Speech Team Returns with National Championship

Cedarville University’s forensic speech team won the Division II national championship in speech at the 2014 National Christian College Invitational in California. The tournament took place from March 8-10 with 26 universities competing

Medical School Acceptance Rate Soars for Cedarville Students

Cedarville’s pre-med students have an outstanding five-year running average of 80 percent acceptance into medical schools. In contrast, the national medical school acceptance rate ranges from 50-60 percent

End of Year Extravaganza Showcases Student Talent

Cedarville students will flood into the Jeremiah Chapel for Elliv, the biggest student life event of the year, on April 26.Elliv is a student run, student planned, mock awards show that celebrates campus culture, campus life and student talent

“Unwrapping the Bitter Truth” on Child Labor in Cocoa Industry

Cedarville’s social work department is hosting its 10th annual community night on April 8. With an abundance of fair trade chocolate and coffee at the event, this year’s topic is child labor in the cocoa industry

Sport Business Management Program Hosts Symposium

Cedarville’s sport business management program is hosting a symposium on the creation of the Champion City Kings, a collegiate baseball franchise in Springfield

Playing for Make-A-Wish Foundation, Cedarville Students Compete on the American Bible Challenge

A team of three Cedarville students will compete on the TV show the “American Bible Challenge.” The show will premiere on May 22 and Cedarville\u27s team will compete on the June 26 show. The show is aired on the Game Show Network

Examination of sex as an independent risk factor for adverse events after carotid endarterectomy

BackgroundThe incidence of adverse events after carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for women compared with men is controversial. This report compares the incidence of perioperative stroke and death in men and women by examining the effect of comorbidities and hospital setting on CEA outcomes.MethodsAll CEAs performed in non-Federal acute-care Virginia hospitals between 1997 and 2001 were reviewed. Patient demographics, comorbidities, and hospital characteristics were compared for possible relationships to perioperative adverse events.ResultsA total of 14,095 CEAs were performed in 34 urban and 28 rural hospitals (9 high-volume and 53 low-volume hospitals); 42% were performed on women, and 58% were performed on men. Women experienced a significantly higher stroke rate (1.23%) than men (0.87%; P = .04) with bivariate analysis. However, logistic regression analysis of comorbidities and hospital settings demonstrated that sex was actually not independently related to adverse outcomes in CEA (P = .08). Preoperative neurologic symptoms could not be evaluated as risk factors for adverse events. Acute coronary ischemia, history of arrhythmia, end-stage renal disease, nonwhite race, advanced age, and low hospital volume were all significantly related to mortality. History of arrhythmia was the only factor that was significantly related to the incidence of stroke.ConclusionsLogistic regression analysis of comorbidities and hospital setting indicated that female sex is not independently associated with higher mortality or a higher stroke rate during CEA. These data indicate that patients with carotid stenosis frequently have multiple medical problems that need to be carefully examined and controlled before any single patient or hospital factor is designated as significantly related to adverse outcomes

In the face of climate change and exhaustive exercise: the physiological response of an important recreational fish species

Cobia (Rachycentron canadum) support recreational fisheries along the US mid- and south-Atlantic states and have been recently subjected to increased fishing effort, primarily during their spawning season in coastal habitats where increasing temperatures and expanding hypoxic zones are occurring due to climate change. We therefore undertook a study to quantify the physiological abilities of cobia to withstand increases in temperature and hypoxia, including their ability to recover from exhaustive exercise. Respirometry was conducted on cobia from Chesapeake Bay to determine aerobic scope, critical oxygen saturation, ventilation volume and the time to recover from exhaustive exercise under temperature and oxygen conditions projected to be more common in inshore areas by the middle and end of this century. Cobia physiologically tolerated predicted mid- and end-of-century temperatures (28–32°C) and oxygen concentrations as low as 1.7–2.4 mg l−1. Our results indicated cobia can withstand environmental fluctuations that occur in coastal habitats and the broad environmental conditions their prey items can tolerate. However, at these high temperatures, some cobia did suffer post-exercise mortality. It appears cobia will be able to withstand near-future climate impacts in coastal habitats like Chesapeake Bay, but as conditions worsen, catch-and-release fishing may result in higher mortality than under present conditions

Conventional and alternative pre-harvest treatments affect the quality of ‘Golden Delicious’ and ‘York’ apple fruit

Apple trees cv. ‘Golden Delicious’ and ‘York’ were sprayed from bloom to fruit maturity with different products to evaluate the effect of pre-harvest treatments on fruit quality, including insect/disease damage and physicochemical fruit traits. Apple trees were assigned to five treatments: unsprayed (control), holistic solution (foliar nutrients and probiotics), insecticides, antimicrobials (fungicides and antibiotics), and a combination of antimicrobials + insecticides. The treatments started soon after bloom and were carried out every two weeks until fruit were ready to harvest. Diseases such as sooty blotch (complex of several fungi) and flyspeck (Zygophiala jamaicensis Mason) were the major source of damage on fruits. ‘Golden Delicious’ trees had a higher percentage of undamaged fruit than ‘York’, but all trees had some percentage of damaged fruit. Damage was most severe in the control (unsprayed) and insecticide treatments, intermediate in the holistic treatment, and much lower in the antimicrobial and antimicrobial + insecticide treatments (p < 0.003 for all comparisons). There was also a significant interactive effect (p < .0001) of cultivars and pre-harvest spray treatment on apple fruit mass. For both cultivars there was a strong effect of spray treatment on size, with larger apples produced in the antimicrobial and antimicrobial + insecticide treatments, but these effects were more pronounced in 'York' than in 'Golden Delicious' apples. ‘Golden Delicious’ trees produced 1.4-fold heavier and bigger fruits compared to ‘York’ and ‘Golden Delicious’ fruit were more mature than ‘York’ at harvest. Pre-harvest treatments also affected other quality parameters of apple fruit, such as soluble solids content (SSC) and starch-iodine index. Using partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), ‘Golden Delicious’ fruit could be well classified according to the holistic, antimicrobial, and antimicrobial + insecticide treatments. Control and insecticide samples clustered together, indicating similarities between fruit quality. Overall, pre-harvest spray treatment affected the quality of ‘Golden Delicious’ and ‘York’ apples, mainly the fruit mass and disease infection

In My Bones : Self-Presentation Forecasts Multimodal Constructs

Despite a growing interest in multimodality, little work has examined what factors most significantly impact tacit constructs of multimodality, especially in contexts outside Writing Studies. Because our constructs, whether tacit or articulate, impact all the work we do as academics, it would behoove us to have as robust a construct of multimodality as possible. This thesis reviews relevant literature, arguing that the roots of contemporary multimodal scholarship can be traced back to ancient rhetoric as well as Bakhtin’s theory of reciprocity. Additionally, this project details the conflations and contradictions surrounding multimodality in Writing Studies, arguing that these incongruities suggest that Writing Studies’ construct of multimodality is underrepresented. This seeming underrepresentation provides exigence for this study’s cross-disciplinary approach, using qualitative research methods to explore the tacit multimodal constructs of four scholars from State U. Significantly, participants’ selfpresentation most strongly forecasted their constructs of multimodality, which form a spectrum ranging from most emergent to most articulate construct. Participants with articulate constructs of multimodality discussed by their capaciousness, while participants with emergent constructs tended to either equate or conflate multimodality with a singular element (like teaching or screen-centered technologies). These conflations, uncovered by the findings, may stem from construct underrepresentation. Additionally, the findings also partially replicate Reid et al.’s (2016) findings and reinforce Ball and Charlton’s (2015) emphasis on reception as vital to the future of multimodal scholarship