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Examining Relationships Between The Wakids Gold Social-Emotional And Cognitive Subtests Of Executive Function And Kindergarten Reading Readiness, Amy J. Wright

Education Dissertations

Executive function skills, which are defined as a person’s ability to regulate behaviors such as attention, working memory, and inhibitory control, play a role in a child’s successful transition from preschool to kindergarten. The purpose of this study was to review and analyze the relationship between executive function in early childhood, as measured by the WaKIDS GOLD^TM social-emotional and cognitive subtests, and early reading readiness. The research design was both correlational and predictive (Gall, Gall, & Borg, 2006). The target population is kindergarteners in a suburban Washington State school district. The study is based on data collected at the …

“Evaluating Knowledge And Perspectives Of Behavior Analytic Language Strategies In The Clinical Practice Of Speech-Language Pathology”, Mackenzie Sturman

Honors Theses

Research shows that principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA) may be beneficial to language acquisition. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have the responsibility of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for individuals with various speech and language impairments, and work directly with language instruction. However, there is limited knowledge of the degree to which SLPs use concepts of behavior analytic language interventions in clinical practice for individuals of varying language and communication disorders. This study investigated the extent to which practicing SLPs use language strategies from ABA in their clinical practice. A qualitative approach was utilized by conducting individual semi-structured interviews with four practicing …

Optimal Distance For Normal Gait Speed Testing, Rosalba Saavedra, Brian Bischoff, Elijah Weiss, Steven Kim, Eric Martin

CSU Student Research Competition Delegate Entries

Walking speed tests are powerful health screening tools, but variation in protocols present different diagnostic cutoffs. What distance for a gait speed test validly represents overall gait speed is unknown. To determine the optimal testing distance that represents overall gait speed. Vitals and measurements were taken from participants and were instructed to walk at their normal gait speed for 20m through Brower timing gates at every 5m. Speeds from 0-5m, 5-10m, and 10-20m were compared using a mixed effect model. The average speed for 0-5m segment was 1.361 m/s, 5-10m was 1.449 m/s, and the 10-20m average speed was 1.467 …

Study Of Tergivelum Baldwinae, A Benthic Acorn Worm's Behavior And Population Densities, Victoria Assad

CSU Student Research Competition Delegate Entries

Over the past 10 to 15 years, there has been an increase in particulate organic carbon (POC) flux reaching the seafloor at Station M (4000 m depth) in the Northeastern Pacific. This increase correlates with changing surface conditions associated with changing climate. The deep-sea enteropneust, Tergivelum baldwinae, has increased in population density allowing us to observe enough individuals to test hypotheses, particularly how these organisms are changing with changes in surface conditions. Enteropneusta are known for fecal trails, found in a spiral or switchback pattern. Given the deep sea is the ultimate depository of large fractions of surface-derived carbon, …

Preliminary Automated Determination Of Edibility Of Alternative Foods: Non-Targeted Screening For Toxins In Red Maple Leaf Concentrate, Joshua M. Pearce, Maryam Khaksari, David C. Denkenberger

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Alternative food supplies could maintain humanity despite sun-blocking global catastrophic risks (GCRs) that eliminate conventional agriculture. A promising alternative food is making leaf concentrate. However, the edibility of tree leaves is largely uncertain. To overcome this challenge, this study provides the methods for obtaining rapid toxics screening of common leaf concentrates. The investigation begins with a non-targeted approach using an ultra-high-resolution hybrid ion trap orbitrap mass spectrometer with electrospray ionization (ESI) coupled to an ultra-high pressure two-dimensional liquid chromatograph system on the most common North American leaf: the red maple. Identified chemicals from this non-targeted approach are then cross-referenced with …

Chimes: April 26, 2019, Calvin College

Chimes

Current VP for finance and administration retires by Michelle Hofman

Prof conducts ground breaking research illicit massage parlors in GR with org by Annette Espinoza

