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Integrating Grammar into Language Communication: A Reform of Novice-level Chinese Grammar Instruction with the Performed Culture Approach
Get PDFGrammar is an essential component of language communication and should be taught to enhance learners’ communicative competence. However, an analysis of a widely used Chinese textbook for beginners reveals that the grammar explanations often focus on form and may not always be comprehensible, even when presented in the learners’ native language. Learners’ prior grammar knowledge in both English and Chinese is not fully utilized. The drills primarily focus on mechanical form substitution, and do not actively engage learners. The Performed Culture Approach offers a solution by presenting grammar within social-cultural contexts to help learners better understand the communicative intent. Grammar rules are interconnected with language meaning and language use. The learning material is designed to enhance input and facilitate language intake. Through language practice, learners can further internalize language communication with embedded grammar structures. ACT and FACT classes are designed to help learners hone accurate and appropriate language communication skills
Memorization and Performance Watching: Practicing Welfare Linguistics in Performed Culture Approach
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On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
No full textA Tale of Two Kinshasas, or The Plurality of Everyday Postcolonialism -- The AYA Effect, or Marguerite Abouet's Timely and Timeless Interventions -- Reframing Migration in the Twenty-First Century -- Black Bandes Dessinées and Decolonial Ecocriticism -- Coda : Black Bandes Dessinées and BeyondItem embargoed for three year
Interactions Between Septins and a Protein Involved in Autophagy
Get PDFAutophagy is known as the cell’s recycling system, which allows it to collect and break down cytoplasmic components that are old, damaged, or targeted for degradation. This process is essential for cell maintenance and survival, and it can cause many ailments when dysregulated. It has been suggested that a family of conserved GTP binding proteins called septins may play a role in modulating autophagy. Through multiple assays investigating protein-protein interactions, we confirm that the core septins Cdc3 and Cdc10 do interact with the autophagy related protein Atg8. We also identify the conserved sequences in both Cdc3 and Cdc10 that allow for interaction with Atg8.No embargoAcademic Major: Molecular Genetic
Development of Conductive Emitter for Dynamic Spray Mass Spectrometry
Get PDFMass spectrometry relies heavily on the initial ionization step, influencing metabolic coverage and detection limits in complex mixtures. Existing ionization methods struggle with samples of diverse physiochemical properties (polar/non-polar and high/low molecular weight) using a single source. To overcome this, we present a novel ionization source capable of sequential ionization across a wide range without requiring sample preparation or chromatography. This ionization mandates constant voltage changes as various analytes require different voltages for ionization. Herein, we have developed a simple, robust, and highly sensitive dynamic spray source with voltage ramping capabilities, coupled with conductive glass emitters, enabling detection of molecules with varying physiochemical properties and biological samples from a single source with automatic voltage tuning capable of high throughput application. Our dynamic spray source features an electrodeless design with a single emitter made of disposable conductive borosilicate class capillaries, operating within a DC voltage of 0 to ±8 kV. The voltage waveform increases or decreases linearly over time, enabling conventional nanoelectrospray ionization (nESI) at initial voltages (1-2 kV) and transitioning to micodroplet/gas-phase ionization for atmospheric chemical ionization (APCI). This method works in both positive and negative-ion modes, allowing for the sequential detection of diverse analytes in complex mixtures and biofluids. At higher voltages (>4 kV), corona discharge is initiated at the pointed tips of the borosilicate glass capillaries, generating nonthermal plasma. Initially, commercially available conductively plated PicoTips were used, but their high cost and limited size options led to the development of in-house conductive emitters. Three methods—silver ink coating, chemical silver plating, and gold-palladium sputter coating—were explored to create affordable, stable capillaries capable of plasma generation. Sputter coating proved most effective, improving ionization efficiency by automatically optimizing voltage conditions for sensitive nonpolar analytes while maintaining emitter stability for extended analysis of small volumes The dynamic spray source operates under ambient conditions, enabling high-throughput analysis of an equimolar mixture of 20 biomolecules, including dietary supplements, fatty acids, drugs, sugars, and amino acids. This approach streamlines metabolite profiling, reduces resource demands, and expands applications for portable mass spectrometry. Overall, dynamic spray ionization provides robust biomolecule detection from complex mixtures using a single conductive glass emitter, offering a powerful platform for high-throughput biomedical research.No embargoAcademic Major: Chemistr
Household Food Waste: Unassociated with Veteran Status
No full textFood waste is a significant issue with environmental and economic implications. This study investigates the impact of veteran status on household food waste, hypothesizing that veteran households generate less food waste than the general population. Using data from the Ohio State/RECIPES National Household Food Waste Tracking Survey, differences in total food discard weight and waste composition between veteran and non-veteran households were analyzed. Findings indicate no statistically significant difference in overall food waste patterns between the two groups. Regression analysis reveals that income and participation in SNAP benefits are more predictive of food waste than veteran status. Additionally, attitudinal factors, such as perceptions of food waste’s ethical and national impact, influence discard behavior. Given the similarities in waste trends, we recommend that federal food waste reduction initiatives maintain a broad focus rather than tailoring interventions specifically for veteran households. Future research should explore food waste behaviors among active-duty military personnel and waste reduction strategies in military dining facilities (DFACs).No embargoAcademic Major: Agribusiness and Applied Economic
