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The Effect Of Fluid Periodization On Athletic Performance Outcomes In American Football Players, Christopher W. Morris

Theses and Dissertations--Kinesiology and Health Promotion

For decades strength and conditioning professionals have been seeking optimal training volumes and intensities to yield maximum performance outcomes without the onset of injury. Unfortunately, current studies apply experimental training techniques without considering the individuals’ response to the imposed training load. Due to the vast genetic variability and extraneous environmental factors that affect one’s ability to recover, results from such studies are controversial and inconclusive. Athlete monitoring systems offer an objective assessment that is purported to evaluate an individual’s physiological readiness to adapt to an overload stimulus and thus allow for daily manipulations in training loads (i.e., fluid periodization). However, …

The Romantic Author And The Romance Writer: Resisting Gendered Concepts Of Creativity, Rebecca Tushnet

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Dominant narratives of creativity regularly expect female-associated forms of creativity to be provisioned naturally without need for the economic incentives provided by exclusive rights, just like housework and childcare. Even as the concept of Romantic authorship has come under sustained analytic assault, its challengers often look elsewhere–to the kinds of creativity in which men are more likely to participate–to find models of situated, always-influenced authorship. In this chapter, I examine one variant of the problem, in which certain arguments about copyright discount the value of forms that are predominantly produced and enjoyed by women. But creative works in these oft-denigrated …

High Technology, Consumer Privacy, And U.S. National Security, Laura K. Donohue

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Documents released over the past year detailing the National Security Agency’s (“NSA”) telephony metadata collection program and interception of international content under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) implicated U.S. high technology companies in government surveillance. The result was an immediate, and detrimental, impact on U.S. corporations, the economy, and U.S. national security.

The first Snowden documents, printed on June 5, 2013, revealed that the government had served orders on Verizon, directing the company to turn over telephony metadata under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. The following day, The Guardian published classified slides detailing how the NSA had …

A Deer In Headlights: The Supreme Court, Lgbt Rights, And Equal Protection, Nan D. Hunter

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this essay, I argue that the problems with how courts apply Equal Protection principles to classifications not already recognized as suspect reach beyond the most immediate example of sexual orientation. Three structural weaknesses drive the juridical reluctance to bring coherence to this body of law: two doctrinal and one theoretical. The first doctrinal problem is that the socio-political assumptions that the 1938 Supreme Court relied on in United States v. Carolene Products, Inc. to justify strict scrutiny for “discrete and insular minorities” have lost their validity. In part because of Roe v. Wade-induced PTSD, the courts have …

Precipice Regulations And Perverse Incentives: Comparing Historic Preservation Designation And Endangered Species Listing, J. Peter Byrne

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The insight upon which this article is built is that the common structures of these two legal regimes create incentives toward destroying the resources they seek to protect. The shift from legal freedom to exploit resources to strict limitation on property modification and the lengthy and public process to designate or list specific resources for protection provide the motive and the opportunity to legally frustrate the application of the statutes. This article seeks to understand how these perverse incentives are created and how they can be lessened. The procedural and substantive provisions of both legal regimes have evolved to reduce …

The Normative Authority Of The World Health Organization, Lawrence O. Gostin, Devi Sridhar, Daniel Hougendobler

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The World Health Organization (WHO) was born after the devastation of World War II, as a normative agency endowed with unprecedented constitutional powers. But even as it has achieved stunning successes, such as the eradication of smallpox, it has failed to live up to the exalted expectations of the postwar health and human rights movement e exemplified most recently by its inadequate response to the Ebola epidemic. Our aim is to offer innovative ideas for restoring the Organization to its leadership position by exercising its normative authority, even as it faces a crowded and often chaotic global health architecture. Before …

Equality, Centralization, Community, And Governance In Contemporary Education Law, Eloise Pasachoff

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

A response to Robert Garda, Searching for Equity Amid a System of Schools: The View from New Orleans, 42 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 613 (2015).

