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Ticked Off: A Systematic Review Of Alpha-Gal Syndrome Mechanisms

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Alpha-gal syndrome is characterized by an IgE-mediated immune response against galactose-α-1,3-galactose. In the United States, the principal vector is the Lone Star tick, whose range has expanded nationwide. 110,000 cases have been reported since 2010, with the CDC estimating 450,000 as many cases go unrecognized. Vomiting, difficulty breathing, and hypotension can occur immediately or hours after exposure. Ongoing exposure to alpha galactose with AGS increases mast cell inflammatory response, raising coronary artery disease risk. Perioperative ingredients like gelatin, monoclonal antibodies, and stearic acid have triggered anaphylactic shock in AGS patients. These complications hinder diagnosis. The inclusion criteria required original research …

Zenbrain: A Neuroscience-Inspired 7-Layer Memory Architecture For Autonomous Ai Systems, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

We present ZenBrain, an open-source memory architecture for AI systems that implements seven distinct memory layers inspired by cognitive neuroscience. Unlike existing approaches that treat AI memory as simple key-value storage, dual-layer retrieval, or LLM-driven reorganization, ZenBrain models the full lifecycle of human memory: encoding, consolidation, retrieval, decay, and active forgetting. The system integrates 12 neuroscience-inspired algorithms including FSRS-based spaced repetition, Hebbian learning dynamics for knowledge graphs, neuroscience-modeled sleep consolidation simulating hippocampal replay, emotional memory modulation, and Bayesian confidence propagation. ZenBrain is deployed in production as part of ZenAI with 9,228 passing tests, and is published as composable npm packages …

The Return Of Regime Politics: Liberator Or Tyrant, Dylan Coombs

Helms School of Government Spring Public Policy Conference

No abstract provided.

Private Property In The Social Contract: Locke Versus Rousseau, Adam Opp

Helms School of Government Spring Public Policy Conference

No abstract provided.

Foreign Military Financing And Influencing Foreign Policy And National Security Alignment, Peter W. Aubrey

Helms School of Government Spring Public Policy Conference

No abstract provided.

Human Dignity In The Constitutions Of Post-Communist European States: Comparative Perspectives And Implications For Religious Freedom, Daniel Fodorean

Helms School of Government Spring Public Policy Conference

No abstract provided.

Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay, Stanley Rosen

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1969.

Call # : B828.3 .R6

Contains marginal lining  PDF Information : 7.7 MB, 24 Pages

Advancing Equitable Faculty Evaluations: Refining Behavior-Based Rubrics For Systemic Change, Celia Freed

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

Bias in faculty evaluations continues to influence decisions about promotion, tenure, and resource allocation, disproportionately affecting women and underrepresented faculty. To address these inequities, this study develops and implements behavior- and-outcome based evaluation rubrics designed to improve fairness, clarity, and consistency. Using a case study approach, calibration data, participant feedback, and refinement are used to guide rubric development and standardization. Over one academic year, this project progressed through data analysis, rubric revision, faculty feedback, and pilot implementation, followed by evaluation of its effectiveness. The study advances research on structured evaluation systems and examines how behavior-based criteria can potentially enhance inclusivity …

Biosensors For Biomedicine, Drake O'Leary

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

This project investigated the use of engineered bacterial reporter systems to detect cellular stress responses associated with antibiotic activity. While constructs were successfully introduced and tested against known antibiotics, the reporter consistently produced a blue signal across conditions, limiting the ability to distinguish specific stress responses. This suggests issues such as leaky expression, insufficient regulatory control, or lack of specificity in the reporter design. Although results were inconclusive, this work highlights key challenges in developing reliable biosensors and provides a foundation for future optimization. Improving signal specificity and reducing background expression will be critical for enabling accurate characterization of antibiotic …

Asphalt Pavement Rejuvenation Investigated By Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry, Catherine Skaggs

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

Asphalt is a relatively inexpensive material commonly used for road pavements; however, asphalt ages from exposure to oxygen and UV radiation, leading to loss of elasticity, which leads to cracks and potholes. To slow or reverse asphalt aging, pavement preservation treatments are in use. It’s unclear whether these treatments truly rejuvenate the pavement structure or merely offer a short-term benefit. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) relaxometry is an analytical technique that uses the recovery of excited nuclear magnetization as a parameter to gain insights into molecular environments. Recovery-time distributions gathered from asphalt materials show differences between regular and rejuvenated asphalt samples, …

Quantifying The Impact Of Mobile Distractions On College Students' Attention Performance, Sonipriya Paul, Jessica L. Bolton, Ashwin Ashok

Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) Conference

This research identifies that it is important to understand how humans sustain and recover attention to their primary activity amid mobile device interruptions. In this paper, we present our key findings and insights from an user-study based measurement of attention performance of graduate students. Ten participants (graduate students) independently completed attention tasks in an office environment (with no background noise) while receiving periodic messages (distraction), with continuous data recording on a wearable electroencephalography (EEG) headset. The attention tasks were designed in line with the standard GO/NO-GO test from psychology domain. Our experimentation included three variations of the GO/NO-GO test and …

The Lost World Of Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boorstin

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

Boston : Beacon Press, 1960.

