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Attitudes Toward Singlehood And Life Role Preferences Among Heterosexual And Gay And Lesbian Adults, Lisa A. Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

Adults who remain single after the age society deems appropriate have faced considerable social stigma and discrimination throughout history and negative attitudes toward singles appear to persist. Research examining the experiences of single adults has been limited, focusing on the reflections of older singles, and largely heterosexual samples. To this end, the current study Will examine attitudes toward singlehood among heterosexual men and women and gay men and lesbian women within the context of participants' life role preferences for career choices and parenting. Results indicate women endorse more positive attitudes toward current singlehood, the possibility of future singlehood, and single …

Virtual And Traditional Slides For Teaching Cellular Morphology To Medical Laboratory Science Undergraduates: A Comparative Study Of Performance Outcomes, Retention, And Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Brooke L. Solberg

Theses and Dissertations

As a result of massive retirement and educational program expense and closure, the field of Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) is facing a critical workforce shortage. Combatting this issue by increasing undergraduate class size is a difficult proposition due to the intense psychomotor curricular requirements of MLS programs. Technological advances in the realm of virtual microscopy, however, provide an opportunity to reach more students by delivering psychomotor components in less restrictive formats. The purpose of this study was to analyze pedagogical comparability of virtual slides and traditional slides regarding immediate and delayed performance, self-efficacy perceptions, student opinion, and faculty observations. Specifically, …

Leptin Expression And Signaling At The Confluence Of Neurodegenerative Mechanisms In Alzheimer Disease, Gurdeep Singh Atamjit Marwarha

Theses and Dissertations

Alzheimer Disease (AD) is a progressive, debilitating and the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder affecting 5.5 million people and the sixth leading cause of fatality in the United States. The etiology of AD is not understood and clinically FDA-approved drugs offer only symptomatic relief for a short period of time and in only a subset of AD patients. AD is histopathologically characterized by the presence of extracellular deposits of aggregated Amyloid β (Aβ) peptide as plaques and the intracellular deposition of aggregated hyperphosphorylated tau protein as neurofibrillary tangles (NFT). Leptin, an adipocytokine, has been demonstrated to reduce the genesis of Aβ, …

Older Adult Perceptions Of Physical Activity, Selinda Janssen

Theses and Dissertations

Physical activity (PA) decreases the risk of age-associated illness and functional impairments; however, older adults engage in PA at a lower rate than any other age group (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006). The purpose of this study is to determine how PA becomes sustainable in older adults over the age of 65 in order to guide effective wellness programming. This Will help older adults age in place rather than having to move into institutions due to illness or functional impairments. This is a phenomenological study that includes interviews and observations of 15 community dwelling older adults. In the …

Theoretical Development And Application Of Gvvpt2 Gradients And Nonadiabatic Coupling Terms, Daniel P. Theis

Theses and Dissertations

Using a Lagrangian based approach, mathematical expressions were derived that analytically determine electric dipole moments, nuclear gradients, and nonadiabatic coupling coefficients for electronic states at the second-order generalized Van Vleck perturbation theory (GVVPT2) and the multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) levels of theory. The equations were expressed in a manner that ensures the slowest portions of the computer code are independent of the nuclear degrees of freedom that differentiate the energies and wavefunctions. The codes were implemented using a configuration-driven unitary group approach (UGA). Under this approach the efficient UGA method of evaluating configuration state function (CSF) matrix elements is recast …

Synthesis Of Bidentate Ligands Using Cyclopalladated Complexes, Valeria A. Stepanova

Theses and Dissertations

Aminophosphines, diphosphines and related chelating P-containing bidentate ligands, due to their versatile structural features, are considered promising enantioselective catalyst alternatives to symmetric and monodentate phosphine ligands. There are several methods for preparation of such P,N-ligands; however, they are mostly limited to specific cases. In this dissertation, the development of a new general method for synthesis of P-containing bidentate ligands is described. The approach studied is based on using reactions of cyclopalladated complexes (CPCs) with LiPPh2, KPPh2 and HPPh2. This study is the first example of a systematic investigation of reactions of CPCs at a C–Pd bond with phosphorus nucleophiles. A …

