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On Implementation Delays, Marginal Costs And Price Dynamics: A Theoretical Note With Implications For The Philippines, Lawrence B. Dacuycuy, Mariel Monica Sauler, Dickson Lim

DLSU Business & Economics Review

It has been known that longer implementation delays in public investments result in sluggish accumulation of public capital. In models in which public capital determines firm productivity, the longer the duration of implementation delays, the

higher the marginal costs which, in a New Keynesian economy means higher price markups. Consequently, higher mark- ups may increase the inflation rate, leading to an appropriate monetary policy response. Using a dynamic stochastic general

equilibrium (DSGE) model, this theoretical note focuses on the relationships among government investments, firm pricing policy, and monetary policy. It addresses some aspects of public investment, and through simulations, characterizes …

Smu Sharpens The Global Edge Of Its Undergraduates, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases and News

In partnership with 31 leading universities, SMU will organise the 2019 Study Abroad Fair to boost global exposure opportunities for students

Deities And Devotion In Mongolian Buddhist Art, Charles Mason, Andie Near, Tom Wagner

Kruizenga Art Museum Exhibition Catalogs

Design by Tom Wagner. Produced by Storming the Castle Pictures (StCP) as a catalog for the Kruizenga Art Museum exhibition “Deities and Devotion in Mongolian Buddhist Art,” August 30 – December 14, 2019.

Kruizenga Art Museum Online Collection - Exhibition Gallery

Conceptualizing Ecological Responses To Dam Removal: If You Remove It, What’S To Come?, J. Ryan Bellmore, G. R. Press, Jeffrey J. Duda, Jim E. O'Connor, Amy E. East, Melissa M. Foley, Andrew C. Wilcox, Jon J. Major, Patrick Shafroth, Sarah A. Morley, Christopher S. Magirl, Chauncey W. Anderson, James E. Evans, Laura Shawn Craig

School of Earth, Environment and Society Faculty Publications

One of the desired outcomes of dam decommissioning and removal is the recovery of aquatic and riparian ecosystems. To investigate this common objective, we synthesized information from empirical studies and ecological theory into conceptual models that depict key physical and biological links driving ecological responses to removing dams. We define models for three distinct spatial domains: upstream of the former reservoir, within the reservoir, and downstream of the removed dam. Emerging from these models are response trajectories that clarify potential pathways of ecological transitions in each domain. We illustrate that the responses are controlled by multiple causal pathways and feedback …

In Re Lipitor Antitrust Litigation: The Third Circuit's Prescription For Judicial Reviewability Of Reverse Payment Settlements, John Miraglia

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Editors' Preface & Precedential Opinion Summary, Valerie Caras, Jason Kurtyka, Timothy J. Muyano, Thallia Malespin

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Fifty Years Of Foia In Operation, 1967-2017, Tuan N. Samahon

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Resolving Foia Disputes, Margaret Kwoka, Alina Semo, Marcia Berman, Michael Bekesha

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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The Future Of Foia In An Open Government World: Implications Of The Open Government Agenda For Freedom Of Information Policy And Implementation, Daniel Berliner, Alex Ingrams, Suzanne J. Piotrowski

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Chance Wanderer And Other Tales Of Hunger, Camille Goodison

Publications and Research

Goodison's collection explores the lives of a range of people who find themselves at a pivotal point in life, often brought there through unpredictable, unseen forces. The characters are seemingly ordinary individuals -- teachers, shoemakers, shop clerks -- who at some point reveal themselves to be loners, dissidents, artists, seekers and sages; essentially, representatives of traditions under test. The many material fetishisms of modern life never satisfy or replace our individual desires, and so these characters attempt to offer new perspectives, new ways to look at the world that’s already around them. While the stories are told realistically, they sometimes …

Postpartum Celebrity Images: Influence On Self- Thoughts And Appearance Management Behaviours Of Postpartum Women, Alyssa Dana Adomaitis, Kim K. P. Johnson

