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Unitlessness: Highlighting The Trans-Discursive Qualities Of Nondualism And Implications For Psychological Terminology, Christian U. Krägeloh

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies Advance Publication Archive

Nondual awareness has recently gained increased interest in broader psychological research. In meditation contexts, it reflects the dissolution of subject and object, while in Maha_ya_na Buddhism, practitioners aim to develop insight that leads to awareness of nonduality in everyday-life situations. Traditionally, teaching of nondualism employed paradoxes to prompt nonconceptual inquiry into reconciling dualistic contradictions. To offer an approach to communicate nondualism to a modern audience of psychology researchers, the framework of unitlessness is introduced here, which differentiates between linguistic characteristics (units) and experiential phenomena (unity), both within an enveloping ineffability (unitlessness). This type of nondualism is trans-discursive, as it acknowledges …

In Vivo Evaluation Of Novel Nanoparticles And Repurposed Pharmaceuticals To Combat Antimicrobial Resistance, Sarah E. Evans

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In a 2019 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), infections resistant to antibiotic treatment amount to about three million infections and 48,000 deaths. Antimicrobial resistance is an escalating global threat as existing antibiotics lose efficacy over time. The project described is focused on partnering with pharmaceutical researchers and producers to test new nanoparticle-based or repurposed compounds. The central hypothesis of this thesis is that pharmaceutical formulations such as nanoparticles may provide a cost-effective means of combating the emerging antimicrobial resistance. The nanoparticle compounds allowed for a wide range of customization for the pharmaceutical design, since the …

Editorial: Frontiers In The Midlands Society Of Physiological Sciences (2023-2024), Sathish Kumar Natarajan, Hong Zheng, Surabhi Chandra, Harold D. Schultz, William C.W. Chen

Journal Articles: Cellular & Integrative Physiology

No abstract provided.

Growing South Dakota (Winter 2025), College Of Agriculture, Food And Environmental Sciences

Growing South Dakota (Publication of the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences)

[Page] 2 Native Plant Initiative on a mission
[Page] 4 Gees give back
[Page] 7 Christensen named assistant dean
[Page] 8 Fennell honored in plant biology
[Page] 9 New ag communication faculty
[Page] 10 SDSU Extension awards
[Page] 12 Veterinary medicine class welcomed
[Page] 13 Coulter honored
[Page] 14 National beef award winners
[Page] 15 Department celebrates 100 years
[Page] 16 Southeast Research Farm growing
[Page] 18 Saving the flock
[Page] 22 Energize conference inspires
[Page] 24 BeefSD helping producers
[Page] 25 SDSU Extension retirements
[Page] 26 New food safety testing service
[Page] 27 Bringing back bison
[Page] 28 Jackrabbits …

Annual Report, Town Of Whitefield, New Hampshire Year Ending December 31, 2024, Whitefield Town Representatives

Whitefield, NH Annual Reports

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2024 Annual Report, Town Of Tamworth, New Hampshire, Tamworth Town Representatives

Tamworth, NH Annual Reports

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Southern Register. 2025.1 (Winter 2025), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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Annual Reports Of The Selectmen, Tax Collector, Town Clerk, Trustees Of The Cemetery, Trustees Of The Public Library, Trustees Of The Trust Funds And Treasurer For The Year Ending December 31, 2024, Board Of Education And School Treasurer For The Year Ending June 30, 2024, Together With The Statistics Of The Town Of East Kingston, New Hampshire 2024, East Kingston Town Representatives

East Kingston, NH Annual Reports

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Annual Report Of The Officers Of The Town Of Conway, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2024, Conway Town Representatives

Conway, NH Annual Reports

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Word, Words, Words Books, Libraries, And The Law,, Leila Amineddoleh

Chapman Law Review

This Article explores the cultural, historical, and legal significance of books and manuscripts, emphasizing their vulnerability to theft, destruction, and neglect throughout history. From ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets to modern libraries, written materials have functioned not only as vessels of knowledge but also as cultural heritage objects subject to political, religious, and economic targeting. The Article traces the development of manuscripts, the emergence of libraries, and the long history of censorship, biblioclasm, and wartime looting. It highlights the legal challenges surrounding the restitution of stolen manuscripts and rare books, examining case studies involving institutions such as Princeton University, the Getty …

2024 Annual Town Report And 2025 Town Warrant & Budget, Auburn, New Hampshire, Auburn Town Representatives

Auburn, NH Annual Reports

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Vino Mundo: Introducing Wines Of The World To Costa Rica, Sarah Lee, Jacob Massoud, Chang Seob Yeo

