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Good Initiative, Bad Judgement: The Unintended Consequences Of Title Ix's Proportionality Standard On Ncaa Men's Gymnastics And The Transgender Athlete, Jeffrey Shearer

Student Scholarship

Title IX fails to provide the tools or guidelines necessary to equalize opportunities for all student athletes in the collegiate setting despite the government’s continuous effort to explain the law. This failure is because judicial precedent has largely developed around the binary proportionality test of compliance. Title IX was originally intended to equalize educational opportunities for male and female students in order to remedy past discrimination in our society. However, the application of Title IX has frequently created fewer opportunities in athletics due to the unintended relationship between the proportionality standard and the social phenomenon that is the commercialization of …

Praxair And The Ptab's Shadow Over Biotechnology Patents, Nora J. Mcguffey

Student Scholarship

The biotechnology industry is one of the fastest growing fields in research and development. This may be attributed to the decision in Diamond v. Chakrabarty, where the Supreme Court held that a biotechnology invention was patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. However, recent Supreme Court rulings have left the boundaries of § 101 uncertain, unworkable, and difficult for biotechnology industries to gain patent protections for their inventions. Before Congress enacted the AIA in 2011, the courts were the biggest influence on shaping the doctrine of patent eligible subject matter under § 101. But now with the new AIA …

Critically Appraised Topic: Evidence For The Effectiveness Of Implementing Home Modifications To Age In Place, Feyi Adewoye, Michaela Gerving, Ashley Osbjornson

Critically Appraised Topics

Older adults are at an increased risk of falling due to several factors. This is an important topic for occupational therapy practitioners. The purpose of the CAT is to provide evidence to build occupation-based interventions such as home modifications that support the improvement of community-dwelling older adults’ quality of life through engagement in activities of daily living.

The Effect Of Sodium Chloride On Hybrid Taxodium Selections, Anna Koonce, Edward Bush, David Creech

Faculty Publications

Saltwater intrusion is a major cause of coastal erosion. New hybrid bald cypress species have been shown to exhibit salinity tolerance compared to native bald cypress species. Planting these hybrids, or Nanjing Bot Garden genotype (NBG), trees where their roots can stabilize soil and preserve land may reduce coastal erosion in areas subjected to saltwater intrusion. The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether or not selected bald cypress NBG genotype tree species survive better than native bald cypress trees in areas inundated with saline water. Leaves were harvested, dried and analyzed for their elemental concentration. NBG genotype trees …

Experiences Of Multidisciplinary Health Professionals From A Culinary Medicine Cultural Immersion: Qualitative Analysis, Melissa D. Olfert, Rachel A. Wattick, Rebecca L. Hagedorn

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Purpose: Increasing Culinary Health Opportunities for Professionals (iCHOP) aimed to educate future and current health pro- fessionals on nutrition as medicine. Methods: Two cohorts each participated in a 16-week course followed by a cultural immersion in Tuscany, Italy. The course took place online through West Virginia University. After the course, participants traveled to Tuscany, Italy for a 2-week cultural im- mersion. The online course covered culinary medicine, the Mediterranean Diet, and cultural comparisons. The cultural immersion consisted of hands-on activities including culinary lessons, food production and organic farm tours, and tastings of Mediterranean foods. Data was collected through personal journaling …

The 5c Framework And Maturity Assessment: A New Approach To Technology Transfer In Biopharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing, Layth Ujam

Level 3

A new framework has been developed to provide guidance for cultivating a pragmatic and proactive culture of technology transfer within the biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing (CM) sector. A review of industry practise was performed, and survey and interview feedback from contract manufacturers and their customers was obtained. The research summarised in this paper describes current experiences of technology transfer in biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing of those working in the industry and investigates the factors currently being experienced that lead to transfer challenges, project delays and difficulties faced by the contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) and customer. The framework and associated maturity assessment model …

