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Volume 28: Affect, Robby Hardesty, Alina Hechler

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

The 2018-19 Editorial Collective is pleased to present the 28th volume of disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. Our inspiration for this odd bundle of pages is rooted in the aesthetic of the self-printed zine. While we regret that we couldn't sneak into Miller Hall in the middle of the night to guerrilla-copy the entire issue on a late-80s black-and-white Xerox, we are proud to say that each page of this volume was assembled entirely by hand. Every page is bordered or backgrounded by collages: these are pages that peel and flake, assembled from bits and pieces cut up …

A Critical Reassessment Of The Role Of Neutrality In International Taxation, David Elkins

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Neutrality plays a central role in the literature on international taxation. In its most prevalent form, the concept of neutrality posits that in order to maximize aggregate global welfare, capital needs to flow to where it would produce the highest pretax return. The thesis of this Article is that neutrality is ordinarily inapplicable in the field of international taxation.

When considering neutrality in the international arena, the problem that one encounters is that the term “international taxation” is commonly used to describe a number of very different types of tax regimes (what the Article refers to as “intranational taxation,” “supranational …

Cutr Connections [December 2019], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

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Benefits Of School Gardening On Low-Income Elementary School Students, Caitlynn Lange

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The increase in obesity rates in America’s youth could be a reflection of undernourished school lunches, a decrease in physical activity, and the lack of knowledge of health and nutrition. Children who come from a low-income family are more likely to be affected by these circumstances. School gardening may be a way of replacing those impacts. This senior capstone research project examines the benefits of school gardening on low-income elementary school students when implementing as part of the curriculum in schools.

V.21-1 2019 Masthead

San Diego International Law Journal

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Roman Law And Global Constitutionalism, Rafael Domingo

San Diego International Law Journal

The parallel between contemporary issues and Roman history often fascinates and illuminates. In this Article, I argue how Roman law can serve today as an inspiration toward global constitutionalism given it was one of the several sources of inspiration for the American founders. Looking to Roman law helps reduce certain prejudices derived from the current privileging of the sovereign state and the positivist paradigm as the only genuine and possible models for international law. These prejudices constitute an actual hindrance to the right development of global constitutionalism. Global constitutionalism inherently moves beyond sovereignty, nationalism, and positivism. Roman law enables constitutionalists …

Life Cycle Assessment Of Small Modular Reactors Using U.S. Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Kara Michelle Godsey

All Theses

In an ever-evolving energy market, it is vital that nuclear technology adapts to become more economically and environmentally feasible. The promising economics and flexibility of small modular reactors (SMRs) may make them the technology of the future for the nuclear industry, offering a simple solution to many of the problems that have plagued the industry in the last decade. Though the economics of SMRs is often a topic of discussion, it is also important to understand the environmental aspects of this technology when implemented in a U.S. market. A life cycle assessment (LCA) of small modular reactors using a U.S. …

Effective Exploration Behavior For Chemical-Sensing Robots, Kevin Nickels, Hoa Nguyen, Duncan M. Frasch, Timothy F. Davison

Engineering Faculty Research

Mobile robots that can effectively detect chemical effluents could be useful in a variety of situations, such as disaster relief or drug sniffing. Such a robot might mimic biological systems that exhibit chemotaxis, which is movement towards or away from a chemical stimulant in the environment. Some existing robotic exploration algorithms that mimic chemotaxis suffer from the problems of getting stuck in local maxima and becoming “lost”, or unable to find the chemical if there is no initial detection. We introduce the use of the RapidCell algorithm for mobile robots exploring regions with potentially detectable chemical concentrations. The RapidCell algorithm …

Pharmacognostical Study Of Combretum Aculeatum Vent. Growing In Sudan, Kamal M. Hamad, Manal M. Sabry, Sabah H. Elgayed, Abdel-Rahman El Shabrawy, Ahlam M. El-Fishawy

Bulletin of Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University

Aim of Study: Combretum aculeatum Vent is commonly used in traditional medicine but no published botanical characterization was available. Macro- and microscopical characters of the aerial parts (leaf, stem and bark) have been studied with the aim to find the diagnostic features, and pointed towards their identification in both entire and powdered form. Results: Proximate analysis like moisture contents (7.52 %), total ash (14.09%), water-soluble ash (0.7%), acid-insoluble ash (2.99%) and alcohol soluble extract (9.5%) were determined. Percentage yield of sequential extractive values of sample in petroleum ether (1.85%), methylene chloride (0.92%), ethyl acetate (2.2%) and n-butanol (1.66%) were also …

