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Second Redemption, Third Reconstruction, Richard A. Primus

Articles

In The Accumulation of Advantages, the picture that Professor Owen Fiss paints about equality during and since the Second Reconstruction is largely a picture in black and white. That makes some sense. The black/white experience is probably the most important throughline in the story of equal protection. It was the central theme of both the First and Second Reconstructions. In keeping with that orientation, the picture of disadvantage described by Fiss’s theory of cumulative responsibility is largely drawn from the black/white experience. Important as it is, however, the black/white experience does not exhaust the subject of constitutional equality. So in …

True Grit: Recent Grad Receives Degree 25 Years After First Enrolling In College, Sarah Schaier

UNH Today Archive

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Water Chemistry During Baseflow Helps Inform Watershed Management: A Case Study Of The Lake Wister Watershed, Oklahoma, Bradley J. Austin, Steve Patterson, Brian E. Haggard

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution from agricultural and urban development is a primary source of nutrients and decreased water quality in aquatic systems. Installation of best management practices (BMPs) within critical source areas of the watershed can be helpful at reducing the transport of nutrients to waterbodies; however, prioritizing these areas may be difficult. The objective of this study was to develop several potential frameworks for prioritizing subwatersheds using baseflow water chemistry data in relation to a simple human development index (HDI; total percent agriculture and urban development). At a monthly interval, samples were collected at 26 sites throughout the Oklahoma …

Food Security As A Water Grand Challenge, Courage Bangira

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Perhaps the biggest challenge the world faces is providing sufficient, nutritious, and safe food at the right time for its ever-increasing population. Considering current world population growth trends, it is estimated that the global population will be about 10 billion by the year 2050. Therefore, food production should at least double in the same period if food security is to be satisfied. Water and land resources play a pivotal role in agriculture and directly connect to food security. At the same time, the capacity to produce food is constrained by global climate changes and increased pressure on land resources. These …

A Bias Aggregation Theorem, Mark Schneider

ESI Working Papers

In a market where some traders are rational (maximize expected utility) and others are systematically biased (deviate from expected utility due to some bias parameter, q), do equilibrium prices necessarily depend on q? In this note, focusing on the case where there is an aggregate and systematic bias in the population, we show that market prices can still be unbiased. Hence, we establish that systematically biased agents do not necessarily imply biased market prices. We show that the parametric model we use also predicts observed deviations from expected utility in laboratory and market environments.

Creative Citizen Science Illuminates Complex Ecological Responses To Climate Change, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Amanda S. Gallinat, Richard B. Primack

Biology Faculty Publications

Climate change is causing the timing of key behaviors (i.e., phenology) to shift differently across trophic levels and among some interacting organisms (e.g., plants and pollinators, predators and prey), suggesting that interactions among species are being disrupted (1, 2). Studying the phenology of interactions, however, is difficult, which has limited researchers’ ability to zero in on changes in specific interactions or on the consequences of mismatches. In PNAS, Hassall et al. (3) use a combination of citizen science techniques to investigate the effects of climate change on dozens of specific interactions. They focus on a Batesian mimicry complex involving stinging …

Neural Coding Model For Fast And Significant Perceptual In The Pigeon Optic Tectum, Songwei Wang, Shuman Huang, Shi Li, Mengke Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In the classical target recognition theory, many neurons in the mammalian retina and LGN perform DoG operations. Their functions are generally considered to be whitening, eliminating redundancy, and enhancing edges. Where is the redundant information? In this paper, the electrophysiological study of the ON-OFF neurons of the dove optic roof was performed. It was found that the FSL was used to carry out the rough and fast transfer of the whole scene information, and then the salient features in the scene were successively transmitted using the issue rate. For this reason, by analyzing the response pattern of neurons, this …

Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Designing Transdisciplinary Approaches To Enact Solutions, Vanessa R. Levesque, Aram J. K. Calhoun, Kathleen P. Bell

Faculty Publications

Sustainability science uses a transdisciplinary research process in which academic and non-academic partners collaborate to identify a common problem and co-produce knowledge to develop more sustainable solutions. Sustainability scientists have advanced the theory and practice of facilitating collaborative efforts such that the knowledge created is usable. There has been less emphasis, however, on the last step of the transdisciplinary process: enacting solutions. We analyzed a case study of a transdisciplinary research effort in which co-produced policy simulation information shaped the creation of a new policy mechanism. More specifically, by studying the development of a mechanism for conserving vernal pool ecosystems, …

