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2024-12-03 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes from December 3, 2024.

Breaking The Yoke: A Systematic Unmasking Of Challenges To Sustainable Rural Development In South Sudan, Gai Chol Paul

Journal of Sustainable Social Impact

South Sudan, a young nation grappling with the legacy of protracted conflict, faces significant challenges in fostering sustainable rural development. While the immense potential of its vast agricultural lands remains largely untapped, the persistent triple threat of insecurity, deficient infrastructure, and the absence of robust government policy actively hinders progress. The ongoing armed conflict, characterized by inter-communal violence and sporadic attacks, casts a long shadow over rural areas in South Sudan. Thus, I developed this mixed-method multiple-case study, grounded in the sustainable livelihoods framework, to explore challenges that hinder sustainable rural development in South Sudan. I collected data through document …

Deep Generative And Discriminative Models For Cognitive Load Prediction From Small And Noisy Eeg, Felix Havugimana

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

While Intelligent systems such as Intelligent tutoring system (ITS), assistive technology solutions, and video gaming has the potential to significantly reduce cognitive load by automating tasks and providing timely information, it can also increase demand on a user's working memory (WM) capacity, if not designed and implemented thoughtfully. WM is responsible for temporarily storing and processing information to execute cognitive tasks. However, due to its limited capacity and duration, excessive use of WM can lead to high cognitive load (CL), adversely affecting performance on various mental tasks (e.g., learning, comprehension, driving, and problem-solving). Cognitive load refers to the amount of …

Mechanical Degradation Of Plastics: An Implication For Agricultural Soil Health, Linkon Bhattacharjee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The growing public awareness of plastic pollution and its harmful environmental impacts on public health and ecological safety has raised multiple questions regarding the rate of its accumulation, long-term fate, and transport within the environment. However, the extent of plastic release into the terrestrial environment, such as farmlands, remains inadequately understood, though it is expected to exceed that of the ocean. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on investigating the mechanical degradation of plastics that leads to the generation of microplastics through fragmentation in agricultural farmlands. This dissertation addresses several knowledge gaps regarding the influence of environmental conditions on the mechanical degradation …

On The Logistic Polynomials And Logistic Kernels With Applications In Machine Learning, Alexander Saint Jefferson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Orthogonal polynomials have had vast historical applications in applied mathematics, particularly in differential equations and numerical analysis. In recent years, they have become instrumental as a natural basis for constructing kernel systems in machine learning (ML). In this thesis, we orthogonalize a set of polynomials, the Logistic Polynomials, first developed by George and Rousseau, using the Gram-Schmidt process. We show that this new Logistic Orthogonal Polynomial System (LOPS) satisfies the hypergeometric differential equation and we relate the system to the Legendre polynomials. The connection to the Legendre polynomials has motivated this study to explore applications of the LOPS in ML, …

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Final Bpsou Insufficiently Reclaimed Sites Belle Of Butte (Bres No. 8 & Ur-39) Remedial Action Work Plan (Rawp) Request For Change Ir- 2024-Ra-01, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Academic Senate - Minutes, 12/3/2024, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Solutions To Mitigate Information Security Breaches And Protect Personally Identifiable Information In A Public-Sector Cloud Computing Environment, Valerie Johneeda Rountree

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Information is a significant asset to organizations because more organizations are moving data and applications to the cloud, so it is critical to ensure the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) stored in the cloud. The specific research problem was that information technology project managers (ITPM) lack a unified approach to protecting PII stored on the cloud. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to understand how ITPMs may implement viable solutions to mitigate the frequent occurrences of information security breaches in a public cloud environment. The National Institute of Standards and Technology provided the conceptual framework for the …

Francesca C'De Baca Academic History, David L. C'De Baca

Oral Histories HIST 300, Fall 2024

Francesa C'de Baca current academic and extracurricular achievements as of December 2024.

