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Integrated Science Studies Baccalaureate Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2020-21, Lake Campus, Wright State University

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This report reviews Wright State University's Integrated Science Studies Baccalaureate Degree program for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Public Health, B.S. Baccalaureate Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2020-21, Boonshoft School Of Medicine, Wright State University

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This report reviews Wright State University's Public Health, B.S. Baccalaureate Degree program for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Baccalaureate Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2020-21, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report reviews Wright State University's Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Baccalaureate Degree program for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Chemistry, B.A./B.S. Baccalaureate Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2020-21, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report reviews Wright State University's Chemistry, B.A./B.S. Baccalaureate Degree program for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Environmental Sciences Doctoral Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2020-21, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report reviews Wright State University's Environmental Sciences Doctoral Degree program for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Interdisciplinary Applied Science And Math Doctoral Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2020-21, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report reviews Wright State University's Interdisciplinary Applied Science and Math Doctoral Degree program for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Biological Sciences, B.A. Baccalaureate Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2020-21, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

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This report reviews Wright State University's Biological Sciences, B.A. Baccalaureate Degree program for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Degree Annual Program Outcomes Assessments, 2020-21, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

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This report reviews Wright State University's Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Degree program for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Pain Intensity Assessment In Sickle Cell Disease Patients Using Vital Signs During Hospital Visits, Swati Padhee, Amanuel Alambo, Tanvi Banerjee, Arvind Subramaniam, Daniel M. Abrams, Gary K. Nave, Nirmish Shah

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Pain in sickle cell disease (SCD) is often associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and high healthcare costs. The standard method for predicting the absence, presence, and intensity of pain has long been self-report. However, medical providers struggle to manage patients based on subjective pain reports correctly and pain medications often lead to further difficulties in patient communication as they may cause sedation and sleepiness. Recent studies have shown that objective physiological measures can predict subjective self-reported pain scores for inpatient visits using machine learning (ML) techniques. In this study, we evaluate the generalizability of ML techniques to data collected from …

Circular Economy: Waste-To-Wealth, Jobs The Global South, Katie Conlon, Randika Jayasinghe, Ranahansa Dasanayake

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

Circular Economy [CE] is predominantly framed as a means for circulating material streams within the technosphere as economically as possible, for as long as possible, in both applications of theory and practice. Arising from requirements for regulatory compliance, some global north industries have ventured into CE, and now this model is making headway in all industrial sectors. Whereas, in the global south, CE has been conceptualized as a mechanism for keeping materials out of the waste streams otherwise destined to reach landfills, waterways etc. Characteristic haphazard waste management is a serious socio-environmental issue in Sri Lanka. As a result, CE …

An Existential Philosophy Of History, Bennett Gilbert, Natan Elgabsi

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this paper we delineate the conditions and features of what we call an existential philosophy of history in relation to customary trends in the field of the philosophy of history. We do this by circumscribing what a transgenerational temporality and what our entanglement in ethical relations with temporal others ask of us as existential and responsive selves and by explicating what attitude we need to have when trying to responsibly respond to other vulnerable beings in our historical world of life.

Energy Without Injustice?: Indigenous Participation In Renewable Energy Generation, Adrian A. Smith, Dayna Nadine Scott

Articles & Book Chapters

There is growing involvement of Indigenous communities in renewable energy development across their traditional territories in what is now called Canada. Here, we explore Indigenous participation in large-scale “green” energy generation as a response to encroachment, displacement, and dispossession wrought by the extractivist orientation of contemporary settler capitalism.

Automated Trade Secret Asset Management: Sfp Classification, Eona Proofs, Blockchaining, And Dtsa Civil Seizure Orders, 20 Uic Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 145 (2021), R. Mark Halligan

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

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Federal Circuit’S Jurisprudence Of The Patent-Eligibility Analysis: Toward A Bright-Line Rule, 21 Uic Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 16 (2021), Ping-Hsun Chen

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

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Is Digital Humanities Adjuncting Infrastructurally Significant?, Kathi Inman Berens

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

This essay examines the infrastructural causes of digital humanities adjunct invisibility and proposes two remedies: to motivate DH adjunct self-identification by convening DH adjunct-specific prizes and bursaries; and what I call "microbenefactions": small actions by senior faculty that extend opportunities to adjuncts that cost little effort and can give adjuncts access to payment, prize-worthy work opportunities, or other benefits. The unspoken assumption is that DH skills are so much in demand that people with these skills are protected from adjuncting. As I interviewed seven DH adjuncts, their heterogeneous responses to standard questions reminded me that happy families are all alike; …

Isolation Of Marker Compounds From Copaiba Essential Oil And Mimosa Pigra For Quality Evaluation Of Dietary Supplements, Mohammed Hawwal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Natural products have been used as a primary means of treating illness since ancient times, and they remain an important pool of U.S. FDA approved drugs. Approximately 33% of all current pharmaceutical medications discovered between 1981 and 2014 are either natural products or derived from natural products (Newman and Cragg 2016). The process of isolating specialized metabolites from medicinal plants has led to the development of particularly important medicines worldwide (Rakotomalala, Agard et al. 2013) such as Taxol® from Taxus brevifolia Nutt. (Taxaceae) and salicylic acid from the bark of Salix spp. This research is composed of five chapters; the …

