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Designing Children: Tort Liability For Medical Providers In The Era Of Crispr/Cas-9 Genetic Editing, Sarah Roa

Law Student Scholarship

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The Decameron: Past Meets Present, An Overview, Brittany Asaro

Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship

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Scholarly Communications And Open Access: An Introduction For Upper-Level Undergraduates, Amanda Y. Makula

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

This one-shot library instruction session is designed for upper-level undergraduates and can be applied to courses in a variety of disciplines. It is especially relevant for courses with a social justice component or where students are hoping to publish their work. The particular course at the University of San Diego (USD) in which this lesson was situated was an upper-level Ethnic Studies course: “Native American Indigenous Activism.”

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Moving Towards More Sustainable Aquaculture Practices: A Meta‐Analysis On The Potential Of Plant‐Enriched Diets To Improve Fish Growth, Immunity And Disease Resistance, Miriam Reverter, N Tapissier‐Bontemps, Samira Sarter, Pierre Sasal, Domenico Caruso

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

AbstractAquatic animal diseases are one of the major limiting factors in aquaculture development, with disease emergence forecast to increase with global change. However, in order to treat increasing diseases in a context of global emergence of antimicrobial resistance and strengthening regulations on antimicrobial use, sustainable alternatives are urgently needed. The use of plant supplements to increase fish immunity and disease resistance has gained much popularity within the last decades. The use of functional supplements, such as plants, can also improve growth and feed assimilation, contributing to a better optimization of aquaculture resources (e.g. fish meal inclusion). We conducted a systematic …

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Recognize Fish As Food In Policy Discourse And Development Funding, Abigail Bennett, Xavier Basurto, John Virdin, Xinyan Lin, Samantha J. Betances, Martin D. Smith, Edward H. Allison, Barbara A. Best, Kelly D. Brownell, Lisa M. Campbell, Christopher D. Golden, Elizabeth Havice, Christina C. Hicks, Peter J. Jacques, Kristin Kleisner, Niels Lindquist, Rafaella Lobo, Grant D. Grant, Michelle B. Nowlin, Pawan G. Patil, Douglas N. Rader, Stephen E. Roady, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Sarah Zoubek

Faculty Scholarship

The international development community is off-track from meeting targets for alleviating global malnutrition. Meanwhile, there is growing consensus across scientific disciplines that fish plays a crucial role in food and nutrition security. However, this ‘fish as food’ perspective has yet to translate into policy and development funding priorities. We argue that the traditional framing of fish as a natural resource emphasizes economic development and biodiversity conservation objectives, whereas situating fish within a food systems perspective can lead to innovative policies and investments that promote nutrition-sensitive and socially equitable capture fisheries and aquaculture. This paper highlights four pillars of research needs …

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Minero Magazine, Volume Xxxiii, Fall 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Cover Story: El Paso Entrepreneurship Blasts Off on the Border

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The Beauty Of Embracing The Shadow, Shann Ray Ferch, Jiying Song

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The International Journal of Servant-Leadership exists as an echo of prophetic descant. A treble harmony playing in the ear quietly above the melody which progresses in beauty below. How does one reconcile the polarities that divide us in our daily lives, our families, organizations, and nations? The articles in this volume speak to reconciliation, and the healing power associated with greater wisdom, justice, and love. They involve a necessary embrace of duality, a return to oneness in which harmony and melody are more readily heard and embodied. The great American poet and thought leader, James Baldwin, illumined our oneness precisely …

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Nurse Practitioners’ Knowledge And Perceptions Regarding Substance Use, Audrey Bailey, Paden Dawkins, Amber Hankins, Erin Mckinney

MSN Research Projects

Substance use disorder (SUD) is an illness impacting many people today and continues to not be truly understood, even by providers. To gain a greater understanding of this issue in relation to nurse practitioners, the researchers surveyed nurse practitioners in the Southeastern United States. The goal of the study was to identify knowledge and perceptions of nurse practitioners regarding substance use and misuse. Watson’s Theory of Caring was used to guide the study. The research questions that guided this study were 1. Do nurse practitioners have a bias toward patients with substance use disorder, and 2. Do nurse practitioners believe …

