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2022-11-02 October Brings New Exhibits To Capitol Hill Art Galleries, Keagen Brooks-Torres

The Spectator Online

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2022-11-02 Seattle Loses Beloved Business Owner D’Vonne Pickett Jr., James Argento-Mccurdy

The Spectator Online

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2022-11-02 Seattle U Men’S Hoops Set Eyes On Ncaa Tournament In ‘23, Qasim Ali

The Spectator Online

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2022-11-02 The Bellarmine Blackout: 40 Hours With No Power, Andru Zodrow, Genny Sheara

The Spectator Online

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2022-11-02 The Kia Forum Is Harry’S House, Radiating Safety And Joy Amongst Fans, Madi Oswalt

The Spectator Online

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2022-11-02 World Cup Hunters: England, Simon Kidane

The Spectator Online

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November 2, 2022, Faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

2022-2023

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An Exploration Of The Black Female Cosplay Experience, Geneisa B. Ragin, Geneisa Ragin

Honors College Theses

Cosplay is the practice of dressing up as a fictional character whether it's from a television show, video games, or even a book series. Many people participate in cosplay to show their dedication or admiration for their favorite character and sometimes cosplay a character that helps reflect their own character or personality. This thesis will mainly focus on the experience of being a Black female cosplayer in pop culture, social media, conventions, and other places where people can share and communicate. In this thesis’s research, participants' answers about their experiences were centered around their inspiration to start cosplaying, their ways …

The Impact Of Academic Development Structures On Self-Perception: Honors Vs Non-Honors University Students, Beatrice M. Bean

Honors College Theses

The purpose of the current study was to determine if there were variations in the self-perceptions of honors and non-honors collegiate students in areas of academic and non-academic self-concept. This research was important as it provides emphasis on an understudied population as well as gathers a deeper understanding of intricacies related to self-concept by incorporating comprehensive investigative measures. A sample of 236 students (72.6% female, 65.7% White, ages 18-51) took an online survey consisting of questions related to self-concept. By utilizing a series of two-tailed, independent samples t-tests we examined the differences between student self-perceptions of self-concept. Results indicated that …

The Mediating Role Of Mental Health On Academic Performance Among College Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Assault, Ariah Lewis

Honors College Theses

The current study analyzed the mediating role of mental health on academic performance among college women who have experienced sexual assault. The purpose of this research was to acknowledge the impacts that sexual assault experiences may have on the college experience. A total of 241 undergraduate students participated in the study. Participants were college aged, ranging from 18-36 (90.5% female, 59.2% White, 28.1% Black/African American). Participants completed an online survey that evaluated their sexual assault experience, depression, and academic performance. Using Baron and Kenny’s (1986) mediation model, it was found that as participants reported higher instances of sexual assault experience, …

Myths, Misconceptions, And Misrepresentations: An Examination Of Erroneous Human Trafficking Beliefs, Sarah M. Vanorder

Honors College Theses

Human trafficking is a crime that effects people all over the globe and an estimated 24.9 million people are currently being exploited through some form of human trafficking. Despite its prevalence, there are a variety of myths regarding human trafficking that are commonly believed by the public. The proliferation of these myths can have damaging effects and ultimately prevent survivors from receiving the help they need. The aim of this study is to discover factors that lead to the belief of these myths about human trafficking. To uncover these factors, a survey was administered in October 2020 and completed by …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Community to Bid for Student-Designed Sculptures; Metal Eagle up for Grabs

Lindenwood Digest, November 2, 2022, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

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

“I Can’T See How People Could Walk Through That Exhibit And Not Be Forever Changed”: A Qualitative Analysis Exploring The Use Of Art In Research Dissemination, Vincent M. Pepe, Allison Sowers, Michelle Pimentel, Alexa Hoffman, Cierrah Doran, Amanda Guth, Sameer Khan, Willie Baronet, Rosemary Frasso

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

Background: Art can be a strong advocacy tool; it can be used to amplify the voices of marginalized communities and can change people’s perceptions of the world and others in it. In 2018, an art exhibit at Jefferson University included the cardboard signs of people who panhandle in Philadelphia as well as excerpts from in-depth interviews with those who panhandle to highlight their lived experiences. While the team published an article about this work, the purpose of this follow-up study is to explore the lasting impact of the exhibit experience on attendees’ perceptions of people who panhandle.

Methods: Fourteen attendees …

2022-11-02 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee meeting minutes for November 2, 2022.

