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Game Changer, Erin Buzuvis

Faculty Scholarship

This Article celebrates the 40th anniversary of Title IX and the activists who have fought for women's equal educational opportunities. Title IX's success is due to the eternal vigilance of the law's supporters, who continue to defend it through the political process and in the courts. The Author notes that this vigilance must continue in order for the law to address persistent sex discrimination, and to guard against unwarranted sex segregation.

Redeeming And Living With Evil, Mark A. Graber

Maryland Law Review

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Algebraic Pairs Of Isometries, Jim Agler, Greg Knese, John E. Mccarthy

Mathematics Faculty Research

We consider pairs of commuting isometries that are annihilated by a polynomial. We show that the polynomial must be inner toral, which is a geometric condition on its zero set. We show that cyclic pairs of commuting isometries are nearly unitarily equivalent if they are annihilated by the same minimal polynomial.

Consensus, Disorder, And Ideology On The Supreme Court, Stefanie A. Lindquist, Paul H. Edelman, David E. Klein

Scholarship@WashULaw

Ideological models are widely accepted as the basis for many academic studies of the Supreme Court because of their power in predicting the justices' decision-making behavior. Not all votes are easily explained or well predicted by attitudes, however. Consensus in Supreme Court voting, particularly the extreme consensus of unanimity, has often puzzled Court observers who adhere to ideological accounts of judicial decision making. Are consensus and (ultimately) unanimity driven by extreme factual scenarios or extreme lower court rulings such that even the most liberal and most conservative justice can agree on the case disposition? Or are they driven by other, …

Supreme Court Prequel: Justice Stevens On The Seventh Circuit Symposium, Stefanie A. Lindquist

Scholarship@WashULaw

Justice Stevens’s retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court has occasioned numerous retrospectives on his lengthy career as a Supreme Court Justice. Yet Justice Stevens’s career began on the Seventh Circuit and his voting behavior and doctrinal positions on the circuit court provide a unique window into his judicial character and the roots of his thinking on important issues that continued to preoccupy him on the Supreme Court. In this Essay, I first analyze then-Judge Stevens’s voting behavior on the court of appeals by examining the frequency with which he wrote separate opinions, as well as his voting interagreement with his …

Procedural Wound Geometry And Blood Flow Generation For Medical Training Simulators, Rifat Aras, Yuzhong Shen, Jiang Li, David R. Holmes Iii (Ed.), Kenneth H. Wong (Ed.)

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Efficient application of wound treatment procedures is vital in both emergency room and battle zone scenes. In order to train first responders for such situations, physical casualty simulation kits, which are composed of tens of individual items, are commonly used. Similar to any other training scenarios, computer simulations can be effective means for wound treatment training purposes. For immersive and high fidelity virtual reality applications, realistic 3D models are key components. However, creation of such models is a labor intensive process. In this paper, we propose a procedural wound geometry generation technique that parameterizes key simulation inputs to establish the …

Associations Of Cardiorespiratory Fitness And Fatness With Metabolic Syndrome In Rural Women With Prehypertension., Patricia A. Hageman, Carol H. Pullen, Melody A. Hertzog, Linda S. Boeckner, Susan Noble Walker

Journal Articles: Physical Therapy

BACKGROUND: This study investigated the associations of fitness and fatness with metabolic syndrome in rural women, part of a recognized US health disparities group.

METHODS: Fitness, percentage body fat, BMI, and metabolic syndrome criteria were assessed at baseline in 289 rural women with prehypertension, ages 40-69, enrolled in a healthy eating and activity community-based clinical trial for reducing blood pressure.