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Navigating The Wreck: Writing Women’S Experience Of The Japanese Occupation Of Singapore. Salvaged From The Wreck: A Novel -And- Diving Into The Wreck: A Critical Essay, Dawn Nora Crabb

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis is in two parts. The first and major part consists of a historical novel followed, in part two, by an essay. The title of this thesis, “Navigating the Wreck”, refers metaphorically to the Fall of Singapore in 1942, the ensuing human tragedy unleashed on the people of Singapore and Malaya, and the literary and historical processes of exploring, interpreting and depicting the past. The Japanese occupation of Singapore has, to date, been described mostly by Western historians and former prisoners of war who have forged a predominant patriarchal narrative. In that narrative—despite the all-encompassing nature of the occupation …

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52 Life Changing Devotional Thoughts: Spiritual Food For The Journey, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

Over the last twenty years that I have worked as a professor of Church History at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University, I have given a short devotion to my students at the beginning of each class period to inspire and encourage them in their faith journey and to affirm them in their call to ministry. I have gathered up these precious devotional thoughts and put them in this small book, so there will be a permanent record of these spiritual reflections. Enclosed you will find short scriptural reflections, homilies, inspirational poems, bible readings, and common-sense instructions. I hope …

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America: A Bipolar Nation--The Lamb Or The Dragon, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

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Black Adventism In North America, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

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On The Diversity And Distribution Of A Data Deficient Habitat In A Poorly Mapped Region: The Case Of Sabellaria Alveolata L. In Ireland, Louise B. Firth, Amelia Curd, Stephen J. Hawkins, Antony M. Knights, Julie A. Blaze, Michael T. Burrows, Stanislas F. Dubois, Hugh Edwards, Andy Foggo, Paul E. Gribben, Lisa Grant, Daniel Harris, Nova Mieszkowska, Flavia L.D. Nunes, Julia D. Nunn, Anne Marie Power, Ruth M. O'Riordan, David Mcgrath, Christina Simkanin, Nessa E. O'Connor

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Data that can be used to monitor biodiversity through time are essential for conservation and management. The reef-forming worm, Sabellaria alveolata (L. 1767) is currently classed as ‘Data Deficient’ due to an imbalance in the spread of data on its distribution. Little is known about the distribution of this species around Ireland. Using data archaeology, we collated past and present distribution records and discovered that S. alveolata has a discontinuous distribution with large gaps between populations. Many regions lack data and should be targeted for sampling. Biodiversity surveys revealed that S. alveolata supported diverse epibiotic algal communities. Retrograding (declining) reefs …

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Now You See Me, Now You Don’T: Living With Deleuze, Intimating In The Dance Of Movements, Moments, And Sensation, Ken Gale

Plymouth Institute of Education

In this article, I argue that writing with intimacy through an animation of Deleuzian thought helps to destabilize the simply human practice of signifying, representing, and locating emotions within a metaphysics of being, which firmly ignores affective relationality and the emergence of posthuman practices of thinking and doing. By positing the practice of intimating, I argue that such an approach will prompt movement away from thinking about what a body is or what it might mean toward moving with and sensing encounters and engagements with what bodies can do. Continuing this line of thinking and writing with Deleuze will involve …

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Writing With: Collaborative Writing As Hope And Resistance, M Diversi, K Gale, C Moreira, J Wyatt

Plymouth Institute of Education

Collaboration in scholarship holds the peculiar position of being expected, encouraged, and, in the process, somewhat taken-for-granted as monolithic academic practice. Collaboration is important for the cultivation of a rich ecosystem of ideas, thoughts, methods, theories, and experimentation. It seems safe to assume that most scholars would agree with the need and the possibilities of collaboration. Yet, collaboration in scholarship is often understood in reductionist and pragmatic ways: While ideas and thoughts flow in certain stages of the collaboration, labor is often divided among collaborators, authorship is ranked and quantified, and subjective lived experiences are most ignored or codified in …

