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Friends Of The Libraries Newsletter, Fall 2020, Friends Of The Libraries

Friends of the Libraries Newsletter

A forty-two page newsletter that details news of the Friends of the Libraries group including the various awards to library staff and student assistants, promotions, retirements, and more.

Pregnant Violence In Post-3.11 Fiction, Doug Slaymaker

Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Publications

This essay explores the violence and the threat of violence associated with pregnancy in Japanese fiction after the triple disasters—the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown—of March 11, 2011. There is hardly a female character in this fiction that is not confronted with questions about pregnancy and childbirth. The queries are surely motivated by genuine concern about the humans involved, but they are just as often about control, about a woman’s body as a public item, about responsibility to the child, and then to society at large. Childbearing in a disaster zone is profoundly anxiety-producing; but it is also worth examining …

Responding To Xenophobia: Politics, Populisms And Our Teaching, Phyllis E. Vanslyck

Publications and Research

This essay explores ways faculty in the humanities may guide students through current manifestations of populism, specifically, this movement’s encouragement of xenophobia. As a member of an English department at a public community college in the United States, I argue, first, that community college students, who often have deep personal connections to the experiences of immigrants, may respond to the anti-immigrant rhetoric in useful and provocative ways. Second, I suggest that the related history of anti-immigration sentiment in American politics since the beginning of the 20th century can provide students with a powerful context for understanding xenophobia today. Third, I …

Analiza E Kolesterolit Me Metodtë E Kolesterolit Me Metodë Enzimatike Në Vezë Komerciale, Ekstensive Dhe Organike, Fjolla Vllasaliu

Theses and Dissertations

Përqendrimi i kolesterolit në tre lloje të vezëve është analizuar përmes metodës enzimatike. Llojet e vezëve të analizuara kanë qenë: vezë komerciale, vezë ekstenzive dhe vezë organike. Janë analizuar gjithsej tridhjetë e pesë mostra. Marrja e mostrave ka qenë e rastësishme dhe analiza e kolesterolit është bërë me anë të spektrofotometrit GENESYS 10S UV-Vis. Analizat janë kryer në laboratorët hulumtues të Universitetit për Biznes dhe Teknologji (UBT) - Kosovë. Mesatarja e rezultateve të marra tregon për një përqendrim pak më të ulët të kolesterolit në llojin e vezëve ekstensive në krahasim me llojet e tjera të analizuara.

Ex Libris, Fall 2020, West Virginia University Libraries

Ex Libris: The WVU Libraries Magazine

KEEPING EVERYTHING MOVING FORWARD The Libraries helped the University community continue their academic journey and research pursuits during the pandemic.; ACHIEVING SUFFRAGE One hundred years ago, West Virginia legislators met at the State Capitol in Charleston to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended voting rights to women; WVRHC RECEIVES FIFTH NEH GRANT TO DIGITIZE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS So far, the WVRHC has digitized more than 400,000 pages from more than 60 historical West Virginia newspapers.

Analysis Of Epidemic Situation Of New Coronavirus Pneumonia From The Perspective Of Intelligence Analysis, Xin Zhou, Yuan-Yuan Luan, Hao Wang, Dongbo Wang

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]The analysis of open source intelligence based on the theme of emergencies is of great significance not only for the effective control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic and its spread，the protection of people's health and property safety，but also for social stability，economic development，and national security.Helps improve the speed and effectiveness of decision-making in relevant departments.[Method/process]The advent of the 5G era，has led to an increasing amount of data traffic on the network.More and more intelligence will be obtained from public information on the network.By introducing a competitive hypothesis analysis method（ACH），first research and judge the source of the new coronavirus，and then analyze …

Law School Record, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Fall 2020), Law School Record Editors

Law School Record

• Message from the Dean
• The Unexpected Experiment
• How Covid-19 Could Change the Law
• Law School Welcomes Five New Scholars
• Law School Revises 1L Curriculum
• Building Bridges
• Graduation 2020
• Faculty News
• Development News
• Alumni In Memoriam
• Alumni in Memoriam - Elle D’Amore, ‘22, 1993-2020
• Meet the Class of 2023

Shift In The Paradigm For Gssp Boundary Definition, V. I. Davydov

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

For over 200 years the use of biotic events as the basis for the establishment of chronostratigraphic boundaries has been the only approach successfully utilized for international and national chronostratigraphy. The traditional biostratigraphic method provides relatively high resolution, averaging 1 Ma or sometimes less. This biochronological evolutionary approach to the Global Boundary Stratotype section and Point (GSSP) utilizes biotic Primary Markers (PM), with a few exceptions, encompasses the integrated PM and other non-PM markers as the general principles for defining GSSP boundaries and is a reasonably reliable mechanism for global correlation and a relatively stable International Geologic Time Scale (IGTS). …

