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The Parthenon, May 1, 2019, Heather Barker

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, was published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly on Thursdays during the summer. Due to budgetary constraints, beginning with the 2018 Fall semester, the newspaper is only published one day a week. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Examining The Capacity Of Nebraska Rangelands For Cattle, Kaitlyn Cumming, Jay Parsons, Walter H. Schacht, Brian Baskerville

Cornhusker Economics

According to the 2017 United States Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Statistics Service report (USDA-NASS 2017), Nebraska is the number one ranked state in the United States for both cattle on feed and for beef slaughtering capacity. It ranks number two in all cattle and calves while ranking number four in the number of beef cows. Beef production has a $12.1 billion impact annually to the Nebraska economy including $6.5 billion in direct sales (Nebraska Beef Cattle Facts 2016).

Given the above information, a research question was motivated to evaluate the forage production of Nebraska’s perennial grazing land systems and …

Comparison Of Antimicrobial Agents Ozonated Olive Oil And Chlorhexidine Gluconate - An In Vitro Study, Amelia David

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Aim: This study was aimed to compare the antibacterial effect of a commercially available OzOO with CHX 0.12% oral rinse solution against periodontal pathogens F. alocis, Aa, S. mitis, and S. mutans using a disk diffusion method.

Materials and Methods:

The antimicrobial agents OzOO and 0.12% CHX were impregnated onto sterile discs and placed onto bacterial cultures of F.alocis, Aa, S.mutans, and S.mitis to evaluate their antimicrobial activity by the disk diffusion susceptibility method. The bacterial growth inhibition zone surrounding each disc was measured in millimeters of diameter with calipers to assess the antimicrobial activity of each agent. …

Signaling Pathways In Skeletal Development And Metabolism, Richard Charles Lindsey

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Osteoporosis, a disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration, causes nine million debilitating fractures annually. An increase in bone resorption not adequately compensated by a corresponding increase in bone formation is the major cause of osteoporosis. Since current therapies have failed to effectively eliminate osteoporosis, there is an urgent need to discover novel mechanisms regulating bone resorption and formation and develop new therapeutic approaches to treat this disease. To that end, we have explored novel, non-canonical signaling mechanisms of two well-established regulators of bone: thyroid hormone (TH) and vitamin C (ascorbic acid, AA). Since previous studies have shown …

Complications Associated With Mandibular Fixed Complete Arch Prostheses Based On Implant Distribution, Shivani Karre

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Purpose: The objective of this study is to compare incidence and type of complications associated with mandibular implant supported fixed complete arch prostheses based on implant distribution. Material and Methods: Patient Selection: The retrospective study included data collected from axiUm CE Version 6.05.01.2007 from year July 2007 to July 2018 for all patients treated with mandibular implant supported fixed complete arch prostheses (MISFCPs) at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry (LLUSD). One hundred and twenty seven patient’s charts were reviewed to document implant distribution and incidences of complications associated with each implant distribution groups on MISFCPs. Complications like screw …

Accuracy Of Intraoral Scanners With Different Total Occlusal Convergence Angles: An In-Vitro Study, Brittany M. Pang

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Digital intraoral imaging has become more utilized in contemporary dental practice. This is performed using an intraoral scanner and it can be used as an alternative to making conventional impressions when indicated. This technology has many advantages, such as decreasing the number of appointments by eliminating traditional techniques, along with a reduction of laboratory time and improved patient comfort. The accuracy of intraoral scanners is currently being assessed in various aspects. To our knowledge, no study has yet addressed the accuracy of intraoral scanners in regards to total occlusal convergence (TOC) of complete coverage of anterior and posterior preparations in …

Eradicating The Viral Triad In Hemodialysis Units, Beth Adams, Jerry Yee

Nephrology Articles

No abstract provided.

Prevalence Of Molar-Incisor Hypomineralization In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Usa: A Pilot Study, Megan Davenport, Andrew D. Welles, Matina V. Angelopoulou, Cesar D. Gonzalez, Christopher Okunseri, Lori Barbeau, Naveen K. Bansal, Rodney Vergotine, Brian D. Hodgson

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose: This pilot study investigated the prevalence of Molar-Incisor Hypomineralization (MIH) in third-grade school children in Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA.

