Evaluating Characteristics of Proso Millet Cultivars and Potential for Adoption in the Inland Pacific Northwest

Increasing cropping system diversity is one way to improve resiliency of our food system in the wake of global population increase and climate change. Proso millet is a small-seeded grain regarded as climate-resilient due to its water efficiency, performance in low fertility soils, and desirable nutritional profile. Proso millet is grown in the Great Plains but underutilized for human consumption in the US. However, it shows potential for adoption in the inland Pacific Northwest (PNW) due to its short growing season, compatibility with regional equipment, and environmental requirements. To better understand this potential, seven commercially available varieties were planted in a researcher-run trial in Pullman, WA and in a series of producer-run trials across the region in 2022. In chapter two, samples were analyzed for agronomic phenotypes, mineral concentrations, and seed morphology phenotypes. Varieties from the researcher-run trial showed significant differences for all traits excluding percent emergence and Ca concentration. Grain yield was correlated with plant height, seed area, and thousand seed weight and was negatively correlated with Zn. Most minerals were positively correlated with one another. Samples from producer-run trials showed differences by location for all seed morphology phenotypes and for concentration of Zn, Fe, Cu, and Mn. In chapter 3, interviews with producer participants were analyzed to better understand benefits and challenges of working with the crop in the inland PNW. Key benefits shared by participating producers include the resilience of the crop, capacity for rotational weed control, and increased opportunity for on-farm diversity. Key challenges include timing and logistics of harvest, the lack of a reliable market, insufficient infrastructure for storage, and inconsistent stand. Results from these studies can support future proso millet breeding efforts, inform variety selection for stakeholders across the food system, and support producers who are interested in increasing diversity in their cropping systems

Improvements to Digital Democracy\u27s Transcription Tool

Digital Democracy is a website that hosts legislative court hearings along with their transcripts and other information. The current process for getting these videos onto the website is quite tedious. By improving the tool currently used, I will automate a lot of the current work in order to greatly reduce the time spent getting videos on our website

Issued Patents in a University’s Institutional Repository

Beginning in 2016, patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted to Oklahoma State University were included in SHAREOK (https://shareok.org/.). The joint institutional repository for the Oklahoma State University Libraries (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma Libraries (OU), SHAREOK serves as the home for the intellectual output of both communities and will ultimately include digital dissertations, faculty publications, digital special collections, open access publications, and open educational resources. Including patents has increased the depth of the collection and allows them to be searched or indexed by date, author, title, and subject/classification. Using DSpace software, the contents of SHAREOK are crawled by Google, also the Library’s online catalog. Identifying patents by assignee or owner can only be done comprehensively using the Advanced Search feature in the USPTO’s Patent Full-Text and Image Database (PatFT) for issued patents or the Patent Application Full-Text and Image Database (AppFT) for pending patents or patent applications. In-house tools at the USPTO including PubWEST may also be used for comprehensive research. The following article gives an overview of patents as intellectual property and outlines the value of patents in the institutional repository, the process to identify the patents issued to Oklahoma State University over time, and the creation of the metadata structures to house the data in DSpace. Similar projects were accomplished at Clemson and Rice Universities. With various practices and software at each institution, there are no best practices at this time. Each project offers insights as to the possible ways of accomplishing similar results

Expanding access to tribal treaties in the United States from 1778-1886

The Oklahoma State University Libraries joined with federal partners to create the Tribal Treaties Database (TTD), based on the seven-volume Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, edited by Charles J. Kappler. In its second year of development, the TTD has seen many advancements, including newly annotated provisions, improved search functionality, and expanded data interoperability. This poster will highlight the background of this important project, showcase screenshots from the database, provide an overview of statistics since its launch, and outline future updates to the online portal to encourage and expand use.Librar

The Association of Gender, Age, and Coping with Internalizing Symptoms in Youth with Sickle Cell Disease

Youth with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at an elevated risk for having internalizing symptoms. Prior studies have suggested unique age by gender patterns of internalizing symptoms may be present in this population, however this pattern has not been thoroughly examined and the mechanisms underlying this pattern are not known. We examined rates of depression and anxiety symptoms between males and females with SCD across childhood and into adolescence in a cross-sectional design. We also considered the potential role of coping styles and health related locus of control for SCD morbidity that could account for age or gender patterns for internalizing symptoms. Fifty-two children and adolescents with SCD and their caregivers reported on background information, measures of coping with sickle cell pain, and depression and anxiety symptoms. There was a statistically significant interaction of age and gender in predicting anxiety symptoms, with anxiety symptoms decreasing with older age among females and increasing with older age among males. However, there was no significant coping or locus of control moderation evident for age and gender effects. Further investigation of these moderation effects are needed however, due to the cross-sectional nature of this stud

Improved Benchmarking for Steering Algorithms

The statistical analysis of multi-agent simulations requires a definitive set of benchmarks that represent the wide spectrum of challenging scenarios that agents encounter in dynamic environments, and a scoring method to objectively quantify the performance of a steering algorithm for a particular scenario. In this paper, we first recognize several limitations in prior evaluation methods. Next, we define a measure of normalized effort that penalizes deviation from desired speed, optimal paths, and collisions in a single metric. Finally, we propose a new set of benchmark categories that capture the different situations that agents encounter in dynamic environments and identify truly challenging scenarios for each category. We use our method to objectively evaluate and compare three state of the art steering approaches and one baseline reactive approach. Our proposed scoring mechanism can be used (a) to evaluate a single algorithm on a single scenario, (b) to compare the performance of an algorithm over different benchmarks, and (c) to compare different steering algorithms

