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Evaluating The Impact Of Starch Intake On Fecal Consistency Scores In Equines, Gülşah Kaya Karasu, Hidir Gümüş Oct 2025

Evaluating The Impact Of Starch Intake On Fecal Consistency Scores In Equines, Gülşah Kaya Karasu, Hidir Gümüş

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

Horses, as monogastric hindgut fermenters, primarily engage in microbial activity in the large intestine. Although starch is not inherently harmful, excessive intake can lead to digestive disturbances and health issues due to insufficient digestion in the small intestine, resulting in overflow into the large intestine. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the use of rapid fecal analysis, including fecal score, pH, and dry matter (DM) analysis, to understand the effects of high starch intake. The study was conducted in May 2023 at a private sport horse farm in İzmir, Türkiye and involved 24 sport horses aged 4 to …


Cover And Contents Oct 2025

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

No abstract provided.


Development And Validation Of A High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Method For The Simultaneous Determination Of Selected Varroacidal Active Substances In Bee Health Products, Onur Demi̇r Oct 2025

Development And Validation Of A High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Method For The Simultaneous Determination Of Selected Varroacidal Active Substances In Bee Health Products, Onur Demi̇r

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The presence of substandard and counterfeit veterinary medicinal products represents a significant concern from a One Health perspective, given the potential consequences for human and animal health, as well as the environment. In this study, an isocratic flow liquid chromatography method was developed for the simultaneous determination of thymol, coumaphos, amitraz, tau-fluvalinate, and flumethrin in bee health products used for varroosis control. The chromatographic separation was conducted at a wavelength of 276 nm, utilizing an RP18e column and an acetonitrile:water mobile phase ratio of 75:25 (v/v), with a flow rate of 0.75 mL/min. The validation of the method was conducted …


Impact Of Trauma-Informed Care On The Restorative Justice Ecosystem, Amy Kight Oct 2025

Impact Of Trauma-Informed Care On The Restorative Justice Ecosystem, Amy Kight

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Created and titled as the ARTIC Project (Activating Restoration through Trauma-Informed Courts), this research addresses the gap between industrial/structural realities and relationship/nurturing realities within Substance Use Disorder (SUD) recovery and restorative justice paradigms. Grounded in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), the project emphasized that sustainable behavioral change requires balancing connection with correction (KPICD, 2022). Through a biblical lens, the researcher posits complete healing only comes from our Heavenly Father and occurs on an individual level. With this in mind, TBRI research affirms that organizations do not change people - people change people (KPICD, 2022). This intentional relationship between God, Creation, Others, …


October 16, 2025, The Daily Mississippian Oct 2025

October 16, 2025, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


Preparing New Life Pentecostal Ministries Young Adults For God’S Design Of Marriage Through Identity Development, Ameerah Brown Oct 2025

Preparing New Life Pentecostal Ministries Young Adults For God’S Design Of Marriage Through Identity Development, Ameerah Brown

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This thesis project, Preparing New Life Pentecostal Ministries Young Adults for God’s Design of Marriage Through Identity Development, addresses the growing crisis of identity, purpose, and relationship instability among young adults within NLPM and beyond. The purpose of this action-oriented research is to provide a theological and spiritually formative framework that prepares young adults for marriage by biblical principles. The project identifies key spiritual and emotional barriers, including unresolved wounds and distorted self-identity. Lack of discipleship and cultural confusion hinder spiritual maturity and readiness for God-ordained relationships. Grounded in Scripture and supported by human development theory and spiritual formation scholars, …


Investigation Of The Usability Of The Difference In Body Structure As A Breeding Method In Unselected Sheep Flocks (I-Fattening Performance- Slaughter And Carcass Characteristics), Mehmet Naci̇ Oktay, Bora Özarslan Oct 2025

Investigation Of The Usability Of The Difference In Body Structure As A Breeding Method In Unselected Sheep Flocks (I-Fattening Performance- Slaughter And Carcass Characteristics), Mehmet Naci̇ Oktay, Bora Özarslan

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

This study investigated the development of a meat-type sheep strain by using the differences in body structure in Kangal Akkaraman an indigenous sheep breed of Türkiye. The control group consisted of 15 male lambs born to ewes with dairy-type (DT) body structure and the experimental group consisted of 15 male lambs born to ewes with meat-type (MT) body structure. The sheep in the DT group were selected for their elegant, clear bony lines; long, thin neck; triangular body structure that widens from front to rear; and the leg length longer than the depth of the chest. In selecting sheep for …


