Bone Marrow Drive: Will Linfield Be the Match?

Ashley Filler discusses student engagement at Linfield College with regard to organizing a bone marrow registration drive.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/inauguration2019_students/1008/thumbnail.jp

The Horror Behind My Love for Reading and Writing

Finalist in the Creative non-fiction category of the 2018 Emerging Writers Contest. The essay explores love of the horror genre through a personal narrative

Airborne Staphylococcus aureus in the Biology Labs at Southern Adventist University

Staphylococcus aureus has been of growing interest to the scientific community in recent years. It is not only easily transferred from one person to another, but its rapidly evolving antibiotic resistance has made it increasingly difficult to treat. Once thought to be a hospital-acquired disease, S. aureus is now often found in the community. Studies indicate that people and clothing can act as carriers of S. aureus not only directly, but through airborne particles. For these reasons a research experiment was designed to determine the prevalence of S. aureus in the microbiology lab and anatomy and physiology lab at Southern Adventist University during the fall semester of 2014. While these labs contain similar numbers of students, many nursing students attend microbiology in their used clinical scrubs. An air sampler was used to detect the presence of S. aureus in the air, while sterile cloth was hung in the breathable air column to test for the airborne transfer of S. aureus to cloth. These samples were taken in each lab a total of six times (both in the presence and absence of students) over a period of two months. Out of a total of ten confirmed S. aureus bacterial colonies, six were found in the microbiology lab (all of which were in the presence of students) and four were found in the anatomy and physiology lab (two of which were in the presence of students). Additionally, two S. aureus colonies exhibited resistance to a variety of antibiotics and five colonies exhibited resistance to methicillin. Based on the results of the tests performed, it can be concluded that students do spread S. aureus through the air at Southern Adventist University, and that the microbiology lab experiences this at a greater rate than the anatomy and physiology lab. Finally, it appears that MRSA is present in easily detectable levels in both labs

Ask the Professor: “OMG! What Did MF Global Do?

This paper, written one week after MF Global, a large futures brokerage firm filed for bankruptcy, analyzes the bankruptcy, its impact on futures customers and the shortfall in customer funds that occurred on October 31, 2011. Subsequent to MF Global\u27s bankruptcy, several customer protection rules were amended by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association

Modelling in Mathematics and Informatics: How Should the Elevators Travel so that Chaos Will Stop?

Didactic proposals on modelling in mathematics education mostly give priority to models which describe, explain as well as partially forecast and provide mathematical solutions to real situations. A view of the modelling concept of informatics, which also initiates rapidly generalised deliberations of models, can also make a contribution to the spectrum of models, which are treated in a meaningful sense in mathematics lessons so as to expand some interesting aspects. In this paper, this is illustrated by means of conceptual design models – and, here, especially of process models – using the example of elevator organisation in a multi-storey construction