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Party Subordinance In Federal Litigation, Scott Dodson

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The Short Paper, Scott Dodson

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Curriculum Developments In American Law Schools In The Twenty-First Century, Leo P. Martinez

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The Shadows And The Fire: Three Puzzles For Civil Rights Scholars: An Essay In Honor Of Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado

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Fear Of An Undeterrable Other, Fredrick E. Vars

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America is presently fighting a war on terror and a war on sex offenders. In each, the government openly detains hundreds of individuals not for what they have done, but for what they might do. Some warn that this greatest restriction on liberty may expand to other types of people. This Article examines the risk of such expansion by putting our current wars in historical perspective. The two main conclusions are: (1) some categories of people detained in prior periods are not being detained today; and (2) the risk of expansion is real but lower than previously suggested.

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In Vitro Enrichment Of Phosphorylated Proteins From Synchronously Excysted Cryptosporidium Parvum, Ruchi Joshi

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

Cryptosporidium is an enteric protozoan parasite that causes cryptosporidiosis and there is no effective drug treatment available. Two studies were conducted. In the first, a novel protocol was developed for the rapid in vitro excystation of Cryptosporidium parvum. Rapid excystation (release of infectious sporozoites from the environmental oocyst stage) is necessary to study molecular dynamics during the early stages of Cryptosporidium development. The developed excystation assay (Joshi assay) used an HCl (pH 2.5) oocyst pretreatment instead of the bleach pretreatment that is more frequently used in excystation assays. The Joshi assay achieved >90% excystation in 10 min. This rapid, reproducible, …

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The Use Of Communication Strategies To Influence Stakeholders To Implement Food Safety Management Systems In Small Custom-Exempt Meal Plants, Shalindra Suresh Rathnasinghe

Food Safety

This exploratory study used interviews to understand the culture and communication patterns of the stakeholders, employers, and employees. Interviews revealed that the topic of Food Safety was a very sensitive one as many were reluctant to share information. The study found that direct informal communication strategies are the best method to communicate custom-exempt meat plants. These communication strategies can be used to influence food safety practices.

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Economic Analyses Of Agricultural Land-Use Change And Agro-Ecosystem Services For Waterfowl In North Dakota, Thomas Adam Zimmermann

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

Understanding the relationship between crop production and wildlife habitat in North Dakota - which contains a large portion of the Prairie Pothole Region - will be essential to the continuation of both in a region facing increasing pressure on its natural resources. This research aims to better understand the relationship through economic analysis of land-use change within the region. Utilizing yield, price and budget data for crops in North Dakota, cumulative distribution functions were constructed to compare crops between nine regions within North Dakota. This research will then be able to suggest regions where crops beneficial to wildlife habitat as …

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Impact Of Carbon Nanotubes On Bacterial Viability: Indicators, Mitigation, And Role Of Phage Shock Proteins, Tu Thi Anh Le

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

The toxicity of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to a model bacterium, Escherichia coli ATCC 8739 was investigated. Estimates of E. coli viability following treatment with SWCNTs were similar using four viability methods: plate count, galactosidase enzyme assay, LIVE/DEAD® Baclight™ assay, and RNA quantificatio. Pristine SWCNTs, carboxylic functionalized SWCNTs (SWCNT-COOHs) and hydroxyl functionalized SWCNTs (SWCNTOHs) were used to assess toxicity. Regardless of the length of SWCNTs, the toxicity was in the following order: SWCNT-OHs < SWCNTs < SWCNT-COOHs. While there was no difference in the impact of short and long SWCNT-OHs, the long pristine SWCNTs and SWCNT-COOHs were more toxic than the corresponding short SWCNTs. The viability of cells exposed to all three types of SWCNTs was greater with increasing cell density. Alterations of cell morphology ware observed after the cells were exposed to SWCNTs. Entrapment of cells in alginate and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a means to limit the antibacterial effect of SWCNTs was examined. The results showed that cell entrapment could reduce the bactericidal effects of SWCNTs. Calcium alginate and PVA provided equivalent cell protection against SWCNTs. The toxicity of SWCNTs for entrapped cells depended on the length and concentrations of SWCNTs, the presence of functional groups, and the initial cell density. Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses were used to study the molecular mechanisms by which SWCNTs induce bactericidal activity. Expression levels of genes and proteins, particularly phage shock proteins (Psp) that are known to react under membrane stress such as iv pspA, pspB, and pspC, changed following cell exposure to SWCNTs. Expression of the Psp operon was affected by the length, concentration, and functionalization of SWCNTs. Overall, this study provided multiple methods that can be used to quantify the toxicity of SWCNTs for bacterial cells. A way to mitigate the bactericidal effects of SWCNTs was identified and verified. Gene and protein expression, particularly expression of the Psp operon, were reported in cells stressed by exposure to SWCNTs.

