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Validation Of A Brazilian Portuguese Measure Of Family Resources In A Sample Of Parents To Children With Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome, Sarah Barker Ladd

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In the aftermath of the 2015 Zika virus outbreak in Brazil, thousands of children and their families continue to face challenges associated with Congenital Zika Syndrome, a developmental condition associated with microcephaly and other serious birth defects affecting the central nervous system. Family-centered rehabilitative care is critical to optimize the trajectories of children who have significant developmental disabilities like CZS. These services involve assessing for the presence of family resources that may help to promote positive outcomes for children. Little is known regarding family resources in the context of caring for a child with CZS in Brazil due to the …

The Molecular Basis For Natural Competence In Acinetobacter, Yafan Yu

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Bacteria use Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) to acquire genetic material, leading to the development of novel traits, such as the spread and development of antibiotic resistance. Natural competence is one type of HGT accomplished by DNA uptake from the environment and incorporation into the genome. Bacteria from Acinetobacter are wildly distributed in the environment and are naturally competent. This propensity is a key factor to the steady increase in drug resistance in Acinetobacter, which is a cause for concern in human health as Acinetobacter is a major source of nosocomial infections. During natural competence, type IV pili (T4P) and related …

The Application Of Mathematical Optimization And Flavor-Detection Technologies For Modeling Aroma Of Hops, Yutong Liu

Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In recent years, proprietary hops (Citra, Simcoe, and Mosaic) become the most sought-after hops among brewers due to their excellent aroma. However, they are restricted to the owners unless other growers purchase the costly licensing agreements. Many public hops are available to the growers without any additional costs, but their aroma is difficult to match to the proprietary hops. Although proprietary and public hop varieties are unique in their aroma profiles, all hops varieties contain similar volatile compounds, merely differ in the quantity of different individual compounds. The main objective of this thesis was to investigate the feasibility of matching …

Development And Characterization Of A Decellularized Neuroinhibitory Scaffold Containing Matrix Bound Nanovesicles, Logan Piening

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Chronic low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability but treatments for LBP are limited. Degeneration of the intervertebral disc leads to loss of neuroinhibitory sulfated glycosaminoglycans (sGAGs) which allows nerves from dorsal root ganglia (DRG) to grow into the core of the disc, leading to pain. Current treatments for LBP involve drugs that do not target the source of the pain and lack long term efficacy or use invasive surgeries with high complication rates. Treatment with a decellularized tissue scaffold that contains neuroinhibitory components may inhibit nerve growth and prevent disc-associated LBP. Here, a decellularized nucleus pulposus …

Soil Microbial Community Dynamics In Response To Prescribed Extreme Fires Following Juniperus Virginiana Invasion In The Loess Canyons Of Nebraska, Julie A. Fowler

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In Nebraska and other regions of the Great Plains, the conifer Juniperus virginiana (eastern redcedar) is converting grasslands to dense woodlands. This is driven by the interacting drivers of fire suppression, altered grazing regimes, climate change and other anthropogenic factors, impacting the provisioning of ecosystem services. This vegetation state transition modifies water resource regulation and biogeochemical cycles leading to altered edaphic properties including soil microbial community composition. To restore these grasslands and control J. virginiana spread, prescribed extreme burns are implemented as a management tool through local prescribed burn associations. We hypothesized that the alternative state transition to dense J. …

Implications From Uranium-Series Disequilibria In A Bi-Lithologic Melt With Varying Lithospheric Caps, Juliet Messer

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Both spreading rates and local magma supply to mid-ocean ridges affect crustal construction styles and ridge morphology, alternately leading to either asymmetrical (detachment faulting) or symmetrical faulting styles. Uranium-series isotopic disequilibria in mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) may provide insight into how melt supply variations relate to ridges’ accretion styles, a processes that are not well understood. I use Reactive Porous Flow (RPF) equilibrium and disequilibrium modeling to simulate U-series disequilibria at mid-ocean ridge (MOR) generated by melt supply variations at both asymmetrical and symmetrical ridge segments.

