Biden V. State Of Texas: Brief Of Administrative Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioners, Nina Mendelson

Appellate Briefs

Amici curiae listed in the Appendix are professors are professors of administrative law. Amici have an interest in the construction and application of the Administrative Procedure Act and in the role that federal courts and agencies play in advancing or hindering reasoned policymaking, democratic accountability, and good governance. Amici express no view about the wisdom of the Migrant Protection Protocols (“MPP”). They write to address why, as a matter of fundamental administrative law doctrine and principle, the Department of Homeland Security’s second action terminating MPP should be accorded legal effect and the injunction requiring the Department to implement that program …

Formation Of Trihalomethanes During Chlorination At South Cross Bayou Advanced Water Reclamation Facility, Pinellas County, Florida, Ian Grabo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

South Cross Bayou Advanced Water Reclamation Facility (SCB) in Pinellas County, Florida, recently had a spike in effluent concentrations of bromodichloromethane (BDCM) and dibromochloromethane (DBCM) above the regulated limits, due to relying fully on chlorination instead of a combination of chlorination and ultraviolet light. The objective of this study was to determine the operating parameters most strongly affecting the formation of THMs. This was completed by analysis of long-term data sets obtained from SCB by multiple linear regression to create models describing THM formation. In addition, sampling of the chlorine contact chamber (CCC) was done to determine the effects of …

Integrating History Into Healthcare: Understanding Links Between Past Traumas And Current Health Disparities Within The Native American Population, Alison A. Gisi

Honors Thesis

The byproducts and motivators of colonialism- namely acquisition of land, pursuit of power, and assimilation of non-dominant cultures- have created a long legacy of historical trauma within the American Indigenous population, who have been at the targets of discrimination and conflict since the onset of European colonization of the Americas. Generations of losses have victimized Native American people and has left them to pick up the pieces of what they lost to colonialism. Researchers and experts in the field have suggested that due to the extensive and unique Historical Trauma experienced by the population has initiated the Historical Trauma Response …

Class Notes

DePaul Magazine

DePaul alumni share news about their promotions, career moves, weddings, birth announcements, other accomplishments and more with the DePaul community.

Crow's Nest, March 21, 2022, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 21, 2022, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Problematic Expectations: Using Close Reading To Surface Emotional Labor In School Librarian Job Postings, Alexandra Grimm

School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship

Although emotional labor—defined as the process(es) by which a worker manages their feelings in order to produce the desired emotional response in a customer—has been studied in various fields and specific domains of librarianship, this topic has yet to be examined in school librarianship. In this exploratory article, I perform a close reading of school librarian job postings to surface expectations of emotional labor and explicate connections to the feminized history of librarianship. The article closes with a call to action, outlining steps for administrators and researchers to prevent the potential harms of emotional labor in school librarianship.

Dissociation Of Tau Pathology And Neuronal Hypometabolism Within The Atn Framework Of Alzheimer’S Disease, Michael Tran Duong, Sandhitsu R. Das, Xueying Lyu, Long Xie, Hayley Richardson, Sharon X. Xie, Paul A. Yushkevich, Alzheimer’S Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, David A. Wolk, Ilya M. Nasrallah, Charles D. Smith, Gregory A. Jicha, Peter A. Hardy, Partha Sinha, Elizabeth Oates, Gary Conrad, Michael W. Weiner, Paul Aisen, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack Jr.

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Publications

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is defined by amyloid (A) and tau (T) pathologies, with T better correlated to neurodegeneration (N). However, T and N have complex regional relationships in part related to non-AD factors that influence N. With machine learning, we assessed heterogeneity in ¹⁸F-flortaucipir vs. ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography as markers of T and neuronal hypometabolism (N_M) in 289 symptomatic patients from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. We identified six T/N_M clusters with differing limbic and cortical patterns. The canonical group was defined as the T/N_M pattern with lowest regression residuals. Groups resilient to …

Prkg2 Regulates Alveolar Type 2-Mediated Re-Alveolarization, Mo Zhang, Gibran Ali, Satoshi Komatsu, Runzhen Zhao, Hong-Long Ji

Cellular and Molecular Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: The cGMP-dependent type 2 protein kinase, encoded by the prkg2 gene, is highly expressed in alveolar type 2 epithelial (AT2) cells. It is unclear whether prkg2 regulates AT2 cell homeostasis and re-alveolarization of injured lungs. This study aimed to investigate the role of prkg2 in the regulation of the fate of AT2 in vitro. Methods: Primary AT2 cells of wild-type (wt) and prkg2--/--mice were co-cultured with fbroblasts as three-dimensional organoids. The colony formation was analyzed between days 4 and 12 post-seeding. EdU assay was used to detect cells with active DNA synthesis. AT1 and AT2 cells in organoids were …

Und Strategic Planning Kick-Off Event: Qualtrics Survey Responses, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Qualtrics survey response report from the UND strategic planning kick-off event. The report compiles participant responses to the Brags, Worries, Wonders, and Bets prompts used to gather early campus and community input for the UND LEADS development process.

