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Can The Ummah Speak? Reexamining Genealogies Of Black Muslim Women Within The Black Freedom Movement Through The Examples Of Betty Shabazz And Clara Muhammad, Shameem Razack

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

The thesis analyzes the legacies of Clara Muhammad and Betty Shabazz through their children, Imam W.D. Muhammad and Ilyasah Shabazz, and the impact they maintained through communal relationships. By utilizing secondary texts, audio, internal documents, and speeches, the project seeks to understand the impact of legacy on Muslim communities in America and the legacy their children leave behind. The argument for the thesis centers around Muhammad and Shabazz's relationships to emphasize the significance of Black American Muslim women cultivating a community through their interpretations of Islam, which offer a unique spiritual and political consciousness. Using the story of Hajaar and …

Early Career Aquatic Scientists Forge New Connections At Eco-Das Xv, Olivia J. Graham, Alia Al-Haj, Eleanor C. Arrington, Emily R. Arsenault, Carolina C. Barbosa, Kadir Bice, Evie Brahmstedt, S. River D. Bryant, Xun Cai, Stacy Calhoun-Grosch, Joshua Culpepper, Katherine Dale, Derek J. Detweiler, Katlin D. Doughty, Kyle A. Emery, Kara Gadeken, Laura Griffiths, Atefeh Hosseini, Catriona Jones, Hadis Miraly, Alexander W. Mott, Karla Münzner, Igor Ogashawara, Carly R. Olson, Joseph S. Rabaey, Walter A. Rich, Phoenix A. Rogers, Meredith Evans Seeley, Lorena Selak, Qipei Shangguan, Kelsey J. Solomon, Xinyu Sun, Spencer J. Tassone, Audrey Thellman, John Tracey, Jilian Xiong, Tianfei Xue

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

A sense of kuleana (personal responsibility) in caring for the land and sea. An appreciation for laulima (many hands cooperating). An understanding of aloha ’āina (love of the land). The University of Hawai’i at Manoa hosted the 2023 Ecological Dissertations in Aquatic Sciences (Eco-DAS) program, which fostered each of these intentions by bringing together a team of early career aquatic ecologists for a week of networking and collaborative, interdisciplinary project development (Fig. 1).

Impact Of Indicators On Hispanic Student Postsecondary Stem Success, Sandra Durden

Theses & Dissertations

Research Focus. My study seeks to explore the extent that select secondary and postsecondary indicators predict STEM student enrollment and persistence particularly for Hispanic students. Identifying postsecondary STEM success and college readiness indicators with special focus on malleable indicators that can assist educators, administrators, and policymakers in designing and implementing educational interventions targeted at improving representation of Hispanic students that receive postsecondary STEM degrees. Currently there are few studies that use data from nationally representative samples of students to research the relationship between predictiveness of indicators and postsecondary STEM success, in particular, studies that explore which indicators differentially predict postsecondary …

The Importance Of Contrast Sensitivity, Color Vision, And Electrophysiological Testing In Clinical And Occupational Settings, Frances Silva

Theses & Dissertations

Visual acuity (VA) is universally accepted as the gold standard metric for ocular vision and function. Contrast sensitivity (CS), color vision, and electrophysiological testing for clinical and occupational settings are warranted despite being deemed ancillary and minimally utilized by clinicians. These assessments provide essential information to subjectively and objectively quantify and obtain optimal functional vision. They are useful for baseline data and monitoring hereditary and progressive ocular conditions and cognitive function. The studies in this dissertation highlight the value of contrast sensitivity, color vision, and cone specific electrophysiological testing, as well as the novel metrics obtained with potential practical clinical …

Implementation Of An Initiative To Standardize Abdominal Binder Use In Postoperative Cesarean Section Patients: A Program Evaluation., Sarah Cohron

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

A cesarean section is a major abdominal surgery with a unique recovery profile. The patient must recover from surgery while simultaneously coping with a major life event: the birth of a new baby. The utilization of pain management techniques with as few side effects as possible is paramount to ensure optimal maternal and newborn outcomes (Karlström et. al., 2007; Eisenach et. al., 2008). On an inpatient mother/baby unit at a high-risk urban hospital in Louisville, Kentucky approximately 66 babies are born via cesarean section every month (Mattingly, 2021). However, in the fall of 2021, it was discovered that there was …

2023-2024 Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog, Lindenwood University

Course Catalogs

Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog.

