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Microglia Refine Early Multisensory Circuits In The Lateral Cortex Of The Inferior Colliculus In A Complement-Dependent Manner, Shaida Hamidi May 2023

Microglia Refine Early Multisensory Circuits In The Lateral Cortex Of The Inferior Colliculus In A Complement-Dependent Manner, Shaida Hamidi

Masters Theses, 2020-current

Microglia cells (MGCs), the resident macrophage of the brain, play a pivotal role in synaptic pruning of newly established circuits during early critical periods. Classical complement cascade signaling enables MGCs to identify unnecessary or underutilized contacts and specifically target them for removal and subsequent degradation. Such recognition and engulfment behaviors require receptor-ligand interactions, whereby “eat me” tags (complement component 3, C3) bind their cognate receptor (complement receptor 3, CR3) expressed on MGCs. Compromised complement signaling in certain systems results in under-pruning or unrefined map configurations, and is thought perhaps to underlie certain autism-related behavioral phenotypes (e.g. sensory hypersensitivities, decreased social …

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Pasturelands As Natural Climate Solutions: A Socioecological Study Of Tree Carbon And Beef Production Trade-Offs, Bela Starinchak May 2023

Pasturelands As Natural Climate Solutions: A Socioecological Study Of Tree Carbon And Beef Production Trade-Offs, Bela Starinchak

Masters Theses, 2020-current

Forest restoration is the most effective natural climate solution, with the potential to sequester 37% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) needed to reach the Paris climate mitigation goal. Cattle pastures offer an underutilized opportunity to increase global forest restoration efforts, improve biodiversity, and maximize carbon storage through the adoption of management strategies that prioritize the incorporation of trees into pasturelands. However, remote estimations of tree carbon storage in pastoral systems have never been field-verified and their accuracy is unclear. Furthermore, the effect of increased trees on cattle production is understudied across biomes. Lastly, the restoration potential of these …

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A Novel Analytic Linear Interface Calculation And Its Use In Computational Fluid Dynamics For Enhanced Multiphase Modeling, Simon P. Shipkowski May 2023

A Novel Analytic Linear Interface Calculation And Its Use In Computational Fluid Dynamics For Enhanced Multiphase Modeling, Simon P. Shipkowski

Theses

Interfacial modeling is of widespread interest in manufacturing, imaging, and scientific applications. Presented here is an interfacial reconstruction method designed for use in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of nucleate boiling, yet it is more broadly applicable. Nucleate boiling is vital in current and emerging technologies due to the high heat transfer at low temperature. A challenge for multiphase CFD simulation with phase change mass flux is the competing interests of quality mass transfer conservation, resolution of interfaces, and computational time/power. This Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation-Analytic Size Based (PLIC-ASB) method was developed to mitigate this problem in the volume of …

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Co-Clinical Imaging Metadata Information (Cimi) For Cancer Research To Promote Open Science, Standardization, And Reproducibility In Preclinical Imaging, Stephen M Moore, James D Quirk, Andrew W Lassiter, Richard Laforest, Gregory D Ayers, Cristian T Badea, Andriy Y Fedorov, Paul E Kinahan, Matthew Holbrook, Peder E Z Larson, Renuka Sriram, Thomas L Chenevert, Dariya Malyarenko, John Kurhanewicz, A Mcgarry Houghton, Brian D Ross, Stephen Pickup, James C Gee, Rong Zhou, Seth T Gammon, Henry Charles Manning, Raheleh Roudi, Heike E Daldrup-Link, Michael T Lewis, Daniel L Rubin, Thomas E Yankeelov, Kooresh I Shoghi May 2023

Co-Clinical Imaging Metadata Information (Cimi) For Cancer Research To Promote Open Science, Standardization, And Reproducibility In Preclinical Imaging, Stephen M Moore, James D Quirk, Andrew W Lassiter, Richard Laforest, Gregory D Ayers, Cristian T Badea, Andriy Y Fedorov, Paul E Kinahan, Matthew Holbrook, Peder E Z Larson, Renuka Sriram, Thomas L Chenevert, Dariya Malyarenko, John Kurhanewicz, A Mcgarry Houghton, Brian D Ross, Stephen Pickup, James C Gee, Rong Zhou, Seth T Gammon, Henry Charles Manning, Raheleh Roudi, Heike E Daldrup-Link, Michael T Lewis, Daniel L Rubin, Thomas E Yankeelov, Kooresh I Shoghi