Engineer Micro- And Nano-Sized Polymeric Particles For Drug Delivery Using Advanced Multivariate Statistical Tools, Bhavani Prasad Vinjamuri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Particulate drug delivery systems are gaining considerable attention in recent years due to increasing advantages for an effective delivery of therapeutics. Application of advanced particle engineering technologies in polymeric drug delivery systems has shown to improve the efficacy of a drug substance by maintaining stable levels in the blood when compared to traditional parenteral drug products. However, development of these products is a complex multifaceted process with numerous challenges. Formulation development scientists need to comprehend and control a range of unit manufacturing operations along with the formulation composition for a successful product. Therefore, the objective of this project is to …

Serving Motherhood: Analyzing The Balance And Justice Of Foodwork In The Lives Of Working Moms, Kaitlyn Paige Hall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on the foodwork that working mothers do at work and at home in order to support and provide for their families. It explores how women in low-paid food service jobs talk about and manage the work of feeding their families at home and customers at work in order to better understand the gender dynamics of this work and the conditions necessary to achieve “work-family justice”—structural solutions to work/family conflict. The study is based on qualitative semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 12 mothers who are between the ages of 24 and 43 from Mississippi and Arkansas. While some held …

Understanding Willingness Towards Deprescribing Among Older Adults With Osteoporosis, Queenie Paltanwale

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Objectives: To describe and identify the socio-behavioral factors predicting willingness towards deprescribing among older adults with osteoporosis.Design, Setting, and Participants: For this population-based survey study of US Medicare beneficiaries, data was obtained from the Medication Attitudes Module distributed to the participants in Round 6 (2015) of the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Our study population consisted to respondents who were diagnosed with osteoporosis in round 6 or earlier and who responded to the Medication Attitude Module. Main outcome and Measures: Response to the statement “I would like to reduce the number of medicines I am taking” was the main …

Why Are Gly31, Gly33 And Gly35 Highly Conserved In All Fluorescent Proteins?, Christian Salguero

Chemistry Honors Papers

Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) has grown in popularity and new applications are currently being developed. There are certain residues that are highly conserved through all the naturally occurring fluorescent proteins variants, and some of their functionality is yet to be determined. This is the case for three glycines that appear in a GXGXGX motif in the second β-sheet at positions 31, 33, and 35 with conservations of 100%, 87% and 95%, respectively.

Molecular dynamic simulations and other computational analyses of G31A, G33A, and G35A mutants, derived from pre-cyclized wild-type GFP, determined with confidence that these glycines are not involved in …

Exploring The Role Of Nonhuman Animal Victims In Federal Environmental Crime Prosecutions, Melissa L. Jarrell, Joshua Ozmy

Animal Law Review

While nonhuman animals in the United States are often victimized directly or as a consequence of environmental crimes, little is known about them or the role their victimization plays in federal environmental crime prosecutions. Through content analysis of 2,588 of the Environmental Protection Agency's criminal prosecutions from 1983-2019, we identified cases where identifiable nonhuman animal victims play a central role in the prosecution. We developed a typology of victims and the consequences of their victimization, and we explored the geography, charging statutes, and penalties. Results suggest that victimization is infrequent, acute, and clusters around toxic discharges and pesticide abuse stemming …

Big Pharma, Big Problems: Covid-19 Heightens Patent-Antitrust Tension Caused By Reverse Payments, Hannah M. Lasting

Seattle University Law Review

In the wake of COVID-19, pharmaceutical companies rushed to produce vaccinations and continue to work on developing treatments, while the tension caused by reverse payments intensifies between patent and antitrust law. Lawmakers must address this tension, and the current pandemic should serve as a catalyst to prompt reform at the legislative level. By amending the Hatch-Waxman Act, lawmakers can ease the increasing strain between patent and antitrust policy concerns. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court attempted to resolve this tension in its landmark decision, F.T.C. v. Actavis, but the tension remains as lower courts struggle to produce a uniform standard …

The Reconstruction Of Hatchery Creek: Effects On Macroinvertebrate And Fish Community Dynamics, Patrick Vrablik

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Hatchery Creek is a restored stream in Jamestown, KY that drains Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery. The previous degraded channel of Hatchery Creek caused large sediment plumes in the Lower Cumberland River and was restored to decrease sediment loss and provide the opportunity for a self-sustaining trout population. I predicted that the increased amount of habitat would increase taxa richness, abundance and biomass of macroinvertebrates. Macroinvertebrates were monitored in three periods; the degraded period, a one-year recovery period, and a restored period using surber and kicknet samples in order to determine biomass, abundance, diversity, taxa richness, and macroinvertebrate biotic index. …

