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Non-Sterile Fermentation Of Food Waste Using Thermophilic And Alkaliphilic Bacillus Licheniformis Ynp5-Tsu For 2,3-Butanediol Production, Joshua A. O'Hair, Qing Jin, Dajun Yu, Jian Wu, Hengjian Wang, Suping Zhou, Haibo Huang

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Conversion of food waste into 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) via microbial fermentation provides a promising way to reduce waste disposal to landfills and produce sustainable chemicals. However, sterilization of food waste, an energy- and capital-costly process, is generally required before fermentation to avoid any contamination, which reduces the energy net output and economic feasibility of food waste fermentation. In this study, we investigated the non-sterile fermentation of food waste to produce 2,3-BDO using a newly isolated thermophilic and alkaliphilic B. licheniformis YNP5-TSU. Three unitary food waste samples (i.e., pepper, pineapple, cabbage wastes) and one miscellaneous food waste mixture were respectively inoculated with …

Analyzing The Adoption Of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies, Lia Sorensen

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a business strategy via which a company aligns social and environmental concerns with both its business operations and its interactions with stakeholders. This paper examines how CSR creates value for companies that adopt CSR actions. It focuses on the CSR actions of six companies, five public and one private: Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Unilever (Ben & Jerry's), and Penzeys Spices. In the 2000s, many companies began to see value in CSR and to implement CSR infrastructure and actions. With CSR increasing in popularity, more robust analyses of these initiatives started to …

Vol.48 N.21 December 10th 2020, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Isolation Of Halotolerant Bacteria From The Rhizosphere Of Ceanothus Velutinus May Lead To Contributions In Plant Health In Saline Conditions, Jacob Davis

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

The recent rise in the average global temperature has been a driving force over the past few years for rising soil salinity. This presents an especially hostile environment to many plant species that may not have previously been exposed to these conditions. The rhizosphere, which is a layer of soil attached to the roots of a plant, contains microorganisms that contribute to the plants' abiotic and biotic stress resistance. These microorganisms are known as Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR). These can play a key role in contributing to plant stress resistance. Some native plants have shown a strong ability to …

Media And The Covid-19 Infodemic, Alek Nelson

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, many challenges have arisen across the world. From overloaded hospitals to economic fallout to mental health issues, this pandemic is a new challenge for many people. Among the difficulties faced is the increase in misinformation, information "that is false due to lack of scientifically reliable evidence," regarding treatment, prevention, and the virus itself (Bahrami et al., 2019). An online survey was conducted during June 2020 to determine how media sources affects belief in COVID-19 misinformation. The results of the survey show that people are either using bad news sources, mainstream news is reiterating disinformation, and/or …

Silver Screens & Canines, Lauren Christensen

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

Why do we all know a "sad movie where the dog dies?" Why do film production companies continue to make this type of movie? What is so special about dogs we'll dedicate whole movies to them?In this project, I attempt to answer two questions. 1) are there any major themes shared between well-known "dog movies", and 2) how do these themes reflect our connections with dogs and ourselves? Through my research, I found three common themes that can be traced to basic human desires, including love, loyalty, and devotion. This is the reason they are desired by audiences; they capture …

A Closer Look At The Modern Bond Between Dogs And Humans, Mallory Colwell

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

For this project, I wanted to take a closer look at a human's bond with their dog. This bond has been there for centuries, but recently has produced some distinct phenomenon. I believe that dog movies, dog birthdays, and dog social media showcase the modern human to dog relationship. Looking at these occurrences can give a better picture our bonds with our pets. It can also provide insight for ourselves as people.

Hr Machine Learning On Social Media Data, Jake Harrison

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

Human resource departments gather data from various sources to help make effective decisions related to recruitment, selection, strategic planning, and employee management. Social media profiles (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) are one recent source that many companies are turning to in order to gather unique information about current and prospective employees. The increasing abilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning may have an impact on the ease and validity of using social media information from applicants and employees to make employment decisions. In this research, we use previously published scholarly and trade sources to explain how HR personnel could use social …

How English Teachers Use Instagram And Other Social Media Platforms As Professional Development And Emotional Encouragement, Katharine Jenkins

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

How are high school English teachers using Instagram and other social media platforms as professional development and encouragement? This question is essential because the amount of information about education and teaching is constantly expanding, and through the use of social media platforms, teachers are now more readily able to communicate with each other. The widespread nature of social media has also created a new type of professional development through the past decade. Social media platforms such as Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Teachers Pay Teachers, Twitter, and personal blogs offer professional development through the sharing of classroom materials, advice, and the collaboration …