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Preclinical imaging is a critical component in translational research with significant complexities in workflow and site differences in deployment. Importantly, the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) precision medicine initiative emphasizes the use of translational co-clinical oncology models to address the biological and molecular bases of cancer prevention and treatment. The use of oncology models, such as patient-derived tumor xenografts (PDX) and genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs), has ushered in an era of co-clinical trials by which preclinical studies can inform clinical trials and protocols, thus bridging the translational divide in cancer research. Similarly, preclinical imaging fills a translational gap as an …

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3-Phosphoinositide-Dependent Kinase 1 Drives Acquired Resistance To Osimertinib, Ismail M Meraz, Mourad Majidi, Bingliang Fang, Feng Meng, Lihui Gao, Ruping Shao, Renduo Song, Feng Li, Yonathan Lissanu, Huiqin Chen, Min Jin Ha, Qi Wang, Jing Wang, Elizabeth Shpall, Sung Yun Jung, Franziska Haderk, Philippe Gui, Jonathan Wesley Riess, Victor Olivas, Trever G Bivona, Jack A Roth May 2023

3-Phosphoinositide-Dependent Kinase 1 Drives Acquired Resistance To Osimertinib, Ismail M Meraz, Mourad Majidi, Bingliang Fang, Feng Meng, Lihui Gao, Ruping Shao, Renduo Song, Feng Li, Yonathan Lissanu, Huiqin Chen, Min Jin Ha, Qi Wang, Jing Wang, Elizabeth Shpall, Sung Yun Jung, Franziska Haderk, Philippe Gui, Jonathan Wesley Riess, Victor Olivas, Trever G Bivona, Jack A Roth

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Osimertinib sensitive and resistant NSCLC NCI-H1975 clones are used to model osimertinib acquired resistance in humanized and non-humanized mice and delineate potential resistance mechanisms. No new EGFR mutations or loss of the EGFR T790M mutation are found in resistant clones. Resistant tumors grown under continuous osimertinib pressure both in humanized and non-humanized mice show aggressive tumor regrowth which is significantly less sensitive to osimertinib as compared with parental tumors. 3-phosphoinositide-dependent kinase 1 (PDK1) is identified as a potential driver of osimertinib acquired resistance, and its selective inhibition by BX795 and CRISPR gene knock out, sensitizes resistant clones. In-vivo inhibition of …

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Alcea, Autumn Johnson May 2023

Alcea, Autumn Johnson

LSU Master's Theses

This exhibition was created with the intent to investigate and celebrate gender fluidity in both nature and humanity by depicting one plant, the hollyhock, whose reproductive parts share a structure that changes from male to female as the plant matures. Alcea consists of prints, drawings, and installations that showcase the hollyhock in each stage of its transition.

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Two Forms Of Asynchronous Release With Distinctive Spatiotemporal Dynamics In Central Synapses, Gerardo Malagon, Jongyun Myeong, Vitaly A Klyachko May 2023

Two Forms Of Asynchronous Release With Distinctive Spatiotemporal Dynamics In Central Synapses, Gerardo Malagon, Jongyun Myeong, Vitaly A Klyachko

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Asynchronous release is a ubiquitous form of neurotransmitter release that persists for tens to hundreds of milliseconds after an action potential. How asynchronous release is organized and regulated at the synaptic active zone (AZ) remains debatable. Using nanoscale-precision imaging of individual release events in rat hippocampal synapses, we observed two spatially distinct subpopulations of asynchronous events, ~75% of which occurred inside the AZ and with a bias towards the AZ center, while ~25% occurred outside of the functionally defined AZ, that is, ectopically. The two asynchronous event subpopulations also differed from each other in temporal properties, with ectopic events occurring …

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Co-Clinical Imaging Metadata Information (Cimi) For Cancer Research To Promote Open Science, Standardization, And Reproducibility In Preclinical Imaging, Stephen M Moore, James D Quirk, Andrew W Lassiter, Richard Laforest, Kooresh I Shoghi, Et Al. May 2023

