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Winter, Emily Niebuhr Jan 2024

Winter, Emily Niebuhr

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There Sits, Mason Stobbe Jan 2024

There Sits, Mason Stobbe

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Flamenco Dancer, Tony Gudkov Jan 2024

Flamenco Dancer, Tony Gudkov

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My Lady Melancholy, Maya Seagraves Jan 2024

My Lady Melancholy, Maya Seagraves

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Coffee: Lighting Its Complex Ground Truth And Percolating Its Molecular Brew, Róża Paterek, Sive Geoghegan, Bernadette S. Creaven, Aoife Power Jan 2024

Coffee: Lighting Its Complex Ground Truth And Percolating Its Molecular Brew, Róża Paterek, Sive Geoghegan, Bernadette S. Creaven, Aoife Power

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Coffee is one of the most widely traded commodities worldwide and its popularity is only increasing. The International Coffee Organisation (ICO) reported a 6% increase in global production in 2020 to 10.5 million tonnes. Coffee production is quite involved (from sowing to harvesting, processing, packaging, and storage); consequently, the industry faces major challenges in terms of the assessment of its quality, flavour, and the components which contribute to coffee's characterisation, as well as the sustainability of coffee production and global trade. This has prompted multiple studies on the nature of the aroma and taste of the many varieties of coffee …


Heteroleptic Coumarin-Based Silver(I) Complexes: Possible New Antimicrobial Agents, Erika Mooney, Brendan Twamley, Gordon Cooke, Emma Caraher, Matthias Tacke, Fintan Kelleher, Bernadette S. Creaven Jan 2024

Heteroleptic Coumarin-Based Silver(I) Complexes: Possible New Antimicrobial Agents, Erika Mooney, Brendan Twamley, Gordon Cooke, Emma Caraher, Matthias Tacke, Fintan Kelleher, Bernadette S. Creaven

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Heteroleptic coumarin-based silver(I) complexes with improved solubility profiles were synthesised using either triphenylphosphine or an N-heterocyclic carbene as adduct ligands, and were fully characterised using IR and NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and, where possible, X-ray crystallography. The triphenylphosphine adducts formed well-resolved structures, where the oxyacetate ligands asymmetrically chelated the silver(I) ion in a bidentate chelating mode, and the silver(I) ion was also bound to two triphenylphosphine ligands. The solubility profile and photostability of the adducts were considerably improved compared to those of previously isolated simple coumarin silver(I) complexes. Analysis of the coumarin N-heterocyclic carbene(NHC) silver(I) adduct indicated that it likely …


Hybrid Silver(I) Coumarin-Carbene And Coumarin-Triphenylphosphine Complexes: Towards More Effective Antimicrobial Therapies, Erika Mooney, Matthias Tacke, Helge Mueller-Bunz, Julia Bruno-Colmenarez, Gordon Cooke, Emma Caraher, Fintan Kelleher, Bernie Creaven Jan 2024

Hybrid Silver(I) Coumarin-Carbene And Coumarin-Triphenylphosphine Complexes: Towards More Effective Antimicrobial Therapies, Erika Mooney, Matthias Tacke, Helge Mueller-Bunz, Julia Bruno-Colmenarez, Gordon Cooke, Emma Caraher, Fintan Kelleher, Bernie Creaven

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Legislative Redistricting And The Partisan Distribution Of Transportation Expenditure, Walter Melnik Jan 2024

Legislative Redistricting And The Partisan Distribution Of Transportation Expenditure, Walter Melnik

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

I show that a state representative’s political party determines transportation expenditure in the area she represents. Previous studies of this topic consider party changes through election outcomes, which may be correlated with unobservable determinants of expenditure. To overcome this issue, I identify my estimates using Ohio’s 2012 state legislative redistricting, which moved many geographic areas into districts with opposite party incumbents. The Republican party controlled the state legislature and governorship over the period I study. I find that areas moving from governing party Republican to minority party Democratic districts received $3.4M (0.18 standard deviations) less annual highway construction funding than …


Health Sciences Libraries: A Changing Landscape, Janet Bolduc, Elizabeth J. Dyer, Linda Kerecman, Dina J. Mckelvy Jan 2024

Health Sciences Libraries: A Changing Landscape, Janet Bolduc, Elizabeth J. Dyer, Linda Kerecman, Dina J. Mckelvy

MaineHealth Maine Medical Center

Health sciences libraries provide specialized resources and services to learners, clinicians, patients and the community. The authors describe how health sciences libraries continue to evolve in a changing healthcare system landscape. New technologies, roles, educational resources and learner expectations provide challenges and opportunities for health sciences libraries.


