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The Van Tac Vu Program: Psychological Warfare in the Vietnam War
Get PDFDuring the Vietnam War, the United States ran an extensive program of psychological warfare in order to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the Vietnamese people. The Van Tac Vu program was one of the many psychological operations conducted by the United States in South Vietnam. Utilizing traveling Vietnamese cultural-drama troupes and drawing from Vietnamese culture, this program sought to win the sympathies of rural Vietnamese whom the Viet Cong were also seeking to influence. The Van Tac Vu cultural-drama troupes had many roles as they worked on the frontlines of the psychological war for Vietnam. They performed propaganda-infused skits, magic shows, songs, and plays for rural audiences, they worked on civic action projects and helped in the construction of houses, bridges, and roads, and they attempted to indoctrinate children through a strategy known as ‘cultural seed-planting.’ Very little scholarship exists on the Van Tac Vu program. For this reason, this thesis highlights this largely unexplored and under-researched aspect of the psychological war in Vietnam, and sheds light on the wider American failure in Vietnam
The Proceedings of GREAT Day Volume 16
Get PDFFrom transitioning into the new library to the introduction of Baby Spruce, this was a year of new beginnings for the Geneseo campus. This issue of The Proceedings of GREAT Day radiates the interdisciplinary spirit of the liberal arts. This year’s volume features work ranging from scientific studies of Keto mice to often unacknowledged histories, and from gender roles in opera to financial literacy at Geneseo. Exclusive interviews highlight accessibility on campus and new innovations in reading comprehension. Inspire your own GREATness and enjoy the variety of what The Proceedings has to offer
Impacts of Declining Bumblebee Populations on Crops & Plants
Get PDFPesticide sustainability is being reevaluated based because the development of queen bee and larval development has been harmed
Farming a Sustainable Salmon
Get PDFNew salmon culturing methods of swirling tanks and modified diets are being tested to increase the appealing type of meat that can be harvested. Early results show promise
Noteworthy Expanded: Creating Spaciousness in Higher Education
Get PDFNoteworthy Expanded: Creating Spaciousness in Higher Education builds on the story of Noteworthy, adding in education-related reflections, inquiries, discoveries, and the new practices they inspired. It builds on Merry\u27s story to explore the intertwined personal and professional journey the author traversed. Alongside the story is a notebook that presents a combination of jottings, drawings, and reflections, and tangible examples of changes and expansion in the undergraduate classroom throughout this journey.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/noteworthy/1001/thumbnail.jp
187 - Exposure to THC Throughout Adolescence Produces Long-Term Deficits in an Object Recognition Task in Rats
Get PDFWith the recent legalization of cannabis across various states, it is becoming more accessible for both medicinal and recreational usage. However, within the medical community, there has been a rise in the possible adverse health concerns of the recent emergence of its recreational use. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is one of the 113 cannabinoid compounds that are more commonly used for its medicinal purposes to treat certain medical conditions, alleviating symptoms of nausea, lack of appetite, and bodily pain. Yet, THC is still largely used recreationally, and one of the primary users are adolescents. The long-term effects of THC exposure are still largely unknown, but with what is currently being discovered, we can acknowledge the potential negative effects that this drug can have on our youth’s development. The present study uses Long Evans rats to show how THC exposure has affected memory in the long term. The sample of rats was divided into groups that had varying levels of THC exposure along with a control group. They were given an object recognition task over the course of 3 consecutive days to see how well they performed in recognizing familiar and unfamiliar objects
256 - The Pathway Between Life Satisfaction and Environmentally Friendly Behavior Mediated Through Personal Distress and Empathetic Concern
Get PDFPrevious studies show that life satisfaction predicts environmentally friendly behaviors. Mayer and Frantz view connectedness to nature as a potential component of life satisfaction, so in this way, we can view life satisfaction as a related component to environmentalism. But mediators and the relationship between this relationship are unclear. This led to the hypothesis that life satisfaction would predict environmentally friendly behaviors through personal distress and empathetic concern. This was tested with a sample of college students at a public liberal arts college who completed a questionnaire with various empathetic and environmental measures and scales. Results confirmed the hypothesis and indicated that this was the only significant pathway involving these mediators, with no direct effects between life satisfaction and environmentally friendly behaviors. Life satisfaction is negatively correlated with personal distress, however personal distress, empathetic concern and environmentally behaviors are in sequence, positively correlated to each other. This provides data in need of further study on how life satisfaction–which is usually correlated to environmentally friendly behavior–can be mediated by variables that change the effects of this relationship