Preformulation, Stress Stability Studies And Hplc-Uv Method Development And Validation For 95 % Ethanol Extract Of Moringa Oleifera Lam. Leaves, Harith J. Alsammarraie, Nurzalina Abdul Karim Khan, Roziahanim Mahmud, Mohd Zaini Bin Asmawi, Vikneswaran A/L Murugaiyah

Bulletin of Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University

Introduction: There is a continuous expansion in number of botanical medicinal products and increase in consumers who often use it. One of such natural source products with versatile traditional uses as treatment for variety of diseases is Moringa oleifera Lam. Objectives: After the pharmacological activity of a new drug candidate is approved, the subsequent development of this product requires substantial information about its physical and chemical properties before designing its dosage form. Methods: Organoleptic properties, physicochemical characteristics, solubility profile, swelling index, partition coefficient, analyses of thermal behaviour, stress stability, heavy metals and microbial limit tests were performed in preformulation studies …

Effect Of Food/Beverage And Selected Drugs On The Oral Absorption Of Artemether-Lumefantrine Tablet: An In Situ And In Vivo Study, Sunday Olajide Awofisayo, Matthew I. Arhewoh, Augustine O. Okhamafe

Bulletin of Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University

Aim: This study aims at assessing the effect of some meals/beverage and selected drugs on oral absorption of artemether (ATM) and lumefantrine (LMF). Methods: In the in situ model, artemether-lumefantrine (AL) tablets were crushed and administered to anesthetized rabbits (n=2) via oral cannula either alone (CTR1) or with food components/beverage [i.e., starch (STC), albumin (ALB), sunflower oil (SFO) or carbonated drinks (CBS)] or drugs [i.e., lamivudine (LMV) or metronidazole (MTN)]. Blood samples were taken from cannulated carotid artery post dose administration. In the in vivo model, forty two healthy human subjects (28 male and 14 female) in groups of six …

Winning The Battle And The War Against C. Difficile, Emily Villegas

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

In 2016 Providence St. Patrick Hospital Serious Infection Rate (SIR) for Hospital Acquired C. difficile Infections (HACDI) was well above the acceptable standard. Several departments were working independently of each other to develop and implement interventions. However, these efforts did not result in sustained improvement and in some cases there where downstream consequences that made the problem worse.

Optimizing Care Teams From The Start, Vanessa Casillas, Ryan Dix

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Traditionally, the onboarding plan for a new provider is focused on the new employee. But what happens when the success of your role is largely impacted by the relationships you have with others on the interdisciplinary care team? Interprofessional relationships are a key element of Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC) success in their role and the earlier they can start being developed the better. This presentation will identify strategies to help management teams create effective onboarding plans for the BHC that facilitate smooth adoption of integrated principles and launch successful interdisciplinary collaboration across the care team.

Porous Silicon Photonics At Unity Confinement Factors For Surface Adlayer Biosensing, Tahmid Hassan Talukdar

All Theses

Guided wave-optics is an emergent platform for label free optical biosensing. However, device sensitivity toward surface-attached biomolecules is directly restricted because of only evanescent interaction and low modal overlap with the active sensing region. In this work, we demonstrate a mesoporous silicon waveguide design created via a novel inverse processing technique that overcomes the limitations imposed by evanescent field sensing by achieving maximal transverse confinement factor in the active sensing region. Our sensor can also maintain this confinement factor and sensitivity across a large dimensional variation while preserving single-mode operation. Our devices are characterized in a Fabry-Perot interferometer configuration and …

