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Novel Renewable Energy Forecasting Methods And Their Application On Power Systems, Cheng Lyu May 2024

Novel Renewable Energy Forecasting Methods And Their Application On Power Systems, Cheng Lyu

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Over recent decades, there has been a significant increase in the integration of Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) sources into power grids. Notably, solar energy has emerged as the most rapidly expanding source of electricity in the United States, representing over half of the total new electricity generation capacity added to the U.S. grid for the year 2023. This surge plays a pivotal role in the decarbonization process, yet it simultaneously introduces complexities in maintaining the stability of power systems. A key element in addressing these challenges is the development of precise VRE forecasts. The resulting forecast provides grid operators with …

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Three Papers On Economic Justice And Fairness, Fan Yang May 2024

Three Papers On Economic Justice And Fairness, Fan Yang

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This dissertation comprises three essays on economic justice and fairness. The first chapter investigates the effect of job continuity on new mothers’ labor supply following their first childbirth. The second chapter studies the impact of wages and other factors on women's work duration after childbirth. The third chapter analyzes the effect of disability within the family on the financial satisfaction of the female head or spouse. Chapter 1 investigates the effect of job continuity on the supply of labor of new mothers for the five-year period after their first childbirth. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), we …

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Homomeric Tight Junction Strand Assembly Of Claudin Proteins, Patrick Matthew Marsch May 2024

Homomeric Tight Junction Strand Assembly Of Claudin Proteins, Patrick Matthew Marsch

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Tight junctions, a form of cell junction, are utilized throughout the animal kingdom in one way or another. Tasked with facilitating a critical blockade between toxins and vital tissues while also allowing small crucial molecules to pass, the tight junction provides an important line of defense against disease. To build this barrier, various proteins with self-assemble within a cell membrane to then zipper with another cell membrane. The strand-like architecture and size & charge selective pore channels created within the barrier are chiefly governed by the claudin family of proteins. Without claudins present, the tight junction cannot form, and toxic …

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Queering The Nation Or Nationalizing Queerness?: How Lgb-Identified Soldiers Experience Belonging And Service Post-Dadt, Aaron Blasyak May 2024

Queering The Nation Or Nationalizing Queerness?: How Lgb-Identified Soldiers Experience Belonging And Service Post-Dadt, Aaron Blasyak

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At the core of this dissertation project lies the question: What forms of belonging and inclusions are made possible through liberal shifts in the laws governing the institutional contexts of sexual minorities? To answer this question, I draw upon 22 in-depth interviews with gay, lesbian, and bisexual (LGB) soldiers about their experiences of serving after the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). More specifically, this dissertation focuses on three broad research questions to address these issues. First, I ask: What are the experiences of inclusion and acceptance of LGB-identified soldiers within the context of military service? How might these …

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Factors Influencing Award-Winning Faculty's Instructional Decisions, Zeenar Salim May 2024

Factors Influencing Award-Winning Faculty's Instructional Decisions, Zeenar Salim

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The COVID disruption fueled the frequency of instructional decisions. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to investigate award-winning faculty’s instructional decisions and corresponding factors that influenced their instructional decisions. The study was conducted at a private research university in New York State during the COVID pandemic. The investigation employed a qualitative grounded theory approach, using interviews and document analysis of course syllabi. The research generated a grounded theory model explaining instructional decisions during disruption and its relationship with influencing factors. Award-winning faculty members were selected because of their extensive experience in teaching and exemplary innovations in teaching, as …

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Autism Diagnosis Effects On The Relationship Between Communication Skills And Nonverbal Intelligence: A Moderation Analysis, Emily Watts May 2024

Autism Diagnosis Effects On The Relationship Between Communication Skills And Nonverbal Intelligence: A Moderation Analysis, Emily Watts

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School psychologists have a responsibility to find, identify, and assess children with disabilities (IDEA, 2004) using assessment tools that are culturally responsive and developmentally appropriate (NASP, 2020). As autism is a neurodevelopmental condition listed as an educational disability category (IDEA, 2004) that impacts one in 31.25 people (Wallis et al., 2023), it is crucial that popular assessment tools be examined for suitability for the autistic community. Most school psychologists use the Weschler scales of intelligence to assess their autistic students (Aiello et al., 2017), despite previous research indicating that Weschler scales of cognitive abilities underestimate the intelligence of people with …