Stoic Wisdom For The Contemplative Teacher: Prosochê And Praemeditatio Malorum As Alternative Approaches To Mindfulness, Anna Rumjahn Oct 2025

Stoic Wisdom For The Contemplative Teacher: Prosochê And Praemeditatio Malorum As Alternative Approaches To Mindfulness, Anna Rumjahn

Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education

In K-12 environments where teacher burnout and attrition are increasingly prevalent, where can educational professionals seek sustainable approaches to reduce exhaustion, emotional demands, and uncertainty? In this paper, I extend Christopher McCaw’s research on the direct and dynamic relationship between contemplative practices and who teachers are and are becoming. By examining the current debates around defining reflective and contemplative practitioners, I call for alternative definitions of mindfulness when considering teacher professional becoming and submit for consideration the perspectives of Greco-Roman philosophy which has hitherto been less explored apropos education. Using prosochê (attention) and the Stoic exercise of praemeditatio malorum to …


Concussion Management In Equestrian Athletes: A Cross Sectional Survey Of Scat6 Data, Nicole Scarpino, Kerstin Palombaro, Annette M. Willgens Oct 2025

Concussion Management In Equestrian Athletes: A Cross Sectional Survey Of Scat6 Data, Nicole Scarpino, Kerstin Palombaro, Annette M. Willgens

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe concussion symptomatology, frequency, and management by equestrian athletes. Although the International Equestrian Federation (FEI.org) and the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF.org) have implemented new Return to Sport Strategies, it is unknown how equestrian athletes manage concussion symptoms and whether more robust recommendations are warranted. Methods: A Qualtrics survey was used to collect data from January 1 to February 1, 2025. It was posted on equestrian Facebook groups to target athletes who practiced their sport more than 3 times per week in 1 of 3 disciplines. Respondents reported falls from a horse …


An Academia-Community Partnership Aiming To Benefit The Well-Being Of Shelter Cats And Promote The Learning Outcomes Of College Students, Shlomit Flaisher-Grinberg Oct 2025

An Academia-Community Partnership Aiming To Benefit The Well-Being Of Shelter Cats And Promote The Learning Outcomes Of College Students, Shlomit Flaisher-Grinberg

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

More than three million cats enter U.S. animal care and control facilities annually. Although many are adopted, others spend a prolonged amount of time at the animal shelter while facing a variety of stressors. The current project explored the possibility of creating an academia–community partnership aiming to establish a college-based foster program that will allow undergraduate students to socialize and train shelter cats as a part of an academic course. It was hypothesized that the program will positively impact the well-being of shelter cats, improve their adoption outcomes, and support students’ learning outcomes. Students enrolled in the Learning course at …


From The Arctic To Australia: Four Perspectives On Forest Sentience, John Charles Ryan, Francis Joy, Åsa Andersson Martti, Janne Sirniö Oct 2025

From The Arctic To Australia: Four Perspectives On Forest Sentience, John Charles Ryan, Francis Joy, Åsa Andersson Martti, Janne Sirniö

Talking Heads Seminar Series

Can forests sense, communicate and remember? How can we engage with trees as sentient subjects with wisdom to share with humankind in ecologically troubled times? Our collaborative presentation will bring together the expertise of four speakers on the subject of forest sentience. John Ryan (Turtle Island), Francis Joy (Rovaniemi, northern Finland), Åsa Andersson Martti (Swedish Sápmi) and Janne Sirniö (Swedish Sápmi) will share their perspectives on—and experiences of—the sentience of trees, forests and ecological communities with a focus on Sápmi, the homeland of the Sámi people of Northern Europe. After short presentations on forest sentience from scientific, artistic, and Indigenous …


Prompting For Refusal: Teaching Against And Without Ai, Kate Maddalena, Aline Zara, Dan Guadagnolo Oct 2025

Prompting For Refusal: Teaching Against And Without Ai, Kate Maddalena, Aline Zara, Dan Guadagnolo