Arousal Effects On Oscillatory Dynamics In The Non-Human Primate Brain, Shashank A Anand, Fatih Sogukpinar, Ilya E Monosov

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Arousal states are thought to influence many aspects of cognition and behavior by broadly modulating neural activity. Many studies have observed arousal-related modulations of alpha (~8 to 15 Hz) and gamma (~30 to 50 Hz) power and coherence in local field potentials across relatively small groups of brain regions. However, the global pattern of arousal-related oscillatory modulation in local field potentials is yet to be fully elucidated. We simultaneously recorded local field potentials in numerous cortical and subcortical regions in the primate brain and assessed oscillatory activity and inter-regional coherence associated with arousal state. In high arousal states, we found …

Molecular Insights Into The Interaction Between A Disordered Protein And A Folded Rna, Rishav Mitra, Emery T Usher, Selin Dedeoğlu, Matthew J Crotteau, Olivia A Fraser, Neela H Yennawar, Varun V Gadkari, Brandon T Ruotolo, Alex S Holehouse, Loïc Salmon, Scott A Showalter, James C A Bardwell

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) are well established as contributors to intermolecular interactions and the formation of biomolecular condensates. In particular, RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) often harbor IDRs in addition to folded RNA-binding domains that contribute to RBP function. To understand the dynamic interactions of an IDR-RNA complex, we characterized the RNA-binding features of a small (68 residues), positively charged IDR-containing protein, Small ERDK-Rich Factor (SERF). At high concentrations, SERF and RNA undergo charge-driven associative phase separation to form a protein- and RNA-rich dense phase. A key advantage of this model system is that this threshold for demixing is sufficiently high …

Inflammation Mediated By Gut Microbiome Alterations Promotes Lung Cancer Development And An Immunosuppressed Tumor Microenvironment, Zahraa Rahal, Yuejiang Liu, Fuduan Peng, Sujuan Yang, Mohamed A Jamal, Manvi Sharma, Hannah Moreno, Ashish V Damania, Matthew C Wong, Matthew C Ross, Ansam Sinjab, Tieling Zhou, Minyue Chen, Inti Tarifa Reischle, Jiping Feng, Chidera Chukwuocha, Elizabeth Tang, Camille Abaya, Jamie K Lim, Cheuk Hong Leung, Heather Y Lin, Nathaniel Deboever, Jack J Lee, Boris Sepesi, Don L Gibbons, Jennifer A Wargo, Junya Fujimoto, Linghua Wang, Joseph F Petrosino, Nadim J Ajami, Robert R Jenq, Seyed Javad Moghaddam, Tina Cascone, Kristi Hoffman, Humam Kadara

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Accumulating evidence indicates that the gut microbiome influences cancer progression and therapy. We recently showed that progressive changes in gut microbial diversity and composition are closely coupled with tobacco-associated lung adenocarcinoma in a human-relevant mouse model. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the loss of the antimicrobial protein Lcn2 in these mice exacerbates protumor inflammatory phenotypes while further reducing microbial diversity. Yet, how gut microbiome alterations impinge on lung adenocarcinoma development remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the role of gut microbiome changes in lung adenocarcinoma development using fecal microbiota transfer and delineated a pathway by which gut microbiome alterations …

Journal Of Response To Writing 10(2)

Journal of Response to Writing

No abstract provided.

Making Video Feedback For The First Time: A Case Study, Dan Martin

Journal of Response to Writing

This paper examines some of the labor three professors from three different disciplines needed to exert to produce effective VF on student writing for the first time. The research on VF demonstrates that students want more video comments but the labor to learn how to make VF has not been fully identified. I completed a case study with three professors to collect data. I interviewed the professors at the beginning, middle, and end of the study. After transcribing and coding the interviews, I identified where the professors exerted a significant amount of labor to make VF for the first time. …

Developing A Learner-Centered Response To Writing Through A Graduate Course In Writing-Across-The-Curriculum, Faqryza Ab Latif, Kristin Winet

Journal of Response to Writing

Although writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs have been commonplace since the 1970s, the focus has largely been at the level of assessment and programmatic development and less on the instructors, particularly graduate teaching assistants (TAs) who adopt these practices. In this article, we describe a pilot WAC graduate-level course in writing pedagogy that our institution developed as part of our recent membership in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL). We also share how one science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate student revised her approach to assignment design, feedback, and assessment for a general education course and …

Dr. Hatsuo Ishida: Using Macromolecules To Shape The World, Kayleigh Bauer

Discussions

No abstract provided.