Peruvian Musical Elements In Selected Peruvian Piano Compositions By Duncker Lavalle, Ayarza De Morales, And E. Valcárcel Arze, Gonzalo Aguilar

Dissertations

This research paper focuses on Peruvian musical elements used by three Peruvian composers active in the twentieth century: Luis Duncker Lavalle (1874-1922), Rosa Mercedes Ayarza de Morales (1881-1969), and Edgar Valcárcel Arze (1932-2010). The analysis is centered upon three solo piano works: Duncker’s Leggenda Appassionata (published 1964), Ayarza’s Marinera y Resbalosa (n.d.), and Valcárcel’s Cuatro Piezas Infantiles (1963). These composers represent a cross section, not only chronologically, but also geographically. Relevant Peruvian traditional music (such as mestizo music; Arequipan yaraví; música criolla: marinera, zamacueca; cueca chilena; as well as music of Cuzco and Puno—including from …

A Computational Kinetics Model To Quantify Radiation Induced Chemical Products Of Atmospheric Gas Mixtures, Patrick Ables

Dissertations

This research is focused on the development of a computational model which will calculate the effects of radiation on the chemical composition of the atmosphere. The approach utilizes the open-source chemical kinetics toolkit Cantera to model the creation of radiation-induced reactant species within irradiated air mixtures. Chemical solutions are iteratively stepped toward chemical equilibrium within a ‘constantly stirred’ (homogeneous) reactor of fixed volume. Three different radiation chemistry models are implemented in several different pulsed and continuous radiation schemes. The first model includes the mechanisms and rates of a pulse radiation model from the literature to test the validity of the …

Ctl Impact Report (Fy23), Center For Teaching & Learning

CTL Publications

The Sacred Heart University CTL was founded in 2022 as an integrated scaffold of teaching and learning support. Its founding brought together instructional development for SHU faculty with academic support services for SHU undergraduate and graduate students. In this report, we share our center’s reach and impact during FY23 (July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023), marking the first full academic year in which the CTL has operated in its current model.

The Structural Characterization And Bioactivity Assessment Of Nonspecific Lipid Transfer Protein 1 (Nsltp1) From Caraway (Carum Carvi) Seeds, Taibah Aldakhil

Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD) Dissertations

Background: Carum carvi (caraway) of the Apiaceae family has been used in many cultures as a cooking spice and part of the traditional medicine. Previous reports primarily focus on the medicinal properties of caraway seed essential oil and the whole seeds extract. However, no effort has been made to study caraway proteins and their potential pharmacological properties, including nonspecific lipid transfer protein (nsLTP), necessitating further research. The current study aimed to characterize nonspecific lipid transfer protein 1 (nsLTP1) from caraway seed, determine its three-dimensional structure, and analyze protein-ligand complex interactions through docking studies. Also, evaluate nsLTP1 in vitro cytotoxic …

Life Sciences Research, Stephen Piccolo

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

•Analyzing high-throughput, gene-expression data (RNA-Seq, microarrays) •Curating and reusing publicly available ”omics” data •Gene Expression Omnibus •The Cancer Genome Atlas •Creating software and algorithms for analyzing biological and medical data •Also CodeBuddy – a feature-rich, programming-assignment management system •Applying machine-learning techniques to biological and medical data

Using and evaluating large language models for educational research

Skeletal Age During Hurricane Impacts Fluctuating Asymmetry In Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques, Ashly N. Romero, Edwin Dickinson, Cassandra M. Turcotte, Claire E. Terhune

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

As natural disasters become more frequent due to climate change, understanding the biological impact of these ecological catastrophes on wild populations becomes increasingly pertinent. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), or random deviations from bilateral symmetry, is reflective of developmental instability and has long been positively associated with increases in environmental stress. This study investigates craniofacial FA in a population of free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) that has experienced multiple Category 3 hurricanes since the colony's inception on Cayo Santiago, including 275 individuals from ages 9 months to 31 years (F = 154; M = 121). Using geometric morphometrics to quantify …

Arabic Dysarthric Speech Recognition Using Adversarial And Signal-Based Augmentation, Massa Baali, Ibrahim Almakky, Shady Shehata, Fakhri Karray

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Despite major advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the state-of-the-art ASR systems struggle to deal with impaired speech even with high-resource languages. In Arabic, this challenge gets amplified, with added complexities in collecting data from dysarthric speakers. In this paper, we aim to improve the performance of Arabic dysarthric automatic speech recognition through a multi-stage augmentation approach. To this effect, we first propose a signal-based approach to generate dysarthric Arabic speech from healthy Arabic speech by modifying its speed and tempo. We also propose a second stage Parallel Wave Generative (PWG) adversarial model that is trained on an English dysarthric …

Raman Spectroscopic Applications For Food Safety & Quality, Shintaro Pang

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Micro- and nano-plastics analysis, food protein detection and characterization, rapid detection of lactose and other sugar-related compounds, probiotics and pathogenic bacteria analysis in complex matrices, other food, agriculture and environment related analytes of concern

