Senior Recital: Mary Madison Jones, percussion

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Ms. Jones studies percussion with John Lawless.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2016/thumbnail.jp

Learning the Fundamentals from Hands-on Learning

The projects featured in this piece represent the notion of design as an act of thinking-through-making. Through studies in design principles, craftsmanship, exercises, and projects, students engaged in hands-on learning, which included drawings, model-making, and producing artifacts. Fundamentals of Design Thinking: Architecture Majors Learning Community, Prof. Bronne Dytoc, Prof. Mine H. Hashas-Degertekin, Prof. Zamila Karimi, Prof. Marietta Monaghan, Prof. Willie Pittman, and Prof. Arief Setiawa

An evaluation of a nurse led unit: an action research study

This study is an exemplar of working in a participatory way with members of the public and health and social care practitioners as co-researchers. A Nurse Consultant Older People working in a nurse-led bed, intermediate care facility in a community hospital acted as joint project lead with an academic researcher. From the outset, members of the public were part of a team of 16 individuals who agreed an evaluation focus and were involved in all stages of the research process from design through to dissemination. An extensive evaluation reflecting all these stakeholders’ preferences was undertaken. Methods included research and audit including: patient and carer satisfaction questionnaire surveys, individual interviews with patients, carers and staff, staff surveys, graffiti board, suggestion box, first impressions questionnaire, patient tracking and a bed census. A key aim of the study has been capacity building of the research team members which has also been evaluated. In terms of impact, the co-researchers have developed research skills and knowledge, grown in confidence, developed in ways that have impacted elsewhere in their lives, developed posters, presented at conferences and gained a better understanding of the NHS. The evaluation itself has provided useful information on the processes and outcomes of intermediate care on the ward which was used to further improve the service

A capped octahedral MHC6 compound of a platinum group metal

A MHC6 complex of a platinum group metal with a capped octahedral arrangement of donor atoms around the metal center has been characterized. This osmium compound OsH{κ2-C,C-(PhBIm-C6H4)}3, which reacts with HBF4 to afford the 14 e− species [Os{κ2-C,C-(PhBIm-C6H4)}(Ph2BIm)2]BF4 stabilized by two agostic interactions, has been obtained by reaction of OsH6(PiPr3)2 with N,N′-diphenylbenzimidazolium chloride ([Ph2BImH]Cl) in the presence of NEt3. Its formation takes place through the C,C,C-pincer compound OsH2{κ3-C,C,C-(C6H4-BIm-C6H4)}(PiPr3)2, the dihydrogen derivative OsCl{κ2-C,C-(PhBIm-C6H4)}(η2-H2)(PiPr3)2, and the five-coordinate osmium(II) species OsCl{κ2-C,C-(PhBIm-C6H4)}(PiPr3)2.Financial support from the MINECO of Spain (Projects CTQ2014-52799-P and CTQ2014-51912-REDC), Gobierno de Aragón (E35), FEDER, and the European Social Fund is acknowledged.Peer reviewe

Helminth-induced CD19+CD23hi B cells modulate experimental allergic and autoimmune inflammation

Numerous population studies and experimental models suggest that helminth infections can ameliorate immuno-inflammatory disorders such as asthma and autoimmunity. Immunosuppressive cell populations associated with helminth infections include Treg and alternatively-activated macrophages. In previous studies, we showed that both CD4+CD25+ Treg, and CD4– MLN cells from Heligmosomoides polygyus-infected C57BL/6 mice were able to transfer protection against allergic airway inflammation to sensitized but uninfected animals. We now show that CD4–CD19+ MLN B cells from infected, but not naïve, mice are able to transfer a down-modulatory effect on allergy, significantly suppressing airway eosinophilia, IL-5 secretion and pathology following allergen challenge. We further demonstrate that the same cell population can alleviate autoimmune-mediated inflammatory events in the CNS, when transferred to uninfected mice undergoing myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein(p35–55)-induced EAE. In both allergic and autoimmune models, reduction of disease was achieved with B cells from helminth-infected IL-10−/− donors, indicating that donor cell-derived IL-10 is not required. Phenotypically, MLN B cells from helminth-infected mice expressed uniformly high levels of CD23, with follicular (B2) cell surface markers. These data expand previous observations and highlight the broad regulatory environment that develops during helminth infections that can abate diverse inflammatory disorders in vivo

Twenty-five years of end-user searching, Part 1: Research findings

This is the first part of a two-part article that reviews 25 years of published research findings on end-user searching in online information retrieval (IR) systems. In Part 1 (Markey, 2007 ), the author seeks to answer the following questions: What characterizes the queries that end users submit to online IR systems? What search features do people use? What features would enable them to improve on the retrievals they have in hand? What features are hardly ever used? What do end users do in response to the system's retrievals? Are end users satisfied with their online searches? Summarizing searches of online IR systems by the search features people use everyday makes information retrieval appear to be a very simplistic one-stop event. In Part 2, the author examines current models of the information retrieval process, demonstrating that information retrieval is much more complex and involves changes in cognition, feelings, and/or events during the information seeking process. She poses a host of new research questions that will further our understanding about end-user searching of online IR systems.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/56093/1/20462_ftp.pd