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Alisha Filmore Interview
No full textAlisha Filmore (Class of 2013) was interviewed by Camille Davis via the Zoom internet-based video conferencing software on March 21, 2022. Ms. Filmore was born in New Jersey, but she lived there only a short time before moving to Arlington,TX with her parents and two older brothers. Ms. Filmore spent her grade school years within the Mansfield school system and graduated high school from Summit High School. While at SMU, Ms. Filmore majored in psychology and sports management and was the point guard on the SMU women's basketball team. After graduating from SMU, she played basketball professionally in the European League for 3 years. In 2018, she earned an MBA from Clayton State University with a specialization in Sport Entertainment and Management. At the time of the interview, Ms. Filmore was Director of Development at the University of North Texas, Denton
Review of "The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science" by Alisha Rankin
No full textAlisha Rankin. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. vi + 329 pp. $35.00. Review by Celeste Chamberland, Roosevelt Universit
Predictors of Employment Status Among Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
Multivariate logistic regression analyses of a national employment survey of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) revealed disability disclosure and higher education increased the participants’ likelihood of employment. This information may prove useful to occupational therapists working with adults with ASD.
Primary Author and Speaker: Alisha Ohl</jats:p
North to the future
No full text13 p.Short story written by Alisha Bjorklund in the Fall semester 2009 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls for Dr. Jennifer Brantley's English 382 Writing Workshop class. In the story, the author weaves together several episodes of various outdoor activities and life in Alaska by presenting each story individually and then ending each story by creating a fleeting glimpse of something that is explained by the next story
Actors and actresses in Alisha
No full textA large group of actors and actresses on a stage in costume and makeup. Hanging from the ceiling is a Turkish flag. There are other structures on the stage for the set of the play.; Verso Written in black ink, 'Alisha 1929.' Written in pencil, C.S.C. or C.T.C. Colorado State Teachers College now the University of Northern Colorado - Greeley. 'Tema Jonensen' is on the envelope for the original 8 x 10 neg.
SexySteps / Alisha Abdullah
Get PDFThe purpose of this case study is to conduct research on a Malaysian entrepreneur. SexySteps' founder, Arisya Nur Ezreen Binti Arifinan. I did some research on the company and was able to learn about SexySteps' history. SexySteps is a Malaysian e-commerce platform established in Kelantan. The background of the entrepreneur profile, Arisya Nur Ezreen, will be provided in my case study, followed by SexySteps' profile. The following section will detail how she opened SexySteps on her own. Arisya Nur Ezreen sells only women's shoes under her own brand. Furthermore, the Entrepreneur Competencies should refer to a set of qualities that successful entrepreneurs should possess in order to effectively fulfil entrepreneurial activities, as shown on Arisya Nur Ezreen. The reason I chose Arisya Nur Ezreen is that, despite her adolescence, she is one of the successful Malaysian entrepreneurs
Crocodile's power
No full text14 p.Short story written by Alisha Bjorklund in the Fall semester 2009 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls for Dr. Jennifer Brantley's English 382 Writing Workshop class. In the story, the author tells of a young boy, who being an outcast in his village is destined to be hated by his village because of the actions of his father. In order to overcome his destiny, he seeks to capture a true crocodile god in order to harness its power, but in the end, he finds something more powerful then he expected
"High Noon": Developing a Video Game Production Pipeline for Chico State Game Studios
No full textABSTRACT\ud
HIGH NOON: DEVELOPING A VIDEO GAME PRODUCTION\ud
PIPELINE FOR CHICO STATE GAME STUDIOS\ud
by\ud
?? Alisha Thayer 2009\ud
Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies\ud
Applied Computer Graphics\ud
California State University, Chico\ud
Summer 2009\ud
Founded in 2004, Chico State Game Studios has produced four large-scale\ud
video games with team sizes ranging from eight to fifty-four students. The success of\ud
projects of this nature relies heavily on effective, documented production pipelines,\ud
something that past Chico State Game Studios projects have lacked due to the fact that\ud
no established knowledge base has ever been shared between incoming and exiting projects.\ud
High Noon, Chico State Game Studios??? fourth project, sought to provide a\ud
venue for testing and documenting experimental production pipelines for use by large,\ud
student-run projects. This was done through extensive research, planning, customizing,\ud
executing, and documenting processes used through the author???s tenure as Director of\ud
x\ud
High Noon and as Art Director on the following Chico State Game Studios project,\ud
D.A.V.I.S.\ud
The intention of this project is to present guidelines for incoming Chico State\ud
Game Studios teams by providing comprehensive documentation of the successes and\ud
failures of High Noon???s production. Moreover, this project stresses the importance of\ud
project documentation and aims to set a precedent for future Chico State Game Studios\ud
projects.CSU, Chic
Anecdotes and Antidotes
No full textBy Alisha Rankin How did early modern individuals test and try their recipes and cures? This question is at the heart of the special issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, “Testing Drugs and Trying Cures in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” in which I participated as both a co-editor and an author. My article, “On Anecdote and Antidotes: Poison Trials in Early Modern Europe,” examines the ways in which early modern practitioners tested a specific kind of cure: antidotes to poison...
