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Title: Yeomanry transformed : the changing image of the American farmer in the northern agricultural press, 1873-1893
Creator: Heinze, Kirk Leo
Date: 1988
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus L.) control with Bentazon (3-isopropyl-1H̲-2,1,3-benzothiadiazin-(4)-3H̲-one 2,2-dioxide) and glyphosate (N̲-(phosphonomethyl) clygine)
Creator: Suwanketnikom, Rungsit
Date: 1978
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Yelesalehe hiwayona dikanohogida naiwodusv = : God taught me this song, it is beautiful : Cherokee performance rhetorics as decolonization, healing, and continuance
Creator: Driskill, Qwo-Li
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "This dissertation examines the importance of performed and embodied rhetorics to Cherokee survival and resistance and argues for performance as a primary site of Native cultural continuance and rhetorical production. Two historiographic studies are central to making this argument. The first, Indian In The Archive: Performance Historiography as Cherokee Ghost Dance (Chapter Three) looks to the Cherokee Ghost Dance and the Redbird Smith movement as models for radical, decolonial, performative...
Show more"This dissertation examines the importance of performed and embodied rhetorics to Cherokee survival and resistance and argues for performance as a primary site of Native cultural continuance and rhetorical production. Two historiographic studies are central to making this argument. The first, Indian In The Archive: Performance Historiography as Cherokee Ghost Dance (Chapter Three) looks to the Cherokee Ghost Dance and the Redbird Smith movement as models for radical, decolonial, performative historiography. With a particular focus on recovering a history of nineteenth century Cherokee theatre, this chapter focuses on how archives are and can be used by Cherokee people to re-establish dormant and/or obscured Cherokee performance traditions and histories. The second study, On The Wings Of Wadaduga: Towards the Performance of Two-Spirit Critiques (Chapter Four) focuses on revising both archived and embodied records through the development of an historiographic performance with Two-Spirit, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer-identified Cherokees. This chapter examines performance as historiography and argues for performance as a means to revise both archival and embodied cultural memories. Both studies are grounded in the methodological concepts of [special characters omitted] (duyuk'ta, "balance") and [special characters omitted] (gadugi, "cooperative labor") as a way of conceiving decolonial scholarship, practice, and pedagogy within the field of rhetoric and composition"--Abstract.
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Title: Yeast phytase and wheat inositol phosphates
Creator: Nayini, Narsimha Reddy
Date: 1983
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Yakshagana Badagatittu Bayalata : a South Indian dance drama
Creator: Ashton-Sikora, Martha Bush
Date: 1972
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: YOUTH SPORT AS A CONTEXT FOR ENHANCED SOCIAL CAPITAL AND FAMILY RELATIONS
Creator: Costa, Guilherme Hebling
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: While there are studies that suggest sport to be a fertile ground for the development of social capital, the youth sport context has been largely overlooked. Being involved in their children’s sports participation may provide parents opportunities to establish connections and develop social capital. Furthermore, sport may also provide bonding opportunities for parents and their offspring, potentially enhancing the parent-child relationship.The purpose of the current study was to explore the...
Show moreWhile there are studies that suggest sport to be a fertile ground for the development of social capital, the youth sport context has been largely overlooked. Being involved in their children’s sports participation may provide parents opportunities to establish connections and develop social capital. Furthermore, sport may also provide bonding opportunities for parents and their offspring, potentially enhancing the parent-child relationship.The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between parental involvement in youth sport, social capital, parent-child relationship, and subjective well-being. This study employed an explanatory sequential design. Participants responded to a demographic survey followed by psychometric instruments assessing the aforementioned variables. To further assess the relationship between variables, a subsample was recruited for interviews. Participants had been considerably involved in youth sport and, though this influenced the parent-child relationship, it did not have the same effect for parent’s social capital. The results of this study are consistent with the literature on sport parenting suggesting that parental involvement may enhance the parent-child relationship. The same cannot be stated for its potential to enhance one’s social capital, as there are person-context features that are likely to moderate this process, such as the overall climate, community characteristics, membership to social groups, and individual dispositions. In conclusion, while youth sport may have potential to enhance parent’s social capital, this will only occur within certain conditions.
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Title: YOUTH PERSPECTIVES ON FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY SCHOOLING
Creator: Castro, Kristofer Malulani
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Despite the national standards for the implementation of full-service community schooling require the inclusion of youth participation in the decision-making and communication of these initiatives, few studies have solicited these key perspectives. The current study used focus groups to solicit youth perspectives on full-service community schooling initiatives being implemented in the schools they attended. Students were recruited from schools participating in the early years of a full...
Show moreDespite the national standards for the implementation of full-service community schooling require the inclusion of youth participation in the decision-making and communication of these initiatives, few studies have solicited these key perspectives. The current study used focus groups to solicit youth perspectives on full-service community schooling initiatives being implemented in the schools they attended. Students were recruited from schools participating in the early years of a full-service community schooling initiative. Students were separated into focus groups based on the school they were recruited from. The questions I sought to answer through this study were: 1.) what does full-service community schooling mean to students; 2.) what characteristics of full-service community schooling do youth enjoy (and not enjoy); 3.) how, if at all, has full-service community schooling changed the lives of youth; and 4.) what factors salient to youth does full-service community schooling fail to address? Analyzing the transcripts from the focus group using Marshall and Rossman’s (1995) interrater qualitative approach produced 35 themes grouped into ten analytical categories that were then further reduced into four higher order content groupings. I discuss the manner in which these findings elucidate how youth understand the scope, benefits, and issues with full-service community schooling. Furthermore, I discuss, the implications of these findings for the future practice of and research on youth voice in the planning and design of full-service community schooling.