Guided by my modeling, I predict that enhanced melt contributions from enriched pyroxenitic mantle …

Hudl Strategic Analysis, Jessica Swanson

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Hudl is a cutting-edge company that assists with the filming, distributing, and recording statistics for more than 40 sports. The sports, at the high school, college, and even professional level, consist of football, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and many others. Growing since its founding in 2006, Hudl now has more than 2,400 employees across 20 countries. To analyze the external environment of the video-sharing industry, a PESTEL analysis and a Porter’s Five Forces analysis were completed. These analyses found that Hudl was a unique case because they are in a very niche portion of the industry and take up a large …

Fabrication Of Advanced Materials For Chromatography, Sample Preparation, And Separations, And Accompanying Material Characterization, Dhananjay I. Patel

Theses and Dissertations

My dissertation primarily focuses on the fabrication of materials for solid phase microextraction (SPME) and separation devices. In my first project, I used direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS) to prepare sputtered silicon coatings on fused silica fibers. These fibers were then subjected to the chemical vapor deposition of 6-phenyhexylsilane (6-PH) as a stationary phase. Six different types of fibers were made using two different throw distances (4 cm and 20 cm) and three different silicon thicknesses (0.5, 1.8, and 2.8 µm). These coatings were characterized by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), …

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Dr_D1 Report Fy2021 - Database Search And Item Usage, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report DR_D1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021. The DR_D1 report is defined as "Database Search and Item Usage." This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Searches Automated - 149,904
• Searches Federated - 28,031
• Searches Regular - 812,778
• Total Item Investigations - 664,064
• Total Item Requests - 259,213

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Pr_P1 Report Fy2021 - Platform Usage, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report PR_P1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021. The PR_P1 report is defined as "Platform Usage." This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Searches Platform - 353,266
• Total Item Requests - 945,532
• Unique Item Requests - 701,287
• Unique Title Requests - 37,143

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Tr_B1 Report Fy2021 - Book Requests (Excluding Oa_Gold) By Platform, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_B1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021. The TR_B1 report is defined as "Book Requests (Excluding OA_Gold)." This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Total Item Requests - 84,955
• Unique Title Requests - 38,932

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Tr_J1 Report Fy2021 - Journal Requests (Excluding Oa_Gold) By Platform, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report TR_J1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021. The TR_J1 report is defined as "Journal Requests (Excluding OA_Gold)." This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

• Total Item Requests - 696,705
• Unique Item Requests - 513,492

Weak Cayley Table Groups Of Crystallographic Groups, Rebeca Ann Paulsen

Theses and Dissertations

Let G be a group. A weak Cayley table isomorphism $\phi$: G $\rightarrow$ G is a bijection satisfying two conditions: (i) $phi$ sends conjugacy classes to conjugacy classes; and (ii) $\phi$(g1)$\phi$(g2) is conjugate to $\phi$(g1g2) for all g1, g2 in G. The set of all such mappings forms a group W(G) under composition. We study W(G) for fifty-six of the two hundred nineteen three-dimensional crystallographic groups G as well as some other groups. These fifty-six groups are related to our previous work on wallpaper groups.

Davis V. Graham Owners Corp

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Ambiguity, Rinoi Imada

Theses

Ambiguity explores the sense of ambiguous identity through conceptual investigations of glass and language structure. This body of work and thesis refer to my personal experience and scholarly research to observe transformation and transition of identity. My thesis considers glass as a phenomenal substance through its transformative materiality; my body of work reflects materiality of glass as an ephemeral identity of humanity. Utilizing glass as a transformative material, my body of work is the result of experimental art practices which are observations of photography, fusing glass techniques, live and site-specific gestures, and hotshop glass techniques.

