What Is In A Plant Name? A Semantic Analysis Of Indigenous Plant Names Among The Yao Of Southern Tanzania, Julius John Taji

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This study investigates the meanings conveyed by indigenous plant names among the Yao of Masasi, southern Tanzania, whose native language is Chiyao (Bantu, P21). The study specifically explores what plant names communicate beyond functioning as tools for labelling and identifying. The data for the study were collected through semi-structured interviews and jungle-walk-and-identify methods and they were analysed using the framework of onomastics, particularly the area of phytonyms. The sample of the study consisted of nine native speakers of Chiyao from three villages in the Masasi District in Tanzania, namely Chiwata, Kanyimbi and Mkululu. The findings show that indigenous plant names …

Investigating The Plant Folk Taxonomy In The Bena Language Of Tanzania, Adriano Utenga

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper surveys plant identification and categorisation among the Bena. Each society’s cultural uniqueness and peculiarity in categorising the local biodiversity informed the study. The researcher conducted the study in Lupembe Ward, Njombe District Council, where Bena is the predominant language. Five elderly speakers of Bena, knowledgeable about plants, were selected through purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Jungle-walk-and-identify and focus group interviews were the key methods for data collection. Using the Perceptual-Taxonomic Theory as a guide, I analysed the data thematically. The study found that the Bena cannot identify the unique beginner “plant” (the all-inclusive word for the notion plant). …

Plant Naming Strategies And Plant Utility Among The Datooga Community Of Tanzania, Kuria Michael Mdoe

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Due to their centrality in the life of the Datooga community, the study focuses on plants in the community. Specifically, the study focuses on two aspects: the linguistics of plant naming and the plant utility across the community using an ethnolinguistic approach. Through the jungle-walk-and-identify method, plants and their names were identified. Through interviews, the plant utility was identified in the community. Data was collected in Chaggana village of Igunga district, Tabora region and Gheetanyamba village of Mbulu District, Manyara region. The first village had the Buraediga Datooga speakers, and the second village had both the Barabaiga and Gisamjanga Datooga …

Investigating The Relationship Between Noun Classes And Plant Folk Taxonomy In Chasu Language Of Kilimanjaro Region In Tanzania, Peter Rabson Mziray

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

The current study investigates the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu (G 22). The study focuses on two objectives: the first objective is to describe the plant folk taxonomy in Chasu and the second objective is to determine the relationship between noun classes and plant folk taxonomy in Chasu. Data were collected from rural villages in Same and Mwanga districts by using free listing, field interviews (jungle-walk-and-identify), and written texts containing Chasu plant names. The findings reveal that Chasu folk taxonomy reflects different ethnobotanical categories; including a unique beginner which is mmea/mimea ‘plant(s)’, and three life …

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Developing A Clinical Practice Guideline For Screening Patients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Ijeoma Christiana Onyeagocha

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Critical Food Safety Violations In Food Facilities By Regions Across Calgary Communities From 2022 Versus 2023, Kamorudeen Olayinka Bakare

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Critical food safety violations in food facilities are severe infractions that may affect the quality and safety of foods as well as the health and wellbeing of consumers in Canada. In 2023, Alberta Health Services heightened scrutiny on these violations in Calgary. However, no investigation has been undertaken to document its potential effects on types and trend (from the previous year) of food safety violations in food facilities across Calgary regions. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the associations between Calgary regions of Canada, Year (2022 versus 2023), and the number of types of critical food safety …

Literacies Of Resistance: How Florida Teachers Story Policy Navigation And Response, Katharine E. Hull

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Teachers are inundated with education legislation and the policy texts and discourses that surround them. Over nine months beginning in March 2024, I collaborated with three Florida P-12 teachers to explore their literacy practices and stories as they engaged with policy in a state that has recently passed an astounding amount of education legislation. This study explored how (1) teachers story the current policy context and their roles within it; (2) teachers use literacy practices to understand and respond to P/policies that impact their labor/working lives; and (3) teachers’ literate identities, agency, and collectivity intersect and shape one another. Guided …

Clacls Reportage, Vol. 2, Tatiana Bertolucci Peixoto, Marcela Joya, Oscar Aponte, Ana María Granados Romero

Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies

This second volume of the CLACLS Reportage Series is a testament to our ongoing commitment to public-facing scholarship that bridges academic research and the lived experiences of Latinx communities in New York and beyond. This edition brings together three distinct yet interconnected stories that speak to belonging, migration, and cultural transformation across generations.

