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Technology: Integrating The Curriculum, Linda Etten

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

The Abc's Of Reading Strategies For Volunteers, Michigan Reading Journal

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

The Trumpet Of The Cues, Brian Dobbie

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

Phonemic Awareness Measures: Identifying A Better Predictor Of Reading Delay, Rebecca A. Golfus, Dona Johnson-Beach

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

Validation Of Ensemble-Based Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change, Ryan D. Torn, Mark Demaria

Atmospheric and Environmental Science Faculty Scholarship

Although there has been substantial improvement to numerical weather prediction models, accurate predictions of tropical cyclone rapid intensification (RI) remain elusive. The processes that govern RI, such as convection, may be inherently less predictable; therefore a probabilistic approach should be adopted. Although there have been numerous studies that have evaluated probabilistic intensity (i.e., maximum wind speed) forecasts from high resolution models, or statistical RI predictions, there has not been a comprehensive analysis of high-resolution ensemble predictions of various intensity change thresholds. Here, ensemble-based probabilities of various intensity changes are computed from experimental Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) and Hurricanes …

2021-03-12_Michiganoverview_Covidvaccinestats, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Michigan COVID-19 Vaccine Data

The COVID Vaccine Dashboard page was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98178_103214-547150--,00.html.

Data is updated Monday through Saturday. Previously reported numbers of administered vaccine doses may change as new data are received. A possible lag in reporting vaccine doses will result in increases in numbers previously reported.

This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Division of Immunization from data reported to the Michigan Care Improvement Registry (MCIR).

The dashboard contained the tabs Vaccines Shipped, Distribution Trend, Doses Administered, Doses by Vaccine, Doses Metrics, Coverage, Coverage Metrics …

2021-03-12_Michiganoverview_Covidstats, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Cumulative Michigan COVID-19 Data

The COVID Overview page was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https:/www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163-520743--,00.html.

The State of Michigan is working around the clock to test and treat COVID-19 patients. Below is the most recent data healthcare experts across the state have compiled. It is updated Monday - Saturday.
This report is provisional and subject to change. City of Detroit and Wayne County are reported separately. MDHHS began tracking probable cases April 5, 2020. FCI indicates federal correctional institute. MDOC indicates Michigan Department of Corrections. Diagnostic tests, including nucleic acid amplification/real-time polymerase chain reaction (NAAT/RT-PCR) and rapid virus antigen detection point of …

Faculty Senate Minutes 2021-03-12, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Usa V. Jamar Mcmillan

2021 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Returning To Rejection: Outcomes And Boundary Conditions Of Mental Illness Stereotypes, Stefanie Fox

Dissertations and Theses

Mental illness is a common condition in the United States, with over 20% of working age adults managing a mental illness condition in a given year. Disclosure of mental illness is often required for workers to take advantage of employer-provided resources (e.g., accommodations), yet use of resources is exceedingly low (less than 10%). Negative stigma-related outcomes are a top reason for which individuals delay the use of resources. Using an experimental design in an online data collection of 242 participants over two time points, the current study builds on existing organizational diversity literature to examine the stereotypes associated with mental …

Alumni Voices, Lawrence Burnley, Daria-Yvonne Graham, Merida Allen, Angela Heath, Darius Beckham, Lisa Rich-Milan, Marcus Smith

Proceedings: 2021 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Session was facilitated by Dr. Lawrence Burnley and moderated by Dr. Daria Graham ’92 ’01 ’18, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at California State University, San Bernardino. Panelists included Angela Heath ’78 ’80; Darius Beckham ’19; Lisa Rich-Milan ’85; and Dr. Marcus Smith ’08 ’10.

These proceedings are available free for download but also available for purchase in print for $6 plus tax and shipping.

Daily Eastern News: March 12, 2021, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

Communia Helped Belgium Advocates Drafting Amendments To The Proposal For The Implementation Of The New Eu Text And Data Mining Exceptions, Communia

Testimony and Submissions

No abstract provided.

