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Note To Self, Chloe Renee Hayes

Theses

“note to self” is a 2D animated film completed as the thesis project for my MFA degree. This film uses experimental imagery and often abstract visual metaphor to tell a narrative story that discusses suicide, self-harm, depression, trauma, mental health, and the complicated issues surrounding these subjects.

“note to self” tells the story of a teenage girl fighting through her struggles and uncertainties in the metaphysical space of her own mind. Sienna, the protagonist, has resolved to kill herself and is working through her conflicted feelings to rationally explain why. Posed as a conversation with a part of her own …

A Framework For Firm-Level Critical Material Supply Management And Mitigation, Gillian A. Griffin

Theses

Organizations of all sizes are vulnerable to critical material supply disruptions. Although there is a significant body of literature that examines how large entities such as nations and governments can assess and mitigate criticality, there is very little work that addresses firm-level criticality in a way that is actionable for businesses. This work uses literature review and case study analysis to understand the impact of critical material supply risk at the firm level, and to determine salient internal indicators. A total of 42 criticality studies were reviewed and the findings were used to develop a framework to assess and monitor …

From Field To Film: Mosquito Surveillance And Survey Of Us Adults' Knowledge And Attitudes Towards Arthropod-Borne Disease Vectors, Justine Laviolette

Department of Entomology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Mosquito-borne disease is a public health challenge that warrants an active surveillance program for the identification of mosquito populations and the education of the public for prevention and protection against disease-transmitting arthropods. The communication of science to the public is necessary to prevent disease, change behavior, and promote a dialog between scientists and the public.

People are accustomed to high quality entertainment, which begs the question, “If we made science more entertaining, would the public be more interested?”

To address these issues, the objectives of this study are: 1) identify mosquito species and abundance at the US Meat Animal Research …

Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With Gary Cohen, Gary Cohen, Sandra Ward

Documents

Suggested Citation Form: Cohen, Gary, 2019. “Lessons Learned Interview."Interview by Sandra Ward. Yale Program on Financial Stability Lessons Learned Oral History Project. December 12, 2019. Transcript. https://ypfs.som.yale.edu/library/ypfs-lesson-learned-oral-history-project-interview-gary-cohen

Public Fund Management Status As Of The Third Quarter Of 2019, South Korea: Financial Services Commission

Documents

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session December 12, 2019, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
• Remarks by the Chair
• Remarks by the President
• Comments by the Faculty Senate President
• Comments by the Western Student Association Vice President
• Comments by the Graduate Student Association President
• Compliance Action Update
• STEP: Mentoring, Connecting, and Engineering Student Success
• Public Comments Regarding Action Items
• Honorary Degree Policy
• Presidential Compensation and Assessment Committee Charter
• Presidential Evaluation and Contract
• Consent Items
• General Public Comments

Pathways To Careers In Health Care, Christopher T. King Editor, Philip Young P. Hong Editor

Upjohn Press

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010 effected major changes in the financing and delivery of health care in the United States. It also authorized creation of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants program (HPOG), a demonstration effort within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide opportunities for education and training that lead to jobs and career advancement in health care for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals and to respond to the increasing demand for health care professionals. …

Fabricated Forensics: Examining An Undergraduate Population’S Ability To Detect Fallacies In Crime-Based Media, Conner Davis

Senior Capstone Theses

My research examines the effects of general education on students’ perspectives of the CSI effect. The CSI effect is a phenomenon in which people’s perceptions of criminal investigation are distorted from the truth because of the media’s portrayal of criminal investigation. The study sample includes undergraduate students enrolled in a Mid-Atlantic University. To quantify the degrees in which subjects are susceptible to the CSI effect, the subjects will be measured on their ability to identify basic forensic investigation flaws portrayed in three different television series. Subjects were given a worksheet, exposed to a fifteen-minute video compilation, and were told to …

Nof Kdumim: Remaking The Ancient Landscape In East Jerusalem’S National Parks, Irus Braverman

