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Bio-Based Thiol-Ene Polymer Electrolytes, Elyse Antonia Baroncini

Theses and Dissertations

Industrial and consumer demand for smaller and safer technologies motivates a global research effort to improve electrolytic polymer separators in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). To incorporate the aromatic structural advantages of lignin, an abundant and renewable resource, into polymer electrolytes, molecules that can be derived from lignin are functionalized and UV-polymerized with multifunctional thiol monomers. Monomer aromaticity, thiol molecular weight, and total functionality are varied, allowing for analysis of the relationships between polymer structure and electrochemical properties.

The synthesized polymers display conductivities on the order of 10^-5 S/cm for gel polymer electrolytes and 10^-4 S/cm for solid polymer electrolytes, comparable to …

Vista: March 21, 2019, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

A Robust Decision Support Leader-Follower Framework For Design Of Contamination Warning System In Water Distribution Network, Mohammad S. Khorshidi, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, Elham Ebrahimi, Mojtaba Sadegh

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

In recent years, several models have been proposed to inoculate Water Distribution Systems (WDS) against impacts of accidental and/or intentional compromised water quality through optimal deployment of online monitoring sensors in the network, which is referred to as Contamination Warning Systems (CWS). Translating such modeling efforts to real-world practice is, however, a challenge as different involved parties may pursue conflicting goals and modeling-based recommendations may not justify all stakeholders’ criteria. It is, hence, pivotal to develop conflict resolution methodologies to support engagement of different stakeholders in securing a safe water distribution. The decision making structure for CWS design is often …

Founder's Day 2019, Sacred Heart University

Founder's Day Programs

Program for the March 20, 2019 Founder's Day ceremony.

State V. Hansen Clerk's Record Dckt. 46805

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 42, Issue 7, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: A walkout against gun violence -- Data diode day -- Career development internship fair -- Cuban officials deny causing brain illness -- Police officer to professor -- Alpha Tau Omega laughs for awareness -- Graduate student advisory committee -- Annual Irish dance showcase -- Men's lacrosse players selected in major league lacrosse draft -- Woman's basketball competes in NEC tournament

Volume 116, Number 14 - Tuesday, March 19, 2019, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

No abstract provided.

Pharmaceutical Price Gouging: The Need For Direct Regulation On The Gray Market, Nicole Rende

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

(Excerpt)

This Note proposes federal legislation that will ultimately shut down the Pharmaceuticals gray market. The federal government should directly regulate the gray market and the price gouging mechanisms used. Congress should pass the Fair Accountability and Innovative Research Drug Pricing Act of 2016, currently proposed. This Act will increase price transparency and provide a civil penalty for wrong doers. In addition to the passage of this Act, there needs to be a direct attack on the gray market by creating an act that does not allow companies to participate in these distributions and ultimately form monopolies. This act needs …

2019-03-18 Meeting Notes Of The Educational Leadership Council, University Of Dayton

Educational Leadership Council (ELC) Meeting Notes

Approved notes of a meeting of the Educational Leadership Council of the University of Dayton.

Framing And Immigration Through The Trump Era, Rudy Alamillo, Chris Haynes, Raul Madrid

Political Science Faculty Publications

For the last decade, undocumented or illegal immigration has been one of the most contested policy issues in the United States, with significant news attention on policies affecting the undocumented population, ranging from deportations to comprehensive immigration reform, the DREAM Act, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Despite these prominent and multifaceted policy debates, scholarship on media framing and public opinion remain more focused on the portrayal of immigrants rather than policies affecting them. In general, we find that policy frames are far more consequential to public opinion than equivalency frames (variations in how news media describe unauthorized immigrants, either …

Essays On Education And Crime, Swarup Joshi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Education is considered one of the most important tools for success in the labor market. The benefits of education extend to multiple other externalities. However, access to education is not universal even within the same school, county, and state. This dissertation includes three different essays which looks at the literature on intervention programs, an intervention program to increase access to post secondary education, and impact of education on crime. The first chapter investigates the literature on intervention programs, their costs and impacts. It also discusses the literature connecting education and crime. The second chapter details the intervention program studied in …

