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Assessing Risk Management Knowledge Of Florida 4-H Professionals Relating To Shooting Sports, Matt Benge, Genevieve Mendoza, Glenn Israel

Journal of Youth Development

Florida is one of 48 states that offer shooting sports as part of their 4-H program. While young people participating in 4-H shooting sports gain valuable life skills, what has remained unclear are the skills needed by county 4-H agents to manage the risks associated with offering the program. A needs assessment was conducted to identify Florida 4-H agents’ perceived level of competency in program procedural standards and program leadership accountability as it relates to managing a county 4-H shooting sports program. The results of the study demonstrated that Florida 4-H agents recognized the value of having program procedural standards …

Rare Presentation Of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis, Haris Majid Rajput, Anam Anis, Iqra Athar, Neelma Naz Khattak, Hanin Tanich, Mazhar Badshah

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

We report case of a 16 year old girl with no known co-morbidities, presented with headache, quadriparesis and sudden vision loss. She had pallor and BMI was 33.09kg/m2. She had left 6th nerve palsy, bilateral papilledema and no perception of light. Motor examination showed power of 4/5 in all four limbs with bilateral extensor plantars. Neuroimaging was suggestive of superior saggital sinus thrombosis. CSF opening pressure was 72 cm of water.20 ml CSF was drained leading to improvement in headache and visual acuity. CVST presenting with quadriparesis and visual loss is a rare entity. Common presentations of CVST include headache, …

Empowerment Of Primary Health Care In An Outreach Resource-Limited District In Punjab: A Strategy For Improving Adherence To Antiepileptic Drug Treatment In Children With Epilepsy., Muhammad Akbar Malik, Arshad Rafique, Ahmad Omar Virk

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

There is wide acknowledgement of the need for community involvement in the optimal management of children with epilepsy (CWE) in outreach financially constrained districts of the developing countries, but there is scarce data on comprehensive community-based childhood epilepsy treatment programs assessment.

Learning From The Past To Educate The Future: An Analysis Of The Modern Classical School, Miranda Boljat

Senior Honors Theses

Classical schooling combines the wisdom of thousands of years of learning with the knowledge necessary to succeed in today’s world. Despite the antiquity of some of these ideas, the movement has continued to grow in both number of schools and also number of students attending, measuring almost 100 new schools each decade since 1993. One of the motives for this growth is how Classical schools utilize a curriculum which includes the trivium, Latin, and the Great Books of Western Civilization. Together, these elements of the curriculum lead to improved test scores and general college readiness.

Face Detection Ensemble With Methods Using Depth Information To Filter False Positives, Loris Nanni, Sheryl Brahnam, Alessandra Lumini

College of Business

All rights reserved. A fundamental problem in computer vision is face detection. In this paper, an experimentally derived ensemble made by a set of six face detectors is presented that maximizes the number of true positives while simultaneously reducing the number of false positives produced by the ensemble. False positives are removed using different filtering steps based primarily on the characteristics of the depth map related to the subwindows of the whole image that contain candidate faces. A new filtering approach based on processing the image with different wavelets is also proposed here. The experimental results show that the applied …

Radiation, Inc. Small Collections, Carady Desimone

Archival Collection Guides

Collection Guide of the Radiation, Inc. Small Collections.

Constructive Trusts And Fraudulent Transfers: When Worlds Collide, David G. Carlson

Marquette Law Review

When Ponzi schemes collapse and enter into bankruptcy liquidation, bankruptcy trustees assume that conveyances made by the debtor for no consideration are fraudulent conveyances. This Article argues that they are not. Virtually all the assets held by a Ponzi scheme are held in constructive trust for the victims of the fraud. If victims of the fraud can trace the proceeds of their investments into property transferred to a third party, the third party holds the asset transferred in trust for the relevant victim. When a bankruptcy trustee characterizes the asset as a fraudulently conveyed asset, the trustee expropriates the asset …

Appraisal Confusion: The Intended And Unintended Consequences Of Delaware's Nascent Pristine Deal Process Standard, Alex Peña, Brian Jm Quinn