Journal Articles

This article explores two national parks in East Jerusalem and their legal administration as the focus of contradictory and complementary attempts at preservation, colonization, and normalization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with, and observations of, officials from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and others, I expose the Judaizing of the landscape in Jerusalem. Nature never stands for itself; it is always an echo of a human presence and, in this case, of a Jewish past and its modern reunion. The project of imagining the natural landscape as one that embodies an ancient past—what Israeli officials have referred to in our …

Independence Of National Competition Authorities – Problem Solved By Directive 2019/1? Example Of The Antimonopoly Office Of The Slovak Republic, Mária T. Patakyová

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

This paper analyses the independence of National Competition Authorities under legislation before Directive 2019/1 and after Directive 2019/1. The aim of the paper is to find out whether Directive 2019/1 addresses the problem of independence properly or not. In order to answer the question, it discusses what does the term ‘independence’ actually mean, especially in the view of scholars. Several aspects of independence are identified. Subsequently, this paper zooms in on what are current imperfections when it comes to the independence of National Competition Authorities. The Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic (AMO) is discussed in particular. The paper then …

Justice Department Inspector General’S Report Raises Troubling Questions About Fbi’S Role In Fisa Cases, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Overrepresentation Of The Underrepresented: Gender Bias In Wikipedia, Anna Marinina

Honors College Theses

The goal of our research is to determine if gender bias exists in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a very large dataset that has been used to train artificial intelligence models. If a dataset that is being used for this purpose is biased, then the artificial intelligence model that was trained with it will be biased as well, therefore making biased decisions. For this reason, it is important to explore large datasets for any potential biases before they are used in machine learning. Since Wikipedia is ontologically structured, we used graph theory to create a network of all of the website’s categories …

5th Annual Wellness Fest At Andrews University, Moriah Mcdonald

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

No abstract provided.

Andrews University Enrollment And Rankings Report, Stephen Payne

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

No abstract provided.

State Of Utah, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. Cullen Christopher Carrick, Defendant/Appellant : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

SUPPLEMENTAL REPLY BRIEF OF APPELLANT

Pursuant to the Order of the Utah Court of Appeals dated June 18, 2019, to provide
supplemental briefing on "the failure to investigate alibi witnesses and to present a
timeline" issues on Rule 23B remand

ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED

Systematic Computational Identification Of Prognostic Cytogenetic Markers In Neuroblastoma, Chao Qin, Xiaoyan He, Yanding Zhao, Chun Yip Tong, Kenneth Y. Zhu, Yongqi Sun, Chao Cheng

Dartmouth Scholarship

Background: Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial solid tumor found in children. The frequent gain/loss of many chromosome bands in tumor cells and absence of mutations found at diagnosis suggests that NB is a copy number-driven cancer. Despite the previous work, a systematic analysis that investigates the relationship between such frequent gain/loss of chromosome bands and patient prognosis has yet to be implemented. Methods: First, we analyzed two NB CNV datasets to select chromosomal bands with a high frequency of gain or loss. Second, we applied a computational approach to infer sample-specific CNVs for each chromosomal band selected in …

Webinar: Letting Bike Riders Catch The Green Wave, Stephen Fickas, Marc Schlossberg

TREC Webinar Series

The "Fast Track" project at the University of Oregon focuses on a mode of transportation that is sometimes left out of vehicle-to-infrastructure, or V2I, conversations: Bicycling. NITC researchers developed an app based on a new technology being integrated into modern cars: GLOSA, or Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory. GLOSA allows motorists to set their speed along corridors to maximize their chances of catching a "green wave" so they won't have to stop at red lights.

