Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• The University will Continue to Provide Free COVID-19 Testing and Vaccines to our Faculty, Staff and Students.
• If a Student is Experiencing Any Symptoms of COVID-19, They Should get Tested Immediately.
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Ncaa Di Assistant Coaches' Understanding Of Mental Performance And Mental Health Services, Heather Hill

Master's Theses

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has acknowledged the importance of providing student-athletes with psychological services throughout their athletic careers (NCAA, n.d.). Two vital services for student-athletes are mental performance services that are focused on sport-related issues and mental health services that are centered around personal issues (Sudano & Miles, 2017). Previous literature around mental performance and mental health services has not distinguished between them, making it difficult to understand key stakeholders’ perceptions and knowledge of both mental performance and mental health services. Assistant coaches play an important role in NCAA athletic departments and spend substantial amounts of time connecting …

2022-08-03 Board Mtg Agenda, Mpla

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O-1 - President - 2022-08-03, Brenda Hemmelman

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St-01 - Arizona - 2022-08-03, Amadee Ricketts

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St-02 - Colorado 2022-08-03, Sarah Daniels

State Representatives

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St-05 - Nebraska - 2022-08-03, Michael Straatmann

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St-03 - Kansas - 2022-08-83, Maribeth Shafer

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St-08 - North Dakota - 2022-08-03, Randi Monley

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St-09 - Oklahoma - 2022-08-03, Gloria Farmer

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St-12 - Wyoming - 2022-08-03, Judi Boyce

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2022-August-03-Meet Hanna Sigmund, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Meet Hanna Sigmund

Learn more about Hanna Sigmund ('23), from San Antonio, Texas, and her rotation at ETSU Charitable Clinic in Johnson City. 

What does your day look like on rotation?

Prior to the pharmacy opening, we go through holds and refill requests that came in overnight and do any prep work that we need to. Most of the day is spent filling and checking prescriptions and counseling patients. On occasion, we will walk over to the clinic side to talk to a provider. We do not deal with controlled substances or insurance, and we have to transfer any prescriptions …

Exploring Biology Beyond The Classroom, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Off-campus courses give students hands-on opportunities in biodiversity locations

Reconfigurable Hyperbolic Polaritonics With Correlated Oxide Metasurfaces, Neda Alsadat Aghamiri, Guangwei Hu, Alireza Fali, Zhen Zhang, Jiahan Li, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Sumeet Walia, Sharath Sriram, James H. Edgar, Shriram Ramanathan, Andrea Alù, Yohannes Abate

Advanced Science Research Center

Polaritons enable subwavelength confinement and highly anisotropic flows of light over a wide spectral range, holding the promise for applications in modern nanophotonic and optoelectronic devices. However, to fully realize their practical application potential, facile methods enabling nanoscale active control of polaritons are needed. Here, we introduce a hybrid polaritonicoxide heterostructure platform consisting of van der Waals crystals, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) or alpha-phase molybdenum trioxide (α- MoO₃), transferred on nanoscale oxygen vacancy patterns on the surface of prototypical correlated perovskite oxide, samarium nickel oxide, SmNiO₃ (SNO). Using a combination of scanning probe microscopy and …

Gender Differences In Parental Leave Before And After The Introduction Of A Paid Parental Leave Policy: A Sequence Analysis Of Administrative Time-Keeping Records, Julia M. Goodman, Lisset Dumet Poma, David Hurtado, Anna Steeves-Reece, Dawn M. Richardson

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Paid leave confers health benefits to new parents and their children, but the absence of a national paid family leave policy in the United States has left workers to navigate a patchwork of paid and unpaid parental leave benefits accessed through their employers. As public and private paid leave policies expand across the US, it is imperative to determine how these benefits impact leave taking behaviors among new parents. We use sequence and cluster analyses of administrative time-keeping records to detail parental leave-taking during the first 180 days after adding a child among employees of a large public-sector organization with …

On Capturing Human Agency And Methodological Interdisciplinarity In Socio-Hydrology Research, David J. Yu, Melissa Haeffner, Hanseok Jeong, Saket Pande, Juliane Dame, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Glenda Garcia-Santos, Leon Hermans, Rashata Muneepeerakul, Multiple Additional Authors

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Socio-hydrology has expanded and been effective in exposing the hydrological community to ideas and approaches from other scientific disciplines, and social sciences in particular. Yet it still has much to explore regarding how to capture human agency and how to combine different methods and disciplinary views from both the hydrological and the social sciences to develop knowledge. A useful starting ground is noting that the complexity of human–water relations is due to interactions not only across spatial and temporal scales but also across different organizational levels of social systems. This calls for consideration of another analytical scale, the human organizational …