Marquette Law Review

In a merger, shareholders who believe the consideration being offered is too low have a statutory right to seek fair value for their shares through a judicial process called appraisal. In recent years, there has been an explosion in the number of appraisal actions leading some to argue that the remedy was being abused. In this Article, we argue that a recent line of cases by the Delaware Supreme Court that places heavy reliance on merger price as part of the judicial determination of fair value in appraisal proceedings is misguided and may lead to unintended consequences. Rather than rely …

Ochlocracy: Are We There Yet?, Garry Wills

Marquette Law Review

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Measuring Lead Concentrations Of Vacant Lots In The Tree Street Neighborhood Of Lewiston, Me, Adam Gardner, Erin O'Farrell, Julian Cook

Community Engaged Research Reports

High levels of lead contamination have detrimental health implications for communities, with the most profound impacts of lead poisoning affecting young children. The City of Lewiston, Maine, is home to a disproportionate amount of reported lead poisoning cases as compared to the rest of the state. Within Lewiston, the downtown “Tree Street” neighborhood contains 72% of all reported lead-poisoning cases in the city, signifying a need to identify the source(s) of lead exposure and minimize the impact of lead contamination on Tree Street residents. In collaboration with Healthy Neighborhoods, we identified 19 vacant lots in the Tree Street neighborhood to …

The Complexity Of Asian Americans In Higher Education, Akampreet Kaur

Publications and Research

The Complexity of Asian Americans in Higher Education: What impacts & motivates Asian American students to select a particular major choice?

For my AACS 370 course, I have done to focus my research topic on Asian Americans within Higher Education. Through this data, I hoped to find the factors that contributed to Asian Americans in regards to their major. My research purpose was: To gather information about Asian American students & the choices they make about pursuing higher education. I have decided to do this since I believe there is limited data in regards to why Asian Americans are …

Shell Potentials For Microgravity Bose–Einstein Condensates, N. Lundblad, R. A. Carollo, Courtney Lannert, M. J. Gold, X. Jiang, D. Paseltiner, N. Sergay, D. C. Aveline

Physics: Faculty Publications

Extending the understanding of Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) physics to new geometries and topologies has a long and varied history in ultracold atomic physics. One such new geometry is that of a bubble, where a condensate would be confined to the surface of an ellipsoidal shell. Study of this geometry would give insight into new collective modes, self-interference effects, topology-dependent vortex behavior, dimensionality crossovers from thick to thin shells, and the properties of condensates pushed into the ultradilute limit. Here we propose to implement a realistic experimental framework for generating shell-geometry BEC using radiofrequency dressing of magnetically trapped samples. Such a …

Winter 2019-20, University Of Dayton

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

The divine flourishes on campus in "Faces of Faith"; UD grows a farm team at Ohio's statehouse in "Capitol Investment"; we celebrate the 50th anniversary of UD Arena with a grand renovation; and an alumnus cleans up on his first business in "Mister Clean." Plus $5 million for scholarships, a gift to honor a father, Stuart Field at 11 a.m. and more.

Exploration Of Human Nature In The Federalist Papers, Jenna Ashley Salzman

Honors College

The Federalist Papers are the canon of American political thought. Scholars have been dissecting their meaning for 250 years. Much of the analysis has focused on the structure of government and the aim for liberty and freedom. A smaller amount focused on the presentation of human nature found within the writings. To understand human nature is to understand how a government should be established and administered. This paper seeks to examine how the Federalist writers Alexander Hamilton and James Madison understood human nature by comparing their writings to John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and David Hume. I argue that the writers …

Expression Vs. Expectation: A Look Into Patients' Perspectives On Professional Appearance In Physical, Speech Or Occupational Therapists With And Without Body Art, Catherine Joy Swedlund

Honors College

Objective: This study evaluated perceptions of professional appearance in tattooed versus non-tattooed therapists in a healthcare setting by surveying a cohort of students from a Christian-associated university.