Feminist Pedagogy

This Original Teaching Activity describes two modules that enact feminist pedagogy to teach AI refusal, a set of lectures and associated activities which we developed for first-year courses during the 2023-2024 academic year. These activities invite students to refuse AI while also understanding its function and deployment. They explore the consolidations of power which make generative AI technologies both possible and harmful. Instead of presuming the inevitability of AI to replace working and learning or change the world, these activities offer students a materialist framework to refuse the hype, grounding their understanding of generative AI in its techno-political origins and …


Towards An Ecofeminist Pedagogy: The Environmental Ethics Of Ai, Jessica K. Crowell Oct 2025

Towards An Ecofeminist Pedagogy: The Environmental Ethics Of Ai, Jessica K. Crowell

Feminist Pedagogy

Previous scholarship has outlined some of the ethical considerations regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom and beyond, such as the potentials for plagiarism, information bias, disinformation, or even violations of user privacy. Though research suggests that machine learning is a major and ever-increasing contributor to carbon emissions, there has been little discussion of how we teach about the ethics of AI from an environmental perspective. Therefore, this critical commentary first outlines how an ecofeminist pedagogy can help students consider the environmental and ecological effects of new technologies, including AI. At its core, an ecofeminist pedagogy argues …


Beyond The Human: Democratic Education Through The Ethics Of Care And Carriance. A Response To “Reimagining Democratic Education With Care Ethics—Toward Care-Full Democratic Education”, Michalinos Zembylas Oct 2025

Beyond The Human: Democratic Education Through The Ethics Of Care And Carriance. A Response To “Reimagining Democratic Education With Care Ethics—Toward Care-Full Democratic Education”, Michalinos Zembylas

Democracy & Education

This is a response to Koponen and Kasa’s argument that feminist theorizing and care ethics have been overlooked as theoretical approaches in the current democratic education debate. Their article draws on these insights to theorize democratic education in ways that combine care and democracy. In my response, I aim to offer clarifying comments and questions while suggesting ideas to expand Koponen and Kasa’s analysis. Specifically, I highlight two perspectives that, in my view, warrant further exploration in democratic education: developing theoretical frameworks that move beyond human-centered and anthropocentric accounts and, embracing care and the concept of "care-carrying" or "carriance" (Ettinger, …


Exploring The Democratic Challenges And Potential Of Alternative Education, Maria Menegaki Oct 2025

Exploring The Democratic Challenges And Potential Of Alternative Education, Maria Menegaki

Democracy & Education

Does an assembly make a school a democratic space? What happens if a participant is not interested? Democracy for innovation or democracy for social transformation? Can a democratic school be neutral and apolitical? These are some of the questions this article will try to discuss by focusing on democratic aspects of alternative educational proposals. Based on an anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative study of three alternative schools and educational projects in Catalonia, this article sheds light on the challenges and contradictions but also the potential hidden behind such initiatives. More specifically, it first explores educational change in Catalonia through time and …


“The Domino Effect”: How Early Adolescents Describe Their Capacity For Civic Engagement, Michelle Bauml, Jonathan W. Crocker Oct 2025

“The Domino Effect”: How Early Adolescents Describe Their Capacity For Civic Engagement, Michelle Bauml, Jonathan W. Crocker

Democracy & Education

This qualitative study explored how 28 early adolescents described their capacity for civic engagement as they participated in a civic education camp in the United States and engaged in action civics inquiry projects about local issues. Focus group interviews revealed that these youth recognized the capacity of people their age to raise awareness and advocate about issues they care about while acknowledging their limits as youth and conceding that adults have advantages of age and power. Participants also described their capacity to take personal responsibility for their actions and efforts and to leverage relationships to influence others. Findings suggest that …


Reimagining Democratic Education With Care Ethics—Toward Care-Full Democratic Education, Selja Koponen, Tuija Kasa Oct 2025

Reimagining Democratic Education With Care Ethics—Toward Care-Full Democratic Education, Selja Koponen, Tuija Kasa

Democracy & Education

In an era of democratic crises, democratic education in basic education is considered crucial. However, recent studies show that young people perceive their influence both at school and in society as limited, which decreases their civic activity later in life. The aim of this theoretical study is to reevaluate democratic education through feminist care ethics, which is an under-researched topic in the current theoretical debate. In our article, we outline a novel approach to caring democratic education (i.e., care-full democratic education), which presents a complementary stance toward current democratic education, which relies heavily on the theories of liberal democracy and …


Ellen G. White’S Inaugural Vision: Prophetic Call, Commission, And Role, Angel Rodriguez Oct 2025

Ellen G. White’S Inaugural Vision: Prophetic Call, Commission, And Role, Angel Rodriguez

Ellen White and Current Issues Symposium

No abstract provided.