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Synthesis And Design Of High-Silica Pd-Containing Zeolites For The Catalytic Combustion Of Methane, Jingzhi Liu May 2024

Synthesis And Design Of High-Silica Pd-Containing Zeolites For The Catalytic Combustion Of Methane, Jingzhi Liu

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Greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O), are principal contributors to global warming, leading to an incremental rise in Earth's atmospheric temperature. The escalation of these gases, primarily from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation, and industrial processes, enhances the radiative forcing mechanism, thereby trapping excessive solar heat within the atmosphere. Scientific inquiries into the spectral absorption properties and life span of these gases emphasize their varying impacts on Earth's thermal equilibrium. For instance, CO2, with its extensive atmospheric residency, brings a prolonged thermal influence, whereas CH4, while being the cleanest burning fossil fuel that generates far …

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Promoting Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Through Collaborative Governance, Jiho Kim May 2024

Promoting Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Through Collaborative Governance, Jiho Kim

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This dissertation consists of three essays that examine how the performance of collaborative governance may affect the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in public administration. Using a variety of quantitative research methods, I systematically examine the actions (Chapter 2), outcomes (Chapter 3), and adaptations (Chapter 4) of multiple collaborative arrangements. The dissertation begins with an introductory chapter (Chapter 1) that lays the theoretical foundations for the three essays (Chapters 2 through 4) and concludes with the final chapter (Chapter 5) that summarizes the joint contributions and implications of the dissertation. The first essay (Chapter 2) explores how deliberation …

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"When The Water Stops But The Bills Never Do”: Contentious Water Politics And Collective Action In El Salvador, Claudia Isabel Diaz-Combs May 2024

"When The Water Stops But The Bills Never Do”: Contentious Water Politics And Collective Action In El Salvador, Claudia Isabel Diaz-Combs

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This dissertation explores the water crisis in El Salvador, a small Central American country surrounded by abundant freshwater resources that is nonetheless plagued with chronic water shortages, contaminated drinking water, and expensive water bills. For nearly two decades, competing groups pursued water legislation intended to address these multi-faceted issues. Finally, in December 2021, President Nayib Bukele codified the Law of Water Resources, bringing the protracted struggle to a conclusion. Yet a few years later, water issues persist, and no one is satisfied with the policy. I approach this issue through the perspective of five different social groups: the environmental movement, …

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Enhancing Security And Robustness Of Contextual Human-Centric Sensing, Jingyu Xin May 2024

Enhancing Security And Robustness Of Contextual Human-Centric Sensing, Jingyu Xin

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The rapid advancements in deep learning and smart hardware have accelerated the development of various automatic human-centric sensing applications. However, the intrusive nature of these sensing applications and the heterogeneity of sensory data pose challenges in real-world deployment. While performance is crucial, ensuring the security and robustness of these applications is equally imperative for their reliable operation. To tackle the challenges associated with security and robustness in human-centric sensing, this dissertation outlines two specific objectives: (1) mitigating false data injection attacks (FDIA) on sensing applications, and (2) establishing a generalized personalization framework for human sensing models. FDIA operates by injecting …

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African Hydroclimate In The Quaternary: Diatom Paleoecology And Geochronology, Laura Caitlin Streib May 2024

African Hydroclimate In The Quaternary: Diatom Paleoecology And Geochronology, Laura Caitlin Streib

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Eastern Africa is identified as the single most important region for early human evolution and development, and in this region today, communities are especially vulnerable to climatic stress. To understand the relationship between our ancestors and their environment and to protect vulnerable populations, we need to understand the climatic system in eastern Africa, including the history of past changes and the mechanisms that controlled them. The most frequently discussed mechanisms are local insolation and high latitude forcing, by way of glacial-interglacial cycles, changes to global circulation, or high latitude insolation. Though sometimes proposed to work in tandem, these mechanisms are …

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The Power Of Science Is Collaboration: Understanding The Knowledge Sharing Practices Of Rare Disease Non-Profit Organizations In Regard To Repurposing Sirolimus, Ania Korsunska May 2024

