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Social Media And Women Empowerment In Nigeria: A Study Of The #Breakthebias Campaign On Facebook, Deborah Osaro Omontese Mar 2023

Social Media And Women Empowerment In Nigeria: A Study Of The #Breakthebias Campaign On Facebook, Deborah Osaro Omontese

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines how the March 2022 #BreakTheBias campaign on Facebook was used as an empowerment platform in Nigeria, where women experience gender disparity. Research on the role of social media in women’s empowerment in Nigeria is an area that has not been fully studied. Previous studies have looked at women’s empowerment mainly through an educational or political lens, neglecting how social media have also been effective in empowering women. Other researchers have studied how women utilize social media platforms for leisure, entertainment, and media sharing. In the present study, non-probability sampling was used to identify 20 posts that convey …


Hypomorphic Brca2 And Rad51c Double Mutant Mice Display Fanconi Anemia, Cancer And Polygenic Replication Stress, Karl-Heinz Tomaszowski, Sunetra Roy, Carolina Guerrero, Poojan Shukla, Caezaan Keshvani, Martina Ott, Jianhua Zhang, Courtney D Dinardo, Detlev Schindler, Katharina Schlacher Mar 2023

Hypomorphic Brca2 And Rad51c Double Mutant Mice Display Fanconi Anemia, Cancer And Polygenic Replication Stress, Karl-Heinz Tomaszowski, Sunetra Roy, Carolina Guerrero, Poojan Shukla, Caezaan Keshvani, Martina Ott, Jianhua Zhang, Courtney D Dinardo, Detlev Schindler, Katharina Schlacher

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The prototypic cancer-predisposition disease Fanconi Anemia (FA) is identified by biallelic mutations in any one of twenty-three FANC genes. Puzzlingly, inactivation of one Fanc gene alone in mice fails to faithfully model the pleiotropic human disease without additional external stress. Here we find that FA patients frequently display FANC co-mutations. Combining exemplary homozygous hypomorphic Brca2/Fancd1 and Rad51c/Fanco mutations in mice phenocopies human FA with bone marrow failure, rapid death by cancer, cellular cancer-drug hypersensitivity and severe replication instability. These grave phenotypes contrast the unremarkable phenotypes seen in mice with single gene-function inactivation, revealing an unexpected synergism between Fanc mutations. Beyond …


Practices And Perceptions Of Family-Centered Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Secondary School Athletic Trainers, Zachary K. Winkelmann, Nancy A. Uriegas, James M. Mensch, Conner E. Montgomery, Toni M. Torres-Mcgehee Mar 2023

Practices And Perceptions Of Family-Centered Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Secondary School Athletic Trainers, Zachary K. Winkelmann, Nancy A. Uriegas, James M. Mensch, Conner E. Montgomery, Toni M. Torres-Mcgehee

Faculty Publications

Family-centered care (FCC) includes collaboration between families and healthcare providers, the creation of flexible policies, and the family taking an active role in the delivery of care. Secondary school athletic trainers provide care for underage patients in school-based health systems, making them responsible for maintaining communication with parents, guardians, and/or caregivers. This cross-sectional survey investigated the extent to which athletic trainers (n = 205) include aspects of FCC in their daily secondary school clinical practice (current practices = CP) and whether they believe that aspect of care is necessary for FCC to be provided in athletic training (perceived necessary = …


Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Lopez, Adrian (2023-02-28) Mar 2023

Decision In Art. 78 Proceeding - Lopez, Adrian (2023-02-28)

Decisions in Art. 78 Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Interview With Oren Ergas On His Book Reconstructing ‘Education’ Through Mindful Attention: Positioning The Mind At The Center Of Curriculum And Pedagogy, Karlheinz Valtl, Dominik Weghaupt, Oren Ergas Mar 2023

Interview With Oren Ergas On His Book Reconstructing ‘Education’ Through Mindful Attention: Positioning The Mind At The Center Of Curriculum And Pedagogy, Karlheinz Valtl, Dominik Weghaupt, Oren Ergas

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

No abstract provided.