This project demonstrates how GLOSA can be used by bicyclists in the same way it is used by motorists, with a test site on a …

State V. Alsanea Appellant's Brief Dckt. 46985

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Visualization Analysis Method Of Passenger Hotspot Based On Fast Density Clustering, Zihe Huang, Shangbing Gao, Zhigeng Pan, Hui Hao, Qiyu Liao, Fengfeng Zhao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: With the development of urbanized transportation, the perceptual computing plays an important role in smart cities. Aiming at the problem that the traditional density clustering algorithm cannot adapt to massive taxi GPS trajectory data and visualization, the BCS-DBSCAN (Big-Data Cluster Center Statistics Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) clustering algorithm is proposed. The algorithm can segment and parallelize the trajectory data, extract the maximum density cluster, and adapt the result to the visualization model. The experimental results show that compared with other popular methods, this method has significant advantages in extracting clustering speed, accuracy and visualization of urban …

Distinct Roles Of Interferon Alpha And Beta In Controlling Chikungunya Virus Replication And Modulating Neutrophil-Mediated Inflammation, Lindsey E Cook, Marissa C Locke, Alissa R Young, Kristen Monte, Matthew L Hedberg, Raeann M Shimak, Kathleen C F Sheehan, Deborah J Veis, Michael S Diamond, Deborah J Lenschow

Open Access Publications

Type I interferons (IFNs) are key mediators of the innate immune response. Although members of this family of cytokines signal through a single shared receptor, biochemical and functional variation exists in response to different IFN subtypes. While previous work has demonstrated that type I IFNs are essential to control infection by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a globally emerging alphavirus, the contributions of individual IFN subtypes remain undefined. To address this question, we evaluated CHIKV pathogenesis in mice lacking IFN-β (IFN-β knockout [IFN-β-KO] mice or mice treated with an IFN-β-blocking antibody) or IFN-α (IFN regulatory factor 7 knockout [IRF7-KO] mice or mice …

Gantenerumab Reduces Amyloid-Β Plaques In Patients With Prodromal To Moderate Alzheimer's Disease: A Pet Substudy Interim Analysis, Gregory Klein, Paul Delmar, Nicola Voyle, Sunita Rehal, Carsten Hofmann, Danielle Abi-Saab, Mirjana Andjelkovic, Smiljana Ristic, Guoqiao Wang, Randall Bateman, Geoffrey A Kerchner, Monika Baudler, Paulo Fontoura, Rachelle Doody

Open Access Publications

BACKGROUND: We previously investigated low doses (105 or 225 mg) of gantenerumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody that binds and removes aggregated amyloid-β by Fc receptor-mediated phagocytosis, in the SCarlet RoAD (SR) and Marguerite RoAD (MR) phase 3 trials. Several lines of evidence suggested that higher doses may be necessary to achieve clinical efficacy. We therefore designed a positron emission tomography (PET) substudy to evaluate the effect of gantenerumab uptitrated to 1200 mg every 4 weeks on amyloid-β plaques as measured using florbetapir PET in patients with prodromal to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD).

METHODS: A subset of patients enrolled in …

The Montclarion, December 12, 2019, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Bibliometric Analysis Of Indian Contribution In The Research Literature On Artificial Intelligence: A Study, Dr. Kumaran Marimuthu, Dr. M. Tamizhchelvan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present research paper pertains to the bibliometric analysis of literature on Artificial Intelligence during the year 1986-2015. The main objectives of the research work are to explore the academic research/review publication contributed by the Scientists and Subject experts from the Engineering background. The data/information used in this study has been proclaimed from the online database “Scopus”. The following terms were used as keywords to retrieve the data from the “Scopus” are (TITLE-ABS-KEY-AUTH (artificial intelligence) AND PUBYEAR > 1985 AND PUBYEAR < 2015 AND (LIMIT-TO (SUBJAREA,"ENGI”))). The study has revealed and discussed on the major parameters of yearly publication, citation pattern, a bibliographic form of publication, highly contributed authors, top-ranking authors, etc. The foremost results of our study have found that during the study period 2676 research publications were contributed by the Indian authors in the Engineering discipline.

