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Bohemians: Greenwich Village And The Masses, Joanna Levin

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"This chapter traces the convergence of 'the revolt against puritanism' and 'the revolt against capitalism' in the 1910s, focusing on the most celebrated American bohemia Greenwich Village - and on The Masses, the Village periodical that provided the most influential expression of the double-edged bohemian revolt. The effort to combine the personal and the political, the artistic and the social helped fuel a host of interconnected movements and alliances within the bohemian milieu, and the bohemians called upon both Marx and Freud in the effort to promote revolutionary change. Often riddled with internal contradictions and susceptible to forces of …

One-Shot Learning In Deep Sequential Generative Models, Hanyu Guo

All Theses

Regardless of the Deep Learning community's continuous advancements, the challenging domain of one-shot learning still persists. While the human brain is capable of learning a new visual concept with ease, sometimes even at a glance, Deep Learning-based techniques show serious drawbacks in handling problems with small datasets. Much of the existing work on one-shot learning employs a variety of sophisticated network algorithms, prior domain knowledge, and data manipulation to address the generalization challenges presented in such problems. In this work, we demonstrate a one-shot learning method that contains three learning networks — a deep sequential generative model, a candidate network, …

Live Load Distribution Factors And Uhpc Shear Key Performance Of Scdot Next D Beam And Solid Slab Bridges, Francis Vincent Filosa

All Theses

For short to medium span bridges experiencing lower average daily traffic (ADT), the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) currently utilizes both hollow core and solid slab precast concrete span bridge sections. The intended advantages of these bridge sections were that they could be built according to an accelerated bridge construction (ABC) schedule and have increased durability. Increasing a bridge's durability has economic advantages since they require less maintenance and have a greater lifespan. Both the precast hollow core and solid slab spans have not met the SCDOT's durability requirements. Deterioration of the grout key between adjacent precast members has …

Quantification Of The Spatial Distribution Of Radionuclides In Field Lysimeters With A Collimated High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectrometer, Bryan James Erdmann

All Theses

The objective of this work is to quantify the one-dimensional spatial distribution of radionuclides in field lysimeters from the Radionuclide Field Lysimeter Experiment (RadFLEX) facility at the Savannah River Nationals Laboratory (SRNL). The lysimeters, containing ¹³⁷Cs, ⁶⁰Co, ¹³³Ba and ¹⁵²Eu incorporated either into solid wasteforms (Portland cement and reducing grout) or introduced into soil via a filter paper wasteform, were weathered for three to four years. The initial contaminant activities range from 4.0 to 9.0 MBq for the cementitious wasteforms and 0.25 to 0.47 MBq for the filter paper wasteform. An analytical method was developed to …

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The Effect Of Medicaid On Medication Use Among Poor Adults: Evidence From Oregon., Katherine Baicker, Heidi L Allen, Bill J. Wright, Amy N Finkelstein

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Oregon's 2008 Medicaid expansion significantly increased the use of prescription medications in 2009-10.

Homelessness Among Women Veterans: A Systematic Review Of The Risk Factors, Staceyann Graham

Social Work Theses - Archive

Background: As more women joined the armed forces the population of women veterans inevitably increased and with it so did the rates of women veteran homelessness. Women veterans are a unique group of women who also possess protective factors from homelessness, yet are 3 to 4 times likely to become homeless than non-veteran women. The purpose of this systematic review is to glean from other articles and studies what the risk factors for women veteran homelessness are. Method: A systematic review of 7 articles were conducted using the PRISMA method as a guideline for selecting the articles. Results: 5 articles …

Fixed Income Fund Report, December 2017, Bryant University, Archway Investment Fund

Archway Investment Fund

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The Relationship Between Nonverbal Communication And Patient Willingness To Comply In Framed, Low-Risk Medical Settings, Rachael A. Katz

Communication Studies

This study discusses framing and communication tactics in the medical field. It specifically aims to understand whether expertise and empathetic nonverbal communication impacts patient willingness to comply with physician directives in gain- and loss-framed medical settings. Framing has been studied in many settings, including medical situations, and has been found to impact decision-making. This experiment utilizes college-aged individuals to examine Meningitis, a disease where the most at-risk group is college aged young adults. Participants were exposed to one of six conditions to examine whether perceived expertise/empathy in their scenario impacted willingness to comply with the doctor directives. Although no mediation …

World Transit Research December 2017 Newsletter, Institute Of Transport Studies Monash University

World Transit Research Newsletter

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Effect Of A Ubiquitous Moral Cue On Ethical Leadership, Moral Disengagement And Goal Difficulty: Real-World Outcomes Of A Novel Behavioural Intervention By Mobile Application Technology, Boon Heon Tan

