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Demonstrators' Right To Fair Warning, Caleb Hayes-Deats

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cross, Crucifix, Culture: An Approach To The Constitutional Meaning Of Confession Symbols, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Pasquale Annicchino

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Cord (September 1, 2014)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

Next Steps In Jesuit Higher Education, Stephanie Russell

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing The Spiritual Exercises Of Saint Ignatius In Daily Life, By Kevin O'Brien, S.J., William E. Stempsey S.J.

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Inside-Out, Kathleen Shull

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.

2014-2015 Bic Teaching Guide, Marta Moore Editor

Book in Common

Teaching guide for the 2014-2015 Book-in-Common: Escape from Camp 14, by Blaine Harden.

Economic Contribution Of The Agricultural Sector To The Arkansas Economy In 2012, Leah English, Jennie Popp, Wayne Miller

AAES Research Reports and Research Bulletins

This report is the ninth in a series of reports examining agriculture’s economic contribution on the Arkansas economy. Utilizing data from the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and IMPLAN Group, LLC , the economic contribution of agriculture on the Arkansas economy was estimated for the most recent year available, 2012.

The Accidental Postmodernists: A New Era Of Skepticism In Environmental Law, Shi-Ling Hsu

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Extracting Trajectories With The Map Cube Operator, Francisco Moreno, Juan Camilo Alzate, Jes?S Hern?Ndez

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing) is a set of techniques and operators to facilitate the analysis of data that are usually stored in a specialized database known as data warehouse. Data is analyzed in order to provide information about a particular business subject called fact, for example, crimes, sales, shipments, among others. In this paper, we extend the functionality of an OLAP operator, known as map cube, with the definition and incorporation of a function called Trajectory. This function allows the analysts extract the trajectory followed by a set of facts. For example, the trajectory of crimes of each suspect, …

Design For Several Hydraulic Parameters Of A Quadruped Robot, Xuewen Rong, Yibin Li, Jian Meng, Bin Li

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

For a quadruped robot with 12 active joints driven by linear hydraulic actuators, some important parameters, such as the oil flow of the hydraulic system and the needed maximum output force of each actuator, are hard to calculate precisely with kinematics and dynamics equations. The oil flow is mainly determined by the walking speed of the quadruped robot, but also influenced by the stride frequency, gait type and the foot trajectory. This paper planned the foot trajectory with cubic polynomial firstly. Then selected optimal stride frequency referred to that of four-legged mammals and stride length according to the required walking …

Automatic Evaluation For Engineering Pathway Premier Award Winners, Wei Yu, Yunlu Zhang, Lin Gan

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Educating the K-Gray engineering community in today’s digital world requires straightforward yet flexible access to highquality educational resources. Inspires by this, we propose an automatic evaluation system for learning resources ranking in a real world digital library, Engineering Pathway (EP). The Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in engineering, applied science and math, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology, which is designed for use by K-12 and university educators and students. We model the best and most popular leaning resource objects from Premier Award Winners to recognize high-quality and non-commercial courseware designed to enhance the …

Leadership And Loneliness, Ami Rokach

International Journal of Leadership and Change

This article addresses leadership and loneliness and examines the interaction of these two constructs. The literature suggests that leaders (educational, state, business, and organizational) endure stress, alienation, loneliness, and emotional turmoil. These may lead to health problems and negatively affect social and familial relationships as well. The interaction of leadership and loneliness will be highlighted. Relevant literature will be reviewed on leadership and its characteristics and effects on those who succeed and get to the “top.” Loneliness will be examined and how it may affect people in general, and leaders in particular; the article will close with suggested strategies as …

Wall Fellows Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 2014, Coastal Carolina University

Wall Fellows Newsletter

Newsletter of the Wall Fellows Program in the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration. Mislabeled as Volume 3, Issue 1.

