Institutional Integrity: Using Item Response Theory to Provide Insight into Academic Performances while Detecting Anomalies within these Performances

How does a university maintain integrity in the classroom when the pressure to succeed is so great? Can item response theory be used to provide insight into academic performances? This research will track student athlete performance towards degree completion, using this information as a case study to assess if any anomalies occur during their progress. This research contributes to the field of computer science and statistics, more specifically to the area of machine learning with further implica

Interactions between Toxoplasma gondii and Retinoic Acid-Differentiated Neuro-2A Neuroblastoma Cells

Interactions between Toxoplasma gondii and Retinoic Acid-Differentiated Neuro-2A Neuroblastoma Cells Alicia D. Romero1 and Eric Y. Denkers2 1Department of Biology and Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico The intracellular parasitic protist Toxoplasma gondii infects a large percentage of the human population. In most cases, infection is asymptomatic, but in immunodeficiency the parasite can cause devastating disease. During acute