Review: Sharing Breath: Embodied Learning And Decolonization, Edited By Sheila Batacharya And Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, Jacquelynne Anne Boivin Mar 2023

Review: Sharing Breath: Embodied Learning And Decolonization, Edited By Sheila Batacharya And Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, Jacquelynne Anne Boivin

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

No abstract provided.


Effects Of A Meditation And Contemplative Practice Course On College Students’ Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, And Mental Health, Miriam Liss, Mindy J. Erchull, Daniel A. Hirschberg, Angela L. Pitts, David Ambuel Mar 2023

Effects Of A Meditation And Contemplative Practice Course On College Students’ Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, And Mental Health, Miriam Liss, Mindy J. Erchull, Daniel A. Hirschberg, Angela L. Pitts, David Ambuel

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

Objectives: Mindfulness-based practices have been shown to be effective in reducing depression and anxiety among college students. Less is known about whether coursework incorporating contemplative practices has similar beneficial effects. This study sought to investigate the benefits of a course focusing on contemplative practices that included mindfulness-based practice inside and outside the classroom. Method: In Study 1, 42 students enrolled in Meditation and Contemplative Practice, a course taught through the Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, completed measures of mindfulness, self-compassion, depression, and anxiety at the beginning and end of the semester. In Study 2, 43 students in this …


Contemplative Practices As Rhetorical Action For Democracy, Michelle Iten Mar 2023

Contemplative Practices As Rhetorical Action For Democracy, Michelle Iten

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

While there is a general overlap between contemplative values for compassion, empathy, and awareness and democratic values for equality and human flourishing, relatively little scholarship has examined the specific ways in which the two might be connected (for important exceptions, see Hyde & LaPrad, 2015, and Mariotti, 2020). I argue that delineating the rhetorical facets of contemplative practices provides one angle of productive insight into how such practices can be seen as action for democracy. I develop this argument from four vantage points: the context of classroom experience and scholarly conversations with which my argument intersects; an examination of resonances …


Learning Mindful Leadership In Virtual Spaces, Wendy Griswold Mar 2023

Learning Mindful Leadership In Virtual Spaces, Wendy Griswold

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

This research examines the processes and outcomes of learning mindful leadership in virtual spaces. The development of best practices for teaching mindfulness in online courses is hindered by a lack of research. Additionally, there is a lack of research on contemplative education practices concerned with the development of the whole person, particularly developing emotional intelligence capacities for leadership. This paper reports on a grounded theory study on an online educational leadership course involving nine graduate students. Data includes course artifacts and an electronic survey. Key findings include that learners experienced a shift in their attitude toward mindful leadership and they …


Contemplative Pedagogy In Times Of Grief And Uncertainty: Teaching In A Global Pandemic, Laura M. Hill Mar 2023

Contemplative Pedagogy In Times Of Grief And Uncertainty: Teaching In A Global Pandemic, Laura M. Hill

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

We are teaching during a global pandemic, where all sense of normalcy has disappeared. How can we, as contemplative educators, provide an anchor for students’ grief and practice sitting with discomfort to develop resiliency to endure this time of great uncertainty? We have an opportunity to authentically reframe this time of social upheaval as an opportunity to address a series of adaptive challenges. Contemplative practices can allow us to cooperatively and ethically respond to the myriad of challenges confronting us during a global pandemic. But, first, educators have a major role to play in the classroom in making hope more …


Mindfulness Practices In Online Learning: Supporting Learner Self-Regulation, Agnieszka Palalas, Anastasia Mavraki, Kokkoni Drampala, Anna Krassa, Christina Karakanta Mar 2023

Mindfulness Practices In Online Learning: Supporting Learner Self-Regulation, Agnieszka Palalas, Anastasia Mavraki, Kokkoni Drampala, Anna Krassa, Christina Karakanta

