The sport of cycling includes a wide variety of racing situations and disciplines. Track races are held both indoors and out in velodromes on an oval track with banked corners; road races are held on flat, hilly, and mountainous courses on urban and rural paved streets; mountain bike and cyclocross races are held on dirt tracks that may include obstacles and hills. Disciplines include individual and team races, sprint and endurance distances, as well as single-day and multi-stage events. In this presentation, we will discuss the assumptions and features of the proposed model and present preliminary simulation attempts to model the individual time trial. A revised model will be presented and the simulation results compared to the outcomes of the individual time trial at the 2017 Tour de France.

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5 mins : Introduction Power point presentation: Definition of: Privilege with examples, Prejudice with examples.Microaggression with example.

10 mins : Privilege Walk Activity – Participants stand in a single line. Approximately 20 statements are read aloud with the directions of take one step forward for statements of privilege or backward for statements of minority membership that apply to you.

10 mins : Identification of Microaggression in Statements and their Interpretations Activity- Participants are given a paper with Column A having commonly stated Microaggressions, and Column B having possible interpretations. Participants would then be asked to match Column A with possible interpretations in Column B.

5 mins: Debriefing. Review of what was shared and experienced by all participants. Along with tips on how to become more conscience of everyday microaggressions.

The success of African-American women is oftentimes unacknowledged in higher education. The purpose of this qualitative study is to illuminate how African-American women successfully navigate their junior-year of college. This research is important because African-American women are oppressed time and again based upon their race and gender, so these focus groups provided a forum to discuss their goals and success. Data collection, led by four undergraduate students, involved four focus groups that allowed African-American women with a grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 and higher to discuss how they succeeded in their junior-year at a mid-sized, public institution. The researchers will discuss how higher education administrators can support African-American women, and in turn, stimulate conditions within the collegiate environments that foster student success.

Three representative drugs, one each from anti-histamine, anti-diabetic, and analgesic categories were analyzed by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). Cetirizine dihydrochloride, the active ingredient of anti-histamine drug, Zyrtec, was analyzed by HPLC using Grace C-18 column with 1 mL/minute flow of a mobile phase comprising a 30:70 mixture of 2.25 pH phosphate buffer solution and acetonitrile with a UV detector at 230 nm wavelength. A set of ten standard solutions, ran in triplicate, in the concentration range of 11 – 110 mg/mL yielded a linear curve with R² value of 0.9994, thus establishing a working calibration curve in this range. Analysis of tablets from a commercial sample showed to contain 8.2 mg in each tablet, which is 18 % lower than the amount of 10 mg stated in the label of the product. In the category of anti-diabetic drugs, linagliptin, the active ingredient of Tradjenta, was analyzed by a similar method with a slight variation in the mobile phase and UV detector wavelength. A linear calibration curve with R² value of 0.9997 was established for a concentration range of 5 – 50 mg/mL. In the category of analgesic drugs, ibuprofen, the active ingredient of Motrin, was analyzed by a similar method with a slight variation in the mobile phase and UV detector wavelength. A linear calibration curve with R² value of 0.9994 was established for a concentration range of 0.21 – 1.9 mg/mL. The future studies include comparison of these results with analysis of these drugs by quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (q-NMR) technique.

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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant program Dialogues on the Experience of War was launched in 2015 in order to support the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. GSU professors Dr. Rosemary Johnsen and Dr. Andrae Marak saw in the program an opportunity to serve the university's students and the wider community. 5 GSU student-veterans were selected in a competitive process: Jermaine Drayton, Victor Jesus Garcia, Akya Gossitt, Robert Mason, and Muriel Williams. The student-veterans trained for 6 weeks with class materials, and were embedded as discussion facilitators in an English special-topics course offered Fall Semester 2017. The class explored war-related literature, film, and non-fiction, learning from each other and from guest speakers. The course ended on December 4, 2017, with a televised town hall event filmed in the GSU studios featuring the 5 student-veterans. During this research day session, the student-veterans will share reflections on their work with GSU students in the grant-supported class, "War, Trauma, and the Humanities."

This study examined the leadership style of Head Start and Early Head Start leaders in the context of program quality. The study was designed to answer the question: Does transformational leadership contribute to quality in Head Start/Early Head Start programs?

