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Salicylic Acid: A Key Regulator Of Redox Signalling 1 And Plant Immunity, Mohd Saleem, Qazi Fariddudin, Christian Castroverde

Biology Faculty Publications

In plants, the reactive oxygen species (ROS) formed during normal conditions are essential in regulating several processes, like stomatal physiology, pathogen immunity and developmental signaling. However, biotic and abiotic stresses can cause ROS over-accumulation leading to oxidative stress. Therefore, a suitable equilibrium is vital for redox homeostasis in plants, and there have been major advances in this research arena. Salicylic acid (SA) is known as a chief regulator of ROS; however, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unexplored. SA plays an important role in establishing the hypersensitive response (HR) and systemic acquired resistance (SAR). This is underpinned by a robust and …

Indian Librarianship At The Crossroads, Kishor Chandra Satpathy

Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Building A Record Label Website In An Evolving Music Industry, Zachary Mouton

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

The basis of my capstone project is to build a website for my record label Play-Yah Records. My major focus for the website is to find more options for monetization for the bands on the label. During the process I conducted research on NFT’s, music licensing, website construction, logo design, and made-to-order merchandise. I am excited about what I have learned in this project and I can’t wait to share it with you.

Explaining Florida Man, Ira P. Robbins

Florida State University Law Review

"Tlorida Man" is a popular cultural phenomenon in which journalists report on Floridians' unusual (and often criminal) behavior, and readers relish in and share the stories, largely on social media. A meme based on Florida Man news stories emerged in 2013 and continues to capture people's attention nationwide. Florida Man is one of the latest unique trends to come from the Sunshine State and contributes to Florida's reputation as a quirky place. Explanations for Florida Man center on Florida's Public Records Law, which is known as one of the most expansive open records laws in the country. All states and …

Barriers, Enablers, And Strategies Influencing Female Leaders' Career Advancement In The Nuclear Industry, Anesa Davis

Dissertations

Women entering science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations increased by 19% between 1970 and 2019, but at 74% of the STEM workforce, men still dominate the field (Martinez & Christnacht, 2021). In the nuclear industry, this disparity is most apparent with few women holding leadership roles within nuclear organizations (Kovaleski, 2014; Gaspar & Dubertrand, 2019). While research suggests that companies with women leaders in the manager level through the board level excel in organizational performance (Catalyst, 2007), a problem exists for women when trying to promote to leadership positions, especially to the C-suite in STEM fields (Warner, 2014).

Findings …

Internal College Of Engineering Expense Distribution Report Instructions, Angela Engebritson

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

When creating an instructional document, you will end up with a detailed record that outlines a step-by-step process resulting from all the of your trials and knowledge you experienced during that undertaking. I found that I learned more about myself during this process than I did about the results of activity itself. I will no longer look at training resources the same. This simple document, which could range between one page to hundreds of pages is the result of someone’s experiences. What the document doesn’t tell you is that someone most likely spent hours of research, hundreds of actions, or …

Library News, Fall 2021, San Jose State University Library

Library News

No abstract provided.

Are Rural And Small Community Aerated Wastewater Stabilization Ponds A Neglected Source Of Microplastic Pollution?, Zhiqiang Gao, James V. Cizdziel, Kendall Wontor, Haitao Lu

Faculty and Student Publications

Wastewater treatment systems collect and treat sewage that includes microplastics (MPs). However, we are not aware of any studies on the occurrence and distribution of MPs in wastewater stabilization ponds (WSPs), which serve small communities worldwide. Here, we characterized MPs (~45 µm–5 mm) in an aerated WSP serving ~500 houses and an adjacent lake. Putative MPs were most abundant in duckweed (Lemna minor) and sludge (75 ± 22 and 12.8 ± 3.1 particles/g, respectively: ±1 standard deviation (SD), n = 6, dry weight). In the water, average concentrations (particles/L ± 1 SD, n = 6) were highest in the pond …

Barriers To Social Inclusion For The Children And Adolescents With Disabilities In India: A Scoping Review, Asish Das

Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Theses and Dissertations

INTRODUCTION: Social inclusion is a complex and often misunderstood concept by our society. Few studies have documented the degree of loneliness, bullying and exclusion often experienced by children and adolescents throughout their lives. Most of the articles talks about the barriers like physical, attitudinal, curricular, communication, economical, time and skills, environmental that confront with inclusion of children and adolescents with special needs. It has been realized that most of the people with disabilities can lead a better quality of life, if they have equal opportunities and effective access to rehabilitation measures. AIM: To identify the barriers in social inclusion for …

Thin Safety Margin: The Sefor Super-Prompt-Critical Transient Experiments, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas 1970–1971, Jerry Havens, Collis Geren

Arkansas Scholarly Editions

Thin Safety Margin charts the history of SEFOR, a twenty-megawatt reactor that operated for three years in the rural Ozark Mountains of Arkansas as part of an internationally sponsored program designed to demonstrate the Doppler effect in plutonium-oxide-fueled fast reactors. Authors Jerry Havens and Collis Geren draw upon this history to assess the accidental explosion risk inherent in using fast reactors to reduce the energy industry’s carbon dioxide emissions.

