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The SUNY Open Access Repository (SOAR) is a centrally managed online digital repository that stores, indexes, and makes available scholarly and creative works of SUNY faculty, students, and staff across SUNY campuses. SOAR serves as an open access platform for those SUNY campuses that do not have their own open access repository environments.
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Strategies for Supporting Educators and Engaging ELL FamiliesParental involvement, or engagement, often plays a crucial role in the ways in which students are successful in their classrooms. Research has shown increased parental involvement and collaboration with teachers lead to higher success rates for students. However, it is not always easy for parents, especially English language learners, to engage in their child’s education, due to challenges including economic status, employment, family stressors, unfamiliarly with school engagement, and teachers’ lack of preparedness to support culturally and linguistically diverse students. To address this problem, teachers will participate in sessions to become better equipped to support and involve parents in the classroom community. ENL teachers will work alongside them by teaching them strategies and providing them with materials to use in their classrooms to help engage them in the material. Teachers will collect data to share it with colleagues, fostering mutual learning and improvement.
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Encouraging Dual Language Students to Speak SpanishMany students at the Albany International Center and Dual Language Program resist speaking Spanish. English is clearly very dominant, and students can observe that in their day to day lives. The students make correlations between those who speak English and their positions in society. Perceptions based on languages are formed due to this separation of languages. Teachers from Pre-K to 5th grade face the same challenge: students responding in English during Spanish instruction time. The literature shows that teachers encounter obstacles including the availability of materials in languages other than English. Existing policies and administrators that teachers must follow leave them feeling defeated in the promotion of bilingualism. A professional development is designed to help teachers create a bilingual environment.
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Kohlschütter-Tönz protein ROGDI is the homolog of yeast Rav2 and a novel Rabconnectin-3 subunitV-ATPases are rotary proton pumps that are extraordinarily well-conserved among eukaryotes. V-ATPases function primarily to acidify intracellular compartments, critical to maintaining cellular homeostasis. The V-ATPase-generated proton gradient provides the optimal environment for lysosomal catabolism and drives intracellular protein trafficking. V-ATPases serve important functions throughout the human body. For example, V-ATPase activity energizes the active transport of neurotransmitters into synaptic vesicles, regulates the acid/base balance in the kidney, and helps the immune system recognize invading pathogens. However, when V-ATPase activity is inappropriately increased or decreased, these processes are affected, and disease can result. V-ATPases are composed of peripheral V₁ and integral membrane V₀ subcomplexes; V₁ hydrolyzes ATP and transmits rotation to V₀, which moves protons across a membrane. V-ATPase activity is regulated in part through the reversible association of the V₁ subcomplex and V₁C subunit from V₀. Upon disassembly, both V₁ and V₀ are catalytically inactivated. In yeast, the RAVE complex catalyzes the efficient reassembly of V-ATPases. Rabconnectin-3 is the human homolog of the RAVE complex and functions similarly. Mutations in the Rabconnectin-3 complex can reduce V-ATPase activity through decreased assembly, which leads to disease. Both Rabconnectin-3 subunits share substantial homology with the RAVE subunit Rav1. We have identified the poorly characterized protein ROGDI as the mammalian homolog of the yeast RAVE subunit, Rav2. ROGDI shares strong functional and structural homology with yeast Rav2. Expression of ROGDI in a rav2Δ yeast strain partially rescues the growth phenotype characteristic of RAVE mutants. ROGDI binds to the structurally conserved N-terminal β-sheet rich domain. AlphaFold3 modeling predicts that ROGDI binds between the Rabconnectin-3 subunits. ROGDI coimmunoprecipitates with Rabconnectin-3 and V-ATPase subunits. Additionally, ROGDI is present alongside V-ATPase and Rabconnectin-3 subunits on lysosomal membranes. This indicates that, like RAVE and Rav2, Rabconnectin-3 and ROGDI localize intracellular regions rich in V-ATPases. Identifying ROGDI as a novel Rabconnectin-3 subunit is a substantial step forward in our understanding of Rabconnectin-3 and how it influences V-ATPase activity.
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Anchors Away, Alma: Using Alma to Run a Ship’s LibrarySUNY Maritime is preparing the next generation of American professional mariners. The Stephen B. Luce Library manages both the on-campus library and the Ship’s Library on the college’s training ship. The old ship’s lack of technological infrastructure required the library to run a redundant, secondary open-source ILS. The delivery of the new TS Empire State 7 in September 2023 allowed for the expansion of Alma as the Ship’s Library’s primary ILS. This was a year-long project requiring new library configurations, migration of old bibliographic records to new workflows for the Ship’s Librarian, and on-the-fly troubleshooting after cybersecurity complications with the U.S. Federal Government. This presentation will focus on the implementation of Alma as the Ship’s Library ILS, an assessment of the production environment after a full Summer Sea Term, and planned revisions. Participants supporting Alma in traditional and non-traditional library settings are highly encouraged to attend.
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Microsaccadic Efficacy and Contribution to Foveal and Peripheral VisionOur eyes move constantly, even when we try to fixate our gaze. Fixational eye movements prevent and restore visual loss during fixation, yet the relative impact of each type of fixational eye movement remains controversial. For over five decades, the debate has focused on microsaccades, the fastest and largest fixational eye movements. Some recent studies have concluded that microsaccades counteract visual fading during fixation. Other studies have disputed this idea, contending that microsaccades play no significant role in vision. The disagreement stems from the lack of methods to determine the precise effects of microsaccades on vision versus those of other eye movements, as well as a lack of evidence that microsaccades are relevant to foveal vision. Here we developed a novel generalized method to determine the precise quantified contribution and efficacy of human microsaccades to restoring visibility compared with other eye movements. Our results indicate that microsaccades are the greatest eye movement contributor to the restoration of both foveal and peripheral vision during fixation. Our method to calculate the efficacy and contribution of microsaccades to perception can determine the strength of connection between any two physiological and/or perceptual events, providing a novel and powerful estimate of causal influence; thus, we anticipate wide-ranging applications in neuroscience and beyond.