Using a quantitative design within a transformational leadership theory framework, Head Start/Early Head Start Directors, Education Coordinators, Site/Center Directors and Chief Executive Officers will be asked to answer a brief (10- 15 minute) survey. Information on the education level of the leader, years of experience of the leader, program site accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, grantee monitoring status, and designation renewal status for all programs was requested. In addition, information from the most recent Program Information Report (PIR) was requested on the survey. CLASS Instructional Learning Format Scores for Head Start programs were also examined. Leadership style was measured by the Global Transformational Leadership Scale (GTL), (Carless, Wearing & Mann, 2000) a valid and reliable scale of transformational leadership that is seven questions in length.

Data was gathered using a link embedded in email leading to a Survey Monkey © hosted survey. Recipients were asked to forward to other leaders within their program. Data was analyzed using Bivariate Correlation analysis and yielded moderate correlations to several of the quality indicators. Leadership is important in Head Start programs and has a moderate but significant effect on quality in programs.

PLEASE NOTE: This program is cancelled.

The internet is filled with an abundance of dishonest, unreliable, and deceptive websites and internet sources. Some of these sources are easily identified as untrustworthy by traditional credibility tests for web page evaluation which consider the accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage of websites. A growing number of sources, however, appear to pass these inspections despite their dishonest and unreliable content. Unscrupulous authors can now easily build websites to deceive readers into believing false and inaccurate information. To protect people from false information, new methods for testing the credibility of internet sources must be used to supplement traditional methods. Supplemental methods of testing a website’s credibility include fact checking and lateral reading. This presentation will examine traditional methods of testing a website’s credibility, explain how these traditional methods are still necessary foundations for determining a website’s credibility, and describe supplemental methods people must begin to use to distinguish between trustworthy and untrustworthy internet sources.

This paper examines religious pluralism and change in the Greek Orthodox Church in the United States. The paper begins with a discussion of religious pluralism framed in the Pluralism Project. Themes framed in the Pluralism Project are explored as they relate to shaping the American religious landscape and public discourse on religious life and practice. The presentation concludes with a discussion of the impact of pluralism on Greek Orthodox religious life and institutions in United States in a comparative framework.

The paper draws on symbolic anthropology and is informed by ethnographic and archival research.

The university is considered one of the engines of growth in a local economy or its market area, since its direct contributions consist of 1) employment of faculty and staff, 2) services to students, and supply chain links vendors, all of which define the University’s Market area. Indirect contributions consist of those agents associated with the university in terms of community and civic events. Each of these activities represent economic benefits to their host communities and can be classified as the economic impact a university has on its local economy and whose spatial market area includes each of the above agents. In addition are the critical links to the University, which can be considered part of its Demand and Supply chain.

This paper explores how Governors State University (GSU) impacts its local economic area (LEA) and competes with its competitors in wider socio-economic areas. It also investigates how it can increase its impact by forming Public/Private initiatives to enhance its economic revenue in a period of declining state government support. Finally, an Input-Output Model is used to estimate the impact.

The goals of the report are to provide a clear and accurate understanding of the economic impact of GSU and its direct, indirect, and tertiary benefits to its defined local economy and market area. This paper contributes to the field of University Impact Analysis, which is used to substantial the social and economic benefits of a university. We use Census data on Output of Goods and Services, Labor Income on Salaries, Wages and Benefits, Indirect State and Local Taxes, Property Tax Revenue, Population, and Inter-Industry to measure economic impact (Implan, 2016).

Approximately 800 million pounds of phthalates are produced worldwide each year and due to their widespread distribution, phthalates have become ubiquitous in aquatic environments. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), and dibutyl phthalate (DBP) as top priority pollutants due to their pervasive abundance and toxicity. The biodegradation of phthalates has been extensively investigated leading to the discovery of numerous phthalate-degrading bacteria from many types of environments; however there is a lack of studies demonstrating if aquatic organisms can act as a source for isolating phthalate-degrading bacteria. Non-native Asian carp species bighead (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) and silver (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) residing in contaminated environments absorb phthalates into muscle tissue and intake organic pollutants while feeding on plankton and benthic algae. Phthalate-degrading bacteria isolated from the microbiome and scale biofilm of both Asian carp species exhibited similar degradation kinetics to phthalate-degrading bacteria isolated from contaminated riverine sediments. 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of phthalate-degrading enrichments inoculated with silver carp microbiomes and riverine sediments shared dominant genera of Pseudomonas. One-way ANOVA test applied to the mean alpha diversity of contaminated sediment and the silver carp microbiome revealed significant differences (PBacillus subtilis strain degrading DEP (1000 mg/L) within 44 hours and a diverse consortium isolated from the silver carp microbiome degrading DMP, DEP, and DBP. The study demonstrates that Asian carp can act as a source for isolating phthalate-degrading bacteria.