Co-Clinical Imaging Metadata Information (Cimi) For Cancer Research To Promote Open Science, Standardization, And Reproducibility In Preclinical Imaging, Stephen M Moore, James D Quirk, Andrew W Lassiter, Richard Laforest, Kooresh I Shoghi, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Preclinical imaging is a critical component in translational research with significant complexities in workflow and site differences in deployment. Importantly, the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) precision medicine initiative emphasizes the use of translational co-clinical oncology models to address the biological and molecular bases of cancer prevention and treatment. The use of oncology models, such as patient-derived tumor xenografts (PDX) and genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs), has ushered in an era of co-clinical trials by which preclinical studies can inform clinical trials and protocols, thus bridging the translational divide in cancer research. Similarly, preclinical imaging fills a translational gap as an …

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“She Didn’T Know I Was In The Room”: The Effects Of Hatfield’S Illustrations On Readers’ Interpretations Of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Mason Repas May 2023

“She Didn’T Know I Was In The Room”: The Effects Of Hatfield’S Illustrations On Readers’ Interpretations Of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Mason Repas

The Downtown Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal Written and Peer-Reviewed by Mandel Honors College Students at Cleveland State University

When Charlotte Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," was first published in New England Magazine in 1892, staff illustrator Joseph Hatfield created three realistic-style images to accompany the text. Research suggests that Gilman had no control or influence over these images, which altered readers' perception of her story about the dangers of the rest cure for female hysteria. While Hatfield faced artistic limitations and his intentions are not discoverable today, the choices and details in his illustrations support interpretations of the short story as a piece of horror fiction in which his cohesive series of images is a more reliable …

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Recognizing Paralanguage In Teaching, Allison Delmonico May 2023

Recognizing Paralanguage In Teaching, Allison Delmonico

The Downtown Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal Written and Peer-Reviewed by Mandel Honors College Students at Cleveland State University

Paralanguage is used every day to communicate and is related to one’s culture. It is often unconscious, however, when teaching a conscious effort should be made so one understands how they are perceived by others and what signals they give off. Teachers must take into consideration their own culture, the culture of the community they teach in, and the culture of students and their families. Teachers use paralanguage when communicating with their colleagues and need to understand how best to collaborate with each other. When communicating with parents, teachers need to make sure they feel welcome in the classroom and …

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Science Curriculum Requirements: Science Process Skills In Textbook Activities, Dilek Özalp May 2023

Science Curriculum Requirements: Science Process Skills In Textbook Activities, Dilek Özalp

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Science textbooks play an important role in making scientific knowledge and applications available to learners. In most countries, science curriculum expects to cultivate scientifically literate individuals who are able to use science process skills. Critical analysis of textbooks is therefore crucial to determine whether they can facilitate this outcome. The purpose of this study is to find out to what extent science process skills are included in the activities of elementary and middle school science textbooks in Turkey. A total of 304 activities in six science textbooks were analyzed. A content analysis was employed to determine the frequency and percentage …

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Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury (Ali) And The Development Of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (Bpd) In Premature Infants., Jacob S. Ward, Hung-Wen Yeh, Megan Tucker, Venkatesh Sampath May 2023

Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury (Ali) And The Development Of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (Bpd) In Premature Infants., Jacob S. Ward, Hung-Wen Yeh, Megan Tucker, Venkatesh Sampath

Research Days

Background: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in premature infants with several known risk factors. Recent literature described the harmful effect of inflammation on the developing lung. Recently, we showed that late-onset sepsis (LOS) and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) causes acute lung injury (ALI) in preterm infants as measured by increases in pulmonary severity scores (PSS). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between LOS-induced ALI and BPD outcomes. We hypothesized that LOS would increase the likelihood of developing BPD, and the associated LOS-induced ALI will add to the ability to predict development …

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Corporate Responsibility In Mass Disaster Cases, Robert L. Rabin May 2023

Corporate Responsibility In Mass Disaster Cases, Robert L. Rabin

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Aspects Of Distribution, Abundance, Habitat, And Life History Of The Caddo Madtom (Noturus Taylori), A Narrow Endemic Of The Ouachita Highlands, Brittany L. Mccall, Brook L. Fluker May 2023

