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Understanding The Lived Experiences Of Undergraduate Transfer Students At Faith-Based And Religiously Affiliated Institutions: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study, Amanda Nicole Davis

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of undergraduate transfer students at faith-based and religiously affiliated institutions in the United States. Thus, in order to explore this phenomenon, the central research question directing the present study was: What are the lived experiences of undergraduate transfer students at faith-based and religiously affiliated institutions in the United States? The two theories guiding this study were Astin’s theory of involvement and Tinto’s theory of engagement, as they explain the relationship between institutional fit, involvement, and feelings of belonging. This study employed a transcendental phenomenological design and included …

Measuring Motivation To Predict Perceived Success In E-Learning Courses For Pre-Service Teachers: A Predictive-Correlational Study, Erin G. Fleming

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study examined whether a predictive relationship exists between perceived success in e-learning courses for pre-service teachers and their motivation toward learning at the college level. In this post-pandemic, technology-driven world, e-learning is more prevalent than ever. Understanding who will be successful in these courses is imperative. This study aimed to determine whether perceived success in e-learning courses for pre-service teachers could be predicted by their intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation scores. This predictive-correlational study utilized logistic regression to test the predictor variables: intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, amotivation, motivation subsets, gender, age, sex, and program type against the criterion …

A Phenomenological Study Exploring The Meaning Of First-Generation Students And Adjunct Faculty Relationships In Higher Education, Melissa Greenlee-Rasnake

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore how the first-generation student describes the meaning of developing a relationship with adjunct instructors at a community college and how this relationship influences their academic development and institutional sense of belonging. For the purpose of this study, the first-generation student and adjunct faculty relationship was defined as the formal and informal contact between the student and the faculty member. The theory guiding this study was that of proximal process and campus ecology developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner (1979) as it explores the importance of how the student’s environment and relationships influence their …

Mechanisms Of Endothelial Cell Membrane Repair: Progress And Perspectives., Duoduo Zha, Shizhen Wang, Paula Monaghan-Nichols, Yisong Qian, Venkatesh Sampath, Mingui Fu

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Endothelial cells are the crucial inner lining of blood vessels, which are pivotal in vascular homeostasis and integrity. However, these cells are perpetually subjected to a myriad of mechanical, chemical, and biological stresses that can compromise their plasma membranes. A sophisticated repair system involving key molecules, such as calcium, annexins, dysferlin, and MG53, is essential for maintaining endothelial viability. These components orchestrate complex mechanisms, including exocytosis and endocytosis, to repair membrane disruptions. Dysfunctions in this repair machinery, often exacerbated by aging, are linked to endothelial cell death, subsequently contributing to the onset of atherosclerosis and the progression of cardiovascular diseases …

Dynamics Of Cwd Prion Detection In Feces And Blood From Naturally Infected White-Tailed Deer, Francisca Bravo-Risi, Paulina Soto, Rebeca Benavente, Tracy A Nichols, Rodrigo Morales

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease affecting cervids. Confirmatory testing of CWD is currently performed postmortem in obex and lymphoid tissues. Extensive evidence demonstrates the presence of infectious prions in feces of CWD-infected deer using in vitro prion-amplification techniques and bioassays. In experimental conditions, this has been achieved as soon as 6-month post-inoculation, suggesting this sample type is a candidate for antemortem diagnosis. In the present study, we optimized the detection of CWD-prions in fecal samples from naturally infected, pre-clinical white-tailed deer by comparing protocols aiming to concentrate CWD-prions with direct spiking of the sample into the PMCA …

Evaluating The Contamination By Indoor Dust In Dubai, Yousef Nazzal, Alina Bărbulescu, Manish Sharma, Fares Howari, Muhammad Naseem

All Works

Nowadays, people spend most of their time indoors. Despite constantly cleaning these spaces, dust apparition cannot be avoided. Since dust can contain chemical elements that negatively impact people's health, we propose the analysis of the metals from the indoor dust component collected in different locations in Dubai, UAE. Multivariate statistics (correlation matrix, clustering) and quality indicators (QI)-Igeo, PI, EF, PLI, Nemerow-were used to assess the contamination level with different metals in the dust. We proposed two new QIs (CPI and AQI) and compared the results with those provided by the most used indices-PLI and Nemerow. It is shown that high …

What Do We Know About Shareholders' Potential To Solve Environmental And Social Problems?, Bryce C. Tingle

Georgia Law Review

Securities regulators around the world are attempting to assist socially conscious shareholders in driving changes in the way corporate America operates. At a time when legislative solutions to some of our most pressing social and environmental problems seem far away, many market actors have come to hope that shareholders can succeed in regulating and reforming corporate practices.

