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Modularity In Cross-Border Insolvency, Andrew B. Dawson

Articles

No abstract provided.

Beyond Norms: Using International Economic Tools To Deter Malicious State-Sponsored Cyber Activities, Kathleen Claussen

Articles

In thinking about strategy and doctrine for cyberspace, one cannot ignore either the cyber domain's interaction with other domains or the applicability of existing legal tools to address cyberspace issues. This Comment focuses on the latter and argues that any discussion regarding deterrence and a playbook for consequences for cyber incidents by state actors ought necessarily to include a careful examination of existing plays, particularly where those incidents have an economic component as many do. Focusing on multilateral institutions, regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements, and unilateral tariff and non-tariff trade and investment tools, this Comment maintains that current …

The Law Firm Chief Innovation Officer: Goals, Roles, And Holes, Michele M. Destefano

Articles

No abstract provided.

Crm Portal, Safora Siraj Syeda

All Capstone Projects

The aim of this application is to automate the existing system of operations of customer relationship management (CRM) by establishing the relationship of the customer with the management and employees of the organization through a web portal. The portal helps to improve the customer service, maintain relationship of customers and sales department, streamline the workflow and grow the organization, thus maximizing profits. The higher management can monitor and check reports, helping them make business decisions using the data.

The application will be organized, user friendly, mobile compatible and will have smooth navigation using common functions in the header and footer. …

Community Trust Building And The Elgin Police, Frank Trost

All Capstone Projects

This study focused on police and community trust and how it may be affected by one’s sense of community. The idea of sense of community has been compared to school spirit. There has been little research that examines if sense of community influences trust in their police. A quantitative study was conducted utilizing an online survey. The location was the city of Elgin, Illinois. Its purpose was to determine what level of sense of community the respondents had and what level of trust they had in the police overall and the Elgin police specifically. The study resulted in 637 respondents …

Using Genograms To Explore Transgenerational Trauma And Racism In African American Couples, Hollie F. Campbell

All Capstone Projects

Despite a significant amount of literature on genograms in the ERIC, PsycINFO, and SocINDEX with full-text databases, only a handful of articles and book chapters address using genograms with African Americans. Of the articles that were found on the clinical application of the genogram as a counseling technique with African American couples, three provided a specific set of interview questions for the construction of a genogram, but did not explore the effects of transgenerational trauma and racism on these couples. Using a modified Delphi technique, the researcher solicited input from a panel of experts who developed and then assessed a …

Racial Identity And Resilience In Black Male College Graduates, Anancia Stafford

All Capstone Projects

The aim of this study was to see if there was a relationship between Black male college graduates and non-graduates’ racial identity. This study also sought to see if there was a relationship between Black male college graduates and Black male non-graduates’ resilience. Black people were not always afforded the opportunity to attend higher education, but the civil rights movement assisted with the abolishment of unfair laws that supported exclusion and segregation in the educational system. Since then, college enrollment has increased for Black people in America in both PWIS and HBCUs, but there exists a large gap in college …

Crm Portal, Novnil Kumar Singh

All Capstone Projects

The main purpose of this project is to manage the information of the company’s existing and potential customers. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Portal is a web application that enables the enlisted with user credentials to login and access the application to add the customers information. This Portal contains three roles: sales, supervisor or Manager, and an admin role handles the database.

CRM Portal contains modules as below.

• Contact Management.
• Notes Management.
• Opportunity Management.
• Proposals Management.
• Project Management.

The supervisors can track all the information uploaded by the sales staff through the modules. This helps the company to grow their business …

Perceptions Of Business Ethics Of Working Adults In Public And Private Sectors, Lavonia L. Crawford

All Capstone Projects

The public sector in Illinois has long been under scrutiny of corruption and ethical misconducts. Therefore, understanding the ethical perceptions of public and private sector employees and the factors that influence them, as well as their ability to exert leadership in society. There has been increased research on business ethics over the years. Ethical issues such as conflict of interest, account and consumer fraud, and bribery have become more complex and culturally diverse (Nguyen, Tran, Mujtaba, & Tran, 2014). The purpose of this study is to investigate how age, gender, nationality, workplace Code of Ethics, business ethics training, longevity with …

Data Processing And The Envision, Venkata Ramya Purgindla

All Capstone Projects

Data is being generated very rapidly due to increase in information in everyday life. Huge amount of data gets accumulated from various organizations that is difficult to analyze and exploit. Data created by an expanding number of sensors in the environment such as traffic cameras and satellites, internet activities on social networking sites, healthcare database, government database, sales data etc., are example of huge data. Processing, analyzing and communicating this data are a challenge. Online shopping websites get flooded with voluminous amount of sales data every day. Analyzing and visualizing this data for information retrieval is a difficult task. There …

Gsu Event Portal, Nanna Ram Parza

All Capstone Projects

The GSU Event Portal is a system that provides the organizers with the tools to create, promote, and sell out the events of all types and sizes. The platform is created under a bootstrap environment which has the feasibility to use in mobile devices and easy to navigate the interface and it also helps the visitors to search for new events and purchase tickets with ease.

