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Securities Regulation And Social Media, Seth C. Oranburg

Law Faculty Scholarship

Federal securities regulation originally divided corporate finance into two neat categories, public and private. In 1933, private financing was limited to “sophisticated” investors but otherwise lightly regulated. Public financing became heavily regulated. In 1982, the SEC introduced Reg D, which introduced the concept of “general solicitation” to clarify the distinction between public and private offerings. Reg D is well understood to prohibit newspaper advertisements and permit direct solicitations to venture capital investors. This enabled great wealth consolidation in regions like Silicon Valley while effectively banning general solicitations in private offerings.

Now, social media communication challenges the definition of “general solicitation.” …

Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Fall 2020, Unh Magazine

UNH Magazine

This editon of UNH Magazine was digital only due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is an archived version of web content originally found at https://magazine.unh.edu/

Conservative Media Consumers Less Likely To Wear Masks And Less Worried About Covid-19, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Thomas G. Safford

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Lawrence Hamilton and Thomas Safford discuss the results of a new UNH Granite State Panel survey asking questions to a statewide poll of New Hampshire residents to learn about their perceptions and behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unh Research Finds Conservative Media Consumers Less Likely To Wear A Mask, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Exploring Student Motivation In Quantitative Biology, Alexander Richard Kulacki

Master's Theses and Capstones

The field of biology is becoming increasingly reliant on quantitative tools, methods, and techniques, driving a need for incoming biologists to have robust quantitative skills. However, efforts to incorporate more quantitative skills at the undergraduate level are hampered by low student engagement with math in biology. Students’ motivation towards quantitative biology can provide insight into how best to increase their engagement and thus performance with these topics. This thesis examines students’ motivation towards math in biology through two key constructs: 1) students’ self-efficacy, through the theoretical lens of Social Cognitive Theory; and 2) students’ task-values, through the theoretical lens of …

A Biogeochemical-Economic Model For The Valuation Of Cover Crops Ecosystem Services Under Climate Change, Karen M. Moran-Rivera

Master's Theses and Capstones

Cover crop (CC) adoption is a promising conservation practice that provides multiple ecosystem services, such as reduced nitrate pollution and increased soil health. These CC ecosystem services have been demonstrated in the biogeochemistry literature. However, widespread adoption of CC in the Midwestern U.S. is still low, in part because there continues to be a debate about whether adopting CC is privately optimal for farmers and how climate change might affect the private incentives to adopt. Economic analyses of CC adoption are complicated by the difficulty to account for the economic benefits of CC ecosystem services, in a changing climate.

In …

The House That Built Lee: Reinterpreting Robert E. Lee Through His Life At Arlington House, Cecilia Paquette

Master's Theses and Capstones

Since 1955, Arlington House has been a memorial to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, despite his beliefs in slavery and white supremacy. For almost a century, scholarship on Lee has been comprised of more positive interpretations, yet historians have recently begun to challenge these versions of Lee by examining his life more fully. This study aims to view Lee through the history of Arlington House, in order to more closely understand his character and to underscore that he is not as noble as was once thought. Building on the history of Arlington’s enslaved community this thesis asks: how did the …

Fuel From Within: Can Resuspended Organic Phosphorus Stimulate Harmful Cyanobacteria Blooms In Western Lake Erie?, John Martin Taylor

Master's Theses and Capstones

Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Laurentian Great Lakes, has been historically plagued with summertime blooms of potentially toxic cyanobacteria (Microcystis spp.) that originate in the shallow western part of the lake (average depth 10 m). The onset of Microcystis blooms often follow wind-driven resuspension events, indicating that internal loading of growth limiting nutrients (mainly phosphorus, P) may stimulate cyanobacterial growth. We hypothesize that wind-driven sediment resuspension releases particulate P (PP) in the form of organic (POP) or inorganic phosphorus (PIP), fueling cyanobacterial growth in the water. To test this hypothesis, we exposed replicate sediment cores from two sites in …

Unh Receives $3.6 Million To Examine Climate Change Effect On Ecosystems, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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The Baby Break: An Analysis Of Sustained Fertility Decline After A Period Of Economic Recession, Tyrus Parker