Pedia: Prioritization Of Exome Data By Image Analysis., Tzung-Chien Hsieh, Martin A Mensah, Jean T Pantel, Dione Aguilar, Omri Bar, Allan Bayat, Luis Becerra-Solano, Heidi B Bentzen, Saskia Biskup, Oleg Borisov, Oivind Braaten, Claudia Ciaccio, Marie Coutelier, Kirsten Cremer, Magdalena Danyel, Svenja Daschkey, Hilda David Eden, Koenraad Devriendt, Sandra Wilson, Sofia Douzgou, Dejan Đukić, Nadja Ehmke, Christine Fauth, Björn Fischer-Zirnsak, Nicole Fleischer, Heinz Gabriel, Luitgard Graul-Neumann, Karen W Gripp, Yaron Gurovich, Asya Gusina, Nechama Haddad, Nurulhuda Hajjir, Yair Hanani, Jakob Hertzberg, Konstanze Hoertnagel, Janelle Howell, Ivan Ivanovski, Angela Kaindl, Tom Kamphans, Susanne Kamphausen, Catherine Karimov, Hadil Kathom, Anna Keryan, Alexej Knaus, Sebastian Köhler, Uwe Kornak, Alexander Lavrov, Maximilian Leitheiser, Gholson J Lyon, Elisabeth Mangold, Purificación Marín Reina, Antonio Martinez Carrascal, Diana Mitter, Laura Morlan Herrador, Guy Nadav, Markus Nöthen, Alfredo Orrico, Claus-Eric Ott, Kristen Park, Borut Peterlin, Laura Pölsler, Annick Raas-Rothschild, Linda Randolph, Nicole Revencu, Christina Ringmann Fagerberg, Peter N Robinson, Stanislav Rosnev, Sabine Rudnik, Gorazd Rudolf, Ulrich Schatz, Anna Schossig, Max Schubach, Or Shanoon, Eamonn Sheridan, Pola Smirin-Yosef, Malte Spielmann, Eun-Kyung Suk, Yves Sznajer, Christian T Thiel, Gundula Thiel, Alain Verloes, Irena Vrecar, Dagmar Wahl, Ingrid Weber, Korina Winter, Marzena Wiśniewska, Bernd Wollnik, Ming W Yeung, Max Zhao, Na Zhu, Johannes Zschocke, Stefan Mundlos, Denise Horn, Peter M Krawitz

Faculty Research 2019

PURPOSE: Phenotype information is crucial for the interpretation of genomic variants. So far it has only been accessible for bioinformatics workflows after encoding into clinical terms by expert dysmorphologists.

METHODS: Here, we introduce an approach driven by artificial intelligence that uses portrait photographs for the interpretation of clinical exome data. We measured the value added by computer-assisted image analysis to the diagnostic yield on a cohort consisting of 679 individuals with 105 different monogenic disorders. For each case in the cohort we compiled frontal photos, clinical features, and the disease-causing variants, and simulated multiple exomes of different ethnic backgrounds.

RESULTS: …

The Alliance Of Genome Resources: Building A Modern Data Ecosystem For Model Organism Databases., Alliance Of Genome Resources Consortium, Carol J Bult, Judith A. Blake, Brian R Calvi, J. Michael Cherry, Valentina Difrancesco, Robert Fullem, Kevin L Howe, Thom Kaufman, Chris Mungall, Norbert Perrimon, Mary Shimoyama, Paul W Sternberg, Paul Thomas, Monte Westerfield

Faculty Research 2019

Model organisms are essential experimental platforms for discovering gene functions, defining protein and genetic networks, uncovering functional consequences of human genome variation, and for modeling human disease. For decades, researchers who use model organisms have relied on Model Organism Databases (MODs) and the Gene Ontology Consortium (GOC) for expertly curated annotations, and for access to integrated genomic and biological information obtained from the scientific literature and public data archives. Through the development and enforcement of data and semantic standards, these genome resources provide rapid access to the collected knowledge of model organisms in human readable and computation-ready formats that would …

The Mayfly Newsletter, Donna Giberson

The Mayfly Newsletter

The Mayfly Newsletter is the official newsletter of the Permanent Committee of the International Conferences on Ephemeroptera

Editorial Perspective For Systematic Review On C5 Palsies., Jens R Chapman

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Social And Cultural Factors On Minority Students’ Participation In An International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, Elizabeth Scott-Janda

Dissertations

Although concern about mathematical achievement inequities has become widespread, even in well-funded, high-performing high schools, unequal outcomes for minority and disadvantaged students can seem persistent and difficult to change despite strong efforts. This project reports on an ethnographic study that examined how social environments within schools can affect students’ choices of whether or not to attempt advanced coursework in mathematics, especially among marginalized groups like Hispanic minorities, low socio-economic status (SES) and rural populations. It considered how social and peer environments affect students’ approaches to schooling, and decisions they make that will have long-term implications for their futures. In particular, …