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

This collective autoethnography discusses the effects of mindfulness practices integrated into an online Master of Education course at a Canadian Distance Education university. While the M.Ed. program is designed to address challenges typically associated with online courses, such as spatial and temporal distance, lower levels of synchronous interaction with peers and instructors, balancing flexibility and autonomy, as well as feeling isolated, the authors initially found themselves overwhelmed by the pressures stemming from competing responsibilities and emotional demands of being an online learner. They report on how the mindfulness practices, introduced mid-way through the program, impacted their online learning experience and …


Reflections On Developing A Campus-Wide Workshop Series On Contemplative Practice And Social Justice, Jennifer Daubenmier, Christopher J. Koenig, Maiya Evans, Lisa Moore, Michele J. Eliason Mar 2023

Reflections On Developing A Campus-Wide Workshop Series On Contemplative Practice And Social Justice, Jennifer Daubenmier, Christopher J. Koenig, Maiya Evans, Lisa Moore, Michele J. Eliason

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

Contemplative practices have been increasingly used in higher education to enhance student well-being and academic success. More recently, educators, activists, and researchers are exploring how contemplative practices and perspectives may support promotion of social justice on and outside college campuses. In this reflection, we share the development, execution, and evaluation of a campus-wide workshop series held at San Francisco State University (SFSU). The series promoted reflection and discussion on the relationship between contemplative practice and social justice to improve campus climate, enhance well-being of campus members, and promote student success.


Embodied Pedagogies For Transformation: Bringing Yoga Strategies Into College Classrooms, Audrey Lundahl, Analouise Keating Mar 2023

Embodied Pedagogies For Transformation: Bringing Yoga Strategies Into College Classrooms, Audrey Lundahl, Analouise Keating

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

We argue that incorporating a yogic pedagogical approach in college classrooms, specifically classrooms that cover issues of race, gender, sexuality, and violence, allows an instructor and thus their students to focus on embodiment and specifically how our bodies hold physical and psychological wounds of oppression while creating new methods to understand oppression more deeply. We suggest that incorporating body awareness practices like yoga into the classroom can promote both personal healing and a deeper understanding of systemic oppression by demonstrating the connections between the two. Body-based pedagogy allows students to think critically, mindfully, holistically, and creatively about responding to injustice …


Editor's Preface, David Sable, Trudy Sable Mar 2023

Editor's Preface, David Sable, Trudy Sable

Journal of Contemplative Inquiry

No abstract provided.


Discriminating Stay-Green Grasses Using Hyperspectral Imaging And Chemometrics, J. Taylor, B. Moore, J. J. Rowland, H. Thomas, H. J. Ougham Mar 2023

Discriminating Stay-Green Grasses Using Hyperspectral Imaging And Chemometrics, J. Taylor, B. Moore, J. J. Rowland, H. Thomas, H. J. Ougham

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Screening of plant collections for traits can be expensive, in terms of the number of plants to be screened, the duration of the plant lifecycle and the required observations. This study describes the application of a non-invasive method, hyperspectral imaging, combined with multivariate analysis, to distinguish between homozygous wild-type (YY) Lolium multiflorum and Lolium multiflorum F2 back cross plants heterozygous for y, a recessive Festuca pratensis stay-green gene (Thomas et al., 1997).


Non-Destructive Assessment Of Quality And Yield For Grass-Breeding, A. G. T. Schut, M. J. J. Pustjens, P. W. Wilkins, J. Meuleman, P. Reyns, A. Lovatt, G. W. A. M. Van Der Heijden Mar 2023

Non-Destructive Assessment Of Quality And Yield For Grass-Breeding, A. G. T. Schut, M. J. J. Pustjens, P. W. Wilkins, J. Meuleman, P. Reyns, A. Lovatt, G. W. A. M. Van Der Heijden

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Selection of cultivars has, until now, been based mainly on dry matter (DM) yields because of the high costs of sampling and chemical analysis. Imaging spectroscopy could reduce costs by limiting sampling and harvesting of individual plots to reference samples (Schut et al., accepted). In this study, the prediction accuracy of DM yields and chemical composition with imaging spectroscopy is evaluated for cultivar selection purposes.


