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Advertising In A World Full Of Human Trafficking: How Advertising And Human Trafficking Coincide, April M. Cherry Dec 2018

Advertising In A World Full Of Human Trafficking: How Advertising And Human Trafficking Coincide, April M. Cherry

Honors Theses

As a young woman, I have been groomed to worry about the consequences of what I wear, what I say, and how I interact with men. My grandma is constantly sending me emails with new information on sexual assault or kidnapping cases around the area in which I live. I see articles about human trafficking schemes on my news feed almost weekly. As a young woman, I am conditioned to be on guard at all times because the dangers of being abducted or attacked, specifically trafficked, are portrayed to be more likely than they truly are. Why is this? Why …


Practice And Lived Experience Of Menstrual Exiles (Chhaupadi) Among Adolescent Girls In Far Western Nepal. December 2018, Prabisha Amatya, Saruna Ghimire, Karen E. Callahan, Binaya Kumar Baral, Krishna C. Poudel Dec 2018

Practice And Lived Experience Of Menstrual Exiles (Chhaupadi) Among Adolescent Girls In Far Western Nepal. December 2018, Prabisha Amatya, Saruna Ghimire, Karen E. Callahan, Binaya Kumar Baral, Krishna C. Poudel

School of Public Health Faculty Research

Background: Menstrual exile, also known as Chhaupadi, is a tradition of “untouchability” in far-western Nepal. Forbidden from touching other people and objects, women and girls are required to live away from the community, typically in a livestock shed, during menstruation. We assessed the lived experiences of Chhaupadi among Nepalese adolescent girls in the far-western Achham district of Nepal, observed the safety and sanitation of their living spaces during Chhaupadi, and assessed the perceptions of local adult stakeholders towards the practice of Chhaupadi. Methods: We collected data from 107 adolescent girls using a self-administered survey in two local schools in Achham. …


Meta-Analysis Of Non-Reactive Phosphorus In Water, Wastewater, And Sludge, And Strategies To Convert It For Enhanced Phosphorus Removal And Recovery, Kaushik Venkiteshwaran, Patrick J. Mcnamara, Brooke K. Mayer Dec 2018

Meta-Analysis Of Non-Reactive Phosphorus In Water, Wastewater, And Sludge, And Strategies To Convert It For Enhanced Phosphorus Removal And Recovery, Kaushik Venkiteshwaran, Patrick J. Mcnamara, Brooke K. Mayer

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Current and future trends indicate that mining of natural phosphorus (P) reserves is occurring faster than natural geologic replenishment. This mobilization has not only led to P supply concerns, but has also polluted many of the world's freshwater bodies and oceans. Recovery and reuse of this nuisance P offers a long-term solution simultaneously addressing mineral P accessibility and P-based pollution. Available physical, chemical, and biological P removal/recovery processes can achieve low total P (TP) concentrations (≤100 μg/L) and some processes can also recover P for direct reuse as fertilizers (e.g., struvite). However, as shown by our meta-analysis of over 20,000 …


Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (December 10, 2018), Dmacc Dec 2018

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (December 10, 2018), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on December 10, 2018.


State V. Chambers Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 45608 Dec 2018

State V. Chambers Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 45608

Not Reported

No abstract provided.


Testing The Structural Invariance Of Affective Commitment On Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior Across Clan And Hierarchy Organizational Culture Types, Julia A. Fulmore Dec 2018

Testing The Structural Invariance Of Affective Commitment On Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior Across Clan And Hierarchy Organizational Culture Types, Julia A. Fulmore

Human Resource Development Theses and Dissertations

Unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) is concerned with employees’ engagement in unethical conduct for the benefit of the organization that is immoral and/or illegal. Research findings on motivators of UPB show some contradictory findings that need to be resolved. Considering the empirical findings that clan culture discourages unethical behavior while hierarchy culture encourages unethical behavior along with the contradicting empirical findings between affective commitment and UPB based on samples with different cultures, this study sought to empirically assess the contradictory findings in the literature by testing the structural invariance of affective organizational commitment on UPB based on the two organizational of …


