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Digging For Information: Investigating The Efficacy Of Tracking And Augmenting Lacunicambarus Nebrascensis For Endangered Dragonfly Conservation, Danielle Elaine Tesar

Dissertations and Theses

Restoration and preservation of habitat for threatened and endangered species can proceed in many ways. Augmentation strategies can be used to supplement threatened and endangered populations or the species and resources on which those imperiled species depend. Comprehensive knowledge of species movement and home range is necessary to formulate effective augmentation plans. For freshwater burrowing crayfish, this type of information is generally lacking. The studies reported here were designed to acquire detailed information that is essential for augmentation of the plains devil crayfish, Lacunicambarus nebrascensis (formerly, Cambarus diogenes). Although L. nebrascensis populations are not considered threatened, this crayfish provides vital …

Mining Marine Environments For Novel Antimicrobial Biologics, Matthew James Koch

School of Biomedical Sciences Theses

Deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are predicted to rise from 700,000 per year now to 10 million by 2050. There is an urgent need for new antibiotics to meet the threat posed by AMR; the WHO recently reported that there are not enough antibiotics in development to meet this need. The sponge microbiota has emerged as one of the most prolific sources of novel antimicrobial candidates from marine environments in recent decades. The majority of work on sponge microbiology, however, has been carried out on shallow-water sponges of the Demosponge Class. This work explores the cultivable diversity and antimicrobial …

Acute-Lps Mediated Myelin Injury, Gideon Stone

School of Biomedical Sciences Theses

Background: Multiple Sclerosis is a notorious neurological disease strongly linked to auto-immune pathogenesis and involvement of inflammatory cytokines, resulting in CNS white matter injury. To date, there is no known cure and a limited number of successful treatments, with the exact pathogenic mechanisms of the disease being unknown. Due to this there is a high demand for the development of effective treatments. With the primary use of anti-inflammatory treatments, the symptoms can be significantly reduced, and the occurrence of relapses and exacerbations can be managed. The use of animal models such as EAE and cuprizone has helped drastically with the …

Admissions Magazine Winter 2022, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Out Of This World: Creating an innovative, self-healing polymer for use in aerospace settings and soft electronics.

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Would Earth Law Change The Face Of Environmental Law In England?, Hetty Summerhayes

Plymouth Law Review

This article aims to compare Environmental Law in England with the established body of Earth Law which currently exists internationally. It provides an analysis of English Law as it applies to marine protection, environmental permitting and wildlife conservation and critically analyses whether they are doing enough to ensure a conservationist regime. Further, it explores the Earth Law movement and how it might influence and change the application of Environmental Law in England. Particular attention is paid to academics and writers such as Christopher Stone, Rachel Carson and Cormac Cullinan. Examining the shift we as human beings must take from an …

Thought And Decision: Differences And Overlap In Environmental And Legal Studies, Robert Nutkins

Plymouth Law Review

No abstract provided.

When Do You Break The Glass Ceiling? A Gender-Diverse Student's Experience Of The Legal World, Sami Fison

Plymouth Law Review

No abstract provided.

Potential Interactions Between Diatoms And Bacteria Are Shaped By Trace Element Gradients In The Southern Ocean, Alexa R. Sterling, Laura Z. Holland, Randelle M. Bundy, Shannon M. Burns, Kristen N. Buck, P. Dreux Chappell, Bethany D. Jenkins

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

The growth of diatoms in the Southern Ocean, especially the region surrounding the West Antarctic Peninsula, is frequently constrained by low dissolved iron and other trace metal concentrations. This challenge may be overcome by mutualisms between diatoms and co-occurring associated bacteria, in which diatoms produce organic carbon as a substrate for bacterial growth, and bacteria produce siderophores, metal-binding ligands that can supply diatoms with metals upon uptake as well as other useful secondary compounds for diatom growth like vitamins. To examine the relationships between diatoms and bacteria in the plankton (diatom) size class (> 3 µm), we sampled both bacterial …

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Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2022, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater Magazine

From the hall of Congress, to cutting-edge tech companies, to the world of music, BSU alumni are leaders in many sectors and industries. This issue focuses on alumni who have found their careers and passion in public service, alumni who have found their careers through music and in the tech field. Highlighted is Mary (Mel) Donahue, class of 1970, who was one of the first female Air Force pilots. a story on BSU's Archives & Special Collections is also highlighted in the issue.