Background: The popularity of tattoos among young adults in America is becoming increasingly popular. Research, however, informs us that although popularity has increased, perceptions of tattoos are still associated with negative feelings and perceptions in the workplace and in religious contexts. Culturally, in America, tattoos are associated with a lower socioeconomic status and education level. Additionally, women with tattoos tend to be judged more harshly, with more perceptions of deviant behavior compared to …

Leadership Education And Moocs: A Content Analysis Approach To Understanding The Pedagogy And Characteristics Of Leadership Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs), J. E. Jason Headrick

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study is to identify the pedagogical strategies used for instruction and assessment in leadership-oriented MOOCs and gain a more refined understanding of the current state of MOOCs in leadership education. The study also seeks to fill the gaps in the body of knowledge surrounding leadership MOOCs. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a form of distance education course used across content areas. They have been celebrated as revolutionizing the way learners access education and the way colleges and universities could expand the notion of education on a global scale beyond their traditional campuses. The use of …

Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 20, Issue 01, December 2019, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program

OTras Perspectivas: UNM Occupational Therapy Program Newsletter

Acknowledging that the success of the Occupational Therapy Program hinges on the mutual investment of community and friends beyond the local community, the UNM Occupational Therapy Program faculty and staff have initiated this newsletter. The goal is to provide an additional forum for communication, and provide updates about the program's development, faculty, students, alumni, and friends.

Preface To Ssl 45.2, Patrick Scott, Tony Jarrells

Studies in Scottish Literature

A brief introduction to the issue contents, future issues, a 35% increase in 2018-2019 in use of the digital version, and a significant further gift to the journal's endowment.

Introduction: The Ghost At The Feast: Religion In Scottish Literary Criticism, Patrick Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

Surveys changes in Scottish institutional religion, summarizes Crawford Gribben's critique in 2006 of Scottish literary criticism's long-time anti-Calvinist bias, and introduces essays reappraising the treatment of belief by Scottish poets and novelists from varied religious backgrounds and the critical response to this aspect of their work.

Presbyterianism, 'Scottish Literature,' And John Galt's Annals Of The Parish, Robert P. Irvine

Studies in Scottish Literature

In discussing religion in John Galt's novel about religious and social change in a small West of Scotland town between 1760 and 1820, suggests “Scottish literature” was forged, not in opposition to Calvinist theological ideas, but to the Kirk as a rival national institution, and that Scottish literature became "national," less through self-from the literature of another nation (England), than from another institution with a rival claim to represent the same nation, namely the established Scottish church.

Iterative Kernel Technique To Solve System Fredholm Integral Equation First Kind For Degenerate Kernel, Talhat Ismael Hassan

Polytechnic Journal

Many problems associated with the engineering technology field can be transformed into Fredholm integral equations of the first kind to achieve problem-solving strategies. In this paper, the iterative kernel technique was reformulated to treat the numerical solution for the system of Fredholm integral equations of the first kind for the degenerate kernel. Three new theorems have been proposed and proved. This technique was programmed via Matlab and achieved a good result

Persistence And Mitigation Of Antibiotic Resistance In Manure And Manure-Amended Soils, Mara J. Zelt

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The emergence of antibiotic resistance (AR) is a growing global threat to human and animal health. The work described here asses the AR mitigation potential of management strategies at critical control points in livestock production, and agricultural land management as well as the effectiveness of a communication strategy to convey research-based information to empower behavioral change that could mitigate AR.

The first study evaluates the impact of beef cattle diet management strategies on AMR prevalence in manure. Two treatments – forage concentration and essential oils – in cattle diets were evaluated for their impact on AMR bacteria in feedlot manure. …

Flex-Ro: A Robotic High Throughput Field Phenotyping System, Joshua N. Murman

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Research in agriculture is critical to developing techniques to meet the world’s demand for food, fuel, fiber, and feed. Optimization of crop production per unit of land requires scientists across disciplines to collaborate and investigate new areas of science and tools for data collection. The use of robotics has been adopted in several industries to supplement labor, and accurately perform repetitious tasks. However, the use of autonomous robots in commercial agricultural production is still limited. The Flex-Ro (Flexible structured Robotic platform) was developed for use in large area fields as a multipurpose tool to perform monotonous agricultural tasks.

This work …

Measurement Of The Production Cross Section Of Four Top Quarks In Proton–Proton Collisions At 13 Tev, Caleb Fangmeier

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The field of particle physics involves not only searches for new particles and measurements of their interactions, but also the design and construction of advanced particle detectors. This thesis presents the measurement of the production cross section of four top quarks in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV using 137 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. This analysis considers events in the final state of a same-sign pair of leptons, notable for being a final state with relatively few Standard Model background events. A boosted decision tree is utilized to discriminate …

Improvement For Generating High-Order Harmonics And Attosecond Pulses With Ultrashort Laser Fields, Dian Peng

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Nonlinear processes of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) produced by ultrashort few-cycle laser pulses possess interesting features which HHG produced by long pulses of many cycles may not have. First, HHG spectra produced by ultrashort pulses are extremely sensitive to the driving pulse waveform, which can be controlled by laser parameters such as carrier-envelope phases (CEPs), time delays or frequency chirps. Second, HHG spectra produced by ultrashort pulses can exhibit broad uneven peaks which are different from usual odd-ordered harmonic peaks that long pulses produce.

