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The Utah Statesman, December 4, 2023, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

At The Intersection Of Functionality And Beauty: A Study Of The Carrara Herbal, Anna Grace Robinson

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

The Carrara Herbal is a manuscript that sits at the cusp between medieval and early Renaissance work in Padua, Italy. With medical “simples,” or singular ingredients to be combined, as its primary focus, the Herbal is heavily illustrated and illuminated (the process of decorating a manuscript with color and even precious metals like gold), demonstrating the commissioner’s intentions and establishing him as a leader in the field of botanical medical knowledge. However, the intent and practical use seem to be at odds in the case of the Carrara Herbal. As six centuries passed, the manuscript was actively used and revised …

Can Superman Save The Supreme Court After Dobbs? Using Analogical Reasoning To Teach The American People The Superpower Of Stare Decisis, Brandon Stump

Cleveland State Law Review

In this Article, I propose that in this post-Dobbs America, if Americans are ever able to believe in, or even understand the magnitude of the Supreme Court’s power, practitioners, scholars, and educators should rely on the power of analogical reasoning, something attorneys are taught beginning their first weeks of law school. Using the power of analogy, we should take the simple story of Superman to explain the magnitude of the power held by the Supreme Court and the critical role that stare decisis must play in the Court’s decision-making. Perhaps if we explain legal principles and the judiciary by …

At Noon: (Post)Nihilistic Temporalities In The Age Of Machine-Learning Algorithms That Speak, Talha Issevenler

Publications and Research

This article recapitulates and develops the attempts in the Nietzschean traditions to address and overcome the proliferation of nihilism that Nietzsche predicted to unfold in the next 200 years (WP 2). Nietzsche approached nihilism not merely as a psychology but as a labyrinthic and pervasive historical process whereby the highest values of culture and founding assumptions of philosophical thought prevented the further flourishing of life. Therefore, he thought nihilism had to be encountered and experienced on many, often opposing, fronts to be fully consumed and left behind. Thus, just as Nietzsche captured the subtle reinventions of nihilism in new forms …

Oregon State Rank Assessment For Klamath Smallscale Sucker (Catostomus Rimiculus), Misty Nelson

Institute for Natural Resources Publications

Oregon state conservation status assessment for Klamath smallscale sucker (Catostomus rimiculus) using NatureServe methodology, 2023.

Oregon State Rank Assessment For Jenny Creek Sucker (Catostomus Rimiculus Pop. 1), Misty Nelson

Institute for Natural Resources Publications

Oregon state conservation status assessment for Jenny Creek sucker (Catostomus rimiculus pop. 1) using NatureServe methodology, 2023.

Economic Governance And Violence: A Cross-National Analysis, Steven Mccain

Theses and Dissertations

Understanding how economic governance influences routine activities is crucial within the field of criminology to better understand how grounds for violence emerge. Literature of cross-national studies concerning the effects of economic governance has recently developed to study its relationship with violence, specifically homicide. However, there is a deficit of frameworks related to criminological theory in this literature. Using a routine activity framework, the current dissertation seeks understand how different degrees of economic governance in general and, more specifically, the five areas of economic governance – size of government, legal system and property rights, sound money, freedom to international trade, and …

The Power Or Words: Increasing Student Vocabulary Acquisition, Kelly M. Tiers

Masters Projects

A lack of vocabulary knowledge may have an influence on student reading comprehension. Reading comprehension, a fundamental, skill, hinges on understanding unknown vocabulary. The research highlights the significant correlation between reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge, stressing its increasing importance as students encounter more complex text. This project explores the importance vocabulary plays in reading comprehension and its link to overall academic success. It further explores strategies to effectively increase student vocabulary and comprehension. The project is designed for elementary classrooms (K-6) to be integrated into existing lessons and routines. An in-service session, part of a district-wide professional development day, will …

Structural Basis Of Gating In Msl Channels, Jingying Zhang

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

All living organisms experience exogenous and endogenous mechanical stress that are fundamental to their growth, survival, and development. A prominent strategy to manage these stresses and ensure efficient physiological responses is through mechanosensitive (MS) ion channels by transforming mechanical forces into electrochemical signaling. However, given their structural diversity and the inherent challenges of applying membrane tension during structural study, how MS channels sense mechanical force and transit into different functional states remain unclear. MSL channels in plants, members of the mechanosensitive ion channel of small conductance (MscS) superfamily, provide a compelling avenue for studying the structural basis for gating of …

Crow's Nest, December 12, 2023, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The December 12, 2023, issue of the Crow's Nest.