Seed Priming With Phytohormones: An Effective Approach For The Mitigation Of Abiotic Stress, Mohammad Saidur Rhaman, Shahin Imran, Farjana Rauf, Mousumi Khatun, Carol C. Baskin, Yoshiyuki Murata, Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Biology Faculty Publications

Plants are often exposed to abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, heat, cold, and heavy metals that induce complex responses, which result in reduced growth as well as crop yield. Phytohormones are well known for their regulatory role in plant growth and development, and they serve as important chemical messengers, allowing plants to function during exposure to various stresses. Seed priming is a physiological technique involving seed hydration and drying to improve metabolic processes prior to germination, thereby increasing the percentage and rate of germination and improving seedling growth and crop yield under normal and various biotic and abiotic stresses. …

How Divorce, Interparental Conflict, And Parenting Styles Relate To Young Adult Emotional Regulation, Madison Jernigan

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Emotional regulation has been linked to one’s ability to establish social relationships, as well as the onset of multiple psychological disorders, such as anxiety and depressive disorders. Researchers are beginning to better understand the development of emotional regulation; however, there is still debate surrounding what role familial factors play in this development. This study sought to better understand three factors that impact families: divorce, interparental conflict, and parenting styles. Specifically, this study hypothesized that participants whose parents are divorced and experienced high levels of interparental conflict would experience poor emotional regulation. Additionally, this study hypothesized that participants who perceive their …

Evaluating The Effects Of Residual Broiler Litter And Copper In Soil On Hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.) Fertility And Cannabinoid Production, Sarah E. Forden

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

This study encases two separate experiments observing hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) and soil fertility with the use of broiler litter and copper. The long-term broiler litter research plots were established in 1997 and the copper fertility research plots were not established until 2009. Both experiments use a randomized complete lock design with the broiler litter experiment composed of four replications and eight treatments at the following rates: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 tons BL * ac^-1. The copper experiment was designed with four replications and three treatments at the following rates: 0, 10, …

The Effects Of Reinforcement Sensitivity And Effortful Control On Anhedonia And Valued Living, Houston Howard

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Research has begun to uncover how individual temperamental and self-regulatory differences relate to certain psychopathological symptoms. Specifically, the current literature is expanding the view of how anhedonia, effortful control (EC), and reinforcement sensitivity may relate to one other. The aim of this study was to examine these relationships and explore models that might explain how these variables interact to predict valued living. Specifically, it was hypothesized that 1) greater anhedonia would be associated with lower levels of valued living, 2) the behavioral activation system (BAS) would moderate the effect that anhedonia has on valued living by decreasing its impact, with …

Deep Stacking Networks For Conditional Nonlinear Granger Causal Modeling Of Fmri Data, Kai Cheng Chuang, Sreekrishna Ramakrishnapillai, Lydia Bazzano, Owen T. Carmichael

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Conditional Granger causality, based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) time series signals, is the quantification of how strongly brain activity in a certain source brain region contributes to brain activity in a target brain region, independent of the contributions of other source regions. Current methods to solve this problem are either unable to model nonlinear relationships between source and target signals, unable to efficiently quantify time lags in source-target relationships, or require ad hoc parameter settings and post hoc calculations to assess conditional Granger causality. This paper proposes the use of deep stacking networks, with dilated convolutional neural networks …

I Need To See Me On Tv: Parasocial Affirmations Of Sexual And Gender Identity Development Of Lgbtq+ Mass Media Consumers, Donald I. Lowe

Theses and Dissertations--Communication

This dissertation presents a new cycle model of media usage by LGBTQ+ community members in the United States that reveals a purpose previously unnamed and undefined. While parasocial contact, parasocial interaction, and parasocial relationships have been present in the academic literature for quite some time (as early as 1956 when Horton and Wohl first wrote of the phenomenon), use of media to parasocially affirm one’s LGBTQ+ status is unique to this study. This study used qualitative methods to examine a specific mass media audience, LGBTQ+ individuals, and asked them, in one-on-one interviews, how they utilize mass media to assist with …

The Current Landscape Of Antibody-Based Therapies In Solid Malignancies, Ashu Shah, Sanchita Rauth, Abhijit Aithal, Sukhwinder Kaur, Koelina Ganguly, Catherine Orzechowski, Grish C. Varshney, Maneesh Jain, Surinder K. Batra

Journal Articles: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Over the past three decades, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have revolutionized the landscape of cancer therapy. Still, this benefit remains restricted to a small proportion of patients due to moderate response rates and resistance emergence. The field has started to embrace better mAb-based formats with advancements in molecular and protein engineering technologies. The development of a therapeutic mAb with long-lasting clinical impact demands a prodigious understanding of target antigen, effective mechanism of action, gene engineering technologies, complex interplay between tumor and host immune system, and biomarkers for prediction of clinical response. This review discusses the various approaches used by mAbs for …