The Power Of Science Is Collaboration: Understanding The Knowledge Sharing Practices Of Rare Disease Non-Profit Organizations In Regard To Repurposing Sirolimus, Ania Korsunska

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Purpose: This dissertation investigates the knowledge sharing practices and inefficiencies among Rare Disease Nonprofit Organizations (RDNPs) engaged in drug repurposing efforts, particularly focusing on the drug sirolimus. The goals of this research are to provide an understanding of the knowledge-sharing practices and challenges for RDNPs and to contribute to the academic discourse in knowledge sharing theory by applying it to a unique and practical use case. The motivation behind this research stems from the pivotal role RDNPs play in the rare disease treatment landscape. Given the limited financial incentives for pharmaceutical companies to invest in rare disease treatments, RDNPs are …

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Investigations Of Sorting And Non-Wage Market Clearing: Three Essays In Labor Economics, Andrew Smith May 2024

Investigations Of Sorting And Non-Wage Market Clearing: Three Essays In Labor Economics, Andrew Smith

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This dissertation is comprised of three essays in labor economics. The first investigates a natural experiment in the internal labor market policies of the US Air Force. The second bounds the causal effects of attaining a college double major. The third studies the causes and consequences of queueing for government sector jobs in Brazil. The US Department of the Air Force, like many large organizations with rigid and central- ized internal labor markets, has recently introduced an algorithmically-assisted person-job matching system to replace their older, manual procedure. This change has been touted as a way to improve both organizational efficiency …

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A Trustzone-Based Framework To Secure Mobile Financial Transactions And Provide End-To-End Protection For Qr-Code Payments And Credit Card Information, Ammar Salman Salman May 2024

A Trustzone-Based Framework To Secure Mobile Financial Transactions And Provide End-To-End Protection For Qr-Code Payments And Credit Card Information, Ammar Salman Salman

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In this work we have developed multiple solutions for financial transactions that can be coordinated to provide high level of security and data integrity, while providing all services with minimum changes in infrastructures, and maximum flexibility. The solutions are novel in many aspects and the generalization is a clear feature. The TrustZone hardware is an important component to ensure high security and protection. The system can function smoothly on any type of operating systems and works with any platform of services in the market. The tested case study is built on the Android system and the ARM TrustZone hardware. This …

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Essays On Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, And Export Quality, Yinhan Zhang May 2024

Essays On Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, And Export Quality, Yinhan Zhang

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This dissertation studies the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the exports of developing countries, drawing on evidence from China. It is composed of two chapters. In Chapter 1, I analyze the effects of R&D FDI on export quality, where R&D FDI is investments aimed at establishing offshore research facilities. I construct a novel dataset on China's outbound FDI using supervised machine learning. I analyze over 26,000 pieces of textual information on the primary business activities of Chinese overseas subsidiaries collected by the Ministry of Commerce and identify the objective of each outbound FDI project. I find a positive …

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Between Visits: Hindu Domestic Religiosity, Home Shrines, And Thirdspace In The Diaspora, Aarti Patel May 2024

Between Visits: Hindu Domestic Religiosity, Home Shrines, And Thirdspace In The Diaspora, Aarti Patel

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This dissertation analyzes the importance of the domestic sphere as a site for the transmission and development of an individual devotional disposition for Swaminarayan Hindus living in the United States and Canada. Focusing on Hindus in the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) community living in Canada and the United States, this dissertation presents a new direction for existing scholarship of Hinduism in the public sphere by arguing for a more holistic study of how Hindus living outside of India develop and maintain a religious identity in their daily lives in the domestic sphere, both collectively as a family and …

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Power And Controversy: Controversy Surrounding Material Challenges At A Public Library, Jieun Yeon May 2024

Power And Controversy: Controversy Surrounding Material Challenges At A Public Library, Jieun Yeon

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Material challenges have been the most contentious issue in public libraries in the United States in recent years. A challenge indicates a request by a person or group to remove or restrict library materials. The reported cases of challenges to the American Library Association skyrocketed in 2021 and reached 1,247 in 2023, presumably due to the politicization of topics such as gender, sexuality, and race and the rise of organizations that support material challenges. Accordingly, most challenged materials are alleged to depict race, sexuality, or gender in an offensive manner. Multiple communities have experienced disagreements among community members, while librarians …

