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Dent-Als: Dentistry’S Virtual Reality Serious Gaming Solution For Advanced Life Support Training, Jesse Manton

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THE GOAL: To develop a novel virtual reality (VR),interactive dental clinical environment wherein learners can engage with various clinical scenarios involving patient avatars, dental personnel and medical equipment consistent with a real-world dental office.

THE PURPOSE: To utilize this VR environment for training dental learners to develop skills for recognizing a patient requiring urgent or emergent care and initiating evaluation and management in dental setting, a requisite skill for all dentists in clinical practice.

THE POTENTIAL: A VR based learning environment allows learners to access these resources from remote locations, providing a cost effective and easily distributed simulation training solution. …

Revenue Classification Shifting: Does Ceo Gender Matter?, Wenjing Ouyang

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Instead of managing bottom-line earnings, firms may use revenue classification shifting to inflate core earnings due to its less risky, less costly, but viable features. Using a sample of 36,427 US firm-year observations from 1993-2019, we show that female CEO-led earnings management suspect firms, i.e., those that just beat important earnings threshold, engage in less revenue classification shifting than those with male CEOs in the pre-SOX period, but increase revenue classification shifting after SOX. Further analyses indicate that these firms substitute revenue classification shifting for real earnings management under a stricter monitoring environment after SOX. The results are robust to …

Inviting Faculty To Assess Undergraduate Student Learning Of The Core Competencies With Canvas Outcomes And Rubrics, Jessica Grady

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This project set up the infrastructure to pilot the use of Canvas to gather course-level data on student performance on University-wide Learning Outcomes (ULOs). Faculty were recruited to score student work using established rubrics that they embedded into their Canvas courses. The goal was to lay the groundwork for a decentralized model of assessing ULOs that can produce core competency results at the program level (versus a centralized university level) that faculty are more likely to use to inform their teaching and improve student learning.

A Sports Performance Major At Pacific, Lou Matz

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Myles Brand, the first President of the NCAA to be a former faculty member and university president, offered a provocative defense of the role and value of intercollegiate athletics in universities. He argued that they are substantively similar to traditional performing arts, such as dance and music, and so should be accepted by faculty as a legitimate part of a university’s educational mission. I contend that Brand did not bring his persuasive analogical argument to its logical conclusion: intercollegiate athletics should become a part of the academic curriculum by contributing to a new, first-of-its kind 'Sports Performance’ major. In my …

Transpacific Literary And Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence In Asia, Jie Lu

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This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the …

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The N-Terminus Of Mif Controls The Flexibility Of Specific Β-Sheet Residues Resulting In Dynamic Regulation Of Cd74 Activation, Georgios Pantouris

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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pleiotropic protein with catalytic, CD74, CXCR2, CXCR4, and nuclease activities that contribute to the pathology of various inflammatory disorders, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. The majority of MIF-triggered pathological conditions are associated with the activation of CD74, MIF’s cell surface receptor. The mechanistic details of MIF-induced activation of CD74 were mostly unknown until recently where it was shown that intramolecular dynamic signals transmitted from an allosteric center regulate the CD74activation site on MIF’s surface. Via backbone dynamic signals, the same center also controls the enzymatic pocket of MIF and more specifically the catalytically active …

Tiger Strides: Walk With Me Summer 2021 Library Fellowship, Lisa Cooperman

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Pacific Advanced Collaboration Summer Fellowships are interdisciplinary, technology-enhanced experiences rooted in the collaborative ideals of Project Based Learning. Sponsored by the University Library, teams embark each summer on short, but intensive inquiries into complex, open-ended questions. The Summer 2021 fellowship centered on student-led investigations into the cultural histories of the Stockton campus. Research revealed a theme of student driven initiatives that propelled social change. To connect classmates past and present with their findings, the fellows devised and published a phone app for an augmented reality walking tour of selected campus sites. Supported by faculty and staff team with expertise in …

Metabolic Responses To Prolonged Fasting In A Naturally Obese Marine Mammal, Jane Khudyakov

