Mitsui’s Story or Mafia’s Story: A Different Reading of The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai

About the author Fred Smithberg is a retired airline pilot and U.S. Marine Corps officer. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and of the U.S. Naval War College. Now he lives in Savannah and takes history courses he loves at Armstrong State Universit

The Gossamer Years: Gender, Religion and Aesthetics in Heian Japan

About the authors : Caitlyn is a senior History major at Armstrong State University and will graduate with her B.A. in December of 2016. Her main interests in the field are military history and archaeological studies. Upon completion of her degree, Caitlyn hopes to use the knowledge and skills she has gained to further her career as a fiction writer. Rodellen, a Philippine native, is a senior majoring in Cell/Molecular Biology. She plans on going to a medical school to pursue a career in Cardiology. John is junior and he hopes to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies. Fred is a retired airline pilot and U.S. Marine Corps officer. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and of the U.S. Naval War College

Education and Government in the Eyes of a Confucian Scholar in Modern China

About the Author Payton Jay Dison hails from Henry County, Georgia and is currently pursuing a B.A. in English with a focus on professional communication. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and interested in video games, soccer, and studying other languages. Fred Smithberg is a retired military officer and commercial pilot, currently participating in Armstrong\u27s Over Sixtytwo Program. Michael Chase Freeman is graduating with honors from Armstrong University with a B.A. in Liberal studies with a focus in History and minors in anthropology and biology. His focus is in archaeology and physical anthropology with an interest in ancient history. Brian Lee is a junior history major at Armstrong State University. He plans on pursuing a master\u27s degree after finishing the undergraduate program

Partial Regulatory T Cell Depletion Prior to Acute Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Does Not Alter Disease Pathogenesis

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infection in cats follows a disease course similar to HIV-1, including a short acute phase characterized by high viremia, and a prolonged asymptomatic phase characterized by low viremia and generalized immune dysfunction. CD4+CD25hiFoxP3+ immunosuppressive regulatory T (Treg) cells have been implicated as a possible cause of immune dysfunction during FIV and HIV-1 infection, as they are capable of modulating virus-specific and inflammatory immune responses. Additionally, the immunosuppressive capacity of feline Treg cells has been shown to be increased during FIV infection. We have previously shown that transient in vivo Treg cell depletion during asymptomatic FIV infection reveals FIV-specific immune responses suppressed by Treg cells. In this study, we sought to determine the immunological influence of Treg cells during acute FIV infection. We asked whether Treg cell depletion prior to infection with the highly pathogenic molecular clone FIV-C36 in cats could alter FIV pathogenesis. We report here that partial Treg cell depletion prior to FIV infection does not significantly change provirus, viremia, or CD4+ T cell levels in blood and lymphoid tissues during the acute phase of disease. The effects of anti-CD25 mAb treatment are truncated in cats acutely infected with FIV-C36 as compared to chronically infected cats or FIV-naïve cats, as Treg cell levels were heightened in all treatment groups included in the study within two weeks post-FIV infection. Our findings suggest that the influence of Treg cell suppression during FIV pathogenesis is most prominent after Treg cells are activated in the environment of established FIV infection

Aiding Gays: How the Gaying of AIDS Affected Response, Treatment, and Research During the Early Years of the Epidemic in San Francisco

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College I will look at the contrasting responses of members of the gay community and hostile conservative politicians to homosexuals and people with AIDS in the United States, especially in San Francisco. In the first chapter, I will discuss the development of gay life in the city, from World War II until the assassination of Harvey Milk. This path will lead to the 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic struck San Francisco. In the second chapter, I will follow the discovery of a new disease among gay men, and the initial response of physicians and patients. In the third and final chapter, I will present the debate on funding for educational materials between the gay community and anti-gay politicians, which reveals the hostility and stigmatization of gays and people with AIDS