GSU Event Portal integrates with Database and incorporates all the features and functionality of admin, organizers and visitors' roles. Database stores all the information related to GSU's existing and newly registered customers. It also …

Home Away From Home, Srinadh Marukulla

All Capstone Projects

People around the community face problems on day-to-day rentals and they end up paying high rents and hotel bills. The Home Away from Home application gives renters a clear picture on how to access the available rentals and their lower pricing. The application also gives rental information to international students who come to the United States to study. The purpose of the application is to provide detailed and user-friendly interaction which lists all the available rooms and pricing in an area for rentals. The main idea is to help renters to overcome the community pricing differences which gives them options …

Gsu Event Portal, Ayub Syed

All Capstone Projects

The GSU Event Portal is a system that provides the organizers with the tools to create, promote, and sell out the events of all types and sizes. The platform is created under a bootstrap environment which has the feasibility to use in mobile devices and easy to navigate the interface and it also helps the visitors to search for new events and purchase tickets with ease.

GSU Event Portal integrates with Database and incorporates all the features and functionality of admin, organizers and visitors' roles. Database stores all the information related to GSU's existing and newly registered customers. It also …

Home Away From Home, Shahina Begum Shaik

All Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

South Carolina State Council Of The International Reading Association (Scira) Records - Accession 1343, State Council Of The International Reading Association, South Carolina

Manuscript Collection

The South Carolina State Council of the International Reading Association (SCIRA) Records consists of correspondence, minutes, newsletters, highlights, bylaws and policies, board meeting goals and committee reports, financial reports and budgets, invoices, conference summaries, conference booklets, SCIRA and IRA memorabilia and promotional, IRA convention booklets, IRA various papers, applications, directories, educational materials, and various articles related to SCIRA and archival preservation methods.

Allosteric Regulation Alters Carrier Domain Translocation In Pyruvate Carboxylase, Yumeng Liu, Melissa M. Budelier, Katelyn Stine, Martin St. Maurice

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Pyruvate carboxylase (PC) catalyzes the ATP-dependent carboxylation of pyruvate to oxaloacetate. The reaction occurs in two separate catalytic domains, coupled by the long-range translocation of a biotinylated carrier domain (BCCP). Here, we use a series of hybrid PC enzymes to examine multiple BCCP translocation pathways in PC. These studies reveal that the BCCP domain of PC adopts a wide range of translocation pathways during catalysis. Furthermore, the allosteric activator, acetyl CoA, promotes one specific intermolecular carrier domain translocation pathway. These results provide a basis for the ordered thermodynamic state and the enhanced carboxyl group transfer efficiency in the presence of …

Adminization: Gatekeeping Consumer Contracts, Yonathan A. Arbel

Articles

Large companies and debt collectors frequently file unmeritorious claims against consumers. Recent high-profile actions brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against J.P. Morgan, Citibank, and other large debt collectors illustrate the breadth and importance of this phenomenon. Due to the limited financial power of individuals, consumers often do not defend against such baseless claims, which results in the entry of millions of default judgments every year. To combat this problem, policymakers and scholars have explored a variety of court-based solutions that would make it easier for consumers to defend in court, but these prove ineffectual.

To solve the problem …

Big Data: Destroyer Of Informed Consent, A. Michael Froomkin

Articles

The 'Revised Common Rule' took effect on January 21, 2019, marking the first change since 2005 to the federal regulation that governs human subjects research conducted with federal support or in federally supported institutions. The Common Rule had required informed consent before researchers could collect and use identifiable personal health information. While informed consent is far from perfect, it is and was the gold standard for data collection and use policies; the standard in the old Common Rule served an important function as the exemplar for data collection in other contexts. Unfortunately, true informed consent seems incompatible with modern analytics …

The Myth Of Free, John M. Newman

Articles

Myths matter. This Article is the first to confront a powerful myth that pervades modern economic, technological, and legal discourse: the Myth of Free. The prevailing view is that consumers capture massive welfare surplus from a flood of innovative new products that are offered free of charge. Economists, legal scholars, and industry stakeholders created an origin story-a myth-to explain how these products became "Free."

