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Glutathione Alleviates Boron Toxicity By Modulating Nitrogen Metabolism And Boronuptake In Rice Seedlings, Lei Zhang, Lizhu Suo, Yan Shan, Bo Wang

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Boron (B) toxicity is an abiotic stressor in plants due to the narrow threshold range between B deficiency and B toxicity.Glutathione (GSH) has been reported to reduce abiotic stress in plants, but its effect on B toxicity alleviation, particularly in riceseedlings, is not clear. Therefore, the present research yields information on the antioxidant mechanism, nitrogen metabolism, cell wallcomponents, and B concentrations that allow rice seedlings to withstand the adverse effects of B toxicity by GSH application. The resultssuggest that B toxicity suppressed the growth traits of rice. However, GSH treatment exhibited a positive influence on the growth ofrice seedlings. GSH …

Ethical Challenges For Same-Day Delivery Contractors, Chun-Miin (Jimmy) Chen, Xinwei Chen

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

It’S Time To Get Hyped!, Brian Gurinsky

Metro Denver Dental Society Articulator Magazine

Dr. Brian Gurinsky, Chair of the 117th Rocky Mountain Dental Convention (RMDC), shares exciting highlights of the upcoming event. He emphasizes diverse learning formats such as lectures, hands-on workshops, Industry Ally sessions, and Professional Industry Panels featuring thought leaders. Additional features include dynamic speakers, on-demand course access, a vibrant Expo Hall, fun social events and unique wellness activities like Puppy Playtime, oral health screening and more.

Critical Reflection And Early Career Instructor Formation, Rafael Alexandre Mello

All Faculty Scholarship

Mello develops a reflection on what it means to prepare early career instructors for their career in teaching. This chapter proposes to reconceptualize this preparation in terms of formation, juxtaposed to training. Conceptualized as an often unconscious process, training steers the early career learner to neglect reflexivity and critical thinking and become a passive absorber of knowledge. Formation as a process, however, centers the ECI as an agent of their own learning by privileging critical reflection on and engagement with disciplinary knowledge, history, and politics, with the practices of learning-teaching, and the ways they relate. The chapter intertwines …

Week Of December 2, 2024, Student Life

College, School and Department Newsletters, Magazines, and Journals

Your weekly hub for events, resources and updates.

Promotional Product Brand Message Effectiveness: A Study Of Brand Awareness Using The Nudge Theory, Seth Barnett

JWU Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation explored the efficacy of promotional products as marketing nudges for new market entrants. It employs Nudge Theory, a measure used to induce behavioral changes (Thaler & Sunstein, 2021), to analyze their influence on human behavior and decision-making. Through voluntary surveys, participants' brand awareness was assessed, examining changes in branding awareness and general brand perception by using promotional products as a catalyst.

Promotional products are tangible items imprinted with a company's logo or message and distributed to consumers to enhance brand awareness and foster emotional connections (Pennington, 2002). Often given at no cost, these items are constantly reminded of …

Policing Emotions: What Social Psychology Can Teach Fourth Amendment Doctrine, Wayne A. Logan

Buffalo Law Review

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Moral Panic And The First Amendment, Michael L. Smith

Buffalo Law Review

Debates over free speech in the United States frequently see advocates of strong, broad protections at odds with those who argue that unfettered free speech tends to harm society’s most vulnerable. Free speech advocates invoke the marketplace of ideas and argue that the antidote to false or harmful speech is more speech. In response, critics contend that speech itself causes harm and chills counter-speech— effectively excluding marginalized groups, including women and LGBTQ people, from discourse altogether. These critics support limitations on robust free speech doctrine targeting speech that harms marginalized communities.

This Article identifies a significant wrinkle in this narrative: …

Máscaras De Fe: Espiritualidades Queer Y Estrategias De Anonimato En La Argentina Posdictatorial, Yacurmana De La Puente

Conexión Queer: Revista Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Teologías Queer

This article proposes that —in risk contexts marked by institutional violence and religious exclusion— anonymity is not absence but a radical spiritual and political practice. Adopting pseudonyms, masks, or disguises is interpreted as a form of faith in life, pleasure, and community. These strategies subvert binaries between truth and falsehood, authenticity and disguise, proposing a queer ethics of presence. The analysis focuses on pride marches as rites of passage where anonymity is re-signified as collective consecration: the street becomes a temple, the disguise a sacrament, and the mask a spiritual icon.

Cuerpos En Tránsito, Creencias En Disputa: Espiritualidades Queer, Justicia Encarnada Y Subversiones Desde Los Márgenes, Hugo Cordova Quero, Cristian Mor, Anderson Fabián Santos Meza, Jorge A. Aquino Ph.D.

Conexión Queer: Revista Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Teologías Queer

This issue of Conexión Queer, titled «Bodies in Transit, Beliefs in Dispute,» offers a reflection grounded in the margins, where spirituality and dissidence intertwine. Through a critical and celebratory lens, it invites us to inhabit the tensions between the divine and the embodied, between faith and desire, dogma and festivity. It recognizes and affirms the transformative power of bodies that resist normativity, question theological certainties, and insist on living queer spiritualities as acts of embodied justice and subversion from the margins.