Modulation Of Sleep-Courtship Balance By Nutritional Status In Drosophila, José M Duhart, Victoria Baccini, Yanan Zhang, Daniel R Machado, Kyunghee Koh

Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers

Sleep is essential but incompatible with other behaviors, and thus sleep drive competes with other motivations. We previously showed Drosophila males balance sleep and courtship via octopaminergic neurons that act upstream of courtship-regulating P1 neurons (Machado et al., 2017). Here, we show nutrition modulates the sleep-courtship balance and identify sleep-regulatory neurons downstream of P1 neurons. Yeast-deprived males exhibited attenuated female-induced nighttime sleep loss yet normal daytime courtship, which suggests male flies consider nutritional status in deciding whether the potential benefit of pursuing female partners outweighs the cost of losing sleep. Trans-synaptic tracing and calcium imaging identified dopaminergic neurons projecting to …

Serving-Up The Ace: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (“Ace”) In Dependency Adoption Through The Lens Of Social Science, Cynthia G. Hawkins, Taylor Scribner

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Caveat

Almost certainly, every child who enters the foster care system has endured some sort of trauma. It is unrefuted that childhood trauma correlates with mental, physical, and behavioral problems well into adulthood. In 1998, one of the first major studies of the relationship between certain forms of childhood trauma and adult behavior and disease was reported. Collectively, these traumas are called “Adverse Childhood Experiences” (ACE).

Today ACE refers to ten common forms of trauma that individuals may have experienced as children. To put this issue in perspective, it is currently estimated that 34.8 million children in the United States are …

Outside Perspectives, Amber Taylor

BYU Studies

I think most of us are familiar with a recent trend in storytelling to revisit and tell a traditional tale from the perspective of the antagonist. The live-action Disney movie Maleficent, for example, provides an empathetic backstory to the terrifyingly evil, but otherwise flat, character of Maleficent in the iconic animated version of Sleeping Beauty. The popular musical Wicked, by Stephen Schwartz, does the same with the character Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Even children’s books have gotten in on the postmodern storytelling action. In The True Story of …

Genomic Analysis Of Igg Antibody Response To Common Pathogens In Commercial Sows In Health-Challenged Herds, Leticia P. Sanglard, Piggen Canada, Benny E. Mote, Philip Willson, John C.S. Harding, Graham S. Plastow, Jack C.M. Dekkers, Nick V.L. Serão

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Losses due to infectious diseases are one of the main factors affecting productivity in the swine industry, motivating the investigation of disease resilience-related traits for genetic selection. However, these traits are not expected to be expressed in the nucleus herds, where selection is performed. One alternative is to use information from the commercial level to identify and select nucleus animals genetically superior for coping with pathogen challenges. In this study, we analyzed the genetic basis of antibody (Ab) response to common infectious pathogens in health-challenged commercial swine herds as potential indicator traits for disease resilience, including Ab response to influenza …

2d Animation Principles, Pilar C. Newton

Open Educational Resources

Syllabus for 2D Animation Principles Class

2020 Annual Report: State Of Nonprofits And Philanthropy In San Diego, Laura Deitrick, Tessa Tinkler, Jon Durnford, Thomas Abruzzo, Taylor Funderburk, Connelly Meschen

State of Nonprofits and Philanthropy in San Diego

The year 2020 has become one of reckoning – as a time for reflection and hindsight about how we got to this point of crisis, as well as one for envisioning a new path forward. As the pandemic shows no sign of abating, the disruption wrought by COVID-19 is broad and deep for nonprofits, their leaders, and constituents.

The 2020 State of Nonprofit and Philanthropy Report synthesizes findings from three nonprofit leader surveys (including COVID-19 impacts surveys), public opinion polling, and other sources of nonprofit data to provide the most up to date and holistic picture of this essential sector. …

The Osprey, Fall 2020, The Osprey Staff

Osprey

The student magazine of Cal Poly Humboldt.

