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A Scientific Approach To Understanding The Head Trauma Endured By A Mixed Martial Arts Fighter, John William Michael Sorbello

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this research is to gain some insight on the type of head trauma an athlete may encounter during mixed martial arts (MMA) competition. These athletes endure continuous blows to the head throughout their training and fighting career. The knowledge obtained from this research may assist MMA athletes and trainers in assessing the way they train, how they compete and, more importantly, how long they choose to compete in their amateur or professional MMA career.

The analysis is performed by first creating a three-dimensional solid model of the human head based on geometric coordinates originally obtained from a …

Regional Sea Level Rise Along The United States Coasts, Alessandra G. Burgos

OES Theses and Dissertations

Over the past several years, there has been several studies focused on reconstructing global mean sea level (GMSL) for the 20th century, along with projecting rates out into the future. Of greater importance for mitigation and adaptation plans, however, is the rate of local or regional sea level (RSL) rise. Ocean dynamics along with changes in Earth’s gravitational field can cause RSL to deviate from the change in GMSL. During the satellite altimeter era covering the past two decades, RSL trends can be four times the global average, with much of this spatial variation due to internal climate variability. Isolating …

Testing A Model Of Servant Leadership's Influence On Follower Outcomes: Exploring Mediation Effects Of Follower Trust And Prosocial Identity, Dante P. Myers

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Servant leadership is beginning to emerge as a premier positive leadership approach in the 21st century. However, recent theoretical propositions detailing the process through which servant leadership impacts outcomes has not been tested. Using the JD-R framework, the present study investigates follower prosocial identity and follower trust as key mediators of the relationship between servant leadership and follower job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behaviors, community citizenship behaviors, and turnover intentions. Research participants included 578 working adults recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) that responded to three surveys separated by approximately one month each. The hypothesized model was tested using …

Factors Influencing Student Enrollment In Career Academy Programs, Whitney Stokes Ketchledge

STEMPS Theses & Dissertations

Career academies are small learning communities that allow high school students to learn their core content in the context of the career field they may be interested in pursuing. This type of learning environment incorporates business and industry and postsecondary institutions so academy students receive academic curricula that prepares them for higher education and allows students to have experiences in the career field. There is considerable research demonstrating strong benefits of the academy model to students and teachers, but there is little indicating why students enroll in the academy and what methods of recruitment may work best.

The purpose of …

Examining The Role Of Behavioral Inhibition In Harsh Parenting Preferences: An Analog Study, Kelsey T. Ellis

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Understanding the cognitive processes involved in harsh parenting behavior would have broad implications for parenting interventions and training programs. Few studies have addressed how parental stressors, specifically infant crying, can influence individuals’ self-regulatory cognitive capacities and ultimately their preference for harsh parenting strategies. Furthermore, little research has explored the link between these cognitive processes and harsh parenting preferences; thus, little work has been done to establish a true causal relationship. This study examined the role of behavioral inhibition in harsh parenting preferences when individuals were exposed to an infant crying noise.

Participants (n = 129) were undergraduate students (Mage = …

Applying Machine Learning To Advance Cyber Security: Network Based Intrusion Detection Systems, Hassan Hadi Latheeth Al-Maksousy

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Many new devices, such as phones and tablets as well as traditional computer systems, rely on wireless connections to the Internet and are susceptible to attacks. Two important types of attacks are the use of malware and exploiting Internet protocol vulnerabilities in devices and network systems. These attacks form a threat on many levels and therefore any approach to dealing with these nefarious attacks will take several methods to counter. In this research, we utilize machine learning to detect and classify malware, visualize, detect and classify worms, as well as detect deauthentication attacks, a form of Denial of Service (DoS). …

"Enemy Of The People": Negotiating News At The White House, Carol Pauli

Faculty Scholarship

How can the press serve as a check on executive power when the president calls it “fake” and the White House denies facts? As journalists debate the right response, this article offers advice from the perspective of a journalist who is now in the legal academy. Drawing on legal scholarship in the field of conflict resolution — as well as literature in journalism and political science — this article analyzes the White House press briefing as a negotiation over both the content of news and the relationship of the press and president. It aims to help the press fulfill the …

The Necessity Of The Good Person Prosecutor, Jessica A. Roth

Articles

In a 2001 essay, Professor Abbe Smith asked the question whether a good person—i.e., a person who is committed to social justice—can be a good prosecutor. Although she acknowledged some hope that the answer to her question could be “yes,” Professor Smith concluded that the answer then was “no”—in part because she saw individual prosecutors generally as having very little discretion to “temper the harsh reality of the criminal justice system.” In this Online Symposium revisiting Professor Smith’s question seventeen years later, my answer to her question is “yes”—a good person can be a good prosecutor.

