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Livy's Republic: Reconciling Republic And Princeps In Ab Urbe Condita, Joshua Stewart Mackay

Theses and Dissertations

As early as Tacitus, Livian scholarship has struggled to resolve the "Livian paradox," the conflict between Livy's support of the Roman Republic and his overt approval of Augustus, who brought about the end of the Republic. This paper addresses the paradox by attempting to place Livy's writings within their proper historical and literary context. An examination of Augustus' position during the early years of Livy's writing shows that the princeps cloaked his power within the precedent of Republican autocracy, in which imperium could be unlimited in power so long as it was limited by time. As a result, although Augustus' …

Effects Of Teacher Praise And Reprimand Rates On Classroom Engagement And Disruptions Of Elementary Students At Risk For Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Kade Rolan Downs

Theses and Dissertations

In the United States educators often feel underprepared to manage student behavior in the classroom, which management is crucial for students with or at risk for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD) to learn effectively. Research on School-wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) programs has reflected how effective simple principles, such as increasing teacher praise and decreasing teacher reprimands, can be. The current study is a secondary analysis of data originally gathered from 65 teachers and 239 students across three states. Results of these analyses bring principles of effective SWPBS programs and educator needs together by identifying how teacher behaviors correlated with …

Program Committee Report December 2017, Regenstrief Center For Healthcare Engineering

RCHE Reports

No abstract provided.

Moral Commitments In Cost-Benefit Analysis, Eric A. Posner, Cass R. Sunstein

Articles

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Sharing Responsibility For Divesting From Fossil Fuels, Eric S. Godoy

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

Governments have been slow to address climate change. If non-governmental agents share a responsibility in light of the slow pace of government action then it is a collective responsibility. I examine three models of collective responsibility, especially Iris Young's social connection model, and assess their value for identifying a collective, among all emitters, that can share responsibility. These models can help us better understand both the growth of the movement to divest from fossil fuels and the nature of responsibility for collective action problems. Universities and colleges share a responsibility because they occupy similar positions of, among other things, power …

Devotion, Domesticity, And Healing Among Early Modern Women: Writing Religion And Medicine In Personal Manuscripts, Jana Jackson

English Theses - Archive

The establishment of the Church of England in the sixteenth century instigated a period of turbulence as religious practices transitioned from medieval Catholicism to post-Reformation Protestantism. Protestant theology idealized proficient domesticity as an essential signifier of piety for women. In practice, daily spiritual examination, moral purity, competence in managing a household, and the efficacious administration of domestic medicine largely defined a pious Protestant woman. Consequently, women validated their piety by leaving evidence of these practices in diaries, autobiographical writing, and receipt books. Religious meditative writing and recipes occur side by side in early modern pious women's manuscripts intentionally because each …

Electrophysiological Analysis Assessing The Analgesic Nature Of The Lateral Habenula (Lhb), Akshay Sunil Parchure

Psychology Theses - Archive

Local field potential (LFP) is a collective neural signal of all the synaptic activity occurring at a specific area of the brain, thereby offering a unique insight into how the brain functions. The habenula is involved in the pain pathway and decision-making. Located above the thalamus, it has been proposed to function with nucleus accumbens and periacqueductal gray (PAG) along with other regions in a descending pain modulation pathway. The main purpose of the present study was to determine the contribution of LHb to the nociceptive input and the effect of activation on antinociception. One week after implantation of electrode …

Synthetic And Mechanistic Investigations Of Ruthenium Alkylidene-Catalyzed Alkene-Silane Cross-Coupling Reactions, Apparao Bokka

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

Grubbs-type ruthenium alkylidene-catalyzed intramolecular alkene hydrosilylation and intermolecular dehydrogenative silylation and hydrosilylation of vinylarenes have been achieved with high regio- and stereoselectivity. Mechanistic details to support the initial activation of ruthenium complex have been revealed. Chapter 1 describes the uses of organosilanes in various fields. Development of transition metal-catalyzed hydrosilylations, alkene/alkyne metathesis activities of Grubbs-type ruthenium alkylidenes and non-metathetical activities including hydrosilylation of alkynes are discussed. The development of intramolecular hydrosilylation of alkenylsilyl ethers through reaction discovery and optimization is discussed. The strategy developed has been tested successfully on a variety of substrates with varying steric and electronic properties. A …

Hiding Or Out? Lesbian And Gay Educators Reveal Their Experiences About Their Sexual Identities In Their K-12 Schools, Steven D. Hooker

