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Single-Subject Analyses Reveal Altered Performance And Muscle Activation During Vertical Jumping, John R. Harry, Jeffrey D. Eggleston, Janet S. Dufek, C. Roger James

Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Research

Effects of barefoot and minimal footwear conditions on performance during jumping (i.e., jump displacement) are unclear with traditional group-level studies because of intra- and interindividual variability. We compared barefoot, minimal, and conventional athletic footwear conditions relative to countermovement vertical jump (CMVJ) performance and muscle activation using a single-subject approach. Fifteen men (1.8 ± 0.6 m; 84.5 ± 8.5 kg; 23.8 ± 2.3 y) performed three CMVJ trials in barefoot, minimal, and conventional footwear conditions while ground reaction forces (GRF) and electromyograms of eight lower extremity muscles were recorded. The Model Statistic procedure (α = 0.05) compared conditions for CMVJ displacement, …

Bruce Springsteen: Evolution Of The American Dream, Anthony Muscella

Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works

Bruce Springsteen is a man many people associate with the ideals of the “American Dream”. He comes from a poor, working-class family. He is currently an incredibly successful musician and he has been for some time now. However, he does not think this way and he has not for some time now. He has changed his opinions on the “American Dream” over time, coming from one end of the spectrum in thinking that the “American Dream” is real to the other end where he now thinks that it is a lie, and the promised land is not real.

Spirit Confronts The Four-Headed Monster: Jean-Bertrand Aristide’S Mistik–Infused Flood-Rise In Duvalierist Haiti, Geoffrey Kain

Publications

To explore Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s rise from obscure rural Haiti to become the nation’s first democratically elected president—by a landslide—is to enter into a world and a swirl of events that reads like surreal fiction or magical realism. As a Catholic priest (Salesian order), Aristide was fueled by the religio-socialist principles of liberation theology, which emerged as a significant force in Latin America primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, forcefully and vocally advocating for the masses of Haitian poor mired in deeply-entrenched disenfranchisement and exploitation. As a charismatic spokesperson for the popular democratic movement in Haiti during an era of entrenched …

Communicable Diseases As Occupational Hazards For Agricultural Workers: Using Experience Sampling Methods For Promoting Public Health, Mahima Saxena, Margaret M. Burke

Psychology Faculty Publications

Vector-borne communicable diseases cause more than 700,000 deaths annually (World Health Organization, 2019). Despite various efforts, there has been no change in mortality rates due to communicable diseases worldwide (World Health Organization, 2019). Most communicable diseases have no cure and can attain epidemic status quickly. Therefore, prevention is critical in reducing disease transmission. Communicable disease transmission as an occupational health hazard is often ignored in work psychology research and public health policy. Using experience sampling methods, Saxena (2015) found that work and nonwork behaviors associated with rice farming in South Asia increase exposure to Japanese encephalitis. …

Exploring Initiation As A Predictor Of Acceleration For Emergent Readers: A Mixed Methods Study, Tracee Cay Farmer

Theses and Dissertations

Using an exploratory sequential research design, this research was conducted to explore whether the emergence of initiation predicted whether students reach grade-level literacy expectations by the conclusion of their Reading Recovery intervention. Reading Recovery is a research-based short-term intervention developed by Marie Clay with the goal to help the lowest-performing students accelerate their reading progress so that they can reach the average of their class. The following questions were the focus of research: 1) What is the behavioral structure of initiation as part of the problem-solving process in reading? 2) Does the emergence of initiation, as recorded on running records, …

Us-Triggered Microbubble Destruction For Augmenting Hepatocellular Carcinoma Response To Transarterial Radioembolization: A Randomized Pilot Clinical Trial., John R Eisenbrey, Flemming Forsberg, Corinne E Wessner, Lauren J Delaney, Kristen Bradigan, Sriharsha Gummadi, Mohamed Tantawi, Andrej Lyshchik, Patrick O'Kane, Ji-Bin Liu, Charles Intenzo, Jesse Civan, Warren Maley, Scott W Keith, Kevin Anton, Allison Tan, Amanda Smolock, Susan Shamimi-Noori, Colette M Shaw

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

Combined US-triggered microbubble destruction and hepatocellular carcinoma radioembolization showed improved treatment response compared with radioembolization alone and no changes in vital signs or liver function.

Background US contrast agents are gas-filled microbubbles (MBs) that can be locally destroyed by using external US. Among other bioeffects, US-triggered MB destruction, also known as UTMD, has been shown to sensitize solid tumors to radiation in preclinical models through localized insult to the vascular endothelial cells.

