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What’s lost and what’s found: the prevalence of posttraumatic growth in undergraduate college students as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
No full text38 leaves.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 35-38).The present study examined the prevalence of posttraumatic growth in college students, whether there was lingering distress related to living through a pandemic, and investigated what factors contributed to the development of posttraumatic growth. Undergraduate college students (n=198) participated in an online survey that aimed to gather information regarding their pandemic experience, and that measured loneliness, social connectedness, family connectedness, social support, distress tolerance, COVID-specific distress, and PTSD symptoms. Participants also completed a series of questions that measured posttraumatic growth experienced directly due to the pandemic, which included 5 subcategories of growth: relating to others, new possibilities, personal strength, spiritual change, and appreciation for life. Individuals that had experienced COVID-19 infection and those that had close personal relationships with individuals that experienced infection received an additional set of questions to measure growth related to the experience of illness. Social connectedness and PTSD symptoms significantly predicted posttraumatic growth in participants. Across all subcategories of posttraumatic growth, participants indicated experiencing growth as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the most growth occurring in the “personal strength” and “appreciation of life” categories
Unpacking the Food of Food Assistance.
No full text135 leaves.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-135).Food assistance is one form of aid that people in poverty can use to lighten the load of financial stress and ensure that they can maintain a nutritious, sustaining diet. Food pantries are a common final distribution site of food assistance where people experiencing food insecurity can receive free food. Previous research has begun to determine how the preferences of food pantry clients can better inform how pantries are structured and what food is stocked in them. This previous work has highlighted the ways that pantry clients are constrained in their ability to choose what to eat because of a need to visit a pantry. However, there is a gap in knowledge of how food assistance as an institutionalized system plays a role in shaping what food even makes its way to pantry shelves. Using in-depth interviews with 14 employees of food pantries and the main food bank in Columbus, Ohio, this study maps a new understanding of the nuanced path that food takes from production to donation. In doing so, we are able to see the influence of neoliberal ideology that promotes poverty governance and stigmatization of poverty that even fundamentally shapes what food is donated to food assistance and how pantries that distribute it are modeled. In applying the influence of neoliberalism on the food assistance system, a new concept of food governance is developed. Analysis reveals ways in which it can be combated on a local level to move food assistance to be more representative of elements of food sovereignty and food justice.Abstract -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Literature Review -- Chapter 3: Methodology -- Chapter 4: Data Analysis -- Chapter 5: Conclusion -- Appendix -- Reference
Promoting Transformative Learning Using Critical Pedagogy and Moore's Theory of Transactional Distance
No full textPregnancy and Childbirth in Victorian Literature.
No full text57 leaves.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-57).This honors thesis reviews the development of the fields of obstetrics and gynecology during the nineteenth century, and the subsequent changes that occurred in the cultural understanding of the female body. Women, once regarded as naturally hedonistic, were instead refigured as undesiring, supportive, and spiritual. Motherhood became their primary purpose. This mostly had an impact on middle-class mothers, who were depicted as saintly. Working-class women, on the other hand, assumed the bodily aspects middle-class women were expected to reject. In order to draw out this progression, I explore three novels that respond to the trope of the ideal mother.Introduction -- Chapter One: Greater Than Human, Less than Man: The Disavowal of the Female Body -- Chapter Two: “On Her Existence Depended That of Another”: Pregnancy in Wuthering Heights -- Chapter Three: Poor Mothers are Poor Mothers -- Chapter Four: The Fear of Imperfect Mothers in Dracula and Liza of Lambeth -- Bibliograph
Preliminary study of the effects of (-)-nicotine on mitochondrial energetics in Gallus gallus sympathetic and human neurons
No full textAddressing The Interlocking Impact Of Colonialism And Racism On Filipinx/a/o American Health Inequities
No full text7 pages.Within the monolithic racial category of “Asian American,” health determinants are often hidden within each subgroup’s complex histories of indigeneity, colonialism, migration, culture, and sociopolitical systems. Although racism is typically framed to underscore the ways in which various institutions (for example, employment and education) disproportionately disadvantage Black/Latinx communities over White people, what does structural racism look like among Filipinx/a/o Americans (FilAms), the third-largest Asian American group in the US? We argue that racism defines who is visible. We discuss pathways through which colonialism and racism preserve inequities for FilAms, a large and overlooked Asian American subgroup. We bring to light historical and modern practices inhibiting progress toward dismantling systemic racial barriers that impinge on FilAm health. We encourage multilevel strategies that focus on and invest in FilAms, such as robust accounting of demographic data in heterogeneous populations, explicitly naming neocolonial forces that devalue and neglect FilAms, and structurally supporting community approaches to promote better selfand community care
Evidence for extracellular amyloid-beta affecting lysosomal activity in primary culture sympathetic sensory neurons from Gallus gallus determined by fluorescence microscopy
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Thermal Quenching of Luminescence in YAG:Ce.