Publications and Research

Within previous decades, opinions about pregnancy and post-partum behaviour featured in various news articles and within popular literature emphasized issues related to pregnancy and liquor; campaigns against teen pregnancy; pregnancy and weight gain; and pregnancy and dieting behaviour. Attention has shifted from these issues to appearance-related topics including rapid weight loss, exercise regiments and food restriction. For example, photographs of celebrities have provided visual evidence that women can gain weight during pregnancy, give birth and within weeks revert to a thin, pre-pregnant body size. A qualitative method was used to explore to what extent, if any, images of post-partum celebrity …

Teaching With Technology: Using A Virtual Learning Community And Peer Mentoring To Create An Interdisciplinary Intervention, Rebecca Mazumdar, Nadia Benakli, Pamela Brown

Publications and Research

This paper describes the development and implementation of engaging and supportive experiences to promote student engagement, persistence and success at a commuter, open enrollment, public, minority serving institution. Project components included faculty development at the SENCER Summer Institute (SSI) 2016, attended by a team comprised of an academic administrator, full-time faculty from English and math, and part-time faculty in chemistry; creation of a virtual learning community of freshmen enrolled in chemistry, English, and math linked by the specific theme of the environmental impacts of deicing roads with salt and the overarching theme of the impacts of human activities on the …

Front Matter

The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era

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Cohen, Joanna. Luxurious Citizens: The Politics Of Consumption In Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2017., Jacob Bruggerman

The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era

To what extent should consumption reflect local and national interests? Joanna Cohen has written an excellent book at the intersection of intellectual, economic, and cultural history about how this question was asked and understood in the period extending from the American War for Independence to the post-bellum era. She demonstrates how citizens in the early republic struggled to understand the consumer’s place in the constellation of America’s national interest, asking questions such as, “’Who [should have] access to foreign goods?’ and “Who should shop and how[?]” (52). Although the Constitution roughly framed the relationship between the American government and consumers, …

Violence In Popular Culture: American And Global Perspectives, Rob Tench

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

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Smart Tennis Ball, Eric Mielke

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Smart Tennis Ball system allows users to track the location of a lost ball. It incorporates ultra-wideband technology and an accurate trilateration algorithm in order to precisely track the location of a tennis or golf ball.

The UWB signals intersect in a triangular fashion and pinpoint the location of the ball using trilateration. The system then calculates the position of the ball and then sends this location to the user’s cell phone. This allows for less frustration for the user who needs to find their lost ball.

3d Mapping With Raspberry Pi, Matt Blake

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) allows a robot to map its environment while also keeping track of the robot’s own location within the map. ORB-SLAM2 is a type of SLAM which only uses a video stream as input, but it does not have automatic support for the common low-cost Raspberry Pi Camera. This project involved creating a version of the ORB-SLAM2 ROS module that can use the Raspberry Pi Camera as its main input source, as well as integrating April Tag fiducial detection into the module to allow for future improvements to the mapping and positioning process.

Aggi-E-Bike, Rees Hatch, Mahmoud Monsour, Garrett Witmer, Oscar Silva, Layan Nimri

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aggi-E-Bike reinvents the electric drive for an bicycle to achieve higher power density while still being cost-effective. The challenge to push converters to be smaller comes with the trying to remove heat generated by the non-ideal circuit components. The interdisciplinary Aggi-E-Bike team has worked side by side to tackle this challenge. The team will also be representing USU at IEEE's 2019 International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC) final competition in late July in Madison, Wisconsin. The competition requirements and judging criteria have heavily influenced the design decisions made for the project; requirements such as no forced air cooling and a fixed …

Backyard Splash Pad, James Humble, Braydan Allen

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Motivation

• We wanted to obtain experience using OpenCV to do image processing
• Splash Pads at parks are crowded
• With kids it is not always easy to get out the door
• Having a Splash Pad in your backyard allows you to customize it

Features

• Routine that will randomly turn on and off the nozzles
• Phone app that can control the nozzles and light color
• Reaction to objects when they are over a nozzle

Brain Wars: A Mental Game Of Tug Of War, Michael Chesnut, Tony Rawlings

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brain Wars: A mental game of tug of war.

