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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Executive Committee - Minutes, 10/11/2022, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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Stress, Decision-Making And Reward Value: Effects Of Intermittent Social Stress On Delay Discounting Behavior, Alfonso Martinez, Alberto Del Arco

Annual Poster Session 2022

Corresponding author (Neuroscience): Alfonso Martinez, [email protected]

Rice Chalky Grain 5 Regulates Natural Variation For Grain Quality Under Heat Stress, Anil Kumar Nalini Chandran, Jaspreet Sandhu, Larissa Irvin, Puneet Paul, Balpreet K. Dhatt, Waseem Hussain, Tian Gao, Paul E. Staswick, Hongfeng Yu, Gota Morota, Harkamal Walia

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Heat stress occurring during rice (Oryza sativa) grain development reduces grain quality, which often manifests as increased grain chalkiness. Although the impact of heat stress on grain yield is well-studied, the genetic basis of rice grain quality under heat stress is less explored as quantifying grain quality is less tractable than grain yield. To address this, we used an image-based colorimetric assay (Red, R; and Green, G) for genome-wide association analysis to identify genetic loci underlying the phenotypic variation in rice grains exposed to heat stress. We found the R to G pixel ratio (RG) derived from mature …

The Temporal Impulse Response Function In Infantile Nystagmus, Gal Avital, Felicia Kuperwaser, Andrew W Pountain, Keenan A Lacey, Erin E Zwack, Magdalena Podkowik, Bo Shopsin, Victor J Torres, Itai Yanai

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Innate immune recognition of bacterial pathogens is a key determinant of the ensuing systemic response, and host or pathogen heterogeneity in this early interaction can impact the course of infection. To gain insight into host response heterogeneity, we investigate macrophage inflammatory dynamics using primary human macrophages infected with Group B Streptococcus. Transcriptomic analysis reveals discrete cellular states within responding macrophages, one of which consists of four sub-states, reflecting inflammatory activation. Infection with six additional bacterial species—Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Enterococcus faecalis, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Shigella flexneri, and Salmonella enterica—recapitulates these states, though at …

Executive Committee - Agenda 10/11/2022, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Analysis Of Hybrid Learning For Students With Learning Disabilities In Primary Schools Providing Inclusive Education, Nugraheni Rachmawati, Asep Supena, Yufiarti Yufiarti, Gusti Yarmi, Asep Rudi Casmana

The Qualitative Report

Many special-needs children, including students with learning disabilities, are enrolled in public schools. The current state of education is transitioning from online to face-to-face learning due to the improving situation after the COVID-19 pandemic. Hybrid learning is one of the alternative methods applied during the transition period. Therefore, this study aims to explore the experiences of teachers in implementing hybrid learning in students with disabilities in Indonesia using a qualitative description. Data was collected through interviews with one class teacher, two students with learning disabilities and their parents, and one school principal. Furthermore, observations were made on the learning process …

Bioactive Food Components And Their Inhibitory Actions In Multiple Platelet Pathways, Diptimayee Das, Shubhamay Adhikary, Ranjit Kumar Das, Antara Banerjee, Arun Kumar Radhakrishnan, Sujay Paul, Surajit Pathak, Asim K. Duttaroy

Health & Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

In addition to hemostasis and thrombosis, blood platelets are involved in various processes such as inflammation, infection, immunobiology, cancer metastasis, wound repair and angiogenesis. Platelets' hemostatic and non-hemostatic functions are mediated by the expression of various membrane receptors and the release of proteins, ions and other mediators. Therefore, specific activities of platelets responsible for the non-hemostatic disease are to be inhibited while leaving the platelet's hemostatic function unaffected. Platelets' anti-aggregatory property has been used as a primary criterion for antiplatelet drugs/bioactives; however, their non-hemostatic activities are not well known. This review describes the hemostatic and non-hemostatic function of human blood …

Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving Enhances Psychosocial Stress And Vice Versa In Chronic Cocaine Users, Ann-Kathrin Kexel, Bruno Kluwe-Schiavon, Markus R Baumgartner, Etna J E Engeli, Monika Visentini, Clemens Kirschbaum, Erich Seifritz, Beate Ditzen, Leila M Soravia, Boris B Quednow

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Stress and craving, it has been found, contribute to the development and maintenance of and relapse in cocaine use disorder. Chronic cocaine users (CU), previous research has shown, display altered physiological responses to psychosocial stress and increased vegetative responding to substance-related cues. However, how psychosocial stress and cue-induced craving interact in relation to the CU's physiological responses remains largely unknown. We thus investigated the interaction between acute psychosocial stress and cocaine-cue-related reactivity in 47 CU and 38 controls. In a crossed and balanced design, the participants were randomly exposed to a video-based cocaine-cue paradigm and the Trier Social Stress Test …

