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"An Evening With Gladys Knight" At Uab's Alys Stephens Center On May 12, Shannon Thomason

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Hand-Fabricated Cnt/Agnps Electrodes Using Wax-On-Plastic Platforms For Electro-Immunosensing Application, Sensen Chen, Ahmad Qamar, Narges Asefifeyzabadi, Madison Funneman, Motahareh Taki, Lee Elliott, Mary Kinsel, Gary R. Kinsel, Mohtashim Shamsi

Publications

Fabrication of inexpensive and flexible electronic and electrochemical sensors is in high demand for a wide range of biochemical and biomedical applications. We explore hand fabrication of CNT modified AgNPs electrodes using wax-on-plastic platforms and their application in electrochemical immunosensing. Wax patterns were printed on polyethylene terephthalate-based substrates to laydown templates for the electrodes. Hand painting was employed to fabricate a silver conductive layer using AgNPs ink applied in the hydrophilic regions of the substrate surrounded by wax. CNT was drop cast on top of the working electrodes to improve their electrochemical signal. The device layers were characterized by scanning …

Changing The Guards: Expanding Cultural Diversity Training In Correctional Officer Basic Training, Herman Ayers

Doctor of International Conflict Management Dissertations

This research examined the effectiveness of cultural diversity training in state basic correctional officer training programs. In recent years, the demographics of the U.S. prison population has become much more culturally diverse. This shift is noted by recent academic literature from scholars who have experience working in correctional settings. The growing diversity of the inmate population puts a new emphasis on the importance of cultural diversity in correctional officer basic training programs. This exploratory study uses original data collected from a survey of correctional officers and a sample of state correctional officer basic training programs in a cross-sectional design to …

Ai Film Aesthetics: A Construction Of A New Media Identity For Ai Films, Priya Parikh

Film and Media Studies (MA) Theses

Recognized as the fourth industrial revolution, Artificial Intelligence is poised to take the film industry by storm. While the current applications of it help streamline production practices, its escalating employment in the generation of film scripts and visuals complicates notions and functions of authorship and new media aesthetics. This thesis examines the unique junction of Cinema and Artificial Intelligence, where experimentation is not only celebrated, but also necessary in order to re-evaluate the conditions of new media. By analyzing the ways in which three films co-written by Oscar Sharp, Ross Goodwin and an AI negotiate with Foucault’s theory of the …

General Education Subcommittee Minutes, April 16, 2019, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Course Approvals/Removals/Syllabi Approvals

Business

• Election of General Education Chair
• Committee Members for 2019-2020
• Rubrics in determining designation decisions

Information

• Update on assessable rubric for QL courses
• Update on General Education Course Offerings

Quality Improvement: Developing A Hospital Program To Reduce Staff Injury Associated With The Care Of The Patient With Dementia, Kimiko Krutz

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Problem Description

Hospital clinical staff injuries can occur while caring for patients with dementia. Clinician injury is a concern because it can be career-ending for the clinician and costly to the hospital ($80,000) to replace a nurse. A reliable estimate of the numbers of staff injuries by patients does not exist in the academic literature. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) now require hospitals to provide data on clinician injuries related to patient care. This project explored the use of dementia patient-centered care education to increase clinician self-efficacy to ultimately decrease clinician injury.

Intervention

This quality improvement project provided 20 …

Engineering Their Futures, Beth Lamontagne Hall

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Convocation Recital, April 16, 2019, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
April 16, 2019
Tuesday Morning
11:00 a.m.

Horizon Scanning For Invasive Alien Species With The Potential To Threaten Biodiversity And Human Health On A Mediterranean Island, J Peyton, Af Martinou, Et Al

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the major drivers of change that can negatively affect biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services and human health; islands are particularly vulnerable to biological invasions. Horizon scanning can lead to prioritisation of IAS to inform decision-making and action; its scale and scope can vary depending on the need. We focussed on IAS likely to arrive, establish and affect biodiversity and human health on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The scope of the horizon scanning was the entire island of Cyprus. We used a two-step consensus-building process in which experts reviewed and scored lists of …

Understanding Community: Microwear Analysis Of Blades At The Mound House Site, Silas Levi Chapman

Theses and Dissertations

Understanding Middle Woodland period sites has been of considerable interest for North American archaeologists since early on in the discipline. Various Middle Woodland period (50 BCE-400CE) cultures participated in shared ideas and behaviors, such as constructing mounds and earthworks and importing exotic materials to make objects for ceremony and for interring with the dead. These shared behaviors and ideas are termed by archaeologists as “Hopewell”. The Mound House site is a floodplain mound group thought to have served as a “ritual aggregation center”, a place for the dispersed Middle Woodland communities to congregate at certain times of year to reinforce …

Philharmonic And Women's Choir Spring Concert

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

This performance features the KSU Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Assistant Professor of Music Education Dr. Nancy Conley, and KSU Women's Choir directed by Dr. Alison Mann, Associate Professor of Choral Music Education.

