Attached Algae as an Indicator of Water Quality: A Study of the Viability of Genomic Taxonomic Methods

This research involved evaluating algae as an indicator of water quality in New Hampshire\u27s rivers, with a focus on the Great Bay Estuary. The project had three main goals. First, determining whether or not algae would work as an indicator of water quality in the great bay ecosystem, an environment where tidal currents are strong and water composition is mixed. The second goal was to compare traditional microscopic methods of taxonomy with emerging genomic methods, increasing the economic viability of attached algae monitoring. The third project goal, still underway, is to evaluate massive amounts of genomic data from the Great Bay ecosystem to see if other organisms might serve as viable indicators of environmental conditions in the bay. Despite the smalla tiny data set, traditional microscopic analysis results suggest that attached algae may be a viable indicator of water quality in the Great Bay Estuary. Further research including a larger data set will be required to evaluate the viability of genomic methods to supplement microscopic analyses, however early results have encouraged us to continue pursuing this research and expand our study to a larger portion of New Hampshire. Early results using bacteria have also encouraged us to continue analysis of genomic data in pursuit of goal number three, to find additional indicators that may serve as useful in water quality monitoring programs in New Hampshire

Oral history interview with Tommy and Allison Wood

Abstract provided by interviewer Sheridan Wood. Allison and Tommy Wood both attended Abilene Christian University from 1986-1990, where Allison earned a B.S. of mass communications in radio and television and Tommy earned a B.S. of accounting. Both were brought up in traditional Church of Christ families and attended ACU as a result, and Tommy had additional familial ties to ACU. Both Allison and Tommy consider themselves to be more “rule breakers” than what the perceived perfect ACU student at that time would have been. Tommy and Allison discuss their very different dating experiences at ACU (they didn’t meet each other until senior year), how social clubs played a role in encouraging students to get engaged before graduation, and the very different experiences of living in a male dorm versus a female dorm. The pair also discusses the lack of female leadership in chapel and church services, as well as a lack of female students pursuing degrees in the Bible department. Allison and Tommy also discuss the strict rules against dancing at ACU, how ACU handled dancing on or off campus, and the ways they found to get away with it. This interview serves as a primary source showcasing the different experiences of males and females in leadership and social lives at ACU in the late 1980s

A psychological analysis of the effects of memory retrieval prior to extinction on the reacquisition of a conditioned fear association

The successful reduction of fear is the aim of clinicians treating people with anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder or phobias. Existing treatments for these conditions, however, require many treatment sessions and are prone to relapse. A new technique, first demonstrated in rats by Monfils, Cowansage, Klann, & LeDoux (2009) and later shown to be effective in humans (Schiller et al., 2010), provides a method of efficiently reducing fear in a manner which is resistant to various known triggers of relapse. This procedure involves a single presentation of the fear-inducing stimulus one hour prior to extinction training. This procedure produces extinction learning that is resistant to the return of fear resulting from a change of context, the passage of time, exposure to the unconditioned stimulus, and even further conditioning of the stimulus with an aversive stimulus. This dissertation focuses on one particular property of this procedure: that a stimulus extinguished using this procedure is resistant to subsequent retraining of the fear association. The first four experiments presented here are aimed at replicating this phenomenon and determining whether prediction error at retrieval is necessary for the effect to occur. Following on from these studies, the next chapter presents three experiments which investigate whether trial spacing effects could explain the enhanced extinction and highlights conditions under which the effect is weakened, or possibly reversed. The next three experiments compare the properties of a stimulus extinguished under these conditions with a stimulus extinguished under normal conditions. These studies focus on explanations involving inhibition, inattention and the disruption of stimulus representations. In the final three experiments, the possibility of reversing the effect is investigated. These studies look at the effect of memory retrieval prior to retraining of the stimulus to determine the conditions under which the stimulus can again come to elicit a fear response.Medical Research Council Programme Grant; Overseas Research Studentship; Poynton Cambridge Commonwealth Trust; Oon Khye Beng Ch‟hia Tsio Bursar

Could the sentiments of Rio derail an active nation?

A critical perspective on the policy implications of success at the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic Game

Recovering Disability in Early Modern England

Introduction : ethical staring : disabling the English Renaissance / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. Turner -- Antic dispositions : mental and intellectual disabilities in early modern revenge tragedy / Lindsey Row-Heyveld -- Disabling allegories in Edmund Spenser's Faerie queene / Rachel E. Hile -- Performing blindness : representing disability in early modern popular performance and print / Simone Chess -- "There is no suff'ring due" : metatheatricality and disability drag in Volpone / Lauren Coker -- Richard recast : Renaissance disability in a postcommunist culture / Marcela Kostihová -- The Book of common prayer, theory of mind, and autism in early modern England / Mardy Philippian, Jr -- Freedom and (dis)ability in early modern political thought / Nancy Hirschmann -- Coda : Shakespearean disability pedagogy / Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood.Item embargoed for five year

Maximizing Transit and Transit-centered Growth to Benefit All

This paper includes a national scan of transit-oriented development (TOD) activities across the United States. The goal is to assess the level of activity and momentum around TOD, with special attention to the role that funders are playing to influence outcomes that are benefiting low- and moderate-income people

Interaction of orientation cues within a nested virtual environment

Three experiments examined whether three factors (view of external targets, coloured wall cues, previous exploration of room) facilitate orientation within a virtual building and whether the interaction between the first two factors align with predictions from associative learning. Participants were teleported into a virtual room and asked to face in the direction of an external occluded target using all, none, or a combination of these factors. Experiment 1(n = 62) showed all 3 factors individually improved orientation. Experiment 2 (n = 28) illustrated that the interaction between external targets and colored wall cues was similar to an associative learning phenomenon, where more salient cues inhibit learning about less salient cues (called overshadowing). Previous research suggests salience of spatial cues can be moderated by familiarity with the cues. In both Experiment 1 and 2, participants were familiar with the external targets but not the colored wall cues. Experiment 3 (n = 92) manipulated familiarity with the external targets and found that when participants were not familiar with the external targets, they became overshadowed by coloured wall cues. The results are a novel demonstration that spatial cues within a nested environment interact in a way predicted by associative learning

Ensemble Concerts: Symphonic Winds, April 29, 2023

Center for the Performing ArtsApril 29, 2023Saturday Evening8:00 p.m