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Expenditures Of Title I Funds To Maximize Student Performance, Cornethia Danielle Pressley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This mixed methods case study investigates how Title I funds are allocated and perceived in relation to student achievement in six rural elementary schools in the southeastern United States. Drawing on the Distributive Justice Theory by John Rawls, the study explored the perspectives of three principals and three instructional coaches regarding the effectiveness of Title I expenditures in improving outcomes for economically disadvantaged students. Quantitative data from school report cards (2019-2023), Title I expenditure plans, and SC-Ready English Language Arts assessment scores were analyzed alongside qualitative data from semi-structured interviews about the expenditures.

Findings revealed that expenditures most strongly associated …

Vitamin D Status And Risk For Breast Cancer In Kenya, Ronald Wasike, Victor Mobegi, Esther Maina, Francis Makokha, Robert Armstrong, Annastacia Mbithi

General Surgery, East Africa

Background: Vitamin D plays a critical role in bone metabolism, calcium regulation, and various cellular processes, including those linked to cancer. The biologically active form, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D], works through the Vitamin D Receptor (VDR). Polymorphisms in VDR and related genes have been associated with cancer risk, including breast cancer. This case-control study aimed to investigate the relationship between serum vitamin D levels and breast cancer among Kenyan women.

Methods: Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels were measured in 112 breast cancer patients and 106 controls using electrochemiluminescence.

Results: Results indicated that 81.2% of participants had deficient or insufficient vitamin D …

Volume 34, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2025, Office Of Communications, Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, 2018-present

VOLUME 34 | NUMBER 2 | Summer/Fall 2025

ON OUR COVER:

The Illinois Wesleyan University archives, housed on the fourth floor of The Ames Library, holds many artifacts of IWU history, including the original university charter and a gold medal awarded to John Marden, clas of 1909, for his breakthrough work in atomic science and engineering.

18 175 Years of Illinois Wesleyan University. Celebrate IWU's history with a timeline of the last 175 years of our community's milestones.

26 Alumni Award Winners. Meet our Award Winners John Camardella '03, Natalie Lalagos '12, and Carol Willis '68.

Carbohydrate Metabolism In The Intercaruncular Endometrium Is Affected By Form Of Supplemental Selenium At Maternal Recognition Of Pregnancy In Beef Heifers, Sarah N. Carr, Benjamin R. Crites, Kwangwon Son, Phillip J. Bridges

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Selenium (Se)-deficient soils result in Se-deficient forages that do not meet the nutritional requirement for this trace mineral in grazing cattle. Supplementation of Se conventionally occurs through a basal vitamin/mineral mix containing Se in an inorganic form (ISe), although organic Se (OSe) is available when cattle graze on forage. We previously reported that the provision of supplemental Se as a 1:1 mixture of ISe:OSe (MIX), in contrast to the industry standard of ISe alone, increases early luteal phase concentrations of systemic progesterone (P4) and increases the length of the conceptus at day 17 of pregnancy. The objectives herein were to …

Deprivation And Threat As Predictors Of Executive Functioning And Emotion Regulation In Early Adolescence: The Protective Role Of School Support, Abigail Best De Arellano

Theses and Dissertations

Childhood adversity (CA) impacts a large proportion of US youth with far reaching consequences for development and subsequent health outcomes (McLaughlin et al., 2012). Given the widespread impact of CA, it is imperative to understand how these exposures impact development, as well as identify opportunities for intervention. McLaughlin and Sheridan (2016) proposed the Dimensional Model of Adversity of Psychopathology (DMAP), providing a framework for understanding the heterogeneity of outcomes related to exposure to CA. DMAP emphasizes that deprivation (i.e., lack of expected cognitive or social stimulation) and environmental threat (i.e., exposure to harm or the threat of harm) impacts youth …

Afghanistan: Consolidation Of Power Under The Taliban, Challenges And Sustainability, Ali Ahmad Jalali

Journal of Strategic Security

Four years after the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan, the country under the clerics’ rule is peaceful but not stable. The country is internationally isolated, economically in crisis and socio-politically divided. Despite earlier pledges to share power with other Afghan parties and respect democratic rights of all Afghans,^[i] the Taliban swiftly reinstated many of their harshest policies, pushing women out of public life and allowing no dissent.

