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Editors' Preface And Precedential Opinion Summary, Timothy J. Muyano, Thalia Malespin, Matthew D. Venuti, Brett E. Broczkowski

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

We're Soarin', Flyin' : The Third Circuit Holds Travelers May Sue Transportation Security Officers In Pellegrino V. United States Transportation Security Administration, Division Of Department Of Homeland Security, Lauren E. Pugh

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Anterior Talofibular Ligament And Superior Extensor Ankle Retinaculum Thicknesses: Relationship With Balance, Brooke Malloy, David Furrow, Haily Cook, Elizabeth Smoot, Lindsey Cash, Adrian Aron, Kristen Jagger, Brent Harper

Physical Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

Purpose

This study determined if anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL)/superior extensor ankle retinaculum (SEAR) thicknesses are related to dynamic balance in individuals with chronic ankle instability (CAI).

Materials and Methods

The subjects were 14 males and 15 females (age=24.52±3.46 years). Ankle instability was assessed using the Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool (CAIT) with a cut off score of 25 to define two groups. SonoSite MTurbo (Fugifilm Sonosite, Inc.) musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSKUS) unit was used to assess ATFL and SEAR thicknesses. Dynamic balance was measured with the Y Balance Test (YBT) and two NeuroCom balance tests.

Results

There were no significant differences in …

Becoming His Own Boss, Reginald A. Blake Jr.

Capstones

Sports and Academics have long been linked. If an athlete's grades aren’t up to par they can’t play, but when an athlete practices in the morning and at night, travels for games, how much learning can they actually do? There are cases however when an athlete uses sports as their ticket for higher education because their grades wouldn’t cut it. 16-year-old Deon McLaughlin is one of those students. For all his success on the court he’s battled with maintaining his school’s rigid academic standards. As good as he is, he knows the NBA isn’t a possibility, for him basketball is …

Putting A Face To Cancer, Lenn Robbins

Capstones

About one month after I began my studies at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH). Three years and three relapses later, I have my MA, I defiant will to fight this disease and the hope that by chronicling my experience I might help others. If this project helps just one person, it's been worth the ride.

https://lennrobbins.wixsite.com/facetocancer

A New Breed Of Cop: Keeping Kids On The Straight And Narrow, Michael Tashji

Capstones

Policing kids in America today has changed—the ‘tough on crime’ days are over. Public scrutiny of police is at an all-time high, five years after the unrest in Ferguson. Officers Camacho, Charles and Romano serve the town of Bloomfield, New Jersey, and work specifically with kids in the community. They’ve adapted to these changes. But they’ve also banded together to support each other behind the thin blue line.

https://michaeltashji.com

Aging Intimately, Niamh Mcdonnell, Giulia Hjort

Capstones

We’re both familiar with grief after the loss of family members over 75. This project is our way of giving back in a small way by listening, but also as a way of remembering the people we unexpectedly lost. Each person we’ve met on this journey has inspired us in their own way, with their stories of resilience through grief and aging. All of our collaborators on this project are constantly learning, taking risks, and moving forward through loss and pain. They aren’t defined by their age. Rather, they embrace it with a willingness to reinvent their approach to romance …

Shahar's Producing Capstone, Shahar Golan

Capstones

The series of videos below were all produced between Sep-Nov 2019. They were part of 219 West, a news magazine TV show, airing on CUNY-TV and produced by the graduate students at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism.

While the videos might not have an obvious common thread, I saw them all as attempts to show New Yorkers who were challanging societal norms by centering their hobbies in life while surviving in the big apple.

The stories show a soccer player, a visual artists, and a skater, that either for pleasure, or to make a living, spend much of their …

Minutes, Global Initiatives Committee Meeting, Monday, December 16, 2019, Rollins College Global Initiatives Committee

The Center for Global Initiatives

No abstract provided.

Certified Population Estimates, July 2019, Portland State University. Population Research Center

Oregon Population Estimates and Reports

Certified Population Estimates for Oregon and Its Counties. This item also contains estimates for Incorporated Cities/Towns.

Nyc Is A Hotspot For Bedsores Among The Elderly And Immobile, Kara J. Brown

Capstones

New York City is a hotspot for bedsores in nursing homes, according to data provided by the federal government. The Big Apple is home to nine of the 10 nursing homes in the state with the highest rates of long-stay, high-risk patients suffering from bedsores. Nationwide, those 10 nursing homes are among the worst in the nation—the top 2%—for their high bedsore rates, the data shows. Residents considered high risk are, according to Medicare, those who are impaired in bed mobility or transfer, who are comatose, or who suffer from malnutrition.

More than one out of every four residents at …

Ransomware Is Quietly Devastating American Healthcare Facilities, Benjamin Powers

Capstones

The patient didn’t attract any attention initially. They were just one more cog moving through the system that was the massive hospital complex on your average day. That was, until they were shown to a room, and left alone. At that point, they removed a flash drive from their pocket and tried to insert it into a computer — with the goal of accessing the hospitals computer systems.