Vulnerability And Power In The Age Of The Anthropocene, Angela P. Harris

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

Feminist legal theorist Martha Fineman has suggested that recognition of universal human “vulnerability” should be the starting point for thinking about the state’s obligations to its citizens. This Article argues that Fineman’s concept of vulnerability is valuable for situating political and legal theory within a concern for the natural world. We live in what some scientists have dubbed the Anthropocene—an age in which our collective behavior has serious implications for the flourishing of all life on earth. The concept of “ecological vulnerability” recognizes that humans are vulnerable not only because they age, become ill, and die, but because their survival …

Dr. Carb Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying About The Feds And Love States’ Rights, Dan Strong

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

Climate change is one of the largest environmental problems the world is currently facing. At the forefront of the climate change issue is the problem of carbon emissions. Environmentalists were hopeful that a national regulatory structure would be created with the enactment of the Clean Air Act in the 1970s. Since its enactment, however, it is clear the Clean Air Act was not the solution to the national carbon emissions problem environmentalists were hoping for. With the federal government failing to act, states have taken it upon themselves to regulate carbon emissions. California, with its enactment of the California Low …

Table Of Contents And Contact Information, Editorial Board

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Animating The Mission In The First-Year Incentive Program, John Kerrigan

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Daily Devotions For The Deaf, September-December 2014

Daily Devotions for the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Council Bluffs, IA

Daily Devotions for the Deaf Finding Aid

Managing Free Trade In Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Information, And The Free Port Of Livorno, Corey Tazzara

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

In November 1644, the ship captain Sebastiane Ferro arrived at the Tuscan port of Livomo with a cargo of wine. Even before requesting the pratica of the portentry for the purpose of trade-he asked to receive the exemptions of Livomo, "to be sure that in corning onto land he not be molested either in his person or in his goods for civil debts contracted in foreign states." Technically, these exemptions were restricted to inhabitants of the city. Nonetheless, the Customs Office routinely granted them even to temporary visitors of what was Europe's premier free port, and in this case Customs …

Software Agents In Large Scale Open E-Learning: A Critical Component For The Future Of Massive Online Courses (Moocs), Roxana Bassi, Thanasis Daradoumis, Fatos Xhafa, Santi Caballé, Ardiana Sula

Jandrisevits Faculty Publications

MOOCs or massive open online courses are a recent trend in online education. They combine online resources with social tools and have unique challenges due to the large number of simultaneous participants. This paper analyzes some of the challenges in the areas of MOOC design, delivery and assessment. Then the authors present an approach using software agents to overcome some of the challenges that have been identified, as well as optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure the pedagogical effectiveness and educational quality of large scale online learning courses. This paper is a first step towards research in the usage of …

Global Exponential Stability Of Periodic Solutions For A Nicholson’S Blowflies Model With A Linear Harvesting Term, Ani Jiang

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In this paper, we study a generalized Nicholson’s blowflies model with a linear harvesting term, which is defined on the positive function space. Under proper conditions, we employ a novel proof to establish some criteria for the existence and global exponential stability of positive periodic solutions for this model. Moreover, we give an example and its numerical simulations to illustrate our main results.

Chicken Fetal Liver Dna Damage And Adduct Formation By Activation-Dependent Dna-Reactive Carcinogens And Related Compounds Of Several Structural Classes, Gary M. Williams, Jian-Dong Duan, Klaus D. Brunnemann, Michael J. Iatropoulos, Esther Vock, Ulrich Deschl

NYMC Faculty Publications

The chicken egg genotoxicity assay (CEGA), which utilizes the liver of an intact and aseptic embryo-fetal test organism, was evaluated using four activation-dependent DNA-reactive carcinogens and four structurally related less potent carcinogens or non-carcinogens. In the assay, three daily doses of test substances were administered to eggs containing 9-11-day-old fetuses and the fetal livers were assessed for two endpoints, DNA breaks using the alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay and DNA adducts using the (32)P-nucleotide postlabeling (NPL) assay. The effects of four carcinogens of different structures requiring distinct pathways of bioactivation, i.e., 2-acetylaminofluorene (AAF), aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P), …

Women After War: Weaving Nostos In Homeric Epic And In The Twenty-First Century, Corinne Ondine Pache

