Alternative Settings for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities

This study examined the positive and negative impacts of an alternative placement for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities within the public school sector. The research examined special education law, rights, responsibilities, and current and past litigation, focused on one school district’s current practices. The study explored the feelings and thoughts of parents and students involved in the alternative placement practice currently being used nationwide

The Role of Notch1 and Notch3 in hADSC Adipogenesis

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The Role of Notch3 in Self-Renewal of Adipose Derived Stem Cells

Hannah Logan is an undergraduate student in Biology at Louisiana Tech University. Avery Bryan is an undergraduate student in Biology at Louisiana Tech University. Mengcheng Liu is a graduate student in Biology at Louisiana Tech University. Jamie Newman is an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at Louisiana Tech University

Predictors of academic honesty and success in domestic and international occupational therapy students

Purpose Academic integrity is the application of honest, ethical and responsible behaviours to all facets of students’ scholarly endeavours and is the moral code of academia. The international literature reports the prevalence of academic dishonesty in higher education across many disciplines (including the health sciences), and there is evidence linking academic dishonesty in health professional students with future unprofessional behaviour in the workplace. International students are reported to be a particularly vulnerable group. This paper aims to investigate the factors that may be predictive of academic honesty and performance in domestic and international occupational therapy students. Design/methodology/approach In total, 701 participants (603 domestic students; 98 international students) were recruited from five Australian universities, and data were collected via a two-part self-report questionnaire. ANOVA and multi-linear regression analyses with bootstrapping were completed. Findings Tendency towards cheating and self-perception tendency towards dishonesty in research, gender, age and hours spent in indirect study were found to be statistically significant predictors of academic integrity and performance. Research limitations/implications Limitations of this study were the use of convenience sampling and self-report scales which can be prone to social desirability bias. Further studies are recommended to explore other potential predictors of academic honesty and performance in occupational therapy students. Originality/value A range of predictors of academic honesty and success were found that will assist educators to target vulnerable domestic and international occupational therapy students as well as address deficiencies in academic integrity through proactive strategies

Solution structure of the carboxy-terminal Tudor domain from human Coilin

AbstractThe Cajal body is a dynamic eukaryotic nuclear organelle that is known primarily as an organizational center for the assembly of snRNAs involved in transcript splicing. One of the most critical components of the Cajal body is the scaffolding protein, Coilin. Here, we demonstrate by NMR methods that the carboxy-terminal region contains a Tudor domain. The Tudor domain is atypical due to the presence of several unstructured loops, one greater than thirty amino acids in length. Tudor domains have been noted previously to bind DNA, RNA and modified amino acids. The absence of these sequence and structural signatures in the Coilin Tudor domain supporting these established functions suggests an alternative role

The Role of NOTCH3 in Determining Adipose Derived Stem Cell Fate

Jacob Cambre, Hannah Logan, Avery Bryan, and Demi Sandel are undergraduate students in Biology at Louisiana Tech University. Mengcheng Liu and Ngozi Ogbonnaya are graduate students in Biology at Louisiana Tech University. Jamie Newman is a Professor in Biological Sciences at Louisiana Tech University

The effect of zebra mussel colonization on native snail species of Douglas Lake in northern Michigan.

General EcologyThe introduction of invasive species has caused extensive ecological and economic damage in freshwater ecosystems. In the Great Lakes region, zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) have outcompeted native mollusks and driven many species towards extinction. They cause over $200 million of damage to the Great Lakes region annually. This study was performed to analyze the effect of zebra mussel colonization on native snail species of Douglas Lake in Northern Michigan. Four snail species: Campeloma decisum, Elimia livescens, Planorbella campanulata, and Stagnicola emarginata were collected with and without zebra mussels from South Fishtail Bay of Douglas Lake. The zebra mussel likelihood of colonization and horizontal movement as a measure of fitness were analyzed per species for differences between snails with zebra mussels and without. Our research showed that C. decisum and E. livescens were colonized most frequently. In addition, zebra mussel load was found to have a negative effect on horizontal movement of all snail species. Based on these results, our study concluded that zebra mussels have a significant negative effect on native snail species of Douglas Lake in Northern Michigan.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/95922/1/Fletcher_Hetherington_Schwarzman_Vaughan_2012.pd

Characteristics of Evoked Potential Multiple EEG Recordings in Patients with Chronic Pain by Means of Parallel Factor Analysis

This paper presents an alternative method, called as parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) with a continuous wavelet transform, to analyze of brain activity in patients with chronic pain in the time-frequency-channel domain and quantifies differences between chronic pain patients and controls in these domains. The event related multiple EEG recordings of the chronic pain patients and non-pain controls with somatosensory stimuli (pain, random pain, touch, random touch) are analyzed. Multiple linear regression (MLR) is applied to describe the effects of aging on the frequency response differences between patients and controls. The results show that the somatosensory cortical responses occurred around 250 ms in both groups. In the frequency domain, the neural response frequency in the pain group (around 4 Hz) was less than that in the control group (around 5.5 Hz) under the somatosensory stimuli. In the channel domain, cortical activation was predominant in the frontal region for the chronic pain group and in the central region for controls. The indices of active ratios were statistical significant between the two groups in the frontal and central regions. These findings demonstrate that the PARAFAC is an interesting method to understanding the pathophysiological characteristics of chronic pain