Call # : B878 .B6 1960

Contains marginalia, underlining, marginal lining and endpaper notes

PDF Information : 10.2 MB, 28 Pages

Ballistic Trajectories From Triangular Libration Points To Moon, Collin Gentry

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

As stable points in the Earth-Moon system, the triangular libration points, L4 and L5, have many advantageous properties for space exploration. Ballistic trajectories at varying delta-Vs and impulse angles are computed and propagated from the libration points, and trajectories that arrive at the lunar surface are investigated. Preliminary conclusions are drawn about the accessibility of the lunar surface from the triangular libration points, and the implications for mission design are discussed. These trajectories present an alternative means of accessing the Moon, expanding the viability of the triangular points for missions and offering additional options for the use of cisular space.

Validating Endosomal Antibodies For Use In Immunofluorescence Assays In A Cell-Based Model Of Prader Willi Syndrome, Hayden O'Dell

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare progressive metabolic disease characterized by a wide range of behavioral and cognitive defects, most notably severe hyperphagia. The disorder is caused by the complete loss of some paternally inherited genes on chromosome 15q11-q13, resulting in endocrine dysfunction and a loss of control over feeding behaviors. Among the deleted genes within this region is MAGEL2. Our lab recently characterized a paternally deficient MAGEL2 rat model of PWS, discovering a defect in pituitary secretory capacity that is consistent with the impaired vesicular trafficking and secretion observed in PWS patients. To further characterize the defects in vesicular …

Ai Adoption Tensions For Organ Procurement Organizations, Joely Grace Hall

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve efficiency in healthcare, yet its adoption remains limited, with only 22% of healthcare organizations having implemented domain-specific AI tools. Adoption may be especially complex in specialized domains such as organ transplantation, where ethical, legal, and operational challenges are dominant. This study examined factors influencing AI acceptance within Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs), focusing on technological, organizational, and environmental contexts.

Semi-structured interviews with 16 OPO executives from 10 OPOs revealed key tensions shaping AI adoption. We identified five tensions that are holding back OPO leaders from AI adoption, (1) misconceptions, (2) training approach, (3) …

Community Dynamics In Urban Ponds Could Be Influenced By Artificial Habitats, Keagan Miller, Uma Adrianna Misra

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

Urban ponds are subject to nutrient influxes from stormwater runoff, and blooms of harmful algae can develop in response. One management strategy includes deployment of Floating Treatment Wetlands (FTWs) or floating mats of aquatic plants designed to maximize uptake of nutrients to plant biomass. An understudied component of these artificial systems is their potential to provide microhabitat for aquatic biota. This study focused on the intersection of aquatic insect communities and fish presence between natural and artificial habitat types. Insect communities were found to be weakly dissimilar between habitat types (ANOSIM: R=0.254, p=0.048). Specifically, Anisoptera and Zygoptera were absent or …

2nd Annual Miners Solving For Tomorrow Research Conference - Undergraduate Schedule, Blake Bowman, Carter Lawson, Celia Freed, Adam Merchiori, Allie Dingfield, Catherine Skaggs, Drake O'Leary, Quinten Bachman, Elizabeth Bone, Joely Grace Hall, William Wisnasky, James Meyer, Sindhujaa Jaiganesh, Sophia Nicolette Petilla Militante, Brantley Carter, Adrianna Sasser, Alec Gamache, Micah Gargrave, Keagen Miller, Uma Adrianna Misra, Collin Gentry, Christy Johnson, Brady Carlson, Logan Williamson, Jivanji Sumariwalla, Hayden O'Dell, Elijah Brakensiek, Katharine Gray, Lukas Farthing, Jacob Harl, Landon Meyer, Nehemiah Milton, Lana Herkenhoff, Jenna Mueller, Lucas Ethington, Maya Southard, Aster Davidson, Ethan Beane, Jacob Penn, Connor Jordan, Amanda Hodges, Ethan Keuhn, Milan Jebaraj, Ariel Pilger, Sydney Clark, Maris Reinkemeyer, Manav Raja Vinotha, Punit Sesha Sai Turlapati, Benjamin Sullins, Benjamin Biehl, Jamie Koester, Aidan Sengupta

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

No abstract provided.