That Thing Ain't Human: The Artificiality Of "Human Authorship" And The Intelligence In Expanding Copyright Authorship To Fully-Autonomous Ai, Ernest Oleksy

Cleveland State Law Review

The U.S. Copyright Review Board (the "Board") decided that works entirely created by fully-autonomous artificial intelligence ("AI") are not entitled to copyright protections. The Board based its decision on a copyrightability requirement referred to as “human authorship.” However, the Copyright Act of 1976 (the "Act") never mentions a “human” requirement to copyright authorship, nor do most of the Board’s cited authorities. Denying authorship to intellectually-impressive and economically-valuable works under a poorly-established legal subelement is antithetical to copyright law’s history and to Congress’s constitutional mandate to “promote . . . [the] useful [a]rts . . . .” It leaves creators who …

University Business Students As Charity Trustees: A Win-Win For All?, Carl Evans, Nigel Jackson

Plymouth Business School

Charities are facing a crisis in recruiting board trustees. Additionally, boards have been criticised for lacking diversity and being unrepresentative of society. The purpose of this paper is to propose a solution to the problem of trustee recruitment, by considering university business students as trustees. Through an analysis of advertised trustee jobs, the proposal is evaluated against degree subject benchmark statements. The findings identify some key person characteristics specified by charities when recruiting trustees. The generic criteria could be met by most students and many of the personal skills are developed by students while at university. However, to address some …

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation Without The Pulmonary? A Benchmark Project, Fernando A. Rios

MSN Capstone Projects

Cardiac Arrest occurs outside of the hospital setting more than you think. According to MyCares.net, 15% of OHCA happened in a public setting in 2020. Even if you are a trained healthcare professional, it may not be accessible at times in these situations due to different factors such as equipment availability, trained assistance, etc... Having an alternative option to conventional mouth-to-mouth rescue breath CPR would encourage trained and untrained bystanders to perform life-saving interventions to patients until local EMS responders can arrive. The covid pandemic affected everyone inside and outside the medical world. The general population got a real …

The Echo: December 4, 2023, Taylor University

2023-2024 (Volume 111)

No abstract provided.

Jun Upregulation Drives Aberrant Transposable Element Mobilization, Associated Innate Immune Response, And Impaired Neurogenesis In Alzheimer’S Disease, Chiara Scopa, Samantha Barnada, Maria Cicardi, Mo Singer, Davide Trotti, Marco Trizzino

Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers

Adult neurogenic decline, inflammation, and neurodegeneration are phenotypic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Mobilization of transposable elements (TEs) in heterochromatic regions was recently reported in AD, but the underlying mechanisms are still underappreciated. Combining functional genomics with the differentiation of familial and sporadic AD patient derived-iPSCs into hippocampal progenitors, CA3 neurons, and cerebral organoids, we found that the upregulation of the AP-1 subunit, c-Jun, triggers decondensation of genomic regions containing TEs. This leads to the cytoplasmic accumulation of HERVK-derived RNA-DNA hybrids, the activation of the cGAS-STING cascade, and increased levels of cleaved caspase-3, suggesting the initiation of programmed cell death …

Empowering New Ob Nurses To Combat Racial Disparities Through Education, Tabitha Poole

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Minority patients are experiencing maternal morbidity and mortality at rates three to four times higher than white patients in America (Valerio et al., 2023). The project aims to measure the impact of anti-racism training on new OB nurses' understanding of racial disparities and their impact on maternal health outcomes. A three-hour educational course, in alignment with evidence-based practices, was provided to the participants. Utilizing a Likert Scale, pre- and post-intervention assessments were administered via Microsoft Forms to measure participants' perception of knowledge of implicit bias and structural racism. Gender, age range, and race/ethnicity were also collected to allow for further …

Platinum Measurements In Dulbecco’S Phosphate-Buffered Saline Are Lower Than In Plasma And Can Be Sampled With Ultrafiltration Probes In Vitro, Marije Risselada, Robyn Mccain

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

OBJECTIVE

To compare the influence of fluid on carboplatin elution, and assess the feasibility of ultrafiltration (UF) probe sampling

SAMPLE

20 samples of 5 mg carboplatin in 1.0 mL 30% poloxamer 407 eluting in Dulbecco’s phosphate-buffered saline (DPBS) or canine plasma and 6 samples of UF probe sampling in 0.01 mg/mL carboplatin in DPBS or plasma.

METHODS

Carboplatin-gel specimens in dialysis tubing (12- to 14-kDa pores) were placed in 100 mL of DPBS or canine plasma (37 °C and 600 rpm stirring) in a nonlidded and lidded experiment. Samples were collected in decreasing frequency for 96 hours. The 0.01-mg/mL carboplatin …

Wellness Review 2023, Part 1, Brian A. Ferguson, Martin Huecker

Journal of Wellness

Introduction: The 2023 Part 1 summary reviews research on wellness in healthcare professionals published outside of JWellness from January 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023.

