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Modeling Solitary Waves In The Earth's Magnetosphere, Jessica Thwaites

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

Solitary waves occur in many mediums, both on Earth and in space. These are nonlinear wave modes, which appear as single isolated wavelength or half wavelength of a linear wave. This study focuses on solitary waves observed at the Earth's magnetopause, and used electric field data from NASA's Polar spacecraft, which took data in multiple regions within the magnetosphere. We developed a model in IDL for the shape of these waves, using a Gaussian function and performed statistical analysis on these waves to get a general idea of the shape of these solitary waves. The results of our model show …

Characterizing The Crawling Mechanism Of Larval Drosophila Melanogaster, Michael Thompson

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

Throughout neuroscience, many model organisms are used to characterize human neurological systems. The reason for the use of model organisms is both the immense complexity of the human nervous system, and the ethical roadblocks of performing proper scientific research on a human functioning human subject. Some of the model organisms which are commonly used by neuroscientists are Drosophila melanogaster, Crab STG, and C. elegans. All of these organisms contain a relatively simple nervous system, but still contain enough similarities to provide us with valuable data that could pertain to our own nervous systems. In basic nervous systems, the effect of …

Non-Pharmacological Pain Management Interventions To Decrease Pharmacological Need In A Long-Term Care Facility: A Quality Improvement Study, Hunter Hicks, Kent Edeburn, Mckenna Mages

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

The Implementation of Non-Pharmacological Pain Management Interventions to Decrease Pharmacological Need in a Long-Term Care Facility: a Quality Improvement Study

Effective pain management is a universal issue throughout the healthcare field, especially in long-term care. The increasing older adult population, coupled with chronic under-staffing, produces an environment that inhibits efforts to treat chronic pain and acute pain flares that are often present in this patient population. In response to an increasing demand for improved pain treatment, research has focused on locating and testing the efficacy of many non-pharmacological pain management techniques. These techniques include healing touch, music therapy, cold/heat application, …

Humanity's Addiction: A Comparison Of The Enivornmental Impacts Of Cane Sugar And Corn Syrup, Mallory Jarvi

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

The production of sugar has changed in the twenty-first century from natural cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup. In light of climate change, and creating a sustainable environment, which sweet substance is more sustainable while still being able to keep up with global sugar demand? Through the analysis of scholarly articles and books, the impacts these sweeteners have on the environment can be studied to generate a conclusion. Cane sugar and high-fructose corn syrup both produce large amount carbon emissions and degrade the environment, so the answer may be to produce and consume less sugar as a whole.

Synthesis Of Dipeptide Aldehyde Fragment Of Janolusimide, Amethyst Demeritte

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

Janolusimide A, and its analogue Janolusimide B, are natural marine tripeptide toxins that act as cholinergic agents and are thus effective antifeedants. Their neurotoxic activity is shown to be antagonized by atropine suggesting an inhibition interaction with acetylcholine receptors and is consequently a potential pesticide. This research project consists of developing conditions for the synthesis of the dipeptide aldehyde fragment in Janolusimide using a Weinreb amide reduction approach. Previous syntheses of Janolusimide required an expensive organoborane catalyst and several synthetic steps. Our process via the Weinreb amide is likely to produce the desired compound in a shorter synthetic process. Progress …

北方領土問題, Jeremy Jahn

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

Talking about the historical Kuril Island dispute between Russia and Japan in Japanese only. This is for JAPN 312 class.

Running Interest In Minnesota Cities, Augie Witkowski

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

Running, while often portrayed as an approachable sport, can be difficult to begin to do as shoes and races can be fairly expensive. Other people and groups of people can be discouraged from running for social reasons. Studying how running interest correlates to demographic information can give insight into why people do not express interest in running. This information was studied specifically in the state of Minnesota, in cities with populations larger than 50,000 people. Using available census data for these cities, and the US Track and Field website of running routes these two factors were compared to each other. …

Homelessness And Health In Central Minnesota, Denisha Demeritte, Megan Laraway, Maddy Zinken, Ricardo Vences, Siyu Samantha Ng

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

Capstone students from the Intercultural Health Communication course will present findings from interviews conducted with professionals who work with the Central Minnesota homeless. Topics to be discussed will include the common health issues and barriers to healthcare Central Minnesota homeless face, as well as how the Central Minnesota homeless communicate about their health and strategies for improving their health.