Eng 150 Us Literature And Thought I Oer Syllabus, Joseph Donica

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

The Global Burden Of Adolescent And Young Adult Cancer In 2019: A Systematic Analysis For The Global Burden Of Disease Study 2019, Elysia M. Alvarez, Lisa M. Force, Rixing Xu, Kelly Compton, Dan Lu, Ismaeel Yunusa Ph. D., Et Al.

Faculty Publications

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Librarian In Islamic Civilization, Muhammad Syafii Antonio, Aam Slamet Rusydiana, Yayat Rahmat Hidayat, Dwi Ratna Kartikawati, Amelia Tri Puspita

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Talking about improving human resources, the library occupies a very urgent role. This is in line with Law Number 43 of 2007 concerning Libraries, especially Article 3, which states that the library functions as a vehicle for education, research, preservation, information, and recreation to increase the intelligence and empowerment of the nation. A librarian, as explained in Article 1 paragraph (8) of Law No. 43 of 2007 on Libraries, is someone who has competence obtained through education and/or training and has duties and responsibilities to carry out library management and services. This study aims to find out the development map …

The Centennial Of The Pecking Order: Current State And Future Prospects For The Study Of Dominance Hierarchies, Eli D. Strauss, James P. Curley, Daizaburo Shizuka, Elizabeth A. Hobson

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

A century ago, foundational work by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe described a ‘pecking order’ in chicken societies, where individuals could be ordered according to their ability to exert their influence over their group-mates. Now known as dominance hierarchies, these structures have been shown to influence a plethora of individual characteristics and outcomes, situating dominance research as a pillar of the study of modern social ecology and evolution. Here, we first review some of the major questions that have been answered about dominance hierarchies in the last 100 years.Next,we introduce the contributions to this theme issue and summarize howthey provide ongoing insight in …

State V. Stephan Respondent's Brief Dckt. 48787

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

The Arkansas Code And Georgia V. Public.Resource.Org, Daniel Bell

Arkansas Law Notes

The United States Supreme Court decided Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (“PRO”) in late April, 2020, a case with major implications for those who rely on the Arkansas statutes. The case addressed whether extra materials Georgia includes in its official statutes, the annotations, can be copyrighted, or if they are in the public domain and can be freely distributed without permission. The case pitted two important competing interests against each other: the ability of citizens to freely access the official versions of laws of their state, versus the interests of a third-party publisher in being compensated for its work. Arkansas produces …

2021-12-03 Minutes & Appendices, Longwood University

Board of Visitors Meeting Minutes 1964-

No abstract provided.

Festival Of Christmas: A Season Of Hope And Love (2021), St. Norbert College Music Department

Music Performances

This is St. Norbert's annual Festival of Christmas Concert, held in the Walter Theatre located at the Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts. This concert celebrates the Christmas season with carols sung with the audience and an assortment of holiday themed performances by the college's ensembles.

Economic Design, Fabrication, And Performance Evaluation Of Conventional Ovens Made Of Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Thermoset Composites, Cornelius Ogbodo Anayo Agbo

Makara Journal of Technology

This study focuses on the development of a conventional oven using glass-fiber-reinforced thermoset composite sandwich panels. The design process considers the thermomechanical properties of the selected materials. The constructed rectangular box oven has the overall dimensions of 450 mm × 450 mm × 600 mm and internal heat chamber dimensions of 400 mm width, 400 mm depth, and 400 mm height with two stack trays for product placement. The sidewalls consist of inner and outer E-glass-fiber-reinforced composite panels with a sandwiched rockwool insulator. The bottom panel of the oven has an inner ceramic tile plate to suspend the electric heating …

Behavior Of High-Plasticity Clay Stabilized With Lime And Rice Husk Ash, Ferry Fatnanta, Soewignjo Agus Nugroho, Andarsin Ongko, Adnan Ruziq Ihsan