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Overcoming Controls And Noise Challenges For High Power Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors, Elenna Capote May 2024

Overcoming Controls And Noise Challenges For High Power Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors, Elenna Capote

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In August 2017, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors made the first coincident detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger, GW170817. This multi-messenger detection, measured with both gravitational wave detectors and electromagnetic telescopes, emphasized the ability of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors to make exciting astrophysical discoveries that revolutionize understanding of the universe. In this new era of gravitational-wave astronomy, high detector sensitivity and reliable operation are required to enable more of these exciting detections. Ground-based gravitational-wave observatories are generally limited in sensitivity at low frequency by technical noise, at mid frequency by coating thermal noise, and at …

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Engineering The Signal Resolution Of A Paper-Based Cell-Free Glutamine Biosensor With Genetic Engineering, Metabolic Engineering, And Process Optimization, Tyler J. Free, Joseph P. Talley, Chad D. Hyer, Catherine J. Millar, Joel S. Griffitts, Bradley Charles Bundy May 2024

Engineering The Signal Resolution Of A Paper-Based Cell-Free Glutamine Biosensor With Genetic Engineering, Metabolic Engineering, And Process Optimization, Tyler J. Free, Joseph P. Talley, Chad D. Hyer, Catherine J. Millar, Joel S. Griffitts, Bradley Charles Bundy

Faculty Publications

Specialized cancer treatments have the potential to exploit glutamine dependence to increase patient survival rates. Glutamine diagnostics capable of tracking a patient’s response to treatment would enable a personalized treatment dosage to optimize the tradeoff between treatment success and dangerous side effects. Current clinical glutamine testing requires sophisticated and expensive lab-based tests, which are not broadly available on a frequent, individualized basis. To address the need for a low-cost, portable glutamine diagnostic, this work engineers a cell-free glutamine biosensor to overcome assay background and signal-to-noise limitations evident in previously reported studies. The findings from this work culminate in the development …

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Factors Influencing Fans To Attend Matches Amid Pandemic: Exploring The Role Of Trio Of Team Affiliation, Sportscape, And Team Quality, Shani Bashiru, Ahmed Jamal Iddrisu, Cyracus B. Bapuuroh, George Anane Takyi, Alhassan Bunyaminu, Zakari Bukari May 2024

Factors Influencing Fans To Attend Matches Amid Pandemic: Exploring The Role Of Trio Of Team Affiliation, Sportscape, And Team Quality, Shani Bashiru, Ahmed Jamal Iddrisu, Cyracus B. Bapuuroh, George Anane Takyi, Alhassan Bunyaminu, Zakari Bukari

The Qualitative Report

Football is a sport that has attracted global attention. Individuals who attend competitive football associate with teams and athletes to a point where they become ardent attendees. Post-pandemic, fans have returned in droves to watch live matches at stadiums following the relaxation of strict observance of safety protocols. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to determine the factors that prompt fans to attend matches during games by focusing on three main factors including team affiliation, sportscape and star players. We used a qualitative phenomenological approach to obtain deeper comprehension regarding factors that influence fans to crowd at stadiums to …

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An Unidentified Infiltrative Etiology Of Spinal Cord Compression: A Case Report And Literature Review, Michael J. Valentine, Fakhar Hayat, Ankur Kayastha, Takara R. Newsome-Cuby, Anh Thu N. Nguyen, Usama Aldallal, Mohamed Ismail May 2024

An Unidentified Infiltrative Etiology Of Spinal Cord Compression: A Case Report And Literature Review, Michael J. Valentine, Fakhar Hayat, Ankur Kayastha, Takara R. Newsome-Cuby, Anh Thu N. Nguyen, Usama Aldallal, Mohamed Ismail

Student Publications

Spinal cord compression is a neurosurgical emergency. Symptoms of this disorder are highlighted as back pain, ambulatory difficulties, and bladder/bowel incontinence. Diagnostic imaging is not indicated in many circumstances of nonspecific back pain; however, the addition of neurologic deficits in the setting of back pain justifies radiologic imaging. Various pathologies can cause constriction of the spinal cord due to the delicate nature of spinal cord anatomy. Etiologies may include trauma, neoplasms, and infections. In this report, we present an unusual case of a 31-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with a history of chronic back pain accompanied by …