Dr. John M. Perkins receives Kuyper Prize at Calvin's Kuyper Conference by Jon Boer

CPI student crafts Calvin chess set by Ellington Smith

Flag event raises awareness for sexual assault: Protect Life flag display postponed by Madalyn Buursma

March for licenses for undocumented immigrants by Michal Rubingh

Beyonce pulls a Beyonce, drops "Homecoming" on Netflix by Mimi Mutesa

Four Knights receive Player of Week honors by Patrick Roefels

Is the Green NewDeal a good deal? …

Pasión De Juventudes: La Reforma Universitaria Y La Emergencia De La Literatura Latinoamericana, Fernando Degiovanni

Publications and Research

Resumen: Este artículo analiza el rol que tuvo la Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), y especialmente la actividad cultural de los exiliados apristas, en la emergencia de un latinoamericanismo literario inspirado en los ideales de la Reforma Universitaria. En particular, explora la incidencia del crítico peruano Luis Alberto Sánchez, responsable de la labor propagandística del APRA en el exterior y autor de la primera historia literaria latinoamericana publicada en castellano, en la articulación de la disciplina en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Su Historia de la literatura americana (1937) no solo cuestionará el proyecto latinoamericanista esbozado por Pedro Henríquez …

Looking For Age Differences In Self-Driving Vehicles: Examining The Effects Of Automation Reliability, Driving Risk, And Physical Impairment On Trust, Ericka Rovira, Anne Collins Mclaughlin, Richard Pak, Luke High

Publications

Purpose

Self-driving cars are an extremely high level of autonomous technology and represent a promising technology that may help older adults safely maintain independence. However, human behavior with automation is complex and not straightforward (Parasuraman and Riley, 1997; Parasuraman, 2000; Rovira et al., 2007; Parasuraman and Wickens, 2008; Parasuraman and Manzey, 2010; Parasuraman et al., 2012). In addition, because no fully self-driving vehicles are yet available to the public, most research has been limited to subjective survey-based assessments that depend on the respondents’ limited knowledge based on second-hand reports and do not reflect …

Isu Concert Band Festival, April 26, 2019, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts

April 26-27, 2019

Wordpress.Com (Hosted) Data Curation Primer, Heather James

Foley Library Scholarship

WordPress.com is the hosted version of the open source WordPress.org software (https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/; https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/com-or-org/) offering a free online publishing platform with optional features, plans, and custom domains available for additional cost (https://wordpress.com/about/). This primer will focus exclusively on the WordPress.com free site export and archiving process. In the future additional primers and/or additions to this primer may be beneficial in order to cover the variations with WordPress.com Business Plan sites and WordPress.org software.

Leadership Lesson, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

3mt 2019: The Results, Kelly Sennott

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

State V. Steel Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 46177

Not Reported

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State V. Steel Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 46177

Not Reported

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Methods In Homology Inference, Nicholas J. Cavanna

Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation we introduce novel techniques to infer the shape of a geometric space from local data. The major contribution of this research is that the techniques aim to minimize the hypotheses of the sample and the space compared to existing results in the field.

We first prove an equivalence between the two standard geometric sampling methods: adaptive and uniform. From this we create a collection of topological interleavings derived from this equivalence, which we use to compute the homology of an arbitrary Euclidean compact set only assuming a bound on the weak feature size of the domain and …

Developing Portable Tools Based On Magnetophoresis For Accessible Clinical Diagnostics, Stephanie Knowlton

Doctoral Dissertations

Modern technological advancements allow us to study human cells with an extraordinary level of detail and accuracy. However, the impact of these technologies on public health remains limited by their complexity, cost, and inaccessibility. Hence, there is a need for user-friendly, inexpensive tools that can be used at the point of care, in limited-resource settings, and at home. Therefore, we aim to develop a platform technology that can perform a variety of medical diagnostics to rapidly provide important information in order to best inform medical decisions. Magnetophoresis is a phenomenon that enables precise manipulation of particles that do not necessarily …