Exploring longitudinal alterations in cortical bone architecture driven by SQSTM1 mutation as a determinant of fracture risk
No full textFemoral fractures are a major impediment in Paget’s Disease of Bone (PDB), the second most common bone disease. Little is known about cortical bone geometry in PDB; novel diagnostic tools and therapeutic strategies are urgently required. Herein, the objective of this thesis was to examine whether alterations in longitudinal cortical bone architecture underlie femoral fracture risk. 40% of familial cases of PDB are underpinned by sequestosome-1 (SQSTM1) mutation; A murine model exhibiting a proline to leucine mutation at codon 394 (P394L) of SQSTM1 was used to study 8-month old wildtype (WT) and homozygote (P394L+/+) mice. The main thesis aims were to i) characterise the gross anatomical features of the of P394L+/+ animals using lab-based microCT (12.7 µm), ii) determine underlying microstructural changes within the bone cortex of P394L+/+ femora using synchrotron radiation computed tomography (SR CT, 0.65 µm), iii) elucidate macrostructural changes of P394L+/+ femora using lab-based microCT (17.76 µm), iv) examine mechano-adaptation in P394L+/+ femora combining ex vivo mechanical testing and finite element analysis (FEA) and v) interrogate novel microstructure-based biomarkers for mechanical failure in P394L+/+ femora. Lab based microCT established sexual dimorphism in P394L+/+ skull geometry and identified geometrical alterations in male P394L+/+ skulls. Longitudinal femoral alterations were assessed according to percentage bone length with 0-50% and 50-100% covering the proximal and distal region respectively. Two primary components of cortical bone microstructure comprising of i) osteocyte lacunae and ii) intracortical canals were assessed using SR CT, with a greater accumulation of microstructural changes found in the distal region of both male and female P394L+/+ femora. In the distal region of male P394L+/+ femora, lacunar number density was significantly reduced (p=0.05) and there was a significant increase in canal diameter vs WT (p=0.0135). In the distal region of female P394L+/+ femora, lacunar circumference and lacunar volume were significantly decreased (p=0.0276 and p=0.0022 respectively), while small canal volume density was significantly increased compared to female WT (p<0.0001). Lab-based microCT showed a reduction in cross sectional area (CSA) in male P394L+/+ femora within the distal region compared to male WT (p=0.0182). In female P394L+/+ femora, CSA, second polar moment of area (J) and cortical thickness were decreased in the distal region, while ellipticity was increased in both the proximal and distal region when compared to female WT (p<0.05). In parallel, contralateral 8-month old femora were subjected to mechanical testing to assess the relationship between P394L+/+ driven alterations to cortical bone and fracture site. Four-point bending tests revealed a lesser force required to break female P394L+/+ femora (36.6 N) versus female WT (42.8 N, p=0.0257) with P394L+/+ exhibiting fracture at 65.8% and 48.3% of the bone length respectively, meaning P394L+/+ femora fracture within the distal region. No significant differences to the mechanical properties of male P394L+/+ femora were observed. Furthermore, FEA experiments revealed no significant differences in maximal stress between WT and P394L+/+ femora in males and females. Finally, SR CT analyses revealed disruption in osteocyte lacunar orientation and lacunar morphology in the distal, fracture prone, region of female P394L+/+ femora. Overall, microCT and SR CT in tandem with mechanical testing and FEA has revealed that geometrical alterations in bone macrostructure and microstructure associate directly with regions of bone prone to fracture. Geometrical alterations could therefore provide a novel clinical biomarker for fracture prediction in degenerative bone diseases such as PDB
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