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A woman, here identified as Colleen, suffering from chronic, unresolvable back pain from failed surgery participated in music therapy utilizing the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (BMGIM). Through this depth therapy process, she was able to make contact with unconscious material that paralleled her perception of pain and its impact on her life. Music was used to intensify feelings of “stuckness” and to encourage a recalibration of the internal sense of time as psychological issues were recognized and worked-through, resulting in a significant decrease in prescription medication usage, a return to normal everyday activities, and a renewed sense of meaning and value in daily life experiences

Out of the nearly 300 species of freshwater mussels (Family: Unionidae) represented in North America, most have exhibited declines in abundance and distribution largely due to anthropogenic impacts. I compared community composition, abundance and richness of mussels in Cedar Creek, Indiana in 2015 with published data from 1988 and 2005. In 2015, five sites in Cedar Creek and seven sites in agricultural headwater streams were surveyed. Additionally, one headwater stream in Hillsdale County, Michigan was surveyed as a high-quality reference site. At each 200 m long site, mussels were sampled with quadrats (sixteen per site) and visual searches. From each quadrat, a quart of sediment was retained for sediment analysis. Physicochemical measurements, habitat analyses, and water chemistry data were collected concurrently with surveys. Fishes were sampled using electrofishing to document the presence of fish host species. Out of thirteen sites sampled in 2015, only six had live mussels. Ten species and 84 individuals were identified and measured from these six sites. The reference and two Cedar Creek sites comprised almost 90% of the individuals found, with the furthest upstream Cedar Creek site having the greatest abundance (28). Only two agricultural headwater streams that were located close to the main stem of Cedar Creek had mussels and only six individuals were found. Lampsilis siliquoidea occurred at four sites in 2015 and was the most abundant and widespread species comprising 31% of the individuals found. The abundance of live mussels within four Cedar Creek main stem sites exhibited a decrease in individuals from 168 in 1988 to 110 in 2005 to 56 in 2015. Additionally, since 1988, no live mussels have been recorded in Cedar Creek between Waterloo and Auburn, Indiana. To assess which factors explain the variation in mussel parameters, I evaluated the relationships of instream habitat, physicochemical, and water chemistry variables with mussel abundance and species richness. Generalized linear regression models revealed a significant positive correlation between dominant riparian vegetation and mussel richness (pu3c0.01) as well as mussel abundance (pu3c0.001). A positive relationship with water temperature (pu3c0.01) and a negative relationship with host fish abundance (pu3c0.05) also significantly explained mussel abundance. In the CEAP analysis, both mussel richness and abundance were significantly negatively correlated with ammonia and total phosphorous (pu3c0.05)

This brief paper presents a work-in-progress research study aimed at investigating how selected secondary English teachers describe their experiences organizing and facilitating online professional development opportunities for their peers at a distance. Framed by scholarship problematizing traditional, top-down teacher professional development and research detailing the value of self-directed online participation as professional development, the qualitative research project described here is intended to help build an understanding of English language arts teachers’ experiences creating and leading voluntary online professional development opportunities for fellow teachers

We obtain universal bounds on the energy of codes and designs in Hamming spaces. Our bounds hold for a large class of potential functions, allow a unified treatment, and can be viewed as a generalization of the Levenshtein bounds for maximal codes

ABSTRACT. Eagle Marsh, a 289.8 ha (716-acre) wetland nature preserve located on the southwest border of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is one of the largest wetland restorations ever undertaken in Indiana. The Little River Wetlands Project (LRWP) began acquisition, planning, and restoration in 2005 to 2007. The first biodiversity survey (also known as a bioblitz) of Eagle Marsh was conducted on 31 May and 1 June 2014. Over 125 scientists, naturalists, students, and other volunteers on thirteen different taxonomic teams observed and reported 728 taxa during the event. The thirteen taxonomic teams included aquatic macroinvertebrates, beetles, birds, butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies, fish, freshwater mussels, herpetofauna, small mammals, mushrooms/fungi, singing insects, snail-killing flies, and vascular plants. This manuscript presents both a brief history of Eagle Marsh and a summary overview of the results gathered by the thirteen taxonomic teams

A measure of implicit sexual motives—the implicit AMORE—was constructed employing the Affect Misattribution Procedure (Payne, Cheng, Govorun, u26 Stewart, 2005). Subscales paralleled the 8 dimensions identified previously by the self-report measure of sexual motives, the explicit AMORE (Hill u26 Preston, 1996). Confirmatory factor analyses supported the proposed 8-factor model in slightly revised form, which was confirmed based on a second independent set of participants. Consistent with hypotheses, the implicit scales correlated with nonconscious erotica-viewing behavior for women in a laboratory setting. In contrast to explicit scales, implicit scales were unrelated to self-report ratings of likely sexual behavior. Finally, self-reports of aspects of sexual behavior were generally associated with the measures of implicit motives independently of corresponding explicit motives for both women and men. The results support the conception of implicit sexual motivesas related, but distinct from explicit sexual motives

Communicationu27s Civic Callings is this yearu27s theme. What an ideal opportunity for peacebuilders and educators. According to the description, u22The notion of u22civic callingsu22 encompasses overlapping layers of communication in action, including our many roles as members of educational communities; our interactions with local and national governments; our commitments to NGOs and other organizations; our collaborations with colleagues from across the globe; and, increasingly, our involvements with issues that transcend nation-states…. the notion of u22civic callingsu22 invites scholars to imagine our teaching, departmental structures, research, and public lives as political, as important aspects of the collective fabric of our communities.u22 As teachers, researchers, and scholars primarily involved in the teaching of communication, how do we bring this content of peace and conflict to our students? Where does it fit within our curriculum? What dominant theories underlie this work, and how do we use this content to help transform approaches to peace and conflict? What pedagogical approaches work best? How to we build learning environments or provide internships to develop our students capacity for working on Peace and Conflict studies. Besides the facilitators, this panel features 19 panelists all from different colleges and universities, and all working on teaching peace in various ways