The Nature Of Inspiration In The Health Writings Of Ellen White, Don Mcmahon Oct 2025

The Nature Of Inspiration In The Health Writings Of Ellen White, Don Mcmahon

Ellen White and Current Issues Symposium

No abstract provided.


The Unity Of Divinity And Humanity In Revelation: Comparing Biblical And Ellen White Perspectives, Martin Hanna Oct 2025

The Unity Of Divinity And Humanity In Revelation: Comparing Biblical And Ellen White Perspectives, Martin Hanna

Ellen White and Current Issues Symposium

No abstract provided.


Ellen White And The God Of The Deep-Time Fossiliferous Geologic Column, John Baldwin Oct 2025

Ellen White And The God Of The Deep-Time Fossiliferous Geologic Column, John Baldwin

Ellen White and Current Issues Symposium

No abstract provided.


The Need For ‘Soft Skills’ In Occupational Therapy Curricula: A Descriptive Analysis Of French Students’ Internship Comments, Cynthia Engels, Nadia Oubaya, Aliki Thomas Oct 2025

The Need For ‘Soft Skills’ In Occupational Therapy Curricula: A Descriptive Analysis Of French Students’ Internship Comments, Cynthia Engels, Nadia Oubaya, Aliki Thomas

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

A competent occupational therapist needs soft skills. Although the French national occupational therapy (OT) curriculum lists 10 competences to be acquired, they do not include soft skills. The objectives of this study were to (a) Identify the proportion of soft skills in OT students’ internship comments written by internship tutors and (b) characterize the mentioned soft skills to help determine whether and which soft skills should be included in the new OT curriculum nationwide in France. This was a qualitative descriptive analysis of tutors’ comments on internship evaluations based on the framework method. Of the 1060 internship reports, 1035 (98%) …


Terminating Pregnancies In Boccaccio, Anne C. Leone Oct 2025

Terminating Pregnancies In Boccaccio, Anne C. Leone

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

Analyzing examples from the Decameron (1349-51), De mulieribus claris (1361), and the Corbaccio (1365), I argue that Boccaccio (1313-75) demonstrates an awareness of theological, legal and medical opinions on abortion and contraception at the time. However, he is more attuned to the practical concerns of pregnancy than are many of his contemporaries. Acknowledging the variety of situations facing pregnant people and some parts of their lived experience that were ignored by many religious and legal authorities, Boccaccio highlights a disconnection between theory and practice, and thereby raises questions about the limits of abstract knowledge in the face of practical concerns.


Inquiry, V. 24, 2025 Oct 2025

Inquiry, V. 24, 2025

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Limb Regeneration In Damselflies Based On Developmental Stage, Haven O. Clements Oct 2025

Limb Regeneration In Damselflies Based On Developmental Stage, Haven O. Clements

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Injury is common in wild animals, yet some species possess an adaptive advantage: regeneration. Enallagma vesperum, a species of damselfly, exhibits this regenerative ability, though its persistence and effectiveness across developmental stages remain poorly understood. While previous studies indicate that regeneration ceases following adult emergence, it is unclear whether this ability also diminishes prior to the final larval molt. This study investigated the effectiveness of limb regeneration in E. vesperum across early and late larval instars. I hypothesized that earlier instars would exhibit greater regenerative success due to fewer competing energetic demands compared to later instars, which may prioritize …


Characteristics Of L-Malic Acid And Its Application In Orange Juice, Xingyuan Liu, Yi Fan, Jiabin Bao, Qing Xing, Ruijin Yang, Yanjun Tong Oct 2025

Characteristics Of L-Malic Acid And Its Application In Orange Juice, Xingyuan Liu, Yi Fan, Jiabin Bao, Qing Xing, Ruijin Yang, Yanjun Tong