The Influence Of Relational Frames On Climate Purchasing And Policy, Lauren Rose Hutchison Jan 2024

The Influence Of Relational Frames On Climate Purchasing And Policy, Lauren Rose Hutchison

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Evaluative conditioning refers to the effect that occurs when two stimuli are paired together, resulting in a change in the evaluation or function of one of the stimuli. Evaluative conditioning has been researched in various fields of study, such as advertisement and public administration, but synthetization efforts of these results with a relational frame theory approach, and vice versa, have been limited. This thesis used de-identified data from prior approved research to integrate and discusses two manuscripts that provide a relational frame theory perspective to evaluative conditioning effects. Study 1 extends a previous experiment by Matthews et al. (2022) through …


Population Viability Of Egyptian Tortoises: Analyzing Demographics Sensitivities And Extinction Risk In North Sinai, Basem Ahmed Rabia Motwaly Jan 2024

Population Viability Of Egyptian Tortoises: Analyzing Demographics Sensitivities And Extinction Risk In North Sinai, Basem Ahmed Rabia Motwaly

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

This study investigated the population viability of the critically endangered Egyptian Tortoise (Testudo kleinmanni) across five populations in North Sinai, Egypt. The research aimed to assess demographic sensitivities, extinction risks, and the influence of environmental variables to guide conservation strategies. Using multistate mark-recapture models within a Bayesian framework, survival, transition, and recapture probabilities were estimated across life stages, integrating site-specific environmental data such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The analysis revealed stark contrasts between populations, with three sites demonstrating high extinction risk due to lower juvenile survival and limited recruitment. In contrast, two populations exhibited demographic …


Co-Evolving Multi-Agent Transfer Reinforcement Learning Via Scenario Independent Representation, Ayesha Siddiqua Jan 2024

Co-Evolving Multi-Agent Transfer Reinforcement Learning Via Scenario Independent Representation, Ayesha Siddiqua

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) addresses complex tasks involving cooperation and competition among agents, training them to develop optimal policies for collective goals. However, facilitating simultaneous learning for multiple agents is challenging because the complexity increases rapidly with the number of agents. Current methods encompass a variety of centralized, decentralized, semi-centralized, and hybrid approaches to balance the trade-offs between computational efficiency, scalability, and coordination in MARL. In this study, I employed a centralized training with semi-centralized execution (CTSCE) framework, utilize both local observations from agents and abstracted global observations to effectively train agents in cooperative environments. Additionally, earning complex, domain-specific tasks …


Scent Trailing In Neonate Agkistrodon Piscivorus When Exposed To Conspecific And Heterospecific Chemical Cues, Samantha R. Grove Jan 2024

Scent Trailing In Neonate Agkistrodon Piscivorus When Exposed To Conspecific And Heterospecific Chemical Cues, Samantha R. Grove

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

Chemosensation is central to snake ecology, playing an essential role in predator recognition, foraging success, and communication with conspecifics. In areas with cold winters, neonatal snakes often trail chemical cues from older individuals to locate communal hibernacula essential for winter survival. Juvenile Northern Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus) form social bonds with littermates and have been shown to trail chemical cues of conspecifics in the fall. However, the effect of relatedness on trailing phenomena has not been tested. Using y-maze experiments I evaluated trailing behavior of 32 captive-born neonate Northern Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus) to determine if (1) subjects prefer to trail siblings …


K-12 Teachers’ Ai Literacy: A Key Driver Of Ai Integration Into Teaching Practices, Sedide Gulsah Pekcan Jan 2024

K-12 Teachers’ Ai Literacy: A Key Driver Of Ai Integration Into Teaching Practices, Sedide Gulsah Pekcan

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

This thesis examined the correlation between K-12 teachers' artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and their integration of AI tools and resources into their teaching practices. The research question asked, “What is the impact of K-12 teachers’ AI literacy on the integration of AI tools and resources into their teaching practices?” i.e., whether teachers with higher levels of AI knowledge and skills are more likely to incorporate AI-powered tools in their teaching methods. The study hypothesizes that educators who are more proficient in implementing AI will be more likely to adopt AI-driven resources in their teaching practices. The study uses a correlational …


Optimizing Sports Outcome Prediction Through Feature Engineering And Machine Learning, Vitor S. Freitas Jan 2024

Optimizing Sports Outcome Prediction Through Feature Engineering And Machine Learning, Vitor S. Freitas

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

The challenge of predicting the outcome of a team game lies in the high complexity and dynamics of the sports data. This thesis focuses on the aspect of using feature engineering and the genetic algorithm to predict the winner and the score of various sports events. Generally, it deals with how machine learning algorithms are combined with state-of-the-art feature engineering techniques in sports datasets derived from various sports disciplines. In this thesis, five different machine learning models have been applied, classification and regression trees (CART), random forest (RF), stochastic gradient boosting (SGB), eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), and extreme learning machine …


Epigenetic Mechanism Of Ebp1 In Nlrp-Dependent Development, Summer Reign Moore Jan 2024

