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Protein Targeting Of Amyloid Precursor Protein In Cultured Neurons, Maria Hatziminadakis

Academic Festival

Protein Targeting of Amyloid Precursor Protein in Cultured Neurons

The amyloid precursor protein (APP) is widely expressed in the central nervous system and appears to play a key role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Understanding the normal targeting and processing of the APP protein in neurons will provide insight into the mechanisms that result in the pathophysiology associated with Alzheimer’s. We have expressed a FLAG-tagged human APP construct in cultured and visualized its distribution using immunocytochemistry. Preliminary data suggests that the APP protein is expressed in both the somatodendritic (cell body and dendrites) domain and axons of the cultured …

The Effects Of Gender Inequality On Women In Stem Fields, Melanie Walenda

Academic Festival

The prominent social phenomenon of sexism in U.S. society has embedded itself into society’s ideologies, oppressing the opportunities available to women across the board, especially in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The disparities in gender in these fields can be seen starting at a young age in school and before even entering the workforce. As the inequality continues in the workplace, it has detrimental effects on both the longevity and success of women’s careers. Women struggle to gain respect and authority in the workplace, which is reflected in the gender pay gap that is evident across all …

Can Running Make You Smarter? -- Effects Of Running On Adult Neurogenesis In The Hippocampus, Amanda Fasolino

Academic Festival

Running can be an intense and strenuous form of exercise on the body but it greatly benefits overall health. Current research shows that running can not only improve physical health, but it can also improve mental health. The body’s biological response to consistent long-term running causes an increase in neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus. This increase results in higher cognitive function and can be used in combination with traditional therapies to treat mental health disorders including depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Running induced hippocampal neurogenesis may be the key potential mechanism targeted for developing pharmaceutical treatment for neurodegenerative diseases …

Tobacco Farming, Addiction, Promotion Of Gender Equality, Well-Being And Monopoly Of The Indian Market, Ranjit Singha, Yogesh Kanna S

Journal of International Women's Studies

Women's land rights are still suppressed in India because men hold most of the land, and men decide what crops to grow. Tobacco use and farming are both detriments to one’s health. It causes cancer, and cancer treatment is unavailable in the majority of India's remote areas. On the other hand, tobacco is grown in remote regions of India, and cancer hospitals are concentrated in major cities. There are eight states in India's north-eastern region, but only one cancer treatment facility in Guwahati, Assam. There is a need for new cancer hospitals in the north-eastern part of the country, where …

Diverging Women On The Mommy Track To The Career Track, Sunaina Arora, Neeraj Kumari

Journal of International Women's Studies

The review paper discusses the Mommy Track phenomenon and interventions required to bring women back on the career track. It collates the literature to understand the Mommy Track phenomenon from organisations and economic perspectives. The Mommy Track is a path which is taken by high performing women to take a career break in order to rear children. The idea is to switch back to career tracks when childcare duties require less time. Gender parity initiatives have tried to bridge male and female labour gaps to bring back women to career tracks. Changes in government interventions, organisation policies, and individual attitudes …

Competencias De Estudiantes Universitarios Griegos Para Una Práctica Sostenible De La Igualdad De Género, Ioanna Kitta, M. Cristina Cardona-Moltó

Journal of International Women's Studies

La educación para el desarrollo sostenible de la igualdad de género ha sido conceptualizada como un vehículo para la adquisición de competencias y el mantenimiento sostenible de la igualdad y equidad en el mundo. Sin embargo, a pesar del compromiso de los gobiernos e instituciones de educación superior a facilitar la formación necesaria, los egresados universitarios salen del sistema sin las competencias necesarias para un ejercicio y desarrollo profesional sensible al género. El propósito del presente estudio fue explorar el nivel de competencia en cuestiones de género examinando la eficacia percibida para una práctica sostenible de la igualdad de maestros …

Non-Sexist Language In Vacancy Titles: A Proposal For Drafting And Translation In International Organisations, María López Medel