Root Senescence In Red Clover (Trifolium Pratense L.), K. J. Webb, E. Tuck, S. Heywood Mar 2023

Root Senescence In Red Clover (Trifolium Pratense L.), K. J. Webb, E. Tuck, S. Heywood

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Legume root systems form a mosaic of living, ageing and dead roots and nodules. The balance between these stages alters during plant development. Stressful events (drought, temperature change, reduced carbon supply, etc.) disturb the balance (Butler et al., 1959). Effects of root and nodule death on soil structure, composition and leaching and on plant persistency are understood poorly. Plants with differing senescence patterns are useful tools to study these effects. Molecular studies of root senescence need detailed knowledge of the process and timing of root senescence and death. Biochemical and histochemical markers of senescence were used to generate preliminary …


Development Of Simple Sequence Repeat (Ssr) Markers And Their Use To Assess Genetic Diversity In Apomictic Guineagrass (Panicum Maximum Jacq.), M. Ebina, Kaori Kouki, S. Tsuruta, M. Takahara, M. Kobayashi, T. Yamamoto, K. Nakajima, H. Nakagawa Mar 2023

Development Of Simple Sequence Repeat (Ssr) Markers And Their Use To Assess Genetic Diversity In Apomictic Guineagrass (Panicum Maximum Jacq.), M. Ebina, Kaori Kouki, S. Tsuruta, M. Takahara, M. Kobayashi, T. Yamamoto, K. Nakajima, H. Nakagawa

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Guineagrass is an important and widely grown tropical forage grass. Despite its importance and increasing popularity, only little is known about its genetic diversity (Ebina et al., 2001). Such information is useful for the selection of diverse parents in breeding programmes. Moreover, no simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers have been reported in any apomixis species. In this study SSR markers were developed and used to investigate genetic diversity in germplasm of apomictic guineagrass.


Construction Of Microsatellite-Enriched Libraries For Tropical Forage Species And Characterization Of The Repetitive Sequences Found In Brachiaria Brizantha, Letícia Jungmann, C. B. Do Valle, P. R. Laborda, Rosangela M. S. Resende, Liana Jank, A. P. De Souza Mar 2023

Construction Of Microsatellite-Enriched Libraries For Tropical Forage Species And Characterization Of The Repetitive Sequences Found In Brachiaria Brizantha, Letícia Jungmann, C. B. Do Valle, P. R. Laborda, Rosangela M. S. Resende, Liana Jank, A. P. De Souza

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The Brazilian cattle herd comprises 185 million animals fed with about 177 million hectares of native and cultivated pastures (IBGE, 2002). Of the grass species used for forage in Brazil, the African genus Brachiaria is the most widely planted, followed by Panicum, which also has an African origin. Legumes of the Stylosanthes genus, native to the South America, have emerged in the last few years as potential forage species for use with the grasses. These forage species have been bred at Embrapa Beef Cattle and the breeding programs have shown the need for more genetic information including the use …


Development Of Ssr Markers For Variety Identification In Italian Ryegrass (Lolium Multiflorum Lam.), M. Inoue, N. Yuyama, H. Cai Mar 2023

Development Of Ssr Markers For Variety Identification In Italian Ryegrass (Lolium Multiflorum Lam.), M. Inoue, N. Yuyama, H. Cai

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Italian ryegrass (IRG, Lolium multiflorum Lam.) is one of the most important cool-season forage grasses in the world, and is the most widely cultivated annual forage grass in Japan. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers have the advantages of being PCR-based, multiallelic and possessing high levels of polymorphism. They are very suitable for variety identification, especially for out-crossing species including IRG. The objective of this study was the development of SSR markers for variety identification in IRG.