Barowsky School of Business | Case Studies

Guillermo Aguilar, owner and founder of the Costa Rican restaurant Vino Mundo, turned off his computer and stood up from his chair. Sales at Vino Mundo had slowed down following the global pandemic, and Guillermo was exploring ways to revitalize his business. The ideas he had most recently considered included a new marketing strategy for the restaurant and creating an institute to educate Costa Ricans about wine and train individuals to become sommeliers. Guillermo left his office and then walked out to the restaurant’s patio to take in the beautiful panoramic views of San Jose. He had quite a few …

Rodcon, Program, 2025, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

RodCon Documents

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A Set Of Axioms Providing A Basis For Understanding And Analyzing Work Systems In Organizational Settings, Steven Alter

Business Analytics and Information Systems

This paper proposes 24 axioms that form a basis for understanding and analyzing sociotechnical and totally automated work systems in organizational settings. The introduction identifies reasons for trying to develop axioms of that type. Two background sections compare axioms with other types of “knowledge objects”, illustrate the minimal presence of axioms in the IS discipline, define the domain of relevance for the axioms discussed here, and explain the process of developing those axioms. The axioms are organized in five categories: 1) system in context, 2) system operation, 3) system goals and goal attainment, 4) system uncertainties, and 5) system-related change. …

Understanding The Lived Experiences Of Minnesota's Pseo Students: A Qualitative Exploration, Joel Edward Olson

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In my dissertation, Understanding the Lived Experiences of Minnesota's PSEO Students: A Qualitative Exploration, I explored students’ experiences of the transition from high school to college via Minnesota’s PSEO program. As a Bethel University faculty member with 19 years of prior experience as a high school English teacher, I have watched the number of PSEO students increase year after year from both sides of the secondary/post-secondary divide. This subtle undoing of the traditional high school to college progression significantly impacts not only the economic outlook for public high schools and colleges, but it also significantly impacts the educational experiences and …

Gary Lemme Papers, Hilton M. Briggs Library, South Dakota State University

University Archives

The Gary Lemme Papers document his career in agricultural education, research, and extension leadership from the 1970s to 2021. Lemme held key academic and administrative positions at South Dakota State University, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, and Auburn University, culminating in his tenure as Director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. The collection highlights his contributions to soil science, agronomy, and sustainable agriculture through publications, research initiatives, and extension programs. It includes awards, professional correspondence, international collaboration materials, and institutional records reflecting his leadership in agricultural policy, conservation, and education. This collection provides insight into the development of …

The Eighth Amendment’S Paper Tiger: Pain, Executions, And The Cruel And Unusual Punishment Clause, Alexandra L. Klein

Scholarly Articles

The Eighth Amendment prohibits “cruel and unusual punishments.” This prohibition applies to the way states carry out executions: states may impose capital punishment but may not do so in a way that is unconstitutionally cruel. Over a trilogy of cases that began with Baze v. Rees in 2008, the Court developed a test for analyzing whether a state’s proposed method of execution violated the Eighth Amendment. Under Baze/Glossip/Bucklew, a person challenging a state’s method of execution must show that the method of execution poses a severe risk of “superadded” pain and suffering that can be alleviated by a readily …

Locating The Archangel Saint Michael In Michelangelo Buonarroti’S The Creation Of Adam, Ana Vega

Art and Art History

This thesis asserts that Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam contains an unrecognized interpretation of the Archangel Saint Michael, thereby enriching Leo Steinberg's foundational analysis of the fresco's theological intricacies. Building on Steinberg's identification of the "glider" figure as a possible visual allusion to Michael, this study contends that Michelangelo intentionally integrated the archangel to symbolize themes of divine protection, judgment, and cosmic justice. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the thesis draws from a range of biblical and apocryphal texts, including Revelation and The Assumptions of Moses, to illustrate that Saint Michael's traditional roles, as the protector of paradise, defender of the …

Town Of Harrisville, Nh Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31, 2024, Harrisville Town Representatives

Harrisville, NH Annual Reports

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Annual Report Of The Officers Of The Town Of Jackson, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2024, Jackson Town Representatives

Jackson, NH Annual Reports

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Lung-Delivered Il-10 Mitigates Lung Inflammation Induced By Repeated Endotoxin Exposures In Male Mice, Aaron Schwab, Todd A. Wyatt, Oliver Schanze, Amy J. Nelson, Angela Gleason, Michael J. Duryee, Deanna Mosley, Geoffrey M. Thiele, Ted R. Mikuls, Jill A. Poole

