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The Association Between Civic Engagement Via Participatory Art And Adolescents’ Self-Esteem And Self-Efficacy, Michaela Ann Hayes

Theses and Dissertations

Civic engagement refers to actions taken by individuals to address issues of public concern, which can come in many forms including engagement in art. Participation in these activities can have positive impacts on the individual, including improved mental and physical health, as well as on the community through increased appreciation for differences and acquisition of values such as tolerance. The Bioecological Model suggests that an individual's participation in civic activities is influenced by the various levels of their environment. These experiences may be particularly impactful for adolescents. Indeed, adolescents who participated in civic engagement activities have been found to have …

The Inbio Barcoding Initiative Database: Dna Barcodes Of Iberian Trichoptera, Documenting Biodiversity For Freshwater Biomonitoring In A Mediterranean Hotspot, Joana Pauperio, Luis Martin Gonzalez, Jesus Martinez, Marcos A. González, Filipa Ms Martins, Joana Veríssimo, Pamela Puppo, Joana Pinto, Cátia Chaves, Catarina J. Pinho, José Manuel Grosso-Silva, Lorenzo Quaglietta, Teresa Luísa L. Silva, Pedro Sousa, Paulo Celio Alves, Nuno Fonseca, Pedro Beja, Sónia Ferreira

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

Background

The Trichoptera are an important component of freshwater ecosystems. In the Iberian Peninsula, 380 taxa of caddisflies are known, with nearly 1/3 of the total species being endemic in the region. A reference collection of morphologically identified Trichoptera specimens, representing 142 Iberian taxa, was constructed. The InBIO Barcoding Initiative (IBI) Trichoptera 01 dataset contains records of 438 sequenced specimens. The species of this dataset correspond to about 37% of Iberian Trichoptera species diversity. Specimens were collected between 1975 and 2018 and are deposited in the IBI collection at the CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Portugal) or …

Rogue Entrepreneurship, Russ Mcbride, Mark D. Packard, Brent B. Clark

Marketing & Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

We suggest a new category of “rogue entrepreneurship,” that describes entrepreneurial activity where the core business idea violates established or expert consensus, to be contrasted with “conforming entrepreneurship,” where it does not. There are large entrepreneurial rents hidden behind a bulwark of expert consensus that predicts doom for a venture based upon a rogue and unlikely claim. The “rogue” cases, where the predominant assessment context is different from the entrepreneur’s, result in broad skepticism against the entrepreneurial claim. We explain what rogue entrepreneurship is and how it works.

“What important truth do very few people agree with you on? A …

Investigating Stigma During The Early Stages Of A Pandemic Through The Lens Of Covid-19, Zach Thornton, Bethany Hodge, Sheridan Langford

The University of Louisville Journal of Respiratory Infections

Background: Individuals face stigma associated with numerous health conditions. Stigma can arise rapidly during the early spread of a new disease, adding to the burden felt by those affected. COVID-19 can be used as an example to study stigma during the early phases of a pandemic. This narrative review is a descriptive analysis that tracks the ways in which COVID-19 stigma was discussed in the scholarly literature during the first year of the pandemic to understand how stigma was viewed in the context of a rapidly spreading pandemic.

Methods: PubMed was used as a non-exhaustive sample of the literature. Searches …

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Tr_J1 Report Fy2022 - Journal Requests (Excluding Oa_Gold) By Title, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_J1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022. The TR_J1 report is defined as "Journal Requests (Excluding OA_Gold)." This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

Total Item Requests - 771,947

Unique Item Requests - 578,437

Development Of Food-Based Recommendation And Nutrient-Dense Meal For Female Shift Workers In West Java, Indonesia, Shanti Puji Lestari, Nuri Purwito Adi, Umi Fahmida, Dian Kusuma Dewi, Muchtaruddin Mansyur

Occupational and Environmental Medicine Journal of Indonesia

Introduction. Some manufacturing industries employ not only male workers but also female workers, who are required to undergo shift work. Given the altered eating habits as well as metabolic and endocrine profiles of shift workers, this will affect their nutritional needs. Considering that anemia that occurs in female workers is primarily nutritional anemia, this becomes a challenge in the field of occupational nutrition, especially in terms of preparing food for female workers in accordance with their nutritional needs. The aim of the study is to develop a set of FBR for female shift workers using the Linear Programming (LP) approach. …

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Tr_B1 Report Fy2022 - Book Requests (Excluding Oa_Gold) By Title, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_B1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022. The TR_B1 report is defined as "Book Requests (Excluding OA_Gold)." This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

Total Item Requests - 92,619

Unique Title Requests - 43,012

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Ir_M1 Report Fy2022 - Multimedia Item Requests, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report IR_M1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022. The IR_M1 report is defined as "Multimedia Item Requests." This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