Methods: A convenience sample of third-grade school children in the Milwaukee Public School System (MPS) participated in the study. Calibrated examiners trained on the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD) MIH recommendations examined the children between December 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015. Children were examined at their schools using a flashlight and mirror after receiving consent from parents/caregivers and assent from each child. Findings were recorded onto a standardized form by one of five trained examiners. Summary statistics were calculated, …

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Agriculture And Applied Sciences, May 1, 2019, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences proposes offering an Associate Degree in Veterinary Technology.

Annual Report 2018-2019, Craig Hadley

Galleries at Peeler Annual Reports

Contents: A Note from the Director About Us Student Engagement Exhibitions Collections Administration and Finance Program Sponsors

Equal-Quantile Rules In Resource Allocation With Uncertain Needs, Yan Long, Jay Sethuraman, Jingyi Xue

Research Collection School Of Economics

A group of agents have uncertain needs on a resource, and the resource has to be divided before uncertainty resolves. We propose a class of division rules we call equal-quantile rules, parameterized by λ ∈ (0, 1]. The parameter λ is a common maximal probability of satisfaction — the probability that an agent’s realized need is no more than his assignment — imposed on all agents. Thus, the maximal assignment of each agent is his λ-quantile assignment. If the endowment of the resource exceeds the sum of the agents’ λ-quantile assignments, each agent receives his λ-quantile assignment and the resource …

The Revealed Preference Theory Of Stable Matchings With One-Sided Preferences, Gaoji Hu, Jiangtao Li, Rui Tang

Research Collection School Of Economics

This note studies the testable implications of the theory of stable matchings intwo-sided matching markets with one-sided preferences. Our main result connects therevealed preference analysis to the well-known lattice structure of the set of stablematchings, and tests the rationalizability of a data set by analyzing the joins andmeets of matchings.

Does India's Growth Matter? Evidence From The Saarc Nations, Rohan Ray, Cledwyn Fernandez

Research Collection School Of Economics

The study estimates the extent of spillover effects that India's real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate has on the growth rates of other countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region for the period 2003–2016. It also identifies whether the conventional trade channel is the means through which growth is transmitted from India to her neighboring countries. Using a random effects model, we conclude that on average, a 1 percentage point increase in India's real per capita GDP growth rate results in 0.46 percentage point increase in the per capita GDP growth rates of …

Editorial Introduction To The Special Issue Entitled: Spatial Econometrics: New Methods And Applications, Zhenlin Yang

Research Collection School Of Economics

Spatial econometrics is a fast growing research area, with the theories and methods developed over the past five decades or so being applied more and more widely, not only in the specialized fields such as regional science, real estate, economic geography, and urban economics, but also increasingly in the general fields such as economics, finance and social networks, in particular in the recent decade. One of the driving forces is perhaps the formation of the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA) at Rome in 2006 and its subsequent annul conference started in 2007 at the Cambridge University, which have helped greatly the …

Jump Factor Models In Large Cross-Sections, Jia Li, Viktor Todorov, George. Tauchen

Research Collection School Of Economics

We develop tests for deciding whether a large cross-section of asset prices obey an exact factor structure at the times of factor jumps. Such jump dependence is implied by standard linear factor models. Our inference is based on a panel of asset returns with asymptotically increasing cross-sectional dimension and sampling frequency, and essentially no restriction on the relative magnitude of these two dimensions of the panel. The test is formed from the high-frequency returns at the times when the risk factors are detected to have a jump. The test statistic is a cross-sectional average of a measure of discrepancy in …