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Assessing The Reliability Of The Pairwise Variability Index For Differential Diagnosis Of Apraxia Of Speech, Celeste Sinko May 2024

Assessing The Reliability Of The Pairwise Variability Index For Differential Diagnosis Of Apraxia Of Speech, Celeste Sinko

University Honors Theses

Differential diagnosis of apraxia of speech (AOS) from other speech and language disorders is a prevailing challenge in the field of speech language pathology. Presently, existing measures for assessing AOS consist of perceptual rating scales, such as the Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale developed by Duffy, Strand, Clark, and Josephs. While perceptual rating scales are the current gold standard for assessment and diagnosis of AOS, they require a high degree of clinical expertise, and are susceptible to rater bias and rater drift. Thus, there exists a need for quantitative, objective measures for differential diagnosis of AOS. The purpose of this …

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Fixing A Hole: A Retrospective Cohort Study Evaluating Hav, Hbv, Tetanus Screening, And Vaccination During Hospitalization In Persons Who Use Substances, Amber C. Streifel, Jose Eduardo Rivera Sarti, Monica K. Sikka, Michael Conte, Bradie Winders, Cara D. Varley May 2024

Fixing A Hole: A Retrospective Cohort Study Evaluating Hav, Hbv, Tetanus Screening, And Vaccination During Hospitalization In Persons Who Use Substances, Amber C. Streifel, Jose Eduardo Rivera Sarti, Monica K. Sikka, Michael Conte, Bradie Winders, Cara D. Varley

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background:Rates of serious injection-related infections in persons who use drugs have increased. Resulting admissions are an opportunity for screening and vaccination of preventable infections such as hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and tetanus. Design and methods:We conducted a retrospective review of adults with documented substance use admitted for bacterial infection between July 2015 and March 2020. We evaluated HAV, HBV, and tetanus vaccination status at admission, along with screening for HAV and HBV infection and immunity. We identified the proportion of patients at risk for infection who received HAV, HBV, and tetanus vaccines during admission and patient-level …

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Using A Digital Entertainment Tax To Strengthen Local Information Infrastructure In The United States: A Conceptual Exploration, Lee Shaker, Antoine Haywood May 2024

Using A Digital Entertainment Tax To Strengthen Local Information Infrastructure In The United States: A Conceptual Exploration, Lee Shaker, Antoine Haywood

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

As traditional local media decline, how might state and local governments provide support for local information infrastructure? We offer a proposal for states (or communities) to tax digital entertainment and then leverage existing community media centers (CMCs) to facilitate the distribution of the proceeds to local media outlets. Compared to other public subsidy plans, this approach is viable nationwide without federal action and offers several advantages that could lead to more immediate and durable support for local information infrastructure. To contextualize our proposal, we model both the possible revenue generation and distribution of funding that would result from its implementation.

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Characterization Of Zmsnrk1 Genes And Their Response To Aphid Feeding, Drought And Cold Stress, M. Aydin Akbudak, Kubra Yildiz, Durmus Cetin, Utka Yukselbaba, Vibha Srivastava May 2024

Characterization Of Zmsnrk1 Genes And Their Response To Aphid Feeding, Drought And Cold Stress, M. Aydin Akbudak, Kubra Yildiz, Durmus Cetin, Utka Yukselbaba, Vibha Srivastava

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

The SnRK1 complex in plants regulates metabolism in response to environmental stresses and glucose depletion, for stress adaptation and energy homeostasis. Through phosphorylation of various targets, SnRK1 orchestrates intricate regulatory mechanisms involved in autophagy, nutrient remobilization, and TOR activity inhibition, showcasing its pivotal role in coordinating plant metabolism and stress responses. The present study aimed to identify members of the SnRK1 gene family in the maize genome and characterize them using bioinformatics and expression analyses under aphid feeding, drought, and cold stress. The focus of the study was to conduct a comprehensive analysis towards determining gene diversity of ZmSnRK1 genes, …