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Title: YOUNG COLLEGE MEN’S BELIEFS ABOUT NONPROFESSIONAL HELP-SEEKING FOR DEPRESSION
Creator: Na, Hana
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Low rates of psychological help seeking among young males with depression havereceived significant research attention. However, most prior studies have focused on why the population seeks or does not seek psychological help from formal/professional sources. The present study examined the beliefs of 193 young male college students to predict their intentions to seek psychological help from friends, the most preferred source of help for this group. The study assessed the constructs of the...
Show moreLow rates of psychological help seeking among young males with depression havereceived significant research attention. However, most prior studies have focused on why the population seeks or does not seek psychological help from formal/professional sources. The present study examined the beliefs of 193 young male college students to predict their intentions to seek psychological help from friends, the most preferred source of help for this group. The study assessed the constructs of the reasoned action approach and their underlying beliefs, taking two possible contributing factors to men’s lower help-seeking into account: masculine ideology and perception of depression as masculine or feminine. Results revealed that intention to seek help from friends for depression was associated only with injunctive and descriptive norms and their underlying beliefs surrounding three referents: friends (injunctive and descriptive), fathers (injunctive only), and other family members (descriptive only). Relevant normative beliefs surrounding those referents were not sensitive to young male college students’ masculine ideology and its interaction with depression perception. These findings, in conjunction with the results of the audience segment analyses indicating the importance of the opinions and behaviors of specific referent groups, suggest that injunctive normative beliefs with father and friend referents and descriptive normative beliefs with friend referents are key beliefs that persuasive health messages should focus more on to promote help-seeking from friends among young male college students with depressive disorders, regardless of their adherence to traditional masculine norms and perception of depression as masculine or feminine.
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Title: Xyloglucan fucosyltransferase : a plant cell wall biosynthetic enzyme
Creator: Perrin, Robyn Michele
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Xyloglucan biosynthesis : identification and characterization of fucosyltransferase and cellulose synthase-like genes
Creator: Zeng, Weiqing
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Xenotransplantation of human prostate cell lines : models for studies on cancer treatment
Creator: Rivette, Amanda Sue
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Xenogenous fertilization of squirrel monkey and golden hamster oocytes
Creator: DeMayo, Francesco John
Date: 1981
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Xenogenous fertilization of cryopreserved golden hamster and squirrel monkey ova
Creator: DeMayo, Francesco John
Date: 1983
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Xenogenous fertilization of bovine and porcine oocytes
Creator: Hirst, Patricio Jorge
Date: 1980
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Xeno-estrogens in the aquatic environment : development and application of in vitro and in vivo bioassays
Creator: Kramer, Vincent J. (Vincent Joseph)
Date: 1996
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Xanthomonas pathovars identification through a neural network-based genomic fingerprint classification system
Creator: Tuang, Fei Ni
Date: 1998
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: XRCC4-XLF complexes facilitate DNA double-strand break repair in cells by bridging broken DNA ends
Creator: Roy, Sunetra
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The classical non-homologous end-joining (c-NHEJ) pathway is largely responsible for repairing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in mammalian cells. Absence of c-NHEJ causes genomic instability in mice and leads to deficiencies in V(D)J recombination. XLF, (the last bona fide c-NHEJ factor discovered) is known to stimulate ligation by the core ligation complex: XRCC4-Ligase 4. However, the precise mechanism by which XLF stimulates XRCC4-Ligase 4 mediated DNA ligation is not well understood....
Show moreThe classical non-homologous end-joining (c-NHEJ) pathway is largely responsible for repairing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in mammalian cells. Absence of c-NHEJ causes genomic instability in mice and leads to deficiencies in V(D)J recombination. XLF, (the last bona fide c-NHEJ factor discovered) is known to stimulate ligation by the core ligation complex: XRCC4-Ligase 4. However, the precise mechanism by which XLF stimulates XRCC4-Ligase 4 mediated DNA ligation is not well understood. Recent structural studies have shown that XLF can interact with XRCC4 to form filaments of alternating XRCC4 and XLF dimers; these filaments mediate DNA end bridging in vitro, providing a potential mechanism by which XLF might stimulate ligation. Here, we show that disrupting the interaction between XRCC4 and XLF by XRCC4 mutation, thereby abolishing filament formation, affects V(D)J recombination in cells and hinders the ability of cells expressing these mutants to survive in response to zeocin, a radiomimetic drug. Furthermore, we characterize an XLF mutant (L115A) that does not interact with XRCC4, and thus does not form filaments or bridge DNA in vitro. However, this mutant is fully sufficient in stimulating ligation of either blunt or cohesive DNA ends by X4/Lig4 in vitro. This separation of function mutant fully complements the zeocin sensitive phenotype and V(D)J recombination deficits of some XLF deficient cell strains but not others, suggesting a variable requirement for DNA bridging in different cell types. To determine whether lack of XRCC4/XLF bridging might be compensated for by other factors, candidate repair factors were disrupted in XLF or XRCC4 deficient cells. Loss of either ATM or the newly described XRCC4/XLF like factor, PAXX accentuates the cellular requirement for XLF. In the case of ATM/XLF loss, the increased cellular requirement can be attributed to its bridging function; however in case of PAXX/XLF loss the increased requirement for XLF is independent of bridging.
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