Journal Articles: Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health

Therapies capable of resolving inflammatory lung disease resulting from high-consequence occupational/environmental hazards are lacking. This study seeks to determine the therapeutic potential of direct lung-delivered interleukin (IL)-10 following repeated lipopolysaccharide exposures. C57BL/6 mice were intratracheally instilled with LPS (10 μg) and treated with IL-10 (1 μg) or vehicle control for 3 days. Lung cell infiltrates were enumerated by flow cytometry. Lung sections were stained for myeloperoxidase (MPO), CCR2, vimentin, and post-translational protein citrullination (CIT) and malondialdehyde-acetaldehyde (MAA) modifications. Lung function testing and longitudinal in vivo micro-CT imaging were performed. Whole lungs were profiled using bulk RNA sequencing. IL-10 treatment reduced …

Lung Disease In Relation To Unique Monocyte-Macrophage Subpopulations Induced By Combined Inhalant Endotoxin And Collagen-Induced Arthritis, Jill A. Poole, Aaron Schwab, Geoffrey M. Thiele, Todd A. Wyatt, Amy J. Nelson, Oliver Schanze, Angela Gleason, Michael J. Duryee, Bryant England, Ted R. Mikuls

Journal Articles: Environmental, Agricultural & Occupational Health

BACKGROUND: Lung disease is the most overrepresented cause of death in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Animal studies have demonstrated potentiated autoimmunity, arthritis, and profibrotic/inflammatory lung disease with a combination of airborne exposures and collagen-induced arthritis (CIA), a model that recapitulates features of RA-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD). As patients with RA-ILD demonstrate unique circulating monocyte subpopulations, this study aims to characterize lung infiltrating monocytes/macrophages in a mouse model of RA-ILD and determine whether reducing these cells mitigates the development of lung disease.

METHODS: Autoimmune-prone DBA/1J mice received intranasal inhalation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) daily for up to 5 weeks and CIA induction. …

2025 Intersession Catalog, Illinois Math And Science Academy

Intersession Catalogs

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Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of The Town Of Stratford, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2024, Stratford Town Representatives

Stratford, NH Annual Reports

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Welcome To Tower Day 2025!, Kerri S. Taylor

CSU Tower Day

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Investigating The Impact Of Roundup® Exposure On Hearing In Channel Catfish (Ictalurus Punctatus), Joshua W. Adams, Daniel E. Holt

CSU Tower Day

Tower Day 2025 Undergraduate Poster 3rd place Winner

Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) such as Roundup® are used extensively worldwide, yet their potential to disrupt fish sensory physiology has remained relatively unexplored. Previous studies have established that glyphosate exposure can induce various neurotoxic effects in fish and other vertebrates—ranging from oxidative stress to altered neurotransmitter systems and anxiogenic-like responses. Despite these documented impacts, no published research has directly assessed whether glyphosate compromises auditory function in fish.

Here, we address this knowledge gap by examining the hearing sensitivity of farm- raised Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) following a 96-hour exposure to Roundup® (3 mg/L …

Arden 2025, Elizabeth Woods, Maddie Ginter

The Arden

An amalgamation of creative student works. Items contained include, but are not limited to, art, photography, short stories, prose, poetry, and other avenues of creative composition.

Reproductive Costs In Female, Island-Dwelling Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes (Crotalus Adamanteus), Emily R. Gray

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes (Crotalus adamanteus; EDBs) are a declining species endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Reproduction is costly for females, which are ovoviviparous, slow to mature, reproduce infrequently, and are often emaciated after parturition. Yet, we have a limited understanding of the trade-offs associated with their reproductive biology. Thus, I had three objectives: 1) assess reproduction-associated water stress and determine how female EDBs respond to altered water budgets in situ (Chapter 1), 2) evaluate the interactive effects of body condition and rainfall on female hydration, with a special focus on musculature as a condition index (Chapter 1), …

2025-2026 Operating Budget, Morehead State University. Budget & Financial Planning Office.

Morehead State University Operating Budgets Archive

2025-2026 Operating Budget of Morehead State University.

“You Shall Be As Gods”: Xenogears, Gnosticism, And Gaming On The Mystical Marketplace At The Turn Of The Millennium, Alexander Sutton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis explores the role of Christian Gnosticism in the Japanese role-playing video game (JRPG) Xenogears, developed by Square Co. Ltd. and released in Japan and the United States in 1998. In tracing its historical context, development, and localization I argue that Xenogears is an important text in the history of mediated religion in global popular culture. In comparing the game’s narrative against ancient Christian Gnostic texts such as The Apocryphon of John, The Reality of the Rulers, and the Gospel of Judas, I show how the game harmonized, mediated, and reproduced ancient Gnostic mysticism for its players to emulate. …