Journal of Global Education and Research

This qualitative study explored the ways in which lesbian and gay educators, in the Midwest part of the country, negotiate their sexual identities in their school settings. Ten gay and lesbian public and Catholic school educators from rural, suburban, and urban schools were interviewed. The purpose of this study was to determine how gay and lesbian teachers negotiate their identities and how those negotiated identities affect their relationships in their school communities. Four gay and lesbian teachers and two gay administrators from public schools were interviewed about their experiences in their school settings. Additionally, a focus group of five Catholic …

Wangari Maathai The Educator: Straddling Tradition And Modernity, Namulundah Florence

Journal of Global Education and Research

Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai’s (April 1, 1940 – September 25, 2011) public image highlights her nationality, her education both in and outside Kenya, her establishment of the Green Belt Movement (GBM) for which she received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, and her political activism. Advocates for female empowerment take solace in success stories like Maathai’s rise from a village girl to become a global icon of leadership. Yet, her mobility was more circumstantial than it was deliberate, and is inseparable from the uneasy compromise between the traditional gender roles of her youth with the critical consciousness nurtured in …

Socratic Metaethics Imagined, Steve Ross, Lisa Warenski

Sophia and Philosophia

A time machine mysteriously appeared one day in ancient Athens. Curious about the future of philosophical dialogue, Socrates entered the device and traveled to the 21st Century. He spent several months in the United Kingdom and United States discussing metaethics before returning to Athens, now a devoted and formidable quasi-realist moral expressivist.

Recidivism And Juvenile Justice Youth: A Study On Recidivism Rates For Youth Awaiting Adjudication, Whitney L. Hunt

Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses - Archive

The United States incarcerates more youth than any other country in the world (Justice Policy Institute, 2009). Previous research has focused on recidivism rates of juvenile justice youth post-adjudication. However, a gap in literature exists concerning the relationship of recidivism rates for youth awaiting adjudication. This study seeks to determine what factors correlate with recidivism for youths in detention compared with youths who receive detention alternatives while awaiting adjudication in an urban area in the Southern United States. It is hypothesized that, based on previous research and theory, youth who receive detention while awaiting adjudication are more likely to recidivate …

Board Level Solder Joint Reliability Assessment Study Of Megtron 6 Vs Fr-4 Under Power Cycling And Thermal Cycling, Jyotirmoy Denria

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

High frequency laminates like Nelco N4000-13, Isola FR408 and Panasonic Megtron 6 packages gained popularity among the industry due to better and improved electrical performances, Improved impedance control, low moisture absorption, good thermal management. High speed laminates are extensively used in high-speed system-level interconnects like high speed network equipment, mainframes, IC testers and high frequency measuring instruments. When an electronic device is turned off and then turned on multiple times, it creates a loading condition called power cycling. The die is the only heat source causing non-uniform temperature distribution. In this paper, the solder joint reliability assessment of Megtron 6 …

Automated Multistep Classifier Sizing And Training For Deep Learner, Kanishka Tyagi

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Training algorithms for deep learning have recently been proposed with notable success, beating the start-of-the-art in certain areas like audio, speech and language processing. The key role is played by learning multiple levels of abstractions in a deep architecture. However, searching the parameters space in a deep architecture is a difficult task. By exploiting the greedy layer-wise unsupervised training strategy of deep architecture, the network parameters are initialized near a good local minima. However, many existing deep learning algorithms require tuning a number of hyperparameters including learning factors and the number of hidden units in each layer. Apart from this, …

Nearest Neighbor Classifiers With Improved Accuracy And Efficiency, Sinchan Bhattacharya

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

Nearest Neighbor algorithms are non-parametric algorithms that use distance measure techniques for classification and regressions. This thesis uses the method of pruning to improve accuracy and efficiency of a nearest neighbor classifier and also states the different stages the pruning algorithm can be applied and shows the best stage for pruning which gives the maximum accuracy. The performance of the classifier is shown to be better than other improved nearest neighbor classifiers. A fast method of finding the optimal k in a k-nearest neighbor classifier is proposed in the thesis. A method of optimizing the distance measure using a second …

Analytical Technique To Evaluate Impact Of Mutual Coupling On Transmission Line Protection Schemes, Azade Brahman

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

While there are numerous literatures that have addressed the impact of mutual coupling on the reliability and security of protection schemes and have provided possible mitigation solutions, there has not been adequate research and documentation presenting a comprehensive analytical approach to 1) estimate the magnitude of mutual coupling and 2) quantify the adverse impact of mutual coupling in real-life scenarios under several system faults across various types of protective elements. This should be considered as the first stage of any mutual coupling related study preceding the second stage in which the mitigation against mutual coupling is to be developed. The …

