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Graduate School Newsletter Spring 2024, Sandra Spiroff, Martha Helms

Newsletters of the Graduate School

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2024-06-14 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents meeting of June14, 2024, which includes the Board and Audit Committee meeting minutes for March 29, 2024.

Assessment Of Georgia’S Royal Catchfly (Silene Regia) Along A Forest-Edge Gradient In A Remnant Prairie Community, Megan Brooks

Master's Theses

Royal catchfly (Silene regia) is a perennial prairie forb known to grow in rocky, alkaline soils within tallgrass prairies of the eastern United States. S. regia is recorded from twelve states, including Georgia, and is now confined to fragmented habitats due to the loss of 95% of its natural environment. The species is now listed as critically imperiled in the state of Georgia. Attempts at reintroduction via outplanting have only shown limited success, necessitating more research on the environmental conditions in which this plant survives in its southern-most distribution. This study investigated the local ecological factors influencing the …

Exploring Advocates’ Perceptions Of Rural And Urban Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences Seeking Civil Protective Orders, Hannah C. Samuels

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Civil protective orders (CPOs) are one of the most utilized legal remedies that exist for sexual assault survivors. While they are available for every survivor in Illinois, a survivor’s community context can impact their experience petitioning for a CPO. Prior research with domestic violence survivors suggests that the rurality and urbanicity of a community may impact a sexual assault survivors experiences seeking a CPO, but little research has been conducted with sexual assault survivors specifically. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of rape crisis center advocates from rural and urban counties across the state of Illinois …

Automated Method For The Sensitive Analysis Of Volatile Amines In Seawater, Preston Chebai Akenga, Mark F. Fitzsimons

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Methylamines are polar, volatile, and organic nitrogen-containing compounds. They are challenging to analyze, limiting our understanding of their occurrence and role within the marine nitrogen cycle. We describe an automated headspace solid-phase microextraction method, coupled with gas chromatography and nitrogen phosphorus detection (HS-SPME-GC-NPD), for analyzing methylamines in seawater. Three SPME conditions were investigated: temperature, equilibration, and extraction. The method was 6-24 times more sensitive to trimethylamine (TMA) than to dimethylamine (DMA) and monomethylamine (MMA). DMA and TMA were detected in small seawater volumes (2.5-10 mL), at volumes 100-400 times that previously reported. Detection limits of 19.1, 6.6, and 4.1 nM …

Viral And Host Factors Are Associated With Mortality In Hospitalized Patients With Covid-19, Neil R Aggarwal, Jacquie Nordwall, Dominique L Braun, Lucy Chung, Jordan Coslet, Tatyana Der, Nnakelu Eriobu, Adit A Ginde, Awori J Hayanga, Helene Highbarger, Mark Holodniy, Juan P Horcajada, Mamta K Jain, Kami Kim, Sylvain Laverdure, Jens Lundgren, Ven Natarajan, Hien H Nguyen, Sarah L Pett, Andrew Phillips, Garyphallia Poulakou, David A Price, Philip Robinson, Angela J Rogers, Uriel Sandkovsky, Katy Shaw-Saliba, Jeffrey M Sturek, Barbara W Trautner, Michael Waters, Cavan Reilly

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Persistent mortality in adults hospitalized due to acute COVID-19 justifies pursuit of disease mechanisms and potential therapies. The aim was to evaluate which virus and host response factors were associated with mortality risk among participants in Therapeutics for Inpatients with COVID-19 (TICO/ACTIV-3) trials.

METHODS: A secondary analysis of 2625 adults hospitalized for acute SARS-CoV-2 infection randomized to 1 of 5 antiviral products or matched placebo in 114 centers on 4 continents. Uniform, site-level collection of participant baseline clinical variables was performed. Research laboratories assayed baseline upper respiratory swabs for SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA and plasma for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid …

Scale-Dependent Effects Of Urban Canopy Cover, Canopy Volume, And Impervious Surfaces On Near Surface Air Temperature In Portland, Or, Carson Ralls

Geography Masters Research Papers

Cities are significantly warmer than their surrounding rural environments. Known as the ‘urban heat island effect’, it can affect the health of urban residents and lead to increased energy use. Although this effect is extensively researched, less is known about how landscape characteristics within cities affect local temperature variation. With a warming climate and the need for heat mitigation strategies becoming more urgent, having a finer detailed understanding of the effects on temperature is critical to guide proper management policies. This study examined how tree canopy cover, canopy volume, and impervious surface cover affect daytime near surface air temperature, and …

