is the main engine of States in all directions in the spects of civil and cultural life, and within this economic activity emerged new transactions It has taken upon itself a wide space among the members of society. The most important feature of this new system is that it combines the element of location, the real estate unit and the element of time …

Mechanism Of International Police Cooperation Within The Framework Of Interpol, Sabah Fayyad Tlass, Mithaq Abdul Jalil Muhammad Reda

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Interpol is an international organization which operates under the supervision of the UN. Interpol which has a network of central national offices provides collected information and data, by its own measures, as international cooperation for the national police branches in combating crimes helping in arrest the criminals. Especially, when such crimes and/or activities of their perpetrators extend borders. Thus it has an influential role in achieving the security and protection of the international community.

The Effect Of The (Pdeode) Strategy On Achievement And Development Of Creative Motivation Among Fifth-Grade Biological Science Students In Physics, Nur Naeem Eajil

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The objective of the present study is to identify the effect of PDEODE strategy on the achievement and development of the creative tendency of female students in the fifth biological grade in physics.

The Internal Situation In Persia After The Assassination Of Nader Shah And Its Impact On The Rule Of The Qawasim In Lingeh (1747-1863), Zainab Abdul Kadhim Mohsen, Hussein Kamel Jaber Al Shaher

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

After the death of Nadir Shah in 1747, the Persian government was weakened by the weakness of the Persian government in establishing its rule. This was reflected in the emergence of Arab tribes, especially the Qawasim tribe on the eastern coast of the Arabian Gulf.

Urban Sprawl And Its Effects On Desertification Of Agricultural Lands In Iraq, Abu Al-Khaseeb District As A Model Study, Adel Abdul Amir Aboud

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Urbanization of agricultural land is a serious problem in the study area, an important cause of desertification and a threat to national food security. The deterioration of the agricultural environment in the district of Abu al-Khasib beyond 2003 led to significant problems, especially after the division of agricultural land into residential and commercial plots of land ranged between 200 and 300 m2 only with low real estate values. This phenomenon leads to the transformation of rural areas into urban settlements with high population density. Unplanned urbanization has negative impacts on the agricultural environment, such as shrinking agricultural land, increasing residential …

Desert Depressions And Their Investment As Natural Reserves To Protect Biological Diversity (Plants, Animals) In The Muthanna Desert, Wala Kamil Sabri

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Al-Muthanna desert is characterized by an important biological diversity despite the characteristics of the desert environment that characterizes it, as it is characterized by the plateau nature and the capacity of the area it occupies (90.7%) of the total area of ​​the province of Muthanna. The nature of its surface varies between the plain and plain region in the north and the lowers in the north and center and the sandy region in its eastern parts, while the rocky area occupied by natural pastures extends to large areas in the middle and south of the desert and interspersed with lowlands …

Spatial Analysis Of Visual Pollution Manifestations In Al-Shaala Municipality - Baghdad City, Dunya Wahid Abdul Amir Al-Qaisi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The capital Baghdad has been suffering from pollution in general and visual pollution in particular, especially after 2003, which led to the loss of all aspects of beauty and the loss of its distinctive character as the capital because of the real absence of the application of the law and the large increase in the population of the capital and the lack of environmental culture, These and other reasons are behind the outbreak of this phenomenon.

Climate Change And Its Impact On Climate Elements And Phenomena At Baghdad Station, Oras Ghani Abdul Hussein Al-Yasiri

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Climatic change affected every aspect of life in all countries on earth. As other countries in recent years, Iraq witnessed clear- curtilages in its weather like Desertification, drought, elevation in temperature and Fluctuation of rain...etc. here lies the importance of studding such elements and phenomenon. Baghdad station is chosen to measure the change as ample. The research relied on five climate courses (1973-1963, 1984-1974, 1995-1985, 2006-1996, 2017 - 2007) by the General Authority for meteorological and seismic monitoring of Iraq private data were used for that purpose: temperature, dust storms and fog through using the equation of the quart of …

The Mechanism Of Comparison In The Semantic Orientation Of The Qur’Anic Position Among The Modernists, Muhammad Nazik Abdul Sahib, Hadi Shandoukh Hamid

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The context is divided in the language scholars decided and studied on two parts: The first is the linguistic context and is determined by looking at different linguistic levels: the vocal level, the morphological level, the grammatical level, the lexical level, The other section is determined by looking at what is outside the linguistic context of situations,, historical events, cultures, social customs, customs, traditions, and other things that cannot be clearly understood without being informed. The latter is called non-linguistic context, context context or Context of the case.

The Form Fa'lalil Between Arabic And Quranic Usage - A Reading Of Description And Examples, Ghofran Hamad Shalaka, Haider Habib Hamza

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This paper deals with a formula (falleʺl) Between Arabic And use Quranic, He tried to detect About the feature This formula in the Arabic, And download them in the download language, The research section is based on two paragraphs: First: (falleʺl) in Language Description And included paragraphs discussed in the research, And the other: (falleʺl) in Quranic use, This use was divided into two parts: Agreed upon in its description And different in its characterization .

The Narrative Construction Of The Refugee Character In The Iraqi Novel 2003-2017, Noor Al-Hoda Mohammed Jeryou, Mohammed Abdul Hussein Huwaidi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research is based on reading the fictional construction of the refugee character in the Iraqi novel between 2003 and 2017. In his reading of the three pillars, he read in the first the external construction of the refugee character and found that it is related in the novel of asylum to the centrality of the original speech of the other person, whose personality (refugee) is replaced at home. He read in the second the internal structure of the personality and found that it is based on the dual discourse and the counter-discourse revealing the silence in official narratives and …

Representations Of Romanticism In The Novel Broken Wings, Sajid Kamel Yassin, Kifah Eabd Nasif

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research deals with the representations of romance in the novel (Broken Wings) from an intellectual, social and psychological point of view, trying to make this effect clear in this novel. The name of this writer is not one of the names that passes in front of the memory a regular passage, but rather it requires a contemplative pause, because it is truly a prominent sign in the history of literature, not only the Arab but the international, because of his literary achievements and intellectual opinions that have its impact on culture and society as well as his influence on …

The Hadith Of The Revelation Of The Qur’An With Emphasis And Its Examples In The Prophetic Heritage Of Qur’Anic Readings And The Interpretation Of Its Significance In The Languages ​​Of The Arabs That Agree With It, Ali Mohsen Badi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The relationships of different levels of phonological processing in prophetic hadith to styles pg recitation represented by the hadith of the descent Quran with aggrandizement were studied.The main samples were the narratives and linguistic famous hadith biographical evaluation, etc. In this study, the inductive, analytic and investigative method was used. The purpose of this study is to achieve the origin of hadith in its well-known resources, explain the attitudes of its authentication, and show the linguistic aspects of aggrandizement. The result of achieving this purpose is to show the placement of prophetic hadith in linguistics and the scientific value in …

The Impact Of The Narration Of The Companions (May God Be Pleased With Them) On The Interpretations Of The Imamis In The Fifteenth Century Ah, Haider Abbas Kazim, Aintisar Fadil Mukhif

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research emphasizes the importance of the novel in interpretation, and that the interpretive novel of the Companions has a fundamental role in interpretation, because they accompanied the Prophet (peace be upon him) throughout his lifetime, and touched the Prophet’s statement in word and deed, then their alttabieun took this interpretation and the Qur’anic statement and narrated by them about them, and that the impact of the novel in the interpretation extends to the era of the Prophet (peace be upon him), what the Prophet (peace be upon him) said from a statement transmitted by the companions among them, and …