Mixed Bayesian Implementation In General Environments, Takashi Kunimoto

Research Collection School Of Economics

A social choice rule is said to be mixed Bayesian implementable if one can design a mechanism (or institution) in which the set of all mixed Bayesian Nash equilibrium outcomes coincides with that specified by the rule. The objective of this paper is to generalize the results of mixed Bayesian implementation. By means of example, I first assess the implication of common priors in Bayesian implementation. Second, I identify a mild condition that fills the gap between the necessity and sufficiency for mixed Bayesian implementation in general environments including non-economic ones. Third, I establish some new results to unify the …

Rod Library: Notes For The Stalled, V11n10, May 2019, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Rod Library newsletter: Notes for the Stalled

Contents:

-- Stress Busting
-- Mary Ann Bolton Award
-- Bikes
-- Special Collections Open House
-- UNI ScholarWorks

Nematostella Vectensis Resistance To Their Own Neurotoxin: Exploring The Coevolutionary Resistance Of Ion Channels To Neurotoxins In Venomous Animals, Daniel Olivares-Zambrano, Timothy Jegla

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Nematostella vectensis (Starlet Sea Anemone) provides valuable insights into the evolution of nervous system development and excitability. For example, Nematostella has all types of voltage-gated K+ channels (Kvs) found in higher animals, demonstrating that these critical regulators of neuronal excitability evolved prior to the divergence of cnidarians and bilaterians roughly 600 million years ago. It is also well known that anthozoans such as Nematostella contain diverse voltage gated potassium channel (Kv) toxins that they use to paralyze prey or defend themselves in their natural habitats. This raises the question of whether anthozoans have developed resistance to their own toxins at …

Recommendations For Measurement And Management Of An Elite Athlete, William Sands, Marco Cardinale, Jeni Mcneal, Steven Murray, Christopher Sole, Jacob Reed, Nikos Apostolopoulos, Michael Stone

Faculty Work

Athletes who merit the title elite' are rare and differ both quantitatively and qualitatively from athletes of lower qualifications. Serving and studying elite athletes may demand non-traditional approaches. Research involving elite athletes suffers because of the typical nomothetic requirements for large sample sizes and other statistical assumptions that do not apply to this population. Ideographic research uses single-athlete study designs, trend analyses, and statistical process control. Single-athlete designs seek to measure differences in repeated measurements under prescribed conditions, and trend analyses may permit systematic monitoring and prediction of future outcomes. Statistical process control uses control charting and other methods from …

Benefits Of Increasing Unstructured Recess Time For Elementary School Students, Alesia L. Tuiolosega

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Over the years, there has been a steady decline in students’ unstructured recess time which has an impact on students’ development. The factors that have contributed to this decline are standardized testing and other activities. These are important to students because they affect their health and development both inside and outside of the classrooms. This senior capstone examines the benefits of increasing unstructured recess time for elementary school students through the use of literature review and survey with teachers, school administrators, and parents.

Research Of Electro-Optical Effect In Metal Halide Perovskites By Fabry-Perot Interometer Method, Hanxiang Yin

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Perovskites have been investigated a lot by present and reported with outstanding optoelectronic properties. However, so far there is no publications about another important property, the electro-optical (EO) effect which is related to important applications in photolithography. This thesis is mainly mean to calculate the EO constants of one kind of organic perovskite material, CH₃NH₃PbI₃, which has been reported to have good capability of forming film by spin-coating, through the way of putting the film of CH₃NH₃PbI₃ between two layers of metal mirrors to build a Fabry-Perot interferometer and …

The Rupture Repeats, Jennifer Everett

Graduate School of Art Theses

Rupture repeats without regard. Occurring on macro and micro scales, these historical, financial, and social upheavals continue throughout our lives, remaking our worlds and leaving us to respond as best we can. Rupture is a condition of human existence. For marginalized communities and Black Americans specifically, rupture is familiar and precarious. Historically, Black people respond to the space that rupture makes through a rigorous, interdisciplinary, creative tradition which serves as a strategy for survival and a way to produce and transmit knowledge. These methods of knowledge production exist in excess of formal training and are evident of quiet and expansive …