Current And Future Environmental Suitability For Bats Hosting Potential Zoonotic Pathogens In Rural Kenya, Ruut Uusitalo, Reilly T. Jackson, Tamika J. Lunn, Essi M. Kohonen, Joseph G. Ogala, Paul W. Wabala, Tarja A. Sironen, Kristian M. Forbes

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Synanthropic bats live in close proximity to humans and domestic animals, creating opportunities for potential pathogen spillover. We explored environmental correlates of occurrence for a widely distributed synanthropic African bat, Mops pumilus—a species associated with potential zoonotic viruses—and estimated current and future environmental suitability in the Taita Hills region and surrounding plains in Taita–Taveta County in southeast Kenya. To project future environmental suitability, we used four Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 general circulation models that capture temperature and precipitation changes for East Africa. The models were parameterized with empirical capture data of M. pumilus collected …

Closing The Knowledge Gap With Literacy-Infused And Rich Social Studies Content, Jeffrey Leffler, Ksenia Zhbanova

Journal of Research Initiatives

Social studies have been marginalized in early childhood education amid the prevalence of standardized testing and political issues. However, a comprehensive approach to early education, including social studies, is gaining attention. This article emphasizes the significance of incorporating social studies into early childhood curriculum, illuminating its potential to enhance children's cognitive and social-emotional development. The second important aspect of this article focuses on the role of social studies in literacy skill development through building background knowledge, critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills of young children.

Seamus Deane, Siân White

James Joyce Literary Supplement

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“Caliban’S Mirror”: The 2022 Wilde And Joyce Symposium, Zizi Temple

James Joyce Literary Supplement

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Xxviii International James Joyce Symposium, ‘Ulysses 100’, Laura Gibbs

James Joyce Literary Supplement

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Geofeminism And The “Parable Of The Plums”, Susan Cannon Harris

James Joyce Literary Supplement

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Joyce, Bloom, And Max Nordau, Rafael Hernandez

James Joyce Literary Supplement

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Maryland Sports Law, Adam Epstein

Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal

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Housing Affordability: Determining The Percentage Of Working-Class Millennials To Afford Renting A Studio-Type Condominium In Bonifacio Global City, Johara B. Piega, Ricardo Cholo L. Santos

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

Proper housing is vital for sustainable environments and for an individual’s well-being — providing security, emotional stability, and a sense of belonging. However, the Philippines faces challenges in providing affordable shelter, especially as it has remained in the lower-middle income bracket alongside other Southeast Asian countries for over three decades. Bonifacio Global City (BGC) stands as Metro Manila’s premier business district and contributes to the affordability for housing in the country. This study focuses on the affordability of studio-type condominiums in BGC for working-class Millennials aged 28-43. Conducted through quantitative research methods and a descriptive design, it employed snowball and …

Role Of Hypogenesis In The Evolution Of Karst In The Taurus Mountains Range, Turkey, Serdar C. Bayari, Naciye Nur Özyurt, Lütfi Nazik, Koray A. Törk, Noyan İ. Güner, Emrah Pekkan, Pınar Avcı

International Journal of Speleology

Field observations and laboratory data collected from the Taurus Mountains Range, Turkey during the last two decades provided evidence for the link between the evolution of hypogene karst and the geodynamic history. Major evidence includes; carbonate-hosted secondary ore deposits that are converted from primarily hypogene minerals by epigene, oxygen-rich groundwater circulating at local to intermediate depths. Another piece of evidence of hypogene karst in the Tauride is the Kırkgöz springs’ huge submerged cave/conduit system, which formed the Antalya Travertine Plateau, which is the world’s largest deposit precipitated by cool karst groundwater. The obruks in central Tauride are giant collapse dolines …

Issue 445: June 13-27, 2024, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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Understanding Policy On The Move: The Workings Of School Policy And Teachers’ Emergent Positioning Through Narrative, Ryan Kerr

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the ways that school policies are understood and taken up by teachers. A review of the relevant literature suggests that much school policy, even that which is explicitly designed to ameliorate inequities that exist within schools and school systems, often have an inverse effect. It is also established that teachers, for many reasons, often subvert school policies in their daily practice. Using a transliteracies framework, this study seeks to explore the intimacies of these disconnects for teachers through a close look at their narratives surrounding school policy and the ways that certain policies affect their identities. This …

