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University Of Dayton Magazine, Winter 2019-20, University Of Dayton Dec 2019

University Of Dayton Magazine, Winter 2019-20, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD. In the past the magazine was known as UD Alumnus, Focus, Dimensions and UD Quarterly. Articles include "Faces of Faith", "Pointe Person", and "Capital Investment".

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Volume 39, Number 4, December 2019 Olac Newsletter, Marcia Barrett, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano Dec 2019

Volume 39, Number 4, December 2019 Olac Newsletter, Marcia Barrett, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2019 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

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Mosquito Diversity And Positive Pools For The West Nile Virus In Forested Versus Non-Forested Areas, Elizabeth C. Paul Dec 2019

Mosquito Diversity And Positive Pools For The West Nile Virus In Forested Versus Non-Forested Areas, Elizabeth C. Paul

Honors Projects

The West Nile virus (WNV) is one of the leading causes of mosquito borne illness in the United States (CDC, 2018). This virus is a neurotropic pathogen that can cause fever and encephalitis. It is known that the Culex species is the primary vector for WNV. Humans infected with the WNV are typically asymptomatic. There is a small portion of individuals that experience West Nile fever which could include symptoms like high fever, vision loss, and coma (CDC, 2018). Previous studies have shown that mosquitoes tend to favor forests and wetlands (Hay et al., 1998), however, it is unknown if …

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Table Of Contents, Cleveland State Journal Of Law And Health Dec 2019

Table Of Contents, Cleveland State Journal Of Law And Health

Journal of Law and Health

No abstract provided.

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A New Age Of Evolution: Protecting The Consumer’S Moral And Legal Right To Know Through The Clear And Transparent Labeling Of All Genetically Modified Foods, Halie M. Evans Dec 2019

A New Age Of Evolution: Protecting The Consumer’S Moral And Legal Right To Know Through The Clear And Transparent Labeling Of All Genetically Modified Foods, Halie M. Evans

Journal of Law and Health

The United States government, until recently, did not require the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). On July 29, 2016, President Barack Obama signed into law the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS). This law directs the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to create regulations that require manufacturers to disclose certain bioengineered products on food labels. On December 20, 2018, the USDA released the final regulations for the NBFDS, which requires food manufactures, importers, and certain retailers to ensure bioengineered foods are appropriately disclosed. The final regulations include provisions that will leave the majority of GMO derived foods unlabeled. …

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Parens Patriae And Parental Rights: When Should The State Override Parental Medical Decisions?, Elchanan G. Stern Dec 2019

Parens Patriae And Parental Rights: When Should The State Override Parental Medical Decisions?, Elchanan G. Stern

Journal of Law and Health

Alfie Evans was a terminally ill British child whose parents, clinging to hope, were desperately trying to save his life. Hospital authorities disagreed and petitioned the court to enjoin the parents from removing him and taking him elsewhere for treatment. The court stepped in and compelled the hospital to discontinue life support and claimed that further treatment was not in the child’s best interest. This note discusses the heartbreaking stories of Alfie and two other children whose parents’ medical decisions on their behalf were overridden by the court. It argues that courts should never decide that death is in a …

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Physical Activity Patterns Among Undergraduate Colleges At The University Of Texas At Arlington, Jeanne Bandalaria Dec 2019

Physical Activity Patterns Among Undergraduate Colleges At The University Of Texas At Arlington, Jeanne Bandalaria

2019 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

The correlation between undergraduate majors/colleges and their corresponding levels of physical activity was investigated at the University of Texas at Arlington. The relationship between the two subjects of research was determined by the method of a survey, as inspired by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). The IPAQ serves to analyze data through a series of questions that determine an individual’s weekly average of vigorous to moderate exercise based on their job, major, leisure activity, and time spent sedentary. Pie charts and tables are presented to depict the survey’s findings of undergraduate major, college, and times of physical and sedentary …

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Solid-State Marx Generator Utilizing Igbts And An Isolated Gate Driver System, Benjamin Barnett Dec 2019

Solid-State Marx Generator Utilizing Igbts And An Isolated Gate Driver System, Benjamin Barnett

2019 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Marx generators are pulsed power generators useful for applications such as particle accelerators, agricultural food treatment, medical research and treatments, flashed x-rays, laser welding and ablation, and high-power microwaves. This type of generator is often high voltage, and provides short (nanosecond – microsecond long) pulses of power. Many well-documented designs utilize spark gap switches, but recent advancements in solid-state power electronics components like IGBTs make high-power transistor switching possible. Although limited to low voltage (<10kV) by the current transistor technology, there are clear benefits to this design, namely precise switching timing, allowing for pulse shaping, and RLC ringing reduction. The aim of this Senior engineering project was to build a five-stage solid-state Marx generator that could generate a 100us, 50V, 2500W output pulse. The design discussed in this work details implementation of IGBTs and isolated gate drivers to achieve this goal. The design has been demonstrated to generate the specified pulse with experimentally acceptable losses. In addition, a microcontroller was utilized to control pulse timing to achieve not only the project specifications but to attempt output pulse shaping and display information to a user.

