Browsing Diebold Symposium Posters and Schedules by Title
Now showing items 45-64 of 479
-
Building the Blocks of Kalamazoo through Asset Based Community Development
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)The neighborhood intervention organization, Building Blocks of Kalamazoo, influences public and community health on a small scale. I use the Dahlgren-Whitehead model to explain how Building Blocks uses Asset Based Community ... -
Bumble bee foraging preferences and associated floral traits: a study from Southwest Michigan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)Bumble bees provide the essential ecosystem service of pollination, aiding in agricultural plant growth and the biodiversity of native plants. Their populations are declining globally and increasing bumble bees ’ ... -
Case Study of an Innovative Discharge Planning Program
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022)I worked with a discharge planning program at the Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn Illinois. My role was to ensure that patients had a plan prior to their discharge from the hospital. If I encountered a patient ... -
A Casein Kinase 1 Epsilon Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and Acute Response to Caffeine in Humans
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)•Recently, mouse studies identified a quantitative trait locus (QTL) on chromosome 15 containing the (mouse) Csnk1e gene that has been linked to cocaine and methamphetamine sensitivity (Jones et al., 1999; Palmer et ... -
Catalog of Bee Abundance and Diversity at the Kalamazoo College Lillian Anderson Arboretum
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Bees play a critical role in maintaining balance within many natural and managed ecosystems. However, recent studies report a decrease in bee species diversity. To help prevent the decrease in bee populations, bees must ... -
Cervical Cord Neurapraxia: My Experiences With a Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)While there are many positive outcomes that may benefit the individual through participation in athletics, there are also dangers that the athlete assumes at all levels of every sport. Football is a game that involves ... -
Characteristics of Harvested and Released Fisheries of Northern Trout in Charter Boat Lake Michigan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) are a popular fish for recreational fishing as well as consumption. These together, have generated a large industry surrounding the fish. Recently, it was found that there is a 40% mortality ... -
Characterization of a Culture System for Rat Retinal Ganglion Cells: Towards a Screen for Potential Neuroprotective Compounds
(Kalamazoo College, 2002-05-03)The retina is the target of several diseases, the most common of which include macular degeneration, retinal ischemia, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma. Glaucoma alone affects about 67 million individuals worldwide ... -
The Characterization of Dicer 1 and Ago 2 in Eutopic and Ectopic Endometrium in the Olive Baboon ( Papio anubis) Incoculated with Endometriosis
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Endometriosis is a gynecological disease that is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity . This disease causes chronic inflammation, intense pain , and in many instances leads to ... -
Characterization Of Human Anterosuperior Acetabular Depression In Correlation With Labral Tears
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2010-04)The common location of acetabular labral tears, in the anterosuperior quadrant, is also the location of a bony depression in the rim of the acetabulum. The loss of bony support in this area of the acetabulum could be an ... -
Characterization of Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria from an Oil-Spill Site
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2017)Inland oil spills are a huge threat to the environment and contaminate the surrounding freshwater. The least risky way to clean up a spill is the natural biodegradation of these hydrocarbons by Bacteria and Archaea. Many ... -
Characterization of Specter, a Cell Cycle Mutant of Zebrafish cyclin B1
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2013)Cell cycle control is essential for the maintenance and development of a healthy organism. The cycle is controlled through checkpoints and regulatory proteins to ensure proper replication of the DNA and thus the production ... -
Chemical mutagenesis of unc-82 and other muscle-affecting genes in Caenorhabditis elegans
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)Caenorhabditis elegans is a microscopic species of nematode that became a model organism for biological research in the 1970s The striated muscle cell within C. elegans is a highly ordered structure that contains actin ... -
Chiropractic Treatment Mediates Injury and Improves Athletic Performance
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)The purpose of this investigation was to report on: The history of chiropractic, those who founded the practice, and early ideologies that separated it from mainstream medicine at the time. The role of chiropractic in ... -
Citizen Science: Southwest Michigan Bee Watch
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2021)Bumble bee populations are declining throughout the world, including in Michigan. How can we stabilize and support these important pollinators without first having thorough documentation of their populations? Citizen ... -
Climate Change and Arbovirus Dynamics
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)There are numerous mosquito vectors of pathogens on every continent except for Antarctica. All of these vectors and pathogens exhibit temperature dependent life cycles. Climate change has been implicated as the direct ... -
Cloning and Characterizing the MHC DRB exon ii of the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus)
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2009)The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) refers to a multi-gene family that encodes for a set of protein products known as cell-surface glycoproteins. The MHC is of vital importance to immune system function, as its ... -
Cloning and Expression of the Zebrafish Gene; Setd8
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2012)Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a malignant tumor of the squamous epithelium and one of the six most common cancers worldwide. Decreased Ikk1 activity is commonly associated with SCC. Ikk1 is a member of the intracellular ... -
Cloning, purification and characterization of B cell Activating Factor
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2008)In animals, the antibody repertoire of B cells plays an important role in immune protection. In rabbits, immune B cells develop in the bone marrow and migrate to the gut associated lymphoid tissues (GALT), where, in ... -
Co-housing of Mice Leads to Compositional Homogenization of Microbiota Between 7 and 21 Days
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2015)The mammalian gut is home to trillions of bacteria, known as the microbiome, which play an important role in health immune response (Antonopoulos et al., 2009). Usually, these microbes are beneficial to the host, increasing ...