Journal of International Women's Studies

Current and past research confirms the existence of a gender gap that prevents women from earning the same salaries as men, having equal access to typically male sectors, and climbing the professional ladder to the highest positions of management. The separation of the sexes often starts at home or at school, with girls being led to choices of gender-stereotypical careers or domestic life. This needs to be tackled from various angles, and one tool for this is non-sexist language. Sexist language makes women invisible and secondary by referring to them in the masculine and has been proven to negatively affect …

Does Entrepreneur Gender Matter For Entrepreneurial Motivation: Answers From Micro Small And Medium Enterprises (Msmes) Of Assam, Ankita Sarmah, Bedabrat Saikia, Dhananjay Tripathi

Journal of International Women's Studies

With regard to SGD-5, this study attempts to examine the association between entrepreneur’s gender and their entrepreneurial motivation and to discover if entrepreneur’s gender influences the motivation. The study further tries to see if entrepreneurial motivation varies on the grounds of entrepreneur’s gender. Based on a qualitative approach, the study uses interview data of 320 MSME entrepreneurs from Assam, India. Two hypotheses—there is no association between entrepreneur’s gender and the entrepreneurial motivation (H01) and there is no significant difference between the mean rank of male and female entrepreneurs with respect to their motivational factors (H02)—are postulated and tested using Chi-Square …

Increasing The Supply Of Organs: What Method Is Most Ethical And Practical For The United States, Rachel Wolf

Academic Festival

Organ donation is a massive problem in the United States and everyday people die due to lack of organs/ organ donors. There must be a way in which there can be an increase in organ donation without causing any negative ethical implications. Although the U.S. should not force people into giving their organs to those who need them, our society should do more to promote organ donation through public policy “nudges”and increased education on the benefits of organ donation. People have a right to make their own choices about their organs, but society has an obligation to inform people and …

The History Of Gender Discrimination In Women’S Distance Running: Long-Term Consequences And Solutions, Courtney Blount

Academic Festival

Women have a long history of gender inequality in long-distance running marked by myths and gender stereotypes. In the mid-20^th century, it was believed that anything over an 800m run was dangerous and defeminizing for a woman to compete in.³ There was a myth that if a woman ran a long-distance race her uterus would fall out and she would grow hair on her back.³ In 1967 Katherine Switzer disproved this myth by completing the Boston marathon.⁴ Trailblazers like Switzer along with the second-wave feminist movement began to shift the culture around gender discrimination in sports. …

Why Don’T Many Physicians Believe In Chronic Lyme Disease? The Sociological And Psychological Impact This Places On Patients And The Need For Higher Sensitive Testing, Jocelyn Jernegan

Academic Festival

The prevalence and difficulty in diagnosing patients with Lyme disease has generated great concern as patients are left with chronic conditions that impair their ability to function in daily activities. While there is a clear consensus surrounding acute Lyme disease, the chronic form remains highly controversial, for it is this form that comes with misdiagnoses and failed treatments. As a result, patients experience stigma, financial issues, and psychological symptoms due to the burdensome search for help. Physicians do not view chronic Lyme disease as an existing disease or do not have the education to treat chronic Lyme disease, thus patients …

Bidirectional Relationship Between Authoritative Parenting, Prosocial Behavior, And Academic Achievement, Samantha Deliguori

Academic Festival

Authoritative parenting has great effects on a child’s prosocial behavior and academic achievement because of the high level of parental involvement, clear communication style, high level of attention, and sincere affection. It has been suggested this parent-child relationship is the most beneficial because children mirror their parents, and these children will act for others more when they see that behavior coming from their parents. This paper aims find the bidirectional relationship between authoritative parenting, prosocial behavior and academic achievement to utilize all three factors to maximize one another to set child and parent up for a better relationship and future.