This paper summarizes the empirical evidence regarding the behavior of shareholders with explicit ESG mandates, the difficulties outsiders experience in evaluating ESG performance, and the outcomes generated by the limited tools available to shareholders under corporate law. It concludes there is little evidence …

All The Internet's A Stage: Reform Of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act And Broadway's Bootleg Problem, Emma K. Wimberly

Georgia Law Review

Broadway is the cultural epicenter of theatre arts. While Broadway performances are internationally known and hugely profitable, they remain inaccessible to a significant number of fans. The inability to bear the increasing costs of travel, lodging, and tickets leads many fans to turn to bootlegs. Bootlegs are illegal recordings of live performances. They are widely viewed and shared online, and uploaders purposefully work to obscure the illegality of these recordings, allowing them to evade tools designed to combat copyright infringement.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), enacted in 1998, amended U.S. copyright law to attempt to prevent digital copyright infringement. …

The Effect Of Vortex Cooling And Injection Parameters On A Bipropellant 3d Printed Thermoplastic Thruster, Mousa A. Aqailan

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

This research reports an experimental investigation of the efficiency and cooling performance of a 10Nvortex cooled Propane/Gox bi-propellent thruster designed and tested with different fabrication materials including a thermoplastic combustion chamber, and metal faceplate and nozzle. The study proposes vortex as a possible solution for cooling thrusters made from partially 3D-printed thermoplastic. This enables the vortex injection method to be 3D printed in a single solid piece thruster to minimize the design complexity and reduce weight, production time, and cost compared to conventional cooling methods. Vortex cooling is simply made by changing the direction of propellant injection rather than using …

Technological Adoption And Changing World Of Work: Case Study Of Services Sector Workforce In Pakistan, Umer Khalid

CBER Conference

This study seeks to investigate the impact of technological adoption and the changing world of work on employment dynamics, job quality and wage structure in the context of a developing economy – Pakistan.

Demand Analysis Of Energy Mix In District Kotli Azad Jammu And Kashmir, Pakistan, Syed Kafait Hussain Naqvi

CBER Conference

This study is an effort to empirically analyze the household’s demand for energy mix (electricity, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), kerosene, and firewood) in the District Kotli, AJK. The study estimates the demand elasticities (price and expenditure) by employing the Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (LA-AIDS) to 384 households sampled across District Kotli, AJK in 2017. The empirical estimations are carried out by using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR), keeping intact the adding-up, homogeneity and symmetry restrictions.

Modifying Koha To Use As A Local Authors' Catalog, Fred King

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Koha is a widely-used Integrated Library System, free to download, free to use. It is open-source software, is infinitely configurable and can be used in a variety of ways. This presentation will show how MedStar Washington Hospital Center is using Koha and modified Medline records to track articles written by MedStar authors.

Pure-Ly For Authors: An Update Of A Health System Researcher Profile Platform, Heather J. Martin, Amanda Schwartz

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

In 2023, a large healthcare system transitioned their institutional repository's author profile service to an upgraded and more comprehensive platform, and in doing so re-energized author and leadership buy-in.

After Digital Commons'™ Expert Gallery Suite eliminated some functionality, institutional repository (IR) staff began the process of exploring other author profile platforms that would align with essential workflows. Elsevier's™ Pure rose to the top of compatible and robust platforms suitable to replace our previous solution.