Risk and Resistance Factors for Depression and Anxiety Among Youth with Sickle Cell Disease

Objective: Depression and anxiety are common problems for adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD). It is important to understand both risk and resiliency factors contributing to psychological outcomes among youth with SCD in order to prevent and effectively treat such problems. To better elucidate contributing factors to depression and anxiety among youth with SCD selected risk and resiliency factors from the risk-and-resistance model adapted for SCD were examined (Barakat, Lash, Lutz, & Nicolaou, 2006). The risk factor of fatigue and resistance/resiliency factors of cognitive appraisal of stress and self-concept are of focus because they have been understudied, and their temporal relation with symptoms of depression and anxiety is not well understood in this population. The current study plans to add to the literature by examining fatigue, cognitive appraisal of stress, and self-concept, as well as mood symptoms on a daily basis to capture the broader context of functioning and the unique challenges of managing SCD. Methods: Thirty youth (ages 11-18 years) with sickle cell disease and a primary caregiver were recruited from the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders (CCBD) at Palmetto/Prisma Health Children’s Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina during a routine clinic appointment. Youth and caregiver approached at their clinic appointment could choose to complete baseline measures at that time or to schedule a future appointment. After the completion of baseline measures in the CCBD clinic, youth completed an online daily diary for eight weeks. Each daily diary took between five and fifteen minutes to complete. Twenty-one of 30 participants completed at least nine daily diaries (776 total daily diaries for analyses). At the completion of the eight-week diary period, youth and caregivers were asked to complete follow-up measures. Fifteen of 30 participants and a caregiver completed follow-up measures Results: Significant relations were found between fatigue, mood, cognitive appraisal of stress, self-concept. Specifically, the pathway from fatigue to depression and anxiety was partially supported as fatigue was significantly associated with same day positive mood, t (1, 769) = -4.71, p \u3c .001, and with same day negative mood, t (1, 769) = 4.29, p \u3c .001. There was trend level support that depressive symptoms predict next day fatigue, t (1, 755) = -1.93, p = .05, but there was not support that anxiety symptoms predict next day fatigue, t (1, 755) = -.02, ns. Fatigue was found to be associated with primary, t (1, 769) = 2.98, p = .003, and secondary cognitive appraisal of stress, t (1, 769) = -2.55, p = .01. However, cognitive appraisal of stress did not moderate the fatigue/mood relations t (1, 754) = 1.52, ns. Finally, there was a possible association found between same day lower fatigue and higher global self-concept, t (1, 771) = -1.89, p = .06, but global self-concept was not found to moderate the fatigue/mood relationship. Finally, fatigue and pain intensity were found to have a mutually causal relationship, in that higher reported pain intensity predicted higher next day fatigue, t (1, 755) = 3.17, p = .001, and higher reported fatigue predicted increased next day pain intensity, t (1, 757) = -2.77, p = .006. Conclusions: The overall results showed support for many of the associations expected among variables in the same-day analyses. Fatigue was associated with positive and negative affect, as was primary and secondary cognitive appraisal of stress. However, few of the expected temporal relations predicting next-day variables were supported, which provides less evidence for the causal relationship among fatigue, cognitive appraisal of stress, self-concept and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Still, the current study highlights to importance of considering fatigue as another critical symptom to assess on a consistent basis, especially given the potential relation with pain. Future studies with larger sample sizes may be able to detect better the effects of fatigue, pain, cognitive appraisal of stress, and self-concept on internalizing symptoms, although the magnitude of the expected temporal associations was modest for most of the expected effects. Alternately, the risk-and-resistance model used to guide the present set of hypotheses may need further modification to address internalizing symptoms in SCD (including considering bidirectional relationships between risk/resiliency factors and mood). In addition, future studies with a larger sample size would allow for interpretation of baseline and follow-up data, as well as the examination of possible group differences between participants that completed daily dairies and those that did not

Ancestry assessment in subadult skeletons

The identification of individuals is the primary goal in any forensic investigation. To facilitate an identification, a biological profile (age, sex, ancestry, stature) for the unknown individual is created by a forensic anthropologist. For adult individuals, the aspects of the biological profile are largely straightforward. For subadult individuals, the only aspect of the profile that can be reliably estimated is age. However, an important but difficult aspect of the biological profile is ancestry. When working toward an identification of a set of subadult remains, it can only be said that the remains are consistent with the demographic profile of a missing child. Little research exists that examines the use of nonmetric traits for ancestry assessment in subadult individuals, and little is known about how the traits are expressed in different age groups. This study examines ancestry assessment in subadult skeletons using the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Terry Osteological Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the Johns Hopkins Fetal Skull Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. To assess ancestry, the skull and mandible of 307 subadult individuals, aged 0-20 years with known demographics are examined using the 15 nonmetric traits examined by Hefner (2009) normally used with adult individuals. Despite difficulties in scoring all 15 traits, there were differences found with each trait when compared to ancestral groups. Even among the youngest individuals in the sample, the traits could be identified and scored