Comparison of Non-Contact and Contact Thermometers in Evaluating the Body Temperatures of Healthy Horses
Get PDFThe Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, Third Place in Insects and Other Animal SciencesMonitoring a horse's body temperature is essential for assessing its health and detecting early signs of illness. Body temperature in horses is commonly measured using a digital rectal thermometer (DRT). Although accurate, this method presents safety concerns for both horses and handlers. Non-contact infrared thermometers (NCIT) were widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic as a rapid and non-invasive way of measuring temperatures. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and reliability of an NCIT in comparison with a DRT. The body temperature of ten adult Quarter Horses housed at The Ohio State University Equine Facility was measured weekly over five consecutive weeks (n=50). For each horse, body temperature was measured with a DRT and a NCIT in four different locations (under the tail, heart girth, forehead, and throat latch) at two distances from the body (3.8 and 7.6 cm). Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated using PROC CORR (SAS v. 9.4). The mean rectal temperature was 3.4 ± 17.3°C. In this study, the NCIT was not able to measure the body temperature at the horse’s forehead or throat latch at either distance. Mean differences recorded between the rectal body temperature and the NCIT under the tail 3.8 and 7.6 cm from the body were ± 1.0°C and ± 1.1°C, respectively. Mean differences recorded between the rectal body temperature and the NCIT at the heart girth were ± 2.1°C and ± 2.3°C, respectively. A weak, negative correlation was observed between the rectal temperatures and the temperatures recorded with the NCIT held under the horse’s tail (r = -0.22 and -0.21 at 3.8 and 7.6 cm from the body). However, temperatures recorded with the NCIT at the horse’s heart girth demonstrated a moderately positive correlation with rectal temperatures (p = 0.47 and 0.37 at 3.8 and 7.6 cm from the horse’s body). While NCIT are less invasive and potentially safer for the horses and handlers, they may not be as accurate as rectal thermometers for detecting body temperature.No embargoAcademic Major: Animal Science
Dismantling the Racial Wealth Gap: A Guide to Designing Trust and Building Systemic Change
No full textDismantling the Racial Wealth Gap is a design intervention completed in partnership with Huntington National Bank. It is the process and research tools needed for Huntington to build trusting, active, and equitable relationships with Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities that have been oppressed and exploited. To help Huntington engage in this intervention, a guidebook and activity workbook were created. Through this process, Huntington can start outlining how the American financial system created a racial wealth gap through the systems of oppression they are situated in, establish relationships, and work towards systemic change with BIPOC communities.
The project is an eight-phase process responsible for establishing relationships and working towards systemic change through actions such as internal reflection, conducting workshops, and understanding and implementing the results of phase outcomes. These phases are opportunities for Huntington to acquire more knowledge about their role in the financial system by conducting research through design techniques and taking direct action against financial systems of oppression built upon BIPOC communities. The guide works in tandem with a still in-progress activity workbook that details steps of different actions, toolkits, and planning techniques that Huntington would need to complete the recommended phases.
The strategies, techniques, and activities outlined in the project are derived from analytical, participatory, and design-centered research techniques surrounding liberation, community engagement, and design justice. The steps taken to develop this process include secondary research and primary research. The secondary research includes one literature review and four design conjectures. The primary research includes two site visits to Huntington, two interviews with financial advocacy groups (n=2), one poverty simulation game workshop (n=9), two formative assessments and one workshop designed to understand financial success through BIPOC community members in Columbus, Ohio (n=0).
As Huntington starts to potentially work through this process, they will work towards understanding their positionality as a structure upholding financial systems of oppression, building horizontal and equitable relationships, creating lasting coalitions with oppressed peoples, having open discussions with people marginalized by the financial system, and conducting focused workshops to work closely with communities to begin to design and ignite systemic change and direct action within Huntington, and by extension, the broader American financial system. This will help Huntington move towards just banking, which looks like equitable access to capital, accessible services for everyone, and ethical investments. The racial wealth gap will not end through this process, but it will start creating freedom, resilience, and sustainable financial growth in both the bank and in BIPOC communities.Huntington National BankNo embargoAcademic Major: Industrial Desig
Job Satisfaction Among Workers with Intellectual Disabilities
Get PDFJob satisfaction is the most widely studied construct in industrial-organizational psychology, but relatively few studies have examined job satisfaction among employees with intellectual disabilities, and even these few used such a diversity of methodologies that meaningful comparison is nearly impossible. This study administers the abridged Job in General Scale (aJIGS)—considered the “best practice” instrument for assessing global job satisfaction in this population—to the Transition Options in Postsecondary Settings (TOPS) program at The Ohio State University (OSU), a federally-funded workforce development program that connects OSU students with intellectual disabilities to internships and integrated employment based on their unique skills and career interests. Both item-level means and mean overall scores were compared to a large preexisting random sample of nondisabled American workers. It was found that TOPS participants have significantly higher overall job satisfaction than the general population (in America), as well as significantly higher scores for the modified aJIGS items, “Is your job excellent?” and “Is your job enjoyable?”. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.No embargoAcademic Major: Human Resource