Pure's™ automated importing and database-integration was a primary draw, but IR staff had to find creative ways to utilize the administrative features that didn't integrate with …

Performance Of Zig-Zag Microchannel Heat Sink Embedded With Square And Circular Pin Fins, Afra Ali Al Darmaki

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

This study introduces the concept of utilizing Zig-Zag microchannels with pin-fins in heat sinks designed for electronic applications and subsequently analyzes their performance by evaluating key parameters such as thermal resistance, pressure drop, and the corresponding pumping power. The Zig-Zag Microchannel Heat Sink (MCHS) that has been devised is modelled numerical by solving the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy equations. The assessment of the Zig-Zag microchannel heat sink with integrated pin-fins considered the following design space: the planar dimensions, the width and depth of the microchannel, orientation and number of turns of the microchannel as well as the Reynolds …

Milton's "Lycidas": Elevating The Human Condition, Haylee Edwards

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

John Milton’s 1637 poem “Lycidas” is a pastoral elegy told from the point of view of a shepherd grieving the loss of his friend, Lycidas. Written in honor of Milton’s late classmate, Edward King, “Lycidas” is a Christian allegory. This essay situates “Lycidas” within the history and characteristics of the pastoral elegy before analyzing how the poem at once inhabits and progressively deviates from the traditional form. Milton combines the traditional pastoral form with Elizabethan ideals and imagery to affirm his own religious, political, and existential views about death and the afterlife. The poem becomes increasingly complex, increasingly modern, and …

Taylor University Releases Plan To Invest $100 Million On Campus, Additional Investments For Local Community, Taylor University

2023 Website News Stories

No abstract provided.

The Beacon, November 16, 2023, Beacon Staff

The Beacon, 2023-2024

Underrated Thanksgiving traditions; Upcoming engineering program; "1989" re-release of ragged love songs; "The Marvels" falls short of being "marvelous"; Christmas concert exemplifies ensemble; Quiz: What Taylor Swift era are you?; NW Students excited to serve in the spring; Thanksgiving traditions vary among students; Business celebrated with Global Entrepreneurship Week; Engineering program preview; Everyone should have a mullet; Women in male dominated careers; Raider volleyball wins GPAC tournament; RSC fitness center treatment and upkeep; Men's soccer is in the national tournament; Documentary dispels misconceptions;

Clustering-Nn Based Cfo Estimation Using Random Access Preambles For 5g Non-Terrestrial Networks, Li Zhen, Luyao Cheng, Zheng Chu, Keping Yu, Pei Xiao, Mohsen Guizani

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are expected to play a pivotal role in the future wireless ecosystem. Due to its high-dynamic characteristics, the accurate estimation and compensation of carrier frequency offset (CFO) are crucial for supporting 5G new radio (NR) enabled satellite direct access. With emphasis on ensuring reliable uplink synchronization, we propose a clustering-neural network based CFO estimation scheme by virtue of NR random access preambles. By leveraging the sparsity and regularity of input samples, the proposed scheme can achieve fast and precise prediction of CFOs, while establishing robustness against time uncertainty and channel variation within a satellite beam. Simulation results …

The View From Ventress - 2022-23 Academic Year, University Of Mississippi, College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

News from the College of Liberal Arts

College Senate Minutes November 16, 2023, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on November 16, 2023.

Kenyon Collegian - November 16, 2023

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Enzyme Kinetics Of Deoxyuridine Triphosphatase From Western Corn Rootworm, Carlos Riera‑Ruiz, Hideaki Moriyama

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Objective The Western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, is a highly adaptable insect pest that has evolved resistance to a variety of control strategies, including insecticides. Therefore, it is interesting to examine how housekeeping proteins in WCR have been changed under WCR-controlling strategies. In this study, we focused on one of such proteins in WCR, a ubiquitous enzyme 5’-triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase (dUTPase). In the thymidine synthetic pathway, dUTPase hydrolyzes deoxyuridine triphosphate (dUTP) and supplies the substrate, deoxyuridine monophosphate, for the thymidylate synthase (TS). It decreases the cellular content of uracil, reducing uracil misincorporation into DNA. Suppressing the dUTPase activity, …

What Could Ai Mean For Animals?, Lewis Bollard

General – Farm Animal Issues

No abstract provided.