Goodwill Hunting Gone Bad: Tax Law ’S Outmoded Treatment Of Goodwill, Mitchell L. Engler

Articles

Goodwill reflects the positive consumer association with a business. Goodwill thus overlaps with trademarks and other related assets. This close association impedes the separation of goodwill value from such related assets. Difficulties thus arise when the tax law treats goodwill more (or less) favorably than related intangible assets.For instance, the tax law previously denied any depreciation deductions for goodwill. Business buyers thus often allocated their costs away from goodwill and towards related assets like depreciable customer lists. The IRS responded with the initial “goodwill hunting” wave, challenging taxpayers’ low goodwill valuations. Congress addressed this litigious area in 1993 with new, …

Mitochondrial Dna Replacement: Moral And Halakhic Concerns, J. David Bleich

Articles

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), transmitted from mother to child, have their own genetic code that may cause debilitating genetic diseases. To prevent such unfortunate occurrences, researchers have developed a process enabling them to completely replace an ovum’s mitochondria with mitochondria contributed by a donor. Children born by use of this method have genetic material from both the mitochondrial donor and the birth mother; they are “three-parent babies.” Resultant medical, ethical, legal and theological problems are obvious.

Moreover, this technology may pose significant risks to neonates born of such procedures. Certainly no person has the right to cause harm to a fellow …

A Comparison Of Three Diagnostic Platforms For The Detection Of Influenza A And B In Children, Furqan Kabir, Marvi Tariq, Fatima Aziz, Syed Imran Rizvi, Shahida Qureshi, Syed Asad Ali, Najeeha Talat Iqbal

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: Viral flu is the predominant cause of hospitalization in young children, which invariably leads to enhanced morbidity and mortality in children in developing countries. Initial treatment of viral flu is based on presumptive diagnosis. Bedside testing is not common in clinical settings because of variable sensitivity and specificity of rapid tests in different settings.
Methods: To address this issue, we evaluated the performance of Binax influenza A/B rapid testing kit against two robust molecular platforms (quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction [qRT-PCR] and TaqMan array card [TAC]) in 24 nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, collected from children under 5 years of age. …

Efficient Interconnectivity Among Networks Under Security Constraint, Pankaz Das, Rezoan A. Shuvro, Mahshid Rahnamay-Naeini, Nasir Ghani, Majeed M. Hayat

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Interconnectivity among networks is essential for enhancing communication capabilities of networks such as the expansion of geographical range, higher data rate, etc. However, interconnections may initiate vulnerability (e.g., cyber attacks) to a secure network due to introducing gateways and opportunities for security attacks such as malware, which may propagate from the less secure network. In this paper, the interconnectivity among subnetworks is maximized under the constraint of security risk. The dynamics of propagation of security risk is modeled by the evil-rain influence model and the SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered) epidemic model. Through extensive numerical simulations using different network topologies and interconnection patterns, …

Spectrum Of Complications Of Severe Dka In Children In Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Qalab Abbas, Saba Arbab, Anwarul Haque, Khadija Nuzhat Humayun

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Objectives: To describe the spectrum of complications of Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) observed in children admitted with severe DKA.
Methods: Retrospective review of the medical records of all children admitted with the diagnosis of severe DKA in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of the Aga Khan University Hospital, from January 2010 to December 2015 was done. Data was collected on a structured proforma and descriptive statistics were applied.
Results: Total 37 children were admitted with complicated DKA (1.9% of total PICU admission with 1.8% in 2010 and 3.4% in 2015). Mean age of study population was 8.1±4.6 years and 70% were …