Real Time 3d Internal Building Directory Map, Zi Yang Chia, Pey Yun Goh

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Global Positioning System (GPS) is a famous technology around the world in identifying the real time precise location of any object with the assistance of satellites. The most common application of GPS is the use of outdoor maps. GPS offers efficient, scalable and cost-effective location services. However, this technology is not reliable when the position is in an indoor environment. The signal is very weak or totally lost due to signal attenuation and multipath effects. Among the indoor positioning technologies, WLAN is the most convenient and cost effective. In recent research, machine learning algorithms have become popular and utilized in …

Preliminary Assessment Of The Knowledge Gaps To Prevent Soil Erosion, Maria Helena Guimarães, Martinho Martins, Diana Vieira, Isabel Brito, Claire Kelly, Nuno Guiomar, Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Melpomeni Zoka, Teresa Nóvoa, Artemi Cerdà, Beatriz Faria, João Madeira, Lilia Fidalgo, Panos Panagos, Pandi Zdruli, Saskia Keesstra, Sergio Prats, Pierfrancesco Di Giuseppe, Endre Dobos

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

SOLO project aims to deliver actionable transdisciplinary roadmaps for future soil-related research and innovation activities in the EU, contributing to achieving the objectives of the EU Soil Mission. To achieve this overarching goal, the project employs a transdisciplinary task force known as Think Tanks (TTs). Comprising 10 Think Tanks, SOLO aligns these entities with the objectives set forth by the EU Soil Mission Board. Within our specific TT, we focus on the Soil Mission objective 5, “Prevent erosion”. Broadly, this objective is to reduce “the area of land currently affected by unsustainable erosion from 25% to sustainable levels” (EC, 2021a). …

Redefining Arctic Boundaries In A Changing Climate: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Governance Strategies, Llucia Mascorda-Cabre

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

The Arctic rapidly transforms due to global warming and increased human activities, triggering complex changes at unprecedented speeds that challenge conventional institutional responses. We analyse these changes through the lenses of social, political, and environmental boundaries and investigate their impacts on both inhabitants' livelihoods and the region's political framework. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, we highlight the complexities of understanding the interplay among global, regional, and local dynamics in an era where human and non-human aspects are entwined. Our analysis concentrates on three areas: definition of the Arctic; legal disputes concerning the waters around the Svalbard Archipelago; evolving natural hazards and …

Temporal Climatic Shifts In Henan Province: A 16-Decades Perspective Through Regression, Sarima, And Nar Modeling, Lin Qing, Ang Ling Weay, Shao Yiyang, Sellappan Palaniappan

Journal of Informatics and Web Engineering

Global warming is having a significant impact on all aspects of human production and life. This study employs a cross-sectional analysis to investigate the temporal dynamics of average temperature changes in Henan Province, China, from 1851 to 2012. Utilizing the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Data and the Daily Meteorological Dataset of China National Surface Weather Station v3.0, we applied regression analysis, Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA), and Nonlinear Autoregressive Network (NAR) models to predict temperature trends. Results indicate a significant warming trend over the 160-year period, with the models demonstrating strong predictive performance, albeit with some variability. The study …

الأحزاب السياسية ودورها في إعادة بناء الدولة العراقية بعد عام 2005 دراسة تحليلية, Nawwar Asem, Mohamad H. Almasalha

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال بيان واقع العمل الحزبي في العراق بعد عام 2005م، وتحليل طروحات الأحزاب السياسية العراقية لإعادة بناء الدولة، واعتمدت الدراسة في تحقيق أهدافها على منهج تحليل النظم والمنهج المؤسسي، وخلصت الدراسة إلى تأثير المنظور الطائفي قد أنعكس على عمل الأحزاب السياسية في العراق، والتي بدورها قامت بتعميق الشعور والانتماء الطائفي، وبينت الدراسة ضعف قيام الأحزاب السياسية في العراق بدروها السياسي والوطني في تعزيز الاستقرار السياسي في العراق بعد عام 2005م، حيث كان تركيزها على مصالحها الحزبية والقوى أو الجماعات السياسية التي تدعمها، لذا لم يكن لها دور سياسي في إعادة بناء العراقية الحديثة، وتوصي الدراسة بإجراء تعديلات دستورية، وتطوير …

نسبة توافر مهارات التفكير البصري في أنشطة دروس المهارات اللغوية وأنماطها في كتب "أُحبُّ لغتي" لصفوف الحلقة الأولى (4-1) من التعليم الأساسي بسلطنة عُمان, Aziz Salim Albusaidy, Fatima Muhammad Al-Kaf

