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Community College Library Digital Branches And Their Communities, Helen Cozart

SLIS Connecting

Community Colleges have long been a staple of American life. They offer an affordable education that is transferable to a four-year school or certification in a trade. Since they are in the community, costs can be further lowered by allowing traditional students to live at home and non-traditional students to be with their families and workplaces (Princeton Review, n.d.). Many community colleges actively engage with their communities, encouraging attendance and offering community enrichment programs. Community college libraries can occupy a powerful position in this relationship, creating an environment for the public that is inviting and encouraging through their physical offerings …

Beyond The Tropes: Viewing The Horror Genre Through The Lens Of Bipoc Readers, Kimberly Wade

SLIS Connecting

Horror novels have been and continue to grow in popularity among all age demographics in the United States. According to a 2020 Book Ad Report study, horror novels were the fifth highest-grossing genre, topping $79.6 million in 2020 (Herold, 2019, para. 16). With the growing popularity of horror novels within the market, authors and publishers have pushed for inclusion and diversity in who is writing the material, who is reading the books, and who is represented within the pages. This drive to include “Black, Indigenous, People of Color” (BIPOC) and other diverse authors and characters is necessary in allowing young …

Comparing Library Websites At Four-Year Public Universities In Arkansas, Alice Bessette

SLIS Connecting

From accessibility to website architecture and everything in between, academic libraries can have a profound impact on the students of their institutions. Simmonds and Andaleeb (2001) argue that academic libraries are “the heart of the learning community” (p. 626). They go on to explain that the support librarians offer students and staff is vital to the community’s search for knowledge. Reitz (2017) said a variation of this as well, stating that academic libraries are “integral” parts of the institutions they support. In an increasingly digital world, websites serve as primary entry points for individuals looking to access their college or …

From The Gas: Publications, Congratulations, And Presentations, Stacy L. Creel, Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

Includes book reviews by the graduate assistants for The Story Factory, Strong Like Me, and Lily the Pond Mermaid. Also, includes a list of what the faculty are currently reading.

How To Write Like A Mother#^@%*&, Cheryl Strayed, Elissa Bassist

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Review Of Amish Society, Ruth Shonle Cavan

Communal Societies

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The German Pietists: Spiritual Mentors Of The German Communal Settlements In America, Victor Peters

Communal Societies

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Cyrus R. Teed, Koreshanity And Cellular Cosmogeny, James E. Landing

Communal Societies

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Document: Henri Levi's The Perilous Voyage To Icaria (1848), Jane Dupree Begos

Communal Societies

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Research Note: Rufus Rockwell Wilson's Tour Of Five Utopian Communities In 1888, Herbert A. Wisbey Jr.

Communal Societies

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Anglo-American Salvation Army Farm Colonies, 1890-1910, Norman H. Murdoch

Communal Societies

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Anarchy & Community At Modern Times, 1851-1863, John Calvin Spurlock

Communal Societies

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Sex Roles In Nineteenth-Century American Communal Societies, Jeanette C. Lauer, Robert H. Lauer

Communal Societies

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Periocular Photodamage: Dermatologic Conditions With Ocular Implications, Anna Liles, Sara Mcmahon, Bon Jae Koo

Annual Research Symposium

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Off-Label Use Of Tirzepatide To Reduce Alcohol And Nicotine Consumption: A Randomized Control Trial, Yvannia Gray, Benjamin Latey, Hayden Mcaffee, Karissa Mccown, Leon Boyles, Sanjana Pothuraju, Andrew Payne

Annual Research Symposium

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The Impact Of Physical Activity And Diet On The Potassium-Chloride Cotransporter 2 In The Central Nervous System: A Literature Review, Benjamin M. Latey, Dustin Bowers, Andrew J. Payne

Annual Research Symposium

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Accuracy Of Salivary Mmp-8 Testing For Periodontitis In Patients With Type Ii Diabetes, Piper Collins, Claudia Freitas

Annual Research Symposium

This paper investigates the accuracy of salivary biomarker testing in patients with type II diabetes

Regulatory Signal Mining Of Orthodontic Device Adverse Events: A Maude-Derived Taxonomy And Severity Triage For Clear Aligners And Fixed Appliances, Nazmi Duka, Dana Faghih, Shankargouda Patil, Shilpa Bhandi, Frank Licari

Annual Research Symposium

Objective: To build and validate a practical, orthodontics-specific adverse event taxonomy and severity triage framework using publicly available regulatory narratives, enabling rapid surveillance of high-risk event patterns across clear aligners and common orthodontic appliances.
Methods: A retrospective computational audit was conducted using U.S. FDA MAUDE medical device report narratives related to orthodontic appliances, with a focus on clear aligners (including Invisalign and direct-to-consumer sequential aligners). Narrative reports were normalized and grouped into clinically interpretable event families (airway compromise, hypersensitivity/allergic reactions, ingestion/aspiration, soft-tissue injury, periodontal/tooth injury, and occlusal/bite changes). A lightweight natural-language processing pipeline (keyword+pattern rules with clinician-informed adjudication) was used …

Txa In Dentistry, Valeria Coronilla, Jaime Cabrera-Pardo

Annual Research Symposium

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When Nutrition Fails: Modeling Protein Malnutrition-Driven Vulnerability In Hepatic Drug Metabolism And Inflammatory Stress, Vijitha D. Kantety, Victor Jiminez Jr.

Annual Research Symposium

Background

Protein malnutrition remains a major global health problem and frequently co-occurs with alcohol use, opioid exposure, and infectious disease, particularly in low- and middle-income settings. The liver is central to both metabolism and inflammatory regulation, yet the effects of a malnutrition-like nutrient environment on hepatic responses to combined metabolic and inflammatory insults are not well defined. Cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4), a key enzyme involved in opioid metabolism, is highly sensitive to inflammatory signaling and may be especially vulnerable under conditions of nutritional deficiency. This project aims to 1) develop an in vitro model of nutritionally competent versus amino acid–restricted …

Review Of Letters From A Young Shaker: William S. Byrd At Pleasant Hill, Margaret Beattie Bogue

Communal Societies

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Review Of A Lasting Spring, Beverly Gordon

Communal Societies

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Review Of Technological Utopianism In American Culture, William Sims Bainbridge

Communal Societies

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Job Harriman And Llano Del Rio: The Chimerical Quest For A Secular Utopia, Knox Mellon

Communal Societies

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Sexual Divisions And Anarchist Collectivization In Civil War Spain, Martha A. Ackelsberg

Communal Societies

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Success In Intentional Communities: The Problem Of Evaluation, Jonathan Wagner

Communal Societies

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The Brotherhood Of The Sun, 1969-1985: A Memoir, Melanie Arcudi, Pauline Meyer

Communal Societies

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Review Of Miracles & Prophecies In Nineteenth-Century France, Robert Galbreath

Communal Societies

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The Ashram Of Graton Road: Morning Star Ranch, A California Commune In The 1960'S, Jefferson P. Selth

Communal Societies

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Fanny Wright: Rebel And Communitarian Reformer, Celia Eckhardt

Communal Societies

No abstract provided.