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2023-2024 Common Data, Morehead State University. Institutional Research & Analysis.

Office of Institutional Research & Analysis Publication Archive

2023-2024 issue of the Common Data.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Options For Western Australian Agriculture, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Climate Science Published Reports

The Western Australian (WA) Government is committed to building the climate resilience of the agriculture industry. The WA Climate Change Policy underscores this commitment to adapting to climate change and working with all sectors of the economy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Achieving climate resilience requires both adaptation and the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions which accelerate climate change.

The Sectoral Emissions Reduction Strategies (SERS) are a core commitment of the Western Australian Climate Policy. These will provide robust and credible emissions reduction pathways across sectors for the whole of WA. Development of the SERS, announced in …

Student Handbook- 2023-2024, Student Activities Staff

Student Handbooks

Sudent handbook

Measuring Follow-On Innovation, Janet Freilich, Sepehr Shahshahani

Faculty Scholarship

How patents affect follow-on innovation is a key question for the patent system. We disaggregate follow-on innovation into activities that infringe patents and others that do not infringe but can be indirectly affected by patents. Replicating an important study using our disaggregated measure, we find that 87 percent of followon innovation is not patent infringement. Supplementing the study’s empirical strategy with data on patent expiration dates, we find that gene patents which are not close to expiration cause an increase in noninfringing follow-on research, but the effect disappears for patents close to expiration. Our nuanced measure helps better identify the …

Application Of A Secondary Opioid Risk Tool In The Management Of Patients On Opioids In The Adult Pain Management Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project, Monica Kastanaras

DNP Projects

Introduction—Significance and Background: Aggressive opioid prescription practices play the biggest role in opioid-related behaviors and contribute to an epidemic of abuse. If started on long-term opioid therapy without screening, patients who are high risk for opioid abuse could overdose on their prescribed opioids. Current practice does not follow guidelines on monitoring opioid misuse behaviors utilizing a secondary screening tool for patients on long-term therapy.

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to help clinicians identify whether a patient, currently on long-term opioid therapy, may be exhibiting aberrant behaviors associated with misuse of opioid medications, using the Current Opioid Misuse Measure …

Big Meadows Mountain Meadow & Aspen Restoration Project 2017 – 2023 Summary Report, Scott River Watershed Council

Aspen Bibliography

Big Meadows Mountain Meadow and Aspen Restoration Project is designed to enhance aspen and mountain meadow habitats at Big Meadows, a property that is privately owned by Ecotrust Forest Management (EFM). EFM owns approximately 40,000 acres in the Klamath Mountains of Siskiyou County, known as the Scott River Headwaters Property. The Scott River Headwaters Property Management Plan, developed by EFM, specifically identifies and prioritizes the restoration of aspen woodlands. As such, EFM and Scott River Watershed Council (SRWC) partnered with the goal of improving these critical habitats. The Big Meadows complex is one of the largest mountain meadow systems within …

Progression And Protectiveness Of Social Bonds And Play In A Captive Group Of Western Lowland Gorillas, Madeline L. Vandevere

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

The current study aims to bring to light the critical role that play has on healthy development, not only for nonhuman primates, but also for humans. In addition to building the literature concerning social and play development among gorillas and humans, this study also hopes to promote the observation and welfare of captive gorillas. The present study conducted longitudinal observational research of a troop of captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) to gain insights into primate play development and how it relates to social bonding and zoological enrichment. The study followed the early infancy and juvenile years …

Biomarker Assay Development: Urinary Titin In Becker Muscular Dystrophy, Kimchi Le, Corrine Stahura

Research Days Posters 2023

Mutations in a structural muscle protein called dystrophin result in muscle fiber degradation and diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). Such muscle fiber degradation can result in large titin fragments being released into serum and excreted into the urine. Compared to current methods using muscle biopsy and serum collection, our study utilizes urine as a potential non-invasive method for monitoring disease progression in BMD by quantifying urinary titin fragments. This is done through development of an immunoassay based on the enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) format using liposomal technology as a method of detection. …