If a sufficiently powerful fast-neutron explosion were to cause the containment of a reactor such as SEFOR’s to fail, the reactor’s radiotoxic plutonium fuel could vaporize and escape into the surrounding …

Why Daubechies Wavelets Are So Successful, Solymar Ayala Cortez, Laxman Bokati, Aaron Velasco, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many applications, including analysis of seismic signals, Daubechies wavelets perform much better than other families of wavelets. In this paper, we provide a possible theoretical explanation for the empirical success of Daubechies wavelets. Specifically, we show that these wavelets are optimal with respect to any optimality criterion that satisfies the natural properties of scale- and shift-invariance.

Uncertainty: Ideas Behind Neural Networks Lead Us Beyond Kl-Decomposition And Interval Fields, Michael Beer, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many practical situations, we know that there is a functional dependence between a quantity q and quantities a1, ..., an, but the exact form of this dependence is only known with uncertainty. In some cases, we only know the class of possible functions describing this dependence. In other cases, we also know the probabilities of different functions from this class -- i.e., we know the corresponding random field or random process. To solve problems related to such a dependence, it is desirable to be able to simulate the corresponding functions, i.e., to have algorithms that transform simple intervals or …

While, In General, Uncertainty Quantification (Uq) Is Np-Hard, Many Practical Uq Problems Can Be Made Feasible, Anderson Gray, Scott Ferson, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In general, many general mathematical formulations of uncertainty quantification problems are NP-hard, meaning that (unless it turned out that P = NP) no feasible algorithm is possible that would always solve these problems. In this paper, we argue that if we restrict ourselves to practical problems, then the correspondingly restricted problems become feasible -- namely, they can be solved by using linear programming techniques.

Exploring The Effects Of Probe Geometry On Atomic Imaging, Lihy-Eden Buchbinder

Inquiry Journal Fall 2021

Through her summer research in the Hollen Lab at UNH, Lihy successfully produced scanning tunneling microscope (STM) probes and explored the phenomenon of probe-induced band bending.

Fall 2021, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Augustana Magazine

No abstract provided.

Creativity For Change (Fa21.C), Creativity For Change Fa21.C

Student scholarship

Creativity for Change sought to spark excitement about education in children of all backgrounds by promoting greater access to local educational opportunities. In particular, we partnered with the Lewisburg’s Children's Museum and their Count Me In Program, which is dedicated to allowing discounted or free admission to the museum for children and families in need. Our company created and managed two events on what the Museum calls “ex-STREAM Saturdays”: the activities centered on science, technology, robotics, engineering, art, and mathematics. As a way for Creativity for Change to leave a long-lasting impact on the Museum, we also customized a Bucknell-themed …

Shift In Conformational Equilibrium Underlies The Oscillatory Phosphoryl Transfer Reaction In The Circadian Clock, Pyonghwa Kim, Neha Thati, Shreya Peshori, Hye-In Jang, Yongick Kim

Chemistry Faculty Research

Oscillatory phosphorylation/dephosphorylation can be commonly found in a biological system as a means of signal transduction though its pivotal presence in the workings of circadian clocks has drawn significant interest: for example in a significant portion of the physiology of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. The biological oscillatory reaction in the cyanobacterial circadian clock can be visualized through its reconstitution in a test tube by mixing three proteins—KaiA, KaiB and KaiC—with adenosine triphosphate and magnesium ions. Surprisingly, the oscillatory phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of the hexameric KaiC takes place spontaneously and almost indefinitely in a test tube as long as ATP is present. This …

Western Michigan University Assessment Handbook: "Celebrating Student Learning", Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Assessment Publications & Presentations

Western Michigan University (WMU) is committed to the success of our students. That success is predicated on the idea that students graduate from the university having added to the knowledge they had entering WMU. Assessing student learning is crucial to ensuring and documenting that students get the added value they should expect from the institution.

This Assessment Handbook is designed to help units carry out their assessment activities. It contains information, (from both internal and external sources), on how to write good assessment outcomes, answers to frequently asked assessment questions, resources available on campus, and some sample assessment tools, among …

The Unwelcome Guest: Envy And Shame Materialized In A Roman Villa, Andrew Scholtz

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (MEAMS) Faculty Scholarship

A third-century C.E. inscribed mosaic from Skala, on the Greek island of Kefallonia, has greatly expanded our knowledge of envy’s evil eye in the Roman Mediterranean. Yet its inscription has not drawn the attention it deserves. Paying heed to the literary, affective, and material dimensions of this and other mosaic texts, I explore how the Skala poem, in tandem with the imagery it accompanies, mediates encounters between guest, host, and house. In so doing, it forms part of a decorative program materializing envy as actor in a drama celebrating a householder’s fortune while exposing the envious to general scorn.