This is according to the Chief Information Security Officer at a major Northwest university hospital system, who asked for anonymity due to the sensitive nature of such attacks.

The imposter patient was …

Coming Home: Veterans Leaving Service Face A Deadly Identity Crisis, Alexandria M. Hammond

Capstones

Many veterans are not adequately prepared for the psychological challenges they will face when leaving the military and transitioning to civilian life. Researchers, advocates and veterans themselves are beginning to realize how this "transition stress" is contributing to the high rates of veteran suicide in the United States.

Link to Capstone: http://monroehammond.com/uncategorized/coming-home-veterans-leaving-service-face-a-deadly-identity-crisis/

Rural America Faces Roadblocks In Joining The Internet Highway, Spencer C. Lee

Capstones

In the span of just a few decades, broadband – or high-speed – internet has become a standard 21st-century tool both in the workplace and at home. Yet a surprising number of rural communities in the U.S. currently lack access to speeds fast enough to complete regular household or school tasks, with some areas forced to go without wired connections altogether. The holes in internet connectivity across the country are placing barriers to career and educational growth, suppressing rural incomes and home values and causing population declines. Without faster technology, the future survival of many rural towns is at risk. …

More Than A Century After Problem Emerged, Manhole Explosions Still Injuring Dozens In New York City, Gaspard Le Dem, Gabriel Sandoval

Capstones

Since the early days of electrification, New York City has been rattled by manhole explosions –– underground blasts that injure residents, damage buildings, force evacuations, cause power outages and traffic disruptions.

Consolidated Edison, the city's largest electric provider, has for decades blamed manhole issues on bad weather and road salt that erodes underground wires. But some experts and former utility workers say lack of maintenance is at the root of the problem.

Meanwhile, city and state officials have failed to rein in the problem through weak laws and loose oversight. As a result, unsuspecting drivers and pedestrians continue to be …

South Bronx Waterfront, Noah Lewis

Capstones

The waterfronts of New York City have seen dramatic transformation and development over the past several decades. Developers have taken advantage of the coveted real estate space and constructed glass monoliths along Manhattan’s shores on the East and Hudson Rivers.

More recent developments in Long Island City and Williamsburg’s waterfront have seen waterfronts transform, and neighborhoods are unrecognizable from where they used to be. But as development continues in those areas, many developers are being priced out, and the Bronx is the logical next step in the process.

This project includes photos, videos, and animations of the South Bronx Waterfront. …

A Feasibility Study On The Application Of Tvdi On Accessing Wildfire Danger In The Korean Peninsula, Kwang Nyun Kim, Seung Hee Kim, Myoung Soo Won, Keun Chang Jang, Won Jun Choi, Yun Gon Lee

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Wildfire is a major natural disaster affecting socioeconomics and ecology. Remote sensing data have been widely used to estimate the wildfire danger with an advantage of higher spatial resolution. Among the several wildfire related indices using remote sensing data, Temperature Vegetation Dryness Index (TVDI) assesses wildfire danger based on both Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST). Although TVDI has physical advantages by considering both weather and vegetation condition, previous studies have shown TVDI does not performed well compare to other wildfire related indices over the Korean Peninsula. In this study we have attempted multiple modification to …

Student Perspective While Choosing Distance Education In Library And Information Science Education In Odisha: A Survey Included A State University Lis Student’S In Library Science, Lulu Rout, Shubhasmita Acharya Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study includes 295 Library Science student in a State University known as Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha. In Odisha this is the first State University who provide a huge number of distance learning courses. The sample size includes 195 BLIS student and 95 MLIS student who got admitted in this state university in 2019-2020 batch. The result of this survey is to find out the reason behind choosing the distance Library Science course in Odisha state and the reason of student migrating from other state to Odisha state for choosing this University. Except the Library Science course this survey …

Summation Within And Across Shapes In Central And Peripheral Vision, G Schmidtmann, M Zawadyl

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.

Acidithiobacillus, R Boden, L Hutt

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Diatoms Dominate And Alter Marine Food-Webs When Co2 Rises, Ben P. Harvey, Sylvain Agostini, Koetsu Kon, Shigeki Wada, Jason M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Diatoms are so important in ocean food-webs that any human induced changes in their abundance could have major effects on the ecology of our seas. The large chain-forming diatom Biddulphia biddulphiana greatly increases in abundance as pCO2 increases along natural seawater CO2 gradients in the north Pacific Ocean. In areas with reference levels of pCO2, it was hard to find, but as seawater carbon dioxide levels rose, it replaced seaweeds and became the main habitat-forming species on the seabed. This diatom algal turf supported a marine invertebrate community that was much less diverse and completely differed from the benthic communities …

Ssa Positivity As Predictor Of Relapse In Patients With Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder, Roberto A. Cruz, Alexander B. Ramos, Bridget A. Bagert, Jesus F. Lovera

School of Medicine Publications

No abstract provided.

