The Touchable Intangible: A Deep Dive into Sleep Paralysis Hallucinations

University of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/156339/1/Vanderberg-thesis6.pd

The Relationship Between Students\u27 Perceptions of Academic Support and Their Willingness to Seek Support

The purpose of this study was to examine how students’ perceptions of academic support impact their willingness to seek support from an academic support center at a small, faith-based, liberal arts university. Eight students were interviewed for the study, with an even divide of four students who had voluntarily sought academic support and four non-support-seeking students enrolled in an individualized probationary course. A major finding related to the importance of developing need recognition for academic support among individual students. Research showed that students’ perceptions of academic support were closely tied to their perceived need of services. It was also clear that positive academic support experiences bred positive student perceptions and a willingness to seek support in the future. Implications for future practice include further utilization and assessment of the university’s probationary course format and further examination of student need recognition for academic support services

The Search for Agency: Female Sexual Desire in U.S. Sex Education and Coming-of-Age Cinema

The following essay provides an analysis of the gendered ideologies present in coming-of-age cinema, as well as a critique of heteronormative, patriarchal concepts that hinder female sexual agency and adolescent empowerment. More specifically, this essay will critique the harmful portrayal of female puberty as romantic, passive, and emotional in comedic coming-of-age cinema. This essay will be split into three primary segments. The first segment will consist of a literature review discussing the correlation between sexual desire and autonomy, as well as the importance of portraying female sexual agency rather than passivity in media and sex education curricula, in order to challenge female objectification and lack of autonomy. The second segment will analyze the concept of female as passive and male as active with an explicit connection to film narratives. This segment will feature both a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of twenty coming-of-age comedic films between 1980 and 2015. The third segment will offer an autoethnographic account of pubescent sexual expression, showing how the existence and expression of female sexual desire is impacted by societal ideologies throughout the “coming of age” years. Ultimately, this essay provides a definitive correlation between the portrayal of adolescent sexual desire in film and the overall view of female sexuality in society

Application of Image Analysis to Recycled Fiber Characteristics

The purpose of this thesis was to determine if crimp could be measured in virgin and recycled Kraft softwood. Comparisons of the physical property data and the crimp values were also to be done. The results for this thesis showed that crimp is not an important property of the softwood used. Because of this the comparisons of data could not be done. More research must be done to determine if the sampling methods that used are valid and if crimp can be found in other fiber types

Multivariate Analysis, Retrieval, and Storage System (MARS). Volume 1: MARS System and Analysis Techniques

A method for rapidly examining the probable applicability of weight estimating formulae to a specific aerospace vehicle design is presented. The Multivariate Analysis Retrieval and Storage System (MARS) is comprised of three computer programs which sequentially operate on the weight and geometry characteristics of past aerospace vehicles designs. Weight and geometric characteristics are stored in a set of data bases which are fully computerized. Additional data bases are readily added to the MARS system and/or the existing data bases may be easily expanded to include additional vehicles or vehicle characteristics

Service learning for students with disabilities : enhancing outcomes at the intersection of special education, transitions, and inclusion

Presently, many children and adolescents have the opportunity to engage in service-learning, however, students with disabilities rarely have access to these opportunities. This paper focuses on using service-learning with students with disabilities to enhance outcomes at the intersection of special education, transitions, and inclusion. Special Education, as mandated through federal legislation in the U.S., provides customized education for students with diagnosed disabilities. Special Education services must be delivered in the “least restrictive environment”, fostering inclusion of students with disabilities with typically-developing peers. Special Education must target transitions, the process of facilitating post-school adjustment of students, particularly students with disabilities, to adult life. Service-learning, as a philosophy, pedagogical technique, and community development strategy, should be part of a comprehensive transition plan to support students to gain experience and develop skills needed to successfully pursue post-secondary activities. Additionally, service-learning for students with disabilities enhances community outcomes in inclusion (a process, method, or state of being involved) by integrating those excluded (or at risk of being excluded) into the community. Service-learning intentionally links community service with academic, socio-emotional, and/or career curriculum goals and can optimize student development during transitions. This paper reviews best practices for creating transition plans that systematically include service-learning for students with various disabilities. This best-practices portion aims to strengthen the skills and leadership of professionals interested in and engaged in supporting intentional service-learning and professionals who see diversity and inclusion as mechanisms to improve transitions and communities. The next portion reviews a study of Project Impact (Timmons & Zalewska, 2012), which engages high school- and college-aged students with disabilities in AmeriCorps and their communities. Project Impact’s service-learning activities purposefully connect academic, socio-emotional, and career development with service. Learning from service hinges on reflection, enabling participants to link their service activities to their personal development during transition. The paper covers the program design, community partnerships, implementation, student reflections, outcomes, and promising practices. The paper outlines benefits for stakeholders and participants. Evaluation data show positive outcomes in three areas: 1) building character; 2) building career; and 3) building community

Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment Partnership

The Inclusive Concurrent Education Partnership (ICE) has enrolled students with disabilities from local public high schools for the past 4 semesters, since the Fall of 2012. These students audit courses that match their personal interests in order to experience a fully inclusive higher educational setting. A total of 32 students have participated across the two years of program implementation

Kinetics of Mosquito-Injected Plasmodium Sporozoites in Mice: Fewer Sporozoites Are Injected into Sporozoite-Immunized Mice

Malaria is initiated when the mosquito introduces sporozoites into the skin of a mammalian host. To successfully continue the infection, sporozoites must invade blood vessels in the dermis and be transported to the liver. A significant number of sporozoites, however, may enter lymphatic vessels in the skin or remain in the skin long after the mosquito bite. We have used fluorescence microscopy of Plasmodium berghei sporozoites expressing a fluorescent protein to evaluate the kinetics of sporozoite disappearance from the skin. Sporozoites injected into immunized mice were rapidly immobilized, did not appear to invade dermal blood vessels and became morphologically degraded within several hours. Strikingly, mosquitoes introduced significantly fewer sporozoites into immunized than into non-immunized mice, presumably by formation of an immune complex between soluble sporozoite antigens in the mosquito saliva and homologous host antibodies at the proboscis tip. These results indicate that protective antibodies directed against sporozoites may function both by reducing the numbers of sporozoites injected into immunized hosts and by inhibiting the movement of injected sporozoites into dermal blood vessels