How Domestic Violence Affects Incarcerated Women, Michelle Ryman

University Honors Theses

The incarceration of women has grown seven times since the 1980s, with up to 90% of incarcerated women being survivors of domestic violence. Women are five times more likely to be abused by an intimate partner. Intimate partner violence leads to unhealthy coping mechanisms like drug abuse and violence against perpetrators. While coercion in IPV can contribute to violent retaliation and drug abuse, it can also lead to criminal behavior prompted by the perpetrator. Whether IPV shows itself as violent attacks, sexual assault, coercion, financial withholding, threats, isolation, psychological abuse, or any other behavior that allows one person to control …

2022-August-03-Johnson City Community Health Center To Host Health Fair Aug. 13, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 3, 2022) – ETSU Health Johnson City Community Health Center (JCCHC) is hosting a Community Health Fair on Saturday, Aug. 13, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. The event coincides with the culmination of National Health Center Week, designated Aug. 7-13, 2022.

The health fair is free and open to the public. It will be held on the JCCHC grounds, located at 2151 Century Lane, Johnson City. There will be free food, health screenings, door prizes and activities such as face painting and a bounce castle for children. Attendees will also have an opportunity to meet …

Upgrade Your View, Larry Burgess

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Photographer Larry Burgess takes us on a tour of campus for a change in perspective — looking high, and looking low.

An Examination Of Reading Interventions At The Upper Elementary Level, Bethany Vangessel

Masters Projects

Students of all ages face challenges in their reading and while some challenges begin early in learning to read, other challenges develop as students begin reading more complex texts. However, research into the most effective forms of intervention for students who struggle with reading have focused more on beginning readers in the lower elementary grades. As students enter the upper elementary grades, there are increased demands on foundational reading skills with multisyllabic words, comprehension, and the added pressure of standardized testing. Changing demands on reading skills result in a more diverse need to intervention as students may struggle with foundational …

元明時期華北國家秩序的重建 : 軍屯、漕運和馬政 : 以大名府為例, Senhao Hu

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

本研究將以大名府為例，從軍屯、漕運和馬政三種國家制度展示元明華北國家秩序對地方社會重塑的過程。本研究不僅能夠為華北的衰落提供制度層面的解釋，還能說明元明制度的連續性。本文第二章和第三章將討論明初大名府的衛所和軍屯。這二章會結合大量不同地域和時期的地方志對大名府軍屯的設置、分布和數量做一考證，並通過東明縣穆氏家族說明這一二元體系對地方社會產生的影響。本文第四章將通過河南漕糧於小灘鎮交兌這一經濟活動進一步說明大名府被塑造為薊州鎮「飛地」的過程。本章將通過梳理豫漕交兌點之變說明豫漕交兌對小灘鎮的依賴，並分別從環境和制度兩個角度說明交兌點變與不變的原因。本文第五章將以大名府為例從「餘地征銀」的角度重新檢討明代華北馬政的負擔。本文將通過考證史料說明，實際上明代馬政並未對華北地方社會造成想像中的沉重負擔。總之，本文將通過軍屯、漕運、馬政三種國家制度說明明代國家權力對位處北方內地的大名府重塑的過程，並冀求通過這一過程說明華北的衰落，以及元明制度間的連續性。

High-Velocity Impact Dissociation Of Molecular Species In Spacecraft-Based Mass Spectrometers, Brandon M. Turner

Theses and Dissertations

Mass spectrometers have proven to be vital to understanding the Solar System and the planets within it. Spacecraft containing mass spectrometers have been sent to numerous remote places and have determined important information about the atmospheric composition of Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, along with other celestial bodies. Such results have shown a variety of small neutral molecules, such as CH4 NH3, H2O, CO2, and CO, neutral radicals such as atomic O, H, and N, and a host of small ions, such as H+, N+, and NH4+. Closed ion source inlets, which allow for the detection of these small …

Individual Adaptation And Structural Change: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy In A Tribal College Context, Taylor Topham

Theses and Dissertations

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are educational institutions owned by Native American tribes intended to address the failure of the education system to support Indigenous students. Significant research has been done on the value of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) and on TCUs, but little has been done to examine whether and how TCUs implement CSP. This study aims to fill that gap by examining teaching at Chief Dull Knife College (CDKC), a tribal college on the Northern Cheyenne reservation. Interviews were conducted with eight white faculty members and four Cheyenne administrators at CDKC. Analysis of the interviews revealed that the …

Galactic Mass-To-Light Ratios With Superfluid Dark Matter, Tobias Mistele, Stacy S. Mcgaugh

Faculty Scholarship

Context. We make rotation curve fits to test the superfluid dark matter model. Aims. In addition to verifying that the resulting fits match the rotation curve data reasonably well, we aim to evaluate how satisfactory they are with respect to two criteria, namely, how reasonable the resulting stellar mass-to-light ratios are and whether the fits end up in the regime of superfluid dark matter where the model resembles modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). Methods. We fitted the superfluid dark matter model to the rotation curves of 169 galaxies in the SPARC sample. Results. We found that the mass-to-light ratios obtained with …

