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Breaking Barriers: Cultivating The Interest Of Black Male 8th Grade Students In The Teaching Profession
Get PDFThe absence of Black male educators in the Highland County School district is a persistent issue. The insufficient representation of Black male teachers in the United States has been acknowledged as both a symptom and a cause of racial injustice. The prevalent issue of Black male teachers being underrepresented substantiates the necessity for this study. From systemic bias to low wages to the perception of the profession as a "woman’s job," there are qualitative studies that explore the reasons why there appears to be a significant pull away from teaching. Nevertheless, the body of empirical research regarding the implications for Black male teachers remaining in the educational sector is still quite limited.
Students in elementary schools are frequently asked what they aspire to become in the future. Doctors, lawyers, and firemen are commonly cited as the prestigious career paths many plan to pursue. Sadly, for Black males, teaching is not a career option many opt for. Some of the factors include a lack of respect for the profession, insufficient salaries, a scarcity of mentors in the education profession, societal portrayals of Black males in sports and entertainment, and familial expectations. While these justifications were provided by participants in this research, they can be generalized to Black males within the U. S. populace, as shown in earned degrees. Black males lag behind most other ethnicity/gender groups in awarded degrees in the field of education (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2022).
It is essential to recruit and retain Black males in the educational sector; shifts must occur in the perception of the profession, and practices must be deliberately aimed at actively encouraging more individuals to enter the field. Leaders and practitioners in conventional programs need to comprehend how to recruit, maintain, and graduate Black male educators to be equipped for the education industry. Initiatives like Call me Mister have taken the lead to be deliberate in their recruitment efforts. As an effective program, Call me Mister might possess qualities that other programs should aim to emulate. This research sought to attain a more profound comprehension of how exposure to the profession affects Black male 8th grade students' inclination toward pursuing a teaching career
False Narratives in Female Adolescent Skincare
Get PDFFailing to utilize sun-protective behaviors in adolescence is associated with an increased incidence of skin cancer in adulthood. An age-appropriate skincare routine in adolescence emphasizes the daily use of sunscreen; however, persuasive and influential messages from social media promote expensive, unnecessary, and potentially harmful routines and products. Due to developmental age and low e-health literacy levels, adolescents are vulnerable to misinformation. Through the implementation of this pre- and post-test quasi-experimental mixed-method non-control quality improvement project, the author wanted to determine if an educational series, consisting of one in-person and four subsequent virtual sessions, would increase the intent to use sun-protective behaviors, increase e-health literacy, and decrease the intent to use inappropriate skincare routines and products endorsed by social media. The sample consisted of middle and high school adolescents aged 11-18. Although the sample size was small: n=6, limiting most generalizability and statistical significance, there were several significant clinical takeaways following implementation. Within the sample, there was positive behavior change intent with increased sun-protective behaviors and decreased perception of tanned skin as "healthy;" however, results were mixed with self-assessed e-health literacy. In addition, the data also revealed a significant contrast between the concepts of "skincare" and "social media and skincare."D.N.P
Kubernetes and Istio as a Zero Trust Overlay
Get PDFThe emergence of Zero Trust security frameworks led to multiple solutions proposed for creating dynamic, point-to-point overlays for the endpoints of an enterprise information technology (IT) fleet. Some of these solutions reuse old technologies such as virtual private networks (VPNs) and generic route encapsulation (GRE) tunnels which add significant overhead and come with scalability constraints. On the other hand, the rapid adoption of Cloud based services led to the development of hyperscale frameworks to support the creation and maintenance of dynamic overlays. For example, Istio is a management infrastructure that supports Kubernetes with respect to end-to-end authentication, authorization and secure resource connectivity of server instances in a cloud-based application. In application platforms, this is handled by tools such as Kubernetes which orchestrates workloads between nodes; Istio is a management platform that supports Kubernetes to handle end-to-end verification and authentication for these platforms. The objective of this research is to investigate the feasibility of using Istio as an end-point authentication and authorization mechanism combined with dynamic overlay management in support of a zero-trust deployment model. This implementation would adapt Istio to distributed endpoints rather than cloud compute resources used in a micro services application infrastructure. With Istio, traffic between endpoints was inspected at a central location where relevant policies are applied. With Istio, every endpoint was identified and verified while traffic to and from that endpoint is scrubbed and logged. Following a review of the current research on this topic, the conceptual model was presented, and the practical tests performed in support of the envisioned architecture. To test the alternative hypothesis, Istio’s ability to support cloud-based endpoints outside a Kubernetes infrastructure was evaluated. Then, Istio’s ability to support endpoints outside a cloud infrastructure was evaluated on devices such as a Raspberry Pi or a laptop encompassing both ARM and Intel-based processors. The impact of Kubernetes and Istio as a Zero Trust framework on intra-cluster communication was promising; however, Kubernetes and Istio experienced high latency during tests evaluating inter-cluster communications. Kubernetes and Istio can be used to effectively manage endpoint assets; however, it may not be ideal for all assets or scenarios