Checklist Of Zooplanktons In Different Rivers Of Bajwat Area, Zahid Bhatti, Muhammad Asif Gondal, Asad Ghufran, Andleeb Batool Dec 2018

Checklist Of Zooplanktons In Different Rivers Of Bajwat Area, Zahid Bhatti, Muhammad Asif Gondal, Asad Ghufran, Andleeb Batool

Journal of Bioresource Management

Zooplanktons are important fish and waterfowl food. Limnological studies of Marala Wetlands, a complex created by three rivers, i.e., Jammu Tawi, Chenab and Manawar Tawi, entering Bajwat area located 25 km from North of Sialkot city from state of Jammu and Kashmir, were carried out between October, 2000 to September 2001. This survey was carried out to create a checklist of zooplanktons existing in the study site which would help in future studies relating to aquatic biodiversity and ecological studies of wetlands. A minimum of 25 species of zooplanktons were present in the wetland area, which can be included into …


Violation Of Data Protection Law As An Abuse Of A Dominant Position? The Bundeskartellamt’S Proceedings Against Facebook, Iga Małobęcka-Szwast Dec 2018

Violation Of Data Protection Law As An Abuse Of A Dominant Position? The Bundeskartellamt’S Proceedings Against Facebook, Iga Małobęcka-Szwast

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article attempts to assess the main assumptions of the proceedings initiated in March 2016 by the Bundeskartellamt, the German competition authority, against Facebook, and thus answer the question whether an infringement of data protection law may constitute an abuse of a dominant position under EU competition law. In the wider perspective, the proceedings conducted by the Bundeskartellamt also raise important questions regarding the relationship between competition law and data protection law, including data protection issues in competition law, as well as the competences of antitrust authorities to assess breaches of data protection law.


The Bg News December 10, 2018, Bowling Green State University Dec 2018

The Bg News December 10, 2018, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 10, 2018. Volume 98-Issue 29.


The Value Of 'Having A Go': Trialling A Project-Based Learning Activity To Inform Curriculum Design, Alison Stokes, Nichola Harmer Dec 2018

The Value Of 'Having A Go': Trialling A Project-Based Learning Activity To Inform Curriculum Design, Alison Stokes, Nichola Harmer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.


The Red Top, Grace Campbell Dec 2018

The Red Top, Grace Campbell

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.


Questioning Combatant’S Privilege In Unjust Wars, Harry Van Der Linden Dec 2018

Questioning Combatant’S Privilege In Unjust Wars, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Following international humanitarian law, soldiers who are authorized by their states to fight wars of aggression have a legal right to kill enemy soldiers, and (indirectly) even enemy civilians, as long as they respect such jus in bello norms as discrimination and proportionality. I criticize a variety of arguments in support of this “combatant’s privilege” of aggressor soldiers that maintain that these soldiers have a moral right to kill or are not culpable for their wrongful killing. I also contest some arguments in support of the view that even though soldiers executing wars of aggression may be morally liable for …


A Chance To End Gerrymandering In Virginia, A. E. Dick Howard, Rebecca Green Dec 2018

A Chance To End Gerrymandering In Virginia, A. E. Dick Howard, Rebecca Green

Popular Media

No abstract provided.


Synthesis, Characterization Of Poly Heterocyclic Compounds, And Effect On Cancer Cell (Hep-2) In Vitro., Olfat A. Nief, Ebtihal K. Abdullah, Hala M. G. Alzahawy, Marwa N. Jasim Dec 2018

Synthesis, Characterization Of Poly Heterocyclic Compounds, And Effect On Cancer Cell (Hep-2) In Vitro., Olfat A. Nief, Ebtihal K. Abdullah, Hala M. G. Alzahawy, Marwa N. Jasim

