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The Role Of Historians In East Asia’S History Problem, Hiro Saito

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

At first glance, historians may not look like the best candidates for facilitating a resolution of the history problem. This is because historians have traditionally used the nation as a primary unit of analysis, helping to naturalize it as a primordial entity. They have also created professional associations and delimited their membership along national borders, consistent with the nationalist logic of self-determination; for example, when Japanese historians write about the history of Japan, they often talk among themselves without consulting with foreign historians who study Japan. This nationally bounded content focus and membership reinforces the logic of nationalism that divides …

Committee Reports & Updates

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Macro-Level Diffusion Of A Methodological Knowledge Innovation: Research Synthesis Methods, 1972-2011, Laura Sheble

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

Use of research synthesis methods has contributed to changes in research practices. In disciplinary literatures, authors indicate motivations to use the methods include needs to (a) translate research-based knowledge to inform practice and policy decisions, and (b) integrate relatively large and diverse knowledge bases to increase the generality of results and yield novel insights or explanations. This review presents two histories of the diffusion of research synthesis methods: a narrative history based primarily in the health and social sciences; and a bibliometric overview across science broadly. Engagement with research synthesis was strongly correlated with evidence-based practice (EBP), and moderately with …

3d Printing Concrete Structures And Verifying Integrity Of Their G-Code Instructions: Border Wall A Case Study, Jason Breland

Dissertations

Thanks to advances in Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology and continued research by academics and entrepreneurs alike, the ability to “3d print” permanent concrete structures such as homes or offices is now a reality. Generally, AM is the process that allows for a 3d model of an object to be converted into hardware instructions to generate that object layer by layer using a malleable medium such as a plastic. Specifically, large scale concrete AM can now generate a structure, such as a building, layer by layer more quickly and efficiently than traditional construction methods [6, 39]. This innovative, semi-autonomous process promises …

Sea Star Wasting Disease In Asterias Forbesi Along The Atlantic Coast Of North America, Caitlin Bucci, Madison Francoeur, Jillon Mcgreal, Roxanna Smolowitz, Vanesa Zazueta-Novoa, Gary M. Wessel, Marta Gomez-Chiarri

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

As keystone species, sea stars serve to maintain biodiversity and species distribution through trophic level interactions in marine ecosystems. Recently, Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) has caused widespread mass mortality in several sea star species from the Pacific Coast of the United States of America (USA) and Asterias forbesi on the Atlantic Coast. A densovirus, named Sea Star associated Densovirus (SSaDV), has been associated with the wasting disease in Pacific Coast sea stars, and limited samples of A. forbesi. The goal of this research is to examine the pathogenesis of SSWD in A. forbesi on the Atlantic Coast of the …

Utility Of The Static-99 And Static-99r With Latino Sex Offenders, Alejandro Leguizamo, Seung C. Lee, Elizabeth L. Jeglic, Cynthia Calkins

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

The predictive validity of the Static-99 measures with ethnic minorities in the United States has only recently been assessed with mixed results. We assessed the predictive validity of the Static-99 and Static-99R with a sample of Latino sex offenders (N = 483) as well as with two subsamples (U.S.-born, including Puerto Rico, and non-U.S.-born). The overall sexual recidivism rate was very low (1.9%). Both the Static-99 measures were able to predict sexual recidivism for offenders born in the United States and Puerto Rico, but neither was effective in doing so for other Latino immigrants. Calibration analyses (N = 303) of …

Erratum To: Sexual Function In Men With Traumatic Brain Injury (Sexuality And Disability, (2017), 35, 4, (461-470), 10.1007/S11195-017-9493-9), Jenna Strizzi, Laiene Olabarrieta-Landa, Silvia Leonor Olivera, Ricardo Valdivia Tangarife, Ivan Andrés Soto Rodríguez, Inmaculada Fernández Agis, Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake in the co-author names. The given and family name of the authors were erroneously swapped; it should be Ricardo Valdivia Tangarife and Ivan Andrés Soto Rodríguez. The original version of the article has been corrected.