Microfossil Assemblages (Diatoms, Calcareous Nannofossils, And Silicoflagellates),Paleoenvironment, And Hydrocarbon Source Rock Potential Of The Oligocene Ruslarformation At Karadere, Bulgaria, Emilia Tulan, Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer, Jakub Witkovski, Gabor Tari, Stjepan Coric, Achim Bechtel

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Oligocene Ruslar Formation, an equivalent of the Maykop Suite, is a potential hydrocarbon source rock in the western Black Sea Basin. In contrast to the offshore areas, the depositional environment and hydrocarbon source rock potential of onshore Bulgaria sediments are largely unknown. Hence, a 14-m-thick section of the Ruslar Formation, exposed near Karadere (Black Cape) along the Black Sea coast, provides an excellent opportunity to study the upper part of the Ruslar Formation. Here, laminated diatomrich mudstones with frequent thin sandstone beds and a prominent concretion horizon are exposed. Furthermore, the fossil diatom assemblages provide a key component to …

The Role Of Behavioral Inhibition For Conversational Speech And Language Characteristics Of Preschool-Age Children Who Stutter, Victoria Tumanova, Carly Woods, Rachel Razza

Communication Sciences and Disorders - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Deep Learning Approach To Understanding Real-World Scene Perception In Autism, Erica Lindsey Busch

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses

Autism is a multifaceted neurodevelopmental condition. Around 90% of individuals with autism experience sensory sensitivities, particularly impacting visual perception. Despite this high percentage, previous studies investigating visual perception in autism impose severe limitations on our understanding. In many of these experiments, their stimuli and experimental methods are un-naturalistic and produce unreproducible and conflicting results. In this study, we investigate the nature of the real-world visual experience in autism with a cutting-edge experimental approach. First, we use virtual reality headsets with eye-trackers to measure gaze behavior while individuals freely explore real-world, everyday scenes. Then, we compare their gaze behavior to the …

It's Complicated: The Impact Of Marriage Legalization Among Sexual Minority Women And Gender Diverse Individuals In The United States, Laurie Drabble, Angie Wootton, Cindy Veldhuis, Ellen Perry, Ellen Riggle, Karen Trocki, Tonda Hughes

Faculty Publications

This mixed-methods study explored perceptions of the impact of marriage legalization in all U.S.states among sexual minority women and gender diverse individuals. Survey data were collectedfrom a nonprobability sample of individuals 18 years or older who identified as lesbian, bisexual,queer, same-sex attracted or something other than exclusively heterosexual—as well asindividuals who identified as transgender or gender nonbinary (for example, genderqueer, transwoman, trans man, nonbinary, or gender non-conforming). The analytic sample included 418participants in an online survey who responded to open-ended questions about the perceivedimpact of marriage legalization. Qualitative analyses revealed perceptions of marriagelegalization that situated individual meanings in the context …

He New Beginnings Newsletter, January 2020, Shana Harming

Wokini Initiative: The New Beginnings Newsletter

Content includes:
The Violent History of Blood Quantum
Tribal Spotlight : Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
Wokini Spotlight: Megan White Face
Book of the Month: There There by Tommy Orange
The Annual SDSU Wacipi
Dr. Darryl Tonemah- Trauma and Healing in the Native Community
Lakota Word of the Month

Integration Of Crop-Livestock Systems: An Opportunity Toprotect Grasslands From Conversion To Cropland In The Us Great Plains, Alexander J. Smart, Daren Redfearn, Robert Mitchell, Tong Wang, Cody Zilverberg, Pete J. Bauman, Justin D. Derner, Julie Walker, Cody Wright

Native Plant Focused Publications

The Great Plains is a mixture of cropland and grassland mainly used for agricultural purposes, with grasslands under continual threat of conversion to cropland. Agriculturists are advocating for the integration of crop-livestock systems (ICLS) to recouple nutrient cycles, improve biodiversity, and increase resilience of agricultural operations. We address the benefits of ICLS in the Great Plains, contending that focus on improving soil health and financial stability of agricultural operations should reduce the conversion of grasslands to cropland. Using US Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service Census of Agriculture survey data from the 1925 to 2017 category “cropland used only …