An Examination Of Oregon Department Of Education's Implementation Processes And Practices, Beth Maruka Wigham

Doctor of Education (EdD)

The purpose of this study was to examine state-level implementation practices and processes of current initiatives or programs through personal interviews with implementation managers at the Oregon Department of Education. This study used a qualitative research design for gathering individual perspectives on their effective and ineffective processes and practices for implementation and identified commonalities across implementation managers and departments. This study answered three research questions: (1) What are the practices and processes described by implementation managers in this study as effective for the implementation of their initiative or program?; (2) How are implementation elements conceptualized, enacted, and measured by implementation …

Foreword To Relativizing Newton, Vernon L. Smith

Economics Faculty Books and Book Chapters

A foreword to Ramzi Suleiman's book Relativizing Newton.

Mitchell, Emma Marie, B. 1997 (Fa 1385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1385. “Coffee and Community: Examining Coffee as Folklore in Bowling Green, Kentucky,” an honors project by Emma Mitchell for a WKU folk studies class.

Effects Of A Chronic 0.1 Μm Arsenic Exposure On P19 Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation And Pluripotency, Benjamin Mcmichael

All Theses

Globally, at least 140 million people are exposed to levels of arsenic greater than the World Health Organization recommended standard of 10 ug/L (10 ppb) through their drinking water and food. Epidemiological studies have correlated arsenic exposure during embryonic and fetal development with reduced birth weight, as well as muscular and neurodevelopmental deficits. The goal of the current study was to determine the mechanisms by which a chronic, low-level arsenic exposure impairs cellular development and differentiation. This was achieved by exposing P19 mouse embryonic stem cells (mESC’s) to 0.1 μM arsenic (7.5 ppb), a concentration lower than the current drinking …

Fixed Income Fund Report, December 2019, Bryant University, Archway Investment Fund

Archway Investment Fund

No abstract provided.

Solitary Endobronchial Papilloma: A Rare Entity, Muhammad Soban Arif Maan, Muhammad Waleed, Amir Humza Sohail, Asna Sulaiman, Javaid Ahmed Khan

Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care

No abstract provided.

Multimodal Mobile Sensing Systems For Physiological And Psychological Assessment, Nguyen Phan Sinh Huynh

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Sensing systems for monitoring physiological and psychological states have been studied extensively in both academic and industry research for different applications across various domains. However, most of the studies have been done in the lab environment with controlled and complicated sensor setup, which is only suitable for serious healthcare applications in which the obtrusiveness and immobility can be compromised in a trade-off for accurate clinical screening or diagnosing. The recent substantial development of mobile devices with embedded miniaturized sensors are now allowing new opportunities to adapt and develop such sensing systems in the mobile context. The ability to sense physiological …

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Marquette Law Review

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Marquette Law Review

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The International Religious Freedom Act: Non-State Actors And Freedom From Sovereign Government Control, Robert C. Blitt

Marquette Law Review

The International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) recently underwent its most significant amendment process since being introduced in 1997. Among the major changes, sponsors of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act (Wolf Act) proposed adding a new framework to IRFA intended to address the phenomenon of non-state actors (NSAs) violating the right to freedom of religion or belief. The impetus for this new mandate, according to the bill’s sponsors, flowed from the realization that NSAs such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) were wielding religious intolerance to commit “some of the most egregious religious …

"Leave Me My Name!": Why Competitive Keyword Advertising Is An Ethical Landmine For Attorneys, Skylar R. Croy

Marquette Law Review

Search engine providers, like Google and Yahoo!, make money by allowing advertisers to bid on keywords. When a user enters the keyword, the advertisement is prominently displayed, typically toward the top of the results.

States are divided on whether to allow attorneys to bid on the names of other attorneys—a practice known as competitive keyword advertising. On one hand, just this summer, a New Jersey ethics panel took the position that competitive keyword advertising does not, generally, violate of the rules of professional conduct. However, the advertisement may not include text with the searched-for attorney’s name that is hyperlinked to …