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Mathematical Analysis Of A Model Of Blood Flow Through A Channel With Flexible Walls, Madeline Mayes Edwards

Doctoral Dissertations

The present research is devoted to the problem of stability of the fluid flow moving in a channel with flexible walls and interacting with the walls. The walls of the vessel conveying fluid are subject to traveling waves. Experimental data shows that the energy of the flowing fluid can be transferred and consumed by the structure (the walls), which induces “traveling wave flutter.” The problem of stability of fluid-structure interaction splits into two parts: (i) stability of fluid flow in the channel with harmonically moving walls and (ii) stability of solid structure participating in the energy exchange with the flow. …

Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Police Officer Acquittals: Jurors' Explicit And Implicit Racism, Donovan Corson Kelley

Doctoral Dissertations

Less than .001% of cases involving police officers killing suspects result in trial convictions; acquittals are significantly higher for Black victims than for White victims. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine if explicit and implicit racism amongst jurors helped explain why police officers are rarely convicted of murder, especially in cases with Black victims. In a pilot study in which mock jurors read a trial summary involving an officer killing an unarmed victim who was either Black or White, jurors were more likely acquit officers on trial for killing a Black victim than a White victim. In Study …

Molecular Simulation Studies Of Dynamics And Interactions In Nucleic Acids, Lev Levintov

Doctoral Dissertations

In my thesis work, I conducted molecular simulation studies to explore dynamics and interactions in nucleic acids. I began my work by applying conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the local and global dynamics of the transactivation response (TAR) element from the type-1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) and the effect of binding of ligands on the dynamics of TAR RNA. I determined that the TAR RNA structure was stabilized on binding of ligands due to the decreased flexibility in helices that comprise TAR RNA. This rigidity of the TAR RNA structure was coupled with the decreased flipping of bulge …

Nickel – Iron Catalysts For Low Temperature Dry Reforming Of Methane, Gagandeep Dhillon

Doctoral Dissertations

Dry reforming of methane (DRM) offers benefit of consuming two important greenhouse gases(CH4 and CO2) in a single reaction to produce syngas. Ni-based catalysts have been studied for DRM. However, monometallic Ni catalysts deactivate mainly because of coking. We were motivated to include earth-abundant promoter metals to suppress coke formation and studied a series of bimetallic nickel-iron catalysts supported over TiO2 and TiO2-CeO2 at 550˚C and atmospheric pressure. This dissertation mainly focuses on various approaches to synthesize Ni-Fe catalysts and examines the effect of oxide support modification over optimum Ni-Fe/TiO2 catalyst. In this context, Ni-Fe catalysts supported over TiO2 were …

Why Are We Doing This: How Students Find Meaning In Research Writing Across Contexts, Scott Lasley

Doctoral Dissertations

Building on the work of Eodice, Geller, and Lerner and other Composition and Higher Education scholars, my dissertation examines what factors create a meaningful research writing experience. Specifically, this study explores two research questions: 1) How do advanced-level student writers define themselves as writers who use research? 2) How do those identities influence how they understand and utilize research writing concepts? I pursued these questions through a year-long, IRB-approved, qualitative study of junior and senior university students across the disciplines, including English, Neuroscience, and Computer Engineering. Using surveys and interviews, I asked them about meaningful research writing they have done …

"I Know You're Family": An Exploration Of The Enduring Relevance Of A Pre-College Summer Bridge Program For Underrepresented Minoritized Students, Kathryn Slater

Doctoral Dissertations

The proposed dissertation investigates the enduring relevance of a pre-college summer bridge program for underrepresented minoritized (URM) students who participate in the program as an entry point into a predominantly White institution (PWI). Using narrative inquiry and a critical frame, this dissertation uses individual interviewing and focus group data to understand the experiences of 10 URM summer bridge program participants at different points in their undergraduate academic career. For the purposes of this study, relevance of a summer bridge program for URM students refers to the ways in which deliberate and proactive programming helps students to develop academic and socio-emotional …

