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Issue 39

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Driv·Ng Into The Future: The Rise Of Green Transportation In Oberlin, Sydney Rosensaft

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Great Artists Steal, Naci Konar-Steenberg

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Meet The Staff

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Front Matter

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Melting Glaciers And New Diseases: The Mysteries Of The Microorganism, Martina Novajas

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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From Childhood Poverty To Academic Potential: Implications For Social Policy And Educational Equity, Amber Borofsky

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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A Future Hope For Sickle Cell Disease: Historic Fda Approval Of First-Ever Sickle Cell Therapies, Abbie Patchen

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Rat Telekenetics: Hippocampal Cognition And Its Ability To Manipulate Virtual Reality, Will Gordon

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Biological Puppets: The Neuroscience Of Free Will And Determinism, Kate Martin

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Unraveling Addiction: The Mechanisms Behind Alcohol Dependency And Withdrawal, Megan Carslo

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Senior Send-Off

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Revival And Resilience: Interview With Former Editor-In-Chief Gabe Hitchcock, Emma Rekate, Susan Robinson-Cloete

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The Kids Are Not Okay: Increased Screen Time Correlated With Decreased Happiness, Sophie Qano

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Call For Papers

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Uncovering Our Origins: How New Technologies Can Be Used To Interpret Our Ancient Past, Amelia Merithew

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Meet The Staff

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A Case Report On A Women’S Residential Substance Use Program In A Rural And Urban Setting, Deborah Winders Davis, Yana Feygin, Madeline Shipley, Tiffany Cole Hall, Chaly Downs, Stephanie Hoskins, Natalie Pasquenza, Scott D. Duncan, Liza M. Creel

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Purpose To describe program characteristics and outcomes of a residential substance use recovery program serving pregnant and parenting women in a rural and urban location.

Description This assessment of administrative records from April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2022, included women in a rural (n = 140) and urban (n = 321) county in Kentucky.

Assessment This retrospective case study used descriptive and non-parametric analyses to assess the population and examine differences between locations, race, and ethnicity for women served. Logistic regression tested predictors of goal achievement by community. Of 461 women served, 65 (14.1%) delivered a baby while in …

Health Care For People Who Are Incarcerated: Teaching Third-Year Medical Students About Rights, Challenges, And Avenues Of Advocacy, Anna-Maria South, Kelsey N. Karnik, Sara Hieneman, Anthony A. Mangino, Michelle R. Lofwall

Biostatistics Faculty Publications

Introduction: Incarcerated patients are a vulnerable patient population with unique barriers to health care that physicians in every specialty encounter. Current medical school curricula lack universal education on health care for incarcerated people.

Methods: We developed an interactive workshop to provide third-year medical students at the University of Kentucky with information about delivering care outside of dedicated carceral settings to individuals who are incarcerated. The workshop included education on the demographic characteristics and medical conditions present in these populations along with understanding incarcerated persons’ rights to health care and how to interact with them and the associated jail/prison workforce often …

Constraining Magma Oxidation State Through Zircon Trace Elements: Estimating Tungsten Mineralization Potential In Northeastern Washington, Robin Gaudette

All Master's Theses

The oxidation state of a magma (measured by oxygen fugacity, fO₂) controls what reactions are favored during crystallization and what elements are concentrated and potentially precipitated into minerals, making it a key factor in ore-forming processes as some commodity elements are best concentrated under specific redox conditions. Tungsten (W) is best concentrated under reducing magmatic conditions, a characteristic that makes constraining magma oxidation state, done through analysis of zircon trace elements, an essential tool in plutonic tungsten deposit exploration.

This research analyzes the zircon trace elements of several Cretaceous-age intrusions in the region surrounding the now-inactive Germania tungsten …

General Physics Ii - Lab Manual, David Goldberg, Peter Glass

Open Educational Resources

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Agriculture Against The Wall: Barriers And Opportunities For Agroecological Transitions In California’S Industrial Agricultural Landscapes, Estelí Jiménez-Soto, Madeleine Fairbairn, Joji Muramoto, Carol Shennan

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Agroecology emphasizes a shift from low diversity, high chemical input farming to more biodiverse agroecosystems cultivated in conjunction with natural ecosystem processes and embedded in socially just relationships. Yet achieving such agroecological transitions presents enormous challenges in industrial agricultural landscapes dominated by consolidation and overproduction. We examine both the challenges and the opportunities for agroecological transition in one particular industrial agricultural context: the fumigant-dependent strawberry production of California’s Central Coast. We do so by exploring adoption of Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation (ASD), an agroecological alternative to fumigation which has shown considerable promise but has been historically underutilized. Building on previously identified …

Organizational Identity Management Policies, Alexander Rieger, Tamara Roth, Johannes Sedlmeir, Gilbert Fridgen, Amber Young

Information Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Effective identity management is essential for secure organizational processes, but organizations often do not approach it strategically. To break this trajectory, organizational policymakers need to define a clear and sustainable identity management strategy. This paper presents an overview and guidelines to help shape such strategy. It analyzes the key characteristics and trade-offs of today’s identity management models. Moreover, it offers practical recommendations for organizational policymakers when choosing among these models.

