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14th Sunday In Ordinary Time - 9 July 2023, Gerard Moore

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

Motivators That Influence Midwest Public School Principals’ Career Plans, Decua Jean-Baptiste

Educational Leadership Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

The purpose of this study was to determine motivators that influence Midwest public school principals’ career plans. A coming shortage of school principals has been recognized nationally. This new phenomenon has been labeled by some as Principal “Churn” or “Turnover”. Principals are leaving the position and education for various reasons. School district personnel may now find themselves looking to replace these individuals who take with them years of experience, knowledge, and people skills. This study consisted of a three-part survey instrument which included the Principal Index of Motivators (PIM), an open-ended comment section and demographic information. The PIM was adapted …

A Systematic Literature Review Of Cleanroom Ventilation And Air Distribution Systems, Arup Bhattacharya, Mohammad Saleh Nikoopayan Tak, Shervin Shoai-Naini, Fred Betz, Ehsan Mousavi

Faculty Publications

Cleanroom ventilation systems are well-established; however, the advantages and limitations of current practices need to be examined and explained further. This study begins by looking over the history of cleanroom ventilation systems that creates the basis for understanding ventilation rate specifications, terminologies employed in ventilation effectiveness, and recognizing scientific studies that correlate ventilation effectiveness with air change rates. This systematic review includes a comprehensive summary that contains a set of historical data and evidence that may be used to specify ventilation requirements in cleanrooms. Scientific articles are classified in terms of laboratory experiments, simulations/numerical analysis, or hybrid. HVAC designers and …

Mahāyāna Mind-Bending: Buddhist Visions Of Outer/Inner Worlds, James Mark Shields

Faculty Contributions to Books

Introduction

Like all the major religious traditions of the world, the collection of Asian teachings, practices, and ritual behaviors known collectively since the 19th century as “Buddhism” is linked to a set of beliefs regarding the cosmos, some, if not most, of which predate the earliest forms of the tradition that emerged in the Himalayan foothills roughly 2500 years ago. Even more than other religious traditions, however, Buddhism tends to complicate—and at times radically conflate—the external and internal, such that the “cosmos” was sometimes understood to be a representation or holographic manifestation of mental and affective processes—a map of consciousness, …

Meet Me In The Middle: A Scoping Review On Understanding Adolescent Needs In Climate Communication, Gwendolyn Monica Hoff Anderson

Master's Projects and Capstones

The greatest effects of climate change are likely to be felt by youth. Young people are disproportionately affected by climate change due to their critical developmental stage and lack of power, and they experience both higher severity and prevalence of mental health issues related to climate change. Strong emotions have long been recognized as potential catalysts for action, or they may lead to paralyzing feelings of being overwhelmed. Climate communication is a critical tool to spark climate concern and encourage action. Activism, in turn, may help youth manage their anxiety about climate change. This scoping review examines emerging evidence on …

Home: Where The Art Was, Molly Mcclain

History: Faculty Scholarship

California plein air artist Alfred R. Mitchell (1888-1972) and his wife Dorothea Webster Mitchell designed a unique studio space in the Arts & Crafts style in their home in Golden Hill with the assistance of architect Lloyd Ruocco.

Mitochondrial Transfer From Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Increases Migration In Aggressive Breast Cancer, Kevin F. Gwolas, Sarah Libring, Emily Berestesky, Shayan Gholizadeh, Samantha C. Schwager, Andra R. Frost, Thomas R. Gaborski, Jian Zhang, Cynthia A. Reinhart-King

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have distinct roles within the tumor microenvironment, which can impact the mode and efficacy of tumor cell migration. CAFs are known to increase invasion of less-aggressive breast cancer cells through matrix remodeling and leader–follower dynamics. Here, we demonstrate that CAFs communicate with breast cancer cells through the formation of contact-dependent tunneling nanotubes (TNTs), which allow for the exchange of cargo between cell types. CAF mitochondria are an integral cargo component and are sufficient to increase the 3D migration of cancer cells. This cargo transfer results in an increase in mitochondrial ATP production in cancer cells, whereas it …

A Public Health Educational Campaign For Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (Suid) Intervention, Elia G. Peralta Landeros

Master's Projects and Capstones

Purpose: The rate of infant mortality serves as a crucial indicator of the overall health of society (CDC, 2022). The five leading causes of infant mortality are birth defects, preterm birth, sudden infant death syndrome, injuries, and maternal pregnancy complications. The prevalence of infant mortality varies across states, with eastern states and minority-ethnicity infants having higher prevalence. This thesis proposes utilizing the Safe to Sleep framework to introduce Giving Breath, a public health education campaign that introduced breastfeeding as an intervention to Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID).