Dietary Fasting As A Treatment For Type 2 Diabetes, John Fenkart

Academic Festival

More than thirty-seven million Americans have diabetes, approximately 95% of those thirty-seven million have type 2 diabetes. That correlates to roughly 1 in 10 Americans that suffer from type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition that has detrimental effects on the way one’s body metabolizes glucose; specifically, type 2 diabetes is caused by the body’s resistance to insulin. Currently, there is a limited variety of type 2 diabetes interventions, which almost always involve injections of insulin. These injections are expensive, and painful, and treat the disease itself rather than the person by addressing the symptoms of type …

The Role Of Structural Racism In Defining The Treatment Of Minorities, Especially Black Americans, As Physicians And Patients In Healthcare, Anna Klein

Academic Festival

Although there are policies in place to combat racial discrimination in healthcare, these measures are not enough as structural racism has deep roots in the medical field leading to disparities in access, large gaps in infant and maternal mortality rate, treatment of physicians, and implicit biases still present that allow for this unacceptable mistreatment.

Reaching A Compromised Solution To An Ongoing Debate: Ethics Of Abortion, Nicole Guidi

Academic Festival

Though there are many ethical and religious reasons as to why abortion is unacceptable, it is extremely difficult to ignore the great points made by the pro-choice side of the argument. Looking at different countries as models throughout the world may help lead to a comprisable solution, which may lead to the reduction of abortions. A comprehensive federal policy that may take into account all issues surrounding the circumstances of abortion may lead to the reduction of pregnancies being terminated.

Analysis Of Blood Borne Pathogen Exposure Monitoring Protocol Adherence In An Academic Medical Center: A Seven Year Analysis And Literature Review, Natavoot N. Chongswatdi Md, Callie Seaman Md, Diane Harman Rn, Bsn, William Rollyson Md, Adam M. Franks Md

Marshall Journal of Medicine

Introduction

Health care workers (HCW) are at risk for occupational blood borne pathogen exposures (BBPE). Effective prevention and management of BBPEs relies upon reporting and post-exposure follow-up protocol adherence. As post-exposure monitoring completion is largely unexplored, seven years of a university healthcare system’s BBPE exposure data was explored and compared to documented rates.

Methods

The Marshall Health Occupational Health and Wellness division collected seven years (2012-2018) of BBPE follow-up monitoring adherence rates and demographic data. Data for HCW occupation, exposure incident, and source patient disease status were evaluated. Differences were analyzed with Chi square, Fischer Exact and logistic regression tests. …

Use Of Mandibular Distraction Osteogenesis To Correct Micrognathia And Airway Obstruction In Newborn Female With Pierre Robin Sequence And Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome In Rural Appalachia, Seneca Williams, Adam Van Horn Md

Marshall Journal of Medicine

We present a case of Pierre Robin sequence and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) in a newborn female patient to highlight the surgical technique of mandibular distraction osteogenesis to correct airway obstruction due to micrognathia. The patient presented as a transport after delivery due to respiratory distress. She was noted to have a cleft palate and micrognathia. The absence of other dysmorphic features diagnosed her with non-syndromic Pierre Robin sequence. To solve her upper airway obstruction, mandibular distraction osteogenesis was performed. This procedure allowed the patient to be weaned from all respiratory support and nasogastric tube feeds by the end of …

Florida History In Publications, 2011, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Woods, A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900. by Maura Jane Farrelly; Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico. by Kristy Feldhousen-Giles; McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. by Thomas G. Nester; Shawhan and Swain, Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South. by Pamela Tyler; Kinser and Tarr, eds., Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations. by Anna Lillios; Mielnik, New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolinas State Parks. by Jack I. Hayes; Foglesong, …

Pragmatism, Seminoles, And Science: Opposition To Progressive Everglades Drainage, Chris Wilhelm

Florida Historical Quarterly

Floridians have always had complex, contentious, and dynamic relationships with the Everglades. Most Floridians in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century saw the Everglades as a wasteland and supported draining useless swamp in order to facilitate economic progress. The publication of Marjory Stoneman Douglas' The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) and the advent of modern environmentalism encouraged Floridians to reconsider the identity and value of the Everglades, seeing it as a 'river of grass' that needed protection and restoration. These two views, however, only scratch the surface of the multiplicity of ways Floridians have perceived and interacted with …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

McNeill, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. by Lynn A. Nelson; Juricek, Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733-1763. by Matthew H. Jennings; Wayne, Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida. by Uzi Baram; Tuten, Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom. by Philip Mills Herrington; Slap, ed., Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath. by John David Smith; Clegg III, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. by Bruce E. Baker; Holsaert, Prescod, Noonan, Richardson, Robinson, …

