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Vodka2: A Fast And Accurate Method To Detect Non-Standard Viral Genomes From Large Rna-Seq Data Sets, Emna Achouri, Sébastien A Felt, Matthew Hackbart, Nicole S Rivera-Espinal, Carolina B López

2020-Current year OA Pubs

During viral replication, viruses carrying an RNA genome produce non-standard viral genomes (nsVGs), including copy-back viral genomes (cbVGs) and deletion viral genomes (delVGs), that play a crucial role in regulating viral replication and pathogenesis. Because of their critical roles in determining the outcome of RNA virus infections, the study of nsVGs has flourished in recent years, exposing a need for bioinformatic tools that can accurately identify them within next-generation sequencing data obtained from infected samples. Here, we present our data analysis pipeline, Viral Opensource DVG Key Algorithm 2 (VODKA2), that is optimized to run on a parallel computing environment for …

Machine Learning And Metabolic Model Guided Crispri Reveals A Central Role For Phosphoglycerate Mutase In Chlamydia Trachomatis Persistence, Niaz Bahar Chowdhury, Nick Pokorzynski, Elizabeth A. Rucks, Scot P. Ouellette, Rey A. Carabeo, Rajib Saha

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Faculty Publications

Upon nutrient starvation, Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 (CTL) shifts from its normal growth to a non-replicating form, termed persistence. It is unclear if persistence is an adaptive response or lack of it. To understand that transcriptomics data were collected for nutrientsufficient and nutrient-starved CTL. Applying machine learning approaches on transcriptomics data revealed a global transcriptomic rewiring of CTL under stress conditions without having any global stress regulator. This indicated that CTL’s stress response is due to lack of an adaptive response mechanism. To investigate the impact of this on CTL metabolism, we reconstructed a genome-scale metabolic model of CTL (iCTL278) …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 12.18.23, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• Roger Alford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Wednesday on "The New Invisible Hand? The Impact of Algorithms on Competition and Consumer Rights."
• Randy Kozel has published "Is Chevron Binding Law" in the Yale Journal on Regulation.
• Carter Snead wrote "The Jurisprudence & Politics of Abortion" for Commonweal in response to Bernard G. Prusak’s recent article “The Pro-Life Movement: Less Popular Than Ever?”
• Derek Muller was on the Bloomberg Law podcast, "SCOTUS Asked to Rule on Trump Immunity Claims."
• Stephanie Barclay's article, "The Historical Origins of Judicial Religious Exemptions," was cited in the Virginia Supreme Court's …

How Swiss Authorities Bungled Credit Suisse Oversight, John O'Donnell, Stefania Spezzati, Elisa Martinuzzi

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Sports Medicine Research And Testing Laboratory, Petitioner V. Board Of Equalization Of Salt Lake County, State Of Utah, And Utah State Tax Commission, Respondents., Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2021– )

Brief of Appellee Review of final agency action of the Utah State Tax Commission, Appeal No. 20-1618 before Judge Jane Phan

Bruce Olson (2468) RAY QUINNEY & NEBEKER P.C. Attorneys for Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory

SIM GILL (6389) District Attorney for Salt Lake County Timothy A. Bodily (6496) Bradley C. Johnson (10638) Deputy District Attorneys Attorneys for Salt Lake County Board of Equalization

2023-December-18-Etsu Students Contributing Important Research On Appalachia.Pdf, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

A group of students from East Tennessee State University recently presented a capstone research project in the nation’s capital, examining intersections between economic development and health disparities within underserved and historically Black communities in Washington County, Tennessee.

The group was among 130 students from 13 colleges and universities in 10 Appalachian states participating in the 23rd annual Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative (ACRI). Sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), the ACRI capstone symposium is organized by the Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services at ETSU.

The findings presented by students from ETSU’s Department of Appalachian Studies are from …

Pre-Service Teacher's Perceptions On Global Citizenship And Online Education In A Virtual Exchange Context

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Emerging Scholar

A Poinsettia By Any Other Name, Bridget Retzloff

Marian Library Blog Archive

The iconic Mexican poinsettia, also called Euphorbia pulcherrima, cuetlaxochitl and flor de nochebuena, is connected to Christmas legends and the Marian Library's collections.

