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Joint Law-Business Case Study Competition Program, Canada-United States Law Institute

Canada-United States Law Journal

The article offers information on Joint Law-Business Case Study Competition project. It mentions about competition will provide law students growth of interdisciplinary learning; and will provide Canada-United States Law Institute and its supporting institutions with a unique student competition experience of Moot Court model. It also mentions about use of negotiation agreements in commercial law.

Crossing The Line: Law Of War And Cyber Engagement - An Introduction, Jonathan Meyer

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Cybersecurity And Data Protection: A Study On China's New Cybersecurity Legal Regime And How It Affects Inbound Investment In China, Chen Ji

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

La Agresión Como Punto De Contacto Entre El Derecho Internacional De Los Derechos Humanos Y El Derecho Internacional Humanitario, Luciano Pezzano

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

The State Of Investor-State Arbitration: A Reality Check Of The Issues, Trends, And Directions In Asia-Pacific, Julien Chaisse, Rahul Donde

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

The Future Legal Management Of Mass Migration, Jack I. Garvey

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

The Oecd/G20-Beps-Project And The Value Creation Paradigm: Economic Reality Disemboguing Into The Interpretation Of The Arm's Length Standard, Stanley Langbein, Max R. Fuss

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Facing The Unravelling Of Reform: Domestic And International Perspectives On The Changing Role Of China's Rights Lawyers, Martin S. Flaherty

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Teaching Life Lessons: When Millennials Fail, Jeffrey Ramirez, Janalee Isaacson, Deborah Smith, Brenda Senger

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Background: Students who fail may face feelings of diminished self-perception, decreased sense of achievement, and experience negative emotions or moods such as: guilt, embarrassment, thoughts of reoccurring failure, feeling of letting others down or disappointing teachers and parents.

Aim: This paper is to discusses the topic of failure and providing thoughts and reflections on the topic. The authors believe that faculty can help students learn to fail and also maintain their self-worth and dignity. Helping students learn from these failures and promoting resilience and humility when faced with life adversities may be one of the best lifelong lessons faculty …

Nupt St-Data Miner: An Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis And Visualization System, Zhiqiang Zou, Junjie Xiong, Xuerong He, Haihong Dai

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Given the increasing popularity and availability of location tracking devices, large quantities of Spatio-Temporal data (ST-data) are available from many different sources. For the ST-data, reflecting the mobile characteristic of the world, it is essential to build a functional system to perform quickly interactive analysis. In this paper, we present an analysis and visualization system, NUPT ST-data Miner, which facilitates users to visualize and analyze ST-data. It (1) provides a flexible and extensible framework based on cloud computing platform, (2) is able to quickly retrieve specified ST-data, (3) integrated multiple functions for the ST-data. To demonstrate its efficiency, we validate …

Inequities In Antenatal Care, And Individual And Environmental Determinants Of Utilization At National And Sub-National Level In Pakistan: A Multilevel Analysis, Ambreen Sahito, Zafar Fatmi

Community Health Sciences

Background: Nationally representative surveys are vital for gauging progress in health and planning health services. However, often marred with inadequate analysis to provide any guidance to health policy and planning. Most recent Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2012-2013 is an inclusive nationally representative investigation. Nonetheless, its published report offers limited evidence regarding antenatal care (ANC). Furthermore, after 18th constitutional amendment, policies are principally made at provincial level in Pakistan; therefore, it is imperative to have contextual evidence at sub-national level to feed programs and policies.
Methods: We analysed 7142 women with a recent birth, to assess the …

Recorded Objects: Time Based, Technologically Reproducible Art, 1954-1964, Gerald J. Hartnett

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Illuminating experimental, time-based, and technologically reproducible art objects produced between 1954 and 1964 to represent “the real,” this dissertation considers theories of mediation, ascertains vectors of influence between art and the cybernetic and computational sciences, and argues that the key practitioners responded to technological reproducibility in three ways. First of all, writers Guy Debord and William Burroughs reinvented appropriation art practice as a means of critiquing retrograde mass media entertainments and reportage. Second, Western art music composer Richard Maxfield mobilized chance techniques and indeterminacy to resist scientific and philosophical determinism’s pervasive influences upon post-1945 art and life. Third, author and …

Understanding Nitrogen Uptake In The Rhizosphere Of A Mycorrhizal Fungus And Plant System, Tiffany Whitney Victor

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The mechanistic links between plants and growth promoting micro-organisms in an eco-system involved in the production of biomass are currently very poorly understood. Observing the nutrient changes in the rhizosphere is a key step to understanding the molecular dynamics involved in these symbiotic interactions and nutrient pathways that facilitate plant growth. To study such a nutrient flow, a new application of Fourier Transform Infrared Imaging (FTIRI) was developed that entailed growing Populus tremuloides seedlings on a thin, nutrient-enriched Phytagel matrix that allows pixel to pixel measurement of the distribution of nutrients, in particular, nitrate and ammonium and sucrose added as …

