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Mission Product Holdings, Inc. V. Tempnology, Llc, Nka Old Cold Llc: Brief Of Law Professors As Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioner, John A. E. Pottow

Appellate Briefs

Amici, whose names and affiliations are set forth in alphabetical order in the attached Appendix, are law professors who study the United States bankruptcy system. They write solely to share their disinterested views regarding the important question of federal bankruptcy law presented in this case. To the best of their knowledge, no amicus has any financial interest in the outcome of this case.

The First Circuit's decision below inexplicably resuscitates a long-rejected decision-Lubrizol Enters., Inc. v. Richmond Metal Finishers, Inc., 756 F.2d 1043 (4th Cir. 1985) that allowed intellectual property licensors to exploit a bankruptcy filing to unilaterally …

2018-December-17-Bartleby Partnership Announcement, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 17, 2018) – New opportunities are available to students working toward a coveted diploma seal upon graduation from Elizabethton High School as officials at East Tennessee State University signed an agreement Monday guaranteeing admission for Bartleby program participants and setting plans in motion to hold a high school leadership summit in 2019.

The partnership between Elizabethton High School, ETSU’s Office of Admissions in the Division of Enrollment Services and the Division of Student Affairs, will begin fall 2019 when Bartleby students can participate in dual enrollment and leadership development opportunities. The university will also offer additional dual …

Unh Partners With Seacoast Science Center To Help Diagnose Cause Of Deaths Of Marine Mammals, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Representing Outside The Box: Identity-Based Constituencies And Surrogate Representation In U.S. State Legislatures, Julia Hellwege

Political Science ETDs

This project asks: whom do representatives seek to represent and how do they do it? Specifically, I seek to understand how marginalized state legislators define the concept of “constituency” and the implications for their legislative behavior. I argue that marginalization affects legislators through two avenues: socially through their identity, and institutionally through the proportion their identity group holds in the state legislature. I argue that when legislators are marginalized their awareness of identity and identity-based issue needs are prioritized and they will come to define group members as a salient identity constituency. Furthermore, they will seek to represent this salient …

S.O.S. Eisberg Versus S.O.S. Iceberg - Two Nations' Visualizations Of Arctic Landscapes, Kerstin Anne Aloia

English

This project is a comparison of the perspectives on Arctic nature that are featured in the 1933 films S.O.S. Eisberg and S.O.S. Iceberg. I am arguing that the director of each version was influenced by his cultural background in visualizing the relationship between Arctic nature and the white explorers that encounter it in their films. Both Arnold Fanck, who created S.O.S. Eisberg, and Tay Garnett, who created S.O.S. Iceberg, worked with the same documentary footage that was filmed at Greenland's Arctic shores, but turned it into two different films. S.O.S. Eisberg turns the Arctic into a space whose hostile forces …

Metal(Loid) Liberation From Alaskan Coal Combustion Products As A Function Of Time In Various Aqueous Media, Kyle P. Milke

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Little is known about the fate and potential toxicity of metal(loid)s that could be leached from coal combustion products by a (sub- )Arctic environment. Several potentially toxic elements are enriched in coal combustion products relative to the average crustal abundance including As, Cu, Se, and Sb. The overarching goal of this project is to examine the release of these and other metal(loid)s from early stage coal ash and fly ash from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) power plant and identify transformations in the presence of aqueous environmental media. Bioaccessibility experiments performed indicate that early stage coal ash and fly …

Integrating Comprehension Instruction, Multimodalities And Co-Construction Into Cultural Learning, Christine Harrington

Education

This study explores the impact of a story-based approach to teaching reading strategies, and examines the implementation of and co-construction within multimodal activities. Eight third grade students participated in this study in a charter school focused on Alaska Native cultural learning. The phases of the PACE Model focused on transitional words and phrases in the context of a traditional story from the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Alaska. Their attention to the language feature was extended to summarizing and retelling as part of the Extension phase of the model. The results are consistent with previous studies that attributed focus …

Gizmos And Gadgets: A Guidebook Of Technological Resources In The Elementary Classroom, Rachel A. Dobrich

Education

This research examines the implementation of technology in elementary classrooms. Prior research has shown that elementary teachers have more positive perspectives towards technology incorporation when sufficiently trained through pre-service teacher preparation programs and professional development opportunities for existing educators. Adequate technology instruction is necessary because it teaches educators about available resources and how to appropriately and meaningfully incorporate them into their lessons. Teachers need to provide relevant, authentic learning experiences for their students, teaching them how to function in a technological society. Technology has the potential to increase engagement and academic performance. It also allows teachers to create an accessible …

Design Of A Multichannel Outdoor Data Logger For Precise Temperature Measurements, Kirill Dolgikh