A Trans Resource Center, Jessica Mcpherson

MAGIS: Student Development Journal

This paper exams the need for a Transgender Resource Center on college campuses. As a result of the on-going discrimination and isolation many transgender students report, this paper provides one option for student development professionals to address the needs of this population. Detailed analysis of the challenges transgen- der students face, such as access to health facilities, study abroad, gender segregated housing and bathrooms, is presented. Gender identity development and discourse is examined and assessment of theory and student needs are presented. A comprehensive descrip- tion of a transgender resource center is suggested as a way to make college campuses …

Towards New Forms Of Using Social Media: Museums Activity On Linkedin, Magdalena Sawczuk

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

The social media landscape changes very fast. It regards, among others, the accessible platforms and the features of social media tools. It also concerns the broad spectrum of institutions that start their virtual activity in different ways, and museums’ participation in social media can be indicated here. Their activity mainly focuses on communication with the audience or other museums, but some new approaches can also be observed. One of them is activity on LinkedIn, which is closely connected to the professional perspective and employee-related issues. Hence, the article aims to explore the main paths and forms of the Polish museum’s …

Energy Optimization In Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review, Zahraa Hammodi, Ahmed Al Hilli, Mohanad Al-Ibadi

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

The use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has become an inevitably necessary for a smart world, such as smart cities and environmental fields. WSN consists of hundreds or even thousands of sensor nodes that have the ability to sense physical conditions from the target field, and also consists of a device that acts as a link between the sensor nodes and the base station (BS) called cluster head (CH). In the recent years, researchers have become interested in optimizing the energy efficiency of the WSNs due to the limited and non-replenish energy sources of their sensor nodes. In this paper, …

Gc Minutes 2024-11-04, Northern Illinois University

Graduate Council Archives

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet December 2024, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The December 2, 2024 monthly packet includes the December agenda, appendices, and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held December 2, 2024.

Faculty Senate Agenda December 2, 2024, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• 3:00 Call to Order
• Approval of Minutes
• 3:05 University Business
• 3:20 Faculty Senate Business
• 3:35 Information
• EPC Report
• Library Budget
• 3:45 Report
• Faculty Evaluation Committee Annual Report
• USUSA Annual Report
• 3:55 Old Business
• 4:00 New Business
• Adjourn: 4:00 pm

A Machine Learning Approach To Predicting On-Time Graduation In Indonesian Higher Education, Mahendra Astu Sanggha Pawitra, Hui-Chun Hung, Handaru Jati

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

Graduating on schedule is a critical milestone for students in higher education, serving as a key indicator of both institutional effectiveness and student success. This study uses machine learning techniques to predict on-time graduation in Indonesian higher education. A dataset comprising 133 students from an engineering department over four academic years (2019–2023) was analyzed using the CRISP-DM framework. The research employed nine machine learning models, including Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, etc., to identify key predictors of on-time graduation. The result showed that Random Forest outperformed other models by achieving an accuracy of 85% and an AUC of 0.875. …

The Rider (2024-12-02), Natalie Lapsley

The Rider Archives

Vol.10 No.14

Role Of Nanoparticles In Mitigating Chromium Toxicity: Implications, Mechanisms, Andfuture Prospects, Muhammad Umair Hassan, Adnan Noor Shah, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Tahir Abbas Khan, Mehmood Ali Noor, Fang Luo, Rehab O. Elnour, Mohamed Hashem, Huang Guoqin

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Chromium (Cr) is an extremely toxic metal for all living organisms and its concentration in the environment is constantly increasing due to human activities. Plants quickly absorb the Cr subsequently, it enters the human food chain and poses serious health issues. Chromium toxicity causes a serious reduction in plant growth by inducing oxidative damage and disturbing protein synthesis, enzyme activity, and nutrient uptake. Plants use diverse mechanisms to mitigate the Cr toxicity however, they are inadequate against higher concentrations of Cr. Thus is essential to diminish Cr toxicity and increase the ability of plants to tolerate Cr stress. Nano-particles (NPs) …