Aspects Of Distribution, Abundance, Habitat, And Life History Of The Caddo Madtom (Noturus Taylori), A Narrow Endemic Of The Ouachita Highlands, Brittany L. Mccall, Brook L. Fluker

Southeastern Fishes Council Proceedings

The Caddo Madtom, Noturus taylori, is a small catfish endemic to the Ouachita Mountain ecoregion in Arkansas, with habitat altered by land use practices and reservoir dams. We examined aspects of distribution, abundance, habitat, and life history of N. taylori during seasonal sampling from winter 2016 through fall 2017. Our sampling data were concordant with previous studies that suggested N. taylori is more widespread and has higher catch per unit effort in the Caddo River drainage when compared to the upper Ouachita River drainage. We did not detect N. taylori in the Little Missouri River drainage, where it is …

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Heart Failure Associated With Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infection, A Case And Review Of Literature, Muhammad Asif, Hammad S. Chaudhry, Sadia Aslam, Ifrah Nadeem, Sunia S. Chaudhry, Wahab Khan May 2023

Heart Failure Associated With Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infection, A Case And Review Of Literature, Muhammad Asif, Hammad S. Chaudhry, Sadia Aslam, Ifrah Nadeem, Sunia S. Chaudhry, Wahab Khan

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is well known to cause pulmonary infection. However, it often has extrapulmonary manifestations as well. We diagnosed and treated a 41-year-old female who presented with symptoms of pneumonia along with multisystem involvement, including rash, acute hepatitis, and new onset heart failure that improved with steroids and doxycycline. Subsequent goal-directed medical therapy for non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) coincided with the complete recovery of the left ventricular function in three months. We also did a brief literature review with similar prior reported cases.

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Prevalence And Impact Of Gastrointestinal Manifestations In Covid-19 Patients: A Systematic Review, Bassam Hossain, Shoreh Qazi, Sumair Ahmad, Atif Saleem, Amanke Oranu, Fahad Malik May 2023

Prevalence And Impact Of Gastrointestinal Manifestations In Covid-19 Patients: A Systematic Review, Bassam Hossain, Shoreh Qazi, Sumair Ahmad, Atif Saleem, Amanke Oranu, Fahad Malik

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Background and Objective: The aim of this study is to systematically analyze and summarize the implications of COVID-19 on the digestive system by quantitatively evaluating the prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, anorexia. reported in COVID-19 cases. We simultaneously investigated other variables to determine the association of such symptoms in COVID-19 patients which can potentially influence the disease prognosis and outcome. This systematic review presents an updated literature on the issue as it requires more scientific discussion in order to better inform the medical community and authorities so that appropriate measures can be taken …

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The Legend Of Circe, Jose Luis Lopez May 2023

The Legend Of Circe, Jose Luis Lopez

Writing Waves

No abstract provided.

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Pierre Manent: The Empire Of Modernity And The Church’S Response, Hayden Lukas May 2023

Pierre Manent: The Empire Of Modernity And The Church’S Response, Hayden Lukas

Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal

Manent’s body of work often problematizes the modern conservative impulse to draw on the history of thought with modernity’s conception of history, and this essay will attempt to explain this dynamic. To do this, I will explain the basics of Manent’s account of modernity as a way of evaluating history, drawing on the work of other political philosophers to supplement Manent’s account. Then I will examine how the work of Manent and Emile Perreau-Saussine, with the Catholic response to the Enlightenment, can contribute to the Church’s strategy to engage with the puzzle of modernity. .

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Learning The Liturgy With Mr. Miyagi: The Case For Liturgical Catechesis, Benjamin Leeper May 2023

Learning The Liturgy With Mr. Miyagi: The Case For Liturgical Catechesis, Benjamin Leeper

Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal

Using the narrative of The Karate Kid as a guide, I will demonstrate that Christian formation is a matter of recontextualizing liturgical practices in the daily life of the believer, so that she knows when, where, and how to use the precogni¬tive spiritual habits formed by Word and Sacrament in Christian worship. This understanding challenges prevalent liturgical theology, which tends to assume an automatic connection—or worse, no connection at all— between worship and daily life, by highlighting the necessity of locating for believers the telos of the church’s rites and ceremonies in discipleship. Finally, I will provide concrete examples of …