Outbreak Impact, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Tuning Electrochemical Interactions And Polymer Electrolyte Interfaces For Enhanced Organic Acid Separations Using Electrodeionization, Matthew Leo Jordan

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Chemical separations are critical processes for chemical and industrial plants to purify and isolate products however current separation technologies, such as distillation, rely on energy intensive processes. Electrochemical separation processes, such as electrodialysis and electrodeionization, are an energy efficient alternative that are emerging as an alternative for thermal-based separations. Organic acids are weakly ionizable species and susceptible for purification from process streams using electrochemical processes. Recently the fermentation route has garnered greater attention as a means for producing value-added chemicals, such as organic acids, from a renewable feedstock and aiding the circular economy. Some of the challenges electrodialysis faces for …

I Got Two Versions: Frank Ocean, Lil Nas X, And The Rhetoric Of Progressive Masculinity In Rap Music, Evan William Lobdell

Theses and Dissertations

Rap music serves as one of the most popular genres of music worldwide. Despite its popularity and influence, the genre has often been criticized for its inclusion of misogyny and homophobia. Frank Ocean and Lil Nas X, two Black queer male rappers, are introducing a new style of masculinity to the genre that is centered on a blurring of the masculine and feminine. Through a rhetorical analysis of the lyrics, music videos, and live performances of “Nikes” by Frank Ocean and “Industry Baby” by Lil Nas X, this thesis characterizes progressive masculinity, its impact on understandings of masculinity in rap, …

The Guardian, Week Of March 21, 2022, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of March 21, 2022. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

A Forward-Thinking Approach To Addressing The New Synthetic Opioid 2-Benzylbenzimidazole Nitazene Analogs By Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry (Lc-Qqq-Ms), Sara E Walton, Alex J Krotulski, Barry K Logan

College of Life Sciences Faculty Papers

Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) continue to represent a threat to public health and safety. The number of new drugs in the latest emergent synthetic opioid class-the 2-benzylbenzimidazole analogs-also called the nitazenes-has begun to dominate the current new synthetic opioid (NSO) subclass of NPS. We describe a liquid chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry method for the quantification of nine analogs and/or metabolites of drugs in this series: isotonitazene, metonitazene, protonitazene, etonitazene, clonitazene, flunitazene, N-desethyl isotonitazene, 5-amino isotonitazene and 4'-hydroxy nitazene in human whole blood, urine, and tissue. Samples were prepared for analysis using a basic liquid-liquid extraction. Chromatographic separation was achieved using …

Make America Kill Again: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Donald Trump’S Necropolitical Representations Through Conjunctural Use Of Twitter During His Presidency, Zach Thornhill

Theses and Dissertations

The presidency of Donald Trump set the stage for new forms of rhetoric that shaped national perceptions of different groups. Operating in different conjunctural moments, Trump used his Twitter account as a weapon to repetitively vilify different racial identities. Through negative representations of Black Lives Matter protestors and immigrants, Trump created a culture of incivility and hatred. Using these negative representations, Trump created necropolitical conditions that justified violence in the United States. This thesis will be a critical discourse analysis that examines how Trump was able to create the culture of incivility during his presidency.KEYWORDS: conjuncture, necropolitics, representations, rhetoric, nationalism

Mechanisms Of Mitochondrial Promoter Recognition In Humans And Other Mammalian Species, Angelica Zamudio-Ochoa, Yaroslav I Morozov, Azadeh Sarfallah, Michael Anikin, Dmitry Temiakov

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Recognition of mammalian mitochondrial promoters requires the concerted action of mitochondrial RNA polymerase (mtRNAP) and transcription initiation factors TFAM and TFB2M. In this work, we found that transcript slippage results in heterogeneity of the human mitochondrial transcripts in vivo and in vitro. This allowed us to correctly interpret the RNAseq data, identify the bona fide transcription start sites (TSS), and assign mitochondrial promoters for > 50% of mammalian species and some other vertebrates. The divergent structure of the mammalian promoters reveals previously unappreciated aspects of mtDNA evolution. The correct assignment of TSS also enabled us to establish the precise register of …

