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Investigating Dicamba Tolerance In Grapevine Cultivars Through Drift Simulation Assays, Bryce David Bentley

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Dicamba is a synthetic auxin herbicide which acts systematically and selectively controls broadleaf plants and has become increasingly popular in the past several years for weed control in commercial agriculture following widespread adoption of dicamba-resistant, transgenic soybean and cotton. Dicamba may be better acknowledged by growers of specialty crops, like grapes, for its capacity to drift miles away from the site of application and deposit on fields, remaining potent enough to cause crop damage and yield loss to vulnerable plants. Grapes are among the most susceptible agronomic crops to dicamba drift, showing visible injury at rates less than 1% of …

左興萬, Hsing Wan Tso: Against The Current, Deryka D. Tso

Masters Theses

This literary biography tells the story of Hsing Wan Tso, a Chinese man who chose to act counter to the conventions of his culture, and his granddaughter, a writer learning what it means to defend his legacy.

Creating Alabama Music Heritage And Theory: Equipping Students With State Pride Through Effective Curriculum, Julianne Rae Mattox

Masters Theses

Across general music curricula, there is always a concern for student interest. For elementary age students, music is viewed as magical and fun. It seems that as students age, if they are not in band, music begins to lose some of its magic. With any class, student interest and involvement is key for the academic success of the curriculum. If students have to take a class that they do not want to take, they automatically lose interest. It is important for teachers to present their curriculum to students in a way that grabs their attention and allows them to enjoy …

Linking Experiential Workshops And Increased Stem Interest Among First- And Second- Generation Latino Youth, Jeff Sallee, Ronald Cox, Rita Flores, Steven Cooper

Journal of Youth Development

Extension outreach professionals are searching for new methods to target the growing population of Latino students. Oklahoma State University faculty in the Animal Science department and the 4-H Youth Development program partnered to sponsor a 4-H STEM Institute designed to promote science, technology, engineering, and math to Latino students in the Unidos Se Puede program. The STEM Institute was designed to introduce the Latino youth to college life and STEM based career opportunities. The program was evaluated utilizing the 4-H Common Measures Science instruments. The results indicate a positive impact on the youths’ perception of STEM as a career option. …

Social, Emotional, And Ethical Learning: A Curriculum That Educates The Heart And Mind, Lynne Borden

Journal of Youth Development

Given the growing interest in providing social and emotional learning opportunities within after-school and youth programs, identifying high-quality and innovative learning materials is critical. This review of the newly launched Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning framework and curriculum, developed at Emory University, provides an overview of this curriculum and its potential use in after-school and youth programs. This comprehensive learning system includes curriculum for young people from kindergarten through 12th grade and an online professional development site for those who deliver the curriculum.

Book Review— Reclaiming Community: Race And The Uncertain Future Of Youth Work, Ishmael Miller

Journal of Youth Development

Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work (Baldridge, 2019) presents a case study of a community-based after-school organization that supports youth cultural, identity, academic, and political development. This book highlights the organization as it tries to navigate neoliberal educational reforms.

December 2019 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Avoiding Market Definition Under Section 1 Of The Sherman Act, Johnny Shaw

Fordham Law Review

The 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Ohio v. American Express Co. was at odds with a trend among antitrust commentators and enforcement authorities away from dependence on formal market definition as part of plaintiffs’ burden of proof. Reliance on market definition as a dispositive issue has been ubiquitous in antitrust cases, but the costs from errors, inefficiency, and uncertainty inherent in that approach are glaring. The issue is ripe for clarification, and this Note suggests a new rule to that end. The proposed rule aims to delineate a set of cases in which formal market definition can confidently be …

Impact Of Nbme International Foundations Of Medicine “Ifom” Examination On Students’ Academic Achievement, R. Chandramouli, Aji Gopakumar, Manda Venkatramana, Hossam Handy

Health Professions Education

Purpose: To establish whether the inclusion of an external benchmarking examination [NBME׳s International Foundations of Medicine (IFOM)] as part of summative assessment in the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) program at Gulf Medical University produced an impact on teaching and learning for academic achievement. Method: Two cohorts of students (N 120) who appeared for both IFOM Basic Science Exam and IFOM Clinical Science Exam were included in the study. Their IFOM scores were correlated statistically with the university-conducted pre-clerkship and clerkship summative assessment scores. Faculty and students’ evaluation surveys were also conducted to record perceptions of IFOM …

40 Years On: Reflections On The Iranian Revolution, Sevgi Adak, Touraj Atabaki, Kamran Matin, Valentine M. Moghadam

Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series

The three articles compiled here are based on a panel discussion held at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) on 23 May 2019.

Marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, its aim was to revisit the debate on the causes and impact of the revolution for Iran and beyond.

Three questions in particular guided the interdisciplinary dialogue and political reflections on this world historical event: How should we analyse the conditions underpinning the revolutionary dynamics in Iran in the global context of the 1970s? How should the Iranian Revolution be analysed in an …

Clinical Interventions Documented By Appe Students: Results From A Pilot Study, Elizabeth Laughlin, Bsps, Danielle Mayer, Pharmd, Bcacp, Sarah Lynch, Pharmd, Bcacp

College of Pharmacy Posters

Primary Objective: Evaluate the types of drug therapy problems identified by student pharmacists and the results of these interventions.

Secondary Objective: Evaluate trends in trends of what type of interventions are identified and how they are defined.

Sighting Acute Myocardial Infarction Through Platelet Gene Expression., Giuliana Gobbi, Cecilia Carubbi, Guidantonio Malagoli Tagliazucchi, Elena Masselli, Prisco Mirandola, Filippo Pigazzani, Antonio Crocamo, Maria Francesca Notarangelo, Sergio Suma, Elvezia Paraboschi, Giuseppe Maglietta, Srikanth Nagalla, Giulia Pozzi, Daniela Galli, Mauro Vaccarezza, Paolo Fortina, Sankar Addya, Adam Ertel, Paul Bray, Stefano Duga, Carlo Berzuini, Marco Vitale, Diego Ardissino

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Acute myocardial infarction is primarily due to coronary atherosclerotic plaque rupture and subsequent thrombus formation. Platelets play a key role in the genesis and progression of both atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Since platelets are anuclear cells that inherit their mRNA from megakaryocyte precursors and maintain it unchanged during their life span, gene expression profiling at the time of an acute myocardial infarction provides information concerning the platelet gene expression preceding the coronary event. In ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a gene-by-gene analysis of the platelet gene expression identified five differentially expressed genes: FKBP5, S100P, SAMSN1, CLEC4E and S100A12. The logistic regression …

Audio Noise Filter Using Cycle Consistent Adversarial Network - Cyclegan Anf, Nam Son Nguyen, Tengpeng Li, Xiaoqian Zhang, Bo Sheng, Teng Wang, Jiayin Wang

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Speech enhance methods base on traditional digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms or adaptive filters can effectively suppress stationary noises. However, they don't provide viable solution for the variety of non-stationary noises that exist in our everyday life. Smart voice assistants such as Google Home and Alexa deteriorate their performance mostly due to non-stationary noises. In this paper we introduce CycleGAN ANF, a neural network approach that can learn to reduce both stationary and non-stationary noises, totally unsupervised. CycleGAN ANF is capable of reducing undesired interference by reading in a raw audio sample from a set X (speech mixed with noises) …

Implementation Of Ace Inhibitor Regimen In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Rita Chukwurah

Doctor of Nursing Practice

The incidence of type 2 diabetes has increased dramatically and is associated with many problems, including chronic kidney disease. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement two evidence-based guidelines that may detect chronic kidney disease and slow its progression in patients with type 2 diabetes by implementing angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker therapy according to evidence-based guidelines from the American Diabetes Association. Patients with type diabetes were screened for microalbuminuria and eGFR of < 60 mL/min/1.73 m². Based on lab results, the provider recommended either an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker to patients with as …