Facing A Modern International Issue: The Politics Of Biological Warfare In The United States And Korea, James Kang

Research Days Posters 2023

Biological warfare, which is the deliberate release of infectious toxins or organisms that cause diseases, has historically been a major issue that the international community has strived to resolve. By analyzing peer-reviewed journals and pre-modern documents, this research project challenges the effectiveness of pre-established policies and collaborative efforts to prevent the development and usage of biological warfare. The modern perception of biological warfare is misinterpreted because it has adapted different connotations compared to its origins. The project will engage in a historical examination of the Biological Weapons Convention and historization of major political events, such as the Korean War, to …

Anatoliy Golitsyn’S Epistemological Disinformation, Daniel Reznikov

Research Days Posters 2023

In 1961, KGB agent Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the West. In his attempts to collaborate with American intelligence agencies, Golitsyn generated a number of memoranda to the CIA that accused subsequent defectors of operating as double agents. This paper interprets Golitsyn's writings through an epistemological approach to facts that distinguishes between situations in which what we know to be true is based on fact and situations in which we turned out to be right, but only because we were lucky (known as the Gettier Case). I argue, that Golitsyn's writings reflect a common epistemological strategy in disinformation campaigns that resembles …

The Influence Of Colored Light On Mexican Jumping Bean Larva (Laspeyresia Saltitans) Activity, Amber Tuske, Faith Summers, Andrés Rojo, Annie Wong, Cassandra Puglisi

Research Days Posters 2023

The Mexican jumping bean larva, Laspeyresia saltitans, is a moth larva that lives in the seeds of a fern, Sebastiana pavoniana, found throughout deserts in Mexico. Mexican jumping bean larvae are known to jump to avoid the intense heat and sunlight of their environment, but little is known about the specific cues that induce this behavior. We analyzed how different wavelengths of light affected the activity of the jumping bean larvae through exposure to red, green, purple and white light. Larval movement from their original position was measured, and we determined the greatest displacement occurred under red light, and the …

For Your Eyes Only: Do Visual System Differences Between Predators And Conspecifics Influence Perception Of Lizard Body Coloration?, Andrés Rojo

Research Days Posters 2023

Because predator and prey each see the world in different ways – with different color perceptions and visual acuities – whether colorful traits of animals arise as a result of camouflage or social signaling is not always readily apparent. Water anoles (Anolis aquaticus) are Central American lizards that use visual signals in conspecific interactions. We compared lizard and avian visual models to examine lizard conspicuousness to conspecifics and predators. Using the image processing software ImageJ and the plug-in micaToolbox, visual system models of lizard predators and conspecifics were applied to photos of A. aquaticus and their substrates obtained from a …

Effects Of Food Insecurity On Perceived Stress Among Undergraduate University Students, Alexis Valerius, Ushima Chowdhury, Sabrina Bubis, Katerina Nagorny, Lexi Rosenberg, Megan Welch

Research Days Posters 2023

Food insecurity is a rising issue among college students. The added pressure and worry over food availability impacts students’ mindset and their perception of stress. However, research investigating this relationship is limited. To address this gap, an anonymous online survey was distributed via social media platforms to adults 18 years and older. The survey included demographic questions, the Food Mood Questionnaire, and the Perceived Stress Scale. A total of 997 people completed the survey, including 705 females, 246 males, and 46 others. Data was analyzed using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient in SPSS Version 25.0. A significant positive correlation was found between …

Best Practices For Bioacoustic Analysis Of Wood Frog (Rana Sylvatica) Advertisement Calls Over A Suburbanization Gradient, Lizzy Croft, Lindsey Swierk

Research Days Posters 2023

Identifying how species respond to an anthropogenic change in their environment is crucial to understanding species persistence and best conservation practices. Wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) can be found throughout all of North America in both human-disturbed and remote habitats, and they are therefore an excellent species to use to test the impacts of environmental change on their behavior and physiology. Wood frog mating activity includes male congregation and auditory chorusing behavior (i.e., advertisement calls). I explored bioacoustics methods for analyzing these wood frog advertisement calls across a suburbanization gradient to determine if and how suburbanization affects the pitch, duration, and …