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes In Catalysts For Ring Opening Polymerizations, Kalista Jager

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

Ring opening polymerizations of esters (ROTEP) can be used to make polymers employed in films, packaging, and tissue engineering scaffolds. The aluminum catalyst used in this research works faster than the other catalysts, but it only works with a single monomer, caprolactone. To combat this issue, this research focused on the synthesis of catalysts with different metals or different ligands. Catalysts that contain a carbene unit have been found to quickly promote many reactions. This project aimed to synthesize ligands containing a carbene unit to attach to a metal. NMR spectroscopy was performed to characterize the coordination compound. There have …

Basking Habits Of Painted Turtles (Chrysemys Picta), Ellen Munshower

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

Painted turtles, a reptile native to North America, have been known the bask in areas of relatively shallow water with direct sunlight. In our study we looked for notable traits of basking sites being used by painted turtles around Lake Sagatagan in Collegeville, MN. Data was taken at every location that painted turtles were observed basking and was then paired with a random location around the lake to see if there were differences between the specific locations with turtles and the overall lake ecosystem. Through this process we observed that turtles tended to bask in areas off cooler, shallower water, …

Synthesis And Modification Of Phenol-Containing Catalysts For Ring-Opening Polymerization Of Cyclic Esters, Usama Hassan

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

The goal of this research is the synthesis of a phenol-containing transition metal complex with a carbene unit that can effectively catalyze the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters such as caprolactone, lactide, and menthide. Although catalysts such as tin octoate and triethylaluminum are typically used for ROP of cyclic esters, they are toxic. Hence there is a demand for catalysts that are faster, more efficient, and less harmful. While carbene ligands have been documented as effective catalysts for ROP of cyclic esters, less is known about the catalytic abilities of these ligands when bound to a labile metal center …

Reducing Heat In An Acoustic Levitation System, Samuel Wetzel

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

An acoustic levitator is able to levitate small particles, such as pieces of Styrofoam or water, by creating standing sound waves. The levitator produces a sound wave, which is then reflected back on itself by a reflector, creating the standing waves. These standing sound waves can be observed using schlieren optics. An LED point source light is sent through the air between the levitator and the reflector and reflected off a mirror towards a camera. In front of the camera is a small partition; if there is no disturbed air between the levitator and the reflector (no standing sound waves), …

Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs In Small Community Hospitals Through An Assessment And Feedback Model, Philip Chung, Kate Tyner, Scott Bergman, Terry Micheels, Mark Rupp, Michelle Schwedhelm, Maureen Tierney, Muhammad Salman Ashraf, Trevor Van Schooneveld

Posters and Presentations: Nebraska ASAP

Small community hospitals often lack expertise and resources for antimicrobial stewardship program implementation. Using an assessment-and-feedback model, Nebraska ASAP performed onsite assessment of antimicrobial stewardship efforts in 5 small community hospitals and provided facility specific feedback on implementation/augmentation of antimicrobial stewardship program. As a result of this model, participating small community hospitals were able to increase the number of antimicrobial stewardship core elements implemented while reducing antibiotic use and incidence of CDI.

Evaluating The Human Resource Related Soft Dimensions In Green Supply Chain Management Implementation, A Kumar, Mangla S Kumar, S Luthra, A Ishizaka

Plymouth Business School

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, April 25, 2019, Courtney A. Duchene, Sienna Coleman, William Wehrs, Sam Rosenthal, Madison Rodak, Johnny Myers, Thomas Bantley, Daniel Walker, David Mendelsohn, Gabriela Howell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Coffee Shop and Brew Pub Aims to Open Second Location Near UC • In Memory of Dorinda Ma, 1993-2018 • New History Professor Makes Her Mark • Ursinus Student's Internship Takes Her to Yellowstone • Sesquicentennial Celebration Continues with Minerva Term • Ursinus' First Pride Festival • Opinions: Restructuring the Tax Process Might Benefit Americans; Notre Dame Tragedy Speaks to the Necessity of Historical Preservation • UC Golf Ready to Make Noise in CC • The "History! With an Exclamation Point!" Award: Alex Mumme • Baker and Lyons Reflect on UC Careers

Film Screening, April 25, 2019, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

University Galleries Uptown Normal

April 25, 2019

Thursday Evening

6:00 p.m.