Baghdad Science Journal

A synthesis series of new heterocyclic derivatives (A2-A7) (pyrrole, pyridazine, oxazine and imidazol) derived from 4-acetyl-2,5-dichloro-1-(3,5-dinitrophenyl)-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylate(A1) have been synthesised. Synthesis of compound (A2) by the reaction of starting material (A1) with hydroxyl amine hydrochloride in the presence of pyridine. Compound (A2) was reacted with hydrazine hydrate in dry benzene to give (A3) derivative. The compound )A3( deals with sodium nitrite to give diazonium salt, and the reaction diazonium salt with ethyl acetoacetate to produce compound (A4). To a mixture of compound (A4) and hydroxyl amine with sttired to yield (A5).Compound (A6) was prepared by reaction compound (A4) with thiosemicarbazide in …


A Comparative Study On The Electrical Characteristics Of Generating Plasma By Using Different Target Sources, Sarah K. Taha, Sabah N. Mazhir, Mohammed K. Khalaf Dec 2018

A Comparative Study On The Electrical Characteristics Of Generating Plasma By Using Different Target Sources, Sarah K. Taha, Sabah N. Mazhir, Mohammed K. Khalaf

Baghdad Science Journal

In this research, the electrical characteristics of glow discharge plasma were studied. Glow discharge plasma generated in a home-made DC magnetron sputtering system, and a DC-power supply of high voltage as input to the discharge electrodes were both utilized. The distance between two electrodes is 4cm. The gas used to produce plasma is argon gas which flows inside the chamber at a rate of 40 sccm. The influence of work function for different target materials (gold, copper, and silver), - 5cm in diameter and around 1mm thickness - different working pressures, and different applied voltages on electrical characteristics (discharge current, …


The Detection Of Hazardous Materials Using Genetically Engineered Bacteria, Daniel Wynn Dec 2018

The Detection Of Hazardous Materials Using Genetically Engineered Bacteria, Daniel Wynn

Open Access Dissertations

The development of technology that can be used to quickly and reliably assay a wide variety of matrices for the presence of specific small molecules has long been a high priority for scientists. These methods are valuable tools that see use in many fields, including biomedicine and environmental analysis. Although many contemporary technologies exist, their use is, for the most part, limited by their expense, required instrumentation, and long assay times. In an effort to address these limitations, many examples of biotechnology have been produced and this interest in biosensors continues. Herein, a number of projects to develop new bioanalytical …


Reconstruction In The Big Easy: The Changing Interpretations Of The Role Of Race During Reconstruction In New Orleans, Claire Sullivan Dec 2018

Reconstruction In The Big Easy: The Changing Interpretations Of The Role Of Race During Reconstruction In New Orleans, Claire Sullivan

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

This historiography essay was the final assignment of my ASI 120 (Core Program) course at the University of Dayton. In preparation for the paper, I read A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner. After reading and reflecting on Foner’s book, I decided I wanted to focus my topic on Reconstruction in New Orleans, with specific emphasis on racial issues and the New Orleans Riot. I chose this topic because it allowed me to further research a topic relating to social justice with respect to race relations, something I am very passionate about. I spent a great deal of …


A Tale As Old As Time: Changing Interpretations Of Democratic And Republican Polarization During Reconstruction, Dawson J. Vandervort Dec 2018

A Tale As Old As Time: Changing Interpretations Of Democratic And Republican Polarization During Reconstruction, Dawson J. Vandervort

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

This paper started in the beginning of the 2018 spring semester with the reading of Eric Foner's A Short History of Reconstruction. This book started with a historiography, which students modeled their own off of, and continued with an extremely detailed documentation of Reconstruction. After this my instructor had the class propose a topic and choose 15 relevant sources. Then the class chose 8 sources to create an annotated bibliography with. In March I began the writing process slowly and tediously, but competition with a friend created a positive and fun environment. As we worked, we read our papers to …


Neuroimaging Of Cognitive Flexibility: Task Validity And Clinical Applications, Dina R. Dajani Dec 2018

Neuroimaging Of Cognitive Flexibility: Task Validity And Clinical Applications, Dina R. Dajani

