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Forms Of Femininity: The Esoteric Visual Language Of Amazigh Women Through Ceramic Traditions And Symbolic Motifs, Mackenzie Nunnally

Theses and Dissertations

Amazigh women exercise agency and maintain autonomy as individuals through an esoteric feminine visual language. This language incorporates traditional, ritual-based pottery-making practices that are grounded in ancient spiritual beliefs and socio-cultural roles. Highly functional yet artistic ceramicwares serve as forms of femininity, or visual representations of the women. Decorative yet decidedly symbolic, geometric motifs decorate these wares and serve as esoteric signifiers of Amazigh heritage while allowing the female artisans to communicate their own experiences, principles, and worldviews. This esoteric visual language is defined and analyzed by connections made between ancient aspects of Amazigh culture and ritual-based pottery-making practices, comparing …

2021 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University

WSU Commencement Programs

This is the Winona State University Fall 2021 commencement program. Commencement was on Friday, December 10, 2021.

Agricultural Land Usage In Mansfield, Connecticut: An Analysis Of The Town’S Past And Present Agricultural Landscapes And Recent Farmland Conservation Efforts, Julia Tillinghast

Honors Scholar Theses

The town of Mansfield has a long history within the agricultural sector of Connecticut, from producing the first successful silk mill in the state to housing Mountain Dairy, a dairy supplier which sells to local consumers. This paper examines the history and progress of agricultural land usage within Mansfield, beginning with an overview of farmland in the town’s first century and ending with the current status of resident farms. At the start of settlement by English colonists in the 1700s, the town was deforested to make space for farms, housing, and general expansion. Moving forward to the 20th century, industrialization …

Serving Our Students: Evidence-Based Sex Education Policies And Practices Needed In Ohio, Lily Mckenzie Rosenberg

Honors Projects

Ohio has very minimal state-wide sex education laws, requiring only venereal disease education that has many similarities with abstinence-only education. Abstinence-only education has been shown to be ineffective in delaying first sex and lowering teen STDs, pregnancy, and birth rates. When students receive ineffective (or no) sex education it can impact them in many ways, leaving them unprepared for sexual lives as adults. To analyze the state of sex education in Ohio, this paper will look at sex education throughout Ohio both in law and in practice. I will then explore the impact of these minimal sex education laws on …

An Insider's Guide To Cell Biology, Katie Ludwig

Honors Projects

An Insider's Guide to Cell Biology is a comic book that follows Alanine the amoeba who tells the reader all about how the cell works.

The Diamond, December 10, 2021, Dordt University

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Dordt University Records 42 Cases Among Student Body for Fall Semester, 35 Percent of Students Fully Vaccinated; It Takes a Village; Dordt's Connection to World
• News: Won't Be Home for Christmas; Dordt University Choirs Perform Christmas Concerts; PLIA Returns Following Pandemic-Related Absence; Washington and B.C. Flooding - Damaged Homes, Strengthened Community
• Art & Entertainment: Red Notice - The Treasure Hunting Film We Didn't Know We Needed; Ghostbusters: Afterlife Resurrects the Joy of Fandom; House of Gucci, More Than Family
• Feature: Rehumanize Yourself; Late Harvest Brewery Adds to Sioux Center Nightlife; Full-Scale, On-Campus Campus …

Developing Techniques For The Identification Of Non-Canonical Rna Pairing And Analysis Of Lc-Ms Datasets, Christopher Jurich

Department of Chemistry: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Non-canonical pairing dynamics in ribonucleic acid (RNA) structureand statistical analysis of metabolomics liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) datasets are two difficult problems that stand as open challenges.

RNA folding algorithms are used across a variety of disciplines to predict structures when experimental elucidation techniques are inconvenient or impractical. Though successful and widely adopted, folding algorithms make simplifying assumptions for loop regions due to their complex interactions and associated difficulty with generating energy parameters for relevant non-canonical pairing interactions. Modeling assumptions and a lack of energy parameters for loops limit accuracy in these functional critical regions of RNA. This work describes …

2021 Winter Graduate Commencement, Lindenwood University

Commencement Programs

Lindenwood University Commencement program.