Implementation And Comparison Of Serial And Parallel Algorithms Of Sao In Hevc, Harsha Nagathihalli Jagadish

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

The High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard is the latest video coding project developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) which involves the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standardization organizations. HEVC also known as H.265 supports encoding videos with wide range of resolutions, starting from low resolution to beyond High Definition i.e. 4k or 8k. The HEVC standard is an optimization of the previous standard H.264/AVC (Advanced Video coding) which is a very well established and widely used standard in industry and finds its applications …

Development Of Qualitative And Quantitative Applications In Energy Industry Using Gas Chromatography- Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Ling Bai

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

Characterization and evaluation of hydrocarbon assets, including content of linear and branched alkanes, cycloalkanes, aromatics, olefins, and naphthenes, among others, during production and distribution are very crucial in oil and gas industries. Quantification and qualification of bulk composition of hydrocarbon groups in complex samples like gasoline, diesel, and other high value refinery products is very challenging. Gas chromatography (GC) is the most popular technique among the petrochemical industry and many of the EPA and ASTM methods have been established based on GC for analyzing hydrocarbons in complex mixtures. Though there are many methods available, there are still limitations on the …

Global Kidney Exchange: Analysis And Background Papers From The Perspective Of The Right To Health, Alejandro Cerón, Kiaryce Bey, Kelly Bonk, Ellie Carson, Emilia Chapa, Louisa Cohen, Katie Crockford, Rachel Cuda, Sebastian Injac, Kajsa Kirby, Daniela Leon-Alvarez, Mackenzie Looney, Kendall Mcbeth, Winnie Pham, Rose Smith, Margarita Soltero Gutierrez, Katherine Sugura, Alexander Yu, Flinn Lazier

Anthropology: Undergraduate Student Scholarship

Global Kidney Exchange (GKE) is a program aimed at facilitating trans-national kidney donation. Although its proponents aim at reducing the unmet demand of kidneys in the United States through the trans-nationalization of kidney exchange programs, the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Transplantation Society (TTS) have expressed concerns about its potential effect on black markets of organs and transnational organ trafficking, as well as on low- or middle-income countries health systems. For GKE to be implemented, it would need to be permitted to operate in at least some low- or middle-income countries. What are the right to health implications of …

Building An Albanian Knowledge Graph From Unstructured Text, Hakan Shehu

Theses and Dissertations

We live in the golden area of information. The World Wide web contains a vast amount of unstructured text in different digital formats, including newswire, blogs, email communications, governmental documents, chat logs, and so on. Some of the biggest companies and organizations have created knowledge bases which represent a semantic network of facts, entities and relations between them. Even though this area has been well researched for a considerable time, there is a lack of implementation of such a knowledge extraction for Albanian language. In this thesis we will try to create an Albanian general knowledge graph from unstructured text. …

Systematic Approach To The Improvement Of The Performance Of Instalation And Maintenance Of Heating, Ventilation And Air Conditioning, Liridon Dauti

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of a Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system is to provide and maintain a comfortable environment within a building for the occupants or a suitable environment for the process being conducted. This book covers basic HVAC systems of the all-air type, where all functions of heating, ventilating, and air conditionings are performed by an air handling system. Some functions for central hydronic cooling and heating distribution are included which also apply to air-water and all water types of systems. The principal functions of HVAC systems and control systems are:

• To maintain comfortable conditions in the space by …

Zno Nanoparticles Modulate The Ionic Transport And Voltage Regulation Of Lysenin Nanochannels, Sheenah L. Bryant, Josh E. Eixenberger, Steven Rossland, Holly Apsley, Connor Hoffman, Nisha Shrestha, Michael Mchugh, Alex Punnoose, Daniel Fologea

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: The insufficient understanding of unintended biological impacts from nanomaterials (NMs) represents a serious impediment to their use for scientific, technological, and medical applications. While previous studies have focused on understanding nanotoxicity effects mostly resulting from cellular internalization, recent work indicates that NMs may interfere with transmembrane transport mechanisms, hence enabling contributions to nanotoxicity by affecting key biological activities dependent on transmembrane transport. In this line of inquiry, we investigated the effects of charged nanoparticles (NPs) on the transport properties of lysenin, a pore-forming toxin that shares fundamental features with ion channels such as regulation and high transport rate.

