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Annual All Saints Day Tribute to the Culture, 19th, presented by Backstreet Cultural Museum.
No full textIn 1999, The Backstreet Cultural Museum established a new tradition, its annual All Saints Day Second Line. It is held to honor those who passed during the year and to pay tribute to jazz funerals in the continuing mission to keep this important cultural tradition alive -- Geraldine Wyckoff.
The video features Oswald Jones, Grand Marshall, the Treme Brass Band and All Saints\u27 Altar.
The event is sponsored by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home, the Neighborhood Story Project, Charbonnet Family Services, the Departments of Anthropology and Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans, and the Boebel family.https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/1016/thumbnail.jp
Documenting Student Life: Using Omeka To Connect Students To The University Archives
Get PDFMany institutional archives struggle to gain and maintain student participation in documenting the student experience. The history, images, and records of students and their various organizations are fundamental to the narrative of the university. Capturing the experiences of students and campus life is a difficult task as students create organizations, plan and attend events, and maintain a social media presence, all of which are rarely documented in university archives. At this institution, the Special Collections department wanted to increase students’ use of services and resources, and increase student donations to the archives to grow student-centered collections
Hope for Transformation: the Metaphorical Broken Window that Distinguishes High-Poverty, Low-Performing Schools from High-poverty, High-performing schools.
Get PDFThis study examined the phenomenon of the difference between high-poverty, low-performing schools and high-poverty, high-performing (H-P/L-P & H-P/H-P schools through the metaphorical lens of Kelling and Wilson\u27s 1982 Criminal Justice Broken Windows Theory. The Broken Windows Theory describes the norm-setting and beckoning effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime. Previous research found that H-P/H-P schools had a collaborative school culture. This research used elements of school culture as metaphorical broken windows. The study employed a cross-sectional phenomenology mixed methods design to examine school performance scores, school routines and school culture. Results indicate that when students experienced unstable enrollment, lacked a sense of school ownership, felt as though school personnel were not willing to help them succeed, or when the surrounding community was not involved in the school, these were metaphorical broken windows that created the difference between the two types of high-poverty schools. Additional findings indicate H-P/H-P school students had a greater sense of belonging and school pride that the H-P/L-P school students were lacking. Little school ownership nor sense of belonging, negative perceptions of fairness, and lackadaisical attitudes toward the schools\u27 social environment were metaphorical broken windows that kept H-P/L-P high schools\u27 low-performing. The impact of this study\u27s findings are the identification of themes that H-P/H-P high schools employ resulting in the potential to increase any school\u27s performance score, sustainable teacher-student ratios, provide principals with predictable staffing patterns, and maintain consistent budgetary requirements within a school district
Erratum: Author Correction: Concise N-doped Carbon Nanosheets/Vanadium Nitride Nanoparticles Materials via Intercalative Polymerization for Supercapacitors (Scientific reports (2018) 8 1 (2915))
No full textA correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper
Vesicles Mimicking Normal and Cancer Cell Membranes Exhibit Differential Responses to the Cell-penetrating Peptide Pep-1
No full textThe cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) Pep-1 presents a great potential in drug delivery due to its intrinsic property to cross plasma membrane. However, its mechanism of entry into the cell remains unresolved. In this study, we compare the selectivity of Pep-1 towards vesicles mimicking normal and cancer cell membranes. The interaction was performed in a wide range of peptide-to-lipid molar ratios using infrared (IR), fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) techniques. At low peptide concentration, fluorescence experiments show that lipid-phosphatidylserine (PS) seems to enable Pep-1 translocation into cancer cell membrane as evidenced by the blue shift of its maximal emission wavelength. DSC data show that Pep-1 induces segregation of lipids. At high peptide concentration, IR data indicate that the interaction of Pep-1 is relatively stronger with normal cell membrane than with cancer cell membrane through the phosphate groups, while the interaction is weaker with normal cell membrane than with cancer cell membrane through the carbonyl groups. TGA and DSC data reveal that vesicles of normal cell membrane are thermally more stable than vesicles of cancer cell membrane. This suggests that the additional lipid PS included in cancer cell membrane has a destabilizing effect on the membrane structure. SEM images reveal that Pep-1 form superstructures including spherical particles and fibrils in the presence of both model membranes. PS seems to enhance peptide transport across cellular membranes. The biophysical techniques in this study provide valuable insights into the properties of CPPs in drug delivery systems
Purification of Metal-dependent Lysine Deacetylases with Consistently High Activity
No full textMetal-dependent lysine deacetylases (KDACs) are involved in regulation of numerous biological and disease processes through control of post-translational acetylation. Characterization of KDAC activity and substrate identification is complicated by inconsistent activity of prepared enzyme and a range of multi-step purifications. We describe a simplified protocol based on two-step affinity chromatography. The purification method is appropriate for use regardless of expression host, and we demonstrate purification of several representative members of the KDAC family as well as a selection of mutated variants. The purified proteins are highly active and consistent across preparations
Xavier University Library Collections Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1
Get PDFIn this, the first installation of our quarterly newsletter, we’re taking a look at what we did over the summer (we made improvements to the library, of course!). We added resources that will make it easier for you to conduct your research from where ever you’re sitting.https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/archives_newsletter/1000/thumbnail.jp
Interrupting the Patterns: a Phenomenological Study of African American Women Re-purposing Leadership via the Intersectionality of Plato and Critical Race Theory
Get PDFThis phenomenological qualitative research explored the effects of race and gender on the capacity of five African American women leaders. Although women are occupying more top posts in the American workforce, leadership opportunities for African American women remain elusive despite record post-secondary degree attainment. The purpose of the study was to examine how each woman navigated leadership and derived meaning from the journey through the metaphorical lens of Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” and the intersectionality of Critical Race Theory. The researcher collected data via questionnaires and interviews. Results of the analysis revealed four themes: leadership etiquette, leadership preeminence, leadership tenacity, and leadership truths. A finding confirmed that culture influenced the African American woman’s approach to and definition of leadership responsibilities. The results indicate a need to expand leadership theory that includes the realities of a diverse nation