Understanding Community And Ecophysiology Of Plant Species On The Colorado Plateau, Hannah Elizabeth Yokum

Theses and Dissertations

The intensification of aridity due to anthropogenic climate change is likely to have a large impact on the growth and survival of plant species in the southwestern U.S. where species are already vulnerable to high temperatures and limited precipitation. Global climate change impacts plants through a rising temperature effect, CO2 effect, and land management. In order to forecast the impacts of global climate change, it is necessary to know the current conditions and create a baseline for future comparisons and to understand the factors and players that will affect what happens in the future. The objective of Chapter 1 is …

Eigenblades: Application Of Computer Vision And Machine Learning For Mode Shape Identification, Alex W. La

Theses and Dissertations

On August 27, 2016, Southwest Airlines flight 3472 from New Orleans to Orlando had to perform an emergency landing when a fan blade separated from the engine hub and destroyed the cowling and punctured the fuselage. Initial findings from the metallurgical examination conducted in the National Transpiration Safety Board Materials Laboratory found that the fracture surface of the missing blade showed curving crack arrest lines consistent with fatigue crack growth. Fatigue is often cause by resonate vibrations. Modal analysis is a method that can model the natural frequencies and bending modes of turbomachinery blades. When performing modal analysis with finite …

Neomycin, Polymyxin B, And Dexamethasone Allergic Reactions Following Periocular Surgery., Nicholas A Moore, Craig N Czyz, Tracy D Carter, Jill A Foster, Kenneth V Cahill

Pharmacy Articles

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of periocular allergic skin reactions to topical neomycin, polymyxin B, and dexamethasone (NPD) ophthalmic ointment.

METHODS: A consecutive patient prospective study was performed. A total of 522 patients who had a procedure involving incision of the periocular skin with subsequent postoperative application of NPD ophthalmic ointment were included. Patients were evaluated for signs of allergy at 1 week postoperatively or prior if the patient had complaints. A periocular allergic reaction was defined as any periocular skin pruritus, erythema, edematous papules, vesicles, or plaques at the site of ointment application …

Outbreak Response And Incident Management: Shea Guidance And Resources For Healthcare Epidemiologists In United States Acute-Care Hospitals., David B Banach, B Lynn Johnston, Duha Al-Zubeidi, Allison H Bartlett, Susan Casey Bleasdale, Valerie M Deloney, Kyle B Enfield, Judith A Guzman-Cottrill, Christopher Lowe, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Kyle J Popovich, Payal K Patel, Karen Ravin, Theresa Rowe, Erica S Shenoy, Scott Stienecker Md, Pritish K Tosh, Kavita K Trivedi

Hospital Medicine

This expert guidance document was developed as a resource to provide healthcare epidemiologists working in acute-care hospitals with a high-level overview of incident management for infectious diseases outbreaks and to prepare them to work within an emergency response framework. It addresses how the epidemiologist’s skills and expertise apply to scenarios that require enhanced preparedness and response efforts, eg, when pathogens associated with outbreaks are poorly characterized or when outbreaks require additional interventions including, but not limited to, healthcare personnel education, enhanced infection prevention and control measures, added staffing, supplies, and resources, adjustments to clinical and support activities, and external communications. …

Receiver Function Imaging Of Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Beneath The Tanzania Craton And Adjacent Segments Of The East African Rift System, Muchen Sun, Kelly H. Liu, Xiaofei Fu, Stephen S. Gao

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The mantle transition zone (MTZ) discontinuities beneath the Tanzania Craton and the Eastern and Western Branches of the East African Rift System are imaged by stacking over 7,100 receiver functions. The mean thickness of the MTZ beneath the Western Branch and Tanzania Craton is about 252 km, which is comparable to the global average and is inconsistent with the existence of present-day thermal upwelling originating from the lower mantle. In contrast, beneath the Eastern Branch, an up to 30 km thinning of the MTZ is observed and is attributable to upwelling of higher temperature materials from either the upper MTZ …