Professors’ English-Only Or Multilingual Approaches In English Language Teacher Education At Ecuadorian Universities

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Emerging Scholar

Vietnamese Female Faculty In Higher Education Institutions With Work-Life Balance: A Qualitative Study

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Emerging Scholars

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Miocene Climatic Optimum Fungal Record And Plant-Based Crest Climatic Reconstruction From Southern Mcmurdo Sound, Antarctica, Mallory Pilie, Martha E. Gibson, Ingrid C. Romero, Noelia B.Nuñez Otaño, Matthew J. Pound, Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe, Sophie Warny

Faculty Publications

Deep-time palynological studies are necessary to evaluate plant and fungal distribution under warmer-than-present scenarios such as those of the Middle Miocene. Previous palynological studies from southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (SMS), have provided unique documentation for Neogene environments in the Ross Sea region during a time of pronounced global warming. The present study builds on these studies and provides a new climate reconstruction using the previously published SMS pollen and plant spore data. Additionally, 44 SMS samples were reanalyzed with a focus on the fungal fraction of the section to evaluate the fungal distribution under warmer than present conditions. The probability-based …

The Contested Exempla Of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Victoria Theresa White

Dissertations and Theses

In 82 BCE, Lucius Cornelius Sulla emerged the victor of his civil war against the supporters of Marius and Cinna. The brutal aftermath of this victory, characterized by the creation of the proscriptions, would brand Sulla as a cruel and immoderate victor. Still, his successes in Rome’s previous wars against foreign enemies had enshrined Sulla as a brilliant military commander within Roman memory. Previous scholarship about Sulla has focused on the dichotomy of Sulla’s actions, often in order to evaluate his clemency or cruelty and his aims of his political reforms. This thesis analyzes how ancient Roman and Greek authors …

Teacher Retention: Retaining Teachers In High-Needs, Urban Secondary Schools In A Midwest State Post-Pandemic, Christopher K. Schmit, Erin Lehmann, David Swank, Sue Alborn-Yilek, Tasha Dannenbring

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

Teacher retention has been a challenge for most schools for several years. High-needs schools have been known to have twice the trouble with teacher retention as schools not considered high-needs. The purpose of this study was to identify effective practices school principals can implement to retain teachers at high-needs, urban secondary schools. This quantitative study called on teachers from high-needs schools in Iowa to complete a survey identifying principal qualities related to retention, perceived reasons for teacher attrition, and reasons they continue to teach at their current school. Three hundred eighty-five teachers from five different Iowa school districts participated in …

Evaluating Principal Effectiveness: A Review Of The Literature, Jerry Burkett

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

The evaluation of a campus principal can be a challenging process due largely to the complicated factors that exist to capture an accurate assessment of a principal’s leadership effectiveness. Generally, principal evaluations are conducted by district-level officials who often do not have the time or the resources to observe campus principals on a regular basis. Further, principal evaluation systems (PES) are designed to improve the practice of principals (Clifford & Ross, 2012; Davis, Kearney, Sanders, Thomas, & Leon, 2011; Fuller & Hollingworth, 2014a; Fuller et al., 2015), and there has historically been an acknowledgment that these evaluations do not always …

The Virtual Counseling Transition And Its Influence On School Counselor Self-Efficacy, Tara Hornor, Lee A. Westberry

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine school counselors’ experiences transitioning to virtual counseling during the Covid-19 pandemic, the factors influencing their sense of confidence, and successes and challenges associated with the transition to virtual counseling. Study participants characterized the transition to virtual counseling as challenging and reported the process decreased their self-efficacy. Participants identified four salient categories of challenges associated with the transition to virtual counseling, including difficulty maintaining accountability and contact with students, decreased work/life balance, diminished sense of connection with students, and lack of preparation to conduct virtual school counseling. Successes resulting from the transition …

Experiential Leadership Learning: Narratives Of A Multiple Case Study Of Mexican School Leaders Appointed To Indigenous Schools, Manuel Lopez-Delgado, Argelia Estrada-Loya

