Peroxiredoxin (Prx) is a growing peroxidase family, whose mammalian members have been known to connect with cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Many isoforms (about 50 proteins), collected in accordance to the amino acid sequence homology, particularly amino-terminal region containing active site cysteine residue, and the thiol-specific antioxidant activity, distribute throughout all the kingdoms. Among them, mammalian Prx consists of 6 different members grouped into typical 2-Cys, atypical 2-Cys Prx, and 1-Cys Prx. Except Prx VI belonging to 1-Cys Prx subgroup, the other five 2-Cys Prx isotypes have the thioredoxin-dependent peroxidase (TPx) activity utilizing thioredoxin, thioredoxin reductase, and NADPH as a reducing system. Mammalian Prxs are 20 - 30 kilodalton in molecular size and vary in subcellular localization: Prx I, II, and VI in cytosol, Prx III in mitochondria, Prx IV in ER and secretion, Prx V showing complicated distribution including peroxisome, mitochondria and cytosol (1).
The Learning & Teaching Center provides faculty with access to Snagit for capturing anything on their screen including video demonstrations for students.
The Learning & Teaching Center provides Northwest faculty and students with Turnitin's plagiarism prevention software. This product may be used to check whether submitted Microsoft Word files contain plagiarized materials. Every paper submitted is returned in the form of a customized Originality Report. Results are based on exhaustive searches of billions of pages from both current and archived instances of the Internet, millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin, and commercial databases of journal articles and periodicals. Click the icon at the left to connect with the Turnitin documentation for Northwest Online.
Northwest Cloud Repository is a multi-media repository for Northwest faculty, staff and students, developed by the Learning & Teaching Center student employees.
Office 365 is the suite of Microsoft applications available to all faculty, staff, and students. This includes Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, Skype for Business, Publisher, and OneDrive.
Zoom is a web conferencing software which allows for real-time sharing of voice and video, as well as computer screens, applications and web-based content among two or more computers or mobile devices. Contact Mike Grudzinski for more information at 562-1532 or mgrud@nwmissouri.edu
Respondus is an exam management tool. It is used to upload and download exams. It can also be used to create paper exams. Check to see if your publisher has a testbank in Respondus format to make for easy transfer of questions to course site. Click the icon to the left for more information about retrieving quizzes from Northwest Online into Respondus.
Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Northwest Online. When LockDown Browser is used during an online exam, you are unable to go to other URLs, switch applications, take screenshots, copy questions or print. It essentially locks you into the exam until it's submitted.
Respondus Monitor is a webcam feature for LockDown Browser that records students during online, non-proctored quizzes. When this feature is enabled for a quiz, students are required to use a webcam and microphone with LockDown Browser. After the quiz is complete, an instructor can review details of the assessment, even the recorded videos.
Camtasia is a special software to capture images from the computer screen and to record screen capture recordings. This is like SnagIt, but with more video editing tools. Please call us to schedule an appointment, if you are interested in using Camtasia.
Remark Web Survey software can be used to survey students. This web-based survey allows students to access the survey via a link in a course site or even through email. Data reports are forwarded to the instructor once the survey time period is finished. Contact our office for survey requests.
Audacity is a freeware audio recording software that allows multi-track recording. Great for building pod-casts.
Jing is a computer service that lets you capture basic video, animation, and still images, and share them on the web.
EvaluationKIT is the software now being used for Student Reflections (Course Evaluations). It has several advantages over our previous Student Reflection software, including the ability for faculty to change the dates/times the reflections are open for their students, the ability to automatically send out reminders to students to take their evaluations, the ability for students to access these reflection forms through Northwest Online, and the ability for instructors to access their results. Click the title for listing of support documents.
If you are a business with an innovative product or service and looking to expand, Next Level can help. Oftentimes, businesses have difficultly accessing funding for growth and get stuck doing the same old thing. This program is designed to help businesses capitalize on market opportunites, expand, and grow.
The purpose of the Next Level program funding is to assist with innovative business growth. This support may be applicable to contracted expertise, services or direct costs in any of the following areas.
Revenue producing, innovative companies located within Northwestern Ontario. Funds for this program are limited therefore applications will be weighed on the following criteria:
- Sales outside of Northwestern Ontario or can demonstrate the potential to expand sales outside of NWO.
Innovative companies are defined for the purposes of the Next Level program as focusing on technology or manufacturing. Companies that fall outside of these categories but derive a significant portion of sales and profits from products or services recently introduced to the market may also be deemed eligible.
Outcomes of the Next Level project must be geared towards growing sales, increasing employment levels, or decreasing costs.