No full text62 leaves; illustrations.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-62).Yttrium aluminum garnet doped with cerium (YAG:Ce) is currently the phosphor of choice for LED lighting applications, due to its broad spectrum emission and relatively high efficiency at common LED operating temperatures. For applications where higher temperatures are reached, such as high-powered LED lighting, a decline in the luminescent efficiency of this phosphor is observed. This phenomenon is referred to as thermal quenching and can be explained by several nonradiative decay processes within the phosphor. This research investigated the luminescent properties of a sample of YAG:Ce with a 2.1% cerium concentration at various temperatures in order to better understand the relationship between temperature and luminescence in this material. Through measurements of continuous luminescence, excitation, and response to pulsed excitation, the properties of this material were determined and compared to previous findings as well as computer models. After fitting this data to various models, and considering previously published research, it was determined that the primary mechanism of thermal quenching in this sample is concentration quenching. By comparing the model for concentration quenching to the experimental data, it was found that, on average, energy transferred between 2.2 cerium ions before ending up in a killer center.Abstract -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Motivation -- The nature of emission Quenching mechanisms -- YAG:Ce -- Chapter 2: Experimental Methods -- Continuous luminescence apparatus -- Excitation apparatus -- Response to pulsed excitation apparatus -- Ruby measurements -- Measurements from Hg lamp -- Convolution -- Chapter 3: Experimental Results -- Continuous luminescence -- Response to pulsed excitation -- Excitation -- Chapter 4: Discussion -- Continuous luminescence measurements -- Methods of calculating lifetime -- Efficiency -- Modeling concentration quenching -- Comparing lifetimes to difference equation -- Modeling nonradiative nonradiative relaxation with the Arrhenius equation -- Comparison with published findings -- Chapter 5: Conclusion and Future Work -- Bibliograph
A preliminary study on the effects of copper ions on growth cone activity in Gallus gallus neurons
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Soil fungal responses to multiple global change stressors.
No full text45 leaves; illustrations.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-45).Human activities have driven environmental changes such as soil warming, nitrogen enrichment, and non-native plant invasions, and all three of these global change drivers have been shown to alter soil fungal communities. Soil fungi play important roles in decomposition, carbon sequestration, and nutrient cycling processes so it is important to understand how fungal communities are impacted by different global change drivers. To further understand the impacts of soil warming, nitrogen enrichment, and non-native plant invasions on soil fungi, I sought to analyze seven previously published studies together to look for generalizable patterns in how fungal communities respond to these global change drivers. I analyzed sequence data from seven studies and measured species richness, community composition, effect sizes of indicator species, and the distribution of trophic modes across treatments. I found significant variation of species richness in one study, significant variation of community composition in two studies, five key indicator species (none were common across all treatments), and no significant variation in trophic mode distribution. These results suggest that fungal responses to disturbance are highly dependent on the type of disturbance and site conditions. Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Data Synthesis -- 2.2 Community Composition -- 2.3 Statistical Analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Analysis Summary -- 3.2 Diversity Indices -- 3.3 Trophic Distribution -- 3.4 Indicator Species -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Diversity Indices -- 4.2 Trophic Distribution -- 4.3 Indicator Species -- 4.4 Comparison to Previous Studies -- 4.5 Future Research -- Conclusions -- Literature cited -- List of Tables Table 1: Summary of datasets utilized -- Table 2: Overview of OTU functional groupings -- Table 3: ANOVA table of Shannon diversity across grouped studies -- Table 4: Mixed effects model of Shannon diversity .-- Table 5: ANOVA table of Shannon diversity across individual studies -- Table 6: PERMANOVA table of beta diversity of grouped studies -- Table 7: PERMANOVA table of beta diversity of individual studies -- Table 8: ANOVA table of trophic modes across grouped studies -- Table 9: ANOVA table of trophic modes across individual studies -- Table 10: Mixed effects model trophic modes -- Table 11: Key indicator taxa -- Table 12: Overview of previously published result