Development Of A Microsatellite Library In Lolium Perenne, J. King, I. P. King, D. Thorogood, L. Roberts, K. Skøt, K. Elborough Mar 2023

Development Of A Microsatellite Library In Lolium Perenne, J. King, I. P. King, D. Thorogood, L. Roberts, K. Skøt, K. Elborough

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Lolium perenne, as one of the most important forage grasses of temperate regions, combines a number of very useful characteristics, e.g., good seedling establishment, with a low resistance to drought and limited winter hardiness. Trait selection and introgression can be greatly enhanced by the use of molecular markers in a genetic linkage map. The aim of this project was the generation of a genomic microsatellite library which when combined with microsatellites developed from a Genethresher database would give good genome coverage coupled to high levels of marker polymorphism.


Muscular Strength Predicts Phase Angle In Breast Cancer Survivors, Trevor Short, Cheri Teranishi-Hashimoto, Paulette Yamada Mar 2023

Muscular Strength Predicts Phase Angle In Breast Cancer Survivors, Trevor Short, Cheri Teranishi-Hashimoto, Paulette Yamada

Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology

Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology Volume 4: Issue 1, Article 4, 2023. Phase angle (PhA) has emerged as a prognostic indicator of survival and quality of life (QOL) in cancer patients. Identifying measures of physical fitness that correlate with PhA can provide guidance toward optimizing cancer rehabilitation programs and future research. The purpose was to examine the relationship between PhA and physical fitness in breast cancer survivors. Sixty-three breast cancer survivors (60 ± 9 years, PhA 4.59±0.52, mean±SD) completed assessments for muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, and body composition. PhA and body composition were measured using bioimpedance …


Optimal Orientations Of Vertex-Multiplications Of Trees With Diameter 4, Willie Han Wah Wong, Eng Guan Tay Mar 2023

Optimal Orientations Of Vertex-Multiplications Of Trees With Diameter 4, Willie Han Wah Wong, Eng Guan Tay

Theory & Applications of Graphs

Koh and Tay proved a fundamental classification of G vertex-multiplications into three classes ζ0, ζ1 and ζ2. They also showed that any vertex-multiplication of a tree with diameter at least 3 does not belong to the class ζ2. Of interest, G vertex-multiplications are extensions of complete n-partite graphs and Gutin characterised complete bipartite graphs with orientation number 3 (or 4 resp.) via an ingenious use of Sperner's theorem. In this paper, we investigate vertex-multiplications of trees with diameter 4 in ζ0 (or ζ1) and exhibit its intricate connections with …


Symmetric Functions Algebras I: Introduction And Basic Features, Philip Feinsilver Mar 2023

Symmetric Functions Algebras I: Introduction And Basic Features, Philip Feinsilver

Journal of Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Measuring Ssd Life And Optimizing Fleet Utilization, N/A Mar 2023

Measuring Ssd Life And Optimizing Fleet Utilization, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

While some solid-state devices (SSDs) fail near the vendor-specified end-of-life (EoL), many can work reliably for much beyond the vendor-specified EoL. While discarding devices at the vendor-specified EoL is conservative, it leads to poor utilization and high cost for device uses such as data centers. This disclosure describes techniques to utilize a solid-state storage device effectively until just before the point in time when the device is determined to have unacceptably degraded. The techniques determine the true age of a device using the actual hardware characteristics (voltage distributions corresponding to each state) of the memory cells of the device. A …


Isolation Of Ssr Markers From Zoysiagrass, H. Cai, N. Yuyama, M. Inoue Mar 2023

Isolation Of Ssr Markers From Zoysiagrass, H. Cai, N. Yuyama, M. Inoue

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The genus Zoysia consists of 16 species that are naturally distributed on sea coasts and grasslands around the Pacific. In Japan, five species of natural zoysiagrasses have been identified from southern Hokkaido to the southwest islands. Of these, Z. japonica Steud. and Z. matrella Merr. have been utilized extensively as turf in Japan and other countries in East Asia. Linkage maps based on RFLP and AFLP markers have been reported in Zoysia (Yaneshita et al., 1999, Cai et al., 2004). Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers have the advantages of being PCR-based and multiallelic. They are highly polymorphic compared …