Development And Modification Of A Culturally Tailored Education Program To Prevent Breast Cancer In Korean Immigrant Women In New York City, Jin Young Seo, So-Hyun Park, Sung-Eun Choi, Minkyung Lee, Shiela M. Strauss

Publications and Research

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in Korean American (KA) women. In view of its high prevalence in these women, their low screening rates, and the cultural influence of BC risk factors in their lifestyles, we developed a community-based culturally tailored BC prevention program, the Korean Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program (KBCRRP). Guided by the PRECEDE-PROCEDE and health belief models, the KBCRRP was developed to achieve four goals: (1) healthy weight, (2) physically active lifestyle, (3) healthy diet, and (4) BC screening and adherence. KBCRRP combines effective multicomponent strategies for BC screening and a group-based lifestyle intervention incorporating …

The Effects On Soil Fungal Community Of Excluding Select Above-Ground Herbaceous Species In A Montane Longleaf Pine Savanna Restoration Area, Sean Davis

Master of Science in Integrative Biology Theses

Due to anthropogenic pressures, by the 1990s longleaf pine forests were at 3% its peak area. Restoration is difficult as vegetation communities constitute a mosaic across the longleaf range. Hence, vegetation description is important wherever longleaf pine communities exist. Vegetation strongly associates with specific soil fungi operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and description of longleaf pine ecosystems are incomplete without description of microbial taxa.

My goals were to begin describing soil fungal communities of the longleaf pine at Sheffield Wildlife Management Area (SWMA) and describe changes to the fungal community after the removal of dominant plants in a longleaf savanna. I …

Coercing Fluently: The Grammar Of Coercion In The Twenty-First Century, C. Anthony Pfaff

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

To illustrate the logic and grammar of coercion, this analysis relies on decision-theory methods, such as game theory, that examine the strategic decision-making process in interactions with adversaries and partners. The intent here is not to offer predictive models of rational-actor behavior. Rather, the intent is to use game-theory and similar approaches to understand how coercion works better. This analysis considers competitive interactions between actors that have discrete and qualifiable, if not quantifiable, preferences and who behave rationally, though this analysis acknowledges the behavior that is considered rational is frequently informed by nonrational social, cultural, and psychological factors. Considering these …

Genome Sequence Of Sn1, A Bacteriophage That Infects Sphaerotilus Natans And Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, K.M. Damitha Gunathilake, Denise M. Tremblay, Pier-Luc Plante, Ellen Jensen, Kenneth Nickerson, Sylvain Moineau

Kenneth Nickerson Papers

Phage SN1 infects Sphaerotilus natans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. Its genome consists of 61,858 bp (64.3% GC) and 89 genes, including 32 with predicted functions. SN1 genome is very similar to Pseudomonas phage M6, which contains hypermodified thymidines. Genome analyses revealed similar base-modifying genes as those found in M6.

Phage SN1 was isolated in 1979 from activated sludge samples obtained from a wastewater treatment plant (Lincoln, Nebraska, USA) using S. natans ATCC 13338 as the host (1, 2). An early study showed that the siphophage SN1 has unusual bases in its genome as confirmed by cellulose thin-layer chromatography (1). Its …

The Discovery Of Novel 14-3-3 Binding Proteins Atg9a And Ptov1 And Their Role In Regulating Cancer Mechanisms, Colten Mitchell Mcewan

Theses and Dissertations

14-3-3 proteins are among a family of phospho-binding proteins that are known to regulate many essential cellular mechanisms. By binding to sites of phosphorylation, 14-3-3s are integrated into multiple signaling pathways that govern critical processes, such as apoptosis, cell cycle progression, autophagy, glucose metabolism, and cell motility. These processes are crucial for tumorigenesis and 14-3-3 proteins are known to play a central role in facilitating cancer progression. In this study, my colleagues and I discover two novel 14-3-3 interacting proteins, ATG9A and PTOV1, that are both vital to essential cellular functions and describe various mechanisms that these two proteins regulate. …

Large-Scale Testing Of Reinforced Lightweight Cellular Concrete Backfill For Mse Walls, Christian E. Lundskog

Theses and Dissertations

The basic mixture of lightweight cellular concrete (LCC) consists of cement, water, and a stable foaming agent. It is generally classified as having a density of less than 50 pounds per cubic foot (pcf), which is less than both traditional concrete and backfill materials. LCC has gained popularity in construction due to its lightweight, self-leveling, and ease of production and placement. These characteristics have made LCC a popular lightweight backfill material for mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls. However, there has been relatively little research on the large-scale behavior of LCC as a MSE backfill. Therefore, large-scale test results defining failure …