Winter Anthropology In Finland: Exploring ‘Green Care’ In Low Light, J Tredinnick-Rowe

Peninsula Medical School

This photo essay discusses some of the methodological issues for medical anthropology in the environmental human health sector, particularly, how season and latitude shape the types of anthropology that can be employed, the activities that can be undertaken, and their aesthetic effect on visual ethnography. The essay recounts the author’s experiences conducting ethnographic studies in the winter months in Finland and discusses the various challenges that environmental conditions produce for researchers.

Are Our Teaching Approaches Suited To The Current Generation Of Engineering Students?, J Davies, L Hodgkinson

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Engineering lecturers often find fault with students’ basic engineering skills yet are concerned about providing courses that appeal to ‘generation Z’. In this study we asked students of civil engineering at the University of Plymouth, via group interviews, to identify matches and mismatches between the teaching on the course and their learning preferences, in order to determine whether the teaching approaches are suited to the current generation. Complete openness of access to all course material was identified as being at the core of their learning preferences. This includes course material and lecture content, accessed from the VLE as needed, and …

Rearrangement Operations On Unrooted Phylogenetic Networks, Remie Janssen, Jonathan Klawitter

Theory & Applications of Graphs

Rearrangement operations transform a phylogenetic tree into another one and hence induce a metric on the space of phylogenetic trees. Popular operations for unrooted phylogenetic trees are NNI (nearest neighbour interchange), SPR (subtree prune and regraft), and TBR (tree bisection and reconnection). Recently, these operations have been extended to unrooted phylogenetic networks, which are generalisations of phylogenetic trees that can model reticulated evolutionary relationships. Here, we study global and local properties of spaces of phylogenetic networks under these three operations. In particular, we prove connectedness and asymptotic bounds on the diameters of spaces of different classes of phylogenetic networks, including …

Study Of The Role Of The Technological Impurities States In The Formation Of A Defective Structure Of Si Doped With Transition Elements, Sharifa Bekmuradovna Utamuradova, Elmira Maxambetyarovna Naurzalieva

Euroasian Journal of Semiconductors Science and Engineering

In this paper, the effect of high-temperature treatments on the development of a defect structure of silicon with transition elements is studied by using capacitive and infrared spectroscopy. It was found that the presence of bound states of technological impurities - particles of SiO2 and SiO4, in Si doped with transition elements leads to a change in the efficiency of the formation of deep levels associated with the atoms of manganese, cobalt and chromium. It was found that the presence of bound states of technological impurities in silicon, for example, SiO2 particles in the Si lattice, increases the efficiency of …

Features Of Magnetic Properties Of Silicon With Magnetic Nanoclusters, Giyos Haydarovich Movlonov, Sobirjon Boltayevich Isomov, Shakhboz Nizom Ugli Ibodullayev, Shahobiddin Boytemir Ugli Shergoziyev

Euroasian Journal of Semiconductors Science and Engineering

The unique magnetic properties of silicon containing nanoclusters formed by impurity manganese atoms and anomalously high negative magnetoresistance at room temperature, which are absent in conventional doped semiconductor materials, have been established

Methods Of Building Load Characteristics Of Solid State Power Amplifiers On Mos Transistors, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Andreev, Khayrulla Kabilovich Aripov, Axmed Mallayevich Abdullayev, Shunkorjon Toshpulatovich Toshmatov

Euroasian Journal of Semiconductors Science and Engineering

The paper presents the results of studies on the development of solid state power amplifiers based on MOS transistors in the large-signal mode. An express method has been developed for constructing the load characteristics of a power amplifier according to the static current-voltage characteristics of MOS transistors, or a set of. A method for combining the load characteristics of power amplifiers is proposed, which provides a relationship between the parameters of the MOS transistor and the parameters of the amplifier

Development Of Photothermoelectric Converters And Research Of Their Design And Operational Features, Lola Kamildjanovna Mamadalieva

Euroasian Journal of Semiconductors Science and Engineering

The paper considers the physical basis of operation and varieties of existing designs of photo thermoelectric energy converters, analyzes the principles of operation and design features of existing one-and two-stage photo thermoelectric converters, and describes the scheme of an experimental installation

Creation Of New Materials Based On Dielectric Films Using Low-Energy Ion Implantation, Muradulla Tagaevich Normuradov, Dilshod Abdurazakovich Normurodov, Kuvondik Turakulovich Davronov, Nilufar Moyli Kizi Mustafayeva

Euroasian Journal of Semiconductors Science and Engineering

In the article, by the methods of spectroscopy of elastically scattered electrons, Oje electron spectroscopy and measurement of secondary emission characteristics of pure and ion-implanted Si samples. As well as dielectric 〖SiO〗_2 films obtained using thermal oxidation in an atmosphere of dry oxygen and implantation of low-energy O_2 ions into single crystals silicon (III) investigated changes in the conditions of generation and exit of secondary electrons from the samples. It is shown that the fine structure of the energy dependences of the secondary electron emission coefficients and their values for dielectric 〖SiO〗_2, films is determined by the history of the …