The Winter Issue 2024, Destiny Dehart, Tifanee Mask, Crystal Walker, Lili Debarbier, Oliver La Barbrea

Fonds and Feathers

This issue, edited by Destiny DeHart, features “An Archival Dichotomy: Is a Digital Collection or Physical Collection Best?” by Tifanee Mask Jackson, “Bringing Virtual Escape Rooms to the Library” by Crystal Walker, “Digitization and Natural History: Collections: Impact on Museum Educators and K-12 STEM Education Collections” by Lili DeBarbieri, “Preservation of Queer History in Texas” by Oliver La Barbrea, “Is Misinformation an Epidemic?: Digital literacy, who is she?” by Destiny DeHart, “Interview with Digital Historian Dr. Stephanie Seal Walters” by Destiny DeHart, and the poem “Cain & Abel” by Tifanee Mask Jackson. In addition, upcoming conferences are listed. A list …

Antioxidant Testing And Identification Of Bioactive Compounds In Ethanol Extract Of Propolis From Various Locations In Indonesia Using Lcms-Qtof, Ade Heri Mulyati, Hanis Alawiyah, Muhamad Fathul Marom, Siti Warnasih

Chimica et Natura Acta

Propolis produced by Trigona sp. stingless bees contains various bioactive substances including alkaloids, flavonoids, polyphenols, saponins, steroids, and terpenoids. The geographical origin of propolis production can influence its composition of secondary metabolites. This study aimed to qualitatively analyze ethanol extracts of propolis from Bintan, Lampung, and Makassar, and evaluate their phenolic and flavonoid contents, as well as antioxidant activities. The extraction method employed kinetic maceration with continuous stirring over 24 hours, using 70% ethanol as the solvent. Additionally, antioxidant activity was assessed using the DPPH method. The qualitative phytochemical analysis revealed that all three ethanol extracts contained alkaloids, flavonoids, and …

D101n: A Unique And Ill-Understood Familial Als-Related Sod1 Mutant, Analisa Lott

Honors Program Theses and Research Projects

Background: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease, with 90% of documented cases considered sporadic and about 10% showing a hereditary link; such cases are deemed as familial ALS (fALS). Superoxide dismutase (SOD), a copper-zinc binding enzyme that protects cells from damaging free radicals, has been linked to fALS with certain toxic gain of function mutations, such as the D101N mutant. The human SOD1 D101N mutant has been shown to be associated with rapidly progressing neurodegeneration yet is less prone to aggregation than similar mutants, but its deviation from wild-type (WT) SOD1 remains misunderstood.

Objective: Although the D101N …

An Instrospective On Art And Identity, Sean Godfrey

The North Meridian Review

No abstract provided.

Herencias Y Resistencias Desde La Interseccionalidad: Género, Sexualidad Y La Reforma Radical, Norberto D'Amico

Conexión Queer: Revista Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Teologías Queer

This article examines how the Radical Reformation movement — although it did not transform gender roles or acknowledge dissident sexualities — left a living theological legacy in inclusive practices and critical theologies that continue to sustain emancipatory struggles today. Through an analysis of the feudal context, peasant revolts, and the tensions between moral control and embodied spirituality, the article explores how gender and sexuality were regulated, repressed, or re-signified. The analysis recovers historical, theological, and mystical elements which —when read through feminist and queer lenses— open new paths for rethinking faith through justice, autonomy, and bodily dignity.

The Impact Of Prophet Ibrahim’S Supplications In The Qur’An On The Flourishing Of Islamic Pilgrimage, Tariq H. M. Elhadary, Razaq Raj

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

The supplications of Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh) in the Qur’an have had a significant impact on the flourishing of Islamic Pilgrimage and have also provided spiritual guidance for those who visit these sacred sites. Through his supplications, Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh) expressed his love for the sacred places associated with the Islamic faith. His prayers for both the visitors and residents of these places, are believed to invoke divine blessings and protection upon them. Prophet Ibrahim’s supplications in the Qur’an also encouraged Muslim pilgrims (often referred to as religious tourists) to visit these holy sites by reminding them of the great rewards …

To Read Or Not To Read: How Book Censorship Affects Students And Undermines Different Worldviews, Jordyn L. Bailey

Honors Theses

The past five years have seen an unprecedented growth in book challenges across the nation. The American Library Association announced in March 2024 that 2023 saw a ninety-two percent increase in challenged titles, making it a record year for book bans and challenges (American Library Association 2024). States are seeing increased government inference into these issues. Namely, Florida remains a leader in book challenges with over forty percent of all book bans in the 2022-2023 school year (Meehan 2023). This project examines the effect of book challenges and bans on adolescent readers, with an emphasis on how frequently challenged books, …

Beyond Color: Design Approaches For Conveying Mood And Music Genre In Album Covers For Color Blind Accessibility, Victoria Erdmann

Senior Honors Theses

In the music industry, album cover design serves as a pivotal visual medium that not only acts as a marketing tool but can also shape a listener’s perception of the music. Designing album covers that are accessible to color blind individuals presents a unique challenge in an industry where color plays a significant role in design choices. This thesis examines how color vision deficiency impacts the perception of album art and defines four approaches that designers can take to ensure inclusive visual communication. By analyzing how contrast, typography, texture, and imagery can effectively convey genre and mood, designers can create …

Pilgrimage And Tourism Marketing Concepts, Prospects, And Challenges In Two Developing Countries: Bangladesh And Ghana, Md. Javed Kawsar, Michael Evans, Rashed Khan

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

This contextual paper analyses the significance of pilgrimage and tourism marketing concepts, prospects, and challenges in two developing countries, Ghana in the West of Africa, and Bangladesh in the South of Asia. The focus of this study is to assess the present marketing and promotion of tourism in the two countries which are different in population size, economy, and tourism contribution towards each country’s GDP.