Efficiency Improvement Of Fault-Tolerant Three-Level Power Converters, Ramin Katebi, Jiangbiao He, Waqar A. Khan, Nathan Weise

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Fault-tolerant power converters play a critical role in the transportation electrification. However, fault-tolerant operation, high efficiency, and low cost usually result in design criteria that have conflicting constraints and goals. The majority of the fault-tolerant power converter topologies presented in the literature confirm these conflicts. In this paper, three types of fault-tolerant neutral-point clamped (NPC) converters are investigated. Various modulation strategies are explored to reduce the losses of the redundant phase leg. The simulation and experimental results show that the Switching Frequency Optimal Phase opposition Disposition modulation strategy is the most effective approach in minimizing the losses in the redundant …

Solitary Troubles, Alexander A. Reinert

Articles

Solitary confinement is one of the most severe forms of punishment that can be inflicted on human beings. In recent years, the use of extreme isolation in our prisons and jails has been questioned by correctional officials, medical experts, and reform advocates alike. Yet for nearly the entirety of American history, judicial regulation of the practice has been extremely limited. This Article explains why judges hesitate to question the use of solitary confinement, while also providing a path forward for greater scrutiny of the practice.

Non-Enforcement Takings, Timothy M. Mulvaney

Faculty Scholarship

The non-enforcement of existing property laws is not logically separable from the issue of unfair and unjust state deprivations of property rights at which the Constitution's Takings Clause takes aim. This Article suggests, therefore, that takings law should police allocations resulting from non-enforcement decisions on the same "fairness and justice" grounds that it polices allocations resulting from decisions to enact and enforce new regulations. Rejecting the extant majority position that state decisions not to enforce existing property laws are categorically immune from takings liability is not to advocate that persons impacted by such decisions should be automatically or even regularly …

Assessing The Impact Of A Faculty Book Club On Self-Reflection And Teaching Practice, Scott Moncrieff, Anneris Coria-Navia

Faculty Publications

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Corporate Governance And Bankruptcy, Daniel J.H. Greenwood

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Ordinary corporate law invests enormous authority in corporate leaders, largely without accountability either to those they govern or to the judiciary, in defiance of much of what we know about effective governance procedure. Instead, we rely on the markets in which the corporation participates as the primary check on incumbent officials. Regardless of whether relying on markets is sufficient in the ordinary course, corporate insolvency is the markets' verdict that incumbent management has failed. Accordingly, in bankruptcy and insolvency more generally, the law ought to abandon its ordinary deference to the corporate powers that be and instead impose standard good …

Developing A Social Media Behavior Scale, Heather O. Cissel

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

When the topic of social media usage arises, the connotation is usually negative, with a focus on the negative impact both on the individual and on society (Greysen, Kind, & Chretien, 2010). In response to these perceived negative effects, some researchers have created a Social Media Disorder Scale (Van Den Eijnden, Lemmens, & Valkenburg, 2016) in order to address a diagnostic cutoff for social media disorder. However, relatively less research has been focused on measuring the potentially positive effects of social media on the individual and on society. In an effort to address this issue, the aim of the present …

Outcome Of Traumatic Brain Injury In Children By Using Rotterdam Score On Computed Tomography, Anwarul Haque, Zehra Dhanani, Amin Ali, Basit Salam, Qalab Abbas, Gohar Javed, Humaira Jurair

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: The Rotterdam Score (RS) on CT head is a new evolving clinical tool as a predictor of mortality in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The objective of this study is to assess the outcome of children with TBI admitted in paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a tertiary-care, university hospital by using RS.
Methods: This was a prospective observational study conducted on children (age: 1mo -16yr) with TBI admitted in PICU of Aga Khan University Hospital from 2013 to 2016. RS on CT was calculated by a radiologist. All patients were managed according to according to Paediatric Brain Trauma Foundation …

Remarks On The Uses Of Question Words In Current Thai(ข้อสังเกตการใช้คำแสดงการถามในภาษาไทยปัจจุบัน), Nuntana Wongthai