Microplastics Reduce Earthworm (Eisenia Fetida) Biomass And Impact Behavior, Meisi Williams, Anthony Calder, Anna Brun, Gavin Code, Vashti Devi B. Mahadeo, Weixing Zhu

Research Days Posters 2023

This study aims to understand the impacts of common anthropogenic pollutants on earthworms (Eisenia fetida) and soil health. Earthworms were exposed to high microplastics and low microplastics, high and low salinity, imidacloprid pesticide, and combinations of salinity and pesticide. After 28 days, earthworms reared in different concentrations of microplastics showed significant reduction in biomass. The individual escape assay demonstrated that microplastics significantly reduced the earthworms’ ability to escape the induced stressor. We ran a pilot study for avoidance with the varying treatments and found that earthworms preferred the microplastics and high salt and pesticide environments. We found no effects on …

Assessing The Impacts Of Anthropogenic Pollutants On Earthworm (Eisenia Fetida) Biomass And Behavior Using Soil Microcosms, Jacob Dibiase, Ryan Atkins, Kaitlyn Drumma, Emma Roylance, Vashti Devi B. Mahadeo

Research Days Posters 2023

Anthropogenic pollutants are a common issue, yet ubiquitous in natural environments. In this experiment, Eisenia fetida, a common indicator of ecosystem health, was exposed to varying pollutants and assessed using behavioral assays, escape response to stress, change in biomass, and avoidance trials. The treatment groups included; high (HMP) and low (LMP) microplastics, high and low salt concentrations, imidacloprid pesticide, and combinations of the latter three. Following experimental testing, pH and conductivity were measured to assess soil health. In the presence of microplastics, earthworms showed a significant decrease in their ability to respond to stress, indicating negative impacts on behavior. We …

The Combined Impact Of Maternal Major Depressive Disorder And Individual Major Depressive Disorder Results In Increased Amounts Of Dependent Stress, Caroline Cahill

Research Days Posters 2023

Stress generation is an idea explaining how symptoms of depression contribute to the occurrence of additional stress in an individual's life (Hammen 1991). Increased amounts of dependent stress can occur in individuals with current or past depression (Alloy 2010). Children of mothers with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) are at a higher risk of depression and also have increased amounts of stress generation (Feurer et al. 2016). This study identifies the combined impact of individual and maternal MDD on dependent episodic stress. Participants were 228 mothers and their 8–14-year-old children. Diagnostic interviewers assessed mothers’ and children’s histories of MDD. Six months …

Design And Synthesis Of Methyltransferase Inhibitors To Treat Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infections, Michael Piacquadio

Research Days Posters 2023

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common opportunistic pathogen that is responsible for nearly 10% of hospital-acquired infections. P. aeruginosa infections have become increasingly difficult to treat due to rising antibiotic resistance; thus, novel methods of treatment must be developed to combat infection. P. aeruginosa releases pyochelin to acquire nutrients and disrupt host biological processes. Pyochelin-deficient strains of P. aeruginosa demonstrated significantly lower growth ability and virulence. Because of pyochelin’s role in virulence and the unique proteins involved in secretion, the pyochelin biosynthetic pathway is an effective drug target for P. aeruginosa treatment. Before pyochelin is released, the precursor molecule is methylated …

Implementing Nature's Rights In Colombia: The Arato And Amazon Experiences, Camila Bustos, Whitney Richardson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Nature's rights approaches are being developed as an alternative legal means to enable justice for nature and, oftentimes, humans, too. This study examines Colombia's two seminal court-ordered nature's rights approaches which recognize ecosystems-the Atrato River Basin (2016) and the Colombian Amazon (2018)-as a legal subject with rights to protection, maintenance, conservation, and restoration. Developed as remedies for human rights violations, both cases offer opportunities to explore variations in nature's rights approaches and the relationship between efforts to enable justice for humans and nature. We build on existing scholarly engagement with the cases by contributing a detailed archival study on their …

Mental And Intellectual Capacity And Contractual Freedom: Assistive Decision-Making Matters., Ilias Bantekas