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Trade-Offs Between Temperature And Fitness In Euschistus Heros (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae): Implications For Mass Rearing And Field Management, Ana Paula Frugeri Barrufaldi, Rafael Hayashida, William Wyatt Hoback, Leon G. Higley, Jose Romario De Carvalho, Regiane Cristina De Oliveira May 2023

Trade-Offs Between Temperature And Fitness In Euschistus Heros (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae): Implications For Mass Rearing And Field Management, Ana Paula Frugeri Barrufaldi, Rafael Hayashida, William Wyatt Hoback, Leon G. Higley, Jose Romario De Carvalho, Regiane Cristina De Oliveira

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The brown stink bug, Euschistus heros (Fabricius, 1798) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is one of the most abundant soybean stink bug pests in Brazil. Temperature is a key factor that affects its development and reproduction, and fluctuating temperatures may impact the development and reproduction of E. heros differently from those under constant temperatures. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of constant and fluctuating temperature on the biological characteristics of E. heros in three successive generations. Treatments consisted of six constant temperatures (19oC, 22oC, 25oC, 28oC, 31oC and 34 …

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Transformer-Based Feature Fusion Approach For Multimodal Visual Sentiment Recognition Using Tweets In The Wild, Fatimah Alzamzami, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik May 2023

Transformer-Based Feature Fusion Approach For Multimodal Visual Sentiment Recognition Using Tweets In The Wild, Fatimah Alzamzami, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

We present an image-based real-time sentiment analysis system that can be used to recognize in-the-wild sentiment expressions on online social networks. The system deploys the newly proposed transformer architecture on online social networks (OSN) big data to extract emotion and sentiment features using three types of images: images containing faces, images containing text, and images containing no faces/text. We build three separate models, one for each type of image, and then fuse all the models to learn the online sentiment behavior. Our proposed methodology combines a supervised two-stage training approach and threshold-moving method, which is crucial for the data imbalance …

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Enst 411: Merrill W. Linn Conservancy - Dale’S Ridge, Shaun Parrish, Chris Maskus, Catherine O'Leary, Elizabeth Yewaisis May 2023

Enst 411: Merrill W. Linn Conservancy - Dale’S Ridge, Shaun Parrish, Chris Maskus, Catherine O'Leary, Elizabeth Yewaisis

Final Reports in ENST 411: Environmental Community Projects

Collaborative community-based project working on developing an ecological management and trail maintenance plan alongside updating the trail brochure for the Dale’s Ridge property managed by the Merrill W. Linn Conservancy in East Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania. This is a collaborative project between the Conservancy & the ENST 411 culminating experience course.

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A Deeper Understanding Of Noise Effects On Cetaceans, Jason N. Bruck May 2023

A Deeper Understanding Of Noise Effects On Cetaceans, Jason N. Bruck

Faculty Publications

Recent research with cetaceans under human care is illuminating just how dolphins are affected by human-made noise both in terms of their ability to cooperate as well as their ability to habituate to such noise. This research is providing granular detail to regulators assessing the problems associated with anthropogenic effects and is highlighting a role for behavior/cognition research in conservation.

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The Impact Of A Culturally Responsive Approach In Science Education On Kindergarten Students, Monique Hite-Patterson May 2023

The Impact Of A Culturally Responsive Approach In Science Education On Kindergarten Students, Monique Hite-Patterson

Dissertations

Classrooms today are more ethnically and linguistically diverse. Unfortunately, students of color demonstrate a history of marginalized educational inequities (Williamson et al., 2007). These marginalized educational inequities impact academic achievement across all content areas especially literacy, math, and science. To improve the academic performance of students who are culturally, racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, methods of instruction and pedagogy that better facilitate learning among diverse student populations must be instituted (Ladson-Billings, 2005). A mixed methods study was conducted in response to the need to examine the impact of using culturally responsive strategies on kindergarten student’s attitudes towards science and their …

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A Celebration Of Faculty Scholarship: 2020-2023, Dean's Office, College Of The Holy Cross May 2023

A Celebration Of Faculty Scholarship: 2020-2023, Dean's Office, College Of The Holy Cross

Annual Bibliography of Faculty Publications

A listing of the scholarly and creative work produced by the faculty of the College of the Holy Cross. It includes articles, book chapters, productions, exhibitions, grants, reviews and other forms of scholarship reported for the 20192020. 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 academic years.