Using Instructed Response Times To Compare Inattentive Responding Across Paper And Online Modalities: Measuring Research Participant Inattention, Olivia B. Brooks

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

It is important to examine the equivalence of paper and online data collection methods across several domains. The current study compared paper versus online modalities from a data quality standpoint, with a specific focus on inattentive (i.e., careless) responding by using an easily-implemented method to capture participants’ careless responses: interspersing instructed response items (e.g., “Please select option 3, ‘Strongly disagree,’”) throughout a collection of 15 established measures. A between-subjects design compared the percentage of instructed response items missed (hence, inattentive responses) across three conditions: 1) lab paper, 2) lab online, and 3) non-lab online. The non-lab online condition was predicted …

2018 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases from January of 2018.

2018 February, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for February of 2018.

Library Annual Report, W. Bede Mitchell

Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Scaling Out Evidence-Based Interventions Outside The U.S. Mainland: Social Justice Or Trojan Horse?, Melanie M. Domenech-Rodriguez, Ana A. L. Baumann, Alejandro L. Vázquez, Nancy G. Amador-Buenabad, Natalie Franceschi Rivera, Nydia Ortiz-Pons, J. Rubén Parra-Cardona

Psychology Faculty Publications

Global health disparities continue to widen as professional standards for effectiveness of mental health services provision become more precise and difficult to achieve across varied economic and social contexts. Within the U.S., health disparities are evident in Latinx populations. Globally, the health disparities are also evident in Latin America as compared to the U.S. and other economically affluent nations. The diversification of psychology in content and persons has led to a unique opportunity to build bridges that can help reduce disparities in- and outside of the U.S. mainland. Collaborations can be of great use in addressing health disparities internationally but …

Effects Of Acceptance And Commitment Therapy On Impulsive Decision Making, Kate L. Morrison, Brooke M. Smith, Clarissa W. Ong, Eric B. Lee, Jonathan E. Friedel, Amy L. Odum, Gregory J. Madden, Thomas Ledermann, Jillian M. Rung, Michael P. Twohig

Psychology Faculty Publications

This study examined the transdiagnostic effect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on impulsive decision making in a community sample. Forty adults were randomized to eight individual sessions of ACT or an inactive control. Participants completed pre-, mid-, and post-assessments for psychological symptoms, overall behavior change, valued living, delay discounting, psychological flexibility, and distress tolerance. Data were analyzed with multilevel modeling of growth curves. Significant interaction effects of time and condition were observed for psychological flexibility, distress tolerance, psychological symptoms, and the obstruction subscale of valued living. No significant interaction effect was found for two delay discounting tasks nor the …

Digital Humanities As Community Engagement: The Digital Watts Project, Melanie Hubbard, Dermot Ryan

Librarian Publications & Presentations

The Digital Watts Project was a graduate-level English class taught in summer of 2016 that focused on the 1965 Watts “Uprising” or “Riots.” The class worked with the Southern California Library (SCL) to make available, through a digital public humanities project, primary sources intended to expand the narrative around the events of 1965, and to situate them in a broader context of the history of race and racism in Los Angeles. Exploring the ways in which our background in the humanities could positively enrich our work with the SCL, Melanie Hubbard, a Digital Scholarship Librarian at Loyola Marymount University, and …

Objection: Psychological Perspectives On Jurors' Perceptions Of In-Court Attorney Objections, Krystia Reed, Brian H. Bornstein

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Increased Learning Time On Economically Disadvantaged Students At An Urban Elementary School, Scott M. Larkin

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

At an urban school district, administrators were concerned about the English language arts (ELA) achievement gap between economically disadvantaged (ED) students and non-economically disadvantaged (NED). To address this gap in performance, district administrators instituted an extended day program (EDP) for ED students that included additional learning time and individualized strategies in ELA. The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of the impact that the EDP had on ED students in ELA achievement. The quasi-experimental quantitative design was guided by Carroll's model of school learning and explored the difference in ELA Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College …

Synthesis Of Acetamide Derivatives Of 1,2,4-Triazole Bearing Azinane And Their Binding Interactions With Bovine Serum Albumin Using Spectroscopic Techniques, Javed Iqbal, Aziz Ur Rehman, Muhammad Athar Abbasi, Sabahat Zahra Siddiqui, Hira Khalid, Sabina Jhaumeer Laulloo, Nausheen Joondan, Aniisah Banu Taupass, Shahid Rasool, Syed Adnan Ali Shah