From Myzocytosis To Cytostomal Nutrient Uptake And Transport By Intracellular Plasmodium Species, T. Y. Sam-Yellowe

Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

3d Printing For Lab-On-A-Chip, Gregory P. Nordin

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

3D printed microfluidics, biological and chemical sensors, nanophotonics and integrated optics, micro- and nanofabrication, MEMS, microfluids

Psychotherapy Treatment Effectiveness, Jeff Jackson

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Psychotherapy intervention effectiveness research: brief strategic therapy, couple therapy, eating disorders, anxiety disorders; protective/risk factors of couple relationship quality & stability; ambiguous loss; disability; meta-analysis

Lmic Medtech Research, Preston Manwaring

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Medical Devices - Diagnostic and Therapeutic, MedTech for Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), Medical Device Security

A Help Or Hindrance? Team Leader Behaviors And The Team Climate Of Innovation, Matthew Brady Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

While the nature of teamwork in organizations is ever-evolving, the utilization of teams in some form has continued to increase over the past several decades. While creativity is generally regarded as an individual-level phenomenon, innovation tends to occur as an emergent process at the team level, so rather than only hiring and rewarding star performers, organizations should cultivate and protect the team’s climate for innovation. A particularly impactful contextual factor in team climate is the team leader’s behavior. Therefore, the team leader’s contribution to the climate should work to promote innovation rather than discourage it. A cross-sectional, correlational study surveyed …

Vulnerable Road Users Transit Optimization With Healthcare Privatization (Vrutop), Hyoshin Park Ph.D.

Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility

This research focuses on improving the transit service of vulnerable road users while addressing recent trends in Medicaid transformation. One of the most notorious issues is the difficulty of knowing how much added time cushion should be considered for picking-up each user and transit time. This temporal time uncertainty will be uniquely formulated by taking advantage of the data collected before and after the Medicaid transformation, which will make this research a pioneer in demand response transportation systems. From the user’s perspective, an adaptive trip planner considers the real-time impact of environment changes on pedestrian route choice preferences and tolerance …

Pharmacological And Pharmacokinetic Studies Of A KCa2.2 Positive Allosteric Modulator, Mohammad Asikur Rahman

Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD) Dissertations

Small-conductance Ca²⁺-activated potassium channels (K_Ca2.x) family is widely expressed in neurons, the heart, and endothelial cells. K_Ca2.x channels are named small conductance Ca²⁺-activated potassium channels due to their comparatively low single-channel conductance and are activated solely by rises in intracellular Ca²⁺. The family has three subtypes: K_Ca2.1, K_Ca2.2, and K_Ca2.3, encoded by KCNN1, KCNN2, and KCNN3 genes, respectively. K_Ca2.x channels regulate neuronal excitability and responsiveness to synaptic input patterns. Small-conductance Ca²⁺-activated potassium channels subtype 2 (K_Ca2.2, …

Why Attitudes Are Usually Mutual: A Possible Mathematical Explanation, Julio C. Urenda, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In this paper, we provide a possible mathematical explanation of why people's attitude to each other is usually mutual: we usually have good attitude who those who have good feelings towards us, and we usually have negative attitudes towards those who have negative feelings towards, Several mathematical explanations of this mutuality have been proposed, but they are based on specific approximate mathematical models of human (and animal) interaction. It is desirable to have a solid mathematical explanation that would not depend on such approximate models. In this paper, we show that a recent mathematical result about relation algebras can lead …

Paradoxical Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha (Tnf-Α) Inhibitor-Induced Psoriasis: A Systematic Review Of Pathogenesis, Clinical Presentation, And Treatment., Aditi Chokshi, Michelle Demory Beckler, Anita Laloo, Marc M. Kesselman

HPD Articles

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors have been shown to be well tolerated among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis. Meanwhile, more recently, clinical practice and research efforts have uncovered increasing cases of psoriatic lesion development tied to initiating treatment with a TNF-α inhibitor. The underlying mechanisms associated with this occurrence have yet to be fully elucidated. A review and analysis of cases of paradoxical psoriasis currently published in the literature is warranted. In addition, exploring possible mechanisms of action and potential treatment options associated with favorable outcomes is much needed. A systematic literature review was performed utilizing …

