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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 …

“Smart” Lawyering: Integrating Technology Competence Into The Legal Practice Curriculum, Dyane L. O'Leary

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Technology has changed modern law practice. Ethics rules obligate lawyers to understand whether, when, and how to use it to deliver services. But most law schools do not incorporate the so-called “Duty of Technology Competence” into the required curriculum. Despite broad calls for legal education to make students more practice-ready, there is no clear path forward for how to weave this valuable professional skill into coursework for all students. This Article supplies one.

The legal practice course should pair technology competence with traditional legal writing and research work. Lawyers do not draft memos or perform legal research or manage caseloads …

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

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

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Enhancing Precoat Filtration Removals Of Selected Dissolved And Microbial Contaminants, Kathryn Quay

Master's Theses and Capstones

Arsenic contamination in drinking water is a worldwide public health concern. Contamination occurs from both natural and anthropogenic sources and is associated with serious acute and chronic health effects. In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) changed the maximum contaminant level (MCL) of arsenic from 50 to 10 μg/L. Because of this, there have been incentives for further research and development of cost-effective technologies to help meet these new standards, especially in small community water systems.Over the past decade, attention has turned to zero-valent iron (ZVI) as a possible arsenic removal material because of its efficient, inexpensive, and locally available …

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 …

Active Goal Recognition Design, Kevin Christopher Gall

Master's Theses and Capstones

In Goal Recognition Design (GRD), the objective is to modify a domain to facilitate early detection of the goal of a subject agent. Most previous work studies this problem in the offline setting, in which the observing agent performs its interventions before the subject begins acting. In this thesis, we generalize GRD to the online setting in which time passes and the observer's actions are interleaved with those of the subject. We illustrate weaknesses of existing metrics for GRD and propose an alternative better suited to online settings. We provide a formal definition of this Active GRD (AGRD) problem and …

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 …

The Contribution Of Tgbdp5 To Gene Regulation In The Acute Stage Of Toxoplasma, Julia Heffernan

Master's Theses and Capstones

Toxoplasmosis, caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, is a highly prevalent disease found on every content. An estimated 20-40% of the United States’ population is infected with the parasite according to IgG seroprevalence. There are two stages of Toxoplasma that cause disease, tachyzoites which cause the acute phase and the bradyzoites which cause the chronic phase. The chronic stage will persist for a life-long infection which can reactivate to tachyzoites if the host becomes immunocompromised, leading to encephalitis and heart failure. Current drug therapies clinically approved to treat Toxoplasma can only target tachyzoites and can cause adverse reactions. Therefore, the …

Validation And Optimization Of A Steady-State Moving Boundary Model For A Vapor Compression Refrigeration Cycle, Charles Klewicki

Master's Theses and Capstones

The objective of this work is to conduct physical experiments to validate and optimize a steady state moving boundary model of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle (VCRC). The experimental facility includes a controlled heat source and a VCRC system for heat rejection. Pressure, temperature, and flow measurements of the VCRC are acquired at specific points in the flow loop from which thermodynamic cycles are created and cycle integrated variables are computed.

Nine sets of experiments were conducted to train the steady state moving boundary model with respect to empirical formulations for the volumetric, isentropic, and combined efficiencies of the compressor. …

Use Of Smart Rocks To Improve Rock Slope Design, Bruma Morganna Mendonca Mendonca De Souza

Master's Theses and Capstones

For many states, rockfall presents risks of irreversible damage to motorists on highways and roads across the country. Assessing these hazards is difficult as it relies on highly empirical methods based on assumed and/or measured slope and terrain surfaces and rock parameters, which can predict unrealistic trajectories due to unreliable modeling inputs. Research undertaken at the University of New Hampshire over the last decade includes the development of Smart Rock (SR) sensors used to evaluate these events from the perspective of the falling rock. The latest SRs consist of 3D printed capsules 50.8 mm in length and 25.4 mm in …

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 …

Holistic Approach To Determine Lasting Effects Of Road Salt On Infrastructure Health, Environmental Health, And Public Safety, Annmarie Picinich