Adhering to an ideology of radical exceptionalism, the ruling Taliban maintain control over the country through a totalitarian governance while keeping ideological ties with regional and global Jihadist groups. …

Explainable Process Recommendation Through Multi-Contextual Grounding Of Dynamic Multimodal Process Knowledge Graphs, Revathy Venkataramanan

Theses and Dissertations

Can I eat this food or not? Is this food suitable for diabetes and why? Which AI pipeline is best suited for a given task and dataset? How should an end-to-end pipeline be constructed? These questions differ from factual question-answering tasks. Recipes and AI pipelines are processes consisting of several entities interacting with each other. A recipe consists of ingredients, cooking methods, and their interactions, while an AI pipeline includes datasets, preprocessing techniques, models, hyperparameters, tasks, and results. Each entity must be analyzed individually, and collective inferencing is performed to derive the final decision. This decision-making process, known as compositional …

A Recipe For Disaster - Sodium Bicarbonate Overdose, Adeola A Kosoko, Amara Ogoke, Kyle Vogt

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Audience: Emergency medicine residents post-graduate years 1-4.

Introduction: Sodium bicarbonate is a compound found commonplace in many households and in many products. It lends itself to countless everyday uses including cooking and cleaning. Physicians prescribe sodium bicarbonate regularly both on- and off-label regularly for various ailments.1 Due to the ubiquitous way both emergency physicians and the general public use and are exposed to sodium bicarbonate, we wanted to prepare learners to identify and appropriately manage sodium bicarbonate toxicity.Obtaining a thorough history not just of medications prescribed but of significant ingestions or infusions is critical in diagnosing this toxicity. Furthermore, acute …

Heat Shock Induces Alternative Polyadenylation Through Dynamic Dna Methylation And Chromatin Looping, Emily E Fink, Yi Zhang, Briana Santo, Anwita Siddavatam, Rosie Ou, Vishal Nanavaty, Byron H Lee, Angela H Ting

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Alternative cleavage and polyadenylation (APA) is a gene regulatory mechanism used by cells under stress to upregulate proteostasis-promoting transcripts, but how cells achieve this remains poorly understood. Previously, we elucidated a DNA methylation-regulated APA mechanism, in which gene body DNA methylation enhances distal poly(A) isoform expression by blocking CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) binding and chromatin loop formation at APA control regions. We hypothesized that DNA methylation-regulated APA is one mechanism cells employ to induce proteostasis-promoting poly(A) isoforms. At the DNAJB6 cochaperone locus, acute heat shock resulted in binding of stress response transcription factors heat shock factor 1, ATF6, and YY1 at …

Chronic Illness Education 2025: Promoting Lifestyle Changes To Manage Hypertension In Underserved Adult Populations, Gabriel Doree, Jenna Uhles, Kathryn Benninghoff, Magd Boutany, Omar Abdalla, Rhea Sehgal, Udodirim Nwosu, Yiannos Demetriou

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Building Healthy Habits: Preventative Strategies For Childhood Obesity, Alissa Ward, Cameron Craig, Chloe Sutlick, Gabrielle Henry, Isabelle Adams, Jerimiah Gumma, Omer Abdullah, Sami Zaidi

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Persistent Obesity In A College Student: A Case For Investigating Endocrine Disruptors In Diet, Jake Mcgue, Jolyna Chiangong, Katarina Woldt, Mary-Ann Essak, Muiz Muqri, Nikhil Patel, Redi Gishto

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Exercise Initiatives To Improve Child Obesity, Alice Werynski, Ashley Simbafo, Diana Kernen, Koa Williams, Linda Beqaj, Noah Krepostman, Trevor Buck

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Improving Outcomes Of Hiv In Marginalized Populations, Aidan Bailey, Alexis Bowles, Ammar Chauhdri, Biola Makinde-Odusola, Dea Kanani, Keshav Sharma, Vasanth Palanisamy, Waffa Bakheet