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The Effect Of Perinatal Depression Upon Neonatal Outcome In A Population Of Adolescent Latinas, Jocelyn Ruiz Dec 2019

The Effect Of Perinatal Depression Upon Neonatal Outcome In A Population Of Adolescent Latinas, Jocelyn Ruiz

2019 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

The purpose of this secondary analysis was to explore the prevalence of perinatal depression and effects of depression upon neonatal outcomes among Latina adolescents. The subjects included Latina adolescents (13-19 years old; N=183) giving birth at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, TX. The study design was a secondary analysis of data originally collected over nine months postpartum to explore adolescents’ (N=303) mental health and birth experiences. Depression variables were measured via a one-item rating scale for prenatal depression and the Edinburg Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS). A composite variable of this data defined perinatal depression. Adverse infant outcomes included …

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Zombie Firms And The Interest Rate Channel, Ismael Guzman-Diaz Dec 2019

Zombie Firms And The Interest Rate Channel, Ismael Guzman-Diaz

2019 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

In this paper we investigate the interaction between interest rates and the prevalence of so called ‘Zombie’ firms. Zombie firms are relatively unproductive, insolvent firms, who nevertheless remain in the market. The past several decades have witnessed a steady rise in the prevalence of these firms across advanced economies. Significant evidence now exists of their detrimental effects on healthy firms within their industries and on the economy as a whole through allocative inefficiencies and drags on productivity growth. Notably, this zombie phenomenon coincides with the long-term lowering trend in benchmark interest rates, providing a theoretical life-support mechanism through which zombie …

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Opening French Doors: An Examination Of French Business Executives’ Perspectives On Work Disparities Between American And French Work Cultures In The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Yahaira Arneros Dec 2019

Opening French Doors: An Examination Of French Business Executives’ Perspectives On Work Disparities Between American And French Work Cultures In The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Yahaira Arneros

2019 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

The United States is no stranger to hosting foreign business subsidiaries in our evergrowing international business world. As the US opens its doors to native French business executives, one asks how their culture perceives US workers and how to ensure that business relations between the two flow as smoothly as possible. Qualitative data was gathered from three native French business executives, in three native French subsidiaries in the DFW Metroplex. Data was gathered in face-to-face personal interviews conducted in French about disparities between French and American work culture. Similarities in perception of US work culture by the French were found …

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Modeling The Effects Of The Development Of Fm 156 On The Big Fossil Creek - West Trinity River Watershed, Valerie Arruda Dec 2019

Modeling The Effects Of The Development Of Fm 156 On The Big Fossil Creek - West Trinity River Watershed, Valerie Arruda

2019 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Urban development increases the runoff created from a property, requiring analysis to ensure the watershed in question is not negatively affected, and adjacent properties are not adversely impacted. This study focuses on a project currently being done by the Texas Department of Transportation, including the widening and reconstruction of FM 156 in Saginaw, Texas, within the Big Fossil Creek Watershed. This project runs through a FEMA floodway, presenting challenges in the allowed scope of work. The focus of this study is to model the watershed using the hydraulic analysis software, HEC-RAS, and to design the proposed 4-lane roadway profile, including …

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Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction With Traditional Docking Compared To Novel Surgical Techniques, Kayley D. Guy, Brendon P. Mcdermott, Kaitlin Gallagher, Tyrone Washington Dec 2019

Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction With Traditional Docking Compared To Novel Surgical Techniques, Kayley D. Guy, Brendon P. Mcdermott, Kaitlin Gallagher, Tyrone Washington

Health, Human Performance and Recreation Undergraduate Honors Theses

Background: Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction (UCLR) is a surgical procedure on one of the main ligaments that provides normal stability for the elbow joint against excessive valgus stress. Damage to this ligament is common in athletes performing overhead throwing activities, primarily baseball players, due to excessive valgus stress during the throwing motion. The most common form of treatment for this type of injury is reconstructive surgery of the ligament, especially if athletes wish to return to sport participation. This type of surgery is extremely invasive and requires extensive post-operative rehabilitation in order to facilitate return to play. To date, many …

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The Bureaucratic Politics Of The Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Cooper Hearn Dec 2019

The Bureaucratic Politics Of The Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Cooper Hearn

Political Science Undergraduate Honors Theses

This is a comprehensive study of how the administrative powers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have evolved in response to external political forces. To analyze the changes made to FBI administrative powers, this project will assess theories of public administration, bureaucratic politics, various congressional statutes, court rulings, and executive policies that have affected the bureau’s capacity to perform investigations and intelligence operations.