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Beautiful Boy Soldiers: Kaoru Shintani’S Area 88 And The Negotiation Of Japanese Postwar Masculinity, Luc Chinwongs

English

This paper will examine the war manga Area 88 and its recent anime adaption. Area 88 depicts a fictional middle-eastern civil war in which a Japanese protagonist finds himself fighting as an unwilling mercenary. Area 88 is set in the cold war era, which, by necessity, must grapple with Japan’s political reality. As history professor Hiromi Mizuno explains, “…considering the strong connection that scholars and activists have found between masculinity and war, on the one hand, and femininity and peace, on the other, how postwar Japan’s masculinity has been negotiated with constitutional pacifism is an interesting and under-examined question” (105). …

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The Girl, The Film, And The Wardrobe: A Study Of Texts, Tension, And Approachability In Punk Clothing And The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo, Gina Kruschek

English

The present study investigates how the modern re-authoring of Punk clothing styles through the character of Lisbeth Salander in Steig Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, its American film adaptation, and the subsequent H&M Dragon Tattoo collection works rhetorically within fiction and reality. A close reading of the novel and hybrid semiotic analysis of the film reveal a problematic characterization of Salander that overshadows the overwhelmingly positive response to her character from readers and viewers of the film. Conclusions from a rhetorical analysis of the original H&M press release and five articles that reported on the announcement, and …

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Female Heroism And Leadership In The Anglo-Saxon Judith, Emily Bartz

English

In this paper, I argue that the Anglo-Saxon Judith frames its titular character’s simultaneous adoption of sacred femininity and masculine heroic violence as the acceptable and necessary response to despair in the face of invasion. Judith undergoes a radical gender transformation from a hyper-feminine saint to something altogether androgynous yet celebrated and thus embodies a complex form of female heroism and leadership. Furthermore, the poem reinforces Judith’s righteousness by contrasting her with King Holofernes, whose removal from power becomes an inevitable consequence of poor leadership and character. Finally, to justify Judith’s unusual status as a heroic warrior woman, the poet …

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Empowering Spaces: A Student Initiative In Language Acquisition, Jade William Sandbulte

English

A major concern for many international students is improving their spoken English, which requires engaged interaction with other speakers in a comfortable environment. This exploratory study analyzes a student-run language acquisition program to determine the extent to which it provides an empowering space for non-native speakers of English through its cultural presentations and small-group conversations. By using recorded conversations at the meetings, interviews, and surveys, this study found that the native English speakers often focused more on sustaining the conversations than providing opportunities to learn. Several strategies were noted that either encouraged or limited the engagement of non-native speakers of …

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Writing (Dirty) New Media: Technorhetorical Opacity, Chimeras, And Dirty Ontology, Steven Reginald Hammer

English

There is little doubt that emerging technologies are changing the way we act, interact, create, and consume. Yet despite increased access to these technologies, consumers of technology too seldom interrogate the politics, subjectivities, and limitations of these technologies and their interfaces. Instead, many consumers approach emerging technologies as objective tools to be consumed, and engage in creative processes uncritically. This disquisition, following the work of Hawisher, Selfe, and Selfe, seeks ways to approach the problem of a “rhetoric of technology” that uncritically praises new technologies by drawing on avant-garde art traditions and object-oriented ontology. I argue that, by following the …