Health Effects Of Oil Spills And Dispersal Of Oil Droplets And Zooplankton By Langmuir Cells, Sanjib Gurung

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This Ph.D. dissertation deals with the study of the health effects of crude oil vapors from oil spills, the effect of Langmuir circulation on the dispersion of oil droplets during oil spill events, and the biological significance of Langmuir circulation. The introduction to areas of three major research projects undertaken during my Ph.D. is included in chapter 1 and the relevant literature review is included in chapter 2. The first research project described in chapter 3 involves the quantification of health effects on embryonic Gulf killifish due to exposure to crude oil vapors. The second research project described in chapter …

Community Scholars: A Diversity Pipeline Program To Promote Equity, Diversity, And Inclusion For People With Disabilities, Laura M. Rodríguez López

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation in practice documents the program evaluation of the Community Scholars (CS) program at the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities (FCIC), a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the University of South Florida (USF). CS is part of a diversity pipeline program that recruits youth with disabilities to engage in paid on-the-job training (OJT) with FCIC. Scholars are community members (youth with disabilities) that are enrolled as FCIC trainees and receive mentoring, development of basic administrative competencies, individualized career coaching, college counseling, and disability policy and self-advocacy training. Through the OJT experience, scholars gain skills that …

Arts Course-Taking And Math Achievement In Us High Schools With Daniel Mackin Freeman, Daniel Mackin Freeman

PDXPLORES Podcast

In this episode of PDXPLORES, Daniel Mackin Freeman, a Ph. D. candidate in the sociology department at Portland State University, discusses the results of a study that asked if fine arts coursework is positively correlated to mathematics achievement in high schools at low, middle, and high socio-economic levels. Freeman and PSU sociology professor, Dara Shifrer recently publish the results of their study, "Arts for Whose Sake? Arts Course-taking and Math Achievement in US High Schools," online in Sociological Perspectives.

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Environmental Educators’ Perceptions Of Inaugural Louisiana State Department Of Education Environmental Education Standards And Accompanying Environmental Education Endorsement Plan: A Multiple Case Study Approach, Abigail Greer

LSU Master's Theses

Increasing environmental literacy through environmental education is an integral approach to fighting many of the environmental challenges facing Louisiana. The State Department of Education in Louisiana has released two initiatives to increase environmental literacy in the state while incorporating nonformal environmental education into formalized k-12 education. The first initiative is a set of Key Principles and Concepts (KPCs) in environmental education, which is aimed at providing standards to nonformal environmental educators in Louisiana. The second initiative, the Louisiana Environmental Education Advancement Plan (LEEAP), accompanies the KPCs and provides an opportunity for nonformal environmental education organizations to achieve endorsement through partnership …

Review Of Structural Color In The Genus Chrysochroa Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Able Chow

LSU Master's Theses

The jewel beetles, (Coleoptera: Buprestidae Leach, 1815), is the eighth most speciose coleopteran family, with the majority of its members possessing diverse bright, saturated structural coloration of multilayer origin. This study focuses on the genus Chrysochroa Dejean, 1833, which includes some of the most brilliantly and charismatically colored buprestid species. While members of Chrysochroa are prised by entomologists amateurs and professional and are well-represented in museum collections, the evolution and ecology of their structural color remain underexplored. Twenty-eight select taxa including exemplars from all 13 subgenera of Chrysochroa were investigated to provide an overview of the objective optical properties and …

A Field-Deployable Quartz Crystal Microbalance System For Gas Detection, Jongyoon Park

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) has been widely studied as a mass sensing technique in laboratory environments and has shown a wide range of industrial applications such as food quality control, various forms of chemical detection, and biomolecular recognition under gas phase as well as liquid phase media. The construction of multi-sensor arrays combined with special sensor coatings enables multiple analyte detections and discrimination of multi-analyte along with statistical analysis. Despite the great sensing capabilities of QCM and growing interest in practical applications beyond the laboratory setup, most QCM studies are still performed in laboratory settings with benchtop QCM instruments. Therefore, …

Sb05-22/23: Resolution Recommending To Missoula County Commission Concerning The Status Of The Rattlesnake Dams, Zyanne Cervantes, Mckenna French

Senate Resolutions, 2007-Present

SB05-22/23: Resolution Recommending to Missoula County Commission Concerning the Status of the Rattlesnake Dams

This resolution passed 10Y-7N-2A at the November 2, 2022 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM).