An X-Ray Absorption Study Of The Atomic Structure Of Novel Vitreous Rare-Earth Phosphates, Aranwela Hemantha

Theses and Dissertations

The atomic-scale structure of four series of binary rare earth phosphate glasses of composition (R2O3)x (P2O5)1-x, where R = Nd, Pr, Eu, and Sm were investigated. Compositions of praseodymium phosphate glasses ranged from polyphosphate to ultraphosphate (0.108 < x < 0.295), while neodymium phosphate compositions varied from metaphosphate to ultraphosphate (0.204 < x < 0.255). Samarium phosphates and the two europium phosphate glasses investigated were ultraphosphates with very low rare earth contents (x < 0.15). The R3+ local environment of these glasses was investigated using extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy. A series of neodymium borate glasses with the general formula (Nd2O 3)x(B2O3)1-x (0.01 < x < 0.35) was also analyzed. For both neodymium and praseodymium phosphate glasses the nearest neighbor oxygen coordination decreases with increasing rare earth concentrations. For the first oxygen shell the R-O distance ranged between 2.38-2.40 Å and 2.39-2.46 Å for neodymium and praseodymium glasses, respectively. The second coordination shell consisted of phosphorus atoms, with R-P distance about 3.4-3.5 Å and coordination numbers (CN) ranged from 1.5 to 3. There was an oxygen shell (a second oxygen shell) at R-O distance 4.1 Å for both series. In this composition range, there is no direct evidence of short R-R distances by clustering of rare earth atoms. But first shell R-O CN's obtained suggest sharing of some of the oxygens by two rare-earth ions when the composition x is greater (approximately) than 0.17. Samarium ultraphosphates and europium ultraphosphates (x < 0.15) had first shell R-O distances between 2.38 Å and 2.43 Å. R-P and second R-O shell positions were approximately at 3.7-3.8 Å and at 4.5-4.65 Å respectively. There is no evidence of rare earth clustering in these samples with low rare earth concentrations. First R-O shell CN and the bond distance decreases with the increasing RE concentration for neodymium borate glasses following the same trend as in phosphate glasses. R-B coordination is much higher than the R-P CN's obtained for phosphates.

Nina Bell Johnson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Robust Estimation Of Pure/Natural Direct Effects With Mediator Measurement Error, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Sheng Hsuan Lin

COBRA Preprint Series

Recent developments in causal mediation analysis have offered new notions of direct and indirect effects, that formalize more traditional and informal notions of mediation analysis emanating primarily from the social sciences. The pure or natural direct effect of Robins-Greenland-Pearl quantifies the causal effect of an exposure that is not mediated by a variable on the causal pathway to the outcome, and combines with the natural indirect effect to produce the total causal effect of the exposure. Sufficient conditions for identification of natural direct effects were previously given, that assume certain independencies about potential outcomes, and a rich literature on estimation …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

A Window to Criticism: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Modern Poetics (Murray Krieger) (Reviewed by Hazard Adams, University of California, Irvine)

The Persistence of Shakespeare Idolatry: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Babcock (Herbert Schueller) (Reviewed by Eugene M. Waith, Yale University)

Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel (Robert Atler) (Reviewed by Paul Fussell, Jr., Rutgers University)

The Romantic Ventriloquists: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron (Edward E. Bostetter) (Reviewed by James V. Baker, University of Houston)

Exploring James Joyce (Joseph Prescott) (Reviewed by W. Powell Jones, Western Reserve University)

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), E. R. M.

Criticism

No abstract provided.