Classical Studies Faculty Research

While women play a circumscribed role in ancient epic, Homer's Odyssey depicts both Helen and Penelope as undergoing their own forms of homecoming, or nostos, after the Trojan War: Helen returns to her husband Menelaus after experiencing the war firsthand at Troy and a ten-year separation; Penelope stays home, but Odysseus' return is in many ways as much a challenge for her as it is for him and the Odyssey portrays her domestic ordeal as a form of heroic nostos. In this essay, I explore female ways of homecoming in the Odyssey and draw connections between Homeric heroines …

Autonomic Nervous System Activity Of Preschool-Age Children Who Stutter., Victoria Tumanova, Robin M. Jones, Anthony P. Buhr, Edward G. Conture, Tedra A. Walden, Stephen W. Porges

Communication Sciences and Disorders - All Scholarship

Purpose—The purpose of this study was to investigate potential differences in autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity to emotional stimuli between preschool-age children who do (CWS) and do not stutter (CWNS).

Methods—Participants were 20 preschool-age CWS (15 male) and 21 preschool-age CWNS (11 male). Participants were exposed to two emotion-inducing video clips (negative and positive) with neutral clips used to establish pre-and post-arousal baselines, and followed by age-appropriate speaking tasks. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) – often used as an index of parasympathetic activity – and skin conductance level (SCL) – often used as an index of sympathetic activity – were measured …

An Evaluation Of A Liquid Antimicrobial (Sal Curb®) For Reducing The Risk Of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Infection Of Naïve Pigs During Consumption Of Contaminated Feed, Scott Dee, Casey Neill, Travis Clement, Jane Christopher-Hennings, Eric A. Nelson

Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: Since its initial detection in May 2013, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) has spread rapidly throughout the US swine industry. Recently, contaminated feed was confirmed as a vehicle for PEDV infection of naïve piglets. This research provides in vivo data supporting the ability of a liquid antimicrobial product to reduce this risk.
Results: Sal CURB® (Kemin Industries, Des Moines, IA, USA) is a FDA-approved liquid antimicrobial used to control Salmonella contamination in poultry and swine diets. To test its effect against PEDV, Sal CURB®-treated feed was spiked with a stock isolate of PEDV (Ct = 25.22), which PEDV-naïve piglets …

The Art Of The Kaizen Approach For Sugar Production In Ethiopia: Lessons From The Methara Sugar Factory, Asayehgn Desta

Collected Faculty Scholarship

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) deals with fundamental organizational change, or is the great-leap approach to redesigning and retooling. It seeks to bring a radical approach to creating a breakthrough in organizations trapped in outmoded and outdated business processes. Top managers and consultants design new ways of doing things and force companies to go beyond continuous improvement of existing products, services, and processes. Though innovative, BPR is being challenged by some companies looking for a strategic remedy that will contribute to the sustainable improvement of their performance and quality, add value for their customers while minimizing cost and eliminating waste. To …

Is Creep Feeding Lambs A Profitable Undertaking?, Donald G. Ely, Endre Fink

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Creep feeding is a technique of providing feed to nursing lambs to supplement the milk they consume. Creep-fed lambs grow faster than noncreep-feds and are more aggressive in nursing ewes. This aggression stimulates greater ewe milk production which, in turn, increases creep feed intake because these lambs will be bigger at a given age.

Nonprofit Organizations And The Nevada Economy: An Analysis Of The Employment, Economic Impact, And Scope Of The Nonprofit Sector In Nevada, Jessica K. A. Word, Jaewon Lim, Carol Servino, Kenneth Lange

Lincy Institute Reports and Briefs

The Nevada nonprofit sector plays an important role in the state’s economy. This research report examines the role of nonprofit organizations in the economy and details regional differences in terms of employment and economic impact in the state.

A Proposed Reconciliation Of Stakeholder Interests In The Ge Soybean Industry And Role Of Earth Jurisprudence Principles, Kristen N. King Jaiven

Florida A & M University Law Review

The historical art of seed saving ensured farmers would have enough quality seeds for the following season. Traditional and indigenous farmers mastered seed saving techniques, saving the healthiest and strongest seeds to ensure preservation of seed diversity and adequate crop yields. To provide adequate protection and meet maximum sustainability for all interested parties, it is essential that laws governing the soybean industry consider the soybean as a stakeholder.