State-Owned Enterprises In Singapore: Historical Insights Into A Potential Model For Reform, Cheng-Han Tan, Dan W. Puchniak, Umakanth Varottil

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article argues that the Singapore GLC Model is so closely intertwined with Singapore’s idiosyncratic history and unique regulatory culture that, although the model has been extremely successful within Singapore, transplanting it to China could be difficult. The article also explores the extent to which the success of the Singapore GLC Model and China’s ambition to emulate it challenge notions that corporate governance systems are converging towards a market-oriented (American) model of the shareholder centric corporation and the extent to which the success of the Singapore GLC Model challenges the basic conception that private enterprise rather than the state is …

A Theoretical Way To Determine Gamma-Ray Mass Attenuation Coefficients Of Materials, Eli̇f Ebru Ermi̇ş, Ercan Pi̇li̇çer, Cüneyt Çeli̇ktaş

Turkish Journal of Physics

The gamma-ray mass attenuation coefficients of various absorber materials such as Ag, Al, Au, Bakelite, Cu, Fe, Pb, Plexiglas, Si, Sn, water, and Zn were determined theoretically at different gamma-ray energies and different absorber thicknesses in order to investigate how the number of gamma photons and their energies affect the calculation of mass attenuation coefficients of the absorbers since no study such a comprehensive work here was encountered. For this purpose, the FLUKA Monte Carlo (MC) and XCOM programs were used. Calculated coefficients were compared to the literature values and found to agree well with them. The FLUKA MC program …

Polaron Effects On The Second-Harmonic Generation In Asymmetrical Semiexponential Quantum Wells, Bo Xiao, Kangxian Guo, Sen Mou, Zhongmin Zhang

Turkish Journal of Physics

Polaron effects on the second-harmonic generation (SHG) in asymmetrical semiexponential quantum wells (ASEQWs) are investigated theoretically. By using the framework of the compact-density-matrix approach and iterative method, the analytical expression of the SHG coefficients in ASEQWs is presented. Numerical results are illustrated for a typical GaAs/AlGaAs. By considering the electron--LO--phonon interaction (ELOPI), the energy levels and the wave functions of an electron confined in ASEQWs are obtained. It is found that whether we consider the ELOPI or not, the incident photon frequency $\omega$ and parameters $U_0$ and $\sigma$ also affect the SHG coefficient obviously.

Synthesis And Properties Of A Spinel Cathode Material For Lithium Ion Battery With Flat Potential Plateau, Ahmed Abdulrahman Ahmed Al-Tabbakh, Norlida Kamarulzaman, Aseel Al-Zubaidi

Turkish Journal of Physics

A potential cathode material for lithium ion battery was synthesised by combustion reaction. The thermal behaviour of the as-synthesised precursor was measured using a thermogravimetric analyser and the range of calcination temperature from 500 $^{\circ}$C to 800 $^{\circ}$C was determined. X-ray diffraction analysis showed that all calcined powders crystallised in the cubic spinel structure of the $Fd\bar{3}m$ space group. The particle size distributions and morphologies of the powders were obtained using a particle size analyser and scanning electron microscope. The effect of calcination temperature on the electrochemical performance was investigated using galvanostatic charge/discharge measurements. The potential profiles of charge and …

Symmetry And The Order Of Events In Time: The Thermodynamics Of Blackbodies Composed Of Positive Or Negative Masssymmetry And The Order Of Events In Time: The Thermodynamics Of Blackbodies Composed Of Positive Or Negative Mass, Randy Wayne

Turkish Journal of Physics

I have previously proposed a discrete symmetry called CPM (charge-parity-mass) symmetry that defines matter as having positive mass and antimatter as having negative mass-both being involved in processes that proceed forward in time. I have generalized the second law of thermodynamics to describe and predict the order of events in time that take place in reversible thermodynamic systems composed of positive or negative mass. Here I extend the CPM symmetry to irreversible thermo-optical radiation systems characterized by the Stefan-Boltzmann law, Planck's blackbody radiation law, and Einstein's law of specific heat. The laws of radiation analyzed in terms of CPM symmetry …

Crystal Dynamics Of Zinc Chalcogenides I: An Application To Znscrystal Dynamics Of Zinc Chalcogenides I: An Application To Zns, Jay Prakash Dubey, Raj Kishor Tiwari, Kripa Shankar Upadhyaya, Pramod Kumar Pandey

Turkish Journal of Physics

A van der Waals three body force rigid shell model (VTRSM) developed earlier for NaCl and CsCl structure was expanded by us for zinc blende structure (ZBS). This model includes the effect of three body interactions and van der Waals interactions in the rigid shell model where short-range interactions were considered up to the second neighbor. Our model thus developed was applied to study the phonon dispersion curves, Debye temperature variation, two phonon Raman/IR spectra, and anharmonic elastic properties of ZnS. Our results are in good agreement with the measured data wherever available.