Topography Of The Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Beneath Alaska And Its Geodynamic Implications: Constraints From Receiver Function Stacking, Haider H. Dahm, Stephen S. Gao, Fansheng Kong, Kelly H. Liu

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The 410 and 660 km discontinuities (d410 and d660, respectively) beneath Alaska and adjacent areas are imaged by stacking 75,296 radial receiver functions recorded by 438 broadband seismic stations with up to 30 years of recording period. When the 1-D IASP91 Earth model is used for moveout correction and time depth conversion, significant and spatially systematic variations in the apparent depths of the d410 and d660 are observed. The mean apparent depth of the d410 and d660 for the entire study area is 417 ± 12 km and 665 ± 12 km, respectively, and the mean mantle transition zone (MTZ) …

Convolutional Code Constraint Length Over Rayleigh Fading Channel: Performance Evaluation And Hardware Aspects, A. E.

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

In this paper, the performance of conVolutional code constraint length for bandwidth efficient transmission over AWGN and Rayleigh fading channels is presented. Using intensive simulation and in terms of BER error floor, we evaluate the performance of binary phase shift keying (BPSK) mapping scheme. In addition, the hardware implementation considerations based on the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) platform of conVolutional decoding are discussed. To be more specific, the code constraint length effect on both memory management and clock cycles are considered.

Design A Hybrid Cryptosystem Based Chaos And Sharing For Digital Audio, Mahmood Z., Zinah J. Khaleefah

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

With the growth rate of wireless communication with internet and multimedia. The wireless network has expanded their applications in our life. Cryptography and steganography play important role within data security. This paper chiefly produces a novel hybrid cryptography and steganography for digital audio base chaos system and secret sharing scheme algorithm. These algorithms have multilevel of processing with the digital audio to increase the level of security. In this algorithm, digital audio was encrypted with a novel encryption method based Lorenz chaos map. Then, divide the encrypted audio to N encrypted audio based on secret sharing scheme. Finally, hiding N …

A Study Of The Relationship Between A College Success Course And Student Perception Of The Self-Regulatory Skills Of Concentration, Motivation, And Time Management, Michael George Breakey

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The population of higher education in America consists of nearly 20 million students enrolled in more than 4,000 colleges across the country. College enrollment in America is large and continues to grow rapidly. According to The National Center for Education Statistics (2013), 22.4 million students will be enrolled in degree granting schools by 2019 as compared to 19.1 million in 2008. While college enrollment continues to grow, graduation rates lag. According to the US Department of Education (2009), only 20% of students who start at a two-year institution graduate within three years and about 40% of four-year students graduate in …

Childhood Animal Cruelty Motives And Their Relationship To Recurrent Adult Interpersonal Crimes, Joseph Ketron

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Although research investigating the link between childhood animal cruelty and adult interpersonal violence dates back to the early 1960s, few scholars have examined the predictive ability of childhood animal cruelty motives and their relationship to later violence toward humans. Based on a sample of 257 male inmates, the present study examines the relationship between four retrospectively identified motives for childhood animal cruelty and later adult interpersonal violence. Almost half of the inmates reported engaging in childhood animal cruelty for fun. Over one-third of the respondents reported committing acts of childhood animal cruelty out of anger. Approximately 20% of the inmates …

A Physics-Based Adaptive Point Distribution Method For Computational Domain Discretization, Philip W. Fackler

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Two algorithms are presented which together generate well-spaced point distributions applied to curves, surfaces, and the volume of a computational domain. The first is a force equilibrium simulation which applies a simplified direct solution of the equations of motion at each node. Inter-nodal pair forces are computed based on the desired spacing between nodes and summed to provide a net force on each node. The nodes are allowed to travel a restricted distance with each locally distinct time step. The motion of the point distribution is stabilized by applying friction to each node from its neighboring nodes as well as …

Knowledge And Understanding Of Health Insurance: Challenges And Remedies, Aj Barnes, Y Hanoch