Methods:

1. Analyze current and new policies' impact on women's rights to breastfeed …

Investing In California’S Transportation Future: 2022 Public Opinion On Critical Needs, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Hilary Nixon

Mineta Transportation Institute

This study surveyed 3,821 adults living in California about their general travel behaviors and resources, use of ride-hailing, performance ratings for the transportation system and agencies responsible for transportation, transportation system improvement priorities, and preference for how transportation funds are allocated. Key findings include the following: • Californians are multi-modal: Although driving was the most common mode, respondents reported that in the previous 30 days 66% had made a walk trip, 28% had used ridehailing, 25% had used public transit, and 22% had bicycled. • Although many respondents had at least once substituted ride-hailing for transit, walking, or bicycling and …

Recognizing The Potential To Reduce Ghg Emissions Through Air Transportation Electrification, Julio Roa, Joseph Oldham, Marina Lima

Mineta Transportation Institute

California is aggressively moving forward with efforts to deploy zero-emission transportation technology to fight climate change, especially the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the high-impact transportation sector. However, to date, the investments California has made with Cap-and-Trade funding have focused on ground transportation and some marine sources and not the aircraft at the over 140 airports in the state. Through a California-focused comprehensive GHG emissions analysis, this research project seeks to determine how RAM using electric/hybrid electric aircraft can provide new high-speed transportation for high-priority passenger and cargo movement within Fresno County and connections to coastal urban centers. Using VISION, …

Foreword, Nicholas Keenan, Senya Merchant, Clara Lane

UC Law Business Journal

No abstract provided.

Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma (Ppar-Γ) Regulation Of Induction Of Inflammatory Mediators By Organic Dust In Thp-1 Macrophage Cells, Peter Nsiah

Biotechnology Theses

Inhalation of organic dust is associated with the development of respiratory diseases such as bronchitis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Chronic inflammation due to increased cytokine production has been linked to the development and progression of respiratory diseases. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ), a transcription factor belonging to the nuclear hormone receptor family, is known to modulate inflammatory responses. In this study, we investigated the involvement of PPAR-γ in the regulation of organic dust induction of inflammatory mediators in THP-1 macrophages. THP-1 monocytic cells were differentiated into macrophages using phorbol myristate acetate. The effects of PPAR-γ …

Front Matter, Michigan Journal Of Gender & Law

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Front Matter for Volume 30, Issue 1 of Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Missed Connections In The U.N. Agenda: Applying The Women, Peace And Security Framework To The Feminization Of Poverty, Lauren A. Fleming

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Women, Peace and Security, a multifaceted agenda intended to address the particular ways in which conflict affects women, has been on the United Nations agenda since the landmark Security Council Resolution 1325 passed in 2000. The unequal burden of poverty on women, a phenomenon that has been coined “the feminization of poverty,” has been on the United Nations agenda for even longer, since the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women. Yet, despite the fact that poverty and inequality both cause and result in conflict in a violent cycle, the problem of the feminization of poverty has not been integrated into the …

The Preservation Of The Separate Spheres Doctrine In Congress And The Federal Courts, Arjun Parikh

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

In Bradwell v. State, an 1872 decision upholding an Illinois law prohibiting women from practicing law, the United States Supreme Court reasoned that the law was justified because women belonged in the “domestic sphere.” While today’s sex-based workplace exclusions are not as explicit as they once were, women still face barriers to remaining in the workforce and advancing in the workplace despite the existence of major federal legislation in the areas of pregnancy discrimination and family leave policy. Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) in 1978 to stop pregnancy discrimination, but the PDA has not come close to …

Constructing Race And Gender In Modern Rape Law: The Abandoned Category Of Black Female Victims, Jacqueline Pittman