Multiwave Solutions Of Fractional 4th And 5th Order Burgers Equationsmultiwave Solutions Of Fractional 4th And 5th Order Burgers Equations, Emad A-B. Abdel-Salam, Gamal Fargahly Hassan

Turkish Journal of Physics

Fractional 4th and 5th order Burgers equations were studied by improving the generalized Exp-function method. The chief aim here was to discuss single-wave, double-wave, three-wave, and four-wave solutions for the space-time fractional (STF), time-fractional (TF), and space-fractional (SF) 4th and 5th order Burgers equations. The arbitrariness of the fractional orders allows much richer structures. It was observed that the wave amplitude of STF and SF Burgers equations is directly proportional to the noninteger derivative order, but the wave amplitude of TF Burgers equations is inversely proportional to the noninteger derivative order. From the graphical study of the obtained solution, a …

A Comparative Study: Synthetic Dyes As Photosensitizers For Dye-Sensitized \\Solar Cellsa Comparative Study: Synthetic Dyes As Photosensitizers For Dye-Sensitized \\Solar Cells, Amal M. Al-Kahlout, Hatem S. El-Ghamri, Naji Al Dahoudi, Taher M. El-Agez, Sofyan A. Taya, Monzir S. Abdel-Latif

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this paper, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated using a zinc oxide (ZnO) semiconducting layer and different synthetic dyes. Eight different synthetic dyes were used to fabricate the DSSCs. Nanocrystalline ZnO powder was coated on transparent conducting fluorine-doped tin oxide glass using the doctor blade method to form a thin layer. The absorption spectra of the synthetic dyes were investigated. DSSCs were characterized with $J$-$V$ characteristic curves. The parameters reflecting the cell performance were calculated. The results revealed that eosin Y dye corresponds to the highest conversion efficiency. The dependence of the sintering temperature and the thicknesses of the …

Nanocrystalline Nio Structure: Preferred Oriented Growthnanocrystalline Nio Structure: Preferred Oriented Growth, Ali Rahmati, Soheila Mardani

Turkish Journal of Physics

Nickel oxide (NiO) nanostructures were deposited on Si (100), potassium bromide (KBr), and glass slide substrates at room temperature by the evaporation technique. The prepared samples were annealed at temperatures of 400 $^{\circ}$C and 600 $^{\circ}$C in air atmosphere. The structure, morphology, crystalline phase, optical properties, and chemical bonding of nanocrystalline nickel oxide were investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-visible absorption spectrum, and FT-IR spectroscopy. XRD results and SEM images showed that nickel oxide nanoparticles have preferred orientation with uniform size distribution. The as-deposited films showed preferred orientation (texture) growth. As the films were annealed, the …

External Magnetic Field Effect On Bifacial Silicon Solar Cell''S Electric Power And Conversion Efficiencyexternal Magnetic Field Effect On Bifacial Silicon Solar Cell''S Electric Power And Conversion Efficiency, Issa Zerbo, Martial Zoungrana, Idrissa Sourabie, Adama Ouedraogo, Bernard Zouma, Dieudonne Joseph Bathiebo

Turkish Journal of Physics

This article presents a modelling study of external magnetic field effect on a bifacial silicon solar cell's electric power and conversion efficiency. After the resolution of the magnetotransport equation and continuity equation of excess minority carriers, we calculate the photocurrent density and the photovoltage and then we deduce the solar cell's electric power before discussing the influence of the magnetic field on those electrical parameters. Using the electric power curves versus junction dynamic velocity we determine the maximum electric power, the operating point of the solar cell, and the conversion efficiency according to magnetic field intensity. The numerical data show …