Total Item Requests - 4,309

Integrated Mrna Sequence Optimization Using Deep Learning, Haoran Gong, Jianguo Wen, Ruihan Luo, Yuzhou Feng, Jingjing Guo, Hongguang Fu, Xiaobo Zhou

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The coronavirus disease of 2019 pandemic has catalyzed the rapid development of mRNA vaccines, whereas, how to optimize the mRNA sequence of exogenous gene such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 spike to fit human cells remains a critical challenge. A new algorithm, iDRO (integrated deep-learning-based mRNA optimization), is developed to optimize multiple components of mRNA sequences based on given amino acid sequences of target protein. Considering the biological constraints, we divided iDRO into two steps: open reading frame (ORF) optimization and 5' untranslated region (UTR) and 3'UTR generation. In ORF optimization, BiLSTM-CRF (bidirectional long-short-term memory with conditional random …

Board Of Mgrs. Of The Charleston Condominium V. Oppenheim

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

2023 January 19 - From My Notepads Newsletter, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University, Brian Noland

From My Notepads: A Newsletter from President Brian Noland

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Alcohol On Lipid Membrane-Membrane Fusion And Snare Proteins, Robert E. Coffman

Theses and Dissertations

Currently the treatment of alcohol use disorder is very difficult and often requires the combination of therapy and medications, with many who undertake treatment experiencing relapse over time. There is also no treatment in use to prevent the development of alcohol use disorder. It is the aim of this work to provide information that may be useful for the development of a preventative treatment for developing alcohol use disorder by elucidating more of the acute effects of alcohol use. It is known that these effects originate in the brain. Within the brain are circuits made up of neurons that communicate …

Pgc-1Α Senses The Cbc Of Pre-Mrna To Dictate The Fate Of Promoter-Proximally Paused Rnapii, Xavier Rambout, Hana Cho, Roméo Blanc, Qing Lyu, Joseph M Miano, Joe V Chakkalakal, Geoffrey M Nelson, Hari K Yalamanchili, Karen Adelman, Lynne E Maquat

Children’s Nutrition Research Center Staff Publications

PGC-1α is well established as a metazoan transcriptional coactivator of cellular adaptation in response to stress. However, the mechanisms by which PGC-1α activates gene transcription are incompletely understood. Here, we report that PGC-1α serves as a scaffold protein that physically and functionally connects the DNA-binding protein estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα), cap-binding protein 80 (CBP80), and Mediator to overcome promoter-proximal pausing of RNAPII and transcriptionally activate stress-response genes. We show that PGC-1α promotes pausing release in a two-arm mechanism (1) by recruiting the positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) and (2) by outcompeting the premature transcription termination complex Integrator. Using mice …

Semi-Quantitative Detection Of Pseudouridine Modifications And Type I/Ii I/Ii Hypermodifications In Human Mrnas Using Direct Long-Read Sequencing, Sepideh Tavakoli, Mohammad Nabizadeh, Amr Makhamreh, Howard Gamper, Caroline A Mccormick, Neda K Rezapour, Ya-Ming Hou, Meni Wanunu, Sara H Rouhanifard

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Here, we develop and apply a semi-quantitative method for the high-confidence identification of pseudouridylated sites on mammalian mRNAs via direct long-read nanopore sequencing. A comparative analysis of a modification-free transcriptome reveals that the depth of coverage and specific k-mer sequences are critical parameters for accurate basecalling. By adjusting these parameters for high-confidence U-to-C basecalling errors, we identify many known sites of pseudouridylation and uncover previously unreported uridine-modified sites, many of which fall in k-mers that are known targets of pseudouridine synthases. Identified sites are validated using 1000-mer synthetic RNA controls bearing a single pseudouridine in the center position, demonstrating systematic …

Control Of Craniofacial Development By The Collagen Receptor, Discoidin Domain Receptor 2, Fatma F Mohamed, Chunxi Ge, Shawn A Hallett, Alec C Bancroft, Randy T Cowling, Noriaki Ono, Abdul-Aziz Binrayes, Barry Greenberg, Benjamin Levi, Vesa M Kaartinen, Renny T Franceschi

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Development of the craniofacial skeleton requires interactions between progenitor cells and the collagen-rich extracellular matrix (ECM). The mediators of these interactions are not well-defined. Mutations in the discoidin domain receptor 2 gene (DDR2), which encodes a non-integrin collagen receptor, are associated with human craniofacial abnormalities, such as midface hypoplasia and open fontanels. However, the exact role of this gene in craniofacial morphogenesis is not known. As will be shown, Ddr2-deficient mice exhibit defects in craniofacial bones including impaired calvarial growth and frontal suture formation, cranial base hypoplasia due to aberrant chondrogenesis and delayed ossification at growth plate …