Master's Theses and Capstones

The United States fertility rate declined sharply during the Great Recession that lasted from 2007-2009. Now a decade removed from the recession, I examine current fertility rates to see if they have rebounded to pre-recession levels. I use 5-year American Community Survey data to compare 2013-2018 fertility rates to 2006-2010 fertility rates at the county level across the United States. Variables such as race, region, education, median household income, the urban-rural continuum and USDA county typologies were analyzed to analyze fertility trends in different types of counties across the country. Fertility declined 9.5% over the observed time period. Counties with …

Reducing Dropout Rates Of New Hampshire High School Students By Increasing The Compelled Years Of Attendance: An Analysis Of Local Administrator Perceptions Of And Responses To State Law 193:1, Andrew K. Korman

Doctoral Dissertations

In 2007 New Hampshire passed a law, RSA 193:1, that changed the compulsory age of education for all public school students from age 16 to age 18. The purpose of this research is to explore the effect of RSA 193:1 on dropout rates in New Hampshire’s public high schools and to examine the perception of the high school principal in understanding the effect of the law and any differential effects of the law on students. Through an examination of five years of dropout data combined with a survey to current high school principals, findings indicate that there is strong support …

Nutrient Cycling Along Microbial And Lithologic Gradients And Fostering Student Self-Confidence In Science, Kiley Remiszewski

Doctoral Dissertations

Increased understanding of the impact of biology on weathering rates and its response to environmental factors will lead to more accurate global models and enhanced management practices to optimize productive, healthy forests. Although biological contributions to weathering are established in the literature, more data to translate these observations for implementation in a predictive framework should be obtained (e.g. Taylor et al., 2012). Mycorrhizal fungi have implications for global carbon cycling and increasing carbon storage in soils (Soudzilovskaia et al., 2019) but the extent of their impact is still an area of active research with more studies of local weathering sites …

The Trophic Ecology Of Coral Reef Sponges In Caribbean Mesophotic Ecosystems, Keir John Macartney

Doctoral Dissertations

Emergent sponges are crucial to the functional ecology of coral reef ecosystems, playing key roles in benthic-pelagic coupling, biogeochemical cycling of key nutrients, and provision of food and habitat to a variety of coral reef fauna. In mesophotic coral reef ecosystems (MCEs), sponges show a repeatable pattern of increasing abundance and diversity with increasing depth. Mesophotic coral reef ecosystems are typically found between 30 – 150 m and are characterized by depth-dependent gradients in photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), and trophic resources such as increases in particulate organic matter (POM) and decreases in dissolved organic matter (DOM). Increased concentrations of POM …

Internet-Of-Things (Iot) Security Threats: Attacks On Communication Interface, Mohammad Mezanur Monjur

Master's Theses and Capstones

Internet of Things (IoT) devices collect and process information from remote places and have significantly increased the productivity of distributed systems or individuals. Due to the limited budget on power consumption, IoT devices typically do not include security features such as advanced data encryption and device authentication. In general, the hardware components deployed in IoT devices are not from high end markets. As a result, the integrity and security assurance of most IoT devices are questionable. For example, adversary can implement a Hardware Trojan (HT) in the fabrication process for the IoT hardware devices to cause information leak or malfunctions. …

Evaluating Recirculating Aquaculture System Nutrient Production, Alexander J. Sitek

Master's Theses and Capstones

While aquaculture production accounts for half of the world fish production, a growing problem emerges with the amount of effluent being produced. Waste treatment of aquaculture effluent is expensive and energy- intensive as conventional approaches to waste remediation have remained mostly unchanged. To improve the economic sustainability, the aquaculture industry needs to integrate with other production systems similarly as terrestrial animal agriculture has done with soil-based crop production. Integrating waste production in a wastes-to-resources approach as fertilizer for hydroponic cropping systems will allow aquaculture producers to monetize waste treatment. However, a full accounting of aquaculture nutrient production is necessary to …

The Influence Of Fluvial Wetlands On Metabolism And Dissolved Oxygen Patterns Along A Shallow Sloped River Continuum, Joshua Slocum Cain