Reward Improves Response Inhibition By Enhancing Attentional Capture, Yanqing Wang, Todd S Braver, Shouhang Yin, Xueping Hu, Xiangpeng Wang, Antao Chen

2010-2019 OA Pubs

Reward plays a crucial role in enhancing response inhibition. While it is generally assumed that the process of response inhibition involves attentional capture and the stopping of action, it is unclear whether this reflects a direct impact of reward on response inhibition or rather an indirect mediation via attentional capture. Here, we employed a revised stop-signal task (SST) that separated these two cognitive elements, by including a continue signal that required the same motor response as in go trials, but also attention to a cue, as in stop trials. We first confirmed the engagement of the right inferior frontal gyrus …

Evaluating Joseph Campbell's Underexplored Ideas In The Light Of Modern Psychology, Leonard L. Martin, James Conners, Jacqueline A. Newbold

Heroism Science

Joseph Campbell was a scholar of comparative mythology and religion who attained great popularity by promoting the importance of mythology in people's everyday lives. His ideas have not been subjected to rigorous testing, however. So, it is unclear if they are useful for people trying to attain optimal psychological functioning or if they could contribute to current research and theorizing in psychology. In this paper, we summarized Campbell's psychology-related ideas. Then, we assessed those ideas in relation to modern psychology research. We found that many of Campbell's ideas are consistent with existing evidence and theory. This means his ideas could …

Collection Of Case Studies: Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, The Fighting Sullivans, Sophie Scholl, Emilio F. Iodice

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Celebrating Diversity Through Spirituality In The Workplace: Transforming Organizations Holistically, Satinder K. Dhiman, Sanjay Modi, Varinder Kumar

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Managing diversity effectively is the key to attract and retain a productive workforce. Research demonstrates that celebrating diversity leads to greater productivity, increased creativity, and heightened morale and motivation. Organizations often benefit from the differing perspectives and rich experiences a diverse workforce provides. Similarly, organizations can enhance their creativity by encouraging diverse perspectives and opinions. Thus, issues of managing diversity, valuing diversity, and celebrating diversity have assumed added importance. This paper suggests that diversity is not a problem, but rather a solution to most of the challenges organizations face such as employee engagement and participation. Managing workforce diversity effectively transcends …

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Effects Of Prenatal Exercise On Fetal Heart Rate, Umbilical And Uterine Blood Flow: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Rachel J. Skow, Margie H. Davenport, Michelle Mottola, Gregory A. Davies, Veronica J. Poitras, Casey E. Gray, Alejandra Jaramillo Garcia, Nick Barrowman, Victoria L. Meah, Linda G. Slater, Kristi B. Adamo, Ruben Barakat, Stephanie-May Ruchat

Anatomy and Cell Biology Publications

Objective To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the influence of acute and chronic prenatal exercise on fetal heart rate (FHR) and umbilical and uterine blood flow metrics.

Design Systematic review with random-effects meta-analysis and meta-regression.

Data sources Online databases were searched up to 6 January 2017.

Study eligibility criteria Studies of all designs were included (except case studies) if published in English, Spanish or French, and contained information on the population (pregnant women without contraindication to exercise), intervention (subjective or objective measures of frequency, intensity, duration, volume or type of exercise, alone [“exercise-only”] or in combination with other …

Johnson Scanlan Among 2018 Excellence In Education Honorees, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Phonon Order And Reststrahlen Bands Of Polar Vibrations In Crystals With Monoclinic Symmetry, Mathias Schubert, Alyssa Mock, Rafal Korlacki, Vanya Darakchieva

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

In this Rapid Communication, we present the order of the phonon modes and the appearance of the reststrahlen bands for monoclinic symmetry materials with polar lattice vibrations. Phonon modes occur in associated pairs of transverse and longitudinal optical modes, and pairs either belong to inner or outer phonon modes. Inner modes are nested within outer modes. Outer modes cause polarization-dependent reststrahlen bands. Inner modes cause polarization-independent reststrahlen bands. The directional limiting frequencies within the Born-Huang approach are bound to within outer mode frequency regions not occupied by inner mode pairs. Hence, an unusual phonon mode order can occur where both …