The Murder Of George Floyd: A Case Study Examining How The Policing Of Black Men And Grassroots Activism Influence The Will Of Black Women To Lead, Ella Gates-Mahmoud

Doctorate in Education

This study's objective investigates the viewpoints held by Black women in two urban areas of Minnesota about the social upheaval that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020 for using a counterfeit $20 bill. In the last decade, police killings of innocent Black people in the United States have received more attention, and Floyd's death is only one example of this phenomenon. In the U.S., the likelihood of a police officer taking the life of a Black man is higher than that of a White man. Between 2013-2019 there have been 1,641 fatal shootings of defenseless Black men by …

Utilizing Neoantigen-Specific Cd4* T Cells And Immune Checkpoint Modulation To Advance Adoptive Cell Therapy With Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes For Metastatic Melanoma Patients, Maclean Scott Hall

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) is a promising immunotherapeutic approach for patients with advanced solid tumors. Metastatic melanoma is a tumor type amenable to immunotherapy in part due to the presence of antigen-specific TIL. These T cells can be activated and expanded for ACT, which has resulted in relatively high rates of clinical responses. While numerous advances have been made, the inclusion of neoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells within TIL infusion products remains underexplored and therefore offers a significant opportunity for progress. Similarly, immune checkpoint inhibitors, specifically PD-1 blocking antibodies, augment antitumor immunity and may improve the outcomes …

The Student Movement Volume 107 Issue 12: Revisiting "The Dream": Students Celebrate Mlk Day, Grace No, Nora Martin, Gloria Oh, Ysabelle Fernando, Solana Campbell, Amelia Stefanescu, Brendan Oh, Julia Randall, Gabriela Francisco, Peter Lyons, Anthony Bosman, Martin Hanna, Ryan T. Hayes, Karin Thompson, Melissa Moore, Wambui Karanja, Desmond H. Murray, Scott Moncrieff

The Student Movement v. 107 (2022-2023)

HUMANS

Andrews Gaming Club, Interviewed by: Grace No

Meet Gio Lee, Interviewed by: Nora Martin

New Year, Happier Me, Gloria Oh

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Art @ AU: Harrigan's Gallery, Ysabelle Fernando

Currently: The Way of Water, Solana Campbell

Ode to 2022, Amelia Stefanescu

Where Do I Find God - Part I, Anonymous

NEWS

Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy, Brendan Oh

Is America Safe?: First Grader Shoots Teacher, Julia Randall

A House Divided: Current Issues Within the School of Architecture and Interior Design, Student Movement Editorial Staff

IDEAS

Harry & Meghan: Unpacking Royal Pains, Gabriela Francisco

A New Space for …

Virome Analysis And Association Of Positive Coxsackievirus B Serology During Pregnancy With Congenital Heart Disease, Mathieu Garand, Susie S Y Huang, Lisa S Goessling, Fei Wan, Donna A Santillan, Mark K Santillan, Anoop Brar, Todd N Wylie, Kristine M Wylie, Pirooz Eghtesady

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: We have previously shown coxsackievirus B (CVB) to be a potent inducer of congenital heart disease (CHD) in mice. The clinical relevance of these findings in humans and the roles of other viruses in the pathogenesis of CHD remain unknown.

METHODS: We obtained plasma samples, collected at all trimesters, from 89 subjects (104 pregnancies), 73 healthy controls (88 pregnancies), and 16 with CHD-affected birth (16 pregnancies), from the Perinatal Family Tissue Bank (PFTB). We performed CVB IgG/IgM serological assays on plasma. We also used ViroCap sequencing and PCR to test for viral nucleic acid in plasma, circulating leukocytes from …

Montana Kaimin, January 19, 2023, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

"Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views" [Review] / Beilby, James K. And Paul Rhodes Eddy, Eds. ., Ronald Rojas

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This is a book review

Socio-Demographic Determinants Of Non-Utilisation Of Antenatal Care Services By Women In The Northern Region Of Nigeria, Abubakar Yakubu Abbani, Yothin Sawangdee, Olusola Akintoye Omisakin, Maretalinia Maretalinia

Journal of Health Research

Background: A large proportion of women in the northern region of Nigeria do not utilise antenatal care (ANC) services. As a result, the region has the worst maternal and child health indicators. This study aims to identify the socio-demographic determinants of the non-utilisation of ANC services by pregnant women to provide evidence for policymakers to base decisions towards addressing the problem.

Methods: Data from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey was used with a sample of 14,421 women with a pregnancy history. Descriptive, bivariate, and hierarchical regression analyses were applied to the data using STATA software version 15.