Enhancement Of Hydrothermally Co3o4 Thin Films As H2s Gas Sensor By Loading Yttrium Element, Suhad A. Hamdan, Iftikhar M. Ali

Baghdad Science Journal

The gas sensing properties of Co3O4 and Co3O4:Y nano structures were investigated. The films were synthesized using the hydrothermal method on a seeded layer. The XRD, SEM analysis and gas sensing properties were investigated for Co3O4 and Co3O4:Y thin films. XRD analysis shows that all films are polycrystalline in nature, having a cubic structure, and the crystallite size is (11.7)nm for cobalt oxide and (9.3)nm for the Co3O4:10%Y. The SEM analysis of thin films obviously indicates that Co3O4 possesses a nanosphere-like structure and a flower-like structure for Co3O4:Y. The sensitivity, response time and recovery time to a H2S reducing gas …

Deportations Past, Deportations Present, Allison Crennen-Dunlap, César Cuauhtémoc, Garcia Hernández

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing: Torrie Hester, Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy;

Explicit Bias: Why Criminal Justice Reform Requires Us To Challenge Crime Control Strategies That Are Anything But Race Blind, Jonathan Simon

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court; Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

Welcome To The Gun Show: Will The Court Make A Killing In The Name Of “Self-Defense?” The Circuit Split Over “Core” Rights Under The Second Amendment, R. Betsy Emmert

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

Political Discrimination By Private Employers, R. George Wright

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law’S Enterprise: Argumentation Schemes & Legal Analogy, Brian N. Larson

University of Cincinnati Law Review

Reasoning by legal analogy has been described as mystical, reframed by skeptics using the deductive syllogism, and called “no kind of reasoning at all” by Judge Posner. Arguments by legal analogy happen every day in courtrooms, law offices, and law school classrooms, and they are the essence of what we mean when we talk of thinking like a lawyer. But we have no productive and normative theory for creating and evaluating them. Entries in the debate over the last twenty-five years by Professors Sunstein, Schauer, Brewer, Weinreb, and others leave us at an impasse: the “skeptics” are too focused on …

Move Forward. Make Change Happen!, Shelley Zalis, Sarita Maybin, Mary Mcdonnell

Women's Summit Presented by Bryant University

The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have drawn significant attention to the sexual harassment and discrimination that women encounter across many industries. Women were empowered to join these movements by women – and men – who courageously and publicly revealed the shocking experiences they experienced from high-powered executives, particularly in the film, stage, and television industries. The groundswell of these movements has provided women with a sense of unity and the confidence to move forward.

On November 1, thousands of Google employees walked off the job to protest what they said was “the tech giant’s mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations against …

Privacy Without Screens & The Internet Of Other People’S Things, Meg Leta Jones

Idaho Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lake Lanier And The Corps: How Adaptive Management Could Help In The Acf System, Heather Payne

Idaho Law Review

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Impacts Of Predictor Variables On Success In A Mental Health Diversion Program, Amanda P. Wolfson, Danielle Horrigan Millen, David B. Detullio, Thomas D. Kennedy, Michael De Lucca

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

Since the first Mental Health Court (MHC) in 1997, there has been a steady increase of MHCs all over the country. With the introduction of these new specialty courts have also come to introduction of diversion programs. Diversion programs work to connect offenders who have mental illnesses to community-based mental health treatment services as an alternative to incarceration. Typically, with the completion of the program comes with the benefit of having their charges dropped. Diversion programs aim to reduce recidivism in offenders with mental illness and improve their access to treatment.

Human Rights In International Criminal Proceedings—The Impact Of The Judgment Of The Kosovo Specialist Chambers Of 26 April 2017, Göran Sluiter

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

By their very nature, international criminal tribunals will in their operation impact individual rights, such as the right to liberty and the right to a fair trial. Without a constitution and without a history in developing due process norms, international criminal tribunals have to provide for instant incorporation of human rights in their respective criminal proceedings.