The Purification, Characterization, And Inhibition Profile Of Some Herbicides Ofglutathione S-Transferase From Broccoli, Hacer Erdem Kiziltunç, Hali̇s Şaki̇roğlu, Mi̇ne Aksoy

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Herbicide selectivity is determined by the variability of herbicide degradation processes in weeds and crops. GlutathioneS-transferases (GSTs) have been widely studied in plants because of their role in herbicide metabolism. GSTs metabolize herbicides bycatalyzing reduced glutathione (GSH) conjugation. The significance of GSTs in herbicide metabolism has been understood by examiningGST in some plants. In this study, a GST enzyme was purified from broccoli using an affinity chromatography (glutathione agarose)method to contribute to the elucidation of plant GSTs. A characterization of the purified broccoli GST enzyme was then carried out.In the last step, the inhibition profiles of some selected types of …

In Silico Analysis Of Three-Amino Acid Loop Extension (Tale) Proteins In Phaseolusvulgaris L. And Investigation Of Their Transcript Levels In Response To Drought Stress, Fatma Nur Avci, Tarik Kirlioğlu, Aybüke Okay, Emi̇ne Sümer Aras, İlker Büyük

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Drought represents a major global threat to the environment, thus leading to food insecurity. Transcription factors (TFs) have a significant role in regulating the expression of stress-related genes. TALE genes, a type of TF, are known to regulate important biological processes like the maintenance of shoot apical meristems and root formation in plants. In this study, 35 TALE genes were identified and they were found to be categorized into KNOX-like homeodomain (KNOX) and BLH/BELL-like subfamilies in Phaseolus vulgaris according to the phylogenetic analysis. The detailed characterization of PvTALE genes using in silico analyzes further showed that segmental duplications predominate in …

Maize Root-Soil Microbial Interactions And Their Effects On Soil Health And Yield, Wei Yang, Qiyuan Zhang, Hongyu Cai, Tianhang Bai, Xuejiao Ren

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

In agroecosystems, interactions between maize root systems and soil microbes have significant effects on soil health and plant yield. In order to quantitatively assess the impact of this mutualism, the study used field experiments and soil analysis methods to analyze the effects of different sludge applications on soil physicochemical properties and microbial activity. The experiments were studied in a controlled trial with different sludge treatment gradients. The results showed that the sludge-applied soil exhibited positive changes in structure and biological activity compared to the control. The mass fraction of soil macro-aggregates increased after sludge treatment, from 48.9% to 51.1% after …

Glutathione Alleviates Boron Toxicity By Modulating Nitrogen Metabolism And Boronuptake In Rice Seedlings, Lei Zhang, Lizhu Suo, Yan Shan, Bo Wang

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Boron (B) toxicity is an abiotic stressor in plants due to the narrow threshold range between B deficiency and B toxicity.Glutathione (GSH) has been reported to reduce abiotic stress in plants, but its effect on B toxicity alleviation, particularly in riceseedlings, is not clear. Therefore, the present research yields information on the antioxidant mechanism, nitrogen metabolism, cell wallcomponents, and B concentrations that allow rice seedlings to withstand the adverse effects of B toxicity by GSH application. The resultssuggest that B toxicity suppressed the growth traits of rice. However, GSH treatment exhibited a positive influence on the growth ofrice seedlings. GSH …

Morphological And Physiological Root Traits And Expression Of The Gene Relationship Withnitrogen Uptake In Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.), Hafeez Noor, Pengcheng Ding, Farhana Kausar, Fida Noor, Zhai Wenbo, Min Sun, Zhiqiang Gao, Sajid Faiz, Kotb A. Attia, Latifa Alhusnain

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is considered important cereal crops worldwide, ensuring food security post green revolution. Our study results displayed an elevation of 10.6% in root weight density, 15.0 % of root volume density during flowering stage, respectively. The highly significant values for root weight density, root length density and root bulk density were recorded under nitrogen application of 180 kh ha-1 both at flowering and maturity stage. Moreover, delayed senescence and increase in photosynthetic rate were observed during middle and late stages of flowering enhancing light energy interception and improvement in its utilization. The cultivar Yunhan-20410 exhibited a significant …