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Obtaining Knowledge through Reliable Sources of Authority: A Look into the Epistemology of John Henry Newman in An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
No full textThis thesis will explore the way in which John Henry Newman would describe the influence of authority on knowledge from an analysis of his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent. The thesis will take three main steps to unfold this topic: first, Newman’s general approach to epistemology will be observed as a response to John Locke; then, Newman’s epistemological system as articulated in the Grammar will be presented; finally, it will be examined how knowledge is influenced by figures of authority within Newman’s system.PhilosophyPhilosophyDegree Awarded: Ph.L.--Philosophy. The Catholic University of Americ
Empowering the Occupant
No full textThe trend toward High Performance buildings has a direct impact on lowering the environmental impacts of buildings. Treatments to address the human factor in lowering environmental demand lag behind other building-centric solutions. This thesis provides new definitions and a suite of tools to empower the human element of building demand called Occupant Orientation (O2). O2 addresses knowledge, coaching, training and incentives as methods of encouraging and realizing changes in occupant behaviors which positively affect building performance.The O2 suite of tools were conceived out of a wicked problem found during the literature review where the synthesis of complicated literature became the O2 Levers. The following actions tested these concepts. Other tools distributed findings to inform and solicit input for implementation and refinement. Research included a survey, database review case study, framework development and case study and application through LEED Lab. The distribution mechanisms include the O2 website and O2 Handbook. The results include tools for the practitioner and and offer an organized approach for further researchers and best practices. The suite includes: the O2 Handbook, O2 Framework, O2 Levers. Further updates will be promulgated on the www.O2-Research.com website.SustainabilityArchitectureEnvironmental managementCommissioning, Occupant OrientationArchitectural StudiesDegree Awarded: M.S.S.D. Architectural Studies. The Catholic University of Americ
The Unhanding
No full textThe Unhanding is a collection of poems in response to loss and the empty spaces it leaves behind. The collection leans on ekphrastic poems based on the visual art of Mark Rothko and others as a means of contributing to the narrator’s journey of sense-making in the face of various kinds of loss. The first section responds to the decline and deaths of older parents and middle-aged friends, miscarriage, the changing seasons of parenthood and friendship, and threats to our well-being. In the next section, poems present responses of anxiety and movement through time and space. The final section acknowledges loss but also renewed discoveries of domestic life, relationships, and fulfilling possibilities. The Unhanding speaks not only to a literal letting-go of physical life, but a letting-go of the angst that keeps a survivor from employing the empty spaces to move forward—and a surrender to what comes next.Creative writingLiteratureDegree Awarded: M.F.A. Literature. American Universit
Virtual Libraries in Online Learning
No full textPre-print version of chapter 19 from the Handbook of Online Learning, Second Edition, published by SAGE Publications: http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book23227
Identifying loss-of-function mutants that modulate Escherichia coli response to antidepressants
No full textA presentation that was delivered in the Fifth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2020.This research was collaborated with Kalaivani Saravanan, Jin Ou, Natalie Vasconez and Sr. Irenaeus Schluttenhofe
Metabolic Pathways of Nitrate in the Eye Microbiota
No full textNitric oxide (NO) is a small free radical molecule with critical signaling roles. It is an endogenous vasodilator and an important mediator of vascular tone and vascular remodeling. Nitrate and nitrite are known as stable products of NO oxidation and are physiologically recycled in blood and tissues to reform NO by enzymatic and non-enzymatic pathways. Bacteria species in the human microbiome have been shown to reduce nitrate and nitrite and to produce NO under acidic conditions. In this study, we investigate the generation of nitrite and NO by bacterial species regularly identified in the eye microbiome of healthy humans, specifically Staphylococcus epidermidis and Bacillus subtilis. We measured nitrite and NO concentrations in cultures grown at oxygen and nitrate levels that approximate the conditions found in the eye. We found that Bacillus subtilis produced very low levels of NO even in the presence of millimolar nitrate concentrations. Instead, nitrite accumulated in the Staphylococcus epidermidis media after growth for 24 hours at low oxygen levels (2-6%) in a manner roughly directly proportional to the nitrate concentrations added in the media. These data indicate that during hypoxic conditions, Staphylococcus epidermidis express enzymes that efficiently reduce nitrate to nitrite and suggests that the related bacterial nitrite reduction to NO could be an important aspect of the overall nitrate/nitrite/NO metabolism. Therefore, the human microbiome can and may be a link between a nitrate rich diet and human health and disease.BiochemistryChemistryNitrate, Nitric oxide, NitriteChemistryDegree Awarded: M.S. Chemistry. American Universit
Women are joining the far right - we need to understand why
No full textOpinion piece published on The Guardian
Activist and ex-prisoner Eddy Zheng: 'How do we humanize each other?'
No full textPublished on The Guardian
The divisiveness that permeates Detroit's communities of color
No full textOriginally published on The Guardian
Voter suppression carries slavery's three-fifths clause into the present
No full textOpinion piece published on The Guardian