Purpose: To evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of combining US-triggered MB destruction and transarterial radioembolization (TARE) in participants with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Materials and Methods: In this …

Leo Brouwer: Guitar Sonatas, Ricardo Gallén, Nathan Cornelius

Soundboard Scholar

No abstract provided.

Flow Patterns, Velocity Distributions And Mixing Time In Stirred Tank Reactor Under A Range Of Operating Conditions, Nor Haslina Abdullah

Student Works (2020-2029)

The present work employed a two-dimensional Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV) technique to determine the flow patterns and velocity distributions of a down-pumping pitched-blade turbine (4PB) and a Rushton turbine (RT) in a flat-bottom fully baffled stirred vessel (T=0.155m) using distilled water and glycerin as liquids. Fluid velocities increased as the impeller speed increased from 50rpm to 300rpm for both fluids and the RT impeller reached a maximum value of velocity of 1.42m/s at the blade tip. The 4PB had higher velocity compared to RT in glycerin, but RT had higher velocity than 4PB in distilled water. In water, radial flow …

Regenerating Teacher Education Programs With Indigenous Knowledge In Idaho, Vanessa Anthony-Stevens, Johanna Jones, Victor Begay

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

This paper examines movements in educational policy to address the inequitable schooling experiences of American Indian youth. We look specifically at recent policy revisions to teacher education standards in the state of Idaho which intend to address preservice teachers’ knowledge and dispositions to build understanding and respect for Indigenous ways of knowing and tribal sovereignty in classrooms and schools. We argue that critical, culturally based teacher training programs can prepare competent, equity conscious teachers to address the unique challenges of schools, especially those serving Indigenous youth. Such frameworks are vital acts of social justice education which benefit all students.

Health Insurance And The Undocumented Immigrant, Anja Diercks

Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to perform a comparative analysis on how seven different countries (USA, South Africa, Germany, England, Canada, France and Singapore) organize their healthcare system to cope with the issue of undocumented immigrants and whether or not these systems in place were “fair.” The thesis will also explore the possible ways the United States could change to be more inclusive and fairer in the world of healthcare and health insurance for the undocumented immigrant. A study on what fairness means both in ethical and economical terms is done to suggest a new basis of a fair …

After Nypd: Scores Of New York City Police Officers With Substantiated Complaints Move To New Public Safety Jobs., Luca Powell

Capstones

In the wake of the nation’s 2020 summer protests about policing and use of force, New York State made public the Civilian Complaint Review Board records documenting complaints against police officers, including those at the NYPD, an agency with just over 34,000 officers. Those records showed that officers with substantiated accusations of misconduct and use-of-force were able to remain at the department and get promoted.

The New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board documents show something else: A New York City News Service review found at least 81 former NYPD officers with substantiated accusations of wrongdoing have been able to …

Neonatal Mouse Gut Metabolites Influence Cryptosporidium Parvum Infection In Intestinal Epithelial Cells, Kelli L Vandussen, Lisa J Funkhouser-Jones, Marianna E Akey, Deborah A Schaefer, Kevin Ackman, Michael W Riggs, Thaddeus S Stappenbeck, L David Sibley

Open Access Publications

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Associations Between Atrial Cardiopathy And Cerebral Amyloid: The Aric-Pet Study, Michelle C Johansen, Thomas H Mosley, David S Knopman, Dean F Wong, Chiadi Ndumele, Amil M Shah, Scott D Solomon, Rebecca F Gottesman

Open Access Publications

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a risk factor for cognitive decline, possibly from silent brain infarction. Left atrial changes in structure or function (atrial cardiopathy) can lead to AF but may impact cognition independently. It is unknown if AF or atrial cardiopathy also acts on Alzheimer disease-specific mechanisms, such as deposition of β-amyloid. Methods and Results A total of 316 dementia-free participants from the ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) study underwent florbetapir positron emission tomography, electrocardiography, and 2-dimensional echocardiography. Atrial cardiopathy was defined as ≥1: (1) left atrial volume index >34 mL/m

Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Kidney Organoids With Improved Collecting Duct Maturation And Injury Modeling, Kohei Uchimura, Haojia Wu, Yasuhiro Yoshimura, Benjamin D Humphreys