Master's Theses and Capstones

Road salt has become an increasingly unsustainable material when focusing on the economic, environmental, and social aspects, especially for a bridge system. Increasing environmental concerns and regulations have caused questioning and investigations into the repetitive use of road salt for winter maintenance. There is some incorporation of these ideas into practice, such as the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Service (NHDES) Road Salt Reduction Program. Applying excessive amounts of road salt to the roadway and surrounding walkway is necessary to maintain pedestrian and vehicle safety. With the application of considerable quantities of road salt material, costs are substantial when analyzing …

Assessing The Variability In Length Of Juvenile Atlantic Salmon In Maine Streams Through A Long-Term Electrofishing Dataset, Athena Marie Ryan

Master's Theses and Capstones

Atlantic salmon Salmo salar are an endangered migratory fish with recovery projects in their last remaining habitats in Maine focused on juvenile stocking and habitat restoration efforts. Population productivity of Atlantic salmon has been linked to size of juveniles, suggesting that conditions that facilitate growth in stream habitats are important to recovery. Broadly, the objectives of my thesis were to examine how different habitat and biological variables affect the size of juvenile parr throughout Maine and to assess long-term trends (1969 – 2017) among four drainages (East Machias, Narraguagus, Sheepscot, and Penobscot). Extensive electrofishing surveys captured ~250,000 individual Atlantic salmon …

Preliminary Investigation Into Temporal Changes In Acoustic Scattering From The Seafloor, Matthew Catoire

Master's Theses and Capstones

When examining the acoustic response of the seafloor, scattering strength is assumedto be temporally invariant. However, the state of the seafloor in terms of roughness and sediment heterogeneity is not temporally invariant. Changes in both seafloor roughness and sediment heterogeneity are known to correlate with changes in scattering strength. This thesis is a preliminary investigation into the temporal variability of scattering strength. The data for this thesis was collected in three separate experiments at two different sites: 24-30 September, 2020 offshore of New Castle Island; 02-23 October, 2020 offshore of New Castle Island; and 27 October, 2020–12 November, 2020 offshore …

Elucidating An Implicit Learning Network In Healthy Adults During Artificial Grammar Tasks, Kaila E. Cote

Master's Theses and Capstones

Implicit learning is the unconscious extraction of rules governing complex stimuli, measured through experiments such as artificial grammar tasks, and is directly related to natural language learning. While several theories address the underlying framework for implicit learning, few studies have shed light on a consensus neural network involved in implicit learning. The short-term goal of this thesis is to further elucidate the brain regions involved in implicit learning of linguistic stimuli. The long-range goal of this research program is to understand how implicit learning and the brain regions associated with it relate to language learning and treatment outcomes in individuals …

U.S East Coast Community Resilience From A Community Capitals Perspective: Application Of Indexing And Spatial Cluster Analysis, Taylor Daigle

Master's Theses and Capstones

This thesis addresses regional, state, and county-level community resiliency to disasters along the United States East Coast. Research objectives include understanding the role of vulnerability and resiliency in disaster management, measuring community resilience in a new geographical area, and identifying strengths and weaknesses in community capitals, as related to disaster management. Community resilience in this study is measured by implementing an indexing method to fourteen states (129 counties) along the U.S East Coast. The community disaster resilience index (CDRI) consists of measuring four community capitals (human, physical, social, and economic) according to the relevant disaster management activities identified in the …

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 …

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Comm-Entary, Spring 2021 - Full Issue

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Art Spaces As Third Places For Everyday Political Talk, Alexa Mcnamara

Comm-entary

Contentious subject matter is often avoided in conversation. Additionally, there are not many places in which open discussion on these topics is considered acceptable, but the country needs them. In this thesis, I discuss third places as places of gathering for various individuals and the integration of everyday political talk, natural civic discussion (Oldenburg, 1999; Kim & Kim, 2008). The data analyzed in this study consists of ten transcripts from ten interviews conducted over zoom. The result of the analysis shows that art museums do foster everyday political talk through the elements of visualization, facilitation and the environment. Visualization consists …

Living Well With Chronic Pain, Angela Balamuth

UNH Cooperative Extension

A Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP)

Saam Article, Carolyn Stoller

UNH Today Archive

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Inquiry Spring 2021, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Tom Moulton Named Unh Paul J. Holloway Entrepreneur Of The Year, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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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.

Salt Found To Preserve Shelf Life Of Alternate, Low-Cost Feed For Dairy Heifers, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

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Slavery And Universities, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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