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Profits And Pride: The National Origins Of Labor Restriction In Baseball And Football, Lance Ledbetter Jan 2017

Profits And Pride: The National Origins Of Labor Restriction In Baseball And Football, Lance Ledbetter

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 37-48


Quenette Shehane: The Abduction And Murder That Shook Birmingham, Laura King Jan 2017

Quenette Shehane: The Abduction And Murder That Shook Birmingham, Laura King

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 114-122


American Labor Union Comparison, Grace Larkin Jan 2017

American Labor Union Comparison, Grace Larkin

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 16-25


The Body Project: An Intimate History Of American Girls, Haley Kendrick Jan 2017

The Body Project: An Intimate History Of American Girls, Haley Kendrick

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 142-143


From The Disarmament Proposition Of 1898 To The Willy-Nicky Telegrams: Looking At Nicholas Ii As Peacemaker Of Europe, Grace Larkin Jan 2017

From The Disarmament Proposition Of 1898 To The Willy-Nicky Telegrams: Looking At Nicholas Ii As Peacemaker Of Europe, Grace Larkin

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 72-83


From Love Without End, Claribel Alegría Jan 2017

From Love Without End, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 15-16


Nostalgia For The Infinite, Bruce Bond Jan 2017

Nostalgia For The Infinite, Bruce Bond

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 114-115


Autoportrait Sans Moi-Même, Rebecca Foust Jan 2017

Autoportrait Sans Moi-Même, Rebecca Foust

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 163


Rhinoceros, Andrew Glaze Jan 2017

Rhinoceros, Andrew Glaze

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 164


Men In Bars, Kate Angus Jan 2017

Men In Bars, Kate Angus

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 93-95


Seborrhea, Matt W. Miller Jan 2017

Seborrhea, Matt W. Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 208


No One Can Own The Beach, Rachel Morgan Jan 2017

No One Can Own The Beach, Rachel Morgan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 211


Hotel California, Jeffrey Thomson Jan 2017

Hotel California, Jeffrey Thomson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 235-236


System Of Ghosts, Cheyenne Taylor Jan 2017

System Of Ghosts, Cheyenne Taylor

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 287-290


If The Dead Bird In The Gutter Rises Up, Kate Angus Jan 2017

If The Dead Bird In The Gutter Rises Up, Kate Angus

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 91-92


Testament, Claribel Alegría Jan 2017

Testament, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 30


Savoir Faire, Claribel Alegría Jan 2017

Savoir Faire, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29


Seedlings, Daniel Corrie Jan 2017

Seedlings, Daniel Corrie

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 148-153


The Glossator Realizes That Large Birds Are Probably Unstable Signifiers, Leslie Adrienne Miller Jan 2017

The Glossator Realizes That Large Birds Are Probably Unstable Signifiers, Leslie Adrienne Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 207


The Reckoning Remedy, Brian Laidlaw Jan 2017

The Reckoning Remedy, Brian Laidlaw

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 186-187


Documentary, Claribel Alegría Jan 2017

Documentary, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 25-28


Religious/Spiritual Coping And Attributional Styles Among Adolescents With Chronic Health Conditions And Their Parents: Reciprocal Relationships Over Time, Christina Marie D'Angelo Jan 2017

Religious/Spiritual Coping And Attributional Styles Among Adolescents With Chronic Health Conditions And Their Parents: Reciprocal Relationships Over Time, Christina Marie D'Angelo

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Adolescents with chronic health conditions and their parents typically utilize various coping strategies, including religious/spiritual coping, to manage the stress associated with a chronic health condition, yet few studies have examined how parent and adolescent religious/spiritual coping relate to other cognitive factors, such as attributional styles. Additionally, it is important to investigate how parent and adolescent coping and attributional styles influence each other. Better understanding of the temporal dynamics between adolescents’ and parents’ attributions and religious/spiritual coping has important implications for whom and what to target in interventions to help families cope with the challenges of a chronic health condition. …


Antiseptic, Elizabeth Ann Tompkins Jan 2017

Antiseptic, Elizabeth Ann Tompkins

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“Antiseptic” is a collection of five stories that explore the ways family dynamics shift under hardships. The collection navigates how shifts affect both children and adults. Why do some family members wither, some simply survive, while others flourish under the pressure of a difficult experience? But these stories are not looking for specific answers. Instead, the questions are starting places for developing the internal struggles of the main characters. Where those struggles take the main characters is something that the collection explores. The collection is connected not only by the thread of family, but also by the range of emotions …


Delivery Of Deoxyribonucleic Acids As Drugs: A Structural Study, Encapsulation, And Controlled Release Of G-Quadruplex Forming Deoxyoligonucleotides Of The Human Telomeric Sequence, Brenna Alyssa Tucker Jan 2017

Delivery Of Deoxyribonucleic Acids As Drugs: A Structural Study, Encapsulation, And Controlled Release Of G-Quadruplex Forming Deoxyoligonucleotides Of The Human Telomeric Sequence, Brenna Alyssa Tucker