Based on the high sensitivity on pulse waveform of HHG spectra produced by ultrashort pulses, we …

A Phenomenological Study Of Leadership Outcomes In Short-Term Study Abroad, Jeanette Milius

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The impact of global citizenship is far-reaching and encompasses skills and outcomes beyond simple economic and business success. Enhancing all students’ knowledge and ability to navigate a global community is not just of interest to governmental units, policymakers, and global organizations, but also to universities who wish to adhere to accreditation standards. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to identify characteristics related to an individuals’ motivation to complete a short-term study abroad (one to three weeks in duration) and the impact that experience had on their personal and leadership growth. Eighteen self-identified leaders enrolled in a college degree or …

Stuck Outdoor Air Damper Faults In Rooftop Units Having Air Economizers: Economic Impact, Fault Symptoms, And Fault Detection And Diagnostics Using Cellular Data Loggers (Cello), Moh'd-Eslam Dahdolan

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Air economizers are widely used in building air conditioning systems. The purpose of using them is to reduce needed mechanical cooling by properly introducing outdoor air to the space when its temperature is low enough without compromising space ventilation. It is common that air economizer experience malfunction and faulty performance, causing energy savings to be lost, furthermore, energy penalty occur.

This thesis discusses the impacts stuck outdoor air dampers have on the value and performance of air economizers used in air handling units (AHU) and rooftop units (RTU). The study used multiple EnergyPlus simulations of a small office building model …

Role Of Arginine And/Or Taurine In Protection Against Gentamicin-Induced Nephrotoxicity In Male And Female Rats, Amal H. Emara, Wafaa M. Ismaeil

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background As a highly effective antibiotic, gentamicin is used in the treatment of serious and life-threatening gram-negative infections. L-arginine (2-amino-5-guanidino-pentanoic acid) has a protective role on renal failure that induced by gentamicin administration and it may decrease the tubular reabsorption of another cationic substance, gentamicin due to its cationic structure. The aim of this study is to determine the influence of gender on nephroprotective effects of L-arginine (Arg) and/or taurine (Tau) on gentamicin (G) induced nephrotoxicity. Methods Adult Sprague-Dawley albino rats of both sexes (150-200 g, 48 male and 48 female), were bred from the animal unit of National Nutrition …

Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Auto-Antibodies Prevalence Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus And Their Clinical Characteristics In A Sample Of The Egyptian Population, Atef A. Bassyounia, Ayat I. Ghanem, Ghada A. Omar

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background Patients with latent autoimmune diabetes in adults may develop early loss of β-cell mass. They are often misdiagnosed as having type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This is because latent autoimmune diabetes in adults condition does share characteristics of both type 1 and T2DM. Aim To estimate the prevalence of unrecognized cases with glutamic acid decarboxylase auto-antibodies (GADA) among patients with T2DM in a sample of the Egyptian population, describing their clinical and laboratory features, and investigating the relationship with chronic complications of diabetes. Settings and design A total of 1515 Egyptian patients previously diagnosed as having T2DM were divided …

Recent Conservative Management Trends In Dealing With Uterine Adnexal Torsion Will Preserve Fertility In Childbearing Women: A Review Of Literature And Case Series, Hossam H. Soliman

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Introduction Uterine adnexal torsion is a rare gynecologic emergency, representing 2.5–7% of all the acute gynecologic surgical conditions. It could lead to adnexal ischemia and necrosis, putting a woman at the risk of a radical surgery, which leads her to lose a uterine adnexa, plummeting her future fertility, and possibility inducing a negative effect of her future marital and family life. Adnexal detorsion associated with cystectomy is a simple maneuver that could spare the woman of losing her ovary; this technique could successfully work even with an apparently necrosed ovary. Aim A review of literature, in addition to a retrospective …