Is South Florida The New Southern California?: Carl Hiaasen's Dystopian Paradise, David M. Parker

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida and California have from their entry into American culture been considered by writers to be enchanted states, the places to which Americans can escape to a more exotic reality than is represented by the colder North and East. As early as the American Revolution, then-Spanish Florida was known for its unspoiled terrain and its lush beauty. Harriet Beecher Stowe extolled its exotic qualities, while Stephen Crane wrote of the contrast between the harsh outside world and the escapist qualities of the state. California, by contrast, has been seen as a paradise, a found Eden, and like Florida, a place …

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Garrigus and Morris, eds., Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World. by Light T. Cummins; Evans, A "Topping People": The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Elite, 1680-1790. by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler; Ashton, I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. by Carmen V. Harris; Kennedy, Born Southern: Childbirth, Motherhood, and Social Networks in the Old South. by Blain Roberts; Pickenpaugh, Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. by Jeremy Taylor; Martin, Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980. by Michael Oriard; Keirn and …

Florida History In Publications, 2010, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

O'Brien, Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860. by Timothy J. Williams; Hobson, McAdams, and Walkiewicz, eds., The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal. by Eric Gary Anderson; Wright and Glass, eds., Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt. by J. Vincent Lowery; Wells and Phipps, eds., Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South. by Kathleen C. Berkeley; Hagood, Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth. by Patricia B. Angley

"The Most Exotic Of Our Cities": Race, Place, Writing, And George Allan England's Key West, Philip Levy

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the late 1920s, a prominent American writer arrived in Key West. He and his wife came to this Florida backwater to escape chilly winters and to carve out time for writing. Once settled in town, the writer gradually eased into the rhythms of Key West life. He built personal connections and began observing local characters who, in time, would re-emerge in his stories. He liked boats and the outdoors life. He had an inclination toward dangerous adventures and enjoyment of killing animals as well as an ability to convey these sentiments to audiences through popular literature. While in the …

The Servants And Mrs. Rawlings: Martha Mickens And African American Life At Cross Creek, Rebecca Sharpless

Florida Historical Quarterly

The year is about 1940. It is evening at Cross Creek, the home of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a simple wood-frame house set among working orange groves near Hawthorne in North Central Florida. An unknown photographer is documenting an evening of dining and entertainment for Rawlings and a group of her friends, who like the author are white people of means and accomplishment. One photograph focuses on three African American women who are standing in a row and singing, their eyes cast upward, accompanied by a man on the harmonica. A second man leans on the head of a guitar, …

Zoom Fatigue In The Age Of Covid-19, Angela Bullock, Alex D. Colvin, M. Sebrena Jackson

Journal of Social Work in the Global Community

As the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted how institutions of higher education function, colleges and universities have shifted to remote learning and now rely heavily on the use of web conferencing tools, such as Zoom, WebEx, Adobe Connect, and others. As a result, educators are increasingly experiencing the effects of Zoom fatigue. The purpose of this article is to explore the videoconferencing fatigue that has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The technostress model is used as the framework to provide strategies for recognizing and addressing videoconferencing fatigue.

Parents’ Perceptions Of The College Experiences Of Twice-Exceptional Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Joseph Madaus, Emily J. Tarconish, Shannon Langdon, Ashley Taconet, Nicholas W. Gelbar

Developmental Disabilities Network Journal

Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder are accessing college in increasing numbers, and within this group, there is a cohort of academically talented students who can be considered twice-exceptional, or 2e-ASD. While research about college students with ASD is increasing, there is a relative dearth of literature about 2e-ASD college students, and their secondary transition and college experiences. The current study presents the results of individual interviews that were conducted with 10 parents of 2e-ASD college students to explore their perceptions of their children’s experiences, including what things went well and what were problematic areas. Parents described clear and early expectations …

Dirty Little Secrets: The Constitutional Feasibility Of Implementing Legislation To Compel Licensing Of Trade Secrets To End The Covid-19 Pandemic, Noah Olson

The University of Cincinnati Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal

No abstract provided.