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I am Seth Carpenter-Nichols. I became a History major two years ago after I switched from being a Theatre major for two years. In each history class, I look forward to expanding my expertise and sharing my knowledge on a given subject. Since I was in elementary school, I had a deep passion about history. When I was 9 years old, I could remember and name all the presidents. As I grew older, my knowledge grew on world leaders, dictators, political parties, presidential facts, and what each president had to go through during their time in office. My specialty is World War II and the Cold War that followed. I decided to write about the Cuban Missile Crisis because it was one of the most exciting, stressful, and even the most dangerous episodes of the Cold War. Our country was on the brink of nuclear war, but President Kennedy prevented that from happening. He stood up to the Soviet Union and his war-mongering military staff to keep our country and the world safe. The aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis also changed the tide of the Cold War due to President Kennedy compromising and communicating peacefully with Nikita Khrushchev. In his excellent leadership, Kennedy changed the policy of aggression to peacekeeping

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Aaron Ostermeyer is a History major, who has served as a Student Success Coach in the Mastodon Advising Center in Kettler Hall since the school year began. In this position he helps fellow students with varying issues such as test anxiety, social support, and consulting probation students. He also helps students with finding the resources they may need across campus. He has served as an extern with the Allen County Superior Court and shadowed Judge Wendy Davis. During Summer 2015, he was part of the IPFW Student Life’s Orientation Assistant Team where he assisted incoming students and their families in becoming more familiar with our campus

The recently suggested Generalized Prefix–Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (GP–OFDM) uses an optimal non-zero guard interval (GI). A GI consisting of all zeros is also known, and the technique is referred to as Zero Padding (ZP–OFDM). ZP–OFDM performs very well, but suffers from a complexity problem. This paper provides two improved and low-complexity receiver designs for ZP–OFDM, which make the convolutions between the transmitted signal and the channel skew-cyclic. The channel matrix becomes ϕ-circulant. Both designs require a one-dimensional optimization. The first new design requires the result of the optimization to be available at the transmitter. The second new design eliminates completely the feedback to the transmitter. Simulation results indicate that proposed ZP–OFDM receivers have significant performance advantages compared with existing ZP–OFDM receivers such as ZP–OFDM–OLA and ZP–OFDM–FAST. The performance advantages are maintained in the presence of channel estimation errors and error-correction coding

Robert Barr occupied an enviable position in 1890s literary London. Together with Jerome K. Jerome, Barr owned and edited the popular monthly magazine the Idler. On his own, Barr wrote short stories and novels which earned him a lucrative income. As a literary and club man, he enjoyed a large acquaintance with the leading authors of the day, including Stephen Crane, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling. Yet despite his prominent place in the late-Victorian literary marketplace, little to nothing has been written about Barr’s life or works as compared to those of his contemporaries. The following four letters written to Maud Russell Lorraine Sharpe (née Hammer) between 1892 and 1896 shed light on Barr’s literary activities, including the running of the Idler, the composition of his own works, and the life of a late nineteenth-century man of letters

This study examines the effectiveness of mirror cling reminder cues in increasing tooth brushing for preschool children enrolled in local Head Start programs. Although a lot of social marketing programs use stickers and mirror clings as reminder cues, there is very little research that tests their effectiveness over the long term. This study consisted of a 6-week program where parents were sent a mirror cling of Roger the Red Robot, and asked to place it on their bathroom mirror where their child brushes their teeth. Through responsive text messages periodically over a 6-week period, parents were asked to report the number of times they brushed their child’s teeth, and whether they or their child suggested the tooth brushing. They also responded to a follow up question three months later asking whether their mirror cling was still up, and how often they were currently brushing their child’s teeth. Although results indicate that parents liked the mirror cling, there is no evidence that it increased the frequency of tooth brushing for the duration of the study. When it came to the perception of the mirror cling, however, parents reported that they felt the mirror cling helped to remind both themselves and their child to brush twice a day.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1018/thumbnail.jp

Following exposure to long-wavelength ultraviolet radiation (UVA), some cyanobacteria produce the indole-alkaloid sunscreen scytonemin. The genomic region associated with scytonemin biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme includes 18 adjacent co-transcribed genes. A two-component regulatory system (Npun_F1277 and Npun_F1278) directly upstream from the biosynthetic gene cluster was identified through comparative genomic analysis and is likely involved in scytonemin regulation. In this study, the response regulator Npun_F1278 was evaluated for its ability to regulate scytonemin biosynthesis using a mutant strain of N. punctiforme deficient in this gene, hereafter strain Δ1278. Following UVA radiation, the typical stimulus to initiate scytonemin biosynthesis, Δ1278 was incapable of producing scytonemin. A phenotypic characterization of Δ1278 suggests that, aside from the ability to produce scytonemin, the deletion of Npun_F1278 does not affect the cell morphology, cellular differentiation capability, or lipid-soluble pigment complement of Δ1278 compared to the wild type. The mutant, however, had a slower specific growth rate and the amount of phycocyanin yielded by Δ1278 differed from the wild type. Given the inability of Δ1278 to produce scytonemin, this study demonstrates that the response regulator Npun_F1278 in N. punctiforme is essential for scytonemin biosynthesis. While most of the evaluated effects of this gene appear to be specific for scytonemin, this regulator may also influence the overall health of the cell and specifically, phycobiliprotein synthesis. This is the first study to identify a regulatory gene involved in the biosynthesis of the sunscreen scytonemin and understanding the transcriptional regulation of scytonemin biosynthesis may allow for mass production in future applications.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1001/thumbnail.jp