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال إلى تحديد نسبة توافر مهارات التفكير البصري في أنشطة دروس المهارات اللغوية وأنماطها في كتب "أُحِبُّ لُغَتِي" لصفوف الحلقة الأولى (4-1) من التعليم الأساسي بسلطنة عُمان. استخدم الباحثان بطاقة تحليل محتوى مكونة من (22) مهارة، وقد تكون مجتمع الدراسة من أنشطة دروس مهارات اللغة العربية في كتب" أُحِبُّ لُغَتِي" لصفوف الحلقة الأولى (4-1) من التعليم الأساسي بسلطنة عُمان والبالغ عددها (527) نشاطا. وتوصلت الدراسة إلى النتائج الآتية: مهارة التعرّف على الشكل ووصفه أكثر مهارات التفكير البصري توافرا في أنشطة دروس المهارات اللغوية وأنماطها في كتب "أُحِبُّ لُغَتِي" لصفوف الحلقة الأولى (4-1) من التعليم الأساسي بسلطنة عُمان؛ حيث بلغت …

The Effect Of Active Discussion Strategy On Achievement And Developing Critical Thinking Among Students First Year Middle School Students In Geography, Kareem Abbes Abu Haleel, Ibtisma Alwen Shafiq

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The current research aims to identify the impact of the active discussion strategy on the achievement and development of critical thinking among the first intermediate grade students in the subject of geography. The research was applied to female students of the first intermediate grade in the Mezan Al-Aamal Intermediate School for Girls, affiliated to the General Directorate of Education, Al-Hamza Al-Sharqi, affiliated to Al-Diwaniyah Governorate. 36) female students. The two research tools consisted of an achievement test whose paragraphs amounted to (50) items of the multiple test type, whose sincerity was (0.84) and reliability (0.80). And its stability (85), and …

Geomorphoic Processes And The Resulting Landforms In The Desert Of Muthanna Governorate (Kharaz Valley As An Example), Walaa Kameal Hussein Alasady, Mohammed Jaber Frhaan Alaajebi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The ancient and current climate had an impact on the processes that produced different shapes on the Earth’s surface in the Kharaz valley Basin, including chemical and physical weathering processes that played a major role in the formation of those shapes. As for water erosion in the Kharaz valley Basin, it was weak through the application of the (Fornian) equation, as it amounted to In the Samawah and Rafha stations (16.67 and 20.13) degrees, respectively, and according to the Forney index, the study area is located in the first degree of rain

Natural Gas In Arab Gulf Countries (A Study In The Industry Of Geography), Huda Habini Ashour Al-Baidani

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Natural gas is one of the important and main energy sources in the Arab Gulf countries in particular and in the world in general. It is considered as one of the most important clean sources when compared with other traditional energy sources such as oil and coal. Interest in it has increased in the Arab Gulf countries for its use in electricity power generation, naturally available, as well as being released with the accompanying oil, and to preserve the environment by reducing the emission of carbon dioxide.

Evaluation Of The Locations Of Cities Within The Mountainous Territory Of Erbil Governorate According To The Mass Wasting Susceptibility Model, Kamaran Wali Mahmood

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The study aims to determine the scope of mass wasting hazards in Erbil Governorate's mountainous territory, as well as the locations of urban centers in relation to these risk levels. The study assumes that significant areas of the study area are vulnerable to these hazards and that the majority, if not all, urban centers are located near such hazards. The study employed an inductive approach through the application of the scientific analysis method. It was separated into three sections: definition of the study area, methods and results and discussion. The study came to a number of results, the most important …

Analysing Iraqi Arabic Speakers' Voice Qualities: Gender As A Variable In Auditory-Perceptual Vpa, Narjis Abdul-Manaf Al-Salman, Wasan Alsiraih

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research delves into the examination of voice qualities among Iraqi Arabic speakers, encompassing both genders and age range from 20 to 45. The study employs a comprehensive auditory-perceptual analysis utilizing the Vocal Profile Analysis (VPA) scheme developed by Laver, Wirz, Beck, and Hiller (1981), later refined by Beck (2018). Data collection involves two methods: narrative pictures and open-ended responses. The findings unveil shared characteristics among Iraqi Arabic speakers: pharyngeal constriction and pronounced high nasality, particularly noticeable in females; Despite the consistent use of the advanced lingual tip/blade, the typically alveolar /l/ segment maintains a neutral position; The phonation voice …