School of Psychology

As coverage is expanded in health systems that rely on consumers to choose health insurance plans that best meet their needs, interest in whether consumers possess sufficient understanding of health insurance to make good coverage decisions is growing. The recent IJHPR article by Green and colleagues—examining understanding of supplementary health insurance (SHI) among Israeli consumers—provides an important and timely answer to the above question. Indeed, their study addresses similar problems to the ones identified in the US health care market, with two notable findings. First, they show that overall—regardless of demographic variables—there are low levels of knowledge about SHI, which …

Intervention Fidelity In The Definitive Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial Of The Healthy Lifestyles Programme (Help) Trial: Findings From The Process Evaluation, J Lloyd, S Dean, S Creanor, C Abraham, Et Al

Peninsula Medical School

BACKGROUND: The Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) was a novel school-located intervention for 9-10 year olds, designed to prevent obesity by changing patterns of child behaviour through the creation of supportive school and home environments using dynamic and creative delivery methods. This paper reports on both the quantitative and qualitative data regarding the implementation of the HeLP intervention in the definitive cluster randomised controlled trial, which was part of the wider process evaluation. METHODS: Mixed methods were used to collect data on intervention uptake, fidelity of delivery in terms of content and quality of delivery of the intervention, as well as …

Studies On Stable Crack Growth, Mohammed Juma Humaid Al-Ghafri

Theses

The goal of this work is to experimentally investigate the stable crack growth (SCG) fracture behavior of AISI 4340 alloy steel. A series of mode I and mixed mode SCG fracture tests were carried out on 8 mm thick compact tension (CT) specimens subjected to quasistatic loading. The wire cutting technique was used to introduce a pre-notch/ pre-crack of 0.05 mm root radius to the specimen. Five different loading angles Ψ between the loading axis and the crack surface were employed; 90° (mode I), 75°, 65°, 60° and 50°. Five different ratios of original crack length to specimen width a …

Dementia Survey Among Attendees Of A Dementia Awareness Event In Karachi, Pakistan, Qurat Ul Ain Khan, Yusra Hanif Khan, Mohammad Zaman Khan, Shireen Najam

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

There is little information available about peoples'knowledgeregarding symptoms of dementia, dementia diagnosis, and care arrangementsfor dementia patients in Pakistan. Aims: We aimed to find out if patients with dementia and their caregivers were aware of diagnosis, the most common and most distressing symptoms, and care arrangement for these patients.

A Vote For Clarity: Establishing A Federal Test For Intervention In Election-Related Disputes, Ben Klein

Fordham Law Review

Increasingly, state and federal courts are asked to resolve election-related disputes, as candidates are more likely than ever before to challenge some aspect of the administration of an election in court. Election-related litigation puts judges in the unfavorable position of kingmaker, forcing the court, not the people, to determine the winner of an election. When the court intervenes in an election dispute, the public may perceive the court’s intervention as a political act that decreases the legitimacy of the winning candidate and the election system as a whole. Moreover, research reveals that judicial decision-making at both the state and federal …

Management Of Undernutrition And Failure To Thrive In Children With Congenital Heart Disease In Low- And Middle-Income Countries, Andrew C. Argent, Rakhi Balachandran, Balu Vaidyanathan, Amina Khan, R. Krishna Kumar

Section of Cardiology

Poor growth with underweight for age, decreased length/height for age, and underweight-for-height are all relatively common in children with CHD. The underlying causes of this failure to thrive may be multifactorial, including innate growth potential, severity of cardiac disease, increased energy requirements, decreased nutritional intake, malabsorption, and poor utilisation of absorbed nutrition. These factors are particularly common and severe in low- and middle-income countries. Although nutrition should be carefully assessed in all patients, failure of growth is not a contraindication to surgical repair, and patients should receive surgical repair where indicated as soon as possible. Close attention should be paid …

An Americans With Disabilities Act For Everyone, And For The Ages As Well, Anita Silvers, Leslie P. Francis

Cardozo Law Review

The article argues that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was originally intended to universally protect individuals from disability-based discrimination, rather than focusing on categorizing who is disabled. The authors contend that the ADA should be interpreted to prevent discrimination based on disability for everyone, regardless of specific eligibility criteria, and that the statute's effectiveness has been undermined by court decisions that emphasize categorical limitations. They advocate for a broader, more inclusive understanding of the ADA, aligned with its original purpose of combating discrimination.

