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Proof Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: A Balanced Retributive Account, Alec Walen

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Comparative Jury Procedures: What A Small Island Nation Teaches The United States About Jury Reform, Kenneth S. Klein

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Choosing Among Imprecise American State Parentage Laws, Jeffrey A. Parness

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Death In The City: Gorman’S Flawed Application Of The Direct Action Statute To Insured Political Subdivisions, Grant Tolbird

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Policing Charitable Organizations: Whose Responsibility Is It?, Maxwell B. Kallenberger

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mother Courage And Her Children: An Exploration Of The Power Of Gestus And New War Imagery In An Already Highly Active Visual World, Michael J. Despars

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Preschool Creative Drama: A Curriculum And Its Effects On Learning, Erin Kelli Lindberg

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between New Nurses Who Volunteer And The Caring Behavior New Nurses Exhibit In The Practice Setting, One Year Post Graduation, Nicolette Fiore-Lopez

Theses & Dissertations

Volunteering is engaged in by millions world-wide and nurses comprise a significant portion of those who provide their professional talents, unpaid, to the underserved in local, national and international efforts. Nurses who have engaged in volunteer activities anecdotally describe personally transforming experiences gained through their efforts and for many nurses volunteering becomes part of their professional mandate. Although many social disciplines have studied volunteering, to date there has been a paucity of research on nurses who volunteer. The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of novice nurses who volunteer and determine the influence of volunteering and associated …

Common Law Fundamentals Of The Right To Abortion, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Facticity And Transcendence Across The Disciplines: Phenomenology And The Promise, Neal Deroo

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

This paper begins from one of the most commonly found questions in phenomenology, “What is Phenomenlogy?”, to argue that phenomenology is a trans-disciplinary approach to engaging with the products of human culture. This approach is characterized by paying particular attention to the distinction between facticity and transcendence within “lived experience” so as to help us better articulate and evaluate the promises that animate every human institution. Such a task necessarily requires inter-disciplinary input and helps us engage in our lives—in our shared cultural life—differently.

Career Success Of Underrepresented Minority Groups, Lavonne D. Slaton

Student Scholarship

This study examines how individual experiences influence career success. In contrast with previous researchers' definitions of career success, this research is intended to focus on a broader range of subjective career success criteria by focusing on individual experiences and the fact that career success means whatever the individual under consideration defines it as. A rigorous qualitative study based on surveys and interviews with 38 individuals including underrepresented minorities was used to explore their definition of career success, their education, transition into the workforce, diversity, workforce experience, and what fostered or hindered their career success. The research revealed five characteristics common …

To Win Wars, Correct The Army's Political Blind Spot, Joseph Roger Clark

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

An Interview With David H.Petraeus, General (Usa Retired), Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

A Systematic Overview Of Learning Analytics In Higher Education, Lin Zhong

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

Learning analytics has been an emerging trend in education especially in higher education. This study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of learning analytics in higher education through an overview of current research topics of learning analytics in higher education, significant results of previous studies, and implications in future research. Results show that research topics of learning analytics in higher education fall into five categories: learning, teaching, administration, technology development, and digital citizenship. More studies are required in learning prediction and data variety.

The Effect Of Indoor Environmental Quality On Occupant's Perception Of Performance In Old Student Dormitories Of University Of Malaya / Chu Kok Wei, Kok Wei Chu

Student Works (2010-2019)

It is known that the people are spending most of their time indoors and therefore the occupants' performance and well-being are greatly affected by the various aspect of indoor environmental quality. Academic achievement loss occurred in the institutions is the result of stress which causes low achievement of academic excellence. Dissatisfaction and excess workload may result to some extent of stress. This study documented the essential aspects of the indoor environment which has received the lowest satisfaction from the building users and the factors which is the most important to be considered by the building users. For the purpose of …

Students' Perception Towards Thermal Sensation In Libraries / Chen Sin Yee, Sin Yee Chen

Student Works (2010-2019)

Recently, the effect of thermal sensation found to greatly impacted on the outcome or productivity of work within an area. Based on the thermal environment data, the air temperature and mean radiant temperature found to be in compliance with the standard stated, but the percentage rate of relative humidity revealed that were higher than standard, whereas the air velocity has reported were lower than standard. On the other hand, the results shown from relevant parameters in perceived thermal sensation, i.e. the level of coldness (air temperature and mean radiant temperature), the level of humidity (relative humidity) and the level of …

A Regional Approach To Analysis Of Food Security Framework And Policies Of The Economic Community Of West African States (Ecowas), Hannah Elizabeth Shear

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Food security is always a concern for consumers, but especially for those in West Africa, where the population of food insecure people has continued to grow over the past decade despite attempts by initiatives such as the World Food Program and the establishment of Millennium Development Goals. The people of West Africa are subject to repetitive natural disasters and are often in political upheaval. Many economic policies have been established to mitigate the impact that production disasters have on the consumers; one of these policies is the utilization of regional food reserves.