Methods: Editors conducted a Boolean search of titles and abstracts in PubMed utilizing keyword identifiers pairing healthcare personnel (providers, nurses, and other staff) with a well-being metric. Of 416 relevant articles, an intriguing and innovative 30 were selected for inclusion, with two additional articles manually curated.

Literature in Review: This sample of the recent literature into healthcare professional wellness included multiple targeted interventions and studies of resilience. Main themes that emerged include: positive systematic healthcare …

Intouch Week Of December 4, 2023, New York Medical College

InTouch

• Get to Know Dr. Schluger, the New SOM Dean
• NYMC Celebrates Faculty Authorship at 30th Annual Recognition
• NYMC's Giving Tuesday Success Fuels Clinical Skills and Simulation Center Expansion
• Students Shine at 2023 Multidisciplinary Community Outreach
• NYMC Looks at the Future of the Life Sciences at the Innovation in Research Conference
• Study Finds Racial Disparities in Postoperative Outcomes for Cervical Stenosis

Orasyon, Bisa, At Mesiyas Sa Nightclub: Isang Traslasyon Ng Relihiyosong Imahen, Noji A. Bajet

Katipunan

Tuon ng sanaysay na ito ang relihiyosong imahen na lunsaran ng artista ng kaniyang komprontasyon sa pananampalataya. Sa pagpili ng Orasyon: Dasal ng Pamilyang Pilipino ng Museo ng UST, Bisa ni Marco Ruben Malto II, at ang pagtatanghal ni Pura Luka Vega, inusisa ang mga artistikong estratehiya sa biswalidad at subteksto bilang patunay ng pleksibilidad at mobilidad ng imahen. Gamit ang idea ng “traslasyon” bilang turing sa pagsusubaybay ng mga katangiang ito, magiging ruta ang mga eksibisyon at pagtatanghal upang ipakita kung paanong lumilipat ang relihiyosong imahen mula sa sagradong lugar na pinanggagalingan nito patungo sa iba pang mahahalagang lunan …

Orasyon, Bisa, At Mesiyas Sa Nightclub: Isang Traslasyon Ng Relihiyosong Imahen, Noji A. Bajet

Katipunan

Tuon ng sanaysay na ito ang relihiyosong imahen na lunsaran ng artista ng kaniyang komprontasyon sa pananampalataya. Sa pagpili ng Orasyon: Dasal ng Pamilyang Pilipino ng Museo ng UST, Bisa ni Marco Ruben Malto II, at ang pagtatanghal ni Pura Luka Vega, inusisa ang mga artistikong estratehiya sa biswalidad at subteksto bilang patunay ng pleksibilidad at mobilidad ng imahen. Gamit ang idea ng “traslasyon” bilang turing sa pagsusubaybay ng mga katangiang ito, magiging ruta ang mga eksibisyon at pagtatanghal upang ipakita kung paanong lumilipat ang relihiyosong imahen mula sa sagradong lugar na pinanggagalingan nito patungo sa iba pang mahahalagang lunan …

The Influence Of Aviation Technology On Human Complacency, Aurora Burton

Honors Theses

The thesis covers automation complacency in the aviation industry. The purpose being to provide a foundation of complacency-related accidents to support or dismiss the Federal Aviation Administration’s claim to automation-induced inattention. Complacency factors are outlined in a multitude of fields, creating a background for aviation discussion. To outline the parameters of literature review, behaviors associated with complacency are addressed. Next, a compilation of accident reports is examined and categorized. Specific, impactful accidents relating to complacency are detailed and explained. Summarily, three solutions to human-driven complacency are proposed, evaluated, and analyzed. Including the following: proficiency advancement, technology improvement, and change in …

Identifying The Drivers Of Pollen Limitation In Apples (Malus Domestica) Within The Urban Orchards Of St. Louis, Mo, Jordan Hathaway

Theses

The human population is projected to continue growing throughout the remainder of the 21st century. Thus, agricultural production will need to increase drastically in order to ensure global food security. Management strategies aimed at enhancing crop pollination by promoting pollinator diversity have shown potential as an environmentally sustainable method of increasing yields. Optimizing the design and implementation of these strategies will require us to expand our understanding of the processes which influence crop pollen limitation. In this study, we examined pollen limitation in self-incompatible apple trees (Malus domestica) within urban orchards located in St. Louis, MO. In our first field …

Thunderfort, Lever Stewart

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

Thunderfort is a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) that utilizes both synchronous and asynchronous communication in both its rules and its fictitious setting. This project seeks to provide a unique TTRPG experience that is partially or fully digital, played out via text chatting and digital dice rolling. Such a game is also intended to be enjoyed by players without said players needing to worry about game session scheduling conflicts, since a large part of the game is played via digital, asynchronous communication. The full, most up-to-date text can also be accessed at thunderfort.lsflegal.com.

