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19. 100 Years Ago in Gainesville; Digital Restoration of The Ramsey Collection
No full textThe Northeast Georgia History Center recently received a donation of 2,000 glass negatives from the 1920s and 30s. The donation came from a gentleman who found them in his warehouse in Ohio. These photographs were taken in Gainesville, but we are not sure how they migrated from Georgia to Ohio. As an Intern at the History Center, my job is to observe, scan, and preserve the negatives. My poster will show the process by which each negative is carefully scanned, placed in a sleeve, labeled, and placed in a box. All the negatives are stored in a cool environment with no light exposure. These negatives are especially important to Gainesville history because they bring visual evidence of what people and places looked like during this period in Gainesville’s history. Common images in these negatives are portraits, profiles, and family pictures. This evidence can help historians observe the importance of items that individuals incorporated into their portraits to show their wealth and status
18. Cloning and expression of functional domains of PyrD and PyrR as a bifunctional enzyme for potential use in the biofortification of Riboflavin in plants
No full textRiboflavin (vitamin B2) is the precursor of the flavin cofactors, flavin mononucleotide (FMN), and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). The deaminase and reductase steps in riboflavin biosynthesis are catalyzed by the bifunctional enzyme RibD in Escherichia coli. Plants have two homologs of RibD, PyrD (At4g20960) and PyrR (At3g47390). The plant PyrD protein is known to be a degenerate deaminase-reductase in which the reductase domain has lost critical substrate binding residues and hence activity. The plant three-domain PyrR protein has lost the zinc-binding residues and is recently shown lacks deaminase activity. Interestingly, both the PyrD and PyrR are multi-domain proteins in which reductase domain and deaminase domains deactivated respectively. We have created a chimeric gene in which the functional domains of PyrD and PyrR are fused. To test the activity of the plants reconstructed bifunctional deaminase/reductase enzyme we have created a riboflavin auxotrophic E. coli RibD deletant mutant (ΔribD::Kan), which also carriers a riboflavin transporter (RibM) from C. glutamicum. After confirming in vivo activity of reconstructed deaminase/reductase gene we will express the gene in E. coli and purify the recombinant protein to study the enzyme activity in vitro. The recombinant enzyme kinetic data will be compared with the kinetic activities of PyrD and PyrR. This study may allow us to discuss the evolutionary advantage of deactivating the reductase domain in PyrD and the deaminase domain in PyrR in plants. The reconstructed deaminase-reductase bifunctional gene may be a useful gene in the biofortification study of riboflavin in plants
[1] Pizza Portal
No full textThis is the display image and includes a link to the trailer created for the Visual Novel, Pizza Portal.
Below is the link to the youtube video of the trailer:
https://youtu.be/aBMRbVLyuIghttps://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1068/thumbnail.jp
[9] Being and Company
No full textA project exploring both screen-printing and graphic design. It is a tote bag company based on environmentally friendly practices and techniques. Being and Company was created to inform users of environmentally friendly practices.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1009/thumbnail.jp
[4] Sustitch Display
No full textArtist Statement
Mother, you have given me life
You have cradled me in your bosom
You have made me who I am
Mother, we have taken, we have consumed
We have become greedy in our growth
We have clawed you of your skin
We have lost our way to you
Mother, I have sinned against you
I recognize the destruction in my wake
I regret the damage I shadow
I am guilty of all charges
Mother, I beg for your forgiveness
I will change my ignorant ways
I will strive to amend my past
I will heal the wounds I sored
This I promise to you
With all my being
With my siblings beside me
As we struggle to redeem ourselveshttps://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1082/thumbnail.jp
[2] Pizza Portal
No full textHave you ever had the opportunity to deliver pizza to the elusive cryptid Big Foot? No? Would you like the chance to you? Pizza Portal employers pride themselves in providing an exciting and stable job opportunity that serves the community while strengthening relationships between workers and citizens of this city. At this job you will work with your coworkers to provide and deliver pizzas to Pizza Portal customers, which may or may not happen to be a variety of monsters and creatures.