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Many animals undergo fasting in order to survive during periods of severe weather, food scarcity, migration, or reproduction. While most animals decrease their metabolism while fasting, northern elephant seals fast for several months while undergoing energy-intensive activities such as molting and reproduction. Seals fuel their energy needs with large fat stores that they accumulate while foraging at sea, resembling human patients with diabetes and obesity (insulin sensitivity, high levels of glucose and fat) while fasting. While some of the hormone signals involved in fasting have been identified, the molecular mechanisms that regulate healthy metabolic adaptations to fasting in seals are …

Sabbaticals Are About Space...Sometimes Vector Space, Anthony Dutoi

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A sabbatical is supposed to be about having the space to do the research you would usually not be able to get to. My plan was to wander around in 2D spaces, selling my ideas to other groups, connecting my projects with theirs, and connecting myself with their grad students (for both short- and long-term gain). Well, my physical space became limited to that of a spare bedroom, but it was quiet. And, fortunately, I am a theorist.

I spent my pre-tenure years investing heavily in specific way of re-writing the equations that dictate how electrons behave, which should be …

Kam Minority Heritage Archive, Marie Lee

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In collaboration with the library, this project created an online archive of cultural heritage of the little-known Kam minority people in remote Guizhou Province in China. The archive consists of photographs, video recordings, audio recordings and field notes created by Marie Lee from 2009 to 2014 for the Kam Heritage Project. The archive is hosted at Pacific’s Scholarly Commons. Currently, there are over 3,000 photographs and videos uploaded in the archive. There have been over 43,000 downloads from viewers from all over the world, the majority coming from the education sector in the USA.

Survey Of Medical Marijuana Knowledge And Attitudes In A Dental School, Dara Szyliowicz

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Medical Marijuana (MM) use is increasing, requiring healthcare professionals, such as dentists, to increase their working knowledge of MM. Previous studies have indicated that MM education is lacking in current healthcare education.

Methods: A 50-question survey was created to assess, in detail, dentists' knowledge, practice, and attitudes toward MM, and to identify possible correlations between answers. The survey was modeled after a previous survey conducted amongst practicing pharmacists. All faculty dentists, faculty dental hygienists, students and residents at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, were invited by email to participate.

Results: A total of 277 …

What's So Special About Specifications Grading? Student Perceptions Across Three Universities, Carla Strickland-Hughes

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Problems with traditional grading include creating stress for instructors and students (e.g., Kohn, 1999), demotivating students (e.g., Butler, 1988),encouraging students to adopt avoidant learning goals (Pulfrey et al., 2011),and fostering competitive rather than cooperative environments (Schinske &Tanner, 2014). Specifications (“specs”) grading (Nilson, 2014) is a system that promises to solve these problems by assessing mastery of course learning outcomes on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. By recommendation, "satisfactory” scores are set at a rigorous “B” level, and higher final grades are earned from completing more and/or higher-level satisfactory work. Advocates of specs grading (Nilson, 2014) argue that several evaluative criteria underscore benefits …

3 Capd Awards Helped Generate 2 National Presentations And 5 Publications., Chi Tran

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There were 3 CAPD awards that have resulted in 2 presentations at national meetings and they also helped in the publication of 5 articles in peer-reviewed professional dental journals. There were 15 faculty, 4 pre-doctoral and 2 postdoctoral students who were involved:

CAPD.(2020) "Presentation at American Dental Education Association Meeting," award to Booth, Tran

Presentation-Greene RS, Greene SS, Tran CD. Graphic rapid extrusion: evolutionary novel electronic orthodontic management guide. Accepted for presentation American Dental Education Association. March 12, 2021 Boston, MA (Virtual)

Publication- Greene RS, Greene SS, Tran CD. Graphic rapid extrusion: evolutionary novel electronic orthodontic management guide. Journal of …

Discovery Of Novel Triplex Dna Binding Ligands, Liang Xue

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Triplex DNA formation has attracted interest in anti-gene therapy as it can interfere with many pathogenic activities, including replication halt and gene expression regulation. Triplex DNA is not as stable as duplex DNA under physiological conditions. Small molecules, known as anti-gene enhancers, have been used to facilitate the formation of triplex DNA. In the present work, I report the discovery of a novel class of small molecules that can bind to triplex DNA with high affinities but do not influence the structures of duplex DNA.