Results: …

Kantian Ethics And Our Duties To Nonhuman Animals, Samuel Kahn

Between the Species

Many take Kantian ethics to founder when it comes to our duties to animals. In this paper, I advocate a novel approach to this problem. The paper is divided into three sections. In the first, I canvass various passages from Kant in order to set up the problem. In the second, I introduce a novel approach to this problem. In the third, I defend my approach from various objections. By way of preview: I advocate rejecting the premise that nonhuman animals are nonrational.

Smokejumper Biographies For 1953 Rookie Class, K-W, National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Biographies by Rookie Year

This document contains short biographies of smokejumpers who rookied in 1953.

Artificial Intelligence For Automated Detection Of Large Mammals Creates Path To Upscale Drone Surveys, Javier Lenzi, Andrew Barnas, Abdelrahman A. Elsaid, Travis Desell, Robert F. Rockwell, Susan N. Ellis-Felege

Biology Faculty Publications

Imagery from drones is becoming common in wildlife research and management, but processing data efficiently remains a challenge. We developed a methodology for training a convolutional neural network model on large-scale mosaic imagery to detect and count caribou (Rangifer tarandus), compare model performance with an experienced observer and a group of naïve observers, and discuss the use of aerial imagery and automated methods for large mammal surveys. Combining images taken at 75 m and 120 m above ground level, a faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster-RCNN) model was trained in using annotated imagery with the labels: “adult …

Microplastics In Mainstem Mississippi River Fishes, Ahmed K. Gad, Kerrin Toner, Mark C. Benfield, Stephen R. Midway

Faculty Publications

Microplastics are ubiquitous in Earth’s ecosystems and many efforts have begun to understand their distributions. Large rivers, like the Mississippi River, provide a unique system in which to look at large-scale patterns of microplastic distribution. In this study, we sampled four species of widely-distributed fishes from five sites along the mainstem Mississippi River, from Minnesota to Louisiana, United States. Microplastics were found in all fish species and at all sites; however, microplastics increased in occurrence in the Lower Mississippi River. Fragments were the most common morphologies and polypropylene was the most common polymer detected. We also examined the hypothesis that …

Speculative Constitutions In Ursula K. Le Guin’S Hainish Cycle And The Rights Of Nature, Ted Hamilton

Faculty Journal Articles

This paper examines two speculative examinations of humanity as a unified species and agent of ecological change: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle and the rights of nature movement. Le Guin’s Cycle imagines the slow interplanetary reintegration of human polities against a backdrop of cultural and environmental difference. I read the novels of the Cycle as an allegory for the rights of nature movement, which seeks to synthesize traditional and modern knowledge in a legal solution to ecological crisis. Both discourses, I argue, productively imagine a new historical understanding of humanity’s place on Earth, but they provide a weak theory …

G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase-2 (Grk-2) Controls Exploration Through Neuropeptide Signaling In Caenorhabditis Elegans, Kristen Davis, Christo Mitchell, Olivia Weissenfels, Jihong Bai, David M. Raizen, Michael Ailion, Irini Topalidou

Department of Neuroscience Faculty Papers

Animals alter their behavior in manners that depend on environmental conditions as well as their developmental and metabolic states. For example, C. elegans is quiescent during larval molts or during conditions of satiety. By contrast, worms enter an exploration state when removed from food. Sensory perception influences movement quiescence (defined as a lack of body movement), as well as the expression of additional locomotor states in C. elegans that are associated with increased or reduced locomotion activity, such as roaming (exploration behavior) and dwelling (local search). Here we find that movement quiescence is enhanced, and exploration behavior is reduced in …

Heifers On Feed Indicate Long-Term Liquidation Still Occurring, Elliott James Dennis

Cornhusker Economics

This article was first published in the Livestock Marketing Information Centers' (LMIC) In the Cattle Markets newsletter on January 9, 2023.

Combining the historical quarterly percentage of heifers on feed and cattle inventory report can provide an indicator of how many heifers will be held back for replacement in the 2023 report.

Multi-Frame Optical Flow Estimation Using Spatio-Temporal Transformers, Fisseha Admasu Ferede

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Optical flow estimation is a computer vision problem which aims to estimate apparent 2D motion (flow velocities) of image intensities between two or more consecutive frames in an image sequence. Optical flow information is useful for quantifying dense motion field in numerous applications such as autonomous driving, object tracking in traffic control systems, video frame interpolation, video compression and structural biomarker development for medical diagnosis. Recent state of the art learning methods for optical flow estimation are two-frame based methods where optical flow is estimated sequentially for each image pairs in an image sequence. In this work, we introduce a …