Glacial Deposits, Vol. 48, 2024, Department Of Geography, Geology, And The Environment

Glacial Deposits

Newsletter of the Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment

Assessment Of Avian Community Structure And Habitat Connectivity In The Fanno Creek Corridor Bird Surveys, Habitat Assessment, And Management Recommendations, Grace Hall

Environmental Science and Management Professional Master's Project Reports

Urbanization can significantly impact habitat quality and connectivity for avian communities, decreasing species richness and diversity. However, in highly fragmented habitats, urban parks and riparian zones can provide important habitat corridors for birds that facilitate movement and access to essential resources. On the west side of greater Portland, Oregon, Fanno Creek may serve as a habitat corridor for birds and other local wildlife.

Fanno Creek is a 25-kilometer tributary of the Tualatin River that runs through the cities of Portland, Beaverton, Tigard, and Durham in northwestern Oregon. The land surrounding the creek includes residential, commercial, and industrial properties as well …

Flowering Rush (Butomus Umbellatus) Id Guide For The Columbia River, Gabriel Campbell, Jacob Rose

Center for Lakes and Reservoirs Publications and Presentations

This is a picture based field guide for how to identify Flowering Rush (Butomus umbellatus) in the Columbia River throughout Oregon and Washington. It includes how to tell this species from commonly co-occurring look-alike species.

An Image Processing Approach For Real-Time Safety Assessment Of Autonomous Drone Delivery, Assem A. Abdelhak, Dan Moss, Alan Hicks, Susan Mckeever

Articles

The aim of producing self-driving drones has driven many researchers to automate various drone driving functions, such as take-off, navigation, and landing. However, despite the emergence of delivery as one of the most important uses of autonomous drones, there is still no automatic way to verify the safety of the delivery stage. One of the primary steps in the delivery operation is to ensure that the dropping zone is a safe area on arrival and during the dropping process. This paper proposes an image-processing-based classification approach for the delivery drone dropping process at a predefined destination. It employs live streaming …

Designing Ris-Assisted Uav 3d Trajectory Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Linsong Li

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly employed as temporary base stations or access points to facilitate data transfer between ground terminals (GTs). However, in urban environments, UAV-GT communication links often face challenges due to obstructions from buildings and other obstacles, resulting in reduced data transfer efficiency. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) provide a promising solution by reflecting signals to enhance communication quality between UAVs and GTs. This thesis addresses the critical challenge of responsive UAV trajectory optimization in RIS-assisted communication networks. A novel approach is proposed, integrating federated learning with reinforcement learning techniques, specifically Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN) and Deep Deterministic …

Effects Of Timber Harvest On Understory Vegetation Succession: A Time Series Study, Reese A. Poindexter, Trevor Weeks, Chad Bishop, Akasha Faist

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

Timber harvest, as a necessary and common global practice, can significantly affect the ecosystems being harvested through opening the canopy, disturbing the understory, and resetting successional trajectories. This study examined how timber harvest influenced understory plant functional group dominance, understory species richness, and understory species dominance along a 40-year, or older, harvest timeline across two forest types (mesic and xeric) in Northwestern Montana, U.S.A. In our two forest types, vegetation sampling was completed at 208 sites with 1,040 quadrats across six timber-harvest timelines. Harvest timelines varied from the most recent at 1-5 years post-harvest to over 40 years as the …

The Effect Of Seasonal Ice Cover Duration On Shoreline Erosion In Lake Michigan, Ryan S. Navarre

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Shoreline erosion in Lake Michigan has been a significant concern for coastal management. Promoting coastal stability and resilience is paramount to protecting these environments, especially amid climate change. While several factors are key in understanding shoreline erosion, seasonal ice cover duration is a prominent yet understudied factor in the Great Lakes region. Here, the relationship between ice cover duration and shoreline erosion rates is assessed across 7 regions of Lake Michigan. An ice cover duration dataset was created for Lake Michigan for 2011 – 2020 and its shorelines were digitized for years with available high-resolution aerial imagery. The statistical relationship …