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Firms invest significant resources in their ethical infrastructure to influence the ethical decision-making of employees. The advent of mobile technology has extended the frontier of interventions that may discourage unethical behaviour, through the use of ubiquitously-present mobile-based moral cues. I conducted a prospective, randomized field experiment, to study how a ubiquitous moral cue may positively enhance ethical decision-making. Sales professionals working in a pharmaceutical firm in China were assigned randomly by teams to either receive, or not, a mobile application from their firm’s compliance department. Over six months, participants completed three cross-sectional surveys, and were randomly monitored by an independent …

Notes From The Director, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Measuring The Effects Of Culturing A549 Non-Small Lung Cancer Cells On Collagen, Engineered Basal Lamina, And Traditional 2d Cell Culture, Nicholas Prasatporn

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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A Study Of The Iconography Of The Mistress/Master Of The Animals In The Near East And Aegean, Jeremy Dubhrós

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Reverse Transcriptase Domain Of Rc Bombyx Mori Non-Ltr Retrotransposons, Zaynab Omisade

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Multi-Agent And Decompositional Control For Complex Robot Systems, Saul Gutierrez

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Matrix Factorizations For Polynomials, Andrew Soto-Levins

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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The Intersections Between Social Class, Marital Status, And Family Composition Among African Americans, Rashad J. Harrison

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Understanding Attitudes Toward Pregnancy In The Workforce: A Focus On Personality, Arianna Gomez

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Marquette Law Review

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Personhood Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Vincent J. Samar

Marquette Law Review

This Article examines recent claims that the fetus be afforded the status of a person under the Fourteenth Amendment. It shows that such claims do not carry the necessary objectivity to operate reasonably in a pluralistic society. It then goes on to afford what a better view of personhood that could so operate might actually look like. Along the way, this Article takes seriously the real deep concerns many have for the sanctity of human life. By the end, it attempts to find a balance for those concerns with the view of personhood offered that should engage current debates about …

Current Navigation Points In Drug Diversion Law: Hidden Rocks In Shallow, Murky, Drug-Infested Waters, John J. Mulrooney Ii, Katherine E. Legel

Marquette Law Review

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Codify This: Exculpatory Contracts In Wisconsin Recreational Businesses, Blake A. Nold

Marquette Law Review

It is common practice for recreational businesses, such as ski resorts or fitness centers, to require their customers to sign a release of liability form. The purpose of this release form is to relieve the business from any potential liability in the event a customer suffers an injury. However, since 1982, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has yet to uphold an exculpatory contract. Rather than attempting to lay out principles and guidelines for how to draft an exculpatory agreement—in hopes that it will be ruled enforceable—this Comment proposes that Wisconsin recreational businesses, like ski resorts or gyms, should not require customers …

Effect Of Photoperiod On The Sexual Reproduction Of Freshwater Microcrustacean Daphnia, Sabita Ale Thapa

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Youth-Adult Partnerships In Work With Youth: An Overview, Heather Ramey, Heather Lawford, Wolfgang Vachon

Journal of Youth Development

Youth-adult partnerships in child and youth services engage the participants in collaborative, shared decision making, in areas such as governance, program planning and implementation, and advocacy. However, these partnerships often occur in isolation, and fail to engage in potentially useful, larger conversations about theory and research. Therefore, in an effort to provide common grounds for understanding and engaging in such partnerships, we offer an overview of current literature. We discuss definitions and discourses, describe models of youth-adult partnerships, and briefly consider current research on potential benefits for youth, adults, organizations, and communities. We also present challenges and promising practices for …

2017 December - Tennessee Monthly Climate Report, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Monthly Reports

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Progesterone For Prevention Of Preterm Birth: Shortcomings And Unintended Consequences Of The Orphan Drug Act, Rebekah E. Gee, Sreyram Kuy, Laura Karas

Articles

Preterm birth is a problem of major public health significance that continues to plague our country despite the existence of a therapy, 17α-hydroxyprogesterone caproate, with known efficacy in reducing the risk of spontaneous preterm birth among high-risk women. Over the past several years, the Louisiana Department of Health has undertaken a robust, multifaceted initiative to improve access to 17α-hydroxyprogesterone caproate, which resulted in a 3.5-fold increase in the percentage of eligible high-risk pregnant women in the Medicaid program who received the therapy between 2013 and 2016. Yet despite Louisiana's progress, the vast majority of the eligible population still fails to …

Survey Of Self-Determination Constructs In Higher Education Students With Disabilities And Campus Service Improvements, Jennifer L. Raasch

All Dissertations

This dissertation is an exploratory study on self-determination in students with disabilities in a postsecondary environment. Two questions were asked on self-determination levels in higher education students with disabilities and vital self-advocacy skills in higher education. A survey with closed-ended and open-ended questions was administered to gather data. Critical disability theory provided the conceptual framework for the study. Federal disability laws required students with disabilities be provided with transitional services which incorporated self-determination and self-advocacy skills from K-12 to postsecondary education institutions. However, a review of current research literature suggested transitional services might not be administered in the same manner …

2017-December-01-A Grand Master Fiddler, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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