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Incidence Of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Anthony Kavanagh, Arianna Mcclellan, Asa Smith-Villegas, Djelika Kabore, Lina Shalaby, Tara Rahmani, Vyom Grover, Zackariah Farah

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Chronic Illness Strategies & Resources: Type 1 Diabetes In Adolescence, Christian Turner, Emmett Miller, Halle Jonassaint, Kristina Zheng, Mehr Bawa, Supreet Singh, Tracy Markray, Victor Tawansy

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Kidney Disease In Adults, Alan Berkovitz, Alejandro Damian, Anthony Tundo, Haziq Latif-Jangda, Jared Poliskey, Kristen Bartow, Petra Johnson, Sophie Turner

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Empowering Families With Resources To Combat Childhood Obesity, Abisola Fasakin, Alqasim Elnaggar, David Abdelnour, Mujeebah Kamal-Muili, Prit Patel, Ryan Palazzolo, Sydney Huston

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Improving Lifestyle Choices In Children Withtype-2 Diabetes Mellitus, David Williams, Hariharan Ramakrishnan, Luv Thakkar, Sanjana Kumar, Srikar Munukutla, Stephan Gonzalez, Taqwa Naas, Ted Hirschfield

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Diabetes Mellitus In Adult Males, Abdul Naser Zamzami, David Echeverri, Isabella Costa, Musaed Al Rashidi, Pooja Menon, Xiaohan Zhan, Zain Abdun-Noor

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Lifestyle Modification Resources For Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction, Ali Mustapha, Cheyenne Gonzales, Clara Devota, Emily Yao, Mahmood Alsughayer, Marcel Addis Jackson, Namrata Vedagarbha, Shane Tinsley

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Prevent Adolescent Hypertension, Anabelle Dally, Carlton Parker, Henry Ubaydi, Isabella Garcia, Joshua Mathews, Lila Tudrick, Michelle Brown, Ralph Durgham

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Barriers To Effective Diabetes Management In A Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Setting, Amaris Bradley, Karen Nakhla, Kyle Tsutsui, Mohamad Fardous, Saihaj Deol, William Frazier, Yeganeh Tabatabaei Alavi, Zackary Taylor

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Hypertension Prevention Strategies Catered Towards Pre-Menopausal Women, Jack Summers, Juan Rios, Karli Monahan, Lara Thomas, Leah Abdallah, Noah Ramirez, Noor Ghanam, William Merchun

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: A Highly Misunderstood, Multifactorial Disease, Alexa Maruszewski, Ali Eidy, Chelsea Kumi, Hailey Hartmann, Jacob Pawlowski, Kinan Suliman, Laura Garcia, William Davie

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Preventative Measures To Mitigate The Development Of Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease, Alexander Orr, Celina Wu, Elijah Marquez, Fateh Ahmad, Kendyll Gartrelle, Logan Harrison, Mia Sooch, Zahra Chehab, Emilio Espinal

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Local Action, Lower Pressure- Resources To Advocate For Improvement In Hypertension Within The Community, Carinne Jarvis, Elinor Harrison, George Yalamanchili, Kamakashi Sharma, Mackenzie Fitzgerald, Neel Lachhwani, Nimr Assaf, Richard Tuttle

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Resources To Improve Risk Of Hypertension, Bruna Storch Dos Santos, Bryce Brophy, Chonling Liu, Emily Webber, Izzy Havis, Janet Brenya, Noma Imudia, Eli Jarjous

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: School-Centered Interventions To Address Childhood Obesity, Aaron Yang, Amanda York, James Mcknight, Madison Jordan, Myron Shaba, Riley Marchin, Rita Pisegna, Constantine Tangalos

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Education And Resources To Improve Pediatric Type I Diabetes Mellitus Care Within Schools And Child Care Services, Alexander Seidel, Alexandra Thomas, Christine Larrea, Daven Sarikonda, Jack Gurwin, Maria Karla Bermudez Pineiro, Matthew Mello, Sana Soman

Patient Education Projects

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