Evidence-Based Foot Care For Persons With Type 2 Diabetes, Nicole Gutierrez

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Unmanaged Type 2 diabetes leads to macrovascular changes that affect the lower extremities, thereby damaging the sensory nerve fibers and leading to diabetic peripheral neuropathy. These patients may not be able to feel pain, heat, or cold in their lower extremities and often describe feelings of numbness and tingling. This sensory deficit may lead to the development of diabetic foot ulcers which often result in amputation. These preventable foot complications may be identified promptly with adequate diabetic foot exams. Comprehensive diabetic foot examinations reduce the occurrences of foot complications associated with uncontrolled glucose management and improves health outcomes for patients …

Quality Improvement Initiative To Increase Comprehensive Eye Exams In Patients With Diabetes, Julia Khoury

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Diabetic retinopathy is the most common microvascular complication associated with poorly controlled diabetes. Yet, only 60% of the diabetic population receives an annual eye examination by an eye specialist. Retinal imaging increases surveillance of retinopathy, however, it does not take the place of a comprehensive eye examination by an ophthalmologist or optometrist. The aim of this quality improvement project was to increase comprehensive eye examinations in patients with diabetes aged 18 to 75 years in a family practice that recently purchased a retinal imager. This quality improvement project occurred over a 10-week period. Project objectives included increasing comprehensive dilated eye …

Implementing A Cognitive Impairment Care Planning Toolkit To Enhance Dementia Care: A Quality Improvement Project, Raquel Garcia-Priestly

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Background: Alzheimer’s is the most expensive disease in the United States with costs reaching $277 billion a year and affecting 5.7 million Americans. By 2050, 14 million Americans will have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). This burdensome disease not only affects the individual, but also those who are responsible for their care, making it extremely complex to manage. Purpose: To systematically integrate the Alzheimer’s Association’s Cognitive Impairment Care Planning Toolkit in an outpatient mental health clinic to enhance care by effectively addressing the needs of patients with ADRD and of their caregivers. Objectives: Increase the number of patients with …

Managing Childhood Obesity In A Primary Care Clinic, Linda Nnajiofor

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Background: Childhood obesity and overweight have increased health burdens on health care systems, and contribute to chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma, and cancer. Childhood obesity is very complex for healthcare providers to manage in primary care settings.

Purpose: To improve childhood overweight and obesity approach and management in a selected primary care practice (Clinic A) in a large east Texas urban community.

Objectives: 1. Increase the percentage of children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 years seen in Clinic A, who received adequate weight management and obesity counseling, to 75%. 2. Increase the number of referrals to …

Improving Residential Asthma Assessment Strategies Within A Low Socioeconomic Community, Monica Ramirez

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Background: Nationally, there are currently 6 million children under the age of 18 with asthma. There are a variety of social determinants and in-home environmental triggers that can contribute to the development of or exacerbation of asthma in children. Therefore, it is important to recognize and improve the needs of children with asthma in older homes and in households with a lower socioeconomic status.

Aim: The aim of this project was to decrease the number of in-home environmental asthma triggers within at-risk homes in San Antonio, Texas.

Purpose: The purpose of this evidence-based practice project was to improve asthma outcomes …

Implementing A Tracking And Referral Follow-Up Process To Increase Screening Colonoscopy Adherence Within A Primary Care Setting, Stephanie Villanueva

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Within the United States, colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer diagnosed in both women and men. The American Cancer Society approximated that 97,220 new colon cancer cases and 43,030 rectal cancer cases would occur within 2018. Overall, it was estimated there were approximately 50,630 colorectal cancer deaths in 2018. Despite recommended guidelines, reported screening rates are only 31% to 55%, well below the goal of 75% set by the American Cancer Society. The purpose of this project was to increase preventative colorectal cancer screening referrals and completion of colonoscopies for qualified individuals age 50–75 years within a family …

A Quality Improvement Initiative To Facilitate Provider Adherence To Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus Guidelines, Yazmin Valencia

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Background:A significant number of individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus do not receive comprehensive diabetes care management to maintain optimal health.

Purpose:This project was designed to facilitate provider adherence to the type 2 diabetes mellitus evidence-based practice standards of care. A primary care practice needs assessment indicated opportunities to improve care management processes which promote adherence to current clinical practice guidelines.