Gsu View, 2012-09-06, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Case: Yordanova And Toshev V. Bulgaria, Margaret Livingston

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

The Likelihood Of Turkey's Accession Into The European Union: A Controversial Inquiry, Ashleigh Hebert

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Case: Daniela Muhlleitner V. Ahmad Yusufi And Wadat Yusufi, Kyom Bae

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Standard Of Proof For Patent Invalidation In The U.S. And Japan, Yoshinari Oyama

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Chanticleer | Vol 61, Issue 2, Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

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Self-Love And Self-Respect In The Meaningful Life, Erica Stonestreet

Forum, 2012 Fall

Most people have the sense that there's something wrong with living a meaningless life. Since most meaningless lives seem morally blameless, however, it's not obvious exactly what is wrong with it. Starting with a plausible conception of a meaningful life as a life engaged with values beyond oneself, I suggest that the problem is that someone living outside of this conception is not according herself a kind of recognition she deserves as a human being. Comparing self-respect and self-love as candidates for this recognition, I argue that lacking self-love is actually the more fitting explanation for what goes wrong in …

09-06-2012 Aauw Plans Saturday Brunch For Prospective Members, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

Weatherford’s chapter of the American Association of University Women will have its first meeting of the 2012-13 year this Saturday, September 8, with a brunch starting at 10 a.m. at the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Conference Center.

09-06-2012 Swosu Students Have Chance To Win Prizes At Upcoming Athletic Events, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

Students will have a chance to win a new Schwinn Beach Cruiser bicycle and a high end iPad at upcoming athletic events at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford.

Temporalities And The Drawn Response To The Conservation And Restoration Of Paintings, Brian Fay

Other resources

This paper will consider the temporal implications for drawing in the light of conservation and restoration treatments to paintings by the Seventeenth Century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.

Using three critical frameworks: Norman Bryson’s becoming model for drawing and the relationship of liminality to a painting during conservation/restoration, George Didi Huberman’s anti-chronological reading of the detail and the pan in painting, and Walter Benjamin’s definitions of drawing the paper will seek to address some implications for a drawing practice that responds to a pre-existing museum artworks.

The paper will present some findings from my own drawing practice that responds to Vermeer’s …

Kinetics Of Running On Arboreal Versus Terrestrial Substrates In Siberian Chipmunks, Eliza J. Dorsey

Undergraduate Research Posters 2012

Many mammals travel on both tree branches and flat ground in their natural habitat. Forelimbs were found to have the dominant role in braking on both substrates, while hindlimbs had the dominant role in propulsion on both substrates. However, the forelimb aided in propulsion more so than the hindlimbs contributed to braking on both substrates.

A Summer In Dayton With The Rivers Institute...., Amy Price

Blog Archive: River Reflections at the University of Dayton

Today I was walking up the stairs to Zehler to stop in and see the lovely Bethany Renner, and as I was walking up the stairs, I was having flashbacks on the incredible summer that I spent working for the Rivers Institute. I was part of an incredible summer team that successfully completed many tasks including planning the steward orientation, developing the River Leadership Curriculum, and running summer programs for hundreds of people from preschoolers to adults. We all had our own specific tasks, but we really worked as a team. We had some great bonding moments, a lot of …

Finance Minutes 09/06/2012, Finance Committee

Finance Committee

No abstract provided.

University Of Northern Iowa Elementary Teacher Education Senate Meeting Minutes, September 6, 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. Elementary Teacher Education Senate.

Documents - Elementary Senate

Meeting minutes from the Elementary Teacher Education Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Elementary Teacher Education Senate Meeting Agenda, September 6, 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. Elementary Teacher Education Senate.

Documents - Elementary Senate

No abstract provided.

Memories Of Fred Meijer, Delivered At Millenium Park On September 6, 2012, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Memories of Fred Meijer, delivered at Millenium Park on September 6, 2012 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

September 6, 2012: Beating The Drums For War With Iran, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Beating the Drums for War with Iran“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

The Utah Statesman, September 11, 2012, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2594. Miscellaneous letters to Margie May Helm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and to family members. Includes notecards and a postcard with Shaker themes. Also includes a letter to Jane Helm from a friend regarding rooming together in college, and a speech by Margie Helm on the early history of the Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church.