In 2010, the Economic Community of West African …

Analysis Of Ac/Ds Activation Tagged Mutants In Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum), Ipeleng Randome

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a crop of immense economic and nutritional importance worldwide and also a good model organism for genomic studies of other dicot species. The recent completion of the tomato genome sequence is a great milestone towards learning about the tomato genome. Elucidation of the function of the different genes using different functional genomic tools is therefore important in adding to this resource. To this end, we have developed an Ac-Ds transposon ‘activation tagging’ (ATag) system to be able to transpose transposon inserts, bearing a strong 35S-enhancer element, all around the genome. An Ac-Ds ATag construct was used …

Vol 60 #6, Amadee Ricketts

MPLA Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Cnh-Cny Pricing Differential: Role Of Fundamentals, Contagion And Policy, Michael Funke, Chang Shu, Xiaoqiang Cheng, Sercan Eraslan

Documents

No abstract provided.

Disaggregating The Effect Of Drought And Heat Stress During Flowering On Spikelet Fertility In Rice, Lisa Straussberger

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Due to rice’s wide geographic distribution, extending from 50°N to 35°S, rice is

forecasted to be the most vulnerable crop to warming global climates. Previous studies have

predicted lower rice yields and increasing rice yield variability due to higher frequencies of heat

stress events, and a higher variability in precipitation patterns due to global warming. As such,

understanding the effects of drought and heat stress intensity and frequency on rice yields is of

upmost importance to feeding the growing global population.

Given that drought and high-temperature stress often occur together, it is essential to

disaggregate the two individual stressors and …

Comparison Robustness Of Automatic Voltage Regulator For Synchronous Generator Using Neural Network And Neuro - Fuzzy Controllers, Abdulrahim Thiab, Yasir Thaier Haider

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Neuro - Fuzzy controllers can be used as intelligent controllers to control non-linear dynamic systems through learning, which can easily accommodate the non-linearity’s, time dependencies, model uncertainty and external disturbances. Modern power systems are complex and non-linear and their operating conditions can vary over a wide range. The Nonlinear Auto-Regressive Moving Average (NARMA-L2) model system is proposed as an effective neural networks controller model to achieve the desired robust Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) for Synchronous Generator (SG) to maintain constant terminal Voltage. The essential part of Neuro-Fuzzy comes from a common framework called adaptive networks, …

Intelligent Neural Network With Greedy Alignment For Job-Shop Scheduling, Fatin I., Safanah M. Raafat

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Job-Shop Scheduling (JSS) processes have highly complex structure in terms of many criteria. Because there is no limitation in the number of the process and there are many alternative scheduling. In JSS, each order that is processed on different machines has its own process and process order. It is very important to put these processes into a sequence according to a certain order. In addition, some constraints must be considered in order to obtain the appropriate tables. In this paper, a 3-layers Feed Forward Backpropagation Neural Network (FFBNN) has been used for two different purposes, the first one task is …

Iris Recognition-Based Security System With Canny Filter, Hassan Jaleel

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Image identification plays a great role in industrial, remote sensing, and military applications. It is concerned with the generation of a signature to the image. The human iris recently has attracted of biometric-based identification and verification research and development community. This iris is so unique that no two irises are alike, even among identical twins in the entire human population. In this work we propose a security system based on Iris biometric feature extraction. The focus was on the eye image, which is devoid of the eyelid and eyelashes that is done by using a camera which has the ability …

Thermocouples Data Linearization Using Neural Network, Karam M. Z.

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Thermocouples are usually used for measuring temperatures in steel industry, gas turbine, diesel engine and many industrial processes. Thermocouple usually have nonlinear Temperature-Voltage relationship (mV=f(T˚)). However, on the monitoring side, it is required to have the inverse relationship [T˚=f-1(mV)] to determined the actual temperature sensed by the thermocouple. In this work the neural network is fully utilized to represent the required inverse nonlinear relationship of different and most popular thermocouples (K, J, B) Types. Levenberg Marquardt is used as learning process to find these neural networks. It is found that each type of thermocouples under test can be represented by …

Managing Windows Through Sccm, Jared Nikora

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The premise of the project is to become familiar with and use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to manage all campus computers throughout their lifecycle and become proficient in tasks associated with computer management. This process will include creating a working computer image that can be used for all computer models and deploying this image to all campus machines that need it. This standard image will then be used for all computer models but will also allow for modifications as new drivers/software/updates become available. A large portion of this project will deal with using SCCM to create a working computer …

Maintain Reporting Integrity In Sql Server Reporting Services, Sanketh Pillamari

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

This project involves implementing a database management system. This process interprets modifying existing stored procedures, identifying the component part of the procedure requiring modification writing a new SQL code. The interpretation process also includes mapping document for the new database, testing and displaying results on a GUI. As a result, there are a number of reports will cease to work properly through maintaining reporting integrity. Operational Data Source (ODS) vs Data Mart (DW) and Data Warehouse (DW) ODS - In this project most of the databases on Old Database are designed to be replicas, or near replicas, of the source …

Effects Of Eccentric Exercise On Tendon Loading And Ankle Power During A Single-Leg Heel Rise And Lowering Tank, Derek Palmer, Jordan Visser, Jason Beilstein

Student-Faculty Research - College of Physical Therapy

No abstract provided.

What Are The Effects Of Wearing Shoes On Foot Pressure?, David Moran, Drew Stewart, Josh Farrester, Ryan Wiser

Student-Faculty Research - College of Physical Therapy

No abstract provided.

Reliability And Validity Of The Modified Vestibular Disorders Activities Of Daily Living Scale In Older Adult Balance Examination, Ashley Berry, Jammie Hoberg, Tiffany Stevens, Kayla Taylor, Melissa Vetter

Student-Faculty Research - College of Physical Therapy

No abstract provided.