158 - Devonian Nowakia from the Genundewa Limestone, Upper Devonian, Western New York
Get PDFNowakia are microscopic conical fossils of unknown affinities, possibly mollusks, characterized by an ornament of rings and ridges. Nowakiids have been found and studied in Devonian limestones from the Czech Republic and China, but not specifically from the Genudewa Limestone in western New York. Our goal was to quantify the abundance of nowakiids and other dacryoconarids from the upper and lower beds of the Genundewa limestone. Rock samples were collected at both Eighteen Mile Creek near North Evans, and Jones Bridge Road near Geneseo. Materials were collected using chisels and sledge hammers, then crushed, split, and scanned using optical microscopes and then imaged using a scanning electron microscope. Well preserved specimens were found at Eighteen Mile Creek upper and Jones Bridge Road lower. The Genundewa limestone is composed primarily of smooth Styliolina, a type of dacryoconarid. The nowakiid specimens are unlike other species that have been described
204 - Examining the Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Ability and Cannabis Use Frequency
Get PDFEmotion regulation is known to play a role in substance use behavior (Weiss, et. al., 2022), but the relationships with cannabis are not yet widely studied. This analysis examines how emotion regulation (ER) ability, measured by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) 18 (DERS-18; Victor & Klonsky, 2016) is related to cannabis use frequency, measured by the Drug and Alcohol Frequency Questionnaire - Cannabis Use (DFAQ-CU) (DFAQ-CU; Cutler & Spradlin 2017). The hypothesis stated lower ER ability is a predictor of higher cannabis use frequency. 153 participants completed an online questionnaire including these measures, and the data were analyzed using correlation and ANOVA tests. The correlation test showed a significant positive correlation between DERS-18 score and cannabis use frequency (r = 0.263), suggesting greater ER difficulties are associated with increased cannabis consumption. To analyze further, variables were split into groups based on past month cannabis use occurrences and ER ability. An ANOVA test showed no significant differences in ER ability across use levels (low, near daily, and daily use), r = 0.09, p \u3c .05. Another ANOVA showed level of ER ability (DERS score separated by top, middle, and bottom third score) is a predictor of cannabis use frequency between the bottom and middle third score levels. These findings show an association between ER ability and cannabis use frequency, suggesting that ER ability could be an important factor in predicting cannabis use frequency. These findings should be further studied to increase knowledge and awareness on the relationship between ER and substance use behaviors
184 - Characterization of Cytosolic Malate Dehydrogenase of Trypanosoma brucei
Get PDFThe malate dehydrogenase (MDH) enzyme is found in a multitude of organisms functioning in the last step of the TCA cycle. MDH conducts the two-way reaction of malate and NAD+ to oxaloacetate and NADH (1). In humans, there are two major isoforms, cytosolic and mitochondrial. Deeper understanding of the MDH enzyme can expand treatments for parasitic diseases such as African Sleeping disease caused by T.brucei infection. Regulation of parasitic MDH gives the ability to limit the success of infection by inhibiting the protein’s ability to function (2). Since MDH can be controlled through competitive inhibition, drug discovery for T.brucei is the next step in MDH research (2). The objective is to characterize cMDH from T.brucei through protein expression and purification alongside kinetic assays using watermelon glyoxysomal MDH (wgMDH) as a control. Kinetic analysis was performed to obtain quantitative kinetic variables, and citrate was tested as a potential inhibitor for T.brucei cMDH. We were able to successfully express and optimize the purification of T.brucei cMDH, indicated by a pure and distinct band in the range of 34-37 kDa in SDS-PAGE. Bradford assay quantification of protein concentration for T.brucei cMDH was 7.5mg/ml and 9.7mg/ml for wgMDH. The kinetic data for cMDH and wgMDH for differing OAA concentrations revealed a Km of 760.3μM and 48.89μM and Vmax values of 203.3 μM/min and 80.72 μM/min, respectively. The kinetic data for differing NADH concentrations revealed a Km of 51.88uM and 248uM and Vmax values of 0.7594uM/min and 204uM/min for cMDH and wgMDH