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Influences Of Child And Caregiver-Directed Home Visitor Behaviors On Caregiver Engagement And Caregiver-Child Interactions, Mary Kienstra Frese

Dissertations

Home Visiting, Parent Support, Prevention

Predicting Asian American College Women’S Leadership Intention Using Social Cognitive Career Theory, Jeong-Eun Suh

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Pupils Of The Pipeline: Exploring The Role Of School Discipline And Disciplinary Actors On Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning, Ogechi Onyeka

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Searching For High-Energy Neutrino Emission From Galaxy Clusters With Icecube, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Athanasiadou, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. V. Balagopal, M. Baricevic, S. W. Barwick, V. Basu, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K. H. Becker, J. Becker Tjus

Physics: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Galaxy clusters have the potential to accelerate cosmic rays (CRs) to ultrahigh energies via accretion shocks or embedded CR acceleration sites. The CRs with energies below the Hillas condition will be confined within the cluster and eventually interact with the intracluster medium gas to produce secondary neutrinos and gamma rays. Using 9.5 yr of muon neutrino track events from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, we report the results of a stacking analysis of 1094 galaxy clusters with masses ≳1014 Me and redshifts between 0.01 and ∼1 detected by the Planck mission via the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect. We find no evidence for significant …

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, How Should We Read: Applying Principles Of Literacy Development To Shared Book-Reading Experiences, Kalika Melody Burnett Bridwell

Senior Theses

Literacy has long been recognized as critical to success in and out of the classroom (Duchouquette, 2014; Hernandez, 2011; National Center for Family Literacy, 2008), having significant impact on students’ ability to achieve positive outcomes in academic, professional, social, and personal domains. Research suggests that this correlation is established at an early age (Cunningham & Zibulsky, 2011, Storch & Whitehurst, 2002, National Center for Family Literacy, 2008), giving urgency to the provision of high-quality early literacy education and to the identification of best practices in this area. Outside of explicit teaching, one of the most popular of these practices is …

Scenic Design – Capturing The Essence Of A Play Through Metaphoric And Symbolic Imagery, Mona Maria Damian Ulmu

Theses and Dissertations

The following paper is meant to develop my experience as an MFA Candidate at the University of South Carolina. It was an MFA in Theatre, at the Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Arts and Sciences. I was a Scenic Design major but also studied Costume Design, Costume Construction and Patterning, Lighting Design, Vectorworks, Text Analysis, Pedagogy, etc. I was also hired as a teaching assistant, graduate assistant, working in the Theatre shop with undergraduate students, under Technical Director and Technical Director’s assistant supervision. This paper mainly explores my experience of making shows as a Scenic Designer and Scenic …

Connecting School Climate And Trust: A Content Analysis Of Elements Of Trust In Student And Staff School Climate Surveys, Katherine Thyen

Master's Theses

This study aims to make a concrete connection between trust in schools and school climate. Research indicates that both trust and school climate can positively impact school experiences and performance for teachers and students, but no formal connection has been made between these two elements of schools. In order to answer this study’s research questions of “What differences in frequency and context of trust dimensions exist between student surveys and teacher surveys?” and “How are survey items related to trust dispersed across school climate domains?”, a directed qualitative content analysis was performed. School climate surveys administered to students and teachers …

Interplay Between Human Microbiota And Celiac Disease, John James Colgan

Master's Theses

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine in which gluten, an energy-storage protein in wheat and other cereals, elicits an immune response leading to villous atrophy. Despite a strong genetic component, the disease arises sporadically over the lifetime leading us to hypothesize the microbiome might be a trigger. Here, we re-examined 16S data from 3 prior studies examining celiac disease and the microbiome with newer computational tools: the dada2 and PICRUSt 2 pipelines. Our results both confirmed findings of previous studies and generated new data regarding the celiac microbiome of India and Mexico. The datasets were also …

Interrogating Antagonistic Differences Among Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Cdia Alleles, Haotian Yang

Master's Theses

Bacteria are complex social organisms that live within mixed communities where microorganisms compete for limited resources. We studied Contact-Dependent Growth Inhibition (CDI), a particular type of competition mediated by a type 5b, or two-partner, secretion system that is widely spread among Gram-negative bacteria. CdiB and CdiA make up the two-partner secretion system that mediates CDI. CdiB translocates CdiA to the cell surface, and CdiA delivers its C-terminal toxin domain to the target cell. The C-terminal toxin (Tox) domain of CdiA is highly diverse. We studied Tox domains of various Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates. We found different strains that contain unique …

Integrating Current Analyses Of The Breast Cancer Microbiome, Sidra Sohail

Master's Theses

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for women in the US. Many cancertypes have significant associations with their resident microbial communities - emerging evidence suggests that breast cancers also interact with the local tissue-associated microbiota. Studies have examined the relationship between breast cancer and its microbiome, however, the studies varied in their approaches used to evaluate these relationships. Microbiome research advances rapidly and analysis pipelines and databases are updated frequently. This dynamic environment makes inter-study comparisons and superficial evaluations challenging as no two studies are using the same standards for evaluation. Researchers have observed the microbiota of …