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Reverse Genetics Of Murine Rotavirus: A Comparative Analysis Of The Wild-Type And Cell-Culture-Adapted Murine Rotavirus Vp4 In Replication And Virulence In Neonatal Mice, Takahiro Kawagishi, Liliana Sánchez-Tacuba, Ningguo Feng, Harry B Greenberg, Siyuan Ding May 2024

Reverse Genetics Of Murine Rotavirus: A Comparative Analysis Of The Wild-Type And Cell-Culture-Adapted Murine Rotavirus Vp4 In Replication And Virulence In Neonatal Mice, Takahiro Kawagishi, Liliana Sánchez-Tacuba, Ningguo Feng, Harry B Greenberg, Siyuan Ding

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Small-animal models and reverse genetics systems are powerful tools for investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying viral replication, virulence, and interaction with the host immune response in vivo. Rotavirus (RV) causes acute gastroenteritis in many young animals and infants worldwide. Murine RV replicates efficiently in the intestines of inoculated suckling pups, causing diarrhea, and spreads efficiently to uninoculated littermates. Because RVs derived from human and other non-mouse animal species do not replicate efficiently in mice, murine RVs are uniquely useful in probing the viral and host determinants of efficient replication and pathogenesis in a species-matched mouse model. Previously, we established an …

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The Effects Of Multitasking On Reading Retention, Kylie Dillner, Shannon Kraemer, Joel Frederickson May 2024

The Effects Of Multitasking On Reading Retention, Kylie Dillner, Shannon Kraemer, Joel Frederickson

Science Symposium

Research has shown that multitasking depletes students' working memory and task efficiency. Our study analyzes the effect of media multitasking on students' reading retention results. Our hypothesis is that studying while multitasking results in a greater amount of energy spent on work and decreases in the quality of work.

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Internship In Biological Sciences: Lab Assistant At Twin Cities Dermatopathology, Emma Ryks, Brittany Nairn May 2024

Internship In Biological Sciences: Lab Assistant At Twin Cities Dermatopathology, Emma Ryks, Brittany Nairn

Science Symposium

From June to December last year, I served as a Laboratory Assistant at Twin Cities Dermatopathology—an associate of Sonic Healthcare, USA. In this role, I worked under Xiao Xie (TCD’s lab Supervisor) maintaining the lab space. Tasks included managing the intake of slides, quality checking, labeling, staining, and coverslipping the slides, organizing them for pathological assessment, updating the patient records, and storing the slides after processing. This role required much diligence and communicativeness as I became the “reference person” to which the histologists, doctors, accessioners, and data records personnel could come with issues or questions that I could resolve or …

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Acute Effects Of Virtual Reality Gameplay On The Visual System: An Observational Study, Aaron Loe, Gavin Rataj, Leah Jackson May 2024

Acute Effects Of Virtual Reality Gameplay On The Visual System: An Observational Study, Aaron Loe, Gavin Rataj, Leah Jackson

Science Symposium

PURPOSE: Virtual reality (VR) has an increasing breadth of utilization, from at home entertainment to a tool used in professional athletic and clinical settings. A review of literature shows altered visual performance (VP) post-VR gameplay in children and adult athletes, particularly in acuity, accommodation and convergence, but has been limited to the immediate effects on vision. This study aims to repeat similar test measures, expanding on aspects of VP, pre- and post-VR gameplay in a healthy, collegiate-aged population, while exploring the feasibility of repeated testing to observe any ocular changes that may occur over time once gameplay has ceased. METHODS: …

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Human Gross Anatomy Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Grace Ginter, Jackie Towner May 2024

Human Gross Anatomy Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Grace Ginter, Jackie Towner

Science Symposium

Over the summer I worked for Bethel University’s Physician Assistant program helping out as a class and laboratory teaching assistant for their human gross anatomy and cadaver lab. My main jobs included basic upkeep and sanitation of the lab and running the class laboratory period. Daily I guided students in their dissection procedures and techniques. Additionally, I helped convey important anatomical knowledge that worked to bridge the gap between lecture material and real-life experience. Outside of lab time myself with the assistance of the other teaching assistants were responsible for the creation and set up of weekly laboratory quizzes and …

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