Land Grant Application- Keniston, John (Cornville)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of John Keniston for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Betsey Bean.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1521/thumbnail.jp

A Day at the Beach

A short story about the interconnected horrors of gender and true crime podcasts

THE EFFECTS OF RADIATION ON CANCER STEM CELLS IN GLIOBLASTOMA AND OVARIAN CANCER

High grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are some of the most aggressive forms of cancer with poor patient survival. Despite successful cancer therapies, these malignancies have high recurrence rates which can be attributed to cancer stem cells (CSC) due to innate tumor initiating properties. In this study, we investigated the response of CSC populations to proton and photon radiation by quantification of core stem cell transcription factors Sox2 and Oct4. This was carried out utilizing a Sox2/Oct4 green fluorescent protein based reporter designated as SORE6-GFP measured by flow cytometry. We hypothesize that proton and photon irradiation have similar effects of inducing the CSC phenotype measured by SORE6-GFP. Reporter behavior was supported by RT-qPCR, immunofluorescence microscopy and permeabilized flow cytometry data. We found that both proton and photon radiation have similar effects of inducing CSC populations with increasing radiation dosages. Knowing this contributes to developing strategies to combat radiation-induced aggressiveness by targeting CSCs. Inhibiting the action of this cell population can possibly help the prognosis of HGSOC and GBM patients

Graduate Study and Research in the Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania

The present Report is in large part based upon the individual studies of graduate training and research which have been prepared under the direction of The Educational Survey. Three of these-on the Humanities, the Physical Sciences, and the Social Sciences-deal in detail with the program in these quadrants. In addition, the studies on the Engineering Schools and the Medical School have contributed to the picture of graduate work in these professional schools and the study of the College has provided important data. Because the separate studies were organized in different ways and with different criteria, the data which they present are not always comparable nor is their coverage uniform. In a few cases I have tried to supplement their materials with additional information. But I have not attempted to repeat their specific evaluations and recommendations. I have, however, discussed briefly certain problems which did not receive attention in any of the prior studies, such as the administration of research and the publication of research

A survey of the physical and economic factors related to the status of music education in the rural schools of New Hampshire.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Essays in development economics

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113).Chapter 1 looks at the empirical estimation of the welfare impacts of bargaining. Bargaining for retail goods is common in developing countries, but rare in the developed world. The welfare implications of this difference are theoretically ambiguous-if bargaining is a low cost form of price discrimination, it may lead to greater trade and welfare and even approximate the optimal incentive compatible outcome. However, if bargaining imposes large utility costs on the participants, then a fixed price may be preferable. I develop the tools to resolve this question, specifying a model of repeated trade with asymmetric information adapted to the context of bargaining, and developing a dynamic structural estimation technique to infer the structural parameters of the market. I then apply these techniques to the market for local autorickshaw transportation in Jaipur, India, using data I collected over 2008-2009. Chapter 2 carries out the first comparison of production function parameters estimated by structural techniques with those estimated via randomized instrumental variables using a unique dataset and field experiment performed by De Mel, McKenzie, and Woodruff (2008). In the context of a simple model of a household firm, I discuss the coefficients that each approach estimates, and the assumptions necessary to interpret those coefficients as the structural parameters of the model. I find that the values of structural and experimental estimators that most plausibly estimate the same parameters are indeed statistically and economically similar, suggesting that in some contexts structural models of production functions may be effective in recovering the parameters of production functions in the context of developing markets. These parameters may then be used to address questions relating to firm productivity and capital allocation that are both central to the study of firms in development, and potentially difficult to identify using randomized variation alone. Chapter 3 documents an attempt to overcome the challenges of police reform in the Indian state of Rajasthan, evaluated through a series of RCT (Randomized Control Trials). Four reform interventions were implemented in a randomly selected group of 162 police stations across 11 districts of the state: (1) weekly duty rosters with a guaranteed rotating day off per week; (2) a freeze on transfers of police staff; (3) in-service training to update skills; and (4) placing community observers in police stations. To evaluate these reforms, data was collected through two rounds of surveys (before and after the intervention) including police interviews, decoy visits to police stations, and a large scale crime survey-the first of its kind in India. The results suggest that two of the interventions, the freeze on transfers and the training, do have the potential to improve the police effectiveness and public image. The other reforms showed no robust effects, an outcome that may be due to their incomplete implementation.by Daniel Eben Keniston.Ph.D

Some principles, practices and techniques in musical therapy

One of the purposes in writing this thesis has been to present to the reader some of the guiding principles and practices which have grown outof the writer\u27s experiences in Musical Guidance and Therapy. During the years immediately preceding the first World War, assignments as a volunteer music worker in hospitals and settlement houses in and around Boston gave the writer practical experience in such institutions as the North End Settlement House, the Home for Crippled Children, and McLean Hospital for the mentally ill. Some of the experiences provides a type of education which could not have been obtained in a college at that time, while others shocked the writer into an awareness of the conditions prevalent in institutions for the mentally and physically handicapped. However, it was service in France during World War I which gave the writer unusual opportunities to observe the restorative power of music in overseas camps and hospitals. Chapter I of this thesis provides a suggestive historical background. It indicates that music has enjoyed a long and favorable, though interrupted, history as a therapy for mental illness. It also notes that during recent decades, and especially since World War I, increasing attention has been given to this modality in therapy. Finally, it proposes that the current status of musical therapy isoneof tentative acceptance, with complete approval of the results along the lines established by Dr. Ira Altschuler, Dr. Willem Van de Wall, and A. Flagler Fultz. In Chapter II the writer will present several case studies of mental patients in a state hospital who have been treated with music over periods of time ranging from three months to three years. The concluding chaper, Chapter III, embodies in didactic form the principles, practices, and techniques which are illustrated by the case material. As such they are the writier\u27s findings. They have grown out of many years of study and experience, and it is the writer\u27s opinion that they provide the basis for future development in the field of musical therapy

Faculty Employment Status and Student Characteristics as Predictors of Student Success in Modularized Developmental Mathematics

Approximately two-thirds of incoming community college students are considered academically unprepared for college-level work and lack adequate literacy and mathematical skills needed to learn at the postsecondary level. To address these realities, individual community colleges and state-wide systems have responded by redesigning developmental curricula and course structures into modularized programs that accelerate student progression through developmental sequences. Simultaneously, community colleges are hiring more adjunct faculty to meet the ever-growing demand to educate students in these programs. Data were collected for a study of the Virginia Community College System 2012 developmental math redesign to primarily examine the effects of adjunct faculty on student success in the modularized developmental math program. Secondary data analysis was conducted utilizing student characteristics. This study posed two research questions and 16 hypotheses. Logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the factors believed to have an impact on student pass rates in total and from grouped developmental pathways individually. Predictor variables used to measure the effect on achieving a passing grade were: faculty employment status, student race/ethnicity, gender, and age and institutional location— rural, urban, and suburban, were examined. This study examined secondary data of 48,765 first-time-in-college students who were enrolled in Virginia community colleges’ redesigned developmental math modules beginning in fall 2013, 2014 and 2015. Findings indicate the following: having an adjunct faculty increased the likelihood of students passing all nine modules but especially the earlier modules that make up 1-5; traditional-age students were more likely to be successful overall compared to non-traditional age students; student enrollment in urban and rural community colleges were negatively associated with achieving a passing grade. Black or African-American, Hispanic or Latino and male students had lower pass-rates than White and female students overall and in developmental pathway. Black or African-American students by comparison had considerably lower pass-rates across all developmental modules than their non-Black peers

Receipt for for 1/4 page in above named publication

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