Burden Of Injury Along The Development Spectrum: Associations Between The Socio-Demographic Index And Disability-Adjusted Life Year Estimates From The Global Burden Of Disease Study 2017, Juanita A. Haagsma, Spencer L. James, Chris D. Castle, Zachary V. Dingels, Jack T. Fox, Erin B. Hamilton, Zichen Liu, Lydia R. Lucchesi, Nicholas L S. Roberts, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Woman and Child Health

Background: The epidemiological transition of non-communicable diseases replacing infectious diseases as the main contributors to disease burden has been well documented in global health literature. Less focus, however, has been given to the relationship between sociodemographic changes and injury. The aim of this study was to examine the association between disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from injury for 195 countries and territories at different levels along the development spectrum between 1990 and 2017 based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 estimates.
Methods: Injury mortality was estimated using the GBD mortality database, corrections for garbage coding and CODEm-the cause of …

Kentucky Traffic Collision Facts 2019, Eric R. Green, Paul A. Ross, Christopher L. Blackden, Michael A. Fields, Kenneth R. Agent

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

KENTUCKY’S TRAFFIC COLLISION FACTS report is based on collision reports submitted to the Kentucky State Police Records Branch. As required by Kentucky Revised Statutes 189.635:

“Every law enforcement agency whose officers investigate a vehicle accident of which a report must be made...shall file a report of the accident...within ten days after investigation of the accident upon forms supplied by the bureau.”

The stated purpose of this requirement is to utilize data on traffic collisions for such purposes as will improve the traffic safety program in the Commonwealth.

Profile: Times Like These, Communications And Marketing

Profile (1996-)

In this issue: The Power of Possibility; Ask the Experts:Social Justice; Time Like These: UMN Morris and the COVID-19 Crisis; 60 Years Since 1960; 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner; Giving News; Campus News Briefs; Alumni News; Class Notes; Cougar Sports News

The Genetic Role Of Autism, Kimberly Sacaza

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

No abstract provided.

2020 Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Program, University Of Dayton

Documents from the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Contents of the program:

• Conference schedule
• Special features
• Session descriptions
• Keynote speaker biographies
• Featured talent biographies
• Presenter biographies
• Winning entries in the 2020 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition
• Winners of "A Hotel Room of One's Own" contest
• Winners of "For the Love of Nickie" writing competition.

Daily Eastern News: October 01, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

October

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Daily Eastern News: October 01, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

October

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Democratizing The Fourth Sector: B Corps And Beneficiary Participation, Joseph Pileri

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Environmental Conservation, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Mudslides, Matt Greene

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Veil Of Ignorance: An Analysis Of Global Regulations For Assisted Suicide And The Guided Next Steps For America, Abigail B. Coogan

Honors Theses

The concept of assistance in dying goes back to the ancient Greco-Roman world, but it is still a topic of much debate today. This paper attempts to address this debate by completing a thorough examination of the topic of assisted dying in America. It begins with a thorough examination of assisted dying through the legal lense of the United States Constitution and court decisions, moves into an analysis and rebuttal of common objections regarding assisted dying, and examines assisted dying regulations around the world in order to examine what qualities are important in developing assisted dying regulations, along with what …

The Creation Of Nona: A Look At Fantasy Literature, Real Life Trauma, And World-Building, Collin P. Davis

Honors Theses

My Honors Thesis Project looks at the relationship between fantasy literature, real life trauma, and world-building. The scholarly portion of my thesis includes research that looks at the relationship through both literary and psychological perspectives. This research included looking at the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons, and how they both relate or have been used to cope with trauma. The works of Cathy Caruth and Bruno Bettelheim are used to look at the relationship from a psychological perspective with the introduction of trauma theory and its ties to literature. My project …

Incorporating Diverse Literature Into The Middle Grades Classroom, Katheryn A. Heinrich

Honors Theses

In the field of education, we know from existing research that the literature students are exposed to has an impact on how they view themselves as students, as people, and as citizens of the society in which they live. It can have a lasting impact on their success in school, in work, and in their relationships with others. However, almost all research also shows that it’s not just about which books are taught, but how they are taught. For this project, I have designed a series of unit plans that can be used as a tool for any middle grades …

Could The P75 Neurotrophin Receptor P75ntr Help Unlock The Mysteries Of Infertility?, Mayci Fullmer

Honors Theses

Histology is the study of microscopic tissue structures that examines the correlation between structure and function. This technique was utilized when analyzing the biological processes of folliculogenesis and oogenesis. These processes study the maturation of the ovarian follicle and production of an ovum, respectively. The p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75^NTR)has been identified to contribute to the maturation of ovarian follicles, but the role of p75^NTR in ovulation remains unknown. To investigate the role of p75^NTR in ovulation, an animal study analyzing the histology of the mouse ovary was conducted. In this study, the number of primary follicles, …

Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - October 2020

Indigenous Science Network

In this single issue of the Bulletin for 2020, items are listed under five headings being News and Views; Resources; Indigenous Astronomy; Conferences / Seminars; and Calendar of events. Weblinks for most items are contained as hyper-linked addresses or as hotspots within illustrations.