College Students And Screen Time On Digital Devices During Covid-19, Bailee Kent

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

During this time of a global pandemic, people are most likely spending much more time on digital devices. That includes college students. It's natural when isolating or in quarantine to turn to digital devices for information and relationships. How much screen time is a good idea? Is there such a thing as too much screen time? Have college students thought of ways to reduce screen time? If so, has a digital detox been an option they have thought about? This project looks at college students and their screen time using a mixed methods approach. Two groups of students were surveyed: …

Is There A Doctor In The Book? A Study Of Female Physicians In Literature, Addy Kirkham

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

Young children often look to characters in books, movies, and television to inspire their future career choices. This research project was designed to examine what female physicians in literature inspired young women to choose to become physicians. It is important to investigate the influences young women may or may not have had so that those inspiring characters if they exist, can be highlighted for future generations. To obtain data, I sent a survey to the Utah State University Pre-Med Club to gauge what literary influences inspired them to become doctors. I also interviewed three female doctors and recorded their influences …

National Security & Climate Change, Madison Mortensen

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

Certain scientific subjects are often divisive or technical, which makes those topics difficult to discuss with audiences outside the scientific sphere. One way of getting around this obstacle is to cater scientific communication to different target audiences to cut through any audience biases. In order to accomplish that, a communicator needs to understand the relationship between audiences' worldviews, and what they know, feel, and do regarding the subject at hand, and then how that relationship influences the types of media audiences trust and to which they respond positively. The following study investigates the worldviews of a military audience with respect …

Dogs And Dehumanization, Carter Ottley

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

Oppressors have categorized enslaved groups as less than human through animalization. In my research I find the role that comparisons with dogs had and look at the impacts on our current society.

Effects Of Social Media On Young Adults: Self Efficacy, Body Image And Connection With Others, Sabrina Trimble

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

The current study tested the associations between self-efficacy, lack of connection to others, body image issues, and social media use. In previous studies, participants estimate social media use through self-evaluation likert scales (Salomon, Brown, 2019). In order to use a more accurate measure of time on social media, participants accessed time on social media from their personal cell phones.

Participants were 213 college students ages 18-49 (M = 20.47 years). They were approximately 63% women, 32% men, 1% other gender, and 93% White/non-hispanic/Latinx.

Perception of time on social media.

Neither self-efficacy (Œ≤ = .01, ns) nor lack of connection (.14, …

Enabling Mars Farms Through Microbial Remediation Of Wastewater, Tyler Wallentine

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

This research evaluates the capacity of photoheterotrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria to utilize wastewater organics to grow and produce nitrogen-rich biomass. Inhibitory components of wastewater are determined. A scaled up production system is designed and utilized to culture bacteria in wastewater. The application of this technology in the production of agriculturally viable amounts of nitrogen-rich biomass is evaluated in the context of a Mars mission and enabling agriculture in a barren environment.

Isolation And Purification Of Bacterial Species From Rhizosphere Of Native Plant Ceanothus Velutinus (Snowbrush), Katherine Webb, Hayden Johns

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

Due to the ever-changing climate, plants face stressors that limit their growth. Therefore it is vital to find new ways to protect plants from biotic and abiotic stressors such as pathogen infection, drought, heavy metal poisoning, and salinity. With an increasing population, limiting the effects of stress on plant growth and development for agriculture is vital. One approach to this is focusing on beneficial plant-microbe interaction, such as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). These bacteria are found in the rhizosphere- the soil that is attached to the roots of a plant. Various PGPRs share a symbiotic relationship with plants and help …

Evaluation Of Restricted Medications Administered Within The Inpatient Setting, Alexis Nicholson Pharmd, Janine Barnaby Rph, Bcop, Arun Mancheril Pharmd, Bcps, Kristin M. Held Wheatley Pharmd, Bcop

Department of Pharmacy

No abstract provided.