Role Of Tetraspanins In Sars-Cov-2 Fusion And Entry, Marcos Saul Santiago Figueroa

Master's Theses

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the pandemic the world has been facing in recent years. Even as new countermeasures are developed, there is still much we don’t know in terms of its entry into host cells. Tetraspanins are transmembrane proteins that are near ubiquitous amongst cell types. They fulfill numerous roles, including that of a viral co-receptor. Here, we considered whether tetraspanins, specifically CD9, CD63, and CD81 influence SARS-CoV-2 fusion and entry. Using ACE2-LgBit and tetraspanin overexpressing EVs and HeLa cells, we find that the presence of excess tetraspanins inhibit fusion and entry. However, we …

Exploring Factors Influencing Minority Students’ Perceived Learning In Collaborative Wiki-Based Learning Environments, Yu-Chun Kuo, Yu-Tung Kuo, Hungwei Tseng

Research, Publications & Creative Work

This study examined the factors affecting minority students’ learning experience in Wiki-based environments. These factors included perceived collaborative learning, sense of community, Wiki self-efficacy, and perceived learning experience. The relationships of these factors were explored. The participants were 45 African American students enrolled in two undergraduate-level management courses in which Wiki was used to facilitate the process of group work. A mixed methods approach was applied to analyze the collected data. Results indicated that sense of community and collaborative learning significantly contributed to perceived learning in Wiki-based environments. However, Wiki self-efficacy was not a good predictor of perceived learning. Most …

A Machine Learning Solution For Securing The Internet Of Things Infrastructures, Ahmed Abdel-Monem, Mohamed Abouhawwash

Sustainable Machine Intelligence Journal

Securing Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures against ever-evolving cyber threats remains a critical challenge in the era of interconnected devices. In this paper, we present a novel machine learning solution for enhancing IoT security through the detection and classification of diverse attacks. Leveraging the NSL-KDD dataset, we applied rigorous data preprocessing procedures, including feature engineering based on the chi-squared test, to select the most informative attributes. Our solution utilizes stacked Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, capable of capturing temporal dependencies and complex patterns within selected features. By exploiting LSTM's sequential learning and hierarchical representations, our approach effectively classifies attacks, ensuring …

Engaging Children With Animals Increases Their Awareness Of Their Footprint On Earth, Brett Foster

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Teachers should reserve time in their classrooms to connect curriculum to animals and environmental topics. Connecting core subjects like writing, reading, or even math to animals builds student investment in learning as they can connect the topics of animals to their lives. Animals are all around us and are a topic that students naturally spend a lot of time with and can easily identify in the world around them. There are several benefits of incorporating animals into the curriculum, including an increased sense of empathy, an awareness of their environmental impact, and an investment in their community.

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A Century Of Drought In HawaiʻI: Geospatial Analysis And Synthesis Across Hydrological, Ecological, And Socioeconomic Scales, Abby G. Frazier, Christian P. Giardina, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Laura Brewington, Yi Leng Chen, Pao Shin Chu, Lucas Berio Fortini, Danielle Hall, David A. Helweg, Victoria W. Keener, Ryan J. Longman, Matthew P. Lucas, Alan Mair, Delwyn S. Oki, Julian J. Reyes, Stephanie G. Yelenik, Clay Trauernicht

Geography

Drought is a prominent feature of Hawaiʻi’s climate. However, it has been over 30 years since the last comprehensive meteorological drought analysis, and recent drying trends have emphasized the need to better understand drought dynamics and multi-sector effects in Hawaiʻi. Here, we provide a comprehensive synthesis of past drought effects in Hawaiʻi that we integrate with geospatial analysis of drought characteristics using a newly developed 100-year (1920–2019) gridded Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) dataset. The synthesis examines past droughts classified into five categories: Meteorological, agricultural, hydrological, ecological, and socioeconomic drought. Results show that drought duration and magnitude have increased significantly, consistent …

Mixed Quantum/Classical Theory For Collisional Quenching Of Pahs In The Interstellar Media, Bikramaditya Mandal, Carolin Joy, Alexander Semenov, Dmitri Babikov

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

A computationally affordable methodology is developed to predict cross sections and rate coefficients for collisional quenching and excitation of large molecules in space, such as PAHs. Mixed quantum/classical theory of inelastic scattering (MQCT) is applied, in which quantum state-to-state transitions between the internal states of the molecule are described using a time-dependent Schrodinger equation, while the scattering of collision partners is described classically using mean-field trajectories. To boost the numerical performance even further, a decoupling scheme for the equations of motion and a Monte Carlo sampling of the initial conditions are implemented. The method is applied to compute cross sections …

Sustainability Hub Newsletter - October 2022, Jacqueline Jergensen, Neyda Gilman, Jennifer Embree

Library Sustainability Resources

Happy Fall Binghamton University! This month’s issue covers the recent Global Climate Strike in Binghamton, highlights books in our Sustainability Collection written by Indigenous authors, and shares tips for a sustainable Halloween! Also check out a fall recipe, announcements, seed saving tips, and a seed spotlight!