Journal of Letters

The paper aims to propose the remarks on the uses of question words in Thai in the current time. Not only do theyfunction as a request for information from the addressees, they are also used to indicate other intentions of the speakers, which are considered pragmatically as indirect speech acts. They are also used to perform other functions besides those found in theprevious studies, which are to ensure that the addressees are with the speakers, to mock the addressees, to mean 'very much', to give an opinion and to show the ignorance for addressees' utterances. The paper, moreover, proposes the …

An Application Of Geographic Information System To Analyse Potential Of Postal Service: A Case Study Of Kanchanaburi Province(การประยุกต์ระบบสารสนเทศภูมิศาสตร์เพื่อวิเคราะห์ศักยภาพการให้บริการไปรษณีย์: กรณีศึกษาจังหวัดกาญจนบุรี), Attapon Intarasuwan, Pakorn Meksangsouy, Sathaporn Monprapussorn

Journal of Letters

According to the 2016annual report ofthe Thailand Post Co., Ltd., 80% of the company's income were derived from e-commerce. The income from this business channel has been increasing steadily,affectingan increasing in workload in many post offices. Kanchanaburi Post Office has been facedwith the same problem, which led to ineffectiveperformance such as waitingin along queue and an insufficient numberof post offices. Theaim of this research is to evaluate a potential of service of post offices in Kanchanaburi province by using a Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This research applied 4 related factors:thenumber of deposit services, income from deposit services,coefficient of time for …

Bana: The Poet With Egotism(พาณะ: กวีผู้มีอหังการ), Nawin Vannavach, Chanwit Tudkeao

Journal of Letters

Poetic egotism, defined as confidence of poets' self or works, probably appears in Sanskritliterature since Itihāsaperiod. The concept has previously been focused on works themselves and later on that relating to poet's self since Subandhu, a Sanskrit poet in 6thcentury. Amongst Sanskritpoets, Banashows his own egotism remarkably. It is, therefore, the objective to study characteristic of Bana's poetic egotism represented in his works and the reasons behind the egotism. The findings are Bana is very famous amongst poets in later period. It is noticeable that poets contemporarywith him do not give him any compliments, whereas Bana shows egotism outstandingly, as …

Sentence Structure: An Obstacle To Understanding English Poetry(โครงสร้างประโยค: อุปสรรคในการเข้าใจกวีนิพนธ์ภาษาอังกฤษ), Kris Iamharit, Jiranthara Srioutai

Journal of Letters

This research studies different types of sentence structures regarded as hindrances to an understanding of English poetry amongThai students, especially beginners, and suggests teaching activities to help reduce such problems. The sentence structures hypothesized to present obstacles are syntactic classes, pronoun references, inversion, coordination of noun phrases, verb phrases and adverb-like phrases, and phrasal and clausal modifiers as interrupting modifiers. The researchers designed questions to check the aforementioned grammar points, using three selected poems: Robert Frost's "Out, Out - ," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Cross of Snow," and Dudley Randall's "Ballad of Birmingham." The subjects of the research were English-major …

Speech Rhythm In Luang Phrabang Lao: Comparison Between The Iso And Rm Methods(จังหวะเสียงในภาษาลาวหลวงพระบาง: การศึกษาด้วยวิธี Iso และ Rm), Nantana Ronakiat, Varisa Ostananda, Apinya Hantrakul

Journal of Letters

Speech rhythm is one of the significant prosodic features in language. It refers to rhythmic patterns of utterances which occur at regular intervals of time. The objectives of the present study are twofold. First, it examinesthe structure of the speech rhythm in Luang Phrabang Lao,applying both the Isochrony (ISO) method and the Rhythmic Metrics (RM)method. Second, both the ISO and the RM methods arecompared to investigate their reliability and validity. The hypotheses of this study arethat(1) Luang Phrabang Lao is a stress-timed language and (2) the application of the ISO and the RM methods would lead to similar conclusions about …

รูปแบบการเรียนแบบผสมผสานผ่านสื่อสังคมออนไลน์โดยใช้กระบวนการออกแบบร่วมกับตัวแบบจำลองเพื่อส่งเสริมความสามารถการออกแบบทางทัศนะสำหรับนิสิตนักศึกษาสาขาวิชานิเทศศาสตร์, กุลชัย กุลตวนิช