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Inclusive Peer Review Activities In College Writing Classes: Autistic Students' Perspectives And Ways Of Participating, Cody Michael Kaser

English

To date, no composition research exists involving autistic college students and peer review. The literature regarding autism suggests that autistic students are likely to experience, value, and participate in peer review differently than nonautistic students. The study compared survey responses from an experimental group, autistic students, and a demographic comparison group, nonautistic students. The data suggests that autistic and nonautistic participants experience, value, and participate in peer response activities in many similar ways, with some general and specific differences supported by autism research. Generally, fewer autistic participants indicated positive experiences of peer review than nonautistic students. Minor differences in the …

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Introduction: Still Learning From New York Times V. Sullivan, Paul Horwitz

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Untangling The Mystery Of Teaching Business Organizations, Susan Pace Hamill

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Drawing on over 20 years of experience this article outlines my pedagogy for teaching Business Organizations To help students make sense out of what initially appears to be a disorganized mess I organize the course to loosely follow the historical evolution of business organizations I start with the general partnership the oldest form After explaining how and why corporate general laws evolved in the late 19th and early 20th centuries I transition to corporate law as it applies to big business I start with shareholders rights and then move to the fiduciary duties owed by the board of directors In …

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Measurement Of Non-Technical Skills Of Software Development Teams, Lisa Louise Bender

Computer Science

Software Development managers recognize that project team dynamics is a key component of the success of any project. Managers can have a project with well-defined goals, an adequate schedule, technically skilled people and all the necessary tools, but if the project team members cannot communicate and collaborate effectively with each other and with end users, then project success is at risk. Common problems with non-technical skills include dysfunctional communication, negative attitudes, uncooperativeness, mistrust, avoidance, and ineffective negotiations between team members and users. Such problems must be identified and addressed to improve individual and team performance. There are tools available that …

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A Linguistic Model For Improving Sentiment Analysis Systems, Jared Coleman Hall

Computer Science

The value of automated sentiment analysis systems is increasing with the vast amount of consumer-generated content, allowing researchers to analyze the information readily available on the World Wide Web. Much research has been done in the field of sentiment analysis, which has improved the accuracy of sentiment analysis systems. But sentiment analysis is a challenging problem, and there are many potential areas for improvement. In this thesis, we analyze two linguistic rules, and propose algorithms for these rules to be applied in sentiment analysis systems. The first rule is regarding how a sentiment analysis system can recognize and apply the …

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Mobile Applications For Viewing Price And Load Of Power Data From New York Independent System Operator, Nimish Gupta

Computer Science

In New York, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) supervises the wholesale electrical market and collects different kinds of data, including price and load data, which are available on the NYISO’s website. These data are not available on mobile and tablet devices, and the NYISO website does not provide the ability to render customized reports which would allow the user to filter and manipulate the data for effective searches, analyses, and visualization. To overcome these problems, a mobile application was developed. This application not only allowed the users to effectively browse through the website’s contents, but also empowered the …

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Smart Task Scheduling For A Truck Company, Pooja Gautam

Computer Science

The truck scheduling system is a web-based application which will facilitate online truck activities. The objective of the application is to provide the truck system with an automated computerized tool, which will be helpful for the associated users to manage their requirements to find the shipper’s best routes and alternative routes from the available carriers. The system will be a highly robust and user-friendly tool that aims to achieve maximum user satisfaction. Text mining has been used to extract the data from email, i.e., an unstructured data source, and to store the data in a structured form, i.e., in RDBMS, …

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A Data Mining Approach To Radiation Hybrid Mapping, Raed Seetan

Computer Science

The task of mapping markers from Radiation Hybrid (RH) mapping experiments is typically viewed as equivalent to the traveling-salesman problem, which has combinatorial complexity. As an additional problem, experiments commonly result in some unreliable markers that reduce the overall map quality. Due to the large numbers of markers in current radiation hybrid populations, the use of the data mining techniques becomes increasingly important for reducing both the computational complexity and the impact of noise of the original data. In this dissertation, a clustering-based approach is proposed for addressing both the problem of filtering unreliable markers (framework maps) and the problem …