Racial Attitudes And Criminal Justice Policy, Francis T. Cullen, Leah C. Butler, Amanda Graham

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Empirical research on public policy preferences must attend to Whites’ animus toward Blacks. For a quarter-century, studies have consistently found that Kinder and Sanders’s four-item measure of “racial resentment” is a robust predictor of almost every social and criminal justice policy opinion. Racial animus increases Whites’ opposition to social welfare policies that benefit Blacks and their support for punitive policies that disadvantage this “outgroup.” Any public opinion study that fails to include racial resentment risks omitted variable bias. Despite the continuing salience of out-group animus, recent scholarship, especially in political science, has highlighted other racial attitudes that can influence public …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, December 10, 2021

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on December 10, 2021.

Implementing Food Science-Based Instruction In Career Technical Education Courses, Jasmine D. Hendrix

Theses and Dissertations

Students are exposed to food concepts in agriculture-based career technical education (CTE) courses which provide a gateway for students to become more aware of food science career pathways. Professional development for Mississippi (MS) CTE teachers is needed to effectively implement food science-based instruction since there is not a food science curriculum framework adopted in MS. The objective of this study was to assess a food science professional development training for MS CTE teachers that would increase their self-perceived knowledge of food science, self-perceived ability to conduct food science skills, and their self-efficacy to implement food science-based instruction. Thirty-one teachers participated …

Uniting Non-Empirical And Semi-Empirical Density Functional Approximation Strategies Using Constraint-Based Regularization, Trine K. Quady

University Honors Theses

In this work, we present a general framework that unites the two primary strategies for constructing density functional approximations (DFAs): non-empirical (NE) constraint satisfaction and semi-empirical (SE) data-driven optimization. The proposed method employs B-splines--bell-shaped spline functions with compact support--to construct each inhomogeneity correction factor (ICF). This choice offers several distinct advantages over a polynomial basis by enabling explicit enforcement of linear and non-linear constraints as well as ICF smoothness using Tikhonov regularization and penalized B-splines (P-splines). As proof of concept, we use this approach to construct CASE21--a Constrained And Smoothed semi-Empirical global hybrid generalized gradient approximation that completely satisfies all …

Industrial Fishing In Distant Waters, Sarah Schaier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Comparative Toxicity, Phytochemistry, And Use Of 53 Philippine Medicinal Plants, Lydia M. Clemen-Pascual, Rene Angelo S. Macahig, Nina Rosario L. Rojas

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The study compares the toxicity of 53 selected medicinal plants commonly used in the Philippines to treat various diseases. It uses as a benchmark Vitex negundo L., which was approved by the Philippine Food and Drug Administration as an herbal drug for cough and asthma after passing clinical trials for safety and efficacy. The methods were chosen for their simplicity and accessibility even for resource-limited laboratories. Extracts (95 % ethanol) of the medicinal parts of the plants were (1) chemically profiled using qualitative phytochemical tests that detect the presence of key classes of bioactive compounds; and (2) evaluated for toxicity …

1975 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 64th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 20, 1975. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1978 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 66th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 12, 1978. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1978 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 67th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 16, 1978. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1978 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 66th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 6, 1978. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1979 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 67th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 19, 1979. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1979 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 68th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 15, 1979. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1979 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 67th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 5, 1979. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1980 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 69th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 20, 1980. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1980 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 68th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 10, 1980. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1981 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 69th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 16, 1981. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1981 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 70th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 19, 1981. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1982 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 70th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 15, 1982. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1981 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 69th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 9, 1981. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1982 December Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Winter convocation of the 71st commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on December 18, 1982. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1982 May Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Spring convocation of the 70th commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on May 8, 1982. Digitized by the Internet Archive.

1983 August Memphis State University Commencement Program

Commencements

Program for the Summer convocation of the 71st commencement of Memphis State University at Memphis, Tennessee, held at the Mid-South Coliseum on August 14, 1983. Digitized by the Internet Archive.