The relative achievements of A, B, and C classes in English in Paseo High School, Kansas City , Missouri

Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--University of Kansas, Education, 1931

Make Pennsylvania Free Again

The author created this paper for a class assignment testing students’ knowledge of constitutional law. The assignment was to write a legal brief addressing the constitutionality of a statewide mask mandate during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is an airborne disease that can be transmitted from person to person up to six feet apart. The hypothetical facts provided for this brief were that a suit was filed in Pennsylvania state court by a group of individuals in opposition to the state’s mask mandate that was enacted to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of this brief is to demonstrate knowledge of how courts address constitutional issues, how fundamental rights are established or violated, and how to write persuasively and concisely. The data in this brief was accurate as of May 2021. With those goals in mind, the following brief was the result

Examining a comprehensive developmental sequence throughout the livestock judging experience

The purpose of this study was to determine the self-perceived influence of a livestock judging experience on skills learned and overall usefulness outside of competition at different ages and competitive levels. This study investigated two different areas of the participant's livestock judging experience; skills and stress. Also, this study evaluated participant's personal characteristics in relation to the enjoyment of the judging experience and total benefit of that experience. A qualitative interview protocol was developed for the target audience who were Kentucky 4-H livestock judging participants. With the design of this study and the need for multiple experience levels, specific age and experience parameters were in place. The results of this study were that the livestock judging experience is contributing to the human development of its participants. This experience was shown to influence the development of life and career skills, stress management, and should be continued as a fundamental youth development activity

Alien Registration- Riley, Margaret C. (Bangor, Penobscot County)

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The Good Soldier: A Look into the Stigma and Stereotypes of the US Military

“The Good Soldier: A Look at the Stigma and Stereotypes of the US Military” examines the stigma associated with mental health as well as gender stereotypes and bias in the United States military. It uses my personal experience in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program as well as research to show the institutionalization of stigma and stereotypes. The purpose of this thesis is to spread awareness and question why this stigma exists. I will find correlations between mental health and stereotypes and their overlap as a service member in the military. My personal memoir coupled with research on stigma and stereotypes will create a powerful message that there are institutional problems within the military, but change can happen

Should Networks Supplant Tree Building?

Recent studies suggested that network methods should supplant tree building as the basis of genealogical analysis. This proposition is based upon two arguments. First is the observation that bacterial and archaeal lineages experience processes oppositional to bifurcation and hence the representation of the evolutionary process in a tree like structure is illogical. Second is the argument tree building approaches are circular—you ask for a tree and you get one, which pins a verificationist label on tree building that, if correct, should be the end of phylogenetic analysis as we currently know it. In this review, we examine these questions and suggest that rumors of the death of the bacterial tree of life are exaggerated at best

Influential Article Review - Corporate Governance and Its Impact On Environmental Management

This paper examines corporate social responsibility. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: Comparatively less research has examined the effect of corporate governance (CG) elements on environmental sustainability reporting performance (ESRP) in South Asian (SA) countries. Further, no study in literature documents a cross-country examination of CG and ESRP in this region. The study takes three SA countries (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and 88 listed organizations’ sustainability reports during the years 2009–2016 from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) database. The study considers a variety of mixed theoretical frameworks—i.e., agency, resource dependency, stakeholder, legitimacy and political cost theories—to indicate which ownership (foreign, institutional, director and family) and board characteristics (independence, size, diversity and committee) affect ESRP practices in the world’s most environmentally vulnerable region. Our empirical results indicate ESRP has a positive association with foreign and institutional ownership, board independence, and board size. Moreover, we find directors share ownership significantly related to ESRP. In contrast, our results also reveal no association between ESRP and family ownership, female directorship, and CSR and environmental committees. We conclude that more family control, a lack of female participation, and the unavailability of resourceful management personnel primarily impedes ESRP practices in the SA countries’ organizations. These findings have both theoretical and practical implications for academia, policy-makers, and corporate managers in this region. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German

Persistence of colicinogenic Escherichia coli in the mouse gastrointestinal tract

Background: The ability of a bacterial strain to competitively exclude or displace other strains can be attributed to the production of narrow spectrum antimicrobials, the bacteriocins. In an attempt to evaluate the importance of bacteriocin production for Escherichia coli strain residence in the gastrointestinal tract, a murine model experimental evolution study was undertaken. Results: Six colicin-producing, yet otherwise isogenic, E. coli strains were administered and established in the large intestine of streptomycin-treated mice. The strains\u27 persistence, population density, and doubling time were monitored over a period of 112 days. Early in the experiment only minor differences in population density between the various colicin-producing and the nonproducing control strains were detected. However, over time, the density of the control strains plummeted, while that of the colicin-producing strains remained significantly higher (F(7,66) = 2.317; P \u3c 0.0008). Conclusion: The data presented here support prior claims that bacteriocin production may play a significant role in the colonization of E. coli in the gastrointestinal tract. Further, this study suggests that the ability to produce bacteriocins may prove to be a critical factor in determining the success of establishing probiotic E. coli in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and animals

The Role of SOS Boxes in Enteric Bacteriocin Regulation

Bacteriocins are a large and functionally diverse family of toxins found in all major lineages of Bacteria. Colicins, those bacteriocins produced by Escherichia coli, serve as a model system for investigations of bacteriocin structure-function relationships, genetic organization, and their ecological role and evolutionary history. Colicin expression is often dependent on host regulatory pathways (such as the SOS system), is usually confined to times of stress, and results in death of the producing cells. This study investigates the role of the SOS system in mediating this unique form of toxin expression. A comparison of all the sequenced enteric bacteriocin promoters reveals that over 75 % are regulated by dual, overlapping SOS boxes, which serve to bind two LexA repressor proteins. Furthermore, a highly conserved poly-A motif is present in both of the binding sites examined, indicating enhanced affinity of the LexA protein for the binding site. The use of gene expression analysis and deletion mutations further demonstrates that these unique LexA cooperative binding regions result in a fine tuning of bacteriocin production, limiting it to times of stress. These results suggest that the evolution of dual SOS boxes elegantly accomplishes the task of increasing the amount of toxin produced by a cell while decreasing the rate of uninduced production, effectively reducing the cost of colicin production. This hypothesis may explain why such a promoter motif is present at such high frequencies in natural populations of bacteriocin-producing enteric bacteria. © 2008 SGM