Pews, Proprietors, And Plutocracy: The Business Model Of Unitarian And Congregational Religious Societies In Northern New England, 1790-1850, Amy Beth Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines Unitarian and Congregational religious societies in northern New England port cities from 1790-1850 and argues that pew proprietorship created a plutocracy, which resulted in the development of a corporate character for Protestant churches and a prioritization of secular over theological concerns. Scholarship on Protestant New England churches during the Early Republic is sorely lacking and historians need a greater understanding of the role proprietors played in church affairs. In the antebellum period, wealthy Protestant elites in Portland, Maine, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts consolidated their power through the purchase of pews, which provided them proportional control …

Discourses Of Diversity: A Qualitative Case Study Of World Language Pedagogies Through An Intersectional Lens, Sheri Dion

Doctoral Dissertations

Schools are becoming more linguistically and racially diverse in K-12 settings, yet there is relatively little research that explores how language teachers incorporate student and community diversities in their pedagogies. Situated at one, northeastern public secondary school in the United States, this research offers a qualitative case study of language pedagogies through an intersectional lens to investigate the mechanisms and contexts through which inequities arise. Data is collected from the following sources: teacher interviews, classroom observations, teachers’ syllabi, and student de-identified work. This study employs intersectionality (Collins & Bilge, 2016; Crenshaw, 1989, 2010) as a primary theoretical lens and critical …

Investigating The Evolutionary Dynamics Of Traits In Metazoa, Jennifer L. Spillane

Doctoral Dissertations

Over the last 800 million years, animals have evolved an incredible array of diverse forms, life histories, ecologies, and traits. In the age of genome-scale resources for many animal taxa, researchers have a unique opportunity to investigate animal diversity and evolution through comparative genomic methods. These methods allow for studies not only of current diversity and evolutionary relationships, but also of ancient evolutionary dynamics and genomic repertoire. In order to study the evolution of diverse animal traits in a rigorous way however, researchers must not neglect the fundamental components of a robust comparative genomics study: well-supported phylogenies, high-quality genomic resources, …

Gdf1 As A Regulator Of Ceramide Metabolism And Hematopoiesis In Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Weiyuan Wang

Doctoral Dissertations

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is cancer of the myeloid lineage of blood cells. In AML, hematopoietic precursors acquire mutations or chromosomal changes that cause differentiation arrest. This results in an uncontrolled proliferation of these malignant cells in the bone marrow that can interfere with normal blood cell production. AML progresses rapidly and can be fatal within weeks if left untreated. The only current curative treatment is bone marrow transplant, which has potentially life-threatening side effects. Thus, a better understanding of the underlying biology of AML is needed to enable the development of better therapeutic modalities.Ceramides are a family of wax-like …

Justice System Outcomes Of Children Referred For Sexual Offenses, Kei Saito

Doctoral Dissertations

The proliferation of increasingly punitive sex crime legislation in the United States have extended to include children adjudicated of sexual offenses. Using data from the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, this dissertation examined the impact of three factors on sentencing outcomes for children referred for illegal sexual behaviors: race, same-sex victim, and county of referral. (1) Black children were disproportionately arrested for sexual offenses compared to any other racial/ethnic group. However, Black children in the sample were less likely to face harsher outcomes compared to Caucasian children, such as adjudication and ordered to register as a sex offender. (2) Children …

Examining The Relationship Between Life Skill Development And Negative Experiences In Sport: The Influence Of Resilience, Levone Lee

Master's Theses and Capstones

A study by Kendellen and Camire (2015) demonstrated that sport participants not only experienced positive outcomes (i.e., development of life skills), but also encounter numerous examples of negative experiences (i.e., anxiety, aggression, negative interactions with coaches, and prioritizing sport over school). Negative experiences have been linked to an increased risk of detrimental outcomes, such as mental and behavioral health concerns. However, there is a paucity of research examining the impact that negative experiences have on positive outcomes. Utilizing a risk and resiliency framework (Fraser et al., 1999), which proposes that individuals have the capability of attaining positive outcomes even when …