RESULTS: Ninety (31%) women had metabolic syndrome, of which 70% were obese by BMI (≥30 kg/m²), 100% by percentage body fat (≥30%), and 100% by revised BMI standards (≥25 kg/m²) cited in current literature. Hierarchical logistic regression models, adjusted for …

Complexity, Innovation, And The Regulation Of Modern Financial Markets, Dan Awrey

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The intellectual origins of the global financial crisis (GFC) can be traced back to blind spots emanating from within conventional financial theory. These blind spots are distorted reflections of the perfect market assumptions underpinning the canonical theories of financial economics: modern portfolio theory, the Modigliani and Miller capital structure irrelevancy principle, the capital asset pricing model and, perhaps most importantly, the efficient market hypothesis. In the decades leading up to the GFC, these assumptions were transformed from empirically (con)testable propositions into the central articles of faith of the ideology of modern finance: the foundations of a widely held belief in …

Assessing Metacognitive Skills In Waking And Sleep: A Psychometric Analysis Of The Metacognitive, Affective, Cognitive Experience (Mace) Questionnaire, Tracey L. Kahan, Kieran T. Sullivan

Psychology

The Metacognition, Affective, Cognitive Experience (MACE) questionnaire was designed to assess metacognition across sleep and waking (Kahan & LaBerge, 1996). The present research evaluates the psychometric properties of the MACE. Data from two recent studies (N = 185) were used to assess the inter-item consistency, test-retest reliability, and factorial, convergent, and discriminant validity of the MACE. Results show that the MACE is a reliable measure with good construct validity. Exploratory factor analyses revealed one self-regulation and two monitoring factors. One monitoring factor emphasized monitoring internal conditions; the other emphasized monitoring external conditions. This factor structure is consistent with the Metacognitive …

Boston_Sound_Center, Michael Frase

Architecture Theses and Projects

This thesis questions the connection between what we hear and what we see with regards to spatial conception. The purpose is to discover the importance of sound in spatial representation and to understand the implications of sound based design.

"Summertime Is The Time For Leisure Activities, Family Time, Vacations And Getting Some Much Needed Rest And Relaxation…", Angelear D. Abram

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Determination Of Copper In Aqueous Solutions By Chelation With Diethyldithiocarbamate, Caitlin Allison

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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"At The Critical Point Of A Solution, Changes In The Reaction Rate Of A Reaction Can Occur...", Clayton Craft

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Effects Of Ions On The Activity Of Peptidyl-Trna Hydrolase, Blake Holloway

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Measuring Antioxidant Properties Through Frap, Xanthine Oxidase, And Orac Assays, Christina Lee

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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The Effects Of Stress-Reducing Interventions On Perceived Test Anxiety And Achievement Of Nursing Students, Julie Mcdaniel

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Analysis Of Critical Point Phenomena In Binary Liquid Systems, Carl Pattison

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Future Sustainability For The Uahuntsville Campus An Analysis Of 'Green' Intiatives And Their Benefits, Tiffany Webb

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Create A Matlab Simulation Of Laser Pulses Propagating Through Optical Fibers While Being Affected By Dispersion And Non-Linear Effects Using The Ssprop As A Foundation, Trevor Werline

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Flow Over A Traveling Wavy Foil With A Passively Flapping Flat Plate, Nansheng Liu, Yan Peng, Youwen Liang, Xiyun Lu

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications

Flow over a traveling wavy foil with a passively flapping flat plate has been investigated using a multiblock lattice Boltzmann equation and the immersed boundary method. The foil undergoes prescribed undulations in the lateral direction and the rigid flat plate has passive motion determined by the fluid structure interaction. This simplified model is used to study the effect of the fish caudal fin and its flexibility on the locomotion of swimming animals. The flexibility of the caudal fin is modeled by a torsion spring acting about the pivot at the conjuncture of the wavy foil and the flat plate. The …

Exploring Leadership Practices For Korean Missionary Wives In Davao City, Philippines, Kyung Ja Kim

ATS Dissertations

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Social Cognitive Functioning And Social Competence In Children And Adolescents With Spina Bifida And Hydrocephalus: Social Cognitive Neuroscience As A Model, Caitlin Reid Roache

Dissertations

The purpose of the current study was to examine social cognition in children with spina bifida and congenital hydrocephalus (SBH) and to determine whether deficits in these domains are associated with poor social competence, utilizing concepts from social cognitive neuroscience. To build upon extant literature, multi-method assessments, multi-informant data, and a developmental, biopsychosocial perspective were utilized. Distinct aspects of social competence, as defined by social performance, social skills, and social adjustment, were considered.