Master's Theses and Capstones

Low dissolved oxygen in rivers threatens fish populations, aquatic organisms, and the health of entire ecosystems. River systems with high fluvial wetland abundance and organic matter may result in high respiration that in conjunction with low re-aeration rates, lead to low surface water oxygen conditions. The increasing abundance of beaver ponds in many areas may exacerbate this phenomenon. This study aims to understand the impact of fluvial wetlands, including beaver ponds, on dissolved oxygen (D.O.) and metabolism in the Ipswich and Parker River Watersheds, MA, USA. In several fluvial wetland dominated systems, we measured diel D.O. and metabolism in the …

Chronic Strain, Gendered Coping, And Health Outcomes In A Rural Context, Deirdre Ann Laselva

Master's Theses and Capstones

Although there is a considerable body of literature examining mental and physical health outcomes among adolescents and adults, there is less research that focuses on emerging adulthood and how emerging adults - especially within a rural context – experience mental and physical health. Furthermore, less is known regarding how or if gender impacts the relationships between coping style and outcomes among this population. Studies historically show that women report higher rates of anxiety, depressed mood, and chronically debilitating physical illnesses than men. The differences in rates of disorders between men and women is often explained by citing traditional gender roles; …

Pesticide Treated Crop Seeds And Tillage Alter Seed Coat Fungal Communities On Amaranthus Retroflexus In A Maize-Soybean Cropping System, Samuel Arrington Palmer

Master's Theses and Capstones

Soil fungi, by damaging or decaying weed seeds in the soil seed bank, are important agents of biological weed control. Pesticide seed treatments (PST) that include fungicides may alter the communities of soil fungi that colonize weed seeds in the soil and therefore the nature and efficacy of this important source of biological weed control. Tillage, by disrupting fungal networks and spatially redistributing the fungicides associated with PST throughout the soil profile, may mediate the effects of PST on seed coat fungi. We conducted a two-year experiment at two sites with two levels of PST (treated and untreated crop seeds) …

Evaluating The Acute And Chronic Toxicity Of Potassium Carbonate And The Interactive Effects Between Sodium And Potassium On Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss), Ashutosh Rao

Master's Theses and Capstones

Capture-and-reuse of recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) effluents as hydroponic fertilizer can mitigate the high costs of waste treatment and disposal. However, RAS operators must address limitations in macro- (K, Ca) and micro-nutrients (Fe, Zn, Mo, Cu) and the phytotoxic sodium concentrations (>50 mg/L Na) present in solution. One option is to replace sodium-based pH buffering salts such as sodium bicarbonate with potassium-based derivates such as potassium carbonate or bicarbonate. However, findings in previous studies demonstrate adverse sublethal impacts on fish health due to elevated potassium concentrations. Lethal effects of potassium salts (KCl, KHCO3, and K2SO4) have been demonstrated in …

Applying Environmental Surveillance And Epidemiology To Manage Vibrio Parahaemolyticus Risks Associated With Shellfish Consumption, Christopher Andrew Schillaci

Master's Theses and Capstones

Vibrio parahaemolyticus (Vp.) outbreaks and sporadic cases associated with the consumption of oysters harvested from the New England Region of the U.S. have increased since 2011. Increasing Vp. infections in Massachusetts have resulted in harvest areas closures, product recalls, and the implementation of costly control measures on the harvesting and handling of oysters in the state during summer months. A combination of factors such as increased summertime production and consumption of raw shellfish, and climate related changes leading to warmer sea surface temperatures and more variable salinities favorable for Vp. bacteria, have been attributed to the recent increase in infections. …

The Development Of A Naturally-Derived Hydroponic Nutrient Solution From Recirculating Aquaculture System Effluent Using Microbial Digestion, Joseph Tetreault

Master's Theses and Capstones

The United States imports more seafood than any other country in the world. Supporting the development of a sustainable aquaculture industry will allow the United States to meet domestic seafood demand and compete in international markets. However, conventional aquaculture production methods such as pond and net pen systems are limited in capacity to meet the market demands for variety and local production. Instead, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are a promising option for domestic aquaculture expansion. RAS is a controlled environment agriculture production model which is location-independent, offers significant water conservation, and optimizes environmental conditions to maximize fish production year round. …