Within the context of nature-based tourism initiatives in Bangladesh, it is imperative to measure future prospects of tourism marketing ventures related to pilgrimage. The development of marketing for tourism can be helpful for delivering stability …

Ud In The News Nov. 23-29, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The National Desk and Conversation tapped faculty expertise. Local media highlighted UD's Nativities exhibit, our new vice president for student development, and sociologist Art Jipson's radio show championing local, alternative and indie music.

Landscape Of Kidney Replacement Therapy Provision In Low- And Lower-Middle Income Countries: A Multinational Study From The Isn-Gkha, Victoria Nkunu, Somkanya Tungsanga, Hassane M. Diongole, Abdulshahid Sarki

Open Access archive

In low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs), delivering equitable kidney care presents substantial challenges, resulting in significant disparities in disease management and treatment outcomes for people with kidney failure. This comprehensive report leveraged data from the International Society of Nephrology-Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA), to provide a detailed update on the landscape of kidney replacement therapy (KRT) in LLMICs. Among the 65 participating LLMICs, reimbursement for KRT (publicly funded by the government and free at the point of delivery) was available in 28%, 15%, and 8% for hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), and kidney transplantation (KT), respectively. Additionally, while 56% and …

Perceptions Of Parents And Guardians Regarding Home-To-School Involvement, Brie Merritt

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem that was addressed through this study was the decline in home-to-school partnerships within a local, public, and ethnically diverse middle school (DMS) in the Southeastern United States. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore parents’ perspectives on the decline in home-to-school partnerships at a DMS. Using Epstein’s six types of family involvement as a guide, a qualitative, exploratory design was used, with data collected through semi structured interviews with 12 Black mothers of eighth-grade students from DMS in the 2022–2023 school year. Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis revealed the following four themes: communication satisfaction, parent-school engagement, …

Perceptions Of Parents And Guardians Regarding Home-To-School Involvement, Brie Merritt

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem that was addressed through this study was the decline in home-to-school partnerships within a local, public, and ethnically diverse middle school (DMS) in the Southeastern United States. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore parents’ perspectives on the decline in home-to-school partnerships at a DMS. Using Epstein’s six types of family involvement as a guide, a qualitative, exploratory design was used, with data collected through semi structured interviews with 12 Black mothers of eighth-grade students from DMS in the 2022–2023 school year. Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis revealed the following four themes: communication satisfaction, parent-school engagement, …

Deteksi Mekanisme Efflux Pump Pada Resistensi Bakteri Staphylococcus Haemolyticus, Sampel Pus Klinis Rumah Sakit Pekanbaru, Rexi Dwi Wardana, Maya Savira, Dewi Anggraini, Aisyah Sabrina Amalia, Yuana Nurulita

Chimica et Natura Acta

Infeksi adalah masalah kesehatan yang disebabkan oleh mikroorganisme patogen seperti bakteri. Salah satu jenis infeksi yaitu infeksi kulit dan jaringan lunak yang umumnya disebabkan oleh Staphylococcus aureus dan menyebabkan pembentukan pus. Saat ini, telah dilaporkan bahwa kasus spesies CoNS (Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus) seperti Staphylococcus haemolyticus sebagai penyebab infeksi, mengalami peningkatan. Selain itu, spesies ini juga diketahui telah mengalami resistensi terhadap beberapa golongan antibiotik. Dalam penelitian ini dilakukan karakterisasi isolat bakteri klinis dari sampel pus agar yang dilakukan dengan identifikasi mikrobiologi (kultur isolat, pewarnaan Gram dan uji biokimia) pada bakteri patogen (Isolat 3887), dan dilanjutkan dengan identifikasi molekuler, antara lain ekstraksi …

The Last Day Of The '90s: An Essay, Daniel Vollaro

The North Meridian Review

No abstract provided.

Subverting The Punchline: If Your Name Is J.D. Vance, You Might (Not) Be A Redneck, Willie Carver, Sarah Ratliff

The North Meridian Review

No abstract provided.

Three Installations, Shawnda Crowe Storm

The North Meridian Review

No abstract provided.

Interview With Grey Johnson, Grey Johnson, Wesley R. Bishop

The North Meridian Review

No abstract provided.

End Of The Liberal Ego: Film Criticism, Robin Marie Averbeck

The North Meridian Review

No abstract provided.

Contributor Bios, The North Meridian Review Editorial Staff

The North Meridian Review

No abstract provided.