Amyloid Β, Lipid Metabolism, Basal Cholinergic System, And Therapeutics In Alzheimer's Disease, Victoria Campos-Peña, Pavel Pichardo-Rojas, Talía Sánchez-Barbosa, Emma Ortíz-Islas, Citlali Ekaterina Rodríguez-Pérez, Pedro Montes, Gerardo Ramos-Palacios, Daniela Silva-Adaya, Rafael Valencia-Quintana, Jorge Francisco Cerna-Cortes, Danira Toral-Rios

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The presence of insoluble aggregates of amyloid β (Aβ) in the form of neuritic plaques (NPs) is one of the main features that define Alzheimer's disease. Studies have suggested that the accumulation of these peptides in the brain significantly contributes to extensive neuronal loss. Furthermore, the content and distribution of cholesterol in the membrane have been shown to have an important effect on the production and subsequent accumulation of Aβ peptides in the plasma membrane, contributing to dysfunction and neuronal death. The monomeric forms of these membrane-bound peptides undergo several conformational changes, ranging from oligomeric forms to beta-sheet structures, each …

Nursing In A Different World: Remote Area Nursing As A Specialist–Generalist Practice Area, Kylie Mccullough, Sara Bayes, Lisa Whitehead, Anne Williams, Vicki Cope

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Objective

Remote area nurses provide primary health care services to isolated communities across Australia. They manage acute health issues, chronic illness, health promotion and emergency responses. This article discusses why their generalist scope of practice should be formally recognised as a specialist nursing practice area.

Design

Constructivist grounded theory, using telephone interviews (n = 24) with registered nurses and nurse practitioners.

Setting

Primary health care clinics, in communities of 150–1500 residents across Australia.

Participants

A total of 24 nurses participated in this study.

Results

Nurses' perceived their clinical knowledge and skill as insufficient for the advanced, generalist, scope of …

Maternal Gut Microbiota Mediate Intergenerational Effects Of High-Fat Diet On Descendant Social Behavior, Claudia M Di Gesù, Lisa M Matz, Ian J Bolding, Robert Fultz, Kristi L Hoffman, Antonella Marino Gammazza, Joseph F Petrosino, Shelly A Buffington

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Dysbiosis of the maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy is associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. We previously showed that maternal high-fat diet (MHFD) in mice induces gut dysbiosis, social dysfunction, and underlying synaptic plasticity deficits in male offspring (F1). Here, we reason that, if HFD-mediated changes in maternal gut microbiota drive offspring social deficits, then MHFD-induced dysbiosis in F1 female MHFD offspring would likewise impair F2 social behavior. Metataxonomic sequencing reveals reduced microbial richness among female F1 MHFD offspring. Despite recovery of microbial richness among MHFD-descendant F2 mice, they display social dysfunction. Post-weaning Limosilactobacillus reuteri treatment increases the abundance of short-chain …

Ez Clear For Simple, Rapid, And Robust Mouse Whole Organ Clearing, Chih-Wei Hsu, Juan Cerda, Jason M Kirk, Williamson D Turner, Tara L Rasmussen, Carlos P Flores Suarez, Mary E Dickinson, Joshua D Wythe

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Tissue clearing for whole organ cell profiling has revolutionized biology and imaging for exploration of organs in three-dimensional space without compromising tissue architecture. But complicated, laborious procedures, or expensive equipment, as well as the use of hazardous, organic solvents prevent the widespread adoption of these methods. Here, we report a simple and rapid tissue clearing method, EZ Clear, that can clear whole adult mouse organs in 48 hr in just three simple steps. Samples stay at room temperature and remain hydrated throughout the clearing process, preserving endogenous and synthetic fluorescence, without altering sample size. After wholemount clearing and imaging, samples …

Telling Trauma: Resisting Through Embroidery Stories, Jharna Choudhury

Journal of International Women's Studies

As a contemporary mode of subversion, the art of needlework has been revived from the category of the merely “aesthetic” to the expansive category of the “powerful.” Freestyle hand embroidery enables the socially disabled women of South Asia and other regions of the world to vent their trauma within the walls of their households. The select set of embroideries displayed here is expressionistic in art-style, presenting three micro-stories on bride burning, female foeticide, and Eve-teasing, as part of my personal project named “Embroidery Stories.”