Journal of Education Studies

การวิจัยในครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) สร้างรูปแบบการเรียนแบบผสมผสาน และ 2) ศึกษาผลการใช้งานรูปแบบการเรียนแบบผสมผสาน กลุ่มตัวอย่างที่ใช้ในการทดลองรูปแบบ คือ นักศึกษาสาขาวิชานิเทศศาสตร์เกษตร สถาบันเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าเจ้าคุณทหารลาดกระบัง ที่ลงทะเบียนเรียนในรายวิชา 04116030 สื่อสิ่งพิมพ์อิเลคทรอนิกส์ ประจำภาคเรียนที่ 2 ปีการศึกษา 2558 จำนวน 28 คน เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลได้แก่ 1) เกณฑ์การประเมินแบบรูบริค และ 2) แบบสอบถาม วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วย ค่าเฉลี่ย ร้อยละ ส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน และการทดสอบค่าที ผลการวิจัยพบว่า รูปแบบการเรียนมีองค์ประกอบทั้งสิ้น 4 องค์ประกอบ ได้แก่ 1) เครื่องมือบนสื่อสังคมออนไลน์ 2) การวัดและประเมินผล 3) เนื้อหาการเรียน และ 4) บทบาทของผู้สอน รูปแบบการเรียนประกอบด้วยขั้นตอนทั้งหมด 5 ขั้นตอน ได้แก่ 1) กำหนดจุดมุ่งหมาย 2) ค้นหาแรงบันดาลใจ 3) สร้างตัวแบบจำลอง 4) นำเสนอตัวแบบ และ 5) พัฒนาผลงาน จากผลการทดลองผู้เรียนมีคะแนนความสามารถการออกแบบทางทัศนะหลังเรียนสูงกว่าก่อนเรียนอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 และมีความคิดเห็นต่อรูปแบบการเรียนอยู่ที่ระดับเหมาะสมมาก

การบูรณาการคุณธรรมในการสอนเพศศึกษาสำหรับนักเรียนมัธยมศึกษา, นวรัตน์ ธัญญศิริ

Journal of Education Studies

รูปแบบการเรียนการสอนเพื่อพัฒนาคุณธรรมของนักเรียนในชั้นเรียนจำนวน 3 รูปแบบ คือ 1) รูปแบบการเรียนการสอนตามแนวคิดการพัฒนาด้านจิตพิสัยของแครทโวล บลูม และมาเซีย 2) รูปแบบการจัดการเรียนรู้แบบโมเดลเลิฟของรศ.ดร.เอมอัชฌา วัฒนบุรานนท์ และ 3) รูปแบบการเรียนการสอน ?คุณธรรมนำความรู้? ของดร.อาจอง ชุมสาย ณ อยุธยา ซึ่งผู้เขียนได้นำมาใช้ในการบูรณาการเข้าไปในการสอนเพศศึกษาระดับชั้นมัธยมศึกษา การจัดการเรียนรู้ได้แบ่งเป็น ขั้นนำ ขั้นสอน ขั้นสรุป โดยเลือกกิจกรรม สื่อต่างๆ ที่น่าสนใจและเหมาะสมกับนักเรียนระดับชั้นมัธยมศึกษา ซึ่งรูปแบบหลักที่ใช้ในการเรียนการสอนนั้น ประกอบด้วย การฝึกสมาธิ การให้ผู้เรียนมีบทบาทในการแสดงความคิดเห็นและตอบคำถาม การเห็นคุณค่าของรายวิชา การเห็นคุณค่าของตนเองและผู้อื่น โดยเป็นการจัดการเรียนรู้ที่เน้นผู้เรียนเป็นสำคัญ และเป็นการจัดการเรียนรู้แบบร่วมมือ รวมถึงผู้สอนควรเป็นแบบอย่างที่ดีของผู้เรียน ทั้งนี้การบูรณาการเพื่อพัฒนาคุณธรรมของผู้เรียนให้มีประสิทธิภาพนั้น จำเป็นต้องใช้เวลาประกอบการพิจารณาด้วย

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