The applicant is required to contribute 20% of total project costs. Paid expenses occuring before the date of the application for Next Level funding will not be recognized as an eligible contribution.
We want to make sure you don't spend time applying to a program that may not be the right fit, so email Kendall using the button below or call at 807-768-6698.
Curtis Sliwa and his Guardian Angels (seen in 2015) are patroling New York City's subways once again. (Ron Antonelli)
The Big Apple's homegrown Guardian Angels are back and patrolling the subways following a spate of violent slashings.
The group's founder, Curtis Sliwa, led his army of red-beret volunteers into New York City's underground Monday to deter crime and make straphangers feel protected.
Sliwa blames the NYPD's apparent lack of train car patrols for the uptick and said he plans to send his volunteers into the subways on a daily basis.
"Their role is to see something, say something," Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. "They're not expected to engage in anything — they don't have any powers."
In a radio interview Monday, Bratton announced extra police patrols on the subway while downplaying the slashings as "isolated."
The Angels emerged as the city's godsend in 1978, but its reputation was tarnished when former Mayor Edward Koch branded the volunteers as vigilantes.
Sliwa, seen getting a kiss from his wife, started the Guardian Angels in 1978 to tackle crime in New York City's bad old days.
In 1992, Sliwa admitted to fabricating kidnappings and muggings in the group's early days. The Angels stopped most of its local patrols by 1994, after Rudy Giuliani was elected.
After spreading to other cities across the nation, Sliwa's Angels resurfaced in Manhattan last year, with patrols in Central Park.
Ashlynn Conner committed suicide after allegedly being bullied at school and in her neighborhood. (/CBS)
A 10-year-old Illinois girl who hanged herself in her closet last week had suffered repeated taunts from bullies mocking her for being overweight, her family said.
Ashlynn Conner's heartbroken mother, Stacy, told local TV station WCIA-TV that Ashlynn had come home crying from school about two weeks ago, complaining that she was being bullied in her neighborhood as well as at school.
Her mother said no to the request. The next day, Ashlynn's sister found her hanging in the closet from a scarf fashioned into a noose, the TV station reported.
"I thought my kids are strong kids, and that my words for them for guidance and advice [were\] going to have more weight than what these kids could be saying," Stacy Conner told WCIA-TV on Sunday.
The young girl's ordeal became a tragedy despite the existence of an anti-bullying law in Illinois. The state first passed an anti-bullying law in 2001 and has continuously strengthened it over the past decade.
"I don't know what it's going to take to stop it, but no child should ever have to feel like they have to kill themselves to stop that kind of pain," her mother said.
In a special series first published in December 2012, the Daily News Editorial Board examined the Independence Party, a clique of political operatives with no claim to broad public support who play a powerful role in determining who runs New York while making dupes of voters.
The Independence Party boasts of drawing the allegiance of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who find the party an attractive alternative to the Democratic and Republican folds.
Its leaders cite registration statistics to exert bragging rights that come with being the state's fastest-growing political organization. They say that, rallying to the Independence flag, voters have driven a remarkable 19% jump in adherents over four years.
Dec. 10: Lunacy at the helm: Fred Newman led his cult-like followers to Independence Party power in New York City
Meet the brains behind the fraud that is the Independence Party in New York City. His name was Fred Newman. Until his death last year, he was an avowed Marxist, a Jew who was given to anti-Semitic ravings and the inventor of a form of psychotherapy that encouraged patients to have sex with him or with one another, a practice he dubbed "friendosexuality."
Far more than anyone else, Gov. Cuomo has the power to push Independence Party leaders to stop the deceptions by which they have undeservedly placed candidates on the ballot and altered the course of the vote.
Joseph Marino is one of the thousands of phantoms carried on the rolls of New York's Independence Party. When he registered to vote last year, the 34-year-old Queens plumber checked a box beside the name Independence Party, believe he had filed to be independent of any party affiliation.
As chairman of News Corp., Rupert Murdoch heads a global media colossus that owns television, movie and publishing enterprises - all requiring sophisticated expertise in fields ranging from finance to law to technology. Yet Murdoch made the mistake of registering to vote in New York as a member of the Independence Party when he had intended to enroll in 2010 as independent of a political organization.
Kenneth McLean is 77, uses a wheelchair and is in a nursing home. He was surprised when we told him he'd been elected to the Independence Party's Manhattan county committee.
Much ado about next to nothing, Mayor Bloomberg said of this series of editorials about the Independence Party. "What's the big deal?" he asked. To answer the question: The big deal is that a clique of political operatives with no claim to broad public support has played a powerful role in determining who runs New York - notably Bloomberg - while making dupes of voters.