Design And Simulation Analysis Of Epr Contract From The Perspective Of Government Regulation, Benhong Peng, Yuanyuan Wang, Tu Yu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Government regulation is an important means to promote the extension of producer responsibility. Through the establishment of the agency model based on the public, the government and the producer, the situation of non-cooperation and the cooperation regulation between the public and the government respectively is modeled and analyzed, and the simulation is carried on. The study finds that the cooperation regulation is better than the non-cooperation regulation. The cooperation regulation should take into account the factors such as the risk aversion degree of the manufacturers, the uncertainty of the external environment, the cost coefficient, the comprehensive ability level, the …

The Method Summary Of Generating Large-Scale Artificial Population In An Artificial Society, Yuanzheng Ge, Zhichao Song, Rongqing Meng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The generation of large-scale artificial population is the fundamental data of high-resolution agent-based artificial society. By the comparison of typical artificial population models, the basic elements, generating methods, and evolving rules, the development of artificial society, generation of population database, the establishment of spatial-temporal relationship, evolving rules of behavior, and reconstruction of social relationship are analyzed. Furthermore, data-driven method and open interface framework of artificial population are discussed, and the future direction and development are listed.

A Review Of Modeling Human Travel And Social Contacts For Public Health Management, Duan Wei, Guo Gang, Bin Chen, Duan Hong

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: It is significant to understand the patterns of human mobility and social contacts for epidemic prevention and control. This paper analyses the regularities and the statistical properties of human behaviors at the perspective of human dynamics. Various models of human mobility and social contacts are comparatively investigated , including Brownian movement, random walks, spatial network, Motifs, bipartite graph model, gravity models, contact rate, the distribution of daily contact number, social networks, etc. The models of human behavior changes in the course of epidemic outbreak are also analyzed. The challenges of modeling human mobility and social contacts are discussed …

Airplane Pre-Conditioning Optimizing Control Based On Large-Scale System Theory, Xiuyan Wang, Gewen Zhang, Zhou Chen, Zongshuai Li, Yanmin Liu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at airplane pre-conditioning optimizing control, a modified OPBM (Output Predicition and Balance Method) was introduced. Taking Boing 737 airplane pre-conditioning as the research subject, the decentralized identification algorithm was adopted for establishing the airplane pre-conditioning large-scale system model; the optimal objective considering the system energy consumption, air conditioning area human comfort, and air quality was proposed; and the global system optimization operating condition model was constructed. The OPBMLF with local feedback was designed to optimize globally airplane pre-conditioning system model. Matlab was used for achieving simulation research, and the results was compared with the real data. The results …

Relationships Between Cognitive Engagement And Self-Efficacy For High School Students Who Participate In Service-Learning, Ceola Ross Baber, Paula E. Faulkner, Dana Lyles

Journal of Research Initiatives

The purpose of this explanatory quantitative case study was to examine the relationship between service-learning, cognitive engagement, and self-efficacy for high school students. The study was conducted at a high school located in North Carolina. Fifty-one students in grades 10 to 12 participated in the study. All students in the study had participated in at least one service-learning activity prior to the study. Data was collected using the Service-Learning, Cognitive Engagement, and Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SLCESEQ) which included items from (a) the Control and Relevance of Schoolwork subscale of the Student Engagement Instrument to measure cognitive engagement and (b) the General …

Prosocial Leadership: The Transformative Power Of Others Directed Leadership Behavior, Timothy G. Ewest

Journal of Research Initiatives

This paper seeks to provide an understanding of the prosocial leadership development process as defined by Ewest (2018), and how it acts to personal flourishing. To this end, this paper will provide an understanding of personal flourishing as discussed by Rogers (1959), positive psychology framed by Mackie, (2017) and then considers the emerging positive theories of leadership as discussed by Ewest (2018b). Finally, the paper will resolve by considering prosocial values, and specifically the prosocial leadership development process as posited by Ewest (2018), including the four steps in the process and possible benefits from becoming a prosocial leader.

Language Diversity In The Greek Educational System: Promoting Multilingual Classroom Policies, Xanthippi Foulidi, Marianthi Oikonomakou, Evangelos C. Papakitsos

Journal of Research Initiatives

This study focuses on the position of mother languages in Greek education at the level of educational policy, demonstrating the necessity of their further emergence based on modern scientific findings on the benefits of bilingualism. Through an effort to record a set of obstacles that make it difficult for them to join the curriculum, a framework is proposed to be used for the language repertoire of all pupils, so that their rights are respected in practice and their linguistic richness serves as a source of enrichment for the whole population. The implementation of practices that could enhance the free and …