However, the circumstances under which international criminal tribunals are established are often complex, while at the same time their creation is considered to be a matter of urgency. As a result, there may not always be sufficient attention to human rights law’s position and …

Law's Enterprise: Argumentation Schemes & Legal Analogy, Brian N. Larson

Faculty Scholarship

Reasoning by legal analogy has been described as mystical, reframed by skeptics using the deductive syllogism, and called “no kind of reasoning at all” by Judge Posner. Arguments by legal analogy happen every day in courtrooms, law offices, and law-school classrooms, and they are the essence of what we mean when we talk of thinking like a lawyer. But we have no productive and normative theory for creating and evaluating them. Entries in the debate over the last 25 years by Professors Sunstein, Schauer, Brewer, Weinreb, and others leave us at an impasse: The ‘skeptics’ are too focused on the …

Multinomial Logit Analysis Of Injury Severity In Crashes Involving Emotional Drivers, Kristen Hubbert

Research Horizons Day Posters

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Developmental Enrichment Of The Seattle Children's Playgarden, Caitlin Koob

Honors Theses

This paper analyzes the opportunities for developmental enrichment, as provided by the Seattle Children’s PlayGarden, from the perspective of occupational therapy. The PlayGarden, located in Seattle, Washington, is an inclusive playground, preschool, and summer camp that promotes inclusion of children with disabilities. The analysis highlights each area of occupation, as identified in the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, and discusses the garden’s contribution to facilitate growth in those specific skills (American Occupational Therapy Association [AOTA], 2014). The intentionality of the design and program structure advocates for children to maximize their independence in activities of daily living, despite the play-based approach. …

Accommodating Competition: Harmonizing National Constitutional And Antitrust Commitments, Jonathan B. Baker

William & Mary Law Review

This Article shows how the norm supporting governmental action to protect and foster competitive markets was harmonized with economic rights to contract and property during the 19th century, and with the development of the social safety net during the 20th century. It explains why the Constitution, as understood today, does not check the erosion of the entrenched but threatened national commitment to assuring competitive markets.

Class Notes/Depaul Pride

DePaul Magazine

Class notes of alumni news and photos.

Prospectus, March 14, 2019, Parkland College, Katherine Majewski, Paul Benson, Emma Fleming, Ayla Mcdonald, Nic Hansen, Katrina Halfaker

Prospectus 2019

Parkland Fire Alarms Spark Concerns, Kendra McClure Teaching Mass Communication and Advising at AMP, Parkland College Foundation Surpasses $50,000 Goal, Irish Food, Music and Storytelling at Sylvia's Irish Inn, Discover India in Foellinger, The "Go Bag" You'll Need: Hospital Edition,

Surface Fire To Crown Fire: Fire History In The Taos Valley Watersheds, New Mexico, Usa, Lane B. Johnson, Ellis Q. Margolis

Aspen Bibliography

Tree-ring fire scars, tree ages, historical photographs, and historical surveys indicate that, for centuries, fire played different ecological roles across gradients of elevation, forest, and fire regimes in the Taos Valley Watersheds. Historical fire regimes collapsed across the three watersheds by 1899, leaving all sites without fire for at least 119 years. Historical photographs and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) ages indicate that a high-severity fire historically burned at multiple high-elevation subalpine plots in today’s Village of Taos Ski Valley, with large high-severity patches (>640 ha). Low-severity, frequent (9–29-year median interval) surface fires burned on the south aspects …

Sexual Violence Prevention Best Practices For Nebraska Rpe, December Lange Treacy, Claire Rynearson, Jeanette Harder

Reports

The purpose of this report is to provide sexual violence prevention advocates and practitioners in Nebraska with support in choosing evidence-based or evidence-informed programs for implementation in their communities.

The beginning sections of this report will provide you with background information and a foundation for selecting a model. This includes information on the socio-ecological model, CDC strategies and approaches, evidence-based programs, evidence-informed practices, fidelity, appropriate adaptations, and considerations for rural communities. Our hope is for this information to provide you with the resources you need to determine what type of evidence-based or evidence-informed practice will be the best fit for …