Top 30 Full Text Downloads By Series For Fy 2020 (7/1/19‐06/30/20) Digitalcommons@University Of Nebraska‐Lincoln, Paul Royster

Institutional Repository Information

Top 30 downloaded series, UNL Digital Commons FY 2020 (7/1/19—6/30/20)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) • Historical Materials from University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension • Robert Katz Publications • Nebraska Law Review • Nebraska Tractor Tests • Management Department Faculty Publications • Publications from USDA-ARS / UNL Faculty • Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology • USDA National Wildlife Research Center - Staff Publications • Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings • Educational Administration: Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research • Electronic Texts in American Studies • Great Plains Quarterly • Public Access Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research from the College of Education …

Minutes, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty Meeting, Thursday, December 10, 2020, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty, Rollins College

The College of Liberal Arts Faculty Minutes

No abstract provided.

Nitrogen Uptake By Two Plants In Response To Plant Competition As Regulated By Neighbor Density, Xuan Jia, Chaohe Huangfu, Dafeng Hui

Biology Faculty Research

Plant species may acquire different forms of nitrogen (N) to reduce competition for the same resource, but how plants respond to neighbors with different densities in their N uptake is still poorly understood. We investigated the effects of competition regime on the uptake of different N forms by two hygrophytes, Carex thunbergii and Polygonum criopolitanum, by conducting a hydroponic test of excised roots and an in situ experiment in a subtropical wetland ecosystem. The two species were grown either in monocultures or mixtures with various neighbor densities. Root functional traits and N uptake rates of different N forms were measured. …

Lsomp: Large Scale Ordinance Mining Portal, Xu Du, Matthew Kowalski, Aparna S. Varde, Boxiang Dong

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We propose a novel scalable Web portal called LSOMP (Large Scale Ordinance Mining Portal) to analyze ordinances and their tweets (of the order of thousands and millions). It entails commonsense knowledge (CSK) and natural language processing (NLP), disseminating ordinance-tweet mining results via interactive graphics and Question Answering (QA).

College Faculty In The News: December 10, 2020, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Decreasing The Fall Rate On A Medical Surgical Unit With An Enhanced Fall Algorithm In The Electronic Medical Record, Natali Sokolovski

Master's Projects and Capstones

This paper summarizes the quality improvement falls prevention project on a Medical-Surgical unit with an Enhanced Fall Algorithm incorporated in the Electronic Medical Record conducted by two Clinical Nurse Leader students of the University of San Francisco.

This project addresses the patient falls events in a San Francisco-Bay Area Hospital on a Medical-Surgical unit. The aim is to decrease the rate of falls on a Medical-Surgical microsystem unit by 50% with an Enhanced Fall Algorithm incorporated into the Electronic Medical Record by June 2021. The patient population consists of general medical surgical patients where many of the patients have an …

December 10, 2020, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2020-

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Kenyon Collegian - December 10, 2020

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Lady Problems: A Study On The Effect Of Perceived Femininity When Evaluating Female Presidential Candidates, Mackenzie O. Marquess

Communication Theses

There is currently an observable gender gap associated with political leadership. Though many have tried, no woman has successfully campaigned for the presidency. Historically, media coverage of female candidates is vastly different from coverage of their male counterparts and it is well established that the media has significant control over public perception of candidates. This study examines media coverage of female candidates in an attempt to understand the rhetoric that consistently positions women as unelectable regardless of their experience or political prowess. This study analyzes post-debate commentary from the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 election beginning on June …

Brown Family Wordplay, Miriam Brown

Final Projects

Brown family wordplay. This shows how wordplay plays an important role in my family's humor traditions.

On The Eco-Gender Gap, Haley Normandin

Honors Program Theses and Projects

The pressing focus on sustainability and the importance of climate action impels this project to examine whether and how gender and gender socialization shape perceptions of these issues. Drawing on survey data, from the 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES), I examine environmental awareness and activism, primarily through gender socialization.

A1 Pioneer Moving And Wcf Mutual Insurance Company Appellants/Respondents V. Utah Labor Commission And Viliami Pulu Appellees : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Joshua M. Woodbury WCF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANTS

Tracy L. Olson Chad P. Curtis SMART, SCHOFIELD, SHORTER, P.C. ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE Christopher Hill, General Counsel ATTORNEY FOR APPELLEE UT AH LABOR COMMISSION

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Life And Impact, Sonja Mowery

Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works

This essay focuses on the life, challenges, and impact of psychology professor Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Dr. Ford’s name first appeared in the media after a leak that exposed the presence of a letter sent to Senator Feinstein informing her that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982. Dr. Ford was motivated to send this letter when she learned that Kavanaugh’s name was listed on the president’s shortlist for the Supreme Court Judge to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat after his retirement in July of 2018. When Dr. Ford finally decided to tell her story …