Methods:This 10-week quality improvement project provided the clinical staff and provider with the necessary tools to implement best practices of diabetes care. Objectives assessed throughout project implementation included the design and use of an electronic health …

Educational Gerrymandering: Money, Motives, And Constitutional Rights, Derek Black

Faculty Publications

Public school funding plummeted following the Great Recession and failed to recover over the next decade, prompting strikes and protests across the nation. Courts did almost nothing to stop the decline. While a majority of state supreme courts recognize a constitutional right to an adequate or equal education, they increasingly struggle to enforce the right. That right could be approaching a tipping point. Either it evolves, or risks becoming irrelevant.

In the past, courts have focused almost exclusively on the adequacy and equity of funding for at-risk students, demanding that states provide more resources. Courts have failed to ask the …

The Promise And Peril Of Using Disability Law As A Tool For School Reform, Claire Raj

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Feel-Sad Tv: Sadness Pornography In Contemporary Serials, Blake K. Beaver

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

This article develops a theory of sadness pornographies in contemporary feel-sad television. Under the sad porn category, the essay explores a key sub-genre in contemporary serial dramas: trauma porn. The article is anchored in an affective analysis of two contemporary serials: Amazon's Transparent and NBC's This Is Us, both of which center multigenerational, familial trauma. Through a combined Berlantian and Spinozist optic, the essay attends to various episodes from the two serials to illuminate the phenomenon of trauma porn in current feel-sad media. In this reading, the essay considers how Spinoza's understandings of the temporality of affect relate to the …

Acknowledgements, Robby Hardesty, Alina Hechler

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Affect And Manhattan’S West Side Piers, Ricardo J. Millhouse

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

Derek P. McCormack (2010) argues, "Affect, is like an atmosphere: it might not be visible, but at any given point it might be sensed ... Emotion, in turn, can be understood as the sociocultural expression of this felt intensity" (643). This paper puts McCormack (2010) and Ben Anderson (2009) into conversation to think through the ways in which atmosphere in relation to affective and emotive life has been conceptualized. I center the affective atmospheres that happen with queer bodies that make New York's west side piers queerly affective. I use "queer bodies" to signal the dis-identification with heteronormativity or binaristic …

Weatherlessness: Affect, Mood, Temperament, The Death Of The Will, And Politics, John J. Stuhr

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

First, I develop an account of the nature of moods and the relation of mood to emotion and temperament. This account stresses that social and individual moods are marked by four features: They are transactional - neither wholly subjective nor objective; in experience they shade into and blur back and forth with feeling and temperament; they are ambient and atmospheric, a habit of living ·in the world more expansive than a habit of mind; and, whether conscious or not, moods have causes that, if known, may be manipulated to advance both personal and political ends. Second, I focus …

"Every Sentiment Has A History": Affect And The Archive: An Interview With Ann Stoler, Ann Stoler, Erin Clancy, J. D. Saperstein

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

Ann Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research. She is the director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. She has worked extensively on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire, and ethnography of the archives. Her books include Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995), Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002, 2010), and Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (2009).

Affect And Immediation: An Interview With Brian Massumi, Brian Massumi, Jacob Ferrington, Alina Hechler, Jannell Parsons

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

Brian Massumi is the author of numerous works across philosophy, political theory, and art theory. His publications include 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts (MIT Press, 2011) and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002).

Feminist Friendship As An Affective Engagement Through The Arts: A Decolonial And Posthuman Becoming-With Rebeca Lane's Alma Mestiza, Miguel Ángel Blanco Martínez, Paola Mendoza Téllez-Girón

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

This paper considers friendship as an affective terrain of feminist alliance among subjects that belong to territories with a colonial record responding to the colonial/modern gender system (Lugones 2007) through the arts. Friendship is here conceptualized as an engagement of feminist solidarity unfolding within theoretical and practical models of change and resistance against the logics of cultural imperialism (Lugones and Spelman 1983). Turning friendship into a polyphonic feminist reaction, this work is conducted by acknowledging the need to foster dialogues where different authorial voices and feminist positionalities meet, reflect, and speak. The paper settles the encounter between its authors in …