Phonon Order And Reststrahlen Bands Of Polar Vibrations In Crystals With Monoclinic Symmetry, Mathias Schubert, Alyssa Mock, Rafał Korlacki, Vanya Darakchieva

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

In this Rapid Communication, we present the order of the phonon modes and the appearance of the reststrahlen bands for monoclinic symmetry materials with polar lattice vibrations. Phonon modes occur in associated pairs of transverse and longitudinal optical modes, and pairs either belong to inner or outer phonon modes. Inner modes are nested within outer modes. Outer modes cause polarization-dependent reststrahlen bands. Inner modes cause polarization-independent reststrahlen bands. The directional limiting frequencies within the Born-Huang approach are bound to within outer mode frequency regions not occupied by inner mode pairs. Hence, an unusual phonon mode order can occur where both …

Toxicity Testing Of Cosmetic Ingredients Using Gametophyte Beads Of The Brown Alga Undaria Pinnatifida (Laminariales, Phaeophyta), Mt Brown

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

A 6-h toxicity test of cosmetic ingredients (methylparaben, 2-phenoxyethanol, sodium dodecyl sulfate, triethanolamine) was developed, based on the photosynthetic maximum quantum yield (Fv/Fm) of immobilized gametophytes of the brown macroalga Undaria pinnatifida. From calculated EC50 values, the toxicity ranking of the tested ingredients is: SDS (0.0060%) > MP (0.0634%) > 2-PE (0.2418%) > TEA (3.7023%). Compared to the results from conventional endpoints with other ecotoxicity test organisms, measurements of Fv/Fm is a more sensitive indicator of the toxic effects of cosmetic ingredients. The present technique is simple, rapid, practical, accurate, and requires little space to carry out. This novel method will be a …

Socioeconomic Determinants Of Child Mortality: Evidence From Pakistan Demographic And Health Survey, Rana Ejaz Ali Khan, Khadija Malik Bari, Muhammad Ali Raza

Business Review

This paper attempts to highlight socioeconomic determinants of child mortality in Pakistan. Binary logistic regression is applied to 7297 observations from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13. The results reveal that probability of child mortality decreases with greater birth-interval, child’s large size at birth, more family members, mother’s education, mother’s ownership of assets and mother’s decision-making at the household level. Policy makers can work to improve mothers’ characteristics such as fertility behavior, education, empowerment and decision-making at the household level, to reduce child mortality.

Group Effects Of A Non-Native Plant Invasion On Rodent Abundance, Bryan M. Kluever, Trinity N. Smith, Eric M. Gese

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is the most prolific invading plant in western North America. Investigations determining the impact of this invasion on population state variables and community dynamics of rodents have largely occurred at the community or species level, creating a knowledge gap as to whether rodents affiliated by a shared taxonomy or other grouping are differentially affected by cheatgrass invasion. We examined rodent abundance along a gradient of cheatgrass cover using various groupings of two nocturnal rodent taxa comprising the majority of the rodent community in the Great Basin Desert. In the summers of 2010–2013, rodents were sampled …

Mining Method Of Crop Spectral And Image Correlation Modelbased On Spatio-Temporal Information, Ronghua Gao, Qifeng Li, Jingqiu Gu, Sun Xiang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: When crop disease occurs, it is often displayed in the leaf, and the appearance and internal structure of the crop are changed, and the growth environment also has a certain influence on the disease. The growth environment, leaf RGB images and spectral images are fused to study the sparse feature recognition method of crop diseases based on information combination of multi spectral images. In this paper, a spatial-temporal information mining method for crop spectral and image correlation models is studied. The correlation between spectral reflectance characteristics of crop diseases and crop development, health status and growth conditions are analyzed …

Dress Up, Ye'ela B. Wilschanski

Theses and Dissertations

Dress Up (Performance, 40 minutes) is a dress that functions as a floor, blanket, tablecloth, book and walls. It tells a visual story about domestic care giving rituals, referencing different times and places.

Reconstructing The Demographic History Of The Critically Endangered Black-And-White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia Variegata) In Ranomafana National Park, Aparna Chandrashekar

Theses and Dissertations

Due to heavy fragmentation of their remaining range, the Critically Endangered black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) is facing catastrophic population declines. Skyline analyses at Ranomafana National Park show the ruffed lemur effective population size declining by 84% starting around 1,500 years ago.