Microglial Response To Glucocorticoids During Chronic Sleep Fragmentation, Christian Chelson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Sleep is one of the body’s greatest and most basic needs. Chronic sleep loss (<6 hours a day) is linked to many cardiovascular issues, diabetes, and inflammatory conditions and has been shown to lower life expectancy. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a complication that causes sleep fragmentation in >8% of adults from developed countries, and many with OSA may be unaware of their condition. Having long-term OSA is linked to neuroinflammation caused by activated microglia in the brain, but the mechanics of this inflammation are not well understood. It is known that glucocorticoids, steroid hormones produced and released from the adrenal glands, have a suppressive effect on microglia. The purpose of this study is to explore the role that glucocorticoids have upon microglia activation induced by chronic sleep fragmentation (SF). C57BL/6J mice were …

Integrated Genomic, Proteomic And Cognitive Assessment Induchenne Muscular Dystrophy Suggest Astrocyte Centric Pathology, Nalaka Wijekoon, Lakmal Gonawala, Pyara Ratnayake, Pulasthi Dissanayaka, Isuru Gunarathne, Dhammika Amaratunga, Roshan Liyanage, Sunethra Senanayaka, Saraji Wijesekara, Hemal H. Gunasekara, Kamala Vanarsa, Jessica Castillo, Yetrib Hathout, Ashwin Dalal, Harry W.M. Steinbusch, Eric Hoffman, Chandra Mohan, K. Ranil D. De Silva

Pharmacy Faculty Scholarship

Introduction: Documented Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) biomarkers are confined to Caucasians and are poor indicators of cognitive difficulties and neuropsychological alterations.

Materials and methods: This study correlates serum protein signatures with cognitive performance in DMD patients of South Asian origin. Study included 25 DMD patients aged 6–16 years. Cognitive profiles were assessed by Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. Serum proteome profiling of 1317 proteins was performed in eight DMD patients and eight age-matched healthy volunteers.

Results: Among the several novel observations we report, better cognitive performance in DMD was associated with increased serum levels of MMP9 and FN1 but decreased …

N Y State Dent J August-September 2023

The New York State Dental Journal

In the August-September 2023 issue, the reader will find the following feature articles:

• Iatrogenic Indirect Compression of the Inferior Alveolar Nerve by a Dental Implant
• Use of Dentoalveolar and Zygomatic Implants in Restoration of Maxillary Defect Following Fibula Free-flap Reconstruction Failure
• Flapless Approach to Dental Implant Surgery: To Use or Not to Use?

This issue includes regular columns with regional news impacting the New York membership including: editorial and perspectives columns, legal, association activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

Volleyball Media Guide 2023, Wofford College. Departmet Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Cross-Cultural Applicability Of Eye-Tracking In Assessing Attention To Emotional Faces In Preschool-Aged Children, Sara S Nozadi, Andrea Aguiar, Ruofei Du, Elizabeth A Enright, Susan L Schantz, Curtis Miller, Brandon Rennie, Mallery Quetawki, Debra Mackenzie, Johnnye L Lewis

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

Humans show an attention bias toward emotional versus neutral information, which is considered an adaptive pattern of information processing. Deviations from this pattern have been observed in children with socially withdrawn behaviors, with most research being conducted in controlled settings among children from urban areas. The goal of the current study was to examine the cross-cultural applicability of two eye-tracking-based measures in assessing attention biases and their relations to children's symptoms of socially withdrawn behaviors in two independent and diverse samples of preschool children. The cross-cultural comparison was conducted between the Navajo Birth Cohort study (NBCS), an indigenous cohort with …

Distribution And Habitat Associations Of The Georgia Satyr (Neonympha Areolatus) In Arkansas, Kristi Patterson

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

The Georgia satyr (Neonympha areolatus) is a small sedentary butterfly that is rare in Arkansas. Currently, the exact locations of this butterfly in Arkansas are unknown, along with the habitat characteristics associated with their presence. In order to determine these unknowns, I completed 104 surveys across seven different wildlife management areas in southern Arkansas. Pollard-Yates transects were conducted at each study site, and weather variables were recorded before each survey. Vegetation surveys were also completed at each site, and where each Georgia satyr was identified. Generalized linear models (GLM) were created to identify what parameters are important for …

Behavioral Response To Conspecific Sounds In Loricariid Catfishes (Pterygoplichtys Pardalis And Otocinclus Vittatus), Hephzibah Obafunmiso

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Sound production is a means of communication among many fish species. In fishes, sound is produced through various mechanisms, but in the family Loricariidae, known as armored suckermouth catfishes, sound is produced primarily through pectoral fin spine stridulation. Previous experiments have described the sounds produced and shown the mechanism of sound production in two species of loricariid catfishes, Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps and Otocinclus affinis, but the functional significance of loricariid sounds is still unknown. To address this question, I examined the behavioral responses of Pterygoplichthys pardalis and Otocinclus vittatus to conspecific calls. Individual fish (N=10 for P. pardalis) or groups …