Open Access Publications

Maximizing the potential of human kidney organoids for drug testing and regenerative medicine and to model development and disease requires addressing cell immaturity, the lack of a mature collecting system, and off-target cell types. By independently generating two kidney progenitor cell populations-metanephric mesenchyme and ureteric bud (UB)-like cells-we could generate kidney organoids with a collecting system. We also identify the hormones aldosterone and arginine vasopressin (AVP) as critical to promote differentiation of collecting duct cell types including both principal cells (PCs) and intercalated cells (ICs). The resulting PCs express aquaporin-2 (AQP2) protein, which undergoes translocation to the apical membrane after …

Comparative Evaluation Of Clinical Manifestations And Risk Of Death In Patients Admitted To Hospital With Covid-19 And Seasonal Influenza: Cohort Study, Yan Xie, Benjamin Bowe, Geetha Maddukuri, Ziyad Al-Aly

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

The Kitchen Table: Relationships With The People, Food And Land That Sustain Us, Chelsey Frost

Masters Theses

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which interactions with food and around food affect an individual’s sense of self, connection to community as well as to friends and family, and sense of place. Short, personal narrative gives way to discussion of such themes and ideas as home, homemade food and terroir. It becomes clear that acts of celebration of and gratitude for food, particularly in connection with a specific place or line of heritage, play necessary roles in the development of our personal identities and in our search for belonging. These stories are based on …

Sensuous Knitting: Making Practice That (Re)Members Ecological Entanglement, Sarah Manion

Masters Theses

Conceptualizing the climate crisis as a system of broken relationships calls for a broader understanding of entangled ecological interrelationality. Developing deep and effective responses relies on a stamina for complexity grounded in a recognition and acknowledgement of the way ecological entanglements are revealed to us. Within this frame, practice may provide unique opportunity for the development and promotion of this attuned awareness. To explore this possibility, the personal practice of sensuous knitting is used in this thesis as a way to demonstrate the intersections between intellectual modes of understanding and embodied forms of knowing. Using elements of autoethnographic narration of …

Mobility Justice And Social Capital In Strawberry Mansion And Kensington, Philadelphia Pa, Rebecca Fruehwald

Masters Theses

This thesis explores the theoretical and practical relationship between mobility justice and social capital. A literature review establishes the theoretical relationship through an overview of history and policy. The relationship is then explored through a case study of Strawberry Mansion and Kensington neighborhoods in Philadelphia. These sections are then connected by considering how they are both impacted by the larger system of capitalism. The real-world example of gentrification is given for how all these elements interact and affect each other, and the practical relationship between mobility justice and social capital is established. Finally, policy implementations and paths for possible future …

Exploring Multimedia Storytelling As A Novel Tool To Inspire Americans To Participate In Wildlife Conservation, Megan Brief

Masters Theses

Human and nonhuman animal lives are intimately entangled. In the age of the Anthropocene, it is imperative to reexamine our proximity and kinship with nature. Human-wildlife conflict can evolve into coexistence through conservation efforts marked by creativity and compassion. To inspire conservation action among North American audiences, we must enact novel ways of disseminating scientifically technical concepts. Multimedia storytelling can encourage equitable involvement among lay participants in conservation spaces. When inclusive of Indigenous knowledges, and conscious of damage narratives, such innovative stories can empathetically communicate wildlife degradation and injustices, as well as animate vulnerable human and nonhuman communities.

Sor's Guitar Music—A Fresh Start, Erik Stenstadvold

Soundboard Scholar

This article addresses the considerations and decisions that underlie a new critical edition of Sor’s guitar music that is being prepared by the author. Sor’s oeuvre for guitar survives almost exclusively in early printed editions, not autograph manuscripts, so such a task begins with a reassessment, based on historical and text-critical criteria, of which editions he was likely to have been involved in himself and which we can therefore trust the most. As a result, this new edition partly uses different original sources as models than other modern editions. Meissonnier’s later versions of opp. 1–23 from 1826, claimed to be …

Law School News: Mike Andrews '97 Nominated To U.S. Court Of Federal Claims 12-15-2020, Michael M. Bowden

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

The Holy Quran Bilingual/ Thought Off Sensual Miracles Study In Cultural Contexts, Firas Salah Abdullah Al-Atabi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research begins with a question about why the Qur'anic miracle differs from the previous sensory divine miracles by observing the polytheists and unbelievers to inflict a sensual miracle seen as the miracles of the previous prophets. Moses (p) down to the seventh century AD with the miracle of the last Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in a cultural reading of the most prominent cultural patterns of human nature to reach cultural completion and maturity, and tools of the cultural curriculum that asks time and its changing nature Insulting human perception and the physical factors, the biology that characterized (Homo sapiens Homo …