Results: …

Faculty Drivers And Barriers: Laying The Groundwork For Undergraduate Stem Education Reform In Academic Departments, Susan E. Shadle, Anthony Marker, Brittnee Earl

CTL Teaching Gallery

Background: Calls to improve student learning and increase the number of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) college and university graduates assert the need for widespread adoption of evidence-based instructional practices in undergraduate STEM courses. For successful reforms to take hold and endure, it is likely that a significant shift in culture around teaching is needed. This study seeks to describe the initial response of faculty to an effort to shift teaching norms, with a long-term goal of altering the culture around teaching and learning in STEM. While the effort was envisioned and led at the institutional level, dialog about …

Acoustic Intensity Of Narrowband Signals In Free-Field Environments, Kelli Fredrickson Succo

Theses and Dissertations

The phase and amplitude gradient estimator (PAGE) method has proven successful in improving the accuracy of measured energy quantities over the p-p method, which has traditionally been used, in several applications. One advantage of the PAGE method is the use of phase unwrapping, which allows for increased measurement bandwidth above the spatial Nyquist frequency. However, phase unwrapping works best for broadband sources in free-field environments with high coherence. Narrowband sources often do not have coherent phase information over a sufficient bandwidth for a phase unwrapping algorithm to unwrap properly. In fact, phase unwrapping processing can cause significant error when there …

Fda Regulation Of Mhealth And Wellness Devices: What You Need To Know, Barbara Zabawa

Faculty Works

The integration of mobile health (mHealth) technologies into wellness and healthcare practices presents both opportunities and regulatory challenges. This article explores the role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in regulating mHealth and wellness devices, particularly as technological advancements blur the lines between general wellness tools and medical devices. It examines the FDA's framework under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) for classifying and overseeing devices based on intended use and associated risks, including the distinctions between medical devices and low-risk wellness products. Guidance documents for mobile medical applications and low-risk wellness devices are analyzed, highlighting their …

Foeto-Maternal Outcome In Instrumental Vaginal Delivery Attending A Secondary Hospital In Hyderabad (Aga Khan Maternal And Child Care Centre), Nigar Jabeen, Raheela Baloch, Pushpa Malhi, Sana Zahiruddin, Kiran Mawani

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Objective: To evaluate the foeto-maternal outcome in instrumental delivery.
Methods: This retrospective record review was conducted at Aga Khan Maternal and Child Care Centre, Hyderabad, Pakistan, and comprised medical records from January 2014 to January 2016. Data related to all women with singleton pregnancy at term gestation and having undergone vacuum or forceps delivery was included. Data of women who had multiple pregnancies, caesarean section, and presentation other than cephalic, placenta previa were excluded. SPSS 19 was used for data analysis.
Results: Of the 400 participants, 255(63.75%) were aged between 22-28 years and 145(36.25%) between 29-35 years. Moreover, 268(67%) women …

Usa Boccia Ball Ramp For Athletes With Quadriplegia, Alissa A. Koukourikos, Matthew Lee, Nathan Bernards

Mechanical Engineering

In this report, the design process in creating an assistive device for Boccia Classification 3 (BC3) players is outlined. The initial research steps, including research into the rules of the game, capabilities of the players, and existing products is documented to show where ideas for the product stemmed from. This transitions into requirements that the sponsor requested, and preliminary designs and ideas for the product. Finally, this report explains the details of the final design, which has been analyzed for safety, ease of use, and ability to function under different conditions. The processes of manufacturing and testing will also be …

Real Time And High Fidelity Quadcopter Tracking System, Tyler Mckay Hall

Computer Engineering

This project was conceived as a desired to have an affordable, flexible and physically compact tracking system for high accuracy spatial and orientation tracking. Specifically, this implementation is focused on providing a low cost motion capture system for future research. It is a tool to enable the further creation of systems that would require the use of accurate placement of landing pads, payload acquires and delivery. This system will provide the quadcopter platform a coordinate system that can be used in addition to GPS.

Field research with quadcopter manufacturers, photographers, agriculture and research organizations were contact and interviewed for information …

White Male Privilege: An Intersectional Deconstruction, Matthew J. Etchells, Elizabeth Deuermeyer, Vanessa M. Liles, Samantha M. Meister, Mario Itzel Suárez, Warren L. Chalklen

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

This research saliently deconstructs the philosophical writing of a white, privileged male by five diverse academic peers by using a methodology of deconstruction to analyze the initial author's writing. Their reflects on his nascent perspectives address the stages of racism, mea culpa, the relationship between privilege, oppression, and classism, a feminist perspective, binary, and intersectionality. Further analysis connote for the need to deconstruct privilege in a literary context and to develop an autoethnography to fully delve into privilege beyond a superficial and neglectful narrative.

Uni Grad Student News, V16n2, December 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

UNI Grad Student News

Inside this Issue:

--Alumni Profile
--Student Profile
--Conference Information
--Winter Break Activities
--Brown Bag Lectures
--Faculty Profile
--Professional Development
--Student Accolades