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Nucleic acids are known to play numerous important roles in the cell. Recently, interest in the delivery of DNA to treat disease, also known as gene therapy, has increased with new non-viral encapsulation strategies becoming available. Unfortunately, challenges with sufficient delivery of the DNA still plague these systems causing the need for improved DNA delivery vehicles. To overcome DNA delivery barriers, two-component poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA)/ poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PVPON) microcapsules were developed using Layer-by-Layer (LbL) technology. G-quadruplex forming deoxyoligonucleotides of the human telomeric sequence were used to model the delivery of the thrombin binding aptamer (TBA), a DNA therapeutic that folds into …


Blackbird In Flight, Holly Watson Jan 2017

Blackbird In Flight, Holly Watson

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Set in the fictional town of Raynham, Alabama in the Tennessee Valley region, Blackbird in Flight opens with the voice of Fenton Knox as he reminisces about the day four-year-old Molly Sutherland drowned at the drip hole where he and his family were picnicking with the Sutherlands. Fenton, who was fifteen at the time, sees a snake in the water and inaccurately assumes it is a cottonmouth. In an attempt to catch and kill the snake, Fenton is bitten. As the remaining adults attend to Fenton’s wound and successfully eliminate the snake, Molly wanders out into the water unsupervised and …


Kinetic Mechanisms Of Atp-Dependent Disaggregating Motors Escherichia Coli Clpb And Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Hsp104, Clarissa Lynn Weaver Jan 2017

Kinetic Mechanisms Of Atp-Dependent Disaggregating Motors Escherichia Coli Clpb And Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Hsp104, Clarissa Lynn Weaver

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E. coli ClpB and S. cerevisiae Hsp104 help cells survive and adapt to environmental stress. Extreme stress denatures proteins, causing toxic aggregates to form. ClpB/Hsp104 resolve aggregates, returning damaged proteins to their proper fold and function or releas-ing them for degradation. This function, broadly defined as protein remodeling, is com-mon to AAA+ proteins. This superfamily also shares common structural elements includ-ing Walker A and Walker B motifs in the nucleotide binding domain(s). ClpB/Hsp104 have two NBDs, similar to ClpA. ClpB/Hsp104 also have a middle (M) domain, unique to the disaggregases. Because disaggregases do not covalently modify their substrates, monitoring the …


Cftr Snp Accumulation In The Context Of Evolutionary Fitness, Zackery Ezekiel Plyler Jan 2017

Cftr Snp Accumulation In The Context Of Evolutionary Fitness, Zackery Ezekiel Plyler

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Progress in whole genome sequencing in multiple species has provided new knowledge regarding the origins and evolution of large, disease associated genes such as the cystic fibrosis conductance regulator (CFTR). In this context, mechanisms that underlie human mutation, sequence fault tolerance, and maintenance of DNA integrity from the perspective of protein plasticity represent areas of considerable interest. The common occurrence of mutations within CFTR, including the F508del allele, provide a powerful system for studies of this sort. In this project, we consider the stability and persistence of CFTR in terms of longevity, accumulation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and effects …


Cognitive Correlates Of Driving Behavior In Older Adults With Hiv, Caitlin Northcutt Pope Jan 2017

Cognitive Correlates Of Driving Behavior In Older Adults With Hiv, Caitlin Northcutt Pope

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) currently affects over 1 million individuals in the United States. It is estimated that by the year 2020, up to 70% of individuals with HIV in the United States will be ages 50 and older, as these individuals live longer due to more advanced medicine and later diagnosis. Aging research suggests individuals with HIV may be at risk for accelerated or accentuated aging making age-related deficits, particularly with cognition and everyday functioning, of public concern. The current study investigated the complex associations between age, HIV disease state, cognition, health, and driving in 139 older adults (Mage …


An Examination Of The Neuropsychological Construct Executive Function And How It May Be Impacted By Cognitive And Exercise Interventions, Erica Schmidt Jan 2017

An Examination Of The Neuropsychological Construct Executive Function And How It May Be Impacted By Cognitive And Exercise Interventions, Erica Schmidt

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Background: There is a growing body of literature supporting the beneficial effects of cognitive training and exercise training on executive function (EF) in older adults. More recently, evidence is amassing that interventions which combine cognitive and physical activity, for example, exergames, may confer even greater cognitive benefits. Comparison of EF interventions for older adults requires more investigation and would benefit from improved operationalization of the EF construct and better understanding of factors which predict baseline EF in older adults. Methods and Results: Fifty-seven sedentary, non-gamer, community dwelling older adults were randomly assigned to one of three intervention groups (computerized cognitive …


Mathematical Modeling Of Brain Tumors Advances Patient Care, Oncogenesis, And The Use Of In Silico Clinical Trials, Elizabeth Yates Scribner Jan 2017

Mathematical Modeling Of Brain Tumors Advances Patient Care, Oncogenesis, And The Use Of In Silico Clinical Trials, Elizabeth Yates Scribner

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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a uniformly fatal form of brain cancer that can exhibit unpredictable responses to dierent rate-reducing therapies. Here, we construct a mathematical model of brain tumor growth and utilize in silico clinical trials to investigate the unusual behavior of GBM. We also use the model to study the progression of grade 2 and grade 3 tumors to higher grades like GBM. Simulations in Chapter 1 lead to the identication of a previously unknown pattern of progression under anti-angiogenic (AA) therapy, which we call \Expanding FLAIR + Necrosis." Model analysis predicts that clinical features of this growth would …