A Linguistic Analysis Of The Primary Persuasive Strategies In Facebook Profile Of Aig, M.A.Abdulrahman Sabah Ghane, Huda Abed Ali Hattab

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The insurance company (or the insurer) like many other commercial organizations, needs persuasion for the sake of convincing the customers to buy his insurance products. The insurer uses many persuasive strategies through many platforms to persuade people to market his products. The current study aims to analyze the primary persuasive strategies that are used by AIG in facebook profile in order to specify the most effective strategies used by the American insurers, and to suggest the most suitable strategies to the Iraqi insurers. The present study hypothesizes that the persuaders use more than one strategy together to achieve their goals, …

The Dark Underside Of 9/11 In Ken Kalfus's A Disorder Peculiar To The Country (2007) By, Eman Saud Thannoon, Azhar Noori Fejer

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The eventual attacks of 9/11in America, on The World Trade Center at Ground Zero, had changed the world and brought disastrous problems to a lot of civilians. Many people lost their lives; others were traumatized and suffered a disordered life. The disastrous event revealed the hidden aspects of the States and its assistants-the soldiers and copes. Studying the relationship between the psyche of individuals and their outside world is the core of this paper. The project investigates the reasons behind acting out trauma and its impact on individuals and society. The sociocultural approach applied helps in examining the behavior of …

Construction And Deconstruction: Approaches According To The Principles Of Art Education, Salah Rahaif Ameer Al-Zamili

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Through a long time, theories and researches have been varied to be able to read different events and human scenes in various readings. There were important sides in life, like: Art, education, history and other subjects that come in line with to identify the patterns of these researches, theories and visions or they may be the pioneer in the discovery of such patterns and they may play the role of writer or critic. On the threshold of historical and temporal eras the so called modern critical methods emerged that are the visions and plans which look for, analyze, interpret and …

Рreposition And Case Form Of The Name As A Marker Of Dynamic The Meaning Of Modern Media Text, Anna Niko Bertyakova

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study hypothesizes the ability of a relative unit to participate in the consciousness of a native speaker of a certain meaning. The new cultural paradigm of universal visualization and virtualization predicts the dynamic meaning of modern media text, a meaning that reflects new technological realities. Not only new words, but also new grammatical units become this dynamic meaning markers. The argumentation of the hypothesis is based on the example of the expanding context of prepositional-case forms of nouns telephone, TV and computer.

Gullibility And Its Relationship To Social Intelligence Among University Students, Ali Turki Nafel Al-Quraishi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Abstract :

The research aimed at studying gullibility and its relationship to social intelligence in university students, and gullibility is the tendency for a person to be drugged or manipulated by one or more of the deceptive means of other people . And social intelligence is the kind of intelligence that an individual pleads with in his dealings with other people, and in practicing social relations. The gullibility scale was built according to the cognitive perspective, which included most of the gullibility theories reviewed in the theoretical framework chapter. As for measuring social intelligence, the Abu Amsha scale (2013) was …

Authority In Anarchist Philosophy, Hanan Ali Awada

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research revolves around the ideas of anarchist philosophy in political Authority and governance in general.The most prominent anarchists are Bakunin, proudhon, Kruptkin,etc.They sacrificed everything in their lives in order to obtain freedom. Because they saw that every authority,whatever it is, is a suppression of freedom which requires resistance.Their style was revolutionary violence against the symbols of authorities.Any authority, although originating from the election,serves only the interests of the exploited minority at the expense of the interests of the enslaved majority

Forced Displacement In Libyan Society, Problems, Impacts And Challenges, And Vision For The Future 2011-2019 Historical Sociological Reading, Hussein Salem Mrgin

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research shows the reality of forced displacement in Libyan society during the period from 2011-2019, and the statement of the problems and the effects and challenges arising from forced displacements, and the reliance on diagnostics and analysis on the sociological approach, see that forced displacements occur in Libyan society for some tribes and regions, which is a disciplinary or punitive means in order to preserve interests or gains, or to eliminate competitors or adversaries, as it was and continues to be a tool of hegemony and the imposition of interests, as indicated by the research that the success of …

The Handicapped Problems Inflicted With Diabetics Field Study In Baghdad, Suad Hameed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The interest in handicapped people has increased in general after the world organizations of United Nations Issued several regulations and legislations concerning the care and rehabilitation of the handicapped in different ages in order to incorporate them in their societies and alter them from dependent on the society to productive people and active people .This study comes to help this social class of by shedding light on the problems of the diabetics handicapped. The objective of this study is to discuss these problems diagnosing them and introduces the required solutions to limit these problems and reduce their burdens on the …