Journal of Food Science and Biotechnology

[Objective ] The basic characteristics of L-malic acid and the application of L-malic acid in orange juice were studied.[Method ] The basic characteristic differences of L-malic acid,citric acid,and DL-malic acid were compared in terms of thermal stability,pH stability,and taste quality changes of electronic tongue.Subsequently,the three sour agent were added into orange juice.The effects of L-malic acid on the stability and volatile flavor of orange juice were analyzed based on the differences in centrifugal sedimentation rate,pH,electrical conductivity,particle size,Zeta potential,and volatile components.[Result ] L-Malic acid had good stability in the ranges of 40~121 ℃ and pH 2.0~7.0.L-Malic acid differed markedly from citric …


University Philharmonic Orchestra And Cooke String Quartets Oct 2025

University Philharmonic Orchestra And Cooke String Quartets

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

Nancy Conley, Conductor


First Use Of The Ku-F600 Automated Analyzer For Descriptive Epidemiology Of Blastocystis Sp. In Erbil, Iraq., Hana Hakim Qadir, Hemdad Hawez Mawlood Oct 2025

First Use Of The Ku-F600 Automated Analyzer For Descriptive Epidemiology Of Blastocystis Sp. In Erbil, Iraq., Hana Hakim Qadir, Hemdad Hawez Mawlood

Polytechnic Journal

Blastocystis is a common protozoan parasite of the gastrointestinal tract. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, risk factors, and potential pathogenicity of Blastocystis sp. in Erbil province, Iraq, using the KU-F600 Automated Feces Analyzer (AFA).Notably, this is the first study to use this device in Iraq. A total of 580 fecal specimens were collected from patients attendending Mehrabani Surgical Hospital. Samples were tested using the KU-F600 AFA, which incorporates AI-based examination of microscopically identified parasites. demographic and clinical data were collected through questionnaires. All the statistical calculations were performed by GraphPad Prism 10. The prevalence of Blastocystis sp. was …


Recombinant Pichia Pastoris Fermentation For Biosynthesis Of The Uv Resistant Compound Gadusol, Wenjie Zuo, Ping Zhang, Ruirui Xu, Leyi Zhang, Zhen Kang, Jianghua Li Oct 2025

Recombinant Pichia Pastoris Fermentation For Biosynthesis Of The Uv Resistant Compound Gadusol, Wenjie Zuo, Ping Zhang, Ruirui Xu, Leyi Zhang, Zhen Kang, Jianghua Li

Journal of Food Science and Biotechnology

[Objective ] This study aims to employ synthetic biology and metabolic engineering techniques to engineer Pichia pastoris (P.pastoris ) for the efficient heterologous synthesis of the UV resistant compound gadusol.[Method ] On the basis of a bioinformatic analysis and codon optimization of the genes involved in the gadusol biosynthetic pathway in Danio rerio,the gadusol fermentation pathway was constructed in P.pastoris via strategies such as promoter engineering,metabolic engineering,and fermentation optimization.[Result ] A high-purity gadusol standard was prepared through optimized extraction and chromatographic separation.The gadusol yield in the recombinant strain P.pastoris HME reached 105 mg/L.By screening of gene expression promoters and optimization …


Probiotic Properties Of Three Strains Of Lactobacillus And Their Application In Corn Husk Fermentation, Bo Zhai, Quanxian Shu, Xiaoyan Yang, Yin Mao, Yu Deng, Yunying Zhao Oct 2025

Probiotic Properties Of Three Strains Of Lactobacillus And Their Application In Corn Husk Fermentation, Bo Zhai, Quanxian Shu, Xiaoyan Yang, Yin Mao, Yu Deng, Yunying Zhao

Journal of Food Science and Biotechnology

[Objective ] This study aims to improve the utilization of maize resources and address the shortage of feed resources.[Method ] The intestinal colonization capacity,tolerance,and antibacterial properties of three Lactobacillus strains,Lactobacillus paracasei ZB- 1 (ZB-1),L.paracasei DY- 2 (DY-2),and L.rhamnosus DY- 4 (DY-4) were evaluated.The most suitable strain for fermenting cornhusks was identified,and its fermentation process was optimized.[Result ] ZB-1 exhibited higher intestinal colonization ability and antibacterial properties than DY- 2 and DY- 4.The antibacterial mechanism of ZB- 1 was likely driven by the action of organic acids in an acidic environment and certain protein-based antimicrobial substances.The fermentation conditions for ZB- 1 …