Proteogenomic Markers Of Chemotherapy Resistance And Response In Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Meenakshi Anurag, Eric J Jaehnig, Karsten Krug, Jonathan T Lei, Erik J Bergstrom, Beom-Jun Kim, Tanmayi D Vashist, Anh Minh Tran Huynh, Yongchao Dou, Xuxu Gou, Chen Huang, Zhiao Shi, Bo Wen, Viktoriya Korchina, Richard A Gibbs, Donna M Muzny, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Lacey E Dobrolecki, Henry Rodriguez, Ana I Robles, Tara Hiltke, Michael T Lewis, Julie R Nangia, Maryam Nemati Shafaee, Shunqiang Li, Ian S Hagemann, Jeremy Hoog, Bora Lim, C Kent Osborne, D R Mani, Michael A Gillette, Bing Zhang, Gloria V Echeverria, George Miles, Mothaffar F Rimawi, Steven A Carr, Foluso O Ademuyiwa, Shankha Satpathy, Matthew J Ellis

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Microscaled proteogenomics was deployed to probe the molecular basis for differential response to neoadjuvant carboplatin and docetaxel combination chemotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Proteomic analyses of pretreatment patient biopsies uniquely revealed metabolic pathways, including oxidative phosphorylation, adipogenesis, and fatty acid metabolism, that were associated with resistance. Both proteomics and transcriptomics revealed that sensitivity was marked by elevation of DNA repair, E2F targets, G2-M checkpoint, interferon-gamma signaling, and immune-checkpoint components. Proteogenomic analyses of somatic copy-number aberrations identified a resistance-associated 19q13.31-33 deletion where LIG1, POLD1, and XRCC1 are located. In orthogonal datasets, LIG1 (DNA ligase I) gene deletion and/or low mRNA …

A Roadmap To Understanding Diversity And Function Of Coral Reef-Associated Fungi, Anna Roik, Miriam Reverter, Claudia Pogoreutz

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Tropical coral reefs are hotspots of marine productivity, owing to the association of reef-building corals with endosymbiotic algae and metabolically diverse bacterial communities. However, the functional importance of fungi, well known for their contribution to shaping terrestrial ecosystems and global nutrient cycles, remains underexplored on coral reefs. We here conceptualize how fungal functional traits may have facilitated the spread, diversification, and ecological adaptation of marine fungi on coral reefs. We propose that functions of reef-associated fungi may be diverse and go beyond their hitherto described roles of pathogens and bioeroders, including but not limited to reef-scale biogeochemical cycles and the …

Oceanographic Variability Drives The Distribution But Not The Density Of The Aggregation Forming Deep-Sea Sponge Pheronema Carpenteri, Kyran P. Graves, Amelia E.H. Bridges, Tomasz Dabrowski, Thomas Furey, Kieran Lyons, Kerry L. Howell

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Identifying and understanding environmental drivers of deep-sea sponge aggregations is critical for effective protection and management. Current literature suggests an association between internal wave activity, regions of enhanced currents, and the distribution of deep-sea sponge aggregations. It is hypothesised that sponges utilise particulate organic matter associated with internal waves and enhanced currents and therefore aggregate in these regions. Random Forest algorithms – as well as preliminary Generalised Additive Models (GAMs) – were fitted to the presence-pseudo-absence and density datasets to characterise the relationship with each environmental variable. Additionally, residual autocovariate variables were calculated and included in models to account for …

Bfs News Online, Georgia Southern University

Art: News & Publications (2008-2023)

• Georgia Southern students combine past and present works for new art exhibition in November
• Community to bid for student-designed sculptures; metal eagle up for grabs

Betty Foy Sanders Department Of Art Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

Art: News & Publications (2008-2023)

• Community to Bid for Student-Designed Sculptures; Metal Eagle up for Grabs
• Georgia Southern Students Combine Past and Present Works for New Art Exhibition in November

Interactive Industrial Energy Assessment Learning Platform Using 360-Degree Virtual Reality Contents, Laleh Ghanbari

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The traditional passive industrial energy assessment training methods included low direct involvement of students, and they lacked an engaging learning environment. Since the main task for energy assessment is visual inspection and data collection, traditional passive training methods were not able to provide hands-on experience for the students. An active training method was needed to make the current industrial energy assessment training more efficient and effective, a method which provides the opportunity for students to have more interaction with the training environment. In this study, an interactive industrial energy assessment learning platform using 360ᵒ virtual reality contents was developed. The …

Migration And Displacement In Twenty-First Century Magical Realist Fiction, Laura Duncan Fontenot

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In “Migration and Displacement in Twenty-First Century Magical Realist Fiction” I discuss identity development and the search for belonging of displaced people within twenty-first century magical realist novels. In each instance, the characters undergo some form of change heralded by a magical moment or moments. The “magic” allows the authors to literalize underlying cultural tensions by physically altering some aspect of a character. The changes are not mere metaphors, they are literal, bodily transformations. The first stage of this process are magical thresholds that allow passage in space and time far beyond the conventions of reality. A magical threshold literalizes …