No One Wants to Chat with Bots: Building E-social Capital

Businesses and entrepreneurs are using social networking sites (SNS) to widen their network and increase their e-social capital. However, advertisements and impersonal messages are perceived as alienating rather than relationship building. Thus, to build relationships, marketing messages should be crafted to be more personal, appealing to recipients’ individual interests

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Judicial Review

My name is James Bradley Crump. I am a legal studies senior here at IPFW, and will begin a graduate program for a Master of Law in the fall of 2017. I also spent six years in the Army. I have held various undergraduate legal internships, some of which have been in the Fort Wayne area. These include Malloy Law LLC and the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office. I have also held various research positions. Regionally, I have conducted research with the Center for Social Research at IPFW. Nationally, I was recognized as a research assistant for The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. At The Federalist Society, my work included the National Lawyers 2016 CLE, extensive research into public discourse and cognitive scientist George Lakoff for grant proposals, critique of Akhil Amar’s The Constitution Today, and inter alia content edit of the newly released book, DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington. While in DC this past summer, I was also awarded a fellowship with the Fund of American Studies. I attended various lectures from bi-partisan and partisan think tanks, the South African embassy, the State Department, and a multitude of high-level executives and government officials. Additionally, I completed a course through The Fund of American Studies and the Reagan Foundation on Leadership and the American Presidency, which resulted in academic excellence and deeper appreciation for the uncertainties that face a presidency. Today, I am here to open all to a new world and deeper understanding of judicial review

Applied Strength of Materials for Engineering Technology

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Making Undergraduate Research Open Access in the Institutional Repository: Challenges and Benefits

Publication of undergraduate research in an institutional repository can provide multiple benefits to students, but there are also a number of additional challenges with which repository managers are faced-- permission forms, parsing roles in student-faculty collaborations, and concerns over the sharing of data from as-yet-unpublished research, to name but a few. In this roundtable discussion, we hope to share our, at times, hard won lessons and benefit from the collective knowledge of our fellow librarians

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Effects of Portal Protein Primary Structure Mutations on Viral Genomic Packaging Capabilities

The process by which bacteriophages package and maintain double-stranded DNA within the protein capsid has been subject to a great deal of research in recent years. Given the increased interest in particular fields of medicine, such as gene therapy, the desire to understand how the DNA packaging motor in the bacteriophages operates has opened many doors for revolutionary scientific research in the fields of biology, chemistry, biophysics and nanotechnology. Due to the universality of the structure of bacteriophages, the study of one particular bacteriophage could provide insight into other types of bacteriophages. As such, the bacteriophage Phi29 was utilized, and its DNA packaging motor is composed of a portal protein, packaging RNA and a viral ATPase. The focus of the research is on the portal protein that is a channel protein in the capsid of the bacteriophage through which the genome DNA can translocate during the DNA packaging. Many previous studies has indicated that the portal protein may not only serve as a passive conduit for the genome DNA but also play other critical roles during the packaging process. However, they are still intensively debated and discussed today. A recent study in our lab has found the portal protein may serve a Flashing Brownian ratchet in the packaging process, which can assist the packaging of the genome DNA against its concentration gradient across the portal protein at the late stage of DNA packaging. In order to study the relationship between the structure and the function of the portal proteins, we performed planar bilayer membrane measurements for mutant portal proteins. Within this experiment, we were able to establish a potential gradient across the membrane and use this potential to establish an ion selectivity for the membrane. From this point, the abilities of the portal protein to package an anionic genome were inferred. Our results have shown that the charges of the inner-ring amino acids alter the ion-selectivity of the channel which is pivotal to understanding the impacts of charges of amino acid residues on the genome packaging efficiency.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1004/thumbnail.jp