Factors That Affect School Counselor Retention In Rural Settings-An Exploratory Study, Rawn Boulden, Chris Schimmel

The Rural Educator

Teacher attrition is a well-known issue impacting K-12 schools in the United States. Sizeable research exists highlighting noteworthy factors that promote retention and attrition. However, scant research exists describing these factors within the context of school counselors working in rural settings. Considering this gap, we employed an inductive phenomenological approach to learn more about key attrition and retention factors, utilizing a sample of five rural school counselors employed in rural locales throughout the United States. Two overarching categories were identified: (a) school-based factors and (b) school community factors. Limitations and implications for rural school districts and counselor preparation programs are …

Increasing Rural Teacher Preparedness Through A Teacher Residency, Robin Valente, Jaclyn Tejwani, Valentin Pedroza, Selena Cartznes

The Rural Educator

This promising practice describes an innovative approach to teacher education that a partnership among three rural districts and a university implemented through a rural teacher residency program . The Kern Rural Teacher Residency (KRTR) program in Kern County, California, was a five-year, federally funded grant program at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). KRTR was a district-serving teacher education program that paired a rigorous full-year classroom apprenticeship with graduate-level educational content. In a multi-year study that utilized surveys, focus groups, document review, and extant data analysis, findings indicated that, through participation in the residency, completers felt prepared to teach in rural …

A Geographical Analysis Of Canadian Students Taking Independent Music Lessons: The Rural Experience, Ross M. Purves, Rena Upitis

The Rural Educator

The engagement of students taking private music lessons is affected by a range of factors, one of which is the geographic location of the student’s family. This is a geographical analysis of 6,500 questionnaire responses completed by Canadian music teachers, students, and parents, including 819 responses (12.6%) from participants living in ‘rural’ areas, as defined by Statistics Canada. Participants’ home locations were categorized on a five-point ordinal scale from ‘rural’ to ‘very large urban population center’, data-matched with further geospatial data relating to deprivation and road distances, and assessed for strength and direction of association with questionnaire items. Results revealed …

Pandemics In Hawaii, Rex Vicente Manglicmot

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

Pandemics are a phenomenon that have existed throughout humanity. The associated diseases they have brought have affected societies’ economies, cultures, and demographics. The biomedical sciences and the field of public health have done tremendous work combating pandemics by researching disease etiology as well as developing effective therapeutics and preventive vaccines. However, with the recent rise of COVID-19 and the accompanying politicization of the pandemic, critique of public health professionals, and the ascendance of anti-vaxxers, we see that science alone is insufficient to persuade disbelievers to follow public safety protocols. The numbers alone are not enough, and a new persuasive lens …

Introduction To The Copyright Claims Board, Eric Goldman

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

Perspectives On Drug Development In Early Adpkd, Djalila Mekahli, Hayley Womack, Neera K. Dahl

Student Publications

No abstract provided.

Humor, A Meditation, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

Republished at 47 Dalhousie J.L. 1 (2024).

Large Retroperitoneal Mass, Ryan Lamm, Wilbur B. Bowne

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.

John Lambert, Ann Lundberg

Oral Histories

No abstract provided.

Functionality Of The Gracilis Collateral Is Impaired Following Arteriogenesis And Cell Transplantation, Ada A. Tadeo

Biomedical Engineering

Peripheral Arterial Disease involves narrowed arteries, reducing blood flow to limbs. Increasing blood flow to those extremities is possible by redirecting the blood to flow through natural bypasses (i.e. collateral arteries), which can enlarge via arteriogenesis to maintain blood supply once the prominent arteries have become occluded. This study aims to investigate how arteriogenesis affects collateral function, if myoblast transplantation can stimulate collateral growth, and how that in turn may affect collateral function. Femoral artery ligation was performed to mimic the blockage that occurs in patients with ischemic diseases on lean mice and mice with diet induced obesity (DIO). A …

Reckoning With Structural Racism In Legal Education: Methods Toward A Pedagogy Of Antiracism, Doron Samuel-Siegel

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

There is an empty quality to much of what passes as "diversity, equity, and inclusion" work in legal education. Despite a robust body ofscholarship on teaching law consistent with the goals of antiracism, many legal educators struggle to put theory into practice. This Article responds to that struggle, offering a holistic, methodical approach to a pedagogy of antiracism whose goal is twofold: create conditions in which racially minoritized students learn to their full potential, free from the harms of traditional legal education; and equip all students, regardless of identity, to contribute to the dismantlement of structural racism. Absent such pedagogy, …

Freedom Of Speech: Freedom To Creatively Discriminate?, Lydia E. Lavelle

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Queer Liberation's Long March Towards Equality: How Lgbtqia+ Advocates May Seek To Combat The Rise Of Anti-Lgbtqia+ State-Level Legislation And Substantiate Broader Lasting Legal Protections In A Post-Bostock World, Davis J. Villano

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note examines the implications of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, which ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. While this decision represents a significant step forward for LGBTQIA+ rights, the article argues that it does not provide comprehensive protection, as evidenced by the ongoing proliferation of anti-transgender legislation and hate crimes. It emphasizes the need for legislative action, particularly through the passage of the Equality Act, to address these gaps and ensure broader legal protections for LGBTQIA+ individuals.