Epigenetic Mechanism Of Ebp1 In Nlrp-Dependent Development, Summer Reign Moore

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

ErbB3-binding protein 1 (EBP1) helps regulate gene expression through various epigenetic modifications and is crucial for embryotic development. NLRP2 and NLRP7 are more commonly known for their roles in the immune system, however, recent research has implicated NLRP2 and 7 as critical factors in embryonic development. EPB1, NLRP2, and NLRP7 dysfunction is a known cause of recurrent miscarriages and other developmental diseases, including infertility. NLRP2 and NLRP7 are also known to affect the levels of DNA methylation, despite that they are located exclusively in the cytoplasm. However, EBP1 can be located in the nucleus and cytoplasm, and is known to …


Effect Of P2y2 Receptors On Leukocyte Behavior Under Acute Inflammation In Transgenic Male Mice In Vivo, Corynn D. Knight Jan 2024

Effect Of P2y2 Receptors On Leukocyte Behavior Under Acute Inflammation In Transgenic Male Mice In Vivo, Corynn D. Knight

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

P2Y2 receptors, G-protein coupled receptors and transmembrane proteins, are present on most cells in the body and hold a wide variety of roles. Previous research indicates that under resting conditions, P2Y2 receptors suppress the movement of leukocytes but it is unknown how inflammation will alter this in the body. The objective of this project was to determine the effect of P2Y2 receptors on leukocyte behavior in vivo under acute inflammation using Intravenous Microscopy (IVM) in post-capillary venules of the cremaster skeletal muscle. Lipopolysaccharide was injected into the scrotum of transgenic male mice to cause localized acute inflammation. …


‘Locke’D Out: The Unrealized Potential Of The Fiduciary Duty Through The Lens Of Western Property Theory, Deborah Klebansky Jan 2024

‘Locke’D Out: The Unrealized Potential Of The Fiduciary Duty Through The Lens Of Western Property Theory, Deborah Klebansky

Student Works

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The Argument For Affirmative Action: Analyzing Asian American Representation In Students For Fair Admissions, Jooeun Fiona Kim Jan 2024

The Argument For Affirmative Action: Analyzing Asian American Representation In Students For Fair Admissions, Jooeun Fiona Kim

Student Works

No abstract provided.


The Implications Of Free Exercise Clause Jurisprudence For State Abortion Bans, Kunjan Sunil Patel Jan 2024

The Implications Of Free Exercise Clause Jurisprudence For State Abortion Bans, Kunjan Sunil Patel

Student Works

No abstract provided.


Is Befit Doomed To Repeat Ccctb’S Fate?, Allison Brugger Jan 2024

Is Befit Doomed To Repeat Ccctb’S Fate?, Allison Brugger

Student Works

No abstract provided.


Leveling The Score: The Effect Of Modernization On Women’S College Athletics, Vincent Debellis Jan 2024

Leveling The Score: The Effect Of Modernization On Women’S College Athletics, Vincent Debellis

Student Works

No abstract provided.


Financial Transparency In College Athletics: How To Save College Sports From Becoming The Monster It Created And Forge A Path Of Sustainability, Joseph Lincoln Jan 2024

Financial Transparency In College Athletics: How To Save College Sports From Becoming The Monster It Created And Forge A Path Of Sustainability, Joseph Lincoln

Student Works

No abstract provided.


Pitino's Pivot: Analyzing Other Compensation Models, Jason Guan Jan 2024

Pitino's Pivot: Analyzing Other Compensation Models, Jason Guan

Student Works

No abstract provided.


Religious Exemptions To Vaccinations: The First Amendment Vs. Rfra, Sneh Amin Jan 2024

Religious Exemptions To Vaccinations: The First Amendment Vs. Rfra, Sneh Amin

Student Works

No abstract provided.


Solitary Confinement Practices In U.S. Immigration Detention Facilities Continue To Violate International Law Principles, Florencia Depaola Jan 2024

Solitary Confinement Practices In U.S. Immigration Detention Facilities Continue To Violate International Law Principles, Florencia Depaola

Student Works

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State Of Tennessee Single Audit For The Year Ended June 30, 2023 Jan 2024

State Of Tennessee Single Audit For The Year Ended June 30, 2023

Financial and Compliance Audit Reports

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Tennessee Housing Development Agency For The Year Ended June 30, 2023 Jan 2024

Tennessee Housing Development Agency For The Year Ended June 30, 2023

Financial and Compliance Audit Reports

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Tennessee Local Development Authority For The Year Ended June 30, 2023 Jan 2024

Tennessee Local Development Authority For The Year Ended June 30, 2023

Financial and Compliance Audit Reports

No abstract provided.


The University Of Memphis For The Year Ended June 30, 2023 Jan 2024

The University Of Memphis For The Year Ended June 30, 2023

Financial and Compliance Audit Reports

No abstract provided.