A Medicago Truncatula Population Segregating For Aluminum Tolerance, M. Sledge, B. Narasimhamoorthy, G. Jiang Mar 2023

A Medicago Truncatula Population Segregating For Aluminum Tolerance, M. Sledge, B. Narasimhamoorthy, G. Jiang

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Aluminium (Al) toxicity, manifested in inhibition of root elongation and reduced plant growth, is a major cause of poor crop yields on acid soils, which comprise up to 40% of the world’s arable land. Al toxicity associated with acid soils has been a major obstacle in alfalfa (Medicago sativa) production in the USA, as well as in tropical areas of the world. Recent molecular marker mapping studies indicate that the genomes of M. truncatula and M. sativa are highly similar (Choi et al., 2004). Thus, M. truncatula could be used as a source of genes that could …


Genetic Mapping In Tetraploid Alfalfa: Results And Prospects, E. C. Brummer, J. G. Robins, B. Alarcón Zúñiga, D. Luth Mar 2023

Genetic Mapping In Tetraploid Alfalfa: Results And Prospects, E. C. Brummer, J. G. Robins, B. Alarcón Zúñiga, D. Luth

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Among the difficulties of improving forages is their perennial nature, which necessarily requires long selection cycles to fully evaluate genotypes. Further, traits of particular importance—yield and winter hardiness—are difficult to assess on single plants, necessitating evaluation of progeny, which is both time consuming and expensive. Because of this, yield of many forages, and particularly alfalfa, has not improved substantially over the past 25 years (Riday and Brummer, 2002). Winter hardiness often has a negative correlation with autumn growth, although some evidence suggests this is not always true (Brummer et al., 2000). One way to overcome some of these limitations …


Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis Of Morphogenetic And Developmental Traits In An Ssr And Aflp-Based Genetic Map Of White Clover (Trifolium Repens L.), M. T. Abberton, N. O. I. Cogan, K. F. Smith, G. Kearney, A. H. Marshall, A. Williams, T. P. T. Michaelson-Yeates, C. Bowen, E. S. Jones, A. C. Vecchies, J. W. Forster Mar 2023

Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis Of Morphogenetic And Developmental Traits In An Ssr And Aflp-Based Genetic Map Of White Clover (Trifolium Repens L.), M. T. Abberton, N. O. I. Cogan, K. F. Smith, G. Kearney, A. H. Marshall, A. Williams, T. P. T. Michaelson-Yeates, C. Bowen, E. S. Jones, A. C. Vecchies, J. W. Forster

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Molecular marker-assisted plant breeding is a key target for the temperate legume pasture crop white clover (Trifolium repens L.). The first genetic linkage map of white clover has been constructed using self-fertile mutants to derive an intercross based fourth and fifth generation inbred parental genotypes (F2[I.4R x I.5J]). The framework map was constructed using simple sequence repeat (TRSSR) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. Eighteen linkage groups (LG) corresponding to the anticipated 16 chromosomes of white clover (2n = 4x = 32), with a total map length of 825 cM were derived from a total of …


A Glucanase Gene Cosegregates With A Qtl For Crown Rust Resistance In L. Perenne, H. Muylle, J. Baert, E. Van Bockstaele, I. Roldán-Ruiz Mar 2023

A Glucanase Gene Cosegregates With A Qtl For Crown Rust Resistance In L. Perenne, H. Muylle, J. Baert, E. Van Bockstaele, I. Roldán-Ruiz

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

An important disease in Lolium spp. is crown rust caused by the fungal pathogen Puccinia coronata. In order to study the genetic background of crown rust resistance in L. perenne, a mapping study was carried out and is discussed below. To identify genomic regions or genes involved in resistance, STS markers are extremely useful. This candidate gene approach was applied in the present study.