Makara Journal of Technology

Soil is an important and fundamental element for building and road construction. However, poor properties of soil can affect the entire construction since the soil will resist the loads transferred from the upper structures. Additives such as cement, lime, and rice husk ash (RHA) can be used as stabilization materials to increase soil strength. This study examined the behavior of stabilized plastic clay mixed with cement, lime, and RHA. The clay stabilization success rate can be measured by the California Bearing Ratio (CBR), unconfined compression strength, and swelling potential. In this study, different mixtures were prepared as samples and tested …

Modeling And Optimization Of Spinning Parameters On Selectivity Of Polysulfone Hollow Fiber Membrane For Co2/Ch4 Separation, Intan Zaurah Mat Darus, Shahab Khademi, Musa Mailah, Lau Woei Jye, Alireza Khademi

Makara Journal of Technology

Hollow fiber membrane (HFM) and related technologies have recently become highly in demand and widely used in most industries and other areas recently. HFM could be used in different functions, from water and gas treatment to blood and medical applications. The paper describes the modeling of the effects of the spinning condition of a nonporous HFM on the membrane’s characteristics with the use of an automated hollow fiber fabrication system. An integrated, systematic experimental strategy based on the design of experiments was used to elaborate the effects of each parameter on selectivity. To obtain and sustain a satisfactory, significant selectivity …

Comparative Study Of Rankine Cycle Power Generation Using Water And Organic Fluids In Saturated And Superheated States, Ghalya Pikra, Henny Sudibyo

Makara Journal of Technology

The Rankine cycle is an electricity generation system that uses water or organic fluids as high-grade or low-grade heat sources, respectively. In this paper, we present the results of our study of Rankine-cycle power generation in which we compared water and organic fluids (toluene and n-nonane) as working fluids in saturated and superheated states. We analyzed the energy and exergy of the Rankine cycle in a saturated vapor state at 300 °C and superheated states at 400 °C and 500 °C (the pressure remained the same as that at 300 °C), and assumed a constant heat input for all states. …

Identification Of Thermophilic Bacteria From Tirta Lebak Buana Hot Spring In Serang, Banten, Indonesia, Kenny Lischer

Makara Journal of Technology

Since Taq polymerase was first explored and identified from thermophilic bacteria, these bacteria have become well-known sources of thermostable enzymes. New thermophilic bacteria have been investigated to broaden biodiversity and translation research. Studies have shown interests in Indonesia because of thermophilic bacteria found in hot springs. This country is traversed by the ring of fire and has more than 70 volcanoes, resulting in the wide distribution of hot springs across the country. Although many reports have been performed, studies have yet to explore thermophilic bacteria in Tirta Lebak Buana hot springs, Java Island, Indonesia. This research was the first to …

Assessing The E-Learning Readiness Of Universities In Developing Countries And Expected Obstacles, Abdelrahim Ate, Samar Zaineldeenc, Cai Zhaohui, Yan Zhao

Makara Journal of Technology

To benefit from electronic learning (E-learning), organizations should execute considerable upfront analysis to ascertain their E-learning readiness. Studies have demonstrated a range of models that have been adapted, but they are used in developed counties for whom E-learning readiness is elevated. Thus, these models are not valid in growing countries, such as Sudan. Based on a modified model, this research was performed descriptively by applying a questionnaire-based survey method to assess the level of Sudan universities’ readiness in the employment of the E-learning system. This modified model includes social support, technology readiness, attitude toward E-learning, acceptance of E-learning, and individual …

Partnering With Hospital Providers To Facilitate Handoff For Persons With Dementia In The Acute Care Setting, Vanessa Jeune

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias cannot verbalize their care needs during transitions of care (TOC) and rely on their home caregivers (HCs) for advocacy. The lack of communication between clinicians in one setting and HCs can lead to detrimental health outcomes for the length of stay.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was: With the assistance of family nurse consultants (P), how does the implementation of standardized care needs communication tool for support persons of persons with dementia (I) vs. no standardized process (C) enhance the ability for the support person to …