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Sexual Assault By Federal Actors, #Metoo, And Civil Rights, Julie Goldscheid Dec 2019

Sexual Assault By Federal Actors, #Metoo, And Civil Rights, Julie Goldscheid

Washington Law Review

Calls for accountability for gender violence have permeated public discourse in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement. While much attention has focused on high profile individuals accused of harassment, less attention has been paid to sexual assaults of more vulnerable and marginalized people, including low wage workers, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender non-conforming people, and immigrants. In addition, at the same time that calls for accountability have targeted Hollywood, employers, universities, and even the Catholic church, relatively little outcry has focused on the longstanding and under-recognized problem of sexual assaults by government actors. This Article focuses on sexual assault …

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Addiction-Informed Immigration Reform, Rebecca Sharpless Dec 2019

Addiction-Informed Immigration Reform, Rebecca Sharpless

Washington Law Review

Immigration law fails to align with the contemporary understanding of substance addiction as a medical condition. The Immigration and Nationality Act regards noncitizens who suffer from drug or alcohol substance use disorder as immoral and undesirable. Addiction is a ground of exclusion and deportation and can prevent the finding of “good moral character” needed for certain immigration applications. Substance use disorder can lead to criminal behavior that lands noncitizens, including lawful permanent residents, in removal proceedings with no defense. The time has come for immigration law to catch up to today’s understanding of addiction. The damage done by failing to …

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Piecing Together Precedent: Fragmented Decisions From The Washington State Supreme Court, Rachael Clark Dec 2019

Piecing Together Precedent: Fragmented Decisions From The Washington State Supreme Court, Rachael Clark

Washington Law Review

For decades, countless jurisdictions have grappled with the ambiguous precedential weight of court decisions that lack a majority opinion. In American jurisprudence, applying a “majority,” “lead,” “concurrence,” or “dissent” label to an appellate court opinion indicates agreement or disagreement with the judgment of the case. When a decision is fragmented (that is, there is no majority opinion), courts often express the judgment of the court with one opinion labeled as the “plurality” or “lead” opinion. Traditionally, labeling an opinion as a “lead opinion” indicates that the reasoning expressed within the opinion has more support than the other opinions written for …

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A Proposal To Improve Washington's Rules On Ex Parte Contact, Connor Rowinski Dec 2019

A Proposal To Improve Washington's Rules On Ex Parte Contact, Connor Rowinski

Washington Law Review

Privilege doctrines play an important role in allowing clients to confide in their trusted attorneys and doctors. The intersection of two privilege doctrines in medical malpractice litigation—physician-patient privilege and attorney-client privilege—places physicians working at corporate hospitals in a catch-22 of allegiances. On one hand, physicians cannot disclose patient information, whereas on the other, they must assist their employer in defending the case. These concerns are heightened when attorneys seek to communicate with non-party physicians ex parte—that is, unsupervised. In Youngs v. Peacehealth, the Washington State Supreme Court allowed corporate defendants to communicate ex parte with the plaintiff’s treating physician under …

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Between You, Me, And Alexa: On The Legality Of Virtual Assistant Devices In Two-Party Consent States, Ria Kuruvilla Dec 2019

Between You, Me, And Alexa: On The Legality Of Virtual Assistant Devices In Two-Party Consent States, Ria Kuruvilla

Washington Law Review

When an Amazon Echo is activated, the device is constantly recording and sending those recordings to Amazon’s cloud. For an always recording device such as the Echo, getting consent from every person subject to a recording proves difficult. An Echo-owner consents to the recordings when they purchase and register the device, but when does a guest in an Echo-owner’s home consent to being recorded? This Comment uses Amazon’s Echo and Washington’s privacy statute to illustrate the tension between speech-activated devices and two-party consent laws—which require that all parties subject to a recording consent to being recorded. This Comment argues that …

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Table Of Contents, Anon Dec 2019

Table Of Contents, Anon

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Index, Anon Dec 2019

Index, Anon

Washington Law Review

Contains indexes by author, title, and subject.

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Enhancements Of Shear Tests For Asphalt Concrete, Yazeed Suleiman Jweihan Dec 2019

Enhancements Of Shear Tests For Asphalt Concrete, Yazeed Suleiman Jweihan

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The measurement of the fundamental shear properties of asphalt mixes is imperative to the improvement of modelling of rutting development in asphalt concrete. The Duplicate Shear Tester (DST) is a recent device developed at the University of Texas at Arlington as a replacement to the Superpave Shear Tester (SST). It measures the average shear properties of two asphalt concrete specimens at the same time. It has ability to perform the two common SST tests: the FSCH and RSCH in according to the standard test method AASHTO T-320. Although the DST has successfully satisfied the objectives of being a reliable, inexpensive …

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Deep Ellum: Portrait Of A Community Lesson Introduction & Resources, Elizabeth Barnes Dec 2019

Deep Ellum: Portrait Of A Community Lesson Introduction & Resources, Elizabeth Barnes

K-12 Teacher African American History Research Grant Program 2019

This lesson gives an in-depth look at how an 1930's WPA historian characterized the segregated community of Deep Ellum. Students are asked to analyze the reading and make connections to their own time. Refer to the supplemental files below for all materials and resources developed for this lesson.