Carburetor Automator, Taylor Zinke, Xuecong Fan

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The goal of this project is to improve the air-to-fuel ratio (AFR) delivered in carbureted engines. The AFR affects the power, gas consumption, emissions, and lifetime of an engine. Carburetors use two adjustable flaps and a fixed-diameter, narrow tube to deliver air and fuel to the engine.

Cnc Pancake Printer, Johnathan Powell

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The objective of this project is to allow anyone to quickly, easily, and reliably create pancake art, with a variety of applications, from entertainment to advertising.

Any image can be used, and while the process is simple and easy to run, the printer and algorithms are also easy to expand, modify, and upgrade.

Cycling Hud, Justin Allred

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Problem: Cyclists are constantly looking for data to track performance during their ride. These performance metrics are generally displayed on a bike computer mounted on the handlebars. The cyclist must take his or her eyes off the road to view the data.

Hypothesis: If this data could be displayed in front of the cyclist’s eyes, the safety of the ride could be increased, and data viewing would become more convenient to the cyclist. A solution to this problem is a heads-up-display (HUD) which can provide the cyclist information right in front of his or her eyes.

Objective: Create a HUD …

Depth Finder Unlimited, Mason Shumway

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The purpose of this project was to design a depth finder that can be used from land.

Electric Go-Kart, Josh Larkin, Ian Colbert, Morgan Durocher

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Benefits of Electric Vehicles

• More Efficient
• Zero CO₂ Emissions
• Less Maintenance
• Cheaper to operate

Fixed Site Srcurity Using Fiducials And Blob Tracking, Noah Mecham, Garrett Ruskauff, Reebal Nimri, Grant Stensland

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The goal of this project was to implement a security system using autonomous robots for any given area using Robotic Operating System (ROS).

The project incorporates the use of fiducials known as April Tags and Blob tracking to patrol an area and search for a predetermined intruder.

The security system was specifically made to work in GPS denied locations, so it is ideal for homes and businesses.

Flex Sensor System, Eric Alsop, Derek Withers, Riley Densley

Electrical and Computer Engineering

In this project we refined and implemented a flex sensor that was recently invented here in Utah. This sensor uses light to measure how much something is bending. This method of sensing has many advantages over current carbon-based sensors including linear output, ability to make two sensors with identical output (nearly impossible with carbon-based sensors), reduced hysteresis, improved accuracy, and reduced power consumption. Perhaps most importantly, these sensors can be made from a wide variety of materials.

Home Automation, Aaron Pettit

Electrical and Computer Engineering

This system monitors several appliances in a person’s home. The framework is setup to be easily expandable for any future modifications. Two systems are currently supported.

• Lighting control
• Washer and Dryer notifications

Most home automation systems typically include lights or door locks. I have not seen many systems that include a washer and dryer controllers. The controller for the washer and dryer use magnets as to attach to any type of washing machine.

Input-Corrective Drawing Pad, Jesse Jensen

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Input-Corrective Drawing Pad is a drawing tablet that takes shaky input data and corrects it. It is designed for those with fine motor skill disabilities. The system takes an input (either writing or drawing) drawn by pressure-sensitive stylus and then outputs a “corrected” version. If in writing mode, text is output to the screen. Otherwise, simple shapes such as lines and curves are output to the screen on a drawing canvas. It accomplishes this goal by first eliminating obvious shakes in the input. Then, the shake-corrected input is fed into a neural network. If classifying text, the learning software …

Inflatable Antenna, Robert Mckay

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Inflatable antennas have been extensively researched for years.

• NASA’s Inflatable Antenna Experiment (1996)
• Cubic’s Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive (GATR) (2008)

The inflatable antenna presented here is unlike many inflatable antennas.

• Omni-directional
• Miniature
• Single-band (2.4 GHz)
• Folds

The design may be useful for consumers.

• Increased Wi-Fi / Bluetooth range on computers
• Efficient design reduces cost