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Transcriptomic Responses Of Females To Consumption Of Nuptial Food Gifts As A Potential Mediator Of Sexual Conflict In Decorated Crickets, Bert Foquet, James Rapkin, Manmohan D. Sharma, Ben M. Sadd, Scott K. Sakaluk, John Hunt

Faculty Publications – Biological Sciences

Nuptial food gift provisioning by males to females at mating is a strategy in many insects that is thought to be shaped by sexual conflict or sexual selection, as it affords males access to a female's physiology. While males often attempt to use these gifts to influence female behaviour to their own advantage, females can evolve counter mechanisms. In decorated crickets, the male's nuptial gift comprises part of the spermatophore, the spermatophylax, the feeding on which deters the female from prematurely terminating sperm transfer. However, ingested compounds in the spermatophylax and attachment of the sperm-containing ampulla could further influence female …

Lawrence, Fall/Winter 2023, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Creating Our Own Recipe: Supporting Instruction And Well-Being Through A Mock-Teaching Program, Ariane Breton, Tori Lieggi, Liz Waltman

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2023

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Non-Point Source Microplastic Pollution And Its Impact On Biota In The Huron River, Morgan H. Chaudry

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), like microplastics and pharmaceuticals, are a growing threat to aquatic ecosystems across the globe. Microplastics can be transported into waterways through a myriad of sources, including point sources such as wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and nonpoint sources, such as runoff. Microplastics can act as vectors for other CECs, such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), into biota. The goal of this study was to evaluate 1) the importance of non-point sources of microplastic pollution to the Huron River, 2) if aquatic filter feeders ingest microplastics, and 3) how the interaction of microplastics and pharmaceuticals affect filter …

Revisiting The Geography Of Globalisation In The Covid-19 Pandemic Using Risk Theory, Kunphatu Sakwit

Journal of Social Sciences

My review paper is part of Covid-IAS Project, funded by National Research Council of Thailand. The paper focuses on the geography of globalisation in the Covid -19 pandemic. I employ Ulrich Beck’s concept of risk society to critically examine geography. Although Beck is not a geography theorist, his theory can be used extensively and alternatively to study the geography of globalisation. By drawing upon Beck, I argue that the geography of globalisation in the context of Covid -19 displays forms of dependency upon the politics of knowledge about Covid -19 vaccines. With the production of knowledge, the vaccines have caused …

วัฒนธรรมที่มีกลิ่น : การสำรวจกลิ่นหอม การปรุงน้ำหอม และมิติทางสังคมของกลิ่น, ปิยรัตน์ ปั้นลี้

Journal of Social Sciences

บทความนี้ เริ่มจากการตั้งคำถามว่า สังคมต่าง ๆ ให้ความหมายกับกลิ่นอย่างไร กลิ่นสร้างปฏิสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมอย่างไร และเชื่อมโยงกับประสบการณ์ของมนุษย์ที่ซับซ้อนอย่างไร จากนั้นสำรวจความเป็นไปได้ของคำตอบผ่านการทำความเข้าใจพลวัตของกลิ่น บทความแบ่งเป็นห้าส่วน โดยส่วนแรก เป็นการกล่าวถึงกลิ่น ในฐานะผัสสะที่ (เคย) ถูกหลงลืม คุณลักษณะและการทำงานของผัสสะด้านกลิ่นของมนุษย์ในการรับรู้กลิ่น ส่วนที่สอง เป็นการสำรวจพัฒนาการทางการศึกษากลิ่น อันนำมาสู่การศึกษาที่ใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยทางมานุษยวิทยาอย่างเป็นระบบ ส่วนที่สาม ตรวจสอบน้ำหอมประเภทต่าง ๆ โดยสรุปคุณลักษณะ ส่วนประกอบทางเคมี และวิธีการที่ใช้อธิบายคุณลักษณะและกระบวนการเหล่านี้ ส่วนที่สี่ ย้อนทบทวนประวัติศาสตร์แบบย่นย่อของน้ำหอม ส่วนที่ห้าส่วนสุดท้าย กล่าวถึงสิ่งที่เรียกว่า วัฒนธรรมกลิ่นหอม บทความนี้เสนอว่า วัฒนธรรมกลิ่นหอมและน้ำหอมให้ความกระจ่างถึงความสัมพันธ์อันมีพลวัตระหว่างกลิ่นและสังคม โลกแห่งกลิ่นจึงสมควรได้รับความสนใจและการวิเคราะห์ในเชิงวิชาการมากขึ้น เพื่อให้เข้าใจคุณค่าของประสบการณ์ที่หลากหลายของมนุษย์มากขึ้น