Dance 2023: Escape To Wonderland, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department

2023-2024 Season Productions

Conceived by Emily Bass-Glinski, this original dance concert follows Alice and her escape into Wonderland, meeting all the iconic characters from the original novella such as the Hatter, White Rabbit, Chesire Cat, Caterpillar, and of course, the Queen of Hearts.

Engaging Students In A Genetics Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Utilizing Caenorhabditis Elegans In Hybrid Learning To Explore Human Disease Gene Variants, Natalie Forte, Virginia Veasey, Bethany Christie, Amira Carter, Marli Hanks, Alan Holderfield, Taylor Houston, Anil Challa, Ashley Turner

Research, Publications & Creative Work

Genetic analysis in model systems using bioinformatic approaches provides a rich context for a concrete and conceptual understanding of gene structure and function. With the intent to engage students in research and explore disease biology utilizing the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans model, we developed a semester-long course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) in a hybrid (online/in-person) learning environment—the gene-editing and evolutionary nematode exploration CURE (GENE-CURE). Using a combination of bioinformatic and molecular genetic tools, students performed structure-function analysis of disease-associated variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in human orthologs. With the aid of a series of workshop-style research sessions, students worked in teams …

Lahu Immigrants' Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health, Nulek Singkeovilay

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Historical Kinship And Categorical Mischief: The Use And Misuse Of Doctrinal Borrowing In Intellectual Property Law, Mark Bartholomew, John Tehranian

Journal Articles

Analogies are ubiquitous in legal reasoning, and, in copyright jurisprudence, courts frequently turn to patent law for guidance. From introducing doctrines meant to regulate online intermediaries to evaluating the constitutionality of resurrecting copyrights to works from the public domain, judges turn to patent law analogies to lend ballast to their decisions. At other times, however, patent analogies with copyright law are quickly discarded and differences between the two regimes highlighted. Why? In examining the transplantation of doctrinal frameworks from one intellectual property field to another, this Article assesses the circumstances in which courts engage in doctrinal borrowing, discerns their rationale …

Association Between Trigeminal Neuralgia And Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: A Cross‐Sectional Study Using Us Data, Robert J. Trager

Faculty Scholarship

Background: Limited research has suggested that trigeminal neuralgia (TN), an often-idiopathic pain disorder affecting the face and head, may arise from compression of the cervical spinal cord due to involvement of the spinal trigeminal tract. We hypothesized that adults with TN would have a greater likelihood of concurrent degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) compared to matched adults without TN. Methods: We retrieved de-identified data from a US network (TriNetX, Inc.) including medical records of >113 million patients, with a query date of October 1, 2023, and data spanning the previous 20 years. We created two groups of adults (aged ≥18 years): …

Structural And Service Performance Of Composite Slabs With High Recycled Aggregate Concrete Contents, Fetih Kefyalew, Thanongsak Imjai, Reyes Garcia, Boksun Kim

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

This study investigates the structural and serviceability performance of composite slabs cast with recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). Fifteen slabs (2.0m by 1.0m and 0.15m thick) were tested: five in four-point bending up to failure, five to examine vertical deflections after 90 days of sustained loading, and five to examine human-induced vibrations. Different contents of coarse and fine recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) were examined (0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or 100%). The results from the four-point bending tests indicate that the use of RCA reduced the flexural capacity only marginally (by 7% for slabs with 100% RCA), but it reduced the energy …

Multi-Model Digital Twins With Ai Forecasting For Seed To Stand Supply Chain, Rania Sherif Elashmawy

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The present dissertation embodies a multi-faceted investigation aimed at enhancing strawberry production pre-harvest and post-harvest quality through data-driven approaches. It unfolds multi-stages framework.

The first stage presents a complete data collection and its preliminary statistical analysis obtained from the first phase of a large-scale soil study on how to improve strawberry production and achieve sustainable and high-quality harvests through sensor-assisted real-time field monitoring. Six real-time loggers were placed in an operational commercial strawberry farm in Central Florida for the entirety of a harvest season from soil preparation to planting to harvesting. Along with high-resolution soil sensory measurements including water content, …