Implementing Universal Depression Screening For Underserved Adult Patients In A Primary Care Setting, Rauf B. Emiola, Maureen Biggs, Connie Heard

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Depression is not routinely screened for in the primary care setting despite high prevalence and association with increased morbidity and mortality resulting in great economic burden to the nation. Universal depression screening will lead to early diagnosis and intervention, thus resulting in better patients’ outcome

State V. Blancas Appellant's Brief Dckt. 48357

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Taylor V. Riojas: Anatomy Of A Supreme Court Intervention That Should Not Have Been Necessary, Zamir Ben-Dan

Nevada Law Journal Forum

In September 2013, an inmate in a Texas prison allegedly spent six days in two uninhabitable cells. One cell was covered in “massive amounts of feces;” the other cell was freezing cold and lacked a sink, a bunk and a toilet, containing only a clogged floor drain for him to relieve himself. Confinement under these abominable conditions were plainly illegal under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Yet, two lower federal courts found, for slightly different reasons, that the inmate had no actionable constitutional claim and that the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity. Both decisions displayed a …

Parental Strategies To Promote Mental Health In Digital Citizens Of Grades 6-8, Maria Cavallo Benkirane, Iris K. Thompson

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The research conducted in this study was done to discern the best parental strategies to promote mental health in digital citizens of grades 6-8. The world of technology is very dynamic, and often these days children are advancing much faster than their parents. The purpose of this research study was to keep parents informed and educated of the latest trends, tools, and dangers in the digital world today. To achieve this goal the researchers held four online workshops over the course of two months to provide parents the tools necessary to raise responsible digital citizens. The results of the study …

Structure Of Clostridium Perfringens Type Iv Pili, Alexander R. Meyer

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Type IV pili (T4P) are thin, hair-like bacterial appendages composed of protein subunits polymerized into a helical fiber. T4P perform diverse functions such as host cell adhesion, biofilm formation, natural competence, and twitching motility. While T4P are well characterized in Gram-negative bacteria, they have more recently been found in Gram-positive bacteria as well. In this work we aimed to solve the crystal structure of the type IV major pilin protein PilA2 from Clostridium perfringens, the predominant pilus subunit which makes up about 99% of the pilus fiber. We report expression, purification, and crystallization conditions which are sufficient for X-ray …

Perceptions Of Black Lives Matter: An Analysis Of The Movement And Its Impact On The Relationship Between The Lincoln Police Department, The Media And The Public, Paige Heinemann

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This study examines the relationships between the Lincoln Police Department (LPD), the Lincoln Journal Star (LJS), and the public as they interacted during the Black Lives Matter protests in Lincoln, Nebraska, during June 2020. In order to analyze the relationships between the three actors, I utilized previous research that examined the role of the media on perceptions of police, how media framing of police brutality influences perceptions, and how the four models of public relations function in communities. This led me to pose the following research question: How do the relationships between the Lincoln Police Department, the media and the …

George-Anne Deep Dive, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Di/Visibility: Narrative Positioning And Disability Representation In Children’S Literature, Agathe Lancrenon

Theses and Dissertations

Disabled individuals are the largest minority group in the United States and Disability scholarship is intricately connected to lived experiences and advocacy, but it too often remains overlooked even in conversations that intend to bring to light historically underrepresented groups. This dissertation provides an analysis of a broad range of children’s literature and its role in constructing literal and ideological images of disability. It offers a critical analysis of visuality in the following children’s texts: Wonder by R.J. Palacio, El Deafo by Cece Bell, Miss Little’s Gift by Douglas Wood, Thank You, Mr Falker by Patricia Polacco, A Boy and …

The Use Of Internet For Seeking Health Information Among Narh-Bita College Students: A Cross-Sectional Study. Tema, Ghana., Zakaria Abukari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Internet provides information on a variety of subjects including health-related information. Access to Internet health information could potentially promote healthy adolescents' lifestyles. Consequently, this may reduce the number of common illness among the youth and thereby reducing the overall cases at health centers. This study was carried out to examine the use of Internet for seeking health information among Narh-Bita College students, Tema, Ghana. The study was a quantitative cross-sectional survey with a convenience sampling method. The study covered one hundred and sixty-one (161) students. The findings of the study revealed that almost all the students were active users …

Long Non-Coding Rna Gas5 Regulates T Cell Functions Via Mir21-Mediated Signaling In People Living With Hiv, Lam N. T. Nguyen, Lam N. Nguyen, Juan Zhao, Madison Schank, Xindi Dang, Dechao Cao, Sushant Khanal, Bal K. Chand Thakuri, Zeyuan Lu, Jinyu Zhang, Zhengke Li, Zheng D. Morrison, Xiao Y. Wu, Mohamed El Gazzar, Shunbin Ning, Ling Wang, Jonathan P. Moorman, Zhi Q. Yao

ETSU Faculty Works

T cells are critical for the control of viral infections and T cell responses are regulated by a dynamic network of non-coding RNAs, including microRNAs (miR) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA). Here we show that an activation-induced decline of lncRNA growth arrest-specific transcript 5 (GAS5) activates DNA damage response (DDR), and regulates cellular functions and apoptosis in CD4 T cells derived from people living with HIV (PLHIV) via upregulation of miR-21. Notably, GAS5-miR21-mediated DDR and T cell dysfunction are observed in PLHIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART), who often exhibit immune activation due to low-grade inflammation despite robust virologic control. We …