Impact Of Coagulation And Ozonation Pretreatment On Ceramic Microfiltration, Meghan Rita White

Master's Theses and Capstones

Globally drinking water sources are under pressure. In many places, there is unintended closure of the water cycle. This means that the wastewater treatment plant effluent with all its pollutants ends up in the source of drinking water treatment plants that are not designed to treat this type of water. Impacts on water sources from factors such as climate change and high population density make unintended reuse, indirect reuse, and potable reuse more accepted and explored. Known reuse schemes use high end treatment technologies such as ceramic microfiltration. While ceramic microfiltration is a beneficial treatment option, its effectiveness can be …

Good For Whom? The Framing Of Conflict In Post-9/11 America, 2001-2004, Joseph Antony Cook

Master's Theses and Capstones

This thesis explores the framing of conflict after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and more specifically, during President George W. Bush’s first term in office. Notions of American exceptionalism touched upon every facet of the nation’s response to the attacks, providing guidance, identity and resolve in the history of the Good War. The immediate tethering of Pearl Harbor and September 11 in the national discourse exemplified the foremost role that nostalgia would play in not only making sense of the attacks but devising a response to them. This thesis recovers what was lost to those destructive comforts in the …

Dynamic And Structural Analyses Of A Gravity Fish Cage Employing Copper Alloy Netting, Michael James Osienski

Master's Theses and Capstones

Aquaculture, the process of growing marine plants and animals in the ocean, has been rapidly expanding due to increased seafood consumption coupled with the steady decrease of wild fish stocks. Increasing environmental concerns due to near-shore farming practices have pressured farmers to expand into more energetic open ocean sites. Environmental loading in these off-shore sites can deform common non-rigid aquaculture fish cages, reducing the cage’s net chamber volume, which can severely impacting the health of the rearing fish.

Copper alloy nets have emerged as a possible alternative to traditional polymer (nylon) twine used in the net chamber of fish cages. …

The Long-Term Effects Of Sexual Assault On Romantic Relationships: A Qualitative Study, Matthew Moschella

Master's Theses and Capstones

Sexual assault has immediate and long-term physical, mental, economic, and social impacts for survivors (Potter et al., 2018; Kilpatrick et al., 2007; & Sugar et al., 2004). However, there is only a limited understanding of how sexual assault impacts a survivor’s dating behaviors and romantic relationships. Therefore, this study identifies survivors’ perceptions on how sexual assault impacted their romantic relationships. Specifically, it seeks to answer (1) do some survivors avoid romantic relationships and some engage in risky dating? and (2) what types of negative responses do survivors receive when they disclose a sexual assault to a romantic partner? The current …

Pediatric Mental Health Referrals: Guidance And Directory For Pediatric Primary Care Providers In New Hampshire, Institute For Health Policy And Practice

All Materials

This resource includes both a flyer and a limited directory of mental health services in New Hampshire to support pediatric primary care providers in offering successful referral options for their patients who may need mental health services.

The directory includes information such as practice name, address, phone number, website, towns served, Medicaid acceptance, and programs or types of services. The directory does not list the many individual private mental health providers practicing in New Hampshire due to the changing nature of practices, providers, and insurance. However, additional providers may be included in future versions.

2020-2021 Faculty Senate Xxv - August 31, 2020 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

New Paul College Associate Dean For Undergraduate Education Named, Sharon Keeler

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Unh Research Finds Rural Population More At Risk From Covid-19, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Health Conditions And An Older Population Increase Covid-19 Risks In Rural America, Kenneth M. Johnson

Carsey Publications

In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson discusses the likely influence that the age structure and the incidence of pre-existing health conditions have on the risks of those exposed to COVID-19 in rural and urban counties in the United States.

Johnson reports that the rural population is at higher risk from COVID-19 because it is older and has higher rates of pre-existing health conditions. Rural areas currently have lower COVID-19 case and death rates, but these rates are rising faster than in urban areas. Nearly 32 percent of the rural counties at high risk from COVID-19 still have relatively few cases …