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‘From Lone-Sailor To Fleet’: Supporting Educators Through Wild Pedagogies, Lewis Winks, Paul Warwick

Plymouth Institute of Education

Enabling educators to meet new and challenging times requires fundamental shifts to ways of imagining and enacting their practice. A central yet often understated aspect of this educational change are the various ways in which educators receive training and development. From initial teacher training through to continuing professional development, cultures which underpin policy change in educational institutions emerge from the practices of educators. In this paper we examine educators’ experiences of a Wild Pedagogies gathering which took place over three days in central Devon in late spring 2019. Part workshop, part informal social gathering and mutual exchange, this continuing professional …

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Covid-19, Politics, Economics And How The Future Pans Out Are Inseparable, Stephen Thomas Green, Lorenzo Cladi

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

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Response To Ota, Allison And Fabinyi On ‘Evolving The Narrative For Protecting A Rapidly Changing Ocean, Post Covid‐19’, Dan Laffoley, John M. Baxter, Diva J. Amon, Joachim Claudet, Jm Hall‐Spencer, K Grorud‐Colvert, Lisa A. Levin, P. Chris Reid, Alex D. Rogers, Michelle L. Taylor, Lucy C. Woodall, Natalie F. Andersen

More Faculty of Science and Engineering Research

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Polystyrene Foam As A Source And Sink Of Chemicals In The Marine Environment: An Xrf Study, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Environmental Concentrations Of Antifouling Paint Particles Are Toxic To Sediment-Dwelling Invertebrates, Christina Muller-Karanassos, William Arundel, Penelope K. Lindeque, Thomas Vance, Andrew Turner, Matthew Cole

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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An Online Museum Of Stories: Literary Travel Writing For Cultural Tourism Development, C Mansfield, J Potočnik Topler

Plymouth Business School

With rising tourism interest in cultural heritage, destination management organisations, museums and other cultural institutions are seeking methods of unlocking the intangible cultural heritage of local residents and sharing that before it is lost. This is specific knowledge of the uses and practices of disappearing spaces in towns, of plants and their uses as foodstuffs, and in clothing and of work practices that were more in-tune with local, sustainable production. This contribution outlines new methods for building the ethnographic museum as a museum of stories, and proposes a model that explores narrative through literary travel writing for a new public.

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Operationalising The Concept Of Ecosystem Collapse For Conservation Practice, Ac Newton, R Britton, K Davies, A Diaz, Dj Franklin, Rjh Herbert, Ra Hill, K Hodder, G Jones, Ah Korstjens, A Lamb, J Olley, Ac Pinder, Cg Roberts, R Stafford

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Concern is growing about ecosystem collapse, namely the abrupt decline or loss of an ecosystem resulting from human activities. While efforts to assess the risk of ecosystem collapse have developed at large spatial scales, less attention has been given to the local scales at which conservation management decisions are typically made. Development of appropriate management responses to ecosystem collapse has been limited by uncertainty regarding how collapse may best be identified, together with its underlying causes. Here we operationalise ecosystem collapse for conservation practice by providing a robust definition of collapse, in a form that is relevant to the scale …

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Inter-Organisational Relationships For Social Impact: A Systematic Literature Review, Dariusz Siemieniako, Krzysztof Kubacki, Maciej Mitręga

Plymouth Business School

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A Different Cage With Words: A Poetic Reimagining Of Flightless Birds, Rosemarie Corlett

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This practice-based project considers cultural constructions of flightless birds and initiates this topic as significant through original poetry. Through an ecocritical lens, it selects for exploration and analysis aspects of existing poetry, mythology, literature and art showcasing or including the emu, ostrich and great auk. As patterns emerge in the data, the original poetry arises as a dynamic response to recurring cultural concepts. My poetry borrows, resists, challenges and jumps off from these concepts through a creative process.  The question of incomplete dualities drives and shapes the project’s thinking, inviting me to consider and express myself in these terms. I …