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Ecomorphology Of A Predatory Deep-Sea Fish Family: Does Trophic Specialization Drive Hyperspeciation?, Ryan P. Mcgonagle, David Kerstetter, Danté Fenolio, Tracey Sutton May 2023

Ecomorphology Of A Predatory Deep-Sea Fish Family: Does Trophic Specialization Drive Hyperspeciation?, Ryan P. Mcgonagle, David Kerstetter, Danté Fenolio, Tracey Sutton

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Two of the main drivers of speciation among aquatic vertebrates are physical isolation (e.g., lakes and streams) and micro-niche availability (e.g., tropical reefs). In both regards, the mesopelagic domain of the open ocean, Earth’s second largest cumulative ecosystem (behind only the bathypelagic domain), would seem retardant. Ocean circulation makes isolation rare on both contemporary and geological time/space scales, and the lack of substrate precludes stable micro-niches. Paradoxically, some pelagic taxa demonstrate much higher-than-expected species richness on regional scales. A prime example is the dragonfish family Stomiidae, the most speciose family of mesopelagic fishes, owing largely to the subfamily Melanostomiinae (scaleless …

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A Greener Shade Of Blue And Yellow: Sweden's Path To Environmental Leadership, Katherine Delfay May 2023

A Greener Shade Of Blue And Yellow: Sweden's Path To Environmental Leadership, Katherine Delfay

Student Theses 2015-Present

In 2021, Sweden was identified as the world’s most sustainable country and coined as a leader in global climate action. This paper analyzes the approach that Sweden takes to maintaining their sustainability as a nation and establishing environmentalism as a core value. Sustainability has deep roots in the country’s political and economic sectors, giving Sweden potential to be the world’s first net-zero nation. The first chapter demonstrates Sweden’s proportionately low environmental impact compared to other developed nations. The United States is used as a point of comparison throughout this paper in order to emphasize the progressiveness of the Swedish government …

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Heatwaves In The Arctic: Their Effects On Northern Alaska, Tayler M. Rogers May 2023

Heatwaves In The Arctic: Their Effects On Northern Alaska, Tayler M. Rogers

Student Theses 2015-Present

Images of polar ice caps melting and news of global sea levels rising have dominated the media’s coverage of climate change during the past three to four decades. Focusing on these broad-scale impacts without further context does not adequately explain the complexities of what is currently happening in the Arctic and SubArctic Regions. This paper examines why changes to natural cycles like sea ice melt and permafrost thaw are posing significant threats to both human and non-human life. Shifts from the natural pattern of warming and melting in the Arctic, caused by external, human-induced pressures, have thrown these cycles into …

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All Clear: A Workbook For Sexually Active Accutane Users Who Can Become Pregnant, Taylor Petersen May 2023

All Clear: A Workbook For Sexually Active Accutane Users Who Can Become Pregnant, Taylor Petersen

Honors Projects

Accutane is a pill-based derivative of Vitamin A used to treat cystic acne. The process to start and continue the medication each month is tedious and full of potential for error. This is especially true for female patients who are able to become pregnant as they have the additional step of monitoring and updating their birth control through an online portal. Patients are treated like numbers and there is little to no customization within Accutane treatment from patient to patient. To make this worse, reliable information about the drug is scarce and many turn to social media platforms or other …

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Land Dispossession And Native American Climate Adaptation: The Hopi Tribe, Jessica M. Curran May 2023

Land Dispossession And Native American Climate Adaptation: The Hopi Tribe, Jessica M. Curran

Student Theses 2015-Present

Since the 16th century, Native American communities have lost over 99% of their historical land. New settlers came in and completely destroyed the natives’ way of life, disregarding the love and respect that was once shown for mother earth. Flash forward to the 21st century and we are now struggling with the constant rising threat of climate change. However, this is not an equal fight. Past studies have shown that Native American communities are more vulnerable to climate change hazards compared to the general United States population due to their existing disparities. This paper focuses on the Hopi Tribe and …

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