Open Access Dissertations

A key challenge for cognitive neuroscience is the development and validation of tasks that capture real-world cognitive phenomena and render them suitable for investigation within an MRI environment. Cognitive flexibility is necessary for a range of adaptive behaviors and is associated with optimal life outcomes, but as a psychological construct it has been difficult to operationalize and validate. Crucially, psychometrically validated tasks must be developed prior to their application to clinical populations to investigate the neural substrates of cognitive inflexibility. Here, we address these limitations by adapting a well-validated laboratory measure of cognitive flexibility to the scanner environment (Study I) …


[2018-12-07] Meeting Of The Audit And Compliance Committee, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors Dec 2018

[2018-12-07] Meeting Of The Audit And Compliance Committee, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.


December 7, 2018: Needed: A Party Of Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2018

December 7, 2018: Needed: A Party Of Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Needed: A Party of Democracy“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Faculty Senate Minutes 2018-12-07, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Senate. Dec 2018

Faculty Senate Minutes 2018-12-07, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Faculty Senate Agenda 2018-12-07, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Senate. Dec 2018

Faculty Senate Agenda 2018-12-07, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Search For Subsolar-Mass Ultracompact Binaries In Advanced Ligo’S First Observing Run, Robert Coyne, Et Al Dec 2018

Search For Subsolar-Mass Ultracompact Binaries In Advanced Ligo’S First Observing Run, Robert Coyne, Et Al

Physics Faculty Publications

We present the first Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo search for ultracompact binary systems with component masses between 0.2  M⊙–1.0  M⊙ using data taken between September 12, 2015 and January 19, 2016. We find no viable gravitational wave candidates. Our null result constrains the coalescence rate of monochromatic (delta function) distributions of nonspinning (0.2  M⊙, 0.2  M⊙) ultracompact binaries to be less than 1.0×106  Gpc−3  yr−1 and the coalescence rate of a similar distribution of (1.0  M⊙, 1.0  M⊙) ultracompact binaries to be less than 1.9×10 …


Usa V. Robert Taylor, Iii Dec 2018

Usa V. Robert Taylor, Iii

2018 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Sylvester Ekwunife V. City Of Philadelphia Dec 2018

Sylvester Ekwunife V. City Of Philadelphia

2018 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Hugo Castellanos Monzon V. Ingrid De La Roca Dec 2018

Hugo Castellanos Monzon V. Ingrid De La Roca

2018 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey


Daily Eastern News: December 07, 2018, Eastern Illinois University Dec 2018

Daily Eastern News: December 07, 2018, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.


The Circulation Of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical And Networking Strategies On Facebook, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Denise Tillery Dec 2018

The Circulation Of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical And Networking Strategies On Facebook, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Denise Tillery

Communication Studies Faculty Research

This study uses a topical, rhetorical approach to analyze how climate change denial circulates online through the 25 most popular posts on the Watts Up With That and the Global Warming Policy Forum Facebook pages. These groups adopt the appearance of credibility through reposting and hyperlinking, thus establishing a supportive, networked space among other skeptical sites, while distancing readers from original sources of scientific information. Visitors use a variety of rhetorical strategies to echo posts’ main themes and to discredit alternative viewpoints. Differences between the topoi and rhetorical strategies of WUWT and the GWPF show that the climate change denial …


Northern Monticello Alliance, Llc, A Utah Limited Liability Company, Plaintiff/ Appellant V. San Juan County Commission, A Political Subdivision Of The State Of Utah, Defendants/ Appellees : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals Dec 2018

Northern Monticello Alliance, Llc, A Utah Limited Liability Company, Plaintiff/ Appellant V. San Juan County Commission, A Political Subdivision Of The State Of Utah, Defendants/ Appellees : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from a 28 February 2018 Order D enying Petitioner's Motion for Summary Judgm ent and Granting R espondents' Cross-motion for Summary Judgm ent in the Utah Seventh District Court, Monticello Department, San Juan County, by the Honorable Lyle R. Anderson.