Graduate Recital: Samuel Meade, Viola; April 25, 2019, Samuel Meade

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
April 25, 2019
Thursday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Kenyon Collegian - April 25, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

College Of Business News, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• Georgia Southern MBA to host open house events in Savannah

Ksu Wind Ensemble And Ksu Symphony Orchestra Featuring Winners Of The 2018-19 Ksu Concert Competition, Andrew Berry, Melissa Ake

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

KSU Symphony Orchestra, led by Director of Orchestral Studies Dr. Nathaniel F. Parker, and KSU Wind Ensemble, led by Director of Bands Dr. David Kehler, features performances by winners of the 2018-2019 KSU Concerto Competition as well as additional works by Jennifer Jolley, Ron Nelson, and more.

Innovation In Preservice Teacher Preparation: Undergraduate Research In Special Education, Kymberly Harris, Meca Williams-Johnson, Dana Sparkman

Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Publications

Teacher preparation programs emphasize the connection between student outcomes in achievement and behavior, but the framework of teachers as researchers is rarely presented as a foundational basis of good instruction. Teachers are aware of the need to consider scores and trends and alter their instruction based on the response of the students to their teaching, but the techniques involved are not explicitly taught as research methods in most preparation programs.

The initial purpose of including a research course in the undergraduate program of study was to provide preservice teachers with research skills to enhance their instruction. The long term goal …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Foreign Language News, Georgia Southern University

World Languages & Cultures: News & Publications (2013-2023)

• Spanish Faculty Retire
• Dr. Torres' article examines Argentine Dirty War

Consumer Confidence In Nh Still High But May Have Peaked 4/25/2019, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Confidence in New Hampshire businesses is still high but has declined for the 2nd consecutive quarter. The NH economy has been strong for several years and unemployment is at record lows, but there are still signs of slippage.

Nursing Students' Knowledge Of Alcohol - Interactive Medications, Andrew Coop

Honors Projects

In 2018, nearly 57% of American adults reported drinking alcohol in the past month, and 41.5% of current drinkers reported taking alcohol-interactive (AI) medications. Consuming alcohol and medications concurrently may result in adverse effects. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a one-hour lecture about AI medications in a class of undergraduate nursing students (N = 48) at a small Midwestern university. The Jarvis Nursing Knowledge of Alcohol-Interactive Medications survey was distributed on August 27, 2018, and again on November 19, 2018. A significant increase was found between pretest and posttest on correct identification of …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Drag in the South
• Campus Life
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Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern professor accepted in 2019 PRIDE Institute summer program

• Logistics students place third in first-ever Innovation Challenge

• Georgia Southern students simulate poverty, learn about socioeconomic challenges

• Georgia Southern COE shows strong presence at state science teacher conference

Contribution Of Retrotransposons To Breast Cancer Malignancy, Isaac D. Raplee

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The components contributing to cancer progression, especially the transition from early to invasive are unknown. Consequently, the biological reasons are unclear as to why some patients diagnosed with atypia and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) never progress into invasive breast cancer. The “one gene at a time” approach does not sufficiently predict progression. To elucidate the early stage progression to invasive ductal cancer, expression signature of transcripts and transposable elements in micropunched samples of formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue was conducted. A bioinformatics pipeline to analyze poor quality, short reads (>36 nts) from RNA-Seq data was created to compare …

2018-2019 Performance Forum - April 25, 2019, Robiyakhon Akromova, Jannina Eliana Pena, Hyemin Lee, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Carlos Diaz, Yana Lyashko, Alexander Ramazanov, Diana Lopez, Luke Schwalbach, Ting An Lee, Tyler Coffman, Sodienye Finebone

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Genetic Structure Of The Big Summit Herd And Neighboring Wild Horse Populations Inhabiting Herd Management Areas Of Oregon, Ketaki Deshpande, Evelyn Perez, Natalie Leyva, Merly Suarez, Deetta K. Mills

Western North American Naturalist

Feral horses roaming North America are distinct not only because of their acclimatization to the wild but also because of their diversified ancestry. The wild horses inhabiting the Ochoco National Forest near Prineville, Oregon, are one of the remaining wild mustang herds and are protected by the Wild Horse and Burro Acts of 1971 and 1978. With deterioration of their rangeland, drought, vegetation conditions, human encroachment, fencing off of grazing lands, competition with wildlife, and other livestock grazing on public lands, a critical balance between conserving the natural ecology of rangelands and protecting and managing the wild horses needs to …