Ua12/2/2 Talisman, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Fall 2021 Talisman:

• Brandt, Jess. Editor’s Letter
• Ode to Tali Brandt, Jess, et al. What is Your Talisman?
• Plescia, Audrey. Nature’s Apothecary – Addison James
• Stephens, Grace. Rose Petal Syrup
• Spears, Kayla. Flip the Beat – Joseph Jones
• Lunte, Hailee. My Own Eden
• Quinn, Jack. Deep Sleep – Jim Williams, Hypnotist
• Roth, Elizabeth. Chain Reaction – Howard’s Cycling & Fitness
• Donnelly, Rose. Spoilers
• Rooted in Red – Homecoming
• McCormick, Megan. In Her Hands – Abbey Lewis
• Spears, Kayla. When I Worked at the Cracker Barrel Gift Store
• Poindexter, Katie. Unearthed – Mammoth Cave
• Williams, Erik. Turning the Page
• Wilson, Gabby. …

Impact Project Report, Barry J. Ryan

Group Reports

The TU Dublin IMPACT project was a National Forum and HEA-funded project under the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement (SATLE)) fund which materialised over/during the 2020/21 Academic Year. The aim of the SATLE fund was to develop a strong foundation for future enhancement of teaching and learning (T&L) within an institution and in line with local and national priorities. TU Dublin received the largest funding allocation of any Irish HEI; a total of €602,000. This significant funding was used to develop strategically aligned, sustainable processes and infrastructure to maximise the impact of TU Dublin’s T&L practices on the …

The New Beginnings Newsletter, October 2021, Wokini Initiative

Wokini Initiative: The New Beginnings Newsletter

Students Receive Award at AISES National Conference
Wokini Challenge Grant Spotlight
Book of the Month
Dakota Word of the Month
Lakota Word of the Month
Upcoming Events @ AISC

Transforming Technology & Engineering Educator Inputs Into Desired Student Outputs Through Mechanism Analysis And Synthesis, Andrew J. Hughes, Chris Merrill

Educational Leadership & Technology Faculty Publications

The intention of this article is to provide middle and high school Technology and Engineering Educators (T&EEs) with a more thorough understanding of an engineering approach to the teaching and learning of mechanics. During the teaching and learning of engineering content, in this case mechanics, the educator should attempt to align pedagogical content knowledge with engineering content knowledge and practices. T&EEs will also need to focus on terminology, structure, and applying theory to practical hands-on learning activities inside and outside of the classroom. T&EEs have the potential to foster middle and high school students’ mechanical knowledge and the ability to …

Pharmacy Matters - October 2021, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Matters Newsletters

Featured stories: "Pharmacy Graduate Students Win AAPS Student Chapter Award," "Stellar Student: Hyllore Imeri," "Pharmacology Graduate Student Striving for Excellence"

Southern Register. 2021.3 (Fall 2021), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Impulse, Fall 2021, Matt Schmidt, Emily Weber, Christine Delfanian, Dave Graves, Micayla Standish

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

2 | Lohr Endows Dean Position
4 | Faculty News
8 | Prasad Receives NSF Career Award
12 | Jones Steps Aside
14 | Liu Already Busy at Work
15 | Hemphill Leads Heavy Highway Construction
16 | Hitting the Road for CIM Program
18 | Rave Precision Ag Center Opens
20 | 'Mr. Missouri River Energy Services' Honored
22 | Recalling the 1971 Crisis
26 | Students Help With Robotic Walker
28 | Liu Receives Sander Professorship
31 | SDSU Nabs 5 Tau Beta Pi Scholarships
32 | Chapter Honored
33 | Marcy Receives Leadership Honor
34 | Hackman …

Health And Nutrition Club, Ashley Mcrae, Maggie Osborne

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

These lesson plans outline a Health and Nutrition Club for kindergarten to second graders. The lessons aim at educating today's youth about their health through fun, interactive activities. Feel free to use the lesson plans exactly or to adapt the lessons to your own needs.

Women's Tennis Media Guide 2021-22, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Men's Tennis Media Guide 2021-22, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Potential Savings From Consumer-Driven Health Plans, William Ferguson, Brittany Smith, Jessica Mcnair, Sarah Miller, Bojing Wang, Alberto Coustasse

Management Faculty Research

Consumer Driven Health Plans (CDHPs) have been identified as a high-deductible insurance option that has increased consumer responsibility while healthcare expenditures have decreased. There has been an increasing need of these plans because they can help to control healthcare costs, and the increasing healthcare utilization. As the use of these plans have expanded, educated consumers have become more engaged in their healthcare services and have increased demands for transparency of healthcare costs. The methodology for this study was a literature review using 36 sources. The purpose of this study was to determine if CDHPs have created financial savings by increasing …