Academic Senate - Agenda, 4/16/2019, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Outside Colby (2019 - April 16), Colby College

Outside Colby

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Earth History And The Passerine Superradiation, Carl H. Oliveros, Daniel J. Field, Daniel T. Ksepka, F. Keith Barker, Alexandre Aleixo, Michael J. Andersen, Per Alström, Brett W. Benz, Edward L. Braun, Michael J. Braun, Gustavo A. Bravo, Robb T. Brumfield, R. Terry Chesser, Santiago Claramunt, Joel Cracraft, Andrés M. Cuervo, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Travis C. Glenn, Michael G. Harvey, Peter A. Hosner, Leo Joseph, Rebecca T. Kimball, Andrew L. Mack, Colin M. Miskelly, A. Townsend Peterson, Mark B. Robbins, Frederick H. Sheldon, Luís Fábio Silveira, Brian Tilston Smith, Noor D. White, Robert G. Moyle, Brant C. Faircloth

Faculty Publications

© 2019 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the diversification of the hyperdiverse perching birds (passerines) is unclear because family level relationships are unresolved and the timing of splitting events among lineages is uncertain. We analyzed DNA data from 4,060 nuclear loci and 137 passerine families using concatenation and coalescent approaches to infer a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis that clarifies relationships among all passerine families. Then, we calibrated this phylogeny using 13 fossils to examine the effects …

Fermions And Bosons In Nonsymmorphic Pdsb2 With Sixfold Degeneracy, Ramakanta Chapai, Yating Jia, W. A. Shelton, Roshan Nepal, Mohammad Saghayezhian, J. F. Ditusa, E. W. Plummer, Changqing Jin, Rongying Jin

Faculty Publications

PdSb2 is a candidate for hosting sixfold-degenerate exotic fermions (beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions). The nontrivial band crossing protected by the nonsymmorphic symmetry plays a crucial role in physical properties. We have grown high-quality single crystals of PdSb2 and characterized their physical properties under several stimuli (temperature, magnetic field, and pressure). While it is a diamagnetic Fermi-liquid metal under ambient pressure, PdSb2 exhibits a large magnetoresistance with continuous increase up to 14 T, which follows Kohler's scaling law at all temperatures. This implies one-band electrical transport, although multiple bands are predicted by first-principles calculations. By applying magnetic field along the …

Alaska's Fiscal & Economic Outlook, Mouhcine Guettabi

ISER Presentations

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Uni Symphonic Band And Uni Concert Band, April 16, 2019 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Alexander Pershounin, Double Bass, April 16, 2019 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Clinard, Pamela And Laura Drew (Fa 1281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1281. Student folk studies project titled “The Bell Witch,” which includes two papers with descriptions of the Bell Witch legend in Robertson County, Tennessee. Sheets may include descriptions of the legend, text classifications, transcriptions of interviews, names of informants, ages, locations, illustrations, and photos.

Dudley Birder Chorale To Present "America Sings" Concert, St. Norbert College

Press Releases 2019

No abstract provided.

Comedian Rod Man’S Heartfelt Speech, Ramona Johnston's Death Remind Us Of Urgent Need To Cure Huntington's Disease, Kenneth P. Serbin

At Risk for Huntington's Disease

No abstract provided.

University Of Dayton Week On The Academic Minute, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Academic Minute, a popular radio program produced by WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, showcased faculty research on a “University of Dayton Week."

Coach David Elliott Tennis Complex Dedication Program, Harding University

Special Events

This event program documents the April 16, 2019, ceremony dedicating the Coach David Elliott Tennis Complex at Harding University. The document features a biographical tribute honoring David Elliott for his 39 seasons as head tennis coach (1975–2013), during which he accumulated 1,123 victories and 10 conference championships while serving as a mentor and physical education instructor.