Engineering

In this thesis, we present the prototype of a multichannel data logger (the Logger) for precise temperature measurements. Its intended application is to take soil (permafrost) temperature measurements with a thermistor probe or thermistor string. However, its hardware and firmware architectures are quite flexible, so it can be used in other applications. The Logger has 16 channels. In addition to the internal memory, it supports microSD-cards of up to 2 GB, which allows it to store up to 41.9 million measurements for each channel. The Logger's estimated battery life is 8 years when making measurements once per hour. It has …

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Obstacle Detection With Kinect V2 On A Ground Robot, Laurin Fisher

Computer Science

This paper is about determining whether using a Kinect V2 (Xbox One Kinect) mounted on a LAYLA ground robot can be used to detect obstacles, by generating a heightmap with the depth data. We take several factors into consideration including: framerate, power consumption, field of view, and data noise.

Reindeer, Dogs, And Horses Among The Tozhu Reindeer Herder-Hunters In The Siberian Taiga, Tayana Arakchaa

Anthropology

Anthropological studies have typically represented reindeer as the uniquely key domesticated animal species for Siberian people. For Tozhu reindeer herder-hunters, however, such a perspective ignores the important roles of dogs and horses. These species are equally vital and interdependent partners of daily life in the mountainous areas of Tuva where Tozhu people live. Each animal comes with specific characteristics, challenges and benefits that necessitate a multispecies perspective--the reindeer-dog-horse triad of Tozhu hunting and reindeer herding economies. This research completes the picture of how taiga-dwelling Tozhu and the three important animal species co-exist together. It seeks to portray: 1) how the …

Dui Courts: The Need For Standardized Dui Court Evaluations, Howard Cameron

Justice

There have been numerous evaluations of driving under the influence (DUI) treatment courts. The evaluation process and tools vary widely. This research project reviewed seven individual courts' evaluations, including process evaluations and outcome evaluations to determine the strength of each court's evaluation. The research goal was to better understand how these courts are evaluated, the strength of those evaluation processes, and to determine what, if any, changes can and should be made to strengthen them. Presently, there are not any standardized evaluations tools for DUI treatment courts. This research concludes that evaluations should be standardized and such standardization will allow …

Developing An International Child And Family Research Network, Mandie Jane Foster, Linda Shields, Joanna Smith, Sarah Jane Neill

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The international child and family research network includes a wide range of multidisciplinary experts within the field of child health from low, middle and high income countries. This worldwide collaboration will result in recommendations for nursing education, theory, practice and research from an international multicultural perspective.

Do Community Clinic Patients Have Needed Internet Access And Experience To Use The Patient Portal?, Ruth A. Bush, Halsey Barlow, Alexa Perez, Bianca Vazquez, Jonathan Mack, Cynthia D. Connelly

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This study quantified whether patients attending a community clinic in southern California had the technology and internet experience to access the patient portal. There was no association between income and portal use. Computer portal access was associated with likely future use. Computers may permit better internet access and record viewing.

Preliminary Baseline Findings From The Girls Study: Recruitment Venue And Testing Option Preferences, Ann E. Kurth, Irene Inwani, Kawango Agot, Charles M. Cleland, Nok Chhun, Mark Anam, Samwel Rao, John Kinuthia, Peter Cherutich, Ruth Nduati

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

By attending this session, participants will gain knowledge about which testing services adolescent girls and young women prefer and whether they prefer receiving services at home, in the community at a mobile clinic health event or in the health facilities.

Ohio Photojournalism Student Interns At The New York Times: Next Stop, Denmark (December 17, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

No abstract provided.

Alumnus’ ‘Because I Said I Would’ Aims To Change The World Through Promises Made, Kept (December 17, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

No abstract provided.

Being Black And Depressed Double Sucks, Stephanie C. Jones

Student Theses and Dissertations

This paper investigates the ways race and racism mediate perceptions and experiences of depression among young Black Americans living in the New York metropolitan area. Based on 25 in-depth interviews with Black Americans between the ages of 18-28, the research shows that the Black identity exacerbates suffering for participants because it fundamentally changes how depression is lived, felt, and navigated. This study extends research about the lack of cultural competence among American health professionals, stigma surrounding mental illnesses among the Black American community, and the effects of the systematic dehumanization of Black bodies in American society.

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R4 Database Report 1 (Db1) 2017-2018, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R4 Database Report 1 (DB1) for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018. Database Report 1 is defined as "Total Searches, Result Clicks and Record Views by Month and Database." This report presents an annual total only.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results: 808,084 regular searches, 365,398 result clicks, and 277,604 record views for 377 reported databases.