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Despite the successes of the 1960s Anti-Rape Movement, modern state rape statutes continue to prioritize white male perspectives and perceptions of race, ultimately ignoring the intersectional identity of Black women and leaving these victims without legal protection. This Note examines rape law’s history of allocating agency along gendered and racialized lines through statutory construction and other discursive techniques. Such legal constructions both uphold and cultivate the white victim/Black assailant rape dyad primarily by making the Black male the “ultimate” and most feared assailant. Rape law’s adherence to a white baseline sustains stereotypes of Black men as criminals and predators, which …

Being And Becoming Global Citizens: Measuring Progress Toward Sdg 4.7. Phase I: Monitoring Teacher And School Readiness To Enact Global Citizenship In The Asia-Pacific Region, Rachel Parker, Jennie Chainey, Payal Goundar, Sarah Richardson, Anna Dabrowski, Amy Berry, Claire Scoular

Global education monitoring

Substantive work has been undertaken to define and frame global citizenship education (GCED). Global citizenship and related terms are included in the curricula and policy statements of many diverse nations around the world (Parker & Fraillon, 2016; APCEIU, 2020b), however, the education sector often struggles to enact and monitor GCED in ways that reflect the changing conditions of students and schools. This study responds to an identified need for enhanced tools and resources for schools and systems to monitor and evaluate GCED, in accordance with United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.7. This need is particularly pressing in the …

Revenue Collections, July 2023, Tennessee. Department Of Revenue

2023 Revenue Collection Reports

No abstract provided.

References To Beatles Songs In Advocacy And Judicial Opinions, Douglas E. Abrams

Faculty Publications

This article surveys the indelible mark that the Beatles (Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) continue to leave on courts in the United States more than half a century after the quartet burst onto the American scene with their three television appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in February of 1964, six years before the band’s breakup.

The Mindful First Amendment, Gary Myers

Faculty Publications

The mindfulness movement has begun to play an expanding role in personal well-being and in society more generally. Although there is an active push for mindfulness in law, its primary focus is on ways in which mindfulness techniques can help lawyers in their personal and professional lives. This article explores the possible contributions of mindfulness to the widely recognized challenges facing freedom of speech and freedom of the press in an era of severe cultural and political polarization.

Dying In Isolation: Public Health Implications Of Transportation And Burial Of Human Remains During A Pandemic A Fifty State Survey, Christopher Ogolla

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Effects Of The Applied Potential On The Performance Of Polysulfone Membranes Functionalized With Sulfonated Polyether Ether Ketone Polymers, Abelline Katusiime Fionah, Kate Mclarney, Aviana Judd, Isabel C. Escobar

UK CARES Faculty Publications

The global water crisis growth has led to a tremendous increase in membrane technology research. Membranes are favored over many other technologies for water treatment because, in principle, they require no chemical additives and can be used isothermally at low temperatures. Membranes that can reject contaminants and salts, produce adequate permeate flux values, and require minimal cleaning are highly demanded. However, most synthesized membranes on the market have associated problems, such as membrane fouling; inverse relationships between flux and solute rejection; and the high cost of synthesis, operation, and maintenance. Therefore, there is a continuied need to produce membranes with …

Long-Term Monitoring Of Clodronate In Equine Hair Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Heather K. Knych, D. S. Mckemie, S. Yim, S. D. Stanley, R. M. Arthur

UK CARES Faculty Publications

Given the potential for long-term inhibition of bone remodeling/healing and detrimental effects to horses in training, bisphosphonates are tightly regulated in horseracing. Hair has proven to be an effective matrix for detection of drug administration to horses and has been particularly effective in detecting drugs for a long period of time post administration. Thus, hair may prove to be a useful matrix for detection of administration of this class of drugs. The objective of the current study was to develop an assay and assess the usefulness of hair as a matrix for long-term detection of clodronate to horses. Seven horses …

Maternal Occupational Exposure To Selected Organic And Chlorinated Solvents And Delivery Of Small-For-Gestational Age Or Preterm Infants, Kristen W. Van Buren, Carissa M. Rocheleau, I‐Chen Chen, Tania A. Desrosiers, Wayne T. Sanderson, Maria D. Politis, Elizabeth C. Ailes, The National Birth Defects Prevention Study

UK CARES Faculty Publications

Background: Potential reproductive effects of organic solvent exposure during pregnancy remain unclear. We investigated the association between maternal occupational exposure during pregnancy to six chlorinated solvents, three aromatic solvents, and Stoddard solvent, and delivery of preterm infants or those born small‐ for‐gestational age (SGA).