Explore the characters of this town by playing the visual novel Pizza Portal, an interactive text-based story with a narrative style story telling aided by static or sprite-based visuals. This game acts as an interactive comic the player is thrown into to deal with awkward situations they are unfamiliar with. In Pizza Portal you will play as a new hire who has arrived for their first day as a pizza delivery driver for Pizza Portal, the pizza shop of this town. You make a bet with a new coworker that you will get a certain number of tips which you can only achieve by choosing the correct dialogue options in every customer interaction.
The developer of this game aimed to create a project that was a blend of familiar skills, illustration and storytelling, and unfamiliar skills, videogames, and coding. The visual novel game engine Renpy was used for the creation of the game, and the app Procreate was used for the illustrations. The goal was to make an easy, low stress game that anyone could play and enjoy, whether they have played a game or not. The developer drew inspiration from popular visual novels like Doki Doki Literature Club for the visual novel medium, and the cartoon Gravity Falls for the concept comedic monster interactions. Pizza Portal focuses on awkward and comedic encounters that play off monster and pop culture stereotypes. Do you know how old the Loch Ness Monster is on their birthday? I hope so because the wrong guess could be offensive and endanger your tip!
So, the ultimate question stands. Do you play this game? That depends. Do you want to know how much pizza dragons normally order? If Moth man like your monster jokes? Can ghosts pay for food? Would zombies be meat lover pizza fans? If so, this game is the game for you!
*Pizza Portal is not responsible for any harm that comes to employees when interacting with customers. This is acknowledged in the application for employment.
Below is the URL to the website where the game can be downloaded:
https://lelart.itch.io/pizza-portalhttps://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1069/thumbnail.jp
[1] Being and Company
No full textA project exploring both screen-printing and graphic design. It is a tote bag company based on environmentally friendly practices and techniques. Being and Company was created to inform users of environmentally friendly practices.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1000/thumbnail.jp
[1.5] Finding Your Why
No full textWhen viewing a new piece of artwork, many people attempt to draw their own conclusions, make assumptions, and create a meaning for a piece that they had no hand in making. Yes, individual interpretation is an essential aspect of visual art, but how often do you stop and ask the artist “why?”
Why did you make this piece? What inspired you? Why do you make art? Why are you like this? Who hurt you? Who loved you? What was your favorite color in third grade and why did you name your fish after a Disney princess? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
This research project, this documentation, this body of work, this zine is an exploration of the artist’s mind. It is meant to both inform the viewer of the deeper aspects of why an artist makes a piece, series, body, or exhibit and to raise new questions. I want you to question everything. I want you to ask why I did this. I want you to question every single decision you have ever made and then hate me for it because you can’t stop.
My interest in the “why” stems from my constant and insufferable overthinking about my interactions and other people’s interactions. I hyper-analyze, I question everything, and I try to understand people. So, this topic really gives me the opportunity to do that.
Through my research and documentation, I hope to have inspired those presented in my work to question their work and Find the Why in their practice.
All rights associated with the works displayed in this zine remain with their respective creators.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1031/thumbnail.jp
Bell Tower and Entrance
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/gscphotos/1009/thumbnail.jp
U.S. Veterans Experience Moral Injury Differently Based on Moral Foundations Preferences
Full text linkThis study is the first to examine the relationship between moral foundations preferences and the severity of moral injury symptoms reported by U.S. veterans. A total of 85 participants were recruited through social media pages for veterans, and participants completed an online survey assessing their severity and type of moral injury and their preferences for each of the five core moral foundations. Viewing moral injury through the lens of the moral foundations theory allows for an in-depth understanding of the cause and nature of moral injury. Overall, veterans’ preferences for different groups of moral foundations had a significant relationship with the severity of the subtypes of moral injury they experienced. Veterans who have experienced a potentially morally injurious event (pMIE) and are suffering from moral injury as a result are likely not receiving adequate treatment, as moral injury is often masked and presents as alternative diagnoses (PTSD, depression, etc.). Assessing veterans’ moral foundations preferences in addition to determining the severity of their self- and other-directed moral injury will allow for more effective treatments to be developed and implemented