Ace: A Recipe For Occupational Competence, Brittany J. Miller

Occupational Therapy Doctorate Capstone Projects

Adverse childhood experiences are increasing in society and the lack of knowledge surrounding the condition from the adults who frequently interact with them is concerning. This concern lays the foundation for the development of a targeted approach to pediatric intervention by occupational therapists. The problem this capstone project addresses is expanding the understanding of how adverse childhood experiences mirror other common conditions as well as the need for more competent and confident occupational therapists in identifying and treating children with adverse childhood experiences.

Mistakes You Don't Want To Make In Handling An Adoption, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2020

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held June 29, 2020.

Coronavirus: Things You Need To Know As A Lawyer, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2020

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held April 22, 2020.

Facial Recognition Technology: Balancing The Benefits And Concerns, Elizabeth Mcclellan

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Csusb Magazine (Winter 2020), Csusb

CSUSB Magazine

No abstract provided.

Southern Register. 2020.1 (Winter 2020), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

The University Of Texas Permian Basin Undergraduate Catalog 2020-2021, The University Of Texas Permian Basin

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Engineering Research Review 2020, Office Of Engineering Research

Engineering Research Review

Table of Contents:

[Page] 2 New materials improve performance of lithium-ion batteries
[Page] 4 Aerosol modeling helps trap coronavirus, deliver medications
[Page] 6 Robot helps patients perform rehabilitative exercises
[Page] 8 Researcher develops biomaterials using cellulose fibers
[Page] 10 Study examines degradation of plant-based plastics
[Page] 12 Underwater drone expands water quality testing capabilities
[Page] 14 Statistician assesses agricultural data to increase productivity
[Page] 16 Awards

Programs And Courses Catalog 2020-2021, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Programs and Courses Catalogs

This catalog is published for students and other persons who want to know more about the University of Northern Iowa. Its purpose is to communicate as objectively and completely as possible what the university is and what it does. The catalog is presented in sections to give a general view of the university as well as the detailed information required for informed decision making.

Jackrabbit Dairy & Food Review, Winter 2019-2020, Vikram V. Mistry

The Jackrabbit Dairy & Food Review

This is the Winter 2019- 2020 Jackrabbit Dairy and Food Review.
It contains the following articles and information: Message from the Department Head, David A. Thompson Endowment, New Personnel, Judging Activities, Dairy Club, Student Accomplishments, Food Science Club, Career Opportunities, Professional Activities of Faculty and Staff, Dairy Facilities, 2019 Graduates, Where Are They Now?, Scholarships, Dairy and Food Science Students, Outreach, Distinguished Alumnus

Integrative Qtl Analysis Of Gene Expression And Chromatin Accessibility Identifies Multi-Tissue Patterns Of Genetic Regulation., Gregory R Keele, Bryan C Quach, Jennifer W Israel, Grace A Chappell, Lauren Lewis, Alexias Safi, Jeremy M Simon, Paul Cotney, Gregory E Crawford, William Valdar, Ivan Rusyn, Terrence S Furey

Faculty Research 2020

Gene transcription profiles across tissues are largely defined by the activity of regulatory elements, most of which correspond to regions of accessible chromatin. Regulatory element activity is in turn modulated by genetic variation, resulting in variable transcription rates across individuals. The interplay of these factors, however, is poorly understood. Here we characterize expression and chromatin state dynamics across three tissues-liver, lung, and kidney-in 47 strains of the Collaborative Cross (CC) mouse population, examining the regulation of these dynamics by expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) and chromatin QTL (cQTL). QTL whose allelic effects were consistent across tissues were detected for 1,101 …

The Effect Of Proton Pump Inhibitors On Normal Gastrointestinal Flora Leading To Weight Change, Emi L. Binstock