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Right Under Our Noses: The Postponement Of Children's Political Equality And The Now, Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris

Plymouth Institute of Education

Responding to the invitation of this special issue of Childhood and Philosophy this paper considers the ethos of facilitation in philosophical enquiry with children, and the spatial-temporal order of the community of enquiry. Within the Philosophy with Children movement, there are differences of thinking and practice on ‘facilitation’ in communities of philosophical enquiry, and we suggest that these have profound implications for the political agency of children. Facilitation can be enacted as a chronological practice of progress and development that works against child, in terms of political agency. This paper theorises practices of facilitation grounded in philosophies of childhood that …

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Knowledge Mobilisation Crossing Boundaries: A Multi-Perspective Framework For Agri-Food Value Chains, S. Liu, G. Zhao, H. Chen, A. Fernandez, D. Torres, L. Antonelli, H. Panetto, M. Lezoche

Plymouth Business School

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To The Bitter End: Affect, Experience And Chemical Ecology, H Drayson

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This article explores taste in its chemical, gustemological and affective senses, asking what we speak of when we talk about “bitter experience.” Drawing lines of connection between human affect and chemical ecology, it suggests a way of thinking about taste as a chemical entanglement of affective qualities and ecological relations. Two observations underpin the argument. First, the ambiguous resonance of bitter-tasting compounds in human culture is grounded in their ambiguous medical meaning, the same drug may serve as poison or cure. Second, plants interact with many other life-forms by producing chemical compounds, many of which are bitter tasting, that have …

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Transport, Weathering And Pollution Of Plastic From Container Losses At Sea: Observations From A Spillage Of Inkjet Cartridges In The North Atlantic Ocean, Andrew Turner, Tracey Williams, Tom Pitchford

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Hazardous Metal Additives In Plastics And Their Environmental Impacts, Andrew Turner, Montserrat Filella

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Historically, many additives and catalysts used in plastics were based on compounds of toxic metals (and metalloids), like arsenic, cadmium, chromium(VI), and lead. Despite subsequent restrictions, hazardous additives remain in plastics in societal circulation because of the pervasiveness of many products and the more general contamination of recycled goods. However, little is understood about their presence and impacts in the environment, with most studies focusing on the role of plastics in acquiring metals from their surroundings through, for example, adsorption. Accordingly, this paper provides a review of the uses of hazardous, metal-based additives in plastics, the relevant European regulations that …

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Effect Of Methionine Feeding On Oxidative Stress, Intracellular Calcium And Contractility In Cardiomyocytes Isolated From Male And Female Rats, Shatha A. Demerchi, Nicola King, James R. Mcfarlane, Pierre D.J. Moens

School of Biomedical Sciences

Homocysteine (Hcy) is a breakdown product of methionine metabolism. The risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) correlates with an increase in plasma Hcy levels. The aim of this study was to investigate whether 1% methionine supplementation of adult rats altered intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, intracellular Ca2+ content, and contractile activity in freshly isolated cardiomyocytes. This was measured under normal conditions and during oxidative stress in freshly isolated cardiomyocytes. Single rat cardiomyocytes from both sexes were isolated by enzymatic and mechanical dispersion techniques. Fluorescence microscopy was used to measure ROS production and intracellular Ca2+ concentration. Cell contraction was measured using …

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Designing Children: Tort Liability For Medical Providers In The Era Of Crispr/Cas-9 Genetic Editing, Sarah Roa

Law Student Scholarship

The Decameron: Past Meets Present, An Overview, Brittany Asaro

Italian and Italian Studies: Faculty Scholarship

Scholarly Communications And Open Access: An Introduction For Upper-Level Undergraduates, Amanda Y. Makula