Impact Of Technology On Improving Hiv And Tuberculosis Health Outcomes Among African Countries, Sunny Ibeneme

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

This study used health analytics approach to evaluate the association between population health outcomes and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures at a country level. This study used aggregate data obtained from the World Bank database, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) database for 53 African countries for the periods 2000 to 2016, and quantitatively explored the impact of ICT infrastructures’ diffusion on population health outcomes.

ICT data was obtained from the ITU database. Similarly, population health attributes were retrieved from the World Bank database. ICT infrastructure variables used in this study include: internet access, mobile phone use, and fixed …

A Soaring Success, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Sparked by a trio of $10,000 gifts and donations from “Erma champions” coast to coast, an ambitious “25K in 25 Days” campaign soared past its goal, attracting $37,105 for the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop’s endowment fund.

Seeking Opinion Leaders On Twitter: The #Delete Facebook Campaign, Young Joon Lim, Jennifer Lemanski

Communication Faculty Publications

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, some opinion leaders show their public and personal motive to call for action against Facebook on the Twitter network. This study analyzes the #deletefacebook campaign, seeking opinion leaders who initiate and popularize it on Twitter. By using NodeXL, this study visualizes and identifies the procedures of how a Twitter campaign goes viral by influential people on Twitter.

Examining The Role Of Professional Orientation In How Trustees Of New Jersey's State Colleges And Universities Experience Their Fiduciary Responsibilities: A Mixed Methods Study, Brittany Ann Williams-Goldstein

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this sequential explanatory study was to examine, through the lenses of sensemaking theory and professional authority, the relationship between how largely non-educational professionals in New Jersey experience their fiduciary responsibilities as trustees of the state's public colleges and universities and to what extent their professional orientations influence their oversight.

Trustees draw from a continuum of orientations to navigate their responsibilities and chief among them are professional orientation, institutionally-rooted orientation, and orientations as members of traditionally underrepresented populations. Trustees frequently engage in deferential activities with their fellow board members whose professional or other orientations provide needed context for …

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R4 Book Report 2 (Br2) By Title 2017-2018, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R4 Book Report 2 (BR2) for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018. Book Report 2 is defined as "Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title." This report presents an annual total only.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results: 104,151 successful section requests for 6,475 reported titles.

Sub-Nanometer Coupling Distance Control And Plasmon Enhanced Carrier Generation And Dynamics In Iii-V Semiconductor Heterostructures, Sharmin Haq

Optical Science and Engineering ETDs

Plasmonic modes in metal nanostructures enable light confinement at subwavelength scales. This field confinement is important for exploring the potential of nanotechnology in miniaturization of optics as well as for the advancement of optoelectronic devices, such as photodetectors, photovoltaics, and light-emitting diodes. Plasmon resonances are also ideal for developing ultrasensitive biosensors, and for enhancing surface photochemistry and photocatalysis. The increasing number of plasmon applications requires fundamental understanding of the plasmon coupled system which has not yet been completely understood. Controlling and engineering the plasmon response at the nanoscale will open still more applications in material science, communications, biochemistry and medicine. …

Effect Of Strong Electrolyte Containing Gelling Aids On The Sol-Gel Transition Temperature Of Hypromellose 2910, Elnaz Sadeghi

Biomedical Engineering ETDs

Hypromellose, or hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) - has been widely used for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications due to its advantages, including that it is modifiable in terms of viscosity, and it has the ability to form thermally reversible hydrogels. The thermal gelation temperature (T_Gel) of a given HPMC solution strongly depends on its characteristic grade and the solution concentration. Applying certain additives can modify the T_Gel even further; depending on their nature and concentration. With the addition of said additives, a lower or higher T_Gel can be obtained. For example, the addition of sodium chloride (NaCl) reduces …

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R4 Journal Report 1 (Jr1) 2017-2018, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R4 Journal Report 1 (JR1) for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018. Journal Report 1 is defined as "Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and Journal." This report presents an annual total only.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results: 957,289 successful full-text article requests for 27,451 reported titles.

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R4 Book Report 1 (Br1) By Title 2017-2018, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R4 Book Report 1 (BR1) for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018. Book Report 1 is defined as "Number of Successful Title Requests by Month and Title." This report presents an annual total only.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results: 407 title requests from 316 titles.

Studies Assessing Insulin Signaling Dependent Neuronal Morphology And Novel Animal Sorting Methods In A C. Elegans Model, Skyler C. Hunter

Biological Sciences

The purpose of this work is two-part. The primary goal of this thesis is to identify a list of significant target insulin-like peptides (ILPs) that influence the maintenance of neuronal morphology in an aged animal model of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and determine whether or not morphological changes have bearing on neuronal function. The second goal is to address and devise a solution for a common laboratory difficulty encountered within the research community, difficulty maintaining large age-synchronous populations of the model organism, C. elegans. Chapter 1 discusses the importance of insulin signaling and how it pertains to the morphology of …