Mga Biktimang Imahen Ng Sundalong Americano At Ng Iba: Mga Alegoryang Post-1898 Ng Imperyal Na Pagbubuo-Ng- Bansa Bilang “Pag-Ibig At Digma”, Oscar V. Campomanes

Katipunan

Sa siping ito buhat sa orihinal na sanaysay, binibigyang-kritika ko ang retorika ng imperyalistang historyograpiya ng mga Americano, politika, at produksiyong kultural kaugnay ng Digmaang Filipino-Americano, at ang pagsasateritoryong-kolonyal ng Estados Unidos sa Pilipinas na kinahantungan nito. Iginigiit kong ang mga diskursong imperyalista ng mga Americano hinggil sa Pilipinas at mga Pilipino sa yugtong ito ay nagpapalawig at humahalili sa pananakop ng Estados Unidos at pag-aaklas ng mga Pilipino patungo sa dominyo ng kultura, na nagbunga ng digmaan laban sa mga Pilipino bilang Iba ng America, at itinataguri ko sa sanaysay bilang “ibang digma.” Sa pagmamanipula ng pananakop sa Pilipinas …

Hindi Ito Kuwentong Pag-Ibig, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

Katipunan

Pinaghahabi-habi ang kuwentong-buhay ni Isabel Rosario Cooper, mestizang aktres sa bodabil at isa sa pinakaunang artistang tampok sa sine ng Maynila na naging kilala sa kaniyang naging pakikipagrelasyon kay Heneral Douglas MacArthur, pinagninilayan ng Empire’s Mistress ang buhay at pag-iral sa gitna ng pagkakaipit nito sa mga mekanismo ng kolonyalismong Americano sa Pilipinas. Itinatala nito ang mobilidad at pakikipag-ugnayang nabuo ng pagnanasang mayroon ang Estados Unidos sa kapuluan ng Pilipinas— at ang pamamaraan kung paanong subhetong nasasakop—partikular na ang kababaihan— ay hinubog mismo ang mga ito para sa kanilang kapakinabangan. Idiniriin ng kabanatang ito ang gasgas nang balangkas kung saan …

Tropikong Americano, Allan Punzalan Isaac

Katipunan

Sinusuri ng American Tropics ang teoretiko at historikong muhon ng terminong ito sa mga araling postkolonyal, Americano, Asyano Americano, at pampanitikan. Nagpepresenta ang “tropikong Americano” buhat sa imperyal na pagnanasa at pantasyang Americano ng iba pang mukha ng kultural na harayang Asyano Americano upang madesentro ang imigrasyon at eksklusyon bilang pangunahing tuon ng pagbubuong panlahi ng Asyano Americano. Kung mahalagang bahagi ng mga identidad na Asyano Americano ang imperyalismong kultural at ekonomikong Americano bilang “pagbubuong panlipunan” sa mga ito, para hiramin na rin ang pagtukoy nina Omi at Winant hinggil sa lahi at pagsasalahi, paano hinuhubog ng pagnanasang imperyal na …

“Waray-Waray” Ni Eartha Kitt: Ang Filipina Sa Paghaharaya Ng Black Feminist Na Pagtatanghal, Lucy Burns

Katipunan

Sinisiyasat ng pag-aaral na ito ang interseksiyon sa mga paghaharaya ng pagtatanghal na Afro-Filipinx sa pamamagitan ng pagtatanghal ni Eartha Kitt ng “Waray Waray,” isang kanta na nagtataglay ng maramihang signipikasyon sa kasaysayang representasyonal ng mga babaeng Waray sa partikular at ng mga Filipina sa pangkalahatan. Nagbubukas ang pakikinig sa rendisyon ni Kitt ng kanta sa talakayan tungkol sa masalimuot na relasyon ng lahi, imperyo, at ng politika ng tunog/panggagaya ng boses.

Buong Isyu, Katipunan 11.1

Katipunan

No abstract provided.

Orasyon, Bisa, At Mesiyas Sa Nightclub: Isang Traslasyon Ng Relihiyosong Imahen, Noji A. Bajet

Katipunan

Tuon ng sanaysay na ito ang relihiyosong imahen na lunsaran ng artista ng kaniyang komprontasyon sa pananampalataya. Sa pagpili ng Orasyon: Dasal ng Pamilyang Pilipino ng Museo ng UST, Bisa ni Marco Ruben Malto II, at ang pagtatanghal ni Pura Luka Vega, inusisa ang mga artistikong estratehiya sa biswalidad at subteksto bilang patunay ng pleksibilidad at mobilidad ng imahen. Gamit ang idea ng “traslasyon” bilang turing sa pagsusubaybay ng mga katangiang ito, magiging ruta ang mga eksibisyon at pagtatanghal upang ipakita kung paanong lumilipat ang relihiyosong imahen mula sa sagradong lugar na pinanggagalingan nito patungo sa iba pang mahahalagang lunan …