Livestock Depredation By Jaguars Associated With Dry-Season Core-Use Areas In A Northeastern Mexico Agrolandscape, Adrián Silva-Caballero, Louis C. Bender, Octavio C. Rosas-Rosas

Western North American Naturalist

Predation by jaguars (Panthera onca) on livestock can foster human intolerance and drive human–jaguar conflicts. Understanding distributional patterns that characterize depredation can help guide strategies to ameliorate these interactions, which is important because human conflicts are the main threat to the endangered jaguar in Mexico. We used clusters of satellite telemetry locations to evaluate spatial patterns of jaguars and jaguar predation/scavenging sites of livestock and wild ungulates in the Sierra del Abra-Tanchipa Biosphere Reserve (RBSAT) and surrounding agrolandscape of northeastern Mexico, where livestock composed 66% of the biomass of jaguar diets. Distribution of livestock sites was significantly associated …

Moving Und Forward Survey: Qualtrics Responses, University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Qualtrics survey response report from the Moving UND Forward strategic planning process. The report compiles participant responses to the Brags, Worries, Wonders, and Bets prompts used to gather campus and community input for UND’s strategic planning work.

Handoff Communication Among Senior Nursing Students: A Phenomenological Study, Juanita Hanley-Gumbs

Dissertations

Despite discussions in health care regarding poor communication and its link to patient safety, it was revealed in the literature that many student nurses are inadequately prepared to conduct handoff communication. Student nurses have difficulty in this area due to limited or no experience with the handoff process, which jeopardizes patient safety. The purpose of this research study was to understand how senior nursing students make meaning of their lived experiences with handoff communication. The guiding research question for this study is: How do senior nursing students make meaning of their lived experiences with handoff communication during the change-of-shift report …

Variables That Influence Student Nurse Progression During Sophomore Year In A Traditional Bsn Program, Connie Mcfadden-Chase

Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to discover variables that influence student progression during the sophomore year in a traditional bachelor of science in nursing program. Research exists to identify factors that will predict the retention of students or will contribute to students' success. Tinto's model on student retention was the framework for this study with constructivist grounded theory as the methodology to unravel the data and discover new meanings. The results of the study align with Tinto's model and illustrates the importance of faculty and peer relationships in conjunction with guidance in navigating the particularities of nursing coursework and …

The Rider (2022-03-21), Verilu Infante

The Rider Archives

Vol.7 No.23

Climate Variation Influences Flowering Time Overlap In A Pair Of Hybridizing Montane Plants, Kelly A. Carscadden, Daniel F. Doak, Nancy C. Emery

Western North American Naturalist

Flowering time is sensitive to climatic conditions and has been a frequent focus of climate change research, yet the implications of phenological shifts for hybridization within plant communities have seldom been explored. Reproductive overlap between interfertile species is a key requirement for the production of hybrid (interspecies) offspring, and climate change may influence the opportunities for hybrid production through changes to species’ flowering time, duration, and overlap with other species. To test how climate variation influences flowering overlap between hybridizing species, we analyzed 45 years of flowering phenology data on 2 common plants in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado that …

Investigation Of Students’ Understanding Of Light Matter Interactions In A Chemistry Context, Archer Harrold

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Students’ have varying levels of understanding of light matter interactions in chemistry contexts. This study investigated students’ understanding through the use of semi-structured interviews and PhEt simulations of both the single slit and double slit experiments. Coding qualitative analysis and construct maps were used to assign students to specific levels of sophistication. It was found that students’ carry differing levels of understanding of light and light matter interactions where low level learners struggled to connect ideas in their explanations while high level learners had strong connections between their knowledge and explanations.

Antibacterial Activity, Structure-Activity Relationships, And Scale-Up Reaction Of 1,3,4-Oxadiazoles, Olivia Marie Smith

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

Oxadiazoles are compounds in the field of organic chemistry that have been gathering interest in the medicinal chemistry and microbiology communities for their biological properties, which range from anti-inflammatory agents, to chemotherapy drugs, to antibiotics. The synthesis of oxadiazoles can be difficult due to the expensive and complex nature of the techniques used as well as the volatile reagents and elevated temperatures that are often required in organic synthesis. The Grote lab has recently developed a new method for the synthesis of 1,3,4-oxadiazoles under mild conditions. The goals of this thesis were thus twofold: to develop a viable scale-up procedure …