Comprehending The Bleeding Body: Epistemological Violence And (Un)Tabooing Menstruation In Selective Media Texts In India, Argha Basu, Priyanka Tripathi

Journal of International Women's Studies

The representation of menstruation in Indian media texts (films, short films, and advertisements) is limited. Besides the advertisement of industrially produced sanitary napkins, we hardly come across their mention. Even in cinematic spaces with female leads, the issue remains unuttered. Since the last half of the previous decade, there has been a conscious attempt to raise awareness around menstruation. Considering menstruation as a socially mediated biological process, in which bodies become sites where social constructions of differences are mapped onto human beings to inflict violence upon the subject, these works have resisted this systematic patriarchal oppression by asking an appropriate …

Violated Bodies And Truncated Narratives: Mapping The Changing Contours Of Violence And Eco-Strategies Of Resistance In Contemporary South Asian Women’S Writings From Bangladesh, Nobonita Rakshit, Rashmi Gaur

Journal of International Women's Studies

The article aims to portray the traumas and sufferings of female war survivors in pre and post-1971 Bangladesh in Selina Hossain’s novel Hangor, Nadi, Grenade (1976), translated into English as River of My Blood by Jackie Kabir in 2016. By using the feminist political-ecological perspectives of Wendy Harcourt and Arthuro Escobar (2002), the constructive framework of the article aims to analyze the changing contours of violence in the spheres of the body, home, environment, and social-public arenas in the lives of the female war-survivors, especially the Muktijoddhas living in the fictional places of Haldi, Bangladesh as portrayed in the novel. …

On Being Biranganas: Passivity, Agency, And Wartime Rapes In Shaukat Osman’S Nekre Aranya, Madhurima Sen

Journal of International Women's Studies

The 1971 War of Bangladesh witnessed one of the worst incidents of gender-based violence in history in which women’s bodies became the site for asserting victory or dominance. The newly formed nation focused on the image of the violated women and was united in its thirst for revenge against Pakistani perpetrators. The nation bequeathed the apparently reverential title of birangana (brave women) to the rape survivors in recognition of their “sacrifice.” However, even though the image of the birangana circulated in the public sphere in various forms, the narrative of the women themselves got suppressed under national legend-building. This article …

The (Counter) Politics Of Digital Comics In India: Reading Literature Of The Digital Space, Debadrita Chakraborty

Journal of International Women's Studies

In her 1984 essay, “A Cyborg Manifesto,” Donna Haraway envisioned that digital technology would introduce a utopian space which would liberate women from gendered power dynamics. Despite such optimism shown by third and fourth wave feminists in India, political inertia and juridical failure to implement laws and justice for victims of gender violence, be they domestic violence or sexual assault, have manifested how the digital sphere has failed to become a post-gender space. On the other hand, the pervasiveness of online gender-based violence in social media and other interactive web platforms exacerbates women’s exclusion from the public political sphere. Against …

Cultural Violence, Violent Gendering, And Abjection: Discourses On Sites Of Violence Through Trans Women’S Narratives From India, Tanupriya, Dhishna Pannikot

Journal of International Women's Studies

The conventional cultural construct of gender and sexuality embedded in the dichotomous paradigm makes it challenging for people with queer and trans identities to fit into an assigned social role. Violent gendering takes place where women are seen as second-order beings, disciplined and controlled by men, the first-order beings. The process of feminization and femininity is linked to women, which fixates on the idea that “one is born a woman” rather than “one becomes a woman.” This violent process of acculturation to these set norms comes with a lot of vulnerability for trans people in the form of abiding by …

(Re)Asserting The Feminist Sensibilities: Confessionalism, Christian Feminism, And The Poems Of Eunice De Souza, Payel Pal

Journal of International Women's Studies

In her poems, Eunice de Souza, one of the most prominent Indian women poets writing in English, depicts women’s cultural sensitivities, their developing personalities in a male-dominated societal structure, their desire for independence, and frustrations stemming from their constrained surroundings. Her poetry demonstrates a range of feminist aesthetics and efforts to chart new territory for women. Her treatment of love and sexuality confirms her discontentment with a society that necessitates a woman’s silence and subservience. In her compositions, she implements an assertive and subversive tonality, and this article illustrates how the poet’s confessional mood enables readers a glimpse into her …

The Study Of The Translation Of Nizar Qabbani's Poem Balqees Into English: Problems And Solutions, Instructor Ibrahim Talaat Ibrahim Al-Bayati

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

Literary translation is defined as one of the most difficult types of translation because literary texts embrace a lot of figurative devices and aesthetic effects that require skillful translators to render them into the target language successfully. The study is a translation of Nizar Qabbani's Poem titled "Balqees" into English. The study is of the following parts: Part one is concerned with the introduction, while the second part is about an overview with regard to the poet's life. As for part three, it is dedicated to the translation studies, methods, strategies and model of translation. Part four is a Translation …