Hunting by humans affects the navigation of two endangered mammals in Zimbabwe and Brazil
No full textWhy Flesh? Examining the Power of Flesh in David Cronenberg’s The Fly
No full textThis thesis is an exploration of body horror, specifically how one film’s use of body horror impacts the body and the flesh within the body. “Why Flesh? Examining the Power of Flesh in David Cronenberg’s The Fly is a close-viewing analysis of the film and how Cronenberg’s carefully constructed film allowed for him to isolate the ways in which body horror truly terrifies audiences and forces them to confront themselves. Through the examination of flesh as it is impacted by pregnancy, aging, and chronic illness, The Fly acts as an excellent lens to discuss not only popular themes in body horror, but also get at the root of why they are horrifying
Islet Target Genes Required for Niche Assembly and Formation in Drosophila melanogaster
No full textA particular cell type, known as stem cells, possess a unique capability to self-renew and have the capacity to differentiate into mature cell types. To maintain stem cells, they require signals from a cellular microenvironment called the “niche. The stem cell niche regulates stem cell fate and has the ability to house and regulate a population of stem cells through intricate signaling pathways. Signals transmitted from the niche are important for stem cell self-renewal and cell differentiation signals, and proper signaling requires niche placement in a specific tissue location to polarize the tissue and get regenerated by new cells. Our lab currently studies the Drosophila testis stem cell niche in the male gonads of embryos. Distinct placement of the stem cell niche at apex (tip) of the testis tube organizes stem cells near the apex; cells undergoing differentiation will reside further down the testis tube. The niche forms during late stages of embryogenesis when pro-niche cells begin to migrate to the anterior region of the gonad and assemble the stem cell niche. The gonad niche tilts toward the visceral mesoderm (Vm), which sends Slit and FGF signals. In response to Vm signals, niche cells express the transcription factor islet, which is required for niche cytoskeletal polarization and anterior niche assembly (Anllo and DiNardo, 2022; Anllo et al., 2019). Recent single cell RNA sequencing data predicted Islet target genes that are expressed in the adult niche, and I prioritized testing three of these candidates: btk29A, kon-tiki, and scribble. My goals are to (1) identify if candidate Islet target genes are expressed in the embryonic gonad niche and (2) reveal whether these niche-expressed genes mediate niche assembly and function. My data revealed expressed of all three of these candidates in the niche, show that btk29A is required for niche assembly, and suggest potential roles for scribble, and kon-tiki in niche cells. Future experiments will confirm whether Kon-tiki and Scribble are required for niche assembly. Our understanding of the mechanisms that initially create a compartmentalized stem cell niche during development, in addition to anterior cell movement, will give us a more comprehensive grasp of how the niche is properly formed. These principles will help to clarify concepts about tissue function and development, including the activation of JAK/STAT signaling pathway for stem cell self-renewal, which is translatable to other systems (Leatherman and Di Nardo, 2008)
WORK RELATED STRESSORS AMONG WOMEN IN NORTH CAROLINA WHO MISCARRIED DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
No full textMiscarriage is highly prevalent in the United States, yet limited research has explored how work-related stressors impact women’s bereavement period. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced new workplace stressors, including job instability, heavier workloads, and managing multiple responsibilities remotely. This study explored the work-related stressors experienced by women in North Carolina who suffered a miscarriage of a desired pregnancy between March 30, 2020, and February 24, 2021. An interpretive descriptive design was employed, guided by the transactional stress and coping theory developed by Lazarus & Folkman. We analyzed 18 interview transcripts using conventional content analysis and identified five major themes: Work-life Balance, Work From Home, Work Accommodations, Workplace Social Support, and Mental Health. Findings revealed that participants had negative impacts on their mental health, experienced stress, anxiety, isolation, and frustration as a result of inadequate work accommodations, blurred work-life boundaries, remote work challenges, and limited social support from coworkers and employers. There is a need to further explore the workplace stressors women face following a miscarriage, as well as to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of workplace policy changes and educational initiatives in mitigating the impact on their mental health outcomes
Epitope tags are not created equal: disruption of cellular function of a translation factor by a short viral tag
No full textCellular identity and fate are determined by the proteins synthesized. Initiation of mRNA translation requires an important translation factor eIF4G (ifg-1 in C elegans). Embryos use mRNA translation for spatial and temporal regulation of protein synthesis. Using CRISPR engineering, we added in-frame epitope and fluorescent tags (V5, Myc, Flag, GFP and mCherry) to IFG-1. Tagged forms containing the V5 epitope caused embryonic arrest. Internal disruption of the V5 tag restored viability at 25°C. This study demonstrates that the molecular nature of a small epitope tag is sufficient to disrupt C. elegans embryogenesis
Assigning virtue: Uncovering the personal, bureaucratic, and disciplinary virtues in the writing assignment guidelines used by Graduate Teaching Assistants at East Carolina University
No full textWriting assignment guidelines are an important but often overlooked marker of teacherly identity. While they are deployed by individual instructors, they sit at an important juncture of individual, bureaucratic, and disciplinary virtues. Using this virtue ethics lens, I examine writing assignment guidelines produced between 2014 and 2023 by graduate teaching assistants at East Carolina University. I identify a virtue of rhetorical awareness as well as moral habits of conversation, grammar, and process and demonstrates the way GTAs communicate virtues through their major writing assignment guidelines