The Pro-Fibrotic Response Of Mesenchymal Leader Cells To Lens Wounding Involves Hyaluronic Acid, Its Receptor Rhamm, And Vimentin, A. Sue Menko, Alison Romisher, Janice L Walker

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Hyaluronic Acid/Hyaluronan (HA) is a major component of the provisional matrix deposited by cells post-wounding with roles both in regulating cell migration to repair a wound and in promoting a fibrotic outcome to wounding. Both are mediated through its receptors CD44 and RHAMM. We now showed that HA is present in the provisional matrix assembled on the substrate surface in a lens post-cataract surgery explant wound model in which mesenchymal leader cells populate the wound edges to direct migration of the lens epithelium across the adjacent culture substrate onto which this matrix is assembled. Inhibiting HA expression with 4-MU blocked …

Towards Efficient Lifelong Machine Learning In Deep Neural Networks, Tyler L. Hayes

Theses

Humans continually learn and adapt to new knowledge and environments throughout their lifetimes. Rarely does learning new information cause humans to catastrophically forget previous knowledge. While deep neural networks (DNNs) now rival human performance on several supervised machine perception tasks, when updated on changing data distributions, they catastrophically forget previous knowledge. Enabling DNNs to learn new information over time opens the door for new applications such as self-driving cars that adapt to seasonal changes or smartphones that adapt to changing user preferences. In this dissertation, we propose new methods and experimental paradigms for efficiently training continual DNNs without forgetting. We …

Review Of Aloha-Based Mac Protocols For Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks., Ehab Khater, Nawal El-Fishawy, Maha Tolba, Dina Mahmoud, Mohammed Badawy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The aquatic environment has become clearer and more controllable since Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) intervened to detect them, because underwater wireless sensor networks are efficiently providing and supporting many civilian and military applications, and many have been decomposed and extracted for helping to avoid falling into many problems, causing many physical and economic losses. Media Access Control (MAC) protocol plays a fit role to enhance the performance of the network which helps to quickly accomplish the tasks that are required from the network and without additional cost. Low and limited bandwidth, energy, limited memory, long and variable propagation delay, …

Mitochondrial Phenotypes In Genetically Diverse Neurodegenerative Diseases And Their Response To Mitofusin Activation, Xiawei Dang, Emily K Walton, Barbara Zablocka, Robert H Baloh, Michael E Shy, Gerald W Dorn Ii

Open Access Publications

Mitochondrial fusion is essential to mitochondrial fitness and cellular health. Neurons of patients with genetic neurodegenerative diseases often exhibit mitochondrial fragmentation, reflecting an imbalance in mitochondrial fusion and fission (mitochondrial dysdynamism). Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease type 2A is the prototypical disorder of impaired mitochondrial fusion caused by mutations in the fusion protein mitofusin (MFN)2. Yet, cultured CMT2A patient fibroblast mitochondria are often reported as morphologically normal. Metabolic stress might evoke pathological mitochondrial phenotypes in cultured patient fibroblasts, providing a platform for the pre-clinical individualized evaluation of investigational therapeutics. Here, substitution of galactose for glucose in culture media was used to redirect …

The Efficiency Model Of Goalkeeper’S Actions In Soccer, Andrzej Szwarc, Patrycja Lipinska, Michal Chamera

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

Background: The purpose of this paper was to present cognitive models illustrating efficiency of the goalkeeper’s actions in soccer based on observation of play in selected matches of the Euro 2008 finals. Material/Methods: The observation method was used in the study. The play of both goalkeepers was analysed in 7 soccer matches in a cup phase of the European Championships which took place in Portugal in 2008. The data was recorded on the authors’ observation forms. Activity, effectiveness and reliability during both offensive and defensive actions were subject to this examination. Results: It was revealed that most actions of the …

Physical Performance, Body Composition And Body Balance In Relation To National Ranking Positions In Young Polish Tennis Players, Mateusz Karnia, Tomasz Garsztka, Mateusz Rynkiewicz, Tadeusz Rynkiewicz, Piotr Zurek, Marcin Luszczyk, Ewelina Sledziewska, Ewa Ziemann

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between body composition, aerobic capacity and the balance in young tennis players at rest and during fatigue triggered by an endurance test. Moreover, we tried to find the correlation between the tennis ranking position and the balance. Material/Methods: Well-trained 16 young tennis players (15 and 17 years old, singles national ranking 3-39, average training experience of 9 years) took part in this study. They were assigned to two groups according to their age – 15 TG and 17 TG. Participants completed the same battery of body composition, aerobic, and …