Computational Methods For The Analysis Of Single-Cell Rna-Seq Data, Marmar Moussa

Doctoral Dissertations

Single cell transcriptional profiling is critical for understanding cellular heterogeneity and identification of novel cell types and for studying growth and development of tissues and tumors. Leveraging recent advances in single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq) technology requires novel methods that are robust to high levels of technical and biological noise and scale to datasets of millions of cells. In this work, we address several challenges in the analysis work-flow of scRNA-Seq data: First, we propose novel computational approaches for unsupervised clustering of scRNA-Seq data based on Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) transformation that has been successfully used in …

Whimp Is A Wasp-Family Actin Nucleation-Promoting Factor That Functions In Cell Motility, Shail Kabrawala

Doctoral Dissertations

Actin filament assembly is regulated by many actin-binding proteins that function to maintain cell shape and structure, enable vesicle trafficking, control motility, and support DNA repair. Identifying these regulatory proteins is critical for a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic organization of actin in various cellular processes. In the last decade, the discovery of new Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) family actin nucleation factors such as WASH, WHAMM, and JMY has significantly contributed to our understanding of actin cytoskeleton functions, and opened new avenues of research into the physiological roles of these proteins in membrane trafficking. I have identified a new WASP-family …

Cholesterol-Based Polymeric Nanoparticles For Improved Chemotherapy, Laura Gonzalez

Doctoral Dissertations

Polymeric nanoparticles from amphiphilic copolymers are deemed as flexible platforms for effective delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs to tumor tissues. The use of cholesterol as the hydrophilic segment can confer stability upon dilution and high drug loading capacity to these type of nanoparticles due to the tendency of cholesteryl groups to aggregate and form liquid crystal phases. On the other hand, the incorporation of polyethylene glycol as the hydrophilic block provides colloidal stability and reduced opsonization. Building on previous research in the laboratory, the overall goal of the present dissertation was to further advance the development and understanding of novel and …

Misfit At The Intersection Of Measurement Quality And Model Size: A Monte Carlo Examination Of Methods For Detecting Structural Model Misspecification, Graham Rifenbark

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

Contralto Marian Anderson As Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie Rocke

Doctoral Dissertations

Marian Anderson was an internationally-acclaimed contralto and goodwill ambassador for the United States government. In her role as a political asset, she utilized her talents to evoke a perception of the United States that differed from past assessments involving race relations. To provide an understanding of how she became an icon and asset to the State Department, three theoretical frameworks are applied—performativity, prototype, and social semiotics. In classical theories of performativity, classification separates us into categories and hierarchies, while concepts help us to categorize, understand, and predict the material world. Scholars have defined identity as a series of citational acts …

Uncovering The Mechanisms Of Staphylococcus Aureus Enterotoxin A-Induced Systemic And Pulmonary Inflammation, Julia Ryan

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

An Investigation Into River Water Distribution, Island Influences, And Embayment Temperatures In Long Island Sound, Steven Deignan-Schmidt

Doctoral Dissertations

The Regional Ocean Modeling System, in conjunction with a watershed model, was applied with conservative passive tracers to identify the distribution, mixing, freshwater residence times, and storm response for all of the river systems influencing Long Island Sound (LIS) during the summer of 2013. The Connecticut River was the largest freshwater source throughout the estuary. The Connecticut River strengthened bulk stratification in eastern LIS the most. The Housatonic River (the second largest freshwater source) and the Hudson River had the strongest influence on stratification in central and western LIS, respectively. Smaller coastal rivers were most influential in strengthening stratification near …

Towards Security Analysis Of Openstack, Hoda Maleki

Doctoral Dissertations

OpenStack is the prevalent open-source, non-proprietary package for managing cloud services and data centers. It is highly complex and consists of multiple inter-related components which are developed by separate, loosely coordinated groups. All of these properties make the security analysis of OpenStack both a crucial mission and a challenging one. In this dissertation, we demonstrate how we can provide a rigorous, perceptible and holistic security analysis of OpenStack. We base our modeling and security analysis in the universally composable (UC) security framework, which has been so far used mainly for analyzing the security of cryptographic protocols. Indeed, demonstrating how the …