Covenants To Discriminate: How The Anti-Lgbt Policies Of Participating Voucher Schools Might Violate The State Action Doctrine, Preston C. Green Iii, Julie F. Mead, Suzanne E. Eckes

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

This article analyzes the legal arguments that students might make to compel states that subsidize private education through voucher, tax credit scholarship, and ESA programs to offer these programs on an equal basis, regardless of the sexual orientation or gender identity of the student or members of the student’s family. The first section provides an overview of voucher programs and discusses the prevalence of participating schools with anti-LGBT admissions policies. The second section evaluates constitutional challenges that students could make to invalidate the anti-LGBT admissions policies of participating voucher schools under the state action doctrine. Specifically, we explain the possibilities …

Israel’S Sigint Oversight Ecosystem: Covid-19 Secret Location Tracking As A Test Case, Amir Cahane

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

By mid-March 2020, Israel had experienced the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a fortnight, confirmed coronavirus cases surged from half a dozen to 178 cases. In response to the challenge of identifying potential carriers, the government tasked the Israeli Security Agency (the ISA, or Shin Bet) with tracing the routes of confirmed coronavirus patients via cellphone location tracking and identifying individuals with whom the patients had been in close contact.

Israel's ISA communications metadata collection measures have been shrouded in veil of secrecy. The debate – in parliament and in court – regarding the use of the country's …

Abortion Restrictions During A Pandemic At The Intersection Of The 13th Amendment And Electoral Legislation, Dr. Cynthia Boyer

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

The current pandemic is intensifying restrictions on a wide range of fundamental rights which form a key pillar of the rule of law, it includes access to reproductive rights. Some states have moved forward with their ideological quest of control and infringement of constitutional rights in order to ban or limit abortion what is a fundamental attack on constitutional rights and in particular those associated with the Thirteenth Amendment. These restrictions on abortion resulting from the proclamation of a state of emergency follow the path already taken by certain states to reinforce their coercive measures. They raise major legal and …

Going Viral?: Discouraging The Premature Use Of Civil Liability Strategies As A Response To Covid-19, Michelle L. Richards

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

In addition to the myriad of issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the virus has also placed our legal system in a position of creating problems that can contribute to the spread of this pandemic. Despite the fact that the United States has been mired in the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine strategies have been recently developed to provide protection from this virus, much is still unknown about the etiology of this virus and how to effectively control its spread. As a result, public health agencies at the federal, state, and local levels have only been able …

New England State Senates: Case Studies For Revisiting The Indirect Election Of Legislators, Tyler Quinn Yeargain

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

No abstract provided.

Accumulation Of Cyanobacteria Toxins In Lettuce And Radishes Exposed To Water And Aerosols From A Low-Toxin Lake, Anne C. Ewert

Master's Theses and Capstones

Cyanobacteria are the oldest known photosynthetic organisms on Earth. They are found in a wide range of habitats worldwide but have recently become an increasing issue in both freshwater and marine systems due to anthropogenic eutrophication and climate change. Cyanobacteria produce an array of toxins harmful to wildlife and humans, some of which have been found to accumulate in plant and animal tissues. Microcystins (MCs) are the most common toxins produced, occurring in 40 – 75% of cyanobacteria blooms worldwide. They are highly stable, water and fat soluble, cyclic heptapeptides that cause acute toxicity in the liver by the inhibition …

Movements And Feeding Of Arctic Char (Salvelinus Alpinus) Relative To Summer Ice-Off In An Arctic Embayment, Lars J. Hammer

Master's Theses and Capstones

Seasonal fluctuations in environmental conditions drive ecosystem processes across the globe, particularly at the earth’s poles. Seasonality in Arctic marine systems is exemplified by an annual summer ice-off that promotes primary productivity blooms and provides nutrients for upper trophic level consumers who often migrate to these productive areas. Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) are an economically and culturally important salmonid that migrate from freshwater spawning locations into the marine environment, presumably to feed. In this thesis, I describe two studies investigating the movement and feeding of Arctic char within Tremblay Sound, Nunavut, Canada, a newly designated National Marine Conservation Area (Tallurutiup …

Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual Inclusion In The Military: A Qualitative Look At Military Culture A Decade After The Repeal Of Don’T Ask, Don’T Tell, Whitney Elizabeth O’Connell

Master's Theses and Capstones

In 2010, the very controversial Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy was repealed, allowing lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) members to serve openly in the military without fear of legal persecution. Now that a decade has passed, this research seeks to find whether LGB service members feel safe and comfortable serving openly in the military ranks; whether some groups—perhaps those in more protected or privileged positions—feel more safe, whereas others feel less safe; and whether LGB military members are pressured to adhere to homonormativity to be accepted in the military.I conducted a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews to answer these …

Relationships Between Microbial Enzymatic Activity And Environmental Parameters In The Coastal Gulf Of Maine And The Deep Pacific Ocean, Kerry Dykens

Master's Theses and Capstones

Microorganisms contribute to the cycling of organic matter and inorganic nutrients through extracellular enzymatic depolymerization of high molecular weight compounds, providing essential nutrients to the aquatic environment. Since microorganisms adapt relatively quickly to their environment, their metabolic rates reflect biological responses to changing environmental conditions, such as those predicted as a result of climate change. Yet, before it is possible to predict how microorganisms will respond to future change, it is important to understand how current environmental conditions influence microbial activity. To capture a range of environmental conditions, the response of microbial enzymatic activities was studied seasonally at three Eastern …

Comm-Entary, Spring 2021 - Full Issue

Comm-entary

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 110 [111], No. 57 (Apr. 29, 2021), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 110, but it is the 111th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Faculty Senate Agenda April 19, 2021, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

2020-2021 Faculty Senate Xxv - April 19, 2021 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Agenda April 12, 2021, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Is A Common Goal A False Hope In Convergence Research?: Opportunities And Challenges Of International Convergence Research To Address Arctic Change, Jessica G. Ernakovich, N. Eklund, Ruth K. Varner, N. Kirchner, J. Jeuring, Katharine Duderstadt, A. Granebeck, E. Golubeva, Asiaq Participants

Faculty Publications

The Arctic faces multiple pressures including climate change, shifting demographics, human health risks, social justice imbalances, governance issues, and expanding resource extraction. A convergence of academic disciplines—such as natural and social sciences, engineering and technology, health and medicine—and international perspectives is required to meaningfully contribute to solving the challenges of Arctic peoples and ecosystems. However, successfully carrying out convergent, international research and education remains a challenge. Here, lessons from the planning phase of a convergence research project concerned with the health of Arctic waters developed by the Arctic Science IntegrAtion Quest (ASIAQ) are discussed. We discuss our perspective on the …

Leadership Initiatives For Trio Student Support Services Eligible Participants, Kyle Somma

M.S. in Leadership

This research will examine the best practices for TRIO Student Support Services professionals to deliver and support TRIO Student Support Services participants in their leadership development. TRIO Student Support Services participants come to higher education institutes with barriers that inhibit their academic and leadership development. Through partnerships with TRIO Student Support Services professionals, eligible students can build leadership development resulting in a more marketable job applicant post-graduation. A leadership development toolkit will be provided to guide TRIO Student Support Services professionals in their execution of leadership initiatives.

A video recording of this presentation is available here.

Extracting Bankfull Widths And Stream Slopes From New England Rivers, Daniel J. Okuniewicz Jr.

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

The chief characteristic of this project was extracting measurements for New England rivers—specifically, bankfull widths and stream slopes—using high-resolution elevation data collected with remote-sensing technology in order to help increase the fidelity of remote-sensing measurements to field measurements. Remote sensing, such as the high-resolution lidar used in this study, is a highly useful emerging technology. Extracted river measurements are useful for determining transport characteristics of sediments and pollutants, gas exchange rates with the atmosphere, and flood risk. For this project I selected study sites from streams and rivers in the New England region; at those sites I compared bankfull widths …

2020-2021 Faculty Senate Xxv - March 29, 2021 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.