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Mining Frequent Coherent Patterns From Weighted Graphs, Syed Kutub Uddin Ahmed

Computer Science

Current research on network analysis; such as community detection, pattern mining and many other graph mining application mostly focus on large social or biological networks. Such experiments may find interesting patterns that helps us to understand the unknown relationship within the network. Sometimes the size of the input networks are so big that it needs an efficient algorithm to overcome the time and space complexities. In this paper we modify an existing algorithm that finds the maximal patterns from a set of input networks. Maximal patterns are those patterns that are not part of any frequent patterns. We introduce a …

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Semantic-Based Publish/Subscribe System In Social Network, Farzana Jahan

Computer Science

The publish/subscribe model has become a prevalent paradigm for building distributed notification services by decoupling the publishers and the subscribers from each other. The semantics-based publish/subscribe system allows highly expressive descriptions of subscriptions and publications and thus is more appropriate for content dissemination when a finer level of granularity is necessary. In this paper we have designed and implemented a semantic-based publish/subscribe system that can be adapted into social networks where thousands of people can share their common interests through publications and subscriptions. We have described our ontology, defined publishers’ and subscribers’ data semantics or schema, provided a matching algorithm, …

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Implementation Of A Clonal Selection Algorithm, Srikanth Valluru

Computer Science

Some of the best optimization solutions were inspired by nature. Clonal selection algorithm is a technique that was inspired from genetic behavior of the immune system, and is widely implemented in the scientific and engineering fields. The clonal selection algorithm is a population-based search algorithm describing the immune response to antibodies by generating more cells that identify these antibodies, increasing its affinity when subjected to some internal process. In this paper, we have implemented the artificial immune network using the clonal selection principle within the optimal lab system. The basic working of the algorithm is to consider the individuals of …

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Best Practices Of Erp Implementation, Rahul Puri

Computer Science

Today Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become a fundamental necessity for the organization. It serves many functional areas and many industries in an integrated fashion, trying to automate operations from inventory control, supply chain management, sales support, manufacturing production as well as scheduling, financial accounting and cost accounting, customer relationship management and human resources. However, successful implementation and deployment of ERP systems is a challenging task which when not executed successfully will not serve the purpose for which it is being implemented. The objective of the study is to examine and analyze the best practices that have to be adopted …

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An Interactive Visualization System For A Multi-Level View Of Opinion Mining Results, Karan Chitkara

Computer Science

Products are purchased and sold on a daily basis and people tend to critique on products they purchase. Those who want to buy a product will read reviews on that product given by others before buying; likewise those who have already bought a product will write a review on it. This paper presents a technique for visualizing data that comes from reviews given online for different products. My contribution to this project is to create a tool and process the tagged files generated with the help of machine learning. This project also focuses on the implementation of Semantic matching which …

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Improved Genetic Programming Techniques For Data Classification, Naila Shikri Al-Madi

Computer Science

Evolutionary algorithms are one category of optimization techniques that are inspired by processes of biological evolution. Evolutionary computation is applied to many domains and one of the most important is data mining. Data mining is a relatively broad field that deals with the automatic knowledge discovery from databases and it is one of the most developed fields in the area of artificial intelligence. Classification is a data mining method that assigns items in a collection to target classes with the goal to accurately predict the target class for each item in the data. Genetic programming (GP) is one of the …

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A New Coupling Metric: Combining Structural And Semantic Relationships, Mamdouh Khalaf Alenezi

Computer Science

Maintaining object-oriented software is problematic and expensive. Earlier research has revealed that complex relationships among object-oriented software entities are key reasons that make maintenance costly. Therefore, measuring the strength of these relationships has become a requirement to develop proficient techniques for software maintenance. Coupling, a measure of the interdependence among software entities, is an important property for which many software metrics have been defined. It is widely agreed that the level of coupling in a software product has consequences for its maintenance. In order to understand which aspects of coupling affect quality or other external attributes of software, this dissertation …