Inclusion And Belonging In Irish Higher Education For Black And Minority Ethnic Students., Fionnuala Darby

Articles

Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as an analytical prism, this study interrogates the sense of belonging and inclusion experienced by Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students on one higher education campus in Ireland. The most important story told within the study is as simple as it is complicated. The simple part is that the BME students felt that the campus was inclusive and that they experienced a sense of belonging. The complicated part is that the findings are premised in a normative assumption of whiteness as evidenced by numerous and incremental moments of exclusion in the daily experience of microaggressions, …

Tools For Skills Development For Youth Workers In Digital Youth Work, Burcu Kiper, Guldan Kalem

Conference Papers

No abstract provided.

The Potential Beneficial Effects Of Vaccination On Antigenically Evolving Pathogens, Frank Wen, Anup Malani, Sarah Cobey

Articles

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Democratic Backsliding And Multiracial Democracy. A Response To The 2021 Jorde Symposium Lecture By Steven Levitsky, Tom Ginsburg

Articles

We live in an anxious era, particularly about the possibility of multiethnic democracy. The polarization of American democracy in general, accelerated by Trumpism in particular, has challenged narratives of race as gradually declining in significance. Instead, conventional wisdom suggests that Trumpism results directly from rising racial resentment of a White population that fears losing its relative power.² “Dog Whistle Politics” have been discarded in favor of openly nativist appeals, including by media figures such as Tucker Carlson.³

We are not alone. In France, the theory of the Grand Remplacement (Great Replacement) has spread from the fringes to the …

Streaming Property, Lee Anne Fennell

Articles

People acquire property rights in objects and real estate in order to capture the stream of services that these assets can provide over time. The thing or parcel itself is merely a delivery mechanism, a way of packaging and protecting rights to that value stream. And, significantly, these assets cannot stream services to anyone without a set of facilitating conditions and complementary goods, such as public infrastructure, that do not lie within the asset owner’s individual control. This Essay argues that we can gain fresh traction on inequality by recasting property as service streams rather than as owned things. Doing …

Communicating Privilege And Faculty Allyship, Lisa Hanasono, Hyun Kyoung Ro, Deborah A. O'Neil, Ellen M. Broido, Margaret M. Yacobucci, Susana Peña, Karen V. Root

School of Media and Communication Faculty Publications

As individuals who use their privilege to reduce prejudice, educate others about social justice, and actively stop discrimination, faculty allies can play a vital role in transforming universities to be more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. However, discrepancies persist in how faculty define privilege and communicate allyship. Drawing from standpoint theory, we examined discursive divergences in how 105 full-time faculty defined and experienced privilege and how they enacted allyship in the workplace. Participants tended to conceptualize privilege as a set of advantages and lack of structural barriers for people based on their group membership(s). Discursive differences emerged regarding the degree to …

Mathematics Education In Field Education Contexts, Aldinete Silvino De Lima, Iranete Maria Da Silva Lima, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Monteiro, Liliane Maria Teixeira Lima De Carvalho

The Mathematics Enthusiast

This article approaches the relationship between mathematics education and field education, based on the academic production of the research group on mathematics education in field education contexts (Gpemce) created in 2008 at the Federal University of Pernambuco. After presenting the repercussions and lines of research of the group, we reflect on the roots and principles of field education and some approximations of this domain with mathematics education. Then, we present a documentary study, whose corpus consists of 20 articles published in journals by researchers from Gpemce from 2009 to 2020. These articles are organised around four thematic categories that are …

The Banality Of Evil (?): The Strange(Ly Quiet) Careers Of Korematsu And Hirabayashi In The Federal Circuit Courts, 1943‐2016, Scott Dewey

Articles

Korematsu v. United States (1944) and Hirabayashi v. United States (1943), the most famous Supreme Court cases associated with the tragic internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, now “live in infamy”, along with the likes of Plessy v. Ferguson and Scott v. Sandford, among the worst constitutional law train-wrecks of American legal history. Ironically, American courts and judges also used the two towering internment cases for their resounding language supporting racial equality and non-discrimination. In either guise, the cases came to cast a long shadow over America’s legal landscape. Thus, it may be somewhat surprising to discover that …

Global Healthcare Provider Training Package: Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (Prep Ring), Ipm South Africa

Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (PrEP Ring)

The development of the PrEP Ring was a response to the reality that women remain more likely to acquire HIV than men. HIV is one of the leading causes of death among women ages 15–49 worldwide. HIV incidence is particularly high among young women: in the age range 15–24 years, they are twice as likely to acquire HIV as men of their age, accounting for nearly 25% of new adult infections in sub-Saharan Africa. Biological, economic and sociocultural factors all play a role in increasing women’s chances of acquiring HIV and manifest in practices such as early sexual debut, early …

The Clean Water Act And The Ocean: An Unfulfilled Promise, Robin Kundis Craig

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

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“Long Covid,” Bodily Systems As Adaaa Major Life Activities, And The Social Model Of Disability, Leslie P. Francis, Michael Ashley Stein