Hrísheimar: Fish Consumption Patterns, Wendi K. Coleman

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I examine the fish remain patterns at Hrísheimar, which have provided archaeologists with further evidence that inland sites such as those in the Mývatnssveit Region utilized both local freshwater and marine fish from the coastal regions as a part of their subsistence pattern.

Professor Receives Competitive Nih Award, Peer-Reviewed Journal Cover, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Saumen Chakraborty's research explores alternate energy, Alzheimer's disease

Trophodynamics And Mercury Bioaccumulation In Reef And Open-Ocean Fishes From The Bahamas With A Focus On Two Teleost Predators, Oliver N. Shipley, Cheng Shiuan Lee, Nicholas S. Fisher, Georgiana Burruss, Michael G. Frisk, Edward J. Brooks, Zachary C. Zuckerman, Achim D. Herrmann, Daniel J. Madigan

Faculty Publications

© Inter-Research 2019. Identifying prey resource pools supporting fish biomass can elucidate trophic pathways of pollutant bioaccumulation. We used multiple chemical tracers (carbon [δ 13 C] and nitrogen [δ 15 N] stable isotopes and total mercury [THg]) to identify trophic pathways and measure contaminant loading in upper trophic level fishes residing at a reef and open-ocean interface near Eleuthera in the Exuma Sound, The Bahamas. We focused predominantly on the trophic pathways of mercury bioaccumulation in dolphinfish Coryphaena hippurus and wahoo Acanthocybium solandri, 2 commonly consumed pelagic sportfish in the region. Despite residing within close proximity to productive and extensive …

Gas-Liquid Flow Characteristics Study On The Amino Acid Fermentation Tank, Xiaodong Hu, Qinglei Liu, Fuyu Liu, Dexin Zhang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Based on the Euler - Euler two-fluid model and population balance model, using MRF (multiple reference frame) method, the flow field of the rushton turbine stirred reactor and airfoil axial flow stirred reactor in fermentation tank is analyzed by Fluent. The information of the oxygen content and the size of bubble in the tank is obtained. The simulation results show that the axial flow produced by the airfoil axial flow stirred reactor and the radial flow produced by the rushton turbine stirred reactor interact with each other. The oxygen distribution is relatively uniform. There is an oxygen concentration near …

Multi-Tasks Channel Selection Algorithmic Modeling Based On Svm-Rfe, Jiankui Feng, Jin Jing, Wang Bei, Yugang Niu, Xingyu Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Channel selection is used to locate the mental task related brain area in the brain computer interface systems. In the previous studies, the channels were selected based on the data recoded from the multi-mental tasks. However, the different mental tasks are corresponding to the different brain area. If one same brain area is selected for different mental tasks, the features of one mental task would be noises of another mental task. In this paper, a new method was presented to solve this problem based on the data of motor imagery tasks. The SVM-RFE method was used to select the …

Weak Effects Of Geolocators On Small Birds: A Meta-Analysis Controlled For Phylogeny And Publication Bias, Vojtěch Brlík, Noah G. Perlut

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Currently, the deployment of tracking devices is one of the most frequently used approaches to study movement ecology of birds. Recent miniaturization of light-level geolocators enabled studying small bird species whose migratory patterns were widely unknown. However, geolocators may reduce vital rates in tagged birds and may bias obtained movement data. There is a need for a thorough assessment of the potential tag effects on small birds, as previous meta-analyses did not evaluate unpublished data and impact of multiple life-history traits, focused mainly on large species and the number of published studies tagging small birds has increased substantially. We quantitatively …

Modeling, Simulation And Realization Of Writing System Based On Bci Technology, Chen Chao, Ping Yao, Bin Hao, Xu Rui

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to solve the problem of insufficient information transmission and interaction between organisms and electromechanical devices in the integrated system of vital electricity, Emotiv EPOC and mechanical arm of eeg acquisition equipment were used to build a writing system based on brain-computer interface technology with faster information transmission rate The system modeling and simulation were conducted. In the system modeling, the frequency identification of steady-state visual evoked potential was carried out by a combination of bandpass filtering and Canonical Correlation Analysis algorithm, and the accuracy rate of the four classifications was as high as 91.6%. In the online …