Using Domestic Law To Move Toward A Recognition Of Universal Legal Capacity For Persons With Disabilities, Leslie Salzman

Cardozo Law Review

The article argues that plenary guardianship often violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and substantive due process rights by restricting individuals' autonomy and perpetuating segregation. It advocates for alternatives like supported decision-making to align guardianship practices with constitutional and ADA standards, promoting autonomy and inclusion.

Orpheus, Fall 2017: Hive/Swarm, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

No abstract provided.

Two Southern Women Writers: The Civil War Journals Of Emily Jane Liles Harris And Mary Boykin Chesnut, Robert L. Wilson

Graduate Theses

Through the examination of primary texts, along with appropriate secondary criticism, I argue that Southern women during the Civil War were not the mythological “Southern Belle” that they have often been portrayed as, but that they were intelligent, strong, and passionate writers. I examine the farm journal of Emily Jane Liles Harris and contrast it to the private journal kept by Mary Boykin Chesnut, to explore the role that education and literacy, writing, and authorial voice played in women’s lives during the War. Close attention to the role education and background played in the lives of these women, the uniqueness …

Urban Youth Perceptions Of Agriculture, Sharon Jean-Philippe, Jennifer Richards, Kimberly Gwinn, Caula Beyl

Journal of Youth Development

To change public perceptions, particularly from urban populations, of agriculture and natural resources (ANR) fields, the University of Tennessee developed a model of strategic educational recruitment to extend beyond traditional college fair experiences to educate underrepresented candidates. The High School Agricultural Education Initiative (HSAI) provided 10th-grade students with opportunities to: (a) gain knowledge of and appreciation for disciplines in agriculture and natural resources, (b) learn about college admissions standards, (c) network with college students and staff to learn about campus resources, and (d) understand how a college education improves professional opportunities. The HSAI (n = 122) was effective at increasing …

Silent Sentence Completion Shows Superiority Localizing Wernicke's Area And Activation Patterns Of Distinct Language Paradigms Correlate With Genomics: Prospective Study., Kamel El Salek, Islam S. Hassan, Aikaterini Kotrotsou, Srishti Abrol, Scott H. Faro, Feroze B. Mohamed, Pascal O. Zinn, Wei Wei, Nan Li, Ashok J. Kumar, Jeffrey S. Weinberg, Jeffrey S. Wefel, Shelli R. Kesler, Ho-Ling Anthony Liu, Ping Hou, R. Jason Stafford, Sujit Prabhu, Raymond Sawaya, Rivka R. Colen

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

Preoperative mapping of language areas using fMRI greatly depends on the paradigms used, as different tasks harness distinct capabilities to activate speech processing areas. In this study, we compared the ability of 3 covert speech paradigms: Silent Sentence Completion (SSC), category naming (CAT) and verbal fluency (FAS), in localizing the Wernicke's area and studied the association between genomic markers and functional activation. Fifteen right-handed healthy volunteers and 35 mixed-handed patients were included. We focused on the anatomical areas of posterosuperior, middle temporal and angular gyri corresponding to Wernicke's area. Activity was deemed significant in a region of interest if P < 0.05. Association between fMRI activation and genomic mutation status was obtained. Results demonstrated SSC's superiority at localizing Wernicke's area. SSC demonstrated functional activity in 100% of cancer patients and healthy volunteers; which was significantly higher than those for FAS and CAT. Patients with 1p/19q non-co-deleted had higher extent of activation on SSC (P < 0.02). Those with IDH-1 wild-type were more likely to show no activity on CAT (P < 0.05). SSC is a robust paradigm for localizing Wernicke's area, making it an important clinical tool for function-preserving surgeries. We also found a correlation between tumor genomics and functional activation, which deserves more comprehensive study.