2nd Annual Miners Solving For Tomorrow Research Conference, Blake Bowman, Carter Lawson, Celia Freed, Adam Merchiori, Allie Dingfield, Catherine Skaggs, Drake O'Leary, Quinten Bachman, Elizabeth Bone, Joely Grace Hall, William Wisnasky, James Meyer, Sindhujaa Jaiganesh, Sophia Nicolette Petilla Militante, Brantley Carter, Adrianna Sasser, Alec Gamache, Keagan Miller, Uma Adrianna Misra, Collin Gentry, Christy Johnson, Brady Carlson, Logan Williamson, Jivanji Sumariwalla, Hayden O'Dell, Elijah Brakensiek, Katharine Gray, Lukas Farthing, Jacob Harl, Landon Meyer, Nehemiah Milton, Lana Herkenhoff, Jenna Mueller, Lucas Ethington, Maya Southard, Aster Davidson, Ethan Beane, Jacob Penn, Connor Jordan, Amanda Hodges, Ethan Keuhn, Milan Jebaraj, Ariel Pilger, Sydney Clark, Maris Reinkemeyer, Manav Raja Vinotha, Punit Sesha Sai Turlapati, Benjamin Sullins, Benjamin Biehl, Jamie Koester, Aidan Sengupta, Antai Dong, Connor Bell, Dennis Dadzie, Joshua Gary, Adebayo Olayinka Oke, Deeshani Mitra, Yejun Kim, Josiah Mcdermott, Samiksha Aryal, Nicholas Brenner, Timothy Ennis, Maryam Sharifi Paroushi, Sujan Maharjan, Md Saiduzzaman, Hari Dhital, Manuela Isabel Arenas Alvarez, Eyuel A Getahun, Lucas Greiner, Amaneh Babaee, Shane Cairns, Nazish Khalid, Joseph Walton, Jie Shi, Ehsan Asheghianamiri, Mariam Elazhary, Makuach James Makeny Panther Athach, Rasman Mubtasaim Swargo, Shiva Kumar Goud Kasani, Pablo Jara, Sara Mccauley, Hartzell Weston, Al Mojahid Afridi, Matik Heskin, Nima Mahmoudzadeh, Effat Eskandari, Amitav Sen, Rabin Pandey, Amirhossein Habibi, Nuzaer Omar, Mizanur Rahman Jewel, Nathan Tibbetts, Manoj Twarakavi, Fahara Bristy, Akhrorbek Narmatov, Mahnaz Asgari Sooran, Tafang Hei, Nathan Roberts, Khosro Ghorbani Zadeh

Miners Solving for Tomorrow Research Conference

No abstract provided.

The Round Table, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Notes On Winter Roosts, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

The 1953 Spring Field Days, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Nesting Of Horned Lark In The Mid-South, R. Demitt Smith Jr.

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Sprague's Pipit In The Mid-South, Ben B. Coffey Jr.

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Observations On The Sycamore Warbler, Albert F. Ganier

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Clinical-Academic Partnerships In Physical Therapy Education: A Critically Appraised Topic On Available Assessment Tools, Jocelin Friedman, Hannah Bennett, Rachel Atkinson, Leona Hidalgo

Pacific Journal of Health

Scenario: Physical Therapy Clinical Education represents a significant component of curricula and requires cooperation between academic institutions and clinical education sites (CES). Curriculum structure variation, clinical instructor availability, and student internship demands impact the academic institutions and CES partnership. For stakeholders, communication of expectations and the individuality of the student placement workflow can strain partnerships. Longevity of the clinical-academic partnership depends on effective evaluation incorporating perspectives of both parties. Question: Are there bi- directional assessment tools or protocols available to help academic institutions and CES to evaluate each other in the areas of administrative and collaborative performance? Methods …

Res Historica, Volume 5, Alpha Rho Epsilon Phi Alpha Theta, Lindsay Rae Smith Privette Phd

Res Historica

The 2026 journal of historical research by Anderson University students, Res Historica.

The editorial team for this edition of Res Historica was Dr. Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, Julia Ackerman, Callyn Wright, Logan Davis, and John Hinton. Cover art by Mary Beth Lee.

2026 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

Quiz and Quill

Table of Contents:

• Front Cover: The Patriarch by Rachel Malek
• Letter from the Editors by Freddie Borer & Wrenne Grone
• Running Out of Steam by Rachel Malek
• 10/20 by Julia Tenbusch
• An Ode to South Bend the Home That Never Was by Anna Leslein
• I Am Wanted by Maya Sivillo
• Two Decades and More... by Liticia Makhloufi
• Inner Conflict by Liticia Makhloufi
• June 14th by Grace McKenney
• No Expectations by Anna Leslein
• Ode to Carelessness by Gracie Barton
• Season of Gratitude by Julia Tenbusch
• Wired Words by Liticia Makhloufi
• Picking Bugs Out of Ayesha Erotica's Hair in the Backseat by …

Implementation Of A Human Donor Breastmilk Education Program On The Usage Rates Of Pasteurized Human Donor Breastmilk For Supplementation Of Breastfed Infants In The Well-Baby Nursery, Nicole Sadorra

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Exclusive breastfeeding provides significant health benefits for infants and lactating individuals; however, national rates remain below Healthy People 2030 targets. Evidence suggests that infants supplemented with pasteurized human donor breast milk (HDBM) during postpartum hospitalization have higher exclusive breastfeeding rates at discharge and at six months. At a suburban Maryland hospital, formal HDBM education was not routinely provided, contributing to low utilization and stagnant breastfeeding rates.

Purpose: To determine whether implementing a structured HDBM education program for postpartum parents increases HDBM supplementation among breastfed infants and improves exclusive breastfeeding rates at discharge.

Methods: This pre-/post-test quality improvement project was …

Fcrh Honors Program: 2025-26 Year In Review, Fcrh Honors Program

FCRH Honors Program Newsletters and Reports

No abstract provided.