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Distinguishing Pearls from Fish Eyes: The Branch Lineage Genealogies of the Descendants of Confucius
Get PDFThis paper examines the form and production of genealogies compiled by local branch-lineages of the descendants of Confucius, the Kongs. It highlights the way the Kongs in Qufu, the hometown of Confucius and the center of Kong power, exercised control over branch-lineage formation through the collection and approval of written genealogies. The paper pays particular attention to the crucial function of manuscripts in the compilation, drafting, and circulation of genealogical knowledge. Depending on the relationship between branch-lineages and the Kong ducal center, manuscript genealogies adopted different forms, either to align with norms established in Qufu, or to articulate alternative lineage identities not subservient to the Kong lineage hierarchy.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/books/1153/thumbnail.jp
A Summer Garden in the Marian Library
Get PDFOne of my favorite places to spend a summer Ohio morning is in our family garden of lavender bee balm and ripening cherry tomatoes. But in the summer of 2024, I deepened my appreciation for gardening in the Marian Library as a Marian Resident Scholar. Each day spent in the reading room, I admired a display of some gorgeous Marian artwork including images of Marian flowers drawn by Brother A. Joseph Barrish, S.M.; a botanical rosary by Katrina Rose Harrington; and a painting of Mary encircled by echinacea and monarch butterflies (inset image) by Ann Marie Coolick and Megan Coonelly.
The Marian Library is also home to the John Stokes and Mary’s Gardens archives, and it is was with these archives that I spent my residency. The librarians have digitized some of this archival material to make it widely available in the University’s open-access institutional repository, but given my research and teaching in theology and care for creation, I wanted to learn more. With wonderful support from staff and librarians — Kayla Harris, Michele Jennings, Shari Neilson and Henry Handley — I was introduced to an amazing collection that consists of no less than 58.25 linear feet of carefully curated materials. These include, among other things, newspaper and magazine clippings, garden diagrams, spreadsheets of data on seed germination times and test plots, handwritten letters, photographs, journals, thank-you notes from Girl Scouts and others, and sealed seed packets that rattle with the sound of seed within them
Student Academic Policies Committee Minutes of the Academic Senate 2025-03-11
Get PDFApproved minutes of a meeting of the Student Academic Policies Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton
Student Academic Policies Committee Minutes of the Academic Senate 2025-03-25
Get PDFApproved minutes of a meeting of the Student Academic Policies Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton
Faculty Advisory Committee Minutes of the Academic Senate 2025-03-07
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Exploring the Impact of Echo Chambers on Modern American Polarization
Get PDFThis submission is a research report I wrote for my English 198 class. The topic of the report was Obstacles to the Common Good. I originally wanted to write about the impact of presidential debates on increased political polarization, but my research led me discover a much more pressing issue facing our nation. After months of careful research and peer review, I arrived at the final product which you see today
2025-04-11 Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate
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The Relationship Between Dorsiflexion Mobility and Achilles Stiffness
Get PDFPurpose: The biomechanical properties of muscles and tendons are important in rehabilitation and sport performance but are not routinely assessed. Recently, the MyotonPro device has been used in the assessment of a specific aspect of soft tissue stiffness, the resistance in deformation to an external force, at the Achilles tendon. Interestingly, it remains unclear if this stiffness is related to decreased ankle joint dorsiflexion mobility, and further if limb dominance affects this relationship. Indeed, dorsiflexion mobility has been linked to lower extremity injury risk such as anterior knee pain and anterior cruciate ligament injury. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was to assess the strength of correlation between Achilles tendon stiffness as assessed with the MyotonPro and weight bearing dorsiflexion (WBDF) mobility. We secondarily aimed to assess if the relationship varied by limb dominance. We hypothesized that a moderate strength correlation would be observed bilaterally.
Subjects: 28 healthy participants (27 right limb dominant, 22 females, age = 24.1±2.1 years, height = 1.70±0.9 m, weight = 70.4±12.1 kg) completed all testing.
Methods/Materials: Dominance was determined by asking subjects which leg they typically use when kicking a ball. Using parameters from the literature, the MyotonPRO was set up to deliver a 15 ms duration impulse under constant precompression force of 0.18 N. The subject was prone on a plinth with the feet hanging freely over the edge. With the tendon relaxed, three measures were taken with the probe applied over the most central point of the tendon, level with the medial malleolus. Next, WBDF was measured with the subject facing a wall with the test leg forward and the contralateral limb in-line behind the subject with the heel raised. The subject flexed the knee and brought the center of the patella as close to the wall as they could without raising the heel. Tibial advancement was measured with a digital inclinometer over the anterior midpoint of the tibia. Pearson product moment correlations were calculated for both limbs.
Results: The correlation coefficients between Achilles tendon stiffness and WBDF were r=-0.54 and -0.35 (p\u3c 0.05) for the non-dominant and dominant limbs, respectively.
Conclusion: A direct relationship between Achilles tendon stiffness and WBDF mobility was observed, such that higher stiffness values were associated with decreased motion.
Clinical Relevance: The use of instrumentation to characterize the stiffness of the Achilles tendon using the principle of resistance to deformation from an external force is a recent advancement in the area of soft tissue assessment. These data suggest that greater stiffness and decreased ankle mobility are related. Given the interest in dorsiflexion mobility in the areas of injury risk and sport performance, clinicians may benefit from direct assessment of Achilles stiffness.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dpt_symposium/1047/thumbnail.jp