Methods: In this case–control study of SGA and preterm birth (PTB) nested within the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS) from 1997 to 2011, we analyzed data from 7504 singleton live births without major birth defects and their mothers. Self‐reported information on jobs held in the periconceptional period was assessed for solvent exposure. Unconditional logistic regression …

Nursing News & Views - July 2023, Joanne Miller Rn

Nursing Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Perspective, Invention, And Metatheater In Renaissance Literature, William Roudabush

English Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation challenges the misconception of post-Reformation England as iconophobic. On the contrary, it argues that early modern English poets and playwrights adapt Continental theories and techniques from painting, translating them into their own poetic and dramatic forms. It explores how allusions to contemporary perspectival images serve as governing metaphors and structural devices for the works in which they appear. Particularly in the genre of the Elizabethan epyllion and in works by Shakespeare, it suggests that texts are designed to be read “perspectively,” to borrow Shakespeare’s coinage, so that they are open to ambiguity and multiplicity, and capable of being …

Co-Creating A Responsive, Sustainable, And Equitable Community Health Model For Older Adults With Chronic Diseases, Rachel M. Gallo Mph

Children, Youth, & Families

In 2022, the Bangor YMCA received a grant from the Maine Health Access Foundation’s (MeHAF) Systems Improvement and Innovation Responsive Grants Program for their “Co-Create Responsive, Sustainable, and Equitable Community Health Models for Older Adults with Chronic Diseases” project. This project aimed to “engage older adults with chronic disease conditions and their care partners to collectively identify new ways to connect people to community resources and to co-create community-based continuum of care systems to support the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of people in [their] communities of focus”.

The University of Southern Maine’s Data Innovation Project (DIP) at the Catherine …

Lipidomic Qtl In Diversity Outbred Mice Identifies A Novel Function For Α/Β Hydrolase Domain 2 (Abhd2) As An Enzyme That Metabolizes Phosphatidylcholine And Cardiolipin., Tara R Price, Donnie S Stapleton, Kathryn L Schueler, Marie K Norris, Brian W Parks, Brian S Yandell, Gary Churchill, William L Holland, Mark P Keller, Alan D Attie

Faculty Research 2023

We and others have previously shown that genetic association can be used to make causal connections between gene loci and small molecules measured by mass spectrometry in the bloodstream and in tissues. We identified a locus on mouse chromosome 7 where several phospholipids in liver showed strong genetic association to distinct gene loci. In this study, we integrated gene expression data with genetic association data to identify a single gene at the chromosome 7 locus as the driver of the phospholipid phenotypes. The gene encodes α/β-hydrolase domain 2 (Abhd2), one of 23 members of the ABHD gene family. We validated …

Implementation Of A Nurse-Driven Early Mobility Protocol In Critical Care To Reduce Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness (Icuaw), Wendy Key

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Intensive care unit acquired muscle weakness (ICUAW) is a syndrome of general weakness that occurs while a patient has a critical illness. Almost half of all ICU patients develop ICUAW. The most common occurrence of ICUAW is seen in patients diagnosed with prolonged mechanical ventilation, severe sepsis, or difficulty weaning from mechanical ventilation (MV). Bedrest is the number one risk factor for the development of ICUAW and the elderly are at higher risk. The best treatment for ICUAW is early mobility which has shown positive effects for decreasing ventilator days and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS). …

2023-July-Faculty And Staff At Aacp Pharmacy Education 2023, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Our faculty and staff showcased their expertise at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's (AACP) Pharmacy Education 2023 annual meeting, held at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora, Colorado, July 22-25. Multiple faculty and staff presented their expertise at the conference with over a dozen from the college attending.

Presentation:

“Remediation Renovation: Creating Your Toolkit Using Strategies and Lessons Learned from Three Programs,” Dr. Katelyn Alexander, Director of Experiential Education, who spoke along with faculty from two other colleges.

Posters:

"An Early Intervention Approach to Improving Pharmacy Student Success," Dr. David Stewart, Professor and Interim Associate Dean of Assessment and …