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Mansfield Integration Incident: A Mini Unit On School Desegregation And Social Justice & Resources, David Mabry Dec 2019

Mansfield Integration Incident: A Mini Unit On School Desegregation And Social Justice & Resources, David Mabry

K-12 Teacher African American History Research Grant Program 2019

This mini-unit contains lesson plans that were designed to give a local connection to students studying the desegregation of schools following the historic Brown v Board of Education decision on 1955. The incident in Mansfield was significant in the fact that the governor of the state used state law enforcement officers to ensure African-American students did not register for the new school year at Mansfield High School. These plans included a variety of activities to understand the struggle for equality of education and its importance in overcoming Jim Crow legislation throughout the South. the construction of a timeline for desegregation …

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Physical Characterization And Evaluation Of Energy Potential For Mined Waste From Irving Landfill, Vijay Kakara Dec 2019

Physical Characterization And Evaluation Of Energy Potential For Mined Waste From Irving Landfill, Vijay Kakara

Civil Engineering Theses - Archive

Historically landfills have been seen as the ultimate solution for storing waste at minimum cost. But, now it is a well-known fact that these deposits have numerous implications such as long term methane emissions, local pollution and many space-related issues etc. In most parts of the world, however, landfilling is the most common method to dispose waste. Even developed countries with recycling and waste treatment facilities have been no exception in landfilling. Therefore over the years, several old and operating landfills have been accumulated with an enormous amount of obsolete materials and products. To address such issues related to waste …

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Driveability Of Recycled Plastic Pin (Rpp) In North Texas, Arif Mohammad Aziz Dec 2019

Driveability Of Recycled Plastic Pin (Rpp) In North Texas, Arif Mohammad Aziz

Civil Engineering Theses - Archive

The Recycled Plastic Pins (RPP) have been extensively used as an alternative to the conventional slope stabilization methods in stabilizing shallows slope failure in Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho in the United States. The RPP provides additional resistance along the potential slip surface when it is driven into the slope and increases the factor of safety. RPPs are fabricated from recycled plastics and waste materials (i.e. polymers, sawdust, and fly ash), and is nondegradable in nature. It is found to be very useful and beneficial engineering materials for civil engineering infrastructure projects. The cost-effectiveness of using any engineering material largely …

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Front Matter, Palara Editors Dec 2019

Front Matter, Palara Editors

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

No abstract provided.

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Guest Editor Of Special Issue: Afro-Latin American And Afro-Latinx Cinema, Vanessa K. Valdés Dec 2019

Guest Editor Of Special Issue: Afro-Latin American And Afro-Latinx Cinema, Vanessa K. Valdés

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

No abstract provided.

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Cinematographic Landscapes Of Blackness In Mexico: (Re)Framing Afro-Mexican Lives & Futures, Talia Weltman-Cisneros Dec 2019

Cinematographic Landscapes Of Blackness In Mexico: (Re)Framing Afro-Mexican Lives & Futures, Talia Weltman-Cisneros

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

The legacy of historical invisibility and socio-cultural marginalization and rejection have marred contemporary Afro-Mexican lives, silencing their stories, customs, traditions, and cosmologies, while also denying them a sense of belonging and place within the visions of the present and futures of Mexican landscapes. Mexican films have often echoed this estranged relationship between blackness and Mexicanidad, portraying black characters as stereotyped figures who have most often been marked as exotic, primitive, and alien or anachronic in Mexico. However, these subaltern imaginaries of blackness and of Afro-Mexicanidad are challenged in the recent films La negrada (2018) and Artemio (2017). This article …

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Black Agency And Aesthetic Innovation In Sergio Giral's El Otro Francisco, Philip Kaisary Dec 2019

Black Agency And Aesthetic Innovation In Sergio Giral's El Otro Francisco, Philip Kaisary

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

In 2013, Henry Louis Gates lamented the tradition of whitewashing and the passing over of slave stories which has become commonplace throughout cinematic history: “there have been all too few films that have captured, or even attempted to convey, the truth of the experience of slavery, from the slave’s point of view” and even fewer “worthy of recognition.” While it is true that there have been some high-profile films produced in the last decade – 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, and Birth of a Nation, among others – that have endeavored to represent slavery from the …

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