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

A new series of acetamide derivatives containing 1,2,4-triazole and azinane moieties has been synthesized and characterized using $^{1}$H NMR, $^{13}$C NMR, IR, and EI-MS spectroscopic analysis. The intermediate triazole was synthesized through a sequential synthesis of carboxylate and carbohydrazide. The bovine serum albumin (BSA) binding of the newly synthesized 1,2,4-triazole derivatives was evaluated along with thermodynamics, site-selective binding, and synchronous study. The results obtained by BSA binding as well as thermodynamic studies justify that all the compounds show spontaneous interaction with BSA and could be effectively distributed and eliminated from the body. Therefore, the triazole-based analogs might be a useful …

Perceptions Of Obese African American Women Regarding Altering Traditional Soul Food Preparation, Patricia Young

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

The obesity epidemic continues to be a major concern in the United States. The World Health Organization reported that 1.4 billion adults were either obese or overweight African American (AA) women have the highest incidence of obesity worldwide. A qualitative descriptive study was used to explore the perceptions of obese AA women about altering how they prepare soul food to make it healthier. The empowerment model and the health belief model were used to frame this study. Data were collected using a nonprobability purposeful sampling strategy. The sample for this study consisted of four focus groups with six to seven …

Trajectories Of University Of Ibadan Undergraduates’ Exposure To Cyber Pornography, Haleemah B. Adebayo, Usman A. Ojedokun

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

Cyber pornography is fast gaining ground in the Nigerian cyber environment with undergraduate students among its major consumers. Against this background, this study investigated the trajectories of University of Ibadan undergraduates’ exposure to cyber pornography. Containment theory was used as a theoretical framework. Data were collected from 250 respondents through surveys and in-depth interviews. Respondents’ selection was achieved through a multistage sampling technique. Findings revealed that browsing for academic materials (37.0%) and Internet surfing (35.0%) were the major online activities predisposing respondents to cyber pornography. The majority of the respondents (78.3%) identified sex videos and nude pictures as the most …

Altered Myelination As A Proposed Mechanism For Neurocognitive Dysfunction Observed In Mice With Tyrosinemia Type 1, Marissa E. Moore

Theses

The exact mechanism behind the recent reports of impaired neurocognitive function in individuals with the rare genetic disorder Hereditary Tyrosinemia Type I (HT1) has yet to be determined. This disorder stems from lack of expression of the gene fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH), which is responsible for tyrosine catabolism. This subsequently leads to a buildup of tyrosine and associated harmful metabolites that will cause sever liver dysfunction and cancer if treatment is not provided. The drug 2-[2-nitro-4-(trifluoromethylbenzoyl) cyclohexane-1,3-dione (NTBC) has proven to be effective in stopping the negative consequences on the liver and kidneys by inhibiting an enzyme upstream in the metabolic …

Significant News Detection, Diwas Sharma

Theses

Social media platforms nowadays have a large number of fake or false news which have been misleading and negatively impacting viewers. In order to combat the problem, being able to differentiate important news stories which need to be verified from unimportant news stories which need not, would be a decent starting point. In this thesis, we introduce “significant news” and define it as news that affects a large number of people, changes the routines of daily life, and needs verification on the information presented. This thesis then explores if it is possible to construct a classifier for detecting the significant …

Nobody Wanted To Speak On The True Disposition Of The World : Challenging American Historical Narratives In The Underground Railroad, Tia J. Smith

Theses

The Underground Railroad borrows from the logic of science fiction, the epic, and the historical novel to both critique American post racialism and to upend the nation’s incomplete historical narrative of social progress. This thesis begins with approaching sf using the novel’s racial influences to contemplate science fiction criticism. It then examines the text’s adoption of the genre’s critical apparatus as a method to explore contemporary American racial politics. I analyze the novel’s structure, use of primary sources, and reenactments of historical events, interpreting them as tools to illustrate the novel’s view of the United States as an institution mired …

Characterization Of Direct Metal Deposition (Dmd) Bimetallic Interfaces, Ryan Anderson

Theses

Direct metal deposition (DMD), also known as free-form additive manufacturing (AM), is a process using either a blown powder or wire-feedstock and generally based on a robotic arm or CNC platform. These AM methods provide the crucial advantage of having the ability to build outside of a box, allowing for larger builds, and the capability to use multiple metals to produce bimetallic builds. In this study, the abilities of both wire-fed and blown powder DMD to produce bimetallic components were investigated focusing on the interface formed between copper (Cu) alloy C18150 and DMD AM deposited nickel (Ni) based superalloy Inconel …

The Miseducation Of Irie Jones In Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Amanda S. Medlock

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In this essay, I will discuss Carter G. Woodson’s notion of the “mis-education” black Americans face and its applicability in British novelist, Zadie Smith’s, debut novel, White Teeth. This novel shows how mis-education affects four generations of female Caribbean migrants. My analysis emphasizes how this mis-education shapes the life of Smith’s character, Irie Jones. Throughout the text, Irie suffers from low self-esteem due to her cultural rootlessness. I attribute this rootlessness to the mis-education inherited from her female predecessors. Ultimately, I explore how instead of defeating this familial baggage, she falls victim to it.