Sfp Effect On Majorana Type Solar Neutrinos In The Presence Of Nonstandard Neutrino Interactionssfp Effect On Majorana Type Solar Neutrinos In The Presence Of Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions, Deni̇z Yilmaz

Turkish Journal of Physics

Assuming neutrinos are Majorana particles, neutrino oscillation is examined in the case of spin flavor precession (SFP) and nonstandard neutrino interaction (NSI). It is seen that the combined effect of them (SFP and NSI) is not ignorable for the neutrino oscillation.

Reward-Based Decision Signals In Parietal Cortex Are Partially Embodied, Jan Kubanek, Lawrence H. Snyder

Open Access Publications

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Metastatic Melanoma – A Review Of Current And Future Treatment Options, Emanual Maverakis, Lynn A. Cornelius, Glen M. Bowen, Tiffany Phan, Falin B. Patel, Sarah Fitzmaurice, Young He, Barbara Burrall, Christopher Duong, April M. Kloxin, Hawa Sultani, Reason Wilken, Steve R. Martinez, Forum Patel

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Construction And Evaluation Of Novel Rhesus Monkey Adenovirus Vaccine Vectors, Peter Abbink, Lori F. Maxfield, David Ng'ang'a, Erica N. Borducchi, M Justin Iampletro, Christine A. Bricault, Jeffrey E. Teigler, Stephen Blackmore, Lily Parenteau, Kshitij Wagh, Scott A. Handley, Guoyan Zhao, Herbert W. Virgin, Bette Korber, Dan H. Barouch

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Reassessment Of The Role Of Aromatic Amino Acid Hydroxylases And The Effect Of Infection By Toxoplasma Gondii On Host Dopamine, Zi T. Wang, Steve Harmon, Karen L. O'Malley, L David Sibley

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A Genetically Modified Adenoviral Vector With A Phage Display-Derived Peptide Incorporated Into Fiber Fibritin Chimera Prolongs Survival In Experimental Glioma, Julius W. Kim, J. Robert Kane, Jacob S. Young, Alan L. Chang, Deepak Kanojia, Ramin A. Morshed, Jason Miska, Atique U. Ahmed, Irina V. Balyasnikova, Yu Han, Lingjiao Zhang, David T. Curiel, Maciej S. Lesniak

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Informatics For Rna Sequencing: A Web Resource For Analysis On The Cloud, Malachi Griffith, Jason R. Walker, Nicholas C. Spies, Benjamin J. Ainscough, Obi L. Griffith

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Drosophila Muller F Elements Maintain A Distinct Set Of Genomic Properties Over 40 Million Years Of Evolution, Elaine R. Mardis, Sarah C.R. Elgin, Et Al

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Optodynamic Simulation Of Β-Adrenergic Receptor Signalling, Edward R. Siuda, Jordan G. Mccall, Ream Al-Hasani, Gunchul Shin, Sung Il Park, Martin J. Schmidt, Sonya L. Anderson, William J. Planer, John A. Rogers, Michael R. Bruchas

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Fast And Efficient Image Reconstruction For High Density Diffuse Optical Imaging Of The Human Brain, Xue Wu, Adam T. Eggebrecht, Silvina L. Ferradal, Joseph P. Culver, Hamid Dehghani

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Tbx6 Null Variants And A Common Hypomorphic Allele In Congenital Scoliosis, H. Al-Kateb, S. Kulkarni, Et Al

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Automatic Analysis (Aa): Efficient Neuroimaging Workflows And Parallel Processing Using Matlab And Xml, Rhodri Cusack, Alejandro Vicente-Grabovetsky, Daniel J. Mitchell, Conor J. Wild, Tibor Auer, Annika C. Linke, Jonathan E. Peelle

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Detailed Phenotypic And Molecular Analyses Of Genetically Modified Mice Generated By Crispr-Cas9-Mediated Editing, Bijal A. Parikh, Diana L. Beckman, Swapneel J. Patel, J. Michael White, Wayne M. Yokoyama

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