Design, Synthesis, And Evaluation Of Acetyl Coa Synthetase Inhibitors, Michael Emmett Heene

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Invasive fungal species provide a challenge to the current drug landscape, only partiallymet by approved drugs. The Acetyl Coenzyme Synthetase (ACS) enzymes are an attractive target for antifungal compounds because normal mammalian cells do not rely on ACS for energy metabolism while fungal cells do rely on ACS. This work focuses on the design and synthesis of inhibitors of various fungal ACS enzymes. The first class of inhibitors is based on the 2-aminothiazole scaffold originating from a saturation transfer difference (STD) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study and previous whole-organism assays. Ultimately, the 2-aminothiazole core compounds were found to not be …

Prodromal Glutamatergic Modulation With Riluzole Impacts Glucose Homeostasis And Spatial Cognition In Alzheimer's Disease Mice., Caleigh A Findley, Samuel A Mcfadden, Makayla F Cox, Lindsey N Sime, Mackenzie R Peck, Kathleen Quinn, Andrzej Bartke, Kevin N Hascup, Erin R Hascup

Articles

BACKGROUND: Prior research supports a strong link between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and metabolic dysfunction that involves a multi-directional interaction between glucose, glutamatergic homeostasis, and amyloid pathology. Elevated soluble amyloid-β (Aβ) is an early biomarker for AD-associated cognitive decline that contributes to concurrent glutamatergic and metabolic dyshomeostasis in humans and male transgenic AD mice. Yet, it remains unclear how primary time-sensitive targeting of hippocampal glutamatergic activity may impact glucose regulation in an amyloidogenic mouse model. Previous studies have illustrated increased glucose uptake and metabolism using a neuroprotective glutamate modulator (riluzole), supporting the link between glucose and glutamatergic homeostasis.

OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized …

The Effects Of Body Weight, Feed Intake, And Weather On Total And Liquid Water Intake In Growing Beef Cattle, Madison Rae Kovarna

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Research conducted in the 1950s to determine water requirements utilized cattle that vary greatly from the animals being raised today. Additionally, most of the previous research has been conducted on animals being fed for slaughter, rather than bulls or reproductive females. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of weather variables, dry matter intake (DMI), and body weight (BW) on total daily water intake (TDWI) and liquid daily water intake (LDWI) in growing beef bulls and heifers. Two contemporary groups of Angus and Simmental x Angus bulls and heifers over a two-year period were utilized in this …

Hmgb2 Regulates The Differentiation And Stemness Of Exhausted Cd8+ T Cells During Chronic Viral Infection And Cancer, Emily N. Neubert, Julia M. Derogatis, Sloan A. Lewis, Karla M. Viramontes, Pedro Ortega, Monique L. Henriquez, Rémi Buisson, Ilhem Messaoudi, Roberto Tinoco

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

Chronic infections and cancers evade the host immune system through mechanisms that induce T cell exhaustion. The heterogeneity within the exhausted CD8⁺ T cell pool has revealed the importance of stem-like progenitor (Tpex) and terminal (Tex) exhausted T cells, although the mechanisms underlying their development are not fully known. Here we report High Mobility Group Box 2 (HMGB2) protein expression is upregulated and sustained in exhausted CD8⁺ T cells, and HMGB2 expression is critical for their differentiation. Through epigenetic and transcriptional programming, we identify HMGB2 as a cell-intrinsic regulator of the differentiation and maintenance of Tpex cells during …