The program details the order of service, including a welcome by University President Dr. Bruce McLarty, opening remarks by former Athletic Director Greg Harnden, personal reflections by Bison Tennis Head Coach David Redding, and a closing prayer delivered by Athletic Director Jeff Morgan.

Evolutionary And Genomic Insights Into Clostridioides Difficile Sequence Type 11: A Diverse Zoonotic And Antimicrobial-Resistant Lineage Of Global One Health Importance, Daniel R. Knight, Brian Kullin, Grace O. Androga, Frederic Barbut, Catherine Eckert, Stuart Johnson, Patrizia Spigaglia, Kazuhiro Tateda, Pei-Jane Tsai, Thomas V. Riley

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Clostridioides difficile (Clostridium difficile) sequence type 11 (ST11) is well established in production animal populations worldwide and contributes considerably to the global burden of C. difficile infection (CDI) in humans. Increasing evidence of shared ancestry and genetic overlap of PCR ribotype 078 (RT078), the most common ST11 sublineage, between human and animal populations suggests that CDI may be a zoonosis. We performed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) on a collection of 207 ST11 and closely related ST258 isolates of human and veterinary/environmental origin, comprising 16 RTs collected from Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America. Core genome single nucleotide variant (SNV) analysis identified …

Lindenwood Digest, April 16, 2019, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Junior Recital: Trey Dunnahoo, Jazz Guitar, Trey Dunnahoo, Brad Cannata, Dallas Dawson

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. Dunnahoo studies jazz guitar with Trey Wright.

Calibration Of Measurements, Edward Kroc, Bruno D. Zumbo

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Traditional notions of measurement error typically rely on a strong mean-zero assumption on the expectation of the errors conditional on an unobservable “true score” (classical measurement error) or on the data themselves (Berkson measurement error). Weakly calibrated measurements for an unobservable true quantity are defined based on a weaker mean-zero assumption, giving rise to a measurement model of differential error. Applications show it retains many attractive features of estimation and inference when performing a naive data analysis (i.e. when performing an analysis on the error-prone measurements themselves), and other interesting properties not present in the classical or Berkson cases. Applied …

Transcriptional Regulation Factors Of The Human Mitochondrial Aspartate/Glutamate Carrier Gene, Isoform 2 (Slc25a13): Usf1 As Basal Factor And Foxa2 As Activator In Liver Cells, Paolo Convertini, Simona Todisco, Francesco De Santis, Ilaria Pappalardo, Dominga Iacobazzi, Maria Antonietta Castiglione Morelli, Yvonne N. Fondufe-Mittendorf, Giuseppe Martelli, Ferdinando Palmieri, Vittoria Infantino

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Mitochondrial carriers catalyse the translocation of numerous metabolites across the inner mitochondrial membrane, playing a key role in different cell functions. For this reason, mitochondrial carrier gene expression needs tight regulation. The human SLC25A13 gene, encoding for the mitochondrial aspartate/glutamate carrier isoform 2 (AGC2), catalyses the electrogenic exchange of aspartate for glutamate plus a proton, thus taking part in many metabolic processes including the malate-aspartate shuttle. By the luciferase (LUC) activity of promoter deletion constructs we identified the putative promoter region, comprising the proximal promoter (−442 bp/−19 bp), as well as an enhancer region (−968 bp/−768 bp). Furthermore, with different …

Samba Laranja: The Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble; Dr. Elisa Dekaney And Professor Joshua Dekaney, Directors; Dr. Theresa Chen, Guest Artist, Samba Laranja, Setnor School Of Music, Elisa Dekaney, Joshua Dekaney, Theresa Chen

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Seismic Performance Of Earth Slopes Subjected To Earthquake Mainshock – Aftershock Sequences, Alisha Khanal

Civil Engineering Theses

Mainshocks are usually followed by aftershocks. Aftershocks continue over a period of time with a decreasing frequency and there is not sufficient time for repair and retrofit between a mainshock – aftershock sequence. Typically, aftershocks are smaller in magnitude; however, aftershock ground motion characteristics such as the intensity and duration can be greater than the mainshock due to the changes in the earthquake mechanism and location with respect to the site. The seismic performance of slopes is typically evaluated based on the sliding displacement predicted to occur along a critical sliding surface. Various empirical models are available that predict sliding …