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

Training and preparation of school leaders have an impact on the quality of leadership displayed in their readiness for the leadership practice. However, in Mexico the training and preparation processes for school leaders are unclear and lack uniformity. The way of access to headship has promoted that school leaders learn to lead in their role without previous preparation for the position. This paper presents the findings of a study conducted through narratives that analyzed the leadership learning processes of novice and experienced school leaders. The study identified important learning experiences as the receptive observation, malleable observation, practical experiences of leadership, …

Department Of Transportation Allots Um $1m For Safety Plan, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the University of Mississippi nearly $1 million to study pedestrian and driver safety on and around campus.

Functionalized Thermoplastic Polyurethane Nanofibers: An Innovative Triboelectric Energy Generator, Julia I. Salas, Diego De Leon, Sk Shamim Hasan Abir, Mohammed Jasim Uddin, Karen Lozano

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is one of the most significantly innovative microdevices for built-in energy harvesting with wearable and portable electronics. In this study, the forcespinning technology was used to synthesize a nanofiber (NF) mat-based TENG. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane was used as the negative triboelectric electrode/pole, and chemically designed and functionalized thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) was used as the positive electrode/pole for the TENG. The electronic interference, sensitivity, and gate voltage of the synthesized microdevices were investigated using chemically modified bridging of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) with a TPU polymer repeating unit and bare TPU-based positive electrodes. The chemical functionality …

Israel-Palestine Conflict: Historically, Currently And Its Effect On Unh, Abigail Driscoll

Digital Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

Content Moderation Through Removal Of Service: Content Delivery Networks And Extremist Websites, Seán Looney

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Considerable attention has been paid by researchers to social media platforms, especially the ‘big companies’, and increasingly also messaging applications, and how effectively they moderate extremist and terrorist content on their services. Much less attention has yet been paid to if and how infrastructure and service providers, further down ‘the tech stack’, deal with extremism and terrorism. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) such as Cloudflare play an underestimated role in moderating the presence of extremist and terrorist content online as it is impossible for these websites to operate without DDoS protection. This is evidenced by the takedown of a wide range …

Editorial; Biophysics Approaches To Investigate Multi-Organ Alcohol-Induced Damage, Janos Paloczi, Youngchan Kim

School of Graduate Studies Faculty Publications

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Sports Medicine Research And Testing Laboratory, Petitioner V. Board Of Equalization Of Salt Lake County, State Of Utah, And Utah State Tax Commission, Respondents., Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2021– )

Brief of Respondent Utah State Tax Commission On Petition for Review of a Final Decision of the Utah State Tax Commission, Appeal No. 20-1618

Samuel A. Lambert Bruce Olson RAY QUINNEY & NEBEKER P.C. Attorneys for Petitioner Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory

Erin T. Middleton (10666) Assistant Solicitor General Michelle Lombardi (14085) Assistant Attorney General Sean D. Reyes (7969) Utah Attorney General Attorneys for Respondent Utah State Tax Commission

Denied, Disrespected, Doubted, And Discarded: Women's Criminal Convictions And Experiences Of Discrimination, Brian Wyant, Holly Harner, Brian Lockwood

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

This study surveyed over 400 incarcerated women in a medium-maximum security prison in the United States to assess their experiences of discrimination due to their criminal conviction. Over 60% of the participants indicated they had been discriminated against due to their felon status. Binary logistic models revealed that discrimination based on prison status can occur both inside and outside of prison but varies by race and length of stay. Similarly, qualitative results showed that during and after their incarceration, these women reported being denied jobs, disrespected and viewed as incapable of changing. Some women even anticipated they would experience discrimination …

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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Midwest Social Sciences Journal

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The Entrepreneur Of The Self: Understanding Neoliberalism-As-Enterprise In Japan’S Top Global University Project

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Emerging Scholar

Lord Krishna As A Deconstructionist Teacher In The Bhagavadgita

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Emerging Scholar

Analysis Of International Branch Campuses In Korea And Japan: Exploring Success Factors

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Emerging Scholar

White International Graduate Students And Whiteness

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Emerging Scholar