The Impossible Tasks, Rachel Kalman

Graduate School of Art Theses

In this thesis I unpack the still life genre and its relation to my painting practice, examining the ways in which banal objects project influence and disrupt the notion of a linear, narrative history. Through the contextual lenses of close observation, propagandistic agendas, and the transgressive history of pattern, I explore the inherent contradiction contained within still life painting; working to balance an empathic respect for objects, as such, with my deeply seated desire to metaphorically interpret and empower visual imagery. I am fascinated by the impossible tasks we ask of weak, inanimate, decorative objects and work to generate still …

Teaching Empathy, Sarah Parenteau

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This paper is an exploration into the topic of teaching elementary school students about empathy towards individuals with specific disabilities. The participants for the Capstone Project included 18 second-grade students and 22 fourth-grade students in a public elementary school located on California’s Central Coast. The researcher wrote two lesson plans including a pre-simulation survey, a short lecture, a physical education game, and a post-simulation survey in order to teach empathy and to gauge students’ understanding of the topic. With the use of a physical education game, blacked-out swimming goggles, ear plugs, and socks, students were able to experience the realities …

Using Social-Emotional Learning To Help Behavioral Problems, Hannah Taylor Byrd

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This Capstone Project focused on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) to help manage behavioral problems that students may face. A class of 25 fourth-grade students attending a public K-5 school participated in this Capstone Project. SEL teachings were condensed into a four-week lesson plan which focused on various skills, catered to help this class’ specific deficits. To match the students’ needs, the lessons were designed to promote positive participation and raise self-esteem so students feel comfortable sharing out during discussions. The students learned what perseverance and encouragement meant to them and participated in activities relating to these skills. By the end of …

Patchnet: A Tool For Deep Patch Classification, Thong Hoang, Julia Lawall, Richard J. Oentaryo, Yuan Tian, David Lo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This work proposes PatchNet, an automated tool based on hierarchical deep learning for classifying patches by extracting features from commit messages and code changes. PatchNet contains a deep hierarchical structure that mirrors the hierarchical and sequential structure of a code change, differentiating it from the existing deep learning models on source code. PatchNet provides several options allowing users to select parameters for the training process. The tool has been validated in the context of automatic identification of stable-relevant patches in the Linux kernel and is potentially applicable to automate other software engineering tasks that can be formulated as patch classification …

Development Of A One-Equation Turbulence Model Based On K-Ε Closure And Its Extension For Computing Transitional Flows By Including An Intermittency Transport Equation, Cheng Peng

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Mindfulness For Middle School Students, Raena Gountang

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The topic of this research project is Mindfulness for Middle School Students. The participants for the Capstone project included 53 seventh-grade students in a public middle school located in the Bay Area of California. The Capstone Project was done in a four-week process, where the researcher implemented her lesson plan to two class periods every Friday. She made lectures and Kahoot quizzes to keep track of all the students comprehension on the content. This was her way of assessing the students throughout her research for the Capstone Project. The main finding in the project was that the students she worked …

Using Pop Culture To Improve Teacher-Student Relationships, Jacob Baxter

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Capstone Project discussed the use of popular culture and using the terms to improve a teacher’s Teacher-Student Relationship. The participants for the Capstone Project included 12 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade teachers in a public elementary school located in California’s Monterey County. The writer conducted a professional workshop with the aforementioned elementary school teachers. The workshop introduced a total of 25 popular culture terms for the teachers to use to improve their Teacher-Student Relationship. The writer emphasized as casual use of these terms in an effort to foster a genuine Teacher-Student Relationship. After the workshop, a follow-up survey was sent …

Bullying: The Effects In Relation To Third-Grade Elementary Students, Shelby Wilson

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The researcher focused on the way bullying affects students inside the classroom and at home. The participants for the Capstone Project included 29 third-grade students in a public elementary school located on California’s Central Coast. The project analyzed the personal experience the students have with bully’s. The researcher implemented a lesson plan that allowed students to be educated on the topic to create a safe classroom. The researcher found that 19 out of 29 students in the classroom had experienced or witnessed some form of bullying on their school campus. The researcher also found that 21 out of 29 students …