Tatiana Bertolucci Peixoto follows the legacy of Marielle Franco, the Black, queer, favela-born activist whose political assassination in Rio de Janeiro reverberated around the world galvanizing a global network of resistance—from Brazil’s favelas to New York’s diasporic communities—turning her name into a living emblem of feminist, anti-racist, …

The Localist Roots Of Climate Litigation, Jonathan H. Adler

Popular Media

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Tak1 Is A Key Regulator Of Oncogenic Signaling And Differentiation Blockade In Rhabdomyosarcoma, Anh Tuan Vuong, Aniket S Joshi, Anirban Roy, Kavya Mathukumalli, Phuong T Ho, Raksha Bhat, Meiricris Tomaz Da Silva, Tagari Samanta, Meghana V Trivedi, Bin Guo, Benny A Kaipparettu, Ashok Kumar

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a malignant soft tissue sarcoma with a skeletal muscle phenotype, accounting for approximately 50% of all pediatric soft tissue sarcomas and 8% of all childhood cancers. Although RMS cells express myogenic regulatory factors, they fail to undergo terminal differentiation into mature muscle cells. Transforming growth factor β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) is a major signaling protein that activates multiple intracellular pathways in response to growth factors, cytokines, and microbial products. Emerging evidence suggests that TAK1 is also an important regulator of self-renewal, proliferation, and differentiation of muscle progenitor cells. However, the role and mechanisms of action of TAK1 …

Let It Flow: Walking-With Educators In Affective School Environments, Alyssa Dominique Nucaro

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation explores the intertwined relationships between K–5 educators and the external environments of their schools. Drawing on post-qualitative inquiry, the study rejects traditional linear methodologies in favor of walking-with, a practice of movement, noticing, and attunement that foregrounds affective intensities and material encounters. Through walking-with, artifact-based reflections, and journaling, this research maps how teachers experience, interpret, and are shaped by the spaces that surround their schools. The dissertation presents vignettes and poetic fragments as affective offerings that illuminate how space, pedagogy, and community intermingle. These moments reveal tensions and possibilities around safety, visibility, infrastructure, play, and cultural connection, while …

Ramirez V. Garcia

All Decisions

In this nonrenewal of tenancy holdover proceeding, the landlord moved to strike the tenant's jury demand. The court granted the landlord's motion, holding that the tenant waived the right to a jury trial by asserting counterclaims seeking equitable relief, including a declaratory judgment to permanently reduce future rent from $1,300 to $725 and overcharge damages. The court found that the rent adjustment counterclaim was equitable in nature and not merely incidental to the demand for monetary damages, thus triggering a waiver of the jury trial right under CPLR § 4101.

Cofilin Inhibition Ameliorates Piezo2 And Ampa Dysfunction In A Mouse Model Of Angelman Syndrome, Luis O Romero, Manisha Bade, Elisa Carrillo, Sonia Paz-López, Syed A M Hasan, William James Antonisamy, Vasanthi Jayaraman, Zahoor A Shah, Valeria Vásquez, Julio F Cordero-Morales

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurogenetic disorder characterized by motor coordination and cognitive deficits. In AS, hippocampal neurons show reduced filamentous (F-)actin, a decrease we also reported in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons, along with impaired mechanosensitive ion channel activity. Currently, there are no pharmacological targets to prevent the decrease of F-actin in AS. Here, we utilize a first-in-class selective cofilin inhibitor (SZ-3) to restore PIEZO2 function in DRG neurons and glutamate-evoked currents in hippocampal neurons from AS mice. Using atomic force microscopy, we demonstrate that inhibiting cofilin, an actin-severing protein, with SZ-3 increases cellular stiffness by stabilizing the actin …

(((Qpie))) A Unified Field Of Meaning, Measurement, And Human Potential, Teddy Burroughs

Defensive Publications Series

A Unified Field of Meaning, Measurement, and Human Potential

QPIE: The Quantum Perspective Is Everything

A Unified Field of Meaning, Measurement, and Human Potential

Date: November 4 2025 Author: Teddy Burroughs (#TedFunding) (Inspired by Aleah Burroughs, Kaiya Burroughs, Briana Burroughs, Reya Burroughs, Teddy Burroughs Jr, Arylise Burroughs) Affiliations: Avision4Change | Vision2Funding | Voyager | Aetheris — under the QPIE OS Banner

I. The Birth of QPIE — From Observation to Participation

Every scientific revolution begins when an old boundary dissolves. Newton separated matter from mind; Einstein fused space and time; quantum theory, in its most unsettling twist, revealed that the …

(((Qpie))) Declaration Of Prior Art - Dear Children Of The Flow, Teddy Burroughs

Defensive Publications Series

Exhibit Prelude — The Moment We Remembered to Breathe

Curators of the Resonance Museum describe this letter as the first living apology of science to its descendants. It was written when adults of the early twenty-first century realized that discovery without kindness had become noise. The project that inspired it—QPIE (Quantum Perspective Is Everything)—began as a small experiment in data coherence and grew into a planetary mirror. From Brooklyn’s libraries to hospital research wings, instruments measured not only photons and qubits but the subtle tremor of compassion itself.