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Simple Identity Manager, Sunil Kolluru

Computer Science

Identity management is a key area for any enterprise. Maintaining user profiles, including e-mail, passwords, and other personal information, and providing a way to manage them is ubiquitous for any company. Specifically, one could not rule out the necessity of basic operations, such as creating a user profile, modifying it, changing the password, finding/resetting a forgotten password, finding a forgotten userID, and enabling/disabling a user account. Identity management is observed on any website that needs credentials to login. Companies are investing millions of dollars in identity management products because, the corporations are aware that it is inevitable. This paper presents …

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Party Subordinance In Federal Litigation, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

The Short Paper, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

Curriculum Developments In American Law Schools In The Twenty-First Century, Leo P. Martinez

Faculty Scholarship

The Shadows And The Fire: Three Puzzles For Civil Rights Scholars: An Essay In Honor Of Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado

Essays, Reviews, and Shorter Works

Fear Of An Undeterrable Other, Fredrick E. Vars

Articles

In Vitro Enrichment Of Phosphorylated Proteins From Synchronously Excysted Cryptosporidium Parvum, Ruchi Joshi

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

The Use Of Communication Strategies To Influence Stakeholders To Implement Food Safety Management Systems In Small Custom-Exempt Meal Plants, Shalindra Suresh Rathnasinghe

Food Safety

Economic Analyses Of Agricultural Land-Use Change And Agro-Ecosystem Services For Waterfowl In North Dakota, Thomas Adam Zimmermann

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

Impact Of Carbon Nanotubes On Bacterial Viability: Indicators, Mitigation, And Role Of Phage Shock Proteins, Tu Thi Anh Le

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

Beautiful Boy Soldiers: Kaoru Shintani’S Area 88 And The Negotiation Of Japanese Postwar Masculinity, Luc Chinwongs

English

The Girl, The Film, And The Wardrobe: A Study Of Texts, Tension, And Approachability In Punk Clothing And The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo, Gina Kruschek

English

Female Heroism And Leadership In The Anglo-Saxon Judith, Emily Bartz

English

Empowering Spaces: A Student Initiative In Language Acquisition, Jade William Sandbulte

English

Writing (Dirty) New Media: Technorhetorical Opacity, Chimeras, And Dirty Ontology, Steven Reginald Hammer

English

Inclusive Peer Review Activities In College Writing Classes: Autistic Students' Perspectives And Ways Of Participating, Cody Michael Kaser

English

Introduction: Still Learning From New York Times V. Sullivan, Paul Horwitz

Articles

Untangling The Mystery Of Teaching Business Organizations, Susan Pace Hamill

Articles

Measurement Of Non-Technical Skills Of Software Development Teams, Lisa Louise Bender

Computer Science

A Linguistic Model For Improving Sentiment Analysis Systems, Jared Coleman Hall

Computer Science

Mobile Applications For Viewing Price And Load Of Power Data From New York Independent System Operator, Nimish Gupta

Computer Science

Smart Task Scheduling For A Truck Company, Pooja Gautam

Computer Science

A Data Mining Approach To Radiation Hybrid Mapping, Raed Seetan

Computer Science

Mining Frequent Coherent Patterns From Weighted Graphs, Syed Kutub Uddin Ahmed

Computer Science

Semantic-Based Publish/Subscribe System In Social Network, Farzana Jahan

Computer Science

Implementation Of A Clonal Selection Algorithm, Srikanth Valluru

Computer Science

Best Practices Of Erp Implementation, Rahul Puri

Computer Science

An Interactive Visualization System For A Multi-Level View Of Opinion Mining Results, Karan Chitkara

Computer Science

Improved Genetic Programming Techniques For Data Classification, Naila Shikri Al-Madi

Computer Science

A New Coupling Metric: Combining Structural And Semantic Relationships, Mamdouh Khalaf Alenezi

Computer Science

Simple Identity Manager, Sunil Kolluru

Computer Science