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

Long COVID claims for disability-related employment discrimination have been met by physical reductionism during determinations of disability. Difficult to diagnose due to an absence of agreed-upon physiologically observed biomarkers, and liable to elude ADA coverage and/or eligibility for reasonable workplace accommodations, long COVID illustrates a misunderstanding of the relationship between disability, bodily function, and disability anti-discrimination law. Although the ADAAA was intended to extend the range of people considered to be disabled for purposes of disability anti-discrimination law, including bodily system function as a major life activity in the amended statute has contributed to problematic physical reductionism in disability determinations …

Loneliness In Covid-19, Life, And Law, Olivia Ash, Peter H. Huang

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Compulsory Licensing Of Trade Secrets: Illegality Under International And Domestic Laws, Eric M. Solovy, Deepak Raju

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

School Of Nursing Newsletter Winter 2022, Southern Adventist University

Southern Nursing - School of Nursing Newsletter

The Winter 2022 issue of the newsletter features information Dr. Holly Gadd winning the 2021 Champions in Health Care Volunteer Award and the School of Nursing alumni honorees.

Exploring Diversity With Statistics: Step-By-Step Jasp Guides, Ruth Walker, Ashlyn Moraine, Hannah Osborn, Kristen J. Black, Asia Palmer, Kendra Scott, Leigh Humphrey, Julie Madden, Erin Prince

Open Textbooks

These resources were created to complement our undergraduate statistics lab manual, Applied Data Analysis in Psychology: Exploring Diversity with Statistics, published by Kendall Hunt publishing company. Like our lab manual, these JASP walk-through guides meaningfully and purposefully integrate and highlight diversity research to teach students how to analyze data in an open-source statistical program. The data sets utilized in these guides are from open-access databases (e.g., Pew Research Center, PLoS One, ICPSR, and more). Guides with step-by-step instructions, including annotated images and examples of how to report findings in APA format, are included for the following statistical tests: independent samples …

Patterns And Process Of Sandbar Revegetation On The Missouri National Recreational Rive, Amena Begum Ruma

Dissertations and Theses

Decades of flow regulation have reduced sandbar area and recruitment of cottonwood and willow along the Missouri River. Conflicts exist between managing sandbars for habitat (removing vegetation) for threatened sandbar-nesting birds (i.e., Piping Plover) and allowing natural recruitment of early successional riparian woodland (set-aside bars) that may support other species and ecological values. Recent changes in topography, geomorphology, and vegetation were examined on sandbars that have been “set aside” from management within seven reaches of the Missouri National Recreational River (MNRR) in southeastern South Dakota, USA. An existing time series of maps of sandbar landcover, derived from satellite imagery, was …

Anhedonia And Impulsivity In College Alcohol Use: A Path Analysis, Sydney N. Stamatovich

Dissertations and Theses

This study tested a path model to explore whether different types of anhedonia are associated with alcohol use and problems via different types of impulsivity in 640 college students (ages 18-25). This study parsed anhedonia into four specific facets: consummatory and anticipatory anhedonia, and “recreational” and social anhedonia. Consummatory anhedonia (i.e., the “liking” of a reward) was hypothesized to be associated with alcohol use and problems via sensation seeking, a component of impulsivity where individuals tend to seek out rewarding, yet sometimes risky stimuli. Further, anticipatory anhedonia (i.e., the process of “looking forward to” or “wanting” a reward) was hypothesized …

The Influence Of Tik Tok On Body Image, Hannah Wood

Major Papers by TMD Master of Science Students

No abstract provided.

Influence Of Social Expectations On Muscle Dysmorphia In College-Age Males Studying Exercise Science, Quinten Garver

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

PURPOSE: To investigate the correlation between the risk of an individual developing MD and the presence of unrealistic social expectations. The research question is “How do unrealistic social expectations influence the development of muscle dysmorphia in college-age males studying exercise science?”. METHODS: An electronic survey was distributed to all exercise science students at The University of Akron. This survey was targeted exclusively at male students; any responses received by females were not analyzed. The survey consisted of 20 questions that were aimed at determining the individual’s risk of developing muscle dysmorphia and determining how likely the individual is to have …

The Effects Of Effluent Discharge Into The Santa Fé River, João Vito Bezerra Dragone

Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two

The discharge of effluents into rivers is something that has occurred a lot throughout our history, rivers like the Mississippi River and the Tiete River (São Paulo, Brazil) have been targets for many years. Therefore, in this paper I choose to show, through hard data and some assumptions, the impact of sewage dumping in water bodies, in this case the Santa Fé River, Florida and the reason why we should avoid dumping these effluents into the rivers.