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Labor Market Implications On The Uptake Of The Earned Income Tax Credit In New Mexico Post Great Recession: 2008-2015, James Kaminsky

Economics ETDs

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the most successful poverty alleviation programs in the US tax code. In New Mexico tax filers may apply for a refundable credit – the Working Family Tax Credit (WFTC) – that is predicated upon receipt of the EITC on their federal return. However, the preponderance of research examining the efficacy of the EITC is premised upon two hypotheses: economic conditions are expanding and those seeking work can find it.

Subsequent to the Great Recession, it is not clear that these hypotheses hold. The Great Recession began in Q4-2007 and continued into …

09-10-19 Hsc Committee Minutes, Hsc Committee

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

Dec. 11, 2019, Code Report And Recommendations On Toolkit Review, Code

World Bank Inspection Panel 1994-Present

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Shooting Under The Occupation: A Story Of Palestinian Film, Noran Alaa Morsi

Audiovisual Projects

Palestinian Female filmmakers are at an interesting intersection in the film industry, this documentary tells the story of what threats face the Palestinian film industry in this day and age. This audio documentary showcases the Palestinian filmmaker community, especially women, and their struggles recording on the occupied territories. Join Noran Alaa as she interviews filmmakers Najwa Najjar and Prof. Arab Loutfi who shed light on the issue.

Go Ahead — It’S Ok To Allow Yourself To Be Silly Sometimes, Lillian Caraballo

UCF Forum

Waiting in line at the movies, I saw a young woman do the “airplane run” over to the concession stand. You know, when you stretch out your arms to your sides and run forward, as if flying.

A Phenomenological Study Of Parent Experiences With Postsecondary-Admission Counseling, Anthony Espitia

CUP Ed.D. Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to better understand parent experiences with the postsecondary-admission counseling of high school students in California. As a state, California exceeds the ASCA’s student-to-counselor national recommendations, impacting the delivery of postsecondary-admission counseling on high school campuses. To understand the postsecondary-admission counseling experiences in California, a qualitative phenomenological study consisting of 12 parents of current or recently graduated high school students was utilized. Open-ended interviews captured parents’ lived experiences with the postsecondary-admission counseling of California high school counselors. The data analysis for this study was accomplished by utilizing a four-step process outlined by Moustakas (1994), which …

Alumni News | Denbow Uses Expertise As Senior Planner In Kentucky, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Moore’S ‘The Story Cure’ Reprinted In Chinese Edition, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Perry's Experience With The Book Of Mormon, Hannah Shoaf

Individual Item Submissions

A family legend about a mysterious man, one of the Three Nephites, coming to the Perry home and telling them to accept The Book of Mormon from missionaries who will visit at a later date.

Birmingham Nanomaterials Company Wins Big In Alabama Launchpad Competition, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

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Keeping The Flu Out Of The Classroom, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Testing And Modeling Of The Indirect Solar Drying Of Thin Film Mangos, Olivier Montmayeur

Theses

In Haiti, 80% of rural people live in dire poverty living on less than a dollar a day. Cultivated and wild grown foods such as mangos and breadfruit could be used to reduce the economic and nutritional disparity for rural communities. Unfortunately in these areas there is a high amount of spoilage due to short harvesting seasons with high yields and lack of preservation options. 80% of breadfruit and 60% of mangoes are lost annually according to a local farmer’s co-op in Borgne, Haiti [1]. Based on a 2018 three-week collaborative design session with Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and …

Ferrell, Ann Katherine, B. 1972 (Fa 1381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1381. Interview conducted on 11 December 2019 by Ann Ferrell with Michael Ann Williams, who discusses her education and academic career as a folklorist and vernacular architecture historian. From 1987-2018, Williams was a faculty member in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University.

Potential Health Risks Linked To Emerging Contaminants In Major Rivers And Treated Waters, James Kessler, Diane Dawley, Daniel Crow, Ramin Garmany, Philippe T. Georgel

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

The presence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in our local waterways is becoming an increasing threat to the surrounding population. These compounds and their degradation products (found in pesticides, herbicides, and plastic waste) are known to interfere with a range of biological functions from reproduction to differentiation. To better understand these effects, we used an in silico ontological pathway analysis to identify the genes affected by the most commonly detected EDCs in large river water supplies, which we grouped together based on four common functions: Organismal injuries, cell death, cancer, and behavior. In addition to EDCs, we included the opioid buprenorphine …

Paranormal Stories And Spiritual Legends: The Importance Of Religious Family Folklore, Ainslee Mcmullin

Final Projects

Family folklore stories about paranormal and spiritual experiences. This paper highlights the role of the importance of religious family folklore in building familial bonds.

