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Bioinformatic Analysis of Glucose Transporters of Gluconobacter oxydans
(2024-12)Gluconobacter oxydans is a gram-negative bacillus whose unique metabolism is frequently exploited in industry and biotechnology for its metabolic byproducts. Glucose is a common carbon source for G. oxydans and is incompletely ... -
Vital Signs: A Digital Humanities Project Exploring the Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on the Chippewa Valley
(2024-04)“Vital Signs: The Chippewa Valley 1918 Influenza Project” is a digital humanities resource exploring the impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Northwestern Wisconsin. This poster explores a collaborative local history ... -
College Students’ Achievement Pressures and Well-Being : Preliminary Findings
(2024-04)Mental health concerns among college students have been on the rise over the last decade. In a recent survey of over 90,000 U.S. college students, 41% of the students reported symptoms of depression and 36% reported symptoms ... -
Strategic Policymaking in Totalitarian Governments : A Pathway to Survivability in the Modern World
(2024-04)This project investigates the driving factors of policy and decision-making in totalitarian regimes and the implications for the survival and longevity of dictatorships in the modern era. This is relevant, as it addresses ... -
Bigmouth and Smallmouth Buffalo in Wisconsin: Population Characteristics and Contributions to Bowfishing Harvest
(College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-01)Bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) and smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) are native to the midwestern USA and receive little management attention due to their status as non-game fishes. As a result, little is known ... -
Understanding the Nature and Impact of Early Pregnancy Loss Through Women's Stories
(2015-08-01)Guided by Harter’s narrative framework for health communication this thematic narrative analysis sought to understand women’s experiences of early pregnancy loss with focus on sense making and communication by gathering ... -
Enantiospecific Stereospecific Strategy for the Total Synthesis of Sarpagine and Macroline Related Oxindole Alkaloids: First Total Synthesis of Affinisine Oxindole, Isoalstonisine, Alstofoline, Macrogentine, N(1)-demethylalstonisine, Alstonoxine A and Second Generation Synthesis of Alstonisine
(2015-08-01)The (7R)-sarpagine/macroline related oxindole alkaloids (-)-isoalstonisine (27) and (-)-macrogentine (31) together with the (7S)-sarpagine/macroline related oxindole alkaloids (-)-affinisine oxindole (24), (-)-alstonoxine ... -
Random Iteration of Rational Maps
(2015-08-01)Random and non-autonomous iteration has been a subject of interest in Mathematics that has received some attention in the last few decades. The earliest paper on random iteration in the complex setting was written by ... -
A Long Term Follow Up to a Randomized Controlled Trial of Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics
(2015-05-01)Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by stereotyped involuntary movements called tics. Tics can be movements or sounds and usually present first during childhood. Although tics may wax and ... -
Functional Diversity of Regional Marine Paleocommunities After the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction: Case Studies from Panthalassa and Paleo-tethys
(2015-08-01)The Permo-Triassic mass extinction (PTME) was the largest biodiversity collapse in Earth’s history. Published data has been interpreted as indicating that marine ecological devastation following the PTME was protracted and ... -
Rhetorical Lessons in Advocacy and Shared Responsibility: Family Metaphors and Definitions of Crisis and Care in Unpaid Family Caregiving Advocacy Rhetoric
(2015-08-01)In this rhetorical analysis, I analyze pro-caregiving advocates, individuals and organizations who are attempting to energize policy change for unpaid family caregiving. I piece together an expansive text that includes ... -
Essays on Corporate Finance Issues
(2015-08-01)This dissertation consists of two essays on corporate finance issues. In the first essay (Chapter 1), I explore whether business group affiliations affect the covariance structure of stock returns in Korea. I find that the ... -
Comparing Fixed-Amount and Progressive-Amount Schedules of Reinforcement for Tic Suppression
(2015-05-01)Chronic tic disorders (CTDs) involve motor and/or vocal tics that cause substantial distress and impairment. Existing behavioral interventions for CTDs have comparable efficacy to pharmacological treatments but still leave ... -
Health of the Nation: the Impact of Racial and Income Segregation on Food Insecurity in the United States
(2015-08-01)One in six Americans experience food insecurity as a result of not being able to consistently obtain the food they need. Food insecurity ranges from not being able to afford balanced meals to the skipping meals as a way ... -
Effect of Accessibility Information on Restaurant Selection of Consumers with Disabilities
(2014-12-01)OBJECTIVE: The study addressed the research question, "How does accessibility information about restaurants affect the diversity of restaurant choices for people with disabilities compared to others who only have general ... -
Allophonic Variation in the Spanish Sibilant Fricative
(2013-05-01)In Spanish, the phoneme /s/ has two variants: [z] occurs in the coda when preceding a voiced consonant, and [s] occurs elsewhere. However, recent research has revealed irregular voicing patterns with regards to this phone. ... -
Asymmetric Synthesis of All-Carbon α-aryl Quaternary Carbonyl Compounds By Palladium-catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation (Pd-AAA) and Their Application to the Synthesis of Biologically Important 3,3′-disubstituted Oxindole and α-disubstituted Quaternary β-lactone Frameworks
(2015-08-01)The development of catalytic, enantioselective methods for the construction of all-carbon quaternary stereocenters is an outstanding achievement in the recent history of organic chemistry. The palladium-catalyzed asymmetric ... -
Examining the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy
(2015-08-01)The main objective of my dissertation is to examine the causal effect of monetary policy. The first two chapters focus on the effectiveness of inflation targeting considering the role of preconditions such as institutional ... -
Not Getting Out While There Is Still Time? Behavioral Response to Threat as a Possible Mechanism of Sexual Revictimization
(2014-08-01)Sexual violence affects approximately one in four college women. Feminist sexual assault risk reduction programs attempt to empower women to cope with threats of sexual assault, yet there is no standardized way to assess ... -
A Weak Simpson Method for a Class of Stochastic Differential Equations and Numerical Stability Results
(2015-08-01)This work proposes a novel weak Simpson method for numerical solution for a class of stochastic differential equations. We show that such a method has weak convergence of order one in general and weak convergence of order ...