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5 mins: Introduction. Power point presentation: Definition of: Microaggression with examples of common ones. Privilege with example of common ones.

5 mins: Pictures of several different types of everyday Microaggression are presented with everyone asking to communicate what they are communicating. For example, common facial expression, body language, and questions asked to minority groups.

15 mins: Art activity- Participants can create paper bag puppets that resemble themselves and list common microaggression they experience.

5 mins: Debriefing. Review of what was shared and experienced by all participants. Along with tips on how to become more conscience of everyday microaggressions.

In a country championed for its premise of “the dream” and nicknamed “the melting pot,” America’s history is riddled with examples of race as a determiner of entry. President Donald Trump’s recent statements about Haitians and African immigrants reflect this sentiment. The Trump administration’s attempts at imposing executive order 13769, repealing DACA, ending temporary protected status for several groups, and refusing low-skilled work visas to Haitians, Samoans, and Belizeans contradict what our country claims to value. The polarity of this value has always existed; evident from the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 to the National Origins Act in 1924. From legislation created to discriminate against different racial groups to the American attitudes towards immigrants of color. When there’s talk about keeping immigrants out, those immigrants are usually of color. Examining immigration legislation proposed from 1819 to 2018, I assert that it has contributed to the preference shown towards white immigrants and the restriction of immigrants of color.

Social perception encompasses a variety of verbal and nonverbal social information processing skills involving fronto-limbic systems that may be dysfunctional among individuals with AUD. When compared to normative samples or comparison groups, individuals with AUD have demonstrated deficits in facial emotion recognition (FER; e.g., Oscar-Berman et al., 2014). Recent meta-analyses (Bora & Zorlu, 2016; Castellano et al., 2014) have found moderate effect sizes demonstrating impairment in FER in AUD (d=.65 and .67, respectively). Additionally, large effect sizes for social perception tasks have also been observed among individuals with PTSD (Plana et al., 2014). However, the majority of the cross-sectional studies of social perception in AUD have excluded individuals with other psychiatric comorbidities such as PTSD, which is highly comorbid with AUD and may influence social perception ability in comorbid samples (Gorka et al., 2016). In this presentation, data from two GSU University Research Grant projects will be presented that further our understanding of FER in AUD and comorbid disorders.

This roundtable discussion features the reflections of faculty teaching ENGL 1010: Writing Studies 2, who are participating in a grant sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) to implement high-impact practices in the first year of college. The goal of this session will be to reflect on service learning/community engagement more generally, and our hope is that it will be informative to a diverse audience of teachers who might wish to implement similar pedagogies in their own classes.

It remains a great puzzle as various etiological approaches to addiction problems or disorders have continued to generate interesting controversies amidst their valuable or plausible inputs to the management of cases over the years. More perplexing, is that, while some models or theories are rigidly in adherence to or are outgrowth ideas of the traditional medical (disease) and moral models, some newer models emphasized the combinations or interrelationships in the context of these rudimentary models without yet, a universally acceptable causality. A foremost addiction counselor, Todd Lewis, in his book Substance Abuse and Addiction Treatment (2014), emphasized this acceptability gap in causation despite the rich array of etiological theories in the addiction field by quoting by quoting Doweiko; "Research has supported both genetic predisposition and learning components in the onset of addiction, yet a grand, unifying theory has yet to emerge." (Doweiko,2009).

This is the catapulting challenge that has ignited the need to develop a near perfectly acceptable and holistic pathway or cycle rather than a static model that cannot clearly explain the complex system of addiction causation as well as providing result oriented therapeutic strategies.

The current study aims to use a systemic Ground Theory (GT) research methodology to develop an all-inclusive and functional pathway of addiction causation, without negating an insightful provision for treatments, culture, ethnicity, gender and racial variations (variables) based on the Body-Environment-Mind-Spirit model of disease causation and treatment.

Using the Straussian GT approach, measures will be analytically set out to inductively arrive at an all-encompassing pathway for addiction causation and treatment. This will be carried out using 6 standard standalone search engines (to avoid repetitions), 2 each from medical, psychological and sociological fields. Using balloting, 2 will be randomly picked from a list of 6 search engines in each field. They will be used to collate data and corroborate information about addiction and other variables that will be manually analyzed, categorize and directed towards a pathway since this technique allows for the researchers' continuous input based on their cumulative experience, knowledge and intuitive skills in the course of the data analysis and conclusions.