Quilts In Utah, Juliana Reynoso

Final Projects

The contributor shares the stories behind and meaning of her handmade quilts.

Generations Of Christmas: Christmas Traditions In The Eubank And Holbrook Families, Jensyn Eubank

Final Projects

This project examines the Christmas traditions of the Eubank and Holbrook families and attempts to identify which factors make traditions more or less likely to be passed down.

Meta-Memes: An Analysis Of Self-Commentary In Meme Culture, Ryann Henderson

Final Projects

About the Drake formats meme.

American Sign Language Idioms: Where They Come From, And The People Who Use Them., Amanda Reece

Final Projects

About American Sign Language Idioms. This paper explains the relationship between ASL idioms and the overall ASL culture.

Bloody Mary, Anna Jensen

Final Projects

About the legend of Bloody Mary

State Stereotypes, Lexi Maycock

Final Projects

About stereotypes of the Pacific Northwest, New England, the Deep South, the Midwest, California, Texas, and Utah.

Hawaiian Baby Folklore, Steven Lord

Final Projects

About Hawaiian Baby Folklore. This paper includes the Hawaiian Creation Myth, Hawaiian pregnancy folk beliefs, Hawaiian naming traditions, and Hawaiian post-birth customs.

Foodlore, Aaron Higuchi, Deidere Higuchi

Final Projects

About food culture in a Japanese family that grew up in Hawaii.

Scary Stories, Makenna Matos

Final Projects

Scary stories shared by Brigham Young University students.

Anti-Catholic Folklore In Latin America, Bryce Tucker

Final Projects

This paper talks about Anti-Catholic Folklore in Latin America and how it circulates among missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Folklore Final Project: Byu Engagement And Wedding Rings, Emily Thomas

Final Projects

Engaged or married BYU students talk about their engagement and wedding rings.

Identification Of Visual Attentional Regions Of The Temporoparietal Junction In Individual Subjects Using A Vivid, Novel Oddball Paradigm, Kathryn J. Devaney, Maya L. Rosen, Emily J. Levin, David C. Somers

Neuroscience: Faculty Publications

The Temporoparietal Junction (TPJ) of the cerebral cortex is a functionally heterogeneous region that also exhibits substantial anatomical variability across individuals. As a result, the precise functional organization of TPJ remains controversial. One or more regions within TPJ support visual attention processes, but the “attention TPJ” is difficult to functionally observe in individual subjects, and thus is typically identified by averaging across a large group of subjects. However, group-averaging also blurs localization and can obscure functional organization. Here, we develop and test an individual-subject approach to identifying attentional TPJ. This paradigm employs novel oddball images with a strong visual drive …

Resource Theory Of Asymmetric Distinguishability, Xin Wang, Mark M. Wilde

Faculty Publications

This paper systematically develops the resource theory of asymmetric distinguishability, as initiated roughly a decade ago [Matsumoto, Reverse test and characterization of quantum relative entropy, arXiv:1010.1030]. The key constituents of this resource theory are quantum boxes, consisting of a pair of quantum states, which can be manipulated for free by means of an arbitrary quantum channel. We introduce bits of asymmetric distinguishability as the basic currency in this resource theory, and we prove that it is a reversible resource theory in the asymptotic limit, with the quantum relative entropy being the fundamental rate of resource interconversion. The distillable distinguishability is …

Resource Theory Of Asymmetric Distinguishability For Quantum Channels, Xin Wang, Mark M. Wilde

Faculty Publications

This paper develops the resource theory of asymmetric distinguishability for quantum channels, generalizing the related resource theory for states [Matsumoto, arXiv:1010.1030, Wang and Wilde, Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033170 (2019)10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033170]. The key constituents of the channel resource theory are quantum channel boxes, consisting of a pair of quantum channels, which can be manipulated for free by means of an arbitrary quantum superchannel (the most general physical transformation of a quantum channel). One main question of the resource theory is the approximate channel box transformation problem, in which the goal is to transform an initial channel box (or boxes) to a …

Bursting The Bubble: The 1988 “Ghetto Party” And Depauw’S Problem With Diversity, James Rueff

Student Research

This paper will delve first into the background information surrounding race relations at the national level, collegiate level, and at DePauw. Next, the paper will investigate how the University started to recruit minority students and faculty as a precursor to campus culture in the 1988-89 academic year of the party and its aftermath. How white people reacted to the event will be put into conversation with Barbara Applebaum’s book, Being White, Being Good. The book tackles how and why white people believe themselves to either be non-racist or unaware of their racist actions. In tandem with The DePauw articles that …