Was Facial Width-To-Height Ratio Subject To Sexual Selection Pressures? A Life Course Approach, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, Graham Albert, George B. Richardson, Timothy S. Mchale, Seth M. Weinberg, Michael Gurven, Steven J.C. Gaulin

Anthropology and Museum Studies Faculty Scholarship

Sexual selection researchers have traditionally focused on adult sex differences; however, the schedule and pattern of sex-specific ontogeny can provide insights unobtainable from an exclusive focus on adults. Recently, it has been debated whether facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR; bi-zygomatic breadth divided by midface height) is a human secondary sexual characteristic (SSC). Here, we review current evidence, then address this debate using ontogenetic evidence, which has been under-explored in fWHR research. Facial measurements were collected from 3D surface images of males and females aged 3 to 40 (Study 1; US European-descent, n = 2449), and from 2D photographs of males and …

Fort Hays State University Tiger Weekly, March 12, 2021, University Relations

Tiger Weekly Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Crispr-Mediated Rapid Generation Of Neural Cell-Specific Knockout Mice Facilitates Research In Neurophysiology And Pathology., Dan Xiao, Weifeng Zhang, Qing Wang, Xing Li, Yuan Zhang, Javad Rasouli, Giacomo Casella, Bogoljub Ciric, Mark Curtis, A M Rostami, Guang-Xian Zhang

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

Inducible conditional knockout mice are important tools for studying gene function and disease therapy, but their generation is costly and time-consuming. We introduced clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and Cre into an LSL-Cas9 transgene-carrying mouse line by using adeno-associated virus (AAV)-PHP.eB to rapidly knockout gene(s) specifically in central nervous system (CNS) cells of adult mice. NeuN in neurons and GFAP in astrocytes were knocked out 2 weeks after an intravenous injection of vector, with an efficiency comparable to that of inducible Cre-loxP conditional knockout. For functional testing, we generated astrocyte-specific Act1 knockout mice, which exhibited a phenotype …

Cryo-Em Structure Of The Rous Sarcoma Virus Octameric Cleaved Synaptic Complex Intasome, Krishan K Pandey, Sibes Bera, Ke Shi, Michael J Rau, Amarachi V Oleru, James A J Fitzpatrick, Alan N Engelman, Hideki Aihara, Duane P Grandgenett

Open Access Publications

Despite conserved catalytic integration mechanisms, retroviral intasomes composed of integrase (IN) and viral DNA possess diverse structures with variable numbers of IN subunits. To investigate intasome assembly mechanisms, we employed the Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) IN dimer that assembles a precursor tetrameric structure in transit to the mature octameric intasome. We determined the structure of RSV octameric intasome stabilized by a HIV-1 IN strand transfer inhibitor using single particle cryo-electron microscopy. The structure revealed significant flexibility of the two non-catalytic distal IN dimers along with previously unrecognized movement of the conserved intasome core, suggesting ordered conformational transitions between intermediates that …

Initial Effects Of Subchapter V Of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy During Covid-19, Denise Han

Undergraduate Honors Theses

On February 19, 2020, the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 went into effect, ushering in the use of Subchapter V by small business debtors. Lawmakers crafted Subchapter V with the intent to make the reorganization process more streamlined and cost effective than the standard Chapter 11 was for these debtors. With features such as the Subchapter V trustee, cramdown provisions, filing deadlines, lack of a creditors’ committee, and relaxed disclosure requirements, small business debtors should in theory be better positioned to emerge from bankruptcy as viable entities. Through quantitative analysis and qualitative research, this Article explores initial observations on …

Let's Talk: Giving Caregivers Of Adolescents Tools To Facilitate Conversations About Mental Health, Eden M. R. Dodd

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Suicide is a preventable cause of death. Education can lead to detecting warning signs, early treatment, and suicide prevention. Offering parents of adolescents education through “More Than Sad”, a 90- minute session created by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) seeks to save lives.

Lived Experiences Of A Dedicated Infection Control Nurse Educator Team During The Covid-10 Pandemic, Vera Kunte

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

A dedicated nurse educator team was created to provide nursing staff with continuous guidance on coronavirus infection control protocols, minimize misinformation, reduce anxiety and address patient and staff needs. This qualitative study explores the experiences of the support team, evaluates its effectiveness, and provides information to improve future pandemic planning.