تأملات في النخلة وثمارها من منظور قرآني, أ. د. زياد علي الفهداوي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

الحمد لله رب العالمين ، الذي كرم الانسان ، ووهبه نعمة النطق والبيان ، وأنعم عليه بالسمع والبصر وسائر النعم ، وصل الله وبارك على محمد عبده ورسوله خير الأنام ، وعلى آله وصحبه ومن تبعهم بأحسان. ومن أجل إظهار عظمة الله تعالى في النخيل جاء بحثي الموسوم : ) تأملات في النخلة وثمارها من منظور قراني( وقد آملىّ عليه هذا الموضوع أن أقسمه على ثلاثة مطالب : جاء المطلب الاول : في التعريف بالنخيل . والمطلب الثاني : في أقوال المفسرين . والمطلب الثالث : في الفوائد الطبية والصحية والإقتصادية للنخلة واشتمل على فرعين : الفرع الاول : الفوائد …

اثر إستراتيجية الفهم في تحصيل مادة التاريخ لدى طلبة المرحلة الثانية كليه الآداب و تفكيرهم عالي الرتبة, د. هدى فاضل

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

هذا البحث إلى شراء مادة التاريخ (شرق ادنى قديم) لدى طلبة المرحلة الثانية كليه الآداب وتفكيرهم عالي الرتبة. تم اختياره ذو التصميم ذي التصميم ذا المقدار الذي تم اختياره من البطولة. كل مجموعة. تم مكافأة أخرى في المتغيرات: العمر ، التفكير ، اختبار التفكير عالي الرتبة. تم التحقق من البحث وتم التحقق من البحث والتفكير في البحث والفهم. في التدريس.

الكلمات المفتاحية: الاستئناف الفهم ، التفكير عالي الرتبة.

Allegory In Thornton Wilder's The Skin Of Our Teeth, م.م. سعاد حسين علي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

(نجونا بأعجوبة) هي رائعة ثورنتون وايلدر التي قامت بكسر الحدود التقليدية المترسخة للمسرح في ذلك الوقت وربحت جائزة (Pulitzer) لأفضل عمل مسرحي في عام 1943. جاءت المسرحية لتزرع روح الامل والتفاؤل في قلوب وعقول جماهير فترة الحرب ( 1942 ) وذلك بترسيخ فكرة ان الانسان قادر على النجاة دائما ولاشي يستطيع ان يدمره.

ان هذه الدراسة هي محاولة لفهم وشرح اسلوب وتقنية وايلدر باستعماله للرمز(allegory) وذلك ليعبر عن افكاره بمستويات متنوعة لان الرمز (allegory) هو شكل من اشكال المجاز الواسع والذي يستطيع الكاتب من خلاله ان يقدم الشي في زي شيء اخر.

قسمت الدراسة على ثلاث نقاط رئيسية وخاتمة . …

التحرر العقلاني واللاعقلاني للمرأة في ظل المجتمع: دراسة تحليلية نقدية لـ رواية (سولا) لتوني مورسون, م.م. محمد صبار عبد الباقي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تعد توني مورسون (18 فبراير، 1931) من ابرز الروائيات الامريكيات من اصل افريقي والتي سعت بكل الوسائل لتحقيق تحرر المرأة. تعد مورسون واحدة من اهم مناصري النسوية واكثرهم شهرة وذلك من خلال رواياتها المتضمنة اصداء التحرر. يسلط البحث الضوء على عقلانية قرارات المرأة ومواقفها في بحثها عن التحرروبصورة خاصة لشخصيتي سولا ونيل. يهدف البحث اولا الى مناقشة اهمية عقلانية المرأة في مجتمعها وثانيا الى تجنب انحرافات المرأة التي قد تمحو مكانتها وتقلل من فرصها للتحرر. يدور البحث حول الالتزام العقلاني والاخلاقي لـ(نيل) والذي يعزز تحررها الاجتماعي ويحلل كذلك لا عقلانية (سولا) الذي يؤدي الى تحرر عابرومشين وذلك لما يتضمنه من …

Hawks' Herald -- Oct. 10, 2022, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, October 10, 2022, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Rider (2022-10-10), Verilu Infante

The Rider Archives

Vol.8 No.7

Greet Expectations, Jerry Zezima

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

When I think of the dogs I’ve had in my life — my boyhood pooch, Daisy; my adulthood companion, Lizzie; and my granddog, Maggie — the thing I remember best is that they were always happy to see me. And they proved it by barking excitedly and slobbering all over my pants.

2022-10-10 Sga Executive Board Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Student Government Association.

Student Government Association Records

Meeting minutes of the Student Government Association Executive Board from October 10, 2022.