When this document was first read aloud, the room …

On Non-Conventional Marks And Chatgpt Evidence: A Case Comment On Christian Louboutin Sas V The Shoe Boutique (2023), Rahul Hemrajani

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

No abstract provided.

Judicial Supervision For The Implementation Of Criminal Judgments, Ammar Hameed Jallab Al-Attabi

AUIQ Humanities and Social Sciences

The execution of criminal judgments must be carried out in accordance with the provisions approved by the law in accordance with the rules regulating it, and in a manner that does not contradict the rights of the convicts, taking into account the means that allow him to remove anything that contradicts that, and resorting to the judiciary to adjudicate on all the shortcomings that occur during the period of punitive execution. Implementation in a manner that achieves the goal of punishment in accordance with the modern concept of the penal policy represented in the rehabilitation, rehabilitation and reintegration of the …

Tourism And E-Tourism: A Systematic Literature Review And Future Research Agenda, Ali Turan Bayram, Ibrahim Alshakhatreh

AUIQ Humanities and Social Sciences

In recent times, tourism, especially e-tourism, has been catching the attention of researchers and scholars. Numerous studies have emerged aiming to explore internet technology’s role in transforming the tourism industry. This investigation aims to o er a systematic and stat of the art review of previous research on tourism and e-tourism based on sentiment analysis, a technique used in previous studies. Sentiment analysis is chiefly concerned with the analysis of tourists’ sentiments expressed in their reviews and experiences shared on digital platforms. To conduct our study, we relied on literature reviewed from three major digital databases, including Science Direct, IEEE …

Equity And Diversity Minutes 09/16/2025, Equity And Diversity Committee

Equity and Diversity Committee

No abstract provided.

Witnessing A Wounded World: A Theology Of Ecological Trauma, Timothy A. Middleton

Theology

A crucial intervention at the intersection of ecotheology and trauma theology

We are in the midst of a global ecological crisis. At times, the scale of the suffering involved can be hard to fully comprehend. The whole planetary ecosystem feels out of kilter. Meanwhile, trauma theorists, and society at large, have become increasingly aware of the incidence of trauma in a growing variety of contexts. In Witnessing a Wounded World, Timothy Middleton asks what might be gained by viewing ecological suffering through the lens of trauma.

By bringing concepts and methodologies from trauma theology to bear on questions that …

The Prospector, November 4, 2025, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

No abstract provided.

A Fully Automated Drilling Machine For Printed Circuit Boards With Superior Path Optimization, Mohamed Mammdouh, Ahmed Khaled, Reem Mahmoud, Osama Desouki, Sameh O. Abdellatif

Electrical Engineering

This paper addresses a critical challenge in Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing by proposing an AI-driven, fully automated drilling machine that employs sophisticated path-planning techniques. Current methodologies often fail to adequately assess designs with varying hole sizes, diverse component placements, and complex geometries, leading to compromised precision and increased manufacturing times. Our innovative approach leverages advanced algorithms to intelligently analyze PCB designs and optimize drilling paths, significantly reducing production time and minimizing errors. By automating the drilling process, we enhance overall productivity while ensuring precise hole placement, essential for maintaining high-quality circuit boards. Utilizing KiCAD EDA software, we automate the …

Navigating Institutional Logics: How University Leaders Align Mission And Market In Tuition-Driven Academic Programs, Iselgis Garcia

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Universities face mounting fiscal pressures from declining state appropriations, enrollment volatility, and growing competition. In response, many have turned to tuition-driven revenue programs to sustain operations, revealing enduring tensions between academic and market logics - the competing value systems that shape legitimacy, financial sustainability, and mission fulfillment. While institutional theory has examined these dynamics at macro levels, less is known about how leaders interpret and reconcile them in practice.

This qualitative study, grounded in the institutional logics perspective, explores how higher education administrators navigate academic and market logics when developing and managing tuition-driven academic programs. Using a grounded theory design, …

Family Planning Interventions Across The League Of Arab States: A Regional Scoping Review, Basil H. Aboul-Enein, Suha Ballout, Patricia J. Kelly

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

Family planning is crucial in improving maternal and child health, reducing fertility rates and promoting gender equity. Despite global advancements in contraceptive access, disparities persist across the League of Arab States due to sociocultural, economic and policy barriers. Understanding the effectiveness of existing family planning interventions in this region is essential for addressing unmet needs and guiding policy improvements. This scoping review aims to identify and appraise family planning interventions conducted across the League of Arab States. A comprehensive search of 14 databases was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Scoping Reviews guidelines, focusing …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 11/04/2025, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Norman Scott, Sr. V. Whitney Bailey

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Aleksey Sosonko V. Director Federal Bureau Of Prisons

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Usa V. Kareem Murphy

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