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters

The goal of this literature review was to determine what effects proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have on the normal gastrointestinal (GI) flora and how that may lead to weight loss or weight gain. A literature search was performed using the database PubMed. Only articles from the last ten years (2009-2019) were included in this review. Keywords used in the search are listed below. After exclusion criteria was applied, 30 articles were relevant and used in this review. Five themes were identified in the literature review. An investigation of normal GI flora associated with weight loss and weight gain identified a …

An Analysis Of The Incidence And Severity Of Drug-Drug Interactions Between Prescribed Pharmaceuticals And Cannabinoids, Jennifer Mcrae

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters

Identify the incidence and severity of drug-drug interactions between commonly prescribed medications and cannabinoids • Medications that are substrates for CYP2C19, CYP2C9 and CYP1A2 are at the greatest risk of interaction with concomitant use of phytocannabinoids or synthetic cannabinoids • Caution is recommended with medications metabolized via UGT or CES1, however information is currently limited and further research is necessary • Lack of universal standards for laboratory testing of cannabinoid products call into question the legitimacy of reported results in currently reported research as the contents of many cannabinoid products are inaccurately labeled

Identity: Obstacles And Openings, Osamudia R. James

Articles

Progress regarding equality and social identities has moved in a bipolar fashion: popular engagement with the concept of social identities has increased even as courts have signaled decreasing interest in engaging identity. Maintaining and deepening the liberatory potential of identity, particularly in legal and policymaking spheres, will require understanding trends in judicial hostility toward "identity politics," the impact of status hierarchy even within minoritized identity groups, and the threat that white racial grievance poses to identitarian claims.

Response 2020, Seattle Pacific University

Seattle Pacific Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Teamwork Makes The Dream Work: Using Team-Based Learning In The Science Classroom, Virginia J. Moore, Elizabeth Mitchell Prewitt, Amber Jean Carpenter-Mccullough, Brooke A. Whitworth

Publications

With an overwhelming amount of research and a demand for collaborative learning in the classroom, teachers are tackling challenges at all educational levels that often accompany the social aspects of group work. Team-Based Learning (TBL) is an instructional sequence that shifts instruction from teacher lecture to small-group learning. Through the use of teams and social learning, students are actively engaged and learning through critical-thinking tasks. College students can take responsibility both for their own learning and for each other as learners and fellow human beings. TBL allows the instructors to design opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know and …

Diurnal Patterns Of Gene Expression In The Dorsal Vagal Complex And The Central Nucleus Of The Amygdala - Non-Rhythm-Generating Brain Regions., Mary M Staehle, Sean O'Sullivan, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Kate F Kernan, Gregory E Gonye, Babatunde A Ogunnaike, James S Schwaber

Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering Departmental Research

Genes that establish the circadian clock have differential expression with respect to solar time in central and peripheral tissues. Here, we find circadian-time-induced differential expression in a large number of genes not associated with circadian rhythms in two brain regions lacking overt circadian function: the dorsal vagal complex (DVC) and the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA). These regions primarily engage in autonomic, homeostatic, and emotional regulation. However, we find striking diurnal shifts in gene expression in these regions of male Sprague Dawley rats with no obvious patterns that could be attributed to function or region. These findings have implications …

Possible Role Of Breeding Phenology, Brood Size, And Male Parental Care On The Number Of Nesting Attempts By Female Eastern Bluebirds, A Facultatively Multibrooded Species, Michael Daniel Patton

Online Theses and Dissertations

To maximize reproductive output, several species of songbirds attempt to raise two or more broods in a single breeding season. The results of previous studies have revealed much variation among species in the factors that influence the likelihood of female songbirds attempting to raise multiple broods during a breeding season. As such, additional studies are needed to better understand the roles of early breeding, brood sizes, and, especially, male parental care in determining the likelihood of having multiple broods. My objective, therefore, was to examine the possible effects of breeding initiation date, brood size, and male provisioning behavior on the …