The current study was designed to investigate: (1) differences in social cognition between children and adolescents with SBH and the general population, (2) potential neuroanatomical predictors of …

Review Of The Mathematical Language Of Quantum Theory: From Uncertainty To Entanglement, Matthew S. Leifer

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

A book review of The Mathematical Language of Quantum Theory: From Uncertainty to Entanglement by Teiko Heinosaari and Mario Ziman.

New Invariants For Entangled States, Roman V. Buniy, Thomas W. Kephart

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

We propose new algebraic invariants that distinguish and classify entangled states. Considering qubits as well as higher spin systems, we obtained complete entanglement classifications for cases that were either unsolved or only conjectured in the literature.

Upper Bounds In The Ohtsuki-Riley-Sakuma Partial Order On 2-Bridge Knots, Scott M. Garrabrant, Jim Hoste, Patrick D. Shanahan

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

In this paper we use continued fractions to study a partial order on the set of 2-bridge knots derived from the work of Ohtsuki, Riley, and Sakuma. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for any set of 2-bridge knots to have an upper bound with respect to the partial order. Moreover, given any 2-bridge knot K we characterize all other 2-bridge knots J such that {K, J} has an upper bound. As an application we answer a question of Suzuki, showing that there is no upper bound for the set consisting of the trefoil and figure-eight knots.

Congrats You’Re Abd! Now What?, Alissa Crans

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

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Characterization Of Radially Symmetric Finite Time Blowup In Multidimensional Aggregation Equations, Andrea L. Bertozzi, John B. Garnett, Thomas Laurent

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

This paper studies the transport of a mass $\mu$ in $\mathbb{R}^d, d \geq 2,$ by a flow field $v= -\nabla K*\mu$. We focus on kernels $K=|x|^\alpha/ \alpha$ for $2-d\leq \alpha<2$ for which the smooth densities are known to develop singularities in finite time. For this range we prove the existence for all time of radially symmetric measure solutions that are monotone decreasing as a function of the radius, thus allowing for continuation of the solution past the blowup time. The monotone constraint on the data is consistent with the typical blowup profiles observed in recent numerical studies of these singularities. We prove monotonicity is preserved for all time, even after blowup, in contrast to the case $\alpha >2$ where radially symmetric solutions are known to lose monotonicity. In the case of the Newtonian potential ($\alpha=2-d$), under the assumption of radial symmetry the equation can be transformed into the inviscid Burgers equation on a half line. This enables us to prove preservation of monotonicity using the classical theory of conservation laws. In the case $2 -d < \alpha < 2$ and at the critical exponent p we exhibit initial data in $L^p$ for which the solution immediately develops a Dirac mass singularity. This extends recent work on the local ill-posedness of solutions at the critical exponent.

On Levi-Civita’S Alternating Symbol, Schouten’S Alternating Unit Tensors, Cpt, And Quantization, Evert Jan Post, Stan Sholar, Hooman Rahimizadeh, Michael Berg

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

The purpose of the present article is to demonstrate that by adopting a unifying differential geometric perspective on certain themes in physics one reaps remarkable new dividends in both microscopic and macroscopic domains. By replacing algebraic objects by tensor-transforming objects and introducing methods from the theory of differentiable manifolds at a very fundamental level we obtain a Kottler-Cartan metric-independent general invariance of the Maxwell field, which in turn makes for a global quantum superstructure for Gauss-Amp`ere and Aharonov-Bohm “quantum integrals.” Beyond this, our approach shows that postulating a Riemannian metric at the quantum level is an unnecessary concept and our …

Linear Rank Tests Of Uniformity: Understanding Inconsistent Outcomes And The Construction Of New Tests, Anna E. Bargagliotti

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

Several nonparametric tests exist to test for differences among alternatives when using ranked data. Testing for differences among alternatives amounts to testing for uniformity over the set of possible permutations of the alternatives. Well-known tests of uniformity, such as the Friedman test or the Anderson test, are based on the impact of the usual limiting theorems (e.g. central limit theorem) and the results of different summary statistics (e.g. mean ranks, marginals, and pairwise ranks). Inconsistencies can occur among statistical tests' outcomes - different statistical tests can yield different outcomes when applied to the same ranked data. In this paper, we …

Conformal Cosmology And The Pioneer Anomaly, Gabriele U. Varieschi

Physics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.