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

Moving Towards More Sustainable Aquaculture Practices: A Meta‐Analysis On The Potential Of Plant‐Enriched Diets To Improve Fish Growth, Immunity And Disease Resistance, Miriam Reverter, N Tapissier‐Bontemps, Samira Sarter, Pierre Sasal, Domenico Caruso

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Faculty Scholarship

Minero Magazine, Volume Xxxiii, Fall 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

The Beauty Of Embracing The Shadow, Shann Ray Ferch, Jiying Song

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Nurse Practitioners’ Knowledge And Perceptions Regarding Substance Use, Audrey Bailey, Paden Dawkins, Amber Hankins, Erin Mckinney

MSN Research Projects

Navigating The Wreck: Writing Women’S Experience Of The Japanese Occupation Of Singapore. Salvaged From The Wreck: A Novel -And- Diving Into The Wreck: A Critical Essay, Dawn Nora Crabb

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

52 Life Changing Devotional Thoughts: Spiritual Food For The Journey, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

America: A Bipolar Nation--The Lamb Or The Dragon, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

Black Adventism In North America, Trevor O'Reggio

Faculty Publications

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Now You See Me, Now You Don’T: Living With Deleuze, Intimating In The Dance Of Movements, Moments, And Sensation, Ken Gale

Plymouth Institute of Education

Writing With: Collaborative Writing As Hope And Resistance, M Diversi, K Gale, C Moreira, J Wyatt

Plymouth Institute of Education

‘From Lone-Sailor To Fleet’: Supporting Educators Through Wild Pedagogies, Lewis Winks, Paul Warwick

Plymouth Institute of Education

Covid-19, Politics, Economics And How The Future Pans Out Are Inseparable, Stephen Thomas Green, Lorenzo Cladi

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

More Faculty of Science and Engineering Research

Polystyrene Foam As A Source And Sink Of Chemicals In The Marine Environment: An Xrf Study, Andrew Turner

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Environmental Concentrations Of Antifouling Paint Particles Are Toxic To Sediment-Dwelling Invertebrates, Christina Muller-Karanassos, William Arundel, Penelope K. Lindeque, Thomas Vance, Andrew Turner, Matthew Cole

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

An Online Museum Of Stories: Literary Travel Writing For Cultural Tourism Development, C Mansfield, J Potočnik Topler

Plymouth Business School

Operationalising The Concept Of Ecosystem Collapse For Conservation Practice, Ac Newton, R Britton, K Davies, A Diaz, Dj Franklin, Rjh Herbert, Ra Hill, K Hodder, G Jones, Ah Korstjens, A Lamb, J Olley, Ac Pinder, Cg Roberts, R Stafford

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Inter-Organisational Relationships For Social Impact: A Systematic Literature Review, Dariusz Siemieniako, Krzysztof Kubacki, Maciej Mitręga

Plymouth Business School

A Different Cage With Words: A Poetic Reimagining Of Flightless Birds, Rosemarie Corlett

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

Right Under Our Noses: The Postponement Of Children's Political Equality And The Now, Joanna Haynes, Karin Murris

Plymouth Institute of Education

Knowledge Mobilisation Crossing Boundaries: A Multi-Perspective Framework For Agri-Food Value Chains, S. Liu, G. Zhao, H. Chen, A. Fernandez, D. Torres, L. Antonelli, H. Panetto, M. Lezoche

Plymouth Business School

To The Bitter End: Affect, Experience And Chemical Ecology, H Drayson

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Transport, Weathering And Pollution Of Plastic From Container Losses At Sea: Observations From A Spillage Of Inkjet Cartridges In The North Atlantic Ocean, Andrew Turner, Tracey Williams, Tom Pitchford

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Hazardous Metal Additives In Plastics And Their Environmental Impacts, Andrew Turner, Montserrat Filella

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Effect Of Methionine Feeding On Oxidative Stress, Intracellular Calcium And Contractility In Cardiomyocytes Isolated From Male And Female Rats, Shatha A. Demerchi, Nicola King, James R. Mcfarlane, Pierre D.J. Moens

School of Biomedical Sciences