Implementing A Dropout Prevention Program To Improve Student Outcomes In A Title I School, Melissa Berggren

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

Mindful Meditation Practice For Imaging Professionals, Tanya M. Custer, Kim Michael

Posters and Presentations: Medical Imaging & Therapeutic Sciences

Although a career in medical imaging is very fulfilling and rewarding, research shows that health care professionals are becoming more prone to burnout. The healthcare environment can be face-paced, stressful and demanding. Burnout syndrome results from emotional exhaustion that causes depersonalization and decreased professional accomplishment.1-3 Burnout can have a negative impact not only on the individual, but the environment as well. Decreased patient satisfaction and increased errors are both associated with burnout in the healthcare setting.2

Mindfulness can be defined as the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of …

Agricultural Intensification And Urbanization Negatively Impact Soil Nematode Richness And Abundance: A Meta-Analysis, Satyendra K. Pothula, Parwinder Grewal, Robert M. Auge, Arnold M. Saxton, Ernest C. Bernard

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Human activity has extensively transformed the land surface by agricultural intensification and urbanization. In soil, nematodes are the most abundant invertebrates. The effect of human interventions was assessed on overall richness, overall abundance, richness and abundance of nematodes of each trophic group and colonizer-persister (c-p) guild by comparing urban, agriculture and disturbed grassland (DGL) with natural grassland (NGL) and forest ecosystems. Meta-analyses were conducted to generate quantitative summaries from 111 published articles that met the inclusion criteria, 91 expressed data in grams and 20 expressed data in cm3. Results from data expressed per 100 g of soil indicated that overall …

Biobanks As Innovation Infrastructure For Translational Medicine, W. Nicholson Price Ii

Book Chapters

Biobanks represent an opportunity for the use of big data to drive translational medicine. Precision medicine demands data to shape treatments to individual patient characteristics; large datasets can also suggest new uses for old drugs or relationships between previously unlinked conditions. But these tasks can be stymied when data are siloed in different datasets, smaller biobanks, or completely proprietary private resources. This hampers not only analysis of the data themselves, but also efforts to translate data-based insights into actionable recommendations and to transfer the discovered technology into a commercialization pipeline. Cross-project technological innovation, development, and validation are all more difficult …

In-Vivo Effectiveness Of 5% Azadirachta Indica Oil Cream As Anti-Scabies, Patihul Husni, Mayang K. Dewi, Norisca A. Putriana, Rini Hendriani

Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy Research

Scabies is an infectious skin disease caused by mite Sarcoptes scabiei. Neem tree (Azadirachta indica) has the potential to be used as an anti-parasite due to the presence of azadirachtin compound that is commonly found in the seeds. The aim of this study was to evaluate in-vivo effectiveness of neem oil as an anti-scabies. This study used an experimental method. The effectiveness of the cream as an anti-scabies was tested on New Zealand white rabbits which were infected with scabies. Permethrin cream was used as a positive control and cream base was used as a negative control. Cream was applied …

Anti-Inflammatory Activity Of Artocarpus Altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg In Wistar Male Rats, Hesti Riasari, Sani Nurlalela, Ginanjar C. Gumilang

Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy Research

Inflammation is a local reaction in vascular tissue characterized by several symptoms, e.g., swelling, redness, and pain. Indonesia is one of the countries with high biodiversity, including traditional medicinal plants. Artocarpus altilis is one the plants that is widely used to treat inflammation. There is limited information on biological activity of A. altilis.This study was performed to evaluate anti-inflammatory properties of A. altilis detached and attached leaves in Wistar male rats. A. altilis was extracted using soxhlet method at 67.4 0C with methanol solvent. Inflammation was induced by the administration of carrageenan to the rats paw. Subsequently, the extract of …