But that orthodox origin story is fatally flawed. This Article formalizes, then debunks, the Myth of Free and its underlying assumptions. The Myth is riddled with internal inconsistencies, logical errors, and factual. inaccuracies. In their place, …

Severe Brain Injury, Disability, And The Law: Achieving Justice For A Marginalized Population, Megan S. Wright, Nina Varsava, Joel Ramirez, Kyle Edwards, Nathan Gueveremont, Tamar Ezer, Joseph J. Fins

Articles

Thousands of persons with severe brain injury who are minimally conscious or "locked in" are wrongly treated as if they are unconscious. Such individuals are unable to advocate for themselves and are typically segregated from society in hospitals or nursing homes. As a result, they constitute a class of persons who often lack access to adequate medical care, rehabilitation, and assistive devices that could aid them in communication and recovery. While this problem is often approached from a medical or scientific point of view, here we frame it as a legal issue amenable to legal remedies. This Article comprehensively explores …

Strategic Litigation To Advance Public Health, Tamar Ezer, Priti Patil

Articles

The HIV movement has relied on strategic litigation as an important tool to develop and enforce legal protections critical to health. This experience contains lessons on the potential of strategic litigation to advance public health more generally. Beyond impacting laws and policies, strategic litigation can change practice, breathing life into existing legal rules never implemented. While cases may target a particular law, policy, or practice, indirect impacts beyond a particular court decision on future cases, other branches of government, and the public record may be just as important. Each case is only one step towards change, and a judgment can …

Climate Change Challenges For Land Conservation: Rethinking Conservation Easements, Strategies, And Tools, Jessica Owley, Federico Cheever, Adena R. Rissman, M. Rebecca Shaw, Barton H. Thompson Jr., W. William Weeks

Articles

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Privacy As Trust: Information Privacy For An Information Age (2018), Ari Ezra Waldman

Books

It seems like there is no such thing as privacy anymore. But the truth is that privacy is in danger only because we think about it in narrow, limited, and outdated ways. In this transformative work, Ari Ezra Waldman, leveraging the notion that we share information with others in contexts of trust, offers a roadmap for data privacy that will better protect our information in a digitized world. With case studies involving websites, online harassment, intellectual property, and social robots, Waldman shows how 'privacy as trust' can be applied in the most challenging real-world contexts to make privacy work for …

Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module For Teaching How Science Works, Rebecca M. Price, Kathryn E. Perez

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

Improving students' understanding of how science works requires explicit instruction. Here, we test the efficacy of a module based on two previously published activities (the "Cube Puzzle" and the case study "Asteroids and Dinosaurs") that teach how science works to college science majors. Students also use the How Science Works Flowchart from Understanding Science (http://undsci.berkeley. edu/) to reflect on these activities. To assess the efficacy of this module, we asked students to illustrate the process of science before and after the intervention. After the intervention, students' diagrams were significantly more complex and nonlinear. Students also incorporated more social aspects of …

Vegetation Demographics In Earth System Models: A Review Of Progress And Priorities, Rosie A. Fisher, Charles D. Koven, William R. L. Anderegg, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Michael C. Dietze, Caroline E. Farrior, Jennifer A. Holm, George C. Hurtt, Ryan G. Knox, Peter J. Lawrence

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

Numerous current efforts seek to improve the representation of ecosystem ecology and vegetation demographic processes within Earth System Models (ESMs). These developments are widely viewed as an important step in developing greater realism in predictions of future ecosystem states and fluxes. Increased realism, however, leads to increased model complexity, with new features raising a suite of ecological questions that require empirical constraints. Here, we review the developments that permit the representation of plant demographics in ESMs, and identify issues raised by these developments that highlight important gaps in ecological understanding. These issues inevitably translate into uncertainty in model projections but …

The Behavior Of Jewish Judges: A Theoretical Study Of Religious Decision-Making, Mark Goldfeder, Michael J. Broyde

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Prove You Are Not A Dog: Fostering Social Presence In Online Learning, David J. Mulder

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Learning online can be isolating for students. Some students may prefer to be anonymous—on the outset, at least—until they feel comfortable participating in the course. Many instructors value interaction between students or between the student and the instructor, and without a sense of “presence” in the online classroom, some students will be reticent to participate. It is thus incumbent on instructors and instructional designers to create courses that foster interaction between users to develop this sense of being “a real person” online. This chapter examines the concept of social presence, articulates reasons high social presence is a desirable feature in …

The Right To Two Criminal Defense Lawyers, Bruce A. Green

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Empirical Turn In Family Law, Clare Huntington

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Needs Assessment For Simulation-Based Training Of Emergency Medical Providers In Nebraska, Usa, Nizar K. Wehbi, Rajvi Wani, Yangyuna Yang, Fernando A. Wilson, Sharon J. Medcalf, Brian Monaghan, Jennifer Adams, Paul Paulman

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

Background: Training emergency medical services (EMS) workforce is challenging in rural and remote settings. Moreover, critical access hospitals (CAHs) struggle to ensure continuing medical education for their emergency department (ED) staff. This project collected information from EMS and ED providers across Nebraska to identify gaps in their skills, knowledge, and abilities and thus inform curriculum development for the mobile simulation-based training program.

Methods: The needs assessment used a three-step process: (1) four facilitated focus group sessions were conducted in distinct geographical locations across Nebraska to identify participants' perceived training gaps; (2) based on the findings from the focus group, a …